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Tax CPAR Final Pre Board2
July 24, 2017 | Author: No Longer Existing | Category: Income Tax, Taxes, Capital Gains Tax, Expense, Tax Deduction
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CPA Review School of the Philippines
INCOME TAXATION Basic Principles of Taxation 1. One of the following is not a Constitutional limitation on the power of taxation? A. Exemption from taxes of revenues and assets of educational institutions, including grants, endowments, donations and contributions. B. Non-impairment of the jurisdiction of Supreme Court in tax case C. Exemption of the government from taxes. D. Non-infringement of religious freedom and worship. 2. One of the following is not within the scope of legislative taxing power? A. The person, property or occupation to be taxed. B. The amount or rate of tax. C. The enforcement and administration of tax. D. The purpose of the tax provided it is public. 3. Which phase of taxation falls within the exclusive jurisdiction of the legislature: A. Imposition C. Enforcement B. Administration D. Collection 4. Kind of tax where rates increase as the tax base increase: A. Proportional tax C. Progressive tax B. Regressive tax D. Retroactive tax 5
1st Statement: In cases of deductions and exemptions from taxes. Doubts as to its interpretation shall be resolved strictly against the taxpayer. 2nd Statement: Generally tax laws shall be interpreted liberally in favor of the government A. B. C. D. st 1 Statement True True False False 2nd Statement True False True False
6. The following taxes are imposed by Congress in the, 1997 National Internal Revenue Code, except: A. Real Estate Tax C. Donor's Tax B. Value Added Tax D. Income Tax
Final Pre-board Examination
Income Tax Patterns 7. 1st Statement: Income even if merely presumed shall be taxable. 2nd Statement: Income to be taxable must be coming from legal sources. A. True, True C. True, False B. False, False D. False, True 8. Which of the following is not an income taxpayer: A. Ordinary partnership C. General professional partnership B. Joint venture D. Corporation Income Tax on Individuals 9. Which of the following items would be included in the determination of gross compensation income: A. SSS Contribution B. Union dues C. 13th month pay amounting to P20,000 D. Productivity incentive pay amounting to P35,000 10. The total amount of exemption allowed to a taxpayer who is married with 5 qualified dependent children A. P72,000 C. P60,000 B. P64,000 D. P57,000 11. One of the following in a passive income subject to final tax rates of 20% A. Interest from any currency bank deposits and yield or any other monetary benefit from deposits substitute and from trust fund and similar arrangements derived from sources outside the Philippines. B. Royalties, including books, as well as other literary works and musical compositions. C. Other winning, except Philippine Charity Sweepstakes and Lotto winning D. Interest income received from expanded foreign currency deposit system. 12. Optional Standard Deduction shall not be allowed to a: A. Resident citizen C. Resident alien B. Non-resident citizen D. Non-resident alien 13. Refund of the following, taxes shall be considered taxable income, except: A. Municipal license fee C. Fringe benefit tax B. Real estate tax D. Capital gains tax
Income Tax on Corporation 14. Minimum corporate income tax shall not be imposed on: A. Domestic corporation C. Resident corporation B. Foreign corporation D. Non-resident corporation
B. P640,000
Final Pre-board Examination D. P320,000
15. For purposes of computing minimum corporate income tax of a corporation engaged in the sale of services, cost of services means: A. Salaries and employees' benefits of personnel directly rendering the service. B. Cost of facilities directly utilized in providing the services C. Cost of supplies D. All of the above 16. A corporation exempt from income tax is A. Labor, agricultural or horticultural organization organized for profit. B. Cemetery Company owned and operated exclusively for the benefit of its members. C. Non-profit and stock educational institution. D. Private education institution. 17. 1st Statement: Regional operating headquarters of a multinational company shall be taxed like an ordinary foreign corporation. 2nd Statement: Regional or area headquarters of a multinational, company shall pay a tax ten percent of their taxable income. A. B. C. D. 1st Statement True True False False 2nd Statement True False True False 18. 1st Statement: A domestic corporation is taxable on all income derived from sources within and outside the Philippines. 2nd Statement: A foreign corporation whether engaged or not in trade or business in the Philippines, is taxable only on income derived from sources within the Philippines. A. B. C. D. st 1 Statement True True False False 2nd Statement True False True False 19. Air Jordan is a resident international carrier. For the year 2003, its Gross Philippine Billings totaled P2,000,000. The company's income tax liability would amount to: A. P50,000 C. P200,000 September 18, 2004
20. A non-resident corporation received dividend from a domestic corporation. The income tax liability will be: A. Gross income tax of 32%. B. None, because it is an exempt income. C. 15% final tax on the dividend income received. D. 20% final tax on the dividend income received. 21. 1st Statement: All international carriers shall be subjected to a 2½% tax on their gross Philippines billings. 2nd Statement: Gross Philippine Billings in international shipping shall mean gross revenue whether for passenger, cargo or mail originating from the Philippines up to final destination, regardless of the place of sale or payments of the passage or freight documents. A. B. C. D. st 1 Statement True True False False 2nd Statement True False True False Questions 22 thru 24 are based on the following information. Ina Computer University is a private educational institution. It owns a 10-storey building where the first 5 floors are being used for its operations and the other 5 floors are being rented by other entities. During the year 2003, its income and expenses figures are as follows: Gross income Tuition fees P3,000,000 Rent Income 500,000 Operating Expenses 1,500,000
Fringe Benefits Tax 25. Tax imposed on any goods, services or other benefits furnished or granted in cash or in kind by an employer to an individual employee is a A. Value added tax C. Creditable withholding tax B. Fringe benefit tax D. Final tax on certain income 26. The following are exempt fringe benefits, except for one: A. Fringe benefits given to rank and file employee. B. Fringe benefit given for the convenience of the employee. C. Fringe benefit required by the nature of or necessary to the business of the employer. D. Rice benefit amounting to P1,000 a month Capital Gains Tax on Sale of Real Property 27. Which of the following is not subject to capital gains tax on sale of real property? A. Sale by a corporation of its warehouse, located at Philippine Economic Zone Authority. B. Sale by natural persons, the proceeds of winch are fully utilized in acquiring a new principal residence C. Sale by a partnership of its condominium unit, being occupied by one of its partners. D. Sale of real property to the government or government owned or controlled corporations. Questions 28 & 29 are based on the following information. Mr. Vino Sabos, married and with two minor children, sold his principal residence in Cubao, the entire proceeds of which he immediately used to pay for another. Selling price of the house was at P10,000,000. The cost to him of the said house was P7,500,000.
22. The income tax due of Ina Computer University shall be: A. P640,000 C. P70,000 B. P200,000 D. P112,000
28. His capital gains tax due would be: A. P600,000 B. P0
23. The Minimum Corporate Income Tax will be: A. P70,000 B. P0
29. The cost basis of the new principal residence would be. A. P10,000,000 C. P2,500,000 B. P7,500,000 D. P600,000
C. P200,000 D. P1,120,000
C. P245,000 D. P100,000
24. Assuming rent income of P5s000,000 the income tax due of Ina Computer University will be: A. P640,000 C. P2,080,000 B. P200,000 D. P112,000
Capital gain tax on sale of shares of stock of domestic corporation not listed and traded thru a local stock exchange 30. Miss Tina Ranta is a shareholder of 1,000 shares of stock of a domestic corporation. The shares were acquired at cost of P100 per share. For the period, she sold 500 shares in the local stock market for P150 per share. The Capital Gains Tax on the sale is; A. P2,500 C. P3,750 B. P1,250 D. P 0 Gross Income 31. The following are excluded from gross income, except: A. Amount received by insured as return of premiums B. Amount received by insured as return on premiums C. Proceeds of life insurance D. Amount of damages received for injuries Deductions from Gross Income 32. In general, ordinary and necessary trade, business or professional expenses have the following requisites, except: A. Substantiated by receipts B. Must be ordinary and necessary expenses C. Incurred during the taxable year D. Directly attributable to the development, management, operation of the business. 33. In computing allowable deduction for purposes of income taxation: 1st Statement: Interest expense in connection with taxpayer's business shall be reduced by an amount equal to thirty-eight percent (38%), beginning the year 2000 & thereafter, of interest income subjected to final tax. 2nd statement: Interest incurred to acquire property used in trade shall only be allowed to be treated as a capital expenditure. A. B. C. D. 1st Statement True True False False 2nd Statement True False True False
BUSINESS & TRANSFER TAXES Value-added Tax 34. Receipts of the following are subject to the VAT, except: A. Professional Basketball players C. Lawyers B. Film directors D. Stage actors 35. Refunds or Tax credits of Input tax are not allowed under: A. Purchases on zero-rated or effectively zero-rated sales. B. Purchases of capital goods C. Purchases of entities whose VAT registration was cancelled D. Put chases related to VAT exempt transaction. 36. A VAT-registered business reported the following: 2003 Gross sales P545,000 2004 Gross sales P650,000 Which of the following statements is correct? A. VAT for the year 2003 only. C. No VAT for both years. B. VAT for the year 2004 only. D. VAT for both years. 37. During the year 2003, Mr. Jose's gross receipts from lease of 30 apartment units is P2,200,000. How much would Mr. Jose's output tax for the year 2003? A. P220,000 C. P600,000 B. P200,000 D. None Percentage Taxes 38. Debbie Gote operates 5 taxis in Baguio City. She cannot determine her actual quarterly gross receipts. Her percentage tax for the quarter is: A. P540 C. P180 B. P400 D. P 0 Remedies of the State & the Taxpayer 39. Where a return was filed, under ordinary circumstances, the prescriptive period for the government to make its assessment would be: 1st Statement: If the return was filed before the deadline within 3 years from the deadline 2nd Statement: If the return was filed on the deadline, within 3 years from the day of filing. A. B. C. D. 1st Statement True True False False Page 4 of 5
TAXATION 2nd Statement
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40. Pre-assessment notice shall not be required except: A. When the finding for any deficiency tax is the result of mathematical error. B. When the finding of-discrepancy has been determined between the tax withheld and the amount actually remitted by the withholding agent. C. When the excise tax due on excisable articles has not been paid. D. When the value added tax due on imported articles has not been paid. Answer Key 1. C 2. C 3. A 4. C 5. B 6. A 7. C 8. C 9. D 10. B
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The Thirty-One Kings
Richard Hannay Returns
Robert J Harris
June 1940: as German troops pour across France, John Buchan's intrepid hero Richard Hannay is called back into service. Only he knows the secret of the thirty-one kings, on which the future of Europe depends… Slightly off-mint.
Uncanny Tales of Cosmic Horror and Unspeakable Terror
An ideal introduction to the work of HP Lovecraft (1890–1937), whose stories combine fantasy, science fiction and horror, this selection presents ten of his finest tales, including The Call of Cthulhu, The Rats in the Walls and The Shadow Out of Time.
HG Wells
Timeless Adventures from the Father of Science Fiction
Along with the novels The War of the Worlds, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Time Machine and The Invisible Man, this collection presents ten shorter stories, including tales of fantasy, the uncanny and the macabre as well as science fiction. Off-mint.
Molly's Christmas Orphans
Carol Rivers
Set in 1940 this story of East-Enders struggling to survive the Blitz tells how through chance meetings with strangers can hold out the promise of friendship and perhaps a new love.
How to Stuff Up Christmas
Rosie Blake
In this romantic comedy set at Christmas, Eve breaks up with her cheating fiancé, meets a new man and learns how to cook, but can she find out why an angry goose is stalking her boat?
Gunner Girls and Fighter Boys
Mary Gibson
With her home destroyed in the Blitz, May joins the ATS to become a gunner girl and forges new relationships amid hardship and tragedy. This is the third title in the bestselling Factory Girls series.
The Little Breton Bistro
Nina George;Trans. Simon Pare
In this novel from the author of The Little Paris Bookshop, Marianne Messmann, having survived a suicide attempt, takes a trip to Brittany and reinvents herself among the colourful characters at the seaside bistro.
Entry Island
When troubled, insomniac detective Sime Mackenzie is sent from Montreal to investigate a murder on a remote island, he has an uncanny feeling that he has met the victim's wife before, and finds himself dreaming of a distant Scottish past.
Lesley Thomson
A year after Detective Chief Superintendent Terry Darnell's death, his daughter Stella finds a folder of photographs in his darkroom. The oldest dates back to 1966, when ten-year-old Mary Thornton witnessed something that would haunt her for ever.
DS Katie Maguire is the investigating detective in this thriller set in the city of Cork where a vigilante is murdering pimps involved in a sex trafficking and prostitution racket.
Jonathan Holt
Venetian police captain Kat Tapo is given her first murder case to investigate in this final part of the Carnivia trilogy. Aided by an American intelligence analyst and a computer genius, she uncovers a web of conspiracy and corruption.
The Rebus Anniversary Set
(Three volumes)
DI John Rebus has been investigating the murky depths of criminal Edinburgh since 1987. Published in 2017, to mark his 30th anniversary, this boxed set presents Rebus's debut, Knots and Crosses; his tenth case, Black and Blue; and his retirement novel Exit Music, in which Rebus faces his nemesis, the crime boss Cafferty. A set of ten postcards accompanies the books, with artwork by Sean Phillips depicting scenes from the novels.
The Complete Illustrated Lewis Carroll
As well as the complete Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (with John Tenniel's original illustrations) and The Hunting of the Snark, this edition contains the whole bewildering range of Carroll's verses, puzzles, 'phantasmagoria' and stories, plus a miscellany of letters and prose pieces on topics that include women students, vivisection and dining-room etiquette.
Poetry of the First World War
Ed. Marcus Clapham
Edited and with a substantial introduction by Marcus Clapham, this anthology is arranged alphabetically by poet and includes both obscure soldier-poets and the great writers of the war years such as Edward Thomas, Siegfried Sassoon, Isaac Rosenberg and Wilfred Owen. A final section provides brief biographical notes on the poets.
The Owl Service
Gwyn and Alison investigate strange noises in the attic, and discover a dinner service covered in droppings. Their subsequent adventure, largely told in dialogue, is intertwined with Welsh mythology. This special edition of the award-winning novel, first published in 1965, is introduced by Philip Pullman. Age 9+
A Boy Called Christmas
Young Nikolas lived in the second smallest cottage in Finland, his life was hard, and his only toy was a doll carved out of a turnip, but Nikolas believed in magic and grew up to be Father Christmas. Matt Haig's wonderful book, with pictures by Chris Mould, tells the story of young Nikolas and his journey to the realm of elves where 'an impossibility is just a possibility you don't understand yet'. Age 7+
Alice's Adventures Under Ground
The Original Manuscript
In 1864, two years after telling young Alice Liddell the tale of the white rabbit, Lewis Carroll wrote down the story for her. In Carroll's hand and with his own drawings, that 90-page manuscript – the forerunner of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland – is now one of the British Library's treasures. After an illustrated introduction by Sally Brown telling the story of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, the Liddell sisters and the origins of Alice, this book presents a facsimile of the original manuscript.
The Cat That Walked by Himself
and Other Stories
Here are four of the best-loved tales from the Just So Stories: after the cat 'walking by his wild lone', we find out How the Camel got his Hump, How the Rhinoceros got his Skin, and how the Elephant's Child got his trunk as a result of his 'satiable curtiosity. The stories are faithfully reprinted with their original illustrations and Kipling's illuminating captions. Age 8+

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IPL Betting — All You Need to Know About It and More
by admin 06/01/2022, 19:07
The two primary zones of interest that dominate in India are sports and entertainment. Indians love enjoying Bollywood films and watching cricket and this is no secret.
The craze of cricket in India is at another level. Every Indian revel in the thrill of celebrating cricket. Most cricket enthusiasts have turned their passion for cricket into possibilities by placing bets on cricket leagues and matches including the IPL.
What is the IPL?
The Indian Premier League (IPL) was introduced a decade back and since then it has continued to rule in India and around the world. Being the most prominent Twenty20 cricket tournament, IPL enjoys maximum viewership in India and abroad.
The Indian Premier League (IPL) was launched by an eminent businessman, Lalit Modi in the year 2008. He was the Vice President of the BCCI then. Unfortunately, Modi was suspended by BCCI for a series of accusations that substantiated in 2013. Nevertheless, the fame of IPL kept on increasing with each passing year.
At present, IPL is a prominent event in the Indian sporting culture. This is no surprise that the IPL has succeeded in accumulating profits more than any other sport in India.
Why is the IPL so popular?
You must be wondering what makes IPL the most awaited cricket series in India. Here are some reasons why:
IPL is a celebration in India: The IPL is not just another cricket league – it is a celebration in India. It not only offers billions to players, but it also has the added charm and allure from the actors of the Indian Bollywood industry. For example, the famous actor, Shahrukh Khan is also a dynamic owner of one of the IPL teams. The Indian Premier League is a cricket celebration with a lot of fun, glamour, and money.
IPL gives chance to budding cricketers: IPL has proved to be a boon for cricketers who have just started playing with international players. These budding players have a fantastic chance to play with well-known cricket players of India and the world including MS Dhoni, Adam Gilchrist, Shane Warne, Sachin Tendulkar, and Sangakara. Along with offering them a generous fee, the IPL provides them with the needed experience to play with senior players.
IPL offers a lot of money: IPL offers a huge sum of money to participating cricket players. They are paid in millions for playing in one season of IPL. There are hardly any cricket leagues that pay such a handsome amount to players.
IPL building healthy relationships: IPL has brought players from around the world closer to each other. This league involves cricket players from different countries and this has helped in creating good connections among each other. Players from different countries and cultures come together and share the dressing room, which has brought players closer to many individuals. Cricket is a 'gentleman's sport' and the IPL has facilitated in encouraging that attitude.
IPL cricket teams
The IPL cricket league of India has eight teams, which include players from India and other international countries. These teams are named Delhi Capitals, Mumbai Indians, Sunrisers Hyderabad, Chennai Super Kings, Kolkatta Knight Riders, Royal Challengers Bangalore, Punjab Kings, and Rajasthan Royals.
Every year when the IPL begins, cricket enthusiasts ask their friends about their favourite IPL team. Well, which is your favourite team in the IPL? If you already watch the IPL, you must have found your best team by now. If not, you can watch the coming IPL series and find out the team that you liked the most. Currently, Chennai Super Kings is one of the popular IPL teams with the highest number of Instagram followers.
Tips for betting on the IPL
The internet and huge advancement in technology have changed the face of sports betting and given people the opportunity to bet on sports without any hassles. Parimatch is an emerging sports betting website, offering a lot of great predictions to place bets on IPL matches.
If you are new to betting on cricket, there are certain things that you must be aware of. Here we have listed some simple tips to make betting easier and fun for you:
Punters are advised to place their bets when the matches are in progress because sometimes the second-best team takes the lead and changes the result of the game.
Some of the cricket betting rules are tedious to understand. So it is suggested that you go through the rules to make yourself acquainted with the basics of cricket sports betting.
Don't forget to check the weather report as it has a great impact on the outcome of a cricket match.
Do some solid research about the pitch and find out how it performed lately.
Look for the value bets and wait for the odds to be in your favor.
If you are a beginner, start slow and avoid betting markets that you are not familiar with.
You can follow IPL betting guides that also include cricket betting tips and IPL match predictions.
Place bets on IPL cricket today!
The IPL is the most exciting and rewarding cricket league globally. It is organized and celebrated by Indian cricket fans.
As you can see, the future of online cricket betting in India is bright. Many online sportsbook websites have emerged on the gambling market with great promises. Now, it is a breeze to place bets on cricket and other sports because of the rewarding bonuses, promo codes, and offers.
If you have not placed bets on cricket, sign up today at Parimatch sportsbook so you remain prepared for the next IPL match!
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Tasked with telling the story of the 'Safer, Smarter Greener' initiative for AusCol, owned by GrainCorp and one the countries largest cooking oil recycler, we combined green screen, stock video and location shooting. The results were a video highlighting the thousands of tons a year of used cooking oil that Auscol recycled into bio diesel, stock feed and plastics, combined with the cutting edge sensor technology and national CRM system used to do this for Australias' biggest food producers. The program was celebrated internally and continues to expand.
7 am start and the first job of the year is a wrap – filming for the http://auscol.com/ Safer, Smarter, Greener program – thousands of tons of used cooking oil a year being recycled into bio diesel, stock feed and plastics.


In the flash game Pacxon, you are on a mission to eat as much of each stage as you can before the dreaded ghosts eat you! Once you have consumed and digested a full 80% of the stage, the stage is considered completed and you can move on. In the beginning, the stages are pretty simple. A couple of ghosts here or there. Nothing to worry about. The later stages though will be crawling with ghosts. Small ghosts, big ghosts, fast ghosts... you name it. They will come at you in big numbers too making it difficult to avoid them. Overall, I'd give Pacxon a solid 'A' as the game is very fun to play and quite addicting as well. The game has many similarities with Pacman so if you liked Pacman or Ms Pacman, then you'll probably like Pacxon too.
Can you prevent the villainous Vizier from releasing the Sands of Time upon Persia? Combat persian guards and solve the riddles of the underground dugeon in this flash remake of the classic Prince of Persia.
One of the oldest Atari games ever made has been reworked into a flash game for internet play. Space Invaders will keep you addicted for hours with its simple yet effective gameplay.
You might think the only difference between Pacman and Ms Pacman is the bow and the lipstick but you'd be wrong. Newer stage designs and a fresh new ghost called Sue mean there are more twists than you think on this old classic arcade game!
Asteroids is a great game and an old classic and it's been reworked in flash to take you back to the 1980s and the pinnacle of arcade gaming. Try to achieve the highest score possible by destroying asteroids and enemy flying saucers.
In Ladybug Pacman, you must aim to get as high a score as possible just like in the other Pacman games. The twist is that you can traverse through green wall segments to escape your pursuers.
Eat all the white pellets before the super crazy ghosts eat you! See how high a score you can obtain by beating as many levels as possible all while dining on the delicious fruit snacks that appear from time to time.
Ever wanted to kill Pacman? Well, now's your chance. You are a candy cane colored bouncy ball and you have to bounce off Pacmen to either beat stages in the Adventure mode or to go for best time in Time Attack mode.


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Magnitude 5.9 shock again rocks quake-stunned Puerto Rico
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A magnitude 5.9 quake shook Puerto Rico on Saturday, causing millions of dollars of damage along the island's southern coast, where previous recent quakes have toppled homes and schools. Jan. 12 2020 @ 12:05am
A municipal building is damaged after a magnitude 5.9 earthquake in Guanica, Puerto Rico, Saturday, Jan. 11, 2020. The morning quake caused further damage along the island's southern coast, where previous recent quakes have toppled homes and schools. (AP Photo/Carlos Giusti)
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A magnitude 5.9 quake shook Puerto Rico on Saturday, causing millions of dollars of damage along the island's southern coast, where previous recent quakes have toppled homes and schools.
The U.S. Geological Survey said the 8:54 a.m. quake hit 8 miles southeast of Guanica at a shallow depth of 3 miles. It was followed by several aftershocks, including a magnitude 5.2 temblor less than two minutes later.
No injuries or deaths were reported, officials said.
Saturday's quake occurred four days after a 6.4 magnitude quake in the same area and amid a spate of more than 1,100 mostly small quakes over the past 15 days.
Gov. Wanda Vazquez estimated damage from Tuesday's earthquake at $110 million, with a total of 559 structures affected. She said her administration was immediately releasing $2 million to six of the most affected municipalities.
As a result of Saturday's quake, Puerto Rico's Electric Power Authority said outages were reported across much of southern Puerto Rico, and crews were assessing possible damage at power plants. Officials said they also were going back to reassess all structures previously inspected, given the strength of Saturday's quake.
Deputy Mayor Elizabeth Ocasio in the southern coastal city of Ponce told the Associated Press that officials closed the city's downtown area and two other nearby areas because of weakened infrastructure.
"One building completely collapsed," she said. "There is a lot of historic infrastructure in Ponce."
Brbara Cruz, a prosecutor who was in Ponce when the new quake hit, said concrete debris hit the sidewalk as buildings continued to crumble.
"Everyone is out on the street," she said.
More landslides and damaged homes were reported, along with severe cracks on a bridge in the southwest coastal town of Guanica.
The quake, which initially had been calculated at magnitude 6.0, was the strongest shake since Tuesday's magnitude 6.4 quake — the most potent to hit the island in a century. That temblor killed one person, injured nine others and damaged or destroyed hundreds of homes and several schools and businesses in the island's southwest region.
More than 4,000 people have been staying in shelters, many fearful of returning to their homes, and others unable to because of extensive damage.
The director of Puerto Rico's Electric Power Authority, ordered the temporary closure of the company's largest plant, which crews had been inspecting for damage caused by earlier quakes.
The ground in southwest Puerto Rico has been shaking since Dec. 28, with more than 1,100 earthquakes, of which more than 100 were felt and more than 66 were of magnitude 3.5 or greater.
NASA reported Friday the quakes had moved the land in parts of southern Puerto Rico as much as 5.5 inches, based on satellite images before and after the temblors.
Vctor Huérfano, director of Puerto Rico's Seismic Network, told the AP he expects still more aftershocks as a result of the latest large one.
"It's going to re-energize an unstable situation," he said, adding seismologists are studying which faults were activated. "It's a complex zone."


What a powerful way to start the new year as we shared together in such a beautiful Rosh HaShana experience. Now is the time to carry this momentum forward as we consider the social genius of Yom Kippur which we will be living through this time next week.
Imperfection is part and parcel of being human. In fact, an essential part of our experience is recognizing the extent to which we make mistakes. And perhaps most agonizing is the recognition and guilt of the mistakes we make in our dealings with other people.
On the one hand, we are painfully aware of our own sensitivity. It is remarkable how easily we can be hurt or saddened by a nasty remark, cold shoulder or rejection of any kind. However, in our pride, we often struggle to admit to ourselves how profoundly hurt we have been by the actions of our friends and family. Instead of confronting and facing our feelings, we bury them deep inside. We are also acutely aware of the guilt we feel when in moments of weakness, frustration or fear we lash out in the same hurtful manner, causing similar grievance. This discomfort is often very difficult to face up to; sometimes we can spend years ignoring or maligning our friends or family, simply because we cannot admit to ourselves how deeply we have hurt them, nor express how sorry we truly are for having caused them pain. Our remorse paralyzes us to the extent that we find it almost impossible to apologize. It is indeed quite tragic that we social beings spend time either feeling angry and upset towards those who have hurt us or feeling guilt and torment towards those whom we have hurt.
How can we attempt to overcome these blemishes and restore societal harmony? Judaism, with its uncanny perception of human nature, has come up with a brilliant response: Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. On this day, we stand in shule and declare an elaborate list of our collective failures and transgressions. In other words, we proclaim that we are all guilty in the eyes of God.
With human error declared, on Yom Kippur, as a universal truth, it now becomes significantly easier to face up to and admit our own personal infractions, however deeply entrenched or ignored. It is a day where we recognize our flaws, and confront them with courage and absolute integrity. Only once we achieve this self-recognition are we able to address our obligation to rectify the damage that we have wrought upon others. And through this process we chip away at the resentment and pain, slowly opening ourselves to the possibility of forgiving the mistakes of our fellow beings. It is a most cathartic day, one that offers hope for renewal and improvement for every person created in the image of God.
Just imagine if this Jewish concept went global? Imagine a scenario in which the whole of humanity takes a full day out of their calendar, refuses to indulge in food or physical pleasure, and instead focuses upon sincerely forgiving and seeking forgiveness for any harm? It may seem inconceivable, yet it is possible that Yom Kippur – when entered into with the correct preparation and genuine sincerity – can provide a blueprint for achieving a permanent ceasefire in the battle between our individual selves and all of our fellow creatures. May we all merit such peace in our lives this Yom Kippur and always.


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Адди́кция (зави́симость) ( — зависимость, пагубная привычка, привыкание), в широком смысле, — ощущаемая человеком навязчивая потребность в определённой деятельности. Термин часто употребляется для таких явлений, как лекарственная зависимость, наркомания, но теперь больше применяется не к химическим, а к психологическим зависимостям, например, поведенческим, примерами которых могут служить: интернет-зависимость, игромания, шопоголизм, психогенное переедание, фанатизм, зависимость от порнографии и т. п.

В медицинском смысле, аддиктивность — навязчивая потребность в повторении определённых действий, сопровождающаяся, в случае нарушения привычного для пациента графика, явно выраженными физиологическими и психологическими отклонениями, нетривиальным поведением и прочими нарушениями психики.

История термина
Десятилетия назад зависимость была фармакологическим термином, который подразумевал использование препарата (лекарства, легального или нелегального наркотика) в достаточном количестве, чтобы избежать неприятных эффектов отмены. Сопряжённое с состоянием такой зависимости аддиктивное поведение («наркотизм») расценивалось как девиантное и противопоставлялось аддикции как болезни. В настоящее время произошло смещение точки зрения на сущность такого рода аддиктивных расстройств. «Наркотизм» стал рассматриваться наряду с иными поведенческими аддиктивными расстройствами как единый феномен, общего взгляда на психопатологическую сущность которого, однако, не существует.

Классификация
Разными авторами аддикции относятся к обсессивно-компульсивным расстройствам, расстройствам продуктивного спектра, сопоставляются с сумеречным расстройством сознания и т. д. Рядом авторов усматривается стойкая (до 60 %) коморбидность аддиктивных расстройств как между собой, так и с иными психическими расстройствами (аффективными, обсессивно-компульсивными и т. д.).

Аддиктивные заболевания иногда относят к классу неинфекционных или социальных. В клинической и социальной наркологии и адиктологии последних десятилетий отмечены новые факторы риска, раннее и очень быстрое формирование состояний зависимости человека, терапевтической резистентности, безремисионного течения болезни.

В целом, аддикции условно можно разделить на «химические» (субстанциональные) — называемые также физической зависимостью и поведенческие зависимости (несубстанциональные, психологические).

Поведенческая аддикция в психологии — состояние сознания человека, характеризующееся привязанностью к определенной деятельности, неспособность самостоятельно её прекратить.

Изучение явления
Аддиктивное поведение связано с желанием человека уйти из реальной жизни путём изменения состояния своего сознания. Изучением этого явления занимаются аддиктология, клиническая психология и социология.

Есть приемлемые обществом формы аддикции: духовные практики, медитации, влюблённость, творчество, трудоголизм, интернет-зависимость, шопоголизм, экстремальный спорт, переедание, а также социально опасные: токсикомания, наркозависимость, клептомания и другие. В отдельных случаях аддикции могут преднамеренно развиваться (например, изучаются факторы познавательной аддикции у интеллектуально одарённых подростков).

Выделяют также новые аддикции — патологическую зависимость — патологические зависимости от телевидения, от социальных сетей, интернет-зависимость; зависимость от компьютерных игр

и пр.

Биологические механизмы
Данные исследований показывают, что существуют определённые биологические механизмы, отвечающие за аддикции. Однако эта область остаётся предметом споров. Как было озвучено в дискуссии «Социогенетизм или биогенетизм», биологическая природа врождённых качеств может влиять на принятие решений и поступки. Определённые факторы, относящиеся к генетике, ДНК, психическим расстройствам, могут скрыто присутствовать, чтобы затем в определённый момент активироваться.

С другой стороны, аддиктивное поведение может быть вызвано воздействием окружающей среды, которое приводит к  личности. Благоприятные отношения, злоупотребления, социальное взаимодействие, воздействие на организм отравляющих веществ — всё это может изменять поведение человека. Некоторые исследователи признают влияние как социальных, так и биологических факторов, которые совместно формируют модель поведения.

В биологический механизм аддикции могут быть включены некоторые участки мозга. Наиболее примечательным является механизм высвобождения дофамина в прилежащее ядро, который запускается многими наркотическими веществами, что укрепляет зависимость. Выделение дофамина является естественным процессом стимулирующего действия, свойственным, например, питанию или сексу. Наркотики действуют аналогично. В частности, некоторые наркотики увеличивают выработку и высвобождение дофамина в мозге в 5—10 раз, что позволяет людям, которые их употребляют, получать чувство удовольствия искусственным образом. Так, амфетамин напрямую стимулирует выброс дофамина, воздействуя на механизм его транспортировки. Другие наркотики, например, кокаин и психостимуляторы, блокируют естественные механизмы обратного захвата дофамина, увеличивая его концентрацию в синаптическом пространстве. Морфий и никотин имитируют действие натуральных нейромедиаторов, а алкоголь блокирует действие антагонистов дофамина. Начавшись в лимбической дофаминергической системе процесс затем модифицирует другие части мозга, например, вентральную область покрышки.

Механизмы, с помощью которых осуществляется этот процесс, включают в себя проникновение дополнительных AMPA-рецепторов в постсинаптическую мембрану дофаминергических нейронов. Исследования на мышах показывают, что воздействие кокаина в течение двух недель служит причиной долговременных изменений в вентральной области покрышки. Более того, эффект удовольствия от наркотика усиливает поведение, связанное с его получением и приёмом, пока это не формируется в привычку. Первоначально процесс проходит в вентральной части стриатума, главным образом в центре подкрепления, но затем изменения развиваются в верхней части стриатума (dorsal striatum). Предположительно, связанные с аддикцией модификации нейронов идут по дорсально каскадной последовательности взаимных соединений между двумя вышеупомянутыми областями.

На предрасположенность к появлению наркотической зависимости оказывают влияние несколько факторов. Возможно, она связана с предфронтальной корой головного мозга, которая отвечает за суждения, решения рисковать, контроль импульсивности. Это объяснило бы, почему дети более предрасположены к наркомании. Отдельные исследования показывают, что дети в возрасте от 10 до 12 лет, те, которые проявляют наименьшее торможение в поведении, находятся в максимальной зоне риска для появления аддикции к наркотическим веществам.

Избавление от аддикций, лечение
Единственным доказано эффективным (по данным АА и специалистов) методом избавления от аддиктивного поведения или уменьшения аддиктивной зависимости является участие в , когда люди, подверженные той или иной зависимости, собираются вместе, для того чтобы делиться проблемами и поддерживать друг друга на пути избавления от навязчивых потребностей. Известным примером подобных групп являются сообщества «Анонимных Алкоголиков». Единственное условие для членства — это желание бросить пить. Члены «Анонимных Алкоголиков» не платят ни вступительных, ни членских взносов, они сами себя содержат на свои добровольные пожертвования. Главной целью проведения собраний групп является сохранение трезвого образа жизни (неупотребление алкоголя), а также помощь другим в решении этой проблемы. Общаясь на собраниях, участники делятся своим опытом, силой, рассказывают о том, кем были, что с ними произошло и как им живётся в настоящее время. Параллельно группам «Анонимных Алкоголиков» часто создаются группы для созависимых — то есть для родственников или близких людей, на чью жизнь привычка вовлечённого человека оказывает негативное влияние.

На основе опыта «Анонимных Алкоголиков» были созданы аналогичные группы взаимопомощи по другим зависимостям: Анонимные Наркоманы, Взрослые Дети Алкоголиков, Анонимные Курильщики, Анонимные Азартные Игроки и др. В целом, разные группы используют различные методы от совершенно нецерковных до выраженно религиозных. Существует предположение, что социальное взаимодействие увеличивает вероятность успеха в избавлении от зависимости в виду коллективной эффективности и вследствие того, что выделяемые в ходе встреч нейротрансмиттеры могут спровоцировать чувство удовлетворения естественным путём без необходимости принимать наркотики или алкоголь.

В основе деятельности многих групп взаимопомощи лежит . Первоначально предложенные «Анонимными Алкоголиками» как метод избавления от алкоголизма, двенадцать шагов были опубликованы в книге «Анонимные Алкоголики» в 1939 году. В дальнейшем метод был адаптирован для других форм зависимостей. Американская психологическая ассоциация выделяет следующие шаги в данном методе:
 признание участника, что он не может контролировать собственные зависимости или компульсии;
 анализ прошлых ошибок с помощью человека, уже прошедшего через это;
 исправление этих ошибок;
 обучение жизни без зависимости согласно новым правилам поведения;
 помощь другим людям, страдающим от такой же зависимости или навязчивого поведения.

Наравне с подобными группами также существует спектр профилактических и терапевтических подходов для борьбы с аддикциями. Например, распространённой заместительной терапией наркомании, вызванной употреблением опиатов (героин и др.), является метадоновая заместительная терапия. Терапия метадоном прежде всего преследует цель социализации наркоманов, отучения их от внутривенного введения наркотиков. Терапия проводится строго под наблюдением лечащего врача и предполагает участие других необходимых специалистов. Как правило, метадон используют в виде жидкой субстанции, смешанной с сиропом, и принимается он перорально.

Другим наркотическим анальгетиком, применяемым для заместительной терапии, является бупренорфин, который, возможно, более безопасен, чем метадон. Ограничивающим фактором для более широкого применения его в заместительной терапии является цена препарата (по некоторым оценкам, он минимум в 10 раз дороже, чем метадон).

Проводятся исследования, показывающие возможность синтезирования антител, которые бы препятствовали воздействию наркотиков на мозг, минимизируя ощущения удовольствия. В последнее время разработаны вакцины против кокаина, героина, метамфетамина и никотина. Осуществляется тестирование данных препаратов с надеждой использовать их как профилактическое и восстановительное средство для страдающих аддикциями или склонных к ним.

Ещё одним методом, рассматриваемым для применения в лечении аддикций, является метод стимуляции глубинных структур головного мозга. Данный метод заключается во вживлении путём хирургического вмешательства в мозг пациента специального аппарата, который в дальнейшем осуществляет на определённые зоны мозга слабоэлектрическое воздействие. В настоящее время метод применяется для лечения, например, двигательных расстройств, таких как болезнь Паркинсона, но есть предположения, что он может оказаться эффективным и для аддикций. Воздействие может осуществляться на центр подкрепления, полосатое тело, на верхнюю часть стриатума (dorsal striatum) и на медиальную префронтальную зону коры головного мозга.

См. также
 Аддиктология
 Нехимическая зависимость
 Лекарственная зависимость
 Наркомания
 Синдром зависимости
 Синдром психической зависимости
 Синдром физической зависимости
 Лень
 Максимализм
 Одиночество
 Перфекционизм
 Привычка
 Прокрастинация
 Синдром отложенной жизни
 Трудоголизм
 Трудолюбие

Примечания

Ссылки

 Лешнер А. И. Зависимость — это болезнь мозга, и это имеет значение Пер. с англ. Н. Д. Фирсовой (2018)
 Аддикция, или что общего между толстяком, алкоголиком и влюбленным? — статья на сайте «Школа жизни»
 Об аддикциях и аддиктивном поведении — статья на сайте «Мир психологии»
 Трудоголизм — это болезнь, точно такая же, как и любая психологическая зависимость
 Журнал «развитие личности»

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Next fall, Eastlake Elementary students could be programming a Sphero or learn coding for an Ozobot, if they match last year's fundraising amount of $16,000 to purchase the technology for the school.
With the fundraising goal in mind, Eastlake Elementary School Community Council is inviting the community to participate in its fourth annual 5k and 1-mile run Monday, May 6. The race will begin at 6 p.m.
"It's a family fun run, so everyone is welcome to come out and support the school," said volunteer Teresa Kwant, who is helping with the school run.
Last year, about 300 people registered for the race, which will be held rain or shine, Kwant said.
Those who wish to run or walk in the event can register at www.runeastlake.com. Runners are guaranteed to receive T-shirts through the April 5 early bird registration. Registration will continue until race day, with T-shirts available first come, first serve. Those wishing to make financial donations can use the same link .
The website will have details about the registration process, routes — which starts at the school and continues through the community — and additional information. There will be food available for purchase, and prizes will be raffled.
If students reach their goal, not only will they have money for new technology, but students will have the chance to see their principal, Suzie Williams, kiss a pig, she said.
"It's a fun, family event, so everyone in the community is welcome to come out," Kwant said.
If students do raise enough money for the new technology, Kwant said it will be shared throughout the school.
"All students from kindergarten through grade 6 will be impacted by the STEM technology," she said.
Williams said with the money raised, every student will be benefited by the purchase of classroom sets of Ozobots, Spheros with iPads to program them and Little Bits electronic building blocks.
Last year, Eastlake's run supported getting new Chromebooks for the school, bringing devices to an almost 1:1 ratio with students.
There are about 1,080 students attending Eastlake Elementary this year, although district officials say those numbers may decrease by about 100 pupils with new boundaries set for the fall.


Since its regeneration following the 1985 riots, Broadwater Farm has had one of the lowest crime rates of any urban area in the world. In an independent 2003 survey of all the estate's residents, only 2% said they considered the area unsafe, the lowest number for any area in London. The estate also has the lowest rent arrears of any part of the borough. With £33 million investment, a community centre, neighbourhood office, children's nursery and health centre have been built, social projects, sports clubs and youth programs have been funded, concierges introduced, raised walkways removed, murals painted, communal gardens planted, transport links improved, shops and amenities made accessible, a more representative Tenants and Residents Association installed, and an estate isolated out on a flood plain of the River Moselle has been turned around and integrated into the Tottenham community. And yet 30 years later, David Cameron described Broadwater Farm this month as one of the causes of the 2011 riots in Tottenham, and home, apparently, to 'criminals', 'troubled families' and 'anti-social behaviour'.
This alone shows out of touch this Conservative government is with the working-class communities they are intent on destroying, and which the Housing and Planning Bill, currently being debated in the House of Lords, is designed to bring about. Rioting is caused by poverty, deliberately run-down housing, social exclusion, and – as was the case with both the 1985 and 2011 riots – aggressive and racist policing. It is not caused by architecture, Brutalist, high-rise or otherwise. But it also shows how long the mud flung by commentators who have never walked, let alone lived, on a council estate sticks to the homes and lives of the people they house. Tar one estate, and in the minds of the public you've tarred them all.
This is, of course, precisely the purpose of David Cameron's statement, which lays the ground for his recently stated plans to demolish a hundred of what he calls 'the worst sink estates' in the UK. Broadwater Farm finds itself at the top of this list purely on its proximity to the Tottenham riots. But what the Prime Minister failed to mention is its other proximity, which is to the huge swathe of regeneration projects being pushed through by Haringey Council, who last month granted planning permission on what – once Tottenham Hotspur F.C. relocates – will be a 585 apartment, 35-storey, £600 million development with zero affordable housing. The adjacent Northumberland Park estate and its 1,400 council homes are to be demolished to make way for the new stadium. As are the 300 homes of the Love Lane estate, which unfortunately for the residents stands between the new ground and the train station – an unsightly approach, it seems, for the corporate hospitality users the new ground hopes to attract.
To be clear, David Cameron has only promised to demolish – 'Blitz' is the typically bombastic word he used – some of the hundred estates; others, he said, might need investment. But the money he has promised to this task, a ridiculously low £140 million, wouldn't pay for the bulldozers, let alone re-house the existing council tenants. Representative of the Prime Minister's slurs against their residents, Broadwater Farm is also indicative of their fate. Like most so-called 'regeneration' schemes, the option to refurbish the estate has been found 'financially unviable', and in its place a program of demolition and redevelopment has only stalled, for the moment, on the obligation to re-house the 90% of its 3,800 residents who live in secure tenancies. This, and not some causal relation between post-war housing estates and crime, is the real context of the Prime Minister's statement.
The model for the government's program of house building is outlined in Part 1, Chapter 1 of the Housing and Planning Bill, under the definition of what they call 'Starter Homes'. Part of the governments so-called 'national crusade to transform generation rent into generation buy', the Bill introduces a new duty to build Starter Homes, which will be available to first-time buyers under the age of 40 for at least 20% off market value. This legislation supplants the existing provision, under Section 106 of the 1990 Town and Country Planning Act, for building homes for social rent at around 50% of market rate.
However, since the provisional price 'cap' under which Starter Homes must be sold has been set at a ridiculously high £450,000 in Greater London and £250,000 across the rest of England, these homes will remain far beyond the reach of the vast majority of people. Buying a £450,000 home requires a salary of £77,000 per annum and a deposit of £97,000, which raises the question of what kind of first-time buyer the government has in mind. According to the homeless charity Shelter, Starter Homes are in fact unaffordable across 98% of the country for people on low incomes, and across 58% of the country for those on middle incomes.
Moreover, like most of the Housing and Planning Bill, the truth about Starter Homes is even worse than how they are being presented to the public. Under section 2 of the legislation on Starter Homes, paragraphs 7 and 8 explicitly state that the Secretary of State may by regulations amend both the definition of 'first-time buyer' and the price cap, with different price limits for different areas within and outside of London.
A look at the building figures over the past year strongly suggests that £450,000 in London, and £250,000 across the rest of England, is the least, not the most, that Starter Homes will cost. In 2014-15, over 66,000 affordable homes – that is, homes sold or rented at up to 80% of market rate – were built in England; but less than 10,000 of those were for social rent, the lowest since records began in 1991-92. In London the figures are even worse. Property developers sold 5,300 two-bedroom homes costing between £650,000 and £1 million in the past year, but only 2,000 for around £300,000. To put this in context, a mortgage on a £1 million home requires an annual salary of roughly £200,000. And this was when there was still an obligation under Section 106 to build so-called 'affordable' housing. That's gone now. As is the Community Infrastructure Levy introduced by the 2008 Planning Act, which generated the funds to build other, genuinely affordable forms of housing, as well as schools, hospitals, parks and other community projects. As for the condition of being a first-time buyer, as paragraph 7 shows this too doesn't exist. It's put there purely to deceive the public.
In a carefully stage-managed amendment to the Bill, Zac Goldsmith, as part of the government's campaign to get him elected as the next London Mayor, recently announced that for every council home lost under the new legislation forcing local authorities to sell off 'high value' properties, he would build two new 'affordable' homes. Where and how councils will afford to build them, and where their current residents will end up living, he didn't say. But he followed up with the caveat that it would be 'really difficult' to build like-for-like replacements in Kensington and Chelsea or Westminster, or, for that matter, in Camden – as though bricks and mortar suddenly cost more when they crossed the borough boundaries.
We'd like to remind the famous environmentalist and hereditary millionaire that although the sale price of a property is determined by the profit margins of the land owner and developer and the commodity market on which it is sold, the material and labour required to build it remain the same. Despite his sound-bite promise of building '2-for-1', it's quite clear from section 7 of amendment 112, which extends the definition of affordable homes to include Starter Homes, that no homes will be built for anything like £450,000 in Kensington and Chelsea, where properties currently average over £1,900,000, or anywhere else in Central London.
Since the average price of a home in Greater London is currently approaching £600,000, and nearly a million pounds in Central London, there is little incentive for developers to build Starter Homes for less. Investors, however, will still qualify for the 20% discount paid for by the state. But unlike affordable homes, which retain their discount in perpetuity, Starter Homes can be sold at the full market rate five years from the date of their purchase. And their re-sale will accrue not only that subsidy, which is lost from the public purse forever, but also the profit from the increase in house prices – prices which the Housing and Planning Bill, by overseeing the demolition of London's social housing stock, is designed to drive up.
Under the pretence of moving existing renters onto the property market, the Bill will in effect offer public subsidies for private investors and builders. The government has promised nearly £2.3 billion pounds of public money to build 200,000 of these Starter Homes by 2020. This is an additional incentive to further speculate in the London property market, not a plan to reduce the housing shortage this speculation has created. Property wealth in Britain has increased by almost £400 billion in the past two years, more than twice the GDP of Finland, and now constitutes an economy in itself. Over the same period, the richest 10% of UK households have seen a 21% increase in their wealth from doing little more than watching their properties collectively generate more cash than entire countries.
It is this enormously inflated and lucrative property market, and not a sudden desire to help renters own their own home, that is driving the government's housing policy. The only thing standing between them, their financial backers, and the greatest jumble sale in London's housing history, are the people and communities that live on the land they need to build on. Communities like the residents of Broadwater Farm.
Because the government has consistently used them to describe what they are not, I've been forced to place many of the words they've put forward to conceal the truth about their housing policy in inverted commas. 'Affordable' homes that no-one but the rich can buy. 'Starter' homes that won't be lived in by their buyers. 'First-time buyers' that will be property speculators. 'High value' council homes that includes a third of the social housing stock, and anything over £400,000 in London. 'High income' families that will be forced to pay market rates on a minimum wage. 'Regeneration' schemes that will demolish the estates they are meant to save. 'Public' land that is owned by private investment vehicles. 'Sink' estates that have been deliberately starved of funds. A housing 'crisis' that has been created by the same people that will benefit from the legislation passed to solve it.
So let me end by using words to say what they mean. The Housing and Planning Bill is not designed to address the so-called housing 'crisis'. On the contrary, it has been designed to exploit that crisis for the political and financial gain of the Conservative Party and its backers. As the Prime Minister's language of 'sink estates' makes clear, the legislation it proposes, which will soon be law, is a program not of house building but of social cleansing.
What the history of Broadwater Farm shows is that we should be investing in England's council estates and the communities that live there, not demolishing their homes and replacing them with investment opportunities for the rich that few families, let alone those currently living on the estates, will be able to afford. This is architecture as consequence, architecture as punishment, architecture as revenge; architecture as asset, as investment, as deposit box; architecture as gentrifier, as bulldozer, as social segregator; architecture as ghetto, as weapon, as water cannon; architecture – as David Cameron put it – as Blitzkrieg. Architecture as anything but homes for those who need them.
With thanks to Paul Burnham of Haringey Defend Council Housing for information on the Tottenham regeneration scheme, and to Dan Strange for the illustration.
So much information and analysis here on the issue of social housing, starter homes, right-to-buy sell-offs and estate reneration here.
Another superb piece from Architects For Social Housing. You may well ask why we're re-blogging a piece about estates in London being demolished to satisfy the whims of the developers? It's because, as we've written numerous times before, what happens in London has an impact out here in southern Essex. So, if you're concerned about the increased pressures on housing supply as a result of people being forced out of London, you need to start showing some solidarity to housing struggles in the capital. One of the estates featured in the piece is Broadwater Farm – once notorious but now a place that has been turned around. Yet Cameron has this on his hit list of estates to be swept away. Swept away to make room for…homes for sale. In other words, blatant social engineering. The kind of social engineering we've flagged up as something that could well happen in places like Basildon. This is why, if you can, you need to be on the protest against the Housing & Planning Bill which is taking place in London on Saturday 30th, assembling from 12noon at the Imperial War Museum before moving off towards Downing Street.
Posted on Facebook. This is probably the finest writing on the subject of this administration's policies on social housing I have come across. Greed and self-interest I can understand. Malice and contempt I cannot. This is a malicious piece of legislation, borne of contempt. And you have exposed it for what it is.
Someone seems to have hacked this brilliant piece of writing and removed several letters – e.g. 'f'!


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Elimination of undesired reflection from optical surfaces is important for many technologies. In photovoltaics reduction of reflection from solar cells leads to enhancement of their efficiency. In telescopes and similar optical devices elimination of reflection is required to achieve better quality of image. Antireflective coatings allow to reduce the glint from a covert viewer's binoculars or telescopic sight.
To reduce reflection one can use single-layer quarter-wave coatings. Their work is based on destructive interference in the beams reflected from the interfaces, and constructive interference in the transmitted beams. However, as a result, single-layer coatings possess antireflective properties only for limited range of wavelengths and incidence angles.
To extend this range multi-layer coatings can be used. They are based on the same principle as single-layer coatings: destructive interference between beams reflected from different layers. Layers thicknesses and refractive indices should be chosen to achieve minimal reflectance in a wide wavelengths or incident angles range. The disadvantage of multi-layer coatings is difficulty to find materials with required refractive indices.
Alternative to multi-layer coatings are layers with continuously changing refractive index. Their application allows to achieve small reflectance in a wide spectral range. However, their manufacturing encounters problems with thermal mismatch, adhesion and stability of thin-film stack.
An alternative method for the reflection reduction consists in texturing the surface with 3D pyramids or 2D grooves (gratings). This method was discovered in nature by studying structure of moths' eyes. Surfaces of moths' eyes are covered with a natural nanostructured film. The film structure consists of a hexagonal pattern of bumps, each roughly 200 nm high and spaced on 300 nm centers. Since bumps are smaller than the wavelength of visible light, the light sees the surface as having a continuous refractive index gradient between the air and the medium. It leads to reflection reduction by effectively removing the air-lens interface. This allows the moth to see well in the dark, without reflections to give its location away to predators.
Textured coatings have antireflective properties for wavelengths much smaller than texture size as well. In this case reflection reduction can be illustrated geometrically: rays should be reflected many times until being reverted back. At the same time transmitted rays deviate from the incident direction that leads to light trapping effect used in solar cells.
Since the seventies of the last century there is a lot of experimental studies of the properties of textured surfaces. Many reports on successful fabrication of the antireflective nanostructured surfaces appeared recently. Their use in the solar cell technology may lead to one or two orders of magnitude reduction of the surface reflection.
In the following we discuss antireflective properties of textured coatings at the whole range of their sizes including long and short wavelength limits.
- structures which are infinite in -direction (dielectric permittivity depends on and only).
- structures which are finite -direction.
- multi-layered structures and structures with gradually changing profile (textured coatings).
In the first case, dielectric permittivity of the structure is periodic in -plane and does not depend on . One can choose and axis in such way that effective permittivity will be described by tensor with 3 nonzero diagonal elements , and . If structure possesses central symmetry in -plane, 2 components of this tensor should be equal .
As an example, let us consider sequence of parallel plates ( changes in one direction only). is width of each plate, is distance between them, is plates dielectric permittivity, is dielectric permittivity of the environment.
where and are volume fractions for plates and for environment.
Now lets consider square parallelepipeds which are infinite in -direction. Parallelepipeds are packed in square lattice.
Square parallelepipeds which inifinite in z-direction. Parallelepipeds are packed in square lattice.
where , and should be calculated using expressions for plates which are given above.
where is cylinders filling fraction.
In last two cases effective permittivity is tensor with equal diagonal components and due to the central symmetry in -plane. Component is dielectric permittivity average value (it follows from continuity of electric field tangential component, as in derivation for in the case of parallel plates).
Before we were assuming that structure is infinite along -direction. However, if the thickness of the structure in -direction is larger than critical value , effective permittivity can be calculated as in "infinite" case.
In multi-layered structure each layer is characterized by its own effective permittivity. One can use effective medium approximation for structures with gradually changing profile (like textures coatings) as well. Optical properties of this structure should be similar to properties of the film with gradually changing dielectric permittivity. There are two methods to calculate reflectance from such type of film.
In one method, film is approximated by a multi-layered structure with great number of very thin layers. Dielectric permittivity of each layer is assumed to be constant. Each layer is characterized by transfer matrix and product of such matrices is transfer matrix for the whole structure. This resulted transfer matrix can be used to calculate reflectance. Description of transfer matrix method can be found here1).
Another method to find reflectance, which consists in solving of Maxwell equations in inhomogeneous medium, can be found here 2).
If wavelength is much smaller then texture size, geometric optics approximation can be used. In this case on can apply ray tracing technique to calculate reflectance. Modeled rays propagate in straight lines inside the texture and get reflected or refracted from the texture interface according to Fresnel equations.
In the following we consider surfaces coated by a periodic pyramid-type texture with height .
Pyramids bases have the shape of triangles, squares, hexagons and circles (in the last case pyramid is in fact a cone) with the distance between the base side and its center . The pyramids are closely packed on the substrate in the triangular or square lattice with the period .
We will specially distinguish two cases: complete tiling case when pyramids bases touch each other along their whole perimeter (this corresponds to the polygon base pyramids in our study) and incomplete tiling case when there are gaps between bases (this corresponds to cones).
Textured surface is made from glass (the refractive index ).
We consider normal light incidence case.
As we showed before, in the long wavelength limit electromagnetic waves propagate in textured surface as in film with gradually changing effective dielectric permittivity . Here direction is aligned along the pyramid axis, with at the pyramids tops and at the pyramids bases.
Increase of the pyramids height and decrease of the optical contrast between the incident medium and the texture reduces the reflection.
In the case of complete tiling, the filling fraction at the top of the pyramids is and at the base of the pyramids is , therefore and . Here is the pyramids permittivity, is the incident medium permittivity, and is the filling fraction occupied by pyramids at , that is equal to the ratio between cross sectional area of the pyramid and area of the unit cell of the lattice.
Some special profiles can be chosen to reduce the reflection with the increasing .
For example, if is polynom of degree with zero derivatives , then . In particular, for profiles and (we assume that ) we have and correspondingly.
Let us find a profile characterized by zero derivatives of all orders at the points and : , . Without any restriction assume that . Consider first the infinitely differentiable function , that is zero with all its derivatives at and . After its integration we get a monotone function increasing from 0 to 1 , where value of is chosen to ensure . Using this 'integral' profile leads to the exponential decrease of the reflectance with the growth of due to .
For these pyramids we obtained , and correspondingly. Note that results obtained by effective medium approximation and FDTD are in good agreement. We used Brauer-Bryngdahl expression for the effective dielectric permittivity of square pyramids.
We calculated the reflectance for gradient index film corresponding to a single-periodic grating with the 'integral' profile. Using this profile leads to the exponential decrease of the reflection with the growth of .
At the incomplete tiling case there are gaps between pyramid bases: . It causes a discontinuity of the permittivity at the pyramid bases : . Due to this fact, by increasing the reflectance tends to a constant value equal to the reflectance between the media with and . To demonstrate this we calculated the reflectance for gradient index film corresponding to cones closely packed in the triangular lattice. We used Maxwell-Garnett expression for the effective dielectric permittivity of cones.
Reflectance for different pyramids. Comparison between results obtained using effective medium approximation (lines) and FDTD (dots).
In the short wavelength limit the optical properties of textured surfaces do not depend on the wavelength and are defined by geometry only.
We calculated the reflection for closely packed triangular, hexagonal and square pyramids (complete tiling) and cones (incomplete tiling) for different values of . Results obtained by using ray tracing technique and FDTD are in good agreement. The difference between them appearing by increasing may be explained by the fact that the value of used in the FDTD model becomes insufficiently large for light diffraction effects to be neglected.
Reflectance for different pyramids. Comparison between results obtained using ray tracing technique (lines) and FDTD (dots).
We obtained exponential decrease of the reflection with the growth for the complete tiling case. For the incomplete tiling case the reflection tends to a constant value passing a local minimum while increases. Below we give our explanation of these results.
Reflected rays formed by incident rays after their reflection from the texture. These rays revert back into the incident medium after some number of consecutive reflections. Angle of reflectance, amplitude and phase of such rays at each reflection can be calculated using Fresnel equations.
Refracted rays formed by incident or reflected rays after they get into the texture.
Secondary rays formed by refracted rays if they leave the texture.
Only reflected and secondary rays make contribution to the total reflection .
It can be shown that (a) number of reflections inside the structure, necessary for the propagating rays to obtain the backward direction, grows linearly with the texture height. Since after each reflection ray amplitude is multiplied on reflection coefficient form pyramid surface, decreases exponentially with .
According to our calculations secondary rays make small contribution to the reflection which can be explained by the following considerations. (b) pyramids deflect secondary rays downward since , preventing them to revert back to the incident medium. As a result refracted rays can c) transmit to the substrate directly, d) or move onto the inner pyramid side under the total internal reflection angle.
In the case of incomplete tiling (cones) the reflectance tends to the constant value with the growth of passing over a local minimum. It can be explained by the following considerations. While , e) normal rays remain almost parallel to the scatterer surface after the first reflection and some of them go to the gap between the bases not reaching the neighbouring scatterer. Afterwards they are directly reflected back into the incident medium. For the cones case almost all incident rays behave in this way, therefore while the reflectance tends to the substrate reflectance value.
Here we consider results for all texture size to wavelength ratios obtained using FDTD method.
Consider first the complete tiling case using the results for square pyramids. Let us fix some value and follow the reflectance behavior while increases (see corresponding black curves at the picture). By the increase of from to the reflectance decreases achieving local minimum at . It can be explained by the fact that the effective dielectric permittivity does not depend on the at zeroth approximation and the reflectance of corresponding gradient index film decreases while increases. At the reflection decreases further passing local minima corresponding to the values of at which next diffraction orders appear. However these reflectance oscillations become smaller at greater while the curve approaches the geometric optics limit.
The reflectance from closely packed pyramids with square bases (FDTD results).
In the case of incomplete tiling the minimal reflectance is achieved at of the order of the wavelength.
Reflectance from cones closely packed in the triangular lattice (FDTD results).
We come to a conclusion that the optimal texture size is determined by the character of the pyramids tiling. At the complete tiling case the reflection tends to zero at for a fixed ratio . This is in agreement with the fact that the rate of the reflection reduction with increasing and fixed and is exponential in the geometrical optics limit, and is thus higher than the polynomial rate in the effective medium limit. At the same time small reflectance can be achieved at of the order of the wavelength. In the incomplete tiling case the optimal value is of the wavelength order. This is also in agreement with the limiting approximations considered above.
Note that high precision fabrication of completely tiled mactotextured surfaces is a complicated technological task. Fabrication of textured surfaces with periodicity of the order of some hundred nanometers by lithographic technique or etching seems to be more advantageous. A possibility of achieving very small reflection values for texture sizes of the wavelength order is the evidence of this texture efficiency for the visible range.
Using antireflective coatings is one of the way to increase efficiency of solar cells. For this purpose multi-layered coatings or coatings with porous silicon can be used. Coatings with porous silicon act like a film with gradually changing refractive index if porosity is increasing with the depth. However, as we discussed above, these types of coatings are not so easy to produce.
Nanotextured coatings is alternative way for reflection reduction. These coatings can be produced using lithographic technique or etching. Their use in solar technology reduces reflection from the surface of the solar cell by 1 or 2 orders of magnitude.
In order to model dispersive dielectric permittivity of silicon in FDTD, one can use technique described in section Fitting of dielectric function.
1) M.Born and E. Wolf, Principles of Optics, Prgamon, London (1980).


At first glance, Ben is a normal 8th grade boy. He spends his weekends on his snowboard and occupies his school week with sports and friends. Here's what most don't know.
Ben is completely torn up inside. His father was sentenced to prison, leaving Ben spending the majority of his teenage years without a dad by his side to watch him at his games, teach him new tricks on his board, and to offer him advice. Since his dad's incident, Ben has been getting into trouble at school and has been heading in a downward spiral.
Ben has been attending Campus Life Club on and off for 3 years, and has not once opened up about anything. His leader has consistently pursued him and has been the male role model that Ben desperately needs. He takes him snowboarding and goes to his games to cheer him on. But no matter how persistent his leader was (and is), Ben was closed up emotionally and spiritually.
One night at Club, we asked the kids to be honest with themselves and write down what was really going on inside of them. Afterwards, Ben's leader dropped him off at home after Club and asked Ben if he would like to share what he wrote down on his card. Ben refused and got out of the car. Something happened in that moment. Ben stood there, outside of the car, and then tossed his card into the passenger seat. He shut the door and walked off. He had had enough. He finally decided to let someone in.
Ben's card was heart wrenching. He finally had the courage to open up about the pain he was feeling inside and how confused he was about life and God.
Ben's life has not gotten any easier since, but a brick wall was torn down that night. Three years of being bottled up finally was demolished. Pray for Ben and his leader as they continue on this journey together.
We are excited to tell you about the internship program at West Michigan Youth for Christ. Each year we select multiple candidates to join our team for a 9 month long internship. The program has encouraged individuals by providing excellent training and experience. Interns work on local campuses with a staff member and volunteers to reach out to lost kids and learn what it takes to be a ministry director.
Check out this Intern Video to learn more!
We are currently accepting applications until May and need your help! Would you be willing to share this with your ministry contacts or students/volunteers who might be interested? By spreading the word, we can be sure that everyone has the opportunity to hear about this great ministry!
For more info and to apply online click here.
Several WMYFC staff members just returned from a week-long training at the YFC Headquarters in Denver. Please pray they will be able to apply what they learned to their ministry sites.
Praise God for two new staff members, Barry Dykstra (Byron Center Campus Life) and Teddy Davis (East Kentwood Campus Life)! Pray for them as they build ministry on each of their campuses.
We hope to take 175 students/leaders to YFC Camp this summer. Please pray for kids as they begin to sign up and for the funds needed to come in. To provide a scholarship for kids to attend who cannot afford Camp, click here.
Please pray for this time of year as students begin to turn the corner spiritually. Pray for our leaders as they engage in deeper conversations with students, both in one on one and group settings.
Pray for "Ben" as he continues to peel back the layers of hurt and pain he is experiencing. Praise God with us that he took the first step!
Are you ready for some golf?? I mean some really GREAT golf? How about some great weather too?
On behalf of YFC Champions, I'd like to extend an invitation for you to have an amazing opportunity spending time on world class golf courses (in great weather!) while supporting YFC/USA at the same time. It's a WIN-WIN! And I've got 2 outstanding Golf Classics to present to you.
The first event is March 9-12, 2015, where you can golf in the 9th Annual Desert Golf Classic in beautiful Scottsdale, AZ - playing three of the area's premier golf courses: ASU Karsten, WE-KO-PA and McDowell Mountain.
The second event is the Torrey Pines Tournament, Sept 27-28, 2015. Located in Southern California on the Pacific Ocean, the tournament package includes a very special commemorative gifts tee package, one 18-Hole tournament round of golf on the South Course at Torrey Pines, a forecaddie (1 per foursome), a golf clinic with a special guest instructor, golf cart, and range balls. Each participant is invited to attend a Welcome Reception with refreshments & hors d'oeuvres, and dinner in the Grand Ball Room featuring YFC President, Dan Wolgemuth... and MORE!
You can register and/or access more information about these events by clicking on any of the highlighted links or pictures, or by contacting Michele Dietzman [email protected]. Remember, these golf tournaments are fabulous opportunities for you to connect with and support the ministry of Youth for Christ!


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Gilbertson, Schow and Blacklance race to Seitz Memorial wins Saturday at River Cities
September 12, 2018 Mike Spieker 0 Comment
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (September 8, 2018) – The 12th edition of the John Seitz Memorial at River Cities Speedway came to a close Saturday night with B-mains and features for the WISSOTA Street Stocks and Midwest Mods and a complete show for the WISSOTA Modifieds.
Sophomore Wells Concrete Street Stock driver, Tucker Pederson, led the opening circuits of the feature from his front row starting position. The race was quickly brought to yellow on lap three for a three car pile up in turn two. Greg Jose, Cliff Reeves and Bryce Reimer were all collected, but continued.
On the restart, fourth place runner Ryan Johnson was spun in turn one and collected four other cars. Rory Opp was charged for the caution and Johnson returned to the fourth position for the restart.
Opp found trouble again shortly after the restart as he spun in turn four and collected four other cars including 2018 River Cities Speedway track champion, Adam Burrows. Just before the incident, Pederson's machine slowed significantly, which handed the lead over to Dan McNamee. Aaron Blacklance moved alongside McNamee on the restart and the two raced side by side for several consecutive laps.
Finally, Blacklance took the point with 11 to go using the low side of the speedway. Aberle followed Blacklance into second as Blacklance went on to score the win.
A John Seitz Memorial record 57 Happy Harry's Midwest Modifieds were signed in for action. Troy Randall and Matt Schow led the field of 24 to the green for the main event. Schow and Lance Schill ran one-two at the completion of lap one. A restart on lap nine gave Schill a chance to take the lead, but Schow remained tough on the top side of the speedway. Schill peaked to the inside of Schow into turn three on lap 11, but that's as close as he got to the McIntosh, Minn. driver. Two laps later, Schill hooked a rut in turn one and slid off the embankment at a high rate of speed. Schill's car landed hard on the right front on the access road outside of turns one and two. His No. 17 machine suffered heavy damage which brought his night to an end.
Schow checked out from the field on the restart and took the win over Preston Carr and Nate Reynolds.
Twenty-eight Popeyes Chicken WISSOTA Modifieds stormed onto the Bullring for their 25-lap feature. Aaron Holtan and Mike Stearns led the field off turn four to the green. Stearns held the lead on lap one over fifth place starter, Matt Gilbertson.
Stearns, Gilbertson and Tyler Peterson briefly raced three wide for the lead out of turn two on lap seven. Gilbertson took the point as Peterson followed into second. The leaders found themselves in heavy lapped traffic on lap 10. Peterson moved to the inside of Gilbertson to take the lead on lap 11, but Peterson was held up by a group of lapped cars running the same line as him right around the berm. That allowed Gilbertson to make a three-wide pass among traffic to reclaim the lead.
It took several laps for Peterson to clear the traffic, which helped Gilbertson race to a full straightaway lead. A restart with three to go gave Peterson new life. Peterson was all over the back of Gilbertson, but Gilbertson was able to hang on to claim his third career win at River Cities.
WISSOTA Modifieds:
A Feature (25 Laps): 1. 23-Matt Gilbertson, [5]; 2. 1TPO-Tyler Peterson, [6]; 3. 74-Dustin Wahl, [8]; 4. 51-Alex Guthmiller, [4]; 5. 24S-Mike Stearns, [2]; 6. 6X-Zach Johnson, [13]; 7. 17-Lance Schill, [9]; 8. 5G-Scott Greer, [10]; 9. 5M-Tyler McDonald, [12]; 10. 88XXX-Randy Klein, [3]; 11. 99S-Brody Strachan, [14]; 12. 7-Dale Kraling, [16]; 13. 2-Aaron Holtan, [1]; 14. 1R-Rick Delaine, [22]; 15. 99-Jake Wildman, [19]; 16. 2S-Matt Schow, [18]; 17. 48-Jerome Guyot, [28]; 18. 39-Shawn Teunis, [27]; 19. 92-Justin Bronk, [15]; 20. 57H-Blake Higginbotham, [21]; 21. 31-Eric Klassen, [24]; 22. 8-Al Giesbrecht, [17]; 23. 57-Michael Tiani, [20]; 24. 33-Ryan Hagen, [25]; 25. (DNF) 88-Chad Dyrdahl, [26]; 26. (DNF) 10W-Ward Imrie, [7]; 27. (DNF) 29K-Ryan Kereluk, [11]; 28. (DNF) 27-Chris Unrau, [23]
Heat 1 (10 Laps): 1. 88XXX-Randy Klein, [2]; 2. 74-Dustin Wahl, [1]; 3. 1TPO-Tyler Peterson, [3]; 4. 5G-Scott Greer, [7]; 5. 6X-Zach Johnson, [8]; 6. 99-Jake Wildman, [5]; 7. 1R-Rick Delaine, [9]; 8. 33-Ryan Hagen, [10]; 9. (DNF) 7-Dale Kraling, [4]; 10. (DNF) 48-Jerome Guyot, [6]
Heat 2 (10 Laps): 1. 17-Lance Schill, [2]; 2. 24S-Mike Stearns, [4]; 3. 2-Aaron Holtan, [5]; 4. 29K-Ryan Kereluk, [6]; 5. 99S-Brody Strachan, [9]; 6. 8-Al Giesbrecht, [7]; 7. 57-Michael Tiani, [3]; 8. 27-Chris Unrau, [8]; 9. (DNF) 39-Shawn Teunis, [1]
Heat 3 (10 Laps): 1. 51-Alex Guthmiller, [1]; 2. 10W-Ward Imrie, [3]; 3. 23-Matt Gilbertson, [7]; 4. 5M-Tyler McDonald, [9]; 5. 92-Justin Bronk, [2]; 6. 2S-Matt Schow, [5]; 7. 57H-Blake Higginbotham, [6]; 8. 31-Eric Klassen, [4]; 9. 88-Chad Dyrdahl, [8]
WISSOTA Midwest Modifieds:
A Feature (8 Laps): 1. 2S-Matt Schow, [2]; 2. 5C-Preston Carr, [7]; 3. 6R-Nate Reynolds, [13]; 4. 7T-Joseph Thomas, [6]; 5. 16T-Randy Thompson, [5]; 6. 87S-Reise Stenberg, [16]; 7. 10C-Cole Haugland, [15]; 8. 24-Victoria Stutsky, [9]; 9. 16S-Skyler Smith, [18]; 10. 27-Les Schoon, [17]; 11. 99-Doyle Erickson, [3]; 12. 11S-Darren Engesser, [11]; 13. 88XXX-Randy Klein, [21]; 14. 44-Austin Hunter, [25]; 15. 21-Todd Johnson, [22]; 16. 169-Justin Olson, [12]; 17. 32-Eric Haugland, [23]; 18. 12-Jaden Varnson, [10]; 19. 23V-Scott Vasichek, [8]; 20. 81X-Matt Sparby, [20]; 21. 57-Nathan Raasakka, [24]; 22. (DNF) 17S-Lance Schill, [4]; 23. (DNF) 34-Troy Randall, [1]; 24. (DNF) 2G-Brock Gronwold, [14]; (DNS) 23-Matt Gilbertson,
B Feature 1 (12 Laps): 1. 88XXX-Randy Klein, [3]; 2. 32-Eric Haugland, [4]; 3. 22S-Tyler Schow, [7]; 4. 8-Jason Schuh, [10]; 5. 00-Steve Hougard, [9]; 6. 4H-Grant Hall, [16]; 7. 1TPO-Corky Thomas, [17]; 8. 77B-Logan Bauer, [12]; 9. 54-Lance Relf, [13]; 10. 20-Nick Audette, [18]; 11. 4B-Brandon Rehill, [6]; 12. 3-Adam Unrau, [11]; (DNS) 39-Jamie Dietzler, ; (DNS) 735-Tanner Theis, ; (DNS) 69R-Terry Reilly, ; (DNS) 21L-Jarett Lovcik, ; (DNS) 6-Dean Eggebraaten, ; (DNS) 14-Scott Harrington,
B Feature 2 (12 Laps): 1. 21-Todd Johnson, [2]; 2. 57-Nathan Raasakka, [4]; 3. 188-Hunter Hougard, [12]; 4. 96-Jeremy Lizakowski, [7]; 5. 33A-Austin Overwater, [8]; 6. 44-Austin Hunter, [14]; 7. 74-Gary James Nelson, [9]; 8. 29X-Brandon Bahr, [10]; 9. 10T-Tom Morriseau, [6]; 10. 13B-Jess Brekke, [18]; 11. 16-Brenden Luschinski, [17]; 12. (DNF) 5-Aaron Blacklance, [5]; 13. (DNF) 1S-Scott Bintz, [1]; (DNS) B4-Jory Berg, ; (DNS) 111-Jason Halverson, ; (DNS) 68-Joe Henninger, ; (DNS) 33X-Justin Froemming, ; (DNS) 3L-Logan Salazar,
Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 34-Troy Randall, [2]; 2. 7T-Joseph Thomas, [4]; 3. 11S-Darren Engesser, [3]; 4. 87S-Reise Stenberg, [6]; 5. 39-Jamie Dietzler, [5]; 6. B4-Jory Berg, [7]; 7. 4B-Brandon Rehill, [1]; 8. 33A-Austin Overwater, [10]; 9. 29X-Brandon Bahr, [11]; 10. 188-Hunter Hougard, [9]; (DQ) 20-Nick Audette, [8]
Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 16T-Randy Thompson, [1]; 2. 5C-Preston Carr, [6]; 3. 169-Justin Olson, [4]; 4. 27-Les Schoon, [3]; 5. 1S-Scott Bintz, [10]; 6. 32-Eric Haugland, [11]; 7. 10T-Tom Morriseau, [9]; 8. 00-Steve Hougard, [5]; 9. 3-Adam Unrau, [2]; 10. (DNF) 44-Austin Hunter, [8]; 11. (DNF) 4H-Grant Hall, [7]
Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 17S-Lance Schill, [3]; 2. 23V-Scott Vasichek, [2]; 3. 6R-Nate Reynolds, [4]; 4. 16S-Skyler Smith, [5]; 5. 735-Tanner Theis, [6]; 6. 57-Nathan Raasakka, [10]; 7. 22S-Tyler Schow, [9]; 8. (DNF) 68-Joe Henninger, [11]; 9. (DNF) 14-Scott Harrington, [1]; 10. (DNF) 6-Dean Eggebraaten, [8]; (DNS) 16-Brenden Luschinski,
Heat 4 (8 Laps): 1. 99-Doyle Erickson, [2]; 2. 24-Victoria Stutsky, [4]; 3. 2G-Brock Gronwold, [5]; 4. 23-Matt Gilbertson, [6]; 5. 21-Todd Johnson, [3]; 6. 69R-Terry Reilly, [1]; 7. 96-Jeremy Lizakowski, [7]; 8. 74-Gary James Nelson, [9]; 9. 111-Jason Halverson, [11]; 10. 54-Lance Relf, [8]; 11. (DNF) 3L-Logan Salazar, [10]
Heat 5 (8 Laps): 1. 2S-Matt Schow, [7]; 2. 12-Jaden Varnson, [2]; 3. 10C-Cole Haugland, [9]; 4. 81X-Matt Sparby, [1]; 5. 88XXX-Randy Klein, [6]; 6. 5-Aaron Blacklance, [3]; 7. 21L-Jarett Lovcik, [8]; 8. 8-Jason Schuh, [5]; 9. 77B-Logan Bauer, [4]; 10. 33X-Justin Froemming, [10]; 11. 1TPO-Corky Thomas, [11]
WISSOTA Street Stocks:
A Feature (20 Laps): 1. 39-Aaron Blacklance, [7]; 2. 33-Daniel Aberle, [8]; 3. 29-Dan McNamee, [3]; 4. 25-Ryan Johnson, [5]; 5. 18B-Adam Burrows, [11]; 6. 14-Jeremy Castro, [20]; 7. 03-Bryce Reimer, [13]; 8. 91-Shane Swenson, [12]; 9. 21J-Brian Johanson, [1]; 10. 61-Joe Engels, [17]; 11. 5-Bradon Miller, [21]; 12. 48-Chase Boen, [18]; 13. 8T-Doug VanMill, [16]; 14. 43-Rory Opp, [6]; 15. 2U-Kasey Ussatis, [23]; 16. 28-Greg Jose, [9]; 17. 7-Dan Arends, [15]; 18. 1J-Joe Armstrong, [22]; 19. 9-Blake Anderson, [24]; 20. 99-Josh Barker, [25]; 21. (DNF) C4-Cliff Reeves, [4]; 22. (DNF) 29*-Jeff Crouse, [19]; 23. (DNF) 27P-Tucker Pederson, [2]; 24. (DNF) 45-TYLER REIMER, [10]; 25. (DNF) 17-Casey Vargason, [14]
B Feature 1 (12 Laps): 1. 29*-Jeff Crouse, [2]; 2. 14-Jeremy Castro, [1]; 3. 5-Bradon Miller, [4]; 4. 1J-Joe Armstrong, [5]; 5. 2U-Kasey Ussatis, [10]; 6. 9-Blake Anderson, [11]; 7. 27A-Parker Anderson, [14]; 8. 99-Josh Barker, [13]; 9. 92-Megan McNamee, [7]; 10. 10-Joe Potter, [9]; 11. (DNF) 7M-James Meagher, [12]; 12. (DNF) 24T-Tiffany Noreikis, [6]; (DNS) 12S-Trajan Schmidt, ; (DNS) 4-Trey Hess, ; (DNS) 76-Ron Olafson,
Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 21J-Brian Johanson, [2]; 2. 28-Greg Jose, [6]; 3. 27P-Tucker Pederson, [10]; 4. 45-TYLER REIMER, [7]; 5. 03-Bryce Reimer, [11]; 6. 8T-Doug VanMill, [9]; 7. 14-Jeremy Castro, [5]; 8. 5-Bradon Miller, [1]; 9. 92-Megan McNamee, [3]; 10. (DNF) 9-Blake Anderson, [8]; (DNS) 99-Josh Barker,
Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 39-Aaron Blacklance, [3]; 2. 33-Daniel Aberle, [9]; 3. 25-Ryan Johnson, [4]; 4. 18B-Adam Burrows, [2]; 5. 17-Casey Vargason, [1]; 6. 61-Joe Engels, [7]; 7. 29*-Jeff Crouse, [5]; 8. 1J-Joe Armstrong, [6]; 9. 4-Trey Hess, [10]; 10. (DNF) 7M-James Meagher, [8]
Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. C4-Cliff Reeves, [2]; 2. 43-Rory Opp, [4]; 3. 29-Dan McNamee, [1]; 4. 91-Shane Swenson, [3]; 5. 7-Dan Arends, [6]; 6. 48-Chase Boen, [7]; 7. 12S-Trajan Schmidt, [5]; 8. 24T-Tiffany Noreikis, [8]; 9. 10-Joe Potter, [9]; 10. 2U-Kasey Ussatis, [10]
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Q: Thymeleaf attribute and modal Edited:
Just figured out that i need JS. Plase, help me with this. I have a th:attr="data-object-id=${department.id}" who store Department id, which i need to put in the modal in the <input id="ids" name="ids" type="text" class="validate">.
How will JS or JQuery looks like? I am trying to write, but all time null or undefined.

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                settings
                edit
                <form method="post" th:action="@{'/departments/' + ${department.id} + '/delete'}" class="inline">
                    <button type="submit" value="" class="link-button delete_dep">
                        delete
                    </button>
                </form>

Update Department

            close

Update Department name

            <form id="dep-update" class="col s12" th:action="@{'/departments/update'}" method="POST">

                        <input id="depName" name="name" type="text" class="validate">
                        <input id="ids" name="ids" type="text" class="validate">
                        Department Name
                        mode_edit

            </form>

                <input class="modal-close waves-green green btn-dep btn" type="submit" form="dep-update">

I need to give ID value of department to MODAL, so i can update it

My Departments class is easy. Only ID and name;

A: The 2 tricks to achieve the same (PS - I'm not a Frontend expert):-
1.)  Is to create a hidden html-element on your html page & set the value and then get the value of that element using jquery on your modal.
2.) create a function on that html-element and pass the dynamic value to it and then implement your modal hide/show code inside that function, something like this :- -
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and your function would be something like this :-
function showFunctionModal(id) {
        //logic to hide & show function
        }

A: You can listen to the show.bs.modal event and capture the department id as shown below:
$('#modal3').on('shown.bs.modal', function (e) {
   var target = e.relatedTarget;
   var departmentId = $(target).data('object-id');
   $("#ids").val(departmentId);
});

A: Problem solved. Huge thanks @Sumit.
th:onclick="'javascript:showFunctionModal(\'' + ${department.id} +'\');'"> on the field which id i want to fetch and then in ready modal function set id.
function showFunctionModal(id) {
        $(document).ready(function () {
            $('.modal3').modal();
            $("#ids").val(id);
        });

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