January 22, 2020
The City of South Bend has begun installing the first phase of wayfinding signage. The first phase is part of a comprehensive wayfinding system that will effectively assist visitors and residents in navigating to key South Bend destinations and attractions. The project is funded jointly by the City and Visit South Bend Mishawaka.
The City collaborated with community stakeholders and Corbin Design, a wayfinding and graphic design firm, to design a system that will help pedestrians and vehicles become better oriented with South Bend. The wayfinding signage system includes several sign types, each designed for a particular user. Larger vehicle-oriented signs will be installed close to major roads and highways, directing traffic to various parts of the community, while more intimate pedestrian kiosks will be installed in dense urban areas to guide visitors and residents to shops, restaurants and attractions within walking distance.
“South Bend continues its positive momentum with the installation of these wayfinding signs that will better guide tourists and visitors to our expanding attractions and destinations,” said Mayor James Mueller.
“The new wayfinding signage system is a welcome addition to South Bend and will create a stronger first impression for visitors,” said Rob DeCleene, executive director of Visit South Bend Mishawaka. “It’s also a great opportunity for residents to see the attractions and areas highlighted as featured experiences for our 4.8 million annual visitors.”
The first phase of signage installation should be complete by the end of the week with future phases to be installed over the next two to three years.


I’ve just approved the final corrections to my Yale University Press book, Plutocrats United: Campaign Money, the Supreme Court, and the Distortion of American Elections due out Jan. 12. (You can preorder at a 28% discount at Amazon.)
I’ll be doing a book tour in January and February which should take me to LA, NY, DC, Irvine, Boston, Philadelphia, Atlanta, and Miami (with perhaps more to be added). I’ll announce details in December. But I’ll be previewing the talk in the fall, with a Constitution Day lecture September 16 at Chico State and a Democracy Studies lecture October 8 at Ohio State.
Looking forward to talking about the book. Here is the book description:
Campaign financing is one of today’s most divisive political issues. The left asserts that the electoral process is rife with corruption. The right protests that the real aim of campaign limits is to suppress political activity and protect incumbents. Meanwhile, money flows freely on both sides. In Plutocrats United, Richard Hasen argues that both left and right avoid the key issue of the new Citizens United era: balancing political inequality with free speech.
The Supreme Court has long held that corruption and its appearance are the only reasons to constitutionally restrict campaign funds. Progressives often agree but have a much broader view of corruption. Hasen argues for a new focus and way forward: if the government is to ensure robust political debate, the Supreme Court should allow limits on money in politics to prevent those with great economic power from distorting the political process.


Zanzibar Dance Festival – 10 nights of rhythm
For those dance enthusiasts out there, prepare for 10 nights like no other with Salsa, Bachata and Kizomba. One of the biggest dance events in Zanzibar will be taking place from the 17th to the 28th of October at Kae Beach. Professional dancers will be performing in the evenings as well. The show is expected to begin at 7 pm and continue till 10 pm.
If you happen to be travelling from resorts like The Residence Zanzibar, don’t miss out on the opportunity of a night filled with song and dance. Hurry and book your accommodation close to the venue. Both locals and foreigners are encouraged to come and experience a piece of African culture through dance and music. Don’t forget to get your pass for the event as well.


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THE F-15 MULTI-MISSION AIRCRAFT PROGRAM STATUS
ISSN: 0148-7191, e-ISSN: 2688-3627
Published February 01, 1976 by SAE International in United States
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In the mid 1960s, the requirement for a new air superiority fighter began to materialize. The United States Air Force defined a program to design, develop and produce a fighter aircraft capable of maintaining absolute air superiority in the post-1975 time period. The F-15A Eagle, built by McDonnell Aircraft Company, is this new generation fighter. Although designed as an air superiority fighter, the F-15A also incorporates those ingredients necessary for other roles.
Since the first flight on 27 July 1972, the superiority of the F-15A against all threats, including high altitude supersonic and very low altitude penetration has been demonstrated. Highly accurate air-to-surface delivery of conventional and guided weapons has also been proven. In addition, the Eagle has accumulated 23,000 flight hours with only one major accident.
CitationHamm, H., "THE F-15 MULTI-MISSION AIRCRAFT PROGRAM STATUS," SAE Technical Paper 760905, 1976, https://doi.org/10.4271/760905.
- Cole H.H. “Design, Integration and Testing of the F-15,” Paper 740843 SAE Aerospace Engineering and Manufacturing Meeting San Diego, California 30 September 3 October 1974
- English C.H. “Interactive Computer Aided Technology: Evolution in the Design Manufacturing Process,” MCAIR Paper 75-015 Conference on Applications of Computer Graphics in Engineering NASA Langley Research Center Hampton, Virginia 1 through 2 October 1975
- Nash D.E. Katz H. Moody W.C. “F-15 Flight Flutter Testing: Aircraft Systems and Test Operations,” AIAA Paper No. 75-1031 AIAA Aircraft Systems and Technology Meeting Los Anglees, California 4 through 7 August 1975
- Schultz J.H. “Computer Aided Manufacturing at McDonnell Aircraft Company,” International Business Machines Aerospace Workshop San Francisco, California 2 through 3 June 1975
- Morris A.W. “F-15 Corrosion Control Through Material Technology,” MCAIR Paper 75-001 NACE Symposium Toronto, Canada 14 through 18 April 1975
- Goran R.C. “1976 Technology Options for Cost-Effective Design,” MCAIR Paper 76-010 AIAA/ASME/SAE 17the SDM Meeting Valley Forge, Pennsylvania 5 through 7 May 1976
- Martens R.E. “F-15 Nozzle/Afterbody Integration,” MCAIR Paper 74-011 October 1974
- Sams H. “F-15 Propulsion System Design and Development,” AIAA Paper No. 75-1042 AIAA Aircraft Systems and Technology Meeting Los Angeles, California 4 through 7 August 1975
- Ostroff H.H. “F-15 Secondary Power Systems,” SAE Paper 740885 National Aerospace Engineering and Manufacturing Meeting San Diego, California 1 through 3 October 1974
- Krings J. “F-15 Spin Tests “MCAIR Paper 75-026 Society of Experimental Test Pilots Beverly Hills, California 24 through 27 September 1975
- “F-15 Eagle Maximum Availability …Minimum Maintenance” 1 October 1974


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Transitioning to passenger battery electric vehicles (BEV) can mitigate climate change impacts of road transportation. We develop a novel BEV policy model, nesting it within a national-scale macroeconomic system dynamics model (iSDG-Australia) to simulate a suite of policy pathways. We model combinations of infrastructure support and subsidies, which bring forward the price-parity tipping point, thus rapidly accelerating BEVs’ share of new car sales. However, ongoing complementary charging infrastructure investment is critical to reach 100% new BEV car sales by 2050 in Australia. Even with a rapid transition, the modelled fleet would not achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 due to vehicle longevity; and suddenly ceasing financial incentives could retard BEV sales by a decade. Based on our assumptions, results suggest emissions reductions are maximised by the fastest transition of the passenger vehicle fleet to BEVs, entailing government policy support from 2020 to 2050, for both adequate infrastructure deployment (AUD17.9b) and vehicle rebates (AUD19.5b), which achieves earlier BEV price-parity with fossil-fuelled vehicles.
|Number of pages||20|
|Journal||Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice|
|Publication status||Published - Aug 2022|
- Electric vehicle
- Public policy
- Road transport
- Socio-technical transition

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Slack-key guitar legend Raymond Kane dies
The art of slack-key guitar has lost one of its greats.
Raymond Kane died yesterday in Honolulu. He was 82.
Long a renowned performer and teacher of the open-tuning Hawaiian guitar style, Kane was one of the first artists signed to George Winston’s Dancing Cat record label in 1994.
Like his cousin Aunty Genoa Keawe—who passed away on Monday— Kane was honored by his peers in the Hawaii music industry with a Na Hoku Hanohano Lifetime Achievement Award. In 1987, he received a National Endowment for the Arts Folk Heritage Fellowship, one of the most prestigious honors for folk artists.
Kane seemed to get a particular kick out of introducing slack key to an audience of newcomers. One of the best memories of my years attending the University of Hawaii-Manoa was Kane’s visit to my Music in Modern America class one morning in 1993. Guitar at his side, the slyly humorous, always-grinning Kane shared stories of his life, his deep knowledge of the art form and, best of all, his sweet nahenahe (that’s relaxing in Hawaiian) ki hoalu skills with our tiny class.
For that hour, there was no cooler place in the world to be.
Rest in peace, Uncle Ray. We’ll miss you down here.

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Strike ends at Sasol Mining in Secunda
A 12-day-long strike at Sasol Mining in Secunda has come to an end with both Sasol and employees represented by the newly recognised United People’s Union of South Africa (Upusa) trade union agreeing that work would resume on Thursday afternoon.
An estimated 2 000 employees, or one-third of the Sasol Mining workforce, embarked on the strike over wages almost two weeks ago.
“The industrial action was resolved at a meeting between Elphas Nthuli, national chairperson of Upusa, and Herman Wenhold, MD of Sasol Mining,” Sasol said in a statement. “It was mutually agreed to call off the current Upusa industrial action with immediate effect.”
The petrochemical giant and the union also resolved to strengthen their relationship.
Sasol’s mining business negotiates wages and conditions of service directly with recognised unions including Solidarity; the Chemical, Energy, Paper, Printing, Wood and Allied Workers’ Union; the South African Chemical Workers’ Union; and Upusa.
Agreement was reached with all representative unions with the exception of Upusa during a recent round of negotiations.
Sasol, the world’s biggest producer of fuel from coal, said the strike had affected the division’s five mines but not fuel production. While it has not confirmed the extent of the production lost as a result of the strike, Sasol Mining confirmed last week that the mines were producing at lower volumes than normal.
Sasol Mining produces an average of 40-million tonnes of coal yearly. – I-Net Bridge

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MegaComputeur is an animation collective made up of six students; Camille Jalabert, Léo Brunel, Quentin Camus, Corentin Yvergniaux, Maryka Laudet and Oscar Malet. They came together after an internship at Paris-based Wizz Design. For their first project, which was created at Wizz, MegaComputeur has created Deuspi, a film that tells the tale of two hapless robbers and their attempts at stealing from a convenience store.
The short is based on a surveillance video the team saw on the internet where three French robbers are trying to rob a grocery store, but the police arrive on the scene by chance so arrest them. “The video really made us laugh, so we chose to do a story about robbers,” says MegaComputeur. “We wanted to do something funny and violent at the same time, while keeping a kind of ‘French touch’.”
The animation uses 3D animation to bring its characters to life and the world MegaComputeur has created is packed with crisp detail, giving the slapstick moments extra punch. With no dialogue, the visuals along with the well-timed sound effects are imperative for the pacy narrative. “I think our style is varied, but we tend to laugh a lot at black humour, gore and NSFW things,” explains the collective. “What’s funny with animated 3D movies is that the media is mainly intended for children, which is precisely why we wanted to use this technique with our sense of humour to surprise the audience.”
It was MegaComputeur’s first time working together as a group so they had to adjust to working collaboratively while still playing to their individual strengths. “We wanted to make everyone laugh. We wanted to do something fresh and different from the big animation studios and Wizz let us do what we wanted,” says MegaComputeur.
- Meet the speakers: Hollie Fernando, Andrew Rae, Raine Allen-Miller and Random International
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- Deep Throat Studio, a graphic design practice with a name and portfolio to grab your attention
- Photographer David Gomez Maestre captures the romance of sun-blushed landscapes
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- Benedict Brink is shaking up fashion photography
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- The New York Times Magazine’s new cover is actually a painting
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- Designs of the Year 2017 shortlist includes Wolfgang Tillmans’ Remain campaign, the Refugee flag and Me & EU


US Democrats in Congress in honour of African-American, George Floyd murdered by a white police in Minneapolis last month, took a kneel and draped cloth of colourful geometric Ghanaian designs called kente.
However their sartorial choice has been the subject of controversy, as social media users have questioned the decision to don the material.
The kente scarves were given out to the congressmen and women by the Congressional Black Caucus, according to NBC News reporter Leigh Ann Caldwell.
“The significance of the kente cloth is our African heritage and for those of you without that heritage who are acting in solidarity,” Karen Bass, chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus, told reporters on Monday.
“That is the significance of the kente cloth – our origins and respecting our past.”
Members of the Congressional Black Caucus have worn kente at other occasions, including events last year to mark the 400th anniversary of the arrival of enslaved Africans to America and President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address in 2018.
Reacting, the drummer for the Roots, Questlove, tweeted his disbelief, saying at first he thought he was being pranked when he was told about it:
The singer John Legend was particularly tickled about how life had imitated art as last month he had taken part in a comedy sketch in the US about Black History Month, which included a satirical song about adding kente cloth to your outfit.
However, Kenyan writer Nanjala Nyabola saw the Democrats’ use of kente as an insult to Africans, saying: “We are not your props.”
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The Golden Globes will serve a plant-based menu for its 77th annual awards show. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association said Thursday that the awards show known as the “party of the year" will serve a meatless meal at Sunday's ceremony.
The organization wants the initiative to raise environmental awareness about food consumption and waste. HFPA president Lorenzo Soria says the Golden Globes could send a signal and “draw attention to the issue of climate change."
He says there was some initial push back about a menu change just two weeks before the show, but The Beverly Hilton “accepted the change completely."
The Golden Globes awards show airs on live on Jan. 5 NBC. Ricky Gervais will host. "Marriage Story," starring Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver, leads the pack with six nominations for the ceremony. "The Irishman," "Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood," "Joker" and "The Two Popes" also nabbed several nominations each.
Ellen DeGeneres will also be receiving a new TV special achievement award. The Carol Burnett Award — the small-screen version of the group's film counterpart, the Cecil B. DeMille Award, is given annually to honor someone "who has made outstanding contributions to television on or off the screen." The first Carol Burnett Award last year fittingly went to Burnett herself.
In a statement, association President Lorenzo Soria hailed DeGeneres as "a pioneer who has captivated audiences for nearly 25 years with her undeniable charm and wit."


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Brown Sugar Peach Dutch Baby
A buttery puffed pancake with sauteed brown sugar peaches all topped with powdered sugar and real maple syrup. The perfect easy lazy weekend summer breakfast.
Oh, it is peach season in all its glory and I am loving finding ways to use them. We love making Dutch Baby pancakes because they are so easy. Beyond simple. This Browned Butter Peach Dutch Baby is literally whipped up in a blender...for about 30 seconds. It is poured into a pan and then baked. It is such an impressive breakfast for minimal effort.
What is in a Peach Dutch Baby Pancake?
It all starts with BUTTER. The butter and fresh peaches are baked in a skillet in the oven over high heat until caramelized. The butter becomes nice, golden, and lightly browned which brings a toasted warmth to this puffed pancake. The peaches become slightly softened and soak in the browned butter. Then the brown sugar is added to coat the peaches and make a caramel-like sauce.
The Dutch Baby batter is made with whole milk, eggs, flour, vanilla, and salt. It is so simple and can be thrown together in a blender and whipped up. For a traditional classic dutch baby recipe, click here.
How to make a Peach Dutch Baby:
1. It all starts with a hot oven. The butter and peaches are added to the skillet and placed into the oven until the butter browns and the peaches are slightly softened -- about 5-7 minutes.
2. The homemade Dutch baby batter is so easy since all of the ingredients are whipped together in a blender and poured into the hot skillet over the browned butter and peaches.
3. The Peach Dutch will puff up and bake for about 20 minutes. Turn on the oven light (but don't open the oven as it will deflate the puffiness) to watch it expand. Kids watch in awe as it puffs up.
4. Remove from oven and top with fresh whipped cream, real maple syrup, and powdered sugar.
Your family is going to LOVE you for making this Peach Dutch Baby Pancake for them. When I took the first bite, I literally uttered, "ARE YOU KIDDING ME?" It was that good.
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Oh My Goodness, I can't wait to make this Peach Dutch Baby. It really looks like it belongs in a Magazine. So Delicious, You really out did yourself Melissa, this is Beautiful....
Oh my goodness! I made this recipe this morning because I had a couple of peaches that were about to go bad. While it was baking my family kept commenting how delicious it smelled, and when I pulled it out of the oven they said "wow!". It puffed up beautifully and tasted even better. This recipe is definitely a keeper and will be made over and over. Thank you!
Looking for something to do with a couple of super sweet and juicy peaches that had gotten too soft and found this recipe. It was so good, my husband and I ate the whole thing by ourselves! We only felt a little guilty.
The Modern Proper
This looks so good and straight out of one of my favorite brunch restaurants. I am now trying to think of how I can get to the store tonight so I can indulge in such a delicious breakfast tomorrow! Peace season is the best.
Oh you will love it! Peach season is the best and I get geared up to make as many peach recipes as possible. So so good! Thanks, Ashley!
how can you tell when it's done?
Hi Cris! Great question! I always use the oven light and peek in so I don't deflate the Dutch Baby. You will see it puff up and become golden brown...then you will know it is done. I hope that helps! Thanks for trying my recipe.

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Logic, Luck and Love
I’ve been recently writing about what goes on inside my head during specific stand-up and storytelling performances. I’ve only done this twice so far, though I’ve probably been on stage about 60-75 times in my short(ish) career(ish). Well, this most recent one was the most unique performance of those 75 shows. It was a delicious and intimidating performance smoothie, blending together equal parts stand-up, storytelling and theater – one of which I’d never tasted before.
It all started (for me) when Molly asked if I was interested in doing a show in the Fringe Festival with her, Jenn Moore and Kevin Boggs. I had just worked with Molly in Sucker for Love 2: Electric Boogaloo and graciously accepted doing whatever this thing was, having never heard of the Fringe Festival with no clue of the massiveness that it was. Molly and Jenn had gotten this concept to make a show based around the relationship experiences of both men and women, gay and straight and wanted four people, one of each gender and sexual orientation. After casting Kevin in a no-brainer decision, they needed one last piece for the puzzle – a straight guy. And there were none in the DC Theater scene. “Sure, I’ll be your straight guy.” And so I was cast.
We worked tirelessly on this project from February through opening night in mid-July. If this article were a cheesy 80s movie, this paragraph would be the cheesy montage scene with the necessary cheesy quasi-inspirational one-hit-wonder music playing in our earphones. Me sitting alone writing. Thinking. Idea! Writing again. Jenn, Molly and I on the roof laughing. Me crumpling up paper and throwing it dramatically across the room. The cat runs away from it. I pick her up and nuzzle her nose. More writing. All four of us around a table with salt and pepper shakers. Jenn moves them around a coaster as if they were people. Kevin then pretends they are having sex with each other and makes kissy noises. I roll my eyes. More writing. Rewriting. Editing. By the time June rolled around, I was thankful to go to work to get a break from rewriting all this crap. And then there starts the montage where we introduce Joe and Amy as directors and start pacing around the basement and get serious. This should have been the part of the movie where you got up to get an ice cream sandwich.
Cut to opening night. I’ve never been more prepared for anything in my life. No football game, no stand-up routine, no homecoming dance gig, nothing. Not even the SATs. Birth. Maybe my own birth and that’s about it. Still, I was more nervous than I had been for anything. In stand-up and storytelling, you’re hanging out with the audience before the show, flirting with the girls and drinking with your friends. Here, I was told we needed to be backstage. I never really had a backstage. I mean there was a green room at the Funny Bone, but we weren’t confined there like we were here. We kept peeking through the curtain to see people we knew. Molly and I both had a little audience participation, so we looked out to find our victims. All four of us took turns begin peppy with energy, nervous with anticipation, excited with motivational words and secluded in last-minute rehearsal. I can remember all three of them at different times telling me how great I was, along with each other. It was inspiring and comforting. Well done, fellow cast members. Amy came back every 5 minutes. “15 minutes.” “10 minutes.” “5 minutes.” This was what made me the most nervous. That and this was my first sober performance possibly ever.
See, I have a very well-documented three-beer rule before all my shows. But for this, I didn’t want to even tempt losing my place. I had other people counting on me. Besides, we were on stage for an entire hour. Though I wasn’t talking for the entire hour, I was on the stage. I developed a new set of rules which I am happy to have followed to the letter for all 5 shows. On the day of the show, I would have no alcohol, soda or cheese at all. No alcohol for reasons of not only inebriation, but also voice. No carbonation for reasons of burping. And no cheese because I have recently not been able to process it very well. Actually, I still process it, but into short bursts of methane gas from my ass, which is inconvenient when seated for a whole hour. These three rules definitely helped me survive 5 nights of being on stage for a whole hour without needing to pee, burp or fart.
“Places, everybody.” Shit. This was it. I had the voice of Joe echoing in my head about how important this first piece was since it was the thesis of the entire show. Our individual stories were written and the cards just happened to fall so that I opened the show. I went over in my head the one part in the first piece where I stumbled the most in warm-ups one last time. OK, at least 11 last times. And then Queen spoke. “Find me – somebody to loooove, find me…” And we were walking out to the front of the stage, the men from stage left and the ladies from stage right. We sat down during the music on this particular night, which wasn’t always the case. The crowd was packed. Every chair was full. The music stopped. This was my cue.


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Peer effects and ownership costs in the diffusion of residential solar photovoltaic in California
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This research analyses the California Solar Initiative (CSI) Program data to identify and describe peer effects and price elasticity to adoption affecting the patterns of residential PV adoption. Descriptive statistics and adoption trends are analyzed to explore the impacts of peer effects and third-party owned system on the diffusion of residential solar PV in California. As the residential solar PV technology is still in an early stage of market formation, understanding the patterns of adoption in relatively more mature market can have broad implications for wider diffusion of the technology at the national level. In the first part of the thesis, I build an econometric model to estimate the influence of system cost and peer effects on the rate of diffusion at the zip code-level. The results reveal significant and positive installed base effects in the rate of future adoption. These results provide support to the hypothesis that peer effects help accelerate the adoption of new technologies. The cost-to-customer reduction is negative and significant at the state level. The impact of installed base in inducing new adoption is larger in zip codes with higher overall adoptions. The second part of the thesis presents trends in installation and choice of system capacity of major adoption clusters in California and analyzes the spread of third-party owned systems. Evidence from major adoption clusters in California has shown that growth in leasing adoption exhibits exponential characteristics while growth of customer owned system shows strongly linear feature. This suggests that third-party owned systems play a role in expanding the solar PV market to a significantly large population, especially given that this business would significantly reduces information cost associated with PV adoption. These results offer direct policy and marketing insights that would be useful in speeding up the diffusion of residential PV.

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JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel appears to be wooing Walmart.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke to senior Walmart Inc. executive John Furner at a meeting on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum last month in Davos, Switzerland, Bloomberg reported, citing Netanyahu’s economic adviser Avi Simhon.
Netanyahu and Furner reportedly discussed the idea of Walmart opening a retail branch in Israel and also of the company investing in Israeli technologies, Simhon told Bloomberg.
Simhon, who was present at the meeting, said Netanyahu offered to “ease regulatory burdens wherever possible to make the market more accessible to them.”
In November, reports surfaced that Amazon was in talks to lease at least 270,000 square feet of warehouses to set up a retail shipping center in Israel, and also had plans to launch a targeted website for Israeli consumers.


Newark, a 4,098-ton protected cruiser, was the last of
the Navys warships to be fitted with sails. It was
launched in 1890 and commissioned the following year.
Because of its many improvements, the USS Newark
has been labeled as the first modern cruiser in the U.S.
With the development of the self-propelled torpedo,
long-range torpedo boats made their debut. In 1890, one
of the first torpedo boats joined the fleetthe 22.5-knot
USS Cushing. The Navy acquired 16 fast torpedo boats
and three 185-ton boats capable of speeds of 27 knots.
The development of torpedo boats caused the shape
of ships to change. An example was the USS Truxtun,
which led to the design of our present-day destroyers.
These ships were designed to combat torpedo boats.
Later improvements resulted in destroyers themselves
Since surface ships were driven by steam, why not
submarines? Steam requires air, fire, and heat, and those
were in limited supply aboard a submarine. During the
19th century, the internal combustion engine was
developed. Use of this engine on ships had drawbacks.
However, many of its problems were overcome by two
inventorsJohn Holland and Simon Lake. Holland and
Lake had opposite theories about the submarine.
Figure 5-5.Farragut (in rigging) at Mobile Bay.


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How Magic Became Science
Nicole Salomone is a lecturer in Jefferson’s History of Medicine lecture series. She has been studying the history of medicine since 1991, focusing on infectious disease of the late 18th century. Since the publication of her book, Forgotten, she has lectured on 18th century scholarly theories and treatments.
Presentation: 18 minutes
Salomone, Nicole, "How Magic Became Science" (2014). Harry Potter. Paper 1.

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Towards a level playing field
Asia firms urged to be more transparent and informative on ESG disclosure
As environmental, social and governance (ESG) considerations move increasingly into the mainstream of investment, companies in Asia are waking up to the opportunities of committing to ESG-focused principles. An increasing number of investors accept that an evaluation of an investment opportunity is not complete without proper appreciation and analysis of these factors.
It has become evident that investors need easy access to high-quality, comparable, relevant ESG information. But this information is not always available. As a result, listed companies have been under increasing pressure to report more and better data. This issue has appeared on the radar of governments, regulators, and stock exchanges, which are driving changes in reporting and disclosures by listed companies through policies, regulations, and guidelines.
This is why CFA Institute has now published a report on ESG Disclosures in Asia Pacific: A Review of ESG Disclosure Regimes for Listed Companies in Selected Markets, designed to keep stakeholders abreast of the latest developments and regional trends in disclosure regimes. The report provides an overview of regulations in seven markets in Asia Pacific and provides an overview of the opportunities and challenges for various stakeholder groups.
We also give recommendations on how stakeholders can contribute to the development of more transparent and informative ESG disclosure practices in their markets, and create a level playing field across the region.
Disclosure in Asia Pacific
ESG reporting is a crowded space. Several global frameworks have been developed, such as the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB), the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), Integrated Reporting, and Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD).
They differ in their approaches, philosophies, and purpose. For example, SASB primarily addresses the needs of investors, while GRI is broader, addressing the needs of all stakeholders. TCFD focuses on climate-related disclosures.
Although these frameworks are largely complementary, instead of providing clarity, their profusion has added to the confusion of companies and investors.
One of the most striking findings in the CFA Institute report is that interest in the topic has grown significantly in the region. Many Asia Pacific markets have taken steps toward mandating or encouraging disclosure in some or all aspects of ESG within the past two decades. Corporate governance, in particular, came into focus in the early 2000s, in response to the collapse of the dot-com bubble and the Enron scandal.
In the markets we reviewed, regulators and exchanges have adopted a range of approaches, from voluntary disclosures to comply-and-explain, to mandating key performance indicator (KPI) disclosures, to recommending global frameworks. They also differ in the level of the obligation imposed on reporting companies, ranging from voluntary to comply-or-explain, to mandatory.
° Corporate governance is the most advanced of the three factors
We have found that of the three components of ESG, reporting on corporate governance is generally far more advanced than reporting on environmental and social factors. This is consistent with many investment managers’ views that thus far, the corporate governance of a listed company has the most influence on its alpha.
° Individual markets are taking different approaches
Regulators and exchanges in different markets have adopted a range of approaches, from mandating key performance indicators, to comply or explain requirements.
° Benefits of ESG reporting
Apart from keeping investors informed and regulators satisfied, the process of preparing ESG disclosures benefits a company, such as motivating directors and management to become more aware of relevant risks and opportunities and the perception of investors and stakeholders. Signaling such awareness to the market could help a company demonstrate strategic leadership on the management of such issues.
° More than box-ticking
The volume of reporting has increased substantially as regulators and stock exchanges in Asia Pacific drive changes in reporting and disclosures. But there is still room for improvement in the quality of disclosures. More importantly, the value proposition of ESG disclosures needs to be better articulated to motivate companies and boards to make improvements and not treat it as a box-ticking exercise.
Recommendations for progress
Progress is likely to occur in a phased manner. The trend of ratcheting up the level of obligation and the scope of disclosures is likely to continue, with governments, regulators, and standard setters driving these changes. Notwithstanding this, each stakeholder group has a unique role to play in maintaining momentum and improving the quality of reporting.
We see it as critical to educate the board and senior executives to more fully integrate and report on how ESG fits in with a company’s strategic outlook, risk management framework, and corporate accountability, so that they can steer the company accordingly.
We want to ensure that all relevant and material ESG information and any related KPIs are communicated to stakeholders, including employees, investors, and other capital providers, in a consistent and timely manner.
We encourage investee companies to upgrade the quality and consistency of ESG information, including more detail on what is material ESG information and how it may affect valuation and future corporate performance.
Information is a two-way street. Investors should also communicate to issuers what information they would like to see and how that would impact an issuer’s valuation. This will ensure future improvements.
There may no one-size-fits-all approach in ESG-related information, but it’s clear to us that further refinement and understanding of such disclosures will improve their quality, consistency, and comparability.
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The final installment of Kwan's Crazy Rich Asians trilogy. A comic novel of a family riven by fortune, an ex-wife driven psychotic with jealousy, a battle royal fought through couture gown sabotage, and the heir to one of Asia's greatest fortunes locked out of his inheritance.
What makes these campy novels so deliciously fascinating is that they sometimes read more like an insider crash course on uber-rich Asian society than satirical comedy. Embellished with snarky but informative footnotes, the novel is colored with Asian cultural context as the plot moves briskly through the decadent lifestyles of an extended Singapore-based Chinese family, the Shangs ... Just as the box office for movies like Get Out has shown the benefits of films that appeal to black audiences, so Asian viewers can wield the power of the purse. Kevin Kwan’s series is the latest and one of the first to harness this power for the mainstream. Gentrification has shown us that typically as more money enters a cultural space, less of the original culture remains, like my city, Los Angeles, where ethnic families move further east as hipsters take over. With Rich People Problems, we see that while it’s wealth and class that are the ultimate dividers between people, this increasing financial success doesn’t always have to spell cultural erasure.
Kwan’s prose may be plain, but he accessorizes splendidly, with detailed descriptions of feasts and mansions, couture clothing and shiny, shiny jewels. Rich People Problems is a fun tabloid romp full of over-the-top shenanigans, like a society party brawl that ruins both a Ramon Orlina glass sculpture of the hostess’s breasts and 'a special pig that had only eaten truffles its entire life and was flown in from Spain.' It’s more farce than satire, with more flash than depth, but it delivers exactly what it’s supposed to — a memorable, laugh-out-loud Asian glitz fest that’s a pure pleasure to read.
Kwan's satirical lance has become slightly more subtle, while no less deadly, over the course of the trilogy. The books are the essence of the beach read: lively plot(s), memorable characters, able to be read with adult beverages at hand.


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Filed under: Subaru , Toyota , Japan , Coupe , Performance If you like the Scion FR-S but aren’t a fan of its aggressively styled front end, you’d apparently be in good company in Japan, where Toyota is offering this re-snouted 86 Style Cb edition. Continue reading Toyota updates 86 in Japan with this weird special edition Toyota updates 86 in Japan with this weird special edition originally appeared on Autoblog on Wed, 11 Feb 2015 12:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
New York, NY, April 4, 2013 – In conjunction with Distracted Driving Awareness Month in April, Teen Vogue and Toyota announced today “Arrive in Style,” a safe driving campaign to raise awareness of the dangers of distracted driving among teenage girls and inspire them to make a mutual commitment with their mothers to drive safely.


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Indonesia and South Korea have signed 18 billion US dollars’ worth of business deals during President Joko Widodo’s visit to Seoul. That includes 15.8 billion US dollars for investment plans by six South Korean companies, and 2.2 billion U.S. dollars in agreements between companies from the two countries. The Indonesian delegation arrived in South Korea on Sunday for a three-day visit seeking to attract foreign investment. South Korea is the fifth-largest foreign investor in Indonesia.
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By Andrew Liszewski
If life’s got you a bit too stressed to get a good night’s sleep you’ll be happy to know there’s a whole industry dedicated to helping you finally catch some Z’s. But if unnecessary medication isn’t your thing there are alternatives like the Dreamate Sleep Aid. It’s a special wrist band you’re supposed to wear when you’re ready to go to bed that delivers a “comfortable double-frequency micro-massage (via a vibration motor) to specific pulse points â€” called the Sleeping Golden Triangle in traditional Chinese medicine â€” to safely relieve stress and induce sleep.”
Apparently this ‘Sleeping Golden Triangle’ is three acupuncture points located on the wrist that are responsible for calming, relieving stress and sleep inducing and stimulating these points with vibration can actually help put you under. Of course if it doesn’t work you can always go back to downing a bottle of children’s cough medicine when it’s time to hit the hay. (Please note: OhGizmo does not officially recommend downing a bottle of children’s cough syrup for either medical or entertainment purposes.)
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Anniversary Auction Celebrating 100 Years
Join the Beckley-Raleigh County Chamber of Commerce as we celebrate 100 years of serving our business community with an Anniversary Auction on Facebook!
Donations from over 75 local businesses. Thousands of dollars of goodies Including overnight resort stays, outdoor recreation, family entertainment, spa packages, home decor, automotive services, jewelry, restaurants, gas cards and gym memberships.
The Online facebook Auction runs through the week and will close at noon Monday Aug 3rd. Check the Auction facebook event page often. Items will be added daily. TO VIEW AUCTION ITEMS MAKE SURE TO CLICK ON THE “DISCUSSION” TAB ON THE EVENT PAGE
We are excited about the many local member businesses that have graciously entered items into the auction to help in supporting our chamber of commerce community activities. We appreciate all of our businesses very much!
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Supercar replicas aren’t exactly news, yet it’s always interesting to bump up on one and see how well (or, more often than not, badly) it’s executed. Cue in this Lamborghini Aventador replica created by a small Indian company named Dream Customs India that’s based on a Honda Civic.
The car took 25 days of work to complete, with mid-engined proportions and a full aerodynamic bodykit trying hard to mimic the lines of the Aventador SVJ.
See Also: This Acura NSX-Based Faux-errari Is A Driveable Faux Pas
The profile is well executed even though the wheel / tire combination is not ideal and could use some spacers. Other cool features include the dual inlets on the aggressive nose and the high-positioned (fake) exhaust pipes at the back. Having said that, the rear wing doesn’t look like the SVJ, and the extra LEDs lighting up at night are a bit tacky.
Unlike other replicas, this one also has a custom interior featuring a touchscreen on the inclined center console, a Lamborghini-branded steering wheel and a completely redesigned dashboard inspired by the Sant’Agata supercar. The only part of revealing the car’s true identity is the instrument cluster.
See Also: Honda Civic Morphs Into A Lamborghini Aventador Replica In India
Under the custom bodywork lies the chassis and drivetrain of a humble eight-generation Honda Civic (2005-2012). This means it probably has a naturally aspirated front-mounted 1.8-liter unit mated to a CVT gearbox that sends the power to the front wheels. Honda’s VTEC can’t compare with the screaming mid-mounted 6.5-liter V12 of the SVJ producing 759 hp (566 kW / 770 PS), but no one would race a replica like this on the Nurburgring anyway.
This is not the first time Dream Customs India builds an Aventador replica; a couple of months ago they finished an orange example based on a Honda Accord and a yellow one based on another Civic. Judging from their videos, they are getting better with each model so maybe we should expect more of them in the future.
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This historiography essay was the final assignment of my ASI 120 (Core Program) course at the University of Dayton. In preparation for the paper, I read A Short History of Reconstruction, 1863-1877 by Eric Foner. After reading and reflecting on Foner’s book, I decided I wanted to focus my topic on Reconstruction in New Orleans, with specific emphasis on racial issues and the New Orleans Riot. I chose this topic because it allowed me to further research a topic relating to social justice with respect to race relations, something I am very passionate about. I spent a great deal of time finding appropriate sources for my paper at the UD Library. Once my sources were approved by my professor, I created my annotated bibliography and devised a rough draft for my final paper. In class, we did peer reviews of each other’s rough drafts. I also visited the Write Place and the Core Fellows for additional feedback. With the suggestions of all these people in mind, I read, revised, and re-read my rough draft many times until I achieved the final draft of my historiography paper.
"Reconstruction in the Big Easy: The Changing Interpretations of the Role of Race during Reconstruction in New Orleans,"
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Published: 1931 / 1997
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Races are always fun. Who doesn't enjoy them? We are sure everyone does. It is so exciting to watch people compete with each other enthusiastically with blood running fast in the veins. It is even more thrilling to see a race on boats, isn't it? You cannot deny the buzz and adventure that follows in such a competition. Boat race is an important and consistent event that takes place in the Melaghar region of the state. Undoubtedly, the event attracts a huge gathering and tourists from all over the world.
People irrespective of their caste, religion and other parameters get a chance to participate in the competition and then they race with their boats in the river of Melagha.
The winners are awarded with prizes later and thus it is both a celebration and a platform to win and showcase your boating skills.
Agartala is the capital city of the state of Tripura and hence is well-connected to all major cities via rail, road and air. Agartala has its own airport and railway station which is connected to many cities around the country and people can easily reach here. There are availability of buses as well from some nearby cities like Shillong, Guwahati etc.
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East Toronto will have numerous ways to celebrate Canada Day this coming Saturday, July 1.
There are fireworks displays planned for Ashbridges Bay Park in the Beach and Stan Wadlow Park in East York, picnics, barbecues and the annual East York Canada Day Parade.
East York’s parade will the 66th annual, and it begins on July 1 at 10:30 a.m. at Dieppe Park (145 Cosburn Ave.) and heads eastwards along Cosburn to end at Stan Wadlow Park (373 Cedarvale Ave.). The parade route follows Cosburn to Woodbine Avenue, then heads north to Trenton Avenue and eastwards towards the park.
The parade is part of the East York Canada Day Festival which goes from 11 a.m. until the start of the fireworks at night on July 1 at Stan Wadlow Park.
The festival features fun activities, games, a kids midway, food and entertainment. There will also be a craft beer market hosted by Muddy York Brewery.
Slated to perform at the Canada Day festival on the Main Stage in Stan Wadlow Park are children’s entertainer Professor Picklethorn; the Meteor Heist Band; the East York All Stars Blues Band; children’s entertainer Dan the Music Man; The Dave Dunlop Quintet; Bad Luck Woman and her Misfortunes; and Trainwreck. There will also be the East York’s Got Talent event on the Main Stage.at 2 p.m.
The opening ceremonies for the festival are at noon at the Main Stage and the MC is Joe Motiki.
The day concludes with the traditional Canada Day fireworks display at the park starting at approximately 10 p.m.
The East York Canada Day Festival is run by a group of dedicated volunteers with the support of the Government of Canada, The City of Toronto, the East York Foundation, Muddy York Brewery, O’Connor’s Meat Market, Sultan of Samosas, and Blue Door Realty Group Inc.
For more info on the July 1 events in East York, please visit the website at https://eycdc.ca/
Ashbridges Bay fireworks
In the Beach on July 1, there will be the City of Toronto’s fireworks display at Ashbridges Bay, foot of Coxwell Avenue at Lake Ontario, starting at 10 p.m. sharp. The Ashbridges Bay fireworks display will last 14 minutes.
Large crowds are expected to attend the display, which can be viewed from anywhere along the Boardwalk. Toronto police are reminding those planning on attending that the use of fireworks on public properties including beaches, parks, parkettes, and sports fields is illegal.
Due to the large crowds and localized road closures, police are urging people to find alternate methods other than driving to get to the Beach on the night of July 1.
The following TTC bus routes serve Woodbine Beach Park and Ashbridges Bay Park: 22A Coxwell and 92A Woodbine. The TTC plans on adding extra buses to those routes on July 1.
Q107 Canada Day Picnic at Woodbine Park
Also in the Beach this weekend will be the annual Q107 Canada Day Picnic at Woodbine Park, 1695 Queen St. E. – northeast of Lake Shore Boulevard East and Coxwell Avenue.
The Q107 Canada Day Picnic will feature food, fun, music and more on the night of Friday, June 30, and during the day and into the evening on Saturday, July 1.
There will be food trucks and a beer garden presented by Muskoka Brewery.
The fun starts on June 30 from 6 p.m. to 11 p.m. with bands Reckless Bryan (tribute to Bryan Adams) at 6:30 p.m.; Jukebox Heroes (tribute to Foreigner) at 8 p.m.; and Keep the Faith (tribute to Bon Jovi) at 9 p.m.
On July 1, the picnic goes from noon to 11 p.m. Bands slated to perform are After the Gold Rush (tribute to Neil Young) at noon; Monkey Wrench (tribute to the Foo Fighters) at 1:10 p.m.; Aeroforce (tribute to Aerosmith) at 2:15 p.m.; and Pearl Jamming (tribute to Pearl Jam) at 3:45 p.m.; Sheer Heart Attack (tribute to Queen) at 5:15 p.m.; the AC-DC Show – Canada (tribute to AC-DC) at 6:45 p.m.; Floydium (tribute to Pink Floyd) at 8:15 p.m.; and Desire (tribute to U2) at 9:45 p.m.
For more info on the Q107 Canada Day Picnic, please go to https://www.q107canadadayfest.com/
Neighbours Together on Canada Day in Riverdale Park East
The Neighbours Together on Canada Day 2023 celebration takes place in Riverdale Park East on Saturday, July 1.
The fun starts at 11 a.m. in the park (550 Broadview Ave., south of Danforth Avenue). Most of the activities will be centred around the area at the south end of the park, near St. Matthew’s Clubhouse at 450 Broadview Ave. The event continues until 3:30 p.m.
There will be food, children’s activities, presentations by local community groups and entertainment. Slated events include a Lion Dance, singing and dancing, a martial arts demonstration, a barbecue, a Children’s Corner, and a Canada Day birthday cake.
The main organizer of the Canada Day celebration in Riverdale Park East is the Toronto Chinese Chamber of Commerce of East Toronto. Toronto-Danforth Councillor Paula Fletcher is a co-organizer.
Royal Canadian Legion Branch 11 Canada Day celebration
The Royal Canadian Legion Branch 11 on Dawes Road is inviting residents to a Canada Day celebration on Saturday, July 1, from noon to 7 p.m.
Taking place on the Legion grounds at 9 Dawes Rd., the celebration will feature live music from 2 to 6 p.m. Slated to perform are Ronnie and The Corvairs.
The event will also feature a bouncy castle, a dunk tank, face painting, refreshments and a barbecue.
Each person will receive one free hamburger or hot dog and one piece of birthday cake, while supplies last.
Royal Canadian Legion Branch 10 Canada Day celebration
The Royal Canadian Legion Branch 10, 1083 Pape Ave., hosts a Canada Day celebration on July 1 from 1 to 6 p.m.
Everyone is invited to come on out to a fun filled Patio Party and celebrate Canada.
There will be an outdoor BBQ, games, jelly bean guess, and raffles for amazing prizes. DJ Jose will be playing tunes from 1 to 3 p.m.; followed by Karaoke with Bill will be from 3 to 6 p.m.
Canada Day Kick-off with the Two Fours at The Hideout in the Beach
Local band The Two Fours will play their Second Annual Canada Day Long Weekend Launch Party on Friday, June 30. Performing upstairs in The Blue Room at The Hideout, 2282 Queen St. E., the group will kick start the weekend with a musical mix of rock, roll, roots, country, blues, and random genres.
The band’s lineup will be Susan Litchen, sax and flute; Wally Hucker, bass; Mark Porter, drums; and special guest local guitar wizard Sean Turner. All four sing lead and background vocals.
Their two-hour show, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., will feature two sets of highly danceable tunes. Adding to the party atmosphere will be door prizes of mounted and framed classic 45 RPM records. Free on street parking is available.
All tickets to the show include an entry for door prize draws. Tickets at $5 in advance, $10 at the door, are available at the bar downstairs at The Hideout, or by contacting the band, at 416-690-5442, or firstname.lastname@example.org (Only 70 tickets are available.)


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Cost of full recipe: $4.95
Cost per serving: $0.83
Recipe By: Susie T. Gibbs
Serves: 6 Serving Size: About 1/3-1/2 cup Yield: 2 cups
Preparation Time: 10 Minutes
Simmering Time: 20 Minutes
Start to Finish Time: 30 Minutes
This low carb rendition of Mornay Sauce was inspired by French Laundry Chef Thomas Keller’s Mornay Sauce.
- 2 tablespoons butter, unsalted
- 1/4 cup onion – minced (or shallot)
- 1/8 teaspoon kosher salt
- 2 ounces cream cheese
- 1/8 cup sauterne wine — or dry Vermouth
- 2 cups chicken broth (or leftover turkey carcass soup stock)
- 1 bay leaf, whole
- 3 black peppercorns – whole
- 2 clove, whole
- 1 cup heavy cream
- 1 pinch nutmeg – freshly grated
- 1 pinch white pepper
- 1 tablespoon oat fiber, or oat flour, or coconut flour
- 3/4 cup Gruyère or Emmenthaler cheese – grated
- 1/2 cup Parmesan cheese – grated
- Melt butter in non-stick sauce pan. Add finely chopped onion, or shallot, to melted butter along with a pinch of salt. Saute on medium low and sweat the onion until tender. You do not want the onion to brown because this is a white sauce.
- Place cream cheese on microwave safe plate and microwave on defrost for 10-20 seconds to soften cream cheese. Add cream cheese to onion butter mixture and stir until smooth and well combined. Add wine, stir, and cook for 1 to 2 minutes.
- Add broth a bit at a time to loosen the sauce base up, and to deter lump formation. Allow sauce to simmer for 10 – 20 minutes. Sauce should reduce slightly, but do not bring to a rolling boil. Add cream and cook 10 more minutes.
- Strain sauce into a clean saucepan to remove bay leaf, cloves, peppercorns, and onions.
- If Mornay sauce is too thin: In a separate small saucepan, or non-stick pan, add 1 tablespoon of oat fiber or coconut flour. Drizzle in about 1 cup of sauce, in a thin stream. Whisk sauce to prevent lumps. Cook this mixture over medium heat for 1-2 minutes to cook off raw flavor, stirring constantly. Whisk faux “roux” mixture back into Mornay and stir to combine. Let sauce cook until desired degree of thickness is reached.
- Season with a pinch of nutmeg (fresh is preferred, but use what you have) and white pepper. Remove from heat and whisk in grated cheeses. Taste and adjust salt and pepper levels. Serve immediately.
Per Serving: 304 Calories; 28g Fat (82.1% calories from fat); 10g Protein; 4g Carbohydrate; 1g Dietary Fiber; 93mg Cholesterol; 497mg Sodium; 3g Net Carbs
Serving Ideas: Serve over any white fleshed meat or seafood. Vegetables, and even hard-boiled eggs, are a delicious way to serve Mornay.
Susie T’s NOTES: Ratings – 4 out of Four Forks
This is such a simple sauce and so elegant. It works over chicken, turkey, game hens, and seafood of all kinds, especially shrimp and lobster – when they are on sale! It’s also delicious over veggies! The nuttiness of the sauce is intensified when you broil it for a couple of minutes.
I can’t emphasize how amazing the onion, bay leaf, cloves, and peppercorns make this Mornay Sauce. They transform the Mornay and take it beyond a simple “cheese sauce”. The added Dry Vermouth or Taylor Dry Sauterne also add complexity to the Mornay Sauce. You can read about Cooking With Wine over at Fluffy Chix Cook.
You may use either Gruyère or Emmenthaler Swiss Cheese to make the sauce. We used Gruyère even though it is more expensive. You only use a very small amount in the sauce and I believe the end result justifies the little touch of extravagance.
The Low Carb Mornay Sauce was inspired by French Laundry Chef Thomas Keller, but features a low carb riff on a velouté (classic mother sauce), because as legend has it, the béchamel sauce used as the base for most modern Mornay sauces had not been invented at the time the first sauce Mornay was served to the duc de Mornay in 1820.
A velouté mother sauce is a white sauce using equal parts butter and flour white roux, with a chicken stock addition. To convert this sauce to low carb, we ditched the flour and added a splash of wine, and also a bit of cream cheese to add thickening power.


MANILA – President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. on Saturday reassured Filipinos that the Philippines will not relinquish even an inch of its territory to any foreign power.
Marcos made the remark when he attended this year's Philippine Military Academy (PMA) alumni homecoming for the first time as the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP).
In a keynote speech delivered at the PMA Grandstand in Fort del Pilar, Baguio City, Marcos said his administration would continue protecting the country's territorial integrity and sovereignty amid the "heightened" geopolitical tensions.
"The country has seen heightened geopolitical tensions that do not conform to our ideals of peace and threaten the security and stability of the country, of the region, and of the world," he said. "This country will not lose one inch of its territory. We will continue to uphold our territorial integrity and sovereignty in accordance with our Constitution and with international law."
Preserving security, safety
Marcos, an adopted member of PMA Class of 1979, enjoined the alumni of the academy to continue protecting the security and safety of the country.
He urged them to lead a "life of service beyond self," whether they are working in government or the private sector.
"I am aware that some of you have continued your service in the private sector, while others have remained in government. And I hope in whatever capacity you serve, you continue to lead a life of service beyond self – an ethos we can attribute to a premier institution such as the Philippine Military Academy," he said.
The President also acknowledged that the PMA, since its inception in 1936, has produced "selfless individuals who have offered their lives to defend this country and preserve the democratic ideals and freedoms that we all enjoy today."
To honor those who sacrificed their lives for the country, Marcos called on the alumni to exemplify "integrity, service before self, and professionalism," the ideals and values they have gained from the academy.
"I am filled with gratitude, as is the nation, for your contributions to the collective effort to build our beloved Philippines. In honor of those who have sacrificed their lives to build this path for us, we will continue to develop this country and aspire for better lives for our people," he said. "Rest assured that this government, together with the Filipino people, are with you as we march forward towards achieving a safer, more peaceful, more progressive Philippines."
Marcos also expressed hope that his year's awardees would be emulated for their "exemplary work" and would "ignite a desire for service" in young PMA cadets to inspire them to become "leaders of character."
Working with int'l community
Marcos noted that while the current operating environment is "uncertain and grows increasingly complex," his administration has been exhausting all efforts to steer the country to a "high-growth trajectory."
He said the government would maintain good relations with the international community for the country to attain "prosperity."
"As we continue to develop our internal resources, we must pursue a path of prosperity that contributes to goals shared with the international community," he said.
"We have cemented our bilateral relations with our allies, with partners, with our friends. And as we work on translating these investments into material benefits for our people, we must ensure that we continue to preserve the security and the safety of our nation." (PNA)


President Obama is considering his possible running mates as Vice President Joe Biden has announced he will be stepping down due to health concerns. According to the White House the VP’s health has been in question for a number of months…
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Valentine's Day was a beautiful day this year and I will always remember it for the lovely sunshine and the new bottle of Minnie bubbles.......
I have seriously coveted this piece of woodgrain paper from Amy Tangerine forever and I was so stoked when it showed up in Citrus Twist's February kit. I know it was not entirely original to fill in some of the chevron shapes with patterned paper, but I had to have one of my own layouts with just that :-).
Something new that I have not done in awhile was handstitching. I gave it a go on this one with a super simple stitch straight across the paper. LOL. I know, not very life altering, but I get an A for effort! I have to note though, that I used twine as opposed to embroidery floss and I am not too sure I will be doing that again. The twine is thick, almost too thick. I had to be super careful when pulling the twine through.

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Fires consuming environmentally protected land in the state of Sao Paulo, Brazil on Aug. 24, 2021.
Photo from Bloomberg/Jonne Roriz (photographer)
How this complex biodiverse country in South America is handling climate change’s effects on its human population and wildlife.
From the equator and down south to the tropic of Capricorn, Brazil is notable for its diverse and natural physical geography that it offers to the world from its dense wildlife population in the Amazon rainforest, outstretched wetlands of Pantanal, low pampas grasslands of Rio Grande do Sul, long coastal plains and more.
Within its various terrains, Brazil inhabits approximately 215.3 million people according to the World Bank and at least 103,870 animal species and 43,020 plant species as cataloged in the Convention on Biological Diversity.
These numbers are pivotal when taking into account the aggressions of climate change in cultural, economic, and political relations.
How climate change affects the Brazilian workers and its economy
In order for Brazil to reduce its societal vulnerability in a time of extreme climate change, it is imperative to gain a baseline understanding of how ecosystem-based alternatives and adaptations play a key role for its agricultural and aquacultural sectors and the Brazilian people that see it through.
Brazil currently supplies 34% of the world’s soybeans, with agriculture driving 4.3% in its annual GDP, in the state of Mato Grosso which comprises both grass and woodlands. Additionally, both soy and corn are products that generate up to 88% of the country’s grain population, much of which is dependent on natural rainfall and steady temperatures. So much so, that these precipitation-based crops can offset agricultural calendars forcing farmers to adapt and regulate and implement crop rotations in addition to relying on government subsidies and action.
According to the International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology, rising temperatures with unpredictable rainfall that perpetuate soil degradation can only encourage farmers and the Brazilian government to the current literature on collected data, educating communities, and expose them to future studies in better understanding the varying trends of climate change.
In a discussion hosted by Soberania & Clima, an organization that promotes the interdependence of security and environment in Brazil and globally, the loss of aquatic ecosystems are also vulnerable as Brazil’s surface sea temperatures increase as the ocean’s levels of acidity are sensitive to loss of marine and coastal ecosystems perpetuated by climate change.
Brazil’s fish and aquaculture is a billion dollar industry that generates both job opportunities for roughly 3.5 million people that are directly and indirectly involved according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. This also prompts climate change’s effects on high carbon pathway levels (energy derived from coal, fossil, oil or natural gas) that can affect the fishing industry in the country’s distribution to the people and global consumer markets with trade flows and pricing.
How climate change affects the Brazilian people and politics, along with its relation to neighboring countries
At this moment, more than 29.4% of Brazil’s population lives in poverty due to the complex nature of its politics ranging from lack of government intervention like inadequate social assistance to unequal land distribution. But those considered the urban poor or living in unsuitable and informal settlements, are most vulnerable to climate change.
Food security is susceptible to falling short for the Brazilian people. Crop yields may decrease if the vulnerability of the country’s unique biomes aren’t met without the government spearheading the lead with its farming sectors.
Prolonged drought and dry conditions adds onto the struggles of poverty, notably in the central and southern regions of Brazil. With the rising trends of water scarcity and above-average temperatures, it can offset an increase in fire activity in susceptible regions such as Pantanal wetlands and the Amazon rainforest. This limits the access to securing basic needs such as food and water and sanitation. The deficit extends itself to neighbors such as northern Argentina, Uruguay, and southern Patagonia.
Traditionally, agricultural farmers cut down and set fire to areas of the forest as a practice to make room for cattle and encourage new room for crop growth. Historically, rainforests remain moist throughout the year to resist fires. However, the topography of the Andes high mountains and natural glaciers are affected by Amazonian fires and its carbon emissions.
Due to Brazil’s weakened environmental protections to promote more deforestation to encourage industrialization, overcrowding populations, coupled with drier vegetation, aggressive fires that are unable to be contained offset glacial retreat from the Andes due to the warming. This then affects the Amazon River where its water is derived from the Peruvian Andes and results in large floods, inflicting irreversible damage to native cassava and rubber trees.
Coastally, with rising sea levels affecting urban infrastructure and shorelines, it is predicted that the current 60% of Brazil’s population that lives in those target areas are at risk of experiencing severe flooding by 2050. This may displace habitants living in those areas or decrease habitable space with the intensity of floods.
For Brazil to sustain its prominence in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), it is essential for its government to acknowledge the serious repercussions in the hand that climate change plays.
It is pivotal for the Brazilian government and its economy to not only safeguard its food and agricultural systems, but also account for low-carbon pathways during climate change to ensure protective and preventive measures for the Brazilian people and its surrounding environment and economy.
Written by Anna Tran, WACOC Community Intern


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Browsing Journal of Range Management, Volume 17, Number 6 (November 1964) by Subjects
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Microdigestion of Grazed Annual Forage, Clipped Herbage, and Standard Samples by Cattle and SheepMicrodigestion estimates were correlated with macrodigestion estimates obtained by lignin ratio technique under grazing or total collection procedures under dry-lot feeding. Over all techniques the correlation was about 0.72. Forages grazed by either cattle or sheep in midsummer were more disgestible than those grazed in early or late summer.

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Kevin P. Donovan is currently a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Cape Town. His research focuses on the application of technologies such as smart cards and biometrics to social protection schemes. He has also worked extensively on the impact of information and communication technologies in developing regions, especially mobile money. Additional work is available at http://blurringborders.com and you can follow him at twitter.com/kevindonovan
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Square Roots is a leader in urban indoor farming. Its scalable farm-tech platform brings fresh, healthy food to urban areas year-round, while simultaneously training future generations of farmers. The company was founded in 2016 by serial entrepreneurs Tobias Peggs and Kimbal Musk (WEF Social Entrepreneur of The Year 2017) and is headquartered in New York City.
People are at the heart of what we do.
At Square Roots, we create meaningful jobs in modern farming. We actively incorporate diversity, equity, and inclusion in our hiring practices and invest in our teams to offer accelerated career paths to all employees. Our success as a company is defined not just by how much we grow as a business, but also our impact on the planet and the people we serve.
To responsibly bring our locally grown food to people in cities around the world, all year round.
We strive to build and retain a diverse team of values-driven, high performers who are supported, connected, and empowered to do their best work daily.
Optimism | Authenticity | Transparency | Resilience | Dedication | Understanding | Respect | Connection | Collaboration | Clarity | Empowerment
Growing fresh, local food responsibly.
We are committed to bringing local produce to cities using sustainable farming practices to minimize our environmental impact. Our aim is to grow more food with fewer resources. We design our farms with sustainability in mind, repurposing existing urban infrastructure and growing our produce inside refurbished, upcycled shipping containers. Our farms use significantly less water and land in comparison to conventional field farms. And we locate our farms in cities, resulting in shorter supply chains that reduce food miles and help minimize food waste. We never use pesticides or GMOs, and all of our facilities are USDA GAP-certified for superior food and operational safety.
We are your local farm, doing things a little differently.
Our indoor farms can pop up practically anywhere, including cities that have historically had limited access to fresh, local food. We grow more food using fewer resources. And because our produce arrives in local stores within hours of harvest, we minimize the impact on the environment both in our supply chain and in the surrounding area. Square Roots is your local farm, 365 days a year. We consistently grow our high-quality produce year round, regardless of weather or season.
Feeding more people, faster.
To meet increasing demand for locally grown food, we can deploy a commercial-scale farm in any new market in just three months. The proven flexibility of our cloud-connected modular architecture means Square Roots farms can be located practically anywhere—next to a distribution center, a supermarket, or in the middle of your neighborhood—and start growing food fast.
Grow with us.
We want everyone at Square Roots to make their biggest impact, so we can work together and achieve our mission to bring locally grown food to people in cities, all around the world. We are an equal opportunity employer with an intentional diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) mindset that’s at the root of our hiring process. We actively work towards being an anti-racist company.


Early Black Friday deals are already rolling out, with more new sales showing up every day. For 2021, there's concern whether shipping issues will mean less stuff on the shelves for the holidays. As we've already been hearing for months, the global supply chain is seriously backed up with bottlenecks occurring at key points. Hoping to deal with an already difficult situation, retailers stretched out the shopping season as much as they dared, what with shipping timelines stretching to frustrating levels. These supply problems are supposed to be felt acutely in technology, or so the market watchers say.
Amazon's first in-house TVs may be showcases for Alexa, but that isn't precluding the company from supporting someone else's ecosystem. According to The Verge, Amazon has unveiled plans to add support for Apple's AirPlay 2 and HomeKit to both higher-end Omni and budget 4-series Fire TV sets now that they're available. You can use AirPlay 2 to cast content from your iPhone, iPad or Mac, but the HomeKit integration may be the most notable -- yes, you can use Siri to control an Amazon TV as part of your wider smart home network. Amazon would only say the support was coming "soon." The TVs themselves start at $370 for the 4-series, which provide the usual Fire TV integrations along with 4K and HDR support in sizes ranging from 43 inches to 55 inches.
At I/O 2021, Google reiterated its commitment to Matter with a handful of smart home-related Nest and Android updates. If you need a refresher, Matter was known as Project CHIP, or Connected Home over IP, before a rebranding this past May. It's a pact between some of the biggest companies in tech, including Google, Amazon and Apple, that aims to bring standardization to the fragmented smart home space. When it launches in the first half of 2022, it will support a variety of voice assistants and networking protocols, including Alexa, Google Assistant, Siri as well as WiFi, Thread and Bluetooth LE. At its simplest, the promise of Matter is that you'll be able to buy a new device and it will simply work with your existing smart home setup.
Has it really been 10 years of Siri? The Apple voice assistant was originally integrated into the iPhone 4S way back in October 2011, and we're now here to wish Siri a very happy 10th birthday. Sparking a trend for smart voice assistants across the board, Siri certainly changed how we all interact with technology these days, with the rise of Alexa no doubt helped substantially by the presence of Siri before it. It's possible that some of you won't remember the early beginnings of Siri – which is why we've taken a walk down memory lane and looked at the history behind how Siri came to be. We've also looked at just what it was like to use back in those early days, and considered what the next 10 years could mean for the (mostly) helpful voice assistant.
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Microsoft has announced that Windows 11 will be available on October 5th as a free upgrade for qualifying Windows 10 systems, as well as on new PCs shipping after that date. But it isn't for everyone; a gradual rollout will prioritize newer hardware and use "intelligence models" to determine who gets the upgrade first. Microsoft will apparently factor in reliability and device age. It could be the case that friends and family utterly disinterested in an OS update could be offered it ahead of anyone champing at the bit for the latest edition of Windows. All supporting machines will get the update by mid-2022, if you can think that far ahead.
At Amazon's Alexa Live developers' event last month, the agent's steward took up the mantle of improving skill discovery. A perennial challenge in many marketplaces and an exceptional bane of many smartphone app developers trying to raise their profiles, it has proven particularly nettlesome for Alexa skills given Alexa's traditional reliance on audio-only devices that can provide only so much context. But that's changing as Alexa spreads its multimodal wings, building out its presence on displays through Echo Show devices that are growing faster than smart speakers. Promoting skills on these displays is but one way that Amazon is trying to raise the profiles of third-party skills as it creates more opportunities for skill-based commerce, including paid skills and skills that enable the sale of physical and digital goods. In contrast to the dawn of the iPhone's app store in 2008, though, that opened the floodgates for app-based commerce, Amazon is taking a more gradual approach to opening the commercial skill marketplace.
Android TV fans looking for something a bit more powerful than a Chromecast should consider the NVIDIA Shield TV. However, now you can grab the NVIDIA Shield TV for $130, or $20 off its normal price. That's almost a record low -- we saw it drop to $129 ahead of Black Friday last year -- but this is the best price we've seen in 2021, and it's only come around a couple of times so far. Despite being more expensive than streaming dongles of similar size, the NVIDIA Shield is worth the extra money thanks to its Tegra X1 processor. It's powerful enough to run the Android TV platform with ease, and it supports Dolby Vision HDR, Dolby Atmos audio, Chromecast 4K and AI-powered HD-to-4K upscaling. It also works with the Google Assistant and Amazon's Alexa, so you can bark orders at it instead of using the triangular remote if you wish.
There is nothing more disappointing and irritating than Alexa app stuck on setup during the setup process of alexa device.Especially when you have bought new amazon echo device and excited to explore the features of alexa enabled device and if its giving a hard time on setup so person usually feel disheartened. But don t worry, you are not alone as many people encounters this same issue while setting up their alexa app for the alexa device and today in this troubleshooting guide, you will get to know all the reasons behind this problem and steps to fix this issue. As Alexa app plays a major role in completing the setup process and configuring the device with the wifi, therefore based on user reports in amazon forum we are listing complete troubleshooting tips with which you can overcome this issue with ease. So lets start the ball rolling! There s no doubt to say that amazon alexa powered smart home home device has become part of everyone life today because of its amazing capabilities and features.This digital assistant is capable of voice interaction,providing weather,playing music, streaming podcasts, setting alarms,offering reminders and much more.
Samsung may have announced a bunch of new devices this week, but it was Apple and Amazon that led the week when it came to online deals. While Woot's flash sale on the Apple Watch Series 6 Product Red Edition came and went quickly, you can still get the smartwatch for $299 at Amazon. The Mac Mini M1 got a $100 discount while a number of Echo devices went on sale as well -- including the new, second-generation Echo Show 5. And through Sunday, you can save on laptops, tablets, TVs and more in Best Buy's anniversary sale. Here are the best tech deals from this week that you can still get today.


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SEC Approves Amendments to NASD Rule 2711 and Incorporated NYSE Rule 472 to Conform to JOBS Act Requirements
Research Analysts and Research Reports
Referenced Rules & Notices
NASD Rule 2711
Incorporated NYSE Rule 472
The SEC approved amendments to NASD Rule 2711 and Incorporated NYSE Rule 472 to conform to the requirements of the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (JOBS Act) and make certain additional changes to quiet period restrictions consistent with the policies underlying the JOBS Act. Most of the changes to NASD Rule 2711 and Incorporated NYSE Rule 472 are effective retroactively to April 5, 2012; changes to those rules regarding quiet periods after secondary offerings and after the expiration, termination or waiver of a lock-up agreement became effective upon approval by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on October 11, 2012.
The text of the amended rules is available at www.finra.org/notices/12-49.
Background & Discussion
The JOBS Act, which was signed into law on April 5, 2012, is intended to, among other things, help facilitate capital formation for "emerging growth companies" (EGCs) by improving the information flow about EGCs to investors. To that end, Section 105(b) of the JOBS Act amended Section 15D of the Securities Exchange Act (Exchange Act) to prohibit the SEC or any national securities association from adopting or maintaining any rule or regulation in connection with an initial public offering (IPO) of an EGC that:
Section 105(d) further amends the Exchange Act to prohibit the SEC or any national securities association from adopting or maintaining any rule or regulation that prohibits a broker or dealer from publishing or distributing any research report or making a public appearance, with respect to the securities of an EGC either:
These provisions became effective upon signature of the president on April 5, 2012. On August 22, 2012, the SEC's Division of Trading and Markets provided guidance on these provisions in the form of Frequently Asked Questions. The amendments approved by the SEC conform the applicable provisions of NASD Rule 2711 to the JOBS Act requirements in accordance with the SEC staff guidance.1
Arranging and Participating in Communications
NASD Rule 2711(c)(4)2 prohibits a research analyst from participating "in efforts to solicit investment banking business," including any "pitches" for investment banking business or other communications with companies for the purpose of soliciting investment banking business. The SEC staff guidance interprets the JOBS Act to now allow, in connection with an IPO of an EGC, research analysts to attend meetings with issuer management that are also attended by investment banking personnel, including pitch meetings, but not "engage in otherwise prohibited conduct in such meetings," including "efforts to solicit investment banking business." The guidance further explains that a research analyst that attends a pitch meeting "could, for example, introduce themselves, outline their research program and the types of factors that the analyst would consider in his or her analysis of a company, and ask follow-up questions to better understand a factual statement made by the emerging growth company's management." Accordingly, the amendments create an exception to NASD Rule 2711(c)(4) to reflect this guidance.3
The SEC staff guidance states that under Section 105(b) of the JOBS Act, an associated person of a broker-dealer, including investment banking personnel, may arrange communications between research analysts and investors in connection with an IPO of an EGC. As an example, the guidance states that an investment banker could forward a list of clients to a research analyst "that the analyst could, at his or her own discretion and with appropriate controls, contact." The guidance acknowledges that FINRA does not have a rule that directly prohibits this activity and further states that such activity, without more, would not constitute conduct by investment banking personnel to directly or indirectly direct a research analyst to engage in sales or marketing efforts related to an investment banking services transaction, in violation of NASD Rule 2711(c)(6).4 As such, this JOBS Act provision required no conforming rule change.
Section 105(d) of the JOBS Act expressly permits publication of research and public appearances any time after the IPO of an EGC or prior to the expiration of any lock up agreement. While the JOBS Act refers only to the "expiration" of a lock-up agreement, the guidance states that Congress intended for the JOBS Act provisions to apply equally to the period before a "waiver" or "termination" of a lock-up agreement. Thus, in accordance with SEC staff guidance on this JOBS Act provision, the rule change amends NASD Rule 2711 to eliminate the following quiet periods with respect to an IPO of an EGC:
The SEC staff guidance notes that the JOBS Act makes no reference to quiet periods after a secondary offering or during a period of time after expiration of a lock-up agreement. Accordingly, the guidance concludes that NASD Rule 2711(f)(1)(B),8 which imposes a 10- day quiet period on managers and co-managers following a secondary offering and the remaining portion of NASD Rule 2711(f)(4)9 relating to quiet periods after the expiration, termination or waiver of a lock up agreement, remain fully in effect. Nonetheless, the guidance expresses the SEC staff's belief that the policies underlying the JOBS Act are equally applicable to quiet periods during these other times. FINRA agreed that elimination of those quiet periods would advance the policy objectives of the JOBS Act and therefore NASD Rules 2711(f)(1)(B) and (f)(4) have been amended accordingly.10
The changes to NASD Rules 2711(c)(4), (f)(1)(A), (f)(2) and (f)(4) (with respect to the 15-day quiet period before the expiration, termination or waiver of a lock-up agreement) and the corresponding changes to Incorporated NYSE Rule 472 are effective retroactively to April 5, 2012. The changes to NASD Rules 2711(f)(1)(B) and (f)(4) (with respect to the 15-day quiet period after the expiration, termination or waiver of a lock-up agreement) and the corresponding changes to Incorporated NYSE Rule 472 became effective upon SEC approval of the rule change on October 11, 2012.
1. FINRA notes that the SEC staff guidance interprets the JOBS Act provisions as applicable to Incorporated NYSE Rule 472 to the same extent as NASD Rule 2711. As such, the proposed rule change makes corresponding amendments to Incorporated NYSE Rule 472.
2.See also Incorporated NYSE Rule 472(b)(5).
3. A corresponding exception is created for Incorporated NYSE Rule 472(b)(5).
4.See also Incorporated NYSE Rule 472(b)(6)(ii).
5.See also Incorporated NYSE Rule 472(f)(1).
6.See also Incorporated NYSE Rule 472(f)(3).
7.See also Incorporated NYSE Rule 472(f)(4).
8.See also Incorporated NYSE Rule 472(f)(2).
9.See also Incorporated NYSE Rule 472(f)(4).
10. A corresponding change is made to Incorporated NYSE Rule 472(f).

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This Dawlish Beach Cams mini documentary covers the shocking storm in Dawlish during February 2014. We show you unseen footage and photos of the event and explain the history of the railway and why that section of the sea wall collapsed.
Credits Network Rail https://www.networkrail.co.uk/ Dawlish Museum https://bit.ly/2SoKUHN David Force Dawlish Through the Ages https://bit.ly/2SctbDX Devon Sea Safari https://www.devonseasafari.com/ Footage from: Andrew Wright, Iain Mcdonald, Version Girl, Mick Taylor, Su Thomas, Pictures from: Colin Campbell, Lesley Goodhind, Stephen Hall.
Thank you for a very interesting video.
Thank you Neil and all those involved, interesting to go back in time and watch everything over again plus more!!

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Patmos is an island of great natural beauty, synonymous with Saint John, who, during his exile here during the years 96-98 AD, wrote 'The Apocalyse' while inhabiting a cave - now known as 'The Cave of the Apocalypse'. While sightseeing, it is impossible not to be impressed by the sight of Scala harbour, set in a large, well-sheltered bay and at the base of a mountain crowned by the 13th century monastery of St. John the Divine.
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Kirsten Prout plays Zola, who is held hostage by some crooks to force her circus troupe to perform a robbery for them. In this clip, she stands with the thugs in a port-a-potty warehouse with her hands tied behind her as our hero causes a distraction, disguised as pest sprayer. The rest of the troupe enters the area surreptitiously as our hero once more distracts the crooks and sprays them down with his wand. In the ensuing chaos, Zola vaults and tumbles to freedom.
*The bonds are more implied than shown, but it's a cute scene.*

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What connection do the books show between the fifty or sixty chemical elements and the historical eras? Nay, what does history yet record of the metaphysical annals of man.
Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind, and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era. Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again it will solve the problem of the age.
My theory is that in a far distant era
Caprona was a mighty mountain--perhaps the world's mightiest volcanic action blew off the entire crest, blew thousands of feet of the mountain upward and outward and onto the surrounding continent, leaving a great crater; and then, possibly, the continent sank as ancient continents have been known to do, leaving only the summit of Caprona above the sea.
Phaedrus, a slave by birth or by subsequent misfortunes, and admitted by Augustus to the honors of a freedman, imitated many of these fables in Latin iambics about the commencement of the Christian era
. Aphthonius, a rhetorician of Antioch, A.D.
Within a month you must be Prime Minister, and we will show the world the way to a new era
By 1896, when the Common Battery system created a new era
, the telephone engineer had pretty well mastered his simpler troubles.
** This obscure reference applies to a blind negro musician who took the world by storm in the latter half of the nineteenth century of the Christian Era
And what vast changes of society and of nations had been wrought by sudden convulsions or by slow degrees since that era
Sometimes a man survives a considerable time from an era
in which he had his place into one which is strange to him, and then the curious are offered one of the most singular spectacles in the human comedy.
Those few minutes marked to him an era
in his official life.
It must have been a first model in the year one of the typewriter era
. Its alphabet was all capitals.
The new era
began; the king was tried, doomed, and beheaded; the Republic of Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, or Death, declared for victory or death against the world in arms; the black flag waved night and day from the great towers of Notre Dame; three hundred thousand men, summoned to rise against the tyrants of the earth, rose from all the varying soils of France, as if the dragon's teeth had been sown broadcast, and had yielded fruit equally on hill and plain, on rock, in gravel, and alluvial mud, under the bright sky of the South and under the clouds of the North, in fell and forest, in the vineyards and the olive-grounds and among the cropped grass and the stubble of the corn, along the fruitful banks of the broad rivers, and in the sand of the sea-shore.


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Elizabeth Ann JESSUP
ABT 1628 - ____
Father: Edward JESSUP
- BIRTH: ABT 1628, Newtown, Queens, Long Island, NY
Mother: Elizabeth BRIDGES
: Ralph HUNT
- Anna HUNT
- +Edward HUNT
- +Mary HUNT
- Ralph HUNT
- John HUNT
- Samuel HUNT
_Edward JESSUP _____|
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|--Elizabeth Ann JESSUP
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|_Elizabeth BRIDGES _|
"Descendants of Ralph Hunt"
Long Island Genealogy
"The name of his wife and where and when they were married has not been found with reliability
although there are different versions of her name as Ann, some saying Jessup. (Furman gives her
name as Elizabeth Jessup, which is questionable and inconsistent with other dates on the Jessup
family) (Note: She had a daughter Anna.) Wife not mentioned in husbands will of 1676/77."
"Abstract of Wills on File in the Surrogates Office, City of New York, NY"
(Volume I. 1665-1707)
Vol. 1, Liber 1-2, p. 4, in:
Cornell Library New York State Historical Collection
(Will of her father, Edward Jessup, dated 06 Aug 1666 and proved 14 Nov 1666.
The will clearly names Elizabeth Hunt as a daughter and Mary Hunt as a
granddaughter. Ralph Hunt is named as an executor.)
"Descent of Comfort Sands and of His Children"
Huntington, NY, 1897; p 25
"1. Elizabeth Jessup, married, prior to August 1666, Thomas I Hunt, of the Grove, Westchester, N. Y.""
"Early Northeast U.S. Hunt Families"