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Federal budget of Switzerland


agriculture and national defence; from 26.5% in to 12.4% (estimation for the year 2015). The budget for the 2014 fiscal year (also demonstrating the basic budget structure) can be found below (all values in billion CHF). Looking at the federal budget in a different way professor R. Frey notes that "the [swiss] federal budget is to a considerable extent a transfer budget." What this means is that by looking at who uses the money (and not what it is being spent on)
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Equestrian statue of King Chulalongkorn


complete and then shipped to Siam, reaching the port in Bangkok on 11 November 1908, which coincided with Rajamangalabhisek Royal Ceremony which commemorated Chulalongkorn's 40th anniversary of his accession to the throne, the longest-reigning monarch in Siamese history. The budget for the statue was estimated to be around 200,000 baht but the money donated from the public exceeded the expected amount to around 1,200,000 baht. The excess of such amount was offered to Chulalongkorn for future public use upon his discretion. However, before deciding what the money should be spent
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2016 Summer Olympics opening ceremony


vision of Brazil and what he hoped the country would become, and would try to avoid clichés (with certain exceptions, however, such as Carnival). The ceremonies would have a significantly lower budget than those of other recent Olympics, totalling only 10% of the total budget for the ceremonies of the 2012 Summer Olympics. Meirelles explained that he would be "ashamed to waste what London spent in a country where we need sanitation; where education needs money. So I'm very glad we're not spending money like crazy
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Liadh Ní Riada


on the Budgets Committee. She has called for the committee to take a more social approach towards the EU Budget and has condemned the EUs move towards militarisation and its increase in military spending. On the committee on Culture and Education, Ní Riada has highlighted what she called the "language discrimination" in the EU. Through this committee, she has highlighted what she called the "hardships" many artists have to go through to earn a living. Since 2017 Ní Riada has been a member of the Culture and Educations Brexit monitoring
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Fresh Start Project


the options for a new UK-EU relationship, set out what this new relationship could look like, establish a process for achieving change and build political support to make it happen. On 10 July 2012 the Fresh Start Group released a research paper, "Options for Change", which according to the Financial Times, called for “"reducing the overall size of the EU budget, overhauling the Common Agricultural Policy to which the UK contributes about £1bn a year and repatriating structural funds".” It was accompanied by
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Michael Grade


", and the broadcast of the charity rock concert Live Aid. in 1985 he decided to end screening Beauty pageants because he say them "an anachronism, verging on the offensive". It was announced in February 1985 that the next series of "Doctor Who", scheduled to run from January 1986, would be postponed as Grade had decided that the programme's budget would be better spent on other drama productions. What became an 18-month hiatus for "Doctor Who" (the series did not resume until September 1986)
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Environment Agency


a-year flood defence budget for 2010 to 2011 was "about right" but stated that money should be spent more wisely. Sir Michael Pitt said: "What we are arguing is that we were not well prepared last summer for the scale of flooding that took place." After the 2007 floods, the present organisation of flood management in England and Wales, with a large number of separate bodies responsible for different components, was called into question. George Fleming, who chaired the committee which produced the "Learning to
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A Resurrection (film)


of the low budget, noting that ″The film feels like a movie that was made for a lot more money than what was actually spent...It takes true creativity to stretch a micro budget into anything more than that, and Matt Orlando stretched his budget very effectively.″ Doupe also commented that ″A Resurrection did a good job of leaving certain aspects of the film up to the viewer to figure out. We are not spoon fed every detail and audiences appreciate that. We respect filmmakers that trust their viewers to put the pieces together themselves.″
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Suni (director)


other films. Subsequently focus shifted to a few short films, but when he decided to go independent, what came his way was "Simple Agi Ondh Love Story". When producers expected him to cut down budgets with each script, a few friends and Suni decided to go independent and invested their own money and made "Simple Agi Ondh Love Story" on a budget of approximately 30 to 40 lakhs. Bahuparak and "Manamohaka" are the two movies which are under production by Suni. Suni began his production house named
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Personal budget


user information regarding what is left to spend in the current month. This method eliminates some of the guesswork associated with forecasting what a person might receive for income when it comes to allocating budgeted money. Like money-management software, some spending-management software packages can connect to online bank accounts in order to retrieve a current status report. Personal budgeting, while not particularly difficult, tends to carry a negative connotation among many people . Sticking to a few basic concepts helps to avoid several common pitfalls of budgeting. A budget
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Brexit negotiations


line-by-line to work out what it owes the EU." A leaving state is legally obliged to contribute to the EU budget beyond its membership period or to continue to honour the commitments it made during the (pre-Brexit) budget setting process. The leaders of France and Germany both stated that the UK would need to agree to terms regarding departure before discussing future relationships. This has been reinforced by EU27 guidelines issued to the remaining 27 countries. The UK has signalled that it may consider paying the EU
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Budget of the European Union


EU budget funds programmes and projects both within member states and outside the EU. Less than 7% of the budget is used for administrative costs, and less than 3% is spent on EU civil servants' salaries. For the period 2014-2020, the EU budget is used for six main categories of expenditure Net receipts or contributions vary over time, and there are various ways of calculating net contributions to the EU budget, depending, for instance, on whether countries' administrative expenditure is included. Also, one can
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Marketing plan


, thus, represent an unequivocal projection of actions and expected results. What is more, they should be capable of being monitored accurately; and, indeed, performance against budget is the main (regular) management review process. The purpose of a marketing budget is to pull together all the revenues and costs involved in marketing into one comprehensive document. The budget is a managerial tool that balances what is needed to be spent against what can be afforded, and helps make choices about priorities. A budget can further be used to
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HPC Europa


not what researchers wanted from the HPC-Europa programme. The budget for HPC-Europa2 was 13 million euros, of which 9.5 million euros came from the EU budget. The current HPC-Europa programme, HPC-Europa3, is fully funded under the EU's eighth Framework Programme, better known as Horizon 2020, with a budget of 9.2 million euros. Furthering its original goal of funding visitations of researchers to the 8 supercomputing facilities of the programme partners, HPC-Europa3 identified the Baltic and the Western Balkans as two
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Nigel Griffiths


up a job with an "international educational institution". In late 2015 Griffiths became Scottish Co-ordinator of the Labour Leave campaign. In January 2016 he 'stole a march on his old ally Gordon Brown, unveiling an anti-EU poster as the former PM was preparing to launch the party’s Scottish campaign for staying in.' Griffiths argued that 'We contribute £19 billion a year to the EU budget and the money we get back, we can’t say how we use it – the EU decides the
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Common Agricultural Policy


their economy (in the United Kingdom agriculture employs 1.6% of the total workforce and in the Netherlands 2.0%). The UK therefore receives less than half what France gets, despite a similar sized economy and population. Other countries receive more benefit from different areas of the EU budget. Overall, certain countries make net contributions, notably Germany (the largest contribution overall) and the Netherlands (the biggest contribution per person), but also the UK and France. The largest per capita beneficiaries are Greece and Ireland. Another
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Finland–Nicaragua relations


ICT systems of 20 town councils. In 2008, the Finnish government revoked a 1.95 million euro aid package meant for Nicaragua in protest of what it alleged was a lack of transparency in Nicaragua's national budget and its municipal elections. In 2004, Finnish President Tarja Halonen visited Nicaragua where she stated that "The Finnish government and Parliament have decided that Nicaragua is one of the main targets of Finnish development aid. However, the visit has shown that Finland is not only giving money - it is also interested in what is happening
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Platoon (film)


"Year of the Dragon" was directed by Stone's friend Michael Cimino, who had also helmed "The Deer Hunter." According to Stone, Cimino attempted to produce "The Platoon" in 1984. De Laurentiis secured financing for "The Platoon," but he struggled to find a distributor. Because De Laurentiis had already spent money sending Stone to the Philippines to scout for locations, he decided to keep control of the film's script until he was repaid. Then Stone's script for what would become "Salvador
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Bailout


. Switzerland has imposed requirements on its two G-SIFIs of 28.6% of risk-weighted assets. The EU is currently debating how best to implement the FSB requirements across its banking system and what the appropriate size of that requirement should be. From the many bailouts over the course of the 20th century, certain principles and lessons have emerged that are consistent: On November 24, 2008, American Republican Representative Ron Paul (R–TX) wrote, "In bailing out failing companies, they are confiscating money from productive
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Issues in the 2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum


"whether EU membership is a net positive or negative for jobs and prosperity in the UK depends on what policies the UK pursues outside of the EU" rather than membership itself. The leave campaign argues that a reduction in red tape associated with EU regulations would create more jobs and that small to medium-sized companies who trade domestically would be the biggest beneficiaries. A more detailed examination of the report shows that this analysis was conducted on the basis of impact assessments made by the UK's civil service before regulations came into force
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Cindy Cunningham


Cindy's 'gold-digging' personality became clearer after her return. Cindy and Darren Osborne decided to scam Tony Hutchinson out of his money. However, the character changed her plans and decided not to marry Tony for his money. Talking about the conclusion of the storyline, Waring stated: "I think she's definitely out for what she can get — she's always going to be up to something! We're going to have to see what happens with this but I don't think she'll change who she
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Dr. No (film)


. It was a disaster to tell you the truth because we had so little money. We decided to use a rear projection screen and get some stock footage of fish. What we didn't realise was because we didn't have much money the only stock footage they could buy was of goldfish-sized fish, so we had to blow up the size and put a line in the dialogue with Bond talking about the magnification. I didn't see any reason why Dr No shouldn't have good taste so we mixed contemporary
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Taxpayer


owners and therefore the partnership itself does not pay taxes. The classification depends on given country and may vary. Taxpayers' money help to pay for the items on the federal budget. The gap between revenue (money collected via taxes) and spending is known as the budget deficit. The money the federal government borrows to cover the budget deficit is what creates the national debt. The government spends money for a variety of reasons: reduce inequality (“safety net” programs), provide public goods (fire, police,
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Katimavik


family". This is a family living in the community that has agreed to take on a participant (or two). This allows the participant to take some time off from group life, while living with members of the community, and learning what it's like to be a local. Every group, every three months, is given budgets of varying amounts in each the following categories: Cultural Discovery, Environment, Healthy Life Style, Second Languages and Leadership. This money is spent in ways that correspond to program's
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Facility condition assessment


not part of the assessment and are excluded in the scope of the assessment. The end product was usually an extensive narrative, supplemented with drawings and photographs, as to what conditions were observed, with a summary budget for correction of all deficiencies. In the 1970s the term Facility Audit was commonly used. The term Facility Audit was later phased-out as it suggested a review of the way a facility manager spent money on the facility; something that might be done by an ‘Auditor’. Modern-day FCA work
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Budget freeze


wage increases. Governments can use budget freezes on organizations and programs that they fund. While this does decrease the budget and save money, it also takes money away from what some consider beneficial- if not necessary- government funded programs. Budget freezes and cuts can negatively influence public education. In the United States, School districts have frozen teachers' pay without providing cost of living increases. These types of freezes on teachers' wages can cause strikes. Budget freezes can also increase the amount of money students need to pay for education,
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Hemchandra Kanungo


International Socialist Conference in Stuttgart, Germany. Hemachandra decided that what was needed was technical know-how, and he went to Europe to get it. He sold his house in Calcutta to arrange money for the trip. Arriving in Marseille toward the end of 1906, he spent a few months trying to get in contact with revolutionaries, or people who knew revolutionaries, in Switzerland, France, and England. Finally, he found a backer to support him while he studied chemistry in Paris. Someone introduced Joseph Albert, known
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Film finance


in-kind" contributions to the film, such as free cars or computers (as props or for the production's use). While no money changes hands, the films budget will be lowered by the amount that would have otherwise been spent on such items. With a rising popularity of online crowdfunding more and more films are getting financed directly by their consumers this way. The crowdfunding platforms Kickstarter and IndieGoGo have their own categories dedicated to films. Crowdfunding films gives the consumer a voice in what films are being produced,
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Budget of the European Union


the fight against climate change and as the largest donor of humanitarian and development aid in the world. The largest share of the EU budget (around 70% for the period 2014-2020) goes to agriculture and regional development. During the period 2014-2020, the share of EU spending on farming is set at 39%. In 1985, 70% was spent on farming. Farming’s relatively large share of the EU budget is due to the fact that it is the only policy funded almost entirely from the common
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Personal budget


is true as well, if you do not spend everything in the envelope this month then the next allocation adds to what is already there resulting in more money for the next month. With envelope budgeting, the amount of money left to spend in a given category can be calculated at any time by counting the money in the envelope. Optionally, each envelope can be marked with the amount due each month (if a bill is known ahead of time) and the due date for the bill. Budget spreadsheets with date-
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Arts integration


the educational budget is spent on these important areas of academic study, schools are finding that there is less money for what some would consider as non-essential courses, such as higher level music and art. According to the academic journal The Electronic Musician, “On March 2, 2011, both the House and Senate agreed to eliminate a number of small education programs at the U.S. Department of Education, including the complete defunding of the Arts in Education program, a $40 million fund that supports competitive grants and national initiatives
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Food and Agriculture Organization


in the world – about exactly what it is doing, and why." Despite the criticism, Edouard Saouma served as DG for three consecutive terms from 1976 to 1993. In 1990, the US State Department expressed the view that "The Food and Agriculture Organization has lagged behind other UN organizations in responding to US desires for improvements in program and budget processes to enhance value for money spent". A year later, in 1991, "The Ecologist" magazine produced a special issue under the heading "The UN Food and
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Hurricane Maria


like this ... What is your death count as of this morning, 17?". Trump's remarks were widely criticized for implying that Hurricane Maria was not a "real catastrophe". While in Puerto Rico, Trump also distributed canned goods and paper towels to crowds gathered at a relief shelter and told the residents of the devastated island "I hate to tell you, Puerto Rico, but you've thrown our budget a little out of whack, because we've spent a lot of money on Puerto Rico, and that
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Game mechanics


"tick" as a lump sum, so a character would gain ten health per tick, instead of one every tenth of a tick. These periodic effects can be considered the vestigial remnants of the concept of turns. These control what players may do on their turns in the game by allocating each player a budget of "action points" each turn. These points may be spent on various actions according to the game rules, such as moving pieces, drawing cards, collecting money, etc. This type of mechanism is
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Jack Trevor Story


is given on the condition that "the entire award must be spent 'in a week to a fortnight' and the recipient must have nothing to show for it. Most winners use the money for a big night or a foreign vacation. One winner, a trawlerman from Hull who spent the money with the expertise of a drunken sailor before he got home, had to spend the money all over again just to prove to his shipmates that he’d won it." The conditions echo what Story reportedly said at his second
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Budget of the European Union


of the EU budget. The European Parliament decides, after a recommendation by the Council, on whether or not to provide its final approval, known as 'granting discharge', to the way the Commission implemented the EU budget in a given year. When granted, it leads to the formal closure of the accounts of the institution for a given year. When deciding whether to grant, postpone or refuse the discharge, the Parliament takes into consideration the Integrated Financial Reporting Package prepared by the Commission along with the European Court of
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Straight to the Heart (game show)


made by the team (one for each member) were revealed to the opposite sex. Each one decided which one pertains to him/her. Then the first team revealed who gave what statement. Each contestant got $50 for each opposite sex who said his/her statement. What makes this game different from other shows using money as score, money was not used as score. It was all about how compatible they are to each other. The man and the woman who matched each other's answers the most wins
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Mutual credit


complementary currency movement have not yet offered a definition of mutual credit, (The place to do it would be the ) and while credit is well enough understood, just what is mutual is wide open to interpretation, it could be: Money is much more than a record of what we have spent and earned. Though the definition of money itself is highly contentious, it is usually important that it be generally exchanged for useful things. What makes a mutual credit accounting system, into something like a money system is the contractual
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What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy


much enjoyment his son had and how much attention and time he spent solving the game's problems, Gee decided to start playing video games on his own and began to analyze what makes people spend time and money on video games. To his amazement, good video games were "hard, long, and complex", and he often had to use outside resources to learn things needed to complete the game. However, when a game is too easy and/or too short, players do not feel compelled by it and they simply
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Charity assessment


GiveWell has focused primarily on the cost-effectiveness of the organizations that it evaluates, rather than traditional metrics such as the percentage of the organization's budget that is spent on overhead. In the first year, Karnofsky and Hassenfeld advocated that charities should generally spend more money on overhead, so that they could pay for staff and record keeping to track how effective their efforts were. This ran counter to standard ways of evaluating charities based on the ratio of overhead to funds deployed for the charity work itself. Giving What We Can
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Henry Steele Commager


Vietnam (on constitutional grounds), and what he saw as the rampant illegalities and unconstitutionalities perpetrated by the administrations of Richard M. Nixon and Ronald Reagan. One favorite cause was his campaign to point out that, because the budget of the Central Intelligence Agency is classified, it violates the requirement of Article One of the Constitution that no moneys can be spent by the federal government except those specifically appropriated by Congress. Commager wrote hundreds of essays and opinion pieces on history or presenting a historical perspective on current issues for popular magazines and
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Indian Institutes of Technology


IIT Dhanbad. The entire allocation by the Center for 2017-18 budget for all Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) was slightly over ₹7,000 crores (70,000 millions). However, the aggregate money spent by Indian students for tertiary education in the United States was about six times more than what the Center spends on all IITs. The President of India is the most powerful person in the organizational structure of Indian Institutes of Technology, being the ex officio Visitor, and having residual powers. Directly under the President is the IIT
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Peveril Castle


the time came he was reluctant to hand over the property, and after an initial deadlock the Crown took control in 1223. Although contemporary Pipe Roll records of expenditure at Peveril survive, they do not specify how the money was spent. As a result, it is unclear what constitutes maintenance and what marks substantial construction work; however, Richard Eales, who wrote the 2006 English Heritage guidebook, suggests that there were two periods of building, when sums spent were larger than usual: £54 in 1204–1207 and £67 in
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Conditional budgeting


to one of the scenarios or alternatives that it has decided upon some month ago, rather the organization understands what the current income and cash situation is, how much additional income may be expected, and what the impact of releasing the next bundle of expenses and investments is. Therewith, the discussion turns from analyzing variances and possibly explaining why the actual did not turn out to be what the budget was, the discussion is more forward-looking focusing on how much the income and cash has to increase before additional expenses are release
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The La De Das


what we were doing and they got in all the latest English R&B records for us. We were listening to Zoot Money, John Mayall, Manfred Mann, The Animals, all that sort of stuff and trying to create that sound. We were different from groups like The Underdogs who just played 12-bar blues all night; we tried to be a lot more imaginative about what we did ... We had no idea what we were earning on tour, we just spent what we wanted and ploughed the rest back into the band.
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Participatory budgeting


Participatory budgeting (PB) is a process of democratic deliberation and decision-making, in which ordinary people decide how to allocate part of a municipal or public budget. Participatory budgeting allows citizens to identify, discuss, and prioritize public spending projects, and gives them the power to make real decisions about how money is spent. PB processes are typically designed to involve those left out of traditional methods of public engagement, such as low-income residents, non-citizens, and youth. A comprehensive case study of eight municipalities
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Grant (money)


. The European Commission of the EU provides financing through numerous specific calls for project proposals. These may be within Framework Programmes. Although there are many 7 year programmes that are renewed that provide money for various purposes. These may be structural funds, Youth programmes and Education programmes. There are also occasional one off grants to deal with unforeseen aspects or special projects and themes. Most of these are administered through what are called National Agencies, but some are administered directly through the EU Commission in Brussels. Due to the complexity of
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Impact of Brexit on the European Union


of the savings in the EU budget could be located in regional funds which are being under-spent regardless. The UK has been a major player in the EU which has both been an asset to the Union, but also a hindrance to those who supported a direction firmly opposed by the British government. As the EU's third most populous state, with over 12% of the Union's population, the UK is an influential player in the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union. Its absence will impact the
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Grover Norquist


Our Money, Our Guns, Our Lives", in 2008. In 2012, he published "Debacle: Obama's War on Jobs and Growth and What We Can Do Now to Regain Our Future", with John R. Lott, Jr. He has served as a monthly "Politics" columnist and contributing editor to "The American Spectator". Norquist has also called for reductions in defense spending as one way to reduce the size of government. He favors reduced defense spending through budget sequestration. Norquist has endorsed a non-
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2017–2018 Thai temple fraud investigations


suspects as before, who worked together in a network. Apart from problems with returning budget, another problem was found concerning eight monks from three temples: These eight monks were accused of using the funds provided for purposes other than initially requested. The government funding was spent on Buddhist projects, but for projects which had already been funded. The funds were not spent on the projects for which the budget was initially requested. In these cases, no money was withheld, though civil servants had withheld money in other, legitimate budget
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South Park: Phone Destroyer


to the game" (In-App Purchases). The kids are disappointed since they knew that people worked hard on the game. Stan then says that he knew they'd get nothing by making the game a "Freemium" one. Cartman concludes that the money spent is what the New Kid thought it was worth. The kids mull over what they could buy with the money the player spent. Stan then says that they should've charged the players to play the game first like in the old days. The kids
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Murder Party


decided to greenlight "Murder Party" with no money in August 2005, and in February 2006 they began shooting. The shoot was rough with many taking multiple roles on the production. Despite the freezing set, a tight knit crew emerged. Much of the planned special effects had to be compromised due to budget constraints but because of this a lot more focus was put on a few individual effects. Visual effects artist Chris Connelly was brought in to work in post-production on the make up effects to supplement what was done
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What Men Live By


is turned into a mortal A kind and humble shoemaker maker called Simon goes out one day to purchase sheep-skins in order to sew a winter coat for his wife and himself to share. Usually, the little money which Simon earns would be spent to feed his wife and children. Simon decides that in order to afford the skins he must go on a collection to receive the five rubles and twenty kopeks owed to him by his customers. As he heads out to collect the money he also borrows a three-rouble
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Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi


do what Pestalozzi desired: educate the poor. He communicated to the Swiss government that he would like more opportunity to educate the poor and in response they sent two commissioners to investigate his work. Giving a favorable review, the government decided to transform Pestalozzi's school into a national institution. Staff would receive fixed salaries and money would be spent to publish textbooks written by Pestalozzi and his staff. Using this money, in 1803 Pestalozzi published three elementary books: "The ABC of Sense Perception", "Lessons on the Observation
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Angels Over Broadway


Cohn couldn't figure out what the picture was about but neither could we," said Fairbanks Jr. Bill O'Brien is a New York con man in search of a suitable gullible person to make some money on. In a fancy nightclub he finds Charles Engle, a man ridden by guilt and on the brink of committing suicide after embezzling a large sum of money that he has spent on his high-maintenance wife. Charles has the appearance of a common hillbilly from out of town visiting the city and Bill decides to scam him
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Casey Neistat


me to make a movie about what it means to #makeitcount. Instead of making their movie I spent the entire budget traveling around the world with my friend Max. We'd keep going until the money ran out. It took 10 days." The video then begins in earnest with Neistat and his collaborator Max Joseph traveling to the airport. Fast editing of their travels with interludes of inspirational quotes make up the film ultimately ending with Neistat returning to New York City where the story began. On April 8, 2012,
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United States Intelligence Community


services (including analysis), according to the May 2007 chart from the ODNI. Intelligence spending has increased by a third over ten years ago, in inflation-adjusted dollars, according to the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments. In a statement on the release of new declassified figures, DNI Mike McConnell said there would be no additional disclosures of classified budget information beyond the overall spending figure because "such disclosures could harm national security". How the money is divided among the 16 intelligence agencies and what it is spent on
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Trans-Alaska Pipeline System


amount of public revenue created by the pipeline provoked debates about what to do with the windfall. The record $900 million created by the Prudhoe Bay oil lease sale took place at a time when the entire state budget was less than $118 million, yet the entire amount created by the sale was used up by 1975. Taxes on the pipeline and oil carried by it promised to bring even more money into state coffers. To ensure that oil revenue wasn't spent as it came in, the Alaska Legislature and governor Jay
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Debtors Anonymous


include categories for income and debt repayment. Unless one is having trouble meeting very basic needs, it should also include a category for savings. Accompanying a "real" spending plan is an "ideal" spending plan, detailing what one's finances would look like in an ideal universe, how much money one would earn, and how it would be spent. The ideal spending plan focuses efforts on increasing income and following a vision for the future. DA avoids using the term budget, as its connotation may imply rigid categories
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Dot com party


marketing buzz, publicity, and recruitment, they rarely tracked the success or financial return from the money spent. In reality, at a typical party most guests were uninvited and typically had no idea who the host was or what business they were in. Many commentators criticized the events as wasteful displays of wealth, poor planning of inexperienced managers, or excuses for binge drinking. Business historian Nancy Koehn noted that "Never before, not during the textile, transportation or steel booms, have companies spent so much money on people who
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Environmental protection expenditure accounts


extra component could be worth (in monetary terms). The respondent also has to know how the new equipment is reducing environmental pressure, i.e. within what environmental domain (air, waste, waste water etc.) the equipment is working for. The basic message of the statistics is to show how much money has been spent on protecting the environment from human activities in past years. If the statistics is presented within the accounting framework of EPE then the statistics also show who has spent the money and who has financed the spending
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Max Branning


him. Josh gives Lauren the office copy of Max's contract, stating that he is entitled to the money and Weyland always set out to destroy him. He then lets Lauren decide what to do with the contract. Lauren demands the truth from Max, who says he did what he did to get money for his family. Lauren doesn't believe him and reveals the contract and threatens to burn it if he does not tell the truth; however, Max grabs it and destroys it himself, revealing that he doesn't
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UK rebate


% of the difference between its share of member states' VAT contributions and its share of EU spending in return. The European Commission sets out the detailed calculations in a working document. The calculation of the rebate for any one year is budgeted and paid for the following year, and the payments are subject to revision for up to three further years. There is no transfer of money from the European Commission to the UK Treasury involved; the effect of the rebate is to reduce the size of the UK's payments. The
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Oversight of the Troubled Asset Relief Program


received at least $1 billion in government money and asked four questions: How much has been spent? What was it spent on? How much is being held in savings, and what's the plan for the rest? None of the banks provided specific answers... Some banks said they simply didn't know where the money was going." A review of investor presentations and conference calls by executives of some two dozen US-based banks by the New York Times found that "few [banks] cited lending as a
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European Parliament Committee on Budgetary Control


The Committee on Budgetary Control (CONT) is a committee of the European Parliament. with 30 permanent members. It can be seen as the European Union's internal "political watchdog", seeking to identify undesirable developments within EU institutions and other bodies and then to elaborate constructive suggestions for improvement. The committee's current chair, elected on 7 July 2014, is Ingeborg Grässle. The Committee on Budgetary Control is responsible for the control of the implementation of the Union's budget, meaning that the taxpayers' money is spent efficiently
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Space Frontier Foundation


these goals. Advocates are asked to donate more time and money on a regular basis and are the voting members that decide elections for the Foundation's Board of Directors. Projects are the primary means by which the Foundation acts in support of its goals. Projects are advocate managed activities with their own objectives, budgets, and volunteer support teams. Each project pursues what its members think they can accomplish using the skills they have. Advocates working each project assume the responsibility for keeping them aligned with Foundation objectives as best they can.
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Erk Russell


in line to take over as Georgia's head coach when Dooley got a lucrative offer from Auburn, their alma mater. But Dooley decided to stay at Georgia, and Russell was lured to what was then Georgia Southern College to restart a program dormant for 40 years. After three years as a club team, Russell led the program into Division I-AA in 1984. Russell was forced to build the program with a shoestring budget. There was not enough money for game and practice pants, so Russell's Eagles were forced
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Flavor of Love Girls: Charm School


to decide who to ask their question to. Becky, Leilene, and Saaphyri team up together and decide that they would ask Shay all of the questions. Shay gets eliminated when asked "Which fork do you use to eat frog legs?", saying the table fork. Mo'Nique then says it was a trick question and the answer was fingers. The three remaining girls are then given one hour to write a speech explaining what it would mean to them to win the money and to explain what they learned. Mo'Nique acknowledged
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If You Only Knew (film)


If You Only Knew is a 2008 film. What if a young woman who has spent her whole life being pushed around decides to grow a spine and break up with her clingy boyfriend? And what if she decides to do it on the night he has secretly planned to propose to her... in public? Priya's the girl, Rob's the guy, and it all goes down on the night of a karaoke competition. In a dive bar. In a dead-end South African town. Heartbreak shouldn't be
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Budget of the European Union


beneficiaries are found to spend EU money incorrectly, the Commission takes corrective measures. In 2017, the Commission recovered €2.8 billion, equal to 2.1% of the payments to the EU budget. Therefore, the actual amount at risk is below the 2% threshold, once corrections and recoveries have been taken into account. On 2 May 2018, the European Commission presented its proposal for 2021-2027 multiannual financial framework “A modern budget for a Union that protects, empowers and defends” to the European Parliament, the Council
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Pauline Green


with the plans originally set by the EC and that the money had been spent honestly and efficiently. However, the parliamentary budget committee decided that it could not fulfill this duty with regard to the 1996 budget until points concerning the reduction of fraud in the transport system had been clarified. For six months, the debate raged, with Green initially supporting the campaign to discharge the budget (whilst calling for more radical change), but only after a group of specialists that included two senior Socialist MEPs announced that there had been a
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Common Agricultural Policy


cohesion of the EU. As a significant proportion of the budget is currently spent on agriculture and there is little prospect of the budget being increased, that would require reducing CAP expenditure. The report largely concerned itself to discussing alternative measures more useful to the EU, rather than discussing the CAP, but it also suggested that farm aid would be administered more effectively by member countries on an individual basis. The report's findings were largely ignored. Instead, CAP spending was kept within the remit of the EU, and France led
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Indianola Academy


Henderson, the headmaster, said that the school has annual budgets for minority scholarship and uses word-of-mouth and newspaper advertisements to spread awareness of these scholarships. He explained that a "minority scholarship committee" reviews applications to get into the school and awards money to prospective students who "meet the qualifications". Sarah Carr of "The Atlantic" said that Henderson did not specify what the qualifications are. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) records state that in 2012 the school budgeted $6,500 for "minority scholarships"
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Cathedral Basilica of St. Augustine


cathedral to be rebuilt. The funds never made it to the cathedral because the colony was in poor shape; the money was spent on goods, back pay for soldiers, and public officials taking a cut. (A similar misappropriation of funds had occurred in almost the same manner about a century earlier.) During the first half of the 18th century, priests held mass in what was a portion of St. Augustine's hospital. This became detrimental to the size and morale of the congregation, as well as to the relations
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California Victory 2006


. Each of the 48 offices was given names of potential supporters that needed to be contacted. These names were determined by party registration, any by microtargeting potential non-partisan supporters. Approximately $20 – 25 million was spent on the Victory 06 program. This amount was spent on budgeting & supplies for 48 offices, VoIP technology & microtargeted data. "For $20 million, which is what the Team Arnold-led Victory ‘06 program is costing. What that not so small fortune has bought is a state-
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Dalia Grybauskaitė


of the EU budget was spent on agricultural programmes. Grybauskaitė presented a 2008 EU budget in which, for the first time in its history, spending on growth and employment constituted the highest share of the budget, exceeding that of agriculture and natural resources. She frequently criticised the Lithuanian Government, headed by Prime Minister Gediminas Kirkilas, for its lack of response to the approaching financial crisis. On 26 February 2009, Grybauskaitė officially announced her candidacy for the 2009 presidential election. In her declaration speech, she said: There were three
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Budget of the European Union


in advance, but final calculations of payments required from each Member State are not completed until after the budget year is over, and information about the final revenue and expenditure is available, and correction mechanisms have been applied. The Commission is responsible for implementing the EU budget in cooperation with Member States in line with the principles of sound financial management, i.e. funds shall be spent in an effective, efficient and economic manner. A control framework has been set up to provide reasonable assurance that EU funds are paid in accordance with the
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Patrick Hughes (director)


Patrick Hughes (born 1978) is an Australian film director. Hughes started making short films when he was young, and spent three years in film school. After making a string of high-profile commercials and shorts, and multiple failed attempts to option a script for an action/western film, he decided to direct it himself under a short schedule and low budget, in what would eventually become the 2010 film "Red Hill" starring Ryan Kwanten, Steve Bisley and Tom E. Lewis. Before "Red Hill",
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Attack on Titan (film)


that's a big-budget B picture." SFX artist Yoshihiro Nishimura and director Shinji Higuchi responded to some critics, with Nishimura responding to unfavourable comparisons of the film's special effects with Hollywood's standards thus: "I'm sorry, but deciding what movies to see based on their budget, and comparing everything to Hollywood, that's like how some people feel secure buying Okame natto when they go to the supermarket". Higuchi referenced one critic of the film's characters, saying "who's the idiot who gave
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Freak Out!


when the material was recorded, Wilson had taken LSD. "I've tried to imagine what [Wilson] must have been thinking", Zappa recounted, "sitting in that control room, listening to all that weird shit coming out of the speakers, and being responsible for telling the engineer, Ami Hadani (who was not on acid), what to do." By the time "Freak Out!" was edited and shaped into an album, Wilson had spent $25–35,000 of MGM's money. In "
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Norway–European Union relations


amount corresponding to the relative size of their gross domestic product (GDP) compared to the GDP of the whole EEA. The EEA EFTA participation is hence on an equal footing with EU member states. The total EEA EFTA commitment amounts to 2.4% of the overall EU programme budget. In 2008 Norway’s contribution was €188 million. Throughout the programme period 2007–2013, the Norwegian contribution will increase substantially in parallel with the development of the EU programme budget, from €130 million in 2007 to €290 million in 2013.
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Orleans County, Vermont


placing it 265 out of 1,817 counties in the nation with populations over 20,000. The budget for 2006 was $428,612.51. Town taxes accounted for over 65% of this money. The budget was all fulfilled by the state. Almost 32% of the money was spent on courthouse personnel. Over 22% of the money was spent on the Sheriff Department's expenses. The Assistant, or "Side," Judges, Superior Court, approve the budget for county expenses. The Superior, Family and Probate courts are all located
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Budget freeze


freezes may be used as a way of reducing money spent. There are many different reasons for a business or a government to implement a budget freeze. In the case of a loss of profit or tax revenue, the budget may need to be cut or frozen so that a company or a government does not spend more than its intake. An excess in spending can also necessitate a budget freeze. In government, a politician may implement a budget freeze to lower the amount of money spent on programs or wages, thus allowing
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Agricultural subsidy


productivity. According to the European Commission, the act aims to In 2010, the EU spent €57 billion on agricultural development, of which €39 billion was spent on direct subsidies. Agricultural and fisheries subsidies form over 40% of the EU budget. Since 1992 (and especially since 2005), the EU's Common Agricultural Policy has undergone significant change as subsidies have mostly been decoupled from production. The largest subsidy is the "Single Farm Payment". Increases in food and fertilizer prices have underlined the vulnerability of poor
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European Court of Auditors


Wynn, an MEP who served on the Parliament's Committee on Budgetary Control and reached the position of chairman, has also backed these calls, stating that it is impossible for the Commission to achieve these standards. In a report entitled "EU Budget – Public Perception & Fact – how much does it cost, where does the money go and why is it criticised so much?", Wynn cites consensus that practice in the EU differs from that in the US. In the US, the focus is on the financial information
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Newsroom


, and other pages. This is commonly called a "budget meeting" because the main topic of the meeting is the budgeting or allocation of space in the next issue. Newsrooms often have an assignment desk where staffers monitor emergency scanners, answer telephone calls, faxes and e-mails from the public and reporters. The assignment desk is also responsible for assigning reporters to stories or deciding what is covered and what isn't. In many newsrooms, the assignment desk is raised a step or two above the rest of the newsroom
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School governor


friend", supporting the work of the headteacher and other staff. Schools generally have a delegated budget to cover salaries, running costs, maintenance and equipment; the governing body is responsible for managing this budget. They can decide how many and what types of staff to employ, which equipment to upgrade or replace and what the priorities are for implementing new strategies and initiatives. Governors must appoint the headteacher, and may be involved in the appointment of other staff. Governors also have a role in monitoring the school's progress,
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Bra size


and under armpit measurement while EU band sizes are based on under bust measurement. This causes confusion and is what led to the "Underbust +4" measuring method. There are several sizing systems in different countries. Cup size is determined by one of two methods: in the US and UK, increasing cup size every inch method; and in all other systems by increasing cup size for every two centimeters. Since one inch equals 2.54 centimeters, there is considerable discrepancy between the systems, which becomes more exaggerated as cup sizes increase
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Money burning


EU countries must remove the currency from circulation and reimburse the holder", no matter what the country of issue. The European Central Bank has established that "Member states may refuse to reimburse Euro money that has been deliberately rendered unfit for circulation, or where it has been caused by a process that would predictably have led to the money becoming unfit. The exception to this is money collected for charitable purposes, such as coins thrown into a fountain". The ECB legal department also states "the ECB will refuse to replace
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A Ton of Luck


such decision ruined his career but Venegas makes a scandal and refuses to betray the whereabouts of the money. The soldiers are imprisoned but Lloreda is led by soldiers of the military police and his colleagues believe that he betrayed them except Perlaza and Venegas who know that Dayana was who had betrayed but that does not matter to Perlaza who believes what happened to her was worth it. Porras guessing what would happen decides to desert the army. His wife Herlinda arrives at the store where he and the other soldiers had eaten and had given
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2015 Australian federal budget


minimisation schemes. The budget included funding for the 2016 Australian Census as well as money for the updating of information technology at the Australian Bureau of Statistics. Funding for a 'Digital Transformation Agenda' was included in the budget. $254.7 million is to be spent on a small team who will work "across government to develop and coordinate the delivery of digital services". Money was also allocated in relation to the new data retention scheme to provide technical assistance to the telecommunications industry as well as for the Ombudsman to monitor the
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2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum


could still be made overseas, but these would be linked to the cost of living in the other country. On sovereignty, the UK was reassured that it would not be required to participate in "ever closer union"; these reassurances were "in line with existing EU law". Cameron's demand to allow national parliaments to veto proposed EU laws was modified to allow national parliaments collectively to object to proposed EU laws, in which case the European Council would reconsider the proposal before itself deciding what to do. On economic
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Prime mission


The prime mission of a project is activities in the period of operation proposed by NASA when it was selected for funding. The United States Congress passes a budget detailing where Federal tax money is to be spent in the upcoming year. The budget includes funding for NASA, sometimes with explicit instructions on how to allocate money to the project level, based on NASA's recommendations. The duration of a project may vastly exceed the prime mission, and money spent on a project during its lifetime may vastly exceed the original budget. Prime
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Greenwood, New York, insurrection of 1882


and Greenwood had "nothing to show for its bonds except a few miles of inexpensive grading." What happened to the money has not been clarified, but only a small part was spent on building of the railroad. There was a question about the legality of the bonds. "After years of litigation, the court of appeals decided that the bonds were illegal on the ground that the railway commissioners issued them in direct violation of an agreement not to do so until their legality was determined. The jubilation of the people of
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Holby City


"Holby City" against a contemporary version of "Othello". On this basis, Cox advocated the abolition of the licence fee, explaining: "The BBC was invented in a period when the elite decided what the population should know. If that has gone, then the licence fee should go too." At the 2003 Edinburgh International Television Festival, BSykB chief executive Tony Ball called for stricter restrictions on how the BBC spent licence payers' money, suggesting that "Holby City" be sold to the channel's commercial
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Otakiri School


known as the student council, are elected by their fellow students at the start of each year. The student council's main objective is to help the students voices be heard in the running of the school. The student council runs the school assemblies, organizes and runs fundraising events and helps to decide what the money they raise should be spent on. They also have several other minor roles. There are different roles within the student council, such as Head Boy, Head Girl, Deputy Head Boy, Deputy Head Girl,
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Heard 'Em Say


called and asked if he could make a music video in a week for very little money, seeing as Gondry had spent the $500,000 budget on his version. Plymption accepted the request and delivered a storyboard of how he visualized the narrative, which West loved. To visually capture the tone of "Heard 'Em Say," Plympton decided to portray West as a taxicab driver in a fictitious city who picks up troubled passengers and encounters a young boy and his mother. According to Plympton, "The child is meant to
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Size effect on structural strength


is not negligible compared to the structure size, the deterministic size effect dominates over the statistical size effect. What causes the size effect is a stress redistribution in the structure (Fig. 2c) due to damage in the initiating RVE, which is typically located at fracture surface. A simple intuitive justification of this size effect may be given by considering the ﬂexural failure of an unnotched simply supported beam under a concentrated load formula_39 at midspan (Fig. 2d). Due to material heterogeneity, what decides the maximum load formula_39 is
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Otto Magnus von Stackelberg (ambassador)


past decades, the economy of the Commonwealth was improving, and its budget had a notable surplus. Many voices said that the money should be spent on increasing the size, and providing new equipment for, the Polish army. However, as a large Polish army could be a threat to the Russian garrisons controlling Poland, von Stackelberg ordered his proxies in the Permanent Council to spend the money on a different goal: for the huge sum of 1 million zloty's (representing most of the surplus), the Council bought the
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Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid


what was to become the biggest-budget Canadian film of that time... In lieu of money, I got an IBM Selectric II, a free trip to Paris, where some of the film was shot, and tons of experience screenwriter-wise. I learned how to sit in silence in a read-through, even when your dialogue was being massacred. I learned what it means when a director says no one cares what you think because “you’re only the writer.” And I learned that when Richard Harris
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