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Fracking moratorium – the unanswered questions
By Ruth Hayhurst on November 4, 2019 • ( 10 Comments )
IGas site at Misson Springs, Nottinghamshire, 4 February 2019. Photo: Eric Walton
The energy secretary, Andrea Leadsom, confirmed the government's U-turn on shale gas policy in a statement to parliament today.
This follows an earlier announcement that ministers were withdrawing their support for the fracking and introducing a moratorium.
Mrs Leadsom said in today's statement there was now a presumption against issuing any further hydraulic fracturing consents, an "effective moratorium" on fracking.
The regulator, the Oil & Gas Authority, was also unlikely to approve further hydraulic fracture plans unless new evidence was presented, her statement said.
Cuadrilla responded that it would:
"continue to work constructively with the OGA to provide further detailed data to address concerns so that the moratorium can be lifted."
IGas and Egdon Resources said they were committed to working closely with the regulators to demonstrate they could operate safely and in an environmentally-responsible way.
But nearly 72 hours after the news was first released, there was not much more detail about which processes the moratorium applied to and how it would work.
Gooseneck at Cuadrilla's Preston New Road shale gas site, 5 August 2019. Photo: Ros Wills
What we don't know
The written ministerial statement said the moratorium would be maintained:
"until compelling new evidence [undefined] is provided which addresses the concerns about the prediction and management of induced seismicity."
Cuadrilla said it would provide data from fracking the second well at its Preston New Road site in August 2019 to address the government's concerns.
But opponents of Cuadrilla's operation think this information may not reassure the regulator.
The UK's strongest fracking-induced earth tremor, measuring 2.9ML, induced by fracking at Preston New Road, happened three days after the last injection. Cuadrilla's hydraulic fracturing plan predicted the maximum strength tremors could be close to that, at 3.1ML, but this was considered to be "a very low likelihood".
What fracking?
The written statement did not specify what operation the moratorium applied to.
Does it cover any fracking for shale gas? Is it associated hydraulic fracturing, defined by the volume of fluid in the 2015 Infrastructure Act (1,000m3 per stage or 10,000m3 in total)? Or is it any operations that need a hydraulic fracture plan?
DrillOrDrop asked BEIS how the moratorium would affect operations, such as proppant squeeze, a form of fracking with acid. Plans for this process, by Egdon Resources at Wressle near Scunthorpe, require a hydraulic fracture plan. But the volume of fluid is well below the associated hydraulic fracturing definition. We did not receive a response.
We also asked whether during the moratorium Cuadrilla could go back to frack at Preston New Road using volumes of fluid below those set out in the Infrastructure Act. We received no response.
Future fracking?
The written statement said the energy secretary would consider future applications for hydraulic fracturing consent "on their own merit, in accordance with the law". But it advised the shale gas industry to take the government's position into account "when considering new developments".
So is it worth companies submitting plans to frack? And does it make any difference if the sites have already been developed?
IGas has drilled a shale gas well at Springs Road, Misson, in north Nottinghamshire. An announcement had been expected on whether the company would apply to frack this well. There doesn't seem to be anything in the statement to guide IGas on whether any application would be successful.
There was also no detail on what happens to plans already in the system. Aurora Energy Resources has an application to drill and frack two wells at Great Altcar, near Formby in Lancashire. Does this count as a "new development".
If IGas and Aurora can't progress their projects, will the government compensate them? There was no information in the statement and no response to our question.
And what about Ineos, which has two planning permissions for shale gas exploration (but not fracking) and a commitment to frack 11 horizontal wells by July 2021. Will it be compensated for the costs of applying for planning permission and bidding for the licences? The statement did not address this.
Where can we find out more?
We asked BEIS what guidance it would be issuing to local authorities, companies and communities about the moratorium. The department referred us to Mrs Leadsom's statement.
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Peter K Roberts. says:
Slippery Tories as mendacious as ever!
All will become clear should they remain in power after the upcoming general election.
Ellie Gold says:
This is clearly a cynical pre-election ploy by the Tories to make people think that fracking is dead. It isn't dead till there is a permanent ban in place, which included coal bed methane and acid fracking, and pedl licences are taken back. People voting in the election who care about fracking should choose one of the other parties who have firm commitments to banning fracking – not the Tories, whose leader can't be trusted to tell the truth about the time of day, let alone fracking.
Only Boo-ris Johnson could bumble his way around this while AJ Lucas investors lost a chunk of their investment . Never trust a Tory
Brockham Oil Watch says:
We go into some detail about these regulatory issues in our briefing. A Hydraulic Fracturing Consent is given by the BEIS secretary of state. It is required for operations that meet the "associated hydraulic fracturing" definition in the IA2015. However, since 29 Nov 2017 ministerial direction to the OGA, all operations that meet the definition of "relevant hydraulic fracturing" should also be referred to the secretary of state for consent. The difference in the definitions is a volume of 1,000m3 used at every stage vs any stage, respectively, or a total volume of 10,000m3.
Hydraulic Fracturing Plan is required by the OGA, but it is not clear for which operations. The OGA guidance states that an HFP will always be required for hydraulic fracturing operations (any operation above fracture gradient), but in evidence given to Housing,
Communities and Local Government (HCLGC), in 2018, the OGA seems to contradict this by saying that they'd not always require an HFP for operations that are below the IA2015 volume thresholds.
The moratorium on 2nd Nov specifically refers to a presumption against issuing Hydraulic Fracturing Consents and we interpret this as that it relates only to operations that meet either the "associated" or "relevant" hydraulic fracturing definition.
Our briefing is available here: https://bit.ly/2JReqjT and we are inviting signatures (by campaign groups, environmental groups, elected representatives in the affected communities, academics, NGOs and other supportive individuals and groups) to our open letter to the government calling for a ban of all forms of fracking in England: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf5uIUP4GJN7LMcZbiMzFWoeIeLgHweIouq4Zd4LM9ytLW-bg/viewform
David Burley says:
If fracturing of rock is achieved with low volume pressured water it is not called hydraulic fracturing – so what the hell is it called?
The antifracking movement should be able to help with that one, as they created the confusion in the first place by claiming previous hydraulic fracturing at places like Elswick and Kirby Misperton was not 'fracking'
David Burnley
It is hydraulic fracking, but not associated hydraulic fracking ( in law )
…However, Mrs Leadsom's statement to parliament says "the OGA are therefore unlikely to approve future Hydraulic Fracture Plans unless new evidence is presented", which would suggest that the moratorium covers a wider definition of fracking (any operation above fracture gradient). Or perhaps, the difference between when a Hydraulic Fracturing Consent is required vs when a Hydraulic Fracture Plan is required according to existing legislation and regulations is not accounted for in the statement.
Tog says:
Reblogged this on sideshowtog.
Slight correction to the above statement: … However, Mrs Leadsom's statement to parliament on Nov 4 says "the OGA are therefore unlikely to approve future Hydraulic Fracture Plans unless new evidence is presented", which would suggest that the moratorium potentially covers a wider spectrum of fracking operations, not just "associated" or "relevant" hydraulic fracturing. Given that the reason for imposing of the moratorium is because "it is not possible with current technology to accurately predict the probability of tremors associated with fracking" and that seismicity is regulated though the Traffic Light System (which is part of a Hydraulic Fracturing Plan) this would seem appropriate.


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Q: How to configure Alpine to use an already running Emacs as an alternate editor? I have activated in Alpine email client the following setting in order to use Emacs as an editor when composing emails:
[X]  Enable Alternate Editor Implicitly
Editor = emacsclientw.exe -ca runemacs.exe

When I put the cursor in the body field of message, Emacs opens. But the problem is returning the contents of the Emacs buffer to Alpine. When I save the temporary buffer and return to Alpine, the typed text does not appear in Alpine.
If I use the below settings, Alpine returns the content of Emacs buffer to Alpine, but the problem is that this opens a new instance of Emacs that I dislike.
[X]  Enable Alternate Editor Implicitly
Editor    = emacs.exe

A: (Your first and preferred option)
After saving in emacs did you do "C-x #"? Or did you just click alpine window? Also before starting alpine try starting emacs as daemon:
 emacs.exe --daemon

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Chaco Vs Teva: Which Sandals Are Better?
Sandals have gotten really popular these last few years. Now, I'm not much of a sandal wearer, but it's brands like Chaco and Teva that are converting people like me.
It's mainly due to their ultra-modern designs and their bold styles. Nowadays, sandals have a much higher recognition in the fashion industry. But it's not like Chaco and Teva make stylish sandals at the expense of versatility or durability.
Most of the models from both brands – example: the Z/1 Customizable sandal from Chaco and the Midform Universal Polaroid from Teva are very stylish, but they're also SANDALS. What I mean by that is that their unorthodox and stylish design doesn't come at the expense of the qualities of a regular sandal.
If you're deciding on which brand is more suited for you, use this comparative analysis as a guide.
What Can You Expect with Chaco vs Teva?
Teva Stylish Sandals
Chaco and Teva are different. They have some similarities here and there, in that they follow the same upper adjustable strap type of design, but other than that, even just by looking at them side-by-side, there are a lot of differences.
First off, I want to talk durability and hiking prowess. Checo takes the win here. It's the interesting sole design and toe strap design. This can be seen on the Z/1 Classic Sandals from Checo.
What nobody is disputing with Teva though, are the designs. They've been called "the best-looking sandals on the market" way too often, but it makes sense why. Their Original Universal Polaroids are usually the ones referenced for this and a quick glance at them will tell you why. It's no joke, these sandals are very fashionable.
There are some sandals from Teva that are very practical for hiking, but on average, Chacos are just better, in my humble opinion.
What You Can Expect From Both Manufacturers
Side-By-Side Comparison
Chaco Review
Teva Review
Head-To-Head – Chaco VS Teva
The Verdict: Direct-To-Consumer Sandals
Side-By-Side Comparison – Chaco VS Teva
On top of comparing the sandals, we also wanted to compare other things such as: quality, durability, hiking prowess, designs, price, and some other aspects that might be important to shoppers.
This is a comparison of Chaco and Teva:
Chaco VS Teva: Sandals Comparison
Hiking Prowess Amazing 5/5 Good 3/5
Price Affordable – $$ Cheap – $
Designs Good 4/5 Amazing 5/5
Shipping Free on orders above $49.01 Free on orders above $35
Comfort Amazing 5/5 Amazing 5/5
Visit Chaco
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NOTE: These scores are median scores and most shouldn't be taken as facts. They're based on the experience we had with both sandals and are strictly our opinion.
Teva will be good enough for a lot of people. For me, I was bummed out that I found Chacos better in a lot of ways. This is because I really like the designs of Teva's sandals and they would've been an easy choice if I found them as hiking-friendly and as high-quality as Chacos.
Nevertheless, we'll also do a head-to-head comparison to see in use-cases scenario which make more sense to buy.
Oh, yes… Elegant & comfortable Chacos sandals
How Chaco came to be is an interesting story. Mark Paigen the original creator of the Chacos was fed up with how uncomfortable shoes can be for outdoor adventuring. While he experienced wet shoes, the others around him were wearing Teva sandals.
He came up with the idea to use different materials than leather in sandals, so that his sandals can be quick-drying, durable, and able to take on every terrain imaginable. Oh, and having synthetic materials instead of leather was still a new thing back then, in the 1980s.Nevertheless, while the company's goals were first to make the most practical sandal ever, the company has now expanded on their mission.
Nowadays, it's not just about being the most practical sandal on the market, but being stylish at the same time. The company is definitely hopping on the sandal trend, the same way Teva does.
But the thing I like with Chaco is the fact that you can find different sandals based on what you'll use them for. For example, the Cloud X sandals are perfect for walking, but you might want to consider the Z/1 Classics for urban life.
Alright, back to the important stuff.
Chacos aren't the best-looking sandals ever made. For some people, the designs are cool, but for the majority, not really. But in my opinion, Chacos aren't about that. Chacos are about withstanding the worst conditions imaginable.
Being durable, being comfortable, being quick-drying, are all the things that Chaco sandals are trying to achieve, and what they're doing seems to be working.
But there are designs that just click for a lot of people. Examples include the Customizable ZX/2 Sandals, the Customizable Z/1 Sandals, and the Z/1 Classic, just to name a few.
With that out of the way, here are the pros and cons to with Chaco sandals:
Amazing sole design
Suited for different types of adventures and urban life
Very durable
Not the most stylish sandals
Teva – @gabrielasage
Teva was born somewhere around the same time as Chaco. The story is as interesting as Mark Paigen's story, but I'll just get straight down to the facts.
"Teva" is Hebrew for "NATURE". So, the companies roots aren't that different from Chaco. Furthermore, as I said before, the scores in the comparison are just a median of all of the sandals both brands have to offer.
Thing is, you can find some sandal models like the Hurricane Verge which are perfect for adventuring. Comfortable, practical, and good for hiking. But the majority of the models are now following the fashion trend.
But don't get me wrong, I love them, they look stunning. Plus, they've made different models of their best-selling sandals, the Universal Polaroids. So, some of their Polaroids have different soles, sizes, composition, it's interesting.
The main takeaway is that you can find both sandals with good hiking prowess but also some urban and fashionable sandals. But with Teva, in my opinion, it comes at an expense of one or the other. Meaning, the urban ones are not really optimized for adventuring and the hiking sandals are usually not that good looking.
But I'm sure that there are some which have both qualities. For me, I just haven't found them yet.
So, here's a recap of the pros and cons for Teva:
Highly fashionable
Both hiking and urban sandals
Free shipping on most sandals
Practicality comes at the expense of design or vice-versa
Chacos
If you haven't found a clear answer yet it's because there isn't one per se. But there are certain scenarios in which in my opinion, you should pick one over the other.
I think Chaco is the better OVERALL option. This is just my opinion, but the reason for it is because: There's a better mixture of fashion to practicality, my Chaco sandals felt more high-quality, and felt durable enough to withstand a lot of conditions.
As for Teva, I already made it clear that I like them more. However, while I like the style a lot and models like the Universal Polaroids make me want to reconsider, they're just not as good as Chacos overall for me.
But the prices are lower with Teva, albeit by a small amount. So, there's that. But still, the prices for both brands I think its representative of what the customer is getting at both brands.
While their roots and goals might have been the same in the early days, Chaco and Teva have branched out quite a lot. There are a lot of differences between them, but for what it's worth, both have impressive sandals.
As I said, for me Chaco is overall the superior sandal. This is not a median, I just found that the quality was better, the sandals were more comfortable, and they felt like they can take on some harsh environments.
Teva is amazing if you're looking for an urban sandal, but there's not really a good mixture of performance-to-design.
There are Teva sandals which are also purely hiking-focused and extremely versatile, but you do compromise on the design. But it's true, some people may find them even more fashionable than Chaco. For the majority though, I don't think that's the case.
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Every year, my sister and brother-in-law take the children apple-picking during the month of September. They always return with a nice supply of apples and even a few pears. This year, we were given Fuji apples for baking and some other varieties for eating. Although I enjoy baking, I only bake a pie once a year. It is too much work compared to cake, cookies, and brownies. Luckily, I can usually convince my husband to core and peel (and sometimes even slice) the apples for me. He is a huge fan of apple pie.
This year, instead of using the same old recipe, I searched Pinterest for an alternative easy apple pie recipe. I finally came upon one by Pillsbury for Mini Apple Crostatas. It looked tasty, so I gave it a whirl. I must say that I was very pleased with the results and so was my family. Even our 8 year, who claimed that he did not like apple pie, admitted that it was delicious. The only thing I did differently was to cute the refrigerated pie crust into quarters rather than cut circles out of them. I thought my mini pies would come out triangular in shape, but they turned out round anyways and I didn't waste any of the crust.
If you try this recipe, you should know it is for making 4 mini pies with one pie crust. I doubled the recipe to use both pie crusts. Also, my baking time was 3 or 4 minutes less than the time suggested, so you may want to set your timer for less time and keep a close eye on the crust to prevent burning. This recipe was so easy that our 8 year old son was able to help cut the pie crust into quarters and to spoon in the apple filling. Even if you do not consider yourself a baker, if he can do it, so can you!
NOTE: Just wanted to add that, for the caramel sauce, I used Smucker's Caramel Sundae Syrup. It worked out perfectly and was not too sweet, even with vanilla ice cream added on top.


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Patients in a behavioral health crisis typically turn to their local hospital's emergency department (ED) for care. Most critical access hospitals, however, have few beds and their ED doctors have little experience or training in mental health care. Having a mental health professional available to the ED at any time, however, isn't usually a viable option for a small or rural medical center.
With BHP's telehealth, mental health services are available to health care sites of any size, throughout the state, on a 24-7 basis. Providers and patients connect by video conference call with a licensed mental health professional, giving patients the same information and care they would receive from an in-person assessment.
BHP's telehealth services are growing, with 4,000 assessments completed in the last four years throughout Minnesota, including patients at sites outside the Fairview system.
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Do you feel that students at Southern Oregon University could benefit from having a stronger voice in local and state government?
Are leadership and advocacy skills something you want to gain from your experience at SOU?
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If students have met the requirements during their internship, they can receive two credits from the Social Sciences, Policy and Culture department at the end of the term.
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Once a regular feature on the blog, I'm delighted to bring back our About My Query posts. Every week, one of the agents or our valuable reader here at KT Literary will read and critique a query letter sent specifically for analysis. We don't pull queries to critique from our general slushpile, so if you want to take part, please send your query letter to AboutMyQuery@ktliterary.com, and we'll get back to you with a possible pub date and let you know who's going to do the critique — either me (Kate), Sara, Renee, Hannah, or Hilary. Not sure what a query critique entails? Read on, or check out our extensive archives! A new AMQ will post each Friday!
As a Biology major and chemistry minor with the intention of becoming a neuroscientist, I never dreamed that I would write a book – instead, I dreamt one.
The first in The Rising trilogy, Rise Against takes place in a futuristic United States ruled by a totalitarian government where global warming wreaks havoc daily. Sloan had just finished her freshmen year of college when the President declared a critical shortage in earth metals, forcing her and the rest of the middle and lower classes to become the new expendable resource responsible for running the industrial factories. In the face of imminent climate disaster, she and her little sister escape the factory with the help of a brave, mysterious black man, who Sloan finds it increasingly difficult not to develop feelings for. But escaping from the government-controlled work camp is just the beginning. Can the trio survive trekking through the harsh climate global warming has created? Will they make it to a safe haven, or are they doomed to fall into the hands that suppress them?
All 95,000 words of The Rising: Rise Against paint a sharp picture of what the environmental future entails for our next generations assuming we continue "business as usual." It blends fact, fiction, and prediction to create an ominous yet believable future. It aims to unite people not by color, but by the fact that we all share double-stranded DNA winding us together, and this is demonstrated through a beautiful interracial romance between the main protagonists, a love unseen by other major works of young adult and science fiction.
I greatly appreciate your time and consideration. Thank you!
First of all, thanks for sharing, Stephanie! It's fun to get back to these posts. I hope our criticisms are helpful.
To begin with, I'd say telling an agent that you dreamt your book, while true, isn't the strongest opening. You don't need to get fancy with the first paragraph — honestly, it's ok to even skip it — but if you are going to include it, use it to either tell the agent you're writing why you picked them to query, or give the strong hook of the story: the one-line elevator pitch.
You give the reader some excellent background on the setting of the story, but there's little about the protagonist or the love interest, who isn't even given a name. Consider the elements of protagonist, antagonist, plot, setting, and voice, and try to include at least three of those story pieces into the description of the book. We want to know WHO the book is about, WHO ELSE they encounter, WHAT is going on, WHERE they are, and HOW you're going to tell the story. Right now, I'm afraid it sounds somewhat generic, especially as we get into the final paragraph.
I also would advise against trying to paint your manuscript as a tool or device — you should be selling me on the story you're telling, not what the book is going to do to society. Also, before criticizing a genre, I would recommend asking around, particularly of young adult librarians. I'm certain we could come up with a list of biracial YA couples that's quite extensive, so by including that final sentence here, your query comes across as ignorant of the genre you're writing in, which I'm sure isn't your intention. Yes, we could use MORE racially diverse stories, but calling yours one of the only is a turn-off, not on.
In terms of telling the agent you're querying a little bit about yourself, you do that in the opening, but I would move that down to the end of the letter — honeslty, and no offense, but the story should be more important here than who you are.
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Eleven-year-old Gaben, one of the gray-skinned inhabitants of planet Harte, stumbles through life with brains and recklessness. He shamed medical healers by finding the cure to a fatal disease infecting many hartians, but there isn't enough of the antidote. Gaben's mother, a research astronomer, flies on a spaceship with other scientists to their twin planet, Earth, to collect the needed snake venom. Gaben curiously wanders into the cargo hold and accidentally becomes a stowaway.
On Earth, Gaben follows his mother off the spaceship invisibly, and then it relocates to a different part of the planet.
Luke, a fifteen-year-old human boy discovers Gaben and his mother. Intrigued, Luke keeps their existence a secret, hiding them in his attic. Gaben's mother gathers rattlesnakes for transport. Since Gaben's ability to disappear isn't fully developed, he might be seen by Luke's next door neighbor—he's an FBI agent.
If the FBI finds Gaben, he and his mother could be held captive for experimentation and never return to planet Harte to save his dying grandfather.
I have also written a prequel, VENOM FOR PLANET HARTE, about the disease's origin, how Gaben found the cure, and what he did to save his dying father. VENOM FOR PLANET HARTE is complete at 35,000 words. I am a SCBWI member.
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Leo Acheson, CFA, is an associate director of multiasset and alternative strategies for Morningstar.
Christine Benz: Hi, I am Christine Benz for Morningstar.com. As health savings account assets have grown, Morningstar has begun grading HSAs on their merits. Joining me to discuss the latest round of grades is Leo Acheson. He is director of multi-asset strategies and alternative strategies for Morningstar.
Leo, thank you so much for being here.
Leo Acheson: Of course. Thanks for having me.
Benz: Leo, you and the team took a look at HSAs from two vantage points; one as spending vehicle, so for people who want to use their health savings account as spend-as-they-go type vehicles and also as savings vehicles. You've got it all in the paper, the specific criteria that you use to judge these accounts on. But let's start with the spending vehicle, so for people who want to use their HSA as a short-term parking place. Let's talk about the HSA account that came out on top.
Acheson: There was one that really stood out, and that was The HSA Authority. It was the only plan that we looked at of the 10, that does not charge a maintenance fee. The maintenance fee is really the biggest consideration for HSA spenders, so that really makes it a clear winner in that space.
Benz: HSA Authority, if you are using it as a spend-as-you-go vehicle. How about for people who want to harness those great long-term tax benefits that come along with an HSA and use it to invest for the long term. Here again, HSA Authority looks pretty good, right?
Acheson: That's exactly right. Of the 10 points we looked at, The HSA Authority we think is the strongest for use as an investment vehicle to save for the long term. Couple of other plans were also attractive though not quite as attractive as The HSA Authority, partially due to the fees that they charge. Bank of America and Further are also good options. One thing I would note is that Further really stands out if you want to buy passive exposure, but for active strategies it's not as good of a deal.
Benz: When you are evaluating the HSAs as long-term investment vehicles, you are looking at cost of course, you are looking at investment options. What other kinds of things are you and the team looking at?
Acheson: Costs are very important consideration. We look at the quality of the underlying funds. We're able to aggregate our fund ratings at each of these plans and see how they stack up versus one another. We also look at the menu design--does the plan offer strategies in all the core asset classes and also limit overlap among some of those options. Finally, we look at the investment thresholds which essentially require investors to keep a certain amount in a checking account, before they can invest, which could create an opportunity cost. That was another factor we looked at.
Benz: It's important to note that when you and the team evaluated the HSAs, you evaluated them on a standalone basis, so for individual investors who are out shopping for HSAs, you didn't and perhaps couldn't take into account any sweeteners that employers are adding to get their employees to contribute to the HSA that's offered in house.
Acheson: That's right. The HSA offered in-house vary from one employer to the next based on multiple factors like number of employees or insurance provider. Of course seeing you might take into consideration a match that or contribution that your firm might provide. We focus on these evaluations from an individual perspective.
Benz: You say it's important for people who are offered that employer-provided HSA to really do their homework on any particularities of their own plan and the HSA offering within it?
Acheson: Exactly. I would recommend that you request information such as what are the fees, what are the interest rates, what are the investment options, and then use that information, compare it to, for instance what we have in this paper to see if you might be able to get a better deal by going outside of your employer-offered plan.
Benz: People might say well, that's awfully cumbersome to go outside of my employer-provided plan. But you say that employee should think about at least participating in the employer provided plan through payroll deductions, and then potentially do transfers. Is that how it would work?
Acheson: Exactly. Yeah, that would be the best option, to use that and then periodically transfer it over, so then you'd have two HSA accounts side by side.
Benz: Leo, great research. Thank you so much for being here to discuss it with us.
Acheson: Of course. Great, talking with you.


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High court to rule on Biden student loan cancellation plan
Logan Moore Send an email December 2, 2022
By MARK SHERMAN (Associated Press)
WASHINGTON (VFAB) — The Supreme Court agreed Thursday to decide whether the Biden administration can broadly cancel student loans, keeping the program blocked for now but signaling a final answer by early summer.
That's about two months before the newly extended pause on loan repayments is set to expire.
The administration had wanted a court order that would have allowed the program to take effect even as court challenges proceed. The justices didn't do that, but agreed to the administration's fallback, setting arguments for late February or early March over whether the program is legal.
President Joe Biden's plan promises $10,000 in federal student debt forgiveness to those with incomes of less than $125,000, or households earning less than $250,000. Pell Grant recipients, who typically demonstrate more financial need, are eligible for an additional $10,000 in relief.
The Congressional Budget Office has said the program will cost about $400 billion over the next three decades.
More than 26 million people already applied for the relief, with 16 million approved, but the Education Department stopped processing applications last month after a federal judge in Texas struck down the plan.
The administration said it was pleased the nation's highest court had intervened, and Biden said on Twitter that the White House will keep fighting for the loan plan.
"Republican officials are throwing up roadblocks in order to prevent middle-class families from getting the student debt relief they need," he said in a tweet.
The Texas case is one of two in which federal judges have forbidden the administration from implementing the loan cancellations.
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In a separate lawsuit filed by six states, a three-judge panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis also put the plan on hold, and that case is before the Supreme Court.
The moratorium had been slated to expire Jan. 1, a date that Biden set before his debt cancellation plan stalled in the face of legal challenges from conservative opponents.
The new expiration date is 60 days after the legal issue has been settled, but no later than the end of August.
Conservative attorneys, Republican lawmakers and business-oriented groups have asserted that Biden overstepped his authority in taking such sweeping action without the assent of Congress. They called it an unfair government giveaway for relatively affluent people at the expense of taxpayers who didn't pursue higher education.
Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt, a Republican, said in a statement following the high court order that the Biden plan "would saddle Americans who didn't take out loans or already paid theirs off with even more economic woes." Missouri is one of the six states that sued to block the plan, along with Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska and South Carolina.
The administration has argued that the loan cancellations are legal under a 2003 law aimed at providing help to members of the military. The program is a response to "a devastating pandemic with student loan relief designed to protect vulnerable borrowers from delinquency and default," the Justice Department said in court papers.
The law, the HEROES Act, allows the secretary of education to "waive or modify any statutory or regulatory provision applicable to the student financial assistance programs … as the Secretary deems necessary in connection with a war or other military operation or national emergency."
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In putting the program on hold, the 8th Circuit panel said there was little harm to borrowers because repayments have been suspended. Allowing the cancellations to proceed before a definitive court ruling would have had än "irreversible impact," the appeals court said.
U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman, an appointee of former President Donald Trump, issued a more sweeping ruling in the Texas case, finding that such a costly program required clear congressional authorization.
The justices also will confront an important procedural question, whether anyone who has sued faces any legal or financial harm.
The 8th Circuit judges, two Trump appointees and one judge selected by former President George W. Bush, determined there might be financial costs to the Missouri Higher Education Loan Authority, and said that was enough.
In the Texas case, Pittman wrote that plaintiffs Myra Brown and Alexander Taylor could file their lawsuit, though neither faces financial harm. Brown is ineligible for debt relief because her loans are commercially held, and Taylor is eligible for just $10,000 and not the full $20,000 because he didn't receive a Pell grant.
But Pittman said it was enough that the government did not take public comments on the program, meaning neither person had a chance to provide input on a program they would be at least partially excluded from.
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PATRISTIC SERMONS IN THE MIDDLE AGES
The Latin sermons preached by the great patristic preachers, Augustine, Gregory the Great, Leo Magnus, and their contemporaries, had an impact that went far beyond the Late-antique context in which they were first preached. Patristic sermons traveled in manuscript form throughout the medieval world. These sermon collections were not just copied as relics of the authoritative voices of the Early Church. They were reorganized, manipulated, rewritten and added to.
The PASSIM and ALANUS projects will provide access to this dynamic and complex tradition via a database and digital network of the manuscripts transmitting patristic sermon collections. This database will make possible the first large-scale analysis of the reception of patristic sermons in the Middle Ages and illustrate how the medieval interpretation and recontextualization of late-antique sermons colored the perception of the Church Fathers then and now.
Passim
Alanus
The dissemination, manipulation and interpretation of late-antique sermons in the medieval Latin West
PASSIM will study the medieval reception of the Latin sermons preached by the Early Church Fathers, using a digital network of manuscripts.
The sermons of Augustine, Gregory the Great and other patristic preachers were transmitted throughout medieval Europe in the form of sermon collections, preserved in thousands of manuscripts. Nearly every manuscript contains a new combination of sermons, attesting to a continuous, widespread engagement with the authorities of the Early Church. The dynamic tradition of reorganising and rewriting the patristic heritage is largely overlooked by scholars of medieval religious practices, who concentrate on medieval preachers, and by scholars of Early Christianity, whose focus is the patristic context.
Medieval collections of patristic sermons were part of the liturgical life of the monastery, but also of an intellectual tradition. They offer unique insights into medieval attitudes toward authority, techniques of appropriation, church organisation, monastic networks and knowledge exchange. PASSIM will execute the first large-scale analysis of the formation and spread of patristic sermon collections in medieval Europe. The project will develop a digital network of manuscripts, using well-tried principles from the field of textual criticism. Building on this network, PASSIM will pursue three lines of inquiry: the customizing of standard liturgical collections as indicative of individual purposes and contexts, the impact of transmission on the popularity of patristic sermons, and pseudo-epigraphic sermons as revelatory of medieval perceptions of the Church Fathers.
PASSIM will bridge two disciplinary divides, between patristic and medieval sermon studies and between textual criticism and reception studies. Developing an interdisciplinary methodology with a wide applicability in the study of intellectual history, this project will introduce patristic preaching as a vibrant strand in the tapestry of the medieval religious tradition.
This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No ERC-2018-stg 802210.
On the trail of Alanus of Farfa
Tracing the formation of Augustine's authority in medieval sermon collections for the liturgy
Augustine of Hippo (354-430) is one of the great authorities of the Early Church. His impact on western civilisation, during the Middle Ages in particular, cannot be overstated. Today, he is associated mainly with the Confessions and City of God, staples of the western canon. However, throughout the medieval period, his most widely disseminated works were his sermons.
This project will investigate the development of Augustine's authority and his formative role in medieval culture, not through the lens of the grand treatises that were admired by the intellectual elite, but through an analysis of the circulation, manipulation, and appropriation of his sermons, which were copied in hundreds of medieval manuscripts and read daily as part of the liturgy.
The anchor point will be the influential 8th-century sermon collection of Alanus of Farfa. Tracing its presence as part of a transnational European network of manuscripts, the project will investigate how the Augustinian nucleus in Alanus' collection was customized in liturgical sermon collections from the 8th to the 15th century. This investigation will follow a key-thread in the tapestry of the medieval religious tradition, showing how ever-changing purposes and contexts determine the selection, alteration, and interpretation of the Augustinian heritage.
Overturning the traditional notion that medieval adaptations are a regrettable contamination of the antique original, this project will demonstrate that the dynamic medieval engagement with the authorities of Late Antiquity is the key to their perception then and now.
This project has received funding from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) under the Innovational Research Incentives Scheme: VENI, under grant number 016.Veni.195.127.
Shari Boodts is Principal Investigator of the PASSIM and ALANUS projects and Senior Researcher at the Institute for Historical, Literary, and Cultural Studies (HLCS) at Radboud University Nijmegen. She published a new critical edition of Augustine's Sermones ad populum 157-183 in the Corpus Christianorum. Series Latina (Brepols, 2016) and co-edited Preaching in the Patristic Era. Sermons, Preachers, Audiences in the Latin West (Brill, 2018).
Iris Denis is Research Assistant of the PASSIM and ALANUS projects. She completed a Bachelor's degree in Classics and a MA in Literary studies at Radboud University Nijmegen, during the course of which she specialized in Latin literature, reception and manuscript studies.
Thijs Hermsen is scientific programmer of the Technical Service Group of the Radboud University's Faculty of Arts. Together with Erwin Komen, he is responsible for the development of the projects' database and digital network.
Erwin Komen is scientific programmer of the Technical Service Group of the Radboud University's Faculty of Arts. Together with Thijs Hermsen, he is responsible for the development of the projects' database and digital network.
Two postdoctoral researchers and a PhD student will be hired over the course of the next two years to complete the team.
Prof. Paolo Chiesa (Università degli Studi di Milano, SISMEL)
Prof. Emanuela Colombi (Università di Udine, TRAPAT)
Prof. Max Diesenberger (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Universität Wien)
Prof. Anne-Marie Turcan-Verkerk (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, IRHT)
Prof. Clemens Weidmann (Universität Salzburg, CSEL)
Database Application (to appear)
The PASSIM project will develop a database of medieval manuscripts that contain collections of patristic sermons. This database will go beyond a central repository for currently dispersed information. The manuscripts will be integrated in a digital network, which will visualize the proximity between manuscripts based on shared content and thus allow for the reconstruction of the sermons' transmission patterns.
For every manuscript the database will contain a detailed analysis of its content, structural features (e.g. capitula), date and place of origin (if known), provenance, bibliography, and links to digitized images. For every sermon the database will contain incipit, explicit, attributed author(s), numbering(s) in different reference works, keywords, liturgical occasions, manuscript witnesses.
The data needed to construct this network will be sourced from heuristic tools, manuscript catalogues both digital and in print (e.g. BnF, e-codices), relevant databases (e.g. IRHT Medium, Early medieval monasticism, Mirabile), critical editions, studies of the manuscript transmission of the Church Fathers (e.g. HUWA), Claves, and case studies in the field's major journals.
This page will, in due course, come to contain links to projects, publications, databases that may be of use to scholars working on patristic sermons.
Job offer - Postdoctoral research in Medieval Manuscript Studies
Radboud University, Nijmegen, 3 July 2019
Radboud University Nijmegen is advertising a position for a Postdoctoral Researcher in Medieval Manuscript Studies (0.8fte) to be part of the research team of the ERC-funded project Patristic Sermons in the Middle Ages. The dissemination, manipulation and interpretation of Late-Antique sermons in the Medieval Latin West (PASSIM). The Postdoctoral Researcher will study the customization of patristic sermons collections for use in the liturgy and Divine Office in medieval manuscripts from the 7th to the 15th century, with a particular emphasis on the Carolingian homiliary of Paul the Deacon and its reception.
Location: Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Starting date: 1 January 2020 (negotiable)
Contract type: 0,8 FTE
Deadline for the application: 18 August 2019
Interviews: 16 September 2019
Full details of the job offer can be found here.
Call for papers - Ministerium Sermonis IV. An International Colloquium on St. Augustine's Sermons
Hollands College, KU Leuven, 27-29 May 2020
On 27-29 May 2020, the research units History of Church and Theology and Literary Studies: Latin Literature of KU Leuven will organize, in collaboration with the C1-project Magnum opus et arduum: Towards a History of the Reception of Augustine's De civitate Dei and the ERC-project Patristic Sermons in the Middle Ages: The Dissemination, Manipulation, and Interpretation of Late-Antique Sermons in the medieval Latin West, based at Radboud University Nijmegen, the fourth edition of:
MINISTERIUM SERMONIS. AN INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM ON ST. AUGUSTINE'S SERMONS
This conference will bring together scholars who have recently made important contributions to the study of Augustine's sermons. The main focus will be on three areas of research: (1) The transmission and reception of Augustine's sermons, (2) Augustine's argumentation (doctrine, exegesis and rhetoric), (3) Political doctrine(s) and praxis in Latin Patristic sermons. Committed keynote speakers and respondents include: Isabelle Bochet, Johannes Brachtendorf, James Patout Burns, Gillian Clarke, Jérémy Delmulle, Max Diesenberger, François Dolbeau, Marie Pauliat, Els Rose, Clemens Weidmann. The conference is organised by Gert Partoens (KU Leuven), Anthony Dupont (KU Leuven), and Shari Boodts (Radboud University Nijmegen).
If you would like to deliver a lecture during this conference, please send the provisional title, abstract (max. 500 words) and a concise CV (max. 500 words) before 31 May 2019, to Shari Boodts.
Call for papers (pdf)
For enquiries about the project, please contact us using the details below:
Dr. Shari Boodts
Institute for Historical, Literary and Cultural Studies
Erasmusplein 1
6525 HT Nijmegen
6500 HD Nijmegen
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Archivio digitale della cultura medievale
Digital Archives for Medieval Culture
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Syrian Army Aims to Capture Tahrir Al-Sham's Largest Bastion in Southern Idlib
The Damascus Army aims to capture the largest stronghold of Tahrir al-Sham al-Hay'at (the Levant Liberation Board or the Al-Nusra Front) in Southern Idlib as Damascus has sent massive military convoys to continue battle against the terrorist groups in Hama, Idlib and Lattakia.
RNA - "The Syrian Army troops have now entered the Southern part of Jabal al-Zawiya strategic region after its advances in Southwestern Idlib and taking control of the town of al-Qasabiyeh North of Kafar Naboudeh," a military source said.
Meantime, the Syrian army continued its military advances in other parts of Syria over past 24 hours.
Tens of terrorists were killed and dozens more were injured during the Syrian army's operations in provinces across Syria.
The Syrian Army aims to capture the largest stronghold of Tahrir al-Sham al-Hay'at in Southern Idlib as Damascus has sent massive military convoys to continue battle against the terrorist groups in Hama, Idlib and Lattakia.
A military source said that the Syrian Army troops have now entered the Southern part of Jabal al-Zawiya strategic region after its advances in Southwestern Idlib and taking control of the town of al-Qasabiyeh North of Kafar Naboudeh.
The source, meantime, reiterated that the Syrian Army intends to advance towards Tahrir al-Sham's largest stronghold town of al-Hobait in Southwestern Idlib and maintain full security of Kafar Naboudeh after capturing Tal al-Sakhar strategic region.
Meantime, the Syrian Army has sent a large number of its troops and military equipment to contact lines with terrorist groups in Southern Idlib and Northern Hama after new advances in over 20 regions there in the last two days.
The Damascus Army has also sent a large number of troops and military hardware to contact lines with Harasuddin, Tahrir al-Sham and Turkistani Party terrorists in Taleh al-Zaviqiat in Northern Lattakia.
Tahrir al-Sham and Islamic Turkistani Party terrorists have also dispatched military and logistical aid, including military vehicles and heavy weapons, to their militants in Jabal Shahshabou and Sahl al-Ghab in Northern Hama.
Tahrir al-Sham al-Hay'at terrorists backed by the Turkish Army attacked the Syrian Army's military positions in Northern Hama with poisonous gas.
The Arabic-language website of Sputnik news agency quoted a battlefield source as saying that Tahrir al-Sham terrorists using Turkish military and armored vehicles as well as missiles armed with chemical warheads pounded the Syrian Army's military points in Tal Malh and Jabin in Northern Hama from the two axes of al-Zuka and al-Arbaeen.
The source pointed to the continued clashes in the region, and said that the Syrian Army's artillery units and air force pounded the terrorists' movements, destroying terrorists' convoy of military vehicles moving from Khan Sheikhoun in Southern Idlib towards al-Zuka in Northern Hama.
Meantime, another military source said that Tahrir al-Sham and Jeish al-Izza terrorists launched rocket attacks on the city of Mahradeh concurrent with other terrorists' attacks from the axes of al-Zuka and al-Arbaeen.
The source pointed to the tactical withdrawal of the Syrian Army from some of its military positions in al-Jabin region in Northern Hama, and said that the army has dispatched massive military equipment to the battlefronts.
Meantime, the local sources in Idlib province also said that Tahrir al-Sham and Jeish al-Izza terrorists made use of elite and foreign militants in their attack.
The ISIL terrorist group backed by the US troops stationed in al-Tanf region has heightened its movements against the Syrian Army in Eastern Badiyeh (desert) of Homs province, the Arabic-language media outlets reported.
The Arabic-language al-Mayadeen Television news network reported that the ISIL has recently increased its movements in Homs' desert region.
The intensified ISIL attacks on the Syrian Army's military positions in Eastern Homs have increased while the US-led coalition has prepared the grounds for the presence of hundreds of ISIL terrorists in the depth of Badiyeh region with the aim of exerting pressures on the Syrian Army in the military operations against the ISIL in Baqouz region in Eastern Euphrates.
Al-Mayadeen, meantime, pointed to the massive spread of terrorists in the surrounding areas of Jabal al-Bashri in Southeastern Raqqa and al-Dafineh in Southern Deir Ezzur and between Palmyra desert and Al-Sukhneh and the surrounding areas of al-Tanf in Eastern Homs, and said that the ISIL's movements have taken place in line with US' objectives to exert pressure on the Syrian Army and its allies in Syria.
According to Fars News Agancy, Syrian military expert Mohammad Abbas in an interview with al-Mayadeen pointed to the strategic importance of the area stretching from al-Tanf to Bu Kamal and al-Sukhneh, and said that by carrying out mop-up operation in that region, the Syrian army, in fact, will put an end to war in the region.
He pointed to the US logistic, political and military supports for the militants in the same region, and said that Washington is trying to make use of the notion of alternate army to cut the path used by the resistance front.
Meantime, it is believed that about 2,000 terrorists are stationed in Eastern Badiyeh of Deir Ezzur.
The Syrian Army found a large quantity of weapons and military equipment, including arms made in the US, from the former bases and hideouts of the terrorists in Quneitra province in Southern Syria.
The Syrian Army's engineering units continued their clean-up operations in al-Shahar region near Jbata al-Khashab town in Northern Quneitra and near the border with Occupied Golan and discovered two terrorists' hideouts containing large numbers of arms and military equipment there.
The Syrian government forces found different kinds of ammunition, canon, anti-tank missiles, different kinds of machineguns, combat rifles, mine, night-vision cameras and US-made TOW missile-launchers.
A military source, meantime, reiterated that discovery of weapons and military equipment in this region shows the extent of Israel's supports for the terrorist groups in Syria and its strong links to them.
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The MPG event opened by Jason Roper who talked concept of event for real estate, open, honest, informal, no pressure, a network of meetings. Almost three years in the making as the next chapter begins.
The next chapter was big, clear your diary, the next three years event dates need to be blocked out. MPG has become a must attend and the November meeting wowed the property folk of the north, Hacker Young talked interest rate, first rise in ten years before a sincere delivery by Urban Splash, property guru Tom Bloxham MBE.
Clive Gawthorpe, Hacker Young, opened, on the day news of 0.25 per-cent interest rate rise. First rise in ten years. 'The govt has moved digital tax back to 2019, it's still hand written books!' Clive touched on Landlord interest relief, the instructions have changed. HMRC have re-written the advice books, relief is only available for funds borrowed against property. If a draw down is taken form a re-financed property, for it to remain in tax relief it must all be used for property, beware of removing a cash block! Clive announced Hacker Young's, 'Global real Estate guide' just published, hot of the press and waiting on the Hacker Young web for you.
Charity talk was by Mahdlo, Oldham spelt backwards. A passionate tale of property and support. Audience were spellbound as Mahdlo talked David Lloyd quality facilities for the hard to help youngsters, five quid a year membership and fifty pence a visit. There was duke of Edinburgh access without cost to see opportunity for all. 35 different sports provided, art and music for trouble youngsters in the area in a property fit for national level athletes. Oldham's only big climbing wall. MPG members are encouraged to visit and see the property first hand, funds are always needed and this is local delivery that you can see changing youngsters lives, Nov 11 MAHDLO winter ball and there are tickets left, MPG come on down.


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Most psychopaths aren't Adolf Hitler, but they can be as destructive. There might be one in your workplace; you might even be dating one. Know the warning signs.
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Medical schemes can be complicated things.These quick explanations might help you get across a medical scheme hurdle or two.
SLEEP How did you sleep last night?
One of the most challenging skills faced by managers is the ability to handle and positively resolve internal conflict in the workplace.
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For some people, winter marks the start of a relentless and recurrent cycle of depression that affects an individual's ability to function emotionally, physically and socially.
As you get out of bed the symptoms suddenly hit you, stuffy nose, scratchy throat and a pounding headache. But is this the flu or simple a case of the common cold?
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Car Engine Maintenance
How Often Should the Glow Plug be Changed in a Diesel Car?
By Chris Nickson
H.R. Helm
A diesel car doesn't use spark plugs. Instead, compression heat is used and this causes ignition in the engine. However, a diesel engine isn't completely free of plugs. It will still use components which are known as glow plugs.
What a Glow Plug Does
You'll find that there is a glow plug for each cylinder in your diesel car. It's a piece of metal with a shape a little similar to a pencil. There's a heating element on the tip. When you turn the key in an older diesel engine, you shouldn't turn it all the way. Instead, partially turn until the wait to start light on the dash goes off. This indicates the heating element has reached a temperature at which it can start the engine.
How Often to Replace
There's no set rule as when to replace glow plugs in a diesel car. A good indicator that you need new glow plugs is that it's difficult to start the car, taking a few attempts. That will be especially true when the engine is cold. If you remove the glow plugs and look at them, you should replace if the glow plugs are blackened at all, or deformed in any way.
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RSA 2014: Experts discuss the state of security education
Adam Greenberg February 25, 2014
Hord Tipton, executive director of (ISC)2, Ernest McDuffie, lead of National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) NIST, and Michael Murray, a hacker and security expert, sat down to discuss the state of security education at the RSA Conference in San Francisco on Monday.
Tipton and McDuffie took a stance that the industry is not doing enough to support youth that are interested in cyber security. On the other end of the spectrum, school guidance counselors do not recognize information security as a viable field, Tipton added.
Tipton said the industry has to target people at a young age, "who have a knack for this stuff," and get them on a career path that puts the right components in place and offers them opportunities.
McDuffie agreed, and added that getting to people at a young age allows more opportunities to shape them. But it is a challenge, he said, because school curriculums are typically developed on the state or county level, and not the federal level.
Murray took an opposite stance. He explained that he would not implore high potential students to enter the industry because it is very challenging and dynamic. They need unprompted passion for the material if they want to succeed, he said.
As far as adult education is concerned – particularly with regard to employee use of technology in an organization – Tipton said companies are missing the boat. McDuffie said that 15 minutes per month of specific training could help modify unsafe behaviors, but Murray said there is no cure for a staffer who simply is not motivated.
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Joshunda Sanders
Novelist, Educator. Rep'd by Serendipity Lit. @JoshundaSanders on Twitter | @joshunda on IG.
Celebrating a Profound Literary Inheritance: Glory Edim on the Well-Read Black Girl Anthology
Posted by Joshunda Sanders
Authors Jesmyn Ward, Jacqueline Woodson, and Lynn Nottage. Tina Fineberg / Associated Press, Jessica Gow / Associated Press, Charles Sykes / Associated Press
Joshunda Sanders | Longreads | November 2018 | 10 minutes (2,718 words)
More than three years ago, in July 2015, Glory Edim sent her first Well-Read Black Girl newsletter, describing how she came to personally experience Black Girl Magic for the first time: through an "enchantment with storytelling" that began with Eloise Greenfield's Honey, I Love and Other Love Poems.
Greenfield's first book of poems, Honey, I Love was initially published in 1978 before subsequent reissues and has become a modern-day classic. Long before renewed calls for representation and increased diversity in children's literature, Greenfield wrote a picture book inspired by the title poem alone. It was illustrated by Diane and Leo Dillon and features a Black girl on the cover — in part because, though Greenfield went on to write 40 books, she was unable to find books for her own children to read and see themselves in before she wrote her own.
"I liked that phrase, 'Honey, let me tell you,'" Greenfield said in a 1997 National Council of Teachers of English profile. "It was a phrase that was used a lot by African American people, but it had not reached the point where it had become stereotyped. So I wanted to use that, and that's where the title came from. And I wanted to write about things that children love, about childhoods where there may or may not be much money, but there's so much fun."
These sentiments from Greenfield — taking a Black expression usually uttered with intimacy between women and making it a public affirmation of love centered on children — shaped for Edim a landscape of possibility. "I recognized myself immediately on the page;" Edim writes, "a Black girl with wide eyes, full lips, and thick braided hair. The book was my first introduction to poetry that was full of rhythm and everyday language. I was delighted to learn that my trip to the grocery store could be a poem."
At five years old, Edim was proud to be Black. It set her on a path that would lead her to establish a lifelong ritual of reading as self-discovery — from Greenfield to "authors like Toni Morrison, Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, Audre Lorde, Maya Angelou – and many more…their books and profound literary legacy have become my inheritance." Read more…
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Who Sank El Faro? An Interview With Rachel Slade
Bob Self/The Florida Times-Union via AP
Joshunda Sanders | Longreads | May 2018 | 14 minutes (3,119 words)
El Faro rolled farther into the wind, exhausted by the fight, until her deck edge dipped into the brine. Superheated Caribbean waters beckoned her in. The ship's floors turned to the sky and became walls, her walls became ceilings. She was going gently into the eternal night of the deep ocean.
Two people remained on the bridge as she sank.
"Captain," Frank Hamm pleaded. "Captain. Captain."
Davidson braced himself on the high side of the bridge, looking down what was now the steep ramp of the floor. At the end of it, the heavy seaman was pinned to the corner by gravity and fear. He couldn't climb up to the starboard side of the bridge to get out. The angle of the floor was too steep.
"Come on, Frank," Davidson said. "We gotta move. You gotta get up. You gotta snap out of it. And we gotta get out."
— from Into The Raging Sea: Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and The Sinking of El Faro
Rachel Slade has never lived more than five miles from the Atlantic — she lives in Massachusetts and Maine — and her admiration for the ocean ripples through Into the Raging Sea. The poetic gaze of a boat-lover, sailor, rower and coxswain is apparent on every page.
Slade's book is a comprehensive account of what led to the mysterious October 2015 sinking of the shipping vessel El Faro. While on an oft-charted path delivering goods from Jacksonville, Florida, to Puerto Rico, El Faro sailed directly into Hurricane Joaquin. It was the deadliest American maritime event in more than three decades.
More than the story of how a ship was overcome by a storm, Into The Raging Sea is an allegory for what it means to be a part of the nation's largely invisible working and middle class. Mariners are literally set adrift and set apart from the rest of us for many weeks and months at a time, out of view and, apparently, out of the reach of the rules and regulations that should protect them. Read more…
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Everything You Need to Know About The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act
In December 2017, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) was signed into law, representing the most significant tax code overhaul in over three decades. Since then, the Tax Foundation has published a number of valuable resources to help you understand what the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act changed and how exactly your wallet, your state, and the U.S. economy will be impacted. Explore the resources below to see how tax reform will impact you.
Stay Informed on Tax Policy Research and Analysis
Preliminary Details and Analysis of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act
The Impact of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act by Congressional District
The Distributional Impact of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act over the Next Decade
Making the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act Individual Income Tax Provisions Permanent
The Benefits of Cutting the Corporate Income Tax Rate
All Content Individual Taxes Business Taxes Full Expensing State Analysis Interactive Tools
Two Years After Passage, Treasury Regulations for the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act Surpass 1,000 Pages
Retail Glitch Awaits Congressional Fix
How Many Taxpayers Itemize Under Current Law?
New Evidence on the Benefits of Full Expensing
Tax Expenditures Taken by Small Businesses in the Federal Tax Code
The expenditures offered to small businesses are not created equal. We review the tax expenditures small businesses rely on most.
A Preliminary Look at 2018 Tax Data
Initial 2018 IRS tax return data shows that the TCJA expanded the use of several credits and deductions, made the standard deduction more favorable than itemizing, reduced tax refunds, and lowered taxes for most Americans.
Are Opportunity Zones Working as Intended?
Testimony before the House Ways and Means Select Revenue Measures Subcommittee
Watch Nicole Kaeding, Vice President of Federal and Special Projects at the Tax Foundation, testify before the House Ways and Means Select Revenue Measures Subcomittee on the impact of limiting the SALT deduction.
In Defense of the "Church Parking Tax"
Measuring Opportunity Zone Success
Fixing the TCJA's Net Operating Losses Provision
U.S. Businesses Pay or Remit 93 Percent of All Taxes Collected in America
Setting aside the debate over whether a low tax bill is fair, what is missed in such stories is that American businesses are critical to the tax collection system at every level of government—federal, state, and local. Businesses either pay or remit more than 93 percent of all the taxes collected by governments in the U.S. Without businesses as their taxpayers and tax collectors, American governments would not have the resources to provide even the most basic services.
Taxable Income vs. Book Income: Why Some Corporations Pay No Income Tax
Why do some companies appear to be profitable but pay little or no federal income taxes? It's largely due to differences between book and taxable income.
The Lowered Corporate Income Tax Rate Makes the U.S. More Competitive Abroad
One of the most significant provisions in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act was the reduction of the U.S. corporate income tax rate from 35 percent to 21 percent. Over time, the lower corporate rate will encourage new investment and lead to additional economic growth. It will make the U.S. more attractive for companies by increasing after-tax returns on investments and will discourage companies from shifting profits to low-tax jurisdictions.
Anti-Base Erosion Provisions and Territorial Tax Systems in OECD Countries
New OECD Data Reveals Decline in U.S. Tax Wedge Is an Outcome of Tax Reform
The First Filing Season under the TCJA
The TCJA Lowered Taxes for Individuals Throughout Income Groups
What's up with Being GILTI?
The Status of State Personal Exemptions a Year After Federal Tax Reform
Don't Judge Your Taxes by Your Refund
GILTI Minds: Why Some States Want to Tax International Income—And Why They Shouldn't
Toward a State of Conformity: State Tax Codes a Year After Federal Tax Reform
Opportunity Zones: What We Know and What We Don't
Research suggests place-based incentive programs redistribute rather than generate new economic activity, subsidize investments that would have occurred anyway, and displace low-income residents.
Eliminating the SALT Deduction Cap Would Reduce Federal Revenue and Make the Tax Code Less Progressive
Tax Expenditures Before and After the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act After A Year
The Tax Switch that Could Speed Up December Divorces
The TCJA Improved the United States' International Tax Competitiveness Index Rankings
Family Provisions in the New Tax Code
The TCJA Cuts Taxes Across Every Income Level and Congressional District
Evaluating the Changed Incentives for Repatriating Foreign Earnings
Nearly 90 Percent of Taxpayers Are Projected to Take the TCJA's Expanded Standard Deduction
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act simplified tax filings via an expanded standard deduction, but currently, these individual tax changes are to expire after 2025.
Cost Recovery Treatment Short of Full Expensing Creates A Drag on Economic Growth
Full expensing is a key driver of future economic growth, and can have a larger pro-growth effect per dollar of revenue forgone than cutting tax rates.
Who Benefits from Stock Buybacks?
This interactive tool breaks down America's top 1,000 investment funds to show who benefits from stock buybacks triggered by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
Testimony: The Positive Economic Growth Effects of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act
Tax Foundation President, Scott Hodge, provides written testimony before the United States Joint Economic Committee on the economic growth effects of TCJA.
Permanence for 100 Percent Bonus Depreciation Provides More Cost-Effective Growth than Permanence for Individual Provisions
In the long run, permanent full expensing produces about 4.5 times more GDP growth per dollar of revenue than making individual TCJA provisions permanent.
The TCJA's Expensing Provision Alleviates the Tax Code's Bias Against Certain Investments
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act made significant progress in improving businesses' ability to recover the cost of making investments in the United States by enacting 100 percent bonus depreciation.
Proposed Corporate Rate Hike Would Damage Economic Output
Raising the corporate tax rate would reduce economic growth and lead to a smaller capital stock, lower wage growth, and reduced employment.
Reviewing Different Methods of Calculating Tax Compliance Costs
Tax compliance creates real costs, which can be calculated. Each method provides unique illustrations of the cost of complying with U.S. tax code.
State Tax Implications of Federal Tax Reform in Virginia
Virginia has an opportunity to improve its tax competitiveness following the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. Inaction will result in higher taxes.
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act reduced the corporate income tax rate from the highest statutory rate in the developed world to a more globally competitive 21 percent.
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act Simplified the Tax Filing Process for Millions of Households
The newly expanded standard deduction will reduce the time taxpayers spend working on Form 1040 by 4 to 7 percent, translating into $3.1 to $5.4 billion saved annually.
The Jobs Impact of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act by State, 2018-2027
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) is projected to add 215,000 full-time equivalent jobs in 2018 alone, and 1,443,000 cumulative full-time equivalent jobs by 2025. Our new interactive maps shows how many new jobs each state can expect to see each year over the next decade.
Five States Accomplish Meaningful Tax Reform in the Wake of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act
Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Missouri, and Utah capitalized upon the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act's (TCJA) changes by conforming to increase their annual state revenues.
The Economics of 1986 Tax Reform, and Why It Didn't Create Growth
In contrast, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act lowered the corporate tax rate and allows immediate and full expensing for the next five years.
If extended, the individual income tax provisions in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act would increase long-run GDP by 2.2 percent, long-run wages by 0.9 percent, and add 1.5 million new jobs.
Taxpayers in every income level will receive a tax cut in 2018 and for most of the next decade. See how the size of that tax cut will vary for each income group over the next decade with our new, long-term distributional analysis.
Reforming the Pass-Through Deduction
Here's how the new pass-through deduction works and how it can be reformed to be less complex, less prone to abuse, more neutral, and more economically efficient.
The OECD Highlights the Economic Growth Benefits of Full Expensing
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) praised a measure in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) passed last December.
New Letter Says the "Retail Glitch" is Discouraging Business Investment
Retail groups sent a letter to Congress explaining that the "retail glitch" in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act would discourage business investment.
How will the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act impact taxpayers in your congressional district? This interactive map compares average 2018 tax cuts across the country.
The Fixtures Fix: Correcting the Drafting Error Involving the Expensing of Qualified Improvement Property
Due to a legislative oversight, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act excluded the category of qualified improvement property investment from 100 percent bonus depreciation.
Capital Cost Recovery across the OECD, 2018
One hundred percent expensing for short-life business investments was a great start but needs to be enacted on a permanent basis for it to have an impact on long-term decision-making.
Indiana Passes Conformity Bill in One-Day Special Session
Indiana recently passed tax conformity legislation linking the state's individual and corporate tax code to the new federal law.
States Can't Just Hit Pause on Implications of Federal Tax Reform
The new federal tax law left states with some important decisions to make. If they delay, their residents could face confusion come filing time.
What's in the Iowa Tax Reform Package
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds is on the verge of signing tax reform legislation that would greatly improve the state's needlessly complex tax code.
Minnesota's Tax Plans Make Modest Improvements
In response to the new federal tax law, the governor and lawmakers in both houses have proposed plans for updating Minnesota's tax code.
A Hybrid Approach: The Treatment of Foreign Profits under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act moved the U.S. toward more of a territorial corporate tax system used by most other OECD countries. However, the U.S. law contains key differences in the treatment of foreign profits.
Business Investment Increases by 39 Percent in Q1 2018
Several S&P 500 companies reported an increase in capital expenditures, a possible sign that the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act will help encourage new investment.
Lawmakers May Vote on Making Key Provisions of the TCJA Permanent
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act improved the US tax code, but key provisions are only temporary. Now Congress may vote to ensure those tax breaks are permanent.
Inversions under the New Tax Law
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act was meant to boost growth and deter corporate inversions. What does it mean that an Ohio company is still moving its HQ to the UK?
Tax Reform Isn't Done
Expiring provisions, scheduled tax increases on investment, unresolved issues in the code—The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act was passed, but tax reform isn't done yet.
Maine Tax Conformity Bill a Step Toward Better Policy
In the wake of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, Maine is considering conformity legislation that would improve the competitiveness of the state's tax code.
Tax Reform Moving Quickly in Georgia
In response to federal tax reform, Georgia is poised to reform its own tax code in a way that would make the state more competitive with its neighbors.
State Tax Conformity: Revenue Effects
Federal tax reform will have a significant effect on state budgets. This resource, updated often, helps you keep track of the revenue impact in each state.
Tax Compliance Burden Could Cost America as much as 1.2 Percent of its GDP
The time and effort associated with tax compliance is a drag on the economy, as researchers have shown. Will the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act reduce that burden?
The United States' Corporate Income Tax Rate is Now More in Line with Those Levied by Other Major Nations
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act significantly reduced the federal statutory corporate income tax rate. When combined with state and local taxes, it put the U.S.'s corporate tax rate in line with the average among OECD nations.
The 'Grain Glitch' Needs to Be Fixed
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act tax preference for farm co-ops would distort agricultural activity and create tax planning opportunities for wealthy taxpayers.
The U.S.'s New Ranking on the International Tax Competitiveness Index
The TCJA is projected to improve the United States' current ranking from 30th among the 35 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries to 25th, an improvement of five places.
Our tax calculator allows you to compare how the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and proposals to modify the federal tax code could impact overall tax burdens, take-home pay, credits, deductions, and more.
Trade and Capital Flow Consequences of Tax Reform: A Means to a Faster Expansion of U.S. Capital Formation and Employment
The tax bill will boost investment and incomes in the United States, and make the country a better place to locate production and hiring. There will be a transitory rise in the trade deficit, but in the context of a stronger, faster-growing economy.
Does Your State's Corporate Income Tax Code Conform with the Federal Tax Code?
Whether your state's corporate income tax code conforms to the federal corporate income tax code matters a great deal for how the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act will impact revenue in your state.
Pass-Through Deduction Won't Flow Through to Most States
For policymakers in most states, the fact that the pass-through deduction doesn't affect AGI should come as a relief. For those in the six states which use federal taxable income as their starting point for conformity, decoupling from the provision is an entirely viable option.
Who Gets a Tax Cut Under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act?
How would the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act impact different households? Check out our sample taxpayers to see what would change if the bill is enacted.
According to the Tax Foundation's Taxes and Growth Model, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act would lead to a 1.7 percent increase in GDP over the long term, 1.5 percent higher wages, an additional 339,000 full-time equivalent jobs, and cost $1.47 trillion on a static basis and by $448 billion on a dynamic basis.


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Zebrasoma xanthurum
Coveted by aquaria lovers, Zebrasoma xanthurum is luckily not endangered © Giuseppe Mazza
The Yellowtail surgeonfish (Zebrasoma xanthurum Blyth, 1852) belongs to the class of Actinopterygii, the ray-finned fishes, to the vast order of Perciformes and to the family of Acanthuridae.
The name of the genus Zebrasoma comes from "zebra" = zebra, the well known African equine, and from the Greek "soma" = body, that is, an animal "with zebralike body" due to the vertical bands, unusual in a surgeonfish, even if, to be honest, in this species we remark only some small dots. But for the sail-shaped dorsal and the concave profile between the eye and the snout, it has been related to the Zebrasoma desjardinii.
The name of the species xanthurum comes from the Greek "xanthos" = yellow and "ura" = tail, with obvious reference to the yellow caudal fin.
The yellowtail surgeonfish is common in the Red Sea, in the Arabic Sea, in the Gulf of Aden and, generally, in the tropical waters of the western Indian Ocean, from Somalia to the Maldives, to the western India and to Sri Lanka. Then, it is found, inexplicably, in Vietnam.
It lives in the madreporic formations and along the rocky coasts covered by seaweeds, never under the 20 m of depth.
Common in the Red Sea and in the tropical waters of the western Indian Ocean. It can exceed the 25 cm, but its length is usually of 15 cm © G. Mazza
It can exceed the 25 cm, but its length is usually of 15 cm. The body is flat, more or less oval or roundish when the dorsal and anal fins are spread. The ventral ones are of very modest size, the pectoral ones relatively pointed and the caudal is blunt.
It feeds on algae, without ignoring the debris and the small animals it can find among the madreporic interstices © Giuseppe Mazza
The caudal peduncle shows on both sides the cutting blade, typical of the surgeon- fishes, and the protractile mouth has tiny teeth, even pharyngeal, good for a diet based on the filamentous seaweeds.
Apart the tail and the upper part of the pectoral fins, which have a nice bright yellow colour, in the overall it is all blue, paler on the front side, where stands out a dark dotting, usually violaceous, reddish at times, which involves also the snout.
The background colouration changes slightly depending on the geographical zones and the mood of the fish. Furthermore, by night, the sides get pale, the blue fades and, under the back, at 1/3 of the height, a dark longitudinal stripe appears. It is its night mimetic pyjama.
The yellowtail surgeonfish goes around along the whole day, at times in pair or in small schools, looking for seaweeds, without ignoring the debris and the small animals it can find among the madreporic interstices.
The eggs are pelagic. The populations may double in 15 months only, and even if it is hunted for the domestic aquaria, it is a low-risk species, with a vulnerability index of 31 per 100.
Acanthurus xanthurus Blyth, 1852.
Zebrasoma xanthurum was last modified: November 17th, 2019 by Giuseppe Mazza