|Publication number||US4801046 A|
|Application number||US 07/059,922|
|Publication date||Jan 31, 1989|
|Filing date||Jun 9, 1987|
|Priority date||Jun 10, 1986|
|Also published as||DE3782277D1, EP0249099A1, EP0249099B1|
|Publication number||059922, 07059922, US 4801046 A, US 4801046A, US-A-4801046, US4801046 A, US4801046A|
|Original Assignee||Lothar Miczka|
|Export Citation||BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan|
|Patent Citations (10), Referenced by (27), Classifications (15), Legal Events (6)|
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet|
The invention relates to a container for receiving gaseous and/or flowable components pressurized in at least two separate containers provided with a discharge valve and wherein the components are mixed on discharging by means of a blowing or foaming medium. The container has a frame or body having a bottom end face and a top end with a cover.
In addition to the known pressurized containers for the removal of a single flowable phase, as shown in U.S. Pat. No. 2,662,668, pressurized containers are also known (PCT WO No. 84/01355), in which several components are housed in separate inner smaller containers and are only mixed just prior to processing by forming a connection between the separately stored components, discharge taking place as a mixture through a single dosing valve. It is a disadvantage of this construction that on the one hand uniform mixing of the components is not ensured and on the other the mixing carried out in the container is subject to changes if the container content is not completely processed immediately on mixing the components.
In another type of pressurized container, the disadvantage is overcome by placing the components in separate inner smaller containers by only mixing the partial quantities of the components required for discharge purposes, but then other problems occur. In particular, throughout the emptying process, the components are to be mixed with a constant mixing ratio, which presupposes that the compressive load or the compressive load ratio on the individual containers remains unchanged, i.e. during the pressurized container emptying process changes to the shape and position do not lead to any modification of the mixing ratio. It is also necessary for the discharge valves of the individual containers to be arranged in the cover of the container, it being desirable to be able to use standardized valves. However, this is not possible in practice with the generally used convex cover. Reference is made in this connection to the simultaneously filed industrial property right of the Applicant relating to the construction of the container cover (BE No. 21 180), which is considered to supplement the present invention.
It is a primary object of the invention to provide a pressurized container of the aforementioned type so constructed that it can be exposed to the action of a high pressure for maintaining a constant mixing ratio.
Another object is to provide a pressurized container wherein standardized discharge valves are employed for sealing the individual containers and wherein the mixing ratio of the components can be adapted in simple manner to the required ratio value.
In accordance with the principles of the invention a container is provided with a vertical hollow cylindrical body open at an upper end and being otherwise sealed. At least two vertical spaced smaller containers are disposed side by side in the body, each smaller individual container being open at an upper end and being otherwise sealed, the open ends of the smaller container being adjacent the open end of the body. The container also is provided with a cover including at least two neck portion, the neck portions being disposed one below the other and extending generally at right angles to the axis of the body. Each neck portion has an outer periphery of the same shape as the periphery of the open end of the body, the periphery of the upper neck portion being sealed to the periphery of the open end. The cover has a plurality of openings equal in number to the plurality of individual containers, each opening being connected to the open end of the corresponding individual container.
The container is also provided with a plurality of discharge valves equal in number to the plurality of individual containers. Each valve is coupled to a corresponding opening and extends above the cover in the direction of the axis of the body. An adapter head is secured to both valves and has manually operative means for simultaneously opening and closing both valves when each individual container contains a different gaseous and/or flowable component and the body is pressurized, opening the valves enables the components to be mixed, the mixture being discharged through the head.
In the invention, the cover is constructed as a wall comprising at least two superimposed, attached neck portions, in which openings corresponding to the number of individual containers are provided for receiving the outlets associated with the individual containers and which are connected to an adapter head for the simultaneous operation of the outlets and for setting the mixing ratio of the components.
Appropriately the cover is constructed as an e.g. partly profiled, but substantially disk-shaped wall, in which an inner neck portion has a smaller diameter than the outer neck portion associated with the inner neck portion. Due to the double wall, an adequate strength is obtained, even without a convex shape and in addition the flanging of the cover with the body edge using the edge of the larger diameter outer neck portion projecting over the inner neck portion is simplified.
The aforementioned objects and advantages of the invention as well as other objects and advantages thereof will either be explained or will become apparent to those skilled in the art when this specification is read in conjunction with the accompanying drawings and specific description of preferred embodiments which follow.
FIG. 1 is a vertical cross section of one embodiment of the invention.
FIG. 2 is a top view thereof.
FIG. 3 is sectional view of the cover of the pressurized container as taken along line III--III of FIG. 2.
FIG. 4 is another sectional view through the hopper of the pressurized container as taken along line IV--IV in FIG. 2.
FIG. 5 is a detail view of the section shown in FIG. 4 drawn to a larger scale and provided with a closed venting means.
FIG. 6 is a view similar to FIG. 5 but showing the venting means in closed position.
FIG. 7 is a section through an adapter head for receiving the individual container valves.
FIG. 8 shows an actuating device for the adapter head.
FIG. 9 shows another actuating device for the adapter head.
FIG. 10 is a section view through the sealing of a joined piston shown in FIG. 1.
FIG. 11 is a sectional view through the piston shown in FIG. 1.
FIG. 12 is a partial plan view of the sealing part taken from direction XII in FIG. 10.
The pressurized container 1 shown in FIG. 1 comprises a container body or frame 2 manufactured from e.g. tin plate, aluminium, an aluminium alloy, plastic or a composite metal-plastic material. The container is provided with an inwardly curved bottom 3 and a top wall or cover 4. Container 1 houses two individual smaller containers 5, 6, which are made from plastic and whose bottom parts 7, 8 are supported in common on a piston 9. Piston 9 is subjected to the action of a gas propellant filling, which fills the space between piston 9 and bottom 3 and can be filled through a seal 10, e.g. a pressed-in plug or a one-way valve. Neck 4 has two circular openings 11, 12 (shown in FIG. 2), whose construction will be explained hereinafter relative to FIGS. 3 and 4.
As can be seen from FIGS. 3 and 4, cover 4 includes two neck portions, an inner neck portion 13 on the one hand and an outer neck portion 14 on the other. The diameter of the inner neck portion 13 roughly corresponds to the internal diameter of the cylindrical container body 2 and is constructed with a greater wall thickness than the outer neck portion 14. Partial hopper 14 has a larger diameter than inner neck portion 13 and has in the circumferential region a groove 15. The inner neck portion 13 is bonded to the lower surface of the groove. The outer neck portion 14 is circumferentially provided with a flanging part 16, which is used in forming the flanging between the edge of container body 2 and cover 4. Since only one neck portion, and in the present example the outer neck portion 14 is used for said flanging, flanging can be obtained with limited expenditure and in a reliable manner.
As can be gathered from FIGS. 3 and 4, openings 11, 12 are each provided with a raised peripheral rim 17, which is roughly at right angles to the cover plane and is remote from the inner neck portion 13. It is important that rim 17 is formed from both neck portion 13, 14, so that its wall thickness represents the sum of the wall thicknesses of the two neck portions 13, 14 and no additional flanging or beading is required.
Each rim 17 serves to receive a valve disk 18, whose edge curvature 21 embraces the unrolled rim 17 formed from neck portion 13, 14 and is crimped therewith. Thus a reliable connection is formed between valve disk 18 and cover 4.
Each of containers 5, 6 constructed as gusset bags have an upwardly open socket-like bag neck 22, 23, which has a reinforcing bead 24, cf FIGS. 3 and 4. The edge of each of the bag necks 22, 23 is placed under the edge curvature 21 of valve disk 18 over rim 17 of cover 4 and then crimping with the valve disk 18 is carried out. Thus, each of the bag necks 22, 23 forms a reliable seal between cover 4 and a corresponding valve disk 18. Each valve disk 18 carries a corresponding valve 19, 20, with which a complete sealing of each container 5, 6 is ensured. Both valve disks 18 and valves 19, 20 are standard components, which can be used without any modification due to the construction of cover 4.
Each of valves 19, 20 comprise a tubular valve tappet 25 and an elastically deformable valve body 26 engaged in an opening 27 in bottom 28 of valve disk 18. The construction and function of valves 19, 20 is known, cf e.g. U.S. Pat. No. 3,662,926.
The substantially planar cover 4 makes it possible to arrange two or more valves 19, 20 depending upon the number of individual containers 5, 6 used. Because of the use of neck portions 13, 14, cover 4 can even be used for high pressures, while eliminating the need to have to make the wall thickness of the neck portions 13, 14 excessively thick. The neck portions 13, 14 form a stable entity, because they are appropriately interconnected, e.g. by spot welding or bonding. As shown in FIG. 4, between the two neck portions 13, 14 there is formed a cavity 29 provided with passages 30, 31. Cavity 29 can be constructed as a venting means, cf FIGS. 5 and 6, in that an elastically resilient tongue 32 is inserted in cavity 29. Tongue 32 engages on passage 31 of the outer neck portion 14 and is consequently in the closed position, in which the interior of pressure container 1 is sealed in pressure-tight manner. If tongue 32 is moved away from passage 31 by depressing a pin 33 and brought into the open position, cf FIG. 6, a connection is formed between the interior of pressure container 1 and the external air. This venting operating is always necessary on removing components from containers 5, 6 so that the piston 9 subject to the action of the propellant gas filling can perform its lifting movement for emptying containers 5, 6.
When using pressurized container 1, the components must be brought together and mixed prior to the discharge from containers 5, 6. For bringing together the components, an adapter head 40 is provided, which is mounted on valves 19, 20 of containers 5, 6 and has two supply lines 41, 42 issuing into a connecting chamber 43. Into the latter is screwed a not shown mixing tube, in which the components are mixed and brought to the processing point.
Adapter head 40 is constructed in multipart form, being constituted by a body 44 and a head 45 having connecting chamber 43. Head 45 is screwed by means of a box nut 46 onto body 44, which also has a stop plate 49.
For sealing adapter head 40 on valves 19, 20, for each supply line 41, 42 a relatively soft, conical sealing sleeve 47 is inserted in body 44. At the transition between body 44 and head 45, in each case one dosing sleeve 48 is provided in the supply lines 41, 42. Dosing sleeves 48 make it possible to set the mixing ratio of the components, so that they are interchangeable after removing head 45.
Piston 9 is in two parts, a sealing part 50 on the one hand and a cup-shaped piston part 51 on the other. The two parts 50, 51 are made from plastic and are connected to one another e.g. by bonding or welding. On the inner container side, sealing part 50 has a recess 52, into which project the bottoms 28 of containers 5, 6 and are supported by ribs 53, cf FIGS. 10 and 12. In the center of recess 52 is provided a projection 54, into whose bottom recess projects and is centered a projection 56 of head 59 of piston part 51. A further centering of piston part 51 is achieved by ribs 58, which define a recess 59 facing recess 52. The two recesses 52, 59 are surrounded by a cylindrical wall 60, which has a plurality of circular grooves 61 for receiving packing rings 62. In FIG. 10 there are three packing rings 62, but the number thereof can be modified as desired.
As shown in FIG. 11, piston part 51 is a relatively thin plastic part, whose piston skirt 63 is provided on its free edge with a conical sealing and guiding lip 64.
For removing the components from containers 5, 6, adapter head 40 is depressed, so that valves 19, 20 are simultaneously and uniformly opened. In accordance with the pressure uniformly exerted on the bottoms 28 of containers 5, 6 by piston 9, the components are delivered to chamber 43 and it is possible for the mixture ratio of the components to be set by dosing sleeves 48.
The ratio of the discharged components can also be set by using containers 5, 6 with different cross-sections. As can be gathered from the two broken lines in FIG. 2, containers 5, 6 have the same cross-section. Dosing sleeves 48 make it possible to modify the ratio of the components to a certain extent. However, if the mixing ratio is large, containers 5, 6 must have different cross-sections. For example, one cross-section can be circular and the other reniform. These possibilities make it possible to vary the mixing ratio within wide limits and can be adapted to the viscosity of the components.
Actuating means 85, 86 shown in FIGS. 8 and 9 are used for depressing the adapter head 40 during the removal of the components. Both actuating means have a recurring sleeve 87, which is mounted on neck 4 of pressurized container 1 and engages on the cover flanging. As can be gathered from FIG. 8, a bent lever 88 is pivotably mounted at the end of one lever arm 89 on fixing sleeve 87. The other lever arm 90 extends along pressurized container 1 and is used for manually operating the bent lever 88. One lever arm 89 extends through a passage 91 of adapter head 40. Through the depression of bent lever 88, adapter head 40 is depressed, so that valves 19, 20 are opened. On the cover side, two pins 33 are fixed to stop plate 49 of the adapter head 40, cf FIGS. 5 and 6 and on depressing adapter head 40 bring tongues 32 into the open position, so that the interior of pressure container 1 is vented. Adapter head 40 is not shown in FIGS. 8 and 9 and instead, for reasons of clarity, only its cover or valve-side stop plate 92.
According to FIG. 9, actuating means 86 has turn sleeve 93, which is screwed to the fixing sleeve 87. On turn sleeve 93 is also provided a control ring 94, which is destroyed on turning sleeve 93 for opening valves 19, 20 and consequently indicates that pressurized container 1 has already been used.
The pressurized container 1 can be used for a plurality of components. Not only two, but even three and even possibly more components can be housed in the pressurized container 1, the cover surface permitting the arrangement of valves with the aid of standardized valve disks. The strength of cover 4 can be varied through the choice of the wall thicknesses of neck portion 13, 14 as needed to satisfy requirements of the particular case. The neck portions are appropriately made from different materials, as are the container body and container bottom 3. Suitable materials are metals, e.g. tin plate, aluminum and its alloys, plastics with and without reinforcement or composite metal-plastic materials. The parts of the adapter 40 are preferably made from plastic or parts of the adapter 40 are preferably made from plastic or metal, while the actuating means 85, 86 can be made from plastic or metal. In addition, it is possible to vary the dosing ratio within wide limits by using dosing sleeves 48 and containers 5, 6 of different sizes.
Under some conditions pressurized container 1 can be operated without piston 9. In this situation there is no need for passages 30, 31 in hooper 4 or, alternatively the tongues 32 are left in the closed position.
While the fundamental novel features of the invention have been shown and described and pointed out, it will be understood that various substitutions and changes in the form of the details of the emodiments shown may be made by those skilled in the art without departing from the concept of the invention as limited only by the scope of the claims which follow.
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Owner name: POLYPAG AG, SWITZERLAND
Free format text: ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNORS INTEREST.;ASSIGNOR:MICZKA, SILVIA;REEL/FRAME:006387/0616
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|Jul 17, 1992||FPAY||Fee payment|
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|Aug 22, 2000||REMI||Maintenance fee reminder mailed|
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This episode is subtitled: ‘Put your sunglasses on…’
I was flicking through my recent posts and was startled by the fact that they’ve been a bit lilac lately. And not only that, my photography skills being what they are, it is a very murky lilac. So this week you have yellow. Get your sunglasses on and prepare to be dazzled by today’s fun tassel key ring.
I was inspired by the lovely Guus, our Dutchman who brings us his truck packed with flowers every week. I can’t believe I’m 50 and my heart skips a beat whenever I see him climbing down from the cab, his long lean legs making short work of the distance to the ground. Jaz gives me a knowing nudge and I have to really focus on being nonchalant.
There were no emergency flower requirements this week, we just needed a bit of a top up to tide us through to our next main delivery. While Guus played with Blue I chose a few items including some beautiful white roses, some gerberas and a big bunch of craspedia. Craspedia is such a useful little flower – it adds a touch of the unusual to a bouquet and it’s obviously very trendy at the moment because it pops up a lot in magazine photographs, its small but bold structure seemingly ideal in a modern house setting. I have some on my Yellow Pinterest board.
I noticed Guus was wearing a colourful plaited bracelet and he told me his wife had made it for him from old embroidery threads. She’d spent the weeks before the birth of their son embroidering a picture for his nursery and she’d used the left over threads to make something for Guus to remind him of home when he was touring the UK with his flowers. With a wife and a six month old son at home I’m sure he didn’t need to be reminded but it was a lovely idea.
I had made a similar picture for Jake, my nephew, when he was born (14 years ago!) and it’s rare that I consider using any of the leftover threads so I thought it would be a great idea to make something useful out of them. So I made some tassels.
I tipped out my box of threads to see what I had.
Then sorted out three bundles of complimentary colours so I could make three tassels. For each one you will need virtually a whole skein of one colour then about 20cm each of another five colours.
Tie the first colour on (just a single knot) about one third of the way up then wind it tightly round as many times as you like (about seven to 10).
Secure the first colour with a knot (again, just a single one) and add the second colour in the same way, making sure that all of the loose strands are lying upwards so they get trapped in as you wind your colours on.
Continue to add colours three and four (tying them off each time) then start again with the third, second and first in that order, to ensure you have symmetry when you bend it over. Secure the last one with a double (or triple) knot and trim all of the ends off.
Bend it in half so your middle colour is in the middle of the loop. Don’t worry if your legs aren’t quite the same length, you can even them up when you trim the bottom loops off later.
Tie your final colour on in the same way (single knot to start and double or triple to finish) only this time you are binding the two legs together.
Trim the ends of the final thread and push them through to the middle with a pair of small scissors.
I used some large dressmaking shears to cut the loops off the bottom of the legs to form the tassel.
And there you have one tassel.
To make it into a key ring add a jump ring by opening it up, feeding it through a few stands on the top and closing it up again.
Then add a binding ring. Remember when I used these for the bag charm in episode 14? (Prepare yourself for murky lilac if you click through.) Anyway, I said I wanted to use the binding rings for key rings, so here we are!
[Update: having used this with the binding ring for my main set of keys for a few months, I’ve discovered that it does come open from time to time so a split ring would be better for heavy duty use!]
There’s nothing to stop you using these for bag charms as well!
- As I was adding colours I tried to keep all of my ends on one side so they could be tucked away in the middle when the whole thing was folded in half.
- For one of my tassels I knotted and cut the threads off each time I changed colour, rather than leaving each one in place until after the second leg was completed. This worked equally well.
- Old embroidery threads
Thank you to Commonthread by DMC whose tutorial I used as the basis for my tassels. Here’s how they made their tassels which they also used for zip pulls – great idea.
I hope you enjoyed this colourful creativity. I’m not sure what we’ll be doing next week but I’ll definitely have my salvage box open again.

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Mondi sees strong operational profit growth in full year 2018
2 March 2019
In the 2018 financial year, Mondi benefited from good demand across the fibre packaging businesses, higher average selling prices and the contribution from recent acquisitions.
The group's revenue of €7.48bn was up 5 per cent on the prior year. Operational profit (€1,19bn) and net profit (€866m) were up by more than 20 per cent compared to the previous year.
The company's input costs in 2018 were generally higher than in 2017, mitigated by ongoing cost reduction initiatives. Caused mainly by Chinese import policies, average benchmark costs for recovered paper were down 33 per cent on the prior year.
The Fibre Packaging division posted volume growth, driven by previously completed capital investment projects, operational improvements and strong organic volume growth in the industrial bags segment. Consumer packaging volumes were impacted by the company's targeted approach to exit lower margin business and a decline in volumes in personal care components.
While volumes in the Uncoated Fine Paper business were up year-on-year, market pulp and newsprint volumes were negatively impacted, respectively, by the extended shut at Richards Bay mill in South Africa and the strategic decision taken in the prior year to exit the newsprint market in South Africa.
According to Mondi's estimates, European uncoated fine paper demand declined around 4 per cent on a strong prior year period. Despite this market shrinkage, the company's uncoated fine paper sales volumes were 1 per cent higher than the prior year.

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Rates of transport against a concentration gradient by everted segments of hamster small intestine were determined for increasing concentrations of glycine and l-alanine, each in the presence of 2 mm l-leucine. By plotting the data according to Lineweaver and Burk the results were compared to those obtained in similar experiments performed in the absence of l-leucine. The results suggest that inhibition of glycine or l-alanine transport by l-leucine is competitive. Values for Kt, the amino acid concentration at which half-maximal transport is observed, were used to calculate predicted inhibitory effects among the several amino acids studied. The inhibitory effects were determined experimentally and were found to be in approximate agreement with the predicted values, suggesting that the mutual transport inhibitions among the monoaminomonocarboxylic acids are competitive, and that all the amino acids studied share the same transport mechanism.
- competitive inhibition active transport
- small intestine
- Copyright © 1965 by American Physiological Society

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Wonderful reviews for ‘The Truth Will Out 2’
The Truth Will Out 2 premiered this weekend on Viaplay and promptly received rave reviews in the press, which laud the second season as even better than the first. The crime drama series is based on an original idea by the award-winning author and criminologist Leif GW Persson, and is written and created by Aron Levander and Hans Jörnlind.
“The Truth Will Out 2 gives us this year’s best Swedish TV season so far. /…/ Robert Gustafsson continues to deliver on the highest of levels, in what is without a doubt one of his career’s best and most gripping roles. The Truth Will Out season two raises the stakes also for its other characters, in what is both an impressive and cathartic manner. /…/ To conclude: When all the actors’ impressive performances are paired with a (from beginning to end) well-written script […] The Truth Will Out 2 succeeds in standing out from the crowd in the otherwise so crowded crime genre. There is no doubt that Peter Wendel’s story is time well spent before the TV.”
“Freed of excessive motions, [The Truth Will Out 2] stands out from the crowd thanks to how different it feels; angsty, subdued, controlled, believable. A big part of the reason why the series works as well as it does is Robert Gustafsson, who is once more phenomenal in his role as the cold case group’s sorrowful, head-strong and at times easily distracted leader, Peter Wendel. /…/ Also Ia Langhammer’s for the genre rather odd character, Barbro Svensson, is an important puzzle piece. /…/ The five episodes leave you hungry for more. Here’s hoping there will be.”
“The Truth Will Out 2 is even better than its first season.”
“Horrific scenes are woven together with both suspense and humor in a genius way. Robert Gustafsson performs his life’s best role as the distracted and resigned workaholic [Peter Wendel]. /…/ The television series keeps the standard high and is hands down one of the best contemporary Swedish crime dramas there is.”


Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela were not invited to the summit because of the “lack of democratic space and the human rights situations” in the countries, a senior Biden administration official said in a statement to CNN on Monday. López Obrador had previously threatened to boycott the summit, which is traditionally attended by leaders from North, Central and South America and the Caribbean and is convened every few years.
“I am not going to the summit because not all American countries are invited and I believe the need to change the policy that has been in place for centuries: The exclusion, the desire to dominate without any reason, the disrespect of countries’ sovereignty (and) the independence of each country,” López Obrador said at a news conference in Mexico City. He said the country’s foreign minister, Marcelo Ebrard, will attend instead.
The move is a significant snub to President Joe Biden and his administration and threatens to undermine the gathering. The Biden administration has not yet provided an official list of invitations as it scrambled to address boycott threats from a group of countries led by Mexico over the exclusion of several countries.
Biden is slated to arrive at the summit in Los Angeles on Thursday.
This story is breaking and will be updated.


Reposting for sale and trade now. Price is at 1200 cash or 1300 for trade value.
Custom Glock 19 Gen 4 Factory cerakoted tan, zev fulcrum kit/trigger, deus ex Machina helical uncaptured guide rod with -1 lbs stock spring, talon grip, skeletonized firing pin, Trijicon RMR, suppressor raised sights, slide cuts.
I have roughly 1500 invested in the build.
Will not come with:
minimalist mag well


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In 2023, the top 6 places to visit will still be some of the most popular tourist destinations in the world. From Barcelona to Machu Picchu, these locations offer a wealth of history and culture to explore.
Barcelona, Spain is a city rich in both art and architecture. The Gothic Quarter features buildings and churches dating back to the Middle Ages, while the iconic Sagrada Família church is still under construction after more than a century. Gaudi’s whimsical designs can be seen throughout the city, from Park Guell to la Pedrera.
Rome, Italy is one of the oldest cities in the world, with a history that dates back to the days of the Roman Empire. The Colosseum is an iconic symbol of that era, while Vatican City offers a glimpse into the workings of the Catholic Church. Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel ceiling is one of the most famous artworks in existence.
Machu Picchu, Peru is an ancient Inca city high in the Andes mountains. With its well-preserved Ruins and dramatic setting, Machu Picchu is one of the most popular tourist destinations in South America. Hiking trails lead up to the site from all directions, offering spectacular views along the way.
Yellowstone National Park, USA is home to a variety of landscapes and wildlife, from geysers and hot springs to grizzly bears and bison. The park was established in 1872 as America’s first national park, and today it attracts millions of visitors each year. There are plenty of activities available for visitors to enjoy, from hiking and camping to fishing and rafting.
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Angkor Wat is a unique combination of a temple mount (the standard design for imperial state temples) and a back plan of central galleries, much of which was derived from the religious beliefs of the original Hindu religion. The construction of Angkor Wat also suggests that the temple had celestial significance along with some features. This is seen in the east-west orientation of the temple, and the lines of sight from the terraces inside the temple that indicate certain towers are at the exact position of sunrise on the solstice. The temple is a representation of Mount Meru, the home of. Deities According to Hindu mythology: the central quincunx of towers symbolizes the five peaks of the mountain, and the walls and moat symbolize the surrounding mountain ranges and the sea. Access to the upper areas of the temple was progressively more exclusive, with commoners admitted only to the lower levels.

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Meandering with camera…
Not too windy to go fly a kite. Some weird ground mist swirling here and there. Other spots were entirely clear.
To move, to breathe, to fly, to float,
To gain all while you give,
To roam the roads of lands remote,
To travel is to live.
― Hans Christian Andersen, The Fairy Tale of My Life: An Autobiography
It has been a really hard day, your ocean photos were just perfect…thank you.
Very glad you enjoyed them. Sorry about the hard day.
Fabulous shot, Gunta. I guess it was too windy for me out there, 😕
Thanks, Sylvia. Amazingly enough this was not a very windy day. From what I’ve observed the kites seem to do better when the wind isn’t too rough.
Another great image! Looks like fun!
He had a bit of trouble keeping that kite up, but he kept trying. 😉
Super shot Gunta, a great pose you caught there!
Thank you, Chilli. Love it when folks or gulls pose so nicely for me. 😉
This image reminds me of a time years ago sitting on the shore in SF, watching the colorful kites floating overhead. You know just what to do to put a smile on my face. 🙂
It sure makes me happy to put that smile there, too.
Breathtaking is the word.
yep the kite makes it for definite especially the tension on the strings and relationship with the Kite flyer… looks like a gorgeous day
I thought it was rather nice of the kite flyer to cooperate in that way. It was a nice day, though I tend to prefer the moody ones. Come to think of it, I’ll take any day at the beach except when the nasty winds sting your face with sand blasts.
Stunning, Gunta! Light, colors, lightness…everything! Reminds me strongly of one of my favourites books “The Kite Runner”…somehow 🙂
I enjoyed the book, too, though it was rather dark. The guy flying the kite almost looks like he’s dancing a ballet…
superb! what a beautiful picture
Thank you for the kind words.
I like the splash of color that the kite provides.
Lord knows there wasn’t much color otherwise.
I am enjoying flying the kite with him. Lovely shot.
Glad to hear it.
This image is magical! It’s definitely a favorite of mine. The tones, the softness, the graceful kite flyer and that swirling kite…so dream like. If I were you, I’d print this big and hang it where I could gaze at it every day!
I probably shouldn’t admit to this, but I almost didn’t post this one because it didn’t quite do it for me. It never ceases to amaze me when other folks like one of my shots better than I do. That ever happen to you? Perhaps it looks better than it did in real life and that original feeling is what stuck with me.
I don’t think I’ll ever get over all of those sea stacks…there is just something so remarkable about them, to me, anyway. Very nice photo, Gunta.
Thanks, Scott. The stacks are pretty amazing, especially when the tide is out and folks can walk and play amongst them.
Yes, amazing is a good word for them, especially when the tide is out and we can see them more clearly…..
Totally fabulous. The bookend boulders around the kite are terrific, it’s magical. The figure on the other end is so beautifully shaped.
Funny too, kites. When I was at Garapatta a couple of weeks ago I found one on the cliff trail, obviously abandoned and wind-wounded, and took it home and tacked it to my patio wall. It’s a nice reminder of the day and the kite flying days, though I worry a bit some child is longing for it though I saved and honor it’s purpose.
The boulders on this beach are marvelous, especially at low tide when folks can walk amongst them. What a cute story about the lost kite you found. All’s well that it found itself a good home! 😉
I love the movement in this one…..very nice
Thanks Ms D…
Kites are magical. Always enjoy watching them.
Seems like they bring out the kid in the adults, too. 🙂
Quite mystical with the swirling water. I love it 🙂
Thanks so much, Jo.
Such a happy image – always love watching kite flyers, a primal urge to interact with the wind.
It seems lots of folks enjoy flying the on the beach, but this was the first time I managed a good shot of both the kite and the person flying it.
This one is breathtaking..
Glad you (apparently) enjoyed it, though breathing is good! 😉
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The windup girl, paolo bacigalupis debut novel, is causing quite a stir in science fiction circles, with whispers of a hugo nomination and critical. Buy a cheap copy of the windup girl book by paolo bacigalupi. Feb 17, 2010 the windup girl, paolo bacigalupis debut novel, is causing quite a stir in science fiction circles, with whispers of a hugo nomination and critical praise from all sides including me. In my book that lands him in the hated evil viziercategory, but maybe its a special thaithing. Paolo bacigalupis 2010 novel the windup girl, which won the hugo and nebula awards for the best scifi novel of that year, manages to be both fantastical and realistic, with an alltoobelievable setting in a world after a series of environmental catastrophes where food supplies are controlled by calorie companies and nations have fallen under their extortionary. He is a hugo and nebula award winner, and a national book award finalist. The plot and world in that book are intense, but martin makes you care for all well most of the characters. Clearly, paolo bacigalupi is a writer to watch for in the future.
The novel was named as the ninth best fiction book of 2009 by time magazine. It won the hugo, nebula, and locus awards for 2009. Dec 17, 2010 the windup girl has been compared to william gibsons seminal cyberpunk novel neuromancer, and its easy to see why. Thanks to windup girl publisher night shade books, people participating in this months book club can write in to get a free epub file of the novel, which you can read on your computer and most ebook readers. Books like the golem and the jinni and the windup girl. The novel opens in the very distant future in bangkok, thailand. What is the significance of the contamination found in the tanks at the springlife factory.
Paolo bacigalupis writing has appeared in high country news, the magazine of fantasy and science fiction, and asimovs science fiction magazine. The characters are difficult to connect with but i think that is the point. Mar 22, 2011 the windup girl also brings two other facets of our near future to the fore. Buy the windup girl first printing by paolo bacigalupi isbn. The windup girl by paolo bacigalupi is a science fiction novel in which anderson lake, a calorie man looking for a way to insert himself into a position to get a look at seed banks for foods believed to be extinct. Read on below for chapter one of paolo bacigalupis spectacular novel the windup girl, now available in ebook format. The first edition of the novel was published in 2009, and was written by paolo bacigalupi. In that moment, between the touch of the water, and the splash as it pools around her toes, she is clean. The windup girl paperback the elliott bay book company.
Noted short story writer bacigalupi pump six and other stories proves equally adept at novel length in this grim but beautifully written tale of bangkok struggling for survival in a postoil era of rising sea levels and outofcontrol mutation. Chapter 1 summary the setting of the novel is bangkok, thailand, sometime in the distant future. Paolo currently lives in western colorado with his wife and son, show more. Chapter 9 is through emikos point of view o intertwine of the two characters. The windup girl is a book that it at times disturbing, yet still an incredible, enchanting and intense story about a frightening future world where corporations control everything and where escape is nearly impossible. The novel focuses on the events leading up to a civil war, specifically how emiko, a windup girl created in japan, provides a reason by assassinating one of the most important men in the kingdom.
Under cover as a factory manager, anderson combs bangkoks street markets in search of foodstuffs thought to be extinct, hoping to reap the b. Anderson lake is an american working in bangkok, thailand. Professor despain started off this weeks discussion explaining the genre of writing behind the windup girl. Just dont wait that long to enjoy the darkly complex pleasures of the windup girl. A look back on the windup girl postapocalyptic literature. Each has her or her flaws and you need to work to overlook their character defects to get. The windup girl has been compared to william gibsons seminal cyberpunk novel neuromancer, and its easy to see why. As a windup, emiko straddles the divide between human and robot. And, best of all, is the windup girl emiko, a geneticallymodified humanoid from japan who plays so many roles in this booklove interest, killer, abject servant, visionary dreamerthat she is, despite her nickname, anything but mechanical or robotic. Books like the golem and the jinni and the windup girl self. The windup girl is a fascinating tale of this future society. Emiko is the windup girl, a strange and beautiful creature. Windup girl chapters 817 notes summarization of chapters and characters chapter 8 is through andersons point of view. Anderson can get something from her and she can get something form him.138 1347 106 292 96 1330 1324 125 1066 1401 37 1316 674 1083 1393 267 983 1022 1346 663 833 1001 1298 1047 953 269 119 1490 304 87 740 597 1367 156 1129 990

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Washington -- The campaign arm of House Republicans has reserved more than $1 million in advertising air time to support the re-election campaign of U.S. Rep. Ann Marie Buerkle, two sources familiar with the buy said today.
The National Republican Congressional Committee reserved the ad time for a $1.03 million television campaign that would run daily from Sept. 7 through Election Day, the sources said.
It will likely be the single largest advertising purchase in the history of the Syracuse-area congressional district, according to several longtime political observers.
The ad reservation is also the single largest independent expenditure to date in the 24th Congressional District race between Buerkle, former Rep. Dan Maffei, D-DeWitt and Green Party candidate Ursula Rozum, of Syracuse.
Under Federal Election Commission rules, the NRCC cannot coordinate its independent expenditures with the Buerkle campaign. When told of the NRCC campaign this morning, Buerkle said it's clear the national party sees her race -- in a traditional swing seat -- as one of the keys to maintaining GOP control in the House next year.
“I have felt that right from the day we were elected in 2010 that the Republican Party and leadership has always understood the importance of this seat and other seats in New York as well,” Buerkle said in an interview.
"I think everyone is looking at New York as a state where we are turning it around (for Republicans)," Buerkle said. "We won six seats in 2010. And now we have the opportunity to win more.”
Asked about the ad buy, Maffei campaign spokesman Marc Brumer referred to Buerkle’s support for the House Republican budget of Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wisc., who is Mitt Romney’s choice for vice president. “No amount of spending by her allies on the radical right will be able to hide the fact that the Buerkle-Ryan vision would end Medicare as we know it and raise taxes on the middle class to pay for tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires,” Brumer said.
Independent fact-checking organizations have determined the Ryan plan would not end Medicare, but would shift costs to seniors through a private voucher-like program.
The NRCC campaign will likely be followed by other large, independent expenditures from special interests and political committees outside of Central New York. An analysis by The Post-Standard found $1.4 million had flowed into the race from such groups by early July.
Both major parties and their supporters are making big bets on the 24th District race because it is one of the most competitive in the nation. Three separate polls have shown Buerkle and Maffei within four points of each other. Buerkle defeated Maffei in 2010 by 648 votes.
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the Democratic equivalent of the NRCC, has not announced plans for advertising to support Maffei or other candidates in New York. The DCCC rolled out its first TV ad of this year's campaign today, aimed at Rep. Dan Benishek, R-Mich.
The DCCC has raised about $10 million more than the NRCC this campaign cycle, and raised about $45 million through June 30, according to Federal Election Commission records.
NRCC spokesman Nathaniel Sillin in Washington, D.C., confirmed today that the GOP reserved big ad buys worth more than $3.5 million in at least four New York districts, including Buerkle's.
The NRCC reserved $757,000 worth of TV air time to support GOP challenger Matt Doheny in his race against Rep. Bill Owens, D-Plattsburgh, in the new 21st Congressional District, Sillin said.
In addition the NRCC reserved $1.3 million for TV ads to support GOP Rep. Chris Gibson in the 19th Congressional District and $574,000 of air time in the 27th Congressional District to support Republican challenger Chris Collins in his race against Rep. Kathy Hochul, D-Amherst.
Contact Post-Standard Washington correspondent Mark Weiner at firstname.lastname@example.org or 571-970-3751.


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According the United Nations, the coronavirus pandemic could push up to 132 million people into hunger by the end of 2020.In the new report, the United Nations International Children’s Emergency in a statement said that, the coronavirus pandemic has intensify the vulnerability and inadequacies of global food systems.
The agency stated that, “While it is too early to assess the full impact of the lockdowns and other containment measures, at least another 83 million people, and possibly as many as 132 million, may go hungry in 2020,”.
The finding was made known in the latest annual publication of The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World by U.N. agencies, including the World Health Organization.
UNICEF added that the economic recovery expected in 2021 would reduce the number of undernourished people. It is however unclear by how much, and the number will remain above pre-pandemic projections.
In the report, it was highlighted that there is high numbers of people without access to a healthy diet.
The report estimated that around 3 billion people worldwide cannot afford a healthy diet in 2019.
Source: United Nations


The three month-long bay scallop season kicks off Saturday with fishing allowed in a limited area between the southern Hernando County line to the Mexico Beach Canal in Gulf County.
“We’re excited to announce this year’s scallop season,” said Nick Wiley, executive director of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. “It’s another great opportunity for residents and visitors to get out on the water and enjoy Florida’s natural resources.”
It is illegal to possess bay scallops on waters outside open harvest areas.
It is also illegal to land scallops outside open harvest areas. For example, it would be legal to take scallops from waters off the Hernando County coast, but it would be illegal to dock your boat in Pasco County with the scallop catch on board.
Scallop season runs through Sept. 25.
According to the FWC, bay scallops once existed from West Palm Beach to Pensacola, but their range has decreased considerably as scallops are sensitive to changing environmental conditions. For more information go to FWC’s website here.
South Florida is down nearly 10 inches of rain for the year, but it’s not just lawns that are thirsty.
Pools need to be refilled regularly to avoid ruining the pump if it starts sucking air. But how do you know if your pool is just losing water to evaporation, or may have sprung a leak?
Susan Eldred, co-owner of Pinch-A-Penny pools in Palm Beach Gardens, said pools can lose as much as a quarter-inch of water every day in June to evaporation.
“Customers are coming in saying they are having to add more water to their pools,” Eldred said.
To check if your pool is actually leaking instead of just losing water to evaporation, Eldred suggests the bucket test.
Fill a bucket with water and measure the distance between the lip of the bucket and the water level. Do the same with the pool. The water should evaporate about equally in each. If the pool water is much lower than the water in the bucket after a few days, you may have a leak.
“If the bucket water is lower, the dog’s been drinking out of the bucket,” Eldred said.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is restricting lock operations on Lake Okeechobee because of receding water levels.
The lock near Fort Myers and the St. Lucie lock and dam near Stuart will be opened every two hours from 7 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. daily.
The corps restricts lock openings when the lake falls below 12.5 feet. Today’s lake level was 12.42 feet.
“This is standard operating procedure whenever the lake falls below 12.5 feet” said Steve Dunham, Chief of the Corps’ South Florida Operations Office. “We encourage boaters to be aware of the lake level and consider that drafts will continue to decrease if the lake drops more in coming weeks.”
Under the updated schedule, boats will be locked through at the Franklin and St. Lucie Locks at 7 a.m., 9 a.m., 11 a.m., 1 p.m., 3 p.m., and 4:30 p.m. Operations at the other three locks, Ortona, Moore Haven, and Port Mayaca, will continue on demand between 7 a.m. and 5 p.m. with final lockage beginning at 4:30 p.m.
Limiting lock use reduces the amount of water that is lost from the lake.
South Florida’s sultry temperatures have been running a little hotter than normal this month with a handful of scorching days ahead and no clear end to a high pressure system jacking up the thermostat.
Coastal Palm Beach County could break the 90-degree mark again Thursday, with the western communities reaching a degree or 2 higher. If the heat streak holds through early next week, it could be the longest hot stretch seen this year.
“It’s been about 3 degrees above normal the past five days,” said Miami-based National Weather Service meteorologist Robert Molleda, who noted that hotter nights are mostly to blame for the above-average temps. “This pattern could persist for a while.”
The highest temperature recorded in West Palm Beach this year was 96 degrees on April 26. May saw one day above 90 degrees when it hit 91 on the 21st.
Eating ice cream in the shade outside Sloan’s in CityPlace, Frank and Karen Maier acknowledged that it was hot Wednesday, but the joke was on South Florida.
According to a story from the Associated Press, the storm’s sustained winds were down to 35 mph by 5 p.m. this evening. The center of the storm “was located about 15 miles northeast of Whiteville,” and it has been downgraded to a tropical depression.
Ana’s remains are expected to “move over eastern North Carolina on Sunday night and into southeastern Virginia on Monday,” according to the AP story.
Forecasters call for 2 to 6 inches of rain, coastal flooding, storm surge and rip currents to go with the storm, but those conditions should continue to diminish as the storm continues to weaken over the next several days, states the AP story.


text: Copper is an essential element and also produces adverse health consequences when overloaded. Food and water are the main sources of copper intake, however few studies have been conducted to investigate the difference between the ways of its intake in water and food in animals. In this study, copper was fed to mice with food as well as water (two groups: water and diet) for three months at concentrations of 6, 15 and 30 ppm. The copper concentration in water was adjusted for keeping the same amount during its intake in food. The experimental studies show a slow growth rate, lower hepatic reduced glutathione (GSH)/superoxide dismutase (SOD) activity and higher serum 'free' copper in the water group. The brain's soluble amyloid-beta 1-42 (Aβ42) of the water group was significantly higher than that of the diet group at the levels of 6 and 15 ppm. In conclusion, copper in the water group significantly increased the soluble Aβ42 in the brain and the 'free' copper in the serum, decreased the growth rate and hepatic GSH/SOD activity. The research studies carried out suggest that the copper in water is more 'toxic' than copper in diet and may increase the risk of Alzheimer's disease (AD).


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Black Magic Sweets Seattle, WA
My name’s Aliyah Davis (she/her) owner of Black Magic Sweets. I’m a transplant from Brooklyn, NY who fell in love with Washington state in the summer of 2016. My love for Bread and Pastry came directly from my grandpa Ben, I’ve never seen a man light up in the kitchen quite like him. In my 8yrs working in professional kitchens, Grandpa Ben still takes the cake. He taught me how to jam, puree and make a pie that’ll knock you and your mama’s socks off.
We sell hand painted macarons; the flavors are experimental and change every 1-2 months along with the art painted on them. The idea behind Black Magic Sweets was to create desserts people could get excited about, something familiar and comforting but also beautiful and damn delicious. The art style is closely in line with children’s illustration, which is something I’ve loved since I was old enough to ponder through books like “where the sidewalk ends” and “Corduroy”. Pop art and abstract expressionism also appear on our macarons, both inspired by street art that I’ve seen along the way.
BMS is black owned and we primarily work/collaborate with POC, LGBTIA, and women owned businesses (Makeda & Mingus, Broadcast Coffee, Friday Afternoon tea etc). We source as much as we can (70-80%) ingredients from Washington farmers from berries to honey. We bake/paint to order to ensure minimum waste in our kitchen.


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Cost of living in Tiruppur, India compared to Zvishavane District, Zimbabwe
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It is likewise of the nature of the _rulers_ (whether they are
individuals or classes) to patronise and applaud those virtues which
make their subjects _amenable_ and _submissive_--conditions and
passions which may be utterly different from their own.
The _gregarious instinct_ and the _instinct of the rulers_ sometimes
_agree_ in approving of a certain number of qualities and
conditions,--but for different reasons: the first do so out of direct
egoism, the second out of indirect egoism.
_The submission to Christianity on the part of master races_ is
essentially the result of the conviction that Christianity is a
_religion for the herd,_ that it teaches obedience: in short, that
Christians are more easily ruled than non-Christians. With a hint of
this nature, the Pope, even nowadays, recommends Christian propaganda
to the ruling Sovereign of China.
It should also be added that the seductive power of the Christian ideal
works most strongly upon natures that love danger, adventure, and
contrasts; that love everything _that entails a risk,_ and wherewith a
_non plus ultra_ of powerful feeling may be attained. In this respect,
one has only to think of Saint Theresa, surrounded by the heroic
instincts of her brothers:--Christianity appears in those circumstances
as a dissipation of the will, as strength of will, as a will that is
3. CHRISTIAN IDEALS.
War against the _Christian ideal,_ against the doctrine of
"blessedness" and "salvation" as the aims of life, against the
supremacy of the fools, of the pure in heart, of the suffering and of
When and where has any man, _of any note at all,_ resembled the
Christian ideal?--at least in the eyes of those who are psychologists
and triers of the heart and reins. Look at all Plutarch's heroes!
_Our claim to superiority_: we live in an age of _Comparisons_; we
are able to calculate as men have never yet calculated; in every way
we are history become self-conscious. We enjoy things in a different
way; we suffer in a different way: our instinctive activity is the
comparison of an enormous variety of things. We understand everything;
we experience everything, we no longer have a hostile feeling left
within us. However disastrous the results may be to ourselves, our
plunging and almost lustful inquisitiveness, attacks, unabashed, the
most dangerous of subjects....
"Everything is good"--it gives us pain to say "nay" to anything. We
suffer when we feel that we are sufficiently foolish to make a definite
stand against anything.... At bottom, it is we scholars who to-day are
fulfilling Christ's teaching most thoroughly.
We cannot suppress a certain irony when we contemplate those who think
they have overcome Christianity by means of
From Plato, to be sure, he got what all of us must get, but his real forefather was Heraclitus.Page 5
Most of this denunciation, of course, was frankly idiotic--the naive pishposh of suburban Methodists, notoriety-seeking college professors, almost illiterate editorial writers, and other such numskulls.Page 7
of the race.Page 15
Quite the contrary is demanded by the most profound laws of self-preservation and of growth: to wit, that every man find his _own_ virtue, his _own_ categorical imperative.Page 24
It offers purely imaginary _causes_ ("God," "soul," "ego," "spirit," "free will"--or even "unfree"), and purely imaginary _effects_ ("sin," "salvation," "grace," "punishment," "forgiveness of sins").Page 25
--How can we be so tolerant of the naivete of Christian theologians as to join in their doctrine that the evolution of the concept of god from "the god of Israel," the god of a people, to the Christian god, the essence of all goodness, is to be described as _progress_?--But even Renan does this.Page 35
The fact requires a sanction--a power to.Page 41
He speaks only of inner things: "life" or "truth" or "light" is his word for the innermost--in his sight everything else, the whole of reality, all nature, even language, has significance only as sign, as allegory.Page 42
"Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and _that_ the spirit of God dwelleth in you? If any man defile the temple of God, _him shall God destroy_; for the temple of.Page 60
And when one goeth through fire for his teaching--what doth that prove? Verily, it is more when one's teaching cometh out of one's own burning!  The quotations are from "Also sprach Zarathustra" ii, 24: "Of Priests.Page 68
it is better to marry than to burn"? And is it _possible_ to be a Christian so long as the origin of man is Christianized, which is to say, _befouled_, by the doctrine of the _immaculata conceptio_?.Page 72
That which stood there _aere perennis_, the _imperium Romanum_, the most magnificent form of organization under difficult conditions that has ever been achieved, and compared to which everything before it and after it appears as patchwork, bungling, _dilletantism_--those holy anarchists made it a matter of "piety" to destroy "the world," _which is to say_, the _imperium Romanum_, so that in the end not a stone stood upon another--and even Germans and other such louts were able to become its masters.Page 73
preparatory, that with adamantine self-consciousness it laid only the foundations for a work to go on for thousands of years, the whole _meaning_ of antiquity disappears!.


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JERUSALEM - Israel has called off a planned release of Palestinian prisoners and called for the U.S.-sponsored negotiations to be reviewed, it was reported Thursday.
Israeli negotiators informed their Palestinian counterparts of the decision in an overnight meeting that was supposed to avert a collapse of the troubled talks, an official briefed on the process told Reuters.
The reported decision came hours after a frustrated Secretary of State John Kerry urged both sides to show leadership, calling it a “critical moment.”
"Leaders know what they need to do,” he told reporters while on a visit to Algeria Thursday.
“It would be a tragedy for them to lose the ability to get to the final status,” he said. "In the end, they will have to say yes. "You can facilitate, you can push, you can nudge, but the parties themselves have to make fundamental decisions and compromises.”
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A tax break that favours rich charity givers by €18 million a year should be extended to everyone, according to Cork’s Labour TD Ciarán Lynch.
Mr Lynch said PAYE employees are being discriminated against because they cannot claim relief on donations, like self-assessed givers and big business can. Mr Lynch said the system is skewed towards benefiting the wealthy over ordinary workers and could be depriving good causes of extra cash.
He has demanded the Finance Department change rules which say the €25 million a year tax break on donations by the PAYE sector can only be claimed back by the charity receiving the money, and not the individual giving it.
The Cork TD insists a reform would actually see more money going to charities as PAYE donors would bump up their contributions to them if they knew they could claim a substantial stake back as self-assessed workers do.
“The current system would seem to favour the rich at the expense of PAYE employees and that is not fair and that is an anomaly which needs correcting. I don’t think such a change would mean charities getting less money, quite the opposite,” he said.
“If PAYE people know they will be able to claim the relief back, they will probably give the charity more, or invest the rebate in another charity of their choice, so in that sense everyone will win,” he added.
Just over €25.1 million was claimed in tax relief by charities and approved bodies in 2007 on donations by 80,974 PAYE employees who donated a total of €46.8 million.
That was down from the previous years’ amount of €28.4 million claimed on 84,373 gifts from the PAYE sector on donations of €58.4 million.
The last year for which self-assessed figured are available, 2005, shows that such people gave €48 million to charity and personally claimed some €18 million back.
Donations of more than €250 are eligible for refunds and companies can claim money back on such gifts as a trading expense.