What Nationality Is Given To A Baby Born On A Plane?
Have you ever wondered what nationality is given to a baby born on a plane? If a baby is born on Delta Airlines to a Nigerian mother and a French father over Senegalese airspace, and an emergency landing is made in Mauritania, what will her citizenship be?
This is a pretty fascinating issue to research. Most people are born on land, in an area that is clearly spelled out within the borders of a country. But what happens to the few people who are born on an international flight or ship? Let's dig in!
In the story, there are 4 factors that come to play: the nationality(ies) of the parents (French & Nigerian), the airspace they are flying over (Senegalese), the country where the plane is registered (USA) and the first point of landing after the child is born (Mauritanian).
1st Factor - Blood Right!
As soon as the child is born, she is automatically a French and a Nigerian citizen. Most countries (if not all) will grant citizenship to a child if at least one parent is a citizen of that country. This is known as jus sanguinis (right of blood).
Note that in some countries, the child does not automatically inherit the citizenship of her mother, if it is different from the citizenship of her father. In such countries, the mother's nationality is only given automatically if the father is unknown or is stateless.
2nd Factor - Birth Right!
At the time of the child's birth, the airspace over which they were flying could come into play, but only if the country offers automatic citizenship to those who were born in its territories (jus soli - the right of the soil).
Sometimes, jus soli is unconditional. Other times, it is conditional on residence requirements. So, it means that a child born over the airspace or within the territorial waters of a country with unconditional jus soli can be granted citizenship of that country.
Unfortunately, in our story, Senegal does not offer unrestricted jus soli which means that the child does not automatically qualify for Senegalese citizenship by being born within the country's airspace.
The USA and Canada are the only two countries in the so-called "developed world" that still offer citizenship to anyone who was born there, whether your parents are legal aliens, citizens, illegal immigrants or residents.
3rd Factor - Citizenship of the Plane!
However, it is rare for countries to extend citizenship to a child simply because she was born on a plane registered in that country. The exception: if the child is born to stateless parents and does not have the option of taking the citizenship(s) of her parent(s).
4th Factor - First Point of Landing!
This one is the rarest of them all but it is not impossible for a country to grant a baby citizenship if the first place she landed after birth was in that country. It will be granted on a case by case basis.
Plural Citizenship - It is important to note which countries allow dual or plural citizenship and which do not. Believe it or not, there are some countries that forbid dual citizenship so even if a child was technical, they will have to choose one and forfeit the other.
So, our sweet baby will be Nigerian & French. Live your best life, girl! The world belongs to you. I hope you grow up to become a geographer in thought and then shine light through whatever profession you choose.
Experts in international law, over to you.


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Artrepreneur: From the Arts: Multivitamin Colour
Leave a Comment / Visual Arts / By Nicole Bauberger / Artpreneur, Yukon Arts Centre Public Gallery, Issue: 2010-02-11, Lara Melnik
Lara Melnik, queen of craft fairs and cafés, has created an intricate and colourful show of work in polymer clay at the Yukon Arts Centre Public Art Gallery.
If February seems black and white and grey to you, Polychrome could be the antidote.
The title wall reflects Melnik's well-known status in the community. Her name is given simply as "Lara" with a large-scale flower beside it.
More of these flowers bloom on the show's back wall. These flowers, with petals radiating out from the centres, carry some of the hippy groovy style Melnik uses in her work.
A long, slender horizontal piece underlines the title. A wide variety of colours and textures in small vertical shapes run along the long black rectangle. Above each shape, white dots in a variety of shapes, the form and texture of scotch mints, suggest the heads of many simple figures. They could be the crowd of people at the gallery's opening.
The piece is called i-catching (i-pods). Beside this piece, as with all of them, short, easy to read first-person text recounts how Melnik made or got the idea for each piece.
An installation of legal size cards, six high by seven wide, fills the other side of the title wall. Overall, the piece shades from red at the top though the colour wheel to red again at the bottom. On closer inspection, Untitled lists all the titles of Melnik's thousands of original pieces she's created over the past 10 years, in alphabetical order. It's the ink it's printed in that produces the colour effect.
You could spend a pleasant while, traipsing through these names with your imagination. I had other pieces to turn to, so perhaps Baby Blue Fruit will suffice to intrigue you. Or how about whole lists based on chocolate and cinnamon?
In this piece and in the ramps and boxes in some of the other pieces, I believe that I detect the hand of Darren Holcolme. Lara Melnik's partner in life and art business, Holcolme set aside his engineering career to turn his computer, carpentry and organizational skills to the family art business.
It is a Melnik tradition, for every art opening, to prepare simple polymer clay bead-like pieces to give away to everyone who comes. Many of her fans collect these pieces. This show was no exception. All visitors to the show received a circular colour wheel edged in black, about an inch in diameter.
Some of the pieces will be recognizable in format to those who know Melnik's work. Framed Yukon landscapes, matted in bright colours, cluster on one of the walls.
Then, some take her work and enlarge upon it. Forever and a day is a midsized piece. Melnik has taken a series of her unframed inch-deep landscapes and butted them up against each other, matching at the horizon. The landscapes are depicted in a range of bright colours for mountain and sky. The cumulative effect evokes the variety in the Yukon landscape, how it changes in light and character from day to day.
Two framed pieces, Flora of the Yukon and La Flore du Yukon, use the same strategy: strong green shoots covered with a wide variety of fantastic multi-coloured blooms.
These pieces are fine, but the most interesting for me were the ones where Melnik used her skill with the polymer clay more experimentally.
An assent of polymen will reward long inspection and will delight young and old. Ramps have been built around plinths. At the bottom, a black polymer clay face grows out of a disk of black clay inset with colour buttons around the perimeter. Little whimsical creatures, reminiscent of anime characters, follow one after another up the ramps around the plinths.
It seems to me that Melnik had a wealth of these characters, and so they got to mill around in a group on top of the plinth before rejoining the line to go back into a small black pond, where an orange face is dissolving, the suggestion being that it will re-emerge at the bottom.
Beside this dissolving pond, a face with a spike growing out of its head collects a rainbow of coloured rings.
Is it an allegory of life and death? Perhaps …
Playing in the rainbow occupies a large plinth. Melnik has artfully arranged a series of disks of polymer clay in a range of colours, printed with textures, gradated from ¼" to 4″ diameters. Over the course of the show she will come in and rearrange the disks to make a new piece. A digital picture frame on the wall above the plinth shuffles through photographs of the disks in various arrangements.
In another piece, the audience is invited to step inside a circular curtained area. The curtain is made of strung beads. Melnik reserves a sample of every cane she's created over the past 10 years of making beads and art. A dated bead separates the months, so you can trace a history of her interests in colour. You can touch these beads, gently.
And finally, possibly my favourite, the kingdom of bead. Melnik has created several cases treating her beads to a Victorian style biological scrutiny of species and variety. Melnik's polymer beads are melted on pins and given playful Latin names. The "lovey bead," for example, is called Amplusamoratum valentines.
The materials are "polymer clay, pins, blood, sweat, and tears."
You can see more about Melnik's art on her website at www.laramelnik.com.
Polychrome continues at the Yukon Arts Centre Public Art Gallery until March 13.
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Cornwall has an incredibly rich, varied and fascinating industrial heritage. Cornwall can proudly celebrate its influence in advances in the development of metalliferous mining, mineral mining, stone quarrying, fishing, farming and transportation - to name but a few of the highlights in industrial development.
On Friday 23rd March, Wheal Martyn are holding their fourth Industrial Heritage Conference - "Industrial Heritage Buildings and Collections – Challenges and Experiences". The conference will explore how our incredible historic industrial buildings raise challenges but also offer wonderful opportunities for heritage learning. Wheal Martyn's 4th Industrial Heritage Conference aims to highlight the specific challenges faced when managing industrial heritage buildings, in particular, when the modern purpose of the building is to display collections and interpret heritage stories.
Gemma Martin, Education Officer at Wheal Martyn, commented "We are delighted to have such a wonderful range of experienced speakers for the conference. We have representatives from across the country – from Lion Salt Works in Cheshire, Historic England, Bristol Museum and specialists in the field of collection care and conservation".
Places are available for delegates to attend the conference, whether you are a museum specialist, curator, amateur archaeologist or just an enthusiast! Contact Beth Martin on 01566 771930 or book online at www.wheal-martyn.com , tickets are £20 and include refreshments and lunch.


I am looking to place a Construction Manager within High Speed 2's (HS2) London office. The role will be split 50/50 between office-based assurance / managerial duties and site visits around NW London, Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire up to Great Missenden.
You will support development and eventual construction of 25km of HS2 route, including a 3.5km viaduct (the longest ever constructed in the UK) and several km of tunnels. This role is not a site-based or site management position, but rather to provide assurance and delivery management to HS2's partners. In a team of 3, and under the guidance of a Senior Construction Manager with 30 years' experience, you will ensure that external partners are developing robust programmes and that designs are deliverable. You will ensure delivery in accordance with safety, time, cost, quality and environmental requirements.
You will have relevant education in Construction Management or Civil Engineering, with experience of Heavy Civils projects in Rail or another part of Infrastructure. You will be used to managing assurance and delivery duties for construction packages in excess of £50 million. Experience of enabling works would be a bonus. You may have site-based experience, but more important is your ability to work with external stakeholders and Joint Venture partners in a construction delivery/assurance role.
Beyond the opportunity to work on the most expensive and high-profile Infrastructure projects in the UK, part of this phase includes work on the longest viaduct ever constructed in the UK (over double in length). You will have access to a variety of flexible benefits and an excellent pension scheme. You will join a developing team with opportunities for personal/professional growth and line management responsibilities as HS2 progresses over the next decade and beyond.


The Palestinian and Israeli members of the YMCA Jerusalem Youth Chorus both call the ancient city of Jerusalem their home.
Despite the decades of conflict that divide their communities, the teen singers are forming strong bonds and actively working toward a more peaceful future.
In the newly-released music video "Home," the singers' voices blend together, covering Phillip Phillips' hit song in Arabic, Hebrew, and English.
YouTube star Sam Tsui added his vocals to the song.
"This home is our father's home...and welcome, our beloved ones, welcome to it," a Palestinian youth sings in Arabic.
"Because in my home, in the garden...mine, yours...we together will have a unique bond," a voice in Hebrew responds.
Music director Micah Hendler formed the group in 2012. The choir is evenly split between Arab and Jewish musicians. The hope that with enough exposure to each others' stories, these high schoolers will grow up to become peacemakers within their communities.
"By creating a microcosm of the kind of society we want to see and the kind of city we want to live in, we hope to remind others of what potential the city holds if we treat each other with respect, dignity, and love -- if we create a place of equality and openness, where all can have a home," YMCA Jerusalem Youth Chorus said in a statement.


Fresh. Bouncing. Active. Those were the words that we left with after the latest Stella McCartney collection. To be fair, the last word has always been associated with Stella McCartney's "real propositions for real women" and even more since she started collaborating with Adidas in considering that really active part of a woman's lifestyle. Her dips into sportswear have been around for a few seasons now, but here she really distilled the essence of le look sportif into a clear cut message. There have been lots of technical fabrications abound this season and McCartney chose her sheer organzas and chiffons with care to ensure that the initial looks of blouson bomber jackets, sheer sweatshirts with underskirts and paneled plisse dresses were spot on in their simplicity and vitality.
Then McCartney made sure of her own signature tailoring injecting military green jackets, judo-style robe dresses in apple green and white to shore up and the staple pair of loose-cut trousers. These ran the gamut of McCartney's own brand of ease and succinct design messages. Especially when it came to a broad shouldered white trouser suit or a geometric printed silk jumpsuit. Plexiglass injected heels and bags emphasized the crisp and cool qualities of these sheer-laden clothes. The bounce and freshness that we took away from the collection came courtesy of a series of graphic dresses that made innovative use of stiff organza, cut up into pleats, shaped into circular panels and grafted onto a transparent white foundation. This technique was also used with a painterly brush stroke print in blue and pink but left the biggest impression when employed in solid blocks of neon orange, royal blue or forest green. The pleats almost looked animated as they glided down the catwalk. Just the sort of spirit that the Stella woman embodies.


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Cousins was in town in June for his annual basketball camp at Sacramento High School and many in the community still support him.
Webber said it will be fun to watch as Cousins tries to dominate while his former teammates look to slow him. The Kings played at New Orleans last season and Cousins had 37 points and 13 rebounds in a 117-89 thrashing of his former team on March 31.
But coming back to Sacramento will be different.
Webber said he loves being his at his "second home" of Sacramento, even though some fans did not like that he said he would not have traded Cousins.
But he does like how general manager Vlade Divac is trying to move the team in a new direction.
Webber said that Cousins having to endure six head coaches in his six-plus seasons is "just downright wrong" and an example of what Divac is charged with fixing.
"That's just wasting the guy's young years of his career; that's not supporting his teammates," Webber said. "It's just terrible. And you look at the terrible draft picks the Kings have had, players that aren't even in the NBA today drafted in the top spots. So anytime you go into a terrible situation, unorganized, lack of communication and people that don't know the game that want to make decisions, you're going to be in that situation.
With Golden State, San Antonio, Houston and Oklahoma City poised to be atop the Western Conference for the next few years, Webber said now is the time for the Kings to build their foundation, aiming to be a solid team in a couple years.
Webber is also high on rookie point guard De'Aaron Fox and second-year shooting guard Buddy Hield, who was acquired in the trade from New Orleans. He thinks their future is bright, as long as the Kings continue to add pieces around them.
He talks about gaining confidence and not being afraid to make a mistake.


Vice President of GXG will be a panel covering coin trading strategy. ASROC takes place just before Delta Summit. It is a single day event for active traders of crypto currencies.
New York, NY--Ticonderoga Ventures, Inc. announces that William Bolduc will speak at the ASROC Conference that will be on Wednesday October 3, 2018 in Malta.
William Bolduc is VP of GXG and will speak on a panel covering coin trading strategy.
GXG offers mentorship services across the world helping any entrepreneur to be successful in their business.


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Rediff.com » Business » Post-slowdown, offshoring gets new urgency
Post-slowdown, offshoring gets new urgency
By Shivani Shinde & Shilpy Sinha
US-based Sonoa Systems is among the few start-ups which did not resort to drastic cost rationalisation in the wake of the global slowdown. The company has had an offshore operational model since inception which helped manage its costs better.
For Sonoa Systems, the US is also a major market. The company specialises in providing solutions for cloud computing and application programming interface. The company's entire development work, right from design and development to quality analysis, is done at its Bangalore centre. The 50-member team in India is also involved with sales and marketing.
"The offshore model was thought of right at the time of the inception of the company in 2005. The benefits were evident during the current downturn. Last year, every start-up downsized their teams, but we did not touch our Indian team," said Chet Kapoor, chief executive officer of Sonoa Systems.
Kapoor said other than the fact that customers continued to work with them, this model allowed them to manage costs better.
Industry leaders point out that start-ups looking at having centres in low-cost regions is an old trend. But what has changed now is the urgency with which companies are looking at this model. For start-ups, this model could save 30-40 per cent in costs, said industry experts.
"Venture capitalists (VCs) asking their investee firms to look for an offshore model is an old practice. It has probably gathered steam now, as even follow-on funds are becoming a challenge," said Arun Natarajan, managing director and chief executive officer, Venture Intelligence.
The current slowdown is pushing the outsourcing story among Silicon Valley start-ups. Another case in point is Reliance Technology Ventures (RTV), which invests in start-ups across the globe.
RTV's investee company, US-based Stoke which provides mobile broadband gateway, was asked to open an office in India. Other investors in the company are Japanese firm NetOne Systems and Sequoia Capital, among others. Harshal Shah, chief executive officer of RTV, said this did not only help lower operational costs, but also drove the company's growth in medium to long term.
"Setting up offices in low-cost areas help companies reduce costs as they offshore their basic functions - get quality work-force at cheaper rates and high quality domestic skills help generate economies of scale and scope. Additionally, India's domestic market is enticing as a part of mid to long-term agenda," said Shah.
Agrees Promod Haque of Norwest Venture Partners, who is an investor in Sonoa. "Sonoa is an apt example of this model. We have seen that VCs are recommending start-ups to have an offshoring model simply as this helps in cost efficiencies," he added.
Mohanjit Jolly, executive director of Draper Fisher Jurveston (DFJ), while agrees the outsourcing of work is a trend, but the parameters of selecting this model cannot be governed by cost alone.
"One cannot make a blanket statement in favour of using an offshore development partner. Many US companies have had issues around quality issues and employee churn within Indian companies. Some US companies may be looking for specific expertise which may not be available or reliable in India. So, besides cost, there are several other parameters that lead to the decision of outsourcing/ offshoring development to a partner based in India or anywhere else, for that matter," added Jolly.
However, a large chunk of DFJ's portfolio companies in the US have either a captive development operation in India or have outsourced part of their development to companies here, "and that was not due to any mandate by DFJ but rather driven purely by business reasons," said Jolly.
But Gautam Patel, a private equity investor, believes the offshoring model only works well if there is enough room for scaling up.
"A start-up with just 15 engineers can work well in the US as well. If the company is sure that from the initial 50 people, they plan to increase this to 100-150 employees, then it makes sense. The start-up must have some amount of critical mass to look at this model. Besides there are teething risks associated with start-ups looking at this model," said Patel.
Shivani Shinde & Shilpy Sinha in Mumbai
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New Orleans, LA - Older adults with type 1 diabetes typically have low blood sugar, or hypoglycemia, for more than an hour a day, suggests research to be presented Monday, March 25 at ENDO 2019, the annual meeting of the Endocrine Society, in New Orleans, La.
Many people with type 1 diabetes have low blood sugar but experience no symptoms, a condition called hypoglycemia unawareness. Because they don't know when their blood sugar is low, they don't know they need to treat it. This puts them at risk for severe hypoglycemia events, which requires another person to help them recover. They also are less likely to be awakened from sleep.


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This event was organised in cooperation with the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM).
Energy policies play a key role in the cooperation between the European Union and the countries of the Mediterranean area, being the latter endowed with strategic resources like gas and oil and the former in need of solving the issue of energy security. These policies constitute only a part of neighbourhood policies adopted by the European Union, which have been too much Eurocentric in the past and mainly based on bilateral cooperation rather than regional. Therefore, this calls for a new approach to deal with our neighbours on the Southern shore of the Mediterranean Sea, based on understanding the challenges for cooperation, the needs and priorities of countries involved and taking into account the synergies of EU and Mediterranean countries altogether. Obstacles to cooperation are represented by the terrorist threat, the migration pressure and by the number of hidden and open conflicts in the region. However, the workshop organised by Bruegel and Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei brought interesting policy recommendations to build a more stable cooperation between the two regions.
From a general point of view, dialogue is needed between the parties for a common understanding of issues: the approaches and priorities of EU and Mediterranean countries are different, and the partnership should not involve the export of an EU model of policy-making to the Southern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. Moreover, pragmatism, rather than ideological approaches, would work better in building the cooperation.
For what concerns the energy cooperation, policy recommendations cover the areas of gas and renewables and are deeply concerned with infrastructure financing. First, the EU decarbonisation goal calls for a reduction in coal usage and an increase in gas demand, a commodity largely available in Western Mediterranean countries; the security of gas supply and the reliance of Europe on a limited number of importers also constitute a relevant issue. The existing transportation infrastructure connecting EU and Mediterranean has to be fully used for these purposes, and more space should be given to SMCs in order to decrease the presence of dominant suppliers, like Russia, in the European market. Eastern Mediterranean countries pose other challenges to gas cooperation. In this case, the infrastructure is still largely missing and countries are not willing to cooperate between themselves because of tensions in the region. However, recent discoveries, like the huge gas deposit in Zohr, close to the Egyptian coasts, can change the geopolitical settings of the region if there is cooperation in building the infrastructure.
Secondly, there is room for collaboration on the renewables side, especially because the two shores of the Mediterranean exhibit complementarities and share the commitment towards decarbonisation. In fact, while some Med countries invested in solar and wind power but need larger flows of investments and exhibit an increasing demand because of population and economic growth, EU has a great endowment of capital and leads the path in terms of energy efficiency. Obstacles for the development of renewables in the Mediterranean region are the regulatory environment and the financing. The EU can export skills and knowledge in Med countries to improve technology capabilities and human capital in the private sector and set commitment devices for firms in order to attract foreign investments. Moreover, long term investment programmes could be a way to affect the regulatory framework of these countries.
Last but not least, the workshop brought a crucial and interdisciplinary recommendation: there is the need of increasing trust and compatibility between countries on the two shores of the Mediterranean Sea, taking into account diversities and peculiarities of each country.
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Why Gottman's 'Four Horsemen' Ruin Relationships — And How To Deal With Each
Lianne Avila
All couples face relationship problems, and marriage counselor Dr. John Gottman's decades of research have earned him worldwide recognition as a leading expert on how couples can deal with their most difficult issues most effectively.
Notably, Gottman found that, on average, 69% of the problems in any relationship are unsolvable. These unsolvable problems issues caused by each partner's personality traits or other issues that can never be eliminated and therefore need to be managed rather than solved.
Looking at the problems that most commonly predict divorce, Dr. Gottman categorized them using the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse as a metaphor.
Dr. John Gottman's four horsemen are:
Stonewalling (i.e., the silent treatment)
While it's understandable that couples who want to solve their problems and move on aren't usually thrilled to find out that the majority of their problems aren't solvable, I find it calming to look at it this way: if you can't fix everything, it also means you don't have to.
RELATED: Beware! These 12 Common Problems Threaten Even Happy Marriages
Knowing more about Gottman's four horseman and how to deal with them in your relationship will help you manage these common issues so your relationship can thrive.
Gottman's four horsemen and how to deal with each in relationships:
It's important for couples to learn the difference between criticism and complaints. Voicing a complaint or offering feedback is a way of addressing specific issues with the intention of improving your relationship, whereas criticizing someone is attacking them for who they are.
How to deal with criticism in a relationship: Instead of making blanket hurtful statements about your partner, pinpoint the specific behavior or issue you currently have a problem with. Additionally, using aggressive "you" statements instead of softer "I statements" can be easily perceived as being critical, even if that wasn't your intention. Reframing your statements to address the specific problem will help you feel heard while also not putting your partner on the defensive.
Examples of things to say to minimize criticism: Instead of "You're so inconsiderate. Why did you bring that up?" try saying something like, "When you said that earlier, I felt hurt because I wasn't expecting to have that conversation now. Could we discuss it tonight when we've both had time to give it some thought?"
2. Contempt
Contempt takes criticism even further. When you treat your partner with contempt, you're not just criticizing them, you are attacking from a place of moral superiority in a way that makes your partner feel disrespected, despised and worthless. Contempt happens when you go on the attack in order to defend your own position, and typically results from allowing frustrations and resentments to stew unaddressed for too long,
Gottman's research shows that contempt is the most corrosive of the four horsemen and the single biggest predictor of divorce. Contempt has also been shown to weaken your immune system.
How to deal with contempt in a relationship: In a relationship, you both need to be on equal ground. If you and your partner aren't approaching each other as equals, you'll start to resent one another. To stop holding contempt for your partner, you must learn to accept one another as moral equals and express appreciation for one another on a regular basis.
Examples of things to say to minimize contempt:
"I'm thankful to have you in my life."
"I really admire your drive and sense of humor."
"I admire your level of dedication."
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3. Defensiveness
Defensiveness is often a response to the first two horsemen, criticism and contempt. You feel your partner attacked you, so naturally, you want to defend yourself and may reverse blame onto them in order to feel better about yourself. This kind of negative coping mechanism is also known as righteous indignation.
In other words, when you feel like your partner is coming at you, you become defensive and respond in kind — and you feel justified in doing so because of how they approached the topic to begin with.
How to deal with defensiveness in a relationship: It's critical that you and your partner stop yourselves from reacting defensively on impulse and start taking responsibility for your own behaviors. When you hear yourself being defensive, pause, acknowledge your defensive behavior, and ask if you can start again.
Examples of things to say to minimize defensiveness:
"I really blew that one. I'm sorry."
"I can see my part in this and I'm sorry for it. How can I do better next time?"
"That was my bad. May I try explaining my position again, this time being more respectful of you?"
4. Stonewalling
Stonewalling, also known as the silent treatment, is when someone refuses, avoids or withdraws from engaging in communication or problem-solving with their partner. Like defensiveness, this may happen in response to contempt. In relationship conflicts, this is the equivalent of the flight part of the fight or flight response. People may stonewall their partner when they feel like they just can't take it anymore, but stonewalling shuts out any chance of reconciliation and prevents healing.
It is important to note that stonewalling can also be a tactic of emotional abuse. In such cases, it is typically used as a negative coping mechanism by people with an avoidant attachment style, serving to both "protect" the stonewaller and punish the partner being stonewalled, leaving the person you love feeling emotionally isolated.
How to deal with stonewalling in a relationship: For the partner with a tendency to stonewall learning to practice physiological self-soothing can be a huge help. Stop yourself, ask your partner for a break, and take 20 minutes in a different room to listen to some relaxing music while focusing on your breath. You can also try going for a walk, doing some yoga, watching something you find funny, or reading an interesting book. Whatever you choose, do it where you won't see or think about your partner until you've calmed down.
And for the partner of the person doing this in order to prevent themselves from stonewalling, allow them to take this time, knowing they are doing it with both of your best interests in mind.
Examples of things to say to minimize stonewalling:
"I don't want to shut you out, but I do need to take a break in order to calm myself and collect my thoughts. Can we take a short break and pick this up again in about 20 minutes?"
"I'm feeling anxious and need to pause. I'm going to step away for a short time so I can calm down, and I promise we'll be able to finish this after.
Gottman's four horsemen are rarely seen in isolation in any given relationship or marriage.
These relationship issues are a family of sorts — and they can destroy an otherwise healthy relationship if you don't know how to deal with them as they arise.
With time and practice, using the techniques explained above to deal with the four horsemen of criticism, contempt, defensiveness and stonewalling will feel like a natural way to communicate, and you'll enjoy one another's company again. Learn to ride the waves in your relationship. The more you practice, the easier it will get.
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Chris is a new addition to our reviewers, and is a writer, copy editor, and proofreader from Methuen, MA; he also runs the Good Coffee Book Blog.
This is how Telumee "Miracle" Lougandor begins her story in the new edition of The Bridge of Beyond by Caribbean novelist Simone Schwarz-Bart. This introductory paragraph sums up her life: Despite the fact that fate has brought her life so much suffering from the time she was born, she finds happiness in it. In fact, Telumee is the last of a line of strong women who showed great strength during times of great adversity.


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Miya volunteered abroad in Costa Rica with World Endeavors assisting at a children's home and teaching English at a school.
As a freshman at Yale University, Miya had plans to go to medical school. Knowing that her next two summers would be occupied doing research and preparing for the MCAT, Miya decided to go abroad the summer after her freshman year. "I wanted to improve my command of the Spanish language and learn about the culture and history of another country," she explained. In the summer of 2005, Miya volunteered for six weeks in the World Endeavors program in Atenas, Costa Rica, working in a children's home and teaching English to children in grades one through six.
Miya's host family had a large network of cousins who all lived within shouting distance. The family would cook together, and at night would go dancing, or go sit in the centro (a park), and talk or eat ice cream. "I was surprised at how smooth the transition was," said Miya. She noted that the World Endeavors staff on location—Diego and Mercedes, and Mercedes' husband and daughter –were particularly helpful, taking her right to her neighborhood from the airport, and checking up periodically to make sure everything was going well.
While her nights were spent dancing, cooking, and talking with her host family, Miya's days were occupied with the children of her host city. "I would teach in the morning, and work in the children's home in the afternoon," said Miya, whose placements were within walking distance from her host family. While the children were a lot of work, Miya felt a strong connection to the kids in the home.
Miya noted that Costa Rica is one of the more developed countries in Central America. A nearby Internet café, for example, helped her to stay in touch with her family while she was away. And now, back in the United States, the Internet helps her keep in touch with her host family. Their correspondence continues in Spanish. And her host parents, Rosario and Jorge, recently sent Miya a Christmas card through the mail.


Here's a draft pdf of my latest Sega SC-3000 component video daughterboard design. It performs just as well as the previous one, but it is a lot simpler.
1. I got rid of the THS7314/7316. If you did not have to get rid of the R-Y and B-Y back porch pulses then this would be awesome (eg. for a TMS9928A). But it just complicated things once I had to get rid of the back porch pulses. Also it requires a 5v supply which means soldering a supply wire from the SC-3000 motherboard.
3. It averages R-Y and B-Y together to give Vnocolor and get rid of the pulses in the back porch / burst interval area of the R-Y and B-Y signals instead of the sample / hold technique of my earlier schematic. This works because the pulses have the same amplitude but opposite phase. Same end result as the sample hold circuit approach - this is just a different solution to the same problem.
4. DC coupled input and output. You could easily add 47uF or larger capacitors to the output if you want, but the DC range should be reasonable at the TV so I haven't bothered. The input MUST be DC coupled for the averaging to work without a DC restore.
5. The first circuit required you to solder a +5v feed from the Sega SC-3000 motherboard. This one runs directly off the horrible 10V +/- 1v input with 100Hz ripple feed from the unregulated 9v Sega power brick (that is what is passed to the daughterboard connector by the motherboard). That 2v / 100Hz ripple sounds awful, but if you think about it the supply voltage only changes a tiny fraction across a single horizontal line scan, so it seems to be well within the capability of the AD828 to adjust.
I will tidy up the schematic and draw up a PCB for it when I get some spare time.
Note: Your TV has to support a 288p (progressive scan) signal rather than a standard 576i (interlaced) signal for this to work over component. But if your TV works over the standard composite AV input with a Sega SC-3000 then there is a good chance it will also work over component. However like anything your mileage may vary. One of my TVs has two component inputs. It supports 288p on one component input but not on the second component input.
How hard is this to construct? The only reason I'm asking is that while I can work out what's going on with your diagram using my very primitive knowledge of electronics, I'm not sure if I could build something without seeing a physical unit in detail.
It is a shame your father-in-law threw the original daughterboard out. I think it would take several hours to construct one of these on vero board or similar and have a lot of fiddly, annoying wiring and it would be hard to debug. Here is the breadboard layout for reference.
However the good news is I actually have most of an Eagle PCB design done and I may make up a few boards for sale to recoup some costs if you're interested. Here's a draft layout. It still needs a few tweaks but is reasonably close. I used through hole components on the Sega SC-3000 Multicart so I thought this would be a good chance to try some surface mount work.
One thing to note is that it won't work on all TVs. Some newer TVs can't handle a 288p signal over component, and as you probably know with vintage computers your mileage will vary with how modern digital TVs interpolate and try to 'improve' the signal for display The newest TV I've tried is a 50" Panasonic Plasma we've had since about 2011. That isn't as good as my older two TVs but is still a lot better than composite.
I'm going for a 'no solder' installation for the end user. So all you would have to do is pop the case open, swap in the daughterboard, and make a small cut in the case for 3 x RCA female jack wires to run out the back. The sound would still come out the existing 5 pin DIN on the back of the SC-3000. If you wanted a more factory look you could always drill holes for RCA sockets and wire those up, or modify the 5 pin DIN and use a 5 pin DIN to 4xRCA cables (that's what I've done on mine), but that requires cuts to some traces on the motherboard.
Ooh. A PCB would be nice, and I would be interested if you planned on producing some. Obviously, the easier it is for a lay-person to do, the better lol!
Its odd that my father-in-law would throw anything out (he's a hoarder when it comes to electronics - as I've seen by the several boxes of old motherboards dating back god-knows how many decades).
Odds are when he said "Thrown out", he meant thrown in a box buried randomly somewhere in his mountain of boxes and doesn't know what he did with it.
No worries. I will let you know when I've made the boards up - I guess about 3 months from now.
I'm actually going to have one last go at a couple of alternative designs on the breadboard first to see if I can do anything with the faint jailbars on my LCD TV and I'm waiting on some parts from eBay. Going back to a sample-hold circuit, and putting the signal scaling prior to the amps. Then going to try pure op-amp design vs THS7314 (with 5th order butterworth filter) and THS7374 (with optional 6th order butterworth filter) again to see if there is any difference. The THSxxxx design requires a 5v regulator on the daughterboard though because the connector from the SC-3000 only feeds +9v (actually around 10v with 2v ripple) from the power brick. The op-amps tolerate that, but not the THSxxxx chips. I want to do that so the daughterboard is plug and play and you don't have to solder a 5v feed from the motherboard.
Note - all of the designs that I have tried actually give very similar real world performance. Although I can see the difference in the output signals in a scope, I honestly can't tell a lot of difference between the different designs when I look at the TV screen. But I want to build something a little more elegant if I can And one day I might do a CPLD version of the Sega SC3000 multicart, so learning SMD design and soldering will come in handy.
Jailbars are an interesting issue - these are vertical bands that show up in regions of solid colour. They are generally only a problem on high res digital TVs, not analog CRTs or (probably) lower res digital CRTs.
The signal output by the TMS9929A is actually pretty noisy. There is appears to be around +/- 40mV noise at the TMS9929A outputs (hard to say for sure as the breadboard wires are likely to increase noise). That is pretty significant once you realize that Vblack to Vwhite is only 700mV. So you can have over 10% variation in the source signal, which may well be worse by the time it has run through your circuit. And the voltage difference between some colour levels is very small too (the TMS9929A only has a 15 colour palette). It may be that just by making a real PCB instead of having the breadboard wires the noise levels drop considerably, but won't know until I try it.
Sounds awesome, and look forward to see what you come up with... You're definitely talking a little beyond my expertise in this area (I understand what you're saying in simple laymans terms - but that's about it) .
Which make/model TVs have you tried that it does work on?
Quicky Q... Has there been any update on your PCB Daughterboard project? Thought I'd just pipe in and bump the thread.
kevman3d wrote: Quicky Q... Has there been any update on your PCB Daughterboard project? Thought I'd just pipe in and bump the thread.
First, my Rigol oscilloscope went nuts just as I built my next circuit. That took me a few weeks to fix. Many thanks to Rob from Taupaki Technologies for all the encouragement in fixing it. It turned out to be something around the HScale encoder. It was either one of the diodes on the encoder, or it was a bad joint or something else about it. I'm still not certain. I ran through the schematics and I was certain it was one of the diodes on the HScale encoder causing the weird problems. But then I replaced the diode and it was still reading bad. Then I sucked a bit of solder off the HScale encoder mounting point, then hooked it back up, and it worked. So I'm still not certain exactly which of my actions fixed it.
I also had a slightly scary reminder of why you don't get lazy and you should disconnect the power EVERY time you work on the PCB and then remount it properly in the case rather than get lazy. I got sick of pulling the bloody thing in and out so I left the mounting screws off. The PCB then shifted slightly and shorted out a live power trace on the PCB to the grounded metal case of the scope. Big bang / flash / lots of stinky magic smoke and a good fright. Luckily it was just a power trace that burned out so I was able to replace with a wire. And lucky I didn't learn a more permanent lesson. It does show that having earthed cases is a very important safety feature though.
After that, I built another sample-hold based circuit which I thought would be perfect. Except it wasn't. Getting some weird spikes and voltage shifts I couldn't explain which took a lot more research.
So... I think I'm back at the point where I will finish off my 'averager' circuit PCB when I get some time. It isn't adjustable, but it does seem to give very good performance on the TVs I've tried it with. And it will run off the 9v feed from the SC-3000 and doesn't require a seperate power regulator to drop to 5v like the THSXXXX chips require. And I was still getting that faint banding on my Bauhaus TV even with the THSXXXX chips and the buttleworth filters, so I think that is just a property of the digitizer in this particular TV - I can't see anything on the scope that would explain the bands from the actual signal.
Ah... that's right. One tradeoff of my current averager design is that if you don't have large capacitors on the output lines, then the output is out of spec. From memory the black level is supposed to be +/- 1v or something like that, and my current circuit relies on the TV being able to handle a slightly higher level than that, which they will - but not ideal.
I might also dump the surface mount components and go back to a through hole design. I bought in all the components I need and DAMN some of those are fiddly to work with I wanted practice with surface mount, which would be fine for the first couple, but I'm struggling to see how I could assemble several of these in reasonable time.
So anyway, it is still ticking along. Just busy.
lol! Don't worry - I know exactly what you mean with lack of spare time.
Great work. Can you share your Eagle files, too?
That should solve the wrong colors on my experiments I worked on with the TI99/4A (which also uses the TMS9929A). Especially e.g. Parsec has a blue instead of black background.
Great job. Can you share a full scan of your work (some parts on the left and bottom are missing).
You guys are doing some awesome work here!


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Nov. 19, 2010, marked the 115th year anniversary of the death of Sam Haskins, the city's first firefighter killed in the line of duty. Haskins' sacrifice was forgotten for more than a century and not included in the line-of-duty deaths until 2002, when the details of his life resurfaced.
Haskins was a former slave born in Virginia in Feb. 1846. In 1880, 15 years after the Civil War, Haskins, then a free man, made the cross-country journey to Los Angeles. He was joined by former slave and good friend George Warner.
Although he was buried in full Los Angeles Fire Department regalia, there was no marker on his grave and no line-of-duty death list was kept. Haskins' contemporaries passed his story on, but over time it was lost. The tale was first reported by author and columnist Cecilia Rasmussen in the Los Angeles Times in November 2002.
More than 100 years after Haskins' death, L.A. County Sheriff's Department crime analyst Joe Walker, researching an unrelated case, found information on Haskins and pieced together the story and location of his grave.
Walker contacted Arnett Hartsfield, 92, who served as a Los Angeles firefighter from 1940 to 1961, and has been African American firefighters' local historian for nearly seven decades. Hartsfield also had a career as a lawyer (USC Law, 1955), as a professor of ethnic studies at Cal State Long Beach, as a civil service commissioner under Mayor Tom Bradley, and is best known for his dedicated work as an integration pioneer in the LAFD.
Currently, he volunteers at the African American Firefighter Museum, which is housed at Central Avenue and 14th Street in downtown L.A.
Three times a week, Hartsfield greets visitors to the museum and shares great detail of the fight for integration in the LAFD.
Hartsfield checked the details on Haskins and realized they brought a number of significant issues to light. Haskins was confirmed as the first African American firefighter in the department, preceding George Washington Bright who was thought to be the first. However, Bright joined the department two years after Haskins' death.
Haskins was also the first person of any ethnicity to die in the line of duty as a LAFD firefighter.
He served with devotion, and was dedicated to service. It was that dedication that led to his death on Nov. 19, 1895.
However, years before his death, Haskins had attained hero status for coming to the defense of an officer named Valencia.
A pioneer in his own right, Hartsfield will be honored on Saturday at 10 a.m. with a liftetime achievement award presented by fire academy Chief Kenneth Mays at the El Camino College Fire Academy, during the graduation of class No. 129. The graduation ceremony will take place at the academy located at 206 W. Beech St., Inglewood. The public is welcome.
Joe Shalmoni is a recruit in the El Camino College Fire Academy graduating class No. 129. To read the full story about Haskins and Hartfield, visit the ourweekly.com.
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AlbaniaArgentinaArubaAustraliaAustriaBahrainBangladeshBelgiumBoliviaBrazilBulgariaCambodiaCentral AmericaChileChinaColombiaCosta RicaCroatiaCuraçaoCyprusCzech RepublicDenmarkDominican RepublicEast AfricaEcuadorEgyptEl SalvadorEstoniaEthiopiaFinlandFranceGermanyGhanaGreeceHondurasHong KongHungaryIcelandIndiaIndonesiaIraqIsraelItalyJamaicaJapanJordanKenyaKuwaitLaosLatviaLebanonLithuaniaMalaysiaMexicoMiddle EastMiddle East OtherMongoliaNetherlandsNew ZealandNicaraguaNigeriaNorth MacedoniaNorwayOmanPakistanPanamaParaguayPeruPhilippinesPolandPortugalQatarRomaniaRussiaRussia/CISSaudi ArabiaSerbia and MontenegroSingaporeSlovakiaSloveniaSouth AfricaSouth KoreaSpainSri LankaSwedenSwitzerlandSwitzerland (French)Switzerland (German)TaiwanThailandTrinidad & TobagoTurkeyUkraineUnited Arab EmiratesUnited KingdomUruguayVenezuelaVietnamWest Indies
Data as of Jan 18, 14:45 PST
Top 10 Gross
Overall Gross
#1 Release
Dec 28-Jan 1, 2012 $29,701,326 +19.5% $33,015,145 +13.9% 19 The Intouchables - - - 52 false
Dec 21-25 $24,862,933 -5.2% $28,976,948 -0.7% 23 The Intouchables - - - 51 false
Dec 14-18 $26,233,447 -11% $29,178,152 -6.9% 19 The Intouchables - - - 50 false
Dec 7-11 $29,486,254 -20% $31,347,480 -21.5% 17 The Intouchables - - - 49 false
Nov 30-Dec 4 $36,871,361 +9.1% $39,935,581 +7.3% 23 The Intouchables - - - 48 false
Nov 23-27 $33,805,136 -21.8% $37,214,486 -20.1% 20 The Intouchables - - - 47 false
Nov 16-20 $43,204,384 -0.2% $46,600,088 -2% 25 The Intouchables - - - 46 false
Nov 9-13 $43,279,533 +28.4% $47,543,475 +23% 23 The Intouchables - - - 45 false
Nov 2-6 $33,702,369 -34.4% $38,647,522 -34.5% 25 The Intouchables - - - 44 false
Oct 26-30 $51,406,070 +160.2% $58,989,091 +172.2% 20 The Adventures of Tintin - - - 43 false
Oct 19-23 $19,754,666 +21% $21,668,183 +18.4% 18 Polisse - - - 42 false
Oct 12-16 $16,332,491 -1% $18,299,649 -4.3% 18 The Artist - - - 41 false
Oct 5-9 $16,491,125 +66.6% $19,126,513 +49.6% 22 Bienvenue à bord - - - 40 false
Sep 28-Oct 2 $9,900,496 -21.3% $12,784,933 -22.1% 22 War of the Buttons - - - 39 false
Sep 21-25 $12,587,746 -15.7% $16,409,046 -12.4% 21 War of the Buttons - - - 38 false
Sep 14-18 $14,934,590 +20.2% $18,729,917 +17.6% 19 War of the Buttons - - - 37 false
Sep 7-11 $12,421,496 -34% $15,927,660 -33.9% 21 Friends with Benefits - - - 36 false
Aug 31-Sep 4 $18,827,505 -6.8% $24,110,900 -6.7% 24 Final Destination 5 - - - 35 false
Aug 24-28 $20,209,027 +1.8% $25,840,063 +10.7% 22 Rise of the Planet of the Apes - - - 34 false
Aug 17-21 $19,854,516 -26% $23,346,487 -18% 18 Rise of the Planet of the Apes - - - 33 false
Aug 10-14 $26,844,561 -6.4% $28,465,585 -5.2% 15 Rise of the Planet of the Apes - - - 32 false
Aug 3-7 $28,676,463 +12.2% $30,023,995 +10.1% 16 The Smurfs - - - 31 false
Jul 27-31 $25,555,781 -3% $27,258,940 -5.7% 18 Cars 2 - - - 30 false
Jul 20-24 $26,353,738 -38.5% $28,901,754 -34.7% 18 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 - - - 29 false
Jul 13-17 $42,880,590 +92.3% $44,254,387 +72.3% 16 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 - - - 28 false
Jul 6-10 $22,293,799 -15.6% $25,680,111 -9.5% 21 Transformers: Dark of the Moon - - - 27 false
Jun 29-Jul 3 $26,402,556 +74.4% $28,366,165 +66.2% 15 Transformers: Dark of the Moon - - - 26 false
Jun 22-26 $15,139,072 -25.2% $17,068,260 -28.6% 18 Kung Fu Panda 2 - - - 25 false
Jun 8-12 $25,110,552 -17.6% $28,654,433 -10.1% 16 Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides - - - 23 false
Jun 1-5 $30,477,698 +39% $31,857,990 +42% 15 Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides - - - 22 false
May 25-29 $21,930,364 -20.8% $22,441,328 -22.2% 13 Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides - - - 21 false
May 18-22 $27,706,509 +40.4% $28,847,681 +34.4% 15 Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides - - - 20 false
May 11-15 $19,737,971 -19.3% $21,459,098 -17.2% 17 Fast Five - - - 19 false
May 4-8 $24,448,910 -3.7% $25,913,557 -2.1% 15 Fast Five - - - 18 false
Apr 27-May 1 $25,399,876 +38% $26,481,649 +31.4% 14 Thor - - - 17 false
Apr 20-24 $18,411,342 +2.8% $20,150,455 -1.4% 20 Rio - - - 16 false
Apr 13-17 $17,912,962 +58.8% $20,439,819 +50.4% 18 Rio - - - 15 false
Apr 6-10 $11,276,699 -14.7% $13,587,272 -22.7% 21 Titeuf: The Movie - - - 14 false
Mar 30-Apr 3 $13,216,118 -10.2% $17,577,040 -4.5% 21 Rango - - - 13 false
Mar 23-27 $14,714,755 +5.9% $18,399,759 -0.9% 19 Rango - - - 12 false
Mar 16-20 $13,895,075 -30.1% $18,565,490 -31.1% 27 My Piece of the Pie - - - 11 false
Mar 9-13 $19,885,542 -14.6% $26,958,837 -11.5% 24 The Rite - - - 10 false
Mar 2-6 $23,296,929 -22.8% $30,479,005 -22.7% 24 Nothing to Declare - - - 9 false
Feb 23-27 $30,186,870 -13% $39,425,951 +1% 23 Nothing to Declare - - - 8 false
Feb 16-20 $34,691,510 +8.2% $39,020,989 +17.6% 22 Nothing to Declare - - - 7 false
Feb 9-13 $32,047,796 +4.3% $33,182,966 +4.1% 16 Nothing to Declare - - - 6 false
Feb 2-6 $30,718,974 +109.7% $31,864,375 +92.9% 19 Nothing to Declare - - - 5 false
Jan 26-30 $14,651,804 -7.9% $16,519,781 -6.7% 19 Hereafter - - - 4 false
Jan 19-23 $15,901,208 +9.3% $17,712,588 +0.7% 19 Hereafter - - - 3 false
Jan 12-16 $14,545,245 -8.5% $17,590,049 -2.7% 21 Season of the Witch - - - 2 false
Jan 5-9 $15,895,429 -37.1% $18,081,844 -34.7% 16 Second Chance - - - 1 false


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GARETH BALE is keen on joining Manchester United, according to a close family member.
A relative has told the Daily Express that Bale wants to work with Louis van Gaal, who he overseeing a huge summer overhaul.
United will have to smash the British transfer record, which they set themselves, to get him.
Angel Di Maria set United back £59.7m and Bale will cost even more with figures of up to £100m being mooted.
There's also the option of using David De Gea as bait to lure Bale to Old Trafford.
United remain desperate to seal the star stopper down to a new long-term contract.
But they've acknowledge that De Gea could call it a day to move back to his homeland in Madrid.
Chelsea and Manchester City are also monitoring the situation with Bale.
But the Red Devils are in pole position to pull off a mega swoop that would stun the Premier League.


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Mortgage rates vs. home building
Like cracking foundations, high mortgage rates can threaten the home-building industry. When the rates get out of hand, many consumers stop buying and many builders stop building.
This week the Veterans Administration said it will boost its maximum home loan rate from 13 percent to 13.5 percent. Conventional mortgages, loans not backed by the government, have also been rising. The average rate charged for these fixed-rate loans (maturing in 25 years) ran at 14.11 percent last month, up from 13.74 percent in March.
But the building industry is nowhere near crumbling because of the higher - and still rising - mortgage rates. New home starts for the first quarter made it ''the best first quarter in nearly 11 years,'' says Dean Crist, an economist at the National Association of Home Builders. ''In addition,'' he says, ''we feel the second quarter will be very good as well, though not as strong as the first.''
When put in a historical perspective, today's rates tower like the World Trade Center. But they still haven't cast much of a shadow on the building industry. Robert Gough Jr., a senior vice-president of Data Resources Inc., explains the phenomenon: ''At the level rates are today, they would historically have killed housing. The reason they haven't is the adjustable-rate mortgage.''
The adjustable-rate mortgage (ARM) runs 2 to 2.5 percentage points below fixed-rate mortgages, explains Mr. Crist, at the building association. These loans, which move up and down with interest rates and usually have a limit on how high they can go, have allowed many buyers into the market who otherwise could not have afforded the monthly payments of a fixed rate.
''Today, 60 percent of all new homes sold are using adjustable-rate mortgages , while a year ago we were talking 25 to 30 percent,'' says Crist. ''When rates get to say, 16 percent fixed and 14 percent adjustable, then something has to give. But at the level they are now, it looks very good.'' Crist also says there is quite a bit of speculative building going on, to meet the demand of people eager to buy new houses, before rates go even higher.
Thanks to ARMs, the industry has a nice cushion to keep it from being bruised too badly by the next drop in demand, economists say. John Savacool at Chase Econometrics sees mortgage rates rising this year and into next. But at next year's average, fixed rate - which he puts at a high 16.4 percent - the industry will be able to construct 300,000 more homes than it did at the same rate in 1982, simply because ARMs allow more buyers in the market.
Housing is no longer the locomotive pulling the recovery along, but it's still a strong contributor, Crist says. ''Of the total dollars of GNP increase, housing is taking less. But by no means does it suggest that housing is not an important factor in this recovery.'' Mr. Gough disagrees somewhat, commenting that, ''in the current quarter, it is going to be an average contributor.''
The industries tied to housing, such as appliances, building materials, and home furnishings, ''don't have a lot to fear right now,'' Gough says. Lumber will mirror the building picture. Appliances and home furnishings will enjoy their recovery a bit longer, because those products come in toward the end of construction. The success of the appliance industry may outlast housing, says Robert Holding, president of the Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers, because pent-up demand for replacement models is high. Appliances seem plugged into a record year.
Exactly how high and how fast mortgage rates will go is, of course, an unknown. The rough consensus is that fixed-rate, conventional mortgages will reach around 15 percent by the beginning of next year. Housing starts will begin their real slowdown in the second half of the year, analysts say, finishing the year at an annual rate of 1.6 million start-ups, compared with the first quarter's rate of nearly 2 million.
''I don't anticipate housing to really collapse, just to soften. We are not looking at a major housing reduction or another major (down) cycle,'' Gough says.
Mortgage rates fall to record low 3.49 percent
30-year mortgage rate falls to 3.9 percent
Mortgage rates: new record lows. Again.


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Le pistolet-mitrailleur UD M42 fut conçu à la demande de l'United Defense Supply et a été fourni à l'Armée royale des Indes néerlandaises, à la république de Chine et, via l'Office of Strategic Services (OSS), à la Résistance dans l'Europe occupée par les nazis, dont les Forces françaises de l'intérieur (FFI). Après 1945, les armes restantes équipèrent les nombreuses guérillas d'Asie du Sud-Est. Sa principale caractéristique, inhabituelle pour une arme fabriquée aux États-Unis à cette époque, est de tirer des cartouches d'un calibre conforme au système métrique en vigueur en Europe : du 9 × 19 mm Parabellum conçu en Allemagne.  furent produites entre 1942 et 1943.

Présentation

Construit en bois (crosse et poignée avant) et en acier usiné, il fut construit uniquement en 1942 par les Marlin Firearms Company et High Standard Firearms selon les plans de Carl G. Swebilus. Son coût de production élevé de  ( dollars actuels) en explique le faible nombre sorti d'usine ( contre mille fois plus de Thompson M1). Il fonctionne par culasse non calée avec un percuteur indépendant et un sélecteur de tir. Il était alimenté par un ou deux chargeurs droits soudés en position tête-bêche. Le canon est pourvu de  à droite. Le levier d'armement et de sureté/sélecteur sont situés à droite. La cadence de tir est rapide pour une mitraillette de cette époque.

Bibliographie
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Cette notice est également issue de la lecture des revues spécialisées de langue française suivantes :
 Cibles (Fr)
 AMI (B, disparue en 1988)
 Gazette des Armes (Fr)
 Action Guns (Fr)
 Raids (Fr)
 Assaut (Fr)

Notes et références

Pistolet mitrailleur des Forces armées des États-Unis
Arme de la Seconde Guerre mondiale

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Milestone has turned its considerable experience of motorbike simulations to its first original title, combining real-world tracks with fictional ideals to 'ride' around until your heart's content.
Movies to watch this fortnight on Blu-Ray and DVD: Fast & Furious 7, more...
By Total Film Staff
Ride review
By Justin Towell
Review "Ride is a bit like healthy food. Cabbage, maybe. It isn't massively tasty, but it's been cooked proficiently and you feel like it's doing you good."


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Top 5 college basketball Mid-Majors
NCAA Tournament: UNC Wilmington vs. Duke | Newsday - newsday.com
These schools should be on everyone's upset radar prior to the start of March Madness.
by Andrew Granville (article) and Milos Kitanovic (video)
January 24, 2017 at 5:48 PM Updated on January 26, 2017 at 10:43 AM
There may not be a better tournament in sports than March Madness. The 68 team field gives plenty of teams a chance to not just make some noise on a national stage, but also a chance at a Final Four. Teams like VCU and George Mason have shocked the country in the past and it's just part of the magic of a tournament that has produced some incredible moments over the years. Let's take a look at the ten mid-major teams with the best shot of winning some tournament games in March.
1. Gonzaga
Can we even consider this program a mid-major anymore? Mark Few's program consistently makes the tournament every single year and is having one of its best years in 2017.
Currently ranked #3, the Zags are still undefeated at 20-0 and will get a high seed in the tournament. The Zags also own quality wins over Florida, Iowa State, Arizona, and St. Mary's. A common criticism of the Zags is that their schedule is too easy, but they answered critics with those wins early on. The only question now is: Will the Zags finally get to the Final Four?
2. St. Mary's
The Gaels are the second best program in the WCC and that's not a bad thing. The program achieved its highest ever national ranking this season and have played some great Basketball to get to 17-2 this season. The program ranks second in the country in points allowed, behind only Virginia, which has contributed to their current ranking of 21 in the nation. St.
Mary's owns quality wins over Dayton and Stanford, but also has a tough loss to UT-Arlington as a blemish on the resume. Still, the Gaels will be a tough opponent for anyone to face when March Madness comes around.
3. UNC Wilmington.
Anybody who draws UNCW this season is going to be in for a rough game. This team nearly pulled off an upset of Duke as a 13 seed in the first round of the NCAA tournament and has the offensive firepower to compete with anybody.
The Seahawks have just two losses, one to Clemson and one to fellow mid-major Middle Tennessee. Neither of those losses are particularly bad, but UNC Wilmington doesn't have a signature win to enhance its resume. Still, it's going to be tough for major programs to take down UNC Wilmington if they do manage to win the CAA.
4. New Mexico State.
How can you not be scared of a mid-major team that has strung together 16 straight victories?
NMSU hasn't lost since a November 19th road loss to New Mexico and has looked dominant in the process. The Aggies are first in the WAC and boast an 18-2 record with quality victories over Arizona State, New Mexico, and UC Irvine. New Mexico State has struggled to accomplish the upset in March Madness, but the team is absolutely playing good enough basketball to make some noise in the tournament.
5. Florida Gulf Coast.
Remember them? I definitely do as a Georgetown fan. FGCU made one of the most memorable mid-major runs of all time as a 15 seed by winning games against both Georgetown and SDSU, the furthest a 15 seed had ever advanced in the tournament. And they did it in spectacular fashion, impressively dunking their way to both victories. And this season the Eagles have shown that they can take tough opponents on, playing close games against MSU and Baylor.
They've also played Florida, Lasalle. If FGCU manages to win their conference tournament, the committee will likely reward them for the tough schedule they played early in the year. That could spell doom for 3,4, and 5 seeds that will have to fight against an electric team with previous NCAA tournament experience.
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