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Founder of the Delco automotive electronics company and the head of research at General Motors. Charles F. Kettering gave cars the first electrical starter and leaded gas.
As per our current Database, Charles F. Kettering died on Nov 25, 1958 (age 82).
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Charles F. Kettering graduated from The Ohio State University in 1904, and he joined the National Cash Register Company, supervising the development of the electrically operated cash register.
He took classes at The College of Wooster, before transferring to The Ohio State University. He was a member of the Delta Upsilon fraternity. Eye problems forced him to withdraw, and he took a job as foreman of a telephone line crew. At first, the termination of his studies caused him to be depressed. Then he found ways to apply his electrical engineering skills on the job, and his spirits revived. He also met his future wife, Olive Williams. When his eye condition improved, he was able to return to his studies and graduated from OSU in 1904 with an electrical engineering degree.
Kettering married Olive Williams of Ashland, Ohio, on August 1, 1905. Their only child, Eugene Williams Kettering, was born on April 20, 1908. Eugene W. Kettering joined Winton Engine in 1930, which was acquired by General Motors and was eventually incorporated into the General Motors Electro-Motive Division (EMD). The younger Kettering became a central figure in the development of the EMD 567 and the Detroit Diesel 6-71, serving at EMD until his retirement in 1960.
Kettering was hired directly out of school to head the research laboratory at National Cash Register (later known as NCR Corporation). Kettering invented an easy credit approval system, a precursor to today's credit cards, and the electric cash register in 1906, which made ringing up sales physically much easier for sales clerks. Kettering distinguished himself as a practical inventor. As he said, "I didn't hang around much with other inventors and the executive fellows. I lived with the sales gang. They had some real notion of what people wanted." During his five years at NCR, from 1904 to 1909, Kettering secured 23 patents for NCR. He attributed his success to a good amount of luck but added, "I notice the harder I work, the luckier I get."
Beginning in 1907, his NCR colleague Edward A. Deeds convinced Kettering to develop improvements for the automobile. Deeds and Kettering invited other NCR engineers, including Harold E. Talbott, to join them nights and weekends in their tinkering at Deeds's barn. They became known as the "Barn Gang," and Kettering was called Boss Ket. Their first goal was to find a replacement for the magneto. In 1909, Kettering resigned from NCR to work full-time on automotive developments, and the group incorporated as Dayton Engineering Laboratories Company, or Delco.
Kettering held 186 U.S. patents. He invented the all-electric starting, ignition, and lighting system for automobiles. Electric starters replaced crank (manual) starting of automobiles. First incorporated in the 1912 Cadillac, all-electric starting aided in the growth of the US auto industry by making the automobile easy for anyone to start. Other patents included a portable lighting system and an incubator for premature infants. His engine-driven generator was combined with storage batteries to form a "Delco Plant", providing an electrical power for farmsteads and other locations far from the electrical power grid.
Kettering's key insight lay in devising an electrical system performing the three functions it still serves in modern cars: starter; producer of spark for ignition; and source of current for lighting. Leland ordered 12,000 self-starters for his 1912 models; Delco had to then transition from its research and development activities to production. The invention won a Dewar Trophy in 1913.
Kettering helped found the Engineers Club of Dayton in 1914.
In 1914, Flxible Sidecar Company was incorporated with the help of Kettering, who then became president of the company and joined the board of directors. Kettering provided significant funding for the company in its early years, particularly after 1916, when Kettering sold his firm, the Dayton Engineering Laboratories Company (Delco), to United Motors for $2.5 million. Kettering continued to serve as president of Flxible until he became chairman of the board in 1940, a position that he held until his death in 1958.
Kettering and Deeds had a lifelong business, professional and personal relationship. In 1914, recognizing that Dayton was among the leading industrial cities in the US because of the skilled engineers and technicians in the city, they founded the Engineers Club of Dayton and the Foreman's Club of Dayton, which later on became the National Management Association.
Charles Kettering built a house, "Ridgeleigh Terrace", in 1914. According to local sources, this house was the first in the United States to have electric air conditioning. Ridgeleigh Terrace was the home of his son, Eugene Kettering, until his death. Eugene's wife, Virginia Kettering, lived in the house for many years, restoring and redecorating it. In the late 1990s, the house was seriously damaged in a fire, but it was rebuilt according to the original blueprints.
Delco was sold to General Motors in 1918, as part of United Motors Company. Delco became the foundation for the General Motors Research Corporation and Delco Electronics. Kettering became vice-president of General Motors Research Corporation in 1920 and held the position for 27 years.
Between 1918 and 1923, he led the research and development at GM's Dayton research laboratories to commercialize air-cooled engines for cars and trucks. They used fans forcing air across copper fins for heat dissipation. The commercialization, attempted between 1921 and 1923, was unsuccessful due to a combination of factors, nontechnical and technical. Air-cooled engines have had commercial success before and since, in various fields (small engines, aircraft, cars), but the historical moment of GM's "copper-cooled" automotive engine was inauspicious.
In 1918 Kettering designed the "aerial torpedo", nicknamed the Kettering Bug. The 300 lb papier-mache missile had 12 foot cardboard wings, and a 40 hp engine. It could carry 300 lbs of high explosives at 50 mph, and cost $400. The "Bug" is considered the first aerial missile, and lessons learned from the "Bug" led to development of the first guided missiles, as well as radio-controlled drones.
Kettering's research in fuel was based on his belief that oil would be in short supply and additives would allow more efficient engines with higher compression. His "high percentage" solution was to mix ethanol with gasoline, while his "low percentage solution" looked for additives that would be added in small quantities to increase what later would be called the octane rating of gasoline. Thomas Midgley Jr. and Kettering identified tetraethyllead (TEL) in December 1921 as an additive that would eliminate engine knocking at a dilution of one thousand to one. While use of ethanol could not be patented, TEL's use as an additive could. Kettering and Midgley secured its patent and proceeded to promote the use of TEL as an additive instead of other options. Kettering became the first president of the newly founded Ethyl Corporation that started to produce TEL in 1923. One year later, he hired Robert A. Kehoe as the medical expert to proclaim that leaded gasoline was safe for humans. That its use was an ecological disaster leading to a global lead contamination was not acknowledged until many decades later.
His inventions, especially the electric automobile starter, made him wealthy. In 1945, he helped found what became the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, based on the premise that American industrial research techniques could be applied to cancer research.. His son and daughter-in-law, Eugene and Virginia, created Kettering Medical Center in Ohio, as a tribute to Charles Kettering's life and his work in healthcare research.
The city of Kettering, Ohio, a suburb of Dayton, was named after him when it was incorporated in 1955.
Kettering died on November 25, 1958. After his death, his body lay in honor at the Engineers Club and then was interred in the mausoleum at Woodland Cemetery, Dayton, Ohio.
On January 1, 1998, the former General Motors Institute changed its name to Kettering University to honor Kettering as a founder.
In 1998, GMI Engineering and Management Institute (formerly General Motors Institute), of Flint, Michigan, changed its name to Kettering University in honor of Kettering. His ideals, prowess, and belief in co-operative education continue there. Kettering is also remembered through the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, a cancer research and treatment center in New York City, and through the Kettering Health Network, which includes several hospitals and medical center campuses as well as Kettering College in Kettering, Ohio.
Currently, Charles F. Kettering is 146 years, 7 months and 2 days old. Charles F. Kettering will celebrate 147th birthday on a Tuesday 29th of August 2023.
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Mozilla also made a number of other changes under the hood, including a tweak to how the browser loads restored background tabs. Instead of loading them all when you restart the browser, Firefox now only loads the first tab you see and doesn't load restored background tabs by default to improve startup speed. You currently have to enable the tab restore feature manually, but it will likely become the default in one of the next versions of Firefox.
Most importantly, though, starting up Firefox 13 now drops you in a new home screen, which lets you quickly access and manage your add-ons, settings, download, browsing history and settings. Just like in previous versions, a Google-powered search form takes up most of the screen. When you open a new tab, Firefox 13 now presents you with a Chrome-like thumbnail view of your most visited sites. Just like in Chrome, you can also pin sites you frequently visit to this view and drag bookmarks into it as well.
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What if a tornado hit a major U.S. city?
A single violent tornado could cause as much as $20 billion in property damage — and countless casualties and deaths — if it hit a big city such as downtown Chicago, according to a report recently released by Swiss Re, a global reinsurance company.
"This would be the most severe tornado damage in U.S. history," according to the report, which is titled U.S. Tornadoes: An Examination of the Past to Prepare for the Future.
In addition to deaths and injuries, "there would be thousands of people made homeless, tens of thousands would lose power, and hundreds of thousands would be unable to get to work," said Megan Linkin, natural hazards expert with Swiss Re.
Such a scenario will be coming to a theater near you next month in the movie Into the Storm.
Ferocious tornado outbreaks have plagued the U.S. in recent years, with high death tolls and damage from twisters in and around smaller cities such as Joplin, Mo., Tuscaloosa, Ala., and Moore, Okla. Overall, the annual average loss from severe thunderstorms and the tornadoes they produce is about $5.5 billion, Swiss Re reports.
The costliest single tornado to hit a city was the EF5-twister that leveled portions of Joplin, Mo., in 2011, killing more than 150 people and causing $2.1 billion in damage. But no EF3 (or stronger) tornado has struck one of the USA's major metropolitan areas in the past decade, and no major city has experienced a worst-case scenario event since 1950, according to Swiss Re.
Tornadoes are rated on the Enhanced Fujita (EF) scale of tornado intensity, with EF0 the weakest and EF5 the strongest. For the study, Swiss Re defined a major metropolitan area as "any county which the U.S. Census defined as being more than 30% urbanized."
"Considering the population and exposure growth, the potential for much larger losses than we've witnessed in recent history exists and is very real," the report notes. It's true that tornadoes have caused some damage in cities such as Atlanta, Miami, Salt Lake City and St. Louis over the past few decades, but destruction did not reach catastrophic levels.
Big cities don't have some magic protective shield — so why is it that they so seldom seem to get hit?
"Simply, downtowns cover tiny land areas relative to the entire nation," notes meteorologist Roger Edwards on the Storm Prediction Center website.
"The chance of any particular tornado hitting a major downtown is quite low — not for any meteorological reason, but simply because downtowns are small targets," Edwards writes. "Even when tornadoes hit metro areas, their odds of hitting downtown are small out of space considerations alone."
The idea of large buildings destroying or preventing a tornado is pure myth, says Edwards. Even the largest skyscrapers pale in size and volume when compared to the total circulation of a big tornado from ground through thunderhead.
Swiss Re found that densely populated and developed Cook County, Ill., which includes the city of Chicago, has the greatest potential exposure to a violent and long-track tornado. If the same EF5 tornado that hit Moore, Okla., in 2013 hit Chicago, tens of billions of dollars' worth of property would lie in the tornado's path.
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"NOAA has made tremendous advances in tornado warning lead times, which they deserve great credit for," Linkin says. "However, the current average lead time for tornado warnings still remains at only 13 minutes. In a city like Chicago, which is densely populated, there is the potential for significant disruption as millions of people look to reach shelter and safety in less than a quarter of an hour."
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Lining cuts up perfectly without a miter box is tricky, and when it comes to fitting the pieces together, the miter box more than proves its worth.
A miter box made of wood (usually beech) or plastic is an inexpensive way of making sure the finish cuts you make with your handsaw—both forty-five-degree miter and ninety-degree cuts—are true. Lining them up perfectly without a miter box is tricky, and when it comes to fitting the pieces together, the miter box more than proves its worth.
In the compact workshop, the miter box has one signal advantage over the powerful miter saw that has become the rule for most professional carpenters these days: It weighs only a few ounces, is smaller than a shoe box, and can be set up on your bench, ready to go, in about the time it takes to pull a handkerchief from your back pocket.
The tool has been in use for centuries, in more or less the same configuration – an open ended wooden box, with slots cut into the sides to guide the saw. Elaborate versions are available with infinitely adjustable angles and ball bearings and metal superstructures, and they're worth the money if you find you use a miter box frequently. For its occasional convenience, however, I'd recommend having a basic model within easy reach. They're handy for molding work, frame-making, and a multitude of other ad hoc cutting tasks in the workshop. Don't forget to rest the piece to be cut atop a piece of scrap wood. That will greatly increase your miter box's life expectancy.
Making a clean right-angle cut doesn't take the hand of a craftsman, but miter cuts are different. I've done them and you probably have, too; if so, you probably agree that even standard 45-degree cuts are difficult to line up perfectly and not worth attempting freehand. Out-of-the-ordinary angles are even trickier, but you needn't abandon any notions of making such cuts, since there are lots of devices available to assure that forty-five-degree or other angle cuts are true.
The miter box is one such tool. In one or another of its guises, the miter box has been in common use for more than three centuries. At its simplest, it is a trough-like wooden box, open at the ends, with slots in the sides. A handsaw (often a backsaw) fits into the slots which act as guides to keep the saw on line, making miter cuts accurately and quickly.
Metal and plastic miter boxes are available, too, some even adjustable for compound miters (angle cuts that are more or less than 90-degrees from the vertical as well as the horizontal plane of the stock). The simpler wooden boxes have a limited number of guides cut into the sides (forty-five, ninety, and one hundred and thirty-five degrees at a minimum), but more expensive models adjust in quite precise increments, allowing you to cut almost any angle. Top-of-the-line models have bearings for smoother sawing and grips to hold fast the workpiece that is being cut. Many models come with a built-in or matching saw, either a backsaw or a purpose-made frame saw with interchangeable blades.
Miter boxes (or their powerful brethren, miter saws) are invaluable for molding work, frame-making, and other tasks requiring tight angle-cut joints. If you can use a handsaw, you can use a miter box; it's really that easy.
I see many fewer professionals carrying their miter boxes to the job these days than I used to only a few years ago (thanks to the power miter saw). But many traditional woodworkers, professional and amateur alike, still swear by the feel, control, and even the familiar reassuring sound of the backsaw at work in the miter box.


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Inocencia Perez and Gerardo Romero thought the arrival of a new landlord meant they could stop worrying about the status of their apartment, on the second floor of a Chelsea building seized by a bank through foreclosure.
But instead of newfound security, Perez and Romero — who have three young children — were unnerved when, not long after taking over, the two-decker's buyer, City Realty Group LLC, raised their monthly rent by $300, to $1,300. The couple said they were given two options: pay up or move out.
The new owner "wants to raise the rent too much,'' said Perez, but, "we don't want to go."
Through its attorney, Robert Russo, City Realty said the company is simply charging fair market rents to earn reasonable returns. "Why are we greedy if we are in to make a profit? Isn't that what America is all about?" Russo said.
The case is now in Chelsea District Court, where Perez and Romero are fighting eviction and hoping the pressure of a costly court battle will let them negotiate a more modest rent increase of $100 or $150.
Such clashes between Boston-area real estate investors and apartment dwellers are becoming more common as the housing market mends and lenders seek to get foreclosed properties off their books.
Previously, tenants in a foreclosed apartment building would have been long gone by the time the take-back process was completed. That changed in 2010, when Governor Deval Patrick signed a law providing new protections to tenants living in foreclosed homes. The intent was to prevent evictions.
City Realty owner Fred Starikov said he and his partner, Steve Whalen, are responsible landlords pumping money into hundreds of housing units in financially troubled neighborhoods that many others avoid. He said Perez and Romero's unit could rent for up to $1,800 a month on the open market.
"We can't let everyone stay for the rent they wish to pay. That is not a sustainable model,'' said Starikov. "They have the right to leave."
Housing specialists said the participation of private investors is crucial to turning around low-income neighborhoods hollowed out during the foreclosure crisis — they can often complete deals and get renovation work done faster than nonprofits, which typically have less cash and face more bureaucratic tangles.
Chris Herbert, director of research at Harvard University's Joint Center for Housing Studies, said when investors buy properties, rent increases logically follow.
"If you want these guys to make investments, if they are going to get a decent return, the rents are going to have to go up,'' he said. The center is currently studying the effects of investors on foreclosed properties in four cities, including Boston.
"You don't want to gouge. You do have to have enough rental stream," Herbert said. "It is a hard sweet spot to find."
But a growing group of tenants and housing advocates say City Realty and other investors are buying bank-owned properties at bargain-basement prices, making few or no repairs, and unjustly raising rents. The result, they said, is that low-income tenants who have long lived in neglected properties are being displaced.
Between 2007 and 2012, 44 percent of foreclosed properties in Suffolk County — about 2,063 units — were purchased by investors, according to new research by the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. According to the Fed, City Realty and its subsidiaries make up one of the largest real estate investment groups in Suffolk County, which includes Boston, Chelsea, Revere, and Winthrop.
Few would argue that managing rents in formerly foreclosed buildings that are still occupied poses challenges for new landlords. In some cases, former owners walked away from their properties and foreclosing banks didn't bother to collect rent. That means some residents are being asked to write rent checks for the first time in months, or even years. Collecting the money isn't always easy.
"Buying properties with tenants in them can be a real horror show,'' said developer Stephen Chaletzky, owner of Dorchester-based Hearthstone Corp. In one case, he said, it took almost two years to remove tenants who refused to pay rent. As a result, Chaletzky said, he now only considers buying buildings that are vacant.
Sheila Dillon, director of Boston's Department of Neighborhood Development, said rents in formerly foreclosed homes have risen at a slower rate over the last several years than those in more stable parts of the city. Median rents in Boston's most desirable sections have reached $2,875 a month, among the highest in the nation, according to the city.
For lower-income tenants, Dillon said, even an incremental rent increase can create hardship. She said the city offers them assistance through legal services and education about housing rights, and — in some cases — by helping them find more affordable places to live.
"Some don't have the income for market-rate rents," Dillon said.
In an effort to help keep housing costs manageable for tenants living in foreclosed homes, a coalition of public and private groups recently launched a two-year plan to buy 30 foreclosed housing units occupied by renters or former owners in Dorchester's Four Corners neighborhood.
The group, Coalition for Occupied Homes in Foreclosure, is working with a private developer, Citibank, the City of Boston, and others to purchase such homes and sell them to a nonprofit owner.
"Our main goal is to stabilize the community by stopping displacement of folks living in foreclosed properties," said Maureen Flynn, the group's coordinator.
David Grossman, director of the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau at Harvard Law School, said volunteers are helping tenants fend off evictions weekly at housing court in Boston — and often find themselves battling City Realty.
"They are two guys trying to get rich off the backs of poor people," Grossman said of the co-owners.
Last month, members of City Life/Vida Urbana, a nonprofit housing advocacy group based in Jamaica Plain, and the nonprofit Chelsea Collaborative's City-Wide Tenant Association protested outside of City Realty's Brighton offices.
Eliza Parad, who heads the Chelsea association, conceded the company has the right to increase rents, within reason. But some tenants have been hit by monthly increases of between $250 and $400 in a city where poverty is serious problem.
Perez and Romero, who have lived for about five years in their Chelsea apartment, said they have always paid rent. But living on Romero's salary — which comes from cleaning houses and landscaping work — is a constant struggle.
Despite the strain, Perez said, the family plans to stay. They like the neighborhood, she said, and moving the children to another school would be disruptive. "We want to come to an agreement'' with City Realty, she said. "We will stay here until a judge tells us to leave.''
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How does one go about writing an article with the intent of capturing the attention of his brothers and sisters in Christ? What can we possibly do or say that will cause you to focus your thoughts upon weighty spiritual matters of the utmost importance? We all know that it cannot be done unless the Holy Spirit impresses upon your heart that you should read and heed! And it is our prayer that He will see fit to do just that.
We at Cutting Edge are very concerned that God's people are "at ease in Zion" and pretty much unprepared for that Tribulation which is certain to occur sooner or later. Never before in human history have so many people around the world enjoyed the degree of prosperity and overall good times that we are now experiencing--not to mention the duration of it. With all things taken into consideration, the economic boom has been almost unbroken since the end of World War II and from 1945 until the present we have become increasingly "rich and increased with goods" (The Laodicean Church, Rev.3:17). So much so in fact that the poor people of the United States are actually very rich by third world standards and millions would gladly trade places with them! But this unprecidented prosperity and materialistic fervor which is now gripping the masses should be viewed by God's people as a red flag of warning. If for no other reason, we should understand that history definitely repeats itself and we are long overdue for the usual calamity to come along and level everything out again. Since the dawn of civilization men have always sought to rule the world and take by force what they could not gain through subterfuge--and to date nothing has been done to the hearts of men to put a stop to it. So just as sure as the sun will come up in the East tomorrow morning, the devil is going to see to it that this economic house built upon the sand will come tumbling down and the world plunged into chaos once again. And it is our heart-felt belief that when it does happen, the antichrist will use it to come to power.
It is also our belief that millions of Christians have been lulled into a false sense of security through what we see as a misunderstanding of the timing of the rapture of the Church. For over a hundred years conservative Bible teachers have been telling us that the rapture will occur before the antichrist is revealed, and thus generating the general belief is that Christians will escape all the horrors of his reign. While we agree that we will be spared the actual tribulation period itself, there is no Bible teaching that assures us we will not have to endure his ascent to power! All that the Bible does tell us is that the tribulation period ("The Day of the Lord") will not begin until the apostasy and the revealing of the antichrist both take place (2 Thess.2:3). The Greek word translated "revealed" in this verse literally means "to take the lid off" thereby revealing the contents! As we understand this concept, the "revealing" of antichrist could be anything from the first incidence of his name appearing on the nightly news to his "confirming the covenant with Israel" (Dan.9:27)--which, by the way, will be the official start of the tribulation period. If his "revealing" coincides with the confirmation of the covenant, it will still meet the criteria of 2 Thess.2:3 in that it preceeded the onset of the tribulation period. And if this is the case, his rise to power--regardless of the time covered--could very well be viewed and endured by Christians prior to the rapture. The teaching that the rapture will take place prior to the revealing of the antichrist is found in in verses 7 and 8 of 2 Thessalonians 2, where we read the following:
"For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let until he be taken out of the way. And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming" (KJV, emphasis mine).
The "he who now letteth" [hinders] is believed to be the Holy Spirit and He will continue to hinder the plan and program of Satan until the time is right and then "he" [the Holy Spirit] will be taken out of the way. Where the problem comes in is that the current prophecy experts insist that the Holy Spirit's restraining influence will be removed at the rapture when His presence (within the hearts of Christians) will leave along with them. [Stop! Read our discussion on the error of standard Bible Prophecy teaching, Confirmation of Major Discrepancies In Standard Bible Prophecy Seminar Teachings: Discussion With Dr. Timothy Ice, https://www.cuttingedge.org/news/n1332.cfm]
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While that certainly can be true, we must point out that it says the hindering influence of the Holy Spirit is "taken out of the way"--not "removed" as would be the case with the rapture scenario! God can [and we believe He will] simply take His restraining hand off world affairs and allow Satan to have free reign for his allotted time. If this is in fact the case, then the timing of the revealing of antichrist would not be tied in any way to the rapture of the Church and necessarily subsequent to it.
We take this position merely to point out that we must not consider the subject to be chiseled out in granite and thereby make the mistake of ruling out other possibilities. What if our maverick view of these events is correct and genuine Christians--those who have been taught that they would be raptured prior to all of this taking place--suddenly find themselves up to their eyeballs in end-time events which are clearly related to the antichrist and yet they are still here? What if David Bay's hunch is correct and the devil stages a "false rapture" and people are told by the media that millions world-wide have disappeared, yet those who were positive that they were among God's elect are still here? Folks, this may not happen and we may be wrong--but for the love of God wake up to the realization of its possibility and ask Him to help you prepare for anything that might come. We certainly believe that the rapture of the Church is imminent, but it could be years away and who knows what the world, the flesh, and the devil might throw at us in the interim?
Every Christian should realize the world situation at this hour is one big pot of seething hatred just waiting for an opportune time to boil over. The Palestinians and other Muslim groups hate Israel with a passion that is bound to erupt in hostilities sooner or later--and the political climate is such that when this confrontation takes place, the rest of the world is likely to be sucked into it. If the production of oil in the Middle East were suddenly shut off because of Arab retaliation, the stock markets of the rest of the world would likely crash and the majority would find themselves to be destitute with no viable options. A society that just a few hours earlier had been thriving and everything looking rosy could quickly be turned into a unimaginable nightmare.
Are you in any way mentally and spiritually prepared for disaster to strike? None of us are ever totally prepared, but just realizing that it could happen and bracing ourselves through prayer and Bible study will certainly help. Anticipated calamity is never quite so overwhelming as one that catches us completely off guard.
So what do we do if the worst happens and we find ourselves "up against it"? Well, obviously we must take stock of the situation and try our best to survive. Food, clothing, and shelter are the bare necessities and under extreme circumstances men have found that they could get along very well with far less than they were accustomed--and we can too. But we cannot get along without God and our personal and loving relationship with Him. When the darkness overtakes us and everything seems lost, our first priority must be to look up and thank Him for the circumstances because He has told us in Romans 8:28 that "all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to His purpose." Notice that it does not say that all things are in and of themselves good, but rather that they work together for our good. If you ever really get a "handle" on this verse, your outlook on life will be changed forever! No matter what the world, the flesh, and the devil throws at us--God says that every bit of it will work together for our good. Medicine often tastes bad, or has painful side-effects, but is necessary if we are to recover from our illness.
Are you fully aware of God's promises to us in His Word? Unless you have been through a protracted time of having your faith tested, you may have never been forced to consider them. For that reason, we want to point out some precious Scripture references with the sincere hope that you will print them out and save them. But don't wait until the roof falls in on you to use them, look them up and receive a blessing right now!
We begin our selection with a passage from Psalms:
"Blessed--happy, fortunate [to be envied]--is the man whom You discipline and instruct, O Lord, and teach out of Your law; that you may give him power to hold himself calm in the days of adversity, until the [inevitable] pit of corruption is dug for the wicked. For the Lord will not cast off nor spurn His people, neither will He abandon His heritage" (Psalm 94: 12-14, Parallel Bible, KJV/Amplified Bible Commentary, emphasis mine).
NOTE: The majority of quotes taken from the Old Testament apply equally to saints of all ages, but we must point out that some of them apply only to the Jew under the Law of Moses. Conditional promises of health and wealth, etc.,--God says if you do this, then I will bless you in thus and thus manner--do not apply, as such, to the rest of us.
Old Testament: Genesis 15:1; Genesis 22:17; Exodus 23:22; Leviticus 26:5-6; Deut.28:1-13; Deut.33:27; 1 Sam.2:9; 2 Chron.16:9; Ezra 8:22; Job 5:11-27; Job 8:4-7; Job 820-21; Job 11:15-20; Job 22:21-30; Job 36:7-12; Psalm 4:3; Psalm 5:12; Psalm 15:2-5; Psalm 23:6; Psalm 25:10-14; Psalm 28:8; Psalm 29:11; Psalm 32:6-8; Psalm 32:10; Psalm 33:18-19; Psalm 34:9-10; Psalm 34:15; Psalm 34:17; Psalm 37:3-5; Psalm 37:9; Psalm 37:18; Psalm 37:23-29; Psalm 37:34; Psalm 41:1-2; Psalm 50:15; Psalm 55:22; Psalm58:11; Psalm 62:8; Psalm 65:4; Psalm 73:24; Psalm 81:10; Psalm 84:11; Psalm 85:9; Psalm 91:1; Psalm 91:3-7; Psalm 91:9-12; Psalm 94:17-18; Psalm 97:10-11; Psalm 111:5; Psalm 112:6; Psalm 121:3-8; Psalm 125:1-3; Psalm 128:1-6; Psalm 145:18-21; Proverbs 1:33; Proverbs 2:21; Proverbs 3:1-10; Proverbs 3:25-26; Proverbs 10:3; Proverbs 12:2; Proverbs 14:26; Proverbs 15:29; Proverbs 16:7; Proverbs 21:21; Proverbs 28:25; Proverbs 29:25; Eccles. 7:18; Eccles.8:5; Isaiah 4:5-6; Isaiah 11:6-9; Isaiah 25:8; Isaiah 26:3; Isaiah 33:16; Isaiah 33:21-22; Isaiah 33:24; Isaiah 35:10; Isaiah 40:10-11; Isaiah 40:29; Isaiah 40:31; Isaiah 41:10-11; Isaiah 41:13; Isaiah 43:2; Isaiah 44:2-3; Isaiah 49:9-12; Isaiah 50:7-9; Isaiah 51:11; Isaiah 54:1-17; Isaiah 56:2-8; Isaiah 57:1-2; Isaiah 58:8-14; Isaiah 59:20-21; Isaiah 64:4; Isaiah 65:13-14; Isaiah 65:17-25; Isaiah 66:13-14; Jeremiah 17:7-8; Ezekiel 18:5-9; Ezekiel 18:19-20 Ezekiel 34:11-17; Ezekiel 34:22-31; Daniel 12:1-3; Hosea 6:3; Nahum 1:7; Haggai1:13; Haggai 2:4-5; Zechariah 3: 7; Malachi 3:16-18; Malachi 4:2-3.
New Testament: Matthew 3:12; Matthew 5:3-12; Matthew 7:7-8; Matthew 8:11; Matthew 10:28-32; Matthew 13:43; Matthew 18:10-20; Matthew 19:29; Matthew 24:21-22; Mark 8:35; Mark 9:41; Mark 10:21; Mark 10:29-30; Mark 11:23-24; Mark 13:13; Mark 13:27; Luke 3:17; Luke 6:20-23; Luke 10:20; Luke 11:9-10; Luke 12:7; Luke 12:32; Luke 16:22-25; Luke 18:29-30; Luke 19:16-21; Luke 20:35-36; Luke 21:18; Luke 21:27-28; Luke 22:29-30; Luke 23:43; John 3:15-18; John 3:36; John 4:14; John 5:24; John 5:29; John 6:39-40; John 8:12; John 8:51; John 9:31; John 10:27-29; John 12:25-26; John 13:36; John 14:1-3; John 14:12-13; John 14:15-21; John 14:23; John 16:33; John 17:2; John 17:22; John 17:24; Acts 10:4; Acts 10:31; Acts 20:32: Acts 26:18; Romans 2:7; Romans 2:10; Romans 5:9-11; Romans 5:17; Romans 6:22-23; Romans 8:14-18; Romans 8:28; Romans 8:32-39; Romans 9:33; Romans 10:9; Romans 10:11-13; Romans 13:11; 1 Cor.1:8-9; 1 Cor.2:9; 1 Cor.3:21-23; 1 Cor.6:2-3; 1 Cor. 8:3; 1 Cor. 13:10-12; 1 Cor.15:48-57; 2 Cor.1:20-22; 2 Cor.4:14-15; 2 Cor.4:17; 2 Cor.7:1; Galatians 3:29; Galatians 6:8-9; Ephesians 1:18; Ephesians 2:7; Ephesians 6:8; Phil. 4:7; Phil.4:19; Col.1:12; Col.3:4; Col.3:24; 1 Thes. 2:12; 1 Thes.3:12-13; 1 Thes.4:15-18; 1 Thes.5:9-11; 2 Thes.1:5-7; 2 Thes.2:13-14; 1 Tim.1:16; 1 Tim.4:8; 2 Tim.1:12; 2 Tim.2:10-12; 2 Tim.2:19; 2 Tim.4:8; Titus 2:11-14; Titus 3:7; Hebrews 1:14; Hebrews 2:10; Hebrews 2:15; Hebrews 4:9; Hebrews 4:15-16; Hebrews 6:10; Hebrews 6:16-20; Hebrews 9:15; Hebrews 9:28; Hebrews 10:34-36; Hebrews 11:16; Hebrews 12:22-23; Hebrews 12:28; Hebrews13:5-6; James 1:5; James 1:12; James1:25; James 2:5; James 4:8; 1 Pet.1:2-5; 1 Pet.2:5-6; 1 Pet.2:9-10; 1 Pet.3:9-12; 1 Pet.4:13; 1 Pet.5:4; 1 Pet.5:6-7; 1 Pet.5:10; 2 Pet.1:4; 2 Pet.1:10-11; 2 Pet.2:9; 1 John 1:7; 1 John 1:9; 1 John 2:17; 1 John 2:25; 1 John 2:28; 1 John 3:2; 1 John 3:22; 1 John 5:13; Rev. 1:6; Rev. 2:7; Rev. 2:10-11; Rev. 2:17; Rev. 2:26-28; Rev. 3:4-5; Rev. 3:10; Rev. 3:12; Rev. 3:21; Rev. 7:3-4; Rev. 7:9-17; Rev. 11:12; Rev. 11:18; Rev. 14:1-5; Rev. 14:13; Rev. 16:15; Rev. 20:4-6; Rev. 21:3-7; Rev.21:24; Rev. 22:4-5; Rev. 22:7; Rev. 22:12; Rev. 22:14.
If you know Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Savior, these promises (as previously noted) apply to you and we recommend that you familarize yourself with them and claim them as your own. Even if the end-time events do not transpire during our lifetimes, sooner or later you are going to face a spiritual/emotional/financial crisis and these verses of Scripture will prove to be a source of great comfort.
Keep your spiritual eyes and ears open because we are definitely living in "perilous times" (2 Timothy 3:1).
If you have received Jesus Christ as your personal Savior and been born again, but have been very lukewarm in your spiritual walk with Him, you need to immediately ask Him for forgiveness and for renewal. He will instantly forgive you, and fill your heart with the joy of the Holy Spirit. Then, you need to begin a daily walk of prayer and personal Bible Study.
Are you spiritually ready? Is your family? Are you adequately protecting your loved ones? This is the reason for this ministry, to enable you to first understand the peril facing you, and then help you develop strategies to warn and protect your loved ones. Once you have been thoroughly trained, you can also use your knowledge as a means to open the door of discussion with an unsaved person. I have been able to use it many times, and have seen people come to Jesus Christ as a result. These perilous times are also a time when we can reach many souls for Jesus Christ, making an eternal difference.
If you have accepted Jesus Christ as your personal Savior, but have been very lukewarm in your spiritual walk with Him, you need to immediately ask Him for forgiveness and for renewal. He will instantly forgive you, and fill your heart with the joy of the Holy Spirit. Then, you need to begin a daily walk of prayer and personal Bible Study.
If you have never accepted Jesus Christ as Savior, but have come to realize His reality and the approaching End of the Age, and want to accept His FREE Gift of Eternal Life, you can also do so now, in the privacy of your home. Once you accept Him as Savior, you are spiritually Born Again, and are as assured of Heaven as if you were already there. Then, you can rest assured that the Kingdom of Antichrist will not touch you spiritually.
If you would like to become Born Again, turn to our Salvation Page now.
We hope you have been blessed by this ministry, which seeks to educate and warn people, so that they can see the coming New World Order -- Kingdom of Antichrist -- in their daily news.
Finally, we would love to hear from you.
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(REUTERS) - New York Governor Andrew Cuomo pledged to enact the strictest assault weapons ban in the United States (US) and outlaw all high-capacity magazines in one of the first state-level reactions to the massacre of school children in Connecticut.
"Gun violence has been on a rampage as we know firsthand and we know painfully," Mr Cuomo said on Wednesday in his annual State of the State address, in which he committed New York to leading the country in enacting new gun control laws. "We must stop the madness, my friends. And in one word it's just enough. It has been enough."
In neighbouring Connecticut, Governor Dannel Malloy in his State of the State address urged US lawmakers to tighten federal gun control measures in response to the shooting of 20 children and six adults at Connecticut's Sandy Hook Elementary School on Dec 14.
"As long as weapons continue to travel up and down (interstate highway) I-95, what is available for sale in Florida or Virginia can have devastating consequences here in Connecticut," said Mr Malloy, who paused and fought back tears, his voice cracking, when discussing the tragedy at Sandy Hook.
As the governors spoke, Vice-President Joe Biden said the White House planned to act quickly to curb gun violence and would explore all avenues including executive orders that would not require congressional approval.
New York and Connecticut already have among the toughest gun control laws in the country, but Cuomo has complained New York's ban on assault weapons, for example, is so full of loopholes that it is unenforceable.
The law bans magazines with a capacity greater than 10 rounds but exempts magazines produced before 1994. Cuomo said it was virtually impossible to determine whether any magazine was made before or after that date, so he proposed eliminating large capacity magazines regardless of date of manufacture.
"Nobody needs 10 bullets to kill a deer. End the madness now," Mr Cuomo said to a rousing ovation in the state capital Albany before state legislators, appointed officials, state employees and invited guests.
He also proposed requiring background checks for private sales of guns such as those taking place at gun shows; keeping guns from mentally ill people; and banning direct internet sales of ammunition in New York.
The Democratic governor is popular - a Quinnipiac poll last month showed him with an approval rating of 74 per cent - and the Democrats control the state assembly, but Republicans hold a majority in the state senate and gun control is less popular in rural upstate New York than in New York City.


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Linux version still in the works
After recently releasing on iPhone, Tomorrow Corporation's game about burning (and so much more), Little Inferno, is now available for Mac. Better yet, those who own the Windows version won't have to pay another cent for the Mac port. I love when developers do that.
With some 250,000 copies sold to date, it sounds as if Little Inferno caught on, which didn't seem like a sure thing prior to launch. Looking ahead, Tomorrow Corp. is preparing the Linux version for testing and is also putting together an iOS update for iPhone 4 and iPod touch 4.


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Thursday, 30th June 2005 by Alex Turnbull
This is the beautiful Venice, city of canals. Venice is built on more than a hundred islands in a shallow lagoon, with the canals serving the function of roads – every form of transport is on water or on foot. In fact, Venice is Europe's largest car-free zone, unique in Europe in remaining a sizeable functioning city in the 21st century entirely without cars or trucks.
I can't spot any gondolas from up here though, can you?
In our next thumbnails we're also featuring St. Mark's Basilica (you can also see the bell-tower) and the Rialto Bridge. St. Mark's Basilica overlooks the Piazza San Marco (you know, that square with all the pigeons that's in all the movies), and the Rialto Bridge is the oldest and most famous bridge which crosses Venice's Grand Canal. There's heaps of info over at Wikipedia, and there's tons of good ground level photos there too 🙂
Thanks: Philip R, morinox, Drew Mills, Andy Kaplan-Myrth, Daniel, Troy Fuqua, GS, Simon Sutcliffe, Bennet Langlotz, Michele, Jan Fabry, jupap7, Martin Willey, Thomas, Mike Krus, Kevin, Ben Singleton, TROY, ray hollis, Vaclav Papousek, Jens Kilian, Bryan Robson, Frederic Argazzi, Max, David Fink and James Edmunds.


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Mars Curiosity: Looking Forward, Looking Back
On August 6, 2012 the Curiosity rover made a successful touchdown on Mars. It was a thrilling moment, the culmination of many careers and decades of hard work -- but at the same time it was just the beginning of the rover's mission on Mars. In the videos below, listen to Allen Chen, who calmly narrated the landing sequence every step of the way. Chen was Entry, Descent, and Landing Operations Lead for the rover (technically known as the Mars Science Laboratory or MSL), and at 2:33 in this video his words: "Touchdown confirmed. We are safe on Mars!" sparked an explosion of joy in the JPL Control Room. Watch this and remember, space fans.
That was looking back. Now let's look forward. In this video below, Chen says: "I've spent almost a third of my life doing this. You don't have many chances to design your baby, to figure out what it's supposed to do in its life, but I feel like we got a chance here." Moody, beautifully shot, and well worth your time.
Mars Rover Curiosity from Mutant Jukebox - Music & Sound on Vimeo.


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News Center > Entergy to Test Indian Point Siren System
Entergy to Test Indian Point Siren System
Buchanan, N.Y. – The Indian Point Energy Center emergency notification sirens will sound during a regular quarterly test of the system on Wednesday, August 30 between 6:00 and 6:30 p.m.
As part of this test, sirens will sound at full-volume for approximately four minutes in Westchester, Rockland, Orange, and Putnam counties.
Because this is only a test, the public is not required to respond during the siren sounding.
PLEASE NOTE: Sirens are not a signal to evacuate. In an actual emergency, the sirens would sound to alert the public to tune in to a local EAS radio or television station for important information and direction. These stations are listed in the emergency planning booklet mailed to households and businesses in the 10-mile Emergency Planning Zone around Indian Point. An electronic version of the booklet is posted on the Indian Point web site, www.safesecurevital.com.
Additional information about emergency planning related to Indian Point can be found on the New York State Office of Emergency Management's website, http://www.nyalert.gov/IP_Home.aspx.
Indian Point Energy Center, in Buchanan, N.Y., is home to two operating nuclear power plants, Unit 2 and Unit 3, which generate approximately 2,000 megawatts of electricity for homes, business and public facilities in New York City and Westchester County. Indian Point Unit 2 began commercial operation in 1974 and Unit 3 in 1976. Entergy purchased Unit 3 in 2000 from the New York Power Authority and Unit 2 -- along with the permanently closed Unit 1 -- in 2001 from Consolidated Edison.
Entergy Corporation is an integrated energy company engaged primarily in electric power production and retail distribution operations. Entergy owns and operates power plants with approximately 30,000 megawatts of electric generating capacity, including nearly 9,000 megawatts of nuclear power. Entergy delivers electricity to 2.9 million utility customers in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas. Entergy has annual revenues of approximately $10.8 billion and nearly 13,000 employees.
entergy.com & safesecurevital.com
Twitter: @Indian_Point


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JOHN DEERE: Here's Our Outlook For Global Agriculture In 7 Slides (DE)
Agricultural giant Deere & Co. just announced third quarter earnings, reporting earnings and revenue that topped expectations. For its fiscal-year 2014, Deere expects revenue to fall 6% over the prior year, a steeper decline than the 4% that Wall Street had been expecting.
Along with its earnings report, Deere also released a 42-slide presentation giving an update on the state of global agriculture. As a major global supplier of tractors and other ag equipment, Deere keeps close tabs on the state of the commodity market.
Over the last few months, corn, wheat, and a number of other commodities have seen prices decline sharply. We've pulled seven slides from Deere's presentation to provide some color on the current state of agriculture and the broader global economy.
Deere is cautious on the Eurozone recovery, calling GDP growth in the economic bloc 'vulnerable.'
The outlook for China is also cautious. Deere sees growth in the world's second-largest economy slowing in the second half of the year.
Deere reduced its outlook for commodity prices, both for this year and next.
This chart shows the decline in the price of most commodities over the last year.
Farmers are expected to get a lot more corn out of each acre harvested next year.
Total farm revenue is expected to be down across the board next year.
This is hitting Deere on the both the top and bottom line in its agriculture & turf segment.
After seeing one company's view of the economy, here's what Wall Street thinks...
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AFP: Islamic countries must close ranks and respond to Israel's deadly attacks on the Gaza Strip, Iran's Defence Minister Ahmad Vahidi said on Saturday. TEHRAN (AFP) — Islamic countries must close ranks and respond to Israel's deadly attacks on the Gaza Strip, Iran's Defence Minister Ahmad Vahidi said on Saturday.
"Putting an end to the Zionist (Israeli) regime's crimes is only possible through a united, revolutionary retaliation by the Muslim world," Vahidi said in remarks carried by the official IRNA news agency.
Israel is "massacring the oppressed Palestinian people, including women and children" and its strikes amount to a "clear example of war crimes," the defence minister charged.
The Jewish state launched a major air offensive on Gaza on Wednesday with a strike that killed the top military commander of the Islamist movement Hamas which rules the territory.
Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi, whose country is a key backer of Hamas, on Thursday urged the United Nations and European Union to pressure Israel to halt its offensive, saying the security of the Middle East was at stake.
Salehi has also announced his readiness to visit Gaza.
And speaking to exiled Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal on the telephone, Salehi said Iran was ready to send "medical and medicinal aids" to Gaza, the official IRNA news agency reported.
On Saturday, media reports said Iran was preparing to dispatch a parliamentary delegation to the Palestinian territory.
The foreign ministry is "talking with Egyptian officials to facilitate the visit through Rafah," a terminal at Gaza's southwestern border with Egypt, according to MP Mansour Haqiqatpour.
Previous attempts by Iran's hardline parliament to dispatch a team into Gaza failed during the rule of former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak.
Palestinian medics said on Saturday that 38 Gazans have been killed since Israel launched the aerial campaign, while Israel's army says Palestinian militants have fired more than 580 rockets over the border.
Three Israelis have been killed and 13 injured by the rocket fire.


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Tim Burton's VINCENT, a Tribute to Edgar Allan Poe and Vincent Price
Today in 1809, Edgar Allan Poe was born. As a poet of the macabre, Poe has left a lasting mark on American letters, most famously with The Raven, one poem which most of us know, despite most of us not being huge poetry fans.
Today marks a sad end to a mysterious tradition. For 60 years, on Poe's birthday, an unknown person has left three roses and a half-bottle of cognac on Poe's grave in Baltimore. Today: nevermore. Some speculate that the ritual ended on Poe's 200th birthday (last year), but we'll likely never know why the ritual started or finally stopped.
So as a special Poe's Birthday treat, I give you Tim Burton's "VINCENT," a 1982 stop-motion animated film. Narrated by Vincent Price (a hero of Burton's), this is the perfect treat for a winter's afternoon.


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Aug 15, 2012, 12:00 ET
BOSTON, Aug. 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Atlantic Power Corporation (TSX: ATP) (NYSE: AT) (the "Company") today announced its distribution for the month of August 2012. A dividend of Cdn$0.09583 per common share will be payable on September 28, 2012 to holders of record at the close of business on August 31, 2012.
Dividend Reinvestment Plan
On August 8, 2012, Atlantic Power announced the details of the Company's Dividend Reinvestment Plan ("DRIP" or the "Plan"). The DRIP allows eligible holders of Common Shares to reinvest their cash dividends (if, as and when declared by the Company's board of directors and paid) to acquire additional Common Shares of Atlantic Power at a 3% discount to market price, as defined in the Plan.
All holders of Common Shares who are Canadian or U.S. residents are eligible to participate in the Plan. Shareholders who wish to participate in the DRIP should contact their brokerage firm to enroll in the Plan.
A complete copy of the DRIP and enrollment information is available in the "Investors" section of the Company's website www.atlanticpower.com or here. Shareholders are urged to carefully read the complete Plan before making any decisions regarding their participation in the DRIP.
Participation in the DRIP does not relieve shareholders of any liability for taxes that may be payable in respect of dividends that are reinvested in new Common Shares pursuant to the DRIP. Eligible shareholders interested in participating in the DRIP should consult their own tax advisors concerning the tax implications and consequences of their participation in the DRIP in their particular circumstances.
This news release does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy securities in any jurisdiction.
Tax Information for Shareholders
Atlantic Power Corporation designates its dividend to be an "eligible dividend" pursuant to subsection 89(14) of the Income Tax Act (Canada) and its equivalent in any provinces of Canada.
U.S. individual or other non-corporate taxpayers should be eligible for the reduced rate of tax currently applicable to "qualified dividends" provided that the investor meets the holding period and any other requirements.
The Company's common share dividend is subject to a 25% withholding tax rate for holders that are not residents of Canada, which may be reduced pursuant to an applicable tax treaty. The withholding tax rate is 15% for U.S.-resident holders that qualify for the benefits of the Canada – U.S. Income Tax Convention.
Non-Canadian holders may be required by their brokers to complete a Form NR301 (or an equivalent form) in order to demonstrate their entitlement to a treaty-reduced rate of withholding tax after December 31, 2012. U.S. and other non-Canadian holders should consult their brokers about the requirement to provide such forms.
U.S. individuals holding shares in taxable accounts may be eligible to receive a credit on their U.S. income tax return for this withholding tax. U.S. individuals holding the Company's common shares in Individual Retirement Accounts ("IRAs") may be exempt from withholding tax pursuant to the Canada – U.S. Income Tax Convention.
Taxpayers should always seek their own independent qualified professionals regarding the tax consequences of purchasing or owning common shares of the Company. Individuals who believe the withholding tax exemption applies to their IRA should contact their broker to determine how to claim the exemption.
About Atlantic Power
Atlantic Power is a leading publicly traded, power generation and infrastructure company with a well diversified portfolio of assets in the United States and Canada. The Company's power generation projects sell electricity to utilities and other large commercial customers under long-term power purchase agreements, which seek to minimize exposure to changes in commodity prices. The net generating capacity of the Company's projects is approximately 2,141 MW, consisting of interests in 31 operational power generation projects across 11 states and 2 provinces and an 84-mile, 500 kilovolt electric transmission line located in California. In addition, the Company has one 53 MW biomass project under construction in Georgia and one approximately 300 MW wind project under construction in Oklahoma. Atlantic Power also owns a majority interest in Rollcast Energy, a biomass power plant developer in Charlotte, NC. Atlantic Power is incorporated in British Columbia, headquartered in Boston and has offices in Chicago, Toronto, Vancouver and San Diego.
The Company's corporate strategy is to increase the value of the company through accretive acquisitions in North American markets while generating stable, contracted cash flows from its existing assets to sustain its dividend payout to shareholders. The Company's dividend is currently paid monthly at an annual rate of Cdn$1.15 per share.
Atlantic Power has a market capitalization of approximately $1.6 billion and trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol AT and on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol ATP. For more information, please visit the Company's website at www.atlanticpower.com or contact:
Atlantic Power Corporation
Amanda Wagemaker, Investor Relations
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Copies of financial data and other publicly filed documents are filed on SEDAR at www.sedar.com or on EDGAR at www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml under "Atlantic Power Corporation" or on the Company's website.
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María Acosta Cruz, Ph.D.
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Born and raised in Cabo rojo, Puerto Rico, Maria Acosta Cruz received a B.A. from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in comparative literature from the State University of New York at Binghamton in 1980 and 1984, respectively. She teaches all levels of Spanish Language and literiture. Her main research and teaching interests are Caribbean and Latino cultures. She explores issues such as the making and marketability of identities, Puerto Rican cultural history, and national and gender-based stereotypes. Her book Dream Nation: Puerto Rican Culture & the Fictions of Independence (Rutgers University Press 2014 is also part of the American Literatures Initiative from NYU, Fordham, Temple and Virginia University Presses). The series has funding from Mellon Foundation. She has been at Clark since 1986 and is affiliated with the programs in Women's and Gender Studies and Race and Ethnic Relations.
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Professor Acosta Cruz specializes in contemporary Latino and Latin American literature and culture, particularly the Hispanic Caribbean islands, Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic in the 19th and 20th centuries. Her work focuses on issues around gender, identity, and history. Her special areas of research and teaching include Caribbean fiction, Latino literature in the United States and women's writing. With a degree in Comparative Literature, she has a special interest in issues related to ethnic studies and Hispanic women.
Selected Publications
"Esmeralda Santiago in the Marketplace of Identity Politics." CENTRO: Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies; Hunter College, CUNY. XVII.1 (Fall 2006): 170-187.
"Estereotipos transnacionales: Esmeralda Santiago y John Leguizamo" in: Literatura y otras artes en América Latina. Actas of the XXXIV Congress of the Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana. University of Iowa. 2004. pp: 111-117.
"El regreso al Caribede Severo Sarduy." Hispanófila. 113, no. 2 (Enero 1995): 69-80.
"Historia y escritura femenina en Olga Nolla, Magali García Ramis, Rosario Ferré y Ana Lydia Vega." Revista Iberoamericana , vol. LIX, nos. 162-63 (Enero-Junio 1993): 265-77.
"Para que no sean adversarios. Una lectura feminista de Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá." Confluencia Revista de Literatura Hispánica , vol. 7, no. 1 (Fall Issue 1991): 43-53.
"Severo Sarduy y el juego contrareferencial de aporías." Revista de Estudios Hispánicos , Puerto Rico (1990-91): 291-300.
"Historia, ser e identidad femenina en 'Maldito amor' y 'el collar de camándulas' de Rosario Ferre." Chasqui Revista de Literatura Latinoamerican , vol. 19, no. 2 (November 1990): 23-31.


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American democracy's built-in bias towards rural Republicans
Its elections no longer convert the popular will into control of government
EVERY system for converting votes into power has its flaws. Britain suffers from an over-mighty executive; Italy from chronically weak government; Israel from small, domineering factions. America, however, is plagued by the only democratic vice more troubling than the tyranny of the majority: tyranny of the minority.
This has come about because of a growing division between rural and urban voters. The electoral system the Founders devised, and which their successors elaborated, gives rural voters more clout than urban ones. When the parties stood for both city and country that bias affected them both. But the Republican Party has become disproportionately rural and the Democratic Party disproportionately urban. That means a red vote is worth more than a blue one.
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The consequences are dramatic. Republicans hold both the houses of Congress and the White House. But in the three elections in 2012-16 their candidates got just 46% of the two-party vote for the Senate, and they won the presidential vote in 2016 with 49%. Our voting model predicts that, for Democrats to have a better than 50% chance of winning control of the House in November's mid-term elections, they will need to win the popular vote by around seven percentage points. To put that another way, we think the Republicans have a 0.01% chance of winning the popular vote for the House. But we estimate their chance of securing a majority of congressmen is about a third. In no other two-party system does the party that receives the most votes routinely find itself out of power (see Briefing).
This imbalance is partly by design. The greatest and the smallest states each have two senators, in order that Congress should represent territory as well as people. Yet the over-representation of rural America was not supposed to affect the House and the presidency. For most of the past 200 years, when rural, urban and suburban interests were scattered between the parties, it did not. Today, however, the 13 states where people live closest together have 121 Democratic House members and 73 Republican ones, whereas the rest have 163 Republicans and just 72 Democrats. America has one party built on territory and another built on people.
The bias is deepening. Every president who took office in the 20th century did so having won the popular vote. In two of the five elections for 21st-century presidents, the minority won the electoral college. By having elected politicians appoint federal judges, the American system embeds this rural bias in the courts as well. If Brett Kavanaugh, whom President Donald Trump nominated this week, joins the Supreme Court, a conservative court established by a president and Senate who were elected with less than half the two-party vote may end up litigating the fairness of the voting system.
This bias is a dangerous new twist in the tribalism and political dysfunction that is poisoning politics in Washington. Americans often say such partisanship is bad for their country (and that the other lot should mend their ways). The Founding Fathers would have agreed. George Washington warned that "the alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge…is itself a frightful despotism".
As a component of partisanship, the built-in bias is obviously bad for Democrats. But in the long run it is bad for America as a whole, including Republicans. When lawmaking is paralysed, important work, such as immigration and entitlement reform, is too hard. The few big laws that are approved, like Barack Obama's health-care reform or Mr Trump's corporate-tax cuts, pass on party-line votes. That emboldens the opposition to reverse or neuter them when they take power. Meanwhile, the task of resolving the most divisive political issues often falls to the courts. The battle over Mr Kavanaugh's confirmation will be a proxy war over issues, like abortion and health insurance, better suited to the legislature.
Some may ask why Democrats do not return to positions that appeal to rural voters (see our special report). Recall how Mr Obama won the presidency opposing gay marriage and Bill Clinton built a coalition in the centre-ground. But rancorous political disputes—over guns, abortion and climate change—split so neatly along urban-rural lines that parties and voters increasingly sort themselves into urban-rural tribes. Gerrymandering and party primaries reward extremists, and ensure that, once elected, they seldom need fear for their jobs. The incentives to take extreme positions are very powerful.
Bitter partisanship, ineffective federal government and electoral bias poison politics and are hard to fix. Changing the constitution is hard—and rightly so. Yet the voting system for Congress is easier to reform than most people realise, because the constitution does not stipulate what it should be. Congress last voted to change the rules in 1967.
Second thoughts about first-past-the-post
The aim should be to give office-seekers a reason to build bridges with opponents rather than torch them. If partisanship declined as a result, so would pressure on voters to stick to their tribe. That could make both parties competitive in rural and urban areas again, helping to restore majority rule.
One option, adopted in Maine this year and already proposed in a bill in Congress for use nationwide, is "ranked-choice voting" (RCV), in which voters list candidates in order of preference. After a first count, the candidate with the least support is eliminated, and his or her ballots are reallocated to those voters' second choice. This continues until someone has a majority. Candidates need second- and third-choice votes from their rivals' supporters, so they look for common ground with their opponents. Another option is multi-member districts, which were once commonplace and still exist in the Senate. Because they aggregate groups of voters, they make gerrymandering ineffective.
Voting reform is not the whole answer to partisanship and built-in bias, but it would help. It is hard, but not outlandish. To maintain the trust of all Americans, the world's oldest constitutional democracy needs to reform itself.
This article appeared in the Leaders section of the print edition under the headline "American democracy's built-in bias"
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Survivor's Sarah Says Her Elimination Was "A Complete Shock"
Tribal Council on Wednesday's Survivor: Cagayan will likely go down as one of the craziest in the show's history (two immunity idols and a blindside!) But was Kass McQuillen's jaw-dropping decision to flip on her six-person alliance during Wednesday's Survivor a brilliant move that will bring her to the end of the game, or one that will end up coming back to haunt her?
According to Sarah Lacina, who found herself the casualty of Kass' bold decision, it's the latter. "We all had discussed that you ruin all your chances at winning the game if you flip," Sarah tells TVGuide.com. "My honest opinion on why she flipped is [that] she just wanted to create controversy. That was almost number one in her book, and then winning the game was number two."
Check out our full interview with Sarah to find out just how shocked she was about getting voted out, as well as her thoughts on the Blue Bloods alliance she formed with Tony. Plus: Why was Woo allowed to wear shoes during the challenge?
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What was your reaction to getting voted out? Did you see that coming at all?
Sarah: I wasn't completely shocked that my name was written down ... but I definitely was not worried. Sitting there, it seemed like it took forever for Jeff [Probst] to read the votes. I'm like, OK, we all get it, Jefra's going home. Just get it over with. And when my name comes up that last time ... I actually sat there for a minute and I'm kind of trying to figure it out. Like, that's wrong. It can't be right. We have six. They have five. There's a mistake. But then I remembered having to tell myself, you have to get up because you have to get your torch. You can't just sit here all night.
Your tribe mates seemed pretty stunned as well.
Sarah: My whole tribe was sitting there like, what the heck's going on? There was some talking going on. And I think I had heard someone say "flip" and then that's when it put it in my head. That's how in shock I was. I couldn't even figure out what happened. Clearly someone flipped. So, when I walked past I said, "Who flipped?" And everyone's like, "Not me, not me, not me." And Tasha's like, "Kass." And then I was just shocked because she had harped on me so bad. If anyone harped on me about flipping, it was her. I had to listen to her for three days say, 'I don't trust you.' I mean, she was saying it to my face. It's like, you are not tactical about this at all. So yeah, it was a complete shock.
So, why do you think Kass flipped?
Sarah: Honestly, I think it had nothing to do with strategy. We had discussed, look, if you flip, yeah, you'll make it down to the final three, because you're the perfect person to sit next to because you're not going to get five votes. We all had discussed that you ruin all your chances at winning the game if you flip. And I wasn't there to get second or third place and sit in the final three. I was there to win the game. So, at some point I could have flipped, but that vote I definitely had to stick with my tribe. We all had to. So, my honest opinion on why she flipped is, she just wanted to create controversy and that was almost No. 1 in her book, and then winning the game was No. 2 in her book. That's my honest opinion.
Survivor's Lindsey: "It would not have been safe" for Trish if I hadn't quit
You went from a position of power to getting blindsided in the course of the episode. Do you wish that you would have done anything differently?
Sarah: Yeah, I should have played more of a double agent. I didn't play a double agent at all. I wanted to, but my whole tribe had kind of said ... they were worried about me flipping. Spencer and I were very close and Spencer said to me, "I don't want you to play the double agent. It's going to make me feel uneasy. It's going to make other people feel uneasy. Please don't do that."
It was awesome to get to play and I'd want to play again. I felt like my game was cut so short and that I had so much left that I wanted to do, and ideas and strategies and people I wanted to work with. I wish I would have had the opportunity to dive into that. I'll take blame for going out. Also, I think the Survivor luck really wasn't shining down on me, from the Tribe swap and so on. I think my game would have been completely different if someone else would have been put in my position and I could have stayed with the Brawns. Absolutely. But unfortunately, that wasn't the case.
Do you think there was a turning point in last night's episode where you became the target?
Sarah: The turning point would be, Tony and Trish and those guys were all about getting me on board, and I didn't want them to find out that I was against them. Because I knew at that point I would be a target, once they knew I was not going to flip. So I tried to prolong that as long as I could. And in fact - it's not really portrayed, but I prolonged that to about an hour before Tribal Council. And then at that point it was scramble mode, and Trish goes straight to Kass. And it didn't take much to get her to flip.
So you never considered flipping?
Sarah: At that point in time, I couldn't flip. My hands were tied. Because again, the six of us had decided, if you flip, you're not getting five jury votes, period. That's the way it's going to happen. And I wanted to win the game. I didn't want second or third. I wanted to win. So, for that specific Tribal Council and vote, there was no flipping that could be done. After that, yeah. I think there's wiggle room where you could make up something else. But all eyes were on me, and at one point it looked like the best position in the game. But ultimately, it's actually the worst position in the game, because no matter which side you go with, you're going to make five people mad.
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Why were you so intent on voting for Tony and L.J.?
Sarah: I definitely think once you hit the merge, it's no longer time to pick off the weaker perceived players. You need to start taking out big threats, take them out while we can. I felt that Tony and L.J. and Woo caused the bigger threat, especially in winning immunity or actually finding an idol. Tony was always out there looking for something, and L.J.'s smart enough too. So, yeah, I thought that we needed to take a big threat out because it'd just be more dangerous to keep them in the game. And I felt that if anyone was going to find a crack in our alliance, it was going to be Tony.
Watching Tony's confessionals now, are you surprised at the way he's playing the game? Do you regret forming an alliance with him?
Sarah: Before the game even started, I didn't want anything to do with him, because I just could tell by the vibe I was getting from him that he wasn't someone that I wanted to work with. And that changed once we were on the same tribe. It turned into a keep your friends close, enemies closer type deal. Surprised that he was saying the stuff that he said? Yes. But ultimately, no.
This is a little off-topic, but why was Woo allowed to wear shoes during the challenge?
Sarah: We were all given the option to wear shoes, and Woo had those FiveFingers or whatever they're called, and all of us had tennis shoes. So Woo decided to wear shoes. We all decided not to.
Ah, OK. So, who do you think is the biggest threat in the game going forward?
Sarah: Honestly, after watching the episode, I would say Trish. I did not give her enough credit out there of how well of a game she's playing. And I would say she has made not just one big move, but the two bigger moves in the game. I definitely did not see that from her. If she keeps this up, she is a force to be reckoned with.
What do you think? Did Kass make the right move? Were you as surprised as Sarah about her blindside? Weigh in below!
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San Francisco, California (CNN) -- Facebook on Wednesday announced plans to turn the web into one big cocktail party.
"The web is at a really important turning point right now," Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's co-founder and CEO, said in a keynote address in San Francisco, California.
"We're building toward a web where the default is social. Every application and product will be redesigned from the ground up to use a person's real identity and friends."
Facebook calls this new social paradigm the "Open Graph," and Zuckerberg called the shift "the most transformative thing we've ever done for the web."
The announcement puts Facebook in further competition with other web companies like Google and Twitter, who are also trying to organize and make use of users' preferences.
Facebook, which has more than 400 million members, says the Open Graph will make it easier for people to share information about their likes and dislikes all over the internet.
The social network will pull information about the websites a person visits, the news stories he or she likes and the music or athletes the person favors -- and share all of that information with a person's Facebook friends.
That data will show up on Facebook.com and on other sites.
Facebook is launching Open Graph today with more than 30 content partners, including The New York Times, Yelp, the music site Pandora, ESPN and the Internet Movie Database. CNN.com also is a partner.
The most tangible way web surfers will notice these changes will be the presence of "like" buttons on sites all over the internet, Zuckerberg said.
The buttons will be attached to all kinds of websites, photos and blog posts. If a person clicks the button to indicate they "like" something, that information becomes viewable by that person'sFacebook friends.
More than a billion "like" buttons will be scattered all over the web within 24 hours, Zuckerberg predicted.
There have been some concerns that integrating Facebook into other web sites would reduce the privacy of people who are browsing the web.
In a question-and-answer session with reporters after his keynote at the f8 conference here, Zuckerberg said the changes will not affect the privacy of Facebook users.
The Open Graph "shows no new information to anyone than was previously visible," he said. For instance, a person visiting the music site Pandora might see information about bands his or her Facebook friends like -- but wouldn't see info from other web users unless they chose to make their Facebook info public.
Some bloggers had expected Facebook to announce a feature that would let Facebook track the locations of its users.
Such a feature might allow a person to "check in" at a particular restaurant or bar, and tell that person's Facebook friends about his or her whereabouts.
Mobile phone apps like Foursquare have made sharing locations more popular.
Zuckerberg dodged questions from reporters on the subject, but didn't say that such a feature is out of the question in the future.
"We don't have anything to talk about on that today," he said.
Zuckerberg made his remarks during a keynote opening f8, Facebook's annual conference for its developers.
He also yielded the stage to Facebook platform product director Bret Taylor, who announced a new programming interface he says will make it easier for outside developers to create applications for Facebook.
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Now with the amalgamation of all the these identical skill levels contending head to go why not count on baseball parity and.500 as being the norm?
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The succeeding portion besting this parity thing rather than recognizing this win or drop on a.500 basis is an issue of "burning up need", "want to", "self-control", "mindset", and "is capable of doing."
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