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ATO targets rentals and work deductions Posted on October 9, 2018
Two of the main targets will be illegitimate deductions for rental property – especially for holiday homes primarily used by family and friends – and people double-dipping on work expenses and/or making excessive claims.
Last year, the ATO contacted more than 350,000 taxpayers about errors or omissions in their returns. It expects to do the same this year.
Assistant Commissioner, Adam Kendrick told Fairfax Media that "every return is scrutinised as it's lodged. More than half of the 350,000 taxpayers had claims checked last year because of basic errors such as misspelt names and addresses, wrong blank details or birth dates and the missing details of spouses.
There was also errors because, in some cases, the return had been lodged by the taxpayer before some of the pre-filled information given to the ATO by third parties was available.
"We're encouraging taxpayers to ensure that all their pre-filled information is there before they lodge their returns," Mr Kendrick said.
The rest of the 350,000 claims were knocked back because the individual had deliberately omitted or misreported income, especially investment income.
Each year, more than 600 million pieces of data are reported to the ATO, by third parties including banks, employers, health insurers, state and federal agencies and overseas treaty partners. The ATO cross-checks taxpayer returns with such information.
Work expenses, rental deductions under watch
Assistant Commissioner Graham Whyte said this year the ATO would look at work-related expenses across all industries.
The area being monitored was double-dipping: making work-related claims on your tax return when you had claimed them from work.
Excessive work-related claims – for example, claiming all your mobile phone bills and internet connections that are 90 per cent personal use but only 10 per cent work-related – and personal travel claimed as work travel would be monitored.
Mr Whyte said there were three checklists for taxpayers making such claims. "You must have spent the money yourself, it must be related to your job and you must have a record to prove it," he said.
Income from renting out property would also be scrutinised, as would deductions for repairs and maintenance of such property. Holiday homes reserved for private use by family and friends would be under the spotlight.
"Realistic efforts need to have been made to rent out the property," Mr Whyte said. "We will also be looking at rent that's excessive; that is charged well above the market rate."
Splitting income with a spouse was also a red flag. Mr Whyte said there had been instances where a husband and wife jointly owned a property but split the income and deductions unequally to gain a tax advantage for the highest income earner.
He said claims for repairs and maintenance shortly after the property was purchased might also be rejected. These would more likely be treated as a capital works deduction. It can only be claimed as a percentage of the cost, and over several years and interest deductions claimed for the private proportion of loans would also be dismissed.
Mr Whyte said the ATO recently found a case of a taxpayer borrowing on top of their existing loan to fund their daughter's wedding but then trying to claim the whole amount of interest.
Mr Kendrick said the ATO had information on its website, including YouTube videos, explaining what people could and could not claim.
It would also be writing to owners of rental properties in holiday locations to make them aware of their obligations.


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Retailers Push Senate Judiciary Committee: Protect Dreamers
- Washington, DC
- 06/15/2021
Joe Williamson, director government affairs at the Retail Industry Leaders Association (RILA), the trade association for America's leading retailers, issued the following statement in advance of today's Senate Judiciary hearing on the American Dream and Promise Act:
"The retail industry employs thousands of DACA recipients. These hardworking individuals are part of the social fabric of America and part of the retail family; they are our friends and neighbors. They deserve a clear and permanent legal pathway to citizenship.
"Dreamers have been put in an untenable and uncertain position for far too long. RILA is encouraged that the Senate Judiciary Committee is holding a hearing today to consider the American Dream and Promise Act which will incorporate the DACA program into federal law and eliminate the ambiguity that exists today. RILA implores the Committee to quickly pass the bill and get it to the Senate floor for a vote."
RILA is the US trade association for leading retailers. We convene decision-makers, advocate for the industry, and promote operational excellence and innovation. Our aim is to elevate a dynamic industry by transforming the environment in which retailers operate.
RILA members include more than 200 retailers, product manufacturers, and service suppliers, which together account for more than $1.5 trillion in annual sales, millions of American jobs, and more than 100,000 stores, manufacturing facilities, and distribution centers domestically and abroad.
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LXD for mixed system containers and VM workloads
Introducing LXD's new virtual machine feature
- Track: Virtualization and IaaS devroom
- Room: H.1309 (Van Rijn)
- Day: Sunday
- Start: 12:30
- End: 13:00
LXD is most known as a system container manager, offering a simple user experience and images for most Linux distributions. It also offers a simple REST API, network and storage management, project views and easy clustering to dozen of hosts.
Over the past few months, LXD has now grown the ability to run virtual machines alongside containers, using the exact same REST API and configuration. This presentation will cover that new feature, why it was done, where it's at now and where we're going with it, as well as provide a quick demo of setting up a small LXD cluster and running both containers and virtual machines on it.
LXD is an open source system container manager, developed by the team behind LXC, written in Go and that's been around for over 5 years now. It's widely used both on servers, running the backend of services such as Travis-CI and on everyday devices like Chromebooks. Containers are created from images with prebuilt images available for most Linux distributions.
Multiple hosts can easily be clustered together to form one large virtual host, exposing the exact same API as a single host would. Storage pools and networks can also be created and managed through LXD and resources can be segmented into projects.
With the addition of virtual machine support (through qemu), it is now possible to manage a mixed deployment of virtual machines and containers, sharing the same configuration, storage and networks. With the use of our built-in agent, the exact same operations that are normally possible against a container also become possible against virtual machines, including executing commands, transferring files, ...
Existing API clients for LXD can also now drive both containers and virtual machines without any API changes required.
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Over the past few weeks, I've been spending a lot of time with my Nintendo Switch. In a world of uncertainty, it's nice to know I can log onto "Animal Crossing: New Horizons" and see my neighbors be just as happy as always. The more I look at my Switch though, the more I think about how bland it looks. Sure, my neon pink and green Joy-Cons help. The plain black of my console and dock just isn't cutting it anymore though. That's when I stumbled upon LaboTech on Etsy and everything changed.
LaboTech makes gorgeous skins for your Switch console, docking station and Joy-Cons. Depending on the design, they are made for both Nintendo Switch and the Nintendo Switch Lite. Do you love Studio Ghibli? They make "Spirited Away," "My Neighbor Totoro" and "Kiki's Delivery Service" skins. Looking for something more old school? There are a ton of "Sailor Moon," "Cardcaptor Sakura" and "Powerpuff Girls" skins to choose from. Games weren't left out of this party either. LaboTech offers "Pokemon," "Animal Crossing" and "Paper Mario" skins so your favorite games can proudly be on display on your Switch.
It's a simple way to make your Nintendo Switch unique and put a smile on your face whenever you look at it. Personally, I fell in love with the purple "Spirited Away" skin featuring Chihiro and Haku. Best of all, these skins are offered at prices that won't break your bank. So after your skins arrive, maybe you can treat yourself to a new game as well. Of course, you can never go wrong with more Joy-Cons either.


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Dodge Students Practice What They Preach In Environmentally-Conscious Thesis Film
It's that thing you saw in any high school Biology class or beyond. Somewhere between early sea life and humans today, there was a fish— it had legs. Director, Dylan McGale'18 and his Producer, Sho Schrock-Manabé'18, are bringing it back to life for their thesis film, Tiktaalik, to challenge the role that politics play in


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Dozens Injured As Police Clash With Student Protestors In Bangladesh
30 Sep 2018 04:40
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Fourme d'ambert
One of France's oldest cheeses dating from as far back as the Roman times, the Fourme is also one of the most popular. Having a PDO designation since 1970s, it is a creamy and delicate blue cheese that will please connoisseurs and beginners alike.
The Fourme d'Ambert is made from pasteurised milk and is the most delicate of the blue cheeses. Its flavours are remarkably balanced, the buttery smoothness of cow's milk contrasting with the sharper and nuttier blue.
Exceptionally versatile, it is equally pleasing on a cheeseboard or in a salad or risotto, or simply enjoyed with a sweet wine, like a Banyuls or Côteaux du Layons.
Producer : Laiterie de Laqueuille
Origin: Auvergne
Milk : pasteurised cow's milk
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Case Study - Severe Wrist Instability
June 2020
Sometimes a seemingly minor injury can have severe long-term consequences. This fit, active gentleman in his 30s was doing a boxing fitness class about 3 years ago when he mis-hit a punching bag. He initially shrugged off his wrist pain as a simple sprain, but when it failed to improve he eventually had an MRI which showed a rupture of his scapholunate ligament. This is a tiny ligament, but a very important one for providing stability between the small carpal bones in the wrist. Surgical repair was attempted, but it ruptured again. His CT scan (Image 1) shows a wide gap between the scaphoid and lunate bones - a very characteristic sign of widespread instability through the wrist region.
Even severe damage or instability sometimes results in very little pain, but unfortunately for this gentleman, he had significant, constant wrist pain which was affecting his work and his daily life. A few weeks ago he underwent a rather dramatic operation called a 'Proximal Row Carpectomy'. As shown in his post-op X-ray (Image 2) the surgeon completely removed his Scaphoid, Lunate and Triquetrum - the 3 carpal bones nearest to the radius and ulna in the wrist joint. A pyrocarbon implant - looking like a giant thumb-tack on the X-ray - was used to provide a pivot point for wrist joint movement.
The aim of this type of surgery is to relieve some of the patient's pain while maintaining at least partial wrist joint mobility - a trade-off between stiffness and pain. If the pain levels remain too high, some patients need to sacrifice all of their wrist movement to get pain relief - a total wrist fusion. So far, though, this young man has had much less pain since his surgery, and we are hopeful of a good outcome. He is still wearing his thermoplastic wrist and thumb splint most of the time, but is starting to remove it for gentle exercises which don't flare up his pain.


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We present a brief review of the application of boundary integral methods in two dimensions to multicomponent fluid flows and multiphase problems in materials science. We focus on the recent development and outcomes of methods which accurately and efficiently include surface tension. In fluid flows, we examine the effects of surface tension on the Kelvin-Helmholtz and Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities in inviscid fluids, the generation of capillary waves on the free surface, and problems in Hele-Shaw flows involving pattern formation through the Saffman-Taylor instability, pattern selection, and singularity formation. In materials science, we discuss microstructure evolution in diffusional phase transformations, and the effects of the competition between surface and elastic energies on microstructure morphology. A common link between these different physical phenomena is the utility of an analysis of the appropriate equations of motion at small spatial scales to develop accurate and efficient time-stepping methods.
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Pages (from-to) | 302-362 |
Number of pages | 61 |
Journal | Journal of Computational Physics |
Volume | 169 |
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- Numerical Analysis
- Modeling and Simulation
- Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)
- General Physics and Astronomy
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Dominican Air Force chief: airspace control lowers drug flights
Santo Domingo.- Dominican Air Force chief of staff Maj. Gen. Leonel Muñoz Noboa, on Thur. said there have been no radar detected drug flights in Dominican Republic's airspace during his tenure.
Núñez said the decrease in flights results from strict controls of the national airspace implemented to confront that type of crime "as much as possible."
He affirmed that since the current management began, the institution has carried out, together with the Dominican Navy, some 35 operations in various provinces of the southern region of the country.
"During these operations we have seized drugs and endangered marine species, whose capture is prohibited, on the southern coast of the Dominican Republic."


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"I am afraid this ghost story will bear a very faded aspect when transferred to paper. Whatever effect it had on you, or whatever charm it retains in your memory, is, perhaps, to be attributed to the favorable circumstances under which it was originally told." (The Ghost of Doctor Harris)
"The aspect of the venerable mansion has always affected me like a human countenance, bearing the traces not merely of outward storm and sunshine, but expressive also, of the long lapse of mortal life, and accompanying vicissitudes that have passed within." (The House of the Seven Gables)
American novelist and short story writer Nathaniel Hawthorne's (1804-1864) writing centers on New England, many works featuring moral allegories with a Puritan inspiration. His fiction works are considered to be part of the Romantic movement and, more specifically, Dark romanticism. His themes often centre on the inherent evil and sin of humanity, and his works often have moral messages and deep psychological complexity. Contents: Introduction: Biography of Nathaniel Hawthorne
The House of the Seven Gables (A Novel)
The Minister's Black Veil
The Hollow of the Three Hills
The White Old Maid
Dr. Heidegger's Experiment
The Birth-mark
Young Goodman Brown
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Get your kicks tonight at the 9th Ward in Buffalo who host buzzworthy Cincinnati garage rockers, Leggy.
If you're not in the know, Leggy released their new album, Let Me Know Your Moon, which features fantastically ragtag, punk-flavored garage rock. Dual vocalists, Veronique Allaer and Kirsten Bladh, who also double-up on guitar and bass, sing their hearts out over relationship woes while weaving no-nonsense riffs that will give you an adrenaline rush. Tying everything together with calamitous drumbeats is Chris Campbell behind the kit. With a song for every flavor of punk, don't miss this irresistible trio who are sure to put on a great performance.
Sharing the stage are hometown favorites, Velvet Bethany. A band that needs no introduction, this four-piece is still riding high off their latest album, Rock & Roll Vacation!, which saw them put out their best material to date. Prepare for an electrifying performance filled with catchy punk rock tracks that strike primitive chords and promise to echo around your head for days. Honestly, you'd be crazy to miss this set.
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Single post templates are usually defined by your WordPress theme. This means that you can get one or several post templates depending on your theme choice.
In most cases, it is enough to build a decent blog or portfolio website. Nevertheless, sometimes you need to create a custom single post template. Maybe you want your blog post to stand out, or maybe you have various types of content published under one post type.
Whatever your reasons are, there are two ways how to design a single post template for you. We will look into both of them.
A generic WordPress way that allows you to quickly add a template to your site. The downside is that you will need to have some coding skills to do that. Probably, one of the reasons why people avoid doing that.
And the second way, where you don't need to know anything about coding. An easy way for everyone to design a single post template with the help of the drag and drop website builder.
Let's proceed.
Creating a Custom Single Post Template in WordPress
Creating a custom single post template in WordPress is really easy. All you need to do is create a blank .php file in your text or code editor. Notepad should be just fine, although you can use advanced code editors like Sublime or PHPStorm.
Name your file my-post-template.php and save it. Now, it's time to add some content.
A simple code will create a template named 'Portfolio Template' that will be available for your posts and pages:
<?php /* * Template Name: Portfolio Template * Template Post Type: post, page */ get_header(); ?>
Great! You have created a basic post template. Don't forget to save the file.
Next, you will need to upload the new template to your web server. You can use an FTP client to do that. The file must be uploaded to your current theme folder.
By the way, it is recommended to use WordPress Child Theme. If you don't know what it is, check out this quick tutorial on the WordPress Child theme.
After upload, it's time to check out your WordPress site to see if the template really works. Open your WordPress Admin Dashboard, navigate to posts, and create a new post.
In the post window, look for the 'Template' drop-down in Post Attributes. The new template 'Portfolio Template' should be listed there.
As you select the template, you will see it is empty. Simply because it doesn't have anything to display.
To fix it, we can use an existing template as a basis. Open the single.php file and copy everything after the get_header() line. Paste this code in my-post-template.php and upload it to your server.
As you select the template, you will see it is similar to your single post template. To modify it, you will need to change the code in your my-post-template.php file. Add your own custom CSS, remove unnecessary parts, like sidebar, and so on.
As mentioned below, the problem is that at this point you will need to have coding skills. And this is not an option for everyone.
Now, it's time to check how you can design a single post template without coding.
Creating a Custom Single Post Template Without Coding
Have you ever wanted to create a template you can use anywhere on your site? With Visual Composer Website Builder, you can do just that.
In our example, we will create a set of templates for the header, footer, content, and apply them to the layout. Although you can create a sidebar template, we will skip that to ease the tutorial.
Before we begin, all you need to do is to have the Visual Composer Website Builder Premium version activated to access advanced features.
Let's start with creating a new post. You can do that by navigating to the Posts section in your WordPress Admin Dashboard and selecting 'Add New With Visual Composer'.
You will see a blank page where you can set your post title and select the layout. Visual Composer offers several predefined layouts and theme default layouts. For our custom post, we will choose a Visual Composer layout with header, content, and footer.
After adding an element, you will see a simple post. It's about time to add some colors to it.
Further, we will need to create your header and footer templates. The best part is that you will be able to use those templates anywhere on your site.
Open your WordPress Admin Dashboard and go to Visual Composer. Navigate to Headers and create a new header.
Now, you can use content elements to create your custom header or access Visual Composer Hub to download some of the ready headers to modify them to your liking. Handy, right? Don't forget to save the header.
With your header ready, it's time to create a footer template. The process is just the same. Navigate to Footers and create your custom footer design. Again, you can use Visual Composer Hub to download the template.
Once you have your header and footer ready, navigate back to your post. Don't forget to open it with Visual Composer.
In the editor, open Visual Composer On-Page Settings from the navigation bar. You will see header and footer drop-downs with your new templates listed. Select them and voila - your post now has a header and footer.
Great! All you have to do is use Visual Composer elements or templates to design the content of your post. My recommendation would be to design the layout while leaving a blank spot for your post-to-post content.
Once you have your content template ready, open the Template window from the navigation bar and save your content part as a template. You will need this template to re-use it.
From this part, the main job is done. Now, you can finish this specific post by adding the actual content and publishing it.
Further, whenever you create a new post, make sure to select the layout with header, content, and footer. Apply your custom headers and footers. Add the content template you created before and fill it with content.
We've looked into two different ways on how to design a single post template. The native WordPress way requires coding. And an alternative way, where you can use Visual Composer Website Builder.
Both of the ways have their own benefits and drawbacks. While I can't speak about WordPress and its future vision. I can tell you that Visual Composer has their minds set on delivering a new and faster way.
Use any of the methods mentioned above? Share your thoughts in the comments.


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- Regional water observation mechanism
- Regional Cooperation Assessment
- Water Quality Monitoring (JP)
- Water scarcity and drought (JP)
- Groundwater (JP)
- Waste water reuse (JP)
- Shared Water Resources Management (JP)
- Linking rural development and water management (JP)
- Waste management
- Water institutions
- Climate Change
- Floods
- Desalination
- Right to Water
- Irrigation
- Satellite data
- Water reports & data
- Hydrology
- Sanitation
- Gender and IWRM
- ArabWAYS
- Non-Revenue Water
- Virtual Water & Water Footprint
- WANA Water Panel
- Water Demand
- Water Governance
- Water Pricing
- Water accounts
- Water nexus Energy
- Geosciences
- Rural Management
Water pricing in some EU countries
Water pricing
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Incentives to use the water resources efficiently are
incorporated in the Flemish legislation by means of the taxes on groundwater
and in the legislation on drinking-water.
The taxation for a cubic meter groundwater is
differentiated according to the total pumped amount of groundwater, to the
aquifer in which the extraction well is situated and the existing pressure
head of the groundwater in the region.
The taxes depend as follows on the pumped volumes (Q):
Q is less then 500 m³/y: no tax
Q is 500 m³/y until 30.000 m³/y: tax = Q * 5 eurocent *
Q is more than 30.000 m³/y: tax = Q * index * (6,2 eurocent + 0,75 eurocent *
Qgwe = total
volume pumped by all individual wells
sum of the Q of all individual wells * lambda
lambda values are differentiated depending on the aquifer
and the state of groundwater in the region.
Special prices are applied for drinking-water companies.
tax = Q * 7.5 eurocent * index
The index is defined on a yearly basis.
Every inhabitant gets every year a volume of 15 m³
drinking-water free of charge. Those who need more drinking-water have to pay
for the surplus.
The taxation for a cubic meter surface water is
differentiated according to the total amount of surface water abstracted and
to the sector of the water use.
0.058574 EUR/m3 for abstracted amounts less
than 1000000 m3
0.0339729 EUR/m3 for abstracted amounts between
1000000 and 9999999 m3
0.0170695 EUR/m3 for abstracted amounts between
10000000 and 99999999 m3
0.0032135 EUR/m3 for abstracted amounts above
10000000 m3
The abstraction of surface water for agricultural use is
charged with a fixed price. |
Water for domestic purposes is
mainly supplied through the Government Water Works by the Water Development
Department and is sold on a bulk basis to the
Water for irrigation purposes is
supplied through government and non-government schemes. Irrigation water in
government schemes is delivered directly to individual farmers (retail
supplies) and in isolated cases is also provided on a bulk basis to
irrigation divisions. Non-government schemes consist of small irrigation
schemes, which are managed by committees chaired by the District Officer. For
irrigation provision through the government schemes, charges are established
on a volumetric basis and are uniform for all schemes covering a high
proportion of the total financial cost.
Consultancy Services are currently in progress for the
design of a protocol of information related to the economic analysis process
and the implementation of the water pricing policies of the WFD. The protocol
of information will be able to support the future steps leading to the
implementation of the WFD and will enable future studies including the
assessment of the incentive properties of the current pricing policies for
all water services in |
The use of water pricing has
generally had a positive effect on both water use and loss in distribution
systems. Typical water price/m3 around 5 EURO, consisting of:
Water: 20%
Wastewater: 44%
Water tax: 14%
Wastewater tax: 2%
charges are levied on all licensed abstractors. Charges reflect environmental
impacts – eg use, location,, seasonal
impacts etc. Tariffs therefore vary from around 1 pence to over £100 pounds.
(1.4 Euro cents to 140 Euros) per million litres |
In irrigation sector, practically all systems are
constructed and operated by individual farmers. Therefore, there is no common
pricing policy for irrigation. For other agricultural water (e.g. for
livestock and dairy farming) water supply pricing policy allies whenever the
water is obtained through and public piped water supply system.
The present pricing policy for water supplies in the full
cost recovery, i.e. the consumer tariff has to cover all costs (capital and
operation and maintenance). There are also many sparsely populated areas with
long pipelines, where water consumption reduction is not rational, because
certain amount of consumption is needed to secure good water quality.
For industries which obtain their water through public
piped water supply system, the water supply pricing policy applies. |
France |
For water pricing, there is no specific water pricing for
the dry season. We try to reflect as much as possible the cost of the water
and the associated services and also of environmental and resource costs with
the tariffs. The level of cost recovery in France is over 85 % for household
and industry. This cost recovery includes environmental charges (abstraction
and discharge) representing in average about 15% of the tariffs. We push all
sectors (households, industry, agriculture) to have tariffs based on
metering, in order to reflect water scarcity. For some cities where there are
a lot of tourists in summer, some specific tariffs are in place to take into
account these picks. For agriculture, the cost recovery can vary from 40% for
some collective systems (with dams and channel) to 100% for individual
systems. An incitation to metering of water for agriculture is given
throughout the tariffs. |
Germany |
In general pricing systems for cost effectivness in all
water related sectors |
Hungary |
Drinking water: Pricing policy
is depending on the ownership of the water works:
In case of local-government
owned works the price is determined by the assembly of the municipality,
while in case of state-owned works the decision on price is made by the Minister
of Environment and Water in agreement with the Finance Minister.
The price is varying on region
/ service provider and within a reach of HUF 72 and 278/m3 in the country
(2002). Price for sewage water collection and treatment varies between HUF 50
and 490/m3 in the same year. There is a state subsidy in the order of HUF 5
billion a year.
Industrial water: The
scattering of water prices for industrial plants and institutions is larger
than for the households and the average price is higher by 8%. This stimulates
companies to establish their own wells.
The Water Management Act
stipulates that water users shall pay a water resource charge (WRC) on the
quantity of water committed in their water license or used without a license,
or on the quantity actually consumed with respect to industrial users. The
equation applied:
WRC = V A m g,
A – base charge (determined
m - factor of measurement = 1.0 if the water used is metered; = 2.0 if not,
g – factor depending on type of
use and character of resource, as well as of region (varying from 1.0 to
A recent amendment of the Act
has erased the tariff system for agricultural use, both from surface and
groundwater. This measure unfortunately does not support the sustainable use
of water resources. |
Italian water pricing policy does not provide adequate
incentives for users to use water resources efficiently with the exception of
a tariff regulation for the civil sector.
A water pricing policy is provided by L.36/94, but the water
sector reform is not yet completed, so there are different prices on the
The drinking water average price is 0.55 €/mc
The average price of the sewage system is 0.13 €/mc
The Integrated Water Service average price is 1 €/mc
This water pricing, updated 2005, is calculated (IVA 10%) on an annual
average use of 197 mc.
Water pricing differs according to the areas of reference.
Central Italy is characterised by the highest price of the
Integrated Water Service.
Source: COVIRI 2006 from Cittadinanzattiva 2005 |
Malta |
Pricing policies not yet developed |
Netherlands |
The Dutch provinces charge for groundwater abstractions,
in order to cover the costs for groundwater management. On a national basis,
there is an environmental levy for groundwater abstractions. |
All water public services (urban, sanitation, irrigation,
navigation and others) apply taxes and tariffs (quantitative calculation).
However, these taxes and tariffs don't cover all of the costs and need to be
redesigned to include adequate incentives for users to use water resources
efficiently. For water supply self-service the costs are fully supported.
Data is available for tariffs concerning water supply and
sanitation and for irrigation in public schemes, but collecting it for this
questionnaire would take some more time. There is however lack of data in
some cases and/or sectors (e.g. industry, private abstractions for
Agriculture). There are great disparities in tariffs for urban supply,
throughout the municipalities, but the Institute for Regulation (IRAR) is
establishing a reference model for tariff revision, considering principles of
cost recovery and equity. |
Slovak Rep |
In Slovak Republic are according to the Water law only the
real water withdrawals paid for, not the amounts stated in the Water
permission. The water for irrigation is not paid for. |
Slovenia |
Not yet |
The existing water pricing system in Spain includes
changes for the services provided by the River Basin Authorities (regulation
and transportation mainly) to irrigation associations, municipal services and
industrial users and these in turn
charge for this and their own distribution and treatment services to
the final users.
Urban tariffs to domestic and industrial users are mainly
3 block tariffs (in major cities there could be 5 blocks) to penalise
excessive usage; Industrial tariffs discriminate for bigger users both in the
fixed and variable charges.
The Water Law allows river basin authorities (RBAs) to
modulate charges to incentive water savings; increasingly irrigation
associations are establishing charges by volume and penalisation for
excessive use where water is scarce. |
Released | 06/10/2008 |


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In the third and final part of our Dating in China series created in partnership with cross-cultural agency TONG, we look at China's most stigmatised dating scenes such as BDSM (which stands for 'bondage and discipline, dominance and submission, sadism and masochism') and polyamory (the practice of intimate relationships with more than one partner with the informed consent of all partners involved) as well as the technology allowing both communities to grow and connect them with like-minded daters. To truly get into the nitty gritty of China's underground dating culture, we spoke to Lily, 25, about how she first got involved with this scene, the dating technology she used to explore her sexuality and the impact it has had on the way the country views and approaches these sexual preferences that are still deemed 'unusual' to this day.
Having touched upon the dating industry in China with a more global analysis in the first Deep Dive of this series and then shifting the narrative to focus on the perspective of the LGBTQ+ community in our second part, it made sense for Dating in China to end on a more niche dating culture in the country, one that can only grow from here. Although we live in an increasingly sexually liberated world, China's culture added on top of its traditional government means that sexual self-expression and organised underground communities like the BDSM one have a hard time finding acceptance from the majority of the population.
That being said, all over the world, numerous kinks are still seen as taboo by many, leading them to remain stigmatised in most cultures. Kink, fetish and BDSM practices often involve consensual violence made up of both psychological and physical submission as well as domination and masochism, which can explain our society's scepticism towards the community. According to an article published by Slate on China's growing rope bondage community, until 2017, "most local bondage practitioners were self-taught, tying privately in their homes and relying on YouTube and Vimeo videos." It should be noted that the two video-sharing platforms have been inaccessible from mainland China since 2009 because of their Western origin.
Until 2017, the subculture was not welcomed on China's internet. In fact, still to this day, many BDSM communities choose to keep their circle as tight as possible—pun intended—in order to avoid getting shut down by the country's government. However, slowly but surely, mainstream social and dating apps like WeChat and Tantan turned into breeding grounds for communities attracted to these somewhat unconventional sexual preferences. Here's where it's at in 2021.
From the BDSM community to non-mono—polyamorous—meet up events, it's safe to say that Lily has a lot to share about her involvement in China's underground dating scenes. When she first got in contact with Screen Shot Pro, Lily explained a bit more about how her interest was initially sparked by the world of BDSM, "In the first place, it wasn't through your typical dating app, it was on WeChat using a feature that allows users to find people that are nearby."
WeChat is a multi-purpose messaging, social media and mobile payment app developed by Tencent. First released in 2011, it quickly became the world's largest standalone mobile app in 2018, with over 1 billion monthly active users. Famously described as China's "app for everything" because of its wide range of functions, WeChat provides its users with an impressive range of features such as text messaging, hold-to-talk voice messaging, broadcast (one-to-many) messaging, video conferencing, video games, photographs, videos and location sharing.
At the time, Lily was a high school student living by herself in Anhui away from her family and friends who lived in Shanghai. She first started using WeChat's "附近的人" feature (meaning "People nearby") to meet new people in her area. "I didn't know about any other social networking software, and since WeChat was something that everyone used, it was easy to download and convenient to use. Later on, I felt that WeChat's 'People Nearby' feature showed very little content to strangers, as there were even fewer people I met that I could talk to and share common interests with. That's when I discovered other social networking apps."
From there, Lily turned to the dating app Tantan to connect with more like-minded people. One day in 2019, she matched with a man whose profile pictures "looked pretty interesting" and who openly shared his polyamorous status. Only then did Lily really decide to learn more about polyamory and shortly after, BDSM. However, it wasn't the first time she came across these terms. Let's rewind a little bit.
When asked about her opinion on BDSM and polyamory before she got involved in both, Lily admitted acknowledging their existence before actually experiencing them first hand. "I thought that there was nothing to blame as long as it is done in a way that doesn't hurt anyone and respects the person's wishes. When I was in college and heard that a student would play BDSM with his lover, instead of passing the rumour on again, I acted as usual, like learning from others what he likes to eat," she shared.
When she ventured into the field of BDSM a few years later, Lily often thought of him and felt able to discuss some of the related issues with him. As for polyamory, she first learned about it through a YouTube video, "I thought that polyamory was a very difficult model of intimacy where you have to schedule it, deal with jealousy, and more."
By the time Lily was back in Shanghai, which in turn led her to meet this mystery man on Tantan, she had been single for over a year and was yearning for intimacy. Although she had met a few people she liked, none of those had resulted in a serious relationship. "I just thought that because Shanghai is such a big city and people here are always moving, they might not be in the city for long. Actually, no one can be here all the time, and I don't know why but the guys I met were not willing to commit to our relationship."
After meeting this person who openly spoke about his polyamorous status and through learning more from him, Lily first decided to attend one of the polyamory guided discussions he had told her about. "I got the chance to be involved in the non-monogamy community and soon enough, I started my own open relationship with another guy I matched on Tantan."
Speaking about the reasons why she chose to try polyamory, she reiterated the struggles she faced when dating people in Shanghai. In this light, polyamory seemed like a fitting solution, "so I wouldn't be afraid that my lover would have to leave Shanghai, as I could still develop relationships with other people and not put too much pressure on each other."
Only then did she simultaneously get involved within the BDSM community after learning more about it through, for example, the event mentioned above. "Trying something new excited me, and at the time BDSM was a mysterious new thing to me. At a non-monogamous party, I heard from seniors about their experiences with various BDSM relationships and their partners, and it was so interesting and new that I wanted to try it myself," said Lily.
After matching with the second man she mentioned, Lily felt like she could share her newly found interest in polyamory as well as BDSM with him, who she thought seemed open-minded enough. "During our interactions, I found him to be polite and respectful of other people's ideas as well as having his own. One night after hanging out for three months, we talked late into the night. I told him about my desire for intimacy and being part of a non-monogamous community, and after explaining to him what polyamory was, he expressed interest in trying an open relationship with me if I was serious, so we got together after that."
Respect is one of the key values that keeps what kinksters do from being abusive. Similarly, in a non-monogamous relationship, all people involved not only need to consent, but feel respected too for it to work in a healthy way. According to Lily, that same key value is apparent through Shanghai's BDSM and polyamory scenes, "The community I am in is mostly made of foreigners and everyone is quite friendly and follows the rules. Newcomers have to get at least three votes to join us after talking to 'old' members. We hold regular talks and workshops where people can suggest ideas for an event."
Speaking of events, Lily went on to explain that no one will force anyone to do something they don't enjoy. "If you want to play with someone, you have to ask them (and their partner) if it's okay and what behaviour is not acceptable. It's also worth mentioning that we have a girls' group where girls can ask questions, discuss and share or complain about a man who has harassed or offended them online or offline, and depending on the seriousness of the behaviour, the person complained about can be warned or kicked out of the community."
At the time of our interview, Lily had recently attended a 'fetish ball' in Shanghai with a strict dress code consisting of "leather, rubber, kinky, sm." Most of the people attending the event were Chinese, and by looking at the posters, Lily expected a rope bondage show, "but I stayed until midnight and saw no sign of rope. Instead, there was a group of girls dressed in skin-showing clothes, breast patches, thongs, fishnet stockings, and collars in front of a DJ booth with a man spanking them with a long, loose whip."
Lily continued to describe the evening, "The audience just gathered around them, watching and dancing. The lights were dim, the music was loud, and the scantily clad girls looked a bit shy, pushing and shoving as they were pushed out by the uproarious crowd to receive spanking. I think this might have been from some local Chinese BDSM community, but I'm not a big fan of events like this, they're too casual, not private enough, and can give the wrong impression to those who don't know BDSM."
As for polyamory and the scene she has been involved in as a result of her interest in non-monogamous relationships, Lily explained that polyamory comes in many forms. "One girl who has dated two boyfriends at the same time and has taken them both to meet her parents is a good example for our non-monogamous community and the three of them can occasionally be seen at events together," she first said.
"There are also married people," continued Lily. "There is a couple that likes to go to events together and hook up with people who are attracted to them, and it's only okay that one of them does something with someone else under the other one's watchful eye. There also may be a couple where two men are gay, or prefer men over women, and the girls are bisexual—their union is mainly for spiritual support."
Although Lily mentioned Tantan as the main dating app where she met potential partners and other members of her community, she also shared that nowadays, she tends to avoid spending too much time online. "I use social media platforms and dating apps to meet new people and do interesting things together, so I don't spend too much time on the internet and don't look for people who are far away from me," she explained.
However, if you're looking for advice on which popular apps to use in China when on the hunt for some kinky and like-minded people to connect with, Lily has a few suggestions: "If you care about the looks of your date, then your first choice should still be Tantan because of its large user base."
If you don't care much about looks, then she recommends Soul, "Compared to Tantan, I feel like Soul is a really feature-rich and safe app because you can talk through video calls on it without worrying too much." That is because when videoing on the app, users can choose their own animated avatars, just like Apple's Memoji. "If you don't set an avatar, then your whole screen will be made of mosaic and therefore won't give away any information that might put your privacy at risk. If you want to speak to someone, both parties must follow each other first; the number of active users on Soul is huge too, so when you comment on someone's picture or chat, your username is randomly generated by the system."
All of these features offered on the Soul app mean that users have more freedom to express themselves as well as their sexual kinks without having to worry about how privacy issues could impact them in real life. And this is only the beginning for the app, as rumours have recently started circulating about the company behind the dating app confidentially filing for an IPO in the US, according to The South China Morning Post.
As Lily told us, she has Tantan, WeChat and even the video-sharing platform YouTube to thank for first introducing her to these two alternative dating scenes and helping her connect with members who are part of the communities surrounding them. But after making those connections, Lily explained that her interest in social and dating technologies has not expanded much further. "Both communities have regular get-togethers where you can bring new people and talk about whatever you want. Members of the non-monogamous group can add people directly, whereas to join the BDSM group you have to come to the potluck and get at least three votes from old members. Newcomers to the group will be given a document with some basic information about BDSM, including the principle of informed consent and safe areas for spanking."
This 'real-life' aspect of the communities and the way they interact with each other highlights how little a part technologies play in connecting people together once that initial meeting has been carried out. Looking back on the two previous Deep Dives of Dating in China, Lily explains that both heterosexuals and gays can find what they're looking for on dating apps, "The basic functions of the software are the same as any other dating app—searching for people nearby, looking at bios, matching and chatting—but the LGBTQ+ community is more likely to use dating apps in order to find similar people or circles and get a sense of identity and belonging."
On the other hand, "For heterosexuals, the purpose of using dating apps is probably more realistic. They may want to date, start a relationship, find a marriage partner, find a playmate or something like that, so their bios will be more realistic, such as graduating from a prestigious school, workplace, spouse selection criteria, etc," adds Lily.
When it comes to the BDSM and polyamorous communities of Shanghai—and probably the rest of the country too—dating apps (and social networking apps too) have only enabled more of the Chinese population to find like-minded individuals who they feel like they can connect with and share the same interests. That being said, dating technologies do not have much say in how these relationships are then maintained or how they evolve. That is left for members of those communities to figure out on their own, through real-life interactions.
So, yes, dating apps are mostly used to create those very first connections, but how can users interested in BDSM or polyamory use them in ways that are as efficient as possible? Here are the last few tips Lily had to share, "Don't chat online for too long. Instead, ask the person out for a meeting as soon as possible—an afternoon tea or dinner is a good option. When you're face to face with someone, their appearance, dress and temperament will be very visible to you and this will help you to determine your feelings more. In the end, we're all here to make friends with living, breathing people."


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Anatomy of Violence
Directed by Deepa Mehta
Preceded By:
VAFF Industry Insight (VAFF I²) Panel Series – 2
Cineplex Odeon International Village Cinemas
November 4, 2017 2:00 pm
Box Office Only
Anatomy of Violence mixes fiction and fact in an improvised exploration of the events leading up to, and following, the notorious gang rape of a young woman by six men in a moving bus in New Delhi, December 16, 2012. Twelve actors collaborated with filmmaker Deepa Mehta to imagine what might have driven these men to such a savage assault. The film also imagines the nature of a young woman's life, her family, her friends, and her hopes and dreams before the fatal attack. "What makes monsters?" is a question this film probes and explores: Where these young men could have come from and what might have motivated them. They have been called "monsters" but is this a simplistic labelling that relieves society and leaders from the responsibility of looking more deeply? The film offers no clear answers, but opens doors of inquiry into the root causes and complexity of this particular, pervasive brutality against women.
Previous Screening / Awards:
Toronto International Film Festival 2016, Nominated, Best Canadian Feature Film; Valladolid International Film Festival 2016, Nominated, Golden Spike Best Film; Whistler Film Festival 2016; International Film Festival of Kerala 2016; India Film Festival of Alberta 2017; Human Rights Film Festival San Sebastian 2017; Indian Film Festival of Melbourne 2017; London Asian Film Festival 2017; Washington DC South Asian Film Festival 2017; Mumbai Film Festival 2017; Quinte Canadian Film Fest 2017; New York Indian Film Festival 2017
Director's Bio
Deepa Mehta is an Oscar-nominated filmmaker whose work is celebrated on an international scale. Her emotionally resonating, award-winning films have played every major film festival, and been sold and distributed around the globe. She is best known for her elemental trilogy: Earth, Fire, Water, the final film of which received an Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film. Other films include, Bollywood/Hollywood, Heaven On Earth, and the epic adaptation of Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie's three-time Booker Prize winning novel. Her work challenges traditions and stereotypes and is always daring, fearless, and provocative. It's this spirit that saturated her last film, Beeba Boys, and now her latest work, Anatomy of Violence.
Director: Deepa Mehta
Producer: David C. Hamilton
Preceded By
VAFF Industry Insight (VAFF I²) Panel Series – 2
November 4 / 120 mins
PANEL 2: Sparking Celluloid: Filmmaking for Social ChangePrecedes: Anatomy of Violence


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What couple doesn't need a date night from time to time? Check out some of the great ideas that Hilton Head Island has to offer for your next date night.
Hilton Head Distillery
Hilton Head Distillery is located on Cardinal Road and is the first craft distillery on the island. It offers a tasting room and a bottle shop. They offer new and improved tour and tasting options with exceptionally drinkable spirits. They have whiskey inspired by the mountains and rum inspired by the coast. Their products are made locally on Hilton Head Island.
Ela's On the Water
Ela's on the Water offers a unique dining experience on Hilton Head Island. They offer diverse dining experiences that include high-top, walk-in dining in their lively bar, romantic dinners on the garden patio, and spaces for special events as well. The best part about their different experiences is that all tables have a water view. Ela's offers freshly caught seafood and local market selections. They also create special menus for holidays, seasonal celebrations, and Hilton Head Island events. You can use OpenTable to make a reservation.
Kids Night Out at the Art Cafe
Are you having trouble finding a sitter for date night? Would you rather not have your children too far away from you when you are on date night? Need a way to entertain the kids while you have a date night with your significant other? Why not let the kids have dinner, dessert, and paint pottery at the Art Café while the adults enjoy a meal downstairs at the Rockfish? Reservations are required 24 hours in advance and parents must remain onsite while their children are there.
The good thing about vacations in Hilton Head is that you can make every night a date night.


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Today's passage is about the young man who asked Jesus what to do to receive eternal life. My brother, my sister, Jesus pointed to him that salvation does not come from good deeds unaccompanied by love for God. What is the Lord teaching us here? That we need to submit humbly to His Lordship by not only keeping God's Commandments and He listed six of them, all referring to relationships with others. Then, Jesus exposed the man's weakness. Here it was his wealth!
My friend, we may be doing all that the Word of God is asking us to do; yet, individually, we have weaknesses. Unless, we abandon them, we may never have a close relationship with God. This young man certainly feared God enough to try and observe the law, but in reality, his wealth was his god, his idol, and he would not give it up. He who visibly looked like he was doing everything right, did not know he was violating the first and greatest commandment (Exodus 20:3; Matthew 22:36-40).
The truth is, Jesus came on earth to show us the way to the Kingdom. Yet, many people focus only on the grace we have received by faith for the forgiveness of our sins as the ultimate means to eternal life. You may never do wrong… but if you don't have love for others, there is no profit to you, both in this life and in the life after (1 Corinthians 13:1-2). You cannot claim to love God with all your heart and yet keep yourself away from the others. The same, you cannot be justified and made whole or complete in God's sight while cherishing your weaknesses: the young man preferred to leave Jesus rather than giving up his weakness, His wealth… and he left with sadness in his heart…Why? A quick reading may suggest that this was about the man's possessions. But remember that Jesus was not speaking in the temporal, human sense. Therefore, this was to show us that the young man was not yet ready to submit humbly to the Lordship of Christ! My friend, let's learn to prepare our eternal life, not based on the Law, but based on our submission and obedience to Christ, which involves giving up our weaknesses and any action or attitude which may stand between the Lord and us. Stay blessed in Jesus' name.


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These vintage snowmobiles sure were awesome!
These days it's all about nostalgia when it comes to vintage rides. There's a huge following for vintage cars, motorcycles and RVs among other things.
But often lost in the shuffle are some of the overlooked, but very cool older modes of transportation.
Because it's the holidays and the snow's falling early this year, we're taking you down memory lane with some of the coolest photos of vintage snowmobiles we could find.
1. 1964 Arctic Cat
The 1960s is when snowmobiles really began to take off. This old Arctic Cat appears to be in great shape. It's quite bulky and crude-looking, but it as a charm of its own.
2. Homemade Old School
Many of the earliest snowmobiles were things people tinkered up in their garage. As they say, necessity is the mother of invention. People needed a way to traverse the snow, so they built something like this crude machine photographed in Minnesota in 1910.
3. Race
People really started to get into snowmobile racing in the 1960s and 70s, and many companies first started building machines geared entirely toward that. Can we talk for a moment about how these old sleds had almost no rear or front suspension? Having ridden one of these vintage sleds, it can get a little rough if you're not riding on a smooth area.
4. John Deere Snowmobile
Many people forget that from 1972-84, John Deere was in the snowmobile business. They even got in on the racing aspect of it and had their own team for a short time. Eventually John Deere got out of the snowmobile business when the market for sleds hit a bit of slump in the early 80s after just a decade of production. But it certainly didn't hurt the company any. If anything, it just made these old sleds all the more surprising and collectable years later.
5. Old-School Polaris
In the early 1950s, Allan Hetteen and David Johnson were building crude snowmobiles in their spare time in Roseau, Minnesota. Allan's brother Edgar recognized the potential market for such a machine. At the time, Edgar and David had an industrial equipment company known as Hetteen Hoist and Derrick. Their first snowmobiles didn't fare on the market, but the three eventually figured things out. If you've never heard of Hetteen Hoist and Derrick, that's not surprising. The three men later renamed the company. You know it better as Polaris Industries. Edgar later left the company and went on to form another well-known brand, Arctic Cat.
6. Yamaha
The well-known company introduced their first snowmobile, the SL351 in 1969 and the rest is pretty much history. Yamaha has been a rock in the snowmobile industry ever since and is one of the few companies to survive the big snowmobile sales crashes that claimed so many companies in the late '70s.
7. Ski-Doo
Joseph-Armand Bombardier is often credited as being the inventor of the snowmobile. One little-known fact about Ski-Doo is the fact it was originally supposed to be "Ski-Dog." But someone made a typographical error on a brochure that resulted in Ski-Doo instead. For whatever reason, Bombardier decided not to change it and now Ski-Doo is a household name.
8. Raider twin track
In 1971, Leisure Vehicles Inc. decided to try and revolutionize the snowmobile industry. What they came up with may have been a little too much. The Raider was the first snowmobile to feature a cockpit design with twin tracks and a rear-mounted engine. It was pretty futuristic-looking for the time and probably got some people to the snowmobile dealerships out of sheer curiosity. Unfortunately, the Raider never really caught on. But they now have a small, but dedicated fan base on the internet.
9. Kawasaki
Kawasaki wasn't in the snowmobile industry for very long, as it only made machines from 1978-82. Their first snowmobiles were essentially rebranded versions of Sno-Jet, a Canadian company they bought in 1977. We'll talk about them a little later in this list.
Still, the sleds they produced for those few years were extremely fast and very cool-looking. Many people have very fond memories of Kawasaki's time in the industry.
10. Mercury Sno-Twister
Much like John Deere, everyone forgets that Mercury Marine also got in on the snowmobile craze of the early '70s. Their first model was pretty bulky and crude. But by 1976, Mercury had figured things out, especially with their extremely popular Sno-Twister race sleds.
My dad restored a 1976 Snow-Twister. Even though the sled was only a 250, it was loud and sounded much more powerful than that. It also lifted the skis right off the ground if you hit the throttle hard enough!
11. Scorpion
Many people forget about the sharp-looking Scorpion Snowmobiles. This was yet another company that started in Minnesota and did quite well through the 1960s and early 70s. In 1978, they were bought by Arctic Cat. The Scorpion brand eventually ended when Arctic Cat filed for bankruptcy in 1981, so now we are left with only memories of an innovative snowmobile company.
12. Sno Jet
It's somewhat surprising there weren't more snowmobile companies based in Canada. Sno Jet was started in Quebec in 1965 and did well until the early '70s when the snowmobile industry was hit especially hard. The company eventually sold to Kawasaki and we're left with another snowmobile brand that is no more.
13. Rupp Magnum
Rupp Industries is another victim of the great snowmobile slump of the late 1970s and early '80s that claimed so many snowmobile makers. Most people knew Rupp for their dirt bikes and go-karts. But their snowmobiles were sharp-looking, fast and used often in pro racing. This is another brand that has since gained a cult following on the internet.
14. Harley Davidson
Yep, even the world's most famous motorcycle company got in on the snowmobile craze of the early '70s. Harley Davidson's parent company AMF was already making snowmobiles before they decided to rebrand their snowmobiles under the much more recognizable Harley name from 1971-75.
I was as surprised to learn all this as you likely are. Some of their models featured electric starts, a surprising feature for a snowmobile back then. I did a little research and it seems only about 10,000 sleds were made in that timeframe, so if you run across a Harley Davidson snowmobile, you've definitely stumbled onto something unique.
15. Moto-Ski
This is another company everyone easily forgets. Started in 1963 in Quebec, Canada, the company was eventually bought by Bombardier. But they kept making Moto-Ski snowmobiles until 1985.
16. Arctic Cat El Tigre
Ask anyone who was snowmobiling during the craze of the 1970s and '80s about the Arctic Cat El Tigre and their eyes will light up with fond nostalgia about these sleds, arguably some of the most popular ever produced in Thief River Falls, Minnesota.
17. Another vintage Polaris
Those old racing machines sure were low to the ground weren't they? Not a lot of margin for error if you hit a bump along the way!
18. Scorpion and Sno-Jet
These old-school racing machines are so cool-looking. It's little wonder vintage snowmobile shows and races have become so popular in recent years.
19. Starcraft
Ski-Doo wasn't the only old-school sled to primarily make use of a yellow color. This is a more obscure brand of snowmobile. I haven't been able to dig up much information on the Starcrafts other than the fact they were made in the early '70s.
20. Really old Arctic Cats
These days, Arctic Cat's signature color has primarily become green. But back in the early days, their snowmobiles were primarily red.
21. Old School Racing
We're not sure where or when this photo was taken, but it sure is awesome to see those old sleds in action back in their heyday.
21. Yamaha Enticer
The Enticer was arguably one of Yamaha's most popular models back in the day and for good reason, it has such an awesome, sleek look to it.
22. Moto-Ski and Ski-Doo
Thanks to the internet, it's now easier than ever for vintage snowmobile lovers to connect and share memories of the past.
23. Bulky
Those old-school sleds were awfully bulky and front-heavy, but they set the stage for years of winter fun.
24. Mercury Fanatic
On the left is the Mercury Trail Twister, which was distinctive from the racing Sno-Twister due to its windshield and center-hood-mounted headlight.
25. Arctic Cat vs Ski-Doo
These two brands have been in competition for years now and it's safe to say they'll probably be racing each other for many, many more.


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Paradise Motel is hopeful for a future that may never come on new single, "Love and Guidance"
Emo rock stomp with West African spirituality
Emo rock stomp with West African spirituality
Paradise Motel's music marries an emo rock stomp with West African spirituality, creating a unique sound that's anchored by vocalist Wekaforé Jibril's soulful pipes. The band's latest single, "Love And Guidance" continues their suffered narrative, this time soaked in regret and hopes for a future that may never come.
Though "Boys Hurt Too" may have shown a recognition of how fragile masculinity can be in love, "Love and Guidance" finds the lead singer nestled snugly in the idea that he "Needs Love". Over pinched but percolating synths, pianos and guitar riffs, he pines for the familiarity he and his lover knew before they slowly became estranged. He acknowledges his infidelity; "I Know I Broke The Rule" and recognizes his place; "I Know You're Way Out Of My League" but still hopes "The Pain Doesn't Change What (They've) Been Through".
With lyrics like "If There's A God Above, I Know He'll See Me Through", his optimism seems hinged on religious belief. But given his confessional, that's as good as he'll get it. And he's man enough to accept that without making excuses.
The cover art for "Love and Guidance" saying Super Blue was also the cover art for "Indestructible", suggesting that the band could be working on a gloomy album or project.
You can stream "Love and Guidance" by Paradise Motel below.
Featured Image Credits: Instagram/paradisemoteluniverse
You are meeting Debola at a strange time in his life. He wandered into a dream and lost his way back. Tweet at him @debola_abimbolu


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The National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO) and the Global Designing Cities Initiative yesterday announced the launch of the Global Street Design Guide as a globally accessible document that can be downloaded at no cost, allowing urban planners, designers and transportation practitioners in cities around the world to immediately implement tested and life-saving street designs. The worldwide release of the guide, made possible by the Bloomberg Initiative for Global Road Safety, will also soon include translations into Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin and other languages making the guide even more accessible. The launch comes as 29 cities and 15 organizations—including London, Buenos Aires, Sydney, Addis Ababa and Toronto—have endorsed the guide as a new standard for transforming streets to prioritize safety, pedestrians, transit and sustainable mobility.
"City streets are at the center of so many big challenges facing the world, from health and safety to climate change. This guide helps city leaders meet those challenges in ways that also connect people to jobs and services and bring new life to neighborhoods. The guide is full of creative ways cities are reshaping streets to better serve the public – and if those ideas spread around the world, they can help improve billions of lives." – Michael R. Bloomberg, Founder of Bloomberg Philanthropies, and Former Mayor of the City of New York.
Globally, 1.25 million people are killed in traffic deaths, often the result of road design that contributes to high speeds and dangerous driving. Created with the input of 72 cities in 42 countries, the Guide presents essential street types and unique street and intersection transformations that put people first and that can be applied to streets worldwide. With over 40 case studies from cities of wide ranging populations, the Guide shows possibilities from moving more people with transit lanes, to dedicating space for vibrant economic activity like street vendors, and provides a toolkit of street designs that can be applied in a variety of contexts worldwide.
Street design is also the key to resolving larger issues of cities' economic vitality, livability, and physical and social mobility. The Guide comes as urban populations increase around the world and amid a sea change in the number of cities designing, testing and implementing street transformations.
The Global Street Design Guide sets a new global baseline for designing urban streets. Recognizing that cities are places for people, the guide shifts the parameters of designing urban streets from the typical point of view of automobile movement and safety, to include access, safety, and mobility for all users, environmental quality, economic benefit, enhancement of place, public health, and overall quality of life.
The Guide builds on NACTO's successful Urban Street Design Guide, Urban Bikeway Design Guide, and Transit Street Design Guide, expanding from a North American context to address a variety of street typologies and design elements found around the world.
The Global Street Design Guide is available for purchase from Island Press (islandpress.org) and can be viewed and downloaded for free online (globaldesigningcities.org).
In addition to 29 global cities, the following organizations have endorsed and supported the Guide to date: 8-80 Cities; Automobile Club of Moldova; Belarusian Auto Moto Touring Club; Bernard van Leer Foundation; C40 Cities; Eastern Alliance for Safe and Sustainable Transport; FIA Foundation; Global Road safety Partnership; International Development Bank; Institute for Transportation and Development Policy; John Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health; Partnership for Road Safety Foundation; Save Life Foundation; Vital Strategies; the World Resources Institute Ross Center for Sustainable Cities; and the World Bank.
Development of the Guide was supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies, as part of Bloomberg Philanthropies' Initiative for Global Road Safety.


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For Immediate Release
Wednesday, October 31, 2001
Prague, Czech Republic
Today, 24U s.r.o. has released a new cross-platform 24U Preferencis+Globals
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This year it is fourth 24U cross-platform plug-in you can use on all
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Twin brothers from New Jersey are exemplifying #BlackExcellence in education. Malik and Miles George were not only named co-valedictorians of their high school, they both received scholarships to attend the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the fall, ABC News reported.
The brothers—who were born 11 minutes apart—have always challenged themselves when it came to academics, the news outlet writes. They both were straight-A students and garnered nearly perfect SAT scores. All of their outstanding academic accomplishments led them to become co-valedictorians at Woodbridge High School. Both teens received scholarships from five other top universities but decided to take their talents to MIT.
They credit their parents for motivating them to achieve their goals in school and other areas of their life. "Seeing them always doing their best to care for us has definitely made a good imprint on us," Malik told the news outlet. "Whether its academics, athletics, some form of art, whatever passion someone has, my best advice would be just to explore it and do your best, and the success will come." Miles says that being really engaged in their academic work was the key to their success. "Every course, studying, paying attention, asking questions. That's one of the most important things, being an active student in our own education. Because that's what the teachers are there for, you know? "The brothers both have a passion for STEM.
During this graduation season, several stories about Black teens hitting major academic milestones have come to the forefront. In May, a Philadelphia teen who spent most of his childhood living in homeless shelters received a full-ride scholarship to Harvard University.
11-Year-Old Receives Southern University Scholarship
Black Philadelphia Teen Who Was Once Homeless Receives Full-Ride Scholarship To Harvard University


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Sacramento Area High-End Eyewear Business
Price: $350,000
Location: Sacramento
Industry: Personal Care Services
Listing ID: 6371
Listing Status:
This business is a high-end dispensing optical eyewear retailer carrying top-of-the-line designer frames and lenses and catering to an affluent customer base in Sacramento, CA. The company offers the latest in European eyewear fashion and has a strong, loyal base of repeat customers. With an excellent reputation in the local market, sales are generated through word-of-mouth and an extensive referral network with local ophthalmologists and other eyewear facilities. The business has maintained growth every year since its founding and focuses on maintaining excellent customer service through a consistent strategy of long-term customer retention.
Founded in the last 70's, the company is operated as a sole proprietorship by its owner, a Registered Dispensing Optician. Sales in the business have been resilient to economic downturns and are not seasonal, both of which have contributed to strong sales and growth over the years. There is additionally the opportunity for new ownership to grow sales further through the potential revival of unused exam rooms and equipment already owned by the company. The high-end, trendy nature of the business also presents a lucrative opportunity for a stronger social media and online presence.
For the past four decades, this business has developed an excellent reputation, a dedicated customer base, and a steadily increasing revenue line to be the preferred, high-end eyewear retailer in the Sacramento area.
Total Sales: $544,490
Cash Flow: $174,578
FFE Included: Yes
Inventory: $80,000
Inventory Included: Yes
Year Established: 1979
Days & Hours of Operation: Tuesday through Friday (10 AM to 5 PM), Saturday (10 AM to 3PM), closed on Sunday and Monday
Employees: 4
Lease Option: Three years option to extend
Square Footage: 2,400 sq. ft.
Facilities Information: Leased office space, 2,400 sq. ft. facility with a showroom and two exam rooms.
Training & Support: Yes
Financing/Terms: SBA Pre-qualified


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These are two almost identical skeins (#1 is 240 yds. and #2 is 236 yds.) and price is per skein. If you want both you'll need to put this listing in your cart twice. Thanks.
These skeins are full of wonderful autumn colors.....rusts, magenta, orangey reds, rich purples, lots of warm browns and pops of icey blues! I combined two different fiber braids together (one colorway of each on each bobbin and then plied them together) with colors that I thought would be a fun mix and I love the outcome! Falkland is a soft, lofty wool and polwarth is Polwarth is a soft fiber similar to merino but with extra poofiness! This skein is nice and soft and squishy and will be a fun knit for someone special or even for yourself.
Knitting with Handspun yarn is such a delight and Blue Faced Leicester is my all time favorite fiber to spin and knit with. It's sturdy yet soft and is perfect for many projects with just a bit of nice drape. For many it's next to skin soft and it's my first choice for baby and children's knits as well as for adults.
Handspun yarn is, by nature, one of a kind and imperfect. All yarns are spun by me on my sweet spinning wheels in my smoke-free but dog friendly home in rural Utah and then soaked in a lovely lavender wash, dried and re-skeined and are ready to knit your treasures. My finished skeins are measured after drying and yardage is approximated to the best of my ability. Your gauge may vary when working it up. I always recommend swatching for gauge and colorfastness when working with hand dyed products. Some dye run-off may occur with the initial washing of hand dyed goods though my handspun is soaked before drying to minimize that.
I do my best to accurately photograph my yarn but monitors may differ. Please contact me with any questions before you purchase the yarn.
I'm happy to take orders for custom spinning for that special project. I have a large group of fibers you can choose from or you can purchase fiber elsewhere and have it sent to me. You'll pay for the cost of the fiber and the custom spinning.
2 Skeins Worsted Weight Falkland/Polwarth "Pouncing Monsters" Combo Spin
8.0 oz. / 2 ply / 476 yds. / 9 wpi
dyed by: Hello Yarn
colorway: Beezlebubs and Monsters / Pounce Combo Spin
fiber: Polwarth / Falkland
care: hand wash and dry flatI want you to be pleased with your purchase. However if you're not satisfied with your purchase please contact me within 3 days of the receipt of your package for a return or exchange. The item must be in its original condition and you will be responsible for shipping & handling involved in the return/exchange.