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By Bunk, Oct 1 2013 1:16PM
Well, that's how the title ended up, and appropriate since the majority of pages are 'silent' in a text sense. (And no apostrophe in 'people's', since my heading font doesn't have one!)
The whole project took me almost a year to complete (50 double-page spreads): glad I didn't go for the 100-spread version!
I've learned several things from this exercise:
1. A book of this size needs to be bound less tightly - it's amazing how much thickness paint adds!
2. In fact (1) may not be such a problem, since I can't imagine binding such a big book for a long time!
3. I thought using an old encyclopaedia would prompt me, visually, but it deterred me...
4. Having in mind that I would eventually show the book publicly definitely censored me.
So, looking forward to what's next: a smaller, private, uncensored journal!
(But I'm sure I'll have pages to show...)
And now I can look forward to my treat - I promised myself a copy of Orly Avineri's book One Artist Journal, oh and some more paints!
I've put the slide-show of the book on YouTube, and want to thank Lawrence Blatt for use of his lovely tune 'Black Rock Beach', courtesy of BeatPick.com.
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By Bunk, May 11 2013 2:38PM
I came across this poem on Arlene Wanetick's website, art 4 play. Loved it so much I made a journal spread to incorporate it:
I wish to grow dumber,
to slip deep into woods that grow blinder
with each step I take,
until the fingers let go of their numbers
and the hands are finally ignorant as paws.
Unable to count the petals,
I will not know who loves me,
who loves me not.
Nothing to remember,
nothing to forgive,
I will stumble into the juice of the berry, the shag of bark,
I will be dense and happy as fur.
Noelle Oxenhandler
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By Bunk, Dec 29 2012 2:26PM
Here's the latest spread in my Young Scientist journal... oil man just appeared to me as an image of an oil refinery translated into the form of a man, with the heavier fractions coming off closer to his feet, and the gases discharging further up! I have absolutely no idea why he is wearing a string vest!
I've finally got around to writing up a POSCA hack (under 'Courses' on my main menu). Since Sharpie poster paint pens are unavailable in this country, uniPOSCAs seem to be the best thing available, but their 1-mm-nib ones only come in a few colours, while their 8-mm chisel-tips come in the complete range, including fluorescents. This hack shows you how to mount a 1-mm round nib into the stump of an 8-mm chisel-tip to give you 1-mm pens in all the colours!
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By Bunk, Nov 5 2012 9:24PM
Well, I've managed to carry on with the spreads in the Young People's Science Encyclopedia... despite a bit of an accident. It went like this:
I ordered some matte varnish, since it's really useful for sealing, making glazes etc. It arrived and I excitedly started applying it to the 'watering can' spread I put up before, to even out the shine from some gloss medium on there... well, I got so over-excited that I thought I would use it to seal a little drawing of someone diving into the sea, on the previous page. So, with no further thought, I turned the page and began sealing... then I got distracted, and returned a few hours later to find the pages well-and-truly stuck together... doh! I pulled them apart and was left with a bit of a mess, with almost all bar the flower in the previous spread gone. So, well I had to make do with what I had, and in fact I like the result. The envelope on the left-hand page is where I keep my ideas for further pages when they arrive.
The whole episode makes me believe even more that Liquitex matte varnish and matte medium are the same thing.
Also, another spread I finished last night. It's all done on top of a John Piper sketch from a gallery poster. The sea serpent is done in blue carbon paper - if anyone knows how to fix it, I'd love to know!
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By Bunk, Oct 23 2012 1:53PM
Last month I went to a great art retreat on Exmoor, called 'Call of the Wild Soul' and had three full days of journalling and painting with Orly Avineri, Teesha Moore and Flora Bowley. I learned loads and really want to apply some of that...
One thing was Flora saying that to find your own style, you just need to go away and do 100 paintings! Well, it's not the first time I've heard that, but this time I thought 'yeah, I actually want to try that!'.
A big problem for me finding my own style in the past has been my chameleon-like habit of creating art in the style required for the job at hand. And despite getting through around 30 sketchbooks, I still don't feel grounded. The second thing was working at twice the size I'm used to in Orly's class - which really made a change for me, as did her insistence on working only on spreads.
So, I've made myself a new journal from a Young People's Science Encyclopedia, adding a few pages from my beloved Reader's Digest Great World Atlas to enable me to have 50 two-page spreads. Yes, 50! I decided 100 in one go was just too frightening a prospect, so I'm starting with 50. My greatest fear is that I'll give up after a few and never finish it, so ongoing encouragement/reminders would be most welcome! (I'm hoping to give myself incentives of buying books after reaching certain page landmarks...)
Here are a few images of the journal - empty pages and my first spread across the title pages. As you can see from the blank title pages, I had to totally rebind the book, which originally had a deep hinge as it was stapled and stitched front to back, leaving many holes! I had to reconstruct the cover boards and do a new open-spine binding to give me more space (and flat space) to work.
Another dilemma - whether to work stoically from front to back, or whether to plunge in wherever I find inspiration... I'll let you know.
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Family Won't Seek Damages for Webcam Spying
A lawyer for the family suing a Pennsylvania school district for allegedly spying on students through school laptops says they won't seek a class-action damage award.
Lawyer Mark Haltzman said Lower Merion school district student Blake Robbins only plans to seek class status for a court injunction that lays out fixes to the problem.
Hundreds of Lower Merion parents oppose a class action for financial and other reasons.
The suburban Philadelphia district acknowledges it captured 56,000 screen shots and webcam images in an effort to locate school-issued laptops. The district has abandoned the practice and is working to share the images in private with affected students.
Mr. Robbins says the district photographed him as he slept in bed.
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From John Adams to Mathew Carey, 21 June 1815
Quincy June 21. 1815
Mr Carey
I thank you for your Letter of the 14th. and printed half Sheets inclosed. I am Sorry there has been So much cause for the publication of the Olive Branch; but as I believe it will do good I have Subscribed for it. I am ashamed of the Vanity and Injustice of Some of our Preachers and Writers: and rejoice that the Events of the War have so completely confuted their Calumnies against the Southern and Transalleganean States.
You have paid a handsome compliment to a Work, which is forgotten in America, though not entirely in Europe as it has been translated into the German as well as the french Language, and, in the opinion of Some persons, has contributed Somewhat to introduce Representative Governments into Some of the old Electorates and Principalities in Germany as well as into the mighty Kingdom and Empire of France. It certainly had Some Effect in producing our present national Constitution, and more in the Adoption of it by the Several States. Never were Volumes written with more Sincerity, than the defence, and the discourses on Davila: and never were Scriptures interpreted, with less.
Perhaps, the most remarkable merit of the three first Volumes, [if] they have any, is the date of their composition and publication in [. . .] 1787 and 1788, when the French Revolution exhibited in its countenance to the view of Mankind in general, nothing but Innocence, Purity, Virtue, Humanity, Liberty and Patriotism. It had not then assumed its face of Blood and Horror, of Murder and Massacre, of Ambition a[nd] Avarice, of Conquest Despotism and Devastation.
Mr Dilly conducted the Publication of the "Defence," very absurdly 100 Volumes of the 2d. and third were Sent to Phyladelphia, without the first. Mr Dobson, had them, Eight and twenty Years ago, and when I left Phyladelphia there were about Eighty dollars as I understood, due to me. There have been three Editions of the first Volume printed in America, besides Cobbets; one in Boston, one in New York and one in Philadelphia. Mr Dobson has conducted with perfect Integrity and honour, from first to last. My own Indolence is only [. . .] fault. If there are any Copies of the first Volume, of whatever Edit[ion] to be had I should be glad to purchase fifty of them.
I am Sir, with much regard your humble Servant
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DEFINE What is the challenge you've been given? The problem that our group had decided to address was the lack of electricity, and the inaccessibility that people have to electricity in certain countries. For example, Saul and his family. When skyping with Saul this previous time, we were a bit shocked to find out the […]
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Solution Fluency ASK What questions was I trying to answer? The question that I was trying to answer through my research, was what genes were connected and related to Crohn's Disease and what exactly that gene controlled in their hosts body. So my answers to those questions was the gene NOD2 and what that gene […]
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This diagram represents the cell when it is in a stage called interphase. When a cell is interphase it functions as it normally should. This diagram represents the cell when it is in a stage of mitosis called prophase. When a cell is in the prophase stage of mitosis, the […]
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For this lab, we had to assemble (using candy) a DNA strand. The liquorice represented the back bones of the DNA strand, so the sugar and phosphate. The marshmallows represented the chemical bases, and each different marshmallow color represented a different one. Green represented Guanine, pink represented Cytosine, yellow represented Adenine, and orange represented Thymine. […]
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Purpose: Which fruit creates the most electric voltage? Hypothesis: Previously posted in a separate post. Materials (fruits that were used): Orange Lemon Banana Potato Procedure: First each fruit was tested with 3V, and then with 15V, except for the potato that was only tested with 3V. Observations: When the fruits were tested with 3V, they […]
Currents in the Kitchen – Predictions
I think that a lemon will create the most electric voltage.
Video Lab – Poco-opolis 500
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I wonder… How do electrical panels work? How is a static shock created, like when you touch somebody? What is electrical resistance? Electrical currents definition? More ways to conserve electricity? Voltage? How is electricity created? How do transformers, the boxes you see outside, work?
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That was the topic discussed recently by OCLC Research Library Partners metadata managers, initiated by Roxanne Missingham of Australian National University and Stephen Hearn of the University of Minnesota. Archival collections are in many ways the jewels in the crown of collections as they are unique research resources that provide insights into the world across many centuries, the fodder for creating new research. Creating visibility for these collections reaps significant benefits for both researchers and libraries/archives. Archives are, however, complex, and present different metadata issues compared to traditional library collections. As institutions turn to ArchiveSpace and other content management systems to provide infrastructures for structured archival metadata, various issues are emerging.
OCLC Research Library Partners use a variety of standards to describe archival collections: Describing Archives: A Content Standard (DACS), Encoded Archival Description (EAD) and MARC are common in the United States; Rules for Archival Description (RAD) in Canada; and the International Council on Archives' (ICA) International Standard Archival Description (ISAD) in Australia, the United Kingdom and other Western nations. Discovery is through local portals and regional networks, and aggregations such as the Social Networks and Archival Context (SNAC), ArchiveGrid, Trove (in Australia) and WorldCat.
Some highlights from the discussions:
- Identifiers: Many would like to assign identifiers to parts of a collection in addition to the overall collection. The Smithsonian has been using ARKs (Archival Resource Key), assigning the same stem to parts of a collection providing a type of hierarchical approach to constructing identifiers. The number of personal names in archival collections can be so large that most are uncontrolled and without identifiers. George Washington University is experimenting with automatically generating entities from finding aids with good results.
- Improving exposure to archival collections: RAMP (Remixing Archival Metadata Project), developed by the University of Miami Libraries, is a tool that extracts biographical and historical data from EAD finding aids and then generates enhanced authority records and publishes the content as Wikipedia pages. (OCLC Research sponsored a webinar in 2014, "Beyond EAD: Tools for Creating and Editing EAC-CPF Records and 'Remixing' Archival Metadata" featuring a demonstration of RAMP.) The Wikipedia Library's 1Lib1Ref campaigns encourage librarians to add one reference to an existing Wikipedia article, which could be to an archival collection. OCLC recently won a Knight News Challenge to promote collaboration between public libraries and Wikipedia, which could also include more exposure to archival collections. (See 16 June 2016 news release and WebJunction's project page, Wikipedia + Libraries: Better Together.)
- Differences between archivists and librarians: Archives have had more autonomy than libraries within their institutions because they have unique collections with their own population of users. Some institutions have integrated archival processing within technical services, but most maintain a separate unit. Even so, a significant shift to metadata standardization from "artisanal archival approaches" has been occurring. Archivists do not have the tradition of creating authority records and sharing identifiers for the same entity as is common among librarians. Archivists tend to use the fullest form of a name based on the information found in collections, while librarians focus on "preferred" form found in publications. Some differences arise from the technology used; for example, ArchiveSpace does not connect authority records to collection descriptions, a major hindrance to data integration.
Among the questions raised:
- How can archivists and librarians best integrate their data and name authority practices when their administrative units are separate?
- The contextual information that archivists provide for personal and organizational entities would enrich the information provided in authority files – how could they be linked?
- Do different needs arise when describing born-digital archival materials? Physical "extent" does not apply, while the original "carrier" may be considered a crucial element. The work underway by the OCLC Research Web Archiving Metadata Working Group led by my colleagues Jackie Dooley and Dennis Massie may address some of these differences.
Karen Smith-Yoshimura, senior program officer, works on topics related to creating and managing metadata with a focus on large research libraries and multilingual requirements.


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Monday, May 22, 2017
Spring Consultation – BOT and UFFMillican Hall: 395
The Spring Consultation between the University of Central Florida Board of Trustees and the United Faculty of Florida will take place on Monday, May 22, from 8:30 - 10:00 a.m. in MH 395.Events at UCF View Event
Blood Drive (Recurring Event)Veterans Commemorative Site
Blood drives are one of the many ways our Knight family demonstrates its giving spirit. Come join us on the Big Red Bus! Knights Bleed Black & Gold! Visit http://BloodDrives-UCF.org for information for students, faculty, and staff regarding drives, events, volunteering, blood donor facts, advocacy, and UCF training and educational opportunities.Students, faculty, and staff interested in working with the Knights …Events at UCF View Event
Exhibit: Asian Pacific American Heritage Month Book award winners (Recurring Event)John C. Hitt Library: main floor
May is Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month – a celebration of Asians and Pacific Islanders in the United States. Visit the main (2nd) floor of John C. Hitt Library to view the winners of the Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature during the past several years. The Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature (APAAL) is a set of literary awards presented annually by …Events at UCF View Event
Dealing with Communication AnxietyGraduate Student Center: Colbourn Hall, Suite 146
Many people deal with some level of communication anxiety when speaking in public. Whether you lead a small discussion, teach a large lecture or present at meetings or conferences, nerves can get the best of you. We will learn some techniques to alleviate speaking anxiety and boost confidence in the classroom. Students must register for all workshops through their myUCF …Events at UCF View Event
Meditation Class (Recurring Event)RWC @ Knights Plaza
Just Be Meditation Class - Take time to Just Be and join WHPS in a guided meditation class! Students only. Come reduce your stress and learn the basics of meditation.Events at UCF View Event
UCF Starters Transition Program at Canvs - INVITATION ONLYCanvs
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Spearfish (Lakota: Hočhápȟe) is a city in Lawrence County, South Dakota, United States. The population was 10,494 at the 2010 census.
Before the Black Hills Gold Rush of 1876, the area was used by Native Americans (primarily bands of Sioux but others also ranged through the area). Once the gold rush started, the city was founded in 1876 at the mouth of Spearfish Canyon, and was originally called Queen City. Spearfish grew as a supplier of foodstuffs to the mining camps in the hills. Even today, a significant amount of truck farming and market gardening still occurs in the vicinity.
In 1887, the accepted history of gold mining in the Black Hills was thrown into question by the discovery of what has become known as the Thoen Stone. Discovered by Louis Thoen on the slopes of Lookout Mountain, the stone purports to be the last testament of Ezra Kind who, along with six others, entered the Black Hills in 1833 (at a time when whites were forbidden by law and treaty from entering the area), "got all the gold we could carry" in June 1834, and were subsequently "killed by Indians beyond the high hill." While it may seem unlikely that someone who has "lost my gun and nothing to eat and Indians hunting me" would take the time to carve his story in sandstone, there is corroborating historical evidence for the Ezra Kind party.
In the 20th century, the history of Spearfish was tied very closely to mining and tourism. Architect Frank Lloyd Wright, who visited Spearfish Canyon in 1935, later called the area "unique and unparalleled elsewhere in our country," and wondered, "How is it that I've heard so little of this miracle and we, toward the Atlantic, have heard so much of the Grand Canyon when this is even more miraculous?"
The Homestake Sawmill (previously part of Pope and Talbot, now owned by Neimen Forest Products) was built to supply timbers for the Homestake Mine in Lead (closed January 2002). In 1938, Joseph Meier brought the Luenen Passion Play to settle permanently in Spearfish and become the Black Hills Passion Play, drawing thousands of visitors every year during the summer months.


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Soft and chewy oatmeal cookies are sandwiched together with delicious vanilla buttercream to create the perfect dessert. Forget Little Debbie -- fresh, homemade oatmeal cream Pies are where it's at.
Oatmeal cream pies are one of those store-bought items that I simply can't have in the house. I loved them as a kid and even had them on my weekly shopping list in college - which totally contributed to the freshman twenty. Well, those, and Taco Bell nachos bel grandes with extra sour cream. Keepin' it real, folks.
There's just something about soft oatmeal cookies sandwiched together with a layer of sweet frosting that makes me happy and nostalgic. Do you remember opening up that crinkly plastic wrapper and getting hit with the sweet, oaty smell of those super soft cookies and delicious frosting? Someone should totally make a candle that smells like that.
I had to permanently remove them from my shopping list when I found myself noshing down on an entire box of them in a matter of a few days. If you haven't had an oatmeal cream pie in awhile, allow me to remind you that there are 12 oatmeal cream pies in a box, so I was getting down with those suckers in a serious and not-so-good-for-me kinda way.
They'd pretty much fallen off my dessert/snack radar for years until last month when I stopped into a local bakery to pick up a cake. Keeping it even more real, this baking blogger bought a cake for her stepmom's birthday. Sometimes life gets the best of you, and a bakery is just the way to go, friends.
The lovely girl who owns the bakery greeted me a gorgeous ombre rose cake and an oatmeal cream pie the size of my face. The thing was crazy big, so I broke a not-so-tiny piece off and passed the rest off on my mom. But then I immediately added giant, homemade oatmeal cream pies to my must-bake recipe list.
And since bigger is always better when it comes to oatmeal cream pies, I wasn't messing around with small, flat oatmeal cookies. These babies are large, sturdy cookies. They're slightly crisp on the outside and perfectly chewy on the inside, which makes them perfect for sandwiching together with a generous slathering of vanilla buttercream.
My whole house smelled like that candle I want someone to make, and it. Was. AMAZING. Eric had been out at the gym, and when he walked in the door, I believe he exclaimed, "OMG WHAT did you bake?!". This house is never short on good baking smells, so that's saying somethin', folks.
These homemade oatmeal cream pies would be fantastic for taking along to summer picnics and potlucks because they travel easily and well. They're sure to be crowd pleasers - have you ever known anyone to ever turn down an oatmeal cream pie, let alone a homemade one? Doubtful.
You'll be a potluck hero, for sure!
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Negeri 5 Menara (Trilogi Negeri 5 Menara #1)
by Ahmad Fuadi
Alif had never set foot outside of West Sumatra. He passed his childhood days searching for fallen durian fruit in the jungle, playing soccer on rice paddies, and swimming in the blue waters of Lake Maninjau. His mother wants him to attend an Islamic boarding school, a pesantren, while he dreams of public high school. Halfheartedly, he follows his mother's wishes. He finds himself on a grueling three-day bus ride from Sumatra to Madani Pesantren (MP) in a remote village on Java.
On his first day at MP, Alif is captivated by the powerful phrase man jadda wajada. He who gives his all will surely succeed. United by punishment, he quickly becomes friends with five boys from across the archipelago, and together they become known as the Fellowship of the Manara. Beneath the mosque's minaret, the boys gaze at the clouds on the horizon, seeing in them their individual dreams of far-away lands, like America and Europe. Where would these dreams take them? They didn't know. What they did know was: never underestimate dreams, no matter how high they may be. God truly is The Listener.
The Land of Five Towers is the first book in a trilogy written by A. Fuadi—a former TEMPO & VOA reporter, photography buff, and a social entrepreneur. He went to George Washington University and Royal Holloway, University of London for his masters. A portion of the royalties from the trilogy are intended to build Komunitas Menara, a volunteer-based social organization which aims to provide free schools, libraries, clinics and soup kitchens for the less fortunate. To learn more about Komunitas Menara and their activities, check out www.negeri5menara.com
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Last week the government issued its guidance on the impact of a no-deal Brexit on data transfers with the EU after we leave the EU on 29 March 2019.
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Noble Group sacrifices profit in pursuit of cash after loss
[SINGAPORE] Noble Group Ltd has conceded it needs to pursue cash over profit.
After posting a second-quarter net loss of US$54.9 million and an increase in net debt, the commodity trader said its priority is boosting cash flow ahead of earnings. Reeling from a two-year collapse in its share price, the company is holding back capital from more profitable parts of the business as it works towards a target of raising US$2 billion.
In a tumultuous 18 months, Noble Group has lost its blue chip status and investment-grade rating amid sliding commodity prices and attacks on its accounting.
Former CEO Yusuf Alireza quit in May and days later the company announced an emergency rights issue and said founder and chairman Richard Elman would step down within 12 months. It's cutting jobs, selling assets and exiting some markets as it seeks to prop up its finances.
"It's still too early to talk about profitability for this company because they're still focusing on deleveraging and resolving liquidity issues," said Margaret Yang, a strategist at CMC Markets in Singapore.
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"They'll have to resolve their liquidity issues and overcome this tough period before we can see a real turnaround in this company."
The loss in the three months ended June compared with a net profit of US$62.6 million a year earlier, according to a statement on Thursday. Sales declined 32 per cent to US$12.5 billion. The Hong Kong-based firm was reporting its first earnings under new co-chief executive officers Jeff Frase and William Randall.
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Noble has lost about two-thirds of its market value over the past year as prices of everything from oil to coal and copper tumbled and its accounting methods came under attack from critics including Iceberg Research.
The stock fell to the lowest since 2003 last week before the US$500 million rights shares began trading in Singapore. It has slumped 49 per cent in 2016 while commodity returns have recovered about 15 per cent from the lowest in a generation in January. The shares closed 4.7 per cent higher at 15.5 Singapore cents on Thursday.
Net debt increased to US$3.92 billion by June 30 from US$3.69 billion three months earlier, the company said. Liquidity headroom - its accessible cash plus available committed bank facilities - shrank to US$800 million from US$1.9 billion at the end of the previous quarter. That number needs to be "much higher", according to chief financial officer Paul Jackaman.
"There's been an increased focus on liquidity over profitability," Mr Jackaman said on a conference call after the results.
"It's fair to say that we have accelerated, being very single minded, on moving as fast as we can to continue to deleverage and that has had consequences on results."
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Some credit lines linked to particular commodities, are "constrained", Mr Jackaman said in an interview after the call. The company got a waiver from relevant banks relating to one of the financial covenants in its revolving credit facility and borrowing base facility for the period ended June 30, it said.
Noble has already raised more than US$700 million in additional liquidity and is targeting a further US$1.3 billion through steps including the sale of its Noble Americas Energy Solutions business. It's also closing its European power and gas operations and discontinuing mining and metal units in North America and Europe.
The sale of NAES has "generated significant interest" from potential buyers and should close in the next few months, the company said. Considered core under former CEO Mr Alireza, it's a victim of Noble Group's cut to junk status as the company seeks to raise cash and divest a capital-intensive business that its credit rating can no longer support, Frase said in June.
In another fund-raising move, the company last year sold its remaining 49 per cent stake in the Noble Agri Ltd business to China's Cofco Corp for US$750 million in cash.
"Liquidity would trump profit at this point in time," said Nicholas Teo, a strategist at KGI Fraser Securities in Singapore.
"Liquidity would ultimately represent to a company whether it's going to be a viable entity going forward. A company with no liquidity would not be able to continue."
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Is a FUTA Return Required for the Owner of an S Corporation?
Federal Unemployment Tax is due each year for every company that has W-2 wage employees. The taxes you deposit for FUTA allows the federal government to assist state unemployment agencies with extra funding for unemployment compensation claims. As the owner of an S-corporation, you are required to pay FUTA taxes for yourself, based on Internal Revenue Service compensation laws for your business structure.
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As a working owner of an S-corporation, you must receive a wage from your company. This is required for all corporate officers who perform services for the company, regardless of the percentage of business owned. Wages are subject to state and federal unemployment tax, even if you are the only employee of the S-corporation. The IRS has an annual wage limit of $7,000 per employee subject to federal unemployment. If you earn more than this amount from your S-corporation, only the first $7,000 will be taxed. Wage limits for FUTA do not extend to any other sources of income you derive from the S-corporation, including distributions, dividends and shareholder loan repayments.
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Deposits for federal unemployment tax are due either quarterly or annually, depending on the amount of FUTA tax due. The IRS requires quarterly deposits if your FUTA tax for each quarter is more than $500. If you are required to make only an annual deposit, it is due Jan. 31. If you are required to deposit quarterly, you must make deposits on April 30, July 31, Oct. 31 and Jan. 31.
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The FUTA return -- IRS Form 940 -- is an annual return. The return is due Jan. 31 for the previous tax year. However, the IRS grants an automatic extension for filing if you made all FUTA deposits on time. If this applies to you, the filing deadline is Feb. 10. You may include your deposit with the return if you are an annual depositer. If you deposit quarterly, you may include your fourth-quarter deposit with the return and the rest of your deposits made during the year will be reconciled on the form.
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All states require S-corporations to pay a separate state unemployment insurance. However, you'll receive a federal credit of up to 5.4 percent for your state unemployment insurance payments on your FUTA return. The credit is calculated based on your state unemployment insurance rate -- typically a percentage -- and the gross compensation paid to each employee that is subject to state unemployment. Most states have a maximum amount of annual compensation subject to state unemployment, but the state limit may differ from the federal limit.
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The Halifax Charity Gala is organised by a small group of hard working volunteers. There is no 'average' Committee member and each individual brings their own unique skills to the group. Some have been there for years, others are just completing their first. Some roles within the Committee change each year - the Baby Contest organiser is one that no one seems to want to keep! However everyone has an input and responsibility for making the Halifax Charity Gala happen.
This small group of local people simply give up their time to help other local people - many Committee members have had an involvement with the Halifax Charity Gala for a number of years through other Organisations. The Committee do not benefit in anyway, nor (unlike some events) do they have any say in which charities the Gala supports - any local charity, youth group or voluntary organisation can apply to become a member and benefit from the Halifax Charity Gala. They do it simply for the greater good and the fact that it is actually quite good fun!
Apart from giving up the second weekend in June to the Gala - on site all day every day from Friday to Sunday - the Committee also meet around once a month throughout the year to plan the event - as one Gala finishes the next one is only 364 days away and planning must begin... The Committee have lots to do - advertising, licences, meetings with the council and police, arranging the fairground, concessions, entertainers, first aiders, water supply, fencing, security, banners, signs, army, communications, the Mayor, an HGV break down vehicle, hundreds of yellow cones, miles of blue rope for the arenas, car parks and boundaries, awards, prizes, judges, babies, pets, programmes - the list is all but endless!
Yet the Committee repeatedly stage a very successful event raising on average around £25,000 each year for local good causes and attracting as many as 10,000 visitors.
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Raising Cane
Get a 6 foot long cane from a garden shop. It needs to be nice and light. A broomstick or heavier cane will not work.
Now ask your guests to form into teams of 4 or 6.
The first team comes up to the front and stands in two lines facing each other.
Now ask them to raise their hands to waist level and stick out a finger on both hands as if pointing.
Then place the cane on top of the fingers so it is touching everyone's fingers (with no exceptions).
There is one simple objective - for the team to lower the cane to the ground. Everybody's fingers must stay in contact with the cane, and nothing else can touch the can, otherwise you must start again from the top.
This sounds easy, but is almost impossible to do. To everyone's amazement and mirth, the cane will actually rise up!
As the first teams fails, ask your next team to try the challenge and continue until you all give up in frustration.
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played it on a school trip nearly impossible we couldn't do it
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How is the cane held up? I can't figure that one out...
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It requires a lot of team work and strategy. It's harder than it sounds but it gets a laugh and people working together!
I didn't beleive this until we tried it. At the party we had a team of 4 girls try first, and of course the cane went up, with the men jeering - until they tried, and found that they couldn't do it either - great fun
this was one of many games we played at our xmas party and although sceptical,went with it. It was so funny we all ended up trying it as no one believed it could not work. Believe me its a real winner
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Cutting the W88 - The Right Target
June 25, 2008
From POGO's blog:
The House Energy and Water Appropriations Subcommittee has taken a step toward sanity in the U.S. nuclear weapons complex. The Subcommittee is now saying that there is no more money for building plutonium pits, which are at the core of the W88 warhead that is carried aboard U.S. nuclear submarines. The Department of Energy (DOE) had planned to produce between 10 and 50 pits annually over the next four years at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL).
Before it was made public, the Albuquerque Journal obtained a copy of the Subcommittee's report, which states that the weapon "serves obsolete Cold War concepts rather than current or future needs." In addition, DOE kept making the pits even when their viability and safety were questionable.
Early this year, POGO learned that LANL asked for 72 waivers for the pits manufacturing specifications. LANL claims everything is fine because the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) accepted all of the 72 proposed changes. Yet, sources told POGO that NNSA has no capability to independently evaluate the impact of each of the 72 waivers on the eventual reliability of the pits. For its assessment, NNSA is totally dependent on the design lab (LANL).
Today during the markup, Subcommittee Chairman Peter Visclosky (D-IN) called DOE's project management "abysmal." Given that 90 percent of DOE's work is doled out to contractors, more than at any other federal agency, POGO looks forward to more rigorous oversight of the weapon's complex.
As the Los Alamos Study Group points out:
The House Appropriations Committee, in actions subsequently endorsed by the House as a whole by tacit acceptance or wide margins, has either zeroed or deeply cut pit-production-related construction at LANL every year for the last 5 years.…Over this same 5-year period, these funds have been restored in whole or in part as a result of negotiations with the Senate, led by Pete Domenici on the Senate side.
However, the story is not over yet, as the Senate has not voted on the appropriations bill. It is our understanding there will not be a FY 2009 bill, but a continuing resolution. When the bill is marked up early next year, LANL's "St. Pete" Domenici (R-NM) won't be around, as he's retiring.
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Footnotes from the World's Greatest Bookstores: True Tales and Lost Moments from Book Buyers, Booksellers, and Book Lovers176
A New York Times Bestseller
From the beloved New Yorker cartoonist comes a collection of paintings and stories from some of the world's most cherished bookstores.
This collection of 75 evocative paintings and colorful anecdotes invites you into the heart and soul of every community: the local bookshop, each with its own quirks, charms, and legendary stories.
The book features an incredible roster of great bookstores from across the globe and stories from writers, thinkers and artists of our time, including David Bowie, Tom Wolfe, Jonathan Lethem, Roz Chast, Deepak Chopra, Bob Odenkirk, Philip Glass, Jonathan Ames, Terry Gross, Mark Maron, Neil Gaiman, Ann Patchett, Chris Ware, Molly Crabapple, Amitav Ghosh, Alice Munro, Dave Eggers, and many more.
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Virat Kohli doesn't run after records, says his childhood coach RK Sharma
After Virat Kohli scored his sixth Test double century of career, his childhood coach Raj Kumar Sharma said that the Indian skipper 'doesn't play for records.' Talking to ANI
After Virat Kohli scored his sixth Test double century of career, his childhood coach Raj Kumar Sharma said that the Indian skipper 'doesn't play for records.' Talking to ANI, Sharma said, 'Virat just concentrates on playing good cricket with correct techniques. He loves to win the matches for the team and wants his team to be number one in all the formats of the game.
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Batting against Sri Lanka at his home ground of Feroz Shah Kotla, Kohli has eased past West Indies' great Brian Lara, who had hit five Test tons. Heaping praises on Kohli, Sharma said that the 29-year-old is the most consistent batsman India has ever produced. Invincible Kohli has now equaled legendary Sachin Tendulkar and Virender Sehwag's record of most Test double tons for the country.
Though Kohli has been playing exceptionally well, the mentor said that he should not be compared with legendary Sachin Tendulkar. 'We should not compare him with Sachin. Sachin has played for the country for 24 years. Virat is too young now and we should not compare him with such a legend,' he said. Earlier, on the first day of the Delhi Test against the Islanders, Kohli registered a hat-trick of centuries in a three-match series to become the fourth-fastest Indian to reach 5,000 runs in Tests.
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FIFA 13 has been out for a little while now, certainly long enough for people to find issues with it and notify watchdog about them…
So if you've found any, let us know about them too.
We initially thought that Career Mode locks were limited to early access through season ticket, but it seems that's not the case. There's three fixes we've heard of so far:
- Move the save file to the cloud and open it from there.
- Delete your gameface
- Create a new save file, save to it, delete that save file and re open the original.
They're just some that we've heard from Twitter, we've not used them ourselves so your mileage may vary.
Additionally we've heard about the problem with FIFA Points not being credited to accounts (although we've bought and used FIFA points with no issue) and the usual server lag/crash stuff, we'll have to wait for a comment from EA about those.
There's also a problem with the game locking at the "Updating EAS FC Catalogue" screen, so you can't even get to the menus. I don't know how widespread it is but I know of at least one person who's experiencing it because it's me. Unbelievable really. As I post this, I can't play FIFA at all. I've tried deleting my existing EASFC Cataolgue files from my hard drive, clearing my xbox cache, rebooting, but it locks every single time I try to load FIFA 13. If anyone knows of a fix for that, I'd be eternally grateful.
*EDIT* I've since resolved this problem, by deleting my UGC file of all things. Creation Centre content strikes again! No idea how CC content is related to the EASFC Catalogue but there you have it. There's an alternative fix here: http://answers.ea.com/t5/FIFA-13/Updating-EAS-FC-Catalogue/td-p/84164
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The challenge last night on The Block Glasshouse proved to be more of a challenge than expected. The question on everyone's mind was 'will they or won't they deliver the sofa on time?'
The task of finding Australian made products for a living room reveal was a no brainer for Chris & Jenna who by this stage know that Home Concepts specialise in locally made products.
Beating Shannon & Simon to the post, Chris & Jenna made a great choice in selecting the York Road 3 Seater Sofa along with the Olinda armchair for a splash of colour. Both items are made in Melbourne and suited their brief.
What didn't go according to plan was the delivery. Omitting to give the correct address, the furniture items were initially delivered to the wrong location. With just an hour to spare, Jenna realising her sofa wasn't there, contacted Home Concepts. Thankfully, our traffic weaving courier delivered to the correct address with only 3 minutes to spare! Phew. Furniture items delivered and living room finished. Unfortunately, Chris & Jenna didn't win but were complemented on their choice of sofa.
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DVDO Transitions Back to Being Privately Held With Nearly Two Decades of Expertise in Video Connectivity Solutions
Privatization Enables Greater Flexibility in Developing Innovative Products for High Growth Markets Such as CE/IT Convergence, Virtual Reality and Home Automation
SANTA CLARA, CA – September 29, 2016 – DVDO®, Inc., an award-winning provider of high-quality, ultra high-definition (UHD) video processing, switching and connectivity solutions, makes strategic transition forming a private entity owned and managed by CEO Doug Fealtman. DVDO is committed to its existing portfolio of wired and wireless video products, while also focusing on the development of innovative solutions to address emerging technology areas such as 4K UHD, high dynamic range (HDR), over the top (OTT), virtual reality, and home automation.
"Over the past two decades, DVDO has been delivering solutions that address the requirements of professional installers and prosumer home theater enthusiasts. We will continue to leverage our CE and professional channel to support our customer base," stated CEO Doug Fealtman. "Now, with a renewed sense of vigor and nimbleness of a private entity, we are in a stronger position to quickly and adeptly meet the expanding market needs of UHDTV,CE/IT convergence, virtual reality and home automation. Stay tuned to hear more about our upcoming products in these areas."
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The warmest member of the ergoCocoon family, the 2.5 tog baby swaddle has a built in blanket filled with pure organic cotton for maximum breathability and softness.
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