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Central bankers won’t let the term leave their lips, but the rising wave of surprise interest-rate cuts in Asia could portend currency wars. Read More »
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News coverage of the global economy turned slightly positive in February, according to data released Tuesday, and foreign-exchange movements are taking on more importance this year. The Absolute Strategy Research/Wall Street Journal global composite newsflow index edged up to 50.5 in February from 48.7 in January. An index above 50 denotes positive news coverage on economic topics. Read More »
Low oil prices are exacerbating deflation across Asia but there’s yet another culprit: currency strength. Read More »
Even if Greece and some Europeans would like to break up with the International Monetary Fund, both still need the fund’s cash and its credibility.
That’s why a new letter by IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde to Eurogroup president Jeroen Dijsselbloem, slamming Greece’s new economic proposals as insufficient, will continue to shape negotiations between Greece and Europe over bailout financing. The letter also points to months of tough talks ahead. Read More »
If the European Central Bank expands its easy-money policies in the coming weeks, it will do little to fix the currency union’s underlying problems. That’s the view of Tim Adams, president of the Institute of International Finance, an industry group representing more than 500 of the world’s largest banks, pension funds, insurance firms and other financial firms. Read More »
North American executives are growing increasingly concerned about Europe’s worsening economic prospects, according to Deloitte LLP’s quarterly survey of chief financial officers. Read More »
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It’s hard not to appreciate the vitality of the U.S. economy as 2015 begins, especially for this correspondent after a week of rest and relaxation in Europe, where the headlines are not encouraging.
Eurozone manufacturing purchasing managers data released last week were near contraction levels, bond yields are sinking and the dollar has risen to its highest level against the euro in more than four years. European Central Bank President Mario Draghi told the German newspaper Handelsblatt last week he was making preparations for new central bank stimulus in 2015.
The U.S. meanwhile appears likely to pick up this week with momentum from 2014. Read More »
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The Audio Armory navigateright Episode
This week we're back to Japan with a look at another traditional samurai weapon: the tant?! It's like you cut a katana in half, I guess. We also talk about the somewhat concerning history of this weapon and what it was used for, so fair warning: half of this episode isn't very funny. But sometimes history isn't funny.
Content warning from around 12:15 to 18:50: talk of self-harm, suicide, graphic descriptions of injury.
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Aperture—a nonprofit arts institution dedicated to advancing fine photography—was founded in 1952 by six individuals: photographers Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, Barbara Morgan and Minor White; historian Beaumont Newhall; and writer and curator Nancy Newhall.
With scant resources, these prescient artists created Aperture magazine to serve the medium, photography users and fine art lovers worldwide. For more than fifty-five years, Aperture magazine grew along with the medium. So too did the Aperture Foundation, expanding to include the subsequent publication of books, limited edition prints and portfolios, traveling exhibitions and an educational program that includes lectures and panel discussions with artists, curators and other key players in the field of photography.
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Asthma is a chronic disease that has, for a long time, been the domain of primary care nurses, and many have qualifications enabling them to run nurse-led asthma clinics. It is, therefore, essential to fully understand the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) and to be able to maximise the points available to the practice, at the same time as providing a comprehensive service to patients. In this article, we review the QOF indicators for asthma, strategies for optimising record keeping and performing asthma reviews.
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Why Optimise Inhaler Technique in Asthma and COPD?
Asthma UK estimates that 2.1 million patients in the UK are suffering unnecessarily because
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The role of nurses working in the National Health Service has undergone major development
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Hayfever, or seasonal allergic rhinitis, is a condition that patients often present with to their
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Skills in developing a business case may at first seem to be something far removed from
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managers do things like business cases. How wrong could you be? This article shows
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thank Jan Procter-King, my predecessor, who has performed an outstanding
role and left the journal in a robust position. I would also like to thank the
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You know, for the past eight plus years I have been doing this blog, I have been thoroughly impressed by the creativity of the readers when they have sent in projects for contests and when they just want to show them off.
Today’s Last Minute Elf winner is no exception.
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Here’s a live-edge picture frame made from some curly maple rescued from the firewood pile! Makes a nice impression, at zero cost.
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Armin Raznahan, MD, PhD, is a Lasker Clinical Research Scholar and Chief of the Developmental Neurogenomics Unit. His research combines neuroimaging, genomic and bioinformatic techniques to better understand the architecture of human brain development in health, and in neurogenetic disorders that increase risk for psychiatric symptoms. Clinically, Dr. Raznahan works as a Child Psychiatrist within the NIH Clinical Center Psychiatry Consultation Liaison Service. He has a degree in Medicine and a PhD in Biological Psychiatry from King¹s College University London, UK. He has completed residencies in pediatrics and psychiatry, and a specialist fellowship in child and adolescent psychiatry at the Maudsley Hospital, London, UK.
The Developmental Neurogenomics Unit (DNU) is dedicated to better understanding the biology of childhood-onset neuropsychiatric disorders in ways that might ultimately help to improve disease prediction, detection and treatment. Together with our collaborators, we work towards this goal in two mutually-informative ways.
First, we use large-scale longitudinal neuroimaging datasets to study the architecture of brain development in healthy volunteers. By modeling how neuroimaging measures of the human brain vary with age, sex and behavior in health, we hope to advance basic developmental neuroscience while also providing a data-driven way of selecting neuroimaging measures that should be prioritized for study in atypically developing groups.
Second, we use a “genetics-first” strategy to study the relationship between atypical brain development and neuropsychiatric symptoms. This effort involves gathering “deep-phenotypic” data (spanning measures of gene expression, brain structure/function, psychophysiology, cognition and behavior) in diverse genetic disorders which all increase risk for neuropsychiatric impairment. Guided by knowledge of typical development, we harness these clinical data to empirically dissect the diverse biological pathways that can contribute to the emergence of neuropsychiatric syndromes.
Cross-cutting themes of special interest within our Unit include sex-differences, allometry, and structure-function relationships within the central nervous system.
Triangulating the sexually dimorphic brain through high-resolution neuroimaging of murine sex chromosome aneuploidies. Raznahan A, Lue Y, Probst F, Greenstein D, Giedd J, Wang C, Lerch J, Swerdloff R . Brain Struct Funct. (2014) PMID: 25146308.
Globally Divergent but Locally Convergent X- and Y-Chromosome Influences on Cortical Development. Raznahan A, Lee NR, Greenstein D, Wallace GL, Blumenthal JD, Clasen LS, Giedd JN. Cereb Cortex. (2014) PMID: 25146371.
Longitudinal four-dimensional mapping of subcortical anatomy in human development. Raznahan A, Shaw PW, Lerch JP, Clasen LS, Greenstein D, Berman R, Pipitone J, Chakravarty MM, Giedd JN. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA . 111:1592–1597 (2014) PMID: 24474784.
Compared to what? Early brain overgrowth in autism and the perils of population norms. Raznahan A, Wallace GL, Antezana L, Greenstein D, Lenroot R, Thurm A, Gozzi M, Spence S, Martin A, Swedo SE, Giedd JN. Biol Psychiatry. 74:563–575 (2013) PMID: 23706681.
Prenatal growth in humans and postnatal brain maturation into late adolescence. Raznahan A, Greenstein D, Lee NR, Clasen LS, Giedd JN. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 109:11366–11371 (2012) PMID: 22689983.
Patterns of coordinated anatomical change in human cortical development: a longitudinal neuroimaging study of maturational coupling. Raznahan A, Lerch JP, Lee N, Greenstein D, Wallace GL, Stockman M, Clasen L, Shaw PW, Giedd JN. Neuron. 72:873–884 (2011) PMID: 22153381.
How does your cortex grow?. Raznahan A, Shaw P, Lalonde F, Stockman M, Wallace GL, Greenstein D, Clasen L, Gogtay N, Giedd JN. J Neurosci. 31:7174–7177 (2011) PMID: 21562281.
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With the release of her debut memoir, Marybeth Zeman speaks to Uncommon Journalism about her quest to change the nation’s juvenile justice system “one book at a time”
By: James Swift
For more than 20 years, Marybeth Zeman taught East Meadow Public School System students in New York, primarily serving as a high school English as a Second Language (ESL) instructor. Over the years, she had amassed quite the resume. As a Rotary International group study exchange member, she spent time in Argentina and had studied at Dublin’s Irish Writer’s Centre. And in 2009, the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) presented her with a scholarship via the Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program, which allowed her to pursue an MS in Library Science at St. John’s University.
The decades, however, had taken its toll on the Brooklyn native. Having lost her first husband to cancer, she would soon witness her second husband battle his own serious illness. With the school district consolidating the ESL program, Zeman was then asked to switch to teaching middle schoolers -- a prospect she was less than optimistic about.
“As much as I love teaching,” Zeman told Uncommon Journalism, “I know individuals who teach middle school level, and you have to love teaching middle school.”
In 2010, Zeman found her career at a crossroad. A position for a transitional counselor had opened up at the Nassau County Correctional Center (NCCC), which was home to the East Meadow Public School System’s incarcerated youth program. “The way the role was defined to me was that I was to assist students making the transition from jail back into the community, or back into schools or vocational programs,” Zeman said. Compared to instructing middle school students until she retired, Zeman considered the opportunity “a great alternative.”
During the interview for the position, Zeman said the administrator was “shocked” to learn that she had personal experience with the juvenile justice system. After being widowed in her 40s, she said her sons began displaying behavioral problems. “I wouldn’t say they were incarcerated,” she said, “but I had to access the family court system and deal with acting out behavior during that period of time.”
For a week, Zeman shadowed the outgoing transitional counselor at the facility. At first, Zeman said she was nervous about the new position, pinpointing “a huge void of knowledge” regarding available programming as a particular worry. One thing she wasn’t apprehensive about, however, was her own safety. “I wasn’t fearful about going into jail,” Zeman said.
While some teachers and librarians may feel concerned entering NCCC, she said most of them are genuinely moved by what they encounter inside the jailhouse walls. “They’re touched by the authenticity of the students,” Zeman said. “I guess whatever their perceptions are, they’re going to walk in and find it isn’t there. What they find is teenage students, that respond much in the same way as teenage students in high school.”
“Defeated by the Educational System”
While NCCC is “supposed” to be a short-term juvenile facility, Zeman said some youths could be detained there for up to two years. The facility, she added, housed both low-level misdemeanants and high-risk felony offenders, many of whom are bound for Federal prisons. “I have students that have stolen an iPhone that are incarcerated with students who have committed murder,” Zeman said.
Zeman described the NCCC campus. “One of the buildings is very, very old,” she said. “They don’t even have electric doors -- they still have big rings of keys, and you have to put that into the door.” The outmoded-appearing building is often used for television shoots. Trailers and production equipment for TV programs like “The Good Wife,” Zeman said, are typical sights around the jailhouse grounds.
One large classroom is housed in the building, she said, as are several of the juvenile detainees. Most of the students, however, live in a newer wing, which also houses the school itself. “They would walk from their cell area, down a hallway, and into the school part, which is very small,” Zeman said. “We’re around the corner from the prison chapel.” At a separate building, a small population of female juvenile detainees are housed. “We might have 125 to 150 boys at any one time,” she said, “but a large population on the girls' side would be seven, eight, maybe 10 girls.”
Zeman’s students range in age from 16-to-21. The population, she estimated, could be as high as 90 percent minority youths.
“There are racial barriers to overcome when you’re dealing with the students,” Zeman said. “They can see through any facades that people have. It’s almost like a basic instinct.”
As such, Zeman believes honesty is an absolute necessity for connecting with the populations. “I think they sense someone who's genuine and real, and if you can come across exactly as that,” Zeman said, “I think the differences between students and myself are totally eradicated, and you’re on a level playing field.”
Most of the students, she said, display behavioral issues and have performed poorly in public school. She recalled some students who, as late as the eleventh grade, had accumulated a sum of high school credits that could be counted on one hand.
However, Zeman notes some similarities between her incarcerated students and the students she taught as a public school ESL teacher. “They put forth a great deal of effort, more so than what I think I would see in a normal high school student,” she said. “They’ve had real obstacles in their lives, and they’ve had to push past them.”
While both types of students tend to be marginalized, she does observe a difference between the two. The incarcerated students, Zeman said, almost appear “beaten” by their public school experiences.
“Very few of them had success coming out of the traditional school system,” she said. “They were almost defeated by the educational system.”
|The Nassau County Correctional Center is home to the East Meadow Public School System's incarcerated youth program. Zeman has served as a transitional counselor at the facility for half a decade.|
“When they become incarcerated, they become highly motivated to come to school everyday,” Zeman said. At that point, public school, she said, becomes a “relief” compared to the “monotony and the boredom” of being locked up.
Over the last half decade, Zeman said she’s seen many improvements. For one, she believes incarcerated youth education requirements in New York have become more defined, making it much easier to communicate with parents and keep track of test scores. For students slotted for GEDs, she said the programs display a stronger sense of structure; furthermore she said youths feel as if they can genuinely communicate with the facility's psych directors and counselors. Overall, she said there is much more accountability for students and parents then there was when she first began working at NCCC.
The NCCC juvenile offender program, she said, provides “a very small window of opportunity” to deter young people from embarking upon lifelong cycles of incarceration. However, transitional programming and support systems for incarcerated youth, she said, remain scarce.
“As I worked in the program, the number of programs that I can access on the outside has diminished significantly,” Zeman said. “One by one, they were cut, usually by a lack of funding from somewhere. All of a sudden, there two that were in Hempstead, and then there were none.”
The Library Cart
After receiving her Master’s degree in Library Science, Zeman wondered if she would ever use it. The economic downturn had whittled local public library jobs to virtually nothing, and her highest hopes were to transition to an ESL program in a “museum-like setting.”
However, upon arriving at NCCC, she observed “the necessity” of reading material for detained youths. “There were books available, but there were not a variety of books,” Zeman said. “In terms of librarian-speak, there wasn’t a large, diversified collection.”
The school stock, she said, was filled with unvaried -- and to most students, boring -- literature. “Essentially, teachers were just handing them out, and kids didn’t have any ownership of those books,” she said. “They weren’t invested in them, they didn’t have any say in their selection.”
It wasn’t long before Zeman put her IMLS training in motion. Her remedy to the school’s unimpressive bibliographical collection? The introduction of a wheeled, three-foot-tall library cart.
Students immediately took a shining to the rolling library, with many youths, Zeman said, enjoying the accountability associated with “checking books out” from the mobile unit. The number of students for whom this was a new concept, she said, amazed her. “Kids that are born in the United States, I just assume that they would have some sort of experience, if not as a teenager, as a preschooler or kindergartner,” she said. “These kids did not have library cards. They’ve never visited a public library.”
At first, Zeman viewed the library cart as merely a means of providing leisure reading opportunities to students. However, as it grew, she said she’s begun to realize the “power” of the program. “All the things that the American Library Association would say why young adults and teens need public libraries,” Zeman said, “the exact same things occur with our population.”
Beyond promoting literacy, Zeman said the library cart project gives youths an opportunity to engage with adults and influence the type of reading material they have access to. When presented with the “right kind of books,” she said her students transformed into voracious readers.
“They are so bored in jail that reading becomes their only entertainment,” she said. “We’re really promoting a lifelong learning experience by having them enjoy reading, which is only going to be transferable to life skills.” Furthermore, the program also helps students better prepare for GED testing -- something Zeman said she didn’t necessarily envision as a “benefit” when the library cart program began.
Since starting the library program, Zeman has spoken to several public library associations about their own “outreach potential.” For young adults in the community, Zeman believes public libraries can create transformative opportunities that parallel those experienced by the jailed youth population she has worked with.
By collaborating with the public library system, Zeman said she has seen a possible solution to the lack of traditional transitional services in Nassau County. Libraries, she said, can be public hubs for information services, GED classes, ESL programs and job training services -- “all of the things than an established transitional service program used to offer,” Zeman said, “before they were all killed by a lack of funding.”
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a memoir, which was released earlier this year.
Earlier this year, Vinegar Hills Press published “Tales of a Jailhouse Librarian: Challenging the Juvenile Justice System One Book at a Time.” The book, which accounts Zeman’s experiences working with youths housed at NCCC, has received rave reviews from individuals like Gerald Nichols, director of the Palmer Institute for Library Organization and Management at Long Island University and Sheila Rule, founder of the Think Outside the Cell Foundation. CNN commentator Michaela Angela Davis called Zeman’s work a “little treasure of a book,” praising it for telling “big stories of young men trapped, seeking and sometimes finding a way out” through the power of reading.
“I was absolutely astonished by the connections that were created with this library cart,” Zeman said. “It wasn’t just about lending library books, it was about developing a relationship, allowing me to get to know these boys.”
For two years, Zeman said “heavy duty emotions” drove her to spend lunch breaks writing about her students. “These kids have tragic stories, and sometimes tragic endings,” she said. “I needed to process that, as a counselor.”
Zeman’s second husband soon fell ill, and was placed in a nursing home. She began sending him her private journal entries; so moved by the boys’ stories, he urged his wife to share her writings with others. “He was my biggest motivator and encourager to do this,” Zeman said. “He told me to try not to connect the stories -- just keep journaling.”
He told her she would know when it was time to stop writing. “He was absolutely right,” Zeman said. “It got to a certain point where I had so many vignettes, I did not know when I was tripping over myself.”
Not all of the stories within the book are dispiriting, Zeman said. Indeed, many are poignant, moving and humorous. She refers to a student given the pseudonym “David,” a “pesky, irritating kid” who eventually grew on her and the facility’s teachers.
“It turned out I wrote about him three times, because each of his stories I wrote about were so unique,” she said.
His life could be summarized as one of abandonment, Zeman said, yet he still showed deep concern for his mother. She recalled “David” dreaming of showing off his GED certificate, and making his mother happy by getting “a decent job” after doing his time at NCCC. His attempt to convert to Rastafarianism, she said, was one of the funniest passages in the entire book. “David had one of the worst set of dreads I have ever seen,” she remembered. “He either was going bald, or he didn’t know how to twist his hair.”
Putting the final touches on the book, Zeman realized that she needed to place stats and figures about current juvenile incarceration trends in the title as well. “I wanted to share these boys' stories,” she said, “but I also wanted to inform people about what the current state the juvenile criminal justice system was.”
Regarding library services as a whole, Zeman believes they can serve as crucial access points for incarcerated individuals. Furthermore, she believe libraries can also be access points for the families of incarcerated youth, primarily by providing information services and linking up mothers and fathers with support groups.
She references Daniel Marcou, a Hennepin County, Minn. correctional librarian, who once described library cards as “freedom tickets.”
“A public library is there to serve the community, and the incarcerated are just as much a part of the community as anyone else," she said. "And in fact, the more stable the incarcerated individuals become, the more stable the community becomes when they get mainstreamed back out.”
When Zeman began working at NCCC, she said she was totally “blank and naive” about the juvenile justice system. Today, she considers that system to be a “broken one,” with education serving as a key component to mending it.
“In many cases, we know what were doing, we know what works,” she said. “There are many programs doing the right thing, but we’re just not doing enough of the right thing.”
A lack of reform and vision, coupled with general public resistance, Zeman said, are all factors that keep the nation’s juvenile justice system from improving. However, she believes the media is bringing heightened attention to the numerous problems centered around youth incarceration.
“Two years ago, when I started to write this book, there was relatively little said about the current state of incarceration,” she said. “In terms of The New York Times writing an editorial, or NPR doing a program, they were far and few in-between.”
Now, however, a week doesn’t go by when she doesn’t read an article or op-ed in the mainstream press about juvenile justice reform or the “school-to-prison pipeline.” That said, she believes public support for reform continues to lag far behind.
With her book, Zeman said she tried to steer clear of editorializing. Rather, she wanted the boys’ stories to speak to the state of contemporary juvenile justice.
“I really do think if we provide facts and statistics about the system, and we open people’s eyes to how it operates,” she concluded, “that they will formulate their own opinions, that it’s very clear that the system isn’t working.”
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The reward for information on the shooter who left two men dead in Rogers Park around five weeks ago has been raised from $23,000 to $150,000, police said at a Thursday press conference.
The reward is the highest ever raised by community members in Chicago for information regarding the arrest and conviction of a homicide suspect, according to Chicago Police Department (CPD) Superintendent Eddie Johnson.
Police are still looking for the suspect involved in the killings that left 73-year-old Douglass Watts and 24-year-old Eliyahu Moscowitz dead within one day of each other. Watts was shot at the 1400 block of West Sherwin, around 1.5 miles from Loyola’s Lake Shore Campus. Moscowitz was shot while walking near Loyola Beach, half a mile from Loyola’s northern most residence hall. Johnson said the two victims are not connected.
Some Rogers Park and Loyola students have been on edge following the shootings. “Rogers Park Neighborhood News,” a Facebook page used by many neighborhood residents, has seen an influx in crime-related posts since the incident. A student-founded Facebook page, “Roam RoPo,”created following the shootings as a way for students to share safety information and walk together.
Detectives have reviewed hours of surveillance footage, Johnson said, and are still unsure of the suspect’s whereabouts and motive. He added it’s likely the suspect is still in Chicago.
CPD has received more than 430 independent leads since the incidents occurred but Johnson said they are still asking for information.
“Someone out there listening or watching right now knows who this person is, whether it be an acquaintance, friend, relative or loved-one,” Johnson said.
He added CPD has limited information it can share as it could compromise the investigation.

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A federal jury deliberating the fate of two female Muscogee County Sheriff’s Office lieutenants claiming gender discrimination in the department’s promotion process will be back in court this morning after more than 18 hours of deliberation failed to yield a verdict.
The seven-man, five-woman jury worked more than eight hours Tuesday before U.S. District Court Judge Clay Land released them for the day and ordered them back at 9 a.m. Wednesday.
Donna Tompkins and Joan Wynn filed the lawsuit against Sheriff John Darr and the city of Columbus when Lt. Charles Shafer, a person they claimed was less qualified than they were, was promoted to captain in 2010.
During the trial that began Sept. 9, the jury heard testimony from Tompkins, Wynn, Darr and Shafer, among others. Tompkins and Wynn both have master’s degrees, while Shafer has no college education. Shafer, a career jailer, has worked in the jail more than 30 years, far exceeding the jail experience of the two women.
Darr and his all-male Command Staff interviewed the candidates in April 2010. Shafer was recommended by all but Chief Deputy John Fitzpatrick, who said the hire should be a female, according to testimony.
Tompkins and Wynn are asking for back pay, compensatory damages and punitive damages. If there are punitive damages, Darr, and not the city, would be responsible for those, according to Land’s jury instructions.
Any decision by the jury must be unanimous. In three days of deliberation, the jury has asked the judge no legal questions that he has taken up with the attorneys.
The three days of deliberation is uncharted waters for the judge and attorneys.
Edward Buckley, who along with Cheryl B. Legare is representing Tompkins and Wynn, said this is a first in his 30-year legal career.
"I have never had one stay out this long,” Buckley said.
The Atlanta attorneys came back to Columbus on Monday when the jury began its second day of deliberation. They were not prepared to spend a second night here and returned to Atlanta after Land released the jury on Tuesday.
Columbus City Attorney Clifton Fay said this is the longest he can remember a jury deliberating on a city case.
"This is not unusual in some civil cases, but it is certainly the longest I can recall a jury being out,” Fay said. “We know this jury is working hard.”
Before breaking for lunch on Tuesday, Land addressed the jury and made it clear that he was not ready to call it quits. The judge adjusted today’s deliberation schedule to run from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., later than the jury has been staying previously.
"We’ll let you know on Friday what the schedule is for next week,” Land told jurors.
As Land and the attorneys waited for the jury to enter the courtroom at the end of the day, Land said he had never had a mistrial for a hung jury in his 11 years as a federal judge.
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When the jury returned to the courtroom, Land informed them of the new deliberation hours. He also said that the jury had “exhausted juror breakfast budget.” He said there would be no muffins Wednesday morning.


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However it also enables us to be taught different therapeutic methods like Yoga, Reiki, Tai Chi, acupressure, acupuncture, natural and plant cures and so much extra. These various medical systems are total fields of concept and practice, and many date again sooner than the conventional medication we use within the West as we speak. Go to and seize your FREE preview of the new e-book Various Drugs Answers now. The curriculum is designed to permit the student to realize the information necessary to work within the different medicine environment. Only now, at the beginning of the twenty first century are some doctors beginning to catch on. The widespread use of alternative medicine in its various forms decreased throughout the 20th Century. Naturopathic medicine is based on the principles that bodies are able to self-healing.
The people who gave it to him might need defrauded him, however they did not trigger him to die…he was already past help from actual medication on the time. General, Chinese language drugs could be utilized to treat allergies, arthritis ache, weight management, quitting smoking, again injury pain, musculosceletal pain, fatique, stress, TMJ and PMS. Naturopathic medication emphasises wholesome environments and is a part of a belief that the pure body is one with the Divine on a cosmological viewpoint. Other illnesses and circumstances that can be helped with Chinese language medicine are digestive issues, menstrual issues, and urinary problems. In some instances, alternative drugs courses may be as temporary as a weekend seminar, however as long as four years. One of the oldest types of different medicine will be traced again by way of Chinese historical past.
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Ben Jones lives a quiet, hardscrabble life, working as a trucker on Route 117, a little-travelled road in a remote region of the Utah desert which serves as a haven for fugitives and others looking to hide from the world. For many of the desert’s inhabitants, Ben’s visits are their only contact with the outside world, and the only landmark worth noting is a once-famous roadside diner that hasn’t opened in years.
Ben’s routine is turned upside down when he stumbles across a beautiful woman named Claire playing a cello in an abandoned housing development. He can tell that she’s fleeing something in her past—a dark secret that pushed her to the end of the earth—but despite his better judgment he is inexorably drawn to her.
As Ben and Claire fall in love, specters from her past begin to resurface, with serious and life-threatening consequences not only for them both, but for others who have made this desert their sanctuary. Dangerous men come looking for her, and as they turn Route 117 upside down in their search, the long-buried secrets of those who’ve laid claim to this desert come to light, bringing Ben and the other locals into deadly conflict with Claire’s pursuers. Ultimately, the answers they all seek are connected to the desert’s greatest mystery—what really happened all those years ago at the never-open desert diner?
The Never-Open Desert Diner is an incredible account of life out in a remote desert in Utah. Anderson weaves an unforgettable and mysterious tale full of suspense, action, and romance. The inhabitants of Highway 117 are a diverse bunch of noteworthy characters, full of secrets, and not soon to be forgotten. I’ve never read anything quite like Anderson’s debut novel. His writing is beautiful, poignant and perfectly paced, and once I picked this book up, I could not put it down.
As always, I’m going to go into more detail after the jump. Read on at your own discretion, though there are no major spoilers.
Ben Jones keeps to himself mostly. He spends the majority of his days alone in his rig, speaking only to the customers he serves along the way. The inhabitants of 117 make up a family in a way that only life, circumstance and location can. He cares deeply about each and every one of them, and despite the fact that he’s in so much debt he can no longer keep the lights on, Ben cannot imagine walking away from the life he’s created there.
The story is full of some of my all-time favorite characters. At the top of the list is Walt, the owner of a once famous diner that is no longer ever open. Walt is as tough as nails and the true definition of a badass. While I was reading him, I was hearing the voice of Bert from the We’re Alive podcast. There is also Ginny, the pregnant, teenage daughter of one of Ben’s ex-girlfriends. She’s smart, driven, confident, and sassy in all the best ways. The Lacey brothers live (very inexplicably) in a couple of boxcars seventy-five miles away from any known railroad tracks. The list of characters goes on and on. Ben brings them what they need, never asking any questions, and everyone prefers it that way.
One day, everything is turned upside down when Ben (very unexpectedly) sees a woman inside a house in an abandoned development. As shocked and confused as he is to find her there, her face is unforgettable and he cannot stop thinking about her. At first he’s sure he has imagined her there, just another mirage in the desert. But as the days go by he finds himself making excuses to drive by the house in the hopes of another chance encounter. As the two get to know each other, life starts to get crazy for everyone on 117, and their long buried secrets begin to rise to the surface.
Can we talk for a minute about how gorgeous this jacket is? It is without a doubt one of my all-time favorites.
Final Thoughts: I love this book in every way that you can love a book. The writing is wonderful, the story is weaved so expertly, and the characters are insanely great. This is the kind of book that everyone can enjoy. You don’t need to love a certain genre to get into it. It has a little bit of everything, and I think everyone will get something out of it. Definitely do yourself a favor and pick this one up. I truly cannot wait to see what else Anderson will come up with. You can read more about the author here.
Favorite Characters: Ben, Ginny, Walt
Imagination is one of the few things a man can count on if he’s got the reality to feed it.
The marvel of her smile was watching it travel toward her mouth, like a freight train picking up speed as it dropped down a mountain grade. It began with a slight wrinkle high on her forehead and then spread into her dark eyes. From there, the smile descended to her lips, where it burst into full view with all the momentum of her body behind it.
This was the desert, everything all at once, whether it was needed or not. What survived had learned to save, live carefully, and keep a low profile, even appear to be dead for long periods. Perseverance and patience.
Out in the desert what doesn’t kill you just pisses you off and will probably kill you the next time.
A look passed between the two men. I felt it graze the side of my head. It was that kind of look.
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Honda expands its 2020 Africa Twin lineup with the addition of the CRF1100L “Adventure Sports ES” model that turns an already capable dual-surface machine into a terrain-gobbling off-road tour de force. A larger, more powerful engine and lower overall weight boosts performance, and handling is improved, as well, through the electronically adjusted suspension system. Also boosted, fuel-tank capacity is increased to extend the range and make the “ES” even more suitable for work as a bona fide globetrotter.
2020 Honda Africa Twin
Honda’s globetrotting Africa Twin line has always represented a lot of bike for your buck, but the factory buffed that reputation ahead of MY2020 with a series of improvements that go far beyond the cursory “Bold New Graphics” that frequently makes up Honda’s upgrades. I’m talking about a new engine and updated transmission that deliver more power and control over a frame that drew from Honda’s not-inconsiderable experience with off-road machines. Top-shelf rider-aid electronics and finely-tuned comfort features round out the package to make the new Africa Twin an all-around winner on the global stage.
2018 - 2019 Honda Africa Twin Adventure Sports
Honda’s Africa Twin Adventure Sports makes the jump from concept to production to further expand the CRF1000L lineup. This newest model — dubbed the CRF1000L2 — brings a decidedly more rugged visage to the table along with the same 998 cc powerplant that drives its more street-centric adventure siblings. I submit to you that the importance of this model goes beyond a handful of special features and a clever name; in a way, it fulfills the promise of the capabilities implicit with the “Africa Twin” moniker. The updated engine churns out 94 ponies with street-knobbies to put the power to the pavement and an updated suspension system to keep the rough roads and trails from rattling the fillings out of your head.
2018 - 2019 Honda Africa Twin
Honda gave its CRF1000L “Africa Twin” a complete overhaul for the 2018 model year, a rebuild so complete that the new version shares not a single part with the old, according to the factory. Engine improvements include both hardware and software that starts with a Throttle-by-Wire system that enables even more electronic wizardry under the hood, as it were. The improvements make their way into the gearboxes on both the manual tranny and the optional, auto-shifting DCT. The factory buffed safety as well with a handful of new features such as the Emergency Stop Signal feature that flashes the hazards during hard braking actions. There’s plenty more packed in there, so let’s go ahead and get into the details.
Continue reading for my review of the Honda Africa Twin.
Having won four successive Dakar Rallys with its NXR-750, Honda launched the original XRV650 Africa Twin in 1989. It was a lighter, higher-spec version that preceded the XRV750 Africa Twin — a dual-sport bike more closely modeled on the NXR-750 — which Honda produced until 2003. With the renewed and growing interest in the adventure-bike market, Honda is back with the CRF1000L Africa Twin.
In order to carry the legacy of the "Africa Twin" name, the designers focused hard on what made the original XRV750 Africa Twin such a great bike: off-road performance, on-road touring comfort, and the nimbleness and agility to be an all-purpose, everyday bike.
Released in the UK in late 2015 and slated for its U.S. debut in early 2016, the CRF1000L Africa Twin pays homage to its predecessors as well as embraces modern technology by offering Honda’s exclusive automatic Dual Clutch Transmission (DCT) technology, specifically developed and programmed to provide the off-road ability the Africa Twin legacy demands.
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KML-Circles is an online app that creates open or filled polygons around a specified center point. With the default number of 60 vertices, you essentially create circles, but by selecting a small number, you can create other polygons (e.g. 3 for a triangle, 4 for a square), but with no control over their orientation. It operates in two different styles:
In Fixed style, you can specify an indefinite number of central points, and up to 15 different circle radii, each with its own selectable color:
# Vertices – Number of points used to draw polygon; the more points, the smoother the circle
Input – Either radius from the center, or diameter
Units – Metric (Meters, kilometers) and English (Miles, feet, yards)
Radius/Diameter – Sets the value for drawing the circles, in the units specified above. Circles are drawn in order from top to bottom, so it’s usually better to draw the larger circles first. Set the color for each radius by clicking on the “…” button.
Shape – LineStrings draws just the radius of the circle, Polygon draws it filled in.
Line Width – Sets line size in LineStrings mode.
Opacity – Sets opacity percentage (100% – fully opaque)
Altitude – Clamped to ground (default), Relative to ground and Absolute
Elevation – Sets value for Relative to ground and Absolute
Example 1 – Sample of fixed style (shown above)
Example 2 – Sample of variable style (shown below)
Clear – Clears position and radius/diameter data
Load File – You can load your own text data file into the input box; data can be separated by commas (CSV), spaces or tabs, with the Separator defined by the dropdown at upper right.
Create KML>> – Click on this button, and the specified data will be plotted in a Google Maps interface:
If you like the results, click on Download KML File and the KML code will be generated:
In Variable style, you can specify different sets of radii for different points, as in Example 2:
Up to 15 different radii can be used as input, with the “Column” dropdowns at left letting you specify the order in which the input radii are drawn:
GE-Path also creates circular polygons (in addition to grids and other useful shapes), but only one at a time. If you need to make multiple circles on a common radius at at the same time, KML-Circles is a convenient alternative.
Last year we had a Foot and Mouth outbreak in the UK. The Govt created exclusion zones (500m diammeter) and controlled zones (10km) out from each occurence of the outbreak. Since the outbreaks were often on farms within less than the exclusion zone size an envelope of overlapping circles was created.
Could you create a solution to write only the external sections of the overlapping circles?
I’m not the author of the KML Circle Generator, so I can’t help you on that front. But this is the sort of project that would literally take less than half-an-hour with even a basic free GIS like MapWindow or gvSIG.
1. Gather up the coordinates of all the farms into a single file of points (a point shapefile).
2. Use the buffer feature to draw circles of the right size around every farm.
3. Merge all of the circles into a single area (an area shapefile)
4. Convert that area shapefile into a KML file for viewing in Google Earth, using shp2kml.
If you can send me a file (spreadsheet or point shapefile) with the locations of the farms in question, the precise details of the exclusion zones, and the exact details of what you want, I can have a crack at it, and write up a step-by-step description of the process as a post. I’m always looking for good topics :).
Thanks, good post, KML-Circles is a handy tool! If you like to learn how to create basic shapes for Google Earth using KML and the Python programming language, take a look at “http://zoolboolcode.blogspot.com/2008/10/draw-simple-shapes-in-google-earth_09.html” for a basic introduction.
hi, nice tool.
i’d like to create a bunch of the circles by copying the first, but i do not find a way to edit the lat/lon location to place the copy. ideas?
Why couldn’t you just enter a number of different sets of center coordinates? That would give you multiple circles.
I think it it will be a great tool, but when I tried to draw a circle in meters, I got a circle in decimeters, it was 10% in size of what I actually intended to draw. After a multiplication my circle was perfect, thanks.


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As per United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF), India is home to the largest adolescent population, age between 10-19 years in 2021, in the world. Every fifth person in the country today is in this age group. Studies have found that undernutrition is highly prevalent among adolescents in the rural and tribal areas of India with high school dropout rates, at 67%, prevalent among the tribal girls between classes I to X.
Therefore, it is imperative that steps are taken to help improve the overall health and wellbeing of these children.
As part of its overall CSR initiatives, UltraTech Cement Limited is always looking at opportunities to establish projects that ensure that the often-ignored clusters of the society are also benefitted.
Project 'Ojashwani' is one such project.
'Ojashwani’ a unique CSR initiative was created and implemented by Maihar Cement Works, the company’s integrated cement manufacturing unit in Satna district in Madhya Pradesh. The project endeavours that girls from underprivileged background are provided the resources that ensures that their health as well as wellbeing is taken care of. As part of 'Ojashwani' over 120 girls between the age group of 11-15 years, residing in the surrounding areas of the plant witnessed an improvement in their health and well-being. As a result, the girls hailing from a tribal community were able to attend their school regularly and dedicate more time to studies.
Making of ‘Ojashwani’
During one of the general health check-up camps organised by the CSR team of Maihar Cement Works in the year 2022, it was observed that the girls studying at Kasturba Balika Residential School situated in the mining area at Bhadanpur were suffering from regular health issues, owing to malnutrition. Health issues like anaemia, skin disease, and other communicable and non-communicable diseases were rampant.
Delving into the cause of poor health conditions of the girls, the team found signs of gender disparity among the tribal people with parents regularly deprioritising the nutritional and educational needs of the girl child. Owing to frequent illnesses, the girls were falling behind in studies and were hardly keen on sports as well.
With an objective to improve their general health condition, which in turn would help them focus on their studies, the unit team conceptualised and launched a project in collaboration with the medical team of Maihar Cement Seva Trust Hospital, run by the unit management.
Thus, project ‘Ojashwani’ was created. Derived from the Sanskrit word, ‘Ojashwani’ meaning ‘an energetic, powerful and bright girl’, the ‘Project Ojashwani’ was a six-month (November 2022 to April 2023) comprehensive health project for the girls, that the medical team and the unit CSR team implemented in coordination with the school administration.
The team started with collection of samples of blood of all the girls. Based on the lab reports, the team provided medical treatment and regularly monitored the girls’ health. The team also facilitated a series of counselling sessions by healthcare professionals with schoolteachers, parents, and girls on the impact of health and nutrition on development of adolescent girls through parent-teachers’ meetings, individual counselling sessions and visits to the tribal community. To help the girls develop fitness the CSR team contributed sports equipment to the girls as well to enable them to play.
As a result of these concerted efforts the girls started playing sports actively as well as performed better in studies, showing signs of significantly improved health quotient. The project was inspired by two of the focus areas of UltraTech Cement’s community development outreach, Mother and Child Healthcare, and Education.
As adolescents flourish, so do their communities, and all of us have a collective responsibility to ensure that adolescence is an age of opportunity. UltraTech Cement has always supported the responsibility when it set its business level goals in the areas of Education and Health of ensuring 100% enrolment and zero dropout rate, and access to quality essential primary health services that are aligned with the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4 (Quality Education) and SDG 3 (Good Health and Well-being). UltraTech started implementing the goals when over 3,126 girls and mothers participated and actively engaged at its sessions on adolescent healthcare and nutrition awareness with the company working towards overall development of the way of life of the communities around its plants, most of which are in distant rural areas and tribal belts.
UltraTech undertakes its social initiatives under the aegis of The Aditya Birla Centre for Community Initiatives and Rural Development with Mrs. Rajashree Birla as its Chairperson. UltraTech’s CSR focus areas are education, healthcare, sustainable livelihoods, community infrastructure and social causes. UltraTech reaches out to more than 1.6 million beneficiaries in over 500 villages in 16 states across India.
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Sheryl Sandberg. Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead. New York: Knopf, 2013. 240 pp. $24.95.
A common argument of the feminist movement is that anything a man can do a woman can do equally, if not better. But more importantly, many within the movement have made this claim precisely because they see very little distinction between the sexes. Women can accomplish what men can because they aren’t all that different from them. But not all feminists think that way. Sheryl Sandberg, author of Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead, understands that these differences lead women to respond differently to their careers—often times to their detriment. And while Sandberg champions women as capable of all that men can achieve, she sees a very important distinction between the two (145).
All of this is what lead her to write Lean In.
Drawing from years of experience in high-level positions everywhere from the government to Facebook, Sandberg says that it is precisely because men and women are so different that women need to work harder than ever to make themselves known and heard in the marketplace.
Her essential premise is “a truly equal world would be one where women ran half our countries and companies and men ran half our homes. I believe this would be a better world” (7). While we might not agree that this is the solution to a truly equal world, she does get some things right as she assesses the world around her.
Mentoring and the Christian Woman
Sandberg sees the value of community and input in order to succeed (64-76). We are not lone rangers. As Christians, we undestand this even more. In Titus 2 we are told that older women and men are to train the next generation in godliness. Paul mentors young Timothy as he embarks on his calling as a pastor. Jesus poured into his disciples, training them to do the work of the ministry. Moses was encouraged by his father-in-law. Eli instructed Samuel. Throughout Christian history, believers have learned by those who have gone before us. Sandberg recognizes that there is value to be found in the expertise and knowledge of more experienced colleagues.
Different, But Not Different
Throughout the book Sandberg asserts that women often are held back from positions of leadership and power because of cultural expectations and the practical outworking of those expectations. Women are expected to be the primary caregivers of their children and the domestic force in the home. In Sandberg’s opinion, only when these expectations are lessened can women truly advance in our society.
While she sees the importance of capitalizing on our differences as male and female, she stops short of applying such differences to every sphere of life. Sure, a mother might feel a twinge of anguish when her son prefers the nanny to her, but that is a normal price to be paid for her career—and it really has no bearing on either of their psyches (136). A woman might feel the pull of her home and her career, but that is simply owing to the nurture of a society that expects both things from her, not because of her very nature as female.
In Sandberg’s estimation, women must own their differences in the board room, but lessen them in the living room. This thinking carries over into every sphere of a woman’s life, she says. In her chapter, “Make Your Partner a Real Partner” she says that while women might be more bent towards nurturing because they carry their child for nine months and are his or her only source of nutrients (usually) in those early months, men can compensate for the difference through knowledge and effort (108). Men, she says can overcome biology with consciousness, thus making the playing field equal in the home so it’s then equal in the workforce.
Perhaps the saddest and yet most insightful part of the book to me was when Sandberg addressed “The Myth of Doing it All” (ch. 9). In this chapter she debunks the idea that women can have career, family, marriage, and community involvements all with a smile on their face. Every honest woman knows this is not possible. Sandberg recognizes that something has to give. For her, it means doing the best she can with what she has (139). She understands that she will miss some meals with her kids, special events at school, and even important projects at work, because no one person can do everything to perfection every time.
This is a helpful perspective for the Christian. In a society that puts an undue amount of pressure on women to do it all, Sandberg helps us see that we simply cannot make everything happen the way we want it to. I have heard it said that only God gets his to-do list done every day and that is a helpful perspective for any Christian to have when his or her feet hit the floor in the morning. We simply cannot do it all.
But even more, sometimes our quest to have it all might be mixed with a desire to have too much. Because we are finite beings we have limited capacities. We were not made to have a million irons in the fire and do them all well. And while Sandberg cites research that states children in dual income households are no worse off than those in single income households, there is something to be said for the importance of a parent being there for his or her children. Children need their mothers, and the thought it is not always possible for a mother to be primarily at home with her children, a world where mom is spending more time focusing on advancing her own career than on her children’s lives hardly seems like the best place to grow up.
Sandberg provides some insightful observations about women and work, but falls short of turning those observations into correct actions. Surprisingly, she boldly asserts that men and women are different, but not different enough. She shatters the idea that women can have it all, but says that is okay and provides no real solutions to the problem of “mommy guilt.” Like so many non-Christian books on leadership and women, she understands the problems that face us but lacks the clear, biblical insight to give us models for change. As Christians, we know that is only possible because of the shed blood of our Christ. He leaned in all the way to the Cross, so we do not have to fight for our right to lead, work, and make a name for ourselves in the frenetic world in which we live.
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Anantapur: A senior post graduate student committed suicide at her hostel room in Sri Krishnadevaraya University here under on Monday under suspicious circumstances. A tense situation prevailed at the university hostel after a large number of the student’s family members held a protest, accusing the varsity authorities of being behind the suicide.Sources said, Prasanna Lakshmi, 23 of Gorantla was studying senior M.Sc. in Zoology, at Sri Krishnadevaraya University. She stayed at the Godavari hostel located in the university campus, on the Itikalapalli outskirts of Anantapur.
On Monday morning, Lakshmi Prasanna was found hanging from the ceiling at her room, No.306 in the hostel. Her roommates alerted the university authorities and also the police, who rushed the spot and found the girl hanging from the ceiling. Police and university authorities informed her parents, who rushed to the spot. They accused the university authorities and the zoology department of harassing Prasanna Lakshmi in many ways.

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Two new high-sensitivity current probes are now available for the Yokogawa families of mixed-signal oscilloscopes and ScopeCorders.
The 701917, covering a frequency range from DC to 50 MHz, and the 701918, covering DC to 120 MHz, offer sensitivities ten times higher than previous models (typically 1 V/A) along with low noise levels of typically 60 µA RMS. They are ideally suited to the measurement of low-level currents from about 1 mA to 5 A.
The probes feature a slim, lightweight sensor head which is easy to use in confined spaces. Automatic zero adjustment and demagnetisation are accessed via a button on the termination box, making setup quick and easy. An overload/jaw-unlocked warning is included for added safety.
Connection to the instrument is via the front-panel BNC connector. The power can be provided from the oscilloscope’s probe power option or from a separate probe power supply.
Applications include tests on LED drivers, controllers and power supplies, evaluation of embedded power supplies, measurements of the power consumption of low-voltage devices such as FPGAs and tests on embedded components in domestic appliances.
The 701917 and 701918 probes are designed for use with Yokogawa’s DLM2000 and DLM4000 Series of mixed-signal oscilloscopes and the DL850E and DL850EV Series of ScopeCorders.


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Since January 2007, HAR has been coordinating efforts with the City of Houston’s Homebuyer Assistance Program to create REALTOR awareness and education of the down payment assistance programs offered by the City of Houston. 435 REALTOR have participated in the program so far this year.
Fort Bend County assistance programs | Richmond – Some of the other assistance programs offered by Fort Bend include rent help, food assistance, and they may be able to help with shelter or a mortgage payment, and they also have a medication assistance program. Contact the Fort Bend County Social Services at (281) 403-8050 to learn more.
Basic Information about Lead in Drinking Water – State, city or county departments of health can also provide information about how you can have your child’s blood tested for lead. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that.
Trump tax policy could hurt low-income housing – With that in mind, McCasland plans to focus next year on alternative ways of assisting low-income residents: financing home repairs, providing down-payment assistance and piloting a program to build.
Down Payment Assistance Program, 14090 Southwest fwy. – Down Payment Assistance Program .. The Manors is located in Fort Bend County on Riverstone Boulevard, off Highway 6, just west of university boulevard (murphy road/fm 1092). Katy Living 8817 Highway 6, Ste 700 Missouri City, 77459 .
Fha Required Down Payment FHA Mortgage Loan Payment Calculator | What's My Payment? – FHA MIP FHA MIP is determined by your down payment and loan term. FHA MIP Explained + Monthly Escrow Escrow is a portion of your monthly payment that goes into an account with your mortgage holder that is used to pay your property taxes and annual homeowner’s insurance. FHA loans require escrow to be included in your mortgage payment. +
First time homebuyer programs, Down Payment Assistance. – Get Help with Down Payment Assistance Programs, First Time Homebuyer Programs, MCC mortgage credit certificates, and many other Special Programs on your New Home – (In New Homes now available in Texas, Harris County, Galveston County, Fort Bend County, City of Houston, Katy, Spring, Cypress, Dickinson, Rosenberg, or Bacliff, Tx)
Homebuyer Assistance Program (HAP) | City of Fort Worth, Texas – A financial subsidy is available in the form of closing costs and down payment assistance. Three percent of the loan amount may be used for closing costs and the remainder for down payment or all of the assistance may be used for down payment. Guidelines to participate in the program: The property must be located in Fort Worth city limits.
Today’s orders and opinions – Justice Scalia concurs in part and concurs in the judgment, joined by Thomas. The Court holds that attorneys who provide bankruptcy assistance are debt-relief agencies under the bankruptcy abuse law..
How to help those affected by the flooding in Nebraska and Iowa – A flood fund has been established solely for flood victims in Mills County, Iowa. Mills County Emergency Management. kits to homeowners and start assessing damage to provide recovery assistance. It.
Jumbo Loan Down Payment A Detailed Look at VA Jumbo Loans – Veterans United Home Loans – VA Jumbo Loan Down Payments. Whether you need a down payment for a VA jumbo loan will depend on a couple things, chiefly the county loan limit and how much VA loan entitlement you have. A veteran with full entitlement wanting to purchase a $500,000 home in a county where the loan limit is $525,000 doesn’t have to worry about a down payment.

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ISDA issued a letter to regulators to flag that it now expects the supplement to the 2006 ISDA Definitions and the Interbank Offered Rate (IBOR) Fallbacks Protocol to be effective around mid- to late-January 2021. After nearly four years of work, ISDA is now on the cusp of publishing a supplement to the 2006 ISDA Definitions and the related protocol. However, the timetable hinges on ISDA receiving a positive business review letter from the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) and then finalizing work with competition authorities in other jurisdictions.
Once ISDA hears from the competition authorities, it will give market participants approximately two-week notice of the official launch date. During this short period, firms will be able to adhere to the protocol "in escrow." Parties will be able to sign up on a binding but non-public basis so their adherence takes effect as soon as the protocol launches. As there is no regulation requiring institutions to incorporate new fallbacks into legacy trades, having backing for the protocol from day one will hopefully establish strong support for use of the fallbacks, even without a regulatory edict. The supplement and protocol will officially launch after this escrow period. As with all ISDA protocols, the IBOR Fallbacks Protocol will be voluntary—firms could alternatively choose to make changes to their legacy contracts on a bilateral basis, or opt to keep their outstanding trades unchanged. The supplement and protocol will then take effect approximately three months later.
From that point on, all new derivatives referencing the 2006 ISDA Definitions will automatically include the updated fallbacks for covered IBORs. The changes will apply to legacy derivatives as well if both counterparties have adhered to the protocol or have agreed similar bilateral amendments. Certain central counterparties also plan to apply the updated fallbacks to all cleared over-the-counter derivatives from the effective date. It is s possible that regulators could make an announcement before the end of this year on the future of LIBOR after 2021—in fact, the FCA has suggested as much. However, if there is an announcement on post-2021 dates for the cessation and/or non-representativeness of LIBOR, then the spread adjustments set out under the fallback methodology would be calculated and frozen from that point. In other words, the calculation of the spread adjustment would occur in the same way, irrespective of whether a regulator announcement comes before or after the effective date of the supplement and protocol.
Keywords: International, Banking, Securities, Benchmarks Reforms, Fallback Rate Benchmarks, IBOR, Timeline, Basel, ISDA
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The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (FED) adopted the final rule on Adjustable Interest Rate (LIBOR) Act.
The European Central Bank (ECB) published an updated list of supervised entities, a report on the supervision of less significant institutions (LSIs), a statement on macro-prudential policy.
The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) published a circular on the prudential treatment of crypto-asset exposures, an update on the status of transition to new interest rate benchmarks.
The European Commission (EC) adopted the standards addressing supervisory reporting of risk concentrations and intra-group transactions, benchmarking of internal approaches, and authorization of credit institutions.
The China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission (CBIRC) issued rules to manage the risk of off-balance sheet business of commercial banks and rules on corporate governance of financial institutions.
The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) made announcements to address sustainability issues in the financial sector.
The European Banking Authority (EBA) published regulatory standards on identification of a group of connected clients (GCC) as well as updated the lists of identified financial conglomerates.
The General Board of the European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB), at its December meeting, issued an updated risk assessment via the quarterly risk dashboard and held discussions on key policy priorities to address the systemic risks in the European Union.
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is seeking comments, until December 21, 2022, on the draft guidance for firms to support existing mortgage borrowers.
The Financial Stability Board (FSB) published a report that assesses progress on the transition from the Interbank Offered Rates, or IBORs, to overnight risk-free rates as well as a report that assesses global trends in the non-bank financial intermediation (NBFI) sector.


Spacex Falcon 9 Rocket Explosion Cause Why Helium. A vertical stack of three evenly spaced horizontal lines. Spacex isn’t completely sure what caused its falcon 9 rocket to explode on the launch pad on september 1 and destroy a $200 million.
The fuel used in the rocket is the main reason why many use helium. Spacex has a few answers about what might have caused the explosion of one of its falcon 9 rockets on september 1. Even after a month experts are unsure about the exact cause of the explosion but they have been able to narrow down the problem.
Spacex Blames Recent Rocket Explosion On Helium Tank Breach.
Spacex’s recent falcon 9 explosion seems to have been caused by a breach in the cryogenic helium system of the vehicle's upper oxygen tank,. They say spacex hasn't said exactly how the helium system failed, but the catastrophic nature of the explosion points to a likely scenario. The explosion was reportedly a result of a breached helium containment system.
Destructive Testing At The Spacex Test Site In Texas Contributed Significant Insight Into A Complex Fault Tree And The Company Hopes To Return The Falcon 9 Rocket To Flight Before The End Of The Year.
Spacex is close to replicating the failure that led to the catastrophic explosion of a falcon 9 rocket on september 1, 2016. The spacex explosion on june 28th was caused by a failed strut in the rocket's upper stage liquid oxygen tank, spacex chief executive officer elon musk said today. Spacex has a few answers about what might have caused the explosion of one of its falcon 9 rockets on september 1.
Two Months Ago, A Spacex Falcon 9 Rocket Exploded On The Launch Pad At Cape Canaveral, Destroying Both The Rocket And Its Payload, An Israeli Communications Satellite Bound For Orbit.
Spacex still doesn’t know exactly what caused its falcon 9 rocket to explode in september, but the company says it has narrowed down the problem to one of three helium pressure vessels in the. Spacex hopes to launch again before the end of the year, as its investigation zeroes in on the helium tank fault that caused a falcon 9 rocket to explode. After spacex’s falcon 9 rocket exploded while being fueled for a test fire in september, the company said it would be launching again by november.
Have Been Caused By The Falcon 9.
Last month spacex’ falcon 9 rocket exploded and nobody knew why. Spacex is making significant progress in replicating the failure in the helium pressurization system that led to the catastrophic launch pad explosion of the firms falcon 9 rocket during a routine. New york — spacex said oct.
All Rockets Need To Keep The Tank Pressurized During Flight.
28 that it is able to replicate the failure of a helium tank that is suspected, but yet to be confirmed, as the cause of falcon 9. In june 2015, a falcon 9 booster disintegrated about two minutes after liftoff with a dragon supply ship. When liquid oxygen is being consumed as fuel, the struts have to.


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Background: Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) demonstrate Variable responses to inhaled corticosteroids (ICS). The factors contributing to this variability are not well understood. Data from patients with asthma have suggested that low 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D] levels contribute to a lack of ICS response in asthma. The objective of this study was to determine whether serum levels of 25(OH)D were related to ICS responses in patients with COPD. Methods: A total of 60 exsmokers with severe COPD (mean forced expiratory volume in one second [FEV1] 1.07 L, 36% of predicted) spent 4 weeks free of any ICS, followed by 4 weeks of ICS use (fluticasone propionate 500 μg twice daily). Spirometry was performed prior to and after 4 weeks of ICS use. Blood 25(OH)D levels were measured prior to ICS use and examined for relationships to changes in FEV1 following the 4 weeks of ICS use. Results: The mean 25(OH)D level was 23.3 ± 9.3 ng/mL. There was a high prevalence of Vitamin D insufficiency (35%) and deficiency (40%). There was no relationship between baseline 25(OH)D and changes in FEV1 following 4 weeks of ICS. Conclusion: Baseline 25(OH)D does not contribute to the variation in short-term FEV1 responses to ICS in patients with severe COPD.
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Tech scouting downtown Los Angeles, LMGI Member Snappy ‘Kyle’ Oliver takes his crew to his favorite lunch spot; Yang Chow’s in China Town.
Located at 819 North Broadway beneath the Bing Wong Hotel the restaurant has been serving lunch scouts since the 1970’s.
Started by five brothers and named after their hometown the Yun family come from generations of cooks and restauranteurs. The menu is massive and their signature dish is the slippery shrimp. The shrimp is Snappy’s favorite but it takes more than yummy shellfish to make our favorite scout lunch spot list.
The best lunch scout spots must allow for; easy access, pre- ordering, immediate seating, service in under an hour, entrees delicious enough for self proclaimed ‘foodies’, parking for the scout van within two blocks and at its best reflects the culture of the area in the food. Yang Chow meets all those requirements and tells your fortune too.

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If the neutering was going to affect him it would have been right away. My own cat acted fine one day (playing in the yard under supervision) & at the emergency vet the next day with severe anemia. Cats are good at hiding illness. I know the anemia did not come on overnight. She was just hiding it until she couldn't hide it anymore. Don't beat yourself up over neutering your baby. That wasn't the problem. It was just this horrible virus.
Beth Lynda Wilson <longhornf...@verizon.net> wrote: >I agree, but admit, it had me thinking twice. It's heartbreaking that he was >fine one day and on death's door the next :( I miss him so! > >Bless all the sick furry babies... > >L >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Lorrie" <felineres...@frontier.com> >To: <email@example.com> >Sent: Monday, January 02, 2012 3:07 PM >Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] neutering a positive cat > > >>I really doubt it was neutering that caused his death. Anemia is >> one of the complications of FelV. >> >> >> On 01-02, Lynda Wilson wrote: >>> Sorry to say, but I had my kitten neutered at 6 mos. of age (at the >>> time we did not know he was positive because he actually tested neg >>> for it when he was much younger). He died at 9 mos of severe anemia & >>> other complications due to being FeLV positive. I don't know if >>> getting him neutered triggered this but now I'm wondering since you've >>> mentioned this. Has anyone else heard of this? >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Felvtalk mailing list >> Felvtalk@felineleukemia.org >> http://fusion2.fusionhost.com/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org > > >_______________________________________________ >Felvtalk mailing list >Felvtalk@felineleukemia.org >http://fusion2.fusionhost.com/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org _______________________________________________ Felvtalk mailing list Felvtalk@felineleukemia.org http://fusion2.fusionhost.com/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org


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Introducing contemporary artist Kazuyuki Yamada.
<Table of contents>
1. Profile introduction
Author name: Kazuyuki Yamada
I take pictures and play with shapes and balance.
2020 “Tantan” / Shōonji Art Project (Tokyo)
2019 “WALK” / Clouds Art + Coffee (Tokyo)
2022 Solution/structure/revised/ruins / THE blank GALLERY (Tokyo)
2021 PAPER WORKS / THE blank GALLERY (Tokyo)
2020 PAPER WORKS / THE blank GALLERY (Tokyo)
2019 TRAVERSE Lazy Susan Gallery (New York)
2018 “Art de vivre – one wall exhibition –” / Gallery Conceal Shibuya (Tokyo)
2. Work introduction
3. Recommended points
4.Other information/reference sites/media
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PETALING JAYA: Despite the announcement that putting on face masks would be mandatory from Saturday, a total of 127 people were arrested for violating the new rule on the day it was enforced.
They were among 315 individuals arrested that day for breaching the standard operating procedure (SOP) under the recovery movement control order (RMCO), Senior Ministry (Security Cluster) Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob said in a statement today.
Three of those arrested have been remanded and the others have been issued compounds.
Apart from those held for failing the wear a face mask, 38 were arrested for violating other conditions in the SOP and another 150 for being present at large gatherings where social distancing is impossible.
All the arrests were made when various enforcement agencies conducted 63,473 checks across the country. In all, 3,821 supermarkets, 5,545 restaurants, 1,954 hawkers, 1,326 factories, 3,602 banks and 820 government offices were checked.
Ismail had, on July 23, announced that the government had made it mandatory for all to wear face masks while in public areas and public transportations beginning August.
He had said that the decision was made in view of the increasing number of new Covid-19 cases in the past weeks due to public non-compliance of government SOP.
Separately, Ismail said action was taken against 28 individuals on Saturday for failing to adhere to their home quarantine SOP.
The senior minister however did not specify what the offences were, although it has been previously mentioned that those on home quarantine are not allowed to even leave their rooms and must undergo a second Covid-19 screening on the 13th day.
According to Ismail, the authorities found out about the violations in checks conducted on 2,263 individuals who have been placed on 14-day home quarantine nationwide.
Meanwhile, Ismail said from July 24 to Aug 1, a total of 4,286 Malaysians have returned home from abroad and placed in designated quarantine centres gazetted by the government, 13 of whom have since been sent to hospital for treatment.
Previously, the government had allowed returnees from abroad to undergo their mandatory isolation at home, provided they abided by all the guidelines and requirements.
However, due to a spike in the number of cases, the government has since required all returnees to be quarantined at specific centres, and that only those already performing home quarantine would be allowed to continue doing so until the end of their 14 days isolation.