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Crowdfunding for Australian proprietary companies — what you need to know
A quick guide to the regulatory environment around Australian CSF
Written by Matt Vitale
Updated this week
The Government recently passed legislation extending the crowd sourced funding regime to proprietary companies (announced in an earlier blog post here).
The Corporations Amendment (Crowd-sourced Funding for Proprietary Companies) Act 2018 (the Proprietary CSF Act) is awaiting Royal Assent, but is expected to commence in mid-October 2018.
Companies making CSF offers
Under the CSF regime, eligible public companies and proprietary companies will be able to make offers of their shares, via an intermediary CSF service (such as Birchal), using an offer document.
Unlisted public companies with less than $25 million in assets and annual turnover will be eligible to raise funds under the CSF regime. Eligible companies will be able to make offers of ordinary shares to raise up to $5 million in any 12-month period.
Companies that registered as or converted to public after the commencement of the CSF regime (i.e. 29 September 2017) and before the CSF regime was extended to proprietary companies (i.e. 19 October 2018) will not have to comply with certain reporting, audit and AGM obligations that would usually apply to public companies for up to five years as long as they continue to meet the eligibility requirements.
Public companies that register or convert after 19 October 2018 and make a CSF offer will not have the benefit of the temporary corporate governance concessions as they are able to become or remain a proprietary company and make CSF offers.
Below are some issues anyone interested in using the CSF regime as a proprietary company should be aware of:
Proprietary companies can now use the CSF regime
CSF shareholders will not count towards the 50 non-employee shareholder cap for proprietary companies
It may not be suitable for all proprietary companies to be widely held
Proprietary companies with CSF shareholders must have a minimum of two directors
Companies will need to maintain information about CSF shareholders on their registers
Proprietary companies using CSF will have additional financial reporting obligations
No audit requirement for small proprietary companies using CSF until more than $3 million is raised through CSF
Proprietary companies using CSF will be subject to restrictions on related party transactions
Proprietary companies that have CSF shareholders will be exempt from takeovers rules
Check to see if your company is eligible for CSF here
The Proprietary Act includes other amendments to the CSF regime, which:
Remove the corporate governance concessions for public companies using the CSF regime
Clarify that companies accessing CSF cannot be listed on overseas exchanges
Reduce the cooling off period for supplementary or replacement CSF offer documents
Additional information and commentary is below. All section references are to the Corporations Act, unless stated otherwise. And this material is provided for information purposes only. Please consult your lawyer or adviser for advice on your particular circumstances.
The Proprietary CSF Act expands the eligibility for the CSF regime to proprietary companies with at least 2 directors that meet certain eligibility requirements (s 738H(1)(a)).
The existing eligibility requirements under the CSF regime (including the $25 million assets and turnover cap) remain largely unchanged, except for an amendment to further clarify that companies (including related parties) listed on overseas markets are ineligible to use the CSF regime (s 738H(1)(e)).
A regulation making power to amend the eligibility requirements has also been included (s 738H(1)(a)).
The Proprietary CSF Act amends the requirement for proprietary companies to have no more than 50 non-employee shareholders by excluding "CSF shareholders" from the cap.
"CSF shareholder" is a new definition in section 9, meaning an "entity that holds one or more securities of the company due to being issued with the securities pursuant to a CSF offer by the company."
If a CSF shareholder transfers shares to another entity, the new holder of the securities will generally be excluded from the 50 non-employee shareholder cap. This amendment seeks to ensure that a company is not caused to breach the cap by shareholders transferring CSF securities to third parties, and pleasingly, was included in response to industry feedback on the draft legislation.
Despite that it's now possible for proprietary companies to use the CSF regime, it may not be suitable for some proprietary companies to be widely held.
For instance, proprietary companies that hold licences or otherwise operate in regulated industries should consider whether having large numbers of shareholders will give rise to issues under any other rules or regulations the proprietary is subject to.
For example, licensing regimes that employ a "good fame and character" eligibility test or reporting obligation for licensees sometimes extend this test to associates of the licensee, which can include shareholders.
If you operated in a licensed/ regulated industry and are considering CSF as a proprietary company, please get in touch — [email protected].
Once a proprietary company makes a CSF offer, it will be required to maintain at least 2 directors as long as it has CSF shareholders.
In companies where there are only two directors, at least one of the directors must ordinarily reside in Australia. In companies with more than two directors, a majority of the directors will have to ordinarily reside in Australia (s 201A(1A)).
Companies need to maintain information about CSF shareholders on their registers
A proprietary company that makes a CSF offer will be required to include additional information as part of its company register. This information must be maintained on the company's register while the company has CSF shareholders (s 169(6AA)).
The additional information to be maintained on the register includes the:
date of each issue of shares as part of a CSF offer;
number of shares issued as part of each CSF offer;
shares issued to each member of the company as part of each CSF offer; and
date on which each person ceases to be a CSF shareholder of the company for a particular share in the company.
As part of the new notification requirements, a company will have to inform ASIC if it:
starts to have CSF shareholders; or
stops having CSF shareholders (s 178C(1)).
Birchal works with several online registry providers (listed on our Partners page) who can assist issuers to manage their share registers after a CSF offer. We are liaising with these providers to ensure they can accomodate these changes.
Proprietary companies using CSF must prepare annual financial and directors' reports while they have CSF shareholders (s 292(2)(c)).
The financial and directors' reports that are prepared will have to be provided to members (s 314) and must be provided to ASIC (s 319). There is no requirement for the company to make the reports public but they can elect to do so if they wish.
The obligation to prepare the financial and directors' reports will apply from the financial year in which the small proprietary company first starts to have a CSF shareholder (which can only occur once the company has completed a CSF offer) and will apply in relation to every future financial year in which the company still has a CSF shareholder. The financial reports prepared must comply with accounting standards.
Small proprietary companies that have CSF shareholders will only need to provide their annual report via a website and do not have to notify shareholders of alternative ways of receiving the report.
Small proprietary companies with CSF shareholders will only be required to audit their financial statements after they have raised $3 million or more from CSF offers (s 301(5)(b)).
Public companies eligible for the corporate governance concessions provided for in the Corporations Amendment (Crowd-sourced Funding) Act 2017 (Cth) will also only be required to have their financial statements audited and appoint an auditor after raising $3 million or more from CSF (as opposed to the current $1 million threshold) (s 328D). (Discussed further below.)
Since proprietary companies that use CSF are relying on public funding, they will be subject to restrictions on related party transactions to protect investors.
To protect investors against fraud and bias arising as a result of transactions with related parties, proprietary companies that have CSF shareholders will be subject to the existing related party transaction rules and penalties under Chapter 2E (s 738ZK).
The application of Chapter 2E to proprietary companies that have CSF shareholders provides shareholders with protections where funds are transferred to any related parties through uncommercial transactions without shareholder approval.
A proprietary company that has CSF shareholders will be exempt from the takeover rules in Chapter 6 as long as they meet any of the conditions prescribed in the regulations (s 611).
Proprietary companies that use CSF would generally be subject to the takeover rules in Chapter 6 as they are likely to have more than 50 shareholders. These provisions are complex and would inhibit funding and other exit opportunities for proprietary companies that use CSF as they apply in relation to the acquisition of control beyond 20 per cent of a company's voting stock.
The corporate governance concessions for public companies using the CSF regime are being removed
The Act will remove the corporate governance concessions available to newly incorporated or converted companies raising funds under the CSF regime.
These concessions included temporary relief from the public company requirements:
to hold an annual general meeting;
to appoint an auditor and have their financial reports audited; and
to notify shareholders of the different ways to receive the company's annual reports and distribute hard copies or electronic copies of their annual reports to shareholders who elect to receive them in that way.
On the basis that proprietary companies can now use the CSF regime, the Government considered these concessions were no longer necessary.
Accordingly, section 738ZI of the Corporations Act has been amended so that the corporate governance concessions are not available to public companies that incorporate, or proprietary companies that convert, after the commencement of the Proprietary CSF Act.
However, public companies that incorporate or convert prior to commencement of the Proprietary CSF Act (i.e. expected around mid-October 2018) will still be able to access these concessions as long as they are otherwise eligible for them.
Some important notes about changes to the corporate governance concessions:
Public companies that use the CSF regime and are entitled to rely on the concessions will not be required to have their financial statements audited until they have raised $3 million or more from CSF (the previous threshold was $1 million).
If a company was planning to convert to a public company to make a CSF offer and rely on the concessions, given the requirement for notice to appear in the ASIC gazette, it is probably now too late to convert prior to commencement of the Proprietary CSF Act.
It is possible for a company to incorporate a new public company prior to commencement of the Proprietary CSF Act and rely on the corporate governance concessions. For an existing business, this may involve rolling assets up into the new public company, which could create a range of ancillary issues. So the suitability of this approach will depend on the company's particular circumstances.
Clarifying that companies using CSF cannot be listed on overseas exchanges
The Proprietary CSF Act amends the meaning of an "eligible CSF company" to clarify that the company cannot be listed on a financial market overseas in addition to not being listed on a financial market in Australia (s 738H(1)(e)).
Reducing the cooling off period for supplementary or replacement CSF offer documents
The CSF regime provides that where a supplementary or replacement CSF offer document is published, an intermediary must give written notice to all applicants that previously accepted the offer to advise them that they have one month (from the date of the notice) to withdraw their acceptance and obtain a refund of application money paid.
The Proprietary CSF Act reduces this cooling-off period from one month to 14 days (ss 738X(7) and (9)).
We're thrilled this legislation has finally been passed. As discussed above, there are a range of issues for companies to consider in preparing to make a CSF offer.
Birchal has a formidable team of crowdfunding and capital markets experts, drawing on years of experience in the UK and Australia across rewards-based crowdfunding, to equity crowdfunding, to public markets.
If you are interested in crowdfunding, or would like to discuss any of the issues raised above, please get in touch! — [email protected]


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Śniadanie u Tiffany'ego (ang. Breakfast at Tiffany's) – amerykański melodramat z 1961 roku w reżyserii Blake'a Edwardsa. Podstawą scenariusza było opowiadanie Trumana Capote'a z 1958 roku pod tym samym tytułem. Główną rolę Holly Golightly zagrała w filmie Audrey Hepburn, a partnerował jej George Peppard.

Twórca muzyki do filmu Henry Mancini otrzymał za niego dwa Oscary: za najlepszą muzykę i najlepszą piosenkę.

Obsada
 Audrey Hepburn jako Holly Golightly / Lula Mae Barnes
 George Peppard jako Paul "Fred" Varjak
 Patricia Neal jako Emily Eustace "2E" Failenson
 Buddy Ebsen jako Doc Golightly
 Martin Balsam jako O.J. Berman
 Mickey Rooney jako pan Yunioshi
 Alan Reed jako Sally Tomato
 José Luis de Vilallonga as José da Silva Pereira
 Stanley Adams jako Rutherford "Rusty" Trawler
 Dorothy Whitney jako Mag Wildwood
 Claude Stroud jako Sid Arbuck
 Elvia Allman jako the bibliotekarka
 John McGiver jako sprzedawca
 Mel Blanc jako pijany znajomy Holly (głos)
 Beverly Powers jako the striptizerka
 Orangey jako bezimienny kot Holly Golightly

Fabuła
 Holly Golightly jest postrzeloną dziewczyną, której życie upływa na nieustannej zabawie na koszt bogatych adoratorów. Pewnego dnia piętro wyżej wprowadza się młody pisarz, który także jest utrzymankiem. Tę dwójkę zaczyna łączyć przyjaźń, która przerodzi się w głębsze uczucie. Oboje będą musieli zweryfikować swe dotychczasowe życie i zdecydować, czy są w stanie być razem.

Nagrody i nominacje
Oscary za rok 1961
 Najlepsza muzyka w dramacie lub komedii – Henry Mancini
 Najlepsza piosenka – "Moon River"; muzyka: Henry Mancini, słowa: Johnny Mercer
 Najlepszy scenariusz adaptowany – George Axelrod (nominacja)
 Najlepsza scenografia i dekoracje wnętrz (film kolorowy) – Hal Pereira, Roland Anderson, Sam Comer, Ray Moyer (nominacja)
 Najlepsza aktorka pierwszoplanowa – Audrey Hepburn (nominacja)
Złote Globy 1961
 Najlepsza komedia lub musical (nominacja)
 Najlepsza aktorka w komedii lub musicalu – Audrey Hepburn (nominacja)
Nagroda Grammy w 1962
 Nagranie roku – "Moon River"; muzyka: Henry Mancini
 Piosenka roku – "Moon River"; muzyka: Henry Mancini, słowa: Johnny Mercer

Linki zewnętrzne

Amerykańskie melodramaty
Amerykańskie komediodramaty
Amerykańskie filmy z 1961 roku
Amerykańskie adaptacje filmowe
Filmy w reżyserii Blake'a Edwardsa
Filmy wytwórni Paramount Pictures
Filmy w National Film Registry

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Tactics that you can use to improve your Digital and Online Marketing.
Browse a list of all posts in a single archive page here.
Video marketing is often thought of as a very general approach, with a broadcast message to as many people as possible. But it doesn't have to be, I use tools for customised personalised video marketing and I'll explain how in this blog post.
I've been experimenting with TweetStorms on Twitter and it seems like a particularly effective way to get more engagement.
How do you organise your videos and transcriptions?
Organising files and videos is less important when working on your own, provided you just want to keep creating new content. If you want to work in a team, or revisit videos and edit them or transcribe them, then you need to organise.
Which Video Transcription Services should I use to create captions, subtitles and text files?
I have tried numerous approaches to video transcription and I think I've narrowed down my strategy and options. I primarily use online tools now.
The new WordPress Block Based Editor makes working with widgets and layout much easier.
Twitter is still one of the easiest places to use a content curation strategy to grow your network.
You can use replies and retweets to attract the attention of influencers and grow your network.


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Q: Vue: Access component object inside methods I want to access an object of a component, but this in methods is references to the methods: {} object.
methods: {
  getInput: () => {
    return this.$refs.input.value
  }
}

I tried to invoke getInput(), but I am getting an error:

Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property '$refs' of undefined.

How can I access an object of a component instead of a methods object?

A: According to official docs You should use normal function instead of arrow one in order to get access to the component instance :
    methods: {
      getInput() {
        return this.$ref.input.value
      }
    }

Note that you should not use an arrow function to define a method (e.g. plus: () => this.a++). The reason is arrow functions bind the parent context, so this will not be the Vue instance as you expect and this.a will be undefined.

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Please note: the content on this page is considered archived. For a more recent version of the content of this page, please visit the Countries section of our website.
Germany Country Drug Report 2018
Germany main page	Sections
What are the long-term aims of drug policy in Germany? How are these aims to be achieved? How is drug policy coordinated at national level?
What substances and activities does Germany control under its drug laws? What are the penalties for offences? How are new psychoactive substances controlled?
How many people in Germany have ever used drugs? What drugs have they used? How many have used drugs recently? How many are using drugs in highly risky ways?
What are the main infectious diseases linked to drug injecting in Germany? How many died of drug overdose in the last year? How many drug-related medical emergencies occurred?
What part does prevention play in Germany drug strategy? What are the main prevention approaches used in the country and who do they target?
How does the Germany measure in terms of provision of needle and syringe programmes, peer naloxone programmes, supervised drug consumption rooms and heroin-assisted treatment?
How is the drug treatment system organised in Germany? How is it financed? How is the provision of treatment divided between inpatient and outpatient settings?
Which authorities are responsible for prison health in Germany? What forms of drug treatment and harm reduction are provided in prisons, and how widely?
What is done in Germany to ensure that the prevention and treatment interventions used are effective and provide a good return on public expenditure?
Drug-related research
In which areas of study is drug-related research carried out in Germany? How is this research funded? Are any types of research emphasised in the national drug strategy?
What is known about drug supply and trafficking in Germany? How pure or strong are the drugs available? What do they cost? What are the main aims of supply reduction efforts?
Key drug statistics for Germany
EU Dashboard
Focus on Germany
In Germany, the domestic production of illicit substances is linked to cannabis and some synthetic stimulants. Cannabis is cultivated outdoors and indoors, and a steady increase in the total quantities of cannabis plants seized was observed until 2015, with numbers falling in 2016. Cannabis products with various origins are widely trafficked through the country and they remain the most frequently seized substances. Herbal cannabis seized in Germany mainly originates from the Netherlands, Spain and Serbia and is usually destined for the United Kingdom and the Netherlands, while cannabis resin primarily originates from Morocco and is usually intended for other EU countries.
The synthetic stimulant market, which is partly supplied by domestic production, is complex. The methamphetamine market has experienced a major expansion in the eastern regions of the country in recent years. Domestic production of synthetic stimulants has been in the spotlight because of the increase in the number of laboratories producing these substances that were dismantled between 2010 and 2012. However, in recent years, the number of dismantled laboratories has steadily fallen. The Netherlands and, to a much smaller extent, the Czech Republic remain the main producing countries for synthetic drugs such as amphetamine and its derivatives.
The Netherlands remains the main supplier of the MDMA/ecstasy that is seized in Germany, and the most recent data indicate that it has made a comeback in the market, following a decline in seizures between 2006 and 2010. There are signs that in recent years Germany has been used a transit country for MDMA trafficking to Turkey.
Heroin, usually originating from Afghanistan, Pakistan or Iran, is smuggled from neighbouring countries. The quantity of heroin seized shows significant annual variations. In the most recent years, the quantity of heroin seized annually has on average been lower than it was 10 years ago.
Cocaine seized in Germany mainly originates in South America and enters Germany through other European countries. Seizures of cocaine have fallen by about 40 % compared with the previous year, amounting to just under 2 tonnes in 2016.
Drug supply reduction activities in Germany are driven by the objectives set by the individual Länder and depend largely on local conditions. In general, the activities aim to prevent illegal cultivation or production and trafficking of illicit substances, including new psychoactive substances, with the main focus on organised crime groups and money laundering.
Germany reports median potency (% of THC) or purity (% or mg per tablet) and average prices for the main illicit drugs. The median potency for cannabis resin in 2016 was 14 % THC, for 'skunk' it was 12.8 % THC, while for herbal cannabis 2.4 % THC was recorded. The median purity for heroin was reported to be 19.3 %, cocaine 74.9 % (both at retail level), amphetamine 13.8 % and MDMA 115 mg per tablet. The mean price of cannabis resin was EUR 8.6/g, herbal cannabis EUR 10/g, heroin EUR 47.5/g, cocaine EUR 75.8/g and amphetamine EUR 11.8/g. The mean price for one MDMA tablet was EUR 7.8.
Germany main page
Methodological note: Analysis of trends is based only on those countries providing sufficient data to describe changes over the period specified. The reader should also be aware that monitoring patterns and trends in a hidden and stigmatised behaviour like drug use is both practically and methodologically challenging. For this reason, multiple sources of data are used for the purposes of analysis in this report. Caution is therefore required in interpretation, in particular when countries are compared on any single measure. Detailed information on methodology and caveats and comments on the limitations in the information set available can be found in the EMCDDA Statistical Bulletin.

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In this musical based loosely on the play "No, No, Nanette," Doris Day plays a stage-struck heiress who's conned into financing a Broadway show by a producer who promises her a lead in said production. Billy De Wolfe is irresistibly smarmy as the producer and self-proclaimed lothario, and Day and co-star Gordon MacRae delight in songs like "I Want to Be Happy," "I Know That You Know," "Do, Do, Do" and "I Only Have Eyes for You."
Doris Day, Gordon MacRae, Gene Nelson, Eve Arden, Billy De Wolfe, S.Z. Sakall, Bill Goodwin, Patrice Wymore, Virginia Gibson, Elinor Donahue
David Butler
Classics, Classic Movie Musicals, Romance Classics, Musicals
Witty, Romantic
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Discussione: In Attacks in Italy, Who's Inspiring Whom?
Two people found a way to get past security to attack luminaries in Italy this month. The first victim was Italy's prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi; the second, on Thursday, was Pope Benedict XVI.
On the surface, the attacks may not have much in common but the psychological troubles attributed to the perpetrators. But both are high-profile security lapses that resonate even in United States, thanks to the White House party crashers last month.
The attack on Mr. Berlusconi was brutal: a vicious slam to the face with a heavy statuette that fractured his nose, broke his teeth and sent him to the hospital. But the brief scrum set off by the Vatican assault and involving security officers left an aged cardinal with a broken femur.
The woman held in this week's attack, whom the Vatican identified as 25-year-old Susanna Maiolo, did not not appear to be following the lead of 42-year-old Massimo Tartaglia, who apologized for striking Mr. Berlusconi on Dec. 13.
Instead, she appeared to be following in her own footsteps. On Friday, Vatican officials acknowledged she had tried the same thing at the same mass last year.
Her leap had been unsuccessful then, as my colleague Rachel Donadio writes from Rome. Italian newspapers quickly located 2008 video of Maiolo's earlier attempt, where, in what looks to be the same hooded red jacket as she wore on Thursday, security got to her before she could make contact with the Pope. This time, her effort, also caught on video, was more successful.
Paura a San Pietro — Fear at St. Peter's — was the umbrella headline Corriere Della Sera affixed to its rush of stories about the unsettling incident on an otherwise quiet Christmas Eve.
Soon, social networking located another link to the two Italian attacks. Corriere and La Repubblica report that a Facebook fan page has already been established for Ms. Maiolo. Fans of Mr. Tartaglia also set up a Facebook page for the Berlusconi attacker, now with more than 63,000 followers. By Friday afternoon, Ms. Maiolo had more than 300 fans.
Corriere ended up raising the possibility that thirst for fame (that White House crasher echo, again) could be as much an issue as psychological problems.
Ms. Donadio reports that the Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, said security measures would be reviewed, but that they had to be balanced against the pope's pastoral role. "If the pope wants to be among people, it is impossible to have total security," he said.
Papal security has, to put it mildly, been a historic concern. In 2007, a mentally unstable German manBBC report jumped a security barrier and grabbed the back of the pontiff's open car in St Peter's Square before security guards caught him.
Quelli di Ministry of Sound sono sempre molto "inspiring"


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Trump Wants to Eliminate NASA's Climate Research Programs: These Pictures Show What a Loss That Would Be
Nexus Media
Mar 30, 2018 1:00AM EDT Climate
By Jeremy Deaton
President Trump's proposed 2019 budget would slash funding for NASA's Earth Science Division, and while his budget hasn't gained traction in Congress, it is an important statement of the administration's priorities. In a nod to his allies in the fossil fuel industry, Trump is calling for the elimination of vital programs that monitor carbon pollution and climate change.
Critics say NASA's Earth Science Division is a waste of taxpayer dollars and a distraction from the agency's core mission of space exploration. But NASA has a critical role to play in understanding human-caused climate change, by operating satellites that monitor the earth's forests, deserts, oceans and atmosphere.
NASA scientists are working to improve our understanding of natural disasters like wildfires, hurricanes and drought, while tracking long-term changes to the earth's climate. Researchers are also mapping out those changes so Americans can understand how heat-trapping carbon pollution is reshaping the world. Below is a collection of NASA maps, graphs and photos cataloging this profound transformation.
A computer rendering of the earth at night based on satellite images. Source: NASA
It's part of NASA's mission to understand the balance of energy on Earth—how much of the sun's energy is absorbed by the earth and how much of it is reflected back out to space. Over the last century, the earth has retained more and more of the sun's energy, causing the planet to warm around 1°C.
Warming is not explained by changes in solar activity or changes in the earth's orbit, nor is it explained by changes in volcanic activity. What about human factors? Changes in land use—converting forests to farms and pastures—have had a slight cooling effect, as dark green woodlands are replaced by tawny-colored fields of wheat and grass, which reflect more of the sun's light. Ground-level ozone pollution makes the earth a little warmer, but not much. Aerosols, another form of pollution, actually cool the atmosphere.
The evidence shows that greenhouse gases are responsible for the warming trend. Carbon pollution is trapping more of the sun's heat. That carbon pollution primarily comes from burning coal, oil and gas to generate energy. It also comes from raising livestock—mostly cows and sheep—that expel methane, a powerful heat-trapping gas, and from burning forests. While converting dark-colored forests to bright-colored farmland has a small cooling effect, lighting trees on fire also releases a tremendous amount of heat-trapping carbon pollution into the sky. Trees scrub carbon dioxide from the air. When set aflame, they dump that carbon back into the atmosphere.
Human contributions to climate change, including land use changes, ozone emissions, aerosol emissions and greenhouse gas emissions. Greenhouse gas emissions are responsible for the warming trend. Source: NASA / Bloomberg
The line graph below shows how quickly carbon dioxide is gathering in the atmosphere, rising from 370 parts per million in 2000 to more than 400 parts per million today, as measured by the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii. The map shows the changing concentration of carbon dioxide in the earth's atmosphere, as measured by satellite, shifting from green to yellow to orange to red as the concentration increases. Cars, trucks, factories and power plants in the U.S., Europe and China are responsible for most of the pollution.
The line graph shows the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide as measured at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii, from 2000 to 2015. The map shows the distribution of added carbon dioxide over the same period, according to satellite data. Warmer colors indicate more carbon dioxide. Source: NASA
The concentration of carbon dioxide rises and falls each year, even as the total concentration inches up over time. That's because every spring and summer, trees in the Northern Hemisphere—home to most of the world's land mass—sprout leaves that soak up atmospheric carbon dioxide. In the fall, those trees shed their leaves, which decay, releasing carbon dioxide back into the air. The animation below shows the change of seasons across several years. When summer arrives in North America, leaves sprout and ice recedes in North America. At the same time, trees south of the equator lose their leaves.
Seasonal changes in vegetation. Source: NASA
The world's carbon output has grown in recent years, but there has also been a shift in where that carbon pollution is coming from. The U.S., Europe and Japan have seen declining pollution, thanks in large part to limits on pollution. In China, India and the Middle East, pollution has increased as those countries open more factories, fire up more power plants and put more cars on the road. In addition, numerous companies in the U.S. and Europe have moved manufacturing operations to China, effectively exporting the pollution associated with those operations.
The map below shows changes in emissions of nitrogen dioxide from 2005 to 2014. Nitrogen dioxide isn't a heat-trapping gas like carbon dioxide, but it is a dangerous pollutant that can make it harder to breathe. Areas with little nitrogen dioxide pollution are colored in blue. Areas with more pollution are colored in yellow, while areas with the most pollution are colored in red.
Nitrogen dioxide pollution from 2005 to 2014. Cooler colors indicate less pollution. Warmer colors indicate more. Pollution declined in the U.S. and Europe and increased in China. Source: NASA
The rapid growth of China looks even more dramatic when viewed up close. The satellite images below shows how Shanghai has changed between 1984 and 2016 as more companies set up factories and workers moved from rural areas to work in those factories. The population of the city roughly doubled in that time.
Shanghai, China from 1984 to 2016. Source: NASA
Industrialization isn't the only trend driving the rise in temperature. As mentioned above, there's also deforestation. The map below shows declining forest cover in Rondônia in western Brazil between 2000 and 2010. Settlers build roads into remote parts of the Amazon rainforest, burning forests near those roads to clear land for crops and cattle.
Rainforest loss in Rondônia, Brazil from 2000 to 2010. The area shown is roughly 100 miles across. Source: NASA
All together, these trends—industrialization, deforestation, growing consumption of meat—are producing dramatic changes in the earth's climate and, by extension, are fueling heat, drought and severe storms.
Symptoms of Climate Change
The most obvious symptom of all that carbon pollution is a rise in the average surface temperature of the earth. The map below is based on temperature from thousands of weather stations, ships, buoys and research outposts collected over more than a century. It shows the how much temperatures have differed from the mid-20th-century average. Blue areas are unusually cold. Orange areas are unusually hot. As the map progresses from 1880 to 2016, temperatures grow warmer across the globe.
Global temperature anomaly from 1880 to 2016. Warm colors indicate temperatures above than the 1951–1980 average. Cool colors indicate temperatures below that average. Source: NASA
It's notable that temperatures aren't rising uniformly. As shown in the map above, the Arctic is warming roughly twice as fast as the rest of the globe. This is partly the result of weather patterns that carry warm air to the North Pole, but it is also a function of melting sea ice. White sea ice reflects the sun's light, keeping the region cool. When it melts, it is replaced by dark water, which absorbs the sun's light, accelerating warming.
The map below, based on satellite measurements, shows the decline of Arctic sea ice between 1984 and 2016. Younger ice is shown in dark blue. Older ice is shown in gray or white. Every summer ice melts, and every winter it forms again, but the long-term rise in temperature means that the total stock of ice is declining over time as old sea ice disappears into the sea.
Arctic sea ice 1984 to 2016. Lighter colors indicate older sea ice. Darker colors indicate younger sea ice. from Source: NASA / JAXA
The decline of sea ice is of virtually no consequence for sea levels. (Think of the ice in a glass of water which, when melted, does not cause the glass to overflow.) What is of greater concern, however, is the melting of the Greenland ice sheet, a mile-thick block of ice that would raise sea levels by more than 20 feet if it were to melt completely. The map below, based on satellite data, shows the melting of the Greenland ice sheet between 2002 and 2016. Snowfall is causing the ice sheet to gain a small amount of mass in the center of the island, but rising temperatures are melting the outside of the ice sheet much faster, as pools of water form atop the island and drain out to sea.
Ice lost from Greenland from 2002 to 2016. Warm colors indicate more ice loss. Cool colors indicate the accumulation of ice. Source: NASA
Antarctica is undergoing similar changes, though it is losing ice about half as quickly as Greenland. Antarctica, however, is home to considerably more ice. If all the ice on the continent were to melt, it would raise sea levels by some 200 feet. Currently, much of the ice on Antarctica is being kept at bay by floating ice shelves, shown in gray on the map below. If these ice shelves break apart, ice from the continent will begin to slide into the ocean.
Antarctic ice loss from 2002 to 2016. Warm colors indicate more ice loss. Cool colors indicate the accumulation of ice. Source: NASA
Together, Greenland and Antarctica are pouring billions of tons of water into the world's oceans each year, but ice melt is only one factor in sea-level rise. Warmer temperatures also play a role. As seawater heats up, it expands, causing water levels to rise. For this reason, sea levels haven't risen uniformly across the globe. Where waters have warmed faster, such as in the South Pacific, the sea has crept up more. In the North Atlantic, climate change has cooled waters by slowing the Gulf Stream, causing sea levels to drop. The map below, based on satellite data, charts sea-level rise from 1992 to 2014. Warm colors indicate more sea-level rise, while cool colors indicate a drop in sea level.
Sea-level rise from 1992 to 2014. Warm colors indicate more sea-level rise, while cool colors indicate a drop in sea level. Source: NASA
Melting ice and rising seas aren't the only symptoms of climate change. Warmer temperatures are also fueling extreme weather. Last year produced several notable examples in the U.S. The satellite images below, based on infrared data, show Southern California before and after the December 2017 Thomas Fire, the largest wildfire in California history. The maps have been colored to show the extent of the damage. Hotter, drier weather is making wildfires more likely.
Southern California before (top) and after (bottom) the December 2017 Thomas Fire, the largest wildfire in the state's history. Burned areas have been colored red. Source: NASA / USGS
Persistent heat and erratic rainfall are also fueling drought. Warm weather dries up lakes and rivers, desiccates soil, and prematurely melts reserves of snow that supply freshwater during the spring and summer. In the absence of consistent rainfall, water levels drop lower and lower. The satellite images below show Lake Mead, which lies on the border between Nevada and Arizona, in 1984 and today. Lake Mead is the largest water reservoir in the U.S.
Lake Mead in 1984 (top) and 2016 (bottom). Hot, dry conditions have caused water to evaporate. Source: NASA / USGS
Just as climate change is fueling drought, it is also fueling heavy precipitation. As the atmosphere warms, it retains more moisture, producing less frequent rainfall, but heavier downpours. The satellite images below show parts of Missouri, Illinois and Kentucky before and after a period of intense rainfall in the spring of 2017. Some areas saw more than 9 inches of rain and floods that broke records that had stood for more than a century. The maps have been colored to show the extent of the flooding, shown in dark blue.
The central and southern U.S. before and after a period of intense rainfall from April 29 to May 1, 2017 produced record-breaking floods. Flooded areas have been colored dark blue. Source: NASA
Rising temperatures are also raising the speed limit for tropical cyclones, as warmer ocean temperatures fuel faster wind speeds. Hurricane Irma, for example, delivered winds of 185 mph, prompting some to call for a new category of hurricane to describe the more dangerous storms made possible by climate change. The satellite image below shows Hurricane Irma, along with Hurricane Katia and Hurricane Jose in September 2017, the first time in recorded history the Atlantic hosted three tropical cyclones, each of which threatened to make landfall.
Hurricane Katia, Hurricane Irma and Hurricane Jose in September 2017—the first time in recorded history the Atlantic hosted three tropical cyclones in danger of making landfall. Source: NASA
Last year saw several other notable storms, including Hurricane Harvey, which devastated Houston, and Hurricane Maria, which laid waste to Puerto Rico. All told, 2017's natural disasters were the most expensive in U.S. history, inflicting more than $300 billion in damage. For context, NASA spends less than $2 billion annually on earth science.
A Reason for Hope
Climate change is an impossibly big, unthinkably difficult problem. Halting the warming trend requires nothing short of the total transformation of the global energy system, as well as significant changes to the way we work, eat and travel. But there is some (small) precedent for success.
In 1987, countries around the world agreed to the Montreal Protocol, a treaty to limit the use of the chemicals that were punching a hole in the ozone layer. At ground level, ozone is harmful to human health, but high above the surface of the earth, it blocks harmful, ultraviolet rays that can cause skin cancer in humans and reproductive problems in small, aquatic animals. In 1992, President George H.W. Bush ordered U.S. manufacturers to phase out the use of these substances. Other world leaders did the same, and it worked.
The maps below chart changes in the ozone layer from 1974 to 2065. The map on the left shows the world we live in—what the ozone layer looked like up until today, and what scientists expect it will look like in the years ahead, given the global ban on ozone-depleting pollutants. The map on the right shows how the ozone layer would have looked if policymakers had done nothing. Both maps are based on a computer model using satellite data. Warmer colors indicate more ozone, while cooler colors indicate less ozone.
The map on the left shows projected changes to the ozone layer, given policies to limit the use of chemicals that deplete the ozone layer. The map on the right shows what the ozone layer likely would look like if governments took no action. Warmer colors indicate more ozone, while cooler colors indicate less ozone. Source: NASA
As the maps make clear, smart policy can stave off environmental catastrophe. If countries had done nothing, the ozone layer would be almost totally depleted by the end of this century. It's why former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has said the Montreal Protocol is "perhaps the single most successful international agreement to date."
It's important to note that our understanding of the ozone layer is based in large part on NASA research. The same is true of other environmental challenges, including climate change. As the agency's former chief climate scientist, James Hansen, explained, "Being at NASA and having the access to both computing capability and satellite observation capability is kind of the ideal research situation to try to understand global climate change." Without NASA research, it would be much, much harder to understand—and tackle—the problem.
New NASA Study Solves Climate Mystery, Confirms Methane Spike Tied to Oil and Gas https://t.co/dGVGRws5Ce @NASA @UCSUSA @NRDC @350 @SierraClub @ClimateReality @climatehawk1 #methane #climate #MethaneEmissions
— EcoWatch (@EcoWatch) January 16, 2018
Reposted with permission from our media associate Nexus Media.
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In a showing of support for LGBTQ people, Netflix has announced it will not do business in North Carolina as long as a key portion of the state's House Bill 2 remains in effect.
The streaming giant had considered shooting a new series, OBX, in North Carolina seeing as it takes place in, you guessed it, North Carolina. But even the show's creator, Jonas Pate, who is from Wilmington, N.C., supports the move unless the state legislature addresses the hurtful law.
Even though the law, which went into effect in 2016 and required trans people to use the restrooms that matched the gender printed on their birth certificates, was partially repealed in 2017 and replaced with HB 142, activists still see a major problem. Namely, HB 142 bars municipalities from enacting non-discrimination ordinances that could protect LGBTQ people until 2020.
"This tiny law is costing this town [Wilmington] 70 good, clean, pension-paying jobs and also sending a message to those people who can bring these jobs and more that North Carolina still doesn't get it," said Pate.
Netflix will end up spending roughly $60 million in whichever state production ends up in. For now, that's looking like South Carolina.
"That is a decision the legislature has to make and realize that it is one more opportunity we are losing if we don't," freshman N.C. Sen. Harper Peterson (D), told the Wilmington Star News.
OBX is a coming-of-age story about four teens in the Outer Banks whose lives are changed when a hurricane cuts off all power to the islands.
We get it, you're on a "singles" site (since you put it every post you respond to here) and we can "write" you for love, affection and talk. Now how much is the bill?
Excellent news! This action by Netflix verifies my comments about businesses costing anti-lgbtq state laws a lot of money.
Ok good on them for saying FU and your hate laws…..but SOUTH CAROLINA????? Talk about going from frying pan to the fire..
Brian Kemp, who stole Georgia's governor's office, just confirmed that he will fulfill his campaign promise to strengthen religious freedom laws. He doesn't care what Georgia's film industry thinks.


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HomeTELEVISION NEWSTELLY BUZZTapu aka Raj Anadkat ends his 5-year-long association with Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah, issues official statement
Tapu aka Raj Anadkat ends his 5-year-long association with Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah, issues official statement
on December 06, 2022 05:22:17 PM
Raj Anadkat, who played the role of Tapu in Sab TV's longest-running sitcom Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah, has officially announced his exit from the show. The actor wasn't shooting for the new episodes for a couple of months. In his official statement, Raj confirmed the end of his 5-year-long association with Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah.
His statement read, "Hello Everyone, It's time to lay all questions and speculation to rest. My association with Neela Film Productions and 'Taarak Mehta ka Ooltah Chashma' has officially ended. It has been a wonderful journey of learning, making friends and having some of the best years of my career."
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He further added, "I would like to thank everyone who supported me in this journey - The entire team of TMKOC, my friends, family and of course all of you. Everyone who welcomed me into the show and loved me as TAPU, your love for my craft has always pushed me to give my best to each and every one of you, every single time. I wish the team of TMKOC all the very best for the future of the show."
Raj promised to return with a bang. "I'II be back to entertain all of you very soon. Keep showering your love and support," he concluded his note.
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Raj replaced Bhavya Gandhi as Tapu in 2017. Apart from him, Shailesh Lodha, Neha Mehta, Gurucharan Singh and Nidhi Bhanushali bid adieu to Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah in the recent past.
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Erik Harms is an assistant professor of anthropology at Yale University. He has conducted extensive fieldwork on urbanization, rural-urban transitions, and civilizing processes in and around Ho Chi Minh City. His recent book, Saigon's Edge (2011), documents the material and symbolic relations between inner-city and outer-city districts in Ho Chi Minh City.
Nina Hien is a visiting scholar in the John W. Draper Interdisciplinary Master's Program in Humanities and Social Thought at New York University and an adjunct associate professor in the School of Professional Studies at CUNY. She received her PhD in anthropology from Cornell University. Her research involves the image world and visual culture of Vietnam.
Ann Marie Leshkowich is associate professor of anthropology and chair, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, at the College of the Holy Cross. Her scholarship on gender, class, marketplaces, economic transformation, globalization, and fashion in Vietnam has been published in American Anthropologist, Journal of Asian Studies, Journal of Vietnamese Studies, and Fashion Theory. She is also coeditor, with Sandra Niessen and Carla Jones, of Re-Orienting Fashion: The Globalization of Asian Dress (2003). Her current research examines the reemergence of the field of social work and its relationship to transnational expertise and changing logics of family and personhood in urban Vietnam. [End Page 669]
Ken MacLean is an assistant professor of International Development and Social Change at Clark University. He is currently completing a book manuscript titled, "Governing Documents: Mistrust and the Politics of Authentication in Socialist Vietnam."
Alfred Montoya is an assistant professor of anthropology in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Trinity University. His work is on shifts in modes of government around HIV/AIDS epidemic prevention and control in Vietnam.
Melissa J. Pashigian is associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at Bryn Mawr College. Her research interests include politics of reproduction, infertility, comparative systems of medicine, knowledge production, and social constructions of kinship. She has published on social, marital, and legal aspects of infertility and assisted reproductive technologies in Vietnam. She is currently working on a book entitled "Culture of Hope: Infertility, Medicine, and Transformation in Vietnam."
Christina Schwenkel is associate professor of anthropology at the University of California, Riverside. She is the author of The American War in Contemporary Vietnam: Transnational Remembrance and Representation (2009). Her work on social suffering and the transnational politics of memory in Vietnamese museums, media, and sites of trauma tourism has appeared in journals, including Cultural Anthropology, Journal of Vietnamese Studies, and American Anthropologist. Her current research examines urban aesthetics and socialist humanitarian ideologies underlying postwar reconstruction of Vietnamese cities.
Allison Truitt is an assistant professor of anthropology at Tulane University. She has conducted research on cultures of mobility, including the social life of money, in urban Vietnam. Her work has been published in Research in Economic Anthropology and American Ethnologist. She has also coedited a volume entitled Encounters with Money (2007). She is currently working on issues of citizenship in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Li Zhang is a professor and chair of anthropology at the University of California, Davis and a 2008 Guggenheim fellow. Her research concerns the cultural, spatial, and psychological repercussions of market reforms and postsocialist transformations in China. She is the author of Strangers in the City: Reconfigurations of Space, Power, and Social Networks within China's Floating Population (2001) and In Search of Paradise: Middle Class Living in a Chinese Metropolis (2010). She has also coedited a volume with Aihwa Ong, Privatizing China, Socialism from Afar (2008). [End Page 670]
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U.S. Gun Manufacturers Are Being Swallowed Up
Written by Gary North on December 6, 2011
A mysterious company, privately owned, is buying up small American manufacturers of guns.
Its financial backer is a private investment organization. Very little is known about who the owners are. It is very big.
It has bought Remington. It has bought Bushmaster. It has bought DPMS, the military style semiautomatics.
It is like the Lone Ranger. "Who was that masked man?" The Freedom Group. It sells over a million guns a year. It sells 2.6 billion rounds of ammunition.
Yet nobody seems to know who is in charge, or what its plans are.
The backer is Cerberus Capital Management.
Cerberus is part of one of the signature Wall Street businesses of the past decade: private equity. Buyout kings like Feinberg, 51, try to acquire undervalued companies, often with borrowed money, fix them up and either take them public or sell at a profit to someone else. . . .
Today, Feinberg presides over a private empire that rivals some of the mightiest public companies in the land. Cerberus manages more than $20 billion in capital. Together, the companies it owns generate annual revenue of about $40 billion – more than either Amazon or Coca-Cola last year.
Why gun companies?
"There's much less competition for buying these companies," says Steven N. Kaplan, a professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a private equity expert. "They must have decided there is an opportunity to make money by investing in the firearms industry and trying to build a big company."
Whatever the reason, Cerberus, through the Freedom Group, is now a major player.
What is Cerberus? "The longtime chairman of its global investments group is Dan Quayle, the former vice president." Dan Quayle! Have I got a Dan Quayle story for you! It happened to me in 1977.
Next, the Freedom Group in rapid succession went after other firearms companies: DPMS; Marlin Firearms, a classic maker that came with two niche shotgun brands, Harrington & Richardson and L.C. Smith; and Dakota Arms. The Freedom Group also bought S&K industries, which supplies wood and laminate for gun stocks, as well as the Advanced Armament Corp., which makes silencers. It acquired Barnes Bullets, which makes copper-jacketed bullets popular with precision shooters and police departments.
These people think guns are going to be bigger than ever. So do I.
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39 thoughts on "U.S. Gun Manufacturers Are Being Swallowed Up"
URKiddinMee says:
We're in deep doo doo if this is a Soros backed group.
if they can't stop us from buying guns , they'll stop making them .
ShortyS says:
I really hate to see this happening. You know what they say about putting all your eggs in one basket. These manufacturers need the competition between themselves in order to keep prices reasonable. And I certainly hope this isn't some underhanded conspiratorial liberal ploy to eventually shut down all manufacturing of guns and ammo.
Victor Barney says:
Give it up, YOU KNOW AS WELL AS I GUN SHOPS CAN WORK FOR THE CHICAGO MOB TO KEEP U.S. IN LINE UNDER THEIR MARXIST(ANTI-CHRIST, AS ISLAM), BUT THIS TIME THE ONLY SIN THAT CANNOT BE FORGIVEN!
Big money? Yes,but If I own it I can shut it down or control production volume as well.Another means of gun control.
In 1911, Turkey established gun control. From 1915 to 1917, 1.5 million Armenians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
In 1929, the Soviet Union established gun control. From 1929 to 1953, about 20 million dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated. By 1987 that figure had risen to 61,911,000.
China established gun control in 1935. From 1948 to 1952 10,076,000 political dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated in Kuomintang China, and by 1987 another 35,236,000 exterminations were carried out under the Communists.
GUN CONTROL WORKS ask the experts: Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot
Then said he unto them, But now, he that hath a purse, let him take it, and likewise his scrip: and he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one. Luke 22:36 – Jesus Christ
Luke 10:18And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.
In ancient Hebrew the word for lightning is barack, the word for heaven or the
heights is bama and to connect the words either an "a" or an "o" is used.
2 Thessalonians 2:3 (King James Version)
3Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there
come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
Political Correctness a term first seen in Mao's Little Red Book, a communist engendered abomination that is instituting censorship little by little.
"If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter."- George Washington
Carl Marx, once wrote that, the goal of the Communists was to quote,. "enter into men's minds and cast God down from his throne."
Matthew 12:31Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men.
In ancient Babylon their economy was based on usury.
"If you lend money to one of my people among you who is needy, do not be like a moneylender; charge him no interest. Exodus 22:25
Hath given forth upon usury, and hath taken increase: shall he then live? he shall not live: he hath done all these abominations; he shall surely die; his blood shall be upon him. Ezekiel 18:13
Usury is unlawful; expressly prohibited by GOD!
Article 1 Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution clearly states that only the Congress can print and coin money!
The Federal Reserve Act of 1913 was slipped thru congress during the Christmas break with the majority of it's members absent.
The Federal Reserve is self serving and privately owned in violation to the Constitution, charging interest on illegally printed money. Money printed from nothing!
In America On June 4, 1963, a virtually unknown Presidential decree, Executive Order 11110, was signed with the authority to basically strip the Federal Reserve Bank of its power to loan money to the United States Federal Government at interest. With the stroke of a pen, President Kennedy declared that the privately owned Federal Reserve Bank would soon be out of business. Five months later A UNITED STATES PRESIDENT, PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY was MURDERED BY COMMUNIST!
In ancient Babylon their priest sacrificed babies to their gods baal, and molech.
In America the communist under their socialist programs have sacrificed over 50 million American babies to their god satan!
Leviticus 20:2-5
2Again, thou shalt say to the children of Israel , Whosoever he be of the children of Israel , or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel , that giveth any of his seed unto Molech; he shall surely be put to death: the people of the land shall stone him with stones.
3And I will set my face against that man, and will cut him off from among his people; because he hath given of his seed unto Molech, to defile my sanctuary, and to profane my holy name.
4And if the people of the land do any ways hide their eyes from the man, when he giveth of his seed unto Molech, and kill him not:
5Then I will set my face against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off, and all that go a whoring after him, to commit whoredom with Molech, from among their people.
Luke 22:35-36 Then Jesus asked them, "When I sent you without purse, bag or sandals, did you lack anything?" "Nothing," they answered. 36 He said to them, "But now if you have a purse, take it, and also a bag; and if you don't have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one.
Jeremiah 50:16Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him that handleth the SICKLE in the time of harvest: for fear of the oppressing sword they shall turn every one to his people, and they shall flee every one to his own land.
Jeremiah 50:23How is the HAMMER OF THE WHOLE EARTH CUT ASUNDER AND BROKEN! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!
BABYLON = the HAMMER and SICKLE!
Jeremiah 50:14 " Put yourselves in array against Babylon all around, All you who bend the bow; Shoot at her, spare no arrows, For she has sinned against the LORD.
All nations compassed me about: but in the name of the LORD will I destroy them. Psalm 118:10
"The thing that separates the American Christian from every other person on earth is the fact that he would rather die on his feet, than live on his knees!". George Washington
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Patriot Diva says:
I'll bet George Soros' fingerprints are all over this. Buy your guns and ammo now people before it's too late!
JimL says:
This too will pass. Cerberus started buying up these companies right after we elected an illegal alien Marxist Muslim as POTUS, causing gun and ammo sales and prices to go through the roof. It looked like a great investment, except that after two + years of panic, American patriots' hunger for safety seems to have been satisfied. Gun and ammo sales have slumped and prices are dropping. We will know for certain over the next year if Cerberus has invested in free enterprise or if they are investing in Marxism, because if you go and read the 10-K's of their various businesses, you will see that their biggest ammo customers are Wal*Mart, which does NOT make long term commitments, and the U.S. Government, which can't be trusted with a nickel. If Wal*Mart blinks, Cerberus either divests or they choke on their cash flow. If they are indeed evil, they will sit tight and not care about losses.
Either getting a monopoly – or buying up to destroy the industry so guns will not be available to US citizenry…
Mayflower Decendent says:
Are you sure someone isn't buying them all up just to shut them down?? De-Arm the public and we all become the servants Washington wants us to be!
Beepster says:
This/these company(ies) are owned and controlled by George Soros. His idea is to close out gun sales to individuals, just like the demidogs' ideas. Check out the companies buying the gun companies and see who owns them.
Patriots Pledge says:
Is this a deal to make money or a way to control the type of guns being sold we may find that we can't buy semi-auto's only bolt action single shots or we may find that after they buy up the gun companies that they quit producing guns entirely. The elite have bought up all the TV, newpapers giving them total control of the News media. What have you heard about the passing of S.1867 that totally deprives the American people of the protection of the bill of right's? America was founded on competition not monoplies. To me this is a very dangerous and needs investagating!
Bob Marshall says:
Citizens can't arm themselves if there are no arms to sell. Hillary Clinton told the UN Assembly that the governments two main priority was gun and population control. 'The men who possess the real power in this country have no intention of ending the cold war." Albert Einstein. I believe today he would have substituted the "War on Terror." IN 2007 Zbigniew Brzezinski told the Us Senate that the "War on Terror" was a mythical histroical narrative," in other words, a complete fiction. If America is eventually unarmed we have only ourselves to blame.
RSM61 says:
I just hope this isn't some kind of wealthy liberal gunhater like Soros who is just going to one day, shut them all down.
Fighting Grandma says:
This doesn't make sense. Gun sales are higher than ever ~ off the charts…why are our heritage gun makers selling out to an "unknown" buyer? Please help me understand this!!! All of us are in the same "2nd Amendment" boat. Especially with the anti-gun tyrants? Do we really think this is in our best interest for survival as a country? Or, are there other interests that are buying up our gun manufacturers?
Pete0097 says:
Cerebus is also a previous owner of Chrysler that took over after Diamler raped Chrysler. They then gave it to the government, screwed the shareholders and walked away with a bunch of more money. These armament manufacturers better be wary and watch their finances.
stevor says:
Well, if they close down some companies, it will give a new company an opportunity to get established. Maybe I'll investigate what it would take to do just that.
No fool says:
Is George Sorros (Schwartz György) working with the UN on this?
Patrick Duffy says:
One way or the other the 'beast' is going to get the gun control it desires. Taking away the guns is a statement that "government is god", and it forces the people to "bow down" to this false god. If they cannot get what they want with legislation (and the LORD knows they have tried), they will get it economically, by making it impossible to purchase a gun by limiting the supply.
Don DeHoff says:
Congress needs to get into the middle of this and find out just who is involved. We need laws that prohibit foreign direct or indirect control of any U.S. industry that provides equipment and supplies to our armed forces or agencies involved in national security. In all such suppliers, a super majority of say, 70 percent of controlling stock must remain in the hands of U.S. citizens. Such companies would include, but not be limited to, those that provide arms, software/hardware (and chips), clothing, incuding boots, foodstuffs, medicines, airplanes, tanks, etc. Also, no U.S. company should ever have direct or indirect control of any company outside of the U.S. I realize that all of this requires much fine tunning.
tkishkape says:
Is this company buying out all of the American made gun companies so that it can stop production of guns and "back-door" the Democrat's platform promise to repeal the Second Ammendment.?
OLD DAD says:
Could this be the Dumocraps in disguise setting up to cut off the flow of guns and ammo to the american public????
Dan Quayle ??????
Democrap right????
In that case I bet it gets censored
tarheel says:
I am glad to hear its Dan Quale and not soros
msbets123 says:
This sounds pretty damned scary………….but so what else is new, this whole damned country is going down the sewer, we got all the big guns(pardon the pun) saying "I didn't know what was going on with FAST AND FURIOUS, NOBODY KNEW ANYTHING, that just proves beyond a reasonable doubt THAT THIS COMMIE OUTFIT WE HAVE IN THE ADMINISTRATION, DO NOT NEED TO BE AT THE HELM OF ANYTHING, BUT MAYBE A SEWER PLANT!!!
Patrioticnut says:
The not knowing part of this makes me a bit more than a little uneasy. This could be the end of our firearms industry or could be a smart company planning for the robust sales that are taking place now and may increase soon. Who knows, but I'll buy while I can.
dcrummett says:
Has no one figured out Cerebrus is part of George Soros's empire???
kraemer4 says:
I read someplace else Cerebrus is affiliated with Soros…let the conspiracy begin.
ColoradoRick says:
Bravo on a story that is in part almost 4 years old, maybe 2 at the newest? Its run by Republicans affiliated with GWBush and Dan Quayle, so its either for money purposes only, OR its to lessen the flow of guns to the people who will no doubt come after the rich and snooty after they have completely ruined our economy for their own profits. Now, try and connect them with George Soros, like others have, and complete your journey to the Dark Side…
Richard Gibbard says:
Cerberus…didn't they once own Chrysler Corporation?
Glofish says:
I read about this some months ago and the source alleged that its primary source and backer is George Soros. That the Freedom Group was a front for left wing policies and other exremists groups. If that be the case the gun owners of this country will have a problem buying guns and ammunition if under their control. I think that it is a possibility of their gun control methods. I don't know how far this possible intrusionof the 2nd amendment goes into preventing Americans not able to buy guns or ammunition for guns we own. We better find out who and why these companies are being purchased and having a monopoly on these items. I think that there is somethingfishy going on.
John Hand says:
I see no problem with this as long as it is not someone like George Soros, setting them all up for a downfall in another backhanded attempt at gun control like Fast and Furious.
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A skeptic of traditional Chinese medicine is challenging practitioners of the age-old craft to prove themselves by putting his own money on the line. One has accepted the challenge. At stake is the claim that practitioners can discern whether a woman is pregnant by her pulse.
Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is a point of contention in China. Although the government is keen to promote its use in the clinic and, in modernized form, as part of drug discovery, some feel that much of it is unproven and that the government is throwing its money away. There have also been high-profile cases of fraud linked to such research, and the practice is criticized for its dependence on endangered species such as the Saiga antelope (Saiga tatarica).
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Yang will have to assess with 80% accuracy whether women are pregnant. The two are reportedly working out the terms of the contest, with a tentative set-up reportedly involving 32 women who would be separated by a screen from Yang.
Having 80% accuracy with 32 attempts would be getting at least 25 correct. I'm very curious to see how this goes. Rather than subtle energies, there is a basic difference that might be observed: A typical resting heart rate for a woman is 75 beats per minute and it would be faster, like 80, for a resting pregnant woman. So if the TCM doctor selects any woman over 79 BPM, would that net 80% correct choices? It might, depending on the variability. There may be considerable haggling over the pool having other conditions, their fitness, etc.
A showdown between East and West kicked off with a rocky start for a practitioner of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), who failed to properly diagnose a pregnant woman.
Beijing burn doctor Ah Bao claimed that TCM is a "false science" and offered RMB 50,000 to anyone who could prove him wrong, as The Nanfang reported. Ah Bao specifically criticized the practice of taking a patient's pulse and using it as a diagnostic tool, as some TCM doctors say they can do this to determine if a woman is pregnant. Ah Bao believes the practice gives inconsistent results, and challenged anyone to achieve an 80 percent success rate.
Beijing doctor of traditional Chinese medicine Yang Zhen accepted the challenge shortly after it was issued, but it was Chengdu TCM doctor Lu Jilai that went first only to reach the wrong answer.
As Caijing reports, Dr Lu checked the pulse of five women, but was only able to identify the pregnant woman on the second pass..
In response to continual suspicion and provocation towards traditional Chinese medicine, I had originally thought that once I had stepped out to face the challenge that a large group of top-notch TCM doctors would also do the same. But despite this call to action, and looking back, there are only 50 ducks behind me.
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As per the terms of the challenge, Lu was blindfolded.
With the reward having swelled to RMB 100,000 due to other contributions, the contest continues.
According to the TCM doctor, proper TCM requires the use of all of the senses to detect a pregnancy. If a doctor sees a woman with a large belly and feels a baby kicking in there, then the pulse diagnosis will be much more accurate, no doubt.


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Last season's beaten Champions League finalists, Borussia Dortmund, were outplayed by Napoli last night in the opening match of their group stage campaign.
Under competition winner Rafa Benitez, Napoli are sure to give more teams a hard time this season, and Dortmund were duly frustrated by the slick passing and grit of his new Serie A charges.
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