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A holiday tradition 5. A city of contrasts
All kinds of entertainment 6. The name meaning
It's a must for any tourist 7. The green spots
Going back in history 8. Not for everyone
A. The population of London grew in the 17th century. Many houses were built during that period. It was needed after the Great Fire of 1666. In the 19th century the city suffered from pollution and epidemics. The German bombings during World War II destroyed the historical center of London. After the war the city was reconstructed and now it is one of the most beautiful European capitals.
B. Each year in December, the people of Norway send a present to Londoners. It is a very big Christmas Tree, which is put in Trafalgar Square. In this way they thank Britain for help during World War II. This tree becomes one of the unforgettable sights of London, especially when it is lit by hundreds of fairy lights. Londoners often group around the tree and sing Christmas songs.
C. Trafalgar Square is situated in central London. It is one of the greatest and most famous tourist attractions. Your visit to the capital usually begins with this place. It's absolutely necessary for every tourist to see Nelson's Column. Everyone should admire the lovely fountains of the square. Also, you can't say that you've been to London if you don't take a picture of yourself in the square.
D. London was founded by the Romans in the 1st century AD and called Londinium. There is a common theory that the word «Londinium» comes from the name of a Celtic village. Also, the adjective «lond» meant «wild» in the Celtic language. Perhaps, it characterized the river Thames, on which the city was started. So, most scientists think that London is a «village on the wild river».
E. In spite of being an important industrial and business centre London is known for its parks and open spaces. In every part of the city, you can find at least one park. It can be just a small pool with surrounding trees or a big and magnificent park like Hyde Park or Regent's Park. They are all loved and visited by Londoners all the year round.
F. The liveliest part of London is West End. There are a lot of pubs, clubs, shops, theatres and cafes there. All kinds of pastimes are offered to tourists. Most of them choose shopping in Oxford Street with its stores, boutiques and gift shops. It's a pleasant experience because the choices are great.
G. Big Ben is one of London's best-known sights. The name «Big Ben» actually refers not to the clock-tower itself, but to the thirteen ton bell hanging within. The tower is not open to the general public. A tourist from abroad can't visit it. The citizens of the UK are luckier. They can write a letter to a member of Parliament and ask to allow them to tour the clock tower. Usually, the permission is given.
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"""Get Weather from WU API."""

import json
from urllib.request import urlopen

import numpy as np

from . import config as cg

# Based on: https://www.hackster.io/brad-buskey/getweather-for-omega2-8e3298

class Wunderground(object):
    """Connect to Weather Underground API."""

    # Docs: https://www.wunderground.com/weather/api

    def __init__(self):
        """Initializer."""
        self.count = 0

        self.apikey = cg.read_ini('WU', 'apikey', filename='secret')
        self.lat = cg.read_ini('WU', 'lat', filename='secret')
        self.lon = cg.read_ini('WU', 'lon', filename='secret')
        cg.send('> WU - Key {} / GPS ({}, {})'.format(self.apikey, self.lat, self.lon))

    def fetch(self, req_type):
        """Request Weather Data."""
        get_url = 'http://api.wunderground.com/api/{}/{}/q/{},{}.json'.format(
            self.apikey, req_type, self.lat, self.lon)
        weatherdict = urlopen(get_url).read()
        weatherinfo = json.loads(weatherdict)
        # cg.send('\nComplete weatherinfo JSON:')
        # cg.send(weatherinfo)
        self.count += 1
        cg.send('New WU request, total: {}'.format(self.count))
        return weatherinfo

# Initialize WU instance only once.
WU = Wunderground()

def conditions():
    """Get the day's summary."""
    weatherinfo = WU.fetch('conditions')
    # For current conditions, everything is under current observation:
    weatherdata = weatherinfo['current_observation']

    weather = weatherdata['weather']  # Overcast
    temperature_string = weatherdata['temperature_string']  # 37.0 F (2.8 C)
    temp_c = weatherdata['temp_c']  # 2.8
    temp_f = weatherdata['temp_f']  # 43
    feelslike_c = weatherdata['feelslike_c']  # 4
    feelslike_f = weatherdata['feelslike_f']  # 43
    windchill_c = weatherdata['windchill_c']  # 3
    windchill_f = weatherdata['windchill_f']  # 42
    wnd = weatherdata['wind_string']  # From the South at 2.0 MPH...
    wind_gust_mph = weatherdata['wind_gust_mph']  # 7.0
    precip = weatherdata['precip_today_string']  # 0.00 in (0 mm)
    precip_1hr_metric = weatherdata['precip_1hr_metric']  # 0.00
    precip_today_metric = weatherdata['precip_today_metric']  # 0
    relative_humidity = weatherdata['relative_humidity']  # 40%

    return {
        'weather': weather,
        'temperature_string': temperature_string,
        'temp_c': temp_c,
        'temp_f': temp_f,
        'feelslike_c': feelslike_c,
        'feelslike_f': feelslike_f,
        'windchill_c': windchill_c,
        'windchill_f': windchill_f,
        'wnd': wnd,
        'wind_gust_mph': wind_gust_mph,
        'precip': precip,
        'precip_1hr_metric': precip_1hr_metric,
        'precip_today_metric': precip_today_metric,
        'relative_humidity': relative_humidity
    }

def forecast():
    """Print forecast."""
    weatherinfo = WU.fetch('forecast')
    print(weatherinfo)
    print('Error: forecast....isn\'t parsed yet')

def commute(quiet=True):
    """Return summary of commute weather."""
    weatherinfo = WU.fetch('hourly')
    weatherdata = weatherinfo['hourly_forecast']

    # Determine the morning commute weather and for when I commute home
    hours = [x['FCTTIME']['hour'] for x in weatherdata]
    commute_weather = []
    # window = 3  # hours
    window = 2  # hours
    # For morning (0) and afternoon (8)
    for i in [0, 8]:
        k_init = False
        wspd, wdir = [], []
        pop, hm, snow, qpf = [], [], [], []
        hour, fc, cnd, temp, tmp = [], [], [], [], []
        # Three hour window for each
        for j in range(window):
            # **Keep weather up to date up to 8 am of the same day
            hi = hours.index('8') - window
            k = i + j + (hi)  # sort of solve for 5 am
            cg.send('Starting loop j:{}+i:{}+hi:{} = k:{} (k_init={})'.format(
                    j, i, hi, k, k_init))
            k = k if k > 0 else 0
            hour = weatherdata[k]
            if type(k_init) is not int:
                ts_start = hour['FCTTIME']['pretty']
                h_start = hour['FCTTIME']['hour']
                day = hour['FCTTIME']['weekday_name_abbrev']
                k_init = k
            fc.append(hour['wx'])  # Clear/Wind
            cnd.append(hour['condition'])  # Chance of Rain
            temp.append(eval(hour['temp']['english']))  # 9
            tmp.append(eval(hour['feelslike']['english']))  # 43
            # wspd.append(eval(hour['wspd']['metric']))  # 37
            wspd.append(eval(hour['wspd']['english']))  # 20
            wdir.append(hour['wdir']['dir'])  # WNW
            # wchl.append(eval(hour['windchill']['metric']))  # 9
            pop.append(eval(hour['pop']))  # 30 {prob of precip}
            hm.append(eval(hour['humidity']))  # 46
            snow.append(eval(hour['snow']['metric']))  # 0
            qpf.append(eval(hour['qpf']['metric']))  # 0 {rain?}
        commute_weather.append({
            'ts': ts_start,
            'hr': h_start,
            'day': day,
            'fc': fc[1],
            'cnd': cnd[1],
            'temp': '{:3.1f}F'.format((np.mean(temp))),
            'tmp': '{:+d}F'.format(int(np.mean(tmp))),
            'wspd': '{}mph'.format(int(np.mean(wspd))),
            'wdir': wdir[1],
            'pop': '{}%'.format(np.amax(pop)),
            'hm': '{:2d}%'.format(int(np.mean(hm))),
            'snow': '',  # 'snow': 'SNOW! ' if np.amax(snow) > 0.1 else '',
            'precip': np.amax(qpf)
        })
    # cg.send('Example (Wthr cnd):', commute_weather[0]['cnd'])
    if not quiet:
        # _r = random.randint(0, len(commute_weather) - 1)  # used to be rand
        _r = 0  # now just the first
        # cg.send('commute_weather[{}]: {}'.format(_r, commute_weather[_r]))
        cg.send('weather[{}][ts]= {}'.format(_r, commute_weather[_r]['ts']))
    return commute_weather

if __name__ == '__main__':
    weatherinfo = WU.fetch('hourly')
    print(weatherinfo)

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This palace was built for Moscow's commander-in-chief, Lieutenant General and Senator Pyotr Yeropkin (1724-1805). Catherine II put him in charge of "watching over the health of the whole city of Moscow" in 1717. After he ended a revolt that burst out the same year after an epidemic plague, the Empress offered him bestowing gifts that he refused. For that reason the Muscovites felt a great respect for him. In 1806, after the Senator and his wife died, the estate was bought so as to create a commerce college. The education there was classical and professional. Only the stone façade and a few walls survived the 1812 fire. It was then rebuilt and another building was added in 1853-1854. After the 1917 Revolution, it became the Institute of Foreign Languages. Nowadays it houses the Moscow State Linguistic University.


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Pisa Beach Italy
Pisa Beach Italy and its shorelines are most traveled, Pisa Beach is a preferred location for Holiday Retreat Travel Tour and Water Sport. Clean Sand and Epic view of Sunrise and Sunset on Pisa Beach makes it a ultimate destination. Pisa Beach has stunning shoreline comes in at number one. The unblemished sand extends is long and beautiful, smack blast amidst warm sun, with completely clear waters ideal for snorkeling. It's the most shot beach in as per Tourist Reviews. Water Sport on Pisa Beach is renowned one. Marina di Pisa Beach is the nearest sea in Pisa near the mouth of the Arno River. The beach is full of bathing establishments and sheltered by many breakwaters that mitigate the erosive action of the sea. Marina di Pisa Beach is located just south of the mouth of the Arno, but it is curious to find that, once, it was on the opposite side of the river, which flowed further south. The sea has a golden sand with the retreat of the beach, later, made it lose importance, supplanted by other more fashionable beaches. Marina di Pisa Beach also called simply "Marina" is a seaside town located just 12 km from Pisa and, unlikely the majority of the Tuscan cities, its foundation is rather recent.
Marina di Pisa Beach is still a renowned destination for summer tourism, offering many accommodation facilities. Beaches are both sandy or with pebbles, and along the coast there are many bathing facilities and restaurants. On public holidays and high season evenings, closed to traffic and becomes a popular promenade frequented by local people and tourists. There's also a bike path that runs from Marina di Pisa Beach to Tirrenia, the seaside town next to Marina. Fishing has always been an integral part of the cultural and economic life of Marina di Pisa Beach community, and the fishing of tiny clams called "Arselle" has big relevance. The Marina di Pisa Beach forced to protect the coast with the sand is returning and is probably preparing a new period of splendor, also due to the considerable presence of services and accommodation facilities. Marina di Pisa Beach offers relax and a beach break from the city, suggest you to enjoy the seafront, a day at the free beach or in a bathing establishment which is a structure with bathrooms, hot/cold showers, changing area, cafe and sometime restaurant. You can rent an umbrella with chairs for the day/week/month/season and the service is available seven days a week.
The seafaring vocation of the area is evidenced by the presence of a boat slide in the village, as well as by an anchor in the square, this stretch of sea it is indeed fishy, with sea bream and sea bream caught directly by the breakwater dams. The Pisa Beach is narrow and long and consists of gravel and small and medium-sized white pebbles. North of the Marina di Pisa beach is "Bocca d'Arno", the mouth of the Arno River; here it is possible to moor and rent small boats. Pisa Beach is a curiosity it is precisely the pine forest that runs along the beach that inspired Gabriele D'Annunzio for the writing of the famous work "The rain in the pinewood". This amazing shorelines of Pisa comes in at Top Order. The faultless sand expands more till the skyline, smack impact in the midst of the shores, with totally clear waters perfect for water wears in Italy. It's the most grand shoreline in Italy as demonstrated by group of vacationer visiting the Pisa Beach. With best perspectives amid dawn and dusk you can witness a delightful show of tints end up noticeably known.
The Pisa Beach promenade is also pleasant, tourist facilities are concentrated almost at the end of the inhabited center bathing establishments, campsites, restaurants, and also a playground and a nautical club. The Pisa Beach is closed in many small sandy gulfs, protected from waves by artificial stone barriers, ideal for those with children. On the back, over the road, there is a low pine forest with a thicket of Mediterranean scrub. In Marina di Pisa Beach built around the very important squares in such a way as to look like a grid. Around the world, Pisa Beach is prominent for its delightful shorelines. There are a lovely piece of shorelines in Pisa Beach and most by far of them are flawless and quiet. Pisa Beach are serene and in addition of a for the most part high gauge and it gloats a bit of the best shorelines on the planet. Tourism In charge keep their shorelines spotless and waste free.
The marina di Pisa Beach promenade is flanked by two sidewalks the part of the sea with artificial rocks, where people go to sunbathe, the so-called "rock baths", while on the other side there are houses and shops. About 20 meters from the first rocks there is another cliff that serves, to protect Marina di Pisa Beach from the storms. When the cliff ends, the bathing establishments begin at Tirrenia, Calambrone and Livorno. On beautiful days without dog you can see nearby Corsica and the islands of the archipelago Capraia, Elba and Gorgona, recognizable by their "profile." Some of these islands can be reached by ferry that leaves every day from Bocca d 'The Cinque Terre are also reached. The Pisa Beach coast extends along the beach, yhe coast is famous for its crowded beach of Tirrenia and Marina di Pisa, as well as for the quieter beaches of Marina di Vecchiano and Calambrone. The Pisa Beach coast is affected by a process of deep restructuring, with the aim of relaunching it at a regional and national level. Some important complexes are being renovated, especially in the Calambrone area. Also as regards the services offered, the Pisa Beach coast now has nothing to envy to the coast of Versilia.

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REGISTRATION: OVERSEAS ELECTORS
1. The Representation of the People Act 1985 is amended as follows.
Franchise for parliamentary elections
2. For section 1 substitute-
"Extension of parliamentary franchise. 1. - (1) A person is entitled to vote as an elector at a parliamentary election in any constituency if-
(a) he qualifies as an overseas elector in respect of that constituency on the date on which he makes a declaration under and in accordance with section 2 of this Act ("the relevant date");
(b) on that date and on the date of the poll-
(i) he is not subject to any legal incapacity to vote, and
(ii) he is a British citizen; and
(c) on the date of the poll he is registered in a register of parliamentary electors for that constituency.
(2) For the purposes of this Act and the principal Act a person qualifies as an overseas elector in respect of a constituency on the relevant date if-
(a) on that date he is not resident in the United Kingdom, and
(b) he satisfies one of the following sets of conditions.
(3) The first set of conditions is that-
(a) he was included in a register of parliamentary electors in respect of an address at a place that is situated within the constituency concerned,
(b) that entry in the register was made on the basis that he was resident, or to be treated for the purposes of registration as resident, at that address,
(c) that entry in the register was in force at any time falling within the period of 20 years ending immediately before the relevant date, and
(d) subsequent to that entry ceasing to have effect no entry was made in any register of parliamentary electors on the basis that he was resident, or to be treated for the purposes of registration as resident, at any other address.
(4) The second set of conditions is that-
(a) he was last resident in the United Kingdom within the period of 20 years ending immediately before the relevant date,
(b) he was by reason only of his age incapable of being included in any register of parliamentary electors in force on the last day on which he was resident in the United Kingdom, and
(c) the address at which he was resident on that day was at a place that is situated within the constituency concerned and a parent or guardian of his was included, in respect of that address, in a register of parliamentary electors or a register of local government electors in force on that day.
(5) The reference in subsection (1) above to a person being subject to a legal incapacity to vote on the relevant date does not include a reference to his being under the age of 18 on that date; and the reference in subsection (4) above to a register of local government electors includes a reference to a register of electors prepared for the purposes of local elections (within the meaning of the Electoral Law Act (Northern Ireland) 1962)."
Registration of overseas electors
"Registration of British citizens overseas. 2. - (1) A person is entitled to be registered in a register of parliamentary electors in pursuance of a declaration made by him under and in accordance with this section (an "overseas elector's declaration") if-
(a) the register is for the constituency or part of the constituency within which is situated the place in the United Kingdom specified in the declaration in accordance with subsection (4) below as having been the address-
(i) in respect of which he was registered, or
(ii) at which he was resident,
as the case may be, and
(b) the registration officer concerned is satisfied that, on the relevant date, he qualifies as an overseas elector in respect of that constituency for which that register is prepared.
(2) A person registered in a register of parliamentary electors in pursuance of an overseas elector's declaration is entitled to remain so registered until-
(a) the end of the period of 12 months beginning with the date when the entry in the register first takes effect,
(b) the declaration is cancelled under subsection (5) below, or
(c) any entry made in respect of him in any register of parliamentary electors takes effect otherwise than in pursuance of an overseas elector's declaration,
whichever first occurs; and, where the person is registered in pursuance of the declaration at the time when his entitlement to remain so registered terminates by virtue of this subsection, the registration officer concerned shall remove that person's entry from the register, unless he is entitled to remain registered in pursuance of a further overseas elector's declaration.
(3) An overseas elector's declaration must state-
(a) the date of the declaration,
(b) that the declarant is a British citizen,
(c) that the declarant is not resident in the United Kingdom on the relevant date, and
(d) when he ceased to be so resident or, in the case of a person relying on registration in pursuance of a service declaration, when he ceased to have a service qualification or, if later, ceased to be so resident,
and must contain such other information and satisfy such other requirements (which may include requirements for declarations to be attested and for the charging of fees in respect of their attestation) as may be prescribed.
(4) An overseas elector's declaration must-
(a) show which set of conditions in section 1 of this Act the declarant claims to satisfy,
(b) in the case of the first set of conditions, specify the address in respect of which he was registered, and
(c) in the case of the second set of conditions, specify-
(i) the date of the declarant's birth,
(ii) the address in the United Kingdom at which he was resident, and
(iii) the name of the parent or guardian on whose registration in respect of that address he relies, and whether the person named was a parent or guardian,
and may not, in the case of either set of conditions, specify more than one such address; and if the declarant makes more than one such declaration bearing the same date and specifying different addresses in the United Kingdom as the address in respect of which he was registered or, as the case may be, at which he was resident the declarations shall be void.
(5) An overseas elector's declaration may be cancelled at any time by the declarant.
(6) An overseas elector's declaration shall be of no effect unless it is received by the registration officer concerned within the period of three months beginning with the relevant date.
(7) For the purposes of section 1 of this Act and Part I of the principal Act, where a person is registered in a register of parliamentary electors for any constituency or part of a constituency in pursuance of an overseas elector's declaration, it shall be conclusively presumed-
(a) that the address specified in the declaration in accordance with subsection (4) above is at a place that is situated within that constituency or, as the case may be, part, and
(b) that he was not resident in the United Kingdom on the relevant date;
and for the purposes of section 1 of this Act, section 49(1)(a) of the principal Act (register conclusive as to residence) does not apply in relation to a person's previous registration in a register of parliamentary electors unless he is registered in pursuance of an overseas elector's declaration by virtue of that previous registration.
(8) In this section "the relevant date" has the meaning given by section 1(1)(a) of this Act."
Franchise for European Parliamentary elections
"Extension of franchise for European Parliamentary elections. 3. - (1) A peer is entitled by virtue of this section to vote as an elector at a European Parliamentary election in any electoral region if-
(a) he qualifies under this section in respect of that region on the date on which he makes a declaration under and in accordance with regulations under this section ("the relevant date"),
(b) on that date and on the day appointed for the election-
(ii) he is a British citizen, and
(c) on the day so appointed he is registered in the electoral region in a register under this section.
(2) For the purposes of subsection (1) above, a peer qualifies under this section in respect of an electoral region on the relevant date if-
(a) he was included in a register of local government electors in respect of an address at a place that is situated within the electoral region concerned,
(d) subsequent to that entry ceasing to have effect no entry was made in any register of local government electors on the basis that he was resident, or to be treated for the purposes of registration as resident, at any other address.
(b) he was by reason only of his age incapable of being included in any register of local government electors in force on the last day on which he was resident in the United Kingdom, and
(c) the address at which he was resident on that day was at a place that is situated within the electoral region concerned and a parent or guardian of his was included, in respect of that address, in a register of parliamentary electors or a register of local government electors in force on that day.
(5) Regulations may-
(a) provide for a person seeking registration under this section to make a declaration for the purpose, being a declaration of the prescribed facts and containing the prescribed information;
(b) require such declarations to be attested and provide for the charging of fees in respect of their attestation;
(c) make provision for and in connection with the cancellation of such declarations.
(6) Regulations may also-
(a) provide for the registration, subject to prescribed exceptions and on satisfying prescribed conditions, of those peers who (apart from the requirements of registration) may be entitled by virtue of this section to vote as electors at European Parliamentary elections;
(b) apply with such modifications or exceptions as may be prescribed any provision in respect of the registration of parliamentary or local government electors made by or under the principal Act or this Act.
(7) Regulations under this section shall require each registration officer to prepare and publish, in respect of any year for which any peers are to be registered under this section, a register of the peers so registered; and any such register shall so far as practicable be combined with the registers of parliamentary electors and of local government electors, the names of peers registered under this section being marked to indicate that fact.
(8) In this section-
(a) "legal incapacity" has the same meaning-
(i) in relation to Great Britain as it has in the principal Act for the purposes of local government elections, and
(ii) in relation to Northern Ireland as it has in the Electoral Law Act (Northern Ireland) 1962 for the purposes of local elections,
but the reference in subsection (1)(b) above to a person being subject to a legal incapacity to vote on the relevant date does not include a reference to his being below the age of 18 on that date,
(b) "local election" has the same meaning as in the Electoral Law Act (Northern Ireland) 1962, and
(c) references to the register of local government elections include a reference to a register of electors prepared-
(i) for the purposes of local elections, or
(ii) for the purposes of municipal elections in the City of London (that is, elections to the office of mayor, alderman, common councilman or sheriff and also elections of officers elected by the mayor, aldermen and liverymen in common hall).
(9) For the purposes of this section, section 49(2)(a) of the principal Act (registers conclusive as to residence) does not apply in relation to a person's previous registration in a register of local government electors unless he is registered under this section by virtue of that previous registration."
Prepared 14 January 2000


You are cordially invited to participate in the thirteenth biennial meeting on The Cell Cycle which will be held at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. The meeting will begin on Tuesday, May 17, 2016, and will conclude with lunch on Saturday, May 21. The specific goal for this meeting is to create a forum in which diverse areas of cell cycle regulation in a broad spectrum of experimental organisms can be openly and critically discussed.
Emphasis will be placed both upon areas of traditional interest to the cell cycle field, such as control of G1, DNA replication, checkpoint pathways and mitosis, and on areas of emerging interest and importance, such as the links between cell cycle regulation and development, spindle and chromosome dynamics, and specialized cell cycle states such as quiescence.


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Carl Ahles (auch: Karl Ahles; vollständiger Name Carl Ludwig Wilhelm Ahles und Karl Ludwig Wilhelm Ahles; * 12. Februar 1789 in Hannover; † 13. November 1847 in ebenda) war ein deutscher Weinhändler, Senator und Kommunalpolitiker.

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Ahles wurde zur Zeit des Kurfürstentums Hannover im Jahr 1789 als Sohn des Weinhändlers Johann Wilhelm Ahles geboren. Nach der sogenannten "Franzosenzeit", der Erhebung des vormaligen Kurfürstentums zum Königreich Hannover und dem Tod seines Vaters übernahm Ahles 1818 den Ausschank und den Weinhandels seines Vaters: "Ahles Weinstube" war Treffpunkt zahlreicher stadthannoverscher Honoratioren; aber auch Persönlichkeiten wie Wilhelm Busch und Wilhelm Raabe und Prominente wie Georg oder August Kestner kehrten in die auch Ahles Weinhandlung und Weinstube genannte Einrichtung ein.

1822 war Karl Ahles Mitglied des "Directions-Committées" des im Schlosstheater seinerzeit privat geführten Hoftheaters, in dem unter anderem der Schauspieler August Pichler unter Begleitung mehrerer Hofmusiker auftrat. Mitglieder des Komitees unter der Leitung des Oberhofmarschalls Graf Carl Philipp von Hardenberg waren neben Ahles der Obersteuerrat Baron August Otto Ludwig Freiherr von Grote, Hofrat Falck sowie der "Oberschenk" und "Chef" des Orchesters Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Graf von Platen-Hallermund.

In den Jahren zwischen 1825 und 1843 wurde Ahles wiederholt zum Senator sowie in das Bürgervorsteherkollegium der Stadt Hannover gewählt in dem Ahles nicht nur als Rechnungsführer des städtischen Krankenhauses und des Lazarett-Registers zuständig war, sondern in dem der Freimaurer und Mitglied der Loge Friedrich zum weißen Pferde zeitweilig auch als Vize-Wortführer wirkte.

In diesem Zeitraum war er 1828 gemeinsam mit dem Fabrikbesitzer und Finanzsenator August Ludwig Bruns sowie Franz Krohne und Friedrich Kromcke Mitbegründer eines Vereins "zur Errichtung einer allgemeinen, auf Gegenseitigkeit der Interessenten begründeten Lebensversicherungsanstalt für das Königreich Hannover", dessen Zweck die Vorbereitung der einzurichtenden Lebensversicherung war. "Herr Senator Ahles" wirkte als einer der ersten Vorstände im Gewerbeverein für das Königreich Hannover.

Ahles war einer jener Anführer, die während des Verfassungskonfliktes im Juli 1839 zur Wahrung der städtischen Rechte König Ernst August entgegentraten.

Kurz vor seinem Tode im Jahr 1847 verkaufte der Gastronom seinen Weinhandel und Ausschank an seinen Kellermeister Karl Schultz, dem Vetter des Amateurastronoms und Dichters Georg Friedrich Schultz.

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Archivalien von und über den Senator, Bürgervorsteher und Weinhändler finden sich beispielsweise
 im Stadtarchiv Hannover.

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Unternehmer (19. Jahrhundert)
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Freimaurer (19. Jahrhundert)
Freimaurer (Deutschland)
Mitte (Hannover)
Calenberger Neustadt
Deutscher
Geboren 1789
Gestorben 1847
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The same signs that were there for health care in 1994 are all there for health care in 2010.
Deja vu a nightmare for Dems?
By CHRIS FRATES and CARRIE BUDOFF BROWN
The parallels to 1994 — the last time health reform died — are unmistakable.
Democratic senators huddled for weeks in backroom meetings, groping for a workable alternative. Some of the attempts at reviving it were genuine, while others were only designed to suggest forward progress, observers recall. After four or five weeks, the effort was abandoned as Democrats geared up for the midterm elections.
The same signs are all there for health care, circa 2010. No one in Congress will say it's dead, but smart people can't figure out how it stays alive.
Look at the signs: White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel last week said health reform had to wait its turn in line, right after jobs and regulatory reform — a process that would put it months down the road. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) seemed in slow-walk mode, only promising movement "this year." These are the same people who spent months arguing that reform had to be jammed through quickly, or it would fail.
"They were right the first time," said Lawrence O'Donnell, the Democratic staff director for the Senate Finance Committee during the 1993-94 Clinton health care debate. "There's no such thing as 'Let's take a pause in legislating so that we can gain momentum on it.' It's insulting."
Since the Massachusetts election, O'Donnell said, Democrats have moved into "full bluff mode."
The pathways to save it are impossibly narrow, each loaded with problems.
And Democratic leaders, while voicing support to proceed, have yet to make up their minds about which one to choose.
— Option 1: Reid and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi are trying the 51-vote reconciliation route. The idea would be a pass a bill to "clean up" the Senate bill. Reid can afford to lose nine senators — and at least eight senators are on record saying they oppose reconciliation or have strong reservations about using it. At least two more — Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.) and Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) — have been historical opponents of reconciliation.
— Option 2: President Barack Obama keeps floating a break-up-the-bill approach.
Carving the bill into bite-sized chunks has a surface appeal to Democrats — not least of which is putting Republicans on the spot to oppose popular reforms — but which chunks? Who picks the winners and losers? Democrats couldn't satisfy everyone in their caucuses when they had 2,000 pages of legislation and nearly $1 trillion to work with, so it's harder than it looks.
— Option 3: Obama's press secretary, Robert Gibbs, on Sunday was still talking up the pathway where the House just passes the Senate bill and sends it to Obama's desk. It's true — the House could vote any time to do that, and the nation would have health reform. But Pelosi's already said the House won't do it.
The California Democrat has a larger problem, going back to Option 1. It's not at all clear she still has 218 votes to pass a sweeping health reform plan anyway. She only got 220 votes the last time, Rep. Anh "Joseph" Cao (R-La.) says he's a "no" vote now and one of her "yes" votes retired.
And it's not like any of these paths are quick and easy.
Pursuing a scaled-backed bill or a series of incremental reforms would still take weeks, if not months, and the end result would fall well short of the Democratic vision of a comprehensive overhaul.
Reopening negotiations with Republicans could set back passage for months or longer, with no guarantee that it would even happen.
And reconciliation, which would allow Democrats to circumvent the Senate's 60-vote threshold for passage, has two problems. One, it's hard to know which parts of reform the all-powerful parliamentarian would rule germane under the complex rules for reconciliation.
And two, and worse for Democrats, Republicans would have a field day blasting it as yet another shortcut, yet another example of the deal making needed to get the bill across the finish line — a kind of "Cornhusker Kickback" for the whole bill.
Here's the scariest part for Democrats: Despite all that, reconciliation is still the best chance of getting anything approaching Obama's original vision of reform.
"You get one more shot at this without any margin of error," said a senior Senate Democratic aide.
Democrats may well decide the risk is worth it. Congressional leaders and their staff have been researching the procedure, weighing the pros and cons behind closed doors and making all the right commitments in public to keep the process moving.
There is a still sizable contingent of Democrats who continue to believe failure is not an option, even though their voices have been softer since the Senate loss in Massachusetts. Obama, Pelosi and Reid, by all accounts, still agree with this thinking and remain sincerely committed to pushing ahead. Most Democrats have already voted for the bill, making them more invested in finishing the job than their counterparts were in 1994.
A Senate leadership aide said senators were aiming to make a decision by the end of this week.
But the top Democrats have been left to make the decision on their own, without any public direction from the president — a move that doesn't inspire confidence that a quick solution is forthcoming.
"It's been two weeks since the massacre in Massachusetts. What are we doing?" a second Senate Democratic aide said. "The president has to step up to the plate and tell us what he wants to do and lead the effort."
A White House official has said the president is in "close consultation" with leadership, and they know where he wants the process to go.
The hesitation of Democrats to use reconciliation is galling to Ron Pollack, the executive director of Families USA and a longtime advocate of health reform.
Congress has used reconciliation to pass 19 laws since 1980, including the 1996 welfare reform bill and the 1997 children's health insurance program. Former President George W. Bush caused controversy by employing the fast-track rules to approve two rounds of tax cuts that were paid for through the budget surplus.
To Pollack, the choice is clear. Reconciliation has been used for health care measures in the past, the current health care bill would reduce the deficit and the procedure allows the majority to exercise its will, he said.
"I don't understand what the risk is if it has been used a number of times," Pollack said. "What is the problem?"
One problem is that Republicans also can offer an unlimited number of amendments that receive votes after the 20 hours of debate ends. This means senators could be forced to cast dozens of votes that could go on for days.
And that is another way that history could repeat itself — because in 1994, health reform died of a thousand cuts.
After struggling for most of that year, Senate Democrats brought a health reform bill to the floor in August. Republicans successfully picked it apart with targeted amendments that were politically impossible for Democrats to oppose.
After about a week, then-Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell (D-Maine) pulled the bill from the floor saying they would tackle it again after recess, O'Donnell said.
Within a month, health reform was dead.
Lawrence ODonnell


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Ecuador's Narvaez solos to win on Giro's 12th stage
CESENATICO: Ecuador's Jhonatan Narvaez soloed his way to victory on a rain-drenched 12th stage of the Giro d'Italia on Thursday to give Ineos Grenadiers their third win in this year's race. On a day in which the weather conditions dampened the hoped-for fireworks in the GC battle over five categorised climbs, Narvaez and Ukraine's Mark Padun (Bahrain McLaren) battled it out after escaping from a 14-man lead group. But Padun suffered a broken front wheel with little more than 20km of the 204km stage from Cesenatico to Cesenatico left and despite valiantly chasing down Narvaez he ran out of legs. Narvaez, 23, kept the power down to extend his advantage in the closing kilometres, winning by over a minute.
It was a day of consolidation for Portugal's Joao Almeida (Deceuninck-Quickstep) who retained the leader's pink jersey, preserving his 34-second lead over Wilco Kelderman (Sunweb). The race leader's group finished eight minutes and 26 seconds behind Narvaez. After the bitter disappointment of losing team leader Geraint Thomas to a fractured hip sustained in the third stage, British team Ineos Grenadiers have bounced back in style. Filippo Ganna followed up his stage one time trial success with victory on stage five and Narvaez produced a superb ride on a miserably cold and wet day in the northern Apennines. With the peloton giving up the chase on the final climb of the day, Narvaez and Padun looked set for a head-to-head time trial to the finish on the Adriatic coast.
But Padun's misfortune turned Narvaez's first Grand Tour stage victory into a procession as he covered the last 10km in just under 13 minutes at an average speed of 46.8kmh. Friday's stage is a more or less flat 192km route from Cervia to Monselice and should be another day for the sprinters.


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Tornado warning and response at a university campus
Christopher Olver | April 29, 2011
2010 study by Mississippi State University published in Natural Hazards on the effectiveness of a large university's emergency warning system.
Expanding U.S. broadband, Internet infrastructure
Katharine Lusk | April 26, 2011
2010 report from the Pew Center on the States on the challenges the country faces in providing high-speed Internet access to all Americans.
Pew Research Center report: The Internet and campaign 2010
Rozanne Larsen | April 21, 2011
Pew Research Center report surveying online participation during election season.
Online metrics and the future of digital journalism
John Wihbey | April 12, 2011
2010 study by Columbia University's Tow Center for Digital Journalism on the difficulties for media organizations of understanding their online audiences.
Predicting U.S. elections through search volume in Google Trends
John Wihbey | April 5, 2011
2011 Wellesley College study looking at whether Google Trends volume was predictive of 2008 and 2010 U.S. Congressional elections.
Hispanics trail other groups in Web usage, confidence
Christopher Olver | March 31, 2011
2011 poll by the Washington Post, Kaiser Family Foundation and Harvard School of Public Health on Internet usage among Latinos.
Attacks against media and human rights websites
John Wihbey | March 29, 2011
2010 study by Harvard's Berkman Center on the frequency and type of Internet attacks on targeted groups.
Understanding the participatory news consumer
Sui-Jade Ho | January 18, 2011
2010 survey by the Pew Research Center's Internet and American Life Project and the Project for Excellence in Journalism on trends in the news habits of Americans.
Do babies learn from baby media?
Leighton Walter Kille | December 1, 2010
2010 study by researchers from the University of Virginia and Vanderbilt on the number of words that 12- to 18-month-olds picked up from a best-selling instructional DVD for children.
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Nikołaj Nikołajewicz Nowosilcow (ros. Николай Николаевич Новосильцев lub Новосильцов, ur. 1761, zm. 20 kwietnia 1838 w Petersburgu) – rosyjski hrabia (1833), polityk i działacz państwowy.

Zastępca przewodniczącego Rady Najwyższej Tymczasowej Księstwa Warszawskiego, sprawujący nadzór nad policją w latach 1813–1815, i kontrolę nad skarbem od 1814 roku, przewodniczący Komitetu Wyższego Nadzoru Policyjnego, w 1815 roku członek Rządu Tymczasowego Królestwa Polskiego, przewodniczący Petersburskiej Akademii Nauk 1803–1810.

Postać Nikołaja Nowosilcowa pojawia się w III części Dziadów (1832) Adama Mickiewicza.

Życiorys
Uczył się w Korpusie Paziów.

Służył w rosyjskiej armii w latach 1783-1796 i uczestniczył w pokonaniu insurekcji kościuszkowskiej w 1794 w Polsce i na Litwie. Odsunięty w 1796 przebywał w Londynie.

Jeden z najbliższych współpracowników Aleksandra I w pierwszych latach jego panowania. Mając pełne zaufanie Aleksandra I był członkiem Tajnej Komisji. Był dyplomatą w latach 1804-1809. Zawarł w 1805 antynapoleoński sojusz z Wielką Brytanią.

13 marca 1813 wszedł do pięcioosobowej Rady Najwyższej Tymczasowej okupowanego Księstwa Warszawskiego, w latach 1813-1815 zarządzał jego finansami. Z inicjatywy Nowosilcowa, Aleksandra Rożnieckiego, przy wsparciu Mateusza Lubowidzkiego powołano Biuro Centralne Policji dla Warszawy i Królestwa Polskiego. Powołał w Królestwie Kongresowym Wyższą Wojskową Tajną Policję. W latach 1815-1830 komisarz carski przy Radzie Stanu Królestwa Polskiego. Wróg polskich ruchów wolnościowych, rusyfikator.

Od 1824 kurator wileńskiego okręgu szkolnego. Prowadził intrygi przeciw Adamowi Jerzemu Czartoryskiemu. Aby przypodobać się carowi, przyczynił się do wykrycia nieprawdziwych spisków Filomatów i Filaretów w prowincjach zabranych. Od 1832 do 1838 roku przewodniczący Rady Państwa i Komitetu Ministrów Imperium Rosyjskiego.

Był członkiem honorowym Towarzystwa Warszawskiego Przyjaciół Nauk.

Odznaczenia
W 1818 został odznaczony Orderem Orła Białego. W 1830 roku został kawalerem Orderu Świętego Stanisława 1. klasy.

Zobacz też
 Pałac Potockich w Warszawie
 Komisja Rozpoznawcza

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Członkowie Petersburskiej Akademii Nauk
Członkowie Rady Najwyższej Tymczasowej Księstwa Warszawskiego
Członkowie Rady Państwa Imperium Rosyjskiego
Członkowie Towarzystwa Przyjaciół Nauk w Warszawie
Dyplomaci Imperium Rosyjskiego
Funkcjonariusze służb tajnych Królestwa Kongresowego
Hrabiowie Imperium Rosyjskiego
Odznaczeni Orderem Świętego Stanisława I klasy (Królestwo Kongresowe)
Kuratorzy oświaty okresu zaborów
Odznaczeni Orderem Orła Białego (Królestwo Kongresowe)
Pierwowzory postaci literackich
Przewodniczący Komitetu Ministrów Imperium Rosyjskiego
Rosyjscy urzędnicy Królestwa Kongresowego
Rosyjscy wolnomularze
Uczestnicy walk powstania kościuszkowskiego (strona rosyjska)
Zmarli w 1838
Urodzeni w 1761


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The Providence rockers bring energetic, high-octane pop-rock with their latest single, a track that sets a mouth-watering tone for their upcoming record.
The band spoke exclusively to Substream to discuss the new single.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – (RealEstateRama) — Chairman Luetkemeyer, Ranking Member Cleaver, Members of the Subcommittee, thank you for inviting me to testify today on the impact of U.S. – EU dialogues on insurance markets.
Whether in the context of domestic regulatory modernization or in the development of international insurance supervisory standards, any discussion of the U.S. insurance sector must begin with the recognition that the United States has the world's largest and most diverse and competitive insurance market. Thousands of insurers operate in the United States, ranging from small mutual companies that serve a few rural counties to massive global insurers engaged in a variety of financial services. While serving as the Illinois Director of Insurance, I learned firsthand about the importance of small and mid-size insurers to local and regional economies, as well as to insurance consumers and claimants. FIO strongly supports this marketplace diversity, and advocates not only for its preservation but also its enhancement.
This testimony describes the ways in which FIO's work serves our U.S. national interests and preserves both the diversity and competition within the U.S. insurance market and the unique U.S. insurance oversight system. In particular, this testimony discusses the ongoing negotiations of a covered agreement between the United States and the European Union and several other important international initiatives, including at the International Association of Insurance Supervisors (IAIS).
A covered agreement refers to a written bilateral or multilateral agreement regarding prudential measures, with respect to the business of insurance or reinsurance, which is entered into between the United States and one or more foreign governments, authorities, or regulatory entities.
As Members of this Committee know, we have been vigorously pursuing a covered agreement with the European Union since Treasury and the United States Trade Representative (USTR) announced our intention to do so last November. Recent EU insurance regulatory reforms have increased the need for a covered agreement between the United States and the EU. After years of conceptual and technical development, the European Union began implementation of its Solvency II insurance regulatory regime on January 1, 2016. Under Solvency II, insurers and reinsurers may be subject to an alternative regulatory regime if an insurer or reinsurer's country of domicile has not been determined by the EU to be an equivalent jurisdiction under Solvency II.
Given the prominence of the United States as an insurance market, and given the longstanding nature and success of the U.S. insurance regulatory system, the United States will not submit to the EU's formal Solvency II equivalence process to assess and rule on the adequacy of the U.S. system. For example, 2015 year end data shows that the U.S. insurance market accounts for 26.88% of global insurance premiums, more than twice the amount of Japan, which ranks second (13.04%). While Solvency II has been praised within the EU, and reflects the substantial commitment and expertise of insurance leaders from throughout Europe, it is not a system that will be duplicated within the United States.
The U.S. insurance market – for which the states remain the primary regulators of the business of insurance – is the most diverse and competitive in the world, with thousands of insurers ranging in size, complexity, and global reach. With the complementary roles of the state regulators, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and FIO, the United States has a system of insurance oversight that protects consumers, supports financial stability, and provides for global engagement.
In addition, the United States is the largest insurance market for many EU insurers and reinsurers. The EU is not as prominent a market for U.S. insurers and reinsurers as the United States is for EU industry. However, U.S. insurers and reinsurers generate billions of dollars in revenue from the EU market.
The EU's Solvency II regime allows for EU member states to supervise insurers and reinsurers that operate in the EU but are from non-equivalent countries, such as the United States, and may subject those insurers and reinsurers to additional capital, governance, and reporting requirements. In fact, several U.S.-based insurers and reinsurers have received written notice from EU supervisors of the potentially significant implications for those insurers and reinsurers arising from the implementation of Solvency II. In the covered agreement negotiations the United States seeks to level the playing field for U.S. insurers and reinsurers operating in the EU and to address critical prudential regulatory areas relating to group supervision and solvency, reinsurance supervision, including collateral, and the exchange of regulatory and supervisory information across borders.
If negotiations are successful, a U.S.-EU covered agreement would be a mechanism through which U.S.-based insurers and reinsurers receive an assurance of balanced regulatory treatment when operating in the EU market. In other words, if negotiations are successful, a covered agreement could help eliminate the uncertainty that shrouds participation of U.S. insurers and reinsurers in the EU market, and may provide greater certainty on both sides of the Atlantic regarding interaction between the U.S. and EU regulatory approaches.
The U.S. system of insurance regulation is premised upon the role of the states – legislators, governors, and regulators. With respect to prudential oversight, state-based regulation has largely evolved with the recognition that the ability of an insurer to pay a claim is the bedrock on which the U.S. insurance market is based. To the extent that the U.S. system will change in substance or structure, any such change would be a determination for Congress or the states. Although Solvency II approaches some aspects of group supervision differently from the U.S. system, a covered agreement could affirm that U.S.-based insurers operating in the EU would not be subject to additional Solvency II requirements due to those differences.
A covered agreement could also address concerns regarding the treatment of EU reinsurers operating in the United States, particularly regarding collateral, a topic of great importance to the United States. By some estimates, U.S. ceding insurers purchase more than 90% of third party reinsurance from non-U.S. reinsurers, and the cost of that reinsurance affects the availability and affordability of insurance products for U.S. property owners, businesses, and consumers seeking retirement security, among other things.
A covered agreement could allow EU-based reinsurers to operate in the United States with less restrictive use of reinsurer capital while continuing to ensure consumer protection. In addition, the reinsurance industry operates most effectively and efficiently when able to spread capital – and risk – globally.
Further, a covered agreement could lead to more nationally consistent application of certain essential aspects of reinsurance collateral reform, which was unanimously approved by state insurance regulators in November 2011 in the form of an NAIC model law. These reforms have, to date, been implemented thoughtfully in many states, although not in all states and not in a consistent manner. In short, the United States could provide appropriate protections for U.S. consumers, and collateral relief to EU-based reinsurers, by agreeing to follow an approach substantially similar to one already approved by state insurance regulators.
As importantly, through a covered agreement the United States intends to ensure that U.S.-based reinsurers can continue existing business and seek to expand such meaningful business opportunities in the EU by ensuring a level playing field for U.S. reinsurers throughout the EU market.
Regulators and supervisors for multinational financial services firms must have the capacity to exchange sensitive regulated entity information across national borders on a confidential basis for regulatory and supervisory purposes. For this reason, another component of the covered agreement negotiations relates to the exchange of regulatory and supervisory information, and the maintenance of the confidentiality or professional secrecy of such information. In the covered agreement, the United States seeks to identify principles and procedures that could serve as guidance to facilitate information sharing between supervisors and regulators in both markets.
A covered agreement may enter into force with respect to the United States only upon expiration of a period of 90 calendar days after the Secretary of the Treasury and USTR jointly submit a copy of the final legal text of the agreement to the relevant committees of Congress, including the House Financial Services Committee. We have and will continue to provide regular briefings for this and other Committees as we move forward.
State insurance regulators across the United States combine expertise and commitment that protects consumers. My personal experience as a state regulator, working with many great regulatory professionals from around the United States, further emphasized the importance of state regulator participation in the U.S. – EU covered agreement negotiations. To this end, Treasury and USTR have sought the views and expertise of state regulators and have made engagement and feedback with representatives of state regulators an integral part of the covered agreement process. On November 20, 2015, promptly after giving notice to and consulting with Congress regarding the joint intention of Treasury and USTR to negotiate a covered agreement, USTR and FIO met with state regulator leadership to discuss the process and the mechanism by which state regulator representatives would be included in a direct and meaningful manner.
In order to facilitate direct and meaningful feedback, as we develop U.S. positions in the context of the negotiations, we regularly engage and consult with a group of state insurance regulators. State regulator representatives review and provide feedback on U.S. documents before those documents are shared with our EU counterparts as well as providing additional feedback on the negotiations. Not surprisingly, the technical perspective offered by state regulators has been a strong component of the U.S. engagement.
In addition, both USTR and FIO have engaged with stakeholders throughout the negotiation process. In meetings with groups of company and trade association representatives, as well as with individual insurer consultations, stakeholders have provided invaluable insights into all three subject matter areas that are being addressed in the covered agreement negotiations.
In multilateral standard-setting work at the IAIS, FIO works closely with our colleagues at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Federal Reserve), state insurance regulators, and staff of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC). Notably, state insurance regulators participate in greater numbers at the IAIS than any other IAIS member, and each state insurance regulator has a vote in the IAIS plenary sessions.
2015 brought structural reform to the IAIS that has eliminated the pay-for-play dynamic and significantly enhanced IAIS transparency. Before 2015, stakeholders paid an annual fee and, in exchange, received special access to IAIS materials and meetings. In 2015, the IAIS eliminated the annual fee, increased transparency through in-person stakeholder engagement, and enhanced engagement through the internet and by telephone. The success of this increased transparency is reflected in the exponential increase in direct, in-person stakeholder engagement, from approximately 12 hours in 2014 to over 140 hours in 2015.
The IAIS website contains information available to the public, not just to stakeholders who pay the annual fee.
Although for years the IAIS has used a public consultation process, since 2015 the IAIS has hosted explanatory meetings and telephone calls so that stakeholders can learn and ask questions about the substance and structure of the consultation document in advance of providing comments.
After receiving comments on a consultation paper, since 2015 the IAIS has published the comments received, released a summary of comments, and offered a written reply to the comments.
For the various work streams (e.g., capital, governance, and market conduct), stakeholder contact lists have been developed so that those stakeholders now provide preliminary input on a consultation paper prior to the paper's release for formal comment.
IAIS now publishes a monthly newsletter to describe developments in the preceding month and events scheduled for the coming month.
While only a few IAIS work streams were directly open to stakeholders before 2015, the new governance and transparency practices provide a uniform approach to openness and stakeholder engagement for all IAIS activities.
U.S. stakeholders also have opportunities to meet and work with the U.S. participants. Working with state regulators and the Federal Reserve, FIO has coordinated opportunities for stakeholders (including industry and consumer advocates) to meet and present to all U.S. members of the IAIS at the same time, thereby enabling the U.S. members to receive the views of U.S. stakeholders in a U.S.-based forum. Each such meeting reflects a coordinated effort by the U.S. participants at the IAIS to benefit from U.S. stakeholder perspectives on the international standards under consideration.
The U.S.-based members of the IAIS include FIO, the Federal Reserve, the 56 state and territory insurance regulators who represent the individual sovereign jurisdictions within the United States, and NAIC staff. State regulators were among the founding members of the IAIS in 1994 and have been actively engaged ever since. Indeed, the state regulators and NAIC typically have more people participating and in attendance at an IAIS meeting than any other IAIS member. FIO became a full member of the IAIS in late 2012, and the Federal Reserve became a full member of the IAIS in late 2014.
In 2014, FIO coordinated the establishment of a steering committee comprised of the U.S. participants at the IAIS. The steering committee addresses pending and emerging international insurance matters and, while each member of the steering committee is independent of the others, including in their IAIS engagement, the steering committee works to promote shared understanding and open dialogue and alignment on relevant issues. Since being established, the steering committee has held regularly scheduled calls and in person meetings, with additional ad hoc calls or meetings occurring often.
In addition to the Steering Committee, FIO works and communicates daily with counterparts at numerous state insurance departments and the Federal Reserve. This collaboration occurs in relation to various IAIS working group meetings and in activities involving matters such as governance, risk management, capital standards, cybersecurity and financial crimes, and financial stability, among others. Collaboration occurs by telephone, through email, and full or partial day in-person meetings. U.S. participants also meet and speak in person before and during IAIS meetings.
FIO's participation at the IAIS and in other international initiatives benefits U.S. insurance consumers and the U.S. insurance industry by promoting high quality and consistent prudential standards around the world, which helps maintain a level playing field and shield the United States from financial vulnerabilities that may affect other countries. Separately, and independently, the United States considers whether to adopt international standards and, if the decision is to adopt these standards, then implements them through federal or state regulatory authorities in a manner tailored to the U.S. market and regulatory structure.
Working together, FIO, the Federal Reserve, and state regulators inform the development of international standards so that the dual priorities of consumer protection and financial stability are reflected in IAIS standards that accommodate the U.S. approach.
The IAIS continues development of the Insurance Capital Standard, or ICS, which, once developed and implemented, will allow for supervisors from around the world to understand and assess the group capital position of a large, multinational insurer. Many questions regarding the ICS remain open and under consideration, although the U.S. participants have worked in support of an approach that recognizes U.S. statutory accounting practices.
Development of the ICS is incremental and will occur over a period of years. This will transpire only after extensive consultations with stakeholders and field testing. Field testing is the exercise through which volunteer insurers submit data to the IAIS in response to a standardized set of questions, thereby allowing for fact-based analyses of the issues under consideration. At present, 42 insurers from around the world are involved with field testing, nine of which are U.S.-based insurers.
The IAIS is also continuing development of the Common Framework for the Supervision of Internationally Active Insurance Groups (ComFrame). This principles-based initiative will serve as a template for regulators to understand, evaluate, and oversee insurers that operate in multiple markets around the world. The IAIS is also reviewing certain insurance core principles (ICPs), or the standards that are developed through the IAIS, and that countries around the world, including the United States, will decide whether to adopt in a tailored manner.
Recently, the IAIS has submitted to the Financial Stability Board a revised methodology for identifying global systemically important insurers (G-SIIs). The revised methodology incorporated improvements that allow for a more comprehensive, factual analysis of insurers under consideration, although more work needs to be done to eliminate potential legacy deficiencies from the previous G-SII methodology. Again, working with our international colleagues, the U.S. participants at the IAIS have promoted an approach to global financial stability that supports the development of insurance markets, enhances competition, protects consumers, and serves the interests of financial stability.
Beyond covered agreement negotiations, collaboration between EU and U.S. insurance authorities is an essential component for protection of U.S. insurance consumers. The EU and the United States are both significant insurance markets. In terms of premium volume, despite the growing prominence of developing markets, the EU ranks first and the United States ranks second as consolidated markets. The EU and the United States are home to many of the world's most prominent global insurers – large multinational insurance groups are finding opportunities for important organic growth in new markets around the world. As markets and regulatory approaches have evolved, supervisors in both jurisdictions have undertaken significant modernization and reform efforts.
In light of these facts, FIO convened the insurance supervisory leadership of both jurisdictions at Treasury in January 2012. At this initial meeting, participants included FIO, state regulators, the European Commission, the European Insurance and Occupational Pension Authority, and the United Kingdom's Prudential Regulatory Authority. We call this the EU – U.S. Insurance Project. State insurance regulators, including Commissioners Voss, McCarty, Consedine, Lindeen and Huff, have made valuable contributions to the effort. In 2016, we have also welcomed the participation of the Federal Reserve.
Thanks to participants and supporting staff, the Project has been a demonstrably successful transatlantic collaboration. In September 2012, the Project released a report that identified similarities and differences between regulatory approaches in the EU and the United States and, in December 2012, the Project released an initial Way Forward, which outlined common policy objectives and milestones through 2017. Following the EU's adoption of Solvency II in late 2013, and the December 2013 release of FIO's report entitled HowTo Modernize And Improve The System Of Insurance Regulation In The United States, continued modernization by state regulators, and developments at the IAIS, the Project released a revised Way Forwardin August 2014 which updated the common objectives and milestones.
The understanding developed through the Insurance Project provided the forum for authorities in the U.S. and EU to build technical awareness and provided a basis for resolution of certain long-standing issues through the covered agreement negotiations. The EU – U.S. Insurance Project continues to serve as an essential forum for sharing information and regulatory practices, especially in relation to regulatory modernization and implementation initiatives. With the advent of Solvency II and recent developments at the U.S. state and federal levels, consistent and substantive engagement between insurance authorities in the EU and the United States will remain an important area of focus. Indeed, after highly successful public events in each of the last four years – including more than 225 attendees at an NAIC meeting in December 2015 – the E.U.-U.S. Insurance Project will host another public meeting in October 2016 in Frankfurt, Germany. More than 200 attendees have already registered for this event.
FIO is privileged to work closely with counterparts from all regions of the world, and these relationships allow FIO, and the United States, to learn about the markets and regulatory practices in both developed and developing economies. On September 8 and 9, FIO hosted at Treasury the first ever "Insurance Supervision in the Americas" forum and invited leading insurance authorities from North, Central, and South America to attend. Attendees included lead supervisors for 16 countries, including the United States, which was represented by state regulators, the Federal Reserve, and FIO. Participants addressed topics including natural catastrophes, financial stability, and retirement security, and the discussions provided critical insights into the challenges for supervisors, consumers, and insurers throughout the Americas. The information FIO received from our North, Central, and South American colleagues helps us better understand and shape the direction of international developments, including standard-setting.
Through effective collaboration at home and abroad, U.S. insurance authorities – FIO, state regulators, and the Federal Reserve – continue to work collaboratively to promote a well?regulated insurance marketplace that protects consumer, promotes financial stability, and fosters competitive markets.
In all of our work, both internationally and domestically, Treasury priorities will always be the best interests of U.S. consumers, U.S. insurers, the U.S. economy, and jobs for the American people.
We welcome the chance to work with this Committee, and look forward to more discussions on these important topics.


** The following article was copied from www.thegospelcoalition.org.
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Often parents feel like kids are tethered to their phones, constantly glancing or full-on staring into a screen. It's unnerving.
But before we judge kids or insist they "put that thing down," we need to understand what motivates them to check social media so frequently. At the Fuller Youth Institute, we're fans of the adage, "There's a belief behind every behavior." By identifying our kids' motivations, we can empathize before we seek solutions. Without this empathy, our conversations about boundaries, rules, and good decisions get lost in translation.
Teenagers often seem hypersocial to adults because they are in a stage of life when they begin to form their own identities. The question "Who am I?" plays like background music on a continuous loop throughout adolescence. Teenagers largely work on the answer to this question through relationships. And with lots of experimentation.
School cafeterias have always been a kind of petri dish within which young people experiment—a social laboratory. To parents and educators, the noon break is about eating lunch. But for teens, it can be the defining moment of the entire day. Every lunch is a kid's opportunity to try out an identity, observe, tweak the formula a bit, and get ready to test out a new version of themselves tomorrow.
Parents often underappreciate how a quick scroll through social media can be a lot like scanning the lunchroom. Young people have very sophisticated ways of conveying social cues with digital media that we may struggle to see. Many of these cues are non-verbal, the equivalent of a thousand words in one image. That's why phenomena like emoji and photo sharing catch on like wildfire (and keep evolving). It's also why monitoring all the likes, shares, votes, and views is so important for our kids. And the irony of the lunchroom analogy is that often today's teenagers are also using social media in their actuallunchrooms, navigating all these layers at once.
It turns out teenagers' drive to connect today is the motivated by the same social drive that helped us to form our identities decades ago, with new technologies layered in. And just like you used to talk to your friends on a home phone—probably one attached to a wall, maybe with a long curly cord—the basic need to connect remains.
In other words, our kids are a lot like us after all. The more we understand that reality, the more we can help our kids discover their identity through relationships—whether or not those bonds are forged digitally. They're just navigating the journey in the only world they've ever known, and it's a digitally connected one.
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** The following article was copied from www.finds.life.church.
Sometimes the demands of motherhood overwhelm me. All in one month, I've taken care of two daughters as they recovered from minor surgeries, planned my first daughter's wedding, home-schooled, carpooled kids to soccer, and kept the house running. Am I forgetting something? Probably. But, I've learned one parenting tip that has dramatically lifted my parenting stress.
Just so you know, I absolutely love my life and my to-do list. Because as challenging and demanding as my schedule can sometimes be, I get to do life—with all its ups and downs—with amazingly, fearfully, and wonderfully made people!
Moms, our kids desperately need us! Of course, we know this. We experience our kids' clinging, whining, and asking, and asking again. We know they need us, but our kids know it, too—even when they act like they don't.
Just like our children know they need their moms, we need to realize our need for our Heavenly Father!
Lately, I've learned that for you and me to succeed as moms, we've got to be desperate, too. Just like our children know they need their moms, we need to realize our need for our Heavenly Father! We can't be the great mom we want to be without depending on God.
Be honest. Do you acknowledge your need for God? Do you depend on Him to meet your emotional, physical, and practical needs? Do you regularly seek and depend on His presence? If I'm honest, sometimes I miss the mark. But I pray that my heart and yours will be open to becoming the dependent, desperate mom Christ has called us to be.
John 15:5 teaches us that "apart from Him we can do nothing." We need to know our great need for Him! Moms, there are days we all feel stressed out and overwhelmed. But when we rely on God's strength, He will not only meet our needs but also give us His strength to be the mom our kids need.
I didn't think I'd ever anonymously write an article about help for single mothers and fathers.
I mean, I had friends who were single parents, I knew of single parents, but the appreciation I have for single parents grew exponentially once I became one. It's hard. And we need help. But it can be hard to find help for single mothers and fathers to meet the daily, sometimes relentless challenges: not being there for all of your child's firsts, helping your child integrate healthily into different homes, not having a partner to share in parenting responsibilities and decisions. It's hard to know if you're doing it right as a single parent with integrity and consistency. One challenge is navigating single parenthood during the holidays and vacations. On a recent vacation, God taught me something, yet again, about parenthood.
I enjoy snow skiing and seeing God's beauty on display in beautiful snow-covered mountains. This year, I decided to take my son skiing for the first time. He is 5, and I wasn't sure if he'd like the cold, skiing, or going on a vacation that didn't involve trains.
He walked into the ski school and said, "Mommy, will I be able to do this? I don't know if I can do it." I kneeled down to look in his little brown eyes and gave him the best mommy pep talk I could muster.
That experience made me think of being a single parent.
When I ask Jesus if I will be able to do something hard or something new, He shows me in different ways that I can. When I am mentally, physically, or emotionally drained (often at the same time), I remember to pause and ask for His truth, strength, courage, or whatever I need in the moment. And when the Lord sees me go to the top of the mountain, bend my knees, and bravely step into my role as a parent, I believe He is there beaming with joy.
Right there, on a ski slope, I found help for single mothers and fathers everywhere. God reminded me how very much He loves me. We are never in this alone if we lean on one another and into God, His strength, and His comfort. What a gift! And we can remember that He sees us. He loves us. And He's proud of everything we do out of our love for Him—even when it's scary.
If you're navigating the path of being a single parent and find it challenging—I do too! I can't imagine doing it without Jesus and community.
If you're navigating the path of being a single parent and find it challenging—I do too! My best piece of help for single mothers and fathers? Find your people. I can't imagine doing it without Jesus and community. I am blessed to have followers of Jesus in my LifeGroup who can pray for me and give me parenting advice. Seriously, if you're a single mom or dad, find a church community you can plug into and grow with. I get to speak the truth of Scripture over myself every morning, which I learned in church.
Because I am a follower of Jesus, I can seek His courage, strength, and wisdom every day. I get to take my imperfect human self and do the best I can every day to help a little boy grow and know how much Jesus loves him (and how much Mommy loves him, too). As I experience the challenges of being a single parent, I also recognize the amazing blessings.
God has placed help for single mothers and fathers in unexpected places everywhere. In the gift of His Holy Spirit encouraging, teaching, and comforting us—even on a ski slope. In the kind words and actions of our friends. And certainly in the love of the amazing children we get to raise.
Lately I've noticed a growing alarm about anxiety in our culture. It seems to be wreaking havoc in our lives. I've seen this trend in my counseling practice, in questions I get when I'm speaking at churches and organizations, and in what I hear in my day-to-day interactions with friends and neighbors.
Anxiety feels like a virus spreading quickly through our midst. We're now anxious about getting anxious.
As much as we see this chatter offline, there is an even more deafening presence online, as social media interaction and article after article emphasize the impact of anxiety among the American population, and more specifically among high school and college-aged young adults. In the last several months alone, multiple publications have run stories on anxiety. The New York Times Magazine prominently featured a piece entitled, "Why Are More American Teenagers Than Ever Suffering From Severe Anxiety?." A few months earlier, the Times ran an article proclaiming that anxiety has become an "everyday argot". The Atlantic published articles in July, August, and September looking at anxiety, connecting it to our use of smartphones and social media.
Perhaps it's time to pay more attention.
It is important to gain perspective on how anxiety may impact the work you are doing in your context, whether that's as a parent, teacher, pastor, mentor, or friend of a teenager. For example, if you are a teacher in middle school or high school and you look out at your classroom of 25 students, statistically speaking, somewhere in the neighborhood of 8 students are suffering from an anxiety disorder. If you are a youth pastor and you look out at your youth group of 50 high schoolers in a Wednesday night gathering, somewhere around 17 students are struggling with an anxiety disorder.
The average age of onset for anxiety is 11 years old, which matches my own debilitating struggle with anxiety. In 1981, my mom was diagnosed with breast cancer, and by the time she passed away in 1986, my anxiety ballooned into full effect. I began stuttering after the trauma of her death. Two weeks after she passed away, I went back to fifth grade and discovered I could no longer read out loud in class. Instead, when I was called upon I froze in an anxious panic. This continued all the way through high school and into college. It was only then that I decided to face my anxiety, and later in my thirties, through the help of a couple of therapists, I really began not only to understand my anxiety, but also to make serious progress with it.
I know from personal experience how frightening anxiety can be, and that's why it's a topic we must all learn to understand better in order to offer help to those who struggle.
I have spent a majority of my life struggling with anxiety, and it is through these key approaches that I, and those who I counsel daily, have found freedom.
Sometimes we do sense that anxiety requires more than the practices described in this toolkit. For example, if you encounter a young person whose anxiety is so overwhelming that you fear it may endanger their life or the lives of others. Or perhaps the adolescent's anxiety is impeding their ability to set healthy boundaries or make wise choices. This is where anxiety may be saying that it's time to see a therapist, to see a psychiatrist about medication, or to look for inpatient options to help treat anxiety's debilitating effects.
Kierkegaard declared that "anxiety is our best teacher." And it has been through the loving care of those responders in my life—a thoughtful college chaplain, two insightful therapists, a helpful mentor, a loving wife, and a faithful God—that I have been able to see anxiety as a teacher in my life, and to use it as an agent of transformation.
I believe you too can be that caregiver who helps a young person transform their anxiety for good. You can be the guide who helps an adolescent best understand the role of anxiety in their lives, and discern what to do with it. Then instead of being overcome by the drowning waves of anxiety, teenagers in our lives can see the tide when it's rising and step to higher ground.


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2. The design and details of installation of support of a suspension bracket of the power unit are shown on an illustration.
3. Remove the power unit (see the Section Removal of the Power Unit from the Car - methods of performance and a precautionary measure).
4. Remove support from the unit and attentively check rubber pillows for existence of signs of aging of material, deformations, cracks and other mechanical damages.


These are photos from the Susan G. Komen 3-Day Breast Cancer Walk. The participants walk 60 miles over 3 days to raise awareness and money for breast cancer research. I was taking some shots and was approached by the PR Coordinator for the walk. She asked me to send her some of the photos of the event. Maybe they will post them on their website.
Anyway, here is a sample below for your viewing. I was originally trying to work on "capturing a moment" when I was first approached, so their are now some candids mixed in as well. Unfortunately it was cloudy all weekend long, so some of these I had to use fill flash.
Those are great. I love the slogans. I have seen a few of the "Save the Tatas" bumper stickers around town. Great moment in the second photo -- sums it all up well.
Thanks. The moment in the 2nd photo is the type of photo I was trying to get that day. I only covered about 1 mile of the event due to a previous commentment, but I next time I hope to cover all 3 days.
Nice shots! Have to agree about #10. That one is a winner!
Thanks Rense. I'm trying to find my groove on documenting events like this.
Thanks Mike. As soon as I saw the photo on the back of the camera I did a little dance in my head.
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Turtle Circle (or Waru Circle) is a Torres Strait Island design mat in rich blue and green.
It's ideal for the playroom, classroom or any room where you want to gather a group for reading or playtime, sharing food or sharing conversation.
Michael Gilsenan is an Australian Indigenous artist with connections to Stephen Island in the Torres Strait and the Yidinji people of Far North Queensland. For him, the turtle is an important symbol of life in that region. It has a practical use, as food, but also cultural and spiritual significance as a reminder of a balanced and respectful relationship between people and the ocean.
This intricate design is ideal as a teaching tool, helping students of all ages learn more about their own and other cultures while they read, eat or play on the rug. Perfect as school mats or caravan mats, these stunning Turtle Circle indoor/outdoor rugs with vibrant colours and distinctive cultural imagery will be a talking point in any room!
Turtle Circle is made from 95% recycled plastics making it easy to clean and light enough to carry or fold up for transport or storage. This innovative material is soft and comfortable for sitting and walking on; warm in winter but cool in summer. Use these rugs as kindy mats to extend learning in areas such as culture, nature, family life or art. In the home or office, Turtle Circle is a great way to celebrate cultural diversity through art.
Turtle Circle is a unique Torres Strait Island design recycled mat in vibrant blue and green. Enjoy it as a camping mat, play mat or anywhere you want to bring people together.
my family in Darwin were happy to receive their surprise mat in the mail and they love it very much!!
My daughter loves her mat and received it with happiness and it came in a cute carry case too to take to family gatherings and the beach.


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Edgardo Rosales (ou Edgar Rosales) est un joueur de congas (conguero), de maracas, de timbales et de cencero, qui a notamment joué dans le Cal Tjader's Modern Mambo Quintet de Cal Tjader en 1954.

Biographie
Il est né  à  au Nicaragua.

Discographie
 La Salsa Es Mi Vida (LP)

Musicien de groupe
Pour Cal Tjader dans le Cal Tjader's Modern Mambo Quintet (avec Cal Tjader (vibraphone) ; Manuel Duran (piano) ; Carlos Duran (contrebasse) ; Bayardo Velarde (bongos, timbales) ; Edgard Rosales (congas, maracas)).

Cal Tjader Mambo With Tjader  (Fantasy F-3202). Incluant des notes de références de H. Claire Kolbe.
1954 : pour Cal Tjader - « Tjader Plays Mambo » (Fantasy F-3221).

Style de musique
Mambo, Latin jazz, jazz afro-cubain, salsa.

Liens externes

Classement chansons Salsas
 Article "Tambous In The Bay" par Chuy Varela.
 Cal Tjader - Mambo With Tjader sur CD Universe
 Benny Velarde - Voir Question 8 de l'Interview
 "Ricardo Lewis: The Mambo Bongo Man" (information en question 3)  par Jesse Varela

Musicien de mambo
Musicien de latin jazz
Musicien de salsa
Percussionniste de salsa
Percussionniste de jazz
Personnalité nicaraguayenne
Date de naissance non renseignée (XXe siècle)


I've started compiling a list of online alternative retailers I've shopped at and come across in my alt fashion journey. This is by no means an exhaustive list. I plan on updating it any time I come across a new store that features alternative clothing. It's my hope that you can consult this list any time you want to update your wardrobe both to find new stores and to remember ones that may have slipped your mind!
H&M - clothes, shoes, and accessories.
Missguided - clothes, shoes, and accessories.
Don't see one of your fave alt retailers listed? Leave a comment so I can check them out. Maybe I'll add it!