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Investment gains and dividends received within an ISA are not subject to tax. While, not officially part of the ISA family, Inheritance ISAs have become a popular way of preserving wealth for the next generation. They launched in 2013, when the rules changed to allow savers to invest in smaller companies quoted on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) through their stocks and shares ISA.Shares in some companies quoted on AIM can be passed on free of inheritance tax (IHT) under a scheme called Business Relief (BP). If you hold shares in companies eligible for BP for at least two years and still held at date of death, your estate will not have to pay inheritance tax on their value.The estate of someone with £100,000 worth of stocks and shares in ISAs, plus a house and other assets above the £325,000 limit, they would incur a £40,00 tax charge on their portfolio. If that person had their shares in an AIM IHT Stock and Shares ISA for at least two years, there would be no charge. The combination of investment growth free of tax within the ISA plus the opportunity to pass on wealth tax free, has proved a winning combination.The government are quite stingy with offering tax breaks to us and we therefore recommend clients try to take advantage of those that are available.The government does not provide a list of companies eligible for BR, so many savers prefer to use investment managers whom pick companies likely to qualify. These portfolios are quite high-risk investments and savers need to be happy that there is going to be volatility involved. For example, Octopus Investments, a BP manager, fell in value 20% last year but over the past five years it has risen 52%. We will remind clients that positive ISA returns are awarded to the patient investor.It is also important to keep an eye on charges, not only performance. AIM investing is more expensive than investing in the main markets because there is more legwork involved for managers, but some companies charge high fees, which need to be justified. It’s also worth being reminded that married couples can inherit each other’s ISA portfolios on death, meaning the portfolio remains intact and can continue to deliver tax free income to the surviving partner.
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by Ken Lain, the mountain gardener
Currently, there are 3200 species of African Violets. The very first violet was discovered in 1892 by Baron Walter von Saint Paul-Illaire, a German colonial official in Tanzania, thus the botanical name Saintpaulia ionantha.
African violets are the most popular houseplants for a good reason. They bloom several times each year, with soft velvety foliage, in a plethora of flower colors. African violets thrive indoors. With just a little garden experience, you find they grow to the size of dinner plants.
African Violet Care
African violets thrive indoors in bright, humid conditions. Prevent old, spent leaves from collecting on your plant. Old foliage will encourage plant rot.
We make specially formulated soil just for African Violets. Their soil must drain fast. When the plant becomes waterlogged, the leaves droop, fall and rot. Never allowing your plant to stand in water for extended periods is the number one rule of violets.
Keep soil moist with warm water and strive for high humidity. African Violets appreciate a weekly light misting. Keep water from touching the leaves to prevent brown spots from forming. Water at the root level or well below the foliage.
African Violet pots are specially designed to care for and water violets without water ever touching their foliage. They are pretty and make growing violets much easier.
Temperature and Humidity
Violets are just like people. If you are comfortable, so are they. Their preferred temperature is 70ºF. Do not allow your plant to dip below 60ºF.
Feed twice monthly with Watters African Violet Plant Food for best bloom cycles.
Propagating African Violets
African violets can be propagated from leaf cuttings or from pups. Mature plants produce small plantlets or shoots from the side. Remove these and pot directly in Watters African Violet Potting Soil. By removing pups, you encourage better blooms from the parent plant.
Potting and Repotting African Violets
African violets do better when they are slightly underpotted. Repotting an African Violet is easy. Simply grab the plant, lift it, and replace it with a larger container. Fill the gaps with Watters African Violet Potting Soil. Be very gentle with their root system. Common signs your plant is stressed and needs to be repotted include falling leaves and overcrowding, as well as roots that protrude from the surface of the soil.
African Violet Varieties
African violets are available in single and double flowers, in all different colors, and with widely varied leaf shapes. Gloxinia is sometimes mistaken for a type of African violet. If you like African Violets, you might also enjoy the closely related Streptocarpus species or the African violet cousin, the Goldfish Plant.
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Watters Free Garden Classes start January 14 @ 9:30 am. Check out this spring’s entire class selection offered every Saturday at Watters Garden Center.
January 14 @ 9:30 am – Happy, Healthy Houseplants with Professional Style
Houseplants brighten our lives and clean the air we breathe, but not all are created equal when grown in an arid climate. Students learn the top plants grown indoors and how to care for each. Learn best practices for watering, light placement, and how to treat and prevent pests and problems.
January 21 @ 9:30 am – Top Local Landscapes with Flare
Any garden can pop with flares of color with the right plants. We’ll cover the best local companion plants, flowers, evergreens, and more. Bring a pencil and paper for notes and questions for our experts after this class.
January 28 @ 9:30 am – January is the Best Month to Plant Wildflowers
Late winter is the ideal window to start wildflower seeds outdoors. We share all the local tips that ensure these bloomers blossom beautifully. You’ll know the best seed, soils, food, and techniques that bring on the color this spring.
Until next week, I’ll be helping gardeners relax with more houseplants here at Watters Garden Center.

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The Bair Foundation
Updated: Monday, November 4 2013, 01:25 PM EST
News 13 continues our challenge to help give back. Our morning anchors are spotlighting 3 local charities every month. Voting opens up on our WLOS Facebook Page in two weeks for one of them to win $1,000 from our partners Bryan Easler Toyota.
Our first charity for November is The Bair Foundation, a christian foster care agency that provides homes to abused or neglected children.
Thirteen year-old Jacob, shoots hoops with his former foster dad, and his new adoptive brother. And it's all because of The Bair Foundation.
Director of The Bair Foundation, Sara Spotila, says "The Bair Foundation does therapeutic foster care. That's our primary program, meaning the children that come to us have suffered significant abuse neglect."
Kids can be with Bair for a few days, or years. Spotila says to count as many children who have come in and graced them with their presence is hard to count.
The Foundation's focus is different from other foster agencies. Spotila says they, first and foremost put a Christ centered approach to the foster care. She says, "our families are Christian families. We have a commitment that I believe is deeper in that it is a ministry that we are providing."
For Jacob, that meant finding his new parents in a familiar place during his foster care. One of the families in Jacob's church adopted him, and their adoption became final last year.
Jacob is glad he gets to go to church where he has been going for two years.
It's an amazing end to a difficult journey. Foster parent, Marlene Maceachern, says "we get to see children's lives changed and come from really tough, rough places."
Western North Carolina has the most foster need in the state. Spotila says she's having to turn away anywhere from 30-50 kids a month because there aren't enough homes.
If The Bair Foundation won the $1,000 prize, the money would go toward supporting those families that provide a safe home environment.
The Bair Foundation is also involved in a kinship program to place kids with extended relatives or family friends. To find out more about The Bair Foundation, click here.
Next Monday we'll spotlight another charity in this month's challenge.

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Missing St Neots 27-year-old man found dead
- Credit: Cambridgeshire Police
A missing man from St Neots has been found dead in a river.
Alexander Smith-Sturgess, 27, was reported missing earlier this week.
He was last seen in Barnes Close, St Neots, at 1am on April 14.
Cambridgeshire Police said: "It is with sadness that we can confirm Alexander's body was found in the river in St Neots yesterday."


TRENTON, Nov. 12 - In terms of popular culture, Gov. James E. McGreevey's place in history was cemented the instant he stood before a national television audience during his Aug. 12 resignation speech and acknowledged being the nation's first openly gay governor.
But as he leaves office at midnight on Monday, turning the governor's office over to State Senate President Richard J. Codey, Mr. McGreevey leaves a legacy that is far more complicated.
He campaigned as a fiscal conservative and social moderate, yet Mr. McGreevey embraced a surprisingly liberal agenda: doling out fat contracts to union supporters, indulging in a torrent of borrowing and spending, and enacting laws that legalized stem cell research and domestic partnerships for gay couples.
He pledged to make state government more efficient, and for the most part he delivered. His skills as a policy analyst and manager allowed him to improve E-ZPass and the Department of Motor Vehicles, alleviate New Jersey's auto insurance crisis and strengthen the state police.
Mr. McGreevey has also done an admirable job of bolstering New Jersey's counterterrorism efforts, but only after his short-lived, and politically fatal, decision to appoint a homeland security adviser who was unqualified and who later accused the governor of sexual harassment.Continue reading the main story
In the end, however, the governor was elected on a promise to "Change the Way Trenton Does Business," and legislators, party leaders and others say that is where he came up short. Until he was already committed to resigning, he never managed to free himself from the contributors and party bosses who orchestrated his election and, as a result, Mr. McGreevey was dogged by ethical questions involving his contributors, aides and, ultimately, himself.
Those who know Mr. McGreevey well say his record is united by a common theme: his instinct to accommodate whoever he was talking to. While he reveled in public appearances and one-on-one negotiating sessions with lawmakers and business leaders, the governor's attempts to mollify various sides of an issue often backfired.
In fact his biggest achievement, a plan to preserve hundreds of thousands of acres in the Highlands, won approval only after Mr. McGreevey agreed to a drastic rollback of development rules that infuriated environmentalists and is likely to encourage suburban sprawl. He has since suspended the rollback for up to seven months.
Former Senator John Lynch, the Middlesex County power broker, said that the tragedy of the governor's tenure was that his greatest strength -- his gift for retail politics -- eventually proved his greatest weakness.
"Jim McGreevey's time in office should be a blueprint for anyone who wants to be governor in the future: It's so much more important to be respected than loved," said Mr. Lynch, who has mentored the governor since Mr. McGreevey was a junior state senator and mayor of Woodbridge. "He wanted to make everyone happy, tell everyone what they wanted to hear, and that made it impossible for him to lead."
Few people could have predicted that Mr. McGreevey might merit such a gloomy, and hasty, epitaph when he roared into office in January 2002. Fueled by a favorable redistricting map and public weariness with a decade of Republican rule in Trenton, Mr. McGreevey led Democrats to recapture the governor's mansion and the General Assembly and achieve parity in the State Senate. During his first week in office, some of Mr. McGreevey's advisers mused about establishing the kind of environmental and fiscal record that might one day begin a run for the White House.
Although he inherited a projected $2 billion deficit and a heavy debt load, Mr. McGreevey adroitly balanced his first budget with a combination of spending cuts, one-time revenue enhancements and borrowing against future revenue from a settlement with the tobacco companies.
When faced with traditionally Democratic policy issues, Mr. McGreevey's instinct was to attack the roots of the problem. Ending years of costly legal battles, he embraced a court-ordered plan to pay for preschool programs in low-income districts. He also accelerated the school construction program, added financing for after-school programs and sought, unsuccessfully, to reorganize the state university system.
When a 7-year-old Newark boy under state supervision was found dead in the basement of a home in Newark, a visibly outraged Mr. McGreevey declared that the administration's top priority would be to fix the state's woefully ineffective child welfare system. He ordered a restructuring of the Division of Youth and Family Services, and settled a court case with a child advocacy group by promising to hire 1,000 new caseworkers, reduce caseloads and increase the agency's financing by tens of millions a year. The state also established a 24-hour emergency phone line to report child abuse.
The agency is still struggling to meet those goals, but its 24-hour child abuse line is considered a success, and child welfare advocates have praised Mr. McGreevey for taking a comprehensive approach to the longstanding problem.
For Mr. McGreevey, though, dealing with people proved far trickier, and less forgiving, than crunching numbers or analyzing policy.
On his first day in office, the governor appointed Golan Cipel, an Israeli public relations man, as his homeland security adviser. With the state still reeling from the 9/11 attacks, which killed nearly 700 New Jersey residents, that appointment became a public relations disaster and Mr. Cipel eventually stepped down. (This August, after Mr. Cipel threatened to file a sexual harassment suit against Mr. McGreevey, the governor resigned, saying that he had had an extramarital affair with a man whom he did not name.)
Mr. McGreevey's first state police superintendent feuded with the unions, bought costly office furniture and spawned lawsuits from troopers angered by personnel changes they viewed as vindictive. His choice for the chairman of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey was scuttled when it was revealed that the candidate was a subject of a criminal investigation. (The man later pleaded guilty to hiring a prostitute in an effort to silence two potential witnesses in the case.)
One of the governor's candidates for State Supreme Court justice drove to her state police background interview with a suspended license and with a bench warrant pending for failure to appear in court to answer charges of unsafe driving. The governor, meanwhile, compounded his problems on occasion by promising the same administration post to more than one candidate and leaving both sides unhappy.
Even though the governor found effective, high-caliber appointees for many of the administration's most important positions -- the Departments of Education, Environmental Protection, Transportation and Health and Senior Services -- even Mr. McGreevey's supporters began to wonder whether he might be a policy expert with a tin ear for personnel decisions.
"It seemed like his loyalty was blind loyalty," said David Rebovich, a political science professor at Rider University. "There were some people who could make the jump from Woodbridge to Trenton, and some who couldn't, and McGreevey seemed unable to discern which was which."
Even more damaging were the scandals that percolated around the administration with alarming frequency. Mr. McGreevey himself was involved in some low-level missteps: using the state helicopter for personal business and taxpayer money for a junket to Ireland.
But a few of his donors were accused of more serious transgressions: strong-arming business owners for contributions; promising official favors in exchange for donations; hiring a prostitute to help silence witnesses in a campaign finance inquiry. Two of his closest aides -- his former chief of staff and former chief counsel -- are still under investigation after accusations that they used their positions on his transition team to pad the value of their billboard company. The secretary of commerce also resigned, amid questions about contracts issued by the agency and expenses filed by a senior staff member.
Some supporters say the news media blew those matters out of proportion. But Republicans say that Mr. McGreevey was so solicitous of political bosses and fund-raisers that he failed to set the proper ethical tone in the capital.
"Jim McGreevey put a 'For Sale' sign on New Jersey government," said Larry Weitzner, a political consultant to a variety of Republican candidates. "When Brendan Byrne or Jim Florio were governor, I disagreed with their policies but I had respect for them. But with McGreevey there was no moral compass There was no feeling of trying to keep a promise to the voters."
Even more soft-spoken Republicans say the governor, who criticized the borrowing and spending decisions of the Christine Todd Whitman administration, leaves the state in far worse fiscal shape than he found it. In all, Mr. McGreevey raised taxes and fees by more than $8 billion -- increasing taxes on corporations, home sales, cellphones, cosmetic surgery, casinos, hotel tariffs and the income of wealthy state residents.
But after two years of modest growth in spending, the budget enacted this year included a 17 percent increase, and was financed by a $2 billion borrowing plan that the State Supreme Court said was in violation of New Jersey's constitutional mandate for a balanced budget.
During Mr. McGreevey's tenure, the state's debt jumped to $28 billion from $16 billion, the cost of its annual debt service rose to $2.1 billion from $1.45 billion, and Wall Street twice lowered the state's credit rating.
"The three most pressing problems facing New Jersey are fiscal responsibility, the need for ethical reform and property taxes, and unfortunately Governor McGreevey made no progress on any of them," said Senator Leonard Lance, Trenton's ranking Republican.
In the three months since announcing his resignation, Mr. McGreevey has tried to shape his legacy by approving a needle exchange program he had shunned for years and signing an executive order that forbids state contractors to make campaign contributions -- a practice known as "pay to play." But many political analysts say that the most enduring effect of Mr. McGreevey's tenure is still likely to be increased public cynicism about the political process.
"In a way that he could never have imagined, Jim McGreevey may have actually made a difference by banning pay-to-play," said Ross K. Baker, a Rutgers political science professor. "But it was only when his back was to the wall and he was politically dead. The sad thing is, there's a higher price that gets paid by this kind of disillusionment. Public trust suffers incredibly when expectations are high and there's this event that completely belies it. The public becomes cynical, and believes that nothing a politician says can be trusted."Continue reading the main story


Some of the stacks of trip reports were nearing four feet high and they filled the musty closet. Dividing them up, we started sorting through them in earnest. The dates indicated that the calls had been run between 1972 and 1978. Most of the narratives were as brief as the treatment lists.
Hall Ambulance’s station one was an older house in an early residential area of Bakersfield, California. It had been, at one time, the residence of the company’s owner, Harvey Hall. In the early days of the ambulance service, Harvey had both lived in the home and run his fledgling ambulance service out of it.
One of the crews stationed at the home had gone digging in the dusty storage closets and struck EMS history gold. Stacks and stacks of old trip reports from the Mother, Jugs and Speed days of EMS. That’s where we found it. A call run by our medical director back in his days as a paramedic for the service. A cardiac arrest, no less. The total list of treatments given; CPR, BVM, Epinephrine 1mg, Sodium Bicarbonate 2 amps.
The year was 1991. We found this hilarious. We were still in our ACLS infancy. There was no CPR first or AEDs or Amiodarone. Nobody had heard of capnography and there was nothing therapeutic about hypothermia. Yet we felt very advanced looking at our medical directors run report. The massive Sodium Bicarbonate doses of the seventies had long since gone away.
More than happy to reminisce about the call, our doc read the report with a bemused sort of faraway look and announced, “I remember this guy.” He told us the story of the overweight, mid-sixties male who had collapsed in the parking lot across from the hospital. And then he made an observation that has stuck with me my whole career.
“You know, looking back on it, we killed this guy.” He observed and then corrected himself. “I mean, we didn’t do anything to cause his death, but we certainly pushed his Ph levels so far out of whack that he had no chance of resuscitation.”
“At the time, we all felt like we were doing the right thing for this guy.” He continued. “Looking back on it now, we see that we were completely wrong.”
Back in my ambulance with the yellowed, old trip report still in my hand, I got to wondering. What am I doing right now, today that’s completely wrong? What will we look back on years from now and say, “Wow, I can’t believe we were doing that to people. It seemed like such a good idea.” What do I believe right now about appropriate medical care that’s actually completely wrong?
On that sunny spring day in 1991 I couldn’t say. Everything seemed to be fairly appropriate. In retrospect,the list was long. I c-spined just about everybody who fell down. I couldn’t treat a patients pain with my morphine but I could treat their PVCs with my Lidocaine. I spent a ridiculously long time getting cardiac arrests intubated and I only assessed tube placement with my stethoscope and eyes.
None of this was technically incorrect. I was following my protocols and my training and doing what I understood to be right for the patient. Just like my medical director back in 1972. Just like every one of us does each day. You see where I’m going with this right?
It’s worth considering that today, right now, a bunch of stuff you’re doing is just flat out wrong. We don’t understand it to be wrong today. 10, 15, 20 years from now, you’ll look back at your 2009 medicine and say, “At the time, we felt like we were doing the right thing, but looking back, we were completely wrong.”
Medicine is the art of guessing. Educated guessing for sure, but guessing none-the-less. We do stuff, we apply the scientific method, we assess the results and we take a better guess. Appropriate care is only appropriate in the context of time.
Part of being resistant to change is having to admit that something that we were doing before that change was less than ideal. It can be hard to admit that we were wrong. To welcome change is to embrace our own inherent fallibility. It’s recognition that nothing were doing is yet ideal. With that in mind we can be ready to move forward and create a more ideal future.
The first step is making peace with the idea that some of our care … much of our care, is wrong.


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When Molly, the 21 year-old sister of Maarten, departs the family home, she leaves her older brother with empty nest syndrome. But it also opens up new opportunities for him, such as the possibility to explore his love for Arthur, a closet gay. Molly and Maarten wrestle with their personal relationships and also their relationship with one another, but fate nevertheless seems determined to strike them both down.
When Sid accidentally destroys Manny's heirloom Christmas rock and ends up on Santa's naughty list, he leads a hilarious quest to the North Pole to make things right and ends up making things much worse.
In an alternate world, humanity and vampires have warred for centuries. After the last Vampire War, the veteran Warrior Priest lives in obscurity with other humans inside one of the Church's walled cities.
The movie is centered on a couple, Nader and Simin, and their 11-year-old daughter, Termeh. Nader and Simin are about to leave the country for good; however, Nader has a change of heart and decides to stay and look after his father who suffers from Alzheimer's disease.
Hugo is an orphan boy living in the walls of a train station in 1930s Paris. He learned to fix clocks and other gadgets from his father and uncle which he puts to use keeping the train station clocks running.

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Shop for books. Learn more fast We've created reference pages for every book so you can quickly find all kinds of relevant information: An epic legal battle between authors and publishers and the internet giant over alleged copyright violations dragged on for years.
A settlement that would have created a Book Rights Registry and made it possible to access the Google Books corpus through public-library terminals ultimately died, rejected by a federal judge in And though the same judge ultimately dismissed the case in , handing Google a victory that allowed it to keep on scanning, the dream of easy and full access to all those works remains just that.
That material helped stock a partnership called the the HathiTrust Digital Library.
Established in and based at the University of Michigan, it has grown to include member institutions, according to its executive director, Mike Furlough. It now contains more than That rich resource has been put to several good uses.
Through the HathiTrust Research Center , scholars can tap into the Google Books corpus and conduct computational analysis—looking for patterns in large amounts of text, for instance—without breaching copyright. And print-disabled users can use assistive technologies to read scanned books that might otherwise be difficult if not impossible to find in accessible formats.
Courant and others involved in the early days of the scanning work acknowledge both the benefits and the shortfalls. Such clarification is important in the new digital age as it affects other scanning projects similar to Google.
In a German lawsuit, previously filed, was withdrawn. This is the first such lawsuit to be filed against Google in China.
Google agreed on Nov 20 to provide a list of Chinese books it had scanned, but the company refused to admit having "infringed" copyright laws.
Rubin specifically criticized Google's policy of freely copying any work until notified by the copyright holder to stop. Some published works that are in the public domain, such as all works created by the U.
Federal government , are still treated like other works under copyright, and therefore locked after It was founded in by Michael S. Hart and is the oldest digital library. Internet Archive is a non-profit which digitizes over books a day, as well as mirrors books from Google Books and other sources. Microsoft funded the scanning of , books to create Live Search Books in late It ran until May , when the project was abandoned  and the books were made freely available on the Internet Archive.
The objective is to integrate several national and international digital libraries in one single web-portal. Europeana links to roughly 10 million digital objects as of [update] , including video, photos, paintings, audio, maps, manuscripts, printed books, and newspapers from the past 2, years of European history from over 1, archives in the European Union.
Created in , the digital library continues to expand at a rate of about new documents per month. Since the end of , most of the new scanned documents are available in image and text formats.
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Shoreham-Wading River School District taxpayers will vote Tuesday on a proposed $67 million budget.
Overall spending is estimated to increase by about $1.15 million over the current school year.
The total amount raised from taxes would increase 1.9 percent under the proposal, about $940,000 over the current tax levy of $49.4 million.
Superintendent Steven Cohen has said exemptions approved by the state would have allowed the district to propose a tax levy increase of up to 2.9 percent — about $1.43 million — without piercing the state tax cap, but his administration and the school board were committed to crafting a budget under that amount.
The majority of the spending increase involves the use of $1.51 million from the capital fund for several facility improvement projects, including roofs at the high school and middle school and a high school public address system. In addition, repairs would be made at Miller Avenue and Wading River elementary schools to make both buildings ADA compliant, Mr. Cohen said.
Technology expenses are expected to rise to about $689,300, a hike of nearly 14 percent. The increase is attributable to costs for for maintenance, support and warranties on new electronic devices the district purchased through the 2012 voter-approved technology bond, the superintendent said.
Mr. Cohen said that if voters reject the proposed budget Tuesday, spending will have to be cut by nearly $2 million under a contingency budget.
“Voting against the budget is basically saying the community doesn’t want the buildings fixed,” he said during a recent presentation.
Smaller class sizes, current programs and enrichment opportunities for students — such as sports, music, athletics and clubs — are included in next school year’s spending plan, he said.
Salaries are expected to decline by nearly $940,000 over the current school year, Mr. Cohen said. Some employees could be let go entirely as the district plans to eliminate the equivalent of 15 positions through retirements, staff redeployments and some layoffs. Additionally, the superintendent attributed the 2.9 percent reduction in salaries to contract negotiations with the teachers union.
The district has also decided to close Briarcliff Elementary School in Shoreham next year as a cost-saving measure and has noted three possible uses for the current kindergarten and first-grade building: transforming it into a pre-kindergarten building (pending state funding for such programs), leasing the space or leaving it vacant.
The district plans to turn Miller Avenue Elementary School into a kindergarten through second-grade primary school and Wading River Elementary School into a third- through fifth-grade intermediate school in 2014-15.
The district is expected to be less reliant on using reserves to subsidize the budget next year and plans to use about $5.28 million from the fund balance to support the proposed budget, which Mr. Cohen said is a 4.97 percent decrease over the current school year.
The district is expected to be less reliant on using reserves to subsidize the budget next year.

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Dominating the public policy discussion in New York these past few weeks have been two pieces of New York City Council legislation relating to the New York City Police Department. One creates the position of inspector general within the NYPD to monitor the department’s activities; the other grants individuals who claim to have been victims of racial profiling the right to bring a lawsuit seeking a court judgment prohibiting similar actions by the NYPD (seeking monetary damages is not provided for).
Both measures are said to have been prompted by charges that the NYPD is out of control in its efforts to deal proactively with crime and the terrorist threat to the city. Separate and apart from the merits of the legislation, there are other salient points to be made that are receiving little if any attention.
At the outset, we note three things. Though we tend to agree with those who oppose the legislation on the ground that they will unduly hamper police in maintaining their robust program for crime and terror prevention, we are not unmindful that there are legitimate gripes from law-abiding citizens who get caught up in the wide net cast by the police. This certainly happens when police action is not limited to imminent wrongdoing. It is inherent in the nature of the enterprise.
Nor are we untroubled by charges of excessive use of force by the NYPD. We well remember the shooting of Gidone Busch in Boro Park, Brooklyn, on August 30, 1999 by four police officers. Mr. Busch, an observant Jew wearing a beard and yarmulke, was in an agitated state when cops shot him dead. He had been brandishing a hammer while standing more than six feet from the officers with his back against a wall. No one was ever indicted in the incident and a civil jury ruled against his family – and while the verdict was overturned by a federal judge because of problems with the testimony of a police witness, Mr. Busch’s family chose not to pursue the case any further.
Second, the two pieces of legislation passed the City Council at a time when statistics show that the number of crimes in New York, including homicides, have declined precipitously while those controversial police measures have been in place. Plainly the police are doing something right, though we agree that cannot be the end of the inquiry.
New York State Assemblyman Dov Hikind captured the moment in a letter to the Council and on his radio show. In his letter urging defeat of the two measures, he noted that as the result of proactive police work, “We’ve had a remarkable, measurable downturn in crime.” He went on to write that the proposed legislation would have “ ‘a chilling effect’ where cops become more concerned with keeping their jobs than doing their duty.”
On his radio program he was even more expressive regarding criticism of special monitoring of Muslims: “As the days go on, more and more people, especially Democrats on the left, are criticizing, asking for more investigations…. I mean, these people are nuts.”
Third, Mayor Bloomberg has created distractions in the public debate with his attempts to justify targeting minority communities for special attention from police. He infelicitously cited the higher percentage of crimes committed by minorities and almost flippantly remarked that whites were being scrutinized far beyond what those statistics would seem to call for. He has also sparked criticism with his vow to throw around his money to defeat those members of the City Council who voted for the legislation. It’s his money to do with as he wishes, and he certainly hasn’t relinquished his right to do so by becoming mayor. Still, the comments serve no good purpose.
What is getting almost no notice is the provenance of both laws. In fact, they are the work product of something called the Progressive Caucus, which upon its formation three years ago was described by The New York Times as consisting of the twelve most liberal members of the City Council. “The caucus,” wrote the Times’s David Chen, “will be the first in recent memory to coalesce around ideology rather than racial or sexual identity, according to Council members. And by voting yes or no as a bloc, the caucus could establish a liberal litmus test for all Council members that could be easily tracked by future Democratic primary voters, who tend to skew left.”
The driving force of this grouping is Brooklyn Councilman Brad Lander. The Jewish Press strongly opposed Mr. Lander when he first ran for the Council in 2009. We noted his public identification with the Palestinian cause and his dismissal of bris milah as an anachronistic and divisive act of child abuse. He has since become a regular contributor to The Nation magazine, one of the most virulently anti-Israel publications around. In our view, not only were the two anti-NYPD measures developed by Mr. Lander’s caucus, they would not have been passed without its support.
Mr. Lander was supported by some Orthodox public figures who told our community that he had turned over a new leaf. Since that is plainly not the case, we hope those supporters will now use any remaining influence they have with him to put him on the right path.
Kudos to Councilman Peter Vallone Jr. for refusing to report the measures out of his committee. Sadly, a discharge motion by the pro-legislation juggernaut in order to bypass his committee succeeded.
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A nuclear Khomenist Tehran will be a threat to Western democracies and to Jerusalem in particular
The MONSTERS of Nebi Saleh know well the damning, visceral impact of powerful, deceitful imagery.
Jewish Voice for Peace openly supports BDS movement against ALL of Israel & ending the Jewish State.
Unlike Judaism & Christianity which honors “truth,” Islam pursues “Taqiyya,” strategic lying
Yashar Lachayal’s mission is to learn what IDF soldiers’ need and get it to them when they need it.
Corbyn leading the Britain’s Labour Party polls, describes Hamas & Hizbullah as England’s “friends.”
The convicted murderer was released from Israeli prison with more than two dozen other sociopaths
JCF is a donor/supporter of The New Israel Fund which supports BDS & wants IDF soldiers prosecuted
The ‘Peace Industry’ promotes its adherents; weak leaders, both military & political, is the result
The conundrum for US Labor Zionists: Lobbying for Iran deal while Israel’s Left lobby’s against it.
What does the Torah want from our small nation described as “they who struggle with God & with men”?
Mr. Nadler’s support for the deal is a naked political gift to a president who has defied logic in his quest to reinvent international affairs according to his ideological inclinations.
In practical terms, the proclamation surely makes a compelling argument:
The Jewish Press will be keeping tabs on the public positions taken by Democratic members of the Senate and House.
If the reports are accurate, it’s hard to fathom why Sen. Schumer feels it necessary to eschew urging his colleagues to oppose the Iran deal.
Since Republicans are expected to almost uniformly oppose the agreement, the key to its fate will be how many Democrats oppose it.
Jonathan Pollard’s presumptive release in mid-November 2015 had long been a matter of public record, though many may not have been aware of it.
We daresay there are many stories of successful business ventures among chassidim.
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What will social media look like in 2039 ? Experts expect by then it will be integrated into wearables that will track our daily habits.
Once upon a time, there was no Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or YouTube. Our lives did not revolve around a stream of status updates, tweets, videos and filtered photos. That was just 10 years ago.
Since Mark Zuckerberg launched Facebook in his Harvard dorm room on February 4, 2004, we've seen social media evolve from a fad to a phenomenon that has triggered a paradigm shift in the way the world communicates. It has empowered individuals to voice their opinions and concerns and share content on their mobile devices in ways no one could have imagined. Along the way, geopolitics and the world of business has been radically transformed.
We saw the dramatic impact social media wielded four years ago. It was a tool that helped spark the Arab Spring-a democratic civil uprising in the Middle East that began in Tunisia in December 2010, which helped force rulers from power in such countries as Tunisia, Egypt and Libya. Thanks to Twitter and other social media, people were able to protest and raise awareness in the face of repression. The revolution still continues.
No doubt, the power of social media is exponential. Numbers tell the story. Today there are 1.3 billion active Facebook users, with 82 percent of them coming from outside the U.S. and Canada. Twitter boasts 270 million active users that send 500 million tweets per day. And each day, 4 billion videos are viewed on YouTube (that's 46,296 per second) and 60 million photos are uploaded on Instagram.
The trend has helped these tech disruptors go public at hefty valuations. Facebook, for example, went public in 2012. At the time, it was the biggest in technology and Internet history, with a peak market capitalization of more than $104 million. At press time it had reached a whopping $206.4 billion.
Fast-forward to the future, and we should see global social media usage continue on its upward trajectory. In just four years, eMarketer projects it will nearly double by 32.7 percent. By then 2.44 billion of the world's population will be on social networks.
While estimates through 2039 are not available, experts agree that by then, use of social media will be ubiquitous and integrated into our daily lives in a multitude of ways. It is expected social media will be integrated into wearables that track our habits, and virtual experiences will be part of the package. The challenge will be coping with the massive amounts of data that will deluge the masses.
While there's no crystal ball, we asked industry experts to give us their predictions on the future of social media.
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Leslie Caron’s Advice on Living Well at 90
The American in Paris star and Oscar nominee is still making big plans as she enters her 10th decade—“I have decided I want to celebrate my 100th birthday!”
Even at 60, Gigi Remains Forever Young
Leslie Caron remembers the classic, colorful MGM musical, more than half a century after its debut.
Make ’Em Laugh
Christmas with Bob Hope Was Even More Memorable Offscreen
Linda Hope, daughter of the consummate entertainer, remembers life with her father on the eve of a new PBS documentary, This Is Bob Hope. . .
A Rose Is a Rose
After 90 Years in Show Business, Dick Van Dyke Star Rose Marie Is Still Laughing
The actress—as well as Van Dyke and Carl Reiner—talk her incredible Hollywood life, captured in the new documentary Wait for Your Laugh.
The Art World
In Battered Puerto Rico, an Art Museum Full of Treasures Is Open for Business
The Museo de Arte de Ponce reopened within a week of Hurricane Maria’s arrival on the island; the people of Ponce may still not have power, but they do have art.
Miss Bette Davis Sings!
What Bette Davis’s Solo Album Says About Her Post–Baby Jane Career
As music, it’s dubious; as a memoir, it’s marvelous.
Still Going Strong
Carol Channing’s Personal Backstage Photos from Hello, Dolly!
The star who originated the role prepares to hand Dolly over to Bette Midler, while taking a moment to look back.
Shirley MacLaine Remembers MGM, Where the Rat Pack Taught Her Improv
The last in a series of stories about the massive studio’s heyday.
Leslie Caron Remembers MGM, Where Cinderella Stories Were Not as Simple as They Seemed
The fourth in a five-part series about the golden age—and eventual fall—of star-factory MGM.
Margaret O’Brien Remembers MGM, Where a Teenage Elizabeth Taylor Kept Pet Chipmunks
The latest in a series of interviews with the stars of the final years of MGM.
Angela Lansbury Remembers MGM, Where Katharine Hepburn Had Everyone in Awe
The second in a five-part series about the golden age—and eventual fall—of star factory MGM.
Debbie Reynolds Remembers MGM, Which Gave Her Stardom and Her First Kiss
The first in a series of interviews with the stars of the final years of MGM.
The Golden Age
Leslie Caron Explains Why Debbie Reynolds Was Vital to MGM’s Legacy
“And I thought: That’s quite a lady.”
Every Inch a King
A Woman as King Lear? For Oscar-Winner Glenda Jackson, It Makes Perfect Sense
The star of London’s production of the Shakespeare tragedy says that there’s no time like your 80s to blur gender lines onstage.
Tippi: A Memoir
What Tippi Hedren Learned from Alfred Hitchcock
“Don’t let a situation get to the point where you can’t control it. Ever.”
From the Magazine
Exclusive: Tippi Hedren, Melanie Griffith, and Dakota Johnson in their First Formal Portrait
In honor of the publication of her memoir, which details the bright and very dark sides of screen stardom, Birds and Marnie star Tippi Hedren poses with her daughter and granddaughter.
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Imagine you’re driving one night in heavy fog, and suddenly someone smashes into the back of your car. You get out and realize it’s a pizza delivery driver who got distracted while he was out trying to make deliveries.
The delivery driver was in his car, but on company time. So, whose insurance company do you turn to for covering damages?
If an employee is in an accident on company time, even if they are using their own vehicle, then the employer is liable for their employee’s negligence – whether it’s a truck driver, a city bus, a pizza delivery driver, or anyone who drives for employment.
How do insurance companies determine “on the job” accidents?
Often, it’s very clear-cut as to whether an employee was on the job when an accident occurred – such as an 18-wheeler driver who crashes his company’s truck on the highway, or the pizza delivery driver who rear-ended you.
Other times, however, it’s not as simple:
- Was the employee running personal errands on a lunch break, but also stopped at a print shop to pick up something for work?
- Was the employee commuting to work, but stopped at a donut shop at the request of her boss?
Scenarios like this make it harder to determine who is liable for the crash. That’s where your insurance companies and attorneys come in.
What if it’s determined to be just the fault of the driver?
If it’s questionable whether the at-fault driver was “on the job” when the accident happened, then it’s possible your insurance company will only seek claims against the insurance company of the at-fault driver.
But what if that pizza delivery driver doesn’t have enough insurance to cover all the damages?
At that point, your insurance company and attorney may decide to go after the person’s employer to cover some of the damages. These damages could include any or all of the following:
- Car repairs
- Lost wages
- Medical bills
- Pain and suffering
- And more
Get in touch with Wright Gray today to determine what to do next after your accident
As you can see, accidents involving company vehicles or on-the-job drivers are complicated. Don’t let insurance companies talk you out of the compensation you deserve. Contact Wright & Gray today for a consultation.

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New Delhi [India], Feb 18 (ANI): British MP Debbie Abrahams was denied entry into India on Monday as her visa was revoked on February 14 for indulging in activities that went against India's national interest, according to government sources.
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New Delhi [India], Jan 31 (ANI): President Ram Nath Kovind on Friday stressed the need for keeping "national interest paramount" while fulfilling the hopes and aspirations of the countrymen.
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Jan 11 (ANI): Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Saturday slammed Congress for protesting against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act and said it is playing with the national interest.
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New Delhi[India], Dec 20 (ANI): Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu on Friday urged the people to place national interest at the centre of their actions and not to indulge in violence.
New Delhi [India], Dec 16 (ANI): Amid the ongoing protests in the country over the Citizenship Amendment Act 2019, Union HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank on Monday appealed the students across the country to abstain from violence, maintain peace in the campuses and not indulge in any ac
New Delhi [India], Dec 14 (ANI): Union Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Saturday slammed the opposition while blaming it for creating uproar in the nation over the Citizenship (Amendment) Act and said that they were trying to hamper the national interest.
New Delhi [India], Dec 10 (ANI): After Shiv Sena supported the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill (CAB) in the Lok Sabha, party MP Arvind Sawant on Tuesday said that the support will continue in the Rajya Sabha as well because of 'national interest'.
New Delhi [India], Dec 10 (ANI): After Lok Sabha cleared the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill past midnight on Monday, leaders of several Opposition parties voiced their discontent and said it was against national interest.
New Delhi [India], Dec 10 (ANI): After the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill was passed in the Lok Sabha past midnight on Monday following hours of extensive debate and a spirited attack by Opposition, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday welcomed the bill and said that it is in "national
Washington DC [USA], Dec 4 (ANI): The Democrat-led House Intelligence Committee on Tuesday released a draft report based on its findings from impeachment inquiry, in which President Donald Trump is accused of compromising the country's national interests for his own personal and political pu
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New Delhi [India], Nov 29 (ANI): Soon after Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa landed in India on Thursday, he held a meeting with National Security Advisor Ajit Doval and discussed issues of respective national interests and bilateral cooperation.
New Delhi [India], Nov 4 (ANI): The Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT) on Monday lauded Prime Minister Narendra Modi for giving utmost importance to the national interests of Indian Trade and Industry and taking a decision not to join the "China-backed Regional Comprehensive Economic


Sanchez rocked again, Tigers blasted by Yanks
Lakeland, Fla. — The Tigers aren’t likely to act hastily regarding right-hander Anibal Sanchez.
They have nothing to lose by giving him a full spring to work himself back to some semblance of the pitcher he was just a couple of years ago. And conversely, they have a lot to lose by cutting him — $21 million (his $16 million salary this season and a $5 million buyout for next year).
But presently, it’s not a comfortable situation for either side.
Sanchez was hit hard again in his second spring start. He gave up five runs, including long two-run home runs by Gary Sanchez and Aaron Hicks, in 1⅔ innings in the Tigers 11-1 loss to the Yankees Saturday.
BOX SCORE: Yankees 11, Tigers 1
“I need to continue working on everything, especially on location,” Sanchez said. “Right now, I don’t put the ball down. That’s really easy for hitters to make really good contact.”
His fastball was clocking steady at 89 mph, occasionally hitting 90 and 91. But even at the top end, there wasn’t enough separation between his fastball and secondary pitches to throw the hitters off-balance.
Typically, when healthy, you would expect his velocity to increase as he builds arm strength through the spring.
“Yes, probably going to get a couple more miles per hour,” he said. “Early in the season, get maybe another. I am used to getting stronger and stronger and stronger. Right now, I just need to work on my mechanics and being able to put the ball down, especially on both sides, on the corners.”
While Sanchez scuffled for a second start, right-hander Jordan Zimmermann took another step forward. He started and worked two scoreless innings, allowing two hits and two walks.
“I don’t know what my velocity was (92-94), but I was just a little erratic,” he said. “I was trying to be on the corners more than the outer third and inner third. On the first pitches, I was being a little too fine. That’s really the only thing.”
He threw 37 pitches (23 fastballs), 20 for strikes.
“I feel good. I feel strong,” he said. “Just trying to be a little too perfect. But it was another time out, getting a little stronger each time. Hopefully, I won’t be as sore this time as I was last time.”
Zimmermann experienced soreness in his right lat (back) after his first start, which he said was a good soreness because it meant he was getting full arm extension again – something he was unable to do pitching through neck and shoulder pain last year.
“I was probably a little more sore than I normally am,” he said. “Just, you know, first time out, feeling good, excited – probably a little more amped up. That stuff happens. But I feel good. It’s been a good spring so far.”
The Yankees added four runs in the fifth. The runs were charged to Francisco Rodriguez, though he was out of the game when they scored. It was Rodriguez’s spring debut and he got the first two outs before loading the bases (two walks and a single).
He was at 23 pitches, so manager Brad Ausmus replaced him with lefty Jairo Labourt. He walked in two and gave up a two-run single.
The Tigers have allowed 52 runs in the last six games, which isn’t sitting well with Ausmus and pitching coach Rich Dubee.
“We’ve got to pitch better,” Ausmus said. “We talked to them today. I talked to them today and Dubee talked to the pitchers today. We’ve got to pitch better. They’re scoring double-digit runs — we’re not pitching well.”
The offense is feeling a trickle-down effect from all the long innings. They’ve scored just four runs in the last three games.
“We talked about it: It’s ball two, ball three, full count, walking guys — the defense is standing out there for 20 minutes every half-inning,” Ausmus said. “When they get back in the dugout they’re exhausted. They’re drained.
“So not only does poor pitching allow the other team to score runs, it hurts us offensively because guys are gassed from standing around.”
Yankees starter Michael Pineda struck out five straight to end his two-inning stint.
The Tigers scored their run in the fourth off former Tigers prospect Chad Green (traded for Justin Wilson). Omar Infante’s double scored J.D. Martinez.


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Erdogan vows to clear ‘terrorists’ from Manbij
Erdogan vows to clear ‘terrorists’ from Manbij
The call followed new commitments from the US to cease supplying weapons to the People’s Protection Units (YPG), a Syrian Kurdish militia that Turkey has been fighting in northern Syria for more than a week.
As Turkish troops intensified the Olive Branch operation in Afrin on Sunday, Turkey continued to warn that the offensive would move eastwards to Manbij, where hundreds of US troops are based.
“The terrorists in Afrin and Manbij cannot run from the painful end that awaits them,” Recep Tayyip Erdogan told members of his party in northern Turkey.
Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Saturday it was “compulsory for the US to withdraw from Manbij as soon as possible.”
Turkey says an offensive against Manbij, about 100 km from the current operation, is an extension of its plan to remove what it describes as a terror threat along its border with Syria.
But if it goes ahead, the offensive would move the Turkish operation into a new level of military and diplomatic complexity, pulling in different groups and parties in the area.
H.R. McMaster, national security adviser to US President Donald Trump, spoke with Erdogan’s chief foreign policy adviser on Saturday to attempt to rebuild broken trust between the two countries.
According to Turkish press reports, McMaster repeated that weapons will no longer be delivered to the YPG. The same commitment was given many times to Ankara in recent months by both Trump and his Defense Secretary James Mattis.
Manbij is located 30 km west of the Euphrates and was captured from Daesh by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in 2016. The SDF are backed by the US and dominated by the YPG.
The town, which has a mixed ethnic population including Arabs and Kurds, has been one of the main fronts for the anti-Daesh coalition’s ground war. Following its liberation, the Pentagon preferred that the YPG remained in the town to guard it against a potential Daesh counter attack.
But Ankara is concerned that the Syrian Kurdish militias want to establish a corridor to the Mediterranean coast by linking the regions they administer.
Turkey has called for the YPG to be withdrawn from Manbij and has been enraged by the US support for the group. The militia is an offshoot of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which is seen by Ankara and many Western countries as a terror group. The US and Turkey are suppose to be allies through their memberships of NATO.
“It is unthinkable for a strategic ally to arm and train what its decades long strong ally consider to be a terrorist organization,” Mehmet Ogutcu, a former diplomat and chairman of the Bosphorus Energy Club, told Arab News.
He said Turkey’s request for the US to withdraw from Manbij is to avoid completely rupturing ties between the two countries.
Dr. Eray Gucluer, a terror expert from Altinbas University in Istanbul and at the think tank ASAM, said: “The US is currently losing power and prestige in the region, and it wouldn’t afford keeping its soldiers in Manbij if Turkey conducts an operation.”
Ali Semin, a Middle East expert at Istanbul-based think-tank BILGESAM, thinks Turkey would prefer to resolve the Manbij situation through agreement with the US.
“There will probably be no military offensive or Turkey may use Free Syrian Army fighters to avoid any direct clash with the US if the American soldiers remain there. It was the same case when Turkey agreed with Russia before the operation to Afrin as Russian troops were deployed in the region,” he told Arab News.
As concern grows over Manbij, fighting ramped up in Afrin on Sunday, with Turkish troops and allied Syrian fighters capturing a strategic hill.
AP reported that constant shelling and clashes could be heard at the Turkish border town Kilis as Turkish aircraft whizzed above and plumes of smoke rose in the distance.
The Turkish forces have been trying to capture Bursayah hill since the offensive started on Jan. 20.
The Turkish military said its soldiers and allied Syrian opposition fighters captured the hill, assisted by airstrikes, attack helicopters, armed drones and howitzers.
“In its previous cross-border operation, Turkey’s aim was to secure a safe zone to resettle the Syrians who fled war in their country, but this time Turkey wants to clear these zones completely from all kinds of terror threat until the border with Iraq,” Semin said.
“Manbij bears a strategic importance for Kurdish militia to reach the Mediterranean shores. It is exactly the establishment of such a YPG-controlled ‘terror corridor’ that Ankara wants to block along its border.”
UN Palestinian schools to open on time despite US funding freeze
- There had been warnings from UN chief Antonio Guterres and others that the schools might not be able to open due to funding shortages
- Last month, UNRWA announced it was cutting more than 250 jobs in the Palestinian territories due to the funding crisis
JERUSALEM: Hundreds of UN-run schools for Palestinian refugees will open on time after fresh funding temporarily staved off a financial crisis triggered by a US contributions freeze, the United Nations said on Thursday.
The UN agency for Palestinian refugees said all 711 schools it runs for 526,000 pupils in the Palestinian territories, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria would open for the coming school year.
There had been warnings from UN chief Antonio Guterres and others that the schools might not be able to open due to funding shortages provoked by US President Donald Trump’s decision to withhold aid to the Palestinians.
The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA) said it had mobilized an additional $238 million since the start of the year, but added that it currently only had enough cash to keep its services operating through September.
“We need a further $217 million to ensure that our schools not only open but can be run until the end of the year,” the agency said in a statement.
The schools are due to open over a staggered time period between August 29 and September 2.
UNRWA has faced a $300 million freeze in funding from the United States as Trump demands changes to the agency and seeks to pressure the Palestinians to return to the negotiating table.
Other countries have since provided additional contributions but UNRWA says it is not enough.
The agency provides services to more than three million Palestinian refugees and their descendants across the Middle East and employs more than 20,000 people, the vast majority Palestinians.
Last month, UNRWA announced it was cutting more than 250 jobs in the Palestinian territories due to the funding crisis.
UNRWA was set up after the 1948 war that accompanied the creation of Israel, during which more than 700,000 Palestinians fled or were expelled from their homes.
Israel argues the agency is biased against it and perpetuates the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
UN officials and others say that the agency provides vital services to the vulnerable communities under its mandate.


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Gday, so this is my recently purchased MY08 WM Caprice which I picked up with 106,000 Kms for a fairly reasonable price, just thought I'd share my pride and joy and project Sunday driver which hopefully I won't get carried away with haha
Model: MY08 WM Holden Caprice
Colour: metallic black
Engine: l98 6ltr V8
Suspension: lowered from holden on peddlers springs
Wheels: 19 inch wm grange
Interior: black leather
Audio/Media: Bose flashed front screen, digital tv tuner, sat nav
Future modifications: blacked out tinted windows, decent cut and polish and touch up, bee sting aerial, OTR tune, exhaust and extractors inc cats, boot lip spoiler and mayb more will have to wait and see... Open to ideas
If anyone has any recommendations fee free to post
Looks pretty shmick mate, the whees suit it nicely.
Would you consider a shark fin antenna instead of a bee sting? Opinions seem to be mixed about them on Holdens, but I think it would look perfect on yours.
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Looks good mate shark fin is the way to go!!
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Very nice man, perfect wheel choice.
Mate thats beautiful. What a awesome car!! Well done
Awesome looking barge you've got there. The driver I use for airport trips has one of these and it's soooooo nice.
Great choice of wheels too. Subtle, sophisticated, awesome.

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Electrolytic capacitors are used in several applications ranging from power supplies for safety critical avionics equipment to power drivers for electro-mechanical actuators. Past experiences show that capacitors tend to degrade and fail faster when subjected to high electrical or thermal stress conditions during operations. This makes them good candidates for prognostics and health management. Model-based prognostics captures system knowledge in the form of physics-based models of components in order to obtain accurate predictions of end of life based on their current state of health and their anticipated future use and operational conditions. The focus of this paper is on deriving first principles degradation models for thermal stress conditions and implementing Bayesian framework for making remaining useful life predictions. Data collected from simultaneous experiments are used to validate the models. Our overall goal is to derive accurate models of capacitor degradation, and use them to remaining useful life in DC-DC converters.
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electronics PHM, Capacitors, Physics based models, Capacitance, Accelerated aging
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