What's your spiritual weather like? Sunny and warm? Heavy rain with thunderstorm with risk of hail? Blizzard in a cold snap, with no end in sight?
For a few years, my spiritual weather--or condition--was best described as in a direct hit by a category-4 hurricane. Physically, I was always tired. I'd sleep for the majority of the day and only leave my house for fellowships. Emotionally, I had depression symptoms and was exasperated. Dealing with a relationship breakup left me doubting my existence and questioning God's love towards me. the "hurricane" gradually dissipated after years of support and care from God's family, and His love appearing during fellowships. As requested by the Shulamite in Song of Solomon, sustain me with raisins; refresh me with apples. I needed God's love to keep me alive.
Nowadays, my spiritual weather condition is a mix with sun and clouds with a chance of showers. I don't say this to prove that I listen to the weather forecast multiple times daily, but it represents my improved optimism, trust, and hope in God despite the little changes in my life's circumstances. I'm still single, and my writing business starts to take shape. I'm learning more about God and am more content about how He has an unique plan for me and who causes things to work together.
It's inspiring, isn't it? Looking back, I almost feel stupid and shameful to have doubted His love and argued with Him, but it was also a key moment of my life aside from being saved. It was a painful process of growing in the Lord, or, as stated by apostle Paul in Hebrews chapter five, it enabled me to be spiritually weaned and to eat solid food.
One Year Since "Joe Faith Gives Thanks"
In a way, not only I can eat solid spiritual food, but I can also share it with others. On the first weekend of September 2017, my first short-story collection e-book "Joe Faith Gives Thanks" was released to celebrate Canadian Thanksgiving in October. The stories feature me as a character named Joe Faith--an average "Joe" who is faithful--giving thanks to God in various circumstances, including retracing my journey to know and believe in Him. As you may have read my other blog posts, giving thanks and being content are two of the most difficult attributes to sustain, so I wanted to encourage and share to many as much as possible.
This book represents how far I came in my spiritual journey--from arguing with God daily and wishing I was non-existent to freely sharing my thanksgiving to Him in a matter of years. It still amazes me that I wrote and published that book. Yes, I love writing, and I'd often write my feelings down in a Word document if not verbally tell God directly, but the entries aren't public knowledge aside for those who are close to me.
More importantly, the book represented the end of a multi-year-long storm in my spirit. As I was willing to share my walk with God publicly via portraying myself as Joe Faith, I had also gained a greater level of trust in Him and have more hope in my future. I had turned the page of being bleak and angry to a new chapter of hope and optimism. Today, the "mix with sun and cloud" forecast still comes with a chance of showers, as not everyday is smooth, and there are days when I regress, but through the ups and downs, it's generally trending upwards.
And my spiritual weather will be further improved with the release of my debut novel, Breaking Point, which I hope it'll help improve your spiritual weather, too!


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E-2.2 - Act respecting elections and referendums in municipalities
321. The member of the council may contest the Commission's decision where the latter ascertains that the term of the member has ended pursuant to the second or third paragraph of section 318.
The contestation must, under pain of absolute nullity, be made by means of a writing signed by the member and transmitted to the clerk or the secretary-treasurer and the Commission within 10 days after the transmission of the copy of the Commission's decision.
The Commission shall notify the municipality in writing of the date on which it received the writing in contestation.
1987, c. 57, s. 321; 1999, c. 40, s. 114.
The contestation must, under pain of nullity, be made by means of a writing signed by the member and transmitted to the clerk or the secretary-treasurer and the Commission within 10 days after the transmission of the copy of the Commission's decision.
1987, c. 57, s. 321.

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Travelport GDS signs New Agreement with SilkAir. Travelport GDS has signed a new agreement with Singapore Airlines' regional carrier, SilkAir. The new agreement will extend Travelport's current commitment with SilkAir to five years. SilkAir operates scheduled services from Singapore to 29 destinations across 11 countries in Asia.
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Destroyer Evolution 1953-1962
U.S. Destroyers: An Illustrated Design History, Norman Friedmann .The standard history of the development of American destroyers, from the earliest torpedo boat destroyers to the post-war fleet, and covering the massive classes of destroyers built for both World Wars. Gives the reader a good understanding of the debates that surrounded each class of destroyer and led to their individual features.
Cuban leader Fidel Castro (1926-2016) established the first communist state in the Western Hemisphere after leading an overthrow of the military dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista in 1959. He ruled over Cuba for nearly five decades, until handing off power to his younger brother Raúl in 2008.
Castro's regime was successful in reducing illiteracy, stamping out racism and improving public health care, but was widely criticized for stifling economic and political freedoms. Castro's Cuba also had a highly antagonistic relationship with the United States–most notably resulting in the Bay of Pigs invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis. The two nations officially normalized relations in July 2015, ending a trade embargo that had been in place since 1960, when U.S.-owned businesses in Cuba were nationalized without compensation. Castro died on November 25, 2016, at 90.
A Republic Venator-class Star Destroyer
During the Clone Wars, the Galactic Republic Navy fielded a fleet of Venator-class Star Destroyers. The Venator-class saw action in numerous battles against the Confederacy navy including the Battle of Coruscant. Following the transformation of the Republic into the Galactic Empire, the Republic's Star Destroyers were incorporated into the new Imperial Navy. Γ] Aside from the Venator and Imperial-class Star Destroyers, other known models in Imperial service included the Victory and Secutor-class Star Destroyers. Δ]
During the rebellion and the Galactic Civil War, Imperial Star Destroyers took part in numerous engagements against the various rebel forces that eventually coalesced into the Alliance to Restore the Republic. Ε] Ζ] Star Destroyers were deployed during the secret mission to Tatooine, Η] Battle of Hoth, ⎖] and the Battle of Endor. ⎗]
Imperial-class Star Destroyers were the backbone of the Imperial Navy.
Following the events at Endor, the Rebel Alliance's successor government, the New Republic, captured and destroyed numerous Star Destroyers in several engagements including the Battle of Theed, ⎘] the Rebellion on Akiva, ⎙] the Battle for Kuat Drive Yards, and the Liberation of Kashyyyk. ⎚] By 5 ABY, ⎛] Grand Admiral Rae Sloane estimated that 75% of the Imperial Star Destroyers before Endor had either been destroyed, captured, or lost in "confirmable if curious ways." While trawling through the archives at the Hall of Imperial Register on Coruscant, Sloane discovered that the remaining 25% had mysteriously disappeared and their purported destruction had been falsified. ⎚]
Later, Sloane learned that Fleet Admiral Gallius Rax secretly commanded Imperial fleets in the Almagest, the Recluse's Nebula, the Queluhan Nebula, the Ro-Loo Triangle, and the Inamorata. These fleets consisted of hundreds of Star Destroyers and thousands of smaller ships. Following the Attack on Chandrila, Rax ordered the Imperial fleets to assemble above the planet Jakku. ⎚] Numerous Star Destroyers, including Captain Ciena Ree's starship Inflictor, saw action during the Battle of Jakku, the cataclysmic battle that ended the Galactic Civil War in favor of the New Republic. ⎜]
The dorsal hull of the Finalizer
Thirty years after the Battle of Endor, the barren surface of Jakku was still littered with the wreckage of countless Star Destroyers. These derelict starships were regularly targeted by scavengers ⎝] such as Rey. The First Order, a remnant of the Old Empire, was also known to utilize Star Destroyers as part of its fleet, ⎞] such as the First Order's Resurgent-class Star Destroyers, which were inspired by the dagger-shaped design of the Old Empire's vessels. ⎟]
The Cold War: The Atomic Age
The containment strategy also provided the rationale for an unprecedented arms buildup in the United States. In 1950, a National Security Council Report known as NSC� had echoed Truman's recommendation that the country use military force to contain communist expansionism anywhere it seemed to be occurring. To that end, the report called for a four-fold increase in defense spending.
In particular, American officials encouraged the development of atomic weapons like the ones that had ended World War II. Thus began a deadly 𠇊rms race." In 1949, the Soviets tested an atom bomb of their own. In response, President Truman announced that the United States would build an even more destructive atomic weapon: the hydrogen bomb, or "superbomb." Stalin followed suit.
As a result, the stakes of the Cold War were perilously high. The first H-bomb test, in the Eniwetok atoll in the Marshall Islands, showed just how fearsome the nuclear age could be. It created a 25-square-mile fireball that vaporized an island, blew a huge hole in the ocean floor and had the power to destroy half of Manhattan. Subsequent American and Soviet tests spewed radioactive waste into the atmosphere.
The ever-present threat of nuclear annihilation had a great impact on American domestic life as well. People built bomb shelters in their backyards. They practiced attack drills in schools and other public places. The 1950s and 1960s saw an epidemic of popular films that horrified moviegoers with depictions of nuclear devastation and mutant creatures. In these and other ways, the Cold War was a constant presence in Americans' everyday lives.
The discovery in 1953 of the double helix, the twisted-ladder structure of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), by James Watson and Francis Crick marked a milestone in the history of science and gave rise to modern molecular biology, which is largely concerned with understanding how genes control the chemical processes within cells. In short order, their discovery yielded ground-breaking insights into the genetic code and protein synthesis. During the 1970s and 1980s, it helped to produce new and powerful scientific techniques, specifically recombinant DNA research, genetic engineering, rapid gene sequencing, and monoclonal antibodies, techniques on which today's multi-billion dollar biotechnology industry is founded. Major current advances in science, namely genetic fingerprinting and modern forensics, the mapping of the human genome, and the promise, yet unfulfilled, of gene therapy, all have their origins in Watson and Crick's inspired work. The double helix has not only reshaped biology, it has become a cultural icon, represented in sculpture, visual art, jewelry, and toys.
Researchers working on DNA in the early 1950s used the term &quotgene" to mean the smallest unit of genetic information, but they did not know what a gene actually looked like structurally and chemically, or how it was copied, with very few errors, generation after generation. In 1944, Oswald Avery had shown that DNA was the &quottransforming principle," the carrier of hereditary information, in pneumococcal bacteria. Nevertheless, many scientists continued to believe that DNA had a structure too uniform and simple to store genetic information for making complex living organisms. The genetic material, they reasoned, must consist of proteins, much more diverse and intricate molecules known to perform a multitude of biological functions in the cell.
Crick and Watson recognized, at an early stage in their careers, that gaining a detailed knowledge of the three-dimensional configuration of the gene was the central problem in molecular biology. Without such knowledge, heredity and reproduction could not be understood. They seized on this problem during their very first encounter, in the summer of 1951, and pursued it with single-minded focus over the course of the next eighteen months. This meant taking on the arduous intellectual task of immersing themselves in all the fields of science involved: genetics, biochemistry, chemistry, physical chemistry, and X-ray crystallography. Drawing on the experimental results of others (they conducted no DNA experiments of their own), taking advantage of their complementary scientific backgrounds in physics and X-ray crystallography (Crick) and viral and bacterial genetics (Watson), and relying on their brilliant intuition, persistence, and luck, the two showed that DNA had a structure sufficiently complex and yet elegantly simple enough to be the master molecule of life.
Other researchers had made important but seemingly unconnected findings about the composition of DNA it fell to Watson and Crick to unify these disparate findings into a coherent theory of genetic transfer. The organic chemist Alexander Todd had determined that the backbone of the DNA molecule contained repeating phosphate and deoxyribose sugar groups. The biochemist Erwin Chargaff had found that while the amount of DNA and of its four types of bases--the purine bases adenine (A) and guanine (G), and the pyrimidine bases cytosine (C) and thymine(T)--varied widely from species to species, A and T always appeared in ratios of one-to-one, as did G and C. Maurice Wilkins and Rosalind Franklin had obtained high-resolution X-ray images of DNA fibers that suggested a helical, corkscrew-like shape. Linus Pauling, then the world's leading physical chemist, had recently discovered the single-stranded alpha helix, the structure found in many proteins, prompting biologists to think of helical forms. Moreover, he had pioneered the method of model building in chemistry by which Watson and Crick were to uncover the structure of DNA. Indeed, Crick and Watson feared that they would be upstaged by Pauling, who proposed his own model of DNA in February 1953, although his three-stranded helical structure quickly proved erroneous.
The time, then, was ripe for their discovery. After several failed attempts at model building, including their own ill-fated three-stranded version and one in which the bases were paired like with like (adenine with adenine, etc.), they achieved their break-through. Jerry Donohue, a visiting physical chemist from the United States who shared Watson and Crick's office for the year, pointed out that the configuration for the rings of carbon, nitrogen, hydrogen, and oxygen (the elements of all four bases) in thymine and guanine given in most textbooks of chemistry was incorrect. On February 28, 1953, Watson, acting on Donohue's advice, put the two bases into their correct form in cardboard models by moving a hydrogen atom from a position where it bonded with oxygen to a neighboring position where it bonded with nitrogen. While shifting around the cardboard cut-outs of the accurate molecules on his office table, Watson realized in a stroke of inspiration that A, when joined with T, very nearly resembled a combination of C and G, and that each pair could hold together by forming hydrogen bonds. If A always paired with T, and likewise C with G, then not only were Chargaff's rules (that in DNA, the amount of A equals that of T, and C that of G) accounted for, but the pairs could be neatly fitted between the two helical sugar-phosphate backbones of DNA, the outside rails of the ladder. The bases connected to the two backbones at right angles while the backbones retained their regular shape as they wound around a common axis, all of which were structural features demanded by the X-ray evidence. Similarly, the complementary pairing of the bases was compatible with the fact, also established by the X-ray diffraction pattern, that the backbones ran in opposite direction to each other, one up, the other down.
Watson and Crick published their findings in a one-page paper, with the understated title &quotA Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid," in the British scientific weekly Nature on April 25, 1953, illustrated with a schematic drawing of the double helix by Crick's wife, Odile. A coin toss decided the order in which they were named as authors. Foremost among the &quotnovel features" of &quotconsiderable biological interest" they described was the pairing of the bases on the inside of the two DNA backbones: A=T and C=G. The pairing rule immediately suggested a copying mechanism for DNA: given the sequence of the bases in one strand, that of the other was automatically determined, which meant that when the two chains separated, each served as a template for a complementary new chain. Watson and Crick developed their ideas about genetic replication in a second article in Nature, published on May 30, 1953.
The two had shown that in DNA, form is function: the double-stranded molecule could both produce exact copies of itself and carry genetic instructions. During the following years, Crick elaborated on the implications of the double-helical model, advancing the hypothesis, revolutionary then but widely-accepted since, that the sequence of the bases in DNA forms a code by which genetic information can be stored and transmitted.
Although recognized today as one of the seminal scientific papers of the twentieth century, Watson and Crick's original article in Nature was not frequently cited at first. Its true significance became apparent, and its circulation widened, only towards the end of the 1950s, when the structure of DNA they had proposed was shown to provide a mechanism for controlling protein synthesis, and when their conclusions were confirmed in the laboratory by Matthew Meselson, Arthur Kornberg, and others.
Crick himself immediately understood the significance of his and Watson's discovery. As Watson recalled, after their conceptual breakthrough on February 28, 1953, Crick declared to the assembled lunch patrons at The Eagle that they had &quotfound the secret of life." Crick himself had no memory of such an announcement, but did recall telling his wife that evening &quotthat we seemed to have made a big discovery." He revealed that &quotyears later she told me that she hadn't believed a word of it." As he recounted her words, &quotYou were always coming home and saying things like that, so naturally I thought nothing of it."
Retrospective accounts of the discovery of the structure of DNA have continued to elicit a measure of controversy. Crick was incensed at Watson's depiction of their collaboration in The Double Helix (1968), castigating the book as a betrayal of their friendship, an intrusion into his privacy, and a distortion of his motives. He waged an unsuccessful campaign to prevent its publication. He eventually became reconciled to Watson's bestseller, concluding that if it presented an unfavorable portrait of a scientist, it was of Watson, not of himself.
A more enduring controversy has been generated by Watson and Crick's use of Rosalind Franklin's crystallographic evidence of the structure of DNA, which was shown to them, without her knowledge, by her estranged colleague, Maurice Wilkins, and by Max Perutz. Her evidence demonstrated that the two sugar-phosphate backbones lay on the outside of the molecule, confirmed Watson and Crick's conjecture that the backbones formed a double helix, and revealed to Crick that they were antiparallel. Franklin's superb experimental work thus proved crucial in Watson and Crick's discovery. Yet, they gave her scant acknowledgment. Even so, Franklin bore no resentment towards them. She had presented her findings at a public seminar to which she had invited the two. She soon left DNA research to study tobacco mosaic virus. She became friends with both Watson and Crick, and spent her last period of remission from ovarian cancer in Crick's house (Franklin died in 1958). Crick believed that he and Watson used her evidence appropriately, while admitting that their patronizing attitude towards her, so apparent in The Double Helix, reflected contemporary conventions of gender in science.
Chelsea joined the League before they had played a single game - an achievement they share with Bradford City. The club came into being at the behest of a builder, Gus Mears and his brother who aquired the site of the Stamford Bridge Athletic ground and a neighbouring market garden with a view to building a football stadium. The plan lay fallow for a while until the Great Western Railway Company approached the brothers to buy the land for marshalling yards. Rather than sell their asset, the Mears brothers raised the money they needed to build the second largest stadium in England after Crystal Palace and called it Stamford Bridge. When Fulham FC declined an invitation to move in because the annual &pound1,500 rent was too high, the brothers simply went ahead and formed their own club, Chelsea FC. After an approach to join the Southern League was snubbed following objections from Spurs and Fulham, Chelsea successfuly applied to join the Second Division of the Football League.
Initially, Chelsea played in the racing colours associated with the Earl of Cadogan, who was the club's president and also held the title Viscount Chelsea. Weatherby's Ltd, who maintain historical records of racing silks, have confirmed to HFK that these colours were Eton blue and white. Club historians have suggested several dates for the switch to royal blue but the earliest reference, a match programme found by Nik Yeomans (April 2019) records that Chelsea wore &quotblue and white" against Lincoln City on 13 October 1906.
The club was nicknamed &quotThe Pensioners" because of the association with the war veterans in their famous red uniforms known as the Chelsea Pensioners, which was reflected in their official crest. This never appeared on the team shirts.
After finishing third in their first season, Chelsea was promoted to Division One for the first time in 1907, their second season. They made little impression, however, and spent most of the Twenties in Division Two. The club flirted with success but never fulfilled their potential. The club has always enjoyed the patronage of celebrity supporters because of its fashionable location and proximity to the West End. Many star players graced the team in the inter-war years but nevertheless, they became a music hall joke with a reputation as the proverbial &quotnearly team."
In 1930 a look was established that became the template for the next 25 years, consisting of royal blue shirts with contrasting rugby-style collars, white knickers, black stockings with blue and white turnovers. Hooped socks that appear to be light blue and white were worn in a reds v blues pre-season game in 1934 and again in home matches against Spurs (15 Sept 1934) and Stoke (October) and it is unclear why.
In 1952 Ted Drake took over as manager and he replaced the pensioner crest with a more business like monogram on a shield. This badge never appeared on the team's shirts. Drake's workmanlike team broke the mould when Chelsea won the League Championship for the first time in 1955.
In 1960 Chelsea added a crest to their shirts for the first time. Inspired by the civic coat of arms of the London Borough of Chelsea, it bore a lion rampant derived from the arms of the club's first president, the Earl of Cadogan.
In 1961, Chelsea were relegated to Division Two but bounced back the following season to embark on their most successful period to date. In March 1964 the team played in blue shorts to match their shirts and white socks. There is evidence that an earlier version was made up in 1962 but rejected as being too radical a change at the time. Chelsea were, incidentally, the first team to play in Division One with numbers on their shorts.
The new look evolved gracefully at the start of the 1964-65 season with white trim added incrementally and a new cypher that replaced the old Cadogan crest, which had been retired in 1963.
The lion motif was revived in 1967 and has remained the centre piece of the club crest ever since.
Throughout the Sixties Chelsea rode high in the League and started to collect cup trophies: the League Cup in 1965 was followed by the FA Cup (1970) and the European Cup-Winners' Cup (1971). In the 1970-71 season, a small image of the FA Cup was embroidered next to the crest while from the 1971-72 season two stars were added to represent these last two famous cup wins.
Nik Yeomans has discovered that Chelsea wore white shorts and black socks with blue and white turnovers at Stoke, Leeds and West Ham in 1973-74. The same strip was worn the following season in two League Cup ties against Stoke. Further research by Nik has revealed these programme notes from February 1974: The reason we wore white shorts. at Leeds last Saturday was . a stocking clash! Because Leeds wear white stockings we changed to black (with coloured top) and as it was felt that a strip of blue shirts, blue socks and black stockings would look too dark, we opted for white shorts. Later that season yellow socks were worn when there was a clash.
In 1975 Chelsea were relegated to Division Two and although they returned four seasons later, in 1979 they went down again. After languishing in Division Two for five seasons, Chelsea were promoted as champions in 1984. After two promising seasons, they went down once more but won the Second Division championship the following season and they have remained in the top flight ever since.
By the mid Eighties the board decided to update their image and a new crest was designed that featured a lion leaping over the letters CFC. This appeared in various forms with the lion rendered in white, red or yellow to match the accent colour for that season.
In 1986-87 Chelsea became the first club to market strips under their own name, the Chelsea Collection. At first these were without a sponsor before Bai Lin Tea, a slimming aid created by Peter Foster briefly appeared in early 1987. The product proved to be bogus and the logo was soon removed: Foster, a career criminal and con artist was arrested and jailed. The shirts were briefly sponsored by Grange Farm, the property of chairman Ken Bates who was fond of telling assembled hacks, &quotI'm off to my 300 acre farm. You lot can bugger off to your council houses." It appears a logotype was only applied to change shirts. The Italian sportswear company, Simod, took over as sponsor in February 1987. Their logo type appeared in gold for the first game and thereafter was white.
In 1994, Chelsea reached the FA Cup final once again but lost heavily to Manchester United. Chelsea won the FA Cup in 1997, the League Cup in 1998 and the FA Cup once again in 2000. League performances also improved as a succession of high profile managers recruited top foreign stars under the determined and controversial leadership of Ken Bates, who bought the club earlier in the decade.
In 2003, Chelsea's long-standing and controversial chairman, Ken Bates sold the club to Roman Abramovich, a Russian oligarch reputed to be worth between up to &pound3.8bn. While the origins of Abramovich's wealth may be obscure, there was no doubt about his intentions as over the next few years he poured huge amounts of cash into the club to enable them to sign some of the world's leading players. Indeed, at a time when the global transfer market was in recession, Abramovich's millions bucked the trend, propelling the one time music hall joke into the elite of European football. After the appointment of the charismatic Portuguese manager, Jose Mourinho, Chelsea won the first of back-to-back Premier League titles in 2005, exactly 50 years after their first League title, followed by the FA Cup in 2007.
After that first Premier League title, a new crest was designed for the 2005-06 season. Based on the 1960 design it was introduced for the club's centenary. Some minor variations in the arrangment of the colours have appeared such as in 2012-13.
The following September, after persistent stories in the media concerning Mourinho's relationship with Abramovich, the &quotSpecial One" departed and his place was taken by Avram Grant, the Director of Football for the Israeli Football Association. In his first season in charge, Grant steered his expensive team (it was reported that Abramovich's investment amounted to around £750 million in interest-free loans) to within an ace of winning a fabulous double. They finished as runners-up to Manchester United after going into the last round of Premier league matches level on points. Ten days later Chelsea and United clashed again in the UEFA Champions League final, United eventually winning on penalties. These results cost Grant his job and he was replaced by Luiz Felipe Scolari. Scolari was himself sacked in the middle of the 2008-09 season and replaced by Guus Hiddink for the remainder of the season.
Carlo Ancelotti took over at the beginning of the 2009-10 season and took Chelsea to a historic double. Second place in 2011 was not good enough, however, and he too was handed his cards by Mr Abramovich as was his successor, Andre Villas-Boas. It fell to their caretaker manager, Roberto di Matteo, who took over in March 2012, to lead Chelsea to their seventh FA Cup win and an historic UEFA Champions League title, won on penalties in Munich against Bayern Munich.
Rafael Benitez took over from di Matteo but was unpopular with supporters and the club announced that his contract would not be renewed at the end of the season. Even so he steered Chelsea to third place in the Premier League and a dramatic late win over Benfica to secure the Europa League trophy. Jose Mourinho returned in the summer of 2013 as manager and led the club to success in the League Cup in March 2015 followed two months later by the Premier League title.
Following a poor 2015-16 season Chelsea announced that they would be cancelling their agreement with Adidas six years early (incurring a £54m termination fee) in order to pursue a more lucrative deal elsewhere.
Antonio Conte took over as manager in April 2016 and guided Chelsea to their sixth title in his first season in charge.
Destroyer Evolution 1953-1962 - History
When you ponder the history of car seats and look at the dates of when advances actually took place from the creation to acceptance and from the regulation to the legal requirement of usage, you may wonder if it's because of critics that things took so long.
There always seems to be critics especially when innovations are first developed. Did they question the cost and necessity of the seats? Did they think the car is safe so why would I need additional protection for my child? Later in the history of car seats, did they —like many of us still do— think, "well I survived, my child will too"?
What is the history of car seats?
People designed early car seats simply to lift the child to allow him to look out the window and to keep the child more or less in one spot in the car.
Originally "child seats" started out as nothing more than burlap sacks with a drawstring that hung over the headrest on the passenger's seat. Later in 1933, Bunny Bear Company produced a seat that was basically a booster seat. The seat propped backseat riders up so parents could keep an eye them. In the 40s, manufacturers released canvas seats on a metal frame that attached to the car's front seat so the child could get a better view out the windshield, like the one pictured above.
The apparent lack of safety is really not surprising. After all, occupant safety wasn't in top form in the early days of automobiles. It wasn't until 1959 that a 3-point seat belt (lap-shoulder belt) was even available in cars.
It took about 30 years before people considered car seats as possible safety devices.
In 1962 two gentlemen designed car seats with the idea of safety in mind. Briton Jean Ames designed a rear-facing seat that featured a Y-strap, similar to today's models. Len Rivkin, an American from Denver, designed a seat with metal framing.
By 1968 auto manufacturers were getting into the game with the first car seats designed for crash protection. Ford developed the Tot-Guard and General Motors developed the Love Seat for Toddlers, followed quickly by the GM Infant Love Seat (the first rear-facing only restraint). Then there came the Bobby Mac convertible seat.
It took 9 years from the innovation of safety conscious car seats to the beginning of regulations for them.
In 1971 the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration adopts the first federal standards, FMVSS213. At the time requirements did not include crash tests but did require use of a safety belt to hold the car seat into the vehicle and a harness to hold the child in the car seat.
It took 17 years from innovation and 8 years from preliminary regulations to the first state law.
1979 saw the first child restraint aka car seat law in Tennessee.
It took another 6 years until all the states had laws.
All states have a law by 1985. But even in 1987 only 80% of children use a car seat.
We understand, innovation precedes regulation. After all people need to invent products before anyone can make up rules about them. The government needs time to create a committee and criteria and discuss it and discuss it some more and send to other people to discuss it before something is written, which probably has to be handed to someone else discuss and finally to someone else to approve. (That's the way it seems anyway.)
Car seats were obviously around when I was a child, not that I recall ever being in one. I spent a good part of my childhood rolling around the back of a van in a customized bed/table area (the table lowered to make a bed area, great for camping). Of course there was no legal requirement yet, not until I was closer to "booster age".
Today in the history of car seats
Experts, manufacturers and law makers continue to make improvements.
States have routinely increased the car seat requirements as experts learn better ways of protecting children in the car. Many state car seat laws now require keeping children rear facing until age two. Many also implemented laws to keep older children safer as well.
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LATCH systems were introduced into vehicles. A new federal regulation required car manufactures to include the complete system in all cars by model year 2003. These are lower anchors and top tether anchor points intended to improve the ease of install and stability of the seat if the car gets into a crash.
Car seats must meet strict federal crash test regulations which also continue to evolve. Child restraints also come with expiration dates and safety recalls are taken seriously.
These days, parents do exhaustive research on car seat options. And many go the extra step of getting their car seats checked for proper installation by a Child Passenger Safety Technician —something unheard of even 25 years ago. (NHTSA, Safe Kids Worldwide and National Child Passenger Safety Board implemented the technician program in 1997.)
But even now we don't have 100% usage.
Some crashes are unsurvivable. Recent years' statistics show more than 57% of deaths for children 0-15 were because the child was unrestrained. If (and there's really no question here) they are so wonderful for keeping our kids safe, why isn't there 100% usage now and why did it take so long to even get this far? Is it because of critics? Was there some general sentiment that it's not really needed? That it's not really safer like all of us experts say?
Correct car seat usage is even lower as still about 75% of car seats are used incorrectly.
Done looking back at the history of car seats, what does the future hold?
Things continue to improve with new standards being developed and innovative new products, including the RideSafer Travel Vest.
And revolutionary products, like the Tummy Shield, are being developed to protect even younger children. Yes, younger, as in unborn babies. There is more to come in child passenger safety in a time of faster and faster technological developments for both car seats and vehicles. It's exciting to see.
We want to know, have you ever questioned (even just once) the necessity of car seats? Share your comments below.
By Amie Durocher, Creative Director at Safe Ride 4 Kids and certified CPS Tech since 2004
Copyright 2018 Safe Ride 4 Kids. All rights reserved. You may not publish, broadcast, rewrite or redistribute this material without permission. You are welcome to link to Safe Ride 4 Kids or share on social media.
We originally published this post in July 2015. We updated the article for accuracy and comprehensiveness.
Scott shuman
If you would like to see some pictures of the seats mentioned above, visit my Pinterest page. http://www.Pinterest.com/vintageseats
That is an amazing collection of old car seats. Thank you for sharing.
Oh wow! Those are scary looking but interesting! Thanks for sharing!
Laura varela
I enjoyed reading this article gave some good information :)
Mahrissa
The first car seat is really cool to see what it used to be to now.
Rossana Sierra
In 1978, when I was pregnanth my first child, it was the first time I ever read about booster seats. The article said to buy the ones that could be held by the seat belts. Children were pRop-up Oron a non-restrained booster seat would slide from under the seat belt when the brakes where hit faster than children who only wore seat belts. Therefore, the best options then were seat belts or restrained booster seats.
I'm glad that there are many programs in this era that are working towards making sure that each child has a car seat. My children never had one due to the expense. (In my rules, seat belts were mandatory, as car seats are now for all my grandchildren and friends).
It seemed at that time that public opinion was that car seats where fancy expensive seats for fancy expensive cars, and not for safety concern. Safety was considered as an option and as a sale tag for expensive seats. All parents should be given a car seat. Even if they don't own a car, at one time or another, they have to get a ride.
My cell phone does not show the pictures on your web site, but I hope you have a picture of my favorite booster seat as a toddler. It was a seat that hung on back seat, and it had a steering wheel in front to play with.
If you permit me to say, please vote. Many safety rules where voted in by people, while others where supported by the person you voted for in your neighborhood as he ascended politically. It starts in your neighborhood.
Thank you Rossana! Your comment brings some historical insight to car seats and how they were viewed even as recent as the 70s.
I understand the safety improvements of carseats, and am thankful for them, especially for infants. It is moreso the laws that are in place, and becoming more and more restrictive as of late that I hold issue with. I have a growing family, and admittedly, not the most modest of incomes, but I do plan on letting my family grow in size. Even with only three children, and a fairly large car, I find it harder, and by these laws alone, more and more expensive to raise my family. Everyone reading this may find this claim odd, but it seems that these laws are being more restrictive to discourage families from having more kids.
I am 30, and if these laws were in place as I grew up, I would have been (almost no matter what state, or even European country) through the middle of high school, due to size and stature, before I would have been able to sit in the front seat, and possibly have just graduated middle school before I would have "graduated" into a regular seatbelt.
I have four young children (6, 6, 3, 1). Some may consider that a large family, some may not.
I respectfully disagree with you regarding the laws making it more expensive for large families. Here are a few reasons why…
– Manufacturers have made car seats available in every price range from as low as $45 for the Cosco Scenera NEXT which will get many kids rear facing until almost 4 years old to seats that rear face to 50+ lbs for under $200. That's huge! It used to cost well over $200 to keep a child rear facing past 40lbs. And to clarify, non of the new state laws require rear facing to 40lbs. I'm just basing this off of best practice as stated by the AAP.
– Seats like the one I mentioned above, Cosco Scenera NEXT is one of the narrowest and most compact seats on the market making it suitable for three across or other "crowded" vehicle arrangements.
– Booster seats like BubbleBum and Incognito for example make it easy to keep older kids in a booster and yet accommodate everyone safely in the vehicle. They also look less like a "booster seat" for those overly concerned with social pressures of big kids in boosters.
Trust me, I'm all for government leaving us alone and let us raise our children. But what if there was disease that was the leading cause of death for children? We would be screaming at the government to do something about it and protect our children. The reality is, proper use of child restraints does reduce fatality rates against the leading cause of death…motor vehicle accidents. As a child passenger safety technician I'm constantly educating parents on best practice but so many fall back on the laws and assume that if it's legal, it's safe. Until laws change, we're not going to get parents attention. Children don't have the ability to protect themselves and I believe this is where it is appropriate for the government to step in to protect our future.
And finally…let's talk more about cost. Let's say you do what most parents do and buy and infant seat and then a convertible seat for a total cost of $450 (I'm even going to go a bit more towards the higher end of the price range just to make my point). Those two seats will be used for roughly 5 years combined for one child. That averages out to be .25 per day. If you have multiple children and you pass down the seats that number is even less. And if money is tight, you could easily cut that number in half or more by going straight to a convertible seat. In fact, you could buy a long lasting convertible seat for as low as about $85 which for most kids could easily last 5 years bringing that daily cost down to a whopping .04 per day. Yep, less than a nickel a day. And since I'm on a numbers kick, lets throw in a booster seat. So now we're at $450 + $50 (again, going mid/high on this one too) so $500 for 10 years of safety for your child. That comes in at just under .14 per day (or closer to .03 if we go super budget friendly like I mentioned). That number drops even lower when you look at the fact that you can pass your seats down to your younger children (assuming they aren't expired, damaged, etc).
What would it cost for your child to spend just one night in the hospital after sustaining injuries from a motor vehicle accident? What if those injuries that could have been prevented by using the proper child restraint? What would you be willing to pay for that?
What do you pay for "luxuries" in your daily life…Starbucks coffee? The latest iPhone? More than .14/day? See my point? I'm not trying to make light of finances. Kids are expensive. But there are far better ways to save money on raising children than by cutting back on life saving devices like child restraints.
Furthermore, the proposed laws aren't even up to the best practice recommendations backed by science. My children are maximums, not minimums. Frankly I don't care what the laws say…even the strictest child passenger laws in the country aren't enough protection for my child.
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The Discovery of DNA's Structure
Taken in 1952, this image is the first X-ray picture of DNA, which led to the discovery of its molecular structure by Watson and Crick. Created by Rosalind Franklin using a technique called X-ray crystallography, it revealed the helical shape of the DNA molecule. Watson and Crick realized that DNA was made up of two chains of nucleotide pairs that encode the genetic information for all living things.
Credits: Photo of Rosalind Franklin courtesy of Vittorio Luzzati. Photo of x-ray crystallography (Exposure 51) courtesy of King's College Archives. King's College London.
Evolution Since Darwin
They were hardly modest, these two brash young scientists who in 1953 declared to patrons of the Eagle Pub in Cambridge, England, that they had "found the secret of life." But James Watson and Francis Crick's claim was a valid one, for they had in fact discovered the structure of DNA, the chemical that encodes instructions for building and replicating almost all living things. The stunning find made possible the era of "new biology" that led to the biotechnology industry and, most recently, the deciphering of the human genetic blueprint.
Watson and Crick's discovery didn't come out of the blue. As early as 1943 Oswald Avery proved what had been suspected: that DNA, a nucleic acid, carries genetic information. But no one knew how it worked.
By the early 1950s, at least two groups were hot on the trail. Crick, a British graduate student, and Watson, an American research fellow, were in the hunt at Cambridge University.
At King's College in London, Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins were studying DNA. Wilkins and Franklin used X-ray diffraction as their main tool -- beaming X-rays through the molecule yielded a shadow picture of the molecule's structure, by how the X-rays bounced off its component parts.
Franklin, a shy and inward young woman, suffered from patronizing attitudes and sexism that forced her to do much of her work alone. And her senior partner, Wilkins, showed some of Franklin's findings to Watson in January 1953 without her knowledge.
Referring to Franklin's X-ray image known as "Exposure 51," James Watson is reported to have said, "The instant I saw the picture, my mouth fell open and my pulse began to race." Shortly after, Watson and Crick made a crucial advance when they proposed that the DNA molecule was made up of two chains of nucleotides paired in such a way to form a double helix, like a spiral staircase. This structure, announced in their famous paper in the April 1953 issue of Nature, explained how the DNA molecule could replicate itself during cell division, enabling organisms to reproduce themselves with amazing accuracy except for occasional mutations.
For their work, Watson, Crick, and Wilkins received the Nobel Prize in 1962. Despite her contribution to the discovery of DNA's helical structure, Rosalind Franklin was not named a prize winner: She had died of cancer four years earlier, at the age of 37.
1950s Inventions
For those of you born within the last two decades, your experience with science and technology is unique with respect to the speed and frequency of inventions and innovations. But it wasn't always so.
We may have thought there were great new things, like colored kitchen appliances and transistor radios, but we could not have anticipated the PC, cellphones, DVDs or the like. We thought it was cool when 78 rpm (rotations per minute) records became 33s. We were astonished when records could be heard in stereo.
Here's a list of some of the major inventions and innovations of the Fifties.
Zenith introduces "lazy bones" tuning – change all television stations from the comfort of your easy chair. Hand held device plugs into TV
Antihistamines enter popular use for treatment of allergies and head-colds.
Leo Fender's guitar company introduced their Broadcaster and Esquire models, the first mass-produced solid body electric guitars.
Telephone Answering Machine created by Bell Laboratories and Western Electric.
UNIVAC First commercial computer.
A.E.C. (Atomic Energy Commission) produces electricity from atomic energy.
American automobile manufacturer Chrysler Corporation introduces power steering., which they called Hydraguide.
Charles Ginsburg invented the first videotape recorder (VTR).
J. Andre-Thomas invents the first heart-lung machine, allowing advanced life-support during open-heart surgery.
Still camera gets built-in flash units.
The first patent for bar code (US Patent #2,612,994) issued to inventors Joseph Woodland and Bernard Silver
Sony, a brand new Japanese company, introduces the first pocket-sized transistor radio
The first musical synthesizer invented by RCA
The first 3-D movie is shown: Arch Oboler's Bwana Devil, starring Robert Stack. Learn More
Francis Crick and James Watson discover the "double helix" of DNA.
Dr. Jonas Salk announces discovery of the vaccine for poliomyelitis
White Rose Redi-tea is the world's first instant iced tea
Dow Chemical creates Saran Wrap
TV color broadcasting began in 1953
The first nonstick pan produced.
The solar cell invented by Chaplin, Fuller and Pearson.
The first successful kidney transplant is performed in the U.S. by Harvard physicians. The patient will survive for seven more years.
General Electric introduces colored kitchen appliances. Bye, bye white!
Zenith engineer Eugene Polley invented the "Flashmatic," which represented the industry's first wireless TV remote.
Gregory Pincus develops the first oral contraceptive
The first home microwave ovens are manufactured by Tappan. They cost $1300 which really slows sales!
The first computer hard disk used.
The hovercraft invented by Christopher Cockerell.
As a result of the joint research of Sherman and Smith, the Scotchgard™ Protector was launched in the marketplace
Secretary Bette Nesmith Graham invented "Mistake Out" later renamed, Liquid Paper
Los Alamos Laboratory discovers the neutrino, an atomic particle with no electric charge.
Anti-protons detected in the atmosphere.
The first commercial videotape recorder is introduced. The device is intended for industrial applications, and it quickly revolutionizes the way television programming is produced.
Fortran (computer language) invented.
Velcro is patented by George de Mestral of Switzerland.
Eveready produces "AA" size alkaline batteries
Earl Bakken develops the first external, battery-operated, transistorized, wearable artificial pacemaker
The Hula Hoop invented by Richard Knerr and Arthur "Spud" Melin.
The integrated circuit invented by Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce.
Sterophonic recordings, which use two separately recorded channels of sound to recreate a sense of space, come into commercial use.
The internal pacemaker invented by Wilson Greatbatch. In 1959
Joseph-Armand Bombardier of Valcourt, Quebec, Canada patented the Ski-Doo, originally christened the Ski-Dog, but renamed because of a typographical error that Bombardier decided not to change. You know it as a snowmobile.
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text:
#!/usr/bin/python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import os
import sys
import unittest
import testutils

from pyjsonrpclite import JsonRpcMessage, JsonRpcRequest, JsonRpcNotification,\
    JsonRpcSuccessResponse, JsonRpcErrorResponse,\
    JsonRpcError, JsonRpcParsedType, JsonRpcParsed,\
    JsonRpcParseError

sys.path.insert(0, os.path.abspath('..'))
sys.path.insert(0, os.path.abspath('..\..'))

class TestJsonRpc(unittest.TestCase):
    def setUp(self):
        pass

    def tearDown(self):
        pass

    # pylint: disable=R0201
    def testJsonRpcMessageRequestCorrect(self):
        expected = JsonRpcRequest(1, 'login', ['user', 'password'])
        actual = JsonRpcMessage.Request(1, 'login', ['user', 'password'])
        testutils.assertEqualObjects(expected, actual)

    # pylint: disable=R0201
    def testJsonRpcMessageRequestNoParamsCorrect(self):
        expected = JsonRpcRequest(1, 'login')
        actual = JsonRpcMessage.Request(1, 'log0in')
        testutils.assertEqualObjects(expected, actual)

    # pylint: disable=R0201
    def testJsonRpcMessageNotificationCorrect(self):
        expected = JsonRpcNotification('alarm', ['a', 'b'])
        actual = JsonRpcMessage.Notification('alarm', ['a', 'b'])
        testutils.assertEqualObjects(expected, actual)

    # pylint: disable=R0201
    def testJsonRpcMessageNotificationNoParamsCorrect(self):
        expected = JsonRpcNotification('alarm')
        actual = JsonRpcMessage.Notification('alarm')
        testutils.assertEqualObjects(expected, actual)

    # pylint: disable=R0201
    def testJsonRpcMessageSuccessCorrect(self):
        expected = JsonRpcSuccessResponse(1, 1107)
        actual = JsonRpcMessage.Success(1, 1107)
        testutils.assertEqualObjects(expected, actual)

    # pylint: disable=R0201
    def testJsonRpcMessageErrorCorrect(self):
        expected = JsonRpcErrorResponse(
            1, JsonRpcError(-32001, 'Err MSG', [105, 106]))
        actual = JsonRpcMessage.Error(
            1, JsonRpcError(-32001, 'Err MSG', [105, 106]))
        testutils.assertEqualObjects(expected, actual)

    # pylint: disable=R0201
    def testJsonRpcMessageAsJsonCorrect(self):
        # request
        expected = '{\n"id": 1,\n"method": "login",' +\
            '\n"params": [\n"user",\n"password"\n]\n}'
        msg = JsonRpcMessage.Request(1, 'login', ['user', 'password'])
        actual = JsonRpcMessage.AsJson(msg, indent=False, escape=True)
        self.assertEqual(expected, actual)

        # request, no params
        expected = '{\n"id": 1,\n"method": "login"\n}'
        msg = JsonRpcMessage.Request(1, 'login')
        actual = JsonRpcMessage.AsJson(msg, indent=False, escape=True)
        self.assertEqual(expected, actual)

        # notify
        expected = '{\n"method": "alarm",\n"params": [\n"a",\n"b"\n]\n}'
        msg = JsonRpcMessage.Notification('alarm', ['a', 'b'])
        actual = JsonRpcMessage.AsJson(msg, indent=False, escape=True)
        self.assertEqual(expected, actual)

        # notify, no params
        expected = '{\n"method": "alarm"\n}'
        msg = JsonRpcMessage.Notification('alarm')
        actual = JsonRpcMessage.AsJson(msg, indent=False, escape=True)
        self.assertEqual(expected, actual)

    # pylint: disable=R0201
    def testJsonRpcRequestCorrect(self):
        '''Checks object inheritance, structure, init'''
        msg = JsonRpcRequest(1, 'methodName', 'params')
        self.assertTrue(isinstance(msg, JsonRpcMessage))
        self.assertTrue(hasattr(msg, 'id'))
        self.assertTrue(hasattr(msg, 'method'))
        self.assertTrue(hasattr(msg, 'params'))
        self.assertEqual(1, msg.id)
        self.assertEqual('methodName', msg.method)
        self.assertEqual('params', msg.params)

    # pylint: disable=R0201
    def testJsonRpcNotificationCorrect(self):
        '''Checks object inheritance, structure, init'''
        msg = JsonRpcNotification('ntfName', 'params')
        self.assertTrue(isinstance(msg, JsonRpcRequest))
        self.assertFalse(hasattr(msg, 'id'))
        self.assertTrue(hasattr(msg, 'method'))
        self.assertTrue(hasattr(msg, 'params'))
        self.assertEqual('ntfName', msg.method)
        self.assertEqual('params', msg.params)

    # pylint: disable=R0201
    def testJsonRpcSuccessResponseCorrect(self):
        '''Checks object inheritance, structure, init'''
        msg = JsonRpcSuccessResponse(1, 'result-value')
        self.assertTrue(isinstance(msg, JsonRpcMessage))
        self.assertTrue(hasattr(msg, 'id'))
        self.assertTrue(hasattr(msg, 'result'))
        self.assertEqual(1, msg.id)
        self.assertEqual('result-value', msg.result)

    # pylint: disable=R0201
    def testJsonRpcErrorResponseCorrect(self):
        '''Checks object inheritance, structure, init'''
        msg = JsonRpcErrorResponse(
            1, JsonRpcError(-32000, 'TestError', 'Error-data'))
        self.assertTrue(isinstance(msg, JsonRpcMessage))
        self.assertTrue(hasattr(msg, 'id'))
        self.assertTrue(hasattr(msg, 'error'))
        self.assertTrue(isinstance(msg.error, JsonRpcError))
        self.assertEqual(1, msg.id)
        self.assertEqual(msg.error.code, -32000)
        self.assertEqual(msg.error.message, 'TestError')
        self.assertEqual(msg.error.data, 'Error-data')

    # pylint: disable=R0201
    def testInternalErrorCorrect1(self):
        msg = JsonRpcError.InternalError('Error-data')
        self.assertTrue(isinstance(msg, JsonRpcError))
        self.assertTrue(hasattr(msg, 'code'))
        self.assertTrue(hasattr(msg, 'message'))
        self.assertTrue(hasattr(msg, 'data'))
        self.assertEqual(-32603, msg.code)
        self.assertEqual('Internal Error', msg.message)
        self.assertEqual('Error-data', msg.data)

    # pylint: disable=R0201
    def testInternalErrorCorrect2(self):
        msg = JsonRpcError.InternalError()
        self.assertTrue(isinstance(msg, JsonRpcError))
        self.assertTrue(hasattr(msg, 'code'))
        self.assertTrue(hasattr(msg, 'message'))
        self.assertEqual(-32603, msg.code)
        self.assertEqual('Internal Error', msg.message)

    # pylint: disable=R0201
    def testCustomErrorCorrect1(self):
        msg = JsonRpcError.Error(-32099, 'tes-msg', 'Error-data')
        self.assertTrue(isinstance(msg, JsonRpcError))
        self.assertTrue(hasattr(msg, 'code'))
        self.assertTrue(hasattr(msg, 'message'))
        self.assertTrue(hasattr(msg, 'data'))
        self.assertEqual(-32099, msg.code)
        self.assertEqual('tes-msg', msg.message)
        self.assertEqual('Error-data', msg.data)

    # pylint: disable=R0201
    def testCustomErrorCorrect2(self):
        msg = JsonRpcError.Error(-32099, 'tes-msg')
        self.assertTrue(isinstance(msg, JsonRpcError))
        self.assertTrue(hasattr(msg, 'code'))
        self.assertTrue(hasattr(msg, 'message'))
        self.assertEqual(-32099, msg.code)
        self.assertEqual('tes-msg', msg.message)

    # pylint: disable=R0201
    def testParseRequest(self):
        '''Checks if JSON-RPC 2.0 Request object parsed correct'''
        testReqJson = '''
        {
            "jsonrpc": "2.0",
            "method": "sum",
            "params": {"param1": 1, "param2": 2},
            "id": 521
        }'''
        expected = JsonRpcParsed(
            JsonRpcParsedType.REQUEST,
            JsonRpcRequest(521, 'sum', {"param1": 1, "param2": 2})
        )
        actual = JsonRpcParsed.Parse(testReqJson)
        testutils.assertEqualObjects(expected, actual)

    # pylint: disable=R0201
    def testParseRequestInvalidRaisesException(self):
        '''Parse json with "id" only raises JsonRpcParseError'''
        testReqJson = '''
        {
            "jsonrpc": "2.0",
            "id": 521
        }'''
        with self.assertRaises(JsonRpcParseError) as context:
            JsonRpcParsed.Parse(testReqJson)
        expectedErr = JsonRpcError.InvalidRequest('No reqired fields')
        testutils.assertEqualObjects(expectedErr, context.exception.rpcError)

    # pylint: disable=R0201
    def testParseNotificationReq(self):
        '''Checks if JSON-RPC 2.0 Notification object parsed correct'''
        testReqJson = '''
        {
            "jsonrpc": "2.0",
            "method": "alarmAdd",
            "params": {"param1": 1, "param2": 2}
        }'''
        expected = JsonRpcParsed(
            JsonRpcParsedType.NOTIFICATION,
            JsonRpcNotification('alarmAdd', {"param1": 1, "param2": 2})
        )
        actual = JsonRpcParsed.Parse(testReqJson)
        testutils.assertEqualObjects(expected, actual)

    # pylint: disable=R0201
    def testParseSuccessRes(self):
        '''Checks if JSON-RPC 2.0 Success object parsed correct'''
        testReqJson = '''
        {
            "jsonrpc": "2.0",
            "result": 3,
            "id": 521
        }'''
        expected = JsonRpcParsed(
            JsonRpcParsedType.SUCCESS,
            JsonRpcSuccessResponse(521, 3)
        )
        actual = JsonRpcParsed.Parse(testReqJson)
        testutils.assertEqualObjects(expected, actual)

    # pylint: disable=R0201
    def testParseErrorObj1(self):
        '''Checks if JSON-RPC 2.0 Error object parsed correct'''
        testReqJson = '''
        {
            "jsonrpc": "2.0",
            "error": {
                "code": -32601,
                "message": "Method Not Found",
                "data": "No method called [sum]"
            },
            "id": 521
        }'''
        rpcerror = JsonRpcError.MethodNotFound('No method called [sum]')
        expected = JsonRpcParsed(
            JsonRpcParsedType.ERROR,
            JsonRpcErrorResponse(521, rpcerror)
            )
        actual = JsonRpcParsed.Parse(testReqJson)
        testutils.assertEqualObjects(expected, actual)

    # pylint: disable=R0201
    def testParseErrorObjInvalidCode1(self):
        '''Parse JSON-RPC 2.0 Error object with invalid code raises
        exception.'''
        def SubGetErrornousErrObj(code):
            return '''
        {
            "jsonrpc": "2.0",
            "error": {
                "code": ''' + str(code) + ''',
                "message": "Method Not Found",
                "data": "No method called [sum]"
            },
            "id": 521
        }'''
        testReqJson = SubGetErrornousErrObj(-32800)
        with self.assertRaises(JsonRpcParseError) as context:
            JsonRpcParsed.Parse(testReqJson)
        expectedErr = JsonRpcError.InvalidParams(
            'Invalid JSON-RPC 2.0 Error code')
        testutils.assertEqualObjects(expectedErr, context.exception.rpcError)

        testReqJson = SubGetErrornousErrObj(-32604)
        with self.assertRaises(JsonRpcParseError) as context:
            JsonRpcParsed.Parse(testReqJson)
        expectedErr = JsonRpcError.InvalidParams(
            'Invalid JSON-RPC 2.0 Error code')
        testutils.assertEqualObjects(expectedErr, context.exception.rpcError)

        testReqJson = SubGetErrornousErrObj(-32599)
        with self.assertRaises(JsonRpcParseError) as context:
            JsonRpcParsed.Parse(testReqJson)
        expectedErr = JsonRpcError.InvalidParams(
            'Invalid JSON-RPC 2.0 Error code')
        testutils.assertEqualObjects(expectedErr, context.exception.rpcError)

        testReqJson = SubGetErrornousErrObj(-32100)
        with self.assertRaises(JsonRpcParseError) as context:
            JsonRpcParsed.Parse(testReqJson)
        expectedErr = JsonRpcError.InvalidParams(
            'Invalid JSON-RPC 2.0 Error code')
        testutils.assertEqualObjects(expectedErr, context.exception.rpcError)

        testReqJson = SubGetErrornousErrObj(-31199)
        with self.assertRaises(JsonRpcParseError) as context:
            JsonRpcParsed.Parse(testReqJson)
        expectedErr = JsonRpcError.InvalidParams(
            'Invalid JSON-RPC 2.0 Error code')
        testutils.assertEqualObjects(expectedErr, context.exception.rpcError)

    # pylint: disable=R0201
    def testParseReturnsParseError(self):
        '''Parse found invalid json'''
        testReqJson = """{INVALID_JSON}"""
        with self.assertRaises(JsonRpcParseError) as context:
            JsonRpcParsed.Parse(testReqJson)
        expectedErr = JsonRpcError.ParseError('{INVALID_JSON}')
        testutils.assertEqualObjects(expectedErr, context.exception.rpcError)

    # pylint: disable=R0201
    def testParseInvalidHeader1(self):
        '''Parse found JSON-PRC message without jsonrpc field'''

        testReqJson = '''{

            "error": {
                "code": -32601,
                "message": "Method Not Found",
                "data": "No method called [sum]"
            },
            "id": 521
        }'''
        with self.assertRaises(JsonRpcParseError)as context:
            JsonRpcParsed.Parse(testReqJson)
        expectedErr = JsonRpcError.InvalidRequest(
            'Message have no "jsonrpc" field')
        testutils.assertEqualObjects(expectedErr, context.exception.rpcError)

    # pylint: disable=R0201
    def testParseInvalidHeader2(self):
        '''Parse found JSON-PRC message jsonrpc wrong version'''

        testReqJson = '''{
            "jsonrpc": "1.0",
            "error": {
                "code": -32601,
                "message": "Method Not Found",
                "data": "No method called [sum]"
            },
            "id": 521
        }'''
        with self.assertRaises(JsonRpcParseError)as context:
            JsonRpcParsed.Parse(testReqJson)
        expectedErr = JsonRpcError.InvalidRequest(
            '"jsonrpc" field value should be 2.0')
        testutils.assertEqualObjects(expectedErr, context.exception.rpcError)

    # pylint: disable=R0201
    def testParseInvalidNotifyReq1(self):
        '''Parse found JSON-PRC 2.0 Notify Request without method field'''

        testReqJson = '''{
            "jsonrpc": "2.0"
        }'''
        with self.assertRaises(JsonRpcParseError)as context:
            JsonRpcParsed.Parse(testReqJson)
        expectedErr = JsonRpcError.InvalidRequest('No "method" field')
        testutils.assertEqualObjects(expectedErr, context.exception.rpcError)

    # pylint: disable=R0201
    def testParseInvalidNotifyReq2(self):
        '''Parse found JSON-PRC 2.0 Notify Request where method is null'''

        testReqJson = '''{
            "jsonrpc": "2.0",
            "method": null
        }'''
        with self.assertRaises(JsonRpcParseError)as context:
            JsonRpcParsed.Parse(testReqJson)
        expectedErr = JsonRpcError.InvalidRequest(
            'Invalid "method" field value')
        testutils.assertEqualObjects(expectedErr, context.exception.rpcError)

    # pylint: disable=R0201
    def testParseInvalidNotifyReq3(self):
        '''Parse found JSON-PRC 2.0 Notify Request where method is empty'''

        testReqJson = '''{
            "jsonrpc": "2.0",
            "method": ""
        }'''
        with self.assertRaises(JsonRpcParseError)as context:
            JsonRpcParsed.Parse(testReqJson)
        expectedErr = JsonRpcError.InvalidRequest(
            'Invalid "method" field value')
        testutils.assertEqualObjects(expectedErr, context.exception.rpcError)

    # pylint: disable=R0201
    def testParseInvalidErrorRes1(self):
        '''Parse found JSON-PRC 2.0 Response Error where error object has
        invalid structure.'''
        testReqJson = '''{
            "jsonrpc": "2.0",
            "error": "",
            "id": 536
        }'''
        with self.assertRaises(JsonRpcParseError)as context:
            JsonRpcParsed.Parse(testReqJson)
        expectedErr = JsonRpcError.InvalidParams(
            'Invalid JSON-RPC 2.0 Error object structure')
        testutils.assertEqualObjects(expectedErr, context.exception.rpcError)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    unittest.main()

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Whites MXT is a great detector in its class. It is a land detector, with multiple features for searching lost items.
This machine is simple to use, and is manufactured in the USA. It has a digital screen to offer multiple options, Its pinpointing is accurate, and had good depth detection.
It is not waterproof for rainy day detection, or underwater searches. It has no tone ID, and the screen is not back lit. This makes it difficult for night searches.


Shepshed Town Council has 15 elected Councillors representing the different wards across the Town. You can find more information about your elected representatives on the Councillors page . Elections take place every four years.


Hallgreen Castle is an L-Plan Tower House originally built in the 14th Century. Further extensions and renovation work has taken place in later years.
The Dunnet and then the Rait family have owned the Castle.
There have been several sightings of servant girl ghosts in the Castle basement.
A cloaked man has been sighted.
The spirit of a woman has also been seen, it is thought to be a woman who killed herself after her child died.


Residential rents are set to increase more than house prices over the next two years, according to the latest index from the National Bank of Australia.
Property professionals surveyed by the bank expect rents to grow by 2.1% over the next 12 months and by 3.4% over the next two years, with rents growing in all states.
However, nationally house prices are anticipated to grow by just 0.4% over the next year and 1.7% over the next two years.
The index report also suggests that the current downward trend in national house prices may be slowing, with prices falling 0.7% in the third quarter of 2012 following a 1.6% decline in the second quarter.
Victoria has the weakest market, with prices falling 1.1%, followed by Queensland down 0.8%, New South Wales down 0.6% and South Australia and Northern Territory both down 0.3%.
Overall sentiment about the residential property market improved over the quarter, with NAB's Residential Property Index rising four points in the third quarter of 2012 following a fall of eight points in the previous quarter.
Meanwhile, lending for new properties increased in August, according to the latest figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
A 2.6% increase in total housing finance net of refinancing in August 2012 marked the sixth consecutive rise but lending for new homes soared, up 13.9%.
In August 2012 the total number of seasonally adjusted loans increased by 3.3% in New South Wales, by 4.1% in Queensland, by 1.2% in Western Australia, by 3.2% in Tasmania, and by 2.7% in the Australian Capital Territory.
The number of loans fell by 1.2% in Victoria and was down by 2.9% in South Australia and by 6.3% in the Northern Territory.
Harley Dale, chief economist of the Housing Industry Association, the voice of Australia's residential building industry, said that the figures were encouraging but added that the base for the recovery has to date been too narrow.
'A recovery in the number of loans to first time owner occupiers appears to be entrenching itself, but lending to the larger trade-up owner occupier market has been losing momentum since March,' he said.
'After posting a strong increase in June, the number of loans for the construction of owner occupied dwellings largely flat-lined in July and again in August. Meanwhile, lending for the construction of new investment properties has been trending down since March,' he explained.
'Right now the profile for housing finance is a reminder that we have yet to see compelling evidence of either a new home building recovery or of a sustained recovery in the trade-up buyer and investor markets,' he added.


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The Fifties Railway
Author: Greg Morse
Under-maintained and over-worked during the Second World War, Britain's railways emerged from the conflict carrying a 'poor bag of physical assets'. Yet the new government of 1945 saw a need to bring the nation's great industries into public ownership – a move that saw the creation of a single railway network three years later. At first, it seemed like 'business as usual', but as the 1950s dawned and BR's deficit grew deeper, it was clear that costs needed to be cut wherever possible. And that meant modernisation.
Published at the very end of 1954, the so-called Modernisation Plan would see the ordering of over 170 diesel locomotives and the launch of a bold plan to electrify much of the West Coast Main Line. The downside for enthusiasts and traditionalists was the beginning of the end for steam, though the path to modernisation would not run smooth; neither would it come cheap. The decade would end much as it had begun – with a new government seeking ways to save money. Doctor Beeching was on his way.
This book is part of the Britain's Heritage series, which provides definitive introductions to the riches of Britain's past, and is the perfect way to get acquainted with the Fifties Railway in all its variety.


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Seattle couple leaves $850,000 to US as thanks to adopted country
Posted 3:17 pm, May 22, 2015, by Katrina Lamansky
On April 27, 2015, A Seattle couple left nearly $850,000 to the U.S. government as a gesture of thanks to their adopted country. Peter Petrasek, who emigrated from Czechoslovakia after World War II, and his wife Joan stipulated in their will that all of their money be donated to the government.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — A Seattle couple left nearly $850,000 to the U.S. government as a gesture of thanks to their adopted country.
Peter Petrasek, who emigrated from Czechoslovakia after World War II, and his wife Joan stipulated in their will that all of their money be donated to the government.
The couple had no children and wanted to give back to the country that enabled them to live a happy and prosperous life, said Peter Winn, the U.S. attorney who helped transfer the funds to the Treasury Department.
"I think the Petraseks were very grateful to their adopted country," said Winn. "They wanted to make a statement about how much it meant to them to be able to call themselves American citizens."
Peter, an engineer for a local steel company, passed away in 2012 at the age of 85. Joan, who was from Ireland, died several years earlier of breast cancer. She was 79.
The couple met in Canada before settling in Seattle, according to Carrie Balkema, the attorney who oversaw the liquidation of their estate.
Balkema said she was appointed by a court to fulfill the couple's final wish to give their money to "The United States of America." It took Balkema three years to sort out.
The couple's assets included their home, savings and a substantial stock portfolio.
Balkema said Peter went back to Czechoslovakia several years ago to see if any of his relatives had survived World War II. He couldn't find any. Even though Joan had some relatives in Ireland, the couple wanted their money to go to America.
"Both felt they were given opportunities and education by coming here," said Balkema, who was appointed by the court to figure out how to fulfill the couple's unusual request.
On May 13, Winn said he deposited a check on behalf of the Petrasek estate in the amount of $847, 215.57. It was made out to the Department of the Treasury.
Ted Logan
Great. Nearly a fourth of that money will go to the MIC so they can drone the heck out of civilians and children in undeclared wars.
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Alan Abelson
Oct. 1, 2001 12:01 am ET
Springtime for bin Laden?
Although we have no doubt that the irrepressible Mel Brooks, perhaps when he's a mere octogenarian, will turn loose his unique talent for lunatic mockery on the satanic sultan of terrorism. But the wounds are still too raw, memories too vivid, the shared bereavement too painfully present for the intrusion of ridicule, no matter how biting.
But if humor, even if it has in its cross hair the demonic perpetrator of the horror of September 11, remains outside the pale, there are persistent urgings by Washington and state and local officials that we otherwise strive to take up life as we knew it before the terrorists struck. That, best we can, despite the inhibitions to travel and assembly, to say nothing of the considerable residue of unease and suspicion, negotiate a "return to normalcy."
The logic is irrefutable: Obviously, the only way for the country to effectively function again is by folks resuming the daily rhythm of their lives. But we do have a quibble: not with the substance and soundness of the idea but rather its expression. The word "normalcy," frankly, makes us shudder. It seems like enshrined illiteracy. The word was first used, and mistakenly, by Warren Harding; he meant "normality." It was, incidentally, the only honest mistake Mr. Harding ever made.
Personal linguistic prejudices aside, as we say, the push to get people to try to go about their business is quite in order, as manifestly the most expedient and effective way to restore the nation's equilibrium. Maybe it's just parochial pride, but we're especially pleased to note that Wall Street has responded with alacrity and fervor to the call. The exchanges got their act together with commendable dispatch and, under the circumstances, quite smoothly. Brokers, for their part, often showed true grit and imagination as they soldiered on, in the face of a frequently unaccommodating environment and using makeshift facilities.
Lest we be accused of slighting the stalwart strategists, we hasten to include them in the vanguard of the Street's back-to-normal legions. As it happens, the awful events of September 11 that reduced the Trade Center to a monumental pile of rubble and rendered the breathable space of lower Manhattan fetid with concrete dust and insidious smoke also provided all manner of pundits, whatever their hat size or claimed expertise, a kind of cloud cover. More specifically, they now have a blanket excuse for their errant predictions.
The occultists specializing in stock market and economic prophecy have not been shy to seize on this excuse to explain away their cockeyed forecasts. Perhaps it's rude (and, if so, mother never would have approved), but we feel constrained to point out that for quite a spell before the attack, the economy was sliding inexorably into recession, yet any number of the Street's economic clairvoyants were still confidently proclaiming the coming of a second-half recovery.
As to the professional stock market seers, long before the attack, as it became increasingly and inescapably apparent that a grisly bear market was in full swing, many of those worthies remained firmly in denial, gibbering gaily on about the imminence of the born-again bull.
Gosh knows, anyone foolish enough to indulge in market prophecy can be cited for bad calls. (Please consider that a confession). It's no crime to be wrong on the market or there wouldn't be room enough in the prisons for drug pushers. What galls us just a teeny weeny bit, though, is that these birds never look back, but continue on their merry way dispensing fresh drivel. And now, owing to a twist of fate, they've something to blame for their bum forecasts besides the weather.
In the interests of full disclosure, there's a personal burr in our saddle that prods us to utter our gripe. Back in August of 2000, while we were snoozing under a weeping willow in some sylvan retreat, somebody allowed one of these eminent strategists to shamelessly vent his wild guesses in this hallowed space. An August Fool joke, we can only assume. In any case, not the least of his noteworthy forecasts was that Nasdaq, already showing a remarkable resemblance to a drowned cat, was poised for a 25% leap and would be perched contentedly on a new all-time peak by yearend!
A glance at the calender shows that 2000's long gone, and a glance at the market section shows Nasdaq is only some 3,500 points below his target. Generous as all get-out, we'll even throw in 2002 and the year after, to boot, and we have a hunch Nasdaq will be a couple of light years below its old peak, much less a new one. Yet this errant prophet is still blithely playing stock market Nostradamus, prophesying earnings next year of $59 a share, or nearly 50% above this year's and, what else? a big bull market.
But on reflection, maybe we should get our dander down and applaud it all as heartening evidence that Wall Street has made the journey back to normalcy.
The stock market rallied smartly last week, which was as unsurprising as it was cheering. An unreconstructed fundamentalist -- we think the market, despite its propensity to whacko episodes, is nonetheless open to rational explanation, at least for the long pull -- we've come to appreciate the virtues of the technical view, which, stripped of the mumbo-jumbo and quasi-mysticism, furnishes some highly valuable insights. And after due consultation with a couple of trusty and crusty technical gurus, we were persuaded that stocks were primed for a pretty spirited rebound. And that's just what's happening.
The caveat is that the bounce-back is apt to prove as short as it is sharp, lasting just long enough to dispel wariness, whet speculative appetites and create the properly heated environment for another thrust down. While no question there has been widespread publicity given to the economy's sickly condition -- even Washington has been moved to take note of it -- we suspect the true dimensions of the deepening recession have not gained anywhere near the recognition they merit, on either Main Street or Wall Street.
Such recognition, though, is destined to come. Layoffs, whose impact is already visible in the dismaying spurt in new claims for unemployment insurance, will deepen their mark on Main Street in the form of a sharply reduced impulse to spend. In Wall Street, meanwhile, corporate earnings are certain to disappoint even hugely lowered expectations. We don't think either of these powerful potential depressants is, to dip into Street lingo, fully in the market.
We're mindful that the Fed is not through, although as Rhonda Brammer notes in this week's Sizing up Small Caps, eight cuts without a decent response is something less than encouraging for believers in the potency of monetary stimulus. And, yes, we're aware that the federal government in all its majesty is marshalling billions to revivify the economy. But without pushing the comparison too hard, over the past decade Japan has repeatedly thrown billions on billions at its economy, to absolutely no avail. Our confidence in government actions, regardless of the government or the actions, remains something short of overwhelming.
But for us, it all boils down to this: We simply don't think the price of creating, nurturing and flaunting the greatest bubble in stock-market history -- now, sigh!, a mere memory -- has been met, with stocks still selling at well over 20 times earnings and the market 130% of GDP. Despite the destruction of Nasdaq and the major hits to the Dow and the S&P, to put it another way, stocks still aren't cheap. Until they are, the bear market won't call it quits.
Jaye Scholl, our intrepid and accomplished explorer of the dangerous and murky world of hedge funds, has come up with a terrific way to play both the reconstruction of the immense physical damage inflicted by the terrorists and the change in consumer behavior wrought by the attack. She has done so through the agency of Alexander Roepers, who runs Atlantic Investment Management, which encompasses two hedge funds, Cambrian Fund and AJR International.
Jaye is quite taken with Alexander, describing him as "not very humble but wonderfully animated when he gets going on stocks." And anyway, what's not to like with a record like his: Both funds are up around 20% this year, and since starting up in October 1992, AJR has enjoyed compounded growth of 23.2%, including over 50% last year and around 20% so far this year, while Cambrian, with similar fat gains this year and last, over the past nine years has compounded its portfolio by a cool 34% annually. And those sparkling performances are after the obscene fees that hedge funds exact.
Alexander has a yen for low-tech companies with market caps of less than $5 billion and more than $500 million, companies, as Jaye puts it, small enough to amass enough stock to assure that management "takes his phone calls." And he isn't, Jaye adds smilingly, shy about picking up the phone and telling management what it should do to enhance shareholder value, especially when he happens to be one of the larger shareholders.
Okay. Not to keep you in suspense, the company Alexander's hot on (and Jaye, after chatting with the CEO and other key officials, heartily seconds Alexander's enthusiasm), is Harsco, a Big Board number that has been around forever. Jaye calls Harsco the poor man's GE or Tyco: a global industrial conglomerate with outposts in 400 locations in 400 cities. Under Derek Hathaway, who took over the reins three years ago, Harsco has transformed itself from a company 60% manufacturing to one that's 75% services. Acquisitions have been important in this metamorphosis, and Harsco has taken on debt to swing them; thanks to hefty free cash flow, Jaye reports, that indebtedness is now being steadily whittled down.
Lending some credence to Jaye's labeling of Harsco as the poor man's GE is that, following the famous Welch dictum, the company is a leader in every one of its markets. Granted these are niche markets, but as Hathway points out, the niches are quite big.
Among the things the company is the leading supplier of is scaffolding. In fact, Hathaway notes that after the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, Harsco was called in to shore up the damaged tower. Its capabilities in construction, which extend beyond scaffolding, make it an obvious and important beneficiary of the rebuilding of Lower Manhattan and, for that matter, any big public-works programs that are likely to be launched by Washington to pump life into the ailing economy.
Meanwhile, another division, Harsco Track Technologies, No. 2 in railroad-maintenance equipment, is a natural to cash in on the post-attack surge in rail ridership, which even if it ebbs some as the months go by, is bound to remain substantially greater than it had been before September 11. In this vein, Amtrak has importuned Congress for billions to modernize and expand, and it's not inconceivable that our chosen representatives will allot a tidy sum to bring the nation's rusty railroad network into the 21st century.
It should be noted that even before the terrorists' strike, Harsco was doing quite well while so many industrial outfits were going from bad to worse. By Alexander's reckoning, Harsco should earn $2.52 a share this year, up from $2.42 in 2000. And next year, he's looking for $2.80-plus, not counting a 30-cent-a-share contribution from an accounting change. The stock closed Friday at $27 and change. Alexander's target is $44.
Harsco, CEO Hathaway grouses, doesn't get much respect on Wall Street because "we don't quite fit any particular specification." But, he reasons, "if we continue to post the numbers, we'll get people's attention." He can say that again.


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The book presents a case for recognizing the role of black British art and artists in shaping a contemporary account of aesthetics as a field of social practice.
Phenomenal Difference: A Philosophy of Black British Art
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Beauty's Secret A Girl's Discovery of Inner Beauty
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Nonetheless, as Mackay also notes, Kerssenbrock's work remains valuable: it preserves numerous documents associated with the events under discussion; it is the most extensive contemporary account of these events; it has been an important source for much of the subsequent historical writing on Anabaptist Munster; and it provides valuable insights into the mind of a staunch Catholic in the confessional age.
Narrative of the Anabaptist Madness: The Overthrow of Munster, the Famous Metropolis of Westphalia
And last night the magic was repeated with the live transmission of the Liverpool Nativity - a contemporary account of the Christmas story with, literally, a cast of thousands.
City's star is rising; voice of the ECHO
applauded lustily such declarations as: The important thing is to put an end [to criticism of the Roosevelt administration] by whatever means may be necessary -- be as ruthless as the enemy," recorded one contemporary account.
FDR's patriot purge. (Cover Story History)
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Building Berlin
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1805: Publishing; arts and music; popular entertainment; architecture; theatre
It opens with a fascinating quotation from a contemporary account of a visit to a mine in the mid-19th century by an inquisitive traveller who went underground and around the surface interviewing workers, and continues with much new material on mines such as Cwmsymlog, Rhoswydol, Cowarch and the gold-works at Red Dragon.
The Old Metal Mines of Mid-Wales, vol. 6, A Miscellany
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Home Analyst Ratings Analyst Upgrades – Baker Hughes, a GE company Class A (NYSE:BHGE) Stock...
Analyst Upgrades – Baker Hughes, a GE company Class A (NYSE:BHGE) Stock Gets Upgraded By Goldman Sachs Group from Sell to Neutral
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Analyst Ratings For Baker Hughes, a GE company Class A (NYSE:BHGE)
Today, Baker Hughes, a GE company Class A (NYSE:BHGE) stock received an upgrade by Goldman Sachs Group from Sell to Neutral.
Some recent analyst ratings include
2/1/2018-Goldman Sachs Group Upgrade from a "Sell " rating to a " Neutral" rating.
1/29/2018-B. Riley Reiterated Rating of Hold.
1/26/2018-Cowen Reiterated Rating of Outperform .
Dividend information for Baker Hughes, a GE company Class A (NYSE:BHGE)
Baker Hughes, a GE company Class A (NYSE:BHGE) pays an annual dividend of $2.16 with a yield of 6.59% and an average dividend growth of 0.00% based on a 3 Year Average..
Dividend History for Baker Hughes, a GE company Class A (NYSE:BHGE)
On 1/23/2018 Baker Hughes, a GE company Class A announced a quarterly dividend of $0.18 0.00506329113924051% with an ex dividend date of 2/2/2018 which will be payable on 2/16/2018.
On 10/27/2017 Baker Hughes, a GE company Class A announced a quarterly dividend of $0.18 2.29% with an ex dividend date of 11/3/2017 which will be payable on 11/22/2017.
On 8/1/2017 Baker Hughes, a GE company Class A announced a Monthly dividend of $0.17 1.92% with an ex dividend date of 8/9/2017 which will be payable on 8/25/2017.
Recent Insider Trading Activity For Baker Hughes, a GE company Class A (NYSE:BHGE)
Baker Hughes, a GE company Class A (NYSE:BHGE) has insider ownership of 0.66% and institutional ownership of 89.69%.
On 1/9/2018 William D Marsh, Insider, sold 5,000 with an average share price of $35.00 per share and the total transaction amounting to $175,000.00.
On 10/26/2017 Matthias L Heilmann, Insider, bought 1,500 with an average share price of $30.04 per share and the total transaction amounting to $45,060.00.
On 8/18/2017 Lorenzo Simonelli, Insider, bought 6,100 with an average share price of $32.99 per share and the total transaction amounting to $201,239.00.
On 8/2/2017 Brian Worrell, CFO, bought 2,801 with an average share price of $35.24 per share and the total transaction amounting to $98,707.24.
On 8/2/2017 John G Rice, Director, bought 5,000 with an average share price of $35.37 per share and the total transaction amounting to $176,850.00.
Recent Trading Activity for Baker Hughes, a GE company Class A (NYSE:BHGE)
Shares of Baker Hughes, a GE company Class A closed the previous trading session at 32.71 up +0.56 1.76% with 500888 shares trading hands.
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CommScope, Inc. (NASDAQ:COMM) has coverage initiated with a Buy rating and $40.00 price target
Chesapeake Energy Corporation (NYSE:CHK) gets downgraded to Sell by Goldman Sachs Group with a price target of $2.50
Bruker (NASDAQ:BRKR) gets upgraded to Buy by Deutsche Bank with a price target of $50.00
Chemistree Fills Newly-Created Position of Chief Cannabis Officer