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Partnership Grants support the delivery of significant projects that improve community wellbeing. Projects should demonstrate the collaboration of key stakeholders and be delivered through partnership between the funded organisation(s) and Council. Grants of up to $25,000 per year will be considered. Only projects with exceptional merit will be awarded the full funding amount. Funding for up to 3 years may be available if there is a clear need for longer term funding to achieve successful outcomes. All agreements will initially be for 1 year.
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PAE Places grants of up to $3,000 aim to support the creation and delivery of projects in public spaces across the city that improve how we feel and use our public spaces and how we can enhance the way they look and work, and also how we celebrate our heritage. It aims is to give the community the opportunity to make their City a place where people love to be through placemaking projects of all sizes and shapes.
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Grants of up to $1,000 are available for not-for-profit groups and organisations for unforeseen or short-notice projects that provide services or benefit to the local community.
Events Sponsorships aim to provide financial and in-kind support to organisations conducting festivals and other special events, which generate tourism activity and increase the public profile of the City of Port Adelaide Enfield. Sponsorships of up to $5000 for events attracting between 1000 – 8000 attendees on any one day. Sponsorships of up to $12,000 for events attracting more than 8000 attendees on any one day and that will deliver significant and measureable economic benefit to the City of PAE.
In addition to Council's Grant programs, grant funds are also available from State and Federal Governments and from philanthropic organisations. Please visit our Other Funding Opportunities page for an extensive list of opportunities.


Belinda V. March Meals & Guides Excellent. Daniel's knowledge of native flora and fauna was fantastic. I loved that we were able to taste indigenous foods along the way, that he pointed out objects, and told interesting stories that were attributed to the aboriginals that lived in the area. Camping – Excellent. Overall impression of the tour. Beyond Expectations. I had a great time. Good food, good company with fantastic scenery and landscapes. I thought the heat was the biggest challenge, but overall an awesome walk that I'd do again if the opportunity arose.


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I'm always looking for ways to get my students to re-read our stories and yet be engaged in the second reading! Today we read the story from my packet for the song To' My Love. As a really easy 5 point assessment I asked 5 questions. They had to find 4 answers in the text and highlight them and write a text message for the 5th.
It was ZERO prep, it was super effective, and it was a great exit ticket! You could literally do this with ANY story you read in class! Give it a try!
What level was this? Thanks for sharing ñ!
The reading was in level 3 but the activity would work at any level!
I don't understand who they txted to?
Ok, I see the txted, but wouldn't the questioning have been too easy for the students in level 3? What was a question? Like, what was Julio like? En inglés? Just curious? Es un repaso? No?
I asked in Spanish, they re read the text to find the answers. Just a twist on a simple comprehension question.
Got it! The questions are also both higher level thinking than, what is he like? I have a hard time making it more complex than asking, ¿como es Julio? What is Julio like? I guess it just takes thought as a teacher and practice to create them, right? I'm very new to asking good, comprehensive reading comprension questions.
Exactly!! If you think of questioning in terms of Bloom's Taxonomy verbs it's easier to make questions they CAN answer that inspire them to think deeper! It does take practice!! I am still practicing too!!
Thanks! I'm new to all of this! You are a pro! A trail blazer!
Hey Carrie! Can you help me with the phrase ¿Y si Claudia se lo rompía? How do you decide to use rompía there, grammatically speaking? This is sincerely for my own education! Gracias!
I know what you mean! When I wrote the story I wrote it as lo rompiera but I have everything "native proofed" and she said it should be rompía. She says she can't tell the name of the rule but can say that rompiera "no suena bien". 🙂 Language… Gotta love it!
Thanks Carrie! My husband is Argentine and he said he would say "rompe" instead, but not rompiera either. I am practicing subjunctive and was thinking it would be a hypothetical = rompiera. Ugh! Just shows that you can`t LEARN languages, right?! Muchas gracias por todo que compartes!!


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The Target Olympic Podium Scheme is a flagship program of the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports which is an attempt to provide assistance to India's top athletes. The Scheme looks to add a premium to the preparations of these athletes so that they can win Olympic medals in 2020 and 2024 Olympics.Under the Scheme, the Department of Sports shall identify athletes who are potential medal winners in 2020 / 2024 Olympics.The idea of the Scheme is to also keep an eye in the future and fund a Developmental Group of Athletes who are medal prospects for the Olympic Games in Paris in 2024 and Los Angeles Games in 2028.
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Everyone who puts on a costume and fights to defend justice knows that they're putting their lives on the line. The chances of dying in the line of duty seem to increase when you join a team like the Avengers, who have made enemies of just about every villain on the planet and off.
While the Avengers boast an impressive success rate when it comes to saving the world -- and all of reality -- they don't always return home with the same number of members they left with. We look back at some of the team's most tragic losses over its multi-decade history!
Though never fully committed to the team -- and not always a hero -- Swordsman decided to show his true grit after Kang kidnapped everyone else on the team and left him behind in AVENGERS (1963) #129. Intent on proving himself, Swordsman found his teammates and teamed up with Rama-Tut and his old protégé Hawkeye to free them. The story concluded in GIANT-SIZE AVENGERS (1974) #2, as did Swordsman's life when he pushed his love, Mantis, away and took a rogue blast from Kang's gun, which killed him.
After working through a variety of problems with her husband Hawkeye, Mockingbird and her West Coast Avengers team wound up pawns in a battle between demons Mephisto and Satannish in WEST COAST AVENGERS (1985) #100. Husband and wife jumped through a portal to bring their teammate Scarlet Witch back to reality. Succeeding, Mockingbird shielded Hawkeye from Mephisto's blasts, losing her life in the process. Though this was eventually revealed to be a Skrull, the moment still resonated with fans for the next two decades!
Simon Williams has actually died twice in the presence of the World's Greatest Super Hero team. When he debuted in AVENGERS (1963) #9, he had been manipulated into working for Baron Zemo, but decided to save the Avengers instead of hurting them, a decision that lead to his apparent death. Many years later, after returning to life, he co-founded the West Coast Avengers and then Force Works. In FORCE WORKS (1994) #1, though, he was atomized while trying to save the Earth from an exploding Kree spaceship. He returned later on down the line thanks to Scarlet Witch.
Back in the mid-'90s, Charles Xavier's bad side gained sentience as Onslaught and began devastating the planet. Of course the X-Men fought him, but the Avengers, Fantastic Four and even Doctor Doom helped out as well as you can see in 1996's ONSLAUGHT: MARVEL UNIVERSE. After realizing that attacks from mutants made the villain more powerful, the other heroes attacked with all their might! This lead to the apparent deaths of Thor, Iron Man, Hank Pym, Wasp, Hulk, Captain America, Falcon, Vision, Scarlet Witch, Black Panther and the Fantastic Four! This devastating event resulted in the longest span of time where Earth was not defended by an Avengers team since it debuted. Luckily, the incredibly powerful mutant Franklin Richards created an entire pocket universe for the heroes to live in until they could make their way back.
Having survived the Onslaught attack, Hawkeye went on to join the Thunderbolts before returning to the Avengers later on down the line. He served with the team when it came under attack from all sides starting with AVENGERS (1998) #500. All in one day, a resurrected Jack of Hearts blew up Scott "Ant-Man" Lang, She-Hulk ripped a seemingly evil Vision in half and an entire armada of Kree soldiers attacked. Hawkeye valiantly fought them off with his trick arrows, but when he took a laser shot to the back, he knew his quiver would explode, so he grabbed a nearby soldier, flew up to the main ship and used the explosion to take it out! This death hurt all the more because it was all in vain. By the next issue, we all learned that an insane Scarlet Witch conjured up all of these threats. Eventually she made up for it, though, by inadvertently bringing Hawkeye back to life.
As a founding member of the Avengers, Janet Van Dyne has risked her life more than a few times. In the process she's been injured, mutated, devastated, and even killed a few times. Most recently, she appeared to die during the Skrull invasion seen in 2008's SECRET INVASION. During the climactic battle in issues #7-8, we discovered that the shape-shifting aliens had given her compromised Pym Particles that turned her into a gigantic bomb which seemed to affect everyone around her. To stop the threat, Thor used Mjolnir to turn her into energy and disperse her. Enraged at the death of a founding Avenger, the assembled heroes finally ended the Skrull invasion with some unexpected sharp shooting from Norman Osborn. Down the road, it was revealed that, instead of dying, the Wasp had actually been transported to the Microverse.
When Steve Rogers revealed that he had been secretly working with Hydra the entire time and took over the United States, Black Widow decided that he needed to die. She even formed a plan to do exactly that with some younger heroes. In SECRET EMPIRE (2017) #7, she had Rogers in her sites, but abandoned her rifle when Miles Morales decided to face off against Captain America. After fighting through an army of Hydra soldiers, Natasha Romanoff made it to the two costumed individuals just as Captain America lashed out with his shield at the young Spider-Man. She jumped between them, taking the signature weapon right to the neck, dying before she hit the ground. She came back thanks to some Red Room cloning, but her death helped unify the remaining heroes to finally bring the villain down.
Not every hero goes out in a blaze of glory on the battlefield, defending his teammates or saving lives. Some succumb to far more common afflictions like cancer. That's what happened to the first person on Earth to go by the moniker Captain Marvel in the pages of 1982's THE DEATH OF CAPTAIN MARVEL. Even with all of the Super Hero community at his side, no one could find a way to cure the lethal radiation he was exposed to while fighting Nitro.
The heroes of the Marvel Universe had already gone through so much during CIVIL WAR. Iron Man led the pro-Registration side while Captain America foresaw that they needed some kind of privacy to keep them safe from their enemies. Yet, in the last issue of the limited series, he saw how regular citizens reacted to the in-fighting and surrendered. Though some of his fellow anti-Registration heroes ran off to fight another day, he allowed himself to be taken into custody and tried. However, he never made it inside the courthouse. An intricate and devious attack orchestrated by the Red Skull left him bleeding to death on the courthouse steps as seen in CAPTAIN AMERICA (2004) #25. With the one hero all the others looked up to seemingly dead, the others mourned his loss, though some had to do so in hiding because of their illegal status. After much consideration, Bucky Barnes took up the mantle and shield as Captain America until CAPTAIN AMERICA REBORN, wherein he and the others discovered that Steve Rogers had actually been bouncing around time, instead of the afterlife.


When I was a little girl, I looked forward to curling up next to my sister most Sunday evenings to watch the weekly showing of "The Magical World of Disney" on my parents' small, staticky, pre-HD television. Together, we fell in love with the classic characters, whimsical music and enchanting fairy tales.
Now that I have children of my own, Disney is still very much a part of our family culture. My husband and I love snuggling up with our boys while we watch a digitally remastered edition of an old favorite, introducing them to the songs and stories of our childhood.
As much as I adore all things Disney, up until last spring, I had yet to set foot inside any of the theme parks around the world. When we found out Disneyland Paris is just a few hours away from my husband's current duty station, we couldn't wait to start planning our family's first Mickey Mouse vacation.
For the best prices throughout the year, plan ahead to qualify for any early booking advantages that may be available. Choose your vacation dates, so they do not coincide with holidays (like St. Patrick's Day, Halloween and Christmas), special events and breaks throughout the school year. Visiting during the week is even better!
IIf you're a family of four or more, do a little number crunching before you decide to purchase train tickets or airfare. Instead of having to pay the rate for each person (children included), not to mention long-term parking and airport fees, calculate how much it will cost for you to take your vehicle. For example, the drive to Disneyland Paris is just under four hours from Ramstein Air Base (RAB) in Germany, with a 60-euro round-trip toll fee. Estimate how much it would cost to keep your gas tank full, then do the math. For our family, it made more sense, financially, to take the car. If you do decide to drive, make sure you have your International Driving Permit (IDP), which is strongly encouraged for servicemembers and their families stationed in Europe.
Depending on the time of year, there may be military discounts available only by phone for your stay at one of the Disneyland Paris hotels. Before you book a room offsite, call +33 1 60 30 60 53 to speak with an adviser about any of the special rates you may qualify for.
If you're unable to book a room on the park grounds with a military discount, consider staying at a nearby partner hotel. Many of these family-friendly accommodations, such as the Vienna House Dream Castle, Vienna House Magic Circus and Algonquin's Explorers, include breakfast, free parking, Disney gift shops and complimentary shuttles to and from the parks. We stayed at the colorful, laid-back pirate-themed Explorers hotel, and our boys have been begging for us to take them back. For the best rates available, reserve your room on Booking.com or directly through the hotel's website.
Military families are eligible for a discount of 50 percent off adult and child (3-11 years) 2-Day Park Tickets at Disneyland Paris and Walt Disney Studios. All you have to do is present a valid military ID at the gate for one servicemember and up to four accompanying people. If the servicemember is not present, dependents may present their IDs to receive the discount.
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Even if you think you might not use it, I highly encourage you to bring your stroller along — just in case. We thought we'd give it a go without one at the beginning of our first day there, but we quickly found ourselves wishing we'd brought it along to help carry the bags and souvenirs we picked up along the way. Instead of forking over the 12 euros it would've cost to rent one, we made the long trek back to our family car to retrieve our own.
The weather in Europe can be unpredictable. So you won't end up blowing your budget due to unexpected conditions, bring your own ponchos and umbrellas just in case it rains, and pack sunglasses, hats, sunscreen and misting fans for the summer months. Also, generic Disney souvenirs, such as costumes, light-up toys and glow-in-the-dark jewelry for the night parades, trading pins and t-shirts are best bought before you go. Save your money for the Disneyland Paris items you might not be able to find anywhere else.
Next to the cost of transportation and accommodations, food can be one of the biggest budget-eaters during a family vacation — especially when you are spending your days at a theme park. Thankfully, we were able to bring small snacks and water bottles into the park without a problem. Making stops to refill them at the water fountains saved us time and money. Also, even though coolers are not allowed inside the gates, there is a picnic area just outside the main entrance. If you're really wanting to pinch your pennies, pack one before you go, and leave it in your vehicle until your stomachs start growling. You can head back into the park for more fun once you've curbed your appetite.
There's just nothing like giving your favorite character a big squeeze in person. The trend at Disney parks is to bring your own autograph book to meet-and-greet sessions for the characters to sign. Instead of waiting to buy one when you get there, make your own from materials you already have around the house — or download these adorable, free printable Disney character autograph pages from Hip2Save.com!
If you are feeling overwhelmed and need some help planning your family's trip to Disneyland Paris, take a deep breath. Ears of Experience is a free travel agency owned an operated by military spouse Amy Sinclair. Give Amy a call at 1-877-80MOUSE or visit her online at TheMouseExperts.com.
Thanks to many of these tips, our first trip to Disneyland Paris ended up being one of the most memorable — and budget-friendly — trips we've taken together as a family so far!
If, like me, you come back from your trip Disneyland Paris and find yourself dreaming up ways to add more magic to your family vacations, consider taking a Mediterranean Disney cruise next. Military families can receive special rates for certain cruises throughout the year. Visit disneycruise.disney.go.com for more information.


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How Howel Davis took a fortress by subterfuge
Floating armories and other ways to fight pirates
The Wall Street Journal just ran an article recently about combating pirates off Somalia. The novel approach is to set up ships outside the danger zone as floating armories. Provided they are willing to pay for the service, merchant vessels passing through the area can take on a private security team with weapons for their voyage past Somalia, and the drop them off at another "floating armory" later. This is a new twist on an old strategy. When confronted with pirates, one has three choices: try to eradicate them, try to buy them off, or arm vessels passing through the seas they frequent. The floating armories are a variation on the third strategy.
A 17th century East Indiaman
Back in the Golden Age of Piracy (the century before 1730), the European ships armed their vessels by other methods. The two most important methods were arming the ships themselves, and sailing in convoys. If you read much of Captain Charles Johnson's 1724 book A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates, you'll find that many of the merchant ships mentioned were armed. Johnson's account of Captain "Black Bart" Roberts mentions merchant ships carrying 12, 40, 10, 26, 22, 10, 16, and 30 cannons. Yet all of these ships fell victim to Roberts and his pirates. The problem was a matter of crew size and motivation. Pirate ships in those days carried large crews, sometimes well over 100, so that they would be irresistible when they boarded a merchant ship. On the other side of the coin, merchants were forever trying to find ways to reduce the size of their crews to keep expenses down. Perhaps there might be a score of them on a ship (more or less, varying by size of the ship). Such a small crew would have trouble manning all the cannons properly, let alone try to defend the ship against being boarded. And why should they? They were being paid little, and they had no interest in the ship or cargo. Far from resisting the pirates, often enough sailors on a merchant ship would join them when their ships were taken. As Black Bart put it, "In an honest service, there is thin commons, low wages, and hard labour; in this [piracy], plenty and satiety, pleasure and ease, liberty and power . . ."
WWII convoys even had airplanes as part of their escorts, more so in the latter part of the war
The other method during the Golden Age of Piracy for defending ships was for the government to institute a convoy system, in which armed naval vessels sailed with the merchant ships, and engaged any hostile craft that appear. Although it's out of this time period, the Allies did a great job during World War II in using convoys to protect merchant ships from German U-boats. Unfortunately, circumstances were not so favorable during the Golden Age. Generally, piracy had to reach crisis proportions before governments would agree to this. And not all merchant captains liked the system. Naval vessels were often slow sailors, retarding the progress of the convoy. It was tempting for a merchant ship's captain to sail on ahead, to be the first ship to reach a destination, and make a bigger profit on their cargo before the other ships in the convoy arrive. Of course, that fast-sailing vessel was then unprotected, and could fall victim to pirates.
The Ganj-i-sawai that Henry Every captured in 1695 had been part of the naval convoy guarding the Muslim pilgrimage on its return from Mecca. The pilgrimage fleet was a rich target, and often sailed with an armed escort of naval vessels. Sometimes this worked. In 1697, Captain Kidd was driven away from the pilgrimage fleet by an armed escort provided by the British East India Company. Other times, as with Every, it did not.
Why aren't any of these alternatives being used in the Indian Ocean off Somalia today? Well, most countries don't like foreign ships with weapons of any kind operating in their territorial waters or coming into port. So the floating armories stay in international waters. The merchant ships who use them take on their security teams in international waters, they sail through international waters, and they give up their security teams at another floating armory in, you guessed it, international waters. That model works well off Somalia. It doesn't work in the seas between the Indian and Pacific Oceans, even though there are a lot of pirates there, because the main shipping channels go through waters controlled by one or more nations. Those nations may not be able to suppress pirates themselves, but they aren't about to welcome more armed vessels into their waters.
One last historical reflection on the floating armories. Some nations are worried about the armories being attacked and seized by pirates. The armory owners think they've taken adequate precautions. Let's hope for their sake that today's pirates aren't as ingenious as the Golden Age's Howel Davis, who once took a fortress by subterfuge, as detailed on this page.
Painting by Ambroise Louis Garneray (1783-1857) who once sailed as a privateer himself
This entry was posted in Pirates and tagged Bartholomew Roberts, Black Bart, convoy, history, Howel Davis, piracy, pirates on February 8, 2015 by Brian Bixby.
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3 thoughts on "Floating armories and other ways to fight pirates"
E. J. Barnes February 8, 2015 at 2:55 pm
"…before the other ships in the convoy ARRIVE."
Brian Bixby Post author February 8, 2015 at 3:17 pm
Yeah, looked at the wrong noun while adding the verb. Correction made, thank you!
crimsonprose February 9, 2015 at 2:26 pm
An interesting concept. Though I've read several fictions involving pirates, though not in themselves pirate stories, with several pirate and counter-pirate strategies, I've not encountered this one. I shall bear it in mind in case ever I write one. 🙂
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JOSEPH HAMERSHLAG and DAVID E. OPPENHEIMER, Appellants, v. OSCAR DURYEA, Respondent.
Adverse possession · when it does not begin to run under a warranty deed from one of two tenants in common — · acts of user not inconsistent with the right of the other
co-tenant.
The fact that a grantee of land takes possession under a deed containing covenants of seisin and warranty of the whole title, by which one tenant in common of the premises conveys in terms all the premises and not simply his undivided interest therein, is not of itself sufficient to begin an adverse posses sion, such as will oust the other co-tenant. Before that can be begun, there must be notice in fact to the co-tenant that the adverse claim is made, or there must be such open and public acts by the adverse claimant as will make his possession so visible, hostile, exclusive and notorious that notice on the part of the co-tenant of the claim adverse to his right may fairly be presumed. Where such grantee, a corporation, has at a date not earlier than 1859, inclosed the lots, for purposes of cultivation, by a fence which also included other lands to which it alone had title, there being nothing from which it can be inferred that those particular premises were put to any use to which any co-tenant might not have put them, or were devoted to any purpose inconsistent with the right of any one who had title to them, in connection with the corporation, such adverse possession on the part of the corporation cannot be said to have ripened into a marketable title, which a purchaser should be compelled to accept under a contract of sale made in 1897.
APPEAL by the plaintiffs, Joseph Hamershlag and another, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 12th day of December, 1898, upon the decision of the court rendered after a trial at the New York Special Term.
William H. Stockwell, for the appellants.
George M. Baker, for the respondent.
RUMSEY, J.:
On the 16th day of October, 1897, the plaintiffs made a contract to buy from the defendant certain premises situate in the city of New York, and to pay $1,000 upon the execution of the contract and the remainder of the purchase price at the time when the contract was closed; and the plaintiffs paid to the defendant the $1,000. At the time provided for in the agreement to close the transaction the par
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ties met, but it was claimed by the plaintiffs that the defendant was not able to give a good title to the premises, and they accordingly refused to go further with it. The plaintiffs had expended for counsel fees and disbursements in the examination of the title $237.50. This action was brought to recover from the defendants the $1,000 which had been paid upon the contract, and the $237.50, the amount of expense in examining the title.
The defendant, for a counterclaim, set up substantially that he had a perfect title; that he was ready to perform; that he offered a deed which conveyed a marketable title at the time when the contract by its terms was to have been closed, but that the plaintiffs refused to accept a deed, and declined to perform the agreement on their part. He alleged further that he was then ready to perform the contract, and he asked a judgment of the court for specific performance. Issue was joined to this counterclaim by a denial of the ability of the defendant to perform, and upon those issues the parties went to trial. As the result of the trial the court determined that the defendant's title was good and marketable and free from all reasonable doubt, and dismissed the complaint and ordered a judgment for the defendant for the specific performance of the contract as prayed in the counterclaim, and from this judgment the plaintiffs appeal.
It appeared from the testimony that the premises in question were situated on the north side of One Hundred and Thirteenth street, in the city of New York, between the Boulevard and Tenth avenue. It was conceded that one Ely Moore, who was the original source from which the defendant claimed title, had been the owner of the premises. On the 16th day of November, 1827, Ely Moore conveyed the premises to Thomas Shephard and William Shephard of the city of New York. On the 26th of November, 1834, Thomas Shephard and his wife conveyed the premises to the Society of the New York Hospital, by which, on the 2d of May, 1889, the premises were conveyed to the defendant. There is no proof of any deed or transfer of title by William Shephard, the co-tenant of Thomas Shephard, or anything to show that his interest in the premises was ever actually transferred either to the Society of the New York Hospital or to the defendant, and the plaintiffs claim that this apparent outstanding title in William Shephard in the undivided half of the premises constitutes such a defect as renders the title
[Vol. 38. unmarketable, and justifies them in refusing to accept the conveyance which was tendered to them by the defendant The only claim of the defendant is that this interest had vested in the Society of the New York Hospital by adverse possession. Whether this claim should have been sustained by the learned justice at the Special Term is the question to be decided.
It appears that the deed of Thomas Shephard to the New York Hospital was, in terms, a conveyance to it of all the premises and not of his undivided interest. In addition, the deed contained a covenant of seizin on the part of Thomas Shephard, to the effect that he was seized of an absolute and indefeasible estate of inheritance in fee simple of all the premises, and a covenant of warranty on his part of the whole title.
It is quite probable that this conveyance, had it been followed by such possession as the statute requires to constitute an adverse holding against one's co-tenant, would have been sufficient to authorize the presumption that the Society of the New York Hospital had acquired good title to these premises. (Florence v. Hopkins, 46 N. Y. 182, 186.) But where a party claims that he is entitled to a specific performance of a contract, by which he agrees to convey lands to another, he is bound to give a marketable title; one that is free from any doubt that would interfere with the market value. (Moore v. Williams, 115 N. Y. 586.) Such a doubt always exists when, upon the proof, there is an uncertainty as to some fact necessary to sustain the title, which the judgment in the particular action will not establish against the party who is at liberty to assert the fact, so that, as the result of the judgment, it will be conclusive against him. (Vought v. Williams, 120 N. Y. 253.) To establish the fact that the title was marketable, the defendant here was bound to show, not only that there had been possession of the land for the required time, but that that possession had been of such a nature as to ripen. into a title, which should be good as against all the world. (Wihelm v. Federgreen, 2 App. Div. 483; S. C. affd., 157 N. Y. 713.) The alleged adverse possession in this case arose under a written instrument. The statute provides that to constitute an adverse possession by a person claiming title under such an instrument, the land is deemed to have been posesssed and occupied, either where it has been usually cultivated or improved, or where it has been protected
FIRST DEPARTMENT, MARCH TERM, 1899. by a substantial inclosure. (Code Civ. Proc. § 370.) There was no evidence in this case that the land had been either cultivated or improved, or protected by any inclosure, before the year 1859. A witness testifies that, at that time, he knew the premises and that the grounds of the New York Hospital were always inclosed, to his knowledge. But it appears from his testimony that his recollection upon that point did not go back beyond about two years before the Civil War. No other witness attempts to give any statement of a condition of affairs, in that regard, at an earlier date. It must be assumed, therefore, that before 1859 no possession had been taken by the Society of the New York Hospital of these premises, such as the statute requires to constitute an adverse possession, and that the hospital did not actually inclose the premises until the year 1859. That year must, therefore, be taken as the origin of an adverse possession, if there was any. It is quite clear that, even if an adverse possession can be said to have commenced then, a sufficient time has not yet clapsed so that it would ripen into a title which should be said to be marketable. It is no violation of probability to say that the persons in whom are vested the title of William Shephard are not yet barred from insisting upon it, because in the absence of evidence showing what was the situation and condition of the true owner of the property at the time when the adverse possession against him commenced, it cannot be said that such possession has ripened into a title until a sufficient time has elapsed to eliminate every probable contingency, the existence of which would enable the owner to claim his rights.
But, upon the evidence shown here, no adverse possession against William Shephard or his heirs has been made to appear. Although one tenant in common grants to a third party the joint premises by a deed conveying his whole interest and thereby enabling the grantee to lay the foundation for an adverse possession, yet the mere fact that the grantee takes possession under the deed is not of itself sufficient to begin an adverse possession such as will oust his co-tenant. Before that can be begun there must be notice in fact to the co-tenant that the adverse claim is made, or there must be such open and public acts by the adverse claimant as will make his possession so visible, hostile, exclusive and notorious that notice on the part of the co-tenant of the claim adverse to his right may fairly be pre
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sumed. (Culver v. Rhodes, 87 N. Y. 348.) All that appears in this case is that at a certain time the Society of the New York Hospital inclosed these lots by a fence which also included other lands to which it alone had title. The occupation, as is shown, was for purposes of cultivation. Nothing appears from which it can be inferred that these particular premises were put to any use to which any co-tenant might not have put them, or devoted to any purpose inconsistent with the right of any one who had a title to them in connection with the Society of the New York Hospital. In no aspect of the case can it be said, therefore, that this adverse possession had ripened into such a title that the purchaser should be compelled to accept it. For these reasons the judgment was erroneous and must be reversed, and a new trial ordered, with costs to the appellant to abide the result of the action.
VAN BRUNT, P. J., PATTERSON, O'BRIEN and INGRAHAM, JJ., concurred.
Judgment reversed, new trial ordered, costs to appellant to abide
THE AMERICAN COPPER COMPANY, Respondent, v. GEORGE LOWTHER and Others, Appellants, Impleaded with Others.
Guaranty of a bond. not discharged because part of its consideration is represented by a credit instead of by cash.
Where two corporations enter into a contract by which one of them agrees to advance to the other the sum of $25,000, for the payment of which the latter at the same time executes and delivers a bond reciting the advance of that sum, which is the consideration for the giving of the bond, the fact that a portion of the loan is made in the form of a credit, given by the obligee to a third party, for a debt of $3,000 then presently due by the obligor to such third party who has advanced that amount to the obligor in expectation that the loan would be made, and who is indebted to the obligee in an amount greater than the $3,000 credit, does not constitute such a modification of the contract between the corporations as will discharge parties who have guaranteed the payment of the bond.
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The Coos Art Museum (CAM), one of our favorite cultural gems on Oregon's Coast, is turning 50 this year! To celebrate this milestone, the Museum invites you to participate in the 2016 Arts & Culture Rally & Charm Trail happening now through December 31, 2016.
The Arts & Culture Rally & Charm Trail is a fun adventure that takes you through seven communities along the south coast and 51 local venues that showcase Arts & Culture. Participants can find a one-of-a-kind souvenir while experiencing the growing local arts and cultural scene on the southern Oregon coast.
"From museums to little cultural sites to little boutique shops that feature local arts and culture … so that you really get to know the Oregon coast and what makes it special," says Debbie Will with Coos Art Museum in this KCBY article.
Coos Art Museum has been a cultural focal point of Oregon's scenic Southern Coast since 1966. It occupies an historic 1936 Art Deco US Federal Building in downtown Coos Bay.
The Museum offers a wide range of arts activities including traveling and permanent exhibitions, art classes and lectures. One of their current exhibits, Expressions West 2016, features sixty-one recent paintings by fifty-four artists residing in Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon, and Washington.
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Sharon Seyfarth Garner invites you to turn your attention from the commercial trappings of Valentine's Day (cards, candies and gifts), to God's love that transcends it all. Explore how a focus on intercessory prayer can help keep God at the center of our Valentine's Day celebrations. Using mandala designs from Sharon's books (Praying with Mandalas and Mandalas, Candles and Prayer) participants will prayerfully create two "color-your-own Valentine's cards" to share with those you love. Show yourself a little self-love by taking the time for a morning of rest and renewal, then pass on the love through the cards you create and share. Supplies provided. Books available for sale. Cost $20. Please register at www.centeringspace.org or call (216) 228-7451.
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Andy Byford named new President of New York City Transit
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This January, a globally renowned transit expert will be taking the reins of the New York City subways, buses, paratransit services, and the Staten Island Railway. MTA New York City Transit has named Andy Byford, most recently responsible for the resurgence of Toronto's public transit system, as its new President.
A seasoned and highly regarded transportation professional whose work has taken him across three continents over nearly three decades, Byford joins NYC Transit after a widely hailed five-year stint as the CEO of the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC), the third largest transit system in North America. Byford began his transit career at London Underground where, over 14 years, he rose to the position of General Manager of the Central, Bakerloo and Victoria Lines, three of its busiest subway lines. He oversaw increases in customer satisfaction and operational performance at the main line UK railway system and, was Chief Operating Officer of Australia's largest transit system in Sydney. The hiring of Byford comes after an extensive and international search.
"We are thrilled that Andy is going to lead NYC Transit during this time of great change," MTA Chairman Joseph Lhota said. "Our transit system is the backbone of the world's greatest city and having someone of Andy's caliber to lead it will help immensely, particularly when it comes to implementing the Subway Action Plan that we launched this summer. In order to truly stabilize, modernize and improve our transit system, we needed a leader who has done this work at world-class systems and Andy's successes in Toronto are evidence that he is up to this critically important task."
"New York City's public transit system has driven New York City to become the bustling, successful metropolis that it is, and it's an honor to be trusted with the huge responsibility to modernize the system and bring it to the high levels of performance and customer service that New Yorkers truly deserve and rightfully expect," Byford said. "I look forward to working with my new colleagues and all the employees of New York City Transit and the MTA, and, most importantly, our customers."
At the Toronto Transit Commission, Byford spearheaded several prominent initiatives including the development of a corporate plan aimed at completely modernizing the TTC and improving all aspects of operational performance. Under his leadership, subway delays have been reduced, customer satisfaction has hit record levels, and a number of major projects progressed, including the phased introduction of a modern signal system and the imminent completion of a major subway line extension. These improvements led to the TTC being named by the American Public Transportation Association as its Outstanding Transit System of the Year for 2017.
In June, Byford was a member of a panel presenting about international best practices at the MTA Genius Transit Challenge, where he described his successful efforts to modernize and improve Toronto's subway system.
At NYC Transit, Byford will be responsible for leading the immediate and long-term modernization of one of the oldest and largest transit systems in the world, including ensuring the success of the Subway Action Plan, which aims to stabilize and modernize the subway system by targeting the key drivers of delays. The most recent permanent president for NYC Transit was Veronique "Ronnie" Hakim, currently MTA Managing Director. NYC Transit has nearly 50,000 employees throughout the five boroughs. A native of the United Kingdom, Byford holds an honors degree from the University of Leicester.
MTA Managing Director Ronnie Hakim said: "I look forward to working closely with Andy in his new role as President of New York City Transit. Having held the position myself I can say with certainty that it's an immensely challenging job but also deeply rewarding. Andy is incredibly well regarded in the transportation world and did outstanding things in Toronto. I'm confident he will do the same here in New York."
MTA President Patrick Foye said: "To function as a first-rate transit system, you need a first-rate transit leader and Andy is precisely that. His command of urban transit issues is second to none and he is invested in getting the details right. NYC Transit faces serious issues, but Andy is up to the challenge and we are excited to have him on board."
MTA Chief Operating Officer Phil Eng said: "Transit in a city as diverse as New York presents a unique set of challenges, and Andy's global leadership experience make him well-suited for the task. I welcome him aboard and look forward to working alongside him as we strengthen and grow the transit system."
TTC Chair Josh Colle said: "Andy knows how to make tough choices and get people to buy in. He is the consummate leader: driven, fair, passionate, and highly effective. Toronto's loss is New York's gain and I have little doubt that he will bring world class leadership to the North America's biggest subway system. While we are incredibly disappointed to see him go, we wish him the best in the Big Apple."


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Q: Transformation of the local gauge connection from one chart to another Assume a principal $G$-bundle $P \to B$. Then consider two trivialisations $U_i$ and $U_j$ and the transition functions $\psi$ such that the sections transform as
$$
s_i(x) = s_j(x) \cdot \psi_{ji}(x)
$$
Of course $\psi_{ji}(x) = \psi_{ij}^{-1}(x)$ with $x\in B$. Now, on $P$ a connection $\omega \in \Omega^1(P,\mathfrak{g})$ transforms at a point $ua \in G$ moved along by the right action of $a \in G$ as
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\omega_{ua} = \text{adj}_{a^{-1}} \omega_u
$$
I want to find how a local representation of the connection changes if we change trivialisation. For sections $s_i, s_j$ in $U_i, U_j$ respectively (with non-empty intersection) we have for the pull-backs
$$ s_i^*(x) = [\,s_j(x) \psi_{ji}(x)\,]^* = \psi_{ji}^{*}(x) s_j^{*}(x) $$
The local representation of a connection is
$$
\omega_i = s_i^{*}(\omega)
$$
Thus what should we get for
$$
s_i^{*}(\omega_{ua})=?
$$
In Marathe's book "Topics in physical mathematics" the answer is given as
$$
\omega_j(x) = \text{adj}_{\psi_{ij}^{-1}}\omega(x) + \psi_{ij}\Theta(x)
$$
with $\Theta(x)$ the Maurer-Cartan form. How does he get this equation though remains quite unclear to me. I understand that $a$ should in principle not play a role since the projection of $u$ and $ua$ to $x$ should be the same but I suspect it is somehow related to the Maurer-Cartan form.

A: We start with an observation regarding tangent vectors in $P$. Let $p\in P$, let $\gamma:(-\epsilon,\epsilon)\to P$ be a path with $\gamma(0)=p$, let $g:(-\epsilon,\epsilon)\to G$ with $g(0)=e$, and let $\gamma':(-\epsilon,\epsilon)\to P$ be given by$$\gamma'(t)=\gamma(t)\cdot g(t).$$
Each one of $\gamma$ and $\gamma'$ represents a tangent vector at $p$, and both paths have the same image in $B$. It follows that$$\dot{\gamma}'(0)-\dot{\gamma}(0)\in V_p,$$where $V_p$ denotes the vertical tangent space at $p$. Since $\omega$ is a connection, it restricts to the Maurer-Cartan form on every vertical space. Thus, we obtain the identity $$\omega\left(\dot{\gamma}'(0)\right)=\omega\left(\dot{\gamma}(0)\right)+\Theta\left(\dot{\gamma}'(0)-\dot{\gamma}(0)\right)=\omega\left(\dot{\gamma}(0)\right)+\dot{g}(0).$$
We continue by slightly generalizing the above observation. Using the same notation, relax the assumption $g(0)=e$. This means that now, $\gamma$ and $\gamma'$ represent vectors in two different tangent spaces. Write $$\dot{\gamma}'(0)=\left.\frac{d}{dt}\right|_{t=0}\gamma(t)\cdot g(t)=\left.\frac{d}{dt}\right|_{t=0}(\gamma(t)\cdot g(0))\cdot\left(g(0)^{-1}g(t)\right).$$
Using $G$-equivariance of $\omega$ and the previous identity, we obtain in this case $$\omega\left(\dot{\gamma}'(0)\right)=\mathrm{adj}_{g(0)}^{-1}\omega\left(\dot{\gamma}(0)\right)+\Theta\left(\dot{g}(0)\right).$$
Now, let $b\in B$, and let $v\in T_bB$ be represented by the path $\alpha:(-\epsilon,\epsilon)\to B$. The desired formula follows from the preceding identity, taking $$\gamma(t):=s_i(\alpha(t)),\quad g(t):=\psi_{ij}(\alpha(t)).$$

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There are moments frozen under glass...
Inga (Marcia Gay Harden) is a poet and mother to a young daughter (Eulala Scheel, Ms. Harden's real life daughter). Inga is drawn to a house that reminds her of her childhood home, and here she realizes that many things in her life are coming full circle.
She wants to buy and restore an old house but her distant husband Hermann (Michael Gaston) sees little value in old houses or many of the things Inga loves and writes about. Inga's crumbling marriage is in stark contrast to her closeness with her 8-year-old daughter with whom she shares her hopes, fears and inner- most thoughts. By day their relationship seems magical, full of cloud watching, kite flying and lazy summer drives. But at night Inga is troubled by her marriage, it's lack of intimacy and her fears of her own mortality.
Now facing recent breast cancer Inga is using alcohol in much the same way as her mother's use of morphine to control her pain. Like many artists Inga's struggle is reflected in her poems, which she writes on scraps of paper and then discards. But it is in her own poems that she hears the echo of what her mother must have gone through and it is this revelation that allows Inga to transform.
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Zoning Validity Challenges
Appeal of: Rural Route Neighbors, 960 A.2d 856 (Pa. Cmwlth. 2008).
Evidence that the Township solicitor followed customary office procedures for mailing letters was sufficient evidence that the township complied with the requirements of the MPC for forwarding amendments to ordinances within 30 days of enactment even though there was no evidence of actual receipt by the planning department.
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In November 2005, The Township Board of Supervisors adopted two new ordinances which rezoned the property of Craigarm LP. Neighbors appealed challenging the procedural validity of the ordinances. Neighbors argued that the Township failed to comply with section 609(g) of the MPC which requires Townships to forward copies of any amendments to zoning ordinances within 30 days of enactment.
The Township Solicitor testified that he forwarded copies of the ordinances to the planning department on December 5, 2005. The planning department had just recently moved and, rather than personally delivering the amendments, they were sent regular mail along with a delivery receipt. On December 20, 2005, the solicitor realized that the receipt was not returned so he physically delivered the amendments to the planning department. The solicitor testified that the amendments had been forwarded on December 5 based on the fact that the customary office procedures were that his secretary would take correspondence from his desk and mail it and that he had a copy of the December 5th letter in the file. The ZHB dismissed Neighbors' challenge finding that the procedural requirements were met.
Neighbors filed an appeal in the trial court arguing that the record did not contain sufficient evidence to support a finding that the copies were sent to the planning department on December 5, 2005. The trial court agreed and found that the Township's failure to comply with the MPC rendered the ordinances invalid. Craigarm appealed to the Commonwealth Court.
Craigarm argued that the trial court abused its discretion by substituting its judgment for that of the ZHB and erred in concluding that the ZHB's findings were not supported by evidence. First, the Commonwealth Court agreed with the Neighbors because a reviewing court may not substitute its judgment for that of the ZHB. Next, the Commonwealth Court agreed that the ZHB's findings were supported by evidence because circumstantial evidence is entitled to just as much weight as direct evidence. Therefore, the Commonwealth Court found that the ZHB drew a reasonable inference from the solicitor's testimony. Neighbors argued that under the "mailbox rule," evidence of customary mailing procedures is not sufficient to prove that a document was received. However, the Commonwealth Court pointed out that the MPC does not require evidence of receipt, but only evidence that the ordinances were forwarded, and evidence of customary procedures for mailing is accepted as sufficient evidence that a letter was mailed. The Commonwealth Court reversed the trial court's decision.
In her dissenting opinion, Judge Leavitt argued that there was not enough evidence to support a finding that the ordinances were mailed because the entire testimony was based on assumptions.
Date of Decision: 10/22/08
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Extreme Power Metal: Dragonforce on New Record
Interview with guitarist Herman Li | By Angela Kinzie
DragonForce's eighth studio album, Extreme Power Metal, is due out Sept. 27 via Metal Blade Records. "People were complaining that we played too fast for a power metal band, so it's like, 'Well, let's just stop these people complaining, because it's not power metal, it's extreme power metal!'" founding guitarist Herman Li explains in his easy, joking manner. "All bands need their own label; they think they're unique and all that stuff, so—guilty."
On defining the London band's style, Li adds, "Some people call it 'Nintendo Metal,' some people call it 'Journey-meets-Slayer'—I don't really mind either way. It doesn't really matter, but it's kind of funny, because in the old days, you'd read a review in a magazine and the magazine would tell you what kind of music it is, but now, with streaming, it's totally pointless for me to say what it is. […] It doesn't mean anything anyway, because people would rather say whatever they want to think it is. The reason I say 'extreme power metal' is because it goes with the ridiculous style of the artwork. It's a little bit of a throwback to the old days with bands and movies and these kinds of big titles."
Celebrated as the fastest band in the world, DragonForce were formed in 1999 by Li and fellow guitarist Sam Totman. Over the 20 years since, the two have remained the only constant members, as DragonForce have seen multiple line-up changes, the latest being the exit of longtime keyboardist Vadim Pruzhanov in 2018.
Keyboardist Coen Janssen was recruited for Extreme Power Metal. "Coen is from the band Epica," Li shares. "They're kind of like a classical, symphonic band. We worked with him very closely to bring the DragonForce sound and also his style into it. So, it's still DragonForce keyboarding—you know, the video game sound. We have a bit more of a retro, synthwave [sound] in it as well, along with the big orchestra stuff."
When asked about influences, Li lists "the best of rock and heavy metal mixed together, from '80s hard rock to extreme metal, death metal, thrash metal, video game music from the retro era. We have kind of a poppy chorus feel as well, so we like songs that are catchy, that you can sing along to in the shower."
"We tried to have more fun on this album, like we used to," Li explains, "not just in terms of music but even recording the album. We recorded it with the fans, livestreaming the actual process of making the album—to make it different. So, all the parts that are on the album, people have actually heard, because we recorded it live on Twitch."
"People actually saw me recording multiple versions of the guitar parts on the album," he adds, "and then, I asked them, 'Hey, which parts do you think sound better?' and they'd give me feedback at the same time. Even writing lyrics. We were writing lyrics, and the fans were involved. […] We were doing it for literally six months I think, captured online, in front of the fans."
"At the same time, [fans] saw the reality," Li continues. "Sometimes, I have a good day, and sometimes, I have a bad day. On some sessions, I spent—I don't know, like, eight hours, and nothing good came out. I just keep playing and playing and playing, trying to come up with something. Then, sometimes, you're just killing it."
In the band's press materials, Li described Extreme Power Metal by saying, "This album again combines the best of DragonForce in an even bigger, more epic way than we have ever done before." Contributing to this, is their cover of "My Heart Will Go On" by Celine Dion. "DragonForce is all about big choruses," Li reiterates. "That uplifting feeling, that majestic feeling—that song's got a massive chorus, and we thought, 'Hey, let's do the DragonForce treatment and see what it's like.' I know some people have covered that before us, but no one has covered it like us. I swear!"
The platinum-selling "Through the Fire and Flames" from the band's 2006 album, Inhuman Rampage, gained DragonForce international notoriety after being featured on "Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock." "I mean, I play the guitar, so I don't need to play 'Guitar Hero,'" Li answers when asked if he can play the song in-game, "but I have played the first one on PlayStation 2, and the second one. Obviously, I've played the third one, because, you know, I got cocky when the game came out," he laughs.
"No, it's actually easier to play it on my guitar than on those plastic controllers," he continues with a humorous air. "I think it's fun, and if I play it—the first time I was playing, like, Eric Johnson's 'Cliffs of Dover,' something I don't play on guitar."
A self-taught guitarist, Li explains, "I just learned from watching videos, live videos and instructional videos, [and] really just whatever books my friends had in school back then. I think that's really defined a lot of the modern guitar players now on YouTube who are self-taught as well. Back then, there wasn't as much material, and you really had to find it—and pay for it."
"Pay for it may be the right words," he laughs. "Now, you've got free material everywhere."
"The first few years, I'd say I was [practicing] probably nine hours a day," Li continues. "I don't know, was there that many hours for me to do it? Before I'd go to school, lunch time, after school, before bed, that kind of thing. [That was] only the first three years, and then, it cooled down a little bit. Throughout my life, I learn different things and practice different things, in terms of guitars and music in general. So, now, I'm learning different things. I still practice, and I actually do a lot of those practices online on my livestream as well, so fans can see how I practice for a show. I try to [pass along] some knowledge but try to show people how I see things and maybe help them or inspire them to play."
"I show people how I run around and play at the same time, how I jump and play at the same time, how I practice talking to the audience and playing at the same time," he relates. "I do all kinds of weird things. The usual is just, 'Here's a scale.' No one really practices jogging and playing at the same time or running in a circle. I'm just showing a different side. Like, if you can do that, trust me, you'll play better, because standing still is actually much easier."
Li pauses, then laughs. "I'm weird, I know."
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LOS ANGELES -- Dark Knight indeed.
Christian Bale can be heard in newly surfaced audio delivering along, profanity-laced verbal thrashing to a cinematographer andanyone who tried to calm him down on the set of the upcoming movie"Terminator Salvation."
The three-minute clip was posted Monday on the Web site TMZ.comand has become a viral sensation on the Internet -- it's evenspawned a dance music remix of the audio tape.
In it, the actor who portrayed Batman in "The Dark Knight"rails against cinematographer Shane Hurlbut for apparently walkingbehind co-star Bryce Dallas Howard and through Bale's line ofsight, considered a film-set foul.
"If you do it one more time I ain't walking on this set ifyou're still hired!" Bale howls in one of the few publishablemoments from the clip.
Later, he screams: "Do you want me to go and trash your lights?Do you want me to go and trash them? ... Then why are you trashingmy scene?"
The incident took place last July on the set at Kirtland AirForce Base in New Mexico, days before Bale would face assaultallegations from his mother and sister in London. Charges werenever filed because his family did not want to press the matter andbecause prosecutors said there was a lack of sufficient evidence.
Bale's is the only voice that is audible on the tape, thoughhe's clearly responding to Hurlbut, the film's director McG, andothers trying to persuade him to relax.
"Let's not take a (expletive) minute! Let's go again!" heyells at one point.
A phone message left early Tuesday with a publicist for the35-year-old actor wasn't immediately returned.
Meanwhile, Bale has become an unwitting music sensation becauseof the incident.
Music producer Lucian Piane -- who goes by the name RevoLucianonline -- remixed the verbal freak-out into a three-minute-longhypnotic dance track titled "Bale Out." Piane uploaded thebeat-driven track Monday to MySpace and YouTube, where it's alreadyreceived over 200,000 views.
He said he was drawn to the musicality of Bale's rage-filledvoice. He previously released remixes online featuring Sarah Palin,a ranting Bill O'Reilly and Andrew "Don't Taze Me, Bro" Meyer.Piane said the satirical remixes are "just a hobby."
"I think most people are enjoying it," said Piane, who addedthat he created the pulsating tune in just three hours and iscurrently at work on RuPaul's next album. "I don't know ifChristian Bale is enjoying it, but I hope he does. I think I'vetaken something that maybe made him look really bad and turned itinto something that all these people are enjoying."


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Q: Mail goes to spam when i add styles and logos in mail content I had a problem when i send mail with css and logo, every time mail is going to spam but when remove the css and logo it is delivered correctly in inbox.
Below is the code
$msgHtml=  "

 Hello " .$fullname. ",

               Click the link below to reset your password

              Click Here

                © 2012 -13 emcon2013.com All Rights Reserved

";
          $sendto = $emailid;
            $from = "emailid@test.com";
            $subject = "Emcon : Reset password";
            $message = $msgHtml;
            $header = "From: " . $from . "\n";
            $header .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\n";
            if (mail($sendto, $subject, $message, $header)) {

                echo 1;
            } else {

                echo 2;
            }

A: Add these to your header to verfiy that the contents is in html.
// To send HTML mail, the Content-type header must be set
$headers  = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";


A "ROBIN Hood" couple who jetted off to Kenya and dished out money to villagers and charities from the proceeds of their farmhouse cannabis factory have been jailed for three years.
Michael Foster, 62, and Susan Cooper, 63, pocketed hundreds of thousands of pounds during the sophisticated six year operation – but used much of their ill-gotten money to help locals in the Kenyan village where they were regular visitors.
In what was described in court as the "most unusual cannabis growing case of its type", the couple paid for life-saving surgery, bought computers for a local eye hospital and secured schooling for poor children.
But the pair were living an incredible double life selling wholesale kilo deals of cannabis grown at their Lincolnshire farmhouse to a local drugs baron.
Prosecutor Jon Dee told Lincoln Crown Court: "This couple were both in their 60s and were of previous good character.
"It perhaps can be best summed up by Mr Foster who told police in his own words during his interview that this started off as a hobby and turned into a business.
In a fateful twist the do-gooding pair were only caught when a police officer pursuing a burglar near the couple's picturesque home in Long Sutton, Lincs, recognised the distinctive cannabis smell coming from the property.
When the officer knocked on the farmhouse door Mrs Cooper, a divorcee, answered and replied "Yes I do" when the officer asked if she knew why he was there.
Inside police found 159 cannabis plants with an estimated street value of around £20,000. Two of the buildings had been converted into a growing room and drying room. Officers also recovered £20,000 in £1,000 bundles from a carrier bag.


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Q: Java Interface Objects in Kotlin Consider I have an interface like the one below:
interface JSONObjectRequestListener {
    fun onSuccess()
    fun onFailure()
}

Now I have a method in my MainActivity:
fun onRequestHappen(listener: JSONObjectRequestListener)

If this were java, I would have passed this object as:
onRequestHappen(new JSONObjectRequestListener() {
    @Override
    public void onResponse() {
        // do anything with response
    }

    @Override
    public void onError() {
        // handle error
    }
});

How do I pass this interface's object in Kotlin?
NB. Please don't mark this as a duplicate of this as what that question requests is completely different from what I want

A: You can define your listener like this:
val listener = object : JSONObjectRequestListener {

    override fun onResponse() {
        // do anything with response
    }

    override fun onError() {
        // handle error
    }
}

And pass it to your func like below:
onRequestHappen(listener)

To do this inside the func call you can use the following code snippet:
onRequestHappen(object : JSONObjectRequestListener {

        override fun onResponse() {
            // do anything with response
        }

        override fun onError() {
            // handle error
        }
    })


Amy Cueva has been focused on helping her clients to see patients as people, first. She is co-founder of Boston's Mad*Pow, a mid-size strategic design consultancy, started in 2001 with a prestigious client list including some of the largest pharmaceutical companies, national health networks, and payers including CDC, Cleveland Clinic, Fidelity Health, and Humana among others. Partnership with these clients provides Mad*Pow with thousands of hours of patient, family, caregiver, and stakeholder insight research across the complex health ecosystem to provide insights and expertise across the health ecosystem.
Amy speaks regularly at health, design, and innovation conferences and recently launched The Center for Health Experience Design (CHXD). It is under this umbrella that Mad*Pow can focus its passion for unraveling some of the most complex health challenges by bringing multiple stakeholders together. Presently, CHXD is leading an initiative to improve the health benefits selection process such that it better provides for financial security of those who earn less than $55,000 per year.
Amy will be recognized in NYC on September 13 as part of the PharmaVOICE 100 annual event.
PharmaVOICE started the PharmaVOICE 100 in 2005, making this year's recipients its 14th year of celebration.


What Can We Do If Accused of Causing Our Child's Death?
Law Question: How am I to get a permitted warrant lifted from me and my wife for something that we didn't do? It is due to our child that died in our home and on the autopsy they found that she had a bump on her head from where my wife found her in our bathroom at our home. So now they are saying someone in our home killed her. Now they have us to where we need a bondsman to assist us and we can't get word on a bond. Where are we to go from here?
You need to get to an attorney right away, and in the meantime (although I'm sure you and your wife have already done this) do NOT talk to law enforcement at all! Do not even go down to the police station without an attorney with you no matter what they tell you. Do not believe anything they tell you about the incident; they will be dishonest with you to get you to say something incriminating. You may think you have done nothing wrong, and you are probably right, but if you speak to them it is almost guaranteed that you will say something that will be used against you.
Do not post anything about the situation on any social media or emails. It is very important that you speak to an attorney who is experienced in these types of cases, not just any criminal lawyer. The good ones in this area are few and far between, and will be expensive, but you cannot afford to seek anything but the best in this situation.


FreedomAir was named to honor the many men and women who tragically lost their lives in the attacks on September 11, 2001, and the many heroes that have since responded to the call of duty. We aim to keep their memories alive.
Our founder's vision is to provide the community of flight simulator pilots with a virtually realistic environment in which to fly.
Freedomair was started in 2001 by a group of like minded folks on the "Official Flight Simulator Site 2" (MSN Groups). With membership growing and a need for more options to accommodate the ever increasing online gatherings, we moved to our own MSN Group in 2003 and then to our own place on the web in 2005. Our name was suggested just prior to our inagural online flight on September 25, 2001 by one of our charter members, FA007 George.
FreedomAir's online callsign is "Liberty". Pilots are free to fly off-line, on our dedicated multiplayer server, on VATSIM or on IVAO.
Our pilots began flying together online with MSFS 2000 and used Roger Wilco for voice communication. When MSFS 2002 entered the marketplace, we looked for ways to enhance the multiplayer experience beyond what MS and Roger Wilco had given us. To that end, we became beta testers for FSHost and moved voice communications to TeamSpeak 2. Today, we host a 24/7 FSHost multiplayer server along with a TeamSpeak 3 voice server. We support pilots flying in FS(, FSX, FSX-SE, P3D and XPlane.
In 2011, we formed Liberty Air Group. With plans of expansion, FreedomAir became a division of Liberty Air Group. In late 2017, we acquired LibertyAir VA and integrated the active LibertyAir pilots, aircraft and routes into Liberty Air Group. Today, FreedomAir operates all of our North America routes and LibertyAir operates our European routes.


Ten percent of DC residents (60,000 people) are addicted to drugs or alcohol, leading to costs of $1.2 billion per year for the city. That is a staggering number when you think about it. By comparison, the number of addicts in the District is larger than the number who live in Mrs. MSR's homeotwn, which is the third largest in our home state. There could be lots of reasons for the high number, I suppose, but I blame the traffic.


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Q: Change child element background CSS I am a novice at CSS, here's HTML structure:

    <button class="navbar-toggler collapsed border-0" id="navbar-toggler" type="button">

    </button>

What I need to do is if I add a class "black" to navbar I need the css background color on navbar-toggler to turn white. How do I do that with CSS?
I thought it should be like:
. navbar .black .navbar-toggler span{
    background: #000 !important;
}

but it's not working

A: You were very close.
By going .navbar .black, you are targeting .black that is inside .navbar. But by doing .navbar.black you are targeting the element that has both .navbar and .black.
.navbar.black .navbar-toggler span{
    background: #FFF!important;
}

A: you can use javascript addEventListener

const nav = document.querySeletor('#navbar)
('#navbar_toggler').addEventListener('toggle',function(){
    nav.classList.toggle('bg')

})
.bg{
background-color:black;
}


Let's face it, their around the age where wearing a helmet is uncool.
But their's nothing cooler than our youth line-up - they come in awesome colors: lime green, orange, and bright blue. Each has been handpicked to definitively match their new bike, as well as the top of the line safety features.
This helmet includes safety light adjustment, reflective safety straps and logos, and a super easy magnetic clasp! The handy visor on the helmet is also a removable feature for added protection against the elements.


We treat a wide range of conditions using joint adjustments, massage, acupuncture, electrotherapy and exercise advice.
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A continuous and unpleasant feeling, often described as dull and not severe. Muscle aches are an extremely common condition. Because almost every part of the body is covered in muscle tissue, pain can occur nearly anywhere. Aches and pains are typically a result of stress, tension, or physical activity.
Playing sports and exercising regularly is fantastic for your health, but unfortunately can sometimes result in injuries.
Osteopaths are able to treat minor sports injuries and help sports enthusiasts and athletes recover to their full potential.


Imagine the situation. You and your new found love have decided to take the plunge and buy a home together, a gorgeous flat for £100,000. You have your £50,000 deposit but your partner doesn't have quite as much as you to contribute to the deposit, just £5,000. You agree to pay the mortgage of £45,000 on a 50:50 basis.
Then, unfortunately, the relationship comes to an end. You expect to get your money back but things aren't always as expected.
And it all boils down to whether you bought the house as Joint Tenants or Tenants in Common.
These are simple terms that relate to how two or more people can own a property.
Both the methods of ownership effect how your interest in a property is calculated, for example when a couple separate and want to split the value of the asset but it also determines what happens when one of the owners dies.
If you decide to own a property as Joint Tenants then irrespective of how many owners there are and irrespective of what they may have contributed to the purchase, you each own an equal share. So in our scenario above if the couple owned as joint tenants each would be entitled to an equal share of the house, in spite of the fact that one party contributed much more to the original purchase.
Tenants in Common can own a property in equal shares or unequal shares. You could own a property 50:50, 60:40, 10:20:70 or in any other shares depending upon what you agree when you purchase the property. If you split in this scenario you are entitled to your agreed share of the assets.
If, after buying a property as Joint Tenants, you want to change to Tenants in Common you can issue what is called a Notice of Severance on the other owners. This won't change your share of ownership but it will effect who inherits your share.
There is a simple way to protect your investment. When purchasing the property you can have a Deed of Trust prepared. This can set out in detail how you will own the property, what shares you own the property in and what will happen with your share if you separate. For example you could have a deed that ensures that on separation you each get your deposit back plus 50% of any increase in the value of your property. Alternatively you could own the property in fixed percentages i.e. 60:40. Most conveyancers will advise upon and prepare a Deed of Trust at the same time as they are dealing with your purchase.
It's often only when couples separate that they realise the importance of owning their property as Joint Tenants or Tenants in Common and it's family lawyers who end up trying to unravel things for them.
For married couples the difference is not so important as the presumption is that spouses each have an equal interest in the property irrespective of ownership, however if you own as Joint Tenants you may want to sever the Joint Tenancy if for example you did not have children together and wanted your share of the house to go to someone nominated in your Will.
For advice on the split of assets when a relationship breaks down call 0800 321 3832.


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Doudna's team identifies new 'hypercompact' CRISPR enzyme
Posted on July 17, 2020 By News Team
The CRISPR-Cas system has proven to be an extremely powerful gene-editing tool, but it has several limitations for clinical applications. For one thing, it's difficult to deliver the material into cells efficiently because of the package's large size.
Now, a University of California, Berkeley team led by CRISPR pioneer Jennifer Doudna has identified a "hypercompact" CRISPR enzyme, CasΦ (Cas12j), in what it says is the smallest CRISPR-Cas system identified so far.
In a study published in Science, the researchers showed the new, small-sized system is functional in human and plant cells and can target a wider range of genetic sequences compared with commonly used Cas9 and Cas12. Therefore, it might serve as a better option for treating human genetic diseases and improving agriculture, the team figures.
The CRISPR-Cas system was first observed in bacteria as a natural immune defense mechanism against bacteriophages, which are viruses of bacteria. But a recent Nature study showed the surprising finding that some huge phages themselves also have CRISPR-Cas systems that target competing phages.
Doudna was part of the UC Berkeley-led team that made that discovery. CasΦ is one Cas protein encoded in the huge phages. It's unusually small—about half the size of Cas9 and Cas12a—and it has very limited "spacer" sequences. In a natural CRISPR array, "spacer" sequences store genetic information of viral DNA sequences for potential future targeting. So Doudna and colleagues wondered whether CasΦ functions as a working CRISPR-Cas system.
CRISPR-Cas relies on two main components: a guide RNA that recognizes the target DNA and a Cas that cuts it. In guide RNA, the so-called crispr RNA (crRNA) is a crucial sequence that actually does the "recognize" job as it's complementary to the target DNA.
In the new study, the researchers showed that CRISPR-CasΦ could produce mature crRNA. What's more, it cleaved foreign DNA and developed the guide RNA system at a single active site. Three other well-known Cas enzymes, Cas9, Cas12a and CasX, use one or two active sites for DNA cutting and rely on a separate active site or additional factors for crRNA processing, according to the researchers.
The team showed CRISPR-CasΦ can perform genome editing in both human and plant cells. In one case, a variant of CasΦ was able to edit up to 33% of human cells, which is comparable to levels initially reported for the three above-mentioned systems, the team reported.
Multiple efforts are being made to improve upon the CRISPR-Cas system, trying to make them more efficient and more accurate. Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology previously identified a Cas9 enzyme that significantly expanded the locations on the genome it can target. In a Cell study co-authored by Doudna, researchers created Cas9 variants called ProCas9s, which, by using the idea of circular permutation, allow CRISPR to be turned on only in the targeted cells.
The UC Berkeley team figures CasΦ could offer several advantages for cellular delivery. "The small size of CasΦ in combination with its minimal PAM requirement will be particularly advantageous for both vector-based delivery into cells and a wider range of targetable genomic sequences," the authors wrote in the study, adding that "[s]uch compact proteins may be particularly amenable to engineering and laboratory evolution to create new functionalities for genome manipulation."
Besides, because CasΦ comes from a bacterial virus, it can sidestep potential allergic reactions as some people may have antibodies that could reject the Cas9 gene-editing treatment, Basem Al-Shayeb, the study's co-first author, said in a video interview.
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