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Three Capitals in the Life and Work of the Russian Artist Alexander Florensky: St Petersburg-Tbilisi-Moscow (in Russian)
Alexander Florensky
Thursday 23 September 2021, 19:00-20:30
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This meeting with the Leningrad-born artist Alexander Florensky, who works in Moscow but recently spends more time in Tbilisi, is an illustrated journey into his favourite corners of the three capital cities – St Petersburg, Tbilisi and Moscow – which he has drawn in his work.
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About the speaker Alexander Florensky is a painter, graphic artist, illustrator, ceramist and collector. Born into a family of artists in Leningrad in 1960, he graduated from the Department of Ceramics of Leningrad Higher School of Art and Design named after V. I. Mukhina (today Saint Petersburg Stieglitz State Academy of Art and Design). He was one of the founders of the famous Mitki artist group (1985-2005). He has also been a member of St Petersburg Union of Artists since 1988 and is the author of numerous art, cinematographic, animation, publishing and exhibition projects. Together with Ivan Sotnikov, he co-founded the Painting and Drawing Society in 2004. Florensky's works are held in the collections of the Russian State Museum, the Hermitage (St Petersburg), the State Tretyakov Gallery and the Pushkin Fine Art Museum (Moscow), as well as in many other museums both in Russia and abroad, including the Victoria & Albert Museum (London). He is the creator of the illustrated ABCs of the cities of Jerusalem, St Petersburg, Voronezh, Kiev, Odessa, Tbilisi, New York, Moscow, as well as editions such as "Journey from Murmansk to Kirkenes" and "Travel in Tuscany." Florensky has illustrated a number of publications, including works by Sergey Dovlatov.
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No immediate effect from WTO ruling
Update, Sept. 6: There is a report out of Germany that the WTO found state loans to Airbus to be acceptable. The conflicting information and enigma goes on.
Update, 2:00pm: The New York Times says 70% of the USTR/Boeing complaint against Airbus was rejected by the WTO. The link is contained in the NY Times reference below in the list of articles.
News Flash, 11:35 AM: Reuters is now quoting EU sources that the WTO didn't hand the US and Boeing the victories that have been claimed:
BC-TRADE/AIRCRAFT-EU-WTO (URGENT)
WTO did not rule Airbus aid illegal – EU sources
BRUSSELS, Sept 4 (Reuters) – Comments that the World Trade Organisation on Friday backed a U.S. complaint against European Union aid to plane maker Airbus are wrong and misleading, EU sources with knowledge of the WTO ruling said.
"The ruling is not a black-and-white case. It simply is not a great victory for the United States," one source told Reuters on condition of anonymity.
"The claim that the WTO ruled that subsidies given (by the EU) to Airbus for their A380 plane were illegal is wrong and misleading."
Reuters reported earlier from Washington, citing a person familiar with the case, that the WTO had ruled that billions of dollars in European loans to help Airbus develop civilian aircraft were an illegal subsidy under world trade rules.
Another EU source said aid given by Brussels to the European plane maker for its A350 aircraft was "not mentioned in the (WTO) report and so would not have to be repaid".
He was speaking after the WTO issued a pivotal, but highly confidential, ruling on subsidies given by the EU to Airbus that stands to impact the global aircraft sector.
The Hill, Aug. 31: This specialty web publication follows Congress and has this long analysis of the prospect of the WTO ruling on the tanker competition, published in advance of the Sept. 4 report.
Key articles on the WTO dispute:
Reuters, Sept. 3: This one is a good recap of implications, reported in advance of the WTO staff report.
Financial Times, Sept. 3: Another good story in advance of the ruling about the broader implications of the US/Boeing win.
AP via Business Week: This story presents a good analysis on how the WTO ruling could hurt both Airbus and Boeing.
Reuters, Sept. 4: This is a great Fact Box recapping all the issues involved.
Reuters, Sept. 4: Boeing's Defense unit says the Pentagon will have to decide what, if any, affect the WTO action will have on the tanker competition, according to this Reuters report.
The Economist, Sept. 4: Here's a European take on the WTO trade dispute.
SkyNews (Europe), Sept. 4: As expected, the UK said it will go forward with plans to loan Airbus more than $500m for the development of the A350.
Bloomberg News, Sept. 4: This report says the WTO did find illegal subsidies were provided on the A380, conflicting with the Reuters report above.
Bloomberg News, Sept. 4: It didn't take long for a Boeing supporter to tie the WTO report to the KC-X tanker bid. Note on comment on this issue below the jump at the end of our assessment:
U.S. Air Force Tanker Bid Should Consider WTO, Rep. Dicks Says
2009-09-04 19:22:06.212 GMT
By Gopal Ratnam
Sept. 4 (Bloomberg) — The U.S. Air Force must tailor its new refueling tanker bid by considering today's World Trade Organization's ruling that Airbus SAS received some illegal subsidies, Representative Norm Dicks, a Democrat from Washington state, said in a statement.
"It would be inconceivable for the Defense Department to issue its request for proposals for the new Air Force refueling tanker without including a provision which recognizes the ruling issued today by the WTO panel," Dicks said in the statement.
"The U.S. government cannot reward illegal market actions that have harmed U.S. manufacturers."
The Hill, Sept. 4: This specialty web publication follows Congress and has this long analysis on the possible effect of the WTO report on the tanker competition.
Aviation Week, Sept. 4: Reporter Robert Wall, one of the most insightful aviation journalists, is based in Europe and has this very good report on the WTO conclusions.
New York Times, Sept. 4: The NYT says the WTO found some but not all Airbus aid was illegal and that "most" of the financial aid to Airbus was legal.
Financial Times, Sept. 4: This London-based story has some specificity on the illegal launch aid attributed to the A380.
Reuters, Sept. 4: This article focuses on the affect of the WTO ruling on the pending KC-X tanker competition.
There won't be any immediate practical affect from the World Trade Organization staff report that Airbus benefited from improper subsidies in the development of its entire line of aircraft. The immediate affect will be political and public relations points.
Merrill Lynch in Europe issued its own opinion ahead of the WTO staff report that concludes the same, entitled "WTO Outcome: Much ado about nothing." ML issued a Buy on EADS.
The staff report, to be issued Sept. 4, has to be reviewed by the European Union and the US Trade Representative (USTR). Both sides can comment on the report and ask for revisions, a process that could take months. After the staff reviews comments and requests, a new report has to be issued for the WTO to review it, which procedurally could lead to more revisions but in practice has not been the case. Once the WTO endorses the staff report, the decision could be appealed, a process that could add years before a decision becomes effective. Once the decision is effective, the winning party is then able to impose sanctions if the losing party fails to comply with the ruling.
But imposition of sanctions is not a given, and on whom the sanctions are imposed is a bizarre part of the WTO rules. Sanctions do not have to be imposed on the losing party's affected company–in this case, Airbus. The USA could impose sanctions on the French wine industry or German Bratwurst imports. Likewise, if the EU prevails in its counter-complaint over Boeing subsidies (as expected) in a staff report due within six months, the EU could impose penalties on Washington State apple exports. Or either side could elect not to impose any penalties at all, as was the case in a WTO ruling that Canada and Brazil both violated export subsidy rules in support of Bombardier and Embraer regional jets.
Although the US and Boeing say that this Airbus conclusion means Airbus cannot use launch aid for the A350, the EU and Airbus have already rejected the nexus. France, Germany and the UK are prepared to provide about $5bn in launch aid.
The immediate benefit to the US and Boeing over the WTO staff report on Airbus is that both will have major public relations and political points to promote. Boeing and its Congressional supporters will use the staff report to beat Airbus about the head over A350 launch aid, but since the staff report has no force until ratified by the WTO itself–which, as noted, will be years away due to almost certain procedural appeals–Airbus will go ahead with launch aid. Airbus has also previously told us that any such aid will conform to WTO rules and not be structured under the now-renounced 1992 GATT agreement that governed launch aid from the A300 through the A380.
Boeing and its Congressional supporters will use the staff report to argue, as they did while the case was pending, that the Defense Department should not award the USAF contract for the KC-X aerial tanker replacement for the Boeing KC-135 to a company that acted illegally. Even though Northrop Grumman is the prime contractor with the USAF should the contract be re-awarded to Northrop, the airplane on which the KC-30 is based is the Airbus A330-200, one of those aircraft identified in the US complaint as benefitting from illegal subsidies. As far as Boeing and its supporters are concerned, the name on the side of the KC-30 is Airbus and not Northrop Grumman.
EADS said during the previous competition that all launch aid for the A330-200 has been repaid.
Boeing and its supporters need to be careful about how much they bear down on the tanker issue. When the WTO renders its staff report on the EU complaint over Boeing subsidies, and if as expected Boeing is found in violation of WTO rules, too, Northrop and its supporters can be expected to counter that Boeing behaved illegally as well. Taking this argument to its absurd and illogical conclusion, the only one left building a heavy jet tanker is the Russians, which hasn't been party to any WTO action on this front.
Talk about sending US jobs overseas….
Tags: Airbus, Boeing, WTO dispute
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14 Comments on "No immediate effect from WTO ruling"
Onemancrew
If there is to be an immediate impact, it will be because of EADS thumbing it's nose at a negative ruling, and trying to lobby it's way out of it. It's already indicated that it intends to just pretend it never happened.
The negative that exists is that there will be an andyi airbus tanker backlash in congress.
If that doesn't happen in the face of airbus recalcitrance, I'd be surprised.
But as I have always predicted, the WTO will not rule against airbus. Not in any meaningful way. It will only appear to be a pro Boeing decision, but it will remain forever tied up in a Belgian knot as A-350 proceeds apace, and Boeing bleeds R+D money.
Fred Bearden
A WTO ruling against Airbus means little for commercial aircraft, as there will be a countervailing WTO judgement against Boeing – Solomon's justice.
But the ruling means the end of the KC30 for the USAF. Airbus and NG should have been able to smell this one coming when the Boeing challenge was upheld.
Northrop Grumman will protest–more loudly than they have alrady–that the WTO finding will have no impact whatsoever. However, I can see where this will cause their board more than a little consternation and concern. If the process is as lengthly as you indicate, can they afford to wait this out and take all the political heat? And there will be political heat–even more than we've seen to date.
Evin Ormond
It is mostly wrong to invest such vast amounts of time and money into endless legal battles.
Boeing was ill advised to do so.
Far better had it been to invest their money and time into constrution of better aircraft.
In the long term such an investment is far more likely to pay out.
To avoid such a useless trade war at WTO and still give Boeing equal opportunities, the US government could have been providing the same amounts of subsidies to Boeing as the EU allegedly provided to Airbus.
ikkeman
I still can't understand why any WTO ruling should impact the kc-30.
Both Boeing and Airbus and their representatives have demonstrably broken the law and they have all been fined and jailed. why should this court case be any different.
Of course, the US can (and should) demand a limit on outsourcing, but it's not like Boeing's products are anything like All American.
and what specifically is the problem about the euro govt's subsidizing the american tanker.
Trying to make sense of and trying to keep score of the significance of these leaks to the news media remind me of the big fuss made by KC-30 supporters crowing that "most of Boeing's claims tanker protest were dismissed" by the GAO last June 2008. Frankly, one of the GAO findings was enough to trash the entire source selection for the tanker. In this vein consider the NYT report that the WTO dismissed "70%" of the U.S. complaints. If the NYT report is even close to correct, who knows that that other "30%" contains?
An addendum to my previous post.
If this article is even half-way accurate, that 30% ain't half bad from the U.S. perspective.
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE5851JS20090906
Aero Ninja
Let me get this straight. All this fuss from the press, the blogs and the politicians, over a document that none of them have access to?!?!
Can we get an order for a dose of reality and common sense please?
And that isn't even anywhere near to final. I also fail to understand why everybody calls it a 'preliminary ruling', while the WTO terminology is 'interim report' (see their website). The distinction matters. I think the whole discussion could benefit from:
a) a clearer understanding of the WTO process (which will probably involve some horse-trading at the end, once the report on the EU complaints has come out); and
b) waiting for the final report to appear.
Not particularly realistic, I know, but wouldn't it be nice?
The horse-trading is kicking off:
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/8dc80126-9b2a-11de-a3a1-00144feabdc0.html
If anyone thinks that whatever conclusions are arrived at in the interim report will be implemented just like this (and this assumes they remain unchanged in the final report), they really need to get out more, and make an effort of getting an idea of how the world really works.
OV-099
If the WTO did infact note that repayable launch aid — the raison d'etre of Boeings claim — can be an acceptable option for financing aircraft, then surely that must be a huge setback for the US.
IF they WTO said that RLI is acceptable, that would indeed be a huge set back for the U.S. If they did not, and RLI is found in ANY way to be illegal, then that would be a HUGE win for the U.S.
We just don't know for sure at this point and all this is preliminary.
However, I would hope that this will provide the incentive for a comprehensive settlement. There are new players in the game now on both sides. This may be the best chance to get an agreement that everyone can accept and live with.
This is typical of Boeing and its political puppets, spin the facts and push out misinformation. What will be an illegal subsidy is when Boeing is given the Tanker Contract due to this strategy and their Tankers are late to schedule and Boeing passes large cost overruns to us taxpayers for a tanker less or maybe equal capabilies to Northrop's Tanker.
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Q: openerp - res.partner: default value depending on company type When creating a new contact, I would like to set "Customer" to True and "supplier" to False if the contact is "Individual" and vice versa: if the contact is Company : Set "customer" to False and "supplier" to True.
I've tried to make some changes in xml file so far but nothing happns..
<field name="supplier">{[('is_company','=', True)],'default_customer': 0,'default_supplier': 1} </field>

Any suggestions?
Thank you in advance
Hereafter my .py
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
from openerp.osv import fields, osv
import time
import datetime
from datetime import datetime, date, time
from openerp import api

class mypartner_custom(osv.osv):
    _inherit = 'res.partner'

    _columns = {

            'plafond_credit' : fields.float(string = 'Plafond Crédit',digits=(6,2)),
            'cin' : fields.char(string = 'CIN', size=15),

            }
mypartner_custom()

@api.onchange('is_company')
def change_company_type(self):
   if self.is_company == True:
      self.customer = False
      self.supplier = True
   else :
      self.customer = True
      self.supplier = False

A: Use the onchange method :
@api.onchange('company_type')
def change_company_type(self):
   if self.company_type == 'person':
      self.customer = True
      self.supplier = False
   else :
      self.customer = True
      self.supplier = True

Don't forget about the default values as this method is executed only when company_type value is changed..

A: You are using the old api so use this method instead :
def onchange_company_type(self, cr, uid, ids, company_type, context=None):
  return {'value': {'customer': False, 'supplier': True}} if company_type=='person' else {'value': {'customer': True, 'supplier': False}}

And in the company_type field in xml file add this attribute
on_change="onchange_company_type(company_type)"

A: Override the create method, check the corresponding values, and set like you want:
def create(self, cr, uid, vals, context=None):
    if vals['contact'] == "Individual":
        vals['customer'] = True
        vals['supplier'] = False
    elif vals['contact'] == "Company":
        vals['customer'] = False
        vals['supplier'] = True
    return super(res_partner, self).create(cr, uid, vals, context=context)

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SS19 trends are all about reclamation – using old objects and twisting them to create something new.
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Update… I have been doing stuff!
A nice ride in Sycamore Canyon after the Camarillo Springs fire.
Yes, I have been slacking in the blogging department lately. For those of you that still care and follow here is what has is going on and what is next to come.
After doing my last Triathlon of 2013 I turned my focus to my bike to get ready for the Tour De Big Bear. I didn't get in quite as much training as I had hoped but I was hoping to do all 100 miles. We found out the day we were leaving that they didn't want people riding Tri-Bikes (which is all I have essentially) so we had to make an emergency stop at the bike shop on the way out of town and rented me a road bike. I am very glad we did because it was a great opportunity to ride a road bike for the first time in almost two years!
The ride went pretty well but I knew after the first big climb there was no way I was going to finish the whole 100 miles. I waited at the aid station for Stuart for him to do the 30 miles out and back that included another nasty long climb. When he got back I was glad I didn't go. He did it (so proud of him!) but he was wrecked! We eeked out the last 25-30 miles and were very happy to use margaritas that night to replenish our electrolytes! Click here for the ride data The next day we stopped in at the local bike shop, Bear Valley Cycles, on the off chance they had a used road bike for me. To our pleasant surprise, they did! A beautiful 2011 Specialized Ruby. I took it for a quick ride and was AMAZED at how much better a ride it was than the Cannondale Evo I had ridden for the tour. After a small pricing mishap the bike was mine and I can't wait to get some miles in on her! The bike shop was awesome and we can't wait to go back and ride more up there! We will be taking our mountain bikes next time as well!
Stuart and I at the top of the first climb.
Once back from vacation I switched my focus to the pool. I am training for the Tiki Swim in Oceanside at the end of September. I asked for help from an online friend to help get me faster for the race. I haven't really had a coach in a very long time and this has been a great lesson in listening to someone who knows better than I. I have trained for MANY races on my own so this has been a great lesson in trusting someone else with my training. This might be good practice for my next attempt at the Ironman (November 2014). MUN has developed an excellent plan for me and I am seeing dramatic results in the pool. Click here to see my best workout so far.
So what is next you may ask? This month I am going to start building up my running base and core strength. Stuart and I are doing push-up runs for the month of September. What is a pushup run you may ask? Drop after every mile and do 10 pushups. We also are committed to stretching and foam rolling after every run as well. The goal for me is to train for the LA Marathon in March as I lead up to Ironman Arizona in 2014! I want a successful marathon. I don't' expect it to be fast; just consistent and injury free. That is the goal!!
Below is some video of me swimming. Enjoy!
Having someone else guide me through my training was the best decision I ever made…Not only for guided structure, but for the "proper" volume increases at the proper times….it's made a HUGE difference in all 3 sports instead of what I was seeing using generic online or textbook plans. Well worth the few $$…esp considering I haven't been injured. I would highly recommend a "coach" during your lead-up to IMAZ.
so jealous…mines not so pretty!
I am so lucky when it comes to swimming pools! That pool is $2 a swim! Hours aren't perfect but you just have to work around them.
And I really think I will get a coach for Arizona.


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Playing peek-a-boo may not trigger a reaction, but as they grow older they will start to react and giggle. You could also introduce variations like hiding behind furniture or placing a cloth over your child's head. Peek-a-boo builds on repetition and helps them understand that things and people still exist, even if they cannot be seen.
Babies learn through practice and repetition, for it is through this that they build their gross and fine motor skills.
You could start by moving their legs slowly, in a walking motion, forward and back, then side to the middle. You can then progress to different motions like "bike riding" or "doing squats". Then, exercise their arms, clapping and swinging. Carers also bring the babies' limbs across the centre line of the body.
These kinds of cross-lateral movements help build connections between the left and right hemispheres of the brain. At an infant's early stages, their movements are mostly reflexive but through repeated movements, their neural development will be enhanced.
Although these activities may seem like a lot of work for babies, research from the best infant care centres in Singapore has shown that babies are "opportunistic" learners and pick up information from their surroundings quickly. Developments in the Sensory, Motor, Intellectual, Linguistic, Emotional and Social areas come from both accidental and experimental interaction. Thus, embarking on these activities could help in the cognitive development and gives you the opportunity to bond with your child.
Shielding promoters from pushing excessively numerous items and thoughts on her youngsters was never excessively troublesome for Sheryl Lee.
First of all, the 46-year-old guardian from Singapore, never introduced digital TV in her family's home.
In any case, when she and her five-year-old little girl went to the official site of her daughter's most loved toy, Lee understood that publicists have a significantly more successful medium for achieving kids: the Internet.
"There are diversions and downloadable exercises, yet it's quite evident from the destinations that they are there to offer," Lee says.
A current report from MindChamps PreSchool Singapore found that sites do in truth market intensely to children and adolescents digitally .
All things considered, the digital marketing is an advertiser's fantasy since it can help bait kids into connecting with amusements, toon characters, and online groups.
Also, it's not simply toy makes that are getting in the diversion.
Free digital computer games, for instance, are worked around well known TV demonstrate characters or incorporate item positions.
Or, on the other hand a few locales for toddlers are intended to feel like a free digital publication site, however the guidance is truly centered around advancing particular items.
The issue is that children won't not understand they're being showcased to – and guardians won't not understand their children are unveiling private information about themselves en route.
1. Instruct your children about digital based showcasing many youthful individuals don't comprehend that the fun sites they visit have a ulterior intention.
According to CNN, Guardians should instruct kids that these locales are business and are there to manufacture mark unwaveringness.
At the point when Lee found that her girl's visits to that famous toy site in Singapore made her need another toy each week, she utilized the circumstance as an instructing opportunity.
2. Ensure children's close to home data The central reason business locales endeavor to draw in kids is to expand deals. One way they fulfill that objective is by gathering data about children's inclinations and responses to toys.
By law, destinations can likewise gather email addresses for kids who are age 13 or more established to keep focusing on kids long after the underlying collaboration.
"They'll have some substance that is free yet for the energizing substance, for example, a domain where they can take part in recreations or reviews, they have to enlist," Thomas says.
"To enlist, you need to give individual data, for example, name, address, and email." If you don't need your tyke to give out an email address, make that reasonable. Or, then again, Thomas proposes, set up a spurious email account intended to gather messages that you never mean to open.
3. Lee encourages guardians to keep Internet-associated PCs out of children's rooms and just place them in a spot where guardians can direct.
On the off chance that you feel that an online promoter is misusing your kid, you can record a dissension with Singapore.
Champion Parenting Club is Proud to Present the most energizing yet advancing Children's Festival in Singapore 2017.
As guardians, we have all ensured that our kids know love them, by activities or through words. However, how regularly do we disclose to them that we're glad for their identity?
This current Children's Day 2017 demonstrate your kid how pleased with them you are for their accomplishments, huge or little, and no more energizing youngsters' celebration in Singapore.
Champion Parenting Club's Festival held in accordance with Children's Day festivities to give drawing in exercises to families. This current kids' celebration urges the entire family to take part and offer these learning encounters with individuals they adore, in a way that fortifies the 3 Minds (The Learning Mind; The Creative Mind and The Champion Mind), which frame the bases of the action zones. This is according to MindChamps Singapore Tweets.
This is a possibility for all of us to take a little quality time from the week by week surge, and comprehend that amidst all the critical things that we do to help our kids' future, it is imperative to grab those minutes which assemble their qualities and set them up for achievement in an obscure and mysterious future.
Research demonstrates the indispensable significance of tying what is knowledgeable about preschool to a strong home condition that strengthens the learning. This is a perfect chance to – essentially and charmingly – take part in that learning with your youngsters.
Go on a sensational, intelligent excursion at the Learning Zone! From figuring out how to connect with creatures, to making ceramics, perusing and composing, and crystal gazing. Your youngsters will learn commonsense "How-to" systems and methods to help him/her effectively comprehend, store, review, and orchestrate data and ideas to peruse and compose better.
Come very close with live horses by going on a horse ride or cooperating with them through bolstering and preparing. This open door is influenced conceivable by homegrown organization To dash Stable, a stallion riding supplier in Singapore. It was incepted to offer chance to everybody, youthful and old, to do horseback riding without the bother of being a part or paying illustrious charges.
Horse rides are reasonable for kids over the age of 3 years of age (most extreme weight of 40kg).
Keep the children engaged with our biggest ever indoor inflatables: Planet Dome where kids must locate an ideal choice for the shapes or test each other to a hindrance course in the fastes time with the Spaceship inflatable. In any case, the children will have a fabulous time hopping and bobbing around.
Everybody cherishes flying through the air and anybody can do. Experience invigorating trills as you zip line on the Zipline inflatable or be shark lure.
Welcome to our Childcare Centre in Yishun, where we set up our little ones into being equipped, responsible lifelong learners.
Why Are We The Best ChildCare in Yishun?
The answer is simple – we have a group of committed educators at the top child care centre in yishun who unequivocally put stock in learning through purposeful play. Kids learn best through an integrated and holistic curriculum and also through interactive and quality play circumstances. In view of that, our topical educational programs covers numerous subjects to furnish our kids with the essential aptitudes and ideas, and additionally the capacity to apply learning to real-life situations.
Kids are given the decision of being at different learning corners where they can investigate their interests at their own pace. We trust that youngsters learn best when given the freedom to learn at an agreeable pace. The learning corners are outlined with various materials for our youngsters to investigate and to return to content from ideas and points that have been secured.
We trust that a healthy child is a happy child. Our nutritious meals guarantee that every youngster expends adequate sustenance amid his/her developing years. Our dinners are lined up with the good dieting rules by the Health Promotion Board. We have likewise presented an assortment of staple nourishment, for example, rice, noodles and pasta.
We additionally trust in the accentuation on physical instruction. All things considered, we build up the gross engine aptitudes of our little ones through exercises, for example, running, jumping and skipping.
We firmly trust that every kid is unique with different potential, and we look to create them to their maximum capacity. We perceive the qualities and shortcomings of every tyke and expect to upgrade the qualities while likewise giving chances to enhance shortcomings.
In Yishun, assuming that the earth assumes a critical part in kids' learning, we have made our condition a cozy and homely place for our kids. We additionally show the photos of youngsters' families to upgrade their sense of belonging and ownership of the Center.
envisions to see your little trooper soon. We guarantee an energizing, instructive and fun voyage ahead!
From all of us at the Champion Parenting Club.


Our school is a partnership of staff, students, and the community, committed to providing your child with a safe learning environment. Our experienced staff are aware that all students learn in a variety of ways, and they work under the belief that all students possess gifts and talents, which need to be developed and enriched. Our goal is to help every child reach his or her full potential by providing the best educational opportunity possible.
Kolb Elementary School serves 550 students in Bay City, MI. We offer K-5 instruction, which includes a Magnet Gifted and Talented program and an Autistic Impaired program. We also offer a Before and After school child care program from 6:00am to 8:30am and 3:30pm to 6:00pm.
Our school office is open from 8AM - 4PM, Monday through Friday. We can be reached by phone at (989)-893-9518 or by email through our "contact" page.
Our Mission is to provide a nurturing environment where all students receive the skills to become successful life-long learners and contributing members of a global society.


Sometimes finding perfect places for family reunions, great meeting space or wedding venues in Arkansas can be a challenge. Historic Washington State Park offers everything in one spot – from great group spaces to food, lodging and activities.
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Take an educational group tour of Historic Washington State Park. If you or your school, group, or organization would like to host a workshop, conference, meeting, or activities at Historic Washington, we have several facilities to meet your needs. Contact the park by phone at 870-983-2660 or email at [email protected] to make reservations.


School's out for summer! Ready, get set, go geocaching!
The summer holidays will soon be here - but are you looking forward to them, or are you dreading them? You are not alone! It's the same every year, after the initial excitement of breaking up from school, it doesn't take long before the kids become bored and irritable and parents get stressed-out thinking of yet more things to keep them amused.
If you ask anyone to say what is in a typical English village there's a pretty good chance someone will mention churches. We have thousands of amazing churches, from tiny rural churches to magnificent chatherdrals. The Churches Conservation Trust is the national charity protecting churches at risk, a quick look at their website shows how truly wonderful many of them are. We're working with the Trust to encourage more people to visit churches. Our idea, of course, involves creating walks based at the church but taking in other local attractions so you can have a full day out, or at least a couple of hours of enjoyment.


P.U.R.T.® is a revolutionary product specially formulated to eliminate urine odors. This product has shown excellent results on even the most severe urine damage. Urine in carpeting is a severe problem that requires major restoration work, not just simple cleaning and treating. But now with the revolutionary P.U.R.T.® product your most severe urine damaged areas can be saved.
As the urine dries, the liquid evaporates but the urine crystals become even more concentrated and pungent. Simple cleaning will not remove this odour.
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Among the other scams perpetrated by credit card issuers, the Penalty Rate Scam is equally nefarious. All of the scams implemented by credit card issuers work in lock-step with at least one of the other scams.
Under the terms of most (all?) credit card use agreements, the borrower accepts a default of Penalty Rate which goes in to effect in the event that borrower is late in remitting a single payment. The Penalty Rate is usually the maximum allowed by law, and often in excess of 24%. I have seen or heard of Penalty Rates as high as 29.99% but I suspect that in some jurisdictions they might be even higher.
It could be argued that there is justification for the Penalty Rate, as borrowers who are late or miss a payment are greater default risks. This very well may be true, but suffers from some variant of the post hoc, ergo propter hoc logical fallacy.
Did you see what happened there? They intentionally left out the interim step; the one where the borrower's rate jumps from 9% to 25%, doubling or tripling the interest portion of the monthly payment!
This causes a negative feedback loop: If someone is diligently trying to pay down a credit card balance, paying $300 each month when the minimum payment was $150, the new, penalty minimum payment amount will be approximately $300. This effectively relegates the borrower to making interest-only payments (i.e., no amortization, whatsoever) for the duration which the Penalty Rate is in effect. This may be for a period of six months or longer. During this time, the borrower may continue to make payments in the amount which his or her budget permits, but is unable to reduce his balance in any meaningful manner.
The ability to repay or to pay down the balance is without a doubt negatively impacted by the imposition of a Penalty Rate.
I submit that the Penalty Rate, by itself might be sufficient cause for a large proportion of defaults. Before objecting, think on the margin: any borrower who was scraping by, is now unable to scrape by. These borrowers who would've been OK, had they tightened their belt, are now forced into default by the new, higher interest rate. Theory dictates that the Penalty Rate is indisputably a prime contributing factor to default.
When analyzing data through extrapolated variables, there will always be an unusually strong correlation between the new variable, and the definitional components thereof. It is of paramount importance to avoid making value judgments or inferring causal relationships under such circumstances. There may well be a causal relation between a single missed payment and default, but the noise-to-signal ratio here is about a billion to one. Since the Penalty Rate has a 1:1 correlation with default (by definition, default always occurs after the imposition of the Penalty Rate) there is simply no way to know what the true default rate would be if the penalty were less onerous.
Under more proper loan provisions, there is usually a penalty for late payment, but it is almost never usurious (frequent readers of this blog will recognize that I rarely use this term, and then only carefully). Credit card companies seem to do everything they can to encourage default.
The Penalty Rate works in tandem with the Debt Collection Scam: interest and penalties pile up in order that the lender can claim a larger debt than would otherwise be due. This new debt bears no relationship whatsoever to any anticipated return on investment primarily because there was never any investment to begin with. The higher debt, now in default, is the starting point for any negotiations, arbitrations or legal action. In essence, the creditor creates phantom debt which is treated by the courts and by corrupt arbitrators as valid. This is not about earning a fair return on borrowed money, it's about exploiting people's ignorance and subsidizing interest-free loans to people who don't need them, none of which would be possible in a free market where debt couldn't be created out of thin air.


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Growing Up Trump
June 16, 2015. From left are: son Eric Trump, with his wife Lara Yunaska; Donald Trump's son Barron Trump, wife Melania Trump; Vanessa Haydon and her husband Donald Trump Jr.; daughter Ivanka Trump with her husband Jared Kushner; daughter Tiffany Trump. In the front row are Kai Trump and Donald Trump III, children of Donald Trump Jr.
Richard Drew—AP
By Jack Dickey
Twenty-five years ago, Donald Trump had already achieved no small measure of success. His unmistakable buildings speckled the sprawls of Manhattan and Atlantic City. He owned an airline. He vacationed on a 282-foot yacht, the Trump Princess. He was likely worth $1 billion. Maybe $3 billion.
So what did the high-flying dealmaker think of his kids' prospects for the future? "Statistically, my children have a very bad shot," Trump told Playboy in 1990. "Children of successful people are generally very, very troubled, not successful. They don't have the right shtick."
Presidential campaigns aren't just a test for candidates but for families too. Just ask Bill Clinton or Columba Bush. As Trump's "right shtick" has vaulted the reality-television host to the tops of early Republican primary polls, a new challenge faces a clan that's already seen its fair share of them.
After surviving their parents' divorce, endless tabloid attention and what they have described themselves as an absentee father, the Trump children have entered the latest chapter of what has been an upbringing unlike any other. Now in this summer of Trump, their father's campaign-trail antics are testing their peculiar inheritance like little before.
DEAL MAKERS Given their father's reputation for bluster and braggadocio, the three adult Trump scions—Donald Jr., age 37; Ivanka, age 33; Eric, age 31—have a habit of surprising people. People who know them say they can be down-to-earth and easy-going, descriptors that would not apply to their father unless he was trying to close a deal. They lack his hunger for publicity for its own sake and his flair for the outrageous.
They work for their father as executive vice presidents of development and acquisition. (Trump also has two younger children, one each by his second and third wives.) As for their specializations: Don Jr. manages the existing property portfolio, Ivanka oversees the family's hotels, and Eric manages the family's golf assets. The Trump Organization has a reported 22,000 employees, with nine luxury hotels, 17 golf courses and 18 luxury residential properties worldwide. The company also makes millions from extensive licensing deals on real-estate developments it does not own or manage.
"To be honest," says Richard Huckestein, a principal in T&G Constructors' Miami office who served as a project executive on the Trump renovation of the Doral Golf Resort and Spa, as though preparing to break bad news, "I really like Eric. I didn't know anything about the family other than what I read about them beforehand. But they were straight shooters and honest."
"Ivanka is very smart and meticulous. She'd be successful anywhere in New York," says Michael Ashner, whose Winthrop Realty Trust sold the Trumps Doral for $170 million in 2011. "In a room full of testosterone, she can keep her cool."
People who have worked with Trump's children say that they handle the details of many of the company's deals and projects. (A representative for the Trump organization declined on behalf of the children to participate in this story.) The Trumps—both this generation and their father—are said to be more hands-on than many developers, weighing in on design and construction matters that others might delegate.
"As negotiators, the boys are very fair, very ethical. They make a deal on a handshake and they stick to it," says Jeff Lichtenberg, an executive vice president at Cushman and Wakefield who works as a leasing agent for the Trumps and is especially close with Don and Eric.
Meet Donald Trump's Family
Left: Ivanka Trump with her mother, Ivana, in 1992; Right: Ivanka in New York City in February 2015.
Ben Coster—Camera Press/Redux; Gilbert Carrasquillo—Getty Images
Left: Donald Trump Jr. and Donald Trump in 1988; Right: Donald Trump Jr. in New York City in April 2011.
Ron Galella—Getty Images; Gilbert Carrasquillo—Getty Images
Left: Eric Trump and Donald Trump in 2007; Right: Eric Trump in New York City in October 2013.
James Devaney—Getty Images; Astrid Stawiarz—Getty Images
Left: Marla Maples and Donald Trump's daughter Tiffany on March 19, 1996 in New York City; Right:Tiffany Trump attends Barbie and CFDA Event on Sept. 5, 2014 in New York City.
Gregory Pace—Sygma/Corbis; J Carter Rinaldi—Getty Images
Left: Donald Trump's son Barron with his mother Melania at the FAO Schwarz in New York City; Right: Barron Trump with his father, Donald Trump and mother, Melania Knauss on Feb. 16th, 2015.
Left: Jamie McCarthy—Getty Images; Right: Mike Pont—NBC/Getty
RAISING THEMSELVES Growing up a Trump was tumultuous even by the standards of the truly wealthy. Donald and Ivana's marriage had fascinated the tabloids even when it was intact. (To wit: Her broken-English coinage "the Donald" has outlasted much of the so-called popular culture of the 1980s.)
"I look at my brothers and myself and I'm, like, really proud of the fact that nobody's, like, totally f–ked-up," Ivanka told an interviewer in 2007. "Nobody's a drug addict, nobody's driving around chasing women, snorting coke. There's something amazing about that. And you know, this isn't to pat myself on the back, but I could be a lot worse."
Neither parent was especially present. The kids grew up in the close company of nannies and security guards who worked for the family. Ivana's parents lived with them when they were young; the boys' interest in hunting and fishing came from grandfather Milos. (In 2011, Donald and Eric went trophy hunting in Zimbabwe, killing an elephant and cheetah among other large animals and facing scorn from the press upon the photos' surfacing.)
"My father is a very hardworking guy, and that's his focus in life, so I got a lot of the paternal attention that a boy wants and needs from my grandfather," Donald Jr. told a reporter in 2004.
In the same story, Trump Sr. said, "I'm a really good father, but not a really good husband. You've probably figured out my children really like me—love me—a lot. … The hardest thing for me about raising kids has been finding the time. I know friends who leave their business so they can spend more time with their children, and I say, 'Gimme a break!' My children could not love me more if I spent 15 times more time with them."
"Donnie's always been my friend, a mentor," Eric Trump said of his older brother in 2006. "In a way, he raised me. My father, I love and I appreciate, but he always worked 24 hours a day."
When, in 1990, after 12 years of marriage, Donald and Ivana's union came apart—precipitated in part by a skirmish between Ivana and Trump's new flame, Marla Maples, on the Aspen slopes—then the vultures really flocked. The Daily News's Liz Smith had the inside story of Ivana's broken heart; the Post had Maples boasting "Best Sex I Ever Had." The story ruled the headlines for three months. Donald Jr., who was 12 at the time of the divorce, told New York: "You're not quite a man, but you think you are. You think you know everything. Being driven into school every day and you see the front page and it's divorce! THE BEST SEX I EVER HAD! And you don't even know what that means. At that age, kids are naturally cruel."
All three would eventually enroll in boarding school—the boys at Pennsylvania's Hill School and Ivanka at Choate, in Connecticut—where they were largely sequestered from the family's fortune and notoriety. Donald Jr. would afterward attend the Wharton School of Finance at the University of Pennsylvania, as would Ivanka (she graduated cum laude) after spending two years at Georgetown, the school from which Eric would graduate.
Growing up, they did odd jobs for their father's businesses—Don, for instance, as an attendant at the docks at the former Trump Marina in Atlantic City—to earn pocket money. "We were spoiled in many ways, but we were always taught to understand the value of the dollar," Don Jr. once said.
And even though Don Jr. went through a rowdy phase in college, drinking to excess and starting fights, he said that the life of a trust-fund kid wasn't for him. He spent a year in Aspen and gave it up. "I had a great time, but your brain starts to atrophy. It just wasn't enough for me."
FAMILY DEALS "I knew my children were competent. I just never knew they were this competent," the eldest Trump said in 2007, before he had handed off so many operational responsibilities to the three.
Apart from their Trump Organization duties, all three have built up genuine side gigs. Eric Trump runs Trump Winery, the Charlottesville vineyard that once belonged to billionaire heiress Patricia Kluge, and a foundation that has pledged millions to St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital. Donald Jr. hosts a syndicated business TV show. And Ivanka has had perhaps the most success spinning the family brand into her own—she has released jewelry, shoe and clothing lines and publishes a lifestyle website.
Ivanka sprung on the scene before her brothers. She modeled as a teenager, covering Seventeen (at age 15, but who's counting?) in 1997. All three would become more prominent thanks to the success of The Apprentice and The Celebrity Apprentice, on which they appeared regularly.
Although the eldest Trump did not arrange his children's marriages, it wasn't for lack of trying. Trump once said, "Ivanka is a great, great beauty. Every guy in the country wants to go out with my daughter." He later said, "If Ivanka weren't my daughter, perhaps I'd be dating her." And in 2006, Vanessa, the model who is now married to Donald Jr., recalled how the couple first met. "I'm at this fashion show. Donald Trump comes up to me with his son: 'Hi, I'm Donald Trump. I wanted to introduce you to my son Donald Trump Jr.'" At intermission, the Trumps, to Vanessa's surprise, returned. "Donald comes back up to me again, 'I don't think you've met my son Donald Trump Jr." The pair reencountered one another, for good, at a party months later.
Ivanka's marriage, for all the money involved, seems quite domestic. She has two young children, whose photos she posts lovingly online. For her husband Jared Kushner, another scion of a New York real estate family, she converted to Judaism, and she keeps kosher and observes the Sabbath. (The pair have contributed extensively in the past to Democratic candidates.) "Jared and Ivanka are centered in a more low-key, contemporary, family way," said Don Jr. in February, when asked to compare the Kushner-Trumps to his parents.
But she's still her father's daughter. According to Vogue, the pair were set up by friends who thought they could do deals together. Ivanka says now, "Whenever we see them, we're like, 'The best deal we ever made!'"
A GOOD NAME As for their father's campaign, the boys seem to dig it. They joined their dad for his campaign kickoff speech in the atrium of Manhattan's Trump Tower on June 16. They flew with their father to Cleveland aboard Trump's Boeing 757 to watch their father debate the nine men trailing him in the Republican field. Ivanka, while present for the announcement and the debate, is reportedly a little less enthusiastic. A report on New York's website said that she had drafted a statement in which her father would walk back some of his comments about immigration but he had declined to release it.
While the usual concern for a presidential candidate's family is how greater fame and scrutiny might shake up their lives, that's probably not what vexes the Trump family. One wonders instead whether an unscripted and sour remark from the patriarch could make his properties less palatable to those in the market for luxury. Already this summer, a number of companies have backed away from the Trump brand. Every week Trump stays high in the polls is another chance for him to upset a different constituency and blemish the name that will someday just belong to his children.
Then again, maybe the family can survive anything. In a statement to Travel and Leisure, Donald Jr. said that the hotels were having a good year. As their father once said about the name Trump, "It's German in derivation. Nobody really knows where it came from. It's very unusual, but it just is a good name to have."
See Donald Trump Hanging Out With Unlikely Celebrities
Donald Trump, owner of New York's Trump Tower, holds the bridle of a polo pony while talking to Andy Warhol on Nov. 4, 1983.
Mario Suriani—AP
Donald Trump, Don King and Barbara Walters on Dec. 12, 1987.
Ron Galella—Getty Images
Professional Wrestler Hulk Hogan and Andre the Giant With Donald Trump.
Russell Turiak—Getty Images
Heavyweight champion Mike Tyson, his wife, actress Robin Givens and Donald Trump, leave the New York State Supreme Court building on July 22, 1988.
Charles Wenzelberg—AP
Developer Donald Trump is flanked by super middleweight champion Thomas Hearns, left, of Detroit, and Michael Olajide of Canada at a news conference in New York on Feb. 15, 1990.
Timothy Clary—AP
Alec Baldwin is joined by Donald Trump and Melania Knauss at benefit for the Carol M. Baldwin Breast Cancer Research Fund at the Marriott Marquis Hotel on October 8, 1999.
Richard Corkery—NY Daily News Archive/Getty Images
Katie Couric, left, co-host of NBC-TV's "Today" show, is dressed like Donald Trump, right, during a spoof of his "The Apprentice" reality television show, on the morning program's annual Halloween segment on Oct. 29, 2004.
Donald Trump and Larry King arrive at the Comedy Central Roast of Donald Trump in New York on March 9, 2011.
Charles Sykes—AP
Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino, left, and Donald Trump appear onstage at the Comedy Central Roast of Donald Trump in New York on March 9, 2011.
Snoop Dogg and Donald Trump arrive at the Comedy Central Roast of Donald Trump in New York on March 9, 2011.
Martha Stewart and Donald Trump at Richard "Skip" Bronson's, "The War at the Shore" Book Publication Party held at Loews Regency Hotel in New York City on June 11, 2012.
Sylvain Gaboury—Sipa USA
Tiger Woods stands with Donald Trump as he holds the Gene Serazen Cup for winning the Cadillac Championship golf tournament on March 10, 2013, in Doral, Fla.
Wilfredo Lee—AP
Donald Trump and recording artist and host Nick Jonas joke around onstage during the 2013 Miss USA pageant at PH Live at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino on June 16, 2013 in Las Vegas.
Ethan Miller—Getty Images
Write to Jack Dickey at jack.dickey@time.com.