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Do you run a carpet cleaning company? Launch an effective advertising campaign and attract clients who value cleanliness above all else by creating visually appealing flyers. Don't worry! Our flyer templates will make the design process easier for you. We offer a compilation of beautifully designed and 100% customizable flyer templates you can download for free. These files are easily editable and printable.
How to Create Carpet Cleaning Flyer Templates?
If you are managing a pressure washing company, you should note that the presence of competition in the industry is indisputable. For this reason, you should take measures to promote your business to the public. One way to effectively advertise your business is through distributing flyers. But before that, you should first create a compelling flyer design which prompts the target market to do business with you. To help you with that, we have listed six easy ways to create a flyer for your company.
1. Launch Canva.com
You don't need a complicated editing software to come up with an attractive flyer design. Canva features multiple tools that will enable users to create the perfect flyer. After opening the website, select the flyer design.
2. Select Template Design And Color Scheme
Select a template design that will help you communicate your brand values. Since we are talking about cleanliness, it would be an excellent choice to make use of white in your design. White has been known to symbolize purity and cleanliness. For the selection of letters, make sure that they are legible. Also, limit your font and color choices to three.
3. Type Necessary Details
In writing the details on your flyer, you first need to think of a catchy headline. A powerful headline encourages your potential customers to read its content from beginning to end. Arrange the information of your flyer starting from the most important one down to the least important. Talk about the services your business offers without occupying the whole page.
4. Show Comparison on Your Carpet Cleaning Flyer Templates
In your flyer, you can show the quality of the service you offer by attaching photos that show comparison. You may include a picture of a job before and after your staff did the cleaning. However, it is not really necessary to do so. You can just attach a photo of a cleaner and more organized place as a result of your service.
5. Include a Call to Action
An effective advertising campaign provokes an immediate response from your target market. Therefore, you need to include a call to action statement in your flyer. Without a call to action, an advertisement may lose its purpose. Also, don't forget to include the basic details of your company, such as company name, address, and contact information.
6. Proofread and Print
Proofreading your document is one vital step to a successful marketing campaign. An error-free advertising material increases the credibility of your business and shows professionalism to potential customers. After making sure that the content of your flyer is error-free, print it on a high-quality paper.


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Recent research has highlighted the importance of The Bank of Mum and Dad in helping young people start their adult lives, marriages and, most commonly of all, get themselves on the property ladder. However, passing down wealth through the generations takes careful planning. Here we look at how long-term objectives for family finances can be met.
Parents in the UK gift or loan their children an estimated £17 billion each year, mostly to help with buying a house or as a wedding present, according to recent research from the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS).
Most transfers come from parents aged over 50 to children in their late 20s and early 30s. Around 30% of young adults receive at least one substantial transfer (of £500 or more) over any eight-year period.
The majority of this transfer comes in the form of gifts while £3.3 billion is in the form of loans, although these are frequently lent with very favourable terms and low expectation of them being repaid.
Half of the value of gifts received was used for property purchases or improvement. Those using transfers for this purpose received over £20,000, on average. Those in the least wealthy third are relatively more likely to report using gifts for the purchase of a new car, to pay off debts or for educational expenses.
Whatever the purpose of a gift or loan, it can attract the attention of the tax authorities with the potential for inheritance tax (IHT) or capital gains tax (CGT) liabilities.
Many smaller or regular lifetime gifts are exempt from IHT, while larger gifts may become exempt after seven years, so a strategy of making gifts in your lifetime can substantially reduce your taxable estate on death.
You can also take out life insurance to cover any IHT which might be due following your death within seven years of making larger gifts. However, potential CGT must be taken into account with this option.
IHT is currently payable where a person's taxable estate is in excess of £325,000. Therefore, if you own your own house and have some savings, your estate could be liable.
The good news is that there are a number of allowances and strategies that may help to reduce your liability to IHT. This may include utilising the residence nil-rate band, which was introduced with the intention of enabling a 'family home' to be passed tax-free on death.
It could be said that the art of IHT planning is to give away as much as possible during your lifetime, while still keeping enough to ensure that you and your spouse can live a comfortable and fulfilling retirement.
The full rate of tax is 40% on the estate value in excess of £325,000. Taxable gifts made up to seven years before death are added back into your estate and tax is calculated on the inclusive value. But to the extent that such lifetime gifts made between three and seven years before death exceed the tax threshold, the associated tax is discounted by up to 80%.
In addition, the 'residence nil-rate band' (RNRB) applies where a residence is passed on death to direct descendants, such as a child or a grandchild. The RNRB is set at £175,000 for 2022/23.
Trusts allow you to make gifts without giving the recipient complete control over the asset and/or the income it generates. Gifts into trust may result in an IHT liability, depending on the nature, timing and terms of the gift and the value of other chargeable gifts in the preceding seven years. Ten-yearly and exit charges may also arise.
You can also create a discretionary trust in your Will to allow your trustees to decide how your assets should be distributed, giving a (non-binding) letter of wishes and taking into account all relevant circumstances at the time. This option has the advantage of deferring all CGT charges.
It is important to remember that planning to minimise your IHT liability is a team effort. The scope for making substantial savings may be missed unless professional advice is sought. Please do not hesitate to contact us for assistance with planning your family's financial security.

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Residential Wood Burning Stoves & Fireplaces Maycock Masonry Inc Chimney Sweep Services Welcome to Maycock Masonry Inc, where we take pride in ensuring the safety and efficiency of your home's hearth. Our comprehensive chimney sweep services are designed to keep your fireplace and chimney in optimal condition, providing you with warmth, comfort, and peace of mind.
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At Maycock Masonry Inc, our skilled and certified chimney sweeps specialize in thorough chimney cleaning to remove accumulated creosote, debris, and other combustible materials. Regular chimney sweeping not only enhances the performance of your fireplace but also reduces the risk of chimney fires, ensuring a safer and more efficient heating system.
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Proactive maintenance is essential for the longevity of your chimney and fireplace. Maycock Masonry Inc's maintenance services include addressing issues at their early stages, preventing costly repairs down the line. From checking for leaks to repairing damaged masonry, we ensure that your chimney is in top-notch condition, ready to handle the demands of regular use.
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At Maycock Masonry Inc, we prioritize customer satisfaction and safety. Trust us to be your partner in maintaining a clean, safe, and fully functional chimney. Contact us today to schedule your chimney sweep service and experience the warmth and security your home deserves.
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In the Mood for Love might seem like a safer project: This time around, Leung is paired off, far more conventionally, with Maggie Cheung Man-yuk. But it's hard to imagine Wong doing anything the easy way. And in fact, his new film could easily prove more daunting to audiences than Happy Together, its central concern being a relationship that never quite happens.
Chow Mo-wan (Leung) briefly meets Mrs. Chan (Cheung) one day as they are both moving into new quarters in the same building. It is 1962, and the housing crunch in Hong Kong is so severe that even childless, double-income families like the Chows and the Chans can only afford to rent single rooms within other people's apartments. The Chans move into the Suens's apartment; the Chows into the Koos's place across the hall. Neither Mr. Chow's wife nor Mrs. Chan's husband are around for the move; and for the rest of the film, we never see either of them, even though they are the third and fourth most important characters in the story. They are never more than disembodied voices, just out of camera range.
For an indeterminate period of time, Mr. Chow and Mrs. Chan only occasionally run into each other -- in the hallway or going to and from a noodle restaurant nearby. Their meetings are often awkward, for reasons that we only gradually learn: Bound by a code of discretion and embarrassment, both are keeping up happy faces, despite the troubles in their marriages.
What we find out slightly before they do is that the timing of their marital troubles is not coincidental: Their spouses are having an affair with each other. One night when they are both alone -- their mates off together somewhere -- Chow asks Mrs. Chan to have dinner with him at a restaurant. During a slow and cautious exchange, they each gradually admit to knowing the score. Bound by their mutual betrayal, the two comfort each other and become close. Yet they are determined, as they put it, "not to be like them." Still, their friendship grows. They are both fans of martial arts fiction; Chow, a journalist, decides to try his hand at writing a serial, and he enlists Mrs. Chan as his editor/critic/collaborator. Most of the rest of the movie is the story of the two of them not ever consummating their romance, despite every sign that they are in love and are meant to be together. As if this were not frustrating enough, the final 15 minutes is a coda in which their few attempts to get together years later continue to fail.
This all may sound dreary, but it's not. Wong has admitted in interviews that, despite his background as a commercial screenwriter in the Hong Kong industry, his stories are weak or nonexistent; his films are all about characters and mood. And these are the realms in which he is able to create effects unlike anyone else's. From the opening shots, he creates a milieu of claustrophobia. The picture is not only cluttered; there are frequently objects in the foreground obscuring our view of the characters. Almost every conversation is framed by windows or doorways; often the action will move out of frame without the camera following.
Fans of the great filmmaker Douglas Sirk -- who, during his stint at Universal during the '50s, directed many of the studio's biggest hits, including Imitation of Life (1959) and There's Always Tomorrow (1954) -- will recognize his influence here. But where Sirk would often take a melodramatic plot and crank it up to the point of absurdity, Wong is more interested in stripping the plot away, essentially desaturating the story, so that nothing is left but mood and the most delicate and subtle expressions of character.
Much of In the Mood for Love is made up of interludes between conversations. We get long scenes -- many using Wong's favorite trick: the jerky, slow-motion "step printing" process -- of the characters walking to the noodle joint; of rain hitting the cobbled streets; of cigarette smoke spiraling above the scene; of our protagonists posed in frozen, unreal moments, lit in swaths of gorgeous, unnatural colors. In the Mood for Love doesn't move like most films. It seems to drift; one could imagine shuffling certain scenes without distorting the progression of the narrative. One might say that it's moving without ever moving. To some degree, this may be the result of Wong's working method: He shoots endlessly, often without a real script and without telling the actors how and where any given scene may fit into the whole. Essentially, he feels his way along during the shoot and then figures out how to assemble the entire thing later. This method sounds like a recipe for disaster, but Wong has the chops to pull it off.


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Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War takes a dramatic tonal shift from its super-serious 2019 predecessor, making it one of the goofier entries in the annualized franchise. While Modern Warfare was committed to realism, especially in its campaign, this new game is soaked in conspiracy theories, explosions, and cheesy 80's haircuts. Despite this sharp pivot, Cold War quickly finds its footing by committing to its wacky tendencies, and out-there plot twists. It never quite reaches the heights of the previous game, but it's far from a misfire.
If this game's campaign was turned into a feature film, it would be a contender for the most dad-friendly action flick of the year. All the ingredients are there, a Robert Redford look-alike, rock n' roll music, Russian spies, and a villain posing a global threat that only a special team can prevent from happening. Maybe it was the testosterone radiating from my screen, or maybe it was too much coffee, but I was on-board with the ridiculousness from the get-go, even if it's a tad too much off the rails at times.
From a length and difficulty perspective, Cold War follows the same pattern of being short and sweet as previous games, but it's in the difficulty that I found a new appreciation for this series. While I'm no stranger to lowering things down to easy mode, in Cold War I played the campaign on the highest difficulty and found it to be surprisingly balanced and fair. Firefights are just the right amount of tense, without making the player feel like they need to duck after every shot, but if you make the wrong move, a game over is still inevitable. Thanks to the games friendly checkpoint system, a restart is never the end-of-the-world,but just a small delay in progression. Giving this mode a try is bound to help you when you take your skills online.
On the multiplayer side, things are not quite as unorthodox as you might have come to expect, but it's still solid. Each year, when I dabble in Call of Duty multiplayer, I expect quick, snappy action and maps that are memorable. Cold War checks both those boxes. All the classic modes are here, including Team Deathmatch, Domination, and Search and Destroy. If you're looking for larger-scale battles, the battle royale like Warzone is included in the package, and for the horde mode enthusiasts, Zombies is back too. Best of all, crossplay is back as a feature, bringing gamers that much closer to the end of the console wars. After more than a decade of these games, seeing experience points increase, guns unlock, and stats pop-up on-screen still elicits a rush of excitement like few shooters can create, which explains why the series continues to be on-top each year.
If there's anything to critique when thinking about Cold War, it's that it takes few risks. Maybe it's riding the coattails of last year's formula, but I would have liked to see more zany qualities instilled in the multiplayer mode to match the campaign's tone. Including just the slightest bit of 80's themes would have been enough to separate itself from Modern Warfare. Just give me an eye-rolling one liner, maybe a Rambo-like headband, anything at all! Instead, it just feels like the same game with new maps, making for the same old Call of Duty atmosphere. I was never confused about what a perk does, button layout, or rules of a game mode. The series perfected multiplayer long ago, it's time to take more risks.
Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War is another successful entry in the franchise. Although with each preceding year the series hinges on becoming stale, this game brings over what made last year's game so beloved, and adds just enough goofiness to the campaign to differentiate itself, making it a contender for one of the best first-person shooters of 2020.
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We have the answer for Walter White cooked it up crossword clue in case you've been struggling to solve this one! Crossword puzzles can be an excellent way to stimulate your brain, pass the time, and challenge yourself all at once. Of course, sometimes there's a crossword clue that totally stumps us, whether it's because we are unfamiliar with the subject matter entirely or we just are drawing a blank.
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Walter White cooked it up Crossword Clue Answer is…
Answer: METH
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One of the unique features of the WSJ Crossword is its emphasis on finance and business-related themes. The puzzle often includes clues and answers related to the world of economics, investing, and business news.
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Third person video games are never really that realistic — you get a much wider range of vision, you can typically see around things your character can't actually see… the list goes on. But what would it be like to have a third person perspective, in real life?
That's exactly what some hackers in Poland decided to do! This is their Real World Third Person Perspective VR / AR Experiment. It makes use of an Oculus Rift, two GoPros, a microprocessor and a few servo motors. It's essentially a glorified camera on a stick that you wear as a backpack, but nonetheless it has a really cool effect.
The project was built in under 2 days to get into the tight deadline for Intel's Wearable contest, which has an impressive prize list, including a grand prize of $500,000 for business development! They didn't place, but it's still a Hack a Day worthy project!
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Halal Certificate
Download a sample of Halal Certificate in PDF format used in international transactions. And User Guide that explains:
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The Halal Certificate is a document that guarantees that the products and services aimed at the Muslim population meet the requirements of Islamic law and therefore are suitable for consumption in both Muslim-majority countries and in Western countries where there significant population group who practice Islam (France, Germany, United Kingdom). It is mainly applied to meat products and other food products such as milk, preserves and additives. Products that are halal certified are often marked with a halal symbol, or simply the letter M (as the letter K is used to identify kosher products for Jewish population). There are several institutions and organizations around the word providing Halal Certification Services. |
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Washington, DC— On the eve of the G8 Summit, international agency Oxfam called on world leaders heading to Camp David to make predictable, measureable funding and policy commitments that will help 50 million people lift themselves out of poverty through sustainable, small-scale agriculture by 2015.
Almost a billion people on this planet — one in seven of us — are hungry. The kind of hunger that pushes men to leave their families in search for work, forces mothers to choose between food and medicine for their children and prevents the healthy development of a new generation. At Camp David, the leaders of the eight richest countries can build on their previous commitments and partner with developing countries to urgently tackle hunger.
"From the Horn of Africa to the Sahel, farmers and herders, especially women, around the world are working tirelessly to overcome hunger in their communities, doing battle with high food prices, insects and erratic weather," said Oxfam's Gawain Kripke. "This week at Camp David, we hope the G8 will join smallholder farmers and developing countries to fight hunger by delivering on their previous pledges and recommitting for the future."
Three years ago, at the G8 Summit in L'Aquila, Italy, President Obama rallied the leaders of the world's richest countries to promise to invest $22bn dollars over three years through country-led plans for food security. A number of countries have developed sustainable and coordinated plans for food security and agricultural development; they now need a partner to help get them off the ground.
"At least 30 poor countries have developed plans to improve their agriculture and tackle food insecurity in their communities, but the promise of resources has yet to materialize," said Kripke. "The need to channel public sector resources through country plans hasn't gone away. It's time for the G8 to live up to their end of the deal, and put the money on the table."
Worryingly, there are indications that the G8 leaders will look to the private sector to step in to make up for their shortfalls, despite the fact that the private sector is simply unlikely to make the scale or kinds of investments needed to fix the broken food system.
"The G8 must not give in to the temptation to make bold and convenient assumptions about the private sector as a development panacea," said Kripke. "There is no evidence that the growing focus on private sector engagement at the expense of other approaches will truly deliver for the fight against hunger."
While there is a positive role for the private sector in the fight against global hunger, a resourced public sector is crucial to get the private sector going. Furthermore, the average private sector role in existing country plan budgets is about 5%, and most have no role at all.
"A number of African civil society groups have raised concern about the direction of the G8's efforts on food security," said Oxfam's Lamine Ndiaye. "The rhetoric is all about small scale producers, but they haven't yet been a part of the G8's conversation."
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Tufloc offers the widest range of Vehicle Gun Racks available–each gun rack providing secure storage and quick access. The high-strength steel gun racks are powder-coated with a black finish and are padded for gun protection and rattle-free performance.
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Between 1998 and 2007, psychotropic medications were associated with 429 adverse drug reactions (ADRs) in children under 17 in Denmark. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Research Notes found that more than half of these were serious and several were birth defects – suggesting that tighter controls on the prescription of psychotropic medications to pregnant women may be required.
Lise Aagaard and Ebba Holme Hansen from the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, studied all 4500 pediatric adverse drug reaction reports submitted during the study period to find those which were linked to psychotropic medications. Aagaard said, "The high number of serious ADRs reported for psychotropic medicines in the paediatric population should be a concern for health care professionals and physicians".
The two researchers found that the largest share of adverse reactions (42%) was reported for psychostimulants (such as Ritalin), followed by 31% for antidepressants (such as Prozac) and 24% for antipsychotics (such as Haldol).
A number of ADRs were reported for Danish children below 2 years, probably due to the mother's intake of psychotropic medicine, primarily antidepressants and antipsychotics, during pregnancy. Serious ADRs such as 'neonatal withdrawal syndrome', 'ventricular septal defects' and 'premature labour' were reported. According to Aagaard, "Considering the higher number of birth defects being reported greater care has to be given while prescribing these drugs for pregnant women."


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On the eve of Independence Day, Carhart was scheduled to speak in Boston at the National Organization for Women's (NOW) annual conference. For a man targeted by people whom NOW President Terry O'Neill unequivocally calls "terrorists," Carhart was incredibly open. "You can't live your life in fear," he told the Phoenix from a private suite at the Park Plaza Hotel.
After Tiller's murder, Operation Rescue's Troy Newman announced he would focus that group's attention on Carhart. But the pressure and the threats haven't deterred him. "I spent 21 years in the Air Force," Carhart said softly.
Though Carhart was interviewed on local radio, his name was conspicuously absent from a list of speakers distributed in a NOW press release about the conference. Christina Knowles, state director of Massachusetts NOW, said security was heightened because of his presence: "We were extra careful with checking badges." Noting a large man at the door wearing a suit and an earpiece, I asked Carhart about his security measures. "We take precautions," said Carhart. But, he added, "I never talk about security."
As for the people who've threatened the doctor and his practice, Carhart and O'Neill agree that more drastic measures should be pursued. "Treat them like terrorists," Carhart said.
"Unlimited detention! Freeze their assets!" O'Neill added, noting that laws used against mosques and Muslims are not used on domestic terrorists, who, she said, "are somehow exempt from the harsh way we've treated international terrorism."
Later, at the conference, Erin Matson, NOW's action vice-president, introduced Carhart by noting, "We have fewer abortion rights today than a year ago," thanks to the recent health-care-reform package and the accompanying extension of the Hyde amendment.
"Abortion is a matter of the heart," Carhart told the assembly, quoting the late Tiller. "Until you understand the heart of a woman, nothing else about abortion makes any sense at all. As a physician the issue is not in black and white. Abortion lines are arbitrary, irresponsible, and dangerous."
Carhart got a standing ovation, as men in suits quietly and unobtrusively paced the periphery of the room.
"I promise I will do everything in my power to reduce the need for abortion," Carhart pledged. "But as long as there is a need, I will do them."
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is suggesting the U.S. accept Russia's annexation of Crimea if it would lead to better relations with Moscow and stronger cooperation in fighting Islamic State militants.
That view runs counter to the Obama administration, which imposed economic sanctions against Russia for annexing the territory in Ukraine two years ago. The United Nations also doesn't want countries to recognize Crimea as part of Russia, and some top Republicans staunchly defend Crimea against what they consider Russian aggression.
In an interview broadcast Sunday on ABC's "This Week," Trump suggested that the people of Crimea would rather be part of Russia. However, the U.S. hasn't recognized the legitimacy of Russian referendums in Crimea and believes they were not conducted fairly.
Trump also said he wasn't involved in the effort that softened support in the Republican Party platform on assisting Ukraine. Although the platform is not pro-Russia, Trump supporters succeeded in preventing a reference to arming Ukraine from being added.
In the past, Trump's campaign manager, political strategist Paul Manafort, lobbied on behalf of Viktor Yanukovych, a Ukrainian president and supporter of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Manafort has said neither he nor anyone else with the Trump campaign pushed for the platform changes.
In response to other questions about U.S.-Russia relations, Trump dismissed suggestions that he has any kind of relationship with Putin, saying he has neither met Putin nor spoken on the phone with him. Asked why he had said several times in the past that he had a relationship with Putin, Trump said he doesn't know what "having a relationship" means.
"He has said nice things about me over the years," Trump said of Putin. "I remember years ago, he said something, many years ago, he said something very nice about me. I said something good about him when (broadcaster) Larry King was on. This was a long time ago."
Trump said it would be a "great thing" if the United States got along with Russia and if Russia would help fight the Islamic State group.
"We'll have a better relationship with Russia," he said. "And having a good relationship with Russia is a good thing, not a bad thing."


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Some of humanity's biggest investors have teamed up to fight diseases that come with aging.
San Francisco-based startup Unity Biotechnology has caught the attention of big investment firms and biotech venture capitalists recently. It's been working on research with pharmaceutical potential for five years now, receiving initial funding from the likes of venture firm Arch Venture Partners.
Now, in a Series B round of venture capital investments, Unity was able to receive a hefty sum of $116 million. The sum was generated by investments from Fidelity Management and Research Company, Bezos Expeditions (Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' investment arm), Partner Funds Management, Venrock, and Baillie Gifford. Wuxi and Mayo Clinic Ventures, already investors in Unity, also joined this deal.
Why the seemingly sudden interest in Unity?
A recent round of studies covering cellular senescence — or cellular aging (from the Latin senex, meaning old) — have piqued the curiosity of scientists and investors alike. Research has identified how many of the diseases commonly associated with old age are products of cellular senescence.
What if we could remove cells that cause aging diseases? Could we stop aging itself?
"Cell senescence is one of the aging mechanisms. It's not the only reason we age. It's going to take human beings decades to figure out what all the aging mechanisms are," said Nathaniel David, co-founder and president of Unity, according to Forbes. "But we do know that if you perturb senescence in mice, they age more slowly, and differently."
David refers to a study published in Science by the Mayo Clinic and the Buck Institute for Research on Aging featuring a new approach that allows for selective removal of senescent cells from atherosclerotic plaque build up inside artery walls (this build up usually leads to cardiovascular diseases). The scientists were able to disrupt cellular senescence in mice using transgenic and pharmacological techniques.
Perhaps, biotechnology research made possible with a good amount of funding may be the key to aging without ailments in the future — or maybe to not age, at all.
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Perry G. Mehrling is professor of economics at Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University. He was professor of economics at Barnard College in New York City for 30 years. There, he taught courses on the economics of money and banking, the history of money and finance, and the financial dimensions of the U.S. retirement, health, and education systems. His most recent book is The New Lombard Street: How the Fed became the dealer of last resort (Princeton 2011). His best-known book Fischer Black and the Revolutionary Idea of Finance (Wiley 2005, 2012) has recently been released in a revised paperback edition. Currently, Prof. Mehrling directs the educational initiatives of the Institute for New Economic Thinking, one of which is his course Economics of Money and Banking, available on Coursera at www.coursera.org/course/money.
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Suppose you unexpectedly incur a major liability, from a lawsuit or some other unforeseen cause. Will the funds in your IRA be protected from your creditors? Maybe … or maybe not. Here are the rules:
Federal Law Protection
If you own an IRA that you've funded yourself with annual IRA contributions, then its complete value very likely will be protected from creditor claims if you are forced into bankruptcy.
The Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act (BAPCPA) in 2018 protects $1,283,025 of IRA funds from creditors in bankruptcy by exempting that amount from the bankruptcy estate that is within creditors' reach. This dollar amount is adjusted every three years for inflation, and will be re-set next in 2019.
In addition, employer-sponsored SEP IRAs and SIMPLE IRAs are fully protected in bankruptcy. This matches the protection given to other employer-sponsored retirement plans, such as 401(k)s.
Moreover, funds rolled over into an IRA from an employer-sponsored qualified retirement plan, such as a 401(k), and the earnings on them, also receive full bankruptcy protection. Tip: Although not specifically required by law, keeping these funds segregated from others in a separate IRA makes it much easier to account for them should the need arise due to bankruptcy.
These combined amounts should cover all the IRA funds that you've saved for yourself, since they protect all funds obtained through employment, while your additional annual contributions and the earnings on them are very unlikely to exceed $1,283,025.
The Limits of Safety
But if you received your IRA funds as a beneficiary of an inherited IRA, these BAPCPA protections do not apply. The US Supreme Court has ruled unanimously that BAPCPA protection is available only for "retirement savings", and that IRA funds are retirement savings only for their original owners — not for heirs who can withdraw and spend them at any age. (Clark v. Rameker, 134 S. Ct. 2242.) For inherited IRAs, protection in bankruptcy depends on state law, and different states have adopted different rules on this issue.
Planning: If you intend to leave a large amount to an heir as beneficiary of your IRA, consult with a state-law expert about the advisability of doing so through a trust arrangement that will provide protection from creditors.
In addition, outside of bankruptcy, federal law provides no protection for IRAs against general creditor claims. Again, state law will determine the degree of protection, if any, that an IRA will receive from creditors.
So if you have an inherited IRA, or you face potential creditor claims that are large but seem short of forcing you into bankruptcy, examine the protection for your IRA that is available under state law by consulting with a state-law expert.
Strategy: Should you face a large liability and find your IRA is not protected by state law, consider a voluntary declaration of bankruptcy to save your IRA using federal law. In one recent case an individual who owed creditors $127,000 owned only one major asset, an IRA worth $691,346 – enough to pay off his debts more than five times over. By declaring bankruptcy he put the IRA beyond his creditors' reach, and left them with only a 1% recovery. (In Re: Chaudury, Bktcy Ct TN, 121 AFTR 2d 2018-606.)


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It seems like every year there is a new "hot" super food. Last year it was the Acai berry and maybe this year it'll be Chia seeds. Yup, you remember the commercial, Ch Ch Ch Chia; the same seeds you smeared on your Chia pet may be the newest health craze. No, they aren't purposed to grow new hair, but for a tiny seed Chia has a pretty impressive resume.
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Without asking for specifics, as your child to think about a time when they did something that they regretted doing in public. Have them imagine how much worse it would have been, if it were broadcast for the whole world to see. If he wants to share the details that's fine, but respect his privacy. Ask him how his actions affected him and how he thinks they may have affected others. (Family, friends, coach, etc.)
This week I saw a news story about Atlas Sports Genetics. The Boulder based company does DNA testing on kids to determine their genetic predisposition as an endurance or sprint athlete.
Take a glass jar and at least thirty colored strips of paper. On each strip of paper have your child write down one thing that he or she likes about his or herself or does well. Fill the jar with the strips and have them put the jar someplace they will see it everyday. The next time your child is feeling down or is lacking confidence, have he or she read through all of the papers in the jar and remember how blessed and loved he or she is. You can always have your child add five or ten more strips to the jar for good measure.
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Here is a great way to help you child improve in a sport or activity that he or she is already interested in and good at. Find out who is the most celebrated person in that sport or activity and do some serious research on them. (Research them on the Internet, watch videos of them, etc.) Analyze the specific things that make that person successful and encourage your child to emulate and model them. Have your child work on improving those characteristics or skills you identified.
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The next time your child loses, use the opportunity to help him or her learn from the situation. Have your child draw a line down the middle of a piece of paper. On the top of one side write Good and on the top of the other side write Improve.
First, on the Good side, write down all of the things he or she did well. Then, on the Improve side, write down all the things he or she could have done better. Look at the list of things to work on and come up with ways to practice or fix them for the next time. Remind your child that everyone wants to win, but we don't learn nearly as much when we do; losing is an opportunity to raise his or her game to the next level.
We all want our children to be winners and to protect them from life's cruel realities, but unfortunately, losing is a fact of life and we do them an injustice by insulating them from it. The next time your child loses, use the opportunity to help him or her learn from the situation.
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With a default FileJournal configuration in place, depending on the activity on the repository, over time, many Journal log-files will be created. This eventually may cause a disk space issue and performance problems in applications that use CRX.
The default configuration of the Journal theoretically allows for an unlimited number of rotated log-files.
Depending on the setup, the configuration differs slightly and is done in the repository.xml
. For details on the individual configuration parameters, please refer to the Journal configuration article.
NOTE: please backup the instance before applying any changes!
CQ / CRX version | Location |
5.2.x / 1.4.2 | crx-quickstart/server/runtime/0/_crx/WEB-INF/repository.xml |
5.3 / 2.0 | crx-quickstart/repository/repository.xml |
5.5 / 2.3 | crx-quickstart/repository/repository.xml |
In addition to the reconfiguration of the FileJournal, the existing Journal needs to be cleaned up. Please note: as a prerequisite for clustered CRX environments it is strongly advised to let all cluster-nodes synchronize fully to the same revision as the master before applying following changes:
- stop (all) CRX instances
- if you have a multi node cluster then verify that all nodes are synchronized to the current revision.
- For each cluster node, verify that the revision number in
- The revision numbers are stored in binary so you can use a
command in Linux to compare them. In Windows you can use a binary capable diff tool such as WinMerge
- For each cluster node, verify that the revision number in
- delete ALL files below
- delete
- apply Journal reconfiguration
- start (all) CRX instances
Non-clustered environment
In a non-clustered environment where CRX is running standalone, it is recommended to configure the maximum size of a Journal log-file to 100MB and limit the number of allowed files to 1. This is more than sufficient for such a setup.
<Journal class="com.day.crx.core.journal.FileJournal">
<param name="sharedPath" value="${rep.home}/shared"/>
<param name="maximumSize" value="104857600" />
<param name="maximumFiles" value="1" />
Clustered environment
If CRX is running in a cluster with other CRX instances, it is recommended to adjust the number of rotated Journal log-files. The Journal basically keeps track on every save operation of the repository, so depending on how long a slave cluster-node can be offline before being able to catch up with the latest revision of the master cluster-node instance, following 2 parameters can be configured to match requirements:
: maximum age of a Journal log-file before it gets removedmaximumFiles
: maximum number of allowed log-rotation
<Journal class="com.day.crx.core.journal.FileJournal">
<param name="sharedPath" value="${rep.home}/shared"/>
<param name="maximumSize" value="104857600" />
<param name="maximumAge" value="P1M" />
<param name="maximumFiles" value="10" />
Rotate tarjournal in shared-nothing clustering
From CRX 2.2 onwards new TarJournal is used, which implements journaling using enhanced TarPM file format and cluster synchronization protocol, and works in shared nothing mode. The default value of maximum file size is 256MB. While this default value is fine in most cases. The max value is 1GB. For more details on other parameter click here. The changes gets affected on next run of Tar Optimization. An example to rotate to happen after every 24 hours is shown below
<Journal class="com.day.crx.persistence.tar.TarJournal">
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In Maine, where the vast majority of workers either own or are employed by a small business, the opinions of small business leaders are especially influential. Small business owners truly serve as the backbone of local economies and communities.
Many Maine small business owners do not feel that national business groups represent their values, but there has not—until recently—been any alternative organization through which Maine small business owners can make their voices heard.
To fill this void, Maine small business owners came together to form the Maine Small Business Coalition (MSBC) in 2008, with the goal of identifying, recruiting, and developing Maine small business leaders to bring their values to the public debate over national health care reform.
Over the past 6 years and through the national health care reform fight of 2009, we have grown the coalition to more than 3,400 businesses.
In addition to our work in the Maine legislature and in Congress to make health care more affordable for small business owners, members of the MSBC have spoken out about the need for:
- robust environmental protections in Maine
- stronger regulations for Wall Street
- ensuring that the wealthiest among us pay their fair share in taxes
- comprehensive immigration reform
MSBC members believe in working together to ensure that our elected officials at the state and federal level of government are responsive to the needs of small business owners.


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Announced today, RSA Security has acquired Aveksa, a business-driven identity and access management vendor. The term business-driven refers to Aveksa's view that identity and access governance decisions are better taken by business owners, rather than left to the IT department or security, since business owners are more likely to be in a position to understand what entitlements are appropriate for which roles. The news should come as no real surprise to industry watchers since Aveksa stated recently that it was either looking for additional funding or, potentially, an IPO.
Aveksa will become part of RSA's Identity Trust Management product group. RSA already offers its own identity and access management (IAM) capabilities, based on its adaptive IAM vision. It states that it is acquiring Aveksa for its strong user management and provisioning capabilities, and for improving its overall capabilities in terms of adding intelligence and business context to IAM.
This acquisition will help take RSA further down the path towards its overall vision of intelligence-driven security, leveraging insight from roles, processes and big data across enterprise, cloud and mobile platforms. Aveksa will aid in providing the rich identity context that will help it to enhance situation awareness within its products, including RSA Security Analytics. Aveksa has long recognised the importance of the intelligence that can be gleaned from big data, integrating with SIEM and log management capabilities from partners to pull in data from multiple sources into its own database. This will allow it to fit nicely into RSA's overall security portfolio.
Aveksa has shown itself to be highly innovative and has seen strong growth recently, especially in its primary target market of mid-sized organisations. Now within the RSA fold, it will have the resources necessary to fulfil its vision further, as well as helping RSA to further its own vision of intelligence- and context-driven security.


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A-112 Sampler / Wavetable Module
Module A-112 is the combination of a voltage controlled 8 Bit Sampler and a wavetable oscillator.
On top of it the module is able to generate some special effects. A-112 was designed as an additional sound source with the typical sounds of the early 8 bit samplers and is not comparable with the modern polyphonic MIDI samplers available on the market.
Sampling mode: 8 bit audio resolution, 128kB memory in 2 banks 64kB each (equivalent to 2 seconds of sampling time for each bank with 32 kHz sampling rate), audio input with attenuator, overload display in record mode (gate LED), possibility of MIDI Dump to store sounds in a computer via MIDI, non volatile memory for the 2 samples in the module, manual tune control for adjustment of sampling rate for record and play, CV input (~ 1V/Oct), both manual tune and CV determine the sampling rate respectively the pitch (pitch range is 5 octaves), gate input (not a trigger: the sample starts at the positive edge of the gate signal and is played as long as gate is high or until the end of the sample is reached), manual Gate button, non filtered audio output (thus quantizing noise can be used as an element of the sound intentionally)
Wavetable mode: special appearance of the sampling mode when playing a sample, the audio input is now used as a second control voltage input for moving through the sample in 256 byte wide loops (wavetables). The control voltage required to move through all wavetables applied to the input "Wave CV In" is in the range -2.5V (wavetable 1) ... 0V (wavetable 127) ... +2.5V (wavetable 256) when control "Atten." is set fully clockwise. To achieve the typical wavetable oscillator sounds the sampling memory must contain corresponding wavetable data (e.g. loaded via MIDI dump). These data contain a set of wavetables with different harmonic content (e.g. a filter sweep) to get the typical wavetable sound while moving through the tables via CV. But you may also use a "normal" sample and go through the sample with CV to obtain partially amazing sounds never heard before. You may use for example sampled speech and go with CV through the syllables or speech shreds to get really very extreme sounds. An ideal addition for this feature is the Offset/Attentuator module A-183-2 which can be used to adjust the position of the wavetable (Offset) and the modulation depth (Att.). The corresponding jumper of the A-183-2 has to be set to bipolar offset (as the A-112 requires -2.5V...+2.5V to pass through all 256 wavetables). As modulation source an LFO (A-145, A-146, A-147, A-143-3), ADSR (A-140, A-141, A-142, A-143-1/2) or a random voltage (A-118, A-149-1) may be used. Even a ribbon controller (A-198 or R2M), the Theremin module A-178, the Joystick A-174 or the Wheels module A-174-2 are useful to drive through the wavetables.
Effects: Additionally the module offers - in a way free of charge - some effects like delay, reverse delay, pitch shiftinng or freeze. But it has to be pointed out that due to the 8 bit audio resolution these effects are not comparable to high quality effect units and should be understand as an extra for nothing. The A-112 is not an effects unit !The sampling time of the A-112 is about 1...30 seconds corresponding to a sampling frequency range of about 60kHz...2kHz (64kB@60kHz ~ 1 s, 64kB@2kHz ~ 30 s).
Technical note: the module uses a battery for the non-volatile storage of the sampling data. Batteries have a limited lifespan and have to be inspected at least every two years. For details please refer to the FAQ page of our website: Lifespan of rechargeable batteries (used for memory backup)
For more detailed information please look at the English user's manual A112_man.pdf.


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Rather than just teaching children about internet safety and reducing their digital footprint, we should also encourage them to curate a positive digital footprint which will be an asset for them in their future.
Today's children are prolific users of the internet. Concern has been raised about the future impact of the digital footprints they are generating. While much discussion of this issue focuses on keeping children safe, little is known about how children manage their digital footprints.
While digital footprints are considered to be a liability, if managed well they can be an asset. Digital footprints can showcase identity, skills and interests. This is important in an era where employers "google" candidates to check their identity and verify their suitability. In this context, having no digital footprint can be as much of a disadvantage as having a poorly managed one.
The "Best Footprint Forward" project explored what children know about digital footprints. Focus groups were made up of 33 children aged 10-12 years from three schools in regional NSW. Analysis of the focus groups reveals children have strategies to keep safe online, but they need further guidance on how to build a positive digital footprint.
What children know and do about digital footprints
The project found, while children use the internet for a variety of purposes (such as homework, gaming, watching videos), communicating with friends was the most popular online activity.
The children knew what digital footprints were:
- what you put online stays online
- people could find you if you left identifying information, such as your address or full name
- employers would check your social media.
They talked about password security, not putting personal details online (such as their name, address and date of birth), blocking people who harassed them, getting advice from parents, not clicking on anything silly, not posting pictures of their faces. They showed awareness of the potential consequences of their actions.
The implications of their digital footprint awareness led them to try to minimise theirs, to try to be invisible online. They mainly communicated with one another via Instagram, using it as a messaging service. All but one child had their account set to private, and very few posted photos. They used it just to talk.
While the children in the study had a high level of digital footprint awareness, they are only aware of this as a liability. Their responses did not include any discussion of the benefits offered by digital footprints. Their re-purposing of Instagram as a messaging service suggests a savvy and pragmatic approach to the problem of, in the words of one girl in the study, the "internet always keeping it". Educative interventions should be designed to empower and protect children, to supplement their existing digital footprint management strategies.
How to teach for positive digital footprints
Children could be taught how to curate their online presence. That is, they could be explicitly taught not all they do online needs to be hidden. Curation is about knowing what to display publicly and what should remain private.
While it's appropriate conversations with their friends not be public, children could be taught that digital artefacts which demonstrate their interests, achievements and skill could be both public and identifiable. School projects, awards, pieces of writing, and digital artworks are examples of suitable things to be attributed to them.
Teaching children to curate their achievements, skills and some aspects of their digital identity would help prepare them for the greater online freedom that will come with high school.
When should positive digital footprint education begin?
There are four reasons the two final years of primary school would be an ideal time to begin to teach children about positive digital footprints:
1. they are lacking this information and were not aware a digital footprint could be a positive asset for their future
2. children at this age are transitioning from predominantly game playing and video watching to more creative and generative uses of the internet and social media
3. different parenting styles means not all children will get this information at home
4. the strength of the cyber safety message they're getting from schools suggests this knowledge could be built upon so children are given options about which online activities should remain invisible and which would be beneficial to have out there.
When asked what would you like to know about the internet, one girl in the study asked:
How can it change your future?
This gets to the heart of what's at stake. Digital footprints can be an asset or a liability for children. Building on their knowledge by giving them guidance in curating a positive online presence could go a long way to help children shape their own future.
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Letter from Cardinal Ottaviani to Pope Paul VI
Cardinals Ottaviani and Bacci presented Pope Paul VI with the Short Critical Study of the New Order of Mass
On September 25, 1969, Cardinal Alfredo Ottaviani, Prefect-Emeritus of the Sacred Congregation for the Faith, sent a letter to Pope Paul VI. Accompanying the letter was a theological Study of the New Order of the Mass (Novus Ordo Missae), written by a group of Roman theologians.
September 25, 1969
Most Holy Father,
Having carefully examined, and presented for the scrutiny of others, the Novus Ordo Missae prepared by the experts of the Consilium ad exequdam Constitutionem de Sacra Liturgia, and after lengthy prayer and reflection, we feel it to be our bounden duty in the sight of God and towards Your Holiness, to put before you the following considerations:
- The accompanying critical study of the Novus Ordo Missae, the work of a group of theologians, liturgists and pastors of souls, shows quite clearly in spite of its brevity that if we consider the innovations implied or taken for granted, which may of course be evaluated in different ways, the Novus Ordo represents, both as a whole and in its details, a striking departure from the Catholic theology of the Mass as it was formulated in Session XXII of the Council of Trent. The "canons" of the rite definitively fixed at that time provided an insurmountable barrier to any heresy directed against the integrity of the Mystery.
- The pastoral reasons adduced to support such a grave break with tradition, even if such reasons could be regarded as holding good in the face of doctrinal considerations, do not seem to us sufficient. The innovations in the Novus Ordo and the fact that all that is of perennial value finds only a minor place, if it subsists at all, could well turn into a certainty the suspicion, already prevalent, alas, in many circles, that truths which have always been believed by the Christian people, can be changed or ignored without infidelity to that sacred deposit of doctrine to which the Catholic faith is bound for ever. Recent reforms have amply demonstrated that fresh changes in the liturgy could lead to nothing but complete bewilderment on the part of the faithful who are already showing signs of restiveness and of an indubitable lessening of faith. Amongst the best of the clergy the practical result is an agonizing crisis of conscience of which innumerable instances come to our notice daily.
- We are certain that these considerations. which can only reach Your Holiness by the living voice of both shepherds and flock, cannot but find an echo in Your paternal heart, always so profoundly solicitous for the spiritual needs of the children of the Church. It has always been the case that when a law meant for the good of subjects proves to be on the contrary harmful, those subjects have the right, nay the duty of asking with filial trust for the abrogation of that law. Therefore we most earnestly beseech Your Holiness, at a time of such painful divisions and ever-increasing perils for the purity of the Faith and the unity of the Church, lamented by You our common Father. not to deprive us of the possibility of continuing to have recourse to the fruitful integrity of that Missale Romanum of St. Pius V, so highly praised by Your Holiness and so deeply loved and venerated by the whole Catholic World.
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Feast of St. Pius X