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By Jim Stoeffel, Brendan Hartman, Jim Harvey, and Kavitha Venkatraman Last updated January 11, 2022
The portfolio management team for our opportunistic value strategies is led by Portfolio Managers Jim Stoeffel, Brendan Hartman, and Jim Harvey, along with Assistant Portfolio Manager Kavitha Venkatraman. Here, the team details how the strategy performed and updates clients on their outlook.
Jim Stoeffel
Brendan Hartman
Jim Harvey, CFA®
Kavitha Venkatraman
How did Royce Opportunity Fund perform in 4Q21?
Jim Stoeffel The Fund enjoyed a solid quarter on both an absolute and relative basis, advancing 5.7%, and beating its primary benchmark as the Russell 2000 Value Index gained 4.4%. Opportunity handedly outpaced the Russell 2000 Index, too, which rose 2.1% for the same period. Although returns across the market were lower than what we saw over the previous couple of quarters, we were very pleased with our performance.
Over longer-term periods, how has the Fund done versus its benchmarks?
Brendan Hartman We're equally pleased with the Fund's longer-term results. For the calendar year vis-à-vis the portfolio's primary benchmark, Opportunity boasted a strong return, up 30.8% versus 28.3% while also outperforming the Russell 2000 (+14.8%). Opportunity beat the value index for the 3-, 5-, 10-, 15-, 20-, 25-year, and since inception (11/19/96) periods ended 12/31/21.
How were the Fund's sector results in 4Q21?
Jim Harvey Ten of the portfolio's 11 equity sectors made a positive impact on quarterly performance. Our largest positive contributions came once again from Information Technology, followed by Industrials and Materials. The only negative impact came from Energy while the smallest positive impacts came from Utilities, our lowest weighting, and Consumer Staples, our second lowest weighting, which was also a sector that didn't perform well market wide.
What happened at the industry level during the fourth quarter?
Kavitha Venkatraman Semiconductors & semiconductor equipment, which is in Information Technology, was the top contributor by a wide margin. We've historically had higher exposure to this industry. Next came trading companies & distributors from the Industrials sector and household durables from the Consumer Discretionary sector. However, airlines in Industrials continued to be hurt due to travel restrictions. This led it to be the largest detractor for the quarter, followed by health care equipment & supplies in Health Care and diversified consumer services in Consumer Discretionary.
What position contributed most in the fourth quarter?
JS A company called BlueLinx Holdings was our top contributor. The company is a wholesale building and industrial products distributor that benefited from increased lumber prices that helped drive record quarterly net sales and gross margins in the high teens
Which holding detracted most for 4Q21?
JH Our largest detractor was CalAmp Corporation, which makes wireless communications products that enable anytime/anywhere access to critical information, data, and entertainment content. The company's third quarter earnings, which were announced in December, missed both top- and bottom-line estimates as component shortages caused by supply chain issues hurt its business.
What was the source of the Fund's advantage over the Russell 2000 Value Index in 4Q21?
JS Our relative advantage over the small-cap value index came from a combination of sector allocation and stock selection. Stock selection and our lower exposure helped in Health Care, which not only fared poorly in the Russell 2000 Value but was also the biggest detractor and the highest sector weighting in the Russell 2000, the Fund's secondary benchmark, as a whole. Communications Services also boosted our relative strength as our effective stock picks and lower weighting were beneficial.
BH Not everything worked, of course. Our lower exposure to Real Estate hampered relative performance, as did our higher exposure to Consumer Discretionary. Finally, our stock picks in Industrials caused a drag on relative results—our higher weighting was positive, but not enough to outweigh the effects of stock selection.
Turning to the calendar, which sectors had the greatest impact on the portfolio?
JH All of the portfolio's 11 equity sectors made a positive impact on 2021's performance. The sectors making the largest positive contributions were Industrials and Information Technology, our two highest weightings. Rounding out the top three was Materials. The smallest positive impacts came from Utilities, our lowest weighting, Consumer Staples, and Communication Services.
What worked at the industry level during 2021?
BH Semiconductors & semiconductor equipment in Information Technology, health care providers & services in Health Care, and chemicals in Materials contributed most.
KV On the other hand, biotechnology in Health Care, auto components in Consumer Discretionary, and diversified consumer services in Consumer Discretionary were the largest detractors during the calendar year.
What position contributed most in 2021?
JS We saw the largest contribution from Alpha & Omega Semiconductor, keeping in step with our preference for semiconductors & semiconductor equipment. The company designs, develops, and supplies a broad range of power semiconductors. In September, Alpha & Omega reported double-digit growth in each of their market segments, along with record revenue and high profitability for 2022's fiscal first quarter to go with an optimistic long-term outlook
Which holding detracted most for 2021?
JH The largest detractor was LL Flooring Holdings, which is more familiar to people as Lumber Liquidators. The company is a retailer of hard-surface flooring including hardwood flooring, laminate flooring, vinyl plank flooring, tile flooring, bamboo flooring and cork flooring, as well as flooring tools and accessories. Its shares fell in May after the company reported fairly good results but removed guidance over COVID concerns. Its stock slid again in the fall due to pandemic-related supply and inventory replenishment issues and year-over-year sales declines.
What sectors helped or hurt the Fund versus the Russell 2000 Value in 2021?
BH Our calendar year advantage was entirely because of stock selection (sector allocation was negative). Materials, our largest relative contributor, benefited from savvy stock picks and higher exposure. Health Care and Information Technology followed due to stock selection and sector allocation, with our lower exposure helping in the former and our much higher weighting in the latter. On the other hand, stock selection and our higher exposure to Consumer Discretionary hurt relative performance, as did our cash holdings. Energy, which was hurt by our lower weighting and stock selection, was the final detractor. These were the only detractors from relative results in 2021.
What's your outlook for the portfolio?
JS Over the last three months, neither positioning nor our outlook has shifted appreciably. We still generally expect better performance for B2B than B2C companies over the long run as consumers are likely to continue experiencing inflation. The portfolio's opportunistic value strategy often leads us to places where few if any other investors are looking because the stocks have performed poorly. We believe select areas in consumer retail offer an example where many companies have everything investors want to hate in stocks: the resurgence of COVID, supply chain issues—where shortages are creating margin pressures—and higher energy prices, all of which are creating demand for certain retailers just as they've led us to add selective positions.
BH We've also been active in the aerospace & defense industry, which sustained a double whammy in 2021 with COVID and issues around the MAX 737. These have both created hiccups in production. While neither of these issues has corrected themselves to the extent that many had hoped, the industry appeared to be getting close at the end of 2021. We have purchased shares of companies where we see attractively low valuations and the capacity for growth. We continue to see opportunities in industries in temporary staffing and industrial distributors—both of which have benefited from the otherwise challenging issue of skilled labor shortages. Finally, we see what we think are very promising long-term opportunities in select areas of technology, where supply chain consolidation has helped certain companies gain market share.
ROYCE OPPORTUNITY FUND
Average Annual Total Returns as of 12/31/21 (%)
Opportunity Fund 5.75 30.85 28.51 15.67 15.06 9.84 11.34 12.94 11/19/96
Russell 2000 Value 4.36 28.27 17.99 9.07 12.03 7.19 9.18 9.76 N/A
Russell 2000 2.14 14.82 20.02 12.02 13.23 8.69 9.36 9.15 N/A
Mr. Stoeffel's, Mr. Hartman's, Mr. Harvey's, and Ms. Venkatraman's thoughts and opinions concerning the stock market are solely their own and, of course, there can be no assurance with regard to future market movements. No assurance can be given that the past performance trends as outlined above will continue in the future.
Percentage of Fund Holdings As of 12/31/2021 (%)
BlueLinx Holdings
CalAmp Corporation
Alpha & Omega Semiconductor
LL Flooring Holdings
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Fleet, Hampshire: still the happiest, wealthiest place in Britain
Hampshire town scores highly in Halifax survey across all categories including sunshine, employment and school results
Rupert Jones
Fri 20 Dec 2013 19.01 EST
Actor Jeremy Edwards says of Fleet: 'Everyone's just really happy and pleased to see you.' Photograph: Martin Godwin
For an actor starring in the local Christmas panto, it doesn't get much better than discovering that your prospective audiences are officially some of the most cheerful and contented people in Britain.
The Hampshire town of Fleet and its surrounding area has been named the healthiest, happiest and wealthiest place to live in Britain for the third consecutive year. And it is a boon for one temporary inhabitant, sitting in the foyer of the town's arts venue, who is expecting a particularly gung-ho audience.
"Everyone's just really happy and genuinely pleased to see you," says Jeremy Edwards, a 42-year-old former soap star who is appearing in Fleet's production of Dick Whittington. The Hollyoaks and Holby City veteran has noticed that the locals are "incredibly polite … When you're driving in London, no one ever lets you out. Here, it's 'after you' and 'after you' and 'please'.
"I thought it was just Christmas, but now I know about this survey, it must be something in the water."
To be exact, it is something in their paychecks, doctors' reports, sun tans and exam results. The annual Halifax "quality of life" survey takes a long list of factors into account, ranging from health statistics, sunshine and rainfall, employment and school results to burglary rates, broadband access and levels of personal well-being as measured by the Office for National Statistics.
The study found that the district – which also includes the towns of Hook and Yateley – scored consistently highly across almost all categories. The 80% employment rate is significantly higher than the 71% national average, while gross average weekly earnings of £843 are 37% up on the UK average of £616. Some 97.4% of the population report being in good or fairly good health, and the average man makes it to just shy of 83, compared to the national average of 79.
"It's nice to know that," said Harry Clarke, a retired carpenter born just a few miles down the road in Hartley Wintney. He looks pretty sprightly and lives just off Fleet's main shopping street. "I've got to 86 so far, which isn't too bad."
At local funeral directors Holmes & Family, down by the railway station, Sheena Holmes-Tyler acknowledged that they are "very healthy here"; she knows of a few centenarians.
If working as an undertaker in Britain's healthiest and longest-living area gets her down, she certainly isn't showing it. Like other residents, she is quick to highlight the good schools and strong sense of community. However, when she alludes to the occasional young person meeting their end on one of the area's roads, her comment makes more sense when you have strolled along the traffic-dominated main drag – seemingly one of the few flies in the Fleet ointment.
However, if you can ignore the traffic ("It's like this morning 'til night," grumbled one pensioner), it is a bustling high street with a plentiful selection of independent shops alongside the likes of Starbucks and Marks & Spencer.
A prime example is WC Baker & Son, established in 1908, an Aladdin's cave of an emporium where you can buy everything from cookie cutters to gardening gloves.
The town's enviable transport links – Fleet is less than 40 minutes from London by fast train, and the M3 brushes its northern edge – have kept it popular with commuters. And there's a notable beauty spot in the form of the Fleet Pond nature reserve, said to be the largest freshwater lake in Hampshire.
Where Hart was marked down in the survey was on its high cost of living – specifically, its high house prices. The average property costs seven times the average annual pre-tax local income. But that doesn't seem to be putting off would-be buyers, a sizeable chunk of whom are refugees from London's booming property market, who feel the town offers better value for money than they can get in the capital, according to Jack Hargreaves, a sales consultant at the local branch of estate agent Hamptons International.
Hargreaves said a four-bed house in the area will set you back anything from £350,000 to £1.3m, depending on which part you plump for.
It appears Fleet's reputation as a great place to live has gone global. Hargreaves' colleague cites the example of someone in Colorado who read about the town on the internet. They moved into their new home in Fleet three months ago.
Halifax "quality of life" rankings: the top 50 local authority districts
1. Hart
2. Uttlesford
3. South Northamptonshire
4. Waverley
5. East Hertfordshire
6. Elmbridge
7. Rushcliffe
8. Wokingham
9. Winchester
10. Chelmsford
11. South Cambridgeshire
12. Mole Valley
13. Vale of White Horse
14. Windsor and Maidenhead
15. Chiltern
16. Epsom and Ewell
17. Mid Sussex
18. South Kesteven
19. North Kesteven
20. Horsham
21. Rutland
22. East Cambridgeshire
23. St Albans
24. Surrey Heath
25. East Hampshire
26. Maldon
27. Reigate and Banstead
28. South Buckinghamshire
29. Tunbridge Wells
30. South Norfolk
31. Melton
32. Eastleigh
33. Harrogate
34. Mid Suffolk
35. Stratford-on-Avon
36. Woking
37. St Edmundsbury
38. City of London
39. Bracknell Forest
40. Rochford
41. Malvern Hills
43. Central Bedfordshire
44. Aylesbury Vale
45. Test Valley
46. Ryedale
47. Sevenoaks
48. Isles of Scilly
49. Fareham
50. Orkney Islands

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Foundation grants seen fueling economy
January 7, 2013 By toddcohen49 in Foundations, Giving, Research Tags: Economic Impacts of 2010 Foundation Grantmaking on the U.S. Economy, Steven Peterson, The Philanthropic Collaborative	1 Comment
Grantmaking by U.S. foundations has big short-term and long-term impacts on the economy, a new report says.
Foundation grants totaling $37.85 million in 2010 generated nearly 500,000 jobs immediately, a total that grew to nearly 1 million within a year and to at least 8.8 million over the long-term, says the report by The Philanthropic Collaborative.
Those grants also generated nearly $970 billion in goods and services, and contributed over $570 billion to the U.S. gross domestic product, based on long-term return on investment and economic multipliers, says the report, Economic Impacts of 2010 Foundation Grantmaking on the U.S. Economy.
"Foundation investments set off a cascade of benefits in our communities over the course of decades," Steven Peterson, clinical assistant professor of economics at the University of Idaho and lead author of the report, says in a statement.
Foundation giving to the arts, culture and humanities alone, for example, created 73,771 direct jobs and contributed $2.58 billion in gross domestic product, the report says.
When economic multipliers are applied to those grants, it says, that support generated 127,382 jobs and added $6.97 billion to gross domestic product.
And total foundation grants in 2010, including multiplier effects, contributed $13 billion in total federal, state and local taxes, the report says.
"Philanthropy is tightly woven into the fabric of American society," it says. "The economic benefits of grant programs can be felt for decades."
Foundations support nearly nine million jobs in the U.S., and the nonprofit sector overall employs over $13.5 million people, or roughly 10 percent of the workforce, the report says.
Nonprofits pay nearly $670 billion a year in wages and benefits, and employ more people than the finance, insurance and real estate sectors combined, it says.
Case studies of eight community-level initiatives, the report says, document long-term economic benefits from reduced costs of juvenile crime, health care and social services; greater employment opportunities for the disabled and homeless; revitalized urban areas; and advanced longevity and quality of life from medical cures and treatments derived from scientific research.
Other outcomes, it says, include improved worker education and productivity, and a thriving environment for business.
"As complex private enterprises," the report says, "foundations and the charitable organizations they support are — and continue to be — vital components of the U.S. economy, rather than just an afterthought or a gap-filler."
— Todd Cohen
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ALLEN SMART says:
The focus on the dollars distributed and the jobs created distracts us from consideration of how those dollars are being used and what is the value of those jobs to the economy and to the quality of life of those around us. In the scheme of things, foundations and charitable organziations are exactly what the report says they are not–an afterthought and a gap-filler. That's unless the dollars are deployed wisely, strategically and with the intent to do something important.


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MyFramework is not a valid PRODUCT_NAME for use with framework targets enabling DEFINES_MODULE (name is not a valid C99 extended identifier).  This is in XCode 6
Anyone have any ideas what this means?
Thank you.

A: It means that the name of you framework is not valid.
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Try to rename you framework. Seach for product name in project build setting and change it

A: Just to add to @Kostiantyn Koval's answer: the default value of the Product Name field is $(TARGET_NAME), which takes the value from the Target Name, as implied. By changing that to $(TARGET_NAME:c99extidentifier), you can supply a c99-compatible string that will stay in sync with the Target Name, as the default value does. Apple is using that in e.g. the Product Module Name property (where it appears as $(PRODUCT_NAME:c99extidentifier))
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Blog Series – Managing a Future Remote Workforce
By Seyfarth Shaw LLP on December 10, 2020
Posted in Tele-Workforce
Part Two: Wage-Hour And Privacy Issues Raised By Remote Work
By Louisa Johnson and John Tomaszewski
In the previous part of this series, we wrote about how the shift to permanent remote work comes with some challenges that implicate accommodation laws and performance management of remote workers. In part two of this series on managing a future remote workforce, we tackle some of the biggest wage-hour and privacy issues that are likely to arise and/or be more prevalent with remote workers.
Reimbursable Business Expenses
Many companies' expense reimbursement policies are geared toward employee travel. But as remote work becomes a more permanent arrangement for many employees in the future, employers should consider what types of expenses employees might incur for equipment and services purchased to turn temporary home offices into their permanent, and only, work locations in the future. Obvious ones include broadband internet service, cell phone or VoIP telephone lines, high-speed wireless routers, printers/scanners, web-enabled video cameras, and more traditional office supplies (e.g. copy paper and printer toner). But what about "green screen" equipment? And what if a remote worker buys a generator to permit work to continue when her home loses electricity for several days due to storms? As remote work arrangements become more widespread and permanent, the types of expenses for which workers may demand reimbursement are likely to grow.
A few states and localities, including but not limited to California, Illinois, and Seattle, have statutes expressly requiring employers to indemnify employees for all necessary expenses incurred as a direct result of performing the duties of the employee's job. A number of other states have more general laws that could be interpreted to require reimbursement of necessary business expenses. And the types of expenses that are at least partially reimbursable can include expenses that the employee was already incurring before becoming a remote worker and will continue to use for personal reasons as well, such as the cost of internet service.
Thus, employers need to think carefully about and identify the types of new and additional expenses that the permanent remote workers of the future might need to incur in order to work remotely on a long-term basis.
Compensability of Remote Worktime
Another challenge employers can expect to face are abnormal hours that remote workers may choose to work if not closely managed. Exempt employees who must be paid a guaranteed salary to meet the requirements for one of the white-collar overtime pay exemptions must receive the full amount of their guaranteed salary even in weeks of only partial work, although their vacation, sick, or other paid time off banks can be charged for their non-work hours as appropriate. This means that if the remote workers are not held to an agreed-upon schedule, they will receive the same guaranteed salary each week even when they may, unbeknownst to the employer, be devoting intermittent portions of their regular work hours to non-productive personal activities for which their in-office colleagues are required to use paid time off, such as tending to the needs of children or other family members, exercising, walking the dog, or running personal errands. The issue becomes how does the employer tell when the remote worker is "working" and when are they on personal time. The short answer to this question is activity monitoring, which comes with a whole new set of privacy issues. But more on that later.
As long as they receive their guaranteed salary in each workweek, remote exempt workers are not entitled to overtime pay when they work more than 40 hours per week (or, in some states, more than 8 hours per day). Therefore, the increased flexibility they may have when remote working is not as big of an issue as it is with non-exempt remote workers.
Non-exempt, hourly-paid remote employees present a bigger challenge because they are only paid for the hours that they actually work, and knowing when a remote employee is and is not working can be challenging when the employees cannot be observed in person. This challenge is complicated by the "continuous workday" rule for timekeeping, which says that all time from the first activity of the day until the last activity of the day, except for meal breaks of 30 minutes or more in length, is compensable even if there are pockets of time during which no productive work is performed. If a non-exempt remote worker is not accurate and honest in their timesheets about the periods of time that they devote to non-productive, personal activities or if the breaks they take for such personal pursuits are not of sufficient length to be segmented out of the "continuous workday," employers may find they are paying remote workers for more non-productive time than their in-office colleagues.
For these reasons, training remote workers and their supervisors periodically about the timekeeping policies and procedures and regularly reminding them of the importance of accuracy in their timesheets is even more important than these steps are with in-office workers. Managing remote workers' work schedules and touching base with them regularly to ensure they are abiding by the agreed-upon work schedule is important as well.
Tracking Meal and Rest Breaks
Another challenge with non-exempt remote workers arising from their remoteness is the difficulty in ensuring that they are complying with company policies and laws concerning when during their workday they should take duty-free meal and rest breaks, how many breaks they should take, and how long the breaks should last.
Some states with meal and rest break laws allow employees to voluntarily waive or work through them, but a few do not. And even in states where the break requirements may be waived, employees may assert that they did not skip the breaks by choice but rather were forced to work through them because of work requirements, such as too many back-to-back conference calls or generally having too much work to be completed by employer-established deadlines.
With respect to meal breaks, remote workers may also claim that they did not have sufficient time to eat and took far less than the approximately 30 minutes necessary for the meal break to be treated as unpaid time under both federal law and applicable state law. Furthermore, when meal breaks are skipped or shorter than approximately 30 minutes in length, if the employee nonetheless reports a full meal break on their timesheet, an employer can be found liable for underpaying wages if the remote worker's supervisor or manager knew or should have known that a full, duty-free meal break was not taken.
As with the worktime issue noted in the prior section, some of the best practices to limit risk of meal and rest break violations with remote workers are training and reminders of the timekeeping policies and procedures and enforcement of the agreed-upon work schedule. Others to consider include attestations on the timesheet that require the remote worker to confirm that the timesheet is accurate and that all meal and rest breaks were provided and either taken in full or voluntarily waived by the employee.
Privacy Considerations
As noted above, a number of the legal issues with managing a remote workforce can be mitigated with technology to monitor the employee. Knowing what they are doing and when would give the employer the capacity to manage "worktime." The current wage-hour laws are built on a definition of worktime that is tied to the worksite: if the worker is on the employer's premises at their worksite and not standing or sitting idly, waiting for their shift to begin, their presence in this physical location may connote worktime. Thus, the traditional basic assumption under wage-hour laws has been that location is a proxy for "status" (if you are at work, you are working). In the virtual world, which is the remote work world, that proxy cannot exist. There is no "physical location" to be used as such a proxy because the personal and worktime location for remote workers is the same: their home.
Since working status cannot be determine by physical location for remote workers, something else will need to be used to identify and manage such status. Technology tools which do this are already deployed. The challenge is that in the virtual environment of remote work, those tools and techniques that are needed to determine status will, by necessity, also observe the worker when they are not working. Surveillance of the individual in their own home during personal time is not going to work well without some sort of privacy protection embedded in how this technology is used.
Thus, while employers will need to use monitoring tools to ensure they do not run afoul of the previously noted wage and hour laws concerning the compensability of "worktime," there is the countervailing privacy law consideration which will require the deployment of the monitoring tools to be done in a transparent and proportional manner.
For example, employers do not need to monitor computer or mobile device usage of remote workers at the same level of granularity that they do when those devices are on the corporate network. Tailoring what data is looked at, how long it is retained, and what can be done with the data (e.g. limiting the kinds of adverse actions against the employee based on monitoring) are all part of a standard privacy compliance program, and should be used in this instance as well.
Consent is also a critical component of the monitoring program. The employees need to be told how the monitoring will work, what it will be used for, and how they can turn off the monitoring. These are controls that are commonly found in the consumer context. Because employees are not employees 100% of the time, those same privacy controls in the consumer context should be used in the remote work context so the employer can determine when the individual's status is that of a "worker" or that of a "consumer."
The above issues should not be considered a comprehensive list of ways in which the move to a permanent remote workforce in the future is likely to pose wage-hour and privacy legal compliance challenges. But the issues noted above are likely to be among the largest challenges for all employers with a remote workforce. And the best way to manage the risks posed by these challenges requires careful consideration of the employer's specific circumstances.
For questions about how the workplace is changing and how that may affect wage-hour or privacy issues for your company in particular, please contact the authors or your favorite Seyfarth attorney.
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Q: Short animation from one image to another Given two images with the same size, I'm trying to transform one into another, but with several frames in between them.
My idea of workflow is something like:
retrieve pixel matrix from images:
img1_pixels = img1.load()
img2_pixels = img2.load()

and create a frame like:
for y in range(11):
    x = 10 - y
    frame = (x*0.1)*img1_pixels + (y*0.1)*img2_pixels
    frame.show()
    time.sleep(1)

I've read some stuff and I know is recommended to use tkinter instead of pil since show() is just for debugging.
The problem is that I can't find an example in which tkinter and pil are used to display a set of frames in order to generate an animation.
I can make it work if I bind the update to a keystroke. At the moment I use time.sleep the script freezes.
Does anyone have an example or a suggestion of a good way to do it?
Thank you,
Lucas.


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Capt. Sean Mulkerin came home from the sea to find his family's Malibu ranch in jeopardy. The death of Sean's father had pushed the Mulkerins to the edge of financial ruin. Now it's up to Sean to find a way for them to hold on.
Rumor has it that the elder Mulkerin had found the gold in the wild and haunted California hills, but the only clue to its whereabouts lies with an ancient, enigmatic Indian. Furthermore, Sean finds himself surrounded by creditors, greedy neighbors and ruthless gunman who are watching his every move.
When Sean and his brother set forth to retrace their father's footsteps, they know they are in search of a questionable treasure — with a ghostly figure as their only guide. Before they reach their destination, the Mulkerins will test both the limits of their faith and the laws of nature as they seek salvation in a landscape where reality can blur like the sand and sky in a desert mirage.


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Hop on over to Bloomingdale's most bumpin' time at the Annual Bunny Bash and Lions Club Easter Egg Hunt 9:30 to 11:30 a.m., April 13 at Circle Park and the Westfield gymnasiums.
The egg hunt starts promptly at 9:30 a.m. in Circle Park, 163 Fairfield Way. The Bunny Bash follows shortly thereafter, running 9:45 to 11:30 a.m., at the adjacent Westfield Middle School gym.
Both events are FREE! The egg hunt is sponsored by the Lions Club, and the Bunny Bash is sponsored by Eagle Falls Dentistry, Bloomingdale Bank & Trust and AMITA Health.
Bunny Bash activities include a bounce house, coloring contests, craft activities, games, entertainment, pictures with the Bunny, refreshments, book walk with the Bloomingdale Public Library and more.
All participants for the Bunny Bash MUST pick up a wristband at the Museum beginning March 15. The egg hunt does NOT require a wristband.


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In 1 year, Dominican Republic lost RD$2.54B from Dr-Cafta trade pact
Dominican Republic has lost from the Dr-Cafta trade pact, which took effect one year ago on Saturday, RD$2.54 billion from lost tax revenues, the Customs Agency (DGA) said in a statement.
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1-Feb-2008 Upside Down World
The Salvadoran government had proclaimed that from the moment of its entry into force, the free trade agreement with the United States would boost the local economy, creating thousands of jobs, so that even street vendors would be exporting their typical snacks. But nearly two years later, the economic paradise has yet to arrive.
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President Oscar Arias said Tuesday he will ask the US to delay implementation of a free-trade agreement to give the country time to pass several necessary local laws.
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The Costa Rican Congress resumed discussion Monday on the complementary agenda required by March 1 for implementation of the Central American-US Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR). Of the 13 bills needed, only 2 have been approved so far.
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The DR-CAFTA free trade pact between the Central American countries, the Dominican Republic and the United States was signed into law in Costa Rica on Wednesday amid protests and a large military deployment.
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Costa Rica's president on Wednesday signed into law a free trade agreement with its Central American neighbors, the United States and the Dominican Republic.
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As feminists we have always said NO to rape and therefore we cannot but say NO to this gang rape of our collective freedom to choose what treaties we accept.
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Hundreds of women came together to celebrate women's contributions to the struggle against the ratification of CAFTA in Costa Rica
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Human rights body uneasy about impacts of CAFTA-DR in Costa Rica
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The Board of the Costa Rican Legislative Assembly admitted that it is studying 943 of 1,097 motions against one of the implementation laws of the Free Trade Agreement with the United States which poses danger for Costa Rican farmers and biodiversity
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28-Oct-2007 USA Today
In the United States, experts debate whether biofuel growth in the tropics will cut into profits for Midwest producers. Special free-trade agreements with those countries can make it less expensive to ship ethanol from there to the US coasts.
Costa Ricans to strike against FTA
Trade unions from the Costa Rican Electricity Institute announced a strike against the complementary agenda of CAFTA, so that the company continues to govern in the fields of electricity and telecommunications.
Fear and voting in Costa Rica
26-Oct-2007 FPIF
Costa Rica's recent referendum was supposed to decide once and for all whether that country should enter into the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA). Instead, the Oct. 7 vote polarized and politicized this small country of four and a half million people more than anything since neighboring Nicaragua's war between the Sandinistas and the Contras two decades ago. And even though supporters of the treaty prevailed by a slim margin, CAFTA opponents still have a few cards to play and may yet block its implementation.
Free Trade undermining democracy in Costa Rica
25-Oct-2007 Alliance for Democracy
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Bartholomew Price born 1807 Ludlow, married to Charlotte Charman in 1836.
Emma/Emily seems to have disappeared after the 1841 census.
Sarah also disappears after the 1851 census, maybe she married did find a miss spelt on ancestry to a Richard Teague in 1879 but on FreeBMD the bride is called Sarah Lancashire so ruled that out.
Bartholomew, Maria and Richard I have information on what happened to them but the other siblings I can find nothing.
That's why I said maybe!
Just to confuse the issue a Charlotte Charman has three children as Charman, Emily, Bartholomew and Maria, christenings listed both in Ludlow and llanfair waterline.
Just noticed the family in 1841 father is just Bart. Three more children and the op is chasing what happened to the siblings.
Hi, Maybe you have already found the answer to your question about Sarah Price (b 1837ish) but I believe her to be my great great grandma. She married John Edge (1837-1904) and they had seven children of whom I am aware : Alice 1858, Emily Martha (my great Grandma b1867), Charlotte Ellen (b1870), Maria (b1872), John Henry (b1874), Annie Elizabeth (b1878) and William Richard (b1880). I am not sure why there is such a gap between first and second children.
Apart from the coincidence of a child called Charlotte, as was Sarah´s mother, I find that in the 1871 census both this family and the family of Bartholomew Price (her brother b 1831) are living at 15 Bell Lane, Ludlow St Lawrence so although I have not yet found a marriage cert for John and Sarah I am reasonably confident that I have the right person.
So it looks like two of the sisters married into the Edge family and one to a Mr Teague.


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It is only a matter of time before government policy and staffing shortages spell the end of national pay scales
On current trends, the question is when, not if, universities abandon centralised, national pay bargaining. A commitment to "diversity" runs right through current government policy on higher education: support for more concentrated research funding; the idea of teaching or undergraduate-only institutions; and, above all, the freedom to set our own fee levels, albeit with a fairly tight cap. I think this commitment is serious - and completely incompatible with uniform pay scales.
Up to now, universities have competed mostly on quality (real or perceived) and on specialised degree content (though students' living costs also have some effect, notably on London universities' recruitment patterns). The idea behind differential fees is that they should compete on cost as well.
Universities have been outsourcing like crazy in recent years. Even so, almost two-thirds of the sector's spending is on salaries for directly employed staff. So what follows?
Suppose you are a successful research university. You are heavily oversubscribed and trying to hire in top names and new talent, in competition with North America or, increasingly, the Far East. To do that, you have to pay more, and not just to the professors (many of whom have consultancy income anyway). How can you, if junior lecturers or senior research officers are on the same scales wherever they are employed?
The problem is actually worse for universities aiming at local, mature and other debt-shy students. They will have less research income from which to cross-subsidise different activities but will be expected to compete by charging lower fees. I think we have all exhausted "efficiency gains" deserving of the name, so lower fees and the same salary scales as your richer competitors can only translate into pretty obvious losses in quality: even larger classes, even less contact time and even less access to support staff.
The Higher Education Funding Council for England's response is to flail around inventing bureaucratic, centrally administered wheezes, such as last week's "golden hellos" for lecturers in shortage subjects. These don't begin to address anyone's staffing and funding problems. No wonder that in the short term, with a £3,000 fee cap, many vice-chancellors think almost everyone will charge the maximum. Longer term, many will go for competing via salary costs. After all, if your house prices are far below the South's, why not play to this?
The chancellor floated regional pay variation for public-sector workers in this year's budget, and has since been back-pedalling in the face of union outrage. Universities, however, are nominally independent institutions, and explicitly encouraged to diversify their products and charges, and to reward staff for individual performance. Big winners from local bargaining might include some Scottish universities, saved from the consequences of an executive whose education spending priorities are different from Whitehall's. Biggest losers, if national pay scales disintegrate, will probably be lower-status London universities and their students; but who thinks the rest of the sector is going to immolate itself on their behalf?
The academic unions can see this coming. Unions, perfectly properly, tend to behave in a consistent way. They promote the interests of their largest subgroup or their median member. So even though the Association of University Teachers is dominant in the "old" university sector, don't expect it to be championing the victors in some winner-takes-all future.
Most of its members, inevitably, will be hard-pressed lecturing staff who agree that teaching "must be rewarded properly, ensuring parity of esteem with research".
The AUT website consultation on the white paper on higher education includes some highly revealing glosses. For example, on undergraduate-only institutions, the lead-in is: "Do you agree that this is an effective way to enhance the status of university teaching or do you feel it undermines the essence of what constitutes a university?" No prizes for guessing what the union view will be here. But the AUT is also caught in a dilemma. It campaigns for an independent (national) pay review for academic staff.
National pay bargaining is in its own interests, giving it power and visibility. But recognition is institution-specific, and it doesn't want to lose the big names to some rival. If the white paper proposals are enacted, I would give uniform pay scales five years maximum. The AUT will still be the recognised union for most "top" universities at the end of it - but expect a lot of blood on the conference floors first.
Alison Wolf is professor of education at the Institute of Education, London.


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Since '94 Authority Zero has brought their unique signature blend of anthemic melodic-punk and reggae to the masses. A lot has changed in the 20 plus years since the band got their start and they've found a way to persist and thrive in today's ever-changing music world. "It's been a long trek," says Jason Devore (singer and longest running member of the band) as he recollected on the band's past. The band was formed in the mid 90's in Mesa, AZ by a group of high school friends with ample ambition but no lofty expectations. After a few years, they refined and established their sound: a mix of SoCal punk with reggae and ska tendencies. With the release of their debut album A Passage in Time (2002, Lava Records), the band's career gained momentum quickly and they've since spent their fair share of time on the road, having toured extensively with such acts as Pennywise, Sum 41, Flogging Molly and many more. In recent years Authority Zero has gained momentum internationally, spending time on the European festival circuit as well as stints in Japan, Australia and even Russia. They've released a total of 5 full length studio albums (most having seen spots on Billboard's Heatseekers Chart), and their music has been featured in numerous video games, tv shows and movie soundtracks throughout the years. The band's many successes have been accompanied by a few bumps in the road (as to be expected for any group that's been around over two decades) including a slew of line-up changes, music industry letdowns, and most recently having their van, trailer and equipment stolen while on tour in Texas. Their secret to the longevity is simple: keep it pure and believe in your music.
Now, 23 years since the band's inception, the future remains as bright as ever for Authority Zero, consisting of singer Jason DeVore, bassist Mike Spero, guitarist Dan Aid and drummer Chris Dalley (also in Pulley and Implants). Eager to move forward, the inspired new line-up started working on a batch of songs that will become the band's sixth full-length record. "We'd gone through a couple members during the writing process the last few years, so we've kind of written this record twice. We had about 12 or 13 songs put together, a couple of the guys took off and we kind of had to start from scratch with what we did have from songs I had or Mike [Spero, bassist] had written, and build off of that," says DeVore. They did their homework before rushing in to record the new tunes. "We really did honestly have more pre-production and a grasp on what the songs were going to sound like before we went in [to the studio] in a long time. This time things were really well put together," says DeVore.
The band entered Fort Collins, Colorado's legendary The Blasting Room Studio (Rise Against, Descendents, NOFX) in December of 2016 to start work on yet-to-be-named new album with producer/iconic punk drummer Bill Stevenson (of Black Flag/Descendents fame) at the helm. The process was unique: the whole Blasting room team (Stevenson, Andrew Berlin and Jason Livermore) worked on the record cooperatively, resulting in a highly efficient synergy they've developed though years of refinement. DeVore describes the process: "It was really cool. It was like a one stop shop where they are consistently working on the record in 5 different rooms. When one piece is done with the drums, it moves on to editing. While that's happening you are working on the bass guitar or the guitars and getting all those tracks done with Andrew. It just keeps on moving around and around in a big circle to keep the process moving. They've got their formula and it's works really well." The band also stayed at the studio for the three and a half weeks during these marathon recording sessions. DeVore fondly reminisced on the process: "It became like the bat-cave 'cause you didn't really know what day it was, or what time it was or anything 'cause you'd go out in the morning first thing and the next time you went out it was dark again. It was cool in that regard but it also messed with your head a lot. It was a brilliant process; we had such a good time out there. Bill would be there tracking vocals with me for 13 hours straight and he'd stick around and drink beers with me after in the kitchen and just tell stories, ya know? It was pretty cool, man ... and a different experience than I've ever had." Stevenson enjoyed working with the band as well: "Authority Zero proved to be a perfect fit with The Blasting Room. They showed up with great songs and we had the very best of times hanging out together -- and just as much fun sharing our creative perspectives during the arrangement and recording process, all of which resulted in a really cool record."
DeVore describes the direction of the new material: "It's really going to be an exciting album. It's a combination I think of The Tipping Point [released in 2013] meets the first album A Passage in Time. It's really taking a step back to take a step forward -- in the sense that you get a little more of what you feel like a lot of the kids that have been around for a long time have been missing out on a little bit, I think. There's also some stuff on there that some people won't have heard before I think as well ... they'll be like 'that's what band again?' There's a couple of surprises on there too that might throw people back a little bit -- but in an exciting way. I'm pretty excited man. We've done about 15 tracks and we're debating if we are going to use all 15 or hold off on a couple for bonus tracks." The band shared an advance mix of the new record with longtime friend Jim Lindberg (singer of Pennywise) who liked what he heard: "Authority Zero are a great American band. They bring it every night they play and on every album, and this one is no different. It's melodic hardcore at it's best. Authority Zero bring it. Always."
The new album will be released via Jacksonville, Florida's Bird Attack Records, who is quickly developing an extensive roster of both up-and-coming and established acts in the skate/melodic punk genre -- a perfect fit for Authority Zero. "I talked to [Bird Attack] a little bit at Music for Cancer in northeast Canada, they had some stuff going on there. Our biggest conversation was really out in Europe. We did some interview stuff with them and spoke a bit about the possibility of working together. As time went on and as the record started coming together, they stayed in contact and seemed somewhat more adamant than any other options that were coming about. They were excited to work with us as a band, and to me that's the main thing you want to hear from anyone who's a label these days -- that they're actually excited to put out the record and and care about it as much as you do. They showed a real desire to help us out, do the best they can with the record as far as the push goes, and get it out to the most people they can. That was a real exciting thing and it was always a thing we turned back to," says Devore.
Authority Zero and Bird Attack are aiming for a summer 2017 release for the upcoming album that will be shortly followed by a full US tour, the first for the band in a while. Subsequent international touring is being planned as well to support the new album for Europe, Japan and possibly South Africa. DeVore is looking forward to it all: "It's hard to say what's going to happen or come up but hopefully all sorts of fun things."
Runaway Kids
In The Whale
In The Whale formed in Greeley, Colorado.
With an undeniably real and invigorating live show, the band wants to remind you that rock 'n roll is not dead.
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Scientists Unearth New Clues to the Dinosaur-Killing Impact
A team of scientists, including Universities Space Research Association's David Kring of the Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI), is studying rock cores recovered by a joint drilling expedition of the Chicxulub Impact Crater, organized by the International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) and International Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP) for a first pass at understanding the effects of the impact on life and as a case study of how impacts affect planets.
In April and May, 2016, a team of international scientists drilled into the site of the asteroid impact, known as the Chicxulub Impact Crater, which occurred 66 million years ago. The crater is buried several hundred meters below the surface in the Yucatán region of Mexico. Until that time, dinosaurs and marine reptiles dominated the world, but the series of catastrophic events that followed the impact caused the extinction of all large animals which led to the rise of mammals and evolution of mankind. This joint expedition recovered a nearly complete set of rock cores from 506 to 1335 meters below the modern day seafloor.
Illustration: A borehole was drilled into the peak ring of the Chicxulub crater in April and May, 2016. International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) in collaboration with the International Continental Drilling Program (ICDP) drilled ~30 kilometers northwest of Progreso and the north shore of the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico. That borehole, labeled Chicx-03A (now named IODP site M0077A) on a gravity map (inset), is targeting the peak ring in that quadrant of the crater. Expedition 364 Chicxulub Impact Crater project is a Mission Specific Platform Expedition, meaning it was drilled from a platform specially selected for the project, rather than IODP's JOIDES Resolution or Chikyu ships. The selected drilling site is in an area with ecologically-sensitive reefs and a shallow 17 to 18 meter water depth, demanding the specialized equipment. The background image is a detail from a map produced by Reto Stockli, NASA Earth Observatory, as part of the Blue Marble project. The gravity map was produced by Lukas Zurcher and David A. Kring (2004) and updated with the Expedition 364 borehole location (Chicx-03A). Illustration Credit: David A. Kring/USRA/LPI
"The borehole has pierced time, bringing us the products of an impact event that changed Earth forever," says Kring. He further states "with nearly fourteen tons of rock pulled from the depths of the crater, our team is searching for details about the crater's formation and its effect on the dinosaur's world."
LPI Director Louise Prockter says "we are very glad to be working on this exciting project with the IODP and its U.S. Science Support Program at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University. We also thank the University of Bremen for hosting the scientific team in its initial analysis of the core."
The cores are at the IODP Core Repository at the MARUM — Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen (Germany). There the cores are being split in halves and the 31 person science team, supported by a team of technicians and students, are undertaking a suite of IODP standard measurements on these cores. They take samples for further measurements happening on half of each core with the other half being preserved for future study by the science community and public.
The cores include 120 meters of limestone sediments deposited between 66 million years ago and approximately 50 million years ago, as well as some 120 meters of broken and melted rocks burying a ring of mountains — the peak ring that surrounds the center of the crater. There is abundant evidence that a vigorous hydrothermal system existed in the wake of the impact with fluids flowing through the broken and melted rocks that cover the peak ring.
While the crater marks the impact — infamous for causing 75 percent of life on Earth to go extinct — the team has also found that microbial life found a foothold in the crater, likely taking advantage of the chemistry and porous nature of the broken and melted rocks. The team also notes that the sediments that bury the crater, which were recovered in the IODP Expedition 364 cores, include the critical time intervals of when marine life made a recovery at ground zero where ocean conditions may have been toxic for an extended period of time after the impact.
The expedition is conducted by the European Consortium for Ocean Research Drilling (ECORD) as part of the International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP). The expedition is also supported by the International Continental Scientific Drilling Programme (ICDP). The expedition would not have been possible without the support and assistance of the Yucatán Government, Mexican federal government agencies and scientists from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and the Centro de Investigación Científica de Yucatán (CICY).
Universities Space Research Association is an independent, nonprofit research corporation where the combined efforts of in-house talent and university-based expertise merge to advance space science and technology. USRA works across disciplines including biomedicine, planetary science, astrophysics, and engineering and integrates those competencies into applications ranging from fundamental research to facility management and operations. USRA engages the creativity and authoritative expertise of the research community to develop and deliver sophisticated, forward-looking solutions to Federal agencies and other government sponsors.
About LPI
The Lunar and Planetary Institute, a division of the Universities Space Research Association, was established during the Apollo missions to foster international collaboration and to serve as a repository for information gathered during the early years of the space program. Today, the LPI is an intellectual leader in lunar and planetary science. The Institute serves as a scientific forum attracting world-class visiting scientists, postdoctoral fellows, students, and resident experts; supports and serves the research community through newsletters, meetings, and other activities; collects and disseminates planetary data while facilitating the community's access to NASA science; and engages and excites, and educates the public about space science and invests in the development of future generations of explorers. The research carried out at LPI supports NASA's efforts to explore the solar system.


"We have successfully found Koala's as part of the Wollondilly's first ever official Koala Survey. We knew there were Koala's out there but we really had no idea of how many and where they were located!" said Damion Stirling, Wollondilly Council's Environmental Education Officer.
"Our small teams carried out the surveys over 4 nights, guided by our intrepid wildlife ecologists, starting late in the afternoon and working into the wee hours of the morning. We selected the survey sites based on a number of factors including; the locations of previous Koala sightings, the existence of their food trees and preferred habitat and corridors linking to existing populations," said Damion.
A total of 58 sites were surveyed with a staggering 12 sites (>20%) containing Koala's. The result is a strong indicator that there is a healthy, thriving population residing in the region. All Koalas sighted seemed to be in very healthy condition and both males and females were found in a variety of different habitats, forest types and eucalypt species with a range of ages from teenagers through to mature adults. Numerous Koala scratching's were also found and 2 other threatened fauna species including a Squirrel Glider and a Masked Owl in two localities.
"The results of this pilot survey are very exciting, however it does highlight how much we don't know about our cute and cuddly furry friends and it is essential that we extend our survey efforts," said Damion.
Wollondilly Council are awaiting feedback on a recent grant submission to the Saving Our Species (SOS) program which could provide much needed funds to complete a comprehensive survey.
If anyone sees any signs of Koala's in your area of the Wollondilly please contact the Wollondilly Koala Hotline and let us know 4677 1100.
For more information contact Damion Stirling, Environmental Education Officer, 4677 1122.


· Protein. Vegan proteins include beans, lentils, nuts, seeds, soy, tempeh, seitan, TVP (textured vegetable protein), and products made from these foods. Start with the Balanced Plate template (~1/4 plate protein foods) to get a good portion of protein per meal. To cover amino acid needs, ensure variety in proteins, and consider including soy regularly.
· B12. This is a big one as it is almost entirely only in animal products and is needed for proper red blood cell production. Deficiencies can cause anemia. You'll find this added to fortified cereal grains and in supplement form. Brewer's Yeast or "Nutritional Yeast" is commonly used to supplement B12 and can be found at most health food stores.
· Calcium/Vitamin D. Fortified grains and dairy substitutes are significant vegan sources of these nutrients. Dark green leafy vegetables also contain significant calcium.
· Iron. Beans, lentils, fortified grains, dark green leafy veggies, and tofu will provide plant-based iron. Vitamin C helps with absorption, so adding citrus juices, tomatoes and other high vitamin C produce can increase benefit.
· Omega 3 fatty acids. Note that most omega 3 supplements are fish oil (an animal product). Walnuts, flax seeds/oil and canola oil are plant based food sources. Include daily.
· Calories. Your balanced plate still applies even in a Vegan setting.
>>Remember that everyone's needs are little different, not everything above will be appropriate for everyone. It's always a good idea to talk to a nutrition professional or your doctor before implementing major dietary changes. If you're local to Maryland and need help, send us a DM for services. Otherwise, check out https://www.eatright.org/find-an-expert to find a registered dietitian in your state.


Do you buy clothes to match your body shape?
Every women has a particular body shape, and some styles look better on some than others. Do you dress to suit your body shape?
I don't specifically think about it. Just buy what I think looks good on.
I try to but Lord knows, it not easy!
Yes, I think I do -since I crushed a vertebrae in my back in an accident, I tend to wear looser things so you cannot see the "bump" in my back where there is no proper bone.
So, I DO buy to suit the shape of my now, not so nice, body!
Yes, I often tend to buy clothes that accentuate my figure in a good and appealing manner.
Nowadays, I dress for comfort, first off.
Am a conservative dresser, & love the clothes I'm in!
What do you use toothpaste for other than brushing your teeth?
What is the colour of your kitchen and why?


Another foodie fabric, this time one with a rich black background with maroon and yellow/green olives.
Perfect for tea cosies, aprons, food processor covers etc.
This fabric would make a wonderful BYO bag for yourself or a friend.


Jeremy Agee works in Red Hat's Identity Management group, where he helps enterprise customers set up systems to manage users and resources. He knows from personal experience that getting started with user management systems can be tough, but it does not have to be.
Most of us have probably seen pieces of the puzzle. Jeremy will fill in those gaps, introducing us to the basic structure and concepts of managing users. He will walk through an installation of OpenLDAP so we can set up an LDAP server ourselves. Finally, he will touch on some advanced topics, so that we'll know what pieces might be left to build on.
Join us for this in-depth "how-to" talk. It promises to be educational and fun.
NOTE - Elections for the 2011/2012 Steering Committee will be held before the presentation. You must be a TriLUG member (either already, or having filled out a membership form at the April meeting) to vote.
Announcing the inaugural TriLUG survey!
Exciting times are at hand!
As one might guess from the subject of this announcement, the TriLUG Steering Committee is unleashing its first experiment in the realm of data and demographics. We have carefully crafted our inaugural online survey, one which we hope will reveal who our constituents are and how they feel about TriLUG.
Since we believe in open source and value your privacy, and thanks to the excellent LimeSurvey project, our survey is entirely hosted on TriLUG hardware. Your responses are anonymous and will not be shared with third parties. That said, please refrain from abusing your anonymity to the detriment of our efforts.
This is not an excessively long survey. However, you may want to set aside 15-20 minutes just to be safe. If you get interrupted, there is a button to save and resume later at the bottom of each question.
This survey will be active for approximately 30 days, so don't miss your chance to be heard. Shortly after it closes, we hope to publish a summary of the responses for all to see.
Any questions or concerns should be sent to the Steering Committee. Thank you in advance for your participation!
Bio: Jon Magrini is a Red Hat TSE in the Storage SBR at Red Hat and joined their team a little over a year ago. His specialty is clustering, with a focus on storage related technologies. Jon's Linux experience started in the early 2000 era when he worked for Borland software and developed pluggable modules, using a pure java open-api for software products such as JBuilder and Together Control Center. His interest for storage started with employment at Red Hat and the purchase of his own EMC CLARiiON, which started a waterfall effect.


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The "Charitable Contribution Tax Act of 1992"
This bill would require churches to provide written acknowledgment to donors of $100 or more.
Richard R. Hammar, Attorney, CPA
• The "Charitable Contribution Tax Act of 1992" (Senate bill 2979), if enacted, would require charities to provide written acknowledgement to any donor of a contribution of $100 or more. The bill contains the following two provisions of interest to churches:
1. No deduction shall be allowed . . . for any contribution of $100 or more unless the taxpayer substantiates the contribution by a contemporaneous written acknowledgment of the contribution by the donee organization . . . .
An acknowledgment meets the requirements of this [bill] if it provides information sufficient to substantiate the amount of the deductible contribution. If the contribution was made by means of a payment part of which constituted consideration for goods or services provided by the donee organization, the acknowledgment must provide a good faith estimate of the value of such goods or services. . . . [A]n acknowledgment shall be considered to be contemporaneous if the taxpayer obtains the acknowledgment on or before the earlier of—(i) the date on which the taxpayer files a return for the taxable year in which the contribution was made, or (ii) the due date (including extensions) for filing such return.
2. If [a charitable organization] receives a quid pro quo contribution, the organization shall, in connection with the solicitation or receipt of the contribution—(1) inform the donor that the amount of the contribution that is deductible for federal income tax purposes is limited to the excess of the amount of any money and the value of any property other than money contributed by the donor over the value of the goods or services provided by the organization, and (2) provide the donor with a good faith estimate of the value of such goods or services. For purposes of this section, the term "quid pro quo contribution" means a payment made partly as a contribution and partly in consideration for goods or services provided to the payor by the donee organization.
What would be the impact of this bill on churches (if it is enacted)? Many churches currently provide written acknowledgements of contributions to all donors. These churches would not be affected by the bill. There is nothing more that such churches would be required to do. The bill does not require that any governmental form (e.g., Form 1099) be filed with the IRS. What about churches that currently do not issue written acknowledgement of charitable contributions to donors? These churches would be affected to a minimal degree. To the extent that any donor makes an individual contribution of $100 or more, the church would have to issue the person a written acknowledgement of the contribution. The acknowledgement need not be on any official form. The bill specifies that an acknowledgment is satisfactory "if it provides information sufficient to substantiate the amount of the deductible contribution" and it is "contemporaneous" (i.e., the taxpayer obtains the acknowledgment on or before the earlier of the date on which the taxpayer files a return for the taxable year in which the contribution was made, or the due date for filing such return).
The bill's "quid pro quo" provision will not apply to most churches. Under this provision, a charity that solicits specified contributions in return for a specified product or service must (1) inform donors that their "contributions" are deductible only to the extent they exceed the fair market value of the product or service received in exchange, and (2) provide donors with a good faith estimate of the fair market value of the product or service. Quid pro quo contributions would include a "premium" offered by a radio or television ministry in exchange for a specified contribution, counseling services offered by a church at a prescribed hourly rate, or a private school education provided in exchange for a specified tuition fee. None of these payments would be deductible except to the extent they exceed the fair market value of the product or service provided in return.
The bill is illustrated by the following examples.
• Example. A member contributes $50 every week to the church. No written acknowledgement would be required.
• Example. Same facts as the previous example, except that the member makes a single contribution of $250 for missions. The church would have to issue a written acknowledgement of the $250 contribution. The acknowledgement need not be on any particular form. It need only be in writing, and issued not later than the date the taxpayer files his or her tax return for the current year (or the due date for the filing of such return). Generally, this will mean that the written acknowledgment must be provided to donors not later than April 15 of the following year. Note that no government forms (1099 or anything else) need be completed by the church, and there is no form that the church files with the government. The church's sole obligation is to provide the donor with a written acknowledgement.
• Example. In January of each year, First Church provides all members with annual written summaries of their contributions for the previous year. This procedure fully complies with the bill, and there is nothing else that First Church would be required to do (assuming that it does not solicit quid pro quo contributions).
• Example. A small church receives no individual contribution of $100 or more. It is not affected by the bill (assuming that it does not solicit quid pro quo contributions).
• Example. A religious television program solicits contributions by offering to give donors a special book. This is a "quid pro quo" contribution. If enacted into law, the bill would require the religious organization to (1) inform the donor that the amount of the contribution that is deductible for federal income tax purposes is limited to the excess of the amount of any money contributed by the donor over the value of the product provided by the organization, and (2) provide the donor with a good faith estimate of the value of such product.
In summary, the bill would not have a major impact on churches since (1) most churches currently provide their members with periodic contribution summaries that would fully comply with the bill's requirements; (2) many smaller churches have few if any donors who contribute one-time offerings of $100 or more; (3) there is no "penalty" imposed on a church for not providing donors with a written acknowledgment of their contributions (the penalty is imposed on the donors, who cannot claim a charitable contribution deduction on their tax return of any individual contribution of $100 or more without a written acknowledgment from their church); (4) a declining percentage of taxpayers (perhaps as few as 15%) are able to itemize their deductions on Schedule A (Form 1040), and these persons are unaffected by the bill even if their church fails to provide them with a written acknowledgement of their contributions of $100 or more; and (5) most churches do not solicit quid pro quo contributions. Nevertheless, there are some churches that currently do not issue periodic written acknowledgement of charitable contributions, and these churches will have to begin doing so in order to assure the deductibility of individual contributions of $100 or more. Church Law & Tax Report has contacted every member of the Senate Finance Committee, including the two major sponsors of this bill (Senators Moynihan and Danforth) to urge an exemption for churches, or at a minimum, a substantial increase in the $100 amount. Sadly, there will be a few unscrupulous individuals who will attempt to "profit" from this proposed legislation by alarming churches of the "dire consequences" of not complying. They will offer their questionable and excessively-priced services as a church's "only remedy." Our advice—stay away from any organization that uses such tactics. As noted above, the impact of this bill upon most churches, even if it is enacted, will be minimal or non-existent.
© Copyright 1992, 1998 by Church Law & Tax Report. All rights reserved. This publication is designed to provide accurate and authoritative information in regard to the subject matter covered. It is provided with the understanding that the publisher is not engaged in rendering legal, accounting, or other professional service. If legal advice or other expert assistance is required, the services of a competent professional person should be sought. Church Law & Tax Report, PO Box 1098, Matthews, NC 28106. Reference Code: m52 c0592
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Tan Ahn
Experimental Nuclear Physics
B.S., Physics, Stony Brook University, 2002
M.S., Physics, Stony Brook University, 2004
Ph.D., Physics, Stony Brook University, 2008
E-mail: tan.ahn@nd.edu
Office Address: 223 NSH
Web page: http://www3.nd.edu/~tahn1/index.html
Atomic nuclei and their properties are determined by the individual protons and neutrons that make up the nucleus and the interactions between then. These ingredients result in a vast and diverse array of phenomena at the femto-scale. My research interest is in studying the emergent properties of nuclei and their implications in reactions and nucleosynthesis. Our experiments use radioactive-ion beams in conjunction with active-target detectors. This technique allows for the study of unstable nuclei that are otherwise experimentally inaccessible.
My research interests fall into three areas: 1) Cluster structure of nuclei; How and in what conditions do clusters form in light nuclei? 2) Testing ab-initio nuclear theory; Can we experimentally constrain ab-initio theory to gain insight into nuclear structure and its associated phenomena? 3) Development of active-target techniques; How can we optimize our experimental techniques to take full advantage of radioactive-ion beams? To answer these questions, I perform experiments using radioactive beams available at Notre Dame and national user facilities.
Cross section measurements to low lying excited final states of in the 24 Mg(α,p) 27 Al*(γ) reaction as an energy source for X-ray bursts, T. Ahn, S. Aguilar, R. J. deBoer, D. W. Bardayan, A. Boeltzig, C. R. Brune, S. P. Burcher, K. Y. Chae, S. L. Henderson, R. K. Grzywacz, K. L. Jones, J. M. Kovoor, K. T. Macon, K. Manukyan, S. Mosby, P. D. O'Malley, M. Renaud, K. Smith, C. Thornsberry, B. Vande Kolk, M. Wiescher, Physical Review C, (2020)
Low Energy Nuclear Physics with Active Targets and Time Projection Chambers, D. Bazin, T. Ahn, Y. Ayyad, S. Beceiro-Novo, A. O. Macchiavelli, W. Mittig, J. S. Randhawa, Prog. Part. Nucl. Phys. (2020)
First measurement of the B(E2; 3/2- →1/2-) transition strength in Be-7: Testing ab initio predictions for A = 7 nuclei, S. L. Henderson, T. Ahn, M. A. Caprio, P. J. Fasano, A. Simon, W. Tan, P. O'Malley, J. Allen, D. W. Bardayan, D. Blankstein, B. Frentz, M. R. Hall, J. J. Kolata, A. E. McCoy, S. Moylan, C. S. Reingold, S. Y. Strauss, and R. O. Torres-Isea, Phys. Rev. C 99, 064320 (2019)
CV for Prof. Tan Ahn