According to the results of a study that were recently released, there would be “potentially disastrous economic impacts” if there were to be a cap to the personal injury benefits under the state’s no-fault insurance law.
The research, which was performed by the Anderson Economic Group for the Coalition Protecting Auto No-Fault, looks into the possible outcome of a bill before the Michigan Senate that had bipartisan support.
This bill was sponsored by senators Virgil Smith (D-Detroit) and Joe Hune (R-Whitmore Lake) and would permit a cap as low as $50,000 for drivers’ injury and rehabilitation benefits. The current regulations allow unlimited benefits under this coverage.
Representative of Truscott Rossman, John Truscott, said that “It’s a major shift in cost to taxpayers, because it shifts the cost to Medicaid.” He added that the bill would also cause issues to nursing homes offering long-term medical care.
The Insurance Institute of Michigan’s executive director, Peter Kuhnmuench, said that the bill that would allow these caps, and another companion bill that would also lead to a fee schedule for medical services, could lead to a reduction in premiums.
He said that the main worry is the way in which the health care delivery system will be affected, as it will be adding to the system’s cost constraints. He added that among all of the personal injury claims, only 6 percent involve benefits larger than $50,000. Moreover, the percentage that would affect Medicaid would be even smaller, since many of those policyholders would have additional insurance that could apply once expenses reached the cap.


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Daily Quiz #216
Who established scientifically that an individual's fingerprints provide permanent identification?
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How did the fuchsia get its name?
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The Senate of the Republic of Ireland is called the Seanad. What is the name of the House of Representatives?
What ancient Sumerian city stood on the banks of the Euphrates River between 3200 and 2300 BC?
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Lia Schubert: dancing in Israel
In 1968 Lia (Lea) Schubert arrived in Israel, after having served for eleven years as Artistic Director of the Ballet Academy in Stockholm. She decided to settle in the artists' village in Ein Hod establishing a school as well as a dance company in Haifa. The school attracted many students, young people and adults, dance fans and professionals, dancers and artists of various fields. All were attracted to her non-compromising professional attitude, the variety of dance styles that were taught and the excellent teachers who came from all over the world in order to teach thanks to Lia's professional ties.
Lia, a ballet dancer, pedagogue and choreographer, was born in Vienna in 1926 to a Jewish family. In 1930 her family immigrated to Zagreb, Yugoslavia due to increasing anti-Semitism in Vienna. There, at the age of 10 she began studying ballet with Margaretha Forman. In 1938 her family relocated to Paris and Lia began learning at the Music National Conservatoire with Solange Schwartz. In Paris Lia studied with the Russian teacher Olga Preobrajenskaja, Egorova, Victor Gsovsky and Nora Kiss. In addition, she studied the history of dance with Pierre Conte, mimics with Decroux, acting, Modern and Character dance.
In an interview Lia Schubert gave in 1968 to Lillian Karina (Karina & Kant, 2004) at the academy she was directing in Göteborg she recounted the events of her family during the Second World War. Upon the breaking out of the war and the rumors about the Germans approaching the outskirts of Paris, the Schubert family decided to run for their life. Lia recounts," Like lots of other Jews we took to the roads, where we tried to survive…we had to wear the Star of David…For me it meant that I had to give up my place at the Paris Conservatoire…" (Karina & Kant, 2004, p. 49).
In the course of their escape her father was sent to a transit camp, but Lia, her mother and her brother Walter managed to find shelter in a village in the non-occupied area that was under the auspices of the Vichy Government. However, they too were arrested and sent to Vermissieux, a transit camp near Lyon. A night before Lia was sent to the Extermination Camp she had been smuggled with an ambulance to a hospital in Lyon by the members of the Jewish Resistance Movement, while her sick mother was drugged with medications and transferred to the hospital in Lyon. From there, the members of the Resistance Movement sent her mother to an old-age home in the village, where she was supposed to survive till the end of the war. Nevertheless, things turned out differently. When two German soldiers were shot in the village, the Germans searched the homes and found her mother, who was too exhausted to maintain her false identity. Later on Lia found out that her mother died on her way to Auschwitz. As to her brother, with whom she lost contact the night she was smuggled by the ambulance, all her attempts, at the end of the war, to find out what had happened to him failed.
During the search conducted by the Germans Lia managed to escape the village and join the Resistance. Due to her young age she was not allowed to be active and she left the Resistance Movement. Karina (Karina & Kant, 2004) recounts that Lia arrived with forged papers at Marseilles, where she found work at the Opera Ballet as a coryphée, however there too she was not fortunate. In 1944 the Gestapo searched for her during a performance, but with the help of her friends she managed to change quickly her performance clothes to casual clothes and escape through the dancers' entrance. Lia reached Wacker's studio at Place Clichy in Paris, where Grand Masters, who emigrated from Russia, were teaching. They were immigrants like her and did not ask unnecessary questions. Lia was lucky since Victor Gsovsky, one of her first teachers, taught there. Gsovsky, who understood her situation, gave her an address where she could hide. Later on her brother's fiancée and friends from the Resistance joined her. During day time they wandered in the streets of Paris, because in situations of serious trouble they could easily assimilate among the crowds. At night they stayed in their hiding place in complete silence. Paris was released on August 25th 1944, but no one of her family returned. Lia was the only survivor of her family.
After the war Lia worked in rehabilitating children who survived the extermination camps. She renewed her dancing studies, worked with several French dancing ensembles as a soloist and the assistant of Leonid Massine at the Paris Theatre. At that time Lia decided to give up her dancer's career and focus on teaching ballet and choreography (Hummergren, 2000).
In 1950 Lia began working at the Municipal Theatre in the city of Malmo, Sweden as a ballet teacher and soloist dancer in the ensemble, where she established a workshop dance group. In 1953 she moved to Stockholm where she opened a private studio, which became the Ballet Academy in 1957. Later on the Academy developed into a dance center, where classes were given in fields such as classical ballet, history dance, dance of other cultures, dancing for children and modern dance. Lia cooperated with the Folkuniversitet, an organization related to the University of Stockholm granting informal high education to the public (Hummergren, 2000). In the course of its first years the Academy served as a meeting place for amateur and professional dancers as well as actors, musicians and visual artists. In addition Lia established the Stockholm Dance Theatre that toured the Scandinavian countries with a variety of ballet performances. Important dancers and choreographers in Sweden studied at the Ballet Academy in Stockholm which she directed, and she gained recognition as an approach-innovator of dance education, as well as for her open-mindedness regarding various dance trends that she encouraged. At that time, and via the Academy school, the Jazz dance genre became popular in Sweden drawing much attention to it. Jazz performances were staged by the school students together with the dancers of the Swedish Royal Ballet dancers. In addition, Lia taught as a quest teacher, inter alia, in Sweden, East Germany, The Opera House of Oslo, Colon and Bern.
In 1968, after having served for11 years as the Artistic director of the Ballet Academy in Stockholm, Lia arrived in Israel. In the first year of her stay in Israel she taught ballet at the Batsheva Ensemble, Bat-Dor Dance Company, the Music and Dance Academy in Jerusalem and at the Inbal Dance Theatre where she also served as the rehearsal director. In 1969 Lia established, together with the dancer Kaj Lutman (called Selling in Sweden), the major dancer at the Swedish Royal Opera who had international reputation, the Haifa Dance Center school and the Dance troupe Bimat Harakdanim (The dancers' stage) at the Rothschild Center in Haifa, based on a group of dancers that Oshra Elkayam-Ronen established already in 1967 (Eshel, 1993). Basing the aforementioned on two reputable and rich stage-experienced dance artists constituted a promise for the future.
In 1974, after a generation of classical dancers grew and matured at their school, Schubert and Lutman decided to concentrate on the ballet genre and established the Haifa Ballet Piccolo, supportedby the Ministry of Culture, the Ministry of Education and Haifa Municipality. The troupe provided stage- experience opportunity for young dancers, the school graduates, and fostered their artistic personality. The dancing troupe performed in Haifa, Tel-Aviv and Jerusalem as well as on several television programs. Among the dances Schubert created for the group: Cinderella (1974), Coppélia (1974) and the Hoopoe Legend (1976).
Thanks to the school and the dance troupe Schubert and Lutman turned Haifa into an important and vivid dance center in Israel (Eshel, 1993). At the school arrived teachers such as Linda Hodes (an American dancer, teacher and choreographer who will subsequently be the director of Martha Graham's Company), Linda Rabin (subsequently a dancing teacher in Montreal), Jean Hill Sagan (choreographer in various dance ensembles in Israel), Keneth Gustafson (dancer at the Cullberg Ballet), Rena Gluck (then the soloist at the Batsheva Dance Company and subsequently the Dean of the Dance and Movement Faculty at the Music and Dance Academy in Jerusalem), and others.
The school has established generations of teachers, among them: Dvorah Shalmi (Harmelin), Henia Bin (Rottenberg), Varda Zehavi (Lembersky), Shirley Novak, Chava Bakal, Nira Dayan, Aviva Haber and Shosh Assiag (Ben-Dov). Among the dancers this Center has trained are Sarit Beker (danced at the Nederland Ballet), Iris Gil-Lahad (danced at the Israeli Ballet, the Batsheva Dance Company and was the director of Batsheva Dance Ensemble), Liora Axelrod (danced in TAMAR dance company), Iris Birenbaum (dance in the Israeli Ballet), Yael Pinkas (dance in the Israeli Ballet), Adam Pasternak (subsequently the director and choreographer of the Haifa Ballet Company) and Ruth Eshel (dancer at Batsheva-2 and an independent dancer-creator) (Eshel, 2000).
Although the school flourished, the dance company's expenses caused financial difficulties that were hard to overcome. In 1976 Lutman was invited to be the Artistic Director of Batsheva Company and he left Haifa. In 1978 Lia too decided to leave Haifa and returned to Sweden where she settled in Göteborg with her husband, the painter Jan van den Bergen. Lia directed a government supported Dance Academy in Göteborg till she passed away from a severe lung disease on January 16, 2000.
The Haifa Dance Center: Dance School, Artistic Director – Lia Schubert
The dance school established by Lia Schubert and Kaj Lutman in 1969, The Haifa Dance Center, was designated for students of various ages and professional knowledge levels. Emphasis was put on classical ballet but other theatrical dance forms were taught as well. The school had several tracks of studies (based on the school information booklet).
Professional Studies for Dance Teachers
The course program was designated for students with basic knowledge in one or more dance genres. The course's objective was to develop the students' technical ability in the following dance genres: classical ballet, modern dance, Jazz, international folklore and Spanish dancing and/or other subjects related to dancing. Students achieving during the course good technical ability, continued to special pedagogy lessons training them for teaching dancing at a basic level. Students who graduated a two or three-year course (depending on the student's initial level in the program, their abilities and development) received a Diploma from the Dance Center. The course's weekly curriculum included 16-18 learning hours, and only students who took the full curriculum were entitled to a diploma.
The course was subsidized by the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Education and Haifa Municipality. Scholarships covering part of the annual fee were granted by the Ministry of Education after submitting an application to the scholarship committee.
Pre-Professional Training for Dancers
In this track of studies a variety of courses were offered to talented children and youth who were interested in developing a dancers' professional career. These students received an intensive schedule preparing them technically and artistically for the professional stage requirements. Only students that were found suitable by the Dance Center Artistic Director were admitted to this course of studies. In the pre-professional framework there were three levels of dance training:
Pre-professional A – basic level for ages 9-13 with at least one year of training in basic classical ballet.
Pre-professional B – intermediate level for ages 11-14, designated for select students who had studied at least one year at the pre-professional A level or had intensive training of a similar level elsewhere.
Pre-professional C – advanced level for ages 14 and up designated for select students with advanced technical level of ballet.
Advanced students could receive scholarships every year to cover part of the tuition fee. Most of the Pre-professional C students were also dancers at the Haifa Piccolo Ballet.
Courses for children and youth
The school offered a variety of non-professional lessons for children and youth at various levels. The lessons were in ballet, modern dance, Jazz and international folklore and were given by professional teachers. Spanish dancing was offered to children and youth with basic knowledge in ballet.
The children and the youth had to participate at least in two weekly lessons to achieve progress. Combinations of different dance techniques such as ballet and folklore, or Spanish dance, or modern dance and ballet, or modern dance and Jazz were considered constructive to train the students, from the very beginning, to various dance styles. The objective of all the lessons was to obtain, together with the artistic skills also good posture, mental and physical discipline as well as musical awareness.
Dance Games – Preparation for Ballet
For the ages of four to about eight and a half, when the child's body is in a constant process of development and cannot take upon itself the discipline of ballet studies, the school offered a special program.
In Dance Games the lessons engaged in strengthening the body and providing good physical posture, musicality and coordination development. Along with these, emphasis was put on creativity and the pleasure of organizing the movement and moving about.
Preparation for Ballet lessons has two levels:
Level A was designated for the ages of six and a half to seven and a half. The lessons contained basic ballet exercises, and creativity continued to constitute the major role during the lessons. The basic ballet exercises were learnt in the form of game.
Level B was introduction to ballet and designed for children at the age of seven and a half to eight and a half. The program integrated basic exercises in ballet technique matching the development of the young body. Emphasis was put on developing more accurate musical awareness, and although discipline began being an integral part of the lesson, the creative improvisational part had still a great weight.
Courses for adults
The "Dance Center" offered lessons of various levels for adults during the morning, the late afternoon and evening hours. The objective of participating in one or more weekly lessons was to develop the posture of a healthy body and good physical discipline. The training would provide the student with awareness of a certain dancing form and its basics.
Any dance form – classical ballet, modern dancing, composition, Jazz, international folklore and Spanish dance – will be taught by teachers specializing in the field. In order to obtain achievements it is recommended to integrated a few dancing forms and take at least two lessons a week.
Copyright 2010, Henia Rottenberg
Eshel, Ruth. Development of artistic dance. Aharoni Sarah and Meir (Eds.) Personages and Actions in Haifa and its surroundings. Kfar Saba: Miksam Ltd. 1993, pp. 103-104 [Hebrew] http://www.dancevoices.com/he/dance-in-israel/56-2009-01-11-11-30-04
Eshel, Ruth. In memory of those who passed away: Lia Schubert. Dance Today, 1 (14), 2000, p. 21 [Hebrew]
Hummergren, Lena. Sweden: Equal rights to dance? Grau, Andrée & Jordan, Stephanie (Eds.) Europe Dancing: Perspectives on Theatre Dance and Cultural Identity. London & New York: Routledge, 2000, pp. 168-187.
Karina, Lillian & Kant Marion. Hitler's dancers: German Modern Dance and the Third Reich. New York & Oxford: Bergaben Books, 2004.


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This paper will discuss a simplified quantitative method for calculating the human health impacts of failures during high-pressure fluid operations. The methodology ties catastrophic high-pressure failure energies to specific human impacts. The methods are then applied to specific hazard situations found in the oil and gas-operating environment through examples. Simplified graphical methods for standard field piping "iron" at common design pressures are presented. These methods should assist engineers and operators in performing rapid quantitative assessment of the high-pressure hazards to their operations.
Since there has already been rigorous study of TNT explosions, we implement a TNT equivalent model relating it to an equivalent potential explosion energy of a pipeline based on the volume of the gas it contains. With an equivalent TNT energy, we can implement scaled distances for respective thresholds of injury based on biological studies that have created pressure-duration curves related to survivability. Using these survivability curves based on the overpressure and impulse respectively, we have created safe standoff distances for pipelines with a specific diameter and length.
Since survivability of an explosion depends on both overpressure and impulse respectively, a literature review was executed to account for these differences between a high explosive such as TNT and a pipeline explosion. We conclude that the differing explosion factors (overpressure and impulse) in a pipeline explosion counteract each other so that in terms of potential injury, a TNT explosion would produce relatively similar results.
Another difference between the two respective types of explosions is that the geometry of a pipeline explosion is highly directional and must be considered since it is not perfectly spherical as the TNT equivalent model assumes. Nevertheless, the calculations of the graphs are conservative relative to a TNT explosion in terms of both potential energy since the energy equation used represents an upper boundary. Additionally, the same applies in terms of the energy available for the explosion of a pipeline since not all gas will be readily available for detonation. In effect, we are describing a very complex problem that could potentially have many different outcomes. Thus, the conservative assumptions will allow the application of engineering judgement in assessing the risk of potential injury in specific drilling scenarios.


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The dishes offered by Deervalley is particular on homemade
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nurtured by Daisetsu Asahidake's underground water.
Relish the seasonal harvest you can only taste here.
Hokkaido's Higashikawa Town, where Hotel Deer Valley is situated, does not have a water supply.
Daisetsuzan's meltwater passes through the earth's filter over many years,
and the crystal clear underground water enriches Higashikawa Town.
This water is used to grow rice and vegetables and made into miso and tofu.
The natural mineral water is used not only for drinking and rice cooking but also for baths and washing.
The reason why the "ingredients and dishes are delicious" is the blessing of the famous water that wells from Mt. Asahidake.
At the foot of Mt. Asahidake, the water is a treat.
Deervalley's cuisine is particular about using seasonal harvest grown with the underground water of Daisetsuzan's Mt. Asahidake.
A careful selection of fresh local ingredients you can only relish here.
Enjoy nature's blessings that are gentle on the body.
Higashikawa Town is the best rice producer in Hokkaido. "Higashikawa rice", a brand of rice grown in natural mineral-abundant water, was the first rice in Hokkaido to have a "Regional Collective Trademark registration". Rice cooked with the famous water that wells from Diasetsuzan bring the rice's natural deliciousness further front. (This Higashikawa rice is canned and sold in "rice cans." Recommended as a souvenir in memory of your trip.)
Blessed with Daisetsuzan's mineral-abundant running water and soil, the surrounding vegetables (asparagus, corn, melon, tomato, root crops, etc.) are varied and fresh. In the only town in Hokkaido that does not have a water supply (groundwater is used), we make use of the clear stream from heavy snow, the same as our drinking water, to grow very delectable crops.
We hear a lot of feedback about the taste of vegetables being strong. We made dish with vegetables as the main ingredients, and sometimes vegetables are made into desserts! While being particular about Hokkaido-grown meat and seafood, maintaining the original taste of the ingredients, and watching the makeup of the entire dish, we create and deliver dishes in a way that you can enjoy and relish. We also offer locally produced and consumed gibier.
We serve both breakfast and dinner at the restaurant. The interior with its warm orange wood grain and the particular open kitchen are set to make the food taste even more delicious. The tables are laid out with ample spaces apart.
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In a spacious dining space, a treat of seasonal dishes.
The food is brought to your table by the service staff.
We offer meat dishes to match the season, with the concept of "delicious and fun." For the chef's careful selection of meat dishes (optional/reservation), we also use our highly recommended domestic brand beef. Here at Deervalley, you can enjoy a wide variety of meat dishes.
For seafood dishes, special sauces that match the ingredients are manually made every day. With Higashikawa's delicious water, the simpler the sauce, the more it elevates the taste of the ingredients.
[Additional dishes (Extra charge) / example]
★Specialty grilled meat dishes (Hokkaido Beef, Venison)
★Special sweets, Whole cake, etc.
Highly recommended for anniversaries and celebrations.
Start your day as you take in the refreshing view of the morning.
Have your fill of locally grown and consumed food that is gentle to the health-conscious body.
*Meals are subject to change depending on availability.
Make your stay at the hotel more complete.
We offer services such as wine all-you-can-drink and coffee takeout.
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(60min.)2,750yen / tax included
Seven types of wine (three types of red, three types of white, and one sparkling) . It is a popular service where you can enjoy the wine of your choice at your own pace.*You can compare 6 kinds of wines and 1 sparkling wine.
We also offer a wide variety of wines by the bottle and three types of pairing wines by the sommelier. You can also enjoy the lounge and free space after dinner.
◊Available times: Restaurant opening hours
You may bring restaurant coffee back to your room in to-go cups for free.
If you would like to do so, kindly ask the staff.
◊For 2 people / starts at 1,650 yen (tax included)
You can also enjoy them in your room or the play hall.(Photo is an example)
We recommend winding down with hors d'oeuvres and some wine or beer in hand.
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"Miracles Sometimes Cease: Shipbreaking in Hong Kong from War's End through Boomtime"
Time & Location
06 Aug 2022, 14:30 – 16:00
Hong Kong Maritime Museum
About the Event
“Miracles Sometimes Cease: Shipbreaking in Hong Kong from War's End through Boomtime"
The story of shipbreaking in Hong Kong is an excellent example of what the Maritime Miracle exhibition is about.
Necessity opens up an opportunity. Propitious circumstances allow initiative and hard work to exploit the opportunity. Circumstances change. New necessities and new opportunities emerge. A once prosperous earlier business pathway closes.
In 1945-1947 there was a necessity to clear Victoria Harbour and get it back to work. There city had to be rebuilt and then kept expanding to cope with Hong Kong’s rapidly increasing population and industrial development. That meant steel, the demand for which boomed. In the post-war world steel was in short supply. That sunken ships were made of steel created an opportunity for shipbreakers. The demand allowed fast development of the shipbreaking industry in the ‘50s and ‘60s.
Then things changed. Rivalry from Taiwan. Shortage of land. Alternative, less hazardous and better paid work. And more. By the late 1970s Hong Kong’s shipbreaking industry was in swift decline.
Necessity. Opportunity. Booming success. Change. Start over.
Dr. Stephen Davies lived in Hong Kong on and off from 1947 until 2022. He was baptised on the quarterdeck of the battleship HMS Rodney in 1945, and has been hooked on maritime history ever since. He taught at the University of Hong Kong until 2022, when he retired to Britain. His most recent book is Transport to Another Word: HMS Tamar and the Sinews of Empire, published by City University of Hong Kong Press in May this year.

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Bala Sivakumar and Johann Aakre will lead this full-day workshop on Accelerated Bridge Construction. The workshop will introduce engineers to the basics of ABC, introduced in a way that focuses on the key differences between ABC and conventional bridge design. The aim is to allow engineers familiar with traditional bridge design learn the key concepts of ABC and advance the application of ABC to bridges.
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Vice President and HNTB Fellow, Director of Special Bridge Projects
With 35 years of experience, Bala’s expertise includes accelerated bridge construction (ABC) of complex bridges, weight-in-motion (WIM) studies, live-load and finite element modeling, fatigue and fractures investigations, and seismic analysis and retrofit. Recognized nationally as an expert in load and resistance factor design (LRFD) and evaluation of bridges, he was the primary author of the new AASHTO Manual for Bridge Evaluation. He co-authored the Transportation Research Board’s Strategic Highway Research Program II (SHRP 2) R04, titled Innovative Bridge Designs for Rapid Renewal, which includes national ABC standards, guidelines for design drawings, guidelines for erection systems, and LRFD design and construction specifications. He was also the primary developer and author of the SHRP2 ABC Toolkit published recently to promote ABC implementation nationally, which has been recently expanded to include lateral slide concepts. He leads HNTB’s national ABC practice and is involved in ABC projects in several states.
Johann Aakre, PE, SE
Bridge Section Manager
In his 14 years with HNTB, Johann has contributed to the design of several different bridge projects. Johann’s bridge design experience includes preliminary through final plan design of various structure types, including highway, pedestrian, rail, design-build, and signature/complex bridges. He is the Great Lakes division representative on HNTB’s ABC committee and has recent experience on ABC projects in Minnesota, Michigan, and West Virginia and for the Union Pacific Railroad. He serves on the SEAOI Board of Directors.


HONOLULU Leaving lurking behind annually connected with bruising legislative battles, President Barack Obama goes in his final year or so inside workplace owning counted that will he or she not anymore needs Congress to promote his / her end goal and could possibly benefit in his re-election campaign in the event that lawmakers attain bit of within 2012.
Absent virtually any major policy pushes, much of the season will target winning an additional term. The leader will continue up a strong every day travel routine in addition to intense plan fundraising and make use of executive measures to try to boost the particular economy.
Partisan, down-to-the-wire spats about allowing the nation to have on extra bill in addition to sharply cutting down federal government wasting characterized 2011. In your brand new year, you can find minor must-do bits of legislation dealing with that us president and Congress.
The a single exception is the looming debate using a full-year extension of your reduce inside Social Security payroll levy price through 6.2 percent for you to 4.2 percent. Democrats and Republicans are usually torn through easy methods to executed in which extension.
The White House feels GOP lawmakers encased themselves around throughout the pre-Christmas debate around the tax separate but will possibly be hard-pressed in order to cool off their assertions that will this have to proceed throughout the ending regarding 2012.
Once that issue is over, your White House says, Obama's political fate could simply no more end up being linked in order to Washington.
"Now that they have almost exempt from being forced to place most of these fires, the president may have some sort of greater playing field. If inclusive of Congress, many of the better," claimed Josh Earnest, White House deputy press secretary. But, they added, "that's no longer some sort of requirement."
Aides point out the president will never convert his or her to come back on Congress absolutely inside the brand-new year. He can be supposed to once yet again push lawmakers to pass components associated with his job opportunities bill which were blocked through Republicans continue fall.
If these projects fail, the White House says, Obama's re-election year will concentration nearly exclusively on account manager action.
Earnest claimed Obama can come away along with at least two or three directives every week, continuous the actual "We Can't Wait" strategy the administration started out this particular fall, along with try to specify Republicans in Congress because gridlocked and dysfunctional.
Obama's election season getaway through legislative battles indicates this name will finish with no substantial progress upon two with his or her 2008 marketing campaign promises, an immigration renovate and termination the actual army living hell pertaining to terrorist suspects during Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Presidential directives will not create a significant dent throughout the actual country's 8.6 percentage joblessness charge or cause significant improvements from the economy. That's the primary headache for many voters as well as problem what is the right Republican prospects are in all likelihood in order to criticize Obama.
In working on accounting measures rather then impressive legislation, the us president perils listed that they are getting election-year method in advance of fiscal measures at a time as soon as countless Americans tend to be even now beyond work.
"Americans be expecting their own selected frontrunners to operate together that will supercharge occupation creation, even within an selection year," mentioned Brendan Buck, a new spokesman with regard to House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio.
Still, Obama as well as his advisers are generally starting 2012 which has a renewed sense involving confidence, buoyed with a string with polls that will show your president's approval standing climbing seeing that Congress gets significantly unpopular.
They believe his victory above Republicans while in the payroll tax debate possesses boosted his or her qualifications for a fighter with the central class, your topic he will probably check out catch on within his / her Jan. twenty-four State from the Union address.
Obama's campaign-driven, domestic-travel plan will begin around Cleveland on Wednesday, in a given period right after GOP presidential hopefuls rectangle away from in the particular Iowa caucuses. He will in addition maintain an ambitious re-election fundraising schedule, by using events previously covered in place in Chicago on Jan. 11.
Campaign officials declare Obama will certainly completely embark on the re-election campaign the moment this Republicans pick and choose their particular nominee. He will center practically just about campaigning after the overdue summer Democratic National Convention, blocking unexpected developments in the home as well as abroad.
Among that concerns that will might interrupt Obama's re-election plans: further more fiscal chaos in Europe, instability in North Korea following its management move in addition to provocations from Iran.
The president's signature legislative success will take place under higher scrutiny in the brand-new year, every time a critical section of their healthcare change is usually debated leading to a Supreme Court.
Obama's currency travel next season are going to be constrained primarily towards summits and also overseas events each and every U.S. chief executive traditionally attends. He's supposed to travel to South Korea around March with regard to a nuclear safety measures summit plus that will Colombia in April with the Summit on the Americas. He's likewise almost certainly going to visit Mexico with June for that G-20 economic summit.
Two some other major worldwide events the actual NATO summit as well as the G-8 economic achieving is going to be placed in Chicago, upon residence turf.
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Foliar Spray Market Synopsis
Foliar spray is the process of applying liquid fertilizers in a spray form directly on to plant leaves. The stomata on plant leaves help absorb nutrients from the foliar spray. The response of plants to foliar nutrients is more rapid than in the case of soil application. Foliar applications are often timed to coincide with specific growth stages of plants such as flowering and fruiting, recovery from transplant shock, hail damage, or other extreme weather effects.
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Foliar sprays are especially beneficial when environmental conditions, such as high soil pH, excess moisture, and cold temperatures, limit the intake of nutrients from the roots. Foliar sprays also increase plant yield and resistance to diseases and insects, improve drought tolerance, and enhance crop quality.
Foliar spray fertilizers find application in horticultural crops, field crops, and turfs and ornamentals, among others. Liquid fertilizers used in foliar spray can be nitrogenous (N), phosphorus-based (P), potassium-based (K), mixed, or micronutrients.
Rapidly expanding global population and growing concerns regarding global food security are the major factors driving the growth of the global foliar spray market. The use of advanced farming technology as part of Agriculture 4.0 is expected to provide new opportunities for growth to market players during the forecast period.
However, the limitations of foliar spray such as dosage restrictions, phytotoxicity, and high costs may hinder the growth of the market during the forecast period. Furthermore, the waxy cuticles of plant leaves serve as a barrier to the absorption of nutrients from foliar sprays into the underlying tissue. The use of agricultural surfactants in foliar spray formulations helps solve the problem of waxy cuticles and greatly improves nutrient absorption. Apart from this, the effectiveness of foliar sprays can be enhanced by managing the pH of the spray solution in accordance with the pH of the applied nutrients, small droplet size, adequate spray volume, and application in the morning.
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The global foliar spray market has been segmented by fertilizer type, application, and region.
On the basis of fertilizer type, the global foliar spray market has been segmented into macronutrients and micronutrients. The macronutrients segment has been further divided into nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), potassium (K), and mixed. The macronutrients segment was the larger foliar spray market, by fertilizer type, in 2017 and is expected to remain so during the forecast period. The nitrogen macronutrients segment was the largest in 2017 as nitrogen is one of the most important nutrients required for protein synthesis in plants.
Based on application, the global foliar spray market has been segregated into horticultural crops, field crops, turfs and ornamentals, and others. The horticultural crops segment accounted for the largest market share in 2017 due to the increasing demand for horticultural crops such as fruits and vegetables to meet the rising food demand of an expanding global population.
The global foliar spray market has been studied with respect to five regions, namely, Asia-Pacific, North America, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East & Africa. Europe held the largest market share of the global foliar spray market in 2017, followed by North America. Asia-Pacific is expected to be the fastest-growing market for foliar spray during the forecast period. The Latin American market is also expected to experience considerable growth during the forecast period. The growth of the market in the Middle East & Africa is likely to be moderate during the forecast period.
Some of the key players in the global foliar spray market are Coromandel International Limited (India), Yara International ASA (Norway), GSFC Ltd (India), Nutrien Ltd (Canada), EuroChem Group AG (Switzerland), K+S KALI GmbH (Germany), Israel Chemicals Ltd (Israel), the Mosaic Company (US), TRIBOdyn AG (Germany), Haifa Group (Israel), Lima Europe NV (Belgium), and Hebei Monband Water Soluble Fertilizer Co., Ltd (China).
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Exercising before study may enhance learning and stimulate new neural connections
It is certainly no newsflash to suggest exercise is beneficial for brain health, but exactly how physical activity confers cognitive enhancements is still not entirely clear. Compelling new research from Oregon Health & Science University has discovered a single session of exercise can enhance the expression of a gene that promotes synaptic growth in the hippocampus.
"Previous studies of exercise almost all focus on sustained exercise," explains Gary Westbrook, co-senior-author on the new study. "As neuroscientists, it's not that we don't care about the benefits on the heart and muscles but we wanted to know the brain-specific benefit of exercise."
The goal of this new study was to home in on any specific neuronal changes that occur in the minutes and days following a single period of exercise. The researchers exposed a cohort of otherwise sedentary mice to a two-hour exercise session on a running wheel. The single bout of exercise was estimated as having a human equivalent of a weekly game of basketball, or a 2-mile (3.2-km) run.
As soon as one-hour post exercise the mice displayed enhanced synaptic activity in the hippocampus, a brain area linked to memory and learning. Further analysis then revealed a surprising new discovery – the expression of a particular gene called Mtss1L was enhanced in single neurons following the acute exercise session.
This is the first time scientists have detected activity-dependent Mtss1L expression in single neurons. The gene is known to be involved in cerebellar synapse formation, and in this context was found to enhance the growth of dendritic spines, an action that promotes new synaptic connections between neurons.
What this all suggests is that a short burst of exercise seems to prime the brain for new synaptic connections, implying learning may be enhanced when preceded by physical exercise. While this particular study only involved mice, there is an interesting body of prior work to show exercise improving cognition in humans. From a longer six-week study linking exercise to improved memory, to a shorter experiment finding just 10 minutes of vigorous activity enhances cognitive performance, there is strong evidence the mechanism uncovered in this new research may translate to humans.
The next step for the researchers is to more closely investigate how exercise can directly improve memory and learning via the expression of this particular gene.
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Deploying KORE IoT connectivity and IoT solutions, BinSentry dramatically increases feed mills’ operational efficiencies by modernizing antiquated processes.
KORE, a global leader in Internet of Things (IoT) solutions and worldwide IoT Connectivity-as-a-Service (IoT CaaS), today announced that BinSentry, an international AgTech company, has selected KORE as its IoT partner-of-choice to modernize time-worn measurement systems and drive operational efficiencies.
The two companies are enabling sectors of the agricultural ecosystem to innovate and leapfrog current methods, resulting in reduced costs, product waste, and time.
For decades, farmers have used a manual process to forecast the amount of feed they order. Still today, farmers bang mallets against the side of huge silos and place orders with feed mills based on the sound made by the strike, causing inaccurate forecasts and resulting in under-filling, over-filling feed transfers and late deliveries to bins. This traditional method tends to be expensive and wasteful because an information deficit exists.
An average feed mill services a range of 500 to 5,000 bins to deposit with feed on a weekly basis at farms around the world. The logistics of delivering feed requires good data so that mills can operate efficient production and supply chain processes.
KORE President and CEO Romil Bahl, said:
“This is the ‘decade of IoT,’ and in many industries, like agriculture, healthcare, and fleet management, it’s an exciting time of exploration and innovation — much like what I imagine the Industrial Revolution was like at the turn of the 20th century.”
“Through our work with BinSentry, we’re providing an IoT one-stop-shop to some of the most recognizable commercial outfits in the farming industry, resulting in data-powered delivery route optimization, accurate feed forecasting and ordering, and increased automation of the inventory tracking and ordering process. With access to a conduit of IoT connectivity, asset monitoring, and APIs, the average feed mill has the potential to save millions of dollars.”
KORE powers the BinSentry automated feed ordering platform with a single-source of reliable IoT connectivity that makes it easy for feed mills to gauge quickly and accurately in-bin feed levels on vast farms located globally. The feed mills then acquire and manipulate critical data streaming off of those bins in real-time via APIs so that they can plan their supply and delivery based on real-time data at the individual silo level.
Bringing efficiencies to on-farm inventory monitoring, ordering, and restocking with IoT technologies and analytics has an important knock-on effect. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, agriculture accounted for an estimated 10.5 percent of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions in 2018 of which feed deliveries are contributors. Farms and feed mills are already struggling with sustainable production on top of handling and organizing massive amounts of resources. With access to mission-critical information and data that is pulled from the IoT enabled monitors, feed mill trucks are able to deliver the right amount of feed at the right time to the right farm and travel between 15 percent to 25 percent fewer miles, significantly reducing the feed mills carbon footprint, reducing their labor needs and saving costs.
“BinSentry was founded four years ago to solve the information deficit that is a significant pain point in the relationship between feed mills and their farmers and growers,” said Randall Swartzentruber, founder and CEO, BinSentry. “Our goal with BinSentry is to close that information gap, and the best way to do that is with IoT connected devices sending accurate and reliable data to a comprehensive feed ordering automation software, enabled by the comprehensive and future-forward wireless networks being provided by KORE. Now, our feed mill customers can look at their dashboards and in real-time see exactly how much product exists in every single feed bin that they service, act proactively to manage demand and then plan accordingly. It takes only 15 minutes to install the IoT-powered sensors to solve a 40-year-old problem.”


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Hill & Szrok first opened its doors in March 2014 on Broadway Market, bringing with it a new form of dining and food retail which has established itself as one of East London’s go-to destinations, building up a culinary cult following of locals and visitors.
By day, Hill & Szrok is as a traditional butcher shop run by Tom Richardson and his team, which has been specialising in free range and organic meats for over three years now. By night, Hill & Szrok transforms into a lively neighbourhood restaurant run by founder Luca Mathiszig-Lee, with a dozen seats are placed around a central table, a giant white marble butchers block during the day, and a spotlessly clean shared dining table in the evening.
Hill & Szrok have recently started to create their very own series of magazines, The ‘Zine’, which specialise in a different meat in each issue, releasing the Lamb Zine, Chicken Zine and Pork Zine this year. Hill & Szrok visit their farmers, breakdown the animal and share a selection of recipes and wine pairing suggestions. They have plans to release the next in thier series, the Beef Zine, in March 2018.
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HARTFORD — The yo-yoing daily positive test rate for COVID-19 bounced back Friday to 2.4%, reversing two days of declines from that four-month high that was reported Tuesday.
State health officials reported 802 new cases out of 33,048 tests that were received since Thursday to reach 62,830 since the first laboratory-confirmed cases were detected in early March.
The positive percentage rate hit 2.4% on Tuesday for the first time since June based on the number of positive tests and tests that were reported. The daily rates reflect test results dating back several days to a week.
The development was described as concerning, and it was seen as another sign that COVID-19 was resurging in Connecticut.
The positive test rate fell to 2% on Wednesday and 1.3% on Thursday based on the daily numbers that were reported.
The Department of Public Health reported a net decrease of seven patients hospitalized with confirmed cases of COVID-19 to 184 statewide. It was the first decline in four days.
There were 54 patients hospitalized in Hartford County, a net decline of 7 patients since Thursday. There was a net increase of three patients in New Haven County to 49, and the number of hospitalizations in Fairfield County remained flat at 48 patients.
There has been a flare-up of COVID-19 in Eastern Connecticut.
There were 23 patients hospitalized in New London County. This was unchanged from Thursday. There was one new hospitalization in Tolland County, which represented its only one. Another hospitalization brought the total in Windham County to five.
There were no hospitalizations in Litchfield County, and a net decline of four patients lowered the total in Middlesex County to four.
Two more coronavirus-associated fatalities reported Friday raised the death toll to 4,542.


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I lived in Missouri for 15 years, so I know Missouri is called the "bellwether state."
"The Missouri bellwether is a political phenomenon that notes that the state of Missouri voted for the winner in all but one U.S. Presidential election from 1904 to 2004 (the exception is 1956). While states like Ohio, Iowa, Nevada, and New Mexico have been arguably stronger indicators of political trends in recent years, Missouri was a consistent swing state throughout the 20th century. Prior to the 2008 elections, Lincoln County, Missouri was said to be the only bellwether county in a bellwether state. Missouri is also considered a bellwether of U.S. views on hot-button social issues such as stem cell research, gay rights, and school vouchers. Some economists also consider the state a bellwether for economic trends such as consumer confidence and unemployment."
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The idea of shame is a large topic which almost feels too daunting to tackle but through these past couple months, doing research, I've come to believe that shame resides within liminal spaces which gives it the power to create a tremendous level of discomfort within each of us. Although shame is found in these places of "liminality" this is also where transformation occurs, if we choose to allow it to unfold. Therefore, the need to wrap, stitch, and place items within a "cocoon" symbolizing transition and transformations. The questions that have been raised...What's happening on the inside and how will it emerge?
Anyway, here are some of my experiments....
This larger piece is in the early stages and will need to be coated, painted, and wrapped.
an experiment with latex, wire, and cheesecloth
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Is a cheeky kiss under the mistletoe becoming a thing of Christmas past?
Maybe. Some apple and pear growers would happily the back of this parasitic plant.
Herefordshire, the home of cider and perry, has a profusion of mistletoe, thanks to the many hundreds of acres of apples and pears grown here.
The mistletoe market usually held in Tenbury Wells in the lead up to Christmas every December, is testament to the region’s close links with it.
Plantlife, a British conservation charity that works to save threatened wild flowers, plants and fungi, has even described mistletoe as the county flower of Herefordshire.
But some local apple growers are not fans and would be happy to see the back of it.
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Tom Oliver of Oliver’s Cider and Perry at Ocle Pychard describes it as a pest, even worse: "It is a scourge, devastating most of the old orchards in Herefordshire. Anyone who cares about the long-term viability of our orchards should remove it!"
But there are others who see the presence of mistletoe in our orchards as being invaluable the survival for birdlife and bug life. And it all comes down to proper management of the plant.
James Marsden of Gregs Pitt Cider & Perry at Much Marcle has a very different take on the mistletoe.
A former ecological consultant and director of Natural England, he sees the mistletoe as ‘magical’.
James said: "Mistletoe is important for bugs, invertebrates, and birds. The secret is the management of mistletoe and not allowing it to get out of control.
"It is a thing of beauty, full of character, and has its place in history and a place in the orchard. I love it."
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Blind Critique Sessions
If we want to improve our photography we should learn to reflect on our photographic work and know why (or why not) we (or others) like a photo. In the blind (no details of whose picture is being reviewed are provided) photo critique session we can develop our judgement with the help of our colleagues without the fear of being embarrassed or embarrassing someone else. Note that this should not be confused with criticism!
Please submit your images to email@example.com whenever you would like some constructive feedback without being exposed.
A session will be held when we have a number of images from different photographers.
You are back from a vacation or a photo session/assignment with a large number of images and have problems to select 10 strongest? In the curation sessions we shall guide you in curating 10 that try to tell a story and arrange the images in a portfolio.
For these sessions, we suggest you print not more than 30 images, postcard size, so that they can be shuffled around on our whiteboard. An alternative is to bring up to 30 images on a USB key (or your computer/ tablet, or have them preloaded in a LightRoom catalogue if you have the software.


In the past week, one of the issues that the U.S. House of Representatives has been wrestling with is renewing the $1B funding of the Israeli Iron Dome defense missile system. It has become a hot political issue. So, what is the Iron Dome and why should the U.S. continue to fund it? Bottom-line? It saves both Israeli and Palestinian lives. According to the American Jewish Community (AJC), “it is about 90% effective in stopping short range rockets fired by Hezbollah terrorists next door in Lebanon or Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists in neighboring Gaza. The system protects Israelis of all backgrounds and faiths.”
While initially part of a larger $3.5T spending bill, the $1B funding to support Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system was passed by the House on Thursday as part of a stand-alone bill. The bipartisan vote was 420 to 9 with two Democrats voting “present”. Eight liberal Democrats and one Republican opposed.
Representative Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich) accused Israel of being an apartheid state during the House debate on renewing $1B to fund restocking Israel’s Iron Dome defense missile system. Representative Chuck Fleischmann (R-Tenn) quickly rebutted Tlaib’s accusations of Israel being guilty of war crimes.
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Garry Emery is one of Australia's best-known designers. His most famous typographic work was the design of the monumental typeface for the Romaldo Giurgola-designed Australian Parliament, opened in 1988, although it is by no means the only custom typeface he conceived. He is a highly respected graphic designer in his own right, and one of the principals of Emery Vincent Design, arguably the best-known design consultancy in the country. Emery Vincent Design opened in Melbourne in 1981, and its Sydney office five years later.
Which work has influenced you most strongly?
For me there is no single work, ad, typeface, or piece of design that stands out as a key influence.
For that matter, there is no single designer who has had a profound influence on my work. Rather, there are many and varied influences and people whose work I admire from the different disciplines of design and the arts.
To name a few artists Marcel Duchamp, Pablo Picasso and Antonio Tapies; architects Tadao Ando and Frank Gehry; typographer Piet Zwart; designerarchitect Charles Eames; sculptors Isamu Noguchi and Constantin Brancusi; jazz musician Keith Jarrett; and composer Johann Sebastian Bach.
The movements in art and design that I most respond to are constructivism, dada, surrealism, modernism, expressionism and minimalism.
How did you get into this field?
I was born in Western Australia. I have had no formal training in graphic design, having left school at 14 to work in a commercial art studio. In 1960, I moved from Perth to Melbourne, and got a job hand-lettering on cosmetic and pharmaceutical packaging. It was the start of a fascination with calligraphy and typography, and the awareness that the written word communicates more than specific information, but also expresses attitudes and evokes images.
How do you see design and your approach to it?
My design sensibility has been formed by exposure to an eclectic array of 20th-century artists and art movements. I am a modernist but without dogma, a typographic traditionalist who seeks out the freedom of the accidental, a pragmatist who balances the rational and the lateral simultaneously. I design opportunistically, approaching each design commission as an exploration. I apply no design formula or prescription.
I have an essential interest in letterforms, typography, calligraphy, two-dimensional space and three-dimensional space, and art and design history. I have developed a number of custom-designed typefaces for specific projects.
My work incorporates design references of our times, both from high art and popular culture. All design creativity emanates from hidden conversations with other artists and designers. Creativity emanates from making references and homages to others' work, which in turn inform and enlarge the design conversation across time and space. My hidden agenda is to culturally enhance the visual landscape.
The basic task of every piece of design is to be effective. In the case of graphic design for print and electronic media, this means simply selling products, services and ideas and developing corporate identities. I have developed a sensitivity for marketing and corporate identity, based on design thoroughness and pragmatism. For the built environment, it means making a sense of place and imparting public information.
How do you think your work has contributed to the Australian visual language?
I have trouble with the assumption that there is an "Australian" visual language. Perhaps it's easier for outsiders to perceive distinct trends and characteristics that could be described as Australian. I can say that any Australian cultural activity must inevitably express an essentially hybrid, plural condition after all, we are a melting pot of different ethnic and cultural influences. Maybe some day, this will all coalesce into an identifiably regional design expression. Or maybe not.
In the late 1980s, we designed a new typeface for the inscriptions planned for Australia's new Parliament House. The existing Roman inscription typefaces were thought to be unsuitable to express the values of this significant, contemporary national monument. As part of our research, we compiled a dossier showing examples throughout the history of Australian type and analysed what we found, looking for any trends we could identify as somehow Australian. Really, although we would love to have discerned some evidence of a developing vernacular, there was nothing we could identify that was particularly distinctive.
But some do observe certain characteristics in Australian design work, such as bright sub-tropical colours and informalityelements which no doubt responses to our strong sunlight, warm climate and easy-going social manner. But is there an Australian design sensibility? I think that we are just as connected to the rest of the worldand to the history of the significant design movementsas anyone in New York, Paris or London, and that is what is most likely to define us as designers working in Australia.
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Above One of Garry Emery's typeface designs grace the Australian Parliament. This typeface, conceived in the late 1980s, is a seriffed monumental style with the width and clarity of ITC Avant Garde and Futura.
Above The capital R, in development drawing form. The typeface was scanned into Adobe Illustrator for further manipulation. The final R is below.
Below Other glyphs from Emery's Australian Parliament Typeface.
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