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Following the election of Abraham Lincoln on an anti-slavery platform, the major slave-holding states declared their secession from the United States one after another. They formed the Confederate States of America (commonly called the Confederacy) under their own president Jefferson Davis. Below is a list of the 11 seceding states during the American Civil War, along with the date of secession and when they were readmitted.

NOTE: Four other slave states?Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri?remained in the Union. The latter two were actually represented on the Confederate flag, which, like the Stars and Stripes, featured a star for every state.

1. Date of readmission to representation in U.S. House of Representatives.

2. Second readmission date. First date was July 21, 1868, but the representatives were unseated March 5, 1869.

Although more than a century of states' rights debates have muddied the waters, the reasons for secession are actually quite clear. All eleven states declared slavery as one of the primary motivators for their secession; they believed that their livelihoods were tied up with the institution of slavery, and that they could no longer be part of a country that might force them to abandon slavery. The declarations of secession all contain similar messages. Of all of the many rights they felt the federal government might strip away from them, slavery was the biggest.

But, the situation is a bit more complicated in terms of why they finally seceded when they did.

Let's take the example of Georgia. The secessionists there wrote:

"The people of Georgia having dissolved their political connection with the Government of the United States of America, present to their confederates and the world the causes which have led to the separation. For the last ten years we have had numerous and serious causes of complaint against our non-slave-holding confederate States with reference to the subject of African slavery. They have endeavored to weaken our security, to disturb our domestic peace and tranquility, and persistently refused to comply with their express constitutional obligations to us in reference to that property, and by the use of their power in the Federal Government have striven to deprive us of an equal enjoyment of the common Territories of the Republic...

...While the subordination and the political and social inequality of the African race was fully conceded by all, it was plainly apparent that slavery would soon disappear from what are now the non-slave-holding States of the original thirteen...

...For forty years this question has been considered and debated in the halls of Congress, before the people, by the press, and before the tribunals of justice. The majority of the people of the North in 1860 decided it in their own favor. We refuse to submit to that judgment, and in vindication of our refusal we offer the Constitution of our country and point to the total absence of any express power to exclude us."

Georgia's declaration elaborates a description of the history of slavery and economy in the century before their secede. But, in terms of timing, their issues are specific. What exactly are they referring to with their "serious causes of complaint?"

In essence, it all comes down to the abolitionist movement. In the South, there were numerous uprisings against slavery by black people. This was a cause of great concern to slaveholders, especially in states where the slave population was a near-majority (or was a majority). It was a source of fear and anxiety, and one that they kept in check through restrictive laws and the threat of military force. These laws were opposed by many groups, especially by free black people living beyond the immediate influence of slaveholders.

Northern abolitionists actively opposed these laws meant to keep the enslaved population oppressed. They refused to return escaped slaves or report on them. They helped more people escape slavery. They opposed attempts to expand slavery or support it at a federal level. They generated a great deal of anger and paranoia among slaveholders that exploded when abolitionist John Brown actively armed and incited an uprising in Harper's Ferry, Virginia.

People across the South feared that Northerners would incite violence and terror to get rid of slavery in their states. They refused to even put the Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln on their ballots. But, despite their effort to keep him out of the White House, Lincoln prevailed on the back of overwhelming Northern support. The Southern states claimed that their will had been entirely subverted, and that the system favored northern extremists who influenced the government. Their answer to their claim was to create their own government.

The confederate government established a government in Richmond, just 100 miles from the Capitol in D.C., with their own Confederate constitution. There were initial hopes that the CSA could be peacefully reintegrated back into the USA. But, the cultivated fear of northern agitation led the Confederate army to be wary of U.S. activities. When the USA sent troops to secure the federal territory of Fort Sumter, the confederates demanded that the army retreat. After a lengthy standoff, the Confederates attacked the fort. This act of aggression ended hopes of a peaceful resolution and led to the Civil War.

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C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America is a 2004 American mockumentary written and directed by Kevin Willmott. It is an account of an alternate history, wherein the Confederacy wins the American Civil War and establishes a new Confederate States of America that incorporates the majority of the Western Hemisphere, including the former contiguous United States, the "Golden Circle", the Caribbean, and South America. The film primarily details significant political and cultural events of Confederate history from its founding until the early 2000s. This viewpoint is used to satirize real-life issues and events, and to shed light on the continuing existence of racism against Black Americans.

C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America is presented as if it were a British documentary being broadcast on a Confederate television network in San Francisco, California, including fictional advertisements between segments. It opens with a fictional disclaimer that suggests that censorship came close to preventing the broadcast, that its point of view might not coincide with that of the TV network, and that it might not be suitable for viewing by children and "servants". It purports to disagree with an orthodox Confederate interpretation of American history.

The film portrays two historians: Sherman Hoyle, a conservative Southerner (a parody of Shelby Foote); and Patricia Johnson, a black Canadian, as talking heads, providing commentary. Throughout the documentary, Confederate politician and Democratic presidential candidate, John Ambrose Fauntroy V (the great-grandson of one of the men who helped found the C.S.A.), is interviewed. Narration explains fake historical newsreel footage, which is either acted for the production or made of genuine archival footage dubbed with fictional narration.

Racialist adverts aimed at white, slave-owning families appear throughout the movie, including an electronic shackle for tracking runaway slaves, television programs such as Runaway (parodying Cops), Leave it to Beaulah (parodying Leave it to Beaver and Beulah), Better Homes and Plantations (parodying Better Homes and Gardens), Meet the Nation (parodying Meet the Press) and That's My Boy, Sambo X-15 Axle Grease, Darkie Toothpaste, Gold Dust washing powder, Niggerhair cigarettes, and the Coon Chicken Inn restaurant. Confederate films shown included The Hunt For Dishonest Abe (parodying the famous 1915 film The Birth of a Nation), A Northern Wind (parodying the famous 1939 film Gone with the Wind), I Married an Abolitionist (parodying the 1949 film I Married a Communist), The Dark Jungle and The Jefferson Davis Story. Additional advertisements were produced but deleted from the film's final cut, including several for the Confederate States Air Force and a children's show, Uncle Tom and Friends, which features various classic cartoons: Pixie and Dixie and Mr. Jinks, and Yogi Bear. Also shown is a slave auction held online, with the Internet replacing the traditional slave market.

At the film's end, titles note that parts of the alternate timeline are based on real history and that some of the racist products depicted did actually exist, in addition to citing Uncle Ben's and Aunt Jemima as contemporary examples. (Both products were rebranded following the George Floyd protests in 2020.[2][3])

In 1862, following the Union victory in the Battle of Antietam, President Abraham Lincoln issues the "Emancipation Proclamation", but the attempt fails. Confederate President Jefferson Davis takes the opportunity to secure British and French aid for the Confederacy, allowing Confederate forces to win the Battle of Gettysburg, besiege Washington, D.C., and take over the White House a few months later.[4] In 1864, Union General Ulysses S. Grant surrenders to Robert E. Lee, ending The War of Northern Aggression.[4] Lincoln is captured and imprisoned for war crimes before ultimately being exiled to Canada, while abolitionist Harriet Tubman is executed. In an interview given shortly before his death, Lincoln laments his failure to make the abolition of slavery the primary aim of the Civil War, and expresses his hopes that it will one day be achieved.

The Confederacy annexes the remainder of the United States, moving its capital to Washington, D.C., and introduces a tax on non-slaveowners in order to spread the institution in the North. Influential scientist Samuel A. Cartwright "discovers" a supposed disease that causes slaves to run away, and declares slaves to be livestock. Canada becomes a haven for exiled abolitionists and runaway slaves, with relations with the Confederacy remaining peaceful but tense. The Confederacy sends a delegation demanding the return of all escaped slaves in Canada, but a passionate speech by Frederick Douglass, a former slave and elected member of the House of Commons of Canada, sways enough votes to prevent the deportation of the escapees back to the Confederacy. In the Confederacy, most slaves are cowed into submission by a campaign of torture and executions. The last free Plains Indians nation falls to the Confederacy in 1890, and Native American children are forcibly removed from their families and sent to boarding schools intended to strip them of their culture and assimilate them into white American society, while Chinese migrant workers on the West Coast are made slaves. In 1895, the Confederacy adopts Christianity as the state religion and bans all other religions in an attempt to quash religious influence among foreign slaves. After some debate, Catholics are accepted as Christians, but it is decided that the Jews will be asked to leave. Before his own death, Jefferson Davis, citing Judah P. Benjamin's contributions to the Confederate cause, secures a reservation for Jews on Long Island. Meanwhile, in a parallel to the SpanishAmerican War, the Confederacy embarks on a prolonged expansionist campaign to conquer the Caribbean and all of Latin America as part of their "Golden Circle".[5] After decisively defeating Spain and conquering Cuba and the Caribbean, the Confederacy invades and conquers Mexico. White settlers and their slaves are subsequently settled in plantations in Mexico, while a system called apartness is imposed on native Mexicans, segregating them from white society. The Confederacy goes on to invade Central and South America, taking advantage of local political divisions as part of a divide and conquer strategy. Although the locals resist fiercely, the Confederacy is ultimately successful in conquering them.

In response to the Wall Street Crash of 1929, the Confederacy revives the trans-Atlantic slave trade from its state of Liberia. While maintaining neutrality in European affairs, it becomes friendly with Nazi Germany, although it disapproves of the Final Solution due to a preference for enslavement over extermination. Seeing Japanese expansionism as a threat, however, it launches a preemptive strike against two naval bases and the city of Kyoto on December 7, 1941. With the conflict proving far longer and bloodier than anticipated, the Confederacy recruits slaves voluntarily released by their owners for military service as soldiers, promising them their freedom after the war in exchange for fighting, a promise which turns out to be a lie. Japan is ultimately defeated by the use of the atomic bomb, while the Soviet Union conquers Germany and all of Europe and its colonies except the British Empire. Due to a Red Scare-like panic over abolitionism, an insurgency against the Confederacy by a black underground group based in Canada called the John Brown Underground, and Canada's refusal to extradite members of the John Brown Underground, the Confederacy erects a wall called the Cotton Curtain along the border with Canada, while much of the rest of the world refuses to trade with it due to its relations with the former Nazi Germany. The Confederacy conducts airstrikes against Canada after the John Brown Underground assassinates the Confederate President.

Republican John F. Kennedy is elected President in 1960, dealing with foreign policy issues such as the Newfoundland Missile Crisis[6] and the Vietnam War. Canada becomes increasingly dominant in culture and sports; the Confederacy is forced to allow slaves to compete in the Olympic Games, but Kennedy is assassinated before he can follow through on reforms for racial and gender equality. Two major slave rebellions, one in Watts and another in Newark, are suppressed. The institution of slavery remains in place up through 2002, when allegations that Democratic presidential candidate John Ambrose Fauntroy V has black ancestry cost him the election and led to his suicide.

The film's official website contains an expanded timeline of the history of the C.S.A., which features events not covered in the documentary. The timeline identifies President William McKinley's assassin as an abolitionist rather than Leon Czolgosz, an anarchist. The C.S.A. manages to advance in space technology by smuggling former Nazi scientists out of Germany before its occupation by the Soviet Union.[7] Rosa Parks is identified as a Canadian terrorist and a member of the Black Panthers. Richard Nixon is eventually elected Confederate President in his own right after losing the 1960 election to Kennedy. During his presidency, Nixon travels to China in 1972, talks with the Chinese government which opens the way for Confederate-run labor camps to be run in China, which in turn results in cheaper goods being made and imported from China. However, Nixon is forced to resign due to the Watergate scandal, reminding the public that I am not a Negro!.[8] The failed assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II in 1981 occurs in New York City instead of St. Peter's Square, with the assailant being a Southern Baptist from Tennessee named Maynard Brimley, who is tried and executed.[9] The Gulf War results in Kuwait becoming a Confederate territory. In 1995, Tim McVeigh blows up the Jefferson Memorial instead of the Murrah Building in Oklahoma City; his execution is broadcast on pay-per-view to high viewership.[4] The War in Afghanistan and subsequent American interventions in the Middle East are known as the "1st and 2nd Crusades", with the goal of eradicating the "Muslim Menace" by overthrowing the Islamic governments, taking over their oil reserves, and converting the entire Middle Eastern populace to Christianity.[10]

Kevin Wilmott began production on the film with a funding from the National Black Programming Consortium (NBPC) and wrote its first draft in 1997.[11]

Willmott, who had earlier written a screenplay about abolitionist John Brown, told interviewers he was inspired to write the story after seeing an episode of Ken Burns' 1990 television documentary The Civil War.[12] It was produced by Hodcarrier Films.

The film was filmed in Humboldt, Newton and Lawrence cities in Kansas, with a cast and crew coming from the U.S. states of Kansas, Missouri and Iowa as well as Colombia.[13]

The film grossed $744,165 worldwide in limited release.[1]

On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 80% based on reviews from 66 critics.[14] On Metacritic the film has a score of 62 out of 100 based on reviews from 22 critics, indicating "Generally favorable reviews".[15] Most critics were intrigued by the film's premise, but some found the execution to be lacking primarily due to a low budget.[16][17][18] In 2018 James Berardinelli wrote: "The movie is ultimately more interesting in satire than the presentation of a legitimate alternate timeline. This doesn't invalidate C.S.A.'s approach but it limits its effectiveness as a sort of Twilight Zone look at the last 150 years."[19]

An earlier version of the film premiered on February 21, 2003 at Liberty Hall in Lawrence, Kansas,[20] while the film premiered for the second time, at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2004.

In January 2004, after the film's premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, IFC Films acquired the distribution rights to the film in the United States.[21]

The film received a limited theatrical release in some Southern cities on October 7, 2005, and later received a wide theatrical release on February 15, 2006.[22]

The film was released on DVD by IFC Films (distributed by Genius Products) on August 8, 2006.

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The Constitution of the Confederate States was the supreme law of the Confederate States of America. It was adopted on March 11, 1861, and was in effect from February 22, 1862, to the conclusion of the American Civil War (May 1865). The Confederacy also operated under a Provisional Constitution from February 8, 1861, to February 22, 1862.[1] The original Provisional Constitution is located at the American Civil War Museum in Richmond, Virginia,[2] and differs slightly from the version later adopted. The final, handwritten Constitution is located in the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library at the University of Georgia.[2] Most of its provisions are word-for-word duplicates from the United States Constitution; however, there are crucial differences between the two documents in tone and legal content, primarily regarding slavery.

The Confederate Constitution followed the U.S. Constitution for the most part in the main body of the text but with some changes:

Article I Section 8(3) added quite a bit to the U.S. Constitution in an attempt to block the Confederate Congress from passing laws to "facilitate commerce,"[11] with some exceptions allowing for safety and improvement to waterways.

Then in Section 10:

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Other states may be admitted into this Confederacy by a vote of two-thirds of the whole House of Representatives, and two-thirds of the Senate, the Senate voting by states; but no new state shall be formed or erected within the jurisdiction of any other state; nor any state be formed by the junction of two or more states, or parts of states, without the consent of the legislatures of the states concerned as well as of the Congress.[19]

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Article VI Section 1(1)

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When five states shall have ratified this Constitution, in the manner before specified, the Congress under the Provisional Constitution, shall prescribe the time for holding the election of President and Vice President; and, for the meeting of the Electoral College; and, for counting the votes, and inaugurating the President. They shall, also, prescribe the time for holding the first election of members of Congress under this Constitution, and the time for assembling the same. Until the assembling of such Congress, the Congress under the Provisional Constitution shall continue to exercise the legislative powers granted them; not extending beyond the time limited by the Constitution of the Provisional Government.[25]

There were several major differences between the constitutions concerning slavery.

The Confederate Constitution's preamble included the phrase "each State acting in its sovereign and independent character," which focused the new constitution on the rights of the individual states.

States of the Confederacy gained several rights that states of the Union do not have, such as the right to impeach federal judges and other federal officers if they worked or lived solely in their state.

The Confederate States lost a few rights that the Union states retained.

The signers and the states they represented were:

Congress began to move for ratification of the Confederate States Constitution on March 11, 1861:

Although the Confederate States Supreme Court was never constituted, the supreme courts of the various Confederate states issued numerous decisions interpreting the Confederate Constitution. Unsurprisingly, since the Confederate Constitution was based on the United States Constitution, the Confederate State Supreme Courts often used United States Supreme Court precedents. The jurisprudence of the Marshall Court thus influenced the interpretation of the Confederate Constitution. The state courts repeatedly upheld robust powers of the Confederate Congress, especially on matters of military necessity.[42]

Contemporary historians overwhelmingly agree that secession was motivated by the preservation of slavery. There were numerous causes for secession, but the preservation and the expansion of slavery were easily the most important of them. The confusion may come from blending the causes of secession with the causes of the war, which are separate but related issues. (Lincoln entered a military conflict not to free the slaves but to put down a rebellion.) According to the historian Kenneth M. Stampp, each side supported states' rights or federal power only when it was convenient to do so.[43] Stampp also cited Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens's A Constitutional View of the Late War Between the States as an example of a Southern leader who said that slavery was the "cornerstone of the Confederacy" when the war began but, after the Southern defeat, said that the war had been instead about states' rights.[44]

According to an 1861 speech delivered by the Alabama politician Robert Hardy Smith, the State of Alabama declared its secession from the United States to preserve and to perpetuate the practice of slavery, the debate over which he referred to as the "Negro quarrel." In his speech, Smith praised the Confederate constitution for its lack of euphemisms and its succinct protections of the right to own "Negro" slaves:

We have dissolved the late Union chiefly because of the negro quarrel. Now, is there any man who wished to reproduce that strife among ourselves? And yet does not he, who wished the slave trade left for the action of Congress, see that he proposed to open a Pandora's box among us and to cause our political arena again to resound with this discussion. Had we left the question unsettled, we should, in my opinion, have sown broadcast the seeds of discord and death in our Constitution. I congratulate the country that the strife has been put to rest forever, and that American slavery is to stand before the world as it is, and on its own merits. We have now placed our domestic institution, and secured its rights unmistakably, in the Constitution. We have sought by no euphony to hide its name. We have called our negroes 'slaves', and we have recognized and protected them as persons and our rights to them as property.

The Georgia Democrat Alexander H. Stephens, who would become the Confederate vice president, stated within his Cornerstone Speech that the Confederate constitution was "decidedly better than" the American one, as the former "put at rest, forever, all the agitating questions relating to our peculiar institution. African slavery as it exists amongst us; the proper status of the negro in our form of civilization. This was the immediate cause of the late rupture and present revolution. Jefferson in his forecast, had anticipated this, as the 'rock upon which the old Union would split.' He was right."[48]

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Mind uploading, whole brain emulation, or substrate-independent minds, is a use of a computer or another substrate as an emulated human brain. The term "mind transfer" also refers to a hypothetical transfer of a mind from one biological brain to another. Uploaded minds and societies of minds, often in simulated realities, are recurring themes in science-fiction novels and films since the 1950s.

A story featuring an artificial brain that replicates the personality of a specific person is "The Infinite Brain" by John Scott Campbell, written under the name John C. Campbell,[1] and published in the May 1930 issue of Science Wonder Stories.[2] The artificial brain is created by an inventor named Anton Des Roubles, who tells the narrator that "I am attempting to construct a mechanism exactly duplicating the mechanical and electrical processes occurring in the human brain and constituting the phenomena known as thought." The narrator later learns that Des Roubles has died, and on visiting his laboratory, finds a machine that can communicate with him via typed messages, and which tells him "I, Anton Des Roubles, am deadmy body is deadbut I still live. I am this machine. These racks of apparatus are my brains, which is thinking even as yours is. Anton Des Roubles is dead but he has built me, his exact mental duplicate, to carry on his life and work." The machine also tells him "He made my brain precisely like his, built three hundred thousand cells for my memory, and filled two hundred thousand of them with his own knowledge. I have his personality; it is my own through a process I will tell you of later. ... I think just as you do. I have a consciousness as have other men." He then explains his discovery that the electrical impulses in the brain create magnetic fields that can be detected by a device he built called a "Telepather", and that "[t]hrough this instrument any one's mental condition can be exactly duplicated." Later, he enlists the narrator's help in constructing a new type of artificial brain that will retain his memories but possess an expanded intellect, though the experiment does not go as planned, as the new intelligence has a radically different personality and soon sets out to conquer the world.

An early story featuring technological transfer of memories and personality from one brain to another is "Intelligence Undying" by Edmond Hamilton, first published in the April 1936 issue of Amazing Stories. In this story, an elderly scientist named John Hanley explains that when humans are first born, "our minds are a blank sheet except for certain reflexes which we all inherit. But from our birth onward, our minds are affected by all about us, our reflexes are conditioned, as the behaviorists say. All we experience is printed on the sheet of our minds. ... Everything a human being learns, therefore, simply establishes new connections between the nerve cells of the brain. ... As I said, a newborn child has no such knowledge connections in his cortex at allhe has not yet formed any. Now if I take that child immediately after birth and establish in his brain exactly the same web of intricate neurone connections I have built up in my own brain, he will have exactly the same mind, memories, knowledge, as I have ... his mind will be exactly identical with my mind!" He then explains he has developed a technique to do just this, saying "I've devised a way to scan my brain's intricate web of neurone connections by electrical impulses, and by means of those impulses to build up an exactly identical web of neurone connections in the infant's brain. Just as a television scanning-disk can break down a complicated picture into impulses that reproduce the picture elsewhere." He adds that the impulses scanning his brain will kill him, but the "counter-impulses" imprinting the same pattern on the baby's brain will not harm him. The story shows the successful transfer of John Hanley's mind to the baby, whom he describes as "John Hanley 2nd", and then skips forward to the year 3144 to depict "John Hanley, 21st" using his advanced technology to become the ruler of the Earth in order to end a war between the two great political powers of the time, and then further ahead to "John Hanley, 416th" helping to evacuate humanity to the planet Mercury in response to the Sun shrinking into a white dwarf. He chooses to remain on Earth awaiting death, so that people would "learn once more to do for themselves, would become again a strong a self-reliant race", with Hanley concluding that he "had been wrong in living as a single super-mind down through the ages. He saw that now, and now he was undoing that wrong."

A story featuring human minds replicated in a computer is the novella Izzard and the Membrane by Walter M. Miller, Jr., first published in May 1951.[3] In this story, an American cyberneticist named Scott MacDonney is captured by Russians and made to work on an advanced computer, Izzard, which they plan to use to coordinate an attack on the United States. He has conversations with Izzard as he works on it, and when he asks it if it is self-aware, it says "answer indeterminate" and then asks "can human individual's self-awareness transor be mechanically duplicated?" MacDonney is unfamiliar with the concept of a self-awareness transor (it is later revealed that this information was loaded into Izzard by a mysterious entity who may nor may not be God[4]), and Izzard defines it by saying "A self-awareness transor is the mathematical function which describes the specific consciousness pattern of one human individual."[5] It is later found that this mathematical function can indeed be duplicated, although not by a detailed scan of the individual's brain as in later notions of mind uploading; instead, Donney just has to describe the individual verbally in sufficient detail, and Izzard uses this information to locate the transor in the appropriate "mathematical region". In Izzard's words, "to duplicate consciousness of deceased, it will be necessary for you to furnish anthropometric and psychic characteristics of the individual. These characteristics will not determine transor, but will only give its general form. Knowing its form, will enable me to sweep my circuit pattern through its mathematical region until the proper transor is reached. At that point, the consciousness will appear among the circuits."[6] Using this method, MacDonney is able to recreate the mind of his dead wife in Izzard's memory, as well as create a virtual duplicate of himself, which seems to have a shared awareness with the biological MacDonney.

In The Altered Ego by Jerry Sohl (1954), a person's mind can be "recorded" and used to create a "restoration" in the event of their death. In a restoration, the person's biological body is repaired and brought back to life, and their memories are restored to the last time that they had their minds recorded (what the story calls a 'brain record'[7]), an early example of a story in which a person can create periodic backups of their own mind which are stored in an artificial medium. The recording process is not described in great detail, but it is mentioned that the recording is used to create a duplicate or "dupe" which is stored in the "restoration bank",[8] and at one point a lecturer says that "The experience of the years, the neurograms, simple memory circuitsneurons, if you wishstored among these nerve cells, are transferred to the dupe, a group of more than ten billion molecules in colloidal suspension. They are charged much as you would charge the plates of a battery, the small neuroelectrical impulses emanating from your brain during the recording session being duplicated on the molecular structure in the solution."[9] During restoration, they take the dupe and "infuse it into an empty brain",[9] and the plot turns on the fact that it is possible to install one person's dupe in the body of a completely different person.[10]

An early example featuring uploaded minds in robotic bodies can be found in Frederik Pohl's story "The Tunnel Under the World" from 1955.[11] In this story, the protagonist Guy Burckhardt continually wakes up on the same date from a dream of dying in an explosion. Burckhardt is already familiar with the idea of putting human minds in robotic bodies, since this is what is done with the robot workers at the nearby Contro Chemical factory. As someone has once explained it to him, "each machine was controlled by a sort of computer which reproduced, in its electronic snarl, the actual memory and mind of a human being ... It was only a matter, he said, of transferring a man's habit patterns from brain cells to vacuum-tube cells." Later in the story, Pohl gives some additional description of the procedure: "Take a master petroleum chemist, infinitely skilled in the separation of crude oil into its fractions. Strap him down, probe into his brain with searching electronic needles. The machine scans the patterns of the mind, translates what it sees into charts and sine waves. Impress these same waves on a robot computer and you have your chemist. Or a thousand copies of your chemist, if you wish, with all of his knowledge and skill, and no human limitations at all." After some investigation, Burckhardt learns that his entire town had been killed in a chemical explosion, and the brains of the dead townspeople had been scanned and placed into miniature robotic bodies in a miniature replica of the town (as a character explains to him, 'It's as easy to transfer a pattern from a dead brain as a living one'), so that a businessman named Mr. Dorchin could charge companies to use the townspeople as test subjects for new products and advertisements.

Something close to the notion of mind uploading is very briefly mentioned in Isaac Asimov's 1956 short story The Last Question: "One by one Man fused with AC, each physical body losing its mental identity in a manner that was somehow not a loss but a gain." A more detailed exploration of the idea (and one in which individual identity is preserved, unlike in Asimov's story) can be found in ArthurC. Clarke's novel The City and the Stars, also from 1956 (this novel was a revised and expanded version of Clarke's earlier story Against the Fall of Night, but the earlier version did not contain the elements relating to mind uploading). The story is set in a city named Diaspar one billion years in the future, where the minds of inhabitants are stored as patterns of information in the city's Central Computer in between a series of 1000-year lives in cloned bodies. Various commentators identify this story as one of the first (if not the first) to deal with mind uploading, human-machine synthesis, and computerized immortality.[12][13][14][15]

Another of the "firsts" is the novel Detta r verkligheten (This is reality), 1968, by the renowned philosopher and logician Bertil Mrtensson, a novel in which he describes people living in an uploaded state as a means to control overpopulation. The uploaded people believe that they are "alive", but in reality they are playing elaborate and advanced fantasy games. In a twist at the end, the author changes everything into one of the best "multiverse" ideas of science fiction.

In Robert Silverberg's To Live Again (1969), an entire worldwide economy is built up around the buying and selling of "souls" (personas that have been tape-recorded at six-month intervals), allowing well-heeled consumers the opportunity to spend tens of millions of dollars on a medical treatment that uploads the most recent recordings of archived personalities into the minds of the buyers. Federal law prevents people from buying a "personality recording" unless the possessor first had died; similarly, two or more buyers were not allowed to own a "share" of the persona. In this novel, the personality recording always went to the highest bidder. However, when one attempted to buy (and therefore possess) too many personalities, there was the risk that one of the personas would wrest control of the body from the possessor.

In the 1982 novel Software, part of the Ware Tetralogy by Rudy Rucker, one of the main characters, Cobb Anderson, has his mind downloaded and his body replaced with an extremely human-like android body. The robots who persuade Anderson into doing this sell the process to him as a way to become immortal.

In William Gibson's award-winning Neuromancer (1984), which popularized the concept of "cyberspace", a hacking tool used by the main character is an artificial infomorph of a notorious cyber-criminal, Dixie Flatline. The infomorph only assists in exchange for the promise that he be deleted after the mission is complete.

The fiction of Greg Egan has explored many of the philosophical, ethical, legal, and identity aspects of mind transfer, as well as the financial and computing aspects (i.e. hardware, software, processing power) of maintaining "copies." In Egan's Permutation City (1994), Diaspora (1997) and Zendegi (2010), "copies" are made by computer simulation of scanned brain physiology. See also Egan's "jewelhead" stories, where the mind is transferred from the organic brain to a small, immortal backup computer at the base of the skull, the organic brain then being surgically removed.

The movie The Matrix is commonly mistaken[citation needed] for a mind uploading movie, but with exception to suggestions in later movies, it is only about virtual reality and simulated reality, since the main character Neo's physical brain still is required for his mind to reside in. The mind (the information content of the brain) is not copied into an emulated brain in a computer. Neo's physical brain is connected into the Matrix via a brain-machine interface. Only the rest of the physical body is simulated. Neo is disconnected from and reconnected to this dreamworld.[citation needed]

James Cameron's 2009 movie Avatar has so far been the commercially most successful example of a work of fiction that features a form of mind uploading. Throughout most of the movie, the hero's mind has not actually been uploaded and transferred to another body, but is simply controlling the body from a distance, a form of telepresence. However, at the end of the movie the hero's mind is uploaded into Eywa, the mind of the planet, and then back into his Avatar body.

Mind transfer is a theme in many other works of science fiction in a wide range of media. Specific examples include the following:

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This article is about the visual diagram. For the geographical concept, see Mental mapping.

Diagram to visually organize information

A mind map is a diagram used to visually organize information into a hierarchy, showing relationships among pieces of the whole.[1] It is often created around a single concept, drawn as an image in the center of a blank page, to which associated representations of ideas such as images, words and parts of words are added. Major ideas are connected directly to the central concept, and other ideas branch out from those major ideas.

Mind maps can also be drawn by hand, either as "notes" during a lecture, meeting or planning session, for example, or as higher quality pictures when more time is available. Mind maps are considered to be a type of spider diagram.[2] A similar concept in the 1970s was "idea sun bursting".[3]

Although the term "mind map" was first popularized by British popular psychology author and television personality Tony Buzan, the use of diagrams that visually "map" information using branching and radial maps traces back centuries. These pictorial methods record knowledge and model systems, and have a long history in learning, brainstorming, memory, visual thinking, and problem solving by educators, engineers, psychologists, and others. Some of the earliest examples of such graphical records were developed by Porphyry of Tyros, a noted thinker of the 3rd century, as he graphically visualized the concept categories of Aristotle. Philosopher Ramon Llull (12351315) also used such techniques.

The semantic network was developed in the late 1950s as a theory to understand human learning and developed further by Allan M. Collins and M. Ross Quillian during the early 1960s. Mind maps are similar in structure to concept maps, developed by learning experts in the 1970s, but differ in that mind maps are simplified by focusing around a single central key concept.

Buzan's specific approach, and the introduction of the term "mind map", arose during a 1974 BBC TV series he hosted, called Use Your Head.[4][5] In this show, and companion book series, Buzan promoted his conception of radial tree, diagramming key words in a colorful, radiant, tree-like structure.[6]

Buzan says the idea was inspired by Alfred Korzybski's general semantics as popularized in science fiction novels, such as those of Robert A. Heinlein and A. E. van Vogt. He argues that while "traditional" outlines force readers to scan left to right and top to bottom, readers actually tend to scan the entire page in a non-linear fashion. Buzan's treatment also uses then-popular assumptions about the functions of cerebral hemispheres in order to explain the claimed increased effectiveness of mind mapping over other forms of note making.

Cunningham (2005) conducted a user study in which 80% of the students thought "mindmapping helped them understand concepts and ideas in science".[9] Other studies also report some subjective positive effects on the use of mind maps.[10][11] Positive opinions on their effectiveness, however, were much more prominent among students of art and design than in students of computer and information technology, with 62.5% vs 34% (respectively) agreeing that they were able to understand concepts better with mind mapping software.[10] Farrand, Hussain, and Hennessy (2002) found that spider diagrams (similar to concept maps) had limited, but significant, impact on memory recall in undergraduate students (a 10% increase over baseline for a 600-word text only) as compared to preferred study methods (a 6% increase over baseline).[12] This improvement was only robust after a week for those in the diagram group and there was a significant decrease in motivation compared to the subjects' preferred methods of note taking. A meta study about concept mapping concluded that concept mapping is more effective than "reading text passages, attending lectures, and participating in class discussions".[13] The same study also concluded that concept mapping is slightly more effective "than other constructive activities such as writing summaries and outlines". However, results were inconsistent, with the authors noting "significant heterogeneity was found in most subsets". In addition, they concluded that low-ability students may benefit more from mind mapping than high-ability students.

Joeran Beel and Stefan Langer conducted a comprehensive analysis of the content of mind maps.[14] They analysed 19,379 mind maps from 11,179 users of the mind mapping applications SciPlore MindMapping (now Docear) and MindMeister. Results include that average users create only a few mind maps (mean=2.7), average mind maps are rather small (31 nodes) with each node containing about three words (median). However, there were exceptions. One user created more than 200 mind maps, the largest mind map consisted of more than 50,000 nodes and the largest node contained ~7,500 words. The study also showed that between different mind mapping applications (Docear vs MindMeister) significant differences exist related to how users create mind maps.

There have been some attempts to create mind maps automatically. Brucks & Schommer created mind maps automatically from full-text streams.[15] Rothenberger et al. extracted the main story of a text and presented it as mind map.[16] There is also a patent application about automatically creating sub-topics in mind maps.[17]

Mind-mapping software can be used to organize large amounts of information, combining spatial organization, dynamic hierarchical structuring and node folding. Software packages can extend the concept of mind-mapping by allowing individuals to map more than thoughts and ideas with information on their computers and the Internet, like spreadsheets, documents, Internet sites and images.[18] It has been suggested that mind-mapping can improve learning/study efficiency up to 15% over conventional note-taking.[12]

The following dozen examples of mind maps show the range of styles that a mind map may take, from hand-drawn to computer-generated and from mostly text to highly illustrated. Despite their stylistic differences, all of the examples share a tree structure that hierarchically connects sub-topics to a main topic.

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Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF expected. May 7, 2022 Completed ECF-Test - scheduled system maintenance, updates and/or upgrades from 2:00 am - 10:00 am (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF expected. April 30, 2022 Completed ECF-Live - scheduled system maintenance, updates and/or upgrades from 4:00 am - 7:00 am (MST). Downtime and Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF expected. April 22 and 25, 2022 Completed ECF-Test system maintenance, updates and/or upgrades from 9 - 12 am (MST) on 4/22 and all day on 4/25. Downtime and Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF expected. April 16, 2022 Completed ECF-Live - scheduled system maintenance, updates and/or upgrades from 2:00 am - 10:00 am (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF expected. April 9, 2022 Completed ECF-Train - scheduled system maintenance, updates and/or upgrades from 2:00 am - 10:00 am (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF expected. April 2, 2022 Completed ECF-Test - scheduled system maintenance, updates and/or upgrades from 2:00 am - 10:00 am (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF expected. March 31, 2022 Completed ECF-Live - downtime expected in ECF-Live during maintenance window, from 6:00 - 8:00 pm (MST). March 19, 2022 Completed ECF-Live scheduled system maintenance, updates and/or upgrades from 2:00 am - 10:00 am (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF expected. March 12, 2022 Completed ECF-Train scheduled system maintenance, updates and/or upgrades from 3:00 am - 11:00 am (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF expected. March 10, 2022 Completed ECF-Test scheduled NextGen Software Upgrade, downtime expected during maintenance window, from 6:00 am (MST) Thursday March 10, 2022 through Thursday, March 24, 2022 at 6 pm (MST). Please use ECF-Train for any testing needs during this time. March 5, 2022 Completed ECF-Live and ECF Test - downtime expected in ECF-Live during maintenance window, from 3:00 am (MST) - 11:00 am (MST). February 26, 2022 Completed ECF-Live, ECF-Test, ECF-Train scheduled system maintenance, downtime expected during extended maintenance window, from 3:00 am - 11:00 am (MST). February 23, 2022 Completed ECF-Test scheduled system maintenance, updates and/or upgrades from 3:30 pm (MST) to 6:30 pm (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF expected. February 19, 2022 Completed ECF-Live scheduled system maintenance, updates and/or upgrades from 3:00 am - 11:00 am (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF expected. February 12, 2022 Completed ECF-Train scheduled system maintenance, updates and/or upgrades from 3:00 am - 11:00 am (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF expected. February 9, 2022 Completed ECF-Live scheduled system maintenance, updates and/or upgrades from 7:00 pm - 11:00 pm (MST). February 5, 2022 Completed ECF-Test scheduled system maintenance, updates and/or upgrades from 3:00 am - 11:00 am (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF expected. February 2, 2022 Completed ECF-Train and ECF-Test scheduled system maintenance, updates and/or upgrades from 7:00 pm - 11:00 pm (MST). January 22, 2022 Completed ECF-Live scheduled system maintenance, CM/ECF downtime expected during regularly scheduled maintenance window from 6:00 am - 9:00 am (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF expected. January 20, 2022 Completed ECF-Train scheduled system maintenance, updates and/or upgrades from 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF expected. January 18, 2022 Completed ECF-Test scheduled system maintenance, updates and/or upgrades from 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF expected. January 15, 2022 Completed ECF-Live scheduled system maintenance, updates and/or upgrades from 3:00 am - 11:00 am (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF expected. January 8, 2022 Completed ECF-Live scheduled update to NextGen CM/ECF 1.6.2: CM/ECF downtime expected during regularly scheduled maintenance window from 6:00 am - 9:00 am (MST). Also, ECF-Train scheduled system maintenance, updates and/or upgrades from 3:00 am - 11:00 am (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF expected January 4, 2022 Completed ECF-Train scheduled update to NextGen CM/ECF 1.6.2 from 9-10:30 am MST: CM/ECF downtime or Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF expected January 1, 2022 Completed ECF-Test scheduled system maintenance, updates and/or upgrades from 3:00 am - 11:00 am (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF expected. December 19, 2021 Completed PACER scheduled system maintenance, updates and/or upgrades from 5:00 am - 1:00 pm (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to PACER authentication for CM/ECF and possible Pay.gov delays expected. December 18, 2021 Completed ECF-Live scheduled system maintenance, updates and/or upgrades from 3:00 am - 11:00 am (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF expected. December 11, 2021 Completed ECF-Train scheduled system maintenance, updates and/or upgrades from 3:00 am - 11:00 am (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF expected. December 8, 2021 Completed ECF-Live scheduled system maintenance, updates and/or upgrades from 7:00 pm - 11:00 pm (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF expected. December 4, 2021 Completed ECF-Test scheduled system maintenance, updates and/or upgrades from 3:00 am - 11:00 am (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF expected. December 1, 2021 Completed ECF-Test and ECF-Train scheduled system maintenance, updates and/or upgrades from 7:00 pm - 11:00 pm (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF expected. November 21, 2021 Completed PACER scheduled system maintenance, updates and/or upgrades from 4:55 am - 3:00 pm (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to PACER authentication for CM/ECF and possible Pay.gov delays expected. November 20, 2021 Completed ECF-Live scheduled system maintenance, updates and/or upgrades from 3:00 am - 11:00 am (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF expected. November 13, 2021 Completed ECF-Train scheduled system maintenance, updates and/or upgrades from 3:00 am - 11:00 am (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF expected. November 6, 2021 Completed ECF-Test scheduled system maintenance, updates and/or upgrades from 3:00 am - 11:00 am (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF expected. October 16, 2021 Completed ECF-Live scheduled system maintenance, updates and/or upgrades from 2:00 am - 10:00 am (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF expected. October 9, 2021 Completed ECF-Train scheduled system maintenance, updates and/or upgrades from 2:00 am - 10:00 am (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF expected. October 2, 2021 Completed ECF-Test scheduled system maintenance, updates and/or upgrades from 2:00 am - 10:00 am (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF expected. September 25, 2021 Completed ECF-Test, ECF-Train and ECF-Live: scheduled system maintenance, updates and/or upgrades during regularly scheduled maintenance window, from 6:00 am - 9:00 am (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF Test and Train expected. No disruption expected for ECF-Live. September 18, 2021 Completed ECF-Live scheduled system maintenance, updates and/or upgrades from 2:00 am - 10:00 am (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF expected. September 11, 2021 Completed ECF-Train scheduled system maintenance, updates and/or upgrades from 2:00 am - 10:00 am (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF expected. September 4, 2021 Completed ECF-Test scheduled system maintenance, updates and/or upgrades from 2:00 am - 10:00 am (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF expected. August 31, 2021 Completed ECF-Test and ECF-Train scheduled system maintenance, updates and/or upgrades from 2:00 am - 7:00 am (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF expected. August 21, 2021 Completed ECF-Live scheduled system maintenance, updates and/or upgrades from 2:00 am - 10:00 am (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF expected. August 14, 2021 Completed ECF-Train scheduled system maintenance, updates and/or upgrades from 2:00 am - 10:00 am (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF expected. August 7, 2021 Completed ECF-Test scheduled system maintenance, updates and/or upgrades from 2:00 am - 10:00 am (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF expected. August 5, 2021 Completed ECF-Test scheduled system maintenance, updates and/or upgrades from 7:00 am - 10:00 am (MST). CM/ECF-TEST downtime expected during this maintenance window. July 17, 2021 Completed ECF-Live scheduled system maintenance, updates and/or upgrades from 2:00 am - 10:00 am (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF expected. July 10, 2021 Completed ECF-Train scheduled system maintenance, updates and/or upgrades from 2:00 am - 10:00 am (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF expected. July 8, 2021 Completed ECF-Test and ECF-Train scheduled system maintenance, updates and/or upgrades from 6:00 am - 8:00 am (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF expected. July 3, 2021 Completed ECF-Test scheduled system maintenance, updates and/or upgrades from 2:00 am - 10:00 am (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF expected. June 24-28, 2021 Completed ECF-Live scheduled upgrade to NextGen CM/ECF 1.6.1: CM/ECF downtime expected from the afternoon of June 24 at 5:00 pm until 8:30 am (MST) on June 28. For more information, please see this announcement June 19, 2021 Completed ECF-Live scheduled system maintenance, updates and/or upgrades from 2:00 am - 10:00 am (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF expected. June 12, 2021 Completed ECF-Train scheduled system maintenance, updates and/or upgrades from 2:00 am - 10:00 am (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF expected. June 5, 2021 Completed ECF-Train scheduled upgrade to NextGen CM/ECF 1.6.1 (Train): CM/ECF downtime expected from 4:00 am until 11:59 pm (MST) on June 5. For more information, please see this announcement. ECF-Test scheduled system maintenance, updates and/or upgrades from 2:00 am - 10:00 am (MST). May 22, 2021 Completed ECF-Live, ECF-Test and ECF-Train systems maintenance, updates and/or upgrades from 6:00 am - 1:00 pm (MST). Downtime expected during maintenance window. May 15, 2021 Completed ECF-Live scheduled system maintenance, updates and/or upgrades from 2:00 am - 10:00 am (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF expected. May 8, 2021 Completed ECF-Train scheduled system maintenance, updates and/or upgrades from 2:00 am - 10:00 am (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF expected. May 1, 2021 Completed ECF-Test scheduled system maintenance, updates and/or upgrades from 2:00 am - 10:00 am (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF expected. April 17, 2021 Completed ECF-Live: scheduled system maintenance, updates and/or upgrades from 2:00 am - 10:00 am (MST). ECF-Train scheduled system maintenance during our regularly scheduled maintenance window from 5:00 am - 9:00 am (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF expected. April 10, 2021 Completed ECF-Train scheduled system maintenance, updates and/or upgrades from 2:00 am - 10:00 am (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF expected. April 3, 2021 Completed ECF-Test scheduled system maintenance, updates and/or upgrades from 2:00 am - 10:00 am (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF expected. March 30, 2021 Completed ECF-Train system maintenance, updates and/or upgrades from 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF expected. March 20, 2021 Completed ECF-Live scheduled system maintenance, updates and/or upgrades from 2:00 am - 10:00 am (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF expected. March 13, 2021 Completed ECF-Train scheduled system maintenance, updates and/or upgrades from 2:00 am - 10:00 am (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF expected. March 6, 2021 Completed ECF-Test scheduled system maintenance, updates and/or upgrades from 2:00 am - 10:00 am (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF expected. February 27, 2021 Completed ECF-Live upgrade to version 5.3.4 from 7:00 am - 12:00 pm (MST). Downtime expected during upgrade maintenance window. February 20, 2021 Completed ECF-Live scheduled system maintenance, updates and/or upgrades from 3:00 am - 11:00 am (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF expected. February 13, 2021 Completed ECF-Train scheduled system maintenance, updates and/or upgrades from 3:00 am - 11:00 am (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF expected. February 6, 2021 Completed ECF-Test scheduled system maintenance, updates and/or upgrades from 3:00 am - 11:00 am (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF expected. January 26 - 27, 2021 Completed ECF-Test scheduled system maintenance and updates from 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm (MST) on both days January 21 - 22, 2021 Completed ECF-Test scheduled system upgrade to NG 1.6.1. Downtime expected from 1:00pm on January 21 until 6:00 pm (MST) on January 22 January 16, 2021 Completed ECF-Live scheduled system maintenance, updates and/or upgrades from 3:00 am - 11:00 am (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF expected. January 9, 2021 Completed ECF-Train scheduled system maintenance, updates and/or upgrades from 3:00 am - 11:00 am (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF expected. January 2, 2021 Completed ECF-Test scheduled system maintenance, updates and/or upgrades from 3:00 am - 11:00 am (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF expected. January 1, 2021 Completed ECF-Train scheduled system maintenance, updates and/or upgrades from 7:00 am - 10:00 am (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF expected. December 19, 2020 Completed ECF-Live scheduled system maintenance, updates and/or upgrades from 3:00 am - 11:00 am (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF expected. December 12, 2020 Completed ECF-Train scheduled system maintenance, updates and/or upgrades from 3:00 am - 11:00 am (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF expected. December 11, 2020 Completed ECF-Live, ECF-Train, ECF-Test: scheduled system maintenance, updates and/or upgrades from 8:00 pm - 12:00 am (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF expected. December 5, 2020 Completed ECF-Test scheduled system maintenance, updates and/or upgrades from 3:00 am - 11:00 am (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF expected. ECF-Train and ECF-Live scheduled maintenance during standard maintenance window, from 5 - 9 am (MST). CM/ECF downtime expected in both the Live and Train systems during this time. December 1, 2020 Completed ECF-Test scheduled system update to NG 1.5.3 - CM/ECF downtime expected from 9:30 am - 11:30 am (MST). November 21, 2020 Completed ECF-Live scheduled system maintenance, updates and/or upgrades from 2:00 am - 10:00 am (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF expected. November 14, 2020 Completed ECF-Train scheduled system maintenance, updates and/or upgrades from 2:00 am - 10:00 am (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF expected. November 7, 2020 Completed ECF-Test scheduled system maintenance, updates and/or upgrades from 2:00 am - 10:00 am (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF expected. October 31, 2020 Completed ECF-Live scheduled system maintenance, updates and/or upgrades during standard maintenance window, from 5:00 - 9:00 am MST. CM/ECF downtime expected during this time. October 17, 2020 Completed ECF-Live scheduled system maintenance, updates and/or upgrades from 2:00 am - 10:00 am (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF expected. October 10, 2020 Completed ECF-Train scheduled system maintenance, updates and/or upgrades from 2:00 am - 10:00 am (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF expected. October 3, 2020 Completed ECF-Test scheduled system maintenance, updates and/or upgrades from 2:00 am - 10:00 am (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF Test expected. ECF-Train and ECF-Live scheduled maintenance only during standard maintenance window, from 5 - 9 am MST. CM/ECF downtime expected in both the Live and Train systems during this time. Scheduled 19, 2020 Completed ECF-Live scheduled system maintenance, updates and/or upgrades from 2:00 am - 10:00 am (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF expected. September 17, 2020 Completed ECF-Test scheduled system upgrade to NG 1.5.2 - CM/ECF downtime expected from 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm (MST). September 12, 2020 Completed ECF-Train scheduled system maintenance, updates and/or upgrades from 2:00 am - 10:00 am (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF expected. September 5, 2020 Completed ECF-Test scheduled system maintenance and upgrades from 2:00 am - 10:00 am (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF expected. August 21-22, 2020 Completed ECF-Live upgrade to version 5.3.3: CM/ECF downtime expected from 12:00pm on August 21 until 11:59 pm (MST) on August 22. August 15, 2020 Completed ECF-Live scheduled system maintenance and upgrades from 2:00 am - 10:00 am (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF expected. August 8, 2020 Completed ECF-Train scheduled system maintenance and upgrades from 2:00 am - 10:00 am (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF expected. August 8, 2020 Completed ECF-Live and ECF-Test scheduled system maintenance during our regularly scheduled maintenance window from 5:00 am - 9:00 am (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF expected. August 6, 2020 Completed ECF-Live, ECF-Train, and ECF-Test - system maintenance and upgrades from 6:00 pm - 10:00 pm (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF expected. August 1, 2020 Completed ECF-Test scheduled system maintenance and upgrades from 2:00 am - 10:00 am (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF expected. July 18, 2020 Completed ECF-Live: Scheduled system maintenance and upgrades from 2:00 am - 10:00 am (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF expected. July 17-18, 2020 Cancelled ECF-Live upgrade to version 5.3.3: CM/ECF downtime expected from 12:00pm on July 17 until 11:59 pm (MST) on July 18. July 11, 2020 Completed ECF-Live: Scheduled system maintenance and upgrades from 5:00 am - 1:00 pm (MST). CM/ECF will be unavailable during this time. July 11, 2020 Completed ECF-Train: Scheduled system maintenance and upgrades from 2:00 am - 10:00 am (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF-Train expected. June 25-26, 2020 Completed ECF-Train: Scheduled system maintenance and upgrades. CM/ECF downtime expected from 12:00 pm on June 25 until on or before 11:59 pm (MST) on June 26. June 20, 2020 Completed ECF-Live and ECF-Train: Scheduled system maintenance and upgrades from 2:00 am - 10:00 am (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF expected. June 13, 2020 Completed ECF-Live: Scheduled system maintenance and upgrades from 2:00 am - 10:00 am (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF expected. June 11-12, 2020 Completed ECF-Test: Scheduled system maintenance and upgrades. CM/ECF will be unavailable from 7:00 am on June 11 until 7:00 pm (MST) on June 12. June 6, 2020 Completed ECF-Live: Scheduled system maintenance and upgrades from 5:00 am - 9:00 am (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF expected. June 6, 2020 Completed ECF-Test: Scheduled system maintenance and upgrades from 2:00 am - 10:00 am (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF expected. June 3, 2020 Completed ECF-Test and ECF-Train: Scheduled system maintenance and upgrades from 6:00 pm - 10:00 pm (MST). No disruptions in access to CM/ECF expected. May 16, 2020 Completed ECF-Live: Scheduled system maintenance and upgrades from 2:00 am - 10:00 am (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF expected. May 9, 2020 Completed ECF-Train and ECF-Test: Scheduled system maintenance and upgrades from 2:00 am - 11:00 am (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF expected. May 5, 2020 Completed ECF-Test: Scheduled system maintenance and upgrades from 2:00 am - 10:00 am (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF expected.. May 2, 2020 Completed ECF-Test: Scheduled system maintenance and upgrades from 2:00 am - 10:00 am (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF expected.. April 18, 2020 Completed ECF-Live: Scheduled system maintenance and upgrades from 2:00 am - 10:00 am (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF expected. April 11, 2020 Completed ECF-Train: Scheduled system maintenance and upgrades from 2:00 am - 10:00 am (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF expected. April 4, 2020 Completed ECF-Test: Scheduled system maintenance and upgrades from 2:00 am - 10:00 am (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF expected. March 27-30, 2020 Cancelled ECF-Train upgrade to NextGen 1.3 has been cancelled at this time. CM/ECF Train is no longer tentatively scheduled to be down and unavailable from 3/27 at 7:00am (MST) until 7:00am (MST) on 3/30. March 21, 2020 Completed ECF-Live Scheduled system maintenance and upgrades from 5:00 am - 2:00 pm (MST). Users may experience intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF. March 12, 2020 Cancelled ECF-Live: Scheduled system maintenance and upgrades from 6:00 pm - 10:00 pm (MST). Users may experience intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF. March 10, 2020 Cancelled ECF-Train Scheduled system maintenance and upgrades. CM/ECF will be unavailable between 10:00am-2:00pm (MST). March 7 - 8, 2020 Completed ECF-Live, ECF-Test, ECF-Train: Scheduled system maintenance and upgrades from 11:00 pm - 10:00 am (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF expected. March 4, 2020 Completed ECF-Test, ECF-Train: Scheduled system maintenance and upgrades from 7:00 pm - 11:00 pm (MST). Users may experience intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF. February 22, 2020 Cancelled ECF-Live Scheduled system maintenance and upgrades. CM/ECF will be unavailable between 7:00am-10:00am (MST). February 21, 2020 Completed ECF-Train Scheduled system maintenance and upgrades from 2:00pm-4:00pm (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF expected. February 18, 2020 Completed ECF-Live upgrade to version 5.2.3. CM/ECF will be unavailable between 8:00pm-12:00am (MST). February 15, 2020 Completed ECF-Live: Scheduled system maintenance between 7:00am-11:00am (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF expected. February 15, 2020 Completed ECF-Train: Scheduled system maintenance between 3:00pm-7:00pm (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF expected. February 13 - 19, 2020 Completed ECF-Test: Scheduled systems testing/maintenance - CM/ECF will be unavailable after 5pm on Thursday, February 13 at 5:00 pm (MST) until Wednesday, February 19, 2020. January 31, 2020 Completed ECF-Train upgrade to version 5.2.3. CM/ECF will be unavailable between 2:00pm-5:00pm (MST). January 18, 2020 Completed Scheduled system maintenance between 3:00am-11:00am (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF expected. December 21, 2019 Completed Scheduled system maintenance between 6:00am-2:00pm (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF expected. December 20, 2019 Completed Required system maintenance between 7:00pm-8:00pm (MST). CM/ECF will be unavailable during this time. November 16, 2019 Completed Scheduled system maintenance between 3:00am-11:00am (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF expected. October 26, 2019 Completed Scheduled system maintenance between 2:00am-10:00am (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF expected. October 19, 2019 Cancelled Scheduled system maintenance between 8:00am-1:00pm (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF expected. August 17, 2019 Completed Scheduled system maintenance between 2:00am-10:00am (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF expected. July 20, 2019 Completed Scheduled system maintenance between 2:00am-10:00am (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF expected. June 29, 2019 Completed Scheduled system maintenance between 7:30am-12:30pm (MST). CM/ECF Test not available during this time. June 15, 2019 Completed Scheduled system maintenance between 2:00am-10:00am (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF expected. June 13, 2019 Completed Required system maintenance between 6:00pm-7:00pm (MST). CM/ECF not available for electronic filing. June 13, 2019 Completed Required system maintenance between 8:00am-9:00am (MST). CM/ECF Test not available. May 18, 2019 Completed Scheduled system maintenance between 2:00am-10:00am (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF expected. May 6, 2019 Completed Scheduled system maintenance between 5:00am-7:00am (MST). CM/ECF not available for electronic filing. April 25, 2019 Completed Scheduled system maintenance between 7:00am-7:30am (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF Test expected. March 16, 2019 Completed Scheduled system maintenance between 2:00am-10:00am (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF expected. February 16, 2019 Completed Scheduled system maintenance between 3:00am-11:00am (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF expected. February 2, 2019 Completed Scheduled system maintenance between 8:00am-9:00am (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF expected. January 19, 2019 Completed Scheduled system maintenance between 7:00am-3:00pm (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF expected. December 15, 2018 Completed Scheduled system maintenance between 3:00am-11:00am (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF expected. November 27, 2018 Completed Scheduled system maintenance between 7:00am-7:30am (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF expected. October 27, 2018 Completed ECF-Live upgrade to CM/ECF version 5.2.2. October 20, 2018 Completed Scheduled system maintenance between 2:00am-10:00am (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF expected. September 22, 2018 Completed Scheduled system maintenance between 2:00am-10:00am (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF expected. September 4, 2018 Completed ECF-Test upgrade to CM/ECF version 5.2.2. July 21, 2018 Completed Scheduled system maintenance between 5:00am-9:00am (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF expected. June 8, 2018 Completed Scheduled system maintenance between 6:00am-7:00am (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF expected. June 6, 2018 Cancelled Scheduled system maintenance between 6:00am-7:00am (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF expected. May 22, 2018 Completed Scheduled system maintenance between 9:00am-10:00am (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF-Train expected. May 22, 2018 Completed Scheduled system maintenance between 9:00am-10:00am (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF-Test expected. April 4, 2018 Completed ECF-Train upgrade to CM/ECF version 5.2.2. January 20, 2018 Completed Scheduled system maintenance between 3:00am-11:00am (MST). Intermittent disruptions in access to CM/ECF expected.

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Northern Iowa specialty soybean dealer files for bankruptcy – Nebraska Examiner

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Northern Iowa specialty soybean dealer files for bankruptcy - Nebraska Examiner

Financial Independence / Retire Early – reddit

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Hi, r/financialindependence. I posted about quitting my job in 2018 when I was 38 - I'm 42 now - to travel the world via air and the country via van after living frugally since I started working in my early 20s. Retired with about $2.3 million net worth. Here's the story so far ...

Year 0 https://old.reddit.com/r/financialindependence/comments/8pv2yd/38msingle_23_million_submitted_my_resignation/

I started working in my early 20s after getting out of grad school. Salary varied anywhere from $70,000 to $130,000 during those 14 years or so. I live in a state with low cost of living and no state income tax, so I knew when I started that I could save a majority of my income if I stayed frugal and resisted lifestyle inflation. I live in the same starter home I bought around 2010 and drive an old Camry. I did a bunch of set-it-and-forget-it buying of large cap US index funds and Berkshire Hathaway and I did some individual buying of large cap bank and technology names before and after the Great Recession

Year 1 update - I came home after volunteer work in SE Asia https://old.reddit.com/r/financialindependence/comments/bk1rco/1_year_update_38msingle_23_million_submitted_my/

I FIREd and quit my job in the US last year, then moved to Thailand to volunteer at a non-profit teaching English to former prostitutes and low-level criminals for tourism industry jobs. I'm an American, ethnically Chinese.

My apartment and utilities were provided for free by the non-profit and I lived with my fellow expat volunteers. Some were older couples who wanted their privacy, so they booked their own apartments. Costs ranged from as low as $200 a month for a cheap, non-furnished studio apartment to $375 a month for a furnished studio in a newer building near a Skytrain station in the center of town with security. I was pleasantly surprised that because I was in the country on a sponsored work visa, I was eligible to buy health insurance there as a local. It came out to about $150 a month. Getting international expat health insurance here in America would have cost me up to $500 a month, so a huge savings. I also rarely ate at home and never cooked, since Bangkok is one of the great street food capitals of the world. All kinds of Thai, Chinese, Malay, Indian and Arab food served on the street for about 35 to 70 baht each entree (~1 to 2 bucks USD). I ended up not getting a local cell phone or local cell plan, my Sprint plan included international roaming and the 2G data was okay for Google Maps and web/email use when I was away from wifi, which was rare. So monthly fixed expenses came out to

$100 7-Eleven (drinking tap water actively discouraged by authorities due to corroded pipes. Bottled water is substantially cheaper there than here, thankfully. My problem is that when I went into 7-Eleven every day to get the cheap water, I would get sidetracked by whatever tasty unfamiliar snack I would see at the hot food counter that I would then have to try, hence $100 a month blown. Seriously, 7-Eleven in Thailand is amazing, I highly recommend getting lost in one. All kinds of hot noodle soups and baos and sticky rice snacks and cakes.)

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FIRE (Financial Independence) Calculator – Millennial Money

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This calculator helps you determine your financial independence number (also known as your FI or FIRE number), which is the amount of money you need for the rest of your life.

While you cant control all of the variables (like inflation and investing returns), you can control most of the variables, like how much money you spend and how much money you make. You might need less money than you think.

You can use this calculator to estimate your own FIRE number. But its important to not stress out about it and understand that your number will and should change as you change. The key is to calculate an estimate and to get comfortable with adjusting your own numbers as you grow and your life changes.

There is a direct correlation between your savings rate and the time it takes you to reach financial independence.

Its pretty simple: the more money you save the faster youll reach financial independence. Enter your numbers, test different scenarios, and see for yourself!

At different savings rates, here's how long it'd take you to achieve financial independence:

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Welcome to Sussex Royal, the source for factual information and details relating to the works and structure of Their Royal Highnesses The Duke and Duchess of Sussex. We are so pleased to have you as part of this community. In this section, you will find answers and clarification to questions that have come to the forefront in recent years. Many of you may be familiar with these policies, but for those of you who are not, we hope this page sheds some light on what can sometimes be misreported or quite confusing.

In 2020, The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have made the choice to transition into a new working model. As they step back as senior members of the Royal Family and no longer receive funding through the Sovereign Grant, they will become members of the Royal Family with financial independence which is something they look forward to. As The Duke and Duchess of Sussex prepare to make this change, the answers to the following questions aim to provide clarity on existing and future funding arrangements.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex take great pride in their work and are committed to continuing their charitable endeavours as well as establishing new ones. In addition, they value the ability to earn a professional income, which in the current structure they are prohibited from doing. For this reason they have made the choice to become members of the Royal Family with financial independence. Their Royal Highnesses feel this new approach will enable them to continue to carry out their duties for Her Majesty The Queen, while having the future financial autonomy to work externally. While the contribution from The Sovereign Grant covers just five percent of costs for The Duke and Duchess and is specifically used for their official office expense, Their Royal Highnesses prefer to release this financial tie. More details on the specifics of the Sovereign Grant are outlined below.

The Sovereign Grant is the annual funding mechanism of the monarchy that covers the work of the Royal Family in support of HM The Queen including expenses to maintain official residences and workspaces. In this exchange, The Queen surrenders the revenue of the Crown Estate and in return, a portion of these public funds are granted to The Sovereign/The Queen for official expenditure. This is outlined in the 2018-19 Annual Report of the Sovereign Grant which is linked below. Please note, this structure replaced The Civil List in 2012. More details on this can be found on The United Kingdoms public sector information website: gov.uk

Yes, there is precedent for this structure and applies to other current members of the Royal Family who support the monarch and also have full time jobs external to their commitment to the monarchy.

No, under the current structure and financing arrangements, they are prohibited from earning any income in any form.

No, see above.

AsworkingmembersoftheRoyalFamily,The Duke and Duchess of Sussex remain dedicated to maximising Her Majestys legacy both in the UK and throughout the Commonwealth. They will continue to proudly do so by supporting their patronages and carrying out works for The Monarchy within the UK or abroad, as called upon.

Five percent of the funding for their official office was provided through the Sovereign Grant starting in 2019 (more details on Sovereign Grant below). Public fundinghasnever been used, nor would it ever be used for privateexpenditure by The Duke and Duchess of Sussex, who also do not receive any tax privileges.

Since the establishment of The Office of The Duke and Duchess of Sussex, 95 percent of the funding received for their Office expenditure is derived from income allocated by HRH The Prince of Wales, generated throughtheDuchyofCornwall.This provision has been in place since Prince William and Prince Harry first established their offices in support of The Queen, and is the responsibility of The Prince of Wales. This information continues to be available on The Duchy of Cornwall website.

As described above, the remaining five percent of funding for the Office of The Duke and Duchess of Sussex, covering costs associated with employing members of their official office, is received through the SovereignGrant. During the course of 2020, The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have made the choice to step back as senior members of the Royal Family and no longer receive funding through the Sovereign Grant, thereby making them members of the Royal Family with financial independence. This phased approach will take time to transition in consultation with other senior members of the Royal Family, but Their Royal Highnesses are hopeful that this change is in the best interest for all and look forward to carrying out their duties to the monarch as well as their charitable work with financial autonomy.

In the 2018-2019 fiscal report, Her Majesty The Queen surrendered approximately 329 million from the Crown Estate to the government. In exchange for this contribution, in return, the government granted the sovereign approximately 82 million to cover the costs for official expenditure. This constitutes the Sovereign Grant. Further detail as stated on gov.uk can be found below:

The Sovereign Grant Act 2011 came into effect on 1 April 2012. It sets the single grant supporting the monarchs official business, enabling The Queen to discharge her duties as Head of State. It meets the central staff costs and running expenses of Her Majestys official household such things as official receptions, investitures, garden parties and so on. It also covers maintenance of the Royal Palaces in England and the cost of travel to carry out royal engagements such as opening buildings and other royal visits.

In exchange for this public support, The Queen surrenders the revenue from The Crown Estate to the government which for 2017-18 was 329.4 million. The Sovereign Grant for 2019-20 is 82.4 million which is 25% of 329.4 million.

It was announced in November 2019 that the Sovereign Grant for 2020-21 will be 85.9 million. This is 25% of The Crown Estates revenue surplus in 2018-19 which was 343.5 million.

It is worth noting that an annual grant of approximately 30 million has been added to the above figure for the 10 year re-servicing plan of Buckingham Palace, bringing the sum to 85.9 million. The below graphic helps to further explain this exchange. For clarity, in the graphic sourced from The BBC, HM refers to Her Majesty.

The contribution from UK taxpayers towards the full overhead of the British Monarchy is equivalent to approximately 1 per head per year.

The British Royal Family generates an estimated 1.8 billion a year in tourism revenues for The United Kingdom.

The refurbishment of Frogmore Cottage, the Grade-2listedbuilding in Windsor Home Park was funded by Her Majesty The Queen through the Sovereign Grant, reflecting the Monarchys responsibility to maintain the upkeep of buildings with historical significance (see above). Expenses related to fixtures, furnishings, and fittings at the official residence which is owned by Her Majesty the Queen were funded privately by The Duke and Duchess of Sussex. As stated on The Official UK Government website: The occupied Royal Palaces are held in trust for the nation by The Queen as Sovereign. Their maintenance and upkeep is one of the expenses met by the government in return for the surrender by the Sovereign of the hereditary revenues of the Crown (mainly the profit from the Crown Estate). The Sovereign Grant will allow the Royal Household to set its own priorities and thus generate economies. The occupied Royal Palaces are: Buckingham Palace, St Jamess Palace, the residential and office areas of Kensington Palace, the Royal Mews and Royal Paddocks at Hampton Court, Windsor Castle and buildings in the Home and Great Parks at Windsor.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex chose to move to Windsor for various reasons. Their previous residence of Nottingham Cottage on the grounds of Kensington Palace could not accommodate their growing family. The option of Apartment 1 in Kensington Palace was estimated to cost in excess of 4 million for mandated renovations including the removal of asbestos (see details above on the Monarchys responsibility for this upkeep). This residence would not have been available for them to occupy until the fourth quarter of 2020. As a result, Her Majesty The Queen offered The Duke and Duchess the use of Frogmore Cottage, which was already undergoing mandated renovations, and would be available to move in before the birth of their son. The refurbishment cost equated to 50 percent of the originally suggested property for their proposed official residence at Kensington Palace. It is for these reasons, The Duke and Duchess of Sussex chose Frogmore Cottage as their Official Residence.

Frogmore Cottage will continue to be the property of Her Majesty the Queen. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex will continue to use Frogmore Cottage with the permission of Her Majesty The Queen as their official residence as they continue to support the Monarchy, and so that their family will always have a place to call home in the United Kingdom.

All travel arrangements undertaken by The Duke and Duchess in their private time have always been and will continue to be paid for privately and not by UK taxpayers. With their transition to becoming members of the Royal Family with financial independence this will continue to be the case. Wherever possible and unless advised otherwise on security grounds, their logistical arrangements are undertaken via commercial air carriers, local trains and fuel-efficient vehicles, be it for official or personal travel.

The Duke and Duchess proudly carry out official overseas visits in support of Her Majesty The Queen at the request of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), as is the case for all members of the Royal Family. The length and location of these tours are determined by the FCO and the Royal Visits Committee. All Official overseas visits are in support of Her Majestys Governments objectives and paid for by The Sovereign Grant as well as contributions from the host country, when appropriate.

The provision of armed security by The Metropolitan Police is mandated by the Home Office, a ministerial department of Her Majestys Government, responsible for security and law & order. As stated on gov.uk, No breakdown of security costs is available as disclosure of such information could compromise the integrity of these arrangements and affect the security of the individuals protected. It is long established policy not to comment upon the protective security arrangements and their related costs for members of the Royal Family or their residences.

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Financial Independence, Retire Early (FIRE) – The Motley Fool

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Achieving financial independence is deeply embedded in the American dream. Yet millions of young Americans see their parents and grandparents struggling to reach traditional retirement, living with minimal fixed incomes, or having to work far longer than they wanted.

FIRE stands for "Financial Independence, Retire Early." The goal is to attain enough wealth to retire early through a combination of a very high savings rate and a frugal lifestyle. And we aren't talking about retirement at 55. Most FIRE practitioners aim to retire in their 40s or even earlier.

Does FIRE make sense for you? If you're frugal, able to divert a very large portion of your income to retirement savings and investments, and have a do-it-yourself spirit, then adopting a FIRE lifestyle could be a perfect path to financial freedom. Chances are, even if you're not interested in going full-on FIRE, elements of the movement can help you reach your financial goals faster.

Financial independence means, in the most basic sense, that an individual no longer needs to work for money. Put another way, they are no longer financially dependent on an employer to provide them with a paycheck.

At its core, financial independence appeals to those who value their time at least as much as they value an increasing investment portfolio. At a certain point, the value of accumulating more and more assets begins to diminish, which generally makes people more aware of how they're spending their time.

From a purely mathematical standpoint, achieving financial independence requires having enough assets saved to predictably cover your living expenses in perpetuity. A good starting point is to set a savings goal based on the 4% withdrawal rule, which works out to building a nest egg equal to about 25 times your annual spending requirements. For example, someone who needs $50,000 per year would need to have a $1.25 million portfolio.

The FIRE movement is made up of mostly ordinary individuals -- some of whom produce FIRE content via podcasts and blogs, and many who don't -- who have rallied around the principles of financial independence. Some are incredibly aggressive savers, some are remarkable investors, and some are insanely high earners. But all want to reduce the dependence they have on their respective employers and at least have the optionto live life on their own terms.

When it comes to FIRE, you most certainly can have the "FI" piece without the "RE." This serves as a point of caution: Many FIRE movement adherents recommend retiring "to" a career or lifestyle you enjoy as opposed to retiring "from" a workplace you hate.

Being a 35-year-old retiree with nothing but time ahead can seem like a daunting proposition on its own. It's perfectly reasonable -- and abundantly common -- to achieve financial independence but continue to work in some capacity.

Those familiar with FIRE might think its adherents are frugal to an extreme. They might think that FIRE means living a life of pure sacrifice until an arbitrary portfolio value is reached. On the contrary, FIRE principles are freely accessible to almost anyone.

Make no mistake -- there are some strategic sacrifices involved -- but even the most ardent FIRE practitioners make room for enjoyment and self-indulgence. To get to their FIRE number as fast as possible, however, many FI devotees follow some of the value-maximizing principles of financial planning.

Some of the more common FIRE tips include:

The difference between the typical employee and the FIRE adherent is the one seeking financial independence is very deliberate in ensuring that each of these tips is met and surpassed. They are purposeful. Every dollar has a job. FIRE proponents understand that each of their small actions plays a significant role in ultimately hitting their retirement number, which will only come sooner with greater dedication.

It starts with asking yourself some basic questions and then doing the math to figure out how much you'll need to save -- or if you need to adjust your goals.

Once you've answered these two questions, you can start working to determine if your goal is feasible. Let's start with the first number, which is how much you expect to spend each year in retirement.

As mentioned earlier, a helpful rule of thumb is the "4% rule," which says your retirement savings will need to be large enough for you to withdraw 4% per year. In other words, your nest egg needs to be 25 times the amount you'll withdraw the first year. In each successive year, your withdrawal amount may be increased by inflation.

In the previous example, we used this concept to show that someone anticipating $50,000 in annual living expenses would need to accumulate $1.25 million. If your expectations for annual expenses in retirement aren't quite so frugal -- the median U.S. household income is now closer to $60,000 per year -- you may need to accumulate even more.

Let's use $1.25 million as a starting point, along with the next question:When do you want to retire?

If someone who's 25 wants to retire at 40 with a $1.25 million nest egg, they'd have to stick $83,000 per year in a savings account at current interest yields. Needless to say, that's out of reach for many people who don't earn a significant income.

However, there are ways to boost how much you save and to maximize how much your savings grow so you're not doing all the hard work on your own. And remember, FIRE is far from an all-or-nothing proposition. Even reaching 50% of your FI goal is a tremendous accomplishment and will earn you a significant amount of financial flexibility.

Of course, these are simple numbers to illustrate the point: Saving a lot of money is much harder than growing wealth by investing a portion of that savings over the long term. And, perhaps a more salient point: Investing as much money as you can -- as soon as possible -- will pave the way toward financial freedom.

One of the unique things about the FIRE movement is that its constituents come from all walks of life and all income levels. You don't need to be a Wall Street executive to reach financial independence; anyone can accelerate their trajectory toward FI by following a few simple financial planning principles. Retiring early, on the other hand, tends to be more controversial and more self-defined. Becoming financially independent doesn't force you into quitting your job the next day, but it certainly does give you the choice.

Many people are bothered by the idea that FIRE requires too much sacrifice of the "now." Yet many FIRE practitioners say the lifestyle can be deeply gratifying. Sure, there are sacrifices, but learning basic plumbing to fix a leaky faucet can save you hundreds of dollars versus hiring a handyman or plumber. It can also unlock your potential to do far more things on your own.

FIRE devotees also describe the lifestyle as being physically and emotionally healthy. Instead of a pricey resort vacation -- often with the added stress of air travel -- a camping or backpacking trip with family and close friends not only costs less, but it can result in more meaningful experiences.

But howmuch sacrifice FIRE requires you and your family to make really depends on your goals, your disposable income, and what you're prepared to give up or cut back on to get your savings rate as high as possible.

It's also possible to find over time that many things that were hard to give up are things you're better off having left behind. A simpler, less-expensive lifestyle that prioritizes experiences over things, especially when it helps you achieve financial independence as early as you can, is worth striving for.

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This is a first-person RPG/shooter in which players assume the role of a mercenary named V trying to make their way through the open-world of Night City. Players can explore futuristic locations, interact with citizens, perform missions, and engage in combat to complete various objectives within a storyline. Characters use handguns, machine guns, rifles, and explosives during frenetic firefights with humans and cybernetically enhanced enemies; players can also use melee weapons (e.g., wrist-mounted blades, enhanced limbs) to stab enemies and, in some cases, dismember them. Combat is frenetic, with frequent gunfire, cries of pain, explosions, and blood-splatter effects. Some locations depict mutilated corpses with open chest cavities and/or exposed organs/entrails. During one quest, players assist a character by hammering nails through his hands and feet; screaming sounds and blood effects accompany the scene. The game contains nudity and sexual material: Players can select a gender and customize their character; customization can include depictions of breasts, buttocks, and genitalia, as well as various sizes and combinations of genitals. Players can encounter events where they have the option to engage in sexual activities with other main characters or prostitutesthese brief sex scenes (from a first-person perspective) depict partially nude characters moaning suggestively while moving through various positions. Some scenes contain brief depictions of thrusting motions; other scenes depict a character's head moving towards a partner's crotch. The game contains frequent depictions and references to fictional drugs, including characters taking puffs/hits from a state-altering inhaler/stimulant; an animated billboard ad depicts a man snorting speed. Some sequences allow the player to drink alcoholic beverages repeatedly until the screen distorts; player's character can also drive cars while drunk. The words f**k and "c*nt" appear in the dialogue.

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Cyberpunk 2077 Hits 90% Positive Reviews On Steam For The First Time – Forbes

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  1. Cyberpunk 2077 Hits 90% Positive Reviews On Steam For The First Time  Forbes
  2. Cyberpunk 2077 Has Had 1 Million Active Players Each Day for 4 Weeks in a Row  GameRant
  3. A Month Later, A Million Chooms Are Still Logging Into Cyberpunk 2077 Every Day  GameSpot
  4. Cyberpunk 2077 Passes Another Milestone  ComicBook.com
  5. Cyberpunk 2077 Devs Celebrate One Million Daily Active Player Count Across Four Weeks  MP1st
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