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        score.smoothed = false;
        score.tint = 0xff0000;

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};

Clicker.Game = function () {

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Clicker.Game.prototype = {

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        this.filter.addToWorld(0, 0, 800, 600);

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        this.timeText.alpha = 0.3;

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        this.target.smoothed = false;

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        this.timer.add(10000, this.timeUp, this);
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Financial services provider Fidelity Investments is to add 100 new positions at its facilities in Galway and Dublin.
The company plans to hire 100 highly skilled professionals, from entry to management levels. The new employees will work in software development, such as Java and .NET, performance and test engineering, database development and management, systems analysis and quality assurance, to add to the Fidelity Technology Group (FTG).
FTG is responsible for the company's technology research, services and operations. The roles will focus on investment management and corporate enterprise technology solutions for Fidelity's global operations.
FTG delivers a range of technology projects, including monitoring and trading, voice-recognition systems, user interface design, business process management (BPM), workflow transaction processing, fund pricing and market data technology.
The initiative, which is sponsored by IDA Ireland, is part of an €11m investment by Fidelity over a three-year period.
"The addition of 100 highly skilled technology jobs is an excellent endorsement of Ireland's flexible workforce," said Barry O'Leary CEO of IDA Ireland.
"Fidelity's investment shows our capacity to provide an increasingly competitive, business friendly environment in which technology companies can grow and develop. Fidelity has one of the largest R&D divisions within the multinational financial services sector operating in Ireland and IDA Ireland is delighted to work closely with the company as it embeds its operations further here," O'Leary added.
Julia Davenport, senior vice-president of Fidelity Investments, said, "Ireland is a proven market in which Fidelity can continue to develop a vital part of our global technology organisation.
Fidelity Investments, which was established in Ireland in 1996, currently employs more than 240 technology associates.


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Fighting Tigers Baseball
GAMETHREAD: Alcorn St (GM2); 6:30pm
By PodKATT Apr 10, 2012, 12:52pm CDT
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It's the start of another difficult week for LSU baseball if only because the Tigers are banged up and could use some rest instead of a 5 game week. The farthest they'll have to travel is just down the road to Metarie, though, and Southern Miss is the best team they'll face (btw, the game tomorrow has been picked up for TV). The walking wounded report is worrying, but as it didn't stop LSU from beating Florida on Sunday I don't think it will be much of a hinderance this week. Aaron Nola's arm is healing well, but some flu symptoms will keep him out of action for now. Alex Edward managed to pull his other hamstring and will be out for another few weeks. Raph Rhymes, who is still the SEC leader in BA, hits, and OBP, is recovering nicely from the concussion he suffered this weekend when he got beaned in the head on Friday. Judging by Mainieri's comments on the radio last night, they are not even going to take a chance of playing Rhymes until he is 100%. As such the lineup will be Fields, Foster, and Katz from left to right, with Moore stepping in at 1B after both his good weekend hitting (4 for 5 on Sunday with a run) and Dozar's defensive miscues. On the mound, Mainieri is looking for a long outing from Joe Broussard followed by Cody Glenn and hopefully no one else. With the long week, the less we use of the pen, the better.
The weekend's performance, combined with the sweep of Arkansas last weekend has really changed the outlook of the season. LSU is now universally a top 10 team in the polls, and is at #10 in the official NCAA RPI. Continued performance at this level will put LSU in serious consideration for one of the 8 National Seeds and a potential Super Regional hosting berth. Also this weekend, Mainieri passed 1100 career wins, one of only 11 active coaches to reach the mark, and for his surprisingly solid relief work this weekend, Bret Bonvillain was named the SEC Pitcher of the Week.
First up this week is a second game against Alcorn St. when last we saw them, the Braves pulled an upset of Air Force on opening day, only to be stomped for a 19-0 loss against LSU. Alcorn St. would go on to lose 11 straight games. The Braves are 0-13 vs common opponents and are just 7-25 overall, 6-6 in the SWAC. Alcorn St. is hitting just .252 as a team with 16 home runs and a 223/95 K/BB ratio and fielding .935. The Braves leading hitter is 1B Eduardo Gonzales (336/557/369 5HR 35RBI) They have a team ERA of 8.15 and no individual under 4. So it wont be a big challenge tonight, but just getting that outfield some reps will be good preparation for the rest fo the week.
There is also a small statistical story to keep an eye on tonight, especially if you keep a close eye on attendance like I do. The MLB season is underway and there are a handful of clubs that are reporting some low numbers of turnout. Most notably are Oakland and Cleveland, the later of which had a listed attendance of just 9,473 for a game v Chicago last night. The lowest paid attendance at any LSU home game this season is 9,638 a few weeks back vs Southern. The A's and the Indians both have games this evening and I think there is a decent chance that LSU could outsell one or both of those clubs tonight. It wouldn't be the first time it's happened (LSU accomplished the feat last year on the Sunday game of the UF series), but if LSU can do it so early in the MLB season they might also be able to do it multiple times this year.
Weather is cloudy, slight chance of thunderstorms. No TV, just GeauxZone video
PITCHING MATCHUP
LSU - So. RHP Joe Broussard (3-0, 4.08 ERA, 17.2 IP, 6 BB, 16 SO)
ASU - Sr. RHP Cedric Pomerlee (0-3, 6.75 ERA, 26.2 IP, 23 BB, 11 SO)

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A handheld device for diagnosing the early signs of osteoporosis could be available for clinical use within five years.
The technology is currently being refined and tested at the University of Southampton with support from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). The original concept was invented at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Unlike existing methods of assessing bone fragility, which measure bone density using X-rays, the device is designed to measure the ability of bone tissue to prevent small cracks growing into full-blown fractures.
It does this by pressing a microscopic needle a tiny distance into the top layer of bone. Measured electronically, the amount of penetration indicates how fragile the bone tissue is and therefore the risk of experiencing an osteoporotic fracture later in life.
Osteoporosis is often referred to as fragile bone disease. However, for many sufferers, the first indication that they have the condition is when they actually sustain a fracture.
Drugs can slow or arrest the development of the disease, but the condition may already be quite advanced by the time the first break has happened. Doctors can estimate an individual's risk of fracturing by using bone-density measurements and other factors such as age, gender, smoking and any history of fracturing. But the new microindentation technology affordably delivers a fundamentally different measurement that has huge potential to refine such an evaluation.
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"As the population ages and life expectancy rises in the decades ahead, the cost of treating osteoporotic fractures will increase," says Professor Philipp Thurner of the University of Southampton, who is leading the project. "One in three women aged over 50 is forecast to experience an osteoporotic fracture in her lifetime and, globally, treatment costs are forecast to reach over US$130 billion by 2050. The potential improvement in assessing osteoporosis and future fracture risk offered by this new technology could reduce the burden of broken bones for individuals, healthcare systems and the economy.


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How Threatening Are Threats?
Jan 6, 2023 Michele J. Gelfand and Virginia Choi
While threat-related language naturally becomes more pervasive during wars and natural disasters, it can also spread as a result of misinformation campaigns, "engagement" algorithms, and social contagion effects. Improving our understanding of the threat environment thus has become an urgent imperative.
PALO ALTO – From climate-change alarms and "tripledemic" concerns to the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists' Doomsday Clock, we are awash in dire warnings. News and social media alert us daily to the dangers of everything from nefarious politicians to natural disasters. All of these warnings – some sincere, some manufactured – are lighting up not only our smartphones but also our brains, prompting us to ask how all the "threat talk" might be affecting us psychologically and socially.
To cut through the hysteria and improve our understanding of credible threats, we and our colleagues have created a "threat dictionary" that uses natural language processing to index threat levels from mass communication channels. In research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, we demonstrate the tool's use both in identifying invisible historical threat patterns and in potentially predicting future behavior. (The tool is publicly available to anyone who wants to measure the degree of threat language present in any English-language text.)
The threat dictionary builds on past survey research into how chronic threats lead societies to "tighten up" culturally, by imposing strict rules and strong punishments for those who violate them. We have found evidence of a tight/loose divide in all forms of cultures – including between countries (think Singapore versus Brazil), subnational states (Alabama versus New York), organizations (accounting firms versus startups), and social classes (lower versus upper). Yet we previously lacked a reliable linguistic measure for tracking threat-related talk over time, and for evaluating its relationship to cultural, political, and economic trends.
Michele J. Gelfand
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Michele J. Gelfand is Professor of Cross-Cultural Management and Professor of Organizational Behavior and Psychology at Stanford University.
Virginia Choi
Virginia Choi is a doctoral candidate at the University of Maryland.
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Memo to the Heisman Trust: You're welcome.
According to the Associated Press, the closest Heisman Trophy vote of all time led to the highest ratings for the Heisman award show ever.
The closest vote in Heisman Trophy history drew a record television audience for the announcement ceremony.
ESPN's telecast Saturday averaged a 4.1 rating, up 32 percent from the previous high of 3.1 set the last two years and in 2002.
Alabama tailback Mark Ingram finished just 28 points ahead of Stanford's Toby Gerhart.
A ratings point represents 923,000 households.
Ponder that for a second.
How could the closest vote ever lead to high ratings? The vote's secret, after all.
Unless, that is, people knew it was going to be a close vote. Unless, somewhere out there, there was a website that was able to tell people that there was some suspense in the outcome.
Oh yeah. There is. Right here. 3.78 million households tuned into the Heisman ceremony. On the 12 days prior to the ceremony, Stiff Arm Trophy recorded 1.35 million pageviews from 1.267 million daily unique visitors. On top of that, I did nearly two dozen radio interviews - and our vote counts were featured in daily ESPN broadcasts and many local and national publications.
So, my dear friends at the Heisman Trophy Trust, you're welcome. No need to send a commission check - or even a fruit basket. We're all good.
I am, however, going to change one thing. We're going to start using the word "Heisman" around here again. There's no legal reason to avoid it, it was just my little way of tweaking the Trust's silly tantrum about our old name (HeismanProjection.com). We won't use the Heisman's trademarks in our branding, but we're not going to be afraid of using the word itself.
Kari Chisholm | December 18, 2009 | Comment on This Post (2 so far)
Permalink: Memo to the Heisman Trust: You're welcome.
That's right, you tell 'em!
Posted by: Sasha | Dec 20, 2009 12:38:03 PM
forget the Heisman joke and the Trust
Posted by: terrible | Dec 24, 2009 2:43:44 PM
The H------ Memorial Trophy is a registered trademark of the H------ Memorial Trophy Trust. This site is not affiliated with the Trust, not even a little. We're not even using the H------ word, since they don't want us to. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
Copyright to and responsibility for all posts and comments are owned by their respective authors.
Obviously, the posts and comments here are the views of their authors, and not of anyone else.
While we're strong believers in free speech, we reserve the right to delete comment spam or other offensive material. Our contributors, however, reserve the right to embarass themselves in public.
Got a voter tip?
If you've heard a voter declare their vote, share your voter tips here. This only works with your help!
Want to trash talk? Lay your smack down here.
Huh? What is this?
There are 926 official voters. Many of them are sportswriters who will reveal their picks in the media well before the trophy is awarded. We'll collect those picks here, and attempt to project the winner. Our methodology.
What's this "Stiff Arm" business?
Well, we're unable to use the H------ word since the official trophy organization threatened to sue us for using the H------ word or even showing pictures of the little bronze statue. So, from here on out, it's the Stiff Arm Trophy. Stupid, but true.
So far, so good. In 2002, we projected Carson Palmer as the winner, and Brad Banks as the runner-up based on 127 actual ballots declared. We had the top five correct (though we had Larry Johnson at #5, not #3.) 2002 details.
In 2003, we nailed the top four - in order. On average, we were only 1.5% of the vote off from exactly calling the vote percentages for Jason White, Larry Fitzgerald, Eli Manning, and Chris Perry. We found 175 actual declared ballots. 2003 details.
In 2004, we nailed the top three in order - Matt Leinart, Adrian Peterson, and Jason White. We found 223 actual declared ballots that included 591 votes. 2004 details.
In 2005, we projected correctly the top five in order - Reggie Bush, Vince Young, Matt Leinart, Brady Quinn, Michael Robinson. We found 209 actual declared ballots that included 529 votes, and were able to project accurately that Reggie Bush would be the biggest winner of all-time. 2005 details.
In 2006, we found 136 actual declared ballots that included 353 votes and we projected correctly the top three finalists in order - Troy Smith, Darren McFadden, Brady Quinn. 2006 details.
In 2007, we found 249 actual declared ballots that included 685 votes and we projected correctly the top four in order - Tim Tebow, Darren McFadden, Colt Brennan, Chase Daniel. 2007 details.
In 2008, we found 249 actual declared ballots that included 670 votes and we correctly projected that Sam Bradford would win - while Tim Tebow would get the most first-place votes. 2008 details.
Whose crazy idea is this?
This site is published by Kari Chisholm at Mandate Media, Portland, Oregon. We do internet strategy and web development for political candidates, campaigns, and causes - and once a year, we correctly project the winner of the H------ Trophy! © 2002-2009.


The annual Munster Bull and Female of the Year contest came to a conclusion at last month's Cappamore Show in Co. Limerick. The yearly competition, which aims to recognise the best Hereford cattle in the province was keenly supported by breeders across the summer, with several newly established herds taking part for the very first time as well. The qualifying shows were particularly well attended, with up to 70 Hereford entries recorded at the second-to-last-stop on the road to the finals at Nenagh Show over the August Bank Holiday weekend.
Trevor Dudley & Family, Kilsunny House, Dovea, Thurles, Co. Tipperary secured the 2018 Munster Senior Female of the Year with their show cow, Kilsunny Lass Lily. The Munster title is the latest in a long line of show victories for this young three year old cow, after a string of supreme breed championships throughout the summer months as well as a 1st prize win at the National Hereford Show in Tullamore too. It also marked the second time in a row that the Dudley Family had won the senior Munster championships, following on from Kilsunny Lass Matilda's win in the senior category last year.
Declan Donnelly, Lissycasey, Ennis, Co. Clare took the reserve Munster senior female title with his yearling heifer Clondrina 1212. This March 2017 born heifer was a prize-winner at the National Hereford Show, Tullamore and also took championship honours at Bridgetown Show in July which was one of the shows involved in the contest. She is sired by Gageboro Morgan and is out of a homebred dam, Clondrina 557th.
The newly elected President of the Irish Hereford Breed Society, Martin Murphy, Toureenbrien, Lackamore, Newport, Co. Tipperary took the 3rd placing in the senior female line-up with his senior show cow. As well as his own success in the show ring, Martin was also on hand to present the prizes to the winners in each of the sections.
Trevor Dudley, Kilsunny House, Dovea, Thurles, Co. Tipperary took the reserve junior female of the year prize with Kilsunny Lass Orchid. Orchid is a full sister to Kilsunny Lass Nectar who won several championships and prizes over the summer of 2018 and Orchid was also a 1st prize winner at the finals in Cappamore too.
Billy Fitzgerald, Beanfield, Youghal, Co. Cork took the final of three prizes in the junior female section with another Kilsunny heifer and herdmate to the winner, Kilsunny Lass Opal. This one was also purchased privately at the start of the summer and is yet another show standard female from the illustrious Lass cow family at Kilsunny.
The Kilsunny bloodline made it a clean sweep across all three championships at this year's Munster finals with Trevor Dudley & Family, Kilsunny House, Dovea, Thurles, Co. Tipperary winning the junior bull title with Kilsunny Ozzy. This senior bull calf also won the €1000 Premier Bull Calf Championship at Nenagh and is a son of the senior female champion, Kilsunny Lass Lily. The male championship was the most fiercely contested of all three Munster championships, with just a single point separating the champion and reserve in the final tallies, which is testament to the incredibly high standard of stock competing on the Munster circuit throughout the summer.
New breeder, Shane O' Driscoll, Butlerstown North, Bandon, Co. Cork secured the reserve Munster junior bull of the year championship with Butlerstown Duke. This bull won 1st prize at Bridgetown and the reserve male championship at Charleville, as well as many prizes and championships at several shows in Cork of the course of an exceptionally strong first season on the show circuit for the Butlerstown prefix.
Longtime breeder, John Johnston, Toomevara, Nenagh, Co. Tipperary took the third prize in the junior bull section with Farney Osmondo. This one was a 1st prize winner at Nenagh and was also the reserve supreme breed champion at Cappamore on the day of the finals. Assisted by Brian, Daniel & Seamus Farrell of the Ballinveney Herd, as well as wife Mary and daughter Rebecca, this young bull was turned out immaculately and due tremendous praise from the packed ringside.


Commodity markets in 2018 reminded us how connected the world is, and reinforced the significance of food to people and their governments. The year was largely characterized by trade agreements, trade barriers and weather phenomena on both local and global scales.
The effects were apparent, as a number of crops in the AFSC AgriInsurance program triggered the Variable Price Benefit (VPB) or Spring Price Endorsement (SPE), products that cover significant price movements in Alberta's AgriInsurance Program.
AFSC offers two mechanisms to account for significant spring to fall price movements. The Spring Price Endorsement (SPE) is an optional endorsement to Production Insurance covering declines greater than 10 per cent. The Variable Price Benefit covers price increases of more than 10% spring to fall in the event of a production loss. VPB is included as a benefit to Production Insurance coverage.
Tariffs and non-tariff barriers threw a wrench into the buying patterns of large importers of Canadian agricultural products like China and India and have caused some major redistribution of global trade patterns. For example, the U.S.–China trade dispute has shifted Chinese soybean purchases toward South American exporters like Brazil. With a bit of downward pressure on yellow field pea prices from Indian pulse tariffs and fewer soybean purchasing opportunities, China bought more Canadian field peas this year that may have otherwise been purchased by India.
Chinese purchases and healthy feed pea prices helped steady prices for sellers in the human consumption market and commercial field peas did not trigger SPE or VPB in 2018.
declines from spring to fall. Fewer outlets for exporters and good domestic production were contributing factors. Chickpeas were a tempting crop to plant in 2018 with low field pea prices and high chickpea prices, which have been on an especially wild ride experiencing a ten-year high and a ten-year low price in the span of a single year.
Smaller importing nations of Canadian products also had an impact on Alberta prices. Italian implementation of Country-of-Origin Labeling (COOL) caused the country's imports from Canada to all but disappear, the major factor in Durum declining more than 15 per cent from spring to fall, triggering the SPE product.
Other wheat prices went in the opposite direction this year due to global moisture deficits in most exporting nations/regions including Australia, the Black Sea Region, the European Union, Canada and others. A majority of insured wheat types, including Canada Prairie Spring and commercial-end-use Hard Red Spring triggered the VPB with more than 10 per cent price increases from spring to fall.
Barley and other feed grains entered the year with low carryover and strong prices that continued with low moisture conditions in Southern and Central Alberta as well as strong demand from the livestock sector. The crop triggered VPB with a 40 per cent increase throughout the year.
Low moisture conditions and demand for feed affected hay in a similar way, driving some very high prices in the southern and central regions of the province. The chance of spotting a hay truck heading south or east this year was high.
2019 promises to be another interesting and potentially volatile year with a surplus of market influencing geopolitical factors in play. Indian tariffs, U.S.-China relations, global weather and how trade agreements will play out are all still uncertain, making it even more difficult to predict the future of markets. If one thing is certain, it's the value of dealing with and planning for risk and uncertainty. Another year to hope for the best and plan for the worst.
On the livestock side this year, it was the tale of two commodities. Hogs had a rollercoaster year as trade disputes with the United States and outbreaks of African Swine Fever (ASF) in China and Europe roiled the market. Cattle herd sizes hit record levels this year as expansion leveled off, driving up prices on feed and buoying prices for calves.
In 2018, hog prices were dragged along for the ride as trade disputes heated up between USA and Mexico over steel and aluminum tariffs. Reciprocal retaliatory tariffs aimed at causing maximum political damage to American lawmakers focused on pork as a key commodity in the dispute. And, as the American market goes, so goes Canada: Canadian hog prices fell precipitously through the summer from local highs of $180/ckg in June to lows of $100/ckg in August – during a time of year when seasonal highs would normally be expected.
Meanwhile, parts of Eastern Europe and China were seeing early signs of outbreaks of ASF in their hog populations. While not posing a threat to humans, ASF can spread through entire herds, killing hogs at alarming rates if not properly contained. By October, outbreaks had further been observed in parts of Western Europe – with France going so far as to build a fence along its border with Belgium to contain wild boar migrations. Culls in China exceeded 200,000 head by the end of October, and with international demand being largely unchanged, American hog prices rebounded significantly as international supplies tightened. By the end of October, Canadian prices were back in the $140-150/ckg range.
Cattle had a much quieter, if no less interesting, story this year. Demand for beef continued to drive a strong cattle sector both in Canada and the United States, particularly south of the border. Bets on expansion last year seem to have paid off as prices stayed more or less stable through the early parts of the year and through the summer.
While avoiding the crosshairs of international trade disputes, the cattle market was largely driven by local and regional forces. Feedlots across Alberta completed bunk capacity expansions this year and spent the latter half of the year trying to get them filled. This drove demand for calves through the calf- run fall season and while feeder prices did see some seasonal decline in the latter part of the year, calf prices have stayed steady in a declining market. Concurrently, while they held on strong for most of the year, feeder prices seemed to finally be reacting to high feed costs and have dipped over the last part of the year.
Basis levels finish up the cattle story. Over the last few years, Canada's finished cattle have been selling for premium prices compared to those south of the border. This finally changed this year, with American markets running hot and prices outpacing the Canadian market. With Alberta feedlot capacity at new highs and packer capacity largely unchanged, we shall see if this pushes more finished cattle south of the border in 2019.


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Since its strategic cooperation in 2011, Foshan Sheng bang Steel Structure Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Sheng bang") has set up a series of systems including system establishment, team building, organizational structure, market system layout, economic benefits, quality and technology Management and other aspects, have improved, the management team has also adapted to the new development model. With the continuous expansion of the company scale and the gradual extension of the market system, the strength of the company's overall market development capability, processing capability, construction capability, technology management capability and capital operation capability has become increasingly prominent. In order to further develop Sheng bang, according to the actual situation of the Company and in combination with the external development environment, we formulate a new round of strategic plan for the Company and formulate a series of measures to ensure the smooth implementation of the strategic plan to promote the sustainable and healthy development of the Company At the same time, to achieve the company's overall competitiveness by leaps and bounds.


When customer service smells rotten and attitude towards consumers turns hostile, it won't be long before a company and its brand get destoryed by its bad reputation.
Indane Gas is celebrated company that India has every reason to be proud of but the agencies / gas dealers who supply gas cylinders and are in direct contact with consumers are spoiling the reputation of Indane Gas in a very bad way. I live in Cochin with my family and have always had bad experiences with Ajoy Gas (our authorized gas agency). Either the cylinders will be delayed or the staff will be obnoxious in behaviour. I have often forgiven and forgotten many issues, simply thinking that the staff may be under a lot of pressure.
In an effort to improve customer service, Ajoy Gas and many others have recently opted for the Phone Booking facility. This service has further created a huge mountain of problems. I had booked my second cylinder successfully through Phone Banking and even got a number confirming my booking. Even after 15 days i did not receive my cylinder so i called up the Ajoy Gas to enquire the status.
The indecent lady who answered my call barked "What is your number?" I replied to the same. But she said, "Hey Mister, first book the gas and then enquire." I didn't like her tone of speec. Nevertheless, i said i had booked through Phone Banking 3 weeks back. Then suddenly she said that she has not received any intimation so there will be no gas for me.
I am really sorry to say that this lady spoke in a very indecent manner which my civility does not allow me to reproduce here. The problem was that she had not received the intimation. I had booked once so the computer did not allow me to book again. Instead of understanding my anxiety, that lady plainly stated "NO GAS FOR YOU".
I assume that Indane Gas is supplying these agencies or is it that the staff of Ajoy Gas are supplying gas from their own gas well at home !!! This is not the way staff should speak to customers. She may be speaking thus to her husband at home but she cannot expect the common man to be a shameless fool like her family.
2. If that is not possible, pls select good dealers who are empowered by decent, cultured and educated staff.
As consumers, we are ready to excuse a little delay here and there but such cheap behaviour from employees is not what we expect from a company od such high stature.
Request the authorities to please take up the issue at the earliest.


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Dinan Queen Poster Bed The Dinan 4-piece queen poster bedroom set with drawer nightstand features casual cottage styling that can work from coast to coast. Mindy veneers combine with a linen finish that work together to create an eclectic feel for today's homes.
The Dinan 4-piece queen poster bedroom set with drawer nightstand features casual cottage styling that can work from coast to coast. Mindy veneers combine with a linen finish that work together to create an eclectic feel for today's homes.
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A sampling of grants currently supporting innovative programs in Cincinnati Public Schools:
Duke Energy Education Grant
Cincinnati Public Schools was awarded a Duke Energy K-12 Education Grant in May 2018 to support literacy growth for second-graders at six schools — Chase, Fairview-Clifton, Mt. Airy, Pleasant Hill, Silverton, Westwood and Woodford.
The $39,925 grant was the highest awarded in the education category and the second highest across the region, in all categories, which included STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) and workforce development.
The funding provides reading-intervention materials to support students and staff, as well as four staff professional-development days. SRA (Science Reading Associates) kits were selected as the primary intervention tool, based on teacher input. The SRA licensure adds several components, including e-books, presentation tools, correlations and student games.
SRA is built on the concept of cumulative sequential practice, which means that students are not introduced to concepts that have not been taught in previous lessons. SRA supports benchmarking and progress reports; allows students to self-monitor; and by many teachers' accounts, motivates students to read through its built-in reward system.
GE Grants
Grants Contact
For information on available grants or to request help with a grant, contact:
District Grant Writer
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As frequent artofbeingcheap.com readers know, the ABC donates 10% of all revenues to the charity chosen by readers. We need a new charity for the 3rd quarter of 2014, and nominations began last week. This is the final week of nominations before readers vote next week, so let me know in the comments section below if you have a favorite charity. When you leave a comment I don't secretly take your email address and sign you up for a newsletter or anything like that, so please let me know who the ABC should give money to.
Sink positive is green and great for small bathrooms Jennifer on jenspends.com has an interesting idea on how to save space in a small bathroom. She reviews a product that turns a toilet into a sink and toilet, and no, there is nothing gross about it. It saves water too, which is cool.
Free and Low Cost Programs for Your Children This Summer If your family is looking for fun things to do until school starts up again you might want to check out this list frugal activities from Melissa Batai at prairieecothrifter.com.
How To Fake A Really Expensive Wardrobe I love this article by Cat at frugalrules.com about how to look like you have spent a lot of money without spending a lot of money. As for myself, I don't even try. I am pretty sure everybody knows I shop at Goodwill, Wal-Mart, and Target.
50+ Legitimate Work From Home Job Opportunities I have known people who have tried to find jobs they can do in their free time from home and it is really hard to find a work at home job that isn't a scam. Alexa from singlemomsincome.com has a list of actual things you can do to earn a little extra money. The one tip I have is that there is no job called "work from home" If that is the title of the classified ad then keep moving because that isn't a real job listing.
Online Eye Exams: Money Saving or a Bad Idea? Kim Parr on eyesonthedollar.com (A blog by a real life Optometrist) has the story of a website that has you do online eye exams then gives you a prescription based on the results. This doesn't sound like the best idea to me, but it is an interesting idea so I will let you decide for yourself.
13 Ways to Make Money While Exercising While those other suckers are paying a bunch of money each month for a gym contract here are ways you can actually profit from getting into shape from Danielle Warchol of savingadvice.com. I have always thought it would be a good idea to turn a stationary bike into an electricity generator, but that didn't make the list so the technology must not be quite ready yet.
Now please nominate your favorite charity in the comments section below!
Thanks for the link, Andy!


text:
import doctest

from insights.parsers import redhat_release
from insights.parsers.redhat_release import RedhatRelease, ContainerRedhatRelease
from insights.tests import context_wrap

REDHAT_RELEASE1 = """
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.7 (Santiago)
""".strip()

REDHAT_RELEASE2 = """
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.2 (Maipo)
""".strip()

REDHAT_RELEASE3 = """
Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 7.5-0.14
""".strip()

RHVH_RHV40 = """
Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 7.3
""".strip()

RHEVH_RHEV35 = """
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor release 6.7 (20160219.0.el6ev)
""".strip()

FEDORA = """
Fedora release 23 (Twenty Three)
""".strip()

REDHAT_RELEASE8 = """
Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 8.2 (Ootpa)
""".strip()

REDHAT_RELEASE10 = """
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.10(Santiago)
""".strip()

REDHAT_RELEASE_BETA = """
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 8.5 Beta (Ootpa)
""".strip()

CENTOS_STREAM = """
CentOS Stream release 8
""".strip()

CENTOS_7 = """
CentOS Linux release 7.6.1810 (Core)
""".strip()

REDHAT_RELEASE_ALPHA = """
Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 9.0 Alpha (Plow)
""".strip()

REDHAT_RELEASE_8_CONTAINER = """
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 8.6 (Ootpa)
""".strip()

def test_rhe6():
    release = RedhatRelease(context_wrap(REDHAT_RELEASE1))
    assert release.raw == REDHAT_RELEASE1
    assert release.major == 6
    assert release.minor == 7
    assert release.version == "6.7"
    assert release.is_rhel
    assert release.product == "Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server"

def test_rhe7():
    release = RedhatRelease(context_wrap(REDHAT_RELEASE2))
    assert release.raw == REDHAT_RELEASE2
    assert release.major == 7
    assert release.minor == 2
    assert release.version == "7.2"
    assert release.is_rhel
    assert release.product == "Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server"

def test_rhe75_0_14():
    release = RedhatRelease(context_wrap(REDHAT_RELEASE3))
    assert release.raw == REDHAT_RELEASE3
    assert release.major == 7
    assert release.minor == 5
    assert release.version == "7.5-0.14"
    assert release.is_rhel
    assert release.product == "Red Hat Enterprise Linux"

def test_rhevh35():
    release = RedhatRelease(context_wrap(RHEVH_RHEV35))
    assert release.raw == RHEVH_RHEV35
    assert release.major == 6
    assert release.minor == 7
    assert release.version == "6.7"
    assert not release.is_rhel
    assert release.product == "Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor"

def test_rhvh40():
    release = RedhatRelease(context_wrap(RHVH_RHV40))
    assert release.raw == RHVH_RHV40
    assert release.major == 7
    assert release.minor == 3
    assert release.version == "7.3"
    assert release.is_rhel
    assert release.product == "Red Hat Enterprise Linux"

def test_fedora23():
    release = RedhatRelease(context_wrap(FEDORA))
    assert release.raw == FEDORA
    assert release.major == 23
    assert release.minor is None
    assert release.version == "23"
    assert not release.is_rhel
    assert release.is_fedora
    assert release.product == "Fedora"

def test_rhel6_10():
    release = RedhatRelease(context_wrap(REDHAT_RELEASE10))
    assert release.raw == REDHAT_RELEASE10
    assert release.major == 6
    assert release.minor == 10
    assert release.version == "6.10"
    assert release.is_rhel
    assert release.product == "Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server"

def test_rhel8():
    release = RedhatRelease(context_wrap(REDHAT_RELEASE8))
    assert release.raw == REDHAT_RELEASE8
    assert release.major == 8
    assert release.minor == 2
    assert release.version == "8.2"
    assert release.is_rhel
    assert release.product == "Red Hat Enterprise Linux"

def test_rhel_alpha():
    release = RedhatRelease(context_wrap(REDHAT_RELEASE_ALPHA))
    assert release.raw == REDHAT_RELEASE_ALPHA
    assert release.major == 9
    assert release.minor == 0
    assert release.version == "9.0"
    assert release.is_rhel
    assert release.is_alpha
    assert not release.is_beta
    assert release.parsed['code_name'] == 'Plow'
    assert release.product == "Red Hat Enterprise Linux"

def test_rhel_beta():
    release = RedhatRelease(context_wrap(REDHAT_RELEASE_BETA))
    assert release.raw == REDHAT_RELEASE_BETA
    assert release.major == 8
    assert release.minor == 5
    assert release.version == "8.5"
    assert release.is_rhel
    assert release.is_beta
    assert not release.is_alpha
    assert release.parsed['code_name'] == 'Ootpa'
    assert release.product == "Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server"

def test_centos_stream():
    release = RedhatRelease(context_wrap(CENTOS_STREAM))
    assert release.major == 8
    assert release.minor is None
    assert release.product == 'CentOS Stream'
    assert release.is_centos
    assert not release.is_rhel

def test_centos_7():
    release = RedhatRelease(context_wrap(CENTOS_7))
    assert release.major == 7
    assert release.minor == 6
    assert release.product == 'CentOS Linux'
    assert release.code_name == 'Core'
    assert release.is_centos
    assert not release.is_rhel

def test_examples():
    release = RedhatRelease(context_wrap(REDHAT_RELEASE2))
    globs = {
        'rh_release': release
    }
    failed, tested = doctest.testmod(redhat_release, globs=globs)
    assert failed == 0

def test_container_rhe8():
    release = ContainerRedhatRelease(
        context_wrap(
            REDHAT_RELEASE_8_CONTAINER,
            engine='podman',
            image='quay.io/rhel8',
            container_id='xxxx',
            path='insights_containers/xxxx/etc/redhat-release'
        )
    )
    assert release.raw == REDHAT_RELEASE_8_CONTAINER
    assert release.major == 8
    assert release.minor == 6
    assert release.rhel == "8.6"
    assert release.is_rhel is True
    assert release.product == "Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server"
    assert release.image == "quay.io/rhel8"
    assert release.engine == "podman"
    assert release.container_id == "xxxx"
    assert release.file_path == "/insights_containers/xxxx/etc/redhat-release"

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


This audio collection tells about history, important personalities, facts, culture and main monuments of Canada. You can find the differents themes about Canada separatelly in another collections too. The students can improve the listening and vocabulary skills while learn about a different country where English is the first language.


Schmidt and Rosenberg go on to tell the story how Google+ became such a huge project for Google, as they saw the disruptive potential threat of social media, particularly Facebook. They asked the hard questions and decided to do something about it. Google saw that Facebook is consuming progressively more of users' time. And the average minutes per visitor was increasing more rapidly for Facebook than for Google.
But if Galloway is right, the effort went for nought. Google+ is now effectively dead. All that is needed is the funeral. Why?
If Page had read Dan Pink's book, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, he would have learned that extrinsic incentives like money are good when the goal is clearly defined and doesn't involve much thinking or creativity. When the goal involves innovation and creativity, then extrinsic drivers tend to be ineffective and even counterproductive. Once a basic level of remuneration is in place, it's more effective to rely on intrinsic motivation and inspire people to achieve the goal, and then provide unprogrammed bonuses if they succeed brilliantly.
Extrinsic incentives–a favorite tool of Traditional Management– are dangerous because they divert people's attention from the point of what's needed and instead focus attention on "scoring points".
At Google, the incentives have perhaps been effective—in getting Google's employees to do the wrong thing. They have pushed them to add contrived social features to services where they didn't belong. Instead employees should have been focused on making Google's online services awesome. The fact that Google's Net Promoter Score is a meager 11 out of a possible 100 (compared to USAA's 80, Costco's 78 and Apple's 76) shows how far Google still has to go in delighting its customers.
Google is often presented as an exemplar of the Creative Economy and in some of its management practices, this is correct. But in this instance, Page was very much using Traditional Management tools: "carrots and sticks" to chase yesterday's big thing, instead of inventing the future. To be successful in the Creative Economy, Google needs to be asking: who are our clients and how can we delight them? The answer is not going to be: copy Facebook.
Thus the distinction between the Traditional Economy and the Creative Economy is not a distinction between new firms and old firms. It's a distinction between different ways of managing. When "new" firms like Google practice "old" management methods, the results are just as bad.
There is a curious disconnect between Google's mission ("organize the world's information") and what Google actually does to earn a living ("finding stuff quickly, easily and elegantly").
Users love Google because they like finding even obscure stuff with blinding speed. It is elegant and simple, with no intrusive commercials. The commercials are there if you want them, they don't get in the way. People liked the commitment to do no evil, although some--particularly in Europe--have begun to wonder whether the pledge is reflected in Google's actions. It was nice that Google recruited the best talent and treated them well.
Unfortunately, it's wrong. Organizing the world's information would involve building a gigantic library. Libraries are wonderful things. But libraries have never been popular or profitable.
Fortunately for Google, its core business doesn't depend on "organizing the world's information." Its business depends on helping us find stuff at lightning speed, at the very moment when we want it, without distractions or intrusive advertising. It is clean. It is neat. It is elegant. It fits our lives as if it had always been there.
We can use Google's search tool to find stuff without having the slightest interest in whether the world's information is organized or not. All we care about is whether we can find the thing we are looking for and get to it now. Google's search business, which provides the bulk of its earnings, is in the finding business, not the library business.
So Google's mission statement hasn't caused a problem for its core business—yet. Where it causes a problem is when its people come to ask themselves: what next? So long as Google thinks it is in the business of organizing the world's information, it is likely to go on launching unprofitable businesses.
Google has consistently failed to get to heart of social. People prefer Facebook to Google+, fundamentally because Google's approach to social isn't fun.
Google+ is only the most recent of Google's embarrassing succession of failures in social media. First Orkut, Then Wave. Then Buzz. Then Google Health and Google Powermeter. Now Google+.
The assumption of Google+, like Google Health and Google PowerMeter, is that users would enjoy spending time organizing their information. Geeks may like organizing their information but normal people don't. Google keeps making the same error over and over again, because it listens to its employees, ahead of its customers.
A head-on challenge to Facebook was inevitably unsuccessful. It was an attempt to displace a well-entrenched social network. Even if Google had been able to figure out significant improvements on Facebook, which it didn't, Facebook, as the incumbent network, could have quickly emulated them, thereby eliminating any incentive for people to leave Facebook and join a new network, particularly since all of their current friends and connections were on Facebook and not on Google+.
The error goes back to the mission statement. If Google's starts thinking its goal is to organize the world's information, then it can easily start imagining that Facebook, by organizing the world's social information, is a direct competitor and that, as a result, Google has to try to take down Facebook. Trying to take down Facebook by offering something similar to Facebook is like Microsoft taking down iPod by offering Zune. No way.
In Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant (2005) W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne illustrate the high growth and profits that an organization can generate by creating delighting customers in an uncontested market space, i.e. a "Blue Ocean", rather than by competing head-to-head with other suppliers in the bloody shark-infested waters (the "Red Ocean") with known customers in an existing sector.
Instead of choosing to swim with the sharks in head-to-head competition with Facebook, Google could be pursuing a "blue ocean" strategy by competing in a new area where there is little competition.
The key to this approach is to identify a segment of customers whose needs are not being met and generate more value for that segment sooner. Health and energy might have been such opportunities, but Google missed them because it was focused on the producing a thing that people didn't want, rather than delighting people, by solving a problem, perhaps a problem they didn't even know they had. The key is to shift from a focus on producing things to a focus on understanding and delighting people.
Google needs to rethink its mission, stop thinking about things, and find new areas where it can truly delight its customers. It's not enough for Google to be a "new" company. To succeed, it has to practice the "new management" of the Creative Economy.
[i] For further discussion of this data, read: Has Google+ Really Died"


Ambassador behind Stafford School arrests?
Sri Lankan ambassador in Qatar A.S.P. Liyanage is behind the arrest of the teachers and the librarian of Stafford Sri Lankan School in Doha, alleges senior journalist Kusal Perera.
The teachers and the librarian are being kept under house arrest on Liyanage's instructions, reports say.
Perera has been exposing the longstanding dispute between the ambassador and the school's management.
He charges the ambassador is intimidating the school management and the parents with the intention of swindling 12 million Qatar Riyal in the school fund.


Spring has definitely sprung in Northern California! The temperatures in the Bay area have my kids barefoot and jumping in the chilly pool after school. In the non-food world, Spring to me means baseball season is in full swing, NBA playoffs are underway, it's light outside until after dinner, and the windows and doors are open from morning till evening. In the food world, it means- local strawberries (with fresh whipped cream), blueberries (eaten straight out of hand), rhubarb (makes a delicious fruit crumble or simple syrup for a mixed drink), and spring onions, green garlic, and asparagus (delicious in a frittata)- all popping up at the farmer's market.
Over the beautiful spring weekend, we celebrated our daughter's Confirmation. Because we needed to keep the meal short and sweet in order to get to the church on time, I decided on an easy, make-ahead meal that satisfied adults and kids alike. It needed to be ready when guests arrived, not too messy as we were all in dresses and suits, and not too heavy as we were going to be sitting for the ceremony for nearly 2 hours. The following menu was a hit!
Menu planning and a prep list is key to a relaxed gathering!
The more I think about this menu, the more I think it would be a great Easter or Mother's Day menu, too. And, the bonus is that local salmon season is almost here and I read recently that it is on track for being a prolific season with lower prices than in the past. I'm looking forward to sharing some of my favorite salmon recipes!
These tasty little French cheese puffs are so easy and an impressive start to the meal with a glass of champagne. They are a bit more impressive looking and seem to have more "puff" when they are piped from a pastry bag, but I can assure you that just scooping them with a small-sized ice cream scoop will work just fine- they taste the same!
Any homemade recipe will do, but in cooking school, we made some pretty tasty versions- one of my favorites was with roasted poblano and scallion. Whatever version or add-ins you include, be sure to: put the macaroni mixture in a buttered casserole dish and top with crunchy panko breadcrumbs that have been toasted in a pan with butter and garlic and then tossed with grated parmesan cheese. Bake at 400 degrees till golden and bubbly. *I made this for the kids but the adults didn't mind a little pile next to their salad with salmon!
Alison Roman's Slow Roasted Citrus Salmon with Herb Salad is the recipe I pretty much went off of. However, I used a sheet pan, half the amount of olive oil, turned up the heat to 400 degrees for the last 5-7 minutes and skipped the herb salad on top. I served it on top of an arugula salad with sliced strawberries, toasted almonds, shaved manchego cheese, and balsamic vinaigrette. A perfect light Spring main dish.
There are dozens and dozens of really tasty carrot cake recipes out there. Layered, chock-full of nuts, pineapple, raisins, etc, 3 layers, 5 layers- I love them all! Since we had more kids than adults at our dinner celebration, I thought it best to have a simple single layer carrot cake with nothing else in the batter but warm spices and carrots and a nice thick layer of cream cheese frosting. It was a hit with kids and adults alike and the best part- it's SUPER simple to make!
My favorite single layer carrot cake comes from America's Test Kitchen Complete Series Cookbook (pretty much my kitchen bible) and if you have access to this- be sure to try this recipe! I cannot easily share the recipe because it's in a cookbook and even the digital version requires a paid membership (which I personally think is well worth the money, along with a subscription to NYT food app, but this one from Fine Cooking (my favorite cooking magazine) is pretty close if you leave out the nuts and currents!
Whatever your family celebrates- religiously, culturally or traditionally, I hope you enjoy this beautiful weekend and great food with your friends and family.


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Notes on assumptions, expectations, confidence and doubt in the feminist art organisation
Symposium Curating in Feminist Thought
Friday 6th of May 2016 at Migros Museum
Saturday 7th of May 2016 at Zurich University of the Arts
See all contributions here: https://vimeo.com/album/4426824
Lina Džuverović is a curator and Lecturer at the Department of Art at the University of Reading. Formerly she was Artistic Director at Calvert 22 Foundation (2011–2014) and Director of Electra, a London-based commissioning organisation, which she co-founded in 2003. She is also a PhD candidate at the Royal College of Art and Tate, researching Pop Art in the former Yugoslavia. Selected curatorial projects include Monuments Should Not Be Trusted (Nottingham Contemporary, 2016), Sanja Iveković – Unknown Heroine (South London Gallery and Calvert 22, 2013); IRWIN – Time For A New State & NSK Folk Art (Calvert 22, 2012); 27 Senses (Chisenhale Gallery, London, 2010), Favoured Nations, Momentum, 5th Nordic Biennial of Contemporary Art (2009), Her Noise (South London Gallery, 2005).
Irene Revell is a curator and writer who has been working across professional and 'DIY' registers over the past sixteen years. Her work seeks out new contexts and connections for practices with challenging social and political implications. She is Director of Electra; a member of the Cinenova Working Group; and Visiting Curator on the MA Sound Arts, UAL. Recent collaborative projects include Cinenova series Now Showing (2015-); The Multiversal Score, Wysing Arts Centre (2015); Someone Else Can Clean Up This Mess, Flat Time House (2014). Recent writing includes a forthcoming contribution to Women Artists, Feminism and the Moving Image (ed. Lucy Reynolds, I.B.Tauris, 2016), Caesura/Accesso (forthcoming), Camera Austria (with Kerstin Schroedinger), NOIT, Psykick Dancehall, and The Wire magazine. She was associate editor of Aftershow: Pauline Boudry/Renate Lorenz (Sternberg, 2014).
Concept by Elke Krasny, Lara Perry, Dorothee Richter
With contributions by Amelia Jones, Maura Reilly, Helena Reckitt,
Sigrid Schade, Dorothee Richter, Lara Perry, Elke Krasny,
Hilary Robinson, Stella Rollig, Lina Džuverović and Irene Revell,
Laura Castagnini, Susanne Clausen, Michaela Melian, Nkule Mabaso
Videoprogramme with works by Martina Mullaney, Szuper Gallery,
Plan C, Liv Wynter, Louise Fitzgerald, PUNK IS DADA
Curators and their partners are working in a contested field, in which
the meanings of institutions, their power structures and modes of
participation can be debated and reshaped. "To think of institutions in terms of production (of work and discourse and political practice and solidarity) instead of representation would be, to my mind, a first feminist step". With this provocation the curator Ruth Noack invited us in 2013 to rethink the nature of feminist critique of the museum, the gallery, the exhibition space. Is access to the representational space of the museum a meaningful or adequate tool for feminism? Can such occupations mobilize sufficient means to reform the social function of exhibition? In recent years the role of the curator has increasingly become identified with "the new economic conditions that require new contexts of collaboration and interaction" (Olga Fernandez), conditions which are identified with celebrity and authority as well as precarity and casualization. What is the gendered nature of the power relations, effects, inconsistencies and contradictions of curating in the present? And how can feminism help us to rethink the role of the curator?


Spectacular rarities from perhaps the most thrilling bel canto tenor of our time, in his first ever aria collection with orchestra. A unique voice that offers even tone and timbre from top to bottom, thrilling and chesty high notes, as well as uncanny flexibility, precision and intonation. Sympathetic and sonorous collaboration from Maestro Constantine Orbelian's Kaunas City Symphony.


A Totten's Trust (also called a "poor man's trust") is essentially the same thing as a Pay on Death ("POD") bank account. (The name "Totten's Trust" is taken from a 1904 New York case involving a person with this name.) Using a POD account, a person was able to place proceeds into an account, and, upon the person's death, the proceeds would pass outside of probate to the named account designee.
Before a ruling by the court permitting this type of mechanism for transferring assets, it was unclear whether such practice would be permissible, as such account did not comply with either trust law or the requirements of a valid will. Courts have now recognized this transfer method as valid.
Today, revocable trusts often are used to replace Totten Trusts/ POD accounts. In some respects, revocable trusts and Totten Trusts/POD accounts share similar characteristics; namely that there is no "guaranteed" amount that will be made available to potential beneficiaries, and that the assets can be removed at any time.
In some instances, such as if only money is involved and there is only one person that will inherit such money, POD accounts may still be useful. In many cases, however, the assets, beneficiaries, and estate distribution desires are more complex, in which an revocable trust is more beneficial.
The Benefits of Revocable Trusts over POD Accounts.
For example, a person may have many types of non-money assets, like stocks or real estate. There may be many beneficiaries, and the maker of the trust (called the "grantor") may wish for different beneficiaries, or classes of beneficiaries, to receive different amounts. The intended beneficiaries may also be minors at the time of the grantor's death, and the grantor may wish to postpone an inheritance until beneficiaries are older.
Unlike a POD account, which states that all money therein must be paid upon death, a revocable trust is usually the perfect instrument to take into account all of these matters mentioned above, as it has the flexibility to provide for a wide range of options.
What Type of Arrangement is the Best for You?
When we meet with you and understand the nature of your estate, your intended beneficiaries, and your objectives, we can advise you as to the specific legal instruments that will work the best to achieve your goals.


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Property market experts believe that house prices in Sydney have started to move upwards.
New figures released by the Australian Property Institute (API) have indicated that New South Wales is outperforming other states on the east coast and this pattern looks likely to continue over the next few years.
Although the higher prices may put a few people off taking out a mortgage, it will inevitably encourage more homeowners to put their houses up for sale – which will hopefully get the market moving again.
Earlier this month, the Real Estate Institute of Australia revealed that median house prices across the country had grown by 1.4 per cent in the June quarter of 2012, although it is clear that some areas are performing far better than others.
"In one year's time, residential property is seen as having commenced the upswing in Sydney and Brisbane, with Melbourne seen as reaching the bottom of the cycle," a representative from the API stated.


Madam Chair, I thank members for the kind comments about the foreign affairs committee. I think we have done some good work. I also want to recognize the chair, the member for Kenora, who has done an exemplary job chairing the committee. I am going to ask questions and get responses in my 15 minutes. My first question is for the Minister of International Development and La Francophonie. Earlier this year, The Globe and Mail had an article written by Robert Greenhill, entitled "Canada is not back when it comes to global aid— [as a matter of fact] it's far back.
Many Niagara residents have organized themselves to scrutinize the planning and approval process for these shipments to ensure that every precaution is taken. It is essential that this nuclear waste be transported in a way that fully protects the people along its path, and of course, the surrounding environment.
I call upon all levels of government and the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission to work with their counterparts in the United States to ensure that these shipments are completed safely and securely.
Madam Speaker, it is great to be up speaking today. Before I get started, I want to say that I will be sharing my time with the member for Souris—Moose Mountain.
I want to express my deepest condolences to the family and friends of Master Corporal Alfred Barr, who died yesterday in a training accident near Yorkton, Saskatchewan. Our thoughts and prayers go out to his loved ones at this very difficult time.
I would like to recognize the fact that Nadia Murad is going to be arriving in Ottawa sometime later today and will be staying in the area for the next four to five days. We certainly want to thank her for taking the time to join us here in Ottawa.


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On My Bookshelf: 'Night People'
By James Stafford on September 20, 2015 • ( Leave a comment )
I love stories about people and I love stories about music, so stories about music people — that's my sweet spot as a reader.
However, musician memoirs often are more about polishing the myth than revealing the person. Famous people memoirs sometimes read like checklists of admirability or some such.
No, the stories I like are the down and out guys, the also-rans, the utility infielders. My interest began when I worked at a Hollywood record store, and Kevin DuBrow, the freshly fired lead singer of Quiet Riot, used to come in all the time. His wig always looked a little crooked and his gut hung out of the bottom of his muscle tee.
"What the hell happened to you?" I wanted to ask him. I tried several times to work up the courage to pitch a book project to him, but how do you delicately ask a former star to tell his tale of woe?
So if true tales of having the brass ring yanked from your grasp appeal to me, tales of never quite grabbing it are even more fascinating, which brings us to Larry Dunlap's Night People.
If you've never heard of Dunlap, that's kind of the point. He was just a regular kid growing up in a regular old house in regular old Indianapolis in the '50s and early '60s. Like so many kids in that situation, Dunlap fell in love with rock and roll and put together a vocal group. Keep in mind that we're talking about the era of harmonies — doo wop groups, the Four Seasons, on and on. They gigged around the middle of the country, and even cut a side that got some airplay and good attention.
Yada yada yada, Dunlap finds himself a young father working at an RCA plant, directionless and unhappy. His group decides they're moving to San Francisco to take a shot at the big time, leaving Larry in the driveway. After a rather generous vote of confidence from his parents, he packs his bags and joins the boys in the Bay Area, leaving behind the wife, the kids, and the steady job at the plant.
He lands in mid-sixties northern California, gigs at biker bars, discovers weed and tacos, gets screwed over by band mates and business people, but eventually the band work their way up to a gig at a topless club in North Beach. They find themselves rubbing shoulders with mobsters and celebrities, and after a name change to Stark Naked and the Car Thieves on their way to what looks like a pretty promising career.
Las Vegas is next, Los Angeles — women, weed, getting screwed over by more club owners, agents, and managers. It's standard stuff for a music memoir, but Dunlap's perspective is unique because he's not writing from the top of the hill. This isn't Bono's rags to riches story. Larry is just a regular guy working in the lower rungs of the music business in the mid to late '60s, the "top of the bottom," so to speak.
Interested? Check out Dunlap's website for more info.
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Tagged as: Larry Dunlap, Stark Naked and the Car Thieves
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This book is absolutely amazing, 5 stars on everything!
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The most notorious tyrant of the twentieth century has unfinished business. This supernatural thriller will have you mesmerised.
Andra and Jack Parker are the astronaut prodigies of 2026, sent on a 2.7 billion mile journey to find a radioactive substance on the surface of Neptune.
When a man stands on the doorstep to his old house, he's not greeted by his son. As he pieces things together, he realizes the few days he spent in space may have been many, many years on Earth.
The crew of the space ship, Deep Contact, encounters a massive planet in their path which pulls them in and causes them to fall into it.
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The Harper family crew the Atlant, a deep space research vessel sent to the planet Donum, at the behest of AtCorp. Disaster strikes leaving only Cora alive to discover the truth behind her misfortune.
Left: Left: Le-ight: L-ight: Right: Left…Right. His right foot kicked the beam. Open his eyes, and he was back in the summerhouse. All he had to do was open his eyes.
Havoc, Trouble and Nuisance are hired to transport a young girl, Isobella and her two older twin brothers Jack and Chronos, from Earth to Mars. 300 days in space. A lot can happen.


I am sorry Philip but you can not try out for the track team if you don´t get your grade up in english.
If you all vote me to be part of the school board I will help improve the school's budget by getting rid of the computer, something that ,my generation never seamed to need. But enough of that it has come to my attention that one of our students, Phillip Malloy way expelled for being a patriot and sinning the national anthem. But with your votes I will be able to bring America into the schools.