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Discussion in 'Tactical Shotguns' started by blaster_54738, Sep 19, 2008.
I think we need a thread of tactical shotgun pics. I'll start
Thats one mean looking shottie right there!
For "tactical" situations, I've never been a big fan of gadgets. I keep mine simple.
well it's mainly used for home defense so a flashlight is a must and for me its easier to put a red dot on something than line up sights.
Got this last month and added the ATI AR stock...
Not a fan of the stock, so I currently have on order a Knoxx SpecOps. Also have on order a Mesa 6 shell carrier, Hogue Handall and Hogue forend. I hate waiting. I'll post updated pics when it all come in.
It now has a Speedfeed Butt Stock. I need to find a good tactical sling for it.
I guess peopel would be bored with mine. I have a Mossberg 500 with 20" barrel and factory 7 round mag tube. I trimmed the stock down to 13" and added a Surefire light.
My Hogue forend and Mesa carrier came in last week and I got them put on. Very happy with them. UPS man brought my Knoxx stock today. Wow, very impressed with it, can't wait to get home and get it put on. It's a little heavy though, but solid. I'll post an updated pic later this evening when I get the chance.
Done. Here's the pic:
Mossberg 500 persuader 7 shot. Sorry for the picture, its off my phone.
870 Police Magnum
Remington 870 Express Magnum, 18" barrel, fixed cylinder choke
Tac-star 2 shot mag tube extension
UTG tri-rail
Panther flashlight w/ pressure switch
Laser-lyte sub compact laser unit
Uncle Mike's sling swivels (rear)
Picatinny rail sling mount (forward)
Uncle Mike's butt cuff
Sling with ammo loops
Limbsaver slip-on recoil pad
Here's my Saiga 12 8 inch.
Oooh, I wanna play...
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The Flower H'mongs bury a village mate. Bac Ha, Vietnam
The last few days of the Taoist Hungry Ghosts month saw this Teochew opera troupe waiting for its last curtain call of the season:
And then there was the burning of hell money everywhere. At Newton Circus, a massive paper effigy of the Tai Soo Yah - the hell god - was sent off to the netherworld in spectacular fashion.
Thus ended this year's Hungry Ghosts Festival.
Time to offer food and money yet again to this month's hungry ghosts!
So where do I start? After my wifey's surprise Maldives treat and the Bangkok assignment in January, a few other things happened on the way to today:
There was the run to Phuket and Sukhothai where I covered King Ramkamhaeng's birthday, among other things:
Then it was off to Myanmar where I photographed Yangon and Inle:
Afterwards, I headed off with my PhotoTrekkers to Bhutan where we shot the Punakha Dromche:
Not bad for the first half of the year, I tell ya:
Then without further ado, I hied off to Kuala Lumpur to shoot Islamic architecture and hang with Hainanese old-timers:
A few weeks of rest followed, then I promptly boarded at plane to Hanoi, where I hopped aboard the night train to Sapa Valley:
... and then I found myself back in Myanmar - whopeee - for the year's second PhotoTrek!
Philippines next - this time to Coron and Calauit Island:
Which happened back-to-back with an excursion down south to meet the Manobo tribespeople of Butuan:
Afterwards I stayed home to spend the Singapore Jubilee weekend with my wife and daughter:
Needless to say I'm happy with how this year is going.
A little tired, but yes - very happy :)
Managed to photograph a rare performance of Hainanese rod puppets, thanks to some friends at a Chinese marionette theatre enthusiast group.
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I'm hoping to catch this show again next year - and next time I'm bringing my daughter along :)
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What can you say about the Manhattan except that it is a fundamental standard classic cocktail that when all is said and done is probably in the top five of nearly all cocktailians. The silky smooth texture of a chilled Manhattan flows over the tongue filling the mouth with flavors that is greater than the sum of its ingredients. The blend of the charred oak, spiciness, of Bourbon; the sweet, herbal, and slight caramel flavor of Sweet Vermouth; and the indescribable flavor of bitters combine to make a cocktail like none other.
The Manhattan was first made with American Rye whiskey and is said to have been invented in New York's Manhattan Club in 1874 at the request of Winston Churchill's mother, Lady Randolph Churchill (Jennie, pictured right), to celebrate the newly elected governor Samuel J. Tilden. (7) The name of the bartender who concocted the new drink is unknown and unfortunately the Manhattan Club, which stood at the corner of Madison Avenue and East 26th Street, is no longer in existence. (8) Like many stories of cocktail origins the validity of this tale of the Manhattan's beginnings has been brought into question, but I like this story the best.
The Manhattan's whiskey changed from Rye to Bourbon during or shortly after the time of prohibition when the production of Rye whiskey was scarce or non-existent. (9) During prohibition (1920-1933) (6) Canadian whisky was primarily used because it was what was available. After the glorious repel of the Eighteenth Amendment bars wanted to serve American whiskey again but Rye was unavailable due to the distilleries being shutdown and its long aging process. Bourbon distilleries were able to get back up to production faster and distribute their product by way of the Mississippi river and thus Bourbon found its way into the Manhattan. Some say Bourbon distilleries never stopped producing and sold by prescription from doctors to stay in business. Over a million gallons of whiskey was consumed each year during prohibition for "medicinal purposes." (6) To this day there are not many producers of Rye whiskey, but there are a few brands worth trying out. I recommend Van Winkle Family Reserve Rye if you can find it.
One last note on the whiskey used in a Manhattan, it is the still popular to use Canadian whisky in northern United States. This I believe is because Bourbon spread faster in the South due to river distribution method of the Kentucky distilleries. Then there came the misconception that Canadian whisky was a substitute for Rye whiskey, which is not the case at all. Rye whiskey must be made from at least 51% rye; Canadian whisky has no such restriction and is often a blended whisky. However if in the North don't be surprised if the Manhattan is served with Seagram's or Crown Royal.
Although the Manhattan is an icon of cocktails right up there with the Martini it is very difficult to find an establishment that will serve up this beloved cocktail correctly. The five major flaws I encounter are as follows:
- Lack of bitters – Bitters is an essential ingredient in a Manhattan. I don't care what you may have learned at Bartending School or from a fellow bartender, the Manhattan has bitters. There is a large misconception that bitters is only used for another wonderful Bourbon cocktail the Old Fashioned and not in Manhattans, but the fact of the mater is bitters belongs in both.
- Vermouth is not a scary radioactive substance – Vermouth is not scary and is a completely potable liquid, I even drink it straight at times. Unlike the Martini where it unfortunately became common place to put little if any vermouth in the cocktail, Manhattan drinkers actually expect Sweet Vermouth in their drink. Don't be shy pour a good ounce or more, we will actually drink it and thank you for it. We promise to not come hunt you down after we become radioactive. Between 3:1 and 2:1 Bourbon to Sweet Vermouth is expected.
- Stirred not Shaken – Manhattans are intended to be a smooth drink. Shaking cocktails adds tiny air bubbles to the that change the texture of the drink. I know it sounds hard to believe that it can make a difference, but it does. The first sip of a well stirred chilled Manhattan with the proper proportion of ingredients is like drinking silk. The bubbles produced by the shaking do go away after a few a little while, but by then the drink has warmed. The Manhattan should be stirred between 15 to 20 seconds.
- Dusty Vermouth – Vermouth is like wine; once you open it, it goes bad. I've seen bottles of Vermouth pulled out to make my Manhattan coated in dust... I usually change my order to something else. For home bars or bars with low volume Vermouth use it is better to buy the small bottles of Sweet and Dry Vermouth for freshness.
- Cherry Juice – The adding of cherry juice is meant for a Manhattan that is ordered with the modifier of Sweet. Cherry Juice is only added when a Sweet Manhattan is ordered. I believe many bartenders add the cherry juice in an attempt to cut the strong whiskey taste when in fact just stirring the cocktail the proper amount will do just that.
2.5 Parts Maker's Mark Bourbon
1 Part Noilly Prat Red
3 Dashes Angostura Bitters or Fees Brothers Old Fashioned Bitters
Stir ingredients in a mixing glass with ice for 15 to 20 seconds. Then strain into a well chilled cocktail grass. Garnish with a cherry if you're hungry.
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DUBLIN, Ireland - The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine Michael Creed is in China this week spearheading an agri-food trade mission.

The Irish delegation is visiting the cities of Shanghai, Beijing and Hohhot.

"I am delighted to be leading my third trade mission to China which will strengthen and develop the existing important relationship between Ireland and China in relation to agri-food," Creed said in advance of his visit.

"This mission will concentrate on building on our existing strong relationships with Government and regulatory agencies, progressing market access for key products, and providing opportunities for Irish meat and dairy companies in particular to foster relationships with key Chinese partners."

Total agri-food exports to China in 2018 amounted to almost €800 million, a nearly fourfold increase from €200 million in 2010, according to CSO trade statistics (which include non-edible exports such as forestry as well as food and drinks). Dairy products accounted for 68% (€541 million) of total exports, built on Ireland's reputation as a leading producer of high quality, safely and sustainably produced dairy products. Pigmeat is another important category, with export value having increased to €77 million last year.

Following the announcement of Irish beef access in April 2018, there are now seven Irish plants approved to export beef to China. Exports of Irish beef commenced in the summer 2018 and by the end of 2018 around €2.8 million (1,400 tonnes) had been exported, with significant potential for future growth.

"I look forward to engaging with my Chinese counterparts in relation to the process for approval of a number of additional beef plants, as well as progressing discussions on the next steps in the path towards sheepmeat access," the minister said.

Mr Creed is being accompanied by senior officials from the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine and from Bord Bia, plus participation from many of Ireland's leading dairy and meat companies.

"As well as offering government to government engagement, this Trade Mission will be vital in building enduring commercial relationships between Irish exporters and Chinese suppliers. Underlining the strategic importance of the region to the Irish food and drink industry, Bord Bia has completed over 500 hours of qualitative research studies in the region to identify the most profitable route to market for Irish producers. These insights also inform our on-going consumer and trade campaigns in China which includes online promotions, inward buyer visits, and EU co-funded campaigns, while through Origin Green, we have verifiable evidence of the ability of our producers and 66,000 plus certified farmers to provide quality, safe and sustainable food," Bord Bia CEO Tara McCarthy said.

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It is suggested that an absolute discretion should be given to a court to permit or forbid the putting of any particular question. We agree that in any case the permission of the judge should be obtained before cross-examination to the credit of a witness is allowed at all. If a question is put and not allowed to be pressed the object of the cross-examination is in a measure attained. It ought, in all cases, to be a question for the judge whether the evidence of a witness is of such a kind that his credibility ought to be attacked. A further suggestion made by the writer in our contemporary is, that a witness should not be allowed to decline to answer on the ground that he will thereby criminate himself. This is a wide proposition, which we shall not at present discuss.
Carrier's LIABILITY: LIVE STOCK. - There will, in all probability, never be an end to the puzzling questions which arise as to the legal liability of railway companies and other carriers for injuries sustained through the negligence of the carriers by the persons and animals which they undertake to carry. There are few subjects on which a greater diversity of opinion has been entertained and expressed by our various common-law courts, and this notwithstanding the often repeated dictum that the question of negligence or no negligence is one for the jury.
The case of Gill v. The Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway Company (28 L. T. Rep. n. s. 587), in which the court was empowered to draw inferences of fact, involved a question of liability on which the members of the Court of Queen's Bench were unable to agree. The plaintiff delivered a cow to the defendants at Doncaster, to be carried by the defendants' railway to Sheffield. The contract which the plaintiff had to sign contained a stipulation that "the animal named on the other side was to be conveyed only on the conditions mentioned upon the ticket received by the undersigned from the company and not to be insured." And one of the conditions named on the ticket was that the railway company would not be responsible for any loss or injury to any horse, cattle, sheep, or other animal, in the receiving, forwarding, or delivering, if such damage be occasioned by the kicking, plunging, or restiveness of the animal." When the train arrived at Sheffield, the cattle trucks were drawn up to their proper place, by the side of the cattle yard, and the plaintiff, who had to go to the office and sign a receipt for the cow before he was permitted to take it away, told the porter not to let the cow out of the truck until he came back. On his return from the office he observed that the porter was unfastening the truck. He called out to him, "Don't let the cow out: if you do, she'll go slap at you." The porter replied, "She'll be all right when she gets out; close the gate," and proceeded to unbolt the door. The plaintiff thereupon left the yard, saying, "If you do that, I shall go outside." The cow, being let out, began to run about the yard and towards a spot where she might have got on to the line. Being driven back by some persons who were there, she ran up to the pig-pen at the other end of the yard and leaped over the rails on to the line, where she was run over and killed by a passing train. Under these circumstances, was the company liable for the loss?
On the answer to this question the court was unable to agree. Mr. Justice BLACKBURN and Mr. Justice Lush were of opinion that, as the railway porter could, without loss or inconvenience to the company or any other person, have kept the cow in the truck for the reasonable time requisite to soothe her, so that she be driven safely home, he was bound to do so, and that, as the loss of the cow was attributable to his letting her at large, the railway company was liable for the loss. Mr. Justice MELLOR considered that the loss of the cow was wholly attributable to her character and condition, and not to any negligence on the part of the company; and that the true effect of the contract was to take ordinary and usual and reasonable means of delivering cattle, sufficient and reasonable for cattle in their normal condition ; but that the railway company were not, under the contract in question, obliged to depart from such ordinary, usual, and reasonable means, because the cow in question was restive, excited, and unfit to be delivered. His lordship considered that the business of the company should not suffer indefinite delay and inconvenience because the plaintiff had chosen to send a cow in an unfit condition; and that, according to the plaintiff's contention, the reservation in the contract, instead of relieving the company and restricting their liability, would positively extend it, and, instead of expressing that the company would not be liable for injury arising from the restiveness of such animals, would be construed to mean that "restive cows should be treated with unusual care." The question involved is a very nice one, and in all probability the minds of the profession will continue in doubt as to the side in favor of which the balance of argument inclines. — The Law Times.
For a full understanding of the subject, it would seem that the condition of the cow and its causes should be stated considerably more in detail. It is difficult to guess from the statement how much of the trouble arose from the " character" of the animal, and how much from her immediate experience.
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GENTLEMEN, — In connection with the instructive discussion in the April number of the " Law Review," of contracts made by letter, it may not be out of place to call attention to some other points in this interesting subject, which I have not seen fully cleared up. I believe the theory sound that contract relations in this class of cases should begin with the delivery, not with the posting, of the letter of acceptance. To do full justice to that position, however, and place the decisions in their true relation to each other and to the general inquiry, I think a further distinction must be made.
In the first place, neither Tayloe v. Merchants' Ins. Co., 9 How. 390, nor Mactier v. Frith, 6 Wend. 103, was a genuine case of contract by letter. In the former case, it will be remembered, the suit arose from the burning of the plaintiff's house, while his letter, accepting the offered terms of insurance, was on its way to the defendants' agent: these facts alone would make the case, as it seems to have been taken by the court, one of mutual promises. But there was another essential circumstance. By the express request of the agent, the plaintiff had enclosed his check for the amount of the premium. The check being good, this was clearly payment, as the court had occasion to hold, in another part of the case. The contract was therefore fully performed on the plaintiff's part, at the time of the loss. His expression of assent was not material. The nature of the transaction and the terms of the agent's letter show that a simple enclosure of the check, without other answer, would have been sufficient. The defence which the court overruled involved the position that, after entire performance by the second party of the terms of the proposed contract, the first party might still be free. The judgment is therefore equally sound upon any view of the question unnecessarily gone into by the court, of the effect of posting a message of acceptance. That question can properly arise only in contracts executory (composed purely of mutual promises). In the above case, as in all of its kind, the contract was completed by the performance of the terms of the offer. There was no occasion for any promise. The message sent by the plaintiff was not of the nature of a promise, but of a letter of advice or information, such as prudence or courtesy may naturally dictate in such cases, though the contract is good without it. In brief, the contract sued on was not executory, but unilaterally executed, or rather (to mark the difference of the two classes, in their origin) it was a contract arising out of the performance - not the promise — of the second party. (See Leake on Contracts, pp. 23, 313, as to "contracts arising upon executed considerations.")
This case illustrates an essential distinction, repeatedly ignored in the jumble of principles which the decisions exhibit. The legal situation is altogether different from that presented, for example, in McCulloch v. Eagle Ins. Co., Mactier v. Frith is another instance of the same sort. There, however, the judgment was evidently based, in part, on the execution of the contract by Mactier's acts. (See, in particular, opinion of Senator Maynard, p. 141; also remark of Denio, J., on the case, in Vassar v. Camp, 1 Kernan, 441.) Duncan v. Topham, 8 C. B. 225, and Levy v. Cohen, 4 Geo. 1, were somewhat analogous cases. Brisban V. Boyd, 4 Paige, 17, was a different case, and is not in point.
This distinction bears upon the cases which have frequently arisen in England, in connection with the allotment of shares in joint-stock companies. That the corporate vote, and the registry which constitute allotment, are at least a part performance on the side of the company, seems to be clear upon general principles. (See cases collected in Cox's Law of Joint Stock Companies, p. 80, &c.) The position of things as between the applicant and the company, after allotment, therefore resembles that resulting from an executed order for goods (Duncan v. Topham); an executed request for payment of an insurance premium (Tayloe v. Merchants' Ins. Co.); an executed invitation to a partner in trade to transfer a joint adventure to his own account (Mactier v. Frith). It seems to be settled, however, that a notification of the allotment must be sent to the shareholder within a reasonable time, as a condition precedent to his liability. This does not alter the necessary character of the notification. It is still, in its nature, a letter of advice. The difference between such a notification, following acts of performance, and the promise or letter of acceptance, which completes an executory contract, is so marked that it hardly needs dwelling upon. In one case, A. and B. contract by mutual promises, and the position here taken is that both parties must be in possession of each other's promise before the contract arises. In the other case, the contract arises with B.'s performance of A.'s offer, and there may then be a further question whether B. ought not to send word of the fact to A. In the class of cases just referred to, it is judicially held that he ought. What is the position of the parties at this stage? A. cannot retract, for B. has bound him by acting upon his offer. He is nevertheless only conditionally bound, for if B. fails to notify him, he will be discharged. This notice then, though a condition precedent to A.'s liability, is a condition subsequent to the contract. It comes to very much the same thing to suppose that the notice was within A.'s contemplation, and bargained for as a condition of his promise. B. has partly performed at all events. The letter of allotment cannot be taken as a promise. The contract is not executory. If this is an accurate statement, the treatment of Harris's case (L. R. 7 Ch. 587) was misconceived. The same may be said of the quite opposing case of British f. Am. Tel. Co. v. Colson (L. R. 6 Ex. 108), and of other decisions. The shareholder could not retract after allotment, and could only be released by the company's laches in notifying him. Whether posting is constructive notice, or whether the company must see that the shareholder actually gets the letter, is simply a question of mercantile and
legal policy, not unlike one already settled as to the duty of the holder of a dishonored bill toward the parties (Stocken v. Collin, 7 M. & W. 515). This view, of course, depends on the effect given to allotment. I do not see how this can be regarded otherwise than as an act of performance. Possibly upon the cases, however, it may be doubted. (See Hebb's Case, L. R. 4 Eq. 9; Gunn's Case, L. R. 3 Ch. 40.) At all events, whether or not, in a contract arising with performance, the duty of giving notice that the offer has been acted upon is discharged by posting the notification, is a question by itself, not affecting the argument that, in contracts where the only elements are mutual promises, the promise of B. is exactly the same sort of thing as the promise of A., and whatever is necessary to give effect to the one must be necessary, mutatis mutandis, to give effect to the other. If not, "promise" has two different meanings in law. But the precise likeness and equality of the two parties' position is lost in the use of such words as " assent" and "acceptance." As applied to executory contracts and in the common law, " acceptance" seems simply to mean the making of the counter promise on which the first promise (the offer) is conditioned. When this is done, the contract is completed, and in no other way can it be completed. Any extra meaning the word may suggest may therefore be left out of account in this connection, as metaphysical surplusage, helping only to make confusion. A promise, ex vi termini, implies the action of two minds, or, in other words, the knowledge of the promisee. A contract is binding, " on account of the expectation excited in the promisee" (Austin on Jur., notes following Sect. LVII., where he defines a contract as a promise, adding that in English law the term is often limited to mutual promises). But how can an undelivered message excite expectation? Assuming the accuracy of the remark quoted, the promise of the acceptor not only does not take effect, but cannot be said to exist until his correspondent knows of it. If this is the case, a fundamental principle is lost sight of in the doctrine which the courts seem to have been hitherto disposed to favor. For this the word above referred to must perhaps be held responsible, to a great extent. " Acceptance" is often used to signify the establishment of the contract by performance, as well as by promise (as by Cresswell, J., in Harvey v. Johnston, 6 C. B. 304: "If a man writes, send me such and such goods and I will pay for them, is not the sending the goods, without more, an acceptance of the offer?" The word covers two different meanings, and thus, in one application, suggests the presence of an element which exists only in the other. The essence of the common law executory contract is the knowledge or expectation of each promisee (each party). Both stand alike.
The word " notice" is another specimen of ambiguity. Its use in describing the duty of parties in certain cases, e. g., the holder of dishonored paper, is confounded with its more accurate and usual meaning (as is submitted) of knowledge (of the recipient), as where A. in sending an offer stipulates for o notice of acceptance" from B. (Compare Lord Cottenham's remarks in Dunlop v. Higgins, 1 H. of L. C. 381, and comments thereon in British 8. Am. Tel. Co. v. Colson; also Vassar v. Camp, 1 Kernan, 441, a case very open to criticism.) What is said above as to letters of allotment bears on this point.
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Gurgaon is the industrial and financial center of the Indian north-western state of Haryana. It is also one of New Delhi's, India's national Capital, dominant satellite cities. Known as the call center capital of the world-wide, Gurgaon is now considered to be one of the best Indian cities to work and live in.
It is a millennium city which was identified as one of the most potential destinations for investors when the Indian Economy opened its markets to foreign investors in the 1990s.
In the view of its potential of becoming global, the government of India, the state as well as central government, initiated several policies which were cumbersome to investment. For this the government of Haryana, the state in which Gurgaon is situated, has made Gurgaon grant a favorable tax policy and it has now become one of the most prominent off shoring and outsourcing center in the world and the cynosure of various MNC's.
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Gurgaon is one of the most excellent locations in India to start an industry. It has a stable law and order set-up coupled with peaceful environments. Owing to these factors, it has already managed to attract several multi-national companies, foreign investors, NRI and large business houses.
Social and Supportive Infrastructure: Gurgaon has a proper social and supportive infrastructure in place which is mandatory for investment. Several infrastructure projects are in the pipeline. Due to the increasing number of SEZs, Gurgaon is now on the brink of being called a separate 'SEZ country'. From housing complexes, food parks express highways and Special Economic Zones Gurgaon perfectly epitomizes the massive developing nature of India's economy.
Furthermore, Gurgaon offers good quality and inexpensive office buildings and residential places and its closeness to New Delhi and its easy connectivity to the International airport is an added attraction.
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Textiles and Ready-made garments: Gurgaon is also a haven for Textiles and Ready-made garments. Gurgaon has a large number of small and medium garment manufacturing and textile enterprises. The presence of sourcing agents representing foreign buyers and the presence of large and medium buying houses is an added attraction for investors.
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To conclude, because of new and innovative additions and massive constructions, Gurgaon a step higher being the investor's destination in comparison to other Indian Cities. With more and more developers trying to build a base in the city of Gurgaon, it has become a land of concessions and lucrative options for investors. All in all one of the hot-bed location in India which investors should not overlook.


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Nearly 10 years after first making its proposal, waste hauler E.L. Harvey & Sons is ready to begin work on a 80,000-square-foot building the company says will make the town money, add jobs and provide easier recycling.
Nearly 10 years after first making its proposal, waste hauler E.L. Harvey & Sons is ready to begin work on a 80,000-square-foot building the company says will make the town money, add jobs and provide easier recycling.
The center will feature state-of-the-art sorting equipment, meaning the company no longer has to send its trucks to outside facilities for "single-stream" residential recycling - recycling where homeowners can put everything in one barrel. A number of local cities and towns have curbside pick-up contracts with Harvey.
"It's the biggest building we'll own and the most sophisticated and expensive equipment we'll invest in," Vice President Steve Harvey said. He expects work on the foundation to start within three weeks, then for a pre-fabricated building to get delivered in October for a spring ribbon-cutting.
E.L. Harvey first proposed a multi-faceted recycling center in 2001, after a committee looking at town growth suggested an expansion and Town Meeting rezoned the land. But the project then went through a series of reviews before local boards, with the environmental group Cedar Swamp Conservation Trust and some Hopkinton residents challenging the proposal based on their worries about harm to the swamp and groundwater.
The delay led Harvey to take its plans for a $6 million, 60,000-square-foot building for construction and demolition debris recycling just across the town line to adjoining property in Westborough. The company made the move to meet a state mandate for handling such debris indoors.
After the swamp trust dropped its appeal, Harvey held a 2008 groundbreaking in Hopkinton for the residential recycling center. Since then, contractors for the company have been grading the land, installing retaining walls and water lines, and building a drainage - work the company could have sped up but chose not to because of the economy, Harvey said.
The new recycling center is expected to add 40 to 50 new jobs, Harvey said. Under a deal with the town, the company will not pay property taxes but instead contribute $3 per processed ton. The firm expects to handle 75 to 100 tons per day the first year, or $225 to $300. It has permits to eventually ramp up to 600 tons per day.
In addition to the recycling center, E.L. Harvey has Hopkinton permits to build a second, 20,000-square-foot construction and demolition debris facility, a 24,000-square-foot vehicle maintenance garage and a 450-square-foot weigh station, with no specific company timeline yet for proceeding. The complex sits on 26 of Harvey's 46 Hopkinton acres.
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Collection Accounts Don't Always Hurt Your Credit for Seven Years
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When you fall behind on a bill, you might get charged a late fee and your late payments could be recorded in your credit reports. If a bill goes unpaid for long enough, your creditor may send or sell your account to a collection agency.
The collection agency will then attempt to collect the balance from you — sometimes aggressively — and often reports its possession of your account to the credit bureaus. A new account with the collection agency's name will then appear on your credit reports, and this can have a significant negative impact on your credit scores.
You might think that paying off the debt clears everything up, but that isn't necessarily the case.
Generally, if you pay the amount you owe or settle for a lower payment, the collection account on your reports will be updated and marked paid in full, settled, or something similar. The impact of a collection account on your credit scores diminishes over time, and a paid account could look better to creditors than an unpaid account. But like other derogatory marks, the account can remain on your reports for up to seven years and 180 days since the account first became delinquent (your first late payment with the original creditor).
After an account is removed from your credit report, collection agencies can still continue to attempt to collect payment as long as the account isn't outside the governing statute of limitations (state laws determine how long a creditor can attempt to collect certain debts).
Even so, removing a collection account could improve your credit scores, making it easier and less expensive to open new loans or lines of credit. Here are a few exceptions to the standard timeline and instances when a collection account won't affect your credit score.
You're a New York state resident. For current New York state residents, satisfied judgments and paid collection accounts must be removed five years from the date filed or date of last activity, respectively.
The collection account was for a medical bill that your insurance paid. A settlement between New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and the three nationwide credit bureaus — Experian, Equifax, and TransUnion — in March 2015 resulted in new national credit-reporting policies. Now, medical debt can't be reported to the credit bureaus for 180 days, and medical collection accounts that are being paid, or are paid in full, by an insurance company must be removed from your credit report.
You didn't have a contractual agreement to pay the debt. Another result of the settlement in New York was that credit reporting agencies can no longer report debts that aren't a result of a contract or agreement you signed. In other words, if your debt from a parking ticket or library fine gets sent to a collection agency, it won't be added to your credit reports.
The collection agency agrees to a pay for delete. Also known as pay for removal, a pay-for-delete agreement with a collection agency is an arrangement in which you agree to pay some or all of the amount owed the collection agency and requests the credit bureaus delete the collection account from your reports.
You'll want to get a written agreement from the collection agency before sending a payment, but this could be difficult because in general a pay-for-delete agreement is considered a little shady. "Right now, the credit reporting standards do not allow for deletion of accurate collections simply because they're paid," says credit expert John Ulzheimer, formerly of FICO and Equifax. "That doesn't mean it doesn't happen, simply that it's counter to the standards that debt collectors have been given by the credit reporting industry players."
It requires the collection agency to stop reporting an account that legitimately existed, which may violate the agreement the collection agency has with one or more of the credit reporting agencies.
Your debt collection agency has a special policy. In October 2016, Midland Credit Management, a subsidiary of Encore Capital Group, one of the largest debt collection agencies in the world, announced a new policy.
If MCM bought your debt and you begin payments within three months, and continue making payments until the account is paid off, the company won't report the account to the credit bureaus (i.e., it won't appear on your credit reports).
Additionally, if it's been more than two years since the date of delinquency and you pay the account in full or settle the account, MCM will request the credit bureaus delete the collection account from your credit reports.
The account isn't yours. If a collection account is on one of your credit reports and you don't owe the debt, or it's a type of collection account that meets one of the above criteria for removal, you may be able to dispute the account. The Fair Credit Reporting Act requires the credit bureaus and data furnishers (such as a collection agency) to correct inaccurate information.
Your lender uses one of the latest credit-score models. You might have paid or settled a collection account and still have to wait for the account to drop off your credit reports. However, if your lender is using the latest base FICO Score, FICO 9, or the VantageScore 3 scoring model, paid or settled collection accounts won't affect your credit score. FICO Score 8 and 9 don't consider collection accounts if your original balance was under $100.
However, lenders may use older credit-scoring models, which means a collection account could affect your score for as long as it's on your credit reports and regardless of the original debt.


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New York - A $200 million lawsuit has been filed in New York federal court on behalf of four Hungarian musicians and dancers aboard the Costa Concordia cruise ship that capsized off the coast of Italy in January.
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The latest report by IMARC Group titled, "Linear Alpha Olefins Market: Global Industry Trends, Share, Size, Growth, Opportunity and Forecast 2017-2022", finds that the global linear alpha olefins market reached a value of more than US$ 7 Billion in 2016, growing at a CAGR of around 6% during 2009-2016. Linear alpha olefins are industrially important alkenes with the chemical formula CXH2X. They are distinguished from other olefins by their linear chains and the presence of a double bond at the primary carbon atom. They are manufactured mostly by the oligomerisation of ethylene or the Fischer-Tropsch synthesis followed by purification. Some of the major types of linear alpha olefins are 1-Butene, 1-Hexene, 1-Octene and 1-Decene. Depending on the length of their carbon chain, they can be found in the form of gas vapours, dry powder, liquid, pellets large crystals and solids. Linear alpha olefins of carbon length C6-C18 are clear, colorless liquids whereas C20+ are waxy solids.
Highlights of the Global Linear Alpha Olefins Market:
- The increasing demand from various end-use industries represents the major driving factor for the market growth.
- Polyethylene industry is represented as the largest consumer of linear alpha olefins.
- North America represents both the world's largest consumer and producer of linear alpha olefins.
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Linear alpha olefins are extremely versatile and have applications in various industries. They are used as co-monomers in the production of plastics such as polyethylene and polypropylene. They are also used in oil drilling applications as lubricants and coolants. A number of industrially important chemical products manufactured using linear alpha olefins include poly alpha olefins, alkenyl succinic anhydrides, drag reducing agents, lubricants, fuel additives, plasticisers, detergent alcohols, etc. These products are used in the cosmetics and pharmaceuticals, automotive, coatings and paper, consumer goods, and chemical industries. According to the report, the global linear alpha olefins market is further expected to grow, reaching a value of around US$ 10.6 Billion by 2022.
Currently, the polyethylene industry represents the largest and fastest growing consumer of linear alpha olefins accounting for the majority of the total global consumption. The fast growth of the polyethylene industry can be attributed to an increasing demand for plastics in the automotive and consumer goods industries. Some of the other major consumers of linear alpha olefins are detergent alcohols, plasticisers and lubricants. On the basis of type, the market can be segmented as Butene, Hexene, Octene, Decene, Dodecene, Tetradecene, Hexadecene, Octadecene, Eicosene, C22 and C24+. On the basis of region, North America represents both the world's largest consumer and producer of linear alpha olefins. Other major regions include Middle East, Western Europe and South Africa.
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The report has examined the global Linear Alpha Olefins Market on the basis of:
- Butene
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- North America
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text: Researchers Pinpoint Novel Gene-Environment Interaction in Cells from People with MS June 2, 2011 Studying human cells isolated in the laboratory, researchers reveal a novel interaction between two genes that influence susceptibility to developing MS, certain environmental factors, and a chemical process (called N-glycosylation) that modifies the structure of molecules, which together may contribute to our understanding of how complex interactions lead to the development of MS. Michael Demetriou, MD, PhD (University of California, Irvine) and colleagues have published these findings in Nature Communications (May 31, 2011, Volume 2, Article #334). The team was funded in part by the National MS Society. Background: The cause of MS is still not known, but scientists believe that a combination of several factors may be involved to trigger the immune attack that is launched on the brain and spinal cord. While MS is not directly inherited, genes are known to make people susceptible to developing the disease. Researchers also are working to understand how MS gene variations may interact with some environmental triggers that have been linked to MS, such as viral infection, cigarette smoking and low levels of vitamin D/sunlight to increase the risk of MS. Michael Demetriou, MD, PhD, has previously shown that changes in the addition of specific sugars to proteins involved in the MS attack (N-glycosylation) trigger a spontaneous MS-like disease in mice, which could be suppressed by interfering with the process with a dietary supplement. The current study aimed at translating this finding to the development of human disease. The Study: In this study, Dr. Demetriou's team examined DNA samples from about 13,000 people with MS or controls. They looked at how four previously reported susceptibility genes that are involved in immune system activities (interleukin-7 receptor-alpha, interleukin-2 receptor-alpha, MGAT1 and CTLA-4) affect N-glycosylation. Then they examined how a particular environmental factor such as vitamin D affected this interaction. The results suggest that these genes do alter N-glycosylation in cells isolated in the laboratory, but that both vitamin D and a dietary supplement called N-acetylglucosamine (GlcNAc) were able to suppress this process in cells and in mouse models of MS. Comment: This study provides new evidence for a link between genes and the environment in the development of MS. However, additional research is needed before it is possible to generalize these findings to all cases of MS, since this study focused on just a few of the many genetic susceptibility factors linked to MS. More research is also needed to determine whether administering vitamin D and G1cNAc will be helpful in MS. A new clinical trial getting underway with support from the National MS Society will test the ability of vitamin D supplements to alter MS disease activity. Read more about vitamin D research funded by the National MS Society. Watch a webcast on the range of ongoing efforts to find the cause and cure for MS, "Who? Why? How? - Searching for the Cause of Multiple Sclerosis."


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5 Pieces of Dumb Financial Advice That Most People Believe
When it comes to money, everyone likes to put in their two cents.
Oh, you should definitely buy and not rent. Stay away from credit cards; they're evil. Why are you so worried about your credit score? It doesn't matter.
There's a lot of — quite frankly — dumb advice floating around out there, and it can be difficult to figure out what's up and what's down.
Well, we're here to set the record straight. Here's all the dumb money advice out there — and what you should do instead.
Dumb Advice #1: Put Your Money in a Savings Account
You've probably heard the best way to grow your money is to stick it in a savings account and leave it there for, well, ever. That's bad advice.
But maybe you're just looking for a place to safely stash it away — but still earn money. Under your mattress or in a safe will get you nothing. And a typical savings account won't do you much better. (Ahem, .09% is nothing these days.)
But a debit card called Aspiration lets you earn up to 5% cash back and up to 11 times the average interest on the money in your account.
Not too shabby!
Enter your email address here, and link your bank account to see how much extra cash you can get with your free Aspiration account. And don't worry. Your money is FDIC insured and under a military-grade encryption. That's nerd talk for "this is totally safe."
Dumb Advice #2: Keep Wasting Hundreds of Dollars on Homeowner's Insurance
You're probably wasting money right now. And it's probably on something you'd never expect — your homeowners insurance policy.
This isn't something you actively think about — you just know you're required to have it.
The problem is, you're paying too much. Luckily, an insurance company called Policygenius makes it easy to find out how much you're overpaying. It finds you cheaper policies and special discounts in minutes.
In fact, it saves users an average of $690 a year — or $57.50 a month. It'll even help you break up with your old insurance company. (You're allowed to cancel your policy at any time, and your company should issue you a refund.)
And just because you're saving money doesn't mean you're skimping on coverage. Policygenius will make sure you have what you need.
Just answer a few questions about your home to get started.
Dumb Advice #3: You Need to Save $1,000,000,000,000,000 Before You Die
All your life, people have been telling you to save. Save for emergencies. Save for the future. Save for your family. At that rate, you're gonna need a gazillion dollars in the bank.
Here's the thing: You should keep a healthy amount of savings in the bank, but if you want to give your family up to $1 million, use something called term life insurance.
We suggest a company like Bestow. Maybe you've considered this before, but thought it was only for rich or older people. But we're hearing that people are getting it for as little as $8 a month. And the truth is, as long as you're under 54, this is one of the smartest things you can do with your money right now.
You don't even need to leave your house to apply. It takes just minutes to see how much you could leave your loved ones — without saving a gazillion dollars.
Dumb Advice #4: You Should Get 3 Auto Insurance Quotes
People love to tell you to shop around. "You should be getting three different quotes to get the best price on car insurance," they say.
Sure, this sounds like good advice. Here's why it's wrong: Comparing only three companies isn't nearly enough. We suggest comparing 40. But who has time for that?
A company called Gabi will do it for you for free. It gets people an average of $961 back in their bank accounts a year — and you'll get the same coverage you already have.
It doesn't matter when you last renewed; you can get a check from your old company for the time left on your previous policy. (Read: They probably owe you money.)
You don't have to make any calls or fill out any forms. It takes two minutes to see how much Gabi can put back in your pocket. And the best part? Because we're driving less, some insurers are slashing prices this month.
Dumb Advice #5: The Only Way to Earn Money is With a Job
People will say the only way you can earn money is with a real job. Not true. You can make money by watching the news.
Seriously. Research companies want to pay you to watch the news. You could add up to $225 a month to your pocket by signing up for a free account with Swagbucks. It'll present you with short news clips to choose from every day, then ask you a few questions about them.
You just have to answer honestly, and Swagbucks will continue to pay you every month. This might sound too good to be true, but it's already paid its users more than $429 million. We talked to one user in Pennsylvania, 52-year-old Carolinda Hendrickson, who earned $1,200 in a year.
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The College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University offer a four-year physics program designed to prepare students for graduate school or industrial employment in either physics or physics-related fields such as engineering. Supplementary half-semester courses in such topics as astrophysics, optics and nuclear physics complete a solid preparation in classical and modern physics. Laboratory courses emphasize independent work, and students can choose from a wide variety of experimental projects.
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Free World Dialup Relaunched
FWD wants to disabuse people of the notion that you need to touch the PSTN to succeed.
Jeff Pulver founded the IP communications service Free World Dialup, now known simply as FWD, way back in 1995. The service is probably best known for its connection to the FCC's Pulver Order of February 12, 2004, which defined VoIP as an information (rather than telecommunications) service.
Pulver and FWD president Daniel Berninger recently announced an official relaunch of FWD with a $30-per-year ($300 for companies) membership option. What do members get? "Nothing," Berninger says. "Everything that FWD offers is offered for free. The notion is that some percenta small percent, presumablyof the people that use the services will feel inclined to contribute to the overall mission."
So far, Berninger says the response has been enthusiastic. "A couple of hundred people have signed up we really don't need a lot more than that to sustain ourselves month to month," he says. "We're not trying to get rich: it's just got to sustain the model and pay some of the costs. If memberships accelerate and we can get the word out, then we can be more ambitious."
And membership, Berninger says, is only one part of the plan. "Part of our audience will be monetizing through membership to support us, and we'll also have advertising enabled in some of our features," he says. "The overall idea is just to sustain the operation."
Berninger says two key parts of FWD's mission are to help people get a handle on the increasing variety of communication options available today, and to provide interconnection for SIP-enabled devices of any kind. "FWD wants to lubricate the ecosystem and help people participate," he says. "If we're doing our job right, then it'll be much easier for people to get into this new world of communications."
In the past, he notes, there was little or no thinking required in setting up phone service. "Now, there's so many options . . . no one company in this new world really owns the customer for all the customer's communication needs," Berninger says. "And so there needs to be a guy out there that helps people navigate and sort through what their options are."
Still, it's not just about being an information clearinghouse. "It's a little more aggressive, in the sense that, historically, FWD has gotten out there and said, 'We don't think you guys should be regulating VoIP," Berninger says. "We don't really know what kinds of obstacles are going to pop up [in the future], but our view is, we're going to just chase after whatever seems to be most important."
One key change for FWD, Berninger says, is that the members will now have a direct say in those decisions. "Up to now, it's been whatever Jeff felt was interesting over the last 12 years . . . the idea going forward is that it's really the members," he says. "One thing that the paying members get is a say: They will essentially determine what it is we're working on."
At the same time, Berninger says the focus will still be on finding and eliminating the obstacles to adoption of IP communicationsincluding reliability, ease of use, and anything else that comes up. "Whatever it takes to speed the ecosystem," he says.
The point is that the growing number of VoIP providers out there aren't competing with each other as much as they are with traditional telecom. "The bottom line is, all the customers are not herethey're not in the room," he says. "They're not in this new communication world, so the game is really getting people out of that old world and into the new world."
Beyond that, Berninger says another key theme will be helping unconnected people get into the game. "There's still four billion people in the world that don't have any real communications: that's a concern," he says. "So we'll see what we can do to get communicationvoice communication in particularto the rest of the world, and what the obstacles are."
In the larger picture, the aim will be to change the way people think about communication. The number one request that FWD still gets, Berninger says, is the ability to call from an FWD phone to a traditional phonebut as soon as you touch the PSTN, you lose the ability to offer wideband voice and IP applications, you invite a regulatory attack as a telecommunications provider, and you have to pay for interconnection.
And Berninger says that has to end. "One of our top themes is just to break people from this notion that voice communication is synonymous with telephone calls," he says. "There really is much, much more possible in the world of voice communication, and communication in general, than this very narrow solution that we call a telephone call."


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Hubbardton is a town in Rutland county, Vermont. It was formed in 1764 in N.H. from Bennington county. The probate district for Hubbardton is Fair Haven, while the court district is Rutland. For more information, contact the town at 1831 Monument Hill Rd., Fair Haven 05743. On the attached map, Hubbardton is shown as 4 in Rutland county.
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The former directors of Pike River Coal have rejected the suggestion by the Royal Commission the company prioritised profits over worker safety.
The Royal Commission released its findings into the mine disaster earlier this month, slamming management for not properly assessing the health and safety risks its workforce was facing.
The November 19, 2010 explosion and subsequent blasts in the West Coast mine claimed the lives of 29 men.
Read volume one of the full Royal Commission report here. Volume two here.
Minter Ellison Rudd Watts, lawyers for John Dow, Ray Meyer and Stuart Nattrass, who were directors of the company at the time of the blasts, have issued a statement on behalf of their clients in response to the commission's findings.
In particular, the directors "strongly disagree" with the suggestion the company prioritised production over the safety of its workers.
"Our clients consider that the Commission's view appears to be based only upon conjecture or impression, as despite the considerable amount of evidence made available to it, its report does not identify any particular circumstances, or any documents, in which a safety requirement was not met for financial reasons or because it might have impacted upon production."
The statement said the commission did not seek any evidence from the company's financial staff or review the company's accounts or financial documents.
"The company's board never rejected a health and safety request on financial grounds or because it might have impacted upon production and it was not aware of any unmet safety requirements."
They also said there has been "much comment, with the convenient benefit of hindsight, about operational matters and decisions at the mine," such as the location of the main fan underground.
The directors said all the aspects of the mine were known to many organisations, including the Department of Labour mine inspectors, Mines Rescue and the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union, however no concerns were raised with the company's management prior to the disaster.
"Our clients reiterate their deep and personal regret for the loss of life at the mine," the statement said.
"They participated in the Commission's inquiry knowing that this would mean that their actions would be scrutinised, but wishing to assist the Commission, the families and the coal mining industry.
"They now welcome consideration and discussion of the Commission's recommendations for the future conduct of mining in New Zealand."
Read more: Pike River: 'Unrelenting picture of failure'
- nzherald.co.nz