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Stocks Notch Big Weekly Gains
|05/22/2020 | 06:05pm
By Anna Hirtenstein, Gunjan Banerji and Chong Koh Ping
The S&P 500 rose Friday and notched a big weekly gain as states around the country eased coronavirus restrictions, boosting hopes about an economic recovery.
Major indexes declined early in the day before reversing course or paring losses. The S&P 500 added 6.94 points, or 0.2%, to 2955.45. The Nasdaq Composite gained 39.71 points, or 0.4%, to 9324.59. The Dow Jones Industrial Average edged down 8.96 points, or less than 0.1% to 24465.16.
Despite the relatively muted moves, all three major indexes gained at least 3% this week, in part driven by optimism that coronavirus vaccines will be available later this year. Additionally, all 50 states have relaxed some of their coronavirus restrictions, stirring hopes about an economic rebound as municipalities start to reopen.
The S&P 500 and Dow added 3.2% and 3.3%, respectively, for the week, while the Nasdaq climbed 3.4%.
The moves this week mark a continuation of an impressive stock rebound since major indexes' lows in March, as investors have looked ahead to a potential bounceback in the domestic economy despite abysmal data that has shown the extent of the current downturn.
Markets are closed Monday for Memorial Day in the U.S.
"We've been aggressive buyers" of stocks, said Dev Kantesaria, founder of Valley Forge Capital Management, which oversees about $750 million in assets. "I believe a year from now we will be back..almost at old levels for the economy."
Mr. Kantesaria added that he's expecting weakness in parts of the economy, but remains broadly optimistic about a recovery.
Still, some of the confidence that drove major indexes higher earlier in the week abated Thursday as investors parsed new data showing that about 2.4 million Americans filed for unemployment benefits in the week ending May 16, continuing a sharp deterioration in the labor market. On Friday, some of the simmering tensions between the U.S. and China escalated, weighing on global stocks.
The Hang Seng Index closed down 5.6% in its worst day since July 2015 after China moved to impose new national-security laws on the city.
China scrapped its economic growth target for 2020 in a stark acknowledgment of the challenges facing the world's second-largest economy, sending crude oil and metal prices sharply lower.
"Anything that knocks China's growth rate, whether it's a slower recovery from the coronavirus or a rise in tensions with the U.S., will weigh on global growth expectations," said Seema Shah, chief strategist at Principal Global Investors.
Beijing's decision to omit a formal target comes amid the sharpest contraction in four decades precipitated by a sudden halt in manufacturing activity because of the coronavirus pandemic. The nation's policy makers are signaling that they won't rush to introduce additional stimulus measures, which suggests more economic pain for countries that have become increasingly reliant on China as an engine of growth.
China's proposed national security law would challenge the financial hub's autonomy and threatens to increase tensions with the U.S. Congress condemned the move, with senators promising an urgent push on legislation that would impose sanctions on Chinese officials and institutions involved in undermining Hong Kong's Western-style rule of law.
The yield on the 10-year U.S. Treasury note rose to 0.659% on Friday from 0.640% last week as bond prices rose.
Brent crude, the global oil benchmark, fell 2.6% on Friday to $35.13 a barrel. Copper, a closely watched metal for its use in industrial activity, slipped 1.8%.
"China is today the biggest importer of crude oil, so Chinese growth is hugely important for oil demand," said Bjarne Schieldrop, chief commodities analyst at Nordic bank SEB. "But at the same time, demand is ticking up and supply is ticking down," as Asian countries reopen, he said.
In Asia, most major stock benchmarks ended the day lower. China's Shanghai Composite Index fell 1.9% while South Korea's Kospi Index retreated 1.4%.
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Everlasting means perpetual, continual, eternal, unbroken, unalterable, and lifelong. Whatever undergoes interruption is not everlasting, since it has been altered.
1. Jehovah chose Aaron and his sons to minister as priests forever. "Then you shall bring Aaron and his sons to the doorway of the tent of meeting and wash them with water. And you shall put the holy garments on Aaron and anoint him and consecrate him, that he may minister as a priest to Me. And you shall bring his sons and put tunics on them; and you shall anoint them even as you have anointed their father, that they may minister as priests to Me; AND THEIR ANOINTING SHALL QUALIFY THEM FOR A PERPETUAL PRIESTHOOD THROUGHOUT THEIR GENERATIONS" (Ex. 40 12-15). It came to pass that the temple was destroyed by fire in the year 70 AC. All the priests, inside the temple, died. The people were banished from Jerusalem for two thousand years. The sacrifices ceased; the Aaron priesthood ceased, for the lineage was extinguished. The promise was not fulfilled. The Levites had been eternally chosen for the service of the temple of Jehovah (1 Chr. 15:2), and everything came to an end.
2. In the sanctuary of Jehovah, the seven lamps on the lamp stand would continually burn (Lev. 24:1-4). When Titus and Vespasianus destroyed the temple, the ordinance of Jehovah was interrupted.
3. The bread of the Presence should be on the table of the sanctuary. It was an everlasting covenant, and an everlasting ordinance. But it all came to an end (Lev. 24:5-9).
4. The offering for a sacrifice of peace offerings or the peace offering, from the flock or a lamb, without defect, was perpetual (Lev. 3:6,7,17). It all came to an end.
5. Whoever touched the corpse of a person was unclean for seven days. He would wash himself on the third day and on the seventh he would be purified. Whoever did not purify himself would die (Num. 19:11,12,20-22). Also, foreigners and gentiles were all unclean (Ps. 14:3). This was a perpetual statute. Jesus told Peter to eat unclean animals. Peter refused to; Jesus showed him, then, that those unclean reptiles represented the gentiles, unclean to Jehovah, but who had ceased being unclean through the sacrifice on the cross (Acts 10:9-15; 10:28,29). To Jesus and the Father there are not unclean persons, but lost persons in need of salvation. If Jehovah were Jesus, or if he were the God and Father referred to in the New Testament, he would not say that the unclean would be perpetually so, for God does not change (James 1:17).
6. Two lambs were sacrificed daily, one in the morning, and another at twilight. This was the continual burnt offering or sacrifice (Num. 28:1-6; Ex. 29:42). The prophet Daniel prophesied the end of the regular sacrifice (Dan. 8:11,12). Therefore, it would not be continual, or perpetual.
7. The fire of the altar where the burnt the offerings were offered would continually burn on it, and not allowed to go out; but it was extinguished (Lev. 6:8-13).
8. The covenant of the law of Jehovah would be eternal. "But the lovingkindness of Jehovah is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear Him, and His righteousness to children's children, to those who keep His covenant, and who remember His precepts to do them" (Ps. 103:17,18). "The earth is also polluted by its inhabitants, for they transgressed laws, violated statutes, broke the everlasting covenant" (Is. 24:5). What amazes us is that Jesus has changed the commandments in the Sermon of the Mount and given the new commandment, which abolished the law "A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you" (John 13:34). In the Old Testament men used to love in men's fashion, but in the New Testament we shall love in God's fashion. The difference between Jehovah's love and the Father's love is that Jehovah loved with disgraces and the Father loves with the grace. Jehovah loved with plagues, pestilences and captivities; the Father loves with forgiveness, healing and deliverance "For when the priesthood is changed, of necessity there takes place a change of law also" (Heb. 7:12).
9. The justice of the law would be eternal. "Pay attention to Me, O My people; and give ear to Me, O My nation; for a law will go forth from Me, and I will set My justice for a light of the peoples. My righteousness is near…" (Is. 51:4,5). Based on the words of Jehovah, the Hebrews tried the justice of the law and failed "What shall we say then? That Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, attained righteousness, even the righteousness which is by faith; but Israel, pursuing a law of righteousness, did not arrive at that law" (Rom. 9: 30,31). "For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes" (Rom. 10:4). Paul is teaching that the one who believes in Jesus Christ is disengaged from the law, therefore, the law is not eternal, nor the justice of the law is eternal. What Jehovah said was not true.
10. Jehovah established that his elect should never drink wine, to set a difference between the holy and the profane, the unclean and the clean (Lev. 10:9,10). Jesus, in order to face Jehovah, served wine to his disciples during their last supper together, and established it as a memorial forever.
11. Jehovah made an eternal covenant with David (2 Sam. 23:5). What is this covenant? "My covenant I will not violate, nor will I alter the utterance of My lips. Once I have sworn by My holiness; I will not lie to David. His descendants shall endure forever, and his throne as the sun before Me. It shall be established forever" (Ps. 89:34-37). The same Jehovah announced the breaking of this oath, by Jeremiah's mouth: "Thus says Jehovah, 'Behold I am about to fill all the inhabitants of this land—the kings, that sit for David on his throne, the priests, the prophets and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem—with drunkenness! And will dash them against each other, both the fathers and the sons together,' declares Jehovah, 'I will not show pity nor be sorry nor have compassion that I should not destroy them'" (Jer. 13:13-14). The Davidic lineage ended in Jehoiachin's Kingdom, also called Jeconiah, which was taken captive to Babylon, and Nebuchadnezzar set his uncle as king over Judah (2 Kings 24:8-17). Jeremiah spoke of the death of the sons of Jehoiachin, and in this way the royal lineage of David was broken (Jer. 22:30). The oath of Jehovah about David's offspring was not fulfilled.
12. Israel was restored in 1948, having its 5oth Anniversary in 1999. It is not a Kingdom anymore, though, but a Republic.
By Pastor Olavo Silveira Pereira

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In this video, we'll explore a couple of things that you absolutely need to be aware of before considering any investment opportunities in Nigeria.
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Each year, all reputable doggy daycares must apply for a licence to trade and we reapplied for ours at the end of last year. As of October 2018 the rules had become much more stringent and detailed. They now include a star rating similar to hotels and restaurants to ensure that all dogs attending any daycare are properly cared for and protected.
After an inspection visit PlayPaws has been awarded a FIVE STAR licence from the council. This is the highest endorsement any daycare can receive. The council's licensing department looked at a range of standards, from cleanliness to staff ratios, from the range of stimulation for the dogs to the training of our staff. They were particularly impressed with our staff training and the knowledge they have of each individual dog. The five star rating means we continue to provide the excellent service you have come to expect from PlayPaws, and still aim to improve.
Vicky set up the business in 2015 as the first in East Lancashire. We know we are the biggest in the area, our size allows us to care for up to 50 dogs a day. And we have always held the belief that we are the best in the area. Now that we are rated by the council as a five star service that confidence has been confirmed. We are very proud of our status and I know you, our customers, will join us in celebrating such a wonderful achievement.


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Homeownership shouldn't be encouraged over renting
American housing policy should be neutral on whether a family or individual owns or rents. Instead, politicians embrace policies that favor homeownership at all costs — costs that often prove to be very high.
I am a supporter of homeownership — not loan ownership as it's become perverted into — but real homeownership free of encumbrances like a hefty mortgage. Most people who achieve home ownership go through a period of indebtedness because few can save enough (or get gifts from relatives) to buy a house for cash.
Commercial Power Washing St Petersburg is a very talented company that will help you make your new home or investment property look immaculate.
Those that achieve home ownership do so through disciplined repayment of mortgage debt without adding to it to supplement consumer spending via the home ATM.
Working with a trusted property manager like Keyrenter Salt Lake Property Management comes with rental guarantees and assurance.
Anyone who plans to stay in one location for five years or more should consider home ownership. It is advantageous to fix one's housing costs with an amortizing fixed-rate mortgage, and over time, between house prices inflation and amortizing mortgages, equity builds up into a significant nest-egg useful in retirement. These are great reasons to become a homeowner, and it's why politicians favor homeownership with an abundance of subsidies.
Home ownership has been linked to greater community involvement and other positive societal goals. This link may or may not be true, but many in the government accept it as so, and this has long been used as a justification for a plethora of policies and misguided government subsidies encouraging home ownership.
However, Housing subsidies are detrimental to America. They do not raise the rate of home ownership, they cause house price inflation and volatility that inflicts financial pain and distress on the population, and these subsidies cost the government an enormous amount of money. Homeownership doesn't need to be encouraged with government subsidies.
Homeownership remains a goal that should be encouraged
If we convince ourselves that just because home values declined after 2007 the U.S. should stop encouraging ownership, we'll be making a drastic mistake.
I have a confession to make: I am a homeowner.
That's a dangerous thing to say. We homeowners are getting blamed for a lot of today's economic ills, and labeled dupes besides.
We need to make a clear distinction here. Homeowners are not being blamed for anything. People with a substantial equity claim in their properties are not the problem. The lingering economic ills we are facing today is caused by loanowners, those with little or no equity stake that cannot afford their properties, often because they used their home like an ATM machine. And, for the record, they are dupes.
It's said that we profiteer from an undeserved tax break.
They do.
That our obsession with ownership drove the nation to make unwise policy choices during the last eight decades.
That our 30-year fixed-rate mortgages are dinosaurs dependent on government subsidies.
Not true. the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage would exist with or without government subsidies, only the price would change.
We're told that by treating our homes as piggy banks, we impoverished ourselves and our children.
They did. In a big way. How much emotional pain was inflicted on children because their parents were Ponzis?
That we would almost certainly be better off renting rather than owning.
From 2004 through 2011, anyone would certainly have been better off renting than owning financially. Perhaps they gained some emotional satisfaction, but considering the stress of being underwater, I question whether or not the plusses outweigh the minuses.
That we would be richer had we sunk our nest eggs into stocks and bonds.
But it's time to stand up for homeownership. Because if we convince ourselves that just because home values declined after 2007 the U.S. should stop encouraging ownership, we'll be making a drastic mistake.
Specifically, what does he mean by "encouraging?" We clearly shouldn't be subsidizing home ownership. We shouldn't be encouraging or discouraging any method of obtaining shelter. Our housing policies should be completely neutral on this question.
The fact is that there are sound reasons for homeownership — though it's not for everyone — and very sound reasons for government policy to encourage it.
No, there isn't.
Much of today's attack on the principle of homeownership doesn't address that principle at all. …
There's no real doubt that homeownership is a goal that should be encouraged by government policy.
I worked out so well last time, right?
Yes, there is plenty of real doubt that home ownership should not be subsidized by taxpayer money, and it should not be the sole focus of government housing policy.
Homeowners vote more often than renters. They engage more with neighborhood and community groups. Studies suggest that their children do better in school and are more likely to graduate from high school and move on to postsecondary education.
This is an attack on renters. Are renters substandard people who don't support their communities and their children? As a renter, I find this offensive. Homeowners are not superior people who deserve special government subsidies paid by the people they deem inferior. This is a tyranny of the majority.
The difference in the length of homeownership is the single largest factor underlying the wealth gap between black and white families, according to research by Thomas Shapiro of Brandeis University. That's important because from 1984 to 2009 the gap in median net worth tripled, from $85,000 to $236,000. Much of the difference is home equity, which gives home-owning families a leg up in helping relatives with down payments, lowering the cost of borrowing and improving access to credit, Shapiro has found.
It's true that some of these advantages were sapped by the housing crash. But many long-term homeowners were still able to weather the storm better than renters.
As I pointed out previously, renters did much better than homeowners from 2004 through 2011 — much better. However, loanowners did much better than renters during the recession. Loanowners who decided to quit making housing payments were allowed to squat in their comfortable homes. In contrast, renters who lost their jobs or otherwise felt the pinch of the recession were not allowed to miss any housing payments. If a renter quit paying for their housing, they were quickly put into the street. The gross unfairness of this fact was lost on the homeowners and loanowners that somehow felt they deserved their special treatment.
It's also true that renting is a good choice for many Americans, including young people who may need to move often at the outset of their careers.
I guess that means people in their 50s like me who rent are complete losers. Read this article from US Florida Property Management to get useful advice and recommendations on this issue.
And it's proper to question whether the mortgage interest tax credit is the best tool for promoting homeownership. Green, for one, advocates replacing it with a refundable tax credit, which could be phased out for wealthier homeowners and wouldn't encourage people to buy bigger homes than they need just to capture the tax break.
A tax credit would be better than the HMID, but I would rather see all subsidies phased out.
But the worst thing that could happen as a result of the debate over housing is that government policy could reverse. …
No, the best thing that could happen is the government supports for homeownership would disappear. Prices would fall, then they would become less volatile, the government would obtain more tax revenue, and it would have no impact on the homeownership rate, nor would it make home ownership less desirable. Home ownership might be marginally less financially advantageous, but it would never be any less emotionally desirable.
That's the wrong option. "People still want to be homeowners," Green observes. Why would we want to stifle an aspiration so beneficial to society and the economy?
Reducing or eliminating government subsidies is not tantamount to stifling home ownership. This is a disingenuous lie. Nobody is proposing doing anything that will actively discourage home ownership. What this country needs is an elimination of all home ownership subsidies, and we need to replace our current policies with an ownership-neutral stance where neither owning or renting is encouraged over the other. That's the balanced policy approach housing really needs.


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Is this turning into a weekly thing? GTI4322 inbound again from CHS, ETA 0115; scheduled out to Italy 0315. How bad do you want it?
Is this turning into a weekly thing? GTI4322 inbound again from CHS, ETA 0115; scheduled out to Italy 0315. How bad do you want it?
Dreamlifter 718BA on final for 31L.
Here are a few shots of some cargo visitors. Air France (8/15) and Sky Lease Cargo (8/16)
It was still raining when this shot was taken at ISO 5000 (cleanup). Reg ID: F-GUOB
The rain finally slowed down enough to get this shot at ISO 200 (and some post processing)
Thanks to Jason who informed me of this arrival. Just made it in time to HoBe to catch her departing off RWY 31L. Both shots taken with 300mm + 1.4 TC. Reg ID: N950AR
Awesome Mark! Love the MD11. Looks like A7-AAG is on final for 4L...was tracking on Planefinder a few minutes ago.
Air Force 1 is on the ground. SAM29000. BTW, A6-COM departed as Dubai Air Wing 3
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Thanks Raj....
Got lucky with this shot. Saw this bird from the Air Train as I was meeting up with my sister. I hijacked her car, and made a bee line to try to get a shot. Here is the result
Mark, Great shots of the AF Cargo and the Sky Lease
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Love the night shots, the md-11 and the KLM is mind blowing.
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Monthly Archives: May 2017
Police release CCTV footage of robbery at Cross in Hand service station
Uckfield Anderida tops Division 4
Parkinson's support group comes to Uckfield
20mph speed limit idea for Uckfield housing estates and residential streets
Three-year-old hurt in collision with car
Junior cricket sessions now under way in Uckfield
Uckfield Town Council considers Manor Park traffic issues
Superheroes look after customers at Uckfield's Chestnut Tree charity shop
Observer: Wealden needs more support to protect Ashdown Forest
Nutley wins primary school maths challenge
Uckfield firefighters help at Lewes blaze
Part of George Rose premises at Buxted could be turned into flats
'Poor condition' of Ashdown Forest sparks new action from Wealden Council
Manor teaching assistant celebrates publication of second book
Cricket: One Uckfield team inflicts heavy defeat, another comes unstuck
Rail strike by RMT union on May 30 suspended
Uckfield Lions support safety in action event
Barby Dashwood-Morris no longer a Wealden councillor
Could you spare time to help a carer?
Job vacancy – NFU Mutual is looking for a customer service adviser
Observer: Holy Cross school was creative in celebrating a 'good' Ofsted
Developers withdraw appeal against refusal of plans for 90 homes in Eastbourne Road
Uckfield trampolinist has sights set on competing at Youth Olympics
Reader's letter from Cllr Roy Galley
New gym classes get under way at Fun Abounds, Uckfield
Plans for five new homes on greenfield site in Blackboys
Uckfield cricket teams miss an opportunity … and face agony
Holy Cross goes to town in celebrating 'Good' Ofsted rating
Beat the Street game is coming to Uckfield
Uckfield's Chris Baily strikes tennis gold
Waste and recycling collections standard declines
Much to admire in schools' Walk and Talk project, says Observer
Candidates standing for Wealden in general election on June 8
Uckfield cyclist to represent GB in world championship event
Free activities in Uckfield during Dementia Awareness Week
Nutley children boost school library funds
Handbags needed to raise funds for animal charity
Cricket: Uckfield Anderida match reports
Councillors appointed to lead Uckfield Town Council in coming year
Walk and talk idea could ease 'illegal' parking near schools
Record-breaking Uckfield Town Mayor re-elected
Masterchef contestant James Villiers to help with Ridgewood fund-raising
Talented dance students to showcase their work in Uckfield
Observer: lack of rainfall is a long-term worry
County council election results
Uckfield triathlete Jamie Bedwell hopes for local support
£250 prize for Uckfield woman in air ambulance draw
More than £3,000 worth of equipment stolen from van
Three arrested following quad bike theft
Readers letters: Why were healthy trees cut down in Uckfield car park?
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Pet health care becomes all the more important especially in the winter season which is considered unsafe for the animals. Apart from keeping them warm, you need to be watchful about their skin and coat, which may show signs of dry weather that increases the habit of itching and scratching the skin. You should not ignore any kind of lesions on the skin, coat and lower limb of your furry friend as outbreaks of one of the deadly dog diseases called 'Alabama Rot' in the UK has been spotted.
Vets suggest that the disease had originated in the United States somewhere around the 1980s and was specifically found in greyhounds. However, now days it is found in all breeds of dogs and its occurrence can be suspected if you find any sores and lesions around the elbows, knees, paws and sometimes the tongue. The lesion looks like a popped mass of skin and the area around it would be swollen with open red, ulcer-like patches.
Alabama Rot was not reported a lot since its first occurrence in the 1980s but a similar kind of sickness is found in the dogs now. Vets in the UK suggest that what they find is a disease similar to the 'Alabama Rot' and is actually called Cutaneous and Renal Glomerural Vasculopathy in the scientific terminology. In this case, the skin and filtering portions of the kidney get problem with blood vessels leading to this specific clinical syndrome which eventually causes renal diseases and kidney failures.
As of now a total of 81 cases have been confirmed in the UK, with 17 being in this year only. It was first identified in the UK in the year 2012 and is now spread across 27 counties of the UK. The most concerning part about this disease is that within one to nine days of the occurrence of lesions, the animal starts showing signs of renal diseases, which may result in kidney failure which eventually proves fatal for the poor dog.
Dog owners should to be extra cautious if they find any kind of sores on their pet's body. The worst part is that vets are still in the dark about the actual cause of the disease which also suggests that there is no prevention for this deadly ailment. However, as a precautionary measure one should wash their pet's body and limbs after returning from an outside walk. If you find any kind of soreness in your pet's skin then it is advisable to immediately visit a veterinarian to get a quick diagnosis.
Talking about the treatment, vets suggest that as the actual cause of the disease is not known, what they can do is treat the secondary infections and signs of renal. They treat the animal aggressively with excess fluids and dialysis in order to prevent kidney failure much before the case becomes critical.
Furthermore, the vets in the UK suggest that, it seems like an individual disease which does not spread to other dogs but, if you suspect other dog for this disease then it is best to keep away so there are no chances of infections. For more details on this lethal dog disease, you can get first hand advice from your veterinarian and you can also check the video.
One piece of advice that goes without saying is that if you have a pet insurance then it would be very helpful in dealing with all kinds of pet healthcare problems.
You will not only be able to manage your pet care budget well but would also not fall under financial traps created by the sudden pet diseases like the Alabama Rot. Pet insurance is an investment that facilitates you in taking care of your pet in a better and more organised way.
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|Tanmay Taraphdar, M K E Prasad, Praveen Yadav, Technip KT India
Refiners, not just in India but across the world, are working towards
improving their Gross Refinery Margins (GRM). They are looking for
technologies and exploring business dynamics to maximise their profits. This
article explores some of the options available for refiners to enhance GRM
and reduce carbon footprint with the use of Natural Gas (NG).
Rising oil prices and weak fuel demand in recent past have made a significant impact on GRM. Historical data show that the refineries with bottom of the barrel processing facilities and integrated petrochemicals complex have performed well to stay ahead in the competition due to its greater flexibility to maintain healthy GRM. A robust refinery configuration which is flexible enough to process variety of crudes including difficult opportunity crudes along with integrated petrochemicals complex is the key aspect to sustain healthy margins. However, simple integration with refinery and petrochemicals complex may not be good enough in present scenario. Integration should be smart enough to address volatility of the market by ensuring healthy GRM and to minimise environmental impact by reducing carbon footprint. Use of natural gas as fuel addresses this issue to some extent by allowing recovery of valuable components from refinery off gases and facilitating release of good quantity of naphtha for valuable petrochemicals feedstock generation. It also enables production of more middle distillate from bottom of the barrel processing and helps reducing carbon footprint of overall complex. Price differential between crude and natural gas, especially in the countries where natural gas is available, makes it a hugely profitable proposition. Even for the countries, where both natural gas and crude are imported, it makes a case that needs to be looked into.
Refinery Fuel Consumption and Generation
A refinery consumes fuel gas and fuel oil produced from various refinery processes. No supplementary fuel is required for refinery operation. Generally, naphtha is used as feed and fuel for Hydrogen Generation Unit (HGU) and Gas Turbines (GT). Typically, Process Heaters consume greater amount of fuel, followed by Utilities and Hydrogen Plant.
Fired heaters in various process units consume about 40 to 50 per cent of fuel. Utility system including boilers and GTs consume about 30 to 40 percent of fuel and HGU consumes about 15 to 20 per cent of fuel. Contribution of HGU includes both feed and fuel. Typically, a refinery with secondary processing facilities like Fluid Catalytic Cracking Unit (FCCU) and Hydrocracker Unit (HCU) consumes about 8 to 10 wt% of crude throughput as fuel including naphtha used in HGU and GTs. In case refinery is integrated with petrochemicals complex, which is highly energy consuming, fuel consumption is significantly higher. This fuel requirement is satisfied by fuel oil and fuel gas generated from various process units.
Fuel oil is mainly generated from Vacuum Distillation Unit (VDU) and FCCU main fractionator bottoms in absence of bottom of the barrel processing facilities in the refinery. Vacuum residue is generally taken through visbreaker unit to produce fuel oil. Generation of fuel oil can vary between 5 to 50 percent of feed to VDU depending upon the type of crude processed while fuel oil from FCCU main fractionator bottom can vary between 4 to 6 wt% of FCCU feed.
Fuel gas is generated from all hydrotreating units, MS block (catalytic reforming unit and isomerisation unit), FCCU, Delayed Coker Unit (DCU) and HCU. Crude Distillation Unit (CDU) can also be a source for fuel gas generation if light ends are present in crude. A typical contribution towards fuel gas generation from various process units in terms of wt% of total fuel gas generation are shown in figure 1.
Figure 1 on the previous page shows that DCU, FCCU, MS block (Catalytic Reforming Unit + Isomerisation or Alkylation), CDU (in case light ends are present in crude) and HCU along with hydrotreaters (naphtha, kerosene, diesel and VGO) contribute typically about 30, 15, 18, 19 and 18 percent respectively towards fuel gas generation from refinery. Many modern refineries have integrated petrochemicals complex to improve profitability. Significant amount of fuel gas is generated from naphtha cracker complex while a small amount of fuel gas is generated from aromatics complex (excluding catalytic reforming unit). Typically, about 16-17 wt% of feed is converted into fuel gas in ethane cracker while about 17-18 wt% of feed is converted into fuel gas in naphtha cracker. Fuel oil generation from ethane cracker is negligible while it can be as high as 10 wt% of feed for naphtha cracker. Petrochemicals complex is also a major energy consumer. Steam cracker consumes lot of power in its cracked gas compressors and refrigeration compressors. Typically, 600-620 kWh of power are required for one ton of ethylene production. Generally, naphtha cracker is net exporter of fuel gas and fuel oil while ethane cracker is net consumer of fuel gas. Para-xylene complex is net consumer of fuel gas or fuel oil and power. About 0.3 tons of fuel gas and 320-360 kWh of power are required for one ton of para-xylene production. Refinery products like fuel gas, fuel oil, naphtha and diesel are used to satisfy fuel and power requirement of steam cracker and aromatics complex. Natural gas can be utilised as fuel for an integrated refinery cum petrochemicals complex while maintaining flexible product objectives.
Use of Natural Gas in Refinery
Natural Gas (NG) or Regasified Liquid Natural Gas (RLNG) can be used in refinery for various purposes such as fuel for process & utility heaters replacing fuel oil, feed and fuel for HGU replacing naphtha, fuel for GT and fuel for process heaters replacing fuel gas.
Each of the above-mentioned cases is discussed below in detail.
Natural Gas as Fuel for Process and Utility Heaters Replacing Fuel Oil: Use of natural gas as fuel replacing fuel oil provides the opportunity to either reduce or eliminate fuel oil generation from refinery by utilising bottom of the barrel processing technology. So far, DCU is one of the most economical options for bottom of the barrel processing. Other bottom of the barrel processing technologies that are available and used presently offer lower yield of distillates and do not eliminate fuel oil generation completely. New technology like slurry hydrocracking, which is on the verge of commercialisation, promises to offer better distillate yield and minimum residue generation. However, our discussion is restricted to DCU only since it has a proven operational track record. Typically, distillate yield (combining naphtha and diesel) of about 65 percent is obtained from DCU which may result in 10 to 12 per cent more distillate from refinery. Additional naphtha generated from DCU can be used as feedstock for naphtha cracker. Moreover, off gas from DCU contains good amount of ethylene, ethane and propylene. Ethylene and propylene can be recovered and used as petrochemicals feedstock after suitable treatment for impurities removal while ethane can be sent to steam cracker for production of petrochemicals feedstocks. Thus, replacing fuel oil with natural gas not only eliminates low value fuel oil generation but also enhances refinery and petrochemicals integration along with high value middle distillate production. This change over ie, replacing fuel oil by natural gas in existing fired heaters requires careful evaluation for thermal, mechanical and hydraulics adequacy of existing hardware particularly with respect to burners, tube metallurgy, refractory, air preheater system etc.
Natural Gas as Feed and Fuel for Steam Reforming: Hydrogen is one of the most important utilities in refinery. It is required to remove impurities like sulphur, nitrogen etc, from various refinery products and intermediate streams. Hydrogen is produced mainly by steam reforming of naphtha in refinery. Its requirement in refinery varies widely depending on crude processed and product specifications.
Typically, 4 tons of naphtha is required as feed and fuel to produce one ton of hydrogen while about 3.5 tons of NG is required to produce one ton of hydrogen. Use of NG as feed and fuel for hydrogen plant will release a good quantity of naphtha which can further be utilised for producing value added petrochemicals feed-stocks. Switch over from naphtha to natural gas requires certain modifications in various sections of HGU; these are listed on the next page.
Natural Gas as Fuel for Gas Turbine (GT): GT is the main work horse for power generation in the refinery. A part of the power requirement of the refinery is satisfied by steam turbines utilising the co-generation potential that exists to generate various levels of steam required in the refinery. The balance part of power requirement is satisfied by Gas Turbine. Generally, naphtha is used as fuel for GT. Typically, 0.25 tons of naphtha is required to generate 1 MWh power from GT. When naphtha is replaced by Natural Gas as fuel for GT, it releases significant amount of naphtha which can further be utilised for valuable product generation. About 0.2 tons of NG are required for 1 MWh power generation. This switch over also helps refiners to reduce CO2 emission from GT by 25 to 30 percent.
Natural Gas as Fuel for Fired Heaters Replacing Fuel Gas: Fuel Gas is mainly generated from following sources of a refinery.
Table 1 shows the valuable components present in off gases from various refinery process units, aromatics complex and steam cracker complex.
Refinery which is processing crudes with light ends typically has a Saturated Gas Unit (SGU) to recover LPG. However, saturated off gas from this unit, primarily consisting of methane and ethane, still consists of some quantity of propane. Ethane and propane from SGU off gas can be recovered in a cryogenic separation unit after suitable purification and can be fed to the steam cracker for production of ethylene and propylene.
Hydrogen recovery from Refinery Off Gases (ROG) is an important aspect to reduce the size of 'on-purpose' hydrogen generation unit. This can be achieved by developing hydrogen balance model across the refinery, identifying constraints or flexibility of hydrogen usage and hydrogen pinch analysis for possible alternatives of hydrogen reuse from ROG. It should be noted that a careful techno-economic evaluation is required before implementing any project of hydrogen recovery from ROG. The reason behind is that, on one hand it reduces the size of the hydrogen generation unit and thus CO2 emission, on the other hand it degrades the quality of ROG in terms of calorific value and reduces the opportunity of burning hydrogen to reduce CO2 emission. However, for a larger hydrogen contributor, a dedicated recovery system is justified. CRU is one such source for Hydrogen recovery. Technip has developed a dedicated tool called HyN.DT for Hydrogen Management in order to help the refiners to optimise hydrogen recovery and size of 'on -purpose' hydrogen generation unit.
Off gas from FCC and DCU contains good quantity of ethane, ethylene, propylene and some propane. Separate recovery of ethylene and propylene through cryogenic separation after suitable treatment may be economical if quantity of gas is significant. Otherwise a combined recovery section with cracker complex may be considered. Ethane and propane separated from off gases are sent to cracker for further production of ethylene and propylene .
Recovery of valuable components like hydrogen, ethylene, ethane etc from off gases significantly reduces fuel gas quantity in the refinery leading to requirement of external fuel like natural gas. In other words, use of natural gas as fuel for the refinery will help in recovering valuable components from ROG leading to enhanced refinery profitability. Change over from fuel gas to natural needs careful evaluation of existing hardware, specially fired heaters with respect to thermal, mechanical and hydraulics adequacy.
Synergies between Refinery & Petrochemicals
Use of natural gas as refinery fuel unleashes a host of opportunities in terms of synergies between refinery and petrochemicals complex. The availability of full range naphtha (C5-165OC cut) as a result of utilising NG for steam reforming and gas turbines can be fruitfully utilised as feedstock for petrochemicals complex. From this full range naphtha, a portion of naphtha, ie, light naphtha (mainly C5) part can be utilised in steam cracker for production of ethylene and propylene while C7-C9 cut naphtha can be utilised for production of aromatics like benzene, toluene, para-xylene etc and middle cut can be blended in gasoline pool. Recent specifications of gasoline restricts aromatics content in gasoline thus restricting blending of reformate in gasoline pool and leading to use of alternate octane booster like isomerate and alkylate. Octane booster isomerate is produced by isomerisation of C5 stream of naphtha. However, if we use C5 stream to produce valuable products (like ethylene, propylene) in steam cracker, then alkylation unit can be considered for octane boosting .
Iso-butane reacts with olefins (propylene, iso-butylene etc,) to produce alkylates in presence of solid or liquid catalyst in alkylation unit. Generally FCC C4 cut is good feedstock to produce alkylates with Research Octane Number (RON) of 92 and above.
Significant quantity of ethylene and propylene can be recovered from FCC and coker off gases. In addition, ethane and propane recovered from saturated gases ex-CDU and from FCC and coker off gases can be utilised to produce ethylene and propylene by processing through steam cracker. Hence, the steam cracker can be designed as dual feed cracker (both liquid and gas) to take advantage of refinery off gases and any surplus naphtha leading to more flexibility in operation. Technip designed steam cracker is capable of taking any feed from ethane to gas oil providing a great deal of flexibility . SPYRO, the proprietary software from Technip is first principle-based software which is capable of predicting yield, run length etc accurately for any feed starting from ethane to gas oil. It is used by most of the ethylene producers worldwide to monitor and control cracking furnace performance. A great deal of synergy exists between refinery, aromatics complex and steam cracker complex. Off gases from FCC and coker containing good quantity of ethylene and propylene can be integrated with cold section of steam cracker. On the other hand, pyrolysis gasoline produced from steam cracker contains good quantity of xylenes and can be integrated with aromatics complex. Propylene produced from steam cracker complex and benzene produced from aromatics complex are the feedstocks for production of cumene and phenol which is the feedstock for producing bis-phenol and polycarbonates. Block flow diagrams given in table 2 and figure 3 show enhanced integration between refinery and petrochemicals complex when NG is used as fuel.
Reducing Carbon Footprint - A Bonus
In addition to achieving a good synergy between refinery and petrochemicals complex, use of NG as refinery fuel helps in reducing carbon footprint of the refinery especially when fuel oil is replaced by NG. Typically, replacement of fuel oil with natural gas gives about 30 percent reduction in CO2 emission and replacement of fuel gas with natural gas gives about 5 to 10 percent reduction in CO2 emission through fired heaters. This is in addition to CO2 emission reduction of 25 per cent in HGU and 25 to 30 percent in GT that can be achieved by replacing naphtha with natural gas.
A Case Study
A case study is performed with a base case of refinery complex of 15 MMTPA with a steam cracker and aromatics complex.
The refinery consists of CDU-VDU as primary unit, CRU and alkylation for MS production, FCCU and once through Hydrocracker Unit (OHCU) as secondary units and Delayed Coker Unit (DCU) is considered for bottom of the barrel processing.
Hydrotreating of all products like kero, diesel, naphtha and VGO is considered to meet product specifications required for downstream units and to meet environmental regulations. Since light naphtha (mainly C5 cut), which is fed into naphtha cracker, is not available for isomerisation for boosting the octane number of gasoline, an alkylation unit is considered for the same. C4 cut from FCCU is the feed to alkylation unit. Light naphtha (C5 cut) from NHT and hydrocracker along with hydrocracker bottom is the main feed to naphtha cracker.
Pyrolysis gasoline generated from naphtha cracker goes through aromatics separation unit where aromatics are separated and fed into para-xylene complex and raffinate is recycled back to naphtha cracker.
A butadiene extraction unit is considered within naphtha cracker complex. Hydrogen is recovered from CRU and naphtha cracker off gases through Pressure Swing Adsorption (PSA). Sulphur block includes Amine Treating Unit (ATU), Sour Water Stripper (SWS), Amine Regeneration Unit (ARU) and Sulphur Recovery Unit (SRU) as auxiliary units. Block flow diagram for base case refinery configuration is shown in figure 4 on the next page. An LP model is developed based on this configuration with maximisation of GRM as objective function with following basis.
The integration between refinery and petrochemicals complex is maximised by optimising refinery configuration in order to generate more value added products like ethylene, propylene, butadiene, benzene and para-xylene. Revised case (NG case) material balance is performed with natural gas as refinery fuel using LP model. A comparison of base case material balance and revised case material balance (NG case) is presented in table 3.
For base case, a part of the heavy products like vacuum residue and FCCU bottoms are utilised for generation of fuel oil to satisfy fuel requirement of the complex. However, for natural gas case, all the heavy products are sent to DCU resulting in more distillates and a marginal increase in coke production.
Fuel and loss are estimated based on total consumption of fuel gas, naphtha used for hydrogen generation and gas turbine and fuel oil consumption in boilers and heaters for base case. For natural gas case it is estimated based on natural gas and fuel gas consumption.
Comparison between base case and natural gas case material balance shows that about 7 wt% of crude is converted into valuable products like ethylene, propylene, LPG, butadiene, gasoline, benzene & para-xylene when natural gas is used as supplementary fuel for the refinery. Increase in production for these valuable petrochemicals feedstock is presented in figure 6.
Figure 6 shows that the increase in production for ethylene, propylene, butadiene, benzene and para-xylene is 64, 19, 33, 40 and 43 per cent respectively which has a significant impact on GRM. In addition to it, there is a significant reduction in CO2 emission. Estimated reduction in CO2 emission is about 2.5 per cent for entire complex. This reduction can be achieved despite the increase in production of petrochemicals feedstocks which consumes additional energy.
Use of natural gas as refinery fuel unleashes a host of opportunities to make refining and petrochemicals business more efficient. It benefits integrated refinery cum petrochemicals complex in multiple ways.
Authors are thankful to the management of TPKTI for their kind permission to publish this article.


text: 2019 Season, Edmonton Eskimos, Game Recaps, Hamilton Tiger CatsTiger Cats Maul EskimosOctober 8, 2019October 8, 2019By Ken Edwards0 0 Heading into this week's game against the Tiger Cats, the Eskimos had a chance to secure a playoff spot with a win. It would mean the worst the team could finish was fourth place in the west and qualify for the crossover spot. Although this was not the goal when the season started, it would be an improvement over missing the post season last year. For the third straight week, Chad Kilgore got the start at quarterback and was looking for his first win since taking over for the injured Trevor Harris. The Eskimos offence needed to be better this week, but for the third straight game they struggled to put points on the board. Meanwhile, Hamilton picked up where they left off two weeks ago rolling up 455 yards of offence and 42 points in a convincing win that all but secured first place in the Eastern Conference. The Eskimo offence had decent yardage and had the advantage in 'time of possession' but that did not translate into points. For the third straight game, Kilgore put up less than 250 yards passing (actual 233) and combined with 87 yards rushing, that is not going to be enough to win against a high calibre opponent. On the defensive side of the ball, the Eskimos gave up 178 yards on the ground in the worst loss of the season. This is the third time in six games they have given up in excess of 170 yards rushing and that is an alarming trend. What was a strength at the beginning of the year, the defence is giving up more points and the team has gone on to lose five of their last six games. The timing could not be worse as both the offence and the defence are not performing to the level they need to heading down the stretch. It was a costly loss personnel wise as well with both C.J. Gable and Greg Ellingson did not finish the game. It was not good news for an offence that has struggled for the better part of a month and there is no word on the severity of the injuries yet. If either of these players cannot go, the impact will be significant as the surging B.C. Lions come to town on a four game winning streak and can still mathematically over take the Eskimos for the last playoff spot. Since winning the Grey Cup back in 2015, the team has a record of 38-31, but they have failed to host a playoff game. The grumbling from the fan base is getting louder and louder with more fans calling for Jason Maas to be fired. Of course the fortunes of this team are not all the fault of the head coach, but he is the one constant. I am not sure there is anything he can do to keep his job next year, but we are going to have to wait until the end of the season to find out. 2019 Season, cfl, Edmonton Eskimos, Hamilo


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Declaring Interdependence on the Fourth
These are stirring and familiar words from The Declaration of Independence:
Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
Along with enjoying our sparklers, hanging out Old Glory and gathering around our grills, we do well to read Mr. Jefferson's famous words all the way through.
It is good to read—or to hear; it's great oratory--The Declaration of Independence if for no other reason than to be reminded of what the shapers of this nation sought. They were not seeking blind obedience to an unchangeable set of rules. They weren't after a might-makes-right mentality (in fact, they were trying to get away from that one with the British). Instead, they sought an opportunity to be thoughtfully self-governing, rather than exploited by a richer, stronger nation who saw, in the colonies' resources, much that could benefit Britain—if only the colonists could be managed.
Well, they couldn't be managed. The colonists were driven by a dream. But not a fanciful dream: Jefferson says, "Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes."
The Declaration shows us that even before the United States was the United States, there was a hope that here, in this land, there would be the option for self-governance and the option for freedom to live as men and women chose.
In these times, a certain kind of conservative Christianity and a certain kind of American politics seem strangely wedded to each other. A few years back, Newsweek ran a cross-wrapped stars-and-stripes on its cover. And "God bless the United States" has become the de rigueur tag line to end all political speeches, the way a preacher ends a sermon with "Amen."
I'm sure that, in honor of the Fourth, some will raise glasses to toast the Supreme Court's ruling, as I will. But others will wring hands and claim that both God's word and the Constitution have been besmirched. Indeed, Bobby Jindal has already announced that the ruling "will pave the way for an all-out assault against the religious freedom rights of Christians who disagree with this decision." And the fundamentalist Christian, American Family Association put out a statement saying "There is no doubt that this morning's ruling will imperil religious liberty in America…." This is, of course, unlikely in the extreme.
And though I never thought I'd be favorably quoting Jeb Bush, his response to the Supreme Court ruling seems to me to be consistent with the vision espoused by Jefferson. Bush wrote, "In a country as diverse as ours, good people who have opposing views should be able to live side by side."
That seems to me to underscore the deeper meaning in The Declaration. If Jefferson was declaring our need for independence from Britain, he was also underscoring our interdependence with one another.
John F. Kennedy spoke of our interdependence when he addressed the United Nations with these words in 1961: "Never have the nations of the world had so much to lose or so much to gain. Together we shall save our planet, or together we shall perish in its flames."
Martin Luther King, in his address "Beyond VietNam" given at Riverside Church in New York in 1967, knew our interdependence was crucial to our future when he said, "We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent co-annihilation."
And Thomas Jefferson, in the Declaration of Independence itself, warns us of what happens when we are not aware of our interdependence: "…all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed."
The Declaration calls us to live a common life with one another, promoting each other's "Safety and Happiness." The challenge to do so and the opportunity remain ours.


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Duke University senior midfielder Myles Jones has been named the 2016 ACC Men's Lacrosse Offensive Player of the Year the league office announced Tuesday afternoon. Jones is the second Blue Devil in three seasons to garner the accolade as voted by the five head coaches.
Jones joins Jordan Wolf as Blue Devils to win the Offensive Player of the Year award and is the seventh Blue Devil under John Danowski to win a major conference honor.
A two-time All-American and the 2015 L.T. j.g. Donald MacLaughlin Award winner as the nation's top midfielder, Jones will graduate from Duke arguably as the best midfielder in program history. In 2016, Jones is second on the team in scoring with 32 goals and 33 assists for 65 points. The total is the second highest in his career, while the 33 assists rank ninth in Duke history and four behind his total in 2015.
In his 17 starts, Jones has scored five-plus points five times, owns three hat tricks and has put together five performances with at least three assists. The Huntington, N.Y., tallied 11 points (5g, 6a) in the loss to North Carolina to tie the single-game record for points.
Jones made history in 2016, becoming the first midfielder in NCAA Division I lacrosse history to record 100 goals and 100 assists in his career. He currently holds the Duke single-season and career records for a midfielder in points and assists and ranks second in goals. Overall, his 226 points rank seventh in Duke history, while his 101 assists are fifth and his 125 goals are 13th. Jones ranks seventh on the single-season list in assists (37) and 11th in points (77). He is one of three midfielders in program history to record 40 goals in a season.
One of 11 Blue Devils all-time to earn All-ACC honors three times in his career, Jones' 226 points are the second most among midfielders in NCAA history, behind Gary Gait's 253. He is one of four midfielders to reach the 200-point benchmark and currently ranks second among all players in career points. The 40 goals he scored in 2015 are 22nd among midfielders in NCAA history.
Duke, 10-7 overall, closes out its regular season Sunday, May 8 at Boston University. Faceoff is set for 1 p.m., on CBS Sports Network. The NCAA selection show will air on ESPNU Sunday evening at 9 p.m. The first round of the NCAA Tournament gets underway May 14-15.


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To some people, art is intoxicating. Art is contagious. Once you've had it, you can't get enough. I've traveled Europe my entire life. I've grown up in museums. I remember when I was fourteen and my parents took me to the Albertina Museum in Vienna, Austria.
I saw this painting of two fruits wearing masks and it blew my mind, I didn't know art could be like that. I didn't know that there were no rules in art. So for years, I scoured the internet but to no avail. The painting was lost.
Fast forward seven years and there I am in Vienna again, in the Albertina Museum, staring at the painting that had captivated me for a third of my life. That painting was Le Prêtre Marié by René Magritte, and consequently, the painting that sucked me into surrealism. In 2007, that painting was sold for over five million pounds.
René Magritte, the Belgian surrealist artist, is now one of my all-time favorites. Magritte's paintings amuse me and make me think great thoughts. His art features reoccurring objects like the green apple and the bowler hat, and patterns like clouds and open, endless seas. Sometimes, the depths of his paintings seem infinite.
I've sought out his art in museums all over the world, the most recent being the Magritte Museum in Brussels, which I visited only a few days ago.
Magritte's art pushes the boundaries of reality in ways that no other had done before. Andy Warhol himself said that he was inspired by Magritte. His work is timeless, and Magritte is still inspiring people long after his death.
I've seen his handwritten letters, his lazy yet genius sketches, and his experimentation with photography. Eternal mystery, unusual, familiar, and satisfying, René Magritte has left me speechless on more than one occasion.
Another Belgian artist, by the name of Jean-Michel Folon, is as magical and mesmerizing in his own ways. He is famous for his illustrations, drawings, and sculptures. But above all, he is famous for his watercolors. Softly muted or brilliantly vibrant, the colors radiate off the page.
Interestingly enough, he was renowned in the United States way before he was even recognized in Europe. He illustrated many covers for journals like The New Yorker and Time Magazine. He did the cover art for Ray Bradbury, Guy de Maupassant, and Franz Kafka.
Soon enough, his name was popping up everywhere. After Folon's first exhibition in New York City then followed exhibitions in Tokyo, Paris, Milan, and Venice. Folon also did plenty of city art for underground metro stations.
But other than being an incredibly talented artist, he was a good person. As a humanitarian, Folon constantly campaigned against racism and even illustrated the United Nation's Declaration of Human Rights. In 2004, he was named the ambassador of UNICEF.
Folon was brilliant and he loved to experiment. Near the end of his life, he dipped his toe into sculpture. He started with wood and then dived in, head first, to using clay, bronze, and marble. He was an entirely self-taught sculpture. He would also create these plaster molds of his sculptures so that other artists could later replicate his design.
Folon's sculptures can be found all over, from the shores of Belgium to the gardens of Rancho Santa Fe. Today, you can find all of Folon's works anywhere in the world; London and Paris, Tokyo and Barcelona. His art has left a powerful impression on myself and countless others.
Two artists. Two Belgian artists. That's all it took to change my life; to change how I look at the world. Through my gold-rimes spectacles, I see the world with more possibilities than impossibilities and more questions than answers. Art changes you. It makes you feel alive. I suggest you go to a museum that you've been curious about or wanting to go to for a while but have never had the time. Make time for it. The trip will be worth it, I promise. You might just find your own Magritte or Folon. Remember, life imitates art.
Here are the addresses of the museums, should you find yourself in Belgium:
Fondation Folon: Drève de la Ramée 6a, B-1310, La Hulpe, Belgium
Magritte Museum: Rue de la Régence 3, 1000, Brussels, Belgium
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Senator, ski entrepreneur receive honorary degrees
Friday, May 24, 2002
A Canadian senator noted for his disarmament work and a ski legend turned entrepreneur received honorary degrees. Senator Douglas Roche and Nancy Greene Raine received Honorary Doctor of Law degrees The Chancellor's Community Recognition Award was presented to youth volunteer Jack Jeffrey and to the Laren House Society, which runs a half-way house for men released from federal prison.
The chancellor of Royal Roads, Hugh Gordon, awarded degrees to 600 new graduates, including approximately 50 international MBA learners from China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.


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By Jack Brammer and Janet Patton
Lexington Herald-Leader
FRANKFORT — A Senate committee unanimously approved a bill Tuesday that would make it a crime to film farm operations on private property without the owner's consent.
A spokesman for the Kentucky Farm Bureau said the measure is one of its priorities in this year's legislative session and is needed to protect farmers' property rights.
The Humane Society of the United States contends that the legislation, if enacted, would keep consumers in the dark about the sources of their food. A spokesman said that whistle-blowing employees who have made such videos have played a vital role in exposing animal abuse, unsafe working conditions and environmental problems on industrial farms.
The Senate Agriculture Committee attached the legislation as a committee substitute to House Bill 222. The bill, sponsored by Rep. Joni Jenkins, D-Louisville, initially would have set euthanasia standards for animal shelters.
The committee substitute added that a person could be subject to a Class B misdemeanor, punishable by up to 90 days in jail and a $250 fine, for secretly recording farm operations on private property.
Jenkins said she opposes the change to her bill and would not call it for a vote in the House if the Senate approves it and sends it to the House for its consideration.
Jeff Harper, director of public affairs for the Kentucky Farm Bureau, said it's a shame that such legislation is needed to protect farmers.
"We are seeing a trend of this," he said.
Harper emphasized that the bill does not apply to law-enforcement officials and farm operations on public property.
Concerning the Humane Society's opposition to such bills, Harper said, "I would say to them that the care of livestock and poultry is the farmer's bottom line. The better they take of their animals, the better those animals are going to do when they go to market."
The goal of the Humane Society, Harper said, is the elimination of animal agriculture.
Senate Agriculture Chairman Paul Hornback, R-Shelbyville, said secret videotaping "has been a problem all over the country."
Matt Dominguez, spokesman for the Humane Society of the United States, said it is "no coincidence" that the "ag gag language" to HB 222 was added a month after a Humane Society investigation of an Owensboro hog farm.
In February, the Humane Society released footage from Iron Maiden hog farm, where workers fed ground-up piglet intestines to sows, possibly in violation of Kentucky regulations.
That investigation would not have been possible under the proposed law, he said.
Neither apparently would the undercover investigation of Thoroughbred racehorse trainer Steve Asmussen by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, released last week and partially filmed at Churchill Downs in Louisville.
Marc Guilfoil, director of racing for the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission, said the barns and stables of tracks are private property, not public.
Dominguez, of the Humane Society, said, "Instead of trying to clean up the bad behavior, they try to criminalize the messenger. They want to criminalize anyone who tries to speak against the horrors on factory farms as well as horse barns."
He said such bills are "bad for animal welfare, bad for food safety, bad for workers rights, and go to show how much the industry has to hide."
Ag gag laws were proposed in 15 states last year, and all failed, Dominguez said.
Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam vetoed a similar law, calling it constitutionally suspect. The Tennessee bill came after the Humane Society of the United States investigated Hall of Fame Tennessee walking horse trainer Jackie McConnell. The investigation indicated that horses been beaten.
Haslam said last year that the Tennessee law could have made prosecution of animal cruelty more difficult.
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Hey, dad, we wrote this one for your teenagers. If you can collar them for just a few moments, please share this post with them. If they won't stand still long enough to lasso them in, then please pass on the following sentiments.
If they are like every other teenager in the world, they're probably being urged, coaxed and prodded to think about their future. And there's probably a tug of war going on inside their heads between the here and now and the out there and whenever.
The future as propaganda
Nothing gets more propaganda than one's future, especially for those who have most of it still in front of them. Your teenager hears it from all sides—from parents, teachers, bosses, college advisers, recruiters, even peers. The message is the same: What are you going to do with your life?
You're not alone, dear teenager. In addition to you and many of your friends who are struggling with this riddle, many adults—maybe your own parents—also continue to wonder what they're going to do with their future. They just have a little less of it.
We put today on layaway
Think about how much we do that is connected with life that hasn't happened yet. We save money. We invest for a pay-off later on. We maintain a special rainy-day fund. We make to-do lists. We write down things to remember. We take exams that will influence and reshape tomorrow. We plan for holidays that are still months away. We think about trips. We buy things on layaway. We take out insurance to be ready for what might happen years from now. We plan for retirement. As newbies into this world, we get a social security number, which, throughout our future, will serve as proof that we exist.
Slow down, the future is always ahead of you
The future isn't a destination. It's not like arriving at school or stopping at the gas station. Your future is composed of intangibles—hopes, dreams and possibilities. The future urges you to keep moving, changing and growing. Simply put, the future is that part of life that once you arrive, you're still not there. No wonder it's hard to look at and to answer that probing question: What are you going to do with your life?
Kids should goals but keep them flexible. Evaluate them. Discard those you lose interest in and make new ones. Keep your options open. Now's the time to try new things, to make new discoveries and prepare for sudden forks in the road. Welcome those sharp curves and U-turns. These detours help you evaluate the direction you're taking. Relax.
One thing is for sure: The future will always be there—and it will wait for you until you are ready to tackle it. For even though the future is a great place to think about, the present is the best place to be.


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Zionism's calm destruction of Palestine
- 21 Nov 2017
Two stories reported by Haaretz on Wednesday underscore the unchanging goal of Zionism: the destruction of the Palestinians as a people and as viable communities, and the theft of their land for exclusively Jewish colonial settlement.
The first story reports on declassified minutes of cabinet meetings in the months after the 1967 war, when Israel occupied the West Bank and Gaza Strip, as well as Syria's Golan Heights and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula.
Israeli leaders were pondering how to deal with the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians newly under military occupation. It was already clear that the Israelis wanted the land but not the people who lived on it.
One of the "solutions" offered by Levi Eshkol, then Israel's prime minister, was, effectively, to expel them.
Deprive Palestinians of water
According to the minutes, Eshkol told ministers he was "working on the establishment of a unit or office that will engage in encouraging Arab emigration." He added, "We should deal with this issue quietly, calmly and covertly, and we should work on finding a way [for] them to emigrate to other countries and not just over the Jordan [River]."
And in a premonition of today's brutal Israeli siege, Eshkol indicated that "precisely because of the suffocation and imprisonment there, maybe the Arabs will move from the Gaza Strip."
But he wasn't necessarily going to leave it to chance. The prime minister proposed: "Perhaps if we don't give them enough water they won't have a choice, because the orchards will yellow and wither."
He also suggested that "Perhaps we can expect another war and then this problem will be solved." He must have been thinking back to the 1948 Nakba, when Zionist militias ethnically cleansed 750,000 Palestinians from their homes during Israel's so-called "War of Independence."
Eshkol was emphatic: "We are interested in emptying out Gaza first."
There was apparently no disagreement.
Yigal Allon, another minister, urged "thinning the Galilee of Arabs." This is important because the Galilee is a region within the land on which Israel was established in 1948 and the Palestinians who live there are nominally Israeli citizens.
But for Israel's leaders they were and remain nothing more than a "demographic threat" to Zionist expansion and overall control.
Zerah Warhaftig, minister of religious affairs, made the goal clear: "We must increase [the number of] Jews and take all possible measures to reduce the number of Arabs."
50 years on
Fast forward 50 years to the present day, to the occupied West Bank village of al-Walaja, southwest of Jerusalem.
Israel has been proceeding for years to deprive the villagers of their land.
They are already cut off from much of their farmland and from Jerusalem entirely by Israeli-built walls and fences.
Two days ago, according to Haaretz, the villagers received notices from Israeli occupation forces that a military checkpoint will be moved about 2.5 kilometers deeper into the West Bank.
"Once the checkpoint [is] relocated, Palestinians without Jerusalem resident papers will not be allowed to pass through it," Haaretz reports. "They will not be able to visit the spring area or their fields and terraces beyond it."
This is an area – similar to nearby UNESCO-recognized Battir – with ancient stone terraces and springs tended by the native Palestinians for generation after generation.
As Palestinians of al-Walaja are deprived of access to their land and water, their orchards will, as Eshkol put it, "yellow and wither."
Dreams of destruction
Today, just like in the cabinet in 1967, Israeli politicians and pundits dream of bombing, starving and forcing Palestinians out of the West Bank and Gaza Strip in order to take their land – if not inflicting another Nakba or outright extermination.
Israel is already taking the land, albeit – in Eshkol's words – "calmly and covertly," knowing that this is the best way to ensure the support and sponsorship from American and European governments that continue to spout platitudes about "shared values," Israeli "democracy" and "innovation," while the occupation soldiers, bureaucrats and colonists' bulldozers do their dirty work.
And where Israel hasn't deprived Palestinians of water, that state has made it toxic.
Of course Israel's regular spasms of mass violence are intended to speed the process along and "mow the lawn" of Palestinian resistance.
What is happening in al-Walaja is a microcosm of what is and has been taking place all over the country since the advent of European-backed Zionist colonialism.
It illustrates the continuity of Zionism's incremental genocide in Palestine.
Cover photo: A member of al-Araj family harvests apricots in 2012, on al-Walaja village lands that since then have increasingly been cut off by Israel's separation wall and barriers in the occupied West Bank (Anne Paq / ActiveStills)
Source: Electronic Intifada
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Kristina's experience working with clients on large-scale, multi-city projects both domestically and internationally, gives her exceptional perspective on event scale and execution. Kristina manages budgets, program logistics, and vendor communications for a broad portfolio of clients. Working with several prominent institutions, Kristina continuously strives to create memorable experiences and moments to help them achieve their campaign goals.
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flies+flies are a London-based electronic avant-pop band whose core members are vocalist Dan Griffis and producer/experimental DJ Pet Rok. Their music sets Dan's melancholic, romantic songs in increasingly strange, syncopated, dream-like settings. They are obsessed with soundtracking unsecured security cameras that they find on the internet – bleak, but containing the hope of the possibility of unexpected and wondrous happenings.
'Threads' is the 2nd single written on flies+flies residency at the No One's Watching London club night earlier this year. 'Threads' represents a key shifting point in their recent live sets where the beats switch from subtly building, shuffling acid techno into a much heavier and stranger place. Over the top fly Dan Griffiths' vocals with lyrics in full weird-ballad mode, narrating strange tails left for the listener to decipher. It's an incredible track and we are excited to be premiering it here:


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Fire protection in Alaska's remote communities depends on a relatively small group of local residents, who devote a lot of their free time to staying prepared for the worst. That particular public service is typically limited to people over 18-years old. But last winter, Petersburg's fire department began signing-up "high school students" for its new "Junior" Firefighter Program.
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India showed us what to do to become best Test side: Pat Cummins
Melbourne [Australia], May 23 (ANI): Australian pacer Pat Cummins believes that 2018-19 Test series against India at home conditions showed them how to reach the top spot in the longest format of the game.
Australia lost the four-match series by 1-2 to Virat Kohli led young Indian side. That was India's first series win against Australia away from home.
Recently Australia have displaced India as the top-ranked Test team in the world before the much-anticipated Test series against them later this year.
The pacer believes that he has improved after that series and became better with his skills. He is ranked the bowlers ranking in the longest format of the game.
"I think each Test I play, I learn a little bit about my own bowling. I've probably played 10 or 15 Tests since that series and I feel like with each series I get a little bit better," cricket.com.au quoted Cummins as saying.
"There were a few lessons; the first lesson I learnt was how brutal Test cricket is. They might bat all of day one and there's nothing that'll stop them batting all day two unless we take wickets, which they did a few times. They showed us what you have to be, what level you have to be at, to be the best team in the world," he added.
During the 2018-19 series, Australia was without the services of David Warner and Steve Smith as the duo was facing a one-year ban for their role in the ball-tampering scandal against South Africa.
In 2019, the duo staged a comeback into the Australian lineup, and the Australian side also has Marnus Labuschagne, who had a brilliant 2019-20 season.
All international cricket has been suspended since March due to the coronavirus pandemic. However, both India and Australia have said that they are looking forward to playing a Test series later this year.
In the World Test Championship (WTC) standings, India is at the pole position while Australia is placed second. (ANI)


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While the consequences, obligations and fines of up to $20 million (or 4% of worldwide revenue) are keeping many private sector CIOs awake at night and have been widely discussed, GDPR's far-reaching consequences for the public sector have rarely been highlighted. In a recent white paper, The impact of GDPR on the Public Sector, I put forward the thesis that GDPR offers public sector organisations more leeway than private enterprises for processing data, but that in order to comply to all GDPR obligations by May 2018, the workload for the public sector is vast.
Rather than the usual management summary, I've provided a list of five Rolling Stones' song titles and what we learn from them about GDPR in the public sector. I know it's only rock and roll, but I think it makes for much nicer reading.
Gimme Shelter
In principle, GDPR applies to all personal data – all information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person, including genetic and biometric data – intended to become part of a "filing system" of EU subjects, independent of the public or private nature of the receiver.
However, with respect to public authorities, not all personal data are the same. For specific areas of public sector activities, broadly related to oversight, crime detection and crime prevention, GDPR does not apply and existing legislation concerning lawful processing remains in force.
You Can't Always Get What You Want
GDPR strictly describes what constitutes lawful processing of personal data by public authorities. Generally speaking, legal basis is the name of game for public institutions. The "need for consent" is mainly eliminated. Consent is not required for data processing activities of public institutions if the institution can demonstrate that the processing is in the "public interest" and falls within its legal authority.
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In some respects, the operational burden in implementing GDPR is much heavier for the public sector than for the private sector.
Although GDPR is a regulation and therefore does not need to be translated into national law, it does leave a few blank spaces where member states can introduce more specific requirements. This legal workload will be complemented by a number of practical arrangements that need to be made, such as establishing a supervisory authority, appointing data protection officers, informing data subjects and integrating data protection impact assessments.
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Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIA) are an analysis of the risk of non-compliance to GDPR and will become standard procedure during the implementation of all processes "likely to result in a high risk to the rights and freedoms of natural person," in particular using new technologies such as cloud.
For public authorities that process lots of personal data, this entails a new way of preparing to implement almost any significant new technology or ICT project. Public sector institutions therefore will need to revamp their project methodologies and data protection culture.
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Public authorities, semi-public companies, public agencies will all need to come to terms with the new requirements and all procedures will need to be reassessed from the GDPR perspective. In the white paper, a to-do list is included. Let's get to work!
Simon Nichelson is a public sector business analyst at DXC technology. He holds master degrees in European politics and policies, modern history and philosophy. You can follow him on Linkedin.
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Thursday, May 02, 2013
More Guns, Less Crime: Vindicated
You can tell the conservatives liberals fear most because they start being automatically referred to as "discredited." Ask Sen. Ted Cruz. But no one is called "discredited" by liberals more often than the inestimable economist John Lott, author of the groundbreaking book More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun Control Laws.
Lott's economic analysis of the effect of concealed-carry laws on violent crime is the most thoroughly vetted study in the history of economics, perhaps in the history of the world.
Some nut Dutch professor produces dozens of gag studies purportedly finding that thinking about red meat makes people selfish and that litter leads to racism -- and no one bothers to see if he even administered questionnaires before drawing these grand conclusions about humanity.
But Lott's decades-long studies of concealed-carry laws have been probed, poked and re-examined dozens of times. (Most of all by Lott himself, who has continuously re-run the numbers controlling for thousands of factors.)
Tellingly, Lott immediately makes all his underlying data and computer analyses available to critics -- unlike, say, the critics. He has sent his data and work to 120 researchers around the world. By now, there have been 29 peer-reviewed studies of Lott's work on the effect of concealed-carry laws.
Eighteen confirm Lott's results, showing a statistically significant reduction in crime after concealed-carry laws are enacted. Ten show no harm, but no significant reduction in crime. Only one peer-reviewed study even purported to show any negative effect: a temporary increase in aggravated assaults. Then it turned out this was based on a flawed analysis by a liberal activist professor: John Donohue, whose name keeps popping up in all fake studies purporting to debunk Lott.
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+1 on the post. I guess now "discredited" or "debunked" is the new "racist".
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CELA 2011 preview
NRRTS has already put the wheels in motion for next year's Continuing Education and Legislative Advocacy Conference (CELA): It has a new co-sponsor and a date. Here's what Executive Director Simon Margolis had to say about what industry professionals and consumers can expect from the fourth annual event. Here's a hint: It won't be more of the same.
HME News: Who will help NRRTS sponsor CELA next year?
Simon Margolis: In the past, CELA has been presented by NRRTS in association with NCART and a bunch of other people, but now it will be presented by NRRTS and NCART. NCART is taking a full partnership role in the process, and I think that's a really good thing.
hme: When and where will the event take place?
Margolis: Feb. 16-18. We're still looking for a venue, but it's going to be closer to D.C. We don't want to have to rely on buses to get people in and out of the city, so we're trying to get into a place where the industry professionals can get to the Hill by metro or cab, and then we'll bus in the consumer advocates.
hme: February is the earliest NRRTS has ever scheduled CELA.
Margolis: February is the time that all the pundits told us we have to be on the Hill. It's when we'll have legislative language (for creating a separate benefit for complex rehab) and when we'll have a new Congress. It's not perfect, because there'll be other things happening (the International Seating Symposium is scheduled for March 3-5 and AAHomecare's Washington Legislative Conference for March 16-17), but we're trying to get the word out early enough so people can plan accordingly.
hme: What can industry professionals expect from the event?
Margolis: We absolutely need to make the educational program more inclusive. We're thinking we may have some breakout sessions where we have some clinical stuff going on and some business stuff going on. The third day of the conference can be anti-climactic, because you have the build up on the first day and the Hill on the second day, and then there's this educational program. So we really have to kick it up a notch.
hme: CELA drew a record crowd this year. Is there pressure to beat those attendance figures next year?
Margolis: We're finding that having huge numbers is not necessarily the goal of a conference like ours, because if we had 500 people, that means there'd be 30 people in a delegation going to see a congressman or a senator. That's not going to work. So we think turnout isn't as important as getting consumers who represent the districts and the states who have folks on committees with jurisdiction over Medicare and making sure we have knowledgeable and articulate industry professionals who can really tell the story.


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Kyu-Furukawa Gardens Rose Festival
Kyu-Furukawa Gardens (旧古河庭園, Kyū Furukawa teien) is a place for rose lovers. It can be separated into two parts, a western garden with an impressive European-style villa, and a traditional Japanese garden with a teahouse and some notable stone bridges. While the park entrance fee is ¥150, you can choose to have a guided tour […]Read More


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MouseSteps reviews Taste of Oaxaca and seasonal items at Frontera Cocina
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We were invited to Frontera Cocina yesterday at Disney Springs to try the new Taste of Oaxaca menu from Chef Rick Bayless. The James Beard Award winning chef – seven times over now! – has been changing up some menu items seasonally, allowing guests new, creative dishes on a regular basis.


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Tornadoes are blown away by Dunmow Crests Blue
PUBLISHED: 14:32 16 December 2015 | UPDATED: 14:32 16 December 2015
Dunmow Crests Blue were up against Galaxy Tornadoes in their last league match before the Christmas break.
The Crests team was missing a few players, including both regular shooters, but were helped out with players from Crests White.
Blues went ahead from the start and finished the first quarter four goals up.
Tornadoes came back hard in the second quarter, before Blues managed to break up their play and begin to extend their lead.
Fantastic defensive play both in the D and down the court, and some lovely shooting from all three stand-in shooters, gave Crests the edge.
The match finished with Crests as the winning team, the final score was 24-14.
Crests Blue finish the first half of the season second in their division.
Crests Academy lost to Wine Cellar White.
After a wet and blustery start, Wine Cellar got in their rhythm and were the stronger team winning 40-30.
Whites' player of the match went to Hollie MacKay.
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