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Mayor awards 10 residents with 2020 Order of Hamilton. Here's what they've done to earn the honour
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Published on January 4, 2021, 1:39 pm
Mayor Fred Eisenberger recently awarded 10 Hamilton residents with the 2020 Order of Hamilton for their volunteer efforts and contributions to the city and its inhabitants.
During a virtual New Year's Levee held on Sunday (Jan. 3) afternoon, Eisenberger presented the awards and highlighted some of the impacts these individuals have had on the community in recent years.
According to a press release sent by the Mayor's office on Monday, the Order of Hamilton honours "remarkable individuals who have made exceptional volunteer contributions to building our city and making it a better place to live, work and play."
Congratulations again to the recipients of the 2020 Order of Hamilton! 👏🏅
These ten individuals were nominated for their outstanding efforts in making #HamOnt the best place to raise a child & age successfully.
Read the release: https://t.co/oJETy2YrOY #LoveYourCity pic.twitter.com/0TFU512rTO
— Fred Eisenberger (@HamiltonsMayor) January 4, 2021
Here's a list of 2020's Order of Hamilton recipients and their accomplishments:
Rabia Saleem Awan
Awan immigrated to Canada in 1996 from Pakistan and is acknowledged with the Order of Hamilton for her tireless work as a volunteer in the Hamilton community. A pillar of the community, Awan has been running programs both within and outside of the Muslim community. Over the past five years, she has served seniors at the Hamilton Mountain Mosque. She has secured annual funding, over $53,000 since 2015 from federal and provincial sources to take the seniors on outings to the Royal Ontario Museum, Grand River lunch cruises and Hamilton Harbour boat tours among others. Raising two children of her own, Awan has also acted as foster parent to two children aged 5 and 3. She has served on the board of several local organizations including the Hamilton Mountain Mosque, has served as the Chair of the Muslim Association of Hamilton Seniors Committee, a member of the Muslim Council of Greater Hamilton, volunteered with the Canadian Muslim Vote as Volunteer lead Hamilton Chapter. Organized a Ramadan Campus Iftar (fast-breaking) by creating a working bridge between anti-violence and McMaster Muslim Students Association, where Muslims and non-Muslims alike broke fast together.
Jim Cimba
Cimba is a lawyer who has built a lifelong legacy of community service. His commitment to volunteer service began over 30 years ago and included his serving as a member of the board of directors of the Children's Aid Society of Hamilton-Wentworth, the Juravinski Cancer Centre Foundation and the Hamilton Waterfront Trust. He has served as the president of the Rotary Club of Hamilton, the Hamilton Club, Theatre Aquarius and the Hamilton Port Authority. He is a founding member of the Lawyer's Legacy Fund for Children. As a member of the John Howard/Liaison College/David Lane Youth Success Fund Committee he has raised academic scholarships for youth at risk. He has also served on the boards of the Hamilton Chamber of Commerce and the Art Gallery of Hamilton.
Dr. Margaret Denton
Denton is being recognized with the Order of Hamilton 2020 marking several decades of work as a community leader and advocate for older adults in Hamilton and beyond. She has inspired through her leadership, hundreds of volunteers and thousands of volunteer hours to have been contributed to advocacy work to improve life for older adults and to forwarding projects such as Age Friendly Hamilton, Let's Get Moving and Hamilton's Senior Isolation Impact Plan to improve the life of older adults in our city. Denton has served as the Chair of the Age Friendly Hamilton Collaborative Governance Steering Committee for six years. She has volunteered with the Hamilton Council on Aging for 15 years. She is a founding board member and has served as the president, vice -president and past-president of the Council. As a volunteer she chairs the Southern Ontario Age Friendly Network and she is the treasurer of the Ontario Council on Aging. Denton has had a tremendous impact on life in Hamilton. She has ensured that the guiding vision of Hamilton include older adults- 'the best place to raise a child and age successfully.' To improving access to information and skills for countless older adults to positively age in Hamilton.
Brenda Duke
Duke is a dedicated and engaged resident of the City of Hamilton. She began by leading volunteer clean up and greeting activities in the GALA neighbourhood and her efforts have grown across the city. Brenda is the visionary and founder of Beautiful Alleys and is a tireless advocate in her keeping our community and city clean and green. Duke inspires and organizes volunteers with multiple programs and projects such as the Team Up to Clean Up program, Community gardens, Pollinator Gardens and the Adopt-A-Park program. She was the lead volunteer in recruiting volunteers to help out with the Extreme Park makeovers at Birge Park, Woodlands Park and was instrumental in the recruitment of over 200 volunteers for the Extreme Park Makeover at Powell Park which was part of a TVO TV special called 'The Giver.' She has also served on the Clean and Green Citizen Committee with the City of Hamilton. Brenda is the lead on the adoption of Powell Park, Birch Avenue Greenspace and co-lead on Woodlands Park and is now in the process of adopting J.C. Beemer Park. She is currently the editor of the North End Breezes community paper.
Mary Elop
Elop is being recognized with the Order of Hamilton for her 40 years of service with Scouts Canada. She has held numerous positions within the organization. She has been the driving force behind the Ancaster Beaver unit held at Marshall Memorial United Church in Ancaster. Mary has inspired others to volunteer with the movement even after their own children have graduated from the program. Besides being a weekly Beaver leader, Mary has served 11 years as the Hamilton-Wentworth Area Registrar, as a member of the Hamilton-Wentworth Area Service Team for 25 years, as Area Commissioner for Beavers for four years, Sub-Area Commissioner for Hermitage Springs for over 10 years and as a Venturer Advisor for 2 years. As a local Beaver leader Mary communicates with the families of her Beaver unit weekly. Even during the COVID-19 pandemic she is still holding weekly virtual and in person meetings for her Beaver group of children ages Kindergarten to Grade 2. More than 1,500 young people and their families have benefited from the volunteerism of Elop over the past 40 years.
Anthony Frisina
Frisina has been named as a 2020 Order of Hamilton recipient in recognition of his volunteer work in support of his passion for accessibility. In 2014, Anthony was named a Mohawk College Alumni of Distinction recipient and recognized by the Rick Hansen Foundation as a Difference Maker. Frisina has created and produced a local television program that tackles accessibility awareness and inclusion in the Hamilton area. He has also founded Above and Beyond an organization helping to bridge the gap to accessibility and inclusion across the City of Hamilton.
George Geczy
Geczy is being recognized for his longtime contribution to the Hamilton Public Library (HPL). Since 1982 he has been an active advocate for early technology adoption, internet connectivity and digital literacy across the city. Geczy has served as a member of the HPL's board for 18 years from 2001 to 2019 serving as chair or vice-chair for nine years. He helped steer the library system through amalgamation and supported public computing through the HPL's 22 branches. As the past chair of the Hamilton Chamber of Commerce's Science and Technology Committee, former board member of the Hamilton-Wentworth FreeNet, and a member of the Hamilton Spectator Community Editorial Board he helped build a connected and future-ready Hamilton.
Dr. Nadia Eva Rosa
Dr. Nadia Eva Rosa was born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia in 1938. She lived with her mother and her maternal grandparents in the Bratislava ghetto during The Second World War. Captured on Christmas Day 1945, Nadia and her mother were transported to the Sered and Terezin concentration camps. She was six-years-old when she became a prisoner in the death camps. Her grandparents and many relatives perished. Rosa now holds a PhD in microbiology. She and her husband fled Soviet-occupied Czechoslovakia in 1968. Rosa has been a lifelong advocate on behalf of local survivors. She inspired a small group of educators to form the committee that launched an annual seminar on the Holocaust, that is now in its 22nd year, with a total of 15,000 students having participated. She has spent her life delivering education about anti-Semitism, antiracism and bullying. She has received the Shem Tov Award for her volunteer work at Beth Tikvah Synagogue and the UJA Federation of Hamilton's highest award, the CeCe Schreiber Volunteer Excellence Award.
Raven Van Bommel
Van Bommel is being acknowledged with the Order of Hamilton for her tremendous work on behalf of the low-income sector in Hamilton. She is the founder of Essential Aid and Family Services of Ontario; a vocal advocate for some of the most vulnerable families in Hamilton. Their mission is straightforward, to prevent hunger in children and lower health risk by providing free infant and children's essentials to families in need. Essential Aid has been serving the Hamilton area for over 10 years and is now serving over 600 families a month. Today, Essential Aid is both a well funded and consistent contributor to the community.
Robert J. Wilkins
Wilkins has been named a recipient of the Order of Hamilton in 2020 in recognition of his accomplishments in support of a wide range of community projects. He has served most recently as the Public Fundraising Chair for Ancaster Performing Arts Centre inspiring many philanthropists and residents to donate time and money to the project. Wilkins has raised $5 million in donations, pledges, and gifts-in-kind to the Centre. He has helped raise money for the Music at Fieldcote program over the past 20 years. His work in the community has seen the beautification of the Ancaster Village Core, the creation of the Ancaster Farmers' Market, restoration of the Hermitage with the Hamilton Conservation Authority and the maintenance and improvement of the Fieldcote Museum. He has served the broader community for many years as a member of the Ancaster Rotary Club, six years on the board of the Ancaster Information Centre, nine years on the board of the Bay Area Trust Fund and six years on the board of the Victorian Order of Nurses of Hamilton-Dundas branch.
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Summary and book reviews of The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant
by Sarah Dunant
Feb 2004, 416 pages
Dec 2004, 416 pages
A compulsively absorbing story of love, art, religion and power set in Florence during the Renaissance and told through the passionate voice of a heroine with the same vibrant spirit as her beloved city.
Alessandra Cecchi is not quite fifteen when her father, a prosperous cloth merchant, brings a young painter back from northern Europe to decorate the chapel walls in the family's Florentine palazzo. A child of the Renaissance, with a precocious mind and a talent for drawing, Alessandra is intoxicated by the painter's abilities.
But their burgeoning relationship is interrupted when Alessandra's parents arrange her marriage to a wealthy, much older man. Meanwhile, Florence is changing, increasingly subject to the growing suppression imposed by the fundamentalist monk Savonarola, who is seizing religious and political control. Alessandra and her native city are caught between the Medici state, with its love of luxury, learning, and dazzling art, and the hellfire preaching and increasing violence of Savonarola's reactionary followers. Played out against this turbulent backdrop, Alessandra's married life is a misery, except for the surprising freedom it allows her to pursue her powerful attraction to the young painter and his art.
The Birth of Venus is a tour de force, the first historical novel from one of Britain's most innovative writers of literary suspense. It brings alive the history of Florence at its most dramatic period, telling a compulsively absorbing story of love, art, religion, and power through the passionate voice of Alessandra, a heroine with the same vibrancy of spirit as her beloved city.
Looking back now, I see it more as an act of pride than kindness that my father brought the young painter back with him from the North that spring. The chapel in our palazzo had recently been completed, and for some months he had been searching for the right pair of hands to execute the altar frescoes. It wasn't as if Florence didn't have artists enough of her own. The city was filled with the smell of paint and the scratch of ink on the contracts. There were times when you couldn't walk the streets for fear of falling into some pit or mire left by constant building. Anyone and everyone who had the money was eager to celebrate God and the Republic by creating opportunities for art. What I hear described even now as a golden age was then simply the fashion of the day. But I was young then and, like so many others, dazzled by the feast.
The churches were the best. God was in the very plaster smeared across the walls in readiness for the frescoes: stories of ...
Alessandra has the will and the talent to be a painter. However, she does not have the training or the social opportunity she needs. How well does The Birth of Venus explain why there are no women's names in the great roll call of artistic geniuses of the Renaissance?
The image of the serpent with a human head is a motif that runs through the novel in many different forms. What are its guises, and how does its meaning shift as the novel progresses?
In their own ways, both Alessandra and her mother subvert and rebel against the world they live in. Which one of them do you think is the happiest or most fulfilled?
The only character in the novel who seems to have any real freedom is Erila, so it is ironic that she is a slave ...
This is an obvious fit for those who've enjoyed other historical novels with an artistic bent, such as those by Susan Vreeland and Tracy Chevalier, and will doubtless be a popular book club choice. However, expect a little more harsh reality and a little less romance in Durant's book. (Reviewed by BookBrowse Review Team).
The Washington Post - David Liss
Dunant has injected a kind of realpolitik into the genre, making it far more poignant and interesting.
[Dunant's] control, pace, and instinct are well-nigh impeccable.
The Telegraph (London)
Dunant has created a vivid and compellingly believable picture of Renaissance Florence the squalor and brutality; the confidence and vitality; the political machinations. Her research has obviously been meticulous....A magnificent novel.
The Independent (London)
It's to Dunant's credit that the vast quantities of historical information in this book are deployed so naturally and lightly....On the simplest level, this is an erotic and gripping thriller, but its intellectual excitement also comes from the way Dunant makes the art and philosophy of the period look new and dangerous again....Theology has rarely looked so sexy.
No one should visit Tuscany this summer without this book. It is richly textured and driven by a thrillerish fever.
Children's Literature - Elisabeth Greenberg
The conflicts of the priest Savonarola with his city and the Pope create a wonderful background for a coming-of-age story, but this book can be recommended only to the most mature young adult reader as it discusses explicitly sexual encounters, syphilis epidemics, religious murders, and suicide. Ages 13 up.
Dunant's vivid, gripping novel gives fresh life to a captivating age of glorious art and political turmoil. Dunant's foray into historical fiction (she is best known for her literary suspense novels) will inevitably be compared to Girl with a Pearl Earring. Chevalier readers will certainly enjoy the novel, though its meatier historical background and more robust prose style set it apart.
No real surprises in the romance department, but the depiction of Florence as Tehran under the Ayatollah is an eye-opener.
Library Journal - Jean Langlais
Like Susan Vreeland's The Passion of Artemisia and John Faunce's Lucrezia Borgia, Dunant's latest profiles a strong Renaissance woman making bold choices to find fulfillment in constrained circumstances. Highly recommended.
Booklist - Elsa Gaztambide
Dunant's lush and intellectually gripping novel is set in fourteenth-century Florence at the height of the Renaissance....This is a beautifully written and captivating work.
Antonia Fraser
Simply amazing, so brilliantly written...almost intolerably exciting at times, and at others, equally poignant.
Amanda Foreman, author of Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire
Sarah Dunant has given us a story of sacrifice and betrayal, set during Florence's captivity under the fanatic Savonarola. She writes like a painter, and thinks like a philosopher juxtapositioning the humane against the animal, hope against fanaticism, creativity against destruction. The Birth of Venus is a tour de force.
A beautiful serpent of a novel, seductive and dangerous...full of wise guile, the most brilliant novel yet from a writer of powerful historical imagination and wicked literary gifts. Dunant's snaky tale of art, sex and Florentine hysteria consumes utterly–but the experience is all pleasure.
Engrossed by this spectacular novel
This book had me gripped from the beginning.
Alyvia
Entertaining Read
The only book in Florence that I could find in English, I wasn't expecting much when I picked up this slim book. I read the book, LOVED IT, and then went around the next day in Florence, pointing out to my sister all the various different historical ... Read More
Rickee
Captivating read
As a teacher of literature, I spend most of my reading time stuck in the middle of one of the "classics," so this was a refreshing and thoroughly fun read. I read this slim volume in an afternoon and really regretted coming to the end of Alessandra'... Read More
kssteffe
I truly enjoyed this book....not something I would have chosen but my book group did and I am very happy with the choice. I would recommend to all.
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Sarah Dunant is a novelist, broadcaster and critic. After leaving university she worked as an actress before starting work as a producer for BBC Radio in 1974. She also presented Radio 4's 'Woman's Hour' and BBC Television's 'The Late Show'. She lives in London.
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Flint Institute of Barbering Inc
Flint Institute of Barbering Inc in Flint
Private for-profit, 2-year
Nondegree-granting, primarily postsecondary
Download Flint Institute of Barbering Inc Whitepaper!
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Flint Institute of Barbering Inc offers 3-degree programs. Student-to-faculty ratio is 19:1. 1 high safety campus. Acceptance Rate is 71%. 87.8% are women, and 12.2% are men. The average annual total cost of attendance at Flint Institute of Barbering Inc is 5786$, that is at the level of national average. 70% of full-time Flint Institute of Barbering Inc students completed their education program in 150 percent of time: graduation rate is above national average.
The Flint Institute of Barbering Inc is a private and academic-year institution, so it's net price represents an average of all programs and includes only undergraduates who first enrolled in the fall term and receive Title IV aid. The total cost of attendance depends on whether undergraduates live on campus, off campus (not with family), or off campus (with family).
Depending on the federal state, or institutional grant and available, Flint Institute of Barbering Inc students in your income bracket may pay more of less than the overall average costs.
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70 of Flint Institute of Barbering Inc undergraduates were awarded with some type of financial aid, it's 85 percents of all undergraduate students. This makes Flint Institute of Barbering Inc number 152 in the amount of financial aid awarded to students among all educational institutions in Michigan.
Students at Flint Institute of Barbering Inc awarded 5 types of loans or aids, the biggest percent of students received a any financial aid.
Flint Institute of Barbering Inc graduation rate is above the national average.
70% of full-time students enrolled for the first time to Flint Institute of Barbering Inc completed the education program and got a degree in 150 percent of the expected time of completion.
Graduation rate is the percentage of institution's new-entering, first-time, first-year undergraduate students who complete their program within 150% of the published time for the program. Graduation rate excludes a huge number of students. This index doesn't take into consideration students of nontraditional enrollments - part-time students, students who enroll mid-year, and who transfer from one institution to another. So graduation rate alone can create a misleading perception. Completion rate in the form of total number of students receiving any types of awards/degrees creates a complete picture. Combining this data with graduation rate is a better way to compare institutions.
Flint Institute of Barbering Inc acceptance rate is above national average.
Average acceptance rate for institutions in state is 70%, so acceptance rate value is above state average for 1% only.
In comparison to an average acceptance rate in of colleges in $0 - $10k price range
Average acceptance rate for all institutions in state in the same net price range is 65%, so Flint Institute of Barbering Inc acceptance rate value is above state net price average for 6%.
The Flint Institute of Barbering Inc full-time retention rate is 100% and part-time retention rate is 0%.
Retention rate is an important indicator: if it is high, it demonstrates that school offers quality curriculum, pleasant student environments and cultures as more students choose to continue their studies.
The student-to-faculty ratio at Flint Institute of Barbering Inc is 19:1, that means that for every 19 students the institution has one professor, lecturer or specialist with a degree in education. Lower student-to-faculty ratio is better - it means that professors can dedicate more time and attention to each student.
In Flint Institute of Barbering Inc the biggest percent of students are enrolled in on-campus courses.
Here are the students enrolled exclusively in distance education courses at Flint Institute of Barbering Inc and grouped by their location. Distance education courses are the most popular for students located in not reported location.
The campus located by 3214 Flushing Rd address in Flint, Michigan.
Main Campus in comparison of all branches in the US. It is calculated as the average percent of crimes yearly by five years of data for every campus, based on an overall number of students studying there. The branch is a part of Flint Institute of Barbering Inc with 1.79% of maximum crimes a year. The only type of crimes detected on Main Campus is burglary.
Flint Institute of Barbering Inc offers 3 programs in total: 3 are for 2-year, but less than 4-year certificate programs.
This is one of the lowest number of programs in comparison with other 194 universities in Michigan state. Flint Institute of Barbering Inc is one of the few institutions in Michigan that offers a 2-year, but less than 4-year certificate program.
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Flint Institute of Barbering Inc provides coursework for undergraduate students оnly.
In 2014-2015 academic year estimated full-time equivalent undergraduate enrollment was 73 students with 65864 сontact hours for 12-month instructional activity period.
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Will Sohel be the next Bigg Boss Telugu 4 Winner?
The Bigg Boss Telugu Season 4 started with 19 contestants on 6th Sept 20. By the 12th Week, only 7 contestants are left in the house.
The contestants Abhijeet, Akhil, Ariana, Avinash, Monal, Sohail and Harika are fighting very closely to win the title and one of them will be eliminated this weekend. According to a recent poll conducted Akhil, Avinash, Monal or Ariana one of the four will be eliminated from the show this week.
There is a huge debate on who will be the next bigg boss Telugu winner among these contestants. If we see the voting trend of this season then definitely Abhijeet is the favourite choice of the audiences. Akhil is strongly competing with him in the race. Sohel, Monal, Harika, Avinash and Ariana are also very strong competitors in the show.
Monal was previously saved by bigg boss but now she holds a strong position in the game. Ariana's performance graph is also increasing week by week and she is one of the strongest female contestants in the bigg boss house…
Harika has also bounced back in the game after being selected as captain and completing the difficult tasks.
But Sohail's name is coming up exceptionally well in the title race when it wasn't expected. Sohail is the most genuine and transparent contestant in the house. The hashtag #SohailForTheWin is trending a lot on social media.
Chances are of Abhijeet and Akhil winning the game is also very high.
Sohail, Akhil or Abhijeet who will become the next bigg boss winner? Anyways we will come to know in another four weeks.
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Gulröd blankbock (Obrium cantharinum) är en skalbaggsart som först beskrevs av Carl von Linné 1767.  Gulröd blankbock ingår i släktet Obrium, och familjen långhorningar. Enligt den svenska rödlistan är arten nära hotad i Sverige. Arten förekommer i Götaland, Gotland, Öland, Svealand och Nedre Norrland. Artens livsmiljö är skogslandskap, jordbrukslandskap.

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March 1995 CEN-TAPEDE - Canadian Departure Tax, U.S. Departure Tax, Giving up US Citizenship, 10 year rule, Expired NAFTA Visa,
March 1995 Page 88-91
david ingram's US/Canadian Newsletter
CANADIAN DEPARTURE TAX
Canada has always had a departure tax. This means that when a Canadian gives up his or her residence in Canada, all assets are deemed to have been sold at departure and any accrued capital gains tax is payable before leaving. There are some exceptions to this when persons have come to Canada and owned the assets before coming, and Real Estate assets in Canada are exempt because there are non-resident tax provisions which take over, but DEPARTURE TAX has always been an important consideration.
To be fair, Canada values assets one owns when becoming a resident of Canada at the fair market value when the person becomes a resident. This means that if you sell an asset after becoming a Canadian resident, you only pay tax on the increase in value between the day you came to Canada and the date of sale. The U.S. on the other hand taxes you on the cost price even if you owned it for thirty years BEFORE becoming a U.S. resident.
UNITED STATES DEPARTURE TAX - (NEW IN 1995)
On February 6, 1995, the U.S. announced a similar (but different) DEPARTURE TAX when a person gives up their U.S. citizenship.
Although the details have not been released in full yet, the general idea will be that the American citizen who gives up his or her citizenship will be taxed on all assets as if they were sold the day before.
Up until February 6, 1995, a U.S. citizen could give up their U.S. citizenship and their assets just quietly slid out of the U.S. tax system.
If the U.S. feels that the person only gave up citizenship to avoid U.S. income, gift and estate taxes, (remember that the U.S. continues to tax its citizens on world wide income no matter where they live), then the U.S. will continue to tax the U.S. citizen for Income, Gift and Estate tax for ten years after the citizenship was given up. (We have a separate bulletin on this - ask for pages 74 to 77 to get this information).
This new Departure tax will not affect persons who gave up their citizenship before February 6, 1995. However, those ex-citizens are still at risk from the ten year rule.
The IRS has also recently announced that they will be DOUBLING the number of audits this year. About one out of 30 individuals with self employed income can expect an audit, and anyone claiming an office in the home can expect to have it turned down as a tax deduction unless it is the absolute main place of business and the work is actually performed there. Record keeping offices or offices in the home which are used to make appointments will not be allowed. Canada has moved in the same direction of course and I expect to see many home offices turned down by Revenue Canada and the IRS in the next couple of years.
One of the reasons that audits can be doubled is that there is just so much information in the computer systems that the IRS can run test after test on all facets of U.S. taxation. One of the things I have noticed is that they are also running these tests WAAAAAAYYYYYY back.
In the last month, we have had one person show up with a $194,000 U.S. tax bill for 1986, 87 and 88 from capital sales in those years (he had actually lost money) which were not reported when he moved to Canada. A Canadian accountant had told him not to worry about them because he had lost money and the losses were of no use on his Canadian return.
The IRS has actually run its computer tapes of property sales information (form 8288-A) in 1986, 87 and 88 against the recipients' names and hit big.
Of course, the U.S. takes the position that they can always tax the gross income and if you do not file on time, they can turn down the expenses. Canada does the same when someone omits a sale which qualified for the $100,000 exemption but didn't report the income and claim the exemption.
In another case, a client received a bill for $18,000 social security payments for 1988 and 1989 earnings in CANADA. The earnings were exempt under ARTICLE XXIX.4 of the US/CANADA Income Tax Treaty 1980. They do not owe the tax, but the IRS tried. Their computer went back to 1988 and 1989 in March, 1995.
Another lady received a bill for $3,000 for 1990 and 1991 because the tax withheld did not match up with the amounts in the IRS computers.
What is interesting is that the IRS is running their new and sophisticated programs on old returns and going after significant monies. They do this by running four and five year comparisons for items like wages, interest, dividends and capital gains.
Low incomes reported by people with addresses in expensive areas and paying $20,000 a year interest are in extreme risk of an audit. Remember that U.S. banks report the interest paid to them for mortgages (and by whom by SSN) to the I.R.S.
WATCH WHO YOU DEAL WITH
On March 5, 1995 I received a call from a western Canadian Doctor who had received a job offer in the U.S. Pacific North West. He was referred to a Los Angeles immigration Attorney who knew and was told that the Canadian Doctor had not written his U.S. MLE (medical licencing exam). Note that this exam is not required if the doctor is entering the U.S. as a resident alien (green card holder). It is only necessary for a work permit.
The lawyer sent him to Vermont to get a visa to work in the U.S. and the paperwork was issued by the Vermont office. However, the ultimate grantor of entrance to the U.S. is the officer you deal with when you finally show up at the border to "move in."
In this case the INS officer asked if the doctor had passed his MLE and when he was told "no", turned him back. Well, at this point, it still doesn't sound too bad. He will clear it up with his immigration lawyer who suddenly becomes very hard to get hold of.
The doctor is now sitting in his house in Canada waiting for the new owners to take possession. Oh yes, he sold his house and his practice in Canada before going to the border and being turned back. If he still wants to go south, he has to write the MLE which involves three exam sittings over a year.
It would have been so much easier if he had simply been told to write the exams over the next year and go south when he was qualified.
DON'T HOLD OVER
If you do get an H2-B visa or an L-1 and it expires, do not stay past the expiry date. Even if you are not caught at the time, it can catch you in the future. I was at U.S. immigration at the Vancouver Airport on March 6th and could not help overhearing a chiropractor getting the third degree. He had an expired H2-B visa in his possession and was going back to the hospital where he had worked legitimately with the visa. The INS officer was incensed that the fellow had stayed in the U.S. past the expiry of his visa and was now going back on a "return" ticket to the same place.
The chiropractor was stating that he was only going back to "observe". He was not going back to teach (which required a visa), or work (which required a visa) or be a student (which required a visa). Frankly, the INS officer did not believe the story "one little bit".
If your visa expires, you must leave the US immediately before you go back as a visitor.
$100,000 EXEMPTION - GOING, GOING, GONE!
Now that we have had a bit of time to look at the actual implementation of the phasing out of the $100,000 capital gains exemption, I can say that it is a complete boondoggle and is disrupting the life of every accountant and advisor in Canada. Some situations are very simple. But figuring out the Adjusted Cost Bases of 15 $5,000 U.S. mutual funds is no fun and takes an hour each in some cases. Charging for the service is also difficult. The clients are having a hard time accepting that this is really important, time consuming, and worth significant fees. The silly part is that a $200,000 gain on an island property takes 20 minutes, is split in half between the two owners and gets a future $200,000 tax free while the person with the 10 mutual funds takes hours and sometimes saves very little in future taxes.
Explaining the clawbacks and loss of deductions, exemptions, and credits is also a non-rewarding exercise.
Showing mom and dad that they will have a total of $10,000 of clawbacks and loss of pensions because they are claiming the exemption today is usually treated with incredulous wonder. The couple wants to claim the exemption so that the kids don't have to pay the tax when the kids inherit the property. But mom and dad can't afford the $10,000 clawback and tax now.
Suggesting that the three kids (35, 45 and 50 years old) be approached to pay the $10,000 now so that they will save $50,000 in the future is also met with a negative result.
It is an interesting human conundrum which just isn't describable or measurable until you have watched it unfold twenty or thirty or 90 times (one CEN-TA GROUP person has now completed ninety of these and agonizes over every one).
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU TOP UP YOUR $100,000 EXEMPTION.
1. GST credit. If your combined family income exceeds $25,921, you will lose 5% of net income against a maximum credit of $304 for yourself and $199 for a spouse or equivalent child and $199.99 per child thereafter.
2. Provincial Tax Credits vary from province to province but can be considerable. These are not significant in British Columbia.
3. Unemployment Insurance. If you received UIC and the "top up" puts your net income up over $60,840, expect to pay back up to 30% of your UIC. Of course, this 30% is now not taxable so your tax bill goes down from 25% to 55% of the 30%. In other words, the 30% paid back becomes a deduction from taxable income on line 235 so you do not pay tax on the amount you pay back.
4. AGE Credit. When your net income goes over about $25,000, your age exemption of $3,482 is reduced by $50 per thousand up to one half of the exemption amount up to $1741 This will cost you approximately 25% of $1741 or about $435 of actual tax (money).
5. OAS. After a net income of $53,215, OAS is clawed back at 15% to the maximum of $4,647. Depending upon your tax rate, this will save $1,150 to $2,300 of income tax as well because the amount you pay back becomes a deduction from taxable income on line 235.
6. Guaranteed Income Supplements. If you are receiving these supplements, expect to lose them for a year.
7. Medical Expense credit exists but is not very significant. Claiming the top up will increase your net income and reduce your medical claim up to $53,800 of net income. After net income of $53,000, it has no more effect.
(As an aside, note that the top up affects medical, GST, old age exemption amounts, spousal tax credits and guaranteed income supplements up to about $55,000 and OAS and UIC clawbacks after about that amount (it would help if there was only one limit amount to think about.))
8. Child tax benefits are affected over a wider range depending upon the number of children starting at about $26,000 of net income for the family.
9. ALLOWABLE BUSINESS INVESTMENT LOSS. I am still not handling this well. Eight solid days programing the forms into my computer program just prove that it is tough and I should be in another business (maybe a coffee house with free tax advice, I'll call it the Fourth Dimension).
If you have already received a tax deduction for an ABIL since 1985, you have to pay that tax back BEFORE you can claim the TOP UP. So, if you have already claimed $100,000 worth of gross ABIL, there is likely no TOP UP available to you.
9. CNIL (CUMULATIVE NET INVESTMENT LOSS). Your CNIL balance at December 31, 1994 is also taxed at full rates before you get your TOP UP. If you have a $100,000 CNIL as several of my clients do, there is no practical TOP UP.
10. Alternative minimum tax (AMT). Even though you got the TOP UP tax free, if your income is low (maybe you also topped up your RRSP with a $20,000 deduction) you can end up paying AMT on either the RRSP or the 25% tax free part of the TOP UP (or a combination thereof).
(This AMT is recoverable in future years, but does affect your cash flow.)
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This is definitely a great resource for all those leaving the country or revoking their citizenship. Have you posted an updated version of the current tax rules somewhere else on the site related to US Canada expatriation tax rules Thanks
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Richter Announces the Acquisition of PregLem
October 7, 2010 Irene Tamayo
Richter announces the Acquisition of PregLem for an initial cash consideration of CHF150 million (€114 million) and further milestone payments of up to CHF295 million (€223 million). The Acquisition values PregLem at up to CHF445 million (€337 million)
PregLem is a Swiss based, specialty biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialisation of women's reproductive medicine.
The Acquisition of PregLem:
Increases Richter's exposure to specialty pharma
Develops Richter Groups's presence in main European markets
Complements Richter's existing Women's Health franchise
Richter will invest at least CHF100 million in PregLem in 2011-2013 to assist the commercial development of PregLem's product portfolio
Gedeon Richter Plc ("Richter") today announces the Acquisition of PregLem Holding SA ("PregLem"), a privately held Swiss biopharmaceutical company focused on the treatment of gynaecological conditions and infertility. The Acquisition has completed and Richter now owns 100% of PregLem's equity.
PregLem's owners included Founders, Sofinnova Partners (Seed and Lead investor), MVM International Life Sciences Partners, NeoMed Innovation, Sofinnova Ventures, Sutrepa and managers and employees of PregLem.
The existing PregLem executive team will continue to manage PregLem which will become a research and development centre of an enlarged and growing Women's Health business for the Richter Group, with a core focus on the development of early stage compounds. PregLem's senior management team have extensive experience in women's reproductive medicine from leading international pharmaceutical companies such as Serono (now Merck Serono), Ipsen and Warner Lambert (now Pfizer).
PregLem's lead product, PGL4001 Esmya™, completed Phase III clinical trials in June 2010 for the treatment of uterine myoma. PregLem currently has five products in clinical and pre-clinical development. PregLem will provide a further high added value pipeline to Richter's existing female healthcare product portfolio, which itself has been based on well established steroid chemistry knowledge.
The transaction values PregLem at up to CHF445 million provided certain milestones are achieved, with the consideration to be settled in cash. PregLem shareholders will receive CHF150 million in cash upfront and further milestone payments of up to CHF295 million will be paid assuming achievement of all milestone targets. Over the next three years, Richter is committed to investing CHF100 million in PregLem to commercialise PregLem's products, develop salesforce capability in the main European markets and progress the clinical development of PregLem's early stage compounds.
Rationale for the Acquisition
PregLem represents a unique opportunity for Richter to strengthen its core Women's Health business as it broadens Richter's specialty pharma nature whilst at the same time complementing Richter's existing Women's Health expertise and product range. This Acquisition will develop Richter's presence in main European markets and in addition, Richter's salesforce will sell PregLem's products in CEE and CIS countries.
Erik Bogsch, Managing Director of Richter, said:
"PregLem represents an outstanding strategic opportunity for the Richter Group in a core therapeutic area. I look forward to working with the existing management team to develop the PregLem products in the European markets."
Ernest Loumaye, CEO and Founder of PregLem, said:
"PregLem, in three years, has developed an innovative pipeline of drugs for the treatment of benign gynaecological conditions.
This deal provides the opportunity to advance our portfolio of products, to register ESMYATM (PGL4001) in Europe and to build a commercial organisation in selected European countries. Richter's existing portfolio and approach to specialty pharma is highly complementary and we look forward to working together to bring products to market which will have a significant impact on women's lives."
Principal terms of the Acquisition
(a) The initial purchase price for the shares in PregLem amounts to CHF150 million
(b) In addition, upon the achievement of milestones, Richter will pay PregLem's shareholders additional cash amounts, up to a maximum of CHF295 million
Capital injection
Richter committed to make equity capital contributions to PregLem in the amount of CHF100 million, over the next three years, towards the funding of assets, activities, employees and resources needed by PregLem to achieve the milestones, clinical development of PregLem's early stage compounds and to establish a marketing organisation in the UK, Germany, France, Italy and Spain.
Information on PregLem
PregLem is a Swiss based, specialty biopharmaceutical company engaged in the development and commercialisation of a new class of drugs for the treatment of benign gynaecological conditions. PregLem focuses on women's reproductive medicine with significant unmet medical needs, such as uterine fibroids (myoma), endometriosis, infertility and post surgical abdominal adhesions.
PregLem currently has five projects in clinical and pre-clinical development. Its most advanced product, PGL4001 Esmya™, completed Phase III clinical trials in June 2010 for the treatment of uterine myoma, a common benign tumor in women of reproductive age. A European MAA filing for Esmya™ is anticipated in Q4 2010.
PregLem was founded in Geneva in 2006 by two experienced pharmaceutical industry executives: Dr Ernest Loumaye, a specialist in female reproductive medicine, and Eric Rolin, a finance and business development executive. PregLem was initially established to develop and commercialise clinical and pre-clinical assets that were spun off from Ipsen Pharma (PGL1001 and PGL2001). Subsequently, PregLem also in-licensed (PGL4001) from HRA Pharma and PGL5001 from Merck-Serono.
Notes to investors
A presentation for analysts and investors will be hosted today at 16:00pm (CET) by Erik Bogsch, Managing Director of Richter.
Evercore Partners is acting as exclusive financial adviser to Richter and Bär & Karrer AG is acting as Richter's legal adviser. Credit Suisse is acting as financial adviser to PregLem and Homburger AG is acting as sellers' legal adviser.
Katalin Ördög, Investor Relations
About Richter Plc
Richter is a leading multinational pharmaceutical company headquartered in Budapest, Hungary. With consolidated sales of approximately €1 billion (US$1.3 billion) in 2009 and a market capitalization of €3.2 billion (US$4.3 billion), Richter is one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in Central Eastern Europe. Richter's core markets are in Central Eastern Europe and the CIS and it has a growing presence in the US through its strategic partners and in key EU countries through its commercial subsidiaries. The product portfolio of the company covers most therapeutic areas, including cardiovascular, central nervous system and gynaecology. Richter has the largest R&D unit in Central Eastern Europe and its original research activity focuses exclusively on CNS disorders with main clinical targets being schizophrenia, anxiety, chronic pain and depression. With its widely acknowledged steroid chemistry expertise, Richter is a significant player in the female healthcare field worldwide.
This announcement includes "forward-looking statements" relating to Richter and PregLem that are subject to known and unknown risks and uncertainties, many of which are outside of Richter's and PregLem's control and are difficult to predict, that may cause actual results to differ materially from any future results expressed or implied from the forward-looking statements. In this announcement, the words "anticipates," "believes," "estimates," "seeks," "expects," "plans," "intends" and similar expressions, as they relate to Richter or PregLem, are intended to identify forward-looking statements. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from such expectations include, without limitation: the inability to obtain necessary regulatory approvals in the context of the Acquisition or to obtain them on acceptable terms; the inability to integrate successfully PregLem within Richter Group or to realize synergies from such integration following the Acquisition; costs related to the combination of Richter and PregLem; the economic environment of the industries in which Richter and PregLem operate; costs associated with research and development; changes in the prospects for products in the pipeline or under development by Richter or PregLem; dependence on the existing management of Richter and PregLem; changes or uncertainties in Hungarian or Swiss tax laws or the administration of such laws; changes or uncertainties in the laws or regulations applicable to the markets in which Richter and PregLem operate. All written and oral forward-looking statements attributable to Richter or PregLem or persons acting on either of their behalf are expressly qualified in their entirety by the cautionary statements above. The forward-looking statements included in this announcement are made only as of the date of this announcement. Neither Richter nor PregLem intend, or undertake any obligation, to update these forward-looking statements.
Evercore Partners Limited, which is authorised and regulated in the United Kingdom by the Financial Services Authority, is acting for Richter and for no one else in connection with the matters set out in this announcement and will not be responsible to anyone other than Richter for providing the protections afforded to clients of Evercore Partners Limited or for providing advice in relation to the matters set out in this announcement.
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PregLem announces in-licensing deal with Merck Serono for post-operative adhesions & endometriosis
By Irene Tamayo in News, Press Releases on October 7, 2010
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I wanted to make a post about something else that's been on my mind lately, but since I can't access those photos right now, I wanted to post this photo instead.  It was from yesterday's baseball game.  I wish that If I could go back, I would find someone in the same exact pose, but only with water coming out of the hose and reflected on the wall.  Enjoy! [![](http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3124/2183/400/ilball411.jpg)](http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3124/2183/1600/ilball411.jpg)

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In March 2019 a total of 15,571 new motor vehicles were registered, of which 10,980 were automobiles. First registrations decreased by 9.9 per cent from the corresponding month of the previous year. In March the number of new passenger cars registered was 9,277, which was 20.9 per cent down from the year before. The share of new diesel-driven passenger cars was 22.5 per cent. These data are based on the Traffic Affairs Register of the Finnish Transport and Communications Agency (Traficom) and they have been produced by Statistics Finland. The numbers are exclusive of the vehicles on the Åland Islands.
buses, coaches, lorries, motor vehicles, motorcar, motorcycles, vehicle register, vehicles.
ISSN=2342-365X. Helsinki: Statistics Finland [referred: 24.4.2019].


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Q: Is there a common/standard/accepted way to model GPS entities (waypoints, tracks)? This question somewhat overlaps knowledge on geospatial information systems, but I think it belongs here rather than GIS.StackExchange
There are a lot of applications around that deal with GPS data with very similar objects, most of them defined by the GPX standard. These objects would be collections of routes, tracks, waypoints, and so on. Some important programs, like GoogleMaps, serialize more or less the same entities in KML format. There are a lot of other mapping applications online (ridewithgps, strava, runkeeper, to name a few) which treat this kind of data in a different way, yet allow for more or less equivalent "operations" with the data. Examples of these operations are:

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*Direct manipulation of tracks/trackpoints with the mouse (including drawing over a map);

*Merging and splitting based on time and/or distance;

*Replacing GPS-collected elevation with DEM/SRTM elevation;

*Calculating properties of part of a track (total ascent, average speed, distance, time elapsed);

There are some small libraries (like GpxPy) that try to model these objects AND THEIR METHODS, in a way that would ideally allow for an encapsulated, possibly language-independent Library/API.
The fact is: this problem is around long enough to allow for a "common accepted standard" to emerge, isn't it? In the other hand, most GIS software is very professionally oriented towards geospatial analyses, topographic and cartographic applications, while the typical trip-logging and trip-planning applications seem to be more consumer-hobbyist oriented, which might explain the quite disperse way the different projects/apps treat and model the problem.
Thus considering everything said, the question is: Is there, at present or being planned, a standard way to model canonicaly, in an Object-Oriented way, the most used GPS/Tracklog entities and their canonical attributes and methods?
There is the GPX schema and it is very close to what I imagine, but it only contains objects and attributes, not methods.
Any information will be very much appreciated, thanks!!

A: As far as I know, there is no standard library, interface, or even set of established best practices when it comes to storing/manipulating/processing "route" data. We have put a lot of effort into these problems at Ride with GPS and I know the same could be said by the other sites that solve related problems.  I wish there was a standard, and would love to work with someone on one.
GPX is OK and appears to be a sort-of standard... at least until you start processing GPX files and discover everyone has simultaneously added their own custom extensions to the format to deal with data like heart rate, cadence, power, etc.  Also, there isn't a standard way of associating a route point with a track point.  Your "bread crumb trail" of the route is represented as a series of trkpt elements, and course points (e.g. "turn left onto 4th street") are represented in a separate series of rtept elements. Ideally you want to associate a given course point with a specific track point, rather than just giving the course point a latitude and longitude.  If your path does several loops over the same streets, it can introduce some ambiguity in where the course points should be attached along the route.
KML and Garmin's TCX format are similar to GPX, with their own pros and cons.  In the end these formats really only serve the purpose of transferring the data between programs. They do not address the issue of how to represent the data in your program, or what type of operations can be performed on the data.
We store our track data as an array of objects, with keys corresponding to different attributes such as latitude, longitude, elevation, time from start, distance from start, speed, heart rate, etc. Additionally we store some metadata along the route to specify details about each section.  When parsing our array of track points, we use this metadata to split a Route into a series of Segments. Segments can be split, joined, removed, attached, reversed, etc.  They also encapsulate the method of trackpoint generation, whether that is by interpolating points along a straight line, or requesting a path representing directions between the endpoints.  These methods allow a reasonably straightforward implementation of drag/drop editing and other common manipulations. The Route object can be used to handle operations involving multiple segments.  One example is if you have a route composed of segments - some driving directions, straight lines, walking directions, whatever - and want to reverse the route. You can ask each segment to reverse itself, maintaining its settings in the process. At a higher level we use a Map class to wire up the interface, dispatch commands to the Route(s), and keep a series of snapshots or transition functions updated properly for sensible undo/redo support.
Route manipulation and generation is one of the goals.  The others are aggregating summary statistics are structuring the data for efficient visualization/interaction.  These problems have been solved to some degree by any system that will take in data and produce a line graph.  Not exactly new territory here.  One interesting characteristic of route data is that you will often have two variables to choose from for your x-axis: time from start, and distance from start. Both are monotonically increasing, and both offer useful but different interpretations of the data.  Looking at the a graph of elevation with an x-axis of distance will show a bike ride going up and down a hill as symmetrical.  Using an x-axis of time, the uphill portion is considerably wider.  This isn't just about visualizing the data on a graph, it also translates to decisions you make when processing the data into summary statistics.  Some weighted averages make sense to base off of time, some off of distance. The operations you end up wanting are min, max, weighted (based on your choice of independent var) average, the ability to filter points and perform a filtered min/max/avg (only use points where you were moving, ignore outliers, etc), different smoothing functions (to aid in calculating total elevation gain for example), a basic concept of map/reduce functionality (how much time did I spend between 20-30mph, etc), and fixed window moving averages that involve some interpolation. The latter is necessary if you want to identify your fastest 10 minutes, or 10 minutes of highest average heartrate, etc.  Lastly, you're going to want an easy and efficient way to perform whatever calculations you're running on subsets of your trackpoints.
You can see an example of all of this in action here if you're interested: http://ridewithgps.com/trips/964148
The graph at the bottom can be moused over, drag-select to zoom in.  The x-axis has a link to switch between distance/time.  On the left sidebar at the bottom you'll see best 30 and 60 second efforts - those are done with fixed window moving averages with interpolation.  On the right sidebar, click the "Metrics" tab.  Drag-select to zoom in on a section on the graph, and you will see all of the metrics update to reflect your selection.
Happy to answer any questions, or work with anyone on some sort of standard or open implementation of some of these ideas.
This probably isn't quite the answer you were looking for but figured I would offer up some details about how we do things at Ride with GPS since we are not aware of any real standards like you seem to be looking for.
Thanks!

A: After some deeper research, I feel obligated, for the record and for the help of future people looking for this, to mention the pretty much exhaustive work on the subject done by two entities, sometimes working in conjunction: ISO and OGC.
From ISO (International Standards Organization), the "TC 211  - Geographic information/Geomatics" section pretty much contains it all.
From OGS (Open Geospatial Consortium), their Abstract Specifications are very extensive, being at the same time redundant and complimentary to ISO's.
I'm not sure it contains object methods related to the proposed application (gps track and waypoint analysis and manipulation), but for sure the core concepts contained in these documents is rather solid. UML is their schema representation of choice.

ISO 6709 "[...] specifies the representation of coordinates, including latitude and longitude, to be used in data interchange. It additionally specifies representation of horizontal point location using coordinate types other than latitude and longitude. It also specifies the representation of height and depth that can be associated with horizontal coordinates. Representation includes units of measure and coordinate order."
ISO 19107 "specifies conceptual schemas for describing the spatial characteristics of geographic features, and a set of spatial operations consistent with these schemas. It treats vector geometry and topology up to three dimensions. It defines standard spatial operations for use in access, query, management, processing, and data exchange of geographic information for spatial (geometric and topological) objects of up to three topological dimensions embedded in coordinate spaces of up to three axes."

If I find something new, I'll come back to edit this, including links when available.

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Installed on a RPi Zero - some bluetooth activity.
Starting zigbee2mqtt as a service. One device connected (although it says 2 for some reason - no other zigbee devices in house). Able to switch light on / off a couple of times via the set MQTT topic then bridge hangs and eventually reports zigbee2mqtt/bridge/state offline (nothing in log).
MQTT activity during period of log - note last 3 set commands unreported.
Can you try if this issue also happens when running on a different device?
Hi, not really. It is the only RPiW I have.
Can you provide the log when running with DEBUG=* npm start?
MQTT messages published from another device and the published messages published from a third machine.
Note log stops after last mqtt message is sent by zigbee2mqtt.
1541012406: Client mqttjs_2869dda5 has exceeded timeout, disconnecting.
1541012406: Socket error on client mqttjs_2869dda5, disconnecting.
Up till then there were PINGREQ but difficult to tell properly.
Which nodejs version do you have?
Can you try with nodejs 8?
Hi @Koenkk, I can confirm it works with node V11. I have edited the title appropriately.
Hi, i can confirm the described behavior. Running v11 and process hangs at ~100% CPU shortly after starting.
I just did my first install using node 11 on an Orange Pi PC running armbain mainline and I cannot confirm. If I can be of help let me know.
@borpin can you try out version v11.1?
I've played around with it yesterday and it seems to be running fine now using v11.1 (it still rarely hangs sometimes though).
Ok got it. You should run npm install as non-root user... My fault sorry. Maybe add this info to the doc?
3656 verbose argv "/opt/nodejs/node-v8.12.0-linux-armv6l/bin/node" "/opt/nodejs/latest/bin/npm" "install"
3662 error Failed at the serialport@6.2.2 install script.
3662 error This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.
@xoxys what system are you running it on? What happens after rm -rf node_modules && npm install.


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Кэтрин Маккормик (; род. 7 июля 1990) — американская танцовщица и актриса.

Ранние годы
Кэтрин начала заниматься хореографией в трёхлетнем возрасте — она выступала в танцевальной студии «Dance Connection», принадлежавшей её матери. Когда женщине предложили преподавать в студии «Augusta West», она согласилась при условии, что её дочь тоже будет заниматься в составе группы.

Карьера
Будущая актриса старалась реализовать свои способности именно в танцевальной сфере. Ей нравилось выступать на театральной сцене школы.

В 2008 году Маккормик предложили её дебютную эпизодическую роль в киноленте «Слава», и она перебралась в Лос-Анджелес. Она подключилась к труппе танцоров и актёров Urban Poets, выступала в спектакле Scribble на шотландском фестивале в Эдинбурге.

В конце 2009 года Кэтрин стала участвовать в шестом сезоне американского реалити-шоу «Думаешь, ты умеешь танцевать?». В результате ей довелось одержать победу, и Маккормик признали лучшей танцовщицей на проекте. Впоследствии она принимала участие и в седьмом сезоне, где собирались все участники предыдущих шоу.

В 2011 году актриса решила организовать конференцию The Revolve Tour, посвященную поощрению молодых девушек в их начинаниях и исполнению наиболее сокровенных желаний.

Летом 2012 года Маккормик сыграла главную роль в сиквеле «Шаг вперед 4». Героиня ленты Эмили была девушкой из обеспеченного семейства, решившей бросить все из-за любви к хореографии и мужчине и отправиться в Майами, чтобы реализовать собственную мечту — стать танцовщицей на профессиональной основе.

Кэтрин стала участницей видеоклипа Кристины Перри на музыкальную композицию Jar of Hearts?

А в 2015 году снялась в клипе группы Muse на их новый сингл "Dead Inside".

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BALTER: Margie Firestone Balter. The piano no longer plays its sweet song. The joyful singing has fallen silent. The music stopped when our beloved Margie Firestone Balter, partner, daughter, sister, aunt and kindhearted human being, died October 10 in Los Angeles. Margie was a one-of-a-kind individual who sang to herself much of the day. She reveled in life and adored her many piano students. She taught almost to the moment of her death. Days before her passing, people were calling for lessons for young maestros and slightly older ones who wanted to perform (or look like they were) in a movie or TV show. Margie died of complications of cancer. She fought a brave two-year battle in her own private way. Please don't remember her for that. Remember her for her gorgeous songwriting, performing and singing, and her daily gratefulness for the simplest elements of life: a sunset, a beach, a swim. Margie was born and raised in Squirrel Hill, graduating from Winchester Thurston School in Shadyside and the University of Washington in ethnomusicology and music. She performed in an African Marimba band for many years in Seattle, before moving to LA to pursue a career in music and composing and performing. Margie was the family member who took care of everyone else. When her father was sick, she spent five months with him in Florida. She took elegant care of her mother, Alma, now age 100, by moving her to LA to help in many ways. Margie showed a younger sister the way to do everything, and protected her always. "Margie was an irrepressible optimist, the bright light in everyone's lives,'' said her sister, Joni Balter. Margie was best known in LA as "the piano teacher to the stars,'' including Tom Cruise, Jack Black and Kevin Spacey and rising star, Magnus Ferrell, Will's son. When Holly Hunter won the Academy Award for best actress in "The Piano,'' she owed much of her success to Margie's brilliant piano coaching. Margie produced a stunningly beautiful CD, "Music from My Heart,'' with an instrumental that aired on an episode of TV show "Scandal." She was a voting member of the Grammy Awards. She loved her students more than anyone can imagine and produced many exemplary young players who played at occasional recitals that she turned into huge productions. "Margie never lost sight of the fact that music was the one language that could make everyone happy, she really believed in its transformative power,'' her sister explained. Margie is survived by her longtime partner, Roger Mende, her mother, Alma Balter, of Los Angeles, her sister, Joni Balter, and brother-in-law Timothy Egan, of Seattle, brother and sister-in-law Robert and Margery Balter, of Philadelphia, and nieces and nephews Sophie and Sam Kintz and Casey Egan and Meredith and Kevin Croy.
Services at Rodef Shalom Congregation, 4905 Fifth Avenue (at Morewood) on Friday, Oct. 20, 2017, at noon. Visitation one hour prior to services at Rodef Shalom (11 AM – 12 Noon). Interment Temple B'nai Israel Cemetery in North Versailles. A second memorial in her honor will be held in Los Angeles featuring her music and that of her piano prodigies. Arrangements entrusted to Ralph Schugar Chapel, Inc. schugar.com


Find out what is the best metal detector for kids with our detailed reviews! Have you ever faced a situation when your child likes to spend time outdoors and at the same time, like many children, dreams of finding a treasure? In this case, the best metal detector for kids is exactly what you need. The kid will be pleased, and you will be calm knowing that you have found for him or her an exciting and useful occupation during the summer holidays.
The advantage of buying your child's a detector is that the kid will have own device and will stop asking for yours, perhaps, not the cheapest one. Children who have become accustomed to the search for treasures with the best metal detector for kids are growing interested in the history of their native land, the general history, archeology and, what is even more important, are more likely to be outdoors which is very useful for a developing a healthy way of life.
If you decided to buy a metal detector for your child, be sure he will remember it for the whole life. This exciting hobby opens a new world of adventures, a lot of new and unexplored new finds, and unusual discoveries.
Now it is important to make the right choice and take the best metal detector for kids. How to do that?
It happens that people who bought a cheap and essentially toy metal detector on AA batteries begin wondering why it can't find anything. Perhaps, this is due to the fact that their idea of metal detectors was based on film scenes. Therefore, it is necessary to emphasize once again, the best metal detectors for kids are just smart toys and nothing more.
If you are focused on a more serious search, then the metal detector should be chosen more seriously. The range of prices is quite wide, as there are quite a few options for selection. Professional metal detectors can be specialized for different purposes and environments including underwater. The results of their work depend on the mineralization of the soil as the advanced models offer the possibility of fine-tuning. Moreover, professional devices can operate at different frequencies, and so on. But, keep in mind that children's interest starts with simple. So, it is necessary to choose the best kids metal detector manufactured by a famous brand, which offers a warranty and qualified maintenance when and if it is needed.
Perhaps, the most important criterion of choice is how well the best kids metal detector distinguishes metal meaning how well a child will be able to detect between useful signals from metal dust. For children from 8 to 18 it is very important to find interesting things – coins, jewelry, metal, plastic and so on; otherwise, their interest in the device search will fade away very soon. Be ready to dig something to keep the kid's interested.
Really, who will be interested in digging nails, beer covers, and other garbage all day long? A good discriminator, a pair of audio tones and an understandable designation on the screen will be enough because in this case, the device is too informative so that the child does not get confused in the signals and complex settings.
Make sure you choose the product that really can detect metals. The coil should have a diameter of at least 4 inches. The quality of handles of the kids metal detector is also important and they should be comfortable for kids. The construction itself should be durable and developed with high-quality materials. In this case, the best metal detector for kids you were choosing for a long time may get broken easily. The length of the shaft should be adjustable as children grow fast. In addition, the metal detector should be lightweight. Batteries should be hidden inside and must not cause inconvenience to your baby.
If the device comes equipped with an LCD display, it is definitely great because all the settings will be shown on the screen. Usually, the best kids metal detector has an LCD display to show the information about the sensitivity, set discrimination, battery life and even the target chosen. Some of the latest models also allow setting up the level of the signal.
Each manufacturer tries to raise the price on its device by means of adding some features that are usually not necessary. For example, the best kids metal detector can be waterproof or equipped with special headphones. These are additional features. Of course, in a case when your house is located close to the water, you may consider the waterproof devices, but be ready to spend a bit more on them.
Bounty Hunter TK4 Tracker IV is a reliable, easy-to-use metal detector with discrimination and multi-tone response. The device has a pointer analyzer and automatic soil adjustment. This best metal detector for kids comes already assembled in a beautiful box and can serve as an excellent gift for your child. It operates in 3 modes: All-Metal, Disc, and Tone. The all-metal mode allows searching for various metals including iron. It helps to find various objects in the ground, grass, dry leaves and even in shallow water. Excellent kids metal detector for finding lost keys, screwdrivers, etc. Disc mode excludes unnecessary bad targets from detection objects. Tone mode is represented by the 2-tone voice of the targets: low tone corresponds to low-conductive color targets, and high one – for high-conductivity non-ferrous metal like copper and silver.
Bounty Hunter Tracker IV is often bought by fans of electronics for experiments on the creation of their own tools. The depth of the search for this device is not inferior to other analog metal detectors of this price category and is approximately 18-20 cm.
The best metal detector for kids.
Is not equipped with LCD display.
Bounty Hunter Gold Digger is another best metal detector for kids that can be used by adults as well. It is suitable for children because the screen is not very important to beginners. Also, the knobs of resistors twist easier adjusting the sensitivity and the discrimination. The price of this device is quite affordable for the younger generation. Bounty Hunter Gold Digger helps to search for native gold, jewelry, coins. This compact device can detect a coin at a depth of 15 cm and a large object at a depth of 65 cm. The ergonomic handle and light weight make the metal detector attractive for those who prefer a long search.
Ground EFX MC1 is an analog kids metal detector which serves as an ideal device for beginners for treasure hunting. The design, lightweight, and simplicity of settings make it easy to work with Ground EFX MC1 even for a six-year-old kid. The device has good sensitivity and fairly confident separation of metals. The search coil is 6.5 inches long and is waterproof. It means that the child can easily use the device in shallow waters and may even find some precious metal. The sensitivity and discrimination are easy to adjust. In addition, it is possible to connect headphones to this best metal detector for kids. The main color of the device is green.
Allows setting up the sensitivity and discrimination.
Fully resembles the device for adults.
Volume control is not allowed.
If your child is very active, and you do not know what to do with it, then it's a high time to consider purchasing the best metal detector for kids Bounty Hunter BHJS Junior. This device is not only useful, but also interesting for children - the search for treasures, as well as other valuable things, will turn into an attractive adventure. You will be surprised to learn how many new and interesting things your kid will learn from this device! This small metal detector is suitable for children from 5 years old. Despite the modest price, the detector has all the basic capabilities. The first one is a metal definition: 2-tone sound and a dial indicator show if there is the iron or the colored metal under the coil.
Secondly, the possibility of excluding the iron, so that your child collects only the most valuable finds. And, thirdly, a control unit with batteries and a screen, a two-section bar, and a waterproof search coil with a diameter of 19 cm.
Equipped with all the necessary features.
The warranty is limited to 1 year.
American Hawks Explorer II is another best metal detector for children with top-notch features to detect metals with a high level of accuracy. It has a large display and a waterproof coil that allows hunting for treasure in shallow water and on the beach. In addition, it owns three operating modes: All-Metals, Motion Discrimination, and Auto Notch Filter. The first one helps detect all the metals in the soil; the second one informs about the particular metal distinguished with a special sound. The Auto Notch Filter is a special operating mode to display the objects found automatically. To sum it up, this device is ideal for children who are fond of various adventures and would like to try treasure hunting.
Feeble top and bottom pole connections.
Bounty Hunter Educational Junior is a metal detector produced mainly for kids. It is ultra-lightweight, compact, and very easy to handle. It has so many features so we can't call it a "toy" device. It comes equipped with a worthy discriminator to avoid useless stuff like cans. This best metal detector for kids has a special target identifier. When the child is getting closer to the object, the sound becomes louder. Large objects can be found at a depth of 60-80 cm and coins at a depth of up to 15 centimeters. In addition, this great metal detector can be used in the ground and on the sandy beach. But, unfortunately, the coil is not waterproof.
Equipped with visual and sound identifiers.
All the devices we reviewed deserve special attention as they are the best metal detectors for kids on the market today. Based on kids metal detector reviews, Bounty Hunter TK4 Tracker IV wins the competition and can be called the best kids metal detector 2018. Consider this model because of its numerous features that are also present in metal detectors for adults. It detects a coin on a depth of 20 cm and a large metal object on a depth of 90 cm. The aim target analyzer obtains information about the detected metal and its conductivity. This best metal detector for kids notifies a child with a special sound when it sees the target. Not to miss quiet and short responses from deep or small targets, use headphones that can be connected to a special jack on the control panel. The 8-inch mono coil has an enviable tenacity and stability in operation; it is completely sealed. It means that your child can quickly retrain from an enthusiastic treasure hunter into a person seeking gold and silver lost on the beach and shallow. So, if you want to turn the life of your kid into a real adventure, think about purchasing this best metal detector for kids.


Television has become the most prominent medium of entertainment. It has been gradually evolving over the years and today is in its prime peak. Flat screen televisions have become quite popular in the recent past. Noticing the old CRT television sets at present is impossible. Newer video versions are coming up every single day.
Hence old devices are being continuously replaced. The advancement in the video technology method has made plasma and LCD screens highly accessible. No doubt the flat screens include a tonne of HD technology into its fragile body.
Such television sets undoubtedly offer you the best viewing experience, but sometimes people are seen to complain about the sound quality.
Since with most flat screens, the video takes priority; the audio quality often tends to fall short of standards. If you want to get an excellent quality video and audio, than including these best soundbar speakers under $300 from the wide range, may be the ideal solution.
Home theatres were pretty common even a few years ago. The loud sound and feel of a movie hall experience made it quite well-liked. Some people think of setting up an expansive and full home theatre to get the best quality audio-visual experience from their giant flat screens. Such systems often incorporate a receiver, several speakers and a DVD player. But, such equipment can be cumbersome in a small environment.
The running wires of the speakers can be a pain. As a result, the joy of enjoying perfect audio and video quality might get dimmed. The best way to solve this problem is by buying and installing a good TV soundbar. You will get all the benefits of an expansive home theatre with a soundbar, without facing any problems.
These best sound bar speaker systems will provide you with a full range of clear, digital and crisp audio within just one box. When you are using a good sound box, there is no need to keep speakers scattered in the room. The Soundbar includes speakers within its attractive and sleek speaker box.
The best part about a sound box is, they can either be placed on a shelf or mounted on a wall to avoid messing the environment of the room with numerous wires and speakers. Moreover, these best cheap sound bar speakers are not just the alternative to home theatres, they in fact act as the missing ingredient of a home theatre.
If you already have a home theatre but you think that the quality of sound is not up to standards, then adding a sound box to your setup will make the sound perfect. The simple addition of this component will add richness, quality and depth to the system you have.
If the audio playback quality is not satisfactory, add a soundbar to your TV to enhance the level. Sound bars come in a variety of prices. If you are looking for best soundbars speakers under $300, follow the reviews below. Five top soundbar speakers under $300 are listed below which comes within a reasonable budget.
VIZIO has numerous different set of speakers out of which SB3851-C0 tops the list. It is the final budget soundbar speaker designed by them as it comes for less than $300.
Along with offering a 5.1 surrounding experience, it includes a separate wireless subwoofer. The best part of this model is that the remote control has a LCD screen equipped.
It is the greatest advantage offered by this 5.1 channel sound bar as most of other models abstains you from viewing the volume or other audio properties you are setting.
This is the best soundbar with speakers in the market at present if you are looking for the best soundbar speakers under $300 then just go for it.
This model comes with some amazing features. Firstly, this is a sound bar equipped with five speakers.
The system incorporates one wireless subwoofer. It is exclusively designed for 5.1 surround system and has a potency of 100db and it is a portable bluetooth speakers.
As said earlier, the remote with the LCD screen is an added advantage. Hence benefits offered by this sound box are many. It is no doubt a dynamic and powerful set with wireless subwoofers.
The LCD on the remote is the greatest addition to this device. So, finally, there is a high quality soundbar available in the market where you can see how high or low is the volume, treble, bass and so on. It comes in two sizes 40 inches and 38 inches.
Sony knows very well how to satisfy its consumers. The majority of their audio enhancer products offer the best quality sound in the most unusual ways.
The HT-XTI, an exclusive sound bar model is also not an exception. It is, in fact, one of the most refined models of soundbar under $300.
The only shortcoming of this sound bar is it comes with only 2.1 channels. However, this doesn't let the customers complain about the product as the price is justified.
Moreover, the sound output offered by the subwoofers is also excellent as it has a good downward design.
An added advantage of this sound bar is it can connect to more than one device. It is made possible due to the presence of the Bluetooth feature.
If living in style is what you expect, then this best soundbar speakers under $300 from Sony is a must buy. It has a super sleek design which will complement your living room as well as the TV.
It is less than 3 inches tall which makes this a perfect sound bar for televisions ranging in size 32 to 55 inches. One amazing part is that it is capable of taking a load of up to 66 pounds. Tempered glass adorns the top part of the device which makes this piece look beautiful. Such features make it durable and offer your TV a stable surface.
Benefits offered by this one of its kind sound boxes are unmatched. It is a flat, robust system with built-in subwoofers. It ensures quality sound and the ability to fit in a small space. You can include different sort of ports, and it is not limited to Bluetooth only. Such different ports include one analogue, one aux optical and 3 HDMI ports.
You can connect any device to this unique sound box either with the use of Bluetooth technology or via NFC. As said earlier this compact soundbar speaker is designed mainly for 2.1 surrounding. In other words, this is a two-channel sound bar with an in-built subwoofer. It means you no longer have to make expenses if buying a subwoofer.
LG also knows the trick of satisfying each and every need of their clients. They tend to hit their target by designing a multi-connectivity system exactly like that of the Sony model reviewed above.
If you wish to enjoy any audio playback with a separate subwoofer, this is the best model to purchase, because the subwoofer technology is absent in this sound box from LG.
The best part about this type is, you can keep it mounted to the wall which will allow you ample opportunity to save space.
The available space can fit in the subwoofers. Streaming music from your tablet or Smartphone is made easy by this exclusive soundbar from LG Electronics.
This model comes with a sound adaptive control which offers different sound profiles at various TV programs.
It means each time you watch dramas, action movies, watch sports and listen to music; you get a separate feeling. This technology helps the soundbar speakers to understand what type of audio is playing and it adjusts the mode accordingly.
It offers you the ideal and ultimate audio experience. Moreover, the wired subwoofer will provide a sonic depth to the bass. This is one of the best soundbar speakers under $300 which combines style and performance.
This product from LG is also a two-channel sound bar similar to that of the previous model from Sony. The only difference is this LG sound bar is devoid of an inbuilt subwoofer. This model is perfect for a 2.1 surround system. You can connect any device with the bar taking advantage of the Bluetooth technology.
It has three types of ports which include 1 USB, 1 HDMI port with both in and out feature and one aux optical port. This device is different from the majority of the 2.1 as well as 5.1 models which are mountable on the wall. The fact that it offers some additional connectivity makes it a hot favourite of almost all new age music lovers.
People who prefer to hear natural and easy-going sound can buy this Yamaha product easily. Regarding its features, a design of this unique model from Yamaha comes with two built-in subwoofers.
A single cable connection is there with this affordable soundbar speaker for your tv. Wireless technology is incorporated, thus streaming your favourite music from any device is easy and fun.
This product has dual subwoofers and is capable of offering a rich bass. It means that you will not have to buy a separate subwoofer box which will eat up space.
It is very easy to set up as it comes with a single cable connection.
A separate control app is available for Android as well as Apple devices. There is a learning feature which helps you to control volume by using your TV's remote.
You can get an immersive surround sound as it comes with Air Surround Xtreme feature.
Voice produced by this sleek sound bar is clear which helps you to hear dialogues of your favourite movie clearly.
The volume level remains consistent with the presence of UniVolume technology. There is a built-in IR flasher which ensures remote control remains reliable even if the sound bar blocks IR receiver of your TV.
The stylish design of soundbar is also another reason which attracts many customers. It has a slight curve and a piano black finish. This makes it easy to blend harmoniously with any home décor.
You can either place it on the TV stand or fit it on the wall with the help of commercial hardware available. The best part about the YAS-103 is it is compatible with almost all types of sound formats like DTS Digital Surround and Dolby Digital.
VIZIO is one among the top sellers of different 2.1 sound bars. This is a budget device coming with a powerful built-in subwoofer. Numerous individuals looking for a best soundbar speakers under $300 often choose this model as this is affordable.
Moreover, there is no need to purchase some external subwoofers which will save you money as well as space.
This means you can enhance the sound quality of your TV even if you don't have a full home theatre.
This amazing sound bar with two channel speaker and a subwoofer can be mounted easily on the wall.
So, no messy wires are polluting the beauty of your living room with this sound bar in hand.
This model from VIZIO is perfect for 2.1 surround systems. Moreover, it comes with Bluetooth technology which makes music streaming easily.
he fact that it has a potency of 100db makes it one of the most favourite and best soundbar speakers under $300. Moreover, it is capable of offering crystal clear sound without even 1% harmonic distortion. You can also get an explosive movie watching experience as it provides a powerful and rich bass. Streamlined design is also another added advantage of this VIZIO model.
People with a budget $300 must look for the amount of channels and potency of the sound bar. It is a well-known fact that 5.1 systems remain in the higher price category. So, it is ideal to get a good 2.1 sound bar within the limited budget.
The potency of these small budget systems is also high as they have the capacity to get over 95db. However, if you get a number that goes beyond 100db and is still within your budget, you must give it a try.
The huge list above will guide you through each step and help you to buy best soundbar speakers under $300. If you are looking for high standards and a bargain, these less expensive models are a perfect fit for you. So, determine your needs and choose the one that appears the most eye-catching as well as highly functional.


Tigist Sammy (aged 28) is a divorced former child wife from Gondor. I was married when I was 11 years old. My husband was 18 years old. His mother used me as a house servant. My husband used to beat me every time I complained about his mother. I decided to run away. I came to Addis Ababa three years ago and I have been living in the streets around Hiya Hulett. Local men and White tourists abuse me a lot. I would like to take a dress-making course. Later, I would like a Sewing Machine and go back to Gondor and start a business making dresses for women and children.


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11 troops, six attackers killed in held Kashmir
December 6, 2014 The Pioneer News World
URI, held Kashmir: Militants hurling grenades stormed an army camp in Indian held Kashmir on Friday, killing 11 troops and police in a day of violence in the Muslim-majority state where local elections are being held.
Six of the attackers also died in the audacious raid on the barracks in Uri, near the heavily militarised Line of Control (LoC).
It was the highest number of security officers killed in a single day in the state since June 2013, and came on a day of violence across Kashmir.Two militants died in a gunbattle in the residential outskirts of Srinagar, the region's main city.
In Tral, south of Srinagar, a grenade lobbed at an election campaign vehicle missed its target and killed an elderly bystander at a bus stop, injuring six others.
The violence comes ahead of a campaign visit on Monday by India's new right-wing Prime Minister Narendra Modi whose Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is making a bid for power in Kashmir.
Modi will address a campaign rally for the BJP, which is staging a bold attempt to seize control of the Jammu and Kashmir legislature — a move unthinkable until very recently.
The Hindu nationalist party has traditionally had no base in the Kashmir Valley, where local resentment against Indian rule runs high.
Modi tweeted that the attacks were "desperate attempts to derail the atmosphere of hope and goodwill as seen by increased voter turnout".
The defence ministry said the "heavily armed and well equipped" militants stormed the barracks in the early hours of Friday, triggering a gunbattle that lasted for over six hours.Police said the militants entered the high-walled Uri camp, throwing grenades and firing automatic weapons.
By mid-afternoon, shooting had ceased and security forces were "defusing unexploded grenades", a police officer said on condition of anonymity.The strongly fortified army camp, home to several hundred soldiers, lies 100 kilometres northwest of Srinagar.
Thousands of extra-paramilitary troops have been deployed in Kashmir to protect voters from attacks by militants, who have called on residents to boycott the state elections.Most separatist leaders were either arrested or confined to their houses after the elections were announced.
About a dozen militant groups have been fighting the Indian forces since 1989 for independence or to merge the territory with Pakistan.The nuclear-armed neighbours have fought two of their three wars over the scenic region, while years of fighting have left tens of thousands dead, most of them civilians.
Earlier this week, a big gunbattle caused the deaths of an Indian soldier and six militants, while on Monday suspected rebels shot dead a village leader.
Despite the violence, turnout has been high so far with over 70 percent of the electorate casting ballots in 33 constituencies, defying calls by separatist leaders and militants to boycott the polls.
The BJP is seeking to leverage support from the Hindu-dominated south of Jammu and Kashmir and the Buddhist area of Ladakh as well as from Muslims.The election results are due on December 23.
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Aims of the course: Aim of the course is to get the students acquainted with the principles of implementation of the process approach into business practice with a specific focus on the trade businesses. The course comes from the fact, that the process approach currently represents a basis of certification of any management system (quality, safety and protection of health at work, environmental management etc.), and as such it is indispensable. Students will be ready to perform process analysis as the basic source of information for process optimization.
Assessment methods: The course is finished with submission and group presentation of the assigned project (project proposal), which comes from the group work throughout the semester. The project and its presentation has to fulfil the conditions defined at the beginning of the semester.
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