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Alyssa Farah Griffin Says Prince Harry Overshared in Memoir on 'The View': "I Didn't Need to Know About His Penis"
'The View' Punctures "Clown" Marjorie Taylor Greene's VP Hopes: "It Will Not Be Her"
21 Pop Stars With Kids' Show Roots
By Kayla Cobb Twitter @kaylcobb Apr 5, 2016 at 10:15am
WHO: Zendaya
WHERE DID SHE START: Good Luck Charlie and Shake It Up!
WHAT SHE'S KNOWN FOR NOW: Mostly her Disney work, but she does have an anticipated second album coming out. Zendaya is the only one on this list who is still with her kids' show roots, but you probably know her from rocking dreadlocks on the red carpet and shutting Giuliana down.
WHO: Tony Lucca
WHERE DID HE START: The Mickey Mouse Club
WHAT HE'S KNOWN FOR NOW: Being a second runner-up on The Voice, even though judge Christina Aguilera didn't originally recognize her fellow Mouseketeer.
WHO: JC Chasez
WHERE DID SHE START: The Mickey Mouse Club
WHAT HE'S KNOWN FOR NOW: Being in N*SYNC so many years ago. Fun fact: He was slated to be in Jesus Christ Superstar before the tour was cancelled.
WHO: Lucy Hale
WHERE DID SHE START: Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide, Drake and Josh, and Wizards of Waverly Place
WHAT SHE'S KNOWN FOR NOW: Starring on Pretty Little Liars but she has a generally solid country album out.
WHO: The Jonas Brothers
WHERE DID THEY START: JONAS, Camp Rock and Camp Rock 2
WHAT ARE THEY KNOWN FOR NOW: Breaking up and getting back together a few times and making teenage girls have all the feels.
WHO: Miranda Cosgrove
WHERE DID SHE START: iCarly
WHAT SHE'S KNOWN FOR NOW: Mostly iCarly but also for "Dancing Crazy." If you don't remember that song, then your early 20s cousin probably does.
WHO: Jared Leto
WHERE DID HE START: My So-Called Life which we know is technically more teen than kid. However, it's too iconic to leave off the list.
WHAT HE'S KNOWN FOR NOW: All the hype for Suicide Squad and his band 30 Seconds to Mars, which lays somewhere between alt rock and pop rock.
WHO: Lindsay Lohan
WHERE DID SHE START: The Parent Trap
WHAT SHE'S KNOWN FOR NOW: Recovering from DUIs and rehab, but she had a music career in the mid 2000s.
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WHO: Vanessa Hudgens
WHERE DID SHE START: High School Musical
WHAT SHE'S KNOWN FOR NOW: Her album V which was certified gold. Also, she recently dominated on Grease: Live.
WHO: Alanis Morissette
WHERE DID SHE START: You Can't Do That On Television
WHAT SHE'S KNOWN FOR NOW: "Ironic," making your mom cry, and basically everything on her album Jagged Little Pill.
WHO: Christina Aguilera
WHERE DID SHE START: Star Search and The Mickey Mouse Club
WHAT SHE'S KNOWN FOR NOW: Many of the pop hits that flooded your iPod in the mid 2000s. Also, she was a judge on The Voice.
WHO: Fergie
WHERE DID SHE START: Kids Incorporated and Peanuts. Fergie played Sally Brown
WHAT SHE'S KNOWN FOR NOW: Blowing up your radio in the mid 2000s along with the rest of the Black-Eyed Peas. Also for singing about London Bridges and Fergaliciousness during her solo career.
WHO: Britney Spears
WHAT SHE'S KNOWN FOR NOW: Being Britney, bitch. She has a show in Vegas now.
WHO: Justin Timberlake
WHERE DID HE START: The Mickey Mouse Club and the Disney Channel original movie Model Behavior
WHAT HE'S KNOWN FOR NOW: Bringing sexy back before proving to be one of the best SNL guests of all time.
WHO: Drake
WHERE DID HE START: Degrassi: The Next Generation
WHAT HE'S KNOWN FOR NOW: Being the biggest name Canadian rapper you know. Also, for starting YOLO. One could say that Drake started from the bottom now he's here.
WHO: Demi Lovatio
WHERE DID SHE START: Barney and Friends, Princess Protection Program, Camp Rock 2 and Sonny with a Chance
WHAT SHE'S KNOWN FOR NOW: Being Confident. Lovato has won many awards for her musical career but what you may not know is that she's an outspoken social activist and LGBT advocate.
WHO: Miley Cyrus
WHERE DID SHE START: You know this one &#8212 Disney's Hannah Montana
WHAT SHE'S KNOWN FOR NOW: Bangerz, being naked on a wrecking ball, starring in countless thought pieces, ;P
WHO: Selena Gomez
WHERE DID SHE START: Barney and Friends and Wizards of Waverly Place
WHAT SHE'S KNOWN FOR NOW: Her album Revival, which you pretend you're too cool to love.
WHO: Beyonce
WHERE DID SHE START: Star Search
WHAT SHE'S KNOWN FOR NOW: For being our QUEEN. We're not acting like this is news; the BeyHive already owns all things Bey (read: fabulous). However, this is a quick reminder that our pop queen and idol started out on a talent show competition for kids. Here's the amazing proof.
WHO: Ariana Grande
WHERE DID SHE START: Nick's Victorious and iCarly
WHAT SHE'S KNOWN FOR NOW: Being a pop champ and slaying on SNL. Also, illegally licking doughnuts that one time.
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www.newworker.org | Privatisations and company mergers lead to new wave of job losses.
1. Lead - Privatisations and company mergers lead to new wave of job losses.
2. Editorial - No to Sanctions! & Workers Victory.
3. International - Czech miners vote for protest stoppage.
4. British news - Major rejects Irish peace moves.
5. Feature - Nato's expansion into Eastern Europe.
3,000 job losses worldwide. A further 5,000 jobs could go as subsidiary businesses are sold.
company over their members' interests.
"overlap" and sets about making savings.
wages that would otherwise have been paid to the newly sacked workers.
been privatised has shed huge numbers of jobs.
increase prices to the customer.
restructuring programme. (Scottish Power bought Southem Water earlier in the year).
a six month petiod compared with £l27.7 million over the same period last year.
banking services to cut costs.
It has already announced plans to close 350 of its High Street branches.
privatised utility -- to axe 750 jobs over a four year period.
ago of 5,000 job cuts awaited at Heathrow airport.
satisfaction to its falling unemployment figures.
that many of the "new" jobs are low paid, part time or temporary.
yeats and now makes up 25 per cent of the workforce.
are often replaced by temporary, insecure ones.
"We must get away from the blinkered view that workers pay the price for short term gains".
people of Iraq who have suffered the misery of sanctions for six years.
a million Iraqi children have died over the course of those years.
rescue the oppressed from "local" wars and alleged breaches of "human rights".
varying degrees of blockade to full-blown all out war. Since 1990 Ing has suffered the lot.
are designed to serve these interests.
imperialists have built up to enable whole regions to be managed and exploited.
around the world without the restraint of a strong socialist bloc.
and maintain the political stability necessary for exploitation over the long term.
The imposition of US-inspired sanctions is a major imperialist weapon in the modem world.
It is not a new idea -Cuba has suffered US sanctions for over 30 year;.
and logistical burden of itself going to war.
can be quickly dropped out of the news bulletins.
a million children killed by a slow war of attrition slips by almost unnoticed.
brutal weapon they are and why it is vital to call for an end to all sanctions now.
in struggle both in France and in other countries.
Earlier in the year there were huge demonstrations in France against public spending cuts.
convergence requirements for the Single Currency due to begin next year.
conditions. And this will not stop them opposing the cuts either.
back against low pay and long hours.
Ministry of Trade and Industry towards the future of the group.
Thursday morning, a full 10 hours before the deadline of the ballot was reached.
a stay-down strike rather than the one hour stoppage that will take place.
burn the ships carrying imported coal, they block the main roads and lay siege to Parliament.
We've seen it on television."
May general election and another 12 per cent Communist.
Republicans got about 10 per cent in May.
coal is its only indigenous energy source.
fact being dumped with the full consent of the Czech government!
use of the Czech Republic's coal reserves.
under the communist-led National Front government was second to none.
market forces remains to be seen.
fight for an end to the present form of "economic transformation".
altemative work in the area become more and more remote.
unequivocal restoration of the ceasefire".
could be proceeded with regardless of the progress of the negotiations.
government position then Mr Major's response would be a rejection of our proposals."
a rejection of our initiative, which had the support of the Irish government."
narrow party political interests are being put before the question of peace in Ireland."
is his refusal to do so which is the main blockage at this time."
will not deepened on the appearance of a new threat in Europe. "
prompted Labour CND to call a public meeting last Monday at the House of Commons.
peace camp. The meeting was chaired by Walthamstow MP Neil Gerrard.
and Hungary, are anxious to join Nato and Nato is determined to expand into these areas.
opposition to it throughout the current Russian political spectrum.
weapons to be sited in eastern Europe. But no assurances have been given.
getting from the West is worse than ever."
considered involved a war with Russia.
them to be deployed there from the West within hours in time of crisis.
"So the Russians are talking about upgrading their weapons," she said.
causing some of them to pause for thought.
budgets of the four countries involved by 60 per cent.
If the Balkan states also wanted to join, the effects on their budgets would be even worse.
And Carol Turner pointed out that the only winner from all this would be the US government.
mentioned but never dropped -- since the end of the Cold War.
population, it's defence policy is to categorise all the other 94 per cent as the enemy.
The Nato allies of the US are never allowed any control of the weapons sited on their soil.
must be alerted to what is going on.
opposing their countries joining Nato.


SIOP submitted comments June 17 in response to the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) Request for Information (RFI) on approaches for supporting team science in the biomedical research community.
NIGMS is one of the 27 institutes and centers comprising the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and supports basic research into biological processes. NIGMS also provides NIH-wide leadership in training for the biomedical research workforce.
SIOP's comments were framed around I-O psychology's relevance to the study of team science and the Society's expertise in this field. The Society's comments summarized key I-O research findings and theory to demonstrate that team-based research is advantageous for advancing scientific discovery and innovation due to the diversity of knowledge and skills of team members and the pooling of shared resources that occurs when teams form. SIOP also made specific recommendations regarding the content of team science project proposals, namely that proposals articulate specific plans for the team's size, composition, mix of expertise, personality balance, and leadership roles. Finally, SIOP commented on the importance of including indicators of team effectiveness in project proposals.
SIOP is dedicated to ensuring that federal agencies are cognizant of the significance of I-O psychology and how its applications align with their missions and objectives. SIOP's response to the NIGMS RFI expands an ongoing, Society-wide effort to integrate team science across federal agencies. Further, contributing strengthens SIOP's authoritative voice as a vital resource in federal policies and decision making.
To learn more about SIOP's advocacy efforts, visit the government relations page on the SIOP website!


The chance discovery of a rural plot near the village of Trottiscliffe in Kent, sparked the start of a self-build adventure for Gordon and Joyce Perrie.
The plot came with planning permission for a 2,000ft² detached house, but rather than sticking with the design set out by the existing planning, Gordon and Joyce went back to the drawing board to create their vision. The result was an 'upside-down' (bedrooms on the ground floor, kitchen and living areas upstairs), oak-framed, eco house, set into the hill with a glazed frontage that makes the most of the site's stunning panoramic views.
Gordon and Joyce were keen to make their new home as efficient as possible, and chose to team an air source heat pump with underfloor heating.
"We always knew that we wanted to have underfloor heating throughout the house, and love that there are no radiators to get in the way," says Gordon.
"We find the underfloor heating very comfortable – the house stays at a consistent temperature, the system is economical and silent, and the settings are easy to understand.
Underfloor heating is ideal for use with renewable solutions such as the air source heat pump that fuels Gordon and Joyce's heating and hot water. As well as being an eco-option, using a heat pump with underfloor heating can further reduce the system's running costs.
Watch our video to find out more about pairing UFH with a heat pump.


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Echoes of Family by Barbara Claypole White
Posted by Cindy Matthews | Aug 24, 2016 | Book Reviews | 0 |
Echoes of Family
Barbara Claypole White
Marianne Stokes suffered a head injury in a car crash which killed her unborn child.
". . . an intricate page-turning story full of human failings and triumphs . . ."
The incident uncovers buried memories of a similar event in her teens and sends Marianne spiraling into a new phase of her bipolar disorder. Faced with massive guilt and a need to reconnect with those times, she impulsively returns to England, her birth country, and the Bedfordshire village of Newton Rushford where it all began. Unexpectedly the vicar of the parish is Reverend Gabriel Bonham, a man who has every right not to want to see her again, but without whom she can't reconnect with their shared past.
Back in North Carolina, Marianne's husband Darius and adopted adult daughter Jade pick up her trail. Abandoning the family's recording studio they follow Marianne to England in time to witness her meltdown. Gabriel, Jade and Darius form an uneasy alliance with Marianne's recovery at its heart, and Gabriel and Jade find an unexpected attraction to each other. As Marianne struggles to recover and identify the lost memories which brought her to her old home, it looks like a secret long buried may hold the key to absolution for both Marianne and Gabriel – but another tragedy threatens to unravel everything. Can the flawed once-lovers find redemption and true love once more?
In Echoes of Family, White weaves an intricate page-turning story full of human failings and triumphs that has the reader rooting for all the characters. The terrible affliction of bipolar disorder, and the effects it has on sufferers and those around them,is treated with compassion and deep respect for the daily struggle to live a normal life. One for lovers of contemporary fiction.
Reviewer: Cindy A. Matthews
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Cindy A. Matthews' articles and essays have appeared in over forty publications. She works as a freelance manuscript evaluator, book reviewer, and copy editor. Her writer's guide, Defeating the Slushpile Monster, was a finalist in the self-help/non-fiction category of the 2009 EPIC awards and is now available in print and in Kindle formats. More information about her editorial services and non-fiction works can be found at her web site/blog www.cindyamatthews.com Writing as Cynthianna, Cindy has published contemporary and fantasy romantic-comedies. Cindy also writes sf/paranormal erotic-romance as Celine Chatillon. See her work on Amazon.com.
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"Schitt's Creek" hotel hits market after Primetime Emmy sweep
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The Ontario, Canada, motel that appears on the hit television series "Schitt's Creek" is going on the market.
Owner Jesse Tipping said the modest lodge in Orangeville — notable for more than just its role in the series — will be up for sale in October, according to the New York Post. Tipping said it would have been on the market already if not for the coronavirus pandemic.
The property appeared as the Rosebud Motel in all six seasons of the CBC television show, from 2015 through this year. The final season of the show won a record nine Primetime Emmy awards this month.
The hotel has eight apartment-style rooms and a three-bedroom unit, each with a kitchen. The rooms are not currently up for rent.
Tipping, now the president of the Athlete Institute Basketball Academy and Orangeville Prep school, bought the property in 2011 as lodging for basketball recruits. NBA players Jamal Murray and Kyle Alexander are among the local recruits who lived at the hotel.
The property was already a popular filming location when Tipping bought it. It appeared in the 2005 movie "A History of Violence," the series "11.22.63" and "The Umbrella Academy," according to the Post.
Tipping recently started renting the hotel out to a local organization to use as quarantine rooms. The rooms have also sporadically gone on Airbnb.
While Tipping didn't explicitly advertise its role on "Schitt's Creek" on Airbnb or anywhere else, fans from as far as Australia have made pilgrimages there.
"We just kind of let them enjoy it, because if they are not bothering anybody, people really get a kick out of it," he said. "I don't think it will be tough [to sell]." [NYP] — Dennis Lynch
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To maintain safety as the highest priority in their businesses and to comply with all applicable standards, laws, and regulations.
To provide clean, wholesome, and safe entertainment for their guests, maintaining the highest standards in quality and service.
To conduct their businesses on the highest plane of integrity, honesty, and social responsibility.
To foster and maintain a spirit of cooperation and fair dealing for buyers and sellers, maintaining the principles of confidentiality, intellectual property protection, and agreed contractual terms.
To establish and maintain cordial and respectful relations with their fellow members worldwide.
We believe that these principles must be carried out by each member individually in order to foster and promote our industry and to protect its excellent reputation of delivering safe family fun.
Our mission is to serve the membership by promoting safe operations, global development, professional growth, and commercial success of the amusement parks and attractions industry.
We envision a professional association regarded as an indispensable resource for our members and an international authority for our industry. Central to achieving our vision is a focus on our members as the reason for our existence and a resolute respect for our employees as the source of our strength.
Safety is the foundation of our profession and top priority.
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Arrange a free, no-fuss clothing drive for your building
By A. Ready
Want to clean out your closets and help the environment at the same time? Try starting a textile recycling drive in your building. As BrickUnderground noted in June, Wearable Collections (a for-profit company) sends gently used items to countries in Central and South America to be sold by the pound, and recycles the materials from non-usable items into new textiles. Now Upper West Side Recycling (212-865-9595) has announced that it has teamed up with Wearable Collections and will even organize your building's textile drive.
If your building has over 100 units, Upper West Side Recycling will deliver collection bins to be kept permanently in the basement. For smaller buildings, racks will be temporarily provided for the duration of the recycling drive. Though you won't get a tax deduction, you won't need to haul your castoffs to a collection site, or add them to our ever-growing landfills.
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If you're heading out on a charter or renting a condo for some land travel, I've got a few things that you might want to add to your packing list.
Today's Boat Galley Topic: Chartering? Take These!
This video first caught our attention simply because it is brand new, high quality and features a boat. Yup, that's all it usually takes.
By the way, if you'd like to swim with Scott Portelli and 'his' whales, visit his website at www.scottportelli.com and click on the "upcoming tours" link.
And if for some reason this video makes you want to buy a bottle of wine, wouldn't it be handy if you had a cork screw with your boat name on it?
We hope you enjoyed the video, and that you will boat responsibly when the snow melts this season.
• Anything that's designed to be re-used just seems more environmentally friendly.
• Buy it once, rather than finding filters in out-of-the-way locations.
• Less trash - each one is small, but yes, they do add to the trash management issue.
• One less thing to store, since you can leave it in the coffee maker.
Today's Boat Galley Topic: A Permanent Coffee Filter?
The boat shows are finally moving out west this weekend. Other than Rochester, NY, it seems most of the boat shows in the United States this weekend are west of the Mississippi River.
Photo of this week's Tulsa Boat Show courtesy of the show's FB page.


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Q: Close html5 HTMLNotification when link is clicked I am using createHTMLNotification for a chrome extension.  The html for the notification includes a link in it.  What im trying to figure out is how to close the notification when the link is clicked.  My code is following
var notification = window.webkitNotifications.createHTMLNotification(
    "notification.html"
);
notification.show();

The code on the notification.html page fills in the data.  This page includes the jquery library.  When I try to do:
$('#title > a').click(function() {
    notification.cancel();
}

This of course does not work because notification is unknown on this html page.  I have also tried to do a notification.onshow during the first part of the code where i create the notification, but this as well produced no results.

A: Well I figured it out.  It was actually a pretty simple fix. All you have to do is in the click event for the href in the notification, add window.close().  This is because according to W3C specification it is a separate window so you can treat it as such

A: You can try following to set the focus to newly opened tab and close the notification on the way
notification.onclick = function(x) { window.focus(); this.cancel(); };
notification.show();

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Q: Storing a list in Mysql Database I have a list of 60+ products, I want to store the products subscribed by a client in a MySQL table. What is the best way to do this? As of now I am storing products as JSON under products column, as it is easy to parse from different languages. Like this:
{"products": ["SM", "NDVI"]}

In this case the client has subscribed to 2 of our products. Another method I can think of is having a varchar the size of total products(60+) in the products column.
Example let's say there are 5 products (Just for the ease of explanation):
00000 ---> Original String
10010 ---> User has subscribed for product 1 and 4

What is the best way to implement this?

A: The standard relational SQL way to handle this problem would be to maintain three tables:
clients (id, name, ...)
products (id, name, ...)
client_products (client_id, product_id)   -- primary key is client_id, product_id

The third table above is called a junction table, because it exists to store relationships between clients and the the products to which they have subscribed.  For example, to use your sample data, client_products might have the following entries:
client_id | product_id
1         | 1
1         | 2

And in products:
id | name
1  | SM
2  | NDVI


Fall fairs are fun for the whole family. They happen every year throughout Kawartha Lakes during the months of August and September. View our calendar of events to learn about upcoming fall fairs and other events.
Visit our Kawartha Farmfest page for information about the annual, one-day, self-guided driving tour of farms and rural attractions throughout the City of Kawartha Lakes, planned for Saturday, September 29, 2018.
Kawartha Choice FarmFresh is a local food brand program to identify farmers, chefs, retailers, farmers' markets and food service providers who focus on promoting farm products grown or produced in Kawartha Lakes or Peterborough County and City.
Visit the Kawartha Choice FarmFresh website to find local food or become a member.
Continued support and enhancement of the buy local food program, Kawartha Choice FarmFresh, promotes consumption of local products and provides opportunities for farmers to connect directly with the local consumers.
help the environment by reducing "food miles"
Visit our Kawartha Lakes Food Coalition page to learn more about how we're working to ensure a just and sustainable food system through the Kawartha Lakes Food Coalition.


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Stations to track air quality in TN's most polluted belts
Stations to track air quality in TN's most polluted belts - The Times of India
Julie Mariappan TNN
Chennai: The state government received a boost in its efforts to monitor air quality in industrial clusters, with the Central Pollution Control Board giving the nod for setting up real time air quality monitoring stations at five locations in Cuddalore and Mettur. The project will be implemented in the two regions known to be polluted industrial belts, under CPCB's nationwide national air quality monitory program.
The move comes in the wake of frequent complaints about the highly-polluted industrial clusters of the staterun SIPCOT. While assessing the quality of air in 2010, the CPCB study revealed that Cuddalore was highly polluted with an environmental pollution index (CEPI) score of 77.45. Any industrial cluster with a score of 70 and above is considered critically polluted and this even led the Union ministry of environment and forests to impose a moratorium on new industries in 2010 in Cuddalore. The state pollution control board was directed not to grant licenses for new industries in the region. Cuddalore was rated 16 among the polluting 88 industrial clusters in the country. "CPCB has taken up the cost estimates of the stations and is likely to issue orders for tendering," said asenior government official.
The main objective of the programme is to ascertain whether the prescribed ambient air quality standards are violated, and to take preventive and corrective measures. Four air pollutants, sulphurdioxide, oxides of nitrogen, suspended particulate matter and respirable suspended particulate matter will be monitored real-time. "It's a welcome move. This is the first step in monitoring the air in this belt. But it will be of no use, unless the community is kept in the loop from the beginning right from selecting the location for installation of the samplers to the monitoring," said Swetha Narayan, coordinator of an activist group Community Environment Monitoring (CEM).
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"Rs 92,160 crore is expected to be poured into Cuddalore and Nagapattinam"
Govt approves petrochemical investment zone in TN - Business Line
Siddhartha P. Saikia
New Delhi, July 4:
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) on Wednesday gave its go-ahead for the setting up of a petrochemical investment region in Cuddalore and Nagapattinam in Tamil Nadu.
"An investment of about Rs 92,160 crore is expected to be poured into the region, which includes committed investment of Rs 22,160 crore," the Home Minister, Mr P. Chidambaram, told mediapersons.
The infrastructure in the region would be set up through public-private partnership with the Centre providing viability gap funding. Nearly Rs 13,354 crore would be spent for the development of physical infrastructure such as roads, railways, air links, ports, water supply and power, among others.
"The Government of Tamil Nadu has sought the support of the Centre for the Rs 1,143-crore of viability gap funding for the construction of road and desalination plant projects. An additional Rs 1,500-crore budgetary support has been sought for laying a railway project," the Government said in a statement.
This is the first PCPIR to be approved after PCPIRs in Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, West Bengal and Orissa.
Nagarjuna Oil Corporation Ltd (NOCL), a joint venture of the Tamil Nadu Industrial Development Corporation and Nagarjuna Fertilisers and Chemicals Ltd, has been selected as one of the anchor tenants for the project. NOCL would set up a Rs 9,660-crore six million tonnes per annum refinery complex at Cuddalore. The refinery is expected to be completed by September 2013.
Also, NOCL has charted out a road map to expand the refinery capacity to 15 million tonnes every year by 2015-16. The joint venture company will also set up a xylene production facility, purified terephthalic acid plant and a propylene recovery unit.
Chennai Petroleum Corporation Ltd (CPCL) is the second anchor tenant for the investment region. It targets to set up a 15 million tonne per annum refinery and petrochemical complex. The project is designed for the production of 1.2 million tonnes of ethylene every year. It envisages investment of Rs 40,000 crore after 2015.
The investment region is spread over 256.83 sq km, including a processing area of 104 sq km. It will have residential, commercial and other social and institutional infrastructure.
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Jacob Strawn draws on his background in business economics and community development to support HDC's housing-and-facilities development team and to underwrite development loans for HDC's affiliated loan fund, HDC Community Fund. In his role as development project assistant, Jake provides technical assistance to nonprofits and housing authorities in the areas of planning, financing, and building affordable housing and community facilities. Prior to joining HDC in 2017, Jacob worked as a business economics intern with ECONorthwest, where he created pro formas for large real-estate developments across Oregon and Washington. Previously, as an economic development intern with Downtown Tucson Partnership in Tucson, Ariz., he developed grant applications and used GIS to provide analysis for real-estate development. Jacob has coordinated a campaign to enroll low-income Tucson citizens in health insurance and worked with the U.S. Peace Corps to manage a natural-medicine education program in Malawi. Jacob holds two master's degrees, in business administration and planning, from University of Arizona; he has a bachelor's degree in economics from Portland State University.


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Credit Cards with Wings
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An adult student of mine who grew up poor in Wisconsin (growing up poor in Minnesota is also quite possible. She just happens to be from Wisconsin), recently described her finances during four years of private, liberal-arts college in the Twin Cities. (Private liberal arts means pricey as opposed to the land-grant universities, which today are also pricey, just not quite so much as private colleges).
My adult student admitted that she grew up in a trailer court. Her college education was financed by scholarships and working during college and summers off. My daughter, a decade plus earlier, also went to a private liberal arts college near the Twin Cities. Her college was financed by family income, largely paid by her father, a physician, and by my mother, the Madame Thrift in our family.
Now, here's an interesting comparison: my adult student finished her college career with flying academic colors, but enormous credit-card debt. Not surprising, you'll say: she was struggling to get by, as are many working adults in today's economy. Her many credit cards were a way to keep herself afloat, perhaps higher in the water than simple buoyancy itself, but afloat, her head at the same level as her comfortably middle-class college friends'.
My daughter had no credit card debt at the end of college because all the adults in her life told her to BEWARE and DO NOT SIGN UP and WATCH OUT FOR INTEREST RATES. We also send her a modest monthly allowance–here's where my mother's contribution kicked in at $200 a month.
The obvious conclusion to this modest comparison is that my adult student wracked up credit card debt because her family could not afford to give her an allowance–as simple as that. But I think there's more to it.
By the time she got to college, my daughter had been through family wars which translated in part into money wars. When her dad and I split up, she was in third grade. Over the next three years, my financial situation declined precipitously: I went from comfort to struggle. By the time my daughter entered high school, I'd invented a work life for myself as a free-lance writing teacher, spent several years "shacked up" with a writing "partner" who had a talent for finding inexpensive but commodious rental situations. At the end of three years, when the divorce was final, I took my share of the marriage house and invested it in a bungalow. (The only way I could avoid paying estate taxes on this money was to invest it in a dwelling which I inhabited.)
When my daughter and I settled into that little bungalow, I had very little extra cash. She and I fought over name brand jeans at Target. She was in ninth grade, tenth grade at the private school where she'd gone since kindergarten, her dad still paying the bills. Meanwhile I struggled to pay electric and water bills; I bought all my clothes used. I DID NOT BUY my daughter everything she wanted. We fought about money a lot. One summer she worked at a high-end clothing store at Victoria Crossing and acquired some lovely Scandinavian items. I bought her ice cream cones; she bought me a lovely high-end Scandinavian skirt.
When we fought about money, I felt beleaguered; she felt short-changed. I felt incensed; she felt deprived. I told her she was not; she insisted everything I bought her was as cheap as I was. IT WAS NOT PRETTY. We said things we almost immediately apologized for, but under the surface conflict was a greater loss: I had deprived her of a stability she had no reason not to trust. I had left the marriage which was her bedrock. We were both fighting to stay afloat–the angry words were our version of thrashing around in rough seas. The fighting helped us keep our heads above water.
My adult student acquired a stable, highly responsible job immediately after college and began paying off her credit-card debt. Now, she laughs ruefully: "I tried to warn my sister when she went to college to avoid maxxing out five credit cards. I reminded her how long it took me to pay off my debt. But it didn't help. She did the same thing."
My daughter did not acquire this habit while she was in college. But after graduating, she did not take a stable, well-paying job. Instead she tried a little of this, a little of that, living in communal squalor (my term) with college friends. Toward the end of this period, let's say six years post graduation, she left her part-time jobs and, taking her modest savings, moved to the suburbs to try her hand at writing. She'd had excellent encouragement for her writing, not only from me but from teachers at college.
Moving to the suburbs she rented a room from another friend who had a full-time day job. By now, the enormous transformation that started in 1965 with Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique and eventually swept many wives and mothers into the workplace had done its job: the suburbs were empty during the day, except for my daughter in a strange house with only cats for company.
One day shopping for cat food at Pet Smart, she stopped at a large bird cage and began talking to a noisy red and turquoise macaw. "I had to liberate him," I think she told me after she'd bought him. He cost $2000. She now had credit card debt. I won't go into the consequences of this except to admit IT WAS NOT PRETTY! We fought over what she had done. But I also felt deeply sorry for her, interpreting her need to free this beautiful noisy bird as a desire to free something penned up in herself. What that was, exactly, I couldn't tell. But I thought it had to do with becoming a real grown-up creature with wings that could actually fly.
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Q: From Star Trek to the Newest iterations, the Enterprise moves through a starfield in a way that seems to defy physics. Watching many space fictions on tv and in films, the effect of moving through a starfield seems to be out of proportion. Given the vast distances between stars, wouldn't the stars be immobile? Instead of zooming past the ships like the classic screen saver?

I considered this may attributed to a warp field in the story, but it happens with slow moving ships too.
The obvious answer is , it looks cool. And it does, until you see seeming impossibility of such an effect is considered. Watch the STNG opening,

 the stars appear to be mere  kilometers of the ship as they pass.


Samsung has been rocking the curved smartphone game for a while now, first introduced with its Galaxy S6 edge smartphone and continued right into the new Galaxy Note 7 smartphone which has a dual curved display that's simply gorgeous.
According to sources of Nikkei Asian Review that are "familiar with Apple's plans", the company will unveil a "4.7-inch model, another that will be 5.5-inches, and a premium handset that will be either 5.5-inches or larger equipped with a screen bent on the two sides". We could see a new iPhone that is similar to the S6 edge, or the new Note 7 smartphone with dual edges. The upcoming premium iPhone will use an OLED display, which has been rumored for a while, but a whopping 5.8-inch OLED is teased for the larger iPhone.
Nikkei expects that the "premium" 5.5-inch model will be released this year, and that the company will be making a regular 5.5-inch iPhone 7 Plus, joined with the 4.7-inch iPhone 7.


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Existing Home Sales Post Biggest Decline In 4 Years
November 29, 2018 November 24, 2018 usissuescom GDP & Employment	Affordability, California, Housing, Middle Class, Prices, Seattle
By Michael Snyder – Re-Blogged From Freedom Outpost
Things just continue to get even worse for the U.S. housing industry. New homes sales have been absolutely plummeting, homebuilder stocks have lost over a third of their value, and existing home sales just posted their biggest decline since 2014. For years, we had been witnessing a real estate boom in the United States, but now that has officially ended. It is starting to feel like 2008 all over again, and many of those that work in the industry are really starting to freak out. The Federal Reserve has been aggressively raising interest rates, and it is having the exact same effect on the housing industry that it did just before the last recession.
Seattle Proves that Government is Always the Problem – Never the Solution
May 17, 2018 May 17, 2018 usissuescom Taxes & Spending	Housing, Regulation, Seattle, Subsidies
By The Common Constitutionalist – Re-Blogged From iPATRIOT
You may have heard of the new tax being levied on companies in the Seattle area. IBD reports that the Seattle Politburo (city council), "unanimously passed a 'head tax' of $275 per full-time worker on any company in the city that makes more than $20 million in gross revenues. The city says the $48 million in new taxes will go toward affordable housing and providing emergency services for the city's swelling homeless population."
Seattle's 'Tax-the-Rich' Measure Spurs Freedom Foundation Lawsuit
August 13, 2017 usissuescom Regulation, Taxes & Spending	Income Tax, Minimum Wage, Seattle, Tax, Tax the Rich, Washington
By Rob Williams – Re-Blogged From Newsmax
The Freedom Foundation, a conservative think tank, sued Seattle after its city council passed a measure in July that would place a 2.25 percent income tax on wealthier residents.
The tax was estimated to affect the 9,000, or 2 percent, of the city's taxpayers – people who make more than $250,000, or $500,000 for couples filing jointly.
The lawsuit, filed on behalf of 19 Seattle citizens, alleges the proposed tax violates the state constitution and restrictions on cities to impose income taxes, The Wall Street Journal reported. Another group called the Opportunity for All Coalition, founded by Seattle venture capitalist Matt McIlwain, filed a lawsuit the same day, the newspaper said.
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Seattle Wage Hike Off To 'Pretty Bad Start,' Kills 700 Jobs
October 26, 2015 usissuescom GDP & Employment, Regulation	Employent, Massachusetts, Minimum Wage, New York, Restaurant Employment, Seattle, Unemployment
By Connor Wolf – Re-Blogged From http://freedomforce.com
Seattle, which recently passed a $15 minimum wage, has seen the loss of 700 restaurant jobs despite the rest of the state seeing huge increases, according to a Wednesday report.
In its report, the American Enterprise Institute looked at restaurant job growth in both Seattle and the rest of Washington. The state itself has gained 5,800 industry jobs since January. Seattle, however, lost 700 jobs in the same time. The state minimum wage is $9.47. Back in June Seattle passed its own minimum wage of $15 an hour. The city ordinance is designed to phase in over the course of several years. It will reach $15 an hour by 2017 for most employers.
"One likely cause of the stagnation and decline of Seattle area restaurant jobs this year is the increase in the city's minimum wage," the reportspeculated. "It looks like the Seattle minimum wage hike is getting off to a pretty bad start. Especially considering that restaurant employment in the rest of the state is booming, and nearly 6,000 more restaurant workers are employed today than in January."
Seattle was the first place to pass a $15 minimum wage measure and became the first major victory for supporters. San Francisco and Los Angeles followed not long after and now many cities have either enacted it or are considering it. Some states are also giving the $15 minimum wage serious consideration. Currently it has not passed on the state level.
More Troubling Signs of Minimum Wage Damage on the West Coast, Part II
August 20, 2015 usissuescom GDP & Employment, Regulation	Employment, Job Losses, Minimum Wage, Restaurant Employment, San Francisco, Seattle, Unemployment
By Mark J. Perry – Re-Blogged From http://www.AEI.org
Preliminary results indicate that the increases in the minimum wage this year on the West Coast have had negative employment effects in Los Angeles (for hotel workers, see this CD post) and Seattle (for restaurant workers, see this CD post). There is now additional evidence that the minimum wage increase in San Francisco this year to $12.25 an hour (on the way to $15 on July 1, 2018) is having an adverse effect on the city's restaurant employment, as Stephen Bronars reports today in Forbes ("Higher Minimum Wages in San Francisco and Seattle Mean Fewer Restaurant Jobs").


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In rural New England, farms and forests are often considered the "working" landscape. Since 2004, artist Tom Leytham has explored the remnants of the "other" working landscape: our 19th- and 20th-century industrial past. Through a series of watercolors, Leytham documents this industrialized landscape of ruined and repurposed buildings and structures in Vermont and the surrounding region as a means of appreciating the resourcefulness of their design and construction.
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So below are my chosen friendly ones - please accept my thanks for your lovely friendships by copying and pasting this fabulous award to your own blogs and passing it on to ten other friendly ones - okay, so I've taken the liberty of awarding more than ten but, you know, I think if YOU have been friendly enough to visit and Follow this blog and I have somehow not put you on the list - you should accept the award too!
Can I also draw your attention to Pauline Barclay's fantastic blog 'Scribbles' as she is featuring the 'first sentences' of books you'll want to read more of in all her blog posts over the next few months (what a fabulous idea!) and if you are an author and would like Pauline to feature your book - do pop along, follow her blog - and ask her. Simples!
First up is the first sentence of Chapter One - Bagpipes & Bullshot!
P.S. I'll be popping back over the weekend to report on writing progress.
I'm feeling very happy about Reaching For The Stars right now - I'm doing a last edit myself of the the final chapter before it goes off to my editor for a story edit. Yay!!!!
Congrats on a well deserved award.
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Thank you very much, Janice! Will display it on my blog later - and will enjoy passing it on.
Yay! Thanks, Janice! :) I love awards!
Congratulations on finishing Reach for the Stars, Janice. And thank you for my Friendly Blogger award. I'm looking forward to passing it on.


Mayor Michael Bloomberg's plan to loosen the required qualifications for the city's next building commissioner has brought a backlash from architects and engineers. The position has been vacant since Patricia Lancaster resigned last month, following the Turtle Bay crane collapse that killed seven people in March. Opponents, including the New York Building Congress, say that only a technical expert should run the department.


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As a born and bred Tasmanian, I was deeply moved by this colorful saga of the theatrical world of Charles Dickens, the fledging colonies in 1850's Van Diemen's Land, and the ongoing war between the whites and the blacks that the Aborigines could no longer win. The novel opens against a background of the colonial government of Hobart Town offering the last and only realistic option for this once proud and war-like race: sanctuary at Wybalenna, an outpost at the very edge of Flinders Island.
The sad and broken-down remnants of the Aboriginal people have begun to die in strange and baffling ways. Even a man called "The Protector," who tries desperately to become their savior by bringing them toward "God's light," can do little to assuage the race's slow descent into extinction.
When the famous polar explorer and newly appointed governor of Tasmania, Sir John Franklin, and his wife, Lady Jane Franklin, travel to Flinders Island, Lady Jane hopes to rescue at least one of the tribe. Entranced by Mathinna, a young aborigine girl, her dancing, her slow way of moving, "so distinct and so poignant," Lady Jane becomes obsessed with the well-being of this "savage" child to whom she becomes increasingly devoted.
Buoyed by the possibility that she can perhaps breed some of this savagery out of her, Lady Jane transports Mathinna back to Hobart Town and embarks on a mission to convert the girl, trying rather pointlessly to instill in her all that is virtuous in English civilization.
At this point, Flanagan crosses the oceans, balancing the lives of Sir John and Lady Jane and their efforts to "tame" Mathinna with that of Charles Dickens, who has become an enthusiastic theater entrepreneur and actor and is about to be linked to the fates of Lady Jane and of the actress Mrs. Ellen Ternan. It's not surprising that Dickens falls into the arms of Ellen in order to appease the encroaching melancholy caused by his wife, Catherine, who with every passing day seems to bring on a wordless kind of anguish in Charles.
This beautifully composed novel works on so many levels. As the private passions of Dickens, his wife, Sir John and Lady Jane, Ellen Ternan, and poor Mathinna gradually unfurl, the story becomes an object lesson in the control of one's passions. Not surprisingly, poor Mathinna becomes the ultimate victim, exiled from both worlds and ambushed by her sad and sorry life.
Flanagan weaves into his characters an intricate web of personal demons, political desires, and intense ambition, but the harsh realities of a cruel world and a young Tasmania's convict and aboriginal history eventually drive this visually intense and provocative novel.
Questioning the distance between savagery and civilization, the characters in Wanting seem to be imprisoned within their desires and their dreams of others. Even as the aborigines call to their abandoned ancestors - and the tragic Mathinna drinks more and more toward the darkness - this intelligent, challenging story explores man's intractable desires and the price that was paid for 19th-century imperialism.
Originally published on Curled Up With A Good Book at www.curledup.com. © Michael Leonard, 2009
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Q: Why is first substituting for the known variable and then solving for an unknown variable, using Solve[], correct whereas doing the reverse is wrong? Consider the following code:
(*Initializations*)
c=10;
f=Log[1+c]-c/(1+c)

I am trying to figure out whether I should first substitute for \[Psi] and then solve for x or do it the reverse way.
Method 1:
N[Solve[\[Psi] == 1/f Log[1+cx]/x /. \[Psi]->1, x][[1,1]] ]

gives the result:
x -> 2.06561

whereas Method 2:
N[Solve[\[Psi] == 1/f Log[1+cx]/x, x][[1,1]] /. \[Psi]->1 ]

gives the result:
x -> -0.174588-0.019561 I

When I plot the function:
Plot[{1, 1/f Log[1+cx]/x}, {x,0,3}]

I get:

So, the answer of Method 1 is correct. But why does first substituting for \[Psi] and then solving for x give the correct answer as opposed to first solving for x and then substituting for \[Psi]?

A: Mathematica will automatically assume that all quantities are complex, unless explicitly told otherwise. In your case, if you specify that you want the real solutions to your equation, the two approaches lead to the same result:
c = 10;
f = Log[1 + c] - c/(1 + c);

NSolve[ψ == 1/f Log[1 + c x]/x /. ψ -> 1, x, Reals]  (* Out: {{x -> 2.06561}} *)
NSolve[ψ == 1/f Log[1 + c x]/x, x, Reals] /. ψ -> 1  (* Out: {{x -> 2.06561}} *)

Note that I replaced N[Solve[...]] with a direct call to NSolve.

A: In comments, OP mentioned that the actual problem is to find the second derivative of the function $x=f(\psi)$, and solve cannot find an explicit analytical expression for that function. This, however, can be approached numerically.
We write a function that solves the equation of interest for each numerical value of $\psi$ provided:
ClearAll[sol]
sol[ψ_?NumericQ] := x /. FindRoot[ψ == 1/f Log[1 + c x]/x, {x, 1/ψ}]

We then:

*

*Use the adaptive sampling capabilities of the Plot functions to get well-distributed values of the function over a range of interest

*Extract the coordinates of those points using Cases

*Construct an interpolating function int using Interpolate
int =
  Interpolation@
    First@
      Cases[
        Plot[sol[psi], {psi, 0, 2}, PlotRange ->All],
        Line[p_] :> p, All
      ];

We can then numerically differentiate the interpolating function (int'') and plot the result, together with the original function. I decided to use a log plot because the values of the function vary over a very wide range:
ListLogPlot[
  {int, int''},
  PlotLegends -> {"f", "f'", "f''"}, Joined->True
]


« 23. Passover – Which 7 Days?
Then, after quoting both Exodus, 12:18-19 and 12:15,10 as proof, he challenges some of the more recent innovations.
On the other hand, he chastised those in the West who kept the festival from the 15th to the 21st day of the first moon, not only with regard to their allowing that Passover could be celebrated as late as the 21st day of the first moon but in the manner in which they calculated the seven days of Unleavened Bread.
The Passover of the resurrection, accordingly, was always placed by them on the first day of the week which fell on one of the seven days of Unleavened Bread, a period calculated from the beginning of the 15th until the end of the 21st day of the first moon.
In his calculation, Anatolius refers to the 14th as both the first day of Unleavened Bread and as the day on which the messiah ate the Passover. His point of reference, therefore, is a scripturally-based method.
He goes on to oppose the view that the seven days of Unleavened Bread were to be counted from the 15th to the 21st.
Anatolius not only accuses the advocates of the Roman System E with ignorance of the truth and with not understanding the meaning behind those scriptural passages which state that the seven days of Unleavened Bread continue from ad vesperum (at twilight) of the 14th day of the first moon "usque (until)" (the beginning of) the 21st day of the first moon ad vesperum (at twilight),22 but he criticizes the calculators from Gaul and other regions with a further misunderstanding.
This system was used by the pagans and was based upon the fact that the Roman civil day began at midnight. Since the new moon both rose and set after sunset and prior to midnight, they calculated the days of the moon as the first, second, and so forth, day AFTER the day (midnight reckoning) of the appearance of the new moon.
Therefore, since the new moon appeared after sunset and the civil day did not end until midnight nor the common day until dawn, for the purposes of counting to Passover, the first day of the new moon was actually the "day after" the Roman day on which the new moon had made its appearance.
As a result, the days of the moon, as reckoned by the Egyptians, Romans, and people of Gaul, were not the same as the days of the moon as reckoned by Scriptures.
The first day of the moon in Scriptures begins with the rising of the new moon just after sunset. It does not begin a few hours later at midnight or with the next morning following the appearance of the new moon.
Therefore, to correctly calculate Passover, one must determine the days by the scriptural "reckoning of the moon" (i.e., counting the days from sunset to sunset) against the reckoning of the days of the Egyptians and Romans or many of the common people (i.e., counting the days from midnight to midnight or from sunrise to sunrise).
Those following the midnight reckoning of the Romans or the sunrise reckoning of the common people did not take this factor into consideration.
This evidence proves that Anatolius, as articulated in System A, believed that the correct scriptural system makes the day of the moon begin ad vesperum (at twilight), which, as we have already demonstrated earlier, commences at sunset.
Accordingly, the seventh and final day of Unleavened Bread comes on the day when the morning is counted as the 20th of the moon under the Egyptian system, ending at sunset, when the 21st (scriptural) day arrives.
In turn, Anatolius reasoned that the seven days of Unleavened Bread extended from the beginning of the 14th scriptural day, i.e., at sunset, ad vesperum (at twilight), on the 13th Egyptian day, UNTIL (as far as the beginning of) the 21st scriptural day.
The 21st scriptural day begins at sunset, ad vesperum (at twilight), on the 20th Egyptian day.
What makes the record from Anatolius so important is that he admits that the Quartodeciman practice was the original system of the early Jewish priests, such as Aristobulus of Paneas (System A), and of the early disciples of the messiah.
His argument is also premised on the fact that System D was the practice of the western Christian assemblies after abandoning System A, while System E was an even more recent innovation.
Nevertheless, the Alexandrian and Roman Catholics held fast to their belief that the seven days of Unleavened Bread, by which the festival of Passover should be determined, was to be celebrated on the first day of the week falling within the period from the 15th to the 21st day of the first moon.
They utterly rejected the seven days of System D. System D was branded a heresy and condemned as a Quartodeciman practice.
The Audians represented an early fourth century C.E. adherence to a form of the System D format which, along with the Quartodeciman view, was actively being suppressed by the Roman emperor Constantine at the Council of Nicaea in 325 C.E.
In other words, the Audians allowed for the 14th as a day of Unleavened Bread and as the Passover, for they did not observe the same seven days as the Pharisees.
Their brethren, of course, were Christian Judaeans (not those of the Jewish faith), a clear reference to the early Quartodecimans and their keeping of the 14th.
The advocates of System E accused the Audians of Judaizing and ridiculed their view as antithetical to unity. The effort of the Roman Catholic assembly was to eliminate the differing opinions of the various assemblies and the Audians were standing in the way.
It is interesting that even Epiphanius considers the observation of the 14th the original Christian position, thereby making the Roman Catholic System E (which regards the 15th as the legal day of the Passover supper) a later Christian innovation.
What the Audians were claiming was that, prior to Constantine's decrees given at the Council of Nicaea (325 C.E.), the 14th was permitted as the first day of Unleavened Bread and was used by different assemblies in their calculation of the day of Passover.
This mutual respect had remained in the assemblies since the time of the great debate between Anicetus of Rome and Polycarp of Asia (c.158 C.E.).
These leaders had agreed to disagree as to which day the Passover Eucharist was to be celebrated and the Roman assembly agreed to live in peace with those who kept the 14th.
Further proof of the System D arrangement, which reflected the Quartodeciman view for the seven days of Unleavened Bread, was also retained in records from assemblies who continued until the eighth century C.E. but were stationed in outlying areas of the Roman empire.
The famous Saxon historian Bede (673-735 C.E.)—himself a Roman Catholic who opposed System D and followed System E—also makes reference to the Quartodeciman-based view of System D used in Britain.
Wilfrid's attempt was to separate those following System D from the apostle John and the early Quartodecimans (System A).
Yet, by doing so, he actually reaffirmed that the only difference between these two camps, with regard to counting the seven days of Unleavened Bread, was to point out that the early Christians always kept the 14th as the Passover.
Since John observed the week of Passover according to the Mosaic law, it is also clear that he kept both the first and last day of the week of Unleavened Bread as a high Sabbath.
This fact is yet another indication that the Quartodecimans did likewise and that they based their view upon the Aristocratic interpretation for the week of Unleavened Bread.
Those of System D refused the 21st because they believed that the seventh day spoken of in the Torah was the 20th.
Though they themselves did not observe the first and last day of Unleavened Bread as a high Sabbath, unless the Passover of the resurrection happened to fall on one of these days, this detail does indicate that the Quartodecimans, upon whom the System D construct was built, did observe these days.
The evidence proves that the original view of the seven days of Unleavened Bread used by the early Christian assemblies was the Quartodeciman (Aristocratic) System A practice.
In this system the seven days of Unleavened Bread continued from the beginning of the 14th until the end of the 20th day of the first moon. The first day, the 14th, was the Passover supper and a high Sabbath.
System D, developed by the orthodox Christians of the West during the early second century C.E., was built upon the same premise as System A, i.e., that the seven days of Unleavened Bread extended from the beginning of the 14th until the end of the 20th day of the first moon.
It differed in that its advocates preferred to celebrate the joyful event of the messiah's resurrection and not the sad occasion of his death.
Therefore, those following System D moved the celebration of the Passover supper up to the first day of the week that fell within the seven days of Unleavened Bread.
Yet, the key to System D is that it was born from the Quartodeciman construct for the seven days of Unleavened Bread.
Eventually, both the Quartodeciman System A and quasi-Quartodeciman System D practices were eventually suppressed by the Hasidic-based System E, developed and advocated by the Roman assembly toward the end of the second century C.E.
We can conclude this particular discussion knowing that more than enough evidence has been provided to demonstrate the true practice of Passover and Unleavened Bread by the early Christian assemblies who also claimed apostolic authority for doing so.
We will next tackle the subject of Roman influence on Passover and Unleavend Bread. So be on the lookout for 25. Passover – Roman Corruption.
1 He is also commonly called Anatolius of Laodicea.
2 Eusebius, H.E., 7:32:6-12; Jerome, Lives, 73.
4 Anatolius, 3. Socrates Schol., 5:22, (writing about 439 C.E.) points out that even in his day the practices of the "modern Jews," that is, the Jews of his day, were at odds with those of the "ancient Jews," including the first century C.E. Pharisees like Josephus.
6 OTP, 2, p. 837, n. a.
7 Anatolius, 1, 7, 11, 12, 15.
10 Anatolius, 8; cf., Lev., 23:6.
11 See our discussion in 25. Passover – Roman Corruption.
15 Matt., 26:17-27:61; Mark, 14:12-15:47; Luke 22:7-23:54; 1 Cor., 5:6-8, 11:17-27.
16 We will address in our forthcoming posts.
22 Anatolius, 7, 9, 11, 16; cf., his use of ad vesperum in translating Exod., 12:15, 18-19 (Anatolius, 8). That Anatolius counts the seven days of Unleavened Bread by this method is confirmed when he writes that these seven days continue "from the end of the 13th day of the moon, which marks the beginning of the 14th, on to the end of the 20th, at which the 21st day also begins" (Anatolius, 8).
23 Macrobius, Saturn., 3:14-15, "vespera follows" sunset. See 13. Passover – Hasidic Practice II, n. 9.
25 Wilfrid tries to confuse the issue by interpreting the words of Anatolius in such a way as to include the 21st, stating, Anatolius "also assigned the 20th day to the sovereign's Passover in such a way that he held it for the 21st when the sun had set." Of course, this was not the intent of Anatolius. Anatolius was trying to show that those keeping the Egyptian method for determining a day erred in that they should not be observing Passover beyond sunset of the Egyptian 20th day, because in that case it had become the 21st scriptural day.
28 Pliny, 2:79; PCAE, p. 10; HBC, p. 8.
30 Columella, 2:10; HLD, p. 1085.
31 Pliny, 2:79; CGS, p. 589.
37 See 13. Passover – Hasidic Practice II, n. 9.
39 The early Latin text reads xii but clearly, as all translators agree, is a scribe's error for xiii.
41 HCC, pp. 298-332; NCE, 5, p. 8. For the acceptance of Anatolius by the Roman Catholics also see the comments in Bede, 3:25. As a result of the acceptance of several important parts of Anatolius' conclusions, the Roman theologian, Jerome, applauds him, writing, "We can get an idea of the greatness of his genius from the volume which he wrote On Passover and his ten books On the Institutes of Arithmetic" (Jerome, Lives, 73). Eusebius, in his Historia Ecclesiastica, also praises Anatolius and even records a long quote from a portion of his book on the Passover.
45 DPDQ, pp. 16-18; ACC, 2, p. 1150.
48 Epiphanius, Pan., 70:10:5; cf., Eusebius, H.E., 5:12:1-2.
51 E.g., see Socrates Schol., 5:22; Eusebius, H.E., 5:24:16-17.
52 We will address in our forthcoming posts.
54 Bede, Hist., 2:2. If the 14th of the moon after the spring equinox fell on Sunday the Britons would keep Passover on that day; the Roman Catholics would defer it to the following Sunday.
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CARRIER 7: AFTERBURN By Keith Douglass
minutes. If the target aircraft could stay ahead of it until its fuel
was exhausted, the missile would fall into the sea.
"What's the gouge? Where're the bad guys?"
"I think we're clear. Batman and Libbie'll be here in a few minutes.
I've got you in sight now. Coming up on your five."
"The damage is on my port side," Dixie told him. "I think I'm losing
fuel from the left wing."
"On your six and low. Coming around to port. Yeah, buddy. Looks like you
took a near one. No blast damage, but your belly and left wing got
peppered by shrapnel. So did your left stabilizer. Looks to me like it
missed you, but the proximity fuse triggered the thing right under your
wing."
Looking left, he could see Tomcat 210 coming up from behind, just off
his wingtip.
"Can you see Mickey?"
"We see him," Red replied. "Head's slumped forward a bit. Can't tell
from here how bad he's hit."
"Is his oxygen mask on?" Dixie was worried about the pressure loss in
the cockpit.
"It's on," Red told him.
"How's she handling, Dix?" Badger added.
"Okay, I think." Cautiously, he played with his stick, testing the
feedback. "I get a bit of flutter when I try giving it some left
maneuver flap."
"Okay," Badger said. "Let's not try anything fancy. We'll escort you
back, nice and easy. You can punch out when you're close to the Jeff."
"Not if Mickey's still out of it," Dixie said, determination giving his
voice a hard edge.
"Right. Shit, I wasn't thinking. Okay, Dix. Let's come to
zero-five-five, and maintain four hundred knots."
"Copy, Badge. Zero-five-five at four-zero-zero."
"Let's take 'er home."
1014 hours (Zulu +3)
The White Palace, Yalta Tombstone was alighting from the CH-53
helicopter when he heard the thunder of approaching aircraft. At first,
he thought it might be BARCAP Three, which Coyote had told him was
coming, but then he realized that the sound seemed to be coming from the
Crimean Mountains from north of Yalta.
The sound might be an echo. Sound did strange things between sea and
Mountainside. But too many strange things were happening this afternoon
for him to be willing to take chances. He waved at the helicopter's
crew, gesturing for them to get out of their aircraft and take cover.
After a moment's hesitation, they scrambled out, and together the men
started running toward the White Palace.
The jets appeared with almost magical abruptness, howling in from the
mountains, passing above the White Palace complex at an altitude of less
than two hundred feet. The planes were so low that Tombstone could look
up and see individual pilots, could see the sun-glint of canopies and
dark visors, could see the numerals painted on their noses and the
prominent red stars on stabilizers and wings.
Mig-29 Fulcrums. Some of the best fighter planes in Russia's inventory.
Dropping down a shallow embankment that might offer some cover if the
Migs started dropping nasty stuff, Tombstone stared after the jets. They
were breaking formation now, far out over the sea. He glanced at his
watch. BARCAP Three wouldn't be in their patrol position yet. He didn't
think the Migs were headed for the carrier. Where. ..
Yes. Two of them were swinging around in a full one-eighty, streaking
back toward the White Palace. They came in low, wingtips almost
touching; he saw the flicker of their rotary cannon, tucked away at the
root of their port-side wings, before he heard the shrill whine of
high-speed gunfire above the thunder of their strafing run.
An explosion sounded an instant later, a dull boom echoing from the
improvised landing pad on the east side of the palace. The incoming jets
lifted slightly, white vapor blossoming off their wings in the moist air
as they increased their angles of attack. .. and then they were howling
overhead, rising swiftly as they climbed the face of the mountains
inland. A missile streaked into the sky after them, trailing smoke–a
Grail or other shoulder-launched anti-air missile released by one of the
soldiers on the ground–but it had been fired too late. .. or possibly
without a firm heat source lock, and it twisted away after a few seconds
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Q: How to start an artificial gravity? I understand how artificial gravity in space stations works. It is by normal force the wall exerts on the foot.
But I wonder how to start it in the first place. I just learned about centrifugation in a centrifuge. To start, the side-wall of the tube produce a tangential acceleration. Because of the inertia (tendency to go tangentially) of the material contained, normal force is thus needed to keep the material from going through the tube and keep it rotating in a circle.
But in the space station, there is no friction, so there is no way to create that tendency that produces the need for normal force in the first place.

A: You are quite correct that if you have items floating freely inside your space station they won't experience any artifical gravity as the station starts spinning. The artificial gravitational acceleration of an object is a consequence of its tangential velocity $v$ and is given by:
$$ g = \frac{v^2}{r} $$
where $r$ is the distance to the axis. The freely floating objects will initially have $v = 0$ and therefore $g = 0$.
As several comments have said, when you start spinning the station the air inside will start spinning as well, and that will produce aerodynamic forces on the floating objects that will eventually propel them towards the outer wall of the space station.
But assuming we're talking about the real world, you don't leave things floating about in your space station especially if you're applying any forces to it. You'd secure everything to the station walls, so everything in the station would start spinning along with the station.

A: An astronaut dressed in a magnetic suit inside a room or environment of copper or similar element in characteristics of conductivity or alloy (copper chamber) is a human magnet (magnet man) than will face a force that is opposed to his displacement inside the "chamber". If one of six sides or of all the sides than compose the chamber, one of the sides is the based side, or floor than determines the position of contact of the feet and if this side is an ferromagnétic material that attracts the astronaut at time the isstronaut is subject to an attractive force towards "below" and a force (effect Lenz) forces him to develop a work "to "ascend" or to move inside the chamber and if the magnetic suit (magnetic vinyl or similar material) has major magnetism proportionally when it  moves away from the feet, this is, the magnet is much stronger in them, shoulders and head, in a such way that the attraction towards "below" is similar in both ends and is distributed proportionally along the suit. Then we have a chamber of copper where the magnet man is attracted towards the base and it is difficult to him to displace, which looks like enough the gravity.


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Terrorists are very likely to carry out attack in Maldives: UK Foreign Office
The Maldives is among the countries where terrorists are 'very likely' to carry out a terrorist attack this holiday season, says the British Foreign Office.
The British media has warned Brits to be vigilant while visiting the countries to which the Foreign and Commonwealth Office has issued travel advisories.
Popular destinations currently labelled as being 'very likely' targets of terrorist attacks include Maldives, India, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines and Australia. European destinations, such as Belgium, France and Germany are also on the list, along with the United States and the popular African destination of Kenya – a former British colony.
Attacks could be "indiscriminate, including in places visited by foreigners," according to the Foreign Office.
The latest travel advisory from the UK regarding the Maldives comes at a time when intelligence agencies in the west warn that 'youths returning back from conflicts in the Middle East are likely to carry out an attack in their home countries. There are over a hundred Maldivians taking part in the conflicts in Syria and Iraq, according to authorities and media reports.
Despite several travel advisories, Brits keep flocking to the Maldives during the holiday season and throughout the year. The Maldives saw a hike in British tourist arrivals in the past year. More than a 100,000 Brits visited the Maldives last year alone. It should also be noted that the first visitor of the year is a young British woman who came to the Maldives via Dubai with her family.
Full details are available at the link below:
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Such fun times with the boys so glad you had a good time.
So sorry for your loss anniversaries make it all the harder.
Making memories with the grands. Priceless.
Hugs to you. I cannot imagine the pain.
It looks like you had a wonderful time together. That's the beauty of family support. I'm so sorry you lost your daughter. That kind of loss is the hardest, I think.
What a wonderful time you had with the boys. It's so nice to have the warmer weather and getting out and enjoying things. I'm so sorry for your loss. I lost my son four years ago on the 18th. It shouldn't be this way. He always fixed Easter dinner for us. Grandchildren are such a gift from God.


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I bought this in Sephora on a whim, I needed a new foundation as my beloved Clinique was a shade too light for my slightly tanned Dubai skin. I had read reviews so knew it was highly recommend, and I wasn't disappointed, it's the best! Such a great build-able, dewy coverage that fits my skin tone perfectly. NB: Does it annoy/disgust anyone else when make up counter ladies put lipgloss on you, when it's clearly been used on everyone else? No, just me?
I only just checked the name of this lipliner and I like it even more now it has a French name. The perfect, dare I say it, Kylie Jenner lip colour. As it's a pencil it's a tiny bit drying so I just make sure I exfoliate and apply copious amounts of lip balm before using.
A bloody long name but an excellent product. This has a rollerball that feels instantly cooling on the skin and provides long lasting moisture - I've seen significantly less under-eye concealer crease-age with this wonder product.
Give them a try- and let me know if you're a fan!
Really want to get my hands in the Makeup Forever HD foundation! And it does gross me out when they use lipstick/gloss, I usually tell them I don't want it!
I love the sisley lipliner, can totally imagine the colour looking great especially now with a winter wardrobe!
You're welcome - they deffo are!
If you say it works, I need that roll on thingie with the long name. My eyes are puff monsters in the morning.
Haven't tried any of these, but will definitely consinder them! The foundation sounds just perfect for my skin!


just got a new u2412m monitor and all i can say is that the input switching is fatally flawed. even though i can personalize 2 buttons to switch between 2 monitors, it still takes 2 presses of the button.
then, when system1 goes to sleep, the system2 will not even wake the monitor because it's set for system1.
automatic switching is useless, because when system1 is on, and i press the button to get to system2, it resets the automatic mode to that system and the original system will not wake up the monitor because it's hard selected.
every other monitor i've ever owned has a button that all it does is swap inputs, but not this one. i'm half tempted to send it back, i don't care how good the picture is.
pretty useless, if you ask me.
So what did you decide to do, keep it or return it?
had to keep it because i couldn't find another 1920x1280 monitor and the person that wanted the monitor i was replacing wanted it now.
but i still do not like the way the input switching in implemented.
and, on another note, how does one get tech support on a monitor when you can't get past the service tag request? the monitor has no service tag. i guess that's one way to get out of supporting your products.
I just recieved my U2412M. The display is gorgeous and the best for photography unless you want to spend $$$$. However, I agree with you that the input switching is horrible. I am finding it hard to believe that such a setup got pass user testing!! I use to computers, one for the interenet, mail, ect. and the other one for photoshop. I am continually switching back and forth while I wait for a process to finish. I am keeping the display since I know I can't get better color support in this price range.
The only real solution is that Dell updates the driver and makes one of the buttons an input switch.
If you are using Windows OS then there is a utility called mControl which, if you run it on both machines allows you to software switch between inputs on the monitor. I have a DELL G2410H that it works nicely with switching between VGA & DVI inputs. URL for mControl is http://www.entechtaiwan.com/ the utility is shareware and has 21 day evaluation period.
I do think that DELL should provide a software switch as standard though.
You had my mouth watering; right up until I saw "evaluation period". It's a monitor; and I'm all $4.95'd out (or whatever they are charging). And if it CAN be done through a utility, it seems rather shabby that Dell wouldn't have the few hundred bucks worth of coding done, and offer it.
For the record Dell, I too would like to avoid the expense of a DVI KVM, if a software utility can take care of it.
I wish it wasn't too late to return my E2414H, which also has this switching issue. It's a major hassle to have to press 5 buttons, navigating a menu where the buttons blend in with the side of the monitor. I miss my Samsung!


You navigate the iTunes Store aisles just like a Web browser. Most song and artist names are hyperlinked—that is, click their names, or album cover images, to see what tracks are included.
Click the upper-left corner's Back button to return to the page you were just on, or click the button with the small house on it (circled below) to jump to the Store's home page.
When you find a performer you're interested in, click the name to see a list of available songs or albums. If you click an album name, all the songs available from it appear below, in the Details window. Double-click a track title to hear a 30-second snippet. Short previews of items in the Store's audio book and video collection are also available, as are movie trailers.
When browsing the store, you may see a small, gray, circular icon bearing a white arrow in some columns of the Details window. That's the "More Info This Way!" button. (You also get the Little Gray Arrows on tracks in your own library because iTunes wastes no opportunity to get you to visit the Store.) Click the arrow to jump to a page bearing details about the subject, like a discography page, or the main page of artists for the genre listed.


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Once applications have been assessed in December, the Program Director will meet individually with each potential participant. Each artist will propose a project on which they will focus. Based on these discussions, participants will be confirmed and a mentor will be selected for each participant in consultation between the creator and the Program Director. Each artist will create a development plan with a series of deadlines to which both participants and mentors agree. From February to August, the mentors and participants will work on the outlined projects. Workshops with performers, as required, will take place. During this period, there will also be 2-3 meetings of the community of participants to discuss common ideas, perspectives, expectations and challenges.
Program Director Diana Berlshaw. Photo: Ashley Bomberry.
By September of the first year, each participant and mentor will identify a selection of the developing work to be performed at Weesageechak Begins To Dance, the festival of new work produced in November by Native Earth. The selections will be presented by a company of actors, including some of the Animikiig participants themselves (to further encourage a community of creators), during an evening dedicated to the Animikiig artists.
Immediately after Weesageechak, the Program Director will meet again with each participant to plan how he or she needs to proceed. We will discuss the success of each project and the current mentorships (whether to continue them or not), and what further resources may be needed. In some cases, this requires further research into Indigenous culture and history; in others it may mean an intensive physical workshop in the studio. For a few it may also include the integral development of scenic elements. Over the following six months, mentors will become more actively director/dramaturgs and Animikiig will provide more intensive workshopping opportunities as dictated by the needs of each project. The end result will be a more fully realized script, libretto, score or physical performance.
Yolanda Bonnell and Sarah Gartshore for "Survivance" rehearsal. Photo: akipari.
Native Earth is dedicated to the on-going support of the artists with whom we work so, during this cycle, each Animikiig participant will receive hands-on counselling with respect to the long-term development of their work. Partnerships with other companies may be needed to help develop some of the more ambitious projects. We will work with each participant to identify potential production partners and to ensure that the necessary connections are made. We will continue to encourage them to apply for further individual funding as we recognize that more complex artistic projects can take several years to reach production and require resources beyond the capacity of Native Earth.
In November of the second year, each Animikiig participant will present an extended selection from his or her work at Weesageechak Begins to Dance which will be professionally directed and read/performed by a professional Indigenous cast. We will invite potential funders and producers to these presentations. Animikiig is committed not just to the fundamental development of Indigenous work but also to the long-term health and success of our artists and their creation.
We acknowledge the support of The Chawkers Foundation.


I have been avoiding talkng to you for a while now because of circumstance, my thoughts and my actions, but I do think of you often. I hope that you are well and that you're eternally happy. I don't know what to do about the feelings I have towards family and I "know" that they are wrong, but they don't feel wrong. I have not treated Sihle well and being around him as been very hard, but I will do my best to change my ways. Please stay with me.
I love you quite a bit.