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(United States Supreme Court) - Clarified the limits of a State's power to tax a trust. Struck down a North Carolina requirement that a trust must pay income tax to the State whenever the trust's beneficiaries live in the State -- regardless of whether the beneficiaries have received, can demand, or will ever receive a distribution of trust income. Justice Sotomayor delivered the opinion for a unanimous Court, in this due process challenge brought by a family trust.

(United States Supreme Court) - Clarified the limits of a State's power to tax a trust. Struck down a North Carolina requirement that a trust must pay income tax to the State whenever the trust's beneficiaries live in the State -- regardless of whether the beneficiaries have received, can demand, or will ever receive a distribution of trust income. Justice Sotomayor delivered the opinion for a unanimous Court, in this due process challenge brought by a family trust.

(United States Fifth Circuit) - Held that an Alabama-based manufacturer of commercial signs was entitled to compensation for losses attributable to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Upheld the decision of a settlement program administrator, which was challenged by oil company BP.

(United States Fifth Circuit) - Held that an Alabama-based manufacturer of commercial signs was entitled to compensation for losses attributable to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Upheld the decision of a settlement program administrator, which was challenged by oil company BP.

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Сто лет тому назад - 13 марта 1920 года Красная армия освободила Мурманск от американо-английских интервентов. С севера полностью прогнали и белогвардейцев. Гражданская война здесь закончилась. Планы военной интервенции, ее еще называли Северной русской кампанией, стали составляться в 1917 году. Уже тогда в русской армии начались мятежи и дезертирство. А после Великой октябрьской социалистической революции большевики заговорили о выходе из Первой мировой войны и начали вести переговоры с Германией. Западные же державы хотели восстановления восточного фронта. А тут еще Германия высадила десант в Финляндии. Появилась угроза захвата немцами стратегически важных портов Кольского полуострова и создания там баз для подводных лодок. Союзники нашли повод - предложили Мурманскому совету помощь в охране складов с военным имуществом. В Мурманске и Архангельске скопились миллионы тонн военных грузов, и Антанта беспокоилась, что их может захватить Германия. В совете, при поддержке Троцкого, согласились. Интервенты стали наращивать свою группировку на Кольском полуострове. 6 марта 1918 года в Мурманске высадился десант морской пехоты английского линейного корабля "Глори" ( https://o-murmansk.ru/history/events/12-murmansk-v-1920-godu.html ). Это стало началом интервенции. Советское правительство потребовало вывести войска, но в ответ Мурманский совет разорвал все отношения с Москвой. Войска Антанты и белогвардейцы построили специальные каторжные лагеря сначала на Мудьюге, а затем на Иоканьге. В них помещали большевиков и местных жителей. 2 августа 1918 года с помощью эскадры из 17 военных кораблей уже в Архангельске высадился 9-тысячный отряд Антанты. К этому времени здесь свергли советскую власть. Кстати, во время Северной кампании союзники впервые применили одновременно авиационную бомбардировку и бомбардировку с судов. Это произошло недалеко от Архангельска - у острова Мудьюг. Но, как отмечают историки, войска Красной армии были более организованными, и не только на суше. В короткие сроки сформированный речной флот, не имевший крупных судов, успешно противодействовал интервентам, постепенно выводя из строя иностранные корабли. С наступлением морозов Красная армия начала готовить наступление. 11 ноября 1918 года прошла кровавая битва за деревню Тулгас. И именно в этот день завершилась Первая мировая война. В войсках интервентов упал моральный дух. Не все хотели воевать и погибать за белое движение. К тому же в Великобритании проходили массовые забастовки под лозунгами "Руки прочь от России". И войска Антанты приняли решение об эвакуации. К 27 сентября 1919 года последний британский корабль покинул Архангельск. Здесь в феврале 1920 года вспыхнуло восстание. Освобожденные из тюрем политические заключенные вместе с военными помешали белым увести часть кораблей, подводную лодку "Св. Георгий", ледокол "Святогор". 20 февраля красные войска заняли Архангельск. 23 февраля части Красной Армии из-под Петрозаводска перешли в наступление вдоль Мурманской железной дороги, 25 февраля освободили станцию Медвежья Гора, 2 марта - станцию Сорока, 9 марта - Кандалакшу. 13 марта дивизия вступила в Мурманск. На этом организованное сопротивление на севере закончилось.

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Hello again! I got a little bit stuck on my most recent project because I don't have the right tools to do it the best way, which has created a sort of analysis-paralysis, but I like to think that one is wrapping up. Of course I still need to make a video which will take 9999 hours. Winter's computational space heater made a decent discovery, which is an Arithmetic Progression of Primes. An AP is some starting number x, and some positive stride s, where a progression of numbers in this sequence are all prime:

For example with x=3 and s=2, we have 3, 3+2, 3+2+2 prime (and then 3+2+2+2=9 is not prime), yielding an Arithmetic Progression of length 3, or "AP3". The longest such progression known is an AP27, the only one yet known found last year: for 27 consecutive primes! Only twelve AP26s are known,^* and my computer found an AP25: only 133 AP25s are known^* so it's a pretty lucky find, although of course people care a lot less about finding these than about finding huge primes (AP1s, if you will.)

^* Technically an AP27 contains two AP26s, and three AP25s (etc.) so these numbers undercount a little.


Aside from the secret projects and winter hibernation, I played a slightly-old puzzle game called Closure which was pretty good. Definitely an interesting mechanic that they get plenty out of, if perhaps with slightly sluggish controls. I also just started Luigi's Mansion 3 for the cozy-factor, but you probably don't need me to tell you about AAA franchise Nintendo titles. I rarely recommend TV on here, but the second season of Castle Rock was unexpectedly good, if you like that sort of thing (first season is fine but there's no reason to watch them in any particular order). OK byeeee

Джордж Оруел (1903–1950), романист, есеист и литературен критик, печели световна известност в края на 40-те години на ХХ век с две брилянтни сатири срещу тоталитаризма — „Фермата на животните“ и „1984“. Творбите му — остроумни, иронични, честни и пророчески — го нареждат сред най-влиятелните автори на нашето време.
Още въздух е книга за носталгията към миналото, за безполезността от опитите да се върнеш назад във времето, за това колко лесно поривите и мечтите на младостта се обезценяват от еднообразието и рутината на ежедневието.

    В тази книга неговият ироничен хумор е по-завладяващ от всякога.

    Observer

    „Още въздух“ е творба, еднакво забавна и сериозна. Тук в ембрионален вид присъстват „Фермата на животните“ и „1984“. Не са много романите, които носят в себе си семето на два бъдещи шедьовъра и същевременно са така увлекателни.

    Джон Кеъри, Sunday Times

    Прелестна и разведряваща творба… един малък шедьовър.

    Харви Брайт, The New York Times

    Във време на повсеместна лъжа изричането на истината е революционен акт.

    Джордж Оруел

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In 1927, Henry Ford decided to build a plantation in the Amazon to supply rubber for his auto company. The result was Fordlandia, an incongruous Midwestern-style town in the tropical rainforest. In this week’s episode of the Futility Closet podcast we’ll describe the checkered history of Ford’s curious project — and what it revealed about his vision of society. We’ll also consider some lifesaving seagulls and puzzle over a false alarm. Intro: In 1891, the Strand tried to notate the songs of English birds. The third line of Gray’s Elegy can be rearranged in 11 different ways while retaining its...

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THE BASICS We're still amid Utah's gorgeous national parks. We have progressed from Zion to Bryce to Capitol Reef and now are in Moab to enjoy Arches and Canyonlands.THE FLUFFAt the end of my last blog I commented on the women I had seen wearing

We explored two measures of inequality that described the full income distribution in cities. One measure is an income gini based on family incomes in 1929 for 33 cities and in 1933 for up to 48 cities in 1933 were spread throughout the country. We also estimated gini coefficients that made use of contract rents for renters and implicit rents for home owners for up to 955 cities throughout the country. We were able to expand to all counties when looking at a top-end inequality measure, the number of taxpayers per family. All three measures varied substantially across the country. We show the correlations between the various measures and also estimate the relationship between the measures and various relief programs developed by governments at all levels during the period.

Emmanuelle Cooper, 54, spent 27 years in prison for the 1992 murder of MTA employee Andres Barretto, who was fatally shot in an East New York subway station after two men forced their way into a booth and robbed the token clerks inside.

Not long after William the Conqueror named Remigius de Fécamp bishop of what was then the largest diocese in the country, he decided to move the seat of the diocese to a more central location. For the next 20 years, Remigius oversaw construction of a magnificent new cathedral in Lincoln, only to die days before its consecration. Today, its architecture is considered to be priceless. When Queen Eleanor died nearby in 1290, which parts of her body were buried at the cathedral? Discuss

Known for his rugged roles and handsome charm, Whitman had more than 180 film and TV credits

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The Amateur Traveler talks to Kim Mance about traveling to the mountain kingdom of Losotho in Southern Africa. Losotho is a small mountainous region surrounded by South Africa but is an independent constitutional monarchy. The country has a very rural population. Kim got around via rental car but also did a pony trek with guide out into the small mountain villages. Riding a small hearty and nimble Bosotho pony they headed out into a landscape of shepherds and glacier carved mountains.

Hear about trekking in Ecuador’s Quilotoa Loop as the Amateur Traveler talks to Kim Mance about her recent trip to that country. Kim spent 3 weeks in Ecuador including one week on the Quilotoa Loop.

Hear about Trekking the Annapurna Circuit in Nepal as the Amateur Traveler talks to the Su Family from sufamilyadventures.com about tackling this well known route.