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The $3.5 Billion Enron Freakout
By Rob Walker
Aug 16, 20013:00 AM
It's hard to put a dollar value on one executive's contribution to a company. Nevertheless, it's long been a pastime of certain market-watchers to play the (admittedly macabre) "hit by a bus" game and speculate about how much a given company's share price would fall if its top executive were suddenly removed from the picture.
Jeffrey Skilling was not hit by a bus. But yesterday the CEO of Enron surprised the markets, and everyone else, by announcing his resignation. The markets rarely like this sort of surprise, but even so the reaction ought to make Skilling feel pretty good about himself: At the open, Enron was trading at about $37 a share, making the company worth $3.5 billion less than it had been at yesterday's close. Would your company be worth $3.5 billion less if you resigned tomorrow?
Anyway, the question in the case of Enron is whether Skilling's departure, however unexpected, is really a big enough deal to cause the general freakout that's knocked more than 10 percent off the value of its shares. It seems true enough that Skilling played an important role in Enron's reinvention of itself as an energy-trading firm. Then again, the guy who will take over for Skilling is Kenneth Lay, who was CEO for 15 years before handing the reins to Skilling less than a year ago. Lay has agreed to stay until 2005.
The alternate theory is that the market doesn't really care that much about Skilling, but rather believes that his departure is symptomatic of some deeper problem. As it happens, Enron shares even before the announcement were drastically below their 52-week high of about $90. Skilling insisted he was leaving only for "personal reasons," which of course always sounds fishy. The New York Times says that Skilling has sold at least $33 million worth of Enron stock over the past year or so, though he still holds more than a million shares. He will apparently receive no severance for his voluntary departure.
Either way, the market has spoken, and in response at least one Wall Street analyst so far has downgraded Enron, citing "uncertainty" raised by the departure. This isn't surprising, but it's also hard to believe that either the downgrade or the degree of the market's reaction makes logical sense. We've heard nothing about any drastic change in Enron as an institution, or its actual prospects, in the past 24 hours. Other analysts are saying that the change at the top won't have a material effect on the company (which of course means they ought to be upgrading the stock, since it's now 10 percent cheaper, but that almost never happens). And even if the company is in trouble, then surely Lay (not exactly an unknown quantity) can handle things as well as Skilling could have. For that matter, if Enron has gotten into trouble over the course of Skilling's brief tenure—and who knows, maybe in the days ahead we'll learn that Skilling was maneuvered out the door for some reason—then why shouldn't traders be more optimistic about its future now that he's gone?
One cheer, by the way, to the analyst for UBS Warburg, who told Reuters that it was too late to downgrade Enron. It's actually routine for analysts to downgrade when it's too late, after bad news has already pummeled a stock. Hearing an analyst admit that this is a pointless maneuver that helps no one might actually be a bigger surprise than Skilling's exit.


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You think your home is haunted by kind and gentle spirits, what do you do?
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The truth is, my home IS haunted by kind and gentle spirits!
My family was meant to move here, to Utah. I was meant to get a job at the school I did, and meet people who became invaluable parts of my world. I met "J." at that school. She was a master teacher who taught in the classroom next to mine. I was a terrified newbie, but she was willing to take me under her wing.
"Under her wing" is actually an understatement. She and her husband, "G." (also an educator) took my husband, daughter, and me into their arms. "J." mentored me. She traveled with me to association meetings, clubs and dinners. "G." joked with my husband about having wives with too much teacher "stuff". They bonded over computers and food. Our "adopted-parents" babysat and advised us on everything from how to get a mortgage to the importance of going on vacations.
"J." filled a void I didn't know I needed. I've written this paragraph over and over. I can't give justice to the gifts and lessons I received from her. She sat with me when I was frustrated and praised me when I needed it. I was eating gravy-fries with her in a diner when she told me I had an old-soul and that we were meant to be friends.
Then there were the personal blessings. When I was pregnant with my first son, "J." left tiny baby gifts in my school mailbox every day. She sat with me after the births of both of my sons. I had a hard pregnancy with our youngest; "J." came to stay with me for a week after he was born. She and her husband watched our children while we sat with a dying grandmother. "J." also held me like a baby while I cried over losing another. My children called her "Grandma". I don't think I'll ever understand how someone who was a stranger just years before could hold such unconditional love for my little family.
In 2003, "G." tragically passed away. In 2009, "J."died unexpectedly. Their passings are someone else's story to tell, but both left us shocked and numb. I still have a hard time believing they're not here.
When I was first hired to teach ('96,) I took my daughter to a daycare near the school. I remember driving through the neighborhood and wishing we could afford a home of our own. One of the most beautiful houses was one next door to the daycare. It turns out, the house was built the year my husband was born. More fateful? It was built by "G." for "J." and their two children.
11 years and three families later, the house was for sale. We were finally at a point where we could afford our forever home. My husband and I went to "J." to ask for her blessing to buy the house. Though she didn't have any ties to it, we wanted her to know. She was thrilled. In October of 2007 we were able to move in. "J." visited and walked us through, telling us what she could about the house.
It wasn't until I saw her fingertips softly touch the walls, that I realized how painful it was for her to be in the house without her husband. My heart ached for her and the experience made me appreciate the home even more. 18 months later, she was gone.
As I said before, our house was built by angels. Angels I saw with my own eyes. I live in a house that is haunted by full of "kind and gentle spirits". Lock the doors. I wouldn't have it any other way.
Thanks for the topic, Karen!
My house. I sometimes am afraid of the outside world. I don't enjoy shopping on Saturdays or going to movie premiers that are practically sold-out. I am just as happy sitting with my family in this aging old brick haven. We do not live in a cookie-cutter house. We do not live in a McMansion, or anything resembling "new or shiny."It's an old house with aluminum wiring that badly needs a new roof and windows that don't whistle when the wind blows. I write lots of blog posts on the different ways we try to fix it up, I know. It has great bones and was built by people we loved. People who aren't alive anymore; people I talk to when I'm repairing something. "Oh 'so-and-so, ' Why did you choose to put the wall here and why isn't it square?" or "Hey, 'so-and-so', Make sure I don't get electrocuted when I touch this wire..." It goes on and on. The point is, I genuinely love this house; as much as you can love something that doesn't breathe. I know like everything else, that it might not be standing forever. We live in a time of economic uncertainty..We live on a fault line and/or I run too many appliances all at once... But for now, I put my babies to sleep every night in this home. I read novels in its corners. I watch the sun stream in when it's cold outside from the living room windows. I create down in that silly craft room and sometimes, I cook in its kitchen... I will never take any of it for granted.
If you are interested in joining us for the next Subject Swap, you can visit its creator, the wonderful Karen @ Baking in a Tornado. You can also read all about the swap by clicking on the SSS icon on the side of my blog.
Wow.. Just wow. I'm sitting here reading this at work, trying so hard not to cry. This post is beautiful. I am so.. awestruck. When you first told me about this blog topic, I could not even help you out with creating any potential ideas. But you, you created this amazing piece; something I could never have thought of. Joan would be so proud of who you are today. I'll never forget my amazing first grade teacher taking me to the Dinosaur park and singing sneaky snake while playing the ukelele. I think about her when I think about what kind of teacher I hope to become. She was a grandma to us. She loved us so very much, and I have no doubt that she is watching over us. I love you Shellybean.
Grandma J. loved you so much. We were very blessed to have had her in our lives. Thank you for helping me last night with the ideas. I always appreciate your support. BTW, you will be nothing short of an amazing educator. It's in your blood :) Love you so much.
So beautiful! This post has touched my heart so much. You were so blessed to have such wonderful people in your life. BIG BIG HUGS!!!!
Thank you for reading ALL of that, girl!
So beautiful Michele. What memories we both have of J! She was such a wonderful person. We are truly blessed to have known her. Thank you for bringing her to my mind this morning.
Ann, you are another blessing I took from that school. I'm glad to be blogging with someone else who knew J. <3 you.
sobbing so hard right now Michele...oh man...blows my nose. I always forget what prompts I give Karen so it's a treat to see who gets it and what it is...you took this far beyond what I imagined...I truly believe Angels, good spirits, a blessed soul can live in those around us. So glad you got to befriend an angel on earth.
Karen, I was scared to death of that prompt. It's the funniest thing, my daughter and I both say "Yay!" to the spirits all around us as long as they aren't visible!! Lights flickering, wind blowing..all of it. Being surrounded by so many warms my heart.
I love you. Thanks for reading. You're another blessed "J." in my life.
What a wonderful post. We learned a lot from G. and J. during the short time we were able to spend with them. I think us now living in a house they built means that we still are able to learn from them today. The house certainly has it's own personality and G. and J. will forever be part of that. Even with some of the minor issues we have to deal with I wouldn't trade it for another house. Thanks for sharing this!
Thoughtful and beautiful, Shelly, like everything you write. How amazing to be able to keep friends alive through sharing a space that they once shared.
How extraordinary to come full circle and embrace the home/ piece of her history just before you lost her. What a special connection and marvelous place to be!
You have an amazing way of connection and evoking emotion from your reader... I LOVE it!
I am so glad you got this prompt and were surrounded by the love of such rich relationships. This was perfect!
I have goosebumps too, from reading this. What an incredible story. I LOVE that you own the house now---it is so perfect. "J" really was meant to be a part of your life. But then again, I never did believe in coincidences....everything happens for a reason, Michele. GREAT job on your prompt.
We love this crazy house and all of the people who have lived in it Everything happens for a reason. Sometimes I don't figure that out until hind sight. Love you, lady.
I love that word: Guardians. I feel safe here knowing they're watching over.
Oh Twinnie.....you have brought tears to my eyes. It's amazing how people can become family. I have people like that in my own life. What a beautiful story. My own home (thought I don't own it) has ghosts. My father-in-law, who I never got to meet, hangs around. He's a bit of a prankster. My grandparents come around a lot too. It's so comforting. I'm so happy you found the home that was meant for you. That's something you'll cherish forever.
Twinners: My family has completely grown and changed based on the people I've met. When I pout about moving to Utah, I think about all of the wonderful souls I've encountered. Now, I can't imagine not having them in my world. Grandparent spirits rock.
I LOVE THIS. I too have felt that many things in my life are connected and were meant to be. What wonderful people you've had in your life! And the house-so perfect. :-) Thank you for sharing this.
I'll say it again: Wow, what a beautiful story. I love "J" and I don't even know her. How blessed your family is to have known such kind people.
Now, about those "gravy-fries." I'm down!!!
Thanks so much for always taking the time to comment. We have definitely been blessed by the people in our lives. You would absolutely have loved "J".
We Won! We were out of town at a, ahem, casino. We were able to catch Michigan beat Notre Dame AND watch the Lions pull one out over the Vikings. Awesome weekend.
How about you? My husband woke me up to tell me about your amazing win. I went to bed thinking you'd be sad :( Were you able to stay up for the whole game? Whew!
I am so happy that you were blessed with her and her husband in your life. I know how much you cared for them both. I believe God will put certain wonderful people in your path, as a reminder that there is good and that you can trust and be open. Light in the darkness.
They were so much light for us. I think about them daily. I'm not sure I would have been half the teacher, mom or wife without having learned so much from them. <3 you.
We are so much alike.... Happy Belated Birthday, I was away. Jimmy got married Sept 1st.
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Fury as Southern Rail operator's profits soar just hours after taxpayers hand over £20m chaos fund
RMT union boss Mick Cash says the firm is "a money-raking disaster that has turned Britain's railways into a global laughing stock"
Commuters have experienced misery - but the Southern Rail operator's profits are soaring (
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Crisis-hit Southern Rail's operator has revealed soaring profits just hours after taxpayers forked out £20m for a delays 'hit squad'.
MPs voiced their rage after Go-Ahead Group, owns 65% of Southern operator Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR), released the figures ahead of the morning commute.
Its chief executive apologised for months of disruptions after Tory ministers were forced to set up a £20m panel to "get to grips" with the situation.
But today the firm announced full-year profits were up 27% to £99.8 million.
The figures were weaker in the Southern franchise itself but "passenger revenue growth" was still 7%, accounts show.
Southern Railway strike called off midway through - but train services aren't back to normal
Shadow Transport Secretary Andy McDonald said the news would be "hard for passengers to take this morning as they struggle with their journeys".
The RMT's Mick Cash fumed: "This is reward for failure on a scale which is off the map" (
Daily Record)
Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union general secretary Mick Cash said: "While Go-Ahead have been driving Britain's biggest rail franchise into total meltdown, the cash has been sloshing through the boardroom at obscene levels.
"This is reward for total failure on a scale which is off the map."
London mayor Sadiq Khan called on ministers to speed up the transfer of responsibility for the capital's commuter lines to Transport for London (TfL).
Lib Dem leader Tim Farron said: "It's the ugly face of capitalism – getting government cash one day and then creaming in massive profits the next.
"Rather than take £20 million from taxpayers they should use their £99 million profit to fix the problems and to give commuters cheaper tickets and refunds. It is national scandal and commuters deserve better than this.
Labour MP Chuka Umunna, whose south London constituency is served by the stricken network, said Southern must be stripped of its franchise.
"Instead of taking money from Govt's £20m package Southern's owners should give it back & use their undeserved riches," he added.
His colleague David Lammy wrote: "Totally absurd that @SouthernRailUK profits soar to £99m whilst delivering a truly shocking service to customers."
Southern, which runs many London routes and trains to Brighton, has been inundated with complaints about travel chaos.
Much of the crisis was caused by a bitter dispute with the RMT over plans to change the role of train guards.
RMT union members walked out for three days claiming Southern's plans to hand the job of opening doors from conductors to drivers would put passengers in danger.
The union plans another 48-hour stoppage on September 7 and 8, next Wednesday and Thursday.
Jeremy Corbyn called for nationalised rail in a now-infamous video on a train floor
Mr Cash added today: "Just a fraction of these profits would be enough to keep the guards on Southern trains, keep the passengers safe and resolve the industrial dispute between RMT and the company.
"It is shameful that they have opted to hoard cash instead of protecting the travelling public.
"It is also deeply cynical that Southern/Go-Ahead have brought forward this mega profit announcement so it doesn't clash with the strike action by guards next week.
"They are a money-raking disaster that has turned Britain's railways into a global laughing stock and they should be slung out and replaced by the public sector option."
Southern Rail is accused of turning Britain's railways into a "global laughing stock" (
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Go-Ahead Group chief executive David Brown, whose firm also runs London and regional bus networks, said: "A large part of the role of the GTR franchise is to introduce three new train fleets and modernise working practices.
"During this period of change, Southern services have been disrupted by restricted network capacity, strike action and increased levels of absence.
"We apologise to the people whose lives have been affected during this time. We continue to work closely with the DfT (Department for Transport), Network Rail and other suppliers and partners to operate the best service possible while delivering the long-term improvements."
Chris Grayling admitted a "joined-up approach" was needed to his own party's model (
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Yesterday Transport Secretary Chris Grayling admitted a failure in the Tory privatisation model by saying the £20m crisis squad should address "a joined-up approach to running the train and tracks".
Trains are run by private firms while tracks are run by state-owned Network Rail, formerly Railtrack.
Former Tory Transport Secretary Sir Malcolm Rifkind said the system was a "sorry mess" and a "mistake" when it was set up.
"How can you expect someone to run a railway service if they have no direct responsibility to deal with the track on which the trains run?" he added.
Owen Smith and Jeremy Corbyn have both vowed to renationalise the railways if they become Prime Minister.
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Vadim Martirosev of Allston and Lawyer Times of Hyde Park split first in the Independence Swiss Open that attracted 95 in July to the Metrowest Chess Club in Natick. Last week�s leader, Jon Yedidia, had to settle for a tie for third at 3-1.
Neil Cousin and David Martin finished 4-0 to take the middle two sections, and Peter Teodorescu and Charlie Yang split top honors in the under-1400 group. A new event begins at 7:20 p.m. Tuesday at 90 Oak St., Natick. Details and crosstables at www.metrowestchess.org.
Newcomers and older players might be daunted by chess rules and procedures at rated events. A possible solution, which we recommend to parents, teachers and even librarians, is to visit the Metrowest club and pick up �Common Tournament Rules to Know,� and �Essential Information for MCC Players,� brochures last revised in late 2009, but packed with information that can benefit any newcomer to rated chess play.
A new event, projected to have two sections, begins at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the Greater Worcester Chess Club, Hibernian Cultural Centre, 19 Temple St., Worcester. To get on an email list to get club details each Thursday morning, contact Donnachesspals@gmail.com. Kids program starts at 4 p.m., the game/29 blitz at 6 p.m. and a free master lecture may be squeezed in between.
The U.S. shared fourth place with Russia and Hungary (sixth on tiebreak) as Armenia, China (the host) and Ukraine took the gold, silver and bronze at the World Team, with commentary at www.chessbase.com.
Georgi Kachieshvili of New York topped 126 at last weekend�s Bradley Open in Connecticut. Entries may be down from last year, but a fine story by Al Lawrence appears at www.uschess.org.
Several reasons to join in national rated play of USCF and statewide chess activities: It documents that you are establishing an identity by supporting hobby, sporting and educational competitions and continuous annual programs dating back more than 75 years, but it�s not meant to make you feel that old!
Answer to quiz: White plays 1. Qh6, and if NxQ, 2. f7 mate. An Arnold Denker win from 1945. He�s remembered this week as the event honoring him unfolds in Orlando, Fla., pitting high school chess champs from each state, including Massachusetts, in rated competition.


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6 new condo and townhome projects selling near Toronto's Junction neighbourhood
Michelle McNally Apr 22, 2020
Unofficially dubbed one of the city's trendiest neighbourhoods, the Junction has seen a flurry of redevelopment and growth activity in recent years.
The west end neighbourhood, named after the intersection of railway lines and indigenous trails it encapsulates, is rich with history. In the 1880s, when the Junction was first founded as the Village of West Toronto Junction, it was a prominent hub for factory and railway workers. The community functioned as its own independent city and federal electoral district, known as West Toronto, before amalgamating with the rest of the city in 1909.
Rowdy worker behaviour led to a vote banning alcohol sales in the community during the early 1900s, which stayed in place for nearly a century until the prohibition law was lifted in 2000. The Junction was also home to meat-packing facilities and the country's largest livestock market at Keele and St. Clair, called the Union Stock Yards, earning the neighbourhood the title of 'Hogtown.' While the original stockyards closed in the 1990s, the site has since become a spot for big-name retailers, housing development and a few remaining meat-packing establishments.
Now a popular enclave of restaurants, bars and boutique shops, The Junction is a desirable community among families, renters, artists and prospective homeowners. If you're in the market for a new construction condo, here are a few that are currently for sale in this historic Toronto community.
1. Stockyards District Residences
Developer: Marlin Spring
Priced from: $657,990
Currently under construction along St. Clair Avenue West, the Stockyards District Residences will showcase a bounty of resident amenities, from outdoor fire pits in the courtyard, to a dog run and children's play area. This 10-storey condo building embodies industrial-inspired design with the help of intricate light fixtures, floor-to-ceiling windows and open spaces.
2. Galleria on the Park
Developer: Elad Canada
Completion date: Fall/Winter 2023
One of the biggest master-planned communities in the city, Galleria on the Park will bring nearly 3,000 new residences to Dufferin and Dupont streets. Combined with 300,000 square feet of retail space and 20,000 square feet of new office workspace, Galleria on the Park will also be the future home of a 95,000-square-foot community centre and eight-acre park.
3. Scout Condos
Developer: Graywood Developments Ltd
Located slightly east of the Stockyards District, this 12-storey condo building hosts a plethora of entertainment and party-oriented amenities. Take in views of the city from the 12th-floor rooftop terrace, complete with a barbeque station and sun deck. The ground-floor games lounge is the perfect place to beat your friends at a game of foosball, or to host a gathering in the multi-purpose room.
4. Reunion Crossing Condos & Urban Towns
Developer: Diamond Kilmer Developments
Completion date: June 2022
A community of condos and urban townhomes, Reunion Crossing is due to break ground by the end of the year at Old Weston Road and St. Clair Avenue West. Rooftop patios and sunken terraces provide townhome residents with a private outdoor space to entertain or enjoy some sunshine, along with access to the amenities in the community's neighbouring condo building.
5. Junction House
Developer: Slate Asset Management and Globizen Developments
Now over 80 percent sold out, only a handful of suites remain in this rising midrise project on Dundas Street West. The condos are touted for their commitment to functionality and livability, thanks to interior finishes like engineered hardwood flooring, exposed concrete ceilings and adjoining terraces or balconies.
6. 260 High Park
Developer: Medallion Capital Group
Completion date: Winter/Spring 2021
The century-old High Park Alhambra Church at High Park Avenue and Annette Street has been converted into 260 High Park, a series of lofts, condos and townhomes. An architectural collaboration between Turner Fleischer Architects, Finegold Alexander Associates and ERA Architects, the 70-unit project will showcase a private courtyard entrance, repurposed exterior, and an adjoining, modern four-storey condo structure.
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Everything You Need to Know About Cersei on Game of Thrones Is Hidden in Her Wardrobe
The Lannister queen's wardrobe evolution explains how she's changed—and costume designer Michele Clapton tells us where she's headed in the final season.
By Halie LeSavage
Warning: This post contains Game of Thrones spoilers.
The last time Game of Thrones fans saw Cersei Lannister, she had—finally—crowned herself queen and came face-to-face with her rival for the Iron Throne, Daenerys Targaryen, who asked her to join forces in an upcoming war against an undead army of White Walkers.
The meeting of Westeros' two self-anointed queens was a pivotal moment in the series, and Cersei's costume spoke volumes about the interaction's implications for season eight. "As she meets Dany, the costume becomes more warlike with chain mail and the silhouette changes with strong molded shoulders, like an exoskeleton," Game of Thrones costume designer Michele Clapton tells Glamour. "There is also a slashed and twisted detail on the back of her coat. It feels lizardlike, cold-blooded. It creates an illusion that you can see into her soul, and it's dark."
True to those details, audiences know that Cersei's words belie her intentions heading into the final season. She's pregnant with a fourth child, and she's more inclined to ensure her future heir's line to the throne than to band together with the Starks and Targaryens in a war for the living. According to Clapton, her outfits are the first place you can look to know exactly how she's feeling and thinking in moments like this.
"All of Cersei's costumes tell of her story," Clapton says. "We might hate her, but she is a product of her treatment." If you've watched Thrones from the very beginning, you know that Cersei hasn't always been decked out for battle—and that she went through a lot to reach her current situation. (To refresh your memory: She endured and escaped a forced marriage, had an ongoing affair with her twin brother, and witnessed the violent deaths of her three children, to name just a few.) Like her machinations, her wardrobe has dramatically evolved over time.
"When we first met her eight years ago, her fabrics and colors were softer. She was subdued, hunted. The imagery she embroidered onto her costumes were birds in swirls of stitches," Clapton says. The meaning? "It was supposed to speak of her feelings of being trapped—[like a] bird in a cage—within a marriage that she was forced into, forced to be weak and manipulated only because she was a woman, by a drunken boar of a man who her father chose for her. The style was a wrapped kimono in paper silk, implying availability."
Of course, she didn't stay a bystander in her own story for long. As her agency increased in the following seasons—often achieved through deception and murder—her outfits become more obvious symbols of her power grabs (and less typically feminine). "As her position changes with the murder of this husband [Robert Baratheon, who is poisoned in season one], we start to see the colors become stronger and often to be shades of red. The cloth becomes stronger and the Lannister Lion becomes prominent in the embroidery." In other words, she's asserting her authority, and her dedication to preserving Lannister power, through her clothing.
Side-by-side with other women at court, Cersei's wardrobe is thrown into sharper relief. Take the arrival of Margery Tyrell to King's Landing, who has competing ambition to take the throne for House Tyrell, for example. Margery leans in to her femininity with colorful, low-cut gowns; meanwhile, Cersei's costumes tend toward an opposite aesthetic. "[It's] ultimate power dressing," Clapton explains, "with armor and heavy symbolic jewelry to insist visually of her belief in her rightful place within the family." That view ultimately appears to win, when Margery is killed in season six's dramatic King's Landing explosion, clearing Cersei's path to the throne.
Her father's death in season four and the deaths of her children, Joffrey, Mrycella, and Tommen (in seasons four and six, respectively) has an impact on her wardrobe as well. "Later as her children die she shifts to black, [then] leather as she is crowned queen." Adopting darker colors and tougher materials, Clapton says, is a nod to her complicated relationship with her family. She mourns their passing, but she's still intent on displaying her power. In her outfits as queen, "the dress is shortened and the leather is stamped in the same way that her father's was."
For the clearest indicator of Cersei's intentions moving forward, look no further than the accessory most associated with power: her crown. Clapton designed the Lannister queen's crown for the seventh and eighth seasons to evoke the Lannister Lion emblem, but with sharp lines and sparse ornamentation. "This was to somehow state a clarity of mind: a changing of the guard and clear thinking." The emblem changed for the rest of the Lannister court as well—take a look at the queen's guard surrounding her, and you'll notice their armor changed to match Cersei's streamlined new sigil. "A rebrand!" Clapton says.
In promotions for the eighth and final season of Game of Thrones, Cersei can be seen wearing her simplified crown and armored clothing, suggesting that she's still single-mindedly focused on keeping the Lannisters in power. But with a war against the White Walkers coming, outfoxing her rivals yet again will be harder than ever. Keep a close eye on her costumes during season eight—they may be the first place to reveal whether Cersei can actually keep her grip on the Iron Throne.
Halie LeSavage is the fashion associate at Glamour. Follow her @halielesavage.
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(Tobermory, ON) -- The Bruce Peninsula Biosphere Association (BPBA) is pleased to announce that it has been awarded an $87,000 grant by the Friends of the Greenbelt Foundation. The grant will be used to coordinate a community led Conservation and Stewardship Plan for the Bruce that strengthens natural connections between existing protected spaces and creates sustainable strategies for development and active use of the landscape.
To develop the Plan, local community and partner organizations will be engaged to create a unified vision and strategic direction for conservation and stewardship efforts in the Bruce Peninsula. The public along with over 30 local tourism, agriculture, conservation and municipal stakeholders will be crucial to identifying and providing expertise on the area's needs and future action. Several options will be available for public and stakeholder participation. Preparation of the plan will be directed by a 15 member Steering Committee composed of a cross section of community representatives and organizations.
"Business owners here in Lion's Head love our natural environment and so do our customers, both community members and visitors. Lion's Head is located in a World Biosphere and we believe it is important to protect our special environment and that is why we are so pleased that the Greenbelt Foundation has funded our community to create a Conservation and Stewardship Plan", stated Marydale Ashcroft, Business owner and Vice-Chair of the Lion's Head Promotion's Group.
The final Stewardship and Conservation Plan will enable more efficient and effective conservation of aquatic and terrestrial habitats, and improve the overall health of Northern Bruce Peninsula's rich and diverse plant, fish and wildlife communities. It will ensure that the areas distinct landscape remains unimpaired, and continues to provide unparalleled opportunities to discover and explore.
"The project represents a very significant development for conservation on the Bruce Peninsula that will bring our community together to protect this special place for future generations," commented John Haselmayer, Manager of Resource Conservation for Bruce Peninsula National Park.
A full time program manager will be hired. Qualified individuals must apply by Feb. 11. Residents and local groups can find out more about the project and how they might become involved by visiting the Association's website at www.bpba.ca.


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Hawaii to Waive Testing Requirements for Fully Vaccinated U.S. Travelers Starting Next Month
By Steven I. Green 7 months ago
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Hawaii will allow fully vaccinated domestic travelers to skip pre-arrival testing and quarantine requirements, the state's governor said Thursday.
Starting July 8, all travelers were vaccinated in the United States will be allowed to upload their vaccination card to Hawaii's Safe Travels Program in lieu of the previously-required COVID-19 PCR test, Gov. David Ige's office announced.
By that date, Ige said he expects Hawaii will have reached a 60% statewide vaccination rate. Currently, 62% of all residents have received at least one dose of a vaccine and 57% are fully vaccinated, according to Hawaii's Department of Health.
"Our residents have sacrificed and worked hard to get to this point, but we still have more to do," Ige said in a statement. "Please get vaccinated to protect yourselves and your loved ones. We are close to achieving a 70% vaccination rate, at
Puerto Rico Waives COVID-19 Testing Requirements for Fully Vaccinated U.S. Travelers
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PORTER RANCH, CA – MARCH 15: PORTER RANCH, CA – MARCH 15: Dylan McDougall, 18, of Granada Hills, receives the Pfizer vaccine from medical assistant Leyda Sampayo during a two-day Center For Family Health & Education pop-up COVID-19 vaccine site at the Shepherd Church parking lot in Porter Ranch as more people become eligible for the vaccine on Monday, March 15, 2021. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG) A year into the global coronavirus pandemic, things are looking up for many people as vaccines have become widely available across the country. But as a result of that access, the U.S. has also seen a surge of "vaccine tourism." As international demand for the vaccine is on the rise, tens of thousands of people are traveling to the U.S. for a COVID vaccine in hopes of speeding up their own
A Leisure Travel Recovery Is Being Held Back By A Lack Of Standardized Testing And Foreign Entry Rules
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The Sierra Nevada Ski Resort in Spain shows the impact of restrictions on cross border travel even … [+] between European Union member nations. This photo, taken Feb. 6, shows the ski resort was almost empty because skiers from other European nations are not allowed to enter Spain. (Carlos Gil Andreu/Getty Images)
The slow pace of development of a single global system for tracking and certifying the Covid-19 vaccination status of the world's 7.8 billion people is delaying the beginning of a meaningful recovery of air travel demand.
No one is expecting business travel to begin recovering until late this year, and probably not even then. But the travel industry is desperately hoping to see the beginnings of a significant pickup in leisure-oriented travel this spring or summer. True, vacationers spend far less money on average than business travelers, but their typically huge numbers could help cash-starved travel
Travel restrictions for MLK Day weekend trips: COVID-19 quarantine, testing requirements
The Martin Luther King Jr. holiday is upon us, though travel for the long weekend will likely look much different than in years past due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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A major movement among Christians of all backgrounds today centers around grabbing hold of an emphasis on the kingdom of God. Take a quick scan through the Gospels and you'll see that the kingdom (of God, of Heaven) is a central feature in the life and mission of Jesus, yet I think many readers will relate with my own experience when I say that, for most of my life, I have heard very little about this idea of "the kingdom."
So what is it about the kingdom that is capturing the hearts and imaginations of believers today? I plan to take the next few blog posts to highlight some themes that are common to what we might call the kingdom mindset that is energizing and inspiring some of the most effective ministry and evangelistic efforts in our time.
When the disciples asked Jesus to teach them to pray, he demonstrated to them a way of praying that was to paradigmatic of all Christian prayer - what we know as "The Lord's Prayer" or the "Our Father." Right in the middle of this prayer we find the words, "On earth as it is in heaven." Since Jesus would not have instructed us to pray a futile prayer, we really only have two options for how we take these words. One option is to apply them to that future age when the New Jerusalem descends and the kingdom of God is finally, fully established on earth. The other option is to say that this is a prayer for today, and that Jesus was inviting the disciples to step into a new level of faith in their prayer.
Those who embrace a kingdom mindset lean heavily on the second option. They take the nearness and accessibility of heaven very seriously. "This is the time of fulfillment. The kingdom of God is at hand," Jesus said (Mark 1:15). The kingdom is something that is "among us" or even "within" (Luke 17:21). It may have been established in seed form (Matthew 13:31), and yet that seed grows and works like yeast (Matthew 13:33) to influence everything around it. Jesus compares the kingdom to a pearl so precious that it can become our singular obsession (Matthew 13:46), and he promises provision to anyone who "seeks first the kingdom" (Matthew 6:33).
At the heart of the kingdom is the Lordship of Jesus. Because he humbled himself in obedience to the Father, he received "the name that is above every name" (Philippians 2:7-11) and was given "all authority in heaven and on earth" (Matthew 28:18). While this authority applies first to his authority over the Church (the people of God), the scope of his authority extends beyond people to the whole of the created order (both spiritual and material; cf. Ephesians 1:20-22).
How can we recognize the presence of the kingdom? Most of us are familiar with the signs of the kingdom that pertain to people (repentance, conversion, personal transformation, holiness of life, empowerment by the Spirit). But Jesus tells us to look for certain other signs as well, including the driving out of demons (Matthew 12:28) and healing of the sick (Luke 10:9). Whenever John the Baptist begins to entertain doubts about whether Jesus is the promised Messiah, Jesus sends this message back to John: "The blind regain their sight, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, the poor have the good news proclaimed to them" (Luke 7:22). In other words, what further evidence do you need?
Whenever we read the words of Jesus in the Gospels, it is good for us to try to hear them through the ears of those who were with him. At the time that Jesus taught his disciples the Lord's Prayer, they had seen all of these things taking place, they had seen Jesus restoring brokenness in every sphere of life. The disciples had even participated in doing it themselves! You have to imagine that they wondered to themselves just how far this thing could go.
And so in teaching his disciples to pray, he gave them their measuring stick and guide: "On earth as it is in heaven." It was as though Jesus was saying, "Take everything you've ever imagined about what heaven will be like, and now apply it to your present reality. And if there is anything in your reality that does not line up with heaven, then don't stop praying until it does!"
This is part of what it means to have a kingdom mindset. It means not passively embracing obstacles and brokenness as mere reminders of the fallen condition of the world, but as invitations to press in all the more for breakthrough. It means remembering that Jesus has been established as Lord, and that he possesses all power to remedy any situation that does not align with the standard of heaven.
But ability is one thing, and willingness is another. In the next post, we'll move on to the another aspect of a kingdom mindset: the Goodness of God.


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Johannes Holbek (13. november 1872 i Årby ved Kalundborg – 14. maj 1903 i København) var en dansk maler og tegner.

Uddannelse
Han var søn af sognepræst, sidst i Snoldelev Christian Ohnsorg Holbek (1833-1912) og Marie Frederikke Ludovica født Thune (1837-1916) og blev student fra Roskilde lærde Skole 1891. Han blev i 1892 optaget på Det tekniske Selskabs Skole, hvor han studerede under Holger Grønvold, og gik et enkelt semester på Kunstakademiet under Frederik Vermehren i foråret 1893. I samme skelsættende år kunne Johannes Holbek opleve den helt nye franske kunst, nemlig værker af Vincent van Gogh og Paul Gauguin på Den frie Udstilling og franske symbolister hos Kleis' Kunsthandel.

Animeret af denne udvikling i kunsten søgte Holbek mod Frankrig og fik under ophold i Paris og Bretagne 1893-94, 1898 og 1901-02 sin uddannelse på École des Beaux-Arts hos Jean-Léon Gérôme og Gustave Moreau, hvoraf især den sidstnævnte symbolistiske maler fik betydning for Holbeks udvikling. Siden besøgte han Tyskland i 1899 og Fernand Cormons atelier i Paris 1901-1902.

Opgaver
Johannes Holbek tegnede en tid for København og for Politiken, men forblev en perifer kunstner. Hans arbejder blev afvist både af Charlottenborg og af Den frie Udstilling.

Stil og værker
Holbek blev en af vore mest kompromisløse symbolistiske malere og forener i sin korte produktion, der både er billedlig og litterær, billede og tekst, ånd og linje. Som andre symbolister søgte han en syntese af ånd og kunstnerisk vision, og hans indsats var præget af lige dele idealisme og religiøst livssyn.

Tydeligst kom Holbeks vision til udtryk i tekst og tegninger i to publikationer Omkring Midlet (I-III, 1899) og Dekadent Barbari, udgivet posthumt af vennen Jens Lund. I sidstnævnte optræder en symbolistisk fortælling, "Tama Rex", som Holbek forfattede allerede som tyveårig. Fortællingerne består dog mest af satirisk-anekdotiske tegninger, der kan opfattes som et stadium mellem Fritz Jürgensen og Robert Storm Petersen.

Han er begravet på Snoldelev Kirkegård, hvor busten på graven er udført 1903 af Rudolph Tegner. Holbek udførte to malede selvportrætter 1899 og 1902 (sidstnævne i Museum Jorn, Silkeborg), et tegnet selvportræt 1892 (Den Kongelige Kobberstiksamling), og Det Kongelige Bibliotek har fotografier af ham.

Holbek er repræsenteret i Den Kongelige Kobberstiksamling og Designmuseum Danmark, men især i Museum Jorn, Silkeborg, eftersom Asger Jorn var med til at henlede opmærksomheden på Holbeks værk.

Værker
Malerier:
 Portræt af Magnus Thrige (1893, Brandts)
 Til Tama Rex (1894, Museum Jorn, Silkeborg)
 Planten (1894, Museum Jorn, Silkeborg)
 Forstening (1894, Museum Jorn, Silkeborg)
 En herre og havet (1894, Museum Jorn, Silkeborg)
 For latterkonciliet (ca. 1900, Museum Jorn, Silkeborg)
 Selvportræt (1902, Museum Jorn, Silkeborg)
 Esaias IV (1902, Museum Jorn, Silkeborg)
 Portræt af redaktør Frejlif Olsen og hustru (1902, Museum Jorn, Silkeborg)
Illustrerede bøger:
 Omkring Midlet, tegninger og tekster i tre bøger, 1899.
 Seks Tegninger til digte af Erik Waage, 1901.
 Dekadent Barbari, I-II, 1904.
Tegninger:
 Satiriske tegninger i dagbladet København 1900-01 og Politiken 1902
 Originaltegninger i Museum Jorn, Silkeborg (775); Den Kongelige Kobberstiksamling (15, bl.a. selvportræt fra 1892); Rudolph Tegners Museum og Statuepark (3); Storm P. Museet (5); Roskilde Museum (2); Designmuseum Danmark (1); Det Kongelige Bibliotek (1); Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek (1) og Vejen Kunstmuseum (1)

Galleri

Eksterne henvisninger

 Johannes Holbek på Dansk Forfatterleksikon

Kilder

Personer i Dansk Biografisk Leksikon
Danskere i 1800-tallet
Danskere i 1900-tallet
Malere fra Danmark
Tegnere fra Danmark
Johannes
Symbolistiske malere

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There's almost this sense of accomplishment you get when you find a bargain worth well beyond its value. Sadly, I often tend to lose these gems in my makeup drawer. I bought Rimmel Scandaleyes Shadow Paint in Rich Russet a year ago, used it for a few months and forgot about it. Thankfully, my democratized monthly makeup rotation helped me rediscover it and I've been on a mission to use it up.
Rimmel Scandaleyes Shadow Paints were probably released last year. Along with Maybelline Color Tattoos it was the next great drugstore product. Among the shamefully tiny range is Rich Russet, a neutral taupey brown with tons of shimmer.
In my experience you can get varied coverage. Apply little for a sheer wash or almost a dollop for an even opaque colour. However, a year on, I have noticed that it's less fluid and I need more product than before to get an opaque look. It's also started to separate inside the tube.
It's very creamy and feels very wet and almost glossy when you apply it to the lids. You have to be quick though, there's a small margin for blending after which it sets to an almost matte finish and refuses to budge. Blending is very easy, either with a finger or a synthetic brush. Another big win is the longevity, it wears well the entire day, beyond 8 hours and it's absolutely set in place with no shimmer dispersed around the face.
I've been using this a lot for the past two months as an all over lid shade and is one of my many go to brown shades. (Maybe I should do a post on these). The packaging is good by drugstore standards, I like that you can see the entire product. The wand however is a bit too long and carries way too much product.
I'm not certain if this has been discontinued, I can't find it in too many places online. In India, your best bet would be Parcos stores. The part that will make you happy, this costs only Rs. 400 ( or £4.99 ) for 7ml of product! I'm also glad that the shelf life is 2 years, excellent for a cream product.
It looks similar to my beloved MaxFactor Liquid Eyeshadow in Coffee, also a bargain and a pleasure to wear.
It sounds perfect! Unfortunately it's a bit hard to find here.
Oh yea, their Shadow Sticks are supposedly really good as well! Rimmel just seems very elusive in my city at the moment.
Very pretty. This looks like it would work as a nice base or quick everyday color.
Definitely, if I can spare more time I do add a darker shadow on the outer lid.


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Q: Azure Multi tenant application not visible to certain tenants We have a multi tenant azure ad application that is not visible in certain other tenants. Is there a tenant level setting to allow third party applications?
We run the following command from the azure cli to see if hte application is visible
az ad app show --id appID
We get the following error:
(I have xxx out the application id)

Resource 'xxxxx' does not exist or one of its queried
  reference-property objects are not present. Traceback (most recent
  call last):   File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft
  SDKs\Azure\CLI2\lib\site-packages\azure\cli\main.py", line 36, in main
      cmd_result = APPLICATION.execute(args)   File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft
  SDKs\Azure\CLI2\lib\site-packages\azure\cli\core\application.py", line
  216, in execute
      result = expanded_arg.func(params)   File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft
  SDKs\Azure\CLI2\lib\site-packages\azure\cli\core\commands__init__.py",
  line 381, in call
      return self.handler(*args, **kwargs)   File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft
  SDKs\Azure\CLI2\lib\site-packages\azure\cli\core\commands__init__.py",
  line 640, in _execute_command
      raise client_exception   File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Azure\CLI2\lib\site-packages\azure\cli\core\commands__init__.py",
  line 628, in _execute_command
      exception_handler(ex)   File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Azure\CLI2\lib\site-packages\azure\cli\core\util.py", line 49, in
  empty_on_404
      raise ex   File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Azure\CLI2\lib\site-packages\azure\cli\core\commands__init__.py",
  line 612, in _execute_command
      result = op(client, **kwargs) if client else op(**kwargs)   File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft
  SDKs\Azure\CLI2\lib\site-packages\azure\cli\command_modules\role\custom.py",
  line 455, in show_application
      return client.get(object_id)   File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft
  SDKs\Azure\CLI2\lib\site-packages\azure\graphrbac\operations\applications_operations.py",
  line 272, in get
      raise models.GraphErrorException(self._deserialize, response) azure.graphrbac.models.graph_error.GraphErrorException: Resource
  'xxxx' does not exist or one of its queried reference-property objects
  are not present.

A: Users in other tenant needs to consent the permissions to the multi-tenant App. Then the Applicaition will occurs in that tenant as a sp. So you may forget to do this step:

When a user from a different tenant signs in to the application for
  the first time, Azure AD asks them to consent to the permissions
  requested by the application. If they consent, then a representation
  of the application called a service principal is created in the user's
  tenant, and sign-in can continue.

After finishing this, you can use az ad sp list to check if the sp is in that tenant.
Also, you need to ensure your multi-tenant app is configured well before you starting to login it. For more details about How to sign in any AAD user using the multi-tenant app, please refer to this document.

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MEI-MEI BERSSENBRUGGE was born in Beijing and grew up in Massachusetts. She is the author of thirteen books of poetry, including Empathy (Station Hill Press), Nest (Kelsey Street Press), I Love Artists, New and Selected Poems (University of California Press), and most recently, Hello, the Roses (New Directions). She lives in New York City and northern New Mexico.
KANDICE CHUH is Professor of English and American studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is a core member of the Mellon Committee on Globalization and Social Change at the Graduate Center, where she teaches and writes on the relationships of race, aesthetics, and the politics of knowledge production. Until 2010, Chuh was a member of the English faculty at the University of Maryland, College Park, where she was affiliated with the Asian American Studies Program and the American Studies Department.
PATRICIA TICINETO CLOUGH is Professor of Sociology, Women's Studies, and Intercultural Studies at Queens College and the Graduate School of the City University of New York. Her books include Autoaffection (2000), Feminist Thought (1995), and The End(s) of Ethnography (1992, revised 1998).
KIMIKO HAHN, author of eight collections, finds her material from disparate sources—whether exhumation (The Artist's Daughter) or classical Japanese texts (The Narrow Road to the Interior). Rarified fields of science triggered her latest work in Toxic Flora and continue in her current writing. Other writing projects have taken her to film and TV. Her most recent award was a Guggenheim Fellowship, and she is a distinguished professor in the MFA Program in Creative Writing & Literary Translation at Queens College, City University of New York.
JENNIFER HAYASHIDA is a poet, translator, and visual artist. She is the recipient of awards from, among others, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, PEN, the Jerome Foundation, and the MacDowell Colony. Her work has been published and exhibited in the U.S. and abroad, including multiple book-length translations of contemporary Swedish poetry and screenings at venues including the Centre Pompidou, the National Gallery of Art, and the Flaherty Film Seminar. She is Director of the Asian American Studies Program at Hunter College.
JOSEPH JONGHYUN JEON is an Associate Professor of English and Asian American Studies at Pomona College. He is the author of Racial Things, Racial Forms: Objecthood in Avant-Garde Asian American Poetry (2012).
KYOO LEE, editor of the MusingWith series, teaches philosophy and theory at John Jay College and the Graduate Center, CUNY, and recently wrote a book called Reading Descartes Otherwise: Blind, Mad, Dreamy and Bad (Fordham University Press, 2012). She publishes widely in the intersecting fields of the theoretical Humanities such as Aesthetics, Asian American Studies, Comparative Literature/Philosophy, Continental Philosophy, Critical Race theory, Cultural Studies, Deconstruction, Feminist Philosophy, Gender Studies, Poetics, Post-phenomenology, and Translation. She is also a member of the Poetry Translation Center based in London, UK.
RUSSELL C. LEONG recently co-edited (with Shan Te-hsing) a two-volume Global Identities/Local Voices (selections from forty years of Amerasia Journal)—published in Chinese in Taipei. Leong's short stories and poetry have been published in the U.S. and China. He is the visiting Dr. Thomas Tam Professor at Hunter College and edits the forthcoming CUNY FORUM, a new journal on Asian America.
SIMON LEUNG is an artist and Professor of Art at the University of California, Irvine. His projects include an opera set in Griffith Park; a trilogy on the residual space of the Vietnam War; site/situation specific works centered on the squatting body; and extended meditations on Duchamp, Smithson, Poe, and Kant. Leung's work has been presented at the Venice Biennale, the Guangzhou Triennial, the Whitney Biennial, the Museum of Modern Art, the Generali Foundation(Vienna), 1A Space (Hong Kong), and the Ujazdowski Castle (Warsaw). He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the City of Los Angeles. He is co-editor, with Zoya Kocur, of Theory in Contemporary Art Since 1985 (2nd edition 2012).
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Q: Torque required by a motor: using a counterweight to reduce? I have a motor and gearbox that is rated for a certain amount of torque in newton meters. Its primary load $M_1$ is connected by a rigid rod (assumed massless) length $L_1$. So I reckon the (max) torque required is $L_1 {\times} M_1 {\times} g$, achieved at the rotation angle that's directly perpendicular / furthest out from the motor+gearbox.
However that's a bit outside of my motor+gearbox's specs. So my plan was to put a "counterweight" directly opposed on the other side to oppose this torque, and therefore get my requirements within range. The counterweight is just a mass $M_2$ attached a distance $L_2$ in the same axis of the first load, but going on the other side of the motor+gearbox
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Questions:

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*Does this scheme physically work, as in lower my (max) torque required on the motor+gearbox to $M_1 {\times} L_1 {\times} g - M_2 {\times} L_2 {\times} g$?

*If so this seems pretty sweet, but what other physics quantities might I be sacrificing in this setup? Speed? Forces on the shaft? Any other practical considerations I should think about?

A: Torque $\tau$ is related to angular acceleration $\alpha$ by the equation:
$\tau = I\alpha$
where $I$ is the moment of inertia of the rotating body. The moment of inertia in the case of a point mass $m$ is:
$I = mr^2$
The moment of inertia opposing acceleration by the motor's torque will therefore increase due to the additional mass $M_2$ by the amount:
$I_{incr} = M_2r_2^2$
Practically, this means that while you will now be able to get the motor to lift $M_1$ because it is counterbalanced by $M_2$, applying torque to lower $M_1$ from any position from which it can be lowered, and for an equivalent torque, will now result in less angular acceleration. Your system will be more 'sluggish', i.e. it will be less responsive.
Yes, your torque formulation is correct.
Further about 'sluggish':
In the figure below we analyse motion of $M_1$, in the right hemisphere. The analysis applies for the mirror image case in the left hemisphere. The torque required to lift $M_1$ is proportional to $cos\theta$, where $\theta$ is the angle between the vertical (mass weight) and the direction of action of the torque. Without $M_2$, the motor would not be able to lift $M_1$ between some points $A$ and $C$, since $cos\theta$ would be high, close to $1$ near $\theta = 0^o$ (horizontal shaft position). The addition of $M_2$ will facilitate upward motion of $M_1$ between $A$ and $C$, a positive thing.
The negative effect of adding $M_2$ is that all acceleration to lower $M_1$ (red arrows in figure) will necessary require longer acceleration time since $\alpha = \tau / I$ and $I$ is now larger. Changes in rotational direction will also take longer because of the higher angular momentum to be overcome. There will be a larger time lag between changing torque direction in the motor (by electrical control), and the masses changing direction. This delayed response is called sluggishness.


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This has quite a few different meanings for us but the bottom line is that we're always looking for ways to make a difference in our community and in our world by making and encouraging choices that positively impact others and are less harmful to our planet.
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Nella mitologia norrena, gli einherjar o einheriar erano gli spiriti dei guerrieri che erano morti combattendo molto valorosamente in battaglia.

Etimologia
Il nome in norreno si potrebbe rendere con "soldato-in-armata". Il singolare della parola sarebbe einherji, la cui etimologia deriverebbe dal Germanico popolare aina-harj-arja.
È spesso interpretato come "combattente notevole", ma potrebbe significare inoltre "coloro che combattono [ora] in una sola armata", poiché quando erano vivi sulla Terra erano divisi fra varie bande ed eserciti, ma ora che sono morti sono tutti riuniti per un'unica causa, il Ragnarǫk. L'etimologia è la stessa del nome proprio di persona Einar.

Ruolo nella mitologia norrena
Dopo che erano morti, le Valchirie scortavano metà dei caduti nel campo di battaglia nel Valhalla (questa metà è composta da "einherjar"), che fa parte del Paradiso norreno. L'altra metà viene condotta a Sessrúmnir, il luogo di Freia. Il Grimnismál descrive il Valhalla come un edificio con 540 porte e attraverso ognuna di queste possono marciare contemporaneamente affiancati 800 guerrieri. Questo per rendere l'idea della mole del Valhalla e del numero di einherjar.

Ogni giorno sono svegliati da Gullinkambi, un gallo, e marciano fino al grande campo Idavoll, nel cuore di Ásgarðr per scontrarsi l'uno con l'altro in un combattimento. Alla fine della giornata, quando sono tutti fatti a pezzi, salvo pochi, miracolosamente guariscono e ritornano nel Valhalla, dove Andhrímnir, il cuoco degli dei, ha preparato un pasto per ciascuno di loro dal maiale di Sæhrímnir, che rinasce ogni giorno, e idromele, fatto con il latte di Heiðrún, una capra che si nutre delle foglie di Yggdrasill.

Gli einherjar allora trascorrono tutta la notte in festa con le adorabili valchirie finché non cadono addormentati, ubriachi. E così non si ricordano mai delle loro esperienze quotidiane con questa forte inebriazione. Tutti gli einherjar combattono tutti i giorni, tutti gli anni, per essere un contributo fondamentale alle forze degli Asi durante i Ragnarǫk, quando Odino li chiamerà per combattere le forze di Hel e i giganti, nella battaglia finale dove quasi tutti scompariranno.

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Hallowe'en Is Not Cancelled
SAN JOSE, CA (September 28, 2020)— Winchester Mystery House announced today an all new evening experience that explores the legendary estate's supernatural lore for the autumn season. The Hallowe'en Flashlight Tour is a self-guided re-imagining of the estate's popular flashlight tour with a new terrifying twist. For the first time ever guests – with only a flashlight to guide them – will roam alone through the dark halls of the purportedly haunted Victorian mansion while hearing tales of its former and (possibly current!) inhabitants. Tour Hosts will be stationed throughout the house to ensure safety and social distancing.
Tours will be offered on select nights in October. Tickets (From $24.99-$54.99) for timed-entry admission, allowing for social distancing, are available now at winchestermysteryhouse.com.
"Halloween is not just a time of year or a season but a state of mind. One that can never be cancelled. And this year, we are inviting guests to celebrate it at Winchester Mystery House in a way never before possible – alone by flashlight and without a tour guide," said Walter Magnuson, Winchester Mystery House General Manager. "We've gone back to basics – using the house as the star. The unsettling feeling of being alone in a darkened Victorian home, the fear of what could be around the next dark corner will set this year's Halloween program apart from previous years. We are so excited to be able to keep our annual tradition of offering a quality Halloween experience but in a safe and compliant way."
The Winchester Mystery House will also be offering daytime self guided mansion and garden tours throughout the month of October complimented with autumn décor around the estate, making it a must do this fall. Guests interested in exploring from home a can also purchase the 360 Immersive Tour for $8.99 and the video tour for rent for $5.99 or to purchase for $13.99 online at winchestermysteryhouse.com/video-tour/.
About Winchester Mystery House
For nearly 100 years the Winchester Mystery House in San Jose, California, has stood as a testament to the ingenuity, singular vision and lore that surrounds its namesake, Sarah Pardee Winchester (heiress to the Winchester Repeating Arms fortune). Originally known as Llanada Villa, today it stands as an architectural wonder, a time capsule of a bygone era and one of America's most celebrated haunted mansions. The estate is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, is a California Historic State Landmark, a San Jose City Landmark, and is one of the leading attractions in the Bay Area. Since tours began in 1923, more than 13 million people from around the world have toured the lonely hallways, dark passages and ornate rooms of the Winchester Mystery House. It has intrigued visitors, scholars, and media from throughout the United States, and around the globe, with its combination of the beautiful and the bizarre, its story of heartbreak, tenacity and invention and its legends of the paranormal. For tickets and additional information, visit www.winchestermysteryhouse.com.
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A GoFundMe campaign has been started to raise money for the family of Gabriella Curry, the 4-year-old girl who was hit and killed by a Columbia Police Department SUV on Friday afternoon at Battle High School.
The campaign had raised over $1,300 of its $10,000 goal as of Monday afternoon. The money will go toward helping support Gabriella's parents, Aaron and Cheyenne Curry. They have three other children, according to the GoFundMe effort's description.
The incident occurred just before 4 p.m. Friday, according to a report from the Missouri State Highway Patrol. Officer Andria Heese, 27, had entered a roundabout at the west entrance of the high school and was parking on the sidewalk so she could observe students loading onto the school buses.
Gabriella was walking on the sidewalk at the time and was hit by the vehicle, a 2015 Chevrolet Tahoe.
After the girl was struck, Heese, another officer and Battle High School staff provided medical help immediately, according to the Police Department release. Additional aid was requested by radio, and Columbia Fire Department and University Hospital EMTs arrived to assist. Gabriella was then taken to University Hospital, where she died from her injuries.
Heese was placed on administrative leave after the incident per department protocol, according to department spokesman Jeff Pitts. Heese has worked for the Police Department for five years and was assigned to the Community Outreach Unit.
The accident took place before school let out for the day, said Scott White, a public information officer for the Highway Patrol.
Highway Patrol tweeted a photo of the location where the accident occurred.
White said he did not know if Heese had been assigned to be at Battle High School on Friday, or if she was a part of the group of officers regularly assigned to the high school.
Gabriella's parents work for Student Transportation of America, the bus contractor for the district, Baumstark said.
A comprehensive incident report is in the works, and it will be available to the public in a month, White said.


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1 person seriously hurt in series of crashes that snarls I-44 traffic west of Springfield
According to OzarksTraffic.com, there was a crash and a vehicle fire on the interstate. One person badly hurt.
1 person seriously hurt in series of crashes that snarls I-44 traffic west of Springfield According to OzarksTraffic.com, there was a crash and a vehicle fire on the interstate. One person badly hurt. Check out this story on news-leader.com: https://www.news-leader.com/story/news/local/2018/12/27/afternoon-crash-snarls-traffic-44-west-springfield/2426571002/
Harrison Keegan, Springfield News-Leader Published 5:02 p.m. CT Dec. 27, 2018 | Updated 7:31 p.m. CT Dec. 27, 2018
A crash and vehicle fire Thursday on Interstate 44 in Greene County.(Photo: Submitted photo)
One person was badly hurt and taken to the hospital in a series of crashes that occurred within minutes on Interstate 44 Thursday afternoon west of Springfield.
According to entries on the publicly maintained OzarksTraffic.com, there was a crash at 4:21 p.m. on eastbound I-44 just west of Chestnut Expressway.
Ten minutes later, the website said a vehicle fire was reported nearby on the interstate.
As of 5 p.m., the website was reporting that both lanes of eastbound I-44 were blocked at the scene and traffic was being diverted onto James River Freeway.
Sgt. John Lueckenhoff, with the Missouri State Highway Patrol, tweeted at 6:37 p.m. that both westbound lanes had been opened and that one eastbound lane would open "shortly."
He told the News-Leader that a tractor-trailer overturned and another vehicle ran into it.
That vehicle burst into flames.
It appears that the occupant of the burning vehicle was seriously hurt.
In total, Lueckenhoff said, there were four accidents, including two in the westbound lanes. He did not know how many people were injured in these two accidents, or how serious those injuries were.
Reporter Steve Pokin contributed to this story.
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The WHO continues its pursuit of global overreach through proposed IHR amendments
24th January 2023 by Nadya Swart
The World Health Organisation's pursuit of amendments to its International Health Regulations (IHR), considered a binding instrument of international law, is not over. From January 9 to 13, negotiations took place this week in Geneva, Switzerland, to discuss these proposed amendments and similar negotiations took place last month to draft a new WHO pandemic treaty. As this article indicates, while some politicians are resisting the proposed IHR amendments, if they are adopted in May, any resistance may prove futile. Reading through the proposed amendments, what immediately stands out is how all "non-binding" phrases have been deleted. Gene-based therapies have been included and public health risks have been deleted and replaced with "all risks with a potential to impact public health". These decisions will all be at the discretion of the WHO's secretary-general. As stated by Dr Francis Boyle, the bioweapons expert whom BizNews interviewed last year (embedded below), the regulations, if adopted, will set up a totalitarian medical and scientific police state that will be beyond the control of national, state and local government authorities. This article first appeared on Brownstone Institute.– Nadya Swart
The WHO: Our New Overlords
By John Mac Ghlionn*
According to its website, the World Health Organisation (WHO), a specialised agency of the United Nations, "works worldwide to promote health, keep the world safe, and serve the vulnerable." In recent times, however, the organisation has become a vehicle for corruption, deceit, and Chinese propaganda.
The WHO is an incredibly powerful organisation with 194 member states. When the WHO speaks, the world listens. When the WHO decides on a plan of action, the world changes.
As the piece demonstrates, the WHO has aspirations of becoming even more powerful than it already is. If successful, the consequences could prove to be severe.
Last year, Henry I. Miller, a physician and molecular biologist, wrote a stinging piece that took direct aim at the WHO's "bungled response to the coronavirus." Miller, like so many others around the world, was particularly disillusioned about the "misplaced trust" placed in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). As many readers no doubt recall, the CCP did its very best to conceal the COVID-19 outbreak that originated in Wuhan.
Because of the WHO's numerous failures, Miller argued persuasively that the United States, whose "funding of UN activities exceeds that of every other country," should refrain from financing the organisation unless an "effective oversight and auditing entity" can be created to oversee operations.
In 2020, shortly after suspending financial support, the Trump administration began initiating a process to withdraw the United States from membership in the WHO. However, upon taking office in January 2021, President Joe Biden quickly reversed that decision and restored funding practices.
A few weeks after Miller's well-argued piece, Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) introduced a bill designed to prevent the WHO from unilaterally imposing public health restrictions on the United States and violating the country's national sovereignty. The legislation came after the decision-making body of the WHO, the World Health Assembly, met to discuss a "pandemic treaty." If introduced, such a treaty would give the WHO far greater control over public health decisions in the United States.
Scott said: "The WHO's radical 'pandemic treaty' is a dangerous globalist overreach. The United States of America must never give more power to the WHO." He added that the bill would "ensure that public health matters in the country remain in the hands of Americans," and it needed to be passed immediately. It wasn't. It should have been.
From Jan. 9–13, clandestine meetings took place in Geneva, Switzerland. Those in attendance discussed the possibility of amending the WHO's International Health Regulations (IHR). For the uninitiated, the regulations are considered an instrument of international law, a legally binding agreement of basically every country in the world (except Liechtenstein) that calls on members to detect, evaluate, report, and respond to public health emergencies in a coordinated manner.
Michael Nevradakis, a senior reporter for The Defender, warned that if the proposed IHR amendments are made, then WHO members would essentially be stripped of their sovereignty. As Nevradakis previously reported, the IHR framework already allows Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the WHO director-general, "to declare a public health emergency in any country, without the consent of that country's government." The proposed amendments would give even more power to the director-general.
Francis Boyle, a professor of international law at the University of Illinois, told Nevradakis that the proposed changes could violate international law.
Boyle, a legitimate expert who played a pivotal role in drafting the Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989, believes we are heading toward "a worldwide totalitarian medical and scientific police state," which the WHO directly controls. That's because the IHR regulations "are specifically designed to circumvent national, state and local government authorities when it comes to pandemics, the treatment for pandemics and also including in there, vaccines."
It's clear to Boyle that the WHO is preparing to adopt the regulations in May of 2023, just a few months from now.
The brilliant researcher James Roguski also shares Boyle's concerns. He claims that the WHO is attempting a global power grab by morphing from an advisory organisation into what can only be described as a global law-enforcement agency. If introduced, the IHR changes, he suggested, "would institute global digital health certificates, dramatically increase the billions of dollars available to the WHO and enable nations to implement the regulations WITHOUT respect for the dignity, human rights and fundamental freedoms of people."
Although COVID-19 is now a distant memory for many, another pandemic, we're told, is just around the corner. When it comes, the WHO may very well be in a position to order you, dear reader, to do exactly what it wants, when it wants. If these amendments are made in May, resistance may prove to be utterly futile.
Reposted from Epoch Times.
With a doctorate in psychosocial studies, John Mac Ghlionn works as both a researcher and essayist. His writing has been published by the likes of Newsweek, NY Post, and The American Conservative.
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Ottawa considered allowing more pesticides on the berries
Logan Leo 6 months ago 3 min read
According to the Health Canada proposal, imported and domestically produced berries may contain up to seven times more pesticide and fungicide residues. Experts were consulted Tap It was argued that the federal agency's public consultation lacked transparency, in addition to counteracting farmers 'efforts to reduce the amount of their pesticides.
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"We do not agree with these requests because it contradicts our policy of reducing pesticide use in Quebec," said Jennifer Crawford, general manager of the Strawberry Growers and Raspberries Association from Quebec.
The Pest Management Regulatory Agency for Health Canada (PMRA) is proposing to allow three times more residues of metalaxyl and sulfoxaflor in wild blueberries. This proposal allows for seven times more traces of metalaxyl in raspberries and blackberries.
In fact, the tolerance threshold for metalaxyl drops to 3 to 10 parts per million (ppm) for wild blueberries and 0.2 to 1.5 ppm for blackberries and raspberries. The maximum residual limit of sulfoxaflor for wild blueberries is reduced from 0.7 to 2.0 ppm.
If the proposals are accepted, tolerable rates in Canada will be less in demand than in the United States.
"It does not really mean that Health Canada is proposing this kind of change. Their primary goal is to prevent and reduce the risks to personal health and the environment.
Harmful products
Metalaxyl, a systemic fungicide, is dispersed by plants and may be present in fruits. "You can't remove it by washing it with water," said Louis Honald-Ether, director of the Center for Terre Environment and an associate professor at the National Institute for Scientific Research. Studies show that high doses of metalaxyl may affect the liver of laboratory animals.
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While Canada can tolerate more metalaxyl in the diet, its levels may also be higher in the environment.
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It is a pesticide that is persistent and mobile in the environment, so it contaminates groundwater.
Center for Terre Environment Director Louis Honald-Ether about Metalaxyl
Finally, a pesticide called sulfoxafluor works similarly to neonicotinoids, nicknamed "bee-killing" pesticides, lamenting that it is "not good news from an environmental point of view".
Lack of transparency
People are invited to comment on these new concentrations on the Health Canada site. "There is a lack of transparency and detail provided by Health Canada in such consultations. We provide very synthetic and summary documents and we ask the public to respond," M. points out.To me Hanalt-Ether.
On the Public Health Agency's website, we read that "the risks associated with these new uses are acceptable to human health and the environment." The specialist regrets that there is no trace of Hulu and the calculations that support the argument that the risks to health and the environment are acceptable.
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Posted on September 21, 2018 by Fairborn Daily Herald
Women encouraged to tryout for team
WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE – Two Airmen from Wright-Patterson Air Force Base helped the US Women's Armed Forces Soccer Team finish with a solid 2-2 record during the Conseil International du Sport Miltiaire (CISM) 11th World Women's Military Football Championship held this past summer.
For 1st Lt. Carla Cimo, who works at the Air Force Installation Contracting Agency at Wright-Patteson Air Force Base as Charlie Flight Commander of the 771st Enterprise Sourcing Squadron, soccer has played a major part of her life for 21 years since she was 5-years-old.
This past season was the first time Cimo, who plays the position of forward, was a member of the team.
The try-out process begins with a written application which provides the details of a player's soccer career, Cimo said.
"You include who you have played for and the highest level you played at. If you have videos, or pictures you can provide those too. Your supervisor and commander have to approve your application and from there 40 applicants are selected to attend training camp."
For those trying to make the cut for the team, their first five days began at 6 a.m. sharp. The first cut would be made five days into camp.
"We began with an hour of personal single skill drills – a lot of quick touches, what can you do with the ball personal skill-wise," said Cimo. "Then we would run to the chow hall for food, and then our second session from 10 – 11:30 a.m. This session consisted of small-sided team games of two to three players building into drills involving teams of five or six."
El Paso gets pretty hot in the middle of summer, upward of 110 degrees on many days. The brand new turf at the stadium got so hot, some of the players had melting cleats on their shoes, she said.
"After lunch at 3 p.m. we did yoga or swimming for an active recovery session for an hour, followed by a classroom session at 5 p.m. We would watch film learning attacking and defensive principles while developing our soccer IQ and strategies to get the team on the same page."
Then, at 7 p.m., the players would have a 90-minute scrimmage every night, playing local teams from the area. They would have an ice-bath at the end of the day and do it all over again the next day.
"So, when you weren't playing soccer, or stretching or eating, you were sleeping," Cimo said.
At the end of the camp 21 players were selected for the final team roster.
"It's still kind of surreal for me – it was a dream come true. I would have never imagined in my wildest dreams that I would be playing soccer at this level for Team USA, it was truly the most amazing experience of my entire life," said Cimo.
The third and final cut came on the last day of camp. Then the team had about a week together for practice before the tournament began.
Cimo described an atmosphere among the players from the various nations as friendly, but very competitive when it was game time.
"Even though there were some language barriers, we all had respect for one another and mostly had a laid back attitude toward each other."
Goal Keeper Coach Capt. Erin Issler is an Intel Officer with the 14th Intelligence Squadron at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base as an Air Force Reservist, and she's also a human factors engineer for her civilian position with the 711th Human Performance Wing's Human Systems Integration Division.
Issler said she received great support from both of her units and that she played on the team twice before in 2010 and 2011 as a goal keeper before transitioning into coaching.
"I felt like I reached my goals as a player and I wanted to see other people accomplish their goals. This was my first year as a goal keeper coach for the team," she said.
The U.S. team finished fifth in the tournament with a respectable 2-2 record, beating Canada 1-0 and Netherlands 3-0, while losing to South Korea 1-0 and China 3-0.
"We are in a re-building phase with a new coaching staff, and had just six returning players," Issler said. "Having played on the team twice before, I can say that this was the best talent we've had. We've built a strong foundation and we're looking for a top three finish next year. That's a higher goal for us and something that we can definitely obtain."
Next year the Women's Soccer team will compete at the 7th CISM World Games in Wuhan City, China from Oct. 15-30, 2019.
The message for tryouts goes out through official MWR channels and the next one should come out in February 2019, Issler said. Cimo offered sage advice to potential players who might like to try out for next year's team.
"If you are serious about making the team and playing at this level, make sure you are training hard and putting in the time and work. Do great work at your unit so that you have support from your supervisor and commander. Put your resume in, and go for it with no regrets," Cimo said.
"We want to see this team win and eventually be number one. The only way to do that is to recruit great talent. Tryouts are open to all active, reserve and guard personnel," Issler said.
To learn more about the U.S. Women's Soccer Team, visit https://www.facebook.com/ArmedForcesWSoccer/ or contact Cimo at carla.cimo.1@us.af.mil.
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