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Equities market closed today on a positive note, as NSE ASI appreciated by +0.44% to close at 35,103.40 basis points as against -1.15% depreciation recorded previously. Its Year-to-Date (YTD) returns currently stands at +30.62%.

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Oil markets were calm on Friday morning as multiple geopolitical tensions around the globe showed signs of cooling, reducing the potential impact of geopolitical risk on oil prices.

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The diplomatic breakthrough on the Korean Peninsula is taking away one source of geopolitical risk, at least for now, with oil prices dipping in early trading on Friday.

Libya oil exports resume at Es Sider. After a brief outage, Libya’s Es Sider export terminal
resumed shipments. A pipeline suffered damage from an explosion last Saturday, leading to a temporary outage of 80,000 bpd, but the pipeline has since been repaired. Separately, Libya’s eastern military leader, Khalifa Haftar, returned to the country after a hiatus in France for medical treatment. His absence fueled speculation about a return to instability, which threatened new oil supply disruptions.

China’s refinery maintenance. At least six state-owned and private oil refineries will shut down in May and June for maintenance. The pause could result in a
10 percent decline in refinery runs, or about 1.09 million barrels per day, which could temporarily hit China’s demand for crude oil imports.

Oil majors post strongest quarterly earnings in four years.
First quarter earnings began coming out this week from the oil majors, most of whom are posting the largest profits in years. Statoil (NYSE: STO), Royal Dutch Shell (NYSE: RDS.A), Total SA (NYSE: TOT) and ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM) all reported their strongest figures since before the oil market downturn began in 2014. All are making more money with oil at $65 to $70 today than they were in the pre-2014 environment in which oil topped $100 per barrel.

Shell greenlights Vito Gulf of Mexico project. Royal Dutch Shell (NYSE: RDS.A)
announced the final investment decision for the Vito project, a deep-water offshore development in the Gulf of Mexico. The Anglo-Dutch oil major said the project has a breakeven price of about $35 per barrel and will produce 100,000 bpd at its peak. The project is expected to begin producing in 2021.

Trump squeezed between Big Corn and Big Oil. The Trump administration has repeatedly found itself caught in the fight between the oil refining and the corn ethanol industries, industries that are battling over the renewable fuels standard (RFS) and how much ethanol refiners are required to blend into their fuel mixes. Refiners are demanding changes to the rule that requires 10 percent ethanol, asking for a rollback. The ethanol industry is digging in its heels. The EPA has granted exemptions to a growing number of refiners, which is giving more urgency to the debate because it is undermining the ethanol market. Trump is
caught between the two sides and has tried to avoid making a decision over fears of alienating one of these constituencies.

Chevron evacuates staff from Venezuela. Chevron (NYSE: CVX) has come under fire in Venezuela after two of its workers were detained by Venezuelan authorities. That prompted an
evacuation of high level company officials from the country this week, raising questions about the longevity of the oil major’s operations there. The matter is of utmost important as Chevron and other joint venture partners have been critical in keeping Venezuela’s oil production from falling faster than it already has. But the attack by the Venezuelan government on Chevron threatens to make a bad situation much worse.

PDVSA ordered to pay ConocoPhillips $2 billion. An international arbitration court
ruled that Venezuela’s PDVSA must reimburse ConocoPhillips (NYSE: COP) $2 billion related to the early dissolution of their joint venture in 2007. The government of the late Hugo Chavez expropriated Conoco’s oil assets in the country, leading to Conoco’s withdrawal from the country. The arbitration decision would seem to bind PDVSA to paying Conoco, but there is no way to enforce the decision. Conoco had been seeking $22 billion in damages.

Japan begins purchasing U.S. LNG. As Dominion Energy’s (NYSE: D) Cove Point LNG export terminal comes online, LNG shipments are
beginning to head to Japan, which will be “the first of many,” according to the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo.

Macron wraps up U.S. trip, but survival of Iran deal in doubt. French President Emmanuel Macron made an aggressive pitch to President Trump to stick with the Iran deal. Despite the bromance and despite comments about some sort of “new deal” with Iran, Macron admitted to the press that he thinks Trump will still abandon the accord ahead of the May 12 deadline. The decision has enormous implications for Iranian oil supply, and thus, the trajectory of oil prices for the rest of this year and beyond. Iran, for its part, said there is no “Plan B” to the existing accord, and that “it’s either all or nothing.” Meanwhile, Bloomberg
reports that some oil traders are already steering clear of Iranian oil contracts valid after May 12. Estimates from FGE and Gunvor SA say that 500,000 bpd of Iranian oil could be at risk this year because of U.S. sanctions.

Yemeni attacks on Saudi oil assets increasing. In response to the heavy bombardment from Saudi air strikes, Yemeni rebels have
stepped up missile attacks on Saudi oil assets, although without much success to date. On Monday, Houthi rebels fired missiles at a Saudi oil port near the Yemen border. The missiles were intercepted, but the increased attacks raise the prospect of some sort of damage to Saudi oil infrastructure. For now, this is having no effect on supply, but a successful attack would add a significant risk premium to oil prices. “Yemen is one part of the resurgent fear factor in the market,” said Helima Croft, head of global commodity strategy for RBC Capital Markets, according to the WSJ.

Canadian oil producers could get some relief from rail. Canadian oil producers, slammed by the lack of pipeline capacity, could make concessions to the rail industry to gain more access to Canadian railways. Rail companies typically demand long-term contracts, a practice oil producers find too restrictive. But, because the pipeline problem has grown more acute without any prospect of relief in the short run, producers are warming up to the idea of moving more oil by rail. Deals signed this year could have a longer duration than previous agreements and they could contain obligations for oil companies to pay for rail capacity even if it goes unused, according to Cenovus Energy (NYSE: CVE). “I’m really confident that as we move into the second half of the year and into the first half of 2019, we’re going to be seeing very material volumes of oil moving by rail,” Alex Pourbaix, CEO of Cenovus Energy,
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Pechart Recognized, Huber Re-elected

pechart_bioPSCFO Recognizes Pechart

PSCFO’s June Council meeting recognized former PDA official Michael Pechart who served under Governors of both parties for eleven years and who retired from PDA earlier this year to take a private sector position. He was a huge resource for PDA and for the entire Agricultural Community.

Huber Re-Elected to PSU Board

In addition, Immediate Past PSCFO President Betsy Huber was re-elected to the
huberPenn State Board of Trustees. Congrats Betsy!

Feral Hogs Seen as Emerging Issue

feral hogsOne topic discussed at the June 16 Council meeting was the threat to PA Agriculture and to the environment by feral hogs. The meeting updated attendees on the issue and paved the way for a more detailed program on the subject September 22 at the Council’s next meeting. Following is a link to USDA’s web site providing background on the feral hog issue.

It’s High Noon Budget Time

budget paIt’s crunch time to enact the State Budget for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2014. It’s all about money since revenue projections for this year were not met, $108 million short in May for example.

Governor’s Budget Cuts Many Ag Areas

Agriculture has a huge stake in the outcome given numbers of specific line items not included in Governor Corbett’s original proposal: PA Preferred, Centers for Dairy and Beef Excellence, agricultural research funding in the PDA budget – adequate funding for Penn State’s Cooperative Extension/Agricultural Research is another important issue.

PDA Cuts Not Restored

The initial vehicle for the Budget is House Bill 2328 (Adolph-R-Delaware) which was reported out of the House Appropriations Committee June 9 and re-referred to the House Rules Committee June 11. It reinstates many of the proposed Agriculture cuts but does not include the Governor’s request for an increase in PDA’s General Government Operations budget. Senate vehicle is Senate Bill 1431.

August 4 Deadline for Elk County SBA Disaster Loans

sba-featureOn June 5, the Small Business Administration declared Elk County a disaster area after severe May 21-22 flooding. Filing deadline for physical property damage is August 4, 2014.

SBA Loans

Loans of up to $200,000 are available for homeowners and loans of up to $2 million are available for businesses to restore damaged or destroyed buildings, inventory, equipment and assets. Details: 800/659-2955. The Disaster Loan Outreach Center is located in Ridgeway.

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PACD-SCC Joint Conference

On July 10 PA Association of Conservation Districts and State Conservation Commission are having a Joint Conference in Blair County. Details:

Hunger Free PA

Hunger Free PA will be a recipient of funds generated from the 2d Annual Capitol All-Stars Softball September 23 at Harrisburg’s Metro Park sponsored by PA Cable Network, PA Legislative Service, Quantum Communications and others. Players are all PA legislators. Details: 717/724-3196

EPA Extends Water Rule Comment Period

Stream - PAThe Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) extended the comment period for its proposed Clean Water Act rule until October 20, 2014.

Opposed by Ag interests

The proposal was vigorously opposed by some agricultural interests such as the PA Farm Bureau. The issue deals with whether or not a new EPA and Army Corps of Engineers’ definition of waters regulated by the Federal Government will impact most farmers.

Farm Bureau Asks Rule to Be Withdrawn

PA Farm Bureau asked that the proposed rule be withdrawn because it would allow “the agencies to regulate land activities around small creeks, streams and even ditches that only hold water during heavy rain events”. An EPA link provides an avenue for someone seeking to submit public comment.

Legislative News – UCC Impact on High Tunnels

Hoop-Houses-at-FairviewWith the State Budget, pension reform and liquor store privatization taking much of the proverbial oxygen out of the room, agricultural issues have not seen much of the spotlight.

UCC Bill Moves Forward

A possible exception: On June 4, the PA Senate approved Senate Bill 1023 (McIlhinney-R-Bucks) by a vote of 47-1 to upgrade the duties of the Uniform Construction Code Review and Advisory Council (RAC). The RAC’s function is to issue recommendations for the PA UCC and assess whether changes in International Code are applicable to the Commonwealth.

May Affect HB 1440

An item of possible interest to the Agriculture industry is that recommendations from RAC must meet or exceed Uniform Construction Code provisions currently in effect. An unknown is whether SB 1023 would have an impact on PSCFO-supported legislation (HB 1440) that would remove tunnel buildings from the Uniform Construction Code – would this be seen as weakening the UCC?

U.S. Exempts Livestock Haulers from Rest-Break Rule

FMCSA Logo 317x170On June 6, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration granted a one-year exemption for livestock haulers to a rule that took effective July 1, 2013 requiring commercial truck drivers to take a 30-minute rest break after eight hours of service. In requesting the exemption, the National Pork Producers Council maintained that drivers’ service time includes loading and unloading animals and that mandating a break would affect the animals’ welfare.


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Police winter drink drive operation launched with new random testing powers

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Police winter drink drive operation launched with new random testing powers

Police have launched the annual winter drink drive operation today (24 November) and from midnight will be using new legislation which gives them the powers to perform random breath tests at vehicle checkpoints.

Assistant Chief Constable Alan Todd explained, “Our basic message remains the same; there is no safe limit, so never EVER drink and drive. This new legislation gives police another tool that will hopefully help us to prevent people taking life-threatening, unacceptable, simply stupid risks.

“Previously, police officers needed a reasonable suspicion about the manner of someone’s driving, have seen a moving traffic offence, or been called to a collision before requiring a preliminary breath test from a driver. The new legislation means we can now establish vehicle checkpoints solely for the purpose of carrying out random breath tests, something which we hope will act as an even more visible, physical deterrent.

“During last year’s operation, we detected 375 people who’d decided to risk killing or injuring themselves, their family, friends or other innocent road users by deciding to drive after drinking.

“Just one drink can impair ability to drive. Considering that in some instances, we have stopped drivers who were so drunk, they could barely stand when they got out of their vehicle, just beggars belief.

“At the other end of the spectrum, we detected some drivers who had gone out socialising and not intended to drive, but their circumstances changed and they decided to take a risk. A risk which inevitably results in a driving ban,” he said.

In addition to running operations to catch drink drivers throughout the day and night, in the weeks leading up to Christmas and into the New Year, Police will again coordinate road safety operations in border counties with colleagues from An Garda Síochána Traffic Corp.

Assistant Chief Constable Todd continued: “Let me be absolutely clear. If you find yourself asking the question, I wonder if I’m ok to drive? The answer is; you are not. Do not take the risk. The consequences, as police officers and our emergency service colleagues witness first hand, can be catastrophic.

“In addition to the checkpoints, any driver or motorcyclist we stop, whether for speeding, using a mobile phone, or committing any moving traffic offence can expect to be breathalysed. So too can anyone involved in a collision or who we suspect may have consumed alcohol or taken drugs.

“I want all motorists to think about the consequences to yourself and your family of being involved in a serious collision.  How would you feel if your actions resulted in you or one of your family being paralysed? How would you feel if some innocent person was killed? Consider too the impact of losing your driving license. Would you also lose your job? Your home?

“To date this year 61 people have lost their lives in crashes on our roads and many more have been seriously injured, so I am also appealing for all road users and pedestrians to exercise caution and put road safety first.

“With longer hours of darkness and winter weather, road users need to make extra effort to look out for pedestrians and cyclists particularly along rural roads.  Pedestrians and cyclists should wear bright clothing, reflective jackets or armbands where possible to ensure they can be seen.

“Our aim with this operation is to keep people safe. People need to put as much effort into planning how to get home safely, as they do planning their night out. I do not want police officers knocking on doors at any time of the year, but especially over Christmas and the New Year, to tell families that a loved one has been killed on the roads.”

Assistant Chief Constable Todd concluded, “If everyone slowed down, did not drive after drinking or taking drugs, wore a seatbelt and drove with greater care and attention then together we can reduce this preventable carnage on our roads.”


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The Power of 'Then': The Uniquely Human Capacity to Imagine Beyond the Present

The Uniquely Human Capacity to Imagine Beyond the Present

Posted Mar 10, 2010

Live in the present. This is widely accepted as ancient wisdom, as the key to escaping the speed and pressures of modern life. The notion of ‘living in the present' has become even more popular with the publication of The Power of Now, a New York Times number one bestseller by Eckhart Tolle that has been translated into 30 languages. We are told that authentic human power comes by surrendering to the Now, the present moment, which is laden with myriad access points or portals to a state of inner peace where problems do not exist. We are told that when we dwell in the Now, we leave behind our analytic mind and its falsely created self, the ego. We may thereby awaken spiritual dimensions of our lives, enjoy more harmonious relationships, and discover that we are already complete and perfect.

It may be that we can use a reminder now and then to forget our worries, appreciate our surroundings, and simply ‘be'. In so doing, inner strength may be found. But it is equally true that we can leave behind the ego and awaken new dimensions in our lives by escaping the now, by dwelling in the ‘Then'. There is good reason why, after millions of years of evolution, humans became able to escape the present, i.e. to plan, imagine, fantasize, and remember past events without a memory-jogging cue. Indeed when our ancestors acquired the capacity to break out of the present, it opened up for our species an entirely unprecedented and breathtakingly creative new kind of existence.

Abstract Thought: The Capacity to Transcend the Present
Other than rocks and plants and things of the natural world, everything around you began as a spark of insight that came to its creator's mind in a moment of transcending the Now. As far as we know, no other species is able to envision something that does not exist. Cognitive scientist Merlin Donald refers to the minds of other species--and the minds our own early ancestors--as episodic. The awareness of an episodic mind, he claims, is confined to the ‘here and now' that is delivered by the senses. Occasionally something in an animal's surroundings reminds it of something from the past, or stimulates a desire for something in the immediate future. For example, if a deer encounters a grizzly bear in the wild, this might rekindle the memory of a previous grizzly encounter, and the experience might linger for a while as it gets cemented in long term memory. But we have no evidence that the deer will thereafter mull over different potential techniques for escaping a bear, perhaps comparing and contrasting this with methods for escaping other predators. It will certainly never recount the experience to other deer, or write a story or a song inspired by the grizzly encounter. Similarly it might see a potential mate and have sexual cravings, but not build an elaborate fantasy world around the object of its desire.

Humans, in contrast, are not only able to transcend the present, but compelled to do so. Our minds shift smoothly between past, present and future almost without our being aware of it. The shower or drive to work is seamlessly woven with flights of fancy: excursions into what might be going on in someone else's mind, or perhaps what it would take to make a certain product appeal to a new segment of the market. Or, as you wash your hair, you may be, silently rehearsing a piece of music, or lecture, or basketball move. We escape the present by engaging in abstract thought. Abstract thought un-tethers us from the realm of ‘what is', the here and now conveyed by our senses, and transports us to the realm of ‘what could be', the playing field of our imagination. It enables us to not only envision things that do not exist, but actualize things we envision, bring them into existence. It underlies works of creative genius and acts of global devastation alike. How did the ability to engage in abstract thought come about?

The split between humans and the great apes occurred some five to ten million years ago. Around two million years ago Homo erectus appeared on the scene. Unlike their predecessors, Homo habilis, who generally lumbered about on all four limbs, Homo erectus walked upright, and had a significantly larger brain. Their appearance on this planet is widely believed to mark the beginnings of human culture: the onset of deliberate use of fire, manufacture of tools, strategic hunting in organized groups, and migration out of Africa. To leave the homeland would have required our ancestors to adapt their food preferences, hunting techniques, methods of building shelter, averting natural disaster, and so forth, to match the possibilities and dangers offered by the new environment. What made our ancestors suddenly capable of all this?

Merlin Donald claims that it was the appearance of what he refers to as a ‘self-triggered recall and rehearsal loop'. That is, the human brain became able to recursively activate items from memory, such that one triggers another, which triggers another, and so forth. Although the initial thought might be of something in the Now--perhaps a need or desire, or something in the present surroundings--each thought triggers another that offers a glimpse of something increasingly far removed from the present. This ability to string thoughts together to form a ‘stream of thought' enabled us to relive events that happened previously and bring them to life for each other, initially just through mime, but eventually through the spoken word as well. It enabled us to rehearse and refine actions and ideas, modifying them progressively, one step at a time. With this ‘self-triggered recall and rehearsal loop' we could now activate and re-activate visions and dreams, such that with each successive conception of them they were looked at from a different angle, embedded a little more firmly in the constraints of reality as we know it, and potentially turned into a form in which they could be realized. It is this that has transformed the world into a place where we are surrounded by objects that are as much the product of human imagination as of nature. We have become immune to the wonder of this, but to our early ancestors, the ability to create something in the mind, and then make it real--turn it into something tangible in the world--must have seemed miraculous.

Thus the onset of this ‘self-triggered recall and rehearsal loop' made it possible for us to engage in abstract thought, enabling us to invent, adapt, and refine ideas--in short, escape the limitations of the present. But this leads to the question: what made self-triggered recall and rehearsal possible? Surely the Homo erectus' larger brain must have had something to do with it, but why would a bigger brain allow for abstract thought? Indeed the onset of the capacity for abstract thought presents a chicken-and-egg paradox. Until items in memory are woven into an integrated internal model of the world, or worldview, how does one evoke another, which evokes another, and so forth, in a stream of thought? Conversely, until a mind can generate a stream of thought, how does it integrate items into a worldview? How could something composed of complex, mutually interdependent parts come to be?

Weaving an Integrated Internal Model of the World
This is one of the questions that has inspired my own work. It turns out that the chicken-and-egg paradox can be resolved using the notion of self-organization, which can be explained with a simple analogy that was first used by biologist Stuart Kaufman. Imagine that you spill a jar full of buttons on the floor. You randomly choose any two buttons and tie two them together with a thread. You repeat this again and again, picking up two buttons at random and tying them together. Occasionally you lift a button and see how many connected buttons get lifted. What you find is that clusters of buttons start to emerge. At a certain point you pass a threshold referred to as the percolation threshold, whereupon a giant cluster of buttons suddenly emerges. In this giant cluster each button is connected, not directly but indirectly, to any other button.

Applying this to the mind, imagine that the buttons are experiences or items of information encoded in memory, and the strings are associations between them, ways in which one item can remind us of another. The giant cluster is thus an integrated internal model of the world, or worldview. It is self-organizing because its structure emerges through local, ‘bottom-up' interactions rather than being dictated by ‘top-down' instructions. It constantly revises itself, framing new situations and ideas in terms of old ones, thereby achieving a richer understanding of them (and a better chance of remembering them). A worldview is also self-mending in that if you encounter new information that conflicts with your current web of understandings, you almost can't help but engage in abstract thought, reflecting on the inconsistency from different angles until the dissonance is resolved. The worldview of one person is similar to that of another in the general sense that we all possess, for example, the concepts DOG and BEAUTY. But in the details of how we weave these concepts together, each individual's worldview is unique, and thereby offers unique possibilities for unearthing gems from the realm of ‘what could be' and realizing them in the realm of ‘what is'.

The Spectrum of Abstract Thought
Psychologists from William James to Freud noticed that there are different genres of abstract thought, or more accurately, that thought varies along a spectrum. At one end is associative thought, which is conducive to induction, analogy, seeing things new ways, and detecting relationships of correlation. If you write a poem in which the roots of a tree become a metaphor for the unconscious, you are exploiting the power of associative thought. Associative thought was referred to by Freud as primary process thinking, and psychologists sometimes call it divergent thought. At the other end of the spectrum is analytic thought, which is conducive to deduction, manipulating symbols, and figuring out relationships of cause and effect. If you know that all trees have roots and deduce that a fir tree has roots, you are exploiting the power of analytic thought. Analytic thought was referred to by Freud as secondary process thinking.

Power of Now advocates claim that the ego is the product of analytic thought. However, the ego, as Freud described it, is a structure that attempts to forge a relationship between the id, which is focused on selfish needs and desires, and the constraints of external reality. Both the ego and the id can be as active when one is absorbed in the Now as when one is catapulted into the Then. Exploring the realm beyond the Now involves both associative and analytic thought; indeed creativity requires the capacity to spontaneously and subconsciously shift between them depending on the situation. For example, if you come up with the idea of building a fence out of old skis, you are engaging in associative thought. But in order to carry it out, you have to figure out how to hammer the ski poles into the ground, and what to use as crossbeams. For that you shift into a more analytic mode of thought. You might again shift back into a more associative thought when you come up with the idea of placing white rocks at the base of the fence, reminiscent of snow. We are able to shift between these two modes of thought depending on the demands of the situation. I have proposed that the onset of the capacity to do so is what lay behind the sudden proliferation of art, science and religion in the Middle-Upper Paleolithic, some fifty thousand years ago, a time referred to by anthropologist Steven Mithen as the "big bang of human creativity".

The Magic of Glimpsing Beyond the Now
‘Power of Now' advocates claim that much of our thinking is repetitive and pointless, that it merely recreates and solidifies for ourselves the same old nightmarish existence. There may be a grain of truth to this, but change can be subtle. It may appear at first glance that the earth is simply rotating repetitively around the sun, but from the perspective of the entire solar system, its distance to other planets is changing, and from the perspective of the universe at large, myriad patterns of interrelationship are thereby unfolding. Upon superficial observation thoughts may appear repetitive and pointless, but more in-depth observation can reveal that they are honing in on more accurate conceptions of things, or their relationships to each other, or to ourselves. We forge a deeper understanding of the past by revisiting it in light of the present, and vice versa: by infusing the present with historical antecedents, a richer understanding of it is ultimately achieved. We encounter this not just in the workings of our own minds but also in film and literature, where elements of past, present, and future are frequently intertwined to yield a more multifaceted conception of reality. Indeed although our wiring may sometimes go awry, we are wired up in such a way as to cultivate, not interfere with, our spiritual evolution. We may not always feel ‘complete and perfect', but our ability to, now and then, leave the Now behind, is a profound aspect of who we are. It helps us find meaning in daily experience, and makes us interesting.

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Building off a concept which had previous iterations displayed at NPE2012 and NPE2015, French mold maker Georges Pernoud (U.S. office in Detroit) has added over molding of an LSR gasket on its Multitube technology in lieu of a TPE. Georges Pernoud says the addition of LSR was in response to a specific request from the automotive market. The manifold at the show will be molded from 30% glass-filled nylon.

This newly developed application will be presented during K2016 at the booth of French injection molding machine maker Billion SAS (Hall 15, Stand B24). The Multitube technology utilizes a specialized multi-material tool, which includes over molding of four threaded inserts. At K2016, the demo part shown will be an air-intake manifold, but the technology can also be applied to air ducts, turbo ducts, filter assemblies, and water manifolds and tubes.

The company says Multitube’s benefits include productivity and cost savings generated by integrating processes into the mold and eliminating post-mold secondary operations, like welding. At the show, a 200-ton multi-shot all-electric plastic injection molding machine from Billion will be used, just as at NPE2015. However, at K2016, Milacron’s Mold Masters will provide the third, auxiliary injection unit. Specifically designed for LSR and all-electric, the third injection unit will sit on top of the Georges Pernoud tool. The process will run an average cycle time of 55 seconds for a finished part. To manage the LSR in an otherwise thermoplastic setup, Georges Pernoud has designed and produced a specialized cold-sprue bushing.

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Racism and discrimination persist

Assertions of superiority by one human group with respect to another based on differing ethnic or racial characteristics appear to be part of humanity since time immemorial. Throughout our known history, we can see innumerable examples on every continent, many of which persist today.

Racism and discrimination almost always happen when one group dominates another, usually of a different race, because of conquest or invasion or for economic, social and religious reasons. They can take the form of slavery and human trafficking, when groups of people are taken from their homes against their will to be exploited. The effects can be long-lasting, as is true here with African Americans and immigrants, especially Latinos and indigenous Americans.

Thanks to the recent events in Charlottesville and the unfortunate declarations of President Trump, it is clear that racism in this country is more alive than it previously appeared to be. White supremacists and nationalists, neo-Nazis, fascists, the extreme right and Ku Klux Klan had a discreet presence before they were seemingly endorsed by the President, who, with his anti-immigrant comments, has watered the seeds of hatred and discrimination that characterize these groups.

In reality, discrimination is widespread, extending to other less well-known places, like Latin America. The Spanish and Portuguese conquest of the Americas resulted in centuries of racial and social discrimination. This originally involved the local Indians and African-Latin Americans, and continued against their direct or indirect descendants: those born of Spanish men and women of these groups and those of other racial mixtures. The result is what we have today—at least four groups that are vertically discriminated against in this order: whites, mestizos, blacks and Indians.

The obvious economic, ideological and social domination by the privileged white minority of the other racial groups in Latin-American countries exists across the social spectrum and daily life. It is expressed in serious and banal chats and commentary, jokes and sayings, attitudes and common sense. You can see it in every kind of advertising, in film and, above all, on television, which tell us that there is no place here for colored faces because even the actors that play them in subservient roles in the telenovelas are made-up white actors or only slightly dark-skinned actors. Newscasters and presenters of other prominent programs, especially female ones, are always white.

Thus most women want to lighten their faces and dye their hair blonde or light colors. Like some black women in this country, black Latinas often straighten their hair to eliminate its original curl. Everyone wants to pretend they have some white blood in order to claim a better physical appearance or social status, even as whites represent less than 10 percent of the population in most of Latin America. Yet this occurs so automatically and unconsciously that there are those who claim that racial discrimination doesn’t exist there.

In the Los Altos region of the state of Jalisco, Mexico, unlike in the rest of the country, there existed a custom among the Spaniards who arrived after the conquest of avoiding marriage to Indians, Jews and non-Catholics, thereby maintaining “racial purity.” This endured for over almost 250 years, reducing slightly after Mexican independence in 1821 and the Mexican Revolution in 1910. The result is immediately obvious to any visitor. The white and blond population in Jalisco greatly exceeds the national average of 10 percent and ranges through the whole social spectrum.

In a country that venerates the superiority of whites of European descent, the people of Los Altos take pride in their color and origin and consider their women to be the most beautiful in Mexico. The region also has a long tradition of emigration to the United States and its migrants tend to wind up in areas where white Mexicans are in the majority, such as here in West Marin. An influx of immigrants from in and around Jalostitlán, located in the Los Altos region, many of whom have light complexion and eyes, began toward the end of the 1960s.

Racial discrimination in Mexico and Latin America, based on supposed white superiority, is far from disappearing, and continues here among the immigrants, adding to that which they suffer as a result of being foreigners. I have seen and heard it here in West Marin among the young descendants of Jalostitlán immigrants directed against others, whose dark-skinned parents came from other regions of Mexico. I have seen it in other places, too, like San Rafael, among lighter-skinned Central Americans against Mexicans of darker skin. It may not be intuitive, but we need to inform these people about the negative effects of racial discrimination, just we inform and defend them as immigrants.

Victor Reyes is a translator and writer who lives in Cotati. A native of Puebla, Mexico, he has decades-long ties to the Light.


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The story of how an obscure tax-exempt organization sprang to life in 2006

Before it emerged this year as a major financial backer of ballot initiatives on issues ranging from land use to end-of-life decisions, America At Its Best barely registered on the political landscape.

Until February 2006, America At Its Best operated under the name Virginia At Its Best. Formed in 2003 as a tax-exempt lobbying organization, it has never filed a federal income tax return, apparently because — until now — it had never collected more than $25,000 in a single year.
This year is a different story. Public records show that America At Its Best has collected more than $4 million in contributions – the vast majority of it from Americans for Limited Government, a tax-exempt organization in Chicago that’s chaired by Howard Rich, a libertarian political activist who lives in New York City.
The money, in turn, has gone to support two of Rich’s pet political projects: takings initiatives and state spending limits that are typically billed as “Taxpayer Bill of Rights,” or TABOR, initiatives.
State campaign finance records show that America At Its Best has spent more than $2 million to push such measures in Idaho, Missouri, Michigan, and Nebraska.
In Nebraska, America At Its Best also spent $915,000 this year pushing a ballot initiative that would have generally required Nebraska patients to be given water and nutrition until death, campaign finance records show. But backers of the measure, which echoed the emotional 2005 debate over end-of-life decisions surrounding the Terri Schiavo case in Florida, failed to collect enough valid signatures to get it on the ballot in Nebraska this year.
In most of the states where America At Its Best has bankrolled initiative efforts, its sources of funds have been a mystery. Its Web site features a photo of a dusty country road and an American flag and states that the organization is “supported by donors from America,” adding: “We raise funds by using direct mail campaigns, website marketing, and personal outreach campaigns.”
But in Nebraska, which requires any out-of-state committees that give more than $10,000 to political campaigns to disclose their contributors, state campaign finance records show that America At Its Best has collected all of its funds this year from four sources:
  • more than $3.6 million from Americans for Limited Government.
  • $400,000 from the Fund for Democracy, a non-incorporated intermediary that shares Rich’s New York City address and describes itself as “a revocable trust dedicated to assisting citizens assert their constitutional rights.”
  • $50,000 from the Club for Growth State Action, a tax-exempt organization headed by Rich that, according to financial statements, “shares common management” with Americans for Limited Government and its affiliated foundation.
  • $100,000 from the National Taxpayers Union, a tax-exempt organization in Alexandria, Virginia, that lobbies for tax reform and repeal efforts.
  • The official address of America At Its Best, according to IRS and business records, is the home, in Fairfax, Virginia, of William A. Wilson. Wilson launched Virginia At Its Best in 2003 and is a director of Americans for Limited Government.
At least two other “At Its Best” groups have ties to Rich and his organizations. Colorado At Its Best, which this year has spent $812,000 on a judicial term-limit initiative in that state and given another $50,000 to California’s Protect Our Homes Coalition in support of a takings initiative there, lists Rich as a director. Another group, Arizona At Its Best, lists Rich as its chairman.
In state campaign finance records, America At Its Best lists a mailing address in Kalispell, Montana. Its Web site, however, lists an address in Boise, Idaho, that’s shared by This House is MY Home, which is leading the push in Idaho for Proposition 2, a ballot measure that would restrict eminent domain and regulatory takings.
Laird Maxwell, who is listed in public records as the chairman of America At Its Best, is the executive director of This House Is MY Home. He declined to discuss the activities of America At Its Best with the Center for Public Integrity.
In a telephone interview with the Center earlier this month, Maxwell called Proposition 2 a “citizens’ initiative.”
According to Idaho campaign finance records through October 10, however, America At Its Best and Rich’s Fund for Democracy have poured $412,000 into This House Is MY Home, accounting for more than 99 percent of its receipts.
This House Is MY Home reported $1,804 in other donations, including $50 from Maxwell.

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A major component of solid rocket propellants called perchlorate that’s 10,000 times more abundant on Mars than in Earthly soils and sands most likely poses a threat rather than a blessing to future human colonists on the Red Planet. While it can be an important source of water and oxygen, it can be devastating to human health as it causes hypothyroidism, a disorder of the endocrine system in which the thyroid gland fails to produce enough thyroid hormone. This hormone is responsible for regulation of metabolism.

The Mars environment only allows water to exist as ice or vapor due to the planet’s thin atmosphere, but perchlorate can make it liquid despite the Martian surface’s atmospheric pressure that’s about 0.6 percent that on Earth. This component, which forms various salts, can also release oxygen as it’s broken down.

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A major component called perchlorate that’s 10,000 times more abundant on Mars than in Earthly soils and sands most likely poses a threat rather than a blessing to future human colonists on the Red Planet. Credit: Discover Magazine

Because perchlorate has four oxygen atoms per molecule, it can be a powerful source to sustain life in Mars. Colonists could extract oxygen to pump it through life support systems of enclosed habitats located underground. Humans could then create Earth-like environments by enriching air, and these areas could probably be enclosed rather than extended across the entire Red Planet.

Perchlorate also represents a potential source of energy and scientists could take advantage of it to generate electricity for rocket propulsion. In fact, NASA’s solid rocket boosters of the space shuttle flown from 1981 to 2011 used ammonium perchlorate as the main propellant.

Not suitable for drinking water

The component was first detected in Mars soil in 2009 by NASA’s Phoenix lander, and the agency’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter revealed last September high concentrations of perchlorate salts.

This abundance was discovered within features on Mars’ surface that were formed thanks to recent water flows, according to a report by Discover Magazine. Dissolved salts change the chemistry so that subsurface water can sometimes emerge in liquid form.

However, that water can be toxic if people drink it, and microbial life would not be supported by it either. Not only can perchlorate cause hypothyroidism, but it’s also linked to aplastic anemia and agranulocytosis, which are conditions implied in blood cell deficiency that can be fatal. Children who depend on lactating mothers are the group at a higher risk of death from exposure to perchlorate.

Early human landings and Mars colonization could only be possible if scientists manage to take advantage of the planet’s resources to fuel spacecraft that will allow the travel between the surface and orbit. The project will also depend on scientists’ ability to create adequate environments to sustain life, but the alarming risks represent a huge obstacle to Mars colonization.

Scientists will have to find ways to remove perchlorate from the Red Planet’s water and dirt to be able to sustain human life there, especially if they have plans to grow any crops on Martian soil.

Even dust coming from dirt filled with perchlorate can contaminate air circulating through systems designed to sustain life. Other threats Mars potentially poses to human health include extreme space radiation and low gravity detrimental effects on the body.

Tim Peake, the first British astronaut to be on the International Space Station, is undergoing several medical tests at the Germany-based European Astronaut Centre, located in Cologne. Doctors are studying the physical and psychological effects of space travel, which will help find new methods to sustain life during long-term space missions.  His sense of balance is most certainly greatly affected because he is coming from an environment where there are no such things like “up” or “down” due to the lack of gravity.

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Collaborative efforts: New visiting scholar program will deepen Purdue’s research partnerships with India

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue University’s goal of fostering collaborative international relationships to find solutions for global challenges will be the focal point during the first-ever Overseas Visiting Doctoral Fellowship program.

Twenty-five Ph.D. students from 18 different Indian higher education institutions will arrive at Purdue in January through a partnership with India’s Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), that country’s equivalent to the U.S. National Science Foundation. Purdue is the only university in the U.S. to have a partnership with the organization for this program.

The fellows from India have been invited to work in the laboratories of Purdue faculty members in order to contribute to research projects they jointly proposed through a competitive application process. Nineteen departments will host fellows in areas covering science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Stipend and travel expenses will be fully funded by SERB.

“The program will provide Purdue faculty with a mechanism to develop new and impactful research relationships with key Indian counterparts, or sustain and deepen existing ones,” said Suresh Garimella, Purdue’s executive vice president for research and partnerships. “India is a partner country of top strategic importance for Purdue and we are very proud to be receiving the first sizable cohort of fellows through this new and innovative program.”

SERB is investing approximately $30,000 per student for a total annual commitment of $750,000 a year.

“The Overseas Visiting Doctoral Fellowship program brings an enormous amount of value to Indian researchers as it can trigger deeper and more meaningful scientific partnership between the Indian and U.S. research fraternity,” said Rajiv Kumar Tayal, secretary of SERB. “We believe that these kinds of partnerships nucleated at Purdue University involving research students and their mentors from both economies for the pursuit of science are significant to address dramatic changes in size and structure of the scientific enterprise.”

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CPAs' Perceptions of the Impact of SAS 99

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CPAs' Perceptions of the Impact of SAS 99

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In November 2002, the Auditing Standards Board (ASB) issued Statement on Auditing Standard 99, Consideration of Fraud in a Financial Statement Audit. Although SAS 99 was developed before the recent accounting scandals, its release came in their wake. The ASB crafted SAS 99 in response to perceived inadequacies in its predecessor, SAS 82. After the major accounting scandals rose to public attention, the ASB made SAS 99 a priority to try to address the allegations of fraud by management executives and auditors (as noted by Linda B. Specht and Petrea K. Sandlin in the February 2003 CPA Journal). SAS 99 became effective for audits of financial statements for fiscal years beginning on or after December 15, 2002.

Comparison of SAS 82 and SAS 99

SAS 99 was issued in November 2002; it superseded SAS 82, issued in 1997. SAS 82 attempted to address shortcomings of the audit process and audit quality (as reported by Jakubowski, Broce, Stone, and Conner in the February 2002 CPA Journal), and SAS 99 was issued for similar reasons. Whether SAS 99 actually expands an auditor's role in detecting fraud or merely reorganizes SAS 82 has been a matter of debate. Is there increased substance and responsibility attached to the new standard, or is it just a restatement of SAS 82 aimed at convincing public critics that increased efforts to detect fraud are taking place?

The most notable change is that SAS 99 takes a more proactive approach to the prevention and deterrence of fraud, while SAS 82 and its predecessors focused on detection. Both standards also focused on responding to and documenting fraud that affects the financial statements. A critical comparison of SAS 82 and SAS 99, following the analysis of Michael Ramos ("Auditors' Responsibility for Fraud Detection," Journal of Accountancy, January 2003) reveals the differences shown in Exhibit 1.

A questionnaire was designed to examine the items in Exhibit 1 as well as auditors' perception of the following issues found in SAS 99:

* Changes in auditor responsibilities

* Changes in audit procedures

* Increases in auditor liability

* Increased fraud risk factors

* Changes in auditor or client interaction

* Changes in clients' and the public's attitude

* Collusion and management override of controls

* Documentation changes

* Whether the auditor must more actively search for signs of fraud.

The questionnaire was sent to a random sample of 300 Wisconsin CPAs selected from the membership of the Wisconsin Institute of CPAs, which included 150 partners and 150 managers from Wisconsin public accounting firms. The response rate was 35%, with an almost equal balance of partners and managers.

Respondents were asked to rate each of the 29 statements in the questionnaire on a scale from 1 to 5, with 1 representing that the respondent strongly agreed with the statement, while 5 represented that the respondent strongly disagreed. If any significant differences existed between the responses provided by the partners and by the managers, a statistical t-test was conducted for each question. The results were grouped and presented in the following five categories: auditor responsibility; client interaction and public opinion; fraud risk factors and audit effectiveness; workpaper documentation; and audit procedures.

Auditor responsibility. The findings show (Exhibit 2) that partners and managers agree that SAS 99 will have an impact on auditor responsibility or on third parties' perceptions of auditor responsibility. The respondents also agree that auditors will likely face more litigation and will be held to a higher standard in court. This may indicate that auditors should not create unreasonable expectations in the investing public and other third parties. The data also indicate that, despite the perceived increase in responsibility, there has been no apparent change in the assignment of audit personnel, although other steps may have been taken to address the increased responsibility. …

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Quincy University will host its 155th Commencement ceremony on Saturday, May 12 beginning at 3:00 p.m. in Quincy University’s Pepsi Arena. The 2018 graduating class is comprised of 223 undergraduates with an additional 24 graduate degree recipients.
The procession will be led by University marshal, Robert Mejer, distinguished professor of art, and assistant marshals, Dr. David Kirchhofer and Dr. Scott Luaders, professors of physics and chemistry, respectively. Dr. Teresa Reed, vice president for academic affairs, will convene the ceremony and Director of Campus Ministry Raymond Heilmann will deliver the invocation. Senior choir members Hale Brown, Sage Meleney, Ann Schuhriemen, Jacob Schumacher and Jennifer Williams will perform the National Anthem and the Quincy University Alma Mater. Due to space constraints, tickets are required for entry into Pepsi Arena for all attendees, even children. A closed-circuit broadcast will be shown in the adjacent three-court area of the Health and Fitness Center for those without tickets. DVD copies of the broadcast are available for purchase at $20 each and Blu-ray copies for $25 each, and will be available to pre-order at the ceremony.

Graduates elected senior representative Darek Lambert to deliver the program’s welcome address and reflection. Lambert is a communication major with a minor in business. He is the son of Kevin and Angela Lambert of Terre Haute, Ind. Lambert has been heavily involved on campus during his time at QU.

He works as a resident director in an upperclassmen residence hall, worked in the admissions office, is heavily involved in his fraternity, Delta Tau Delta, and recently served as the chairman of the Senior Class Gift Committee this spring. After graduation, Lambert will be working as a marketing communications coordinator at Titan International in Quincy.

Former St. Louis Mayor, Francis G. Slay J.D. ’77, will deliver this year’s commencement address. Slay served the people of St. Louis as their 45th mayor, from 2001 to 2017. Having been elected to four consecutive four-year terms, he is the longest serving mayor in St. Louis history. Slay is currently practicing law at the law firm Spencer Fane LLP, concentrating on business transactions, real estate and public policy. He and his wife, Kim, have been happily married for 38 years, and have two grown children, Francis, Jr. and Kate.

Honorable Ray H. LaHood will be awarded the degree Honorary Doctor of Public Service during the ceremony. LaHood spent thirty-six years in public service with extensive experience on major national policy issues, among them transportation and infrastructure. During his fourteen years as the United States Congressman from the 18th District of Illinois, he was known as a bi-partisan advocate. He also served as Secretary of Transportation from 2009 until 2013. He and his wife, Kathy, have four children and fifteen grandchildren.

Additional Commencement Weekend festivities include:

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  • 5/11 – Baccalaureate Liturgy – 5:00 p.m. – Quincy University Chapel


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IBAC System to be Discussed at IEEE Broadcast Symposium - Radio World

IBAC System to be Discussed at IEEE Broadcast Symposium

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Several sessions at the upcoming IEEE broadcast meeting in Washington look interesting. Some IBOC observers believe a new digital FM concept to be described by a German engineer "holds out the promise for a digital format that would eliminate some of the transmitter site implementation costs connected with IBOC," said one U.S. engineer to RW Online.
In the paper titled, "A New DAB Scheme for the FM Band Based on Continuous Phase Modulation," by Claus Kupferschmidt of Hanover University, Germany, he proposes a new broadcasting scheme for the transmission of digital audio signals simultaneously with existing analog FM radio (88-108 MHz) in adjacent channels, denoted as an in-band-adjacent-channel system. As described in the abstract, "This scheme enables the transmission of digital audio data in CD quality with a data rate of up to 200 kb/s within an FM 200 kHz channel. The digital transmission is based on continuous phase modulation and a proper reduced-state sequence estimator. CPM is the digital equivalent to analog FM and has a constant envelope, a great advantage, because existing nonlinear amplifiers can be reused to achieve good efficiency and low out-of-band radiation. CPM also enables broadcasting companies to reuse the existing infrastructure (amplifiers, antennas, frequency bands) to reduce investment costs and improve the chances for an introduction of CPM as a new broadcasting standard. We have conducted field tests in the city area of Hanover with a real broadcasting system based on the proposed CPM broadcasting scheme with the support of the northern German broadcast service in Hanover with encouraging results."
The radio sessions at IEEE are on Thursday, Oct. 14. Other topics to be discussed include AM Digital Radio Mondiale tests in Spain and the latest about low bit rate codec tests and listener fatigue tests for the Tomorrow Radio project.
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Who are the hottest royal women? The beautiful ladies included on this list include princesses and queens from all over the world. Each one is, without a doubt, worthy of inclusion on any hot royals list. Some of them are the wives and daughters of the world's richest royals, too. The question is, who do you believe is the best looking of all? Vote for the royal hotties you love the most and vote down any you don't like.

Any list of the hottest royal women should absolutely include Rania al Abdullah. She's more commonly known as Queen Rania of Jordan, and she's anything but common. This woman is smoking hot, whip smart and the perfect example of a hot royal. She's been the Queen of Jordan for decades, now, and she just keeps getting more gorgeous (and turning up on lists of the most beautiful women of all time).

Of course, what would a hot royals list be without none other than Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge? From day one, Kate Middleton captured the hearts of everyone. She exudes class, but that doesn't mean she's not a total hottie. She also has great genes: Her sister, Pippa, is extremely easy on the eyes, too. She just needs to hook up with Prince Harry, and the perfect royal picture will be complete.

From Charlete Wittstock (Monaco) to Princess Haya of Dubai and beyond, this international list of hot royal women proves that the world's hottest royal men have a wonderful pool of stunning beauties to woo. It's not likely that you'll see any of the babes listed here posing on the cover of Maxim, but take a look at the photos and use your imagination.
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Queen Rania of Jordan is listed (or ranked) 1 on the list The Most Beautiful Royal Women Around the World
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Queen Rania of Jordan is the Queen consort of Jordan. She is also known as Rania Al Abdullah. Since marrying the now King of Jordan, Abdullah bin Al-Hussein, she has become known for her advocacy work related to education, health, community empowerment, youth, cross-cultural dialogue, and micro-finance. She is also an avid user of social media and she maintains pages on Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter. She has two daughters and two sons and has been given various decorations by governments. ...more on Wikipedia

Age: 47

Birthplace: Kuwait City, Kuwait

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Grace Patricia Kelly was an American actress who, after marrying Prince Rainier III, became Princess of Monaco. After embarking on an acting career in 1950, at the age of 20, Kelly appeared in New York City theatrical productions and more than 40 episodes of live drama productions broadcast during the early 1950s Golden Age of Television. In October 1953, she gained stardom from her performance in the film Mogambo. It won her a Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award nomination in 1954. She had leading roles in five films, including The Country Girl, for which her deglamorized performance earned her an Academy Award for Best Actress. Other films include High Noon with Gary Cooper, Dial M for ...more on Wikipedia

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Birthplace: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, is the wife of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge. Following his father Charles, Prince of Wales, William is second in line to succeed his grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II, as monarch of the United Kingdom and 15 other Commonwealth realms. Middleton grew up in Chapel Row, a village near Newbury, Berkshire, England. She studied art history in Scotland at the University of St Andrews, where she met William in 2001. Their engagement was announced on 16 November 2010, and she attended many high-profile royal events before they married on 29 April 2011 at Westminster Abbey. She has had a major impact upon British and American fashion, which has been termed the "Kate ...more on Wikipedia

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Birthplace: Royal Berkshire Hospital, United Kingdom

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Jetsun Pema

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Jetsun Pema (born 4 June 1990) is the Queen of Bhutan, a constitutional monarchy. Her marriage to Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, King of Bhutan, was held on October 13, 2011, at Punakha Dzong. The royal wedding was held first in Punakha followed by formal visits to different parts of the country. She was educated at the Lawrence School Sanawar, India, and at at the Regents College, London. Jetsun Pema was born in Thimphu on 4 June 1990 in the Thimphu Hospital. Her father is Dhondup Gyaltshen from Trashigang and is the grandson of Trashigang Dzongpon (governor of Trashigang) Thinley Tobgye (aka Dopola 1893-1952). Dhondup graduated from Sherubtse College, Kanglung and has been a commercial ...more on Wikipedia

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List Rules Vote up the romances that were both surprising and satisfying.

TV romance is, generally speaking, pretty predictable. It feels like you can tell from episode 1 that Character A will eventually hook up with Character B and, after a few seasons of will-they-won’t-they shenanigans, they’ll live happily ever after. Think Carrie and Big from Sex and The City, Ross and Rachel from Friends, Booth and Brennan from Bones. Fans ship them, get frustrated with their "we can’t be together right now" nonsense, and breathe easily when the show wraps up and the couple sails off into the sunset. That’s why it can be incredibly refreshing to be taken by surprise when an unlikely TV romance pops up out of nowhere.

Unexpected TV couples can go two ways. The two characters could work incredibly well together and become one of the best couples on TV. Or, they fall apart in just a few episodes, because they're just too weird and mismatched to work. Either way, all these couples have a thing in common – no one saw them coming. At least not from episode 1 of the shows.

Here are the most surprising TV couples in recent history, regardless of whether they had fans giggling with joy or scratching their heads in confusion.

Chandler Muriel Bing is listed (or ranked) 1 on the list 16 Unexpected TV Couples No One Predicted
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It’s hard to remember a time when Chandler and Monica aren’t a couple. But this pairing basically comes out of nowhere. One episode of the show even features Monica joking that she could never date Chandler. Moreover, the two hook up in London, at Ross and Emily’s wedding. So while viewers are eager to see if Rachel stops the wedding, this fresh romance catches them totally by surprise. Could it be any more unexpected?

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Barney Stinson is listed (or ranked) 2 on the list 16 Unexpected TV Couples No One Predicted
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OK, so maybe you saw this coming, but probably not from episode 1. Barney's a player who seems unlikely to settle down, and Robin is all over Ted for a hot minute. It seems insane that these two could ever go beyond just hooking up and actually commit to each other. But commit they do – for a while. Too bad the writers really mess up the final season.

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Andy and April's relationship is so obviously #goals. But at first, goofy man-child Andy and the perpetually sarcastic April feel like a weird pairing. She has a crush on him, and he's oblivious.

Then, they start dating – and get married within a month, which feels like a recipe for disaster. But it's not. Their love story ends up being an integral part of what makes Parks and Recreation so heartwarming.

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Who would think that Little Grey and Sloan would become such a beloved couple in the Grey’s Anatomy universe? Especially since their relationship comes seemingly out of the blue. Lexie asks Mark to teach her about medical stuff. He resists, because she’s Meredith’s little sister and too young for him. But by then end of the episode, Lexie goes up to his hotel room, takes off her clothes, and says “Teach me.”

And then there's the whole tragic ending. We’re not crying, you’re crying.

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Television News: Disney, Media General, Nexstar, Charter, TWC

television-OTAIn today’s collection of items pertaining to the television business, we have a simple slate of stories – they all involve the times and dates when these important publicly-traded companies will discuss results from the first quarter of 2015.

* Walt Disney Company will release its financials for its fiscal Q2 Tuesday 5/5/15 and will discuss them with interested parties that day at 5PM eastern.

* Media General will meet with shareholders and analysts to discuss Q1 2015 results on Thursday 5/7/15. The conference call is set for 9AM eastern.

* Nexstar will be sharing the wealth with its shareholders with a $0.19 dividend per Class A share payable to shareholders of record as of 5/15/15. The payout dates is 5/29/15.

* The breakup of the Comcast/TWC merger may potentially have major repercussions for Charter Communications, which should come up during its next meeting to discuss financial results. It’s scheduled for Friday 5/1/15 at 8AM eastern.

* Think Time Warner Cable will have anything on its mind when it meets with shareholders and other interested parties to discuss results on Thursday 4/30/15?  The session starts at 8:30 AM.

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Meeting dates (14.00 start)

  • Friday 2 February
  • Friday 15 June
  • Friday 16 November

Reporting mechanism

The Advanced Training Committee reports to Specialty Education Advisory Committee.

  • Ensure the overall ATSM programme (in the UK) and the overseas Advanced Fellowship Programme (AFP) supports the development of specialist skills and knowledge allowing trained doctors to offer the highest quality of patient care, both in the UK and internationally.
  • Be responsible for the development of new Advanced Professional Modules (APMs)
  • Be responsible for developing policy, procedure and regulations for all ATSMs, AFPs and APMs (pre-, post-CCT and overseas) as follows:
    • (a) Approval and validation of new ATSMs, AFPs and APMs;
    • (b) Review the suitability of existing ATSMs so that they may be undertaken post-CCT and overseas;
    • (c) QA processes for all ATSMs, AFPs and APMs to include feedback from trainers, trainees, trained doctors, employers, and patients.

Develop strategy and ensure coherence for new ATSM, AFPs and APMs development and to support short life subgroups as required to undertake specific tasks with appropriate representation from other committees, e.g. Academic Board and specialist societies

Revise ATSMs that fulfill the needs of both pre-CCT and post-CCT doctors, including ATSMs suitable for overseas implementation overseas

Provide evidence of review and quality control required by the GMC relating to ATSMs/APMs both pre- and post-CCT. The Committee will work to the curriculum standards defined by the GMC.

Ensure that the content of all ATSMs/APMs remain coherent and relevant to other elements of the approved curriculum with emphasis on the relationship between the core, intermediate, advanced, academic and subspecialty training requirements and to continuing professional development purposes.

Respond to requests for ATSMs/APMs to be changed in accordance with changes in practice to reflect modern developments in UK practice and oversee the necessary submissions to GMC.

Work with other College committees (including Specialty Education Advisory Committee, Core Curriculum Committee, Academic Board, Subspecialty Committee, Specialist Societies Committee, Trainees’ Committee and Professional Development Committee, Education Resources Adviser) to allow an integrated approach across all aspects of the curriculum and programme with ATSM/APM.

Supported by the eLearning team, to be responsible for the quality assurance process for online ATSM resources on StratOG.

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Three times a year

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Specialty Education and Training Department

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Vice President, Education Professor Janice Rymer FRCOG
RCOG ATSM Officer Dr Judith Moore FRCOG
Ultrasound Officer Dr Manjiri Khare FRCOG
Representative from Specialty Education Advisory Committee Dr Mary Murnaghan FRCOG
Representative from Subspecialty Committee Dr Joanne Bailey MRCOG
Trainees’ Committee representative (ST6–7) Dr Reena Aggarwal MRCOG

Clinical Lead, Subfertility and Reproductive Health

Dr Vanessa Kay FRCOG
Clinical Lead, Labour Ward Lead Mr Olujimi Jibodu FRCOG
Women’s Network representative Ms Christianah Olagunju
Senior Director of Education and Assessment, RCOG Ms Kim Scrivener

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Yanek Gruener is just an ordinary Polish boy; he lives in the wonderful city of Krakow, with his Mother, Father, and Uncle Moshe. The city was always a tranquil,serene neighborhood:Until the Nazis invaded Poland, and soon stormed Krakow and made it into a Jewish ghetto.Being a Jew himself, Yanek was trapped inside what used to be his home, but was now his prison. He goes through hunger, cramped conditions, and cold nights in the halls of his flat. But none of it even comes close to what he will experience in the concentration camps.

— Rhi- age 12

10 concentration camps.

10 different places where you are starved, tortured, and worked mercilessly.

It's something no one could imagine surviving.

But it is what Yanek Gruener has to face.

As a Jewish boy in 1930s Poland, Yanek is at the mercy of the Nazis who have taken over. Everything he has, and everyone he loves, have been snatched brutally from him. And then Yanek himself is taken prisoner -- his arm tattooed with the words PRISONER B-3087.

He is forced from one nightmarish concentration camp to another, as World War II rages all around him. He encounters evil he could have never imagined, but also sees surprising glimpses of hope amid the horror. He just barely escapes death, only to confront it again seconds later.

Can Yanek make it through the terror without losing his hope, his will -- and, most of all, his sense of who he really is inside?

Based on an astonishing true story.

About the Author

Alan Gratz is the acclaimed author of several books for young readers, including Prisoner B-3087, which was named to YALSA’s 2014 Best Fiction for Young Adults list; Code of Honor, a YALSA 2016 Quick Pick; and The Brooklyn Nine, which was among Booklist’s Top Ten Sports Books. Alan lives in North Carolina with his wife and daughter. Look for him online at

Ruth Gruener was born Aurelia Gamser in 1930s Poland. Ruth and her parents survived the Holocaust by hiding in the homes of gentile families. After World War II was over, Ruth and her family moved to the United States, where Ruth tried to start an ordinary teenage life in Brooklyn. Ruth is married to Jack Gruener, another Holocaust survivor, and they have two children and four grandchildren. Ruth and Jack live in Mill Basin, Brooklyn, and Ruth works as a docent at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in downtown Manhattan. She and Jack travel all over the country to speak to schools about their experiences in the Holocaust

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Praise for Prisoner B-3087:

A Junior Library Guild Selection

Golden Sower Award, 2014-2015 Winner Nebraska

Isinglass Teen Read Award, 2014-2015 Winner New Hampshire

Pennsylvania Young Readers' Choice Award, 2014-2015 Winner Pennsylvania

Junior Book Award, 2015-2016 Winner South Carolina

Grand Canyon Reader Award, 2015-2016 Winner Arizona

Truman Readers Award, 2015-2016 Winner Missouri

Readers Choice Awards, Winner 2015-2016 Virginia

Volunteer State Book Award Winner, 2015-2016 Tennessee

"A powerful story, well told." -- School Library Journal

"A bone-chilling tale not to be ignored." -- Kirkus Reviews

"[A] remarkable survival story." -- Booklist

"Gratz ably conveys . . . fatalism, yearning, and determination in the face of the unimaginable." -- Publishers Weekly

"Heartbreaking, gripping, raw, and emotional . . . storytelling at its finest." -- VOYA

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ISBN: 9780545459013
ISBN-10: 054545901X
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Publication Date: March 1st, 2013
Pages: 272
Language: English