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WHELM - Mother - Our Girl
I’m already crying starting this blog. Becoming a mother to my daughter, Vera, is by far the proudest most beautiful part of my existence. I became pregnant with her right after I married Emilio. She was a total surprise. We had a destination wedding, and I forgot to bring my birth control, but the ONE time (I know that’s all it takes but still) we got pregnant. I had a few pregnancy scares when we first started living together but I never expected to get pregnant when I did. I was scared. BEYOND scared. We were dirt broke. I started an office job and Emilio was struggling with his mental health. We were in no shape ready to become parents. I remember telling someone all of this and their response was “why didn’t you get an abortion?” In case anyone else is thinking that reading this, as much as we weren’t prepared, we wanted our child and I’ve never regretted the decision having her. She made us get our act together and I couldn’t imagine my life without her.
My pregnancy flew by and now being pregnant with our second child, my first pregnancy was a breeze. I did struggle with accepting the changes that were happening to my body. My boobs became HUGE and hurt like hell. Stretchmarks appeared on my sides and in between my thighs. Women influencers that were pregnant at the same time would post their glowing bodies and looked so flawless which made me feel even crappier.
Then I had our sweet girl. Exactly on my due date, she arrived. My world completely changed. There she was. This beautiful, innocent, little being with her entire life ahead of her. Nothing prepares you for parenthood. I think back now on how poor we were and even if we had all the money in the world, a huge house, paid for all the parent-to-be classes, we still wouldn’t have been fully prepared. Maybe if we were rich enough to hire a nanny (lol) that would’ve helped but then again, probably not. I remember bringing her home from the hospital and me and Emilio looking at each other like, “well…now what?”
Emilio stepped completely out of his comfort zone and started his career with a newer company at the time. He instantly handled the position as if he was in it for years. He helped grow the company into what it is now. I’m so proud of him. He works his ass off and is the best father to Vera. She adores him and I’m so lucky to have him as her dada.
It made sense for me to stay home full-time. If I would’ve kept an office job, my paycheck plus some of Emilio’s would have gone towards daycare or a nanny. It was hard. Still is. I envied (still do at times) Emilio for being able to get out and socialize every day with adults. I facetime my mom probably eighty-three times in a day so I’m not just communicating with a bossy toddler all day, every day. I text Emilio random things throughout the day like “Vera ate seven strawberries today instead of the six she usually eats.” Or “Vera pooped twice already; I pooped once.” There isn’t enough talk about how lonely it is being a stay-at-home mom. I know how lucky I am to be, but I also know how lonely I’ve been. Sometimes when Emilio gets home, I go for a drive just to have a little quiet time. This is also why I started a business, so I didn’t drive myself crazy. Now balancing being a full-time mom as well as a business owner, cray to the cray!
Being a mother is terrifying. I’ve never known anxiety like I do now as a mom. I never thought about death as much as I do now as a mom. I’m scared of the fact that I will die one day, and Vera will be without me. I hope it’s when she’s an old old lady, although I can’t stop stressing myself out that it will happen way before then. The thought of her being on her own one day in the world makes me so sad. I joke with Emilio about how I will be her dorm roommate if she goes to college. I hate the thought of men sexualizing her body one day, her getting her first heartbreak, someone being mean to her, her ever feeling like she’s worthless or alone, the thoughts are endless. The worrying is endless. I love her so much that my heart feels like it will burst one day. I tell her every night about how beautiful, strong, and smart she is. How she will change the world. How I hope nothing, but greatness and happiness surrounds her now and always. Motherhood, the most rewarding journey full of surprises, paranoia, and love.
WHELM- Wife, Human, Entrepreneur, Latina, Mother
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The article below shows what options you have if you mistakenly over contributed to your employer 401k plan or IRA.
Over Contributed to Employer Sponsored 401(k) Plan
Firstly, congratulations on having reached your annual maximum contribution. But over contributing to your 401k (or IRA plan as discussed below) subjects you to the potential of double taxation and/or a penalty. An excess deferral left in your 401k plan is taxed twice, once when contributed and again when distributed. In most cases, if you over contribute to your employer sponsored plan (normally administered by companies like Vanguard or Fidelity), your excess contributions are automatically blocked or changed to an after-tax status to avoid an IRS penalty (normally 10% of the excess amount).
The plan administrator will normally reactivate your pre-tax contributions at your most recently elected contribution rate effective the first pay period of the subsequent year. If you are not sure of how your plan administrator handles excess contributions/deferrals check your plan documents, company intranet (search for excess 401k contributions or payroll contributions) or contact your benefits or payroll department. Don’t try and guess, find out for sure. You are entitled by law to get your excess deferral) returned to you from any of the plans that permit these distributions.
To avoid making excess pre-tax retirement contributions in the future ensure you calculate your limits across all plans (particularly if you change jobs during the year), pay attention to bonus 401k contributions and use simple math like dividing your contribution target by the number of paychecks you get in the year. Finally, make it a point to assess your contribution percentage and amount once or twice a year to ensure you are contributing the right amount.
If you discover a 401k over contribution at the end of the year when filing your taxes (i.e all the contributions have already been made in the prior calender year) you need to request a 401k refund check from your plan administrator and the then declare this as income in an amended or subsequent years tax return. Normally your plan administrator should report excess deferrals to you via form 1099-R. This can be a big hassle, so best to avoid the over contribution by some early planning and regular monitoring.
Even though the average IRA contribution is $3,798, many Americans are still contributing too much to their traditional IRA or Roth IRA account without realizing it. The combined limit for a traditional and/or Roth IRA accounts is $5,500 ($6500 if you are over 50). For married couples, the combined limit is $11,000 ($12,000 if only one of you is age 50 or older or $13,000 if both of you are age 50 or older). If you find that you have made excess contributions, you must remove them before year end or face a 6% penalty for excess contributions. Instead put your extra savings into a good high yield savings account (post tax) or quality dividend stocks.
Generally, an excess contribution is the amount contributed to all your traditional or Roth IRAs for the year that is more than the smaller of:
– IRA maximum limit for annual contribution described above*, or
– Your taxable compensation for the year. The taxable income (modified AGI) limit applies whether your contributions are deductible or nondeductible.
– Contributions for the year you reach age 70½ and any later year are also excess contributions.
An excess contribution is generally the result of your contribution relative to your modified adjusted gross income, your spouse’s contribution, your employer’s matching contribution, SEP IRA contribution or an improper rollover contribution.
Tax Penalties on Excess IRA Contributions
In general you will be subject to a 6% penalty if excess contributions for a year are not withdrawn by the date your return for the year is due (including extensions).The penalty cannot be more than 6% of the combined value of all your IRAs as of the end of your tax year. You must also pay the 6% tax penalty each year on excess amounts that remain in your traditional IRA at the end of your tax year.
For example, suppose you made a $3,000 annual contribution to a Roth IRA, then got a larger bonus than you expected and found that your permitted contribution was only $1,800. Your excess contribution was $1,200. If you didn’t correct the excess contribution, you had to pay $72 excess contribution tax (6% of $1,200). And if you left the problem uncorrected beyond the end of the following year, you owe another $72. You’ll continue to owe this tax each year until you correct the excess contribution.
Corrective Action to resolve Excess IRA contributions
There are several corrective actions you can take to avoid the 6% penalty, if you’ve made an improper contribution to an IRA. This includes:
- Withdraw the excess contribution and any associated earnings. According to the IRS, any contribution that is withdrawn on or before the due date (including extensions) for filing your tax return for the year is treated as an amount not contributed. This provision only applies if earnings on the IRA contributions are also withdrawn. The earnings are considered earned and received in the year the excess contribution was made.
- The other is to re-designate your Roth IRA as a regular IRA. This “moves” or reclassifies the excess Roth IRA contributions as a less restrictive traditional IRA contribution, assuming you qualify for a traditional IRA. This will only provide effective relief for the over contribution in some cases.
- Applying excess contributions to a subsequent year. If contributions to your Roth IRA for a year were more than the limit, you can apply the excess contribution in one year to a later year if the contributions for that later year are less than the maximum allowed for that year. Though you may still be subject to penalties for the years in which you over contributed.
Whatever the reason for your excess IRA and/or Roth IRA contribution, a penalty tax of 6% will apply if you don’t take action to correct an excess contribution. So check online or via a phone call with your plan administrator (e.g. Vanguard, Fidelity) to see how much you are on target to contribute, and take corrective action sooner than later. If you are not sure what to do then I strongly recommend you consult with a tax professional or use automated tax software to help with your tax filing.
*Note. Your IRA maximum limit may be increased to $8,000 if you participated in a 401(k) plan maintained by an employer who went into bankruptcy in an earlier year.
Sources : IRS

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text: This hotel had a superb location on the Lido. It was right by the vaporetto stop and only takes about ten minutes to be right in the heart of Venice (St Marks Square). The Lido is a great place to stay whilst in Venice with a relaxed feel about it and less crowded than the rest of Venice. The views from the rooms are great although the rooms are small and they only have French balconies so you can't sit out and enjoy the view. The staff were friendly and helpful. The beds were small and uncomfortable and I found it difficult to get a decent sleep.

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There is no need to prepare a draft for a new constitution if it cannot be approved by a two thirds majority, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said over the weekend. He said it is not clear whether a draft for a new constitution would be approved by a two thirds majority as the parties in Parliament have to decide on it.
The Premier expressed this sentiment at the foundation stone-laying ceremony of the new Daham Pasal building at the Sri Poorawarama Temple in Yakkalamulla on Saturday.
“There is a Steering Committee chaired by me. We have listened to all sentiments expressed by political parties. We tabled the expert committee report and an alternative report. A report on the sentiments expressed by the Chief Ministers and another report which comprised proposals made by political parties were presented to the Constitutional Assembly recently. It is the duty of the Steering committee to present all the available documents on the constitution,” he said.
He said anyone could read these documents and highlighted that the constitutional process could go forward only if all proposals are approved by a two thirds majority. “ There is no necessity to prepare a draft for a new constitution if it cannot be approved by a two thirds majority,” the Prime Minister said.
He said it is appropriate to consider the sentiments expressed by the most Venerable Mahanayaka Thera of Malwathu Chapter on the new constitution. He was also referring to a statement made by the Mahanayaka Thera of the Malwathu Chapter that it is not the time to bring in a new constitution.
“It is important to think carefully of the sentiments expressed by the Mahanayaka Thera. His statement is of great importance at a time when many are shouting saying a new constitution through which the country is going to b divided,” the Premier Wickremesinghe said.
“Such sentiments are expressed at a time there is no new constitution. There is no draft for a new constitution. Government has not done anything about a new constitution,” he added. He said a Constitution Assembly has been appointed with all members in Parliament.
The Prime Minister recalled that former President Mahinda Rajapaksa welcomed the regional councils proposed by President Chandrika Kumaratunga in 1995. “Sri Lanka was going to be made a union of regions in 1995. I asked Mr. Rajapaksa as to why he did not oppose it at that time. He told me that he could not oppose it as he was a member of President Kumaratunga’s government. He was of the opinion that regional councils would not divide the nation. Also Mr. Rajapaksa said at the All Party Conference in 2009 that his intention was to devolve maximum power,” the Prime Minister also said.
He said it is not to say that the present government is going to divide the nation just because one party had asked for regional councils today. The PM said the UNP’s stance is devolving power in an undivided nation. “This was the stance late PM D. S. Senanayake, late President J. R. Jayewardene and R. Premadasa had. UNP will not move away from this stance,” Premier Wickremesinghe stressed.(Yohan Perera)

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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is holding his daily press conference on the Covid-19 outbreak, which has infected more than 337,000 people across the state as of Tuesday, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.
On Monday, Cuomo said that New York will begin a phased reopening this week in some regions of the state and will allow industries at a low risk of spreading the coronavirus, including landscaping, tennis and drive-in movies, to resume operation statewide.
New York’s statewide stay-at-home order expires Friday, but some regions will be allowed to relax rules more quickly than others. Three areas in upstate New York — the Finger Lakes, the Southern Tier and Mohawk Valley — have met the state’s seven metrics to move to the state’s phase one reopening plan, he said.
Phase one allows outdoor industries at a low risk of spreading the virus, like construction, to resume operation. It also allows curbside or in-store drop off and pickup for non-grocery retail stores. New York City, one of the state’s 10 regions, has met just four of the seven criteria needed to reopen businesses as of Monday, according to a chart presented by the governor.
“This is the next big step in this historic journey,” Cuomo said at a press conference at Rochester Regional Health.


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Feminist Foreign and Development Policy Fellowship
A North-South Dialogue
In 2021, Germany’s new government committed to pursuing a feminist foreign and development policy. Countries such as Sweden, Canada and Mexico have long started to employ a feminist lens in their diplomacy. As a German foundation aligned with the global Green movement, the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung Washington, DC is eager to support the emergence of a fundamentally different approach to both foreign and development policy: one that is not only committed to the advancement of women, but also strengthens an inclusive and intersectional approach to policy-making and practice.
That is why we are launching our Feminist Foreign and Development Policy Fellowship in November 2022.
For the fellowship, we have invited eight young feminist professionals from the Global South and Europe to Washington, DC and New York City from November 12th to November 19th. This diverse group of women with backgrounds ranging from security, human rights, and climate to development will explore how to implement feminist foreign and development policy, co-create new advocacy approaches, and strengthen their networks. The fellowship aims to provide space for South-North/North-South dialogue and serves as a mechanism through which emerging feminist leaders can identify issues that require further debate.
During their stay in the United States these young feminist professionals will meet with stakeholders from the United Nations, World Bank, White House and State Department, research organizations, NGOs and students, all of whom are engaged in shaping policy for women and girls.

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I don't know if anyone else is experiencing this issue but my robots autonomous yeeted on itself. It literally just started spazzing out and not doing anything that I coded. I restart the robot and it works perfectly fine, minutes later after not touching the robot, I run the autonomous and it starts going crazy. Its like the motors got flip flopped or something. I checked to see if it was something in the code multiple times, I got it double checked by multiple people and re downloaded it multiple times. It works fine sometimes and then goes crazy other times. I think its with the brainor something. Everything is up to date. Why is this occurring?????


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- Last Updated on 07:48 AM 12/13/10
- BY Paula I. Bryant
While family and friends anxiously await the arrival of 12-year-old Brittany Mae Smith back to the East Coast, Roanoke County authorities had their first opportunity to interview the Roanoke County girl in a San Francisco police station Sunday, according to Roanoke County Public Information Officer Teresa Hamilton Hall.
It is unknown when Smith will return from California, but family members said Sunday she will be moving back to Halifax County.
When asked where Brittany will live when she returns to the East Coast, her grandmother, Elizabeth Dyer, replied, “She will be here in South Boston. Her family is here.”
Formerly of South Boston, Smith and her 32-year-old suspected abductor, Jeffrey Scott Easley, were found safe in San Francisco on Friday (around 6 p.m. EST).
A customer at a Safeway store recognized Smith and Easley after seeing national media reports. The two may have been panhandling outside the store, authorities said.
San Francisco Police notified Roanoke County Police of their discovery at 6 p.m. and began processing the location where Smith and Easley had been staying, “near a tent” which was not far from the Safeway store, Roanoke Police Chief Ray Lavendar said in a Saturday news conference.
Easley was taken into custody without incident and is currently being held in San Francisco pending his extradition to Roanoke County, authorities reported.
He faces a felony abduction charge in Roanoke County and felony counts of attempted credit card fraud and credit card larceny in the City of Roanoke and is a suspect in the murder of Brittany’s mother, Tina Smith.
Smith and Easley were last seen Dec. 3 in Roanoke County. On Dec. 6, Tina Smith was found murdered at the home the three of them shared in Roanoke County.
Thus began a nationwide search for Smith and Easley and a homicide investigation into the circumstances surrounding Tina’s death.
The weeklong investigation generated more than 700 leads from people and law enforcement agencies nationwide.
Roanoke County continues to actively investigate the death of the 41-year-old former South Boston resident and considers Easley a suspect at this time, authorities said.
On Saturday Roanoke County Police said they believe Smith and Easley headed to California on Dec. 3, after last being seen on surveillance video at Walmart in Salem.
Dyer, Brittany’s grandmother and the stepmother of the late Tina Smith, said Sunday from her Eastover Drive residence that a memorial service has been planned for Tina at 11 a.m. Saturday at Ash Avenue Baptist Church in South Boston.
“It was her wish to be cremated,” Dyer said.
Tina’s stepmother confirmed she had received a copy of the autopsy report but said she is unable to comment on the findings in the report.
“I can’t say anything about it,” she said.
Meanwhile, family members said they are relieved to know Brittany is safe now.
“Brittany is safe with San Francisco Police and in good health. She has had the opportunity to talk with family in Virginia and will be returning home soon,” Chief Lavinder said this weekend.
On Friday night after learning Brittany had been found safe, Dyer told The Gazette-Virginian that family members were so excited they were “bouncing off the walls.”
Four Roanoke County detectives arrived in San Francisco at 2:40 p.m. (EST) Saturday.
“The officers said they were exhausted,” Hall added.
“Today (Sunday) the real serious work is getting under way. The interview is occurring right now,” she said.
The plan Sunday morning was for the detectives to talk with both Smith and Easley, Hall said.
Sunday afternoon detectives said much work remained to be done.
“Now that she’s been found and will be headed home soon, our department’s focus has shifted to the murder investigation,” said Roanoke County Detective John McPhail in a news conference Sunday afternoon in California.
“Because this is an active murder investigation, we are unable to share and details of our conversations. We don’t want to do anything that might jeopardize this case,” he said.
“It is important that we get justice for Tina Smith’s family.”
Back in Roanoke, Hall said there is no set timeline for when Brittany will return home.
“We know how the system operates in Virginia, but we are not as familiar with the California way,” she added.
“The folks working with Brittany (Sunday) work with children. That’s their job. They know how to talk to children,” she said.
Hamilton reiterated no timeline has been placed on Smith’s return to Roanoke.
“No, we don’t know when she will be headed back. We’re fluid on that. Authorities have ‘detective work’ to be done today, and they may have more tomorrow,” Hall said.
Easley is expected to be arraigned in a San Francisco courtroom on Monday, she said.
Roanoke County Police will be consulting with the commonwealth’s attorney with regard to charges related to the homicide, authorities said in a news release.
Hall said Easley is expected to consult with an attorney before deciding whether to waive extradition back to Roanoke.
“We will know more about that (Monday),” she said.
Hall said Sunday afternoon she is unaware where Smith spent Saturday night but noted “she is being taken care of.
“Brittany is safe with San Francisco Police and in good health. She has had the opportunity to talk with family in Virginia and will be returning home soon,” Hall said.
Police in California recovered the 2005 Silver Dodge Neon Roanoke County detectives had been seeking in a parking lot adjacent to an airport, authorities said.
Although she personally has not spoken with her granddaughter since she was found safe Friday, Dyer said Brittany’s father, South Boston Police Officer Benny H. Smith, has spoken with her.
“He was so excited. He just couldn’t believe it was true. He asked her what his dog’s name was and what her dog’s name was before he would believe it was really her,” Dyer said.
“You just never expect something like this to happen to anyone you know,” she said adding, she doesn’t believe Brittany knows the amount of attention this case has received.
“I don’t think she had access to a phone or Internet, so she just doesn’t know,” Dyer said.
Dyer maintained Roanoke authorities are staying “very tight-lipped” about the ongoing investigation under way on both coasts.
“We’re just waiting now. They’re not giving us a lot of information, but they have to stay tightlipped,” she added.


Haroon Ahmed, 26, who is serving time for armed robbery, casually walked out of HMP Dovegate near Uttoxeter last week.
Detective launched a nationwide manhunt for the fugitive with fears he may have gone abroad.
Today, cops confirmed the offender had been arrested in near Nottingham and returned to custody.
Ahmed reportedly said he wanted to escape jail to "test out the security".
"I thought 'I'll give it a go'- and walked out of the door," he told a Sunday newspaper.
"That's how easy it was."
“That's how easy it was.”Haroon Ahmed
It was rumoured that Ahmed had flown to Marbella on the Costa del Sol following his escape last week.
A statement from Staffordshire Police issued today said: "Haroon Ahmed, who is from the Derby area, was arrested this morning in the Nottingham area and has been taken into custody.
"We would like to thank the public and media for their help in sharing our appeals to find Ahmed.
"Our social media posts reached just under 300,000 people."
He had been missing since around 4.15pm on Wednesday, police said.
Police said his whereabouts while on the run will form part of the police investigation.


What You Must Find Out About Water Heater Replacement
If your hot water heater has actually reached the end of its life, it might be time to consider a Water Heater Replacement. These systems can operate on gas or electrical energy as well as need some standard maintenance. The substitute process includes getting rid of the heating element, thermostat and also gas line links. Depending upon your certain design, you might also need to change a thermocouple, which automatically turns off the gas if the pilot flame heads out. If the heating element is faulty, it might have the ability to be cleaned up with white vinegar or other non-flammable liquid.
Changing the air vent type is a relatively complicated job. Many people will certainly require the assistance of a professional plumber for this job. Prior to starting, inspect your regional plumbing code. To determine what it calls for, contact your local structure division. After getting the building regulations, you should ensure that your replacement meets the neighborhood plumbing codes. When replacing your hot water heater, make certain to follow all of the suppliers guidelines to make certain appropriate installment. Make sure that the new heating system is connected to the water supply and also air vent pipes.
When replacing a hot water heater, it is important to work with a professional. Professionals are educated to perform this job correctly as well as securely. To avoid problems, the plumber must have experience in the repair of hot water heater. In addition, they will certainly be able to recommend experts if required. The plumber will work on your houses pipes and also gas lines. Along with installing the brand-new unit, they will certainly also need to attach the gas lines and the vent if needed.
One of the signs that your hot water heater requires a substitute is a leakage. This is not only an annoyance, it might lead to substantial water damage. If you notice corrosion in the water appearing of the tap, it is likely the main burner is falling short. An expert plumber can review the water heater for a leakage and suggest the best course of action. If you think a leakage, switch off the power to your hot water heater and also ensure it cools down completely before replacing it.
A busted thermostat or burner might also be the issue. The heating element controls the circulation of gas in the water heater and also opens up and also closes the valve when the temperature level adjustments. Dirt might likewise cover the sensing units. Most of the times, the trouble is not caused by a wiring breakdown, but by filthy sensing units. You ought to think about obtaining a new hot water heater if your current model is greater than one decade old. You can conserve money and time by making straightforward repairs on your own.
If you choose to install a new hot water heater, you may require to install a development container. A growth container avoids the pipelines from rupturing when the hot water heater stops working. This tank is not usual in older houses, but developing codes need it for new installations. Depending upon the size of your storage tank, the development container will cost you anywhere from $40 to $350. Nevertheless, the old storage tank will require to be gotten rid of initially. This work might set you back as much as $500 or more depending on the size as well as problem of eliminating the old storage tank.
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I found that most of our anxiety comes from the uncertainty of not knowing how things are going to turn out. Will I get a good score at the math test, or will I not? Will I get the promotion, or will I not? Will this paper be accepted, or will it not?
Of course, anxiety does not always take its roots in uncertainty. In some cases you can become unsettled by things that are certain to happen. Think of yourself in a situation where you are terribly ill and your doctor says that your death is inevitable, and that you will take leave of this world at so and so date, hour, and minute. How would you spend your time then when you know that it is certain that death is going to strike you? Wouldn’t you persistently repress for every minute of your remaining life the thought that you are going to die? Or better, think of yourself of possibly having a debilitating genetic disease, such as Huntington, and that you have the choice of undergoing a test that would establish whether you are sick or not. Would you then rather chose certainty over uncertainty in that case? Wouldn’t uncertainty at least offer the consolation that comes from hope?
But, our daily anxiety, anger, and worry does not come from such hugely significant events such as our death. Really, most of our thoughts are quite simple in their goals. In an ordinary day it is likely that you would think about the flavor of a specific food or drink, about the superiors and subordinates at your job, about clothes and music, about how you are going to accomplish a minor task, about the book you are reading, about how incompetent are drivers in this city, about having the desire to sleep, about how are you going to convey a trifling thought in a blogpost…the list is endless. Such thoughts are likely to bring a variety of emotions in us, some of which are hardly desirable. Epictetus offers a solution how we can decrease the influence of negative emotions:
The thief does not know wherein man’s good consists, but he thinks that it consist in having fine clothes, the very thing which you also think. Must he not then come and take them away? When you show a cake to greedy persons, and swallow it all yourself, do you expect them not to snatch it from you? Do not provoke them; do not have a window; do not air your clothes. I also lately had an iron lamp placed by the side of my household gods; hearing a noise at the door, I ran down, and found that the lamp had been carried off. I reflected that he who had taken the lamp had done nothing strange. What then? To-morrow, I said, you will find an earthen lamp; for a man only loses that which he has. I have lost my garment. The reason is that you had a garment. I have a pain in my head. Have you any pain in your horns? Why then are you troubled? For we only lose those things, we have only pains about those things, which we possess. (Epictetus; Discourses)
The quote must be understood in the context of Epictetus’ work. Epictetus was a stoic philosopher, meaning that he not only taught philosophy, he lived it. An important principle that he emphasized continuously is that of not being victims of the things we think we possess. Epictetus mentioned that when you lose something that is in your possession, you feel a sensation of emptiness, and maybe anger. Hence a thief who steals a lamp, manages to hurt you not only materially but also spiritually. Epictetus’ advice is that we can subdue that anger by not attaching ourselves to our possessions. Of course, this is not done in a day. It is accomplished through rigorous training. Also, Epictetus mentions in his work that getting overly-involved in things that cannot be changed wouldn’t be of benefit to anyone After all, should you really be angry about a thief that you know will not be caught? Is that anger of any use when you cannot change anything?

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Today the Reserve Bank of Australia has made public its meeting minutes for May 01.
At this meeting the bank marked down its interest rate abruptly by 50 basis points - from 4.25% to 3.75%.
The provided information shows that Australia has overcome the inflationary pressure. The consumer price hike has stalled within the target bank range of 2-3%.
Now the bank has switched to the policy of supporting the Australian ecoonmy. The current economic growth of the country is much below the predicted levels.
Economic activity in the country is quite divergent. For instance, the mining sector has been dominating currently, while tourism and export-oriented companies have been on the downside.
The main reason for downtrend was the overrated national currency which has provoked the trade balance to show deficit for the first time for 11 months. Nevertheless, on Monday the Aussie had decelerated to a half-year low versus the US dollar.
Among other issues, there are still some risks related to the global economy prospects and the Eurozone situation in particular, which can prompt the Bank of Australia for another rate cutting already at the next meeting.


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Resident archivist Jack Dangers disappears down the rabbit hole of soundtracks by Czechoslovakian composer Zdeněk Liška
Back in 1990, I made a track called ‘Love Mad’ for the first edition of the book/CD series ‘Volume’, which was the brainchild of Rob Deacon who ran Meat Beat Manifesto’s first label, Sweatbox. The dominant theme in the song is a sample from a film called ‘The Flat’ by avant-garde filmmaker Jan Švankmajer. He created a lot of surreal and disturbing stop-frame animation work, including ‘Alice’ in 1988, an amazing version of ‘Alice In Wonderland’. Around about that time, Channel 4 showed ‘The Flat’ as part of a season of animation which I videotaped, and I took the sample for ‘Love Mad’ from that.
The music was by Zdeněk Liška, probably Czechoslovakia’s best known film composer. He wrote hundreds of mostly orchestral film scores in his career, but he was also a pioneer of electronic and electroacoustic music in film.
None of Liška’s work for Jan Švankmajer has been released, but Andy Votel’s label Finders Keepers has released several of his other soundtracks, including the 1963 Czech science fiction movie ‘Ikarie XB-1’, which was written for a small orchestra and manipulated tape. The music is great, and it’s a really good film, too. I think Kubrick must have seen it – you can see the influence in ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’. Finders Keepers also released Liška’s scores for the 1969 surreal serial killer film ‘The Cremator’, and his orchestral/electronic score of ‘The Little Mermaid’ from 1976.
Zdeněk Liška was born in what was then Bohemia in 1922, and studied at the Prague Conservatory before joining the film studios of the Baťa shoe company in Zlín in 1945. Zlín had been a company town for decades, and Baťa built department stores, schools, hospitals, blocks of flats and cinemas – and a film studio.
When Liška died in 1983, aged just 61, Jan Švankmajer announced he wouldn’t use any other living composer’s music for his films, and has used only classical music since.
As a postscript, 10 years after sampling ‘The Flat’, on a really misty, wintry morning, I was on my way to a small museum in Rotterdam to see a Jan Švankmajer exhibition, and I encountered a Flemish Giant rabbit on the way. They’re the biggest rabbits in the world, about the size of a dog, and there was one on the loose. It was such a Jan Švankmajer moment, I couldn’t believe it. A truly bizarre experience.

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Well, for me the throwing up had slacked off for a few days ...i was hoping that part over, and that I could just deal with the constant nausea....
yesterday, I had to go grocery shopping. I have been unable to do much of anything at all because I feel so weak and faintish. But I bit the bullet yesterday..took kids to checkup and then hit Sams and walmart. I was so tired I wanted to cry when we finished, thankfully my mom drove us. I decided to grab a bite at wendys...baked pototo, garden salad , and chili. Don't ask me why I opted for the chili...but nothing sounds good to me and for some strange reason ..chili did. I ate the baked potato it went down good. Then I try an itty bitty bite of chili cause I couldnt remember what theirs tasted like as I haven't eaten there in years...and just that taste set me into a puke fest....while on a rd with no shoulder..i heaved into the wendys bag for 5 minutes. Thank goodness for the baked potato dome lid is all I have to say.

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This precipitation formation of an insoluble solid is principally caused by thermal decomposition of bicarbonate ions but also happens in cases where the carbonate ion is at saturation concentration. When the water is boiled then, the Bicarbonate of calcium and magnesium are change into non-dissolve carbonate. The results are read directly from the test tube which measures Alkalinity and Calcium Hardness from 60 to 400 ppm. When testing coatings, scratch hardness refers to the force necessary to cut through the film to the substrate. Equation iv indicates the reaction between magnesium carbonate and lime.
Similarly, where lead plumbing is in use, softened water does not substantially increase plumbo-solvency. Similarly, as more interstitial atoms are added, more pinning points that impede the movements of dislocations are formed. For perfectly brittle materials, yield strength and ultimate strength are the same, because they do not experience detectable plastic deformation. Any amount over and above the permanent level of working capital is temporary, fluctuating or variable working capital. A common method for water softening involves the use of , which replace ions like Ca 2+ by twice the number of monocations such as or ions.
The tests work on the basic premise of measuring the critical dimensions of an indentation left by a specifically dimensioned and loaded indenter. Salinity total salt content and the concentrations of individual chemical constituents in sea wateris given the units psu practical salinity units. The amount of lime required for softening of water is determined by the amounts of free and half-bound carbon dioxide and of magnesium that are present. Types of Water Hardness Temporary Hardness Temporary hardness is a type of water hardness caused by the presence of dissolved bicarbonate minerals calcium bicarbonate and magnesium bicarbonate. Temporary magnets are used to manufacture relays,transformer cores, etc. These ions enter a water supply by leaching from minerals within an. If there is a different type of atom at the lattice site that should normally be occupied by a metal atom, a substitutional defect is formed.
This happens when water is boiled. Hardness can be removed by boiling or by the addition of lime calcium hydroxide. These pads are designed to react with specific ions and produce a specific color change. In these parts of Canada, the total hardness in ppm of calcium carbonate equivalent frequently exceed 200 ppm, if groundwater is the only source of potable water. The use of the weight and markings allows a known pressure to be applied without the need for complicated machinery. Temporary hardness is easy to remove by boiling or through precipitation with lime calcium hydroxide. The slightly negative attracts the slightly posi … tive on another molecule, and the slightly positive attracts the slightly negative on another molecule.
This causes a problem in commercial boilers as the scale build up can clog pipes. When water containing calcium carbonate is heated, a hard scale is formed that can plug pipes and coat heating elements. In fact, the has found that hard water actually serves as a dietary supplement for calcium and magnesium. Magnesium Chloride is similar in properties to calcium chloride. Rain containing dissolved carbon dioxide can react with calcium carbonate and carry calcium ions away with it. The calcium carbonate may be re-deposited as calcite as the carbon dioxide is lost to atmosphere, sometimes forming and. Build-up of deposits will also reduce the efficiency of the heating unit, increasing the cost of fuel.
Equation v indicates the chemical reaction between lime and magnesium sulphate. Zeolite Water Softener: The zeolite process is carried out in zeolite water softeners which resemble rapid sand filters of either pressure type or gravity type. The physical metallurgy of steels. At an even smaller scale, each grain contains irregularities. A scratch tool with a sharp rim is mounted at a predetermined angle to the testing surface. Permanent and Temporary Working Capital. Therefore, permanent hardness is the sum of magnesium hardness and calcium hardness.
It indicates whether the water will precipitate, dissolve, or be in equilibrium with calcium carbonate. Further during these reactions various acids viz. It precipitates and forms scale in boilers. Sodium carbonate or soda ash can also be added to water as dry feed or as a solution. Some studies correlate domestic hard water usage with increased in.
Aqueous solutions of these metal hydroxides absorb carbon dioxide from the air, forming the insoluble carbonates, giving rise to the turbidity. For example, when the current passing though a coil wound aroundthat material flows, it will continue to act as a magnet, but oncethe current is turned off it will lose that magnetism or most ofit! It can be fed as dry feed or added as made-up slurry. There is no exposure to or in their and consequently the water in Manchester is rated as 'very soft'. Borax is usually used to reduce the alkalinity of soap solution rather than to soften water. However, the process is too costly and hence it is not used for large public water supplies and its use is limited to treatment of water on a small scale for industrial purposes where water free from minerals is required. The formation of soap scum on your skin is the reason that soap seems easier to rinse from your body when you shower with hard water. How to Measure Water hardness Instruments A colorimeter passes a white light beam through an optical filter which transmits only one particular color or band of wavelengths of light to the photodetector, where it is measured.
Permanent hardness can only be removed by ion exchange processes, like those employed by. . When heated, calcium bicarbonate reverts back to calcium carbonate, thus forming scale. The is the point at which elastic deformation gives way to plastic deformation. The ratio of the mass of the load in kilograms to the area of the depression formed in square millimetres is the Brinell Hardness Number. The presence of in an , in this case, hard water, can also lead to , in which one metal will preferentially when in contact with another type of metal, when both are in contact with an electrolyte. When a given quantity of water, determined by the size of the appliance, has been softened, the zeolite becomes depleted; having parted with all its sodium, but this can be remedied, as the substance has the property of being able to exchange its base again and to take back sodium in place of calcium and magnesium.
The minimum reaction time allowed in the carbonation chamber is about 20 minutes. Stiffness is often confused for hardness. However, no meaningful difference in symptom relief was found between children with access to a home water softener and those without. Hardness can be quantified through instrumental analysis, an individual test kit, or through the use of test strips specifically formulated for making these measurements. Hard water is water with high levels of dissolved minerals, and usually occurs in areas where limestone and chalk are common. Then, take it into a 250ml volumetric flask and dilute it up to the mark with distilled water.


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'It's so iconic': The Honda Classic executive director walks through favorite parts of 2022 tournament
If you ask anyone at the Honda Classic, it wouldn't be what it is today without its executive director.
Ken Kennerly has been the executive director behind the Honda Classic for 16 years. He spoke about what makes the Champion Course at PGA National so special.
"I think when Mr. (Jack) Nicklaus redesigned the course, he wanted to put in these three strategic holes that make you think a little bit as you are coming down the stretch," Kennerly said.
The Honda Classic: Day-by-day coverage of the PGA tournament
Down the stretch is what can put golfers up a creek. Holes 16, 17 and 18 are known as the Bear Trap.
"It's so iconic and it sits in the minds of a lot of these players," Kennerly said. "I mean, not only are the players thinking about the narrow trap. Now, they get to walk off the 14th and they got to look over here and they go, 'Oh boy, what an I getting into.'"
The Bear Trap is also a fan favorite, and cheers can be hear all the way back to the clubhouse. This year, it's a double-decker.
Video below: Jack Nicklaus, his wife say their foundation for children started with help from The Honda Classic
Kennerly said he knows the tournament is about socializing as much as it is about golf, which is why there are new amenities, like the bourbon tent. There are also private suites.
"We've really thought about every group and every opportunity to bring people out here, and it's working," Kennerly said.


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The University has made the following two concurrent appointments with effect from 1 September 2014: Dr. Zhang Ge, Associate Director and Associate Professor of Teaching and Research Division (CMTR), and Deputy Director of the Institute for Advancing Translational Medicine in Bone and Joint Diseases, as Director of Technology Development Division (TDD) to be responsible for the overall development and management of TDD; and Dr. Yu Zhiling, Associate Professor of CMTR, as Associate Director of TDD to assist in managing the Division, with a special focus on overseeing the provision of testing and authentication services and ensuring their quality.
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Dulux Colour Of The Year 2016 – Cherished Gold
Dulux introduce the Colour of the Year 2016 and so Luci at Luci Living Design takes a look at Cherished Gold…
With a natural progression from last year which was ‘Copper Blush’ keeping on the metals theme.
Whether you choose to go bold gold with a full interiors theme, or would rather add subtle touches here and there, glorious gold of any hue is the trend of the moment, and its been around forever and so pretty timeless and unlikely to be going anywhere for the foreseeable future. Experiment with your passion for gold with natural subtle earth tones or go full on opulence.
Big trends in 2016 look to be typography and graphics being placed directly on walls, whether handwritten messages on chalkboards or painted lettering on walls we will see a lot of painted effects. Add gold to these to keep with the theme.
Use colours that take us back including rich reds and muted clay colours that are combined with contrasting materials and textures in rich gold to get this confident and eclectic look.
The press launch for Dulux Cherished Gold’ a room that looked like it was inspired by the rich and moody tones of Dutch paintings. Give your room a modern twist and paint your walls ombre style with a dark colour like this midnight blue and a deep red or green to contrast.
Bedrooms can be sophisticated in gold. A bright but elegant colour like this terracotta red will instantly brighten your room, especially as we move into autumn and winter. To really make this look pop, adding gold antique pictures frames, a brass bed and plenty of gold soft furnishings in velvet and embroidered fabrics for a sumptuous look.
At Luci Living Design we love opulent golds right now with white marble, coppers, brass, navy blue and pale grey.
In all ‘cherished gold’ is warm, sophisticated and soft ochre hue which is a lot more interesting than your primary yellows or glossy metallics, and, unusually versatile.
In your kitchen try cabinets a jet black and accessorise with plenty of light colour woods and gold handles and accessories. Kind of Scani-style meets opulent.
We would love to hear your thoughts on going for gold


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Histamine is the main mediator of Type I allergic reactions. In ocular tissue, histamine release from mast cells induces itching, tearing, chemosis, oedema of the conjunctiva and eyelids, blood vessel dilation, and papillary reaction. Type IV hypersensitivity is a cell-mediated process involving T-cells, cytokines, and macrophage activation. The response peaks at 48 to 72 hours (called ‘delayed’ hypersensitivity) and results in tissue damage. (1)
Typical symptoms include sudden onset of ocular itching (the symptom of true itching is highly indicative of an allergy component), irritation, burning sensation and watering.


I was never a fan of what I called Restaurant Row. Even today, there still isn't much "Park" in "Restaurant Park." Looking back on comments from the time it was approved by the City Council, one public speaker presciently asked what the City's commitment to the original West Spring Valley Planned Development would be going forward. It's still an open question, but with Monday's vote, there's a glimmer of hope again. What was approved for Restaurant Park seven years ago was already a major modification to the PD vision (the first lowering of the bar). Then, in December, 2020, another major modification was made by approving a restaurant with pre-order/pre-paid drive through service (the second lowering of the bar). Now, six months later, the City was asked to relax the zoning yet again, this time to allow a conventional drive-through with menu board and onsite order and payment system for a Dave's Hot Chicken restaurant (the third lowering of the bar, or perhaps stated more accurately, the removal of the bar altogether). What's different between now and six months ago when the City Council first approved a somewhat restricted drive through, is that there are three new council members. They and a fourth who had conflicted feelings in December, rejected the proposed complete surrender of the original vision for this site. It was a welcome sight.
Elections have consequences, but maybe only incrementally. That was shown in the vote for another special use permit for a drive-through restaurant. This second one was for a Popeye's chicken restaurant on Belt Line Rd just east of Plano Rd. The council ended up approving that in a 5-2 vote, with only Justice and Corcoran voting no. So, Richardson will be getting another old-style, pad-site drive-through restaurant. Our new council's majority is still not reliably opposed to 1980s-style development. But it looks like we might have two votes for a vision of the future with a more adaptable, sustainable development form for Richardson. The residents of Richardson need to work to increase those numbers. Elections have consequences, if slowly sometimes.


City police are looking for a 26-year-old man in connection with a shooting Nov. 4 in the 500 block of Timothy Drive.
They have a pending warrant for the arrest of Mario “Rio” Fox on charges of robbery, armed burglary, aggravated assault and three counts of use of a firearm in the commission of a felony.
Fox is black, 6 feet 4 inches tall and 215 pounds, with long dreadlocks. Police said he is often seen around his residence on San Antonio Boulevard, along with East Bayview Boulevard and Ben Moreell housing. He should be considered armed and dangerous, police say.
Anyone with information about Fox is asked to call the Norfolk Crime Line at 1-888-LOCK-U-UP (562-5887).


SUDBURY, Mass. (AP) — The Massachusetts town of Sudbury has gone to court to challenge a lease between the MBTA and Eversource that would allow the utility to bury a power line below an inactive rail corridor.
The MetroWest Daily News reports that the suit filed in Land Court argues the agreement is illegal because it violates a legal doctrine that prohibits the repurposing of public land acquired for a specific public use without the passage of special state legislation.
Eversource agreed to pay the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority $9.3 million over 20 years for use of the land, and fund up to $4 million worth of environmental cleanup.
Eversource is still seeking state approval for its proposed nine-mile, 115-kilovolt transmission line between Sudbury and Hudson.
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Eversource and MBTA spokesmen declined comment on the suit.
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Colonel (Ret.) Charles Tupper is a 39 year Air Force veteran who served on active duty and the Air National Guard as an enlisted member and later a commissioned officer.
He enlisted in 1970 as a KC-135A Crew Chief at Pearse Air Force Base, N.H., and went on to become a commissioned nurse serving in clinical, flight, and headquarters positions. Tupper finished out his active duty career as the commander of the 43rd Medical Operations Squadron at Pope Air Force Base, North Carolina. He retired from the Air National Guard in 2009 as a Colonel and commander of the 439th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron at Westover, Massachusetts.
After his retirement, Tupper became a registered nurse for the Department of Veterans Affairs.


Physicists from the Max Planck Society and Leibniz Universität Hannover develop a new concept to improve the sensitivity of gravitational-wave detectors
The scientists at the Albert Einstein Institute (AEI; Institute for Gravitational Physics at Leibniz Universität Hannover and Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics) in Hannover are hunting for elusive gravitational waves – a prediction from Einstein's general theory of relativity. Their first direction detection will open a new window to our Universe and usher in the era of gravitational-wave astronomy. The AEI researchers aim to detect these tiny space-time ripples using detectors like GEO600 near Hannover, Germany, and aLIGO in the USA. These detectors use lasers to measure the tiny distance changes caused by passing gravitational waves. Thus, the continuous improvement of those lasers and the minimization of disturbances like stray laser light is of great importance.
Now, the AEI physicists for the first time created laser light with tailor-made quantum properties. It even enables them to circumvent Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, which usually limits the accuracy of measurements. “By using our new method we can significantly reduce the disturbances caused by stray light in gravitational-wave detectors. GEO600 would listen for gravitational waves even more sensitively. After a successful integration into GEO600 we can make the technology available to the worldwide network of gravitational-wave observatories,” says Roman Schnabel, leader of the working group for quantum interferometry and squeezed light at the AEI and participating scientist in the research area “Quantum Sensors” in the QUEST cluster of excellence.
Entangled light plays the main role in the new measurement method developed in Hannover. According to Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, some pairs of quantum mechanical properties cannot be measured simultaneously to arbitrary precision. For particles, this applies to position and momentum, while for light waves, this applies to amplitude and phase.
Until now, the AEI scientists used so-called squeezed laser light in GEO600. They decrease (squeeze) the uncertainty in either phase or amplitude of the light. This comes at the cost of increased uncertainty in the other property. Thus, either the phase or the amplitude can be measured more precisely. “Squeezed light is our instrument of choice for laser-based precision measurements using just one quantum property of light. But we were wondering if there was useful information hidden in the other variable as well,” says Schnabel.
Therefore, the researchers applied another trick. By superimposing two squeezed laser beams, they created two new laser beams which are quantum mechanically entangled. One of the beams is used to perform the precision measurement, the other one is used as a reference beam. By comparing measurement and reference beam, the scientists can now determine both phase and amplitude with decreased uncertainty. This allows them to detect tiny changes in both variables.
“We can now for the first time outsmart Heisenberg's uncertainty principle because we're measuring all variables relative to an entangled reference system,” explains Sebastian Steinlechner, lead author of the study published in Nature Photonics. He is a PhD student in Schnabel's group within the Collaborative Research Centre/Transregio 7.
In this way, the physicists suppress the disturbance from laser stray light in the detector. Even single laser photons gone astray can combine inseparably with the measurement signal and distort the results. The new method now enables a more precise and independent measurement of both phase and amplitude changes in the laser light. Using this split into two independent components, stray light can be identified immediately during the measurement. Affected data are eliminated from further analysis, thereby increasing the precision of the final results.
The gravitational-wave detector GEO600 could be the first application for the novel concept. The required technologies have been in use at the detector site for two years and have proven themselves. Since 2011, the measurement precision of the interferometric detector GEO600 has been increased by 50 percent through the use of squeezed laser light.
The sensitivity of the detector, however, can only be increased so far using squeezed light. Ultimately, it can only be further increased by tracking down the stray light. The physicists are confident that they will reduce this disturbance with their new method and thereby increase the probability of the first direct detection of gravitational waves.
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Articles in INDYCAR
Simona de Silvestro’s Verizon IndyCar Series comeback tour will continue this weekend in a fourth Andretti Autosport entry for the inaugural Indy Grand Prix of Louisiana.
The 2010 IndyCar Rookie of the Year, de Silvestro started 11th and finished 18th in the season-opening Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg (Fla.) on March 29. The Streets of […]
By Jim Pedley | Managing Editor
Juan Pablo Montoya stripped the lead from Team Penske teammate Will Power during a green flag pitting sequence with just under 30 laps to go and then led the rest of the way to win the season-opening Verizon IndyCar Series race in St. Petersburg, Fla.
“Today was a good day […]
Defending champion Will Power opened the 2015 Verizon IndyCar Series by winning the pole for Sunday’s race in St. Petersburg, Fla.
The Team Penske driver earned the pole by breaking the 13-year-old track record with a lap of 1:00:6509 seconds in the second session on Saturday.
Power will be seeking his third career win at St. Petersburg […]
Simona de Silvestro, one of only three women to have recorded a podium finish in the Verizon IndyCar Series, will drive a fourth Andretti Autosport Honda in the 2015 season-opener at St. Petersburg, Fla., later this month.
Team-owner Michael Andretti announced de Silvestro’s addition to his lineup Wednesday in Indianapolis.
“I’m very excited to be joining […]
With the unveiling of American Honda’s long-awaited aero-kit, sanctioning body INDYCAR officially can boast a bona fide chassis competition for the 2015 Verizon IndyCar Series season.
Honda’s aero kit was introduced Monday evening in Culver City, Calif., during a reception attended by principals from Honda Performance Development, American Honda and INDYCAR. Reigning Indianapolis 500 champion Ryan […]
Introduction of aerodynamic bodywork kits from Chevrolet and Honda for the 2015 season will mark the start of a highly anticipated era of chassis competition in the Verizon IndyCar Series.
Aerodynamic bodywork designed, manufactured and supplied by Chevrolet and Honda will begin with the revised season-opening Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg, Fla., on March 29. […]
By John Sturbin | Senior Writer
Plans for an expanded, 20-race Verizon IndyCar Series schedule covering seven months were laid out by Mark Miles, CEO of Hulman & Company, in a “State of the Sport” news conference during Media Day at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
The 2015 season got off to a thud in late January when the […]
The Verizon IndyCar Series schedule will not begin on March 8 as scheduled.
In a press release issued by the series, officials said that it has been unable to find a replacement for the race in Brasilia, Brazil, which was cancelled by event organizers this week.
The statement read: INDYCAR has explored several possibilities in an attempt […]
INDYCAR officials are exploring options to save the Verizon IndyCar Series’ 2015 season-opening weekend in the aftermath of an unexpected cancellation of the scheduled March 6-8 event in Brasilia, Brazil.
The Indianapolis-based sanctioning body was blindsided Thursday when BAND, promoter of the race scheduled for the 3.4-mile Autodromo Internacional Nelson Piquet road-course, pulled the plug on […]
By John Sturbin | Senior Writer
Larry Foyt says the hardest part about celebrating his father’s birthday is trying to find a gift for “the man who has everything.”
As his personal odometer rolled over to 80 on Friday, Anthony Joseph Foyt Jr. now also has the promise –the blessing – of health, courtesy of triple bypass […]


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Arizona is suing the IRS after the agency imposed federal income taxes on the state’s Family Tax Rebate, Attorney General Kris Mayes announced on Feb. 21.
In a statement on Feb. 21, Ms. Mayes said the lawsuit—filed in federal district court on the same day—argues that taxing the rebates is “unlawful and contrary” to the IRS’s treatment of similar tax rebates in dozens of other states.
“This lawsuit is about standing up for Arizona taxpayers,” she said. “The federal government’s decision to tax these rebates is unfair and unlawful–and I will do everything I can to ensure the tax relief provided to Arizonans by their state government remains in the pockets of Arizona taxpayers, as intended.”
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Ante Razov and Claudio Suarez model the new jersey with a Comex executive between the two Chivas USA stars/Photo from MLSnet
Chivas USA today became the fourth MLS Club to add a sponsor to front of its jersey. Mexican paint manufacturer Comex is the new shirt sponsor for the “goats” from Los Angeles. Prior to this season MLS clubs wore league mandated sponsors on the back of the jersey underneath the player numbers. For example DC United wore a Sierra Mist advertisement, LA Galaxy wore a Budweiser advertisement and New England wore a Pepsi ad on the back of their jerseys. This year LA Galaxy signed a long term deal with Herblife to have its name on the front of the Galaxy shirts and now three other MLS clubs have followed suit.
A lifelong lover of soccer, the beautiful game, he served from January 2010 until May 2013 as the Director of Communications and Public Relations for the North American Soccer League (NASL).
Raised on the Fort Lauderdale Strikers of the old NASL, Krishnaiyer previously hosted the American Soccer Show on the Champions Soccer Radio Network, the Major League Soccer Talk podcast and the EPL Talk Podcast.
His soccer writing has been featured by several media outlets including The Guardian and The Telegraph. He is the author of the book Blue With Envy about Manchester City FC.

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text: In regard of learning foreign languages, learners`` psychological traits have such an important influence on the results of learning. In order to analyze Korean undergraduates``(majoring in Japanese Language) psychological traits in regard of learning Japanese language, this study analyzed the individual and psychological traits of total 341 undergraduates. Also, the differences in anxiety in learning foreign languages and learning failure tolerance in accordance with the individual traits were compared. In the results, as the general characteristics of learners, 83.9% of the respondents are the students of College of Humanities and also 69.8% of them are majoring in Japanese Language. In the results of the psychological traits in accordance with the individual traits, female students feel tension and fear more than male students while male students show more self confidence and comfortableness than female students. The students with major in Japanese language, the experience in visiting Japan, the certificate of Japanese language, and high interest in Japanese language feel confident and comfortable more than the students without them. In the results of the analysis on the learning failure tolerance, male students can cope with the feelings about failure better than female students while female students can cope with them in the behavioral aspect better than male students. Depending on the matter of major, the students who are not majored in Japanese language can cope with failure better in the preference of task level. The students with the experience in prerequisite learning and the experience in visiting Japan have stronger failure tolerance in the aspects of behavior and preference of task level than the students without them. The students with the certificate and the hope to get a job related to Japanese language have stronger failure tolerance in the sub factors of behavior and preference of task level. The students with high interest in majoring in Japanese language show higher in the factors of behavior and preference of task level than the students without it.

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- You are 65 or older.
- You have been on Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) for two years.
- You have end-stage renal disease (ESRD) or Lou Gehrig’s disease.
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- Part A – Medicare Part A is hospital insurance, covering inpatient stays, skilled nursing, nursing home care, home health care, and hospice care.3
- Part B – Medicare Part B is medical insurance, covering doctor visits, preventive services, and medical supplies.4 Together, Parts A and B are known as Original Medicare.
- Part C – Those enrolled in Parts A and B can choose to receive their healthcare coverage through a private insurance company instead. This bundling of Part A and Part B under one plan is called Medicare Part C or Medicare Advantage. Many Medicare Advantage plans also include drug, dental, vision, and/or hearing coverage.5 Over 345,000 Kentuckians opted for Medicare Advantage plans in 2020.1
- Part D – Medicare Part D is prescription drug coverage. These plans are purchased from private insurance companies and help cover the cost of medications.
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Discover how Akshay Kumar’s relentless pursuit of his “crazy” dreams takes him to unimaginable heights. Join us as we delve into his inspiring journey, witnessing the challenges he overcomes and the lengths he goes to achieve his goals. Prepare to be amazed by the resilience and determination of this Bollywood superstar as he pushes boundaries and proves that with passion and hard work, anything is possible. Don’t miss out on this captivating story of ambition, dedication, and the extraordinary lengths Akshay Kumar will go to make his dreams a reality.
Akshay Kumar recently shared exciting news about his upcoming project titled “Sarfira.” This film is believed to be the Hindi remake of the acclaimed 2021 National Award-winning movie “Soorarai Pottru,” which starred Suriya in the lead role. The teaser gives us a glimpse of Akshay Kumar’s character, who is determined to achieve his dreams and is willing to go to great lengths to do so. Akshay Kumar and Suriya even shared a collaboration post on Instagram with the caption, “Dream so big, they call you crazy.” The film is set to release on July 12, 2024, exclusively in cinemas.
Apart from Akshay Kumar, “Sarfira” also features talented actors Paresh Rawal, Radhika Madan, and Seema Biswas. The film is co-produced by Aruna Bhatia (Cape Of Good Films), Suriya and Jyotika (2D Entertainment), and Vikram Malhotra (Abundantia Entertainment). The music for the film is composed by GV Prakash Kumar, and it will be directed by Sudha Kongara.
In an interesting twist, Suriya will also make a cameo appearance in “Sarfira.” He took to social media to share a picture from the film’s set and expressed his nostalgia, saying, “Akshay Kumar sir, to see you as Vir, was nostalgic! Sudha Kongara, I can see our story beautifully coming alive again. Enjoyed every minute with the team of ‘Soorarai Pootru’ Hindi in a brief cameo.”
“Soorarai Pottru” received multiple accolades at the National Film Awards in 2022. Suriya won the Best Actor award for his remarkable performance in the film, while Aparna Balamurali won the Best Actress award. The film also won awards for Best Feature Film, Best Screenplay, and Best Background Score. Directed by Sudha Kongara, “Soorarai Pottru” depicted the inspiring life of Simplify Deccan founder Captain GR Gopinath.
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Foreign individuals who meet the following criteria shall be evaluated in that scope and they can apply for Turkish Citizenship exceptionally with the decision of the Cabinet of Ministers;
- Proven by the Ministry of Economy to make fixed capital investment in the amount of minimum USD 500.000;
- Proven by the Ministry of Environment and Urbanism to purchase real estate in the amount of minimum USD 250.000 provided that it is registered in the Title Deed Registry not to be sold for three years;
- Proven by the Ministry of Labor and Social Security to provide employment for at least 50 people;
- Proven by the Banking Regulation and Supervision Agency to deposit minimum USD 500.000 in banks operating in Turkey provided that such amount shall be kept in the banks for three years;
- Proven by the Undersecreteriat of Treasury to purchase State debt instruments in the amount of minimum USD 500.000 provided that such instruments are kept for three years;
- A regulation regarding the Turkish Citizenship Law was added to Article 20, which regulates the conditions for the exceptional acquisition of Turkish citizenship. It was also decided that citizenship rights should be provided for foreigners investing in capital market instruments and other investments. According to this, a share of real estate investment fund participation of at least 1.5 million dollars or foreign investors who hold a venture capital investment fund share and keep it for three years will be entitled to Turkish citizenship.
Foreign investors should hold the properties or continue the minimum limit of financial investments for at least three years to meet the criteria for Turkish citizenship.
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03 Jul 2015
Patna: Altogether 1,400 primary teachers have resigned from service in Bihar fearing government action over possession of fake educational degrees, a senior officer of the Education Department said.
02 Jul 2015
Chandigarh: Drawing flak from some quarters for turning professional, Olympic bronze-medallist boxer Vijender Singh met Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar here today.
01 Jul 2015
Indore: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) today demanded a CBI probe into the mysterious deaths of those involved in the high-profile MP Professional Examination Board (MPPEB) scam.
30 Jun 2015
New Delhi: A special court today directed CBI to supply deficient copies of documents filed by it to the accused, including Congress leader and industrialist Naveen Jindal, along with the chargesheet filed in the Amarkonda Murgadangal coal block allocation scam case.
27 Jun 2015
Patna: The Bihar Cabinet has formally approved a proposal to train three lakh school teachers with financial help from the World Bank, officials said.
29 Jun 2015
Bhopal: Two more accused in the high-profile MPPEB scam died in Gwalior and Indore, adding another murky dimension to the massive scandal in which 25 accused and witnesses have died so far.
22 Jun 2015
New Delhi: School life is the most cherishing and memorable part in everyone's life. From morning prayers to tiffin sharing, from heavy bag on back to water-bottles hanging on neck, from sharpening pencils hundred times to the last ringing bells, everything was so treasuring. But, what made our school days more special were the 'teachers' and their inspiring or threatening dialogues.
30 Jun 2015
New Delhi: The CBI must probe deaths of accused and witnesses under mysterious circumstances in Madhya Pradesh's Vyapam scam, says the man who exposed the massive admission and recruitment scandal.
24 Jun 2015
Mumbai: Maharashtra's Women and Child Development Minister Pankaja Munde was in trouble today following allegations that she cleared purchases worth Rs 206 crore through 24 government resolutions on a single day instead of inviting tenders.
28 Jun 2015
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday voiced concern over the declining sex ratio in 100 districts of the country, with situation being “more serious” in Haryana, and pitched for a campaign to save girls through the social media.


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High-Speed Rail Creeps Forward, With $2.4 Billion in Federal Funding Given to Projects in 23 States
The push for high-speed rail in America is picking up speed — it’s just happening really, really slowly. Yesterday, efforts...
The push for high-speed rail in America is picking up speed — it’s just happening really, really slowly. Yesterday, efforts to connect American cities with new high-speed passenger rail links received a shot in the arm to the tune of $2.4 billion in federal funding for 54 projects in 23 states. And while it’s not even close to enough to push America’s rail system toward the modern railways linking Asian and European cities, it is a baby step in the right direction. Who knows, we might even see some high-speed-rail dollars actually go toward laying some high-speed track.
$2.4 billion is a significant amount of money, but when you place it in the context of 54 projects across 23 states it becomes a rather less princely sum. Keep in mind, our last investment in high-speed rail, from the stimulus act, totaled $8 billion. But there are some significant investments in this bill buried among the interminable feasibility studies and development plans that should lead to some shovel-ready (yeah, we said it) rail projects laying down some actual track.
For instance, California – a state that is so delightfully progressive that it has both an actual plan for high-speed rail and none of the fiscal responsibility required to invest in it – received more than $905 million for new high-speed lines in the Central Valley, lines that will hopefully become part of a larger vision for a Sacramento to San Diego line linking the state north to south. Another $800 million went toward construction of a Tampa-Orlando corridor.
In the Midwest, Michigan received $161 million for a high-speed link connecting Detroit to Chicago via Kalamazoo, and Iowa received $230 million for a new intercity rail link from Iowa City to Chicago through the Quad Cities. The latter won’t technically be high speed, but it’s part of the larger effort to put Chicago at center of a massive Midwest rail hub blending high-speed with slower intercity rail. And at 79 miles per hour, the Iowa City link won’t crawl along either.
Why did these projects get the lion’s share of the investment when 132 applications from 32 states sought $8.8 billion? Because they have mature plans investing in actual rail construction. The balance of the $2.4 billion will go to various projects seeking to plan high-speed corridors, improve existing service, and otherwise figure out how to align politics at the state and local level to get this done.
However frustrating it may be to watch China continue to break rail speed records when America can’t even seem to break ground, it is encouraging that so many applications poured in seeking three times the funding that was available. More than 30 companies have agreed to establish or expand their U.S. operations if they are hired to help build American high-speed rail. That’s job creation, America.
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Diplomacy: Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif met with U.N. Yemen envoy Martin Griffiths in Tehran. The two discussed backing a nationwide ceasefire in Yemen and reopening the Sanaa airport.
Military: Iran, Russia and China announced that they would conduct joint naval drills in the Indian Ocean later this month. The three navies would rehearse search and rescue operations, Reuters reported.
Diplomacy: Iran summoned Belgium's ambassador to Tehran over the sentencing of an Iranian diplomat by a Belgian court last week. The Iranian diplomat had been sentenced to 20-years in prison for allegedly planning to bomb Iranian exiles living in Europe.
Health: Iran began inoculating health care workers using Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine. Health Minister Namaki’s son was the first person injected, a move designed to boost public confidence in the vaccine. Intensive care unit staff at more than 600 hospitals were also vaccinated.
Nuclear: Iran's intelligence minister said that Iran could potentially pursue a nuclear weapon if it were backed into a corner. “Our nuclear program is peaceful and the fatwa [religious edict] by the supreme leader has forbidden nuclear weapons, but if they push Iran in that direction, then it wouldn’t be Iran’s fault but those who pushed it," Mahmoud Alavi told state TV. “If a cat is cornered, it may show a kind of behavior that a free cat would not.”
Oil: The United States has sold more than a million barrels of Iranian fuel seized from tankers headed to Venezuela, the Department of Justice (DOJ) said. “The petroleum has been seized, and an interlocutory sale has preserved the cash value of the petroleum, which is now held by the U.S. Marshals Service," a DOJ spokesperson told Reuters.
Nuclear: The world's nuclear watchdog reported that Iran has produced 3.6 grams of uranium metal. Tehran began producing the metal, a key component of a nuclear weapon, on February 6 at a nuclear facility in Isfahan. Iran would need 500 grams of enriched uranium metal for a nuclear weapon, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Seven consecutive US presidents have bet on the myth that Iran can be forced to choose between collapse & submission.— Javad Zarif (@JZarif) February 10, 2021
They all lost the wager, as 42 yrs after the Islamic Revolution, we still stand strong.
My message on the anniversary of our Revolution:https://t.co/CiwIfUlLW7