|Publication number||US4289257 A|
|Application number||US 06/082,724|
|Publication date||Sep 15, 1981|
|Filing date||Oct 9, 1979|
|Priority date||Oct 16, 1978|
|Also published as||CA1134132A, CA1134132A1, DE2844931A1, DE2844931C2|
|Publication number||06082724, 082724, US 4289257 A, US 4289257A, US-A-4289257, US4289257 A, US4289257A|
|Inventors||Armin Herb, Franz Popp, Hanspeter Ruoff|
|Original Assignee||Hilti Aktiengesellschaft|
|Export Citation||BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan|
|Patent Citations (3), Referenced by (17), Classifications (8), Legal Events (1)|
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet|
The present invention is directed to a device for melting a body of a solid thermoplastic material, and for effecting a dosed discharge of the molten material. The device includes a housing with a melting chamber and a feed apparatus located within the housing. The feed apparatus moves the solid body of adhesive material into the melting chamber and includes a sliding carriage with a clamping jaw arrangement supported within it. A trigger or pushbutton pivots a rocker lever which, in turn, actuates the feed apparatus for moving the solid body toward the melting chamber.
In the prior art there is a device for melting thermoplastic material which includes a carriage guided within longitudinal slots in a housing. A U-shaped bracket is rigidly connected to the carriage and serves as a support for the body of adhesive material being transported. On the side of the carriage opposite the bracket, a clamping jaw is pivotally mounted. A rocker lever engages the clamping jaw and pivots the clamping jaw when a pushbutton is pressed inwardly displacing the rocker lever. When a body of adhesive material is inserted into the device, it is pressed against the bracket by the clamping jaw and is rigidly fixed on the carriage. After the body of adhesive material is secured on the carriage, further actuation of the pushbutton displaces the entire carriage along with the clamping jaw and the body of adhesive material in the feed direction of the device. When the pushbutton is released, a spring swivels the rocker lever back to its starting position. This displacement of the rocker lever releases the clamping jaw from gripping engagement with the body of adhesive material. With the body of adhesive material released, the entire carriage including the clamping jaw and bracket is moved opposite to the feed direction. Accordingly, the bracket slides rearwardly over the body of adhesive material. This arrangement for feeding the solid body of adhesive material has a considerable number of drawbacks. Because of the sticky surface of the body of adhesive material and its relatively large contact surface with the bracket, it frequently happens that the body of adhesive material sticks to the bracket. As a result, during the return stroke of the carriage, the body of adhesive material is moved opposite to the feed direction. Accordingly, the solid body is completely or partially pulled out of the rear or inlet end of the melting chamber. Because of this withdrawal action, the solid body is no longer in sealed engagement with the melting chamber and molten material can leak from its inlet end. Almost immediately, the leaking molten material blocks the entire feed apparatus and renders the device inoperable. Furthermore, because of the contact between the carriage and the body of adhesive material, any cross sectional deviations in size or shape result in an eccentric positioning of the body of adhesive material relative to the inlet end of the melting chamber so that additional sealing problems are produced.
In another prior art device, serrated, spring loaded clamping jaws are used which grip and carry the body of adhesive material in the feed direction, but slide over the body of adhesive material when the jaws are moved opposite to the feed direction. Since the spring biasing effect acts on the clamping jaws during the return stroke, there is considerable resistance to the sliding movement of the jaws. Such sliding resistance can increase to such an extent that the body of adhesive material can be pulled rearwardly out of the melting chamber. Moreover, as the clamping jaws move rearwardly over the surface of the body of adhesive material during the return stroke, there is a tendency to damage the body which makes it difficult to seal effectively the inlet into the melting chamber.
Therefore, the primary object of the present invention is to provide a device for melting a solid body of adhesive material, such as a plastic material and to effect a dosed discharge of the molten material by providing a simple and reliable apparatus for feeding the body of adhesive material through the device.
In accordance with the present invention, two arcuately shaped and symmetrically arranged opposed clamping jaws are provided on a carriage, each clamping jaw is separate from the other and is articulated to the carriage by an arm engaged with a rocker lever.
The two movable clamping jaws effect a centralized gripping of the solid body of adhesive material independent of any possible deviations in the cross sectional shape and size of the body. Furthermore, there is the advantage gained by the use of two clamping jaws in that the release path of each jaw within the same clamping range conditions can be less than when a single clamping jaw and a stationary support is used. Both of the clamping jaws have a centering effect on the solid body of adhesive material. With the rocker lever in direct engagement with the actuator arm of each clamping jaw, it is assured that the clamping jaws are simultaneously actuated. Since the clamping jaws are not interconnected, they have individual mobility and cannot jam against one another.
To simplify the manufacturing of the clamping jaws, the actuator arms are each formed as an integral tab from the associated jaw with the tabs extending in the same axial region. With such an arrangement a low cost manufacturing process is afforded by punching the tabs or actuator arms out of the clamping jaws. After the tabs are punched out of the clamping jaws, an additional shaping of the tabs is provided in an embossing process. Accordingly, it is not necessary to weld, rivet or solder the actuator arms or tabs to the clamping jaws.
Based on its intended use, the surface of the body of adhesive material can vary greatly, for instance, the surface may be very sticky or very slidable. To prevent slipping of the clamping jaws relative to the surface of the body of adhesive material, the jaws are equipped with inwardly directed sharp-edged projections in the region of contact with the body. When the clamping jaws are displaced inwardly, the projections are pressed into the surface of the body of adhesive material. Due to the elasticity of the adhesive material, the surface of the body remains undamaged by the contact of the projections. During a return stroke of the feed apparatus, the clamping jaws are displaced outwardly out of contact with the surface of the body of adhesive material so that any deformation of the body does not impair the operation of the feed apparatus.
To avoid the application of unnecessary force in actuating the feed apparatus, it is advantageous to provide the carriage with longitudinal guides and to locate the actuator arms of the clamping jaws in the same plane or range or movement as the longitudinal guides. With this arrangement, because the force for moving the carriage of the feed apparatus is effective along the longitudinal guides, no interfering torque is produced on the carriage. Accordingly, it is possible to avoid any jamming produced by the action of the rocker lever moving the carriage along the longitudinal guides. Moreover, to avoid any interference placed on the carriage by the body of adhesive material, it is advantageous if the longitudinal guides are located in a plane extending through the longitudinal axis of the body of adhesive material. In this arrangement, the effective forces acting in the device are all directed in one plane and, since the clamping jaws are symmetrically arranged, no tilting of the longitudinal guides is possible.
The various features of novelty which characterize the invention are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure. For a better understanding of the invention, its operating advantages and specific objects attained by its use, reference should be had to the accompanying drawings and descriptive matter in which there are illustrated and described preferred embodiments of the invention.
In the drawing:
FIG. 1 is a side elevational view, partly in section, of a device embodying the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a sectional view taken along the line II--II in FIG. 1; and
FIG. 3 is a sectional view of a portion of the device shown in FIG. 1 taken along the line III--III.
In FIG. 1 a device is illustrated for melting a solid body of thermoplastic adhesive material, and for effecting a dosed discharge of the molten material, and the device includes a hand gun-shaped housing 1 having a muzzle end and a rear end with a handle 2 extending downwardly from the rear end portion of the housing. In the housing 1, adjacent its muzzle end, the rear or inlet end of a melting chamber 3 is shown. The melting chamber 3 is electrically heated via a feeder line 4 which extends out through the bottom of the handle 2. Output nozzle 5, communicating with the melting chamber, is located on the muzzle end of the housing. A solid body 6 of an adhesive material is introduced into the housing through its rearward end. A feed apparatus, located between the inlet end of the melting chamber and the rear end of the housing, moves the body 6 in a step-wise fashion into the melting chamber 3. In the handle, a trigger or pushbutton 7 is articulated to a rocker lever 8 which is pivotally supported in the housing 1 at a position between the pushbutton and the feed apparatus. Spring 9 is positioned on the rocker lever and returns the rocker lever in the clockwise direction to its starting position after the trigger 7 has been pressed inwardly and then released. The feed apparatus comprises a carriage 10 slidably supported within the housing 1 and two separate clamping jaws 11 are pivotally supported within the carriage 10. When the trigger or pushbutton 7 is pressed inwardly, initially both clamping jaws are displaced by the rocker lever 8 inwardly into laterally clamping contact with the body of adhesive material. Subsequently, after the clamping action is effected, the carriage along with the clamping jaws 11 and the body 6 of adhesive material is axially displaced in the feed direction, that is toward the melting chamber 3 and the nozzle 5, acting counter to compression spring 12 laterally encircling the body 6 and extending between the inlet end of the melting chamber and the forward end of the carriage. When the trigger 7 is released, the rocker lever 8 is pivoted back to its starting position by the action of spring 9. This return movement of the rocker lever releases the clamping jaws from gripping contact with the body 6 of adhesive material, whereupon the compression spring 12 returns the carriage 10 and the clamping jaws 11 back to the starting position as shown in FIG. 1. In this return movement, since the clamping jaws are no longer in contact with the surface of the body 6 of adhesive material, the sliding resistance to the return movement of the carriage is kept at a minimum. The compression spring 12 effects the return movement of the carriage 10 independent of the position of the device.
In the cross sectional view afforded in FIG. 2, the box-shaped cross section of the carriage 10 can be noted. The box-shaped cross section includes an upper and lower side with a pair of upwardly extending sides extending between the upper and lower sides. A longitudinal guide 10a extends outwardly from each of the upwardly extending sides of the carriage 10 and fits into longitudinally extending grooves in the inner surfaces of the housing 1. Within the box-shaped carriage 10, the clamping jaws 11 are symmetrically arranged. The clamping jaws 11 are arcuately shaped so that each has a shell-like appearance with the inner surface of the jaw generally conforming to the surface of the solid body 6 of adhesive material. The symmetrical arrangement of the clamping jaws 11 can be appreciated in FIG. 2. Each clamping jaw has a tab 11a which engages the carriage 10, the tabs extend upwardly in the same direction of and spaced inwardly from the upwardly extending sides of the box-shaped carriage. Further, a tab-like actuator arm 11b extends outwardly from the outer surface of each of the clamping jaws through a rectangularly shaped slot in the carriage and is articulated with one of the arms of the rocker lever 8. As can be seen in FIG. 2, the upper portion of the rocker lever 8 is bifurcated providing an arm extending upwardly along the upwardly extending sides of the box-shaped carriage. The upper end of each arm of the rocker lever 8 is slotted and each actuator arm 11b extends into a different one of the rocker lever arms. The interconnection of the trigger 7 with the lower end of the rocker lever 8 can be seen in both FIGS. 1 and 2.
In FIG. 3 a sectional view is provided through the feed apparatus showing the oppositely disposed, symmetrically arranged clamping jaws 11. The clamping jaws are pivotally supported within the carriage 10. The upwardly extending tabs 11a of the clamping jaws 11 extend through openings 10b formed in the upper and lower sides of the box-shaped carriage 10. The holes in the upper and lower sides are aligned so that the tabs 11a extend through them. The tab-like actuator arms 11b bent out of the clamping jaws extend outwardly into engagement with the grooves formed in the upper ends of the arms of the rocker lever 8. It can be noted in FIG. 1 that the actuator arms 11b have a curved shape. In the region of the inner surfaces of the clamping jaws 11 which contact the surface of the solid body 6 of adhesive material, sharp-edged projections 11c extend inwardly from the clamping surfaces so that when the clamping jaws are displaced inwardly by the pivoting action of the rocker lever 8, the projections 11c grip or bite into the surface of the body 6 and prevent possible slippage of the clamping jaws 11 relative to the body.
When the trigger 7 is pressed into the handle 2 of the housing 1, the rocker lever 8 is pivoted counterclockwise so that its upwardly extending arms, in engagement with the actuator arms 11b of the clamping jaws 11 move toward the melting chamber 3. It can be noted in FIG. 3 that the arms of the rocker lever 8 extend through cutout portions of the longitudinal guides 10a so that a certain initial movement of the rocker lever is possible before the carriage is displaced. During this initial movement, the engagement of the tabs 11a in the openings 10b in the carriage 10 cause the separate clamping jaws 11 to pivot inwardly into contact with the body 6 with the projections 11c biting into the surface of the body of adhesive material. After the rocker lever has displaced the clamping arms into gripping contact with the body 6 of adhesive material, the rocker lever moves the carriage along with the clamping jaws toward the melting chamber guided by the longitudinal guides 10a so that the box-shaped carriage and the body 6 all move along the same longitudinal axis. When the rocker lever has completed its counterclockwise movement pushing the carriage forwardly and moving the solid body 6 of adhesive material into the inlet end of the melting chamber 3, upon release of the trigger 7, the rocker lever returns to the position shown in FIG. 1. This return action releases the clamping jaws from gripping contact with the solid body 6 so that the spring 12 can bias the carriage 10 along with the clamping jaws 11 rearwardly out of contact with the body 6. Accordingly, there is no tendency of the feed apparatus to pull the solid body 6 backwardly out of the inlet end of the melting chamber 3 which would tend to break the seal between the body of adhesive material and the inlet into the chamber. Each time the solid body 6 is moved forwardly into the melting chamber 3, as long as the melting chamber is filled, there is a dosed discharge from the nozzle 5. The amount of molten adhesive material discharged each time, that is the dosed discharge, can be regulated by controlling the movement of the rocker lever and, as a result, the axial distance travelled by the feed apparatus in moving the body 6 into the melting chamber.
While specific embodiments of the invention have been shown and described in detail to illustrate the application of the inventive principles, it will be understood that the invention may be embodied otherwise without departing from such principles.
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|U.S. Classification||222/146.5, 222/391|
|International Classification||B05C5/04, B05C17/005, B29C65/12, B29C65/40|
|Apr 22, 1988||AS||Assignment|
Owner name: SHAMROCK ENGINEERING, INC., 607 SOUTH KELLY ST., H
Free format text: ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNORS INTEREST.;ASSIGNOR:O BRIEN, JOHN W.;REEL/FRAME:004867/0212
Effective date: 19880331
Owner name: SHAMROCK ENGINEERING, INC.,ARKANSAS
Free format text: ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNORS INTEREST;ASSIGNOR:O BRIEN, JOHN W.;REEL/FRAME:004867/0212
Effective date: 19880331


And definitely not an animal you want to have a run in with…
Mountain lions or cougars are some of the deadliest animals to roam North America. They are known for their stealth and elusiveness, often not being spotted by their prey until it is too late and they are down.
They are fair sized animals weighing up to 175 pounds. Their strength is their speed and precision. They attack fast, with a lunge that can reach up to 30 feet in one jump. Then they hit right in the kill zone with a piercing bite and razor-sharp claws.
Yep, they are stone cold killers, who have earned their ferocious reputation.
Dirt biking is a great way to travel across the back country and trails. They are fast even going over rough terrain. And sometimes, it can lead to close up encounters with wildlife. Granted, not every encounter with wildlife is the kind that you’re hoping for.
This dirt biker is seen ripping through some trails in Oregon.
Out of nowhere a mountain lion runs right beside him, changing direction just enough to avoid getting hit.
The rider says:
“I went on a normal ride up a familiar trail with my close friend at about 7-8 in the morning when I had an insanely close encounter with a juvenile mountain lion.”


World leaders and officials attending the United Nations COP27 climate conference can spend up to $100 per entree to eat red meat, seafood and other gourmet menu items. However, the UN has previously discouraged red meat consumption due to the carbon emissions that beef farming creates.
Delegates who arrive at Egypt’s beachside resort city of Sharm El-Sheikh to discuss ways to mitigate the “climate crisis” are able to enjoy COPGourmet’s $100 Angus beef medallion which is served with mushroom sauce and sauteed potatoes, according to screenshots obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation. However, the UN aims to “minimize emissions per calorie” and to reduce meat consumption in order to prevent the planet from overheating, according to a COP27 food security document.
“The menu on offer is yet another example of the staggering disconnect between so-called leaders and the people they represent,” Nathan McGovern, a spokesperson for the animal and climate activist group Animal Rebellion, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “It is hypocritical for delegates at COP27 to be dining on the destruction of our natural world, whilst simultaneously claiming to be trying to protect it.”
Although many Egyptian dishes, including its national dish Koshary, are vegan, not one main dish on the VIP menu is vegan, and the $20 pesto and cheese ravioli represent the sole vegetarian entree on offer. A plant-based diet is healthy and can help reduce individuals’ environmental impact as meat farming produces significant amounts of carbon emissions, according to the UN.


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This Week in the Garden 8/9/12
Well, things are chugging along out it the garden – it will be time to plant fall crops before we know it! So, give some thought to what you may be interested in growing for fall. A few beds are already available for planting and more will come clear as the summer crops end. Anyway, that is the future, and right now there are a few crops that need our attention, so if anyone has time in the next week or so to go out and work on some of the tasks I’ll list below, that would be great. But first,
Watermelons are ready or nearly ready! I risked a test melon of the striped variety and it was ripe. Not the sweetest I’ve had, but definitely ripe. If someone wants to try a Blacktail (the dark green ones) they are probably a more flavorful variety. If the tendril at the base of the stem is dried up, there is a good chance it is ripe. If the test melon isn’t ripe yet, then we know we have to give them a few more days. The corn and the sunflowers have both stood back up after the storm like champs! Can’t wait to see those sunflowers. Some less fortunate news is that the string I got for the tomatoes and things seems to not be lasting as long as usual – some of the older tomato vines are falling because the string is snapping. Usually the string will last a full summer, but be too weathered to use the next year. So, whenever I’m there I try to get these vines back up off the ground. These plants don’t have that much time left, so radical action is not really necessary.
Things we can to do right now (in order of priority):
Finish the pole bean trellis: we need to tie the strings for the last bit of one of the pole bean trellises and train up the beans to the strings – probably using some tomato clips. One thing and another and this part got missed. The beans are healthy, they just need to be picked up off the ground if we want the quality of the beans to be good.
Weed the corn: Thanks to Kearney for doing lots of work in this area already, as well as getting more mulch and mulching the aisles around the sweet potatoes, beans and corn. We can mulch around the corn to help control the weeds over the next couple of weeks, but getting the current weeds out as soon as we can would be a good idea.
Cut back the basil: If we cut back the basil to remove all flowers, we will continue to get fresh leaves until the first frost.
Continue tying up the second tomato planting
Help the climbing green beans grab the string of their trellis: The wind wants to blow the strings a lot – if we can just get the beans to grab, no problem.
Move the fake owl to a new spot if you have time: We are trying the fake owl strategy on the rabbits, and they have been nibbling the climbing green beans (old cuke bed). Moving it around is supposed to be the strategy.
Well, that about wraps it up – don’t forget to harvest while you are there. Things have slowed down a bit, but there are still tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, peppers, tomatillos, hot peppers, basil, watermelon(!) and maybe a few cantelope(I’m not sure). Gil and I are heading out tomorrow for the beach and some family visiting for about a week, but I’ll have email if anyone needs anything or has any questions.
Talk to ya’ll soon!

domain: agronomy


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Hearing-Impaired Pianist Fuzjko Hemming at the Arigato Charity Concert to Benefit Japan
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Evildoers, villains, bad guys, troublemakers and the rest get their moment in the spotlight as Casa Manana presents Bad Boys of Broadway: In Concert. Featuring talent direct from Broadway, this deliciously devilish show highlights your favorite villainous tunes from a repertoire of beloved big-time shows. You'll thrill to the baddies' songs from Broadway classics including The Phantom of the Opera, Les Miserables, Evita and Jesus Christ Superstar. The theme may be bad people doing evil things but this show is a pure delight. Learn More
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- "Fuzjko is not just playing the piano: She is using the music... seeming to enter a romantic reverie to find and unfold the music's beauties and intentions."--Gramophone
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domain: entertainment


text: Looking for some summer fun in the beach community of Encinitas? Here’s your child’s chance for a Summer Adventure at the Magdalena Ecke Family YMCA. We have the perfect Day Camp experience to make your summer memorable. Join-in and bring your own fun-loving spirit to day camp for 5-days of jam-packed fun and incidentally you may even build confidence or find new hobbies and activities. We are currently enrolling for Summer Day Camps in June through August 2018. Sign-up and you’ll have entertaining stories to tell forever.


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VAT is one of the most complicated concepts that businesses of all sizes need to consider as part of their everyday operations. Unfortunately, locating information related to VAT that explains it in a simple, concise way is hard to come by, which means many firms go about accounting for it incorrectly.
Micro businesses in particular will often experience difficulty relating to VAT because they do not understand how the rules apply to them. A business of this size will very rarely have a dedicated finance role, which means responsibility for this type of task will fall to different members of staff alongside their other daily jobs.
With this in mind, here we will examine the most common mistakes micro businesses make when it comes to VAT.
Have you registered?
Many businesses often fail to realise they are only required to register for VAT once their turnover exceeds £85,000 on a rolling 12-month basis, or if they generate a VATable income of £85,000 in a one-month period. Many assume, incorrectly, that the threshold is based on their turnover per their financial year and wait until after their annual accounts have been prepared to consider if they are liable to register.
This widespread lack of understanding can often leave firms vulnerable to penalties from HMRC that could have easily been avoided by VAT registering at the correct time. Therefore, it is essential that whoever is in charge of the business checks whether their turnover from sales has reached the HMRC limit of £85,000 over a 12-month period, or whether the business is predicted to generate VATable supplies in excess of this in a 30-day period.
Where sales from VATable supplies have reached the £85,000 limit, businesses are required to submit a VAT return to HMRC. Usually VAT returns are quarterly, but it is possible to apply to account for VAT on either a monthly or an annual basis.
Are you reclaiming VAT on the wrong things?
Businesses are not permitted to recover VAT on costs relating to entertainment other than for staff entertainment. They are not allowed to claim VAT on the cost of entertaining non-employees such as prospective or actual clients. Many small businesses spend a great deal on entertaining, such as meals out for prospective clients, however, many are unaware of the strict HMRC regulations outlined in this area.
Any money reclaimed on entertainment expenditure can leave micro businesses seeking to grow their business by entertaining contacts and clients at risk of facing a penalty.
Are your staff in the know?
It is essential for business owners to have a reasonable level of knowledge regarding VAT, however, it is also vital that anyone else responsible for accounting for sales and purchases at the business has the same expertise. A lack of knowhow is another way in which businesses can incur penalties.
Micro businesses need to identify exactly who will be dealing with VAT, making sure they have the required information to ensure the organisation is compliant with regulations and double check that the VAT is correctly being accounted for.
It is recommended for businesses to roll out a standard approach to VAT across the business.
Are you using the wrong rate?
VAT is applicable at the standard rate, reduced rate or zero rate dependant on the nature of the transaction. It is quite common to see businesses, especially in the building sector applying VAT at the incorrect rate. This can result in either under payments or over declarations of VAR, make the supplier less competitive than rivals accounting for VAT correctly. In addition, it is not possible to recover VAT on costs where the VAT rate has been incorrectly applied.
Flat Rate or Not?
It is possible for micro businesses to use the simplified flat rate VAT accounting scheme, which is an alternative way for companies to calculate how much VAT to pay HMRC every three months. This method is designed to take some of the strain out of recording VAT sales and purchases.
However, it is important to note that companies are not permitted to use the flat rate scheme without agreement from HMRC, therefore, those firms wanting to use it should initially apply to the body. It is also essential to ensure that the correct flat rate percentage for the sector that the business is involved in is selected as HMRC will apply penalties if it emerges that the business has not been paying enough VAT due to use of the wrong flat rate percentage.
Small businesses providing consultancy or other services with limited costs are likely to find that the flat rate percentage means that there is little value in using this scheme.
Are you liable to account for VAT in Other EC Countries?
With the rise of the internet many micro business people trade from home and make supplies of goods and services world-wide. This can provide a whole range of complex VAT issues.
Micro businesses selling electronic services to end consumers in other EC member states will have to register in the EC member state where the consumer is based or sign up via HMRC’s online portal to an accounting system called VAT Moss. There is no minimum VAT registration threshold for such supplies.
Businesses selling delivered goods to end consumers in other EC countries, especially ones trading via online platforms may have a requirement to declare VAT on sales to end consumers in other EC countries if they exceed certain thresholds and will have an immediate liability to do so if selling goods warehoused in another EC member state to the end consumer in that or other EC countries. This can be a real mine field and it would be sensible to seek professional advice if involved in making such supplies.
Are you putting things off?
Leaving matters relating to VAT until the last minute can lead to a number of issues for companies. Therefore, it is important that plans are put in place to avoid this.
Micro businesses need to view VAT as a matter of priority, and this starts with checking to see if the turnover from VATable supplies exceed the HMRC limit of £85,000. Once this has been determined, it is important that the organisation views VAT as a key priority all year round, and the company works together with its accountant or VAT advisor to ensure regulations are adhered to.
By Tamara Habberley, senior VAT consultant, The VAT People

domain: law


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With Charli D'Amelio out, This Is Now the Youngest Member of Hype House
The 15-year-old Hype House member Charli D'Amelio is no longer a part of the crew, so who's left as the youngest member of the group now?
You've probably heard of TikTok's Hype House over and over again if you're a fan of the app. It's a collective that was formed in 2019 by 17-year-old TikTok superstar Lil Huddy (Chase Hudson) and pal 21-year-old YouTuber Thomas Petrou. Together, the house is home to young influencers who want a haven to create their own content across multiple mediums. They can collab together and cross-promote a lot easier if they're all in one place, after all.
Like you, we spend a fair amount of time following the members of the Hype House's every move too, especially when TikTok superstar Charli D'Amelio ended up leaving the house entirely.
Up until her departure, she was the youngest member of the group. With Charli gone, who ends up taking the crown when it comes to being the new baby of the Hype House? Glad you asked – we've got your answer, though if you pay as much attention as we do to the members, you probably already know the answer.
Avani Gregg is now the youngest member of Hype House.
There's currently a tie between the two youngest members of Hype House: Avani Gregg and Jack Wright. They're both 17, but given that Avani's birthday is in November while Jack's is in May, Avani appears to be the youngest currently in the group. Indiana-born Avani is a level 9 gymnast, and she's working toward level 10. She first joined TikTok when she was 14, and began to go viral shortly after trying out creepy clown makeup, which she's become known for over the years.
Avani is a stylish TikTok user who's versatile, though. She's great at dancing and obviously gymnastics, but she posts everything from comedy to challenge videos and everything in between. She's managed to earn over 20 million fans on the video platform, and she was instrumental in bringing Hype House to life in 2019. She may be two years older than Charli D'Amelio, but she's been doing extremely well for herself as an influencer and content creator on TikTok so far.
Avani has two sisters: Shanti and Priya, and she's been dating Kentucky-born TikTok star Anthony Reeves since March 2020. Occasionally, the pair has been known to create content together, as Reeves is a part of the group Sway House. We don't get to see them together too often, but it's always good to see them hanging out when creating videos and social content that continues to perform online can be such a demanding job.
For now, it looks like Avani will hold first place for the youngest member of Hype House – though, depending on who joins in the future, that could certainly change. We'll certainly be keeping an eye out for how things change and evolve going forward. There may never be another Charli, but we're interested in seeing who joins the group next and creates some awesome new TikTok videos.


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A lawsuit was filed against Ripple Labs Inc. on Thursday, with the plaintiff alleging that XRP tokens were “fully generated prior to distribution” and calling it a “never-ending ICO”.
The plaintiff in question is Mr Ryan Coffey, who filed the class-action complaint to the Superior Court of California against Ripple Labs, XRP II LLC, and CEO of Ripple Brad Garlinghouse. It was filed through Taylor-Copeland Law, “on behalf of XRP investors”.
The plaintiff, Mr. Coffey purchased about 650 XRP on January 5, 2018 at a price of $2.60 each, paying about $1690. He then sold 649.98 XRP, with reductions due to transaction fees, for 1104 USDT, which was worth approximately $1138 at the time. This comes out to a loss of $551, or roughly 32% of his original investment. The filing fee of the lawsuit was reportedly close to $1450, which is close to three times the loss he faced.
It is interesting to note that the plaintiff and the lawyer are previously acquainted as can be seen from these pictures from the lawyer’s Facebook profile.
The plaintiff is also one of those who filed a lawsuit against controversial ICO Tezos, which had a 60-day filing window which ended on January 25th. His purchase for 650 XRP occurred on January 5th, and both the suits were submitted by James Taylor-Copeland.
The self-proclaimed XRP Army on Twitter lashed back at the tweet by the lawyer which proclaimed the filing of the suit, with Libertarian politician and Ripple supporter Tiffany Hayden leading the fray. She said:
“Anybody can try and sue. I hope Ripple files a counter suit to recoup their time, expenses, and any loss of value XRP suffers because of this type of crap. If the the price of XRP drops after this, maybe current XRP holders can launch a class action against this group?”
In a separate tweet in reference to the filing of the suit, she said:
“By a 27yo, living at home, who bought and sold 640 XRP, didn’t become rich within 12 days, and now thinks he can seek damages on my, and others, behalf. Nobody has permission to do anything on my behalf. Ever. Hope the slimy weasal is prepared for a countersuit.”
There have been thoughts that the suit is a way to force the SEC’s hand to determine whether Ripple is a security or not. This is in response to pressure from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Security and Exchanges Commission on whether leading cryptos Ether and Ripple should be declared as securities. In an email to Bloomberg, Ripple spokesman Tom Channick said:
“We’ve seen the lawyer’s tweet about a recently filed lawsuit but have not been served. Like any civil proceeding, we’ll assess the merit or lack of merit to the allegations at the appropriate time. Whether or not XRP is a security is for the SEC to decide. We continue to believe XRP should not be classified as a security.”
Ripple is currently trading at $0.90, with a 0.71 growth over the last 24 hours. It is left to see whether this event will have a negative impact on the price of the currency.
The post Ripple [XRP] clan strikes back and threatens countersuit after yesterday’s lawsuit! appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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REWIRE FESTIVAL with MACHINE FABRIEK & Mike Rijnierse/Jan Trützschler
November 5, 2011 –
\/\//\/\#1 is a sound performance with a light installation that will be transformed into an acoustic experience.
Mike Rijnierse frequently works with light, developing an extensive series of works under the title Licht en Kleur (Light and Colour).
In these works, the artist made a meticulous study of the perception of coloured surfaces that are illuminated by different colours. He gave concrete form to his discoveries relating to the interaction between light, pigment and the retina in installations, projections and light designs.
In 2008, working in collaboration with Willem Marijs, this resulted in the installation, Lumokinese, in wich the visitor acts as both a visual element and an observer.
Another side of Rijnierse's work is his collaboration on major events in public space. Rijnierse was one of the people behind the THX Landingsbaan (THX Runway) during the 2007 TodaysArt festival, and during the 2008 edition, he collaborated on the Station to Station project, together with Staalplaat Soundsystem and Erik Hobijn. This project used a variety of installations to cause The Hague Central Station to sound out, with the timetable of the trains and trams serving as the basis for the composition.
Jan Trützschler von Falkenstein works in the field of computer music, media art and creative coding since the late 1990s. He performs 'crispy' sound collages using novel and custom made interfaces, produces sonic installations and occasionally composes for ensembles and fixed media. Currently he focuses on designing audio apps for mobile devices which are release under TeaTracks .
In the past years Jan contributed to the open source audio software SuperCollider. His music has been performed across the world at festivals such as ICSM World Music Days, ICMC, Spark, MusicAcoustica, TodaysArt, Ars Electronica, BEAST.

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Yes, that was a tornado siren; Yes, it was just a drill
Published 9:27 am Wednesday, February 22, 2023
Yes, tornado sirens did sound at approximately 9:15 a.m. Wednesday morning all across the state of Mississippi.
And yes, it was just a drill.
It was part of Mississippi’s annual Severe Weather Preparedness Week.
If the sounding of the siren made residents think for even a moment that they were not prepared for a storm to strike, then the drill accomplished part of its purpose. One part is to make sure the equipment works as needed. The other is to make sure preparations have been made by local governments, business and private citizens.
The following are some tips from the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency to help you prepare your home and family for a tornado:
WHAT TO DO IF YOU ARE IN YOUR HOME DURING A TORNADO:
- Go to the lowest level of the home, an inner hallway, or smaller inner room without windows, such as a closet or bathroom.
- Get away from windows and go to the center of the room. Avoid corners, because they tend to attract debris.
- Get under a sturdy piece of furniture, such as a workbench or heavy table.
IF YOU ARE IN A MOBILE HOME:
- Evacuate the mobile home, even if it is equipped with tie-downs. Take shelter in a building with a strong foundation, or if one is not available, lie in a ditch or low-lying area a safe distance away from the mobile home. Tornadoes cannot change elevation quickly enough to pick someone up out of a ditch, especially a deep ditch or culvert.
IF YOU ARE AT WORK OR SCHOOL:
- Go to the basement or to an inside hallway at the lowest level of the building.
- Avoid places with wide-span roofs, such as auditoriums, cafeterias, large hallways or shopping malls.
- Use your arms to protect your head and neck.
- If possible, get inside a sturdy building with a concrete foundation.
- If shelter is not available, or there is no time to get indoors, lie in a ditch or low-lying area or crouch near a strong building.
- Be aware of the potential for flooding.
IF YOU ARE IN A VEHICLE:
- Never try to out drive a tornado in your vehicle. Tornadoes can change direction very quickly and can lift a vehicle and toss it in the air
- Get out of the vehicle and take shelter in a nearby building.
- If there is no time to get indoors, get out of the vehicle and lie in a ditch or low-lying area away from the vehicle.
For more information, visit MSEMA.org.


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Explore the possibilities of bending sheet metal with simple hand tools while creating this unique wave ring.
In this workshop, you will learn to:
Choose the metal gauge
Choose pliers and hand tools
Anneal and bend sheet metal
Size and form a ring band
Use a mini-torch
Solder set-ups for successful joints

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AMMAN (Reuters, AFP) - Jordan on Wednesday recalled its ambassador to Israel in protest against what it described as Israeli "violations" in Jerusalem and its holy sites, the Jordanian state news agency reported.
The decision was taken "in protest at the increasing and unprecedented Israeli escalation in the Noble Sanctuary, and the repeated Israeli violations of Jerusalem", the news agency said.
Separately, a government spokesman said Jordan will lodge a formal complaint with the UN Security Council over Israeli's actions.
The Jordanian prime minister had instructed Jordan's delegation at the United Nations to "lodge an official complaint to the Security Council", Mohammad Al-Momani, government spokesman, told Reuters by telephone.
The Noble Sanctuary is the Islamic term used to describe the compound housing Al Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock - the third holiest site in Islam - in east Jerusalem's Old City. The site is known to Jews as the Temple Mount and is the holiest site in Judaism.
Al-Aqsa has been a rallying point for Palestinian resistance to perceived Jewish attempts to take control of it, sparking clashes between demonstrators and Israeli police for the past several months.
Jordan, which administered east Jerusalem and the West Bank before Israel seized the Palestinian territories in the 1967 Middle East war, has responsibility for holy sites in the Israeli-annexed eastern sector.
Jordan and Israel signed a peace agreement in 1994 in which Jordan's status as custodian of the sites is enshrined.
Jordan's King Abdullah II vowed on Sunday to oppose any Israeli attempt to change the status of Muslim or Christian holy sites in Jerusalem.
"Jordan will continue to confront, through all available means, Israeli unilateral policies and measures in Jerusalem and preserve its Muslim and Christian holy sites, until peace is restored to the land of peace," the king said in a speech.


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Efamol EPO contains the important fatty acid GLA, we all need GLA, it plays an important role in our body and is required for the normal structure of every single cell membrane and is a key element in the production of prostaglandins which are vital in many body processes, especially in maintaining good hormonal balance!
Unfortunately, just like Salvestrols, naturally sourced trace amounts of GLA and other essential fatty acids and trace minerals have disappeared or are greatly reduced in our daily diet. GLA (gamma linolenic acid) the active ingredient is found at high concentrations in Efamol Evening Primrose Oil.
Many studies have shown GLA to be an effective agent to help halt malignant cell growth and metastasis1. Efamol Evening Primrose Oil contains 33% more GLA than similar products, more importantly they contain plant sterols, some of which are important co-factors for Salvestrols, particularly in patients with hormonally influenced cancers, such as breast, cervical and ovarian.

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She is married to Courage and they have three children. Mashavave is currently riding high with her latest album Social Facts released in December, with the song Gore Rapera topping the local charts since the beginning of the year. Super Power, featuring Albert Nyathi, has been in the top 10 ever since. Both songs have vidoes released on Youtube with Gore Rapera garnering 15,000 views in under a month.
The supporting act, Africa Sing Choir was formed in January 2013 by Tsitsi Kudita Chawasarira, Emmanuel Mhako, Primrose Njewa and Gift Chawasarira. Their vision is to spread the Gospel through music rooted in African languages and beats. The 25-member choir is busy working on its debut album titled The Breakthrough.
Performances are on April 26 at the Johannesburg City Hall andApril 28, a public holiday in South Africa at the ZAOGA Forward In Faith RSA headquarters Auditorium in Clayville, Oliphantsfontein. Tickets are available from Shoprite Checkers and Computicket for R105 and R130 at the gate. Kids between 6 and 12 years pay R60.


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The next time you’re feeling frazzled driving through the streets of Honolulu, take a break and head on up to the Lyon Arboretum, nestled deep in the heart of Manoa Valley. It’s an easy drive and within minutes away of the all hustle and bustle you can stroll through a misty tropical rainforest, breathe in fresh O2, hear the rejuvenating sounds of a bubbling stream and songbirds performing their lusty arias. Tension just melts away as you gaze upon the renovated ancient lo’i or a quiet pond, smell the sweet perfume of plants in love. Ahh.
Speaking of love, I fell head over heels for this patch of pandan wangi, Pandanus amaryllifolius, planted beneath native Hawaiian loulu palms (Pritchardia sp.)
The incense-like scent was so powerful the pandan signaled its presence long before it came into view. I couldn't help but take several deep, relaxing breaths here. Pandan leaves add rich flavor to many Thai dishes; they're also used to make scented water for religious ceremonies.
Weaving between the pandan were betel vines (Piper betle); their dark green, glossy, heart-shaped leaves were my favorite Valentines of the week.
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
--Henry David Thoreau

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Last week we talked about the renewed push to pass a couple of bills that would increase state regulations for abortion clinics. Supporters say the measures would make abortions safer.
Today we’ll hear from abortion providers who dispute those concerns about safety. One bill would require abortion doctors to have admitting privileges at a hospital no farther than 30 miles away from their clinic. Opponents have said the proposal doesn’t make sense because many women are driving 100 miles or more to get to one of the state’s 42 abortion clinics.


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Oscar Wilde, although he had never heard of evolutionary psychology, did write the perfect slogan for the discipline: “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
Part of the reason evolutionary psychologists have often upset proper academics is that we have had an inclination to root around in the gutters. The modus operandi for an evolutionary psychologist seems to be this: Choose a topic that is normally avoided in polite conversation and shine a spotlight on it. But we study unsavory topics (as well as nicer ones) because these are the issues with which humans the world over concern themselves — who’s sleeping with whom, who might stab me in the back, who might hurt my kids, and on and on.
Sometimes mundane, sometimes shocking, our work has always been aimed at answering the biggest questions of our time: questions about what makes human beings tick.
In my new book, “Sex, Murder and the Meaning of Life,” I collect some of the studies my colleagues and I have done about the psychology behind our decisions — from why we have homicidal fantasies to why we can harbor prejudices.
But some of the most interesting conclusions come from our studies of relationships and sex. Why do men spend money on flowers when losing cash would otherwise anger them? What do we regret? Do “muses” work? Here, some of our findings:
How beautiful women can mess with your head
In 2002, my research team received a state-of-the-art eye-tracker. It let us zoom in to see exactly what, in a passing crowd of people, would catch a college student’s eye. In our laboratory experiments, we had student observers watch a crowd of six or 10 faces, frozen in his or her visual field for a short while before the next small crowd came along. Later we asked the students to identify whether or not they had seen a particular face.
Men looking at our simulated crowds lingered almost twice as long on beautiful women as on average-looking women. When we showed them groups of photos later, the men were especially accurate at saying whether they did or did not see a particular pretty woman. When it comes to crowds of men, on the other hand, men did not gaze any longer at the George Clooney types than at the Joe Schmoes. And later on, guys were not especially good at picking handsome men out of a lineup.
These findings all fit well with a traditional assumption about how memory works: The more you pay attention to someone or something, the more likely you are to remember that person or thing later.
But women violated that assumption in an interesting way. The female subjects in our study, like the male ones, spent more time looking at beautiful women, and they were also good at remembering whether or not they had seen a particular female beauty before. Unlike men, though, the women’s eyes were selectively drawn to the handsome George Clooney types. That part was not too surprising, but what happened later was: Women were unable to remember those good-looking guys they had been staring at.
The findings point to a simple conclusion about beautiful women: They capture everyone’s attention and monopolize downstream cognitive processes. The conclusion about handsome men is different: They grab women’s eyes but do not hold their minds. This discrepancy is consistent with men’s and women’s different mating strategies; women are more selective and less interested in casual affairs with strangers.
Perception researchers love to uncover mental illusions and errors of judgment, and one of the most robust of these is a phenomenon called the contrast effect. You can demonstrate a contrast effect on yourself by lining up three buckets full of water. Fill the one on the left with ice water and the one on the right with hot water. The water in the middle bucket should be at room temperature. Dunk your left hand in the ice water and your right in the hot water for a minute or so. Then take them both out and plunge them into the room-temperature water. What happens is a bit of bilateral mental dissonance. Your brain will receive conflicting messages: The neurons originating in the left hand will tell your brain that the water is hot, whereas the right hand neurons will signal that the same water is cold.
According to a theory developed in 1947 by Harry Helson, we make psychophysical judgments by comparing any new form of stimulation to our adaptation level — an expectation of what is perceptually normal, based on our past experiences, especially the recent past. What registers as hot or cold, heavy or light, salty or sweet, depends to a large extent on what you have recently been exposed to.
So the next step in the study of beauty was to ask people to judge an average-looking woman after being exposed to other women. As in the case of exposure to extremes of water temperature, exposure to extremes of physical appearance affected people’s judgments of what was average. As we had predicted, an average-looking woman was judged significantly uglier than normal if the subjects had just been gazing at a series of beauties.
It’s a uncomfortable truth: Men notice beautiful women more, remember them better, and exposure to them changes their adaptation level for what they consider beautiful. Real women do not look as attractive once the mind has been calibrated to assume that Playboy centerfolds are normal.
So feasting on beauty is like eating Ben & Jerry’s ice cream: It’s best to watch your portion size.
Why sex makes us more creative
Pablo Picasso produced 147,800 works of art in his life, more than any other artist in recorded history. And he did not just knock off the same painting over and over; he kept recreating himself, with different styles in his Blue Period, his Rose Period, his Cubist Period, and his Surrealist Period. When art historians looked at Picasso’s life, they noticed something else going on: Each of his new creative periods was accompanied by a new mistress. His latest paramour was always a younger woman who, like the beautiful Dora Maar, served as an inspiring muse for Picasso’s new style.
Evolutionary theorists have offered several possible hypotheses about the origins of creativity. Most have presumed that creative intelligence assisted in survival (for example, a creative mind could create a novel way to catch a fish or shake fruit out of a tree). Steven Pinker suggested instead that creative abilities are simply by-products of other cognitive capacities. But in his book “The Mating Mind,” Geoffrey Miller argued that these hypotheses failed to explain the sheer amount of time and effort people devote to creative exploits that produce no tangible benefits (such as writing poems, composing music or painting pictures), meanwhile ignoring tasks that could directly produce food or other immediately useful goodies.
My colleagues and I set out to reproduce the “muse effect” in the laboratory. In one experiment, we brought college students into the laboratory and asked them to write a short story about an ambiguous picture — such as a colorful abstract painting or a cartoon drawing of two men chatting at an outdoor café. Before writing their story, half of them were put into a mating frame of mind by viewing six photos of highly attractive members of the opposite sex and then choosing the one they would most desire as a romantic partner. After they made their choice, we left the photo of their selected romantic partner on the screen and told them to imagine what they would do on an ideal first date with this person. The other half of the subjects were in the control condition; they just saw a photo of a street with several buildings and were asked to write about the most pleasant weather conditions for walking around and looking at the buildings.
After we collected the stories, we showed them to other students, who rated each story. When we analyzed the results, we found that mating motivation had absolutely no effect on women’s creativity. But the mating prime really got the men’s creative juices flowing. Although the men in the control condition were slightly less creative than the women, the guys thinking about mating were positively inspired. It was not that the mating-motivated men wrote more, but that what they wrote was judged more clever, imaginative and original. In another study, we found that men thinking about mates also racked up higher scores on standard tests of creativity, such as finding remote associations to words or devising new uses for familiar objects.
Mating opportunities inspire males to strut their stuff.
Why guys are willing to spend money on jewelry
The quintessential example of behavioral economics is Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky’s demonstration of loss aversion — the finding that people are more psychologically moved by a loss of $100 than by a gain of an identical amount.
By this logic, you’d think that men would be crazy to spend a lot on a first date — thinking there’s a good chance that money will be “wasted.” Yet they regularly shell out cash for items that may not lead to mating.
Why? Women, as female mammals, have an intrinsically high minimum investment in their young, and this inspires them to be relatively more selective in choosing mates. As a consequence, males must compete to be chosen. One way for a male to say: “Pick me! Pick me!” is to display a noticeable wasteful display (such as a Porsche Carrera); another is to directly outcompete the other males (winning a fight for a well-appointed executive office). To beat out the competition, it helps to take risks. It follows that men primed to think about mating should act like big-horned sheep during the rutting season — when too great an aversion to losses would prevent the kind of risky competition that will beat out the other males.
In one experiment designed to test this line of reasoning, we had some people (in the mating condition) think about a romantic first encounter with someone they found very attractive, whereas others (in the control condition) thought simply about organizing their desk. After the motive manipulation, all our subjects answered a series of questions like this: Imagine that you are at the 50th percentile of financial assets (in other words, you have an average amount of money compared to other people in the population). How happy or unhappy would you be if you dropped to the 40th percentile? What about if you went up to the 60th percentile? The results were as we’d expected: In the control condition people were loss averse — that is, they expected their happiness level to change more after a loss than after a gain. A mating motive had no effect on women’s responses, but it did have an impact on men’s judgments. Men in a mating frame of mind focused more on the gains, and reduced their normal oversensitivity to losses. That is, their psychological evaluations changed in a way that would encourage them to be more risky.
Rather than being designed to maximize immediate personal reward, many of our choices seem designed to maximize our long-term genetic success.
Regrets, we have a few
Earlier studies on people’s counterfactual thoughts — musings people have about choices they did not make and about how things might have been if they had chosen differently — only talked about possible achievements (“If only I had studied harder or made that home run,” for example) and had not probed much into counterfactual musings about relationships. My colleagues and I took a more focused look at people’s counterfactual thinking in the romantic domain. Across several studies, we asked participants to think about either their past romantic relationships, their academic achievements, their friendships or their relationships with their parents. As they thought about these different relationships, we asked them to consider the question, “Is there something you wish you had done differently?”
When it came to their parents and to their school careers, both men and women had about twice as many regrets over inactions, things they should have done but did not, than over actions, things they actually did but wished they had not.
When it came to romantic relationships, though, men and women were very different. Women were much more likely than men to have regrets over things they had done (getting involved with that self-centered bastard despite Mom’s warnings, for example). The vast majority of men’s regrets over relationships, on the other hand, were about actions they did not take (a time they did not get more intimately involved with some desired damsel).
From an evolutionary perspective, this makes a lot of sense: Men incline a bit more toward promiscuity, and women to careful choice. When women make a bad romantic choice, they remember. And perhaps by remembering, they will do a better job of avoiding those mistakes in the future.

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From must-have colourful Fair Isle cashmere knitwear to waxed cotton bespoke tartan-lined coats, pampered pooches can now dress to impress with the debut of BONE IDOL – a new proudly British brand of luxury canine apparel and accessories.
Launched on 26th August, BONE IDOL’S collection for town and country dogs is manufactured exclusively in Great Britain using the finest materials, combining traditional craftsmanship with a modern approach to design.
Made to order for 12 different breeds – from a tiny teacup Yorkie to a statuesque Greyhound – BONE IDOL’S inaugural collection is a portrait of simple yet sophisticated British style.
The range includes classic cashmere knitwear (from £160), soft Italian shearling coats with brass adornments (£490), waxed cotton jackets lined with bespoke tartan (from £290), beautiful English bridle leather accessories (from £80), organic rare-breed shearling bags (£225), silver and bronze hand-cast charms (from £62), and silk hand-embroidered badges (£35).
Dog devotee and former advertising creative, Jane Eakhurst, couldn’t find beautifully hand-tailored and finely finished items for her own dogs that would be comparable to any designer garment in her own wardrobe, that would also last a lifetime, so the idea for BONE IDOL was born with Jane co-designing the collection.
Jane said “We think dogs should look as good as their style conscious owners so have created an ultra-luxe range of clothing and accessories to reflect this. Discerning dog owners don’t always want fast-fashion that the dog will look good in on the first couple of wears; they want to invest in items that will last the lifetime of their beloved dog and can then be handed down, as an heirloom piece. They also care that their dogs look good all year round, and would be just as happy dressing them in a cashmere knit for cool summer evenings, or a waxed cotton jacket for a lunch date in the city – not to mention the stormproof coat for our unpredictable weather!“
Sustainability matters to BONE IDOL and the brand is committed to supporting small UK manufacturers wherever possible, thereby keeping their carbon footprint as tiny as they can.
They work with carefully selected ateliers in the UK such as The London Cloth Co http://www.londoncloth.com/ who supply the brand’s beautiful bespoke tartan. And Tim Hardy https://www.timhardy.com/ the specialist leather goods manufacturer based in Worcestershire who hand-makes all the collars and leads.
Jane has three dogs herself – Frank the British Bulldog who is the brand’s chief ambassador and muse, Nancy Noodle the Cocker Spaniel and her son, Buster Blue. All three dogs feature in Bone Idol’s first fashion shoot.
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NEW YORK — There is a special election coming up in the city February 26th.
It’s to fill the vacancy in the Ofice of Public Advocate created by Tisch James who resigned to become the state’s new Attorney General. Some want to abolish the office which serves as a watchdog over city government and as an ombudsman on behalf of city residents. The public advocate is also first in line of succession for mayor.
The election is non-partisan–candidates cannot run on an existing party line, like Republican or Democrat. So they had to come up with their own. We introduced you to three of the candidates on this program two weeks ago. We’ll hear from three more candidates, where they stand on the issues and why they deserve your vote.


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A year’s worth of emotions and confusion have led to the eve of the murder trial for Amber Guyger, the former Dallas police officer charged in the death of Botham Jean.
Every detail of the case will be carefully examined in a trial that is expected to take up to two weeks. The jury and four alternates have already been told they will likely be sequestered for the duration to keep them from seeing news coverage of the case.
Jean's death gained national attention, and many called it another example of white police officers killing unarmed black men.
Jean was inside his own home the night of Sept. 6, 2018, when Guyger shot and killed him.
Guyger told investigators that after working a 13-hour shift, she mistakenly parked on the wrong floor of the South Side Flats apartments, a block away from Dallas Police Department.
She was off duty but still in uniform.
She walked down the wrong hall to the wrong door and saw what she told detectives looked like a silhouette in what she thought was her home. She fired her gun, shooting and killing Jean.
“Botham Shem Jean was not a silhouette,” said family friend Dane Felicien at Jean’s funeral. “Botham Shem Jean was a godly man. A godly man."
The crowd of more than 1,500 people gathered inside Greenville Avenue Church of Christ stood and applauded.
“Your people are hurt, scared, tired, distrusting, disgusted and even angry,” said minister Sammie Berry in prayer at the funeral for Botham Jean. Berry is the minister of Dallas West Church of Christ in Dallas, where Jean had led the congregation in song just four days before his death.
Jean, 26, was born and raised in St. Lucia. He moved to the United States for college and was an accountant in Dallas.
In the days before the funeral, outrage had been building. The Texas Rangers, who’d been called in by Dallas Police Chief U. Renee Hall to conduct an independent investigation, wrote a manslaughter arrest warrant for Guyger.
Guyger to turn herself in to the Kaufman County Jail, almost 72 hours after the shooting.
She spent just one hour in custody before posting bond, leading Jean’s family and activists across the country to cry foul. They claimed she was being given preferential treatment because she was a law enforcement officer.
“She’s being treated like a police officer in the U.S. when they commit a crime. She shouldn’t have left that scene without being in handcuffs that day,” said Lee Merritt, a civil rights attorney representing the Jean family.
Jean’s mother said manslaughter was too light of a charge. She said there was too little accountability for Guyger’s actions. Her frustration grew as time passed.
“My son’s life matters,” Allison Jean said in the days after her son’s death. “Give me justice for my son.“
“I will not sit back and see that justice does not prevail,” she added.
As the family mourned, protesters marched – night and day, in rain and in heat. They even interrupted a Dallas City Council meeting.
“I am a person that deserves to be heard!” a protester yelled at council members.
Protests and vigils continued, with activists calling on Hall to fire Guyger and demanding the manslaughter charge be increased to murder.
Guyger was fired from the Dallas Police Department 18 days after the shooting.
In late November, a Dallas County grand jury indicted Guyger on a murder charge.
“I am indeed satisfied with the indictment of murder for Amber Guyger because I believe she inflicted tremendous evil on my son,” Allison Jean said on the day of the indictment.
The restless energy that had captivated the city of Dallas seemed to calm, but the question of how this could possibly happen hung in the air.
On April 29, WFAA aired an exclusively obtained recording of Guyger’s call to 911.
“I’m an off-duty officer. I thought I was in my apartment. And I shot a guy thinking it was my apartment,” Guyger told the 911 operator.
“I thought it was my apartment. I thought it was my apartment. I could have sworn I parked on the third floor,” she said. She repeated herself multiple times.
Jurors will likely hear the recording this week during the trial.
In a courtroom, feelings are separated from facts. But in this case, in this city, some wonder whether that distinction is possible.


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INGLEWOOD, CALIF. — Bill Shoemaker, who retired 3 1/2 months ago as the winningest jockey in thoroughbred racing history, officially begins phase two of his professional life Friday-as a trainer.
Star Child, a 3-year-old Kentucky-bred daughter of Our Native-Ice Princess, will run for Shoemaker in Friday`s fifth race at Hollywood Park, a mile allowance event for 3-year-old fillies on turf.
Star Child will be ridden by Eddie Delahoussaye. It was Delahoussaye, aboard Exemplary Leader, who won the final race in which Shoemaker competed, at Santa Anita on Feb. 3.
``It`s just one of my horses to run. If it wasn`t the first one, no one would care,`` Shoemaker said Thursday at Hollywood`s Barn 65 South, where his 24-horse stable is housed. ``I`m excited to get her in a race. She`s been training good.
``I`m excited. It`ll be fun. That`s what I`m here for, to get them ready to run.``
About competing successfully with the best, like Charlie Whittingham and D. Wayne Lukas, Shoemaker said, ``That`s a long way down the line, but you never know. All you need to get started is one very good one.``

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Marc Philibert is the Managing Partner for the Montréal office. He is a business lawyer known for his ability to close deals and recognized for his solution oriented approach and strong relationship with his clients and understanding of their objectives.
Marc represents both Canadian and foreign entities in a wide range of corporate legal issues, including:
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Over the years, Marc has completed hundreds of financings, sales and purchases of businesses both in and outside Québec and has been involved in a large number of financing and commercial real estate transactions. Helping his clients achieve growth in their business and in new markets is what Marc enjoys in his practice. His clients are entrepreneurs, institutional lenders, private equity funds and corporations. His experience includes transactions in Canada, United States, the Caribbean and Africa.
Acted for Groupe Deschênes in connection with the Competition Act approval and the Canada-US financing of its Corix Water Products acquisition.
Acted for Physiotherapie Universelle in connection with its acquisition by Lifemark.
Québec counsel for the winning consortium on the $2 billion financing of the New Bridge over the Saint Lawrence Crossing Project in Montréal, Québec.
Acted for American Railway Supply in its acquisition of a Moncton railcar manufacturing facility and the establishment of a joint venture with CRRC.
Québec counsel to several lenders in cross border financings.
General counsel to a leading Canadian manufacturer of doors and windows.
Acted for Allied Group of companies with respect to its acquisition of Ezeflow Inc., a manufacturer of welded pipe fittings with manufacturing facilities in Canada, United States and Scotland.
Acted for Asmodee Group with respect to its acquisition of F2Z Entertainment Inc., the Canadian publisher/distributor that owns the Z-Man Games, Filosofia Éditions, Pretzel Games, and Plaid Hat Games studios.
Acted for Groupe Deschênes Inc. with respect to its acquisition and financing thereof of Ontario based Ideal Supply Company Limited and its 20+ owned and 14+ leased retail locations.
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What is CI/CD?
Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment, abbreviated as CI/CD, serves as a pivotal practice within modern software development.
In more depth, Continuous Integration (CI) is the method by which developers regularly amalgamate their code alterations into an integral repository and subsequently initiate automated builds and tests using various continuous integration tools. The core objective of CI is to swiftly pinpoint and rectify bugs, enhance software quality, and ultimately diminish the duration necessary for validating/releasing fresh updates in the process.
Continuous Deployment (CD) is an extension of the CI concept; it automates the deployment process for all code changes to production after passing through the build stage. In effect, this strategy enables developers to deploy any change that successfully navigates automated tests automatically, hence promoting a swift and efficient development cycle.
Another form of CD automates the release process by enabling swift and sustainable deployment for new changes. However, a crucial distinction is that it does not automatically deploy every change to production. This approach requires a manual trigger for deployment – thus offering heightened control over the timing and method of releasing new features.
- CI/CD is a graduate-level approach that guarantees superior iterations.
To summarize, the CI/CD methodology, through its robust CI/CD pipeline and effective use of CI/CD tools, empowers software development processes for increased efficiency and elevates product robustness and reliability through more frequent code changes.
How CI/CD work
- Code Commit: The concept of Continuous Integration (CI) is defined as a practice where developers integrate code into a shared repository frequently (each integration triggers an automated build and test process).
Developers actively commit code changes to a shared repository, often multiple times within a day. Version control systems-such as Git-typically manage these repositories.
- Automated Testing: Each code commit triggers an automated build process. This process includes a crucial step of running tests to identify errors and integration issues early.
- Immediate feedback: Developers actively receive immediate feedback from these tests. Feedback ensures not only code quality but also the constant deployable state of the main branch in the repository. This continual testing, an integral part of their workflow, facilitates swift corrections upon issue detection. An approach that enhances efficiency and effectiveness within development operations.
- Continuous Deployment: You automatically deploy every change that passes automated tests of the CI phase to the production environment. This approach ensures a rapid and consistent flow of improvements into production – an ideal strategy.
- Continuous Delivery: In the second step, you should automate the software release process up to production. Additionally, prepare deployment-ready changes for release, yet manual intervention remains necessary to deploy them into production. This approach provides a superior degree of control over the timing and manner in which you introduce alterations.
Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
This concept revolutionizes the management and deployment of infrastructure through automated processes. IaC encapsulates all aspects of traditional system administration in a programmable format: operating systems, virtual machines, networks – even complex environments can be defined with code.
Automating and treating the setup and configuration of infrastructure like code is a common practice in CI/CD. Through such methods, successful testing and deployment become achievable.
The process of Monitoring and Feedback
Involves constant observation, analysis, and provision of constructive criticism. It’s an integral part of enhancing performance-both individually and within organizational contexts.
After deployment, you utilize continuous monitoring tools to guarantee optimal performance of the application in its production environment. These instruments provide feedback, enabling swift identification and resolution of any potential issues-thereby accomplishing a seamless CI/CD loop.
The primary objective of CI/CD is to enhance the speed, efficiency, and reliability of software development and deployment. This process automation minimizes manual errors; it amplifies team productivity, speeding up the release of features and fixes in software.
Importance of CI/CD
In the realm of software development, one cannot overstate the importance of CI/CD; this methodology-owing to its numerous benefits-plays a crucial role in modern practices:
- Improved Code Quality: Continuous Integration (CI) ensures frequent testing of the code, thereby automating bug detection and facilitating early resolution. This process ultimately elevates the final product’s quality by regularizing integration and testing phases-an approach that substantially decreases the chances of encountering critical issues during the release phase.
- CI/CD: through its ability to automate integration and deployment processes – accelerates the release cycle of features and bug fixes. With this tool in hand, teams not only push updates more frequently but also with increased confidence. A strategy that sharpens their responsiveness to market fluctuations as well as user feedback.
- Automation in CI/CD increases development efficiency by eliminating manual tasks; this empowers developers to concentrate on writing and enhancing code. The resultant streamlined process shortens the development lifecycle, thereby enabling teams to expedite feature delivery: a productivity boost with decreased time investment.
- Enhanced Developer Collaboration: CI fosters a culture where developers proactively merge their changes regularly. This consistent merging strategy not only reduces conflicts but also cultivates an environment of continuous development; here, code is shared, reviewed, and integrated without interruption.
- With CI/CD, we make smaller and more frequent updates that significantly reduce deployment risks. CD facilitates immediate addressing of any issues by providing real-time feedback on these changes.
- CI/CD fosters the consistency and reliability of software build, testing, and deployment processes. This guarantee allows for reliable release of the software at any given time with minimal human intervention – thus reducing potential errors.
- By automating repetitive tasks and enhancing the development process’s efficiency, we can achieve better resource allocation – the strategy enables us to concentrate on project areas that contribute superior value.
- CD enables a quick feedback loop with end-users. Through the regular deployment of modifications and the ensuing immediate feedback reception, teams gain an enhanced understanding of user necessities – a crucial insight that guides them in tailoring the product accordingly.
- CI/CD processes enhance scalability and flexibility; as the project expands, developing efforts become more manageable. Additionally, integrating with a variety of tools and technologies—adapting to diverse project requirements-is facilitated by these methods.
CI/CD represents more than a mere collection of practices. They embody an entire cultural transformation within software development. This shift cultivates an approach that is not only agile and efficient but also laser-focused on quality. This becomes essential in a rapidly changing technological terrain characterized by its relentless pace.
CI/CD and DevOps
The DevOps philosophy relies on CI/CD as its backbone. CI/CD for DevOps is an integral part that facilitates many of the core principles. As a cultural and professional movement, DevOps underscores collaboration and communication-particularly between software developers and IT operations teams-with integration at its heart. The objective? To forge a more agile, efficient-and ultimately responsive-IT service delivery model.
The software development process streamlines through CI/CD, which directly aligns with DevOps goals: it accelerates time to market and enhances product quality and operational efficiency. Supporting DevOps, Continuous Integration ensures that code changes are integrated and tested rapidly and frequently – thus facilitating a more collaborative, transparent development procedure. This constant alignment of the merging/testing process with the principle of continuous improvement in DevOps perfectly reflects their emphasis on feedback.
CD takes this a step further by automating the deployment process, ensuring that new features and fixes are rapidly and reliably delivered to users. This method exemplifies the DevOps ethos-a continual flow between development teams and operations with minimal manual intervention that breaks down silos among different groups within an organization. By facilitating swifter, more regular releases, CI/CD not only speeds up the development cycle but also permits faster feedback from both end-users and operational units. Providing an invaluable resource for iterative development is one of DevOps’ core principles.


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Hotel Super 8 Milford/New Haven - Milford
1015 Boston Post Rd - Milford1-877-662-6988
Welcome to Super 8 Milford/New Haven!
This Milford hotel offers free Wi-Fi and an elevator (lift).
Missed breakfast? Have no fear! There's coffee in the lobby to keep you going.
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Breakfast at Hotel Super 8 Milford/New Haven
A free continental breakfast is served each morning.
- Internet/Email services
- Front desk - 24 hour
- Free parking
- The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation.
Check-in: after 2 PM.
Check-out: before 11 AM.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
The following fees and deposits are charged by the property at time of service, check-in, or check-out.
- Deposit: USD 100 per stay (for guests under 21 years old)
- Rollaway bed fee: USD 10 per night
The above list may not be comprehensive. Fees and deposits may not include tax and are subject to change.
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Super 8 Milford/New Haven offers 50 guest rooms with climate control. Cable TV channels offer entertainment at the end of a busy day. Business travelers visiting the Milford area will have access to free wireless high-speed Internet access.
Microwaves and irons/ironing boards are supplied in each room to facilitate basic travel needs. Additional comforts include air conditioning.
- Air conditioning
- Extra beds
- In-room ironing facilities
- Cable TV
- Individually controlled air conditioning
- Wireless Internet access
Distances from Hotel Super 8 Milford/New HavenWestfield Connecticut Post Mall - 1.1 km / 0.7 mi
Silver Sands State Park - 3.9 km / 2.4 mi
Savin Rock Conference Center - 8.1 km / 5.1 mi
Oak Street Beach - 8.4 km / 5.2 mi
University of New Haven - 9.7 km / 6 mi
Sandy Point Beach - 10.2 km / 6.3 mi
Yale Golf Course - 10.9 km / 6.8 mi
Yale Bowl - 11.4 km / 7.1 mi
Connecticut Tennis Center - 11.6 km / 7.2 mi
Beardsley Zoo - 11.8 km / 7.3 mi
Five Mile Point Lighthouse - 12.1 km / 7.5 mi
Lighthouse Point Park - 12.2 km / 7.6 mi
Yale-New Haven Hospital - 12.3 km / 7.6 mi
Hospital of Saint Raphael - 12.3 km / 7.7 mi
Long Wharf Theatre - 12.5 km / 7.7 mi
The preferred airport for Super 8 Milford/New Haven is New Haven, CT (HVN-Tweed - New Haven Regional) - 13.6 km / 8.5 mi.
Distances are calculated in a straight line from the property's location to the point of interest or airport and may not reflect actual travel distance.
Distances are displayed to the nearest 0.1 mile and kilometer.
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Songs from the Heart
Sunday, June 9, 2013, 5:00pm
Music 1 - Room #108
Participants will go around in a circle, each sharing songs that have moved them to tears, kept them going, or changed them. They don't have to be singalongs, and can be in any genre, sung accompanied or not. Please come ready to listen and share from the heart.
Lisa Hubbell is a songwriter who has had three songs published in the folknik, and one in the Quaker hymnal "Worship in Song". She writes about friendship, risk-taking, and staying grounded - which are largely the same things she encourages in other people's songs. She has shared stages with Peter Blood & Annie Patterson, Betsy Rose, and Emma's Revolution. http://www.myspace.com/lisahubbell


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