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The journalist’s task is complicated by the fact the events took place many years previously and there is considerable antagonism displayed by other family members to the supposed biography. In addition, the journalist faces an impending spell in prison and is embroiled in a messy love life.
This is the first book of a trilogy and I confess I haven’t read the other two in the series yet.
What I liked about this book: I liked the density of the story. There was a real sense of place and the characters were well rounded. Tension and uncertainty were maintained throughout the book and the resolution of the mystery was credible but unexpected. The plot was complex. There was no artificial happy ending.
What I didn’t like: The book began slowly and I was put off by the extended family and the parade of different characters with their foreign names, making it hard to follow who was who – despite the helpfully provided family tree.
In fact, the main problem I had with the beginning of the story was my uncertainty about who to identify with. Initially, it seemed unclear who the main character was, until the author appeared to settle on the journalist. It was brought home to me how important this element is to a reader. Near the beginning of any book, we expect to know who the story is about. Who do we focus our attention on?
There is a part of the book, near the end, where a particularly horrendous series of crimes is uncovered. This is never satisfactorily dealt with (maybe it is revisited in subsequent book in the series) and almost pushed aside as being too complex to address. I felt the late revelation of this aspect of the story, and the almost dismissive trivialisation of the crimes, was unsatisfactory and undermined some of the realism of the rest of the book.
But this is a great book and well worth reading. It demands some attention. I plan to read the next two books in the trilogy, but I am waiting for some dedicated reading time to appear in my schedule. | 2019-04-20T08:38:50 | https://ruthlessreadings.wordpress.com/category/authors/larsson-steig/ |
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Conceived in 2012, Crayon Data (www.crayondata.com) was set-up with one clear ambition in mind – simplify and democratize the world of Big Data.
With the company’s headquarters in Singapore and key development center in Chennai, Crayon has been able to make impressive inroads into the global market in a very short period of time. From securing clients, to increasing revenue traction and exploring funding, the company has surely embarked upon an ambitious journey. The recent acquisition of the Singapore based company One Drop Analytics has given Crayon a new proficiency stance.
Founded by Suresh V Shankar, Crayon’s growth driver remains the talent pool supported by a robust team of seasoned entrepreneurs and industry experts. Suresh is a pioneer in the field of analytics. He had earlier laid the foundation for RedPill Solutions in 2000 which was later acquired by IBM in 2009.
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Full Frame- Hank James jig. This is a 45cm, 650c whls, road frame. SS SS are added after alignment. Long HT excess allows for easier alignment.
H20- Alu extrusions and turned pilots. Pilots have a section inside H2O boss.
CS Stop- Alu extrusion, spring and rod. Multi holes, slots and mirror contouring allow lots of clamp configurations.
TT Stops- Same as CS clamp but set up differently.
BB Guides- Alu bar and extrusion, steel bar and rod. Wing nutted rod allows fine pressure control adding prep/set up. Note my Didymium glasses.
DT Stops- Bicycle Research frame block, alu plate and steel rod. The stops are a canti boss cut and slotted, brazed on a short rod as a standoff.
HT Logo- Hank James braze on bit holder. The "S" is my HT badge. Made of copper wire. | 2019-04-22T18:09:05 | http://www.ihpva.org/Projects/AndrewStewart/index.html |
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Federal prosecutors are recommending that former Portland parking manager Ellis K. McCoy go to prison for 2 ½ years for accepting bribes worth almost $200,000 in a long-running scam to cut out the competition for city parking meter contracts.
He accepted $164,567 in cash or checks and another $35,400 in travel, entertainment and meals from Florida parking meter supplier George R. Levey and an unnamed executive from a second company while steering multimillion-dollar city contracts to their businesses between January 2002 and July 2011, according to the federal government.
McCoy, now 63, pleaded guilty in late August 2012 to taking bribes, filing false income tax returns and conspiring to accept bribes. His sentencing, set for next Wednesday morning in U.S. District Court in Portland, will follow nearly four years after the FBI raided his city office and Hillsboro apartment and arrested him on Aug. 10, 2011. | 2019-04-24T02:06:25 | https://ethixbase.com/eanews/united-states-federal-prosecutors-recommend-bribe-taking-portland-parking-manager-spend-more-than-2-years-in-prison/ |
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Preached by Sam Brunning on October 16, 2016 (Sunday Morning).
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Luke 11:5-13 (Part of the Parables series).
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The University of Louisville football team didn't need any lightning delays or miracle blocked field goals at the end of regulation.
In beating the University of Kentucky for the third straight year, all the Cards really needed was the golden left arm of Dave Ragone and the swift feet of his receiving corps.
Ragone sliced the Wildcat defense up for 368 yards passing and three touchdowns as the Cards pulled away from a tight game in the third quarter and rolled to a 36-10 victory yesterday before 70,838 fans at Commonwealth Stadium.
"It just seemed like we couldn't find any kind of spark from either (Boyd or Lorenzen) today, but it wasn't just the quarterbacks, it was the whole offense, period," Morriss said. "We couldn't get untracked and get anything going.
"We felt like our running backs were trying to break everything outside and do too much east and west running instead of just finding a little crack, dropping your head and getting in it."
The Kentucky defense performed admirably for three quarters, but its lack of depth became painfully apparent in the fourth quarter.
Trailing just 16-10 with less than 12 minutes remaining, Ragone hit Branch for a 27-yard gain to the UK 14. Two plays later, he hit Branch again for a 3-yard gain, and UK linebacker Ronnie Riley was forced to leave the game with a knee injury.
The very next play, Ragone picked on Riley's replacement, true freshman Dustin Williams, and found Ghent for an 11-yard touchdown strike. U of L misfired on the two-point conversion attempt but still had a 22-10 lead with 9:57 left.
Lorenzen fumbled the center exchange on UK's next play from scrimmage at the Louisville 10, and T. J. Patterson scored two plays later to give U of L a 29-10 cushion at 9:32.
After a UK three-and-out, the Cards marched 69 yards in nine plays and Patterson bounced around right end for a 6-yard TD run to put a final nail in the coffin.
Morriss said the offense's inability to produce left the defense on the field far too long in the second half.
"How many times did we go three-and-out?" Morriss said. "You can run sprints until you're blue in the face, but if we could have done what we were committed to do offensively and helped our defense out, I don't think the game would have gotten out of control."
Defensive coordinator John Goodner said his unit will have to develop some depth in order to survive. Most of the first-stringers went the entire first half without a break.
"I felt like our kids played hard and with great effort and intensity, but we ran out of steam there at the end," he said. "As a coaching staff we've got to force our way into playing some kids in the first half. That's how you build depth. But when you're in a real close ball game, though, sometimesthat's hard to do."
Last year's loss to Louisville sent the team on a downward spiral that resulted in a 2-9 finish, but both Morriss and the players say they're ready to stay the course this time around.
"I think they're disappointed, but I don't think they're devastated to the point where they'll throw in the towel on the season by any means," Morriss said.
Tight end Derek Smith, one of several players who went to UK Athletics Director Larry Ivy and lobbied for Morriss to become the head coach, said it's now gut-check time for him and his teammates.
"It's frustrating because we've worked so hard, and we really felt like we should have beaten Louisville," Smith said. "Now we've got to see if some guys are going to let what happened last year happen again or are they going to come back on Sunday, get to work, and get the attitude back that we used to have around here." | 2019-04-21T10:25:04 | https://www.kentucky.com/news/databases/article43969452.html |
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Seen here completing his Application Form Club Captain and Cup winning scorer David Gray said “ When the Directors of HSL approached me and explained how their Members were trying to help the Club I had no hesitation in offering my support. I know that it can cost a lot to follow your team, particularly with a family, so I just want all our supporters to know how much we fully appreciate their efforts “.
Charlie Reid, HSL Director, seen here with David said “ I can’t believe the transformation that has taken place over the last couple of years at the Club. Our Members have invested over half a million pounds into this squad and I think it is fair to say we have played an important part in the progress that has been made. David is not only a great Captain of our team but a really nice bloke as well. Can I ask as many of my fellow supporters who can manage it to come and join us at HSL.
It really shows what we can do if we #ClubTogether. | 2019-04-23T16:20:07 | https://hiberniansupporters.co.uk/sir-david-of-hsl/ |
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin met face to face with renown anti-cryptocurrency figure Nouriel Roubini at this year’s Deconomy blockchain event which was held in Seoul, South Korea.
The two got a chance to go at each other during the Deconomy blockchain event. Buterin spoke about the advantages that Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have to offer. Roubini, on the other hand, attacked cryptocurrencies claiming that they are inefficient. He claims that cryptocurrency transactions are actually more expensive than fiat currency transactions. Roubini also bashed cryptocurrency and blockchain technology for their disadvantages such as cyber attacks, association with fraud and fake trading volumes reported by crypto exchanges.
Roubini, a New York University professor is well-known in the cryptocurrency community because of his negative opinions about cryptocurrencies. He has previously criticized Bitcoin and altcoins and previously earned himself the nickname ‘Dr. Doom’ for predicting the 2008 financial crisis. Having him and Buterin pitted against each other during the Seoul event provided the audience with a balanced view of the crypto market.
The two titans debated through a panel talk called Fundamental Value of Cryptocurrency and its sustainability,’ whose moderator was Antony Lewis. Some of the topics discussed during the debate include censorship resistance, scalability, and centralization. Vitalik talked about cryptocurrency and how censorship resistance can help more people gain access to financial services. He also claimed that it can also lead to more use cases with DApps as a good example. Meanwhile, Roubini rubbished the Ethereum co-founder’s anti-censorship remarks as a mere joke.
The NYU professor stated in his counter-argument that anti-censorship will remain a myth because governments have the capacity to rule against crypto-systems. He believes that the level of crypto-resistance will only be as much as the government allows. Roubini also argued that censorship resistance and anonymity will not work because many regulators have implemented KYC norms.
The professor also stated that governments will remain opposed to cryptocurrencies because they help finance felonies such as terrorism, human trafficking, and tax evasion. Buterin’s response was that compliant private finance is not impossible. His argument for efficiency was that solutions such as Ethereum’s sharding make crypto transactions and crypto mining highly efficient. The debate between Buterin and Roubini has been described as one of the most thrilling panel discussions of 2019. | 2019-04-22T04:05:27 | https://www.journaltranscript.com/2019/04/vitalik-buterin-and-nouriel-roubini-exchange-opinions-in-heated-debate-at-seouls-deconomy-blockchain-event/ |
Our maternity services at Furness General Hospital (FGH) offer midwife-led and obstetric consultant-led care for both high risk and low risk women.
Our 24/7 services at FGH are provided by a team of dedicated and experienced midwives, doctors, clinical support workers and clerical staff support.
Our team at FGH specialises in active birth and water birth, and we have a range of different birth options for you to consider when planning your birth.
Within the new £12m South Lakes Birth Centre, there are ten birthing rooms and four active birth rooms, along with two dedicated operating theatres, a Special Care Baby Unit, a Maternity Assessment area, a Transitional Care facility, a skills lab for staff training, and a Bereavement Suite - the Rainbow Suite.
Each of our birthing rooms at FGH has electronic delivery beds, which can be adjusted to support different positions of your choice during your labour and birth.
Each of the rooms are en-suite and have facilities for partners to stay over. They are also equipped with Smart TVs and tea and coffee making facilities.
We have four birthing pool rooms at FGH. Each room is large and airy, providing a comforting and relaxing surrounding for women in labour, and each has en-suite facilities.
It also contains a variety of active birth equipment to allow you to move around freely which allows you to change positions during your birth.
This equipment is designed to encourage your body to adopt comfortable positions during your birth.
The South Lakes Birth Centre is situated on Level 3 and Level 4 (ground level) at FGH.
The Special Care Baby Unit is also located within the South Lakes Birth Centre.
There is disabled access outside the Unit and pay and display car parking spaces on the large car park close to the Unit.
There are good public transport links to the hospital with bus stops located within the hospital grounds. | 2019-04-24T10:46:58 | https://www.uhmb.nhs.uk/maternity/maternity/our-facilities/maternity-services-furness-general-hospital/ |
Here you can find free books in the category: Letters. Read online or download Letters eBooks for free. Browse through our eBooks while discovering great authors and exciting books in Haitian Creole. | 2019-04-25T17:56:36 | https://www.bookrix.com/books;letters,id:63,lang:ht.html |
Have you noticed your spouse worries about her look more often or spends a lot of freetime without you?
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Introductory or Resort Dives: You will need to fill in a Medical Questionnaire given to you by the company you are diving with, and similar to that shown below. If answering YES to any question it will not necessarily disqualify you from diving, but will indicate the need for a medical assessment by a qualified physician prior to diving. Your dive medical can either be done by your own private physician at home or here in Cairns and must state that you are 'fit to dive'.
Learn To Dive Courses and Referral Programs: You may be required to have a dive medical to complete your Learn to dive course. If you answer YES to any of the questions listed below you will be required to have a dive medial completed stating that you are fit to dive. Your dive medical can be done either by your own private physician at home or here in Cairns. A dive medical in Cairns is around AUD$80 per person.
Please note that dive medicals are performed by independent doctors, not dive companies, and it is ultimately the decision of the doctor whether to pass you as medically fit to dive.
The following Medical Centres in Cairns specialise in dive medicals. | 2019-04-21T18:15:30 | https://divingcairns.com.au/divemedicals |
"The best way to capture moments is to pay attention. This is how we cultivate mindfulness. Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing."
Here are some of our favorite mindfulness videos and children's books. Enjoy!
Alderfer, Lauren. Mindful Monkey Happy Panda. Boston: Wisdom Publications, 2011.
Bernarnardi, Erin. Don’t Feed the Ants. San Bernadino: Self-Published, 2016.
Bryan, Tracy. Being Happy…A Kid’s Guide to Understanding Mindfulness. Middletown: Self-Published, 2015.
Deak, JoAnn. Your Fantastic Elastic Brain: Stretch It, Shape It. San Francisco: Little Pickle Press, 2010.
Deak, JoAnn. The Owner’s Manual for Driving Your Adolescent Brain. San Francisco: Little Pickle Press, 2013.
DiOrio, Rana. What Does It Mean to Be Present? San Francisco: Little Pickle Press, 2010.
Grossman, Laurie. Master of Mindfulness: How to Be Your Own Superhero in Times of Stress. Oakland: New Harbinger Publications, 2016.
Lauffer, Jill and Kathleen Roberts. The Secret Stone. Konnected Kidz Publishing, 2009.
Lee, Phoebe. Monkey Mind. Chicago: Inspire You Books LLC, 2011.
Ludwig, Trudy. Gifts from the Enemy. Ashland: White Cloud Press, 2014.
Ludwig, Trudy. The Invisible Boy. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2013.
Lemniscates. Silence. Washington, DC: Magination Press, 2012.
MacLean, Kerry Lee. Peaceful Piggy Meditation. Chicago: Albert Whitman & Co, 2004.
MacLean, Kerry Lee. Moody Cow Meditates. Boston: Wisdom Publications, 2009.
Marlowe, Sara. No Ordinary Apple. Somerville: Wisdom Publications, 2013.
Nance, Andrew. Puppy Mind. Berkeley: Parallax Press, 2016.
Roegiers, Maud. Take the Time – Mindfulness for Kids. Washington, DC: Magination Press, 2009.
Rubenstein, Lauren. Visiting Feelings. Washington, DC: Magination Press, 2014.
Showers, Paul. The Listening Walk. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1991.
Silver, Gail. Ahn’s Anger. Berkeley: Parallax Press, 2009.
Silver, Gail. Steps and Stones: Ahn’s Anger Story. Berkeley: Parallax Press, 2007.
Weierbach, Jane and Elizabeth Phillips-Hershey. Mind Over Basketball: Coach Yourself to Handle Stress. Washington, DC: Magination Press, 2008. | 2019-04-25T12:11:21 | https://www.on-pointmindfulness.com/resources.html |
Here's how I'm looking at the Bayer/U.S. Equestrian Team's Festival of Champions: I'm using it to train for reporting on the World Equestrian Games, where I'll be going in September. So I've hopped (or when I've gotten lucky, taken a golf cart) from dressage to show jumping and reining, with side trips to scope out the driven dressage and a super vaulting exhibition. Tomorrow, I'll include the endurance competition on my travels.
All the USET's disciplines, with the exception of eventing, are on display at the team's training center nestled in the Somerset Hills, as pretty an area as you'll find anywhere. If all you know about New Jersey is the Turnpike, you should drop by the venerable team stables and offices, with the handsome sand ring behind it, and another complex of rings in Pine Meadow a short hack (or golf cart ride) away.
The Festival is a miniature version of the multi-discipline WEG, set for Jerez, Spain. And for reining, the $75,000 championship is the final selection trial for the WEG. It takes on even greater importance, though, because this is the first time the western sport will be part of the FEI's (international equestrian federation) line-up of world championships.
All the horses in the two-round competition here had to qualify and go through a semi-finals last month in Oklahoma City. But the pressure was really on for the first round, won by Tom McCutcheon aboard Conquistador Whiz with a score of 222.5.
The top 10 are all within 3.5 points of that mark, so Sunday's second and determining round will be really tense. The guys who wind up on the team will need to be made of strong stuff, since none of them - or anyone else, for that matter - has ever been in a reining world championships.
While Tom said he has shown in Italy, the WEG, if he makes it, "will be different just because I'll be representing the country. In Italy, I wasn't representing anything but my (horses') owners."
Still, this tall Texan's a cool customer, just like his brother, Scott, who's standing third with Inwhizable (220.5); Shawn Flarida, second with San Jo Freckles (222); and Craig Schmersal, tied for fourth on Tidal Wave Jack (220) with Clint Haverty aboard Roosters Wrangler. I talked with all the leaders and came away with the impression that nothing could faze any of these cowboys.
They've never been in a Nations' Cup on their own horses in a foreign country with thousands of fans from all over the world in the stands. Not to mention the fact that everyone is expecting the U.S. to win because reining is a born-in-the-USA sport. Just talking about it was getting me all whipped up, but the team contenders didn't raise an eyebrow.
"Horse showing is horse showing," shrugged Tom. "You get them (the horses) ready the same way."
And there will be a lot of preparation for Sunday. Gunner, the winner of the semi-finals and the USET Reining Championship, wasn't up to snuff on a stop in the first round and is in a four-way tie for seventh on 219 points. I watched rider Bryant Pace work Gunner in an attempt to avoid making the same mistake twice. It will be interesting to see if the paint stallion can move up in the last round to reach his owners' goal of making the four-member team.
The biggest prize here in dressage is the USET Intermediare I Championship, since the WEG selection trials at Grand Prix level were held earlier this month. This is a very interesting division. As in reining, all the horses had to qualify to come, and what we're looking at here is our next generation of Grand Prix stars. I think we have some good prospects for the 2004 Olympics and beyond; there's a lot of equine talent on display.
Talk about presence - Liberte, the dapple gray winner of the Prix St. Georges - really has it. The Dutchbred earned 68 percent to take the first leg of the three-part competition with Jan Ebeling up. The horse is owned by Ann Romney, whose last name may sound familiar. Her husband, Mitt, was the man in charge of the fabulous Salt Lake City winter Olympics and is now running for governor of Massachusetts.
Three years ago, at the age of 50, Ann decided she wanted to really ride and got herself a trainer, Jan, and a dressage horse. While he was shopping for Ann's mount, Jan came across a rather weedy looking Liberte in a German stable. He has been developing the horse ever since and believe me, the weediness is gone.
Liberte, nicknamed Lester, may be headed for the Pan American Games next year. That's the same route taken by Brentina, champion here at I-1 in 1999. On the other hand, Jan notes that Lester has many of the Grand Prix moves, so he may go straight in that direction instead.
Jan, who grew up in Germany and apprenticed with the great Herbert Rehbein, has been in this country since 1984 and a citizen since 1998. If he does wind up on the 2004 Olympic squad, he may be a teammate of his ex-wife, Lisa Wilcox, who took a track that was the opposite of her former husband's and is now based in Germany. She is in line to be a member of the U.S. dressage team for the WEG.
Jumper entries are light at the Festival, with only 13 starters in today's $25,000 grand prix, though we should see a few more in Sunday's Rolex/USET Championship. But as pointed out by both the winner, McLain Ward with Viktor, and runner-up Margie Goldstein-Engle with Hidden Creek's Perin, it isn't quantity that counts, it's quality.
McLain and Margie are numbers one and two on the USET computer list, while Kim Frey - fourth on Conawara behind McLain and another of his mounts, Rio - leads the American Grand Prix Association standings at the moment.
Many riders have headed to western Canada for the Spruce Meadows shows, because they're close to California, where the WEG selection trials will be held at the end of July. McLain and Margie think some in that group are testing their horses to see whether they have what it takes to be candidates for the trials.
"Margie and I are lucky enough, we've been to championships with our horses, we believe that if they're on and we're on, we can get there," said McLain. "There are a lot of people who are on the border: 'Is my horse good enough?' 'Am I ready?' A great place to test that is Spruce Meadows."
They like the format of jumping Friday and Sunday here, contending it's a test similar to what they'll face at the WEG, where there are multiple competitions and not just one grand prix.
"This is a beautiful venue," said McLain, who added that footing in the jumper arena, which had been a source of complaints at previous festivals, has improved every year.
In driving, after the dressage phase, Eleanor Gallagher leads the singles with a score of 38.7 penalties, just ahead of Nancy Johnson (41.3) who won the Jaguar Triple Crown last year and was ranked fourth in the world in 2001. This division is where the action is, since it's the final selection trial for these drivers' world championships, which are a stand-alone affair in France and not part of the WEG. They'll really be going for it in tomorrow's marathon -- you can bet on that. We'll be back to update you then.
June 21, 2003 -- Rain dampened competitors and spectators, but not the competitive spirit. This was especially true in the dressage rings, where the country's top riders are vying for a spot on the Pan Am squad and the Intermediare I Championship. Written By Nancy Jaffer for EquiSearch. | 2019-04-23T20:44:00 | https://www.equisearch.com/news/eqfestival2322 |
Thursday 21 March, a second draft law was released aiming at mitigating Brexit effects for the investment fund sector. It follows the first draft law on Brexit, which introduced among others a grand-fathering period of up to 21 months during which UK management companies of Luxembourg undertakings for collective investment in transferable securities (UCITS) and UK alternative investment fund managers (AIFMs) would be able to respectively continue managing Luxembourg UCITS funds and continue managing/providing services to Luxembourg AIFs in case of “hard” Brexit.
Irrespective of the final outcome of Brexit (“soft” or “hard” Brexit), UK UCITS within the meaning of the EU UCITS Directive will become alternative investment funds (AIFs) after UK’s departure from the EU.
The draft law sets out that UK UCITS authorised for placement to retail investors in Luxembourg will benefit from a transitory period of 12 months enabling them to keep on marketing their shares to retail investors during that period. After the end of the transitory period, marketing will only be authorised according to the marketing rules applicable to third countries (if applicable) under the alternative investment fund managers Directive (AIFMD) or based on national private placement rules. The 12 month transitory period will be introduced by means of a new article to be included into chapter 25 (Transitional provisions) of the UCI Law. | 2019-04-26T00:45:55 | https://www.taxand.com/our-thinking/brexit-luxembourg-takes-additional-steps-to-mitigate-brexit-effects/ |
Mary Jackson is a painter of figurative, landscape and still life subjects in oil and watercolour. Working away from the studio has always been an integral part of her painting. This approach revitalises her perception and images which are then taken back to the studio. All the gathered material is then worked out in her paintings. She is passionate about light and tone and always has a sketchbook to hand. The highlights of her career were Artist in Residence for Glyndebourne, Garsington and the ENO Operas and Artist on board Thorry Gunnersen’s Yacht, Tilting at Windmills, recording Five Tours, Sailing in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. | 2019-04-20T11:09:48 | https://www.newenglishartclub.co.uk/artists/mary-jackson-neac-rws |
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Author/Co-Author of over 60 peer-reviewed scientific papers.
... a motto of practicing understanding/justice/respect/fairness in interpersonal relationships.
The process of spiritual discovery became the focus of Klaus' life in the early 1970s, when he and his wife attended classes and seminars led by the late Dr. Harry and Emilia Rathbun. Their work focused on the mission and work of the late Dr. Henry Burton Sharman and his book, Jesus as Teacher. The Rathbun's own lives' demonstration that the messenger must be congruent with the message has left a life-changing impression on Klaus.
In 2013 Klaus and his wife Gundi authored the book Being the Change, in which they convey how one contemporary person -- Emilia Rathbun -- initiated extraordinary positive changes in the world by following the wisdom teachings with totality.
Other spiritual teachers who profoundly impacted Klaus' life include the late Rev. Dr. Ron Roth, who, perhaps more convincingly than any other teacher he had encountered at the time, emphasized that even the most profound teaching has but little impact on a person's personal growth unless it sinks from the level of the mind to the level of the heart.
With his science background, Klaus has followed a calling to communicate that the spiritual realm is no less "real" than the physical reality familiar to us. In his book, "Expanding Perception - Re-discovering the Grand Original Design," he presents how even a person with a formal natural sciences background can come to the expanded perception/view that "there is more to Life than life."
In the book, "The Orb Project," co-authored with Dr. Miceal Ledwith and with an extended foreword by Dr. William A. Tiller, Klaus discusses digital photographs that contain clear and irrefutable evidence of phenomena that cannot be explained on the basis of conventional physics. Building on this work, Klaus and Gundi co-authored "Orb: Their Mission and Messages of Hope." Find more about this fascinating topic here.
Feature article: The orb phenomenon - bridging to the world beyond? | 2019-04-26T00:04:13 | https://www.healingguidance.net/klaus |
In this video, Professor John Ahr of the Online Jewelry Academy demonstrates how to make a bezel for a cabochon stone. If you have any cabochon stones that are not cut to standard sizes, you need to watch this step-by-step tutorial.
Bezel setting is one of the oldest and easiest ways to set a stone. It is still regularly used today in jewelry industry. But, in order to speed up mass production of jewelry items, the stones and bezels are produces according to standard shapes and sizes. So, if you have an odd shaped stone it's important to know how to make a bezel for it. | 2019-04-25T14:15:28 | http://www.onlinejewelryacademy.com/silver-bezel-for-cabochon-video.html |
We have issues with behavior on the Internet, and on social media specifically. Some people just don’t think before posting, or they don’t care and they go for it, not thinking about the ramifications.
3 recent instances brought this to mind for me.
Is It Okay To Publicly Call People Out on Social Media?
I hear this concern often. Lawyers, legal marketing professionals, and others in law firms tell me that lawyers remain very concerned about how to stay out of trouble when posting in social media. They don’t want to jeopardize client relationships.
Congratulations to Greentarget and Zeughauser Group for the release of The 2018 State of Digital and Content Marketing Survey, a refresh on their survey that serves to inform lawyers and legal marketers about the behaviors of in-house legal departments when it comes to their consumption of social, digital, and content marketing.
There’s Hope For LinkedIn Groups … I Hope!
In case you haven’t heard what is happening with groups on LinkedIn, let me bring you up to speed. Here is a recording I recorded live on Facebook that will explain everything I know so far. Don’t forget to turn on the volume control in the bottom right corner after you press the play button.
If your Facebook News Feed has historically been dominated by updates from brands, businesses, and news media, get ready for a major shift. Starting right away, you will begin seeing updates mostly from friends and family.
LinkedIn is on a bit of a roll. Last week, LinkedIn announced the reintroduction of video to the platform. I say reintroduction because their video effort launched last year was met with less than stellar results. Today, we are seeing the first noticeable result of Microsoft’s 2016 $26.2 billion acquisition of LinkedIn.
Lawyers, Is LinkedIn A Waste Of Your Time?
LinkedIn has moved beyond the “I’m just not that into you” phase of social media marketing for lawyers. It is a must and for good reason. You no longer have the luxury of deciding whether this is a tool you should spend time getting to know. For several reasons, the answer is, and always has been, yes.
As I write this post, well over 1500 marketers and service providers from firms and companies all over the world have begun preparing for a conference that exists solely to help them do what they do better. That conference is the LMA Annual Conference, which is March 27-29. | 2019-04-25T12:07:54 | https://www.myrlandmarketing.com/tag/social-media/ |
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Download Gods of Rome 1.2.0l Apk File Free. The best action fighting game for your mobile device if it’s capable of it. GODS of ROME is a fighting game having legend fighters in it with awesome powers more than any marvel super heroes, as they can easily beat THOR, Superman etc. The fight is because of to restore peace and you are going to restore that peace with your gaming skill. The game is having fully next generation 3D best graphics and including many daily challenges. The game is including tap and swipe control you have to control your hero by tapping and swipping. Zeus, Hades, Vulcan, Atlas, Medusa, Spartacus the gladiator, The Greek and Roman gods and many other most powerful fighters with you are going to fight in this game. Unlock mystical prizes by completing missions and play hard. | 2019-04-21T04:08:03 | http://www.apknoma.com/download-gods-of-rome-1-2-0l-apk-file-free/ |
The latest data from Kantar Worldpanel China shows that 22 FMCG companies reached more than 100 million urban Chinese households during the 52 weeks ending October 7th 2016, with 12 of them being Chinese companies.
P&G maintains its lead, reaching 154 million urban families. It is followed by Yili and Mengniu Group (which includes Yashili). These three companies attracted 93.4%, 88.2% and 88.1% of urban households respectively. Nongfu Spring, the local beverage giant, made the list for the first time in 2016.
With their extensive national reach, Chinese companies managed to grow penetration substantially. The most successful were Nongfu Spring (adding an extra 8.1million households), Haday (which gained 5.7 million), Hengan and Nice Group (both 4.6 million), Yili (4.3 million) and Mengniu (3.4 million). Yet only P&G managed to reach more than 90% of the urban Chinese families, indicating there is still room for other ambitious players to grow their buyer base.
One of the most notable is Nongfu Spring, with an impressive 8.7% increase in its buyers year on year. The growth can be attributed to the successful launch of its RTD tea brand Tea π. Despite commanding a 60% premium price, the brand has reached 9.4% of urban Chinese shoppers in the six months after its launch. Its novel name, fun packaging and new flavour (Oolong Peach) have all contributed to its popularity. Tea π also used an affiliation with a Korean Pop band to increase its appeal to younger consumers. Apart from this new RTD tea brand, Nongfu Spring also continues to capitalise on the growth of packaged water and add another 10 million households.
In the personal care and homecare sector, it is laundry liquid, facial skin care and make-up which continue to boast the greatest success. Nice Group recruited 4.6 million new families in 2016 with its Chaoneng laundry liquid product. While its femcare and bathroom tissues remain robust in their attraction of new shoppers. Hengan also added more than 1.2 million households through its kitchen towel products, an emerging category in China.
Thanks to continued urbanisation, lower tier cities remain the key drivers of growth for the buyer bases of FMCG companies. Among all of the 22 FMCG companies in the ranking, 10 of them managed to grow their buyers in lower tier cities. The rate of growth in these cities was also much faster than that seen in high tier cities. However, as competition also intensifies in the lower tier cities, several leading companies are also experiencing a faster decline in their buyer base in these locations.
At the same time, some Chinese companies are also expanding out of their low tier city strongholds into the top 27 cities in China, developing an offering which is more relevant to consumers in the mega cities. Examples include Hengan (which added 1.4 million households) and Nongfu Spring (with 2.5 million households gained). The general trend, for all key players who have experienced significant growth in their penetration in the last 12 months, is that they tend to capture growth opportunities and make headroom across all city tiers.
B2C e-commerce retailers, such as Tmall and JD.com, have thrived in recent years as they expand their category availability and product range within FMCG to drive traffic. In the past 12 months, the e-commerce channel has attracted 52% of urban families to buy FMCG with growth substantially outpacing all brick-and-mortar channels. Each online sales event, with Single’s Day being the highlight, creates a step change in the penetration of e-commerce. With modern trade channels, such as hypermarkets and supermarkets projecting limited growth, all FMCG companies are looking to increase their buyers through online stores.
In 2016, 39 million urban families bought products from the top ranking 22 companies through the e-commerce channel. P&G was chosen by the most households, attracting 15 million urban families online. However, it is Mengniu, Yili and Orion which have achieved the most rapid growth in buyers through e-commerce. Currently, e-commerce in China still only makes a minor contribution in driving incremental buyers for the major FMCG players. Amongst all the brands, Colgate has the biggest e-commerce-only buyer base, with 1.1 million families purchasing its products exclusively online.
1. Kantar Worldpanel China continuously measures household purchases over 100 product categories including cosmetics, food and beverages and the toiletry/household sector. Its national urban panel covers 20 provinces and four municipality cities (Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai and Chongqing).
2. International retailers refer to retailers originated outside Mainland China, Taiwan, Macau, and Hong Kong.
Kantar Worldpanel reveals most chosen cosmetic brands in China.
FMCG spending in China grew 3.6% in the third quarter of 2016. | 2019-04-26T16:01:06 | https://www.kantarworldpanel.com/global/News/Who-is-winning-with-Chinese-consumers-in-2016 |
Hi! I am Luis Caballero, the person behind Horses.
I'm an illustrator and designer based in Berlin.
My approach to illustration is bold graphics, simple shapes, a bright color palette and a strong use of hand lettering. I work in all kind of projects related to illustration.
After I earned a Media & Communication Degree from the University of Sevilla (Spain), I successfully moved to Germany, where I worked in different cities and agencies as a branding graphic designer for about seven years. In 2018 I moved to Berlin, where I run my one-man-studio Horses.
You can contact me if you need help with a project, for commissions or just to say hi. I speak English, German and Spanish, so feel free to contact me in one of these languages.
Hi! I am Luis Caballero, the person behind Horses. I'm an illustrator and designer based in Berlin. | 2019-04-25T17:47:01 | http://madebyhorses.com/about |
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Institut de Sélection Animale (ISA) has confirmed that Pas Reform will equip its brand new (Grand) Parent Stock hatchery in the Netherlands with the latest generation SmartPro™ incubation technologies, to produce Grandparent (GPS) and Parentstock (PS) for the egg industry worldwide.
ISA signed an Agreement with Pas Reform and other partners on January 12th, at its headquarters in Boxmeer, The Netherlands. The state of the art new hatchery will be constructed on the site of ISA’s current GPS and PS hatcheries, to include 50 SmartSetPro™ setters and 18 SmartHatchPro™ hatchers.
With a capacity of c.5 million Parent Stock per year, the new hatchery not only reflects the growth that ISA has experienced over the last couple of years, but also a commitment to serving the global egg industry in the most sustainable manner possible.
“The new hatchery will mark the success we have enjoyed in recent years, yet at the same time, fully supports the ambitions we have to expand our business in the face of a number of global welfare challenges”, said Servé Hermans, ISA’s Managing Director.
The 4,080 m2 parent stock hatchery will be built as of March 2012 and showcases a number of state of the art technologies, to produce day-old chicks in a highly efficient, bio-secure and environmentally friendly manner.
SmartPro™ incubation technologies in the new hatchery will incorporate Adaptive Metabolic Feedback (AMF™), for simultaneous humidity and CO2 control, and the ability to use Circadian Incubation™ for more robust day old chicks.
ISA selected climate control solutions from Hollander Techniek, Pas Reform’s strategic partner for climate control, energy saving and heat recovery systems in Western Europe. The system’s design reflects the very high-level bio-security requirements of a pedigree hatchery.
Energy-saving and environmental concerns were an important element of ISA’s brief. “The hatchery will be equipped with solar water heaters and water cooling systems for heat recovery. Fresh incoming air will be fully conditioned before entering the facilities, to avoid cross-contamination at all costs”, said Ron Jöerissen, ISA’s Production Director.
Erik Hollander, CEO of Hollander Techniek BV, comments, “The strategic partnership that we embarked upon with Pas Reform Hatchery Technologies has resulted in this agreement. We are very excited to be building this project with our partner in the Netherlands.”. | 2019-04-26T17:04:43 | https://www.pasreform.com/en/news/188/isa-chooses-smartprotm-for-new-grand-parentstock-hatchery |
The ceremony of celebrating Nowruz with the Dead is held every year in the village of Saqandin Kola in Sari County of Mazandaran province on the first Friday after the 13th of Farvardin which is the first month of the year in Iranian calendar.
In this ritual, all the people of this village, even those who have emigrated, come to the local cemetery with flowers, sweets, and food.
Villagers believe holding this ritual leads to prosperity in their lives. Local sources say the ceremony has been held in the village since almost 100 years ago. | 2019-04-22T17:22:17 | https://ifpnews.com/exclusive/people-in-northern-iran-celebrate-nowruz-with-the-dead/ |
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The road was closed off last night after the incident.
A Lincoln motorbike rider is in hospital with serious injuries after a collision last night.
Lincolnshire Police were called to the scene at 5.46pm on January 15 with reports of a collision between a motorbike and a Ford Mondeo.
Officers closed off Newark Road and the Rookery Lane junction while they dealt with the incident until around 9pm.
An ambulance was called to the crash and the man riding the motorbike was taken to Queen’s Medical Centre in Nottingham.
His injuries are serious, but not believed to be life threatening at this time, police said.
Lincolnshire Police also tweeted that cones being used to cordon off the area had been moved to the side of the road. | 2019-04-22T13:22:10 | https://thelincolnite.co.uk/2019/01/lincoln-biker-in-hospital-after-serious-crash/ |
I have a technical background, spending hundreds of hours either in school or on the job learning a mechanical trade and never once heard about or considered a career in the mobility industry. If I had not known someone personally involved, I would be on a completely different career path.
I recently attended the CTAA show (Community Transportation Association of America) and had an opportunity to mingle with many of our commercial customers and dealers. BraunAbility attends these shows on a regular basis throughout the year. Some of them focus on transit customers and some on consumer, private use customers. Both types give us at Braunability a great opportunity to hear first hand from a lot of different people in one location.
One item that is continuously brought up has to do with the convenience factor in regards to servicing their Braunability wheelchair vans and wheelchair lifts. We have a very large dealer network and work very hard to have those dealers in as many places for the convenience of our customers. Here is our challenge when it comes to this subject: not a lot of people know about this industry unless you are touched by it personally. I have a technical background, spending hundreds of hours either in school or on the job learning a mechanical trade and never once heard about the mobility industry. If I had not known someone personally involved, I would be on a completely different career path.
Our dealers have to work very hard to recruit technicians who may have no idea what an Entervan or Rampvan is. There are no classes offered at any technical schools that cover what we do, so a dealer must find a mechanically-inclined person (often from the automotive field) and invest the time and money to train them on the specifics of an industry they are not familiar with.
"Igniting that small spark will make a difference in guiding a young person to a fulfilling career."
So this is what I am asking of the readers of this blog. Work as I do, to educate those young people who may want to pursue a career in a mechanical field, but have no idea about what we do and what you as our customer has to go through on a day-to-day basis to keep your independence. It may be something as simple as striking up a conversation with someone at a coffee shop or speaking to a group of students at a technical high school or college. My wife teaches social studies at such a high school and I often find myself explaining what I do to the technical instructors and students. Maybe just igniting that small spark will make a difference in guiding a young person to a fulfilling career in this important industry that they may not have otherwise considered.
Do you have any thoughts for "spreading the word" about considering a career in the mobility industry? If so we'd love to hear them - please leave a comment below! | 2019-04-21T14:23:29 | https://www.braunability.com/us/en/blog/the-people-who-service-your-braunability-product.html |
Three years ago we got a call. A call that we were far from ready to receive, but the phone rang anyway and our lives were about to change forever. The call was to tell us that dad had collapsed and that it didn’t look good. We hurriedly threw what we thought to be necessities in a bag and drove down to Stanthorpe. It is usually a very long drive at the best of times, but that day the drive seemed much longer. As we reached Warrick the phone rang again. This time it was my brother letting me know that dad had passed. I had missed the opportunity to say goodbye. The adrenal drugs hadn’t helped dad, he was too far gone.
Since dad’s death in 2010, we all head out to Stanthorpe each year for a weekend of family togetherness. Its a great excuse to get together, and now that all three of us have our own children, Dad and Lone’s home becomes a noisy, and chaotic haven for the weekend, but it’s also a wonderful time of being together. Family is about being connected to each other as siblings, but also with our Aunt (dads sister) and Dads wife – who we have a wonderful relationship with (and who is NOT a nasty wicked step parent). It’s sad that Dad is not here physically, but he is constantly in our thoughts, and spoken about. His death has caused us to realize how important it is to NOT take each other for granted. We need to make sure our relationships with one another are of high importance to our lives. Successful relationships seem to be based on the ‘Don’t sweat the small stuff’ mentality.
I have been umming and arghing about this blog post a lot over the last few days. Specifically since its been a week since dad’s actual anniversary, and we have just spent a lovely weekend in the country with all the family. I don’t want to over analyse and drive myself nor my readers crazy with my antics, but I think over the last few days, I have been reminded that not only is life is short, but every decision I make today has some impact on my tomorrow. We all live in a cause and effect world. Some decisions can be considered cliff hanging decisions as they are large and will affect our lives on many levels, but other decisions are small. Whether you call it a decision or a cliff hanger – there is still an action needing attention.
Like any story – we are all on a journey. The journey is our lives. Each decision directs us and prods us to some type of action needing attention in the story, and the question always asked is how are we going to deal with it? How are we going to respond? What action will we take? Remember that while we are trying to live our long, successful, family friendly, happy, fun filled lives its important to remember that life happens to us while we are making plans. And if we sweat the small stuff – we are probably going to have a much shorter, unhappier life, so remember ‘Don’t stress the small stuff’. | 2019-04-19T23:13:58 | http://www.mischieviousmum.com/the-cliffhangers-in-life/ |
The case concerns the freedom in religion and equality. The complaint to the Commission of EU which the supreme courts’ determination in Jivraj v Hashwani who has breached the laws in Europe that are against the discrimination may likely have main influences for the freedom in religion and the equality in society. As is known to all, human rights have been more and more popular with the globalizing trend in modern time. For the interactions among different countries become more and more frequent, the social states and the human rights will be paid more attention by foreign countries. It is sensible to protect the primary human rights in modern time, for the fierce competitions in business has led more and more corporations to disobey the rules in human rights to benefit the developmentof the company to some degree. An individualis the fundamental unit of a society, so the equality and the freedom of religion can influence the stability and harmony of the society to a great degree. The report will focus on the equality and religious freedom to discuss the case of the arbitration and human rights in detail.
Arbitration is defined as a kind of alternative dispute resolution, which is a form to resolve some disputes outside the formal courts. The parties involved in a dispute can refer the dispute to the arbitration by one or more individuals, and make an agreement on being bound by the decision of the arbitration. A third party will review the proof in the dispute case and a decision will be imposed. The decision will be binding on the two parties legally and enforceable in the normal courts.
There are also some other kinds of alternative dispute resolution, which includes the mediation and the non-binding decisions by some experts. Arbitration is always employed for the decision of some commercial disputes, especially in some cases of the international trading transactions. For example, arbitration in the USA is also often used in the matters concerning the employment and consumers, and in the circumstances of such cases, the arbitration may probably be mandated by the laws relating to the commercial contracts or the employment terms.
The arbitration may be mandatory or voluntary and also can be non-binding or binding(Betty, 2011). The essence of the arbitration is to resolve the disputes. The mediation is similar to the non-binding arbitration to some degree, for the decision of both can not be imposed to either party, but the main difference lies in that whether a mediator may assist the parties to find a ground in the middle on which the two parties can compromise.
The procedure and fees of arbitration is less complicated than that of the courts. Arbitration can be considered as a proceeding where disputes can be resolved by an impartial adjudicator who can make decisions to the disputes and the parties can agree to the decisions.
This is the general knowledge of the arbitration. The arbitration has a long history, and in fact, it has become more and more popular in the international commercials and the employment, for it is much more convenient than going to the courts to solve the disputes. By employing the arbitration, the disputes in the commerce and in the working places can be solved more effectively and efficiently to some degree.
With the development of the economy and the globalization, the workers in different areas and in different countries have been treated in various ways, which has called for the protection of human rights in the working places. The workers can be one of the most important elements of a company or a corporation, without whom the company can not run smoothly(Chambers, 2010). It is necessary to offer protection to the human rights in working places by law and regulations. From the above, the arbitration can be employed to protect the human rights of common workers as well, and it is more practical for staff to make use of the form of arbitration to resolve the disputes and unequal treatment in modern times in a certain industry.
The long history of arbitration proves that it is really a useful method. In modern times, from the sole traders to the multinational companies, they all employ the arbitration to solve problems, for the companies or the traders can decide who will resolve the disputes, and can save time and cost in the proceedings to some extent. Some articles in the law and regulations have regulated the human rights and have provided the law evidence to protect the human rights. However, the human rights in some cases are distorted to some degree, which has disobeyed the law. For example, some companies only employ the males in a certain position, which has deprived the females’ chances to do the job(Davis, 2012). Although some jobs can be done by both genders, the company only engages males to do the job, which is a kind of inequality in the workplace and has disobeyed the law concerning the human rights. The religions of some staff have also been distributed in some cased to some degree. For instance, some companies require that the staff much have the beliefin Christian, which has broken the laws relating to human rights.
According to the law of arbitration, the arbitrator can have different religions. It is one form to display the equality in the arbitration. However, in some cases, the parties require that the arbitrator must have a certain religion, which can cause damage to the equality and religious freedom to some extent(Greasley, 2013). It is necessary to pay much attention on the equality in society and in the working places and the religious freedom should also be emphasized to a great degree. With the development of the globalization, some foreign works often encounter such cases that their beliefs are not in accordance with the regulations of the company in religion, and they always choose to keep silent, which is not the right behavior to treat such problem(Fitzsimmons, 2014).
In this case, the party asked the arbitrator must be a member of the Ismaili community, which is illegal. This case has been popular in the arbitration field for a long time from the year of 2011, which has attracted the attention of many people with a certain religion(Dopson, 2011). It is not equal to regulate the religion of a staff, and it is one of the human rights of the employee to have his or her own religion.The Supreme Courthas put forward that a decision by a religious institution only to appoint a lawyer of its own religion was not probable to be permitted by the Equality ACT. Therefore, the religion discrimination of some private parties is also illegal and has disobeyed the Equality ACT as well. This case has considered as the end of the religious arbitration in the decision by the ECJ.
Somepeople have the opinion that the parties have the freedoms to appoint the arbitrators with their own religious beliefs, but this has been considered as illegal in the case in the above(Alcott, 2012). In some circumstances, the court decisions can also vary from one area to another area, for there is a discrimination of people from different places. The local court always makes decisions to protect the local people to some degree. Therefore, some court decisions are not equal as well. It is sensible to protect the equality of the society in the long run, for it can affect the stability of the society and the economy to a great degree.
In some workplaces, the staff has to accept the religion of the boss, which is not equal in the religious freedom at all. In this case, the religious discrimination of the arbitrator has displayed that the human rights in religious freedom shall not be violated according to the law(Gourvish, 1994). | 2019-04-26T12:38:11 | http://www.kwis.tw/xxldxassignment/25374.html |
Traveling the speed of light traumatizes a man as his mind expands and he sees from the experience and eyes of everyone and everything around him. He pieces himself together and struggles to stay alive as he learns to control his new abilities, discovers his wife’s death was not an accident and her killers are after him.
Beau is an adolescent giant who is ridiculed in a magical kingdom in the clouds and climbs down a beanstalk to meet Jack, a hack-magician with a love of fire tricks, who will do anything to be the star of the circus.
A heartwarming Christmas story. Winterton is a frozen town with frozen hearts and frozen people. A magical humbug that attracts the magical reindeer of Santa is brought to the town of Winterton by a little orphan girl.
This modern day adventure forces an unsuspecting family to become the weapon to fight the war which rages on the land and under the sea.
This is an interactive, animated, illustrated book which includes a cast of actors playing the parts. | 2019-04-23T20:18:50 | http://www.sandmanstudios.com/portfolio/booksapps/ |
DDoS attacks are getting more powerful, but one cybersecurity company says it has a solution.
Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks are getting nastier. Thanks to the proliferation of faster, more powerful computers and the availability of cheap bandwidth, this popular form of cyberattack—which prevents users from accessing a targeted website by bombarding it with messages from a group of hijacked machines—are frequently reaching 100 gigabits per second.
DDoS attacks are one of the most effective ways that attackers can crash a website they don't like. Last March, for example, the antispam activists at the Spamhaus Project were hit with an attack that tracked as high as 300 Gbps. But is there anything we can do to combat it?
Incapsula, a cloud-based cybersecurity solutions provider, says it is rolling out 20-core Behemoth computers that could make DDoS a thing of the past. It's an audacious claim, to be sure, and many cybersecurity experts see it as marketing hype. But Incapsula officials say their "brains and brawn" solution will keep clients ahead of the DDoSers.
DDoS attacks tend to come in one of two forms, says Tim Matthews, spokesman for Incapsula. There's the brute-force network attack, which overwhelms the router connecting to the Internet. And there's the app attack, which is a little more discriminating—targeting only parts of a website, such as its shopping cart.
Incapsula's Behemoths are designed to take on both. The company began rolling out its Behemoths in June; they are already operating in eight cities, with five more around the world expected by the end of the year. Alone, each computer has the capacity to mitigate 170 Gbps and can process up to 100 million packets per second. Working together, Incapsula claims, they can defend against attacks of spectacular size.
To protect clients, Incapsula's cloud-based service needs to quickly and efficiently filter incoming traffic for botnets. Here, looking for blacklisted IP addresses is not enough; the defender may encounter an attack from an address it's never seen before. So the system must analyze the contents of the packets too.
"We are looking at very large numbers of packets every second, looking at the timing of individual user actions, comparing payload to known exploit patterns, and the like," Matthews says. "To do this, you need not just very high bandwidth but a lot of computer power." And don't forget software constantly updated to counter new kinds of attacks.
According to Matthews, Incapsula's Behemoth was successfully put to the test when, in August, a client, an affiliate of a gaming company, "got attacked for 38 straight days, and the attackers continued to shift between different tactics, combined different attacks, looking for a way to get in."
Large banks and corporations used to have hardware on their premises to protect themselves from DDoS attacks. "But a lot has moved to the cloud, so a lot of companies don't have racks anymore. They are owned and run by Amazon or racks on Verizon, or whoever is hosting their website or Web app," he says. Likewise, smaller businesses, which have started to attract the nefarious attention of DDoSers, have also taken to the cloud, relying on software products like salesforce.com to manage employers, or Magento for their e-commerce platform.
The current crop of Behemoths are built to be able to handle increasingly large attacks for at least a year, but when necessary, the machines can easily be upgraded with standard parts. "We believe that we'll be able to stay ahead of the attackers because we are watching, literally day by day, the size of the attacks," he says, "and we know when we'll need to upgrade the capacity of these machines."
Behemoth's software is designed to handle the more subtle app attacks, with upgrades and lessons learned capable of being shared with other clients within 30 minutes. "You actually get safer when someone else gets attacked because we learn from that and it propagates across our network automatically in software to all the other Behemoth machines across the world," Matthews says.
That's why he thinks that DDoS attacks will, the way spam has, end up in the junk folder of history.
Not everyone is so optimistic. Stefan Savage, a computer scientist at the University of California, San Diego, says high-powered hardware is just one part of cloud-based packet scrubbing. You also need enough bandwidth to support the traffic between the targeted customer site and the scrubbing service.
"The fact that you have a box that can scrub 300 Gbps is irrelevant if you've only got a 40-Gbps link at the point where you're redirecting traffic," Savage says.
Matthews agrees that bandwidth could be an issue, but he notes that Incapsula has an 800-Gbps network and plans to extend that capability to 1.5 Tbps. In addition, he says, "heavy loads are split up and diffused across the network."
Carl Herberger, vice president of security solutions at rival Radware, doubts DDoS attacks will be eradicated—hackers are creative; they will always find an innovative way to disrupt service. He cites as one example the growth in "very heinous" encrypted attacks, which can prevent protection tools from inspecting incoming packets. So Incapsula's bold claim about its Behemoth "feels a little Titanic-ish," Herberger says.
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How Vulnerable is U.S. Infrastructure to a Major Cyber Attack? | 2019-04-25T02:01:18 | https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/security/how-to/a11334/the-company-trying-to-end-ddos-attacks-once-and-for-all-17266689/ |
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The U.S. military released a statement after the incident denying there were no civilians in the area and that they had been targeting a large group of "militants".
Residents and officials had earlier told reporters that 23 people were killed, when aircraft bombed a convoy bringing a bride to her new husband's village in Nangarhar.
"I reject the coalition statement saying that all those killed were militants," Burhanullah Shinwari, deputy speaker of the upper house, who is heading an investigation into Sunday's incident told Reuters on Friday.
"There aren't any Taliban or Al Qaeda even several kilometres near to where the air strike took place. Fourty-seven people were killed; 39 of them were women and children," he said shortly after attending prayer ceremonies for the victims in the provincial capital Jalalabad.
An investigation has also been launched into another U.S. air strike carried out two days before Sunday's incident in which local officials say 15 civilians were killed. The U.S. military is conducting its own investigation into Sunday's incident.
"We are still investigating it and we haven't completed our investigation so I can't speak about specifics at this time," a spokesman for the U.S. military said on Friday.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on Wednesday called on all sides in the conflict to take more care to avoid harming civilians.
Civilian deaths at the hands of foreign troops have in the past sparked violent protests in Afghanistan.
"By carrying out such attacks, the Americans are creating a gap between the (Afghan) government and the people," said Shinwari. | 2019-04-24T16:05:58 | https://www.worldbulletin.net/archive/us-kills-47-afghan-civilians-traveling-to-wedding-official-h25152.html |
The head of the Dutch Freedom Party, Geert Wilders, has announced that he will visit Turkey as part of a parliamentary delegation next year. In the past Wilders’ other foreign visits have caused considerable controversy.
The following presents a response from a number of Dutch organizations regarding Geert Wilders’ film ’Fitna,’ stressing their rejection thereof and the fact that this film represents the mindset of only a minimal percentage of the Dutch population. | 2019-04-22T20:29:55 | https://www.arabwestreport.info/en/awr-index/taxonomy/term/29268 |
Carnell’s book begins at St. Paul’s cathedral in London and then weaves back and forth in the stages of his life. He began writing the book with two simple questions. How did I get to where I am spiritually from where I started? What am I to do with the rest of my life? According to the author, God had a much bigger idea. He wanted me to discover the vastness of his family. I had to stretch the boundaries of my small town background and open my mind and heart to a larger way of thinking.
Dr. Carnell also gives a great deal of credit to his lifelong friend, the Rev. Ansel McGill who retired as pastor of Parisview Baptist Church in Greenville. He also singles out professors at Mars Hill College and Furman University. His late wife, the daughter of Presbyterian missionaries, questioned all of his assumptions in a loving but forceful manner.
He has now been an active member of First Baptist Church of Charleston for fifty years. He stresses the contributions of its long time pastor, the late John A. Hamrick, to his life. He credits Hamrick and the church’s legendary organist and Minister of Music and Worship, David Redd, for teaching him how to worship.
Our Father; Discovering Family, is available at most book stores, as an ebook from Amazon or Barnes and Noble or the publisher wipfandstock.com. Dr. Carnell is a speaker/consultant in the fields of interpersonal and organizational communication. His website is www.mitchcarnell.com.
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We’ve all been there – putting off that one thing until the last minute, or procrastinating so long that you never end up doing it at all. You’ve likely figured out your own methods to beat procrastination, but what happens when it’s your teen struggling with this bad habit? There are a few key ways you can help your procrastinator, none of which involve nagging or locking them in their room until their work is done.
Even if you are the most driven, goal-oriented, proactive person that you know… you’ve likely procrastinated at least once in your life. Reflect on that! Why did you put it off? What was the end result? Instead of nagging your child, try relating to them instead. By helping them feel understood, you two can conquer their procrastination problems like teammates.
Help them set small goals.
Starting a big project is often the hardest part, because the task in its entirety seems daunting. Instead of looking at the finish line, help your student break the task up into several, smaller parts. Setting the goal of working for half an hour is much less intimidating than forcing yourself to finish the entire thing in one sitting. Finishing one chapter is easier than reading the entire book. Every time your child hits one of the smaller goals, the overall goal will seem less and less overwhelming. In the wise words of Enrichery’s Founder & President Sarah Seitz’s MOM, “Half begun is half done!” Hey, it clearly stuck with Sarah! Just help your student get started, and that’s half the battle.
Remind them what procrastination leads to.
We all know what happens when you procrastinate. Eventually, everything catches up with you and you lose sleep and sanity trying to complete it all, or you ending up accepting failure. Remind your teen that procrastination may give them some momentary relaxation, but over time it only leads to anxiety and stress! Putting in work every day will save them from absolute chaos down the road. Their future self will thank them for NOT procrastinating now!
… and start with the easiest thing on your to-do list! Help them think of little rewards for finishing increments of work. In college, I used to let myself watch funny YouTube videos or scroll through social media for 15 minutes after every hour of work. I’d also promise myself coffee or snack breaks after crossing off certain things on my to-do list. Help your teen brainstorm little rewards for getting things done, and it’ll help motivate them to get to work!
The best way to break the habit of procrastinating is to help your student see the benefits of not procrastinating. By prioritizing anything with an immediate due date or deadline, they’ll get to see how great it feels to get things done and dusted. If they have a test tomorrow and a test next week, don’t let them get overwhelmed by next week’s test. Encourage them to focus their energy on tomorrow’s test only – when their hard work pays off, they’ll be motivated to conquer next week’s test. By helping them prioritize the most urgent tasks, they’ll also be able to create more organized to-do lists and plans of attack.
Encourage them to be easy on themselves.
A new habit isn’t formed overnight, and they won’t help themselves in the long run by beating themselves up over mistakes. Help them form new habits and guide them through the right steps, but don’t let them dwell on errors. If they get discouraged, they’ll be much less inclined to stick with anything. | 2019-04-23T04:09:21 | https://theenrichery.com/2017/10/25/get-your-teen-to-stop-procrastinating/ |
Archdiocese coextensive with the departments of Doubs, Haute-Saône, and the district of Belfort. Few nineteenth-century dioceses have undergone similar territorial changes. The Concordat of 1802 gave the Diocese of Besançon all those districts which, in 1822, constituted the Diocese of St. -Claude. In 1806, Besançon was given jurisdiction over the three parishes of the principality of Neufachatel (Switzerland) which fell under the control of the See of Lausanne in 1814. In 1870, after the annexation of Alsace-Lorraine by Germany, the district of Belfort was withdrawn from the See of Strasburg and attached to that of Besançon. The metropolitan jurisdiction of Besançon also underwent singular changes. In 1802 its suffragans were the Bishoprics of Dijon, Autun, Metz, Nancy, and Strasburg. Under the Restoration, Dijon and Autun were withdrawn from Besançon, the latter becoming the metropolitan of the Sees of Saint-Dié, Verdun, and Belley. In 1874, after the German conquest, the churches of Metz and Strasburg were under the direct control of the Holy See.
Local legends attribute the evangelization of Besançon to Sts. Ferréol and Ferjeux, sent thither by St. Irenæus, Bishop of Lyons. Duchesne has proved that these legends belong to a chain of narratives forged in the first half of the sixth century and of which the "passion" of St. Benignus of Dijon was the initial link. The catalogue of the earliest bishops of Besançon is to be read with caution. The first bishop known to history is Celidonius (c. 445); other incumbents of the see were St. Rothadius, a monk at Luxeuil and organizer of the monastic life ; St. Donatus; St. Hugh I (1031-67), prince of the empire, the real founder of the city whose markets, commerce, and schools he established; Cardinal de Granvelle (1584-86), the famous minister of Philip II, who built the palace of Besançon; Antoine-Pierre de Grammont (1662-98), who strenuously opposed Jansenism and the Reformation, strove to uplift the clergy, and, in 1691, transferred to Besançon the University of Dôle; Le Coz (1802-15), former constitutional bishop whose personality provoked in the diocese no little opposition to the Concordat ; Cardinal de Rohan-Chabot (1828-33); Cardinal Mathieu (1834-75), who distinguished himself by his defence of the temporal power, and was a member of the "Opposition" at the Vatican council . He opposed strenuously in his diocese the "simultaneous churches" which sprang up throughout the district of Montbéliard where Protestants are numerous.
The monastery of Luxeuil, founded by St. Columbanus (d. 615), gave to the Diocese of Besançon a series of saints. First came the direct successors of St. Columbanus ; the Abbot St. Eustasius who founded a celebrated school in this monastery ; the Abbot St. Valbert who sent monks to found the Abbeys of St. -Valéry, St. -Omer, and St. -Bertin, and died in 665; the Abbot St. Ingofroid; St. Donatus, who became Bishop of Besançon; and St. Ansegisus, author of a celebrated collection of capitularies. The Abbey of Lure was founded at the beginning of the seventh century by St. Déicole (Deicolus), or Desle, disciple of St. Columbanus ; later its abbots were princes of the Holy Empire. The Abbey of Baume les Dames, founded in the fifth century and in which Gontran, King of Burgundy, was buried, was the school where St. Odo, afterwards Abbot of Cluny, studied in the tenth century; at the end of the eighth century there was built near it an abbey for Benedictine nuns, members of the nobility. During the Revolution, the superb church of this abbey was laid waste. Among the other saints of the Diocese of Besançon may be mentioned the hermit St. Aldegrin (tenth century), and St. Peter Fourier (1565-1640), one of those who, in the seventeenth century, inaugurated systematic education for girls. During the Middle Ages several popes visited Besançon, among them Leo IX who consecrated the altar of the old Cathedral of St. Etienne in 1050, and Eugenius III, who, in 1148, consecrated the church of St. Jean, the new cathedral. A council was held at Besançon in 1162, presided over by Frederick Barbarossa, in the interest of the Antipope Victor against Pope Alexander III. Guido of Burgundy who was pope from 1119 to 1123 under the name of Calixtus II, and the Jesuit Nonnotte (1711-93) an adversary of Voltaire, were natives of Besançon. The miracle wrought through the Sacred Host of Faverney, during a fire in the year 1608, is annually commemorated by elaborate ceremonies. The places of pilgrimage are: Notre Dame du Chêne at Scey; Notre Dame d'Aigremont; the pilgrimage of St. Pierre of Tarentaise at Cirey-les-Bellevaux, where St. Pierre de Tarentaise died in 1174; Notre Dame des Jacobins at Besançon; and Notre Dame de la Motte at Vesoul. Parts of the Cathedral of St. Jean at Besançon were erected as early as the eleventh century.
In 1899 the following institutions were to be found in the diocese : 15 infant schools in Besançon and 35 in Vesoul; 1 deaf-mute institute in Besançon; 3 girls' orphanages in Besançon and 3 in Vesoul; 2 protectories in Besançon; 1 house of correction in Besançon and 1 in Vesoul; 2 hospitals and hospices in Besançon and 8 in Vesoul; 12 communities for the care of the sick in their homes in Besançon and 8 in Vesoul; 1 house of retreat in Besançon and 1 in Vesoul; 3 homes for the aged in Besançon; 1 infant asylum, 1 boys' orphanage, and 4 gratuitous industrial schools in Vesoul, all conducted by nuns ; 1 deaf-mute institute and 1 boys' orphanage in Besançon conducted by brothers.
In 1900 the diocese had the following religious orders, Men : Capuchins, Eudists, and Marianists at Besançon, and Trappists at Notre Dame de la Grace de Dieu. Women (purely local orders): Sisters of Charity of Besançon, nursing and teaching, founded in 1799; Sisters of the Divine Providence of Frasne-le-Chateau, teaching, founded in 1780; the Daughters of St. James, nursing sisters with a mother-house at Besançon. At the close of 1905 the Archdiocese of Besançon had 657,773 inhabitants, 60 pastorates, 814 succursal parishes (mission churches), and 97 curacies. | 2019-04-19T20:44:42 | https://www.catholic.org/encyclopedia/view.php?id=1827 |
A workshop to shape the capacities needed to deal with complexity and uncertainty (VUCA).
Organisations are as complex systems, dynamic and constantly in flux. 21e century organisations ask for brave leaders who dare to shape dynamic network structures based on five capacities: Entrepreneurial, Adaptiveness, Resilience, Alertness and Creativity. In this workshop you and your team will learn to assess and develop these capacities to act effectively, to be fit.
How it works? We use a complexity-based framework with colorful canvasses and Duplo bricks to facilitate an interactive workshop. Participants learn how to assess and develop the essential capacities for their team, department or organisation. A hands-on and minds-on ’serious play’ stimulating a conversation, sharing perspectives, finding insights and shaping interventions to navigate in a VUCA world. We will create an environment in which you and your team learn to act effectively and be fit-for-action.
A workshop to strengthen the collective identity and shared values of your team, organisation or community.
Many signs indicate that complex human systems are fragmented by traditional management methods and techniques. Organizations and (urban) spaces lost their collective identity and shared values. Imagine you and your team re-discovering these core elements which are essential for development and growth in a fast changing world.
How it works? We will facilitate an interactive and playful workshop in which team members answer two online questions on a tablet. This takes 10 minutes. From their answers, a unique profile with collective identity and shared values is created. This can be a profile of a team, department, organisation, community or even a urban place. The profile stimulates participants to become aware about what keeps them together, what thrives them and how to further develop. During the conversation participants share observations, gain insights and agree on how to take action. It’s this collective experience that creates necessary commitment for action. The basic set-up is easy, it always works. | 2019-04-21T02:07:41 | https://changedays.com/category/facilitator-workshops/rik-berbe/ |
On January 8th 1935, in Tupelo, Mississippi, rock and roll royalty was born, Elvis Aaron Presley. Due to the fact that his father Vernon needed work, in 1948 Elvis relocated to Memphis, Tennessee with his family. Elvis graduated from L. C. Humes High School in 1953, and soon after, needing a birthday present to give to his mother, went to Memphis Recording Service to record two songs. He recorded “My Happiness” and “That’s When Your Heartaches Begin.” Later he returned to record “Casual Love Affair” and I’ll Never Stand In Your Way” and met Sam Philips who was the owner of Sun Records. Philips was impressed by Elvis’s voice, and after a few recording sessions that were less than stellar, paired him with guitarist Scotty Moore and bassist Bill Black with the hopes that playing with others would help Elvis “find his voice.” Philips was right, and in July of 1954, with the accompaniment of Morore and Black, “Blue Moon of Kentucky” and “That’s All Right” became Elvis’ first singles.
The very next day Elvis performed for the first time publicly. Appropriately enough, seeing as he had been working as a truck driver previously, Elvis sang on the back of a flatbed truck. About a month later “Colonel” Tom Parker became Elvis’ manager, which was a relationship that would continue for the rest of Elvis’ life. Although Elvis’ was becoming more popular by the day, on November 20th 1955, Sam Phillips sold Presley’s recording contract, along with all his previously recorded material, to RCA for a mere $35,000. Despite the fact that his first 5 singles didn’t break into the charts, “I Forgot to Remember to Forget” becomes #1 on the country charts. Ironically, this is Presley’s first single for RCA, and his last for Sun. His next single, “Heartbreak Hotel,” becomes universally popular and holds down the #1 spot on the charts for 8 straight weeks. Four months later Presley releases a double-sided single, which includes the songs “Don’t Be Cruel” and “Hound Dog.” It is immensely popular and sits in the #1 spot for 11 weeks. At this point it’s safe to say that Elvis is a superstar.
Now about as famous as anyone can possibly hope to become in the world of music, Presley lands his first movie role in “Love Me Tender.” Earlier in the year Presley had performed the song “Love Me Tender” on the Ed Sullivan Show and attracted and estimated TV audience of a mind-blowing 54 million viewers. Given the fact that televisions weren’t nearly as common as they are today this is an almost unfathomable number. Not surprisingly over the next year Elvis releases some of his most famous songs including “Jailhouse Rock,” “Hound Dog,” and “All Shook Up,” and continues his acting career which will include 30 more movie roles. Presley’s success seems unstoppable, and virtually was, but on December 19th 1957 Presley is drafted into the US Army where he serves 2 years in Germany. During his tour Elvis meets his future wife Priscilla, whom he marries 8 and a half years later. The couple has a daughter, Lisa Marie Presley, who is born on February 1st 1968.
After being out of the music scene for sometime, due to his service in the military and acting career, Presley needs a way to get back into the public’s eye. On December 8th 1968, NBC airs a hour-long special simply titled “Elvis.” It is a huge success and Presley reclaims his throne as the King of Rock and Roll. On July 31st 1969 with guitarist and bandleader James Burton, Elvis returns to performing. He performs in Las Vegas for capacity crowds and on the road. Unfortunately his personal life isn’t going as well as his professional one and in 1973 he and wife Priscilla divorce. The divorce takes a very big toll on Presley, and an unhealthy diet along with increasing drug problems cause his health and physical appearance to quickly deteriorate. On June 26th 1977 Presley’s performance at the Market Square Arena in Indianapolis, Indiana, would be his final one. On August 16th 1977 Presley dies of cardiac arrest.
Elvis Presley is the biggest thing to happen to music in modern history. He is the poster boy for Rock and Roll, and is the scale on which every other performer to proceed him can be measured. Between October 2005 and October 2006 Elvis’ estate earned 42 million dollars, which makes him second only to Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain on Forbes’ top earning dead celebrities list. His popularity as a musician and pop culture icon does not seem to fade with time and it’s hard to see a way that a performer in this day and age could rise to the level of his stardom. At this point the memory of Elvis has almost become larger and more fantastic than the man himself. He is an intricate part of music history and a part of Americana itself. He is the King of Rock. | 2019-04-23T19:06:48 | http://strictlyrock.com/Elvis-Presley/ |
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Simply put, Wrong-Way Wooten began riding a bicycle backward because everyone else rode forward.
"Someone said there was no other way but forward, and I found that unacceptable," he said.
Wooten, 29, who changed his legal name to Wrong-Way, has been doing it his way for 16 years, cycling across the country backward on a 450-pound, outrageous-looking bicycle to raise money for various charities.
He sits on the handlebars of a 21-speed bike and uses mirrors to see the road.
This week marks Wooten's 44th month on a tour that began about 25,000 miles ago in New Jersey, took him to the other side of the country and up to Canada, and landed him in Palm Beach County in mid-January, where he's been ever since.
He plans to leave the area this week and head south, ultimately to Key West. Two or three years from now, Wooten said, he may end up either in Bryn Mawr, Pa., or Tarzana, Calif., where he owns homes.
"I have been a very strange person for a lot of years," said Wooten, who has been staying in Boynton Beach with some people he met on the road. "I am very unique. I am not bragging; I am complaining. But what people are normally into bores me.
"They don't actualize their potential. They have a lot of feelings and ideas about certain things, and they don't pursue any of it. It's easier to think of all the negative things that could happen. People always ask me, 'Aren't you scared? Don't people bother you?' They're paranoid."
Wooten does attract attention, which is precisely his point.
"My purpose and function is to get people to think about someone other than themselves for a change, to make them aware of what the charities stand for, what their responsibility to other human beings is," said Wooten.
Like a magnet, he said, he draws crowds to spread his message.
A 200-pound, 6-foot-4 man in brightly-colored cycling leotard and tights on the handlebars of a bicycle loaded down with mirrors; 80 glaringly red panniers, which are bicycle luggage; an AM-FM stereo receiver, amplifer, speakers and tape deck; three computers to measure speed and distance; a citizens band radio; a microphone; and a television set.
The elaborate bike also tows a simple, one-speed bike that Wooten can separate and use when he wants to ride "incognito," he said. The whole contraption is 12 feet long and 3 feet wide.
Wooten, on watching TV while looking in the mirror and pedaling: "I have conditioned my eyes to work independently (of each other). You know how when you look at someone or they look at you, usually both eyes are focused on the person? With me, I can take one eye and move it laterally.
"My eye is relaxed to the point where it can float. If you couldn't control it, it would be a medical problem called exotropia."
Wooten, who has pedaled backward more than 300,000 miles all told, does not keep track of how much money he has raised, nor does he set goals.
"My whole point is dealing with people, with the public," said Wooten, who collects donation checks or asks people to give directly to the American Heart Association, the Leukemia Society, Multiple Sclerosis, Muscular Dystrophy, March of Dimes and the United Way.
Virginia McVey, executive director of the Palm Beach County heart fund chapter, said Wooten has forwarded $70 in checks to the group since January.
She said the agency is grateful, but added, "It's very difficult to endorse someone like this person. Although he's very well-meaning, we don't have any way to monitor the progress of his journey."
Wooten is not dissuaded by skepticism.
He thinks others are strange, too. Take the man he saw riding in a Rolls Royce on Worth Avenue in Palm Beach.
"I told him, 'You're just trying to impress someone. If you want to do something worthwhile, why don't you get out on the street and talk to people?' " | 2019-04-20T21:24:05 | https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-1985-04-04-8501120982-story.html |
Last year, Ed Sheeran did an exclusive interview with MTV’s Emily Blake where he revealed a lot of details about his life that we would never have known. Just because it’s 9 days until the concert, here’s the 9 best fun facts about Ed Sheeran. Any major fans out there, use these as tips to win his heart!
8.His favourite feature of himself is his hair.
7.The coolest talent he has (that isn’t music related) is fitting a lot of stuff in his mouth.
6.His signature dance move is standing in the corner and nodding his head.
5.The first ever celebrity he met was Prince Charles.
4.When he was younger, he slept with an iguana Beanie Baby.
3.The most bizarre thing a fan has asked him: a fan’s mother came up to him backstage and said her friend’s son’s first kiss was Carrie Underwood, and asked if he’d be her daughter’s first kiss.
2.The one thig he couldn’t live without is oreos.
1.His favourite song to sing in the shower is ‘Everytime’ by Britney Spears.
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Royal Mail MarketReach surveyed nearly seven thousand people, in several different market sectors, about their attitudes towards sharing personal data. We found that lack of trust in how their data is held and used is one of the main issues that must be addressed.
We set out to understand consumer attitudes towards providing permission to organisations to hold and use their personal data. The results offer important insights into what is needed.
Firstly, people need to trust in the competence of a business, specifically when it comes to protecting their data from loss or theft. A consumer who has complete trust in a business might give permission to use his or her personal data.
Secondly, people need to trust the intent of an organisation – they want to feel reassured that their personal data will not be sold, swapped or used to generate more undesired communications. We also found that there were certain influences that could help to predict where there might be greater or lesser challenges to gaining permission.
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At some point, many pregnant parents-to-be will hear about the potential benefits of banking cord blood. This service is offered through public cord blood banks, where parents can donate cord blood anonymously for general use, or they can bank their baby’s cord blood in a private cord blood bank, which will save their infant’s cord blood until a time it might be needed later.
The process of cord blood banking involves saving the blood left in the umbilical cord immediately after your baby is born. This blood is a great source of powerful fetal stem cells, or immature cells that can later differentiate into many other types of cells.
Stem cells from cord blood can be used to treat a number of conditions, with the hope that we will discover new uses for them as time goes on. It’s important to note there are two different types of cord blood stem cells: donor cells (known as allogeneic), which usually come from public cord blood banks but can also come from family members, and a person’s own cells (known as autologous), which were saved at birth and stored in a private cord blood bank.
While both types of cord blood banks offer fetal stem cells, there are some important differences. Donor cells are better used for the most common genetic diseases. These donor cells can come from a public cord bank or from a sibling whose cord blood was banked at birth. It’s not a good idea to use the baby’s own cells because these cells would be affected by the same genetic condition doctors are trying to treat.
Leukemia and lymphoma. Fetal stem cells can be used to treat both of these types of cancer. According to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, most transplant doctors prefer to use donor stem cells to treat a patient’s leukemia. Studies have shown that transplanted stem cells can help the body start making healthy blood and immune system cells. Donated cord blood stem cells also have the advantage of being easier to locate when compared to bone marrow or blood donors.
Anemia. Anemia occurs when the body doesn’t get enough oxygen from the blood supply, usually through a lack of viable red blood cells. Cord blood, either from a public donor bank or from a person’s own stored cord blood, can be used to treat a form of anemia known as aplastic anemia. Donor cord blood stem cells are also used to treat several other forms of anemia.
Sickle cell disease and thalassemia. Sometimes called sickle cell anemia, this condition is characterized by misshapen red blood cells that can’t carry adequate oxygen. Thalassemia is an inherited condition characterized by abnormal hemoglobin, or the protein that carries oxygen on red blood cells. Both can result in serious health problems. Cord blood stem cells can be used to possibly cure both conditions.
Syndromes. Research is ongoing into use cord blood stem cells to treat a number of inherited metabolic disorders, including Hurler Syndrome, Scheie Syndrome, Hunter Syndrome, and many others.
In addition to these conditions, researchers are currently studying blood stem cells in treating a number of serious medical conditions, including Lou Gehrig’s disease (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), Crohn’s disease and other inflammatory bowel diseases, diabetes, lupus, multiple sclerosis, and other autoimmune conditions.
While this is an impressive list of diseases and there is tremendous interest from doctors and scientists in cord blood stem cell transplantation, it’s important to note that many of these studies are very preliminary and may or may not yield positive results. This is part of the reason the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists does not recommend the routine banking of cord blood as a “biological insurance.” The American Academy of Pediatrics also does not recommend private cord blood banking, unless a sibling has a condition that can be treated with fetal stem cells.
The process of cord blood banking involves saving the blood left in the umbilical cord immediately after your baby is born.
Both private and public banking options exist, each with their own benefits and drawbacks.
Some disease have been treated with cord blood stem cells, but this is not yet a widely used treatment for most diseases.
If you are wondering if cord blood banking is right for you, talk with your doctor or midwife.
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Cord Blood Stem Cell Transplantation. The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.
Rosenthal J, Woolfrey AE, Pawlowska A, Thomas SH, Appelbaum F, Forman S. Hematopoietic cell transplantation with autologous cord blood in patients with severe aplastic anemia: an opportunity to revisit the controversy regarding cord blood banking for private use. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2011 Jul 1;56(7):1009-12.
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. Committee Opinion #648: Umbilical cord blood banking. December 2015.
My mother was diagnosed with ALS in May 2014. Her doctor put her on riluzole, letting her know there was no cure but the medication might provide her a few more months of delayed symptoms. ALS progresses at different rates and affects different body parts first. My mother, being 80 at the time, fell into a category of what they call “fast progression” (older female). Her arms weakened first, then her hands, her mouth, and throat, and finally her lungs. Throughout her two-and-a-half-year ordeal, she was able to walk with assistance. All the while she continued to take the riluzole. If it bought my mother any time, we will never know. Her neurologist told us that if she couldn’t afford it, there was no real need to take it. She lost touch with reality. Suspecting it was the medication I took her off the riluzole (with the doctor’s knowledge) and started her on the ALS natural herbal formula we ordered from GREEN HOUSE HERBAL CLINIC, We spoke to few people who used the treatment here in Canada and they all gave a positive response, her symptoms totally declined over a 7 weeks use of the Green House ALS disease natural herbal formula. She is now almost 83 and doing very well, the disease is totally reversed! (Visit their website www . Greenhouseherbalclinic . com) I am thankful to nature, herbs are truly gift from God. Share with friends!! | 2019-04-20T02:22:24 | https://www.bundoo.com/articles/conditions-that-can-be-treated-with-cord-blood-stem-cells/ |
Of all, it is important that you recognize the studies of contentment levels over purchasing a cushion has actually given similar outcomes to those that got them on the internet and also offline by going to a store. Of all, the advantage of really obtaining to try on the cushion that you get when you check out a store is usually covered by thousands of user examines one can locate on-line. If a thousand out of thousand people are saying that a cushion is comfy, the chances are it is in reality comfy.
For an instance, the sample cushion that you are attempting on in the shop has actually been attempted on by many individuals before. You will not obtain that comfy sensation with your brand new cushion till after a few weeks when it is utilized for a while.
Since you know buying a bed mattress online will not make you be sorry for at the end, let’s see the things you could do it make your decision as better as possible. To start with, it is incredibly essential that you are clearly aware of the kind of item you are looking for. Everybody has their very own design of resting. There are mattresses which are much better for back sleepers than side sleepers. There are some which would deal with someone with a rigid back better. Know specifically what you are going with, and after that begin surfing for the bed mattress that would certainly match all your demands. Otherwise, you are most likely to get sidetracked by all the choices you will see and also finish up getting something that clearly does not suit you, your requirements or your way of living.
As pointed out above as well, among the largest benefits of on-line purchasing is the accessibility to thousands of user testimonials. If the customers are confirmed, the opportunities are that they would talk about extra the weak points of a product that its excellent points– this is all-natural for us human beings and it wonderful for you as a new buyer to extract the products that do not fit you. Check out at the very least 20 evaluations by previous users before you make the final decision. The even more reviews you could review the much better. There are unusual opportunities that an item is a whole lot far better compared to exactly what it has been explained by the individuals, but many of the time if the testimonials are reliable, it would offer you a terrific understanding into the experience of using the mattress that you can not receive from anywhere else.
An additional concern when you buy mattress online is the expense. Normally, acquiring items online included an added price for the delivery. There are many cushion firms on-line which would certainly organize the distribution absolutely free. Spend some time to seek them. Or else, you would be shedding your benefit of acquiring online. There are sales in the shops nearing seasonal times of the year. Try to obtain big items like bed mattress for sale where sometimes they provide up to 50% price cuts. Maintain an eye on voucher offers. If you have a little persistence to do some great digging on online, you will most likely have the ability to purchase the very best bed mattress for the ideal price possible. | 2019-04-23T05:59:08 | https://www.thegarage-cville.com/best-mattress-support/ |
The Records Unit maintains official reports of all incidents reported to Castle Rock Police and is staffed with a records supervisor and three records technicians.
The Police Department is available to perform standard VIN Verifications, DR2698, Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. The fee is $5 for legal residents of the Town of Castle Rock, or $10 for non-residents and off-site services.
The Castle Rock Police Department does not perform Certified VIN Inspections (DR2408). For more information, please visit the Colorado Division of Motor Vehicles.
If the accident occurred on or after Nov.1, 2014, a report may be obtained online. If the accident occurred before Nov. 1, 2014, please follow the instructions for requesting Criminal Justice Reports.
A criminal justice report may be obtained by completing a records request form. These forms are available at the Police Station, 100 Perry St., or you may use our online records request form to print and submit your request. Please remember, the Records Unit will require your signature to release the report to you. You may print your completed request form, sign it, then fax it to 303-663-6105.
Background checks are available for Castle Rock criminal or traffic records only, you can receive state records through the Colorado Bureau of Investigations. Local background checks can be used for Military, VISA, or immigration purposes. Please fill out the background check form and sign. Return to Castle Rock Police Records Unit either by email, fax, or drop off.
For questions on releasable and non-releasable records, contact the Records Unit, 303-663-6104 or by email. | 2019-04-23T18:01:20 | http://townofcastlerock.org/1736/Police-Records |
I don’t have much time this week, so my reflections on Frosty will be brief.
What I see is this.
Frosty was white as snow…or, um, WAS snow.
If you want to remain as white as snow, stay out of the heat of sin.
Or the essence of who God created you to be...will melt away. | 2019-04-21T14:21:41 | http://www.dailyfastfuel.com/2013/12/it-aint-easy-being-in-greenhouse.html |
ClickDimensions has many great system views included with the solution that let you see anyone who has clicked a link in an email, registered for an event or taken other actions. With custom views, you can drill down even further into what actions your contacts are taking to determine specifically who’s doing what – for instance, seeing whose emails aren’t sending, when a lead has reached a certain score or when a contact has left you a bad review.
Navigate to the lead entity and select New System View.
Name your view and open the Edit Filter Criteria option.
Next, you will want to edit the query to only pull leads into the user’s view that have a lead score higher than a particular value (in this case we used 2,000).
You can also use this view to pull in new leads who have yet to reach a particular value after a certain amount of time.
When an email event returns with a particular value in its Type field, this could indicate that the email never reached its intended recipient. The Type values in this section include soft and hard bounces which will stop an email from being read by the intended recipient, so including all these values in the view’s query will allow you to see when a contact/lead is running into issues. Making this view will grant you a safety net for catching leads/contacts early when they aren’t receiving emails.
Set the view criteria to include the email events for your contacts and leads. Make sure the email events include when they were created (in this example, we will use a weeks’ worth of time) and their type as shown below. Also, be sure to add a condition to only search for contacts/leads owned by the user.
If you are using a ClickDimensions survey that includes a Rating type question, you can use this view to highlight leads and contacts who have had a less than positive experience with your organization. This view is great for quickly identifying unsatisfied customers, and just as swiftly reach out to them and remedy the issue. Open your New System View option and create a new query.
When creating a new query, this time you will want to query the contacts/leads using Survey Answers. Once you have selected the Survey Answer section, make sure the Survey Answer you select is a Rating type question.
Once you have selected the rating type question, you will want to include a row for every negative value the rating question offers.
After adding all the values, group them as OR, so the query will pull a contact into the view if they have submitted any of these values.
You can customize this view even further by specifying a survey name in the query. This will only pull contacts/leads that submitted a survey answer found only on that specified survey. | 2019-04-24T11:56:59 | http://blog.clickdimensions.com/creating-custom-system-views-based-interactions/ |
The Knights of Columbus in the Philippines express their deepest condolences to the death of Supreme Secretary Emilio B. Moure.
The Supreme Secretary of the Order of the Knights of Columbus died shortly yesterday after battling cancer at the age of 54.
Moure was born in Havana, Cuba but at early age he was moved to United States together with his family. He graduated with the degree of Bachelor in business administration with a major in accounting from the University of Long Beach and a master’s degree in business administration with a concentration in executive management from the University of La Verne.
Moure joined the Knights in January 1985, and was a member of James Cardinal McIntyre Council 6332 and Santiago de Compostela Assembly in California. He began working at the Supreme Council headquarters in April 2007 as Executive Vice President for Business Process Management. In October 2009, he was appointed as Supreme Treasurer, and then in September 2010 he was named Supreme Secretary.
Moure used his talents to organize and implement the Order’s Hispanic programs, such as the Marian Congress on Our Lady of Guadalupe and the Guadalupe Festival; and he was also instrumental in forging the Order’s relationship with the Global Wheelchair Association, which provides free wheelchairs to needy individuals around the globe.
Meanwhile, Supreme Knight Carl A. Anderson described Moure as a trusted colleague and a good friend who always had the growth and welfare of the Order at heart. Anderson added that they will miss Moure’s wise judgment, collegiality, kindness and deep faith with the Lord.
Moure is survived by his wife of 31 years, Rebeca, their two sons, and two grandchildren. | 2019-04-20T02:20:02 | https://tuklasinnatin.com/2011/07/27/kc-supreme-secretary-passes-away/ |
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- Ring size chart in the pictures. | 2019-04-25T15:53:25 | https://supplybloq.co.uk/collections/new-this-week/products/gold-lv-ring |
Warships are an odd duck-- there is virtually no change between the Dreadnought and the Mckenna class--oh different weapons, some better fire control, but on the whole? Warship tech remains very static.
But that's odd, because the Hegemony was about it's warships, not about it's mechs. So what in general do you think the changes to warship tech would be like if they were reflected in the designs to show an advancing tech base? What would a "cutting edge" hegemony warship look like compared to that old dreadnought--what additions would you make to the tech base.
If I were to do this, I would overhaul some of the warship construction rules/options. First would be the inclusion of intro/low-tech versions of most of the weapons, then add advanced/high-tech versions of the weapons (nlasers/nppcs might get a small damage boost overall, while ngauss might get better mass/damage ratios, and nacs maybe a slight range increase and more shell types, missiles would get different types, such as bomb-pumped lasers, EWAR, micro-munitions, etc.). Fire control could be increased from 20 weapons to 25 per arc (or maybe only 22, but a bit of an increase none-the-less), potentially separate fire control systems for capital and non-capital scale weapons. And more versions of armors to add additional versatility to protection factors.
Well, the Dreadnought should be smaller than a Vincent, for starters. The last time I looked at this I was considering a %tonnage tax based on year of introduction, with rebates for taking penalties to things like ergonomics, serviceability, "voyagibility," surveillance capabilities, etc.
Unfortally that Warship tech hasn't really been updated like the ground stuff.
I could see something like the Tech Levels like for support units. The same equipment just getting smaller and more efficient over the generations. A sub light engine drive maybe weighing 7% instead of the 6% weight. Maybe that is why all the huge cargo spaces in some of the ships. There wasn't as much until the refit. | 2019-04-23T12:01:05 | https://bg.battletech.com/forums/index.php?topic=64359.msg1481370 |
After buying Apple during the depths of the Tech Bubble Bust in 2003 around $6.94, I recently had to sell about ten years later around $700 for a compound annual return over 10 years of 58.5%. Eat your heart out Munger, Buffett, Soros, Graham, Tudor Jones, etc., etc.
Ok, Ok, I live in fantasy. A friend recently said that he wished he had sold his Apple after buying it last year. Coulda, shoulda, woulda doesn’t advance your skills as an investor. What can we learn A Priori (before the fact) to help us as investors in finding and or managing our investments? What lessons can be gleaned from Apple’s history? In Part 2: We will begin to prepare our case study file on Apple.
Besides reading about great investors or pouring over your finance text books, you should broaden your perspective and read about industries and business founders. This reading–if done critically–will develop a more nuanced analysis of investments. I don’t know if AAPL is a buy or sell, it is in my too hard pile, but I found the two posts below from The Brooklyn Investor very informative. Do not underestimate the power of a genius. This case offers you a way to see how one investor applied his reading for greater understanding. A broad perspective of the world will help your investing. Remember that if you read the same sources, think the same way, then your returns will be at best average.
PS: Money Supply Aggregates are humming along at about a 11% clip. Bernanke is on fast cruise control.
For the third week in a row, 13-week chained money supply (M2-nonseasonally adjusted)has come in at 11.4%. We, thus, may have hit a cruising altitude as far as annualized money printing.
Here’s the climb over recent weeks.
Q: What competitive advantages does Microsoft enjoy in the operating system industry?
The only segments within the PC world with features suggesting that there are barriers to entry protecting incumbent firms from new entrants are operating systems and CPUs. In both there are a small number of competitors and stable market share. Microsoft enjoys both customer captitivy and economies of scale in the operating systems business. Customers prefer to stick with what they know, especially regarding software. Swithching costs can be prohibitive when many users have to be taught to use unfamiliar programs. Search costs also inhibit change because the buyer has to have confidence in the reliability of the new system and the survivability of its creators.
The most important advantage is economies of scale. Writing complicated software keeps expensive engineers at their terminals and benches for hundreds of thousands of work hours. On the other hand, the marginal costs of the next unit of the operating system can be low as zero, and seldom more than a few dollars, even when burned on a CD and boxed with a manual.
Network effects enhance both customer captivity and economies of scale.
Q2: Why have “box makers” not been able to establishy a competitive advqtage over other competitors? Why was the enormous growth in the market for PCs such a problem for Compaq specifically? Did it have any alternatives that might have worked out better than its chosen strategy? Did Apple?
The Compaq story is so interwined with the hsitory of the PC that it is easy to miss the more general significance. It lost its competitive advantage and the resulting high levels of profitability as the markets grew and allowed competitors to develop equivalent economies of scale. Rosen, the venture capitalist, was astute to recognize that the quality and economies of scale advantages of Compaq benefited from in the 1980s were now history, and that unless Compaq changed its business plan, it was going to be fighting against lower-cost but qualitatively equal competitors. He and his team pursued the operational efficiency in the absence of competitive advantage.
Apple confronted a grim situation. In the two market segments–microprocessors and operating systems–there were powerful competitive advantages, enjoyed by Intel and Microsoft, based on economies of scale, supplemented by captive customers and some proprietary production technologies. The other segments were highly competitive.
Apple operated, either by itself or in partnership with Motorola, in five market segments within the PC universe. Apple did not possess a competitive advantage. Tying those segments together in the name of “synergy” did not help. Also, the evolution of the industry toward separate maor players in each segment argued strongly against the existence of significant advant5ages from vertical integration. Apple held only 10% of the PC market so it had no bargaining power in alliances.
Apple should have specialized and focused on operational efficiency at least to where it could have earned its cost of capital.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/78448120/Warren-Buffett%E2%80%99s-1995-GEICO-acquisition. There is something important missing in this valuation. Can anyone point it out?
Is America’s Debt a Problem?
A generous reader shared this: Interesting comments from Charlie479 on AMZN (from VIC). Another example of an investor who thinks strategically and like a business person.
charlie479 12/20/11 11:25 PM AMZN one of the best companies I forgot to say that I chuckled thinking about the analyst making the “I want to buy Amazon at 100x earnings” pitch. I suppose that doesn’t necessarily make it mispriced but the earnings power is certainly higher than current GAAP net income. I think they could easily raise their prices by $0.63 per each $25 order (not exactly the same thing, but if Super Saver shipping was $0.63 instead of free, would that really change shopper behavior?). If they managed the business to maximize current profits like this, that $0.63 increase per $25 would double earnings. If sales grow like they did the past 12 months then suddenly the multiple isn’t looking so crazy. I’m not saying this makes AMZN one of the top half dozen stock investments in the world but the p/e might not be awful if your thesis is right.
I’ve occasionally wondered if someone could beat Amazon if they had $80 billion. I don’t think they could take over the #1 spot but I do think they could become competitive in a lot of areas. I would probably use the $80 billion to start several category-specific internet retailers, develop a large selection within that category, and drive turnover by capturing mind share as the expert in that category and as the lowest price seller, initially at losses. This is more or less the Amazon playbook, and companies like Diapers.com (before being bought), Newegg, and Blue Nile have managed to carve out niches. I bet there will be more. I think if VCs or public markets are willing to lose enough money for awhile, it isn’t that hard to replicate the warehouse network and other logistical moats.
Another reason to temper the who-needs-another-pipeline thought I posed in the previous comment is that consumers sometimes choose retailers for reasons other than price and selection. Certain bricks and mortar retailers will always have an advantage in terms of convenience (e.g. convenience stores, insightful eh?). And customers like to touch and try on certain products, like clothes, so I don’t see Amazon getting anything close to 50% share in those categories. Freshness matters, too, so it’s not clear grocery can be effectively penetrated by Amazon, and I bet that is a large portion of the Global Retail sales denominator. So, perhaps the current internet retail number at 3% is lower than what most people think, but maybe the maximum theoretical internet retail percentage is also lower than what most people think.
I think Amazon is one of the most admirable companies in the world. It has the expense advantages in rent and labor over B&M retailers that you mention, and it has cost advantages over other internet retailers as well. The massive sales volume makes the fixed cost percentages very low, and the inventory turnover in many products is so high that it can accept lower gross margins and still generate higher ROIC than competitors who charge a larger markup. The lower markup attracts more customers and generates more volume, which only reinforces the edge. It is the higher-turn/lower-markup Borsheim’s dynamic that Buffett describes.
The advantages aren’t limited to cost either. The high turnover also allows them to carry a huge number of SKUs at adequate ROIC, so they can offer customers the widest selection in many categories. For certain categories, after I browse Amazon and then Wal-Mart, I’ll come away feeling that Wal-Mart doesn’t have much of a selection. It’s hard to make Wal-Mart look narrow. Amazon is the first/last place many people shop because they know it has the widest selection and it’s likely to have that selection in stock.
Another non-price advantage is that they’re the most trusted internet retailer. I actually think those customer satisfaction ratings might be understating the difference. Their return policy and customer service is great. Even if a product is available from discountworldxyz.com at a slightly cheaper price, I’ll pay more to get it through Amazon because I know it’ll be the product I ordered, or else I’ll be able to return it. Who wants to deal with negotiating shipping costs or return policies with anyone else? I don’t think this is simply Amazon being more generous than discountworldxyz.com. They have the low-cost structure described in paragraph #1 that allows them to accept higher return costs while still generating better ROICs. I also suspect that their extensive review database reduces some of the likelihood of returns.
I think many retailers like Best Buy are at such a severe selection and cost disadvantage (even adjusting for sales tax) that their businesses are in trouble in the long-term. I even worry about beloved Costco. I no longer have no-price-comparison-needed-let’s-just-buy faith when walking down the aisles at Costco because Amazon has better prices frequently enough to make me doubt. More broadly, as someone who is cheering for the Costcos (no financial rooting interest, I just root for them because I admire them), I worry that Amazon will get to such scale one day that it’ll be a more efficient overall system for one UPS guy to drive from the Amazon warehouse and cruise through your neighborhood dropping off everything you and your neighbors need for the week. That might sound crazy but the current system of having you and all your neighbors separately drive SUVs 15-20 minutes to Costco to each walk through the aisles hand-picking and then checking out, doesn’t sound that efficient by comparison. I haven’t read anything about Bezos explicitly saying that’s his endgame but I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s in the 10 year wish list. If they end up with the cheapest and widest pipeline, there might not be much need for other pipelines. | 2019-04-21T16:18:19 | http://csinvesting.org/tag/aapl/ |
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"Don't be misled by the gold front panel - the Stealer is a very versatile amp. Back in my days at Marshall Amps, we had an old red Park 75 Head that sounded like no other amp you have ever heard - like an un-tethered wild horse with screaming tones and a great dynamic. My memory of this Park amp serves as an influence for the Stealer.
This is a simple design, keeping the signal path pure in order to extract as much as possible from the guitar pickups. Raw and wild, this amp is at home with Texas blues as it is with classic British rock.
An important design feature is the 'Bright Contour' pot; this lets you tailor the bright slope of the amp independently of the gain, allowing you to push the power amp hard with whatever level of brightness you choose. Raise the bright slope, select the middle pick-up on you Strat, then roll back the guitar tone - you are in serious SRV territory! On the other hand, plug in a Les Paul, dial back the Bright Contour and enjoy some classic British rock tones." | 2019-04-23T08:20:21 | https://www.scuffhamamps.com/product/amplifiers/the-stealer |
The downturn in the economy has forced many businesses to take serious steps to reduce overhead, including payroll costs. In some cases, costs can be reduced or at least contained by adopting hiring freezes, reducing staff by attrition, temporarily discontinuing pay increases, cutting back on hours, starting a job-sharing program, or offering unpaid leave while maintaining health benefits. Sometimes, however, the only alternative is to implement layoffs.
While layoffs are on the rise, so are employment discrimination claims filed through the EEOC and other administrative agencies, and in the courts. You should be aware that despite obvious economic reasons for reducing staffing, these claims continue to be filed, and defending them can be expensive. Terminated employees who have difficulty finding a new position in this economic climate are even more likely to seek legal advice regarding their termination, and raise claims alleging a discriminatory motive in their selection for layoff.
The following strategies will help you avoid those claims, and significantly reduce the costs of those that are filed.
1. Don’t give false assurances to employees about their job security. It’s fine to be optimistic about the future of your business, but you should avoid making promises that employees may rely on in turning down other job opportunities, only to find themselves out of work a few months later.
3. Use selection criteria you can defend. Although it is legal to factor in performance in determining which employees to include in a layoff, you do so at your own risk. A safer approach is to first determine which job functions you can eliminate or consolidate, then terminate employees based on seniority (i.e. last in, first out). Resist the temptation to discard an older employee in favor of a newer employee who is more promising – especially if the “older” employee is over 40.
4. Once you’ve identified certain employees for layoff, don’t dredge up performance issues you failed to deal with in the past as a way to try to avoid an unemployment compensation claim. Employees who are laid off are entitled to receive unemployment benefits, and by contesting their claim you are opening the door for other claims against your company. Keep it simple.
5. Before implementing the layoff, look at the list of selected employees to see if there appear to be any patterns or “red flags” in your selections. Are all employees selected for termination over age 40? Have you included anyone who recently returned from a medical leave under the FMLA? Has an employee selected for layoff recently complained about any type of discrimination or harassment in the workplace, or objected to a company practice on the grounds that it violates a statute? If any of the foregoing is true, you may want to discuss your situation with an employment law attorney before making a final decision. Remember, even if your decision was made fairly and impartially, you need to be careful about giving the appearance of discriminatory or retaliatory employment action. Even a completely baseless wrongful discharge complaint can be costly to defend. If you cut $50,000 from your payroll but end up spending $50,000 in legal fees and costs defending your firing decisions, you really haven’t accomplished anything.
6. If your business employs more than 100 employees, you may have notice obligations under the federal WARN Act. Check with an employment law attorney to see if this applies to your situation.
7. Employees who are laid off are entitled to continuing group health insurance coverage under federal COBRA or Florida’s Mini-COBRA, which applies to small employers. Make sure former employees receive all required notices, and be careful not to provide inaccurate information about their rights.
8. Consider paying severance to terminated employees in exchange for them signing a release. The upfront cost of paying severance is a small price compared to the costs of defending frivolous claims. If you do decide to pay severance, either set a flat number of weeks that applies to all employees who have worked for the company for one year or longer, or establish a formula based on position and/or years of service. For example, you might pay line employees one week’s severance for every year of service, and pay supervisory personnel two weeks. Most companies also apply a cap on the total number of weeks of severance that will be paid to any employee. Make sure any release signed by an employee over age 40 complies with the requirements in the Older Workers Benefits Protection Act (“OWBPA”) for release of claims under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (“ADEA”), and do not make signing the release of condition for receiving amounts that would otherwise be due under established company policy (for example, a policy of paying accrued and unused PTO to anyone terminated without cause).
9. Do not hold the employee’s last paycheck “hostage” pending return of company-owned equipment, etc. An employee who does not receive his or her last paycheck can file suit in federal court under the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”). Many plaintiffs’ lawyers representing individuals in “last paycheck” cases provide no notice or demand to the employer before filing suit. Under the FLSA, you will be liable not only for payment of wages due to the employee, but also for the attorney’s fees of the plaintiff’s lawyer. As a result of withholding a last paycheck of a few hundred dollars, you could end up owing thousands of dollars to the employee’s attorney, plus paying your own legal fees as well.
10. Provide references and any other “outplacement services” you can to employees who are being laid off. An employee who is able to move on successfully is less likely to harbor ill will against the company. | 2019-04-26T10:22:44 | http://floridaemploymentlawupdate.com/2009/05 |
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Yaari Dosti Shaadi - Wedding pictures you MUST take with friends!
Wedding Pictures you MUST take with Indian Bridesmaids!
We’ve got for you 16 photos that you simply MUST get with your BFFs. Do not miss out on capturing these moments with your mains.
And your friends painted you and the town Yellow!
And set major goals of adoration for your S.O. (significant other) to follow!
And make sure everyone knows they are your mains .
#4 THE ONE WHERE THEY PRETEND TO PUT YOUR MEHENDI!
After all, one must indulge photographer bhaiya!
Because they fill you in on all the scoop you missed!
Even if it means intimidating your S.O.(Significant Other)!
And your friends compliment your wedding swag!
With your girls of course!
#14 THE ONE WHERE THEY PHOTOBOMB YOU AND YOUR S.O.
Of course, they crash the selfie too!
Psst! – Here’s our guide to the Latest snapchat custom stories feature and how you can use it to take your wedding photo game to the NEXT level!
Because they love him ‘coz he loves you.
Your friends make sure the day is still perfect!
Cue in the funny props please!
And no celebration is complete without your friends !
Thanks christopher 🙂 Stay tuned for more such posts!
Nice Blog with Indian nice Couples and Families images.
PHOTO BOMBED! Quite Literally! Meet Smoke Bombs – The Hottest Addition to Your Wedding Shoots! | 2019-04-22T14:45:34 | http://wittyvows.com/blog/wedding-pictures-with-friends/ |
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So, I have just watching a random and crazy vlog by a guy named Luke Conrad. This particular vlog is about his tour and it features two of my favourite young and upcoming artists;Tiffany Alvord and Alex Goot who are also on tour. (I have attached the links to their YouTube channels, so y’all can check them out if you wish.) Luke’s video made me smile. :) It also really inspired me because if these “average” “everyday” people are achieving their goals and living their dreams, then why can’t we do the same? | 2019-04-26T13:56:56 | https://inspirationlasts.blogspot.com/2011/08/more-on-living-your-dream.html |
We’ve been watching these Marvel movies for a while now. Everything changed for the company when they released Iron Man back in 2008. They are now easily the world’s biggest movie company and they’re making some serious money. Since the company was acquired by Disney they’ve just gone from strength to strength and have tightened their stronghold on the comic book movie genre, despite DC’s attempts to burst their bubble.
We already know that the next film in the MCU cannon to come after Avengers 4 is the sequel to Spider-Man: Homecoming, but beyond that, we know relatively little. We do know that James Gunn is working on Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 and will be the vehicle that launches this new phase in the MCU. No pressure. Feige has now revealed that they already have 20 films in the pipeline.
This sounds very exciting indeed. Just imagine where the MCU could go next. The possibilities are endless. And now that movies like Guardians of the Galaxy Vols 1 and 2 and Thor: Ragnarok have opened up the MCU to the cosmic galaxy, literally all the universes are Marvel’s oyster. Marvel has done a sterling job in building this share cinematic universe and they did it by focusing on the movies first, cinematic universe later. Maybe DC Comics and Warner Bros. could learn a thing or two from this approach.
The Russo Brothers’ as of yet untitled Avengers 4 movie is scheduled for release on May 3rd, 2019. Are you looking forward to it? Let us know in the comments below. | 2019-04-18T16:23:23 | http://www.small-screen.co.uk/marvels-kevin-feige-says-theyre-working-another-20-movies-will-different-whats-come/ |
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Thankyou, Barbie. Fortunately, I enjoy research and trip planning. We were truly blessed to have met such kind and wonderful people. | 2019-04-19T22:41:30 | https://remoteleigh.com/2018/11/11/finding-tuktoyaktuk-the-logistics-of-a-lifetime/?replytocom=391 |
Another year is approaching its end, along with some great tea adventures. And what a year it was! New tea blends have titillated tea drinkers’ tastebuds. New tea blogs, with postings from really serious tea professionals as well as tea enjoyers, have opened up tea horizons to the whole world. New teapots, tea mugs, teacups and saucers have been created by artisans just to brighten up your tea time. New tea books, chock full of tea knowledge from some really smart people who know about tea (the real tea made from the Camellia Sinensis plant), fill bookshelves, ready at a moment’s notice to answer every tea drinker’s questions. New Twitter pals have found each other to connect over virtual teacups and share their fascination with this versatile beverage.
Enough of that maudlin looking backward stuff. There’s a whole new year ahead and tons of new teas to try. So, it’s time to make some New Year’s Tea Time Resolutions!
To buy at least one new teapot and use it at a tea party with friends so they can share the thrill of pouring tea through a teapot elephant’s trunk, or the chimney of a house-shaped teapot, or an Art Deco design teapot.
To try a new tea every month, paying close heed to the qualities of the tea — the aroma and color of the dry tea, the aroma and color of the tea “liquor” brewed to its peak (the “golden pour”), the taste as it first embraces your tongue, spreads out to ping! every tastebud, and then moves around the interior of your mouth.
To explore new ways to enjoy tea — hot, chilled, and even used in food recipes.
To learn more about teas through online sites and tea books.
To discover a new tea room and/or store near where you live and visit it at least once a month.
To make a list of your favorite tea Websites and visit them at least once a month, commenting on them if you can (it helps them know you’re reading them).
To hold a tea party once or twice a year with your friends, basing it on a whimsical theme such as celebrating Spring flowers or your favorite sports team acquiring a new player that will lead them to the championship.
Don’t forget, during all this resolving, to watch the clock strike midnight on New Year’s Eve and drink a tea toast to your tea adventures ahead in 2010. Enjoy!
Live the “tea life” in 2010! Find out more on A.C.’s blog!
Why Tea Instead of Coffee?
Oh I like these very much. 🙂 Hope to incorporate at least a good many of them this year! | 2019-04-25T04:04:00 | https://blog.englishteastore.com/2009/12/30/new-year%E2%80%99s-tea-time-resolutions/ |
The report of Wenamun has been famously been argued to be a work of historical fiction. Wenamun as a priest of Amun Ra and an Egyptian trader had a historically bad journey to the city of Byblos in around the 11 BCE under the pharaoh Ramesses XI. Wenamun was on his way to the city kingdom of Byblos where King Zakar Baal reigned.
Having left Egypt to trade for the precious cedar timber of Lebanon, Wenamun goes via the port of Dor where he is robbed. The local King, Beder, says that he will find the thief and reimburse Wenamun but after a course of inaction Wenamun finds the king accusing one of his own men and thereby removing his vow of personal responsibility to reimburse the unlucky trader. The kingdom of Dor was reputedly a petty kingdom in Syria that was subject to Ramesses XI, it seems that they would shortly gain their independence and their attitudes perhaps reflective of this, at this time.
On the way to Byblos from Dor the report cuts off, when it reappears it seems that Wenamun engages in an act of piracy and seizes a bag of silver going someway to recouping his loses. Wenamun sails on to Byblos where he is denied the customary free timber and it is at this point that shows the waning influence of Egypt in the east and confirms to Phoenician scholars the power of the Kingdom of Byblos. Egypt at this time had just expelled an invasion of the Sea Peoples, and is considered to have been significantly weakened by the war, which culminated in the famous battle of the Delta.
The Sea Peoples were a mysterious force from the west, which laid siege to kingdoms in the eastern Medditerranean in circa 1175. The Egyptian battle of the Delta apparently consisted of showering the invaders in their ships with fire arrows in a full-scale massacre.
And so with the kingdom of Egypt in a state of decline it seems a sailor’s report (historically fictional or not) provides an insight into the changing nature of Egyptians relations as a testament to it’s waning power. King Zakar Baal denies Wenamun an audience for 29 days and only does so when a priest of Amun, an Egyptian god recognized by the king, tells of ill omens if the audience is not granted by falling into a frenzied episode of prohecy. When the king denies Wenamun the goods for free, Wenamun is forced to remain in Byblos for a year and sends to Egypt for payment. At this point Zakar Baal send for the gathering of timber and informs Wenamun that he has been treated better than previous Egyptian sailors who were kept in Byblos for 17 years and died there, when the king offers to show Wenamun their tombs, he declines. Wenamun’s report ends after a near death experience in Cyprus at the hands of a mob, his safety is vouched for by the queen, after an Egyptian interpreter is found.
The report was purchased by the Russian Egyptolologist Vladimir Goleniscev in 1890 and now sits in the Pushkin Museum of fine arts in Moscow under the name Papyrus Pushkin 120. Whether the report is a piece of historical fiction or not, the times and places are deemed to be historically accurate. The report is reputedly one of the most important documents from ancient Egypt and exposes the politics in the collapse of the Bronze Age. The Sea Peoples invasion of the eastern Mediterranean and the trade agreements and hostility towards Wenamun all speak of the waning of Egyptian power. The document is regailed as an important testimonial to the power of the city of Byblos, not only in their trade but also in their administration. | 2019-04-26T03:57:08 | https://thedailybeagle.net/2013/05/01/the-report-of-wenamun/ |
Have you heard: Trivia Day is observed on January 04, 2020. The day is a chance to share little trinkets of knowledge, no matter how big or how trivial. Trivia are insignificant trifles of little importance, especially items of unimportant information. So everyone can join the activities on Trivia Day by spreading random facts that no one ever needs.
Very often those facts can be entertaining and lay on a hilarious day with your friends. A trivia to get warm for Trivia Day: Did you know that a part of the Declaration of Independence was written by Thomas Jefferson in a Philadelphia tavern? Another one: The sum of all the numbers on a roulette wheel is 666. | 2019-04-25T06:30:00 | https://www.cute-calendar.com/event/trivia-day/36141.html |
Initially, the iPod was designed to carry only music. When it was launched, it was a huge success. As with all successful products, it evolved and became bigger than expected. From audio, iPod features grew to include photos. Now, the latest iPod product in the market has the capacity to view videos and movies! It has become the all-around multimedia gadget of our time.
After so much hoopla and fanfare, the much anticipated iPod video was released to the world. What a great product it is! Finally, we can share movies, in a way that has become so much easier and convenient. With this latest product of Apple, you can actually play video movies anywhere you can bring your iPod.
Imagine, with this tiny, lightweight product you can bring your best loved and funniest home videos to just about any gathering, and turn it into a home theater system by simply plugging it to your television or computer.
Since it is compatible with the PC, you can also move files from your computer to your iPod, also through its plug and play feature. Can photo, audio and video sharing be any easier?
Of course, it is not simply a process of downloading. The iPod has its own M4V and MP4 file video format, which has to convert your movies to a format it can recognize.
Make sure the video you want to convert is in MPEG4 OR MP4 file format. If you have to convert, look for free video converter software on the Internet. Download and install this software. With video converter software in your computer, you can convert the entire movie or parts of the movie. In the video converter software, you will see a progress bar that will help you choose the parts of the movie you want to convert. However, if you want to convert the entire movie, there is no need to use the progress bar.
After you have converted your movie to MPEG4 or MP4 format, proceed to iTunes. This is part of your iPod software installation CD. It comes with your unit. In the iTunes library, you will find your converted movie.
Have a theater in your pocket with your iPod, and be the life of the party by sharing and reliving all those fun moments together.
Now that you know the accessories you can have for your iPod, don’t forget to add the microgoggles that give you full screen viewing. | 2019-04-25T14:49:28 | http://www.hivideomovie.info/how-to-turn-your-ipod-into-a-theatre-with-all-your-favorite-movies.html |
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Exam Routine 3 years Bachelor Level Bed And Humanities. | 2019-04-26T02:18:47 | http://mdc.edu.np/news&event.php?id=14 |
What is Forward Head Posture and How to Correct It?
HOW TO CORRECT FORWARD HEAD POSTURE?
Ever notice that after a long day spent on the computer, your neck and shoulders hurt? Or that your neck muscles begin to ache when you spend too long craning your head down to text on your phone?
Incorrect forward head posture can lead to chronic pain, numbness in the arms and hands, improper breathing and even pinched nerves. This is because for every inch your head extends forward, your neck has to support an additional 10 lbs. (4.5 kg) of weight! Many people do not realize that they have poor neck posture from prolonged computer use, television viewing or incorrect sleeping positions which all affect how you hold your head. Stretch and strengthen your muscles with specific exercises to reduce tension and other symptoms of poor neck posture.
Doctors have begun to notice a new phenomenon lately – and it’s all thanks to the fact that more people are using computers and smartphones on a daily basis. People tend to crane their head forward, which puts significant pressure on the spine and its surrounding muscles. This position is known as Forward Head Posture - which is a leading cause of chronic pain disorders.
Use a Standing Desk at Work: A standing desk is one of the best ways to correct forward head posture, as it teaches you to hold your head upright. What’s more, a standing desk prevents slumping, as you’re standing up straight.
Hold Your Phone in Front of Your Face: When texting on your smartphone, hold the phone up so that it’s in front of your face. This position prevents your head from craning forward, which can stress and fatigue the surrounding neck muscles.
Stretch every 30 minutes that you’re in front of a desk, computer, or TV. If you work at a desk or work in front of a computer, get up and move around frequently to decrease the pressure on your neck and back. A brief pause to walk around every half hour can be beneficial. Try to take 30 seconds or a minute to do neck stretches every 2 hours. The same goes for sitting on the couch and watching television.[11 Gentle exercises can help relieve any pressure built up in the muscle, which can minimize the aches and pains associated with forward head posture.
Addressing forward head posture often involves mindfulness of your posture, as well as how you’re holding your head. Pay attention to your posture for the next day, and see how often you crane your head forward.
Correct Forward Head Posture With Posture Pump®: One of the best ways to treat the pain associated with forward head posture is Posture Pump® Disc Hydrators. Posture Pump® is a doctor-trusted brand that creates products designed to naturally relieves neck and upper back pain.
This entry was posted in Neck Curve and tagged Forward Head Posture, TMJ, text neck, correct forward head posture on February 4, 2018 by Posture Pump. | 2019-04-22T22:45:18 | https://posturepump.com/blog/tag/forward-head-posture/ |
Hello there, my name is Kaitlyn. I began a love affair with quilting and fabric at a very young age. When I was 11 years old I received Pottery Barn Teen magazines in the mail. I would flip through their pages for hours, just dreaming of a bedroom where everything matched. I asked my mom one day if she’d help me make a quilt. Being a new quilter herself we set out on a journey. I picked a pattern and drew out a picture of the churn dash design, I colored in all the squares and triangles, and took it to the fabric store. We showed the lady at the cutting counter and she said, “I have just the fabric for you.” She proceeded to pull out a stack of beautiful bright colors from under the counter, her own personal stash (I quickly learned what those were having worked at a quilt shop for 5+ years). That is where it began.
I’m grateful that at a young age I was able to learn a skill that has carried me through all the ups and downs of my life. A talent and hobby that brings me so much JOY. I love to create and design. I expanded my love of creating quilts to bag, and clothing. I love to see how I have grown and improved as a quilter over the past 15 years.
I hope this space inspires you to continue creating whatever it is you love to create! Thanks for stopping by! | 2019-04-22T23:08:17 | https://knotandthreaddesign.com/about/ |
I just watched the movie Lifted, starring a young man named Uriah Shelton and Ruben Studdard (yes the winner of American Idol). The movie is about a young boy named Henry whose father is a Marine, and whose mother is recovering drug addict. The story chronicles a period of about 1 year. Henry’s dad is deployed to Afghanistan and Henry has a very hard time handling the transition. He also saw changes while he was gone that challenged is sense of “home.” What makes this story even more interesting is Henry is an incredibly talented singer. He and his dad had a bond over their love of music. This is a must watch movie, so I will not spoil the plot for you.
The movie leaves me thinking about children, their safe place, and their parents’ role in creating that place. I also watched a segment of 20/20 tonight. It was about troubled teens. These teenagers struggle with everything from drugs, suicide attempts, rejection, and a host of other issues. There are over 2 million teenagers who are independently homeless throughout the United States. Many of them end up in some of the worst situations. The common theme between the teens who were interviewed was the need to have a home. Not so much just the physical home, but a safe environment where they can be secure. The reasonable parent thinks about this from the moment they conceive or bring their child home for the first time. I cannot begin to understand the parents who decide not to keep or look for their runaway children, and I will not assume they are bad people, because I do not know the specific circumstances surrounding their choices. Both the movie and 20/20 gave me pause to think about the type of environment I have created for my own children.
I am not the most organized, health-conscious, or perfect mom in the world. I leave a whole lot to be desired in the parenting department. I do however think about my children at each stage they are at. My husband and I agree wholeheartedly about making sure our children are children first. This is always a juggle because you want to teach them responsibility along the way, without making them adults too quickly (as both of us were). It also means we have to be the safe place they can come to. Raw rejection should not come from their home.
I have thought about what will happen if my son or daughter had certain inner issues, from self-esteem, sexuality, and faith. My children are both young, so these issues are not something I have to worry about yet. I know my personal position on each of these things, but as a parent who wants stable children, I have to also consider their position may not jell with mine. I have to be mindful that they may struggle with feelings that I have to help them work through, without making them feel inadequate. Already, my 5 year-old and I are at odds about clothing, hair and toys. I expect our feud to flow right into middle school, and high school, just like mine and my mother’s did. What do intend to do is be a sounding board for my children. I would never want either of them to think running away is the answer to solving a problem. It would kill me to imagine my children sleeping in a tree or with strangers just because they did not feel physically or emotionally safe at home. I know I will not always be the “go to” person, but as long as they know push come to shove I am there, that is alright with me. | 2019-04-25T17:44:45 | https://cocoamamas.com/2011/08/28/children-and-the-safe-place/ |
SKU: NIN009. Categories: google, Home, Mini, Ninety7. Tags: Google, Home, JOT, Mini, Ninety7.
Ninety7 JOT is a portable battery base for the Google Home Mini designed to provide rechargeable, cord-free mobility atyour fingertips. Simply nest the Google Home Mini securely into JOT to untether and enjoy cordless use anywhere in your home.
JOT’s powerful, rechargeable lithium-ion battery provides up to 8 unplugged hours of use. 4 LED lights integrate seam- lessly on the front of JOT, indicating how much battery life remains before needing a charge. To upgrade your Google Home Mini, simply take off the front door of JOT and nest your Google Home Mini inside. Secure the door back on and youare ready to be mobile. | 2019-04-26T10:47:31 | https://www.pica.com.au/product/ninety7-jot-portable-power-for-google-home-mini-carbon-nin009/ |
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