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Chapter 10 (v.1) - The man behind the desk
Chapter 9: The man behind the desk
Before Venus and Hallow could continue their discussion, the door opened, Venus quickly walked out and saw Reticle at the same console as when he let Venus into the cell.
-So? Venus asked.
-You are who you say you are, however we can't be sure this isn't some kind of new Colleral trick, even though it's unlikely they could pull of anything like this, Reticle replied.
''And what are you going to do?''
''One of the admirals wanted to speak to you personally, he is going to determine whether or not we can trust you.''
''You do realize what it would cost if you were wrong, If I am telling the truth and you don't believe it, the disaster will happen, if it happens the other way around you will waste lots of resources to look for a planetary engine that probably doesn't exist.''
''Your point?''
''Why do you let an admiral make a decision of that weight?''
''Whether this is true or not isn't something we can figure out anyways, the admiral is just as good a source as any in this case, and he asked for it.''
''Which one of the admirals is it?''
Venus remembered that name, he was the person who sent him to the Outer Nebula Station in the first place.
-Let's get to it then, Venus said.
Reticle started walking and made obvious gestures that Venus should follow him, which he did, they walked through the ship again, Venus recognized some of the corridors from his trip to the cell.
After a short trip they came to an airlock, it was docked.
-What ship are we entering? Venus asked.
''Not a ship, Haven station.''
Haven station was a pretty old station, it was a civilian station that orbited mars, the largest human station. Venus had always wanted to visit it, but he never had money for a vacation there.
He noticed that Reticle had continued on while he was lost in thought and jogged a little bit to catch up with him, after a short time walking through some corridors they came into the main station itself, it was a beautiful sight.
The station was made in several floors, all but the bottom one had a glass floor which made for some beautiful sights when looking around, especially considering all the plant life on the different floors, while the roof was covered in flowers and leaves, the other floors had lots of stands with flowers and small trees, especially around the sides.
The plants created the majority of oxygen for the station, and it was placed in public places because many people enjoyed the sights of them, there were people everywhere too, lots of them walking around, minding their own business but also quite a lot just sitting down on some of the public chairs and enjoying the view, Venus also noticed that in the few places where you could actually see beyond the plants, there were white tiles.
Venus first didn't realize how the station seemed so light, it was like the sun was shining inside of it, but after a short time he saw lots of cleverly placed lamps that were usually built into a wall or a part of the roof, they were placed so you had to try to find them and yet, they provided lots of light.
-Done admiring the view? Venus heard Reticles voice say.
''I guess I have to be.''
''Lets get it over with first at least.''
''Okay then.''
Reticle started walking again and Venus followed behind, he still looked around the station for the majority of the trip and almost bumped into people a few times, Reticle usually pulled him aside first though.
After a short trip they came to one of the stairways, which looked very nice, it was designed so that there were flowers growing out between the stairs.
They walked up the stairs and continued onward in the same direction, the second floor was a lot different, mainly because of the glass floor and because there were a lot more people, probably because the first floor is mostly used for when you have to leave or enter the station, this floor however seemed more as a park, there were a lot of flower stands with a few chairs around and generally lots of places to sit down and admire station.
After some time they came to a door in the side, Reticle entered first and Venus followed right after him, they were back in the grey corridors, there weren't many people in here either, they quickly came to a door that Reticle opened and made a gesture for Venus to walk in, which he did.
He entered a small room with a desk, chairs on both sides of it and a window that led out to the center of the station, one the desk there was a small laptop and behind it a person was sitting, Venus assumed it was Admiral Dean.
-Sit down, Dean said
''I prefer standing.''
-Before I start any further conversation, I would like to know if you really are Venus, Dean said, this time in a darker tone.
''And how will you figure that out?''
''Simple, I will ask you questions, you were engaged, with whom?''
''What does her parents work as?''
''Her mother is a network manager and her father died several years ago.''
''Then who was her fatherly figure?''
''Her uncle.''
''What did he work as?''
''I am pretty sure he was a bionic limb scientist of sorts.''
''You seem valid.''
''Thank you.''
-I have read through your entire story, Reticle sent copies of it across the higher ranked personnel, I agree on that it seems extremely ridiculous, but I have a hunch that it might just be true, Dean said.
''Oh it is.''
''I'm not finished, you spoke of a sort of AI inside of you that came with the genetic enhancements you spoke of, is it able to speak out loud?''
-I am very well capable of that, Hallows voice said, out loud.
-How did you do that? Venus asked, loud enough for Dean to hear it.
''Simple, I used your vocal chords and an unnoticeably small amount of C to create a phantom tongue which formed the words.''
-Impressive, Dean said.
-Why do you want to speak to him? Venus said.
-It was mostly just to see if you could prove even the slightest bit of it, Dean replied.
-So, about those weapons you could create out of thin air, Dean said, his voice was humorous, like he expected it to be fake.
-How many C do we have? Venus asked Hallow out loud, there was no reason for Dean not to hear it.
''We have 2230, with a full reserve.''
-C? Dean asked.
-A sort of energy, Venus replied: ''Hallow, could you make a small handgun, just to show Dean?''
-Easily, Hallow said out loud as a standard military pistol appeared in Venus hand.
-How did you know the exact design of one of these pistols? Venus asked Hallow.
''I saw Dean had one.''
-How exactly does Hallow see, hear and generally observe things actually? Dean asked.
-That's a good question actually, Venus added.
-I can use Venus senses for the basic things that you also do, but sometimes I use some other methods that I can't explain to you because your brains can't comprehend it, nothing in earths history
has ever had any of those senses, Hallow replied to them both.
''Then how do you create them in Venus body?''
''Well, when you know how they work they aren't any more advanced than the other senses, so I can easily use an unnoticeably small amount of C to temporarily feel them, a little like the phantom tongue actually.''
-Venus, I just think you might be telling the full truth after all, Dean said while looking stunned by what he just heard.
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Other partnerships may be tempted to use a limited liability partnership for the same reason. A limited liability partnership may also be appropriate for a partnership where some partners are not actively involved. They might have once been called "sleeping" partners. This structure will be suitable for a group of people engaging together in a property or finance venture. A limited liability partnership is unlikely to be useful for a small trading company of any sort because a conventional limited company is likely to perform an appropriate role at less cost.
The United Kingdom limited liability partnership is a separate legal entity with unlimited capacity so that an LLP can do anything that a natural person could do. It has the ability to enter into contracts and hold property, and will continue in existence in spite of any change in membership. While in Law a limited liability partnership is separate from its members, its members may be liable to contribute to its assets if it is wound up; the extent of that potential liability is as specified in regulations under the Act.
The LLP's existence as a separate legal entity makes it more closely akin to a company establishment than to a partnership (except insofar as the internal relations are governed by LLP partnership agreement between the members). The Act therefore draws on the principles embodied in the companies' legislation.
The main difference in between an LLP and LTD company is that a limited liability partnership has the organisational flexibility of a partnership and is taxed as a partnership. In other respects it is very similar to a company registration. It will be seen from the above comparison that the limited liability partnership will be of most interest to businesses where the members wish to have limited liability but where all the members wish to be able to participate in the membership of the firm and where the less formal partnership structure is preferred to the more formal company structure (with transferable shares). The limited liability partnership structure is particularly appropriate for professional practices that wish to limit members' liability.
The LLP could also be attractive for other businesses of a more "trading" character - owners of small businesses may find it advantageous to receive, through use of an United Kingdom limited liability partnership, "self-employed" Schedule D tax status (paying class 2 and class 4 National Insurance contributions rather than being treated as directors/employees taxed under Schedule E with employees' and employers' national insurance contributions payable) - while at the same time enjoying limited liability.
If, however, the nature of the business concerned is likely to be reclassified as being in effect employment under the IR35 anti-avoidance provision, it remains to be seen whether the use of the United Kingdom limited liability partnership structure will be any more effective to preserve self-employed tax status than would use of a company limited by shares or a partnership.
The disadvantages of adopting LLP status, as compared with a partnership, mainly relate to disclosure matters. The need, in the case of limited liability partnerships, to adopt corporate financial reporting standards subject to a "true and fair" requirement and to file accounts at Companies House, including a specific requirement to disclose the profit share and remuneration of the most highly paid member may be regarded as a serious disadvantage by some firms.
The need to file details of all members, including usual residential address, at Companies House has also given concern to some law firms, concerned that this might make it easier for extremists or disgruntled litigants to have access to the home addresses of those involved in controversial litigation.
However, the Home Office is taking steps through other legislation to permit disclosure by Companies House of such home addresses to be on a restricted basis.
The Act generally allows two or more persons associated for carrying on a lawful business with a view to profit to establish a limited liability partnership by subscribing to its incorporation document. In law, "person" includes individuals and companies. However, limited liability partnerships are not available for all activities such as non-profit making activities.
There is no legal requirement for the members of an LLP to enter into a written agreement regulating the relations between the members themselves and between the members and the LLP. It is, however, desirable to have such an agreement to avoid dispute. Accordingly, at the very least, the prospective members of a limited liability partnership should review these default provisions and decide whether any exclusions or variations of them are appropriate.
It should also be noted that the default provisions do not cover all the likely issues that need to be laid down at the outset such as the detailed management, decision making and remuneration arrangements, the level of authority given to individual members, financing arrangements and the details of how members' entitlements are fixed if they leave the limited liability partnership or if the LLP is liquidated.
It is desirable for an LLP agreement to contain a provision that it can be altered by a resolution passed by a specified majority of members; in the absence of such a provision, any alterations will need approval by all members.
Companies Act permits a member to apply to the court for a remedy if the affairs of the limited liability partnership are being conducted in a manner that is unfairly prejudicial to the interests of all or part of its members. It should be noted that the provisions for just and equitable winding up could not be similarly excluded by the members of an LLP. The liability of members on liquidation should also be covered in the limited liability partnership agreement either by stating in clear terms what the maximum liability of each member on liquidation is to be or by stating expressly that a member is to have no such liability.
To the extent that there is not specific agreement on any matter, the mutual rights and duties of the LLP and its members will be governed by default regulations made under Section 15 (c). The following provisions have been laid down in Regulation 7: all the members of a limited liability partnership are entitled to share equally in the capital and profits of the limited liability partnership.
The limited liability partnership must indemnify each member in respect of payments made and personal liabilities incurred by that member: in the ordinary and proper conduct of the business of the limited liability partnership; or in or about anything necessarily done for the preservation of the business or property of the limited liability partnership.
Every member may take part in the management of the limited liability partnership. No member shall be entitled to remuneration for acting in the business or management of the limited liability partnership. No person may be introduced as a member or voluntarily assign an interest in a limited liability partnership without the consent of all existing members. Any difference arising as to ordinary matters connected with the business of the limited liability partnership may be decided by a majority of the members, but no change can be made in the nature of the business of the limited liability partnership without the consent of all the members.
The books and records of the limited liability partnership are to be made available for inspection at the registered office of the limited liability partnership or at SAIL address, such other place as the members think fit and all members of the limited liability partnership may when they think fit have access to and inspect and copy any of them. Each member shall render true accounts and full information of all things affecting the limited liability partnership to any member or the member's legal representatives.
A member who, without the consent of the limited liability partnership, carries on any business of the same nature as and competing with the limited liability partnership, must account for and pay over to the limited liability partnership all profits made by that member in that business. All members must account to the limited liability partnership for any benefit derived by them without the consent of the limited liability partnership from any transaction concerning the limited liability partnership, or from any use by them of the property of the limited liability partnership, name or business connection.
A further default provision has been laid down in Regulation 8: no majority of the members can expel any member unless a power to do so has been conferred by express agreement between the members.
The first members of a limited liability partnership are those who signed the incorporation document. Subsequent to incorporation, any person may become a member of an LLP by agreement with the existing members. A person may cease to be a member by death, LLP dissolution or in accordance with any agreement with the other members of the LLP. Where there is no agreement a member may cease to be a member by giving reasonable notice to the other members. Members of an LLP will not be regarded as employees of the entity unless, if they and the other members were partners in a partnership, they would be regarded as employees.
The rights and duties of the members of an LLP to one another and to the limited liability partnership are governed by the provisions of any agreement between the members, subject to the provisions of any enactment. The Act does not require an agreement to be entered into between the members and there is no requirement to publish it (although there are advantages in an LLP being governed by a formal written agreement). When a limited liability partnership comes into being it is bound by the terms of any existing agreement between the subscribers to the incorporation document.
Each member of an LLP is an agent of the limited liability partnership. Each member may, therefore, represent and act on behalf of the LLP in all its business. A limited liability partnership is not, however, bound by the actions of a member where that member has no authority to act for the LLP, and the person dealing with the member is aware of this or does not know or believe that the member was in fact a member of the limited liability partnership.
Transactions with a person who is no longer a member of an LLP are still valid transactions with the LLP, unless the other party has been told that the person is no longer a member, or the Companies Registrar has received a notice to that effect. Where a member of a limited liability partnership is liable to a person (other than another member of the LLP) for a wrongful act or omission in the course of business of the LLP or with its authority, the limited liability partnership will be liable to the same extent as the member.
Where a person ceases to be a member of an LLP, or that person's interest in the LLP is transferred to another person, the former member, the member's personal representatives, the member's trustee in bankruptcy or liquidator or the trustees under the trust deed for the benefit of the creditors or assignee may not interfere with the management or administration of the limited liability partnership, but may receive any amount to which they are entitled.
The Act provides for some or all of the members of a limited liability partnership to be "designated members". In general terms, the role of such members is to perform the administrative and filing duties of the LLP. However, some provisions of the Companies Act and the Insolvency Act, as applied by the regulations, place on them tasks that go beyond the mere administrative and in the performance of which they would be representing all the members of the LLP such as the signing of the limited liability partnership's accounts.
Where the incorporation document specifies that certain members are to be the designated members, then they will be the designated members on incorporation. Other members may become designated members by agreement with the members. A member may cease to be a designated member by agreement with the other members. An LLP must have at least two designated members and if no member or only one has been specifically designated, then all members are designated members. If the incorporation document states that every person who is a member of the limited liability partnership is a designated member then all persons who are from time to time members are designated members.
The LLP may notify the Registrar that all members of the limited liability partnership are designated members or that specified members will be designated; the effect will be as though this had been stated in the incorporation document. When a person ceases to be a member of the LLP, that person also ceases to be a designated member.
The duty to comply with an order for enforcement of delivery of documents to the Registrar. Formal documents for limited liability partnership may be served on a designated member. Various functions under the Insolvency Act 1986 including: giving a statutory declaration of solvency preceding a members' voluntary liquidation and making a statement of affairs in a creditor's voluntary liquidation.
A designated member in default is liable to a penalty in certain cases such as the failure of a limited liability partnership to change its name following a direction to do so and in relation to failures to carry out responsibilities as set out above.
In particular, designated members are responsible for: appointing an auditor (if one is needed); signing the accounts on behalf of the members; delivering the accounts to the Registrar; notifying the Registrar of any membership changes or change to the registered office address or name of the limited liability partnership; preparing, signing and delivering to the registrar an annual return; and acting on behalf of the limited liability partnership if it is wound up and dissolved.
In order to establish an LLP, there must at the outset be at least two people who are associated for the carrying on of a lawful business with a view to profit and who subscribe their names to an "incorporation document". A written statement must also be given that there has been compliance with the requirement that at least two persons, associated for the purpose of carrying on a lawful business with a view to profit, have subscribed their names to the incorporation document.
The statement must be made by a subscriber to the incorporation document or a solicitor engaged in the establishment of the LLP. The incorporation document and the statement have been combined into one prescribed form. This form, duly completed and signed, must be delivered to the Registrar together with the prescribed fee. If you prefer, you can establish a limited liability partnership with us, without of filing any kind of paper-forms applications.
The incorporation document contained in the incorporation form is required to contain specified items of information: the name of the LLP, whether the registered office address is to be situated in England and Wales, in Wales or in Scotland, the address of the registered office, the name and address of the persons who are to be members on incorporation and whether some or all of the members are to be designated members.
The "statement" contained in the registration form does not take the form of a statutory declaration but an offence is committed if a person makes such a statement which that person knows to be false or does not believe to be true. A person who commits this offence is liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for up to six months or a fine that does not exceed the statutory maximum (currently £5,000.00) or both. If the conviction is on indictment, the person will be liable to imprisonment for a period of not more than two years or a fine or both.
The name under which an LLP is to be registered is subject to various restrictions and requirements. The name of an LLP must end with the expression "Limited Liability Partnership" or the abbreviation "L.L.P." or "LLP" (or, where the registered office of the LLP is to be in Wales, a specified Welsh equivalent). The name must not be the "same" as the name of any entity on the Registrar's index of names. The name may not include, without the required permission, any of the various prescribed controlled words.
In other words, the usual rules for company names apply with the necessary adaptations for LLPs. The Secretary of State also has power to direct a change of an LLP's name within 12 months of its adoption if, in the DTI's opinion, it is too like the name of another entity on the index of names.
LLP Incorporation Using Electronic Software Filing
Electronic incorporation can be submitted electronically through suitably enabled software however, many incorporation agents and software providers have developed their systems to the point where they are able to offer customers a web-based electronic service (this is chargeable).This means that occasional as well as regular customers can apply for incorporation.
Many of the businesses shown on our list of software suppliers provide web-based services and depending on the volume of filings you anticipate making, it may be more practical for you to use their services. Coddan Ltd is one of the LLP establishment agent, who can register an LLP online.
LLP Paper Filing
Paper documents, which must be sent to the appropriate office, take longer to process than electronic documents. Straightforward applications are normally processed within 5 days of receipt.
Can I Deal Direct With Companies House to Establish My LLP?
Yes. However, while Companies House staff will be happy to give you guidance on general matters (such as filling in forms or advice on limited liability partnership names), they cannot advise you whether an established limited liability partnership is the best vehicle for your business. If you are unsure about any aspect of establishing a limited liability partnership, please seek professional advice from your solicitor, accountant, or Coddan Ltd - establishment agent.
Can I Convert From Being a Limited Company to an LLP?
The LLP legislation does not allow for a "conversion process" - in the way that a limited company can convert to PLC status under the Companies Act, for example. Anyone with a current limited company wishing to transfer his or her existing company name to a new LLP should contact us. The process will involve a closely controlled company change of name and LLP establishment. Establishing contact prior to submitting the necessary forms will help ensure that this process is completed as smoothly as possible.
Can I Choose any Name I Want for My LLP?
No. Several regulations can affect your choice. For example, all limited liability partnership names must end with the words "Limited Liability Partnership", or, their abbreviations or Welsh equivalents "Partneriaeth Atebolrwydd Cyfyngedig".
Directions to Change a Limited Liability Partnership Name
A direction to change a limited liability partnership name is a legal instruction for a limited liability partnership to complete a specific form adopting a new name and to register the change at Companies House within a specified time.
A direction may be issued, for example, as a result of an objection being lodged by an interested party because one name is "too like" another.
This chapter explains how to make an objection, what is considered when deciding whether one name is too like another and generally when a direction may be issued. With us, it is not difficult to register your business name in UK; you can register a business name, or reserve a business name with Coddan online.
Who Can Direct a LLP to Change Its Name?
The Secretary of State has statutory powers to direct a limited liability partnership to change its name in certain circumstances.
What Does 'Too Like' Mean?
The Secretary of State first looks at the two names. Only if the names appear to be like each other does he consider whether they are "too like", that is if there is a danger of confusion between Limited Liability Partnerships. If the names differ by one or more words, this may suggest that they are not "too like", depending on, for example, the word's) and the length of the names in question.
If the names differ in only minor respects, this may suggest that the names are "too like", in which case a direction may be issued. This will reduce the risk of confusion and the following potential difficulties: objections to the limited liability partnership name; confusion with other limited liability partnerships with a poor trading record; a "passing off" action in civil law.
NB: Consideration can only be given to the full corporate names of the limited liability partnership.
What if the Name Suggests a Connection With an LLP?
The Secretary of State does not consider any aspect of "implied association", that is whether the limited liability partnership might be thought to be a member of, or associated with, a particular limited liability partnership or group of limited liability partnerships. Nor does he consider the use of trading or business names, logos, ownership of registered trade or service marks, copyrights, patents etc., or any other proprietary rights existing in names or parts of names.
How are Objections Dealt With?
The Secretary of State's powers are discretionary, each case being considered on its merits. The Secretary of State will normally inform the limited liability partnership whose name he proposed to direct to be changed, so that this limited liability partnership can put forward any evidence it considers appropriate in justification of retaining the existing name. Any relevant information provided to support or rebut the case for confusion between limited liability partnerships as limited liability partnerships (but not between limited liability partnerships as represented by their trading title, style or activity) will be considered in reaching a decision.
When May a Direction be Issued?
A limited liability partnership may be directed to change its name: within 12 months of its date of registration if it is the same as or, in the opinion of the Secretary of State, "too like" a name appearing (or which should have appeared) on the index at the time of its registration. Within five years of its date of registration, where the Secretary of State has reason to think that it has provided misleading information for the purposes of registration, or has given undertakings or assurances for that purpose that have not been fulfilled.
At any time if the name gives so misleading an indication of the nature of the limited liability partnership's activities as to be likely to cause harm to the public. This direction must be complied with within six weeks unless an application is made to the Court to set it aside.
Can a 'Too Like' Name be Rejected before the LLP is Registered?
No. Although proposed limited liability partnership names are rejected if they are the "same as" an existing limited liability partnership name, there is no power to reject a name on the grounds that it is "too like" that of another limited liability partnership. It is in your interest to ensure that the name you choose for your limited liability partnership is sufficiently different from any other name on the register.
This will reduce the risk of confusion and the following potential difficulties: all the limited liability partnership's business letters. All its notices and other official publications. Confusion with other limited liability partnerships with a poor trading record. A "passing off" action in civil law.
Where the LLP Name must be Displayed?
Every limited liability partnership must paint or affix its name on the outside of every office or place in which its business is carried on - even if it is a member's home. The name must be kept painted or affixed and it must be both conspicuous and legible.
On Which Documents the LLP Name must be Shown?
The LLP must state its name, in legible lettering, on the following: all the limited liability partnership's business letters. All its notices and other official publications. All bills of exchange, promissory notes, endorsements, cheques and orders for money or goods purporting to be signed by, or on behalf of, the limited liability partnership. All its bills of parcels, invoices, receipts, and letters of credit.
An LLP will be taxed as a partnership; the internal structure of the LLP will be similar to that of a partnership. The members will provide working capital and will share any profits. Income derived by the members from the LLP will be closer to that of a partnership than to the dividends paid by companies.
The Bill also provides that any partnership converting to an LLP will receive relief from stamp duty on any property transferred in the first year, subject to conditions. Members will be liable to pay Class 2 and Class 4 National Insurance contributions. For further information on Tax and National Insurance, please call us.
In order to establish an LLP, there must at the outset be at least two people who are associated for the carrying on of a lawful business with a view to profit and who subscribe their names to an "incorporation document". A written statement must also be given that there has been compliance with the requirement that at least two persons, associated for the purpose of carrying on a lawful business with a view to profit, have subscribed their names to the incorporation document.
The LLP will be a separate legal entity and while the LLP itself will be liable for the full extent of its assets, the liability of the members will be limited. In the main, any third party would usually contract with the LLP rather than with the members themselves and in those circumstances it would be the LLP which is liable. It would though, under certain circumstances, be possible to bring a claim for economic loss against an individual member who has been negligent.
Any such claim would be a civil action outside the contract, as the party would have contracted with the LLP. The outcome of any such claim would not be easy to forecast but recent case law suggests that the courts would, when making any decision, have regard as to whether or not the LLP member assumed personal responsibility for the advice, whether the client relied on the assumption of responsibility and whether such reliance was reasonable.
Any new or existing firm of two or more persons will be able to incorporate as an LLP.
Can I Establish an LLP in Scotland as Well as in England and Wales?
Yes. Coddan provides services to new and existing businesses including limited liability partnership establishment services, from readymade LLP s to own name incorporation in the UK. In addition, Coddan provides registered business office address facilities in London, Sussex, Glasgow, and Edinburgh, nominee designated members services to support your LLP.
Will LLP be Available to Charities?
No. LLPs are only available to any lawful business that is carried out with a view to a profit.
What Information Does Companies House Require?
Designated members have a personal responsibility to make information about the structure, management and activities of their limited liability partnership available both to the members of the limited liability partnership and to the general public. This will include accounts.
A limited liability partnership's first accounts must start on the day of incorporation. The first financial year must end on the "accounting reference date" or a date up to seven days either side of this date. Subsequent accounts start on the day following the year-end date of the previous accounts. They end on the next 'accounting reference date' or a date up to seven days either side.
How is the Accounting Reference Date Set?
The accounting reference date is the date in each year to which accounts will be drawn up. The date depends on the date of incorporation, as it is the last day of the month in which the anniversary of incorporation falls. For example, if your limited liability partnership is incorporated on 2 July this year, the accounting reference date will be 31 July, and its first financial year must end on 31 July next year (or within seven days of that date).
What About Annual Returns?
Every limited liability partnership must deliver an annual return to Companies House at least once every 12 months. It has 28 days from the date to which the return is made up to do this.
Are Annual Accounts Required if an LLP is Not Trading?
xv.All limited liability partnerships, whether they trade or not, must prepare and deliver accounts to Companies House. However, a limited liability partnership may claim exemption from audit as a 'dormant limited liability partnership' if it has not traded during a financial year, unless it is an authorised person under the Financial Services Act 1986. Dormant limited liability partnerships do not need to appoint auditors and can deliver even simpler annual accounts to Companies House.
Audit Exemption For Dormant LLP - What Exemption is Available?
Dormant limited liability partnerships can claim exemption from audit and need only deliver to Companies House an abbreviated balance sheet and notes. A profit-and-loss account does not have to be included in dormant accounts filed at Companies House. However, fuller accounts must still be prepared for members, possibly including a profit and loss account if the limited liability partnership traded in the previous year.
Must all LLP Accounts be Audited?
No. If they qualify for exemption and wish to take advantage of it, most small limited liability partnerships and dormant limited liability partnerships do not have to have their accounts audited. Dormant limited liability partnership audit exemption may be claimed by a limited liability partnership that has not traded and has no relevant accounting transactions during a financial year, unless it is an authorised person under the Financial Services Act 1986. Dormant limited liability partnerships do not need to appoint auditors and can deliver very basic accounts to Companies House.
What are Late Filing Penalties?
The Companies Act (as applied to limited liability partnerships by Regulation 3 of the Limited Liability Partnerships Regulations 2001) says that penalties will be incurred by any limited liability partnership that delivers its accounts to Companies House after the period allowed for filing.


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Are Singaporeans the world's least emotional people?
- By Joshua Keating
Joshua Keating was an associate editor at Foreign Policy
I would take it with a sizeable grain of salt but that's what a recent Gallup poll claims:
Among other questions, the survey asks respondents whether they had recently experienced emotions such as enjoyment, physical pain, worry, stress or anger, and whether they had recently smiled or laughed a lot.
This does fit the sterotype for orderly, well-managed, authoritarian Singapore — a country that has gone to some pretty bizarre lengths in an effort to get citizens to have more sex.
Not surprisingly, Singaporeans don't seem to worked up about this. The Guardian rounds up some bemused tweets including "Singapore ranked most emotionless country in the world – not sure how to feel about that" and "That [poll] is a lie. I use many emoticons to express how satisfied I am." Going only on stereotypes, it's little more surprising to see the country that brought us Tchaikovsky, Tolstoy, and vodka at number four.
Who are the world's most emotional people? It's those soap opera-loving Filipinos followed by basically the whole Western Hemisphere and a couple of Gulf states:
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Students' social-emotional needs and improving use of technology are two of the most immediate areas where Naperville Unit District 203 should focus its efforts, according to community members.
Their feedback was part of the district's fourth Future Focus 203 community engagement session, which was centered around finances.
"It goes back to one of our earlier engagement sessions not just to focus on the test scores and grades, it's a look at the whole student to ensure we're providing them with the social-emotional support to be successful too," Superintendent Dan Bridges said of the feedback.


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It's been over a year since Yahoo decided to kill their free web hosting service, Geocities once and for all… but don't fret about so much "great" web content disappearing into the ether. Someone's decided to upload the complete content of Geocities to Bittorent as the site existed back at the end of 2009.
The package is being put together by the Archive Team, who are essentially addressing the shock that followed Geocities' demise when Yahoo pretty much immediately purged the servers of all the hosted data. That data has once again been recompiled, and now the Archive Team is looking to make sure it gets distributed as a sizable slice of the world wide web's history.
"This is going to be one hell of a torrent – the compression is happening as we speak, and it's making a machine or two very unhappy for weeks on end," said the Archive Team post.
"The hope had been to upload it today, but the reality is this is a lot of stuff– probably 900 gigabytes will be in the torrent itself. It's not perfect, it's not all – but it's something."
"While it's quite clear this sort of cavalier attitude to digital history will continue, the hope is that this torrent will bring some attention to both the worth of these archives and the ease at which it can be lost – and found again."
Let's hope no one delves into the archive too closely: I don't exactly want my old Geocities page, replete with comic sans and animated unicorn gifs, bubbling out of the past to haunt me.
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I have created a flexible and efficient method to construct triaxial dynamical models of galaxies with a central black hole using Schwarzschild's (1979) orbital superposition approach. These computer models are fully general and can deal with realistic triaxial luminosity distributions, and two-dimensional stellar kinematic measurements (vdB et al. 2008). This is a non-trivial undertaking, as the parameter range to be explored is significantly larger than in axisymmetric geometry, and the internal dynamical structure is much more complicated as it includes four major orbit families, a host of minor families and chaotic orbits.
In these models, we use broadband photometry to construct the luminous mass models of the stars in each galaxy. Then, the gravitational potential is inferred from the combined luminous mass, black hole and dark halo. In this potential all the representative orbits are integrated numerically, while keeping track of the paths and orbital velocities of each orbit. We can then create an actual model of the galaxy by assigning each orbit an amount of mass, so that it recreates the total mass distribution, while fitting to simultaneously reproduce the observed stellar kinematics. In this way the stellar mass-to-light ratios (Cappellari et al. 2006, vdB et al. 2006), geometry & viewing angles (vdB & van de Ven 2009), black hole masses (vdB & de Zeeuw 2011), dark matter halos (Weijmans et al. 2009) and internal dynamical structure (van de Ven et al. 2008) can be recovered. These models have the advantage that they do not require any assumption for the orbital anisotropy of the galaxy. The ability to construct these models makes it possible to measure the dynamical structure of stellar systems, and opens the way to systematically explore their properties. Please email me if you are interested in using these models. The papers that use these models are grouped on my publication page. A selection is shown below:
R. C. E. van den Bosch, G. van de Ven, E. K. Verolme, M. Cappellari, P. T. de Zeeuw
We present a flexible and efficient method to construct triaxial dynamical models of galaxies with a central black hole, using Schwarzschild's orbital superposition approach. Our method is general and can deal with realistic luminosity distributions, which project to surface brightness distributions that may show position angle twists and ellipticity variations. The models are fit to measurements of the full line-of-sight velocity distribution (wherever available). We verify that our method is able to reproduce theoretical predictions of a three-integral triaxial Abel model. In the companion paper by van den Ven, de Zeeuw & van den Bosch (2008), we demonstrate that the method recovers the phase-space distribution function. We apply our method to two-dimensional observations of the E3 galaxy NGC 4365, obtained with the integral-field spectrograph sauron, and study its internal structure, showing that the observed kinematically decoupled core is not physically distinct from the main body and the inner region is close to oblate axisymmetric.
G. van de Ven, P. T. de Zeeuw & R. C. E. van den Bosch,
We construct axisymmetric and triaxial galaxy models with a phase-space distribution function that depends on linear combinations of the three exact integrals of motion for a separable potential. These Abel models, first introduced by Dejonghe & Laurent and subsequently extended by Mathieu & Dejonghe, are the axisymmetric and triaxial generalizations of the well-known spherical Osipkov-Merritt models. We show that the density and higher order velocity moments, as well as the line-of-sight velocity distribution of these models can be calculated efficiently and that they capture much of the rich internal dynamics of early-type galaxies. We build a triaxial and oblate axisymmetric galaxy model with projected kinematics that mimic the two-dimensional kinematic observations that are obtained with integral-field spectrographs such as SAURON. We fit the simulated observations with axisymmetric and triaxial dynamical models constructed with our numerical implementation of Schwarzschild orbit-superposition method. We find that Schwarzschild method is able to recover the internal dynamics and three-integral distribution function of realistic models of early-type galaxies.
Remco C. E. van den Bosch & Glenn van de Ven
We investigate how well the intrinsic shape of early-type galaxies can be recovered when both photometric and two-dimensional stellar kinematic observations are available. We simulate these observations with galaxy models that are representative of observed oblate fast-rotator to triaxial slow-rotator early-type galaxies. By fitting realistic triaxial dynamical models to these simulated observations, we recover the intrinsic shape (and mass-to-light ratio), without making additional (ad hoc) assumptions on the orientation. For (near) axisymmetric galaxies, the dynamical modelling can strongly exclude triaxiality, but the regular kinematics do not further tighten the constraint on the intrinsic flattening significantly, so that the inclination is nearly unconstrained above the photometric lower limit even with two-dimensional stellar kinematics. Triaxial galaxies can have additional complexity in both the observed photometry and kinematics, such as twists and (central) kinematically decoupled components, which allows the intrinsic shape to be accurately recovered. For galaxies that are very round or show no significant rotation, recovery of the shape is degenerate, unless additional constraints such as from a thin disc are available.
Remco C. E. van den Bosch & P. Tim de Zeeuw
Most of the super massive black hole mass (M•) estimates based on stellar kinematics use the assumption that galaxies are axisymmetric oblate spheroids or spherical. Using fully general triaxial orbit based models we explore the effect of relaxing the axisymmetric assumption on the previously studied galaxies M32 and NGC 3379. We find that M32 can only be accurately modeled using an axisymmetric shape viewed nearly edge on and our black hole mass estimate is identical to previous studies. When the observed 5 degree kinematical twist is included in our model of NGC 3379, then the best shape is mildly triaxial and we find that our best-fitting black hole mass estimate doubles, with respect to the axisymmetric model. While this individual result is still consistent with the original estimate and the M•-σ relation, it could have significant impact on the black hole demography as around a third of the most massive galaxies are triaxial.
The code uses the quadratic programming from the Galahad package and HSL (2011), which is a collection of Fortran codes for large scale scientific computation.
© 2012-2016 Dr. Remco C. E. van den Bosch, MPIA. Last updated November 10th 2016.


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A California state senator on Monday said she was drafting legislation to block Google Inc.'s free e-mail service "Gmail" because it would place advertising in personal messages after searching them for key words.
"We think it's an absolute invasion of privacy. It's like having a massive billboard in the middle of your home," Sen. Liz Figueroa, a Democrat from Fremont, California, said in a telephone interview. "We are asking them to rethink the whole product," she said. In late March, the world's No. 1 Web search company announced plans to launch Gmail -- a service that would offer users 1 gigabyte of free storage, more than 100 times the storage offered by other free services from Yahoo Inc. and Microsoft Corp.
But in return for the extra storage, users would agree to let Google's technology scan their incoming e-mail, then deliver targeted ads based on key words in the messages. For instance, a user receiving a message about a friend's flu symptoms might also receive ads for cold and flu remedies. Gmail is now being tested with a limited number of users. Privacy advocates are assailing Gmail even before its formal launch. Google faces heavy opposition in Europe, where privacy laws are stricter than they are in the United States.
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Dear Dad, Since mum's away this weekend and you're in charge, I just thought I would remind you that, like the two of you, I like to eat. And just in case you forget, the food is kept in this cupboard: This one… Yup, that's the right one!
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By Mardi Michels on June 25, 2009 in eat, fruit, Neil, peach
No – it's a "UFO peach" – also known as a "donut peach". There arrived a week or so ago and shortly after I took this photo, they disappeared – so I can't tell you what they taste like 🙁 Neil…? The photo below (sans sticker) shows a bit more of the donut shape.
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By Mardi Michels on June 8, 2009 in brown bagging, eat, lunch, Neil
Inspired by Mark Bitten's recent post, I thought I would give you an idea of a typical Neil packed lunch (yes, I am a big suck and pack his lunch). Today is a great day for Neil (I am out tonight at my writing class and so I know his dinner will be slim pickings […]
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Think Gisele Bundchen gave husband Tom Brady some modeling tips before his Under Armour photo shoot?
The 33-year-old quarterback -- and father to son Benjamin, nearly 1 -- recently inked a deal to become the face of the brand's sports performance apparel, footwear and accessories line.
"I am very excited to team up with Kevin Plank and the Under Armour family," Brady tells UsMagazine.com in a statement. "It was important for me to align with a brand that shares my values and helps me perform at my best. Under Armour makes cutting-edge products for the next generation and for athletes who compete at the highest level."
The multi-year endorsement deal will include various in-store and promotional advertising campaigns; Brady will also debut a new, customized Under Armour Fierce cleat in games in the near future.
The Patriots player joins wide receivers Miles Austin and Anquan Boldin as a spokesman for the brand.


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Today we look at at urban-focused Nerjyzed Entertainment.
Nerjyzed Entertainment, LLC (NE) is a privately held video game and 3D animation development and publishing company founded in 2003, and headquartered in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Nerjyzed (pronounced energized), is responsible for the development of Black College Football: BCFX: The Xperience, the first video game to solely feature sports teams from Historically Black Colleges & Universities (HBCU's). The founding members of Nerjyzed hold undergraduate and graduate degrees from HBCUs.
Jacqueline Beauchamp is the co-founder, chairwoman and CEO of the company. A graduate of Southern University, Beauchamp co-founded Nerjyzed Entertainment in 2005, in Dallas, Texas. The company quickly distinguished itself in the gaming sector with its first video game, The "Doug Williams" Edition of BCFx: The Black College Football Xperience. The product designated Nerjyzed the first African-American development studio to ship on next-generation consoles. It also made them the first to integrate two top-tier genres – football and head-to-head rhythm-based competition – into one product. The game showcased the Historically Black College and University (HBCU) football game experience, including the coveted battle of the bands, complete with interactive halftime shows featuring spirited drum majors, cheerleaders and band members. A first of its kind, BCFx seized shelf space at major gaming retailers: Walmart, GameStop, Best Buy, Fry's Electronics, the Army & Airforce Exchange Service (AAFES), and online through Amazon.com.
MTV's multiplayer blog spoke with Creative Director Brian Jackson (Howard University alum) about Nerhyzed's mission and the future of African-americans in the gaming industry:
Multiplayer: Can you tell me more about Nerjyzed?
Jackson: Nerjyzed was founded about five years ago. It was founded by a group of people who came together and saw the need for more African-American representation not only within the industry, but within games themselves. Our CEO was one of the original founders, Jackie Beauchamp; she's really been the person who's been the heart and soul of what Nerjyzed is. They really wanted to bring to the forefront some of the things that we do differently that don't necessarily include selling drugs or shooting people or anything like that. One thing we want to do is make sure that every game or every product that we put out has some sort of edu-tainment value. We want to make sure that we provide positive role models and positive content for the urban community.
We're not just video game company, we're a digital entertainment company. We're going to be doing things, not only video games, but also documentaries. With our game we also released a behind-the-scenes DVD that explains how we came about making the game, the history of the company and stuff like that. We also have in the works a DVD called "Historically Black," which describes the historical significance and the current relevance of historically black colleges and universities today. … Now we're in the process of making sure that people know that Nerjyzed is not just a one-hit-wonder, and we're not just a video game company.
Multiplayer: Why did you decide to make "Black College Football: BCFX: The Xperience"? Why was that a choice for a first game?
Jackson: The HBCU experience is actually an experience. It's more than just a game because [for HBCUs], the halftime show is just as relevant as the game itself. What we noticed was that there was never a game that encompassed more than just the teams. There was never a game that had the teams, the halftime show and the overall experience that you could get when you go to the Bayou Classic or the Florida Classic.
Multiplayer: Was a sports game the first idea that came about?
Jackson: Yes, but we're not only going to be a sports video game company. That was just the first one because that's the one that made the most sense. If you looked at the way that the schools in our game were portrayed in other video games, how they didn't really capture the essence and the spirit of black college football. We want to make sure that the first game we came out with touched on something that was very near and dear to our hearts.
When you go to the Bayou Classic, you see the difference in that game in comparison to just a regular football game. You see the fans and the excitement. There's an emotional tie you have, not only to the football team, but also to the band. When you go to some of the games, a lot of people will be out tailgating and not even watching the football game itself. As soon as the countdown to the halftime show comes, the stadium will be filled.
At other footballs games at halftime, that's when most people go to the bathroom or buy food. At a HBCU game, that's where the most important thing is [during halftime]. When you're playing your rival, if you actually lose the game but your band is better then your rival's band, you actually feel as though you've won the game. Your band is the showcase of your entire school because your band represents your school.
I feel that the other football games that were out there just put out a quality football game. As far as I could tell, they didn't want to go in any deeper than just a football game and the things that are associated with a football game, like managing stuff that's within the realm of playing the football game. With "BCFX," we actually made the halftime show into a mini-game. You can actually reward your team for doing well with the halftime show. So that immerses the user into "Okay, if I do well in the halftime show, then I'll get a bonus for my team." Because they'll get the crowd into it, and they'll get the momentum on your side.
Multiplayer: What do you say to critics who say this game is alienating others by singling out black people?
Jackson: The whole concept about the game being racist is really a fallacy. The NCAA recognizes a black national champion, and right now our game is featured in the College Football Hall of Fame because they're having an exhibit on black college football. We didn't create the term "HBCU" or "black college football" — those were things that were already in place, and we just made a game to represent what that element was.
Multiplayer: Why do you think there are so many African-Americans that play games but it doesn't seem like there are that many working in game development?
Jackson: It's interesting that you bring that up because one thing that I did notice when we were on our road tour, and even after our road tour, we went to different high schools and middle schools to show of the game and tell people about the company. We found out that kids didn't know that you could have a career in video games. They play the games all day, but it never dawned on them that there were companies that pay people to play video games all day. Whenever we were on our promotional tour or talking to young kids at schools or football games, we would tell them that if you stay in school, you can have a career in video games. If you just want to play video games, you can become a tester. If you want to create video games, you can become a programmer or designer. If you want to market or PR games, you can do that. Even if you want to be in accounting or finance, you can work for a company that does video games. It was very surprising to see that as many kids as we talked to, they just didn't realize that there could be a career in video games.
Back in 1995 when I first worked for EA, I went to E3 that they had in L.A. every year. One of the things I realized my first year was that there was only a handful of African-Americans there. With the lack of the younger African-Americans knowing they can have a career in it and the lack of the adult African-American in the industry — there's very few African-Americans in the industry. You could tell from the roundtable that we were at. Microsoft actually has a "blacks in gaming" event every year at GDC, and I'll say there was probably between 30 and 50 people there.
Now, if you look at the number of companies, the number of people that are actually in the industry, and even if you triple the number or people that were at that event, that's still a very small amount of African-Americans. So until there are other companies like Nerjyzed that will put out product that features exclusively urban content, you're not going to get as many companies stepping out to make games like that.
Multiplayer: Do you think that the reason African-American kids didn't realize there were careers in gaming is just because there's no visibility at all in video games?
Jackson: Yes, I would agree whole-heartedly on that. Not only that, but if you pick up a video game magazine like Game Developer — which a lot of African-Americans don't read — if you look at the pictures and they show post-mortems of the development companies that they feature in there, there's not that many African-Americans that you'll see. So you'll never even think, "Wow I can do that, too."
When I first got into the industry, I went to college, I had a degree in computer information systems and I was working for GE as a programmer, I was an avid gamer at that point. It hadn't even dawned on me that I could do programming for games. Part of that is also because a lot of the companies that make video games are on the west coast. You won't see a lot that are in the south or northeast. If you don't grow in the Bay area, Texas or maybe the Chicago area, you might not know that you can go work for a video game company.
Multiplayer: What's next for Nerjyzed?
Jackson: Well, we haven't announced what our new product line is but I can say this: there will be some more games in the future that are of the sports genre. "BCFX" was successful and as a company we do plan on continuing that product line whether it's this year or the next year. We also have some other titles that are non-sports related but are heavily competitive. And every game that Nerjyzed puts out will have an urban flair to it, but it will be fun for anyone who picks up the controller.
Read the full interview with Brian here.


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German artist Max Klinger (1857-1920) celebrated for his graphic works, created fourteen major print cycles. One of these is the exquisitely rendered Intermezzi (1881), a portfolio of diverse subject matter including mythology and scenes from the 17th Century German novel, Simplicius Simplissimus. The highly emotional subject matter of these works, often with psychological underpinnings, anticipated the Expressionist and Surrealist movements that followed the artist's death.
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Brown University Chemists Simplify Waste Oil-to-Biodiesel ConversionTwo chemists at Brown University have streamlined the conversion of waste vegetable oil into biodiesel, eliminating the need for corrosive chemicals to perform the reactions. Writing in the journal Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, the chemists were able to pull off the waste vegetable oil-to-biodiesel conversion in a single reaction vessel using environmentally friendly catalysts and making the conversion six times faster than current methods.
One major obstacle to achieving that goal is figuring how to efficiently convert the abundant stocks of waste vegetable oil (oil used after cooking French fries, for example) into biodiesel fuel. Current techniques take time, are costly and are inefficient. Worse, the conversion requires the toxic chemicals sulfuric acid and either potassium hydroxide or sodium hydroxide.
That's where Brown University chemist Jason Sello and postdoctoral researcher Aaron Socha come in. They write in the journal Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry that they were able to convert waste vegetable oil to biodiesel in a single reaction vessel using environmentally friendly catalysts. Their process is also six times faster than current methods for converting waste vegetable oil to biodiesel, so it consumes less energy.
"We wanted to develop an environmentally benign and technically simple way to convert waste vegetable oil into biodiesel," said Sello, assistant professor of chemistry. "The production of energy at the expense of the environment is untenable and should be avoided at all costs."
Waste vegetable oil is made up of triacylglycerols, free fatty acids, and water. The conventional way to convert waste vegetable oil into biodiesel requires two separate reactions. The first reaction turns the free fatty acids into biodiesel, but that conversion requires sulfuric acid. The second reaction converts the triacylglycerols into biodiesel, but that conversion requires sodium hydroxide or potassium hydroxide. Sodium hydroxide/potassium hydroxide and sulfuric acid are not compatible with each other, so the reactions must be carried out in separate vessels. That makes the process less efficient.
To find a better way, Sello and Socha went looking for catalysts that would be cheap, chemically stable and of limited toxicity. They settled on the metals bismuth triflate and scandium triflate, commonly used as catalysts in preparative organic chemistry. In addition, they performed the reactions using a microwave reactor instead of a conventional thermal heater. What they found was the new catalysts converted waste vegetable oil into biodiesel in about 20 minutes in the microwave reactor, whereas current reactions without catalysts using a conventional heater take two hours. While their microwave method needs a higher temperature to pull off the biodiesel conversion — 150 degrees Celsius versus 60 degrees Celsius under current methods — it uses less energy overall because the reaction time is much shorter.
The chemists also were able to perform the conversion in one reaction vessel, since the catalysts can promote both the reaction that converts free fatty acids into biodiesel and the reaction in which triacylgycerols are converted to biodiesel.
The team also reports that the catalysts in the free fatty acid conversion, which is the more challenging of the two reactions, could be recycled up to five times, while maintaining the capacity to promote a 97 percent reaction yield. The fact the catalysts can be recycled lowers their cost and environmental impact, the researchers said.
"While we have not yet proven the viability of our approach on an industrial scale," Sello said, "we have identified very promising catalysts and reaction conditions that could, in principle, be used for large-scale conversion of waste vegetable oil into biodiesel in an enviornmentally sensitive manner."
The research was funded by the National Science Foundation through a grant to Sello and an American Competitiveness in Chemistry award to Socha. Brown also supported the work through a R.B. Salomon award to Sello.
In a separate yet related paper, a team led by Brown chemistry professor Paul Williard has created a new technique to chart the progress of a reaction in which virgin oils are converted into biodiesel fuel.
The technique, called DOSY (for diffusion-ordered nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy), observes virgin oil molecules as they shrink in size and move faster in solution during the reaction. The reaction is complete when all of the molecules have been converted into smaller components known as fatty acid esters. These fatty acid esters are used as biodiesel fuel.
The results are published in the journal Energy & Fuels. The research was funded by the National Science Foundation. Contributing authors include Sello, Socha, Brown graduate students Gerald Kagan and Weibin Li, and lab technician Russell Hopson.
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"Getting anxious about tests is not uncommon," says Brian Corkery, senior associate director of the Academic Advising Center. "But good preparation can help reduce and control that anxiety."
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"Time management is a challenge for many students," he says. "We encourage them to be aware of when and how they procrastinate, and address it before it becomes a big problem."
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University Counseling Service also offers advice on time management, overcoming procrastination, and preparing for exams. Health Iowa, a division of UI Student Health Service, posts online suggestions for stress management and a blog where students can ask a health educator about specific, stress-related issues.
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While college has changed considerably since parents were 18, there's a low-tech method that still lessens student stress: a care package or letter from home.
"A package or letter that says 'We're here for you' means so much to students," says Lutz. "I love watching students when they see they have mail or get to pick up a package at the desk. It really brightens their day."
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