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School Pension Costs To Skyrocket Nearly 40 Percent
Pension costs for schools are set to grow nearly 40 percent next school year, a major hit to education budgets already crippled by rising costs.
The state Teacher's Retirement System estimated that schools would have to pay as much as 16.5 percent of payroll to cover pension costs, according to a bulletin released earlier this month. The current rate is 11.84 percent. (h/t to Capitol Confidential
The system said higher pension costs are expected in future years. The system said the rate for the 2013-14 school year, which starts July 1, would be between 15.5 percent and 16.5 percent of salary.
"We anticipate future increases in the ECR. The magnitude of the increases will depend upon future investment performance and member demographic experience," the bulletin to school districts read.
School officials said the increase comes as other costs are growing, such as health insurance for employees. Schools are also grappling with a property-tax cap that limits the growth in taxes to 2 percent a year; an override of the cap requires 60 percent of support from voters in May.
"It’s on top of everything else," said Robert Lowry, deputy director of the state Council of School Superintendents.
Growing pension costs continue to be a problem for schools and local governments.
In the 2009-10 school year, pension costs were 6.2 percent of a district's salary and cost $926 million statewide. In the fall 2013, nearly double will need to be collected: about $1.8 billion. The new pension costs would need to be collected in the fall of 2014.
The poor economy has hurt public pension funds.
The Teacher's Retirement Fund has not indicated whether it's dropping its estimated annual rate of return of 8 percent. The rate of return for the fiscal year that ended June 30 was 2.8 percent, the bulletin said.
The state Comptroller's Office in 2010 lowered its expected rate of return from 8 percent to 7.5 percent on the state pension fund amid the struggles on Wall Street.
As of July, the teacher's retirement system was worth about $88 billion and covered about 149,000 retirees and 277,000 active members. The average teacher pension in the system was $38,238 last year.
E.J. McMahon, senior fellow at the fiscally conservative Empire Center for New York State Policy, said the Teacher's Retirement System has compounded its problems by having a modest increase last year of 6.5 percent and by not lowering its 8 percent estimated rate of return.
He predicted the system's pension costs would grow to 20 percent of salary.
"They artificially deflated it for a year. This was inevitable," McMahon said.
In August, Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli said local and state governments would need to contribute an average of 20.9 percent of salaries into the state pension system, an increase of 10.6 percent.


Jack Donaghy needed to get psyched. Faced with the pressure of delivering a keynote address to his corporate colleagues, Mr. Donaghy (played by Alec Baldwin on the television series 30 Rock) looked in the mirror and gave himself a rousing pep talk.
"Okay, buddy, here we go," he said. "Bases loaded, bottom of the ninth. Are you gonna step up? Oh, yeah. Because it's winning time, you magnificent son of a bitch! You go in there and you show them. Make mommy proud of her big boy because he's the best! Just do it. Is it in you? I'm loving it!"
Whether you are staring down the barrel of delivering an important speech or having to nail a meeting with the boss, a "self-talk" is the key to getting ahead in your career, says Steve Siebold, author of 177 Mental Toughness Secrets of the World Class.
"Most of us are never trained to do this," he says. "I don't think most people really understand the power of self-talk for reconditioning the mind."
But just because you have a self-talk doesn't mean it's a good one. There are certain elements that make a self-talk truly world class, Mr. Siebold says. Follow these guidelines and nothing will stand in your way, you magnificent son of a gun!
Make it fearless
Any time you find yourself in need of a self-talk, chances are your nerves are frayed. You're on edge. You're scared. But never say things such as "Don't blow this" or "Don't screw this up." Such negativity can torpedo your chances of success.
"It's got to be directed toward what you want, as opposed to what you're trying to avoid," Mr. Siebold says.
The point of a self-talk, after all, is to help build your confidence. Focus on your goals and your ability to meet them. And never let doubt creep into what you're telling yourself.
"It's got to be totally absent of fear," Mr. Siebold says.
Stuart Smalley is a terrible role model for anyone who wants to pump themselves up with a pep talk. Each day, the character played by Al Franken on Saturday Night Live, would look in the mirror and offer himself this affirmation: "I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and doggone it, people like me."
Statements such as this one are far too generic, Mr. Siebold says.
"It's got to be very specific," he says. "Saying, for example, 'I'm going to have a positive attitude' is not as good as saying 'I'm going to stay positive about how much money I'm going to make this year.' " The more specific the better. If you've got a presentation to give, for example, remind yourself of each main point and how well you know them.
Acknowledge its power
It's easy to dismiss self-talks as a waste of time. But unless you accept that it works, nothing you tell yourself is going to be of much help.
What we really need to recognize, Mr. Siebold says, is the power of positive conditioning. "So many of us are programmed from childhood on with negative and limiting messages," he says. "People I've studied that have succeeded at it in a big way consciously recognize this and they turn it around and start using self-talk scripts that are more abundance-based."
If you tell yourself over and over again that you can't do something, then chances are you'll fall flat on your face. The opposite must be true, Mr. Siebold says. "Behaviour follows belief," he says.
Keep it short
When it comes to world class self-talks, brevity is best, Mr. Siebold says. The more you blather, the less effective your self-talk will be.
A few sentences should suffice, Mr. Siebold says. "If it's simple, it probably is easier to get the message across," he says. "The fewer words, the better."
Ideally, a self-talk can be distilled down to three or four sentences. Nail the essential points you want to cover and no more, he says.
And while it's good to create self-talks for specific situations, some of the best ones are simple mantras of only a few words. One of Mr. Siebold's favourite self-talk scripts came from a man working in the financial industry: "Making money is easy."
Now that you know the secrets to a world class self-talk, get out there and take no prisoners. It's winning time!


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After giving the fans a taste of his chocolate boy charm in ‘Student of the Year 2’ Tiger Shroff is all set to wow his fans again, but this time in a brand new avatar. His upcoming movie, ‘War’ just released its trailer. Tiger’s look in the film is fierce, vicious, tough and powerful!
The trailer featured Tiger Shroff doing the best of action sequences. Fans are going absolutely crazy!
Both the teaser and now the trailer of the film has created immense craze. With almost every frame of the trailer filled with a high-octane action sequence, Tiger’s commitment for being the next action star is crystal clear.
The actor has surely worked hard for this role and his training and dedication towards this character is finally getting good appreciation.
With his thorough, constant dedication to fitness and being the ‘Youngest Action Star’ Tiger is very much the perfect choice for his part in the upcoming action film.
Tiger has repeatedly been known to acknowledge how action films have given him an identity and how he enjoys doing them thoroughly. The talented actor works really hard on his fitness and martial arts skills to perfect his stunts in the film, without any body double.
Tiger Shroff will be next seen in ‘War’ with Hrithik Roshan, ‘Baaghi 3’ and an official remake of ‘Rambo.’

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Using mobile devices enhances overall collaboration and communication between team workers. Co-workers can collaborate and share content regardless of their location. Workflow management is a widely accepted technology that supports collaboration; however, existing workflow approaches provide only a limited support for content management. Moreover, constantly changing collaborators’ contexts and needs demand more adaptable and flexible workflows. The aim of this paper is to examine how collaborative workflows can be adapted for mobile devices, be capable of dealing with current collaborators’ context and support content manipulation. As a result, a conceptual reference framework for the definition, management and execution of mobile context-aware content-centric workflows is introduced.
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This is the second of a three-part blog, an overview of the voyage art in our recent exhibition. Susannah Helman was co-curator and project manager of Cook and the Pacific.
William Hodges (1744–1797), View from Point Venus, Island of Otaheite c. 1774, oil on canvas, National Library of Australia, Pictures Collection, nla.cat–vn347578
From Cook’s second voyage (1772–1775)—which aimed to clear up whether there was a vast southern continent—we had thirteen works by William Hodges on display in Cook and the Pacific. Hodges was primarily a landscape artist—he had trained under the great Welsh landscape painter Richard Wilson. He is perhaps best known for his large oils of Pacific scenes, completed for the Admiralty in the years after the voyage. Though there was a small Hodges landscape in our exhibition (above), the Library’s strength from the second voyage, is its holding of eighteen large chalk portraits of people they met in the Pacific. Most of these portraits depict people from New Zealand and the Society Islands, where the voyages spent more time than elsewhere. Ten were in the exhibition. Most are referenced in voyage journals. Tantalisingly, we know more about some of the people and the meetings than others.
All are developed drawings, a stage between the initial sketch and published engraving, which appeared in the official account. The sketches are rare, but some do survive in collections around the world, including this sketch for the woman of Easter Island. The British Museum holds what is thought to be a preliminary sketch, the National Library of Australia holds the chalk developed version and the final engraving was published in the official account in 1777.
William Hodges (1744–1797), Portrait of Tynai–mai, Princess of Ra’iatea c. 1773, chalk, National Library of Australia, Pictures Collection, nla.cat–vn2055286
Interestingly, some of the engraved versions are quite different from the developed versions. For example, see the chalk portrait of Tynai-Mai, princess of Ra’iatea and the published version here. Some of Hodges’ portraits suggest a genuine connection with the sitter, and voyage accounts record these meetings. Georg Forster, naturalist on the voyage. described her this way: ‘Her eyes were full of fire and expression, and an agreeable smile sat in her round face. Mr Hodges took this opportunity of drawing a sketch of her portrait, which her vivacity and restless disposition rendered almost impossible.’
Some of Hodges’ portraits are particularly fine, such as his portrait of Tu, or Otoo. Some years after Cook died, Tu rose to be king of all Tahiti, and he ruled as Pomare I from 1788. Cook’s voyages coincided with a revolution in Tahiti; the rulers met by Samuel Wallis’s Dolphin voyage in 1767 were no longer in power. Cook and others thought Tu was more important than he was.
William Hodges (1744–1797), Otoo, King of Otaheite 1773, chalk, National Library of Australia, Pictures Collection, nla.cat–vn729473
Confirming that idea, Hodges’ portrait bears the title: ‘Otoo, King of Otaheite’. In his account of the voyage, naturalist Georg Forster described him this way: ‘His head, notwithstanding a certain gloominess which seemed to express a fearful disposition, had a majestic and intelligent air, and there was great expression in his full black eyes.’
One of the most exciting things about exhibition making is being able to bring together objects that have a connection to each other, but have long been apart. Such is the case with this small portrait of a Maori man, by William Hodges. It is held in the National Library’s collection.
William Hodges (1744-1797), Head of a Maori Man c. 1775, pen, National Library of Australia, Petherick Collection (Pictures), nla.cat-vn729587
Rudiger Joppien and Bernard Smith, authors of the standard catalogue of the art of Cook’s three Pacific voyages, thought this was a study for a figure who appears on a manuscript map. That map was effectively Cook’s statement on his achievements of the second voyage. Cook felt he had dispelled the myth of the southern continent. The figure is on the bottom left. The map was a collaborative affair, a coming together of the ship’s captain (Cook), artist (Hodges), officer and mapmaker (Roberts) and the naturalist (Johann Reinhold Forster), who selected the quotation. We borrowed the version of this map held by The National Archives (UK). It was sent back to the Admiralty from Cape Town, as frontispiece to the copy of Cook’s journal. The copy was a way of safeguarding the results of the voyage, should the final full version go astray before reaching the Admiralty.
James Cook (cartographer, 1728–1779), Henry Roberts (cartographer, c. 1757–1796) and William Hodges (artist, 1744–1797), Chart of the Southern Hemisphere, Showing the Track and Discoveries Made by the Resolution 1775, ink and wash, The National Archives, UK, ADM 55/108, f.1b, © Crown Copyright – image courtesy of The National Archives
Two works finished after the second voyage were undoubted exhibition highlights. One was the double portrait of the naturalists Johann Reinhold and Georg Forster, by Jean François Rigaud on loan from the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra. The Forsters had sailed on that voyage, Johann as scientist and Georg as scientific draughtsman. They are shown at work together in New Zealand. Georg was an accomplished artist. He is shown sketching while his father holds a bellbird; in his hatband is a botanical specimen (Forster sedifolia), named after them.
Joshua Reynolds (1723–1792), Omai of the Friendly Isles c. 1774, pencil, National Library of Australia, Rex Nan Kivell Collection (Pictures), nla.cat–vn212017
The other highpoint was the portrait, in pencil, of Omai by Sir Joseph Reynolds, London’s celebrated portraitist. Omai (Mai) joined the second voyage in the Society Islands, and sailed to London on the Adventure in 1774. He returned to the Pacific on Cook’s third voyage, reaching Huahine in the Society Islands in November 1777. He is thought to have died in around 1780.
Stay tuned for the final blog in the series.

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Toe Tag is an Estonian hip hop group originally from Kalamaja, Tallinn. It consists of rappers G-Enka (Henry Kõrvits) and DJ Paul Oja. Toe Tag was established in 1996.In August 2011, rapper Revo (Revo Jõgisalu) died from skin cancer.
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Q3 2020 SS&C Intralinks Deal Flow Predictor: COVID-19 Impacts Global M&A
Navigating M&A’s future in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis
19 May 2020
In an unprecedented new issue, the just-published Q3 2020 SS&C Intralinks Deal Flow Predictor examines the current state of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) amid a global economy upended by the COVID-19 pandemic.
As the world faces extreme financial and economic challenges, due diligence and valuations have gone out the window for now. While some deals have been completed since the pandemic began, some M&A transactions have been paused, and others are taking longer to complete during this time of lockdowns and travel restrictions. Many companies are struggling to sustain operations and bankruptcies and restructurings are likely. I would like to share three key points from the latest report:
Using Q1 2020 as a marker
For Q1 2020, a quarter that was initially marked by an uncertain global economic environment, worldwide M&A deal announcements grew 1.7 percent YOY (except in APAC and LATAM) and deal volumes rose almost 9 percent in February alone. By March, COVID-19’s onset brought a global YOY decline (Japan was the outlier in both cases). The sharpest drops were in ME, Africa and LATAM.
Megadeals still being inked
Though 10,000 deals were announced for Q1 2020, new deal starts weakened, with a 10 percent drop from January to March. Still, few megadeals have been withdrawn – and there has been a pandemic-related spike in the number of withdrawn deals.
Hurt sectors may be resilient for H2 2020
After having been impacted by store shutdowns and price drops in resources, the Consumer/Retail, Energy and Power, and Materials sectors seem ripe for restructuring deals going forward. Distressed cases in sectors such as industrial products, tourism and automotive will continue, while telecom, tech and healthcare will benefit from the health crisis.
Cautious optimism recommended
The post-COVID-19 global economy may recover quickly once shutdowns are eased and some normalcy is returned. Fiscal stimulus packages from governments and central banks will aid recovery. So could private equity, with over USD 2.5 trillion in dry powder and many motivated PE managers. Also, non-core businesses could be divested to raise cash while some could become discounted opportunities for buyers.
For now, we are seeing market uncertainty. Deal timelines will be extended as “damage assessments” become clearer.
The Q3 2020 SS&C Intralinks Deal Flow Predictor also includes a spotlight feature on the rise of M&A shareholder activism and an interview with Sen Zhang, director of Global Fund Management at leading Chinese private equity firm JD Capital, on the state of private capital. You can download your copy here. Enjoy.

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McGregor’s manager, Tim Simpson, has stated that McGregor’s “confusing” return could be delayed to more than summer following the title clash between Charles Oliveira and Justin Gaethje
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Conor McGregor’s decision to return to the UFC after breaking his leg has been described as “confusing” by one of his managers.
And Tim Simpson has claimed the Irish star could delay his return until the end of the year despite being expected to return this summer.
McGregor is currently on family vacation in the Bahamas as he continues to recover from the injury he sustained in the match against Dustin Poirier.
Both Dubliner and UFC president Dana White say a summer return is on the cards as McGregor keeps an eye on a resumption and full training in April.
But his manager considers McGregor’s desire for a rematch “difficult” after hitting his financial and MMA goals.
“Actually it was on Conor [when to return]but I look forward to this year,” Simpson told Time MMA. “He is currently in the Bahamas with his family and is focusing on other business ventures.
“He doesn’t need to come back, he’s practically who he is and what he’s achieved financially and athletically. After that injury, it was like “now might be the time” but he wants to fight again, which I am baffled and say a lot about him.
“I don’t think it’s going to be in the summer but it’s definitely going to be some stage this year. Maybe we’ll see when the fight for the lightweight championship hits and then go.
“He’s going to fight this year and it’s a merit for him, he has no real reason to fight other than the fact he wants to and that’s impressive.”
McGregor suffered a damaging second consecutive defeat to Poirier last summer, leaving him on the brink of dropping out of the lightweight top 10.
McGregor’s comeback fight is unlikely to be the fourth against Poirier after the fight was ruled out by ‘The Diamond’.
Who would you like to see Conor McGregor face when he returns? Let us know in comment section below
McGregor had previously requested a title fight against Oliveira after the Brazilian admitted he was “waiting” for his challenge.
However, that was quickly debunked after Dana White confirmed war will take place against Gaethje.
Now Simpson has stated that McGregor’s return could come at the perfect time to challenge the winner to the defense of Oliveira which will take place in May.
“Let’s see what happens in the title fight,” Simpson continued. “The thing with Conor is that he always has options.
“He’s going to have options when he’s ready and regardless of everything else going on in the division, he sells. He can fight anyone, no matter what’s said’. true’ for the division.
“Ultimately the business rules and he can go into that title fight if he wants to.”
https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/other-sports/mma/conor-mcgregor-ufc-return-date-26255209 Conor McGregor could delay his UFC return amid 'confusing' decision

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Hello everyone! Reminder that today is Technique Tuesday! Class tonight will be held from 5:00-6:30. If you are around we would love to have you in class! All returning EDC dancers are required to participate in at least 25 hours of dancing throughout the summer. Technique Tuesdays are strongly recommended, as it is very important to stay in shape and maintain your dance training during the summer! The class will be focused on posture, strength and moving in a technical, safe way. We will study several genres of dance throughout the series including Ballet, Jazz, Tap, Hip-Hop and Contemporary. It is a fun, high energy class that will prepare them for the dance season ahead.
All weekly classes will be held at the Holbrook St. studio.
EDC I-IV: 5:00-6:30
July 12th, 19th, 26th
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Steamchest Announces General Availability of the Steamchest Manufacturing Commons Dec 31, 2023 at 8:00 PM EST
New shared technology platform connects small manufacturing companies with their data, industry experts, training resources and apps to reduce cost, increase shop floor productivity and enable sustainable operations.
LAFAYETTE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec 31, 2022--Today, Steamchest announces general availability of the Steamchest Manufacturing Commons, an open, digital platform, built specifically to help small manufacturing companies thrive. Inspired by the technology and work processes large industrial companies use to transform their industrial operations, the Steamchest team has ‘right sized’ these capabilities for the nearly 200,000 manufacturing firms in the US with less than 100 workers and little or no instrumentation on the plant floor. The Manufacturing Commons is a radical departure from traditional industrial data platforms because it is member-owned and members have absolute control over the ownership, use and monetization of their data. Steamchest exists to harness and scale the power of data in combination with decentralized industrial expertise and apps, solely for the benefit of manufacturing owner-operators and the communities they operate in.
Industry 4.0, that combination of cloud technology, analytics, inexpensive sensors and agile work and software development processes is effectively out of reach for small manufacturing companies. Not because the tech is unusable, but because it is being packaged and brought to market in ways that favor large industrial companies. Small manufacturing companies don’t have the IT capabilities required to purchase, deploy and maintain the Enterprise solutions suppliers like MSFT, AWS, C3.ai and others are selling. They don’t have the instrumented plant processes required to power fancy AI and ML based applications that promise to predict failure and reinvent their businesses. They don’t have time for the sales and marketing tactics deployed by traditional Enterprise Sales teams. They can’t afford vendor lock-in associated with picking ‘best of breed’ infrastructure. These owners are too laser focused on the day to day challenges associated with selling what they make, making what they’ve sold, and finding and keeping employees to figure out how to leverage the tools being used by the big industrials. The vendors who do focus down-market on these owners offer closed solutions that are limited in scope and flexibility. The result is that for most of the 200k small manufacturing companies in the US, Smart Manufacturing adoption lags far behind their large company peers.
The Steamchest Manufacturing Commons makes available an open, shared technology platform that unlocks Smart Manufacturing outcomes for small manufacturing firms by providing key capabilities ‘as a service’ within a radically new commercial framework that makes it easy for owners, engineers, operators and technicians to use what they need and pay as they go - without having to invest in and maintain their own software silos or source installation services and support. All of that is coordinated by Steamchest. The following capabilities are available with this initial Commons release: data historian as a service, power consumption monitoring of critical machinery and Industrial Guide advisory services. Future releases will include add-on capabilities such as water consumption monitoring, gas consumption monitoring, productivity apps, tool exchange and rental, plant floor knowledge capture, training, regional supply chain coordination and opportunities to test products and invest in technology start-ups that wish to bring solutions to market by collaborating with Steamchest members.
Getting started is as simple as ‘joining the club’ at steamchest.io. Membership for owner operators and their employees is free and unlocks access to tools and services that help businesses get started on their Smart Manufacturing journey. This launch release of the Steamchest Manufacturing Commons enables members to baseline plant power consumption using easy to install power monitoring kits that measure electricity usage in real time, automatically organizes that data into equipment power profiles, reports the daily, weekly and monthly cost of power for those machines and makes it easy to share that data with experts, if desired, to reduce energy consumption. Members have access to the open source hardware, software and installation instructions to install the system on their own or can source Steamchest qualified installers if necessary. Once connected to the Steamchest Manufacturing Commons, members control what happens to their data. With this initial release, members can browse the profiles of ‘Industrial Guides’ to work with, pick experts that best understand their business challenges and allow them to access their data to begin the back and forth collaboration needed to optimize equipment power consumption. Future platform releases will allow members to connect add-on sensor kits and equipment communication modules for health monitoring beyond power consumption. As more members join and share their machinery data, the more powerful the Manufacturing Commons becomes through the creation of a shared knowledge base backed by a massive library of machinery performance data.
Mike Yost is CEO and Founder of Industrial Guides by Your Side (IGBYS), a Steamchest Launch Partner. The IGBYS network of industrial experts provides the human powered, collaborative, knowledge base component of the Manufacturing Commons. In Mike’s words. “This initiative puts the business needs of the manufacturer first, solving Operational challenges as a priority and designing solutions with the big picture of the Commons in mind. Smart Manufacturing will remain inaccessible to small companies without a way to connect owners, engineers, mechanics and operators with trusted guides and expert knowledge..”
Ross McGowan, President & CEO of Empire Truck and Van in Modesto, CA, is a Steamchest charter member. Ross and his team were among the first manufacturing companies in the US to participate in the Steamchest lighthouse program to test and validate the power of the Manufacturing Commons and had this to say about his experience: “Our business is building truck bodies that delight our customers and keep them coming back. Of course we want to reduce production costs, especially related to key business inputs like power, water and gas - and we’re even more motivated to reduce environmental impact of our plants in the communities where we work - but there’s only so much we can do. We were an early participant in the Steamchest network, and I can tell you that the initial projects we’ve done using the technology and expertise available via the Commons have had a big impact on energy cost reduction at our largest plant. Without the Commons we would never have uncovered this opportunity, and we most certainly wouldn't have been able to purchase software the old fashioned way to do this. It’s the combo of Empire Truck data, Steamchest tech infrastructure and the amazing network of experts that makes the magic.”
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In this video, ini share what it may take to overcome the artificial way of life versus the Most High’s purpose for living as a man or woman. Peace and Blessings! Our take on How Do We Come Out of Being An Artificial Person. “But we see Yesus, who was made a little […]
In this video, i read a little of case law that pertains to His Majesty and how he reigns over foreign rulers; principalities. Feel free to like, comment, and share this post of, “His Majesty Reigns over Foreign Rulers; Principalities”. Shalom and Blessings!

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From Local to Global: Connecting with Players through Minecraft Servers
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Back in the Before Times, when microcontroller development required ultraviolet light, building anything was a pain. You probably had to burn a ROM onto a chip with a parallel programmer, there was no in-circuit programming, and who knows what would happen if you needed a serial port.
This changed in the early 90s with the introduction of the BASIC Stamp from Parallax. This was a simple microcontroller development board using Microchip PIC. With a little bit of clever firmware developed by Parallax, you could write code in BASIC, upload your code over a serial or parallel port (which every computer had), and blink a LED with just a few lines of code. All microcontroller development boards — including the Arduino — owe a debt to the BASIC Stamp. It is the grandfather to the Arduino, and it is very, very old.
Microchip didn’t update the BASIC Stamp, but that doesn’t mean someone else can’t handle that. [Bruce Eisenhard] is crowdfunding an improved, updated version of the famous 24-pin BASIC Stamp. It’s got modern parts, runs seven hundred times faster than the original, and is still chock full of BASIC interpretation.
This upgraded Stamp is built around NXP’s LPC11U3 micrcontroller, an ARM Cortex-M0 part with about a hundred times more Flash than the chip in the original Stamp. Programming is done through modern IDEs, and yes, there’s a USB port. This project is pin-compatible with the original BASIC Stamp, so if your microcontroller project from twenty years ago is dying, this is the replacement for you.
The BASIC Stamp was an awesome device for its time, even though it cost more than two hundred dollars in today’s money. [Bruce]’s campaign is offering one of these for $25, which is pretty reasonable for what it is.
When you move from one-off builds to production scale, perhaps to meet that Kickstarter commitment or to keep your Tindie store stocked, you’re going to need to tool up. Jobs like building wiring harnesses can be tedious and time-consuming, so outsourcing them to this robot wire cutter might be a good idea.
The video below tells the whole tale of this build, which despite the fact that [Maclsk] seems to have put it together quickly from scrap bin parts still looks pretty professional. The business end of the machine is a 3D printer extruder, minus the hot end, of course. A Nano controls the extruder’s stepper to shoot out the right length of wire, as well as the servo that squeezes the snippers. An LCD display and some pushbuttons provide the UI that rounds out the build. Tell it how long and how many, and you’ll be ready to build. We can see how this might be upgraded to strip the wires as well, although getting both ends stripped might be tricky.
Might this component tape-cutting robot from a few weeks back have inspired [Maclsk]’s build? Perhaps, but in any case, both are fun to watch.
Continue reading “Automate Wire Prep With A Robot Wire Cutter”
[David Schneider]’s love affair with Weller temperature controlled soldering irons began many years ago, but when he came to the point of needing a cordless iron he had problems finding one that replicated his trusty mains-powered soldering station. His solution was simple, to build his own, and in a stroke of genius he did so with an odd combination of a Weller MagnaStat element and bit, and a repurposed MagLite flashlight.
The Weller parts are all available off-the-shelf as spares, and the MagLite was easy to source. But its D cells would never give the required 24 V for the iron, so he had to incorporate a set of 14500 Li-ion cells with built-in electronic protection. The element protrudes from the front of the flashlight, giving an iron that seems to do the business but to our eyes looks rather unwieldy. Still, it does the job, and provides a far more sturdy and reliable iron than any cordless one we’ve yet seen, so we think that’s a result.
We’ve reviewed a Weller MagnaStat in the past,with a special look at availability of bits for older models.
Videos games are a cornucopia of project ideas well-suited to the talents of makers and hackers, and Halloween is as good a time as any to show them off! Reddit user [Tavarin], a huge fan of the Boderlands video games, whipped up a plaster mask — replete with glowing eyes — of one of the game’s signature enemies: the Psycho.
[Tavarin]’s secret to forming comfortable plaster masks is to open his jaw while the wrap is setting — that way he’ll be able to talk without breaking the mask off his face. Hot gluing in and modifying a 60mm PC fan and a pair of lenses meant that the only thing standing between him and a lot of sanding to shape the mask’s details was a few layers of thick plaster mix.
Continue reading “This Mask Will Make You A Psycho”
Exactly how much work is required to pedal a bike? There are plenty of ways to measure the power generated by a cyclist, but a lot of them such as heavily instrumented bottom brackets and crank arms, can be far too expensive for casual use. But for $30 in parts you can build this power-measuring bike pedal. and find out just how hard you’re stoking.
Of course it’s not just the parts but knowing what to do with them, and [rabbitcreek] has put a lot of thought and engineering into this power pedal. The main business of measuring the force applied to the crank falls to a pair of micro load cells connected in parallel. A Wemos, an HX711 load-cell amp, a small LiPo pack and charging module, a Qi wireless charger, a Hall sensor, a ruggedized power switch, and some Neopixels round out the BOM. Everything is carefully stuffed into very little space in a modified mountain bike pedal and potted in epoxy for all-weather use. The Hall sensor keeps tracks of the RPMs while the strain gauges measure the force applied to the pedal, and the numbers from a ride can be downloaded later.
We recall a similar effort using a crank studded with strain gauges. But this one is impressive because everything fits in a tidy package. And the diamond plate is a nice touch.
After booting up his RetroPie system, [jfrmilner] had the distinct feeling that something was off. Realizing that the modern Xbox 360 controller didn’t fit right when reliving the games of his youth, he rounded up all his old controllers to make sure he always had the right gamepad for the game.
Wanting to keep the controllers unmodified — so they could still be used on the original systems — he had to do a bit of reverse-engineering and source some controller sockets before building his controller hub. Using shift-in registers, shift-out registers, and some multiplexers, he designed a large circuit selector — which acts as a shield for an Arduino Micro — so all the controllers remain connected. A potentiometer allows him to select the desired controller and a few arcade buttons which access RetroPie shortcuts really round out the hub. Check out the demo after the break!
Continue reading “Why Only Use One Controller When You Can Use ALL Of Them?”
So, your smart mirror has been running for a while, but Halloween is coming up and you want to come up with some cool Halloween stuff to display on the mirror. If you’re looking for ideas, check out [Ben Eagan]’s cool Haunted Smart Mirror which connects the mirror via a Raspberry Pi with Amazon Alexa and Phillips Hue lighting.
[Ben] points to another of his blog pages for those readers interested in the nuances of setting up Alexa with a smart mirror, while concentrating on communication with the Hue bridge and creating the setup for a new Alexa command in this post. Dealing with the Phillips Hue API seems fairly straightforward: Get the IP address of your Hue bridge from your router and the ID of your lights from the Hue app and you’re set to send commands via HTTP. [Ben] includes a Python script to make the lights flicker, which you can modify for your own lights as you wish. Once that’s done, you’ll need to set up the intent that Alexa listens for, and then modify the AWS lambda function that sends commands to the Pi. When the command shows up in the queue on the Pi, any commands [Ben] wants to play are fired off – in this case, a video is played and the Hue lights start to flicker.
There’s no mention of security in the article, so that may be worth a little attention with Alexa and the Hue, but with Halloween coming up fast even if you haven’t built a magic mirror yet, if you’ve got Hue lights, this would be a great, quick, Halloween idea. Especially if you could combine it with your outside lights so that Trick-or-Treaters can join in on the fun. Maybe you’d prefer looking up passing planes using Alexa? Or how about getting your fish to talk?
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Kebbi state government, in collaboration with American doctors, to commenced a three -week medical outreach in the state to assist the people gain access to health facilities at the ultra modern Hospital, Kalgo near Birnin kebbi, the state capital.
The government in a statement issued by the the office of the SSA New Media His Excellency, Governor Abubakar Atiku Bagudu of Kebbi State on the 29th of April, 2016, inspected the Kebbi Medical Center, Kalgo and facilities under which a free three-week medical outreach service is ongoing.
This is the 4th free medical outreach under the leadership of the Governor. Over 100 doctors and over 150 medical personnel including surgeons, pediatricians, gynecologists, ENT Specialists, pharmacists, ophthalmologists, dentists, Orthopedic surgeons and others are hard at work.
Chairman Clinical Committee and Director Medical Services, Ministry of Health, Dr. Aminu Bunza says “We are expecting more patients this time around due to the JOHESU strikes across the country and increased awareness across the state”
The team comprises of Kebbi State Medical workers, medical personnel and doctors from UDUTH Sokoto, UCH Ibadan and Pro health International. There are also student volunteers from Kebbi State School of Nursing and School of Health Technology and members of the Moses Lake Medical team from the United States of America. The team will be working together while building the capacity of medical workers in a teaching environment.
Over 50,000 people have benefited from the three previous outreaches especially with regards to surgeries across specialities. All expenses for all patients are free and the Governor has called on all to take the opportunity for consultancies and surgeries. The outreach is expected to end on the 12th of May, 2018.

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Title: Henry Stanbery to Hugh McCulloch, 25 October 1866
Date: October 25, 1866
Source: Transcribed from digital images or a microfilm reproduction of the original item. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the correspondence, see our statement of editorial policy.
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Contributors to digital file: Elizabeth Lorang, Nima Najafi Kianfar, Kevin McMullen, and John Schwaninger
Oct. 25, 1866
Hon. Hugh McCulloch,
Sec. of the Treasury.
I have the honor to enclose herewith a copy of a letter requesting me to sanction a motion to the Supreme Court for the early argument of certain private causes in which your Department may have an interest.
I will be happy to receive any suggestions you may desire to offer on the subject:matter of the enclosed communication.
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Yet another in my series of Ballerina pieces, with a dose of digital compositing. My camera loves this model, Viktoria, and I have a lot of fun cooking up interesting places to PUT her!!
On a side note, my October Painting Magic Workshop with Karen Burns is now SOLD OUT!! And our thanks go out to everyone who signed up for that three day adventure in Charlotte.
We are currently looking for appropriate space to host a workshop on the WEST COAST in Feb, 2015 so stay tuned for that.
Bookings for our Adventure in France, 2015 are already half full……..
Wishing everyone a fun and happy weekend…..


Renovation of the two-story rotunda of the Blake R. Van Leer Building to create the Interdisciplinary Design Commons. The Commons features fabrication and prototyping space, including a machine shop, a production shop, a semi-cleanroom, a spray booth, and the largest electronics-oriented makerspace in America.
Renovation of the two story rotunda of the Blake R. Van Leer Building to create the Interdisciplinary Design Commons. The Commons features fabrication and prototyping space, including a machine shop, a production shop, makerspace, a semi-cleanroom, and a spray booth. Audio-visual features include a videomatrixing system, digital signage, and classroom and conference room presentation systems.
A public safety simulation complex at the Eastern Wake Campus, including a 4D immersive interior
A complex of Poultry Science instruction and research facilities, including instructional
A phased STEM research complex consisting of two connected buildings to support innovative
Renovation of the historic Terrell Hall, a 32,700 square foot residence hall constructed in
A single story clinic and research building. The building contains a clinic area with procedure,
Renovations of two classrooms and a small lecture hall. This project facilitates the start of the
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Renovation of the Business Service Annex to create the Delta Innovation Hub, housing maker space,
Renovation of the Engineering Department in the Wake Downtown campus building, including teaching
Renovation of 2,300 square feet on the Tunnel Level and 10,000 square feet on Level Two of The Emory
Security, communications, and audio-visual systems for a science and nursing facility including a
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By Paul Sheehan
When a government treats citizens like criminals they tend to respond like criminals. The federal government, as large and intrusive as it has ever been, has helped create an underworld trade that is costing multi-billions of dollars.
Every week, the equivalent of one full container of illicit cigarettes is smuggled into Australia. There are only guesstimates about the size of the trade because smugglers don't do bureaucracy.
The retail value of that standard container load of cigarettes, if sold legally, would be about $10 million dollars, such is the cost of a pack of cigarettes these days. On the black market, that container load would be worth about $4.5 million.
The cost of acquiring the cigarettes in Asia would be only a fraction of its street value. So the amount of profit from that one container load is enormous. The risk-reward motive is self-evident.
Given that Australian Customs only has the capacity to inspect about 5 per cent of the containers that arrive in Australian ports, even if one in three containers of illicit goods were intercepted, the operational loss is still small compared with the gains.
It costs around $2.80 to buy a packet of Marlboro cigarettes in China, the world's largest producer and market for cigarettes. The retail price in Australia is $20.60, almost 10 times higher.
The bulk of this price chasm is Australian taxes – $14 per pack in excise and almost $2 in GST. So 90 per cent of the difference is taxes. It would be hard to find a clearer price signal to establish a black market. The profit potential is enormous.
The government then also subjects consumers to horror porn, via mandated plain so-called packaging which is anything but plain. Packaging must, by law, depict images of advanced, deforming diseases.
Thus the massive price mark-ups, the de facto criminalising of tobacco growing, and the state-imposed disease porn, is a classic example of a rampant nanny state passive aggression, where imposition is justified as For Your Own Good, for a product which is legal to consume and, indeed, widely consumed.
About one in eight adult Australians are regular or irregular smokers (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare). That's about 2.5 million people over the age of 14 who have made their own calculus of risk and reward.
It is no surprise then, given the size of the legal market, that a large bootlegging black market has grown in direct response to the 25 per cent increase in tobacco excise in 2010 (by Labor), another 12.5 per cent increase in 2013 (Labor), another 12.5 per cent increase in 2014 (by the Abbott Coalition government, via Labor), a further 12.5 per cent increase due in September (Coalition) and another 12.5 per cent increase due in 2016 (bipartisan).
The chances that the combination of rising taxes, plus government disease porn, will further stimulate the tobacco black market are 100 per cent.
The tobacco bootlegging network will only grow and become more sophisticated, driven by market forces.
Last week's federal budget allocated $400 million for the creation of a new Australian Border Force, to inhibit people smuggling and product smuggling. So the multi-billions in revenue lost to bootlegging will be compounded by multi-billion long-term costs in bootlegging interdiction.
According to a study conducted by KPMG this year at least $1.35 billion a year in tobacco excise and GST revenue is being lost to the untaxed black economy. The study estimates that the tobacco black market represents an estimated 14.5 per cent of total consumption.
The KPMG study was funded by the tobacco industry but no-one has suggested that KPMG is corrupt, or that the study is not the most accurate estimate of the illicit tobacco trade we have, or that big tobacco does not have a vested interest in accurate market data.
When it comes to nicotine addiction, the biggest addict, by far, is the federal government's tobacco habit. It is a bipartisan addiction.
In the 2015-16 budget estimates, the government expects to raise $9.37 billion from tobacco excise, or 27 per cent of all excise revenue, plus GST on tobacco products. In the forward estimates for next year, it expects to raise 10.18 billion, and by 2017-18, $10.7 billion, a 29 per cent increase over four years. So the government intends to be even more dependent on kicking smokers.
I'm not buying it. Like so many of the projections in Joe Hockey's second budget, this expectation is based on plenty of unguarded blue sky optimism.
Government revenue from tobacco excise is actually projected to decline this year, from the $8.5 billion last year to $8.28 billion. Yet the government thinks it can aggressively milk smokers by raising taxes to a stratospheric 10 times what consumers are paying in Asia, without creating a blowback in consumer behaviour.
Good luck with that. This is an open invitation to entrepreneurs in China, South Korea, Singapore and the Middle East to upgrade the already extensive tobacco bootleg network in Australia.
It is very good news that the rate of regular smoking in Australia has halved in a generation, from 24.3 per cent of people over the age of 14 to about 12.8 per cent now.
But high taxes, venue-banning and state-mandated disease porn are far from the only elements in this social change. Other advanced countries which do not have the same level of intrusive and punitive measures have also seen significant declines in smoking as the health dangers become widely known.
The growing addiction to tobacco revenue by a succession of federal governments is a case-study in nanny-state churn, where blunt government intervention has unintended consequences and big government begets big government.
I don't smoke and would like to see smoking disappear, but at a certain point a big-spending, high-taxing, intrusive federal government – and this applies to the policies of the Coalition, Labor and the Greens – loses its moral authority with any group it is oppressing.
Once moral authority has been lost, coercion promotes resentment, not compliance.
The Abbott government, with its embrace of price gouging and disease porn, has crossed the same line of nanny state excess as Labor and the Greens. With smokers, the federal authorities have lost moral authority – and subversion should grow much faster than tax increases.


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From CBS Sacramento
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STOCKTON (CBS13) – West Nile Virus was detected in three samples of mosquitoes collected in Stockton, the San Joaquin County Mosquito and Vector Control District said on Friday.
The district said the samples were collected in zip codes 95207 and 95209.
According to the U.S. Centers For Disease Control and Prevention, about 1 in 5 people who are infected with WNV experience a fever and other symptoms. About 1 out of 150 develop a serious, sometimes fatal, illness. There is no vaccine or medication for WNV found in people.
“Our surveillance system is designed for the earliest possible detection of WNV positive mosquitoes. With this find, the District will be increasing mosquito control efforts to further reduce the mosquito populations in these areas,” said district spokesperson Aaron Devencenzi. “However, residents need to take all necessary precautions to prevent mosquito bites.”


ASIAN AMERICAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER POVERTY GROWS IN WAKE OF RECESSION AAPI POVERTY POPULATION GROWS TO OVER 2 MILLION BETWEEN 2007 AND 2011
NEW YORK, NY – The National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development (National CAPACD) unveiled findings from its recent Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Poverty Demographic Study at a press conference held earlier today at the Ford Foundation.
The “Spotlight: Asian American and Pacific Islander Poverty” study brings attention to communities in need and broadens the conversation about what it means to be AAPI in America. The study reveals that the AAPI poor population grew faster than most other ethnic groups from 2007-2011, increasing by 38% to over 2 million.
Asian Americans Face Significant Housing Discrimination According to Study by U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
WASHINGTON, DC – Asian American homebuyers and renters face discrimination and adverse treatment as or more often than other communities of color when seeking a home, according to findings from a newly released study from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and The Urban Institute. The study, titled “Housing Discrimination against Racial and Ethnic Minorities 2012”, shows that discrimination is still widely prevalent in major metropolitan real estate markets across the country. Most alarmingly, the types and methods of discrimination uncovered by this study are generally undetectable by the home seekers themselves.
HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan Addresses AANHPI Community Leaders at National CAPACD’s 13th Annual Convention
WASHINGTON, DC – Last week, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Shaun Donovan addressed more than 200 community leaders representing Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) communities across the country as part of the National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development’s (National CAPACD) 13th Annual Convention. In his remarks, Secretary Donovan recognized the importance of National CAPACD’s network of housing counseling agencies in fighting foreclosures and ensuring access to affordable housing in our neighborhoods. The Secretary congratulated National CAPACD on becoming a HUD One CPD Technical Assistance provider with our partner, the National Association for Latino Community Asset Builders (NALCAB). He committed to engaging with the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (WHIAAPI) to meet the economic and housing needs of low-income AAPI communities and emphasized the importance of public-private partnerships to build the capacity of community-based organizations.
National CAPACD Celebrates 10 Years of ACTION TA on First Day of 13th Annual Convention
WASHINGTON, DC – On Monday, June 3rd, the National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development (National CAPACD) released a report, “Taking Initiative in Our Neighborhoods”, which highlights the first ten years of its AAPI Communities Taking Initiative in Our Neighborhoods (ACTION) technical assistance program. National CAPACD also released a report on integrated financial education and asset building opportunities in Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) communities. Both reports, supported by Citi Community Development, were released during National CAPACD’s 13th Annual Convention, “Building Equity, Building Power: Redefining Community Development”, taking place in Washington, DC from June 3rd to June 5th.
President Obama Meets with National AANHPI Leaders
Executive Director Lisa Hasegawa of the National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development (National CAPACD) and 14 Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) leaders met with President Obama to discuss issues and challenges facing AANHPI families including implementation of the Affordable Care Act, how the President’s plans for immigration reform will affect our communities, and issues currently facing underserved Native Hawaiian communities.
“This historic meeting underscores the President’s commitment to our communities and certainly speaks to the growing political power of AANHPIs and the access we have in this Administration,” noted Lisa Hasegawa, Executive Director of National CAPACD. “With AA and NHPI populations growing faster than ever before, we appreciate the opportunity to speak candidly with the President about many of the most critical policies affecting our communities today."
Asian American Leaders Call for More Inclusive Immigration Bill
Senate legislation is step in right direction, but excludes needs of many immigrants
WASHINGTON — The National Council of Asian Pacific Americans (NCAPA), a coalition of 30 national Asian Pacific American organizations, released the following statement Wednesday regarding the introduction of an immigration reform bill in the U.S. Senate:
We commend the bipartisan “Gang of Eight” senators for taking a necessary first step in reforming our nation’s broken immigration system. Provisions in the bill, Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act of 2013, address the family and employment systems, path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants and enforcement and border security, among others. However, we have significant concerns that certain provisions of the bill are not inclusive or broad-ranging enough. Our particular concerns are related to the changes in the family-based immigration system that will prevent families from reuniting with important loved ones; promoting business interests should not come at the expense of families.
NCAPA Urges Swift Confirmation of Perez for Labor Secretary
WASHINGTON – The National Council of Asian Pacific Americans (NCAPA), a coalition of 30 national Asian Pacific American organizations, urges the prompt confirmation of Tom Perez as the next Secretary of the U.S. Department of Labor.
WASHINGTON, D.C.—At a summit with the monitor of the National Mortgage Settlement, the nation’s leading civil rights groups and community-based housing advocates called for increased principal reduction and more transparency in settlement implementation to ensure that communities of color are benefitting from loan modifications and other measures designed to help borrowers keep their homes.
National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development Statement on State of the Union Address
In his State of the Union address, President Obama outlined ambitious plans to restore the economy and ensure opportunity for all Americans. He underscored the need to protect investments in small business, job creation, and housing, and reiterated the importance of a fair and balanced approach to deficit reduction. The President specifically called upon Congress to avert looming across-the-board spending cuts – the sequester – that would dramatically scale back domestic federal programs and threaten the social safety net for millions of Americans.
National CAPACD Applauds HUD and Obama Administration on Anti-Discrimination Rules
The National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development applauds the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the Obama Administration for issuing their “disparate impact” regulations that further the goals of the Fair Housing Act. This disparate impact doctrine, now codified, is a powerful tool to combat redlining, housing discrimination, and predatory lending based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status or national origin. Laws and regulations that prohibit discrimination based on national origin provide important protections for limited English speaking individuals. This announcement today formalizes national standards to more effectively identify and combat fair housing discrimination.


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Filmmaker Vishal Bharadwaj's much-talked about film "Rangoon", starring Shahid Kapoor, Kangana Ranaut and Saif Ali Khan, will finally go on floors in November.
The film's first schedule will be shot in Arunachal Pradesh on 9 November where Shahid and Saif will film their portions together, reported Deccan Chronicle. The team will be joined by Kangana later.
The actors are currently prepping for their characters. The "Haider" actor is said to be growing his beard for the role.
"Rangoon" is a love triangle that will see the "Tanu Weds Manu Returns" star play the role of a film actress from the 40s, Saif play a filmmaker and Shahid will be essaying the role of an army officer.
Produced by Sajid Nadiawala, "Rangoon" is slated to hit the theatres in October next year.
Of late, there have been several rumours about Kangana's conflicts with Vishal. In fact, the makers also reportedly considered replacing the lead actress. Further, there were rumours that the "Queen" actress was demanding to be named as the co-director of the film.
However, the makers have rubbished the rumours.
"This is sheer rubbish. There is no such request, demand or indication from her. At our end, we too know that Kangana isn't someone who thinks like that. She is a young woman who has found her standing in the industry by coming from nowhere," a source told Bollywood Hungama.
Meanwhile, Kangana's latest release "Katti Batti" with Imran Khan did average business at the box office. Shahid, on the other hand, will soon be seen in his next film "Shaandaar" opposite Alia Bhatt.


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David Price's stretch of dominant starting pitching found a dead end against perhaps the game's hottest hitter.
Rangers third baseman Adrian Beltre was 3 for 3 with a home run and four RBIs, including driving in the go-ahead run, to lead the Texas Rangers to a 6-5 victory against Tampa Bay on Monday night.
Elvis Andrus scored on Beltre's single in the fifth inning to give the AL West leaders a series-opening win.
Nelson Cruz had a home run, and Mike Olt also had an RBI in support of Derek Holland (9-6), who earned the victory after going six innings and giving up five runs - three earned - on six hits, five strikeouts and a walk.
Price's stretch of 12 consecutive quality starts, during which he had pitched at least seven innings in each, was snapped with more troubles against Texas.
The lefty, who entered with a major-league low 2.28 ERA and a league co-high of 16 victories, didn't make it to the fifth, giving up six runs on 10 hits in four innings.
In eight career regular-season starts against the Rangers, Price (16-5) is 1-4 with a 6.04 ERA. In four starts at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington, his ERA is inflated to 10.26.
"I didn't feel like I was throwing the ball any different than I was during the stretch where I've been successful," Price said. "It's Texas, they're a good-hitting team, and they're feeling it right now."
Neither Beltre nor his teammates are an easy out right now.
Beltre, who was selected American League player of the week after a game of three home runs and another in which he hit for the cycle, is hitting .485 with six home runs and 13 RBIs in his last eight games.
"He's locked in," Rangers manager Ron Washington said. "We need everything he's giving us right now. He's one of the guys in our lineup that makes it work."
Relievers Alexi Ogando and Mike Adams and closer Joe Nathan struck out six of the nine hitters they faced in working perfect seventh, eighth and ninth innings.
Nathan converted his 23rd consecutive save opportunity and 26th this season.
The Rangers continually jumped on Price's first-pitch fastballs over the plate.
"He was pitch-efficient," Rays manager Joe Maddon said of Price." "They were swinging early, so he was not throwing a lot of pitches.
"He might have caught too much of the middle of the plate. There are strikes a pitcher wants to throw and pitches a hitter wants to hit."
The Rays entered with the AL's best road record (35-27) and took an early lead.
An error led to two unearned runs for the Rays in the first inning.
B.J. Upton reached base on a fielding miscue by Andrus at short, who then dropped a potential double play relay on the next hitter, Ben Zobrist, who reached by a fielder's choice.
Evan Longoria, who was 2 for 4, then took a 3-2 pitch deep off the left-field foul pole for a home run.


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Cmdr. George Dickens, a Seymour, Tennessee native, is currently forward deployed to Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti, located in the Horn of Africa where he serves as the deputy director for plans and training for Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa. Camp Lemonnier is an operational installation that enables U.S., allied and partner nation forces to be where and when they are needed to ensure security in Europe, Africa and Southwest Asia.


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The term “sonata” supports only the most vague definition. It is probably a multi-movement work for one or more solo instruments – except when it is in a single movement, or for orchestra, or includes a vocal part. “Sonata form” is the structure of musical drama in which tonal centers (and often thematic groups) are presented in conflict, developed, and then reconciled; it is sometimes called “sonata-allegro form” or “first-movement form” (though it can be used for slow movements and finales).
Janácek was a nationalist who chafed under Austro-German cultural and political domination. Though he studied in Leipzig and Vienna, he had little use for the classically hallowed sonata in any sense. This Sonata is his only work in the genre that survives intact, and it cost him a great effort. (Two earlier violin sonatas are lost, as is a piano sonata. He destroyed the last movement of the piano sonata “From the Street, October 1, 1905” – and tried to eliminate the whole thing.)
“I wrote the Violin Sonata in 1914 at the beginning of the war when we were expecting the Russians in Moravia,” the composer wrote in 1922. Like many of his compatriots, Janácek regarded the Russians as potential Slavic liberators, and he responded not only with this work, but also with the dramatic orchestral suite Taras Bulba. The Sonata is built around its second movement, the Ballada, which he had composed earlier. Everything around it changed through at least three versions before the Sonata received its premiere in 1922.
The music in the first movement, however, suggests the impressionistic Orientalisms of Debussy more than anything Russian, with pianism from Chopin. After an introductory cadenza for the violin, the exposition is repeated literally – usually a statement of pure sonata form intentions. But Janácek’s non-traditional sense of tonal hierarchy and skittish motivic development make it a sonata form more implied than fulfilled.
The languid Ballada has the Sonata’s most directed sense of a “tune,” sounding in places like a folksong with strummed accompaniment. The following movement – basically a slow scherzo – is also folklike, though more dance than song. The finale is an impassioned Adagio that crests in a majestic chorale sung high on the violin’s lowest string under tremolo chords from the piano.
John Henken is the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association’s Director of Publications.


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Denny’s Corp. (DENN) Stock Price Down 3%
Denny’s Corp. (NASDAQ:DENN) shares were down 3% during mid-day trading on Tuesday . The stock traded as low as $11.24 and last traded at $11.32, with a volume of 152,651 shares changing hands. The stock had previously closed at $11.67.
Several research analysts recently issued reports on DENN shares. Zacks Investment Research cut Denny’s Corp. from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a research report on Monday, July 4th. Nomura Holdings Inc. initiated coverage on Denny’s Corp. in a research report on Wednesday, April 20th. They issued a “neutral” rating and a $11.00 price objective on the stock. Stephens reissued an “overweight” rating and issued a $12.00 price objective on shares of Denny’s Corp. in a research report on Thursday, May 5th. Finally, Wedbush boosted their price objective on Denny’s Corp. from $13.00 to $14.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a research report on Tuesday, May 3rd. Three equities research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and three have issued a buy rating to the company’s stock. The stock currently has a consensus rating of “Buy” and a consensus price target of $12.40.
The firm has a market cap of $865.58 million and a price-to-earnings ratio of 25.10. The firm has a 50-day moving average of $10.99 and a 200-day moving average of $10.30.
Denny’s Corp. (NASDAQ:DENN) last issued its quarterly earnings results on Monday, May 2nd. The company reported $0.12 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.11 by $0.01. During the same period in the previous year, the company posted $0.10 earnings per share. The business had revenue of $124.64 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $122.93 million. The business’s revenue for the quarter was up 3.7% on a year-over-year basis. Equities analysts expect that Denny’s Corp. will post $0.51 EPS for the current year.
In other news, VP Stephen C. Dunn sold 12,500 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction on Friday, June 17th. The shares were sold at an average price of $10.81, for a total transaction of $135,125.00. Following the sale, the vice president now directly owns 94,197 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $1,018,269.57. The sale was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available through this link.
Several large investors recently made changes to their positions in DENN. California State Teachers Retirement System raised its stake in shares of Denny’s Corp. by 1.6% in the fourth quarter. California State Teachers Retirement System now owns 156,334 shares of the company’s stock worth $1,537,000 after buying an additional 2,454 shares during the period. Deere & Co. raised its stake in shares of Denny’s Corp. by 13.9% in the fourth quarter. Deere & Co. now owns 218,237 shares of the company’s stock worth $2,145,000 after buying an additional 26,665 shares during the period. Russell Frank Co raised its stake in shares of Denny’s Corp. by 21.0% in the fourth quarter. Russell Frank Co now owns 229,624 shares of the company’s stock worth $2,294,000 after buying an additional 39,924 shares during the period. Finally, Dimensional Fund Advisors LP raised its stake in shares of Denny’s Corp. by 11.8% in the fourth quarter. Dimensional Fund Advisors LP now owns 1,899,991 shares of the company’s stock worth $18,677,000 after buying an additional 200,576 shares during the period.
Denny’s Corporation (Denny’s) is a franchised full-service restaurant chain. The Company, through its wholly owned subsidiary, Denny’s, Inc, owns and operates the Denny’s brand. Its other wholly owned subsidiaries include DFO, LLC and Denny’s Realty, LLC. The Denny’s brand consisted of approximately 1,702 franchised, licensed and the Company operated restaurants around the world, including over 1,596 restaurants in the United States and over 106 international locations.
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Microsoft has posted a video of its 'Windows Phone Photo Speed Challenge' which offers $100 to iPhone and other smartphone owners who can upload a photo to Facebook faster than Windows Phone.
We challenged folks to take a picture and load it to Facebook faster than Windows Phone. And we put $100 on the line because we believe Windows Phone is simply faster. See who won.
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