WINONA STATE UNIVERSITY and METROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSITY, Defendants.
Plaintiff Zaire Hitimana Kihutu alleges that Defendants Winona State University and Metropolitan State University discriminated against him on the basis of his race. Kihutu did not pay the filing fee for this action, but instead applied for in forma pauperis ("IFP") status. (See Doc. No. 2.) That IFP application is now before the Court and must be considered before any other action may be taken in this matter.
After review of that IFP application, this Court concludes that Kihutu qualifies financially for IFP status. But an IFP application will be denied, and an action will be dismissed, when an IFP applicant has filed a complaint that fails to state a cause of action on which relief may be granted. See 28 U.S.C. § 1915(e)(2)(B)(ii); Atkinson v. Bohn, 91 F.3d 1127, 1128 (8th Cir. 1996) (per curiam); Carter v. Schafer, 273 F. App'x 581, 582 (8th Cir. 2008) (per curiam) ("[C]ontrary to plaintiffs' arguments on appeal, the provisions of 28 U.S.C. § 1915(e) apply to all persons proceeding IFP and are not limited to prisoner suits, and the provisions allow dismissal without service."). In reviewing whether a complaint states a claim on which relief may be granted, this Court must accept as true all of the factual allegations in the complaint and draw all reasonable inferences in the plaintiff's favor. Aten v. Scottsdale Ins. Co., 511 F.3d 818, 820 (8th Cir. 2008). Although the factual allegations in the complaint need not be detailed, they must be sufficient to "raise a right to relief above the speculative level . . . ." Bell Atl. Corp. v. Twombly, 550 U.S. 544, 555 (2007). The complaint must "state a claim to relief that is plausible on its face." Id. at 570. In assessing the sufficiency of the complaint, the court may disregard legal conclusions that are couched as factual allegations. See Ashcroft v. Iqbal, 556 U.S. 662 (2009). Pro se complaints are to be construed liberally, but they still must allege sufficient facts to support the claims advanced. See Stone v. Harry, 364 F.3d 912, 914 (8th Cir. 2004).
As an initial matter, Kihutu alleges two grounds for the Court's original subject-matter jurisdiction over this matter - jurisdiction based upon the parties' diversity of citizenship, see 28 U.S.C. § 1332(a), and jurisdiction based upon the presence of a federal question, see 28 U.S.C. § 1331. With respect to diversity jurisdiction, however, Kihutu has failed to allege his own state or country of citizenship. Without allegations regarding Kihutu's citizenship, this Court cannot assume that jurisdiction based upon diversity of citizenship exists in this matter.
Thus, the Court has jurisdiction over this matter only to the extent that a question of federal law is raised by the Complaint. Kihutu does not expressly invoke any federal statute or cause of action. That said, Kihutu is not represented by counsel, and his Complaint is therefore entitled to a liberal interpretation. This Court will examine the factual allegations in the Complaint in order to determine whether a plausible federal claim has been raised by Kihutu.
The overriding theme of Kihutu's pleading is that he believes these academic problems stem from racial or nationality discrimination. But apart from conclusory allegations to the effect that discrimination explains the events at issue, Kihutu pleads no basis from which a reasonable factfinder could conclude that Defendants' actions, including transcript mistakes or failure to send a diploma to the correct address, were motivated by race or another improper consideration. Other, more substantive grievances raised by Kihutu-such as that Metropolitan State falsely accused him of plagiarism-are cursorily pleaded, with few factual allegations provided. For example, it is impossible to tell from the Complaint why Kihutu was alleged to have committed plagiarism, or why Kihutu believes this allegation to have been false. And nothing in Kihutu's Complaint lends itself to a plausible inference that a discriminatory motive lay behind any of the incidents at issue.
The only federal-law basis for this lawsuit apparent from the Complaint is Kihutu's claim of discrimination. Because that claim has been inadequately pleaded, it is recommended that this matter be dismissed without prejudice. See 28 U.S.C. § 1915(e)(2)(B)(ii).
1. This matter be SUMMARILY DISMISSED WITHOUT PREJUDICE pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1915(e)(2)(B)(ii).


This relief was done on Sunday afternoon in Sculpey Medium.
Sorry for the long hiatus! I've been working on a few things and I should be posting them again very soon!
I'll be at BOSTON COMIC CON, FRIDAY – SUNDAY, AUGUST 12th-14th, 2016 and I'm taking commissions and producing mini-busts and reliefs right there at the con. Mini-busts are approximately 1/6th scale (about 3″ in height), made of durable gray polymer clay and epoxy, and mounted on their own wooden base. You pick the character and I'll make them, and you can take it home with you bubble-wrapped and gift-bagged.
Mini-busts are $100 each at the con, BUT if you pre-order they're only $90!
I'll also be offering sculpted reliefs. Reliefs will come mounted on ready-to-hang wooden plaques, and will approximately the same size and height as the mini-busts.
Reliefs look like this when viewed from the side.
I'll also have pre-painted, finished mini-busts available for $100 each ($90 if you preorder).
Contact me here, on tumblr tweet me @jfsculpts, or email me at jfsculptsemail01@gmail (dot) com. Commission slots are limited, so order right away!
The fine print: some characters are too complex or detailed to render in a timely fashion at a convention. Because of this, I ask that you don't request characters with complicated costumes (such as Galactus), mechanical parts, or specific likenesses. Thank you for your understanding.
At this time, I am only accepting cash at the convention. Please let me know which days you'll be attending so your piece will be ready for you on that day.
I'll be at HEROESCON, FRIDAY – SUNDAY, JUNE 17th-19th, 2016, and I'm taking commissions and producing mini-busts and reliefs right there at the con. Mini-busts are approximately 1/6th scale (about 3″ in height), made of durable gray polymer clay and epoxy. You pick the character and I'll make them, and you can take it home with you bubble-wrapped and boxed.
Mini-busts are $100 each at the con, BUT if you'd like to pre-order they're only $90!
Relief sculptures are $75, but preorder and they're only $60!
A comic con commission from a couple of years ago. Sculpey Firm and Apoxie over an aluminum armature.
Sometimes I'll put a lot of work into something that, for one reason or another, I don't end up finishing. I wish my work-to-completion ratio was better, but most of the time the work is instructive in some way.
PROFESSOR PORTMANTEAU was to be a sci-fi novella illustrated with sculptural illustration, kind of like a stop-motion animated feature without the animation. For various reasons, I decided not to finish this book, but wrote the story and created the main cast, which can be seen in black and white here (the final book was to be in full color). I sculpted a removable "hero" head for each character, cast it, and would make alterations to each cast piece to reflect their expression in each scene. I'd make alterations to their bodies and sculpt new pieces for each shot as needed.
Characters here include Professor Portmanteau, the current incarnation of the smartest person in the universe, her monkey assistant (who acted as her living backup memory, but could never remember his own name), the nerdy Dr. Guero, snippy Dr. Stadtic (who wore van de Graaff generator hairsticks), the grumpy Dr. Tyke, kindly old Dr. Silverspout, the Celebrity (an elongated, alien Tom Jones type), and Professor Hermetic, a previous incarnation of the professor (who's designed to look like a Jack Kirby/Go Nagai mashup). At the end you'll see a mockup of what the pages might have looked like and some sample text.
While I'm a little sad I put the brakes on this one, I'm pleased with the work I did and learned a lot from it.
Cleaning house I found some old action figures I'd customized as a kid. Customizing action figures eventually lead to sculpting. These were off-the-shelf, cheap action figures (I remember doing a lot with .88 cent pegwarmer Killer Kanes from Buck Rogers) sculpted over in plasticine, lightly coated in Elmer's Glue, and then sometimes painted over, usually with Testor's acrylics.
"Original*" character Captain Freedom action figure. I think that's a Hannibal from the A-Team (soft, rubbery plastic) head and a GI Joe body. I seem to recall using substandard plasticine for some of the trim (you can see it's "bled" on the eagle on his belt and F on his forehead).
1989's Batman has seen better days. A GI Joe Outback action figure provides his relatively unadorned torso, but I can't recall what the rest was. I cut up a Naugahyde carseat at the Nantucket junkyard for his cape.
As has the nigh-invulnerable Tick (whose antennae were painted pull-chain segments). I forget what the figure underneath is, but it scaled to be approximately 7′ to a GI Joe or Star Wars action figures' 6′.


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Follow a qualified canoe guide up to the Siankaba rapids in search of abundant wildlife! Take an overnight canoe safari, canoeing between many islands of the Zambezi River in an inflatable two seater canoe (with highly qualified and experienced guides). Your dinner will be served on a wild island on the river.
At Mawimbi Bush Camp, canoeing through an amazing variety of habitats and breathtaking scenery is the main adventure offered. It is sometimes fast and exciting through near-rapid rushing waters and sometimes lazy and leisurely on the meandering river. You can also fish using the lure or the fly.


A Bill to make provision about the taxation of disposals to landfill.
The Bill received Royal Assent on 21 January 2014.
The Bill passed Stage 1 on Tuesday, 29 October 2013.
The Finance Committee considered the Bill at Stage 2 on 20 November 2013.
The Parliament passed the Bill at Stage 3 on 17 December 2013.
Groupings and an As Passed print were not produced for this stage.


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Notes: Local along woodland edges and in woodland clearings throughout much of the British Isles, except for the extreme south-west of England. In Hampshire there is a single old record from "Southampton" in 1937, but the precise place where the specimen was taken is uncertain (MBGBI Vol 3). No more was heard of the species in the county until May 2002, when one was found in a Rothamsted trap at West Park. Not recorded from the Isle of Wight to date. Wingspan 10-11 mm. Similar to E. albifrontella, but the extra subapical spot beyond the costal and tornal spots of the forewing on E. apicipunctella is diagnostic. Larva mines leaves of various grasses.


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Obama's War Plan Rattles Nominees
WASHINGTON — In a nation weary of war, yet alarmed by the prospect of an emerging threat, President Barack Obama's plan to strike Islamic State militants is ruffling the usual left-right politics in several races that will decide control of the Senate.
Republicans who have hammered the president on a variety of issues for months have tamped down their rhetoric and, frequently, are avoiding taking a clear stand on his proposal. Some of the nation's most endangered incumbent Senate Democrats, meanwhile, have expressed skepticism to portions of Obama's plan, saying they fear a new plunge into a new Middle East war where supposed allies can become enemies.
Others want to talk about something else, or are trying to avoid talking about the issue at all.
The complexities, leading to mixed and cautious responses from both sides, mean the issue might not matter much at all come Election Day, when Republicans need a net gain of six seats to take control of the Senate.
"I'm having a hard time seeing this as a game-changer," said William A. Galston, a Brookings Institution scholar and former Clinton White House adviser. "A lot of people who would have said 'hell no' to the president's speech were cheering him on."
Republicans have made attacking Obama and his policies the cornerstone of their Senate campaign, especially as they target Democrats in states the president lost in 2012. They had in recent days stepped up their attacks on the president's foreign policy, hoping to further tie vulnerable Democrats to an unpopular leader.
Despite that rhetoric, several GOP Senate candidates appear wary of taking detailed positions on the president's proposal to fight Islamic State militants with air strikes and U.S.-armed Syrian rebels, but not American ground troops, since he laid it out in a televised speech Wednesday night.
New Hampshire Republican Senate nominee Scott Brown, a former senator from Massachusetts, sharply criticized Obama's leadership in an interview Friday. But he declined to say whether he would vote to authorize more military intervention in the Mideast.
"I would need to listen to the generals on the ground and get their input and guidance as I have in the past," he said. "When you're … making a decision to send people into harm's way, you need to have all the facts and I don't have those facts."
In North Carolina, Republican Senate nominee Thom Tillis said the militants "are growing stronger each day because of President Obama's failed foreign policy and lack of leadership."
When it comes to combatting the militants, "no option should be left off the table," said Tillis, who faces first-term Democratic Sen. Kay Hagan. Yet when asked about Obama's proposal to arm Syrian rebels fighting a three-way war against both Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and the Islamic State group, also known as ISIS, Tillis' campaign said he "has reservations about sending arms that could be seized by ISIS terrorists."
Tillis tried to turn the focus Friday away from Obama's proposal and toward the rise of the Islamic State group, which has killed hundreds of civilians in Syria and Iraq — including two American journalists beheaded on camera. Obama and Hagan, the Tillis campaign said in a statement, "have never had a strategy to eliminate ISIS, and they still don't have one."
It's an allegation Hagan, seeking re-election in a state Obama won in 2008 but lost four years later, strongly disputed. Her campaign cited an April 2013 hearing at which Hagan asked, "Is there a risk that the violence in Syria will spill across the border into western Iraq and strengthen al-Qaida in Iraq?" The group evolved into the Islamic State.
The same sort of shift has taken place in Colorado, where Democratic Sen. Mark Udall and his Republican opponent, Rep. Cory Gardner, have said in so many words that they support the Obama approach — air strikes and armed Syrian rebels, but no U.S. combat ground troops.
"I will not give this president, or any other president, a blank check to begin another land war in Iraq," Udall said. Added Gardner, "I agree with the president's decision to authorize airstrikes."
In place of any disagreement on the policy, Gardner has instead slammed Udall for what he sees as the administration's slow response to the danger and his comment last weekend that the Islamic State militants are not "an imminent threat" to the United States, although federal law enforcement officials had said the same thing.
Still others are trying to avoid such questions all together.
Republicans GOP Rep. Tom Cotton, running for Senate in Arkansas, said Obama "still hasn't laid out a real strategy to defeat the Islamic State." But Cotton didn't offer any specific stands for or against the president's proposals.
Cotton's opponent, incumbent Democrat Mark Pryor, issued a brief statement this week generally supporting tougher action against the Islamic State group, without mentioning Obama's name. It read similar to the words from Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana.
Both Democratic senators are seeking re-election from Southern states where Obama lost badly in 2012. Both campaigns were asked Friday by The Associated Press for an interview with the senators to talk about the president and his plans to fight the Islamic State group, and neither responded.
CHARLES BABINGTON, Associated Press
NICHOLAS RICCARDI, Associated Press__
Riccardi reported from Denver. Associated Press writer Rik Stevens in Concord, New Hampshire, contributed to this report.

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Ghana Politics News Online
Special Prosecutor Martin Amidu explains why corruption fight has become difficult
SP Martin Amidu laments how heads of public institutions are thwarting his efforts
Akufo-Addo gives his best when it comes to governance; he has no size - Wontumi
Explainer: Akufo-Addo's actions killing war against corruption in Ghana
Explainer: Why Akufo-Addo's fight against corruption is a hoax
Mixed reactions as top prophet makes Mahama president again in spirit
Prophet who 'saw' Ethiopian Airline crash dares Owusu Bempah; makes Mahama president again
NDC spent outrageous amount on kum yen preko demonstration - Abu Ramadan
Kum yen preko demonstration: NDC spent over GHc1 million – Abu Ramadan reveals
Abandon mentality of being dependent on aid and charity - Akufo-Addo to Africans
Bawumia explains how got himself into politics after months of persuasion
Former president Mahama visits Mole National Park; shares beautiful photos
Ghana's former President John Dramani Mahama took to his Facebook page to share adorable photos of his visit to the country's Mole National Park in the in West Gonja district in the Northern Region.
Alban Bagbin to finally bow out of parliament as longest-serving MP
Ghana's longest-serving Member of Parliament, Alban S.K. Bagbin will not be seeking re-election in the next parliamentary polls. The 62-year-old had not picked nomination forms to contest the Nadowli-Kaleo parliamentary seat at th
Ghanaians angry at video of tricycles abandoned in bush by government
YEN.com.gh has come across a video involving plenty tricycles as they have been abandoned in a bush at a warehouse. According to sources, the tricycles were bought by the John Mahama led NDC administration when they were in power.
Dumelo, 117 others pick forms for NDC parliamentary primaries in Greater Acccra
A total of 118 people comprising 20 women and 98 men have picked forms to contest in the opposition National Democratic Congress' (NDC) parliamentary primaries in the Greater Accra region.
Top police officer quits service for politics
His decision for voluntary retirement was because he wants to contest as a parliamentary candidate on the ticket of the opposition National Democratic Congress(NDC) in the Wa West Constituency of the Upper West Region.
Mahama and family register for Ghana Card
Former President John Dramani Mahama and his wife Mrs. Lordina Mahama were enrolled onto the National Identity Register on Tuesday, 9th July 2019 and subsequently issued with the Ghana Card. YEN.com.gh news. Ghana Card.
NPP's Effah Darteh tears Mahama apart in video; describes him as a joker
Lawyer and politician, Capt. Nkrabea Effah Darteh (rtd), has described former president John Mahama as a joker. According to him, Mahama is a wrong choice insofar as the National Democratic Congress (NDC) is concerned.
Fact Check: Did Bawumia lie to Ghanaians about his #DroptheHypocrisy list ?
Ghana's Vice-President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has asked the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to "drop the hypocrisy" – in reference to claims by the main opposition party that the Akufo-Addo government has burdened Ghanaians with
Owusu Bempah drops another prediction for 2020 elections; says it is a proper prophecy
The founder and leader of the Glorious Word Power Minitry International, Isaac Owusu Bempah, has predicted a win for the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the 2020 elections.
Akua Donkor launches latest attack on Charlotte Osei in new video
The former chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC), Charlotte Kesson-Smith Osei, has come under attack from the founder and flagbearer of the Ghana Freedom Party (GFP), Akua Donkor.
PNC chairman Bernard Mornah reveals how Akufo-Addo secretly 'killed' the party
The national chairman of the People's National Convention (PNC), Bernard Mornah, has blamed President Akufo-Addo for the collapse of the party.
Bawumia calls out NDC for doing unnecessary propaganda with 'kum yɛn prɛko' demo
In a response to the demonstrators a day after the march, Dr Bawumia, who is also the Head of Economic Management Team of the current administration, posted on his Facebook page, a compilation of some promises fulfilled by the gov
Mahama urges EC to be fair and truthful in 2020
Former president Mahama urged the EC to ensure confidence in the stakeholders regarding the provision of a level-playing field for all stakeholders. According to him, there were issues arising from the 2016 elections that needed
From edwumawura to efiewura - Sammy Gyamfi says as he blames Akufo-Addo for Nduom's predicaments
The opposition National Democratic Congress has accused government of deliberately collapsing the business empire of Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom, a business mogul and politician.
Gov't reveals the main reason behind Kum Y3n Pr3ko demo; it is not mass suffering
The deputy minister of Information, Ama Dokuaa Asiamah Adjei, has disclosed the main reason behind the recently held demonstration in Accra. According to her, the demonstration, dubbed Kum Y3n Pr3ko, is an agenda of the NDC.
Amissah Arthur's ghost appears to me; says Bawumia should answer 170 questions - JOY
Independent Presidential Candidate for the 2016 election, Jacob Osei Yeboah has disclosed that the ghost of the former Vice President, Paa Kwesi Amissah-Arthur has in recent times been revealing himself to him.
Volta secessionist group arrested over plot to 'form new country' finally set free
A three-member panel of the Commercial Court chaired by Justice Jerome Nkrumah has thrown out the case against a group of secessionists from the Volta Region and the accused persons have subsequently been discharged.
True or false: Does Akufo-Addo really oppose the $200m parliament chamber?
The President has opposed the construction of the new chamber are all third parties and cannot be totally trusted on this.There is no credible evidence to show that Nana Addo opposes the project and he would do himself a whole lo
Nkrumah's 'wicked' letter to overthrown Busia surfaces online after almost 50 years
YEN.com.gh is in possession of a letter of 'consolation' Ghana's first president, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, wrote to overthrown Prime Minister, Dr. Kofi Abrefa Busia. Dr. Nkrumah was overthrown on February 24, 1966, while abroad.
John Dumelo leads demo against Akufo-Addo (photos)
The actor was spotted in front leading the group of demonstrators who had earlier converged at the Obra Spot to protest against the hardships in the country.
Akufo-Addo heaps praises on Atta-Mills for proposing major AU project
President Akufo-Addo has paid tribute to the late Professor John Evans Atta-Mills for calling for the establishment of the Continental Free Trade Area in 2011. He was interacting with Ghanaians in Paris, the capital of France.
Ghanaians bare teeth at Abronye DC for saying NPP will win 175 seats in 2020
Abronye DC claims the unprecedented achievements by President Akufo-Addo would make him win the 2020 presidential seat by a landslide victory just like in 2016.
Tension brewing in Kumasi Technical University; as student drags SRC and admin to court
Omotola, Ini Edo, D'banj, other celebs turn up for Rita Dominic as she clocks 44 (photos)
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Interpol fights against internet fraud: over 20,000 arrests, 310 bank accounts froze
December 9, 2020 by Zeal
More than 20,000 people were arrested in September, October, and November in a large-scale operation coordinated by Interpol worldwide to fight against telephone and Internet scams. The police organization reported this on Wednesday.
Lyon-based Interpol launched operation "First Light" in early 2020 in 35 countries. The various investigations led to more than 10,000 house searches, the arrest of 21,549 suspected criminals, fraudsters, and suspects of money laundering operations. Three hundred and ten bank accounts were also frozen, containing 127.5 million euros in suspected criminal money.
The suspects were involved in various types of online scams, especially of the 'social engineering' type, in which people are manipulated into revealing their passwords or bank details, the international police organization explains in a statement.
Interpol emphasizes that the criminals could take advantage of the pandemic context, which was fruitful for new tricks.
Most scams were emails suggesting business deals, romantic or sexual scams, "phishing" (defrauding people by luring them to a fake website), or "smishing" (SMS phishing) obtain personal or banking information.
Fake agents
In Singapore, police picked up a suspect who had a fake Interpol membership card while accompanying an older woman to an ATM. The investigation revealed that this suspect himself was the victim of criminals posing as Chinese police officers. The criminals gave him false papers and ordered him to steal the woman
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Juultje Tieleman Wiki: Five Facts About Instagram Star
Author Sabena Shahi Published on June 28, 2020 2 min read
1 Juultje Tieleman Bio Details
2 Career As A Social Media Influencer
3 What's her net worth?
4 Is Juultje Currently Dating?
5 What Makes Juultje Special
Juultje Tieleman gained widespread fame and success after she became a social media influencer on Instagram with an eponymous account. As people know in today's date, social media has been a major platform to share one's ideas and lifestyle. People have also started making the platform as their full-time business and making a decent earning from there.
Likewise, Juiltje, who has gained more than 792K followers on her Instagram account, shares lifestyle photos and pictures.
This article is built around the personal life and career of Juultje along with her details, so delve in to learn more about her!
Juultje Tieleman Bio Details
Born in 1999, Juultje Tieleman blows her birthday candle on the 7th of July every year. She belongs to the age of 20 as she celebrated her birthday in early 2019.
While looking towards her family life, she has kept most of the details of her parents away from the public. However, on 22nd April 2015, Juultje allows her fans to witness her father through her post, where she wished her father a 'Happy Birthday.'
A post shared by J U U L T J E (@juultjetieleman)
Juultje Tieleman and her father (Photo: Juultje Tieleman's Instagram)
Other than that, till now, she has not revealed if she has any siblings or not; thus, her early childhood remains a mystery.
Career As A Social Media Influencer
In the year of 2014, people first witness Juultje Tieleman on Instagram after she posted her first picture in February. Soon Juultje picked a major interest on her Instagram, becoming a social media influencer.
Later, she also opened her self-titled YouTube channel, where she began posting videos related to makeup, traveling, challenges, and tagalong. Now, she has earned 139K subscribers on her channel.
What's her net worth?
At a young age, Juultje Tieleman started making money through the social media she has been involved in. we can be assume that she has a splendid fortune, which flaunts all her effort and hard work.
However, Juultje has not revealed her actual figure of net worth at the moment.
Is Juultje Currently Dating?
While talking about Juultje's love life, she was previously dating YouTuber Gio, also known as GameplayWorldXL. While she was in a relationship with Gio, she used to feature him on her channel and the same with Gio too. However, their relationship was shortlisted after they broke up in around 2018.
Juultje Tieleman and her former boyfriend Gio (Photo: jeugdjournaal.nl)
Furthermore, Juultje's current relationship status is yet to known by the public.
What Makes Juultje Special
Juultje, who stands at an average height, has won the hearts of many followers through her hourglass figure. The gorgeous blond lady has an impeccable personality and is a fitness enthusiast.
Juultje has maintained her slender body through her healthy lifestyle. Her blond hair and blue eyes further accentuate her beautiful looks.
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Freeman Barr (born October 12, 1973) is a Bahamian former professional boxer who competed from 1993 to 2010, challenging for the WBO middleweight title in 1999.

Amateur career
The youngest of 13 children, Barr had only nine amateur bouts. He was nevertheless a two-time National Amateur Champion in the Bahamas. He represented the Bahamas at the 1990 Commonwealth Games.

Professional career
Barr made his professional debut on February 26, 1993. On January 30, 1999 Barr lost the bout for the WBO middleweight title against Germany's Bert Schenk.

Professional Highlights
 Florida State Middleweight Champion  (Defeated Anthony Brooks on Sept. 28 1996)
 IBC Continental Middleweight Champion  (Defeated Andres Arellano Sandoval on Feb. 25 1997)
 IBO Middleweight Champion  (Defeated Jerry Brown on Sept. 20 1997)
 WBO-NABO Middleweight Champion  (Defeated Lee Fortune on June 2, 1998)
 WBO-NABO Super Middleweight Champion  (Defeated Gerald Coleman on Feb. 1 2000)

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Federal Reserve Corporation | Article about Federal Reserve Corporation by The Free Dictionary
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Federal Reserve System,
central banking system of the United States. Established in 1913, it began to operate in Nov., 1914. Its setup, although somewhat altered since its establishment, particularly by the Banking Act of 1935, has remained substantially the same.
The Federal Reserve Act created 12 regional Federal Reserve banks, supervised by a Federal Reserve Board. Each reserve bank is the central bank for its district. The boundary lines of the districts were drawn in accordance with broad geographic patterns of business, and the banks were placed in Boston, New York City, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Richmond, Atlanta, Chicago, St. Louis, Minneapolis, Kansas City, Dallas, and San Francisco. In addition some of the regional banks have one or more branch banks attached to them.
All national banks must belong to the system, and state banks may if they meet certain requirements. Member banks hold the bulk of the deposits of all commercial banks in the country. Each member bank is required to own stock in the Federal Reserve bank of its district and must maintain legal reserves on deposit with the district reserve bank. The required reserves are proportionate to the member bank's own deposits, the proportion varying according to the location of the member bank and the character of its deposits.
Each reserve bank is managed by a board of nine directors (three appointed by the Federal Reserve Board, six by the local member banks). The Federal Reserve System's Board of Governors designates one of the federally appointed directors as chairman and Federal Reserve agent; it is the chairman's duty to report to the Board. The board of directors appoints the bank's president and other officers and employees. The operations of the Federal Reserve banks, although not conducted primarily for profit, yield an income that is ordinarily sufficient to cover expenses, to pay a 6% cumulative dividend annually on the stock held by member banks, to make additions to surplus, and to provide the U.S. Treasury with over $1 billion a year in revenue.
The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System—the national supervisory agency—is composed of seven members appointed for 14-year terms by the President. A chairman and vice chairman, who serve four-year terms in those posts, are named by the President from among the seven members. The Federal Reserve Board's offices are in Washington, D.C. The Federal Open Market Committee, created later (1923) than the system's other divisions, comprises the seven members of the Board of Governors and five representatives of the Federal Reserve banks; it directs the purchases and sales by the reserve banks of federal government securities and other obligations in the open market. The Federal Advisory Council consists of 12 members, one appointed annually by the board of directors of each reserve bank; it confers from time to time with the Board of Governors on general business conditions and makes recommendations with respect to Federal Reserve affairs. In 1976, the Consumer Advisory Council was created; consisting of both consumer and creditor representatives, it advises the Board of Governors on consumer-related matters.
The most important duties of the Federal Reserve authorities relate primarily to the maintenance of monetary and credit conditions favorable to sound business activity in all fields—agricultural, industrial, and commercial. Among those duties are lending to member banks, open-market operations, fixing reserve requirements, establishing discount rates, and issuing regulations concerning those and other functions. In a sense, each Federal Reserve bank is best understood as a bankers' bank. Member banks use their reserve accounts with the reserve banks in much the same way that a bank depositor uses his checking account. They may deposit in the reserve accounts the checks on other banks and surplus currency received from their customers, and they may draw on the reserve for various purposes, especially to obtain currency and to pay checks drawn upon them (see clearingclearing,
in banking, the periodic settling of bankers' claims against each other, for which local banks establish clearinghouse associations. Clearinghouses are said to have existed in Florence by A.D. 800.
..... Click the link for more information. ).
More importantly, the required reserves also enable the Federal Reserve authorities to influence the lending activities of banks. So long as a bank has reserves in excess of requirements, it can enlarge its extensions of credit; otherwise it cannot increase its extensions of credit and may be impelled to borrow additional funds. Inasmuch as the Federal Reserve authorities have power to increase or decrease the supply of excess funds, they are able to exercise considerable influence over the amount of credit that banks may extend. By controlling the credit market, the Federal Reserve System exerts a powerful influence on the nation's economic life. Federal Reserve activities designed to expand bank credit may lead to an upswing in the business cycle, which tends to lead toward inflation; conversely, a restriction of credit generally results in decreased business growth and deflation.
The principal means through which the Federal Reserve authorities influence bank reserves are open-market operations, discounts, and control over reserve requirements. Open-market purchases of securities by Federal Reserve authorities supply banks with additional reserve funds, and sales of securities diminish such funds. Through the power to discount and make advances, the Federal Reserve authorities are able to supply individual banks with additional reserve funds. They may make the funds more or less expensive for member banks by raising or lowering the discount rate. Discounts usually expand only when member banks need to borrow. Raising or lowering requirements—within the limits imposed by law on the Board of Governors—concerning the reserves that member banks maintain on deposit with the reserve banks has the effect of diminishing or enlarging the volume of funds that member banks have available for lending. Such powers directly affect the volume of member bank funds but have no immediate effect in the use of those funds.
In the field of stock market speculation the Federal Reserve authorities have a direct means of control over the use of funds, namely, through the establishment of margin requirementsmargin requirement,
that part of a security's price that a buyer must pay for in cash. The balance of the price is met by the broker, who, in effect, is supplying a client with a loan. The smaller the margin, the greater the inducement to speculation.
..... Click the link for more information. . Another of the important functions of the Federal Reserve System is furnishing Federal Reserve notes (now the chief element in the nation's currency) for circulation. Most economists and bankers agree that the Federal Reserve System has achieved marked improvements in American monetary and banking institutions.
Its efforts to preserve liquidity in the international financial system, facilitate lending by financial institutions, and otherwise revive the economy during the mortgage and credit crisis that began in 2007 are regarded by many as having helped prevent a worse financial crisis and economic downturn that could have approached the Great Depression in severity. Those efforts included included significant emergency loans to U.S. financial institutions as well as more than half a trillion dollars in currency swaps with foreign central banks. Beginning in late 2008 the Federal Reserve purchased billions of dollars of longer-term securities in an effort to pump money into the U.S. economy; it only ended its large-scale asset purchases in 2014. It also dropped (2008) its target short-term interest rate to 0.25%, holding it there until late 2015, when it began to raise the rate slowly. As a result of the crisis, the Federal Reserve's supervisory powers over banks were increased and it now also oversees nonbank financial companies that are considered to be systemically important financial institutions.
See S. W. Adams, The Federal Reserve System (1979); W. J. Davis, The Federal Reserve System (1982); D. R. Wells, The Federal Reserve System: A History (2004); U.S. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, The Federal Reserve System (9th ed. 2005); S. H. Axilrod, Inside the Fed (2009); R. Lowenstein, America's Bank (2015).
the central banking system of the USA, comprising the country's 12 Federal Reserve banks. The Federal Reserve System was established in 1913. It is headed by a board of governors, which consists of seven members appointed for 14-year terms by the president of the United States. The Federal Reserve banks are situated in the main cities of the 12 Federal Reserve districts into which the country is divided; the board of governors is located in Washington, D.C. The Federal Reserve System derives its capital from the sale of shares to the private commercial banks that form its membership. At the end of 1975, it had 5,800 members, representing 39 percent of the 14,600 commercial banks in the USA and accounting for 73 percent of the country's bank deposits.
The Federal Reserve System has several functions. It issues Federal Reserve notes, which constitute almost 90 percent of all currency in the USA, and maintains custody of the reserves that member banks are required to hold; the established rate of such reserves depends on the size of the bank and fluctuates between 7.5 percent and 16.5 percent of the bank's total demand deposits and between 3 percent and 6 percent of its total time deposits. The Federal Reserve System also issues loans to commercial banks and registers bills of exchange. In addition, it purchases government securities, provides financial services to federal government agencies, and regulates the clearing of accounts between banks. The Federal Reserve System furthermore conducts transactions with foreign currency and maintains gold reserves for foreign governments.
At the end of 1976, the total balance of the Federal Reserve System was $129.3 billion. Government bonds totaled $97 billion, gold certificates $11.6 billion, and issued bank notes $83.7 billion. Reserves of member banks held by the Federal Reserve System amounted to $25.2 billion, and the member banks' own capital and reserves totaled $2.5 billion.
The Federal Reserve System is an important instrument of the federal government's state-monopoly control and regulation of market conditions. The credit policy that it follows is aimed at mitigating critical drops in production and at overcoming inflation. Yet, its policy has proved unable to eliminate the disproportions and conflicts inherent in a capitalist economy.
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Q: Is quickfix compatible with pypy? I just tried to install package quickfix (1.15.1) under pypy (version 3.8) .
pip install quickfix

The quickfix installation process was failed with the following warnings and errors:
Building wheel for quickfix (setup.py) ... error
  error: subprocess-exited-with-error

  × python setup.py bdist_wheel did not run successfully.
  │ exit code: 1
  ╰─> [66 lines of output]

,
 # include <Python.h>
                 ^~~~~~~~~~
      compilation terminated.
      error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1
      [end of output]

  note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
error: legacy-install-failure

I also tried:
Upgrading pip
some other versions of quickfix (1.14.1, 1.14.2).
I was wondering if there is a solution to this issue and if quickfix is compatible with pypy.

A: The issue might be related to the library. Try installing the wheel file instead.

*

*Click here on the link https://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#quickfix
and download the version of wheel file for quickfix by checking your python version.

*If it is 3.7 version then select a wheel file quickfix‑1.15.1‑cp37‑cp37m‑win_amd64.whl

*Select the directory in CMD in which the file is downloaded and install it as pip install quickfix‑1.15.1‑cp37‑cp37m‑win_amd64.whl

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How do I get a re-issue rate (discount) on my title insurance?
The requirements to obtain the re-issue or reduced rate for your title insurance (in Florida) are pretty straight forward. You only need your prior title policy for the identical land involved in the current transaction, so long as you are the person on title. The reissue rates are described out below. You are entitled to the reissue rate whether the new transaction is insured by the prior insurer or a new insurer. For a sale/purchase the policy must be within 3 years to date, for a refinance the policy never expires for a discount!
In order to qualify for these rates, the title agent must include proof of the previous title insurance policy. Failure to include the proof of prior coverage within 3 years could result in the title insurance agent and agency being found to have violated Subsection 627.780(1), Florida Statutes, for quoting, charging, collecting or accepting a premium for title insurance that is other than the premium promulgated by the Florida Administrative Code.
Posted on January 18, 2013, in Title and tagged Florida Statutes, Fort Myers, Jennifer Ferri, Property Guiding, Reissue Rate, Subsection 627.780(1), SWFL Real Estate, The Florida Administrative Code, Title Insurance, Title Junction, Title Work. Bookmark the permalink.	Leave a comment.


An architecture for a low-power asynchronous DSP has been developed, for the target application of GSM (digital cellphone) chipsets. A key part of this architecture is an instruction buffer which both provides instruction prefetching and performs hardware looping. This requires low latency and a reasonably fast cycle time, but must also be designed for low power. A design is presented based on a word-slice FIFO structure . This avoids the problems of input latency and power consumption associated with linear micropipeline FIFOs , and the structure lends itself relatively easily to the required looping behaviour. The latency, cycle time and power consumption for this design is compared to that of a simple micropipeline FIFO. The cycle time for the instruction buffer is around three times slower than the micropipeline FIFO. However, the instruction buffer shows an energy per operation of between 48-62% of that for the (much less capable) micropipeline structure. The input to output latency with an empty FIFO is less than the micropipeline design by a factor of ten.
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My Jesus, I have told Thee that if Thou dost not help me, I shall never do any good (Prayer taught by St Philip to Francesco Zazzara)
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Sunday 11:00 a.m. (Solemn High Mass Old Rite)
Sunday 12:30 p.m.
Sunday 8:00 p.m.
Monday to Friday 7:45 a.m., 11:30 a.m. (Old Rite), 5:30 p.m.
Saturday 8:30 a.m. (Old Rite), 10:00 a.m.
Solemn Vespers and Benediction are celebrated every Sunday at 5:00 p.m.
My Jesus, if Thou woulds't have me, clear away all the hindrances that keep me from Thee (Prayer taught by St Philip to Francesco Zazzara)
Confessions are heard for at least fifteen minutes before all masses and from 4:00 to 5:00 p.m. on Saturdays.
Give me the grace, my Jesus, not to love Thee out of fear, but out of love (Prayer taught by St Philip to Francesco Zazzara)
Holy Hours
On the first Friday of the month from 8:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. (except in Lent when Stations of the Cross take precedence).
Every Friday in Lent at 7:30 p.m.
Holy Communion for the housebound
Please contact the rectory to arrange for one of the Fathers to bring Holy Communion to someone who is unable to attend Mass.
He who desires anything but God deceives himself, and he who loves anything but God errs miserably. (An exclamation of St Philip)
Bookstall
We sell books and CDs dedicated to a large range of Catholic interests. Devotional items are also available. Our stock changes frequently, so come by often.
First let a little love find entrance into their hearts, and the rest will follow. (A saying of St Philip)
Coffee, snacks, and opportunities to meet other parishioners after all Sunday Masses in the parish hall.


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Anxiety and impatience in long wait for Dorian in coastal US
People at a business in the Normandy area in Miami Beach, Fla., remove the plywoods used as shutters covering the front windows Saturday, Aug. 31, 2019, as Hurricane Dorian's latest track shows the storm has shifted east and north, increasing the possibility that the storm would not make landfall in the state of Florida. (Pedro Portal/Miami Herald via AP)
Jerry and Patricia Perkins shudder their home on the barrier island in Vero Beach, Fla., Sunday, Sept. 1, 2019, in preparation for the possibility of Hurricane Dorian making landfall. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
A person plays in the high surf form the Atlantic Ocean on the barrier island in Vero Beach, Fla., Sunday, Sept. 1, 2019. The barrier island is under a voluntary evacuation today and a mandatory evacuation tomorrow in preparation for the possibility of Hurricane Dorian making landfall. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
VERO BEACH, Fla. — Two days after storm shutters started going up and people waited in long lines for gas and food in anticipation of Hurricane Dorian, the parking lot of a Home Depot a short drive from the beach in central Florida was nearly empty as the sun peeked out behind scattered clouds.
Mike Lafferty boarded up his house near Vero Beach days ago and was at the store to pick up a few more things. The waiting can be bothersome, but it beats being caught unprepared. The National Hurricane Center has a 60% chance of the area getting hurricane force winds before early Wednesday.
"It's not overkill. It's necessity. You don't know what is going to happen," Lafferty said. "Electricity is going to go out sometime. You have to be ready for it."
From Florida to North Carolina, residents and government officials have been preparing for possible impacts of Dorian for days, even as the official forecast has the center of the storm staying offshore. They started taking action Sunday. South Carolina ordered about 830,000 people to evacuate the state's coast beginning at noon EDT Monday.
The Category 5 hurricane's nearly unprecedented strength — the 185 mph (295 kph) winds made it the second strongest storm in the Atlantic Ocean since 1950 — has people aware that even a tiny error in the forecast could be catastrophic.
"We have to be ready for it," said Neil Baxley, commander of emergency services in coastal South Carolina's Beaufort County. "We are deep in the error cone."
The gas lines and people queued up with carts outside grocery stores weren't seen Sunday along the southeast U.S. coast.
Instead, people were watching and waiting to see the destruction from the northern Bahamas, where Dorian made landfall on the Abaco Islands.
"I'm thanking God now that it has turned a little more to the east. But that's a forecast. We never know," said Kevin Browning, who was at the Vero Beach Home Depot looking for supplies after putting up his hurricane shutters Friday. "I feel for the Bahamas and I'm praying for them."
Florida's governor suspended tolls on roads to help those seeking to leave.
Farther up the coast, South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster said state troopers would start reversing lanes on major coastal roads so they all head inland Monday afternoon.
Many of South Carolina's coastal residents are now evacuating for the fourth time in four years. Just one storm hit the state directly during that time — Michael in 2016. McMaster addressed the storm weariness on Sunday evening as he announced the upcoming evacuations.
"We can't make everybody happy. But we believe we can keep everyone alive," the governor said.
Earlier in the day, McMaster said he understood the frustration with the waiting and uncertainty of Dorian's path.
"We don't have a solid prediction as to where it might turn, where it might not turn when it will get here. But we assure you we have the best minds and the most experienced and talented people working around the clock," McMaster said.
In Florida, it was still the Labor Day holiday weekend, so folks headed to the beach. It wasn't as crowded as usual at Jacksonville Beach, and members of the American Red Cross Volunteer Life Saving Corps were warning people not to go into the water.
"It looks like business as usual, which is a little strange, but a lot of people are here from out of town they don't want the storm to ruin their Labor Day weekend," said volunteer lifeguard Mikey Atkins.
Gerry Heister has lived in Florida for 35 years and seen a lot of storms come through Vero Beach. "Frances, Jeanne, Matthew and whatever the heck the others were," she said Sunday, trying to recall them all.
She said she has learned it is better to be prepared and the worst not happen then to be surprised and not ready.
"You just prepare and then once it's gone, you get on with the rest of your life," Heister said.
Cody Jackson in Jacksonville Beach and Jeffrey Collins in Columbia, South Carolina, contributed to this report.
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	"net/http"
	"os"
	"strings"
)

type pageResult struct {
	Error error
}

func redirectToFile(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request, release Release) {
	url := ""
	if release.DownloadURL() != "" {
		url = release.DownloadURL()
	} else {
		url = "/file/" + release.Path()
	}
	log.Println("Redirecting to: " + url)
	http.Redirect(w, r, url, http.StatusMovedPermanently)
	return
}

func downloadPage(url, file string) pageResult {
	log.Println("File doesn't exist yet. Downloading: " + url)
	tr := &http.Transport{DisableCompression: true}
	client := &http.Client{Transport: tr}
	res, err := client.Get(url)

	if err != nil {
		log.Println("Error downloading: " + url)
		return pageResult{Error: err}
	}

	if file != "" {
		f, err := os.Create(file)
		if err != nil {
			log.Printf("Error creating file: " + file)
			return pageResult{Error: err}
		}
		_, err = io.Copy(f, res.Body)
		if err != nil {
			log.Printf("Error writing to: " + file)
			return pageResult{Error: err}
		}
	}
	return pageResult{Error: nil}
}

// If a file exists, just serve it directly. Otherwise, download, then serve.
func cachedFileHandler(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
	paths := strings.Split(r.URL.Path, "/")
	name := paths[len(paths)-1]
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		return
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	res := downloadPage(original, release.ReleaseFilePath())

	if res.Error != nil {
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Description: This detailed 1898 plan of Belfast is one of a series of seventeen sheets in an atlas originally produced to aid insurance companies in assessing fire risks. The building footprints, their use (commercial, residential, educational, etc.), the number of floors and the height of the building, as well as construction materials (and thus risk of burning) and special fire hazards (chemicals, kilns, ovens) were documented in order to estimate premiums. Names of individual businesses, property lines, and addresses were also often recorded. Together these maps provide a rich historical shapshot of the commercial activity and urban landscape of towns and cities at the time. The British Library holds a comprehensive collection of fire insurance plans produced by the London-based firm Charles E. Goad Ltd. dating back to 1885. These plans were made for most important towns and cities of the British Isles at the scales of 1:480 (1 inch to 40 feet), as well as many foreign towns at 1:600 (1 inch to 50 feet).


Rockies pitcher Greg Reynolds throws during spring training in Scottsdale, Ariz.
By now, Greg Reynolds should have some of the landmarks along I-25 memorized.
The right-handed pitcher is making his third "emergency" start and sixth appearance for the Rockies since April, replacing Jhoulys Chacin, whose start was moved to Tuesday in Atlanta because of forearm stiffness.
Reynolds, who will turn 26 tomorrow, started most recently against the New York Mets on April 14, allowing two runs on five hits and two walks in five innings. In Colorado Springs, he made 10 starts for the Sky Sox this season, going 4-2, 6.83 ERA with 30 strikeouts and 13 walks.
Mark Ellis made a big first impression Friday, finishing a triple shy of the cycle.


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Void periods drop while average rents 'are returning to expected levels'
By Marc Da Silva
After an encouragingly buoyant summer period for the letting sector, there are growing signs that the rental market is starting to stabilise in key regions across the UK.
The latest rental index from Goodlord reveals that a number of regions are enjoying lower void period, while rents have stabilised.
The UK average for void periods stood at 18 days during October, with five out of the eight regions monitored by Goodlord seeing void averages drop or remain steady.
The most dramatic fall in void periods is in the West Midlands, with average void periods dropping from 34 days in September to 20 days in October.
The East Midlands and Wales also saw a drop in void periods, moving from 20 to 17 days and 23 to 10 days respectively. Void periods across the South West (18 days) and the South East (19 days) remained unchanged month-on-month.
In contrast, the North East saw the most significant shift after a positive September, with void periods in the region increasing from 10 to 25 days, taking it just above the region's year to date average of 22 days.
The South East also saw a shift, moving from 14 to 25 days. The impact was smaller in London, where a jump from 10 to 14 days was recorded.
The research also shows that UK rents are now much closer to their 2019 year-to-date average of £920 per calendar month.
Every one of the eight regions monitored by Goodlord saw a decrease in average rents last month, with decreases ranging from 3% to 19%.
The South West saw the biggest shift, with average rental costs dropping by 19% during October - moving from £1,088 to £881 per property per month.
The average age of UK renters was 34 in October, the highest recorded all year. The oldest renters are living in the South East and Wales (35 years), with the youngest in London and the North West (32 years).
Tom Mundy, COO at Goodlord, said: "After a fantastic summer for lettings followed by a more tempered start to the Autumn, the rental market is starting to stabilise in key regions across the UK.
"The numbers indicate a return to consistency across void periods and rental prices, although this is being felt at different rates depending on the region.
"Overall, void periods are generally below or on par with annual averages, and average rents across most areas of the UK are returning to expected levels."
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I find the void period useful for maintenance and upgrades, the length tends to vary depending on area, there are no shortage of tenants in Norfolk at present.
I have 3 flats vacant currently and am carrying out some minor refurbishment.
I am not that bothered about the flats being vacant as it means I can do what I like with them if in the worse case scenario Labour win the GE.
If that occurs I could immediately put them up for sale to avoid any possibility of expropriation under the bonkers Labour RTB policy.
It is quite fortunate that these voids have unexpectedly occurred at the same time.
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Private rental prices in the UK increased by 1.1% in the...
Notable increase in void periods reported as rental demand slows ...
Void periods increased across the UK in September, with the exception...
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The Kinner Kailash Shivlingam, one of the mythical abodes of Lord Shiva, is a 79 foot vertical rock in the Kinner Kailash mountain range. On a clear day, one can see the Shivlingam which changes color during the course of the day. This Rock face is in between the 20,000 ft Kinner Kailash ranges of Mt. Kailash (19,850 ft) & Mt. Jorkanden (21,237 ft).
The Kinnaur Kailash (locally known as Kinner Kailash) is a mountain in the Kinnaur district of the Indian state Himachal Pradesh. The Kinnaur Kailash has a height of 6050 meters and is considered as sacred by both Hindu and Buddhist Kinnauris. 'Kinner Kailash' is considered winter residence of Lord Shiva. It is said that Lord Shiva conduct a meeting of all Devi-Devtas on Kinner Kailash Top in month of January. The Trekking to Kinner Kailash Starts from July end to August. On the time of Janmashtmi 10 days special arrangement are made for food and shelter on the top. The Kinner Kailash Trek is of two days start from early morning with a stay in goofa at night, next day the Kinner Kailash visit starts early in the morning reaches the Shiva ling point about 9 AM and there after the Return Journey starts. Kinner Kailash is among Panch Kailashes, Shri Khand Kailash, Mani Mahesh Lake, Kailash Mansarover, Aadi Kailash.


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/* global test, expect */

const StateList = require('./statelist');

test('last index', () => {
  expect(new StateList(['foo', 'bar', 'baz']).lastIndex()).toEqual(2);
  expect(new StateList(['foo', 'bar', 'baz', 'zap']).lastIndex()).toEqual(3);
});

test('traversing list forwards should wrap', () => {
  const items = ['foo', 'bar', 'baz'];
  const sl = new StateList(items);

  expect(sl.currentItem()).toEqual('foo');
  expect(sl.currentIndex).toEqual(0);

  expect(sl.next()).toEqual('bar');
  expect(sl.currentItem()).toEqual('bar');
  expect(sl.currentIndex).toEqual(1);

  expect(sl.next()).toEqual('baz');
  expect(sl.currentItem()).toEqual('baz');
  expect(sl.currentIndex).toEqual(2);

  expect(sl.next()).toEqual('foo');
  expect(sl.currentItem()).toEqual('foo');
  expect(sl.currentIndex).toEqual(0);
});

test('traversing list backwards should wrap', () => {
  const items = ['foo', 'bar', 'baz'];
  const sl = new StateList(items);

  expect(sl.previous()).toEqual('baz');
  expect(sl.currentItem()).toEqual('baz');
  expect(sl.currentIndex).toEqual(2);

  expect(sl.previous()).toEqual('bar');
  expect(sl.currentItem()).toEqual('bar');
  expect(sl.currentIndex).toEqual(1);

  expect(sl.previous()).toEqual('foo');
  expect(sl.currentItem()).toEqual('foo');
  expect(sl.currentIndex).toEqual(0);
});

test('jumping to an index', () => {
  const items = ['foo', 'bar', 'baz', 'zap'];
  const sl = new StateList(items);

  expect(sl.setCurrentIndex(2)).toEqual('baz');
  expect(sl.currentItem()).toEqual('baz');
  expect(sl.currentIndex).toEqual(2);
});

test('jumping to an invalid index returns to first item', () => {
  const items = ['foo', 'bar', 'baz', 'zap'];
  const sl = new StateList(items);

  expect(sl.setCurrentIndex(items.length)).toEqual('foo');
  expect(sl.currentItem()).toEqual('foo');
  expect(sl.currentIndex).toEqual(0);
});

test('resetting list', () => {
  const items = ['foo', 'bar', 'baz'];
  const sl = new StateList(items);

  sl.next();
  sl.setList(['eka', 'toka']);

  expect(sl.currentItem()).toEqual('eka');
  expect(sl.next()).toEqual('toka');
  expect(sl.next()).toEqual('eka');
});

test('setting by item', () => {
  const items = ['foo', 'bar', 'baz', 'zap'];
  const sl = new StateList(items, (item) => item);

  expect(sl.setCurrentItem('baz')).toEqual('baz');
  expect(sl.currentItem()).toEqual('baz');
  expect(sl.currentIndex).toEqual(2);
});

test('removal of non-existing item', () => {
  const items = ['foo', 'bar', 'baz'];
  const sl = new StateList(items, (item) => item);

  expect(sl.removeItem('zap')).toEqual(null);
});

test('removal of existing item on previous item', () => {
  const items = ['foo', 'bar', 'baz'];
  const sl = new StateList(items, (item) => item);

  expect(sl.removeItem('bar')).toEqual('foo');
  expect(sl.currentIndex).toEqual(0);
  expect(sl.next()).toEqual('baz');
});

test('removal of existing item on next item', () => {
  const items = ['foo', 'bar', 'baz'];
  const sl = new StateList(items, (item) => item);

  sl.setCurrentIndex(2);

  expect(sl.removeItem('bar')).toEqual('baz');
  expect(sl.currentIndex).toEqual(1);
  expect(sl.previous()).toEqual('foo');
});


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Home \ 2020 \ JASON CORTEZ
JASON CORTEZ
100% of donations will go directly to the family of FF Cortez. Thank you!
San Francisco Firefighter-Paramedic Jason Cortez, 42, died October 7th after a training incident at an SFFD training facility.
Firefighter Cortez was at the training facility on 19th and Folsom Street when he fell 3 stories, causing severe head injuries.
SFFD Lt. Jonathan Baxter said the firefighter was transferred to Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital where he died before 11 a.m.
San Francisco fire officials held a procession for the fallen firefighter from the hospital to the medical examiner's office. After the procession SFFD Fire Chief Jeanine Nicholson held another press conference.
Cortez began his career as a paramedic at Station 49 in 2007. He later attended the fire academy and graduated as a firefighter-paramedic assigned to Station 3 in San Francisco's Tenderloin, one of the busiest fire stations in the country.
Firefighter Cortez was the son of a retired San Francisco firefighter. He leaves behind a wife and 2 children.


Black-and-white image of a seated woman in three-quarters view, turned toward the right side of the image. She is seated in front of a stone wall and there is a woven basket on her lap. She is wearing a long, dark robe that covers her head and the top part of her body, and her legs are covered by a long, light-colored skirt.


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What is 'Defamation of Religion'?
by NGO Common Statement
CIP and other NGOs
http://www.islamicpluralism.org/1412/what-is-defamation-of-religion
The Center for Islamic Pluralism has joined a substantial roster of non-governmental organizations in signing the Declaration titled "What is 'Defamation of Religion'?" The Declaration protests the United Nations' adoption of resolutions that, on the pretext of prohibiting discrimination, would interfere with the free criticism of religion and encourage member states to pass laws against blasphemy. CIP has taken the position that free criticism is an essential element of all normal religious life.
Common Statement
The organizations listed below have come to an agreement on the following statement and call upon UN member-states to heed civil society's experience and expertise:
United Nations resolutions on the 'defamation of religions' are incompatible with the fundamental freedoms of individuals to freely exercise and peacefully express their thoughts, ideas, and beliefs.
Unlike traditional defamation laws, which punish false statements of fact that harm individual persons, measures prohibiting the 'defamation of religions' punish the peaceful criticism of ideas. Additionally, the concept of 'defamation of religions' is fundamentally inconsistent with the universal principles outlined in the United Nations' founding documents, including the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which affirms the protection of the rights of individuals, rather than ideas.
Such resolutions provide international support for domestic laws against blasphemy and "injury to religious feelings", which are often abused by governments to punish the peaceful expression of disfavored political or religious beliefs and ideas. Moreover, existing international legal instruments already address discrimination, personal defamation, and incitement in ways that are more carefully focused to confront those specific problems without unduly threatening the rights of freedom of expression and the freedom of thought, conscience and religion.
It is vitally important for governments to combat violence motivated by bias and hatred and to encourage respectful speech and civil dialogue, while at the same time affirming that freedom of expression and freedom of thought, conscience and religion are integral to the health of free societies and the dignity of the human person.
Finally, legal efforts alone cannot foster an environment of respect and religious freedom. Education and public diplomacy are vital tools in the protection of a peaceful and robust exchange of ideas and beliefs.
ACT! for America
American Center for Law and Justice
American Ethical Union
American Textbook Council
Advocates International
American Islamic Congress
American Islamic Forum for Democracy
American Jewish Congress
The Association of Christian Schools
Bahá'í International Community
Baptist World Alliance
Barnabas Aid
BCV Centre for the Study of Islam and Other Faiths, Australia
Becket Fund for Religious Liberty
National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the U.S.
Bund Freireligiöser Gemeinden Deutschlands, Germany
Bürgerbewegung Pax Europa, Germany and Austria
Center for Democracy and Human Rights in Saudi Arabia
The Center for Economic and Social Justice
Center for Islamic Pluralism, Washington D.C./London/Koln
Center for Political Studies, Denmark
Center for Religious Freedom at the Hudson Institute
Centre d'Action Laïque, Belgium
ChinaAid
Christian Copts of California
Christian Solidarity Worldwide
Church of Scientology of Amsterdam
CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation, South Africa
CNP Action, Inc.
Coalition for the Defense of Human Rights
Committee for the Freedom of Prisoners of Conscience in Uzbekistan
Dachverband Freier Weltanschauungsgemeinschaften Deutschlands, Germany
Dalit Freedom Network
David Horowitz Freedom Center
Democracy Coalition Project
Dutch Platform on International Freedom of Religion or Belief
Endowment for Middle East Truth
Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention
European Humanist Federation
Forum for Civic Responsibility
GeoStrategic Analysis of Potomac, Maryland
Higgins Counterterrorism Research Center
Human Rights Without Frontiers
Humanist Academy, Scotland
Humanist Association of Ireland
The Humanist Society of Scotland, Scotland
Humanistisch-Vrijzinnige Vereniging, Belgium
Humanistischer Verband Deutschlands, Germany
Indonesia Legal Resource Center, Indonesia
Institute for Global Engagement
International Al Hewar Almasry Center for Copts Human Rights in Egypt
International Center for Religion & Diplomacy
International Christian Concern
International Humanist and Ethical Union, United Kingdom
International Quranic Center
International Religious Liberty Association
International Society for Krishna Consciousness
Islam and Civil Society Project of the Witherspoon Institute
Jubilee Campaign
The Legal Project of the Middle East Forum
LibForAll Foundation
Media Rights Agenda, Nigeria
Mission Europa, Austria
National Secular Society, UK
Open Doors USA
Os Guinness, Author
Oxford Center for Religion and Public Life
The Phyllis Chesler Organization
Polish Humanist Association, Poland
Prometheus Society, Slovakia
Rapid Response Group, Uzbekistan
Rationalist Association, UK
Religious Freedom Coalition
The Rutherford Institute
Sidmennt, the Icelandic Ethical Humanist Association
SOVA Center for Information and Analysis, Russia
Stichting Magenta/Magenta Foundation
TIFA Foundation, Indonesia
Unione degli Atei e degli Agnositici Razionalisti, (UAAR), Italy
United Sikhs
U.S. Copts Association
UVV Unie Vrijzinnige Verenigingen, Belgium
Vapaa-ajattelijain Liitto ry/The Union of Freethinkers of Finland, Finland
Vienna Akademikerbund, Austria
Vigilance, Inc.
The Westminster Institute
Women's Rights Organization Against Discrimination (AKDER), Turkey


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Do Good Program
We're global citizens and choose to use a socially-conscious business model to give back. Look Good. Do Good.
Here at Proof, we always strive to give back to those around us; it's really how we got our start. We want to provide quality products that have meaning and do something beneficial through the purchase of those products. Along with doing good to mother nature, we also work at doing good to those around the world. A portion of each purchase goes to a worthy cause that we've chosen to donate to.
Since our start in 2010, we've helped provide tsunami relief in Japan, child soldier rehabilitation in Africa, and reforestation in Haiti. In 2013, we embraced the idea of donating funds on a project-by-project basis. That year, we started by donating funds to build two eye clinics in India where over one-fourth of the world's blind population resides. Both clinics continue to provide sight–giving cataract surgeries to those in need. In 2015, we had the best of both worlds and were able to give back globally and locally. We traveled to El Salvador for various community projects with a donation totaling over $12,000 and shortly after we were able to donate $12,000 to The Nature Conservancy in Idaho. Whether it be in Idaho or India, for maintaining land or providing eye care, we consider ourselves global citizens and will continue to use a socially conscious business model to do good. We believe that even a small amount can dramatically shift the trajectory of people's lives, and it all starts with giving others the tools they need to succeed.
Health + Vision
We make Health & Vision initiatives a priority on all of our Do Good projects. This includes hosting health screening clinics in underprivileged countries, sponsoring cataract, club foot, and cleft lip surgeries and providing glasses to those in need.
We focus on Empowerment projects aimed to provide solutions that won't pay off a problem temporarily but will facilitate permanent change in people's lives. Previous initiatives include sponsoring micro-loans for entrepreneurs in vulnerable populations, supporting women & children in Safe Houses, and leadership building workshops in orphanages.
The Environmental protection efforts around the world ranges from reforestation efforts to the protection of wildlife reserves. Sustainability is one of Proof's founding principles, and we continue striving to reduce our environmental impact.
We focus on Education initiatives with each of Proof's Do Good projects. This includes everything from covering school enrollment fees and supplies, reconstructing school buildings, leading entrepreneurship classes and more.
Click on the map to view more about the project
Do Good Program - Current Updates
Apr 30, 2021 30 Apr 2021
Each frame now plants five trees
Proof Gives Back Here's a little update... In an effort to be adaptive in the ways that Proof gives back, we have decided that while we wait for international travel to be safe again, we partner with Eden Reforestation to plant five trees for every frame sold. Information on Eden Reforestation Projects: Eden takes a holistic approach to reforestation and ecological restoration. They partner with villages committed to restoring their forest, and then hire and train locals to plant new trees. The reforestation provides the villagers with consistent income that helps them provide for their families. The villagers protect...
Jul 05, 2019 5 Jul 2019
The Peru Project // March 2019
THE PERU PROJECT // MARCH 2019a look back. We firmly plant our roots in the belief that "Everyone has wings to fly, some just need a little help." This principle fuels our annual Do Good Program; supporting people and places needing a little more help. Through our partnership with HELP International, Art of Visuals, and our Proof customers, we set out on our 8th Do Good project March 7 – 17th to Peru. 6.9 million Peruvians currently live in poverty, 44% of whom are in rural Peru. According to Peru's National Statistics Institute (INEI), the country's poverty rate rose...


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Working through a limited company is one of the most tax-efficient options available, but with corporation tax reliefs and rates changing on an annual basis, it can be hard to keep track of all the exemptions, allowances and deductions. That's where we come in.
We will work closely with you to make sure we understand your business thoroughly so we are able to offer you the best tax advice. Our aim is simply to make sure you maximise your profitability with minimum stress.
Corporation tax is the tax on profits payable to HMRC by limited companies. These limited companies can be limited by shares or limited by guarantee.
Non-trading or dormant companies do not usually have to pay corporation tax or submit corporation tax returns (CT600).
A CT600 for a company's financial year must be submitted no later than 12 months after the end of the financial year although any tax payable is due 9 months and 1 day after the end of the financial year.
We usually prepare the CT600 alongside the accounts and submit both documents at the same time.
This allows us to check that the tax planning for the company is at its optimum. We will also review any directors' tax planning with the aim of minimising liabilities.
Once complete the return will be filed on time and backed up accordingly.
If your company is newly incorporated we will ensure that it has been appropriately registered with HMRC as well as Companies House.
The government provides a R&D Tax credit to any company that carries out research and development. Many companies do this, without even realising it.
We will have a discussion with the directors of the company to work out if you qualify. If you do, then we have contacts with several R&D Tax Credit specialists who will ensure that any documentation to support the Tax Credit claim is completed correctly to maximise your chances of success.


Punchy Bass" - this is a solid state Preamp - DI Box for bass guitar.
Preamp has a four band EQ, control Gain, Volume, plus multiple tone shaping switches.
The device is hand built using very high quality, selected components. This high quality preamp can be used for home music lessons, and for the performances on the large stage, as well as finding application in the recording studio.
Built-in headphone amplifier with volume control.
Built in mini mixer for connecting an external audio source (CD, computer, etc.). It is convenient for use with a "backing track".
Outputs - regular and active balanced (Jack, XLR), and a headphone output.
LO CUT - is a bass roll off and is used to control stage rummble at high volume.
MID CONTOUR - puts a notch at about 500 hz giving a mellow sound.
HI BOOST - adds edge and defenition.
VOLUME BOOST - switch mode Preamp/Pedal.


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Harry & Sonja är en svensk komedifilm från 1996 med regi och manus av Björn Runge. Filmen vars hans debut som långfilmsregissör och i huvudrollerna ses Stellan Skarsgård och Viveka Seldahl.

Om filmen
Inspelningen ägde rum i Askim i Göteborg mellan den 8 maj och 30 juni 1994. Producent var Lars Jönsson och fotograf Ulf Brantås. Musiken komponerades av Freddie Wadling och klippare var Lena Dahlberg. Filmen premiärvisades den 9 februari 1996 på ett flertal biografer runt om i Sverige. Den gavs ut på video 1996 och DVD 2005 och har även visats av Sveriges Television 1998 och 2001.

Filmen fick ett blandat mottagande hos kritikerna. De flesta berömde Runge för hans regi, men kritiserade honom för hans manus, som de ansåg vara bristfälligt.

Handling
Harry arbetar som frisör på ett mentalsjukhus. Patienterna älskar honom men chefen hatar honom och till slut får han sparken. Harry bor tillsammans med Anna och deras sju barn. En sommar stöter han på en rad märkliga karaktärer, däribland Sonja som blir hans älskarinna.

Rollista
 Stellan Skarsgård	– Harry Olsson, mentalvårdspatientfrisör
 Viveka Seldahl – Sonja Ljungqvist, städerska
 Sten Ljunggren – Walter Ljungqvist, legosoldat, Sonjas make
 Bergljót Árnadóttir – Anna, Harrys sambo
 Per Oscarsson – pappan
 Regina Lund – Sonja 2, badvakt och blivande plastikkirurg
 Eivin Dahlgren – Jesper Olsson, porrbutiksägare, Harrys bror
 Weiron Holmberg – Harrys chef
 Evert Lindkvist – Sonjas chef
 Micha Gabay – Carlos Gardel
 Shanti Roney – Jonathan
 Dejan Sabadjija – Rainer Olsson, Jespers son
 Robert Jonsvik – Annas pappa
 Freddie Wadling – Morgan
 Christian Fiedler	– Sören
 Inga Edwards – Ewa
 Michaela Hennig – Tove
 Anders Lönnbro – krigskompis 1
 Göran Forsmark – krigskompis 2
 Håkan Klamas – krigskompis 3
 Anja Pauser – Moa, Harrys dotter
 Maja Ringstad	– Agnes, Harrys dotter
 Elsa Rosengren – Anja, Harrys dotter
 Linda Dahl – Maria, Harrys dotter
 Stellan Runge	– Viktor, Harrys son
 August Runge – Ivar, Harrys son
 Minka Jakersson – Jonathans flickvän
 Viktor Friberg – Greger Olsson
 Kim Lantz	– pappans kompis
 Cristel Olsson-Lindstrand – Kerstin, prostituerad
 Katarina Bengtson – Anna, patient
 Michael Lloyd	– mannen med trumpeten
 Yvonne Schaloske – festdeltagare
 Janne Ericson	– vårdaren
 Peter Parkrud – polis 1
 Kerstin Hellström – polis 2
 Claudio Garay	– gitarrist 1
 Jorge Alcaide	– gitarrist 2
 Mirja Burlin – faderns nya flickvän
 Felix Nordqvist	festdeltagare

Referenser

Svenska komedifilmer
Svenska filmer 1996
Svenskspråkiga filmer
Göteborg på film
Filmer i regi av Björn Runge


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Richard Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Tristan und Isolde – Kurwenal
Parsifal – Klingsor
Das Rheingold – Alberich
Siegfried – Alberich
Götterdämmerung – Alberich
During a career spanning over forty years Nicholas Folwell has performed over one hundred and thirty rôles in a wide ranging repertoire.
Rôles for Welsh National Opera, where he began his career, have included included Figaro (La Nozze di Figaro), Leporello (Don Giovanni), Alberich (Der Ring des Nibelungen), Pizzaro (Fidelio), Escamillo (Carmen), Harašta (The Cunning Little Vixen) and Melot (Tristan und Isolde) and Klingsor (Parsifal) both recorded under Sir Reginald Goodall. For the Royal Opera House he has sung Harašta (The Cunning Little Vixen) under Sir Simon Rattle, Antonio (La Nozze di Figaro) and Nachtigal (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg); for Scottish Opera: Four Villains (Les Contes d'Hoffmann), Figaro (La Nozze di Figaro), Alberich (Der Ring des Nibelungen) and Bartolo (Il Barbiere di Siviglia); for Glyndebourne: Pizzaro (Fidelio), Figaro and Antonio (La Nozze di Figaro), and Ortel (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg); for Opera North: Beckmesser (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg), Leporello (Don Giovanni) and Alberich; for Opera Holland Park: Sharpless (Madama Butterfly and Pizarro (Fidelio); for English National Opera: Sharpless (Madama Butterfly) and for Mid Wales Opera: Scarpia (Tosca). Performances with other companies include Dr Falke (Die Fledermaus), Papageno (Die Zauberflöte), Forester (The Cunning Little Vixen), Sancho (Don Quichotte), Major Mary (Die Soldaten), Music Master (Ariadne auf Naxos), Mr Kallenbach (Satyagraha), Mutius (Timon of Athens), Eckbert (Blond Eckbert) and Mr van Tricasse (Dr Ox's Experiment) the last three at their world premières.
Outside the UK his performances include Alberich (Der Ring des Nibelungen) and Dreieinigkeits Moses (Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny) for Angers Nantes Opéra, Figaro (La Nozze di Figaro), Don Iñigo Gomez (L'Heure Espagnol) Le Chat and L'Horloge (L'Enfant et les Sortilèges) for Opera Zuid, Germont (La Traviata) and Escamillo (Carmen) in Ireland and Koroviev (Der Meister und Margarita) at its world première at the Opéra National de Paris.
Operas in concert include Pizzaro (Fidelio) with Kurt Masur, Lysiart (Euryanthe) with Sir Mark Elder and the title role in Der Fliegende Holländer with Martyn Brabbins.
Concert appearances include Mahler's Symphony No 8 with Gary Bertini in Torino and at the Queen Elizabeth Hall with Martyn Brabbins, The Dream of Gerontius with Yuri Simanov in Brussels, and the world premières of Vinko Globokar's Sternbild der Grenze in Paris and Claudio Ambrosini's Proverbs of Hell in Rome.


Introducing the new K-Series speaker stands. These speaker stands have been designed to match the K1 and K5. Their construction allows the reinforcement of low frequencies and clear mid-range due to their low resonance and rigid build.
There is a dedicated stand for the K1 and for the K5. The top plate has been designed to physically match the speakers shape to seamlessly join the tow together.
The look is both elegant and sleek with subtle detailing on the front centre pillar consisting of two vertical lines.
On the rear of the stand you will find a cut-out on the centre pillar allowing you to hide cables. Supplied with the K-Stands are clips and ties that allow further cable management options.
The top plates have 4 counter-sunk holes allowing for the use of stick-on rubber feet. These feet are to prevent the speakers accidentally being pushed off the stands.
The stands are supported by the chrome K-Series 6mm spikes and floor protectors.
If you are looking to complete your K1 or K5 system, the K-Series loudspeaker stand should be at the top of your list.