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Vodafone UK plans to sell its Hungarian business for nearly HUF 715 billion, or about US$1.8 billion, according to recent reports. In one of the countries of Central Europe
UK Mobile and Broadband Group recently announced that it has agreed non-binding terms with Hungarian buyers 4iG and state-owned Corvinus Zrt. In addition, the deal does not include Vodafone’s VOIS subscription business, which will soon become Hungary’s second largest telecom operator.
“The Hungarian government has a clear strategy to create a national champion in the (information and communication technology) sector that belongs to Hungary,” Vodafone chief executive Nick Reid said in a statement. In addition, the overall sale is said to be completed by the end of 2022. Vodafone’s overall strategy has been under scrutiny since January, when it emerged that Cevian Capital, Europe’s largest activist investor, had taken part in an effort to streamline the group’s sprawling business and sell inferior businesses. As mentioned, the merger of 4iG and Vodafone Hungary will create the second largest mobile and fixed-line operator in the Central European country, making it a strong competitor of Magyar Telekom, a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom.
According to the Financial Times, 4iG plays a key role in plans to increase penetration in the telecommunications industry. Last year, the company announced that it wants to create a telecommunications provider that properly demonstrates national interests, as well as competitive market services.
If you have read so far, hope you have fair information about the sale of Hungary’s Vodafone trading almost $ 1.8 billion, and now you can determine if you can decide if you think something is appropriate or that’s for This company useful or not Finally, what do you think about the sale of Vodafone in Hungary? Let us know in the comments section below. For more information on such reports, please refer to other articles on our website. Thank you for your time. If you like our content, please share it with your investor friends!

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26 June 2013
Changes to whistleblowing law enacted by the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act have now come into effect.
The new legislation became effective yesterday (Tuesday 25 June 2013) and make potential whistleblowers more vulnerable.
Three changes are now in effect, as detailed below:
Whistleblowers must prove their information is ‘in the public interest’
Whistleblowers will now need to prove that the disclosure they make is in the public interest, and that it falls into one of the six categories of public disclosure accepted by the law: information relating to a criminal offence, a breach of legal obligation, a miscarriage of justice, risk to the health and safety of an individual, damage to the environment, or the deliberate concealment of information.
Senior lecturer at the University of East London’s School of Law and Social Sciences Catherine Hobby warned in the Institute of Employment Rights’ free resource on the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act that this change is likely to “generate considerable uncertainty, as the test further exposes a claimant to the dangers of restrictive judicial interpretation that often fails to act in accordance with the spirit of PIDA”.
Compensation reduced for disclosures not made ‘in good faith’
The ‘good faith’ test, which was previously a condition upon which public disclosure claims could be made, has been moved to the ‘remedies’ section of the law. This means that if a tribunal judges a claim not to have been in made purely in the public interest then compensation for victimisation or unfair dismissal can be reduced by up to 25%.
This is an improvement on the law, but the Institute of Employment Rights does not feel it has gone far enough. Catherine Hobby argues that “the focus should be on the value of the information disclosed and not the motive of the whistleblower … If a tribunal allows employers to challenge the motives of the messenger then important warnings of wrongdoing may be lost”.
Whistleblowers are now protected from harassment by co-workers
Employers are now vicariously liable for the harassment of whistleblowers by coworkers or any agents of the employer.
Click here to buy Catherine Hobby’s book on whistleblowing – now just £5!
Click here to read Catherine Hobby’s response to the latest public consultation on the effects of the new laws
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WTI and Brent used to trade closer, but prices have diverged over the past few years
The spread between West Texas Intermediate (and WTI) and Brent crude represents the difference between two crude benchmarks. WTI represents the price oil producers receive in the U.S. and Brent represents the prices received internationally. The two crude oils share a similar quality. However, off late, the prices have differed greatly between the two crudes because the recent production surge in the U.S. caused a buildup of crude oil inventories at Cushing, Oklahoma, where WTI is priced. This created a supply and demand imbalance at the hub, causing WTI to trade lower than Brent.
WTI-Brent widened last week
The WTI-Brent spread closed at $7.85 per barrel on Thursday, July 31, compared to $6.3 per barrel at the prior week’s close. The spread widened despite a crude oil inventory level decrease that was more than the analysts’ expectations
Both grades of crude fell last week. But WTI decreased more due to:
- A fire in a Kansas refinery, causing the refinery to shut down and therefore threaten crude demand
- A strong dollar, making dollar-priced oil commodities more expensive for foreign currency holders and thereby reducing demand
- An increase in gasoline stockpiles, also causing WTI to trade lower
A wider spread causes domestic oil producers like Chesapeake (CHK), Concho Resources (CXO), Range Resources (RRC), and Oasis Petroleum (OAS) to realize lower prices on oil compared to international producers. Most of these companies are components of the Energy Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLE).
The increased transportation capacity from Cushing to demand centers like refineries on the Gulf Coast is bullish for WTI crude oil prices.
Also, as you saw in the previous part of this series, stocks at Cushing continue to decrease. Since the beginning of 2014, weekly crude inventory at Cushing, Oklahoma, has fallen from 40.7 million barrels to 17.9 million barrels for the week ending July 25. This could bring WTI and Brent prices closer together.
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Sheriff Grey, Lieutenant Abbot and Mayor Charles Corbett have a secret they have been trying to keep contained for years. A secret that would alter the balance between good and evil but all of that is about to change as the ultimate evil returns to Salem's Cove hell bent on revenge and apocalyptic destruction on a global scale.
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I don't bother writing reviews like this but I finally caught 'Return To Salem's Lot' on satellite TV last night and it hacked me off so much I figured I'd add my voice to the hordes of other victims who are screaming 'Keep away!' On any level, this movie is an insult to your intelligence. True, there are a lot of similarly insulting movies out there (and maybe some of those are even worse than this one) but what really aggravates me about Larry Cohen's diabolically sub-amateurish effort is that no-one, not Cohen, his actors or his production team, at any point seems to give a flying crap about the audience: the script is beyond childish, the performances give wood a bad rap, the visual effects... don't get me started... and why the hell does the King Vampire spend a couple of sequences made up looking like a joke-shop Yoda after he ate all the pizza?... and it's a total insult to Tobe Hooper's '79 classic which still has the power to enthral me and give me chills more than thirty years after I first saw it.
I get that other reviewers have said this film shouldn't be taken as a sequel to 'Salem's Lot' but, in that case, don't even go there with the title and certainly don't use the original's very classy Barlow graphic (and title typesetting) in the advertising! It's deception, pure and simple, and this overly long and moronically conceived and executed piece of stupidity isn't even inspired enough to keep the deception running as far as the opening title sequence. (On that note, the music might be the best part of this whole effort, and only because it sounds like a ten year old's attempt to rip off some of John Carpenter's 'Halloween' and 'The Fog' themes)
If there's anything I can say in 'Return's' favour (and believe me, I'm not proud of this) it's that I did end up watching it all the way through because I couldn't believe that there wouldn't be one small moment that might switch it around from being a complete train wreck.
Also, Larry Cohen did write the script for 'Phone Booth', which I've always thought was a very tight, economical and effective piece of work... so part of me watched 'Return' and refused to believe that he wouldn't acquit himself in some way, shape or form.
There are so many potentially brilliant film makers out there who would sell their souls to get even a small percentage of the budget that it took to make this (so-called) film... and many of those film makers will never get that chance, never get even the small theatrical exposure that this travesty received. And I'm not a particular fan of Stephen King... true, I thought the novel 'Salem's Lot' was excellent, and I enjoyed 'Misery' (but I love the Bill Goldman screen adaptation so much more than the book)... but how anyone could take such a rich vein (no pun intended) of source material and spew out something this badly written, badly acted, turgid and not even so-bad-it's-good... well, this is beyond a spectacular fail.
To paraphrase Richard Jeni's routine about watching 'Jaws 3', even if I didn't have a brain, even if I was just a spinal cord with a bucket of popcorn watching this from the sofa, even my spinal cord would be insulted.
Avoid at all costs, and don't be swayed by a few of the other reviewers claims that there's some sharp satire going on here and that a potentially cool twist on the vampire genre was let down by choppy editing and a low budget. Nothing could let this film down because Larry Cohen and his crew didn't have anything good to start with... except the legacy of a superior title, the memory of which they've staked through the heart. And that metaphor is as close to anything truly vampiric as 'Return To Salem's Lot' gets.
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Gambling involves placing a bet on the outcome of an event that may have a financial reward, such as winning a jackpot. It can be done on a number of different activities, including slot machines, horse racing, and online casinos. In addition to the potential rewards, gambling can also have positive social and community effects. These include providing a social setting, bringing people together, and fostering a sense of belonging. Moreover, some gambling events support charitable causes, which can benefit the community.
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#RajyaSabha Question #247
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF SOCIAL JUSTICE AND EMPOWERMENT RAJYA SABHA QUESTION NO 247 ANSWERED ON 11.12.2014
Action on cases referred by Madhya Pradesh
Will the Minister of SOCIAL JUSTICE AND EMPOWERMENT be pleased to satate :-
- the total number of cases wherein action has been taken by Government out of the total fourteen cases referred to the Ministry by the State Government of Madhya Pradesh during the year 2013-14?
THE MINISTER OF STATE FOR AGRICULTURE (DR. SANJEEV KUMAR BALYAN)
On 26.08.2013, the Ministry received ten proposals (5 ongoing & 5 new) from the Government of Madhya Pradesh for release of grant-in-aid to Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs) for 2013-14 under the Scheme of Assistance for Prevention of Alcoholism and Substance (Drugs) Abuse and for Social Defence Services. Subsequently, four more proposals (ongoing) under the said Scheme were received on 20.01.2014. Action has been initiated in all the fourteen cases received from the Government of Madhya Pradesh during 2013-14.
Out of nine ongoing cases, grant to the concerned NGOs have been released in respect of seven cases. The remaining two cases are under examination in the Ministry. As per the extant procedure, new proposals are processed by a Screening Committee constituted by this Ministry for scrutiny and to recommend suitable proposals for grant-in-aid. All the five new proposals received from Madhya Pradesh were placed before the Screening Committee which after due consideration recommended two proposals. The remaining three proposals were not recommended by the Committee as these were found deficient. The grant in aid in respect of two recommended proposals is being processed in the Ministry.


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MERRILLVILLE — Ethics training for public officials can help the Region overcome a “past that is not necessarily one of exemplary public service,” Thomas Kirsch, U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, told a regional ethics group Thursday.
“A commitment to ethical and lawful practices is the first line of defense in ensuring the public’s confidence in our government,” Kirsch said at the Shared Ethics Advisory Commission’s annual summit. “I can’t think of anything that erodes public trust … more than corruption of elected and appointed officials in office.”
To illustrate the point, Kirsch recalled the “extraordinarily disappointing” roster of corrupt regional officials from the recent past. Audience members groaned as he recited a list as long as it was embarrassing.
“In the last dozen or so years … the U.S. attorney’s office for the Northern District of Indiana has convicted elected officials from the Lake County recorder’s office, auditor's office, surveyor’s office, sheriff’s department, county council, several local mayors, several local councilmen, local trustees, a judge, a clerk, a city controller, a city engineer, a city parks director, and dozens of unelected officials of corruption-related offenses,” he said.
SEAC, which comprises representatives from Lake, Porter and LaPorte counties and more than 20 municipal governments, aims to combat that kind of pervasive wrongdoing with its outreach to public officials. While the group has gained prominence for its candidate ethics pledge, its day-to-day work focuses on providing training to municipal employees in an effort to promote ethical decision making.
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“Corruption is not a victimless crime — far, far from it,” he said. “Corruption hurts people and economic markets of nearly every kind. Businesses won’t come, residents flee, the crime rate goes up, and the public is worse off in nearly every way.”
That’s why taking an early intervention approach with newly elected officeholders and government employees is so important, according to Cal Bellamy, who founded SEAC in 2005. The group aims to prevent unethical behavior from deteriorating into the illegal, he said.
“We’re trying to focus on the gray areas, the early stages of doing something wrong so it doesn’t get to the criminal level,” Bellamy said. “That’s the whole philosophy of our training and our program. We’re in the business of prevention.”
Lake County’s reputation for crooked politicians notwithstanding, Kirsch said corruption cases have tapered off somewhat since Operation Lights Out, a massive federal prosecution in the 1990s that saw dozens of local officials convicted of corruption-related offenses in one fell swoop.
“I hope that means people know we’re being vigilant,” Kirsch told The Times, adding that ordinary citizens and government employees now seem “energized” to come forward with information about public corruption.
“I think that’s happening more now than 20 years ago,” he said.


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DREAM THEATER - "TRAIN OF THOUGHT" (ELEKTRA)
Progressive metal purists have given Dream Theater a lot of criticism for their latest album, "Train of Thought". Apparently it was too simple, too much straight metal, and where things went technical it was too much standard shred. Which just goes to show that you can't please everyone.
"Train of Thought" does start off rather straightforward with "As I Am". Reminiscent of "Falling Into Infinity", this is not among my favourite tracks, though obviously it's not at all bad to begin with. "This Dying Soul" is ballsyer, with some insane shredding going on. There's some bullhorn vocals which are not too much to my liking but they don't last long thankfully. The song seems to lack cohesion, especially near the end. The reference to the previous album's "The Glass Prison" was a little too blatant, too. "Endless Sacrifice" is probably the track that is most difficult to comprehend. There are some influences from "Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence" (the song), some guitar work reminiscent of Machinehead (the band) and lots of weird passages and atmosphere changes. "Honor Thy Father" has some distorted vocal parts, in fact in general this is the most vocally unconvincing song on the album. Musically it's bland in parts, only Portnoy's drumming is captivating at times. The least half of the album is wrapped up by "Vacant", which is too laid-back, too much like the soft bits on disc two of their previous albums.
The final two tracks, "Stream of Consciousness" and "In the Name of God", save the album. The former kicks off with the "Vacant" theme, but now with balls. It's a 10+ minute powerhouse with a lot of cool stuff going on. Not one of Dream Theater's finest instrumentals, but a good one nonetheless. "In the Name of God", not as spiritual as the name might imply, is a nearly 15 minute epic, in park harkening back to "Scenes from a Memory", with some truly insane keyboard/guitar shredding that could have come straight off "Liquid Tension Experiment 3".
"Train of Thought" is a very heavy CD, with more of the 'rock' and less of the refinement we've come to expect from this band. All songs (with the exception of "Vacant") are rather long, though not necessarily all-captivating.
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DetailsThe chest pockets of suits around the world are much to often lacking happy elephants. This is a well-known fact in the fashion world, yet no-one seems to do anything about it. Well, as fashion designers we want to take responsibility here. The pocket square Boccaglio purple give you a hoard of happy elephants laughing in the purple rain.
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Space communications are all the rage these days, with companies ranging from Amazon to SpaceX to AT&T eyeing services promising to connect earthlings to the internet via satellites.
But there is a debate raging in some policy circles that is even more “out there”. How is the internet supposed to work on the moon?
Already some of the largest companies in the US have something to say about it.
“The study of establishing a new article under the International Radio Regulations concerning the use of telecommunications on the moon would establish clear guidelines for all potential users of the lunar spectrum without the need to review the compatibility studies that have been developed for the use of that spectrum on Earth,” T-Mobile told the FCC in a recent filing.
The FCC – the US agency responsible for the nation’s airwaves – takes the matter seriously. Governments and companies around the world “are pursuing lunar missions, with unmanned remote exploration already underway and with human visits to the moon expected as early as 2025,” the FCC wrote. “From there, permanent bases and regular space travel (both manned and remotely operated) will be established by the end of this decade or the early 1930s. This is not speculation.”
The agency continued, “There is an urgent need to meet the communications and data transmission requirements of long-term and continuous commercial and scientific operations on and around the moon.”
Through its Artemis program, NASA intends to land the first woman and next man on the moon by 2024, followed shortly by establishing a sustained lunar presence. And to do that, he’ll need a communications network.
“LunaNet is NASA’s answer to networked communications on the moon,” wrote a NASA researcher quoted by the FCC. “The LunaNet architecture will be flexible and extensible, providing missions to the moon with necessary communications services. LunaNet was developed through NASA’s Space Communications and Navigation (SCaN) Program Office, which oversees operations, maintenance and progress of NASA’s current network operations.”
Already Lockheed Martin, a huge government contractor, has pitched its Parsec service for parts of that network. Parsec “uses a system of small satellites working in unison to enable a seamless connection between Earth and the people and resources on the lunar surface,” according to the company. “These satellites serve as an orbiting network that provides comprehensive coverage and support to meet the needs of lunar missions.”
Lockheed Martin, it’s worth noting, is also the focus of the Pentagon’s JADC2 program, which could use 5G to coordinate communications between all branches of the US military.
To be clear, some 5G players are already busy with the idea of illuminating the surface of the moon. For example, Nokia and Intuitive Machines have made clear their interest in building a private 4G network on the surface of the moon by the end of this year.
Later this year, the member states of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) will gather in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, for the upcoming World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC-23). The event brings together essentially all of the telecommunications regulators from around the world, from the FCC in the US to Ofcom in the UK to the Australian Communications and Media Authority.
During the event, regulators will work to harmonize spectrum allocations so that phones built for the US, for example, can also be used in the UK, Australia and other countries around the world. They will also discuss spectrum for 6G.
One of the many topics on the WRC-23 agenda is the global coordination of lunar communications.
“It is of the utmost importance to the success of exploration and conducting continuous operations on the moon that there is a reliable, understandable, usable and available data and communications architecture to handle the data communications and transmission services that these exploration and operations will be The timely and effective development of this architecture is essential to the advancement of lunar exploration, scientific research, and the broader commercial lunar economy,” according to the FCC.
For example, some FCC proposals include allocating the 390-405 MHz, 406-406.1 MHz, and 410-420 MHz spectrum bands for communications on the lunar surface.
Companies including Verizon and T-Mobile have offered some general comments to the FCC as part of the agency’s WRC-23 preparations.
Verizon, for example, has advocated the “development of an international regulatory framework for spectrum management as a necessary precursor to future action on lunar spectrum sharing and compatibility studies. In the absence of a clear framework for international spectrum management, we it is clear how lunar communications could be effectively implemented.
Of course, the need for fast, Netflix-ready 5G connections for the iPhone is probably decades away Stranger things fans on the moon. But there are already clear signals that a coordinated approach to lunar communications is needed. For example, the United States and South Korea recently signed an agreement to enhance cooperation on space activities, including lunar exploration. And the Japanese company ispace recently attempted, albeit unsuccessfully, to carry out the first private remote moon landing.
Mike Dano, editorial director, 5G and mobile strategies, Light Reading | @mikeddano
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Multiple-aspect scattering is increasingly used to investigate seabeds and objects, buried or not. However, high-frequency scattering processes on/in sediments need to be better understood, particularly when the structure and/or composition of these sediments is not fully homogeneous. Scaled tank experiments were conducted with a 238-kHz sonar (10° beam-width) imaging a silt seabed at 45°. Scattering angles varied between ∼16° and ∼70° (50 distinct values); bistatic angles varied 40° either side of in-plane with a 2.5° step (33 distinct values). Bottom returns were picked through two methods (automatic and manual) and converted into scattering strengths. This large dataset was compared with the APL-UW model for bistatic scattering, intended for 10-100 kHz but successfully tested at 240 and 455 kHz by other workers. Recursive fitting of model parameters to the experimental values assesses the influence of sediment variations (backed by microscope measurements) and the importance of even small tilts in the surface of the sediments. More importantly, they show the importance of the beam pattern and the sidelobes in the accurate calculation of bistatic scattering strengths. These results can be used to further validate scattering models as well as to design future surveying strategies.
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|Event||7th European Conference on Noise Control 2008, EURONOISE 2008 - Paris, France|
Duration: 28 Jun 2008 → 3 Jul 2008
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DECATUR, Ga. (AP) - Two police officers were shot in a gun battle Friday morning near the eastern edge of Atlanta, and a suspected gunman was being sought, police said.
WASHINGTON (AP) - It's now up to the Senate to pass a huge $1.1 trillion spending bill to keep the government running, but not before a battle between old school veterans and new breed freshmen such as tea partier Ted Cruz and Elizabeth Warren, a liberal with a national following.
NEW YORK (AP) - A rally on the stock market fizzled toward the end of trading as the price of oil sank.
WASHINGTON (AP) - CIA Director John Brennan defended his agency Thursday from accusations in a Senate report that it used inhumane interrogation techniques against terrorist suspects with no security benefits to the U.S.
WASHINGTON (AP) - House Republican leaders narrowly quelled a revolt among their conservatives Thursday, then worked to overcome Democratic opposition to legislation to provide $1.1 trillion in government spending and chart a new course for selected, highly shaky pension plans.
WASHINGTON (AP) - It's another political victory for the popular potato.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Nearly 20 percent of U.S. consumers with credit records - 42.9 million people - have unpaid medical debts, according to a new report by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
NEW YORK (AP) - Stocks are closing sharply slower as another plunge in the price of oil dragged down the energy sector.
BOSTON (AP) - A Harvard Business School instructor is battling a Chinese restaurant for overcharging him $4 on a takeout order.
NEW YORK (AP) - David Letterman will host his final "Late Show" next May 20.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Under pressure from Congress to speed access to U.S. skies for commercial drones, the government granted four companies permission Wednesday to use drones for aerial surveillance, construction site monitoring and oil rig flare stack inspections.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Congress is taking some whole grains off the school lunch line.
WASHINGTON (AP) - A huge, $1.1 trillion spending bill funding every corner of government faces its first test in the House, where conservatives are unhappy because it fails to challenge President Barack Obama's immigration policy and many Democrats are displeased because it weakens the 2010 Dodd-Frank regulation of risky financial instruments.
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NEW YORK (AP) - U.S. stocks are ending slightly lower, avoiding the sharp declines that occurred in Europe and China.
WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. home price gains cooled in February from the previous year for the third month in a row, as harsh winter weather and high buying costs have slowed sales.
NEW YORK (AP) - Stocks turned negative Monday afternoon, dragged down by falling technology and bank companies that snuffed out investors' excitement about a potential blockbuster pharmaceutical deal.
WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. public high schools have reached a milestone, an 80 percent graduation rate. Yet that still means 1 of every 5 students walks away without a diploma.
WASHINGTON (AP) - The federal government wants to ban sales of electronic cigarettes to minors and require approval for new products and health warning labels.
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WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld Michigan's ban on using race as a factor in college admissions despite one justice's impassioned dissent that accused the court of wanting to wish away racial inequality.
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JACKSON, Wyo. (AP) - No one can say when the mountainside collapsing into this Wyoming resort town will give way. But it appears increasingly likely that when it does, it's going to take a piece of Jackson with it.
DETROIT (AP) - General Motors waited years to recall nearly 335,000 Saturn Ions for power steering failures despite getting thousands of consumer complaints and more than 30,000 warranty repair claims, according to government documents released Saturday.
PARIS (AP) - Ten months after their capture in Syria, four French journalists crossed the border into neighboring Turkey and reached freedom Saturday, though dozens more remain held in the country's chaotic civil war.
KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) - Search teams recovered a 13th body Saturday from the snow and ice covering a dangerous climbing pass on Mount Everest, where an avalanche a day earlier swept over a group of Sherpa guides in the deadliest disaster on the world's highest peak.
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Gear Up for the Second Annual Dine-Out for ProStart Night
Support the Delaware Restaurant Association's Educational Foundation and the Delaware ProStart® Program—just by going out to dinner.
Who really ever wants to cook dinner on a Monday night? That’s why you should round up a group of family members and friends and dine out on Monday, Dec. 4, the Second Annual Dine-Out for ProStart. Support the Delaware Restaurant Association’s Educational Foundation and the Delaware ProStart® Program simply by eating at your favorite local restaurant.
Ten percent of dinner sales from over 30 local restaurants will be donated directly back to the Delaware Restaurant Association’s Educational Foundation in support of ongoing development, field trips, scholarships and classroom support for the Delaware ProStart® Program.
Check the hours of your favorite establishment, which will be participating between 4–9 p.m. or 5–10 p.m.
Participating restaurants include:
- Big Fish Grill (multiple locations)
- Big Oyster Brewery
- The Blue Hen
- Buckley’s Tavern
- Buffalo Wild Wings (multiple locations)
- Caffe Gelato
- Crooked Hammock
- Deer Park Tavern
- Dover Downs
- Grain (Newark and Bear)
- Harry’s Seafood Grill
- Henlopen City Oyster House
- McGlynn’s (all locations)
- Pizza By Elizabeths
- Sherm’s Catering
- Stanley’s Tavern
- Striper Bites
- Touch of Italy (Rehoboth and Lewes)
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HOUSTON – (By Dale King, Realty News Report) — The nation’s rental housing landscape is filled with upscale leasing opportunities designed to attract millennials to Generation Z’ers.
But finding larger multifamily dwellings for families searching for affordable and acceptable rental living is a challenge across America.
“Family renter households are a large and often forgotten segment of the American housing landscape,” says a report recently published by the Urban Land Institute’s Terwilliger Center for Housing.
The ULI report says the housing developers, after years of catering to the younger population, may finally turn its attention to the needs of families.
“Going forward, families are likely to play an even more important role in the rental housing market,” says the document drafted by a number of staff members at Washington, D.C. – based ULI, including Christopher Ptomey, executive director of the Terwilliger Center.
“Families make up one-third of American renters. But the vast majority of new apartments cater to young, childless urbanites,” says the report. “The average newly built apartment is barely more than 900 SF — with a median rent of $1,600 per month. That’s a far cry from affordable for most rental families, nearly 60% of which make less than $50,000 a year.”
“From suburban townhouses to multifamily apartments, family-oriented rental housing is starting to emerge across the country. Although rarely explicitly marketed to families, these communities offer floor plans, amenities and locations that are especially attractive to households with children.”
In addition, the report states: “These family-friendly rental options have been built in relatively small quantities during this economic cycle, despite the increasing demand. This mismatch between the supply of and the demand for family-oriented rental housing is partly attributable to barriers that stand in the way of development.”
“There are a number of reasons why this product is not yet widespread, ranging from developer resistance and unfamiliarity to regulatory obstacles and limitations. Moreover, this product is actually disappearing in many cases, as developers convert, subdivide and redevelop existing family housing into units less appealing to households with children. This dynamic highlights the risk that family renters face, as well as the opportunity to better serve these individuals.”
ULI researchers say the family demographic is poised to experience significant growth in the 2020s and beyond as more millennials have children.
Housing preferences are also shifting in a way that supports family-oriented rental development. “Together, declining homeowner rates and rising housing costs are spurring a need for – and a business opportunity to bring—new and interesting forms of rental housing that target a broader range of households, including many families.”
Familial units today “are more diverse than ever. They are no longer limited to the traditional archetype of two parents with one or more children. Single-parents and multigenerational households are becoming increasingly common, and these groups have vastly different housing needs, prompting an important question: What is family-oriented rental housing?”
“This report defines it broadly: Housing of any density with two – or ideally three – bedrooms.”
The staff at ULI and the Terwilliger Center came up with more than a dozen housing styles with amenities and accommodations particularly attractive to families with children.
The rental townhouse is an appealing alternative to home ownership, the report says. It’s designed for young families who are not ready to leave the mixed use neighborhoods in which they live, but who are starting to require additional space for children.
One example is Camden Highland Village in Houston, which offers 38 luxury townhouses, located about five miles outside of downtown between the Uptown and Greenway/Upper Kirby neighborhoods. The structures include high-end features such as custom kitchens, modern finishes, private yards and attached two-car garages. Unit sizes exceed 2,000 SF.
Other rental alternatives included in the report are:
- Suburban rental apartments, which appeal to families that need more space or more bedrooms than what is found in a more urban setting. Renters are normally those looking for a certain school district or neighborhood, and are saving money to buy a home.
- Suburban single-family rentals are typically located in suburban or exurban settings with high-performance schools. One such offering is American Homes 4 Rent at Addison in Austin. It is an enclave of 130 detached single-family rental homes in Addison, a master-planned community. Units range from 1,420 SF to more than 2,500 SF.
- Rental townhouses are common in the suburbs where they can serve as a permanent solution for households priced out of home ownership.
- Detached and attached apartments offer a variety of suburban amenities while still providing the flexibility and convenience of denser rental apartments. These homes offer features like attached garages and private yards which appeal to families.
- Urban rental apartments for families, although still uncommon, are beginning to emerge as millennials seek to maintain urban lifestyles even after having children. The main appeal is to those with insufficient cash to buy a home or those who want to lease in a maintenance-free neighborhood.
- Mixed-income and affordable housing can take any of the above forms. It generally serves those whose income is below $50,000. Affordable housing is a relatively new venture designed to provide socioeconomically disadvantaged families with the space they need at lower price points.
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Photo: Camden Highland Village townhomes in Houston’s Inner Loop offer sizable dwellings appropriate for families.
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This report investigates cases of land grabbing in Uganda, focusing in particular on oil palm plantations in Kalangala, Lake Victoria. It assesses the impacts on rural communities and on the local environment, and questions who benefits from these projects.
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The 4.3-acre home of Mellow's Nursery, one of the last working agricultural sites in Sunnyvale, has sold to office developer Spear Street Capital.
San Francisco-based Spear Street, led by President John Grassi, purchased the land at 221 N. Mathilda last week from the family trust that has owned the site for decades. We'd love to publish the purchase price, but several well-connected sources were in the dark.
Spear Street confirmed the sale to me, and in a statement added: "The Mellow family will continue to operate the orchard and nursery business at the property through early 2015, and thereafter, will relocate and continue operations in Morgan Hill. Spear Street’s intent is to develop the property as office."
Sunnyvale planning director Hanson Hom told me that the site can currently be developed up to a 45-percent floor-area ratio, which would allow for about 84,000 square feet of building space. However, the site is part of the Peery Park Specific Plan area, and city planners are studying allowing higher density use there.
"The council won't be deciding on that plan until 2015," Hom said.
Hom added that no development application has been turned in to the city.
"We've had preliminary discussions with interested buyers and in all cases, folks were interested in building an office or R&D at a higher FAR than what's allowed, but at this point we don't have a firm idea of what's proposed," he said.
Spear Street's current big project in Silicon Valley is Stadium Techcenter, an office campus in Santa Clara where the developer is adding a 226,000-square-foot office building. (Read more about the project here.)
Spear Street now controls more than half of the 8.3-acre block that is bounded by Central Expressway, North Mathilda Avenue, West California Avenue and Sobrante Way. But Spear Street isn't likely to acquire the other piece; its next-door neighbor on the block, owning three older retail buildings, is Irvine Company, which never sells.
Across the street is Legacy Partners/Principal Financial Group's Sunnyvale Business Park, which has had spectacular success leasing up the complex to marquee tech tenants such as Twitter and Walmart's e-commerce division, who desire proximity to the Sunnyvale Caltrain station.
The Mellow family already owns farms in Morgan Hill. The Sunnyvale site has remained a kind of stubborn vestige of Silicon Valley's agricultural past, before low-rise manufacturing, then R&D and finally sleek office buildings started to replace the orchards that once earned the area its nickname, "Valley of the Heart's Delight." The Mellow nursery is near large tenants like LinkedIn Corp., Google Inc. and Apple Inc.
Spear Street's attraction to Sunnyvale is not hard to see. CBRE said Sunnyvale's office vacancy was 5.2 percent in its most recent second-quarter report. So far this year, tenants have absorbed 763,509 square feet more than they have given up.
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At head of title: State of New Jersey
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Adam Scott: I Need Another Major
It’s well known that Adam Scott has become the most consistent player in the majors for the last four years.
From fifteen starts, Scott has won once, been twice runner-up and has had four top-5 finishes. He also hasn’t finished outside the top-15 at the PGA Championship during this time with his best result a tie for 5th last year at Rochester.
Adam Scott (Credit: Anthony Powter)
This week at the PGA Championship at the Valhalla Golf Club east of Louisville in Kentucky, Scott has made it crystal clear that he’s here to collect his second major and anything short of winning will not be satisfactory.
“You know, it’s tough, but at some point you just have to look for wins, and that’s only what is going to satisfy me,” said Scott during Tuesday’s media conference.
“I’ve had lots of good finishes in majors, but I left last month’s Open extremely disappointed.”
At Royal Liverpool Scott had a third successive top-five Open finish after a final-round 66 put him tied fifth, five shots behind the champion, Rory McIlroy.
“I felt I played really well and I finished fifth,” said Scott.
“There are lots of good things to take from than. But I still didn’t get to lift the trophy, and that’s at the end of the day why I’m working hard and putting in so much. I would like to get the result.”
Scott says his game and preparation leading into the majors is all there but with no win in a major for 2014, he risks losing the halo effect from his 2013 Masters victory.
“A win would be a nice way to keep my momentum in the majors going,” says Scott, who already has one tour victory for 2014 at the Crowne Plaza Invitational.
“You never know how this game can go. It’s always on a knife’s edge, winning and losing, and having some momentum or not and from performing consistently well, to struggling. It’s not that big of a difference.”
Scott tees it up in the final major of 2014 expecting nothing short of lifting the Wanamaker trophy and cementing his place in history as just the fourth Australian to become a multiple major winner.
The 34-year-old has been seventh, 11th and fifth over the last three PGA Championships and knows what it feels like to win a major.
“If you’ve won a major, then you have the knowledge that you can do it,” says Scott.
“My goal this week is obviously to contend and hopefully to win this golf tournament and to do that would keep some great momentum going in the great scheme of things.”
“If you look at my career, I would have won two majors in the last two years. It does have a nice ring to it, I must admit and can really propel me into next year to keep the same thing going.”
The last Australian to lift the Wanamaker Trophy was Steve Elkington in 1995.


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Top models wearing gold wings and diamond-encrusted bras strutted the London catwalk on Tuesday in the first Victoria's Secret annual lingerie show to be held in the British capital, AFP reports.
The event was billed as the US company's most expensive ever with a price tag of $20 million (16 million euros), and featured some of the world's best-paid models including Brazil's Adriana Lima.
Only the second time the show has been held outside the United States since 1995, the event began on a glamourous note with the so-called "Victoria's Secret Angels" dressed in white and sporting gold wings.
British singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran took to the stage to perform his hit "Thinking Out Loud" as models walked the catwalk in colourful outfits inspired by exotic destinations.
US superstars Taylor Swift and Ariana Grande also performed in the show in London -- a city chosen over Paris because of its "convergence" between fashion and music, according to marketing director Ed Razek.
"The show is seen in 192 countries, the show is seen by 500 million people. That is completely unique in the industry. No one does what we do," Razek said.
Wearing long dark tresses and capes, Lima and fellow Brazilian Alessandra Ambrosio exhibited "Fantasy Bras" created by jeweller Mouawad, each studded with 16,000 precious stones including diamonds, rubies and sapphires valued at $2 million.
Swift, dressed in a pink and black negligee, performed her single "Blank Space" in part of the show inspired by dreams and decorated with pearlescent balloons.
A change in ambiance arrived in the fourth section of the show, which was hosted by Grande and was dedicated to the brand's more casual PINK line aimed at students, with models dressed in leopard prints and bright colours.
Irish musician Hozier then performed his hit debut "Take Me to Church" as models dressed in pale green and pink with transparent fairy wings strutted in a magical setting of white trees and autumn leaves.
Swift then returned to the stage to bring the show to a close with a black and white themed performance as the Angels modelled garter belts and stockings sets.
Among the 47 "Angels" chosen to represent the brand were Candice Swanepoel, Behati Prinsloo, Doutzen Kroes and Karlie Kloss -- the latter appeared wearing 18-carat gold wings.
Created in 1977 and with 1,000 stores in the United States, Victoria's Secret is the market leader there and made $6.68 billion from sales last year.
It has been on the British market since 2005 and has a flagship store on London's New Bond Street, one of 15 outlets in the country.
The flashy brand is not to everyone's taste, however.
Three British students led a successful social media campaign that forced the company earlier this month to change its adverts featuring models wearing its new "Body" bras under the slogan: "The Perfect 'Body'."
The ad now reads: "A Body for Every Body."
But Razek dismissed the controversy as "absurd" as he said the company had never intended to present "an example of the one and only perfect body in the world".
Describing the models as "healthy" and "confident", Razek said that those who performed in the show were "genuinely nice women" who defied stereotypes.
"The image of a vacuous supermodel who never eats and only worries about what she looks like is certainly not the image of our girls," he said.
Swedish model Elsa Hosk said she had prepared for the show, which has helped launch the career of several famous supermodels, with "a lot of different workouts" including a mix of ballet and boxing.
"It's one of the biggest shows that you can walk in as a model," she told AFP ahead of the event.
"It's such an honour for a model to walk in this show, just because it's huge publicity for us."
Dutch model Kroes said: "It feels really special."

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Current Gold:WTIC Ratio Suggests Gold Is about to Soar
The comments below are an edited and abridged synopsis of an article by Lorimer Wilson
The gold:oil (WTIC) ratio tells us how many barrels of West Texas Intermediate Crude (WTIC) are needed to buy one troy ounce of gold, serving as a price-based indicator of the relative value of these two important assets.
Traditional investing mantra tells say that gold appreciates during tumultuous economic and financial times and it did just that with the advent of Covid-19, jumping from $1,550/troy ounce (ozt) in January 2020 to $2,070/ozt (+33.5%) in August 2020 at the height of the pandemic, before declining 14% to $1,775/ozt as the third wave of infections slowly dissipated.
Conversely, a slowdown in economic activity resulting from Covid caused the price of WTIC to crater by 81.7% from $63.27 in early January 2020 to just $11.57 before rebounding by a whopping 530% to its current $72.85.
Whenever the gold:oil ratio has exceeded 30:1 (i.e., oil is cheap relative to gold), crude oil has returned 32%, on average, over the next twelve months.
Whenever the gold:oil ratio has been less than 10:1 (i.e., oil is expensive relative to gold), crude oil has lost 7%, on average, over the next twelve months.
Whenever the gold:oil ratio has been between 10 and 30, crude oil has returned 5%, on average, in the following 12 months.
Whenever there has been a major spike in crude oil prices over the past 50 years, it has been followed by a rising gold price.
If the above holds true this time around with WTIC having increased by 84% in the last 12 months alone, it strongly suggests that gold is about to soar.


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Authors: Nathaniel Philbrick
The Passionate Sailor
Away Off Shore: Nantucket Island and Its People, 1602–1890
Abram’s Eyes: The Native American Legacy of Nantucket Island
Second Wind: A Sunfish Sailor’s Odyssey
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship
Sea of Glory: America’s Voyage of Discovery, the U.S.
Exploring Expedition, 1838–1842
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First published in 2006 by Viking Penguin, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.
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Mayflower: a story of courage, community, and war / Nathaniel Philbrick.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Pilgrims (New-Plymouth Colony) 2. Massachusetts—History—
New-Plymouth, 1620–1691. 3. Bradford, William, 1590–1657.
4. Church, Benjamin, 1639–1718. I. Title.
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They Knew They Were Pilgrims
Dangerous Shoals and Roaring Breakers
Into the Void
Beaten with Their Own Rod
The Heart of Winter
In a Dark and Dismal Swamp
A Ruffling Course
One Small Candle
The Ancient Mother
Kindling the Flame
The God of Armies
In a Strange Way
The Better Side of the Hedge
Tracks of the
Track of the
off Cape Cod, November 9–11, 1620
Tracks of the Three Exploring Expeditions, November 15–December 12, 1620
New England, 1625–1674
Mount Hope Region, June–July 1675
Southern New England and New York during King Philip’s War, 1675–1676
E ALL WANT TO KNOW
how it was
in the beginning.
From the Big Bang to the Garden of Eden to the circumstances of our own births, we yearn to travel back to that distant time when everything was new and full of promise. Perhaps then, we tell ourselves, we can start to make sense of the convoluted mess we are in today.
But beginnings are rarely as clear-cut as we would like them to be. Take, for example, the event that most Americans associate with the start of the United States: the voyage of the
We’ve all heard at least some version of the story: how in 1620 the Pilgrims sailed to the New World in search of religious freedom; how after drawing up the Mayflower Compact, they landed at Plymouth Rock and befriended the local Wampanoags, who taught them how to plant corn and whose leader or sachem, Massasoit, helped them celebrate the First Thanksgiving. From this inspiring inception came the United States.
Like many Americans, I grew up taking this myth of national origins with a grain of salt. In their wide-brimmed hats and buckled shoes, the Pilgrims were the stuff of holiday parades and bad Victorian poetry. Nothing could be more removed from the ambiguities of modern-day America, I thought, than the Pilgrims and the
But, as I have since discovered, the story of the Pilgrims does not end with the First Thanksgiving. When we look to how the Pilgrims and their children maintained more than fifty years of peace with the Wampanoags and how that peace suddenly erupted into one of the deadliest wars ever fought on American soil, the history of Plymouth Colony becomes something altogether new, rich, troubling, and complex. Instead of the story we already know, it becomes the story we need to know.
In 1676, fifty-six years after the sailing of the
a similarly named but far less famous ship, the
departed from the shores of New England. Like the
she carried a human cargo. But instead of 102 potential colonists, the
was bound for the Caribbean with 180 Native American slaves.
The governor of Plymouth Colony, Josiah Winslow—son of former
passengers Edward and Susanna Winslow—had provided the
’s captain with the necessary documentation. In a certificate bearing his official seal, Winslow explained that these Native men, women, and children had joined in an uprising against the colony and were guilty of “many notorious and execrable murders, killings, and outrages.” As a consequence, these “heathen malefactors” had been condemned to perpetual slavery.
was one of several New England vessels bound for the West Indies with Native slaves. But by 1676, plantation owners in Barbados and Jamaica had little interest in slaves who had already shown a willingness to revolt. No evidence exists as to what happened to the Indians aboard the
but we do know that the captain of one American slave ship was forced to venture all the way to Africa before he finally disposed of his cargo. And so, over a half century after the sailing of the
a vessel from New England completed a transatlantic passage of a different sort.
The rebellion referred to by Winslow in the
’s certificate is known today as King Philip’s War. Philip was the son of Massasoit, the Wampanoag leader who greeted the Pilgrims in 1621. Fifty-four years later, in 1675, Massasoit’s son went to war. The fragile bonds that had held the Indians and English together in the decades since the sailing of the
had been irreparably broken.
King Philip’s War lasted only fourteen months, but it changed the face of New England. After fifty-five years of peace, the lives of Native and English peoples had become so intimately intertwined that when fighting broke out, many of the region’s Indians found themselves, in the words of a contemporary chronicler, “in a kind of maze, not knowing what to do.” Some Indians chose to support Philip; others joined the colonial forces; still others attempted to stay out of the conflict altogether. Violence quickly spread until the entire region became a terrifying war zone. A third of the hundred or so towns in New England were burned and abandoned. There was even a proposal to build a barricade around the core settlements of Massachusetts and surrender the towns outside the perimeter to Philip and his allies.
The colonial forces ultimately triumphed, but at a horrifying cost. There were approximately seventy thousand people in New England at the outbreak of hostilities. By the end of the war, somewhere in the neighborhood of five thousand were dead, with more than three-quarters of those losses suffered by the Native Americans. In terms of percentage of population killed, King Philip’s War was more than twice as bloody as the American Civil War and at least seven times more lethal than the American Revolution. Not counted in these statistics are the hundreds of Native Americans who, like the passengers aboard the
ended the war as slaves. It had taken fifty-six years to unfold, but one people’s quest for freedom had resulted in the conquest and enslavement of another.
It was Philip who led me to the Pilgrims. I was researching the history of my adopted home, Nantucket Island, when I encountered a reference to the Wampanoag leader in the town’s records. In attempting to answer the question of why Philip, whose headquarters was in modern Bristol, Rhode Island, had traveled more than sixty-five miles across the water to Nantucket, I realized that I must begin with Philip’s father, Massasoit, and the Pilgrims.
My initial impression of the period was bounded by two conflicting preconceptions: the time-honored tradition of how the Pilgrims came to symbolize all that is good about America and the now equally familiar modern tale of how the evil Europeans annihilated the innocent Native Americans. I soon learned that the real-life Indians and English of the seventeenth century were too smart, too generous, too greedy, too brave—in short, too human—to behave so predictably.
Without Massasoit’s help, the Pilgrims would never have survived the first year, and they remained steadfast supporters of the sachem to the very end. For his part, Massasoit realized almost from the start that his own fortunes were linked to those of the English. In this respect, there is a surprising amount of truth in the tired, threadbare story of the First Thanksgiving.
But the Indians and English of Plymouth Colony did not live in a static idyll of mutual support. Instead, it was fifty-five years of struggle and compromise—a dynamic, often harrowing process of give and take. As long as both sides recognized that they needed each other, there was peace. The next generation, however, came to see things differently.
When Philip’s warriors attacked in June of 1675, it was not because relentless and faceless forces had given the Indians no other choice. Those forces had existed from the very beginning. War came to New England because two leaders—Philip and his English counterpart, Josiah Winslow—allowed it to happen. For Indians and English alike, there was nothing inevitable about King Philip’s War, and the outbreak of fighting caught almost everyone by surprise.
When violence and fear grip a society, there is an almost overpowering temptation to demonize the enemy. Given the unprecedented level of suffering and death during King Philip’s War, the temptations were especially great, and it is not surprising that both Indians and English began to view their former neighbors as subhuman and evil. What
surprising is that even in the midst of one of the deadliest wars in American history, there were Englishmen who believed the Indians were not inherently malevolent and there were Indians who believed the same about the English. They were the ones whose rambunctious and intrinsically rebellious faith in humanity finally brought the war to an end, and they are the heroes of this story.
It would be left to subsequent generations of New Englanders to concoct the nostalgic and reassuring legends that have become the staple of annual Thanksgiving Day celebrations. As we shall see, the Pilgrims had more important things to worry about than who was the first to set foot on Plymouth Rock.
It is true that most of what we know about seventeenth-century New England comes from the English. In recent decades, however, archaeologists, anthropologists, and folklorists have significantly increased our understanding of the Native American culture of the time. This does not alter the fact that any account of the period must depend, for the most part, on contemporary narratives, histories, letters, documents, and poems written by English men and women.
I have focused on two people, one familiar, the other less so: Plymouth governor William Bradford and Benjamin Church, a carpenter turned Indian fighter whose maternal grandfather had sailed on the
Bradford and Church could not have been more different—one was pious and stalwart, the other was audacious and proud—but both wrote revealingly about their lives in the New World. Together, they tell a fifty-six-year intergenerational saga of discovery, accommodation, community, and war—a pattern that was repeated time and time again as the United States worked its way west and, ultimately, out into the world.
It is a story that is at once fundamental and obscure, and it begins with a ship on a wide and blustery sea.

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A sensitive capillary zone electrophoresis (CZE) combined with field-amplified sample injection (FASI) method was investigated to simultaneously determine diltiazem (DI) hydrochloride and metoprolol (ME) tartrate in human serum. This method was validated by linearity, limits of detection (LOD), stability, precision and accuracy, and the related parameters are linearity (r2 > 0.9980), intra- and inter-day precisions (intra-day relative standard deviation (RSD) is 2.3-3.4%, and inter-day RSD is 3.8-7.5%) and the LOD (0.02 ng/mL for ME tartrate and 0.01 ng/mL for DI hydrochloride). So the proposed method is rapid, sensitive and accurate for determination of these two anti-anginal drugs in human serum. As for enrichment conditions, it was helpful to add phosphoric acid and isopropanol into samples for enrichment efficiency. A model was established to illustrate the possible enrichment mechanism of analytes, and a theory of half-width was also applied in CZE combined with FASI method to evaluate the peak performance.© The Author(s) 2021. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: firstname.lastname@example.org.
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