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Dominant Semiconductor Sdn. Bhd. announced that the U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) has determined that there is no violation by Dominant on five out of the eight patents brought forward by Osram GmbH.
Osram's patent infringement complaint is comprised of two basic technologies. One group of patents covers technology that enables LEDs to emit white light. While the other group of patents concerns technology for electrical connection structures used in high-power LEDs for automobile lighting applications.
For the five U.S. patents related to white LEDs, the USITC established that Dominant did not infringe any of the said patents. "This determination supports our stand that Dominant respects intellectual property rights. We possess our own unique know-how and will continue to develop new technologies," said the spoke person from Dominant.
As for the patent infringement in PLCC 4 package or power LEDs, no literal infringement was found but an equivalent infringement was concluded. "Much innovation has been put into our PLCC4 product line and we believe that our product has its own merits," said the company's spoke person. Nevertheless, said the company, they respect the determination and will take further actions to remedy this matter.


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The Australian Foreign Minister, Mr William McMahon, told the General Assembly of the United Nations yesterday that it was not to its credit that it had never properly debated Vietnam.
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TRANSCRIPT: SEQ. 3: MCMAHON: "It is an unhappy reflection of the failure of the United Nations in its primary role of keeper of the peace that the Vietnam situation has never been properly debated here let alone considered as to possible action.
"Everywhere else, of course, the Vietnam was has been for five years and more one of the great divisive issues of our time.
"It is understandable that the world's conscience should have revolted against the fearful losses and hardships that the people of Vietnam have suffered almost without interruption since well before the United Nations came into being.
"It is less understandable, in the view of the Australian Government, that the people of South Vietnam, who are manifestly the victims of aggression in its most naked and ruthless form, and the elected Government of South Vietnam, which has demonstrated beyond doubt that it reflects the wishes of the great majority of the people, should have had to undergo so much biased and totally unfair criticism.
"The outrages they have been compelled to endure from their internal and external aggressors, acting in complete defiance of the Geneva Agreements of 1954, need to be precisely stated. Intimidation, kidnapping, extortion and assassination have the same meaning in anybody's language, whatever devices are employed to present them under the guise of liberation.
"The day may come -- we all hope it will -- when the people of North and South Vietnam can be reunited. In the meantime there is a well-marked boundary between the north and the south. Both halves of Vietnam could begin to achieve the economic stability and well-being of some of their neighbours if only the regime in Hanoi could be persuaded to give up its hopeless struggle and withdraw behind the demilitarised zone."
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Background: The Australian Foreign Minister, Mr William McMahon, told the General Assembly of the United Nations yesterday that it was not to its credit that it had never properly debated Vietnam. Everywhere else, he said, it was one of the great dividing issues.
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text: Language skills are the key to communicating and understanding, and in English classes students will strengthen their literacy skills to ensure they can effectively communicate their own ideas, understand the ideas of others, and communicate their position through a number of text types. Students will study a range of texts including novels, poems, film, short stories, fiction and nonfiction, and multimedia texts. This immersion in texts supports students to shape their worldview, their opinions, and explore what matters to them as they place texts in contemporary contexts and discover how literature opens up new ways of understanding, knowing and communicating. English helps students to think about complex ideas from multiple perspectives, which is a vital skill in our global world.


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After injury-filled junior season, Palm Desert linebacker Honore Solomon coming up big
With gold trim on his cleats and yellow gloves extending from an eagle's wingspan, Palm Desert senior linebacker Honore Solomon makes an impression on the gridiron even before the ball is snapped.
As the field becomes a din of motion, his 6-foot-3, 195-pound frame slashes from sideline-to-sideline or toward the line with a rare form of physical grace.
It's a wonder the kid isn't the Aztecs most well-known linebacker.
More:Palm Springs shows grit, heart in loss; if offense finds its way, the wins will come
That honor, of course, goes to fellow senior Jack Queenen, last season's co-defensive MVP of the Desert Valley League after a year in which he authored 120 total tackles and 5.5 sacks.
Solomon also was there -- but more so as sideline witness.
After fracturing his hip at the onset of the season, Solomon tore two ligaments in his right ankle in Palm Desert's 24-17 win over La Quinta in mid-October.
"And he played through that whole game," recalls Aztecs head coach Shane McComb of a victory in which Solomon would go on to record nine total tackles.
"It happened at the beginning of the La Quinta game," Solomon recalled after Palm Desert's 42-0 win at Cathedral City on Friday night. "I went in for a tackle, and as I was stretched out, somebody landed on the back of my ankle."
More:Friday's high school football scores: Rancho Mirage, Palm Desert, Shadow Hills score big wins
More:With promise and mistakes, La Quinta falls 28-20 in season opener
Though his 2017 campaign was limited to just three games, Solomon was by no means on break.
"The hip was the most work," he says of a lengthy rehab process. "For almost three months last year, I had to be in the training room for about six hours a day, doing side planks and a lot of core work to strengthen the muscles around the hip."
Now fully healed, Solomon is picking up where his unique, imposing frame left off. In Palm Desert's season-opening 28-21 home win over Beaumont last week, he tallied nine total tackles, a sack and an interception. Playing two-and-a-half quarters in Friday's coasting road win over the Lions, he recorded five more tackles along with a forced fumble.
Combined, Queenen and Solomon have formed quite the Slam & Study duo.
"Jack gets in there and destroys stuff, and Solomon is very sound and very technical," McComb says. "They're both very physical, and the two together are a great combination; it's going to make it tough for teams to run on us."
Solomon also sees contrasting, complementary styles in the potent pair.
"Jack's a physical guy; he gets in there and blows stuff up. I play a more technical style," Solomon says. "Before plays, I really run everything through my head, think about my next move. And I'm looking everywhere."
Seeking to extend their perfect season, Slam & Study lead the Palm Desert (2-0) defense on the road for Week 3, traveling 370 miles to Tucson, Ariz., for a non-conference game versus Flowing Wells High.


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The recent sweeps for undocumented immigrants in Austin by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were done in retaliation for the new sheriff's policy ending a close partnership with the federal agency over a preference in focusing on high-level felons for deportation, according to a published report.
As first reported by the Austin American-Statesman Monday, federal agents privately alerted two magistrate judges in late January they would target Austin with heightened a heightened immigration crackdown.
The reason: A more nuanced policy by Travis County Sheriff Sally Hernandez that doesn't cooperate with ICE in honoring so-called "detainers," 48-hour holds placed on any arrested person suspected of being undocumented to allow an agent plenty of time to arrive (usually from San Antonio) to fetch the detained person and follow up on deportation.
"We had a briefing … that we could expect a big operation, agents coming in from out of town, that it was going to be a specific operation, and at least it was related to us in that meeting that it was the result of the sheriff's new policy that this was going to happen," Austin said, as quoted by the Statesman.
What followed less than three months later was unprecedented in Austin, with people being pulled over on roadways or visited at homes and workplaces as ICE agents descended on Austin to root out undocumented immigrants beginning in early February. ICE agents' efforts undoubtedly were fueled by Hernandez's more softened approach but buoyed by Donald Trump and Greg Abbott, both eager proponents of wholesale deportations from their presidential and governor's perches, respectively.
Immediately, suspicions emerged that the crackdown never before seen (the undocumented before detected largely during times of arrest, not personal visits by ICE agents) was sort of payback against Hernandez. The revelation made in court on Monday seems to support those suspicions.
Bob Libal, executive director of Grassroots Leadership in Austin, reacted angrily to the revelations, calling out past missives by ICE positing enforcement action as routine to have been outright lies.
"This revelation in open court proves what immigrants and advocates have known for years — that ICE regularly lies to immigrants, local officials, and the media," Libal said. "Now more than ever, officials at every level of government should rethink their relationship with this agency, and cut ties with an entity that used its power to terrorize our community and then lies to elected officials about the reason for its operation."


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The use of warehouse management software is revolutionizing the industry in Australia at present. This is because many managers have realized the underlying cost of picking errors, missing inventory and manual data entry.
Advantages of warehouse management software
There are many ways to reap the benefits of using an application to best manage your inventory storage and movements. In this guide, we'll be outlining 5 ways that everyday operations can benefit from moving into the digital age.
1. Silent phone lines
Imagine for a moment that your volume of in-bound calls is reduced 80 to 90%, leaving your office team to get on with their other tasks. Your own customers can now place orders online, view stock levels and even get order notifications. That equals a much quieter phone line and office environment for both parties.
2. Invoices that send themselves
Imagine that once your staff complete jobs, invoices can be automatically calculated and sent via email based on your set rates. No more awkward discussions in the office about rate calculation where customers are overcharged or undercharged. You can input rates for pallet or carton storage, picking and packing, plus discount rates for your premium clients who move high volumes.
3. Affordable and accurate picking
You can greatly reduce pick errors but also maximize your picking speed through a cloud-based warehouse management software. But how so? Using an everyday iOS or Android smart phone paired with a barcode laser scanner in the field. Gone are the days of expensive PDA devices with complicated buttons and jargon that required a university graduate to figure out.
4. Full current and historical reporting
Need to know seasonal trends about a particular SKU? You can easily view stock reports since the very first day that you've had a warehousing and inventory management software in place. Not only that, but you can view current information including, inbound time and date, which team received it, batch numbers and expiry dates.
5. Multi-warehouse capabilities
Some of the best warehousing systems can handle operators who have bases across multiple warehouses. Whether across the state, across the country or even across the world. Users such as your own staff or clients can have visibility and control across multiple depots, with varying degrees of user permissions.
6. Owners who sleep at night
We believe this is the biggest benefit. You've built a business to have greater time-freedom, only to realize the many tasks that come with running a successful warehouse. Staying up late at night because you're processing invoices and paper POD forms isn't the freedom that most signed up for. Owners typically sleep much better at night with a warehousing system to manage their operations.
Making a start today
We've built CartonCloud up as one of Australia's premier electronic stock management providers with thousands of users. Best of all, we started with our own 3PL operation, allowing us to have several years of industry experience. Even today we're very much still in touch with the industry.
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Ex-Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort walks into FBI office; surrendering to feds in connection to Russia probe https://t.co/B2d9RX5PsV pic.twitter.com/piMhgnKNOY
— ABC News (@ABC) October 30, 2017
CNN is reporting this morning that, "Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort is turning himself in Monday to Justice Department special counsel Robert Mueller, according to a source with direct knowledge of the matter."
"Manafort was indicted under seal on Friday," and the indictment is expected to be unsealed today.
For more background on Manafort, see Trump's Kremlin connections by Ian Greenhalgh.
"To what extent Putin knew of Trump's working relationship with the Zionist Russian Mafia is unknown, furthermore, we do not know the exact nature of the relationships between the oligarchs and Putin. Key oligarchs such as Abramovich, the now deceased Berezovsky and Alfa Group boss Fridman are all alleged to have financed and supported Putin's rise to power, but we do not know to what extent these allegations are true, neither do we know the nature of the current relationship these men enjoy with Putin and his government.
"What we do know though is that the new POTUS has been working with organised crime groups, both foreign and domestic and would still be utterly bankrupt if it were not for the financial rewards he garnered from dodgy deals with these mafia groups."
We will keep you updated as VT was one of the first reporting on Manafort and Russian organized crime in conjunction with the Trump administration.
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Train Low, Race High
Low Carb, High Protein Training Diets are Gaining Traction
For years, carb loading was considered the best dietary means of enhancing a runners performance. The human body stores 300 to 400 grams of carbs as muscle glycogen, and it was assumed high carb diets, consumed immediately after exercise, allowed athletes to run longer without depleting glycogen reserves.
New studies suggest carb loading may not be as beneficial as previously thought. Instead, a train low, race high system tricks the bodys genes into improving energy use and boosting endurance. The Paleo Diet is one regime that leans in this general direction.
Its important to keep in mind that these differing schools of thought keep changing from year to year. Protein, carbs, fitness supplements, yada, yada, yada. The bottom line? Try what you like and do what works for you.
Two Legs, Two Training Regimes
Andrew Hamilton from Peak Performance explains the research saying, "One of the earliest and most well respected studies to look into the effects of low-glycogen training compared the training adaptations in muscle produced by performing leg extension exercise either twice a day on alternate days, or once a day on consecutive days(6). Exercising twice daily resulted in muscles performing an identical volume and intensity of training, but doing so in a low glycogen state during the second session of the day.
The striking finding was the very significant gain in both time to exhaustion and total work performed in the twice daily, low-glycogen trained muscles compared to daily trained muscles. In addition, the Danish researchers discovered that the low-glycogen trained muscles became better at burning fat for energy and soaking up carbohydrate to store muscle glycogen once carbohydrate feeding was resumed."
Switch Your Genes On
Training with low glycogen levels seems to activate genetic changes, which in turn alter how cells produce proteins and use energy. For instance, low glycogen training raises cellular production of AMPK, or AMP activated protein kinase.
This enzyme in turn triggers an increase in mitochondria in muscle cells. Mitochondria are a cells power source, and an increase in muscular mitochondria improves your ability to burn fat while increasing aerobic energy.
The result is a lot like drinkers who feel refreshed and more energetic after staying at inpatient alcohol rehab centers.
Of course, another way to switch your genes on in conjunction with your diet is speedwork. Your genetics determine your fast twitch/slow twitch muscle ration and only weekly speedwork will efficiently activate the fast ones.
Controlling Carb Intake
Training on low glycogen levels conditions the body so it can perform without excess glucose for extended periods of time. Instead of overloading on carbohydrates, the runner limits carbs to 150 grams a day.
You dont need to use supplements to maintain this level of carb training. Choose fresh fruit, yams, sweet potatoes, white potatoes, rice, and squash to meet your carb needs.
For interval training, increase carb intake the day before, and the morning of, training. Two days before a race, increase your carb intake to approximately 350 grams a day—a significant increase, but minor compared to that seen with carbohydrate overloading.
Skip heavy training in favor of light jogs and walking during this time period. On race day, eat a light, easily digested breakfast; yams, eggs and bananas are ideal pre-race foods.
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Let's set aside the five minutes it takes you to read this blog to be completely honest with each other. I am concerned about the financial aid offices that support the 20 million students enrolled in college. Staff members are stretched to their breaking points. Colleges have been failing their students through a lack of investment in technology, human capital, and simplification in aid offices. The result is that 40% of low income students accepted never make it to campus and 3 million more drop out each year due to financial issues. Take note: I did not say that financial aid offices are failing students.
Financial aid offices are doing all they can within the confines of a highly regulated and under-resourced framework. They are left to cobble together resources like staffing, freemium services, and outdated technology to try to keep schools afloat, but this is not sustainable.
Along Came COVID-19
And shining light on all these issues? The COVID-19 crisis. I fear this pandemic is the figurative straw that broke the camel's back. While financial aid offices have been muddling through using manual, paper-driven processes, COVID-19 has proven that the only way offices can function efficiently, stay connected with their students, and keep processes moving forward is with virtual technology. Now, not only are financial aid teams forced to reflect on how their processes function in-house, they must also determine whether they are prepared for the next emergency that arises.
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Campuses scrambled to move academic delivery to an online format, but even more difficult than that was the transition of traditional support services like financial aid. Why? Because the elimination of a physical office, phone systems, and fax machines left staff members without access to the lousy tools they were accustomed to using. This left financial aid offices little opportunity other than to simply survive during office closures. I beg administrations to take notice of this.
The only way to address the enrollment, retention, and graduation issues on campus is to first address the ability of students to be financially successful. I do not know of a single student who can graduate college if he or she cannot pay their bills. Financial aid offices are forced to exist in a world of outdated technology and limited resourcing, but the only way to create the financial aid office of the future is to make smart investments in people, technology, analytics, and automation. To be clear, COVID-19 did not create this problem for schools. Instead, it gave visibility to an already-existing issue that financial aid offices have been dealing with for quite some time.
Gone are the days where physical lines out the door are an option. We can no longer ask students to print out and fax paperwork. We've moved past the point when all advising will happen face-to-face. Students will no longer accept wasteful and impersonal interactions. Financial aid is changing, and offices that keep up with modern needs will be the most successful in retaining and graduating their students.
The Marist Mindset List points out several facts about the graduating class of 2023. These students were born in 2001, and interestingly enough, they have never shared the earth with Joey Ramone, George Harrison, Timothy McVeigh, or Ken Kesey. But you should also know this about the way they see the world:
- Thumb, jump, and USB flash drives have always pushed floppy disks further into history.
- The primary use of a phone has always been to take pictures.
- They have outlived iTunes.
- Apple iPods have always been nostalgic.
- Face recognition technology has always been used at public events.
- They have grown up with Big Data and ubiquitous algorithms that know what they want before they do.
- There have always been "smartwatches."
- Blackboards have never been dumb.
What is my point? Students are digitally engaged in just about every area of their lives, and they have expectations about how, when, and where they can engage with the financial aid office. If you want your office to go from surviving to thriving, you will need to embrace every opportunity to meet your students where they are—and that means meeting their communication needs through technology.
Your students need to be able to engage with you 24/7/365 from anywhere in the world as if they are on campus. Remember all the technology mentioned above? All those things are part of everyday life for your students. Your students spend their days getting information in mere seconds—when and where they want it. When they interact with the financial aid office, they don't want to step back in time and learn how to use fax machines, stand in lines just to talk to a person, and be put on hold when they just need the answer to a routine question. It's time to move document collection, communication, and counseling interactions to a personalized, virtual setting that can streamline the financial aid experience for every student.
Personalize & Automate
Think about the way your students shop for goods and experiences today. Big data and algorithms seem to know what they want even before they know. Because of consumer data that is collected and shared, companies can now predict which products and services specific individuals will want to purchase. It's almost as if big data is teaching them not to think about purchases.
Now think about the size, nature, and complexity of the purchasing process for higher education. The last thing we want is for students to tune out and not pay attention. Instead, we need to build personalized experiences that leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to guide the student financial aid experience—mirroring the automated experiences they are accustomed to in other areas of their lives.
The CampusLogic Solution
VirtualAdvisor from CampusLogic delivers the personalized experience your students want, while utilizing an AI-enabled virtual assistant that guides them through friction points throughout the financial aid process. VirtualAdvisor can answer up to 80% of routine questions, personalizing answers for each individual student based off of information received by integrating with your school's student information system (SIS). This frees up your staff to work one-on-one with students who need advising the most—like at-risk students who are in danger of not being able to complete their higher education because of financial reasons.
Conversations that begin with VirtualAdvisor can easily be escalated to an in-person advisor because of the product's unique sentiment analysis capability. When student conversations become complicated, advisors can seamlessly step in to further personalize the experience. Not only does this create greater efficiencies for staff by eliminating rote, manual activities, they are also able to focus more of their energy on high-value interactions.
COVID-19 taught us that students and staff need to be able to interact anytime and anywhere—and while the pandemic was the first major roadblock that made everyone realize what would happen if they hadn't automated, it won't be the last. Systems should have mobile and remote access that spans the SIS, imaging systems, student engagement platforms, and communication systems, which will allow for staff to perform their jobs from any office (even at home) at any time.
I spoke with a school during the first week of June, and they reported they were still unable to take incoming student calls because they were limited by the traditional phone system which can only be answered on campus. We already know phone calls are a last resort for students, but financial aid offices are stuck with ancient technology. Students don't want to use it, and it's inefficient for staff. Other things that simply don't work anymore? Waiting in long lines, searching for answers, and taking a number. Students expect a new and engaging experience that delivers individualized responses based on their unique needs. With VirtualAdvisor, you can give them all of that.
Doing more with less just got easier. With an intelligent AI-enabled virtual assistant at your side, you can focus on the real reason you work in financial aid—helping students get the funding they need to complete their higher education. Instead of shuffling papers, faxing, filing, and working your way through endless routine questions, you can focus on providing an exceptional student experience that can be accessed from anywhere, anytime through consumable personalized interactions. With VirtualAdvisor, you can give every student the attention they need and keep them moving in the right direction to complete their higher education goals.
Financial aid is changing to keep pace with the rest of the world. Institutions that lean into change will be the ones that see more student satisfaction, higher enrollment numbers, and boosted retention. It's time to step into the future and personalize the financial aid experience—for the good of every student in higher education.
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Wearing a blue Léger with pink sandals, Amyra attended a birthday party on Saturday evening.
She looked hella good!
(Remember the time when just about everyone was wearing the label's figure hugging bandage dress irrespective of whether the occasion called for it?)
Amyra Dastur At Imtiaz Khatri's Birthday Party
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Touching the Pacific
Saturday July 28, 2018
Matthew Henderson
We touched down safe in Los Angeles last night at LAX. Luke's first flight was a success! We beat our schedule and landed before nightfall by about thirty minutes, then we caught a shuttle to pick up our rental car (it was cheaper than getting a shuttle from LAX to Ontario airport), and Bryan drove us around for a bit so we could see the city at night. We had a meal at In-N-Out in Hollywood, and tried to get what sleep we could in the night.
In the morning, Bryan drove us down to Malibu and Luke and I saw the Pacific for the first time. It felt strange to know that no one in my direct ancestral line that I know of ever saw the Pacific, but Luke did beat me to be the first to touch it. Lord willing, we will be seeing the Pacific for the first time from the other side tomorrow.
We are all in good spirits, and there has been a lot of laughter the past 28 hours or so since we started this journey. It was an emotional send off for Paula when she and Laurie dropped us off at the airport in Austin – the day we get back, she will have to drive Luke to Lubbock to move him into his dorm at LCU. We just found out the night before we left, that as an athlete, his move in day is earlier than we had been planning. Suddenly, she lost the last five nights of her oldest child at home which she had been planning on having. Being with him for the next two planned weeks, I am feeling a twinge of guilt at the blessing it is for me under these circumstances.
We are currently about 1/3 of the way into a 13 hour flight. The China Airlines plane we are on still almost has that new plane smell, and the service has been excellent. Even better, the flight is only about 50% full, so Bryan and I have a four seat row to ourselves, and Luke and Jake have the same two rows in front of us – our flight attendants were kind enough to set it up for us this way, even though we were ticketed in the same row originally.
I can't believe the deal we were able to get that Bryan worked to find for us. Our first plane, that we tried to book on another airline never got ticketed. We were concerned that would mean our prices would be going up. We met with Ken for some advice, and he prayed with us about it. The next morning this plane opened up as a new flight for an even lower price. The only downside was that we were going to be leaving LA at 4pm instead of 9am like our original flight (the original reason we booked the first leg with an overnight to save $1000 per ticket), and we have an overnight layover in Taipei. We were supposed to be in Manilla after 11pm Sunday night, but now we arrive at 9:30am on Monday. All in all, I believe this arrangement has turned out to be much better. We were able to get Luke a first flight, and time to wind down and absorb that experience before jumping on this long haul. Getting to Manilla after 11pm may have been imposing on our guests more than necessary, and the 9:30am seems to be just right after all.
Please continue to keep us in your prayers. We are ready to be useful however we might to God's glory and not our own. I am so looking forward to seeing the faces of all the people we feel like we know, even though we have never seen one another face-to-face.
Watching Luke and Jake this last day, has made me proud, and I know Bryan feels the same way.
Right now, I am so thankful for all the people who have helped us along our way. Many helped us by giving to fund our travel. Many have been so encouraging, and of course we have so many who we know are continuing to pray for us. Thank you.
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May 29, 2014
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Raleigh Goldinger, cub writer
While many students are out enjoying themselves over the summer, many other students are determined to succeed in high school by taking summer school.
Students take summer school for one of two reasons, to get ahead in their studies, or for credit recovery. Students, who take a credit recovery class, must take summer school. However the students who are taking summer school to get ahead, do it voluntarily to succeed
"All of us are here to get ahead in some way, to accomplish something that is out of a normal expectation," summer school teacher Pete Vanrossum said. "So the result of that is that the attitudes of the kids tend to stay really good."
Students tend accomplish more in summer school because they are only focusing on one class and not six other classes, Vanrossum mentioned. However some students feel that summer school can be overwhelming for because of the longer hours and large workload. Vanrossum
"I was originally sighed up for history and then I decided that it would be too much work for me and I'd rather take it during the year when I'd have more time to complete my work instead of cramming it into a five week period," freshman Ariella Talassazan said.
Even though the workload that comes with summer school is overwhelming, students continue to take it because they are committed to excel in high school. According to Vanrossum, the students who take summer school are more determined than students during the regular school year.
"I take summer school more seriously; I just want to get it over with. And if I do well then I can enjoy the rest of my summer," Talassazan said, who plans on spending the rest of her summer in Hawaii.
Students, as well as teachers, are willing to give up their summers to accomplish something above the average expectation. It may be for different reasons, to get ahead or to make up a class, but students at Beverly are devoted to thrive during their summer classes.
"Not trying in my classes was a big mistake I had my freshman year. Now that I'm taking summer school for credit recovery, I understand how serious high school is and how there is no room for error," an anonymous sophomore said.
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Graham will bring funk back to AC
Larry Graham wasn't looking to change the popular music world when he stumbled across a unique way of playing the bass guitar. He was simply trying to fill a musical void created when an instrument he'd relied on went on the fritz.
Graham was a talented teenager musician playing guitar in his mother's trio, working small nightclubs and lounges in the San Francisco Bay Area. One night, they found themselves booked into a room that had an organ on stage.
Graham began fooling around with the instrument's bass pedals while he was playing guitar and singing. He was trying to create a fuller sound for the combo, which consisted of his mom on piano and vocals, her son playing guitar and singing and a drummer.
One night when he got to the club, he discovered the organ was broken.
"We found the sound to be empty, we felt, because we had gotten used to that bottom sound (from the organ)," Graham said. So he temporarily rented an electric bass guitar figuring he'd return it once the organ was fixed."
But the organ was down for the count. At the same time, Graham's mom decided to make a personnel change. She got rid of the drummer, turning the trio into a duo.
"So now that we didn't have drums, I would thump the strings with my thumbs to make up for not having that bass drum," Graham said. "And I would pluck the strings with my fingers to make up for not having that snare drum backbeat. So I was kind of compensating by playing the drums on the bass."
In 1966, when Graham was just 20, a former local DJ named Sylvester Stewart, who had just formed a band called the Stoners, caught the mother-son duo in a club.
He invited Graham to join the band that would eventually become known as Sly and the Family Stone.
The band became pioneers of the emerging funk sound, thanks in part to Graham's distinctive style of slapping and plucking the bass. Without Graham's unique bass lines, it's possible songs like "Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)" and "Dance to the Music" wouldn't have been hits.
"I did not think I was creating something new that would later be imitated by a lot of other bass players," said Graham, 69, who will lead his longtime band Graham Central Station into the Tropicana Showroom on Friday.
"I was just thinking that it sounded good to my ear and this is what I need to do for not having drums," he added during a recent phone call from his home about 30 miles outside of Minneapolis. "I'm thankful to this day to Sly (Stone) for asking me to join his band, because it was through that band that my style became popular."
Many of today's best bass guitarists credit Graham as their musical mentor, including Victor Wooten, Marcus Miller, Stanley Clarke and Flea.
Given his musical background, Graham could be considered a renaissance man of the modern sound.
He took piano lessons as a small boy, then studied clarinet and saxophone, learned to play guitar and bass when he was 11 and played drums in his high school orchestra.
Graham also had a knack for songwriting, too, which would later serve him well as a solo artist.
Graham left Sly and the Family Stone in the early 1970s and formed a band called Hot Chocolate, which quickly became Graham Central Station.
He also began some solo work in 1980 when he released the ballad "One in a Million You" from an album of the same name. The single hit No. 1 on the R&B charts and crossed over to become a Top 10 hit on the Hot 100.
Graham's versatility as a musician has served him well as a songwriter, because he draws inspiration for new material from the various instruments he's mastered.
Some of his songs have come from fooling around with the bass, others have grown out of the keyboards and sometimes songs just kind of come to him.
"And then you have other songs where the vocals or the melody just pop in my head," he explained. "I made it a habit of always keeping something to record with close by so that I could capture the moment. Because if you wait till tomorrow, when you wake up, it might be gone."
Graham Central Station will cover all of Graham's various styles during tonight's show.
"We'll be playing some stuff from my solo albums, stuff from the (most recent) CD and some Sly and the Family Stone," he says. "We're gonna mix it all up so everyone can go away happy."
Around town
Entertainer Clint Holmes returns to Resorts Casino Hotel on Saturday at 9 p.m. Tickets are $25 and $35, available through ticketmaster.com or (800) 736-1420.
Country singer Martina McBride headlines at Trump Taj Mahal on Saturday at 8 p.m. Tickets are $28, $43 and $68, available through ticketmaster.com or (800) 736-1420.
The fifth annual All-Stars of Hip-Hop concert, featuring KRS-One, Dru Hill, Kool Moe D, Big Daddy Kane, Whodini, Chubb Rock, Kwame, Special Ed, Dana Dane and Monie Love, is at Boardwalk Hall on Sunday at 7 p.m. Tickets are $44, $58 and $73, available through ticketmaster.com or (800) 736-1420.
Larry Graham & Graham Central Station perform in the Tropicana Showroom on Friday at 9. Tickets are $55 and $65, available through ticketmaster.com or (800) 736-1420.


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Dividend Options for REITs Amidst Economic and Market Turmoil
A company is generally required to distribute to its stockholders at least 90% of its taxable income each year in order to qualify as a real estate investment trust ("REIT") under the Internal Revenue Code. REITs generally satisfy this requirement through quarterly or monthly cash distributions of all or substantially all of their taxable income.
Recent economic and market turmoil resulting from COVID-19 has strained the ability of many REITs to maintain sufficient liquidity to meet their obligations to creditors. As a result, a number of REITs are considering their options with respect to paying dividends on their common and preferred securities in the near future. This alert provides an overview of these options under Maryland and Delaware law.
State Law Considerations
The general rule in Maryland is that a dividend may not be revoked after declaration because the declaration of the dividend creates a debtor-creditor relationship between a corporation and its stockholders. However, there may be extraordinary circumstances in which a board may revoke or modify a previously declared dividend.
The board of directors of a Maryland corporation generally may authorize a dividend only if, after payment:
- the corporation will be able to pay its debts as they become due in the ordinary course of business; and
- the corporation's assets will be greater than its liabilities, plus, unless the charter permits otherwise, the amount that would be needed, if the corporation were to be dissolved at the time of the distribution, to satisfy the preferential rights upon dissolution of stockholders whose preferential rights on dissolution are superior to those receiving the distribution (these tests are collectively referred to as the "Solvency Tests").
If the payment date for a dividend of a Maryland corporation is within 120 days after the board approves the dividend, the date on which the board approved the dividend will be used for purposes of evaluating whether the Solvency Tests have been satisfied.
We believe that the boards of a number of Maryland-incorporated REITs recently approved payments of dividends at a time at which these companies satisfied both of the Solvency Tests. However, due to intervening market events, we also believe that the subsequent payment of these dividends could cause some of these REITs to fail to satisfy, or be in jeopardy of failing to satisfy, one or both of the Solvency Tests. While there is not conclusive case law on point, we believe that the board may have new grounds to overcome the general rule described above and revoke or modify the dividend, depending on its circumstances.
As in Maryland, the declaration of a dividend by a Delaware corporation generally creates a debtor-creditor relationship between the corporation and its stockholders that cannot be revoked or modified. Again, however, there are exceptions to this general rule, particularly where payment of a previously declared dividend would jeopardize the ability of the company to continue its business.
Under Delaware law, a Delaware corporation generally may pay a dividend only if the corporation has sufficient "surplus" (as defined in the Delaware General Corporation Law (the "DGCL")) or net profits available for payment of the dividend. In addition, if the board believes payment of the dividend would render the corporation insolvent, the board is prohibited from paying the dividend until such time as lawful funds become available.
Companies seeking to preserve cash have the following options with respect to previously declared dividends:
- Delay the record and payment dates.
- Retain the current record date and delay the payment date.
- Convert to an elective stock/cash dividend with up to 80% paid in stock (available only for common dividends).
- Revoke the dividends.
- Pay the preferred stock dividends and delay, revoke or convert common dividends.
Delay Record and Payment Dates
This option can help the company buy some time to make a definitive decision on paying dividends. Converting to a stock/cash dividend or revoking the dividend (each of which is discussed below) are still available options prior to the new record date.
As noted above, for a Maryland corporation, as long as the dividend payment date is still within 120 days after the board approval date, the board approval date will be used for purposes of evaluating whether the Solvency Tests have been satisfied. If the payment date is pushed beyond 120 days, the Solvency Tests will be evaluated as of the date of payment, rather than the date of authorization. In addition, under Maryland law, the record date must be within 90 days of the payment date. There is no minimum period between record and payment dates under Maryland law.
With respect to Delaware corporations, the DGCL does not prohibit changing a record date or payment date that has not occurred. Accordingly, subject to any requirements under the corporation's charter, a board could change the record date and payment date for a previously declared dividend to a future date, so long as the payment date occurs within 60 days after the new record date.
Retain Current Record Date; Delay Payment Date
This option can help companies save cash by delaying the payment of dividends, while preserving the original record date for the dividend.
Under Maryland law, a company electing this option could only delay the payment of the dividend to a date up to 90 days after the record date. For a Delaware corporation, however, the payment of the dividend could only be delayed to a date up to 60 days after the record date.
Companies electing this option should be aware that revoking, further delaying or converting to a stock/cash dividend would become more complicated and difficult to defend if done after the date that the shares begin to trade "ex-dividend" (which means that the expected payment of the dividend has been factored into the trading price of the shares).
Convert to Stock/Cash Dividend with up to 80% Stock
In 2017, the Internal Revenue Service issued a revenue procedure permitting "publicly offered" REITs to make elective stock dividends (i.e., dividends paid in a mixture of stock and cash), with at least 20% of the total distribution being paid in cash, to satisfy their REIT distribution requirements. As a result, a company could convert a previously declared cash dividend to an elective stock/cash dividend in order to save cash.
Companies electing to pay stock/cash dividends must comply with the following requirements:
- Each stockholder must have the ability to elect to receive part or all of its distribution in either cash or stock.
- At least 20% of the aggregate declared distribution must consist of cash (the "Cash Limitation Percentage").
- If the Cash Limitation Percentage is not exceeded, each stockholder must receive cash in accordance with its election.
- If the Cash Limitation Percentage is exceeded, each stockholder electing to receive cash may receive a pro rata amount of cash, but in no event may any stockholder electing to receive cash receive less in cash than the Cash Limitation Percentage.
- The calculation of the number of shares to be received by a stockholder must be determined by a formula set forth in the revenue procedure that uses market prices designed to equate in value the number of shares to be received with the amount of cash that could be received instead.
During the 2008 financial crisis, the IRS issued temporary guidance that allowed REITs to make elective cash/stock dividends in a ratio of 90% to 10% (as opposed to a ratio of 80% to 20%) . NAREIT has asked the IRS to allow this increased stock percentage again for 2020 and 2021, but the IRS has not yet acted.
A company considering payment of an elective stock/cash dividend should ensure that it has enough authorized but unissued shares of common stock available to be issued to pay the stock portion of the dividend. Most Maryland incorporated REITs have a provision in their charters permitting the board of directors, without stockholder approval, to amend the charter to increase or decrease the aggregate number of authorized shares of stock or the number of authorized shares of any class of stock. However, Delaware does not permit corporations to include a similar provision in their charters. Accordingly, if a Delaware corporation does not have enough authorized but unissued shares of common stock available to be issued to pay the stock portion of the dividend, the corporation will need stockholder approval to amend its charter to increase its authorized stock.
Revoking Dividends
Revoking a previously declared dividend is likely the riskiest option for a company seeking to preserve cash. As alluded to above, the declaration of a dividend generally creates a debtor-creditor relationship between a company and its stockholders under both Maryland and Delaware law. Accordingly, revoking a previously declared dividend could subject a company to a claim from a stockholder seeking to compel the company to declare the dividend.
In assessing this risk, boards of both Maryland and Delaware corporations should take into account in satisfying their fiduciary duties the following factors related to the current market environment:
- There have likely been significant intervening events between when the board declared the dividend and today. These intervening events may have led to liquidity constraints that would be exacerbated by paying the previously announced dividend.
- Payment of a previously announced dividend could result in the inability of the company to continue its business. If the company is unable to continue its business, the company's stockholders will miss out on all future dividends, not just the previously declared dividend. Consequently, payment of a previously announced dividend could be viewed as putting the short-term interests of certain stockholders ahead of the long-term interests of the corporation as a whole.
- If there is stockholder litigation, it may take some time to resolve. This could buy the company some time to consider additional options.
Pay Preferred Stock Dividends and Delay, Revoke or Convert Common Dividends
To the extent that the company has preferred stock outstanding, the company should consider the terms of the preferred stock in connection with any decisions that it makes with respect to its dividend policy. In many cases, the terms of any outstanding preferred stock may provide that, if dividends on the preferred stock are not paid or set apart for all past dividend periods, the company may not pay common dividends, or repurchase any shares of common or preferred stock, unless it is a purchase or exchange offer made on the same terms for all of the preferred stock. In addition, holders of preferred stock often have the ability to elect, voting together with the holders of any other series and classes of preferred stock having similar voting rights, two additional directors to a company's board of directors in the event that six or more quarterly dividends (whether or not consecutive) payable on the preferred stock are in arrears. These punitive provisions may lead companies with outstanding preferred stock to prioritize keeping their preferred dividends current, while common dividends could be revoked, delayed or converted, in each case as discussed above.
Another reason to consider prioritizing keeping preferred dividends current is General Instruction I.A.4(a) to Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") Form S-3. Pursuant to that instruction, a registrant that fails to pay any dividend on preferred stock in 2020 would be unable to use Form S-3 until it files its Annual Report on Form 10-K for 2020.
General Considerations
Any change to a previously declared dividend will need to be publicly announced immediately after the board authorizes the change. Companies announcing changes to previously declared dividends should work with their advisors to ensure that the messaging is accurate and balanced.
Irrespective of what path a company chooses to take, REITs will still need to comply with the REIT distribution requirement described above. In the fourth quarter of 2020, these companies should assess their estimated taxable income for 2020 and consider whether they need to authorize the payment of a "catch up" dividend. This "catch up" dividend could be paid in cash or via an elective stock/cash dividend, as described above. The "catch up" payment could be made as late as the end of January 2021, provided that the dividend is both declared and has a record date on or before December 31, 2020, which is commonly referred to as the "January Dividend Procedure."
Finally, REITs have the ability to "spill back" 2021 dividends which are (a) declared before their tax return filing due date (including extensions) for 2020 and (b) paid not later than their first regular dividend payment date after the declaration. REITs considering this option should be aware that the "spill back" procedure could potentially (a) lead to a distribution shortfall in 2021 and (b) subject the REIT to a 4% excise tax to the extent that at least (i) 85% of the REIT's ordinary income, (ii) 95% of the REIT's capital gain income, and (iii) any undistributed taxable income from prior periods is not distributed in calendar year 2020 (with dividends paid pursuant to the January Dividend Procedure being treated as paid during calendar year 2020).
Please visit our Coronavirus: Preparation & Response series for additional resources we hope will be helpful.
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African-American History Month: Board Member Picks
David Haynes | February 2019
This month I'm celebrating books about vibrant black communities. Here are three terrific titles about coming of age and being nurtured by the village around you:
Sweet Summer: Growing up with and without My Dad: In this charming memoir, the late Bebe Moore Campbell contrasts the day-to-day of the school year around her mother in Philadelphia with the laidback summers of rural South Carolina around her dad.
Betsey Brown: There is no other novel that captures the essence of growing up in St. Louis than this classic by Ntozake Shange.
We Didn't Know Any Gangsters: These amazing poems by Brian Gilmore will transport you to the middle-class DC of government workers and loving black families.
David Haynes teaches in the creative writing program at Southern Methodist University and for the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. He has written seven novels for adults and five books for younger readers. His most recent is A Star in the Face of the Sky. He currently serves as the Treasurer of the AWP Board of Trustees.


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Capt. John Holmes of Stonington married Martha Stanton in 1774. Their fifth child was Nancy. John was born in 1749.
My research shows that this is not the daughter of Captain John Holmes, but of Eliphalet and Anne Holmes of East Haddam, CT. This stone is her footstone; her headstone is one of those that was carried over to Grove Street Cemetery and propped up against the west wall along with other stones that were removed from the New Haven Green. The footstone is only a few feet away from the church foundation wall, so it can be assumed that the headstone was located where the foundation was placed or just outside and was therefore moved.
According to her headstone at Grove Street Cemetery and state records, Nancy died on August 31, 1795 "in the 15th year of her age."
Research is ongoing, but her father may have been the Captain Eliphalet Holmes who led a company of Minute Men from East Haddam during the Revolutionary War until he resigned his commission in 1780; he lived from 1746 to 1833. Remaining mysteries include the reason Nancy was in New Haven and why she was interred here when her presumed family members are all buried back in East Haddam. 1795, the year of her death, was a particularly bad year for yellow fever and dysentery deaths in the colony; perhaps she was brought to New Haven for care after falling ill, or fell ill while she was here for another reason.


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Last week I had the worst week – so many things went wrong it was unbelievable but one of the very good things that happened was that I met with Henrietta Norton, a nutritional therapist. I'm a supplement enthusiast – if someone tells me they're taking a supplement that is working for them, I'm on it straight away. Consequently, I have a fat handful to take every day, based on no expertise whatsoever – just hope. So, you can imagine that seeing someone who knows exactly what they're talking about was an absolute revelation!
Turns out that I'm doing broadly the right things but doubling up on some – I take Good Hair and Imedeen so instead of a full dose of both, I take a half dose instead to balance things out. There's also a big difference in absorption between food grown supplements, that the body recognises and knows what to do with, and poor quality supplements that can often have petrochemicals at the back of them that the body doesn't recognise and wants to eliminate – hence all the jokes about vitamins just producing expensive wee rather than doing anything much to your health. Henrietta advised that I continue with the Omega 3s that I take, but to stop the Vitamin D and NN12 and swap over to Wild Nutrition B Complex and Vitamin D as well as adding Magnesium (take these at night) and a Multi Strain Biotic.
It makes sense, of course, to take vitamins that your body can utilize properly than ones that it can't. Diet plays a big part in wellness – again, I'm broadly doing the right things and Henrietta advocates between 13-16 hours of fasting a day which is something that more often than not, I do naturally by eating early in the evenings and not snacking later on. One of the biggest things I learned was to listen to my body regarding food. I have never naturally taken to breakfast which is fine, but from some weird conditioning feel I have to wait to lunch time to eat anything even if I haven't had anything. Henrietta's advice was to eat when I'm hungry – naturally about 11-12 – and eat proper food rather than breakfasty stuff; so if 'lunch' falls at 11 then so be it. So far, this is really working for me even if I have to quiet the voice that says houmous, salad and pitta bread is all wrong at that time of day!
Seeing her has made me think a bit more carefully about not just gobbling up any old supplements because a friend says they work and fine-tuning what I'm taking to be more efficient. I also loved that she didn't try to convert me round to her brand but just gave good, solid advice that I'm taking and more than happy to buy into Wild where necessary. There is no doubt that Wild Nutrition is more expensive than other supplements – B Complex is £22 for example, while Magnesium is £16 but to be honest, I'd rather chuck an extra tenner at something for it to be the best and more crucially, for it to be thoroughly effective. I'm now eyeing up the Cognitive Function supplements since one of the things that went wrong last week from a whole list of many was that I took the wrong train home, ended up in the middle of nowhere and then took the wrong train back again and ended up at London Bridge, extending a 20 minute journey into an excruciating hour and a half.
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Body Shaming Is Not Cool !!!!
Hey there gorgeous – today's conversation is about body shaming. A topic that sadly gets little or no attention at all. Honestly, this is not a non-issue. People have lost themselves while they try to be someone else.
Adele, a celebrated singer once said, "I've never wanted to look like models on the cover of magazines. I represent the majority of women and I'm very proud of it "
As women, we are always comparing ourselves to someone else. If only I could be skinnier, more toned, have long hair, short hair, blonde hair, black hair, tan skin, fair skin; the list goes on and on. Life is hard enough as it is and we all need to take a chill pill.
Majority of women have experienced body shaming at least once in their life. Have you ever passed somewhere and some creep made a comment whether sexual or in an insulting way about your body that got you uncomfortable that it for a moment changed how you think about yourself and how you look ?
What is your experience and how did you deal with it overtime?


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Path to The Revolution: Declaratory Act
The Declaratory Act is one of the organizations, events, or pieces of legislation in the aftermath of the French and Indian War that would lead us to the American Revolution including:
- Committees of Correspondence
- Pontiac's War
- Sugar Act
- Quartering Act
- Stamp Act
- Declaratory Act
- Townshend Acts
- Boston Massacre
- Tea Act
- Boston Tea Party
- Intolerable Acts
- Continental Congress
- Common Sense by Thomas Paine
- Declaration of Independence
Declaratory Act
The American Colonies Act of 1766, commonly known as the Declaratory Act, was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain which accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act of 1765 and the changing and lessening of the Sugar Act. Parliament repealed the Stamp Act because boycotts were hurting British trade and used the declaration to justify the repeal and save face. The declaration stated that the Parliament's authority was the same in America as in Britain and asserted Parliament's authority to pass laws that were binding on the American colonies.
Representatives from a number of the Thirteen Colonies assembled as the Stamp Act Congress in response to the Stamp Act of 1765, to call into question the right of a distant power to tax them without proper representation. The British Parliament was then faced with colonies who refused to comply with their Act. This, combined with protests that had occurred in the colonies and, perhaps more importantly, protests which had arisen in Great Britain from manufacturers who were suffering from the colonies' non-importation agreement, all led to the repeal of the Stamp Act. Normally the economic activity in the colonies would not have caused such an outcry, but the British economy was still experiencing a post-war depression from the Seven Years' War.
Another reason for repeal of the Stamp Act was the replacement of George Grenville, the Prime Minister who had enacted the Stamp Acts, by Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham. Rockingham was more favorable towards the colonies and furthermore he was antagonistic towards policies that Grenville had enacted. Rockingham invited Benjamin Franklin to speak to Parliament about colonial policy and he portrayed the colonists as in opposition to internal taxes (which were derived from internal colonial transactions) such as the Stamp Act called for, but not external taxes (which were duties laid on imported commodities). Parliament then agreed to repeal the Stamp Act on the condition that the Declaratory Act was passed. On March 18, 1766, Parliament repealed the Stamp Act and passed the Declaratory Act.
The Declaratory Act proclaimed that Parliament "had hath, and of right ought to have, full power and authority to make laws and statutes of sufficient force and validity to bind the colonies and people of America … in all cases whatsoever". The phrasing of the act was intentionally unambiguous. In other words, the Declaratory Act of 1766 asserted that Parliament had the absolute power to make laws and changes to the colonial government, "in all cases whatsoever", even though the colonists were not represented in the Parliament.
Despite British recognition in 1783 of the independence of the United States, the Declaratory Act remained in force for the British Empire's remaining colonies in the western hemisphere. The Act was not repealed until 1964, by which time the handful of remaining British colonies in the West Indies were governed under constitutions explicitly granted under the authority of Parliament (in particular by the West Indies Act of 1962). However, since the Taxation of Colonies Act of 1778 passed during the American Revolution, the British Parliament has never again attempted to directly impose taxation upon any of its colonies (today known as British overseas territories).
- Declaratory act. (2003, October 14). Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Retrieved January 6, 2021, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaratory_Act
- History of Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd marquess of Rockingham – GOV.UK. (n.d.). Welcome to GOV.UK. https://www.gov.uk/government/history/past-prime-ministers/charles-watson-wentworth-2nd-marquess-of-rockingham
- Taxation of colonies act, 1778. (n.d.). The Solon Law Archive. https://www.solon.org/Constitutions/Canada/English/PreConfederation/ctra_1778.html
- West Indies act 1962. (n.d.). Legislation.gov.uk. https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/10-11/19#


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Tracy L. McColl is recognized by Continental Who's Who as a Pinnacle Professional
Apr 26, 2016, 11:45 ET
TUCSON, Ariz., April 26, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Tracy L. McColl is recognized by Continental Who's Who as a Pinnacle Professional in the Beauty industry as a result of her role as Owner of The Village Salon.
Located in the heart of Tucson, The Village Salon is easily accessible to 40,000 college students living and attending classes in the area. The salon provides all of its clients with exceptional services in consultation, style, and color.
Under Tracy's leadership and decade of experience in the field, stylists provide each customer with an individualized consultation and work with clients to bring out their best features through the use of techniques such as textured styles, highlighting and lowlighting, and keratin treatments. Tracy is continually adding new services to enhance the salon experience for her clients including makeup for events, permanent makeup, and eye lash extension application.
With a vast amount of return clients and referrals, The Village Salon caters their expert hair styling services to both men and women. The salon has demonstrated time and again that it is a perfect destination for those looking for innovative and professional hair style services.
Always looking to provide her customers with the best, Tracy has developed relationships with the most prestigious companies in the hair care industry including Alterna, L'Oreal, and Pureology.
Tracy earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Human Resource Science from Colorado State University and is currently a member of the Tucson Chamber of Commerce.
For more information, please visit www.thevillagesalontucson.com
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70 nourishing plant-based bowls to energize and fuel your body naturally—from Instagram star, certified health coach, and Real + Vibrant's Sapana ChandraNot strictly for vegans, these recipes will appeal to everyone who wants to include more plant-based meals in their diets. As a certified health coach, Sapana ensures that each bowl contains a balance of healthy fats, complex carbohydrates, and proteins—plus the yum factor! The recipes in this book honor Sapana's common-sense philosophy for good health: eat real (food) and live well, and you will feel vibrant. Recipes are arranged seasonally so you can make the most of your area's local bounty and eat fresh throughout the year, including offerings such as: • Shaved Asparagus & Barley Bowl• Roasted Beet & Orange Bowl with a Pistachio-Lemon Dressing• Watermelon Poke with Spicy Siracha Dressing• Curried Cauliflower Bowl served with a Cilantro Chutney• Warming Chickpea Coconut Curry Bowl• White Bean & Crispy Rosemary Potato Bowl• Coconut Chia Pudding Bowl with Caramelized Bananas• Rosewater Bliss Ball & Yogurt Bowl• Coconut-milk-based ice creams, such as Blackberry-Lavender, Ash-Lemon, and Chocolate-Tahini Fudge
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President Banda arrives in United States from UK
Malawi President Mrs. Joyce Banda arrived in Washington DC, USA, on Friday at 13.00 hrs (08.00am hrs Malawi local time) from London, Britain.
The President who was accompanied by the First Gentleman retired Chief Justice Richard Banda was in flight number BA217.
On arrival she was welcomed by US ambassador to Malawi Jeanine Jackson, Malawi's Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Ephraim Mganda Chiume and Malawi's Ambassador to USA, Steve Matenje, at Dulles International Airport.
The Malawi leaders with the retired Chief Justice Banda were subsequently driven to Four Seasons Hotel in Washington DC where she met Malawi's Deputy Ambassador to USA Jane Nankwenya and diplomatic members of staff and their spouses.
A little girl, Regina Lindeire presented President Banda with a large bouquet of flowers while a boy Patrick Mphepo pinned a small flowerer on the retired Chief Justice Banda's lapel, respectively.
According to a programme released by the Malawi Embassy in Washington DC, President Banda is expected to undertake various important activities including meeting top officials of the Millennium Challenging Corporation, Daniel Yohannes, Vice President Patrick Fine for Compact Implementation; James Parks Vice President for Policy and Evaluation and Ms Alicia Mandaville Director for Policy and Country selection.
The President will also hold a briefing with Whitaker Group led by Ms Rosa Whitaker former Assistant United States of America Representative; Honourable Toby Moffet former Congressman for Connecticut, US ambassador to Malawi Jeanine Jackson and John Castello Chief Executive Officer of Citizen Network for Foreign Affairs(CNFA).
The State President will also hold discussions with Paul Hinks Chief Executive Officer for Symbion Power and Chris Campanovo Country Director for Tanzania.
She is also scheduled to have a meeting for the Malawian Diasporas and have an interview with Al-jazeera -Talk to Al-Jazeera; Voice of America (VOA).
The Malawi leader is expected to have audience with Dr. Rajiv Shah administrator of United States Agency for International Development(USAID), Ms Helen Clark administrator United National Development Programme(UNDP), Managing Director of International Monetary Fund(IMF) in Pennsylvania Avenue and Ms Sri Mulyani Indrawati Managing Director of the World Bank.


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In issuing its thunderstorm warning on Monday morning, the Met Office said that the rate of precipitation will be between 35 and 55 millimetres per hour while hail is also likely.
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The fire service yesterday responded to more than 180 calls for help in Nicosia to free people trapped in cars, pump water from flooded streets and move fallen trees after heavy rain and hail pounded the capital. The old city, Strovolos, Engomi and Aglandjia were particularly badly affected.
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Coffee – should you drink it or avoid it?
Coffee is one of those things you either love or hate. You know if you like the taste or not (or if it's just a reason to drink sugar and cream) and you know how it makes you feel. I love the smell of coffee and can see why coffee lovers crave it first thing in the morning, but the last time I tried just 2 sips I was close to heading to the hospital…more on that later. In either case, I promise to stay objective here.
The news and crazy headlines aren't helping as one day they say coffee is great, and the next day you should avoid it! There is actual science behind why different people react differently to it. It's a matter of your environment and how much coffee you are used to drinking.
To be clear, much about the coffee debate is about the caffeine. Coffee contains between 50-400 mg of caffeine/cup, averaging around 100 mg/cup. Coffee is one of the most popular ways to consume this stimulant. But a cup of coffee contains a lot of things over and above the caffeine. Not just water, but antioxidants (fighting the toxicity in your body), and hundreds of other compounds. These are the reasons why drinking a cup of coffee is not the same as taking a caffeine pill. Also decaffeinated coffee has a lot less caffeine; but, it still contains some.
Let's look at caffeine metabolism, its effects on the mind and body, and whether coffee drinkers have higher or lower risks of disease. Then I'll give you some things to consider when deciding if coffee is for you or not.
Caffeine metabolism
Not all people metabolize caffeine at the same speed. How fast you metabolize caffeine will impact how you're affected by it. In fact, caffeine metabolism can be up to 40x faster in some people than others.
About half of us are "slow" metabolizers of caffeine. We can get jitters, heart palpitations, and feel "wired" for up to 9 hours after having a coffee. That's me. I remember working a nightshift when traveling overseas. I barely could keep my eyes open so decided to pour maybe 2oz of coffee in a cup, adding the same amount of water on top of it knowing that my body would react fast. But I had no idea that within a few minutes my heart was about to jump out of my chest. It felt awful and I haven't touched a sip of coffee since then. The other half of us are "fast" metabolizers of caffeine. They get energy and increased alertness and are back to normal within a few hours.
This is part of the reason those headlines contradict each other so much - because we're all different, something that all JOYVIAL health coaches are very thoughtful of when working with you.
The effects of coffee (and caffeine) on the mind and body
NOTE: Most studies look at caffeinated coffee, not decaf.
As mentioned the effects of coffee (and caffeine) on the mind and body differ between people; this is partly from the metabolism I mentioned. But it also has to do with your body's amazing ability to adapt to long-term caffeine use. Many people who start drinking coffee feel the effects a lot more than people who have coffee every day.
Here's a list of these effects (that usually decrease with long-term use):
Stimulates the brain
Boosts metabolism
Boosts energy and exercise performance
Increases your stress hormone cortisol
So, while some of these effects are good and some aren't, you need to see how they affect you and decide if it's worth it or not.
Coffee and health risks
There are a ton of studies on the health effects of coffee, and whether coffee drinkers are more or less likely to get certain conditions. Here's a quick summary of what coffee can lead to:
The good:
Lower risk of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's
Lower risk of developing type 2 diabetes
Lower risk of certain liver diseases
Lower risk of death ("all cause mortality")
Can provide asthma relief
The bad:
Caffeine addiction and withdrawal symptoms (e.g. a headache, fatigue, irritability)
Increased sleep disruption
Cardiovascular problems, as caffeine raises your blood pressure
Increased stress, as caffeine increases the stress hormones in your body
Gastrointestinal problems (abdominal pain, diarrhea, etc)
Reduced nutrition absorption
Accelerated aging, due to decline in vital hormones
IMPORTANT: What's super-important to note here is that coffee intake is just one of many, many factors that can affect your risks for these diseases. Please never think regular coffee intake is the one thing that can help you overcome these risks or is solely responsible for these problems. You are health-conscious and know that eating a nutrient-rich whole foods diet, reducing stress, and getting enough sleep and exercise are all critical things to consider for your disease risk. It's not just about the coffee.
Should you drink coffee or not?
There are a few things to consider when deciding whether you should drink coffee. No one food or drink will make or break your long-term health.
Caffeinated coffee is not recommended for:
People with arrhythmias (e.g. irregular heartbeat)
People who often feel anxious
People who have trouble sleeping
People who are pregnant
If none of these apply, then monitor how your body reacts when drinking coffee. Does it:
Give you the jitters?
Increase anxious feelings?
Affect your sleep?
Give you heart palpitations?
Affect your digestion (e.g. heartburn, etc.)?
Give you a reason to drink a lot of sugar and cream?
Really take time to observe your body, right as you drink coffee, 15 minutes later and a couple of hours later. Depending on how your body reacts, decide whether symptoms are worth it to you. If you're not sure, I recommend eliminating it for a couple of weeks to see if you feel different. If you get cranky, irritable, or get headaches, you know it's a sign to give coffee a break.
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