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Rumpus Exclusive: "Research Notes"
By Alicia Kopf
"Research Notes I-VII" are excerpted from Brother in Ice by Alicia Kopf with permission from the publisher And Other Stories. English-translation copyright 2018 Mara Faye Lethem. The US edition will be released on June 5, 2018.
Brother in Ice is a hybrid novel―part research notes, part fictionalized diary, and part travelogue―which uses the stories of polar exploration to make sense of the protagonist's own concerns as she comes of age as an artist, a daughter, and a sister to an autistic brother. Conceptually and emotionally compelling, it advances fearlessly into the frozen emotional lacunae of difficult family relationships. Deserved winner of multiple awards upon its Catalan and Spanish publication, Brother in Ice is a richly rewarding journey into the unknown.
Research Notes I
The penguins of the Antarctic were a new discovery for the explorers, who began filming them in the early twentieth century. Everyone was soon taken with the sweet creatures; people wanted to see images of the playful penguins. But if you've seen Encounters at the End of the World, by Werner Herzog, you'll know that sometimes a penguin will voluntarily separate from the group and head in the opposite direction, away from the sea, toward its death.
There's a store downstairs on the street level that sells frozen foods. The cashier is tall, blond, stocky. He reminds me of Amundsen, the explorer.
PEAKS AND POLES
The Sherpas and the Inuit have similarities. The former reach the summit every day, the latter helped everyone discover the North Pole.
The mountaineer Ferran Latorre gave up on his ascent of Everest in order to rescue a sick Sherpa.
When I was little, my mother worked in a small-town school. Its playground was the woods. Once I saw a bunny nestled among the roots of a tree. But it wasn't one of the typical rabbits that camouflage themselves amid the brown tones of the Mediterranean landscape; it was a white rabbit. When I got closer I saw that it was quite big; stock-still, it stared at me with its red eyes. It let me pick it up and I realized it was panting. I decided to take it to the vet, but on the way there, in the car, it died.
WHITE DEATH
Death by freezing is called sweet death, or white death. It is somehow linked to sleep, because of their apparent likeness, as opposed to the violence of a death by fire. Those who've seen it up close say that there's nothing sweet about an icy grave; freezing is as terrible a death as burning.
Yet ice retains the body's shape the way images do; it is like photographs. Photography is to its subject as ice is to the interred explorer: a thanatological process that presents us, abruptly, with a body from the past.
Research Notes II
EPIC I
Is it possible for an epic to not be imperialist, athletic, or totalitarian?
EPIC II
Isn't there a territorial struggle in every family story? Domestic and emotional spaces as territories to be conquered.
Sometimes I feel like Captain Ahab, pursuing my white whale. With me is E, who, like Ishmael, is spectator to an obsession he does not always understand.
Research Notes III
I've found the southernmost Spanish scientist. During the winter months in the Antarctic he and a few colleagues will be alone there maintaining the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station.
Reading his blog, I find this:
Today, to welcome in the civil twilight and bid farewell to the nautical twilight, I went for a walk. In each of the four directions (N, S, E, W), there are a series of panels that serve to check visibility in the summer for arriving flights. To the east, the first one is half a mile away. From there you can see the next one, a mile away from the base. When you get there you can see the next one, a mile and a half out. My heart started to beat faster because the base already seemed distant. I was tempted to go on. When I got to the third one, I could see the fourth and last one another half-mile ahead, so I continued. It was spectacular, and a bit unsettling, when I turned around and could no longer see the base, which was two miles away. There was no sign of any geographical feature or texture; it was all uniform, white. Beautiful. Soon, since I knew where to look, I figured out more or less where I was. In any case, I could follow my footprints back. Out there I couldn't hear a thing, except for the whistling in my ears. There was barely any wind. Total solitude.2
Research Notes IV
Neil Armstrong, the first man to set foot on the Moon, has died. His obituary says that it is our mission to conquer Mars for the coming generations.
It's hot but I'm talking about snow.
News item:
Today Scott's ship, the Terra Nova, was found in Greenland.
Some scientists who were carrying out underwater tests with sonar detected an object fifty-seven meters long. One of them, a fan of the history of that expedition, suspected that it could be the famed boat that left England to conquer the South Pole. The article has an embedded video. In it, you can blurrily watch a probe exploring a very dark marine floor. At first all you see are well-lit plankton particles, eventually very decomposed pieces of wood appear. Disturbing the Terra Nova in its white tomb seems like sacrilege to me.
Lately something unprecedented has been happening: my brother, who is generally passive and calm, gets enraged when he can't unbutton his pants, or shave himself. Then he picks up whatever's nearby, throws it, and cries. Only my mother has seen it happen; she told me about it recently, with concern.
My brother will outlive my parents, who fear for his future. Making sense of all this, when you don't believe in God, is difficult. I imagine my brother in other time periods, in other families. Would the Inuit have abandoned him on the ice? Would he have lived to middle age? Would he have been put in an institution, fifty years ago? What responsibility do I have in all this?
Two people die, an eighty-two-year-old mother and her forty-year-old daughter. The mother's death from natural causes is followed by her disabled daughter's death: of starvation. Did they live alone, isolated, at the North Pole? No, they lived in my country.
Research Notes V
The question in Fitzcarraldo, Herzog's film in which the protagonist ascends a mountain in a steamship to descend on the other side, is whether we are dealing with a hero or an antihero. This question runs through most of my readings on conquests and explorations, when looking at the personal biographies of Amundsen, Boyd, Cook, Peary, Shackleton, Scott.
Today in class, with my students, we were writing a story about a man in love with a hippopotamus. One of them declared: "It should be a walrus, they're harder to kiss."
At my high school there was a sign that said: "The world belongs to those who read." That's a lie, I thought, a lie, a lie, a lie.
I seek. I don't know when I will return. I'll bring back the goods, but I don't know when.6
Research Notes VI
Yesterday, as I quoted the names of foreign explorers to C, a woman I work with, she told me about Pepita Castellví, the prestigious Catalan oceanographer. I found a speech she gave in 2007, declared International Polar Year, for the inauguration of La Mercè, Barcelona's annual festival:
[. . .] It is paradoxical that at a time when a large part of humanity has reached a level of scientific and technological development that allows it to tackle challenges beyond Earth, there are parts of this planet that are completely ignored by science. The oceans are the most scandalous example. [. . .] The oceans occupy 75% of the Earth's sur- face and the underwater reliefs are deeper than those on the surface of the continents. Everest is more than 8,800 meters high, but the deepest sea trench known today is more than 11,000 meters deep. Given these characteristics, it would lead us to think that the most important part of the planet is not the visible land but the large volume of water that surrounds it. [. . .]
At this level the polar regions come into play; their large masses of ice serve as thermal buffers against the warming waters at lower latitudes. The study of the Antarctic is a new field of study for science. It more or less began in 1957 with the celebration of the Second International Geophysical Year. Spain was left out of that movement, since it was unable and unwilling to take on such a large-scale project at a time when even research on a more accessible scale didn't have the minimum means it needed. [. . .] I like to say that all the events that take place in nature are recorded in the elements, which we have within our reach, like a great big book. The problem is that we don't know how to read what we are being shown. Actually, scientific investigation is nothing more than learning that language in order to be able to interpret what nature is telling us.
I wanted to end with a quote from Ernest Shackleton, the great explorer who led one of the greatest adventures ever in Antarctica: "The Polar Regions leave a profound mark on those who have struggled in them, which is difficult to express to men who have never left the civilized world."
Research Notes VII
A CALL FROM THE ARCTIC
My father set up a treadmill a neighbor gave him in my bedroom at my mom's house, so my brother would get some exercise. The room is small and filled with dressers. It has a window that opens onto the inner courtyard, where we hang up our clothes to dry. I rarely sleep there, but it is important for me to know that there's some stable place where I can leave my books and whatever's left over from a move, and come back for them at some other time. An anchoring point. Having that small room completely filled with a machine more suited to a villa than an apartment bugs me. And my brother never uses it anyway. I think about calling someone instead of staying at home writing. My father is celebrating Christmas with his other family, visiting Santa Claus in Lapland. Evenings, when you have no plans to see anyone later, can be menacing. I let my boyfriend go away for the weekend with some friends. It's not the first time. The little time I have to write is precious to me.
"You stay and do your artist stuff," he said through clenched teeth before leaving.
Doubt and loneliness are persistent. I don't know if writing all this is worth the effort, or whether I have any right.
"Worse / Even than your maddening / Song, your silence," Sylvia Plath reminds me.
I think about calling someone, but all my friends are away for the holidays. My mother, twenty years a single, met someone a few months ago on a dating site, and she seems happy. Her calls come less frequently. I tell myself that an hour of exercise will wipe it all away. For some of us, Christmas is a regression to our teenage years.
Soon I'll be back to my work routine. Then I won't think about all that. But I'll return to it occasionally: on holidays, on some weekend alone. Just when I'm about to shut down my computer, I get a rare call from my father. He tells me what his Christmas at the Arctic Circle is like. Sometimes I think we maintain a certain telepathy—which we had when I was a girl. Did he hear that I was thinking of him? He tells me about visiting Santa Claus with his wife's nieces and nephews, the igloo hotels, and the tours in sleighs drawn by reindeer. It's all really touristy, he says. I don't get the chance to ask him about the aurora borealis because we get cut off. I don't have a lot of coverage in the studio. I call it the igloo.
I'd have to go back one more generation to properly contextualize my parents (we really should go back a couple of generations to understand any of us), including why I have no grandmothers and only one grandfather when the other is still alive. Then there's this thing with my brother, which no one knows the cause of. I don't know if I can explain that story now. I don't even know it myself.
I have the feeling that my life began when M was born, seven years before me. My appearance was unplanned. When my mother found out she was pregnant, she cried. Later—she told me twenty years afterward—she thought that M would need a sister.
There was risk of a miscarriage at first. It seems that with that warning, the doctor ordered my parents to be very careful and my mother, naturally active and energetic, was confined to bed. The pregnancy went on almost ten months, since in the end I didn't want to come out—both my premature leaving home and my reluctance to leave the womb are typical of me, and probably understandable.
A few days before they were going to induce labor, on January 5, 1982, the eve of Epiphany, the streets invaded by royal carriage floats with the three kings' pages tossing candy to the children, I showed up.
My mother says that I was born with my eyes open, and that I was looking at her.
Luminous night-time clouds in the Antarctic
Data received from NASA's AIM satellite shows that the luminous blue clouds that appear each austral summer over Antarctica are like large "geophysical lightbulbs." They return each year as spring ends, and they are at their full intensity for no longer than five to ten days. As the month of December continues, a large bank of luminous clouds stops over Antarctica. It began this year on November 20 as a small electric blue cloud and quickly expanded to cover almost the entire continent. AIM is monitoring the clouds' progress as they swirl and wave around the South Pole. "The clouds appeared over the South Pole earlier than usual this year," says Cora Randall from Colorado's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, a member of the AIM's scientific team. "Since AIM has been in orbit, the only earlier start was in the 2009 season," she said. The luminous clouds are the highest ones on the planet. Sown with disintegrating meteoroids, they form on the edge of space 83 kilometers above the Earth's surface. When light hits the tiny ice crystals that make up these clouds, they seem to glow with an intense, electric-blue tone. These blue clouds are most widespread and brightest during the austral summer. They light up over the South Pole from November to February, and move to the North Pole for May to August.6
Rumpus original art by Dara Herman Zierlein.
2. Carlos Pobes. Facebook status update from September 6, 2012. The author's website: http://www.eldiamaslargodemivida.com/es. ↩
6. "Hunter" by Björk plays in the background.↩
7. http://www.lavanguardia.com/vida/20131227/54397579936/aparecen-nubes- azules-sobre-antartida.html.↩
Alicia Kopf is a writer and artist based in Barcelona, Spain. Brother in Ice is the culmination of an artistic cycle of texts and exhibitions entitled Àrticantàrtic, including a 2013 solo show in Barcelona, "Seal Sounds Under the Floor." She has participated in many prestigious exhibitions. The original Catalan manuscript of Brother in Ice won the 2015 Premi Documenta, a prestigious prize for an unpublished Catalan-language work of literature, and upon publication Brother in Ice was awarded the 2016 Premi Llibreter by Catalan booksellers. More from this author →
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Virat (Akshay) is an officer in the Indian Army on his annual leave in Mumbai. Within a few days of his relaxing time back home; in which his marriage plans are made and cancelled and made again with Saiba (Sonakshi); he brushes across the tip of a terrorist plot while travelling in a bus. Being an inquisitive mastermind and an agent of the Defense Intelligence Agency, he grabs hold of the culprit behind the solitary blast in a bus, and extracts information by his own methods and means. Chipping together the clues and links he gets, he soils the plot of the sleeper cells organization of creating mayhem in the bustling city of Mumbai, and in the process, anrages and challenges the head of the organization to a battle of wits. What follows is a game of brains and brawns between the head and Virat, where lives are put at stake and lost, the city is put under threat and Virat, putting all he has at stake, has to take up the mantle to stop this mess once and for all and ensure a peacefull life for the citizens of our country.


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Suriya to promote Aamir's 'Satyamev Jayate' in Telugu
After Malayalam cinema legend Mohanlal, now South superstar Suriya has been roped in by makers of 'Satyamev Jayate' to promote actor-host Aamir Khan's issue-based TV show among the Telugu audience
Published: Thursday, 27 February 2014
Last updated: 27 February 2014, 04:22 PM IST
Mumbai: After Malayalam cinema legend Mohanlal, now South superstar Suriya has been roped in by makers of 'Satyamev Jayate' to promote actor-host Aamir Khan's issue-based TV show among the Telugu audience.
Saravanan Sivakumar, better known by his stage name Suriya, is a Tamil actor, film producer and television presenter with a big fan following down South.
"We plan to have icons from various regions. Like we have roped in Mohanlal as the brand ambassadors for Malayalam, Suriya for Telugu and a television star for Tamil region, for Maharashtra I am there. Through this we want to reach out to a larger audience in that part of the country, " Aamir said.
Apparently, through this association with the show, the brand ambassadors of various regions will communicate the need to come together, as a nation, and support 'Satyamev Jayate' to raise, discuss and find solutions to the problems that plague India and its people.
Though Hindi is the primary language of 'Satyamev Jayate' the popular TV show is dubbed and simulcast in several other Indian languages such as Marathi, Bengali, Tamil, Malayalam and Telugu.
"We want to people to engage through this show on various issues. We always wanted the show to be dubbed in multiple languages to reach vast audience," Aamir said.
'Satyamev Jayate' has been one of the most impactful shows on Indian television and its second season will start from March 2.
It will be aired on Star Plus, STAR Pravah, STAR Vijay, Asianet, STAR Utsav, DD at 11 am and a differed telecast at 1.00 pm on ETV.

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Tree Pony
Henbit, Bittercress, Ground Ivy and Other Small Weedy Lawn Flowers
by tree pony
Most homeowners are well acquainted with large undesirable flowering weeds, including dandelion, speedwell, bugleweed, buttercup, and violets, which can ruin the appearance of an otherwise desirable lawn. But what about the other, smaller flowering weeds? Not as many can readily identify those, even though they often far outnumber their larger counterparts, and can be just as hard to eliminate. The links below lead to brief articles with photographs that will help the reader identify the particular weedy flowers discussed.
Early Spring Appearances
Henbit (Lamium amplexicaule) is one of the early-blooming flowers in a lawn. Although it is nice to see a hint of red and purple at the end of a bleak winter, one would rather not find it in his lawn. A lawnmower is of little purpose in ridding the lawn of "the purple flower" called henbit, or any of the other flowering weeds listed below.
Another quick starter "out of the gate" is Hairy Bittercress-also called Pennsylvania Bittercress and a host of other names (Cardamine hirsuta). It produces an abundance of little white flowers that form all those annoying seedpods, which shoot seeds everywhere whenever something brushes against them.
Deadnettle (Lamium purpureum) is yet another ugly spring entrant in the race to ruin your lawn. Somewhat similar in appearance to henbit, deadnettle is a bit larger, growing on stalks. It visually stands out more, making it look as if the homeowner doesn't take proper care of his or her lawn.
Slower Starters
Not as quick to appear, there are other pesky bloomers which 'uglify' any lawn. Ground Ivy (Glechoma hederacea) is one of these. Ground Ivy was once used as an ingredient in homebrew beer. However, it and its blue flowers is a terrible nuisance. Its runners spread everywhere at lightning speed, making it one of the worst of nuisances to the lawn enthusiast.
Wood sorrel (Oxalis stricta), sometimes called sourgrass or oxalis, looks a bit like clover, and has tiny yellow flowers. Its sour taste comes from the presence of oxalic acid, which is toxic to humans in anything but tiny doses. It doesn't constitute as much of a problem to lawns as ground ivy or some of the other flowering weeds, but remains an undesirable, just the same.
Carolina geranium (Geranium carolinianum) a small and ugly weedy flower is nevertheless reminiscent of the much-to-be-desired wild geranium or its cultivated counterpart the "ordinary" red geranium, sometimes planted in Grecian urns. This weed is somewhat larger than the others featured in this article, but as with the others, Carolina geranium escapes the lawnmower. Other measures are needed if success is to be achieved in attaining a thick, healthy, weed-free lawn.
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The House that God Builds
Skip Heitzig
In today's society, we get a lot of mixed messages when it comes to marriage and the family. Seemingly endless numbers of self-help books line the shelves of every bookstore, but sometimes it's hard to know which sources to trust. We do know that the Bible is the ultimate source for truth.
In this two-volume series, Pastor Skip Heitzig explores marriage and family issues through a biblical lens. Discover God's blueprint for building healthy relationships and a godly home.
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We understand the potential environmental impact that exploration work and operations can have on the land if they are not managed correctly. We share a strong sense of responsibility for preserving the land for use by future generations. With this in mind, we consulted with local communities to identify valued ecosystem components. This led us to redesign our development plans to address specific local concerns about water, tailings, natural resource and cultural needs. As a result, we eliminated surface storage of tailings and waste rock at the site and committed to mine all ore from underground workings (i.e., no open pits).
Our mine closure plan will include measures that exceed the regulatory requirements with the goal of returning the land, as much as possible, to its pre-mining use.
The Company was honoured to receive the 2015 Environmental and Social Responsibility Award from the Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada (PDAC). This award goes to an individual or organization that demonstrates outstanding initiative, leadership and accomplishment in protecting and preserving the natural environment and/or in establishing good community relations during an exploration program or operation of a mine.
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To kick off this wintry new year, here is a poem by Emily Dickinson, who was no stranger to the outdoors. Throughout her roughly 1,700 poems, she described nature in her own singular way, as someone who has quietly observed it all her life. This particular poem is written as a riddle, never explicitly stating the subject, though I think you'll guess.
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Bedroom Tax: why this attack on the poorest has got to go
Adam Tomes
The hated Bedroom Tax is incompetent, inhumane and unjust. Adam Tomes provides the facts and explains why it must be scrapped
The approaching first anniversary of the hated Bedroom Tax is a reminder of the Coalition Government's extreme callousness and incompetence. This policy has had a damaging social cost on the most vulnerable in society, whilst being devised and applied with incompetence by the Department of Work and Pensions.
The main stated aims of this policy are clear. The first objective is about dealing with the issue of under-occupancy in social housing at a time when there is a real problem with overcrowding.
The second main aim is to tackle the unaffordable housing budget, which is running at £23.6 bn per year.
It has cut the amount of benefit that people can get if they are deemed to have a spare bedroom in their council or housing association home. The definition of 'spare' is wide: children are expected to share until they are 10, or 16 if they are the same gender, while only disabled people who need non-resident overnight care will be allowed to keep a bedroom for their carer.
The cost of the spare bedroom is a 14% benefit cut (£12 per week), or 25% (£22 per week) for two.
Incompetence #1- How much will it save?
In pushing the Bedroom Tax, the Coalition argued that it would save the country £480 million in the first year.
The University of York, in October, published a report that used the DWP's own model and fed through the data from four of the largest Housing Associations. The research showed that the savings estimated by the Government were exaggerated and the costing model to be flawed.
The DWP had failed to accurately calculate the number of tenants who would downsize and the number who would move into the more expensive private sector. In fact it appears that the Bedroom Tax will save £160 million less than estimated.
The paucity of this saving simply does not match up to the human cost of this brutal policy.
Incompetence #2 – Incorrectly applied
The Bedroom Tax has been incorrectly applied to residents who have lived at the same address from before 1996.
In January this year, Iain Duncan Smith told MPs that between 3,000 and 5,000 residents would be hit by this error. Freedom of Information requests have been submitted to 346 local authorities and 140 have replied back and reported that 16,000 residents have been so far incorrectly hit by the Bedroom Tax.
If we extrapolate this number, it can be estimated that in fact rather than 5,000 affected residents, that there will be around 50,000 residents who have had the tax incorrectly applied. The incompetence of this Government and the DWP is simply staggering and it is time it was held to account.
Inhumanity #1 – the social cost
The National Housing Federation has just published the results of an Ipsos-MORI survey that was commissioned to look at the impacts of the Bedroom Tax. The headline facts are hugely worrying and put into numbers the stories of hardship that we hear on the ground.
The survey reveals that 66% of the residents hit by the Bedroom Tax are in rent arrears with 38% of residents in debt as a direct result. With rent arrears building up, 15% of all households had received an eviction risk letter by October 2015. This figure is in fact likely to be much higher as this survey only applies to Housing Association tenants and not Local Authority tenants.
This means that it is not a policy to tackle under-occupancy but a policy that will create no occupancy and the tinning up of perfectly good housing in a time of housing shortage. It leads to families having to choose between paying their rent, their bills and eating and is it any wonder that the Trussell Trust reported a dramatic rise in the numbers of people turning to food banks.
The inhumanity of the project is further revealed by the fact that 63% of all households who have the Bedroom Tax imposed on them contain a disabled resident.
Inhumanity #2 – the failure to provide housing
There is little doubt that the housing benefit bill is large and that there is a problem of overcrowding. Shelter estimates that the number of overcrowded homes has doubled in a decade.
In some areas more than one in four households live in cramped conditions, while up to five million people are stuck on social housing waiting lists.
According to the government, the causes of all of this are the scroungers and skivers who are choosing not to stand on their own two feet and who are deliberately living in houses that are far bigger than they need. The evidence clearly contradicts this right wing political and media myth.
The National Housing Federation estimates, in 2011-2012, that there around 180,000 under occupying two bedroom homes with only 85,000 one bed homes becoming available. There is simply nowhere for the over occupying resident to go, except into the hands of the private landlord, which will increase the cost to the state.
At the same time, those living in cramped conditions or on waiting lists are not being denied their basic rights by greedy and devious over occupiers. They are being denied their basic rights by successive governments who have sold off social housing and failed to replace it.
Fair solutions to the housing crisis
There clearly are steps that could be taken to improve the situation. The first option would be to build a raft of green, fit-for-purpose social housing across the country. This would tackle the housing budget, deal with overcrowding and have the added benefit of kickstarting economic growth in a flatlining economy.
A second option, as Owen Jones argues would be to control rents in the private sector. Housing benefit has become a honeypot for private landlords, allowing them to charge extortionate rents in the knowledge that the taxpayer will pay the price.
The Bedroom Tax needs to be scrapped as it effectively has been in Scotland recently. The policy is hateful, incoherent and incompetent. Its removal would be a victory for the vulnerable in our society and a defeat for the political and media elites who preach and practise injustice.
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Israel Electric Corporation
Local nameחברת החשמל
LocationAriel
Israel Electric Corporation is the largest supplier of electrical power in Israel. The IEC builds, maintains, and operates power generation stations, sub-stations, as well as transmission and distribution networks.
The company is the sole integrated electric utility in the State of Israel. Its installed generating capacity represents about 75% of the total electricity production capacity in the country. It transmits and distributes substantially all the electricity used in Israel, including power generated by other producers. The State of Israel owns approximately 99.85% of the company.
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Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Electric_Corporation
Official Website https://www.iec.co.il/
Address דרך הנחשונים 76
Coordinates 32°6'22.052" N 35°10'15.232" E
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Our Huddersfield hotel is a short walk from both the local rugby ground and shops and restaurants of the town centre. You can even stop off at the Great Northern Retail Park on the way. The location's ideal for prospective students or family visits, with the university less than a mile away. Or you can dig deep into the fascinating story of Huddersfield's history at the amazing Tolson museum. All rooms feature a comfy king size bed with four plump pillows and a cosy duvet. Guests can enjoy a variety of food and drink choices within easy walking distance from this hotel. Early/Late Check-In/Out Service – if you're looking to make the most of your day we can offer an Early Check-In service from 12:00noon and a Late Check-Out Service until 2pm so you have more time to relax - cost is £10 per service, per room, subject to availability - bookable direct by telephoning the hotel. We are a pet friendly hotel and allow up to 2 domestic pets, per stay. This is at an additional charge of £20 per pet, per stay. Please contact LateRooms to arrange this to be added to your booking and for further details on charges and terms and conditions. Please note that Guide dogs, Hearing dogs, and other animals, to aid disability, are exempt from charge.
The Huddersfield Hotel is situated in the City Centre. Location of the hotel is perfect for leisure and business travellers. It is a 10 minute walk from the John Smiths Stadium, 6 minute walk from Train station and 4 minute walk from Theatre. It is a 5 minute walk away from the University, 3 minute walk from Sainsburys Supermarket, 1 minute away from Kingsgate Shopping Centre. We are a recently refurbished hotel offering the best prices in Huddersfield. Combining the high standards of the 21st century with traditional values of days gone by. Each room here will provide with flat-screen TV, free Wi-Fi, and hot drink facilities. Some rooms have a work desk, fridge or microwave. We offer early breakfast, possibility for late check in after reception closing hours, early and late check out, on request pets are allowed. Hotel policies: Check in: 14:00 hours Check out: 11:00 hours Payment at arrival. A credit card details are required to secure your reservation. We will not charge credit card before your arrival. If cancelled up 1 day before the date of arrival, no fee will be charged. If cancelled later or in case of no-show, 100% of the first night will be charged. Please note we DO NOT have car parking available!
Situated in the centre of Huddersfield, the family-run Huddersfield Central Lodge Hotel features a bar, free Wi-Fi, and free overnight private parking. The hotel is just 5 minutes' walk from Huddersfield railway station, Lawrence Batley Theatre, University of Huddersfield and the Kingsgate Shopping Centre. John Smith Stadium, home to Huddersfield Town AFC and Huddersfield Giants, is 1 mile away. This metro hotel offers spacious rooms with an en suite bath or shower room and complimentary toiletries. Some rooms are situated across the private courtyard and boast a kitchenette with a refrigerator and a microwave. In the mornings, the Huddersfield Lodge serves an award-winning full English breakfast, which is prepared using locally sourced Yorkshire produce. Dishes are served alongside a buffet which includes cereals, fresh seasonal fruit, toast, and various homemade jams. The Huddersfield Central Lodge Hotel features a full licensed lounge bar and a large conservatory, both of which feature a flat-screen TV. Numerous restaurants offering a wide variety of cuisine can be found within a 10-minute walk. Serviced suites with kitchenette and dining areas are available on request which are ideal for medium and long term lets. Awards and Accolades: •English Tourism Council and AA 3 Star Accredited Metro Hotel •Yorkshire Tourist Board Silver Award for Hospitality Service and Bedroom Quality. •Recommended by TripAdvisor.com Number 1 out of 15 hotels in Huddersfield as at 1/2/2013 •"Most loved" Business in Huddersfield, Best of Huddersfield 14 days of love campaign 2011. •Gold Award for Healthy Choice Breakfast Menu 2011/2012. •Hotel category winner, Huddersfield in Bloom 2010/2011. •Awarded "Highly Commended" certificate in Huddersfield Green Business Awards 2010/2011. •"Scores on the Doors" Local Council 4 Star Rating for hygiene. •Chief Police Officers Association Award for High Security Car Parking Park Mark Award since 1992. •Past winner of the Tidy Trader Gold Award. •Past winner Yorkshire in Bloom Competition.
Refurbished in January 2012 , alongside a brand new 45 Bedroom extension. The Hotel is situated 5 minutes' walk from Huddersfield town centre. Cambridge Hotel offers free wireless internet access, free parking and en suite accommodation at great-value rates. Cambridge Hotel has a convenient location, just 2.5 miles (4 km) from junction 24 of M62 motorway and only 0.5 miles (0.8 km) from Huddersfield's bus and railway stations. John Smith stadium is a short walk of 0.7miles (1.12 km). Free private parking is available on site, with closed-circuit TV surveillance for additional security. There are 94 spacious and comfortable rooms, all of which are en suite with showers. Each room has a Free view TV, Direct dial Telephone, Fridge, Tea/coffee making facilities, In room Ironing facilities, Laptop Safe, Hairdryer and Free WIFI. Free Wi-Fi wireless internet access is available throughout the building. A full English buffet breakfast is available at the cost of £6.50 per person and is served in the spacious and light dining room. Vegetarian alternatives are also available. Guests can also dine in the restaurant. 24 Hour reception Restaurant and Bar are available from 5pm to mid night.
A Warm Welcome To The Edgerton Hotel. This delightful period property is a family run hotel offering a combination of Family, Twin, Double and Single rooms, with free WiFi and tea and coffee making facilities and our convenient location just off the M62 halfway between Leeds and Manchester means convenient and fast access to both the North West and West Yorkshire. Free private parking is available on site, with closed-circuit TV surveillance for additional security and our reception is open 24 hours a day so you can Check In at your leisure. There are 33 comfortable rooms, all with power showers. Each room has a TV, a telephone, a fridge and tea/coffee making facilities. Ironing boards, irons and hair dryers are available upon request. We serve a buffet style breakfast with vegetarian options available.
Located a 15-minute walk from central Huddersfield, The Ashfield Hotel offers modern, en suite rooms and private on-site parking. Greenhead Park is also a 5-minute walk away. Free Wi-Fi is available in all areas. Each en suite room includes a bath or shower, a TV and tea and coffee making facilities. The Ashfield Hotel features a fridge and microwave in every room and has ironing facilities in each room. The hotel is located just over a mile from John Smith's Stadium, the home of Huddersfield Town Football Club and the town's rugby league side, Huddersfield Giants. The interactive fun of Eureka National Children's Museum is 7 miles away and the scenic Kirklees Light Railway is 25 minutes drive from the property. Less than 3 miles from Junction 24 of the M62 and a 15-minute walk from Huddersfield railway station, The Ashfield Hotel is conveniently located for transport links.


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Houghton University is proud to announce the exhibition of artist Nick Blosser's paintings titled "Territory" on display from September 2nd through October 9th in the Ortlip Gallery at the Center for the Arts in Houghton, NY. All are welcome to attend the exhibit's opening reception on September 2nd from 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. with a Gallery Talk beginning promptly at 7:00 p.m. Light refreshments will be served. If you are unable to attend that evening, the gallery is open Monday through Saturday from 9:00 a.m.- 6:00 p.m.
Blosser received both his Bachelor and Master of Fine Arts degrees from The Ohio State University and went on to teach Art at Milligan College in Johnson City, Tennessee from 1991-2021. He has exhibited extensively throughout the country from New York City to Portland. In 1985 he received the prestigious Rome Prize and was selected as a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome. He has received multiple fellowships and endowments including the 1991-92 National Endowment for the Arts Individual Fellowship. He is represented by PDX Contemporary Art Gallery in Portland, Oregon.
In recent years, the subject of Blosser's paintings is what some might call "the everyday." Blosser writes, "Each painting could be a new experience because I was getting my ideas from a source that provided ever replenishing motifs – nature. And, I could still use my love of form, shape and color and their abstract possibilities, but wed them with stuff from the natural world that many people encounter on an everyday basis but take for granted. From that time forward every new painting became a unique experience, and I've never become bored with painting nature as a starting point."
To more fully appreciate Blosser's work one must suspend realism and view it as abstract. In other words, Blosser removes layers of what the literalist perceives, distilling his subject to the raw, bare essence. Somehow, by this stripping process, he draws out a far deeper beauty that many of us are prone to overlook. Richard Cummings wrote in the July 2011 issue of Ruminate Magazine that part of Blosser's artistic brilliance is his ability to make his subject matter something that we all can relate to and feel a sense of familiarity with. Cummings states, "Far from a sentimental experience of nature, Blosser peers more deeply, seeing beyond the outward forms, allowing us a glimpse of the spiritual essences of the rolling hills and countryside. The trees, the bushes and even the hills are filled with presence and beauty. Though his subject is northeast Tennessee, the world that Blosser reveals in his egg tempera and watercolor landscapes describe the subliminal mystery of every landscape. His work points to the 'more' of existence and rejects the 'only' of the superficial."
There is marvelous poetry to Nick's paintings. Andre Segovia, the Spanish guitarist, famously said, 'It is better to move people than to amaze them.' Nick's work indeed moves me. The lyric beauty of his color and surfaces, the continuous compositional invention, and the 'silence at the heart of form,' as Roethke describes it, is consistently there in each piece.
Ted Murphy
Professor of Art
Nick Blosser, Mid-Winter Landscape, Egg tempera, 2020.
Nick Blosser, Enormous Fallen Limb, Watercolor, 2012.
Blosser's Exhibit "Territory" at Houghton University is made possible by the Jean and Ben Frank Moss Endowment. For purchase information the artist may be contacted through:
PDX Contemporary Art
1825 NW Vaughn Street, Suite B, Portland OR 97209
Tel 503 222 0063 | Info@pdxcontemporaryart.com
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Home /EXPERTS' OPINION/The Peanut Butter Market and the Growing Needs of the Consumer in 2021
The Peanut Butter Market and the Growing Needs of the Consumer in 2021
Mohammad Patel, Founder & CEO, MYFITNESS
Mohammad Patel is the Founder and CEO at MYFITNESS -India's highest-rated peanut butter brand. In his role at the company, Mohammad spearheads Strategy, Product development, Business Development and Supply Chain Management. Mohammad is an All-India CA Rank holder. He is a Bachelor in Commerce along with being a chartered accountant. Throughout his professional career spanning over 4 years Mohammad gained a pool of knowledge in the Business and Consulting industries. He was also the brain behind successful product development and business strategy at MYFITNESS.
The lockdown was divided into two intervals for many. The initial period was a time for wallowing in a slothful spree of glutton-inspired junk-eating, binge-watching, and abysmal sleep cycles. It was a long-cherished dream for many working professionals and students. Working from home as a result of the ever-increasing lockdowns was a completely different beast for many employers and the workforce working remotely. Supervision is the key to efficiency. The lack of it during the initial period meant a stress-free working environment for many, aided by the comfort of their home.
The indulgence in this unhealthy, carefree lifestyle was struck by an interregnum. As the lockdown-induced weight gain kept hitting new scales in magnitude, what looked like the dream life for many came to an abrupt halt. Decisions made earlier were being re-evaluated, with a sense of regret. The start of this period, that is the second interval of the lockdown, indicated that the unhealthy routine which was congenial initially had detrimental effects on the health of those who were religiously accustomed to such practices. As a result, health took the forefront in many households. Nutrition-infused dietary habits have received a lot of attention after this realization, as many experts believe that diet is far more important than exercise.
Peanut butter: A synonym for healthy-choice
Many people were designing a strict nutritional regime in response to an increase in health and wellness concerns. Many comestibles and ingredients were substituted for healthier choices. This is where peanut butter came into the picture. Traditionally, butter has been a very vital ingredient in most Indian homes, but over the years, the demand for peanut butter has increased owing to the conspicuous health benefits that the product is affixed with. The global health and wellness food market is expected to touch a CAGR of 6% during 2020-2024. A lot of food scientists also claim that peanut butter is a nutrition powerhouse, equating it to a superfood. It is a very flexible comestible that can be used with a variety of everyday foods. Using it as a spread for one's breakfast can enrich it with nutrients that can help in maintaining heart health and keep a check on blood sugar levels.
The peanut butter market and the reason for its demand
The global scenario
Peanut butter as a condiment has become a new household staple. The nutritional value that it comes with makes it a perfect substitute for milk butter. Over the years, the demand for nut butter has swelled and reached new heights. A staggering $3.4 billion is where the global market value of peanut butter stands. Reports indicate that it will grow at a CAGR of 5.4% during 2021-2026 globally.
The scenario in India
The growth of the peanut butter market in India has not reached a point of saturation and a whole expanse remains to be conquered. The numbers present a very encouraging sign. According to a recently published report, the market for nut butter will see an aggressive expansion. With a double digit stellar CAGR expected for 2019-2025, the growth rate of peanut butter in India outdoes the global market. There are various channels of distribution, but the most common ones are supermarkets, hypermarkets, and retailers. Usually, regular, low-sodium and low-sugar variants of the condiment are popular in the Indian market.
The peanut butter story in India: The drivers for its demand
Today, peanut butter is one of the most popular condiment items on the racks at the supermarket. It does not take a detective to rally for the product, and its growing popularity. It fits into everyday lives quite conveniently. From being a staple breakfast item or a filling snack between meals, butter's biggest foe has become the best friend for a fitness enthusiast.
Embedded in its DNA are healthy fats, high protein, and vital vitamins like magnesium, zinc, phosphorus, niacin, and vitamin B-6. As a popular substitute for milk butter, peanut butter trumps its competitors by enriching one's body with the goodness of dietary fiber, alongside having fewer calories and zero cholesterol. This is basically a weight-proof formula that keeps you from gaining those extra kilos and also keeps your hunger pangs at bay.
The other marketing proposition which is catalyzing the expansion of peanut butter in India is it being a 'protein powerhouse'. Protein intake in India has always been an issue in a country that has a substantial number of people, about 39% of whom take vegetarian diets. Whether a myth or truth, non-vegetarian food has etched itself as the primary provider of protein. Therefore, in a country where there are so many people who abstain from meat and other non-vegetarian products, they often think they are overlooking their protein requirements. This makes protein-infused vegetarian supplements a go-to commodity for millions of vegetarians.
Though the intake of protein is not only limited to vegetarians, even non-vegetarians who are into gymming and weight management programmes try to have a protein-rich diet. The market for whey protein in India is expected to grow at an 11% CAGR from 2019-2024. It is crystal clear that protein-rich commodities sell like hot cakes off supermarket shelves. Peanut butter's protein-rich feature makes it hit the nail on the head in regards to what the Indian market wants.
Being fit mentally and physically has become paramount to us over the years. For a long time, people have struggled to find a condiment that does not increase their weight, boost their health, provide them with vital nutrients, and after all is said and done, taste decent. Peanut butter helps in systematic weight management, boosts health, provides vital nutrients, and well, it does not taste just decent, but it tastes really good. As a product, it ticks all the boxes, and therefore, it is rocking the market and has become a friend for fitness enthusiasts.
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Q: My neighbour wants me to cut down my tree as he says it is blocking his view and his right to light. I always top the tree off every year but he is now threatening legal action. Where do I stand in this situation?
A: Your neighbour has no right to view but his right to light may be difficult to prove depending on the age of the house or the deed. If your neighbour does take legal action, it is likely that the council will force you to top tree but not much else. I would recommend you write a letter to your neighbour and come to an understanding that satisfies you both.
My neighbour has cut the top off a hedge on my side of the boundary line. What sort of claim do I have against him?


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March 18, 1996 V4, #50
Was the Summit of the Peacemakers Successful?
By Ed Warner (VOA-Washington)
The leaders of 27 nations gathered in Egypt last week to condemn terrorism and devise ways to deal with it. But can they stop it? Here are two differing views of the conference and its consequences.
This is a first, says Alan Makovsky, a senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy: "It is extraordinary and unprecedented for the president of the United States to make a condolence call at another nation for the death of its citizens. That is effectively what this was. This was a condolence call on the State of Israel because of the recent losses from the bombing. I think that has made a strong impression on all of the Israeli people."
Makovsky says even former Likud Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir praised the conference and Clinton's participation. Just as important was the Muslim contribution: "You had senior officials from 13 Arab countries linking arms in effect, metaphorically, with an Israeli leader, with Shimon Peres, in support of the peace process. And that is extraordinary. Will it increase support for the peace process in Israel? That is unclear.
"Will it increase support for Shimon Peres? That was the unstated goal of this gathering. We will not find that out until May 29 when Israelis go to the polls. And will it help somehow in curtailing terrorism? That, I think, is the big question, and we will have to see."
Yvonne Haddad has her doubts. A professor of Islamic studies at the University of Massachusetts, she says terrorism has been too narrowly defined. Palestinians, too, have been victims of terrorism.
She believes issues were avoided at the conference that will continue to lead to terrorist acts: "The fact that the issue of the Palestinian refugees has not been solved, the fact that not enough land has been given back, the fact that the issue of the settlements is still pending, but it does not look as if Israel is about to give up any of it because they do not have to, because they are so powerful. So basically, it is an enforced pacification. That is the way the Arabs and Muslims are talking about it rather than peace."
Haddad says it was a mistake for the conference to put so much blame on the members of Hamas, who are understandably skeptical of the peace process: "They see it as more oppression rather than any amelioration of their condition. It is the condition that creates the terrorists. One of the things we have done with this conference is we have empowered the Palestinians to destroy the infrastructure of Hamas, which meant taking care of the poor, feeding the hungry, educating the children, and also taking away their ability to take care of their sick."
But the conference had wider implications than terrorism, according to Jason Isaacson, director of government and international affairs at the American Jewish Committee in New York. There were varying degrees of enthusiasm, he says, but the Arab leaders who participated took another step toward an accommodation in the Middle East that will benefit everybody.
US Anti-Terrorism Legislation Criticized
By Deborah Tate (VOA-White House)
President Clinton is criticizing anti-terrorism legislation passed by the House of Representatives last week. The House dropped key provisions of the bill -- provisions left intact in the Senate-passed version. Clinton used his weekly radio address Saturday to demand that those provisions be restored in the legislation that is sent to him for his signature. Clinton, who just returned from a trip to the Middle East where he pledged assistance to fight terrorism, says the anti-terrorism bill passed by the House would weaken proposals to fight terrorism here at home.
"The House took the teeth out of our efforts to fight terrorism. Unbelievably, the House voted to give law enforcement officials fewer tools to fight terrorism than they have to fight far less horrible crimes here at home."
Clinton says the bill would cripple the ability of law enforcement to use high-tech surveillance to track terrorists. He also criticized lawmakers' decisions to drop provisions giving authorities the power to stop terrorist groups from raising money in the United States and to quickly deport foreign nationals who support terrorist activities.
The House passed the bill after a coalition of conservative Republicans and anti-gun control Democrats voted to remove the provisions on grounds they would give law enforcement too much power, and would endanger individual liberties.


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APC members seek sanction against Banire
The Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has urged the party's National Working Committee (NWC) to enforce the suspension of its National Legal Adviser, Dr. Muiz Banire, for indiscipline.
Addressing reporters yesterday at the Lagos APC secretariat during a protest by members of his local government to enforce disciplinary action against the party chieftain, APC's Mushin Local Government Area Legal Adviser Femi Martin said Banire's activities had become uncontrollable.
Martin said the NWC must sanction him to prevent other erring party members from towing his line.
The party chieftain said the APC must summon the courage to sanction members who violate the party's rules and regulations.
The protesters, who handed their petition to Lagos APC leadership, said: "The Lagos State chapter of the APC has been subjected to needless string of embarrassment for a member of the party; this climaxed with the suspension letter that was transmitted to the national secretariat of our great party. It was meant to curb the continuous embarrassment of the party in the media and social media platforms at his disposal.
"We, therefore, demand the leadership of the party to act in furtherance of the suspension at the local level by completing the process to serve as deterrent to other dissidents. The recalcitrant member has further grown wings, committing worse atrocities."
Martin said Banire's activities had reinforced the party's earlier stance that APC's values were being eroded by the conduct of some members who did not want to subject themselves to due process.
According to him, the party's NWC should correct the wrong impression that some members were above the law by ratifying Banire's earlier suspension from his ward.
Martin added: "The remaining days of the NWC of the party should be written in gold by completing the process of Muiz Banire's suspension to lay the foundation for party discipline. Party discipline is, therefore, not an aberration but a standard practice everywhere democracy thrives on earth.
"Right from time immemorial and even in the First and Second republics, where parties faced challenges, discipline were enforced in order not to weaken the party…"
"The defunct National Party of Nigeria (NPN), Unity Party of Nigeria (UPN), Peoples Redemption Party (PRP) and National Advanced Party (NAP) had their internal wrangling, yet discipline was maintained to prevent erring members from misleading others."
Receiving the petition on behalf of the state chairman of the party, Mr. Tunde Balogun, the state's Vice Chairman for Lagos West, Chief Funsho Ologunde, promised to deliver the petition to the party's national leadership.


Machine translated chapter 997 of Human Emperor light novel.
Chapter 997 The heavy great crossbow is Great Tang is used to cope with Caliphate Behemoth, but seven Behemoth died now six heads, how long the remaining gigantopitheci could not live shortly, these heavy great crossbows were equal to that the hero did not have the opportunity. No matter Du Wusili ruins does not ruin, was not big regarding influence of entire war. The Du Wusili action, seems like more like saves the final face, this point people are well aware, but has not stated clearly. "Snort, anything and giant pesters, noticed that Great Tang boy controls four Behemoth, knows not to hit, therefore found these giants to delay intentionally. Everybody is a fool, can't look?" Hobasani sneers to say. Although U-Tsang esteeming martial arts degree is inferior to Caliphate Empire, but the common social practice is agile and fierce, advocates these genuine heroes. From the beginning, Hobasani has also filled with the anticipation to Du Wusili, however his all sorts of actions make the person unable to advocate completely. tí dā dā, the distant place, the mist and dust is billowing, Du Wusili as if also understands one do not have the face to see the person, a booklet in the halfway, has not gone to the position of people, but goes toward the Turkic People camp. Suddenly, on high hill, quiet, no one has spoken, such visual Sky Wolf Great General Du Wusili is vanishing in the camp of Western Turkic person. On the high hill the complete silence, has not known how long, the people have taken back the vision. Although no one has spoken, but Dusong Mangbuzhi thought that just asked for leniency for Du Wusili, but the feeling is somewhat awkward, other people's responses could also be imagined. "hē hē, you looked down on Du Wusili." The sudden sound resounds, the Daqin Ruozan sleeve robe micro pendulum, opens the mouth to say. His body back to people, full Tou the long hair and robe in the strong gale, flap flap makes the dance, to person an elegant free and easy feeling. "Du Wusili, if truly only then this ability, was impossible to sit the Sky Wolf Great General position." The words, attracted the attention of people rapidly, Huoshu Guicang, Dusong Mangbuzhi and Hobasani, periphery other military officers turned head to look in abundance. "Minister Da, your meaning...... Is Du Wusili is hiding one's incompetence by remaining silent intentionally?" Huoshu Guicang is probing the [say / way]. "hē hē, does not hide one's incompetence by remaining silent, his goal is always very clear, but you have not seen through." Daqin Ruozan has not turned head, but the thoughts of all people, he knows from A to Z completely. "Minister Da, I spoke frankly that is not I do not believe you, but I really could not look that Du Wusili has any fierce place. This war from start to the present, I have not seen him to obtain any victory." Hobasani said. Hobasani is not does not believe Daqin Ruozan, is only regarding the Du Wusili actions, Hobasani is really hard to approve.
Daqin Ruozan smiled, but has not refuted. "Fire pulls out, something cannot only look at the surface, the harvest of Du Wusili, actually imagines compared with you are larger. You had not seen, he goes to time is a person, comes back, on horseback to be many what?" "What?!" The words said the people stunned. The motion of Du Wusili failed, determination spirited going, dingy coming back, the people note, only then this. Wang Chong has not died, he could not talk about has anything to harvest, were many as for his horseback on anything, the people have not gone to pay attention. However the Daqin Ruozan words also reminded the people, suddenly, the people on the scene looking pensive, in the eye have shown the look of recollection. Quick, the look of people becomes subtle. "Probably Du Wusili comes back,...... On his horseback were many a person!" A U-Tsang military commander said. By his saying, several other people had been also thought. After all was some time ago matter, people also had a vivid memory. "What unique element but does this matter have?" Hobasani frowns to say. Even if confirmed this point, the people are not clear, Daqin Ruozan mentioned this matter to have any intention. Du Wusili leads a person to come back, are all different? "If Du Wusili goes to Wang Chong from the beginning, this matter naturally does not have what unique element, but if not? If Du Wusili does not go to Wang Chong from the start, you will also look like think now?" Daqin Ruozan shows a faint smile to say. "!" Suddenly, all people were startled. Hobasani was said the look to be stunned by the Daqin Ruozan words, the mouth opened, a character cannot spit. Good! If Du Wusili goes to Wang Chong from the beginning, transferred an actually idle work to return, naturally could not complain about the people to look down upon him, but if his real motive from the start not? The people from the beginning first impressions are most lasting, by Du Wusili that brave words "misleading", therefore has not thought this issue from the start.
Daqin Ruozan felt that behind sound, smiles not to speak. Du Wusili is truly fierce, if not he is careful, had noticed detail that people some have not noted, perhaps they are also same as Huoshu Guicang and Hobasani, by Du Wusili deceiving. Since he is known as the wisdom, in this world many matters can hide the truth from his eye truly. "Some matters, cannot only listen to others saying that but must think how they do." Daqin Ruozan looks at the expansive sky, clouds are thin, wind is soft was saying. He is not the pure writer, character and makings that but the body reveals, but also is full of wisdom, is actually any writer believes. "Du Wusili is that type excels in hiding the person of oneself real motive, can sit Western Turkic Khaganate to wait a jin (0.5 kg) position, including Beiting Great Protectorate An Sishun by the person who he defeats, how also possibly to look like not being able to withstand that you said. He can hide." "But, is Minister Da, who is worth the Du Wusili such big fee plundering flustered? Moreover can conceal us specially?" Huoshu Guicang goes forward suddenly one step, arrives at Daqin Ruozan, asked essential one. If Sky Wolf Great General Du Wusili said the thoughts to be deep like Daqin Ruozan, perhaps that was not they are laughing at Du Wusili, but was Du Wusili is looking at their jokes. Huoshu Guicang has not ravelled, why Du Wusili persists to the end is. "Why can also be? Can massacring Wang Chong is more important, also can only be on him 'the Array celestial phenomenon'." Daqin Ruozan smile however smiles, the superficial four characters, a language revealed the Du Wusili real objective. Bang, falls like a giant stone, a stone arouses thousand overlapping waves, in all person hearts continuously, raises a difficult situation. Array celestial phenomenon! No one has thought that the Du Wusili real objective unexpectedly is this. So long as knows that these four characters components, everybody knows that Du Wusili the action is absolutely indisputable. Mu Chi big Heavy Cavalry Commander Hobasani was startled, in the eye showed look looking pensive. Daqin Ruozan smiles, knows that the people responded. "...... Du Wusili does not go to Wang Chong from the beginning, before war time, haven't you noted? When Wang Chong's Wushang Heavy Cavalry displays the Array celestial phenomenon, Du Wusili look and ordinary entirely different. I once sent for adjusting checked this Western Turkic Sky Wolf Great General, the material that although obtains is few, but can draw a same conclusion from all incomplete materials, that is this Sky Wolf Great General to the formidable strength, has the extremely intense hope." "The Array celestial phenomenon is all Array highest Realm, Du Wusili Sky Wolf Illusion Array is unable in comparison. If can understand clearly the Array celestial phenomenon mystery, and Sky Wolf Illusion Array Upgrade to that Level, then present Du Wusili and Sky Wolf Heavy Cavalry the strength will rise suddenly, was much more formidable than it any time in the past. Such important matter, Du Wusili layer on layer will certainly guard. You had not discovered that fight, although had finished, but after Du Wusili returns to the Western Turkic camp, soldier slight relaxations of these Western Turkic, instead even more have not been vigilant." Daqin Ruozan indifferently said.
The people looked at the past following the Daqin Ruozan vision, before Caliphate and Great Tang fierce combat time, in addition can stay out, Western Turkic Khaganate soldier who treated with indifference, after Du Wusili returned, appeared frightened by the slightest sound suddenly, the position was stern, extremely vigilant. Which at this time the people have the least bit question. "Good Sky Wolf Great General...... We underestimated him!" Dusong Mangbuzhi cannot bear say with emotion finally. Hiding one's incompetence by remaining silent of Du Wusili was really hides deeply, at this moment, he somewhat was suddenly clear, how Great Tang Beiting Great Protectorate An Sishun lost to his. Du Wusili this person himself is powerful, simultaneously handles affairs does not press the common sense, real, false, cannot ascertain his real intention, how also to cope with him. "hē hē, understands that his style, by his spoken language, naturally will not play with by him in applauses." Daqin Ruozan indifferent [say / way]. Simple a few words, said the key that and Du Wusili this person had to do. Du Wusili is a smart person, what a pity in this battlefield, smart person more than his. Daqin Ruozan knows that in this battlefield at least three people can see through his intention. Huoshu Guicang and Dusong Mangbuzhi are not familiar with him, are few with his contact electrode, does not grow perceptibly by the wisdom, was deceived by him is also normal. But regarding Daqin Ruozan, this is really not the too wise trick. "Walks! Du Wusili has gone well, seized an important character from Great Tang smoothly. However that side that is not the affable Lord, does not have the accident, he also almost should discover now. Great Tang just won, morale precisely most exuberant time, has drawn back including Abmuslin, we also put in great inconvenience, temporarily evades the point! That giant ape does not die, we are impossible and he fight." Daqin Ruozan smiled, the big hand wielded, has issued the order of retreating. "Bang!" A moment later, the mist and dust is billowing, several thousand U-Tsang Heavy Cavalry army break camp, withdraws toward the distant place. However the short time, vanishes in the east battlefield immediately thoroughly.
Chapter 997 The heavy great crossbow is Great Tang is used to cope with Caliphate Behemoth, but seven Behemoth died now six heads, how long the remaining gigantopitheci could not live shortly, these heavy great crossbows were equal to that the hero did not have the opportunity. No matter Du Wusili ruins does not ruin, was not big regarding influence of entire war. The Du Wusili action, seems like more like saves the final face, this point people are well aware, but has not stated clearly. Snort, anything and giant pesters, noticed that Great Tang boy controls four Behemoth, knows not to hit, therefore found these giants to delay intentionally. Everybody is a fool, cant look Hobasani sneers to say. Although UTsang esteeming martial arts degree is inferior to Caliphate Empire, but the common social practice is agile and fierce, advocates these genuine heroes. From the beginning, Hobasani has also filled with the anticipation to Du Wusili, however his all sorts of actions make the person unable to advocate completely. tí dā dā, the distant place, the mist and dust is billowing, Du Wusili as if also understands one do not have the face to see the person, a booklet in the halfway, has not gone to the position of people, but goes toward the Turkic People camp. Suddenly, on high hill, quiet, no one has spoken, such visual Sky Wolf Great General Du Wusili is vanishing in the camp of Western Turkic person. On the high hill the complete silence, has not known how long, the people have taken back the vision. Although no one has spoken, but Dusong Mangbuzhi thought that just asked for leniency for Du Wusili, but the feeling is somewhat awkward, other peoples responses could also be imagined. hē hē, you looked down on Du Wusili. The sudden sound resounds, the Daqin Ruozan sleeve robe micro pendulum, opens the mouth to say. His body back to people, full Tou the long hair and robe in the strong gale, flap flap makes the dance, to person an elegant free and easy feeling. Du Wusili, if truly only then this ability, was impossible to sit the Sky Wolf Great General position. The words, attracted the attention of people rapidly, Huoshu Guicang, Dusong Mangbuzhi and Hobasani, periphery other military officers turned head to look in abundance. Minister Da, your meaning. Is Du Wusili is hiding ones incompetence by remaining silent intentionally Huoshu Guicang is probing the say way. hē hē, does not hide ones incompetence by remaining silent, his goal is always very clear, but you have not seen through. Daqin Ruozan has not turned head, but the thoughts of all people, he knows from A to Z completely. Minister Da, I spoke frankly that is not I do not believe you, but I really could not look that Du Wusili has any fierce place. This war from start to the present, I have not seen him to obtain any victory. Hobasani said. Hobasani is not does not believe Daqin Ruozan, is only regarding the Du Wusili actions, Hobasani is really hard to approve. Daqin Ruozan smiled, but has not refuted. Fire pulls out, something cannot only look at the surface, the harvest of Du Wusili, actually imagines compared with you are larger. You had not seen, he goes to time is a person, comes back, on horseback to be many what What The words said the people stunned. The motion of Du Wusili failed, determination spirited going, dingy coming back, the people note, only then this. Wang Chong has not died, he could not talk about has anything to harvest, were many as for his horseback on anything, the people have not gone to pay attention. However the Daqin Ruozan words also reminded the people, suddenly, the people on the scene looking pensive, in the eye have shown the look of recollection. Quick, the look of people becomes subtle. Probably Du Wusili comes back,. On his horseback were many a person A UTsang military commander said. By his saying, several other people had been also thought. After all was some time ago matter, people also had a vivid memory. What unique element but does this matter have Hobasani frowns to say. Even if confirmed this point, the people are not clear, Daqin Ruozan mentioned this matter to have any intention. Du Wusili leads a person to come back, are all different If Du Wusili goes to Wang Chong from the beginning, this matter naturally does not have what unique element, but if not If Du Wusili does not go to Wang Chong from the start, you will also look like think now Daqin Ruozan shows a faint smile to say. Suddenly, all people were startled. Hobasani was said the look to be stunned by the Daqin Ruozan words, the mouth opened, a character cannot spit. Good If Du Wusili goes to Wang Chong from the beginning, transferred an actually idle work to return, naturally could not complain about the people to look down upon him, but if his real motive from the start not The people from the beginning first impressions are most lasting, by Du Wusili that brave words misleading, therefore has not thought this issue from the start. Daqin Ruozan felt that behind sound, smiles not to speak. Du Wusili is truly fierce, if not he is careful, had noticed detail that people some have not noted, perhaps they are also same as Huoshu Guicang and Hobasani, by Du Wusili deceiving. Since he is known as the wisdom, in this world many matters can hide the truth from his eye truly. Some matters, cannot only listen to others saying that but must think how they do. Daqin Ruozan looks at the expansive sky, clouds are thin, wind is soft was saying. He is not the pure writer, character and makings that but the body reveals, but also is full of wisdom, is actually any writer believes. Du Wusili is that type excels in hiding the person of oneself real motive, can sit Western Turkic Khaganate to wait a jin 0.5 kg position, including Beiting Great Protectorate An Sishun by the person who he defeats, how also possibly to look like not being able to withstand that you said. He can hide. But, is Minister Da, who is worth the Du Wusili such big fee plundering flustered Moreover can conceal us specially Huoshu Guicang goes forward suddenly one step, arrives at Daqin Ruozan, asked essential one. If Sky Wolf Great General Du Wusili said the thoughts to be deep like Daqin Ruozan, perhaps that was not they are laughing at Du Wusili, but was Du Wusili is looking at their jokes. Huoshu Guicang has not ravelled, why Du Wusili persists to the end is. Why can also be Can massacring Wang Chong is more important, also can only be on him the Array celestial phenomenon. Daqin Ruozan smile however smiles, the superficial four characters, a language revealed the Du Wusili real objective. Bang, falls like a giant stone, a stone arouses thousand overlapping waves, in all person hearts continuously, raises a difficult situation. Array celestial phenomenon No one has thought that the Du Wusili real objective unexpectedly is this. So long as knows that these four characters components, everybody knows that Du Wusili the action is absolutely indisputable. Mu Chi big Heavy Cavalry Commander Hobasani was startled, in the eye showed look looking pensive. Daqin Ruozan smiles, knows that the people responded. . Du Wusili does not go to Wang Chong from the beginning, before war time, havent you noted When Wang Chongs Wushang Heavy Cavalry displays the Array celestial phenomenon, Du Wusili look and ordinary entirely different. I once sent for adjusting checked this Western Turkic Sky Wolf Great General, the material that although obtains is few, but can draw a same conclusion from all incomplete materials, that is this Sky Wolf Great General to the formidable strength, has the extremely intense hope. The Array celestial phenomenon is all Array highest Realm, Du Wusili Sky Wolf Illusion Array is unable in comparison. If can understand clearly the Array celestial phenomenon mystery, and Sky Wolf Illusion Array Upgrade to that Level, then present Du Wusili and Sky Wolf Heavy Cavalry the strength will rise suddenly, was much more formidable than it any time in the past. Such important matter, Du Wusili layer on layer will certainly guard. You had not discovered that fight, although had finished, but after Du Wusili returns to the Western Turkic camp, soldier slight relaxations of these Western Turkic, instead even more have not been vigilant. Daqin Ruozan indifferently said. The people looked at the past following the Daqin Ruozan vision, before Caliphate and Great Tang fierce combat time, in addition can stay out, Western Turkic Khaganate soldier who treated with indifference, after Du Wusili returned, appeared frightened by the slightest sound suddenly, the position was stern, extremely vigilant. Which at this time the people have the least bit question. Good Sky Wolf Great General. We underestimated him Dusong Mangbuzhi cannot bear say with emotion finally. Hiding ones incompetence by remaining silent of Du Wusili was really hides deeply, at this moment, he somewhat was suddenly clear, how Great Tang Beiting Great Protectorate An Sishun lost to his. Du Wusili this person himself is powerful, simultaneously handles affairs does not press the common sense, real, false, cannot ascertain his real intention, how also to cope with him. hē hē, understands that his style, by his spoken language, naturally will not play with by him in applauses. Daqin Ruozan indifferent say way. Simple a few words, said the key that and Du Wusili this person had to do. Du Wusili is a smart person, what a pity in this battlefield, smart person more than his. Daqin Ruozan knows that in this battlefield at least three people can see through his intention. Huoshu Guicang and Dusong Mangbuzhi are not familiar with him, are few with his contact electrode, does not grow perceptibly by the wisdom, was deceived by him is also normal. But regarding Daqin Ruozan, this is really not the too wise trick. Walks Du Wusili has gone well, seized an important character from Great Tang smoothly. However that side that is not the affable Lord, does not have the accident, he also almost should discover now. Great Tang just won, morale precisely most exuberant time, has drawn back including Abmuslin, we also put in great inconvenience, temporarily evades the point That giant ape does not die, we are impossible and he fight. Daqin Ruozan smiled, the big hand wielded, has issued the order of retreating. Bang A moment later, the mist and dust is billowing, several thousand UTsang Heavy Cavalry army break camp, withdraws toward the distant place. However the short time, vanishes in the east battlefield immediately thoroughly.


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Kenneth Rubinstein
Offshore Asset Protection & the New IRS Traps
During the past 30 years the United States has witnessed an ever-growing exodus of individual assets to exotic "tax haven" countries.
This burgeoning overseas flight of personal capital has been motivated by the need for "asset protection" — guarding personal wealth from attack by hungry creditors, aggressive litigants, or ex-spouses; and "tax minimization" — reducing or eliminating taxes, especially on income earned outside this country.
These expatriate assets have found welcome homes in a proliferation of newly independent small island-states that have compensated for their lack of raw materials, industry and technology by creating a new "tax-haven" industry, supported by local legislation guarantying tax exemption, secrecy and asset protection to foreign investors.
Unfortunately, many of these infant tax-haven jurisdictions lack the social and political infrastructure necessary to guarantee a stable investment environment.
Thus, the unwary investor who chooses the wrong location, may replace his concerns for domestic asset preservation with worries about the safety and stability of his offshore investments.
To further complicate the situation, the proliferation of new "tax-haven" jurisdictions has been mirrored by an equally troublesome proliferation of offshore "trust mills" — foreign enterprises whose sole business is the sale of pre-printed "boilerplate" offshore trusts and corporations.
These documents purport to establish investment entities in compliance with local "tax-haven" laws, but do not address U.S. tax laws and regulations governing foreign investments or asset transfers by U.S. citizens or residents.
Nevertheless, the need to protect assets from our increasingly litigious legal system and the desire to avoid our over-burdensome system of taxation continue to fuel the increasing migration of personal capital out of the United States.
Our government has mounted a campaign to stem the flow of wealth into these offshore havens through legislation designed to discourage U.S. investors from sending their money to foreign countries.
Congress has chosen the tax code as its primary weapon. In both the Small Business Job Protection Act of 1996 and the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997, Congress included provisions imposing oppressive reporting requirements and heavy penalties on overseas investments.
The Internal Revenue Code now targets various types of offshore entities, including: foreign trusts, controlled foreign corporations, foreign personal holding companies, personal foreign investment companies, and passive foreign investment companies.
The U.S. tax laws place these entities at an economic disadvantage by taxing them either earlier than similar domestic investment vehicles or at a higher tax rate.
Thus, if you are planning on sending your money offshore, you must be aware of these new "tax traps," which often catch U.S. investors unaware, imposing upon them severe penalties ($10,000 per month plus interest) and, in some cases, even criminal prosecution.
The "boiler-plate" trusts and corporations sold by offshore "trust mills" invariably qualify as one of these targeted entities, subjecting the unwary U.S. investor to these I.R.S. "tax trap" penalties.
Thus, foreign trusts are now subject to the following "tax traps":
Any transfer of assets to a foreign trust must be reported to the IRS; and
Distributions from a foreign trust to a U.S. person may be taxed as income to that person; and
Undistributed earnings may be taxed as income to the U.S. creator of the trust; and
If the foreign trust has accumulated earnings from earlier years and makes a distribution, a U.S. recipient may be required to pay income tax on the distribution as if the income were generated in the previous year(s) and you had failed to report it, i.e., you will pay income tax plus penalties and interest; and
You will be required to provide the IRS with extensive filings with respect to all trust transactions and who the trust beneficiaries are; and
If you fail to file you may be fined up to 35% of the trust's assets and an additional $10,000.00 per month for each month the report is late; and
If you fail to file you may be subject to criminal charges.
These "tax traps" may catch you if you are:
A grantor, transferor, or executor of an estate transferring assets to a foreign trust; or
A U.S. beneficiary of a foreign trust.
Foreign corporations are also subject to "tax traps". As a U.S. shareholder of certain foreign corporations you may now be required to:
Report to the IRS annually concerning all business activities of the foreign corporation; and
Pay an income tax on corporate earnings, regardless of whether or not the corporation distributes the earnings to you; and
Treat some of the income derived from the foreign company as "ordinary" income rather than "capital gains"; and
Face severe financial penalties if you fail to comply.
These corporate "tax traps" may catch you if you are:
A shareholder who owns 10% or more of a foreign corporation in which more than half of the corporation's stock is owned by five or fewer U.S. persons; or
A shareholder of a foreign corporation in which more than half of the corporation's stock is owned by five or fewer U.S. persons and 60% or more of the corporation's gross income is investment income; or
A shareholder of a foreign corporation which earns 75% or more of its gross income as investment income, or which holds 50% or more of its assets as investment assets
To add insult to injury, the U.S. government has been successfully pressuring "tax haven" countries to abandon their secrecy and sign "mutual cooperation and exchange of tax information" treaties. Thus, for example, those famous Swiss secret numbered bank accounts have not been very secret since 1991.
To be sure, confidential "tax haven" countries do still exist; a few of them are even socially, politically and financially stable; and the goals of secrecy, total asset protection and tax-free income are still attainable.
But they are gems in a minefield. The unwary investor buying a "one size fits all" trust or a "canned" corporation from an offshore mill risks stepping on a mine.
Only a qualified professional, well versed in current U.S. tax law, as well as domestic and international asset protection law, can structure a plan to fit an individual investor's specific needs and at the same time avoid the I.R.S. "tax traps".
Such specially designed plans do not come cheap. The old adage holds true: "You get what you pay for."
But through the use of specially developed tax compliant offshore strategies, established in one of the few remaining truly confidential and safe tax-free jurisdictions, a discerning investor, guided by a properly qualified U.S. tax attorney, may tip-toe around the mines, avoid the "tax traps" and achieve complete secrecy, asset protection and tax-free growth and income.
"You get what you pay for."


Frairie VI is a temperate planet, but only just. Orbiting closer to the Frarie star than its neighbor Frarie VII, and with a much higher average temperature, the planet is also nearly devoid of fresh water. For these reasons, it was initially passed over for colonization.
Some 30 years after the settlement on Frarie VII was ordered into quarantine, a cult led by Idama Jeevan Nirantar decided to relocate to the planet to escape scrutiny they were under on the Intaki homeworld.
Nirantar and his followers, called the Rohaani, were extreme followers of the Intaki principles of minimalism and the tradition of the Rebirth. They believed that only by following the most deprived lifestyle could their souls be cleansed and be prepared for the final ascension of consciousness (a process known to the Intaki as the Rohaan).
While living on Intaki Prime, the cultists were known to clash with other people due to their extreme interpretations of the Ida. Rohaani, for example, normally eschew clothing of any kind, nor do they "waste" water by bathing. While most Rohaani subsist on a minimal diet of lentils and rice, all are vegan.
The most controversial of their beliefs, however, is what they call a "conservation of consciousness." For the Rohaani, the creation of a new life is an extreme waste of resources and collective set back to their goal of universal Rohaan. They believe it takes many lifetimes of sacrifice to reach the final ascension and so a child who is not a reborn elder represents generations of future labor toward perfection.
As an extension of this belief, the Rohaani participate in a ceremony known as the "saunp dena." When a Rohaani woman begins labor, the eldest or most infirmed member of the group is selected. At the moment of delivery, the elder commits an act of ritual suicide, freeing their consciousness for rebirth in the new infant.
Allegations that some Rohaani elders were "assisted" in their suicides led to the arrest and interrogation of several Rohaani leaders, including Nirantar. Before the investigations were completed, Nirantar and 25,000 of his followers fled the planet and established their colony on Frarie VI.
Authorities on Intaki Prime eventually charged Nirantar with murder, but recognizing the new colony's autonomy under the articles of planetary settlement established by the Intaki Planetary Government made it impossible to extradite him. Nirantar was tried in absentia and convicted.
In a surprise move, Nirantar agreed to be transported to Intaki for sentencing. However, prior to the arrival of Intaki authorities, Nirantar participated in a saunp dena ceremony.
When the Intaki police arrived, they found a suckling infant in place of the man they had come to detain. In accordance with Intaki traditions, criminal charges do not follow a person through rebirth and so the young Nirantar was left with his family.
While Nirantar grew and matured, leadership of the cult passed to his cousin, Shreemaan Rishtedaar. When Nirantar grew into adulthood, he resumed leadership and the two have alternated ever since.
Although a few members of the Rohaani have defected over the years, new settlers have arrived to follow the teachings of Nirantar. As a result, the colony has had a near-zero population change throughout its history.


Fifth in Chris R. Notarile's fan film series Krueger: Tales from Elm Street movies, this one can be seen as a direct prequel to the original A Nightmare on Elm Street, as it more or less directly sets up the events of that movie, and also shows a more serious side of Freddy Krueger, before he has become a bundle of oneliners, as witnessed in the later entries into the A Nightmare on Elm Street series. But while it's certainly preferable for one to have previous knowledge of Freddy Krueger, Krueger: The Legend of Elm Street also works well as a standalone supernatural thriller miniature, it's creepy and suspenseful in all the right places, goes for atmosphere rather than spectacle to freak one out, is based on a strong script and solid performances.
Definitely something not only fans of the A Nightmare on Elm Street series will find easy to enjoy!


In a large bowl, combine the first five ingredients. In a small bowl, combine the remaining ingredients. Pour over vegetables; toss to coat.
Transfer to two greased 15x10x1-in. baking pans. Bake, uncovered, at 425° for 40-50 minutes or until tender, stirring occasionally.
3/4 cup: 110 calories, 5g fat (1g saturated fat), 1mg cholesterol, 384mg sodium, 17g carbohydrate (6g sugars, 3g fiber), 3g protein. Diabetic Exchanges: 1 vegetable, 1 fat, 1/2 starch.
I used 2 cloves minced fresh garlic instead of powdered and added a scant tsp of cumin. yummO!
I can't wait to try this. I see I can use this recipe with a lot of different combonations.