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Maserati MC20 (2021)
Maserati MC20
Maserati enters the new Era with MC20, the new super sports car that combines performance, sportiness, and luxury in the unique Maserati style. MC20 was presented to the world in Modena on 9 September during the "MMXX: Time to be audacious" event.
The new MC20 (MC for Maserati Corse and 20 for 2020, the year of its world première and the start of the Brand's new Era) is the Maserati everyone was waiting for. It is a car with incredible aerodynamic efficiency, which conceals a sporty soul, with the new Nettuno engine, a 630 horsepower V6 with a torque of 730 Nm that delivers 0-100 km/h acceleration in under 2,9 seconds and a top speed over 325 km an hour. An engine that signals Maserati's return to producing its own power units after a hiatus of more than 20 years.
The MC20 is an extremely lightweight car under 1,500 kg (kerb weight), and thanks to its power output of 630 hp it comes out best in class in weight/power ratio, at just 2.33 kg/hp. This record is achieved through the use of choice quality materials, exploiting all the potentials of carbon fiber without any sacrifices with regard to comfort.
Nettuno, the first engine in this new chapter of the Trident's history, is the MC20's twin-turbo V6, a technologic gem already awarded an international patent, which puts the MTC (Maserati Twin Combustion) technology, the ground-breaking combustion system developed in-house, onto the world's roads.
Overall, this revolutionary project has resulted in a car that epitomizes Italian excellence. In fact, MC20 was designed in Modena and will be built at the Viale Ciro Menotti plant, where the Trident's models have been built for more than 80 years. The new production line, created in the spaces where the GranTurismo and GranCabrio models were assembled until November 2019, is now ready for action in the historic plant. The site also features a new PaintShop incorporating innovative, environment-friendly technologies. Nettuno will also be built in Modena, at the newly established Maserati Engine Lab.
The MC20 design was produced in about 24 months, with the involvement from the outset, in an innovative approach, of a team of Maserati Innovation Lab engineers, technical specialists from the Maserati Engine Lab, and designers from the Maserati Style Centre.
The Virtual Vehicle Dynamics Development system, which includes the use of one of the world's most advanced dynamic simulators, was developed in-house by the Maserati Innovation Lab and is based on a complex mathematical model called Virtual Car. This method allowed the performance of 97% of dynamic tests, optimizing development times. The car was then fine-tuned in the best Maserati tradition with exhaustive track and road test-driving sessions in the most widely varying conditions of use.
The guiding theme of the MC20'S design was the Brand's historic identity, with all the elegance, performance, and comfort integral to its genetic make-up. The focus on performance led to the conception of a car with a distinct personality, with unmistakable forms that render it unique.
The butterfly doors are not only stunningly beautiful but also functional, as they improve the car's ergonomics and enable optimal access to and from the cabin.
The aerodynamics were designed through over two thousand man-hours in the Dallara Wind Tunnel and more than a thousand CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) simulations, which enabled the creation of a genuine work of art. The resulting car has a sleek line, with no mobile appendages but just a discreet rear spoiler that improves downforce without detracting from the MC20's beauty. The CX is more under 0,38.
The MC20 is designed to enable coupé and convertible versions and for full-electric power.
Once inside the cabin, the driver is always central, and nothing must distract them from the sporting driving experience. Every component has a purpose and is completely driver-oriented. Simple forms, very few sharp edges, and minimal distractions. Two 10 inch screens: one for the cockpit and the other for the Maserati Multimedia System (MIA). Simplicity is also the keynote of the carbon fiber-clad central console, with just a few features: the wireless smartphone charger, the driving mode selector (GT, Wet, Sport, Corsa, and a fifth, ESC Off, which deactivates the control functions), two-speed selection buttons, the power window controls, the Multimedia System controls, and a handy storage compartment underneath the armrest. All the other controls are on the steering wheel, with the ignition button on the left and the launch control on the right.
The new MC20 will be connected at all times with the Maserati Connect program. The full range of services includes connected navigation, Alexa, and Wifi Hotspot and can also be managed through the Maserati Connect smartphone or smartwatch app.
For the launch, Maserati has also developed six new colors to characterize MC20: Bianco Audace, Giallo Genio, Rosso Vincente, Blu Infinito, Nero Enigma, and Grigio Mistero. Each of them has been conceived, designed, and developed exclusively for this car and they all convey important themes: a strong reference to Made in Italy, to Italian identity, and to the land, as well as one linked to Maserati tradition.
Both visually and conceptually, there are strong references to the MC12, the car that marked Maserati's racing comeback in 2004. In the same way as its predecessor, MC20, with its explicitly racing soul clear from its name alone, announces the intention to return to the world of racing.


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U.S. officials said on Monday 15 inmates from the Guantanamo prison were transferred to the United Arab Emirates, the single largest transfer of Guantanamo detainees during President Barack Obama's administration, reported Reuters.
The transfer of the 12 Yemeni and three Afghan citizens brings the total number of detainees down to 61 at the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Most have been held without charge or trial for more than a decade, drawing international condemnation.
Obama, who had hoped to close the prison during his first year in office, rolled out his plan in February aimed at shutting the facility. But he faces opposition from many Republican lawmakers as well as some fellow Democrats.
"In its race to close Gitmo, the Obama administration is doubling down on policies that put American lives at risk," Republican Representative Ed Royce, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said in a statement.
"Once again, hardened terrorists are being released to foreign countries where they will be a threat," he said.
"I think we are at an extremely dangerous point where there is a significant possibility this is going to remain open as a permanent offshore prison to hold people, practically until they die," said Naureen Shah, Amnesty International's U.S. director for security and human rights.
Shah said keeping Guantanamo open gave cover to foreign governments to ignore human rights.
"It weakens the U.S. government's hand in arguing against torture and indefinite detention," she said.
While Obama's plan for shuttering the facility calls for bringing the several dozen remaining prisoners to maximum-security prisons in the United States, U.S. law bars such transfers to the mainland. Obama, though, has not ruled out doing so by executive action.
The continued operation of the detention facility weakens our national security by draining resources, damaging our relationships with key allies and partners, and emboldening violent extremists," Lee Wolosky, the State Department's special envoy for closing the Guantanamo detention center, said.
"The support of our friends and allies – like the UAE – is critical to our achieving this shared goal," Wolosky said.
A State Department official speaking on condition of anonymity said the UAE had resettled five detainees transferred in November 2015.


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By Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri
By Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri
By Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri
By Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri
Category: Domestic Politics | World Politics
Category: Domestic Politics | World Politics
Jul 26, 2005 | ISBN 9780143035596
Jul 26, 2005 | ISBN 9781101010419
A History of Knowledge
Hard Line
The Cyber Effect
Tearing Down the Wall of Sound
The Economic Consequences of the Peace
13 Things that Don't Make Sense
Ordinary Geniuses
The Motion Paradox
"This timely book brings together myriad loose strands of far left thinking with clarity, measured reasoning and humor." —Publishers Weekly, starred
"Impressive… a rare and exciting work of synthesis." —Booklist, starred review
"Brilliant." —The Village Voice
"An inspiring marriage of realism and idealism." —Naomi Klein, author of No Logo
Table Of Contents
Preface: Life in Common
1. War
1.1 Simplicissimus
The GLobla State of War
Biopower and Security
Legitimate Violence
Samuel Huntington, Geheimrat
1.2 Counterinsurgencies
Birth of the New War
Revolution in Military Affairs
The Mercenary and the Patriot
Asymmetry and Full-Spectrum Dominance
1.3 Resistance
The Primacy of Resistance
From the People's Army to Guerrilla Warfare
Inventing Network Struggles
Swarm Intelligence
From Biopower to Biopolitical Production
2. Multitude
2.1 Dangerous Classes
The Becoming Common of Labor
The Twilight of the Peasant World
Two Italians in India
The Wealth of the Poor (or, We Are the Poors!)
Demonic Multitudes: Dostoyevsky Reads the Bible
Excursus 1: Method: In Marx's Footsteps
Death of the Dismal Science?
2.2 De Corpore
Global Apartheid
A Trip to Davos
Big Government Is Back
Life on the Market
2.3 Traces of the Multitude
The Monstrosity of the Flesh
Invasion of the Monsters
Production of the Common
Beyond Private and Public
Carnival and Movement
Mobilization of the Common
Excursus 2: Organization: Multitude on the Left
3. Democracy
3.1 The Long March of Democracy
Crisis of Democracy in the Era of Armed Globalization
The Unfinished Democratic Project of Modernity
Debtors' Rebellion
The Unrealized Democracy of Socialism
Revolt, Berlin
From Democratic Representation to GLobal Public Demands
White Overalls
3.2 Global Demands for Democracy
Caheirs de doléances
Convergence in Seattle
Experiments in Global Reform
Back to the Eighteenth Century!
Excursus 3: Strategy: Geopolitics and New Alliances
3.3 Democracy of the Multitude
Sovereignty and Democracy
May the Force Be with You
The New Science of Democracy: Madison and Lenin
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Nanoscale studies of the atmospheric corrosion of copper protected by ultrathin organic films
Time: Fri 2021-10-29 10.00
Location: Kollegiesalen, Brinellvägen 8, Stockholm (English)
Subject area: Chemistry
Doctoral student: Weijie Zhao , Yt- och korrosionsvetenskap
Opponent: Professor Guido Grundmeier, Paderborn University
Supervisor: Universitetslektor C. Magnus Johnson, Yt- och korrosionsvetenskap; Professor Christopher Leygraf, Materialvetenskap, Materialvetenskap, Kemi, Yt- och korrosionsvetenskap
Copper (Cu) has been utilised by humans for millenniums and has become an indispensable metal in modern industry and in our infrastructure. However, corrosion, as a natural process for metallic materials, takes place on copper surfaces in most environments. Thus, understanding corrosion and corrosion protection of copper is of utmost importance to maintain its performance and prolong the lifetime of the applications. Corrosion has been revealed to start from local weak areas of the copper surface. However, the corrosion initiation and propagation mechanism on copper on a molecular level are far from clear.
In this thesis, the corrosion initiation of copper under a simulated indoor atmosphere where formic acid and humidity are present was studied. The corrosion process was monitored in-situ, and the formed corrosion products were characterised on the macro-, micro-, and nanoscale by various analytical techniques from both horizontal and vertical directions of the corroded surfaces. The localised dissolution and formation of the Cu2O layer on narrowly separated areas on the nanoscale were observed both microscopically and spectroscopically. A novel technique, nano infrared spectroscopy (nano-FTIR), was used to probe the formed corrosion products on the nanoscale. Due to the novelty of nano-FTIR, only a few studies in corrosion science using this technique were reported. Thus, this thesis also shows the capability of employing nano-FTIR in corrosion studies.
The ability of ultrathin organic films to protect copper under indoor atmospheres was also studied in this thesis. The main focus was on octadecylphosphonic acid (ODPA), for which the self-assembly process was examined in detail. A multilayer formation of ODPA on copper was observed under the self-assembly deposition, and the thickness of ODPA films increased with the deposition time. The reason for forming multilayers was attributed to the Cu+ ion release during the deposition, resulting in the formation of a Cu+-ODPA complex. The protective ability of these self-assembled ODPA films as well as Langmuir-Blodgett (LB)-deposited films on non-oxidised and pre-oxidised copper was examined under the same exposure conditions as for the unprotected copper. A remarkable ability to protect the surface was observed for the self-assembled and LB-deposited ODPA films on pre-oxidised copper.


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AutoCAD Architecture 2009 has some cool new features. I believe users will be excited to see the new enhancements. Here are a few of my favorites.
Now AutoCAD Architecture 2009 makes it easier to create custom wall endcaps. While previous releases had this ability, enhancements to key "grip-edit" functionality makes the process more intuitive and streamlined.
Additionally, it's easier than ever to modify endcaps using the "Auto-Calculate" feature and the integration of AEC Modify Tools.
Because of this, it's now possible to extend, trim, and even merge wall components with AutoCAD linework, allowing you to create the endcap condition that you want… in fewer steps!
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If you're an AutoCAD user, you are probably aware of the Match Properties feature, commonly referred to as the "Paintbrush tool."
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This question is for primary producers only
Did you make Farm Management Deposits (FMD) or have repayments during 2013-14?
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- An FMD provider is an institution that accepts farm management deposits.
- An FMD owner is a person who makes an eligible farm management deposit.
If you received a distribution of income as a beneficiary of a trust that carried on a business of primary production, you are considered to be carrying on a business of primary production and therefore eligible for the farm management deposit tax concessions.
If you are the beneficiary of a primary production trust that made a loss, you are considered to be in a business of primary production, and therefore eligible for the farm management deposit tax concessions, if:
- the trustee of the primary production trust nominated you as a chosen beneficiary, or
- you are the beneficiary of a fixed trust.
You need to know
FMD owners can access their deposits early when affected by certain natural disasters, without losing their concessional tax treatment (see Natural disaster assistance below).
You can also go to Farm management deposits - early access for primary producers for more information.
Deductible deposits
Your 2013-14 farm management deposits are deductible if all of the following are satisfied:
- Your 2013-14 taxable non-primary production income is $65,000 or less.
- You are carrying on a primary production business at the time of making the deposit.
- If you stopped carrying on a primary production business during the year, you recommenced carrying on such a business within 120 days.
- Your individual deposits are not less than $1,000 and total deposits not more than $400,000.
- Your individual deposits do not cause your total FMDs to exceed the $400,000 account limit.
- Your individual deposits do not exceed the amount of your 2013-14 taxable primary production income.
- You held the deposits for at least 12 months or qualify for one of the early repayment exceptions below.
Non-deductible deposits
A deduction cannot be claimed for deposits made in the 2013-14 year if:
- the FMD owner became bankrupt or ceased to carry on a primary production business (including a business that was carried on in a partnership or as a beneficiary of a trust) for 120 days or more, or
- the FMD owner passed away.
If this applies to you or you are the executor of a deceased estate:
- All deposits must be repaid.
- Include as assessable income any repaid deductible deposits.
- Do not claim a deduction for deposits made after the business ceased or any deposits made in 2013-14 by the now deceased FMD owner.
Deposits repaid within 12 months
You cannot claim a deduction for that part of a deposit repaid within 12 months.
If you withdrew a deposit early (and don't qualify for one of the early repayment exceptions below) and made the deposit in this income year, do not include this amount as a deposit or repayment. If, however, you claimed the deduction in a prior income year, request an amendment of your assessment for that income year.
If you withdrew part of your deposit early, you may continue to claim a deduction for that part of the deposit that was held for a full 12 months or more (provided that your total deposits remain $1,000 or more).
'Early repayment' exceptions
If you are eligible to claim the exceptional circumstances and/or the natural disaster exceptions (below), you can access your deposits early without losing your concessional tax treatment.
If you claim one of the exceptions below, you cannot claim a deduction for deposits you make in 2013-14 after the early repayment.
Exceptional circumstances (EC)
You may be eligible to claim this exception if you:
- made the original deposit before the relevant EC declaration was made
- were eligible to be issued an exceptional circumstances certificate relating to your primary production business, at the time of the deposit repayment,
- withdrew the deposit in the income year after you made the deposit
- obtained an EC certificate no later than three months after the end of the income year in which the repayment of the deposit was made.
For more information about exceptional circumstances or to find out whether your area was declared to be in exceptional circumstances:
- go to the website of the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry at daff.gov.au/droughtassistExternal Link
- phone the Department of Human Services Drought Assistance Line on 13 23 16
- phone the Australian Government Regional Information Service on 1800 026 222.
If you need an exceptional circumstances certificate, phone the Department of Human Services Drought Assistance Line.
Natural disaster assistance
You may be eligible to claim this exception if;
- you made the original deposit before a natural disaster declaration was made
- your primary production business received Natural Disaster Relief and Recovery Arrangements (NDRRA) Category C assistance, and
- you withdrew the FMD deposit early, after having received the assistance.
For more information about the natural disaster exception, go to daff.gov.au/fmdsExternal Link
To confirm that your business is eligible or has received this type of assistance, review your disaster assistance documents.
Repayments are assessable income
You must include as assessable income, in the year in which they are repaid, repayments of previously deducted deposits.
Do not include as assessable income repayments of deposits that you did not claim as a deduction.
When you receive a repayment, you are considered to have been repaid any non-deductible amounts first.
Transfers to a new provider
You do not need to return as assessable income transfers of the same deposit amount from one FMD provider to another. Examples include:
- electronic transfers from a liquidated authorised deposit-taking institution (ADI) to a new ADI
- transfers by the Australian Prudential Regulatory Authority under the Financial Claims Scheme.
If you have any questions about the tax consequences of farm management deposits or repayments, see Farm management deposits scheme or phone 13 28 66.
Deceased estate
If you are looking after the estate of someone who died in 2013-14, you cannot claim a deduction for any deposits they made in 2013-14. Any farm management deposits held at the time of death are assessable income in 2013-14 to the extent they have previously been claimed as a deduction.
Deductions in earlier years are not affected even when the person dies within 12 months of making the deposit.
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What you may need
- Your account statement from your FMD provider.
- Information for primary producers 2014 (NAT 1712)
- Farm management deposits scheme (NAT 8776)
Step 1
Add up deductible deposits you made in 2013-14.
Write the total at D item 17 on your tax return.
Step 2
Add up early repayments you withdrew during 2013-14 that qualify for an exceptional circumstances exception.
Write the total at C.
Step 3
Add up early repayments you withdrew during 2013-14 that qualify for a natural disaster exception.
Write the total at N.
If you made the deposit in this income year, ensure you have included this deposit at D above.
If you withdrew a deposit made in the last income year and claimed the deduction, you do not need to lodge an amendment.
Step 4
Add up FMDs you held for 12 months or more and were repaid during 2013-14. Write the total at R.
Step 5
Add up the amounts you showed at C, N and R, and take away the amount you showed at D.
Write the answer at E. If the amount is negative (your deductible deposits exceed your total repayments), print L in the Loss box at E.
Record keeping
You will need to keep the following documents:
- statement of account from your FMD provider
- exceptional circumstances certificate
- proof that you received Natural Disaster Category C assistance for primary producers.
Where to go next
- Go to question 18 Capital gains.
- Return to main menu Individual tax return instructions.
- Go back to question 16 Deferred non-commercial business losses.


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Our friend and sometime contributor Eli Lehrer (of the R Street think tank) has been warning for years against the recklessness of friendly subsidies to building on storm-threatened beachfronts.
Today the New York Times takes up his issue.
A coalition in Washington called SmarterSafer.org, made up of environmentalists, libertarians and budget watchdogs, contends that the subsidies have essentially become a destructive, unaffordable entitlement.
"We simply can't go on subsidizing enormous numbers of people to live in areas that are prone to huge natural disasters," said Eli Lehrer, the president of the conservative R Street Institute, part of the coalition.
This argument might be gaining some traction. Earlier this year, Congress passed changes to the federal flood insurance program that are supposed to raise historically low premiums and reduce homeowner incentives for rebuilding in the most hazardous areas.
Less widely known about than flood insurance are the subsidies from the Stafford Act, the federal law governing the response to emergencies like hurricanes, wildfires and tornadoes. It kicks in when the president declares a federal disaster that exceeds the response capacity of state and local governments.
Experts say the law is at least as important as the flood program in motivating reconstruction after storms. In the same way flood insurance shields families from the financial consequences of rebuilding in risky areas, the Stafford Act shields local and state governments from the full implications of their decisions on land use.
Under the law, the federal government committed more than $80 billion to disaster recovery from 2004 to 2011, according to a report from the Government Accountability Office. While billions of dollars went to relieve immediate suffering, including cash payments to families left homeless by storms, nearly half of the money was spent helping state and local governments clean and restore damaged areas and rebuild infrastructure.


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Attorney General Jeff Sessions recently ordered the Justice Department to increase the use of civil asset forfeiture, thus once again endorsing an unconstitutional, authoritarian, and increasingly unpopular policy.
Civil asset forfeiture, which should be called civil asset theft, is the practice of seizing property believed to be involved in a crime. The government keeps the property even if it never convicts, or even charges, the owner of the property.
Police can even use civil asset theft to steal from people whose property was used in criminal activity without the owners' knowledge. Some have even lost their homes because a renter or houseguest was dealing drugs on the premises behind the owners' backs.
Civil asset theft is a multi-billion dollar a year moneymaker for all levels of government. Police and prosecutors receive more than their "fair share" of the loot. According to a 2016 study by the Institute for Justice, 43 states allow police and prosecutors to keep at least half of the loot they got from civil asset theft.
Obviously, this gives police an incentive to aggressively use civil asset theft, even against those who are not even tangentially involved in a crime. For example, police in Tenaha, Texas literally engaged in highway robbery — seizing cash and other items from innocent motorists — while police in Detroit once seized every car in an art institute's parking lot. The official justification for that seizure was that the cars belonged to attendees at an event for which the institute had failed to get a liquor license.
The Tenaha police are not the only ones targeting those carrying large sums of cash. Anyone traveling with "too much" cash runs the risk of having it stolen by a police officer, since carrying large amounts of cash is treated as evidence of involvement in criminal activity.
Civil asset theft also provides an easy way for the IRS to squeeze more money from the American taxpayer. As the growing federal debt increases the pressure to increase tax collections without raising tax rates, the IRS will likely ramp up its use of civil asset forfeiture.
Growing opposition to the legalized theft called civil asset forfeiture has led 24 states to pass laws limiting its use. Sadly, but not surprisingly, Attorney General Jeff Sessions is out of step with this growing consensus. After all, Sessions is a cheerleader for the drug war, and civil asset theft came into common usage as a tool in the drug war.
President Trump could do the American people a favor by naming a new attorney general who opposes police state policies like the drug war and police state tactics like civil asset theft.


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The concept of Absolute Reality, or Brahman, is a central concept in Hinduism. The idea of Brahman is that once an individual understands Brahman, they will be considered a Self-realized being, or "liberated while alive" (Rodrigues 96). Most Hindu's spend their lives trying to attain this liberation. There are two qualities or gunas of Brahman which are typically discussed by Hindu philosophers: Nirguna, meaning without qualities, and Saguna, meaning with qualities. Nirguna and Saguna "are used to describe the brahman or the ultimate reality, referring to its transcendent as well as immanent character, and as such, involve neither negation nor exclusion of each other" ("Nirguna and Saguna" Brill Online); however, there are different interpretations on whether Brahman is intrinsically Nirguna or Saguna. Two key individuals who strive to explain these notions are the Hindu philosophers Sankara, and Ramanuja.
In Hinduism, the concept of Brahman and Atman (Self) go hand in hand. Brahman "seems to be to stand for some ultimate wholeness, which can integrate all existence" ("Brahman" Brill Online); however, there are two different ways to view Brahman. One way to describe Brahman would be that it is the source of all things, and that all things will eventually go back to this source. Another way to describe Brahman is as "a principle of experience, as that which is the essence of the seeker's being, that onto which the self of the seeker can be mapped" ("Brahman" Brill Online). The Upanisads are texts which somewhat ambiguously describe Brahman; Brahman is sometimes the cause, sometimes the creator and there are both personal and impersonal explanations of Brahman. As a result, it is important to understand all concepts of Brahman to fully grasp its true nature.
Another important concept of Brahman is Atman (the individual self) and the relationship between the two. Some individuals consider Brahman and Atman to be one and the same, whereas others "regard it as distinct from the self" ("Brahman and God" BBC Religions). The Upanisad texts further describe Brahman as a kind of creator as well as supporter of all things in the universe ("Brahman" Brill Online). Once an individual understands the connection between Brahman and the Self (Atman), the individual then experiences moksa. Moksa is the "liberation from the cycle of birth, death, and rebirth" (Rodrigues 555). Haridas Chaudhuri describes the realization of the true nature of Brahman as "infinite being-consciousness-joy" (Chaudhuri 48). There are no words to accurately describe Brahman, but the sacred utterance Aum is said to be both a symbol of Brahman, and a manifestation of Brahman in sound (Rodrigues 181). Although there are hundreds of gods that individuals worship in Hinduism, Brahman encompasses everything.
One figure that is pivotal in exploring the notion of Brahman, and its qualities or lack thereof, is Sankara. Born in Kerala around the 8th century, Sankara was a leader of one of four mathas groups, the Sankaracaryas. Sankara is considered one of the most important Hindu philosophers, known especially for his interpretations of the Upanisads, the Bhagavad Gita, and the Brahma Sutra. He created the Advaita Vedanta (radical non-dualism) philosophy, which claims, like other aspects of Hinduism, that the only thing in existence is Brahman. The difference however, is that the concept of Brahman in Advaita Vedanta is that Brahman is not made up of parts, therefore Atman is Brahman, and Brahman is Atman: not two different attributes like other schools of thought maintain. Atman couldn't be a quality/attribute of Brahman, because Brahman is not made up of separate parts. This notion suggests that Brahman is Nirguna, "beyond, or without attributes" (Rodrigues 507). A part of Sankara's philosophy describes Nirguna Brahman as being an "unqualified reality, [and] is the origin of the world of experience" (Carr 425), and can also be described as silence; this is a state of Brahman in which the individual is at peace, and still. There is not anything that needs to be changed. The difficulty with assigning Brahman as Nirguna is that even trying to describe Brahman is saying that Brahman has qualities that can be described, and therefore one is describing a Saguna Brahman. The qualities, or gunas, that appear to make up Brahman are attributed to maya, the creative side of Brahman. Maya is "the creative power through which Brahman, like a great magician, conjures up the world of seeming multiplicity and separate selves" (Rodrigues 374). An illustration that Sankara uses to explain this philosophy is the analogy of a rope and a snake. Walking along, one might think that they see a snake in their path. By seeing this snake, many emotions can overcome the individual, but "once the illusion is penetrated, the illusory snake vanishes, revealing the substrate upon which it was superimposed" (Rodrigues 374); therefore, maya is superimposed on Brahman. Since Brahman is everything, maya deludes everything one sees until moksa, or liberation, is attained. At this point, the individual becomes one with Brahman, and the individual is not fooled by maya any longer. Until this occurs, "the world…even including Isvara (the Lord), is not ultimately true or real, but that ultimate reality belongs only to the infinite, eternal, unchanging, pure bliss consciousness that is Brahman…all that we see with our senses, even our private thoughts, Advaita claims, are not ultimately real" (Betty 216).
The second aspect of Brahman is the concept of Saguna Brahman. Although it is an equal part of understanding Brahman, it is drastically different from Nirguna Brahman. Saguna Brahman is "Ultimate Reality assigned with attributes" (Rodrigues 508). Chaudhuri describes Saguna Brahman as "the Supreme Spirit conceived as the universal principle endowed with such cosmic functions as creation, maintenance, and dissolution" (47). As stated above, Chaudhuri describes Brahman as being a concept of creative joy, and in that case, Saguna Brahman would be the "supreme artist of the world" (50). Sankara takes his views on how maya is superimposed onto Brahman, and says that since maya is superimposed onto everything, the things one sees through maya have qualities, and therefore those qualities mean that Brahman is Saguna. Sankara also explains that the understanding of the world that one sees through maya is called Isvara (The Lord). The three qualities of Saguna Brahman that are most prevalent are sat, cit, and ananda. Sat is the being or existence of Brahman, cit is the consciousness Brahman, and ananda is bliss. These qualities of Brahman are viewed through maya's illusions and once these qualities are stripped away, Sankara's theory is that one is left with the pure essence of Brahman, which is Nirguna, or without attributes. Anantanand Rambachan explains this complex relationship by simply stating that "Isvara is related to the world and defined through that relationship, whereas nirguna brahman is brahman-in-itself and beyond all definitions" (Rambachan 14).
Another important Hindu philosopher is Ramanuja. Ramanuja was born in the 11th or 12th century in Chennai. Before he created his own philosophy, he studied Sankara's Advaita Vedanta philosophy. Ramanuja would go on to join the Sri-Vaisnava tradition, which focused on the influences of the Alvars, who were very influenced by bhakti which is defined as "devotional worship through action" (Rodrigues 543). His own philosophy, however, is called Visistadvaita (qualified non-dualism). Ramanuja's philosophy is similar to Sankara's philosophy of Advaita Vedanta in that they both believe that Brahman is the Ultimate Reality, and that Brahman encompasses everything. Unlike Sankara, Ramanuja also believes that it has gunas, or qualities, and therefore is Saguna. He believes this upon the understanding that one can't talk about, or try to understand a Nirguna Brahman – even attempting to discuss Nirguna Brahman is giving it qualities, and is therefore Saguna. The Visistadvaita tradition "rejects all talk of maya, or illusion" (Betty 217). Followers of the tradition believe that everything in the universe, and everything one sees within is Brahman itself. Brahman is part of everything in the universe, but is also a distinct being apart from the universe. Ramanuja assigns the name Isvara (The Lord) to his idea of Saguna Brahman. In the Sri-Vaisnava tradition, Atman is not equal, or the same as Brahman, it is a "[mode] or [aspect] of Brahman, wholly dependent upon the Lord" (Rodrigues 377). When a being is liberated through moksa, the individual is able to connect with Isvara. In this stage, the individual is no longer hindered or distracted by maya, which stated above, is the power of illusion. Unlike Sankara's philosophy, Ramanuja believes that it is the power of the Lord, not the individual that liberates an individual; however, the Lord cannot liberate a being, the liberating is done through the "descent of his grace, the goddess Sri" (Rodrigues 377).
The concept of Brahman is so important in Hinduism that it is not difficult to imagine the different forms of opinions surrounding the two notions of Nirguna and Saguna Brahman. Two important Hindu philosophers, Sankara and Ramanuja, both had different opinions and philosophies on these two notions. Sankara believed that Brahman is Nirguna, or having no qualities or attributes, and that everything one sees is not Brahman, but maya, or the power of illusion. Ramanuja believes that Brahman is Saguna, or with qualities, due to the fact that even trying to describe the notion of a Nirguna Brahman is assigning attributes, making Brahman Saguna. There are many other philosophers who attempt to explain the two different notions of Brahman, but Sankara and Ramanuja's philosophies are the primary philosophies.
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Carr, Brian (1999) "Sankara and the principle of material causation." Religious Studies, Vol. 35, No. 4: 425-439.
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Related Topics for Further Investigation
Advaita Vedanta
The Upanisads
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Article written by: Alex Williams (April 2013) who is solely responsible for its content.


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Every time the mainstream media touts some "wonderful new economic numbers" I just want to cringe. Yes, it is true that the economic numbers have gotten slightly better since Donald Trump entered the White House, but the rosy economic picture that the mainstream media is constantly painting for all of us is completely absurd. As you are about to see, if honest numbers were being used all of our major economic numbers would be absolutely terrible. Of course we can hope for a major economic turnaround for America under Donald Trump, but we certainly are not there yet. Economist John Williams of shadowstats.com has been tracking what our key economic numbers would look like if honest numbers were being used for many years, and he has gained a sterling reputation for being accurate. And according to him, it looks like the U.S. economy has been in a recession and/or depression for a very long time.
Let's start by talking about unemployment. We are being told that the unemployment rate in the United States is currently "3.8 percent", which would be the lowest that it has been "in nearly 50 years".
To support this claim, the mainstream media endlessly runs articles declaring how wonderful everything is. For example, the following is from a recent New York Times article entitled "We Ran Out of Words to Describe How Good the Jobs Numbers Are"…
The real question in analyzing the May jobs numbers released Friday is whether there are enough synonyms for "good" in an online thesaurus to describe them adequately.
So, for example, "splendid" and "excellent" fit the bill. Those are the kinds of terms that are appropriate when the United States economy adds 223,000 jobs in a month, despite being nine years into an expansion, and when the unemployment rate falls to 3.8 percent, a new 18-year low.
Doesn't that sound great?
It would be great, if the numbers that they were using were honest.
The truth, of course, is that the percentage of the population that is employed has barely budged since the depths of the last recession. According to John Williams, if honest numbers were being used the unemployment rate would actually be 21.5 percent today.
So what is the reason for the gaping disparity?
As I have explained repeatedly, the government has simply been moving people from the "officially unemployed" category to the "not in the labor force" category for many, many years.
If we use the government's own numbers, there are nearly 102 million working age Americans that do not have a job right now. That is higher than it was at any point during the last recession.
We are being conned. I have a friend down in south Idaho that is a highly trained software engineer that has been out of work for two years.
If the unemployment rate is really "3.8 percent", why can't he find a decent job?
By the way, if you live in the Boise area and you know of an opening for a quality software engineer, please let me know and I will get the information to him.
Next, let's talk about inflation.
According to Williams, the way inflation has been calculated in this country has been repeatedly changed over the decades…
Williams argues that U.S. statistical agencies overestimate GDP data by underestimating the inflation deflator they use in the calculation.
Manipulating the inflation rate, Williams argues in Public Comment on Inflation Measurement , also enables the US government to pay out pensioners less than they were promised, by fudging cost of living adjustments.
This manipulation has ironically taken place quite openly over decades, as successive Republican and Democratic administrations made "improvements" in the way they calculated the data.
If inflation was still calculated the way that it was in 1990, the inflation rate would be 6 percent today instead of about 3 percent.
And if inflation was still calculated the way that it was in 1980, the inflation rate would be about 10 percent today.
Doesn't that "feel" more accurate to you? We have all seen how prices for housing, food and health care have soared in recent years. After examining what has happened in your own life, do you believe that the official inflation rates of "2 percent" and "3 percent" that we have been given in recent years are anywhere near accurate?
Because inflation is massively understated, that has a tremendous effect on our GDP numbers as well.
If accurate inflation numbers were being used, we would still be in a recession right now.
In fact, John Williams insists that we would still be in a recession that started back in 2004.
And without a doubt, a whole host of other more independent indicators point in that direction too. The following comes from an excellent piece by Peter Diekmeyer…
Williams' findings, while controversial, corroborate a variety of other data points. Median wage gains have been stagnant for decades. The U.S. labour force participation rate remains at multi-decade lows. Even our own light-hearted Big Mac deflator suggests that the U.S. economy is in a depression.
Another clue is to evaluate the U.S. economy just as economists would a third world nation whose data they don't trust. They do this by resorting to figures that are hard to fudge.
There, too, by a variety of measures—ranging from petroleum consumption to consumer goods production to the Cass Freight Index—the U.S. economy appears to have not grown much, if at all, since the turn of the millennium.
In the end, all that any of us really need to do is to just open our eyes and look at what is happening all around us. We are on pace for the worst year for retail store closings in American history, and this "retail apocalypse" is hitting rural areas harder than anywhere else…
This city's Target store is gone.
So is Kmart, MC Sports, JCPenney, Vanity and soon Herberger's, a department store.
"The mall is pretty sad," says Amanda Cain, a teacher and mother. "Once Herberger's closes, we'll have no anchors."
About two-thirds of Ottumwa's Quincy Place Mall will be empty with Herberger's loss.
Of course it isn't just the U.S. economy that is troubled either.
We are living in the terminal phase of the greatest debt bubble in global history, many nations around the globe are already experiencing a very deep economic downturn, and our planet is literally in the process of dying.
So please don't believe the hype.
Yes, we definitely hope that things will get better, but the truth is that things have not been "good" for the U.S. economy for a very, very long time.
Michael Snyder is a nationally syndicated writer, media personality and political activist. He is the author of four books including The Beginning Of The End and Living A Life That Really Matters.


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Every year, millions of consumers fall victim to cybercrime. According to the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center consumers lost more than $1 billion from scams initiated through the web in 2015. In recognition of Safer Internet Day on Feb. 7, Chelsea Groton Bank is highlighting seven tips to help consumers stay safe online, guard against online threats, and maintain a secure web environment.
Chelsea Groton Bank recommends the following tips to help you stay safe online:
- Keep your computers and mobile devices up to date. Having the latest security software, web browser, and operating system are the best defenses against viruses, malware, and other online threats. Turn on automatic updates so you receive the newest fixes as they become available.
- Set strong passwords. A strong password is at least eight characters in length and includes a mix of upper and lowercase letters, numbers, and special characters.
- Watch out for phishing scams. Phishing scams use fraudulent emails and websites to trick users into disclosing private account or login information. Do not click on links or open any attachments or pop-up screens from sources you are not familiar with. Forward phishing emails to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) at firstname.lastname@example.com – and to the company, bank, or organization impersonated in the email.
- Keep personal information personal. Hackers can use social media profiles to figure out your passwords and answer those security questions in the password reset tools. Lock down your privacy settings and avoid posting things like birthdays, addresses, mother's maiden name, etc. Be wary of requests to connect from people you do not know.
- Secure your internet connection. Always protect your home wireless network with a password. When connecting to public Wi-Fi networks, be cautious about what information you are sending over it.
- Shop safely. Before shopping online, make sure the website uses secure technology. When you are at the checkout screen, verify that the web address begins with https. Also, check to see if a tiny locked padlock symbol appears on the page.
- Read the site's privacy policies. Though long and complex, privacy policies tell you how the site protects the personal information it collects. If you don't see or understand a site's privacy policy, consider doing business elsewhere.


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A Complete Nutrition Formula with no artificial colors or flavors and no synthetic vitamins. Almost 50 wholesome ingredients chopped to beak perfection for Petite Hookbills such as Parrotlets, Lovebirds & Cockatiels. Does not contain peanuts. Each package is date coded for guaranteed freshness.
Ingredients: Canary Grass Seed, roasted unsalted Almonds, hulled Oats, Sunflower Kernels, white proso Millet, Cantaloupe Seed, natural Sesame Seed, Black Sesame Seed, roasted Soybeans, roasted rolled Corn, sterile Hemp Seed, roasted unsalted Cashews, Cranberries, Blueberries and Goji Berries, Japanese Millet, freeze dried Honey, freeze dried Molasses Flakes, Pineapple, Mango, Red Siberian Millet, Green Cabbage, Granola made with whole Wheat, Brown Sugar, Canola Oil, natural Coconut, Sweet Dairy Whey, Oat Flour, roasted Almonds and Honey. Fine Cracked Corn, Wildflower Seeds, Canola Seeds, Caraway Seeds, Carrots, freeze dried Sweet Corn, Cherries, cooked and dehydrated assorted Beans, Parsley, Dates, Papaya, Basil, Soy Nuts, Pecans, Wheat Germ, Bee Pollen, Cranberry Seeds, Orange Peel Granules, Bentonite Crumbles, natural Fruit Flavors.
Guaranteed Analysis: crude protein (min.) 14%; crude fat (min.) 12%; crude fiber max 9%; moisture (max.) 6%; ash (max.) 9%
Refrigerate after opening to retain freshness


text: Hamilton mastermind Lin-Manuel Miranda may have performed at the Richard Rodgers for one last time on July 9—but that hardly means he's not keeping busy! (We told you he would!) The Tony winner took the stage on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on July 12 with pop sensation Jennifer Lopez to perform their single, "Love Make the World Go Round," a tribute to the victims of the tragic Orlando shooting that occurred on June 12; proceeds from the track benefit the Hispanic Federation's Proyecto Somos Orlando. If you loved their up-tempo stint on The Today Show, you'll adore this stripped down (albeit, extremely colorful) version below. The ten-dollar Founding Father also dished on his emotional last performance. Enjoy!


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Persistent Parker nears top job at American
Published 12:00 am Friday, February 15, 2013
Doug Parker has no problem donning rapper Psy's light blue tuxedo for Halloween and performing his own version of Gangnam Style before hundreds of employees. The CEO of US Airways even let a video of his dance get posted to YouTube. He's outspoken, confident, and persistent, and he is very close to being put in charge of the world's largest airline.
After the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Parker camped out in Washington for three months to secure a government loan to keep his airline in business. One executive who was with him said it often seemed like the other airlines just wanted America West to go out of business.
Parker later engineered an audacious merger of America West and the larger US Airways. Then he spent the next seven years looking for another partner. First Delta rebuffed him. Then United. Twice. Parker then went after the only big airline left: American.
American also resisted at first. But Parker convinced its unions and bankruptcy creditors to pressure American management until it relented. The two sides announced Thursday they'll combine to form an airline that's bigger than United and Delta. Parker will run it.
"It's taken a lot of grit, right? To hang in here, with someone telling you pretty much every day, 'We ain't doing it,"' said Bill Franke, who was CEO of America West starting in 1993, and picked Parker to be his protege before promoting him into the airline's top job. Parker is now the longest-serving airline U.S. CEO.
Parker attracts comparisons to Herb Kelleher, the whiskey-drinking, cigarette-puffing lawyer who helped found Southwest Airlines.
"Doug can be Kelleheresque when it's appropriate," said Henri Courpron, a former Airbus North America CEO and now CEO of airplane leasing company International Lease Finance Corp. "But he also has a collection of suits and ties and can come across as an investment banker when that's necessary."
In 1991 Doug Parker was a new finance guy at Northwest Airlines. He had recently arrived from American, where he was part of a sharp group of young finance whizzes. Among them were other future airline CEOs, including American's current chief, Tom Horton.
Parker's task: help create a team that would systematically figure out where the airline was making and losing money. Airlines are a notoriously complex business, where profitable flights turn into money-losers overnight if not enough business travelers showed up at the last minute. Tracking profits flight-by-flight in such detail was a big job and was a first for Northwest, said Jon Austin, who was a spokesman for the airline during the 1990s and met Parker on his first day on the job.
Parker quickly became a go-to person, and executives "threw him into some of their more challenging issues," Austin recalled. "It was a real loss when he jumped to America West."
That happened in 1995, when he was hired to be chief financial officer of the Arizona-based airline. Because Franke wanted to train him to be a CEO, he moved Parker around between finance, sales, and operations.
Parker was just 39 when he became CEO of America West on Sept. 1, 2001.
The aftermath of the terror attacks 10 days later devastated airlines. Travelers were initially hesitant to fly, and demand for business travel dropped.
Knowing his airline needed help, Parker testified before Congress about the need for bailout legislation. He and Bernie Han, America West's chief financial officer, and another executive lived there on weekdays for three months at the end of 2001, Han said. They made their case in a 6-inch thick book that was delivered to the Treasury Department, he said.
"The rest of the industry believed if you just let America West go away, that'll help everybody else, so don't give them a loan," Han said. Meetings would start at 6 p.m. and end at midnight with a grocery list of questions for America West to answer. Han believed the agency handling the loan hoped it the airline would struggle for answers. But America West staff in Tempe, Ariz., worked all night, and Parker and co. would deliver the answers the next morning.
Han, now the chief operating officer for Dish Network, said the pace was intense, but it didn't really seem like work.
"We could have gone on to get different jobs," he said. "But 12,000 other people's jobs were on the line."
The airline won a $380 million federal loan guarantee that kept it out of bankruptcy.
Parker trimmed America West into a leaner airline, with moves that he would repeat later. He cut 250 office jobs, and closed its hub in Columbus, Ohio. In July 2003, America West posted its first quarterly profit in more than two years.
Parker, 51, and his wife Gwen a former American flight attendant have three children and live in Paradise Valley, a Phoenix suburb not far from US Airways' headquarters in Tempe. The airline said he wouldn't be available for an interview for this story.
In 1980, Parker was a new Albion College freshman who was "semi-decent at math," he told Albion graduates in a 2010 commencement address. The college shared video of the address with The Associated Press
He followed the advice of others and signed up for computer science courses. He hated it.
"I wasn't good at it, it never felt right to me," he said. But he liked philosophy and microeconomics, so he changed his major to economics in his sophomore year. He graduated in 1984, then earned a master's in business administration from Vanderbilt University in 1986.
He later landed in the finance department at American, then applied for a management job in a different department. Colleagues tried to talk him out of it. "But something was telling me that I'd be a good team leader," he said in the commencement address. "I enjoyed building teams. They accomplished more collectively than we could as individuals, and learning that about myself made a huge difference in my career path."
Parker has a loose, direct speaking style and a gravelly voice. On quarterly earnings conference calls, it doesn't take much prompting for him share his thoughts on what's wrong with the airline business and how it ought to get better.
Partway through the speech at Albion he pauses to fix his mortarboard, which has shifted. "These things, by the way, are ridiculous. You don't have to wear these things ever again."
Most of the big airlines struggled all through the 2000s. By the end of 2005, three of the four biggest U.S. airlines needed bankruptcy protection. . The thinking on Wall Street was that too many airlines were chasing too few travelers, forcing fares too low to cover the cost of flying.
Parker was vocal about the need for airlines to consolidate.
In 2005 he kicked off the industry's recent merger wave by grabbing the larger US Airways. It was a daring move US Airways had twice as many employees and flew to many more cities than America West. But US Airways was foundering during its second bankruptcy. Parker saw a chance to transform America West from a regional airline into a national one.
Parker has focused US Airways on profitable flying. He closed the former America West hub in Las Vegas and traded away many of its landing rights in New York for more slots in Washington. It's posted three annual profits in a row.
Airline mergers moved ahead without Parker, though.
In 2006, Parker tried to merge with Delta while it was in bankruptcy protection. Delta rallied workers and creditors against the hostile bid. Creditors rejected it in early 2007. A year later, Delta bought Northwest.
Parker turned to United in 2008, but after some talks, it walked away. The talks were rekindled in 2010, but United dropped them again in favor of Continental.
US Airways lost money in 2008 and 2009, and it was viewed as one of the industry's more troubled players. After Continental CEO Jeff Smisek agreed to merge with United in 2010, he called US Airways "the ugly girl." Parker, the biggest proponent of merging airlines, ran the one nobody wanted to merge with.
Parker approached American differently. He lined up early support from American's labor, and courted creditors. Seven years ago he said Delta would shrink if it merged. With American, he has said the airline will be profitable by being bigger.
Franke, who hired Parker at America West, and now runs Phoenix-based private equity fund at Indigo Partners, said Parker has "learned a lot from the issues he had with Delta and United."
"Doug's a very smart guy, he's a very energetic guy, he's a guy who listens to people and adapts accordingly," said Spirit Airlines CEO Ben Baldanza, who worked with Parker at Northwest and American. "So I don't think anyone should be surprised that he's in position to run the world's largest airline."


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"For twenty-five years, Debby Irving sensed inexplicable racial tensions in her personal and professional relationships. As a colleague and neighbor, she worried about offending people she dearly wanted to befriend. As an arts administrator, she didn't understand why her diversity efforts lacked traction. As a teacher, she found her best efforts to reach out to students and families of color left her wondering what she was missing. Then, in 2009, one 'aha!' moment launched an adventure of discovery and insight that drastically shifted her worldview and upended her life plan. In Waking Up White, Irving tells her often cringe-worthy story with such openness that readers will turn every page rooting for her--and ultimately for all of us."
Irving, Debby. Waking up White: And Finding Myself in the Story of Race. Cambridge, MA: Elephant Room Press, 2014.


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Profitability grows when revenue increases and costs are controlled. NTMA can help you with both. Though most of our members are small- to medium-sized companies, the power of the association can help you do business like a large corporation.
Revenue growth:
- We organize regular business-to-business purchasing fairs, designed to operate like speed dating for suppliers. We invite 100 or more buyers from large companies and then give you opportunities to briefly pitch your products and services. As a result attendees leave with good contacts and solid leads, leading to increased business. Companies have been awarded millions of dollars in contracts as a direct result of these events.
- By interacting with fellow members in your local chapter, you may discover new business opportunities, or ways to work together with peers to increase business or market yourselves cooperatively.
Cost control:
- We offer discount programs with several large suppliers (including Grainger, UPS and Yellow Freight), allowing you to leverage NTMA's combined buying power for your own benefit
- Our business insurance program keeps more money in your pocket by offering a necessary product in a low-overhead, not-for-profit manner.
Our decision resources allow you to be smarter about how you use your resources, resulting in greater efficiencies and lower costs.


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Surprise Medical Bills
Your Rights and Protections Against Surprise Medical Bills
When you get emergency care or get treated by an out-of-network provider at an in-network hospital or ambulatory surgical center, you are protected from surprise billing or balance billing.
What is "balance billing" (sometimes called "surprise billing")?
When you see a doctor or other health care provider, you may owe certain out-of-pocket costs, such as a copayment, coinsurance, and/or a deductible. You may have other costs or have to pay the entire bill if you see a provider or visit a healthcare facility that isn't in your health plan's network.
"Out-of-network" describes providers and facilities without a contract with your health plan. Out-of-network providers may be permitted to bill you for the difference between what your plan agreed to pay and the full amount charged for a service. This is called "balance billing." This amount is likely more than in-network costs for the same service and might not count toward your annual out-of-pocket limit.
"Surprise billing" is an unexpected balance bill. This can happen when you can't control who is involved in your care—like when you have an emergency or when you schedule a visit at an in-network facility but are unexpectedly treated by an out-of-network provider.
You are protected from balance billing for:
Emergency services
If you have an emergency medical condition and get emergency services from an out-of-network provider or facility, the most the provider or facility may bill you is your plan's in-network cost-sharing amount (such as copayments and coinsurance). You can't be balance billed for these emergency services. This includes services you may get after you're in stable condition unless you give written consent and give up your protections not to be balanced billed for these post-stabilization services.
Texas law protects patients with state-regulated health insurance (about 16 percent of Texans) from surprise medical bills in emergencies or when they don't have a choice of doctors. The law bans doctors and providers from sending surprise medical bills to patients in those cases.
Certain services at an in-network hospital or ambulatory surgical center
When you get services from an in-network hospital or ambulatory surgical center, certain providers there may be out-of-network. In these cases, the most those providers may bill you is your plan's in-network cost-sharing amount. This applies to emergency medicine, anesthesia, pathology, radiology, laboratory, neonatology, assistant surgeon, hospitalist, or intensivist services. These providers can't balance bill you and may not ask you to give up your protections not to be balance billed.
If you get other services at these in-network facilities, out-of-network providers can't balance bill you, unless you give written consent and give up your protections.
Texas law also prohibits balance billing for any health care, medical service or supply provided at an in-network facility by an out-of-network physician or other provider and for services by diagnostic imaging providers and laboratory service providers provided in connection with a health care service performed by a network physician or provider.
You're never required to give up your protections from balance billing. You also aren't required to get care out-of-network. You can choose a provider or facility in your plan's network.
When balance billing isn't allowed, you also have the following protections:
- You are only responsible for paying your share of the cost (like the copayments, coinsurance, and deductibles that you would pay if the provider or facility were in-network). Your health plan will pay out-of-network providers and facilities.
- Your health plan generally must:
- Cover emergency services without requiring you to get approval for services in advance (prior authorization).
- Cover emergency services by out-of-network
- Base what you owe the provider or facility (cost-sharing) on what it would pay an in-network provider or facility and show that amount in your explanation of
- Count any amount you pay for emergency services or out-of-network services toward your deductible and out-of-pocket.
If you believe you've been wrongly billed, you may contact 1-800-985-3059.
Visit https://www.cms.gov/nosurprises (opens in new tab) for more information about your rights under federal law.


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Summer is here and so is the need to protect your RV from the exposure of the sun. Having your RV exposed to the beating sun for too long will eventually cause damage and can be costly. It is important to protect your RV or travel trailer, here are 3 quick things you can do to help protect it.
Check to see if your current RV roof still has some life in it or if it needs to be replaced. If the roof is not too damaged, continue to protect it and watch over it. The roof of your RV is exposed to the sun almost all of the time and harmful UV rays will cause it to degrade over time. Failure to keep a close eye on it can be detrimental and the roof could develop rotting wood in the ceiling which in turn could cause leakage and other damage on the inside as well.
Keep the roof as clean as possible to help it last over time. Dirt is more than just soil and has harmful acids from pollution that will cause the rubberized material your RV roof is made of to crack. Use a mild soap and spend some time cleaning in the cracks and caulking next to roof vents and skylights. When washing the roof of your RV, be careful not to step on the fragile plastic skylights or other areas that might cause damage to the RV.
After you have washed the roof and it has dried, it is time to seal it to protect it from the Sun. There are several options of silicone based products that you can purchase at your local store. The higher the silicone content, the greater the UV protection. If you keep your RV or travel trailer roof clean and sealed it will last for many years and get you to where you need to go!


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A while back I read about the Peppered Cottons challenge by Studio E Fabrics. The challenge began in September 2013, with the deadline of March 31st. I had a "lightbulb moment" about two weeks ago.
My plan involved making 288 (!) 3-inch cross stitch blocks. I have worked like a madwoman for the last week. I ordered more background fabric. I ordered the backing. I have no plan on how to quilt.
Finally, last night, I realized that with all things considered, I'm going to have to pass on the challenge. I am not a sweatshop. I would rather enjoy the journey. It will be finished when it is finished. And then I will send a picture to Studio E Fabrics and hope that they like it.
As of today, this is my progress, 202 blocks in various states of completion.


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Here's to NEW ventures and making new online friends. This is my blog and I will try and post something everyday. I am not much of a talker or a blogger so it will be pretty difficult for me to remember to post something. I was up til about 5:30 a.m. working on some new digis for the September 10th release; so I am a bit tired. Although, 4:00am is has become my usual bedtime since I am up pretty late drawing, creating my new website and graphic designing my rubber stamp insert cards -- yipee!! I will hopefully be offering etched rubber stamps very soon on selected images for those who prefer to work with rubber stamps.
The images I drew last night came out so adorable! There are a couple of cutsie ones and a couple of my regular type of drawings (ice bucket anyone? hint hint) :). I am do itching tp release them now! Sept. 10th is too far off, lol.
I am a versatile artist so I will be drawing a variety of images so that I can offer a wide range of digis for crafting community. Here are some fun facts about me. :)
At the moment I am offering a free digi for those of you who join our Facebook Group and blog. So stop on by and join the fun! Spread the word to your friends and crafting buddies.
I am 48.Engineer
I began drawing at the age of 4 and attended Pasadena Art school at 12.
I sold my artwork professionally at 12.
I was a victim of rape and physical abuse but thank God He has given me a heart to forgive quickly.
I became a born again believer at the age of 12 and have walked with Jesus ever since.
I was valedictorian of my high school and graduate with honors and high honors with a GPA of over 4.0.
I was accepted to 2 reputable colleges but decided not to attend because I wanted to be ana Medical Doctor, an Architect and a Designer. Knowing I could do them all, I decided it would take too long so I opted to raise a family and aimed to become the best mom ever!!
I have been married for 27 years to the same man.
I had all my children before the age of 30.
I had all my children with no labor pain and in less than an hour - thanks to a lot of prayer and reminding the Lord of His promises.
I had natural child birth with all my children. Although, we almost lost our first born, Matthew. He had the cord wrapped around his neck twice and his heart stopped several times.
I only weighed 129lbs at nine months pregnant and didn't show until I was almost 8 months. Best diet ever!!!! Wish I could do it again....
I attended an international Bible college and am an ordained minister.
My other job is a Pastor.
I love to listen to Christian music - actually that is all I ever listen to, keeps me focused on the Master.
I knew I would marry my husband because God told me He was the one He created for me.
My husband and I dated for only two months when he asked me to marry Him. I loved his big muscles and how he loves God! He is an awesome man of God and man, can he worship..
I have 7 sisters and 3 brothers and 24 neices and nephews. I lost count on how many 2, 3, 4ths of everything else. My father and two of my sisters are with Jesus now.
I lost my father and my closest sister to cancer as well as aunts and uncles. So it hits home very deeply.
I greatly miss them and ask the Lord to tell them I love them - daily.
I come from a large loud family and I love it.
I have traveled around the world preaching the Gospel and love the island of Cuba and its beautiful people!
I love Christmas lights. All year long and would have them up all year if I could get away with it or if didn't think me crazy and weird.
I love old black and white movies.
I love Little House on the Prairie and the Little Rascals.
I go all out in decorating for holidays and birthdays....I mean crazy!!!
I am a very good cook and an awesome baker. boy, can I bake!! but don't enjoy it the cooking or baking but love the decorating - go figure! that's the artist in me.
I love to worship - all the time. There's nothing like being in the presence of God.
I am very emotional and tear up easy and menopause has made it worse.
I am really, really shy. and super awkward at small talk. But once I get to know you, watch out, I am great at big talk, LOL.
I hate doing laundry but love to clean and have things immaculate, go figure.
I am a perfectionist but have learned to let it go, a little....
I am talented in many, many, many things and have a lot of interests.
I am athletic (or was) and love to play sports but hate to watch them. I especially love volleyball!
I love to play scrabble and played it all the time with my sister. Now that she is with the Lord, I play against the computer and win. Yeah baby!
I love to travel and fly but being on boats makes me nauseous. I have to wear those anti-nausea bracelets - they really work!
My middle name is Teresa.
My husband (Art) and I pray and worship together everyday.
We love to minister to others and have a heart for those who don't know Jesus or how much He loves them.
Art was created just for me!
We have Young adults bible studies every Friday and hang out with them during the week. I just love them!
I was diagnosed with FMS (fibromyalgia in 2003 and it makes everything pretty difficult and the depression gets pretty bad) and have arthritis from head to toe and other debilitating illnesses but I am standing on the Word of God and believing that my miracle is on its way!
I realized that the older you get, your body changes, boy, does it ever! Especially when you can't exercise, which I was a dedicated freak at. I weigh the most I have ever weighted in my life.... ugh...
I have three Yorkies - best dogs ever - they don't shed!!! That's a big plus for a neat freak like me :)
I am a steak and potato kind of girl.
I love my family so much!
I am a fighter and don't let anyone discourage me or stop me.
I will hurt anyone if my children are hurt...
I am a coin collector.


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Farmers Market Meeting will be March 20
The Concho Valley Farmers Market will conduct its annual membership meeting at 6 p.m. Monday, March 20, at 5238 Braden Road, the home of the market's president.
Anyone interested in selling homegrown vegetables, fruits, plants, nuts or honey during the thrice-weekly market under the Farmers Market Pavilion at 609 S. Oakes St. is invited and encouraged to attend.
Membership is required to participate in the sales, which begin in May and continue into October. Annual memberships are $15 for farmers with a half-acre or less of land and $20 for farms of one acre or more. Members pay $5 for each sale in which they participate. Membership is limited to farmers who live within a 75-mile radius of San Angelo.
At the annual gathering Monday night, the organization will review its bylaws and the upcoming year's calendar, will elect officers and a board member, and will discuss new rules and regulations.
For more information, call Margie Jackson with the Concho Valley Farmers Market at 325-245-3338.