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Here's what does (and doesn't) drive mortgage rates
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4 min read Published March 22, 2022
Jeff Ostrowski
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Mortgage rates moved dramatically throughout the pandemic. In the early phase of the health crisis, mortgage rates plunged to record lows. During the recovery stage, they hit pre-pandemic levels, then kept rising.
But why have rates moved so dramatically? And what drives mortgage rate movements? The answers are complex, but the moves make more sense when you learn which factors drive mortgage rates — and which don't. Here's a quick crash course that could save you money on a new mortgage or a refinance.
1. It (sort of) begins with the Federal Reserve
The Federal Reserve doesn't set mortgage rates, but the central bank's decisions definitely influence mortgage rates. As the coronavirus pandemic hammered the U.S. economy in 2020, the Fed said it would keep rates near zero for the foreseeable future — and mortgage rates plunged. As the Fed began hiking rates in 2022, mortgage rates rose in anticipation of those moves from the central bank.
The Fed's rate decisions typically drive shorter-term products, like credit cards or home equity lines of credit, says Greg McBride, CFA, Bankrate's chief financial analyst. Meanwhile, mortgage rates move based on longer-term interest rates.
"It's the longer-term outlook for economic growth and inflation that have the greatest bearing on the level and direction of mortgage rates," McBride says. "Because mortgages are packaged together into securities and sold as mortgage bonds, it's the return investors demand to buy these bonds that dictates the general level of mortgage rates."
Mortgage rate levels are priced above that of the 10-year U.S. Treasury, considered by investors to be a risk-free investment. The spread in pricing between mortgage rates and the 10-year Treasury reflects the risk that investors bear for holding those bonds, McBride adds.
"It may seem counterintuitive that 30-year mortgage rates are priced relative to yields on 10-year Treasuries," McBride says, "but when these 30-year mortgages are packaged together into bonds, on average, they tend to pay out over a 10-year period as homeowners refinance, move or otherwise pay off their loans early."
2. Economic conditions play a role
What happens in the economy, and how those events affect investors' confidence, influences mortgage pricing. Good and bad economic news have an inverse impact on the direction of mortgage rates.
"Bad economic news is often good news for mortgage rates," McBride says. "When concern about the economy is high, investors gravitate toward safe-haven investments like Treasury bonds and mortgage bonds, pushing bond prices higher but the yields on those bonds lower."
Good economic news — increases in consumer confidence and spending, robust GDP growth and a solid stock market — tend to push mortgage rates higher. That's because the higher demand means more work for lenders who only have so much money to lend and manpower to originate loans, says Jerry Selitto, president of Better.com, an online mortgage lender. This effect was on full display in late 2021 and early 2022 — with job growth strong and the economy in recovery, mortgage rates spiked.
3. Inflation, the long-forgotten foe
Inflation is the increase in the pricing of goods and services over time, and it's an important benchmark when measuring economic growth. Rising inflation limits consumers' purchasing power, and that's a consideration lenders make when setting mortgage rates.
Lenders have to adjust mortgage rates to a level that makes up for eroded purchasing power when inflation rises too quickly. After all, lenders still need to make a profit on the loans they originate, and that becomes more difficult when consumers' buying power is diminished.
Likewise, inflation is a consideration investors make in the prices they're willing to pay, and the returns they demand, on mortgages and other bonds they purchase on the secondary market.
While inflation held at low levels for decades, trillions of dollars in federal stimulus issued in 2020 led to sharp price increases in 2021 and 2022. Inflation has spiked to its highest level in four decades, hitting 7.9 percent in February 2022. That leads back to the first item on our list — soaring prices have forced the Fed to clamp down by raising rates.
"Inflation, inflation, inflation – that's really the hub on the wheel," McBride says.
4. Your financial and credit picture
The first three items on the list are all about the broader economy. This factor focuses on you and your creditworthiness.
Lenders want to feel confident that you can and will repay your mortgage, and they do that by assessing your risk of default. Your credit score is the most crucial indicator of your ability to manage debt and pay bills on time. Borrowers with lower credit scores pay higher interest rates and have more-limited loan options if their credit is less than stellar.
Lenders also pay close attention to your debt-to-income, or DTI ratio. Your DTI ratio is the sum of all of your monthly debts (including the new monthly mortgage payment) in relation to your gross monthly income.
Generally, the higher your DTI ratio, the riskier you appear (on paper) to a lender — and the higher your interest rate will be. As a general rule of thumb, conventional lenders want to see your DTI ratio stay below 43 percent, but some loan programs will consider borrowers with a DTI ratio as high as 50 percent.
As mortgage rates fall, your DTI ratio falls, too, because a lower rate will drop your monthly mortgage payment, which is included in your DTI ratio calculation. As a result, you could afford to buy more house, Selitto says.
5. Origination costs (so lenders can keep the lights on)
The final item on our list is not about the economy or the borrower but about lenders' bottom lines. The cost of originating mortgages includes tasks such as running a credit check, underwriting, a title search and the many other steps a lender must take to process a loan.
Tighter lending regulations implemented after the 2008 housing crash have cut into lenders' profits as they've changed their systems to comply with new regulations, Selitto says. That's pushed the cost of originating mortgages higher.
In the fourth quarter of 2021, the cost to originate a mortgage rose to $9,470 per loan, up from $9,140 per loan the previous quarter, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association. That's a steep increase from average production costs of $6,758 per loan lenders averaged from 2008 through 2021.
"In setting prices, lenders have to look at the cost of origination and decide what margins they want above those costs," Selitto says. "The more efficient a manufacturer of mortgages can be, the more competitive they are on pricing."
When demand for mortgages surges, lenders may have to account for the spike in — and the processing costs involved — by hiking mortgage pricing. Likewise, when demand is flat or falls, lenders have to adjust pricing to attract business and keep the lights on, Selitto says.
Mortgage rates are always a moving target. They change hourly, daily and weekly, and are difficult to time perfectly. If you're weighing a home purchase or refinance, it's a good idea to shop with multiple lenders to compare mortgage rates and find out when you should lock in your loan.
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13 August 2014, Gateway House
Revisiting Khilafat House
The Khilafat movement started in Mumbai nearly 100 years ago in response to the dismantling of the Caliph-headed Ottoman Empire by the Allied powers. The present revival of the office of the Caliph by the Islamic State in West Asia, although rooted in a different context, evokes this sliver of Mumbai's history
Bombay History Fellow
Khilafat House is located in a leafy Byculla lane in south Mumbai. The entrance arch of this historic landmark proudly bears the name: All India Khilafat Committee (AIKC). The original bungalow was rebuilt many years ago and the compound now houses the Khilafat College. This new role belies Khilafat House's historic importance, not just to the Indian nationalist movement, but also to an international pan-Islamism during World War I and in its immediate aftermath, when the fate of the Ottoman Caliphate was being decided.
At a time when events of global importance are unfolding in West Asia, the militant Islamic State is relentlessly advancing, and its leader has resurrected the office of the Caliph, it is interesting to look back to the reverberations felt in Mumbai when the Ottoman Caliphate, as well as its temporal control over Islam's most holy sites, were both endangered.
In those pre-Independence decades, Mahatma Gandhi achieved a coup of sorts (against opposition from within the Congress and by other political groupings): he combined the Khilafat (Caliphate) cause with the anger and frustration at the British government's response to the Jallianwala Baug massacre (on 13 April 1919) to launch his first Non-Cooperation Movement from Bombay.
Most of the standard works, such as the Encyclopaedia Britannica, which refer to Mumbai during the Great War, talk of the ambivalence of Indian Muslim communities towards Britain going to war with the Ottoman Empire. Although various political parties supported World War I, the feelings were mixed when British Indian troops launched a campaign in Mesopotamia in October 1914 at the Shatt-al-Arab, then a part of the Ottoman Empire.
This personalised the war—triggered by the Balkan States—and made it a Holy War, because the Ottoman Caliph was not just the temporal head of a vast territory, he was also the spiritual head of the Islamic world. Accordingly, the office of the Caliph moved from Cairo to Damascus to Istanbul at various periods in history, across empires that were responsible for the security of Islam's holiest sites.
In West Asia now, the leader of the Islamic State, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, has declared himself Caliph in the captured city of Mosul: this highlights the still emotive appeal of the Caliphate, a spiritual and temporal position ordained in the Koran.
In South Asia nearly a 100 years ago, Indian Muslims became increasingly disaffected with the prolonged campaign of the British Indian Army in Mesopotamia. Delegations from the subcontinent appealed to the Amir of Afghanistan to launch a Holy War to defend the Caliphate. Even then, the call to war led many Muslim peasants to abandon their village homes and trudge over the frozen high passes in a perilous journey from India to Afghanistan; this is perhaps reminiscent of the young men from neighbouring Thane recently taking the leap into the Iraqi war zone, as have many from across the world today.
It must be noted, however, that the Khilafat movement was formally launched only after the end of World War I, when the fate of the Ottoman Empire hung in balance. It coincided with the imposition of the draconian Rowlatt Act in February 1919. Instead of greater autonomy for the subcontinent, as promised at the beginning of the war, the Act left nationalist leaders feeling cheated.
Gandhi's embrace of the Khilafat movement, founded by the fiery Ali brothers Maulana Mohammed Ali (after whom Mohammed Ali Road is named) and Shaukat Ali, and Maulana Abul Kalam Azad (all well-known nationalists), made it one of the main planks of the Non-Cooperation Movement. It became a movement that showcased Hindu-Muslim unity.
Gandhi was elected president of the First All-India Khilafat Conference in 1919. The first Id-e-Milad procession from Khilafat House (originally Chhotani House in the Masjid area in south Mumbai) to Haj House behind Jyotiba Phule Market (Crawford Market), was led by Gandhi as head of the AIKC. The tradition of this annual procession has continued uninterrupted all these years, though it now starts from the AIKC headquarters in Byculla and then goes to Haj House.
Both movements—Khilafat and Non-Cooperation—ended abruptly. The Khilafat movement was cut short by Kemal Ataturk, the first president of Turkey, in 1924, when he declared post-war Turkey a secular state. Two years earlier, sporadic outbreaks of violence on the sub-continent, culminating in the Chauri Chaura incident, also led Gandhi to call off the Non-Cooperation Movement.
These crucial five years (1919 to 1924) in India's nationalist history are now depicted on the walls of Khilafat Hall: framed photographs of the Ali brothers, of the First All-India Khilafat Conference, of Gandhi addressing rallies. They remain silent witnesses to an epochal slice of global history that is linked to Mumbai.
The author would like to thank the management of Khilafat College for enabling a visit to the college hall on a holiday.
Sifra Lentin is a Mumbai-based writer and historian, and the Mumbai History Fellow at Gateway House: Indian Council on Global Relations.
This article was exclusively written for Gateway House: Indian Council on Global Relations. You can read more exclusive content here.
For interview requests with the author, or for permission to republish, please contact outreach@gatewayhouse.in.
© Copyright 2014 Gateway House: Indian Council on Global Relations. All rights reserved. Any unauthorized copying or reproduction is strictly prohibited
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package akka.persistence.inmemory.query

import akka.persistence.query.{ EventEnvelope2, NoOffset, Sequence }

/**
 * This test sets the offset-mode to sequence, this means that when a NoOffset type is
 * requested, the offset type in the Envelope will be a Sequence
 */
class CurrentEventsByTag2SequenceJournalTest extends QueryTestSpec {
  it should "not find an event by tag for unknown tag" in {
    persist("my-1", "one")
    persist("my-2", "two")
    persist("my-3", "three")

    withCurrentEventsByTag2()("unknown", NoOffset) { tp =>
      tp.request(Int.MaxValue)
      tp.expectComplete()
    }

    withCurrentEventsByTag2()("unknown", Sequence(0)) { tp =>
      tp.request(Int.MaxValue)
      tp.expectComplete()
    }
  }

  it should "find all events by tag" in {
    persist("my-1", "number")
    persist("my-2", "number")
    persist("my-3", "number")

    withCurrentEventsByTag2()("number", NoOffset) { tp =>
      tp.request(Int.MaxValue)
      tp.expectNext(EventEnvelope2(Sequence(1), "my-1", 1, "a-1"))
      tp.expectNext(EventEnvelope2(Sequence(2), "my-2", 1, "a-1"))
      tp.expectNext(EventEnvelope2(Sequence(3), "my-3", 1, "a-1"))
      tp.expectComplete()
    }

    withCurrentEventsByTag2()("number", Sequence(0)) { tp =>
      tp.request(Int.MaxValue)
      tp.expectNext(EventEnvelope2(Sequence(1), "my-1", 1, "a-1"))
      tp.expectNext(EventEnvelope2(Sequence(2), "my-2", 1, "a-1"))
      tp.expectNext(EventEnvelope2(Sequence(3), "my-3", 1, "a-1"))
      tp.expectComplete()
    }

    withCurrentEventsByTag2()("number", Sequence(1)) { tp =>
      tp.request(Int.MaxValue)
      tp.expectNext(EventEnvelope2(Sequence(2), "my-2", 1, "a-1"))
      tp.expectNext(EventEnvelope2(Sequence(3), "my-3", 1, "a-1"))
      tp.expectComplete()
    }

    withCurrentEventsByTag2()("number", Sequence(2)) { tp =>
      tp.request(Int.MaxValue)
      tp.expectNext(EventEnvelope2(Sequence(3), "my-3", 1, "a-1"))
      tp.expectComplete()
    }

    withCurrentEventsByTag2()("number", Sequence(3)) { tp =>
      tp.request(Int.MaxValue)
      tp.expectComplete()
    }

    withCurrentEventsByTag2()("number", Sequence(4)) { tp =>
      tp.request(Int.MaxValue)
      tp.expectComplete()
    }
  }

  it should "find all events by tag for deleted messages" in {
    persist("my-1", "number")
    persist("my-2", "number")
    persist("my-3", "number")

    deleteMessages("my-1")
    deleteMessages("my-2")
    deleteMessages("my-3")

    withCurrentEventsByTag2()("number", NoOffset) { tp =>
      tp.request(Int.MaxValue)
      tp.expectNext(EventEnvelope2(Sequence(1), "my-1", 1, "a-1"))
      tp.expectNext(EventEnvelope2(Sequence(2), "my-2", 1, "a-1"))
      tp.expectNext(EventEnvelope2(Sequence(3), "my-3", 1, "a-1"))
      tp.expectComplete()
    }
    withCurrentEventsByTag2()("number", Sequence(1)) { tp =>
      tp.request(Int.MaxValue)
      tp.expectNext(EventEnvelope2(Sequence(2), "my-2", 1, "a-1"))
      tp.expectNext(EventEnvelope2(Sequence(3), "my-3", 1, "a-1"))
      tp.expectComplete()
    }
    withCurrentEventsByTag2()("number", Sequence(2)) { tp =>
      tp.request(Int.MaxValue)
      tp.expectNext(EventEnvelope2(Sequence(3), "my-3", 1, "a-1"))
      tp.expectComplete()
    }
    withCurrentEventsByTag2()("number", Sequence(3)) { tp =>
      tp.request(Int.MaxValue)
      tp.expectComplete()
    }
    withCurrentEventsByTag2()("number", Sequence(4)) { tp =>
      tp.request(Int.MaxValue)
      tp.expectComplete()
    }
  }

  it should "persist and find a tagged event with multiple tags" in {
    persist(1, 1, "my-1", "one", "1", "prime")
    persist(2, 2, "my-1", "two", "2", "prime")
    persist(3, 3, "my-1", "three", "3", "prime")
    persist(4, 4, "my-1", "four", "4")
    persist(5, 5, "my-1", "five", "5", "prime")
    persist(1, 1, "my-2", "three", "3", "prime")
    persist(1, 1, "my-3", "three", "3", "prime")
    persist(6, 6, "my-1")
    persist(7, 7, "my-1")

    withCurrentEventsByTag2()("one", NoOffset) { tp =>
      tp.request(Int.MaxValue)
      tp.expectNext(EventEnvelope2(Sequence(1), "my-1", 1, "a-1"))
      tp.expectComplete()
    }
    withCurrentEventsByTag2()("one", Sequence(1)) { tp =>
      tp.request(Int.MaxValue)
      tp.expectComplete()
    }

    withCurrentEventsByTag2()("prime", NoOffset) { tp =>
      tp.request(Int.MaxValue)
      tp.expectNext(EventEnvelope2(Sequence(1), "my-1", 1, "a-1"))
      tp.expectNext(EventEnvelope2(Sequence(2), "my-1", 2, "a-2"))
      tp.expectNext(EventEnvelope2(Sequence(3), "my-1", 3, "a-3"))
      tp.expectNext(EventEnvelope2(Sequence(4), "my-1", 5, "a-5"))
      tp.expectNext(EventEnvelope2(Sequence(5), "my-2", 1, "a-1"))
      tp.expectNext(EventEnvelope2(Sequence(6), "my-3", 1, "a-1"))
      tp.expectComplete()
    }

    withCurrentEventsByTag2()("prime", Sequence(0)) { tp =>
      tp.request(Int.MaxValue)
      tp.expectNext(EventEnvelope2(Sequence(1), "my-1", 1, "a-1"))
      tp.expectNext(EventEnvelope2(Sequence(2), "my-1", 2, "a-2"))
      tp.expectNext(EventEnvelope2(Sequence(3), "my-1", 3, "a-3"))
      tp.expectNext(EventEnvelope2(Sequence(4), "my-1", 5, "a-5"))
      tp.expectNext(EventEnvelope2(Sequence(5), "my-2", 1, "a-1"))
      tp.expectNext(EventEnvelope2(Sequence(6), "my-3", 1, "a-1"))
      tp.expectComplete()
    }

    withCurrentEventsByTag2()("prime", Sequence(1)) { tp =>
      tp.request(Int.MaxValue)
      tp.expectNext(EventEnvelope2(Sequence(2), "my-1", 2, "a-2"))
      tp.expectNext(EventEnvelope2(Sequence(3), "my-1", 3, "a-3"))
      tp.expectNext(EventEnvelope2(Sequence(4), "my-1", 5, "a-5"))
      tp.expectNext(EventEnvelope2(Sequence(5), "my-2", 1, "a-1"))
      tp.expectNext(EventEnvelope2(Sequence(6), "my-3", 1, "a-1"))
      tp.expectComplete()
    }

    withCurrentEventsByTag2()("prime", Sequence(2)) { tp =>
      tp.request(Int.MaxValue)
      tp.expectNext(EventEnvelope2(Sequence(3), "my-1", 3, "a-3"))
      tp.expectNext(EventEnvelope2(Sequence(4), "my-1", 5, "a-5"))
      tp.expectNext(EventEnvelope2(Sequence(5), "my-2", 1, "a-1"))
      tp.expectNext(EventEnvelope2(Sequence(6), "my-3", 1, "a-1"))
      tp.expectComplete()
    }

    withCurrentEventsByTag2()("prime", Sequence(3)) { tp =>
      tp.request(Int.MaxValue)
      tp.expectNext(EventEnvelope2(Sequence(4), "my-1", 5, "a-5"))
      tp.expectNext(EventEnvelope2(Sequence(5), "my-2", 1, "a-1"))
      tp.expectNext(EventEnvelope2(Sequence(6), "my-3", 1, "a-1"))
      tp.expectComplete()
    }

    withCurrentEventsByTag2()("prime", Sequence(4)) { tp =>
      tp.request(Int.MaxValue)
      tp.expectNext(EventEnvelope2(Sequence(5), "my-2", 1, "a-1"))
      tp.expectNext(EventEnvelope2(Sequence(6), "my-3", 1, "a-1"))
      tp.expectComplete()
    }

    withCurrentEventsByTag2()("prime", Sequence(5)) { tp =>
      tp.request(Int.MaxValue)
      tp.expectNext(EventEnvelope2(Sequence(6), "my-3", 1, "a-1"))
      tp.expectComplete()
    }

    withCurrentEventsByTag2()("prime", Sequence(6)) { tp =>
      tp.request(Int.MaxValue)
      tp.expectComplete()
    }

    withCurrentEventsByTag2()("prime", Sequence(7)) { tp =>
      tp.request(Int.MaxValue)
      tp.expectComplete()
    }

    withCurrentEventsByTag2()("3", NoOffset) { tp =>
      tp.request(Int.MaxValue)
      tp.expectNext(EventEnvelope2(Sequence(1), "my-1", 3, "a-3"))
      tp.expectNext(EventEnvelope2(Sequence(2), "my-2", 1, "a-1"))
      tp.expectNext(EventEnvelope2(Sequence(3), "my-3", 1, "a-1"))
      tp.expectComplete()
    }

    withCurrentEventsByTag2()("4", NoOffset) { tp =>
      tp.request(Int.MaxValue)
      tp.expectNext(EventEnvelope2(Sequence(1), "my-1", 4, "a-4"))
      tp.expectComplete()
    }

    withCurrentEventsByTag2()("four", NoOffset) { tp =>
      tp.request(Int.MaxValue)
      tp.expectNext(EventEnvelope2(Sequence(1), "my-1", 4, "a-4"))
      tp.expectComplete()
    }

    withCurrentEventsByTag2()("5", NoOffset) { tp =>
      tp.request(Int.MaxValue)
      tp.expectNext(EventEnvelope2(Sequence(1), "my-1", 5, "a-5"))
      tp.expectComplete()
    }

    withCurrentEventsByTag2()("five", NoOffset) { tp =>
      tp.request(Int.MaxValue)
      tp.expectNext(EventEnvelope2(Sequence(1), "my-1", 5, "a-5"))
      tp.expectComplete()
    }
  }
}


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He was addressing a farmers' gathering at Vanthali in Gujarat's Junagadh district, around 300 km from here.
"This government has failed on all fronts. Everyone is suffering, be it farmers, youth, women or Dalits. Only new slogans are being given. The only solution is to uproot this government in the next (Lok Sabha) polls," Sinha said.
"I want to apologise because I was also part of the BJP when promises were made ahead of 2014 (general) elections. But I do not want you to forgive him (Modi) in the next polls," he said.
"He did not announce any scheme for farmers because he has forgotten them," he said.


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Hal Incandenza
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Hal Incandenza is one of the two protagonists of David Foster Wallace's novel Infinite Jest. Hal is 17 years old as of Y.D.A.U. and is considered a lexical prodigy; he used to read the Oxford English Dictionary and memorize it in his spare time.
1 Enfield Tennis Academy
2 Relationships With Family
3 Hal and Themes
Enfield Tennis Academy
As Hal is a resident of the Enfield Tennis Academy, the majority of Hal's scenes take place there. Hal is the #2 tennis player at the E.T.A., second only to John Wayne, and the #6 18-and-Under player continentally. He has lived at the E.T.A. since age seven (4).
Hal is a Big Buddy for some of the 14-and-Under players: Peter Beak, Kent Blott, Idris Arslanian, and Evan Ingersoll (98). He likes being a Big Budy, stating that "he likes being there to come to, and likes delivering little unpretentious minilectures on tennis theory and E.T.A. pedagogy and tradition, and getting to be kind in a way that costs him nothing," despite the fact that uhe has the "strange urge to be cruel to Ingersoll" (98).
Hal is good friends with several of the other E.T.A. residents, including Michael Pemulis and Ortho "The Darkness" Stice.
On the days that he doesn't Big Buddy with his charges, Hal will "get covertly high in the Enfield Tennis Academy's underground Pump Room" (49). He likes getting high in secret, but he is as "attached to the secrecy as he is to getting high" (49).
Relationships With Family
Hal is the youngest son of James Incandenza and Avril Incandenza, and his relationships with his parents are extremely complicated. Near the beginning of Infinite Jest, we see a scene with Hal and a "professional conversationalist" (Himself). According to Hal, Himself has this "hallucination I never speak" (29); it is later revealed that Himself and his father suffered from this very problem. Himself felt that his trouble with his father was his fault, stating that he had a "failure ever to make him hear you really speak" (838). This failure, Himself (in wraith form) says, was passed to his son Hal, and Himself's final days were spent "working tirelessly to contrive a medieum via which he and the muted son could simply converse" (838). It is unclear whether Hal actually speaks and Himself cannot hear it, or whether Hal does not speak but has the illusion that he does. Hal also notes that he had "never once had a conversation . . . open or intimate with Himself" (956), which may or may not be a product of this communication difficulty. Hal is also the one who found his father's body after James's suicide (248).
Hal's relationship with his mother is equally complex, despite the fact that they have ostensibly open lines of communication. Although Avril prides herself on being an accepting and loving mother, Hal notes that "it's like to report any sort of need or problem is to mug her" (523), and he and Orin Incandenza even have a running joke about her "Politeness Roulette. This Moms-thing that makes you hate yourself for telling her the truth about any kind of problem because of what the consequences will be for her" (523). In fact, Hal despises the way he "always reacted" around her during this routine, and gets a "special fantodish chill of feeling both complicit and obliged" (523) when Avril does this. While Avril believes that she and Hal have great communication, her forcefull passive-agressiveness makes her son "despise" the way he acts around her to the extend that it gives him a "special fantodish chill," indicating a complicated, unhealthy relationship.
Hal is quite close to his second-eldest brother Mario Incandenza. They share the same room at the Enfield Tennis Academy, and Hal calls Mario "Booboo" (316). In fact, Hal "almost idealizes Mario, secretly . . . Mario is a (semi-) walking miracle, Hal believes" (316). Hal fears Mario's opinion "more than probably anybody except their Moms's" (316).
Hal is less close with his eldest brother Orin. In fact, Orin has not seen Hal for "four years 216 days, and with two years of that not even once even calling" (249) before he abrubtly begins speaking with Hal again in the spring of the Y.D.A.U. Hal estimates that "over 60% of what he told Orin on the phone . . . was a lie. He had no idea why he liked lying to Orin on the phone so much" (136). Despite the lack of speaking and the lies that are told, Hal is the only person in the Incandenza family with whom Orin is in contact, indicating some type of relationship or bond between the two.
Hal and Themes
Both Mario Incandenza and the wraith of James O. Incandenza give separate accounts of Hal's sadness. Mario struggles to articulate Hal's sadness, which he sees as a strange turning-inward. He asks Avril Incandenza about the sadness: "what if it's that they're almost like even more themselves than normal? Than they were before? If it's not that he's blank or dead. If he's himself even more than before a sad thing happened. What if that happens and you still think he's sad, inside, somewhere" (768)?
In the underground tunnels of E.T.A., Hal secretly smokes marijuana almost every day. For Hal, the appeal of getting high is less the high itself, but the secrecy of it. In footnote 321 Hal tells Pemulis that he fears that he (Hal) is addicted to marijuana and that he plans to stop smoking it. Pemulis urges Hal to "spend some time figuring out this needing. Like what part of [Hal's] come to need" marijuana. Toward the end of the novel, Hal admits that he is addicted and searches for a Narcotics Anonymous support group.
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An Ivorian football player who plays as a forward for Roma,a Italian Football Club, and for the Ivory Coast national team. His full name is Gervias Yao Kouassi.
He was born in Anyama, Ivory Coast from the parents Yao Kouadio Emmanuel and Henriette Kouadio. He began his career at ASEC Abidjan and Toumodi F.C.
He has score 18 goals for the Ivorian National Team during his 60 appearances. He has also played for Arsenal from 2011, and later moved to Roma in 2013. His hair style has always been popular.
There is no any news related to his affair or married life. So he doesnot have any biological or adopted children. He has maintain his personal life very secret.
He has played for Arsenal from 2011 to 2012.. He has score a double goal to Southampton F C. He has also appeared in 2010 and 2014 FIFA World Cup. He has also played for Africa Cup of Nation in 2010 and 2012.
There is no any information of rumor about his personal or career life. He has maintain his clean personality in the media.
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Islam Slimani
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American professional baseball center fielder for the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball (MLB). He played in MLB for the Boston Red Sox from 2007 through 2013, and joined the Yankees before the 2014 season.
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Writer and film director, Ron Shelton is a minor league baseball infielder. He has also directed many films based on sports. His film Bull Durham, based on baseball and earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay.
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Shell Offshore, Inc. announces today that its affiliate, Shell E and P Offshore Services B.V., will exercise a contractual right to purchase the Turritella floating, production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel from SBM Offshore. The vessel is contracted for the Stones deep-water development in the Gulf of Mexico, which began production last year. Shell and SBM will work over the next several months to achieve a safe, smooth transition of the vessel operations.
Transitioning the ownership and operations of the vessel to Shell affiliates allows the company to pursue additional efficiencies and achieve cost improvements to deliver shareholder value at Stones with a continued commitment to operational excellence and safety. The Stones development is the world's deepest offshore oil and gas project and is scheduled to deliver approximately 50,000-barrels of oil equivalent per day (boe/d) by the end of this year.
The Turritella FPSO has a daily production capacity of approximately 60,000 barrels of oil and 15 million cubic feet of natural gas and fits well within Shell's global, deep-water portfolio, which includes operations in the Gulf of Mexico, Brazil, Nigeria, and Malaysia. Competitive, deep-water oil resources are a growth priority for Shell with global production expected to reach more than 900-thousand boe/d by the early 2020s.
Currently, Shell has three additional Gulf of Mexico deep-water projects under construction – Appomattox, Kaikias, and Coulomb Phase 2 – as well as options for additional subsea tiebacks and Vito, a potential, new hub in the region.
The companies in which Royal Dutch Shell plc directly and indirectly owns investments are separate legal entities. In this announcement "Shell", "Shell group" and "Royal Dutch Shell" are sometimes used for convenience where references are made to Royal Dutch Shell plc and its subsidiaries in general. Likewise, the words "we", "us" and "our" are also used to refer to subsidiaries in general or to those who work for them. These expressions are also used where no useful purpose is served by identifying the particular company or companies. ''Subsidiaries'', "Shell subsidiaries" and "Shell companies" as used in this announcement refer to companies over which Royal Dutch Shell plc either directly or indirectly has control. Entities and unincorporated arrangements over which Shell has joint control are generally referred to as "joint ventures" and "joint operations" respectively.Entities over which Shell has significant influence but neither control nor joint control are referred to as "associates". The term "Shell interest" is used for convenience to indicate the direct and/or indirect ownership interest held by Shell in a venture, partnership or company, after exclusion of all third-party interest.
This announcement contains forward-looking statements concerning the financial condition, results of operations and businesses of Royal Dutch Shell. All statements other than statements of historical fact are, or may be deemed to be, forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are statements of future expectations that are based on management's current expectations and assumptions and involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results, performance or events to differ materially from those expressed or implied in these statements. Forward-looking statements include, among other things, statements concerning the potential exposure of Royal Dutch Shell to market risks and statements expressing management's expectations, beliefs, estimates, forecasts, projections and assumptions. These forward-looking statements are identified by their use of terms and phrases such as ''anticipate'', ''believe'', ''could'', ''estimate'', ''expect'', ''goals'', ''intend'', ''may'', ''objectives'', ''outlook'', ''plan'', ''probably'', ''project'', ''risks'', "schedule", ''seek'', ''should'', ''target'', ''will'' and similar terms and phrases. There are a number of factors that could affect the future operations of Royal Dutch Shell and could cause those results to differ materially from those expressed in the forward-looking statements included in this announcement, including (without limitation): (a) price fluctuations in crude oil and natural gas; (b) changes in demand for Shell's products; (c) currency fluctuations; (d) drilling and production results; (e) reserves estimates; (f) loss of market share and industry competition; (g) environmental and physical risks; (h) risks associated with the identification of suitable potential acquisition properties and targets, and successful negotiation and completion of such transactions; (i) the risk of doing business in developing countries and countries subject to international sanctions; (j) legislative, fiscal and regulatory developments including regulatory measures addressing climate change; (k) economic and financial market conditions in various countries and regions; (l) political risks, including the risks of expropriation and renegotiation of the terms of contracts with governmental entities, delays or advancements in the approval of projects and delays in the reimbursement for shared costs; and (m) changes in trading conditions. No assurance is provided that future dividend payments will match or exceed previous dividend payments.. All forward-looking statements contained in this announcement are expressly qualified in their entirety by the cautionary statements contained or referred to in this announcement. Readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements. Additional risk factors that may affect future results are contained in Royal Dutch Shell's 20-F for the year ended December 31, 2016 (available at www.shell.com/investor and www.sec.gov). These risk factors also expressly qualify all forward looking statements contained in this announcement and should be considered by the reader. Each forward-looking statement speaks only as of the date of this announcement, July 11, 2017. Neither Royal Dutch Shell plc nor any of its subsidiaries undertake any obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statement as a result of new information, future events or other information. In light of these risks, results could differ materially from those stated, implied or inferred from the forward-looking statements contained in this announcement.


Women control about $14 trillion in assets in the U.S., which is comparable to the gross domestic products of China and India combined—and they're under-served by financial advisers, said Andy Sieg, president of Bank of America's Merrill Lynch Wealth Management unit. The industry needs to hone its services to reflect the growing power of female clients, said Shelley O'Connor, co-head of wealth management at Morgan Stanley.
Women are becoming more educated, outliving their spouses, and inheriting money from their parents, Sieg said in an interview. Those demographic shifts are becoming more pronounced, giving women greater authority in financial decisions, he said. Representatives from UBS Group, Raymond James & Associates, Ameriprise Financial, and Charles Schwab also spoke about gender and ethnic diversity to an audience of about 250 wealth managers.


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AFM and Van der Pauw Measurements of Carbon Nanoparticles Prepared from Kerosene
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Author(s): Tanisha Mehreen, Jahirul Islam, Mohammad Abul Hossain, Khandker Saadat Hossain
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DOI: 10.18483/ijSci.2080 ~ 22 ` 58 a 122-127 Volume 8 - Jun 2019
In the present study, the structural and electrical properties of carbon nanoparticles, prepared from kerosene has been investigated with the help of Thermogravimetric Analysis (TGA), Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) and Ecopia Hall-effect measurement system. The spherical carbon particles size was observed with the help of Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) and the size found 80 nm in diameter as an aggregated particles. The electrical parameters such as resistivity, conductivity, magneto-resistance, mobility, and average Hall coefficient were measured by Ecopia Hall effect measurement system by four-point probe method at a suitable condition. TheI-Vcharacteristic curve of Carbon Nanoparticle Thin Film (CNTF) was observed by a source-meter and a current rectifying behavior at the Ag/CNTF interface was found.The CNPs synthesized from kerosene was found as ann-type semiconductor and other electrical properties were compared with CNPs prepared from diesel in the previous study.
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Sneaky Hidden Conditional Statements in Logic Games
By Evan Jones on	 August 7, 2014 Logic Games, LSAT
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For our first part of the webinar on "diagramming considerations," I wanted to take a look at some of the sneakiest, meanest, most insidious rules that you see on the LSAT. In the conditional logic lessons, we've gotten pretty used to handling conditional statements. If you spot the word "if" and "then", I'm pretty confident that you understand that you are dealing with some conditional logic.
Unfortunately, the LSAT doesn't always give you a bright neon sign with flashing lights saying, "THIS IS IS A CONDITIONAL STATEMENT." They try to hide it sometimes. While certain logical reasoning questions may be the worst culprit, logic games also hide conditional rules with some regularity. Today, let's discuss how to spot these hidden rules.
You know how Thomas Jefferson said that "eternal vigilance is the price of liberty"? Well, he may as well have been talking about the LSAT– eternal vigilance is also the price of a good LSAT score. You have to always be aware, be vigilant, and be alert. Let's start with a bunch of rules similar to what we might get on a logic game. Your task is to decide which are conditional (only apply if certain triggers occur) and which are always in effect.
At an international conference on global warming, 6 keynote speakers are to be selected from among 9 scientists. The 9 scientists include three biologists– H, J, and K, and 3 climatologists– R, S, and T, and 3 hydrologists—U, V and W, and 3 The keynote speakers will speak on the 6 consecutive days of the conference, with exactly one giving their speech each day. The following rules apply without exception:
At least two climatogists must speak.
V will give a speech.
The second climatologist to speak must be followed a hydrologist
Any biologist's speech must precede a climatologist's speech.
Here's a sample order that works, just to help us think about it:
Rc, Sc, Vh, Hb, Tc, Wh
So what's what here? This is a game with both grouping and ordering elements, often refered to as a combination game. The first rule, "At least two climatologists must speak" is clearly not a conditional rule. It's a permanent feature of the game. We know all of our climatologists are in. Remember, conditional rules are rules that only apply some of the time. This rule always applies.
The same thing is true of the rule "V will give a speech." That always applies.
The third rule might be a little harder to sort out…
Does this rule always apply? Yes. It's a constant feature of the game that we will see in every order. Why? Because of the first rule: At least two climatologists MUST speak, so in each acceptable order, there will be a second climatologist, who is then followed by a hydrologist. You are always going to see a "c h" block.
You could diagram that like this:
c —– c h or c —— c h —– c
In the game, you have a choice of schedule 2 or 3 climatogists, and so you'll see one of these two orders. Simple right? These diagrammed orders provide and easy visual reference against which you can check any ordering you make when working with the questions.
Now let's complicate things a bit: if you are being really technical about it, there is a bit of a conditional element to this rule. If you have just two "c"s then you are going to see the order "c —– c h" …whereas if you have three "c"s speaking, you'll see them in the order c —— c h ——c.
…So you could diagram it like this:
2c —–> c —– c h
3c ——> c —– c h —– c
However, "or" rules are generally mentally easier to work with on games, so when you can write something as an "or" rule, giving yourself just 2 choices to visualize, it's generally better to do so. The conditional way of writing it might imply to you, incorrectly, that it's okay to just have one climatologist speak. There are only two possibilities for the game, so just freeze them both in one rule:
Rules that always apply should not be written in a conditional form. It can lead to mistakes and is more mentally cumbersome. Now, this is a pretty advanced concept– it shows us that sometimes the best way to diagram a rule is affected by the other rules and conditions in the game.
I'm going to do a super-advanced quiz right now. What happens if you get rid of the requirement that at least two climatologists speak. Now, the rules look like this:
A second climatologist to speak must be followed a hydrologist
Are you now better off diagramming the rule like this?
2 "c"s —–> c —– c h
3 "c"s —–> c —– c h —– c
Give your answer/justification in the discussion forum. I'll throw up a post there where people can answer called "Advanced Mini-Quiz Answers"
Now what about that last rule: "Any biologist's speech must precede a climatologist's speech"?
If you are diagramming a million miles an hour, it's easy to just diagram this like so:
That's a little block that normally tells us that when you see a "b", there needs to be a "c" before it, and vice versa. Is that correct here? No. This is a rule that only applies some times. It needs to be diagrammed like the conditional rule that it is. Otherwise, you could get into big trouble in a hurry. The proper way to write the rule is:
b —-> b c
We know that when a biologist speaks, a climatologist must go after him or her. That DOES NOT, however, mean that when a climatologist speaks, a biologist has to go before That would be mistaken inference.
Rules like this are not super common, but they show up a lot when there are more variables than necessary to fill a group or an order, most often when there are more than one of certain subset (the way we have more than one biologist here). You might be able to see that this kind of rule would be silly in a game where there is a one to one ratio of variables to slots where they can go. Take the following scenario:
5 people– D, E, F, G, and H, are going on a waterslide, one after another. All 5 will go down the slide once, and no one goes more than once.
If D goes, the E goes after him.
It's just silly to write that as a conditional, because D is always going to be in. You are better off just diagramming a block:
Lets move back to our main example. The Trainer gives us a useful way to test for these rules. This is how, you exercise vigilance and catch these when you see them: Think about the rule in both directions. If you put a biologist in the group, it's pretty easy to see that has to be followed by a climatologist's speech. What if you put a climatogist in? Does the rule say you now need a biologist too. No. The rule doesn't apply in "both directions." It only applies some of the time. That means it's a conditional rule and you have to diagram it as such.
Okay, that's it for today's lesson. Make sure you try to answer the advanced mini-quiz!
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JamesZuckerBurg on December 5, 2017 1:57 pm
Kind of a poorly crafted example, given the ambiguity around "any" (i.e., 'any and all' vs. 'any one of'). Given how its written, you could arguably have:
Biologist 1, Climatologist 1, Climatologist 2, Biologist 2, Hydrologist 1, Hydrologist 2.
But I think what you meant is, "Each time a biologist speaks, a climatologist must follow"…
Brandon on August 11, 2014 12:25 pm
If you get rid of the requirement that at least two climatologists speak, there could be 0, 1, 2, or 3 climatologists selected.
Here is what I would do, but not sure if it is the most efficient way to do it.
0c —> 3b and 3h
Janet on August 13, 2014 5:45 pm
Is it true that to give my answer/justification in the discussion form, I should be in the Mastermind Study Group?
Next month is my target date to join.
Evan Jones on August 14, 2014 6:15 pm
Hi Janet!
Yes, to be in the forum you have to join the Mastermind Group. I'm looking forward to working with you. Email us at mastermind@lawschooli.com if you have any questions about the group.


Abi Morgan's new BBC One series River will premiere on Tuesday October 13th at 9pm, it has been announced.
The six episode drama was penned by Abi Morgan, the Emmy award winning writer behind the shortlived BBC drama The Hour and The Iron Lady. Kudos Film & Television are producing, with Chris Carey serving as the series producer and Lucy Richer, Jane Featherstone, Manda Levin and Abi Morgan serving as executive producers. Burton And Taylor helmer Richard Laxton is attached to direct.


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The Daily Briefing - April 13, 2020 - Dip in Volume Affecting AE's, Not Customer Success Pros
In the first Daily Briefing of this week, Jim Benton was joined by Greg Holmes, Former CSO of Zoom and Chorus.ai Board Member. They discussed how creativity and positivity is playing out in sales, and they focused on the most recent findings from Chorus's research team. Specifically, that meeting volume is flat WoW and that the dip in volume is affecting AE's, not Customer Success professionals. Here are the numbers: + Meeting volume holds steady after initial 11% drop as we head into Q2 + Meetings per AE per week fell 17% in the past two weeks compared to last year Opening up the conversation, Jim and Greg shared their views on the current climate and how they try to infuse some positivity into their mindset. It seems that most teams are harnessing a lot of creative solutions to pull through this period. Many creative inspiration comes from essential workers like teachers. Greg started his career as a teacher, and has been excited and inspired by the work that teachers are doing to adapt their work to a virtual platform. "Teachers have a tough transition. A lot of teachers haven't had a lot of practice on distance learning. The amount of effort that they're putting into translating their lessons digitally is amazing. Creating this routine and rhythm is helping these kids immensely," he said. "It's challenging but they're getting the jobs done." Jim wholeheartedly agreed. "Hats off to them - the teachers have been fantastic. Hats off to everyone who is trying new things." There's room to grow. Get creative. "No matter what," said Greg, "We've got to try to come out of this better than we entered into it." **Meeting volume holds steady after initial 11% drop as we head into Q2** In this first finding, Chorus looked at how sales is coming through COVID-19. "We see it's holding steady," explained Jim, "but we're below where we were at the start of Q2 last year" This didn't surprise Greg. "Right now, you've got your AEs working virtually and things are difficult. Be mindful of what sentiment they're bringing into the calls." It's time to get efficient, regardless of the activity and productivity of your team. "If you're doing less," said Greg, "figure out how you can convert more. We have to think about how to fine tune these conversations to make the meetings as impactful as possible." **AE Meetings per week fell 17% in the past two weeks compared to last year** Chorus dug a little deeper to understand if there is a difference between Sales and Customer Success volume. The number of meetings that Customer Success is having with clients is consistent both pre-COVID and compared to last year. Sales appears to account for the dip in volume, with the median of meetings per rep per week falling 17% in the past two weeks and vs. last year. "CS is actually holding steady," said Jim. "Even over a much longer period, CS are really showing up strong whereas the AE numbers are softer." This looked and sounded right to Greg. "There's no time to be closer to the customer than now. It's time to stay strongly aligned with customers." He suggested that a pivot in playbooks is appropriate. "Move the sales hat to the side and pivot to a more CS mindset," he advised. "Are there new things you can think about to serve them better? Stay very close and engaged to the heartbeat of your customers." Again, it's time to get creative. "My team in the past has done assumptive meetings," explained Greg. "Send out a meeting invite if you have a good relationship with them and something really helpful to share. People may jump on the invite and may continue to engage." That's the magic, Jim said. "Make the connection work. If you have value to offer them and make the most of their time - make it a valuable time." Greg had a few more tips on creative engagement techniques for sales teams. "Send lunch, reach out with a fun lighthearted thing. Change things up," he said, For leaders, communication is key. "Find ways to do your rallys," he continued. "Do daily briefings, like this! Daily updates are critical to keep the pulse of the team. You need your team to be positive to be active. A lot of communication, stay close to them, and stay positive." Ultimately, look forward. Look ahead to where you want to be at the end of 2020. Understand where your team is now, knowing that this downshift will eventually turn around leading to another acceleration. Will your team be ready to pick up the pace? "Be ready for when we come out of this," Greg said. "Once we can get back to what we do best, there will be an incredible energy and productivity will go up. Fine tune your team and their approach to customers. You'll see some good upside coming through it."
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I'm kicking off a new feature this year because I've found that staying at home is the best college football watching experience. What you say? Check out some of my Purple Yet Roars to find ou why. In short, with streaming live games coming of age these days, I can watch 4 games of my choosing at the same time without missing a beat. So, for filling the void in the bar food department left by this decision, I'm going to start making some tasty home food creations and pairing them with a different beer each week. Think of it as the beer/food pairing spot from the barspotting posts of old. Let's get this thing started.
So my beer of the week to go with this is Boulevard's 80-Acre Hoppy Wheat Beer. It's not just another wheat style beer, but with the crisp hopness of an IPA. Boulevard is known of it's very popular Wheat beer, but they decided to mix things up with an IPA type after bite. I'm a big fan of all things Boulevard and it's this first time I'm trying this new brew from my home town Kansas City brewery. So how did things go?
First off, the bacon was the first thing I noticed while munching this dip. The last thing I noticed was the slow burn from the hot sauce and jalapeno seasoning. I've had plenty of Velveeta based queso dips before and I can honestly say that this is the first one that made my nose run. Maybe it's being down here in the south, but I'm beginning to be a fan of all things spicy. The 80-Acre Hoppy Wheat complimented the dip very nicely. It had the nice summer feel, as we are in the last unofficial weekend of the summer, but also had that hoppy bite that fought off the spice of queso just well enough.
You'll see me each week not only try out a new and mostly home concocted recipe, but you will also see me give my two cents on whether it's worth it or not. So for me and my tastes this week, I say give the Jalapeno Baco Queso Magnifico a go. You can decide just how much cheese you want to use (I only used about 3/4 the block), be ginger with spices, and go with a real sour cream. Do it all to taste because really, why put too much effort into cooking this Labor Day Weekend?


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Home » Confirmed the suspicions about the relationship between King Carlos III and Sarah Ferguson
Confirmed the suspicions about the relationship between King Carlos III and Sarah Ferguson
By admin on January 7, 2023
When Prince Andrew as well as Sarah Ferguson began dating in 1985, the then-now King Charles III understood all about his bro's new sweetheart. Sarah spent time socially with then-Prince Charles, according to a 1986 record in The Washington Post, the Windsors as well as the Fergusons played polo together.
King Charles III wasn't the only royal to have actually recognized Sarah Ferguson given that childhood years. Princess Diana and also Sarah Ferguson were also longtime close friends. Their friendship may have been a positive thing, Prince Charles's reaction at the time was blended.
Princess Diana can not even count on her partner preferring her:" Prince Charles was fast to make the comparison. When in 1992, Prime Minister John Major announced that King Charles as well as Princess Diana were dividing, it was likewise the year that Sarah Ferguson divided from Prince Andrew.
King Charles III ended up doing not like the relationship between Sarah Ferguson and also Princess Diana.
According to the docudrama "Fergie vs. Diana: Royal Wives at War" (by means of YouTube), Sarah Ferguson aided Princess Diana plot her break up with then-Prince Charles. Obviously, Princess Diana was initially reluctant to leave Prince Charles. She likewise desired to offer Diana the nerve to damage complimentary of her."
It was for the function of Sarah Ferguson in the separation of the currently King Charles III from Princess Diana that the future majesty began to dislike her. A royal resource informed The Sun, "Carlos is out excellent terms with Fergie … He feels she agreed Diana over Camilla all those years ago." When Fergie went into the royal family members, every little thing transformed between Sarah Ferguson and also Prince Charles. The factor for Carlos' change of heart may additionally have had something to do with Sarah's incongruity, not wearing the correct garments. Including in her style faux was that she had a boisterous personality that rocked a number of the royals.


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A Young Swift Tumbles 🐦
Written by Clara Dillingham Pierson.
In one of the chimneys of the big house several families of Chimney Swifts had built their homes. They had come north in April and flown straight to this particular place. It was the family home of this branch of the Swifts, and every year since great-grandfather Swift discovered it, some of his children and grandchildren had come back there to build. They were quite airy, and thought a great deal about appearances. "Swifts are sure to be judged by the chimney in which they live," they said, "and there is no use in choosing a poor one when there are good ones to be found."
Nobody would have dared remind these Chimney Swifts that their great-great-great-great-grandparents lived in hollow trees, if indeed any of their friends knew it. They themselves never spoke of the Swifts who still do so, and since they had always lived in a land of chimneys, they did not dream of the times when there were none to be found.
You can just imagine what a happy, busy place this chimney was in the springtime, when last year's nests were being torn down and new ones were being built. The older Swifts were there and those who were to keep house for the first time. Then, of course, the younger ones had married and brought new wives there, and they had to be introduced and shown all over the chimney.
Some wanted to build nearer the top than others, and the older ones were always advising the younger ones. It was so hard for a Swift mother to remember that her married son was old enough to decide things for himself; and many such mothers fluttered around the sons' nests, telling them how to place each twig, and giving the new wives advice as to how to bring up the babies who would soon come to live with them.
This story is about a young couple who built the lowest nest of all. They were dressed alike in sleek, sooty, brown feathers, which were of a lighter shade on their throats. Their necks and heads were very broad, their bills short but able to open very wide; their wings were longer than their tails, and the quills of their tail feathers stuck out stiff and bare far beyond the soft, feathery part. The Swifts are all very proud of these bare quills. "There are not many birds," they say, "who can show their quills in that fashion."
These quills are very useful, too, for after a Swift has broken off a tiny twig for its nest, they have to cling to the side of the chimney and fix it into place, and they could not do this without supporting themselves with these tail quills. It is hard work building nests, and you can see that it would be. They have to cling with both feet, support themselves with their tails, put each tiny twig in place with their bills, and glue it there with sticky saliva from their mouths or else with tree-gum.
The young husband who was building his first home low down in the chimney was a sturdy and rather wilful fellow, who was very sure what he wanted, and just as sure that he was going to get it. When he said, "I shall do this," or, "I am going to have that," other people had learned to keep still. They sometimes had a smiling look around the bill, but they said nothing. His wife was a sweet and sensible Swift who never made a fuss about anything, or bragged of what she meant to do. Still, other Swifts who watched them said that she had her way quite as often as he had his.
It was really she who had chosen to build well down in the chimney. Her husband had preferred to be near the top, and she had agreed to that, but spoke of what would happen if one of their children should fall out of the nest.
"There is no need for one falling out," said Mr. Swift. "Tell them to lie still and not push around. Then they will not fall out."
Mrs. Swift fixed one of the feathers on the underside of her left wing, and then said: "And you do not think it would disturb you to have our neighbors passing all the time."
"Yes, I do," he replied. "I have thought so from the first, and I am thinking that it might be good to build lower for that reason. Then we could be passing the others instead."
He flew down and pecked at the bricks in a few places to make sure that he could fasten a nest securely. Then he came back to his wife. "I have decided to build the lowest nest of all," he said, "but you understand it is not on account of the children. There is no sense in their moving around in the nest."
"I understand," said Mrs. Swift, and he flew away for twigs while she stayed behind to visit with her mother-in-law.
The mother-in-law's eyes twinkled. "I believe my son said that his children were not to move around in the nest," she said with a laugh. "I wonder how he is going to stop them from doing so."
"Tell them, I suppose," answered young Mrs. Swift, smilingly. "Did he push around at all when he was a baby?"
"He?" replied the older Swift. "He was the most restless child I ever hatched. He will know more about bringing up children after he has raised a brood or two. Don't worry, my dear. It will come out all right." She flew off and the young wife went for twigs also, and thought how happy she ought to be in having such a mother-in-law.
When the lowest nest was built and the four long pure white eggs were laid in it, Mr. and Mrs. Swift were a very proud young couple. The nest was so thin that one could see the eggs through it quite plainly, but it was exceedingly round and firm. It was not a soft nest, and it had no real lining, although Mrs. Swift had laid in one especially perfect grass blade "to give it style."
That grass blade may be seen to this day by any one who cares to look at the nest as it lies in a cabinet in the house. It was the only nest in the chimney which had anything but twigs in it, and some people wondered at Mrs. Swift's taste. One stout elderly mother Swift said "she supposed it was all right, but that she had never done such a thing and her children had turned out alright." However, young Mrs. Swift smiled in her pretty way and did not talk back.
When they were planning for the four children whom they expected, Mrs. Swift spoke of how patient they would have to be with them, but Mr. Swift said: "They must be brought up to mind! If I tell a child once to do a thing, that is enough. You will see how I bring them up." Then he ruffled up his feathers, puffed out his throat, and looked very important.
They did most of their visiting in the beautiful night-time, for it is a custom among their people to fly and hunt and visit in the dark, and rest by day. Their busiest time is always just before the sun comes up, and so it happened that the Little Boy who slept in the room below did not often hear the rumbling noise in the chimney as they flew in and out. When they were awake he slept quietly in his snug little bed, and as he was awakening, and stretching, and getting his dimples ready for the day, the Swifts were going to sleep after a busy night.
When the baby Swifts broke their shells and were seen for the first time by their loving father and mother, Mr. Swift was surprised to find how small they were. Mrs. Swift murmured sweet words to them and worked as hard as her husband to find them food. There were now so many mouths to be fed that they flew by day as well as by night, and often the Little Boy in the room below thought he heard distant thunder when it was only the Swifts coming down the chimney with food for their babies. All sorts of tiny winged creatures were brought to them to eat, for Swifts catch all their food as they fly, and that means that they can feed upon only such creatures as also fly.
When they were stretching up to reach the food, Mrs. Swift would say to the children: "Now learn to move carefully, for if you should get over the edge of the nest you will tumble down."
When he was feeding them Mr. Swift would say: "You may open your bills, but not one of you must move beyond that twig. Do you understand?"
Three of them obeyed without asking questions, but the oldest brother was always trying to see just how far he could go without tumbling, and he would ask his father.
"You don't care if I put one wing out, do you?" he would ask.
"Not one wing!" his father would answer.
"Why?" the son would ask. "I wouldn't tumble just because I put one wing out."
"It's not listening," his father would say, "to see how far you can go without tumbling. I did not tell you only to keep from falling out. I told you to keep inside that twig."
Then the son would pout his bill and act very sulking, getting close to the twig which he had been told not to pass. When he thought his father was not looking, he would even wriggle a little beyond it. Mrs. Swift was worried, but what could she do? She noticed that her husband did not talk so much as he used to about making a child mind the very first time he had spoken.
One night when the Swifts had fed their children faithfully, this son was unusually naughty. It may be that he had eaten more than his share or that he had picked for the biggest insect every time that lunch was brought. It may be, too, that he was naughty simply because he wanted to be. His father had just told him to be more careful, and he made a face (yes, he did) and flopped aside to show what he could do without falling.
Then he felt a tiny twig on the edge of the nest break beneath him, and he went tumbling, bumping, and scraping down into the fireplace below. He could not fly up, for his wings were not strong enough to carry him up such a narrow space, and his parents could not get him. He heard his brother and sisters crying and his mother saying that she had always expected that to happen.
"Horrible old twig!" he said. "Don't see why it had to break! Should think they might build their nest stronger. I don't care! I was sick of being told not to wriggle, anyway!"
Then he fluttered and sprawled through a crack beside the screen of the grate until he was out in the room. The Little Boy lay asleep in the bed, and that frightened the young Swift. When they tried to scare each other the bird children had always pretended that a Boy was after them. He crawled behind a picture which leaned against the wall, and stayed there and thought about his dear, dear home up in the chimney.
The Little Boy stirred and awakened and called out: "Mother! Mother! There is somefing making a scratching noise in my room. I fink it is a Bear."
The young Swift sat very still while the Lady came in and hunted for the Bear. She never came near his hiding-place, and laughed at the Little Boy for thinking of Bears. She told him that the only Bears around their town were two-legged ones, and when he asked her what that meant she laughed again.
He peeped out from behind the picture and saw the Little Boy dress himself. He heard him say: "I can't poss'bly get vese shoes on, but I'll try and try and try." He thought how much nicer it was to be a Swift and have all his clothes grow on, and to go barefoot all the year.
He heard the Lady say: "Why, you precious Boy! You did get your shoes on, after all." Then he saw them go off to breakfast, racing to see who would win.
After they were gone, he fluttered out to the window, and there the Lady found him, and the Little Boy danced around and wanted to touch him, but didn't quite dare. The Lady said: "I think this must have been your Bear," and the Little Boy said: "My teeny-weeny little bitty Bear wiv feavers on." He heard the Little Boy ask, too, why the bird had so many pins sticking out of his tail, and this made him angry. He did not understand what pins were, but he felt that anybody ought to know about tail-quills.
He didn't know much about Boys, for this was the first one he had ever seen, and he wondered what those shiny white things were in his mouth. He had never seen teeth and he could not understand. He wondered how the Boy got along without a bill. This Little Boy did not seem so very terrible. He even acted a bit afraid of the Swift.
Next the young Swift felt himself lifted gently in the Lady's hand and laid in a box with soft white stuff in it and two small holes cut in the cover. He was carried from room to room in the house and shown to the other people. Once he heard a strange voice say, "Meouw!" and then the Little Boy stamped his foot and said: "Go way, Teddy Silvertip. You can't have my little bird, you hungry Cat."
After this the young Swift was more scared than before, and would have given every feather he had to be safely back in the nest in the chimney. He was hungry, too, and he wanted to see his father and his dear mother. He beat his wings against the sides of the box and cried for his mother. "Oh," he said, "if I were only back in the nest I wouldn't move. I wouldn't move a bit." Then the Cat meowed again and he kept still from fright.
At last he was taken into the open air and placed in the top of a short evergreen, where the Cat could not reach him. Here he clung, weak and lonely and scared, blinking his half-blinded eyes in a light brighter than he had yet seen. All the rest of that day he stayed there, while his father and mother and their other children were sleeping in the home nest. He expected never to see them again, but he did want to tell them how sorry he was.
After the sun had set and the moon was shining, he saw his father darting to and fro above him. "Father!" he cried. "Father, I am so sorry that I moved past the twig. I will listen more carefully next time."
His father heard and flew down to tuck a fat and juicy May Beetle into his mouth. "You poor child!" he said. "Eat that and don't try to talk. You will not do such things when you are older. I will get you some more food."
When he returned Mrs. Swift was with him, and they petted and fed the young Swift all night, never scolding him at all, because, as they said, he had been punished quite enough and was sorry. And that was true. His grandmother came also with a bit of food. She told him that they would feed him every night and that he should hide in the branches each day until his feathers were grown.
"In three days more," she said, "you will be ready to fly, and you look more like your father all the time. In only three days more," she said."
You can imagine how anxious the young Swift was during those three days, and how small he tried to be when Silvertip was around. "Surely," he thought, "the sun and moon were never before so slow in marking off the time."
When at last he was ready for flight, Silvertip was under the snowball bush nearby. The young Swift sprang into the air. "Good-by, my Cat friend," he said. "You look hungry, but you have lost your best chance at me. I will be a better listener now and tell all the others to watch out for you."


This is an excellent, modern four star Barcelona hotel situated off the lovely treelined Rambla Catalunya - the best part of town to stay in Barcelona some would say. Nearby is the stylish Paseo de Gracia and the emblematic modernist buildings La Pedrera and Casa Batllo designed by Gaudi.
The hotel has 94 well-appointed bedrooms with either twin beds or queen bed. Each features a modern fully equipped ensuite bathroom, central heating, air conditioning, telephone, safe, wireless internet, satellite TV, mini bar and minibar. The hotel also features a bar, restaurant with buffet breakfast, private parking (payable locally) and fitness area.
This is a great hotel from which to explore the sights of Barcelona on foot. There are plenty of good shops and restaurants in the vicinity.


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