Good business English requires perfection in 3 areas. You need to be good at writing, great at speaking, and have a high level of overall confidence. Master these areas and you will be sure to advance quickly in your career. Of course, all this takes time and a lot of practice. It may seem a lot of work at first, but persistent practice, and a great teacher can do a lot to significantly improve your skills.
Before signing up for lesson, there are also a few things you can do learn the basics of business English. Below, we've listed a few important steps that can really help to put your career on the fast track.
Speaking in simple sentences is fine if you just want to be understood, but if you're looking to persuade and encourage people, particularly if you're a manager, you need an advanced vocabulary. While using "big" and important-sounding words isn't necessarily better, it does help to expand your vocabulary to an extent where you know the core terms and expressions in your field.
A quick search on Google will show you there are hundreds of techniques, websites, and apps to help you learn new words. It's really important to mix and match these to create a system that works for you. It might take a few tries to get it right, but creating good learning habits will benefit you in the long run. Make sure to put more emphasis on learning vocabulary that's related to you and your field. Knowing your professional jargon will help you make yourself understood to your coworkers and clients.
General language learning resources might not be the best place to turn to in this case. Instead, search for business magazines, websites, and journals related to your job and read them extensively. If you don't understand a word, look it up, write it down a few times, and try to use it in some new sentences. You're more likely to remember it that way.
If you want to sound natural speaking English, you need to copy other people's speaking styles. You can use videos from YouTube to get familiar with different speaking styles. Try to think of speakers and lecturers you find inspiring and look them up. This can be useful way to learn intonation, pronunciation, and even to figure out what makes a speaker easy to listen to. You can compare videos to learn the difference between a boring and an engaging presentation, and avoid becoming the former!
One good way of improving your language skills, is, of course, signing up with a teacher who specialises in business English. But, it's also important to keep improving outside of lessons. There are many ways of doing this, luckily. For example, watching a business news channel or interesting documentaries. And, when it comes to great speeches, TED Talks are definitely among the best resources.
As the saying goes – 'practice makes perfect'. Immerse yourself in business English by practicing speaking and writing as much as possible. In lessons with a native English teacher, you can set up role playing exercises. Job interviews, mock presentations, and topic debates are all useful.
Making sure you get some real life practice is equally important. If you've got a job at an English speaking company already, then get involved in some extra projects. If they involve team work and coordinating with teams in another country, that's great. If the project will involve writing reports, having debates, or making presentations, then even better – you'll have the perfect chance to practice everything you've been learning so far in lessons.
And one final thought. Don't be afraid to make mistakes. Don't feel the need to be perfect, like a native English speaker. It's ok to experiment and try, you'll never improve if you don't take risks. And besides, your boss will often reward you for taking the initiative.


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Painted Skin (titre anglais signifiant « Peau peinte », titre original : ) est un film chinois réalisé par Gordon Chan, sorti en 2008.

C'est la deuxième adaptation, après le Painted Skin de King Hu, tourné en 1993, adaptant la nouvelle de Pu Songling (1640–1715), ), tiré de son ouvrage, Liaozhai zhiyi (, parfois traduit par Contes étranges du studio du bavard).

La suite, Painted Skin: The Resurrection (titre anglais signifiant « Peau peinte : Résurrection », titre original : (), est sortie en 2012 et est dirigée par Wu Ershan (乌尔善).

Le film décrit des histoires d'esprits et de fantômes, selon les traditions des mythologies chinoises.

Synopsis

Fiche technique

Distribution
 Donnie Yen : Pang Yong (龐勇)
 Zhou Xun : Xiaowei (小唯)
 Chen Kun : Wang Sheng (王生)
 Zhao Wei : Peirong (佩蓉)
 Betty Sun : Xia Bing (夏冰)
 Qi Yuwu : Xiaoyi (小易)

Suite

En 2011, Gordon Chan annonce qu'une suite, Painted Skin: The Resurrection, sera produite. Les acteurs Chen Kun, Zhou Xun, et Zhao Wei seront de retour. D'autres acteurs tels que Yang Mi, Feng Shaofeng et Gordon Liu ont rejoint le casting. Gordon Liu est prévu pour jouer le rôle du père du personnage interprété par Chen Kun, tandis que Yang Mi et Feng Shaofeng joueront deux amoureux. Chan choisit Yang et Feng pour les rôles, dû à leur popularité dans la série télévisée de 2011, Palace.

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Film chinois sorti en 2008
Film d'action chinois
Film dramatique chinois
Film fantastique chinois
Thriller (film) chinois
Film en mandarin
Adaptation du Liaozhai zhiyi au cinéma
Film réalisé par Gordon Chan

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Her communication and counseling skills are also excellent and give a complete diagnosis of the condition and its treatment. She has also helped her patients receive timely solution for their gynecology and infertility problems. She keeps herself informed about the improvements in the medical field. She makes use of advanced medical equipment and instruments to perform every procedure with care and precision.
She is presently practicing as the Head Gynecologist at Apollo Spectra Hospital in Sadashiv Peth, Pune. Many of her patients are well aware of her high-standard methods and approach, therefore most of the patients in Delhi prefer to visit Dr. Meenakshi Deshpande for pregnancy care and delivery.
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Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers - Did He Like It?
Geoffrey Cowan and Leroy Aaron's suspenseful Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers animates the frontline clash between the government's need for secrecy and the public's right to know. Featuring a cast of eleven representing the real life characters at the center of this historic event--from Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee to Post publisher Katharine Graham to President Richard Nixon--this is a true story about one of the great "stand up and cheer" moments in American journalism.
March 10, 2010: A momentous passage in American journalism strides stiffly across the stage of New York Theater Workshop in "Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers," a fact-packed drama by Geoffrey Cowan and Leroy Aarons, journalists with distinguished careers that have extended into academia and other realms.
March 10, 2010: When The Pentagon Papers -- documents classified as "Top Secret" -- were first published by The New York Times in 1971, President Richard M. Nixon's administration angrily insisted that activist Dr. Daniel Ellsberg had stolen those documents and that The Times had no right to publish them. Geoffrey Cowan and Leroy Aarons crackling drama about that pivotal moment in history, Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers, is now being presented at the New York Theatre Workshop in a brilliantly acted production under John Rubenstein's tight direction. Not only is it a great story, it's also great theater.
March 9, 2010: Geoffrey Cowan and Leroy Aarons' Nixon-era radio drama has a lot going for it. There's a cast of seasoned actors, notably Jack Gilpin and Peter Van Norden; there's the remarkable sound design by Lindsay Jones, and there's the meticulous research demonstrated in the script. But even with all that expertise, "Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers" needs to present a reason for retelling its press-vs.-the-president story, which it never manages to do. The LA Theaterworks co-production with New York Theater Workshop is slick and easy to watch, but it's unclear why everyone bothered in the first place.
March 9, 2010: Geoffrey Cowan and Leroy Aarons' "Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers" carries the subtitle "A Radio Play." And that's how it began life back in 1990, as a production of L.A. Theatre Works, a company that specializes in the genre. In 2007, the group decided to put the piece on stage, retaining the radio drama concept. As a result, at New York Theatre Workshop we have actors standing at an array of microphones, scripts in hand, while a Foley artist behind them creates sound effects. Alas, in the hands of director John Rubinstein, the conceit only proves distancing and annoying. The undeniably dramatic true story of a great struggle for American freedom of the press seems awfully dry, coming across as theater that's good for you rather than good theater.
March 18, 2010: For Americans of a certain age, the release of the Pentagon Papers was one of those watershed events after which nothing would ever seem the same again. For some, publication of the Papers was an act of national betrayal and a demonstration of the reckless and self-aggrandizing tendencies of the press. For others it provided undeniable evidence that some of the highest officials in our government had been lying to us for years and were willing to sacrifice countless lives in a futile war rather than admit their own mistakes.


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This Woman Found Worms In Her Eye & That's Not Even The Worst Part Of This Horror Story
By Brittany Bennett
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It sounds like a nightmare... or a TV show. Picture this: You go to the doctor in dire need of a diagnosis, and the doctors shrug, stumped by your condition. Now, picture that the condition you have is that you're finding literal worms in your eye. Yeah, it doesn't sound real — but that's exactly what happened to a woman in Oregon who found worms in her eye: According to CNN, doctors had never seen her condition before, and they literally did not know what to do for days. I should probably warn the squeamish who dared enter this story that it doesn't get much better after this point. Wash your hands and thank your stars that you do not have a colony of worms slithering across your eyeballs like this woman did. Yes, ~slithering~, and gliding across your pupils like they're ice.
We go to the doctor to find out what is wrong with us. But some medical cases require further investigation. If we've learned anything from House M.D. and Untold Stories from the E.R. it's that medical mysteries are like puzzles. And waiting is hell on earth for the inflicted. But there is usually some sort of resolution — or, at the very least, a figuring out of what has infected a patient that can lead to future medical discoveries that help diagnose and treat future patients more efficiently.
According to CNN, Abbey Beckley from Oregon, endured nearly three weeks with worms taking residency on her eye while doctors worked furiously to figure out how they had ended up on her eye. It started with mere irritation — something didn't feel right to Beckley when she was working on a salmon boat in Alaska, so she checked out her eye. But it wasn't just a speckle of dust like she thought; when the boat pulled into port and she looked at her eye, she realized what was causing her irritation and headaches: Worms. She was pulling literal worms out of her eye.
Beckley had pulled four from her eye before seeking doctors in Oregon to help with the condition. As she told CNN, "there were so many." Sorry about the nightmares!
When Beckley presented her symptoms, worms and all, doctors at Oregon Health and Science University were first skeptical of her claims — often times, when patients come in complaining of parasites, doctors consider the possibility of the condition being neurological — in other words, imagined — as well as real. But once they spotted the worms, they were convinced. A few worms were extracted from her eye and sent for testing at the Center for Disease Control.
Unfortunately, the testing didn't really help much. The parasite infecting Beckley's eye was found to be a species of worm called "Thelazia." According to a study published in the Emerging Infectious Diseases Journal by Domenico Ontranto and Moreno Dutto in 2008, "Thelazia callipaeda eyeworm is a nematode transmitted by drosophilid flies to carnivores in Europe. It has also been reported in the Far East in humans." The species had never been seen before in the U.S., and doctors didn't know what treatment to prescribe Beckley.
As Nidhi Subbaraman from BuzzFeed News wrote, "there have been 10 reported instances of Thelazia infections in the U.S. — nine in California and one in Utah — but all of those were caused by Thelazia californiensis, a species endemic to North America. There has never been a case of infection in Oregon until now." The one-of-a-kind case inspired a study of its own.
The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene published "Case Report: Conjunctival Infestation with Thelazia gulosa: A Novel Agent of Human Thelaziasis in the United States" by Richard Bradbury et al. on Feb. 12, 2018. The case report describes the species of Thelazia (californiensis and callipaeda) as well as the "previously unreported parasite of humans, T. gulosa (the cattle eyeworm) as an agent of human thelaziasis and the first reported case of human thelaziasis in North America in over two decades." The latter was what Beckley was enduring.
Eventually, doctors surmised it was likely that she got it from a fly carrying the worm, which probably landed on her face before reproducing on the plush globe of her eyeball. Apart from that, though, doctors were stumped as to how to actually get the worms off her eye — and that's the worst part of this story. They worried that giving Beckley medications to kill the worms would potentially scar her eyes and damage her vision, and there wasn't any other treatment that was known to work for a case like hers. Again, it was an extremely rare infection.
So, instead, they told Beckley she had to wait until the worms died out on their own. Their life cycle was roughly 30 days, which sounds like a terrifying amount of time to know worms are hanging out in your eyes, but I think it's even worse imagining any situation that you go to a doctor for something like worms in your eyes and are told that they literally have no treatment for you.
Somehow, Beckley managed to remain positive about the situation. Like, truly... somehow. Beckley shared her coping method with CNN, saying, "'You can go into 'Poor me, Oh, my God, I'm going to let this destroy me,' or you can just think, 'OK, these are worms, and now I know the life cycle, and I know that they will die, and they are just sharing space.'" Viewing worms on your eye as 'sharing space' instead of 'squatting and invading' deserves as much applause for the brave woman as the doctors who finally figured it out.

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Johann Georg Vogt (30 June 1669 – 17 August 1730), better known by his monastic name Mauritius Vogt, was a geographer, cartographer, musician, historian and a member of the Cistercian Order.

Life

Vogt was born in Bad Königshofen, Bavaria. As a child he came with his father, a geodesist, to a monastery in Plasy in Western Bohemia. He was educated there, before studying Philosophy and Theology at Charles University in Prague. After graduating, he returned to Plasy and joined the order in 1692, taking the monastic name Mauritius. He was ordained as a priest in 1698. Apart from occasional trips to Italy and Germany to study music, and temporary stays at the residences of his aristocratic supporters, most of his later life is closely connected with the monastery in Plasy and its surroundings. His main focus while at the monastery was music; he was the organist and music director of the monastery, as well as a composer. In 1724 he was appointed Superior at Mariánská Týnice, a pilgrimage church connected to the monastery, and he held this position until his death.

Works
Vogt's first published and most famous work entitled Das jetzlebende Königreich Böhmen, an introduction to the geography and history of Bohemia, was printed in 1712 in Frankfurt am Main and Leipzig. The book became celebrated especially for its copperplate illustrations, maps and plans. It includes a total of 45 engravings depicting views and ground plans of Bohemian towns, castles, and monasteries, as well as a large detailed map of Bohemia. This highly valued map was added to the book as a separate supplement, and is thus rarely found in volumes today.

Das jetzlebende Königreich Böhmen contains an engraving depicting Roudnice, the seat of the Lobkowicz family, in the early 18th century, including the ruined bridge over the Elbe river. The original Gothic bridge constructed in 1333–1340 (one of the first stone bridges built in Bohemia) was first damaged by the Army of the Czech Estates shortly after the Battle of White Mountain in 1620 and then completely demolished by Swedish troops in 1634. Though there was a plan to reconstruct the bridge over the river during the radical rebuilding of the castle and the town under Václav Eusebius, 2nd Prince Lobkowicz in the late 17th century, a new bridge over the river was constructed only in 1910.

Among the engravings included in the book is a view of the capital Prague, divided into two parts. The first copperplate presents the Prague Castle, Lesser Town and Charles Bridge, while the second part depicts a view over the river Vltava toward the Old Town, New Town and the fort Vyšehrad. The copperplates were engraved by a German engraver, Christoph Friedrich Krieger.

An exhibition of Vogt's work was hosted at the Lobkowicz Palace in Prague, until 31 May 2015.

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1730 deaths
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Suicide Bombing Kills Five, Wounds 36 in Central Istanbul
By Nick Tattersall and Orhan Coskun ISTANBUL/ANKARA, March 19 – Five people including a suicide bomber were killed and 36 wounded in an attack on a major shopping and tourist district in central Istanbul on Saturday, in the fourth suicide bombing to hit Turkey this year. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the
Kurdish TAK Militant Group Claims Ankara Bombing That Killed 37
ISTANBUL/BERLIN, March 17 – The Kurdistan Freedom Hawks (TAK) militant group on Thursday claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing in the Turkish capital Ankara that killed 37 people, and said it would attack security forces again. Separately, Germany closed its embassy in Ankara and its general consulate in Istanbul due to indications that an attack


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Mark Atkinson to take top role at Action on Hearing Loss
08 August 2018 by Andy Hillier
The chief executive of Scope says the time is right for a new challenge after overseeing a radical transformation at the disability charity
Mark Atkinson
Action on Hearing Loss has appointed Mark Atkinson as its new chief executive.
Atkinson has been the chief executive of the disability charity Scope since 2015, during which time he has overseen a radical new strategy that included selling off its regulated residential and daycare services and focusing the charity's mission on achieving a fairer society for disabled people.
Action on Hearing Loss said in a statement that Atkinson would join later in 2018, taking over from interim chief executive Mike O'Connor.
O'Connor was appointed interim chief executive earlier this summer after Paul Breckell, who had been chief executive since 2012, stepped down for personal reasons.
Atkinson joined Scope five years ago as head of external affairs. He was later made interim chief executive in 2015 before taking the role permanently later that year.
Before joining Scope, Atkinson worked in leadership roles at the Local Government Association, Citizens Advice, the Youth Sport Trust and Ambitious about Autism.
Atkinson said: "I've had a fantastic time at Scope and feel very proud of where the organisation finds itself as I move to a new role with Action on Hearing Loss. Scope is a confident and outward-looking organisation with a very clear determination to achieve a society where all disabled people enjoy equality and fairness.
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"We have taken bold decisions and Scope is stronger and more influential as a result. I feel privileged to have led the organisation through a period of such significant change, and now is the right time to take up a new challenge."
John Morgan, chair of Action on Hearing Loss, said that Atkinson's "extensive knowledge and experience in the charity sector" would be hugely welcome as it drives forward its ambitious strategy.
Andrew McDonald, chair of Scope, praised Atkinson's contribution to the charity. "He leaves behind a strong legacy: an organisation in great shape, a talented leadership team, valued staff and volunteers and committed partners and supporters. He also leaves behind a charity committed to making a success of its radical new strategy."
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Gillian Ayres is best known for her vibrant palette and the sheer physicality with which she applies paint to canvas. The works in this exhibition are classic examples and contain many familiar motifs but also represent a noticeable progression. Each work brims with her usual energy, however these new compositions are more distilled and exude the confidence of a painter at the height of her powers. The titles of these works - which include shipping forecast areas and sixties songs - are chosen by Ayres not as indicators or hints at content, but simply as words and phrases that please her.


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Q: Automatically block IPs which are making large number of requests to server in given time period I have deployed WP project on a CentOS based Linux server.
I am experiencing unusual traffic (crawling) from random IP addresses hence causing very high server load (as high as average load 200).
Is there any possibility to automatically detect such requests at server and temporarily block that IP ?
I mean if server founds 100 requests from same IP within a second it should block that IP.
Please guide.

A: Yes it exists and it's called fail2ban:
www.fail2ban.org
edit: let me copy the URL with the detailed solution from the comments to here:
https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/35773/how-can-i-block-an-ip-if-im-getting-many-http-requests-in-a-second
Thanks @Pit

A: We use in our company a Web-Application-Firewall Plugin called All-In-One WP Security for this task.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/all-in-one-wp-security-and-firewall/
I'd say this is an absolute must have for every WordPress site (either this plugin or any other security plugin with high security standards). We had brute force attacks on our WP Sites but were able to secure our sites with this plugin to the maximum. There are many other security options than only just IP-blocking you can set with this plugin i.e .htaccess restrictions, blacklist functions, file system security options, Firewall functionalities, malware scan and many more.

A: You can block the IP address manually by check the apache logs. You may check your log location in the configuration path for apache.
root@ping#  vi /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

search for error_log in this file.
I have WHM installed in my server so in my case logs was at below defined path
root@ping#  tail -f /usr/local/apache/logs/error_log

Search the IP which is requesting continuously and block that IP address via iptables.
Iptables command to block ip address permanentely
root@ping#  iptables -I INPUT -s 1.2.3.4 -j DROP

Add your own IP at place of 1.2.3.4

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Brian Wilson will embark on a month-long tour with Rodriguez to promote his new album 'No Pier Pressure.'
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A couple of months after Brian Wilson releases his upcoming album, No Pier Pressure, the singer-songwriter will hit the road for a summer tour. Wilson's former Beach Boys bandmates Al Jardine and Blondie Chaplin, who recorded the No Pier Pressure song "Sail Away" with him, will join him on the tour. Folk singer Rodriguez, who was the subject of the Oscar-winning documentary Searching for Sugar Man, will serve as the tour's opener.
No Pier Pressure, which is due out April 7th, will contain 13 new Wilson tunes, most of which feature notable guest artists. In addition to Jardine and Chaplin, Wilson's onetime Beach Boys bandmate David Marks makes appearances on "What Ever Happened" and "The Right Time" – the latter of which was recently turned into a music video showing Wilson and friends working in the studio. Other guests on the LP include She & Him, fun. frontman Nate Ruess and country singer Kacey Musgraves, among others.
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Prior to the record's release, Wilson will make an appearance at his own tribute concert, Brian Fest, which is scheduled to take place at L.A.'s Fonda Theatre on March 30th. The concert will feature several artists singing five decades of Wilson songs, including Norah Jones, the Killers' Brandon Flowers, Heart's Ann Wilson, Wilson Phillips and the Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne and Steve Drozd.
Wilson is also the subject of a biopic, Love & Mercy, in which Paul Dano portrays him in the Sixties and John Cusack plays him in modern-day scenes. The film is due out June 5th, and a trailer is streaming online. "I hope the movie leaves them with a sense of compassion," Dano told Rolling Stone of the film in 2013.
Brian Wilson Tour:
June 18 – Saratoga, CA @ The Mountain Winery
June 19 – San Diego, CA @ Humphrey's Concerts by the Bay
June 20 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Greek Theatre
June 23 – Austin, TX @ Frank Erwin Center
June 24 – Dallas, TX @ Verizon Theatre at Grand Prairie
June 26 – Atlanta, GA @ Fox Theatre
June 27 – Nashville, TN @ Carl Black Chevy Woods Amphitheater
June 29 – Philadelphia, PA @ The Mann Center for the Performing Arts
June 30 – Wantagh, NY @ Nikon at Jones Beach Theater
July 1 – Holmdel, NJ @ PNC Bank Arts Center
July 2 – Boston, MA @ Blue Hills Bank Pavilion
July 4 – Toronto, ON @ Sony Center (Brian Wilson and band only)
July 5 – Detroit, MI @ Fox Theatre
July 6 – Chicago, IL @ Ravinia Festival
July 8 – Denver, CO @ 1STBANK Center
July 10 – Las Vegas, NV @ Chelsea Theater at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas
July 12 – Seattle, WA @ Benaroya Hall – S. Mark Taper Foundation Auditorium
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I trust your Easter and Passover weekends were filled with family, eggs and moments of pause and reflection. We enjoyed having the 'band back together' for an all-too-quick 45 hours; but we soaked in every minute of it.
We are also still prepping our home to get it ready to sell…supposedly someone's coming this week to photograph and video. Guess that means it's really happening!
And a little fun fact for you…47 years ago today, the ill-fated Apollo 13 returned safely to earth. That crew and their NASA support team were perfect examples of ingenuity and stubborn faith.
I am always looking for ways to 'ditch the wheat'. Looking forward to baking these!
Are you limited with yard space but still want to grow your own vegetables? This primer should help. I'm actually thinking of trying to grow my zucchinis in a pot on my deck…my last ditch attempt to avoid those #@%$#@(*&^% squash-vine borers!
7 books I wish I could download into my brain…an intriguing list.
I was heartbroken when the podcast Serial ended, so clearly I am beyond thrilled that that this podcast has dropped…as in .all.the.episodes.at.one.time. So much for working on delayed gratification.
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You are so welcome Erin! I am looking forward to making these soon. Thanks for the recipe.
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CFACE Highlight: Sam Zottola
We here at the Center for Family and Community Engagement are always excited to highlight the work of our staff, faculty, and students. Today we would like to showcase the work of Sam Zottola, who just received the Derek Eaves Student Research Grant from the International Association of Forensic Mental Health Services. Way to go,…
Latest Update: To date, our work on bail reform has centered on pretrial risk assessment tools and current bail practices. Briefly, pretrial risk assessment tools are designed to increase structure, consistency, and accuracy in the evaluation of the likelihood of pretrial outcomes, such as failure to appear in court or new crime, through consideration of…
Opioid Misuse Prevention among Rural Adolescents
Latest Update: Throughout the 2018-2019 school year, the Center partnered with Dr. Laura Widman (Associate Professor of Psychology, CFACE Faculty Partner) and her Teen Health Lab to deliver an opioid misuse prevention program to early adolescents living in a rural county in North Carolina. They worked with middle schools to make this program available to…
Meet Our Director: Dr. Sarah Desmarais
Dr. Sarah Desmarais is a Professor in the Applied Social and Community Psychology Program with the Department of Psychology at North Carolina State University (NCSU). In addition to her work as a professor with NCSU, she is the Director of the Center for Family and Community Engagement (CFACE). We at CFACE have been very fortunate…
New Faculty Partner: Dr. Kwesi Craig C. Brookins
The Center for Family and Community Engagement (CFACE) is thrilled to announce our latest faculty partnership with Dr. Kwesi Craig C. Brookins. Dr. Brookins is an Associate Professor of Psychology and Africana Studies at North Carolina State University, where he has graduated over 25 doctoral students. In addition to this, he is the founder and…
Center Spotlight: Michelle White
It's time for another look into our organization and the wonderful people that make up the Center for Family and Community Engagement! Meet Michelle White, one of our amazing Graduate Research Assistants. Michelle is currently earning her Masters/Specialist Degree in School Psychology from North Carolina State University. She has worked with the Center from the…
Sarah Desmarais Named Director of NC State's Center for Family and Community Engagement
Sarah Desmarais has been named director of NC State's Center for Family and Community Engagement.
Humanities and Social Sciences Staff Recognized for Excellence and Service
The college recognized six staff members for 2018 Awards for Excellence during an annual luncheon celebrating all staff and their service to Humanities and Social Sciences.
Staff Celebrated, Thanked at Annual Event
The college held its annual Awards for Excellence luncheon April 19 to recognize and celebrate Humanities and Social Sciences staff. Seven staff members were nominated by their peers or supervisors for the college's 2016 Awards for Excellence. Nominations were based on achievement in outstanding service, innovation, public service, safety, heroism and human relations. During the luncheon, the college also recognized noted staff members who have reached milestone years in their careers with the state.
Students, faculty, and staff filled the patio outside Caldwell Hall for CHASS Fest — a multidisciplinary celebration organized by the Dean's Office, the CHASS Council, and CHASS students.


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Karen Mason-Blair
Karen Mason Blair has always loved music and art. She got her start in high school photographing bands, and applied her passion for photography to the bands that rose out of Seattle's booming music scene. Karen's famous client list was developed in the 90s, while she enjoyed exclusive access to historic events of the Grunge movement, including photographing Pearl Jam's 1st concert ever! (Karen has the only photos from this show).
She went on to photograph Alice in Chains' first photos for Rolling Stone; Soundgarden's first session with Ben Sheppard; Nirvana wearing Santa Hats; Mother Love Bone and more. Her award-winning photos have appeared on Nirvana, Soundgarden, and Radiohead albums. Beck, Duran Duran, Faith No More, and The Ramones are some of her favorite sessions. Karen has a way of engaging her clients and thus then capturing their true personalities. Bands often say they had so much fun with her they left smiling. Clients include Capitol Records, Warner Brothers, Sony, indie label Sub Pop and every major label. She has been published both nationally and internationally in People, Rolling Stone, and Entertainment Weekly.
Her image was chosen as the cover photo for Nirvana's DVD Live at the Paramount. She was the only photographer allowed to shoot during this filming. She has several photos featured in the Sonic Highway series' Seattle episode, and just sold photos of Pearl Jam's 1st concert to their manager - he gave them to PJ for Christmas gifts! She is currently based in Seattle.
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Optica, the luxury eyewear store on the fourth floor of Westfield San Francisco Centre, is not long for this world. Retail's latest victim is the best optical shop you never knew about, which had a ridiculously good selection of Chanel, Dita, Morgenthal Frederics, Chloe, and Dior frames.
Based on the location in Westfield's restaurant rotunda, you might be surprised that it (1) was a goldmine for cool specs, and (2) lasted as long as it did. Both points are now moot since it was close forever on Saturday, June 10.
Most of the stock is already gone, but there is a selection of Dior and Chloe sunnies still available and priced half off. These aren't just the dregs: in the Dior case, I spotted the So Real, Reflected, and Split sunglasses, which retail between $450 and $650 each. Granted, they'll still be expensive, but that's a significant discount. There's also a case of child-size Ray-Bans if you have a kid or like to spoil someone else's offspring.
Hurry in if you've been dreaming of new shades, because I doubt they'll last long.


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CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER – Frank Grillo Confirmed for Villain Role
Actor will take the role of Marvel villain Crossbones.
Variety has confirmed that 'The Gry' star Frank Grillo has scored the role of the villainous Crossbones in Marvel and Disney's 'Captain America: The Winter Soldier.'
Created by writer Mark Gruenwald and artist Kieron Dwyer, the character first appeared in the Marvel universe back in 1989 as Brock Rumlow, a leader of the Savage Crims gang in New York's lower East Side. Rumlow later became a henchman of the Red Skull under the code name Crossbones.
Penned by Stephen McFeely with Joe and Anthony Russo in the director's chair, 'Captain America: The Winter Soldier' sees Chris Evans returning as the star-spangled hero, with Anthony Mackie and Scarlett Johansson attached for supporting roles along with Cobie Smulders who will return to reprise her role as S.H.I.E.L.D agent Maria Hill.


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How many Convair 580s were built?
Jun 12, 2020 Alissa BradleyNew
Convair CV-240 family
CV-240 family CV-240 / CV-300 / CV-340 / CV-440 Metropolitan / CV-540 / CV-580 / CV-600 / CV-640 / CV5800
Introduction February 29, 1948 with American Airlines
Primary user American Airlines
Produced 1947–1954
Number built 1,181
How big is a commuter plane?
Luggage Space: 49 cubic ft
Cabin Height: 5 ft 9 In
Cabin Width: 6 ft 0In
Cabin Length: 21 ft 4 In
What engine is on the Convair 580?
Alison 501-D13H engine
The Convair 580 is powered by the Alison 501-D13H engine, which allows it to perform at a maximum range of 2,577 nm.
What is a Convair 580?
The Conair CV580 is a turboprop version of the highly successful Convair 340/440 series of passenger and freighter aircraft. Possessing all the proven attributes of its predecessor, the CV580 offers turbine reliability, improved fuel availability, and improved aircraft performance.
What is the meaning Convair?
Convair, previously Consolidated Vultee, was an American aircraft manufacturing company that later expanded into rockets and spacecraft. The company was formed in 1943 by the merger of Consolidated Aircraft and Vultee Aircraft.
What is a Convair 5800 conversion?
Kelowna Flightcraft in Canada however has offered the most ambitious Convair conversion program, the 5800, having stretched the 580 by 4.34m (14ft 3in) and reverting to the 440's original tail unit. Production conversions have a new freight door and digital avionics with EFIS.
What kind of radar does the Convair 580 have?
Upgrades to the avionics include the addition of an IntuVue RDR-4000 Weather Radar System, the fastest airborne 3D weather radar. The Convair 580 model has since retired after more than 67,000 flight hours and 67 years of flight experience.
How many Convair Convair 540s were built?
Additionally 10 turboprop 540s were built by Canadair. 170 340s and 440s converted to 580s, 38 240s converted to 600s, 27 340s and 440s converted to 640s. 80 converted Convairs remained in commercial service in late 1998. In addition there have been four 5800 conversions, with a fifth currently under construction.
What was the first Convair plane to be converted?
The first such conversion flew on January 19 1960, although it was not until June 1964 that a converted aircraft entered service. Convair's own conversion program involved Rolls Royce Darts, and the first of these flew on May 2 1965. Thus converted 240s became 600s, while 340s and 440s became 640s.


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Financing cost (FC), also known as the cost of finances (COF), is the cost, interest, and other charges involved in the borrowing of money to build or purchase assets. This can range from the cost it takes to finance a mortgage on a house, to finance a car loan through a bank, or to finance a student loan.

The total expenses associated with securing funds for a project or business arrangement may include interest payments, financing fees charged by intermediary financial institution, and fees or salaries of any personnel required to complete the financing process. This cost includes interest on loans, overdraft charges, etc.

Mortgages
As with most consumer loans, the borrower each month pays back a portion of the principal, the amount borrowed, and the interest accrued. For a fixed payment mortgage, the dollar amount of interest paid is substantially higher in early payments as compared with the last payment. This is because the interest payment is a fixed percentage applied to a declining amount of principle. At the end of the repayment period, almost all of the mortgage payment is applied to the principle. Along with interest charges, lenders may bundle escrow charges and mortgage insurance with the mortgage payments.

Car loan
With smaller purchases, such as vehicles, there is a set amount each month and only a small percentage of the payment goes towards the interest, called a simple interest loan. The interest one pays on a vehicle, APR, is a set amount each month that is calculated into the monthly payments. Some car loans have the option to be paid off faster without penalties, while others specify that they must be paid within a set number of years. One has the option to either extend the loan term for a lower monthly payment, or a shorter term with higher monthly payments. A lower monthly payment with a longer term may involve paying more interest.

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Colorful Floating Triangles May Transform Nigeria's Slums
By Amy Schellenbaum Mar 12, 2013, 1:15pm EDT
Last year, the Nigerian government embarked on an anti-slum campaign, determined to destroy the blighted shanty towns in Makoko, a fishing village in the country's capital. Here, most residents live on stilted structures atop the lagoon itself, so it's rather easy for the government to rid the city of the slum conditions on its façade: it just chops the supports down and the homes fall apart. This is obviously a pretty horrible solution. Architect Kunlé Adeyemi proposes something else: a brigade of solar-powered floating buildings pretty enough to quell the government's purge. Adeyemi, who was born in Nigeria and is now based out of the Netherlands, began with a three-story school built to withstand earthquakes, floods, and climate change. "Makoko is a settlement that people often drive by. I've driven by it myself for many years," he told Co.Exist. "But I started to visit and I was inspired, shocked, and motivated by the environment. I asked if there was anything I could do, and they said the school was always flooding, and they needed an extension. So, that's what we did."
Makoko Floating School, large enough to accommodate 100 students ages 4 to 12, is made from local timber and 256 plastic drums, and is outfitted with solar panels, rainwater harvesting facilities, and a toilet. At the prism's pinnacle is an open-air classroom, the middle floor is made of enclosed rooms, and the bottom platform has a water slide and play space.
Adeyemi told Co.Exist that he hoped his prototype will "be a catalyst and that a lot of other people will adopt similar systems to address climate change and flooding."
· Can Floating Architecture Save This Nigerian Community? [Architizer]
· A Floating School That Won't Flood [Co.Exist]


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Norman Booler is a weird kid, a loner. So, why is everyone after him?
All Norman wants is to be normal. When he predicts the winning numbers to a field of greyhound races, his life changed forever. To make a weird situation even weirder he is stalked by a strange man only Norman can see.
Norman Booler lives in an inner-city suburb of Sydney, Australia. Little by little he comes to realize the power he has upon wearing an ancient tang of metal, a blade hung around his neck on a bootlace. On the other side of the globe, historian Matthew Hertford is chosen to prove the existence of a religious relic believed to grant unworldly power. Hertford discovered in his research, "Only a chosen few can hold the Zosimos Siraj."
A priest from the Vatican, an outlaw motorcycle gang, and a rich and ruthless society also want the legendary artefact—furious scrimmages to locate the object go from London to Rome to Paris, and finally to Australia. Norman is in danger, worse yet, he drags his two friends into a bad situation. Can the teenager save them in a bloody confrontation in his hometown?
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HT Auto EV Conclave : Electric Vehicles Will Become The Most Reasonable Mode Of Transportation By 2050
August 12, 2021 August 16, 2021 4 min read
In this article, We are going to see about the Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari at HT Auto EV conclave said, "The more Electric Vehicles (EVs) will soon become the most reasonable mode of transportation than regular vehicles by 2050". Also, We will discuss its detailed information and reasons for the minister's speech at the HT Auto EV conclave here.
Union Minister At "HT Auto EV Conclave" :
Addressing the HT Auto EV conclave, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari said, "Electric vehicles (EVs) will soon become the most reasonable mode of transportation. "Both the battery electric vehicle and the electric vehicle upgrades are free of each other, and it would be good to surpass the fossil-powered auto by 2050," said the union minister. Also, he said that making EVs the most reasonable way to transport in the coming years.
Gadkari said the key components of the electric vehicle were batteries and installed half of the cost directly, which is the part that empowers his service improvement. "I am researching alternatives to it (lithium-particle battery), for example, zinc-particle, aluminum-particle and sodium-particle batteries. Raw materials can be accessed at low cost from discarding old vehicles, "he said." Metals such as aluminum, iron and lithium can be extracted. " He added that various researches have been developed in the country on its own. The selected battery is improved, so it will reduce the direct cost of the EV.
"Human Well-being And Eco-friendly Are The Main Reasons" :
Electric mobility has in many cases been promoted as a key provision for human well-being, eco-friendly and to reduce climate-unsafe vehicle emissions. Right now, people are ready to take battery-controlled, zero-carbon release vehicles, which are now spreading around the world. In the most recent three years, our country, India, has shown tremendous progress. Speaking at the HT Auto EV conclave, Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari highlighted the country's progress in electric vehicle work. He additionally noticed that help, consolation just as mindfulness for EV's offered utilizing both focal and express government's EV approaches, appropriations, motivations, and exclusions, which have assumed a huge part in India's both reception just as progressed towards electric versatility.
Government's "Production-linked Incentive Scheme" :
Similarly, the Minister has encouraged the integration of various industrial partners to create the world's largest power plant that will make India a focal point. Common coordination, participation and correspondence between all partners is undoubtedly going to help you get the most effective choice EV mission. Last year, the government created and implemented the Production-Linked Incentive (PLI) scheme conspiracies for various businesses that covered the auto sector business and auto-segment industry for over Rs 57,000 crore over a period of five years. With close to Rs 18,000 crore, sophisticated cell science has helped improve the battery saving legend and endorsed for improvement of cutting-edge cell science battery stockpiling fabricating. Gadkari said these stimuli empower EVs to reduce their direct cost to their development. "In the next few years, the production of large-scale EVs will have the same capital expenditure as petroleum and diesel forms today," he added.
In addition to battery-controlled vehicles, Gadkari also supported an alternative method of changing the alternative fuel portability. Green hydrogen zero-carbon would be a reasonable choice, especially for heavy and long extended vehicles, used for calculated tasks. "We are forcibly seeking research on green hydrogen as an automotive fuel," the choices add, for example, CNG mixed with hydrogen is sometimes taken in a container. Efforts are being made to regularize the existing ICE motors with CNG, LNG or electric powertrains, the minister said at the conclave. The government plans to promote the schedule to develop the aforementioned system for STUs that cannot afford the purchase of new electric vehicles, despite various security concerns such as sustainability difficulties and the industry is in its infancy.
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Gibson v. Warden, 81 U.S. 14 Wall. 244 244 (1871)
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APPEAL FROM A DECREE OF THE CIRCUIT
COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF OHIO
1. Under the statutes of Ohio authorizing chattel mortgages, a seal is not necessary to their validity.
2. Where one partner, R. M., affixed his name and seal to an instrument whose testatum set forth that "R. M. & Sons, by R. M., one of the firm, had thereto set their hands and seals," the instrument may be regarded as the deed of all the partners on proof that, prior to the execution, the others had authorized R. M. to execute the instrument, and after execution, with full knowledge acquiesced in what he had done.
3. The two clauses of the 35th section of the Bankrupt Act differ mainly in their application to two different classes of recipients of the bankrupt's property or means -- that is to say, the first clause is limited to a creditor, a person having a claim against the bankrupt or who is under any liability for him and who receives money or property by way of preference, and the second clause applies to the purchase of property of the bankrupt by any person who has no claim against him and is under no liability for him.
Appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court for the Southern District of Ohio in a bill in equity filed by Warden & Ludlow, assignees of Moore & Co., against David Gibson and against Gaylord, Son & Co. and other defendants. The matter in issue was the validity, in view of the bankrupt law, of two chattel mortgages given by the bankrupt, one to the said Gibson and the other to the said Gaylord, Son & Co. The mortgages were asserted to be frauds on the bankrupt law as coming within either the first clause or the second of the 35th section of the Bankrupt Act. The first clause reads thus:
"If any person, being insolvent or in contemplation of insolvency, within four months before the filing of the petition by or against him, with a view to give a preference to any creditor or person having a claim against him or who is under any liability for him, procures any part of his property to be attached, sequestered, or seized on execution or makes any payment, pledge, assignment, transfer, or conveyance of any part of his property, either directly or indirectly, absolutely or conditionally, the person receiving such payment, assignment, transfer, or conveyance, or to be benefited thereby or by such attachment,
having reasonable cause to believe such person is insolvent and that such attachment, payment, pledge, assignment, or conveyance is made in fraud of the provisions of this act, the same shall be void and the assignee may recover the property or the value of it from the person so receiving it or so to be benefited."
The second clause read thus:
"And if any person, being insolvent or in contemplation of insolvency or bankruptcy, within six months before the filing of the petition by or against him, makes any payment, sale, assignment, transfer, conveyance, or other disposition of any part of his property to any person who then has reasonable cause to believe him to be insolvent or to be acting in contemplation of insolvency, and that such payment, sale, assignment, transfer, or other conveyance is made with a view to prevent his property from coming to his assignee in bankruptcy, or to prevent the same from being distributed under this act, or defeat the object of, or in any way impair, hinder, impede, or delay the operation and effect of, or to evade any of the provisions of the act, the sale, assignment, transfer, or conveyance shall be void and the assignee may recover the property, or the value thereof, as assets of the bankrupt. And if such sale, assignment, transfer, or conveyance is not made in the usual and ordinary course of business of the debtor, the fact shall be prima facie evidence of fraud."
The court below decreed that the mortgages were invalid, and secured no priority, and that the defendants stood on the footing of general creditors. Gibson appealed, as did Gaylord & Sons; the other defendants did not appeal.
MR. JUSTICE SWAYNE stated the case more particularly, and delivered the opinion of the Court.
This is an appeal from the decree of the Circuit Court for the Southern District of Ohio.
The appellees are the assignees in bankruptcy of Robert chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
Moore & Sons, and filed this bill to compel such of the defendants as claimed to have liens upon certain effects of the bankrupt firm to have their respective rights touching the property in question ascertained and adjusted by the decree of the court. The decree rendered disposed of the several cases litigated under the bill. All the defendants acquiesced in the decisions made except David Gibson and Gaylord, Son & Co. They have brought the decree of the circuit court, so far as it affects them, here for review by this appeal. Our examination of the case will be confined to their respective claims.
On the 8th of March, 1868, Moore & Sons executed to Gibson a chattel mortgage. It was conditioned that if the mortgagors should pay to Gibson their promissory note to him of the same date with the mortgage for $6,000, payable sixty days from date at the Central National Bank of Cincinnati, the instrument should be void. The testatum clause set forth that Robert Moore & Sons, by Robert Moore, one of the firm, had thereto set their hands and seals. Robert Moore alone affixed his name and seal to the document. The amount claimed by Gibson under the mortgage was endorsed and sworn to by him, and the instrument was filed with the proper officer on the 18th of the same month. On the 21st of that month, Moore & Co. failed in business and made a general assignment of all their effects for the benefit of their creditors. On the 15th of September, 1868, a petition in bankruptcy was filed against them under which they were subsequently adjudged bankrupts, and the appellees were appointed their assignees in that proceeding.
The note mentioned in the mortgage was endorsed by Gibson for the accommodation of the makers. They procured it to be discounted, and the proceeds went to their benefit. Gibson was compelled to pay it. The amount thus paid, with interest, constitutes his claim under the mortgage.
No statute of Ohio directs how a chattel mortgage shall be executed. The statutes regulating such instruments are silent upon the subject. Our attention has been called to chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
no local adjudication touching the point. In an elementary work prepared by an eminent jurist of that state, the form given purports a sealed instrument, and has a seal affixed to it. [Footnote 1]
Such instruments in Ohio are usually under seal. But the term "mortgage" used in the statutes does not import or imply that a seal is necessary. In regard to chattels, it is a mortgage, and not a deed of mortgage, that is required. The distinction between real and personal property and between the means which are necessary to affect them is well settled. Personal property, according to the common law, could always be transferred or encumbered without the use of a deed for that purpose. A seal has never been held necessary to the validity of a bill of sale. A chattel mortgage is only a bill of sale with a defeasance incorporated in it. The presence or absence of that formality is wholly immaterial. In the case before us, it may be regarded as surplusage. [Footnote 2]
There is another view of the subject that must not be overlooked. There is proof in the record that the partners, other than Robert Moore, authorized him in advance to execute the mortgage, and after its execution, with full knowledge, acquiesced in what he had done. If the law had required a seal, these circumstances would have made the instrument the deed of the firm -- as much so as if all the members had been personally present and assented to its execution in that form. [Footnote 3] This is not inconsistent with the principle, which seems to be too deep-rooted in the law to be wholly eradicated by judicial authority, that a sealed instrument executed in the name of a firm by one of its members without the proper authority, where a seal is necessary, is the deed of such member only, and that he alone is bound by it. chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
The statute provides that every mortgage of goods and chattels, where there is no change in the possession of the things mortgaged, "shall be absolutely void" as against subsequent purchasers and mortgagees in good faith "unless the mortgage or a true copy thereof shall be forthwith deposited" with the proper officer. The supreme court of the state has held that the omission to deposit forthwith as directed does not avoid the mortgage in toto, but that, whenever deposited, it becomes effective from that time. [Footnote 4] That court has also held that actual notice to a subsequent mortgagee before his mortgage is taken is conclusive evidence of mala fides on his part. [Footnote 5]
In cases like this, the assignees stand in the place of the bankrupt; his rights are their rights, and theirs, like the liens of judgments at law, are subordinate to all the prior liens, legal and equitable, upon the property in question. [Footnote 6]
This mortgage was deposited three days less than six months before the filing of the petition in bankruptcy.
This raises a question under the bankrupt statute which it is necessary to consider.
The first clause of the 35th section avoids certain acts of the bankrupt touching his effects if done within four months before the filing of the petition in bankruptcy. The second clause imposes the like result if the transaction be within six months of that time.
To bring a case within the first clause, the act must have been done by a person insolvent or in contemplation of insolvency with a view to give a preference to a creditor or person having a claim against or who is under a liability for the bankrupt, and such person must have reason to believe that the transaction is in fraud of the statute.
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of insolvency, or contemplation of insolvency, on the part of the person doing the act. The recipient may be anyone who has reason to believe him insolvent or acting in contemplation of insolvency, and that the act was done by him to prevent the property from coming into the hands of his assignee in bankruptcy and from being distributed under the bankrupt law.
Upon comparing the two clauses carefully together, we are satisfied that the first clause was intended to refer to the past and the second to the present. The language employed in the first clause imports clearly that the consideration must be one growing out of a former transaction, and that the recipient must stand in the relation thus created to the other party. It is equally clear that the second clause, enlightened by this construction of the first one, must be limited to cases where the transaction in question was original and complete in itself at the time it occurred, and had no reference for its consideration to anything between the parties which had gone before it. It is only by this construction that the two clauses can be made to harmonize and full and distinct effect be given to each. Any other construction would make them cover the same ground and obliterate everything by which one is differenced from the other, except the limitation of time which they respectively prescribe. It is not to be supposed that such was the intention of the lawmaking power. This view of the subject was taken by the circuit court for the District of Missouri, and subsequently there by one of the justices of this Court. We can see no answer to the conclusion at which they arrived. [Footnote 7] According to this construction the mortgage to Gibson falls within the second category, as to the time within which its validity could be challenged. Is it therefore void? To this there is a conclusive answer in the negative.
The statute of Ohio deprived the mortgage of effect until "deposited" -- as to creditors, subsequent purchasers, and mortgagees in good faith. These assignees are neither. As between chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
the mortgagor and the mortgagee and subsequent mortgagees and purchasers with notice, the mortgage was valid and took effect from the time of its delivery to Gibson, which was the 8th of March, more than six months before the filing of the petition in bankruptcy.
The mortgaged premises have been converted into money. But this does not affect the rights of the parties. The lien of the mortgage followed the fund into the hands of the assignees, and binds it there in all respects as it bound, before conversion, the property which the fund represents. [Footnote 8]
Gaylord, Son & Co. endorsed for Moore & Sons to the extent of $10,000, as early as May, 1867, which was repeated from time to time. In May, 1868, Moore & Sons applied to them for a definite arrangement for endorsements to the extent of $20,000, to be secured by a chattel mortgage. After inquiry, they agreed to endorse for $15,000, and possibly $20,000, their liability to be secured as proposed. In pursuance of this arrangement, on the 23d of January, 1868, they endorsed for $5,000, and afterwards made other endorsements, amounting in all to $17,000. The first mortgage was made on the 27th of January, 1868. It was held by Gaylord, Son & Co., and not filed. Later -- probably in March -- Moore & Sons pressed for further endorsements, which were refused. Shortly afterwards Moore & Sons advised Gaylord that judgments were about to be taken against them, but insisted they were solvent. The mortgage was shown to counsel, who objected to it, but upon what ground does not appear. He advised that another should be taken. This was done on the 18th of March, and the mortgage was deposited on the same day with the proper officer, but some hours later than the deposit of the mortgage to Gibson. It appears by the face of the instrument that the signature and seal of the firm were affixed by one of the firm in the absence of the others. There was the same prior authority and subsequent acquiescence as in the case of the Gibson mortgage. It recited that Gaylord, Son & Co. were liable chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
as endorsers and otherwise for certain debts of Moore & Sous; that Moore & Sons were indebted to Gaylord, Son & Co.; and that Moore & Sons were desirous to renew their paper with the endorsement of Gaylord, Son & Co., and was conditioned that if Moore & Sons should save Gaylord, Son & Co. from loss by reason of said endorsements and debt -- Gaylord, Son & Co. agreeing to renew for eighteen months -- then the mortgage was to be void.
After the failure of Moore & Sons, Gaylord, Son & Co. took up notes which they had endorsed for the mortgagors, amounting to $17,000. The mortgagees also held a note of the mortgagors for iron sold by the former to the latter, amounting to $400, making the aggregate of the indebtedness of Moore & Sons to Gaylord, Son & Co., exclusive of interest, $17,400.
We hold this mortgage also to be valid under the laws of Ohio. The views we have expressed as to the Gibson mortgage, considered with reference to the statutes of Ohio, apply equally to the one here under consideration, and render it needless to say anything further upon the subject.
Being founded upon a past consideration, it falls within the first clause of the 35th section of the bankrupt law, which limits the right of attack upon such instruments to those executed within four months prior to the filing of the petition in bankruptcy. In respect to this statute also, it must, therefore, be held valid. It was upon the same property as the mortgage to Gibson. Like that mortgage, its force and effect reach and bind the fund into which the property has been converted.
It was contended with great ability by the counsel of Gaylord, Son & Co. that as regards the limitations of time under the 35th section of the bankrupt law this mortgage must be regarded as if it had been executed at the date of the prior one for which it was substituted, and numerous authorities were cited to sustain the proposition. The view we have taken of the case has rendered it unnecessary to consider this point. chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
The counsel representing both mortgages, in the argument in this Court, advised us that we need not decide the question of priority as between the two instruments, they having made an agreement which fixes their respective rights. We have not, therefore, considered the question. If there be any surplus after satisfying these claims it must be distributed to the general creditors.
So much of the decree of the circuit court, as is brought before us by this appeal, is
Reversed and the cause will be remanded to that court, with directions to enter a decree in conformity to this opinion.
[Footnote 1]
Swan's Treatise 692.
Milton v. Mosher, 7 Metcalf 244; Tapley v. Butterfield, 1 id. 515; Despatch Line v. Bellamy Manufacturing Co., 12 N.H. 234.
Story on Partnership, p. 212, § 122; Purviance v. Sutherland, 2 Ohio St. 478; Cady v. Shepherd, 11 Pickering 405; Gram v. Seaton, 1 Hall, 262.
Wilson v. Leslie, 20 Ohio 161.
Kendall & Co. v. Mason, 7 Ohio St. 199.
Lempriere v. Pasley, 2 Term 485; Belcher v. Oldfield, 6 Bingham's New Cases 102; Doremus v. Walker, 8 Ala. 194; Peck v. Jenness, 7 How. 612; Fletcher v. Morey, 2 Story 555; Archbold on Bankruptcy 314.
Bean v. Brookmire, 10 American Law Register, N.S. 181.
Astor v. Miller, 2 Paige §§ 68-78; Sweet v. Jacocks, 6 id. 355.


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Whistle Down The Wind
Watermill Theatre
July 28, 2022 ReviewsAlfie Richards, Andrew Exeter, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Charlotte Grayson, Chrissie Bhima, David Cullen, Elliot Mackenzie, Emma-Jane Morton, Gale Edwards, George Francis, Jerome Lincoln, Jim Steinman, Jonathan Evans, Lewis Cornay, Lloyd Gorman, Lydia White, Mary Hayley Bell, Pamela Raith, Patricia Knop, Robert Tripolino, Simon Kenny, Stephanie Elstob, Stuart Morley, The Watermill Theatre, Toby Webster, Tom Jackson Greaves, Whistle Down The Wind, Yvonne Gilbertthespyinthestalls
The Watermill Theatre
"Using multi-talented actor musicians, it is in reality a delight to watch throughout"
The premise of Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Whistle Down the Wind" is interesting, and quite fun; if not a little implausible. A group of children stumble upon an escaped killer in a barn and through their unwavering belief that he is the Second Coming, they decide to keep his whereabouts a secret from the authorities. Despite being inescapably aware of the townsfolk's collective hysteria about a murderer being on the loose.
The musical's book (by Lloyd Webber himself, with Patricia Knop and Gale Edwards) has taken the action Stateside from its humble, English birthplace. The original novel, by Mary Hayley Bell, was set in Sussex while the 1961 film had moved up to Lancashire. We now find ourselves in the heart of the Louisiana Bible Belt. It is the 1950s and religious zeal is as high as the crop in the cornfields. Spearheaded by the adolescent Swallow (Lydia White), the young ones seem to question their elders' unflinching faith yet refuse to bend from their own fledgling faith. Contradiction seems to be an underlying motif to this story.
The central theme pits the childhood innocence against adult cynicism; young, wide-eyed faith in 'good' against the older, blind faith in 'evil'. Swallow symbolises the former, yet in Tom Jackson Greave's staging she is too mature to give real credibility to her naive and innocent belief in 'The Man' who has unwittingly become Jesus Christ incarnate. White sweeps this worry aside, though, with an energetic and enthralling performance that sees her in customary fine voice.
Musically the show is disjointed, which isn't necessarily a problem in itself, but in this case it's hard to understand the shifts in styles. However, there is no denying the quality of music. Each number would pass the Old Grey Whistle test. Lloyd Webber's theatricality is in full view, framed with influences of gospel, nineties pop, sixties rock, and with reprises and leitmotifs aplenty. And, of course, the mark of the late, great Jim Steinman is stamped indelibly across much of the libretto. "Tire Tracks and Broken Hearts" and "Nature of the Beast" have hot-footed over straight from a Meatloaf gig.
Incongruous to the infectious score is Jackson Greaves' choreography, much of which feels out of place with the lyrical narrative. The ghost of Swallow's mother, dancing like a spectral Kate Bush at every conceivable moment is eventually jarring. The intent is clear but unnecessarily overplayed. Similarly overstated is the bible bashing nature of the community. Conversely, the inherent Southern racism of the era is not fully given voice; its mouthpiece confined predominantly to the red neck sheriff – albeit convincingly and masterfully portrayed by the charismatic Toby Webster.
I must confess at this point that I do feel churlish picking at the faults, which are mainly down to the book. For this production is really quite brilliant. Using multi-talented actor musicians, it is in reality a delight to watch throughout. So, hats off to a wonderful cast. 'The Man' mistaken for the second coming is indeed a shining star guiding us through the show. Robert Tripolino's presence and soaring voice fills the auditorium, while his performance remains alluringly intimate. With a twitchy sensitivity that offsets his opportunistic and manipulative pragmatism Tripolino embodies the unpredictability of a man with nothing left to lose. Complemented (rather than supported – this is very much an ensemble piece) by such a strong cast we are steered away from the fault-lines. Lewis Cornay and Chrissie Bhima as the doomed, 'born-to-run' teens, Amos and Candy, are an electric duo, while Lloyd Gorman's fierce yet foibled father figure is a masterful presence.
The musicianship is astounding, led by onstage musical director, Elliot Mackenzie (the manic snake preacher and minister) the ensemble is a dynamic band, shifting from whispering intimacy to orchestral storms while seamlessly swapping instruments with extraordinary sleight of hand. Andrew Exeter's rich and evocative lighting add to the magic. "Whistle Down the Wind" may have had its fair share of detractors in the past, and it does have its weaknesses, but this revival on the whole highlights its strengths.
The Watermill Theatre until 10th September
Previously reviewed at this venue:
Brief Encounter | ★★★ | October 2021
Spike | ★★★★ | January 2022


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Statement on Official Appointment of Eric Friedlander as Secretary of CHFS
By Kentucky Youth Advocates|2020-05-05T12:33:05-04:00May 5th, 2020|Child Welfare & Safety, News Room|
Mara Powell
mpowell@kyyouth.org
Statement by Dr. Terry Brooks, executive director of Kentucky Youth Advocates
Every Kentucky kid and family won yesterday when Governor Beshear officially appointed Eric Friedlander as Secretary of the Cabinet of Health and Family Services.
I have had the opportunity to work with and frankly assess more than a half dozen Cabinet Secretaries. The formula for success – or the recipe for failure – is pretty clear. The Secretary has to be accessible and responsive to big ideas and to emerging crises. The Secretary has to have the security to surround himself/herself with a strong and talented senior team which can speak the truth. While the Secretary has to be skilled in the political arena, the foundation of CHFS's work must be research-based and not beset by poll numbers. Secretary Friedlander exemplifies those standards.
And he goes beyond them in two ways. First, we are especially thankful that he has such a deep understanding of trauma-informed care. In these unprecedented times, building resiliency in the Commonwealth is an imperative and the Secretary knows that arena as well as anyone in the nation. That knowledge base cannot be discounted.
Moreover, Eric brings his heart as well as his head to this leadership position. When I talk to him about a problem for kids or for families, he doesn't just think about it; he doesn't just act on it. He feels it. And that perhaps is the most significant quality of all that he will bring to this vital position.
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South Africans are facing an increasingly difficult choice when it comes to choosing a medical plan. They not only have to look at the different products offered by more than eighty medical aid providers, they have to take into account the rising costs of premiums. An expense they have to meet on increasingly tighter budgets.
GTC Research Consultants set up a survey to help medical scheme customers when choosing a medical plan. GTC weighed up the different plans offered by schemes in a comprehensive survey. In particular the survey was after value for money, comparing the amount of cover each plan offered vis-à-vis its cost.
The findings were quite revealing; Discovery, South Africa's biggest scheme, offered only one plan that represents value for money. This meant subscribers had only a slender list of healthcare providers open to them. Gap cover popularity is another indicator of the relatively low value the country's medical schemes offer customers. Indeed, more and more companies, including huge multinationals, are offering medical gap cover.
Taking the cue, GTC moved to get rid of medical gap cover to ensure medical aid providers offered its benefits as standard in their existing plans. This meant that each and every plan had to offer 500% cover for beneficiaries' treatment.
A number of schemes are currently offering only 100% cover; woe unto subscribers whose medical expenses exceed this amount. It's easy to see now why medical gap cover has become popular and why choosing a medical plan is minefield. Policyholders resort to gap cover to cover excesses if their treatment costs more than the limits of their plan.
Medical schemes, on the other hand, feel that members should opt for plans that offer commensurate cover. Lending its weight to the schemes it governs, the Council for Medical Schemes noted that Prescribed Minimum Benefits claims made up more than half the money drawn from the medical scheme risk pool in 2013. However, GTC did not include this in their survey of schemes as they rightly assume it is paid from the risk pool funds. PMBs offer cover for chronic ailments such as asthma and diabetes that require extended treatment.
Medical scheme members, who have to fork out additional premiums for medical gap cover, are not the only ones wary of it. The Council for Medical Schemes warns that they will significantly deplete the pool of funds for the various medical scheme plans. But what happens if you need to see a specialist not included in the list of providers listed in your plan? This is why GTC grudgingly accepts medical gap cover as a necessary evil.
However, after evaluating GTC's findings, City Press newspaper came to the conclusion that the more expensive plans offered by schemes ostensibly to cover higher treatment costs, did not do so. This is because a number of them use restricted formularies, increasing the perception among policyholders that the products of schemes don't offer real value for the increasingly pricey premiums.