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Erwin Fabian, Penguin Illustrator
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Erwin Fabian's illustration for Kafka's The Castle, Penguin Modern Classics, 1962-64
Artist's long life included illustrating Penguin covers
In January this year the Melbourne artist Erwin Fabian died at the great age of 105. Sculptor, printmaker and Penguin book illustrator, Fabian had an eventful life.
Born in Germany during World War 1, he was the son of a painter, Max Fabian. After studying drawing in Berlin he fled to England in 1938 to escape the Nazi persecution of jews. In London he again studied art and even designed some book covers before being interned as an enemy alien.
He was sent to Australia on board the notorious Dunera ship, along with numerous other European artists, musicians, doctors and judges, detained like him in England. Sent to detention camps in Hay, Orange and Tatura in Victoria, he was released after two years, ironically on condition of joining the army.
After the war he worked as a commercial artist in Melbourne, again designing some book covers but returned to London in 1950. Fabian found work designing for advertising agencies, producing graphics for such clients as P&O and Shell, and also Penguin, where he designed a number of notable book covers. His graphic and printmaking skills suited the visual style at Penguin which in the later 1950s was edging away from the traditional typographic covers and towards some reconciliation with the growing visual culture in British publishing.
These four books from the 1950s show his evolution. The top two were made for Hans Schmoller's typographic templates which use the images as embellishments to the grid. The bottom two were made for art director John Curtis and show the artist in charge of almost the whole design, type included, and present a cohesive visual message.
Three editions of one book show how an artist's work might be seen by the public over time. Fabian's eerie, abstract illustration for Kafka's The Castle are shown from 1957, 1961 and 1964, for both the Penguin main series and for the evolving Modern Classics imprint. "Hans Schmoller told me later that this was the first time in publishing that a monoprint had been used for a cover." Presumably, the artist was paid only once. The rate (in 1964) was £15.
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Two editions of William H Whyte's The Organization Man from 1960 and c1963 show the fate that could befall an illustrator's work. Phil Baines writes that "despite the awkwardness of the type and the position of the logo, the cover worked amazingly well. But when the illustrative element was re-used on reprinting the title as a Pelican in the Marber grid the idea of the of the individual as separate from the crowd was lost." (Penguin Collector 71, 2008)
Fabian was among a select group of artists to provide illustrations for the new series of full-colourcovers in 1957-58. This was the first time Penguin had tried to compete with the more commercial paperback publishers such as Pan Books. Abram Games, then Britain's leading graphic designer was art directing the project of the covers and assigned Fabian to an Erle Stanley Gardner cover. "Allen Lane introduced Penguin's change to pictorial covers at a tea party at Abram Games' house – he wanted us to hear why he saw the need to change from the customary typographical covers and most of those present later designed covers for Penguin." (Penguin by Illustrators, 2009)
His illustration for Games (above left) was a collage of photo and gouache. It was later adapted to the new Marber grid in a monochrome version in 1962 (above right).
Erwin Fabian returned to live in Melbourne with his family in 1962 but his focus shifted away from commercial art. He became a leading Australian abstract sculptor, working in scrap metal and discarded machinery parts. He worked up to the end.
For a detailed biography and interview by Jana Wendt see Erwin's Century.
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DINA MAVROS says:
Irwin Fabian was a true gentleman, even though he was world famous,
you wouldn't know it, he was so easy
to talk to, so very humble, I've had the
pleasure to meet Irwin Fabian when l worked at Classic Colour Copying in the city opposite The Victoria Market,
he chose me to photocopy his artwork
for his exhibitions and also spent time
doing his Christmas Cards which were
unmistakably Irwin Fabian warm, simple and humble, just like he was,
I will never forget him. ♡
Thanks Dina, that's good to know. I never met him but I did teach a grandson (or great-grandson?) of his. Erwin Fabian had a long, long life which he lived to the full.

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Ubisoft Brings Key Titles To XBox One
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Publisher Plans to Deliver At Least Six Next-Gen Games for Xbox One During the System's First 12 Months
Following the announcement of Xbox One, the all-in-one games and entertainment system from Microsoft, Ubisoft revealed that two of its most highly-anticipated titles – Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag and Watch_Dogs – will be available on the platform later this year. Ubisoft also announced that these titles will be among at least six next-gen games released for Xbox One in the system's first year.
"The next generation of consoles will reinvigorate our industry and make it possible for us to deliver incredible new entertainment to gamers," said Yves Guillemot, co-founder and chief executive officer, Ubisoft. "Our teams are using the innovations in connectivity, immersion and social gaming included in Xbox One to create original and memorable next-gen gaming experiences."
In addition to Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag and Watch_Dogs, Ubisoft will deliver a mix of new episodes of existing franchises, new IPs and digital titles for Xbox One within the system's first 12 months on the market. More information about the lineup of games planned for the new system will be available during Ubisoft's press conference at E3.
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Indian Maoists criticise Prachanda
Say multiparty democracy, U.N. supervision a "dangerous" mistake.
BELYING SPECULATION of a unified red corridor from "Pashupati to Tirupati," the Indian Maoist leadership has criticised Prachanda and the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) for embracing multiparty democracy. It has also denounced as "dangerous" CPN (Maoist)'s decision to invite the United Nations in to supervise the ceasefire in Nepal.
Peoples' March, a publication which reports on the activities of the Indian Maoist movement, is circulating by email an interview it conducted recently on the situation in Nepal with Azad, spokesperson of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of India (Maoist). The CPI (Maoist) is the largest of all radical Left organisations waging armed struggle against the Indian government in several States. Indian security agencies allege that the CPI (Maoist) and Nepal Maoists have close organisational and military links, a charge both parties strongly deny.
While appreciating the "historic struggle" of the Nepali Maoists, Azad makes at least four specific criticisms of their leader Prachanda. He also stresses that the Indian Maoists have no intention of embracing multiparty democracy.
First, he says that the CPN (Maoist) leadership is making a mistake by agreeing to join an interim government "with the comprador bourgeois-feudal parties such as the reactionary Nepali Congress [and] revisionist CPN-UML." The Nepal Maoists, he contends, "are giving over-emphasis to the possibility of advancing the movement through the Constituent Assembly and in alliance with the seven parties." The interim government will not work out, he says, because of the "two diametrically opposed class interests." Referring to Prachanda's interview to The Hindu in February, Azad criticised the Nepali leader for saying he was ready to accept the people's verdict if they chose constitutional monarchy and multiparty democracy through the Constituent Assembly. Says Azad: "It is indeed a great tragedy to see the Maoist party finally ending up in these political positions in spite of having de facto power in most of the countryside."
Azad terms "even more dangerous" Prachanda's stated objective of merging the Maoists' 25,000-strong Peoples Liberation Army with the Nepal Army. "The army is one of the main instruments of class rule. How can two diametrically opposed classes have a single army? By merging the people's army with the reactionary army of the ruling classes [until now the faithful servant of the King] the people will become defenceless in case of a reactionary armed offensive by the enemy," he says, citing the example of Indonesia in the 1960s where the Communists were massacred in large numbers.
Thirdly, the CPI (Maoist) spokesman states that the Nepali Maoist decision to invite the U.N. to supervise the ceasefire is also "dangerous." "The U.N. is essentially an instrument of imperialism and particularly American imperialism. It is bound to work in the interests of the reactionary ruling classes of Nepal and imperialism." Taken together with the decision to dissolve its "people's governments" in the countryside, the merger of the PLA with the Nepal Army "will unfold an irreversible process of losing all the revolutionary gains achieved till now," says Azad.
Lastly, the Indian Maoist leader takes exception to the argument Prachanda made — in The Hindu interview — that his party's new line on multiparty democracy would have a "positive" impact on the Maoists in India. "It must have come as a great relief for the Indian ruling classes to hear Comrade Prachanda speak of his Party's commitment to multiparty democracy," Azad notes.
He adds: "It is really a matter of grave concern that Comrade Prachanda, instead of demanding the expansionist Indian ruling classes stop all interference and meddling in Nepal's internal affairs, only talked of how their tactics would bring about a change in the outlook of the Maoists in India. Needless to say, these remarks will not only be deeply resented by the revolutionary masses of our country who have seen the wretched system of parliamentary democracy in India but will also be proved totally wrong through their revolutionary practice."
The Maoist leadership in Nepal, says Azad, is creating illusions about the character of the parliamentary parties in Nepal and advocating the "dangerous thesis" of "peaceful coexistence with the ruling class parties instead of overthrowing them through revolution." Though made with "good intentions," the "idealist and subjective proposal of the CPN (Maoist)" will "ultimately become a convenient tool in the hands of the capitalist-roaders to seize power," charges Azad.
Following this article and other reports, the Indian and Nepali Maoist parties issued a joint statement saying their differences should not be taken out of proportion:
ON RECENT DEBATES
The Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) and the Communist Party of India (Maoist) jointly re-assert their firm commitment to proletarian internationalism, mutual fraternal relations, on the basis of MLM. All tactical questions are being adopted in the respective countries are the sole concern of the parties operating there. Both parties will seek to learn from the positive experiences of the other party as also the experiences of the Maoists who comprise the ICM.
While doing so we shall continue debates on ideological, political and strategic issues on which we differ in the true democratic traditions of the international communist movement. These debates and discussions will take place bilaterally and occasionally, publicly. Such differences are inevitable as struggles in the sphere of ideas are inevitable in a class society, which, as Engels said, is a reflection of the class struggle in society.
Lately a section of the media has tried to blow out of proportion differences that have been expressed by the two parties publicly. It is in the interests of the reactionaries that Maoists divide and split continuously. It is then no wonder that a section of the media has sought to exaggerate the differences in India and Nepal.
The two parties once again re-assert their firm unity in the spirit of proletarian internationalism while continuing healthy debates and discussions on issues on which we differ.
Labels: Indian Politics, Nepal


The partnership is geared toward chopping the significant prices of coming into the wi-fi market, as well as dashing up entry, the source mentioned. The deal will bar both firm from coming into into a cloth transaction for a year without the other company's consent, the source mentioned. That would forestall both company from tying up with a wi-fi service instantly by itself.
While it's not a tidy one world political government, we've got, or are very near having, a one world economic system. International bankers management the world. This management will improve as other middle courses develop into more depending on credit. If an individual from a third world nation thinks that bank cards are a great factor or lengthy for the credit score freedom that exists within the United States, do not go down that path. Don't become depending on bank cards. Fight the international bankers, the World Trade Organization and stay solvent as a family.
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It is still Tuesday, August 11, 2009, and it has not been a superb day for my business! First, I discover out that if I do submissions an excessive amount of (listen) the various search engines think about it spam! I could not work out why my blog was dropping traffic. It is as a result of I actually have been doing an excessive amount of submission, wow!! who knew….now I've bought to research to see if I can appropriate this catastrophe.


The assessment of the quality of wines is conditioned by several factors, such as grape varieties, the winemaking methods that were used and the wine's origin.
One starts by glancing the appearance, the colour, the foam, the odour and the taste; a comparison between the observed elements is then established, a process whose final stage is the conclusion, which is subjective one of course, as it always depends on the person who is making it. But this is a deeply complex process. It is a true ritual which requires proper experience to fulfil all the procedures, as well as in-depth knowledge of the specific lingo associated with the activity.
• Slowly pour the wine into the glass until reaching a third of its capacity; analyse the limpidity.
• Position the glass at eye level, in order to be able to observe it; position it as well at waist level, looking at it from top to bottom (the glass should be held by its stem).
• make notes about the limpidity and brightness.
• analyze the presence or not of carbon dioxide bubbles.
• try to accurately define its colour, hues and intensity.
• tilt the glass, to make the wine rinse its walls; smell it, by deeply inhaling it.
• write down unusual odours.
• carry out the two previous steps.
• look for the perfumes, the aroma and the bouquet.
• moist the whole mouth with a tiny sip of wine; repeat the step and remain focused.
• look for the dominating taste and the final taste.
One should opt for the same wine during the meal itself (or a wine from the same area of origin). If several wines are chosen during the process, these should be drank starting with the youngest and then moving to the oldest.
In a meal in which different wines are served, follow the change by drinking water – in order to "zero the mouth".
White and Sparkling wines must be served cold, although not in excess, in order to avoid disguising their qualities. Hence, it is advisable to serve white wines between a temperature that ranges from 8ºC to 12ºC and the sparkling wines never below a temperature of 4ºC.
Red wines must be drank at room temperature, as long as this lies between 14ºC and the 18ºC.
It is advisable to serve Liqueur Wines in a temperature range between 16ºC and 18ºC.
This point tends to be a bit controversial, with some advocating that red wines must be opened an hour before its consumption, to allow them to breathe and release all their qualities. Others stand for the idea that the moment of the opening is totally irrelevant.
The need for an early opening must be addressed individually, nonetheless it is advisable to do it with wines that have been subjected to long bottle-aging periods. Furthermore, if reduction aromas or the presence of deposit is detected, the execution of a proper decanting may be needed.
The presence of a wine cellar creates the opportunity for the wine to be stored and conserved under ideal conditions, in order to be enjoyed posteriorly, without putting its qualities in jeopardy.
• The temperature in the wine cellar must vary between the 10ºC and the 12ºC, with it never exceeding the 15ºC. Low temperatures delay the maturing process and high temperatures erode the wines. The presence of labels for each wine allows an easier identification of these, being necessary to update those same labels every time a wine is tasted, therefore keeping the data updated.


The Public Finance Quarterly welcomes to receive professional papers in English and/or Hungarian. It is to be noted that articles capable of attracting international interest are published by the Editorial Committee in both languages in the same issue.
This professional periodical deals mainly with the issues of public finances, is published quarterly under the administration of the State Audit Office of Hungary as editor, includes in a single volume the Hungarian and English versions of the published writings, has more than fifty year tradition, up-to-date typographic design, a permanent structure of topics for the published writings and undergone a major renewal resulting in an enrichment of the contents.
The Public Finance Quarterly pursues the primary goal of providing a credible picture on the financial systems, the main features of the operations of public sector and national economy, the efforts to catch up with economically developed countries and build future and on the related professional debates. Another goal is to achieve that the professional results as published in our periodical are utilized as much as possible, promote the spreading of a better financial culture, provide solid foundations for decision-making in the fields of finance and economic policy, and contribute to good governance.
Primarily, we publish in the periodical articles analyzing monetary and fiscal policies from a theoretical or empirical point of view. Likewise, we welcome practical assessments, analyses on financial and accounting issues that were prepared by using Hungarian or international databanks. Articles presenting novelties in financial instruments, derivatives, accounting techniques (of corporations/national accounts alike) or introducing how to calculate the yield and risk of financial investments, securities, loans or scrutinizing the development of financial sector (e.g. that of the Stock Exchange, money market) in a macroeconomic context are also well received. Public Finance Quarterly intends to expand the scope of financial knowledge in Hungary through publishing the most up-to-date theories, approaches. Therefore, we are also awaiting articles on financial mathematics, or studies that belong professionally to the forefront and introduce the latest financial innovations, techniques. The write-ups included in the periodical on recently published books serve the same purpose.
Public Finance Quarterly publishes articles proofread by editorial committee members holding scientific degrees. We use the so-called "double-blind proofreading" method, i.e. the proofreader and author are unknown to one another.
The Public Finance Quarterly is indexed and abstracted in the following scientific databases: Research Papers in Economics (RePEc), Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), EBSCO and MATARKA.


Deanna started working with Emmanuelle on the Fluffball in 2011, spearheading the public relations and marketing. Soon, she found herself managing and producing the event with the assistance of her marketing agency, the midnight oil group, which she co-owns with Lauren Maiman in Detroit.
Deanna enjoys raising awareness for the many deserving animal-rescue groups across the United States, and hopes to continue to build momentum and support for The Fluffball Foundation for many years to come.
In her spare time Deanna enjoys hanging with her pups, Louie and Coco, and hitting the golf course.


It is well known that species ranges are shifting under a changing climate. While the capability of macroorganisms to shift their ranges has been well characterized, the dispersal ability of microorganisms is largely unknown. Characterizing microbial persistence, via range shifts in altered climates, is crucial as these organisms affect primary productivity and decomposition, and cause numerous human and plant diseases. This research project will investigate how soil fungi disperse among and within ecosystems. The results will be the first step in developing a mechanistic model to determine the effects of global change on pathogen spread and environmental microbial distributions.
As global change begins to affect many ecosystems, organisms may need to shift their ranges to maintain ecosystem functioning. Range shifts in plants and animals are common. However, little is known of how microbes can disperse to new areas. This fellow's research focuses on determining the capability of soil fungi to disperse via the atmosphere. Knowledge from this project will also inform us of how human and plant pathogen transmission will occur in future climates.
Fungal community composition in the soil will be characterized from over 50 locations in Southern California at eight time points. In addition, fungi in the air will collected from five towers bi-monthly. The wind patterns of Southern California are well known, which will allow us to correlate soil and air fungal composition. This data then will be used to create a model of fungal dispersal capabilities in the region.
Fungal composition of air samples is expected to vary by season and location. Changes in soil fungal community composition are expected to be the largest contributor to alterations in air fungal community composition. Furthermore, we expect that some fungal species will be able to disperse very long ranges, while other species will exhibit restricted distributions. These variations in dispersal capabilities will be utilized to create a model of how fungal species, including human and plant pathogens, will shift their ranges under global change.
We currently do not understand how pathogens and environmental microbes will respond to global climate change. This research is the first step to determine how microbial distributions will shift in future climates. The results from this study will inform public health officials of potential alterations in pathogen loads. Additionally, ecologists will be informed of possible changes in environmental microbial distributions that will impact ecosystem-level nutrient cycling.


Having previously experienced a virtual world that employs a real money economy, finding OpenSim with its concept of sharing freely has been pure joy. In that spirit, I have determined to freely provide anything that has been made available to me by others in the HG.
Let's avoid hoarding items that we freely obtained from others. Sharing provides everyone with the opportunity to build quality sims.
On that same note, I would encourage other virtual lifers to allow everyone to enjoy OS in any way they choose; whether that be setting up a store that asks for real money or a sim that is simply there for the owner to do whatever fits his or her fantasy. Let's honor the spirit of virtual life by appreciating the spirit of openness and freedom to create whatever anyone wants to imagine.
OpenSim is FREE for everyone to enjoy!
Freebie Freeway: You'll enjoy visiting the mall, shopping center, and various stores and features throughout this sim. It's all free to grab what you want and take it all with you. Have fun!
Eloquent Estates: This is the place where everyone would love to live. Feel free to take any of the houses as well as the numerous deco and other items to be found on the sim. In OS, we can all live the free life!
Happy Harbor: Discover the quiet west end of Free Life City. Explore the freebie stores and the wharf as well as find some nice houses and many other free items for you to take home.
Auto Avenue: The Free Life Grid provides over 200 cars, jeeps, trucks, etc. throughout the various sims. However, this sim is dedicated to car enthusiasts by providing a large collection of animated cars as well as some very creative scenes that celebrate this age of two to four wheel transportation.
Free Life Factory: Featuring the creations of Victor DeAngelo. Should any of the objects on this sim be to your liking, simply right click and take whatever you want. Enjoy!
Nostalgia Neighborhood: Enjoy exploring a typical older American neighborhood filled with early to mid twentieth century homes. It's Victor's childhood home of Butte, Montana.
Junky Junction: It's the other side of the tracks where the bottom one percent are to be found. However, you will find them to be a friendly lot who enjoy sharing what they have with others.
Country Crossroads: It's time to escape the noise of the city. Here you will find the countryside in all its splendor while touring the beautiful freebie homes.


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Activision Blizzard Asked To Meet With Six State Treasurers Over Concerns About Bobby Kotick
Despite a damning report from The Wall Street Journal condemning Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick for allegedly knowing about the company's abhorrent work culture and doing nothing about it, the Activision Blizzard Board stood unanimously with Kotick. Even in the face of multiple lawsuits and investigations, two walkouts, and increasing employee turmoil, the board "remains confident that Bobby Kotick appropriately addressed workplace issues brought to his attention."
Now, the Activision Blizzard Board is coming under scrutiny from six state treasurers who have asked for a meeting to discuss its response "to the challenges and investment risk exposures that face Activision."
The news comes courtesy of a letter obtained by Axios dated November 23 calling for the Activision Blizzard board of directors to meet with the state treasurers of California, Massachusetts, Illinois, Oregon, Delaware, and Nevada. The meeting will discuss the crisis that has gripped Activision Blizzard since the original DFEH lawsuit and the company's response to recent allegations that executives will not be held accountable for their role in perpetuating a "frat boy workplace culture."
"We're concerned that the current CEO and board directors don't have the skillset, nor the conviction to institute these sweeping changes needed to transform their culture, to restore trust with employees and shareholders and their partners," Illinois state treasurer Michael Frerichs told Axios.
Activision Blizzard has thus far increased pay for contract workers and announced several new policies such as ending forced arbitration in cases of sexual harassment and increased visibility on pay. The board also appointed its two female members to oversee the company's progress at implementing reforms and to investigate reports of sexual harassment.
Massachusetts treasurer Deborah Goldberg added that they plan to ask the board to conduct a "true investigation" from "an outside investigator." The treasurers' letter requests a meeting before December 20. It's unknown how many shares the treasurers collectively control, but they have threatened to back Activision shareholder group SOC (which has also been critical of Kotick's handling of the crisis) in voting against the board at Activision Blizzard's next general meeting.
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I'll admit - I have always had a love affair with black. Anyone who knows me, knows that black is one of my most favored colors to wear or maybe it's just a "New Yorker" thing... such a universally flattering color, you can NEVER go wrong wearing it.
That bow makes the difference. You look sweet.
Lovely! I love your hair and that necklace looks great against the black.


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A turkey of a paper from the American Geophysical Union
By Joe Bastardi |2021-11-24T10:13:20-05:00November 25th, 2021|Climate|Comments Off on A turkey of a paper from the American Geophysical Union
I cry fowl. This did ruffle my feathers. So I am going to show some of this paper, gobble up what it says and then keep you abreast of the counters.
Its Another non verifiable gem and this stretches the imagination This comes out, after Long Island, which was hit by a hurricane once every 6.5 years between 1938 and 1991, has gone 30 years now without a hurricane hit, But don't let that deter you
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2021/11/22/claim-hurricanes-expected-to-linger-over-northeast-cities-causing-greater-damage/
The Opening paragraph
WASHINGTON—By the late 21st century, northeastern U.S. cities will see worsening hurricane outcomes, with storms arriving more quickly but slowing down once they've made landfall. As storms linger longer over the East Coast, they will cause greater damage along the heavily populated corridor, according to a new study.
First of all, more people more damage. So that has nothing to do with more storms
Second "WILL SEE WORSENING HURRICANES"
How do you know that? By the late 21st century.? So you can make a forecast that almost no one alive today will remember
" WILL SEE". SO IS THIS MODEL A GOD AND THESE PEOPLE THIS GOD'S PROPHETS?
Now this gem
In the new study, a climate scientist ( named removed as I dont believe in personal attacks) at Rowan University analyzed more than 35,000 computer-simulated storms. To assess likely storm outcomes in the future, they compared where storms formed, how fast they moved and where they ended from the pre-industrial period through the end of the 21st century.
Seriously. COMPUTER MODELS? HOW MANY YEARS OF ACTUAL HURRICANE FORECASTING DO THESE PEOPLE HAVE? How can you lump storms that have happened, WITH STORMS THRU THE END OF THE 21S CENTURY THAT HAVE NOT HAPPENED YET? What the heck is that? Who does that, lump virtual events in with actual events as if they are both the same? And this is in the AGU publication. Seriously?
What else do we have?
"The researchers found that future East Coast hurricanes will likely cause greater damage than storms of the past. The research predicted that a greater number of future hurricanes will form near the East Coast, and those storms will reach the Northeast corridor more quickly. The simulated storms slow to a crawl as they approach the East Coast, allowing them to produce more wind, rain, floods, and related damage in the Northeast region. The longest-lived tropical storms are predicted to be twice as long as storms today."
Okay the first line has a chance. I suspect there will be more people and more property in the way. Bill Gray opined there was going to be a quarter trillion dollar storm and he did not believe in man made Global warming, Just hit New Orleans with a storm like Betsy on the 1947 track which I have shown countless times, I wrote a paper after Isabel in 2003 about a storm I expect to see put Philadelphia under water. The question is why hasnt it happened? The rest is hocus pocus magic. How are they moving slower and reaching the northeast corridor more quickly, What about 1954-1955? So are you going to get 6 hits from NC north, 3 majors in 2 years?
Then the next line
"The simulated storms slow to a crawl as they approach the East Coast, allowing them to produce more wind, rain, floods, and related damage in the Northeast region"
Of course they do, unless caught by a strong trough its almost impossible to hit the east coast from the east. Its almost impossible for a strong storm to hit Jacksonville from the east, Why don't you explain why at 30 north storms slowing near Fla won't go ashore from an oceanward component there, let alone 40 north, So how are you going to pull that unless a strong trough has caught the storm like Sandy, which hit accelerating into the coast?
Slowing storms near the coast weaken due to frictional effects upwelling and the pulling in of dry air off the land, Look what happened to the. rumored cat 6 Florence
IT MAKES NO PHYSICAL SENSE that a slow-moving storm hits from the east that far north at full intensity, They hit like freight trains from the south and for good reasons, In addition, the very warming they are touting distorts surface pressure patterns and weakens storms. Did they even look at Henri. Here for the people at Rowan read these 2 ideas based on sound physical realities of warming outside of the deep tropics.
https://www.cfact.org/2021/08/22/henri-analysis-fortunately-not-my-worst-fears-but/
and this direct challenge to this which is from someone that actually forecasts hurricanes
https://www.cfact.org/2021/08/24/warming-could-lead-to-less-intense-hurricane-hits-on-the-u-s/
"Think of Hurricane Harvey in 2017 sitting over Texas, and Hurricane Dorian in 2019 over the Bahamas," . "That prolonged exposure can worsen the impacts."
That assumes the storm does not weaken This is borderline impossible. 1) Harvey was trapped. BY A COLD TROUGH, It was in a very cold pattern that covered much of the US. It was south of 30 degrees north not north of 38 north in the NW Atlantic. In addition, when the rains went wild the storm had weakened. The same kind of trough that far north is taking the storm out to sea or destroying it. This brings us to Using Dorian. Seriously? A hurricane that broke the trough and turned back to the west at 26 or 27 north over the tropics in a textbook fashion and you are going to try to compare that to some fictional model-driven weaponization of weather that has never happened and has next to no chance physically to occur? ( and if fact with warmer water to the north distorting pressure and wind patterns would lead to a countering of this as per the idea above)
and by the way, why was Dorian only a cat 1 at its closest point to the US? Why did it weaken That is your example? A storm that fell apart?
And as far as flooding, when I start seeing storms with the WIDESPREAD FLOODING DEVASTATION OF CONNIE AND DIANE WITHIN A WEEK OF EACH OTHER THEN I WILL BECOME MORE BELIEVING Ida being used in any argument is a case of a relatively small area of excessive rain over an area that escaped other situations before but is by most certainly NOT immune. The extent of flooding from Connie and Diane DWARFS Ida in size.
Sandy by the way was forecasted by this forecaster and his company from Oct 21, Never wavering, Why?I had the maps of Hazel, a storm of the past, and matched the pattern. which by the way flattened the area where Rowan University is. My Aunt and Uncle lived down the street from where Rowan is and my mom and dad were honeymooning in Atlantic City, The storm roared thru at speeds of 50 mph with wind gusts to 100 mph, The authors should look at how the NE corridor truly gets hit because that is a prime example, not what they are making claims of here.The irony its the benchmark tropical event at what is now Rowan University.
You can read the rest of it on your own, It's Thanksgiving I have much to be thankful for. Serves me right for clicking on WUWT where they will put something on like this to get people to respond since its another case of people who do not forecast that stare at models and use them and make outlandish forecasts no one will ever see that is alive today, getting a paper published. WUWT is a balanced site and puts it on Good for them, Bad for the paper since people can rip it apart that know what is going on.
Maybe Rowan University hit Sandy from 10 days out.. I did not see that forecast since it was just a tropical wave when we made the forecast here. But I would suggest they actually forecast the weather globally for a couple of years for if they did, I doubt such a paper would see the light of day unless it is in a fantasy weather league.
Or the subject of a turkey shoot
Happy Thanksgiving to all
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Dear Paul, thank you very much for the opportunity to interview you today as I can imagine lots of questions are coming with the breaking news we saw from Uranium-Producer CAMECO.
What are your thoughts about the production stop and what it means for the uranium market?
We think this could be a really big turning point in the uranium market. Cameco's suspension of production, the latest in a long line of production cuts at high cost operations, brings the total volume of uranium removed from the market in 2018 to 17 million pounds, about 12% of primary mine supply. This in turn will mean the oversupply of uranium is being brought sharply back into balance.
Cameco's decision also sends a signal to the buyers of uranium that they need to start re-contracting at higher prices in order to secure supply otherwise key suppliers like Cameco could face closures.
The last production cut from Kazatomprom led to an increase in the uranium price of around 30-40% at the beginning of the year. Do you think there is potential for a similar reaction here?
Absolutely. It will take time to work through, but Kazatomprom cut around 5-7mlbs of production during 2017 whereas the Cameco suspension means 17mlbs in total is being cut out of the market in 2018 (12mlbs attributable to Cameco).
The nuclear utilities will be watching this very closely and will be considering whether now is the time to re-enter the market in a big way to sign contracts from 2019 onwards where there is significant uncovered requirements in the market.
BERKELEY is very well advanced and your company fulfilled every milestone you predicted. How do you see the production stop of Cameco impacting your business? Is the Uranium-World hungry for low-cost mines like Salamanca?
Cameco's decision, which Rob Chang at Cantor Fitzgerald believes will "spur strength in the spot U3O8 price", confirms our belief that we should be building a mine at the bottom of the uranium price cycle. Starting sales in 2019 means we will be delivering U3O8 in to a supply/demand deficit that industry experts have called both fundamental and unavoidable.
Thank you very much and all the best for you and your company!


Jane Moore Houghton is a mixed media painter living and working in Central Massachusetts, US. Jane received a BS in Studio Art from Skidmore College in 1987. Since 2006 she has been granted seven solo exhibitions as well as several group shows. Jane's latest series of works, her "Beasts" series was shown in a solo exhibition at the Hanover Theatre for the Performing Arts in Worcester, MA this past winter.
For my mixed media work I use acrylic, gouache, ink, oil stick and colored pencil. I have recently (in the last few years) developed a technique of incorporating hand embroidery on tissue paper into my paintings of endangered and at risk animals. I developed this technique as a way to honor my grandmother who taught me to embroider when I was a young girl. I love using it in my work as a way to stay connected to her memory. Plus it feels like sketching with thread which has been challenging and fun!
I tend to have a few irons in the fire at the same time! Currently I am working on an emerging series of works called "Beasts II: Heritage Breeds and Heirloom seeds" …which grew out of my "Beasts" series, featuring endangered and at-risk plant and animal species. I will hang a solo show at the end of this month with some pieces from both series. I am also developing a commercial art portfolio and am launching my first advent calendar kit this season. This kit grew from a spontaneous act last December of posting a "doodle" a day from my sketch books during the advent season. They were so popular that I decided to offer them as an advent calendar kit this year . It includes 24 doodles on 3" x 3" cards that can be displayed on a tiny wooden easel or hung on a cord with tiny clothes pins (all included).
I try to keep structure and simplicity in place so that my creativity can sprout from a place of peace. I keep a weekly calendar that I keep organized by using different colored sticky notes for each type of task. For example, orange notes are for anything that falls under the exercise category… blue is business related tasks… pink is time making art… yellow is mediation and consultation or research time… green is anything related to my roles as mom, wife, pet owner, friend, etc… I can move the notes around and block out time for each thing in a given week. Also, I try to start my day with a little meditation time and journal writing to get my "monkey brain" to get grounded before starting my day.
I guess I would want to share a bit about my embroidery on layers of tissue paper technique since I don't know of other artists doing this in the same way… It's a technique I developed where I make a tissue paper fabric of sorts by layering three layers of tissue paper glued together with gel medium. I smooth out the layers and hang them to dry. When it is dry it becomes like a delicate fabric that I can embroider on and then adhere the embroidered piece to the surface of my mixed media works. For example, a large portrait of a humpback whale I did in my Beasts series last year featured embroidered barnacles on the surface of his body. In my emerging "Beasts II" series I am beginning to use the embroidery in a less planned-out way and am trying to push the boundaries of using it in a playful and intuitive way.
The advice I would give my young artist self: get your work out there – not with the goal to get published (I wanted to be a children's book illustrator) or to be an instant success but to get feed back and grow from the experience so that you can reach your goals. Don't let the fear of success and how that might change your life hold you back. Find a mentor and set up a lunch date with them every month. Find a tribe of other artists trying to do what you are wanting to do and support one another. Don't ever stop making art.
Maria Ojascastro teaches children and adults as a Design/Visual Arts faculty member for the Center of Creative Arts and as a private instructor from her home studio in St. Louis. Her heritage and family inspires much of what she does, especially her three sons, one who is a cancer survivor, and all three who are now thriving with the diagnosis of Asperger's. These personal challenges have led to specialized workshops she created for individuals whose lives have been touched by trauma, cancer, or atypical children. She's presented workshops for many educational and cultural institutions including the Kemper Art Museum, The Missouri Mental Health Counselors Association (via live national webcast) and the Center for Survivors of Torture and War Trauma. She also teaches art to individuals whose lives have been touched by cancer at the Siteman Cancer Center, the Cancer Support Community and St. Anthony's Cancer Center.
In 2014, Maria's art was featured in a two-person exhibit in the Millstone Gallery at the Center of Creative Arts, entitled "Breathe." "Breathe" was an exhibit of recently created works that layered prints, paint, text, and found objects as a meditation on resilience, salvaged from the relics of interrupted journeys. She received a Masters of Fine Arts from Washington University in St. Louis; studied in Santa Reparata International School of Art in Florence, Italy; and received a Bachelor of Fine Arts at Saint Mary's College in Notre Dame, Indiana.
COCA Millstone Gallery Exhibition: Breathe – Maria Ojascastro and Rudy Zapf at COCA in St. Louis, MO on June 18, 2014.
I love printmaking… I studied printmaking, I think like a printmaker, I create like a printmaker, but I don't have a printing press in my studio. So I often draw and paint on top of old prints and layer them in my work. Whether I'm painting, drawing, or melting encaustic wax, the elements I love about printmaking — textures, colors, layers and unpredictable results — make their way into my art.
I taught a few of my private art students this summer how to make fairy gardens. So now I'm making a couple fairy gardens in old terra cotta pots for myself. It's not something I planned on, or even pictured myself enjoying. But when a mom asked me to teach her two kids how to make fairy gardens, I couldn't help but enjoy the whimsical nature of miniature furniture, sparkly gems, and pretty colors. It is a fun mini project for me.
Going somewhere new or trying something new gets my creativity going. I've been doing a lot of college visits for my twins, who are senior high school students. I also recently brought all three of my sons to a zip line/adventure course to celebrate my youngest son's 15th birthday. If I move my body — to another city or just zipping across the forest — my mind works better.
4. What's one thing do you want to share with others about your art and/or process?
I often hate my art before I love it.
If you are going to get a degree in art, study something practical also — business, education, etc. If you are going to do something practical, also do something creative — dance, write, play an instrument etc. The left brain and right brain are equally important.


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As part of the school's governance structure as an Independent Public School (IPS), Broome Senior High School has a School Board.
The role of the School Board is to:
Establish and review the school's purpose and performance indicators.
Represent the educational needs and aspirations of students, teachers, parents and community.
Promote the school in the community.
Take part in formulating codes of conduct for students.
Monitor the allocation of financial and human resources.
Determine a dress code for students.
Review school contributions and charges.
Determine the school priority areas in consultation with staff.
If you are interested in being part of the School Board, please contact the Principal.


Yearbook classifieds for Chalmette HS yearbooks are listed below. If you want to see if others from Chalmette, LA high schools want to make a trade for a yearbook, post your info below.
I am looking for yearbooks for the years 1992-1996.
Please!! I never had the chance to see my yearbook. I really want the yearbook!
Looking for a 1992-1993 year book.
I lost my yearbook in a house fire. I would love to get a copy of it.
I am quite sure many of the class of '69 Alumni have lost most or all of their old keepsakes as I did. I am currently living in Longview, Wa. with my brother, Ralph and our sister Linda, after katrina. I wish I could find a way to get a copy of the yearbook, my HS ring, and My Maroon and White Letter sweater given to me by Coach Nuss and the athletic dept. in appreciation for my 3 yrs dedicated SPIRT BOOSTER. I hope someone out there can help. GO OWLS !!!!!
I'm working with Linda (Judge) Cornell, Ed Sbisa, Phil Gremillion to secure copies of my senior year (1965) yearbook. If anyone has a copy of '65 yearbook, please let me know. Hurricane Katrina took it, along with my photos, etc.
Would love to get a copy of yearbooks 1964-1966, especially 1965. Besty and Katrina took both. My grandkids would love to see Danny and I in high school. Thanks.
I would like to purchase a 1964 YEARBOOK. Are they available?
I am requesting a copy of the 1963 Chalmette High School Year Book.
I would love to buy a 1963 Yearbook, mine was lost in Hurricane Betsy.
I am requesting a copy of the 1962 Chalmette High School Yearbook.
Looking for yearbooks from 1957 and 1958. Lost mine in Katrina.
Would also like 1954-55, 1955-56, 1956-57. Thanks!
I lost all of mine in Hurricane Betsy.
Lost all my yearbooks in a fire. Am interested in 1957 & 1958. Many thanks!


⁃How did you form the band?
I was lucky early on in college to get connected to VRS (Vanderbilt Recording Studio) and some of the artists, producers, and engineers over there. Over the first two years of college that was my home on Friday and Saturday nights where I'd record from 6:00 pm until 7:00 am. Thankfully, Allan Fine connected me with Matt Anderson. Matt's an incredible artist who was doing a house show at his mayfield. They said they needed a rapper to help out with a couple of the songs they were performing and I was excited to get involved. It was sick because they had what looked like a professional setup with an entire band on the tiny mayfield balcony. It's still to this day one of my favorite things I've done in college. A lot of those guys who were playing at the show ended up saying yes when I needed a band to perform at some shows on campus. We've grown together and adapted the group a bit over time and now those guys are some of my best friends.
⁃Why is music important to you/what are your favorite parts of creating music?
Music is important to me on a level that I don't have the words yet to explain. There's something about music that inspires a level of focus and happiness from me that I've never experienced before. At least not this consistently. I'm the only guy in the room usually that's willing to not sleep in service of whatever song we're working on at the moment. Those moments where the most important thing in the world is the song and all of my thoughts and energies are channeled into it. That's my favorite part of the creative process.
⁃Who are your strongest influences?
Tierra Whack is amazing, I love Billie Eilish's production and lyricism, Drake's consistency is amazing to me. Dude, Queen is amazing, I don't understand how Freddie just wrote all of those songs. Overall, I'm a huge fan of all music and creative mediums. I listen to a ton of music from every musical artist you could imagine but I also have interests in photography and videography. I always have a sense of what colors and images would suit my music the best. I'm not synesthetic, but every time I talk to my roommate, Knowledge (who has synesthesia), I'm usually on the same page as him in terms of color to sound matches.
⁃Any plans/goals for the year?
Yes, my goal is to release 50 songs this year, 30 music videos and create a live show experience that's immersive and uplifting. Last year and the year before were years of growth and learning. I taught myself how to write my own songs, produce them, then recently over the past 8 months I've been teaching myself how to mix and master audio to get every song I release polished and ready to compete on a large scale. I'm a big proponent of eliminating outside dependencies. I'm at a place where I can create a song from inception of an idea to release on my own. Now it's beautiful because I can collaborate when I think somebody's talent is incredible, not out of necessity or survival. I've been working on two projects and shooting a ton of videos to release. I see all these moves as tools to achieve my larger aim of connecting with more people to uplift them.


Another customer we've seen before is the Reinhold Rhino. I have a weakness for bowie-type designs, and I certainly dig this cool little knife. The cutout in the handle for the opening hole is still 'deceiving' for my hand; I keep reaching for a linerlock to close this compression lock folder. I'm sure an evening watching TV opening and closing the Rhino will solve that. The ergos are really good, it fits my hand very well. As a spyderknut, I'm not complaining about the design upgrade to CTS-XHP and the G-10/Carbon Fiber laminate. And….the clip is reversible for lefties! Definitely worth the wait!
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Believe that Jesus Christ died on the cross for your sins and was raised to life by God (Romans 10:9 and 10).
China, the old country had a long history of glory, in his re-soaring this century.we will witness the march.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 8, 2022
Contact: Morgan Brandenburg, Market Orders Specialist, (608) 807-7106, morgan.brandenburg@wisconsin.gov
MADISON, Wis. – The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP) is accepting nominations through November 1, 2022 for three seats on the Wisconsin Corn Promotion Board.
Producers that grow and sell corn in Districts 1, 2, and 7 are eligible to nominate producers or be nominated to the board. These districts include:
District 1: Douglas, Bayfield, Ashland, Iron, Vilas, Burnett, Washburn, Sawyer, Price, Oneida, Polk, Barron, Rusk, Lincoln, Chippewa, Taylor, Eau Claire, Clark, Marathon, Jackson, Wood, Portage, and Waupaca counties.
District 2: Croix, Dunn, Pierce, Pepin, Buffalo, and Trempealeau counties.
District 7: Green Lake, Dodge, Washington, Ozaukee, Waukesha, and Milwaukee counties.
DATCP will mail nomination forms to any producer who requests one prior to November 1, 2022 and can be requested by emailing DATCPMarketOrders@wisconsin.gov. Nomination forms must be signed, notarized, and postmarked by November 1, 2022 and include the signatures of five eligible corn growers other than the nominee. Completed forms should be mailed to WI DATCP, Marketing Order Program, P.O. Box 8911, Madison, WI 53708-8911.
DATCP will conduct the Wisconsin Corn Promotion Board election from December 5, 2022 through January 10, 2023. Elected growers will serve three-year terms beginning February 1, 2023.
About the Wisconsin Corn Promotion Board
The Wisconsin Corn Promotion Board is composed of nine producers in nine districts across the state. The board oversees the collection and use of approximately $1.7 million in assessment fees paid by Wisconsin corn growers. This funding is used to support the corn industry through research, education, and promotion of Wisconsin-grown corn.
Learn more about the Wisconsin Corn Promotion Board at https://wicorn.org/.
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HomeFeaturesNewsHuman Rights Commission to amend its Act in order to file contempt of court cases
Human Rights Commission to amend its Act in order to file contempt of court cases
The Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka (HRCSL) is to submit a draft of amendments to the Human Rights Commission Act before cabinet to empower the commission to file contempt of court cases before High Courts against public officers who did not comply with the commission's recommendations.
Human Rights Commissioner Dr. Prathibha Mahanamahewa said yesterday that the commission had given an opportunity for Civil Society Organisations (CSO) to make their opinions and proposals regarding the amendments to the act and further said the commission was currently preparing the final draft.
Dr. Mahanamahewa said that the CSOs also proposed to blacklist public officers who did not comply with the recommendations and to make available provisions to issue declaration orders against them.
He further said that CSOs further suggested a broadening of the scope of the Human Rights in line with the International Human Rights Covenants, enabling to go beyond the fundamental rights mentioned in the country's constitution. The Human Rights Commissioner further said amendments would also extend the tenure of a Human Rights Commission from three years to five years.
He finally said the final draft of the proposed amendment to the Human Rights Commission Act No.21 of 1996 would be presented before the cabinet after discussions with civil society organisations.
By Lakmal Sooriyagoda
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Of course yes! If our generations are US citizens, US govt should take care of them and if they are part of any terrorist organisation, they should be treated the way terrorists are treated.
"Country needs to care about its people" ... Its is in your quote ... Issue is about Srilankan's and their goverment should take care of it, NOT India. I don't think any one has a doubt about how LTTE should be handled.
Any news on what happened on the decision on suspension/removal of labor substitution? I searched in google but couldn't find any updates.
Also, any idea of how much relief this would offer for GC retrogression?
I don't know if there will be an another wave for BJP like the year of 2000 ( half of the seat they got from UP) . Adding new geographical areas for them is getting tougher now as local regional parties are much stronger than they used to be. Congress has a high chances of emerging as single largest party and getting support from SP/Lalu/NCP/ AIDMK / Lefties / RDP to reach magic no of 272.
You wouldn't belive if you hear how negotiations take palce for key portfolios of Govt., after election.
Do you know how much money Indians Politician have in Swiss bank ?
Do you wonder why didn't have any choice for cars before late 90s ?
Do you know why your cousin/father/ neighbor had to pay a 'premium' for getting a Bajaj Scooter in 70s and 80s ? BTW the premium used to be much more higher than scooter price.
Do you know why we still talk about Polio vaccination in India and half of India's population doesn't have clean drinking water or 24 X7 electricity ? Have you seen a family pulling a cart of half ton at noon on 42 c summer day and getting paid 50/100 rupees ?
Business Mafias ran our country. Every Central Govt. strategy was controlled/decided by them, still does.
As recently Narendra Modi said in Nasik that real credit for getting Oscars for Slum Dog Millionaire should go to Congress.
Can't blame everything to Congress but they have played big role in it.
At last, Do you wonder why we have IV.org ?
Unfortunately its a flop show.. I pity you dude..
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I am analyzing for EB-2 (India). The current date for EB-2 India was Apr 1 2004 for month of June.
Retrogression started Oct 1 2005. Before Oct 1 2005, persons with PD < Oct 1 2005 (remember PERM) could have submitted I-485. Some (not all remember namecheck) of these would be ready for adj June 1st 2007. These applicants can be divided into 2 categories: those with PD <= Apr 1 2004 and those with PD > Apr 1 2004.
Applicants in first category will get GC in June and applicants in 2nd category will get GC in Jul. These applicants can exhaust 2007 quota.
USCIS is taking 3 weeks for notification of 485's submiited in June. I would be very surprised if they process a June submission in < 3 months. So chances of June applicant using GC number are low.
USCIS knew # applicants in above 2 categories: this appears trivial. If these applicants exhaust 2007 quota, USCIS knew that quota will get exhausted in Jul. The date can be of their choosing since the work involved must be pretty low.
A similar analysis can be done for any other category. Correct me if my dates are wrong.
but if USCIS knew this (that June+July can finish all the numbers for 2007) then why does the visa bulletin talk about retrogression in September timeframe for India/China? Why not August itself?
Recently I was on a flight from Delhi to Mumbai and the guy next to me was a former RBI employee. I asked him as to why the Indian govt. is not doing anything about the billions of USD left behind by Indians returning to India in the form of SSA and Medicare taxes, to which he replied that the obstacle to a treaty as stated by the US govt. is that India does not have a system comparable to Soc. Security and Medicare for distribution of money to it's retirees.
Such a pact was apparently considered in 2006, but went nowhere due to disagreement about how the Indian govt. will track money distribution and administer the program.
There is already a thread working on Government of India to consolidate Pension Fund with Social Security. America already has this type of treaties with few european countries. But looking at the bereaucracy now, this may take next 10-15 years.
What about Mary Magdelene? The Holy Grail is enough proof for her GC??
A guy approached me in Walmart (he had nothing in his cart) and said - are you from india? Where do you work? Where do u live? What's you fone number.......all this happened in a matter of 2 mins. We has just moved to a new city and thought he is a nice guy and gave our phone number.............BIG MISTAKE....got a fone call 3 days later to talk about a business plan............OMG...worst hr of my life.
Then I met one couple in their 40s in IKEA and they said - I've see you before....it immediately struck to me and I said - Are you from quickstar............ROFL.
These ppl are a pain. Avoid Amway/Quixtar and any pyramid ponzi scheme.
People like these give desis a bad name. Ignore them.
We are called dogs, because we discuss things, then what are we called if we don't and accept things in India as they are.
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2. If Mr. Hiralal-types bought a house today, that would dry out the foreclosure inventories for precisely one month. If all the EB immigrants were to buy a home, that would stem help for two months at the current supply rate of homes piling to the inventory.
How would the policy-makers look at these numbers?
Let's keep Hiralal's point as one of the several reasons for pushing for reform. But, the broader perspective is to reform the way the Govt. processes immigrant application. We should strive for permanent solutions - removing of country quota and make it true capitalist nature - let supply and demand dictate who can get in and how many can get in. If diversity is the reasoning for country quota, then India should be given 25 times 7 which is 175% because we are 25 counties put in one.
Economic situations and foreclosures are all fleeting effects. While we can leverage on these facts our argument for reform should not be based on variants.
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Will these rules apply for H1 re-stamping or is it just for H1 renewals only?
That seems to be the intention here..
Can I ask a question - tangential, maybe, but not by much. Why do Tamils have such a problem assimilating? Why don't they learn the local language and respect the local culture when they immigrate? Their motto seems to be "In Rome, be a Raman".
And the opposite is true when people speaking other languages settle in Tamil majority areas - they are, dare I say, forced to integrate, because that is the only way one can manage to live on a day-to-day basis. Would Tamils ever allow a non-Tamil minority to gain even a tiny foothold in their areas where the Tamil writ would not run? I doubt it.
Note that I am a firm believer of learning and respecting the local culture and integration. One does have a 'right' to propagate one's own language and culture, but they lose that right substantially when they emigrate to an alien land - whether it is within the same country or not.
To extend the logic, when we (mostly people of Indian origin in this group, I would assume) immigrate to the US, while we may try to conserve our heritage in private, we cannot impose it on the locals. That is when you end up creating ill-will against immigrants among the native population. America has been a great melting-pot, and has had great success assimilating great waves of immigrants from various countries including Italy, Ireland, Scandinavia, Germany etc, and the reason it succeeded was that in a couple of generations, there was total integration into the American culture. We owe it to our adopted country to do the same.
Don't bring this flavor to the discussions. Do you know 25% of population in Tamilnadu are telugu speaking people.
Previous CM(MGR) was a keralite, MS Jayalailtha is a kanadika, Superstar Rajinikanth is a Kanadika, Mr vijaykanth is a Andhraite.
It is true that tamilians have high respect for their culture and identity so as everyone in the world. Even now the jews practice their culture and language here, are they getting discriminated for doing that? The problem arises when anyone is discriminated for some reasons.
Tamils in SL were not emigrated they were there for past 2000 years or so.
Ron has been speculating successfully for some time, how ever there have been times when he has been out of touch.
I was following his post, and he was a strong believer that EB2 retrogressed cannot get the visa's before EB2WW becomes current, even after it was categorically stated in the bulltien/and confirmed by googler on IV.
He himself contacted the person in DOS and only after he was specifically told that EB2 retrogressed gets the visas before EB3, is when he changed his stand.
He also predicted that EB2 would not move much in august 08, where as clearly it has.
So I would say he does his best to predict, but with USICS, no one has been able to predict successfully over a period of time.
If a person is making lot of money through this e-commerce business why is he shopping in cheap Walmart? Why do they drive cheap cars? Beats me.
software engineers now coming to US to Religious workers..
Just a joke folks, dont get worked up.
Language is a very hot boiled subject. We have to be a bit practical about what makes it work. Anti-hindi agitations have other roots as well. Understanding Dravidian history needs an open mind. Same is the case with everything about India.
IMO, India is not formed with a single ethnic group colonizing almost empty land and forming a nation based on some principles and later vast immigration followed by years on assimilation based on melting pot concept. It is more of an idea that is formed politically. All 4 south Indian states having a vast culture being ordered to use one language perhaps backfired fueled by resentment against upper castism that existed in Congress during that time.
Coming back to the point, if we had gone for Hindi as a national and sole business language, (I dont like insisting any thing in a democracy), we would have perhaps missed IT/BPO wave and most of us will not be here in this forum.
That is the tragedy of India. Except Indians everybody has ruled India and still people have no remorse, no self respect.


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7-13 February 2014 #693
Lost in migration
Someplace Else by Ayesha Shakya
Hit Man Gurung
IN PROGRESS: I Have to Feed My Country and My Family
From 7-9 February, artists Nhooja Tuladhar, Hit Man Gurung, and Sunil Sigdel will be in Bangladesh for the second Dhaka Art Summit, the largest platform for budding talents from the sub-continent, with support from Siddhartha Art Gallery, which is curating the Nepali chapter at the summit. An initiative of the Samdani Art Foundation, the event will showcase more than 33 local and international galleries with over 250 participants from the region and aims to promote artistic exchange and the development of South Asian art.
From an experimental documentary on the 2004 murders of 12 Nepali workers in Iraq, to a mixed media installation featuring an actual coffin parcel sourced from Tribhuvan International Airport, to digital collages and paintings portraying the effects of war on people and their faith, Tuladhar, Gurung, and Sigdel will highlight the plight of Nepali migrant workers and breathe life into the anonymous faces buried under statistics.
Tuladhar's 10-minute documentary Descending into Shadows recounts the reactions of Kathmandu to the murders of the 12 Nepali migrant workers in Iraq by the Ansar al-Sunna Army and the riots that engulfed the city afterwards, mainly targeted at government buildings and foreign employment agencies. With the aim of documenting reality, Nhooja has juxtaposed the interviews with text on the incident from international news agencies interlaced with audio from the execution video in the background.
Nepal survives on the remittance sent back by migrant labourers, yet they are one of the most vulnerable demographic in the country. Thousands of young men and women escape the drudgery and hopelessness at home only to find themselves toiling in foreign lands under slave-like conditions with low wages and lack of safety equipment. The number of deaths among Nepali migrant workers is one of the highest in the sub-continent, a fact highlighted by the arrival of three to four coffins per day at Kathmandu's international airport.
Hit Man Gurung uses an actual coffin used to return the dead from abroad to depict the reduction of the migrant worker's identity to a wooden box. Expressing how each labourer shares a common story, the interior of the coffin is covered with a collage of photographs of those who apply for visas every day, with calligraphy about their origin and destination overlaying their pictures. Outside the coffin are tiny prints of passports of the same people, on top of which is a world map, highlighting the areas with the highest concentration of Nepali migrant workers in the world.
Coffin installation by Hit Man Gurung
Titled I Have to Feed My Country and My Family (pic, above), his coffin installation and paintings inspired by Michaelangelo's Pietà, Gurung contrasts the optimistic dreams of migrant workers with their dark realities and, sometimes, their untimely deaths.
The third artist, Sunil Sigdel, is showcasing the digital collages Last Moment of Life, My Faith Dies in Afghanistan, and his painting Me and My Grandfather to express the effects of conflict on an individual's spiritual belief, physical reality, and emotions. Inspired by Eddie Adams' iconic Vietnam War photograph Saigon Execution, Last Moment of Life shows us how despite the boundaries, human emotions and empathy triumph all else and connect us physically.
Last Moment of Life, inspired by Eddie Adams' Saigon Execution
Ayesha Shakya
www.dhakaartsummit.org
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Trump Impeachment Advances as Historic Vote Sends Case to House
Billy House
Bloomberg 13 December 2019
(Bloomberg) -- The House Judiciary Committee recommended the impeachment of Donald Trump in a party-line vote Friday that reflected bitter partisan disagreement over whether the ultimate constitutional punishment fits the nature of the president's alleged misconduct.
The Judiciary Committee acted separately and without debate on each of the two counts -- one charging him with abuse of power and the other with obstruction of Congress -- approving both on identical 23-17 votes.
The votes to advance the articles of impeachment for consideration by the full House next week will inevitably lead to Trump becoming only the third president in U.S. history to be impeached.
Andrew Johnson in 1868 and Bill Clinton in 1998 were impeached by the House but acquitted in their Senate trials. That is all but certain to be the outcome for Trump.
The Judiciary Committee spent two days going over the articles, including a marathon 14-hour hearing on Thursday that Chairman Jerrold Nadler abruptly recessed without a vote amid protests from Republicans. The committee reconvened at 10 a.m Friday and went straight to voting without debate.
Nadler afterward called it "a sad day" and said the House "will act expeditiously" on the articles.
Trump accused Democrats of "trivializing" the impeachment process and derided their actions.
"It's a witch hunt, it's a sham, it's a hoax," the president told reporters as he met with Paraguay President Mario Abdo Benitez at the White House.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Nadler and other House Democratic leaders have cast the president's actions in his dealings with Ukraine as leaving them no choice but impeachment to protect the nation and the election from further wrongdoing by the president.
"The institutional power of Congress to safeguard our liberties by providing a check and balance on the executive is crucial to the Constitutionscheme to protect our liberties." Nadler said Thursday night.
As they have throughout the hearings, Republicans said Democrats pursued impeachment without evidence of any crime and acting only out of anger over Trump's election.
"Democrats have sacrificed core American tenets of due process, fairness, and the presumption of innocence on the altar of a 2016 election that they lost three years ago," Representative Doug Collins, the top Judiciary Republican, said in a statement after the committee vote.
One of the articles accuses Trump of "corruptly soliciting" investigations in Ukraine that would aid his re-election campaign. The second alleges that no previous U.S. president "has ever ordered such complete defiance of an impeachment inquiry or sought to obstruct and impeded so comprehensively the ability of the House of Representatives to investigate 'high crimes and misdemeanors.'"
The articles will now be sent to the House Rules Committee, which will hold meeting on Tuesday to set the the procedures for the expected floor vote on Wednesday.
Limiting the counts against to Trump to two articles was by design. Pelosi and party leaders rejected a broader set of charges that some members of the party argued should have incorporated findings from former Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report. The leaders viewed the circumscribed approach as the straightest path to maintaining unity among Democrats.
Representative Hakeem Jeffries of New York, chairman of the House Democratic caucus and a member of the Judiciary Committee said on Thursday that Democrats have enough votes in the full House to impeach the president.
"The articles of impeachment will pass," Jeffries said, though he said he doesn't know how many Democrats will vote against them.
Senate Trial
The Senate has been preparing for an impeachment trial that likely will begin in January. White House aides Eric Ueland and Pat Cipollone met with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Thursday to discuss strategy for that phase of the process, which is expected to end in the president's acquittal.
"There's no chance the president is going to be removed from office," McConnell told Fox News host Sean Hannity on Thursday night.
Republicans must decide how many defense witnesses the president should present, if any. Several GOP senators said this week that there's a growing consensus that the trial should be limited and relatively quick, moving to a vote on acquittal without hearing witnesses.
"I'll do long or short," Trump said at the White House. "I'll do whatever they want to do, it doesn't matter. I wouldn't mind a long process, because I'd like to see the whistleblower, who's a fraud."
The committee's debate and vote to send the articles to the full House comes after two days of hearings in which the White House refused to offer a defense case. But Republicans on the committee have led attacks, essentially describing the impeachment effort as a sham or even an attempted coup d'etat.
The impeachment probe was formally launched by Pelosi in late September after revelations from a still unnamed whistle-blower's complaint that raised alarms about a July 25 phone call between Trump and newly elected Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.
Zelenskiy was in need of military aid and a White House meeting as show of clear U.S. support as his country battle's Russian aggression. Although Congress had appropriated the assistance, the Trump administration refused to release it without giving a reason to Defense and State department officials who administer aid.
'Quid Pro Quo'
A rough transcript of the call released by the White House shows Trump brought up a discredited conspiracy theory about Ukrainian involvement in the hacking of Democratic servers during the 2016 election, as well as an unsubstantiated allegation that former Vice President Joe Biden stopped a corruption investigation of his son, a board member of a Ukrainian energy company.
"The call transcript shows no quid pro quo" between Trump and Zelenskiy during their July 25 call, said Republican Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio, who proposed an amendment that would eliminate the article accusing Trump of abusing his power. He said there was "no pressure, no pushing, no linkage whatsoever between assistance money and any kind of investigation."
Jeffries countered by saying, "The president was caught red-handed trying to pressure a foreign government to target an American citizen."
The committee rejected also an amendment by Republican Matt Gaetz that would rewrite the abuse of power article to target Biden's son Hunter Biden and his board membership on the Burisma Holdings energy company.
Prior to the Judiciary Committee's involvement, investigative committees led by the Intelligence panel collected evidence, conducted interviews, and held public hearings about whether Trump used the power of his office the the prospect of aid to get Zelenskiy to announce an investigation of Biden, a contender for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination.
The majority and minority party reports that came out of those investigations will be attached to the resolution containing the articles to be sent to the Senate, if the full House votes to impeach.
(Updates with Trump remarks in seventh paragraph.)
--With assistance from Erik Wasson.
To contact the reporter on this story: Billy House in Washington at bhouse5@bloomberg.net
To contact the editors responsible for this story: Joe Sobczyk at jsobczyk@bloomberg.net, Anna Edgerton
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As Veterinary Bills Add Up, More Pet Owners Opt for Insurance
Two out of three American households—or about 85 million homes—own pets, and those lovable little roommates don't come cheap.
Americans spent $17 billion last year on veterinary care alone, according to figures published by the American Pet Product Association. Per pet, that included $257 for the routine care of dogs and $182 for cats.
But accidents or illness can balloon costs, and to offset the expense, more households have turned to pet insurance, a niche product that for the first time last year grossed $1 billion in annual premiums.
Compared with auto, home and human health coverage, pet insurance is the runt of the litter. But that puppy's growing.
Last year's gross annual premiums were 23% higher than the previous year, when the total was $837 million, according to the North American Pet Health Insurance Association. The number of insured pets also increased, climbing to 1.83 million last year, up about 16% from the previous year.
That's only 1% of dogs and cats, but insurers expect the expansion to continue.
"Twelve million puppies and kittens come into the world every year," said Rob Jackson, chief executive officer of the pet insurer Healthy Paws. "There's still great room to grow."
One yardstick to assess the potential is the U.K., where a quarter of cats and dogs are insured, according to Laura Bennett, a pet insurance actuary and fellow of the Society of Actuaries.
Although animals that are more exotic than cats and dogs may be covered, insurers tend to focus on the two most popular companion animals.
In 2017, Americans owned 94.2 million cats and 89.7 million dogs, accounting for nearly half of all household pets, according to the pet product association.
(America's 393 million pets also included other small animals, horses, birds, reptiles and fish. At 139 million, freshwater fish was the single largest category, accounting for 35% of the total. But come on. If you can't cuddle it, is it really a pet?)
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Insurance to offset the cost of veterinary care is a hybrid product. Like health insurance, it typically covers accidents and illnesses, but because pets are possessions, it is technically property and casualty insurance.
That's the kind that's purchased for homes and cars, but there's a wrinkle: With car insurance, drivers don't assume it's OK to get into more accidents. Pet insurance may inspire a different response.
"If I go out and adopt a dog and buy an insurance policy, you don't know how I'm going to behave," Ms. Bennett said. "Will I go to the vet every time the dog coughs? You don't know."
About a dozen companies sell pet insurance in the U.S. The largest, in order of market share, are Nationwide, Trupanion and Healthy Paws.
Each is relatively new to the scene. Trupanion began selling pet insurance in the U.S. in 2008. In 2009, Nationwide acquired Veterinary Pet Insurance, which had been around since 1980. And Healthy Paws started in 2010.
There are no standardized actuarial tables to guide pet insurers in setting premiums. Each group crafts its own, often with the help of pet actuaries.
Trupanion, which insures 472,000 pets and employs four credentialed actuaries, bases its rates on characteristics such as pet breed and age—like other companies—along with details gleaned from the 1 million-plus claims the company has processed.
Among the lessons it has learned over the years is that different breeds have different health concerns.
"Golden retrievers are prone to cancers more so than other dogs that are otherwise comparable," said T.J. Houk, Trupanion's chief data officer and actuary. "Other breeds of a similar size have their own issues."
That kind of information influences premiums, as does a pet's place of residence.
"In New York there's a very different level of available care than in most of the rest of country," Mr. Houk said. "You see significantly higher prices there."
With a $200 deductible, premiums for a mixed breed puppy in Manhattan would cost $76, Mr. Houk said. In Mobile, Ala., the same pet with the same coverage would cost $34.
Premiums also vary depending on a policy's deductible, but in general, monthly pet insurance payments range from $25 to $150.
One reason for the growing appeal of pet insurance is the availability of increasingly sophisticated and expensive treatments.
"The cost of routine care is not going up," Mr. Jackson said. "Where you find increases is in specialty care. That's where you get the sticker shock."
A torn cranial cruciate ligament, which is often referred to as a dog's ACL, is an example of a common ailment that now has a variety of advanced treatment options with price tags to match.
"The old treatment was to repair the ligament for around $1,200," Mr. Jackson said. "Now, you can set the bone, put a plate in there, and for $4,500, the knee is as good as new. It's the same condition but a new way to treat it."
And, if you choose to buy pet insurance, a new way to pay for it.
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