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Asbestos victims face compensation uncertainty
Fatal asbestos illness, mesothelioma
A Court of Appeal decision today leaves dying people and their families unsure whether they will be entitled to compensation after insurance companies were partly successful in a test case about who picks up the bill in claims for the fatal asbestos illness, mesothelioma.
The Court of Appeal ruled that the High Court was wrong when it decided, in 2008, that the insurers who should pay are those who provided cover to the employer at the time of the asbestos exposure.
The Court of Appeal has decided that in some cases the employers' liability insurance is "triggered" not by the exposure to asbestos but by the development of the disease which is always decades later, by which time there is no insurance in place to respond to the claim. The outcome means that in every case the exact words used in the insurance contract will have to be studied and could leave many victims with no compensation.
Exposed to asbestos while working
The original nine-week court battle in the summer of 2008 examined a number of cases where the insurers refused to pay out. They included Charles O'Farrell's case. Charles was a retired member of Unite the Union who died in 2003 having been exposed to asbestos while working as a steel erector from 1964 to 1967 for Humphreys & Glasgow Limited who were insured at the time by Excess Insurance Company Limited. The employer ceased trading in 1992.
Excess Insurance argued that they were not liable to pay out because, according to the wording of their policy, employees had to "sustain injury" at the time they were working for the employer. The Court of Appeal decided that Charles did not "sustain injury" until he developed mesothelioma many years later.
Asbestos victims now face more uncertainty
Unite Joint General Secretary, Derek Simpson said: "This is the ultimate insult for people suffering, or who have watched a loved one suffer, a painful and degrading death from industrial disease. Insurers banking premiums and then escaping paying out compensation by relying on policy small print is obscene.
"Asbestos victims now face more uncertainty which is the last thing they need. Unite will continue the legal and political fight to achieve justice for our members and all victims of asbestos."
"At a time when the government is seeking to save money this decision will prevent the DWP being able to recoup state funded benefits from insurers, which will inevitably lead to more pressure on public funds."
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Head of Asbestos Policy at Thompsons Solicitors, Ian McFall said: "Insurance companies sold policies to cover risk. Now that risk has become reality they have resorted to picking apart the words in their own policies. This decision means some insurers are required to pay while others are not, depending on words such as "injury sustained" or "disease contracted" used in insurance contracts written decades ago.
"Try explaining that logic to people diagnosed with fatal illness caused by the negligence of their employers. This leaves a black hole in the protection that employers' liability insurance was intended to provide."
Charles' daughter, Maureen Edwards said: "My dad died a painful death from mesothelioma. Watching him suffer was agonising for all of his family. His employer's insurers forced this fight to avoid paying out compensation he had already been awarded. The insurers' attitude is difficult for us to understand."
"My dad would have been disgusted by the lengths the insurers have gone to, to get out of paying."
This news story was also published by Post Online and Morning Star.
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An Unconventional History
Sarah Knott
What was mothering like in the past?
When acclaimed historian Sarah Knott became pregnant, she asked herself this question. But accounts of motherhood are hard to find. For centuries, historians have concerned themselves with wars, politics and revolutions, not the everyday details of carrying and caring for a baby. Much to do with becoming a mother, past or present, is lost or forgotten.
Using the arc of her own experience, from miscarriage to the birth and early babyhood of her two children, Sarah Knott explores the ever-changing habits and experiences of motherhood across the ages. Drawing on a disparate collection of fascinating material - interrupted letters, hastily written diary entries, a line from a court record or a figure in a painting - Mother vividly brings to life the lost stories of ordinary women.
From the labour pains felt by a South Carolina field slave to the triumphant smile of a royal mistress pregnant with a king's first son; from a 1950s suburban housewife to a working-class East Ender taking her baby to the factory; from a pioneer with eight children to a 1970s feminist debating whether to have any; these remarkable tales of mothering create a moving depiction of an endlessly various human experience.
'Timely and fascinating' Amanda Foreman, bestselling author of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
'Utterly compelling' Financial Times
'Heartfelt and original' Sunday Times
'A joy to read' New York Times
'I wept over Sarah Knott's Mother... The emotive power of Knott's social history flows from her excellence as a writer and storyteller' Spectator
'A stunning book. It is riveting from beginning to end' Diane Atkinson, author of Rise Up Women!: The Remarkable Lives of the Suffragettes
'A remarkable history - exploratory, pointillist, and intensely personal - of what it is, and has been, to be a mother.' Helen Castor, BBC presenter and author of She-Wolves
'Moving and enlightening' Fara Dabhoiwala, author of The Origins of Sex
Knott manages to combine scholarship with personal experience in a heartfelt and original way. Every mother-to-be should read it
A stunning book. Mother: An Unconventional History is a dextrous blend of autobiography and anthropology and social history, but above all love and a woman's desire to be a mother. It is riveting from beginning to end
Diane Atkinson, author of 'Rise Up Women!: The Remarkable Lives of the Suffragettes'
Lyrically evocative and richly textured, Mother sets fragments of female lives over the last four centuries in Britain and North America within a narrative of Sarah Knott's own experiences to produce a remarkable history - exploratory, pointillist, and intensely personal - of what it is, and has been, to be a mother.
Helen Castor, author of 'She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth'
In this innovative, grippingly readable history, Sarah Knott has woven a scintillating tapestry of ideas and experiences across time. Mother is a moving and enlightening meditation on the most elemental, yet ceaselessly varied, of all human bonds.
Fara Dabhoiwala, author of 'The Origins of Sex'
Mother is a timely and fascinating investigation into one of the most overlooked and yet fundamental human experiences. Sarah Knott expertly weaves together a narrative that succeeds in being both intensely personal but also reassuringly historical.
Amanda Foreman, bestselling author of 'Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire'
A remarkable book. Sarah Knott weaves an intimate account of becoming a mother into a richly-documented history of maternity. Eloquent and evocative, this is a book to savour and share with anyone who loves great history-writing.
Barbara Taylor, author of 'Eve and the New Jerusalem' and 'The Last Asylum'
This fabulous book manages both to recreate what those extraordinary early months of motherhood are like, and make sense of them by placing them in history. Knott's diary of motherhood is poetic: she conveys that sense that time has stopped, that only the baby's reflux matters, the heightened power of smell, the loss of self. The historical anecdotes Knott provides are riveting, and open up new ways of understanding what motherhood can be. The pace of it all is perfect - slow, and focused,- just as growth has its own imperceptible rhythms. This is a new kind of history-writing. A truly original, inspiring book.
Lyndal Roper, Regius Professor of History, Oxford
Fascinating and beautifully written. A book I will feverishly press on others - both as an exploration of unheard histories and as a companion to pregnancy and early motherhood
Rebecca Schiller, author of Your No-Guilt Pregnancy Plan
In this beautifully written book, Sarah Knott speaks from the vantage point of a mother and a historian. Full of stories ranging across time, space, and ethnicity, with imagery that touches all our senses, Mother captures the physicality and emotions of motherhood, so that even those of us who have never experienced it ourselves feel what it is like to get pregnant, give birth, and raise a child.
Nancy Shoemaker, author of 'A Strange Likeness'
Which mother hasn't wondered how other mothers have managed, in different circumstances? Sarah Knott describes, for example, how a mother looked after her baby in a seventeenth-century East Anglian village; how another was a mistress of King Charles II; and a third was a slave on a North Carolina plantation. She has read through an extraordinary amount of rare diaries and letters, and then used her own sensitive imagination to bring these fragments to life. Each description is short, often only a page or two, so a mother who has just a few minutes to read before the next interruption can realistically hope to get to the end of one example, and then take that mother's situation with her, to think about, as she returns to her own. Sarah Knott had two children while she was researching and writing. Her examples are grouped in chronological order of her experience, but with unusual headings, such as 'Finding Out' that a woman is pregnant, 'Quickening', 'Damp Cloth', and 'The Middle of the Night'. The focus throughout is on mothers, and there is very little on how their babies are responding. But perhaps we readers are required to wake up some imagination of our own.
Naomi Stadlen, bestselling author of 'What Mothers Do'
Sarah Knott grew up in England. Educated at Oxford University, she is now a professor of history at Indiana University and a fellow of the Kinsey Institute. She is the author of Sensibility and the American Revolution and numerous articles on the histories of women, gender, and emotion. Knott has served as an editor of the American Historical Review, the American Historical Association's flagship journal, and sits on the editorial board of Past and Present. She has held many fellowships including from the Andrew Mellon foundation, the Rothermere American Institute, and the Oxford Centre for Life Writing.
The changing face of motherhood: how women balanced work and parenting throughout history
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Although the purveyors of wanton violence have little prestige among super–bad guys, villains who smash things nevertheless possess an evergreen working-class appeal. Thus did the Wrecking Crew—jointly created by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Len Wein, Chris Claremont, and Sal Buscema—become the quintessential 1970s "blue collar" Marvel Comics supervillain group. This garage band of mayhem was founded by a convicted robber known as the Wrecker (Dirk Garthwaite), an antisocial former demolition company laborer who can raze buildings and challenge gods, thanks to a 4-feet-long iron crowbar powered by stolen Norse magicks (Thor vol. 1 #148–#150, 1968). After the Wrecker escapes from Ryker's Island with three fellow inmates (Defenders vol. 1 #17–#19, 1974–1975), he recovers his confiscated crowbar, only to experience a freak lightning strike that transforms his confederates into thematically simpatico supervillains: the armored juggernaut known as Bulldozer (Henry Camp); the ham-fisted pummeler called Piledriver (Brian Philip Calusky); and the wrecking ball–wielding Thunderball (Dr. Eliot Franklin, the team's only arguably "white collar" member). Under the Wrecker's leadership, the quartet has demanded enormous ransoms in exchange for not demolishing New York City skyscrapers and engaged in nuclear blackmail before being temporarily recaptured by Dr. Strange, the Hulk, Nighthawk, and Luke Cage. From the 1970s through the early 1990s, the Wrecking Crew was out of stir for clashes with such superheroes as Captain America, Iron Fist, Thor, Spider-Man and Spider-Woman II, the Avengers, Iron Man, Hercules, Excalibur, Code: Blue, and even the ectoplasmically powered Ghost Rider. Brawlers at heart, members of the Wrecking Crew clearly have little compunction about getting sideways with one another or with other supervillains, such as Venom. The Wrecking Crew finally transcended their "street level" status when they were transported across the universe by the mysterious entity known as the Beyonder to participate in a gigantic heroes-versus- villains battle royale in Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars #1–#12 (1984–1985). But the Crew's newfound cosmic stature didn't last; they were back on Earth and in prison within the year, courtesy of Spider-Man and Spider-Woman II. Freed yet again and re-powered by Doomsday Man, in the late 1990s the Wrecking Crew attacked the Statue of Liberty, only to be thwarted by the young Thunderbolts superteam; they later took over the extradimensional realm of Polemachus, until its legitimate sovereigns Arkon and Thundra, along with the Avengers, booted them out and re-imprisoned them. Though they languished behind bars in the mid-2000s, the Wrecking Crew waits patiently, in Ralph Kramden–like fashion, for yet another opportunity to seize the day.
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Developer behind Shankly Hotel bought Bankfield Centre in West Derby
Alistair HoughtonExecutive Business Editor
Shankly Hotel developer Signature Living is planning to open a care home at an old college site in West Derby.
Signature is best known for its hotels, including 30 James Street and the proposed Dixie Dean Hotel.
Last year the company bought the old Bankfield Centre site from the City of Liverpool College for £1.75m.
In June it won planning permission to convert the college into 98 apartments.
Now it has submitted another planning application to revise those plans to include a 32-bed care facility for people with brain injuries or learning disabilities, under the name Signature Pathway.
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The company, led by Lawrence Kenwright, says there is a need for such a care and rehabilitation centre due to the pending closure of local NHS facilities. It says Signature staff have spoken to social workers and people in the NHS about its plans.
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Under the new plans there would be 87 apartments in the main Bankfield building, while the new care centre would be based in the low-rise building next door.
In a letter to the council. Dave Morse of Signature Living said: " Some new build and other modifications are proposed to accommodate the necessary number of beds and ancillary space.
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A spokesman for the developer told the ECHO: "Signature Living is looking forward to delivering an affordable and quality residential scheme and small care facility.
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"This is an area we are expanding into, and we will be releasing further plans in due course."
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Dallas-based musician Antwyn Jackson has a familiar backstory: a kid with natural talent from a musical family cuts his teeth in church before growing up and striking out on his own. But what sets the singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist apart from other musical overachievers is the quiet confidence of his voice. Armed with a range that rivals Frank Ocean's and a cool inspired by Frank Sinatra, Jackson is making a name for himself as a neo soul crooner.
Jackson's smooth new single "Still..." provides insight into the artist's influences and musical journey. He began singing at age ten and found early inspiration in Marvin Gaye, D'Angelo, Mint Condition (namely the group's lead singer Stokley Williams), and his father, who is also a singer. While honing his vocal talent, Jackson also learned to play the drums, piano, and organ. As a student at the University of North Texas, Jackson formed the R&B band One Night Stand with fellow artists Michael Hubbard and Kevin Pittman. He has shared the stage with Quentin Moore and Vandell Andrew and performed on the same bill as Musiq Soulchild, Lalah Hathaway, and jazz pianist Robert Glasper. Now, afters years of being soulfully groomed, Jackson is ready to embark on a solo career as an artist and storyteller for whom heart and cool are inseparable.


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Particle Physics Discovery: Fusing Heavy Quarks Can Produce 10 Times More Energy Than Nuclear Fusion
6 November 2017, 5:41 am EST By Allan Adamson Tech Times
Melting elementary particles such as quarks can produce amounts of energy so massive it is equivalent to 10 times that of nuclear fusion, researchers have reported.
Quarks are the most basic building blocks of matter. The protons and neutrons that make up matter are composed of quarks. Unlike protons and electrons, which have charges of +1 and -1, however, quarks have fractional electric charge. Quarks that are joined together form composite particles called hadrons. Quarks come in six flavors namely: up, down, top, bottom, strange, and charm.
Fusion Of Quarks Can Produce Massive Amount Of Energy
In a new study, researchers showed that two bottom quarks could theoretically fuse together in a powerful flash that can result in massive amount of energy that can spill out into the universe.
The fusion of two bottom quarks will produce 138 megaelectronvolts (MeV), which is eight times more powerful than individual nuclear fusion events inside a hydrogen bomb.
Is There Reason To Worry About Threats From A Quark Bomb?
Researchers, however, said that this kind of quark fusion could not be used to make a powerful quark bomb.
"We suggest some experimental setups in which the highly exothermic nature of the fusion of two heavy-quark baryons might manifest itself. At present, however, the very short lifetimes of the heavy bottom and charm quarks preclude any practical applications of such reactions," the researchers wrote in their study, which was published in the journal Nature on Nov. 2.
Hydrogen bomb explosions occur because of individual fusion reactions that need a large mass of particles, something that would not be possible when this involves heavy quarks since they only exist for a trillionth of a second before decaying into their lighter and less energetic versions known as up quarks.
Although it is possible to produce single fusion reactions of bottom quarks inside particle accelerators, scientists would not be able to assemble large enough mass of quarks to cause any damage out in the world. The researchers said that this means there's nothing to worry about the threats of bottom quark bombs.
"A nuclear fusion that occurs in a reactor or a hydrogen bomb is a chain reaction in a mass of particles, creating a huge amount of energy," said Marek Karliner, from Tel Aviv University. "This is not possible by melting heavy quarks, simply because the raw material cannot be accumulated in the melting process."
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Very nice apartement, clean, spacious, but for 4 people the pan at the kitchen equipement it's to poor, and another negative point, his in the morning with the trafic it's very noisy.
Alot of place, Holyrood Palace, the Castel, Botanic Garden, Calton Hill, The Britannia, but the price for the visit it's expensive. We have enjoy our tour in Scotland, frendly people. nice place to visit but we have found that Scotland it's expensive.
Apartment was very well placed and equipped for a stay in Edinburgh be it short or long. Lovely comfortable beds, and the views from the apartment were outstanding. My only reservation is the traffic noise although we did get used to this by the end of the week.The use of the key to the private garden was a bonus.
We enjoyed our stay very much and would recommend this appartment without hesitation. The apartment was well equipped and we enjoyed the view over Edinburgh from the living room. The beds were very comfortable. The owner was very welcoming and helpful throughout our stay. The 'welcome basket' with wine, shortbread and other niceties was a very nice touch and much appreciated.
Peploe is situated just 10 minutes from Princess street, with a Sainsbury and the Botanical Garden within walking distance as well. It is conveniently located to get in and out of Edinburgh for trips outside the city (by car). A stay at Peploe apartment offers the possibility of both exploring the city of Edinburgh as well as its vicinity.
The apartment was clean and well maintained,there was a package to greet us which was appreciated.The owner was very obliging and helpfull showing us the controls and resets on the water heater etc.
The location is ideal for seeing all the attractions,good transportation at hand.
Very clean and warm.Not too far from Princes St and all the amenities.The master bedroom was palacial and the bed huge! Unsuitable for those with mobility problems ,however the ground floor should be accessible for less mobile. Welcome pack was a nice touch but a bottle of wine (as we have had in other apartments) would have been nice.However these are merely suggestions and not criticisms. All in all a very good venue and we would certainly return. Please thank Brian and James.
Excellent large flat with very good facilities, spotlessly clean, warm welcome, within easy distance of all facilities.
Particularly enjoyed visiting Stockbridge which is only a five to ten minute walk from the flat, nice quiet area in the evening with lots of good restaurants.
Overall excellent accomodation, hospitable host, magnificent view fom the sitting room.


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Persistence of Vision
As the U.S.S. Voyager readies for a potentially dangerous encounter with the Botha, the Doctor orders an exhausted Captain Janeway to take some "R&R" in the holodeck. Janeway tries to get into her favorite holonovel, but before long, she is called back to the Bridge for first contact with the Botha. The Bothan representative gives the crew a chilly reception, but sets up a rendezvous to determine whether or not they will allow Voyager to pass through their space.
Later, Janeway thinks she sees Beatrice, the little girl from her holonovel, in one of the ship's corridors. Unable to attribute Beatrice's appearance to experiments the crew is performing on Voyager's imaging systems, Janeway wonders if she's seeing things. But then Kes sees Beatrice, too. Later, after Janeway hears the voice of her fiance Mark, she's attacked with a knife by Mrs. Templeton, another holonovel character. Again, Kes confirms the event.
Janeway puts Chakotay in charge of meeting with the Botha while she undergoes medical testing. Once again, the alien representative is hostile and this time, his ship engages the crew in a battle, leaving Voyager damaged. Leaving Sickbay, Janeway races to the Bridge, where the Bothan is on the viewscreen. She's stunned to see it's Mark.
At least, that's how it looks to her. But on the same viewscreen, Paris sees his disparaging father, Admiral Paris; Kim sees his girlfriend Libby; and Tuvok sees his wife T'Pel. Torres contacts Janeway from Engineering and reports that the crew seems to have fallen under some kind of psychoactive trance, the result of a bio-electric field emanating from the Bothan ship. But even as she begins working on a way to block the field, she falls prey to its spell.
It's up to Kes, whose telepathic abilities allow her to resist the field, and the Doctor to block the mysterious force that's disabling the ship. Kes manages to complete Torres' work and restore the crew to normal. A telepathic Bothan confesses to having caused the disturbance, but he disappears before they can learn any more from him. As they continue on their way, the crew reflects uneasily about what's lurking in the subconscious corridors of their minds.


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According to Age UK, those with fixed level private pensions have no protection against the effects of inflation upon the real value of the yearly sum they receive. It is therefore true that if such pensioners did face a yearly rate of inflation of 4.6%, the real value of their annuity would be reduced by 60% over 20 years.The latest findings from the MGM Advantage Annuity Index, which tracks the income paid on enhanced and conventional annuities on a quarterly basis, reveal that average conventional and enhanced rates fell by 2.13pc and 2.29pc respectively in just three months.The 2.1pc drop in overall average annuity rates between March and June 2012 also means that rates have fallen by 14pc since June 2009, when the Index was started. Annuity rates could be pushed lower still, perhaps by as much as 20pc, when new EU rules on solvency come into force in 2014, according to Deloitte, the accountancy firm.The main reason for the recent falls is the extreme dislocation in the market for gilts or government bonds. These bonds are used to back annuities, but the yields keep hitting record lows as a result of the financial crisis.More and more pensioners, disillusioned by the double whammy of an incessantly high cost of living and falling annuity rate are looking overseas, and a rapidly growing number are heading for Lake Balaton.


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Creative Outlets at PHC: Playwriting and Acting
Posted by Evie Fordham on 3/31/17 9:44 AM
No matter their major, from Political Theory to Literature, PHC students find ways to balance the rigors of term papers, tests, and internships with finding creative outlets on and around campus. Seniors Luke Thomas and Caitlin Coulter found theatre to be a great way to express themselves and relieve stress during their four years at PHC—and they have forged some great friendships in the process.
"Acting allows me to put aside everything that may be happening on campus and become someone else, the perfect version of someone else," Caitlin said. "When do you get an opportunity to know that you've been the best person you could be?"
Luke has acted in many productions, including Arsenic and Old Lace, Macbeth, and Henry V, put on by PHC's student-run drama club Eden Troupe. He finds being behind the scenes just as rewarding as up on stage, though. Luke will direct his original play No Brains for Dinner in April. He started writing it his junior year.
Luke with props for his original play No Brains for Dinner
"Writing it was an 'every spare moment' kind of thing," Luke said. "It was something that I really enjoyed that I could do that wasn't school. I wrote a lot during breaks… The process of discovering the characters and the plot as I was writing was something that is always a joy."
No Brains for Dinner is an Edwardian-era, zombie-themed play. It centers on a young, aspiring aristocrat, Oscar Norton, played by senior Andrew Kelly. Norton deals with the trouble of having a brother with a "condition" as he attempts to enter into society.
"I wrote a few plays and screenplays while at PHC," Luke said. "I'm not sure how many of them are good, but I found writing creatively to be something that I could work on and take my mind off the more burdensome projects I had ahead of me."
Luke as "Teddy Roosevelt" Brewster in Eden Troupe's Arsenic and Old Lace
A stint as an Eden Troupe producer his sophomore year prepared Luke for directing No Brains for Dinner.
"It was crazy juggling scheduling, events, props work and more, but it really prepared me for the constant job of being in the director's chair for this production," he said.
Writing the play felt more like discovery than creating to Luke.
"Whenever I sit down to write, I am usually surprised at connections made from act one to act three and with characters that seem to speak for themselves," he said. "It makes you think that the creative process engages you in something that has been prepared for you long beforehand."
Whether it is his own original play or Shakespeare, Luke loves being onstage.
"There is something in common with all of them, a special kind of change from rehearsals to opening night," he said. "Everything just comes together, and the audience instills a magic and gravity to what is happening on stage."
Caitlin will star in two productions her final semester, Eden Troupe's Little Women and the premiere of No Brains for Dinner.
"My role in No Brains for Dinner is an extremely sweet girl who falls in love with a not-so-sweet man," she said. "Her bildungsroman, if you will, is one of my favorite parts about her character. Getting to perform this play alongside my friends is a perfect way to end my collegiate acting career."
Caitlin as Lady Macbeth in Eden Troupe's Macbeth
Caitlin loves finding new ways to exercise her creativity and create something she can be proud of. She enjoys wood burning, making collages, and singing when she is not getting into character for a stage or a mock trial character.
"Just messing around with chords on the piano and singing along is such a release for me," she said.
Her role as Aunt March in Eden Troupe's musical Little Women has been especially fun.
"She is such a sarcastic and witty character," Caitlin said. "It's fun to pretend that I could be just as savage and adorable as she is."
One of her favorite things about theatre is the camaraderie.
"Some of my favorite memories with Eden Troupe are from the green room," she said. "Everyone is keyed up and laid back at the same time and the ensuing antics are memorable, to say the least."
Caitlin as Elaine in Eden Troupe's Arsenic and Old Lace
Setting aside time to write, act, or sing can be difficult in college, but it is worth it, Luke said.
"You can definitely do it!" he said. "Creativity in the midst of all of the ideas you are dealing with from classes and otherwise can help work them out and solidify them on the page and in your head. No Brains for Dinner reflects a lot of what I was learning as a sophomore. In a lot of ways, it isn't really juggling at all. Creativity is very much a labor of love."
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import com.hazelcast.client.quorum.PartitionedClusterClients;
import com.hazelcast.client.test.TestHazelcastFactory;
import com.hazelcast.config.Config;
import com.hazelcast.durableexecutor.DurableExecutorService;
import com.hazelcast.quorum.QuorumType;
import com.hazelcast.quorum.durableexecutor.DurableExecutorQuorumReadTest;
import com.hazelcast.test.HazelcastSerialParametersRunnerFactory;
import com.hazelcast.test.annotation.ParallelTest;
import com.hazelcast.test.annotation.QuickTest;
import org.junit.AfterClass;
import org.junit.BeforeClass;
import org.junit.experimental.categories.Category;
import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
import org.junit.runners.Parameterized;
import org.junit.runners.Parameterized.UseParametersRunnerFactory;

@RunWith(Parameterized.class)
@UseParametersRunnerFactory(HazelcastSerialParametersRunnerFactory.class)
@Category({QuickTest.class, ParallelTest.class})
public class ClientDurableExecutorQuorumReadTest extends DurableExecutorQuorumReadTest {

    private static PartitionedClusterClients clients;

    @BeforeClass
    public static void setUp() {
        TestHazelcastFactory factory = new TestHazelcastFactory();
        initTestEnvironment(new Config(), factory);
        clients = new PartitionedClusterClients(cluster, factory);
    }

    @AfterClass
    public static void tearDown() {
        if (clients != null) {
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        }
        shutdownTestEnvironment();
    }

    @Override
    protected DurableExecutorService durableExec(int index, QuorumType quorumType) {
        return clients.client(index).getDurableExecutorService(DURABLE_EXEC_NAME + quorumType.name());
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Reports of Decisions in the Supreme Court of the United States ..., Τόμος 1
Από τον/την United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Robbins Curtis
Chisholm, Executor, v. Georgia. 2 D. of this country should, in the very constitution by which they professed to establish justice, so far deviate from the plain path of equality and impartiality, as to give to the collective citizens of one State a right of suing individual citizens of another State, and yet deny to those citizens a right of suing them. We find the same general and comprehensive manner of expressing the same ideas in a subsequent clause, in which the constitution ordains that "in all cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, and those in which a State shall be a party, the supreme court shall have original jurisdiction." Did it mean here party plaintiff? If that only was meant, it would have been easy to have found words to express it. ' Words are to be understood in their ordinary and common acceptation, and the word party being in common usage applicable both to plaintiff and defendant, we cannot limit it to one of them in the present case. We find the legislature of the United States ex. pressing themselves in the like general and comprehensive manner; they speak, in the thirteenth section of the judicial act, of controversies where a State is a party, and as they do not impliedly or expressly apply that term to either of the litigants in particular, we are to understand them as speaking of both. In the same section they distinguish the cases where ambassadors are plaintiffs, from those in which ambassadors are defendants, and make different provisions respecting those cases; and it is not unnatural to suppose that they would, in like manner, have distinguished between cases where a State was plaintiff and where a State was defendant, if they had intended to make any difference between them, or if they had apprehended that the constitution had made any difference between them.
*I perceive, and therefore candor urges me to mention, a [ * 478 ] circumstance, which seems to favor the opposite side of the question. It is this. The same section of the constitution which extends the judicial power to controversies " between a State and the citizens of another State," does also extend that power to controver. sies to which the United States are a party. Now it may be said, if the word party comprehends both plaintiff and defendant, it follows that the United States may be sued by any citizen, between whom and them there may be a controversy. This appears to ine to be fair reasoning; but the same principles of candor which urge me to mention this objection, also urge me to suggest an important dif. ference between the two cases. It is this. In all cases of actions against States or individual citizens the national courts are supported, in all their legal and constitutional proceedings and judgments, by the arm of the executive power of the United States ; but, in cases of actions against the United States, there is no power which
Chisholm, Executor, v. Georgia. 2 D. the courts can call to their aid. From this distinction important conclusions are deducible, and they place the case of a State, and the case of the United States, in very different points of view.
I wish the state of society was so far improved, and the science of government advanced to such a degree of perfection, as that the whole nation could, in the peaceable course of law, be compelled to do justice, and be sued by individual citizens. Whether that is or is not now the case ought not to be thus collaterally and incidentally decided ; I leave it a question.
As this opinion, though deliberately formed, has been hastily reduced to writing between the intervals of the daily adjournments, and while my mind was occupied and wearied by the business of the day, I fear it is less concise and connected than it might other. wise have been. I have made no references to cases, because I know of none that are not distinguishable from this case; nor does it appear to me necessary to show that the sentiments of the best writers on government and the rights of men harmonize with the principles which direct my judgment on the present question. The acts of the former congresses, and the acts of many of the state conventions, are replete with similar ideas; and to the honor of the United States, it may be observed, that in no other country are subjects of this kind better, if so well understood. The attention and attachment of the constitution to the equal rights of the people are discernible in almost every sentence of it; and it is to be regretted that the provision in it which we have been considering, has not in every instance received the approbation and acquiescence which it merits.
Georgia has, in strong language, advocated the cause of [*479 ] republican equality, and there is reason to * hope that the
people of that State will yet perceive that it would not have been consistent with that equality, to have exempted the body of her citizens from that suability which they are at this moment exercising against citizens of another State.
For my own part, I am convinced that the sense in which I understand and have explained the words 6 controversies between States and citizens of another State," is the true sense. The extension of the judiciary power of the United States to such controversies, appears to me to be wise, because it is honest, and because it is use. ful. It is honest, because it provides for doing justice without respect of persons, and by securing individual citizens as well as States, in their respective rights, performs the promise which every free government makes to every free citizen, of equal justice and protection. It is useful, because it is honest; because it leaves not even the most obscure and friendless citizen without means of obtaining justice Chisholm, Executor, v. Georgia. 2 D. from a neighboring State ; because it obviates occasions of quarrels between States on account of the claims of their respective citizens; because it recognizes and strongly rests on this great moral truth, that justice is the same whether due from one man or a million, or from a million to one man; because it teaches and greatly appreci ates the value of our free republican national government, which places all our citizens on an equal footing, and enables each and every of them to obtain justice without any danger of being overborne by the weight and number of their opponents; and because it brings into action, and enforces this great and glorious principle, that the people are the sovereign of this country, and consequently that fellow-citizens and joint sovereigns cannot be degraded by appearing with each other in their own courts to have their controversies determined. The people have reason to prize and rejoice in such valuable privileges; and they ought not to forget, that nothing but the free course of constitutional law and government can insure the continuance and enjoyment of them.
For the reasons before given, I am clearly of opinion that a State is suable by citizens of another State; but lest I should be understood in a latitude beyond my meaning, I think it necessary to subjoin this caution, namely, That such suability may nevertheless not extend to all the demands, and to every kind of action; there may be exceptions. For instance, I am far from being prepared to say that an individual may sue a State on bills of credit issued before the constitution was established, and which were issued and received on the faith of the State, and at a time when no ideas or expectations of judicial interposition were entertained or contemplated.
The following order was made:
BY THE Court. It is ordered, that the plaintiff in this [ * 480 ] cause do file his declaration on or before the first day of March next.
Ordered, that certified copies of the said declaration be served on the governor and attorney-general of the State of Georgia, on or before the first day of June next.
Ordered, that unless the said State shall either in due form appear, or show cause to the contrary in this court, by the first day of next term, judgment by default shall be entered against the said State.
P. 110; 3 P. 461; 5 P. 284; 11 P. 257 ; 12 P. 755; 5 H. 441. 1 In February term, 1794, judgment was rendered for the plaintiff, and a writ of inquiry awarded. The writ however, was not sued out and executed, so that this cause, and all the other suits against States, were swept at once from the records of the court, by the amendment to the federal constitution, agreeably to the unanimous determination of the judges, in Hollingsworth et al. v. Virginia, argued at February term, 1798.
August Term, 1793. 2 D.
AUGUST TERM, 1793.
The court being met, a commission appointing William Paterson one of the justices, bearing date the 4th of March, 1793, was read; and he was qualified according to law.'
1 Judge Paterson's appointment was in the room of Mr. Justice Johnson, who had resigned.
The malignant fever which, during this year, raged in the city of Philadelphia, dispersed the great body of its inhabitants, and proved fatal to thousands ; interrupted, likewise, the business of the courts; and I cannot trace that any important cause was agitated in the present term.
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES.
FEBRUARY TERM, 1794.
On the meeting of the court, a commission was read, dated the 28th of January, 1794, appointing William Bradford, Esq., Attorney-General of the United States.1
The State of GEORGIA V. BRAILSFORD et al.
3 D. 1.
The act of the State of Georgia did not confiscate, but only sequestered British debts, and
the right to recover them revived at the peace. It is the province of the court to decide the law, and of the jury to decide the facts.
This cause was now tried by a special jury, upon an amicable issue, to ascertain whether the debt due from Spalding, and the right of action to recover it, belonged to the State of Georgia, or to the original creditors, under all the circumstances which are set forth in the pleadings and arguments on the equity side of the court."
For the plaintiff, Ingersoll and Dallas.
For the defendant, the Attorney-General, E. Tilghman, and Lewis.
* The argument having continued for four days, the chief [*3] justice delivered the following charge on the 7th of February.
Jay, C. J.
This cause has been regarded as of great importance,
'Mr. Bradford was appointed in the room of Edmund Randolph, Esq., who had accepted the office of Secretary of State.
2 S. C. 2 D. 402, 415.


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Maahi Milk Producer Company Limited is a Producer Company incorporated under the provisions of Part-IXA of the Companies Act, 1956 (Now Chapter XXI-A of the Companies Act. 2013) on June 7, 2012 in the State of Gujarat. The main objects of the Company to be pursued is to undertake the business of pooling, purchasing, processing of milk and milk products primarily of the Members and also of others, marketing of the same and to deal in activities that are part of or incidental to any activity related thereto. The motto of the Company behind the establishment and operations is the upliftment of villages & growth of the livelihood of milk producers. The Company's registered office is located at 3rd & 4th Floor, Saakar Building, Opp. Rajkumar College, Dr. Radhakrishnan Road, Rajkot, Gujarat.
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Presently, Company is procuring milk from 2381 Milk Pooling Points spreading its presence in 2164 villages of 11 districts of Saurashtra and Kutch (i.e., Junagadh, Gir Somnath, Amreli, Botad, Bhavnagar, Surendranagar, Morbi, Jamnagar, Dev Bhumi Dwarka, Kutch and Porbandar).
In order to have security in the matter of acceptance of milk and payment to the members, each member of the company have been allotted sixteen digit unique code based on their geographical location (district, taluka, and village). Details regarding milk procured, its quantity and Fat & SNF of milk etc. are captured online in the system thus eliminating human intervention and errors and thereby ensuring reliability & transparency of the system.
Being a producer company, only milk producers can become its members and shares of the company can be transferred among the members only. Company follows stricter norms while admitting milk producers as members of the company and its continuance. Presently Company has 88,163 members. Maahi gives preference to the women in the membership of a Company and presently, Maahi has 44% women members. The average milk procurement is recorded to 6.30 LKGPD for the period ended 6th December, 2021.
All the 88,163 members of the Company have their Individual bank accounts and payment to the members towards the milk procurement and all other transactions are being made through NEFT/Bank transfer.
Towards women empowerment, and making the village families self- dependent for cooking gas and obtain highly organic enriched bio-manure, company encourages installation of flexi bio gas plants under New National Biogas and Organic Manure Programme (NNBOMP) being implemented by NDDB, Anand. Maahi is committed to give maximum returns to its members and towards this end, every year company pays incentive. This year, in addition to the payment of cash incentive at Rs. 1.10 per litre, company has created a new trend by giving incentive in the form of SS 304 Milk cans of 5, 10 and 15 litre capacity.
To enhance transparency in the system, solar powered based DPMCU with GPRS facility & Milk Analyzer are being installed at MPPs. All milk routes from every MPP to chilling centers are connected through GPS by which transportation of milk can be made transparent. To further enhance the transparency and strengthen Milk Procurement System, Company has in-house developed and launched an android based Mobile App Automatic Milk Collection System (AMCS) at Bhavnagar. It is an important milestone towards "Atmanirbhar" & "Digital" Maahi.
In respect of quality control, all cluster Bulk Milk Coolers)/Chilling Centers) of the Company are well equipped with the basic testing facilities and instruments for quality testing of raw milk. Further, wherever required, quality improvements in the products are continuously and promptly done based on the customer and market feedback.
World renowned Accounting software SAP Company in adopting Digital Initiatives in Public & Social Sector has for their Project "Saarthi", announced SAP ACE awards to Maahi Milk Producer Company Limited jointly with NDDB Dairy Services, Paayas Milk Producer Company Limited & Shreeja Mahila Milk Producer Company Limited.
The Company's current kitty of products consists of poly packed milk, butter milk, skimmed milk powder, flavoured milk, ghee, cow ghee, kadhi Chaas, paneer and curd having different variants in different consumer pack sizes. The Company now sells poly packed milk and butter milk in entire Gujarat independently under the 'Maahi™' solo brand. All endeavors are being made for enlarging the Company's basket of products.
Company has launched new variant of cow ghee viz., "Premium Cow ghee under the name "Gir-Amrut" and is now available on Amazon Portal. The Ghee is rich in quality and unique feature of this product is that Ghee is made up from the cow milk of Gir-region.
Maahi is the only Dairy organization in Gujarat which has launched its' Milk and milk products with quality mark logo of NDDB. It's a symbol of quality and safe products. Recently, company has launched Peda and Mohanthal increasing the basket of its products.
Presently, the Company's sales & distribution network is spread apart from Saurashtra & Kutch region also in the cities of Ahmedabad, Vadodara and Surat. All endeavors are being made to expand the presence of Maahi's products in other prominent cities of Gujarat. The Company foresees big potential in tapping of new markets in the eastern/southern Gujarat, and is actively considering these options.
In view of COVID-19 prevailing since last few months, company has introduced innovative ideas such as Milk on Mobile, Mobile Milk Parlours, Whatts App Orders etc. to serve the customers. In the Milk on Mobile App, one feature is added giving an option to the customer by which he can place an order for products of the company for either 7 days or 30 days against advance payment.
Maahi has taken over the cattle feed factory situated at Khandheri from NDDB on long lease w.e.f. 1st April, 2018 and renamed the Unit as Animal Feed & Nutrition Unit(AFNU).The unit has the capacity of producing 200 MT of cattle feed per day. It has a mineral mixture plant having 10 MT production capacity per day. The unit is equipped with By Pass "Protein Feed" plant & Maahi is manufacturing all its cattle feed variants viz.,
· Maahi Dan Power( BIS Type II)
· Maahi Dan Regular (BIS Type III)
· Maahi Dan Sampoorna (BIS Type-I) (22% protein & 7% FAT)
· Maahi Dan Junior (23% Protein & 4% FAT)
· Mineral Mixture under the Brand name of "Maahi Min"
The production facilities has been certified for ISO 9001:2015 compliances and we possess BIS logo on Maahi Dan Power BIS Type-II & Maahi Dan Sampoorna BIS Type-I)
AFNU is also manufacturing Mineral Mixture for other PCS like Saahaj Milk Producer Company Limited, Shreeja Mahila Milk Producer Company Limited, Balinee Milk Producer Company Limited, Bapudham Milk Producer Company Limited and Indujaa Mahila Milk Producer Company Ltd.
(7th December,2021)
Quality & Food Safety Policy
Process Driven Culture
AFNU - ED


The House passed and sent to President Bush for likely signature Thursday the Senate version of legislation strengthening consumer protections for military service members buying life insurance and other products on military bases.
In response to the bill, the National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors, Falls Church, Va., said it expects President Bush will sign the bill soon.
Frank Keating, president and CEO of the American Council of Life Insurers "applauded" congressional action on the issue, and also noted positively the fact that state regulators will retain oversight of insurance sales on military bases.
The bill, S. 418, is known as the Military Personnel Financial Services Protection Act.
It was introduced by Sens. Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., and Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., and institutes a number of reforms designed to help state regulators and the Department of Defense police insurance sales on military bases and eliminate unfair or deceptive sales practices.
The bill bars the sale of contract mutual funds, which have high fees in their early years and require a lengthy contribution to be of value to the buyer, and would be unsuitable to someone who is being sent into combat or will be moving often from base to base.
The bill also clarifies that military bases fall under the jurisdiction of the insurance department of the state it is located in, and encourages increased communication between state regulators and military authorities.
Additionally, it requires the Department of Defense to maintain a list of individuals who have been barred from a base for unfair sales practices.


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Q: What would be the qualities of an 'ideal' skimboarding surface material? TL;DR: Apparently it is ground effect which allows the board to skim across the surface so I am wondering what saturated surface material would allow the skimboard to travel the furthest?

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Traditionally "flatland" skimboarding is done in the shallow water of a sandy shore but it can be done on other surfaces with sufficient water coverage such as road and grass.  There is footage of one event in which the organisers appear to have used artificial grass over pond lining.
So I am wondering how surface roughness inhibits or encourages ground effect, e.g. is there a sweet spot between 'too rough' and 'too smooth'.
 E.g. PTFE sheets vs fine sand vs artificial putting green grass.
I realise the complexities of hydrodynamics may make it impossible to give an answer without modelling or experimentation.

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Learn basic origami folds and figures as well as intermediate level pieces and modular sculptures. Teamwork encouraged, and students will make a plethora of creative pieces!
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Express yourself through myriad of magnificent mediums!
Participate in presenting a classic fable or fairy tale as a member of a reader's theater cast. Students are encouraged to bring their own favorite fable or fairy tale to share!
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The Seminole Caucus is a group of legislators who are graduates of Florida State (indicated with an asterisk) or supporters of the University. The Chair of the caucus is Rep. Jim Boyd (R-Bradenton) and the Vice Chair is Sen. Oscar Braynon (D-Miami Gardens).
Information on these and all Senate and House members is available at Online Sunshine.


We own a beautiful parcel of land and are contemplating following your concepts as they make so much sense to us.
Okay, I admit that it's not any kind of official milestone, but it sure is an important happenstance from our point of view.
We'd known that they were in the works for a while, since the "stair guy" (never did catch his name) came up to measure for the stairs about two weeks ago. We've been using a carefully tied-down ladder to access the second floor for weeks and weeks and weeks, ever since there was a second floor to climb onto. It's moved around from time to time and access to the upstairs was restricted to an outside ladder for a couple of weeks after we got the underslab insulation installed, but it's honestly never been particularly easy or enjoyable to haul loads up the ladder whether inside or outside.
Today in the midst of many, many things, Just Getting Done was perhaps the most important one--the installation of the main staircase. Around 9 in the morning four guys pulled up in a big flatbed carrying pre-built staircase sections that were cobbled together at their warehouse from the various measurements they'd made a couple of weeks ago. The measurements must have been pretty good because dang--Colleen reports that they assembled the whole shebang in about an hour flat, start to finish. No idea if this is typical or not, but either way, I think it's impressive.
Colleen took the ceremonial "first ascension", of course, and was absolutely thrilled--no more screaming monkey ladder climbs! Reports are that she practically danced up and down the steps, and anybody who came up to visit got an impromptu "run up, run down" demonstration as well.
Very, very excellent. This is gonna make things go a lot faster!
The two major stair assemblies, lying in the garage ready to be deployed.
A better shot of the upper assembly. The stairs are in two runs, a rise of 7 steps, then a landing, then a rise of 9 steps.
This is where the main stairs go. This is the garage/outside slab manifold; to the right is a penetration for an outside faucet.
Assembling the stairs! They even had the supporting 2x4s measured and ready to go; they had test-assembled everything at their shop. Sweet.
Another shot of the assembly work, looking from the kitchen towards the garage in the distance.
There are a lot of tools on that guys' belt!
They had to fetch a ladder and borrow the help of a couple of electricians to help them with this last bit.
With the ladder in place they could finish positioning this piece.
Honestly not sure what happened here; looks like they might have had to adjust the ladder.
...it's in the hole! Yes!
Checking the fit and making adjustments.
Closeup of the underside of the upper assembly. Very solid construction; this run will be covered with drywall eventually of course.
Closeup of the underside near the garage.
The stairs assembled, one of the crew sweeps up some of the installation mess. You can see MORE mess courtesy of the OTHER crews in the garage there.
Looking up the stairs. That crack in the one riser isn't significant; turns out that pretty much all stairs crack like this (mostly due to humidity).
The stairs from the top... neat!
Fastening things down nice and secure.
Standing on the second floor looking across those stairs... neat!
Nice set of stairs! We just installed our stairway as well, not as nice as yours but we didn't have the room for a full set, so we used "alternating tread" stairs.
Those sound cool! I doubt my mother would like them much though, but I bet they look sweet.
One "Parade of Homes" house we went to had open stairs protruding from the wall, so there was nothing underneath at all and you could look through to the floor. Colleen DID NOT LIKE THOSE; I can only imagine what our dog would think!
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Lukas Ross is a senior policy analyst at Friends of the Earth. He works on greening the federal budget and ending subsidies for polluting industries. Previously he was a research fellow at the Oakland Institute, a think tank specializing in land investment and sustainable agriculture. There he worked on biofuel policy and financial sector investment in U.S. farmland. When not at work, he can be found wandering the city in search of new places to feed his coffee addiction.


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January 11, 2023 FinTechNZ
Fintech hui taumata next month crucial for NZ's future
A revolution in finance is changing the way Kiwis live, work and pay and it's happening fast.
The litmus test of how rapidly fintech is changing will be judged at the FinTechNZ hui taumata event in Auckland on February 28.
The summit brings together the brightest minds in the fintech sector to offer global thought leadership and insight in order to build understanding, capability and capacity to export.
The tech sector has become New Zealand's second biggest export earner and fintech is the second largest tech sub-sector by revenue.
Kiwi fintech firms generate $2.14 billion in export revenues. FinTechNZ executive director Jason Roberts says fintech firms in Aotearoa are gearing up this year for a full return to business as usual after covid lockdowns.
"Post-covid NZ companies are assessing markets and destinations, such as the growth and proximity of Asia markets. The new UK free trade agreement is significant as well," Roberts says.
"Tech is changing the way the finance industry operates and delivers services. The market is undergoing a major shift leveraging cutting-edge and trail blazing fintech. Tech advancement has majorly driven the growth of fintech across the globe.
"Despite some relatively significant changes in the top-end venture capital market and the correction back to pre-pandemic levels for unicorn tech companies, Aotearoa is yet to see the impact in investment in fintechs flow through.
"This is probably a reflection of Kiwi investor sentiment reflecting a more balanced approach and less hype and the need for proof of revenue once products have hit the market.
"We are also seeing the tailwind of pre-committed funding often committed during the pandemic period. Small fintechs are gearing up for new rounds and we are seeing the first signs of delayed investment and IPO activity. We will hear more about this at the fintech hui next month.
"As we enter an anticipated recessionary period, it opens the door for new innovation and competition. We are likely to carry on seeing new fintechs offering more competitive propositions across payments, mortgages, investment and insurance that will be attractive to consumers.
"Tech is shifting the finance industry and how it operates and delivers services. The market is undergoing a major shift leveraging cutting-edge and trail blazing fintech, such as the shift from plastic card payments towards digital, such as phone digital wallet solutions. This tech advancement has majorly driven the growth of fintech across the globe.
"As technology improves and becomes even more ingrained in the day-to-day life of people, there will be more embedded finance, such as payments and lending and more embedded insurance than ever before.
"No matter how centralised or not these solutions are or will be, the future looks bright," Roberts says.
For further information contact Jason Roberts on 021 2227624 or NZTech's media specialist, Make Lemonade NZ editor-in-chief Kip Brook on 0275 030188
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During his campaign, President-elect Donald Trump continually promised to look outside Washington D.C. when choosing key cabinet members. While his nomination for U.S. Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos, fits that bill, her testimony during Senate confirmation hearings this week led to more questions than answers.
If nominated, DeVos, a billionaire businesswoman and former chairwoman of the Michigan Republican Party, would be the first Secretary of Education to have no formal experience in education. A champion of K-12 charter schools, DeVos thinks parents should have more choice when it comes to their children's schooling, but she has had little to say about higher education.
It was this lack of experience that was the focus of questioning during the Senate hearing, with Democrats waiting to pounce when she made mistakes.
Take student loan debt, for example. During her testimony, DeVos inaccurately stated that outstanding debt has increased a jaw dropping 980 percent since 2008. Senator Al Franken of Minnesota promptly called out her claim as being false. There's no question student debt has increased more than 100 percent over the course of the last eight years but it hasn't risen anywhere near as much as she said in her testimony.
DeVos, who has ties to the for-profit industry, also wouldn't commit to upholding the gainful employment rule, which outgoing President Obama put on the books at the start of last year.
Under the rule for-profit colleges and certificate programs have to offer degrees that lead to meaningful employment. If they fail, they lose the right to participate in federal financial aid programs – including student loans. With the rule, if annual loan payments don't exceed 20 percent of borrowers' discretionary income or 8 percent of their total income, then the school or program passes.
DeVos told Senator Warren that she would "review" the rule, prompting Warren to question her ability to be the Secretary of Education if she can't commit to using the tools already available to her. "Swindlers and crooks are out there doing back flips when they hear an answer like this," Warren said.


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On December 1 1963, Madonna's Mother, Madonna Fortin Ciccone died of breast cancer at the age of 30 in Pontiac, Michigan. Madonna was born in Bay City Michigan on July 11 1933 to Willard William Fortin and Elise Mae Fortin.
Madonna Fortin married Silvio Ciccone on July 2 1955 in Bay City, Michigan. Together, Madonna and Silvio had six children: Anthony, Martin, Madonna, Paula, Christopher and Melanie.
Madonna had begun writing for the album during down time of her Broadway run in David Mamet's Speed-The-Plow, for which she gave her final performance in late August. With her marriage to Sean Penn on the rocks, Madonna found herself at a personal and creative crossroads–with plenty to express.


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pub mod standard;
pub mod ngram;

use serde::{Serialize, Serializer};
use search::token::Token;

use analysis::ngram_generator::Edge;
use analysis::filters::lowercase::LowercaseFilter;
use analysis::tokenizers::standard::StandardTokenizer;
use analysis::tokenizers::ngram::NGramTokenizer;

/// Defines a tokenizer
///
/// You can use this to define a tokenizer before having to bind it to any data
///
/// # Examples
///
/// ```
/// use search::{Term, Token};
/// use search::analysis::tokenizers::TokenizerSpec;
///
/// let standard_tokenizer = TokenizerSpec::Standard;
/// let token_stream = standard_tokenizer.initialise("Hello, world!");
///
/// let tokens = token_stream.collect::<Vec<Token>>();
///
/// assert_eq!(tokens, vec![
///     Token { term: Term::from_string("Hello"), position: 1 },
///     Token { term: Term::from_string("world"), position: 2 },
/// ]);
/// ```
#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq)]
pub enum TokenizerSpec {
    Standard,
    Lowercase,
    NGram {
        min_size: usize,
        max_size: usize,
        edge: Edge,
    }
}

impl TokenizerSpec {
    pub fn initialise<'a>(&self, input: &'a str) -> Box<Iterator<Item=Token> + 'a> {
        match *self {
            TokenizerSpec::Standard => {
                Box::new(StandardTokenizer::new(input))
            }
            TokenizerSpec::Lowercase => {
                Box::new(LowercaseFilter::new(Box::new(StandardTokenizer::new(input))))
            }
            TokenizerSpec::NGram{min_size, max_size, edge} => {
                Box::new(NGramTokenizer::new(input, min_size, max_size, edge))
            }
        }
    }
}

impl Serialize for TokenizerSpec {
    fn serialize<S: Serializer>(&self, serializer: S) -> Result<S::Ok, S::Error> {
        let json = match *self {
            TokenizerSpec::Standard => {
                json!({
                    "type": "standard",
                })
            }
            TokenizerSpec::Lowercase => {
                json!({
                    "type": "lowercase",
                })
            }
            TokenizerSpec::NGram{min_size, max_size, edge} => {
                match edge {
                    Edge::Left => {
                        json!({
                            "type": "edgeNGram",
                            "side": "front",
                            "min_gram": min_size,
                            "max_gram": max_size,
                        })
                    }
                    Edge::Right => {
                        json!({
                            "type": "edgeNGram",
                            "side": "back",
                            "min_gram": min_size,
                            "max_gram": max_size,
                        })
                    }
                    Edge::Neither => {
                        json!({
                            "type": "ngram",
                            "min_gram": min_size,
                            "max_gram": max_size,
                        })
                    }
                }
            }
        };

        json.serialize(serializer)
    }
}


In this tutorial, we will learn about Java 8 DoublePredicate interface.
DoublePredicate ( java.util.function.DoublePredicate ) is a functional interface that has one abstract method and three default method declared in it. This interface is a specialised form of Predicate interface.
boolean test ( double value ) :- The abstract method test ( double value ) is a functional method. It accepts one double value as an argument and return boolean value. It represents a conditional operation, where a passed double value is tested against a specific double value to give a boolean ( True or False ) result.
default DoublePredicate<T> and ( DoublePredicate <? super T > other ) :- It returns a doublepredicate that represents short circuiting logical AND of this doublepredicate ( doublepredicate on which method is called ) and another ( passed as an argument ).
default DoublePredicate<T> or ( DoublePredicate <? super T > other ) :- It returns a doublepredicate that represents short circuiting logical OR of this doublepredicate ( doublepredicate on which method is called ) and another ( passed as an argument ).
default DoublePredicate<T> negate ( ) :- It returns a doublepredicate that represents logical negation of this doublepredicate ( doublepredicate on which method is called ).
This example will show you, how to create and call different methods of a DoublePredicate interface.
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