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Cost is a variable factor that depends on numerous things. Talking of oxygen cylinder filling plant cost in India, it depends on quality of raw materials used, technology and designing of oxygen plants, which are used for generating oxygen gas for use in industries and medicine. The market is full of oxygen plant manufacturers but few of them are known for offering high quality machinery at really very competitive prices. Our plant machinery is fabricated and manufactured using advanced cryogenic distillation technology based on the process cycle of Linde & Claude, which was developed in 1930 and is still being used with numerous modifications.
How Oxygen Cylinder Filling Plant Cost is kept cheap in India?
As it is well-known, customers from all over the globe are increasingly opting to buy oxygen gas plants. There are many reasons for this but the chief one is competitive pricing of oxygen cylinder filling plants (industrial oxygen plant cost & medical oxygen gas plant cost, PSA oxygen plant cost) from India. It is really an achievement that Indian offer plant machinery that is comparable to the best in the world in terms of quality and technology. Acclaimed oxygen plant manufacturers are able to offer the most competitive liquid oxygen plant cost in India, oxygen cylinder filling plant cost in India because Indians enjoy a large pool of skilled workforce. Also, manufacturers of oxygen plants from India also have the benefit of cheap raw materials. The manufacturers and suppliers from India keep the cost of oxygen plants down to ensure that the customers get the best deal on their purchases.
Salient features of oxygen cylinder filling plant:
- Air separation column( Cold Box ) is fabricated using A Grade leak-proof stainless steel
- Skid mounted
- Easy to operate and maintain
- Durable
- Low power consumption
Our oxygen cylinder filling plant generates oxygen both in liquid as well as gaseous form. Oxygen generated in our oxygen plants has purity up to 99.7%, which meets the requirements of industrial and medical applications. Equipment is used in the manufacturing and fabricating of the machinery is top-class and customers are happy purchasing the plant machinery. As mentioned above, we offer the best industrial oxygen cylinder filling plant cost which is the main reason for customers preferring to purchase plant machinery from India. On top of it, oxygen plant manufacturers in India use advanced technology, which is used by most of the makers in the US and Europe, and offer the same machinery at unbeatable prices. It goes without saying that customers prefer to buy from India because of low prices and high quality.
Certification from leading quality assurance companies:
Our medical oxygen cylinder filling plants has been awarded with ISO 9008:2015 and CE certifications that guarantee that the machinery has manufactured employing the best quality standards in the industry. A CE mark assures the customers worldwide that it is high quality machinery. Moreover, our cylinder filling plant cost is also very competitive in the industry making us the preferred option for the customers.


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This course forms Module 2 of the Advanced Derivatives course and is a detailed 3-day course covering Equity Derivatives, FX, Credit and XVA
Day 3 - Equity and FX options, exotics, structured products and trading the volatility surface
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Hedging bond positions
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CDS indices (iTRAXX and CDX)
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The new CVA capital charge in Basel III
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Some big news today even before the opening bell. Home Depot CEO Robert Nardelli resigned this morning--effective immediately. Vice Chairman Frank Blake will take over the top spot. Nardelli had been CEO for the past six years and had upset many investors with the size of his pay package and the company's performance. Talking about the sudden change on "Squawk Box" was retail analyst David Schick from Stifel Nicolaus & Co. He spoke by phone.
Schick said that he expected no big changes in the way Home Depot will be run in the months ahead. He said that Nardelli's resignation was somewhat based on "politics" than the actual running of the company. And that's why Schick says he expects Blake to continue many of Nardelli's initiatives.
Wall Street Journal reporter Alan Murray was a guest host on "Squawk." He said he thinks Nardelli upset labor unions (Home Depot workers) and hedge fund investors (investing in Home Depot) and that helped bring about his fall. He also said that investors were also upset about Nardelli's moving Home Depot into the "supply " area instead of returning profits to stock holders.
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Whether your thumb is bright green or you simply enjoy being surrounded by nature's beauty, the 25th Annual 2018 Epcot® International Flower & Garden Festival, February 28 through May 28, is pure delight for all your senses. See gorgeous gardens and indulge your taste buds with fresh culinary treats created by Epcot® Chefs. Give your ears a treat and listen to some live music Friday – Monday at the America Gardens Theatre. And romp with the family in interactive playgrounds designed to let kids of all ages experience nature in fresh, fun ways.
But among the most beloved and popular sights you absolutely won't want to miss are the 50 or more topiaries of Disney and Pixar Characters. It's amazing what happens when art meets greenery. And each time we attend this festival, we wonder "how do they do that?" so we asked Eric Darden, Horticulturist for Epcot® Park if he'd share a few secrets.
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"It can take more than six months to create a new topiary," says Darden. "Each one is a unique work of Disney art. First the Disney Character Artists create dozens of sketches of poses. They are key to everything." Once a final pose is approved, a Disney sculptor creates a maquette (a small sculpture) which is turned into a casting that becomes the reference point for the next step.
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Next the welders create a steel understructure which can take up to four months. "The welders work very closely with the Character Artists making sure each crook of an arm, fold in a skirt and turn of a head is perfect," Darden says. "They have a keen sense of artistry. There's a lot of bending, cutting and starting over."
Painting with Plants
After the structures are complete, they are stuffed with sphagnum moss and the gardeners begin the intricate task of planting hundreds of thousands of plants ranging from succulents to vines and flowering plants. The process takes about two weeks. "Basically we are painting with the plants, using different shades to create dimension and modeling," Darden explains. "We are always looking for new plants to create the effects we want."
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"Topiaries take a long time to make," Darden says. "So we take very, very good care of them. This year, many favorites, which have been on hiatus for several years, will be returning including a 14-foot-high Goofy at the entrance to Epcot® Park. Keep your eyes open for Stitch, Figment, Mickey, Minnie, Lightning McQueen and Cruz Ramirez from Cars 3. And that's just a start. We love trying to spot them all!
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Ballinamullin Bridge realignment to take place this financial year - Fitzgerald
Published: 17 October, 2014
Sinn Féin Mid Tyrone councillor Anne Marie Fitzgerald has welcomed confirmation that the realignment of the Ballinamullin Bridge on the Farmhill road will take place in the coming months.
The local councillor got the confirmation in correspondence with DRD about the speed of progress in relation to the scheme.
Councillor Fitzgerald said:
"The DRD confirmed to me in a letter that the realignment project on the Ballinamullin bridge will go ahead in this financial year. It was also revealed that a length of footway from the Ballinamullin road junction to the stile of the GAA playing grounds will be provided on both sides of the road in conjunction with the realignment works. This will facilitate pedestrians along this section of road and will accommodate any potential future footway. This is a welcome and much needed development.
"I also took the opportunity to press Roads Service on a footway on the Farmhill road from the Drumnakilly road junction. However having recently reviewed a 2011 survey on the road it didn't attract as a high enough priority as other essential works in the area. However we will continue to lobby Roads Service on this issue as local residents are anxious that they are accommodated in regards footway provision on this stretch of road.
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Aufsatz (Zeitschrift) zugänglich unter
URN: urn:nbn:de:0111-pedocs-122944
URN: urn:nbn:de:0111-pedocs-122944
The age of studies and reports: selected elements concerning the background of encounters defining the power of education
|Obdobje studij in porocil - izbrani elementi ozadij spoprijemov, ki dolocajo moč edukacije
|Tasner, Veronika; Gaber, Slavko
|CEPS Journal 6 (2016) 2, S. 61-80
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|Lizenz des Dokumentes
|Schlagwörter (Deutsch)
|Chancengleichheit; Bildungsexpansion; Sozialismus; Geschichte <Histor>; Bildungsreform; Sekundarbereich; Bildungssystem; Empirische Forschung; Jugoslawien; Slowenien
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Bildungsorganisation, Bildungsplanung und Bildungsrecht
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|In the present paper, we discuss the time before the "age of reports". Besides the Coleman Report in the period of Coleman, the Lady Plowden Report also appeared, while there were important studies in France (Bourdieu & Passeron, 1964; Peyre, 1959) and studies that inaugurated comprehensive education in Nordic countries. We focus on the period after the World War II, which was marked by rising economic nationalism, on the one hand, and by the second wave of mass education, on the other, bearing the promise of more equality and a reduction of several social inequalities, both supposed to be ensured by school. It was a period of great expectations related to the power of education and the rise of educational meritocracy. On this background, in the second part of the paper, the authors attempt to explore the phenomenon of the aforementioned reports, which significantly questioned the power of education and, at the same time, enabled the formation of evidence-based education policies. In this part of the paper, the central place is devoted to the case of socialist Yugoslavia/Slovenia and its striving for more equality and equity through education. Through the socialist ideology of more education for all, socialist Yugoslavia, with its exaggerated stress on the unified school and its overemphasised belief in simple equality, overstepped the line between relying on comprehensive education as an important mechanism for increasing the possibility of more equal and just education, on the one hand, and the myth of the almighty unified school capable of eradicating social inequalities, especially class inequalities, on the other. With this radical approach to the reduction of inequalities, socialist policy in the then Yugoslavia paradoxically reduced the opportunity for greater equality, and even more so for more equitable education. (DIPF/Orig.)
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Discover the Women candle by Baobab Collection
The Women candle by Baobab Collection follows the fashion cycles in the edition of the new candles. This product tells a new story, a new perfume and a new name, The Women.
What about this Women candle by Baobab Collection ?
Firstly, Women candle resonates like a manifesto that celebrates women. Indeed, its powdered rose scent is an invitation to let one's femininity shine with reckless abandon.
Furthermore, its glass is covered in a graphic printed pattern inspired by the symbol of femininity. A gold rim surrounds this powder pink pattern, and reminds us how precious women are.
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With this collection, Baobab Collection hopes to show its love for women and vows to support a cause that affects everyone in one way or another: breast cancer research. The creators hope that the Women candle will shine light on this cause, because without this research we will never beat the scourge that robs us of our mothers, our sisters, our daughters, and our friends.Baobab Collection supports BIG and breast cancer research. That's why they offer an exclusive collection of scented candles called "Women".
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Abigail's Great-Grandpa (my Grandpa Abe) passed away early Saturday morning. He was 101 years old. He loved the Lord, and was ready and eager to meet Jesus. He was greatly loved and will be greatly missed. I want to tell you all about him, because he was an incredible man. I don't think I have the words to say what I would want, so here's a letter I wrote to him a few days ago that says a little of what I loved about him and what he means to me.
Dear Grandpa,
I have been wanting to write you a letter and send you our love. I have been slow in doing it because I don't know what to say. I guess I don't have any eloquent words for you, but I want you to know that we love you very much and are thinking of you.
I am very glad that Abigail and I got to have a nice visit with you when we were in Oregon in March. She is growing so fast, she's already changed a lot since then. She will turn one year old next week. She is very active – I stay busy chasing her! She loves walking and exploring new things. I won't be surprised if she walks a lot throughout her life, like you have done. Maybe when she's 90 years old she'll be walking up the hill to Mt. Angel Abbey. The weather is getting nicer here, so she likes playing outside, and especially loves visiting the neighbor's dog. She loves animals and music. She even dances when the phone rings! She brings so much joy to our lives, we are so blessed.
Grandpa, you have brought a lot of joy to my life, too. I will always remember our wonderful visits. My childhood was very uniquely impacted by all the adventures we had at the house in LaGrange. I loved going out in the rowboat with you, feeding the chickens, exploring the Dredge Camp, and playing in the big yard. I love hearing stories about the fun/funny/crazy things that you have done throughout your long and full life. You have inspired me to love God's beautiful creation, to value my education, and to keep a sense of humor through everything. I am so grateful that God chose to place me in this family – Your family – My family. Thank you for establishing our family as a household of Faith in Jesus. That, above all, is your legacy in us. You desire the praise of God above the praises of men, and you have run the race well. Thank you for setting a faithful example.
I love the way you always give me good, strong, long hugs, and I wish I could be there to give you a big hug and a kiss right now. But since I'm here and you're there, my heart will just have to hug yours across the miles. I love you very much, Grandpa.
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Obama Must Denounce LGBT Murders in Puerto Rico
LOS ANGELES – The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), the nation's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) media advocacy and anti-defamation organization, is calling on President Barack Obama to speak out against the hate-motivated killings in Puerto Rico during his Tuesday, June 14 trip to San Juan. GLAAD also launched an online action that urges media to report on the murders: http://www.glaad.org/prmedia.
Singer Ricky Martin also joined the campaign on Monday by re-tweeting a link to the online action.
In the last year and a half, at least 18 gay or transgender people in Puerto Rico have been killed, three of them just last week. Although advocates believe many of these victims' lives were taken because of their sexual orientation or gender identity, authorities have not been treating the cases as hate crimes.
"As our gay and transgender brothers and sisters in Puerto Rico are being brutally murdered, the mainstream media continues to turn a blind eye," said GLAAD President Jarrett Barrios. "News outlets have a responsibility to report on these vicious, hate-motivated crimes and to hold law enforcement accountable for charging suspects appropriately."
President Obama will visit Puerto Rico, where he will also deliver remarks. Barrios continued, "President Obama should take a stand while in San Juan and send a clear message that hate-motivated crimes will not be tolerated in any U.S. territory -- period."
The most recent victim, Karlota Gomez, was shot to death Tuesday by someone driving by her on the street. A suspect has been arrested.
According to published reports, on Wednesday local advocates are meeting with the Puerto Rican Attorney General, the Puerto Rico Police Chief, with Governor Luis Fortuño's security advisor and with two prosecutors, among others.
In late April, another transgender woman, Francheska Gonzalez, was severely beaten by a man while leaving a gas station.
Late last year, two young transgender women were shot in the head and apparently run over by a car in the southern city of Juana Diaz. Also last year, the naked and battered body of a transgender woman, Ashley Santiago, was found in her home in the northern town of Corozal.
In a November 2009 case that sparked vigils in New York and Chicago, teenager Jorge Steven Lopez Mercado was found decapitated and partially burned in Cayey.
GLAAD is urging Puerto Rico's media – and all media that serves a sizable Puerto Rican audience – to report accurately on the state of fear among Puerto Rico's LGBT community. This fear affects not just gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people but also their friends and family members, both in Puerto Rico and elsewhere. It is the media's responsibility to expose the lack of adequate investigation by authorities into this wave of anti-LGBT crimes.
Pedro Julio Serrano, founder of the LGBT advocacy group Puerto Rico for Everyone and communications director for the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force said Thursday, "It seems they have declared open hunting season against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and transsexual people."


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Hockey in China is growing faster than ever before. Everyday more players are experiencing the greatest sport on ice. Can Life Sports is following the young and more experienced hockey amateurs around China, showcasing their learning and sharing their story with the world. This is our first episode of #HockeyVoice. 曲棍球(冰球)在中国的发展速度比以往任何时候都要快。每天都有更多的运动员在冰上体验这项伟大的运动。"Can Life Sports/加力体育"关注中国各地年轻、经验丰富的业余冰球爱好者,向世界展示他们的学识,分享他们的故事。这是我们的第一集#HockeyVoice冰球梦响


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Developing routines is widely recognized as a healthy habit that increases organizational skills and makes things run more smoothly without hassle. As kids, most of us grew up with an understanding that we had certain routines to follow. That routine no doubt varied from family to family, but most included things such as getting up on time, brushing our teeth, making our bed, eating breakfast, and getting out the door to school on time. Maybe we were expected to make our lunch, set the table, feed a pet, fold laundry, or practice the piano. It all depended on our home situation and parental expectations. Children enjoy seeing their cooperative behavior recorded on a chart, and they also enjoy working toward a goal.
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Our selection of printable behavior charts for daily routines gives you the opportunity to match a chart style to what you think your child will respond to. You don't have to fill in all the fields, so don't let more spaces than you need cause you to skip a chart that would otherwise seem suitable.
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Galaxy S9 Project Treble support confirmed
We have received a lot of questions about the Galaxy S9 Project Treble support ever since the new flagship smartphone was launched in Barcelona yesterday. Samsung didn't talk about it during the launch event which left many wondering if the new flagship supported it or not. We can now confirm that the Galaxy S9 and the Galaxy S9+ indeed support Project Treble.
Galaxy S9 Project Treble support
Google announced Project Treble alongside Android 8.0 Oreo at its I/O 2017 conference last year. It's a significant re-architect of the Android OS framework which will help reduce the time it takes for major updates to be released.
The idea behind Project Treble is to enable manufacturers to update their Android-powered devices without having to make a lot of software tweaks first. Google basically separated the work it does on Android from the work that its hardware partners do on the OS to ensure that Android is compatible with their new chips.
It separated the device-specific lower-level software written by the hardware partners from the Android OS framework through a new vendor interface. No formal vendor interface existed for earlier Android versions so device manufacturers had to update large portions of the Android core if they wanted to update a device to the latest version of the OS.
With Project Treble, Google has introduced a new stable vendor interface that enables OEMs to quickly release new Android updates by simply updating the OS framework without having to wait for silicon manufacturers to do additional work first. This is one of the more serious steps that Google has taken to tackle fragmentation on the Android platform.
This means that with the Galaxy S9 Project Treble support, Samsung will be able to release Android updates quickly without waiting on a chip partner like Qualcomm to first send the software update.
The company had said that it would work with OEMs to bring Project Treble support to existing flagships. While the Galaxy S8 recently received its Oreo update, it's yet to receive support for Project Treble.
Google said last year that all devices shipping with Android 8.0 Oreo will support Project Treble out of the box. We have now confirmed that the Galaxy S9 Project Treble support is indeed present from the word go. This means that the Galaxy S9 will hopefully receive Android updates faster. Fingers crossed.
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You may uncross your fingers because Samsung has failed to deliver. All this talk of Project Treble and supporting monthly security patches for their expensive flagship phones is just a marketing ploy. US S9+ unlocked version is still on Feb 1 2018 security patch level. We are half way through June. The irony is that Verizon is able to push timely monthly security updates to their carrier branded S9+ OTA without any issues. So, while Samsung may have great hardware and features, they are simply not up to the mark when it comes to supporting their flagships. Some of the… Read more »
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Guys do upload stock wallpapers
Yeah, I'll subscribe to that.
Android P will come in March 2019.
It will be nice if s8 will benefit from this with a software update if it still receives oreo
They might be able to start the development on a new version earlier, but I bet if it's going to be released earlier as well
I bit samsung will release android p for s9 in march 2019
We wait and see


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These are just a few examples of the results we have obtained for clients in auto debt cases:
- April 6, 2018: A judgment against our client in the amount of $31,568.67 was settled for $20,000.00, saving our client over 36%! (Ford Motor Credit v. Client, Los Angeles County Superior Court Case #15A050XX)
- February 15, 2018: AAA v. Client (LA Superior Court Case #15K005XX). Client is a Big Rig truck driver and was involved in an auto accident with a Jetta in Long Beach in 2013. AAA insured the Jetta. AAA paid out over $10,000.00, and then sued our client and client's employer. Turns out the employer was uninsured and went bankrupt. Worse, the employer told client they would take care of it, but did not. A judgment of more than $10,000 was entered against our client in 2016. Client came to us and we got the judgment set aside in 2017. We showed up for trial in February 2018 and AAA agreed to accept 50%!
- June 19, 2017: A lawsuit in the amount of $12,758.58 was settled for $5,500.00 (Ford Motor Credit V. Client, case # 16A170XX)
- January 31, 2017: A judgment in the amount of $16,000.00 was settled for $7,000.00 (Ford Motor Credit V. Client, case# 04E030XX)
- June 24, 2016: A Judgment in the amount of $31,909.72 was settled for $12,000.00 (Ford Motor Credit V. Client, case# MCV26XX)
- March 26, 2016: A Judgment of $5,135.14 was settled for $1,000.00 (American General Finance V. Client, Case# 05SR20XX)
- March 21, 2016: A judgment in the amount of $17,975.66 was settled for $7,500.00 (Ford Motor Company V. Client, Case# 05NL236XX)
- Recent Case Result (Sept. 22 2015): AAA-Auto Club settles $17,692.26 claim for $8000
- Recent Case Result (June 2015): Miller Honda settles 2007 judgment of $8294.40 for $3750
- Recent Case Result (Jan. 2015): State Farm Mutual Insurance judgment for $5058.59 settled for $1800
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Please send in a submission today to encourage NZ to keep up the good work and continue to reduce particulate pollution in NZ. If the proposal to extend the deadline for achieving the air quality standards until 2018 goes ahead, many more Kiwis will suffer ill health and perhaps even die prematurely.
Papers, discussion documents and an online submission form are available at http://www.mfe.govt.nz/news/2010-06-09- ... eview.html The submission deadline of 5 pm Friday (NZ time) is pretty silly. I can't imagine anyone looking at it until Monday, but I don't know whether late submissions will be accepted.
Green Party spokesperson on Resource Management, David Clendon, commented:
"The Health and Air Pollution in New Zealand (HAPINZ) report estimated that 1,100 Kiwis die prematurely each year because of air pollution, and many more children and adults suffer from debilitating asthma and respiratory illness.
"Air pollution is estimated to cost our economy over $1 billion a year. Clean air is essential to our economic and environmental wellbeing. Delaying and lowering standards costs us more in the long run."
Anyone who agrees with these sentiments should use the online submission form to argue against delaying and lowering the standards. The online material includes a report by the Technical Advisory Group which cites the conclusions of UK Air Quality Expert Group publication in 2005: "Particulate matter can affect our health. The available evidence suggests that it is the fine components of PM10, which have a diameter of 2.5 μm or less and are formed by combustion, that are the main cause of the harmful effects of particulate matter."
Instead, the air quality standards standards should be upgraded by the introduction of a much-needed PM2.5 standard, allowing NZ to aim for the greatest reduction in the pollutant that most affects our health for the least possible cost. This cannot be achieved if the pollutant most closely linked to adverse health outcomes is not even considered. See http://woodsmoke.3sc.net/news for a link to the Air Quality Group's draft submission with more ideas and information.
REVIEW OF WOOD SMOKE EDUCATION PROGRAMS in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) - submission by the Tuggeranong Community Council (TCC). As well as supporting a review, the TCC believes the ACT Government should also consider the experiences of other jurisdictions where anti wood smoke education programs have failed. The TCC believes that for future education programs to succeed, particularly in the Tuggeranong Valley, they should focus on the public health impact of wood smoke pollution.
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Discussion Paper
The article attempts of apply econophysics concepts to the Eurozone crisis. It starts by examining the idea of conservation laws as applied to market economies. It formulates a measure of financial entropy and gives numerical simulations indicating that this tends to rise. We discuss an analogue for free energy released during this process. The concepts of real and symbolic appropriation are introduced as a means to analyse debt and taxation.
We then examine the conflict between the conservation laws that apply to commodity exchange with the exponential growth implied by capital accumulation and how these have necessitated a sequence of evolutionary forms for money, and go on to present a simple stochastic model for the formation of rates of interest and a model for the time evolution of the rate of profit.
Finally we apply the conservation law model to examining the Euro Crisis and the European Stability pact, arguing that if the laws we hypothesise actually hold, then the goals of the stability pact are unobtainable.
Comments and Questions
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The bibliography is coherent and suitable, even though I was surprised for not seeing a reference to the work of Nicholas Georegescu-Roegen, mainly to Roegen (1960).
We thank the reviewer for pointing out Roegen (1960), which was unknown to us. That said, the referenced paper is mainly concerned ...[more]
with the inadequacies of a deterministic model that is not considered in our manuscript.
All in all, I would have appreciated reading an 'introduction with motivations', to figure out the field, and a final section of 'conclusive remarks', to summarise the main findings.
We think this is a fair point and have added an introduction and conclusion to the manuscript.
(a) on page 5 the authors set an analogy between the mass of a particle and the financial position of a firm on a phase-space, so implicitly assuming the mass is one of the degrees-of-freedom;
If one draws the analogy that far, then 'mass' would be one degree of freedom.
(b) formulae (1) and (2) on page 5 and 6 are used to explain conservation laws for system's observables totals but they seem more like constraints on their expected values;
Formulae (1) and (2) are effectively summing the total net debts and their rates of change, upto normalization constants given by density functions Px and Py. To illustrate the point in an extreme case, suppose there are only two agents in the system. Then Px = (1/2)*delta(x - x0) + (-1/2)*delta(x+x0), where delta(x) is a Dirac delta function, x0>=0 and the division by 2 is due to normalization. Inserting Px into (1) we get the debt x0 from one agent canceled by the –x0 debt of the other. They are thus stronger than constraints on expected totals. They are constraints that the system must obey, and in this sense analogous to a conservation law.
(c) on page 7 they introduce the notion of financial-entropy: it is not so clear why it should be always growing, except in the provided example;
Since we are unable to derive a formal proof we argue why this conjecture follows from the conservation laws and agent dynamics. At the most basic level, any system micro configuration with a dispersion along the y-axis (i.e. growth of debt/credit) will increase the dispersion along the x-axis (i.e. debt/credit). Now, at any instance in which voluntary borrowing falls short of lending, involuntary borrowing must rise. This will increases the dispersion because the latter agents belong to the extreme end along the debt axis already; and their rising borrowing only extends this position further.
We have now tried to clarify this polarizing dynamic in section 2.2 of the manuscript.
(d) on page 13 they draw an analogy between the 'work' done by credit and the free energy by means of the (financial) entropy increase. All these analogies are foundational of the model but they are not so easy to be understood beyond the level of the intuition.
At the most basic level the argument is that while the dispersion of the credit/debt PDF Px,y increases, not only does 'financial entropy' rise by definition, but barrier of money-constrained private production and consumption units are overcome as they now increasingly operate on credit. This enables more work to be extracted from the economic system than would otherwise have been possible. We now tried to highlight this conclusion in the manuscript.
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For the approach followed in this paper I would rather suggest the authors to consider Sraffa and his "Production of commodities by means of commodities", which seems to me more suitable for the theory presented here.
We deliberately do not follow the approach of Sraffa because we consider that ...[more]
since the pioneering econophysics work of Farjoun and Machover, the methodology of Sraffa has been theoretically discredited. In particular the assumption in Sraffa of unique economy wide profit rate rather than having the sectoral profit rate as a random variable is incompatible with the inherently chaotic character of a market economy. It amounts to assuming that the entropy of the profit rate is zero without providing any plausible thermostat to cool it. It has also been empirically discredited by a number of studies which have confirmed that prices are equally well predicted by a simple classical Ricardian labour theory of value as they are by Sraffa's model. Occam's razor suggests that we should adopt the simpler theory. We will add a footnote to this effect.
Anyway, I have the impression that the authors refer to an industrial economy but I wonder how much of their reasoning is applicable to a post-industrial system, when the financial sector accounts for a large percentage of the economic activity.
The phase space analysis and conservation laws in equations 1 and 2 apply equally to industrial and financial companies. The simulation model in the Appendix is undoubtedly simplified as it represents the financial system as one large bank and as such ignores mutual debts between different financial firms. In the construction of agent based simulation models it is often better to start simple. The more complex the model you build, the harder it is to determine which feature of your model is responsible for the results you observe when you run simulations.
As for the supply of money, in many points of the paper the authors seem to ignore the fact that credit supply and money supply are endogenous in contemporary economies. Almost all the central banks target the overnight interbank lending interest rate also because they are aware of
their limit in controlling the supply of money.
Our whole analysis is an attempt to explain what is customarily called the endogenous 'money supply' in terms of a different conceptual paradigm based on agent distribution in a phase plane. What is customarily termed the endogenous money supply represents the integral over the left half of the phase plane in Figure 1 of our paper: the sum of all credit balances. But the conservation laws imply that this is exactly equaled by the integral over the right half of the phase plane: sum of all negative balances. The aggregate endogenous money is thus always zero. In a phase plane analysis the concept of endogenous money supply is replaced by a different one, that of the dispersion of agents in the financial phase plane. One can measure this dispersion in various ways, one could use the moments of the PDF in this plane or as we do the entropy of the distribution. Within the conceptual model we present in the paper, what is conventionally called the money supply is an epiphenomenon arising from the dynamical evolution of the positions of a population of agents in the phase plane.
The fact that the Gold Standard was abandoned in the Seventies is a consequence of the problem in the current account balance of the US rather than in the limit to the production of gold.
At that point in the seventies the reviewer is correct, the US deficit arising during the Vietnam war was the precipitating factor, but that was just the last of a series of crises that had affected the gold standard from the late 19th century. The constraint that the gold standard imposed on interest rates had been the central issue of political controversy in the US during the aftermath of the financial panic of 1893 and was behind the policies of Jennings Bryan. The constraints had become more generally evident by the 1920s as is evident in Keynes writings of the period and in the abandonment of the general convertibility of many currencies into gold in the 1930s. These repeated crises and the progressive abandonment of the gold standard need to be explained, not just the final act in the tragedy. Our explanation is that so long as you have a gold standard then the tendency of financial entropy to increase, along with the model we present of the formation of interest rates predicts repeated crises when the ratio of the gold stock to the integral of the right of the phase plane reaches a critical ratio.
As for the interest rate, the authors, in presenting an example, quantify it as a premium on risk. Actually this is only a component of the interest rate, which adds to the market rate (according to the neoclassicals) or to the mark-up on the official interest rate (according to some Post-Keynesians), just to name some examples of more comprehensive explanations.
We are not using the idea of risk premium in the same sense as the reviewer mentions. The reviewer is referring to the risk that a given loan will not be repaid, which induces a premium on loans to more risky borrowers. We are talking about the risk to the bank that the depletion of its reserves incumbent upon making a loan will leave the bank with insufficient reserves to meet the stochastic pattern of withdrawals by its depositors. This model predicts a negative correlation between bank reserve to asset ratios and the interest rate such as was observed by Cagan. We have added a citation to the relevant paper by Cagan.
The reviewer refers to Gallegati et. al. "Worrying trends in Econophysics" which criticises the use of ideas of conservation laws applied to incomes. We are not applying conservation laws to incomes, we are applying them to the analysis of debt. Wagner's paper on the application of maximum entropy models to market clearing in stock markets addresses a slightly different form of entropy analysis. He is looking at the use of maximum entropy estimates of information about prices by individual agents, ie the Shannon entropy of the information available to the agent. We are looking at something that is somewhat closer to Boltzman entropy as it relates to the distribution of particles (agents) in a phase space. We make no assumptions about the availability of this as information to the agents.
Third, the facts that the Euro crisis has been originated by trade imbalances that could not be corrected by the exchange rate and that the stability pact will have the only effect of worsening the situation are well established not only in non-neoclassical academic literature, but also in the general press (see for example a number of commentaries by Martin Wolf on the Financial Times).
This is a fair point. We thought that it was significant that you could draw these conclusions within a conservation law framework, but we agree that Wolf has made similar points in the Financial times, so we will remove this section from the paper.
The reviewer asks for simulation data. We do include the results of simulation runs in figures 10 to 13. We do not compare these to empirical data. Doing this is certainly scientifically worthwhile but it would be a major study involving very large scale data analysis of large samples of firms and household debts over time in order to estimate the empirical PDF of agents in the phase plane. At present we do not have access to the data required.


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Bangalore. If banks and other financial institutions can provide loans against valuables like gold and land that don't lose value with passage of time, why can't they provide loans against wine, which also gets better and dearer with time?
This question has been put forward by Kingfisher Airlines chairman Vijay Mallya after he was subjected to Faking News jokes like "Vijay Mallya approaches Bappi Lahiri for Manappuram Gold loan".
"Enough of such jokes!" objected a visibly upset Mallya, opening the third bottle of his favorite white wine, brewed at his private vineyard, at his private bar located at his private penthouse, where he had called an emergency meeting with himself to discuss plans to rescue Kingfisher Airlines.
"I have a collection of vintage wines in my bedroom that is thousand times bigger than the total gold reserve of Bappi Lahiri," Mallya claimed, "If Bappi can get Manappuram Gold Loan, I should fucking get Manappuram Wine Loan!"
"Jab ghar mein pada ho daaru, tab main kyun haar maanu," senior Mallya added.
The liquor baron has decided to send a letter in this regard to all leading banks and financial institutions of India to offer him a loan against his wine reserves, which are reportedly bigger in value than the current cash reserve with many banks.
Mallya claims that his suggestion of "wine loan" would have been accepted and implemented promptly if P Chidambaram was the Finance Minister of India, because Chidambaram had accepted and implemented the 2G spectrum prices without making any fuss.
"Pranab Mukherjee is a hard nut to crack," senior Mallya said, "But he has to agree to it. There are a lot of people in this country who have wine bottles in their pocket but no cash. Indian banks must launch wine loans."
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Where to begin. First of all, the east side of the island just so happens to have the best beaches. Think white, soft sands, water so clear you're convinced you're about to break both legs jumping from a pier into 7-metre deep water, and laid back beach bars not intent on taking you to the cleaners for every pint of beer you consume.
The best beaches, according to us, are as follows:
If you're staying in Rethimno – you're in luck, there's a beach probably 500m from your door. This sandy stretch of beach has a sizeable sand bar that heads out well into the ocean – read: it's a slower entry so easier to get your bits wet. The water here seems a bit warmer than elsewhere on the island too, so it's a pleasant place to dodge the waves and relax for a couple hours. There has been known to be particularly strong swells here though, due in no small part to the wind, so just take note of whether the flags are red (no go), orange (if you're careful, no small kids) or green (go for it mate).
Be warned though, the beach comes complete with particularly surly lifeguard: so don't get on the wrong side of him. Quite literally.
This pebbled enclave on the south side of the island is one of a string of cosy little coves, more or less sheltered from the Cretan gusts. The water is warm and extremely clear, and it's less commercial then many others.
The best part of this beach though, is the little shack serving up food just behind it. Nestled in a little wooded area, this trailer serves up the best gyros we've ever had, stuffed full of well-seasoned meat, mountain thyme and homemade tzatziki. Take a seat in their hammock and make your way through at least five of them.
The stuff Mediterranean dreams are made of. Elafonisi is arguably Crete's most famous beach, and for good reason. With a swathe of white, sandy beach, framed by electric-blue water jutting out into the ocean where it culminates in a peninsula: there is just no way to justify this scene through a lens. Though the cerulean sea may look as inviting as bath water, it's not as balmy as some of the seas in the Mediterannean, but on a hot day there's nothing better than jumping in for a refreshing dip.
Tip: Leave your shade umbrellas at home, unless you plan to hold them with one hand and read with the other (which we did). The wind here is a howler, and parts act like a wind tunnel – meaning you might want to be careful you don't Mary Poppins it outta there, clutching on for dear life.
Menies Beach (aka secret beach aka attempt in a non-4wd rental car at your own peril):
For most people, if they've hired a rental car – gravel roads are not high on the priority list. For us, a gravel road feat. jutting rocks, feat. unstable cliffs feat. boulders ready to undo the bottom of your car, were all just a bit of a challenge. A really dumb challenge.
If you have a 4WD (or are particularly foolish, like us), take the main road up the peninsula past Kolymbari and just drive all the way to the end. You've got a solid 12km ish of tarmac before you hit gravel, and by gravel we mean barely a goat track. Don't underestimate it: this road is gnarly. But so long as you take it slow (especially those jagged rocks sticking out from the ground at haphazard angles ready to tear your tyre in half), you'll emerge at Menies after an hour or so. If you were expecting Elafonisi, you'll be disappointed, however.
This is Cretan rugged beauty at its best; a pebbly beach flanked by jagged cliffs, overlooking calm, turquoise water. The cliffs make for excellent dive boards too, the remains of German trenches from WW2, and there's even ancient ruins just strewn across the countryside (it once was a temple for a woman who was chased of a cliff – so a pretty grim place of worship in all). It's also well sheltered from the fearsome Cretan winds.
*** Also, the fitspo model vs. everyday women ratio is at the best proportion in Crete than we've experienced anywhere. We love the fact here that size 22s wear a bikini, right alongside the size 8s. People don't care what you look like – and we've never been so comfortable letting our muffin tops and cellulite hang out for all to see.


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Republican lawmakers are calling for the state to scrap Vermont Health Connect and join the federal health care exchange, but the implications of such a move are unclear.
Vermont Health Connect has never worked properly and is currently propped up by a number of manual processes. It was taken offline in mid-September, but is expected to relaunch Saturday for open enrollment, a three-month period in which consumers can buy or renew health insurance.
Vermont increases the value of the Affordable Care Act's premium tax credits for people who earn between 100 percent and 300 percent of the federal poverty line. For a couple that would be annual income of $15,730 to $47,190, respectively.
Gov. Peter Shumlin and Democrats in the Legislature have said the federal government won't allow those subsidies to be included if Vermont transitions to the federal healthcare.gov exchange.
If joining the federal exchange means forgoing Vermont's additional premium assistance, then low- and middle-income customers would be required to pay more toward their health insurance.
An individual making $23,340 would pay $350 more in annual premiums, and a family of four making $47,700 would pay $716 more in annual premiums. There are roughly 21,000 people receiving premium subsidies through Vermont Health Connect.
Vermont also currently reduces people's out-of-pocket costs beyond what is available in states using the federal exchange.
For someone making between $30,000 and $35,000 a Standard Silver high deductible plan would have an out-of-pocket maximum of $5,750. With Vermont's cost-sharing assistance, that out-of-pocket limit would be $3,400. A person with high medical costs would save $2,300.
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House Minority Leader Rep. Don Turner, R-Milton, said at a news conference last week that Vermont should bring back the popular Catamount Health plans as a way to keep coverage affordable.
Turner clarified in an interview Monday that his proposal is not to restore the actual health plans offered through Catamount, which the Affordable Care Act would preclude and which insurance companies might not offer.
Instead, he wants to use state revenue that previously went toward subsidizing Catamount plans to make up the premium assistance that would be lost by transitioning to the federal exchange.
Catamount plans were private insurance products offered to low- and middle-income Vermonters with certain income levels and who were eligible for financial assistance.
The state subsidies were supported by an assessment on employers who don't offer their employees insurance. In addition, cigarette and tobacco tax revenue and flexible Medicaid funds were also used to support the subsidies. All of that money now goes toward the state exchange.
Turner has not devised a framework for how those revenues would subsidize insurance for consumers.
It's also unclear whether the Catamount revenue stream would cover the cost of subsidies lost in the proposed transition to the federal exchange.
Vermont lowered premiums for the roughly 21,000 people receiving subsidies by $460,000 in October beyond what the feds have paid, according to state officials. But officials did not have a figure for the total premium assistance counting state and federal premium subsidies.
Peter Sterling, director of the health care advocacy group Vermont Leads, was critical of Turner for being light on specifics when he announced the proposal last week.
"I think he should have come forward with a more fleshed-out plan," Sterling said. "Give us the details of how you think this is going to benefit Vermonters before you call for it publicly."
Turner said he's working with the legislative Joint Fiscal Office and fellow Republican lawmakers to draft a bill creating a framework and timeline for transitioning to the federal exchange while still maintaining subsidies.
He hopes to have the proposed legislation on the governor's desk before the budget address in mid-January. That effort would require support from Democrats who hold the majority of seats in the House.
If the Vermont Health Connect site relaunches Saturday for open enrollment and is working well, there won't be the same urgency to join the federal exchange, Turner said.
"None of us want to shut it down during the middle of an open enrollment period if it's working," he said.
However, even if Vermont Health Connect is working well, the state needs to do a "cost benefit analysis" before it continues to use taxpayer money to complete the website buildout, Turner said.
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State officials have said the website, when it goes back online won't allow automated changes to personal information or coverage, and small businesses still won't be able to use it.
Another consideration for Vermont in joining the federal exchange is the U.S. Supreme Court announcement last week that it will hear another legal challenge to the Affordable Care Act. The suit challenges whether the federal exchange can offer subsidies at all.
A ruling against the Obama administration would eviscerate the Affordable Care Act, and require people in the three-dozen states using the federal exchange to pay the full cost of the insurance they purchase.
Editor's note: This article was updated at 3:05 p.m. Tuesday.
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Memorial Day Weekend Activities 2020
Thursday / May 21
5:00P – Cub Scouts will place flags at Civil War soldiers' graves in Section 21, Spring Grove's Civil War section.
7:00P – Ohio Military Band will kick off Memorial Day Weekend with a concert in the Rose Garden Gazebo.
Friday / May 22 & Saturday / May 23
10:00A - 3:00P – Dale Hoyt and Karen Wais, Spring Grove Expert Docents, will be available to answer questions as you visit the Veterans Tribute. They will give a tour of the Norman Chapel at 1:00 on Friday and Saturday.
Friday / May 22 – Monday / May 25
9:00A - 5:00P – The Veterans Tribute will be available for viewing in the Norman Chapel.
9:00A – 5:00P – Spring Grove and Oak Hill Cemeteries will be accepting worn and tattered American flags throughout Memorial Day weekend. The flags will be collected through June 24th at which time they will be ceremoniously retired in our Annual Flag Decommissioning Ceremony on June 25th held in the Civil War Section of Spring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum.
Sunday / May 24
1:00P – Join Heather Amos, Spring Grove Docent, for a walking tour to learn about the Patriots and Pioneers of Cincinnati. The tour will begin in Spring Grove's Civil War Section, Section 21.
Monday / May 25
11:00A – The Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War will be joined by the 6th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. The Sister Anthony O'Connell Auxiliary #10 will be participating in the ceremony. This group will be performing a historic custom dating back to 1868:
A part of the Grand Army of the Republic Ritual dated May 1868 reads that "May is designated for the purpose of strewing with flowers or otherwise decorating the graves of comrades who died in defense of their country during the late rebellion, and whose bodies now lie in almost every city, village, and hamlet churchyard in the land." With the help of the audience, flower petals will be scattered over the graves of union soldiers.
11:45A – Steve Ball Civil War Music – Steve Ball is a musician from Columbus Ohio specializing in the music of the American Civil War, and the music and life of Stephen Foster. Steve has studied the American Civil War since his teens and has devoted the past twenty years to studying the music of this era in American history. Steve has done programs for the Ohio Statehouse, the National Civil War Museum, the American Civil War Museum of Ohio, and countless historical societies, genealogical societies, libraries, museums, Civil War Round Tables and other historical venues such as re-enactments or living history programs.
12:30P – A presentation by Mr. Lincoln will be held in the Civil War Section, Section 21.
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Neck Deep are a Welsh pop punk band from Wrexham who formed in 2012 when vocalist Ben Barlow met former lead guitarist Lloyd Roberts. The pair posted a song (What Did You Expect) online under the name Neck Deep. The song soon gained attention online, resulting in the addition of rhythm guitarist Matt West, drummer Dani Washington, and bassist Fil Thorpe-Evans. They released a pair of EPs, Rain in July (2012) and A History of Bad Decisions (2013), both recorded by Barlow's older brother, before signing with Hopeless in August 2013. Following the release of their debut album Wishful Thinking in January 2014, the band became a full-time project, with the band members leaving their jobs and/or dropping out of university courses. Shortly after the release of their second album Life's Not out to Get You in August 2015, Roberts left the band due and Sam Bowden (formerly of Climates and Blood Youth) joined in his place.
On 27 June 2016, the band began writing new material for the bands third album. They began working on the album in the studio eight months after writing the bands new music on 21 February 2017. On 15 January 2017, the bands vocalist, Ben Barlow, stated that a band should always show progression in its music and they are certainly aware that is what they want to do in the bands third album. In an interview with the lead singer, Ben Barlow explains how his father's passing influenced his motivation for writing Neck Deep most recent album. Ben connects his father's death and the album by stating, "It's definitely opened my mind up creatively, it's gonna be a little ball of inspiration that I can kind of pick at, I guess." On 5 April 2017, the band finished the album and The Peace And The Panic was released on August 18th of the same year. On May 21st Neck Deep released two new songs along with music videos for them. "Where Do We Go When We Go" and "Happy Judgement Day".


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Relationships have always fascinated me. No two look alike, the dynamics are so different, and what works for one is catastrophic for another. I find long-term relationships especially fascinating because when you have time invested into it, you're no longer with the same person. Sure they go by the same name and may or may not change much physically. But as time goes on, we all grow, mature, and things about us change.
I was having a conversation with my husband the other day and sharing something that was on my mind. I told him I didn't want to be one of these couples that grew apart. You know when they go their separate ways and live different lives. Not because something bad happens but because they simply grew in two different directions. I'm at a point in my life that I'm going through a lot of shifts and growing in areas that he's not.
He said something very interesting. He told me that it didn't matter to him, that no matter how much I grew it wouldn't change what we have or how he felt. He didn't care what hobby, what business venture, or what I pursued to feed my soul. He said he loved seeing how happy I am and that I've found myself. I realized I thought I might be growing in a different direction. I've seen the changes within myself and while most of them are for the better, I have become a different version of myself. I'm more in tune with myself, have a clearer vision of what I want, and have a new-found sense of purpose.
While we might be growing at different rates and in different ways, at the end of the day that's how it's been from the beginning. We balance each other well because we have different strengths, different perspectives, and teach each other different lessons. I'm thankful that he accepts me for who I am and supports me the way he does. I also appreciate the life lessons I learn from him.So while it's entirely possible for people to outgrow each other or simply grow apart, it's also possible to grow at different rates and embrace the growth spurts. Like growing pains, it can be difficult during the process but you're stronger because of it.
What are your thoughts? Have you experienced growing pains in your relationship? I'd love to hear your feedback on this topic, feel free to share in the comments ❤


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