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Seegene Partners with Hamilton to Develop Random Access System
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Seegene (Seoul, South Korea), a developer of multiplex molecular technologies and multiplex clinical molecular diagnostics (M-MoDx), has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Hamilton Company (Reno, NV, USA), which designs and manufactures precision measurement devices, automated liquid handling workstations, and sample management systems, to develop the Seegene Random Access System.
The Seegene Random Access System is a molecular diagnostics solution that provides order-to-report on the same day by integrating simultaneous and high multiplex real-time PCR testing on Hamilton's automated liquid handling platforms, regardless of specimen and assay type. Seegene expects the collaboration to accelerate the development of the Random Access System and to complete the Digitalized Development System, which enables the automation of whole development process from reagent development, clinical studies, manufacturing to quality control.
"To achieve the Seegene Random Access System, the integration of technologies applied in reagent, instrument and software is necessary. Through our collaboration, we will be able to accelerate the accomplishment of 'Seegene Random Access System'," said Dr. Jong Yoon Chun, CEO and founder of Seegene. "Molecular diagnostics testing is currently limited to large hospitals or clinical laboratories; however, with the completion of the system, molecular diagnostics utilization will greatly increase as order-to-report on the same day allows hospitals to conduct molecular diagnosis and this will lead to a breakthrough in achieving on-time customized patient care."
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With a base of more than 1.2 Billion active users, WhatsApp has constantly stepped up its game and here is the list of WhatsApp Features 2017, which has made the platform more practical than ever.
With the year coming to an end, it's highly unlikely that WhatsApp is going to announce a new update or a new feature of its user base but what we have already received in 2017 from the Facebook-owned messaging app, is more than enough to show that WhatsApp, despite having almost 1.2 Billion active users, out of which 200 million are from India alone, is in no mood of becoming complacent any time soon.
While WhatsApp started as a platform offering free messaging services, it has completely washed out those paid text messages and has become of the major players in the industry. From family/friend groups to file sharing, from the newly added story feature to the flexibility of deleting a message, WhatsApp has got it all.
Moreover, there is a long journey ahead of WhatsApp and the peeps at Facebook know this for a fact. Keeping that in mind, the platform has come up with a spree of new updates in 2017 with has made WhatsApp more practical than ever.
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The Delete for Everyone feature went live for all WhatsApp users in October and has been the biggest change to messaging app since the introduction of blue ticks. This feature allows a user to delete a, both in individual as well as group chats, they had already sent. Apart from text messages, images, videos, files can also be recalled with this feature.
The new Status feature went live to all WhatsApp users globally February which replaced the old text-status with a short video or multiple photos which would automatically disappear in the next 24 hours.
Even though the Snapchat-like Status feature was an instant hit, WhatsApp users literally lashed out at the platform for ending support to the text-status. It came back on popular demand and is now available on both iOS as well as Android OS.
This is the most recent addition to the WhatsApp Features 2017 list and also a practical one. While the feature is still in its testing phase, once live, users will be able to watch a youtube video without leaving a chat window. If someone has shared a YouTube link with you, it could be viewed in picture-in-picture or full-screen mode. What what is even more surprising is the fact that users will be able to move the window around in the same chat. But sadly, not in case if the chat window is changed.
Earlier, a user could only select a maximum of 10 files to be shared via WhatsApp at once but in the year 2047, the limit was increased to 30. Considering that WhatsApp is also one of the biggest file media sharing app, this was a heartily welcomed update.
WhatsApp has been reportedly testing a new feature on the Windows 10 Mobile platform, to be introduced on iOS and Android later, which could make life less painful while changing your number. Using this feature, users will be able to notify their friends and family of a change in contact number.
Allowing its more than 1.2 Billion user base to track their friends or family members, Live location sharing was added to the list of WhatsApp Features 2017 in October. It has given users an option to share their location in individual chats as well as groups chats, and even works when WhatsApp is not being actively used by the sender. For more details about the feature, Click Here.
In between all the cases of cyber theft, Two-step verification became one of the much-needed addition to WhatsApp Features 2017 in February as an optional security feature. Users can now verify their contact numbers during installation of WhatsApp on a new device with a six-digit passcode, which will be created by them, in the first place. It could be used when registering the same number or during any verification process in the app.
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New York remains exciting, vast, wonderfully alive. On Fifth Avenue, elegant ladies promenade in the sun, ride in horse carriages, spend their money at Gucci's and Tiffany's, or cast wistful eyes at the window where Empress Josephine's tiara and the emerald-studded crown of the Romanovs are exhibited behind unbreakable glass. Further on, at La Vieille Russie, rich imperial paintings and golden icons momentarily deceive one into thinking that the czarina is still going strong in St. Petersburg. In St. Patrick's Cathedral smart young couples swear eternal vows to the splendid sound of a magnificent organ; crowds enjoy their leisure in Central Park, buying pretzels and Italian ice, and feeding gorillas that should not be fed; strains of the "Merry Widow" still reverberate amid the marble columns of the palm court at the Plaza Hotel; and for dinner there are restaurants, Argentinian, French, Japanese, Indian, Arabian, Jewish, and vegetarian, not to mention the inimitable Russian tea room, another monument to the fallen Romanovs. Downtown, in the Village and beyond, exciting experimental theatre companies revive the immortal plays of Euripides and Sophocles; decaying warehouses change overnight into lovely art galleries; crowds of tourists in Chinatown spend their money on grotesque mandarin statues and delicious mandarin food; and in Little Italy the young people sit in curbside restaurants sipping cappuccino and eating cannoli, deliberating whether to go to college in North Carolina or spend the summer hitchhiking in Europe.
But leisure is the order of the day, for if action is the music of our life then leisure is the pause, the silence between the movements of a symphony. And man needs leisure, writes Salvador de Madariaga, to contemplate, to be passive, to breathe in just as he breathes out, for only the freedom of his leisure makes man truly free.3 And what can be freer than to wander with books through Washington Square, to eat cannoli and sip cappuccino, to think thoughts that have nothing to do with the immanence of everyday life.
1. Mandeville's Travels (London, Oxford University Press, 1968) p. 212.
2. Madame Sévigné. Lettres Choisies (Paris, Librairie Larousse) p. 69.
3. Madariaga, S. Essays with a purpose (London, Hollis and Carter, Ltd, 1954).
GEORGE DUNEA MD, FACP, FRCP, FASN is the President and CEO of the Hektoen Institute of Medicine. He is also a Professor of Medicine at University of Illinois at Chicago and the Medical Director of Chicago Dialysis Center and Founding Chairman Emeritus, Division of Nephrology, Stroger Hospital of Cook County.


Colors, this is the time of year that whenever I've been outdoors there have been colors, vibrant colors, everywhere. These are not the colors of wildflowers or the greens of summer, they're the colors that paint entire hillsides in northeastern North America – the yellows, reds, oranges, purples and browns of the changing leaves.
You sure had some beautiful color this year! Where I live in northeastern NY, our foliage was quite muted, with many leaves shriveling and dropping early because of a dry autumn. It was lovely to see your photos.
Beautiful colour show, Woody. I would hand the ribbon for 'best dressed' to the Staghorn sumac. We all have our favourites and are spoiled for choice.
Wonderful pictures! Looks like you had a more colourful fall than we did.
Thanks all for the comments about our fall colors. The photos are of the very best areas and trees that I found; actually the fall colors were rather a bust. Almost all of the sugar maples' leaves just turned brown and fell -- back in September. The only good colors have been in moist areas and/or north facing slopes. Hopefully next year will be more normal.
Beautiful pictures! It's been a lovely fall indeed. Where I live in Colorado we mostly only have yellows and oranges from our native aspen. But it sure lasted a lot longer than last year! Loved going out and finding all the shrubs and forbs that were changing colors as well, those smaller plants are under appreciated!
Absolutely stunning Fall color! Some of the best Autumn glory shots I've seen this season!


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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of China (Taiwan) expresses strong protest and concern over recent unilateral and imprudent actions and statements by countries in the region pertaining to the South China Sea. The R.O.C. government reiterates that the South China Sea Islands are part of the territory of the R.O.C. It is indisputable that the R.O.C. is entitled to all rights over the South China Sea Islands and their relevant waters in accordance with international law and the law of the sea.
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It's been more than four years since Jim Pantelidis fought off his most recent attack from an activist shareholder, but the memory still makes him angry. As the chair of Enercare Inc., defending the company became a full-time job. "It was all-consuming," he says.
The battle became public at 9:36 a.m. on July 17, 2014, when an obscure American hedge fund known as Augustus Advisors released a blistering letter to shareholders, declaring its intention to take Enercare private. Augustus said its buyout partner had been working behind the scenes for a full year, pleading with Enercare's board to submit to a takeover. The company had once been a promising, albeit boring, business, renting water heaters in Ontario, but its stock had floundered, down 35 per cent from its peak seven years earlier. Because Augustus controlled the single largest block of Enercare's shares, the fund felt justified in shaking things up.
To bat Octavian away, Enercare spent millions of dollars on legal and public relations advice, and endured months of cross-Canada meetings with institutional investors. It worked. In April 2012, shareholders voted down the activist's proposal.
But the peace was short-lived. Augustus began managing Octavian's stake, and just two years later, it went public with its own plan for a buyout of Enercare. There had been plenty of similar battles in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, when activist investors stepped up their efforts to dismantle stodgy boards and toss out incompetent leaders, all in the name of shareholder profits. They'd won some early accolades in Canada after improving results at two iconic companies, Canadian Pacific Railway and Maple Leaf Foods. Yet those victories had spawned so many copycats that the crusaders were looking much less altruistic. In fact, there was a growing fear that activists were using their influence to manipulate stock prices for short-term gains.
Pantelidis outmaneuvered Augustus by acquiring a sister company to give Enercare extra heft. Soon after, its stock price eclipsed the $13.50 to $15 a share the activists had offered. With the pressure off, Enercare put together a multiyear turnaround plan that included expanding into the United States. This past August, Brookfield Infrastructure bought the company for $3.1 billion, in a friendly deal worth $29 a share – double Augustus's bid.
Enercare may have gotten the last laugh, but the activist trend has only accelerated. In 2018, activist funds broke the record for number of campaigns in a single year – 922 globally (75 of them in Canada), according to Activist Insight, compared to just a handful in 2003. Most of their targets were small- and microcap companies. But giants like eBay, Manulife Financial, Campbell Soup and others all came under attack in the last year, with varying results.
Why the explosion? In part, it's because passive investing has become an existential problem for asset managers. Thanks to the longest bull market on record, index investors in Canada have enjoyed average total returns of 10 per cent over the past decade and paid next to nothing in fees. Hedge funds, meanwhile, have delivered about half that, while charging much more – often 2 per cent a year, plus 20 per cent of any extraordinary profits.
With the industry under siege, activism is seen as one of the few remaining ways for fund managers to deliver alpha – returns that beat the broad market – without deploying a huge amount of capital. By acquiring, say, 10 per cent of a company and agitating for substantial changes, they can affect the share price and net a tidy profit. (Private equity firms, meanwhile, usually have to buy entire companies, for a premium, and are stuck holding the bag if their revamps go awry.) By mid-2018, the activist sector had amassed US$128-billion in assets under management.
Do these new-age barbarians at the gate actually create value, or have they simply corrupted the market they set out to save?
Two strains of modern activist investors emerged in the mid-1980s. In one corner of the market, corporate raiders like Carl Icahn and T. Boone Pickens began to shake up stagnant companies, often by borrowing boatloads to fuel hostile takeovers. Then there were the institutional investors intent on cracking down on bad governance – which sometimes meant punishing boards for giving in to the raiders too easily. Although they could be at odds, these two strains shared a common vision: As shareholders, they were owners, and they wanted to use that power to make changes.
By 1994, the activist movement had made a significant mark. Directors knew they could no longer act like monarchs; shareholders had proven they were the ones in charge, and boards had started listening to them. "All-out war is no longer needed," John Pound, who led a shareholder research group at Harvard, told The New York Times that year.
But in the ashes of the dot-com bust, activists started rumbling once again. In 2005, Bill Ackman bought a sizable position in Wendy's International and urged the chain to spin off Tim Hortons. A year later, he pushed for changes at Canadian Tire that included spinning out its Mark's Work Wearhouse chain.
The activist renaissance picked up speed after the crash of 2008, and when it did, two campaigns put Canada close to Ground Zero.
The first was the 2010 battle at Maple Leaf Foods. In August of that year, a small but powerful Canadian fund called West Face Capital, led by Greg Boland, acquired a 10 per cent stake in the company. Maple Leaf had finally come through the listeria crisis, during which 22 people died, and it planned to spend $1.3-billion to update its meat-processing facilities. But before the company could start, West Face launched a proxy contest that pitted Boland against Maple Leaf's CEO, Michael McCain, and its powerful board, which included veteran corporate lawyer Purdy Crawford and a number of friends of McCain's father, Wallace. Boland's aim was to install hand-picked directors who were independent of the McCain family and to curtail the expensive revitalization plan, which Boland thought was unlikely to boost the company's fortunes.
Boland eventually won a board seat and used his position to persuade Maple Leaf to slash its modernization plan in half. The company's shares soared, and by the time Boland sold his stake in 2014 for $300-million, he'd doubled his investment. McCain, meanwhile, held onto his job.
Fred Green wasn't so lucky. As West Face was wrapping up its campaign at Maple Leaf, Ackman and his fund, Pershing Square Capital Management, were taking aim at CP Rail, whose board (led by former Royal Bank CEO John Cleghorn) had allowed Green to post poor operating results for years, along with the worst operating efficiency of the Big Six North American railways. Ackman spent $1.4-billion to amass a sizable stake in the Canadian giant that grew to 14.2 per cent.
Ackman had just come off a humiliating defeat in his campaign against Target Corp., which he called one of "the greatest disappointments of my career to date," and his reputation was wounded. But CP's board failed to see that its own shareholders were fed up and desperate for change. Two pension funds – the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board – sided with Pershing, and in an astonishing capitulation, six of CP's directors, including Cleghorn, agreed not to stand for re-election. Harrison was installed as CEO a few months later, and over the next two years, CP's stock more than doubled.
Boards were forced to do some soul-searching (or at least some balance-sheet-scouring). They also drew up playbooks for how to engage with activists if they ever came knocking, often relying on an emerging cottage industry of strategists to counsel them. The common advice: Do everything CP didn't.
Money started to pour into activist funds. In 2003, there was about US$12-billion invested in the sector globally, according to HFR Industry Reports, which does research on hedge funds. By the end of 2014, that figure had multiplied almost tenfold, with most of the growth coming after 2009.
That speculation proved to be bang-on.
A similar argument can be made about activists, and George has been making it for years. In 2009, he even called out Ackman live on CNBC, lambasting him for his failed campaign against Target, on whose board George had served until 2005. Lately, though, George has grown incensed. Around 2014 the market for activism exploded and major funds started holding serious sway. By the end of that year, more than 10 activist funds each managed over US$10-billion, according to HFR. Executives dared not irk them for fear of being targeted.
What really bothered George was that some activists wouldn't even acknowledge what they were up to. It all seemed like a game. In 2014, Dan Loeb of influential activist fund Third Point floated the possibility of dismantling drug giant Amgen, "which seemed to me like a ridiculous idea," George says. He said as much publicly. Soon after, the two men met for the first time at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
Activists also had a habit of glossing over the chaos they could create. In the summer of 2012, New York-based Jana Partners started spending more than $1-billion to amass a 7.5 per cent stake in Agrium Inc, and over the next nine months the two fought bitterly, with Jana hoping to install directors on Agrium's 12-person board. The fund went so far as to suggest that Agrium consider splitting into two companies – one for fertilizer production and another for retail agricultural products. Ahead of the pivotal annual meeting in April 2013, Jana head Barry Rosenstein took some nasty public shots at Agrium, arguing that dismissing activists like him amounted to corporate governance from the 1960s. "It's like watching an episode of Mad Men where all the doctors are smoking," he told The Globe.
Riding high on his CP Rail victory, Bill Ackman followed up with a campaign against Herbalife, an American multilevel marketing company that sells vitamins and protein bars. Ackman's thesis was that Herbalife was little more than a pyramid scheme, with the company pushing often low-income clients to sell the stuff to their friends. He shorted the stock and tried to persuade regulators to intervene.
The battle turned ugly through 2013 and into 2014, and Icahn – who had never been a fan of Ackman's – took the other side of the trade, saying Herbalife had "a legitimate business model, with favourable long-term opportunities for growth." The pair sparred publicly, including during a now infamous segment on CNBC, during which Icahn called in to counter Ackman, the show's guest. "Ackman has done pump-and-dumps. He's got one of the worst reputations on Wall Street," Icahn argued on live TV.
But Ackman was on to something. In 2016, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission fined Herbalife $200-million – though it stopped short of classifying it as a pyramid scheme. Nonetheless, the stock continued to climb. By the time Ackman finally unwound his short position last year, he was deep under water. After he first bet against the company, the stock plunged below US$25 per share. By the time he exited, it had jumped to US$94. Pershing investors got crushed.
The failure was even more spectacular at Valeant Pharmaceuticals, which was first targeted by activist ValueAct Capital way back in 2006. ValueAct helped install Michael Pearson as CEO, and he turned Valeant into a serial acquirer with a habit of jacking up the prices of drugs it now owned. Under scrutiny in 2015, the company nearly collapsed, and the stock plunged more than 90 per cent from its $346 peak. ValueAct had cashed out US$1-billion right before things went bad, so it didn't fare so badly, but other activists had piled in on the way up, including Ackman and John Paulson. Ackman and his fund lost US$4-billion.
In a recent investor presentation, Pershing disclosed its annual gains and losses. Anyone who invested at the end of 2012, in the wake of the CP Rail victory, had almost the exact same amount at the end of 2018. Putting that same dollar into the broad S&P 500, meanwhile, would have nearly doubled their money. Ackman declined to comment for this story.
Many rival funds have also suffered in the last few years. Jana Partners, which went after Agrium, hasn't beaten the broad stock market since 2013. The fund's assets under management peaked at US$11-billion in 2015, but investors have since fled, and at the end of 2018, Jana managed less than half its record total.
Despite a number of colossal disappointments, activists are, somewhat miraculously, a bigger force than ever – and they're only getting more aggressive.
This unscrupulous behaviour has encouraged some investors – including short sellers, a subset of the activist movement – to test the boundaries. Carson Block and his fund, Muddy Waters LLC, is generally respected for exposing fraudulent companies; Canadian investors will remember him for calling out the sham that was Sino-Forest in 2011. Yet, last October, Muddy Waters released a scathing report on insurance giant Manulife Financial.
He hasn't given up on the idea because far too often, the only way institutional shareholders can voice their frustrations with management is by selling their shares, even though they might see potential for improvement. That's where activism can be useful – if it's done thoughtfully.
The trouble is that thoughtfulness is a rare commodity these days. Given the state of activism, companies sometimes focus too much on making themselves activist-proof. This worries Marty Lipton more than anything else. The veteran corporate lawyer is widely viewed as a dean of Wall Street and has been dealing with disrupters for decades – he created poison pills in the 1980s to thwart that era's corporate raiders.
After watching activists rack up some early wins, the advice given to boards of directors was to embrace them – show some love, maybe even offer a few board seats. It helped – a lot. Many campaigns are now settled privately, with the public never even hearing of them. It's much less disruptive for everyone involved.
But that strategy only works if the activists give a damn about the ultimate fate of the company. What if they don't? Regulators can't simply ban activism, because for all the trouble it might cause, these investors can play a crucial role, particularly in small-cap markets that tend to be overlooked by watchdogs. In that way, activism is a bit like democracy – sometimes maddening, but perhaps the best option we've got.
That's the rosy view. In reality, there's a huge role for institutional investors to play. Some of the world's largest money managers have already joined forces to preach the value of long-term investing, with the likes of BlackRock Inc. and CPPIB coming together to create a not-for-profit called Focusing Capital on the Long Term (FCLT). In a recent report, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink warned that "we've become mesmerized by the possibility of short-term, one-off gains." Activism, at its worst, has exploited this failure.
To counter this fixation, the group emphasizes the power of incentives, especially with compensation. "If you're paid to be short-term, you'll be short-term," says Sarah Williamson, who runs FCLT. Before joining the organization, Williamson ran alternative investments for Wellington Management, which oversees US$1-trillion in assets.
The harder task is retraining investors to think years, or even decades, out. Williamson says behavioural economics has shown that humans aren't good with trade-offs, "and we really don't do a good job with trade-offs over time." That makes it tough to persuade investors to forgo some short-term profits.
Recent research from Willis Towers Watson calculated that investors leave 0.5 to 1.5 percentage points of returns on the table each year by focusing solely on short-term results. That might not seem like much, but it's a lot in an era where money managers are competing with index funds, and it's even more when compounded over multiple years.
Already there's been some progress. Last year, behemoth money manager T. Rowe Price published its "Investment Philosophy on Shareholder Activism," a key element of which reads: "The time frame we apply for decision-making in activist campaigns is a multiyear view." The firm has let it be known that it has little interest in quick profits.
The hope is that more managers speak up in the same way. Because if investors with real sway starve the bad activists of oxygen, the mess might just sort itself out.


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When we think electrical cars we are usually trying to be well grounded ... or trying to save the Earth. Some cars are mostly for show. Others are tuned for performance. This "test" by Car and Driver is just plain fun. They raised the question of what could be done to a stock Nissan Leaf to make it drive more like a Porsche 911 Carrera S.
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When we think electrical cars we are usually trying to be well grounded … or trying to save the Earth. Some cars are mostly for show. Others are tuned for performance. This "test" by Car and Driver is just plain fun. They raised the question of what could be done to a stock Nissan Leaf to make it drive more like a Porsche 911 Carrera S.
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When we think electrical cars, we are usually trying to be practical, grounded to the Earth… or trying to save it. Some cars are mostly for show. Others are tuned for performance. This Youtube video below posted by Car and Driver is just plain fun. They raised the question of what could be done to a stock Nissan Leaf to make it drive more like a Porsche 911 Carrera S. The goal was to try to get 1.0g out of the electric vehicle as they pressed it around a skid pad. For that they needed some sticky tires, and they tried lots of them.
Gone is any concern of economy, the environment, or where to get that next drop of oil. Here we're only looking at an electric vehicle for the performance that it offers. Similarly, the White Zombie EV can perform very well on a drag strip, helped by no need for a transmission or slowing up for gear changes. Gear changes are necessary for a petrol engine because the maximum torque is usually limited to a range of about 3000 rpm to 5000 rpm. The White Zombie uses a special double electric motor for its amazing results:
What is crucial for both of these situations is the electric vehicle's immediate torque from 0 RPM that pulls the vehicle with seat-pressing acceleration. Tires are important, but there is no use "sticking to the road" if the vehicle can't move. You can find other video's of the White Zombie on the Plasma Boy website.
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Which group has the highest rate of divorce?
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However, the 15-24 year old age range has the highest divorce rate of any age group. The second-highest rate of divorce takes place in people ages 25-34, but it's declining there, as well: down from 33.3 per 1,000 in 1990 to 23 per 1,000 in 2017. The rate among 35-to-44-year-olds has remained fairly stable.
In 2018, there were about 14 marriages for every one divorce among 15 to 24-year-old women.
Those aged 45 to 54, 55 to 64, and 65 and older all had more divorces than marriages in 2018.
Only two age groups had a higher divorce rate than marriage rate: those aged 15 to 24 and those aged 65 and over.
Does divorce rate decrease with age?
Past research published in The Journals of Gerontology found that more than 1 in 4 people getting divorced in the United States are over age 50, and over half of those divorces happen after 20 years of marriage. Pew Research data from 2017 found that the rate of divorce after age 50 nearly doubled from 1990 to 2015.
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That means the probability calculator is not 100% accurate, as no one could ever predict every divorce, but the program has shown to be right 87% of the time when predicting the outcome of long-term marriages. It is also accurate enough to be very entertaining if you like to speculate on things like relationships.
Your standard of living drops significantly if you divorce after 50. Though divorce is hard at any age, research shows that those who divorce after the age of 50—what experts call a "gray divorce"—tend to suffer extraordinary financial setbacks.
The average age for a person to get married for the first time is around 27 for women and 29 for men. While this indicates people are waiting longer to get married, it still hasn't changed the average age when most people get divorced. Today, the average age for a person's first divorce occurs around the time he or she is 30.
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The bulk of marriages occurred by age 28, with relatively few marriages taking place at age 35 or older. Approximately 42 percent of marriages that took place between ages 15 and 46 ended in divorce by age 46. In the NLSY79, women in this cohort were more likely to marry and to remarry than were men.
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Copy that to console Ctrl+Shift+K (or I - Chrome) and increase 0 and click on what console gives you until you find the desired element. Then add .innerHTML to above and then you can use it to edit the footer on page startup. Like this:

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Presidents of the commodity groups at the 2012 Commodity Classic had a round table discussion during the Opening General Session.
The following statement on the 2012 farm bill was released today by National Corn Growers Association President Garry Niemeyer, a corn grower from Auburn, Ill.; National Association of Wheat Growers President Wayne Hurst, a wheat producer from Burley, Idaho; American Soybean Association President Steve Wellman, soybean farmer from Syracuse, Neb.; and National Sorghum Producers Chairman Terry Swanson, a sorghum grower from Walsh, Colo.
"Commodity Classic provides our organizations an opportunity to come together to discuss important policy issues facing our industry. As Congress continues work on the next farm bill, our organizations agree that an affordable crop insurance program is our No. 1 priority. We also stand ready to work with House and Senate Ag Committee leaders to create farm programs that provide risk-management tools to growers when they are facing a loss beyond their control.
"We urge Congress to pass a new farm bill this year to provide the level of certainty in America that a short-term extension cannot.The nation is currently facing record high federal deficits and this requires difficult decisions. We stand ready to do our part to develop more efficient farm policy that will be responsive to taxpayers and effective in helping farms remain viable and productive.


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A few weeks before our first wedding anniversary, my husband, Rich, called me at work to announce that he was surprising me with a weekend away to mark the milestone. He refused to disclose the destination but promised to provide me with a list of the clothes I needed to pack. Every night until our departure, I nagged him for information until finally he revealed that we were off to Hilton Head, S.C.
Spending a long weekend away — riding bicycles, lying on the beach, eating by candlelight, and learning to golf — was a chance to relax, have fun, and celebrate being in love.
It was so much fun that going away together to celebrate our May anniversary became an annual ritual (and excuse) to spend time together away from home.
Fast-forward 29 years and we've had annual precious getaways — from short (one night) to long (one week), in places near (Manhattan) and far (Morocco) — that have revitalized our bond, emotionally and physically.
We've had to overcome a variety of concerns over the years: Can we afford to take a trip now? Are we able to get time off from work? Who will stay with the kids? What if something happens to one of our aging parents?
Early in our marriage, it was our work schedules and finances that most often influenced the destination. But the "where to go" took on less importance after our first child, Nicole, arrived, five-and-a-half years after our wedding. Still determined to take our anniversary trip, we asked my parents to watch our almost 6-month-old and drove from our New York City home to a hotel in Connecticut where we spent the weekend playing tennis, getting massages, and sleeping a lot.
Anxious about being separated from Nicole, we checked in often with my parents by phone, but we knew this time was a sacred, and increasingly rare, chance to be alone. We laughed and talked about what was going on in our work lives — with no diapers, no bottles, no cries in the middle of the night.
Our family of three soon became four, making getting away trickier. We moved to the suburbs when Emily was born, and we employed a part-time babysitter who was kind enough to stay with the kids and my parents while we were gone. My mother and father were great for affection and playtime, but the sitter knew the routines and would drive Nicole to preschool and take Emily to the park.
By the time Simon came along four years later, my parents were no longer able to help out because of health issues. So we recruited a nearby cousin along with my mother-in-law, who was particularly keen on cooking for everyone at home as well as the rest of the neighborhood.
On date nights at home, Rich and I enjoy trying novel things — sampling a new food, riding our bikes along the Hudson River, or taking in an innovative theater performance.
That spirit continues during our annual trips. We have found adventure by hiking in Arizona, paddleboarding in Mexico, and kayaking in Croatia.
In Morocco, we once found ourselves chatting on a bus with a university student, who invited us to his home. Slightly out of our comfort zone but not wanting to seem rude, we accepted his offer to drink tea with his family and tour his university. Rich and I love to reminisce about that experience, and the ceramic camel our Moroccan friend gave us still sits in our living room as a reminder of that time.
"One of the ways to cultivate harmonious passion as a couple is to seek out new adventures together," says Suzann Pileggi Pawelski, coauthor with her husband, James Pawelski, PhD, of Happy Together: Using the Science of Positive Psychology to Build Love That Lasts. In their book, they cite research showing that engaging in fun and novel activities can increase mutual attraction and promote a healthy passion in intimate relationships.
Experiences of any kind are memories made together. Sometimes, when Rich and I become distracted with the fast pace of daily life, I'll look at photos of one of our trips or think about a place we've been together and get excited about the adventures that lie ahead.
In our family, there are constant interruptions — the humans always checking their devices, the dogs barking. The incessant noise is what makes home life wonderful and, at times, irritating. It also makes the long meals and lazy mornings during our travels sweeter. That's when we get to check in, ask questions, mindfully listen to the answers, and simply be with one another — even in relaxing silence.
Over the years there have been times when I wondered how Rich and I would carry on conversations during our impending days of solitude. But once we were away, I'd remember what sparked our initial love and discover new things about him, such as his feelings about a family event or his hopes to take on a new hobby.
Like the Himlers, I get excited planning our annual trips and anticipate them more as I dig into the research. Rich, on the other hand, doesn't think about it until the day of departure. But once we're away, he lets me know how grateful he feels that I've planned the trip.
The stresses of our day-to-day schedules sometimes prevent us from expressing our gratitude and rather have us focusing on each other's flaws. Time away is an ideal opportunity to acknowledge your partner's contributions and savor the moments you spend together.
Some of the travels we've taken depended on our interests, while others were contingent on our phase in life. For example, we both love to ski, making a trip to Park City, Utah, a great four-day destination. But when I was pregnant with Simon and not feeling very energetic, we chose a trip to London for some urban culture and museum hopping. I appreciate when Rich is a good sport about my art-inspired interests, and I reciprocate whenever possible, such as by spending an afternoon at a baseball game in San Francisco.
"It's most important that people remember who they are as individuals — that it's 'you complement me' versus 'you complete me,'" says Pileggi Pawelski. She suggests picking activities that you can both enjoy and switching them up from time to time so it doesn't get boring.
One of the most charming aspects of our time away, though, is that we don't have to plan unless we want to. Long walks without destinations have led us to uncharted territory and interesting discoveries — including an indoor food market in New York City and a hidden memorial statue in Paris. We've stayed in bed and watched a movie because it was drizzling, or taken a nap because we were tired.
On a recent trip with her boyfriend, Elizabeth Salamon, a theater producer from Brooklyn, N.Y., found that flexibility invigorating. She and Chris were en route to their next hotel destination in northern Italy when they stopped at a small market to ask directions. The owners were so friendly and engaging that they spent nearly an hour chatting and looking at the Italian family's photos of their trip to America. Then they decided to change plans, buy food at the market, and stop on their drive to have a picnic.
Our annual journeys have not always been blissful. On a trip to Northern California, we fought constantly during a bike ride through a valley (and over many hills). The only bike available for rent was a tandem — so we were stuck on one bicycle with two seats.
While I yelled at Rich to slow down, he shouted at me to stop braking. That was a tough day, but we have since laughed about it many times, realizing that humor can be an effective remedy for meaningless arguments.
Fun has also turned problematic. Our sunny beach weekend in Cape May, N.J., was inundated with nonstop, torrential rain, so we spent most of it drinking wine on the front porch of our bed and breakfast. We met another couple there and together we drank, ate pizza, played games, and got so loud late into the night that the owner asked us to pack our stuff and check out. It wasn't what we'd planned, but it made for another shared memory that keeps us connected all these years later. And that's what these trips — and life — are all about.
This originally appeared as "Time to Reconnect" in the November 2018 print issue of Experience Life.
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You may be wondering what trust has to do with language learning. I am here to tell you that it has everything to do with it. It is one of the qualities we talk about as being essential to great relationships. It is also one of the qualities that I would suggest is essential to being a well adjusted and happy person. I will go further and say that to be really good language learner you need to be able to trust yourself.
Needless to say, in infancy and for a few years we implicitly and completely trust ourselves and the people we are with. There is nothing else possible for us. Combined with that is the observation that in those years our learning powers are at a high.
Trusting ourselves is one of the qualities that is seldom talked about, one of the exceptions being in the instance of exceptional people. Exceptional people always talk about trusting themselves, their gut feelings and their senses.
This is what we all did when we were young. We did not ask anyone to confirm if we were learning how to walk correctly, or learning how to use our fingers or a spoon, or how to negotiate our way down the stairs, or how to make sounds and be able to make exactly the same sound every time at will, or how to combine words together so they sounded completely native like.
Some people who have not thought much about this might actually think it is the parents who teach children how to speak their first language. For anyone who understands the complexity of a language will know that parents have no inkling why we use "the" and not "a" or how we learn and make the myriad of combinations and transformations we do to create something so sophisticated as our language.
In fact for some children, their parents put little or no energy into helping them with their language and still the children learn. They learn because they are engrossed in whatever they do, see or hear. They learn because they are open to be impacted by their environment (internal and external) and they have an instinct, which continues to the day we pass, to "grow".
Fundamentally we learn from our experiences in part because we trust ourselves, our perceptions, our deductions, our guesses, our intuitions and our abilities. We do not ask anyone else to confirm our findings or to assess our attempts. It is we who make the adjustments and changes, no one else.
We start out in a state of trust. We rely upon it. Our sense of trust in ourselves however can be undermined by what people say to us and how they treat us. What we may be doing might make sense to ourselves and be entirely reasonable for us but when that is questioned by people in "authority", like our parents or other adults, then we may end up questioning ourselves and and end up learning to have less trust in ourselves. We in time start to doubt ourselves, despite the fact that we have learned so much purely by trusting ourselves and no one else.
We also start out trusting others. This trusting of others can work against us as may end up deciding to trust others more than ourselves. So our sense of trust in ourselves can be undermined.
One clear example of this happens when our schooling begins. Schooling impacts our understanding of trust in a systematic and profound way. One unintended consequence of the ways we are taught is to trust ourselves less and less. Instead we are taught to trust the teacher, the formulas, the examples provided, the theories. By doing so, we are lead away from the ways we learned all through our lives, of trusting ourselves and our own senses. So we give up on using our senses of knowing what is "true" and instead let others decide.
It is no wonder then that in adulthood so many people believe that learning can only happen with the aid of a teacher and courses. It is also not surprising that so many people struggle to learn languages, as we have been taught, to varying degrees, not to trust our own abilities, experiences, thoughts and hunches.
Without learning to trust ourselves again, learning a language to any reasonable level is not really possible. Learning a language is so much more than its grammar, vocabulary and sounds. There are countless nuances and variations that can only be picked by being attentive to ones interactions in using the language, not studying.
Trusting oneself also means knowing that mistakes are a natural part of learning and in fact are needed for real learning to happen. Without finding the boundaries, we will never know what they are. Going over a boundary can be seen as a mistake or can be seen as a strategy of a competent learner to find the limits. Learners that trust themselves intuitively know the place of mistakes in learning.
Trusting oneself is linked of course to the view we have of ourselves, who we are and how comfortable we are with who we are. If one has stresses here, clearly there is no simple answer that can be provided here. However being aware of how a lack of trust in ourself can negatively impact our language learning is an important step towards making improvements.


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Commons developers make an effort to ensure that their components have minimal dependencies on other libraries, so that these components can be deployed easily.
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Fatih Complex
Sultan Mehmed II, known as Fatih or the Conqueror, ordered head-architect Atik Sinan (Old Sinan) to built a complex on a prominent hill of the old city following his conquest of Constantinople. Begun in 1463, construction was completed in seven years. Built on a site previously occupied by the Byzantine Holy Apostles Church, the imperial complex is oriented 32 degrees east of south. It includes a mosque, two mausolea (türbe), two clusters of medreses, a hospital (darüssifa), a hospice (tabhane), a soup kitchen (imaret), a caravanserai (kervansaray), a library (kütüphane), a Koranic school (mekteb) and baths (hamam). The complex was damaged in the earthquakes of 1509 and 1766, the latter of which caused the mosque to collapse. A new structure was erected on the foundations of the old mosque in 1771. The Koranic school, the library and the baths have been lost while sections of the hospice; the soup kitchen and the caravanserai have survived.
Variant Names Fatih Külliyesi
Location Istanbul, Turkey
Architect/Planner Atik Sinan
Client Mehmed II (Mehmed the Conqueror),Mustafa III
Date 1463-1470, mosque rebuilt 1766-1771
Style/Period Ottoman
Centuries 15th, 18th
Building Types educational, funerary, religious
Building Usage madrasa, mausoleum, mosque
The mosque (see Fatih Mosque) stands at the center of an enclosed precinct that was built on vaults incorporating the cisterns of the Holy Apostles Church. The precinct was entered through four gates, the Painter's Gate (Boyaci Kapisi) and the Pastry Maker's Gate (Börekçi Kapisi) to the northwest and the Mausoleum Gate (Türbe Kapisi) and the Soup Gate (Çorba Kapisi) to the southeast. Only the Soup Gate, located near the hospice, still stands. To the northeast and southwest, the precinct is entered using passages between madrasas.
The Black Sea and Mediterranean Madrasas
Sixteen madrasas, arranged in two rows of four to the northeast and southwest of the mosque area, are called the Black Sea (Karadeniz Medreseleri) and Mediterranean (Akdeniz Medreseleri) Madrasas. Each medrese complex is composed of four senior madrasas that abut the mosque precinct and four junior madrasas (tetimme medreseleri) placed behind them. Three of the four junior madrasas on the Black Sea Complex have been rebuilt at different points in time, while the junior madrasas of the Mediterranean complex have been demolished to give way to highway expansion in 1928. The Mediterranean madrasas were modified further in 1958 when the walls of the senior madrasas were excavated to match the street level.
Each senior madrasa has nineteen domed rooms, a large classroom (dersane) and two service eyvans protected by a domed arcade enclosing a rectangular courtyard. Their classrooms have mihrab niches and are distinguished with ornamental brickwork on window exteriors. The junior madrasas are of equal length but are lower and less wide than the senior madrasas. They have ten rooms each with a flat-roofed arcade on two or three sides of a long and thin courtyard. The portals of all eight madrasas face the mosque and their arcades have been glazed for contemporary use.
The Hospital and the Hospice Precincts (The Hospice, Soup Kitchen and the Caravanserai)
The hospital (darüssifa) and the hospice (tabhane) had their own enclosed precincts to the southwest of the mosque and the madrasas. The hospital, that is no longer extant, was probably destroyed in the 1766 earthquake; its site has been taken up by housing. It was built on a square plan, with rooms of various sizes around a courtyard with a domed arcade.
The hospice has survived to our day with some rebuilding in the 19th century when it was converted to a madrasa. It boasts a rectangular courtyard building with a forecourt to the northwest. It has ten single-bay rooms on all four sides of the arcaded courtyard, double-bay spaces on either end of the northeast and southwest wings and a large domed eyvan placed on axis with the entrance at the center of the southeastern wing. The double-bay rooms on the north and west corners are the hospice kitchens and are accessed only through the forecourt. The other two are side eyvans that lead into adjoining dining rooms. The large eyvan, ornamented with muqarnas pendentives, has stalactite niches on either side of the entrance and on qibla wall. A set of stairs set into a wall on the southwestern wing leads up to a mezzanine (kursunluk) and storage areas; there is a side entry located next to the stairs. The hospice is constructed of stone, except for portions of the southeastern wall, which was restored in brick and stone.
There was once a soup kitchen (imaret) and a caravanserai (kervansaray) sited along the southwestern wall of the hospice precinct. Little remains of the soup kitchen; it was a small building with three rooms in a U-shaped plan. It provided food twice daily for the guests in the caravanserai, the students of the madrasas and employees of the complex as well as the poor people in the neighborhood. There were remains of the caravanserai until 1930, it has since been rebuilt with extensions and is used for commercial purposes. It was a long rectangular building consisting of a series of rooms with barrel vaults. Also found in the hospice precinct is a structure built as a police station (karakolhane) by Mahmud II in 1838 (1254 A.H.) and another to the south of the hospice that was built as a Military High School in 1875 (1292 A.H.)
Library and Kouranic School
The complex had a library (kütüphane) and a Koranic School (mekteb) that were single unit structures located along the precinct walls probably between the Painter's Gate and the Pastry Maker's Gate. The library was lost sometime during the 19th century. The current library of the complex was built in 1742 (1155 A.H.) by Mahmud I and is located to the southwest of the mosque, adjoining the prayer hall. There is no trace of the Koranic School.
Mausolea of Mehmed II, Gülbahar Sultan and Naksidil Sultan
The two royal mausolea, located in the cemetery behind the qibla wall of mosque, were rebuilt on their stone bases following the earthquake of 1766. The Mausoleum of Mehmed II is a decagonal building covered by a dome. The corners of the decagon are marked with pilasters on the exterior and the walls are capped with a rococo cornice. Entered through a low vestibule to the northeast, the mausoleum remains as it was restored during the rule of Abdülaziz I (1861-1876). The Mausoleum of Gülbahar Sultan is a hexagonal domed unit and houses the tombs of Gülbahar, the wife of Mehmed II, one of their daughters and two other palace members. In 1817, a third large mausoleum was built in the cemetery for Naksidil Sultan, mother of Mahmud II (1808-1839), in the contemporary empire style. The cemetery, which holds graves of many significant people, was also enclosed at this time.
The complex also had a hamam, called the Karaman or Irgatlar Hamami, located inside the Malta Bazaar (Malta Çarsisi) to the northwest of the complex. It was taken down in 1928.
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Blackpool Council in talks with retailer to take over Debenhams store in Houndshill Centre
A new retailer is in talks with Blackpool Council about taking over the Debenhams department store at the Houndshill Centre, which closes its doors for the final time today.
The Debenhams store will close in Blackpool today
Council bosses said negotiations are ongoing with a retailer but they are remaining tight-lipped on what firm it maybe, but one council source said it's a 'big name'.
Town hall officials said they are hoping to reveal the outcome of the talks to residents 'very soon' and what the future holds for the resort's biggest shop.
A Blackpool Council spokesman said: "We have obviously been aware of the impending closure of the Debenhams store within the Houndshill for some time.
"During that period, we have been working closely with our agents to identify suitable alternative anchor tenants for the unit.
"We are currently in negotiations with a retailer to take the whole unit and we hope to be able to make an announcement in the near future."
It's unknown if the firm already has a presence in Blackpool or if it will be a new name in the resort.
The negotiations come as Debenhams shuts its doors for the last time today following closing down sales over the last month.
Blackpool Council said it is in talks with a retailer to takeover the unit
The department store opened up in 2008 and was the flagship store for the Houndshill.
Coun Maxine Callow, who was Blackpool Council's cabinet member of regeneration and tourism when the store opened, said Debenhams brought shopping back to Blackpool.
She said: "It was a great anchor for the Houndshill, and in fact quite a few of my friends stopped shopping in Preston because they could do it in s Blackpool instead, and it was absolutely wonderful useful for Blackpool.
"The fact that Debenhams stores throughout the country are all closing is absolutely devastating news and to have something that size empty in town is not good for business."
The store is almost empty of stock
Maxine welcomed the news that negotiations are happening to decide a future for the store.
She said: "If we have got somebody interested in it, well I think that's absolutely great news and let's hope that it comes to fruition.
"When Debenhams did open we were all very excited and delighted because it had got something to offer for everybody.
"Household goods to small furniture, cafes, ladieswear, gentswear, makeup,, everything that anybody needed and it was an absolute delight to go there and do some shopping.
It is the final day today
"The fact that we've lost it is very upsetting so I just hope that whoever's interested can can crack on and get something up and running there.
"It's a big ask because it's such a huge building but if somebody has got the courage to do that then I think it's wonderful."
The departments store called in the administrators and started to close down stores across the UK in April last year, a month into the Covid-19 lockdown.
Retailer JD Sports was understood to be in pole position to buy the beleaguered retailer but in December, the sportswear firm pulled out due its parent company, Arcadia, going into administration.
Online clothing giant Boohoo then acquired Debenhams and its associated brands for £55 million but agreed to only buy its website. This means 12,000 jobs will be lost nationally as bricks and mortar Debenhams stores are shutting for good.
While the Blackpool branch has closed, nearby stores in Preston and Blackburn will remain open until Wednesday.
The store opened in 2008
A spokesman for Debenhams said: "Over the next week, Debenhams will close its doors on the high street for the final time in its 242 year history.
"Our sincere thanks go out to all of our colleagues and customers who have joined us on this journey.
"We hope to see you all one last time in stores before we say a final goodbye to the UK high street."
Customer were trying to grab a last minute deal before the store closes
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Nintendo confirms SNES Mini for September launch
By Matthew Field 26 June 2017 • 6:13pm
The new SNES classic mini Credit: Nintendo
Nintendo is to launch a mini version of its 1990s gaming hit the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) following the success of its NES Classic Mini console last year.
The Nintendo Classic Mini: SNES will be a smaller version of the original console and ship with 21 pre-installed classic games.
The Japanese company disappointed fans earlier this year when it discontinued the NES Classic Mini, which had proved a surprise hit for the gaming company. The updated SNES will be released on September 29. The US launch price will be $79.99 (£63), although the company has not confirmed a UK price.
The console will include games from franchises including Zelda, Super Mario Final Fantasty and a previously unreleased version of Star Fox 2, a sequel to the popular retro video game.
The device will be a palm-sized version of the 1990s console Credit: Nintendo
Nintendo said it had never planned to make the NES Classic Mini for more than a few months. Rumours of a new SNES console emerged in April shortly after the company cancelled the NES Classic Mini.
The NES Classic Mini is now fetching prices of up to £250 on eBay, having originally sold for £49.99. The retro gaming console even outsold the Wii U, Nintendo's flagship device at the time, on its launch.
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The original SNES was launched in Japan in 1990, coming to the UK in 1992. It became the most successful console of the 16-bit video game era, selling more than 49 million devices.
Gaming company Atari, which produced some of the most successful early video game consoles in the 1970s and 1980s is also planning a new console, releasing a teaser trailer ahead of the launch.
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