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A copyright infringment lawsuit involving the #1 single "Baby Boy" by Beyonce Knowles was dismissed in a US District Court. In July 2004, Jennifer Armour filed a lawsuit against Beyonce and other writers and producers of the song, which include Scott Storch, rapper Jay-Z, Jamaican artist Sean Paul and Sony Music, claiming "Baby Boy" was similiar to her song "Got a Little Bit of Love for You." Armour said she shopped the single and eventually submitted it to Beyonce's father Mathew Knowles in March of 2003. In the lawsuit Armour, who is from Minneapolis, Minnesota, said she noticed Knowles and Sean Paul performing a similiar song titled "Baby Boy," during the Macy's 4th of July celebration. Armour claimed the song's lyrics and hook were taken from her song. According to Mathew Knowles, Beyonce's single was actually recorded in February 2003. It was released on Beyonce's 2003 solo debut Dangerously in Love, which topped Billboard's Top 200 chart and has sold over 11 millions copies worldwide. The court did a comparison of the songs and ruled that the songs were substantially different. "It's unfortunate that lawsuits such as this one occur, but I am grateful and relieved to have this behind me and I am eager to move on," Knowles said in a statement.
The Ying Yang Twins have announced that they have renamed their fifth album from 2 Live Crew to Chemically Imbalanced. The album, which is slated to hit stores in Nov. 2006, is being executive produced by Michael "Mr. Collipark" Crooms, Wyclef Jean and Jerry "Wonder" Duplesis. "We renamed it [that] because we're totally opposite, we are never on the same page but we wind up in the same place," said group member Kaine. "It has everything to do with chemistry and how we interact witheach other * individually we are imbalanced but together we equal each other out." The Ying Yang Twins have targeted strip clubs with the teaser single "1st Booty On Duty." Chemically Imbalanced's first official single is "Dangerous," which was co-produced by Wyclef, Jerry Womder & Mr. Collipark. "Working with Wyclef and Jerry Wonder has pushed Ying Yang Twins and our sound to a whole another level," assured Mr. Collipark.
Jay-Z has partnered with the Emmy-award winning Inside the NBA show and TNT to star in a series of exclusive commercials promoting the 2006-2007 NBA season on TNT. The eight :30 second spots feature Jay-Z riding through the streets of Manhattan in a chauffer-driven car as he reveals his views on talent, legacy, competition and stardom, prior to the Nov. 21 release of his highly anticipated comeback album, Kingdom Come. The first promo is titled “The Truth About Stardom,” featuring Jay-Z's take on living life in the spotlight. The spots start running on Thursday (Oct. 5) with more being rolled out in the following weeks. An extended director’s cut of the interview will also be made available exclusively on TNT OverTime on NBA.com. “The new approach to our NBA on TNT promo series featuring Jay Z is dramatic, smart and provocative,” said Craig Barry, Turner Sports VP/Creative Director. “Using Jay-Z’s own words and powerhouse persona, we wanted to showcase his sophisticated style to parallel the tenets of sports and music.” TNT tip's off its 2006-07 NBA coverage takes place on Thurs., Oct. 19 at 10 p.m. ET.


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Melkite Archbishop Issam Darwich of Zahle, Lebanon, poses with a Syrian Christian refugee at the entrance to St. John the Merciful Table. The diocese, close to the Syrian border, serves a daily hot meal there to 1,000 Syrian Christian refugees. (CNS photo/courtesy Melkite Catholic Diocese of Zahle)
By Catholic News Service • Posted April 4, 2019 BRUSSELS (CNS) — Aside from humanitarian assistance for Syrian refugees and concrete efforts to help them return to their homeland, the international community should work toward eradicating the roots of wars and violence, an archbishop from Lebanon told members of a political party holding the largest number of seats in the European Parliament. Melkite Catholic Archbishop Issam Darwich of Zahle, whose diocese is near Syria’s western border, addressed the plight of Christians in the Middle East and Syrian refugees April 3 with the European People’s Party, a conservative and Christian democratic political party. “Our situation is one of the deepest suffering and trauma,” said Archbishop Darwich, who was born in Syria. “What is happening in the Middle East today is a chain of events against Christians, unfolding since 2011. All these actions send a message to Christians in the area that they don’t have a safe place anymore,” he said. “The fact that they became minorities in these countries is not an excuse for anyone to neglect the critical situation they are passing through,” Archbishop Darwich said. He stressed that Christians have always played a crucial role in the region and strive to foster peace, justice and democracy. He also noted that Lebanon’s episcopal committee for Christian-Muslim dialogue, for which he serves as president, is “working hard so that religions would find new ways to present their respective creeds as partners allied and not as adversaries.” “Religion must never be used to promote hatred or violence,” Archbishop Darwich stressed. As for the refugee crisis, Archbishop Darwich underlined that eight years into the Syrian conflict, Lebanon remains the country hosting the largest number of refugees per capita and has the fourth-largest refugee population in the world. More than 1.5 million Syrian refugees are living scattered throughout the tiny country among its existing population of about 4 million people. In addition, some 500,000 Palestinian refugees and thousands of Iraqi families dwell in Lebanon. “The pressure of this situation on the Lebanese hosting community is felt in all sectors, including education, security, health, housing, water and electricity supply,” he said. Archbishop Darwich noted that his diocese, located about 18 miles from the Syrian border, “had the leading role” in helping displaced Syrians. “We supported and helped them since the beginning of their displacement to Lebanon till today, especially the Christian refugees, who were and still are invisible” to the international community because they do not live in camps, he emphasized. As a result, he added, the Christians “are always neglected from any support or help.” However, the archbishop pointed out that the “tragedy of refugees is not restricted to a specific sect because all Syrians have suffered for almost eight years now of a new holocaust.” Various Catholic agencies such as Caritas members, including Catholic Relief Services, Jesuit Refugee Services, Catholic Near East Welfare Association and Aid to the Church in Need have helped the Syrian refugees. Archbishop Darwich’s diocese is in the Bekaa Valley and provides refugees with help that includes rent assistance, clothing, education, health care, social support and daily hot meals at the diocese’s St. John the Merciful Table. While acknowledging the humanitarian role many European countries and international nongovernmental organizations have played “in reducing the impact of this long and ferocious war,” the archbishop pointed to the challenge of helping refugees return to their homeland. Archbishop Darwich stressed that refugees’ return to Syria “cannot be realized unless the international community itself provides the means … political and economic help in practical measures. Not only to put an end to their suffering, but also to assist them to contribute in the process of reconstruction.” “I sincerely believe that the international community is expected to plan for eradicating the roots of wars and violence rather than dealing with their consequences, because great countries are known by great achievements and great deeds,” Archbishop Darwich said. 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Edwin & Daniela are bringing Bachata back home
Sep 6, 2014
Edwin Ferreras and Daniela Grosso are Co-Directors of the New York based dance company, LFX Dancers. Together they form one of the most talented...
The Dance Community Needs New B.E.A.T.S.
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Bachata music and dance has a rich yet controversial history. It originated in the Dominican Republic and was censored for decades by the countries former dictator,...
Interview with Magna Gopal
Aug 22, 2014
If there was a Salsa dancing Hall of Fame being established, Magna Gopal would be an instant honoree. For the past decade Magna has been...
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Optical Computing gets a boost with Microresonators
Optics and photonics may one day revolutionize computer technology with the promise of light-speed calculations. Storing light as memory, however, requires devices known as microresonators, an emerging technology that cannot yet meet the demands of computing. The solution, described in a paper published in the Optical Society’s (OSA) journal Optics Letters, may lie in combining light’s eerie quantum properties with a previously unknown quality of optical fiber.
HTC Radar 4G: T-Mobile’s first Windows Phone 7.5 Mango Smartphone
The HTC Radar 4G is T-Mobile’s first Windows Phone device to debut with Windows Phone 7.5 OS (otherwise known as Windows Phone Mango) and the carrier’s first one with HSPA+. The 3.8-inch slate has a sturdy aluminum build with a smooth plastic bottom, a Super LCD screen, and 5-megapixel camera. Additionally, it’s white and silver paint job manages to offer a nice contrasting look.
HTC Radar 4G Phone Features and Specifications:
Dimensions: 4.7×2.4×0.4 inches Network: 4G HSPA+ OS: Windows Phone 7.5 OS (otherwise known as Windows Phone Mango) Processor: 1 Ghz processor Display: 3.8 inch touchscreen display Resolution: 480 × 800 pixels screen resolution Memory: 8GB Internal memory + 512MB RAM Camera: 5 megapixel Camera with F2.2 lens and LED flash Weight: 4.83 ounces Included battery: 1520 mAh Talk time: 7.7 hours Standby time: Up to 575 hours
With a $99 on-contract price tag, it’s clear HTC intended this for the midrange / entry-level market.
Google’s own version of voice controlled assistant made to compete against Apple’s iPhone 4S-based Siri, could be launched by the end of this year, it has been reported.
Currently named ‘Majel’ after the voice computer from science-fiction TV series Star Trek, Google Android’s vocal-input software is apparently in the final stages of development, with a view for a December release.
Augmented reality can produce some really interesting applications, and “Zazzle’s Realview” technology is one where you could preview what your wall would look like with decorations – before signing off your credit card. The technology enables you to see how well Zazzle Prints and Wrapped Canvas go on your own wall prior to a purchase decision, and you can give it a go with any Poster, Print, or Wrapped Canvas on Zazzle.
Using this technology, customers can easily snap a photo and upload it to the site, then the photo with the real-time 3D interactive rendering and see their own picture frame hanging on the wall on the way. Users can either upload a personal image or photo, but also thousands of photos from the Internet, select one, then adjust the size and frame type, etc., and these changes are immediately reflected in the Realview visualization services.
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Mustard on the beat. LA’s own DJ Mustard, born Dijon (get it?), has been producing some of the best ratchety tracks of the past couple years. Including “Rack City” and “I’m Different”. His beats are very minimal and bass heavy, but pretty different than other producers who have had that same approach in the past. His signature sound includes a repetitive “hey, hey, hey” vocal in the background. With so many lame-duck rappers out there I have been focusing mainly on producers over the past few years. DJ Mustard is more radio friendly than most of the stuff I post, but hey we all need to party.
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Aerosmith’s Whitford Glad They Didn’t Boot Tyler
Aerosmith guitarist Brad Whitford says they were "seriously talking about" replacing Steven Tyler a few years ago, but he's glad they didn't have to travel down that road.
Whitford says, "Steven was a little bit tired and fed up with the way things were going. But we just felt like we couldn’t just let the band fall apart... We spoke to maybe one or two singers about the idea, but that was about as far as it went. I don’t think anybody in the band was terribly keen about getting in a new lead singer. I think we were all just thinking about survival at that point. We weren’t ready to give up on the band."
Among the singers whose names came up were Sammy Hagar, Paul Rodgers, Billy Idol, Lenny Kravitz and Chris Cornell.


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I’m sure you read the title of this article and figured it would have to do with the MANY diversity and racial issues going on in the United States right now. However, this is more so a open letter or venting session of how hard it is to be a Black woman living in Montana sometimes.
I haven’t had any aggressive or negative run ins with people of any color here in Montana due to my skin color. This, unfortunately, is not the same story for my husband, but that’ll be a topic for another day. If anything, Montanans have been genuinely some of the nicest people I’ve met in my 27 years of life. People smile and speak when they walk by you, and most even stop to ask you how your day is going, and expect a response! Crazy, right? This is still something I’m adjusting to coming from living in Chicago prior to living here where people don’t even make eye contact with you let alone truly care enough to speak and ask you how you’re doing. I share this information before getting into what I want to vent about because I don’t want to paint Montana as some unfair, terrible, place to live, when in reality…my life in Montana isn’t too bad. But at the end of the day, I still live in Montana, and as I’m sure most of you know, Montana isn’t know to be home to many people of color or much…diversity.
Montana lacks diversity so much that when we go out to eat people usually automatically apply the military discount to our bill because we’re Black, dining in Montana, and the only explanation of us being here is the military LOL. I’m reminded every time we go visit another city or state how much I miss seeing people of ALL colors on a daily basis. When we first moved into our house here on base and met our first set of neighbors, apparently she shouted to her husband (who is Mexican), with excitement, “WE HAVE BLACK NEIGHBORS”! Hahaha! To this day this is one of my favorite stories, but one of the saddest at the same time, because seeing a Black person in Montana is like seeing a unicorn. I have a handful of other stories like this one from run-ins with other people of color who were happy to see another one of “us” lol.
However, the hardest part of living in a place that lacks diversity, are the lack of culturally different activities and lifestyles around us. I sometimes get jealous seeing my Facebook friends and Instagram and Twitter followers post pictures of RSVPs to concerts and events I know I wouldn’t be able to find in the entire state of Montana. Some examples are R&B/Neo-Soul concerts, blues/jazz lounges, festivals, upscale evening lounges, restaurants, etc. When you live in a place where diversity is lacking you miss out on all of these amazing things to do, and see, which add appreciation and cultural value to our lives. Do you all know how much I took having authentic Thai and Caribbean restaurants within 10 minutes from my apartment in Chicago? Do you know how much I appreciate walking into a Mexican restaurant and seeing a menu in Spanish and seeing an all Mexican staff cooking my food? Do you know how much I would love to go to a Jill Scott concert for a date night with my husband instead of the two options we have here of dinner and/or a movie? Do you know much it means to walk down the street, through a store, or drive by people of all colors, ethnicities, shapes and sizes? For my friends who live in places that offer all of these options and then some, take a minute to just soak up the beauty that is diversity surrounding you.
As a military wife I try my hardest not to complain to my husband (in a non-joking manner) because I know he is/we are here because it is what is needed for our family at this moment. I also try to remind myself of the countless military spouses whose loved one is overseas or died serving this country before I complain. As upsetting as it is some days that I’m not surrounded by everything I want I remind myself I have everything I need. I know there are plenty of people who would trade places with me if it meant being with their loved ones everyday. Sometimes it’s hard to not be selfish and think about what I want, but I’m human. However, I feel it is important, no matter who you are, what you do, or where you live to be exposed to life outside of your little bubble. It’s much harder to understand someone else’s life and experiences if you’ve never had the opportunity to explore their culture and lifestyle.
As much as Montanans love their bejeweled flare legged jeans, cowboy boots, country music, hunting, rodeos, and cowboy hats…I miss professional sports, multi-cultural authentic food, big name concerts, date night in a little black dress, and round trip plane tickets for under $200. But the upside of being a military wife also means this won’t be my location forever, but man, it sure does feel like forever when diversity is missing.

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Jessica Alba, Gerard Butler to attend 'CNN Heroes: An All Star Tribute'
This year's "CNN Heroes: An All Star Tribute" will definitely be a star-filled night, as more celebs are lined up to attend the event, which will honor all of the Top 10 CNN Heroes (who you can view at CNNHeroes.com) as well as the CNN Hero of the Year.
Jessica Alba, Kid Rock, Kiefer Sutherland, Aaron Eckhart, Gerard Butler and Marisa Tomei will be in attendance along with stars like Halle Berry, Demi Moore, LL Coool J and Renee Zellweger.
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As I said, Italy, is now experimenting with paying for public services with tax credits. Presumably, this is happening because Italy doesn’t possess enough Euros to pay its citizens to provide all the goods and services needed to maintain and run the public sector of its social economy. And Italy can’t “create” the additional Euros it needs because that prerogative is the exclusive right of the EU Central Bank which Italy, even as a sovereign member of the EU, has no control over. But, as the news article explains, Italy still needs to have the grass mowed and the weeds pulled in its public gardens. So it has decided (out of desperation, the article implies) to pay the gardeners with tax-credits. The gardeners are willing to do the work in exchange for the government’s tax-credits, because it means the Euros they earn (in other ways) can then be used to purchase goods and services rather than for paying their taxes. So, in practical terms, it is “just like” getting paid in Euros.
This, in fact, is way more interesting than it seems. In fact, it might even be mind-expanding! Here’s why:
Presumably, the tax-credit payments described take the form of notations on the gardeners’ tax account. An hour’s worth of weeding is noted as 15 Euros worth of extinguished taxes. If the gardener has a tax liability of, say, €3750, her taxes would be completely paid after providing 250 hours of weeding and pruning. After that, obviously, she’d have no more incentive to provide any services in exchange for the tax-credits. So the amount of services Italy can obtain in this fashion is directly limited by the amount of tax liabilities it can impose on its citizens.
It would be possible, however, to structure the tax-credit payments in another way which would have a very different outcome. Instead of making the payment as a credit notation on a citizen’s tax account, the Italian government could issue paper tax-credits and pay them to the citizens for their gardening services. To be specific, this would be a piece of “official” paper, signed with an important signature, on which was printed something like the following:
The Sovereign Italian Government promises the bearer of this paper ONE EURO of credit on taxes owed to the Sovereign Italian Government.
This amounts to exactly the same thing as making a direct credit on a citizens’ tax account, but we now have set in motion a curious set of subsequent economic actions: Now, after an hour of weeding, upon receiving her 15 paper tax-credits―for convenience, let’s call them “PTCs” and give them the symbol β―the gardener can choose to do the following. She can put the PTCs under her mattress for safekeeping until the day her taxes must be paid. Or she can use the β15 to purchase a lasagna dinner at her neighborhood trattoria. The owner of the trattoria is willing to accept the PTCs in exchange for the lasagna, garlic bread, and wine because he, too, has to pay taxes to the Italian government. So, for all practical purposes, receiving the PTCs is just the same as receiving Euros for him as well.
Now we have to ask an important question: Is the amount of services Italy can obtain by issuing and “spending” its paper tax-credits still directly limited by the amount of tax liabilities it can impose on its citizens? In other words, if every Italian citizen theoretically has received enough PTCs to pay their taxes with—either having received them directly from the government for providing public services, or having received them from other citizens in exchange for lasagna dinners—will the citizens’ willingness to exchange real goods and services in exchange for the PTCs come to a halt?
Crucially, the answer is No. This is because the act of “embodying” the tax-credits in exchangeable pieces of paper has given the PTCs a usefulness in addition to their usefulness as tax payments: This additional usefulness, of course, is the ability to use them to buy goods and services from other Italian citizens and businesses. Thus, the number of paper tax-credits in “circulation” could vastly exceed, at any given time, the total actual tax liabilities of the Italian citizenry. The PTCs would continue to be accepted for lasagna dinners, because the Trattoria owners know they can use the PTCs they receive to subsequently buy Italian shoes and motorcycles— in addition to using them to pay their taxes.
It will no doubt have dawned on most every reader that what we’ve just created is “money.” Specifically, we’ve created what is called “fiat money”—which happens to be the kind of money the world has been using now for the past half century (ever since the U.S. formally abandoned the gold-standard in 1971). Having thus conjured a rudimentary image of fiat-money to life we should quickly make some important (and perhaps startling) observations about it.
Observation 1: How does the PTC “currency” come into existence? The sovereign Italian government creates it. Paper tax-credits are not created by Italian banks, nor are they borrowed from China—or even the EU Central Bank. They are printed by the Italian government. Note: PTCs could also be created by the Italian government digitally—that is, with keystrokes that enter numbers in an electronic ledger of account. In either case, the point is ONLY the Italian government has the legal right to create them. Why? Because that is the prerogative of sovereignty and the definition of fiat money.
Observation 2: How many PTCs can the Italian government create and spend? Or, to rephrase the question more precisely, how many times can the Italian government promise to accept one of its paper tax-credits in exchange for a Euro’s worth of taxes owed? The answer is simple: as many times as it wants! It doesn’t matter if all the taxes have been paid in full—it can still issue and spend the promise over and over again. The citizens will continue to accept the promise in exchange for real goods and services for two reasons: first, they know other Italian citizens and businesses will accept the promise as payment for lasagna dinners and, second, they know for sure that taxes due will come around again—and soon.
Observation 3: If (as observation 2 suggests is possible) the Italian government just keeps issuing and spending its paper tax-credits (fiat money) to buy goods and services from its citizens, won’t the number of PTCs in circulation keep growing until, inevitably, the price of things in the Italian economy begins to skyrocket? A lasagna dinner that used to cost β15 suddenly costs β150! In other words: Inflation. The answer, of course, is Yes. So what can the Italian government do to keep a lid on the inflationary pressure created by its continued issuing and spending of PTCs? Two things:
- The government can continue to collect taxes from the citizens (or, if necessary, even increase the taxes in collects). Taxes will remove PTCs from circulation, reducing the number of them available in the market-place to buy lasagna dinners and Italian shoes. Taxes, then, have a dual virtue in a fiat money system: they continuously reinforce the citizens’ desire to earn the government’s paper tax-credits—and they drain the paper tax-credits out of the market place, helping to keep prices stable.
- The government can also create special savings accounts that citizens can put their excess PTCs in. The accounts would earn interest (paid by the government with new PTCs)—but the agreement would be that the citizen would leave their “old” PTCs in the account, untouched, for a period of time—say 10 years. This means a large number of PTCs which would otherwise be competing to pay for lasagna dinners would be replaced with a much smaller number of PTCs (the interest payments). The net result will be fewer PTCs buying goods and services in the market-place. If you want, you could call these special savings accounts “government bonds.”
Historical Note: When the U.S. was in the midst of mobilizing to fight WW2 it was issuing and spending historical quantities of U.S. paper tax-credits (fiat dollars) to pay U.S. citizens to build battleships and bombers—and to pay the recruits in its growing army and navy. Inflation was, indeed, starting to become a problem. So what did the government do? Two things: it increased taxes, and it issued War Bonds. It even imposed a requirement that workers take a percentage of their pay in War Bonds. By 1943, inflation was brought back under control.
Observation 3: What happens to the PTCs when they are presented to the Italian government as tax payments? The mind-money framework we learn from early childhood “tells us” that the taxes collected by a national government are what the government then uses to pay for public goods and services. Crucially, however, this IS NOT TRUE with a fiat-money system. Looking at the paper tax-credit system we’ve just described, it’s clear that (by logical necessity) the government FIRST issues and spends the paper tax-credit, then it accepts it back as a tax payment. At that point of taking it back, the tax-credit is of no further use to the government. It is simply cancelled: it becomes a particular citizen’s tax liability with a line drawn through it. If the government needs to spend another paper tax-credit, it simply issues a new one. (It is actually easier and more efficient to issue new tax-credits than to “recycle” old ones.)
Observation 4: Is it logical for a sovereign government to borrow the paper tax-credits it has issued? Please try, for a moment, to wrap your mind around this question! Here is something that ONLY the Italian government can create, and something it can create as many of as it needs, at any time it needs them. Why would it ever want, or need, to “borrow” them from the Italian citizens? It is, therefore, illogical to imagine the Italian government ever being “in debt” to its citizens! The Government Bonds we mentioned previously are not a “debt” the Italian government owes to anyone—they are savings accounts which hold the citizens’ excess PTCs for a specified period time. When the bonds “mature,” the PTCs are simply transferred back to the citizen. In a fiat money system, therefore, it is illogical (and irresponsible) to imagine or describe U.S. Government Bonds as being the government’s “debt”—or, more specifically, to talk about that “debt” as being “unsustainable,” or to suggest the government cannot pay its citizens to undertake and accomplish some important task because it will “increase the government’s debt.”
Having made these observations, it appears the Italian government has stumbled on an actual solution to the “austerity” it has been forced to impose on itself by the European Union. Except we must now confront the fact that the rules of the EU do now ALLOW Italy to issue and spend its own sovereign fiat currency! The only “money” Italy is allowed to use is the Euro—and the only way the Italian government can obtain Euros is either by collecting them as taxes from its citizens, or by borrowing them from the European Central Bank, which has the exclusive prerogative of issuing them. And these methods of obtaining Euros to spend are falling short of what Italy needs to pay its citizens to do. So…. Italy has decided to pay its citizens with tax-credits, and then (why not?) with paper tax-credits. And then, presumably, the EU says, “Whoa, hold on here! It looks like you are printing your own money, which is not allowed by our rules!”
We could then proceed to an International Court in which Italy claims it isn’t breaking the EU rules because it isn’t printing “money” but is simply issuing tax-credits. The EU would then have to argue that “tax-credits” are, in fact, what “money” is! In making that argument, it would be forced to explain everything we’ve just explained which would, in turn, reveal and establish not only the absurdity of the Eurozone monetary system, but also that the whole world (including the U.S.) is misunderstanding and mismanaging its money system—and unnecessarily making a vast majority of the world’s citizenry miserable in the process.


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Race for sheriff heats upBy Trisha Maldonado
Since the Sept. 20 vote to replace Sheriff Dever’s name on the Nov. 6 general election ballot, five men have entered the race as write-in candidates.
The first of the five to do so was Benjamin Mostyn.
Mostyn, 33, has lived in Cochise County for three years. He is currently a Master Instructor for Fort Huachuca and specializes in political science, homeland security and army intelligence. Mostyn served four years in the Army before retiring as a sergeant in 2001.
“Joining the army was my first stepping stone in working with conjunction with law enforcement,” Mostyn said.
Carl Dalton entered the race on Sept. 25. Dalton, 49, has been in Cochise County since 1972. He began working for the Arizona Department of Corrections in 1972; retiring in 2010.
“I wanted to give the voters a choice…” Dalton said. “I would work for the voters to provide security, to protect our borders, and to combat drug trafficking.”
According to the Sierra Vista Herald, James Alexander worked as an intelligence analyst in the Army, served 20 years before retiring. He is also the owner of Hot Tans Plus in Sierra Vista.
Frank Holm, 60, has been a resident of Cochise County for 15 years.
He became a Border Patrol agent for the U.S. Border Patrol in 1985 then later became a senior special agent for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in 2003. Holm retired from ICE in 2009.
“I thought I could give back to the county and do a good job if I can” said Holm when asked why he decided to run for sheriff. “I’ll try to do a better job than the other ones (running for sheriff).”
Chief Deputy of the Cochise County Sheriff’s Office, Rod Rothrock announced his candancy on Sept. 27.
Rothrock has over 40 years in law enforcement beginning when he was in high school in 1972 as a police cadet with the City of El Cajon, CA.
He went on to be a Reserve Police Officer for the City of La Mesa, CA.
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He became a member of the Sheriff’s Special Response Team, in 1983. Handling both SWAT and Search and Rescue functions, working closely with Larry Dever during this time.
In 1994 Rothrock was promoted to Commander, he became Chief Deputy for CCSO in 2008.
“In May 2008 Larry handpicked me to serve as his Chief Deputy overseeing all functions and operations of the Sheriff’s Office,” Rothrock said. “Sheriff Dever and I have worked closely together through the years. One reason that our partnership was so successful was because Sheriff Dever and I shared many of the same philosophies on how a law enforcement agency should be run; with principled and ethical leadership.”


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What a pretty day in LA to release an album pic.twitter.com/xZh1ebQR1g— Lana Del Rey (@LanaDelRey) March 18, 2021
Lana Del Rey took to Twitter to celebrate the release of her sixth studio album, Chemtrails Over The Country Club.
The music video for the album opener, White Dress, is also out now:
Her sister Chuck also joined in posting a new picture from the album photoshoot.
ONTD have you listened to it? Fave tracks?
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Pumpkin is a wonderfully versatile squash that is practically the essence of autumn. It is one of the oldest known vegetables to be cultivated by humans for nutritional and aesthetic value. Easy to grow,
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Nobody knows what the objective of Flip and Rail's Treehole is. It at one time had an awesome slide, but the legal staff had it eradicated to further inflate their egos.
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A lobbying group that promotes universal prekindergarten and other items on Mayor Bill de Blasio's agenda pulled in nearly $1.8 million in contributions, but donors don't and shouldn't expect anything in return for their support, the mayor said Thursday.
Contributors to the Campaign for One New York included yellow taxi companies, housing developers and unions such as the American Federation of Teachers and 1199 SEIU, or the Service Employees International Union, according to disclosure reports. The AFT, the parent group of the United Federation of Teachers, with which de Blasio struck a contract deal in May, donated $350,000 to the mayor-linked nonprofit in April.
"I don't think they expect anything, and I would never feel comfortable if they did," de Blasio said of the group's donors at an unrelated news conference in Canarsie, Brooklyn.
Many people backed de Blasio's mission to bring universal pre-K to the city with a tax on wealthy residents, he said.
"It's natural that some people would want to invest in that change and they did. But that's the extent of their involvement and there's no other assumptions," he said. De Blasio lost his bid for the tax but won state funding his plan.
A government watchdog group saw reason for concern.
"I don't see any way in which it doesn't raise questions of conflicts of interest and buying access," Susan Lerner of Common Cause New York. Such a group "subverts" the city's strong public finance program, which encourages smaller donations from more people, she said.
Campaign for One New York, formerly known as UPKNYC, was founded and is managed by de Blasio campaign veterans such as his manager Bill Hyers and the BerlinRosen political consulting firm, state records show.Asked what its next priorities, de Blasio said the lobbying group will probably support his affordable housing plan, his push for a higher minimum wage, the rollout of municipal IDs for residents regardless of immigration status and paid sick leave expansion.


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Ceria-Based Fuel-Borne Catalysts for Series Diesel Particulate Filter Regeneration 2003-01-0378
Ceria-based fuel-borne catalysts have been used to promote regeneration of the DPF, by lowering the soot-combustion temperature and favoring propagation of the combustion process throughout the soot layer, and thus to ensure durability of DPF efficiency over the EURO 4 standard limits.
Since the market introduction of the PSA Peugeot Citroën DPF System for series applications, extensive works have been done to improve and simplify the DPF technology. A new enhanced ceria-based fuel-borne catalyst has been designed and developed to limit the DPF system maintenance.
This paper proposes comparative studies of two different Ceria-based fuel-borne catalysts for DPF regeneration, particularly focussing on the enhanced catalytic activity of soot combustion: correlation between soot combustion and oxygen buffering is proposed to explain difference in catalytic activity, while catalytic activity on NOx species is not affected.
The improvement of catalytic activity leads to decrease of global dosing rate in the diesel fuel that significantly reduces the ash-build up effect.
From field evaluations, characterizations of several DPFs show that ash arising from the fuel-borne catalyst strongly depends on the lubricant oil consumption, the average diesel fuel consumption and the raw engine-out PM emissions.
In relationship with those field evaluations, a second section of the paper presents mathematical models to design and optimise the DPF size in order to limit its maintenance, taking into account the global vehicle ash production.
Basically, the use of enhanced Ceria-based fuel-borne catalyst significant extends the length of the interval between DPF maintenance (ash removal by washing process) and leads to a simplification of the global DPF system offer.
That improvement places the use of Ceria-based fuel-borne catalyst to promote DPF regeneration as an attractive technical and economical approach for DPF regeneration in series passenger car applications

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Early Railways Series
The Early Railways series is a series of games designed by Martin Wallace and published by Winsome Games. The core of the system revolves around bidding for the right to construct track, and then delivering goods to various cities depicted on the maps.
The Early Railways games are all low-tech, with plain, but functional components, which is standard for the publisher. All of the games are now long out of print and hard to come by.
The Early Railways series is the progenitor of several later Wallace designs, and its core delivery mechanic is reused in games such as Volldampf, Age of Steam, and Railways of the World.

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In this paper, Dynamic Voltage Restorer (DVR) based series compensation of the voltage to provide Fault Ride Through (FRT) and reactive power support is discussed. The control of DVR is crucial in order to improve the FRT capability in Doubly Fed Induction Generator (DFIG) based wind turbines. This is observed in terms of voltage sag mitigation capability, active and reactive power support without tripping and fault current control. To achieve a flexible control solution for balanced and unbalanced fault conditions, a combination of Feed-forward and Feed-back control is discussed in this paper. The advantage of utilizing this combined control is verified through MATLAB/Simulink based simulation results of a 1.5 MW grid connected DFIG based wind turbine. The results show good transient and steady-state response and good reactive power support during various fault scenarios. The results are verified for the recent updated grid code standards. © 2017 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.


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For almost 40 years EU funding has supported creative and cultural organisations and projects in Scotland. EU policies have also affected many areas of Scottish culture.
However, some have questioned what wider impact membership of the EU has had on Scottish culture? What impact has Europe had on Scottish music, art and language? Has membership of the EU helped or hindered the development of Scottish culture?
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The panel consists of:
Professor Richard Demarco, CBE, Professor Emeritus of European Cultural Studies at Kingston University, Scottish artist, art impresario and promoter of the arts.
Dr Donald Smith, playwright, novelist and performance poet, Director of the Scottish Storytelling Centre.
Dr Margaret A Mackay, Honorary Fellow of the University of Edinburgh's Celtic and Scottish Studies department.
This event is being organised with the support of the European Commission Office in Scotland.


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Gingerbread is traditional for Christmas, this is a great dessert, whatever shape you choose for it, and it may be glazed or not – it’s tasty anyway. But gingerbread isn’t only food, it can be used for decor, too! Wanna see some real gingerbread and fake decorations to try this Christmas? Here they are!
Real Gingerbread Decorations
Gingerbread cookies can be used for making decorations, they are durable enough to stand some transformations. Grab some cookies you like and hang them on ribbons to use as ornaments, or put them on a ribbon as a garland. Make a chic terrarium of a gingerbread house, add fake snow and some pinecones. Make edible wreaths and hangings of gingerbread cookies and enjoy them – both for decor and meals!
Faux Gingerbread Decorations
if you don’t want to bake cookies, make them of other materials, they are sure to be more durable. Gingerbread-inspired decorations can be made of felt and different fabrics – make some to use as ornaments, gift tags, key chains and just gifts. They can be shaped as men, houses, snowflakes and mittens – give them any shape you like and imitate icing, too! Then grab these pieces and put them on a Christmas tree, make a garland or a window hanging. Get inspired!


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SPRING HILL — Attend any meeting of the Spring Hill Fire Rescue Commission and you will notice that things just aren't right. There is tension in the air from the opening invocation to the final rap of the gavel.
Many who have followed the five-member volunteer board over the years are familiar with the animosity. But with the district suffering from financial woes, a rising citizen discontent has emerged, making the edges of the interpersonal conflicts seem much sharper than before.
On Nov. 2, Spring Hill residents will be get to fill two open seats on the commission. Of the six candidates, two have previous experience in the district's decisionmaking process. The other four are novices.
All six candidates acknowledge the need for change, both in the way the board handles its own affairs and the district's financial interests. Most acknowledge that the recent defeat of a referendum that would have allowed the district to levy a property tax of up to 2.5 mills showed that voters lack confidence in the board.
Three candidates — Sherry Adler, Harry Chamberlain and Ken Fagan — have aligned themselves as reformers who believe that fiscal restraint and not additional tax revenue is what's needed to keep the present level of service.
Adler, 66, who calls herself a fiscal watchdog, believes that the district leadership is influenced too much by the firefighters union.
"Whatever the fire department wants, it gets, with no concern for who will pay for it," she said. "The taxpayers don't seem to have a voice."
Adler believes the best fix for the district's fiscal woes is an across-the-board cut in salaries. She also believes that the district would save money by privatizing its EMS services.
"Raising taxes isn't a good idea," she said.
Like Adler, Chamberlain said the district needs to tighten its financial belt. And that includes re-examining the district's plan to spend $1.3 million to rebuild Station 2, next door to the administration building.
"I don't see the need for it until our revenue situation becomes clearer," said Chamberlain, 66. "The prudent thing to do would be to repair the existing facility and wait and see for a couple of years."
Fagan, 73, also sees a need for conservative measures when it comes to fiscal matters. While he believes residents are well-served by highly trained personnel, he would like the board to examine the department's discretionary expenditures to see if other savings could be found.
The two candidates with previous board experience say the district's financial problems are more due to the sluggish economy than anything else.
Ben Edwards, 58, who was appointed to the board earlier this year to replace retiring Commissioner Gene Panozzo, believes that the district is in relatively good shape, but it must hold costs until property values improve.
"Due to the limits of the taxing system, the only thing that would help is a stronger economy," Edwards said in a candidate questionnaire.
George Biro, who lost a re-election bid to the board in 2008, and Guy "Rusty" Amore say that the district should do more to get revenue from the 2,600 homeowners whose residences are exempt from taxes because of their low value.
"A flat tax would ensure everyone pays his or her fair share," Biro, 67, wrote in a candidate questionnaire.
He also supports charging business fees for fire inspections.
Amore, 68, who describes the district's current status as being on "thin ice," also believes that the district should take another look at adding a tangible tax on businesses whose assets are valued over $25,000, something the board approved but later rejected last year.
Still, he believes the district needs to curb its spending habits.
All the tax revenue in the world isn't going to help if you can't balance your budget," Amore said. "Spending in the department needs to be brought under control."
Logan Neill can be reached at (352) 848-1435 or [email protected]