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Old rules: derivative contracts: transitional provisions: Para 4A examples
Example of how Para 4A operated
Example 1
A company prepares annual accounts to 31 January. On 28 January 2005, it bought exchange- traded futures contracts over the FTSE 100 index for £600,000. The contracts were held speculatively (but not as trading stock), and the company marked them to market in its accounts. At 31 January 2005, the mark to market value was £550,000.
On 2 April 2005, the company closed out the futures by entering into equal and opposite contracts. The value of the contracts on 2 April was £630,000.
The contracts were 'financial futures' to which TCGA92/S143 applied, and were therefore chargeable assets for the purposes of FA02/SCH26/PARA4A. Since SI 2005/646, which removed shares from the list of excluded subject matters, applies to accounting periods beginning on or after 1 January 2005, the equity futures are treated as derivative contracts throughout the whole of the accounting period 1 February 2006 to 31 January 2007.
SI 2005/646 also introduced Para 4A and, since the Order came into force on 16 March 2005 and cannot have retrospective effect, it could not provide for a deemed disposal before that date. So the futures were treated as having been disposed of for CG purposes on 16 March 2005, but for a consideration of £550,000 - their accounting value at 31 January 2005.
The £550,000 was treated as a payment received by the company and hence as disposal consideration under TCGA92/S143(6). The costs of £600,000 were treated as incidental costs of disposal. A capital loss of £50,000 therefore arose. (Note that, had there been a gain, there would be no indexation allowance - see CG56084). This was treated as arising on 2 April 2005: the company effectively ceased to be party to the contracts when it closed them out, although this may not be the legal position.
Under Sch 26, a credit of £80,000 arose - the value of the contract when it was closed out, less its accounting value at 1 February 2006. The company cannot set off its capital loss against this credit.
Example 2
The facts are as in example 1, except that the company closed out the contracts on 2 March 2005.
Since the contracts were not held on 16 March 2005, the amendments to Sch 26 made by SI 2005/646 have no application. The futures remained chargeable gains assets throughout, and any profit or loss when they are closed out was dealt with under TCGA92/S143.
Example 3
The facts are as in example 1, except that in its accounting period to 31 January 2005, the company accounted for the contracts at historic cost. On 1 February 2005, the company adopted FRS 26 for the first time, and began to account for the derivatives at fair value. In its accounts to 31 January 2006, it brings in a debit of £50,000 as a prior year adjustment, representing the difference between cost (£600,000) and fair value on 1 February 2005 (£550,000).
As in example 1, the company was deemed to have disposed of the contract on 16 March 2005. The deemed disposal value was £600,000, its accounting value on 31 January 2005. Thus neither a capital gain nor a capital loss arose.
The fair value increase of £80,000 between 1 February and 2 April was, again, brought in as a derivative contracts credit. The prior period adjustment gave rise to a debit of £30,000 (FA02/SCH26/PARA17B (1)). This is, however, subject to the spreading provisions of the Change of Accounting Practice regulations (CFM76060).


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In the 1970s the economist E. F. Schumacher set the scene for environmental sustainability with Small is Beautiful. But small is not beautiful for entrepreneurs: small is a stigma. Small connotes self-employment and stagnation, which is not only different from entrepreneurship; it is fundamentally its opposite. In the words of Abhi Shah, an award-winning entrepreneur from Ahmedabad: "Thing big! Thinking small is a crime!"
Entrepreneurship vs. self-employment. A century ago, with his third-grade education and as a WWI veteran, my immigrant grandfather became a wallpaper hanger in Philadelphia. He eventually owned a wallpaper store, but he never imagined becoming a Wal-(Paper)-Mart. He did not respond to or create opportunities to grow; to the contrary, for his children he wanted respectable, salaried jobs. Not self-employment.
Three generations later, my son is working 24x7 to set up a novel nightclub concept. He wants to creatively conquer a new market, and another, and another. He will make a good—maybe great—living, but he will not be satisfied. My grandfather was self-employed in a small business; my son is an entrepreneur.
Entrepreneurs have aspiration. Aspiration is the continental divide between the entrepreneur and the self-employed. We have many terms for entrepreneurs; "high impact," "high potential," "high aspiration," "transformational," "gazelle," and "opportunity-driven". But these terms all refer to more or less the same thing: the people creating these ventures are driven to accomplishment. To them, thinking small is indeed a crime.
Entrepreneurs continually respond to opportunity. In the 1930s two young Saudis, Saleh and Sulaiman Abdul Aziz Al-Rajhi, began exchanging Hajj pilgrims' foreign currency from outdoor canvas mats. Modest in demeanor but ambitious in scope, these young brothers won the trust of Muslims looking for a safe, sharia-compliant haven for their cash. It soon turned out that the Al-Rajhi brothers were quick decision-makers with a sharp sense of opportunity, and they used their by-then-substantial cash deposits to invest in various ventures. Ultimately the Al-Rajhi Bank was formed, and today the Al-Rajhi's are one of the wealthiest non-royal Saudi families, and their eponymous institution is the world's largest Islamic bank.
Even while operating from their canvas mat, the Al-Rajhi brothers were entrepreneurs, not small-business owners. This distinction is an important one for policy makers, who believe, implicitly or otherwise, that some unspecified percentage of self-employed will naturally transform themselves into entrepreneurs. This is a complex issue, but the best research suggests that this transformation is very rare, a conclusion that is supported by realizing the inherent differences between the two: If my grandfather thinks that self-employment is a fate to be avoided, why would he suddenly develop entrepreneurial aspirations?
To oversimplify a bit, high aspiration entrepreneurs need customers, risk capital, less red-tape, government non-interference, and global access. They thrive in uncertainty and chaos. The self-employed and small business owners require bank credit and micro-loans, skills training, stricter regulation in many cases, and heavier overall government support. They require predictability and stability.
Some policy leaders are getting the message. Canada has recently commissioned a special policy study for high-potential entrepreneurs. Scottish Enterprise has the following on its home page: We want the companies we work with to be inspired to raise their sights and ambitions and consider their business from a global perspective. Enterprise Ireland has a program for "high potential start-up companies." Startup Chile is attracting high aspiration entrepreneurs from all over the world. But even in venture-friendly America, the confusion is deeply embedded in the Small Business Administration, which tries, haltingly and confusingly, to capture both entrepreneurship and self-employment in one big net. This is a mistake, and separate organizations are required.
And every non-US government has its "SME" [small and medium enterprise] policy or program. But these terms simply don't appeal to entrepreneurs, who see themselves as becoming big by impacting their markets. In the language of SMEs, entrepreneurs are "S"s becoming "M"s and "M"s becoming "L"s. The last thing an entrepreneur wants to do is to remain an "S". So let's reorganize government policy to support these ambitious, entrepreneurial engines of economic growth.
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Fri Jan 28, 2011 9:16 pm
Hi everyone.
Since we all met through a game that is played online it occurred to me that maybe some of us also share another thing that's enjoyed online: Webcomics.
I've read comics all my life, and I've forked lots of money over the counter for my favourites through the years. But, and this is a serious but, comics cost money! And since money, or rather a lack of it, often is what keeps me from acquiring more of the stuff, I've found myself turning more and more to webcomics. Why you might ask? They're free, that's why!
There are lots and lots of delightful webcomics out there on the net just waiting to be read. They are so immensely diverse, that there's simply a comic for everyone. There are "ha ha"-funny comics that offer a gag a day, there are some who tackle difficult relationship issues while keeping the tongue firmly in the cheek and some provide non-stop action. Others offer to take you on sweeping quests with fantasy heroes and heroines, while some comics are serious commentaries to our modern day world.
I've decided to share with you a tiny bit of what the net has to offer comics-wise. I've compiled a list of the comics I enjoy the most together with some of those that I have heard a lot of good things about but haven't found time to read - yet.
I'll start with one of my old favourites: Phil and Kaja Foglio. They have four really well drawn, well narrated and hilariously funny comics on their site
- Girl Genius: Is steam punk when at it's best.
Takes place in 19th century Europa in an alternate universe. The unlikely heroine Agatha suddenly finds herself being chased by various factions all seemingly bent on her destruction. Why? Read it and find out! Has won three WCCA 2008 awards. Ongoing.
- Buck Godot: Sci-fi action/comedy.
Buck Rogers meets Dick Tracy while smoking weed. Lots of bar fights, strange and silly looking aliens and lots and lots of witty and clever dialogue (Phil Foglio's trademark). A must for sci-fi fans! Concluded.
- Myth Adventures: High fantasy.
Based upon the novels of Robert Asprin and adapted by Phil Foglio. Skeeve is the apprentice of the wizard Garkin. Garkin is suddenly murdered and Skeeve teams up with a very, very unusual "person" to find his old mentor's killer. Concluded.
- What's New: Comedy.
A strip that once ran in the popular american RP-magazine Dragon Magazine. It satirises over various topics in role playing games and board games. Lots and lots of hilarious in-jokes for gaming geeks. Expect breaks in the forth wall frequently. The grand daddy of Dark Legacy Comics and others in that genre. Concluded.
That's what Airship Entertainment had to offer. Now let's go on to the rest:
Schlock Mercenary: Comic Space Opera.
Sci-fi at it's most witty, odd and suspense-ridden I've seen yet. Howard Taylor has published a strip almost every day since sometime in 1998! The development in drawing style is very typical for many webcomics. In the beginning it's very crude, but time, training and tenacity on behalf on the artist pays off and today it's arguably one of the webcomics with the neatest and crispiest styles out there. Go read now! Seriously!
The Order of The Stick: High Fantasy/Dungeons and Dragons (3rd Ed.) parody.
Follow our heroes fight the evil lich Xykon, while they along the way battle scores of evil minions, bad saving throws and the excruciatingly bad puns of their own bard. The fourth wall never took so much beating. Ongoing.
Erfworld: Fantasy crossworlds thingy.
Gaming geek Parson Gotti gets summoned by magic to a fantasy world, where he's expected to be the "perfect warlord". Takes place in a world that's build like a war game. Lots of pop culture references. It started out on the same site as Order of the Stick, but later got its own site due to its success. Probably an acquired taste but I like it.
Sheldon: Gag-a-day plus longer story arcs.
Ten year old Sheldon invents a way that makes the internet go faster and makes millions in the process. He lives with his grand dad (called Gramp), who, despite Sheldon's millions, still make him brush his teeth every night, his dog Oso and his talking(!) duck Arthur. This comic confronts many of the everyday things we all have to deal with and turns these things upside down. Pug-lovers and coffee-addicts while find themselves at home here as will Calvin & Hobbes fans.
Ongoing. (Home of the now famous "Cookie Flow Chart")
Kevin and Kell: Anthropomorphic. (furry)
Kevin is a rabbit and Kell is a wolf. They're married. With kids. This comics takes place on an alternate Earth, where everyone are animals instead of humans. They face most of the same everyday problems that we do, except that diet is the main dividing point instead of race. Has been ongoing for ages. Actually I believe it to be one of the oldest webcomics in the world - certainly the longest running. Bill Holbrook started it in September 1995 and has been churning out strips of great quality - every single day(!) - ever since.
Userfriendly: IT-humour.
This comic is about the small Canadian internet company Columbia Internet. Expect to encounter lot's of dry tech jokes, random insanity and cute fuzziness. Computer geeks look no further! This is the place for you. And if you have ever worked tech support, you can share your pain with Greg, the resident supporter.
To my knowledge it's the original it webcomic. Ran every day from November 1997 to June 2009. Reruns of older strips is now the order of the day, with the rare exception of a short new storyline. The forum is still very popular and you can be lucky to find some real gems of tech advice there.
That's it for now, my fingers are getting tired from typing.
Though I will continue to add more in the future.
You are more than welcome to add more webcomics. The more the merrier.
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Wonderful to see someone else who has discovered Userfriendly
I've had a few times where I've used a day or two just trawling through all their strips when I was feeling particularly down and they always seem to cheer me up - I love that strip.
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Sat Jan 29, 2011 8:08 pm
Yes, UF has always been one of my favourite comics. As a computer tech and former supporter I can't help but love it.
I'll continue with a few more of the webcomics I know:
Goblins: High Fantasy/Dungeons and Dragons (3rd Ed.) parody.
It's in the same genre as Order of the Stick but with a complete different agenda. (Hordies will LOVE this one) The heroes are goblins! You follow a band of ordinary goblin NPC's who get fed up with being Player Character fodder. One of them gets the bright idea that choosing a class and fighting back is the way to go. The rest is .... well, carnage. The comic is well-drawn with lots of hilarious references to D&D 3rd Ed. rules (just like Order o.t. Stick). However, if you're not overly fond of blood and gore this is not for you! This comic is very bloody at times, which is also stated by the author at the top of the site. Not for kids. The story is on the other hand very moving and while it's very funny at times, it also has its very dark and thought provoking moments with sadness and despair. Ongoing.
dead winter: Zombie horror.
You like zombies? Go read this! Lizzie is a waitress in your typical US city diner. Daily she puts up with bad tip, a cranky cook and annoying customers. Now she wishes that she was back in the old rut! In traditional zombie movie style someone somehow gets bitten by a zombie and suddenly the disease is running rampant through the city. The comic is held strictly in a very atmospheric black and white style with a few noticeable exceptions. Lizzie's bandanna for instance is kept in bright red as are a few other smaller objects. The author also once in a while uses the advantages that the 'net holds over traditional comics to some surprising and cool effects. Ongoing .... braaaiiinss!
Sandra and Woo: Humour/funny animal.
This comic from Germany is about the tween girl Sandra and her talking raccoon Woo. It's mostly very sweet and funny but sometimes deals with more serious issues. The style is neat and kept in traditional newspaper-like strips. Also available in German. Ongoing.
Two Lumps: Humour/funny animal.
Cat lovers' heaven. This is simply the ultimate comic for cat people - or so I've read. It's about two house cats that are anything but ordinary. Ebenezer and Snooch are for cats what Laurel and Hardy was for people. How better to prepare for world conquest than to study the puny humans by living with them as their pets? Only problem is that these puny humans are the ones that change the litter box and open the cans of gooshy food. Based on the authors' experiences with the real life Eben and Snooch. Ongoing.
El Goonish Shive (or simply EGS): In a league of its own.
The first word that comes to mind when I write this is "Weird". This comic is a mix of magic, teen angst, gender switching, aliens, monsters and some terribly hilarious jokes. This comic is absolutely not to be taken seriously. Why? It doesn't take itself very seriously. It started out mostly as a crudely drawn fun-for-the-heck-of-it comic, but has since matured into a very well-drawn and captivating story of a group of high schoolers trying to keep sane in a world, where magic is more and more intruding into their lives. Still very funny though. Ongoing.
(don't ask about the name)
Dark Legacy Comics: WoW parody.
I'm a newcomer to this one. I found a link to it in one of the threads on the forum, so most of you probably already know it. But for those of you who don't: this is a gem! There are so many extremely funny references to what WoW players encounter on a daily basis - and a good deal that we (thankfully) never will encounter - that this is a must read. Go read now! Come on, read. Scoot! Ongoing.
Darths & Droids: Star Wars parody.
Any Star Wars fans present? Okay, you can all take your hands down now. This is basically a parody of the three first movies.....uhm....the three new movies.....damn it George, why did you have to shoot the three first ones last? It's a parody of Episodes 1-3! There!
Imagine for a moment, I know this might be hard, that the Star Wars movies never existed. Imagine then that George Lucas instead of making a movie series made his story into a role playing campaign. That's right! A group of role players play through the entirety of the first three movies with all the pitfalls and disasters this may entail. It's very cleverly done with speech bubbles set into screen captures taken directly from the movies. Also remember to read the notes below the comic. Sometimes they are even funnier than the comic itself.
This is it for today, now it's time for some WoW!
Tethanel - Bloodelf Warlock
Alturos - Tauren Druid
Morglub - Orcish Hunter
Gnosher - Gnome Rogue
Fengar - Worgen Hunter
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I am a big fan of Errant Story
- great plot, lots of twists, nicely dark yet funny and beautify artwork.
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Mon Nov 29, 2010 12:57 pm
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Webcomics I approve of:
- MS Paint Adventures
A different style of story telling on the interwebs, it's a huge story told mostly in chat logs, but it is an example of really tight pacing and story telling with quirky use of language and delivering some of the most severe emotional whiplash I've ever encountered in comic form.
Freak Angels
Warren Ellis is one of my favourite comic writers, his sour, sarcastic humour never gets old for me.
Just something a little bit special.
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Hi guys.
An old webcomic favourite of mine has come out of its hiatus lately and begun posting strips again.
I just read the latest strip and HAD to share it with you!
(don't worry about story continuity here - being a WoW player you'll get the point!)
http://www.inktank.com/blog/comic/inkta ... e-of-life/
Inktank: Written and drawn by Barry Smith. Black and white.
A semi-biographical comic about the author his work-life and family-life. There are also three other comics at the site all written and drawn by Barry. These include one about a hobby store (selling warhammer, comics and role playing games) called "Sorry, We're Open", one about a paint ball range called "Weak End Warriors" and one called "Angst Technology", which is about a software company that is quite out of the ordinary.
I can heartily recommend all these comics. I believe Barry's humour will suit the majority of Elders since he's a) a parent, b) as much a gamer as we are (re: just as geeky). Also the comics are well-drawn and safe for work....unless it's inopportune to laugh out loud every once in while.
....oh, did I mention he also plays WoW?
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Morglub - Orcish Hunter
Gnosher - Gnome Rogue
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Carmani Boozer can barely get his little arms around a basketball.
The 22-month-old hugs the ball to his chest as he bounces around the room before his dad sweeps him up for a father-son grin and giggle.
Carlos Boozer has had to recover from a host of injuries that come with being a power forward in the NBA, yet he can only imagine what his son has endured in the last year.
Carmani has had chemotherapy, made countless trips to the doctor and spent weeks in the hospital before and after a bone-marrow transplant that his parents hope wiped out his sickle cell anemia.
Six months later, Carmani is still free of the blood disorder, but Boozer and his wife, CeCe, have another six months of angst before knowing whether the procedure was a success.
"We're just looking forward to that day when he's clear completely," Boozer said.
They just aren't sure when or if that day will come. If it does, the Boozers will know that they made the right call in a series of difficult choices that ultimately led to deciding on a transplant and a search for the right donor. They found one by producing their own through in-vitro fertilization.
Two of the healthy embryos they created were implanted and CeCe Boozer had twin boys last July. After Carmani had chemotherapy to attack his sickle-cell producing bone marrow, he was injected with stem cells from one twin's umbilical cord to stimulate the growth of new bone marrow in the hope it will produce healthy blood cells.
Sickle cell is a devastating inherited disease of deformed red blood cells that can't carry enough oxygen, common among people with ancestors from Africa, Latin America, the Middle East and the Mediterranean.
The abnormal red blood cells shaped like a sickle or crescent and have difficulty moving through the blood stream. Complications can include intense pain, stroke, organ damage and death.
Bone-marrow transplants have been successful in curing the disease, but it is a risky procedure because the chemotherapy wipes out the immune system.
In infants, the risks are even greater.
"We decided we would rather do it now while he is still healthy and the disease hasn't affected him that much, rather than wait five or 10 years down the road when he's already had kidney failure or a stroke," CeCe Boozer said.
The Boozers have been encouraged by Carmani's recovery so far. Six months ago, the chemotherapy had left his skin discolored and blemished and caused his hair to fall out. He spent almost six weeks in the hospital, getting scrubbed down twice daily to eradicate germs.
It was miserable for Carmani and even more difficult for his parents.
"It was just a hard process to watch him. You just wish it could be you," his mother said.
Carmani's jet black hair has grown back and his skin is healthy again, leaving him looking like any other toddler. He's certainly as active as any of his little peers and loves attending Jazz games.
During one recent game, his mother paused as she was taking Carmani back up to his seat, just long enough for him to get a quick kiss from his dad at the end of the Jazz bench.
For CeCe Boozer, it's especially gratifying to see her son healthy. She pushed for the transplant after spending months learning everything she could about the disease and possible treatments.
She discussed transplants, but was told they were considered elective procedures and usually happened later in the patient's life. She didn't want to wait that long.
Because both parents are carriers for the sickle cell trait, they wanted to be sure their next child would not have the affliction. CeCe Boozer had read about genetically screening embryos for conditions like Down syndrome, but not sickle cell. She spoke to a geneticist, who came up with a test to spot the sickle cell trait.
The couple went through in-vitro fertilization and found two embryos that were perfect, healthy matches. Both were implanted to increase the chances of survival and CeCe Boozer learned a couple months later that both had taken and she would be having twins.
The Boozers also learned Carmani could have the procedure done in Miami, where the family lives in the offseason. On the eve of Carmani's transplant, his parents shared some second thoughts.
"There were days you see kids that didn't make it families of the kids that didn't make it," Carlos said. "That was in the back of our mind. That could be us if it doesn't go right."
They decided it was better to take a chance now rather than later.
Carmani had the procedure on Sept. 5, shortly before training camp was to begin. Jazz coach Jerry Sloan, who puts only family ahead of basketball, told Boozer to take his time and report when he was ready.
"All we could do was tell him we'll support him any way we can," Sloan said. "He's handled it tremendously. He said 'I'll be ready to go when I get there' and he was ready to go. That tells you a lot about guys. He's got a lot going on."
CeCe Boozer was surprised how little she could find out about getting Carmani a transplant. Most doctors suggested prolonged treatment with medications, which may not have been effective if Carmani's anemia was too severe.
Because of Carlos' status as an NBA player, she knows people are paying attention to Carmani's story. Through Boozer's Buddies Foundation, she is letting others know everything she has learned.
The foundation's Web site is still developing. After all, Cece Boozer has her hands full with a toddler and twins Cameron and Cayden. There are also routine trips to the doctor for Carmani, who has to get checked out at the hospital for even a common cold because his immune system is still weak.
"Every little thing that happens to him, we fear the worst," his father said.
Despite Carmani's health problems, Boozer has been having his two best seasons in the NBA. He leads the Jazz in scoring and rebounding, and was selected to the Western Conference All-Star team for the second straight year.
He said the last two months have been even better because his wife and children were finally able to move up from Miami in January when Carmani became healthy enough to handle the altitude."You go through the tough times and when things start to get sweet, they're that much sweeter," he said. "It's so much fun right now. My whole family is back together."
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Dean Saunders wants the 'spine' of his team to drag Wolves to safety.
"Kevin Doyle's playing great. He was unplayable in the first half-an-hour on Saturday," the boss said.
"Wardy's come in and made an impact in what isn't his ideal position, Hunt is playing well and has lifted the team. Karl Henry's back and we need him to play well – Tongo's come back in, so we need him playing well. Then obviously the two centre-backs and the goalkeeper need to be on top of their game – so there's the spine of the team there, really. They've got to drag the others along."
Stephen Hunt says tired legs and tired bodies will be heading to Charlton.
"We've got ourselves out of trouble before and now we're going to have to do it again," said Hunt.
"We've just got to move on to Charlton now, get a positive result there and bring it back to our place with safety in mind.
"It's a third game in a week, we're going to have tired legs and tired bodies, but we've got to get over this and go again." Hunt praised Kevin Doyle for his winner against Hull.
"It's amazing – when you get early balls into Doyle, he thrives on that. I know how Kevin Doyle plays and I know what he wants,'' he said. "Bjorn's slipped him in early and even though it's his weaker foot, he's put his head down and struck through it."


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On paper, the 64-apartment mixed-use development planned for South Portland's Westbrook Street looks simply like a response to the need for affordable apartments in the city.
But the development, a partnership between Avesta Housing and Portland businessman Quang Nguyen, is also a key player in the city's effort to make a loose group of large apartment complexes into a community.
A neighborhood hub is important, said Dana Totman, president of Avesta, a nonprofit organization that owns 80 properties in Maine and New Hampshire. "It creates a sense of community, a sense of identity. It creates trust, and a place where neighbors help one another."
Nguyen, who owns the Le Variety convenience store at 586 Westbrook St., the site where the five-story building is planned, said he bought the store two years ago with just this type of project in mind.
"My vision was a place for people to come and shop, to congregate," he said as he sat at a table in the store Tuesday.
Nguyen said the first time he saw the store he wanted to buy it, and, coincidentally, ran into a real estate broker who helped make the deal happen.
He later attended a neighborhood master plan public hearing, at which city officials discussed how they wanted to make the neighborhood more connected and people-friendly.
After getting some leads from city officials, Nguyen approached Avesta about a partnership.
Avesta owns 139 units in the Brick Hill development at the site of the former Maine Youth Development Center.
Nguyen bought the quarter- acre vacant parcel next to the store's 0.66 acre lot in July in anticipation of the city rezoning the area in an effort to make it more of a neighborhood.
The city approved the West End Master Plan Aug. 21, which allowed the Avesta/Nguyen project to go forward. The plan calls for Avesta to buy the site from Nguyen, and he will own 4,000 square feet of retail space on the ground floor.
The South Portland Planning Board approved the site plan in December, and Totman said Avesta will apply for this spring's round of Maine Housing Authority tax credits.
The five-story building will house 22 studio apartments, 16 one-bedroom, 16 two-bedroom and 10 three-bedroom. Some 80% of it will be for low-income renters, said Tyler Norod, the project development officer.
The larger apartments will help address the shortage of multi-bedroom units in the city.
Totman said the apartments target those with income of $25,000 to $45,000. "That captures a lot of folks working at the Maine Mall, in area doctors' offices," he said. "The folks who just don't have the earned income to buy a home, or don't want to."
The first floor will house a community room, the new Le Variety, twice the size of the current one at 4,000 square feet, and Opportunity Alliance, which is South Portland's Community Action Agency. The organization's resource center currently operates out of a mobile home next to Le Variety.
Nguyen will expand the restaurant part of the store, which now serves pizza, breakfast sandwiches, egg rolls and banh mi (Vietnamese sandwiches). He said about 2,500 square feet of the space will be store, and about 1,500 square feet will be the cafe.
Totman said if the tax credits are in place this spring, the project would be finished by spring 2020.
Nguyen said in the two years he's owned Le Variety, he has seen the seeds of a community hub.
He said it's a gathering place. "Someone will be on the phone and say, 'Hey, I'm in the store,' and everyone knows where he's talking about."
The Westbrook Street neighborhood, often referred to as Red Bank, a reference to the most prominent of its half-dozen developments, has about 3,000 residents, 90% of whom rent. It's hemmed in by the Portland International Jetport, Interstate 295 and the shopping area that's sprung up around the Maine Mall.
The city's focus on it has been intense over the past year — Patti Smith, who was mayor when the master plan was approved in August, called it the city's "next horizon in many ways."
The zoning changes and master plan aim to give the neighborhood connectivity, regional access, sustainability and increased recreation and open space. The city plans to widen sidewalks and add street lights and other pedestrian-friendly features, coordinated with the Avesta/Nguyen project.
Totman, Norod and Nguyen all said the collaboration between all the groups involved, and the effort of the city government, were vital to the project.
"There's been a real push by the city to put some effort and time into this," Norod said. "The city has gone above and beyond to set the table and make this project a possibility."
Totman said the partnership of housing, social services, business and municipal "is a special collaboration, and that can't be overstated."
Nguyen, 28, a Vietnamese immigrant, said it goes even deeper for him.
"Coming from a third world country, and seeing a democracy, how it works and how it all comes together, from the very beginning and up through the city, and now I'm collaborating on a $13 million project? That's pretty amazing," he said.
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We don't like to get particularly dressed up on Sundays since these are usually our days for getting errands done and for hardcore chillin' but I found myself up in San Francisco on this Sunday doing a hangout with Mandi when we stumbled across this color block set-up. I'm convinced that I lived up there, we'd have amazing photos for our Instagram all the time, instead, we just get one a week. As I mentioned in a previous post earlier this week, I'm obsessed with these sneakers and I will pretty much pair them with any outfit not just my on-the-go outfits.


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In a roundtable discussion to conclude its Atlanta meeting, members of the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues (Bioethics Commission) and the day's invited speakers delved deeper into how to respond to President Obama's charge to review the ethical issues associated with the conduct of neuroscience research and implications of its findings.
Amy Gutmann, Ph.D., Chair of the Bioethics Commission, kicked off the discussion by asking for "input on what you think is the single most important issue we need to deal with, whether it be a finding or recommendation in our report." The following are highlights from the discussion that ensued:
"One of the most important things is consent, given all of the people with a vested interest in getting on with the work and the temptation to be perfunctory about consent and voluntariness. It has to be rigorous and maybe it should be done by third parties. The other issue is the notion of harm (in neuroscience research). It should not be simply physiological harm. We should also think seriously about the potential for psychic harm." — Robert McGinn, Ph.D., Professor of Management Science and Engineering and Professor of Science, Technology, and Society at Stanford University.
"Most scientists see consideration of ethical issues in some formal sense as an impediment to their work. If you could find a way of turning that around where ethics can support their work, that is really an important thing to do. The incentives right now are misaligned." — Herbert S. Lin, Ph.D., Chief Scientist, Computer Science and Telecommunications Board at the National Research Council of the National Academies.
"If people who are going to be talking to the press who are doing these neuroscience studies and thinking about exaggerating their findings, if they are exposed to hard data indicating that this news will have a bad effect (on the field), that may just make them think a little bit harder about it." — Alfred R. Mele, Ph.D., the William H. and Lucyle T. Werkmeister Professor of Philosophy at Florida State University.
"Speaking as an experimental psychologist and a neuroscientist…I think that we are too ready to trust our gut reaction–and most of the time our gut reaction is good. But when it comes to bioethical issues, which really force us to confront things that our brains were not designed by biology, culture or personal experience to handle, we really have to be willing to put our gut reactions aside and think in a more reflective way about the consequences of different policy choices." — Joshua D. Greene, Ph.D., the John and Ruth Hazel Associate Professor of Psychology at Harvard University.
"Immediate incentives may be to avoid ethical issues and just get on with narrow science. But one major ethical lapse, especially, but not only, in an emerging science, and it can derail progress for a long time. So being proactive and integrative in ethics makes practical, not just ethical sense, if you are committed as we are as a society to moving scientific progress forward." — Amy Gutmann, Ph.D., Chair of the Bioethics Commission.


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I think the main reason I like her work is how she combines reality with thought. The mind is a curious thing and it often mistakes the impossible for the usual. Her work takes things 'figurative' to literal. And I absolutely love the way she paints in such pale, macabre colors.
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The conference deals with places and periods where and when democracy and technology intersected and interacted, inside or outside projects and institutions, discourses and practices, procedures and objects, from the 19th C. to present times. Between assessment and instrumentalization, how democracy dealt with the social, economic and cultural challenges of technology ? How technology and democratic regimes and ideas impacted mutually ? The conference has two particular focusses : tracking transnational dynamics at European scale, historicizing recent claims for a "technical democracy", through which it is expected that the making of democracy and technology are weaved together.
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|The Library of Congress > American Memory
|Women Lawyers and State Bar Admission
Women have been a part of the legal system since the early years of this nation, but for a long time, they were prohibited through various means from practicing law. There have been some exceptions. Margaret Brent (ca. 1601-1671), for example, arrived in the New World in 1638, received a land grant in St. Mary's City, and became executrix for Governor Leonard Calvert of Maryland. She appeared before the provincial court to file suits against her own debtors and to plead cases for others.48 Luce Terry (1730-1821) in 1796 was "the first voice of a black woman in the nation to influence law before a court on which a member of the U.S. Supreme Court sat when she gave an oral argument in a Vermont court before Justice Samuel Chase who was riding the circuit in New England."49
Initially, women were denied admission to law schools, and later they were denied admission to state bar associations. State legislative bodies or the administrative offices of a state's supreme court determine the requirements for bar admission and the codes of professional ethics.
Myra Bradwell (1831-1894), for example, filed a petition with the U. S. Supreme Court to appeal the decision of the Illinois Supreme Court that denied her admission to the state bar in 1872 after she had completed her legal studies and passed the bar examination.50 Her argument was based on the Immunities and Privileges Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, which says: "No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States. . . ."51 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the immunities and privileges clause did not apply to the "right to admission to practice in the courts of a State," and thereby set a precedent of noninterference by the federal government in state employment affairs that would remain in place for decades. The justices conceded that Mrs. Bradwell was a "citizen" according to the Constitution, but the fact that she was married presented the Court with problems. Justice Bradley concurred in the Court's opinion, and his view of women would prevail in future judicial opinions:
It certainly cannot be affirmed, as an historical fact, that this has ever been established as one of the fundamental privileges and immunities of the sex. On the contrary, the civil law, as well as nature herself, has always recognized a wide difference in the respective spheres and destinies of man and woman. Man is, or should be, woman's protector and defender. The natural and proper timidity and delicacy which belongs to the female sex evidently unfits it for many of the occupations of civil life. The constitution of the family organization, which is founded in the divine ordinance, as well as in the nature of things, indicates the domestic sphere as that which properly belongs to the domain and functions of womanhood. The harmony, not to say identity, of interest and views which belong, or should belong, to the family institution is repugnant to the idea of a woman adopting a distinct and independent career from that of her husband.52 [full item]
In 1893 Belva A. Lockwood (1830-1917), a trained attorney who was the first woman admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court, filed suit for mandamus in this same court to force the Commonwealth of Virginia to admit her to the state bar. Stating its precedent, the U.S. Supreme Court "denied leave" to bring her argument:
Belle Babb Mansfield (1846-1911), the first woman admitted to a state bar in the United States, was formally admitted to the Iowa State Bar in June 1869 after a ruling in the Iowa courts in her favor.54 Charlotte E. Ray (1850-1899 or 1900), a Howard University graduate, was the first African American woman lawyer; she was admitted to the District of Columbia Bar in 1872 without a fight because she applied for admission under the name C. E. Ray and the admissions committee thought she was male.55
Today women lawyers are enjoying opportunities that would surprise and delight women of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. An 1890 commentary by Lelia Robinson (1850-1891), the first woman admitted to the Massachusetts bar, traces the beginnings:
As the woman lawyer is increasingly taken more seriously, books for women attorneys address such issues as how to become partners in large law firms, "rain-making (or generating business for a law firm)," and marketing as a sole practitioner. More important, women attorneys are receiving favorable decisions in court concerning their rights as attorneys, not just their right to be members of a state bar.57
Drachman, Virginia G. Sisters in Law: Women Lawyers in Modern American History. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1998 (KF299.W6 D7 1998).
Morello, Karen. The Invisible Bar: The Woman Lawyer in America 1638 to Present. New York: Random House, 1986 (KF299.W6 M67 1986). This treatise, an often-cited source, is an excellent historical account of women practicing law in the United States.
Robinson, Lelia. "Woman Lawyers in the United States." The Green Bag 2 (1890):10. In this popular magazine published in Boston in the 1890s, Robinson gives the contemporary view of women lawyers.
Smith, J. Clay Jr., ed. Rebels in Law: Voices in History of Black Women Lawyers. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 1998 (KF299.A35 R43 1998). This excellent chronicle of the African American woman's experience in law is told in the words of various authors. Although it describes some of the same hardships as other accounts of women lawyers, Rebels in Law is unusual in showing how these women had to struggle with other social restrictions, such as racism.[Top]
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PP38: Still no alternative? Popular views of the opposition in Southern Africa's one-party dominant regimesFive Southern African countries have democracies dominated by parties that emerged from liberation movements and have governed since independence: Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. Read more
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Numismatic History of Tunisia / L'Histoire Numismatique de la Tunisie
A new, highly polished, publication (hard cover) has just come to light: volume two of Numismatique et Histoire de la Monnaie en Tunisie (Monnaies Islamiques), publications of Banque Centrale de la Tunisie/BCT (direction: Ali Khiri, coordination scientifique: Abdelhamid Fenina). After volume one (Monnaies Antiques) this time volume two emphasized the Islamic period (up until the French occupation). In addition to a highly valuable catalogue by Professor Abdelhamid Fenina (my old adviser and friend, Professor of history and Islamic archeology at the University of Tunis) of the collection of the BCT, the volume includes a series of articles addressing the coins and monetary history of the various political phases of the Islamic period (Early-Umayyad, Abbasid, Aghlabid, Fatimid, Zirid, Muwahhid-Hafsid, Early Ottoman, and Late Ottoman; see SOMMAIRE). Pr. Fenina and I co-authored an article on the Hafsid period (pp. 119-146; see the ABSTRACT in the first page of the article). I must thank Pr. Fenina for allowing me to take part in this project and for his endurance to finish it especially that he was responsible for the majority of the materials in the book. I must also thank Mr. Khiri whose perseverance was a major factor in finishing this volume.
Actually this is and will be the major reference on the Islamic numismatics and monetary history of Tunisia for years to come. Unfortunately the book will not be commercialized soon since the publishers (BCT) decided to wait for the third and last volume (coins and money of the contemporary period) to get them out to the market at the same time (I must say not the wisest decision, but...).


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One of the most common fractal patterns found in nature is branching. Fractal branching is seen in tree branches and leaf veins, lightning, river deltas, mountaintops, blood vessels and bronchi in the lungs, and many other places. Can you think of any examples?
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Fractal Education: Sierpinski Triangle
A great activity for teaching kids about fractals is making Sierpinski triangles – one of the easiest fractals to draw.
The Sierpinski triangle is formed using this process:
- Take a point-side-up triangle
- Connect midpoints of the three sides to create a point-side-down triangle.
- Repeat process with the resulting point-side-up triangles.
- Repeat as many times as you want.
This example shows taking the process through 4 iterations.
You can print out the starting triangle from:
Fractal Foundation: Sierpinski Triangle (includes worksheet and instructions)
Spitz: Fractal Pack 1: Educators' Guide (includes Sierpinski triangle template and other information for teaching about fractals)
If you have a classroom of kids, you can take their Sierpinski triangles and put them together to make a larger triangle – you just need a power of 3 to make a complete Sierpinski triangle (3, 9, 27, etc.).
Also, you can blow their minds by showing this Sierpinski Zoom video to show that the triangles can go on forever!
NOVA Exposes the Hidden Dimension of Fractals
Whether or not you've heard of fractals before, the NOVA documentary, Hunting the Hidden Dimension, will amaze you with how cool they really are. A fractal is a geometric pattern that is repeated at smaller and smaller scales, producing shapes that can't be represented by classical geometry. When mathematicians first started toying with the idea of fractals, they seemed so strange and foreign they were known as "monsters". Now we see that they aren't so foreign. In fact, they are everywhere – the branching of trees and blood vessels in our bodies, coastlines, clouds. Isn't it amazing how even the strangest mathematical concepts seem to lead back to the natural world?
Hunting the Hidden Dimension is a fascinating look at fractals, covering the history of their study, from the 19th century, when they were known as "monsters", to current applications, such as CGI and cell phone antennae. We also learn about the life and work of Benoit Mandelbrot, the man who developed fractal geometry as a field of mathematics and coined the term "fractal", his advantage being that he came along at a time when computers were becoming available to tackle such problems. The "hidden dimension" in the title refers to the "fractal dimension". You've heard of things being 2-dimensional or 3-dimensional, but fractal geometry can describe shapes with non-integer dimensions like 1.3 or 2.6.
I watched this documentary with my kids and I have shown clips of it to my after-school math group. The kids especially like seeing the beautiful images of the Mandelbrot set and seeing how fractals were used in the making of the latest Star Wars movies.
Hunting the Hidden Dimension is available for free on Hulu and is currently available on YouTube (embedded below).
Maker Faire Bay Area 2013
My family and I spent this past weekend exploring all the wonderful sights and activities at Maker Faire Bay Area. Maker Faire is billed as a family-friendly festival of invention, creativity and resourcefulness, and a celebration of the Maker movement. We saw flaming sculptures, robots, giant musical tesla coils, people on stilts, Tapigami, the EepyBird Coke & Mentos show, and much more. The kids polished rocks; did lots of art projects, including a claymation video and an octopus made from gloves; helped build a beehive; made soap and silly putty; and climbed into a life-sized bejeweled flying saucer. If there is a Maker Fair event near you, GO!
Here a few math-themed photos I took at the event.
Origami + Scissors = Kirigami
A couple of weeks ago, I did a post about origami. In origami, figures are made with only folding. But, there is a variation of origami, called kirigami, that involves folding and cutting and then opening up the folded paper. Familiar examples are the snowflake and paper dolls, that you may have made as a kid.
In the field of mathematics, Erik Demaine of MIT has been working on what is called the fold-and-cut problem. The fold-and-cut process involves folding the paper, making one straight cut, and then unfolding the paper. Any figure formed from straight lines can be produced this way. The problem is figuring out how to fold the paper – that's where the computational geometry comes in. Demaine has several patterns on his website, and the video below shows the process for creating a swan.
Probability, Poker, and God
WNYC's Radiolab recently aired a segment called "Dealing with Doubt". Jad and Robert spoke to Professional poker players, Annie Duke and brother Howard Lederer, and learned that reading other players' "tells" is a very small part of the game. The way to win at poker is to use math – to calculate the probability that you will get a winning hand, your "hand odds", and compare it to the "pot odds", the ratio of the current size of the pot to the cost of a call.
They also discuss how 17th century French mathematician, Pascal, applied probabilities to a very big question.
You can listen to the segment here: Dealing with Doubt. (Sorry I can't embed – WordPress won't allow it. )
Special Numbers: 6174
Try this:
- Take any four-digit number, using at least two different digits. Repdigits, such as 1111, will not work, because you will just end up with 0 after step 3.
- Arrange the digits in ascending and then in descending order, adding leading zeros if necessary. Add leading zeros if necessary – for example, 4560 in ascending order is 0456 and 6540.
- Subtract the smaller number from the bigger number.
- Go back to step 2 and repeat the process.
This process, known as the Kaprekar routine, will always reach the number 6174, within 7 iterations. Once 6174 is reached, the process will continue yielding 6174 because 7641 – 1467 = 6174.
For example, choose 6532:
6532 – 2356 = 4176
7641 – 1467 = 6174
Another example, choose 4905:
9640 – 0469 = 9171
9711 – 1179 = 8532
8532 – 2358 = 6174
7641 – 1467 = 6174
6174 is known as Kaprekar's constant, named after Indian mathematician D. R. Kaprekar.


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The story behind Jacobs' winning wheel choice
Pete Jacobs knew the Zipp 808 Firecrest – with its 82 mm rim depth – would be an ultra fast wheel for last weekend's Ironman® World Championship in Kona.
But he had a lingering question: "Will it be too much to handle in tough crosswinds?"
Jacobs got his answer from fellow Australian Chris "Macca" McCormack. "Macca said the 808 Firecrests were no different in a crosswind than the (more shallow) 404s, so I was confident that it was going to ride well," Jacobs said. "The crosswinds were never blowing me across the road. I always felt in control. During the race I was thinking, "Wow, these 808s feel great."
Indeed. Jacobs, riding Zipp 808 Firecrest® Tubulars, looked strong throughout the 112-mile cycling leg. He was second off the bike and went on to capture his first Kona title. Jacobs became the second pro to win the Ironman® World Championship while riding 808 Firecrest wheels. Macca debuted the 808 Firecrest with a Kona victory in 2010.
Jacobs also stayed aero and comfortable for his 4:35:15 bike split (24.2 mph average) while riding the Zipp® VukaBull basebar along with a Zipp Service Course SL stem and Zipp carbon extensions.
Jacobs uses the VukaBull with the 40 mm drop because he finds it stretches his wrists less. "It's all about comfort," he said, adding: "I run my pads wide… for comfort and to breathe easier so I'm not cramped."
In Kona, Jacobs also rode a SRAM RED - 2012 drivetrain and used the SRAM RED Quarq power meter.
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I generally try to stay away from clones due to their sub-par construction and low quality materials but I was browsing ebay one day came across this Cartel Mods Stillare v3 clone by Cigreen. I went to the Cartel Mods website to check out the authentic and didn't really see a noticeable difference between the Cigreen clone and the authentic. I'm sure the authentic Stillare by Cartel Mods is constructed using only the best materials and is superior to the clone n every way but I'm just saying that I couldn't notice a visible difference while looking online.
I ordered the clone and it arrived two days later. It came in a flip type box with a mini screwdriver, extra screws, and extra o-rings. The device is somewhat heavy and appears to be built well for a clone. Initially the center post appears solid and doesn't seem like it would strip easily.
There are three negative screws on the outside of the deck that allow for 3 coils to be mounted easily. There are grooves next to the screws that allow the leads sit nice and snug.
The first build that I mounted was using 26 gauge Kanthal wrapped around 2mm mini screwdriver. I did a 4/3 wrap. The vapor production and flavor were both solid but not out of the ordinary. I then tried the same build using 24 gauge kanthal and noticed a better flavor with about the same vapor production. This clone can only accommodate up to 24 gauge when doing a tri-coil build due to the size of the holes in the positive post. You can sort of fit 22 gauge in the positive post if you want to do a dual coil build but it is very difficult and the build ends up looking messy.
This is a photo of the authentic Stillare v3 by Cartel Mods. The clone is nearly the same but not as nicely built.
The Stillare v3 clone by Cigreen is good RDA overall. I like that you have the ability to get creative with your builds but you are somewhat limited since you can't go larger than 24 gauge kanthal. The device is solid and definitely well worth the $20 or so that I spent on it. I always recommend buying authentic and American made but we can't always spend $100 on an atomizer. If you are going to buy a clone this would be a good one to buy.
Props to Cartel Mods for their design on this. I'm sure they put a ton of R&D into the Stillare to make it one of the most recognized RDAs on the market. I use this clone as a backup atomizer or if I want to experiment with some different builds. The clone is built 1:1, feels solid, and vapes really well. If you aren't able to buy the authentic from Cartel Mods you should definitely pick up this clone.


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Retail sales in Canada rose 0.3 per cent to $39.1 billion in August, Statistic Canada reported Tuesday, disappointing economists even though the numbers met consensus forecasts.
"Digging beneath the surface, the impact on GDP looks disappointing, as in real terms, sales volumes were down 0.3 per cent, with all of the rise in nominal sales therefore attributable to inflation, including a 2.9 per cent rise in gas station sales," Avery Shenfeld, CIBC World Markets chief economist, wrote in a commentary.
"Sales were otherwise mixed across sectors, with gains in general merchandise but a drop in clothing, health and autos."
Statistic Canada said sales at general merchandise stores increased for a second consecutive month, up 0.6 per cent.
However, department store sales edged up just 0.2 per cent while those at miscellaneous retailers declined for a second month in a row, falling 3.1 per cent.
Overall, gains were reported in five of 11 subsectors, representing 53 per cent of total retail trade.
Robert Kavcic, senior economist at BMO Capital Markets, also noted that "underlying spending, excluding autos and gas, was somewhat disappointing, falling 0.1 per cent and continuing the choppy performance seen in recent months."
Sales at furniture and building products stores, down 0.1 and 0.4 per cent respectively, were consistent with softening housing market trends, Kavcic added.
Regionally, British Columbia was the weak spot in August, with retail sales falling 0.9 per cent amid declines in housing-related sectors, Kavcic said, noting that the recent housing sales slump hit that province the hardest.
It was the fifth decline in retail sales in B.C. in the last six months, Statistic Canada said.
The Prairies and Ontario were strong spots, with Alberta (up 0.4 per cent) and Saskatchewan (up 0.6 per cent) continuing to show the strongest consumer spending trends in the country, with retail sales growth running at 8.1 and 9.3 per cent respectively year over year, Kavcic said.
Both provinces are fuelled by healthy labour markets and strong population growth, he said.
Ontario, where retail sales were up 0.6 per cent, reported the biggest gain in overall dollar terms in August, while Nova Scotia showed an impressive gain of 2.8 per cent, which Statistics Canada said was widespread across store types.
Newfoundland and Labrador also did better than most with a 1.0 per cent gain, its sixth increase in retail sales in seven months.
Quebec posted a 0.2 per cent gain.
Besides British Columbia, other provinces showing decreases were Prince Edward Island, down 0.1 per cent; New Brunswick, down 0.7 per cent, and Manitoba, down 0.4 per cent.


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Quote from: Severian on August 31, 2011, 07:23:15 PMHer anti-Chalcedonianism is an almost indisputable realityWhy?
Her anti-Chalcedonianism is an almost indisputable reality
Quote from: NicholasMyra on August 31, 2011, 07:28:43 PMQuote from: Severian on August 31, 2011, 07:23:15 PMHer anti-Chalcedonianism is an almost indisputable realityWhy?Because that seems to be the concensus in academia.
...you can imagine so-called healing services of the pigpen. The books that could be written, you know: Life in the Pigpen. How to Cope in the Pigpen. Being Happy in the Pigpen. Surviving in the Pigpen. And then there could be counselling, for people who feel unhappy in the pigpen, to try to get them to come to terms with the pigpen, and to accept the pigpen.
I'm asking what the evidence is.
Quote from: NicholasMyra on August 31, 2011, 07:32:28 PMI'm asking what the evidence is. Well, pretty much every article I have read about her said that she was anti-Chalcedonian.
And they say that because they interpret Theodora's protection and endorsement of figures outside of Chalcedon as proof that she espoused a non-Chalcedonian belief system, which is illogical and, above all, anachronistic.
Quote from: NicholasMyra on August 31, 2011, 07:37:48 PMAnd they say that because they interpret Theodora's protection and endorsement of figures outside of Chalcedon as proof that she espoused a non-Chalcedonian belief system, which is illogical and, above all, anachronistic.While I agree that her support for anti-Chalcedonian figures alone isn't enough to prove that she was anti-Chalcedonian, the argument does, to a degree, make sense. In any case, can you cite a source, from a scholar/historian which says that she was Chalcedonian?
My source is Procopius, who states that, if I'm not mistaken, Theodora was from Greece.
Quote from: NicholasMyra on August 31, 2011, 07:56:34 PMMy source is Procopius, who states that, if I'm not mistaken, Theodora was from Greece.Most scholars think that Procopius' work is a joke, so don't take it too seriously.
Procopius had a History and a Secret history. The latter is a joke.
The Evangelization of Nubia, John of Ephesus, Ecclesiastical HistoryArchaeologists have traced Africa's ancient black culture of Nubia back to 3100 B.C.E. Located in modern southern Egypt and northern Sudan, Nubia comprised three kingdoms (Nobatia, Makouria, and Alwa) that converted to Christianity in the sixth century. The following account of the non-Chalcedonian bishop, John of Ephesus (ca. 507-586), describes the rivalry between the Chalcedonian emperor, Justinian, and his non-Chalcedonian wife, Theodora, who both sent missionaries to evangelize the Nobatai. Though neighboring Egypt fell to the Arabs in the seventh century, strong Christian kingdoms in Nubia resisted conquest and conversion to Islam until the fourteenth century.Among the clergy in attendance upon pope Theodosius was a presbyter named Julian, an old man of great worth, who conceived an earnest spiritual desire to christianize the wandering people who dwell on the eastern borders of the Thebais [a region of upper Egypt], beyond Egypt, and who are not only not subject to the authority of the Roman empire, but even receive a subsidy on condition that they do not enter or pillage Egypt. The blessed Julian, therefore, being full of anxiety for this people, went and spoke about them to the late queen Theodora, in the hope of awakening in her a similar desire for their conversion; and as the queen was fervent in zeal for God, she received the proposal with joy, and promised to do everything in her power for the conversion of these tribes from the errors of idolatry. In her joy, therefore, she informed the victorious king Justinian of the proposed undertaking, and promised and anxiously desired to send the blessed Julian thither. But when the king heard that the person she intended to send was opposed to the council of Chalcedon, he was not pleased, and determined to write to the bishops of his own side in the Thebais, with orders for them to proceed thither and instruct them, and plant among them the name of the synod. And as he entered upon the matter with great zeal, he sent thither, without a moment's delay, ambassadors with gold and baptismal robes, and gifts of honor for the king of that people, and letters for the duke of of the Thebais, enjoining him to take every care of the embassy, and escort them to the territories of the Nobidae [i.e., the people of Nobatia, one of the Nubian kingdoms]. When, however, the queen learnt these things, she quicky, with much cunning, wrote letters to the duke of the Thebais, and sent a mandatory of her court to carry them to him; and which were as follows: "Inasmuch as both his majesty and myself have proposed to send an embassy to the people of Nobidae, and I am now despatching a blessed man named Julian; and further my will is, that my ambassador should arrive at the aforesaid people before his majesty's; be warned, that if you permit his ambassador to arrive there before mine, and not hinder him by various pretexts until mine shall have reached you, and have passed through your province, and arrived as his destination, your life shall answer for it; for I will immediately send and take off your head."
Would the OO venerate, say...St. Olav?
St Simon the Stylite is commemorated by the Eastern Orthodox while he wrote against Chalcedon.
The Venerable Simeon the Stylitehttp://www.westsrbdio.org/prolog/prolog.htmHe was born in Syria of peasant parents. At the age of eighteen, he left home and was tonsured a monk. He undertook the most difficult ascetic practices, and sometimes undertook a strict fast for forty days. He eventually took upon himself a form of asceticism that was previously unknown. He stood day and night on a pillar, in unceasing prayer. At first, his pillar was six cubits high; he later raised it to twelve cubits, then to twenty-two cubits, then to thirty-six cubits, and finally to forty cubits high. On two occasions his mother Martha came to see him, but he refused to receive her, saying from atop the pillar: ``Do not disturb me now, my mother. If we become worthy, then we'll see each other in the next world.'' St. Simeon endured countless assaults from demons, but he conquered them all by prayer to God. The saint worked many great miracles, healing by word and prayer many who were afflicted. People from all over gathered around his pillar-the rich and the poor, kings and slaves. Simeon helped everyone: healing some of infirmities, comforting those in need, instructing others, and reproaching some who held heretical beliefs. Thus, he turned Empress Eudocia from the Eutychian heresy and brought her back to Orthodoxy. He lived the ascetic life during the reigns of the Emperors Theodosius the Younger, Marcian and Leo the Great. Simeon, the first great stylite in Christianity and a great miracle-worker, lived to be 103 years old. He reposed in the Lord on September 1, 459. His relics were translated to Antioch, to the church dedicated to his name.
St Simon the Stylite is a non-Chalcedonian saint. He was and is venerated by the OO.
The Emperor Theodosius Junior the 2nd (408-450) respected Venerable Simeon deeply and often followed his advice. When the Emperor died, his widow, queen Eudocia, was perverted to a monophysical heresy. Monophysites did not recognize dual nature of Christ - Godly and human - they believed only in the Godly one. Venerable Simeon enlightened the queen and she again became an Orthodox Christian.http://www.fatheralexander.org/booklets/english/saints/simeon_stylites.htm
St Juvenal the Patriarch of JerusalemCommemorated on July 2http://ocafs.oca.org/FeastSaintsLife.asp?FSID=101868 In 451, the Fourth Ecumenical Council met in the city of Chalcedon. It condemned the Eutchian [Monophysite] heresy, which taught that the human nature in Christ was totally swallowed up and absorbed by the divine nature. The holy Fathers, among them St Juvenal, condemned the heresy of Eutychius and affirmed the Orthodox doctrine of the union of two natures in the Lord Jesus Christ, the divine and the human, without separation and without mixture. The heretics, however, continued to confuse the minds of Christians. At the head of the heretics stood Theodosius, who had won over to his side the widow of the emperor Theodosius the Younger (+ 450), named Eudokia, who lived at Jerusalem. He demanded that Patriarch Juvenal repudiate the Council of Chalcedon, that is, that he should renounce the Orthodox dogma of the two natures in Christ. St Juvenal would not agree to embrace falsehood, and bravely confessed the Chalcedon doctrine before the heretics. Theodosius and his adherents then deposed Patriarch Juvenal from the patriarchal throne. The saint withdrew to Constantinople, to Patriarch Anatolius (July 3) and the emperor Marcian. The heretic Theodosius, under the patronage of Eudokia, occupied the patriarchal throne in Palestine, but only for twenty months. Emperor Marcian, holding St Juvenal in high esteem, placed him on the patriarchal throne once more, and so the holy confessor returned to Jerusalem. The saint made many efforts to restore Church peace. At the suggestion of St Simeon the Stylite, the empress Eudokia repented before St Juvenal and returned to communion with the Orthodox. A large part of the Jerusalem flock, who had been led astray by the heretics, followed her. Having defeated the pernicious heresies, and having established oneness of mind and propriety, Patriarch Juvenal died peacefully among his faithful flock, after serving as a bishop for thirty-eight years.
I don't want to speak for Fr. Peter, but I think he means that St. Simeon is a saint in the non-Chalcedonian churches, not that he necessarily rejected Chalcedon.
Christ my God, set my heart on fire with love in You, that in its flame I may love You with all my heart, with all my mind, and with all my soul and with all my strength, and my neighbor as myself, so that by keeping Your commandments I may glorify You the Giver of every good and perfect gift. Amen.
Fr. John Meyendorff noted somewhere that John the Merciful, a Chalcedonian Patriarch of Alexandria (610-621) , is venerated by the Coptic Church. But I think that's been disputed in one of our threads.I'm aware of two East Syriac Fathers our Church venerates:St. Isaac of Nineveh (Isaac the Syrian)St. John Saba (John of Dalyatha)
John's relations with non-Chalcedonians are treated briefly in John Meyendorff Imperial Unity and Christian Divisions: The Church 450-680 A.D. (Crestwood NY 1989). Meyendorff's statement that John is venerated as a saint by the Coptic and Ethiopian Churches seems to be a confusion with John IV, Coptic Pope of Alexandria of the late 7th century, also surnamed the "Merciful" but presented as a staunch opponent of Chalcedonian Christology (see the Coptic Encyclopedia). http://orthodoxwiki.org/John_the_Merciful
Again, my guess is that the above was written some time after St. Simeon lived, and for polemical purposes. It's in none of his contemporary lives.
But the question as to Simeon's theological position during the last years of his life---that is, at the time when the above-mentioned letters to Leo, Basil, and Eudocia, are supposed to have been written---is raised anew by the three hitherto unpublished letters of which, mention has already been made. All three are decidedly controversial, and in them the Stylite speaks as a bitter opponent of the Chalcedonense.
Regardless of his Christological position, may he pray for us all!
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Posted by admin on December 18, 2017 in Articles
A Tale Of Two Theories
and a Murderous Rampage
The first New Zealander to be executed for murder under British sovereign law, was Maketu Wharetotara (aka Wiremu Kingi Maketu), who was accused of murdering five people on Motuarohia Island, in the Bay of Islands, on 20 November 1841, when he was 16 years old. (Moon, 2013)
In this essay, I will contend that Sutherlands (1947) Differential Association Theory of Sociology, provides a better explanation for Maketu's murderous rampage, than Hirschi's (1969) Social Bond Theory, because I think that Sutherland observes and analyses crime at the societal, the group, and the individual level, which in the context of Maketu's time and place, gives a more realistic description and explanation of the societal factors in New Zealand that may have contributed to Maketu's rampage, as well as valid insights as to what kind of definitions Maketu may have internalized within this context, and within the context of his family and tribal customs and laws.The Differential Association Theory Sutherland's (1947) Differential Association Theory explains crime at the societal, the group, and the individual level. (Carrabine, E. Cox, P. Fussey, P. Hobbs, D. South, N. Thiel, D. & Turton, J. 2014). At the individual level, the theory predicts that if Maketu had learned the skills and techniques of committing murder, and had an excess of definitions favourable to murder as opposed to an excess of definitions unfavourable to murder, when an objective opportunity to murder came along, he would carry it out. According to Sutherland, if all three of these conditions were present and Maketu did not carry out the murder, the theory would be wrong and in need of revision (Matsueda R.L. 1982).
I think all of these conditions were present in the case of Maketu. He was born in a violent time, during the musket wars (1807 – 1847), when New Zealanders, were systematically slaughtering each other with the guns they had traded for…


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Hi all,
I am from singapore.wil be spending 8 nights in Australia,sydney starting from end August.
I will like to stay at chinatown area or central sydney( near to sydney or darling harbour).. but i will go for cheap accomodation like budget hotels. Can anyone help out on some good budget hotels( with private room and private bathroom)?
Thanks and regards
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I have never tried creating a piece of fractal artwork. This is my first attempt and I am sharing my steps with everyone. I hope my steps are easy enough to give a headstart to those who needs to do up a similar effect for their projects.
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Create a new document of A4 size with 300dpi resolution. Fill the background with black color.
Create a new layer and rename it as Marking. Using the Pencil tool with 1 px and white color, draw a vertical line. You can hold down the SHIFT key when drawing to ensure a straight line is drawn. Once you are done, go to Edit > Free Transform. On the Transform Panel, set the Rotate to 10 degrees.
Duplicate the Markings layer and flip it horizontally. Place the two slanted lines together so their bottom meets each other to form a V shape.
You may draw your own or download some vector shapes and place it in between the two slanted lines. I downloaded mine from ShutterStock.
Give some colors to your shape. It can be anything of your preferences.
Repeat the same procedures for more vector shapes. Lay them vertically as shown below.
Merge all the shapes as a single layer. Press ALT + CTRL + T and it will launch a set of control points, similar to the ones seen for Free Transform. Set the scale to 90% and Rotate to 20 degrees. Position it the way I did below. Hit ENTER when done.
Press ALT + CTRL + SHIFT + T. You can start to see your earlier transformation was actually recorded, and you can repeat the same effect with good accuracy. Keep doing until you form a nice curl of shapes.
Merge all the shapes as a single layer. Duplicate and rotate it to fill in other spaces of the document.
Repeat the same step till you fill up the entire document.
Merge all the shape layers again. Duplicate it and reduce its size. Set the Opacity of the lower copy to 40%. Go to Filter > Blur > Lens Blur. Set the Radius to 15px.
Create a new layer above the shapes and rename it as Glow. Using the Paint Brush with white color and size 200px, paint a few white dots around the document as shown below.
Set the Blend Mode of Glow layer to Overlay and you are done! Hope you find this tutorial useful for your upcoming project. Cheers!
This is a very beautiful piece of artwork, but it's not a fractal. A fractal is based on a visual representation of equations involving complex numbers. They can look a bit similar to this piece of art; and while it is a stunning design and neat technique, it has absolutely nothing to do with fractals.
this tutorial is awesome! i did my fractals 🙂 thanks a lot!
Awesome tutorial! I've always been intrigued by fractals. I will have to check this out in the near future and make my first one soon. So excited!
Great tutorial! Thanks for sharing!
it is great . hey friend ,,please, can you make pdf all your post that you wrote? i wanna download . thanks a lots…
congratulations – this picture looks absolutely great.
Thans for sharing.
Great tutorial! Thanks for sharing it. It is amazing that the combination of the pattern can be so nice.
yes, simple and effective. It "looks" simple but in reality, the touch of the experienced designer can be seen in the drawing of picture number 5, the basic drawing that is. I like the part of resizing and blurring on a different layer. The "overlay" method id great, too.
awesome technique!!
Thank you.
Is beautiful very
Very nice and simple tutorial and the end result is very creative!
Great tutorial…
But why not using illustrator for this? 😉
nice method.
Great stuff i like this design works
Great tutorial. I suggest creating an action to make the duplication, rotation, and resizing of the shapes go faster but other than that, great work.
thanks a lot for sharing this! i really enjoyed!
really nice! thank you!
I like this tutorial.
here's mine: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150097225034030&set=a.403454209029.181223.371948454029
I enjoyed this tutorial. I am so glad that you made it because I have been looking for a tut like this. Thanks!
excellent stuff. thanks for sharing – simon at pixmac photography
wow… cool…
Johnson – That was superb and amazing!
great stuff
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Cheesemaking is thought to have originated in Asia Minor and spread throughout Europe via the Roman Empire. No one knows exactly where cheese originated, but cheesemaking was widespread across Europe and the Middle East by the time of the Roman Empire, and it may have been in practice since 6000 B.C. Evidence of cheesemaking appeared in murals on Egyptian tombs from 4,000 years ago.
Cheesemaking became prevalent at the same time of the domestication of milk-producing livestock, such as sheep. Many modern cheeses, such as Parmesan, Gouda and Camembert, have originated within the past 500 years. Cheeses like Gorgonzola and Roquefort originated around 1,000 years ago.