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Ward Acres Conservancy
A public-private partnership with the City of New Rochelle
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LEARNING, GROWING, AND BUILDING COMMUNITY
Ward Acres Community Garden is organized and operated by volunteers with the support of the New Rochelle Department of Parks and Recreation. Established in 2009, Ward Acres Community Garden features 88 separate 10'x10' plots. New Rochelle residents can rent plots for a nominal fee per season (approximately May 1– November 1). Shared plots are also available. Plot renters are required to maintain and cultivate their own plots while also contributing general community service to the garden during the growing season. Volunteers raised funds for the much-needed water installation this season.
The goal of the Garden is to build community, grow vegetables according to organic gardening principles, share tips with fellow gardeners, and help to feed the hungry. Six of the plots contain vegetables which are planted and then harvested and donated to H.O.P.E. Community Services Soup Kitchen. Another 6 plots are used by the Ward Elementary School grades K-5 for educational purposes. Several fun events for all ages are held throughout the growing season. The entrance is near the intersection of Quaker Ridge and Broadfield Roads. We encourage all to come and take a look at these beautiful gardens!
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For some odd reason, I had it in my head that phases are something we go through early in life, then we grow up, and we become these solid, stable, unchanging, humans. It's kind of unfortunate, and has caused me all kinds of unnecessary grief, that I am only now realizing the truth- that change truly is the one constant in our lives, and phases are a natural, healthy part of that. You see, I thought I was some kind of failure for my sense of unrest, my need to do something else, be different, want more. I guess I thought this was a symptom of unhappiness of something.
As I wrote in my last post, the realization dawned on me, recently, that, for me, not only is this desire natural, but it is a survival instinct. When I am still for too long, when I am bored, and not reaching for the next thing, I am in danger of self destruction. Now, I am not saying that a little stability is a bad thing, don't get me wrong. I have had the same job for almost seven years now, have lived in this house for nearly three, and in this area most of my life- I do think it's important to have long term friendships and ties to things. Especially if you have children, I suppose (although we moved like crazy and I liked the adventure, personally). But within that stability, if you have it or want it, it is totally normal to experience, and hopefully embrace, change. It is okay to go through new phases all your life. As long as you aren't shaving your head and joining weird cults every six months, hey! Live your life.
The good news is, it didn't completely disappear- which is to say, I didn't wind up back down in the dregs of the rut I had been in, thank goodness. I found myself in a phase of just wanting to fill up my life with as much fun and good times, good friends, as much living, as I could. So I did this for a while, too. I ate out a lot, and did so many awesome things, and it was great. It was also totally exhausting.
So, after sleeping away two entire weekend days, I find myself here. This new phase looks to be very useful indeed. I think I will call it my "fine tuning" phase…you see, without me even realizing it, the last few phases I mentioned above were all extremely telling. They left me with some really important knowledge- what I know for sure I do not want, how I want to feel, and what makes me feel alive. I learned that I must have balance, above all things, to sustain happiness, and that too much of a good thing is definitely not such a good thing for me.
Going forward, I have a tentative plan- I will continue to meditate daily, and walk my dog, because these things unfailingly make my day better. I will try to be as faithful with prayer, because it fits, although I don't always remember. I will continue to strive towards order and neatness in my home, no matter that it feels like I am fighting a losing battle- it makes me feel better when the dishes are done. I will continue to work on this blog, even if I just can't spend a lot of time reading everyone else's blog, and I never ever build a gigantic following. That's not really why I do this, anyway (although it would be nice, I am not going to pretend otherwise). And I will work on my new book every morning, until it is done.
I will keep spending time with my friends, and planning things that sound like fun, and I will continue to nurture new friendships along the way. But I will always leave time for myself in there, plenty of it, and time for my children, because these are the most important hours of all for me- unscheduled, empty hours, we can fill with whatever we want. I will work on balance. I will lay the next stepping stone in the path…and eventually. I will get to that place I am seeing in my mind. I intend, however, to enjoy every inch of the journey.
You're like many folks. No one escapes struggle.
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Hoffman Manufacturing Corporation is a full service retail store fixture provider. While there are a lot of cabinet shops and a lot of metal shops out there, few businesses offer both under one roof. HMC's core concept revolves around keeping all aspects of creating fixtures in house, lowering both cost and lead time. Total control is key.
HMC provides design and engineering services, panel processing, metal fabrication, powder coating, premier cabinet making, assembly and distribution all at one facility for jobs of all sizes. All work is done with the highest levels of dedication and integrity. We understand that it is our duty to not only provide you with the physical product, but with great service and our customary short lead times as well.
Hoffman Manufacturing Corp also has a product line of High Security Displays. These are excellent for merchandising firearms as the product doesn't need to be moved at night.
Hoffman Manufacturing Corp engineers and builds fixtures from wood, metal, and plastic. Engineering, panel processing, metal fabrication, powder coating, and building are all done in house.
For over a decade, 100% of our electrical power comes from wind power.
We recycle nearly everything from aluminum, steel, many plastics, paper products, packaging products, and glass. We have several containers for sorting at our facility.
We use recyclable materials in our fixtures such as HDPE (what milk jugs are made from) and polycarbonate.
Nearly all our finishes are no VOC, such as powder coatings. We only use no or low VOC finish on woods.
Our entire manufacturing and office space only utilize high efficiency LED lighting.


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Here is a list of 4 weird valentine day traditions from around the world that will make you happy about not having a valentine.
For a lot of people, Valentine's Day is just a day for people to show off their relationship and buy each other flowers and chocolates. But sending cards and gifts somehow don't compare to these weird traditions from around the world.
1. Japan - they have what now?
In Japan, it is typically the woman who spoil their romantic partner on the 14th of February as it is a way for then to be confident about showing their affections.
Japan even have a second day on the 14th of March called "White Day" where the men return the favour to the woman and give them chocolate.
If you thought having 2 valentine's day is weird, South Korea take the cake with having a THIRD day called "Black Day" on the 14th of April.
3. Denmark/Norway - Easter eggs?
Here people have an unusual way to tell their crush they like them.
It is called "Gaekkebrev" where they make anonymous funny poems for their crush and give them clues as to who it is.
They then proceed to send them a number of letters in the form of dots and if the crush guesses right the woman or man gets an Easter egg from the admirer.
And if they don't they have to give the admirer an Easter egg.
4. Wales - your going to have 4 children?
In wales they have valentine's day earlier on the 25th of January where they give their crush or love a spoon.
Yes, a spoon! Apparently, it represents a tradition where the men used to carve a wooden spoon and give them to woman they were attracted to.
To make it even weirder they used to attach a number of beads to the spoon telling the girl how many children the guy is expecting his future wife to have.
So if your someone who hates valentine's day I hope it makes you feel better about not having someone to spend valentine's day with. Share to all your single friends.


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5 Q's for Nirmal Govind, Director of Streaming Science and Algorithms at Netflix
by Joshua New September 28, 2015
The Center for Data Innovation spoke with Nirmal Govind, director of streaming science and algorithms at Netflix in the San Francisco Bay Area. Govind discussed what the future of Netflix's recommendation algorithms might look like, as well as the challenges with ensuring Netflix users get the best possible experience across a wide variety of different devices and Internet connections.
This interview has been lightly edited.
Joshua New: Users streaming Netflix videos famously takes up over a third of all Internet traffic in the United States during peak hours. How does data science play a role in accommodating such incredibly high demand?
Nirmal Govind: I'll answer this in three parts. First, data plays a very important role at Netflix. We half-joke that everyone at Netflix is a data scientist, but the essence of it is that we use data to drive a lot of what we do at Netflix. Data science models and algorithms are used directly in our product, in workflows and tools used internally to make decisions, and also to guide intuition. So, at a high level, data science directly or indirectly affects the various aspects involved in enabling streaming in general, and at such a high volume.
Second, let's look at two of the many areas where data science comes in. On the server side, our content delivery network, called Open Connect, has to handle the high volume of playback requests, and this means determining the optimal strategy for serving traffic to Internet service providers, the best location to serve a particular play, and also longer-term capacity decisions. On the client-side, our adaptive streaming algorithms are tuned to deliver the best experience for each user based on the user's current bandwidth and other contextual considerations. We use data to build machine learning models and algorithms that inform and enable these types of tactical and strategic decisions.
Finally, experimentation is a rather important way in which data science impacts streaming. We rapidly innovate by running experiments and carefully analyzing the data to determine the algorithms or parameters that result in the optimal streaming experience. In addition, we also work on methods and models to improve the science behind experimentation. For example, in addition to A/B testing, are there other ways to run experiments so we can learn faster?
New: One of your responsibilities is improving Netflix's digital supply chain—the process of producing content at studios and delivering it to your customers, and all the processes therein. What are some of the challenges that arise in this process?
Govind: From a data science perspective, we're more focused on what happens after the content is received at Netflix, though this is changing as we're now producing original content as well.
We have several partners that deliver various types of content to us—movies, shows, documentaries, and so on. The assets received are encoded before they go live on Netflix. A challenging but super-interesting problem from a data science perspective is to determine where the quality issues are. We've been working on machine learning approaches to detect issues with video and audio quality, text such as subtitles, captions, and forced narratives, and encoding errors, both before and after the content goes live. There's an abundance of data, with member feedback reports and social media, in addition to viewing behavior data and metadata about the content itself. But the challenge is extracting the right signals from this data. We've had good success over the past year in this area but there's a lot more that remains to be done.
With originals—content produced exclusively for Netflix—we're streaming content that has never been seen before, and we're also involved with content further upstream in the production lifecycle. This is a great opportunity to take a look at some very interesting data around the content production supply chain and identify how we can use data science to improve it.
New: Netflix applies machine learning models and natural language processing algorithms to help improve the quality of content, such as ensuring subtitles are accurate. As Netflix's audience is increasingly international, what are some of the challenges of applying these techniques to different languages?
Govind: Natural language processing is an area that we're investing in as we expand to more countries around the world. Building language-based models that are truly global is hard, especially when you consider languages like Japanese with multiple character types and scripts. Most of the data is unstructured and understanding context is pretty important for what we're trying to do. We're actively looking into approaches to help tackle this problem so we'll have more on this topic in the future.
New: Most people visibly encounter data science at work at Netflix through the recommendation algorithms. Beyond viewing history, what are some of the data sources that play into these recommendations? What other factors could be used in the future?
Govind: Recommendations is a fascinating area and is still very much a focus at Netflix, almost a decade after the Netflix Prize—an open competition we hosted to develop rating algorithms. With the limited amount of time in our users' daily lives, it's important to get the right content in front of them at the right time.There's an amazing group of people at Netflix who are committed to improving this aspect of our product and are constantly trying out new models and algorithms. A great example is the new "Trending Now" section that uses more real-time data and context such as time of day to recommend content that might appeal more at a given time.
Viewing history is one of the data sources and we continue to uncover new signals within the viewing data. As we expand globally, we still have much to learn about tastes around the world and how those tastes can be leveraged to uncover new recommendations in regions we're already familiar with. In addition to viewing data, the algorithms also look at searches, ratings, and movie and show metadata. The future is hard to predict but given we're getting close to self-driving cars, maybe self-playing videos that you're absolutely going to love isn't out of the question!
New: And beyond personalizing content recommendations, you also focus on personalizing the overall streaming experience for users, such as ensuring their video is optimized for their Internet speeds or screen resolution. Could you walk me through that process?
Govind: Imagine a member with an ultra high-definition TV, sitting at home with a stable high-bandwidth connection. Now, let's take a user on a mobile phone at a train station on a cellular network. It's quite possible that the expectations of these two members are different when it comes to streaming quality. One may want a very high quality picture right from the start while the other may just want playback to start right away even if that means lower quality for a short duration. The goal with personalized streaming is to ensure that each member's streaming experience is the best that they can get given their context and their expectations.
This problem is even more challenging as Netflix expands globally and has an even more diverse member-base with different network types, device characteristics, and usage contexts. Models based on this wide variety of data are necessary to ensure that the streaming algorithms can understand the varied contexts and appropriately tune the experience for each member. This is an exciting space and the sheer amount of data that streaming generates makes it an endless source of fun problems to solve!
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Being one of the most productive ocean areas in the world, the Gulf of California is one of Mission Blue's top Hope Spots.
The Micronesian Islands are made up of more than 2,000 islands that span an area larger than the continental United States.
With Mission Blue, the dive community has been working to protect some of their most cherished dive sites.
Cuba's Guanahacabibes National Park, encompassing the Maria La Gorda area, has officially been recognized as a Mission Blue Hope Spot.
Hope Spots are a conspicuous example of how one person with a great idea can inspire millions to unite across borders and cultures for a common purpose.


Sahi, A., Lai, D., and Li, Y. (2016). Security and Privacy Preserving Approaches in the eHealth Clouds with Disaster Recovery Plan. (Abstract only.) Computers in Biology and Medicine. 1(78): 1-8.
With cloud computing being used to help store and handle large amounts of data, it is important to be aware of threats to security and privacy preservation. The authors review studies and propose and discuss two approaches to healthcare cloud data management: the Security-Preserving approach and the Privacy-Preserving approach.


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Q: How portal stores the portlet preferences Where are the portlet preferences saved in case of websphere portal server? I have this vague idea that portal has its own db that saves portlet preferences, is it a db that we can tweak, configure? Are there any other things that are stored in this db?
The thing is that portlet preferences are per user so if a site has 1 million users, and each user has many preferences, then this db will grow large? Does it scale well? is it some kind of nosql db?

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Where are the portlet preferences saved in case of websphere portal server? Is it some kind of nosql db?

I would expect the portlet preferences are stored in a database. Portal requires a database to store much of the data it holds for its configuration. Portal does not officially support any NoSQL database that I know of, so no, it's likely not a NoSQL DB.

Are there any other things that are stored in this db?

Yes. For example, WCM data is also stored in the database Portal uses.

Does it scale well?

Databases have scaled just fine before the advent of NoSQL. More important is the question of if it will scale well for your environment. That depends on your DB architecture, hardware, etc. In general though, if you're using a supported DB system, in a supported configuration with sufficient hardware, it should scale for your needs. And if doesn't, you can probably contact IBM to ask why.

Is it a db that we can tweak, configure?

It's a DB that your team owns and runs so, it is a DB that you can tweak. Should you though? I certainly wouldn't. Before you decide though, ask yourself two questions:
1) Do you think you can tweak it better than what IBM has already done?
Installation of Portal includes running some SQL database creation scripts that IBM has created and spent time making sure the database performs. Browse through installation instructions and see what all goes into setting up the DB and try to find the scripts that run. Looking at the DB2 versions of the scripts, you'll see they got someone to write those that knew what they were doing with DB2. Not just someone who knew how to define a table with indexes but some deep DB2 administration skills.
2) If your tweaks break your system and you can't recover, will IBM support you and help fix?
This is probably more important than getting optimal performance out of your system. Typically, when a company buys IBM software you get support services in addition to the software itself. As long as you follow IBM's documentation on what's supported, they will help you find and resolve any problem with their product. So when the s**t hits the fan at peak business hours and you're losing revenue, you want to make sure you can get some immediate support if no one from your team has any idea what the hell just happened.

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Beyond a shady pine forest, walking through dense juniper bushes, you'll come upon the brightly coloured countryside of Rena Majori, a strip of white, incredibly find sand that slips into an enchanting coloured sea, bordered by dark rocks and light granite. In the area of almost the same name, Rena Majore, in the territory of Aglientu, is part of the natural site of Monti Russu.
The sea, made of light and dark brush marks of blue, acts as a "magnet" for children with its rocks and small pools. As well as having a gently sloping gradient perfect for less expert swimmers, the sea bed at Rena Majori, with its bright colours and full of fish, is a favourite with divers and snorkelers.The coastline is broken by the mouths of the Rio Cantaru and the RiuoCiuchesa, which "cut" the strip of sand into three parts, making the shore even more suggestive. It is rarely crowded and has been used for several advertising campaigns, including one with Australian actress and model Megan Gale. Behind the beach, a vast pine forest shelters you from the wind and offers a relaxing refuge on hot days. For the more romantic, don't miss a long walk on the beach during a spectacular sunsets. A large car park, campsites and beach equipment for hire complete the scene.
Rena Majori is only eight kilometres from Santa Teresa Gallura and its "town" paradise Rena Bianca, a 700 metre cove with shallow water and soft, white sand, a clear sea with stunning colours. On the way out of town, before arriving at Rena Majore, you'll come to the peninsula-promontory of Capo Testa, joined to the mainland by a strip of sand that forms two beaches - Rena di Ponente (or Taltana) and Rena di Levante - and the spectacular Valle della Luna and Cala Grande. Continuing along the shore towards Aglientu, you'll find the rocky coves of Santa Reparata and the enchanting Lu Pultiddolu.
Rena Majori is found at Lampianu in the commune of Sassari. To reach the beach, follow the provincial Road 57 in the direction of Stintino and 800 metres after the turning for Lampianu, take the road that leads to the ex- Nurra holiday village . continue on from here for 400 metres and then turn right along 500 metres of dirt track that leads to an open space.


Are you looking for the perfect reason to book a beach vacation to Alabama's southern shores? If you've always needed a reason to feel the warm southern waters wade across your toes, then let Desoto's Seafood Kitchen be your motivation. Located in Gulf Shores, AL, this one-of-a-kind family restaurant provides locals and travelers alike with the region's best seafood dishes.
Voted "Best Seafood" by the community for more than 10 years in a row, this locally owned and operated kitchen is changing the way people approach, enjoy, and think about fresh seafood. Located only blocks away from the white sandy beaches of Alabama's southernmost coast, their laid-back beachy atmosphere and large airy dining room offer something for the whole family to enjoy.
Whether this is your first experience trying local, fresh-from-the-ocean food or you're looking for a place that truly cares about the quality of the food they serve, there's no better place for a delicious meal than Desoto's Seafood Kitchen. Offering lunch and dinner daily, their menu is practically bursting at the seams with fresh seafood flavor. From a variety of fish, such as flounder and catfish to fresh oysters and shrimp, the options and variations are endless when you dine with this local favorite. For those who have picky eaters in the family, they also serve a variety of non-seafood options, including ham, chicken tenders, burgers, and grilled cheese.
Don't settle for frozen fish when you can eat fresh. When you're ready to ignite your taste buds, visit Desoto's Seafood Kitchen for some of the best lunch and dinner entrées the Gulf Shore area has to offer. Call them at (251) 948-7294 or visit them online today for more information.
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I wish I could say that my parents aren't racist. However, they were both bought up in India where tensions between Hindus and Muslims are high. Their environment provided them with this mentality of disliking Islam and everything associated with it. I knew this was something that I could not share with them.


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William Holman Hunt (1827-1910) was one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. After eventually entering the Royal Academy art schools, after having initially been rejected, Hunt rebelled against the influence of its founder Sir Joshua Reynolds. He formed the Pre-Raphaelite movement in 1848, after having met with the poet and artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Along with John Everett Millais they sought to revitalise art by emphasising the detailed observation of the natural world in a spirit of quasi-religious devotion to truth. This religious approach was influenced by the spiritual qualities of Medieval art, in opposition to the alleged rationalism of the Renaissance embodied by Raphael.
Hunt's works were not initially successful, but he became famous with his religious paintings, notably "The Light of the World", which toured Britain and the United States. After travelling to the Holy Land in search of accurate topographical and ethnographical material for further religious works, Hunt painted "The Scapegoat", "The Finding of the Saviour in the Temple" and "The Shadow of Death", along with many landscapes of the region.
All these paintings were notable for their great attention to detail, their hard vivid colour and their elaborate symbolism. These features were influenced by the writings of John Ruskin and Thomas Carlyle, according to whom the world itself should be read as a system of visual signs. For Hunt it was the duty of the artist to reveal the correspondence between sign and fact.
Hunt also painted many works based on poems, such as "Isabella" and "The Lady of Shallot".
Hunt's autobiography "Pre-Raphaelitism and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood" was written to correct other literature about the origins of the Brotherhood, which in his view did not adequately recognise his own contribution. Many of his late writings are attempts to control the interpretation of his work.
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Please join us on Sunday afternoon at 3pm for our annual cheque presentation to Macmillan Cancer Support.
We'd like to thank everyone who has taken part in any of this years events or put their hand in the pocket again!
Join us on Sunday 20th from 10am for our first coffee morning of 2013.
We serve coffee, tea, cakes & bacon rolls with all profits being donated to Macmillan Cancer Support.


The first airplane I will teach you how to make is The Arrow. Sorry this is blurry. Fold a sheet of paper exactly in half long-ways, and re-open it so you have a crease separating the two halves. Sorry this is blurry.
Now fold the left-hand side to the centre line. Fold the right-hand side to the centre line. Open it out. Fold the top left corner down to the centre crease (the classic paper plane fold).
While the site's navigational structure is far from ideal, the animated diagrams make it easy to create paper airplanes in a variety of different styles. Once you master the airplane projects, the site also provides a number of paper boat ideas for you to try.
Growing up with six brothers, John Collins got really good at folding paper planes. "Anything you can beat your siblings at is good," he says. But he didn't just beat his siblings.


Health inequalities are estimated to cost the NHS around £20 billion a year.
Housing associations have an opportunity to play a major role in addressing this, with people living in areas of high concentrations of social housing likely to live 11 years less than people in other areas. People living in deprived areas are also likely to spend between 20-25 fewer years in 'good health'.
The housing sector has for some time now recognised that its role goes beyond bricks and mortar and as cuts in funding for public services continue to face increasing strain, the health and wellbeing and community services provided by housing associations are becoming increasingly vital.
Housing is a sector that is embracing the concept of social prescribing – linking local residents to sources of non-clinical support in their communities from cooking classes and exercises programmes to employment support and debt advice – as a way of supporting tenants to maintain successful tenancies, build healthy, thriving communities and reduce health inequalities across their neighbourhoods.
The most forward-thinking housing associations see themselves as playing a pivotal role in community health, with a growing movement of associations working to step up and pilot innovative new approaches that use digital technology to support, connect and measure the impact of community engagement in health and wellness.
Elemental Software has been working with housing associations to help develop new social prescribing initiatives using it's unique and award winning digital platform which enables housing and community officers to quickly and easily refer tenants to social prescribing activities in their local areas. A key function of the platform allows organisations to track and measure the progress of residents referred to social prescribing projects which demonstrates the health and wellbeing benefits of these investments.
ForHousing in Ellesmere Port, part of the ForViva Group, has been working with Elemental to develop a pilot project to set up a social prescribing hub in the Westminster area.
Social prescribing formed a key part of the bid by ForViva to deliver housing management services in the area on behalf of Cheshire West and Chester Council, and part of the Group's commitment to improving health, education and employment prospects across its neighbourhoods.
Using the Elemental digital platform, trained staff at ForHousing will make direct referrals tailored to the needs of individual residents to services and support in the area. The team is also working with the local GP practice to enable GPs to refer patients through to social prescribing activities and increase the numbers of residents accessing and engaging with programmes delivered by ForHousing and its partners.
Poplar HARCA runs a network of community centres located in each of its 12 estates which serve as vital hubs for local residents. Poplar HARCA already recognised the benefits of social prescribing and wanted to restructure its resources to put social prescribing at the forefront of its work. The housing association is now working with Elemental to enable more residents to access and engage in community programmes and services to enhance their quality of life.
Using the digital platform, social prescribers within Poplar HARCA will make direct referrals to community activities and support, as well as monitor and track the impact of the referral. Whilst residents were engaging in community based health and wellness activities, Poplar HARCA appreciated that more could be done to better connect health, social care and housing. Poplar HARCA also recognised that digital needed to play a significant role however that it couldn't be the dominant force. The project will be piloted across a few of Poplar HARCA's community centres, utilising both paid staff and trained volunteers.
If you're interested in hearing more about the role of housing in social prescribing or how we can help maximise the impact of your social prescribing projects, get in touch!


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Who Qualifies for Farm Tax Credits?
by Sarah Brumley
Anyone who cultivates, operates or manages a farm for profit, either as an owner or a tenant, is a farmer, according to the Internal Revenue Service. Tax credits are only a small part of farm tax benefits. The IRS gives farmers a fuel tax credit, and states give others: Nebraska offers a 10 percent "beginning farmer tax credit" for established farmers who rent land to newbies. But farm tax deductions and lower property taxes provide the biggest savings -- for businesses as well as individuals.
A planting of hay or a few cattle may qualify a business's otherwise unused acreage for agricultural tax rates. Fidelity Investments did so by raising 24 longhorns on 179 acres of its 340-acre Texas campus, according to a 2007 Wall Street Journal article. Taxes for that grazing land dropped from $319,417 to $715 -- $3.99 an acre. If you don't like cattle, ostriches, pygmy goats and emus will work too.
Farm Acreage
The IRS definition of a farmer covers a lot of ground -- and sometimes just a little. A farm can be a half-dozen acres or less, depending on the state. States also differ on minimum sales for establishing that your farm is a business; it also has to meet local regulations on acceptable crops and livestock. Check out previous land use disputes in the area so you won't be the first farmer in town to be sued for the sound and stench of agricultural operations, such as the 4 a.m. crowing habits of your irrepressible roosters.
Farm Deductions
The list of farm deductions is long, and it includes costs typical for farming, employee wages, the price of items that you buy to resell, vehicle costs and travel costs. You can also deduct space set aside in your home for a farm business office.
The full panoply of deductions is in IRS Publication 225, the instruction booklet for reporting farm income, which goes on Schedule F (Form 1040), Profit or Loss From Farming. You can also lower your personal income from farming by employing family members and deducting expenses for employees' houses -- tenant houses -- on your farm property.
Making a Profit
You can't use a nonprofit farm's losses to offset your personal income. To benefit from a farm for tax purposes, you have to make a profit in three of every five years -- two of every seven if you raise horses. If your farm gets off to a slow start, you can file IRS Form 5213 to obtain a few more years' time to put operations in the black. Once you've proved your mettle, the IRS presumes you're in it for the money.
The IRS estimates that $30 billion slips through its hands each year because of inappropriate deductions for hobbies disguised as businesses. The test of whether your farm is a hobby or a business includes whether you put in time and effort on farm operations and whether you change your methods of operation for the purpose of making a profit. Losses deducted because of unusual startup costs are a red flag, whereas losses from the normal course of business are not.
If you don't know an udder from an embouchure when you start farming, the IRS will keep an eye on your progress. But you can also acquire knowhow by hiring an expert adviser. Whatever you do, keep records of your time, your expenses, your tweaks in farm operations. The IRS likes its evidence on paper, not on the bottom of its shoes.
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Internal Revenue Service. "Publication 225 Farmer's Tax Guide," Page 8. Accessed Jan. 26, 2020.
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Sri Lanka announced plans on Monday to rescind a list of 19 nationals described as "traitors" for leading an insurrection against colonial rule nearly 200 years ago.
Keppetipola Disawe, a local leader, and his men were declared traitors over the 1817 rebellion against British rule.
"A recommendation was made to President Maithripala Sirisena to rescind the January 1818 gazette which declared 19 nationals, including Keppetipola Disawe, as traitors and make a fresh proclamation making them national heroes," Justice Minister Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe said in a statement.
The announcement came after the minister met hardline nationalists from the majority Sinhalese community, who have pressed for the scrapping of colonial-era decrees against those who resisted British rule.
Sri Lanka, then known as Ceylon, won freedom in 1948, a year after Britain quit neighbouring India.


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Federal court tosses antitrust suits against Facebook, in huge blow to D.C.'s fight with tech
It's a massive blow to Washington regulators' attempt to rein in Silicon Valley's giants.
A conference worker passes a demo booth at Facebook's annual F8 developer conference. | Noah Berger/AP Photo
By LEAH NYLEN
Updated: 06/28/2021 06:11 PM EDT
A D.C. federal court on Monday dismissed antitrust suits by the Federal Trade Commission and state attorneys general seeking to break up Facebook's social networking monopoly, dealing a massive blow to regulators' attempt to rein in Silicon Valley's giants.
The ruling by U.S. District Judge James Boasberg sent Facebook's stock market value surging past $1 trillion, while generating new calls in Congress for rewriting the nation's antitrust laws to better address monopolistic abuses in the online world.
Boasberg's decision also went to the heart of Washington's court fights with Facebook and other huge tech platforms: As massive as they are, do they meet the legal definition of a monopoly?
Facebook has 2.7 billion members worldwide, making it the world's largest social network. But Boasberg said prosecutors hadn't done a convincing enough job in defining what social networking is — or explaining their calculation that Facebook controls more than 60 percent of that market.
Social networking "services are free to use, and the exact metes and bounds of what even constitutes [social networking] — i.e., which features of a company's mobile app or website are included in that definition and which are excluded — are hardly crystal clear," Boasberg ruled in an opinion dismissing the FTC's complaint. "The FTC's inability to offer any indication of the metric(s) or method(s) it used to calculate Facebook's market share renders its vague '60%-plus' assertion too speculative and conclusory to go forward."
In a separate decision dismissing the states' case, Boasberg also found that state attorneys general waited too long to bring a suit challenging Facebook's 2012 purchase of Instagram, a dominant platform for sharing photos, and its 2014 acquisition of WhatsApp, a messaging app popular around the globe.
A Facebook spokesperson welcomed the outcome.
"We are pleased that today's decisions recognize the defects in the government complaints filed against Facebook," the person said in a statement. "We compete fairly every day to earn people's time and attention and will continue to deliver great products for the people and businesses that use our services."
The FTC and New York Attorney General Tish James didn't have an immediate comment on the decisions.
Boasberg gave state and federal prosecutors 30 days to file new antitrust complaints against Facebook that address his concerns. But if his decision holds, the ruling threatens to offer a major roadblock to a D.C. tech agenda that had only been gaining momentum in the past two years.
The FTC, which filed its suit against Facebook in December, just got an outspoken antitrust advocate as its new chair — Lina Khan — raising expectations for even more aggressive enforcement actions as it investigates complaints of anti-competitive behavior by Amazon. The Justice Department and multiple states are also continuing to wage antitrust lawsuits they filed last year against Google, while also investigating complaints about Apple's control over its App Store.
At the same time, both Democrats and Republicans in Congress have proposed changes to U.S. antitrust law to deal with digital platforms that often charge consumers little or nothing for their services.
Tech critic Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) called the decision "deeply disappointing," noting that the court acknowledged Facebook has "massive market power but essentially shrugged its shoulders."
Republican Rep. Ken Buck of Colorado, who is backing legislation alongside Democrats to breakup the tech giants, said the decision "shows that antitrust reform is urgently needed."
"Congress needs to provide additional tools and resources to our antitrust enforcers to go after Big Tech companies engaging in anticompetitive conduct," Buck said.
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THE Brunei Sports School Judo Academy has invited a Judo instructor from Japan to present seminars and coaching sessions with Yasuharu Mizuno.
With a wealth of experience behind him, Yasuharu Mizuno is poised to assist the Judo athletes in Brunei Darussalam to new heights.
Working under the auspices Japan Foundation Asia Center and the Kodokan Judo Institute, Yasuharu Mizuno said Judo is steeped in historical concepts and philosophies that coalesce well with techniques that are designed for combat or competition.
Judo has its origins from Jujitsu, said Yasuharu Mizuno. Judo founder Jigoro Kano, who was a Jujitsu practitioner in the 19th Century, realised that Jujitsu had become unfashionable in an increasingly westernised Japan during the reign of Emperor Meiji.
Jigoro Kano formed a collection of physical techniques that were more in line with his objectives for modern Japan, which made the beginning of Judo.
Yasuharu Mizuno explained that unlike some martial arts where the focus is on either offensive or defensive techniques, Judo can be utilised well in both techniques.
Judo uses the opponent's power to take him or her down, so the Judo practitioner does not have to be strong or muscularly well-built, he said. Judo focusses on grabbing and throwing techniques, and no kicking, he added.
According to Mizuno, the two very important concepts and practical applications in Judo are the standing and ground techniques.
Yasuharu Mizuno revealed that he also applied to be a coach on a permanent basis to represent Brunei Darussalam.
The Judo Programme Coordinator and Coach of Brunei Sports School Judo Academy Muhammad Ali Rashid bin Haji Muhammad Alipah said its members are keen to promote Judo in the Sultanate.
He said the enthusiasm led to the formation of the Brunei Darussalam National Judo Federation in April 2018 in the hope that members of the public will participate.


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require 'xeroid/objects'
require 'xeroid/deserialisers/extractors'

module Xeroid
  module Deserialisers
    class TaxRate
      include Extractors

      root_node 'TaxRates/TaxRate'

      object_class Objects::TaxRate

      as_string   :name => 'Name',
                  :tax_type => 'TaxType'

      as_currency :display_tax_rate => 'DisplayTaxRate',
                  :effective_tax_rate => 'EffectiveRate'

      as_boolean  :can_apply_to_assets => 'CanApplyToAssets',
                  :can_apply_to_equity => 'CanApplyToEquity',
                  :can_apply_to_expenses => 'CanApplyToExpenses',
                  :can_apply_to_liabilities => 'CanApplyToLiabilities',
                  :can_apply_to_revenue => 'CanApplyToRevenue'
    end
  end
end

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Lärarhögskolan i Stockholm (fokortet LHS) var et statsligt svensk universitet i Stockholm med fokus på uddannelse af lærere.

Skolen startede i 1956, og lå på Marieberg på Kungsholmen primært i området Konradsberg. Campus ligger i nærheden af tunnelbanestationen Thorildsplan og bruges stadig til uddannelse af lærer.

Fra 1. januar 2008 er LHS er en del af Stockholms Universitet.

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Report on Klyuchevskoy (Russia) — 28 January-3 February 2004
Global Volcanism Program, 2004. Report on Klyuchevskoy (Russia). In: Mayberry, G (ed.), Weekly Volcanic Activity Report, 28 January-3 February 2004. Smithsonian Institution and US Geological Survey.
56.056°N, 160.642°E; summit elev. 4754 m
During 23-30 January, seismicity was above background levels at Kliuchevskoi, with ~130 shallow M 1.9-2.3 earthquakes and a large number of weaker events occurring. Probable Strombolian activity was seen at the volcano on the evenings of 24 and 26 January. Gas-and-steam plumes rose to ~3 km above the volcano. Kliuchevskoi remained at Concern Color Code Orange.
Geologic Background. Klyuchevskoy (also spelled Kliuchevskoi) is Kamchatka's highest and most active volcano. Since its origin about 6000 years ago, the beautifully symmetrical, 4835-m-high basaltic stratovolcano has produced frequent moderate-volume explosive and effusive eruptions without major periods of inactivity. It rises above a saddle NE of sharp-peaked Kamen volcano and lies SE of the broad Ushkovsky massif. More than 100 flank eruptions have occurred during the past roughly 3000 years, with most lateral craters and cones occurring along radial fissures between the unconfined NE-to-SE flanks of the conical volcano between 500 m and 3600 m elevation. The morphology of the 700-m-wide summit crater has been frequently modified by historical eruptions, which have been recorded since the late-17th century. Historical eruptions have originated primarily from the summit crater, but have also included numerous major explosive and effusive eruptions from flank craters.


Congruence means in general; harmony, compatibility, consistency, conformity, balance, consensus, unanimity and also congruence is the mathematical concept of absolute equality. Policy congruence in individual countries within a region will facilitate economic prosperity.
Countries and economies no longer work in isolation. Regional economies are interestingly intertwined. Economies are dynamic; they change, and change constantly.
The individual economies within the region move in their own cycle in individual wavelengths and frequencies. If these economies move against each other the resultant effect is destructive. However if the economies can move in harmony they will complement each other, build on each other, thrive together with resounding success. And the resonance and reverberations of the success will be felt and fruits of success could be enjoyed by the whole region. The resultant prosperity brought about by the harmonised regional economies will always be greater than the total of the isolated economies within the region.
Policy is the rein that governs the motion of the economy. Harmonised and consistent policy propositions enable harmonised economies. Embracing balanced and aligned policies that facilitate the transformation and integration with the region would make way for the economic prosperity.
Trade is the conduit that connects different economies. Asymmetrical trade channels breeds disharmony. Even the perceived asymmetry in trade channels creates disharmony and mistrust. Regional trade pacts are wound, unwound and rewound. Embargoes are imposed and revoked. Yet there are winners and losers. Just as MNCs capture a regional market, there are indigenous industries that venture out to the region to capture regional markets and may even create global niches. What makes the winner to win and the loser to lose?
Harmonised economic policies and harmonised trade create harmonious economic prosperity, just like a well-balanced symphony. Can the banker be the composer or be the conductor? Or can a banker at least be a part of the orchestra?
Traditionally bankers have got accustomed to many harmonised cross border practices. Bankers use uniform customs and practices in facilitating international trade. Bankers use uniform and harmonised payment and settlement networks in facilitating cross border payments. Bankers use uniform customs and practices and even share jargon in international financial markets. The capital requirements for banks are similar internationally. The accounting policies are common across borders.
The principles of banking law are common across different jurisdictions. International swaps and derivatives contracts bring contractual congruence across borders. And the list can go on and on.
Thus we bankers would like to discover their role in achieving a regional congruence. APB – Sri Lanka will deliberate on this aspect at its Anniversary Convention this year.
Inviting international expertise, and for the first time in the history of APB-Sri Lanka, a gathering of regional participants intend to discuss the possibilities of harmonising regional economies and trade channels, aligning regional policies for regional progress, and to discover the bankers role in achieving sustainable growth for the region.
APB-Sri Lanka celebrating 30 years will hold its Anniversary Convention themed 'Regional Congruence; Harmonising Policy and Economic Prosperity' on 10 and 11 December at BMICH.


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Thank you for the topic Hugh. I am not a 3T myself but I married one - Matt Walker and we are enjoying the emails immensely. As a kid growing up in Rutherglen, we used to go on Sunday school trips to Stevenson. We used to go on a steam train from Glasgow and our Sunday school from Blairbeth Parish Church along with Mums and Dads would fill a whole train. We would have streamers flying from the train windows. We would reach Stevenson and go to the shore where we had lunch. I always remember the wee cardboard box with a couple of sandwiches, a chocky biscuit and a cake and then we got a wee square of ice cream and a drink. We had races along the grass at the front and then head off to the "shows". There was always a few kids who were sick after eating all these goodies and then going on rides. I also remember singing songs on the train. As the Sunday school dwindled, we went on double decker buses. I still remember some of the songs: The Quartermaster's Store. Coming Round The Mountain. Climb, Climb up Sunshine Mountain etc. They were glory days indeed!
Did anyone go on the "Uganda Ship Cruises?" I went in '68.To Maderia. Porta Delgado and Vigo.With Saltcoats Jnr High school. I had to stay on a six months extra so I could go on this cruise. It was terrific. First time I'd really been away from home. Found all the places we visited fascinating .We went to a pineapple farm in Maderia, someone bought a pineapple and we decided to open and share it in our coach, Unfortunately all we had to cut with was a penknife-what a mess! I also remember when we 'rounded Cape Vincente. All the Teachers were down below -suffering! We kids were on the highest part of the ship we could get on getting soaked by the 30 foot waves but having a ball. We also did the "passing the Equator" with Neptune etc. This was my first real holiday. I think it was one of my best!
Re excursions: I also remember the Clyde Coast Bus company's 'Magical Mystery Tours' which as already mentioned ended up in Largs. Mind you I do remember once ending up in Weyms Bay. I guess it all depended on who gave the driver/tour leader the best backhand.
I haven't much to say about air-raid shelters, but I vaguely remember the one in the region of Factory Place. As I lived just around the corner in Raise St. next to Jack Boyds (later Tomasso's) photo shop. Does any one remember them? Also on the corner of Raise St/ Factory lane there was a shop and behind that there was a chap with no legs who used to transport himself on a sort of trolly. He was a damned good 'cobbler' and we were always being sent round there to get studs on the soles of our boots and caps to protect the fronts.
One of the best memories I have of a school trip was about 1954 when it was our turn to spend a week at West Linton on the East coast near Peebles. It was great. Anyone else been there?
I went on the Uganda as well with the school. the year we went from St Andrews there wasn't a lot of people going so we had to join up with the St mike's crowd. We all had fun but any trouble or carry on was always St andy's crowd who done it.
I remember we did not really behave ourselves well - but we did have fun others I remember being there are - Andy Campbell, Tommy Catto, William Bingham, Bobby Gilmour, Panda Anderson.
My mum wouldn't let us go to West Linton, she'd heard about 'lascivious activities' or something! Not enough chaperoning I guess. I did get to go on the Dunera Cruise to Copenhagen, Stockholm and Leningrad. Great time!


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The Byzantine Empire was mainly comprised of an array of small towns and seaports connected by a developed infrastructure. Production was very high, and there was a notable growth in land ownership. The Byzantines followed a Christian lifestyle which revolved around the home, where women dedicated themselves to the upbringing of their children. There were also various public places where men sought relaxation in their leisure hours.
From A.D. 500 to A.D. 1200, Byzantium was the wealthiest nation in Europe and western Asia. Its standard of living was unrivaled by other nations in Europe, and it led much of the world in art, science, trade, and architecture. We could even say that the "Byzantine Dream" existed long before the American one.
For much of this period, Byzantium maintained good commodity coinage – gold, silver and copper. To be clear: it was not a free-market disciplined standard – the government maintained the coinage. The government also maintained a complicated bureaucracy, to the point where byzantine has come to mean:
A term describing any system that has so many labyrinthine internal interconnections that it would be impossible to simplify by separation into loosely coupled or linked components.
The city of Byzantium, later renamed Constantinople and then Istanbul, and the Byzantine Empire were vitiated by a bureaucratic over-elaboration bordering on lunacy: quadruple banked agencies, dozens or even scores of superfluous levels and officials with high-flown titles unrelated to their actual function, if any.
With this said, the empire maintained good coinage, economy, and trade for much of this period – a period of over 700 years. I have long been curious to understand something of the coinage and economy – it would seem of interest to anyone who considers commodity money as beneficial to economic development. It goes without saying that trusted money facilitates trade; trade facilitates economic development.
I will not pretend to offer a detailed history or analysis; this is nothing more than an overview. I have no conclusions to offer. I may do more on this subject in the future…or not. I would welcome any sources on the topic.
To my understanding – and I once checked with someone who would know – there is not a rigorous analysis available of this period from an Austrian perspective. As will become clear, the authors and sources I cite do not approach the topic from this perspective.
From Byzantine Coinage, by Philip Grierson (PDF)
The Byzantine Empire considered itself a continuation of Rome. The coinage of Rome disappeared with the great inflation that corresponded with the collapse of the empire. Diocletian and Constantine introduced new coinage early in the fourth century; much of this coinage collapsed by the early fifth century:
In order to provide a stable subsidiary coinage, in 498 Anastasius introduced a series of multiples of the nummus, the chief of them being a copper coin worth 40 nummi and known as a follis. This denomination was to be one of the most conspicuous features of Byzantine coinage for the next six centuries, and since only the [gold] solidus and its fractions [the half (semissis) and the third (tremissis)] are earlier in date, it is the creation of the follis that a history of Byzantine coinage can most conveniently be begun.
From this time until the late eleventh century, Byzantium maintained good coinage in gold, silver and copper. Subsequently, debased metal was used for a time. From 1300 to 1453, silver was used – gold was either debased or absent.
The transformation of the coinage thus outlined reflects, and is partly a consequence of, contemporaneous financial and economic conditions in the empire.
The Byzantine Economy
The Byzantine economy was among the most robust economies in the Mediterranean for many centuries. Constantinople was a prime hub in a trading network that at various times extended across nearly all of Eurasia and North Africa. Some scholars argue that, up until the arrival of the Arabs in the 7th century, the Eastern Roman Empire had the most powerful economy in the world. The Arab conquests, however, would represent a substantial reversal of fortunes contributing to a period of decline and stagnation. Constantine V's reforms (c. 765) marked the beginning of a revival that continued until 1204. From the 10th century until the end of the 12th, the Byzantine Empire projected an image of luxury, and the travelers were impressed by the wealth accumulated in the capital.
One of the economic foundations of the empire was the trade. The state strictly controlled both the internal and the international trade and retained the monopoly of issuing coinage. Constantinople remained the single most important commercial center of Europe for much of the Medieval era…
The state retained the monopoly of issuing coinage and had the power to intervene in other important sectors of the economy. It exercised formal control over interest rates and set the parameters for the activity of the guilds and corporations in Constantinople, in which the state has a special interest (e.g. the sale of silk) or whose members exercised a profession that was of importance for trade.
Imports and exports were uniformly taxed at ten percent.
The Economic History of Byzantium: From the Seventh through the Fifteenth Century (PDF)
In the course of the seventh century, the Byzantine Empire found itself in a full-blown crisis, demographic, political, and economic. The crisis had already begun, on all fronts, in the second half of the sixth century, in great part because of the plague and its devastating effects on the demography.
The empire, which had reached a high level of prosperity during the reign of Justinian I, was a very different state and economy in the middle of the seventh century.
It has been suggested that the military crisis itself was due to the plague, which undermined the possibility of resistance to Slavic, Avar, Persian, and, eventually, Arab attacks. The crisis was of long duration, lasting until the late eighth century.
The situation, however, was not as grim as other scholars have suggested, nor did the darkest days last as long.
Three salient points may be made here. The first is the importance of the state, whose integrative role in the economy persisted until the eleventh century. In the period of crisis, the state recognized and reinforced the reorganization of the economy around agriculture.
The second point is that, nevertheless, we are not dealing with a state that exercised full administrative control over economic life or, even less, that monopolized economic activity. There was, rather, a combination of state action and individual entrepreneurship in regard to the important commodities—grain and silk—while the rural economy was in the hands of smallholders, and the economy of exchange in the hands of sea captains, sailors, and traders
The third point is that everything became much smaller in the course of these centuries….Cities became small; ports became small, and so did ships. The trade carried out in them was relatively small-scale, but well regulated by a law code that seems to derive some of its provisions from the experience of the sailors, a hypothesis that would explain its longevity.
The last great outbreak of the plague was in 747. Visible signs of the turnaround were apparent around the end of the eighth century and beginning of the ninth. Monetary circulation and trade improved; the cities revived.
…the economic and fiscal restructuring was successful and resulted in the beginnings of a virtuous cycle, in economics as in politics.
The Byzantine economy entered its expansionary phase much earlier than western Europe….The increase of population, the rising proportion of urban dwellers, the increase of production, and the contribution of the state in the form of greater security all stimulated trade, which was active in the ninth and tenth centuries, again following an upward curve that was to continue in the subsequent period.
Constantinople functioned as a great entrepôt of international trade, without losing its importance as a regional and interregional center. Because of the wealth concentrated within its walls, and the effects of the fiscal system, it played the role of integrating the economy of the state.
Important commodities, namely, grain and imperial silks, were subject to imperial interference, and the production of imperial silks took place in imperial workshops, for the most part.
Collecting the tax in gold, the state also paid out in gold the salaries of a large and well-functioning bureaucracy, as well as its other expenditures. Thus, it controlled not only the minting of money but also the process of putting in circulation a very considerable proportion of the coin. Money changers were instrumental in making the move from copper to silver to gold.
…this system, which promoted social stability and favored measured expansion, also placed impediments in the way of rapid growth.
Rapid growth came in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, and "the Byzantine economy responded with remarkable flexibility." The time was marked by military defeats, increased economic activity and a debasement of the coinage.
Most sectors of the Byzantine economy experienced accelerated growth in the course of the eleventh and twelfth centuries. The period is characterized by a continuous growth of population, greater urbanization, increased production in all sectors, and the emergence of numerous urban centers of the production of manufactured goods, both luxury products and items of consumption for a middle-level market as well as for mass consumption….This is also a period in which free market mechanisms play a much greater role than before.
In terms of trade, apart from the increase in activity, certain other salient traits should be mentioned. The first is that the activities of the merchant took place in a climate where the mechanisms of the market were allowed to operate to a much greater degree than before…. Second, the merchants and bankers of the eleventh and twelfth centuries were a large, rich, and powerful group, certainly in Constantinople….Third, their activities increasingly took place within a larger context and in conjunction and eventually in competition with the activities of Italian merchants on the Byzantine soil.
All was not well:
There was a crisis in this period in the monetary system. It came in the late eleventh century and was in part the result of the military and political disasters of this unstable period, increased the saurization, and the reduction in monetary stocks. Both the monetary and the fiscal system were reformed by Alexios I. The great expenses necessitated by the grandiose foreign policy of Manuel I and the disastrous one of the Angeloi, in combination with a fiscal system that reduced the proportion of the surplus appropriated by the state, led to another crisis in state revenues in the late twelfth century.
Apparently, detailed price information is not available for this period – beneficial to understand the impact of prices of the debasement and militarization.
Hereafter, the Crusades and the growth of Italian centers of commerce reduced the relative importance of Constantinople.
Generally speaking, it seems that a number of cities entered a phase, which would continue in the fourteenth century, of either a decline in their manufacturing activities or an integration of these activities into the progressively Italian-dominated trade system.
There was some recovery after 1261 and continuing until the middle of the fourteenth century; however, Italian merchants retained the stronger position.
In the 1340s, a conjunction of factors had catastrophic effects on the population, the agriculture, and the economy of exchange. A combination of endemic wars, the previous expansion into marginal lands, the impoverishment of the peasantry, the plague that struck all of the Europe, the Ottoman expansion, and the subsequent long restructuring of the trade of the eastern Mediterranean resulted in steep decline
The decline was present throughout Europe; plague and war took its toll. In 1453, Constantinople was taken by Moslem invaders.
For Byzantinists, it is of interest to note that modern economists recognize not only a positive role to government and the market both but also the limitations of both.
Through the period of slow growth, the state supported those institutions that promoted stability, stability acquiring economic importance in a fragile system: the small producer, the just profit, the just rewards of labor. The period of more rapid growth is concomitant with the infusion of cash into the economy, the engagement of capital through the increase of the interest rates, the liberalization of price formation, and the acceptance (always with some strictures) of the formation of profits through the functioning of the market.
If sustained economic growth consists of the long-run per capita rise in income, it is obvious that no European economy achieved it until the sixteenth or seventeenth century. Neither did the Byzantine economy. The question is whether there were specific reasons that made it lose its coherence. The answer lies in a combination of political and economic factors. In the twelfth century, the state retained a large part of the resources and the power to distribute them, as well as the surplus.
As noted, I offer no conclusion. Here is an example in history of long-term usage of commodity money. One task certainly called for is a timeline, capturing economic, political, health, and military developments – this I might consider starting. The economic matters are worth a review and analysis from a free market / Austrian perspective.
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hey man ,, i live in egypt too ,, Cairo .
so,, about the heat ,, i don,t care about about ,, cause i,m sure this cause of the powerfull porocessor ,, .
i was just wondering ? how come they didn,t mentioned it ? cause all users here talked about it .
4- battery last 2.5 hours VID recording .
anyhow ,, i will do anther tst & only use the phone on that nxt re-charge & see what happened ? maybe the battery was shaping in the 1st 2 weeks ?
but hey ,, the charging take 80 minutes & the manual say so ,, in that review they claim 2.5 hours ??? i guess u now know why i say that review full of mistakes .
i read the review and it's completely right , they say the battery will last longer but i use the phone all the day long so it doesn't last too much and i have to charge it everyday but i mean i use the phone about 2 or 3 hours a day or maybe more( playing and capturing pictures and videos and calling ) , but if i use in calling only for 25 mins a day for example it would last 3 or 4 days , but if u use all its functions all the day long it wont last , and that's normal in every phone like nokia 6233 , my dad got it and i used to play with it and it wouldn't last too much , but it's an excellent phone and good loud voice with very cool feature and nice price and very fast and this is what i want from a mobile phone , i live in egypt and i got this phone a few days ago and while using it a lot it heats up so i used other mobiles and after using it , it heated up also , so i guess it's a normal thing in all phones !!
what's the difference between 6120 and 6121?
i know they have the review on ,, but it,s full of mistakes .
that was my comments about .
& i really do wish people who bought the phone read the review & check it out & reply here .
Gsmarena has the review now. Check it out.
finally they made a review on that model ,,, but there r strange things about this review ?
2- they never mentioned anything about heating ? mine gets hot ??
3- they say the charging time is 2.5 hours ? mine take 80 minutes & the manual say 80 minutes ?
5- my battery made in china ? dont, know about that korean model & wish if anyone have that model made in korea or finland confirm battrey life & charging time ? .
it has a pwoerful ARM processor and the volume is about 60cc so heat will be an issue.
The phone heats up considerably. Got it on contract with 3 Mobile. They refused to exchange it for a different type of phone.WARNING steer clear of 3 Mobile they generally have a poor customer service. I am stuck with them for the next 18 months.
Superb, unlimited internet surfing speed with HSDPA at 3.6 Mbps with WIND-Greece using the Mini Opera Russian mod or the built-in browser! All this for 3.49 euros per month! I'm very happy with this!
Since the phone doesn't have the "pencil" key, does it still copy and paste and how does it do that?
phone before you will understand!!!i m a n73 owner and i think this phone is a micrography of it.great job nokia,excellent!!!
camera is not working after two days of use..
hey i surfed thru www.zedge.net and some other websites like mobango.com, but i have unable to find themes for Nokia 6120 Classic!!
please help me from where i can find games and themes for this great cellular!


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.class Lcom/android/server/fingerprint/FingerprintService$UserFingerprint;
.super Ljava/lang/Object;
.source "FingerprintService.java"

# annotations
.annotation system Ldalvik/annotation/EnclosingClass;
    value = Lcom/android/server/fingerprint/FingerprintService;
.end annotation

.annotation system Ldalvik/annotation/InnerClass;
    accessFlags = 0x2
    name = "UserFingerprint"
.end annotation

# instance fields
.field f:Landroid/hardware/fingerprint/Fingerprint;

.field final synthetic this$0:Lcom/android/server/fingerprint/FingerprintService;

.field userId:I

# direct methods
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    .locals 0

    iput-object p1, p0, Lcom/android/server/fingerprint/FingerprintService$UserFingerprint;->this$0:Lcom/android/server/fingerprint/FingerprintService;

    invoke-direct {p0}, Ljava/lang/Object;-><init>()V

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    return-void
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Viruses Gone Viral! A Preview of Pandemic Legacy
BoardGameGeek News editor W. Eric Martin has provided a preview of the much anticipated Pandemic Legacy. Unless you have been bunkered down in preparation for a true apocalyptic viral spread, you have heard the buzz behind this game by Z-Man Games and designed by Matt Leacock and Rob Daviau. Just in case you have recently tuned into boardgaming news, Pandemic Legacy is a stand alone game which can be viewed as a marriage of the original Pandemic game (designed by same Matt Leacock and largely responsible for the popularity of the cooperative game format) and a new "present actions and game results affect future gameplay" mechanic first introduced in Risk Legacy. According to Martin's article and to help gauge how widely this new installment is anticipated:
On March 12, 2015, Z-Man Games announced that as of that date it had received preorders for 52,000 copies of Pandemic Legacy, its Spiel 2015 release from designers Matt Leacock and Rob Daviau that will debut in ten languages around the world on October 8, 2015.
Martin's article from BGG news provides a hands-on sneak peek at gameplay. Martin was able to play the full game with one of the designers, the owner of Z-Man Games as well as one other who is involved in the distribution of the game to major retailers. In short, this Legacy format of Pandemic plays quite similarly to the original but is played over "Months." Where the game begins to differ from the original is that cities on the map now have trackers on them indicating how many times an outbreak has occurred. As more outbreaks occur in the same city, bad things happen such as riots, which in turn can make future gameplay mechanics such as research and movement more difficult. The "Legacy deck" is also new and provides setup instructions which change depending on prior games' outcomes. "Scars" now affect characters, which replace the roles from the original, and remain between games. All changes seem to be tied directly to the Legacy format and leave core mechanics familiar to those already acquainted to the classic Pandemic game. Some outcomes affecting the map or characters will require stickers to be place on the respective components to track the changes between games. Those familiar to Risk Legacy will appreciate this mechanic. How "well" or "poor" the outcome of each game will determine how many times you play the game to complete a campaign and the level of difficulty of each game. I do not know about you but the idea of this beloved co-op game being mutated (virology pun intended) into a new form where outcomes in one game affects future plays has me ready to don my hazmat suit and flip some cards anticipating the next disaster! Check out W. Eric Martin's article over at BGG news here.
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Pandemic: Legacy
Risk Legacy
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One week into the Open and the stories are dramatic. A talented player who has lost his way. A declining champion. An underachiever who has found a way to reach new heights. A shocking come from behind win from a player who doesn't seem to care. A more mature Young American. Last year's champ under the radar. And more brilliance form Serena and Roger. More to come from these amazing athletes.
As many of you know, I am all about stories. Stories that players tell themselves that don't work to get them what they want. And stories they tell themselves that create the possibility of being who they need to be to bring the very best out of themselves in the biggest moments of performance.
For all of these athletes it is about right practice, right attitude, right thinking. If that is in their mix then they play, win or lose, and have no regrets. As they compete to be the best version of themselves, they will be able to sit back and observe the results that come their way with the dignity and class of the great champions.
One of my blog readers came across some entries that I wrote 7 years ago. After reading my most recent about Federer adapting his game she commented that I wrote about the very same thing that I had bee doing with my game. She was very excited about her takeaways and encouraged me to post it.
So here it is. It will be followed by a couple of more that continue the story of the work that I was doing on my game to take it to another level.
I have been trying to write about Roger Federer since the US Open. Every time I started, though, my inner voice said to wait. Something amazing is yet to happen. I am glad I waited because this weekend Roger sealed the deal for me on me casting my vote that he is the greatest player I have ever witnessed.
I first went to the US Open in 1958 and saw Althea Gibson win what was then called the US Nationals. Forest Hills on the grass. Tennis was officially in my blood from that moment on. There were a few years that I didn't attend but this will be about my 50th year of attending.
You would think it gets old.


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require 'net/http'
require 'socket'

module Ohai
  module Mixin
    module GCEMetadata

      GCE_METADATA_ADDR = "metadata.google.internal" unless defined?(GCE_METADATA_ADDR)
      GCE_METADATA_URL = "/computeMetadata/v1beta1/?recursive=true" unless defined?(GCE_METADATA_URL)

      def can_metadata_connect?(addr, port, timeout=2)
        t = Socket.new(Socket::Constants::AF_INET, Socket::Constants::SOCK_STREAM, 0)
        saddr = Socket.pack_sockaddr_in(port, addr)
        connected = false

        begin
          t.connect_nonblock(saddr)
        rescue Errno::EINPROGRESS
          r,w,e = IO::select(nil,[t],nil,timeout)
          if !w.nil?
            connected = true
          else
            begin
              t.connect_nonblock(saddr)
            rescue Errno::EISCONN
              t.close
              connected = true
            rescue SystemCallError
            end
          end
        rescue SystemCallError
        end
        Ohai::Log.debug("can_metadata_connect? == #{connected}")
        connected
      end

      def http_client
        Net::HTTP.start(GCE_METADATA_ADDR).tap {|h| h.read_timeout = 6}
      end

      def fetch_metadata(id='')
        uri = "#{GCE_METADATA_URL}/#{id}"
        response = http_client.get(uri)
        return nil unless response.code == "200"

        if json?(response.body)
          data = StringIO.new(response.body)
          parser = FFI_Yajl::Parser.new
          parser.parse(data)
        elsif  has_trailing_slash?(id) or (id == '')
          temp={}
          response.body.split("\n").each do |sub_attr|
            temp[sanitize_key(sub_attr)] = fetch_metadata("#{id}#{sub_attr}")
          end
          temp
        else
          response.body
        end
      end

      def json?(data)
        data = StringIO.new(data)
        parser = FFI_Yajl::Parser.new
        begin
          parser.parse(data)
          true
        rescue FFI_Yajl::ParseError
          false
        end
      end

      def multiline?(data)
        data.lines.to_a.size > 1
      end

      def has_trailing_slash?(data)
        !! ( data =~ %r{/$} )
      end

      def sanitize_key(key)
        key.gsub(/\-|\//, '_')
      end
    end
  end
end


En un mundo postapocalíptico, un hombre debe escapar de una máquina para sobrevivir. Su única arma, la destreza y agilidad para escabullirse.
In a future where cities have crumbled and been reclaimed by nature we join a lone man exploring the ruins of the company Haven Nanosystems. Recovering a locked container he seems to have found what he was looking for, which is information relating to the quarantined Facility B. Unfortunately just as located by a robotic drone and the race to escape is on.


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NATO can't agree on Afghan troop role
NATO leaders finished a two-day summit Wednesday without agreement on some members' refusal to send troops into combat in Afghanistan's most dangerous regions, where casualties are mounting in the fight against Taliban insurgents. Officials said France, Germany, Italy and Spain had agreed to remove restrictions on aiding other countries' militaries in an emergency in Afghanistan. But the four nations will not be sending troops to regularly fight alongside the British, Canadian, Dutch and American forces on the front lines of battles with the resurgent Taliban in the south and east. Full Story


Climate Launchpad, which is part of Climate-KIC Europe's largest clean/sustech accelerator, is launching again.
Sustainable Nation is running Climate Launchpad, the ideas competition of Climate-KIC again this year. Last year one of the finalists Orbas (internet of food, http://www.orbasconsulting.com/) got to the last 20 out of 80 finalist and 700 submissions. Not bad, but we like to win this year.
Same set up this year, 3 finalist from Ireland will compete with finalist of 28 counties. The finals are in Tallinn, Estonia in October. Anyone with an idea in the climate/green/clean is welcome. The size of the problem/opportunity is 37 trillion.
The programme will consist of a number of orientation/preparation sessions across Ireland, between February and April followed by a two day workshop with an international trainer from Climate Launchpad in May.
The 2 day workshop delivers a new, very sharp methodology to get to a realistic proposition and a pitch (it bleeds). It is loosely based on "Disciplined Entrepreneurship, 24 steps to successful startup" by Bill Aulet. Happy to share the methodology with anyone interested.
The workshop is followed by 6 mentoring and coaching workshops and a pitching final. The 3 winner get to pitch at the international final in October in Tallinn.
If you could spread the word, or make any introductions, I would be much obliged. More details you can find here http://sustainablenation.ie/.


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HOLIDAY HOMES TO RENT IN COTE D'ARGENT, AQUITAINE.
Welcome to our selection of holiday homes to rent in Cote d'Argent, France.
The Cote d'Argent, or Silver Coast, is located in the Aquitaine region of southwest France on the Atlantic coast. As the name might suggest, the majority of this area's attractions are on the coast, which is home to spectacular scenery, popular beaches and picturesque seaside towns and villages. Most visitors to this region spend most of their time by the sea, but there is more than enough to tempt tourists inland, to explore the lush, green countryside and typical French villages.
The original village of Biscarosse is located inland from the ocean, on the edge of a large fresh water lake that is ideal for swimming, and other water sports such as sailing, windsurfing and even fishing, There are several walking trails and dedicated bicycle routes, providing safe cycling for all the family. The region is still relatively unspoilt, with wooded areas and lots of wildlife. However, just a few kilometres west is the town of Biscaross-Plage, which is more of a traditional tourist resort, with hotels and restaurants and plenty of family entertainment. There is even a small amusement park with rides that holds live events during the summer months. The Museum of Traditions in the main town is worth a visit, should you be unlucky enough to have a wet day. The museum features archaeological artefacts, as well as exhibits on regional history and legends.
The small town of Mimizan, also known as the Pearl of the Cote d'Argent, further south is also on the edge of a fresh water lake, which has a pleasant walking trail around the shore as well as a number of beaches which are always popular in the summer months. Children will enjoy hiring a pedalo on the lake or the miniature putting green on dry land. A few kilometres away is the small resort of Mimizan-Plage, quieter than its northern neighbour Bicarosse, but still with some excellent seafood restaurants and plenty of stunning beaches. There are a number of musical and theatrical events during summer months for tourists, while the town's main dance festival, showcasing traditional local customs, is held each April. Mimizan's small museum tells the history of the town and the surrounding region from prehistoric times, including the traditional industries that people worked in before tourism arrived. One of the more interesting buildings in the town is the Chateau de Woolsack, a hunting lodge built in 1911 for the Duke of Westminster, and which used to be Coco Chanel's holiday home.
Looking for self catering holiday accommodation in Cote d'Argent? Then below is a selection of gites in Cote d'Argent and villas in Cote d'Argent that can be rented direct from their owners. You can either click on each listing for further details or you can use our search engine on the left if you are looking for something in particular.


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Shepherd and Wedderburn secures another successful Islamic finance deal
Home > News & Events > News > Shepherd and Wedderburn secures another successful Islamic finance deal
Shepherd and Wedderburn has completed the Shariah-compliant refinancing of high value office accommodation in Aberdeen.
The firm acted as legal advisor to Youngberry Properties, the owner of Bridge View and Consort House, on the refinancing of those premises.
The properties, which total 159,170 sq ft of floor space, are fully let to the oil and gas service provider Petrofac as its North Sea office headquarters and NHS Scotland.
Gatehouse Bank, a wholesale Shariah-compliant investment bank based in London, advised Youngberry on the investment and financing aspects of the deal.
The funding was completed by way of a commodity murabaha facility from an established international bank. A murabaha transaction is a form of Islamic financing based on the purchase of underlying assets and their sale at a profit mark-up that enables a financier to provide funding without an interest-bearing loan.
Shepherd and Wedderburn provided Youngberry with banking, real estate, construction and tax advice.
Peter Alderdice, a senior associate in Shepherd and Wedderburn's banking & finance team, said: "This is a very significant deal for Youngberry Properties and we are pleased to have used our expertise in Islamic finance to help secure the refinancing of two of the largest commercial properties in the city. Having completed a number of Islamic finance deals of this kind, we know how to overcome the challenges involved in order to ensure smooth, successful transactions."