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Baby Entertainers Activity Center Best Walker Seat Game Table Educational Games. Safe for ages 6 months and up to 25 lbs or 30 inches tall, this play station converts from a self-contained walker to toddler activity table.
Baby can explore all the toy stations from the comfort of one seat-it rotates 360 degrees as they walk around the play table. 15+ activities to keep baby entertained. Piano station has 3 play modes; use the flip book to activate melodies, silly sounds, and piano. Learn action/reaction with the bead chaser, popping characters, and spinner, Lead-free, BPA-free, and non-toxic; 3 C batteries are required. Strong, durable plastic is easy to clean.This is the perfect alternative to a traditional walker, I'd even go as far as saying that it's BETTER than a traditional walker. My 6 month old son moves around it with ease and has really gotten the walking motion down, but without any of the safety concerns that a traditional walker brings (we have a split level home with stairs that would be dangerous for a traditional walker).
It is a bit bulky, but no more so than a stand alone jumper. Most importantly, our son absolutely loves it! There's a lot of diversity in the activities on the table, so when he loses interest in one section, he moves right along to another... And each one has helped develop his motor-skills.
I would highly reccomend to anyone considering this toy. This award-winning activity station has a one-of-a-kind seat that allows baby to safely walk or run around the outside perimeter of the activity table! It's like a walker and entertainer in one! Bright Starts 3-in-1 Around We Go!
Activity Center in Zippity Zoo fashion will keep your baby entertained and challenged all the way through the toddler years! 15+ activities include an electronic toy station with volume control and 3 modes of play: melodies, animals sounds and piano notes, plus a flip book with colorful characters and sounds, popping penguins, spinning ball beads, an elephant popper with spinning beads, a teethable palm tree and lots more! Parents have loved this award-winning toy and you'll be glad you chose it for your little one. Our stock all ships from our US-based warehouses. The item "Baby Entertainers Activity Center Best Walker Seat Game Table Educational Games" is in sale since Monday, July 9, 2018.This item is in the category "Baby\Toys for Baby\Developmental Baby Toys". The seller is "topdeals12-1" and is located in US. This item can be shipped to United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Denmark, Romania, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Czech republic, Finland, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Estonia, Australia, Greece, Portugal, Cyprus, Slovenia, Japan, China, Sweden, South Korea, Indonesia, Taiwan, South africa, Thailand, Belgium, France, Hong Kong, Ireland, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Italy, Germany, Austria, Israel, Mexico, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Switzerland, Norway, Saudi arabia, Ukraine, United arab emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Croatia, Malaysia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa rica, Dominican republic, Panama, Trinidad and tobago, Guatemala, El salvador, Honduras, Jamaica.


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This weekend,
Eric, me, and 4 of our close friends are heading to
Hello party time!
Well after Sunday it'll be party time.
3 of the 6 of us are running in a half or full marathon
on the Vegas strip Sunday evening.
So needless to say,
I will be MIA on my blog this week.
I promise to come back with pictures
& stories (the ones I can tell you!)
the end of next week.
Until then have an amazing weekend
& a wonderful week ahead!

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If you're going to be in the Orlando area, you'll want to check out all the tremendous family fun you can have just stayed in the town. Orlando has several entertainment options like different dinner shows, visiting a replica of the Titanic, and even an upside-down house full of wonder!
Orlando Area Dinner Shows Discounts
There are many different dinner shows in and around the Orlando area. These dinner shows feature various adventures, from Medieval jousting, pirates swashbuckling, and even murder mysteries! Included in these shows are dinner opportunities, and if you go on their websites you can usually find discounts on meals or admission.
Pirate's Dinner Adventure: They present a few different shows throughout the year, with the emphasis on the "Pirate's Dinner Adventure ~ Rise of The Sea Dragons!" This show which will entertain guests with special effects, adventure, action, and life-size dragons. They also offer holiday-themed shows, including a Halloween version called "Vampirates Halloween Adventure" and a Christmas-themed show called "The Pirate Who Stole Christmas." Special offers can be found via their website.**Due to Hurricane Irma the Pirate's Dinner Adventure theatre is closed until 2018.
3 Musketeers Premiere Dinner Show: This legendary story comes to life inside the Pirate's Dinner Adventure arena (which will reopen in 2018) with sword fights, exquisite French cuisine and plenty of romance. Can the heroes save the princess? Special offers are available on their website.
Sleuth's: Become a part of the show, as you attempt to solve the case. This comedy experience will have clues presented to you, and you formulate what occurred, and you make your guess for who committed the crime. For special offers and discounts, make sure to check out their website. When you buy an annual pass (4 shows in 12 month period) you save $20.00 per show. Annual passes also get you 10% off gift shop items, additional shows not included in the annual pass, additional guest (up to 6 people), and gift certificates.
Medieval Times: Here, you'll be able to witness epic battles of steel and steed with more action, more fun & more excitement than ever before at this live jousting tournament. Special offers and discounts are available on their website. Tickets purchased using promo code HOL17 by January 7, 2018, receive $30.00 off child tickets and $20.00 off adult tickets. Active military retired, and family members of the military can also get discounts on tickets using their troop ID online or by visiting a local participating ITT/MWR office.
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Gatorland an excellent place for family fun is at Gatorland in Orlando, Florida. Here you can learn about the animal life in the Florida swamps such as alligators, snakes, etc. When you purchase on the official Gatorland website, you can receive $3.00 off general admission. Florida Residents also qualify for huge savings now through the end of 2017 on general admission and annual passes.
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His master's voice: David Almond mythophone
Imagine this… It's the hottest day of the year. You are meandering through the hordes of sun-scorched drinkers, eyeing up their ice cold pints, when you spot it. Slap bang in the middle of the village green! A giant ear trumpet on legs…
It's not just any old ear trumpet. It's a mythophone! A David Almond mythophone! And it promises to spew out story snippets at the touch of a button. Oh yes. There's a button. Who can resist a button?
Go on. Press it. You know you want to. Who knows what story you'll get? Maybe it will be tender, maybe it will be terrifying…
Hang on to your hat! HERE WE GO….
You'll find the David Almond mythophone on the Winged Tales of the North Trail in the Ouseburn Valley. Part of the Great Exhibition of the North, this street art trail is a bit off the beaten track, but ideal for a creatively inspiring ramble. The nearby Seven Stories (National Centre for Children's Books) is hosting a related exhibition Where your wings were – Journeys with David Almond.
PS: A word of warning: Resist the temptation to stick your little Jack Russell nose (and ears) into the mythophone. Why? Because BOOM! The authorial voice of Mr Almond will blast you clear across the green. It's really rather thrilling.


text: He broke up the German gang and dealt with the Yakusa. Now Emilien outdoes himself once more by singlehandedly trying to unmask a gang of crooks. As usual, everything goes wrong. As usual, Daniel's close at hand. And once again, our two buddies get tangled up in new adventures, as surprising as they are unexpected. A word of warning: Get off the road!


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Well Done Benjamin!
Expressions of my life - An evolution of art.
I'm human and I've made mistakes.
Big ones blue ones huge giant ones too.
But today I took a step, just a baby one but a baby one will do.
Each day i grow stronger and each day i need less.
For I've forgot just truly how much of a mess, I'd become.
I lost me in you the same way I used to do.
But today my partner said to me.
For you to be better you need to think about becoming a better man for you to be a better man for me.
I'm more true to myself than very could be but I let fear take control of me.
Fear losing, fear winning, fear of living,dying and most of all fear of becoming so lost in my lost that I became what I feared.
I'm sorry.
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The NY7 series IC is a powerful 4-bit micro-controller based sound processor. There are 8 channels that are configured as speech or MIDI, and all of these 8 channels or part of them can be played with speech or MIDI simultaneously.NY7 can precisely synthesize any tone frequency of MIDI with +/- 0.5% accurate internal oscillation and automatic Tone-Calibration. Besites, NY7 provides two kinds of audio outputs with fine resolution, one is 13-bit current-type D/A converter (DAC) and the other is 13-bit Push-Pull amplifier (PP). Therefore NY7 speech/melody quality is the best choice among all solutions.


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Vol 336, Issue 6081
This Week in Science
Editors' Choice
- Science Podcast
The show includes remotely controlled gene expression, evidence for water on ancient Mars, nanopore sequencing advances, and more.
Products & Materials
- New Products
A weekly roundup of information on newly offered instrumentation, apparatus, and laboratory materials of potential interest to researchers.
News of the Week
- Around the World
In science news around the world this week, three crested ibis chicks became the first of their species born in the wild in Japan in 36 years; Congress is giving some research programs more money in 2013 than the White House had requested; the Abrolhos Shelf of Brazil was found to have the world's largest expanse of rhodoliths, a spherical type of coralline algae; and Japan's deep-sea drilling vessel Chikyu has set the record for the deepest undersea research borehole.
- Random Sample
The Disney film Chimpanzee tells a scientifically accurate story about an orphan chimp that was adopted by one of his troop's males—in fact, "the main plot was decided by the chimps," says primatologist Christophe Boesch of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. A noted Maya epigrapher sees the cottage industry in Maya 2012 predictions as a "once-in-a-lifetime opportunity" to inform people about the true role time played in the Maya's lives. And this week's numbers quantify the percentage of pediatric drug trials and the number of Chinese family names.
- Newsmakers
This week's Newsmakers are Steven Koonin, who has been named director of New York University's new Center for Urban Science and Progress, and William Foege, a leader of the global campaign that wiped out smallpox, who has been named a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
News & Analysis
- Budget Cap Could Gut Next Big Fermilab Project
The affordable options for the first stage of the Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiment would severely limit its scientific potential and could leave it only marginally more capable than an existing Fermilab experiment.
- One H5N1 Paper Finally Goes to Press; Second Greenlighted
One of two controversial studies that shows how to make H5N1 avian influenza more transmissible in mammals is now up on Nature's Web site for all the world to scrutinize.
- New Light on Revolutions That Weren't
At a meeting last month, researchers heard new evidence that human evolution took a gradual, rather than revolutionary, course during two key junctures in prehistory.
- First Spinoff of African Math Institute Takes Root in Senegal
The African Institute for Mathematical Sciences Senegal is part of a story that has captivated mathematicians and triggered an outpouring of support in money, time, and brainpower.
News Focus
- Search for Pore-fection
At long last, nanopore sequencing seems poised to leave the lab, promising a new and better way to decode DNA.
- Going Solid-State
The first nanopore sequencers will depend on protein pores, but many in the field envision replacing these biological channels with solid-state ones.
- For Early Hominins in Africa, Many Ways To Take a Walk
Several new studies of incredibly rare fossils of feet and partial skeletons reported at the meeting reveal the complexity of early bipedalism.
- How the Modern Body Shaped Up
A remarkably comprehensive analysis of more than 2000 European skeletons presented at the meeting reveals how cultural changes have altered our physiques.
- Older Dads Have Healthier Kids Than You Think
New data presented at the meeting suggest that children of older fathers and grandfathers may inherit longer telomeres, structures at the tips of chromosomes that may protect against aging and disease.
Books et al.
- The Place of Words
These 24 essays offer a diverse sample of place-based ecocriticism and its approaches to writing, reading, teaching, and understanding literature and science.
- The Environment Makes History
Through unconventional environmental perspectives on nine familiar episodes in U.S. history, Fiege demonstrates the importance of the natural world for understanding the past.
Policy Forum
- Rethinking Research Ethics: The Case of Postmarketing Trials
Human subjects research ethics needs to directly address threats to the evidence base of the medical information economy.
- Superresolution Subspace Signaling
Highly localized activity of ion channels in vascular endothelial cells controls the contraction of surrounding muscle cells and blood flow.
- The Impact of Ionic Frustration on Electronic Order
The frustrated ordering of dipoles created by copper and antimony ions in an oxide material may help to create an exotic quantum electronic state.
- A Dynamic Twist in the Tail
Observations by Venus Express suggest that the magnetic tails of Venus and, by implication, comets may be more dynamic than originally thought.
- Regional Sea-Level Projection
More accurate projections of regional sea levels are needed to inform adaptation and mitigation planning.
- Modeling Ice-Sheet Flow
Full-stress flow models for ice sheets promise improved projections of sea-level change.
- Impacts of Biodiversity Loss
How much diversity is needed to maintain the productivity of ecosystems?
- Melanesian Blond Hair Is Caused by an Amino Acid Change in TYRP1
Naturally blond hair in Solomon Islanders maps to a missense mutation in a gene associated with pigmentation.
Research Article
- Spin-Torque Switching with the Giant Spin Hall Effect of Tantalum
Tantalum is found to generate strong spin currents that can induce switching of ferromagnets efficiently and reliably.
- Spin-Orbital Short-Range Order on a Honeycomb-Based Lattice
Magnetic measurements indicate that a material remains disordered to millikelvin temperatures, thanks to its unusual lattice structure.
- Anisotropic Energy Gaps of Iron-Based Superconductivity from Intraband Quasiparticle Interference in LiFeAs
The energy needed to break up electron pairs in a pnictide superconductor depends on position on the Fermi surface.
- Magnetic Reconnection in the Near Venusian Magnetotail
Venus Express observations show that magnetic reconnection occurs in the magnetotail of an unmagnetized planet.
- Ancient Impact and Aqueous Processes at Endeavour Crater, Mars
Analysis of data from the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity provides evidence for past water flow near an ancient crater.
- 21st-Century Evolution of Greenland Outlet Glacier Velocities
A decade-long compilation of velocity data for Greenland's outlet glaciers shows complex spatial and temporal variability.
- Imaginal Discs Secrete Insulin-Like Peptide 8 to Mediate Plasticity of Growth and Maturation
An insulin/relaxin-like peptide coordinates final organ size in response to fly injury and tumors.
- Secreted Peptide Dilp8 Coordinates Drosophila Tissue Growth with Developmental Timing
In fruit flies, growing tissues send signals to the endocrine system to coordinate growth and metamorphosis.
- Function, Developmental Genetics, and Fitness Consequences of a Sexually Antagonistic Trait
Sex-specific modifications of male water strider antennae that are important for mating require distal-less gene expression.
- Impacts of Biodiversity Loss Escalate Through Time as Redundancy Fades
Long-term grassland experiments show that high-diversity species combinations become more functionally diverse with time.
- Removal of Shelterin Reveals the Telomere End-Protection Problem
"Naked" chromosome ends are mistakenly targeted by six different DNA repair–related systems in the cell.
- Elementary Ca2+ Signals Through Endothelial TRPV4 Channels Regulate Vascular Function
Imaging reveals single-channel openings of cation channels at the heart of endothelial cell–mediated blood pressure control.
- Multidimensional Optimality of Microbial Metabolism
A key design principle of bacterial metabolic networks is optimal performance, but not at the expense of adaptability.
- Radio-Wave Heating of Iron Oxide Nanoparticles Can Regulate Plasma Glucose in Mice
Gene expression in mice can be activated remotely and noninvasively by radio-wave heating of nanoparticles.
- Substrate-Controlled Succession of Marine Bacterioplankton Populations Induced by a Phytoplankton Bloom
Seasonal diatom growth in the North Sea results in a temporal succession of metabolically specialized bacteria.
- Don't Look Back in Anger! Responsiveness to Missed Chances in Successful and Nonsuccessful Aging
Emotionally healthy older adults show a reduced responsiveness to regret when performing a sequential decision task.
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If you're a sewer who has always loved the fashionable look of custom leather, and longed to try a leather project of your own, you may be wondering what you need to get the job done. Can your machine, or the new machine you've been eyeing, handle it?
Leather is one of the toughest materials to sew on. It definitely doesn't let a needle penetrate its thick hide easily! In order to tackle the dense material, you're going to need a heavy-duty machine that can get the job done, without the leather getting jammed or the machine missing a stitch.
The home sewer doesn't want to invest thousands in an industrial machine they'll only use a few times a year at most. But with careful selection you can have a home sewing machine that has the power to handle leather, denim, and other tough fabrics with ease.
There are several options in a range of prices. The Singer 5532, the Singer 4411, the Janome HD1000, and the Janome HD3000 are all in the $200 to $500, and will be able to handle your leather projects without trouble. But of the three, the Janome HD3000 is likely the best choice.
The Janome HD3000 is a heavy duty machine with a cast aluminum body that keeps it in place well during heavy use, making it more stable and making it feel more balanced. With a strong motor, it can take on leather, denim, canvas, and other heavy or bulky fabrics.
The HD3000 is the perfect choice for working with leather because it has a 5-piece feed dog that keeps the leather moving smoothly, so you can sew through it without skipping stitches or having to maneuver the leather too much. With its extra-high presser foot lifter, it can sew over five layers or more, depending on the bulkiness or thickness of the material.
Although it doesn't have the electronics that many entry-level machines have, it makes up for it with its solid build and reliability, coming in at almost 19 pounds. It comes with 18 built-in stitches that will provide you with all the utility stitches you might need.
The drop-in bobbin is easy to use, though some users have reported that it doesn't wind quite as tightly as the bobbins on other machines. Other user complaints are that the light isn't bright enough, it's a bit noisier than some machines, and the work space of the sewing machine isn't quite as large as they'd like.
Other basic features of the Janome HD3000 include a 1-step buttonhole and manual thread tension control.
If the Janome HD3000 isn't quite in your budget, the Singer 5532 might be a good second choice. It has the ability to achieve up to 1,100 stitches per minute, has a solid metal frame, a top-load bobbin, 32 stitches, an automatic needle threader, and a 1-step buttonhole, making the Singer 5532 a budget-friendly, feature-rich runner up to the Janome HD3000.
Whichever machine you choose, you should find that it performs admirably under the challenge of leather material, and it won't be long before you've finished your first project, eager to start another!


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We identify the ring of odd symmetric functions introduced by Ellis and Khovanov as the space of skew polynomials fixed by a natural action of the Hecke algebra at q = −1. This allows us to define graded modules over the Hecke algebra at q = −1 that are 'odd' analogs of the cohomology of type A Springer varieties. The graded module associated to the full flag variety corresponds to the quotient of the skew polynomial ring by the left ideal of nonconstant odd symmetric functions. The top degree component of the odd cohomology of Springer varieties is identifiedwith the corresponding Specht module of the Hecke algebra at q = −1.
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Copyright © 2013 Oxford University Press.
The definitive version is available at: http://imrn.oxfordjournals.org/content/2014/17/4822.abstract
DOI: 10.1093/imrn/rnt098
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Lauda, Aaron D., and Heather M. Russell. "Oddification of the Cohomology of Type A Springer Varieties." International Mathematics Research Notices 2014, no. 17 (2013): 4822-4854. doi:10.1093/imrn/rnt098.
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Russell, Heather M. and Lauda, Aaron D., "Oddification of the Cohomology of Type A Springer Varieties" (2013). Math and Computer Science Faculty Publications. 108.


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Hello Hello
Just a reminder to those of you who have not let us know whether you will be attending the End of Season Party this Saturday at Cresent Beach Hotel with a 3pm kick off.
Can you let us know before Thursday (tomorrow) if you will be attending. So far there are 35 members, 10 guests and 10 children booked.
A full days entertainment is being planned with games, quiz, bbq, music and a band to keep us all amused….Oh and of course a bar !!!!!!
Lets make it a memorable day
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Thursday, March 28, 2013
Tax refunds and bankruptcy
While many people are busy preparing their tax returns, in this post we will focus on the treatment of tax refunds in bankruptcy.
In a Chapter 7 personal bankruptcy, a debtor filing in New York State may exempt up to $5,000 of cash or cash equivalents ($10,000, if the debtor is a married couple filing jointly), if the homestead exemption isn't taken. Accordingly, for a single debtor, if his or her New York State or federal tax refund exceeds $5,000, then the bankruptcy trustee can require the debtor to turnover to the bankruptcy trustee the difference between the tax refund(s) and $5,000.
However, if a debtor files for bankruptcy in June of a given tax year, then the amount of the tax refund would be prorated between the pre–bankruptcy period (the beginning of the tax year through the day before the filing date, which monies would be paid to the bankruptcy trustee for distribution to creditors) and the post–bankruptcy period (the filing date through the end of the tax year, which monies would be retained by the debtor).
If a debtor expects a large tax refund post–bankruptcy filing, he or she could raise the number of withholding allowances or amount withheld to reduce his or her tax refund, or delay the bankruptcy filing until after receipt of the tax refund.
For questions about the complex interplay between taxes and bankruptcy, please contact Jim Shenwick.
Saturday, March 16, 2013
Transfers of Property between Spouses after a Spouse has been sued or is Insolvent
At Shenwick & Associates, we often get questions from clients if they may transfer a house from one spouse to another after being sued or prior to a bankruptcy filing:
An upstate bankruptcy court addressed this question and held that such a transfer could be a fraudulent conveyance and set aside. The name of the case was In re Tina M. Panepinto, 12-11230. U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Western District 12-11230
In In re Tina M. Panepinto, a wife who was insolvent owned a wholly-exempt homestead (house) free-and-clear, and (without consideration) transferred her half ownership to her husband. The bankruptcy court held that an existing creditor could sustain an action to set that transfer aside as a fraudulent conveyance under New York State law.
Records show that in 2008, with a bill collector seeking to collect a debt, Panepinto transferred half the ownership of her home to her husband. Four years later, she filed for bankruptcy. Creditors challenged the bankruptcy petition, seeking to set aside the transfer of real property as a fraudulent conveyance under New York Debtor and Creditor Law §273. The Bankruptcy Judge sustained the creditors challenge.
The lesson is that a debtor, prior to transferring ownership in a residence should seek advice from an experienced bankruptcy attorney.
Wednesday, March 06, 2013
The Means Test and the Marital Adjustment
In In re Pamela Persaud, case No. 12-43602-CEC, US Bankruptcy Court, EDNY, February 4, 2013 involved the Means Test, the presumption of abuse and what expenses can be deducted in calculating the Means Test. On Line 17 of the Means Test, the Debtor deducted $5,742.19 form the total monthly income as a "marital adjustment", which she claimed is income of her husband that was not regularly contributed for household expenses. The United States Trustee contended that tuition payments for the couples children were household expenses and should have been counted as a Debtor's income in the means test calculation. The Bankruptcy Judge provided that income of a non-filing spouse can be excluded only to the extent it is not regularly contributed to household expenses. An expense paid by the non-debtor spouse will be considered a household expense and thus included in income on the means test, unless the expense is purely personal to the non-debtor spouse. The Debtor's position was that since the tuition was paid for solely by the non-filing husband who was contractually liable, from his separate monies, those expenses should not be considered household expenses. The Bankruptcy Judge disagreed citing section 101(10A)(b) of the Bankruptcy Code which provides that income includes any amount paid by any entity other than the debtor... on a regular basis for the household expenses of the debtor or the debtor' dependents. The Means Test is an extremely complex calculation and debtor's must use extreme care and caution when making those calculations. Jim
Another Case Where a Rent Stabilized Lease was sold by a Bankruptcy Trustee
In re Mary Veronica Santiago-Monteverde No. 11-15494 (JMP) SDNY April 10, 2012, is another case where a bankruptcy judge in the Southern District of New York held that a bankruptcy trustee was allowed to sell a debtor's rent stabilized lease to her landlord. Ms. Mary Veronica Santiago-Monteverde lived in the East Village, in New York and after she filed for chapter 7 bankruptcy, her landlord, East 7th Street Development Corp. made an offer to the Bankruptcy Trustee to purchase her interest in the lease. The bankruptcy trustee agreed to sell the lease and the Debtor objected to the sale holding that she was entitled to exempt the value of her rent stabilized lease as a "public assistance benefit" within the meaning of section 282(2) of the New York Debtor and Creditor law. In New York, exempt property in a bankruptcy case is governed by New York State Debtor Creditor law. The bankruptcy judge rejected Ms. Santiago-Monteverde's argument and the rent stabilized lease was sold to the landlord. The bankruptcy judge in his opinion stated that it is undisputed that a rent-stabilized lease is property of the estate and that the Bankruptcy Trustee may assume or reject any executory contract or unexpired lease of the debtor pursuant to section 365 of the Bankruptcy Code.
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Can my pension money be taken by a creditor or a bankruptcy trustee in a chapter 7 personal bankruptcy?
Pension money that is in a tax qualified pension plan such a Roth or IRA may be kept in a chapter 7 personal bankruptcy, provided that it does not exceed $1,171,650. Pension money is a 401(k), 403(b), SEP or a defined benefit plan, in any amount, is exempt in bankruptcy and may not be taken or seized by a bankuptcy trustee.
Can I keep a car or automobile if I file for chapter 7 personal bankruptcy?
In New York a debtor can file bankruptcy and keep 1 car that has no more than $4,000 of equity. If the car or automobile is new or has a loan, equity is calculated by taking the difference between the value of the car and the outstanding loan against the car. To determine the value of a car, a debtor can get a letter from an automobile dealer appraising the car or use the Kelly Blue book values
How much is the homestead exemption in New York?
The homestead exemption in Kings, Queens, New York, the Bronx, Richmond, Nassau, Suffolk, Rockland, Westchester and Putnam counties is $150,000 per debtor. If a married couple files for bankruptcy and they both own real estate the exemption is $300,000.
How long is a credit counseling certificate good for?
180 days! Accordingly do not take the course if you are not ready to file for personal bankruptcy because 180 days passes you will need to retake it.
How do I rehabilitate my credit after I file for personal bankruptcy?
By saving as much money as possible and by using credit is a responsible way. A debtor should get a securitized credit card after the bankruptcy filing and then charge and repay on that card. After 6 months of using the securitized credit card, call the bank and ask that the credit limit on the securitized credit card be increased and this process will rehabilitate a debtors credit.
Will I lose my credit cards if I file for chapter 7 bankruptcy?
If an individual files for chapter 7 bankruptcy and they owe money on a credit card, then the amount of money owed on the credit card will be discharged in bankruptcy,s but the credit card company will cancel the credit card. If the debtor wants to keep the credit card after the bankruptcy filing, they may reaffirm the debt which will require them to pay the money due on the credit card after the bankruptcy filing. Reaffirmation requires that the debtor file a special form or agreement with the bankruptcy court with the bankruptcy petition. The Debtor's attorney prepares the reaffirmation agreement.
Can a chapter 7 bankruptcy trustee take my Federal or New York State tax refund?
The answer is yes! The amount of cash that is exempt in a chapter 7 personal bankruptcy filing in New York State is $5,000 if the debtor does not own real estate. Accordingly, for a single debtor, if their New York State or Federal tax refund exceed $5,000 then the bankruptcy trustee can require the debtor to turnover to the bankruptcy trustee the difference between the tax refund(s) and $5,000. However for example if a debtor files for bankruptcy in June of a given year, then the amount of the tax refund would be prorated between the pre bankruptcy period (January through June which monies would be paid to the bankruptcy and the post bankruptcy period (July through December which monies would not be paid to the bankruptcy trustee. If a debtor thought that they may be receiving a large tax refund after their bankruptcy filing, they could also lower their claimed exemptions or withholding to reduce their tax refund
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How often can I file chapter 7 bankruptcy?
Once every 8 years.
Are taxes dischargeable in a chapter 7 personal bankruptcy filing?
Trust fund taxes and sales taxes are not dischargeable in bankruptcy. However, federal and state income taxes that meet the following criteria are: 1. The tax year in question is more than 3 years prior to the filing the bankruptcy, 2. the tax has been assessed more than 240 days prior to the bankruptcy, 3. the tax return for the year in question was filed at least more than two years prior the bankruptcy and 4. the tax return is non-fraudulent and there is no showing of willful evasion of payment of a the tax. Discharging taxes in bankruptcy is technical and complex and James H. Shenwick has an LLM in Taxation from New York University Law School and he has discharged many taxes for clients in personal bankruptcy filings. The starting point to determine if taxes are dischargeable in personal bankruptcy is the review of a clients tax transcript which is obtained from the IRS.
Does a personal bankruptcy filing stop all lawsuits against a debtor?
A person who owes money is know as a debtor. A creditor seeking to collect money under New York law generally has 3 remedies. The first is garnishing 10% of a debtor's paycheck, the second is liening and levying on the debtor's bank account, checking account or brokerage account and the third is docketing a judgment against real estate to prevent the debtor from selling or refinancing the real estate. A personal bankruptcy filing will stop all lawsuits and prevent garnishment, liens and levies and the docketing of judgments against real estate pursuant to section 362 of the bankruptcy code.
What documents must a debtor bring to the meeting of creditors?
The meeting of creditors or 341 meeting, is schedule approximately 30 days after a debtor files for bankruptcy. At that meeting the debtor must bring their social security card and a photo id which shows a New York address.
What are the differences between chapter 7 and chapter 13 personal bankruptcy?
Chapter 7 bankruptcy is known as "liquidation and fresh start". The chapter 7 bankruptcy is required to sell non-exempt assets in a chapter 7 bankruptcy and distribute those monies to creditors. Non-exempt assets could be a house, coop or condominium with more than $150,000 of equity for single debtor, a car with more than $4,000 of equity or a business that a debtor wants to keep. Accordingly if a debtor has a non-exempt asset which they want to keep after a bankruptcy filing they would need to file chapter 13 bankruptcy not chapter 7.
Saturday, March 02, 2013
Why is chapter 13 personal bankruptcy more expensive than chapter 7 personal bankruptcy?
In a chapter 13 bankruptcy, besides meeting with a client, attending the 341 meeting (that is the meeting with the bankruptcy trustee) there are 2 additional steps. The attorney for the Debtor must prepare and file with the Bankruptcy Court a chapter 13 plan and attend the hearing on plan confirmation. In a chapter 7 bankruptcy a plan is not drafted and filed with the Court and there is no hearing on plan confirmation so the legal fees for chapter 7 bankruptcy are less than for a chapter 13 bankruptcy.
How much does chapter 13 bankruptcy cost?
There are 3 costs or expenses in filing chapter 13 bankruptcy. The first cost is the filing fee which is presently $281. The second cost is for credit counseling and debtor education is $40 at www.DebtorWise.org. The third cost is legal fees which cost approximately $5,000 in New York City. After the initial consultation Shenwick & Associates provides the client with a written estimate of these costs.
How much does it cost to file chapter 7 personal bankruptcy?
In New York City there are 3 costs or expenses in filing chapter 7 bankruptcy: 1. The first cost is the filing fee which is presently $306. 2. The second cost is for credit counseling and debtor education which costs $40 at DebtorWise.org and 3. The third cost are the legal fees. For a simple bankruptcy the legal fees are $2,000 to $2,500 and for a more complex personal bankruptcy the legal fees are $4,000 to $5,000. After the initial consultation, Shenwick & Associates provides all clients with a written quote for the cost of legal fees.
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I have a bunch of buckets that I want to restore. According to documentation, the dirt step it finding the buckets you want to restore and then copying them to the $SPLUNK_HOME/var/lib/splunk/{INDEX}/thaweddb directory. Then you have to run the rebuild command. It is not clear in the documentation, however, whether or not you have to thaw the buckets on the same indexer that they came from.
I am looking at http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.5.2/Indexer/Restorearchiveddata
I am running version 6.5.2 with an indexer cluster.
First, the documentation says that on versions 4.2 and higher, you can thaw data on any indexer instance, not just the one that it originated on.
"For the most part, you can restore an
archive to any instance of the
indexer, not just the one that
originally indexed it. This, however,
depends on a couple of factors:Splunk
Enterprise version. You cannot restore
a bucket created by Splunk Enterprise
4.2 or later to a pre-4.2 indexer. The bucket data format changed between 4.1
and 4.2, and pre-4.2 indexers do not
understand the new format. This means:
4.2+ buckets: You can restore a 4.2+ bucket to any 4.2+ instance."
Then, at the bottom of the page, it talks about restoring data in a clustered environment and it says that you should place the buckets in the thawed directory of the indexer that it originated on:
"However, as described in "Archive
indexed data", it is difficult to
archive just a single copy of
clustered data in the first place. If,
instead, you archive data across all
peer nodes in a cluster, you can later
thaw the data, placing the data into
the thawed directories of the peer
nodes from which it was originally
Do I have to thaw buckets only on the indexer that the data origniated on?
Do I have to thaw buckets only on the
indexer that the data origniated on?
No, you can restore the bucket on any indexer instance that is running a newer than 4.x version. If you have the rawdata you will need to run the bucket rebuild under the section Thaw a 4.2+ archive of the documentation for restore archived indexed data (6.5.2 specific link)
In a clustered environment you may have multiple copies of a bucket that might make it more tricky to know which one to restore, but that will not effect restoring/thawing a bucket. You can restore it on a new instance or a current member, note that in some versions (6.5.x from memory) the thawed directory does not work as expected in a cluster until 6.5.7 (the workaround is to restore to a non-clustered instance!)
@sjcoluccio67: yes, according to the documentation if you are thawing buckets back to the cluster you have to thaw on the indexers where the bucket was originated...
I prefer to thaw the buckets(only db_*) on a stand-alone indexer and add it as a search-peer to the search-head.,in fact we did it in one of our use cases..
So, as long as the indexer is not part of the cluster that the buckets came from, it should be able to rebuild them all, regardless of the GUID in the bucket name?
yes, as long as the buckets are on a stand-alone indexer, GUIDs doesn't matter(you could also rename them, but I haven't tried that)


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Constructing Adolescence in Fantastic Realism
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Constructing Adolescence in Fantastic Realism examines those fundamental themes which inform our understanding of "the teenager"—themes that emerge in both literary and cultural contexts. Models of adolescence do not arise solely from discourses of psychology, sociology, and education. Rather, these models—frameworks including developmentalism, identity formation, social agency, and subjectivity in cultural space—can also be found represented symbolically in fantastic tropes such as metamorphosis, time-slip, hauntings, doppelgangers, invisibility, magic gifts, and witchcraft. These are the incredible, supernatural, and magical elements that invade the everyday and diurnal world of fantastic realism.
In this original study, Alison Waller proposes a new critical term to categorize a popular and established genre in literature for teenagers: young adult fantastic realism. Though fantastic realism plays a crucial part in the short history of young adult literature, up until now this genre has typically been overlooked or subsumed into the wider class of fantasy. Touching on well-known authors including Robert Cormier, Melvin Burgess, Gillian Cross, Margaret Mahy, K.M. Peyton and Robert Westall, as well as previously unexamined writers, Waller explores the themes and ideological perspectives embedded in fantastic realist novels in order to ask whether parallel realities and fantastic identities produce forms of adolescence that are dynamic and subversive. One of the first studies to deal with late twentieth-century fantastic literature for young adults, this book makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of adult attitudes toward adolescent identity.
Table of Contents
Series Editor's Forward
Chapter One: Developing through Fantasy: From Stasis to Transformation.
Chapter Two: Fantasies of Identity: The Self and Individualism
Chapter Three: Fantasies of Empowerment and Agency: Gender and the Burden of Responsibility
Chapter Four: Writing Fantastic Spaces: Real, Virtual and Textual Teens
Conclusion: New Evolutions: Fears and Pleasures of Young Adult Fantastic Realism
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Alison Waller is a lecturer in Children's Literature at Roehampton University. An expert on young adult fantastic realism, she also has interests in supernatural literature and creative writing. Her publications include articles on Robert Cormier, Margaret Mahy and J. D. Salinger, and on the role of memory and emotion in rereading children's literature.
"Waller's conclusion is important and thought-provoking for everyone working in the discipline of children's and young adult literature: 'The tensions have not yet generated narratives that explore the realm of adolescence without recourse to the teleology of development and adulthood, but they do perhaps hint at an embedded appreciation that adulthood itself is neither universal nor unified and may itself be constantly shifting, often unfulfilled, and in a constant state of becoming' (196). At a time when fantasy dominates the international literary and cultural scene, especially in the field of crossover fiction, Constructing Adolescence in Fantastic Realism provides a solid stepping stone for further research and should generate much worthwhile debate." --Petros Panaou University of Nicosia, Cyprus, International Research in Children's Literature
"Through the hard and wide-ranging work of describing this subgenre and the ways it echoes the dominant culture's models of adolescence, Waller has provided an important tool for thinking about adolescent fantasy and its—often failed—potential." --Joe Sutliff Sanders, California State University, San Bernardino, The Lion and the Unicorn
"The convincing argumentation and the wide range of primary and secondary sources discussed, make this study an interesting contribution to the study of a sub-genre that has not yet been analyzed in depth." --Claudia Söffner, Bookbird: A Journal of International Children's Literature


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Colin Hanslip / Presenter
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The programme happened entirely by accident. My "day job" at the time involved working in the control centre of a train operating company, and shifts that had me working any time of any day. Therefore, it was impossible for me to do any live radio programmes on a regular basis, as my hours varied from week to week. In January 2006, a new radio station was taking to the air for the first time in Hampshire, and they did not have enough presenters to fill the schedule. As I had provided their IT systems and website, and knew the station manager from a previous station we had worked on, I agreed to provide him with a weekly pre-recorded programme of chillout music and that is how the Chill Factor was born. To be fair, the programme is very loosely based around another programme also called the Chill Factor that a friend of mine had done on a regional radio station based on the south coast of England, and he had suggested all along that I should continue the tradition he had started, so thanks for that Gary!


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There are many types of sex crimes that you can be accused of, including, but not limited to:
- Molestation
- Child pornography
- Sexual assault
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- Sexual conduct with a minor
- Child abuse
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Austin teaches and coaches students. He teaches business model design and information systems in several masters and bachelors courses. He also coaches students in minors such as smart energy and entrepreneurship and technology.
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Austin D'Souza is pursuing a PhD in business and economics from the University of Groningen. His research focuses on developing methods for designing and evaluating viable business models for decentralised energy systems. He holds a master of science degree from the University of Groningen in business administration. Before pursuing a PhD, Austin worked for six years with several ICT firms in various roles in India and the Middle East. He possesses in-depth experience and knowledge in business models, management consulting, business development, partner management, account management, and project management.
- A. D'Souza, N. R. T. P. van Beest, G. B. Huitema, J. C. Wortmann, and H. Velthuijsen, "An Assessment Framework for Business Model Ontologies to Ensure the Viability of Business Models," in 16th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, 2014, pp. 226–235.
- A. D'Souza, N. R. T. P. Van Beest, G. B. Huitema, J. C. Wortmann, and H. Velthuijsen, A Review and Evaluation of Business Model Ontologies: A Viability Perspective. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, Springer , 2014.
- A. D'Souza, A., Kabbedijk, J., Seo, D., Jansen, S., Brinkkemper, S., 2012. Software-as-a-Service: Implications for Business and Technology in Product Software Companies, in: Proceedings of the Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS). p. Paper 140.
- A. D'Souza, H. Wortmann, G. Huitema, and H. Velthuijsen, "A business model design framework for viability; a business ecosystem approach," J. Business Model., vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 1–29, 2015.
- A. D'Souza, H. Velthuijsen, J. C. Wortmann, and G. B. Huitema, "Developing a viable business model for community-owned solar farms in the Netherlands," in USE: Understanding small enterprises, 2015.
- A. D'Souza, K. Bouw, H. Velthuijsen, J. C. Wortmann, and G. B. Huitema, " Designing viable multi-commodity energy business ecosystems: corroborating the business model design framework for viability" J. Cleaner production (in review)
Other publications
- Bouw, K., D'Souza, A., Van Someren, C., 2016. A flexible business model for the ETP Wijster. Groningen. url: https://www.researchgate.net/project/Flexiheat
- Flexibele Warmtenetten Zijn de toekomst, Warmtenetwerk magazine, NR 25. Herfst 2016 (Dutch)
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Management Information Systems, Master in Science, University of Groningen
- HB Economic Theory
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Creating value with eHealth: identification of the value proposition with key stakeholders for the resilience navigator appLentferink, A., Polstra, L., D'Souza, A., Oldenhuis, H., Velthuijsen, H. & van Gemert-Pijnen, L., 27 Apr 2020, In : BMC medical informatics and decision making. 15 p., 76.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-reviewOpen Access
Research document Agro-Cycle ProjectPierie, F. & D'Souza, A., 30 Apr 2019, Hanzehogeschool Groningen. 65 p.
Research output: Book/Report › Report › AcademicOpen AccessFile89 Downloads (Pure)
Improving the sustainability of farming practices through the use of a symbiotic approach for anaerobic digestion and digestate processingPierie, F., Benders, R. M. J., Moll, H. C., D'Souza, A., van Someren, C. & van Gemert, W., 26 Sep 2017, In : Resources. 6, 4, 23 p.
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A business model design framework for viability: a business ecosystem approachD'Souza, A., Velthuijsen, H., Wortmann, J. C. & Huitema, G., 2015, In : Journal of business models . 3, 2, p. 1-29
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A business model design framework for viability; a ecosystem approachD'Souza, A., Wortmann, J. C., Huitema, G. B. & Velthuijsen, H., 2015. 1 p.
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Introduction to business models in decentralised energy systemsAustin D'Souza (Speaker)27 Feb 2017
Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation
Business model design framework for viabilityAustin D'Souza (Speaker)14 Sep 2017
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Een flexibel business model voor het ETP WijsterKathelijne Bouw (Speaker), Austin D'Souza (Speaker), Christian van Someren (Speaker)27 May 2016
Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation
3rd Understanding Small Enterprises (USE) Conference 2015Austin D'Souza (Speaker), Hugo Velthuijsen (Speaker), J.C. Wortmann (Speaker), George. B. Huitema (Speaker)Oct 2015
Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in conference
16th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS) 2014Austin D'Souza (Speaker), Nick van Beest (Participant), George B. Huitema (Participant), J.C. Wortmann (Participant), Hugo Velthuijsen (Participant)Apr 2014
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A gTLD refers to common TLDs that are used in web addresses such as .com or .org. Recently a list of over 1,000 TLDs have become available for website owners, known as new gTLDs.
New gTLDs allow more customization for web addresses in a world where TLDs like .com have become hard to get. Some examples of new gTLDs include:
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ORLANDO, Fla. (Ivanhoe Newswire) — When kids play sports you expect them to get a few bumps and bruises, but eye injuries are becoming more common, and they're happening in sports most people wouldn't think of. Here are the results of a new study and a warning for parents.
While sports like basketball and baseball come with many health benefits, they also come with some risk of injury. Usually the focus is on torn ligaments or concussions. But a new study by researchers at Johns Hopkins University shines a light on the number of eye injuries suffered by young athletes.
They studied millions of emergency room visits from more than 900 hospitals and found that about 30,000 sports-related eye injuries happened every year, and more than 60 percent occurred in people under 18.
The sport most likely to cause an eye injury was basketball followed by baseball and softball. But what surprised researchers was that cycling was also a common contributor, along with soccer, especially among girls.
Researchers say their study points to a need for athletes to don protective eyewear in sports where kids don't usually wear them.
Most of the eye injuries were minor, such as cuts and bruises around the eye. The more serious ones included fractures to the eye socket, common during baseball. Air and paintball guns caused the most serious injuries.
Contributors to this news report include: Jessica Sanchez, Producer; Roque Correa, Videographer and Editor; Gabriella Battistiol, News Assistant.


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Okay, we're going to present a couple facts that will probably anger you, but they need to be introduced in order to report this story. 1) Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi was asked to speak at Rutgers University. 2) Over 2,000 students attended the lecture. 3) She was paid $32,000 by the state-funded institution for her appearance. 4) That's $2,000 more than Rutgers will pay Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison to speak at graduation. Okay, now that those are out of the way, we can relay the news that, because of the Snooki controversy, Jersey State Senator Joe Kyrillos is trying to "sponsor legislation that will allow students to opt into or out of campus events requiring a fee," the Post reports.
Kyrillos insists that "students should not be required to fund entertainment they find objectionable through mandatory fees." With all due respect, Snooki's speech was not purely for entertainment. She offered invaluable bits of advice like, "Study hard but party harder." Maybe you'd drop that "state" prefix if you followed her lead, State Senator Kyrillos.
The legislation is a nice gesture, but Snooki's damage has been done. Parents were outraged, like Nester Delgado who told the Post, "It's disgusting. Next year, is it going to be Jwoww or The Situation?"
Don't be ridiculous, Mr. Delgado. JWoww is busy with her fellowship at Fermilab and The Situation will be in Paris helping NATO forces draft a resolution for the Libya conflict. Ronnie's available, though!
In other Snooki news, MTV announced she will be starring in her own spin-off. Time will tell whether it will be a high-flying success like Maude or a ratings-dud like Joey, but one thing's for sure: We're more fucked than the ancient Romans ever were.
Snooki's Rutgers appearance sparks controversy in NJ senate [NYP]
This article from the Village Voice Archive was posted on April 8, 2011


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Madrid: La Sociedad de Bibliófilos Españoles, 1958. Very Good +. Madrid: La Sociedad de Bibliófilos Españoles, 1958. Very Good +. Francisco de Elorza y Rada, Abad de Barasoaín. Nobiliario de Valle de la Valdorba con los Escudos de Armas de sus Palacios y Casas Nobles y Relacion de la Conquista de Itza en la Nueva España por el Conde Lizárraga (1714). Madrid: La Sociedad de Bibliófilos Españoles, Tercera Época Vol. I, 1958, number 300 of an unstated edition with Dr. Glaser's name printed on the verso of the title page. Full speckled sheep with five raised spine bands, two leather spine labels in red and lavender with gilt titles, 7 3/8 by 10-inches, red top-stain, printed endpapers, watermarked laid paper, 343 pp. plus colophon. This copy has the spine panel from the original wraps bound in at the rear. Light rubbing to the lower corners, bumping to the upper corners, and a partially peeled-off one-inch square of masking tape with a number in marker on the upper left corner of the front pastedown. Many of the leaves remain unopened. From the collection of Dr. Edward Glaser, a native of Austria, who studied at the University of Vienna and—after emigrating to the United States and spending two years in the U.S. Army during World War II—Wayne University. He earned his doctorate at Harvard and remained there to teach until moving to the University of Michigan in 1959. Prof. Glaser, an enthusiastic scholar of Spanish and Portuguese literature, quickly became an integral part of Michigan's Romantic Languages department. He received a Guggenheim fellowship and was appointed to the advisory board of the Hispanic Review and editorial boards of several scholarly journals, all while keenly interested in both field research and his students, to whom he was deeply committed. Prof. Glaser was an internationally recognized authority in his field, especially in the Spanish Golden Age, the Biblical drama, and the literary relations between Spain and Portugal, and published several articles and books on these subjects. (case)
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U.K. Broker Hargreaves Lansdown to Offer Bitcoin Investment to its Customers
Britain's largest brokerage firm, Hargreaves Lansdown, announced that it would provide its clients with the opportunity to invest in bitcoin by listing XBT Provider's Bitcoin ETN (exchange traded note) on its online trading platform.
London-based Hargreaves Lansdown was founded in 1981 and has grown into Britain's largest brokerage firm with over 875,000 customers and £70 billion ($90.27 billion) of assets under administration. The idea to provide its customers with the opportunity to gain investment exposure to the digital currency bitcoin sprung out of investor interest.
Hargreaves Lansdown's Head of Communications, Danny Cox, stated:
"We have seen a handful of clients asking for the [bitcoin] ETN, so it's not purely driven by a provider wanting to be listed [on Hargreaves Lansdown's platform]. We are making it available to self-select investors in the same way we offer access to around 3,000 other exchange-traded funds, notes, and commodities."
The bitcoin ETN provided by Sweden-based XBT Provider is listed on the Nasdaq Nordic exchange in Stockholm and comes in two formats; the Bitcoin Tracker One (COINXBT SS), and the Bitcoin Tracker Euro (COINXBE SS), which are denominated in Swedish krona and euros respectively.
According to the XBT ETN fact sheet, "the Certificates are non-equity linked securities which synthetically track the performance of the price of bitcoin less a fee." That means that the exchange traded note is structured in a way that it tracks the price of bitcoin (in US dollars) but does so in euros or krona minus a fee. That also means that UK investors who purchase the bitcoin ETN will not only be exposed to the fluctuations in bitcoin but also those of the US dollar to either the euro or the krona depending on the ETN the investor buys. XBT ETN holders will face a fee of 2.5 percent per annum.
"By adding self-service, online dealing, the team at Hargreaves Lansdown is providing UK investors with professional and quick access to bitcoin in the UK and greater Europe," XBT's Head of Investor Relations, Ryan Radloff.
The fact that the largest brokerage firm in the UK is offering bitcoin investment options to its customers due to strong client interest in the digital currency is a clear sign that there is still a lot of potential demand for bitcoin, and volume, yet to enter the market. That, of course, bodes well for the continuance of bitcoin's impressive rally in 2017.


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One man's loophole is another man's R&D tax credit
"So tonight, I'm asking Democrats and Republicans to simplify the system. Get rid of the loopholes. Level the playing field. And use the savings to lower the corporate tax rate for the first time in 25 years -- without adding to our deficit. It can be done."
That, of course, was Barack Obama at the State of the Union, calling for corporate tax reform. But if you want to see why corporate tax reform will be so hard -- and why it remains such a longshot -- read Eric Toder's breakdown of the corporate tax code. The first number to keep in mind is $640 billion. That's how much the various breaks and deductions and off-ramps are projected to cost between 2011 and 2015. Wipe them all out and you could bring the rate down from 35 percent to 23 percent without losing a dime in revenue. Sounds great, right? Well, it won't sound as good once you hear what's hiding behind the word "loophole."
The largest estimated loss ($169 billion) over five years comes from deferral of foreign source income of U.S. multinationals. In the past, the revenue gain from eliminating deferral has been estimated as much smaller than the ongoing revenue cost under current law. And the corporate leaders now advising the President are likely pushing him to move in the opposite direction, following our major trading partners, who exempt foreign-source income. The second largest, accelerated depreciation of machinery and equipment, costs an estimated $147 billion. But this tax expenditure, which broadly subsidizes domestic investment for a wide range of business firms, has just been increased, with the support of the Administration, by allowing full expensing for investments made in 2011. The President has endorsed making the research credit permanent (scored at $13 billion over 5 years last year, but since increased because Congress extended it) and no one would even consider eliminating expensing of research and experimentation activities ($32 billion over 5 years).
Other items among the ten costliest provisions that seem unlikely to get chopped include the credit for low-income housing ($36 billion), accelerated depreciation on rental housing ($41 billion), and exclusion of interest on hospital construction bonds ($21 billion). Adding up all these items reduces the potential saving from $640 billion over 5 years to just $180 billion, or less than 10 percent of 5-year corporate revenues. And even getting this far would require eliminating alcohol fuel credits -- think, Iowa primary -- ($32 billion), the deduction for domestic production activities ($77 billion), preferential tax rates for small corporations ($16 billion), and all tax incentives for renewable energy ($26 billion, excluding alcohol fuels). The only tax breaks the President proposed removing in his speech were tax breaks for fossil fuels -- a mere $14 billion over 5 years.
Those won't be easy to get rid of. Some of them wouldn't even be wise to get rid of. And every time one "loophole" gets preserved, another group of corporations can make a stronger argument that their favored tax breaks should also be preserved. After all, do you really want less domestic production? Less research and development? Less clean energy investment? More corporations moving overseas?
Ezra Klein
| February 7, 2011; 5:35 PM ET
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Corporate tax loopholes are just the next iteration of earmarks and waste, fraud, and abuse and welfare queens. Everyone agrees they're bad and we should get rid of them, but it turns out they don't really exist the way politicians talk about them.
Posted by: RobertBeard | February 7, 2011 6:56 PM | Report abuse
Ezra, could your own posts dealing with how hard it is to reduce the deficit maybe cause you to start waking up to the sectoral balances:
and the simple fact that Government deficit is largely non-discretionary. They are the accounting offset of: Current Accounts Deficit (M-X) and Private sector surpluses (S-I). Substantially reducing govt deficits without either/or (a) turning around our trade deficit into a trade surplus ; (b) driving domestic private sector into deficit is impossible, by the inescapable logic of the accounting identity above.
Do not try to square a circle, learn to love the deficits:
Posted by: pdrub | February 7, 2011 7:32 PM | Report abuse
If you want to see why corporate tax reform fails in one graph (effective tax rate by industry): http://www-958.ibm.com/software/data/cognos/manyeyes/visualizations/effective-tax-rate-small
The source is listed on the site -data was collected from hundreds of listed companies over years.
Posted by: chrisgaun | February 7, 2011 10:22 PM | Report abuse
"no one would even consider eliminating expensing of research and experimentation activities "
That's because they are EXPENSES. You don't tax expenses... On the other hand, the credits are out of line.
Posted by: staticvars | February 7, 2011 10:56 PM | Report abuse
Thank you so much for pointing this out. I felt like the blogosphere was completely ignoring this point and shouting "get rid of tax loopholes!" the way some shout "cut the deficit!" without pointing out the hard choices behind the words.
Posted by: madjoy | February 8, 2011 4:25 PM | Report abuse
Here'a an idea. Cut all of the loop holes and just give grants to those specific areas you want to boost. You could lower the rate and make collection much easier. There would be added expense in administrating the grants, but it could be done. You also could more narrowly target those areas of "research" that get incentives. It would probably reduce graft.
Posted by: hotbbq | February 9, 2011 11:39 AM | Report abuse
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The aim of all IB programmes is to develop internationally minded people who recognize their common humanity and shared guardianship of the planet. Central to this aim is international-mindedness. International-mindedness is a multi-faceted and complex concept that captures a way of thinking, being and acting that is characterized by an openness to the world and a recognition of our deep interconnectedness to others.
To be open to the world, we need to understand it. IB programmes therefore provide students with opportunities for sustained inquiry into a range of local and global issues and ideas. This willingness to see beyond immediate situations and boundaries is essential as globalization and emerging technologies continue to blur traditional distinctions between the local, national and international.
An IB education fosters international-mindedness by helping students reflect on their own perspective, culture and identities, and then on those of others. By learning to appreciate different beliefs, values and experiences, and to think and collaborate across cultures and disciplines, IB learners gain the understanding necessary to make progress toward a more peaceful and sustainable world.
An IB education further enhances the development of international-mindedness through multilingualism. All IB programmes require the students to study, or study in, more than one language because we believe that communicating in more than one language provides excellent opportunities to develop intercultural understanding and respect. It helps the students to appreciate that his or her own language, culture and worldview is just one of many.
International-mindedness is also encouraged through a focus on global engagement and meaningful service with the community. These elements challenge the student to critically consider power and privilege, and to recognize that he or she holds this planet and its resources in trust for future generations. They also highlight the focus on action in all IB programmes: a focus on moving beyond awareness and understanding to engagement, action and bringing about meaningful change.


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U.S. Army Veteran Aaron Hillis was visibly moved as he and his wife Elizabeth walked down the driveway of their new home for the first time on Friday.
The couple was given the Portifino Court home in Boiling Springs, mortgage-free, through a partnership between Freedom Alliance and U.S. Bank.
Hillis, 28 and a Florida native, enlisted in the Army in 2010, and in 2012 he was deployed to Afghanistan for nine months. While on patrol, the vehicle he was in drove over an improvised explosive device, which went off under him. The aftermath left Hillis with a traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder. He was medically retired from the Army in February 2017.
Hillis said his new dream is to attend college, with a major in business and minor in accounting, and to eventually open up a gun range and store. This house is the first step in making that dream come to life, he said.
"We're still in a bit of disbelief. It's very amazing and exciting for the future," he said. "This gift will definitely help ease a lot of financial stress and anxiety, and it'll help me be able to focus on my heath and getting myself back to where I need to be mentally and physically."
Tom Kilgannon, president of Freedom Alliance, said the house was donated by U.S. Bank through its Housing Opportunities after Military Engagement program. It is in partnership with Freedom Alliance's Heroes to Homeowners program.
"Aaron is an American hero, and we wanted to give him the American dream of home-ownership," Kilgannon said. "Having a home like this will help him concentrate on those priorities of getting well and going to college."
Hillis and his wife moved to Boiling Springs from Olympia, Wash., and will begin settling into the renovated three-bedroom, two-bathroom house as soon as the moving truck arrives in the next few days.
"My mom knows the area pretty well, so I do know, it's a great area and a great place to live," he said. "We're really excited for it." ___
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