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The Mothers of the Movement took to the stage at the Democratic National Convention to talk about their children. They were the Black Lives Matter mothers of Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, Sandra Bland, and others who all died due to gun violence orÂ at the hands of police officers.
Now more than a dozen Broadway stars are taking to the stage, rallying in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. A special concertÂ will take place at Columbia University in New York City (Aug. 1, 2016 at 8 p.m.). A group of Broadway community arts activists, called the Broadway for Black Lives Matter Collective, says that they are responding to the call for action that they felt by presenting a night of unity and solidarity through artistic expression and conversation.
According to a statement from the Broadway for Black Lives Matter Collective, “an overwhelming number of friends and colleagues in the Broadway community have expressed a deep desire to participate in an open dialogue about the social and racial justice issues that are troubling our nation. The event will bring Broadway performers together with policy reformers, educators, clergymen, public officials, and community leaders to discuss a plan of action. The evening will spark conversation and encourage people to discover their roles as active participants in a movement toward positive change.â€
Playbill.com reports that guest appearances include six-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald, four-time Grammy Award winner India.Arie, Tony Award winners Billy Porter (Shuffle Along, Kinky Boots), Jeanine Tesori (Artistic Director of NYCC) & Tony Kushner (Angels of America). Danielle Brooks (The Color Purple), Rebecca Naomi Jones (Hedwig & The Angry Inch, Passing Strange), Professor Kendall Thomas (Columbia Law School), Joshua Henry (Shuffle Along), Camille A. Brown (A Streetcar Named Desire), Professor Frank Roberts (NYU), Daniel Beaty, Daniel J. Watts (Hamilton), The Broadway Inspirational Voices, & New York City Center’s cast of THE RUNAWAYS.
Broadway Black, a digital platform dedicated to highlighting the achievements of black theatre artists, will live-stream the event, which can be watched on its website. Follow @BroadwayBlack #BWAY4BLM to join in the conversation. Playbill.com will also share exclusive coverage in conjunction with the event.
Last month, Broadway Black hosted The Blackout Party in conjunction with the Tony Awards to highlight and celebrate the achievements of Black BroadwayÂ artistsÂ of the 2015-2016 season. “With over seven decades dedicated to recognizing the best talent on Broadway, black performers, production crews, and creative staff have a loyal and engaged following that respect and admire their talent and voice.”

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Axis IV: in this axis, my educational and occupational problems kicked in. I started to care less about my homework, being on time to school. Most of the time I would just go straight to the ocean until it’s about 10:00 pm. I liked to be alone with my thoughts. I enjoyed the beach waves and it was relaxing.
This year the weather and sea state was good, allowing more swimmers to make it to the finish line at Hemingway’s Restaurant on the eastern shore. We were needed by two swimmers this year. They all seem to come aboard with disappointment and resignation and we bring water and a towel and whatever else we have to offer them. Finding a place to sit, they settle in to wait for the end of the race, when our boat won’t be needed on the water anymore and we can take them to the marina where their supporters wait to console and offer solace to them.
High Tides and the Hostetter 's, Plus One If you ask anyone, they will tell you that my family is obsessed with the beach. This is not true, we just really like to get our quarterly intake of Vitamin Sea. We normally go to the beach for Fall Break, Spring Break, and Summer Break. There are many different places we like to go, and have many wonderful stories from all of them.
Memoir #1 It was late afternoon, around four or five o’clock, when my sister, Ashley, my cousin, Abby, and I began packing up to head back to our beach house from the beach. The air was still warm and the sun was still luminous in the sky. Every year my family has rented the same exact beach house in Bethany Beach, Delaware. It is a fairly large house directly across the street from the beach; the most treacherous part of the walk being the mountainous dunes.
Along the coast, the waves smashed against the sandy beaches as I drove down the road. I soon would arrive at my hidden destination, and the shocking taste of salty air danced on my tastebuds. I turned the corner in my car, and I could see that the dirt parking lot was was nearly empty. Once I parked, I began to hike to the top of the hill which seemed to be miles high. After a long, sweaty hike, I reached the top, and was mesmerized by the astonishing view!
Christian is extremely stressful and grueling. We are working at the school and at home. I never really notice, but I and my fellow classmates are always extremely tired. Short breaks that last one or two weeks do not fix the tiredness and stress that builds up throughout the school year. The long two-month summer break is the break we need for a stress-free, relaxing, and above all free vacation.
Here's an important thing to know about hammocks: they are not all created equal. The classic image of a relaxing summer day spent with cool lemonade in hand, gently swaying all your cares away on your hammock, quickly goes away if you aren't in the right one. I know everyone thinks that a classic rope hammock is the way to go, but I have discovered that there's a better way. In 1999 I spent my summer traveling on the Oregon coast for six weeks.
There is something special about tossing a line in the water, kicking your feet back, blasting the radio to your favorite tunes, and leaving all of your worries behind. It is an indescribable feeling. Come summer time, that is exactly what I look forward to the most: living easy, living simply, living in the moment with a fishing pole in my hand. Most of my summers were spent in Ocean City, Maryland, arguably one of the filthiest and grungiest beaches I have ever set foot on. However, this place held a special place in my heart as it was where my father first taught me how to fish.
My friends and I drove down to the beach a day later than my parents, so when we arrived there my parents were already there. We went to the beaches in Stone Harbor and Avalon, to go surfing. I had never been surfing and neither had one of my friends, however my other friend was a pretty good surfer, he had surfed for most of his life and was willing to teach us in the art of surfing. When we reached the beach it was after five in the evening and the lifeguards had left and we were ready to start surfing. We rushed into the water right when we stepped on the beach, the water was only a little bit colder than the water in my pool that and swam out to the small rough waves.
I ran to the shoreline and felt the water lap against my legs. I took off my shoes and waded into the water. My family joined soon after and we just floated leisurely around for hours. The waves finally came to a halt, and I discovered this was low tide. It was the perfect moment to seek out the good shells and find sand dollars.
Georgia’s spontaneous climate changes Georgia, as we all know, isn’t the most ideal place to live if you enjoy a constant climate year round. In Georgia you have the luxury of enjoying all four seasons in one twenty- four hour time span. Only a few other places such as Alabama, Tennessee, and other southern states experience these irregular weather patterns. Summer time in Georgia is perhaps the most persistent when it comes to the climate; it’s always hot like an oven when it’s being used to cook cookies for your child’s birthday party. Being outside for just a few minutes will leave you feeling like an obese individual after running a marathon.
As part of the unesco (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) I took great care in preserving the Great Barrier reef for many more generations to enjoy, with being the year 2050 none of us knew how much longer the reef could last. This would be the first time in many years that I go see the reef. After suiting up in a wetsuit i was euphoric to get into the water and explore. The boat set out and after a short time I was in the water.
The variations of squats and lunges, combined with the various types of sets had me struggling to walk after the workout was over, and for 2 days to follow. If you are concerned that the workouts will not be effective, I don 't think that you have anything to worry about. I enjoyed them all. The only big problem that I had with them is that the warm-up and cool-down are too short. This is common with all Beachbody programs.
If I could pick where I would want to go back for a day I would have no problem deciding. It would be the Dominican Republic because I miss the crystal clear water and sun beating down on on me. What I miss the most is snorkeling in the water and seeing all the different kinds of fish. There were several ugly and pretty fish. My dad, mom and sister went there for our Christmas in 2014.

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Located within a 5-minute walk of Finca Naturales Wildlife Refuge, Los Altos Resort Private Reserve and Beach is within a 15-minute stroll of ADR Adventure Park. This 4.5-star condo resort has 26 guestrooms and offers conveniences like free breakfast, a full-service spa, and a private beach. In the mountains, the condo resort is also close to Manuel Antonio National Park and Mid World Tour Office.
Free full breakfast is included with your stay and awaits you each morning from 6:30 AM to 10 AM. Sit down for a leisurely bite to eat at the onsite restaurant, or enjoy a drink at the bar/lounge. Satisfy your hunger from the comfort of your room with room service.
The 26 air-conditioned condos feature kitchens, 2 bathrooms, and balconies. There's space to spread out with 3 bedrooms, living rooms, and dining areas. Guests can expect free WiFi and 42-inch LCD TVs with cable channels. Beds are dressed in Egyptian cotton sheets and down comforters, and bathrooms offer free toiletries. Minibars, coffee makers, and safes are also standard.
Guests of Los Altos Resort Private Reserve and Beach enjoy a full-service spa, an outdoor pool, and a children's pool. You can take advantage of free parking, along with an airport shuttle (available on request) for CRC 89000 per vehicle roundtrip. Multilingual staff at the front desk are standing by 24/7 to help with dry cleaning/laundry, concierge services, and luggage storage. Other amenities at this beach condominium resort include a fitness center, free WiFi in public areas, and a meeting room.

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The Millennial generation is too big to ignore and is expected to surpass the Boomers as the nation’s largest generation in 2019, according to the Pew Research Center. The sheer size of this younger population (73 million) has economists closely watching spending habits as predictors for the overall economy.
One trend at play is delaying home ownership despite earnings that are substantially more than previous generations at this juncture of their lives — late 20s to mid- 30s. A recent survey by Apartment List found 90% of Millennial renters want to purchase a home, but few plan to do so in the near term.
The survey found 4.9% plan to purchase a home in the next year, while 34% expect to wait five more years. Chris Salviati, an economist with Apartment List, said the biggest hurdle to homeownership by Millennials is affordability as cited by 72% of the respondents.
Salviati said home prices have risen faster than incomes across the country. He said affordability is more than the purchase price of a home; it’s also having the required downpayment and disposable monthly income needed to make the monthly note.
The survey found 62% of Millennials said a lack of downpayment savings was the main reason they are delaying home purchases. Roughly half of those surveyed had zero downpayment savings, while 11% said they had saved $10,000 or more. Given the rising cost of real estate, down payments required in major metro areas like San Francisco, Seattle, Austin, Charlotte, Denver, Chicago, Phoenix or Dallas, Salviati said this demographic would need to save for two more decades to be able to make a 20% downpayment.
This report does not mention lower downpayment options for Millennials such as FHA for first-time homebuyers. The downpayment is 3.5%, and the Federal Housing Administration raised the ceiling on these loans in 2017 to reflect the rising cost of home prices in large metro areas. There are higher mortgage costs when choosing an FHA loan throughout the life of the loan, but the tradeoff is the lower downpayment.
Salviati said student debt is also keeping homeownership out of reach for many millennials. He estimates 23% of college graduates without student debt can save enough for a downpayment for a home purchase within the next five years, compared to just 12% of those who are paying off student loans. He said Millennials lacking a college education have the hardest time saving for a downpayment, estimating just 6% can do so within five years.
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York reported outstanding student loan debt in the U.S. increased by 170%, while the average debt burden of students graduating with loans increased by 70% to $34,000.
GoBankingRates recently reported the Fayetteville metro area as one of the most affordable places to live in the U.S. with a median home price of $121,000. A conventional loan could require a downpayment of $24,200, but lower downpayment options like FHA or VA loans would greatly reduce the cash outlay required for home purchases.
A U.S. Census Bureau report found homeownership rates in the Northwest Arkansas metro area decreased to 62.88% down from 66.58% in 2010. Economists say this decline in home ownership is likely attributed to Millennials postponing home purchases and older Boomers downsizing into rentals and lower maintenance housing during their retirements.
The Census report found four metros across the state showed upticks in homeownership rates between 2010 to 2017 — Paragould, El Dorado, Hope and Forrest City.

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UnionCity Condos is a new luxury condo development by Metropia Urban Design, located at Enterprise Blvd & Kennedy Rd in Markham. This master-planned community is set to offer a luxurious living experience in the heart of Unionville, featuring impressive architecture, elegant interiors, and exclusive amenities inspired by the hotel lifestyle. The development's prime location offers residents access to various transit options, educational institutions, major roads, lifestyle amenities, and more.
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Convenient Lifestyle Amenities:The Unionville area offers a wide range of lifestyle amenities that cater to both big-city conveniences and small-town charm. Residents can enjoy various dining options, shopping opportunities, and entertainment venues along Unionville's popular Main Street. CF Markville Mall, with over 140 retailers and services, is also located a short drive away from the development.
Commuter-Friendly Location:UnionCity Condos is ideal for commuters, offering convenient access to transit and major thoroughfares. Unionville GO Station is within walking distance, providing easy access to Union Station in downtown Toronto via train or bus. Additionally, residents can access VIVA, YRT, and TTC bus routes, facilitating seamless travel within the region. Motorists will appreciate the proximity to Highways 7, 407, and 404, allowing for quick connections to downtown Toronto and other parts of the Greater Toronto Area.
Family-Friendly Environment:The area around UnionCity Condos is family-friendly, making it an excellent choice for families looking to settle down. Residents will have access to high-quality schools, community centers, beautiful green spaces, the Markham PAN AM Centre, and modern medical facilities. The proximity to York University's Markham Campus also makes it a convenient option for post-secondary students seeking off-campus accommodations.
Master-Planned Community:UnionCity Condos is part of a master-planned community that aims to provide a complete living experience, blending luxury residences with lifestyle amenities, green spaces, and convenient transit options. In summary, UnionCity Condos by Metropia Urban Design is set to offer an upscale living experience in the heart of Unionville, Markham. With its luxurious design, convenient location, access to transit, and family-friendly amenities, this development aims to provide a well-rounded and sophisticated living environment for its residents.
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Welcome at the awesome promo post for A Spell in Provence by Marie Laval. It sounds like such a beautiful story that I knew I wanted to be part of this promo tour! As always, let me know in the comments what you think!
With few roots in England and having just lost her job, Amy Carter decides to give up on home and start a new life in France, spending her redundancy package turning an overgrown Provençal farmhouse, Bellefontaine, into a successful hotel.
Though she has big plans for her new home, none of them involves falling in love – least of all with Fabien Coste, the handsome but arrogant owner of a nearby château. As romance blossoms, eerie and strange happenings in Bellefontaine hint at a dark mystery of the Provençal countryside which dates back many centuries and holds an entanglement between the ladies of Bellefontaine and the ducs de Coste at its centre. As Amy works to unravel the mystery, she begins to wonder if it may not just be her heart at risk, but her life too.
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Family activity in Circular Quay-Rocks area.
The two roosters engaged in a dancing fight symbolize strength and courage. Their beauty and confidence are highlighted with vibrant colors throughout their feathers.
Dragon is a fantastic being of immense power and mysticism and the emblem of Chinese Culture.
Celebrating Year of The Dog for Chinese New Year. These banners could be seen all over Sydney.
Eight playful rabbits practising tai chi. The rabbit is trusworthy, empathetic, friendl, sociable and relishing the company of others.
The tiger is admired for its prowess, ferocity and beauty. The tiger represents the greatest earthly power as well as protection over human life.
The snake is suspended under Sydney's Circular Quay station.
The ox is a nod to the game of Mahjong.
The three wise monkeys see no evil, hear no evil and speak no evil.
This chariot is inspired by the chariots unearthed alonside the Terracotta Warriors of Xi'an. It is meant to acknowledge China's long military history.
The rat is colorful and dynamic.
Each dog is a life size model dog donation box. People voted for their favorite dog or charity by dropping coins in the boxes.
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Potential digestion glitch: extremely fast digestion
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Has anyone else encountered a situation where they eat some foods and within a few minutes it's digested and have any details?
I don't think indigestion and the runs or nausea exist as concepts, except for an admin command, however Nappelinis and I have encountered a situation where food disappeared from our systems extremely quickly.
I believe it may have to do with eating the same types foods that have recently digested (in some fashion), as we both had been following some food plans of mine. I will be seeing if I can duplicate it further.
Edit: I just had it happen within the timeframe of creating the post. I had eaten the same 3 food types that I had previously eaten (and digested). The scenario was that in the past two days, I was eating 3 foods that maximized my skill points to 298/day. I don't know when it digested today since I was gone for 10 hours, but when I returned I was at 0.0 and no foods. I figured that was normal digestion. I then ate the same foods. 295.1 A few minutes later, 0.0. Checked with Nappelinis to see if he had any info on his situation where muffins were disappearing from his stomach then burned calories, ate the same foods again to 295.1 and posted the pre-edit information. I came back to find myself at 0.0 again.
I have now just eaten 1 different food type and 1 same foodtype which will give me at most 268.6 points and will reply if anything happens to that same foodtype.
Edit 2: I just realized that Nappelinis had started one of my food plans prior to me making more of them and I also accidentally ate different seeds twice which may have extended my digestion time somehow, since I believe he said his occurred on day two, and I had been on my food plan for about 3 days. I have not had a strange digestion disappearance in the past hour and will monitor as much as possible (limited timeframe for me in the next day or two) . If I can duplicate, then I will have to recommend not eating the full same food types that just digested, but instead, include another item just for the sake of resetting a digestion timer that would remove the entire stack of food.
Note: It looks like digestion somehow acts as a stack instead of a per item 'first in, first out' method.
Edit 3: briefly logged in again within 30 minutes. The foodtype did disappear. The new foodtype did not. (ate a different new foodtype to get some amount of points and will let these digest to be able to retest starting with a desired food plan.
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A thought comes up which the developers could better test . Would they get this behavior eating only ecoylent? As this would mean the "player" is eating only one food type and this could cause the same behavior if eaten often enough. Say eating one before the previous would be digested.
Could it be that the digestion timer is active separately for each item, and when each timer ends, it clears out the stack of foods so that additionally eaten items are cleared out by those prior timers? So if we were to eat 9 muffins and 9 sausages both eaten in rapid succession due to calorie use (mining). The full stack of muffins disappear due to the first eaten muffin leaving 9 sausages and making food imbalance make skill points per day take a nosedive. Therefore 9 more muffins are eaten to bring it back up. These disappear in a few minutes due to timer #2 clearing the stack? So in annoyance 9 more muffins are eaten. They then disappear due to timer #3. Etc.
If that's the case a workaround would be to let the last timer elapse before eating the same foodstuff. I'll work on eating the same thing to see if the above could be true.
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Some of my food is still disappearing soon after I eat it so I haven't been able to start a fresh test yet. If someone is at the point that they're willing, can someone try to reproduce it? You'll be getting 250 skill points per day in return until the issue starts. Here are two ratios, one using a skill of cooking 4, another using a skill of cooking 2.:
Start with an empty stomach if possible. Perhaps if you are feeding a teammate and they haven't eaten yet:
*Eat nothing but campfire stew and wheat porridge in a 2:1 ratio . So 2 stew : 1 porridge
This will give 2850 calories, and also give you average nutrients of C: 33.2, P: 29.5, F: 36.8, V: 37.4 with a multiplier of 1.8 and daily skill points of 250.5
*Do labor so you have to eat a lot. Eat only these foods. Ideally, on day 1, you'll have anywhere from 10:5 to 20:10 in the stomach itself. On day 2, you might have the 20:10 or more.
*On day 2 and 3 or longer: monitor your stomach to see how the food disappears. a) Does an entire stack just disappear even though you only ate example: 3 hours ago? b) Keep eating the same thing. Does this disappear quickly? Once you can confirm this is happening, please reply. Also, you'll need to switch to eating anything other than the foods that are disappearing (stew/porridge).
Don't have cooking 4 and never will? You can still help and get a 178.5 skill point rate.
*Eat a 1:1 charred meat to charred greens ratio. This will give you 24, 24, 28, 24 with a multiplier of 1.8 and as mentioned 178.5 daily skill point.
Follow same instructions as the Cooking 4 ratio.
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My original issue in a screenshot
- Stomach content was 18 Charred Sausages
- Ate 3 Huck Muffs(no Sausage eating in 1/2 rl day) (new stomach content 18 Charred Sausage + 3 Huck Muffs)
- 1-2 Ingame days later, Huck Muffs digested (left with 18 Charred Sausage, none of them were digested even though they have been in stomache much much longer)
Left side, after eating 3 Huck Muffs to balance out
Right side, shortly after digestion issue.
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Louisa Clark is an ordinary girl living an exceedingly ordinary life - steady boyfriend, close family - who has never been farther afield than her tiny village. She takes a badly needed job working for ex-Master of the Universe Will Traynor, who is wheelchair bound after an accident. Will has always lived a huge life - big deals, extreme sports, worldwide travel - and now he's pretty sure he cannot live the way he is. Will is acerbic, moody, bossy - but Lou refuses to treat him with kid gloves, and soon his happiness means more to her than she expected.
"A Journey Into the Unknown"
As dusk approaches a small Dublin suburb in the summer of 1984, mothers begin to call their children home. But on this warm evening, three children do not return from the dark and silent woods. When the police arrive, they find only one of the children, unable to recall a single detail of the previous hours.
Twenty years later, the found boy, Rob Ryan, is a detective on the Dublin Murder Squad and keeps his past a secret. But when a 12-year-old girl is found murdered in the same woods, he and Detective Cassie Maddox find themselves investigating a case chillingly similar to the previous unsolved mystery.
"Very mixed feelings (semi-spoilers included)"
The modern audience hasn't had a chance to truly appreciate the unknowing dread that readers would have felt when reading Bram Stoker's original 1897 manuscript. Most modern productions employ campiness or sound effects to try to bring back that gothic tension, but we've tried something different. By returning to Stoker's original storytelling structure - a series of letters and journal entries voiced by Jonathan Harker, Dr. Van Helsing, and other characters - with an all-star cast of narrators, we've sought to recapture its originally intended horror and power.
"Gothic Horror Never Sounded So Good"
I Let You Go follows Jenna Gray as she moves to a ramshackle cottage on the remote Welsh coast, trying to escape the memory of the car accident that plays again and again in her mind and desperate to heal from the loss of her child and the rest of her painful past. At the same time, the novel tracks the pair of Bristol police investigators trying to get to the bottom of this hit-and-run.
"finally a good book"
The Roman Republic was the most remarkable state in history. What began as a small community of peasants camped among marshes and hills ended up ruling the known world. Rubicon paints a vivid portrait of the Republic at the climax of its greatness - the same greatness which would herald the catastrophe of its fall. It is a story of incomparable drama.
"Connects the Dots and Fills In the Gaps"
Kell is one of the last Travelers - magicians with a rare, coveted ability to travel between parallel universes. As such, he can choose where he lands. There's Grey London, dirty and boring, without any magic, ruled by a mad King George. Then there's Red London, where life and magic are revered, and the Maresh Dynasty presides over a flourishing empire. There's White London, ruled by whoever has murdered their way to the throne.
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After a long and eventful life, Allan Karlsson ends up in a nursing home, believing it to be his last stop. The only problem is that he's still in good health, and in one day, he turns 100. A big celebration is in the works, but Allan really isn't interested (and he'd like a bit more control over his vodka consumption). So he decides to escape. He climbs out the window in his slippers and embarks on a hilarious and entirely unexpected journey, involving, among other surprises, a suitcase stuffed with cash.
Friedrich Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil, first published in 1886, presents a scathing critique of traditional morality and attacks previous philosophers for their blind acceptance of Christian ideals of virtue. As an alternative to what he viewed as the illogical and irrelevant philosophy of the nineteenth century, Nietzsche argues for the importance of imagination, self-assertion, danger, and originality for genuine philosophy.
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This engaging and accessible book invites the listener to explore the questions and arguments of philosophy through the work of 100 of the greatest thinkers within the Western intellectual tradition - covering philosophical, scientific, political, and religious thought over a period of 2500 years.
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In this Hugo-winner from Connie Willis, when too many jumps back to 1940 leave 21st century Oxford history student Ned Henry exhausted, a relaxing trip to Victorian England seems the perfect solution. But complexities like recalcitrant rowboats, missing cats, and love at first sight make Ned's holiday anything but restful - to say nothing of the way hideous pieces of Victorian art can jeopardize the entire course of history.
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Following a scalding row with her mother, 15-year-old Holly Sykes slams the door on her old life. But Holly is no typical teenage runaway: A sensitive child once contacted by voices she knew only as "the radio people," Holly is a lightning rod for psychic phenomena. Now, as she wanders deeper into the English countryside, visions and coincidences reorder her reality until they assume the aura of a nightmare brought to life.
"I hated and loved it!"
Acclaimed best-selling author Peter F. Hamilton has taken the science fiction world by storm with his stunning, grand-scale epic: The Reality Dysfunction, The Neutronium Alchemist, and The Naked God. Now, with this collection of six stories and a short novel, Hamilton spans more than five centuries in the future history of bitek, affinity genes, Edenists, Adamists, xenocs, the Saldanas, and the starship Lady Macbeth.
"Great background for Night's Dawn series"
First published in 1930, Civilization and Its Discontents is one of the most influential works of pioneering psychologist Sigmund Freud. Focusing on the tension between the primitive drives of the individual and the demands of civilization for order and conformity, Freud draws upon his psychoanalytic theories to explain the fundamental structures, conflicts, and consequences of society.
Spies, codes, and guerrillas played unprecedentedly critical roles in the Second World War, exploited by every nation in the struggle to gain secret knowledge of its foes, and to sow havoc behind the fronts. In The Secret War, Max Hastings presents a worldwide cast of characters and some extraordinary sagas of intelligence and resistance, to create a new perspective on the greatest conflict in history.
"a very comprehensive history of secret warfare."
The evolution of the Arab empire is one of the supreme narratives of ancient history, a story dazzlingly rich in drama, character, and achievement. In this exciting and sweeping history - the third in his trilogy of books on the ancient world - Tom Holland describes how the Arabs emerged to carve out a stupefyingly vast dominion in a matter of decades, overcoming seemingly insuperable odds to create an imperial civilization.
"Great Book with a Misleading Title"
The object of this audiobook is to introduce listeners to a whole range of military history which has all the drama, dangers, horrors and excitement that we associate with Stalingrad or the Somme. Battles are acute moments of history whenever and wherever they have been fought. Through them we can understand how warfare and world history have evolved. Choosing just 100 battles from recorded human history is a challenge.
C.J. Sansom's Matthew Shardlake mysteries whisk listeners back in time to the tumultuous court of King Henry VIII. Shardlake has his hands full this time defending a young religious fanatic who has been thrown into Bedlam. On top of that, Shardlake's friend is murdered, and the quest to find the killer leads Shardlake right to the steps of the king's latest romantic conquest, Catherine Parr.
High in his attic bedroom, 12-year-old David mourns the loss of his mother. He is angry and he is alone, with only the books on his shelf for company.But those books have begun to whisper to him in the darkness, and as he takes refuge in the myths and fairytales so beloved of his dead mother, he finds that the real world and the fantasy world have begun to meld. The Crooked Man has come, with his mocking smile and his enigmatic words: "Welcome, your majesty. All hail the new king."
"For Those Who Enjoy Playing with Fairytales"
The Evolution of Everything is about bottom-up order and its enemy, the top-down twitch - the endless fascination human beings have with design rather than evolution, with direction rather than emergence. Drawing on anecdotes from science, economics, history, politics, and philosophy, Matt Ridley's wide-ranging, highly opinionated opus demolishes conventional assumptions that major scientific and social imperatives are dictated by those on high.


A modeled object is a dissymmetric structure consisting of embedded cylinders, parallelepipeds, spheres. So objects with sophisticated parameters and arbitrary distribution of activity can be modeled: with surface (internal and external), volume distribution etc.
The built-in set of patterns in EffMaker simplifies the creation of complex geometrical objects with nonuniform activity distribution. The following patterns are included:
- a truncated cone, with one-layer or two-layer walls;
- an empty or filled tube, open sidelong test tube with internal or external surface contamination;
- cylinder, profile, top or bottom view, with one layer of the source;
- a box for the air tubes modeling with external contamination, activity can be distributed in internal or external layers;
- spherical objects with internal contamination like pipe closers
- angle bar and double tee with random orientation, with the contaminated surface;
- circular and rectangular plates.
The main functions:
- fine adjustment of relative position of the detector and the object, including the option of the detector placing inside the object;
- calculation of spectrum and detection efficiency for the selected geometry;
- batch calculation of detection efficiency for different detectors and objects;
- energy spectrum calculation using energy grid or by setting of activities of radionuclides taking into account the decay chain;
- radionuclides database on the basis of ENSDF compatible with Nuclide Master;
- the database of cross-sections of interaction of gamma rays with matter for setting of arbitrary material of the object;
- the database with models and calculation results;
- integration of calculation results with SpectraLine software package.


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Singapore has embraced mediation as an alternative dispute resolution method, including recent amendments to law and proposed process enhancements for the mediation of employment claims and telecommunications and media disputes. Organisations should consider updating their contracts and equipping key representatives with mediation skill sets to stay current and prepared for the growing wave of mediation referrals.
Mediation of Telecommunication and Media Disputes
In February 2017, the Telecommunications Act was amended to establish an alternative dispute resolution scheme for the telecommunication and media industries. This was followed in January 2018 by the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) announcing that it would be proposing to mandate a two-stage mediation and adjudication scheme for the resolution of disputes with telecommunication and media service providers (the Scheme).
IMDA’s current proposal is for the Scheme to apply to individual customers and small businesses and to service providers that have a direct billing relationship with consumers in respect of disputes relating to service agreements, billing arrangements, or incurrence of one-off charges with the service providers. IMDA’s consultation closed on 21 March 2018 and received 14 responses from various parties, including the Consumer Association of Singapore, M1 Limited, and Singapore Telecommunications Limited. We are of the view that mediation of such quantifiable disputes is likely to be approved and that the Scheme will be put forth for approval within the year.

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What knives are legal in Holland?
Owning and trading in all knives from the range of Knifestore.nl are permitted under Dutch law. This means that you can buy and own these items. However, you should not carry these knives with you always and everywhere.
Are pocket knives legal in Europe?
A folding knife with a blade no longer than 3”/76 mm long and without a blade locking system and opening aids is permitted without justification. Larger knives or other types of knives may be carried but only for a justified reason.
Is it legal to carry a knife in Holland?
As of 2011, Dutch Law prohibits ownership or possession of the following knives: … throwing knives. folding knives with more than one cutting edge. folding knives with an overall length of more than 28 cm (11 in) when deployed.
Can I carry a knife?
Carry – Like the laws in NSW and Victoria, you can’t carry a knife in public unless you have a “reasonable excuse”.
Can you carry a knife for self defense?
While it’s entirely legal to carry a pocket knife for self-defense, using it recklessly is illegal, and can lead to serious legal problems. As such, you should avoid drawing and using the knife unless it is absolutely necessary.
Should I carry a pocket knife?
Having a pocket knife with you can save your life if an accident occurs. You can cut through material to bandage a wound or slice through a seatbelt to pull a person from wreckage. In the worst-case scenario, you can cauterize a wound by heating up your blade.
Can you have a knife in your car?
If the police believe you are illegally carrying a weapon, they can search you and your car without a warrant. If they find a weapon they can take it from you. You can’t carry knives, batons, flick knives, daggers, butterfly knives or knuckle knives.
Can you carry a knife while hiking in Europe?
But you don’t know laws and regulations in Europe and you’re a law-abiding person. So can you take your knife with you? Yes, you can. … It is not possible to travel from California to New York with any kind of knife without violating a law or regulation in some place along the way.
Can I carry a pocket knife in Italy?
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You are not allowed to carry any knife at all WITHOUT a justified reason: you are collecting mooshrooms , you are fishing, etc… Also bear in mind that our obtuse and idiotic laws distinguish between carry and transportation . Carry is very restricted. You Can carry multitool.
What self-defense weapons are legal in Netherlands?
Besides the military, nobody in the Netherlands can shoot or own an automatic weapon. The only exceptions for gun ownership include the police (for self-defense), hunters, and target shooters, although many restrictions exist. > Dutch gun laws are strict.
Why is a butterfly knife illegal?
Why Are Butterfly Knives Illegal? Butterfly knives are illegal in many places because of their potential for use as a threatening weapon. … Some states classify butterfly knives as switchblades, daggers, or gravity knives, making them illegal to possess in those areas.


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Options for Removing Sand Deposited by Floods
Once waters receded following the March 2019 floods, many Nebraskans found sand and sediment deposited on their fields and properties. Landowners can consider a number of options for sand removal, according to the Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality.
Can I push the sand back into the river?
Potentially, sand can be pushed back into the river. Those who are interested in this option need to apply for – and receive – a permit from the United States Army Corps of Engineers. This permit is a general regional permit for flood-related work and is called RGP-11-02-WEH.
To apply for this permit, call (402) 896-0896, or see the box for a link to more information and the application form. The permit may have conditions that are location-specific, including:
- The amount of sand that can be pushed to the river per day
- If sand can only be pushed into flowing water
- Endangered species restrictions
- If the sediment must return to the stream it came from
- The time of year
- Restrictions on pushing trees, large debris, fencing, white goods and/or trash into the stream.
What are other options for sand?
Farmers and landowners may be able to work the sand into their soil. If there is too much sand for this option, the following issues should be considered relating to the disposal or reuse of sand:
Sand that is contaminated with fecal matter, oil, or other chemical products should be disposed of in a municipal solid waste landfill.
Uncontaminated sand may also be disposed of in a municipal solid waste landfill or in a construction and demolition landfill.
NDEQ maintains lists of these types of landfills on its website at http://deq.ne.gov/NDEQProg.nsf/FacilityListView.xsp. Contact the facility nearest you for disposal costs or other requirements.
Potential areas of reuse of sand include:
- Municipal solid waste landfills use soil to cover the waste on a daily basis. Contact the nearest municipal solid waste landfill to determine if they will accept the sand for use as daily cover.
- Erosion repair
- At dairy operations for bedding
- Road repair and new roadbed construction
- For fracking projects
- Having stockpiles for future use in winter on roads
- Other land improvements and developing opportunities.
Sand used for these purposes should not involve direct human contact such as use in children's play areas or residential gardening. The sand should be free of other materials such as flood debris, trash, or other wastes. Those materials should be disposed of in a municipal landfill.
Contact local government or other contractors that routinely use soil as a fill material. These entities include construction contractors, county and city road departments, and landscaping businesses.
Another resource for potential reuse of sand is your local Emergency Manager.
For more information on responding to flood damage, see
Storm Recovery and Flooding in Nebraska: Environmental Guidance, an information resource from the Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality.
Flood.unl.edu, a resource from Nebraska Extension with information for people, businesses, and agriculture. For answers to individual questions, email email@example.com to contact a university expert.


President Donald Trump has warned that federal officers deployed in Portland may have to resort to “something very powerful” if the violence in that city is not quelled.
“If it doesn’t clean up we’re going to have to do something very powerful…We have no choice,” Trump said, adding that “left-wing extremists have spread mayhem throughout the streets of different cities.”
The president made the comments during a meeting with leaders of the National Association of Police Organizations (NAPO) at the White House on Friday. NAPO had endorsed Trump’s reelection campaign earlier this month.
Calling the Portland protesters “absolute anarchists, in many cases professionals,” Trump warned that federal officers could respond with “very strong offensive force” if necessary, but simultaneously complained that they have not been “allowed to be offensive, unfortunately,” up to this point.
Trump’s remarks come a day after he called the Portland protesters “professional agitators,” and a “beehive of terrorists,” and threatened to deploy the National Guard unless Mayor Ted Wheeler and Governor Brown did not get a hold of the situation.
On Thursday, Brown announced that federal forces were preparing to leave the city. However, on Friday morning, acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf contradicted her statement, and said that federal police would stay put until local authorities and local law enforcement proved themselves “effective” against protesters “night after night.”
Portland and other major cities across the United States have faced over two months of anti-racism and anti-police violence protests following the death of an unarmed African American man in police custody in Minneapolis, Minnesota in late May. While most of the protests have remained generally peaceful, some have degenerated into rioting, looting, arson, and attacks on small business owners or passerby. Protesters have also engaged in heavy clashes with police in some areas, with at least 30 people killed in the violence.


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Kjetil Aas, ex-head of design for menswear at Norse Projects, has launched his own brand Armoire D’Homme for autumn 13.
Showing at Gallery, it is a purer imagining of his aesthetic than his work for his former employer. The highlights
are the superb shirting, great 100% merino knits (the lightweight bomber style being particularly successful) and a natty mac with a removable contrast-quilted insert that is perfectly suited to the UK’s changeable weather.
Wholesale prices start from €10 to €205 (£9 to £178).
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In a major authorized improvement, a Michigan decide on Tuesday dismissed a problem geared toward stopping former President Donald Trump from showing on the state’s poll for the 2024 presidential election.
This ruling got here as a response to a lawsuit filed by a gaggle of Michigan voters in September, NBC Information reported.
Critics argued that Trump’s actions in attempting to overturn the 2020 election outcomes and his function within the occasions of January 6, 2021, violated the 14th Modification of the U.S. Structure, allegedly disqualifying him from holding workplace.
“The Fourteenth Modification arguments of plaintiffs current a political query that’s nonjusticiable at the moment,” Choose James Robert Redford famous in his ruling.
Choose Redford additionally tated that below Michigan legislation, Democrat Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson lacks the authority to intervene in a main election if a political social gathering opts to record a candidate who could not qualify for the workplace.
“The final word choice is made by the respective political social gathering, with the consent of the listed candidate,” the decide mentioned.
Ron Fein, the lawyer for the petitioners and authorized director of Free Speech For Individuals, expressed his intention to enchantment the choice.
“Whereas our enchantment is pending, the trial courtroom’s choice isn’t binding on every other courtroom, and we proceed our present and deliberate authorized actions in different states to implement Part 3 of the Fourteenth Modification in opposition to Donald Trump,” Fein mentioned.
This ruling in Michigan mirrors a current choice by the Minnesota Supreme Courtroom, which additionally dismissed an identical effort to maintain Trump off the state’s main poll in 2024.
Minnesota’s excessive courtroom held a listening to final Thursday on whether or not Trump could possibly be blocked from the 2024 poll.
8 Minnesota voters filed a lawsuit citing the 14th Modification to maintain Trump off the poll. A leftist lawyer appeared earlier than the Minnesota Supreme Courtroom final Thursday to argue the state has the authority to dam Trump from the 2024 poll.
The authorized theories are primarily based on Part 3 of the US Structure’s 14th Modification which states public officers who’ve “engaged in revolt or rebel in opposition to” the US could also be disqualified from public workplace.
Trump has not been charged with participating in revolt or rebel in opposition to the USA.
5 of the Minnesota Justices, 4 of whom are Democrats, appeared skeptical that states can determine whether or not Trump can seem on the 2024 poll.
Two of the justices recused themselves from the case.


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To get my green fix in I made this for our front door. If you have a Michaels or a JoAnns fabric grab a 40% any one item coupon out of the newspaper or online. They take each others coupons so if you find one or the other use that. It's just a cardboard letter and then I hot glued a sheet of green moss (buy it in the wreath section at either store). Then I just tacked it on a nail to the door. Looks great from the street and gives you a peek of green to get you through the next month. Probably cost around $15 and took about 15 minutes to finish. Lovez it.
If you don't feel like making one I can do it for you or you can buy one from Pottery Barn... $79xtax+shipping. I love the way they accented the white door in the photo below.


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The Morrison Government’s $18.4 million Regional Employment Trials (RET) program is helping job seekers in Townsville find meaningful work.
Minister for Employment, Skills, Small and Family Business, Senator the Hon Michaelia Cash, said RET is another way the Government is actively addressing the needs of regional Australia and creating more job opportunities for locals.
“The North Queensland Together We’re Stronger project aims to support local unemployed people with a focus on employment in the aged care sector,” Minister Cash said.
“The project aims to increase the pool of job-ready people to work in the local aged care industry.”
Member for Herbert Phillip Thompson said the project will help develop and retain individuals who are the right fit for the aged care sector.
“I’m committed to making sure job opportunities are available for the people of Townsville and providing practical and tailored assistance to those job seekers who need it,” said Mr Thompson.
“This is exactly the type of support people in the region need.”
The North Queensland Together We’re Stronger project received over $150,000 in Federal Government funding and aims to assist 175 unemployed participants.
The project in Townsville – which is also running in Mt Isa – is supported by Aged and Community Services Australia and an Australian Government funded North Queensland Employment Facilitator who works directly with stakeholders to assist employers and job seekers.
Through RET, $1 million is available in each of the 10 selected regions, providing grants of between $7,500 and $200,000 to support employment related projects that meet local needs.
The RET regions are:
- Northern Inland RDA region, NSW
- Far South Coast RDA region, NSW
- Melbourne (Western Melbourne/North Western Melbourne Employment Regions only), VIC
- Gippsland RDA region, VIC
- Townsville and North West (Townsville Employment Region only), QLD
- Wide Bay Burnett RDA region, QLD
- Murraylands and Riverland RDA region, SA
- Yorke and Mid North Region RDA region, SA
- Peel RDA region, WA
- Tasmania (North and North West Tasmania Employment Region only), TAS
For more information visit: www.employment.gov.au/ret


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The LaPhene "Don" Harris papers consist of his diaries of boat trips, as well as a dairy written by Mary Beckwith, in which Harris was a boatmen on the journey to Glen Canyon. Also included are two interviews by Roy Webb and Gary Topping and Linda Thatcher. Don "River Rat" Harris gained his Civil Engineering degree at U.S.U. and has been piloting boats down the Colorado as a commercial guide since 1938, starting Harris-Brennan River Expeditions (one of the first three commercial river companies) with Jack Brennan shorty thereafter. Harris also spent 33 years working with Federal employment, working with the U.S. Geological Survey and the Bureau of Reclamation -- first in River Control, then in Project Development. Harris has also worked closely with Quality of Water studies.
The Mary Armstrong Milligan papers (1882-2009) contain journal excerpts, correspondence, a handbook, and scrapbooks dealing with Milligan's involvement in river rafting in the Western United States. Milligan was a participant in the South Cottonwood Ward organization (SOCOTWA), a semi-private river outfitter that began after World War II.
The Norman D. and Doris Nevills papers (1890s-1952) constitute one of the finest and most comprehensive collections of original research materials on the history of travel on the Colorado and Green Rivers and their tributaries. Included are correspondence, diaries, logs, subject files, news clippings, and business records. Norman Nevills (1909-1949), supported by his wife Doris, was one of the pioneers of commercial river running.


Cash says Rays will likely stick with four-man rotation in 2018.
It’s very unconventional. Almost an “old school approach to a MLB rotation. It was announced by Rays skipper, Kevin Cash today, that beyond the originally planned four-man rotation through mid-May they just may stick with it indefinitely.
“It goes back over to the different looks to the lineups,” Cash said. “If we have a core group of guys who are capable of three, four-inning outings then we’re gonna shorten their looks and bring another guy in. We’re gonna try to take first six weeks and have a better idea.”
— The Scrum Sports (@TheScrumSports) March 7, 2018
The starting four will be RHP Chris Archer, LHP Blake Snell, RHP Jake Faria, and RHP Nathan Eovaldi – in no official order as of yet. Archer will get the Opening Day nod. Beyond that – it’s anyone’s guess.
Gomez gets a start
Newly signed RF Carlos Gomez makes his spring training debut today against the Orioles in Port Charlotte.
“It’s pretty impressive what he’s done since he’s gotten here,” Cash said. “He’s already pretty acclimated to the clubhouse. Definitely excited to see him play.”
Gomez is also looking forward to getting back to work with his new team.
“I was looking for a job,” he said this week. “It’s a challenge. They (Rays) have a lot of young guys. I like to help.”
Second base still up for grabs
With INF Ryan Schimpf traded off to the Braves, it makes the competition at second base a bit tighter. Micah Johnson, who has gotten reps in the outfield more lately, will get some extra looks at second going forward. Johnson has had quite the start to the spring both in the field and at the plate. He’s hitting .333/.467/.500 in six games.
Beckham, Orioles head to Port Charlotte
Former Ray, Tim Beckham, and the Baltimore Orioles are in town today. Snell makes his third start of the spring having gone two innings in each of his first two.
Cash’s lineup today against RHP Mike Wright, Jr. will be:
First pitch is slated for 1:05 from Charlotte Sports Park.
- No luck of the Irish needed for Bruins as they shut out Bolts March 17, 2018
- Bucs add Curry, Jensen and part ways with Ayers. March 17, 2018
- WrestleMania 34 card, WM 35 location and rumored Main Event, SummerSlam moving?, Jerry Lawler’s son assaulted!? March 17, 2018
- The very unconventional rotation is set for Opening Day for the Rays March 15, 2018
- Bucs 2018 free agency looks to focus on defense. March 14, 2018
- Column: Drafting The Bucs 2018: OT March 14, 2018
- Miller’s hat trick not enough as Ottawa bests Tampa Bay March 13, 2018
- Shane McMahon makes two major Wrestlemania announcements March 13, 2018
- Bucs bring back Barber on one year deal March 13, 2018
- Kurt Angle has his hands full. Cena’s challenge. Ultimate Deletion set! March 13, 2018


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Dental Health Insurance: The Basics
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What is dental health insurance?
Dental health insurance is a contract between you as a patient and the dental insurance plan you choose. Dental health benefit plans vary widely because each involves a negotiated contract between you or your employer, the dentist providing the care, a dental insurance carrier and sometimes an administrator responsible for processing and payment of claims. Your dentist as provider has little impact on the assignment of benefits in your plan.
How are health insurance benefits determined?
Dental benefits plans are designed several ways. You should know how your plan is designed, since this can significantly affect the plan's coverage and your out-of-pocket expense. Although the individual features of plans might differ somewhat, the most common designs can be grouped into the following categories:
- Direct reimbursement programs reimburse patients a pre-determined percentage of the total dollar amount spent on dental care, regardless of treatment category. This method typically does not exclude coverage based on the type of treatment needed, allows patients to go to the dentist of their choice, and provides incentive for the patient to work with the dentist toward healthy and economically fair solutions.
- "Usual, Customary and Reasonable" (UCR) programs varies between contracted provider to contracted provider. Each dentist may have their own individual agreement with the insurance plan. A UCR usually allow patients to go to the dentist of their choice. These plans pay a set percentage of the dentist's fee or the plan administrator's "reasonable" or "customary" fee limit, whichever is less. These limits might or might not accurately reflect the fees that area dentists charge. There are wide variations and lack of government regulation on how a plan determines the "customary" fee level.
- Table or Schedule of Allowance programs determine a list of covered services with an assigned dollar amount. That dollar amount represents just how much the plan will pay for those services that are covered, regardless of the fee charged by the dentist. The difference between the allowed charge and the dentist’s fee is billed to the patient.
- Capitation programs pay contracted dentists a fixed amount per enrolled family or patient. In return, the dentists agree to provide specific types of treatment to the patients at no charge. (For some treatments there might be a patient co-payment.) The capitation premium that is paid might differ greatly from the amount the plan provides for the patient's actual dental care.
What are dental plans limitations?
To control dental treatment costs, most plans limit the amount of care you can receive in a given year. This is done by placing a dollar cap – usually referred to as the “plan maximum benefit” -- or limit on the amount of benefits you can receive, or by restricting the number or type of services that are covered. Some plans might totally exclude certain services or treatment to lower costs. And some plans have services only offered once in a lifetime. Find out specifically what services your plan covers and excludes.
There are, however, certain limitations and exclusions in most dental benefits plans that are designed to keep dentistry's costs from going up without penalizing the patient. All plans exclude experimental procedures and services not performed by or under the supervision of a dentist, but there might be some less obvious exclusions. Sometimes dental coverage and health insurance might overlap. Read and understand the conditions of your dental plan. Exclusions in your dental plan might be covered by your medical insurance.
Think about choosing a plan that imposes dollar or service limitations, rather than one that excludes categories of service. By doing so, you can receive the care that's best for you and actively work with your dentist in the development of treatment plans that give the most and highest quality care.
To help you stretch each dental benefit dollar, most plans provide patients and purchasers with special administrative services. Find out if your plan provides the following mechanisms to help you budget, analyze, and dispute, if necessary, the costs of your dental care:
- Predetermination of costs: Some plans encourage you or your dentist to submit a treatment proposal to the plan administrator before receiving treatment. After review, the plan administrator might determine the patient's eligibility, the eligibility period, services covered, the patient's required co-payment, and the maximum limitation. Some plans require pre-determination for treatment exceeding a specified dollar amount. This process is also known as pre-authorization, pre-treatment review or pre-treatment estimate (as with all insurance, this estimate is not a guarantee of payment).
- Annual benefits limitations: To help contain costs, your plan might limit your benefits by number of procedures and/or dollar amount in a given year. In most cases, particularly if you've been getting regular preventive care, these limitations allow for adequate coverage. By knowing in advance what and how much your plan allows, you and your dentist can plan treatment that will minimize your out-of-pocket expenses while maximizing compensation offered by your benefits plan.
- Peer review for dispute resolution: Many plans provide a peer review mechanism through which disputes between third parties, patients and dentists can be resolved, eliminating many costly court cases. Peer review is established to ensure fairness, individual case consideration, and a thorough examination of records, treatment procedures and results. Most disputes can be resolved satisfactorily for all parties.
- Premium adjustments and re-evaluations: Patients and plan purchasers should insist on regular reviews of premium levels to ensure that UCR or Table of Allowances payment schedules are equitable. This analysis can help optimize your benefit levels, ensuring that every dollar you spend is used wisely.
- Coordination of benefits: If you are covered under two dental benefits plans, notify the administrator or carrier of your primary plan about your dual coverage status. Plan benefits coordination can help protect your rights and maximize your entitled benefits. In some cases, you might be assured full coverage where plan benefits overlap, and receive a benefit from one plan where the other plan lists an exclusion.
What key features of a dental health plan should I look for?
In reviewing and comparing health plans, consider the following when determining whether the coverage will satisfy your dental care needs:
- Does the plan give you the freedom to choose your own dentist or are you restricted to a panel of dentists selected by the insurance company? If restricted to a panel, is your dentist on this panel?
- Who controls treatment decisions – you and your dentist or the dental plan? Some plans might require dentists to follow the "least expensive alternative treatment approach."
- Does the plan cover diagnostic, preventive and emergency services? If so, to what extent? What are the specific intervals for prevention and diagnostic treatment (such as cleaning, full-mouth X-rays, exams)?
- What routine treatment is covered by the dental plan? What share of the cost will be yours?
- What major dental care is covered by the plan? What percentage of these costs will you be required to pay?
- What are the plan’s limitations (a limit to the benefits for a procedure or the number of times a procedure will be covered) and exclusions (denied coverage for certain procedures)?
- Will the plan allow referrals to dental specialists? Will my dentist and I be able to choose the specialist?
- Can you see the dentist when you need to and schedule appointment times convenient for you?
- Who is eligible for coverage under the plan and when does coverage go into effect?
- Are there any defined waiting periods before the dental insurance will pay out benefits for minor and routine procedures as well as major procedures?
- What are the specific intervals for major dental procedures such as crowns, fixed partial dentures, removable partial/full dentures?
- Are there any pre-existing clauses with reference to treatment otherwise covered?
Your dentist can’t answer specific questions about your dental benefit or predict what your level of coverage for a particular procedure will be. Each plan and its coverage varies according to the contracts negotiated. If you have questions about coverage, contact your employer’s benefits department, your dental health plan or the third-party payer of your health plan.
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In 2015, Access and EngageMedia bring the international conference on human rights challenges in technology to the region.
Earlier this month EngageMedia was at the third RightsCon event held in San Francisco by Access. RightsCon is the premier summit bringing together civil society, engineers, activists, lawyers, companies, and governments on the subject of the internet and human rights. It is the only conference dedicated to exploring the role of the private sector and civil society in human rights and digital technologies.
We are excited to announce that EngageMedia and Access will host RightsCon Southeast Asia in March 2015 to bring together thought leaders, highlight emerging voices, engage the technology sector, host strategy and implementation sessions, and provide opportunities to showcase new initiatives. Once again, we’ll organize unique roundtables that allow the private sector, government decision-makers, civil society, activists, and academics to meet face-to-face.
As the world is going online, so too is the rights discourse: the rights to information, expression, association, health, and education are all facilitated by digital tools. At the same time, we face stark revelations regarding state and corporate surveillance and centralization, and increasingly challenging issues of jurisdiction, governance, and accountability.
WHY SOUTHEAST ASIA?
Southeast Asia’s 600 million people are coming online rapidly, often with limited scrutiny of business and government activities, or participation from civil society. Countries like Indonesia are amongst the highest social media users anywhere in the world, making use of emerging technologies to champion human rights and other causes. From the Philippines to Malaysia to Burma, activists are making innovative use of online technologies, and also often placing themselves at risk in the process.
South-East Asia has a growing number of technology and media organisations engaging with internet rights issues, from developing homegrown open source technologies to pushing back on surveillance and filtering. Many South-East Asian governments are simultaneously engaging in censorship, surveillance and attacks on online freedom of expression including the arrest and detention of bloggers and journalists and filtering of content.
Located in this rapidly evolving technology and civil society space, RightsCon Southeast Asia will:
- Provide an opportunity for Southeast Asia civil society actors in the technology and media space to establish and deepen their networks in this field, creating opportunities for collaboration.
- Bring companies face-to-face with frontline actors to facilitate conversations between corporate representatives (including engineers) and some of their users. These conversations help ensure that products and services more readily meet the unique needs of at-risk users, who are often not the primary demographic for which they have been designed.
- Provide companies with principled and pragmatic guidance on implementing human rights in policy and practice. The RightsCon approach focuses conversations on what companies are actually being asked to do, and how they can limit liability and maximize rights-respecting use of their technologies.
- Highlight emerging threats, opportunities, and new thinking, allowing participants to learn more about advances in the quickly changing discourse around human rights and technology, discuss and share lessons and experiences, consider new perspectives on thorny issues, and have the information they need to better prepare for and mitigate upcoming challenges.
- Build strategies and partnerships across stakeholder groups, providing an opportunity to discuss the future of the space within a group of participants with a relatively high level of assumed knowledge, allowing for the creation of strategic coalitions on identified issues. We will further link communities in a format that promotes collaboration and coalition-building within and across stakeholder groups.
We hope you will join us there!


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VANCOUVER, British Columbia, June 29, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Asante Gold Corporation (CSE:ASE | GSE:ASG | FRANKFURT:1A9 | U.S.OTC:ASGOF) ("Asante" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that further to its application for a secondary listing by introduction on the Main Market of the Ghana Stock Exchange (the "GSE"), the Company has received final approval from the Ghana Securities and Exchange Commission and the Ghana Stock Exchange to commence trading.
Trading will commence under the symbol "ASG' at the opening on June 29, 2022.
A copy of the *Prospectus "SECONDARY LISTING BY INTRODUCTION ON THE GHANA STOCK EXCHANGE OF EXISTING 315,007,462 COMMON SHARES OF ASANTE GOLD CORPORATION" is available on the Company's website indicated below.
|Price on CSE(as at date on day of Listing)||CAD$1.58|
|Initial Listing Price on GSE1||GHS 8.87|
|Number of Ordinary Shares listed by Introduction2||315,007,462|
|Market capitalization at Listing Price (CAD$)||497,711,780|
|Market capitalization at Listing Price (GHS)||2,793,158,565|
1. Based on exchange rate of price on CSE at CAD$ 1.00 = GHS 5.6120 as at June 28, 2022 (Bank of Ghana)
2. Number of shares outstanding as at May 31, 2022, the date of the prospectus.
Douglas MacQuarrie, Non–Executive Chairman stated, "It is with a great sense of "having arrived' that Asante is now listed on Ghana's premier stock exchange, one of the best performing stock exchanges in Africa in 2021. This listing complements our listings in Canada and in Germany and provides our Ghanaian shareholders, and potential new investors, the opportunity to invest and trade their shares locally in Ghana."
Asante's CEO, Dave Anthony, added, "Asante has significant ownership by both private Ghanaian investors and Ghanaian institutions, and the Company is excited to be able to offer Ghana's investment community and all interested investors the opportunity to participate in our growth as we work to achieve our vision of becoming a Tier–1 gold producer in West Africa."
Black Star Advisors Limited and Black Star Brokerage Limited acted as Arranger and Sponsoring Broker respectively to Asante in respect of the Listing on the Ghana Stock Exchange.
About Asante Gold Corporation
Asante is a gold exploration, development, and operating company with a high–quality portfolio of projects in Ghana. Asante is currently focused on closing the acquisition of the Chirano Gold Mine from Kinross Gold Corporation and developing to production its Bibiani and Kubi Gold mines located on the prolific Bibiani and Ashanti Gold Belts. Asante has an experienced and skilled team of mine finders, builders and operators, with extensive experience in Ghana.
Asante is listed on the Canadian Securities Exchange, the Ghana Stock Exchange and quoted on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. Asante is also exploring its Keyhole, Fahiakoba and Betenase projects for new discoveries, all adjoining or along strike of major gold mines near the centre of Ghana's Golden Triangle. Additional information is available on the Company's website at www.asantegold.com.
About the Bibiani Gold Mine
The Bibiani Gold Mine is a historically significant Ghanaian gold mine situated in the Western North region of Ghana. Bibiani has previous production of +4Moz, is fully permitted with available mining and processing infrastructure on site consisting of a 3 million tonne per annum mill and processing plant.
The Current Mineral Resource Estimate for Bibiani, effective as of November 7, 2021, as set out in the Technical Report titled "Technical Report on the Bibiani Gold Mine, Ghana", prepared by Ian M. Glacken (FAusIMM (CP), FAIG, CEng) of Optiro Pty Limited and assisted by Dan Bansah (MSc, MAusIMM (CP), FWAIMM, MGIG) of Minecon Resources and Services Ltd. as Qualified Person and filed on SEDAR, is Measured and Indicated for the Bibiani main pit and the Satellite pits at 20.8 million tonnes at 2.71 grams of gold per tonne for 1.81 Moz of gold; and Inferred 8.41 million tonnes at 2.78 grams of gold per tonne for 0.753 Moz of gold. The Mineral Resource has been reported above a 0.65 g/t gold cut–off and has been depleted for both historical open pit and underground development as of August 31, 2017. The Technical Report was prepared using accepted industry practices in accordance with the JORC Code (JORC, 2012). There are no material differences between the definitions of Measured, Indicated and Inferred Mineral Resources under the CIM Definition Standards and the equivalent definitions in the JORC Code. The Satellite pit resource is an update completed in 2018 by Resolute Mining Limited, the former owner of the Bibiani Gold Mine. The Satellite pit resource is also reported above a cut–off grade of 0.65 g/t gold inside a pit shell defined at a gold price of US$1,950. Mineral resources that are not mineral reserves do not have demonstrated economic viability.
About the Chirano Gold Mine
Chirano is an operating open–pit and underground mining operation located in southwestern Ghana, immediately south of the Company's Bibiani Gold Mine. Chirano was first explored and developed in 1996 and began production in October 2005. The mine comprises the Akwaaba, Suraw, Akoti South, Akoti North, Akoti Extended, Paboase, Tano, Obra South, Obra, Sariehu and Mamnao open pits and the Akwaaba and Paboase underground mines. Gold Equivalent Production in 2021 was 154,668 oz on a 100% basis (source Kinross Gold Corporation).
For further information please contact:
Dave Anthony, President & CEO: firstname.lastname@example.org
Malik Easah, Executive Director: email@example.com
Frederick Attakumah, Executive Vice President: firstname.lastname@example.org
Alec Rowlands, Capital Markets Consultant, email@example.com
Valentina Gvozdeva, Manager IR, firstname.lastname@example.org
Kirsti Mattson, Media Relations, email@example.com
Cautionary Statement on Forward–Looking Statements
This news release contains forward–looking statements. Forward–looking statements involve risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results, performance, prospects, and opportunities to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward–looking statements, including statements regarding the structure and terms of the Chirano Acquisition, timing for completion of the Chirano Acquisition, the ability of the Company to complete the Chirano Acquisition on the terms announced, the ability of the parties to satisfy all administrative matters required in order to consummate the Chirano Acquisition, anticipated synergies, the resources, reserves, exploration results, and development program at Chirano, Bibiani and Kubi, including timing of future mine development and the start of production. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from these forward–looking statements include, but are not limited to, the inability to satisfy any condition required to complete the Chirano Acquisition, termination of the share purchase agreement, variations in the nature, quality and quantity of any mineral deposits that may be located, the Company's inability to obtain any necessary permits, consents or authorizations required for its planned activities, and the Company's inability to raise the necessary capital or to be fully able to implement its business strategies. The reader is referred to the Company's public disclosure record which is available on SEDAR (www.sedar.com). Although the Company believes that the assumptions and factors used in preparing the forward–looking statements are reasonable, undue reliance should not be placed on these statements, which only apply as of the date of this news release, and no assurance can be given that such events will occur in the disclosed time frames or at all. Except as required by securities laws and the policies of the Canadian Securities Exchange, the Company disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward–looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
LEI Number: 529900F9PV1G9S5YD446. Neither IIROC nor any stock exchange or other securities regulatory authority accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
GLOBENEWSWIRE (Distribution ID 8581074)


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The many voices are taking over the mono-voice. For fuck’s sake, let them.
~Lidia Yuknavitch, December 2015, speaking at AULA
I was raised under the prism of an American myth.
My father taught me what it meant to be American. He was an officer in the United States Navy, and his mission took us to nine different military bases over the course of my childhood, from Guam to San Francisco to Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan. The Navy shaped my childhood, from the cross-global moves when my father received orders, to the everyday rituals of life on base. The national anthem played before every movie in the base theater. On the screen, rockets tore into space and tanks rumbled and uniformed fathers kissed their babies, while everyone in the theater stood at attention. If I happened to be outside at twilight, I knew to place my hand over my heart and freeze while the sound of a lonely trumpet rang out taps as the shadows fell. My mother timed her life around the ironing of my father’s uniforms. My father wore the stars and stripes of military insignia over his heart.
My father believed that, with the Constitution as our guide, the United States had achieved an apex of liberty and possibility for everyone. He taught me about freedom of speech, freedom of the press, the right to assembly, and the right to dissent. Going against the grain of many of his uniformed peers, he scorned the phrase, “Love it or leave it,” and defended flag-burning as a form of protected speech. It’s possible that his opinions even cost him promotions. To my father, free speech, including dissent, was essential to liberty. Dissent nipped at the heels of the nation, urging her to be her best self. When my father put his life on the line, the right to criticize the country and its leaders was among the most precious of the privileges he bound himself to protect. It took me a long time to understand that the Constitution is a kind of narrative, broadened or limited by the scope of the imaginations of those who wield the power to interpret it; that American liberty is an open-ended conversation.
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In 1989, my father received orders to Oakland Army Base. We were housed in Ft. Mason in San Francisco, in a circle of standard base-housing duplexes nestled between the Marina District and Ghirardelli Square. I was fifteen and had the freedom to explore the city. My high school was in the Haight, and I rode the bus everywhere, spent hours with friends in cafes in the Mission and the Castro, in Green Apple Bookstore on Clement Street. The city was the opposite of the regimented cloister of a military base, where uniforms are worn and the buildings all look the same. In San Francisco, there were many voices, a multiplicitous community. Sitting with friends in Cafe Macondo, the “communist cafe” at 16th and Guerrero in the Mission District, years before the Silicon Valley invasion, I was exposed to critiques of American capitalism that upended everything. The Horatio Alger worldview that permeated my father’s teachings gave way to a story where institutionalized privilege and oppression were as undeniable as the homeless camps in front of San Francisco City Hall.
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When they wrote that all men are created equal, the writers of the Declaration of Independence were, of course, limited in their vision. They used the word “men” not as a careless euphemism for personhood but as an exclusive category, a tight box that only had room for white, male property owners. In contrast, my father taught me that the concepts of liberty and equality have the capacity to exponentially expand, to embrace a continually widening definition of human rights. This idea of an ever-expanding potential allowed me to reconcile my father’s patriotism with the systems of institutionalized oppression I began to recognize all around me as a young woman in San Francisco. The tenuous thread that held together these two worldviews was the hope that our governing documents still contained possibility, that America was a painful work in progress. But the possibility of liberty for all depends upon the narrative itself. It depends on who is telling the story.
Now, with the election of Donald Trump, the concepts of free speech, free press, and dissent—my own tenuous links to faith in American democracy—are punctured and deflate beneath me. Were they ever really there? Was this particularly American concept of freedom ever more substantial than myth, than air?
I step into another country.
* * *
Donald Trump won the electoral college vote, in effect becoming the future 45th President of the United States. Feelings of panic and suffocation are now my baseline. Trump’s potential for destruction is too long to list here. The facile tweets and repugnant appointments, the shameless harassment of women, immigrants and religious minorities, the blustering and the fanning of racist, misogynist, and xenophobic hatred and intolerance—all are, horrifically, becoming normal. At this moment in our history, like the breaking of a dam, Trump and his cronies are releasing an actual and threatened torrential assault on our liberties.
I wrote the first draft of this essay on December 8, 2016, a full month after Election Day, and the President-elect had yet to hold a press conference. As I revise this essay, he has announced that he won’t be holding a press conference until after the inauguration. (And given his capricious nature, I would add, if then.) He refuses to communicate with the press in an open forum. During his campaign, Trump banned and/or revoked press credentials from several major news outlets, including the Washington Post. He has repeatedly slammed the exercise of free speech, from his tweeted assault on the cast of Hamilton to his threat to revoke the citizenship of anyone who burns the American flag. His sickening repudiation of American liberty marches on.
Trump’s open disdain for the press, for freedom of speech and dissent, is unprecedented. As writers, we are called to attention by it. This is about narrative control. Without press access to the Executive Branch of our government, the national narrative becomes shrouded and mystified. The narrative becomes, in effect, propaganda.
Propaganda is the narrative weaponized. To use Lidia Yuknavitch’s term, the mono-voice wields the story.
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I don’t see my father much these days. Although he’s no longer active duty, he continues to work overseas as a full-time contractor for the Navy. He visits twice a year to spend time with my children, his grandkids. I don’t know who my Dad voted for in this election, or if he voted at all. He has a history of abstaining when he doesn’t like either candidate. I have to admit that’s what I’m hoping for this time. However, in the days after the election, when my Facebook feed became a wail of anger, fear, and shame, my father commented, mildly, that he thought it might be good to have a businessman in office. I wrote back that I fundamentally disagreed with him about the man who’d been elected, and that I would continue to exercise my right to free speech, including dissent, just like a wise man taught me, a long time ago.
The winter holidays are approaching and I’ll be seeing my father soon. I wonder what he’ll have to say, whether we’ll find common ground about what it means to love this country. The importance of our being able to speak to one another across potential differences of opinion feels more urgent than ever. My father taught me what it meant to be an American. Now I wonder if we are living in the same country.
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I was raised under the prism of an American myth. My post-election panic and suffocation are the symptoms of the fracturing of the myth, the myth of an America passed down to me by my father.
I’m okay, even relieved, for the myth to finally shatter. I had meant to break myself of it long ago, but like a strong opiate, it asserted its will, keeping me silent and still. It’s time for a re-definition of this country, a time to break the illusion of a false equality. If nothing else, this election breaks the myth irrevocably.
A year ago at the Antioch University Los Angeles MFA residency, writer and activist Lidia Yuknavitch warned us: “If you shut out the other voices available to the story, you are performing a colonialist act.” This December, the MFA community came together again, under very different political circumstances, and found the need to speak our truth(s) is more urgent than ever. We must refuse the colonization of our American voice(s). As writers, we must not allow the incoming administration to control the narrative, to silence us. There is work to be done.
To fortify myself, I imagine the multiplicity of voices: bits of light against the nightscape falling over our country. The LGBTQ America. The feminist America. The America where Black Lives Matter. The Muslim America. Native America. The America that belongs to immigrants. The America where immigrants belong.
Dissent runs like lifeblood through the history of this nation, generations of voices and bodies who put themselves on the line to increase the capacity of American freedom, who insisted upon their right to be included in the notion of a people created equal.
The mono-voice says, this is not your country.
But we will refuse to stand still and remain silent while taps sounds a death knell over our democracy.
Our American narrative is not calcified. It remains fluid, open to definition. As long as we can speak it—write it—it remains ours to describe. We, the many voices, will continue to stretch this country to its fullest and most beautiful, inclusive capacity. You don’t need to wear a uniform to love your country, to know that your freedom is on the line.
I’ll be the daughter of a true believer standing in the dark with her hand over her heart. I’ll stand with my fellow writers and activists. Our voices, our words, are our greatest tools of dissent. Now is the time to pick them up and hold them high. We’ll make a new anthem, together.
Melissa Benton Barker is an MFA candidate at Antioch University Los Angeles. A Navy brat and native of nowhere, she currently lives in a small Midwestern town where she spends her time imagining stories, wandering in the woods, and raising children-sometimes simultaneously! Her work appears or is forthcoming in the Manifest-station, Smokelong Quarterly, and Literary Mama. She serves as Lead Fiction Editor at Lunch Ticket.

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MARG Energy’s Vision
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What Our Vision will Accomplish
Placing emphasis on the current realm of industry’s pollution belching smokestacks seems to be the best way to express the environmental concerns we desire to conquer. After uniquely observing the overall growth in industry without concern for environmental impact, MARG Energy seeks to address squelching these emissions while also converting them into valuable revenue-generating needs for the human race.
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FlexPay.io's invoice was created primarily with our clients in mind. An invoice that was much easier to understand, with one simply look.
Invoices are generated and uploaded into the FlexPay platform each week, refer to the article Finding Your Invoice in FlexPay to learn how to access your invoice. The billing week is a seven day period spanning from Sunday to Saturday.
Below is a PDF version of an invoice. This version of a invoice can be sent as an attachment when sending a Client their invoice email.
This section of the invoice outlines
- The invoice number - internal number generated for the invoice
- The billing date - date the invoice was generated
- FlexPay's contact information - ways to contact FlexPay
The invoice summary reflects the following:
- Current recovery fees - fees associated with the billing period
- Rebate - a rebate of fees for a portion of declines typically recovered by the client
- Subtotal - billable amount owed
- GST/PST - taxes (if applicable)
- New charges - billable amount after rebates and taxes (if applicable)
- Due date - date invoice must be paid
Invoice Details reflects:
- Currency - the country dollar value
- Value - the currency conversion value used to calculate the various currencies
- Gross recovery - all amounts recovered by FlexPay, (chargebacks and refunds included)
- Chargebacks - an amount refunded back to the customer by the issuing bank
- Refunds - the amount of repayment issued back to customers
- Net recovery - amounts recovered by FlexPay (chargebacks and refunds excluded)
- Fees - the amount charged for the recovery period
- Home currency fees - same amount as the recovery fees
How we calculate your fees
FlexPay charges a 25% flat rate on the net recovery amount per billing period which gives us your billing fees for the recoveries. Net recovery excludes chargebacks and refunds.
Example: $18,822.98 (net recovery amt) X 25% (flat rate) = $4,705.75 (recovery fees)
How it works
FlexPay's estimated recovery rate is 35% of all your declines. Therefore, we determine what FlexPay's portion of recovery will be by subtracting your baseline from our estimated recovery rate of 35%.
Example: 35 (FP recovery rate) - 21.9 (baseline) = 13.1 (FP portion or recovery)
Next, we divide FlexPay's portion of recovery by the recovery rate of 35% (when estimating) which will gives us the proportion of declines FlexPay is responsible for recovering.
Example: 13.1 / 35 = 0.37428 (37.4%) of the recovery.
That number is then multiplied by the fees, and gives us your sub-total (what is actually owed).
Example: 0.37428 (37.4%) * $4,705.75 = $1,761.295 (sub-total amount)
Whilst we estimate our recovery to be 35%, the results do vary - sometimes we will recover more than 35%, sometimes lower. To keep things fair, we provide a true-up that allows us to (after 3 months) look back on the recoveries we've generated and see how we've performed. If we've generated less than 35% recovery, you'll be due a credit on your account. If we've generated more than 35%, you'll owe FlexPay a small amount.

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