|Publication number||US6886754 B2|
|Application number||US 10/453,840|
|Publication date||May 3, 2005|
|Filing date||Jun 3, 2003|
|Priority date||Jun 3, 2003|
|Also published as||US20040245349|
|Publication number||10453840, 453840, US 6886754 B2, US 6886754B2, US-B2-6886754, US6886754 B2, US6886754B2|
|Inventors||Blaine M. Smith, Timothy M. Simon|
|Original Assignee||Tim Simon, Inc.|
|Export Citation||BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan|
|Patent Citations (6), Referenced by (65), Classifications (9), Legal Events (5)|
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet|
This patent application is being concurrently filed with U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/453,854 entitled THERMOSTAT WITH TOUCH-SCREEN DISPLAY by Blaine M. Smith, the disclosure of which is hereby incorporated in its entirety for all purposes.
The present invention relates generally to thermostats used for heating and cooling systems, such as domestic gas or electric furnaces, and more particularly to a thermostat that can operate from any of a variety of power sources.
Thermostats are used to control a variety of heating and cooling systems. A variety of thermostats have been developed for use with the various types of heating systems. For example, domestic gas or electric furnaces often include a transformer that steps 115 VAC down to 24 VAC for operating the furnace relay. Some of these furnaces provide 24 VAC between a common wire and a heating transformer power wire. Other furnaces do not provide a common wire, but provide 24 VAC between the heating load wire and the heating transformer power wire. Gas millivolt systems do not typically provide 24 VAC, but only a very small-signal voltage between the heating load wire and the heating transformer power wire. Many thermostats are designed to work with a particular type of system, even though they all generally operate by closing or opening a connection between the heating load wire and the heating transformer power wire to turn the furnace on or off, respectively.
If a user wants to replace a thermostat in a heating system, he generally needs to know what type of system he has. Hardware stores need to stock a variety of thermostats for the various applications, and the user often has to return home to determine what sort of heating system he has, and hence what sort of thermostat he needs. It is therefore desirable to provide a thermostat that can be used in a variety of heating systems.
A thermostat according to embodiments of the present invention is operable from a variety of power sources and can be used with a variety of heating and cooling systems. In one embodiment, the thermostat has a heating transformer power terminal, a heating load terminal, a common terminal, and a power source selector configurable to operate the thermostat from alternating-current voltage provided between the common terminal and the power terminal when the power source selector is in a first position, and configurable to operate the thermostat from alternating-current voltage provided between the heating transformer power terminal and the heating load terminal when the power source selector is in a second position.
In a further-embodiment, the thermostat includes a battery and the thermostat operates from battery power when alternating-current voltage is not provided to the thermostat. A low-battery detector senses battery voltage and indicates a low battery condition when the battery voltage drops below a pre-selected limit. The pre-selected limit of the battery voltage is greater than the voltage required to run the thermostat controller.
The thermostat controller can run off of alternating-current voltage converted to direct-current voltage by a diode bridge converter, and can operate off of the battery if the alternating-current voltage is interrupted or unavailable. When the power source selector is in the second position, the heating transformer power terminal is coupled to the heating load terminal through a triac converter when the furnace relay is on. The triac converter produces voltage spikes that are converted to direct-current voltage by the diode bridge converter. When the furnace relay is off, alternating-current power between the heating transformer power terminal and the heating load terminal is provided across the diode bridge converter and converted to direct-current voltage. The direct-current voltage from the diode bridge converter is coupled to a power supply that produces a regulated direct-current voltage for operation of the thermostat.
The triac converter is bypassed when the power source selector is in the first position. If alternating-current voltage is present between the common terminal and the heating load terminal, the diode bridge converter produces direct-current voltage that is provided to the power supply. The regulated direct-current voltage produced by the power supply is slightly greater than the battery voltage, which preserves the battery. Bypassing the triac converter when the source selector is in the first position allows operation of gas millivolt systems using the thermostat off battery power.
1. Exemplary Thermostat Operable from Various Power Sources
In some embodiments, thermostat 10 includes a display 19. If the display 19 is a touch-screen display (see
Thermostat 10 can be used with gas, oil, or electric heating and air conditioning systems, single-stage heat pumps; 2-wire and 3-wire zoned hot water systems or gas millivolt heating systems. Thermostat 10 turns a heating system on by shorting heating load terminal 28 (commonly called the “W” terminal in heating, venting, and air-conditioning “HVAC” systems) to heating transformer power terminal 30 (commonly called the “Rh” terminal in HVAC systems) through latching relay 16. When heating load terminal 28 is disconnected from heating transformer power terminal 30 (by opening latching relay 16), the heating system turns off.
One feature of thermostat 10 is that it can be installed as a replacement thermostat on many different heating systems. For example, a gas millivolt system does not typically have twenty-four volts supplied to the thermostat. Thermostat 10 can operate off of battery 31 for these systems. Some gas and electric heating systems provide a common wire (commonly called the “C-wire” in HVAC systems) to the thermostat, and thermostat 10 can operate off the 24 VAC between the common terminal 56 and heating transformer power terminal 30. The diode bridge converter 22 converts the 24 VAC to direct-current voltage and provides it to power supply 20 in these systems. In an electric heating system that does not provide a C-wire but does have 24 VAC between the heating transformer power terminal 30 and heating load terminal 28, thermostat 10 can operate off power provided from triac converter 24 to diode bridge converter 22. If 24 VAC power is lost, thermostat controller 12 can maintain its settings (operating program) by operating off of battery 31.
Thermostat controller 12 has a low battery detector 38 that senses the voltage of battery 31. Capacitor 40 across battery 31 provides a low-impedance path for transients that might otherwise appear at 3 VDC power input 42, and stores charge to provide additional current for operating latching relay 16 when the voltage of battery 31 drops due to aging or other causes. If battery 31 is removed, capacitor 40 holds sufficient charge to maintain the program settings in memory 15 for at least one minute. When battery 31 is new, current from capacitor 40 is not usually required to operate latching relay 16.
Low-battery detectors that sense voltage often use a battery that produces a relatively high over-voltage, such as providing a third AA alkaline battery in series to produce 4.5 VDC. However, such high over-voltages can cause thermostat controller 12 to malfunction, and in a particular instance causes all fields of the LCD (see
With power from diode bridge converter and/or triac, thermostat controller 12 continues to operate when the battery voltage drops to 2.5 V. Low battery detector 38 turns ON when the battery voltage drops to about 2.6 V, and basically measures the voltage of battery 31 to ground. The internal impedance of the battery increases as the battery voltage decreases. The source impedance of power supply 20 is essentially constant. The low battery detector 38 will follow the battery voltage down until the batteries' internal impedance is higher than the source impedance of power supply 20, which occurs at a battery voltage of about 2.6 V. Then the power supply 20 will keep the voltage from dropping any lower, and the low battery detector 38 turns on a “LOW BAT” field on a liquid-crystal display (“LCD”) (see
II. Use of Thermostat with Exemplary Heating Systems
Twenty-four VAC power from C-wire 50 is supplied through capacitor 52, dual jumper 36, and capacitor 53 to diode bridge converter 22. Capacitor 52 limits the current available at diode bridge converter 22 without generating the heat that would be generated with a current-limiting resistor. Using capacitor 52, rather than a resistor, as a current-limiting device in thermostat 10 is particularly desirable because capacitor 52 and other components are within a housing of thermostat 10, and it is estimated that an equivalent current-limiting resistor would raise the temperature inside the housing 20° F. in twenty minutes at an ambient temperature of 70° F. In a particular embodiment, capacitor 52 is a 0.47 micro-Farad non-polar capacitor. Capacitor 53 is a 2.2 micro-Farad non-polar capacitor.
Diode bridge converter 22 draws about 13 mA from the 24 VAC. Zener diode 58 clamps the voltage at collector 60 of transistor Q1 at about 5 Volts. A voltage divider includes resistor 62, which is 24 kOhms, in series with resistor 64, which is 68 kOhms, thus the voltage at base 66 of transistor Q1 is 3.6 V, and the voltage at emitter 68 of transistor Q1 is 3.1+0.1 VDC. The voltage at emitter 68 is usually slightly higher than the voltage from battery 31 when operating off of C-wire 50 power and the output impedance of transistor Q1 is higher than the internal impedance of battery 31. When thermostat 10 operates off of power from C-wire 50, battery 31 lasts much longer than if thermostat 10 operated only off of battery power. If power from C-wire 50 is lost, thermostat 10 automatically runs off of battery 31, if available. Conversely, thermostat 10 will continue to work if C-wire power is available and battery 31 is dead or missing.
Thermostat 10 can “borrow” operating power from the relay current if the operating current is a small portion (typically under 10%) of the total relay current. For example, if the operating current is about 13 mA and the relay current is 200 mA, the operating current used for the power supply is only about 7% of the relay current. If the relay current is less than about 130 mA, borrowing operating power from relay current might affect system performance. For example, the relay might not open, or the relay might chatter or hum. Older furnaces often draw more than 200 mA for the relay current, thus borrowing operating power from the relay current in these older furnaces does not adversely affect their operation. Some newer furnaces draw less than 100 mA for the relay current, and the C-wire, if available, is used to power thermostat 10, as discussed above in reference to FIG. 2B.
Back-to-back Zener diodes 70, 72 and resistor 74 allow AC voltage to appear across triac 76 for a short portion of the phase without turning on triac 76. Both Zener diodes 70, 72 are fifteen-volt Zener diodes, and resistor 74 is a 4.7 kOhm resistor. About 10° of phase delay is produced. After this phase delay, triac 76 conducts current to operate furnace relay 55. Control of furnace relay 55 by thermostat 10 is not significantly affected by the short phase delay of triac 76. Turning triac 76 on after the phase delay creates small voltage spikes across triac 76 at 120 Hz. These 120 Hz voltage spikes are coupled through capacitor 53 to diode bridge converter 22. Diode bridge converter 22 converts the voltage spikes to DC, which is provided to power supply 20. About 5 mA of current is provided to power supply 20, which provides regulated 3 VDC to thermostat controller 12.
When latching relay 16 is OFF, or with mode switch 14 OFF or in COOL, there is no current flowing between heating transformer power terminal 30 and heating load terminal 28 for triac converter 24 to use. However, there is 24 VAC across heating transformer power terminal 30 and heating load terminal 28, which is coupled to diode bridge converter 22 through capacitor 78. Capacitor 78 is a 0.47 micro-Farad non-polar capacitor, which limits the current supplied to diode bridge converter 22, as discussed in conjunction with capacitor 52 in FIG. 2B. The 24 VAC is rectified to DC and provided to power supply 20. Thus, power is supplied to theromostat controller 12 even when latching relay 16 is OFF or mode switch 14 is OFF or in COOL.
III. Exemplary Touch Screen Display and User Interface
Displaying only subsets of the icons reduces the amount of information presented to the user at each level, i.e. at any one time. The relatively large format of touch-screen LCD 100 enables large, easily readable text and large touch icons. The text the user needs to read is displayed on the touch-screen LCD at one of the levels, and the large touch icons facilitate accurate data entry. The touch icons are generally square or rectangular, and in one embodiment each touch icon has a minimum dimension greater than or equal to about 0.25 inches. In a particular embodiment the smallest touch icon is about 0.38×0.25 inches.
Conventional thermostats often have a much smaller LCD screen and use relatively small pressure-sensitive keys to operate and/or program the thermostat. Conventional LCD screens are typically used to display both operational functions and programming states and data. Such LCD screens are called “shared” displays. In many cases a set of instructions explaining the steps that must be taken to operate the thermostat is printed on the thermostat or separately documented, as programming such a thermostat can be quite confusing and tedious. Although programmable thermostats hold out the promise of reducing the energy used by heating systems, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, which provides the ENERGY STAR certification for appliances and other devices, has expressed concern that potential energy savings are not being realized because of the difficulties consumers face trying to program conventional thermostats.
Thermostat 10 is unique in display and operation. Instead of having one small shared screen for all the information and programming, touch-screen LCD 100 changes as the user enters different levels of operation, each level being intuitive from the previous level and displaying much more information at each level than is typically provided on a conventional shared display. Some icons indicate which mode of operation the thermostat is in. For example, AWAY indicator icon 102 flashes if thermostat 10 is in AWAY mode, and HOLD indicator icon 104 flashes if thermostat 10 is in HOLD mode (discussed below in conjunction with FIG. 4B). Similarly, HEAT indicator icon 106 is activated if MODE switch 14 is set to HEAT 106′, and COOL indicator icon 108 is activated if MODE switch 14 is set to COOL 108′.
MODE switch 14 is provided as a slider switch at the bottom of thermostat 10, as is FAN switch 110. Thermostat 10 is programmed by pressing PROGRAM button 12, and then entering the desired programming information through touch-screen LCD 100 (discussed below in conjunction with FIG. 4C). Similarly, MENU mode is accessed by pressing MENU button 114 (discussed below in conjunction with FIG. 4D). Reset button 116 is recessed and resets thermostat 10 to factory default settings when depressed. A sharpened pencil or the end of a straightened paper clip is used to depress reset button 116.
In HOME level, touch-screen LCD 100 displays one of the current day icons 124 (“Mo”), current time icon 126 (“AM 8:15”), one of the period of day icons 128 (“MORN”), room temperature icon 130 (“67° F.”), which is a touch icon, current set-point temperature icon 132 (“70° F.”), a HEAT indicator icon 106 (when MODE switch 14 is set to HEAT), tone indicator icon 134, and filter indicator icon 136.
Filter indicator icon 136 measures the on-time of latching relay 16, which indicates that the HVAC system has operated a pre-selected number of hours, and that it is time to change the air filter of the HVAC system. Measuring the on-time of latching relay 16 enables the filter indicator feature even for gas heating systems in which the furnace turns on the system fan independently of the thermostat. When tone indicator icon 134 is solid it means that thermostat 10 will beep each time a touch icon is activated (touched), and when tone indicator icon is crossed out or outlined (see
Touching HOLD touch icon 150 puts thermostat 10 in HOLD mode. HOLD mode maintains the target temperature 142 indicated on TEMPORARY SCREEN 140. For example, if the user was going away for the weekend and wanted to maintain a temperature of 65° F., he would touch HOLD touch icon 150 and use the UP 144 or DOWN 146 arrow key to set target temperature 142 to “65”. The user might want to maintain the target temperature so that his home is at a comfortable temperature when he returns, or to maintain an appropriate temperature in the home for pets or plants, for example.
Touch-screen LCD 100 will automatically revert to HOME SCREEN 120 after a few seconds or the user can touch HOME touch icon 154 to return to HOME SCREEN 120. HOLD indicator icon (see
Touching AWAY touch icon 152 on TEMPORARY SCREEN 140 puts thermostat 10 in AWAY mode. AWAY mode is used when the user will be away for an extended period of time and maintains upper and lower temperature set-points that are stored in memory. In other words, the heater will turn on if the temperature drops below the lower set-point and the cooling system will turn on if the temperature rises above the upper set-point. AWAY mode is convenient for second homes, such as ski cabins. The upper and lower temperature set-points are often set outside the normal comfort range, and provide heating or cooling to avoid damage to the home or for other reasons. For example, a lower set-point of 45° F. will turn on the heating system and avoid water freezing in the home, while an upper set-point of 85° F. will turn the cooling system on to avoid scorching plants. The set-points for AWAY mode are pre-set at the factory, but may be overridden by touching the temperature set arrows 144, 146. After a few seconds, or after touching HOME touch icon 154, touch-screen LCD 100 returns to HOME SCREEN 120. AWAY indicator icon (see
While conventional thermostats provide features similar to AWAY mode and HOLD mode, they typically require a relatively involved and complicated sequence of serial key strokes, often with small keys that are labeled in difficult-to-read small type. It is believed that users do not use these modes because of the complexity, time, and difficulty of changing to such modes and back again. This causes the user to either leave the thermostat programmed for normal operation, or to turn the system off entirely. The former wastes energy and the latter can result in damage to the home or its contents.
The present invention provides a large-format, intuitive user interface, and provides access to both temporary modes from a single screen that is only one level from HOME SCREEN 120. About the only thing a user needs to remember is how to get to TEMPORARY SCREEN 140, and that is by touching the largest displayed field (i.e. the current temperature) on HOME SCREEN 120, which in a particular embodiment has a touch area of about 1.5 inches×0.75 inches. The remainder of the process is essentially self-documented on the large-format touch-screen LCD by the icons, and a user typically does not need to reference collateral documentation, such as a user's manual, to change from normal operation to a temporary mode and back again. In particular, activation to or from any temporary mode is achievable from TEMPORARY SCREEN 140, which is only a single level (touch entry) from HOME SCREEN 120.
Values for the thermostat operating program stored in the programmable memory (see
Each day of the week can have the four periods start at different times, and each period of each day can be programmed for a different temperature. Time touch icon 172 has arrows 124, 124′ that increase or decrease the time in fifteen-minute intervals to program the time the heating program begins for the selected day and period. Set temperature touch icon 178 also has arrows 180, 180′ that increase or decrease the set-point temperature for the day and period of day selected. Incrementing the day or period of day automatically enters the time and temperature for the previously selected day or period of day. The user can program four different target temperatures each day, one for each period of day, and the user can program each period of day to start at a different time each day of the week.
Touching COPY touch icon 162 copies the selected times and temperatures from one day to another. For example, if the user programs thermostat 10 for Sunday (“Su”), touching COPY touch icon 162 once will cause the Monday day icon (“Mo”) to flash. Touching COPY touch icon 162 again will increment day icon 168 to “Mo” and copy the program values for Sunday into Monday. From there, the user can select another day or period of day, or can copy the program to Tuesday (“Tu”). Thus, a user can quickly, easily, and intuitively program thermostat 10 for different times and temperatures for each day of the week.
Touching REVIEW touch icon 164 automatically steps through the programmed values every five seconds so that the user can see how thermostat 10 is programmed. Touching REVIEW while the programmed values are being reviewed stops the review sequence. Touch-screen LCD 100 will return to the HOME SCREEN 120 a few seconds after the last touch entry, or the user can return to the HOME SCREEN 120 by touching HOME touch icon 154. Entered values are stored in a programmable memory (see
IV. Exemplary Methods
Upon receiving a first user entry (step 506) the touch screen displays a second set of icons (step 508) including at least a first temporary mode touch icon (e.g.
In a further embodiment, upon receiving a second user entry indicative of touching the first temporary mode icon (step 510), the thermostat operates to maintain a target temperature according to the target temperature icon (step 512). That is, the thermostat controls the heating system to maintain the room temperature within a preseleted range above and below the target temperature. Upon receiving a third user entry indicative of touching the first temporary mode icon a second time (step 514), the thermostat reverts to operating according to the thermostat operating program (step 516).
In an alternative embodiment, upon receiving a second user entry indicative of touching the second temporary mode icon (step 518), the thermostat operates to maintain a temperature between the high and low temperature limits stored in memory (step 520). When the thermostat receives a third user entry indicative of touching the second temporary mode icon a second time (step 522), the thermostat reverts to operating according to the thermostat operating program (step 524).
Upon receiving a first user entry (step 506), the touch-screen displays a second set of icons (e.g. TEMPORARY screen 140 shown in
Upon receiving a second user entry (step 552), the touch screen display displays a third set of icons (e.g. PROGRAM screen 160 shown in
In a further embodiment, upon receiving a third user entry (step 560), a fourth set of icons is displayed on the touch-screen display (step 562). The fourth set of icons includes a lock touch icon. The thermostat operating program is locked from being changed (step 564) by touching the lock touch icon. The thermostat operating program is unlocked by touching the lock touch icon a second time (step 566).
Modification and variation can be made to be disclosed embodiments without departing from the subject of the invention as described herein. Any and all patents, patent applications, and printed publications referred to above are incorporated by reference.
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Last month, Airbnb and Airbnb.org announced that Airbnb.org would offer free, temporary housing to up to 100,000 refugees fleeing from Ukraine. Airbnb.org has been working to establish partnerships with international and regional nonprofits active on the ground, who are responsible for booking and coordinating stays for refugee guests, regardless of nationality, race, ethnicity, or how they identify.
Airbnb.org is announcing its collaboration with several additional organizations, including longtime partner HIAS and Nova Ukraine. This follows Airbnb.org’s partnership with the International Organization for Migration – to connect people fleeing from Ukraine to free, short-term housing in Poland, Moldova, Romania, Hungary and Slovakia – as well as the government of Germany and Save the Children Sweden, as part of the A Safe Start initiative.
HIAS is a world leader in providing humanitarian aid and assistance to refugees. Since 2017 — when Airbnb first began efforts to provide free, temporary housing to refugees, which would evolve into Airbnb.org — HIAS has been one of the program’s earliest partners, most recently working with Airbnb.org to support refugees and asylees from Central and South America and to meet its goal in offering housing to more than 24,000 Afghan newcomers. Building on these nearly five years of partnership, HIAS and Airbnb.org will connect people fleeing Ukraine to free, short-term housing, beginning in Poland.
HIAS is grateful to partner again with Airbnb.org to rapidly address the urgent housing needs of refugees fleeing the crisis in Ukraine. Together we will ensure that the most vulnerable, including women, children and the elderly – have access to immediate shelter and critical protection services. Our emergency partnership for the Ukraine crisis leverages five years of lessons learned and best practice established from the HIAS-Airbnb partnership serving refugees, asylum seekers and those forcibly displaced by conflict.
Jessica Reese, Vice President of Institutional Development, HIAS
Nova Ukraine is a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing humanitarian aid to the people of Ukraine and raising awareness about Ukraine around the world. Nova Ukraine will work with Airbnb.org to connect refugees to emergency housing, referring eligible applicants to Airbnb.org to receive vouchers for free short-term accommodations.
With 3 million refugees having crossed the border already, the need for housing is growing. Ordinary people reach out to Nova Ukraine daily to offer their homes as refugees seek temporary accommodation. Together with Airbnb.org, we have an effective way to connect the dots and contribute to a meaningful solution for those in need.
Yulia Zimmerman, Marketing Lead, Nova Ukraine
In the past three weeks, Airbnb.org has received an overwhelming response from individuals looking to assist this effort. More than 27,200 people have signed to offer their homes to refugees through Airbnb.org, including more than 17,100 across Europe and more than 5,300 in the US.
Airbnb.org has also received more than $6.4 million in small-dollar, direct donations from a total of more than 70,000 individual donors across 95 countries. In addition, Airbnb.org has received support from the Utah Jazz Foundation – which is funding more than 32,200 nights of temporary housing for refugees fleeing Ukraine – and Levi Strauss & Co., which is mobilizing employees across Europe to share their space with refugees. Levi Strauss & Co. is offering additional assistance through their hardship fund, The Red Tab Foundation, which is opening their support to employees who experience financial strain from taking refugees (family or otherwise) into their homes.
Inspired by this generosity, last week Airbnb’s co-founders – Brian Chesky, Joe Gebbia, Nathan Blecharczyk and his wife Elizabeth – personally committed to match up to $10 million in donations to Airbnb.org from March 15, 2022 through March 31, 2022.
Anyone who is interested in supporting Airbnb.org’s initiative to help refugees fleeing Ukraine can go to airbnb.org/help-ukraine to get involved, including by participating in this matching campaign or offering free or discounted stays.
Airbnb.org does not offer housing directly to individuals at this time. Airbnb.org is working with other nonprofit partners who book and coordinate stays for refugee guests. Additional updates on the program will be shared at airbnb.org/help-ukraine.

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Feeble Turtle DuckOh yes, please please please Pre-New52 Booster! Might also tie in with Jaimes Blue Beetle Story...
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LMage: NO ONE ASKED FOR YOUR WITCHCRAFT THREE
That's not what I asked though, just because DC has chosen to integrate the Milestone characters into their current universe doesn't mean that DC owns the properties outright, DC licensed the Red Circle characters a few years back, made them part of the DCU then let the rights lapse. If that happens with the milestone characters though, what Happens to Young Justice?
They wouldn't be able to air episodes with Milestone characters (Icon and Rocket only, so far) in them in that case. But I suspect either DC has the Milestones completely bought, or at least has a pretty long lease, since they're focusing much more on their properties now than they used to. (Also, one thing that many people, including those who sold their characters to DC, never realize, is that one of their motives is to eliminate the competition. Sure, they might have plans for them, but if they fail, they can just shut them down and still "win" from their POV. This practice is OLD (DC has also absorbed other companies before, like Fawcett Comics and Quality Comics) and hardly limited to them (Marvel also ate up The Ultraverse). Comics is a dog-eat-dog world sometimes.)
Forum talk is just casual talk. It's not a debate you have to win.
And just like that the Fawcett Comics characters disappeared in a flash of lightning, never to be seen again.
I'm so far ahead of the curve that I'm around the bend.
Praise Himhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnHSwDlnWTU&feature=channel&list=UL This is hilarious.
All of time and space, anywhere and everywhere, any star that ever was. Where do you want to start?
Ice cream is foreverYes. Yes it is.
Grabbing my destiny
They wouldn't be able to air episodes with Milestone characters (Icon and Rocket only, so far) in them in that case. But I suspect either DC has the Milestones completely bought, or at least has a pretty long lease, since they're focusing much more on their properties now than they used to.Ehhh, the thing is though that DC really isn't using the characters. Xombi got unceremoniously cancelled and Static barely had any chance with all of it's Executive Meddling.
Fresh For 2014As far as I know, Static is pretty much only connected to the Teen Titans right now. He got a mini-series a few years ago, but now he's among the TT supporting members or something. Or something like that. I don't remember. Maybe he got a new series after Flashpoint. I don't know about the rest of the Milestone characters, though.
"My final prayer: O my body, always make me a man who questions!" — Frantz Fanon
Mighty No. 51345He was one of the new 52. He was also one of the first to lose his series in the new 52.
Mega Man fanatic extraordinaire
Yeah Static lost his series. The writer had good ideas, but the artist had confusing ones and an editor on his side.
Persona!I'm not sure if this has been posted already, but the Young Justice: Legacy Facebook page has update with a ton of information and some videos from E3.
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So, I apologize if I missed the memo, but I can't seem to find any information on this; when shall YJ be returning to our screens?
I read September on The Other Wiki, which seems logical, but considering the source we can't be 100% sure. Sometime this fall, probably- hopefully early fall.
YAY MURDER! :3Apparentley we'll get some more info at Comic-Con.
On the character trope page for the Team, someone said that a tie-in comics went deeper into the reasons why Wally left the super-heroics behind, anybody knows what this comic might be?
probably between comics #17-#20 It's probably 20 since that one seems to be the only one that deals with the time skip thus far.
Okay, but that comics is [i]due[/i] to release, not [i]released[/i]. How exactly did that troper get his hands on it?
Sometimes the comics are released in other countries before the U.S. and people post scans online. Or the troper could have been macking it up.
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Although if the troper did make it up he or she probably considered the whole 'can't catch up' thibg as a good reason for him to quit.
I don't know if anyone has seen this before but it has to be the best fanart ever! http://browse.deviantart.com/?qh=žion=&global=1&q=The+West+Family#/d3axtg1 Edit: Also this http://aiconx.deviantart.com/art/Bat-Flash-Kids-200923008?q=boost%3Apopular%20Wally%20Bart%20Young%20justice&qo=15
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BFS EnthusiastThis is starting to get quite cool. I can only wonder where this Metagene plot is gonna go...
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Feeble Turtle DuckNo Bart!
LMage: NO ONE ASKED FOR YOUR WITCHCRAFT THREE
both made before he appeared
MehSince DC already fully owns the Gen 13 characters and has at least Fairchild active in the new 52, maybe we could see those characters in this show at some point?
Haters gonna hate, apologists gonna make apologies up.
BFS EnthusiastSo, what comic plot does this Invasion arc follow the closest?
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Thousands Evacuated in Northern California Ahead of Worst Flooding in More Than 20 Years
Around 4,000 people were ordered to evacuate from a town about 60 miles north of San Francisco Tuesday night, as heavy rain and snow is expected to raise a river to flood levels not seen since 1995, The Sacramento Bee reported.
"Evacuate now if you live near the Russian River," the Sonoma County Sheriff's Office urged, according to AccuWeather.
The Russia River in Guerneville had already reached 32 feet by 6 p.m. Tuesday and is expected to hit 46 feet by Wednesday evening, The Sacramento Bee reported.
"If it gets to 46 feet, it's done. There is no way to prepare for that," the manager of the one-story River Inn Grill Andre Vazquez told The Sacramento Bee. He said the restaurant would be submerged if water levels reached that point.
"It's pretty serious," Sacramento National Weather Service (NWS) hydrologist Peter Fickenscher told The Mercury News. "We consider this a major flood. There will be numerous impacts. It's a rare event. The rainfall has been very focused and concentrated right through the Russian River basin. It has been non-stop rain for 24 hours and it will continue overnight into Wednesday."
In addition to Guerneville, evacuations had been ordered in Mendocino County in the Ukiah Valley and Hopland areas, where the Russia River was expected to begin flooding low elevations by 7 p.m. Tuesday and reach its highest levels by 1 a.m. Wednesday.
Evacuations were made more difficult by a mudslide on Bohemian Highway near Monte Rio, Accuweather reported.
A man and woman were trapped in the slide but were rescued, according to The Sacramento Bee.
"Well I fell into the mud when the tree fell over the top of me. It happened so fast you don't even know, you know?" survivor Kear Koch told KGO-TV, as The Sacramento Bee reported.
The rain came from a weather system that moved off the Pacific from Hawaii and has caused power outages and taken down trees across the West, adding to a winter that has seen record precipitation in the Western U.S. The city of Santa Rosa received a record 5.66 inches of rain, the most since 1902.
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This month’s Pioneers post honours Margaret Ida Balfour, an early Fellow of the College whose efforts helped shape maternity care for women in India over a century ago.
Margaret Ida Balfour – known to her family simply as ‘Ida’ – was born into a large family in Edinburgh in 1865, where her father, Robert, was a chartered accountant. When Ida was young, her eldest brother contracted scarlet fever and her father nursed him during his illness. Regrettably he too contracted the disease and died, leaving the family in dire financial circumstances.
It was perhaps this tragedy that led Ida to pursue a career in medicine. Only her extraordinary determination and intelligence would have enabled her to achieve this during a time when it was difficult for women to become doctors, especially with no financial backing.
Our Heritage Team was lucky enough to speak with Ida’s great niece, Jean Hunter, who told us that ‘[Ida] was small and quiet, but she really was the iron hand in the velvet glove and if she wanted something she would persist.’
Ida qualified at the School of Medicine for Women in Edinburgh in 1891 and was taught by Sophia Jex Blake, the first practicing female doctor in Scotland. She gained her MD in Brussels and Paris, as Edinburgh did not award medical degrees to women at that time, and worked for a year at Clapham Maternity Hospital in London.
In 1892 Balfour went to India to take charge of the Women’s Hospital in Ludhiana. Hospitals like these were referred to locally as ‘zenana’, meaning ‘women’s quarters’, and were established by female Christian missionaries for Indian women in purdah. Purdah is the practice of screening women from men, often for religious reasons. This separation forbade women in labour from being treated by male doctors or nurses, which made the role of female doctors and maternity care providers, both from India and overseas, all the more vital.
After three years in India, Ida was promoted to Medical Superintendent of the Women’s Hospital at Nahan and in 1903 she became Medical Superintendent of the Lady Dufferin Hospital in Patiala. In 1914 she was appointed Assistant to the Inspector General of Civil Hospitals in the Punjab and in 1916 as Medical Woman Secretary to the Dufferin Fund, under which the Women’s Medical Service (WMS) for India was organised. She soon took on the responsibility of becoming Chief Medical Officer of the WMS, a job which she continued until her retirement.
Her publications on midwifery, infant mortality and maternal mortality in India were prolific. She was also called in as an expert witness in 1928 by the Joshi Committee Enquiry into child marriage in India.
During her career, she trained Indian women as health visitors, helping to improve access to maternal healthcare across India. She also took great interest in the Association of Medical Women in India and was elected President of the all India association in 1929. She was awarded a CBE in 1924 and became a Fellow of the RCOG in 1931.
Ida Balfour retired to Norwood in 1924, where she shared a house with her sisters. She moved to the countryside her home was bombed out during the War and her great niece and nephew, of whom she had oversight whilst their parents were serving in Singapore, used to visit her there regularly. She kept them entertained by making up fantastic stories about life in a large Scottish family!
Ida eventually moved back to Dulwich, where, at age 80, she served as an Air Raid Precautions Medical Officer until her death in December 1945.

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Fastening the Lock: Court of Appeal hands down holiday pay judgment in British Gas v Lock
Following on from our earlier updates ‘It’s official – holiday pay must include voluntary overtime and commission’, ‘Lock v British Gas – ruling on commission and Holiday Pay’ and ‘Locking commission into holiday pay – EAT confirms position after a trip to the European Court of Justice’ the English Court of Appeal has now fastened the lock and upheld the EAT’s decision that the Working Time Regulations can be interpreted such that holiday pay should include results-based commission payments for the basic four weeks’ annual leave provided for by EU law.
Mr Lock’s claim was first heard in the employment tribunal in 2012 and the outcome has ultimately remained the same at every turn – commission should be included in the holiday pay calculation. The finer details of how to calculate this however remain unclear.
When questions arose in the Court of Appeal in relation to how to factor bonuses and commission payments in to the holiday pay calculation the court declined to answer them.
What is clear however, is that a worker with normal working hours’ holiday pay should be calculated with reference to their “normal remuneration” which includes commission payments that the worker would have received had they been at work, and not on holiday.
This decision comes after other holiday pay decisions in the EAT and Northern Irish Court of Appeal that holiday pay should include non-guaranteed or voluntary overtime, voluntary standby and voluntary call out payments, because these payments were intrinsically linked to the performance of the job so formed part of the employee’s “normal remuneration”.
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The Delta State governor, Ifeanyi Okowa, inaugurated a lottery scheme on Thursday in Asaba, the State capital, in a bid to empower its indigenes.
Okowa noted that the scheme has been approved by the Delta State Assembly.
The Governor said: “It is our strong hope that the Delta State lottery will be a game changer in the lives of our people.
“We hope it will redistribute income to our people because the high point of this lottery game is the job creation aspect. More Deltans should be employed through this process,” the governor said.
“We are hopeful that most of the agents will help their families through the lottery.”
“We are sure that there will be a lot of winning, not less than 50 per cent of stake will be spent on winning while the state share from the other 50 per cent would be plugged into charity, especially to assist vulnerable people.”


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Taylor Swift’s sales figures are “Gorgeous.”
Citing data from BuzzAngle music, Variety reports that Taylor’s new album, Reputation, has now hit the one-million mark in sales, just five days after its release last Friday. The album’s now looking as though it can hit a first-week sales total of 1.5 million copies. And those copies are all downloads or physical CDs: Reputation hasn’t yet been made available to streaming services.
With the new sales figures, Variety reports Reputation is now officially Taylor’s fourth straight album to sell at least a million copies in its first week — and it’s also her biggest sales week ever. Taylor was already the only artist ever in the SoundScan era, which started in 1991, to have three different albums sell a million copies in a week. These new numbers of course extend that record.
Taylor’s sales were no doubt helped by her appearance over the weekend on Saturday Night Live and her surprise Monday-night slot on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, where she brought Jimmy to tears with her moving rendition of “New Year’s Day.”
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RSB Cinemas has become the first Dutch exhibitor to adopt a fully cloud-based theatre management system. The independent group has selected CineXpert’s e-TMS for its six cinemas across the Netherlands.
CineXpert e-TMS handles functions such as integrating with point of sales, detecting missing content and automating key delivery messages delivery. This TMS does not run locally in the cinema but in a secured cloud environment from CineXpert or from exhibitors.
RSB Cinemas were previously equipped with basic TMS, locally, out of Dolby servers. With the CineXpert e-TMS, content operations are now performed centrally from the cinema headquarters.
According to RSB Cinema’s’ Han Wolf, “The biggest added value is that no additional equipment is needed in the cinemas, so no initial investment nor ongoing associated support costs. We also are working with a preshow that is more and more dynamic, which became possible thanks to CineXpert and moreover cinema managers can give more focus to their customer and team.”
CineXpert’s Thierry van der Kaa said, “Whatever the brand of the screen player is, with just a single click, shows are delivered to all cinemas and screens. This is a great workflow improvement.”
He said, the fear of losing the internet connection and the e-TMS service does not really make sense. “Exhibitors are programming their cinemas at least a couple of days beforehand,” said van der Kaa. “That is the most widely spread work process. Once created, the programming is directly pushed, thanks to the e-TMS, towards screen players which become standalone for the operations during a few days. The risk of an internet issue is really mitigated.”


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FIG. 3 is a side elevational view thereof, the opposite side is a mirror image; and,
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Ms. Ruth Starr
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I am primarily an historian of Japanese art (including Japanese crafts) from the earliest times to the 20th century. My current research seeks to untangle the web of connections linking Japanese art and European art, following the common thread of lacquerware. My major interest is how these links were manifest in Ireland during the Japonisme movement of the late 19th Century, particularly the Japanese influence on Eileen Gray, (1878- 1976); also Japonisme in 19th and 20th century Ireland and lacquerware in Japan and Europe.
- Eileen Gray, Influences extrêmes – orientales, in Centre Pompidou, Paris, Eileen Gray, exhibition catalogue, ed. Chloé Pitot, 2013, pp 39 - 42
- Seizo Sugawara, maître lacquer, in Centre Pompidou, Paris, Eileen Gray, exhibition catalogue, ed. Chloé Pitot 2013, pp 43.- 46
- ‘Eileen Gray (1878- 1976), a child of Japonisme?’ ARTEfact (Journal of the Irish Association of Art Historians 2007) 84 -97.
- ‘Emaki Innovation: The scroll as a medium for depicting time and motion’, Building Material (Journal of Architectural Association of Ireland, 2006), x + pp. 36.
Most of my teaching is on the Arts of Japan. I devised and instigated a non-western art course for second year History of Art Students. I have taught structured support sessions for extra-mural students complimenting these Art of Japan lectures. I also lecture in Japanese ceramics. I taught in the Board of Education, Matsue, Japan, for a number of years. I have been closely associated with the Chester Beatty Library and Gallery of Oriental Art, the primary Irish resource for Asian art; and I have been guest lecturer at major cultural institutions, including the National Museum of Ireland and National College of Art and Design.
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Rather than sitting for long sessions with a sculptor, Morgan participated in a photo shoot wearing the U.S. flag and hoisting the WWC trophy. (Morgan and the USWNT won the last two events, in 2019 and 2015.) A team of artists and digital fabricators then created a 20-foot statue, made primarily of reinforced foam and painted with a hardcoat, and featuring a 3D-printed likeness of Morgan's head using data captured at the photo shoot. The trophy was also 3D-printed.
Fox Sports is sending the statue, crowned "Liberty Alex," on a U.S. tour to promote their WWC coverage. The statue will then come to rest at Fox Square in New York City prior to the July 20th start of the tournament, which takes place in Australia and New Zealand.

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Just been to the Cape and wanted to share Seal watching. If you go to the Head of the Meadow Beach in North Truro and you walk about 20 minutes east , you will see seals in the water and on the beach. The Park ranger does not let people come close to the seals but one can still see them. People will suggest to go during low tide. When I was there the seals decided to leave exactly at low tide. . So be there an hour before the lowest tide point. I did not take the seal watching boat so I do not know if it is better than seeing them on the beach.
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Dating is Dumb
So lately I’ve been having more and more conversations about why dating is dumb to me. First of all…I hate dating…so let me start with that. I mean, I think it is stupid the way it currently works in today’s society. Mostly because people view dating as a title. They tend to act and react based on what they want from the other person rather than respond to the actual situation. Expectations are heightened and people feel like dating gives them certain rights and privileges to another person’s time, space, and energy. If you think about it, it’s actually really selfish.
This is how I’ve experienced dating in the past…
Men come in with a certain set of thoughts and plans and they just expect me to go along with it or fall into what they have set up in their mind without sharing anything with me. (Bad idea)
Men show their “representative” to me and hope that I fall so deep into the representative that when they reveal who they really are, I won’t leave. (I pick up on things quickly so…)
Men say what they think I want to hear in an effort to get me to do what they want me to do. (I believe actions not words so…meh)
In my mind, it shouldn’t work like that (which is ultimately why I don’t date). The way I see it, dating is a part of an already established relationship. I view dating is a tool used to keep people connected to the reason why they chose one another in the first place. Couples tend to plan time to date one another in an effort to expand and grow their relationship. In this sense, I love the idea of dating. Spending quality time with my man, taking trips together, spa days, long walks…yeah I’m down for that. That’s my kind of dating…doing wonderful things with the man I want to spend that kind of time with.
In my opinion, dating is not what you do when you are trying to get to know someone. Fact: You may take time getting to know someone on a deeper level but that doesn’t mean you are dating them. Dating is not what you do when you are interested in being single. Fact: You may go out with multiple people but that doesn’t mean you are dating them. Dating is not what you do when you are not considering or moving towards a long term relationship. People usually spend time with who they want to share their time with and not people who they are unsure about. Friends can go out and have fun together without expectations and requirements and learn more about one another in the process and that is not considered dating. Why do we consider it dating any other time?
Most of us are very particular about who we allow in our space and who we chose to give our time to. We are selective about saying we are in a relationship with someone so why not be just as selective with who we say we’re dating? More times than not it doesn’t work out and then we feel like we waisted our time. We spend time venting about how much of a waste it was and how we won’t get caught up in it again just to get excited to do it all over again. I actually think the biggest issue with dating is the lack of communication and honesty in most situations. There are so many games played because no one wants to get hurt. However, much of the hurt can be avoided if people are honest and upfront with their intentions.
So here is a piece of advice to anyone who is actually interested in dating me…don’t start there. Let’s be friends and get to know one another and SEE if we even want to cross that line.

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Travellers have built an illegal permanent camp using 1,000 tonnes of rubble and 12 dumper trucks in just three days after moving onto a field in the middle of the night, despite being denied planning permission.
Truckers arrived on the land close to the Swan With Two Necks pub at Blackbrook, in Staffordshire, at 3am last Saturday.
Drone footage shows the field has been covered in hardcore with two park homes and six caravans in place.
It comes after a planning application to transform the Blackbrook Nursery site off A53 Newcastle Road was withdrawn after being recommended for refusal by Newcastle Borough Council planners.
Travellers moved 1,000 tonnes of rubble to create an illegal campsite near the Swan With Two Necks pub at Blackbrook, Staffordshire overnight on Saturday. Footage shows the field covered in hardcore with two park homes and six caravans
Caravans, two park homes and other various vehicles pictured at the site. The land was bought for ‘three times the agricultural value’ but the travellers ‘never actually secured planning permission’, according to a local councillor
The scheme – for four caravan pitches and utility blocks – had faced fierce opposition with a huge sign erected near the proposed site last June.
Councillor Graham Hutton, who represents Maer and Whitmore, said he had been inundated with angry calls from his constituents since the travellers arrived under the cover of darkness.
He told MailOnline: ‘They applied for planning permission for a caravan site which the council turned down in May 2019. They did not appeal it and moved in at 3am on Saturday morning with construction equipment.
‘During Saturday they delivered at least 50 trucks and used 1,000 tonnes of building waste, demolition rubble and topped it with hardcore. They built a fence around it, put on two park homes, six caravans and a variety of vans in total defiance of the council, neighbours and everybody else.
‘The council will be taking action against them. Across the road is Severn Trent pumping station and borehole for north Staffordshire. Nobody knows what’s in that demolition waste, so the whole of Staffordshire could be at risk.’
He added: ‘I went down on Monday and they were putting AstroTurf down then and had it all fenced by then. I wish ordinary builders could build that fast, it was impressive.
‘The clearance of it when we get that far will be very expensive. The whole site appeared over three days of the bank holiday.
‘One thing that’s almost palpable is the absolute outrage of law-abiding residents. My phone hasn’t stopped ringing – if they own the land all they can be done for is breach of planning regulations.’
The land close to a pub at Blackbrook in Staffordshire. Mr Hutton said he had been inundated with angry calls from residents, adding: ‘One thing that’s almost palpable is the absolute outrage of law-abiding residents’
A close-up view of the illegal camp, with park homes and caravans seen on the site. Concerns have also been raised by Severn Trent Water about possible contamination to the local drinking water bore hole
A total of 90 objections were put to the council last year with residents complaining about sewage provisions, noise, light pollution and the impact on the roads.
Severn Trent Water also raised concerns about possible contamination to the local drinking water bore hole.
A resident of Ashley, the next village over from Blackbrook, said: ‘There is already black plastic rubbish bags and used Calor gas bottles mounting at the green field site and the gypsies have only been there for three days.
‘All of us local residents’ initial fears are coming to fruition.’
She added: ‘Planning permission and things of that nature are there for a reason to stop this sort of thing from happening.
An aerial view shows the illegal camp, which the council is said to be taking action against. A resident said the travellers have ‘gone against the planning permission’ as they ‘didn’t get their own way’, adding: ‘It sticks out like a sore thumb’
Trucks and other vehicles pictured at the illegal permanent camp. Councillor Paul Northcott, cabinet member for planning and growth, said they are working with ‘partners, including Staffordshire Police’ on the next steps
An aerial view of the illegal permanent site. One Blackbrook resident described it as ‘appalling’, adding: ‘It’s in a totally unsuitable location away from amenities and with no safe access on the A53’
‘It was rejected because it was in a beauty spot. There were highways concerns, water contamination worries as it was next to a bore hole. It’s not near any shops or amenities. It’s a conservation area too.
‘They’ve gone against the planning permission because they didn’t get their own way. It sticks out like a sore thumb.’
A Blackbrook resident added: ‘This is a law-abiding rural area and we feel very hard done by. We went to great lengths to stop this application being approved. It took hours and hours of my time and I even stood up and gave a speech but it was all for nothing.
‘These people have rode roughshod over the planning regulations. It’s just appalling. It’s in a totally unsuitable location away from amenities and with no safe access on the A53.
‘They came in the middle of the night and have since carried out a massive amount of work. It was an undercover operation. The residents are up in arms about it.
‘They aren’t allowed to live there legally even though they own the land.’
Councillor Paul Northcott, cabinet member for planning and growth, said: ‘We are aware of the situation and have been to the site. The welfare and safety of all concerned is the first priority and we are working with our partners, including Staffordshire Police, on the next steps.’


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This is a call for panel speakers on interracial families for the Adoption Council of Ontario's Spring Adoption Resource Exchange (ARE), on April 5th.
This is a biannual conference held by the ACO to bring together all members of the adoption community, primarily domestic but including an interracial/international focus.
This is an opportunity for many families beginning the adoption process to consider if international/interracial adoption is for them.
It is therefore an excellent opportunity to spread awareness around issues of racism and identity.
If you have an interesting story to tell or take an angle on your lifestory that you think adopting families need to know, please contact us at CKAN or go directly to the Program Manager for the ACO, Kristen Maynard at firstname.lastname@example.org.


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The June jobs report was weak, but it doesn’t signal recession, Goldman Sachs chief U.S. economist Jan Hatzius told CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street.” The U.S. economy created 80,000 jobs in June and the unemployment rate held steady at 8.2 percent.
“It’s not a recessionary data point, but it is a data point that is clearly showing the economy is growing at a below trend pace,” Hatzius said. “It’s certainly not enough to absorb people back into the workforce and over time it’s probably consistent with slight deterioration in the labor market.”
Hatzius is keeping an eye on other indicators for signs the slowdown is starting to bite harder. “If we were to see further deterioration in the business surveys, like the ISM and similar indicators, it would definitely be a warning sign,” he said.
There are also risks to economic growth forecasts for the second half of the year, particularly if the looming ‘fiscal cliff’ – when tax cuts expire and automatic spending cuts go into effect at the end of the year – is not resolved. Goldman sees 2 percent gross domestic productgrowth in the second half of 2012 and just 1.5 percent growth in early 2013.
A weaker economy could also push the Federal Reserve to adopt additional easing later in the year, Hatzius said.

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Paul Wall is back like he never left with his new album Houston Oiler. The 16-track project includes features from Slim Thug, Z-Ro, as well as Chamillionaire to name a few, and finds Wall showcasing his undeniable Southern style over smooth backdrops to ride out to. Houston Oiler even includes an ode to legendary Houston producer Mike Dean.
"For me, Houston Oiler represents the era of time in my city where I fell in love with hip-hop," Paul Wall told Complex via email. "I wanted to bring that nostalgia back to my city."
Stream Paul Wall's Houston Oiler album below and pre-order it on iTunes here. The project will officially be released tomorrow (Oct. 21). On a related note, if you're in the Houston area this weekend be sure to stop by the grand opening of Johnny Dang & Co. to cop a new grill.


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Business groups drop challenge to Washington’s new minimum wage, family leave law
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According to Reuters, the report published on January 13 said that “from 2020 to 2021, the number of attacks related to North Korean hackers has increased from four to seven, and the value of property obtained has increased by 40 %”.
A panel of experts from the United Nations, which monitors sanctions against North Korea, accused the country of using stolen funds to support its nuclear and ballistic missile programs to evade sanctions. punish. North Korea did not respond to media questions, but previously released a statement denying the allegations of cyberattacks.
North Korean hackers are accused of launching at least 7 attacks on crypto platforms in 2021
Last year, the United States charged three North Korean computer programmers, who work for the country’s intelligence agency, of being involved in a massive, years-long attack to steal more than $1.3 billion. fiat money and cryptocurrencies, affecting many companies, from banks to Hollywood studios.
Chainalysis did not identify all the targets of the attacks, but said the victims were mainly investment firms and centralized exchanges. The attacker used phishing, code mining, malware and advanced social networking techniques to withdraw funds from internet-connected “hot” wallets to addresses controlled by North Korean hackers. control.
Many of the attacks in the last year were likely carried out by the Lazarus Group, an attack group once sanctioned by the US. The group is also accused of being involved in the “WannaCry” ransomware attack that targeted international banks and customer accounts, in addition to the 2014 cyberattack on Sony Pictures. Entertainment.
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IMO, if we are to cut through the thick myths surrounding adoption and third world cultures enough to understand that the injustices committed against third world, racially-different, and culturally-different people cut just as humanly deep as the injustices committed against white, middle class Westerners, then we must try to "walk in those shoes" for a mile or two.
This walking in "someone else's shoes" or figuratively "living in their skin" is sometimes most effectively done by watching a good movie about what life is like in those shoes or skin.
Rabbit Proof Fence is a movie that allows us to live in the shoes and skin of two young Aborigine girls who were part of the "stolen generations" of Australia.
The Stolen Generation (or Stolen Generations) is a term used to describe the Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children, usually of mixed descent, who were taken from their families by Australian government agencies and church missions, under various state acts of parliament, denying the rights of parents and making all Aboriginal children wards of the state, between approximately 1869 and (officially) 1969. The policy typically involved the removal of children into internment camps, orphanages and other institutions.Rabbit Proof Fence is an excellent award-winning movie about two young mixed race Aboriginal girls who are torn from their Aboriginal mother's arms and placed into an orphanage where they can unlearn their aboriginal ways and be brought up according to the dictates of white Australian culture.
"...between one in three and one in ten Indigenous children were forcibly removed from their families and communities in the period from approximately 1910 until 1970...
...Most families have been affected, in one or more generations, by the forcible removal of one or more children."
--Wikipedia article: Stolen Generations
The girls suffer exactly what you'd expect any children torn from their family, their culture, their way of life, their home, and their identities to suffer. They are homesick. They miss their mother, their family, their friends, and their community. They miss their life. They do not want lose their culture, and they don't want to be made into different people.
Upset and homesick, the two girls determinedly and illegally set out to return to their mother and their home, following the "rabbit proof fence" for 1,500 miles. They are trailed by those who want to catch them and return them to the orphanage and their unwanted new life.
The movie brought back to me the emotions and attitudes that we saw in my daughters as they struggled as older international adoptees to adjust emotionally and culturally to the injustices of being torn away from their first family and the difficulty of enduring involuntary placement in a new culture, country, and a family.
Adoption myths notwithstanding, it should be a no-brainer, but older children can not be torn from their families, their cultures, and their countries without having opinions about what is happening to them.
The parallels between the situation of these Aborigine children of the Stolen Generations who were orphanized by white Australians against the will of their original families, and many international adoptees, many of whom, due to lack of concern about adoption corruption are sometimes obtained by force or fraud for intercountry adoption, are striking.
Do the ends of what is judged a "better life" and better ways of life justify the means?
Do the same kinds of racial, cultural, and ethnic prejudices allow us to similarly maintain a lack of concern for human rights violations?
Do we not feel the pain of people with whom we have trouble identifying?
Does same zealous "white way" rescue mode allow us to perpetrate horrors on others in the name of "good"?
It is easy to recognize and condemn the injustices of another time and place. It is always hard to perceive and have the courage to stand against the injustices taking place in our own time.
Wikipedia Article: The Rabbit Proof Fence


AT the start of 2010, no one (other than those in the Shire) would have ever envisaged the rapid improvement of the Cronulla team that has brought them to where they are now.
THE Canberra Raiders have destroyed the hopes and dreams of the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks as the green machine ran out victorious in front of a sell out Canberra Stadium today
FINALS footy is here! Eight teams to be named today - get them all here ahead of the big four clashes coming up this weekend!
THE North Queensland Cowboys haven out an intense match at Toyota Park with a 34-22 victory over the Cronulla Sharks in front of 16,800 fans
MELBOURNE have finished Monday night football how it started, snaring victory from the jaws of defeat
THE NRL enters the final three weeks of competition - it's time for the teamlists of Telstra Premiership Round 24.
NEWCASTLE have produced an energetic display to defeat Cronulla 26 points to 4 in front of 15,394 fans at Hunter Stadium
TEAMLIST Tuesday is here again for Round 23 of the NRL Telstra Premiership. Get your teams here across the afternoon!
THE Penrith Panthers have back-to-back wins for the first time in 2012 after defeating the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks 21-20 in extra time in front of 7,848 fans at Toyota Park
JUST six weeks of competition footy left in the Telstra Premiership - here are the NRL teamlists across Tuesday afternoon for Round 21.


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Soak red onion in a bowl of ice water in refrigerator to remove strong taste, at least 30 minutes. Drain and rinse.
Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil; cook the rotini at a boil until tender yet firm to the bite, about 8 minutes; drain and rinse under cold water.
Mix onion, pasta, tuna, celery, roasted red peppers, sun-dried tomatoes, feta cheese, parsley, basil, capers, and Greek dressing together in a large bowl. Allow to marinate in refrigerator, 4 hours to overnight.
Per Serving: 248 calories; protein 9g; carbohydrates 24.9g; fat 12.7g; cholesterol 8.9mg; sodium 482.1mg.

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Why football’s greats are our sporting gods
I love lists. Like the chap in High Fidelity, I have been compiling them all my life. The top five Doctor Whos, the top five David Beckham hairstyles, the top five Jimmy Nail lookalikes, that kind of thing.
So, in a week with the sporting world in overdrive, with the Masters, the Grand National, the Champions League quarter-finals and the Malaysian Grand Prix in the offing, here is my list of the top five sportsmen on the planet.
But before coming to my selection, I want to reflect upon a curious bias in the way these lists are commonly compiled. Take a look at the BBC Sports Personality poll down the years and you will see a preponderance of individual sportsmen: tennis players, runners,