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Matthias Egger reelected as President of the National Research Council
In January 2021, Matthias Egger will be starting his second four-year term at the helm of the National Research Council of the SNSF. The Council is responsible for the evaluation and selection of research proposals.
Matthias Egger, an internationally renowned epidemiologist, became a member of the Research Council in 2010 and was elected as its President for the first time in 2017. He has now been reelected by the Executive Committee of the SNSF Foundation Council for the 2021-2024 term of office. "Matthias Egger is both an outstanding researcher and a very experienced research funder. His active and collaborative leadership style has played an important part in the SNSF's development over the past few years," says Jürg Stahl, President of the Foundation Council. "Our multi-year programme 2021-2024 also bears his hallmarks. Now he will be able to implement the programme over its entire lifespan." Goals include creating more diversity in research and making its results even more useful to the economy, the political realm and society as a whole.
Fair selection of the best research ideas
For Matthias Egger, the main focus of his work in the Research Council is evaluation quality. "We are continually improving our selection processes based on scientific knowledge. Our aim is to make them even more fair and transparent so that we can guarantee a level playing field for all researchers who apply to us for funding."
Other priority areas are gender equality in research, open access to research data and publications, and scientific integrity. The COVID-19 pandemic will also continue to be an important topic. The SNSF expedited the special call on coronavirus research and the National Research Programme COVID-19; 64 SNSF-funded projects are currently in progress. "And of course the future of scientific collaboration with Europe will be on our minds. This question is of vital importance for research in Switzerland," says Matthias Egger.
More than 3000 new projects each year
In 2019, the National Research Council evaluated 6900 grant applications, approving 3400 of them. Every year, this 100-strong honorary body decides how to allocate the approximately 1 billion francs available to the SNSF. The Council is supported by further honorary expert bodies and by the Administrative Offices of the SNSF.
Professor at the University of Bern
Since 2002, Matthias Egger has been doing research and teaching at the University of Bern, where he is a professor of epidemiology and public health. Until 2016, he headed the Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine based at the university. He was elected President of the National Research Council of the SNSF in 2017. Between April and July 2020, he led the scientific task force advising the Swiss government on the COVID-19 pandemic.
SNSF Presidency – Matthias Egger
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Bolt aiming for double three-peat in Rio
By Matthew KitchenOct 8, 2012, 9:52 AM EDT
In London, Jamaican world record sprinter Usain Bolt became the first man ever to win both the 100m and 200m races in the back-to-back Olympics. Now he'll try to do it again in 2016, and try to prove that he's really the "living legend" he already claims to be.
"I don't want to try any different events at Rio," said Bolt. "Because at Rio I will just defend my titles to show the world that there is a possibility that I can do it again. To do the three-peat, that is the focus."
Admittedly, we hoped rumors that Bolt was going to try the 400m and/or the long jump in Rio four years from now were true. We were excited to see what the fastest man (and arguably its greatest athlete) was capable of. Instead we'll just have to see if he can do something no man has done before: win the 100m three straight times. Also, the 200m. No big deal.
He'll have a tough time against world champ and Olympic silver medal countryman Yohan Blake, as well as up the young American Ryan Bailey and British junior world champ Adam Gemili.

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Stork subsidiary Fokker Services of The Netherlands has been named an approved outfitter for Airbus Corporate Jetliners (ACJ), giving customers more choice in cabin completions.
The approval follows an extensive Airbus audit and evaluation of the company, which is an experienced cabin outfitter in the corporate jet market.
Fokker Services has already won its first Airbus ACJ Family aircraft completion for an Airbus ACJ of the Austria-based Stumpf Group, which is currently in Fokker Services' Woensdrecht facility.
Hans Berends van Loenen, President of Fokker Services says, "we feel very privileged to become an Airbus-Approved Outfitter. Completions is one of the strategic growth areas of our company and the approval will support us in achieving our strategic goals."
"Strong demand for Airbus Corporate Jetliner Family aircraft means that there is a shortage of cabin outfitting capacity in the market," comments Airbus Chief Operating Officer, Customers, John Leahy. "In approving Fokker Services, following a thorough audit of its capabilities, we will be able to offer further choice in this specialised field to our customers."
To ensure the highest quality in cabin outfitting, Airbus has now approved six worldwide completion centres for the installation of Airbus ACJ Family interiors. A close working relationship with Airbus ensures these completion centres work to deliver quality cabins in the equipped aircraft.
Airbus' Corporate Jetliner Family now has more than 80 sales to its credit, and is established as the preferred choice at the upper end of the top-of-the-line corporate jet market.
Fokker Services, as the Type Certificate Holder for all Fokker aircraft types, currently supports over 800 Fokker aircraft worldwide with a full range of support services. It is expanding its integrated design, support and manufacturing capabilities to VIP aircraft completions.
Stork Aerospace develops and produces advanced components and systems for the aviation and aerospace industry, and supplies integrated services and products to aircraft owners and operators. The group achieved a turnover of € 549 million in 2006 with 3,532 employees out of the total Stork turnover of € 2.01 billion.
Tenía entendido que Fokker no existía más pero que se continuaba proveyendo de repuestos a los usuarios de sus aviones por medio de una proveedora llamada Rekkof (Fokker al revés).
No sé si el artículo hablará de la misma compañía o de la verdadera Fokker, resurgida de sus cenizas.


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Brisbane Lions thump West Coast Eagles to move to the top of the AFLW ladder, thanks to a huge percentage
Brisbane have absorbed an early West Coast surge to thump the Eagles by 45 points and stay unbeaten in the AFLW.
The Lions led by one point at half-time, despite the Eagles dominating inside 50s and incredibly winning the game's first 13 clearances.
But they made the visitors pay for their missed opportunities in front of goal, putting the foot down with a five-goal third term to prevail 10.5 (65) to 2.8 (20) at Hickey Park in Monday's rescheduled fixture.
It kept the Eagles winless in their second AFLW season and set up a tasty clash with unbeaten Melbourne next Sunday after the Lions' comprehensive defeats of Richmond and Gold Coast to begin their campaign kept their percentage above 500.
Lauren Arnell collected a game-high 18 disposals and a clever grubbered goal in a stand-out performance.
The competition's leading goal kicker, Dakota Davidson, managed two majors, including a set shot from the tightest of angles in the pocket to ignite the Lions' second half.
That goal followed some stern half-time words from the Lions' coaching staff and sparked them into action as their midfield turned the tables and Alexandra Anderson, Jesse Wardlaw, Taylor Smith and Arnell all kicked third-term majors.
"You have to expect good teams to come at you and we were a little bit flat early," Lions coach Craig Starcevich said.
"[We needed] to embrace the fact that we were in a contest. Last week [against Gold Coast] we were comfortable all the way through but it was a different kettle of fish.
"We were right in a contest and it was valuable for later on in the year to get some composure and try to find a solution to this."
Their ability to bring the ball to ground and convert whenever entering their forward 50 was a clear difference, with the Eagles unable to transfer their early field position dominance into genuine scoring chances.
"I've been really proud of their effort for periods of the game … but against good teams you need to play for four quarters," Eagles coach Daniel Pratt said.
"Brisbane are at the top of the table for a reason and they made us pay … it could have been a completely different game [if West Coast kicked straight in the first term]."
Aisling McCarthy had 17 touches and a goal for the Eagles while Andrea Gilmore kicked her first AFLW goal before a head knock ended her night prematurely.
The Eagles immediately flew home to Perth on Monday night. They will head east again to face the Giants in Sydney on Sunday.
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Dr. Pepper is about to pay up big time.
We've all heard the horror stories about people finding disgusting things in their food, but this story is almost unbelievable. A man in Katy, Texas claims to have discovered a small rodent in his three-year-old grandson's Dr. Pepper.
"The 20-ounce drink in question contained a small, mouse-sized animal, about three inches long, with small ears and beady eyes," Mashable reports.
The toddler, named Kayden, was only able to drink about 10 ounces of the large drink before his grandfather secured the cap and took the soda home with them. Upon reopening the bottle, the stomach-turning discovery was made.
"Nothing is more important to us than the safety and well-being of our consumers. We take all consumer complaints very seriously, are very concerned about the call we received today from Mr. Graves and are investigating it as best as we can.
"What we know from our experience is that given the controls and safeguards we have in our production facilities it is virtually impossible for any foreign object to enter any container during the bottling process. All of our containers enter our facility on pallets in our warehouse and remain covered until the moment they are placed on our high-speed filling lines. Once on the filling lines, they are inverted and rinsed out before they are filled and capped.
Reason #188392424 why we should all stop drinking soda.
1. "The Walk Off" at Baltimore's Camden Yards is Italian Sausage covered in crab dip and a pretzel roll. While the name is a nod to baseball, you probably will need to walk it off once you're through with this beast.
2. The Rocky Mountain Oysters at Coors Field in Denver are probably the biggest culprit of false advertising. ICYDK, these "oysters" are actually fried bull testicles. Bon appetit.
3. They sell fried ravioli with dipping sauce at the Busch Stadium in St. Louis, because who wants crap like fries and ice cream when you can have ravioli at a sporting event?
4. Baseball's Best Burger (known as the "Luther Burger to some) is your typical burger - but instead of basic buns, they're Krispy Kreme donuts.
5. The "Sliders Family Meal Deal" at Yankee Stadium in New York is a $20 deal you can't pass up. However, burgers in a bucket seems like a dream and a sin at the same time.
6. The Murph-A-Dilla is a 24-inch long beef brisket quesadilla. Clearly it's meant for sharing, but you probably won't.
7. "The Baco" at Fifth Third Ballpark in Michigan probably isn't what you thought it was. It's your ordinary taco, but instead of a tortilla, it's wrapped in good ol' bacon.
8. The StrasBurger at Nats Park in Washington is one big and expensive burger ($59 to be exact). It's 8 pounds, so you'll literally have a food baby after getting through with this.
9. The Pulled Pork Parfait at Miller Park in Milwaukee looks so wrong, but probably tastes so right.
10. Triple Pork Poutine at the BMO Field in Toronto is a Canadian and meat-lover's dream all it once.
11. BBQ Nachos at RedZone Park in Memphis sound like an amazing Tex-Mex mix.


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Q: How does String.intern() work and how does it affect the String pool? As we know, String().intern() method add String value in string pool if it's not already exist. If exists, it returns the reference of that value/object.
String str = "Cat"; // creates new object in string pool  with same character sequence.
String st1 = "Cat"; // has same reference of object in pool, just created in case of 'str'

 str == str1 //that's returns true

String test = new String("dog");
test.intern();// what this line of code do behind the scene

I need to know, when i call test.intern() what this intern method will do?
add "dog" with different reference in string pool or add test object reference in string pool(i think, it's not the case )?
I tried this
String test1 = "dog";

test == test1 // returns false

I just want to make sure, when I call test.intern() it creates new object with same value in String pool? now I have 2 objects with value "dog". one exist directly in heap and other is in String pool?

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when i call test.intern() what this intern method will do?

It will put the "dog" string in the string pool (unless it's already there). But it will not necessarily put the object that test refers to in the pool. This is why you typically do
test = test.intern();

Note that if you have a "dog" literal in your code, then there will already be a "dog" in the string pool, so test.intern() will return that object.
Perhaps your experiment confuses you, and it was in fact the following experiment you had in mind:
String s1 = "dog";             // "dog" object from string pool
String s2 = new String("dog"); // new "dog" object on heap

System.out.println(s1 == s2);  // false

s2 = s2.intern();              // intern() returns the object from string pool

System.out.println(s1 == s2);  // true

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Excellent rain gear isn't designed just for commercial fishermen and folks working in the great outdoors.
Everyone from Harrison Ford to Audrey Hepburn has helped make wet weather gear fashionable. In fact, it's probably one of the reasons you can still buy bright yellow raincoats in high street shops today.
Top of our list, and for good reason too.
Blade Runner sees the traditional noir detective and femme fatal thrown into a post-apocalyptic world – one ravaged by global warming, replicants, and corporate greed on an entirely new scale.
Nowhere is this more evident than in the film's costumes. Check out Deckard and Rachel in their 1940s get up (trench coat in tow).
The release of Jurassic Park (1993) saw a sharp rise in the number of students applying to study palaeontology at universities. And it's not just thanks to man-hunk Jeff Goldblum.
Sure, there's Spielberg's mastery of dinosaur puppetry and some of the best one-liners in film history ("Just think of it as kind of a big cow"). But Jurassic Park also made bone digging, popular science, and bright yellow rain gear seem outrageously cool to a new generation of young people.
It's probably the most iconic scene from 1940s cinema.
Ingrid Bergman's character, Ilsa, must leave Nazi-occupied Morocco and flee to Portugal – without old flame, Rick (played by Humphrey Bogart).
It has all the tell-tale signs of film noir: moody lighting, razor sharp dialogue, and more trench coats than you can shake a whisky sour at.
The climatic scene of Breakfast at Tiffany's.
Proving that even when soaking wet, carrying a sodden cat, and hanging out near bins, Audrey Hepburn still manages to remain gorgeous.
Yet that isn't the only film that's worth mentioning featuring Audrey Hepburn.
In Funny Face, the leading lady stars in a musical number all about the discovery of New York's new 'It' supermodel. No guesses who plays the model here.
Looking as stylish as ever, Audrey is instantly recognisable as Jo Stockton – wearing a 50's-style trench coat and cigarette pants.
We couldn't possibly talk about overalls and not mention Gene Kelly in Singin' in The Rain.
Maybe not the coolest example of rain gear… But definitely one of the most iconic.
Have we missed any of the list? Send us a tweet @StormlineGear and let us know!


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Most of the Frenches of the Bridgewaters and vicinity descend from John French, of Braintree. This John French was born about 1612, in England. Before coming to Braintree, of which point he was an inhabitant in 1640, and a freeman in 1644, he had been a short time at Dorchester. He died Aug. 16, 1692, aged about eighty. His wife Grace died Feb. 28, 1680-81, aged fifty-nine years. Walter Lyman French, the gentleman whose name introduces this article was one of Brockton's enterprising business men, one who had achieved marked success in various branches of industry and trade. He was born in Brockton Mass. (then North Bridgewater) May 4, 1843, son of the late Francis M. and. Nancy L. (Blake) French. Walter is a direct descendant of John and Grace French of Braintree Mass.
Thomas Albert Baxendale, late of Brockton, was for a number of years successfully and prominently identified with industrial interests as a manufacturer of box toes for men's boots and shoes. He won distinction in business circles as the founder of that branch of the shoe business in which he made his chief success – the manufacture of box toes – and was a substantial and respected citizen of the city in which his success was achieved. Mr. Baxendale was of English birth and parentage, born Feb. 29, 1840, in Blackburn, Lancashire, England, youngest child of the late Robert and Hannah (Dawson) Baxendale.
LYSANDER FRANKLIN GURNEY, late of Brockton, Plymouth Co., Mass., was a descendant of some of the earliest settlers of this section. Going back to the mother country, we find the following general information in "The Gurneys of Earlham" (two volumes, Hart, Mich., March 16, 1906).
The Norfolk Gurneys claim descent from the ancient Barons of Gournay in Normandy, where the curious Ports Ibert with many old towers of the walls and the twelfth century church of Saint Hildevert attest the wealth and power of its ancient lords. Several members of the House accompanied William the Conqueror to England, and fought at the battle of Hastings, after which the valor of the aged Hugh de Gurney III. was rewarded by the establishment of the English Barony of Gourney, held by tenure of military service and by large grants of land, so that he has left his name of Baron Gourney in Somerset and several other places in England. The story of the "House of Gourney" is told in a magnificent history by Daniel Gurney of Juncton Hall, near Norwich, County of Norfolk, England, which possesses historic interest and shows much antiquarian research.
The family bearing the name of Mitchell is one of the oldest in the New World, its progenitor being Experience Mitchell, who came over in 1623 in the "Ann," and from that time to the present the records of various towns of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, chiefly Plymouth, Duxbury and the Bridgewaters, bear mute testimony of the prominence in peace and war of the members of the family in the different generations, and the present head of the family in Brockton, Isam Mitchell, president of Isam Mitchell & Co., lumber dealers and contractors, and his son, the late Herbert Isam Mitchell, active in business with his father and prominent in fraternal circles, have proved themselves firm in purpose and able in business.


The first thing on our big to do list of wedding planning was making our save the dates. Shawn and I both really liked the idea of using vintage post cards. We went to the infamous Pasadena Rose Bowl Flea Market and bought up a bunch.
It was super fun to browse through the booths and find cards we liked. I really liked reading the ones with original writing on the back. People sure did talk about their sick relatives a lot back in the day.
The best part about getting the postcards at the flea market, rather than ordering online and just getting a lot of unknown cards, we were able to hand pick each one. We chose ones that were all from California and if possible, from Los Angeles.
We hand stamped each postcard with a stamp set our friends had given us. I can't tell you how handy that stamp set is. It's really just a box full of individual letters so we've used it for our return addresses, postcards for our movie screening, cupcake boxes, you name it.
We also chose one of the photos that Shawn took of us to send along to personalize each announcement.
We hand addressed all the envelopes with some help from my mom and sent them out!
I think they look rather sweet and definitely capture that vintage feeling that will be present throughout our wedding. Next up…invitations!
p.s. we didn't really send one to the president…but wouldn't it be cool if we did?
I think it would have been amazing to send one to the President! And I love these vintage card ideas, really unique and special. Looking great so far, Alix!
cute cute cute cute cute!!!!
I'm totally stealing this idea if I ever have a wedding.
I LOVE this idea – SOOOO cute – and a really affordable way to do Save the Dates. Question – do you know where your friends got that stamp set? I'd love to copy your idea!
That is such a beautiful idea! I love the vintage feel and it really suits you guys. So clever!
i love your save the date card!! thanks for sharing the process that went into making them. and whoa that stamp thingy is so freaking cool.


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The Road to Rochester and Salem are nearly complete. Only thing left is to actually hit the road and get the teams, media, fans, and others to their respective championships.
It was a thrilling and, maybe, shocking Sectionals Weekend in Division III. For the women, quite a few exciting games, but four of the top five teams in the country advanced to the Championship Weekend.
Not so much on the men's side. Only one ranked team is headed to Salem. Two weren't even receiving votes in the last Top 25 poll. And two have never been to the final four. Only one host got out of their own gym by cutting down their own nets. It was crazy.
On Sunday night's episode of Hoopsville, Dave and guests try and break down what happened this weekend and what we might be able to expect in Rochester and Salem. Who came up big, who had the bounces go their way, and more. Guests from four of the eight teams will also discuss their roads and initial thoughts on knowing they are two wins away from a national championship.
Hoopsville is presented by D3hoops.com and airs from the WBCA/NABC Studio. You can watch the show LIVE starting at 7:00 p.m. ET (did you set your clocks back?) right here: http://bit.ly/2p2BbqB
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- Pat Juckem, No. 24 UW-Oshkosh men's coach
- Ashley Shibles, No. 5 Bowdoin women's coach
- Jeff Hans, No. 3 Thomas More women's coach
- Dale Wellman, Nebraska Wesleyan men's coach
- Ryan Scott, D3hoops.com Around the Nation columnist
- Pat Cunningham, Trinity (Texas) men's coach (NABC All-Star Game)
Seems like not too many tears have been shed with the announcement of Thomas More joining that bandit organization also known as the NAIA.
If and when they join ... they are accepted and have already announced it wouldn't happen until at least 2019-20... giving them a final year to try and find a new home.
But the PAC wasn't shedding a tear when they left the conference LOL
#1 - Heard 3rd hand that the PAC kicked them out and allowed them to resign to save face - really not something the PAC wants to air out anyway - probably just ready to be done with it for many reasons. Time, money, ridiculous competitive disadvantage competing against an NAIA program LoL
#2 - Could it be that the NCAA came down so hard on them because the whole apartment/Moss thing was just what they could most easily prove?
Pat Coleman
Karma: +5238/-2355
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Your No. 1 seems to be the understood-but-unofficial story of what happened.
2 is pure speculation. Who knows?
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Quote from: old 40 on September 25, 2007, 08:23:57 pm
Let's discuss (sports) in a positive way, sometimes kidding each other with no disrespect.
They are in a black hole, geographically-speaking. The NCAC and SAA see themselves as high-academic conferences, so not an option. Gotta believe that they tried the HCAC and OAC and must have been turned down-because we would have heard about it long ago otherwise. SLIAC already has an outlier in Spalding and no one would ever again play in the NCAA Tournament in any sport from the SLIAC if they let TMC in anyway, plus no football in the SLIAC. The USA-South already has 1.2 million member schools and, after the short trips to Berea and Maryville, the next closest schools are probably Brevard at 5.5 hours and Agnes Scott (can't wait for THAT WBB matchup!) at 6.
OAC and HCAC are literally their only options for remaining a D-III institution - and it's a real stretch to imagine either one giving it anything more than a chuckle.
Philosophically, doesn't D-II make more sense for TMC? They want to be seen as an elite school - and sports is the driving force behind trying to forge that identity. The NAIA has been bleeding schools for years. Hell, I'll bet 90% of all D-II schools were NAIA prior to 1988. The NAIA just whittled basketball down from two divisions to one and tried to spin it as a good thing. I've always thought of today's NAIA as being made up of basically three types of schools:
- Church schools that want to avoid playing on Sundays and don't care if their athletes miss class to do so (take your pick)
- Schools that cannot pass muster with the NCAA due to academic and/or financial reasons (Rust, Voorhees, Edward Waters, Florida Memorial)
- Schools that are isolated either geographically (USC Beaufort) or have nowhere else to go (apparently Thomas More)
And the HCAC members have had their chance to include Thomas More in the past and have declined.
The financial outlay to participate in NCAA Division II is fairly significant, and they would need a D-II conference to sponsor them in order for them to apply for membership. One of the best possibilities just gave an open spot to Benedictine, instead.
Another question is what kind of candidate for D-II Thomas More would make while it's on probation in Division III.
The OAC should want Thomas More for competitiveness purposes, but of course, the OAC has 10 schools and an 11th would cause all sorts of problems in terms of scheduling.
Thomas More just has baggage that I can see would cause conferences to think twice.
Enginerd:
Good points but I think Pat is correct...NCAA DII is still the NCAA and they will continue to make T. More's life uneasy for as long as they can.
In all honesty, Thomas More probably started their audition for NAIA membership about 8 years ago.
Schools in Kentucky sure have a thing for testing the NCAA & it never does quite work out for them.
Speaking of KY schools. It will be interesting to see how long it takes Berea to start winning big (and pissing everyone off) due to the fact that everyone goes there for free. I didn't pay much attention but I think they were probably the best team in the USA South this year by far but were ineligible. When a school goes D-III there is always a noticable drop-off in talent (see Covenant, Pfeiffer and Brevard) but you won't see that at Berea. They will win a national championship in SOMETHING sooner rather than later. I wouldn't be surprised to hear they tried the OAC and HCAC as well. That's a BRUTAL drive from Berea to Raleigh, NC.


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The jquery function is
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This function is not post backing in to the C#, so am not getting changed image values.
Please help me...

A: try this :
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A: The problem might lie in that asp controls id's are changed when sent to the client.
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Home › Poetry Of The Revolution: Marx, Manifestos, And The Avant-Gardes (Translation/Transnation)
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Poetry Of The Revolution: Marx, Manifestos, And The Avant-Gardes (Translation/Transnation)
Author: Martin Puchner
Poetry of the Revolution tells the story of political and artistic upheavals through the manifestos of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Ranging from the Communist Manifesto to the manifestos of the 1960s and beyond, it highlights the varied alliances and rivalries between socialism and repeated waves of avant-garde art. Martin Puchner argues that the manifesto--what Marx called the poetry of the revolution--was the genre through which modern culture articulated its revolutionary ambitions and desires. When it intruded into the sphere of art, the manifesto created an art in its own image: shrill and aggressive, political and polemical. The result was manifesto art --combinations of manifesto and art that fundamentally transformed the artistic landscape of the twentieth century.
Central to modern politics and art, the manifesto also measures the geography of modernity. The translations, editions, and adaptations of such texts as the Communist Manifesto and the Futurist Manifesto registered and advanced the spread of revolutionary modernity and of avant-garde movements across Europe and to the Americas. The rapid diffusion of these manifestos was made possible by networks--such as the successive socialist internationals and international avant-garde movements--that connected Santiago and Zurich, Moscow and New York, London and Mexico City. Poetry of the Revolution thus provides the point of departure for a truly global analysis of modernism and modernity.


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Commission adopts Implementing Regulation to extend transitional periods for capital requirements for exposures to CCPs
By Simon Lovegrove (UK) on December 15, 2014 Posted in Clearing and settlement, United Kingdom
The European Commission has adopted an Implementing Regulation which extends the transitional periods relating to own funds requirements for exposures to central counterparties (CCPs) under the Capital Requirements Regulation and EMIR. The Implementing Regulation extends the transitional periods to 15 June 2015.
The Commission has also published a press release stating that this extension will smooth implementation for CCPs that are still in the process of becoming authorised under the new rules, and will allow for work to continue on equivalence assessments relating to third country CCPs seeking recognition in the EU.
View Commission Implementing Regulation on the extension of the transitional periods related to own funds requirements for exposures to central counterparties in Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 and Regulation (EU) No 648/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council, 11 December 2014
View European Commission extends transitional period for capital requirements for exposures to CCPs, 11 December 2014


The chief of staff of the Israeli Defense Force has prepared a report that declares, for the first time in years, that the state of Israel is under and existential threat from Iran, which the defense establishment says is a threat to the very existence of the Jewish state. The threat consists of information on Tehran's nearly obtained nuclear capability, its existing ballistics aptitude, and proven embassary fighting in the form of funding for Hamas, Hezbullah, and other terrorist organizations.
The Israeli Defense Force chief of staff, General Gabi Ashkenazi, defines the Iranian peril as the number one threat that the Israeli Defense Force is now preparing for in this next year and the military leader says that this is the case because of the methods employed by other governments including the sanctions and negotiations which have failed and Israel must to that which is necessary to defend its very existence.
The evaluation by the Israeli Defense Force that Iran is the number one threat to the Jewish state is a page out of Bible prophecy.
For a number of years the world has watched as the Iranians have been developing a nuclear weapon of mass destruction and have only been willing to talk about this threat and put in place sanctions that have completely failed. Now, the Obama Administration wants to have a sit down conversation with the leaders of Iran and try to negotiate this threat away. Meanwhile, the chief of staff of the Israeli Defense Force and the Israeli military establishment are preparing a way to defend and deal with the Iranian threat which is the number one threat to the very existence to the Jewish state.
As I mentioned, this scenario is a page out of Bible prophecy for the last days. 2500 years ago, the ancient Jewish prophet Ezekiel and also the Psalmist wrote about the Iranian threat. Ezekiel wrote, in Ezekiel 38:5, that the Persians would be one of the alignment of nations that will rise up to destroy the Jewish state in the last days. By the way, Persia is modern-day Iran. Psalm 83 states that the leader of this alignment of nations will call for the total destruction of Israel and that her name be forgotten for ever.
Iran, Israel's number one threat, will indeed play their end time role as Bible prophecy will be fulfilled.


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The anniversary of Emancipation provides the opportunity to explore the rarely discussed phenomenon of Jamaica's black and coloured slave owners. In 1833, the year the British Parliament passed the Emancipation Act, an estimate of Jamaica's population showed 16,600 whites, 31,300 free coloured, 11,000 free blacks, and 311,000 enslaved Africans and people of African descent. Interestingly, the free coloured and black population included the owners of some 70,000 enslaved Africans (R. Montgomery Martin, 1854). How do we explain this seemingly contradictory development?
Whereas the growth of the black population was the result of the forced transportation of some 700,000 enslaved Africans to the island to provide labour for the plantation economy, the coloured population came into existence as the progeny of enslaved African women and white British colonists.
In the early period of British colonisation, women were in short supply. In 1661, a mere six years after the British captured the island from Spain, the white adult population of Jamaica had been reduced to 2,458 men and 454 women. This shortage was temporarily eased by the rounding up of prostitutes from the streets of London and Dublin for trans-shipment to Jamaica, for those British colonists who did not find the prospect of "Maroon women and Negresses to solace them" appealing. However, this might not have been the view of the majority of the white men who found black women irresistible. "Beautiful are their forms in general, and easy and graceful are their movements which indeed appear to me so striking that they cannot fail to excite the admiration of anyone" (M.G. Lewis). The attraction extended all the way to the top of British officialdom on the island. The Duke of Manchester, a governor of Jamaica, was "a begetter of numerous brown-skinned illegitimate progeny".
Black women also had a special appeal to British army officers stationed at Up Park Camp who credited them with miraculous healing powers. These women often combined the roles of nurse and mistress, and in return for services rendered, were often manumitted.
The first black slave owners were the Maroons, whose leaders signed a treaty with the British in 1739 that obliged them to return to their former owners all of the enslaved runaways who had joined their ranks within three years and "to suppress and destroy all other ... rebellious Negroes". As a reward, a number of Maroons were allowed to own slaves in the post-treaty period. It seems that the Maroons became such enthusiastic slave owners that the Assembly, in 1744, made the sale of slaves to the Maroons illegal. The practice continued as was confirmed in a report by the superintendent general of Maroon towns in 1773 of Maroon officers owning slaves that were unaccounted for.
The emergence of the coloured slave owners was accelerated by the practice of white men to bequeath substantial property and slaves to their progeny born out of wedlock. The wills of forty-two legislators elected to the Assembly before 1833 showed that "38 per cent of these men acknowledged and left property to coloured mistresses, illegitimate children or both".
The black and coloured slave-owning group was urban based, where, with a small number of enslaved Africans, they could earn enough to significantly improve their quality of life. Some were engaged in the internal food-marketing trade, while others provided artisan services in the towns but were concentrated mainly in Kingston and Spanish Town.
A favourite occupation among female coloured slave owners was the operation of "boarding houses". White men were particularly welcome as clients. Perhaps the most celebrated "madam" was Couba Cornwallis of Port Royal, who nursed the celebrated British Admiral Horatio Nelson back to health after his illness during his stay in Jamaica. When he was moved from Couba's boarding house to the admiral's country residence in St Andrew, Nelson wrote to one of his friends, "Oh what would I give to be at Couba's lodgings at Port Royal".
While coloured and black slave owners were able to improve their economic status, both groups were ruthlessly discriminated against by the racist white planter/merchant class, which had exclusive control of the Legislature. The Deficiency Act of 1715 excluded free blacks and coloureds from holding supervisory positions on estates or plantations. Hence, even when they owned property, they had to employ white supervisors and managers. In 1761, the Assembly became alarmed at the amount of property bequeathed to coloureds and blacks and passed legislation prohibiting whites from leaving real or personal property worth more than £1,200 to any coloured or black.
In 1734, another piece of legislation prohibited free coloureds and blacks from employment as navigators or as drivers of carriages for hire since both jobs were reserved for whites. Coloured and black slave owners were further discriminated against by a law that required those who did not own land and at least 10 slaves to wear a blue cross on their right shoulder. In this racist environment, the coloured slave owners seemed to have had more social access than their black counterparts. By 1822, coloured children formed the majority of the student body at Wolmer's Free School.
Interestingly, reports from the period indicate that coloured slave owners were particularly harsh with their enslaved Africans. This was confirmed by a common saying among the enslaved: "If me fi have massa or misses, give me Buckra one. No give me mulatto. Dem no use neaga well."
The civil rights of coloured and black slave owners were restricted by an act of 1711 that made it an offence to employ a free coloured or black in public office. In 1733, they lost the right to vote and were not allowed to give evidence in court against whites and were barred from serving on juries.
Their struggle for civil rights was strengthened by the abolition campaign in Britain, particularly after 1823 when the Anti-slavery Society intensified its campaign. This led to a radical change in the social attitude of leading members of the white planter/merchant ruling class. Faced with imminent passage of the Emancipation Act, Richard Barrett, the custos of St James, urged his white planter colleagues to grant civil rights to black and coloured slave owners in order to encourage them to join the whites in a slave owners' alliance against the abolitionists.
In December 1830, the Jamaican Assembly passed a General Privilege Bill granting civil rights to free coloureds and blacks, and a year later, the first two coloured men, Price Watkis and John Manderson, were elected to the Assembly. However, contrary to Custos Barrett's expectations, neither man sided with the white legislators. Watkis declared himself to be "one of the people ... attached to the people by birth and every other sympathy", while Manderson, the great-great-grandfather of the outstanding patriot Phillip Manderson Sherlock, stood bail for the missionaries after the Sam Sharpe Rebellion.
The Emancipation Act was passed by the British Parliament in 1833, which brought an end to plantation slavery in Jamaica.
- Arnold Bertram is a historian and former Cabinet minister. His email address is redev.atb@gmail.com.


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Exploring uncertainty in glacier mass balance modelling with Monte Carlo simulation
Machguth, Horst; Purves, Ross S; Oerlemans, Johannes; Hoelzle, Martin; Paul, Frank (2008). Exploring uncertainty in glacier mass balance modelling with Monte Carlo simulation. The Cryosphere, 2(2):191-204.
By means of Monte Carlo simulations we calculated uncertainty in modelled cumulative mass balance over 400 days at one particular point on the tongue of Morteratsch Glacier, Switzerland, using a glacier energy balance model of intermediate complexity. Before uncertainty assessment, the model was tuned to observed mass balance for the investigated time period and its robustness was tested by comparing observed and modelled mass balance over 11 years, yielding very small deviations. Both systematic and random uncertainties are assigned to twelve input parameters and their respective values estimated from the literature or from available meteorological data sets. The calculated overall uncertainty in the model output is dominated by systematic errors and amounts to 0.7 m w.e. or approximately 10% of total melt over the investigated time span. In order to provide a first order estimate on variability in uncertainty depending on the quality of input data, we conducted a further experiment, calculating overall uncertainty for different levels of uncertainty in measured global radiation and air temperature. Our results show that the output of a well calibrated model is subject to considerable uncertainties, in particular when applied for extrapolation in time and space where systematic errors are likely to be an important issue.
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Kreative World
Blog about examples of unconventional creativity in various fields: "multi-disciplinary art works". "Nature never hurries. Atom by atom, little by little she achieves her work." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Suhas Roy and his mystical compositions
Artist Suhas Roy who passed away in Kolkatta earlier this month, at the age of 80, was known in the last few years primarily for his Radha series. Though Radha Rani has been worshipped as a goddess, a Devi, the most powerful association in our minds is of Radha as an embodiment of pure love and devotion to Shri Krishna.
Radha, Mixed media, 10 by 12 in.
The word Radha is said to have come from Aradha (worship or homage) and Aradhana (paying homage). The love of Radha for Krishna is eternal, spontaneous, and like Bhakti (or devotion). Suhas Roy's paintings of Radha try to capture this devotion, longing and Bhakti, and bring a mix of youth, innocence and a dream like quality, in the figures.
Dry pastel, 48 by 36 cm.
Suhas Roy studied at the Indian College of Arts and Draughtsmanship, Kolkatta, and also at the Ecole Superior des Beaux Arts, Paris. He had been the Head of Department of Painting, at Kala Bhavan, Shantiniketan, till he retired.
Christ - 1, Conte on board, 20 by 30 in.
Suhas Roy travelled extensively in Europe, US and Japan, and was hugely impressed by the Great Masters, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and Raphael. Particularly the Pieta influenced Suhas Roy so much, that for several years, he sketched and painted his own versions of The Lamentation.
What is not known widely is that one of his paintings from his series at the time, "Through the Gospel", forms a part of the collection of The Vatican. Suhas Roy published a book of his paintings created during that period of personal journey called: "A Solitary Quest".
Christ, Oil on canvas, 56 by 41 cm.
Suhas Roy was born in Dhaka, and like many artists of his generation hit by partition of India, the loss stayed with him all his life. Several of his early compositions in water colours are inspired by the Bangladesh countryside.
A water colour
Suhas Roy will be remembered and missed for his mystical imagery, the wide range of textures and materials used, and for the simplicity of his compositions.
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Durga Pooja art works
Why is the Durga Pooja like an exciting, cultural immersion and not confined to quiet prayers? Well, mostly because Ma Durga has so many incarnations and is an embodiment of so many things: she is the goddess of power or Shakti, and the cause of all past, present and future occurrences.
Ma Durga is the mother of Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth and prosperity; the mother of Saraswati, the goddess of wisdom, knowledge, learning, music and arts; the mother of Karthikeya, the god of war; and she is the mother of Ganesha, the remover of obstacles for all auspicious events.
"The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection." - Michelangelo
Temporary places called Pandals are set up to welcome and venerate the goddess and to make arrangements for devotees. The entrance to the Pandal or the gateway, the panels at the sides, the ceilings, and the floors are all composed and decorated to honour the divine. All of them serve as opportunities to artists to pay homage to Ma Durga.
A gateway
Atop the entrance to a Pandal
In a Pooja, we make offerings of all that is good and nourishing and beautiful in our lives: fruits and vegetables, grains, flowers, art and music and dance. The goddess is also showered with gifts of sarees and sweets.
Ceiling of a Pandal
In the Pandal, the idol or Protima of Ma Durga is accompanied by her children, their Vahans or vehicles and the Kala-Bou, a banana plant depicting the mother nature part of Durga.
The Owl, Vahana of Lakshmi, symbolizes observation and perception. The divine Swan, Vahana of Saraswati symbolizes purity and realization of knowledge. The Peacock, Vahana of Kartikeya, symbolizes beauty. The Mouse, Vahana of Ganesha symbolizes the Vighna or obstacles our mind create very much like the fickle and darting movements of a mouse, that have to be controlled by the mind.
A panel at the Pooja Pandal
Ma Durga herself being powerful, beautiful and radiant has the Lion as her Vahana. During Durga Puja, she is shown in her Avatar of Mahishasura or slayer of the half-buffalo, half-Asura or demon.
The devotees of Ma Durga come from all communities, but do take care to deck themselves in their best clothes and jewellery. Devotees go to the Pandal every morning for Pushpanjali, or offerings of flowers and leaves for the goddess. They go for the evening Arati, or lighting of lamps.
The last day of Pooja is the Sindur Khela, when the goddess is bid farewell, till the next year with vermillion and sweets.
Over the years, Pooja Pandals have got more organized. Each locality has tried to differentiate itself. Some of them have themes for the Pooja, or take up causes. One New Delhi Pooja for example, wanted to draw attention to the dying jute industry. They got specially commissioned a Ma Durga idol made of jute, in addition to the normal clay one.
While the clay idol was immersed in water in the usual ritual fashion called Bisarjan, the jute idol is being preserved. The organizers of this Pandal want the jute idol to have a place in a museum or an educational institution.
(http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/durga-puja-artworks-seek-a-new-home/article9225558.ece)
Pooja Pandal resembling the PAlais Garnier
Another New Delhi Pooja Pandal paid homage to the victims of the terrorist attacks in Paris. The entire Pandal was designed and put together over two months to resemble the Palais Garnier, or the National Opera House.
(http://www.huffingtonpost.in/2016/10/14/this-durga-puja-pandal-in-delhi-paid-tribute-to-victims-of-paris/)
A Kolkatta Pandal paid homage to the once ubiquitous black and yellow Hindustan Motors Ambassador taxis. The Pandal artists bought 15 taxis, 200 silencer pipes and 300 car doors for the purpose.
The taxis were deconstructed and put together in art installations all around the Pandal.
(http://indianexpress.com/photos/lifestyle-gallery/durga-puja-2016-kolkata-pujo-pandals-themes-3063182/)
Face to face with Yusuf Arakkal
Bangalore based artist Yusuf Arakkal was always interested in the human figure and human faces. He decided recently, to do a collection of portraits of fellow artists.
Portrait of Thota Vaikuntam
Here is one of his drawings: of the artist Thota Vaikuntam, captured at work.
Portraits are rare nowadays. The theme of fellow artists was also an unusual one.
All the portraits by Arakkal were pen and ink drawings using lines, and dots - no colours and no shading. They were drawn on reversed canvas, and executed in a 'framed-box' approach. Generally, it was all black ink, and single-tone backgrounds.
Portrait of Syed Haider Raza
The collection of 135 portraits were on show at an exhibition called "Faces of Creativity", at Chennai, last month. Arakkal desired that the entire collection should be sold to a single collector or to an institution, to be available for viewing in its entirety.
The timing of the project was remarkable, given the news of his untimely demise today morning. It almost seems to be like a farewell gift from Arakkal to his fellow artists.
Yusuf Arakkal was born in Kerala. His mother belonged to a royal family, said to be the only Muslim family, descended from the royal family of Chirakkal. His father belonged to the Muslim business family Keyees, famous in Calicut and Thalassery.
Young Arakkal was looked after well at his family home, but ran away as a teenager to Bangalore, driven by a desire to live life on his own terms, in the streets and alleys of the city, and to learn painting.
Young Arakkal studied at the Chitrakala Parishath, Bangalore. The linework was always strong, as in this portrait. He was fond of drawing, and he knew the strength of lines.
It was probably due to the influence of his early years', that several of his works showed the urban poor, the social outcasts and the alienated.
Hope, Screenprint by Yusuf Arakkal
There was an air of despondency hanging in the air, even in the fine art-print he called 'Hope'. This print was created for the project 'Break the silence' by Art-for-humanity, an HIV-AIDS initiative.
An untitled oil-on-canvas by Arakkal
Like the surroundings of his teenage areas, the walls and backgrounds in Arakkal's paintings often reminded us of peeling plaster, dirty cracking walls, and old, often dirty, make shift belongings.
They told a story.
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The face of war
Andre Breton was one of the original group of Surrealists who introduced the ideas of automatism and intuitive art making. He championed the cause of "found objects", mixed media, collages and chace associations. He also championed the use of art as anti-war statements.
The Surrealist movement gave rise to several pieces of work like Salvador Dali's 'Retrospective bust of a woman' (1933). A baguette crowns the head of the woman. Cobs of corn dangle on both sides of her face. Ants swarm along her face, as if gathering the crumbs.
On top of all, is balanced an ink-well with a praying couple.
The movement also gave rise to the use of non-conventional materials in art and sculpture, like the wax sculpture by Edgar Degas, 'Little dancer of fourteen years' (1881), dressed in a real tutu skirt, a bodice, a wig of real hair, and with real ballet slippers. 28 bronze repetitions of the sculpture have been made since then by major museums around the world, for exhibition purposes.
A recent sculpture using 'found objects', by 33 year old artist, entitled "The face of war" has captured the imagination of critics, fellow artists and art lovers around the world.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is the face of war in the 2-metre high portrait created by Ukrainian artist Daria Marchenko. The portrait has been made using 5000 bullet cartridges brought in from the frontline in eastern Ukraine. The first few shells were sent to Daria by her boyfriend, a member of the Euromaidan movement that worked against the corrupt and unpopular government of Viktor Yanukovych.
Now many of Daria's friends fighting across Ukraine send her bombs, grenades, shells and other war materials that they find, for use in her future compositions.
For Daria, each shell is the face of war, symbolising some one wounded or killed. She uses a hand-held light to cast interesting, elongated shadows across the portrait. Sometimes the shadows throw deep shadows around Putin's eyes, making them more sinister; at times, they make the face angular, more energetic and aggressive; and sometimes the shadows make the mouth more cruel.
The portrait has eight kinds of cartridges, some corroded and copper coloured, some quite new and glistening gold. As people look at the changing expressions of Putin's portrait in the moving light- sometimes proud, at times contemplative, they have their own thoughts about the nearly 7,000 people killed so far in the Ukraine conflict.
The portrait is a dominating presence in Daria's studio.
"Sleeping in the same room with him was a bit scary at first," said Daria in a recent interview, "But I got used to it."
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Public art at Gurgaon
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Stained glass windows with solar cells
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A visual history of time
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One such policy, in our opinion, would be compre hensive business tax reform.
Americans spend 6. 1 billion hours a year preparing tax returns, according to the Taxpayer Advocate Service.
far larger than they should in business decisions.
Congress has a plan that addresses both prob lems, one that vastly simplifes the business tax code and lowers the rate on unincorporated businesses to 25 percent. The plan—to replace today's business income tax with a radically new regime called a destinationbased cash fow tax—faces a hard legis lative slog, to be sure. But to us at Inc., it seems like a good start.
We're also largely in favor of regulatory relief.
"Taming the Beast," from the July/August 2016 issue.
Finally, we support extending access to entrepre neurship to all who have the guts to give it an honest go, regardless of gender, race, religion, or where they or their parents were born. Research has repeatedly demonstrated a strong link between immigration and the entrepreneurial urge. For anecdotal evidence, consider this month's cover story, "A Day in the Life" (page 20): Of the eight companies featured, fve were founded or cofounded by a child of immigrants. The contention that immigrants harm the economy is not remotely borne out in Inc.'s nearly 40 years of experi ence. Until that changes, policies that discourage the world's best minds from coming here will fnd no support in these pages.
to escape that here—well, I hate to disappoint. I'm about to tell you where Inc. stands.
policy out of Washington that furthers that mission can count on Inc.'s support.


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Korean actor Song Joong Ki is confirmed to host this year's 'Mnet Asian Music Awards (MAMA)' in Hong Kong.
On December 3, the final host has been revealed for '2018 MAMA', and Song Joong Ki was named to host the Hong Kong event.
This is the third time for Song Joong Ki to host the event, after one in 2012 and 2017.
This year, 'MAMA' takes place in three different countries in Asia―Korea, Japan and Hong Kong.
It was previously announced that actor Jung Hae In will host '2018 MAMA Premiere' in Korea, and actor Park Bo Gum will host '2018 MAMA Fans' Choice' in Japan.
The two events take place on December 10 and 12, respectively.
'2018 MAMA' in Hong Kong will take place on December 14, and the lineup currently includes BTS, Wanna One, GOT7, SEVENTEEN, and more.


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Atlantic Electric LLC has more than 20 years of experience working with electrical systems. It performs electrical installations and repairs, either in homes or commercial spaces. In addition, the electricians on the team can assist with all the electrical aspects of a remodeling project. Homeowners and commercial property owners who encounter pesky electrical issues are encouraged to book an appointment or call for troubleshooting. Atlantic Electric provides service upgrades, subpanel installations, and LED lighting installations.
5315 Ranchview Ln N
Established in 2012, Current Electric Systems serves residential and commercial customers in Plymouth and its surrounding communities. It specializes in lighting design services that include pendant installation, custom light fixtures, smart lighting control, and landscape lighting. It also provides electrical solutions such as switch repair, EV charging installation, generator backup systems installation, and low voltage wiring services. The company aims to provide its clients professionalism and attention to detail. The owner, Jason Savageau, is a master electrician and lighting designer.
14240 23rd Ave N
Harrison Electric Inc. is an electrical company serving electrical needs in the Plymouth area. The company's technicians offer a comprehensive service that spans repair, system replacement, and ongoing maintenance. It also conducts complete inspections. They perform fuse panel replacements, storm damage repairs, and underground service conversions. They also provide generator-ready electrical services, whole-house surge protection, and electrical remodeling work. With over 100 years of combined experience, Harrison Electric Inc. serves Eden Prairie, Apple Valley, and Oakdale areas.
3440 Kilmer Lane North
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Established in 1995, HiTec Electric is an electrical company that serves Plymouth, Saint Louis Park, and surrounding areas. Its commercial and residential services include backup generator installation, ballast and lamp replacement, code corrections, electrical panel upgrades, and home inspections. This company is also skilled at assisting with design-build, new construction, and remodeling projects. HiTec Electric's team of electricians is focused on creating long-term relationships with clients by offering professional and quality customer service.
JZ Electric is an electrical service company providing its services to Plymouth. It is headquartered in Golden Valley and offers electrical services to both residential and commercial clients. JZ Electric inspects, repairs, and installs electrical equipment as part of its residential services. Its other services include residential wiring, residential lighting consultation, residential restoration, landscape lighting, and generators. Nick Zagaros and Drew Johnson started JZ Electric in 2004. Zagaros serves as the president of the company while also being its master electrician and professional lighting consultant.
7100 Madison Avenue West
Price: 175$
Larkin Electric is an electrical contractor servicing Plymouth and the surrounding areas since 1997. The company aims to provide safe and reliable services for residential, commercial, and industrial clients with simple and complex projects. Its team of electricians performs wiring for new construction and renovations and LED technology installation. They install wiring for phones, television, security lighting, and remote lighting controls. They also work on low-voltage wirings and solar power systems.
1140 Spring Hill Road
LDM Electric has been rendering electrical services and solutions to clients in the Plymouth area for over 30 years. The company primarily serves homeowners, home builders, and commercial clients who require the expert assistance of professional electricians. Its service offerings include installing lighting and dimming systems, designing electrical systems, trenching, HVAC equipment wiring, storm damage repairs, and installing smoke alarms. LDM Electric also provides a whole house generator service and installation.
14224 23rd Avenue North
Lumberjack Electric is a locally-owned and operated business handling electrical matters in Plymouth and the surrounding areas. Its electricians install lighting fit for decks, gardens, patios, and pathways. Additionally, they put up floodlights and recessed brick lighting. Aside from offering landscape lighting services, they also repair and install ventilation fans and generators. The service provider responds to electrical emergencies and performs electrical inspections in commercial and residential properties. Other services offered include HVAC and plumbing.
5720 International Parkway
New Hope, MN 55428
Price: $89 Hour
Milow Electric has been providing electrical services to Plymouth and surrounding areas for over 35 years. It specializes in handling electrical problems in residential and commercial properties. These include installing and upgrading child-proof outlets, in-floor radiant heat, accent lighting, and shock prevention devices. The company also offers energy-saving systems such as power conditioners, ceiling fans, and lighting controls. Milow Electric also installs advanced media systems including home theaters, smart home automation, and premier series speakers.
2065 Wayzata Boulevard
Long Lake, MN 55356
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Morrison's Electric, Inc. is an electrician serving the areas of Plymouth and the neighboring communities. The company serves clients in the residential and commercial industries, providing new electrical installations and remodels. Its specialties lie in performing residential rewiring and LED lighting installation services. Additionally, the company offers service upgrades, whole-house surge protection, fuse panel replacements, and electrical home inspections. Company owner Donovon Morrison founded Morrison's Electric in 2001. Today, the company is operated by Donovon and his sons, Chris and David.
10200 96th Place North
Norske Electric - West Metro is a company that has been serving the residential and commercial districts in Plymouth and the surrounding areas for more than 20 years. It offers a wide range of services for new construction, remodels, design-build, retrofit lighting, and code compliance. Norske Electric is composed of electricians dedicated to providing services that are reliable and completed on time. It utilizes technology and applies industry standards to deliver the electrical requirements needed for all of its projects.
3540 Kilkenny Lane
Hamel, MN 55340
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With his 30 years of experience, master electrician Chris Boettcher founded Maple Grove-based company Primary Electric Inc. in 2006. Serving Minneapolis and its surrounding suburbs, including Plymouth, the company caters to residential projects, be it new construction or retrofitting. It also performs installation and maintenance work for focal point and accent lightings such as chandeliers, sconces, and pendant lights, 240v outlets for dryers, ovens, and electric vehicle charging stations, and 400amp electric panels and breakers.
13619 Grove Drive
Signature Electric, Co., established in 2003, is a company consisting of 12 electricians who strive to provide quality electrical solutions tailored to the needs of their clients. The business specializes in both small and large residential electrical projects in the Plymouth metro and its surrounding areas. Its team installs and repairs dimmer switches, lighting fixtures, and ceiling fans. In addition, they can work on new constructions and even old residences, such as a 100-year-old home located in Edina.
Victoria, MN 55386
Standard Rate: 140
Sipma Electric, Inc., has been serving homeowners and businesses in Plymouth since 1985. The family-owned company can deal with various remodeling and upgrade projects for personal properties and residential homes. Its electrical services include outlet installations, whole house rewirings, and circuit upgrades. Sipma Electric, Inc., also ensures that electrical works are completed in compliance with the state-imposed code. Founder Del Sipma has dreamed of becoming an electrician since his 6th-grade class. Aside from electrical contracting, he also builds client communications.
3720 Park Valley Road
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Nicole Richie's Perfect Backyard is as Stylish as She is!
Aug 28, 2013 | Designer News | 1 comment
Celebrity designer Nicole Richie's original sense of style is carefree with a bold, rebellious streak. The 'Winter Kate' creator recently shared her colourful backyard with Domaine magazine and spoke on her inspiration when she was concocting the cool vibe present throughout. Decorating her Los Angeles home with a mixture of unique and off-beat pieces, Nicole commented that she was mostly concerned with it being relaxed and not overly fussy:
"I hate the term bohemian. It was important for me to keep the color palette strong but not too overpowering. We're all about having everything be really eclectic and relaxed."
She says that her home is very summery which suits the warm climate perfectly:
"My house has that summery look and feel all year round — luckily for me I live in L.A. and can get away with it."
Nicole says her friends love the chilled atmosphere:
"I'm against assigned seating. I like people to come to my house and feel like they can do whatever they want. Our house is the one people come to, to hang."
Speaking on throwing backyard dinner parties, Nicole says it's all about the food:
"You feel the love and thoughtfulness in the food."
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The University of Sheffield's Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) is a centre of excellence for research, innovation and training, working with advanced manufacturing companies of any size from around the globe. It is part of the UK's High Value Manufacturing Catapult cluster, funded by Innovate UK.
The AMRC is based at the Advanced Manufacturing Park in Yorkshire, on the site of the former Orgreave coke works, and employs more than 500 highly qualified researchers and engineers from around the world, focusing on advanced manufacturing, machining and materials research for aerospace, automotive and other high-value manufacturing sectors.
Established in 2001, the AMRC has a global reputation for helping companies overcome manufacturing problems and now works with more than 125 industrial partners who include Boeing, Rolls-Royce, McLaren Automotive, BAE Systems and Airbus, as well as small and medium sized businesses that make up the supply chains.
The AMRC collaborates with R&D experts to develop and de-risk business investment, enabling firms to make step changes in productivity, sharpening competitive edge, developing new products and processes and training new talent and skills. World leading areas of knowledge and expertise include digital manufacturing, machining, design and prototyping, additive manufacture, composites, welding, structural testing, robotics, high-tech assembly and automation.
It was established as a £15 million collaboration between the University of Sheffield and Boeing, with support from Yorkshire Forward and the European Regional Development Fund, and has become a model for collaborative research involving universities, academics and industry.
The AMRC has six flagship centres including Factory of the Future and Factory 2050, as well as regional hubs in Wales with AMRC Cymru and AMRC North West in Lancashire. Through the AMRC Training Centre, over 800 apprentices, all of whom are employed in the manufacturing sector, are receiving high quality training. The AMRC's sister centre, the Nuclear AMRC, which is also based on the Advanced Manufacturing Park, helps UK companies win work in the civil nuclear sector in new build, operations and decommissioning.
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Aristocrat invests in social games by buying Big Fish Games for $990 million
Posted on December 4, 2017	by Admin	in Gambling
The casino group Aristocrat has announced it has reached an agreement to buy Big Fish Games for $990 million. Big fish Games is a young Seattle-based company producing online games with a focus on social games. By this expense, Aristrocrat confirms its intention to surf more on the wave of social casino games.
Aristocrat releases big money for social games
Aristocrat is convinced that social games represent a strong value. This year, the giant of online and live casino games has paid a tidy sum of $ 500 million to acquire Plairium Global Ltd, another social gaming specialist.
The Australian giant considers that this investment is only the beginning and a doubly higher sum will be spent in the coming months via the takeover of Big Fish Games. Big Fish Games was established in 2006 and has its own development studio. This allows him to produce and edit his own games, on average between 12 and 15 per year. In 2006, the firm intensified its efforts on social games, aware that the players were reacting more and more to this kind of product.
"The content of Big Fish Games's social casino games and the opportunities of the industry as a whole are complementary to Aristocrat's current vision."
The purchase is made at Churchill Downs, which owned Big Fish. Some $100 million will be paid in cash while the remaining $890 million will be loaned.
Aristocrat is one of the leaders in land-based casino games and is happy to regularly adapt blockbusters, as we noted at the ICE London conference in 2017. Titles such as The Walking Dead, Game of Thrones or a future slot machine on singer Madonna are some of the firm's values.
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If you haven't heard of Honey Creme yet, it's one of the famous game-changers in the premium soft serve ice-cream that's taking Southeast Asia by storm. And it has finally arrived in the Philippines to give your taste buds a truly luscious experience.
This Korean brand (and Taiwanese franchise) only uses the finest ingredients in their selections. They do not scrimp on quality, so every spoonful or lick of their milky base guarantees rich and creamy flavor with velvety soft texture.
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If anything, Honey Creme Philippines is better: a soft-serve of a downy, silky, luscious quality and a distinct not-too-sweet taste courtesy of a quality milk base.
As you look through their options, you'll realize: There's no need to stick around and loiter because the ice cream is the Honey Creme experience. If anything, Honey Creme Philippines is better: a soft-serve of a downy, silky, luscious quality and a distinct not-too-sweet taste courtesy of a quality milk base. Honey Creme is firm about using organic products - from the milk to the playful toppings.
But what makes these Korean soft serves stand out is its simplicity.
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Adat Pepatih is practiced in Negeri Sembilan. It was democrtatic matrimonial Adat brought from Minangkabau, Sumatera in Indonesia.
What are the Adat Perpatih's inheritance principles?
Ancestral Properties (e.g. land, orchard, paddy field) are vested in the female members. Female members hold the property in trust for the family. Will cannot dispose off the Adat properties and female members tribe can only inherited in equal shares. Men in Adat Perpatih do not have the right to the Ancestral Properties. A man is a member from his mother's tribe until he gets married. Upon married, he is accepted into his wife's tribe.
Adat Pepatih is in conflict with Islamic rules in the sphere of land inheritance. Land is entailed to the women of the tribe who form the permanent members of the customary society. All females must be identified with a piece of customary land.
The female heirs inherit equally their mother's property irrespective of whether or not they predeceased their mother. Their respective daughters in turn inherit the share of predeceased daughters. In other words, the granddaughters of a deceased female inherit through their deceased mother's right of inheritance.
Men are compensated through the system of the tribal exogamous marriage (marriage outside a tribe). When a man marries into a female tribe, his wife already owns a piece of land (e.g. paddy-field) as her share of the customary holding. The unmarried males have the right of life occupancy over the property of their mothers.
What are the Adat Temenggong's inheritance principles?
Adat Temenggong is favourable to men compared with Adat Pepatih. The Adat Temenggong has been Islamised and has adopted a more patrilineal character (in favor of men in the distribution of inheritance).
Adat Temenggong basicly holds the same rules on distribution of inheritance as Quran, which explains why Adat Temenggong is more acceptable in Malay society.
Under Adat Temenggong inheritance, a daughter is entitled to 1/2 of the entitlement of a son. If there is no son, the daughter is entitled to half of the estate.
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Pentagon won't demote Petraeus
By Kristina Wong - 01/30/16 12:28 PM EST
Defense Secretary Ash Carter will not seek to demote retired Gen. David Petraeus for sharing classified information with his biographer, according to a Jan. 29 letter from the Pentagon to Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.).
"As you know, the Army completed its review of his case and recommended no additional action. Given the Army review, Secretary Carter considers this matter closed," Stephen C. Hedger, principal deputy assistant secretary of Defense for legislative affairs, wrote in a letter obtained by The Hill.
The letter was in response to one written to Carter by McCain, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.), ranking member, urging him not to retroactively demote Petraeus after reports that he was considering it.
A defense official confirmed the letter's authenticity but declined further comment.
Reports emerged that Carter was considering the move in order to be consistent in his treatment of senior officers who engage in misconduct and to send a message that no one is above punishment.
However, the retroactive demotion of Petraeus would come more than four years after the misconduct, and despite the retired general already being convicted and sentenced a fine of $100,000 and two years of probation.
While he was still serving, Petraeus shared two notebooks of notes containing classified information with his biographer, with whom he admitted having an extramarital affair.
The then-retired four-star resigned as CIA director in 2011 after the affair came to light.
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This Spinal Mechanics Facet Joint Dysfunction seminar is a basic building block for the ongoing Capstone Method series on structural bodywork. In this seminar, Spinal Mechanics are broken down into their fundamental components. Once a therapist understands these elements it opens the door to finding and treating facet dysfunction. Muscle Energy and Still Technique are the first methods to be explored. We look at how to utilize the breath cycle and cranial rhythm to enhance the two modalities. Other strategies like low load long duration are discussed. This is a great seminar if this subject is new to you or even if you have been doing this style of work for a while.
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