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The Year In B-Sides (That I Heard And Enjoyed)
Technically, the era of the b-side is probably long over. Even in digital form, a castoff track is more likely to appear as an iTunes bonus track or as extra material on the Japanese release these days than actually attached to a single. Still, even as the file-sharing age has diminished the joy of feeling like you’ve heard a song that few other Americans have thanks to plunking down ten dollars for a import single, there’s still something special about the non-album track. While the likelihood of finding a “How Soon Is Now?” on the back of a “William, It Was Truly Nothing” is low, there were a few songs this year I thought were worth a mention (and a few listens).
As a preface, the qualifications for this list were that a) I heard the song; and b) that there was a YouTube clip to embed.
Bloc Party, “Idea For A Story” (b-side to the “Mercury” single):
Morrissey, “Children in Pieces” (b-side to the “All You Need Is Me” single):
Ida Maria, “We’re All Going To Hell” (I have no idea where this song is from, but it’s not on the album):
The Cure, “Without You” (b-side to the “The Perfect Boy”):
What else was out there? What track were you telling your friends about, followed by the phrase “Well, it makes sense you haven’t heard it, it was only available in Europe”?

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After the COVID-19 pandemic brought the tourism industry in Meghalaya to a grinding halt, the state government has decided to reopen for tourists starting from December 21, 2020.
“#Meghalaya reopens its #Tourism from 21st December, 2020. While you’re planning your next trip, here’s what awaits you in the #LandOfClouds. #CheckInToNature,” Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad Sangma tweeted on Tuesday.
#Meghalaya reopens its #Tourism from 21st December, 2020. While you’re planning your next trip, here’s what awaits you in the #LandOfClouds. #CheckInToNature@narendramodi @prahladspatel @DrJitendraSingh @tourismgoi @meghtourism @MDoNER_India pic.twitter.com/BfsX7EeKNq
— Conrad Sangma (@SangmaConrad) December 8, 2020
In another tweet, Sangma wrote, “We are reopening Tourism in Meghalaya for tourists from outside the State from 21st Dec, 2020. To ensure the safety of everyone, registration through the @meghtourism app is made mandatory & SOPs are put in place.”
CM Sangma added that it would be mandatory for the tourists to download the Meghalaya Tourism app and follow SOPs put in place by the government.
As per a notification by the Meghalaya Tourism Department, all tourists would need to register on the tourism app (available on both Google Play Store and Apple Store, and the Meghalaya tourism website) and generate an E-Invite.
The E-invite needs to be displayed by the tourists at entry points, along with an original copy of a COVID-19 negative RT-PCR/TruNat/CBNAAT report, tested within 72 hours of their arrival at entry point.
Earlier in September, the government had announced the reopening of Wards Lake, Elephant Falls and Lum Nehru Park for local tourists only.


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Home Buyers, Listen Up! Have You Hired Your Real Estate Law Attorney Yet?
You are not thinking of purchasing a new home without the help of a real estate law attorney, are you? Well, while you may think that hiring a top real estate law attorney is tantamount to spending thousands of dollars on their services, it’s good to know that the work he or she may providing is worth every dollar spent.
Let’s face it – there are pitfalls that homeowners often fall into. First-time real estate buyers sometimes get easily lured into sealing a deal without knowing that they could be facing real estate traps that would end up costing them a lot. So, before you finally say YES to that piece of real estate property you have been aiming at, learn how a competent real estate law attorney can help and protect you.
Handling and Reviewing Contracts
Although you may be a great negotiator face-to-face, remember that your terms should be put in black and white to make the deal legally binding. Your verbal agreement should be presented well in writing and a highly competent real estate law attorney can help you throughout the process. When you hire a top real estate attorney, you can be sure that the contract or agreement you are about to enter to complete adheres to the real estate law of your state.
Moreover, he can ascertain that your terms will not cause any issues in the use of real estate property to intend to purchase. Yes, your real estate law attorney can verify whether the property is free from legal problems relating to mortgage or taxes. In addition, having a real estate law attorney by your side can also make sure that you have read and reviewed the contract well before affixing your signature. Your real estate attorney can see to it if the contract needs amendment, addendum, or any form of modification. You’ll thank him later for that added protection from the thorough review of your contract.
Addressing Possible Liens Associated to The Real Estate Property
One important task that a top real estate law attorney can do is to perform the title search. When one speaks of title search, it generally refers to the act of thoroughly investigating and checking whether the real estate property you are interested in fee from any judgment, liens, or any form of encumbrances. This is a crucial step as the title search itself will determine whether the seller you are transacting with truly has the absolute right to put the property on the market. If you fail to check this aspect, you may find yourself entangled in legal turmoils in the future. To avoid that, it is better to hire a real estate law attorney instead.
Another advantage of availing the service of a competent real estate law attorney is that it can negotiate with the seller if the property is found to be hit with liens. This could help reduce the price and give you more advantage from the financial viewpoint. Moreover, your real estate law attorney can likewise provide sound advice as to how the seller can address the claims and may even help the seller to secure proofs that the claims have been settled.
Required Filing of Deeds at State and County Levels
Another task that a real estate attorney can do effectively is the filing of real estate deeds at state and county levels. With the help of a well-versed real estate attorney, you can be sure that he would find ways to navigate through the state regulations. This is particularly important when the real estate property is a commercial one. Availing the service of a real estate lawyer can immensely help you in obtaining your tax identification number and all other requirements needed for tax purposes. For instance, if you need to secure a business license for the filing of a deed, a real estate law attorney can do that easily.
Transferring of Properties with Corporations and Partnerships
Negotiations involving major corporations, partnerships, and trusts are generally complicated in nature, especially when a commercial real estate property is the main subject. An inept attorney has the in-depth understanding of the legal boundaries, state laws, and the different types business transactions. For instance, when there is a need to transfer properties, your choice of real estate law attorney can make sure that everything that is stipulated in the contract is compliant with the state and federal law.
The Disadvantages of Not Hiring a Real Estate Law Attorney
Many homebuyers are still willing to go through the entire process of purchasing a real estate property even without a real estate attorney. This is possible as hiring a lawyer is not exactly a legal requirement when investing in, selling, or purchasing a property. However, it must be noted that if you choose to transact without being represented by a top real estate law attorney, you may likewise be increasing your chances of getting sued if the contract happens to include certain legal glitches.
If you are a seller or a landlord, you may likewise end up in legal troubles if you fail to disclose important information about the property. One of the important roles of real estate law attorney is to ensure that home inspection is carried out and that all aspect related to it has been written in full disclosure. This should include defects or any aspect that needs improvements on the house. A real estate law attorney may also provide you with all the legal assistance you need when you are exposed to a risk of litigation.
Another disadvantage of not hiring a competent real estate law attorney is that you are a risk of being unable to file the right legal documents both a county and state levels. Failing to do has a number of legal consequences that you will need to face later on. For instance, if you deed is not transferred properly, you may end up dealing with multiple income or estate taxes that are levied on either the end of the buyer or the seller.
In addition, if your building permits are properly filed, you may be fined or you will need to rebuild new structures accordingly. Another possible consequence of not having a real estate law attorney to legally assist you is that you may fail to secure a taxpayer identification number at a state level. This could possibly put a halt to your business. This would clearly require you to settle and secure all necessary requirements before you can proceed with the business. In short, it is better to spend a bit more on getting the services of a good real estate attorney than risking your business and property.
Buying a home is not exactly a rocket science, but it does require an in-depth understanding of process and law. This can be effectively done with the help of someone who has the right background and expertise in real estate industry. Any new buyer should highly consider the role and the help that a good real estate lawyer can give from finding a property, checking the property, contract preparation, negotiation, and filing of a deed. These are just a part of the many roles a single highly competent and experienced real estate law attorney can offer you.
If you think that hiring a top real estate attorney is just another expense, then you may want to rethink this and scrap this misconception. It makes perfect sense to avail of the services of a top real estate law attorney to help grasp and navigate the complex real estate law of your state. Moreover, as real estate property is a valuable asset, you would want your interest either as a buyer or a seller protected all the time. The presence of a real estate law attorney can ensure that you have less to worry at the end of the transaction.
Contact Gomez Simone Law for further information https://gomezsimonelaw.com

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The CEO of AIG, Peter Hancock had lost confidence in the company’s board members and most of the big name investors. He also squandered many of his staff’s faith in him even before the board members and investors lost confidence in him.
After American International Group Inc.’s disappointing quarter in November 2015 when Peter Hancock had been CEO for a year only, he told his employees that they should not be counting on lifetime jobs. A lot of those employees felt insulted – some cried and some even quit the company.
Hancock quit AIG on Thursday, and this was just like the long leader line at the insurer who believed in making promises, but was not able to deliver them. Peter Hancock, who was a former banker who had drawn a lot of skepticism for his vision of turning AIG Inc. into a technology enterprise, will be staying as interim CEO till a replacement is named for him.
While Hancock was CEO, AIG used up higher-than-expected funds on almost all segments they operate in (like commercial vehicles, environment liabilities, workers’ compensation, and the guaranteed accident victim payments too). Although these policies were drafted before Hancock took the helm, it was not easy to avoid blaming him for it. The quarterly loss of the company was $3.04 Billion in February and the profitability target for 2017 was lowered because of that. The decision to take a hefty reserve charge was made by Hancock and it was the right decision, which would make the job of the next CEO easier, said AIG Inc.’s former general counsel, Tom Russo. Tom retired last year.
There was a drop of 23 cents for AIG to $63.21, which extended the loss after Dec 31 to 3.2 percent. Carl Icahn, one of the shareholders said that they support the actions that were taken by the AIG board today fully.
Both Icahn and John Paulson, another activist investor, who won the representation of the board last year, are wanting immediate moves to push up the price of the shares. The comments by analysts at Evercore Partners Inc. and Barclays Plc didn’t help shape the company as they said that the company was losing their credibility. The ratings by S&P Global were downgraded for AIG in January and AM Best gave the company another blow when they said that they would be reviewing the grades of the insurer in these challenges in risk management and reserving.
Even other board members, including a director that was chosen by Icahn, were growing impatient with Hancock. They discussed the future of the company on Wednesday. On Thursday, Hancock announced that there was no sense in sticking around without the complete support of the company’s shareholders. AIG said that he wasn’t available to comment on Thursday.


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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WMBB) — The Florida Department of Law Enforcement raided the home of a former state employee who has been critical of Gov. Ron DeSantis’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic and has provided alternate numbers to the public about infections.
Rebekah Jones said on Twitter that the raid happened at about 8:30 a.m. Monday and she claimed the agents pointed a gun at her and her children. In May of this year, Jones left her job at Florida’s Department of Health after claiming that state authorities wanted her to change COVID case data to support DeSantis’s call to reopen the state.
In a statement to the media officials from the FDLE Office of Public Information said the raid was part of an active investigation stemming from unauthorized access to the Department of Health’s messaging system.
Our investigation began last month following a complaint by Florida Department of Health that a person illegally hacked into their emergency alert system. As part of our investigation, FDLE agents served a search warrant this morning at the Centerville Court residence where Ms. Jones lives after determining the home was the location that the unauthorized message was sent from.’
Agents knocked and called Ms. Jones both announcing the search warrant and encouraging her to cooperate. Ms. Jones refused to come to the door for 20 minutes and hung-up on agents.
After several attempts, Ms. Jones allowed agents inside. Agents entered the home in accordance with normal protocols and seized several devices that will be forensically analyzed. At no time were weapons pointed at anyone in the home. Any evidence will be referred to the State Attorney for prosecution as appropriate.Rick Swearingen, FDLE Office of Public Information
In several more tweets, Jones accused the DeSantis administration of sending the “gestapo” after her, the News Service of Florida reported.
This is what happens to scientists who do their job honestly.— Rebekah Jones (@GeoRebekah) December 7, 2020
This is what happens to people who speak truth to power.
I tell them my husband and my two children are upstairs… and THEN one of them draws his gun.
On my children.
This is Desantis’ Florida.
If Desantis thought pointing a gun in my face was a good way to get me to shut up, he’s about to learn just how wrong he was.— Rebekah Jones (@GeoRebekah) December 7, 2020
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If you want to help, my website is still at https://t.co/JbQtrVbRuv
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On trial since June 2007, Nsengimana is accused of genocide and crimes against humanity committed in Nyanza, southern Rwanda. He has pleaded not guilty.
It is alleged that Nsengimana supervised the killings of ethnic Tutsis at the college, one of the most prestigious in Rwanda.
The prosecutor alleges that Nsengimana led "death squad" made up of employees of the College. The lead counsel for the prosecution, Wallace Kapaya, asked the court to give life jail to the accused in February, this year.
Nsengimana is one of the four catholic priests indicted by the ICTR.
Athanase Seromba, a former vicar in Nyange, in western Rwanda, had his 15 year sentence overturned by the Appeals Court to life jail early this year. Emmanuel Rukundo, a former Military Chaplain was sentenced to 25-years imprisonment in February, this year. Wenceslas Munyeshyaka, a former vicar at the Parish of the Holy Family in Kigali, will be tried in France.
The judgment of Father Nsengimana is among three judgements expected before end of the year.
The other defendants who will also know their fate before 31 December are Lieutenant Colonels Ephrem Setako and Tharcisse Muvunyi. The exact dates of the judgments are yet to be known.
© Hirondelle News Agency

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They’re here! It’s officially cherry blossom season in Marblehead as the three trees in the Harris Street Cemetery have bloomed. I visited the trees several times over the past few days and then returned with my camera gear tonight to capture a few images before sunset.
In this image, I focused on the far tree which was reflecting the last light of sunset on some of its branches. I used my new lens and its very fast aperture to keep focus on the cherry blossoms and lightly blur the gravestones and distant tree.
With rain in the forecast, I’m hopeful the cherry blossoms hold out until the weekend when I expect them to have hit peak bloom.


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- salmon fillets (about 1/4 lb per person; spice mix makes enough for 4)
- 1 tsp dried tarragon
- 1 tsp dried rosemary
- 1/2 tsp dried chives
- 1/2 tsp powdered thyme
- 1/2 tsp marjoram
- 1/4 tsp savory
- 3 Tsp "brownulated" brown sugar
- freshly ground black pepper
- Mix together the sugar and spices, except for the black pepper.
- Place fillets skin-side down in a tinfoil-lined baking pan. Grind black pepper over fillets, then spoon over the sugar-spice mix, coating evenly.
- Bake at 475 F for 15 - 20 mins or until done. Serve immediately.

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Is Gastric Balloon Covered By Insurance? There is no clear answer as to whether or not gastric balloons are covered by insurance. Coverage for the procedure may vary depending on the insurance company and the individual’s policy. Some people may have to pay out of pocket for the balloon, while others may be able to get it partially or fully reimbursed.
How quickly do you lose weight with gastric balloon? The gastric balloon is a device that is inserted into the stomach to help people lose weight. The balloon takes up space in the stomach, so people feel full after eating small amounts of food. People usually lose weight quickly with the gastric balloon, because they are eating less food and are not as hungry.
Is Orbera weight loss covered by insurance? There is no one definitive answer to this question. Some insurance companies may cover the Orbera weight loss procedure, while others may not. It is important to check with your specific insurance provider to see if they offer coverage for the Orbera weight loss procedure.
How painful is a gastric balloon? A gastric balloon is a device that is inserted into the stomach to help people lose weight. The balloon is filled with saline and then inflated. The balloon helps to take up space in the stomach so that the person feels full and eats less.
Frequently Asked Questions
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The Obalon Balloon system costs $6,000.
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Most people feel better within a week after the gastric balloon procedure. However, some people may take up to two weeks to feel their best.
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The cost to put a balloon in your stomach depends on the type and size of balloon, as well as the location of the procedure. Generally, the cost ranges from $1,000 to $3,000.
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The cost of Orbera generally ranges from $5,000 to $8,000. The cost may vary depending on the clinic or doctor you choose to have the procedure done.
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Orbera is typically covered by medical insurance, but it is important to check with your specific insurance provider to confirm.
There is no clear answer as to whether gastric balloons are covered by insurance or not. However, many patients report that their balloon procedures were partially or fully reimbursed by their insurance providers. It is important to check with your individual insurance carrier to see if they cover gastric balloon procedures.

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We, in Virginia, had a redistricting done not that long ago. That’s a whole different diary, rife with crazy drama. I will do that one day...perhaps after I’ve imbibed a crate of wine. I kid, of course! I do intend on writing it though. Someday soon in the upcoming future.
When a district is all torn up because of redistricting, we wait to see what kind of jolt that will send into the district and what kind of candidate will rise to the challenge. And of course, we all hope the candidate lives in the same district they are running to represent!
Also, we all hope for a worthy Democratic candidate!
What a novel notion that when we go to the polls to vote , we get to vote for someone who is a resident of the same district they intend to represent in the legislature!
This diary is about a lovely candidate who lives in the district that just came into being due to redistricting.
Well, meet Terrence Lavelle Walker.
Mr. Walker lives in the newly drawn District 81 that includes parts of Henrico, Chesterfield, & Charles City Counties.
There is no incumbent in HD 81.
I want to tell you about this guy. He is pretty amazing.
Mr. Walker has been a “Henrico resident for over 20 years and is the current vice chair of the Henrico County Democratic Committee.” Henrico County is in Virginia’s legislative/house district 81.
Here’s some information about the candidate —
- Mr. Walker has a M.Div., degree from Howard University. He is an administrative assistant at VCU University Counseling Services, and has done charity outreach in the Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) area, and other places.
Mr. Walker was one of the people that went around talking to the representatives in the Virginia General Assembly to help further this cause of expanding paid family leave:
Walker was invited by the Campaign for a Family Friendly Economy Virginia to share his story with the General Assembly. He listened as legislators voiced concerns that a statewide paid leave system would require time and money to be built and maintained, and fears that people could abuse the benefit.
“The data suggests otherwise,” Walker said to the lawmakers, referring to the five states (plus D.C.) that have paid leave programs up and running effectively, with another three states set to begin in the coming years. “If we want to talk about the well-being of the Virginia economy, that goes back to Virginia families.” LINK
Walker knew about the repercussions of not having paid family leave first-hand, as he juggled child-care, providing care for a very ill life-partner/wife, all the while continuing working at his job. Tragically, his wife never reached her 50th birthday. That death, and the fact that he became the sole parent for his son, informs the way Terrence Walker sees and experiences the world. That is a lived experience that makes him a powerful advocate:
Walker has given back frequently to support causes at VCU. He supported a food pantry for students experiencing food insecurity, helped fund a scholarship for Dreamers, and donated to the chapel at VCU Medical Center, where Walker remembers many moments reflecting and praying during Tracy’s treatments and hospital visits. To him, his latest gift was a natural progression to support the MCV Campus and its mission.
- Terrence Walker was recognized by Terry McAuliffe, in 2015, for creating RamPantry. The pantry as we know it today is a VCU student-run pantry for students experiencing food insecurity. Terrence Walker has also been a coordinator of the Pantry. Here’s a website description from the VCU Dean of Students which describes the pantry’s mission as:
The mission of Ram Pantry is to ensure food security, human dignity and well-being on campus by providing in-need VCU students with food. To this end, Ram Pantry will collaborate with university and community partners to research and implement innovative approaches to food security and community health. We will do our part to ensure that no student in the VCU community goes hungry and that every student has access to nutritious food.
The cost of college tuition, food, room and board, textbooks, and supplies weighs heavily on many families. While the “poor college student” is an ongoing stereotype in society, the public is seemingly unaware of the dire need for food for some students. LINK.
How did this pantry happen — perhaps you’re wondering?
The pantry was created after a survey of VCU students found 57 percent of respondents were not sure each day where they would get their next meal. The results led to the launch of Ram Pantry in January 2014.
Walker worked with others to secure space and equipment and organized a group of student volunteers to staff the pantry and run it as a student organization. The pantry served more than 1,800 people in its first year of operation.
The students running RamPantry partner with Food Lion grocery stores and other vendors to keep the shelves stocked. Senior executives from Food Lion have been so impressed that they have asked VCU to serve as a model for universities near the company’s North Carolina headquarters. LINK
Mr. Walker, has a clear headed understanding of how people live on a day to day basis.
He totally understands how, sometimes, many who are trying to make their lives better can have a hard scrabble life as they get on with daily living, even while paying their tuition and buying their books.:
"When you think of hunger, we don't think of college students," said Terrence Walker. But he says it's a big problem.
Terrance Walker is the faculty advisor for the student run Ram Pantry.
"I think there is still think there is still this myth that students leave home with a check book and anything they need they call home and get," he said.
That is not the case and that's why Ram Pantry was started more than a year ago.
"The first week we opened we had over a hundred and 20 students in line," Walker explained.
Since then over 2000 students have made trips to the pantry for emergency food. Weekly anywhere from 30 to 100 students stop in. LINK
RamPantry is still going strong, even as need is on the rise.
Think about that — here’s a candidate that has a seen life changing problem up-close and understands what food insecurity looks like. More importantly — how to do something about it.
Mr. Walker’s lived experiences are really powerful ones, and will only help him as he runs for office.
These are the kinds of lived experiences that will make him a cogent and effective advocate as a Delegate, in the Virginia Legislature.


There has been a lot of discussion around the poor quality of the recently released Apple maps app. To be fair, Apple has taken a disproportionate amount of flak for this, given that the majority of their apps tend to reasonably solid when released. The whole maps affair seems to have overshadowed negative reaction to the new “Lightning” cable that comes with the iPhone 5. The new cable marks a move away from the standard 30 pin connector that has been around for nearly a decade. Apple justifies the change in connector on the basis that the new, slimmer format of the iPhone 5 will not support the old one. I may be up there with the Mayans in terms of the reliability of my predictions, but I believe the new cable marks the beginning of the end for the iPhone’s dominance of the smart phone market for two main reasons.
Firstly, an adapter is required to allow legacy peripheral devices to connect to the new cable. Instead of providing this free, Apple has the temerity to charge its customers USD29 for the adapter. Given that most Apple lovers probably have upwards of 5 devices that use the old 30 pin connector the cost could easily start to add up.
Secondly (and for me this is the more insidious element in Apple’s evil masterplan), the cable itself is completely proprietary. What’s wrong with USB? I’ve seen some arguments that suggest Apple devices need a proprietary cable to support the transfer of multi-media content at high speeds. I don’t buy this given that other smart devices appear to be doing pretty much the same thing with USB. Wikipedia tells me that the new USB 3.0 specification supports transmission speeds of up to 5GB/s. Call me cynical, but I wouldn’t have thought the interface would represent the bottleneck on an iPhone at that speed. Still not convinced? Take a look at the list of seven companies involved in the development of the original USB specification (clue: Apple is not one of them).
“Lightning” strikes me a simply another way for Apple to fleece its loyal customer base. If people continue to buy iPhones I think it will be in spite of the new cable. During the 90s and early 00s I always had a Nokia phone. Nokia had a spectacularly annoying habit of changing their proprietary connector cables and chargers with each new model they released. It drove me mad and as soon as the competition caught up and started making phones to a comparable (often better) standard I made the switch to something else.
The iPhone no longer has the pre-eminence in the smart phone marketplace it once had. Samsung and other Android-based devices are making strong inroad into Apple’s market share. Microsoft’s pairing with Nokia is going to prove popular with long-suffering fans of Windows mobile operating systems. Die-hard Apple fans will no doubt continue to buy iPhones, but I think they will start to lose the middle ground. For me, I now see that the Emperor is in fact simply butt-naked. I’m off to buy a Samsung.


Coe College joined several other schools in the District on Wednesday, January 30 when it officially cancelled classes because of weather conditions. Cedar Rapids was just one of the cities swept by a deadly polar vortex this week, that brought Arctic temperatures, as low as minus 22 degrees, on the Midwest. As Wednesday saw record-breaking temperatures, Coe decided to put the students’ safety first and cancel classes from Tuesday, January 29 at 4:30 pm to Thursday, January 31 at 12 pm.
“It’s always tricky to predict weather several days out, so we waited to act until we knew it was going to hit Cedar Rapids and be as bad as predicted,” said Provost Paula O’Laughlin. “Once the severity of the Polar Vortex hitting Cedar Rapids was clear, it was equally clear that we would not be able to ensure everyone’s safety with regular daily operations.”
Weather conditions sparked alarm all over the country, as several news outlets report life-threatening temperatures. School officials were invited to stay home as the library, the mailroom, the print center, health services, and most offices closed. Only the dining services made sure to remain open to guarantee breakfast, lunch, and dinner to all residents. By Wednesday night, the weather had forced the cancellation of thousands of flights nationwide about 8 deaths were reported in the area hit by the cold air, including an 18-year-old student at University of Iowa. Campus Security and Health Services encouraged students to stay indoors, to wear warm clothes, and to be on the lookout for any symptoms of hypothermia or frostbite. Meanwhile, buildings around campus suffered from frozen water pipes and other cold related-incidents.Coe’s choice to cancel classes arrives despite Coe’s rigid policy regarding closure during inclement weather. The gravity of the polar vortex and the consequences of these low temperatures, however, did not leave school officials any other chance.
No one should be outside walking to classes etc., in this weather even for a couple of minutes,” said O’Laughlin. “No one likes to cancel classes, but no one wants anything bad to happen to members of our community. Everyone in the Coe community’s health and well-being are way too important to put at risk in this weather.”
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The apostles have had an incredible 40-ish days. Jesus was welcomed into Jerusalem to much acclaim. Four days later, he was hanging on a cross, bleeding to death, stuck to a cross. Soon he was dead. Scared, they did what any of us would do; they hid. Within two days, the incredible happened…He was alive. Over the next six weeks, He’d appear to all of the disciples and many others, five hundred in all. And, they still did not get it.
In Acts 1, we find Jesus and the disciples together; they asked about whether or not He’d restore the kingdom of Israel. He responded by telling them to wait in Jerusalem because the Holy Spirit would soon come and be upon them. And then…He left. (He flew, actually). Literally.
What did the disciples do next? What any of us would do. They stood there, looking into the sky, because that’s what you do when someone flies. Then, two men in white appear, asking, “Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into heaven? This Jesus, who was taken up into heaven, will come in the same way you saw him go into heaven.” In other words…”Go to Jerusalem and wait.” Just ten days later, when the believers were gathered together, what Jesus promised took place. The Spirit descended upon them, and because of it, three thousand were added to their number…that day. Boom.
This past weekend, we celebrated the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus. He’s departed, and we’ve been given specific direction to receive the Spirit and then, be his witnesses in our homes, our neighborhoods, our workplace, our cities, states, nation and the entire world.
My fear is that many of us are waiting and watching for the kingdom of God to be restored. My fear is that we’ve just sang some songs, heard messages proclaiming His resurrection, and then, we just go back to busyness as usual. We fit Him in just like we didn’t before. My fear is that we’re no more interested now in discipling our families than we were before. My fear is that we are not being witnesses outside our homes because we’re not witnesses inside them. Perhaps…we’re not witnesses because there’s nothing to witness. We tell no one the story because, there’s no story to tell.
Have we received the Spirit? Have we experienced His power? Are we living in the promise? If the answer is “yes”, then let’s stop looking into heaven, because there is witnessing to do. Beginning at home, and going outward to our neighborhoods, jobs, towns, state, nation and the world. This is God’s plan to bring people to him. WE are His plan. Be filled, and speak.

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Horse Talk: Magician can weave his magic at Royal Ascot
Magician is fancied to weave his magic in the St James’s Palace Stakes on Tuesday – the first of five successive days of racing that comprise Royal Ascot.
The impressive winner of the Irish 2,000 Guineas was as short as 5-1 for the Derby a week later, only for connections to decide to miss the race.
The son of Galileo is sure to have benefited from the break, and is taken to secure yet another big race win for Aidan O’Brien.
The first race on Tuesday (2.30pm) is the Queen Anne Stakes where Animal Kingdom – the 2011 Kentucky Derby winner and 2013 Dubai World Cup winner – is sure to prove a huge draw and can justify his short price.
Bookmaker Paddy Power said: “Punters seem undeterred by the fact that Animal Kingdom has yet to run in Europe and have forced him into odds-on.
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“It’s pretty much a one-horse book at present and a win for the American raider would get the Royal extravaganza off to a very bad start for the bookies.”
The King’s Stand Stakes 35 minutes later is the target for rising star Reckless Abandon, who could prove to be great value at 7-1.
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The selection was unbeaten as a two-year-old and ran well in his first race against older horses when beaten by a neck and a head into third place in the Temple Stakes at Haydock.
Later in the day, 12-1 shot Thunder Strike can continue his unbeaten run in the Coventry Stakes.
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Quirky compositions, uncommon colors, and contemporary graphics defined the high and fine jewelry collections on show in and around the Place Vendôme during the Spring 2017 Haute Couture collections. Anything goes, so long as the statement is big and bold.
Solange Azagury-Partridge When she realized she had a lot of loose stones sitting around, Solange Azagury-Partridge decided to throw what she calls a “party on your hand,” explaining, “I hate the idea of jewels just sleeping in a safe and doing nothing." Here, exclusively on Vogue.com, are two of her Poptails: The Flower and Micki rings have six more color- and process-intensive siblings in sculptural shapes most with ceramic plate and lacquer. Think of them as anti-layering statements: One ring says it all.
Giampiero Bodino When he’s not acting as art director for all the Richemont group’s brands, the multitalented Giampiero Bodino turns out very haute jewelry under his own name. With his first foray into timepieces, he revealed three one-of-a-kind high-jewelry bracelets with secret watches. The one inside the Rosa dei Venti bracelet is concealed under an 11.49-carat Zambian cabochon emerald surrounded by sapphires, rubies, and diamonds on a bracelet with lacy fleur-de-lys motif.
Suzanne Syz Art Jewels With her very first design, a large turquoise necklace, contemporary art collector Suzanne Syz landed a legendary client: Elizabeth Taylor bought it right off her after a lunch. Today, she and her team turn out about 50 pieces per year that are shown alongside art and jewelry shows in places like Gstaad, New York, and London. This “Power to the Flower” ring is set in titanium with spinels, rose cut diamonds, yellow diamonds, and ceramic pistils surrounding an important, irregularly shaped emerald.
Cadar A fashion designer for years, Michal Kadar closed shop to pursue a lifelong passion. “I realized that I wanted to focus on something more permanent, but that would be out in the world and having fun,” she notes. Last week, she showed her latest Bloom pieces alongside selected favorites: The Reflections earrings are a riff on the evil eye. “The whole idea is about looking within,” Kadar notes. “Things are not always as they appear. All my pieces have layers of meaning.” She also does wardrobe updates; ring jackets based on the one she designed for herself can transform an engagement ring in a flash.
Tasaki For the second act in its collaboration with the Ritz Paris, Japan’s premier producer of pearls revealed a selection of graphic motifs inspired by sunlight pouring into the secret garden at the legendary hotel, including these Réve Ritz earrings with “Wallis blue” akoya pearls. These are but a prelude to a larger collection by the house’s creative director, Thakoon Panichgul, to be revealed this summer.
Louis Vuitton The Blossom collection continues to bud with new varieties of the house’s Monogram flowers at both ends of the price spectrum, from flexible bracelets right on up to the upper echelons of rarity. Here, an example of the latter: Weighing in at more than 20 carats, this exceedingly rare lavender sapphire from Sri Lanka nestles among calibrated diamonds reprising the house’s second initial.
De Beers At the center of the De Beers showroom sat a rough 109-carat diamond of windowpane transparency which, once cut, could likely yield a 50-to-60-carat pear- or emerald-cut diamond. This display of “raw beauty with no filter,” as De Beers CEO François Delage put it, showcased the house’s diamond expertise; nearby sat five loose diamonds perhaps worth a cumulative $30 million-plus, just making a brief appearance on their way to becoming bespoke creations. Stealth diamonds, the ones with once-in-a-blue moon colors, is what clients are after now, Delage noted. “They can be enjoyed, hold or increase value, and travel easily—and to a casual observer, they don’t scream money. No other investment comes close.”

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January 29th, 2009
Over the past few days the press has been full of the story that ‘masturbation causes cancer’.
As a result I’ve had a number of anxious emails from men saying they either masturbate frequently now or did in the past, and are extremely worried they’re going to get cancer. Some of them expressed confusion over media messages on masturbation as they’d previously thought masturbation stopped you getting prostate cancer.
So what’s the answer? Is masturbation really that dangerous?
Well, before we get to that, here’s the background to the latest research.
What was the study that’s caused the fuss?
The study behind all the scary headlines is called ‘Sexual activity and prostate cancer risk in men diagnosed at a younger age’ by Polyxeni Dimitropoulou and colleagues, just published in the BJUI (British Journal of Urology International). You can read an abstract of the research here.
What did the study involve?
This was a case control study involving 431 men with prostate cancer matched with 409 similar men who did not have cancer. All men were aged below 60 at time of study. Participants completed a postal questionnaire that included items on their life and sexual behaviours and included questions about frequency and type of sexual activity participants engaged in during their 20s through to their 50s. Information about their sexual partners over that time period, STIs, and age when they had intercourse for the first time was also included. High rates of sexual activity were defined as intercourse on average of 4-7 times per week (or more) and masturbation 2-7 times per week (or more).
What did the study find?
The study indicated that men who have a lot of sexual activity in their 20s and high rates of sexual activity and/or masturbation in their 30s are at an increased risk of prostate cancer. While men in their 50s who have higher levels of masturbation and sexual activity appear to have a reduced risk of prostate cancer.
In plain English that means if you have a lot more activity in your younger years but less as you age then you may have an increased risk of prostate cancer, whereas if you didn’t have as much sexual activity/masturbation when younger but you do in your middle years (40s and particularly 50s) then this may offer a protective effect.
How does this fit with other data in this area?
Existing research on the impact of masturbation/sexual activity on prostate cancer risk are very mixed. Most theories agree prostate cancer is linked to hormones, but not on how this may affect men. So some studies suggest men with higher levels of androgens are more at risk. Associated with this is the idea that since male hormones influence sexual activity, then those with higher levels of hormones will engage in more frequent sexual activity. The sexual activity itself may not be the cause of increased prostate cancer risk, but an indicator of higher hormone levels that could contribute to an increased risk in later life.
Other studies looking at masturbation, frequency of ejaculation and frequency of intercourse have generated mixed results. Some show no apparent link between sexual activity/ejaculation on prostate cancer risk. Some suggest sexual activity/ejaculation increases a man’s risk of developing prostate cancer, and some indicate sexual activity/ejaculation reduces a man’s risk of prostate cancer.
Recently (and probably most famously) a study by Graham Giles and colleagues argued men who masturbate frequently have a reduced risk of prostate cancer since masturbation would prevent hormones building up in the prostate. That study was explained by many journalists incorrectly as ‘masturbation cures cancer’ and has been cited by plenty of sex educators to recommend regular masturbation as a prevention of all male cancers (another incorrect and unhelpful interpretation of the study).
The conflicting findings don’t mean this area isn’t worthy of investigation, but it does mean we don’t fully know exactly how hormones and sexual activity may impact upon prostate cancer risk.
What are the limitations of the current study?
The authors acknowledge they were studying a group of men with prostate cancer who had the disease at a younger age than most. This isn’t necessarily a limitation but does make them different to the average prostate cancer patient and needs to be borne in mind when you consider the findings.
The use of a self reported, retrospective, postal questionnaire could be problematic since postal surveys are among the most unreliable way of getting questionnaire data from people (due to a low response rate to this method). Asking people to remember what they were doing in their 20s or 30s or even last year can increase recall bias, so we’ve only got someone’s estimate about their activity to go on and the reliability of this information varies depending on individuals and the sensitivity of information required.
To give you an idea of how difficult this may be, can you recall accurately how often you masturbated in your twenties? (presuming you’re older now!). You may be able to say it’s more or less than now, but can you be specific about sexual activity then – or in any other subsequent decade? You may have had more activity in your 20s and generalised that you masturbated or had sex very frequently during that time, whereas you may have had particular peaks within those years where you did have a lot of sexual activity, but that may not have been consistently high throughout that time.
How ‘intercourse’ and ‘masturbation’ was defined on the survey isn’t made clear in the paper, and particularly the idea of masturbation is quite vague – so it’s not transparent whether the researchers were asking someone to talk about masturbation alone or with a partner, and masturbation to orgasm or not. Those factors may help interpret the results and it would have been useful to know more about that aspect of the survey.
I wasn’t sure if it was just an aspect of reporting style but the study didn’t appear to include gay participants, or if it did sexuality wasn’t clearly disclosed in the results. For example we’re told participants marital status and the number of women partners they had, but nothing about anyone who was gay, bi (or men who had sex with men but didn’t consider themselves gay or bi). That may also have had a bearing on the data. If participants were all heterosexual, then this isn’t necessarily a problem, but it does need to be explained and justified.
So should we ignore the study?
No! The media have been very strange in their approach to this research – either using it in an I-told-you-so kind of way to set out masturbation is bad, or by encouraging all ‘red blooded males’ to ignore the results entirely.
This study is useful as it suggests there’s more to the original research in this area that indicated masturbation either had no impact on or may help reduce the risk of prostate cancer. It suggests that while sex/masturbation when older could do this, higher levels of activity when younger might be linked to an increase – with the suggestion that higher levels of male hormones are the cause of both increased activity when younger and risk of prostate cancer when older.
The study doesn’t offer any definitive guidance on prostate cancer risks and sexual activity, in fact it raises more questions than it answers, and some cancer self help have been somewhat dismissive of the findings as a result. It’s fair to say the study could confuse or worry men, but that doesn’t mean we should dismiss it as it makes a number of important observations about male sexual activity and later prostate cancer risk which should be explored in future studies.
Evidently more research is needed in this area to identify exactly what the risks and possible contributory factors are for men in relation to prostate cancer. A retrospective survey allows us to hypothesise the direction in which we think risk factors may arise, but it doesn’t confirm this. To be more certain we’d need studies that follow up men over time, study men in different age groups, and include a far wider range of monitoring – so added to surveys you’d need to measure changing hormone levels and other physical changes, plus monitoring lifestyle factors (diet, exercise, smoking etc).
If you are a counsellor, sex educator or working in sexual/reproductive healthcare your message to anyone asking about risks between developing prostate cancer and sexual activity should be as follows. At this time the evidence is not completely clear about the association between sexual behaviour/male sex hormones and prostate cancer, and future research will investigate this further. You should not be telling clients they will be cured of cancer or have no risk of prostate cancer if they masturbate, nor should you advise that masturbation/sexual intercourse causes prostate cancer.
So should I stop masturbating?
No! This study isn’t saying that all men who masturbate or have sex will automatically get cancer. It’s saying that some men who have a lot of sexual activity could be at greater risk when older. But that’s not completely proven as different studies have had different outcomes.
You can definitely do a lot to protect yourself by ensuring you cut back on smoking, eat a balanced diet, get exercise, use condoms when you have sex with new/different partners, and if you spot any symptoms that might suggest prostate cancer to speak to a doctor straight away. It’s worth pointing out that most men aren’t diagnosed with prostate cancer until their in middle or old age, so younger men could be being led to worry unnecessarily by media coverage of this study which has wrongly suggested masturbation and sex are causing cancer in very young men (aged 20 or 30) which isn’t what the original paper says at all.
It’s a shame the study hasn’t been given a clear account in the media, although I suspect this may be because it’s used a method journalists aren’t familiar with. It is a complex paper to follow (in both design and description) which may make it difficult for some to know exactly what to say about it. That said, I suspect the paper hasn’t been read by most journalists who’ve covered the story, they’ve just gone from the press release, misunderstood the findings, and misled us that masturbation = cancer. Unfortunately I suspect some anti sex groups (particularly some faith based ones) will use this to confirm their agenda that masturbation is harmful.
Your take home message is this. Masturbation doesn’t cure cancer (as some press reports have wrongly stated in the past), nor will any man who masturbates automatically get cancer (as some misleading reports have claimed of this study). Future research is needed, and while that’s under way you should not feel anxious about masturbation or sex, but if you are concerned then speak to your doctor.
Postscript – Cory Silverberg also has a great take down of this study, and makes the important point that the existing studies on masturbation/sex and prostate cancer all use different definitions and measurements of sex and masturbation. Meaning it’s very difficult to compare studies. Perhaps while we’re looking to expand our knowledge in this area it might be a good idea to go back to the basics of good social science and think about terms like validity and reliability so we can be sure when we’re trying to measure something, that we’re actually managing to do that.Tweet

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Yes, just change their security role to not have permission to delete the Order.
That's what I thought but I was told that with Dynamic D365 we can't do that anymore. Would you know which permissions we would need to have/not haev to be able to do this? Thank you so much for your help! :-)
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This Guest Article for REVITALIZATION is by Mary Scott Nabers.
Companies with service offerings and/or capabilities associated with resilience projects would be wise to check their current registration status with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE).
Small and minority firms should definitely reach out to check their status and learn more about special benefits their certification categories provide to prime contractors.
This alert to verify status comes from Congress’ allocation of $17 billion to the USACE for an abundance of high-dollar resilience projects that will all require contractors.
Placing an immediate focus on resiliency projects is wise because the most recent $17 billion allocation only marks the surface of future resilience activity and funding.
The upcoming opportunities will elevate contractors of all sizes and types to high demand status. The critical need to protect and preserve costal lands and public assets is a top priority for the federal government and state and local governments as well.
USACE’s recently funded feasibility studies and projects ready to launch point to the future of climate resilience opportunities.
A quick look at what will be released soon provides insight into what will follow:
- A $5 million feasibility study of the San Francisco waterfront will focus on evaluating community-specific measures for storm damage reduction, coastal flood damage reduction, and aquatic environment restoration. This study will become the framework for future high-dollar projects in the region.
- A $1 million USACE feasibility study of coastal flood damage resilience planned for the northern and southern portions of Ponte Vedra, Florida, provides guidance into how the region will likely prioritize its largest and most costly resilience projects.
- A $40 million opportunity to construct resilience measures in New Mexico is expected to emerge from a $2 million design project that USACE is planning for later this year. The design work will focus on building resilience measures along New Mexican stretches of Espanola Valley, the Rio Grande, and its tributaries.
The most recent injection of USACE funding will allow for the completion of work on a resilience project along waterways in San Antonio, Texas.
Beginning later this year, USACE will allocate $75 million for the Westside Creeks Ecosystem Restoration Project, which was initiated years ago. The funding is earmarked for efforts to secure current flood control components and restore the environmental conditions of the Alazán, Apache, Martinez, and San Pedro creeks.
USACE also is spearheading a $35 million design project for levee segments in the San Joaquin River Basin of California. The design work will focus on 10 miles of new levee segments to complement the region’s existing 14.2-mile levee network. New levees will be constructed in the metropolitan region of Stockton, California, to reduce the city’s vulnerability to floods.
Another coastal resilience project in California includes construction of a 50-foot-wide beach along 7,800 feet of shoreline in the San Diego region.
The $30.5 million project will be designed to protect beaches and prevent erosion. Every five years afterward, the shoreline will be renourished with thousands of cubic yards of sediment to prevent coastal erosion and storm damage.
Hawaii’s need for coastal resilience measures can be seen in another $90 million plan to protect a critical highway from coastal hazards. The project will focus on approximately 6 miles of coastline highway that serves as the main route in and out of west Maui. That stretch of roadway will be realigned to mitigate the effects of storm and wave damage.
The state of Florida will see a wide range of climate resilience projects. With USACE guidance, officials in Broward County are proceeding with a $1.1 billion restoration plan.
The project’s design includes measures for individual sub-projects such as construction of the Broward County Water Preserve, the Indian River Lagoon project, and construction of a pump station for the Central Everglades.
Florida will have numerous ongoing coastal resilience efforts underway in the next several years.
Construction will begin on the USACE-recommended Pinellas County beach erosion control project. That initiative will address beach nourishment and allow for construction of dunes and berms to alleviate coastal storm risks. The entire initiative carries a projected cost of approximately $207 million.
Later this year, the USACE will announce a resilience initiative for New York’s Atlantic coastline that could become one of the largest infrastructure projects in the state’s history. The work will focus on an earlier feasibility study for in-water storm surge barriers within the Newtown Creek, Gowanus Canal, and Jamaica Bay waterways.
Plans will be forthcoming for a 5-mile barrier between the Rockaways and New Jersey to protect against coastal storms. The barrier proposal that has been advocated is expected to be included in USACE’s upcoming plan and the project’s cost will range somewhere between $14 billion and $118 billion.
In Northern Virginia, coastal resilience plans include an upcoming $8.5 million shoreline conservation project. Funding will allow officials to target conservation areas along coastlines in Alexandria, Fairfax, and Prince William counties.
These areas will be designated buffer zones between the coastline and local infrastructure that is susceptible to tidal and storm-surge flooding. The funding also will provide funding to monitor signs of coastal erosion.
Communities along every prominent waterway in America are prime targets for resilience contracting opportunities. The shorelines must be protected to prevent flooding and coastal storms and because of climate change and the threats that weather now presents, there can be no delay in the launch of resilience work.
This article first appeared in SPI Insights. Reprinted here by permission.
About the Author:
Mary Scott Nabers is President and CEO of Strategic Partnerships, Inc.
She has decades of experience working in the public-private sector.
A well-recognized expert in the P3 and government contracting fields, she is often asked to share her industry insights with top publications and through professional speaking engagements.


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New York gold futures closed slightly higher on Wednesday, marking a third straight day of gains. Silver and platinum followed.
The Federal Reserve’s assurance on Tuesday to keep interest rates unchanged was still a cited factor in metals movement, as was a bigger-than-expected decline in wholesale inflation. The Labor Department on Wednesday said US producer prices fell 0.6 percent in February — the largest drop since July.
Both items helped to ignite stocks, with the Dow, Nasdaq and S&P all closing at fresh 2010 highs.
New York precious metal figures follow:
Gold for April delivery advanced $1.70, or 0.2 percent, to $1,124.20 an ounce. It ranged from $1,121.00 to $1,133.90.
Silver for May delivery rose 16.9 cents, or 1.0 percent, to finish at $17.523 an ounce. It ranged from $17.365 to $17.600.
- April platinum ended up $4.90, or 0.3 percent, to $1,635.60 an ounce. It ranged from $1,627.30 to $1,644.50.
In PM London bullion, the benchmark gold price was fixed earlier in the North American day to $1,121.75 an ounce, which was a decline of $3.00 from the price on Tuesday. Silver gained 30 cents to $17.540 an ounce. Platinum was settled at $1,636.00 an ounce, rising $12.00.
"We’re in a bit of a transition where gold isn’t marching always in lockstep with the dollar," Brien Lundin, editor of the Gold Newsletter, said on MarketWatch. "We’re moving past the crisis of the past few years and investors in the east are looking at large deficits and debased currencies. As a result, the relative value of stuff, metals, and primarily gold, must increase."
"Current resistance in gold is seen up ahead at about the $1145 area and the January high is still a target to have to overcome. Support should emerge at near $1120 should the market turn lower," wrote Jon Nadler, senior analyst at Kitco Metals, Inc. [Read Nadler’s full commentary.]
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. believes gold will trade at $1,390 an ounce in 12 months, which is $10 more than last month’s forecast.
"The low U.S. real-interest-rate environment, combined with continued gold exchange-traded-fund buying and reduced central-bank sales, will continue to provide strong support for gold prices in 2010 and 2011," the bank said in a report cited on Bloomberg.
Gold, considered a hedge during times of high inflation and economic uncertainty, tends to follow oil and move opposite to the U.S. dollar. A rising greenback makes dollar-denominated commodities, like bullion, more expensive for holders of other world currencies.
Oil and gasoline prices
Oil prices ended higher "after OPEC officials said demand is growing and U.S. Federal Reserve authorities repeated their pledge to keep the main interest rate near zero," wrote Rachel Graham and Alexander Kwiatkowski of Bloomberg.
"The energy markets have had some sustained strength with the recent weakness in the U.S. dollar and expectations of demand coming back throughout the world," Tariq Zahir, managing member of Tyche Capital Advisors, wrote in emailed comments cited on MarketWatch.
New York crude oil for April delivery ended up $1.23, or 1.5 percent, to $82.93 a barrel.
The national average for regular unleaded gasoline advanced two-tenths of a cent to $2.789 a gallon, according to AAA fuel data. The current average is 2.1 cents above last week, 17.3 cents more than a month back, and 87.9 cents higher than the average from a year ago.
U.S. stocks rallied "after the U.S. and Japanese central banks chose to keep interest rates low and the Senate passed a key jobs bill," wrote Alexandra Twin of MarketWatch. The lower than expected producer price numbers which showed that inflation is a current non threat was also cited in spurring stocks.
"The news on U.S. inflation is positive as it adds up to the Fed yesterday reiterating that it’s going to keep rates low for an extended period of time," James Dunigan, chief investment officer at PNC Wealth Management in Philadelphia, which oversees $104 billion, said on Bloomberg. "The recovery is in place and by all evidence looks to be sustainable and at the end of the rainbow, that all filters down to corporate profits."
The Dow Jones industrial average gained 47.69 points, or 0.45 percent, to 10,733.67. The S&P 500 Index climbed 6.75 points, or 0.58 percent, to 1,166.21. The Nasdaq Composite Index ended up 11.08 points, or 0.47 percent, to 2,389.09.
by Jon Nadler, Kitco Metals Inc.
In a familiar replay of the past fourteen months’ worth of meetings, the Fed concluded on Tuesday that doing nothing as regards the fed funds rate at least, was still the most reasonable course of action. The US central bank thereby acknowledged that the U.S. economic turnaround is still not sufficiently vigorous to spark inflationary processes.
Since the Fed saw little justification for hiking the cost of borrowing at this time, it simply reiterated its well-worn "extended period" mantra and thus gave audiences reason to watch the same movie once again. You know; the one where carry traders borrow those ultra-cheap dollars and pump up the prices of everything you saw rising yesterday afternoon, as if the economic recovery was going on right here, right now, at full bore.
Meanwhile the Bank of Japan, doing its part to try to revive the economy, doubled a lending program aimed at stoking credit growth to $222 billion. The Fed’s decision not to decide to hike was not exactly unanimous. Kansas City Fed President Hoenig once again broke ranks and said "that continuing to express the expectation of exceptionally low levels of the federal funds rate for an extended period was no longer warranted because it could lead to the buildup of financial imbalances and increase risks to longer-run macroeconomic and financial stability." Overruled, Mr. Hoenig.
Gold had its best day in a week on the Fed news yesterday, but oil was not absent from the party either. Stocks enjoyed a better session, and the euro showed it still had vital signs. The dollar, well, as is normally the case following such a Fed-gifted reprieve to the trade, it fell to a one-and-quarter month low on the index. It was still at 79.63 at last check this morning.
Safe-haven bids for the greenback have taken a few more hits following the announcement by Standard & Poors that it will be removing Greece from its ‘credit watch: negative" file. Bets that the euro may aim back towards the 1.40 level appeared to have gained traction in the hours following the Fed and S&P signal. Meanwhile, US Treasury chief Geithner asserted that there is simply ‘no way’ that his country will lose its Aaa credit rating.
The mid-week trading sessions in precious metals opened with some additional –albeit much smaller– gains this morning as the dollar slowed its decline and oil tempered its gains. Spot gold bullion showed a $1.70 gain out of the starting gate, quoted at $1127.60 bid per ounce. Silver added 2 cents to open at $17.49 the troy ounce, while platinum rose $2 to $1637.00 the ounce. Platinum, which is already trading at an eight-week high, may "soon reach" $1,662 an ounce, if technical analysts at Commerzbank AG are right.
The yellow metal subsequently ran into some resistance as specs appeared reluctant to buy it further, following this morning’s deflationary-tinged wholesale price numbers -which were slumping at their fastest rate since last July. Inflation? What inflation? PPI was unchanged at 1%…so, it still seems like (over) hedging for the imminent advent of the Weimar Republic and/or Zimbabwe-on-the-Hudson might not be the best course of action. Fortunately, there are other to-be-hedged-against worry items still floating out there…
Current resistance in gold is seen up ahead at about the $1145 area and the January high is still a target to have to overcome. Support should emerge at near $1120 should the market turn lower. Russian gold production continues to increase, presenting one of the other (aside from China and Australia) bright spots in global output for the metal.
The country recorded an 11.25% gain in gold production for 2009 with a 205.2 tonne tally from its mines. Meanwhile, India’s gold demand turned lackluster as global prices jumped and local dealers’ clients told them that with upcoming weddings on the calendar, it would be nice to be able to pick some bullion up under $1100.00 an ounce…
Palladium was also higher by $2, quoted at $473 and rhodium remained at $2390.00 per ounce, unchanged from Tuesday’s last quote. Automotive world recalls are all the rage these days, with carmaker Honda the latest victim of bad press regarding the ‘feel’ of some of its cars’ brake pedals. Other nameplates are looking towards the future with optimism however; BMW aims to sell more than 1.3 million vehicles globally this year. The Ultimate Sales Machine.
Many of those Bimmers might land on Chinese roads, where the species of "Yuppius Affluentissimus" is evidently still thriving, thank you. Chinese economic growth is forecast at 9.5% for this year, although cautionary signs are about as abundant as the ‘dangerous curves ahead’ ones at the Nurburgring racetrack where some of those fast cars are tested. In fact, "China faces twin risks of a property bubble and strained local government finances, bolstering the case for tighter monetary policy and currency appreciation," the World Bank said Wednesday in its quarterly report on the Chinese economy. Sounds for all the world, like California. A place that will soon either ‘turn Brown’ or be ‘up for auction’…
The WB is not alone in raising the chequered flag on the country with the red flag. In fact, "China is in the midst of "the greatest bubble in history," said James Rickards, former general counsel of hedge fund Long-Term Capital Management LP. So, forget tulips, it looks like plum blossoms are all the rage. The characterizations get worse:
"The Chinese central bank’s balance sheet resembles that of a hedge fund buying dollars and short-selling the yuan," said Rickards, now the senior managing director for market intelligence at McLean, Virginia-based consulting firm Omnis Inc.
"As I see it, it is the greatest bubble in history with the most massive misallocation of wealth," Rickards said at the Asset Allocation Summit Asia 2010 organized by Terrapinn Pte in Hong Kong yesterday. China "is a bubble waiting to burst."
Bloomberg reports that Mr. Rickards "joins hedge fund manager Jim Chanos, Gloom, Boom & Doom publisher Marc Faber and Harvard University professor Kenneth Rogoff in warning of a potential crash in China’s economy." Of course, not everyone agrees on what they see in China: "People making comments about bubbles possibly don’t have all the facts," HSBC Holdings Plc Chief Executive Officer Michael Geoghegan said in Shanghai today. "Regulators are in control of the banking industry, and have the ability to curb lending as needed," he said.
On another topic of great interest recently- that of Greece- we have Harvard University’s Professor Martin Feldstein, (who warned almost two decades ago that the euro would prove an "economic liability,") who now says that Greece’s austerity plan will fail and the country may quit the single currency to fix its fiscal crisis.
Bloomberg reports that Mr. Feldstein opines that: "The idea that Greece can go from a 12 percent deficit now to a 3 percent deficit two years from now seems fantasy. The alternatives are to default in some way or to leave, or both."
His diagnosis clashes with that of European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet, who calls Greece’s strategy "convincing" and rejects as "absurd" any speculation it might leave the euro zone. Investors nevertheless aren’t ruling out Feldstein’s analysis. Billionaire George Soros said last month that the euro "may not survive," and credit default swaps indicate a 22 percent chance
Greece will default within five years, up from 16 percent a year ago. Mr. Feldstein stands by his analysis that it’s not "unthinkable" some countries may choose life outside the euro area. Leaving is "certainly possible, and in part it can happen even if all the economic advice to a government is, ‘You shouldn’t do this,’" he said. "Politicians don’t always listen to their economists."
Nothing could be truer. In fact, therein lie the seeds of what makes markets tick and yield entertainment for speculators. What fun would there be if everyone was on the same page? The kind one might have at a paint desiccation-watching festival. Uncertainty has its rewards. Keep the word ‘might’ in heavy rotation, please.
Kitco Metals Inc.


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This was a strenuous, fun, NOISY day! My first experience with transforming an old pair of jeans into paper.
Now to meet the beater:
It’s a monster machine, very noisy when in operation and apparently worth a small fortune.
Clockwise from left: 1) The prepared beater with water already in the channel. The hanging hose is used for draining when the process is complete. 2) Ensuring the rotating struts are clean, ready to turn and grind the denim to pulp. 3) Once the beater is turned on the denim pieces are slowly added. The handle to the left is wound to increase the water movement pressure and grinding process through the water wheel. As the denim becomes softer and starts breaking down the resistance is increased and the denim disintegrates into smaller fibres.
These photos were taken towards the beginning of the process and on the left you can clearly see the pile of denim squares being slowly pushed around the channel. On the right …. well, what has happened here?
The jeans were given to me washed and rinsed. I then washed them another 4 times with no soap to ensure I would avoid any soap suds. Who would believe how much soap could still be in the fabric? I spent the first beating hour constantly removing as much foam as I could. In addition, colour was coming out of the fibres and I was anxious to avoid accidentally dyeing the floor, the mop or my clothes. I ended up having to wash my sweatshirt part way through as it became spattered with blue dye.
Clockwise from left: 1) Unclogging the wheel when there is a backlog of fibre trying to enter this area. 2) I removed some of the semi-pulped denim to add back at the end. This will add some texture into the finished paper sheets. 3) The fully pulped denim (after 2 1/4 hours) ready to be removed from the beater, drained and stored.
Once removed from the beater into multiple buckets I strained the pulp into one, with a small amount of water. The courser semi-ground fibres were mixed back into this. So I’ve now got a huge container, labelled (heaven help anyone pinching any of it after hours of work) and ready to form into lovely sheets of paper.
I’ll split my pulp into batches, form some paper sheets from this original colour then experiment with adding dyes to create a variety of papers. I hope that by adding yellow I’ll get a decent green, I’d also like to attempt a darker blue. I guess I’ll try some red and see what type of purple comes out but that’s not my preferred colour. The next dilemma will be what colour to use when I print on it in the future.
The next stage will come in a couple of weeks when I get back to the Centre to create my paper.

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River of my dreams.
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Mondelez International announced it signed an agreement with internet service juggernaut Google to invest more spending in digital and focus on online video.
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|Publication number||US7285148 B2|
|Application number||US 10/680,763|
|Publication date||Oct 23, 2007|
|Filing date||Oct 7, 2003|
|Priority date||Oct 7, 2003|
|Also published as||CN1651750A, CN1651750B, US20050072129|
|Publication number||10680763, 680763, US 7285148 B2, US 7285148B2, US-B2-7285148, US7285148 B2, US7285148B2|
|Original Assignee||Briggs & Stratton Corporation|
|Export Citation||BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan|
|Patent Citations (22), Referenced by (5), Classifications (30), Legal Events (5)|
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet|
The present invention relates generally to internal combustion engines. More particularly, the present invention relates to air cleaners for internal combustion engines.
Internal combustion engines mix air with fuel to produce a combustible fuel-air mixture. Before the air enters the engine, it often passes through an air cleaner to remove any undesirable particles (e.g., dirt, grass clippings, twigs, and the like).
Current air cleaners generally include a pleated filter media contained within a filter housing. Generally, the filter housing includes two halves that bolt together. The filter element is positioned between the two halves and the bolt is tightened until the housing makes solid contact with both ends of the filter media. Thus, the screw is used to assure that the filter media is properly seated within the housing.
Other air cleaners use simple connections to assemble the housing but require the maintenance of tight tolerances to assure that the filter element is properly positioned. The tight tolerances increase the cost associated with the manufacture of the housing.
The present invention provides a filter device for an engine and operable to support a filter element. The filter device comprising a housing defining a filter receiving space having a first end and a second end. The first end and second end defining an axial length therebetween. A biasing element is integrally formed as one piece with the housing and disposed adjacent the first end.
In another aspect, the invention provides an air cleaner assembly for an engine. The assembly includes a base having a filter support and a base engagement portion, and a filter element which together define a longitudinal direction. The assembly also includes a cover including an integrally formed biasing element, and a cover engagement portion. The base engagement portion is engaged with the cover engagement portion to position the biasing member adjacent the filter element to bias the filter element in the longitudinal direction.
In yet another aspect, the invention provides a cover for use with an engine filter base and a filter element. The cover comprising a shell, a biasing element integrally formed as one piece with the shell, and an attachment member integrally formed as one piece with the shell. The attachment member is adapted to engage the filter base such that the filter element is sandwiched between the biasing element and the filter base.
The biasing element accounts for variations and tolerances in the various components that make up the air cleaner so that when the cover and the base attach to one another, they firmly clamp the filter element and inhibit rattling. In addition, the biasing element assures that contact between the base and the filter element is sufficient to maintain a seal therebetween.
Additional features and advantages will become apparent to those skilled in the art upon consideration of the following detailed description of preferred embodiments exemplifying the best mode of carrying out the invention as presently perceived.
The detailed description particularly refers to the accompanying figures in which:
Engines of the type described herein are well-suited to use as the source of power for outdoor power equipment such as lawn and garden maintenance equipment. One such piece of equipment, a rototiller 10 is illustrated in
With reference to
The air cleaner 20, shown in
The filter element 40, illustrated in
The base 30, illustrated in
The air outlet aperture 90 is provided in the base 30 to allow for the escape of the filtered air. The air outlet aperture 90 is a hole in the base 30 that provides a fluid path from the hollow opening 65 of the filter element 40 out of the air cleaner 20. In most applications, the outlet aperture 90 will directly or indirectly connect to the carburetor to allow for the delivery of filtered air.
The flat platform 75 also supports attachment pedestals 95 that include attachment apertures 100 that engage the cover 35 to attach the cover 35 to the base 30. The attachment apertures 100 are substantially rectangular openings in the attachment pedestals 95. The construction of
The cover 35, illustrated in
Each tab member 110 includes a hook portion 120 that is attached to the cover 35 by a cantilevered extension 125. The cantilevered extension 125 allows the hook portion 120 to be moved from an engaged position to a disengaged position. In the engaged position, the hook portion 120 attaches the cover 35 to the base 30 by engaging the attachment pedestal 95 adjacent the attachment apertures 100. To connect or disconnect the cover 35, the user presses the tab members 110 into their disengaged position (toward the interior of the cover 35). In the disengaged position, the hook portions 120 pass freely through the attachment apertures 100 in the attachment pedestals 95. Both tab members 110 are positioned to allow the cover 35 to be in a desired position relative to the base 30 when the two components are attached to one another. In constructions in which the base 30 includes attachment pedestals 95, the tab members 110 extend only a portion of the height of the cover 35. In constructions that do not include pedestals 95, the tab members 110 and hook portions 120 extend beyond a lowermost edge 130 of the cover 35.
The biasing portion 105, best illustrated in
As shown in
To disassemble the air cleaner 20, the user moves the hook portions 120 toward the center of the air cleaner 20 and pulls the cover 35 away from the base 30. The hook portions 120 pass through the attachment apertures 100 and the cover 35 disengages from the base 30.
It should be understood that only one possible system for the attachment of the cover 35 to the base 30 has been described with many other systems being possible. For example, other constructions may locate the attachment apertures in the cover and the hook members in the base.
One of ordinary skill will realize that there are many different arrangements of the cover 35 and/or base 30 that include an integrally-formed biasing portion 105.
Another example, illustrated in
In yet another variation illustrated in
As should be clear, many other biasing members are possible. As such, the invention should not be limited to those few examples described herein.
Although the invention has been described in detail with reference to certain preferred embodiments, variations and modifications exist within the scope and spirit of the invention as described and defined in the following claims.
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|U.S. Classification||55/385.3, 55/507, 55/498, 210/352, 55/502, 55/493, 123/198.00E, 55/504, 55/509, 210/446|
|International Classification||B01D53/92, B01D46/52, F02M35/02, B01D46/42, F02M35/024, F02M, F02M35/04, B01D46/00, B01D46/24|
|Cooperative Classification||B01D53/92, B01D46/2411, B01D46/0004, B01D46/521, B01D2265/021, B01D2279/60, B01D2258/01|
|European Classification||B01D53/92, B01D46/52F, B01D46/24F4, B01D46/00C10|
|Jan 15, 2004||AS||Assignment|
Owner name: BRIGGS & STRATTON CORPORATION, WISCONSIN
Free format text: ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNORS INTEREST;ASSIGNOR:DALEIDEN, JAMES;REEL/FRAME:014887/0287
Effective date: 20030916
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Year of fee payment: 4
|Jun 5, 2015||REMI||Maintenance fee reminder mailed|
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|Dec 15, 2015||FP||Expired due to failure to pay maintenance fee|
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