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وَالْمِيزَانَ بِالْقِسْطِ لاَ نُكَلِّفُ نَفْساً إِلاَّ وُسْعَهَا وَإِذَا قُلْتُمْ فَاعْدِلُواْ وَلَوْ كَانَ ذَا قُرْبَى وَبِعَهْدِ اللّهِ أَوْفُواْ ذَلِكُمْ وَصَّاكُم بِهِ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَذَكَّرُونَ (سورۃ الانعام, آية 152)
And come not nigh to the orphan's property, except to improve it, until he attains the age of full strength; give measure and weight with (full) justice; no burden do We place on any soul, but that which it can bear, whenever ye speak, speak justly, even if a near relative is concerned; and fulfill the Covenant of Allah: thus doth He command you, that ye may remember. (Surah 6, Verse 152)
The Karim family have five children. The parents naturally love them all but Samar always feels that they discriminate against her. Her father contacts her oldest brother every day, asks him how he is and if he needs anything. He does the same with the oldest girl, asks how her examinations are proceeding and if she needs anything. He plays all kinds of games with her two younger brothers. But he is not interested in Samar. She tries to be a good girl and performs all the hard chores at home. But when her brothers make a mistake, their father forgives them easily and when she errs, he is angry and punishes her. Recently her brothers have begun treating Samar as her father does and she is very miserable. She told her class teacher how she feels and the teacher asked her father to come and see her to talk about Samar and how his conduct is hurtful for her. Then she opened the Quran and showed him Surah 6, Verse 152: "Whenever ye speak, speak justly, even if a near relative is concerned." "Are you treating Samar justly?" she asked him. He admitted that he was depriving his daughter. The teacher explained that the verse also refers to just treatment among children, and how important it is for a parent to treat children equally without discrimination between the sexes. "And perhaps because Samar is a girl," she added, "you must be sevenfold careful not to deprive her."
Explanation: This important Quran verse encourages us all to be more objective with regard to our families. Parents must not discriminate against their daughters and favor their sons in any way. In many families the boys receive preferential treatment. But it was with good reason that the Quran commands us to act with justice and equality. A daughter like Samar who grows up with a sense of deprivation will find it hard in the future to function as a good mother. In her maternal role, she needs to feel secure and to transmit this security to her children. A mother who is weak and has internalized a sense of inferiority will raise children who are also weak and feel inferior. Children imbibe from their mothers not only milk but also a sense of security. Moreover, such a mother will find it hard to make a contribution to the society in which she lives, to initiate and to take responsibility. She will always prefer the passive stance and allow her husband to undertake all the difficult tasks because she has never been encouraged or trusted or told how wonderful she is. She will be dependent on her husband but will not be a helpmate for him and assist him, her family and her society.


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A broken down forklift can destroy a business’s productivity. We have identified ten common problem areas that can occur with any brand of forklift. Educating yourself on these issues will allow you to be able to prevent downtime and keep your forklift running properly.
Forklifts use a lot of components like clamps, hoses, and o-rings in the hydraulic, drivetrain, and cooling systems.
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Prevention: Check hoses for signs of wear. A regular maintenance plan can help spot wear before leaks start.
A forklift mast can fail, causing the forks to not be able to raise or lower.
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Prevention: Find and replace/fix exposed wires, properly maintain the battery, and clean the fuel system.
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Accessories will stop working because of broken wires, dirty contacts/pins, blown light bulbs, malfunctioning assemblies, or blown fuses.
Prevention: Clean electrical contacts for the accessories and grease with dielectric grease to help reduce wear. Replace light bulbs as soon as possible.
It’s not uncommon for a forklift to show no signs of issues, then one day it just won’t start. In this sense, forklifts can act much like a personal vehicle.
Dead battery, compromised connection to battery, fuel system leaks/blocks, bad starter, and broken wires are the most common reasons why a forklift won’t start.
Prevention: Clean the fuel system and battery terminals.
All forklifts will have a battery. Internal combustion forklifts use a battery to start the machine and an electric forklift uses a battery as their source of power.
Battery issues are likely caused by a dead or dying battery, a damaged connector, or a bad alternator.
Prevention: The first sign of a bad IC battery is that the forklift won’t start. Electric forklift batteries require regular watering and to follow a regular charging schedule.
A rough-running forklift is a forklift that is sputtering, backfiring, or losing power.
The main reasons that cause a forklift to run rough are leaks from the regulator, a dirty throttle body, blocked fuel filter, weak/dead battery, broken wires, and leaking vacuum hoses.
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The issue triggering the light will vary case by case, but the most common reasons include bad sensors, bad contacts, bad switches, bad wires, and incorrect fuel/air mixture.
Prevention: These issues are hard to prevent and usually happen unexpectedly. Best practices to prevent failures are to limit excessive heat, clean debris, properly water batteries, and keep the fuel system clean.
We see that most electrical-related issues are caused by buttons and switches.
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The most common cooling systems problems are bad radiators, broken water pumps, bad thermostats, broken hoses, and loose hose clamps.
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Alum of Aspen Music Festival and School takes center stage as conductor
Roderick Cox was supposed to be conducting in Aspen last summer, but upon his arrival at the Aspen-Pitkin County Airport, he tested positive for COVID-19 and was immediately sent home.
Now he’s back, he’s well and he’s ready for action.
A few years ago, Cox was in the Aspen Music Festival and School’s conducting program, where he was studying scores with mentors, practicing technique with student orchestras and watching a lot of rehearsals to see how it’s done.
Moving from being the conductor one minute to playing the French horn the next was more challenging than one might suppose.
In addition to his own time on the podium, Cox is also seeking to promote the progress of young classical musicians — not just conductors.
The Roderick Cox Music Initiative, which began in 2019, has so far awarded $35,000 in scholarships to promising students who aspire to have a future in classical music
Centered on Minneapolis and St. Paul, where Cox served as associate conductor of the Minnesota Orchestra, the organization seeks, in particular, to serve young people from the Native American, Latino and African American communities.
The program, which Cox will be conducting Friday, features two soloists.
There’s no double concerto: Each is featured in a different work.
Cellist Alisa Weilerstein will take center stage for the Saint-Saëns cello concerto, and soprano Raven MacMillan for the Handel Gloria.
Cox says Weilerstein was originally to be the only soloist.
MacMillan was added due to changes in the festival schedule.
Cox said that since Aspen had to eliminate the Philharmonia Orchestra from the season due to the housing shortage, “we all have to be a bit flexible.”
In the meantime, Aspen-based filmmaker Diane Moore has been immersed in the process — and has placed Cox at the center of her new film, "Conducting Life."
She wished to explore how music can change a life, capturing Cox's highs and lows on his musical journey to the conductor’s podium, including his time at the music festival and school.
The film was presented by Aspen Film at the Isis Theatre in Aspen on Wednesday.
The screening was followed by a conversation with Moore and Cox.
Cox will perform Friday with the Aspen Chamber Symphony in the music tent.


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“It is said that during World War II, garlic was used to address the wounds of soldiers due to its antimicrobial impacts”.
Garlic is a famous functional food innately from central Asia and nowadays cultivated across the world. The history of garlic is very interesting. This food has been known for its medical potency since 5000 years. It is well renowned as a therapeutic and prophylactic agent and to cure problems like diarrhoea, asthma, fever, constipation, leprosy, and other infections. Out of numerous health gains of garlic, the anticancer impact is perhaps the most recognizable.
It is also evident from the outcomes of recently done collective epidemiological studies that garlic consumption is strongly related to reduced cancer risk, especially the intestinal and gastric.
It is not untrue to say that along with the striking combination of chemotherapies and other cancer treatments, intake of such anti-cancer foods make a great difference in the treatment efficacy and recovery speed of cancer.
- What is garlic?
- Bioactive constituents of garlic
- Chemopreventive effects of garlic
- Therapeutic potential of garlic
- Different ways to consume garlic
1. What is garlic?
Garlic is a type of bulbous perennial plant with a characteristic pungent taste and peculiar aroma. After the onion, garlic is the second most widely used bulb. Worldwide, it is known with different names, viz. rustic treacle, allium, clove garlic, camphor of the poor, the nectar of the gods, and poor man’s treacle.
2. Bioactive constituents of garlic
A raw fresh garlic bulb consists of water, protein, carbohydrates, amino acids, fatty acids, fibre, vitamin C, vitamin A, phenols, minerals (iron, magnesium, potassium, sodium, and calcium) and organosulfur compounds (OSCs).
The major sulfur component found in garlic is alliin. Generally, garlic cloves contain approximately 8g/kg alliin, which upon chopping or crushing, converted into allicin (the bio-active). This component is unstable, thereby readily decomposes into allyl methyl trisulfide, diallyl sulfide (DAS), diallyl disulfide (DADS), diallyltrisulfide (DATS), and ajoene.
The OSCs mainly categorized into two types: water-soluble and oil soluble. Water-soluble OSCs present in small quantities in garlic but considered as the major bioactive ingredients for cancer prevention.
3. Chemopreventive effects of garlic
Garlic acts as a chemoprotective agent by acting at three stages of cancer: initiation, promotion, and progression using different mechanisms and actions.
These anti-carcinogenic actions are:
Scavenging free radicals, suppressing mutagenesis, inhibiting protein folding’s, regulating enzyme activities, evasion ofimmunosurveillance, and impeding cancer cellular behaviours. Let’s explore these in little deep:
#Garlic significantly impedes chemically induced mutagenesis and obstruct the extracellular mutagen effects.
#Garlic is a potent antioxidant. The OSCs like Allylcysteine (SAC) and S-allyl-mercaptocysteine (SAMC) present considerable free radical scavenging properties, reduces lipid peroxidation, improves circulatory antioxidants, and raise radical-scavenging enzymes activities.
#Being enriched with ajoene, garlic leads to misfolded protein accumulation, which otherwise aggregates in cancer cells and stimulates unfolded protein response.
#The phytochemicals present in garlic help to prevent the transportation of carcinogens to tissues and organs by lowering the active toxins or via impeding interaction with cellular macromolecules.
#Garlic hinders the progression of carcinogenesis by exhibiting anti-invasive and anti-metastatic properties.
#Exhibits potent anti-proliferative activities and leads to apoptosis of cancer cells by stimulating DNA fragmentation, enhanced intracellular free calcium, downregulation of bcl-2, and up-regulation of Bax and p53.
#Other than above-mentioned properties, garlic also exhibits potent immunomodulatory properties.
In these ways, the garlic shows its chemoprotective properties and exerts a significant place in anti-cancer foods.
“Along with garlic, also include cancer-preventive species in the food for cancer patients”. Altogether, these foods exerta significant impact on recovery from cancer.
4. Therapeutic potential of garlic
It is very difficult to treat cancer, once it spread throughout the body. Components of garlic can also help to block various signalling pathways that play an essential role in cell migration and differentiation.
The therapeutic use of garlic as tablets and injections exert significant efficacy in improving the condition of a patient. Therefore, it can be said that garlic is not only contains chemoprotective properties but also shows significant potency for cancer therapy.
5. Different ways to consume garlic
“The intake of 1∼2 cloves of intact garlic every day is advantageous to human health”
But, the question is how we can consume garlic?
Basically, in the market you can find garlic in four preparations:
1) fresh garlic
2) Garlic oil
3) Garlic powder
4) AGE (aged garlic extract)
In Indian cuisines, we use garlic as part of vegetable curries, masala, or as toppings. The best way through which we can grab the whole nutritional value of garlic is AGE.
What is AGE?
It is known as aged garlic extract, prepared using ethanol. In this process, garlic is aged for many years and during this time the harsh, odorous, and irritating components of garlic turned into safe and stable sulfur compounds. The bioavailability of AGE is the highest than the other forms of garlic.
Garlic is a boon for cancer patients and must be included in the diet for cancer patients.

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Beach Baby 'U R' by Eoin Glaister
Eoin Glaister's video for Beach Baby's U R finds a new way to explore a trauma that affects almost everyone at some point or another. Lily Newmark is the girl going through the 'Five stages of Break-Up Grief' during an English summer of cinematic loveliness, haunted by Beach Baby frontman Lawrence - evidently the object of her affections.
It's wistful, surreal, and of a piece with a song displaying fine old school guitar jangliness. Newmark deadpans her way from Denial to Mania and beyond - and Glaister reveals below that most of the crew on the shoot turned out to be experts on the subject.
"Break-ups tend to be messy, complicated things. Websites such as sheknows.com and thelovewhisperer.com, however, divide them up into five simple stages. This seemed like an appropriately fun way into the video, one that worked with the structure of the song and also an opportunity to approach something in a slightly less linear manner.
"The concept and resultant video became exponentially better every time someone else came on board and I am very grateful and fortunate for the talent we managed to trick into working on this. Unfortunately, a good forty percent of the crew had recently come out of relationships, which led to a reasonable amount of tangled words and moonwalking out of rooms. I think the method approach had a positive impact though."
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Conservation isn't all slow, precise work in clean studios-these pictures are from a recent session of casting experiments for my MA work, when I spent two hours standing over a furnace casting 8 different sample of tin bronze at temperatures of up to 1180c.
I'm not just doing this because I like fire-I'm researching an ancient repair technique known as casting-on or casting-in.
I don't intend to carry out these repairs on objects, or suggest than anyone else does-there are all kind of reasons not to-but I'm researching the technique because understanding how objects have been made and repaired in the past helps us to care for them for the future and sheds light on the context in which they were made.
In order to explain the technique I have to start at the beginning, with lost was casting. Lost wax casting, in case you have never encountered it, is an amazingly simple, subtle, ancient, modern, brilliant technique that has fascinated me since childhood. The basic concept goes like this: A model is made in wax, and then encased (invested) in clay or plaster. Once the investment has dried the wax is melted out through a hole in the plaster, leaving a cavity the exact shape of the model. The investment is fired to remove moisture and traces of wax, and molten metal poured into the mould cavity. The mould is broken away to reveal (hopefully) a metal copy of that original wax model, perfect in every tiny detail. This is how many sculptures are cast: jewellery, machine parts, gold teeth and many, many other things.
A founder who breaks the mould and finds the casting is not perfect is going to need a pretty serious defect to persuade her to start again from scratch. Not only does it waste a huge amount of time, effort and fuel and destroy your profit margin, you would also have no guarantee that your next attempt will come out any better. Producing a bronze without a single fin, crack, air bubble, pit, inclusion, potato, breakthough, or area of porosity is close to impossible so if you can, you work with what you've got. Even if your bronze is perfect, it's quite possible you cast it in sections and need to put them together.
In a modern foundry most assembly and repair work is done by TIG (tungsten inert gas) welding but historic foundries employed a range of techniques. In a cast-in repair new metal is cast directly in to a void in the object. These repairs turn up all over the place. A German monk writing around 1120AD under the name 'Theophilus' (his real name may have been Roger, but no one's quite sure) gave detailed instructions for using the technique to replace a missing turret on a censer of architectural design. His instructions could be summed up as:
There are examples of repairs like this in many objects from all over the world, and I am experimenting to see if and how the repair bonds the rest of the object. I have cast 8 bronze tokens and I am now casting new bronze onto them by different methods at different temperatures between 1080°c and 1180°c. If the new bronze stays attached to the old in any of the samples I will cut sections from them and use a microscope to examine the crystalline structure of the metal at the join in order to understand how and why they have bonded.


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Dinners don’t have to be complex to be full of flavor.
I spent very little time actively cooking this (the squash and brussels roasted, the tofu was in the air fryer) but I made sure the flavor would be there.
The squash got a teaspoon of maple syrup drizzled over it. The brussels were smeared with a grainy mustard and the tofu was slathered in @.
Simple, easy and full of flavor. That’s my goal for the week for everything I put into my body. Sometimes overthinking can get the better of me, and I want to remember this week that simple can be many different parts and still be fabulous.
459 cals, 36.3g c, 39g f, 42.4g p
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In this paper, a gate-all-around junctionless tunnel field effect transistor (JLTFET) based on heterostructure of compound and group III–V semiconductors is introduced and simulated. In order to blend the high tunneling efficiency of narrow band gap material JLTFETs and the high electron mobility of III–V JLTFETs, a type I heterostructure junctionless TFET adopting Ge–Al x Ga1−x As–Ge system has been optimized by numerical simulation in terms of aluminum (Al) composition. To improve device performance, we considered a nanowire structure, and it was illustrated that high-performance logic technology can be achieved by the proposed device. The optimal Al composition founded to be around 20 % (x = 0.2). The numerical simulation results demonstrate that the proposed device has low leakage current I OFF of ~1.9 × 10−17, I ON of 4 µA/µm, I ON/I OFF current ratio of 1.7 × 1011 and subthreshold swing SS of 12.6 mV/decade at the 40 nm gate length and temperature of 300 K.
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Molaei Imen Abadi, R., Sedigh Ziabari, S.A. Representation of type I heterostructure junctionless tunnel field effect transistor for high-performance logic application. Appl. Phys. A 122, 616 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00339-016-0151-3
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MADISON, Wis. - Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen says he will seek permission to enforce a state law that effectively ended collective bargaining for public employees while his office appeals a judge's ruling striking it down.
Van Hollen's office said Saturday it will seek a stay of Dane County Circuit Judge Juan Colas's decision overturning most of the law championed by Republican Gov. Scott Walker.
The Republican attorney general said his office believes the law is "constitutional in all respects."
Van Hollen said the law should "continue in effect as it has for more than a year while the appellate courts address the legal issues."
Colas ruled Friday that the law violates the state and federal constitutions and is null and void. The governor's office has said it will appeal.
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- Cheesehead-wearing Wisconsinite joins people from across country at inauguration
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It’s always nice to see familiar faces in a new city- especially when those familiar faces belong to the members of Kung Fu and that city is New Orleans! This week, one of The Music Vibes’ favorite acts heads south for shows surrounding the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival and we could not be more thrilled! The musical chemistry between band members Tim Palmieri (guitar), Robert Somerville (tenor sax), Todd Stoops (keyboards), Chris DeAngelis (bass guitar), and Adrian Tramontano (drums/percussion) is contagious as their audience finds themselves catching the beat and dancing along! Many music fans enjoys the best of varied genres so it is no wonder that Kung Fu’s fresh new take on fusion wins over music’s most enthusiastic supporters. Kung Fu has been well received in the past few years and their release of Tsar Bomba this past summer was no exception. Rest assured that Kung Fu’s upcoming performances will include both old and new favorites!
The high-energy funk fusion band will be making numerous New Orleans appearances ranging from a block party to multi-act festivals and even a Steely Dan cover show! That’s right- Kung Fu will be kicking off the festivities by participating in the Oak St Block Party alongside The Nth Power, Leftover Salmon, The Heard, Sonic Bloom, Eddie Roberts and more! A special evening of music will commence when Kung Fu plays a Steely Dan Royal Scam show with Mr. Bernard Purdie, himself, as well as Al Schnier of moe. and additional performers! From there, they have appearances of some of Nola’s most renowned venues- Blue Nile, Mardi Gras World, and the Parish at House of Blues. Since so many artists flock to the Crescent City this time of year, you can bet you’ll get a well-rounded musical fix regardless of which show (or shows) you choose!
Kung Fu’s tendency to get jazzy makes them a perfect match for Nawlins’ biggest musical event and we were certainly are eager to see exactly what they have planned. We caught up with bassist Chris DeAngelis to find out more! DeAngelis joined the band a few years back but seeing them play together, you would never be able to tell he was not part of the original lineup. His musicianship on bass fits the band perfectly and we were thrilled to get his perspective on what they’ve been up to!
Kung Fu has had a presence at the shows surrounding Jazz Fest for the past few years- had you ever attended as a patron or did you first become familiar with this time of year as a performer? Any fest stories that immediately come to mind?
I’ve only recently started attending Jazz Fest over the last couple years. Last year I checked out the festival grounds and in just under an hour I was able to see Phish, Robert Plant and Branford Marsalis at the same festival. Those kinds of choices surely don’t present themselves every day. Its concert ADD at its finest.
Often, festivals bring to mind open fields and scenic views, but Jazz Fest turns the entire city into stomping grounds for the music fans. Can you describe the experience of a city being transformed in urban festival grounds? Any venue you are especially looking forward to playing? Any advice for a first timer navigating the scene?
You can either have a preconceived plan of shows that you want to attend or you can just wait until you get there and let the city guide you. Both options can be fun , but if you’re looking to wing it the only advice I can give you is to open your ears and follow your heart.
Any must-eat meals or must-see attractions?
I always try to hit up Mothers while I’m in New Orleans. The Ferdi special is a must for me.
Naughty Professor is really rocking the Nawlins’ scene lately and is playing numerous opening slots. Have you had the opportunity to see them play before?
No, but now I’m really excited to see them.
What inspired you to play a Steely Dan cover show (both in December and during Fest)? In what ways will your musicianship be inspired by the band and in what ways can we expect to see your own styles?
I’m not sure exactly how the idea came about but everyone in the band are big Dan fans and love the Royal Scam record. The idea was tossed around when we were trying to think of ideas for our holiday shows at Toads Place. We really wanted them to be special and when Jon Herrington and Bernard Purdie were added to the bill then things really got interesting. Learning and playing the music was a huge learning experience for myself and I’m sure everyone else. Pushing yourself beyond your comfort levels is vital to any musical growth I think.
Which bassists have been influential in your own journey?
There’s so so many but here’s a few off the top of my head
Any performances you’d like to catch while in Nola?
Our performance schedule is pretty jam packed so I’m not sure how much time I’ll have for any R&R!
How is your experience in Kung Fu different than The Breakfast, where you take on the lead vocals?
The Breakfast is a much more rock, open ended and improvising kind of band where Kung Fu is conceptually a little different. We don’t take as many musical risks and things tend to be a little more concise and scripted to put on a tighter show. Both can be really fun though. Depends on the vibe but Kung Fu has definitely been known to get a little weird too
Would you consider this the start of festival season? What do you have in store for the summer?
Yes i guess this is the start of festival season. We are playing a lot of festivals and we will hopefully be incorporating some of the cheap homemade pyrotechnics that I’ve been cultivating in my back yard.
Last time this year you were preparing to release Tsar Bomba. How did releasing an album in the height of festival season allow you to spread the word? What have become your favorite songs to play?
Wow has it been a year already? It seems like just yesterday that we started playing those tunes. I enjoy Hollywood kisses and Belatone the most I would say
We were sorry to hear about Stoops’ back crack gone wrong! Is he healing okay?
Any experiences with overzealous fans that have left you guys laughing?
Only thing I can say is that if I see a gigantic, excited man running towards me yelling my name in the early morning hours, I’m definitely running in the opposite direction.
How do you select which musicians/songs to cover in your Hood Rat Bass series? How did this venture begin?
The whole Hood Rat bass vid series came about over the last few months actually. My apartment is very poorly insulated and in my attempts to be as frugal as possible with the god awful electric heat, I like to practice with my hood on. The past few months have been a very creative time and the videos are being well received ,which is pretty motivating to produce more. I just try to play my favorite songs of all time that would sound cool on 5 string bass. I’m always open for suggestions too! Who knows you might even see a few gigs lined up once the repertoire grows some more.
The Music Vibes really appreciates the heart behind Brotherly Love Productions! What has been your experience working with them and what to do you value most in a music- related partnership?
Brotherly love has been nothing but love for this guy! They are big music fans who really put that kind of passion behind everything they do. That goes a long way with me and they are super professional.
If you were to give advice to an aspiring musician, what would you say?
I would say they best thing to do is to learn as much as you can all the time and NEVER stop being open to new musical experiences. I have found something useful in every single genre of music that has helped shape my own personal style over the years and I never intend on stopping that growth. There’s only two kinds of music, good and bad. And I intend on seeking out all the good stuff and hopefully making some of it too.
If you are not familiar with Kung Fu, your ears will definitely want to make their acquaintance at one of the following events:
Be sure to “Do the Right Thing” and catch one of Jazz Fest’s finest acts!!
Visit www.kungfumusic.com to find out more!
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Tollywood sensation Charmme, who made her dream debut with Amitabh Bachchan, in Hindi, with Bbuddah Hoga Tera Baap, is in awe of the Mast Mast girl Raveena Tandon.
The 23-year-old actor who had the opportunity to work with Raveena in the film, is all praises for the Mohra actress. "Raveena is so full of life. We got along like a house on fire on the sets and it was such a pleasure working with her. She didn't have any airs of being an established actress. I could easily relate with her, "gushes Charmme.


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By Daniella Miletic
Children and teenagers are increasingly languishing on remand before they are found guilty of an offence, the state's child-safety watchdog has warned.
The surge in the number of children being refused bail over the past two years was "absolutely scandalous" and has been veiled in secrecy, according to the Victorian commissioner for children and young people Bernie Geary.
Mr Geary said that of the 83 people at Parkville Youth Residential Centre last week, only 19 had been sentenced, meaning that more than 75 per cent of children and young people at the centre are still awaiting their day in court. He said 10 of the children on remand, or 15 per cent, were aged between 10 and 14 years old.
"It's probably the state's best-kept secret that these children are locked up and haven't been tried and that most of them, once they have been tried, are released into the community," Mr Geary said. "It's just crazy."
He said for many children and young people incarceration was "the beginning of the end", saying that a stint on remand could encourage a cycle of re-offending. "These young people are much, much better off living in the community than they are being locked up.
"Locking a child up disconnects them from family and community and that disconnect can become permanent," he said. "It also means that that person, without choice, is pushed into a cohort of young people who are all struggling to survive themselves and, quite frankly, they learn extremely bad habits from each other."
Former Children's Court president Peter Couzens warned of the rise at a forum earlier this year, saying there had been a 57 per cent surge in the number of young people under 18 being refused bail between October and the end of December in 2014 (176 young people) compared to the same time in 2013 (112). Children under 15 now comprise 24 per cent of young people on remand.
Many youth justice advocates are blaming the surge on changes to the Bail Act made in late 2013, which included the introduction of a new offence to break a condition of bail. The amendments fail to distinguish between adults and children.
"A 14-year-old faces the same obstacles if charged with breaching a bail condition as a 54-year-old charged with a like offence," said Tiffany Overall, a spokeswoman for Smart Justice for Young People.
Children's advocates are calling on the government to amend the Bail Act to exempt children. "In my view nothing short of an amendment to the bail act will address this alarming increase in young person's remand and of course the subsequent damage to young people as a result of being remanded," Anglicare Victoria chief executive officer Paul McDonald said.
Mr Geary agreed but said that as well as legislative changes, a review of police cautioning was needed in order for police officers across the state (who are enforcing bail conditions for young people) to be more consistent. More consistency in the way bail justices - volunteers who decide whether young people should be allowed bail or should be detained until sentencing - make decisions was also needed, he said.
Mr Geary said he wanted more discussion about the possibility of creating "bail hostels" for young people awaiting sentencing. "If a kid has got nowhere to live a magistrate would probably say to him or herself, 'If I bail this young person he or she goes out into homelessness and it is probably safer to have them locked up' ... and that's not just," he said.
Jesuit Social Services chief executive Julie Edwards has also called on the government to increase the age of criminal responsibility. "Ten and 11-year-old children are currently being charged with offences and remanded in custody when more age-appropriate responses are needed," she said. "Children on remand have not been found guilty of a crime. This clearly demonstrates a lack of adequate alternatives.
"Prison is no place for primary school-aged children."
Minister for Families and Children Jenny Mikakos said "the previous Liberal government's introduction of new bail laws in 2013 has coincided with an increase in the number of children and young people remanded in custody".
Ms Mikakos said the Department of Justice was undertaking a review into bail laws at the Attorney-General's request.
Children on remand:
- Of the 83 children and young people at Parkville Youth Residential Centre last week, only 19 had been sentenced. Ten of the children on remand, or 15 per cent, were aged between 10 and 14 years old.
- There was a 57 per cent increase in the number of young people refused bail between October and the end of December in 2014 compared to the same time in 2013.
- Children under 15 now make up 24 per cent of young people on remand.
- 89 per cent of young people on remand have a history of alcohol and/or drug misuse.
- 60 per cent were victims of abuse, trauma or neglect.
- 56 per cent had been suspended or expelled from school.
- 41 per cent had previous child protection involvement.
(SOURCES: Victorian Commission for Children and Young People, Aboriginal Justice Forum and a 2013 Youth Parole Board report)

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Do you remember the story about how the big bad government forced Wells Fargo to take TARP funds they didn't want? Take a look at who is second on the list of the most troubled banks. Perhaps the Wells Fargo execs were more worried about their own compensation packages than their bank's health when they were making those noises about TARP.
Does anyone think it’s just a little weird to be stampeded into a $700 billion solution to the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression by the very people who brought us the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression?
How about a second opinion?
This may be the best explanation for how we got in this financial mess. Here is just a sample:
It may come as a surprise to the champions of deregulation, but nobody likes regulation. The restrictions that were placed on banks, S&Ls, and other institutions in the 1930s weren't put there because someone thought it would be fun. They were put in place because they addressed problems that had just been clearly and painfully revealed. They were put in place because they were necessary.
"You've heard of mental depression; this is a mental recession," Gramm tells the Washington Times, adding that despite all the bad news out there US economic growth continues at a rate of approximately 1 percent. "We may have a recession; we haven't had one yet."
Adds Gramm: "We have sort of become a nation of whiners. You just hear this constant whining, complaining about a loss of competitiveness, America in decline...We've never been more dominant; we've never had more natural advantages than we have today...Misery sells newspapers. Thank God the economy is not as bad as you read in the newspaper every day."
This comes on the heels of McCain himself saying of economic distress, "a lot of this is psychological. Because I agree the fundamentals of our economy is still strong.”
I smell a great attack ad coming out of these remarks.
Picture a guy pumping gas, and a narrator's voice saying "John McCain thinks the problems with the economy are all in your head." And the guy answers back, "If that's so, then would John McCain like to pay for my $4 gas?"
Picture a woman buying groceries, and the narrator says "John McCain says a lot of our problems with the economy are psychological." The woman replies, "There's nothing psychological about my grocery bill."
Then picture a family standing outside of a house with a foreclosure sign, and the narrator says "John McCain says the fundamentals of our economy are still strong." And the father replies "Have him tell that to my banker."
Then close with something like "John McCain doesn't understand America's problems, so how can he solve them?"
People who are watching their bank accounts bleed and their property values plummet don't like to be told it's all in their heads.
If the Obama campaign or its allies would run a bunch of ads like that right now, this race would be over.
"Am I the only guy in this country who's fed up with what's happening? Where the hell is our outrage? We should be screaming bloody murder. We've got a gang of clueless bozos steering our ship of state right over a cliff, we've got corporate gangsters stealing us blind, and we can't even clean up after a hurricane much less build a hybrid car. But instead of getting mad, everyone sits around and nods their heads when the politicians say, "Stay the course."
"Stay the course? You've got to be kidding. This is America, not the Titanic. I'll give you a sound bite: Throw the bums out!"
"& someone has to speak up. I hardly recognize this country anymore. The President of the United States is given a free pass to ignore the Constitution, tap our phones, and lead us to war on a pack of lies. Congress responds to record deficits by passing a huge tax cut for the wealthy (thanks, but I don't need it). The most famous business leaders are not the innovators but the guys in handcuffs. While we're fiddling in Iraq, the Middle East is burning and nobody seems to know what to do. And the press is waving pom-poms instead of asking hard questions.
That's not the promise of America my parents and yours traveled across the ocean for. I've had enough. How about you?
"I'll go a step further. You can't call yourself a patriot if you're not outraged. This is a fight I'm ready and willing to have.
"I'm going to speak up because it's my patriotic duty & I'm hoping to strike a nerve in those young folks who say they don't vote because they don't trust politicians to represent their interests. Hey, America, wake up. These guys work for us.
"Why are we in this mess? How did we end up with this crowd in Washington? Well, we voted for them — or at least some of us did. But I'll tell you what we didn't do. We didn't agree to suspend the Constitution. We didn't agree to stop asking questions or demanding answers. Some of us are sick and tired of people who call free speech treason. Where I come from that's a dictatorship, not a democracy.
"And don't tell me it's all the fault of right-wing Republicans or liberal Democrats. That's an intellectually lazy argument, and it's part of the reason we're in this stew. We're not just a nation of factions. We're a people. We share common principles and ideals. And we rise and fall together.
"There was a time in this country when the voices of great leaders lifted us up and made us want to do better. Where have all the leaders gone?
"On September 11, 2001, we needed a strong leader more than any other time in our history. & That was George Bush's moment of truth, and he was paralyzed. And what did he do when he'd regained his composure? He led us down the road to Iraq — a road his own father had considered disastrous when he was President. But Bush didn't listen to Daddy. He listened to a higher father. He prides himself on being faith-based, not reality based. If that doesn't scare the crap out of you, I don't know what will.
"So here's where we stand. We're immersed in a bloody war with no plan for winning and no plan for leaving. We're running the biggest deficit in the history of the country. We're losing the manufacturing edge to Asia, while our once-great companies are getting slaughtered by health care costs. Gas prices are skyrocketing, and nobody in power has a coherent energy policy. Our schools are in trouble. Our borders are like sieves. The middle class is being squeezed every which way. These are times that cry out for leadership.
"But when you look around, you've got to ask: "Where have all the leaders gone?" Where are the curious, creative communicators? Where are the people of character, courage, conviction, competence, and common sense? I may be a sucker for alliteration, but I think you get the point.
"Name me a leader who has a better idea for homeland security than making us take off our shoes in airports and throw away our shampoo? We've spent billions of dollars building a huge new bureaucracy, and all we know how to do is react to things that have already happened.
"Name me one leader who emerged from the crisis of Hurricane Katrina & Name me an industry leader who is thinking creatively about how we can restore our competitive edge in manufacturing & Name me a government leader who can articulate a plan for paying down the debt, or solving the energy crisis, or managing the health care problem. The silence is deafening. But these are the crises that are eating away at our country and milking the middle class dry ...
"Hey, I'm not trying to be the voice of gloom and doom here. I'm trying to light a fire. I'm speaking out because I have hope. I believe in America. In my lifetime I've had the privilege of living through some of America's greatest moments. I've also experienced some of our worst crises ... If I've learned one thing, it's this: You don't get anywhere by standing on the sidelines waiting for somebody else to take action. Whether it's building a better car or building a better future for our children, we all have a role to play. That's the challenge I'm raising in this book. It's a call to action for people who, like me, believe in America. It's not too late, but it's getting pretty close. So let's ... go to work. Let's tell 'em all we've had enough."
We are not as powerful as we used to be because over the past three decades, the Asian values of our parents’ generation — work hard, study, save, invest, live within your means — have given way to subprime values: “You can have the American dream — a house — with no money down and no payments for two years....
A few weeks ago, my wife and I flew from New York’s Kennedy Airport to Singapore. In J.F.K.’s waiting lounge we could barely find a place to sit. Eighteen hours later, we landed at Singapore’s ultramodern airport, with free Internet portals and children’s play zones throughout. We felt, as we have before, like we had just flown from the Flintstones to the Jetsons. If all Americans could compare Berlin’s luxurious central train station today with the grimy, decrepit Penn Station in New York City, they would swear we were the ones who lost World War II.
How could this be? We are a great power. How could we be borrowing money from Singapore? Maybe it’s because Singapore is investing billions of dollars, from its own savings, into infrastructure and scientific research to attract the world’s best talent — including Americans....
Who will tell the people? We are not who we think we are. We are living on borrowed time and borrowed dimes. We still have all the potential for greatness, but only if we get back to work on our country.
As gas skyrockets toward the $4 range, it's interesting the note that the current hike in oil prices is unlike the others we have seen over the past few years.
Since the Iraq war started, prices have shot up from time to time dependent on external events, be they worries about the war, possible actions against Iran, Turkey's conflict with the Kurds, Israel's invasion of Lebanon, even Hurricane Katrina.
But since the beginning of 2007, the rise seems more related the falling dollar than any other factor. The Euro used to be worth only 80 cents, but now is trading at $1.50. Since oil is priced in dollars, this has led to record prices above $110 a barrel.
The reason for the dropping dollar is that the world has finally caught onto the Bush ponzi scheme, where the U.S. just keeps borrowing money, and they don't trust us to pay it back.
Unlike the externally driven events, don't expect oil to drop in price again soon, if ever.
There's a couple of good stories out today about the worsening economy and taxes.
First, you have Paul Krugman who breaks down the employment picture, showing that the "Bush Boom" was a bust, and is getting worse. He points out the facts that the fearmongering Republicans pleas to continue the Bush tax cuts flies in the face of reality. The tax rates during the Clinton years seemed to work pretty well, without running huge deficits.
The other story is about Mike Huckabee's FairTax plan. He wants to get rid of income, payroll and other taxes and replace the with a "consumption" tax, basically a huge sales tax. The article shows that the FairTax isn't so fair, as it shifts the burden onto the middle class, while the rich get a big break.
There are some good things about a consumption tax, but there's a lot of bad things, too. Proponents do not take into account how the wealthiest Americans make and spend money. While the tax would affect nearly everything you buy, investments would not be covered. Therefore, people could build up large fortunes by buying up businesses and stocks and pay little taxes. It's a recipe for further concentrating wealth at the top of the ladder.
Bush says US economy is safe and sound.
Gee, now I feel better.
He reminds me of Kevin Bacon's first movie role in "Animal House," the part where he is furiously urging the crowd, "Don't panic! All is well!" right before his is trampled to death.


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Overall, the study authors concluded that other treatments such as cognitive behavioral therapy are as good or better than SSRIs for those with mild-to-moderate depression. Moreover, each woman should be evaluated by a psychiatrist or trained professional to determine if antidepressants are the best treatment option.


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Thanks for the advice all, it proved very useful.
So it turned out that one juvenile was in fact two. I contacted a rescue to make arrangements and get some further advice and then last night was able to catch both of them and weigh them. They weighed in at 220g and 140g, so they spent the night with me before going to the rescue this morning.
But the story doesn’t end there. When I checked last night’s footage from my cameras another small juvenile could be seen. So I was getting ready to try and catch that one tonight. But when I went out into the garden to clean up the mess the first two left in their temporary home, there was a small juvenile at a feeding station. At 2:30pm in the afternoon 🙁 .
So I grabbed that one to and it is now with the rescue as well. I will put the cameras out again tonight to try and ensure there isn’t a fourth out there somewhere.

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40th annual Festival of the Horse returning to Georgetown this weekend
GEORGETOWN, Ky. (WKYT) - This weekend the streets of Georgetown will be full of activities as the 40th anniversary of the Festival of the Horse gets underway.
After having to cancel last year due to the pandemic, Mayor Tom Prather is excited for the festival to return while also keeping safety in mind.
“Hopefully we can return with a balance that includes both safety and an awareness of the pandemic, but also an ability to come together and celebrate,” Mayor Prather said.
As this year’s Festival of the Horse aligns with the 20th anniversary of September 11th, the Toyota Grand Parade of Horses will be paying special tribute to all first responders and veterans throughout the county.
“These folks have given so much of themselves to our community. It’s just wholly appropriate that our community honors them in this way,” Mayor Prather said.
And while this festival will return some normalcy to the community and the area, Mayor Prather said festival officials are making sure everyone can stay safe during the event.
“We do have physical distance between each of the vendors,” Mayor Prather said. “We’ll ask the vendors to alter their transactions just slightly to make sure that those exchanges are safe. Ask folks to wear a mask where it’s appropriate to do so.”
The main Toyota Grand Parade of Horses will kick off on Main Street in Georgetown at 5 p.m. Saturday.
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Show cause, to be trusted to take charge of this nation’s future
Dear young people of Uganda,
Every generation is always charged with dealing with its elephant in the room. This is a statement I admired from Ronald Mukasa of Enterprise Uganda during the 8th Reality Check Conference on Employment, Education and entrepreneurship in Uganda organised by the Center for Development Alternatives and the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung in Kampala. Did you know that The great Dr. Martin Luther King Jnr. died at the age of 39 and by this time he had already set his agenda and legacy to a height worth reckoning with?
Did you also know that out of the 8 million or so Ugandan youths who are part of the labour force, only 800,000 of these are unemployed? Did you also know that Uganda was ranked by the GEM report of 2015 as the most Entrepreneurial country in the world but also that 95% of businesses in Uganda don’t celebrate their 5th birthday? Is it true that Ugandans don’t have the requisite skills to contribute to economic growth and development? Are we also aware that Uganda has one of the youngest populations in the world? Have the young people strived to make such an enormous contribution to society just like Martin Luther King did? If the answer was YES to this, wouldn’t our society be greater than it is.
Do we pick any sense from what happened in France? Did you know that Emmanuel Macron only launched his movement in August last year, and took to the Presidential race in November last year and at 39 he is President of one of the greatest nations in the world (France)? Also to note that President Barack Obama openly supported this young man because he believed in his (Macron) pro people economic reforms and Macron went ahead to win the race? Does this challenge us the young people on whether we have anything to offer to this country and saw people should believe in us?
Barack Obama, was not so much older than these two (Martin and Macron) when he shocked the world to become the first black American President. And to most of us, we really saw him as one of our generation, the audacity of hope and a vanguard of possibilities. One reality is, This is not by mistake.
Our own Dr. Rt. Col. Kiiza Besigye and Gen. Mugisha Muntu, rose to serious ranks in this country at such a tender age. The former was minister at 29 and the latter was CDF at the same age of 29. This was because they had a lot to offer this country. Even to date, they still shine on the Ugandan public arena.
One thing you will realise is that, and I will again quote the words of Mr. Ronald Mukasa of Enterprise Uganda, “each generation must fight its own elephant in the room”. My question is, What is the current generation doing to fight the elephant we have in the room? Do we even know the elephant we are faced with? I challenge you ladies and gentleman, the youth of Uganda, to make your contribution felt towards nation building, economic transformation and other endeavours as you may deem fit. I challenge you to show cause for the old generation to entrust you with the affairs of this country and her subsequent future of this nation.
The writer is the Executive Director of Youth Aid Africa and can be reached on firstname.lastname@example.org


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This is Part 2 of the Article “What You Must Know About Your Breasts” written to commemorate the Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Part 1 dealt with Breast Changes in Pre-Menopausal Women while the Part 2 here deals with “Breast Changes in Post-Menopausal Women”
Breast Changes | Post-Menopausal Women
Breast symptoms in the post-menopausal period are similar to those in the premenopausal period, especially for women on hormone replacement therapy. Although, cancers are relatively more common in this group, they can be diagnosed with benign diseases or pre-cancerous conditions. Clinical examination and imaging are usually easily interpreted due to the density of the breasts in older women (fatty >glandular tissue). The common conditions in post-menopausal women are-
- Non-cyclical breast pain (mastalgia) is not linked to menstruation and does not follow a definitive pattern. It can be either constant or intermittent, affecting one or both breasts. Either a part of the breast or the whole breast maybe involved. It can be referred pain from the chest wall, oesophagus, neck or upper back. Conditions such as infection, trauma, injury, certain medications, size of the breast, cancer or inflammatory conditions such as costochondritis or arthritis may be the causative factors. Some researchers suggest a deficiency of fatty acids with in the cells to cause breast pain.
- Management would include identifying the condition and treating the cause. A short course of anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAID’s) should suffice for pain due to inflammatory conditions. Lifestyle approaches like wearing a well fitted bra, a sports bra for exercise usually help. Other treatments include medication, EPO, ice packs, warm compresses or a massage. Avoiding caffeine and nicotine have showed symptomatic relief in a few women.
- This can be due physiological or pathological. Causes for nipple discharge in this age group are duct ectasia, papillomas, pre-cancerous or cancerous lesions. It could be clear/green/yellow/brownish in colour. Duct ectasia can be due to age related changes or blocked ducts, which may in-turn to an inverted nipple, nipple discharge when swollen. This may lead to a condition called periductal mastitis which is painful and the breast might turn red. It is commonly seen in smokers. There is no increased risk of cancer.
- Although this is common in pre-menopausal women, it can occur in post-menopausal women as well, especially in those who are on hormone replacement therapy (HRT). This is because of the constant source of Oestrogen, which affects the breast. They are not cancerous but certain types of pathologically proven lesions might have a malignant potential.
- If you develop a lump suddenly overnight, it might be a cyst. Image confirmation and a simple needle aspiration might suffice.
- A lump in the post-menopausal woman needs to be evaluated as they are generally more prone to a cancer. It should however be noted that all lumps are not cancerous. Symptoms such as breast lumps with or without pain, nipple inversion, nipple discharge, skin thickening, redness, dimpling, swelling in the arm pit, change in the shape or size of breast should be evaluated. If diagnosed with breast cancer, you will require a multi-modality approach of management including surgery, radiation, chemotherapy, hormone therapy, targeted therapy, rehabilitation, nutrition and counselors.
- Occasionally, cases might be screen detected. Hence, annual clinical examination and mammograms are suggested.
- Obesity and hormone replacement therapy in this age group increase the risk of breast cancer.
Remember that ‘Breast Self-Examination’ is the most important technique of identifying early breast diseases. It has to be done every month. Make sure you reach out to a doctor if you find any abnormality in your breasts.

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An earlier version of this story incorrectly said the solar panels were installed on a 1,100-square foot house. They were installed on the 1,100-square foot roof.
Government incentives give solar energy a boost
Back in March, Shelley Cohen and Mike Gala sent out a request to contractors to submit proposals on their project: to have solar panels installed on the roof of their colonial home in the District. Four companies responded, but one stood out: Astrum Solar.
"We were looking for the most comprehensive proposal and that's what we found with Astrum," said Cohen, a renewable energy project developer at Ameresco. "Astrum offered a full turnkey [approach]. They do the interconnection, the install and take care of the energy credits."
Last week, Astrum Solar, which is based in Annapolis Junction, completed the installation of an 11.96 kilowatt system on the 1,100-square-foot roof of the couple's home -- the largest residential system in D.C. The company says the 52 photovoltaic panels should generate 13,754 kilowatt hours of electricity a year, meeting 75 to 85 percent of the home's electricity needs.
The Cohen and Gala project is one of 500 installations Astrum has slated for completion this year, according to the company's president, Vadim Polikov. "The solar market is incredibly vibrant and exciting," he said. "The market, especially in the U.S., has probably tripled in size just about every year."
About 72,939 photovoltaic systems have been installed in the United States in the past decade, according to the federal government's Open PV Project. The Solar Energy Industries Association, a trade group, recorded a 37 percent increase in installations in 2009. Much of that expansion was attributed to an uptick in residential projects.
Since its inception in 2007, Astrum has primarily installed residential and small commercial solar panel systems. To meet demand, Astrum has in the past year doubled its office and warehouse space in Maryland and upped its employee roster to include more than 75 engineers, project managers, sales consultants and installers. Polikov declined to divulge the company's earnings but said they have grown substantially year-over-year.
As it did with the Cohen-Gala project, Astrum walks its customers through every part of the installation process, from pricing estimates to filing permits. One of the company's more notable services is selling homeowners' solar renewable energy credits to utilities, which can use them to comply with municipal mandates on clean power.
"It behooves installers, like Astrum Solar, to add value by being involved in all aspects of the sale," said Eric Wesoff, an alternative energy analyst at GTM Research. "Next to purchasing the house, buying solar could be one of the largest expenditures for homeowners."
Trading the value of their credits upfront shaved 25 percent off of Cohen and Gala's installation bill. That deduction, coupled with a 30 percent federal tax credit and a District grant that covered another 35 percent, left the family with just 10 percent of the $65,000 bill.
All of the eight mid-Atlantic markets that Astrum operates in offer some form of tax incentives or rebates. Polikov said the District has the most generous incentives on the East Coast. With the cost of solar installation averaging $20,000 to $40,000 depending on roof size, inducements are crucial to expanding the domestic solar industry.
Stimulus funding, providing more than $271 million for solar energy investment, made it more cost-effective for homeowners to tap into the energy of the sun. Polikov credits the federal grants with the increase in business Astrum is seeing in states like Pennsylvania and Virginia. "We have ramped up a lot because of incentives," Polikov said, noting that prior to the flow of federal dollars, the company was averaging a few hundred installations a year.
While the United States has become an important player in the global solar industry, it pales in comparison to European countries with markets that have extensive government incentives. Analysts estimate that the United States accounts for about a 15 percent market share, while Germany, the largest consumer of solar technology, averages 50 percent.
Wesoff expects those percentages to change as the cost of supplies declines and more U.S. state governments adopt programs like the enticement-laden California Solar Initiative. "It comes down to incentives and policy, or in some cases, renewable portfolio standards" that utilities must meet, he said.
Beyond government initiatives, Polikov believes customer referrals will help drive the solar market. Shelley Cohen certainly plans to advertise her solar roof. "You can live an urban eco-lifestyle and be as green as you want to be. The resources are there; the services are there," she said. "We hope to set the example for people who are interested in" solar energy.


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Philadelphia 76ers head coach Brett Brown, left, meets with San Antonio Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich after the Spurs' 111-103 win on Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2017, at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia. (Yong Kim/Philadelphia Daily News/TNS)
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The Spurs are once again flying under the radar, which has been standard operating procedure for the past two decades.
They became the second team to 40 wins after taking down the 76ers on Wednesday and have a solid hold on the West's No. 2 seed.
Here's a look at some recent Spurs pieces of note from around the web.
Spurs coach Gregg Popovich sounds like he misses Philadelphia 76ers coach Brett Brown. Jessica Camerato of CSNPhilly.com explores bond between the two coaches:
“He’s the most incredible, positive, sort of force that I’ve ever been around in my life,” Popovich said. “I don’t just say that because we worked together for all those years. He was with me from Day 1, putting our program together. So I know how intense he is, I know how much he loves the game, I know how he teaches, and when I would get down he’d be the positive one to lift me up.
“It’s just incredible to me that he stayed so even temperament-wise and still is in love with teaching guys. He doesn’t care if it’s somebody who’s a pickup for 10 days or a high draft pick. He just enjoys the process and he just never gives in."
Ben Mallis of pickandroll.com takes an interesting look at the unheralded screen-setting ability of Patty Mills:
We spoke exclusively to Mills about setting screens, and a special name was highlighted as inspiration. “Steph Curry does a really good job [of setting screens].” That was the first comment from Mills when asked about the topic.
“You watch other players and other shooters around the league, and see how they get open shots. Teams play shooters really tough so you’ve got to work out other ways to try and get yourself open.
“One of those ways for me is to constantly set picks for other guys. Weird picks as well, unusual ones that people aren’t necessarily used to guarding. They are things you work out as you play and go through the season.”
No one really knew what to expect from rookie Davis Bertans this season. Safe to say the Latvian sniper has exceeded most expectations. Bleacher Report’s Mike Monroe takes a look inside Bertans’ first season in San Antonio:
The 6'10" forward from Valmiera, Latvia, has worked his way into Popovich's game-to-game plans with a combination of three-point accuracy (39 percent, even after his Memphis oh-fer), athleticism (he's a fan favorite during pregame layup drills) and quicker-than-expected adjustment to the Spurs' defensive scheme.
Kawhi Leonard is – quietly, of course – building his case for NBA MVP, writes Sports Illustrated’s Rohan Nadkarni:
Leonard, meanwhile, has the ability to dominate the game on both ends of the court, something the top three MVP candidates have lacked consistency in throughout their careers. Leonard’s defensive metrics have slipped slightly this season, but he’s also taken on a larger burden on both sides of the ball, particularly considering the defensive shortcomings in San Antonio’s frontcourt. While Tim Duncan wasn’t playing at an MVP level last season, there is something to be said about the Spurs’ continued greatness after the loss of their franchise star, and those roads lead back to Kawhi.


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Tainan County plans to build Taiwan's biggest solar power town
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TAINAN, Taiwan -- Taiwan's southern Tainan county, home to the island's biggest solar cell maker, aims to build the biggest community powered by sunlight to help cut pollution. The county government has invested NT$3 billion (US$95 million) preparing infrastructure for 107 hectares (264 acres) of land for the plan, aiming to attract developers to build 4,000 houses with solar panels within five years, said Yichin Chan, the solar project director at Tainan County.
Taiwan is joining countries including the U.S. and Spain to tap renewable sources of energy to help cut carbon emissions. The government in Taipei aims to fit solar panels on 100,000 homes as a new pricing structure for renewable energy helps ensure profits for builders, according to Wang Yunn-ming, deputy director-general of the Bureau of Energy. "We hope to use these pollution-cutting panels in Taiwan," Chan said in a telephone interview Monday.
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