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The new second generation 2015 Audi Q7 is 1.5 inches shorter, a half inch narrower, the cabin is longer and offers more head room, it weighs 716.5 lbs. less than its predecessor and fuel consumption has been reduced by as much as 28 percent (TFSI) and 23 percent (TDI). The Q7 offers a 252 horsepower 2.0 TFSI, a 272 horsepower 3.0 TDI, or a 333 horsepower 3.0 TFSI engine. Shortly after the market launch, the Audi Q7 e-tron quattro plug-in hybrid with a six-cylinder diesel engine and quattro all-wheel drive will come to market. The new Audi Q7 has a towing capacity of 3.5 metric tons (7,716 pounds) if equipped with the optional air suspension. Audi says the 5-seater Q7 with the 3.0 TDI engine gets 38.6 – 41.3 mpg, the 7-seater Q7 with the 3.0 TDI gets 37.9 – 39.9 mpg, the 5-seater Q7 with the 3.0 TFSI gets 29.0 – 30.5 mpg and the 7-seater Q7 with the 3.0 TFSI gets 28.3 – 29.8 mpg.
St. Brogan’s College has the most up-to-date facilities, including special, designated rooms/ three brand new science laboratories (re-designed in 2009)/workshops as listed below and boasts an ultra-modern Physical Education Hall, two outdoor tennis/basketball courts and a full-length grass playing pitch.
Students work together on a chemistry experiment.Ms Karen Keohane creates a ‘Hands On’ experience for Transition years so that they can make an educated decision to study Chemistry in Senior Cycle.Chemistry/Physics/Biology and Agricultural Science are all available at Senior Cycle.
Using the Interactive white board in class is a huge advantage in the study of science. This allows the use of many interactive methodologies and adds hugely to the excitement of studying science.Many of the teachers in St Brogans are embracing this new technology.
All first years study woodwork so that they can decide what subjects to study for Junior Cert. Here we see both boys and girls in the Junior Practical Room. Mr Johnston,Mr Murphy and Mr Harrington teach them many new skills which are always going to be useful to the students.
Here we see First years 2009 at their workstations busy cooking.Students are very enthusiastic about this subject as they appreciate the opportunity to master many new skills. At the end of First year they can decide if they wish to continue to study this popular leaving cert subject.
PE is a central part of the Curriculum in St Brogans. Mr Jamie Wilkinson has built up the subject to be extremely popular with all Students. He also works very closely with other staff members to ensure that students get involved in as many competitions as possible.
With two completely refurbished Engineering rooms this subject is hugely popular in St Brogans. Ms Carmel Connolly and Mr Micheal O Donnacha are the two teachers. All Juniors study the subject in First Year.
At Senior Cycle Students work on very comprehensive projects which form part of their leaving cert exam.
At Senior Cycle Students study DCG. This is the subject which would have previously been called Technical Drawing. The entire subject was revamped by the Department of Education and Science while still holding on to many aspects of the old course. It is a very strong and popular subject. In St Brogans we are very pleased with our New DCG room which has been equipped with the most modern Computers for this subject.
At Senior Cycle Home Economics is a very popular subject. This photo was taken of some students after they had prepared a magnificent display to welcome all our visitors for the Open Evening.
The College has three modern computer rooms. At various times in school students study Computers. Here we see Transition years at work.
The school has a number of assembly areas which are used throughout the year .Here the annual first year mass is held in the main foyer.
For many years now the bank has grown in strength as an integral part of St Brogans facilities for pupils. In the current climate it is most important to encourage students to think of the future and save for a rainy day!!
Mr Gilbert has encouraged the students to invest time and energy into maintaining a high standard of banking in the College. Last Years transition year students have very happy memories of this project and were the first to congratulate the team when they arrived back to the school with the coveted trophy. They go to Croke Park to the final which is in itself a great experience.
The editor had the privilege of accompanying Mr Gilbert and last years team to the final.!!! What a great day. Full of wonderful memories and experiences. We wish the students the very best and hope they enjoy the experience as much as last years students and teachers did!!
Indianapolis, IN -- (SBWIRE) -- 01/05/2016 -- Wasatch Product Development is focused on providing the most responsive and flexible service in the industry and has a diverse clientele ranging from leading global companies to virtual and emerging entities. With unmatched technical expertise, innovative equipment and regulatory knowledge, Wasatch maintains a demonstrated record with the FDA as well as with its customers; many of whom have outsourced with the company for over ten years. The Wasatch Product Development's lab is compliant with Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP) along with being registered and certified by the ATF, and FDA. Wasatch has been developing and manufacturing several unique products for many of the World's most successful consumer product companies since 1998.
The new freight-and-service vessels will be built by Vard Aukra in Norway, scheduled for deliveries in 3Q 2018 and 1Q 2019 respectively. The vessels are newly developed by FSV Group and Solstrand Trading for service and support in the aquaculture industry. The vessels will have a length of 19 metres and a beam of 10 metres.
An operator of specialised vessels for maritime operations, FSV Group was established in 2011 in Molde, Norway. The company has a fleet of 10 specialised vessels and barges for freight and service operations. Aligned with its strategy of strong growth of its fleet for towing, freight, subsea, and fish-farming operations, FSV Group is focused on high competence, multi-purpose vessels, and professional risk management.
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Since gaining my City and Guilds and Advanced City and Guilds in 1979 and being employed until 1989 I started my own business in 1989 and have traded ever since, first as a sole trader and gradually building the business to today's level.
Now with a staff roll of seven employees of various trades and various sub-contractors we are able to cover every aspect of the building trade and specialise in renovation, improvement and maintenance work, anything from a new lock to a loft conversion or extension.
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Although the car now look much sharper and modern than before, the changes are too subtle to qualify it as a all new generation model.
The most obvious differences between the new model and the outgoing one is the heavily updated exterior styling. Unsurprisingly, it takes much of its inspiration from the smaller CX-3 and larger CX-9 with Mazda saying that it wanted to create a vehicle that suited the phrase ‘refined toughness’.
As such, the front of the new CX-5’s body is now 10 mm wider than previously and helps to give the car an improved stance on the road. Additionally, the A-pillars have been pushed back by approximately 35 mm and a new grille has been adopted. Other key design updates include thinner headlights and taillights and an overall sportier appearance, aided particularly through the re-designed roofline and sharp C-pillars.
The interior of the new CX-5 has also been suitably refreshed and revised and incorporates a three-spoke steering wheel, push-button start and a 4.6-inch color display within the instrument cluster. There’s also a 7-inch display now resting on top of the dashboard, similar to most current Mercedes-Benz models. There’s also a 10-spoke Bose premium sound system and the Mazda Connect connectivity system which works in conjunction with smartphones.
While engines will differ between markets, Mazda says the new CX-5 will receive its clean, 2.2-liter SkyActiv-D diesel engine and the SkyActiv-G 2.0 and SkyActiv 2.5 direct-injection petrol engines. All of these engines can be mated to either a six-speed automatic or six-speed manual transmission. As standard, they are front wheel drive but the brand’s all-wheel drive system is available.
Another highlight of the new model is that the strengthened chassis has resulted in a 15.5 per cent increase in torsional rigidity over the outgoing model. This is largely due to the increased use of ultra-high-tensile steel on the A-pillars and B-pillars. The improved aerodynamics of the new model also lower road noise by around 1.3 dB over rough surfaces.
On a technology and safety front, the 2017 CX-5 includes Mazda Radar Cruise Control and Traffic Sign Recognition which is able to read speed limit and other road signs and display them on the 4.6-inch display. What’s more, the new model includes a torque vectoring system where torque levels can be altered based on steering wheel inputs, aiming to both improve the ride and great handling abilities.
The new soul red variant looks awesome man! Mazda's designs just keep getting better and better as well.
I personally think that it looks very premium, comparable to a Volkswagen interior. But yes, high cc engine without turbo is quite sad..
Was looking to commit on the Tucson till I chanced upon the new 2017 CX-5..... The more I read about this new facelift, the more I am drifting away from Tucson
The questions now would be how long more is the wait till it reaches our shore, what specs would be available and how much it'd cost my wallet.
I also wanted to check out the new model but I think it will not be launched in time before my car is due.
Fang Ko, M.D., from Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in the United Kingdom, and colleagues examined the potential of RNFL thickness in identifying those at increased risk of cognitive decline in the U.K. Biobank cohort of U.K. residents aged 40 to 69 years at enrollment. Four basic cognitive tests were performed in 32,038 people at baseline and were repeated about three years later in a subset of participants.
The researchers found that there was a correlation for a thinner RNFL with worse cognitive performance on baseline assessment. Those in the thinnest quintile of RNFL were 11 percent more likely to fail at least one cognitive test after adjustment for potential confounders. A total of 1,251 people underwent follow-up cognitive testing. The likelihood of having at least one test score worse at follow-up cognitive testing was increased for participants with an RNFL thickness in the two thinnest quintiles (quintile 1: odds ratio, 1.92; quintile 2, odds ratio, 2.08).
"This preclinical observation has implications for future research, prevention, and treatment of dementia," the authors write.
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Visual Communication Design at Aalto represents an intersection of studies, research and practice across three degree levels: the Bachelor of Arts (BA) based on traditional methods of Graphic Design and the Master of Arts (MA) and Doctor of Arts (DA) degrees that engage with wider perspectives in Visual Communication Design. Graphic design skills are blended with the approaches of other disciplines to ask pressing questions and pose essential problems. Critical design responses are situated within cultural, conceptual, and political contexts.
We view Visual Communication as the trans-media discipline of design. Our unit encourages the expression of varying viewpoints and a variety of communication techniques. Award-winning alumni, recent graduates, and our current student body are the cultural catalysts of the future. Their work can be found throughout this site.
We recommend starting the application process as early as possible. Due to the number of applicants our programmes are highly competitive with a limited number of places available each year. Students are accepted based on merit and other criteria specified on the Aalto University webpages. There you can find the official application instructions including materials and deadlines specific to each degree. Follow the instructions carefully and don’t feel shy about contacting our study coordinators with any questions.
The BA degree is taught in Finnish, the MA and DA studies are taught in English. More information about the study experience at Aalto can be found here and additional insights on living in Finland can be found here. We are committed to internationalization: maintaining an active engagement with professors, guest lecturers, and students from around the globe. We offer outgoing exchange studies with top universities abroad. More information regarding exchange procedures can be found here.
There is no tuition fee for EU/EEA citizens. Tuition in bachelor's and master's programmes taught in English are subjected to an annual fee of €15k for non-EU/EEA citizens. Scholarships are available. More information is available on this page. Students are expected to cover all living expenses (app. EUR 800 per month) and other study related costs from their own financial resources. There is no fee to apply.
Bachelor studies in Graphic Design is a 3-year degree taught entirely in Finnish. It's composed of 180 academic credits that can be broken down into core subjects (40 credits), compulsory courses (100-110 credits), minor subjects (15-25 credits) and elective courses (15 credits). Subject matter covers artistic expression, media studies and language studies. Courses in other departments at Aalto are made available as well as exchange opportunities at participating universities abroad. Students practice traditional methods in graphic design focusing on layout and typography and learn to build on these foundations through various forms and applications. The curriculum has included courses in Font Design, Publication Design, Bookbinding, Illustration, Campaign Design, Digital Publishing Design, Exhibition Design, and Moving Image.
Graphic Design is the practice of creating products, processes, environments, and events that are relevant and responsive to a particular context. The primary focus is on handling problems with imaginative and collaborative solutions. Research, marketing, social media, branding, collaboration, visual documentation, virtual skills, and storytelling are incorporated into the unique methodology of our teaching. During the third year students produce a Bachelor’s thesis, the culmination of studies that demonstrates the acquired skills and distinct perspective of the student. More student work can be found at grrr.fi or on our Facebook page.
Student works from our 90-year-old, award-winning undergraduate programme in graphic arts and visual communication design.
Master studies in Visual Communication, is a 2-year degree made of 120 academic credits. It offers an education integrated in global practices, contextually conscious research, and possible futures in visual design. At the intersection of design, business and technology, Aalto University provides an eclectic mix of expertise needed for progressive learning environments. The programme offers two tracks for MA students: Visual Narrative and Information Design.
Visual Narratives are stories told primarily through the use of visual media. Stories are told using text, photography, illustration, and can be enhanced with graphics, music, and interactivity. They can take the forms of interactive books, graphic novels, video games, new media works, animation, picture books and designed texts. The common core is that they are all essentially explorations into visuals that tell stories.
The Visual Narrative track at Aalto touches on many disciplines, and brings together a synthesis of skill sets from visual communication, writing, interactive media, film and games to focus on visualizing personal expression. Founded with the methodologies of design and story-telling, the track blends creative writing with the digital technologies that are transforming all narratives—in comic books and games, on film and the web—into hybrid visual media.
The track is designed to provide a myriad of post-graduate options. Students might become screenwriters, storyboard artists, art directors, digital publishers, or concept designers for animation, video games, and other interactive media. Each student will emerge from the programme with their own narrative tools and a unique, self-initiated body of work, preparing them to be the storytellers of tomorrow.
Check out our all-powerful course wheel! You'll see courses like Hybrid Literature, Sequential Imaging, Animation and Storytelling. Many relevant electives can be taken from the Media Department or other Schools in Aalto. The MA requires a 30-credit graduation thesis, either a practice- or research-led work that contributes significantly to the field as well as the student’s body of work. Apply here!
Student works reflecting our integrated, transmedia and story-focused education in the future practices of Visual Narrative.
Information Design is the shaping of data-driven messages in order to make knowledge accessible through visual platforms. This track practices the presentation of information with imaginative methods fostering efficient and effective understanding. Interests commonly overlap with visual communication, science and engineering, business intelligence, cartography, interaction design, journalism, and service design.
It has been estimated that humanity doubles its data every two years. The demand for design solutions for visual presentation of information is driven by, among other things, this rapid expansion of available data, and the accompanying growth in computational capability to process it. Information design is a competence with applications far beyond the traditional design professions.
Information design is a highly interdisciplinary field, combining skills from graphic design, interaction design, and computer science. After graduation our students are qualified to work independently or for a number of different organizations. Students may pursue visual journalism, data journalism, geo-informatics, and data analysis. Other graduates might become design directors, editors of graphic media, or other managerial specialists.
Check out our all-powerful course wheel! You'll see courses like Dynamic Visualization Design, Information Design, Critical Design, and Interactive Visualization. Many relevant electives can be taken from the Media Department or other Schools in Aalto. The MA includes a 30-credit graduation thesis, an either practice- or research-led work that contributes significantly to the field as well as the student’s body of work. Apply here!
Student works reflecting our cross-disciplinary, practical education in the visual communication of information and the Visualizing Knowledge conference.
Students can apply to minor subjects as part of their degree studies. They are generally 15-25 ECTS. A minor can be taken from any of the departments and programmes across Aalto. There are three minors currently available from the Visual Communication Design programme. Students are also encouraged to explore minors in other departments, such as Design, Media Lab, and Art. Minor study guides can be found here.
The minor in Illustration challenges Bachelor students to reflect on their own visual thinking, as well as to investigate and seek their own style using different techniques and media. Students become familiar with artwork across fields and learn the technical and cognitive skills which illustration work requires. In addition to traditional illustration techniques, digital artwork and animation are also explored. Students gain an understanding of illustration as a communication tool for both commercial and non-commercial contexts and delve into areas such as character design, sequential imaging, storytelling, as well as the integration of text with image. Language of instruction: Finnish.
The Pack-Age minor prepares Master’s students for project work typical in package design, often involving cooperation with experts from many different fields. The minor is taught in collaboration between four different schools: Aalto ARTS, Aalto BIZ, Aalto CHEM and Lahti Institute of Design and Fine Arts. Project groups create a fit-for-purpose design solution taking into account the client, product, environment, and the user. The student learns to utilize his/her special competence as part of a project and strengthen the team's expertise. The principles of visual, structural and user-centered packaging design that comply with sustainable development are discussed and students evaluate the feasibility of a packaging solution from many different perspectives. More information can be found here.
An essential part of design education is the gaining of practical work experience by bringing design work into larger contexts. Our students create visual communication and digital media for companies, organizations or communities both in teams and independently. Commissions are billable services based on our partners' needs, and delivered as professional work. Projects can also be non-commercial, analytical, or works of art.
The most typical projects relate to corporate and product graphics, advertising, websites, the design of electronic publications, as well as magazines, poster and packaging design. Lately our students have re-designed route maps for HSL bus stops, a massive public artwork on Hernesaari for Helsinki City, Flow Festival animations and murals, debit cards for Danske Bank and package design for Fazer and Altia.
If you are a business or organization interested in how our creative students can work on a project for you, please contact the Department of Media Producer Minna Ainoa, [email protected]
Co-Work is a selection of student works that have been design for or commissioned by various companies and communities.
Our graduates have been widely honored and recognized for their outstanding work. The latest awards and recognitions include:
Silver Award | Aalto University/Emery Dash and Tom Engström (MA students): THIS website for our Degree Programmes in Visual Communication Design at Aalto University Aalto-yliopiston | in the series of Digital Design
A sampling of student portfolios can be found at grrr.fi. If you are an alumni of Aalto or TaiK, and you would like to get back in touch and join our alumni group, please click here.
Visual Communication Design research at Aalto University is comprised of many areas of interest. Research groups are made up of doctoral students and research assistants, whose focus is on the design of societies and media. Research topics include information design, visual narratives, design processes, emerging practices and techniques in creative industries. These topics are investigated from the sites of artefacts, production, and reception.
Research on communication artefacts explores visualization methods, representations and visual languages used to disseminate facts and fiction. Information design research aims to find best practices to make conceptual information understandable for various audiences. Research on visual narratives investigates cultural, aesthetic and rhetoric aspects in multimodal media, brand identities and environments. Research on design processes and emerging practices focuses on the development of creative industries, including the impact of digital techniques and media convergence on design.
Visual Communication Design research projects combine design education and research within Aalto University and internationally. Ongoing research projects are co-creative and multidisciplinary as carried with other institutions and companies in the private and public sector.
Students in Visual Communication Design are encouraged to study or apply for internships and work placements abroad. The department actively participates in multicultural, international projects, exchanges and conferences. Aalto has exchange agreements with many other top universities in Visual Communication, such as the School of Visual Arts (SVA) New York, University of the Arts London, Politecnico di Milano, École des Arts Decoratifs (ENSAD) Paris, and Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). Guidance in choosing a suitable destination is available, and funding for the exchange can be applied for through Aalto ARTS. We also welcome incoming exchange students each semester from around the globe. More information can be found here, or by emailing: [email protected]
Rupesh Vyas was senior faculty at National Institute of Design, India, before joining Aalto. He took lead role in developing Information and Interaction Design as emerging domains of education and practice. He has a Master’s degree in Visualization from M. S. University of Baroda, India. He has over 19 years of experience in VCD education, research and professional practice. He has worked on major national projects in India such as the Census of India 2011, the Multipurpose National Identity Card, and the Smart Card based Indian Union Driver's License. He has wide area of academic and professional interests which includes Visual Identity design, Static and Dynamic information visualisation, Documentation of Visual Culture, Way Finding Systems, Complex Information Systems and Visual Diagraming. He is World Regional Representative of International Institute of Information Design (IIID).
Masood Masoodian has a wide spectrum of research expertise in visualization, interactive media, and interaction design. He is particularly interested in design of interactive visualizations to provide effective means of understating information by ordinary people in areas such as health, energy, and sustainability. He is also interested in the role of visual imagery in graphic design process, for instance in how the presence or absence of visual imagery improves or hinders the ideation process and what impact this may have on the creative design output. He has published extensively in all these areas, and has taught numerous courses in several universities in Europe and New Zealand over the past two decades.
Tarja Nieminen is an artist and designer. After graduating from the University of Art and Design in Helsinki, she pursued further studies in photography and motion media at the Academy of Performing Arts, FAMU in Prague and, on Fulbright grant, at the School of Visual Arts, SVA, in New York. She has been a lecturer of visual communication at Aalto University since 2007. Before that, she served ten years as the Head of the Graphic Design Department at the Institute of Design of the Lahti University of Applied Sciences. In her educational work, she has focused on developing curricula related to dynamic media and international cooperation. For the past eighteen years, her practice has included freelance design work in visual communication as well as fine arts activity in Europe and in the US.
Arja Karhumaa is a graphic designer and a text artist. She wants to foster an academic design practice that cultivates communication design as the domain of criticality, contemporaneity, and activism. In her own work, she is interested in the materiality of language, and how various ways design and writing intertwine. In 2016 she published the book Epägenesis : Katalogi (Ungenesis : Catalogue), which is the methodical part of her practice-based doctoral research. The dissertation examines the situated knowledge of a text designer, proposes graphic design as a form of writing and questions its ensuing public role. Arja has published her work in magazines and anthologies both in and outside of Finland, participated in design competition juries nationally and internationally, and has tried out the role of designer-as-curator. She has difficulties in thinking inside boxes. She cherishes jazz, big cities and Róisín Murphy, and struggles between the call for veganism and her serious love of cheese.
Markus Joutsela is big fan of responsible and clever packaging design and has been involved with packaging as a practicing designer, researcher, and design teacher. Currently he leads the Pack-Age minor and works as the responsible researcher of Aalto University in Valuepack – Tools for Packaging and Branding 2014–2016 project funded by Tekes. Markus is also writing a dissertation about packaging experiences and designing for experiences.
Koistinen Susanna is a study coordinator in Master’s Programme in Visual Communication Design and Photography. She is responsible for MA and exchange students’ guidance and supports the academic staff in their work. Koistinen Susanna belongs to Aalto ARTS Learning Services’ Student Services team and is involved in new student orientation, student tutoring and Personal Study Planning (HOPS) development.
Sari Tarvainen coordinates the major and minor studies in graphic design for Bachelor level students. She supports the academic staff among other things in curricula planning and tutors the students to plan their studies.
Minna Ainoa is Producer for the Department of Media, and she takes care of the Visual Communication Design study projects. She has wide experience from the illustration (pseudonym Helmi Sirola), fashion retail, advertising, and design fields - both from the employee and the entrepreneur viewpoint. Her first book Mystery – Style Traveller was published in spring 2017, and based on her own concepts. She is an active board member and Vice-Chairman of Kuvittajat ry and Editor-in-Chief of Kuvittaja Magazine. She is strongly interested in IPR, fashion history, and martial arts, but avoids mixing them in practice.
Heikki Ohvo is the application designer in the ARTS Technical Services group. He has an expert handle on the computers in the graphic design classrooms, their applications, and guidance for use. He is also responsible for helping faculty with all their technology concerns.
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Marketing Automation alludes to the product that exists with the objective of robotizing advertising activities. Numerous showcasing divisions need to computerize redundant assignments, for example, messages, internet based life, and other site activities. The innovation of advertising mechanization makes these errands less demanding.
Odds are you've heard the term showcasing robotization previously yet maybe you haven't generally dove into what it really implies - and that is alright.
Marketing Automation just, alludes to programming that exists with the objective of executing showcasing activities (i.e distributing web based life posts, conveying messages, et cetera) with no manual exertion.
This product, when utilized accurately, supports prospects with accommodating (and customized) content that is intended to change over them into faithful clients.
Marketing Automation is great programming that means to mechanize advertising forms. Promoting divisions utilize computerization programming to all the more effectively oversee tedious errands including messages, SMS messages, internet based life, online commercials, and the sky is the limit from there.
Consecutive gatherings, guaranteeing your group is on track to meet their objectives for the quarter, twofold checking your new Facebook crusade (that is going live in the following 20 minutes), and the rundown goes on.
It can be hard to adjust all that you have to do while additionally ensuring your advertising is hitting the correct group of onlookers, at the perfect time, with the correct message, to effectively create new business. That is the reason we've seen numerous organizations swing to advertising mechanization.
91% of the best clients concur promoting mechanization is "vital" to the general accomplishment of their advertising.
How about we go over a portion of the advantages so you'll see why promoting mechanization is vital for advertisers and entrepreneurs.
When you mechanize your social posts and advertisements, by and large, you spare over 6 hours for each week
You can spare 80% additional time by setting customer arrangements or meeting with a robotized device
Never again do you need to go into a device each morning and timetable your web based life posts for the day or ship one off messages. Because of advertising computerization, you can plan all that you require early, which will free you up to do other promoting exercises. Who doesn't care to "set it and overlook it?"
More than that, across the board promoting robotization apparatuses, for example, HubSpot, will spare you time hopping from stage to stage. When you're always flipping between tabs just to get a battle in movement, you squander significantly additional time than you'd might suspect.
Most importantly, I need to call attention to out - CRM programming and advertising robotization programming are not a similar thing. I've heard a few people utilize the terms reciprocally, however they are unquestionably extraordinary.
CRM (Customer Relationship Management) programming is more contact-centered and typically utilized more by deals. This sort of a framework spares contact data, for example, names, addresses, telephone numbers, and frequently conduct or discussions they've had with you.
Notwithstanding sparing significant contact data, it likewise reveals insight into where your contacts are in the promoting pipe, what assets they've downloaded, what pages they've associated with, and above all, empowers you to set-up forms that will naturally perform critical assignments for you in view of these cooperations.
A showcasing mechanization like HubSpot enables you to label the greater part of your promoting exercises with the crusade they're related with and furthermore observe thorough investigation of your movement, change rates, clicks, and so on across the board put. Powerful, multi-useful apparatuses like this give you a major photo of your information and how everything cooperates, as opposed to driving you to hop from stage to stage.
As it often happens, my family just went away for a couple of weeks while i had to stay here because of work. Just an excuse really, it’s just that i find terribly relaxing being able to have the whole house for myself. That silence and total freedom is priceless.
When i’m not alone, the moments when i have the right privacy to go online and do whatever i want are limited, instead till 19th of august i will ALWAYS have total privacy as soon as go home.
How will i be able to resist any sort of temptation? What will happen if one of my goddesses will come and order me to server Her? Maybe more often than usual?
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Long term lurker here, I've been flying phantoms since the 2. Today i had my first major incident, here is a recap.
-The memory card snapped in half, half was left in the card slot, the other half popped out. Has anyone ever seen this?
I have the DAT file, but i dont know how to read it, I downloaded csView but i dont know what to look for.
Stay tuned! Someone will post on how to load your flight log so they can analyze for us. I too want to know why your P4P lost power.
You need to use Datcon first to covert it to .csv. Then you can read it. However, that won't help you if you don't have some knowlege as to what you are looking at. If you convert the file, upload it to a sharable location such as dropbox, google drive etc..and place a link back here to the file, if you need help.
You might also consider uploading your device log. Sometimes there are indications there of an issue, but if it is indeed another mid-air shutdown, it may not provide enough data. You can try that first though. They are easier to read than the aircraft .dat files.
Don't have a lot of time to go in to detail this eve, but others will surely look. This does not look like the typical instantaneous shutdowns that I have seen. Maybe @sar104 may have a few minutes this eve. I may be back in a bit. But here is an initial look at the motors at the end of the data.
Are you sure that's the correct flight log? This one ends with the aircraft 3.2 m above and 10 m away from the home point, after a controlled, commanded descent from 260 m:
You are right! This is the wrong log file, but its the last one on the card. I read somewhere that the last file could sometimes be mislabeled if the controller isnt on when the aircraft is powered on.
Where could i find the right DAT file? there isnt one from the day of the flight, and the one above is the last one.
If you post the txt log file from your mobile device, as suggested in post #4, then it will indicate the appropriate DAT file index number.
Hi, I'm new to this site, but i had my P4P+V2.0 for less than a month already had about 20 hours if flight time on it.
The controller showed that the drone had turn around to return home, but after what seemed to be forever i saw coming down real fast. H attemped to slow down the decent, but crashed.
Sent it back to DJI. Thankfully for the Care Refresh Plan, after 3 weeks, I just recieved a Brand New P4P+V2.0 with New Props.
If you purchased this on a credit card most offer automatic insurance on anything lost, damaged, or stolen. This same thing happened to me and the bill from DJI was 300.00. I sent it in to my credit card company and they credited my card for that amount about 3 weeks later.
It's hard to tell what happened from your description but it's pretty safe to say that the Phantom didn't decide "to do a Fly Away".
I have a couple threads in this forum regarding the same thing. My issue was an (apparently) aftermarket prop that broke in half mid flight. Is it possible that this is what happened to you?
Yes I've learned to stay away from after market sets based on they same thing happening to a friend.
My best advise...Check the battery connector...Alot of people slam that battery in there...It is quite fragile in there...They sell new battery connector boards...or take it out and re-solder all connections...look for rings around solder pads....I have had every board out of these birds and studied them with fine toothed comb. Magnifying visors. Also seen corrosion in the connector...clean with toothbrush and isopropyl alcohol. Hope you get er going...after 250 foot drop sure she's busted up good...I love fixing these birds....Peace out man.
Make sure you keep all up dates current....The vision sensor calibration is one of the most important steps in this birds brains. Can be tricky using p.c. sometimes...Mac's supposed to work flawless with this calibration...Also only do it if you see lots of red errors. Also flying near geo-fence's can cause super strange behavior....these are areas that cause interference in the signal. I had something similar happen...teach yourself to flick it into sport or atti mode turn around and reverse it out of the situation...Not exactly your situation...but just sharing some info. Love my Phantom 4 pro plus.
It is very possible, "since it just happened to me", if you had a wind gust that allowed the drone to descend , once it starts descending fast enough, the drone starts falling through it's own column of air and the blades stall because the air stops going over the blades to create lift. The more power you give, the faster it drops. This happens with copters (which I should have remembered). Anyway, the only way to stop this is give forward stick and "get out" on the column of air.
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"You don’t pull a fish out of the water and make him breathe air." A quiet scene between Macha and Serge after he opts not to save Kid.
Our narrator looks for a fuel source for the TARDIS and instead finds himself getting a chance to meet a fellow time-traveler. She's one of his favorites too, and not just because her hair is his favorite color (or colour)!
Steena mused about her impermanent relationship with Guile, as symbolized by a rose she received from him.
Being best friends to the old brother who is no longer around comes to bite Karsh in the behind. How will he deal when he learns Glenn has found someone to love?
Pierre, Serge, and Fargo are all crushing over the pouty Dragoon Knight. But who is Glenn's number one?
This is a novelization of Radical Dreamers, the 1996 visual novel for the Satellaview add-on of the Super Famicom, based on the game's main scenario: Le Tresor Interdit / The Unstealable Jewel. Join Serge, Kid, and Magil as they infiltrate Viper Manor to steal the Frozen Flame from the tyrannical Lynx. Special thanks to DemiForce for translating the game.
Guile hoped to sleep soundly after passing a few sleepless nights, but what if he found Draggy bouncing on his only bed?
A fateful encounter with Guile enabled Wormmon to evolve and taught everybody the power of kindness.
Rydia always loved their world. Until meeting Darius, she'd thought it was impossible to be a part of it. Now she has the chance to become one of the biggest pieces of it, though doing so would require her to hide everything, even herself, from the entire world. She could never be with the one she truly loves. And must do everything she can to hide the truth.
Is repairing a buzzing radio the same with fixing a malfunctioning magic staff? Guile has yet to learn to answer that correctly.
This has started as a romance story with the sole purpose to make the relationship between Akkarin and Sonea more believable.
Somewhere between its beginning and the point where it is now (at the moment of updating this note, it's chapter 12), its focus had gradually shifted and then changed entirely to deal primarily with Akkarin's trauma and the upcoming invasion. It appears that his relationship with Sonea is a plot hole beyond fixing.
Disclaimer: Black Magician Trilogy and all its characters belongs to Trudi Canavan. I just dance in this playground.
I must’ve gone mad, she thought, frightened and shocked at the same time. She had done many stupid things in her life, some even dangerous, but none of them had been even remotely as full of potential consequences as the one she did a moment ago.
She kept her gaze transfixed on a half-emptied plate, and only heard him putting his fork onto the table. She did not have raise her head to know that he was staring at her, giving her one of those unbearable looks of his. Was he surprised by her courage (or stupidity, as she corrected herself)? Or maybe he was just trying to come up with a convincing lie?
I live with a murderer under one roof and I want to know his intentions, she thought but did not say it aloud. She was not that suicidal. And yet hiding behind simple curiosity was not better. How could she probably express that she spent every single sleepless night on thinking why the person occupying one of nearby rooms decided to practise the most forbidden of all arts? How could she explain that she wanted to know why the leader of the Magicians’ Guild was killing foreign magicians?
If she tried to turn her incoherent thoughts into statements making at least minimal sense, she would fail miserably. He would just stare at her, calm and composed as always, and she would end up babbling like an idiot. Either way, it would be their longest conversation in a year and half.
So she decided to put on a mask of defiance and hid her fear behind it as if he did not scare her. As if she was not thinking about him as someone even worse than Regin.
“I just do,” she said, trying to make her voice sound firmly with confidence she did not feel. “What’s so weird about that?”
The expression of his face did not change, and probably for the first time she wondered how many secrets he managed to bury under his ice-cold demeanour. Was there even one thing about him she knew for sure?
He’s a murderer, she told herself once again. It was so easy to judge him, to see things in black and white. She was used to black and white, but since she had joined the Guild she had to deal also with shades of grey that lay between. She did not like it, for there was no way of knowing what to do with the shades of grey until one encountered them. And she felt lost when it happened.
She feared that Akkarin could be placed directly in the middle of grey, and black and white did not apply to him. That meant she would have to change her opinion and maybe – just maybe – admit that she might have been wrong. She hated admitting that she was wrong.
“'What’s so weird'?” he repeated her words with a slight trace of incredulity. “I know well enough the opinion you have of me. No matter what I say, you will not be willing to change that opinion if it does not confirm your thoughts. So what is the point in telling you anything?”
Did he read her surface thoughts or her attitude was just that obvious? Truth be told, their relations could hardly be described as friendly. She was not sure if even a word ‘civil’ applied here. But what was she supposed to behave like, exactly? Be grateful that he took her hostage? That he stripped her off any chance of normal life in the Guild? That he threatened her and her family?
“You owe me this,” she said without thinking and regretted it at the same moment those words left her mouth. That was it – how soon was he going to lose his temper?
“I do not owe you anything, girl,” he said in a tone that could freeze the sun. She made a tremendous mental effort and raised her head to look at him. He had a relatively neutral expression on his face, but in his eyes she could see annoyance mixed with a shade of amusement. That amusement infuriated her like nothing else before.
“I’m not a girl!” she yelled, determined not to let him treat her like a child. She was no child, no matter how juvenile her yell sounded.
Something unusual appeared in his gaze and she had to fight the urge of running away from this room. And from him.
There was something unspoken that hung in the air and made his gaze even more impossible to bear than usually. She fixed her eyes on the table again.
“You are a disobedient, rude novice which put her nose into place she was not supposed to,” he continued after a while. She shot him a furious glare. How dared he?!
“And you’re a heartless murderer that stops at nothing to gain what he wants!” she shouted, long past caring about potential consequences.
This time it was not a shadow of emotion reflected in his dark eyes. This time his features twisted into a mask of anger. Or barely contained fury. Anyway, into something really, really bad. She swallowed hardly, astonished that her throat was still working.
“You may not be a child, but you behave like one,” he hissed. “And you have no idea what you are talking about.”
“Then tell me,” she insisted, not wanting to make this sound like a pleading it really was. “Tell me why you do this.”
“If there were a person I would like to explain my actions to, it definitely would not be you. You are my novice, not my friend.”
Had she ever thought that his words would hurt her? Given their relations, it should have been impossible. And yet it happened, and it seemed that the impossibility decided to make this day its show time.
“You owe me an explanation,” she insisted despite her hatred and long-harboured fear towards him. He rubbed his forehead with his hand and probably for the first time she noticed dark bags under his eyes. Did he always look so exhausted? Why did she not notice it before?
“You may be excused, Sonea,” he said in a tired tone, suddenly emptied of all its previous anger. That was his way of telling her to ‘get the hell out of here’ and there was probably nothing she could say or do to make him tell her what she wanted to know.
“As you wish, High Lord,” she gave him a bow in which there was no respect. He should have reacted, but did nothing.
Wine in his glass looked almost like blood in this dim light of the living room, dark and mysterious. Evenings with wine were one of those few moments which could cause an illusion of normal life. What exactly was normal life anyway?
So many years he spent trying to guard his secrets, so many years that passed hollow and lonely. He had chosen loneliness; truth be told, he had never been much of a social person. He had cut himself from other people out of necessity in order to maintain his image of a distanced and powerful leader focused solely on the Guild’s welfare. No-one had ever tried to look for a person hidden behind this mask. Those few who knew him better were surprisingly easy to lie to.
It had marked him for life – and not only when the black magic was concerned. It had turned him into a bitter caricature of his old self, of that optimistic and far too brave young man. He still could not believe how stupid he had once been.
There was time when he thought that every possible problem and loophole in his little masquerade could be foreseen and avoided. He would have never included a slum girl in his various plans theoretically covering every situation.
Taking her as his novice had been the best possible solution. He could turn a blind eye on her discomfort when safety of the whole Kyralia was at stake. He could live with her thinking about him as ‘a heartless murderer’, or whatever else she called him.
There were days – not so frequent, but they happened – when he was allowing himself to feel disgust at his actions. It usually took place during those long minutes lost somewhere in the eternity between day and night, when the time stopped and bad memories freed themselves from chains of will. He could not find out how much wine he had to drink to chase those images away. To be honest, he did not want to – most of the time. They had shaped him into the man he was, and he was the sum of his scars, failures and silent successes.
“Why do you practise black magic?” Sonea asked, but he knew her question from some time now. There was nothing else on her mind when she saw him, talked to him, thought about him. He heard those thoughts as if she wrapped them in words and spoke aloud, he heard them nagging her and begging for attention. No surface reading necessary – they were obvious like the fact that the sun rises in the East and sets in the West. He was even surprised that she managed to stay silent so long.
He had been considering it briefly after she had seen him killing that slave in his basement. In the end, he had decided against it and kept that decision as firmly as only he could. There were too many possible problems and unfortunate outcomes that could happen if she knew. And, of course, he could not trust her to keep that knowledge to herself.
He did not trust anyone but himself nowadays, and even that was sometimes questionable. Trust was failing among the magicians when the black magic came into sight.
He sighed and reached for the half-emptied bottle of wine, but his hand stopped in the middle of movement when he received a short mental information through his blood gem link. Apparently, the Thieves spotted a slave on the hunt in the city.
Suiting up and leaving the Residence became an unconscious habit – his body was doing it while his mind wandered on the endless plains of his memory. Meeting with his informant took place in a similar way and he went after the Sachakan, hoping that it would not take too long and he would have at least few hours of sleep this night.
His autopilot immediately – and quite violently – shut down when in the person followed by the slave he recognised his novice’s aunt.
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The City of Victoria is looking for “earthquake evacuees” for an emergency exercise on Nov. 18 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. at the James Bay Community School Centre. (City of Victoria photo)
Depending on who you talk to, the estimates vary on the percentage of probability of a significant earthquake hitting Victoria in the next 50 years. Some say one-in-three, some one-in-five, but what is agreed upon is the fact that the city needs to be prepared.
The City of Victoria is looking for “earthquake evacuees” for an emergency exercise that will help the city do just that – prepare for the inevitable, giving residents the best chance of survival.
The Victoria Red Cross Emergency Social Services (ESS) team is a partnership between the City and Canadian Red Cross that provides services to people impacted by emergencies during the initial 72 hours of an emergency response, through to the recovery phase.
Part of those services are accessed by way of an emergency reception centre, which is a place for those displaced by an emergency to get meals, clothing and toiletries, temporary lodging, help in re-uniting with loved ones, and information updates.
The city is looking for individuals, families and their pets to participate in a run-through of an emergency reception centre.
This exercise will give the Victoria Red Cross ESS team an opportunity to practise their skills and volunteer evacuees will get an understanding of how a centre works and what it provides.
The emergency reception centre exercise will be held on Nov. 18 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. at the James Bay Community School Centre at 140 Oswego St. The exercise will take approximately 45 minutes.
For more emergency planning resources see the City of Victoria website. Also, sign up for Vic-Alert, the City of Victoria’s new emergency notification service that informs you by text, phone and email of major emergencies or disasters that may impact Victoria.
Some events are so amazing that they just have to be captured on film. This past February HGTV has been broadcasting the show Massive Moves, a show about moving companies moving massive objects. One of these objects is the home of Barb and “Red” Reuther, a luxurious home originally from West Vancouver. Their show segment, Pacific Palace, is currently running several times a month. It was filmed by Windfall Films from the United Kingdom.
When asked if they would be willing to have the move filmed, the film company said it would be, “for fame no fortune.”
The 34,000 sq. foot home was hauled by barge from the ocean front in West Vancouver across Georgia Strait to the Strait of Juan Fuca and then into Sooke Harbour.
The movers, Nickel Brothers, were also the sellers as they are in the home salvage and moving business.
“The guy who owned it wanted to recycle it,” said Barb Reuther. “We were the fourth bidder on it.” They looked over the house several times before making a bid on it. It wasn’t the “classic” house they thought they wanted, but Barb said, “the kids loved it.”
She said the house has had a lot of renovations done on it over the years including $300,000 in 1992 and $1-million in 2002. It was designed by architect Russell Hollingsworth and is a very well built house. The home is now being renovated by the Reuthers and they figure they will spend upwards of $250,000 in renovations on top of the $145,000 they paid for the house. The $145,000 included the cost of moving the house from West Vancouver to their water front site in Saseenos.
Red is doing as much of the work as he can and he has help from one of his sons, but he had to contract out the foundation work, which proved to be expensive as they had to raise the house three-and-a-half feet due to potential flooding along the water.
While all manner of things could have gone wrong in the move, nothing drastic happened although there were some tense moments when the chain cracked as the house was being pulled off the barge.
“It’s amazing they can move a house like this,” said Red. “It was an incredible feat, incredible engineering.”
The house, once all the renovations are done, will be 5,100 sq. feet on three floors. The house is 30.5 feet wide and 69 feet long.
Work is ongoing but touring the house revealed a home that is still incredibly up-to-date with marble floors and tiles throughout, tons of storage, expansive windows on two levels complete with automatic blinds, great appliances, granite countertops and a whole host of other high-end finishings. The house has three bedrooms, each with en-suite bathrooms, and a playroom any kid would love. The old garage is destined to be an all-purpose room. The house has good bones.
The Reuthers have become minor celebrities in Sooke and when they go to the store people recognize them from Massive Moves. They are pretty realistic about it all but they did send out notices to all their friends and family about the show.
She said other people ask about doing the same thing — moving a house and her advise is, “it needs to be a good quality house — we went in kind of blind.”
All in all they are pleased with the move, the progress on the house and the beautiful home they will enjoy after all the work is complete.
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Very well-presented article on genital surgery. Not the typical sensationalistic pablum I am accustomed to seeing. Dr. Shell-Duncan’s points make the University of Washington shine today.
Last I recall from the admittedly minor surgeries that I have undergone, in discussions before the procedure, the doctor explained the procedure, explained what could go wrong, explained what would be done to fix what could go wrong, and then asked whether I had any questions. Oh, and she was clear about how and when I could contact her if I had questions after I left her office. I can only assume that the doctors who perform the various cosmetic surgeries on American and European women do a version of this when they want informed consent from their patients.
Why, exactly, are we discussing “ideal physical forms”? In the Times’s own article “A Cutting Tradition”, the reporter states: ‘”According to Lukman Hakim, the foundation’s chairman of social services, there are three “benefits” to circumcising girls.
“One, it will stabilize her libido,” he said through an interpreter. “Two, it will make a woman look more beautiful in the eyes of her husband. And three, it will balance her psychology.”’
Note that only one of the reasons has to do with “ideal physical form”; the rest have to do with social control of female sexuality. Yes, the quote is from a woman in Indonesia; one of the studies under discussion studies is entitled “Transcultural Bodies: Female Genital Cutting in Global Context.” I can’t imagine the thinking is all that different in Africa.
For the sake of argument, grant that it is “cultural imperialism.” Then what does this mean? Should we then abandon all efforts to stop the practice? In the name of opposition to cultural imperialism should we cease efforts to suppress: slavery, human sacrifice, torture, and other barbaric practices that are sanctioned by certain cultures? It would not be hard to find examples of voluntary slavery, sacrifice, etc., so the argument that it is not “voluntary” is irrelevant. I think we have to recognize that in a civilized world not all cultures deserve to survive; some cultures are barbaric and should be suppressed and allowed to exist only in history texts. Among the cultures that ought not survive are those that condone the mutilation of children.
Yes, protecting innocents is “culturally imperialistic”. Our culture tells us we should stop people from mutilating their children. Religious and cultural license stops at barbaric practices. There is nothing wrong with cultural imperialism if the culture you are spreading is superior; in fact in that case it is quite a good thing. Rome’s cultural imperialism, for example, was quite good for the world. There is no inherent value to cultural diversity (unless you are an anthropologist). Culture is not an end in itself, it exists to serve the needs of individual people, and so there are better and worse cultures.
Bettina’s argument that cutting off an innocent child’s clitoris is akin to adult labia reduction surgery is pure post-modern academic blindness. If FGC amounted to labia reduction, I doubt many people would have a problem with it. Bettina’s discussion of the health risks and different forms of FGC is completely beside the point.
Dr. Shell-Duncan allocates very valid points to the present day debate against FGM and health policy related to the practice. The zero tolerance policy should be re-evaluated critically as it is an extreme form of dealing with a widespread cultural phenomena. Moreover, more sociological research needs to be conducted in the regions where FGM is present in order to tailor a positive solution and also to disambiguate whether or not traditional health practitioners and women are aware of the adverse health problems that may occur, namely to understand the extent of “informed consent.” I disagree with the sensationalist title of this article as cultural imperialism is applied loosely to the realm of the health field and as a whole, the argument is unfounded. It is easy to subjectively label a health organization as being “culturally imperialistic” especially if they are directed by defined Western countries, however to correctly label such an org. is difficult and requires a more comprehensive argument.
#9 Dr. Shweder would you like to interview me? Would you like to know the scaring effect of female genital mutilation? Would you like to know how I wake up hearing the sound of the scissors cutting the flesh between my legs? Why was I mutilated? Because I was born in a female body and, in order for a man to claim me as a worthy wife, I was forced to have my genitals tortured and mutilated. Then, I was placed on a shelf until someone felt the desire to use me for his own pleasure. I can say that as women and babies, our bodies were caught in tripwires the very moment we swam onto the planet earth. Like lambs tied to the jungle trees, we would feel firm hands grabbing our necks and dragging our bodies into the mud and the melting concrete. In horror, we watched our bodies being ripped open like curtains, then raped, mutilated, stoned to death, sold into prostitution, and forced into marriages. It looked like we were destined to always be those scared lambs with sutured lips and empty minds.
Can I tell you the life long complications and psychological trauma the survivors face? What kind of perspective are you seeking to really understand the harmful effect that results the ritual cutting of female genital mutilation? Can I tell you how this harmful ritual destroys significant bodily functions, leaving women with a variety of medical, emotional, and spiritual problems?” Comment from previous article re to FGM,
Why do you(Tierney) continually HIGHLIGHT POSTS FROM SCHWEDER, WHO IS BEING WIDELY DISPUTED IN THE COMMENTS, and not quotes from the comment I include in this letter? This quote should be in calligraphy in the margins.
In addition, after you have statements from reliable WHO sources about the danger of this practice you continue to print alternate arguments.
This is not anthropology. It is pseudoscience. It is sadism, male chauvinism, female abuse, cultism, misogyny. I wonder about the sex lives or fantasy sex lives of the proponents (weeping). Would you find it includes domination, slaves, torture, whips, chains, BDSM, sadomasochism?
I would venture to guess anyone who is supporting female genital mutilation has an ulterior motive. Their own career advancement(including Tierney), sensationalism, deviant attitudes about sexuality, etc.
Female Genital Mutilation is against the law in the United States. Africa is engaged in genocide, torture and many human rights violations. Because it is being practiced in a third world country and some US cults, does not mean the US should be promoting it.
There is also a current bill before Congress to make male circumcision illegal. To say male circumcision is a minor surgery is incorrect.
Even though there may be people who the author legally claims practice FGM in the US, such as plastic surgeons, it doesn’t mean it is correct. WE NOW HAVE AN ENORMOUS CULTURE IN THE US BEING TATTOOED AND PIERCED. There are HUGE CONCERNS related to infection and HIV transmission with these practices. They are also related to the sexual deviances of BDSM.
None of these works supporting FGM discuss what happens to the female body as it ages. They discuss the cultural implications and consequences in the childbearing years, but not the consequences on an older woman.
The lack of sanitary medical facilities and antibiotics in Africa cannot be emphasized enough when considering FGM in Africa, no matter what the degree of mutiliation.
Speaking of “Cultural Imperialism at the W.H.O.”, they have been instrumental in pushing forward and encouraging mass mutilation in Africa. Their selective use of evidence to support a particular cultural perspective is as evident in their circumcision policy for males as for females. Sadly, it seems the W.H.O. cherry-picks their data to support the pre-determined institutional belief that male genital cutting is basically very very good, and female genital cutting is universally very very bad.
In the light of Dr. Bettina Shell-Duncan’s critique John Tierney asks readers to respond to three questions. “Does a zero-tolerance policy concerning even adults amount to cultural imperialism? And what kind of line should be drawn concerning minors? If, as Dr. Shell-Duncan says, some forms of FGC are no more risky than a male circumcision and make no permanent alteration, should parents be permitted to make this choice for their children?”
Below I try to address those questions. I do so with special (and restricted) reference to the moral, legal and social traditions of the contemporary United States, drawing directly on some thoughts presented in an essay titled “What About ‘Female Genital Mutilation’? And Why Understanding Culture Matters in the First Place” in R. Shweder, M. Minow and H. Markus (Eds.), Engaging Cultural Differences, Russell Sage Foundation Press, 2003.
In any discussion of bodily alterations it is useful to draw some distinctions between types of alterations, in particular between: consensual versus nonconsensual alterations; major versus minor alterations; and reversible versus nonreversible alterations. With those distinctions in place, the following policy argument might be made in favor not only of gender parity but also of greater (even if limited) toleration of female genital alterations in the United States.
In order for this argument for (limited) toleration of female genital alterations to succeed, one must first secure agreement on the following three principles. If you have good reasons for rejecting one or more of these principles put them forward and perhaps those reasons will get debated on the Tierneylab.
Principle 1. Certain types of genital alterations are currently legally permissible for males and should be permissible. Thus, as a matter of legal fact in the United States, it is permissible for parents to surgically remove the foreskin of a male infant or young child, even though the infant or child has not given consent, even though the procedure is irreversible, and even though no compelling medical justification exists for performing the operation. “Circumcision” is permissible in this case because the alteration is minor in two senses. From a medical viewpoint, the procedure is easy to perform and, aside from some short-term pain (in the absence of anesthesia), the operation is inconsequential with regard to its effects on basic biological functioning. The procedure also is minor from the viewpoint of social and psychological functioning, in the sense that circumcised males remain perfectly capable of attaining mental health and participating in a normal social life. The majority of American males have had their genitals reshaped in infancy and the vast majority of circumcised American males have no regrets.
Male circumcision in infancy and childhood is permissible because in our liberal pluralistic society we are willing to respect the cultural and religious traditions of the family, acknowledging and respecting, for example, the idea that circumcision is what some Jewish and Muslim peoples do to their sons because of their perception of a long standing covenant with their God. Moreover, circumcision is permissible because we are willing to make room for family privacy and leave child care to parents rather than to the state, except under extreme circumstances. Indeed, in the case of infant male circumcision the procedure is so commonplace and tolerated that a sufficient reason for conducting the surgery is that the father does not want his son’s genitals to look different from his own, or simply because he thinks it looks good. Principle 1 allows for minor genital alterations for males, at every stage of life.
(In articulating principle 1 I am not suggesting that it has never been contested. There are and have been anti-male circumcision advocates throughout history who view(ed) the removal of the foreskin as a “mutilation.” Today there are activists in the anti–male circumcision movement who are prepared to be unmoved by claims of religious freedom, cultural rights, family privacy, parental rights or pluralism, and who seem quite prepared to disparage and castigate all religious and cultural traditions in which male circumcision is condoned, as a violation of the principle of individual autonomy. Nevertheless the claims that children have a “natural right” to autonomy or the related claim that a right to autonomy must take precedence over all other rights – such as, for example, the rights of parents to inoculate their children against their will or of parents of a Down Syndrome child to perform cosmetic facial surgery on their daughter or son for the sake of “normalizing” her or his appearance – do not seem convincing; indeed such claims, precisely because they are not mandated by logic or evidence, are vulnerable to charges ranging from “ethnocentrism” and “cultural imperialism” to “moral arrogance.” Various historical and virulent attacks on Judaism, for example the severe penalties imposed on mohels and mothers of circumcised infants by Antiochus Epiphanes, the ruler of Judea in the second century B.C.; and the English “Jew Bill” of 1753 have been associated with precisely these types of moral arguments and with assaults on the practice of male circumcision.)
Principle 2. Major body alterations are permissible if you know what you are doing and why such alterations are being done. In other words, it is and ought to be permissible for someone who has reached the appropriate age for autonomous decision making (or the age at which discretion is permitted, with parental consent) to alter his or her body in ways that are more substantial than would be allowed by principle 1 alone.
At some point in growing up we are granted rights of discretion over our own body (although as Dr. Shell-Duncan notes, above, some zero tolerance activists have pressed for laws denying African adults that discretion even with respect to their own bodies; and there are laws to that effect in some European countries, which as far as I know have not been denounced by anti-“fgm” activists). But this is the United States. If a girl is old enough to get pregnant, we believe that she is old enough to have considerable discretion (either on her own or with parental backing) over any decision to abort the fetus. If she is old enough to experience her own body as ugly or “abnormal” or distressing or (or even just ordinary) and if she is mentally healthy and old enough to be cognizant of the costs and benefits of altering her body, we grant her considerable discretion to do so (either on her own or with parental permission) in major or irreversible ways. If you have the support of your parents (and even in some cases if you don’t), you do not have to wait until you are eighteen to have a breast implant or nose job, pierce your nipples or clitoris, radically stretch your earlobes, or even engage in a sex-change operation. These more major body alterations are permitted in the United States because of consent, and we do not require that every surgery done in the USA be done only for medical reasons. We believe that people who are old enough to care about themselves ought to be able to have the things they want that make them “happy,” by their own lights. This holds true even if the things they want done don’t make us happy, as long as the body alterations they bring upon themselves cause us no greater harm than offending our tastes or deviating from our idea of correct body politics.
Principle 3. No major irreversible alterations of your body should be permitted without your consent. In other words, we should have a strong presumption against nonconsensual alterations of the body that have major consequences for either normal biological functioning or participation in a meaningful and fulfilling social life, and even more so if such alterations are irreversible. (There are some circumstances where even this strong presumption might be overturned – for example, in the case of someone who is unconscious and certain to die unless a leg is amputated.)
If we agree on those three principles, then the “zero tolerance” policy and its aggressively repressive attitude towards female genital alterations should be looked upon with suspicion. We should at least be willing to listen to the claims of those African immigrant mothers who believe that, in a tolerant pluralistic liberal democratic society such as the United States, there ought to be some room for their conceptions of a “normal” body and gender identity.
More specifically, if genital alterations are permitted for boys on the grounds of family privacy, religious freedom, and the fact that they are not harmful to health or sexual functioning (principle 1)(see earlier Tierneylab statements, for example by Dr. Lucretia Catania on the sexuality of Somali women, published on January 14) then to the extent that the same conditions hold, genital alterations should be permitted for girls as well. The determination of which types of procedures or styles of genital reshaping should be allowed should rest entirely on scientific and medical evidence concerning the consequences of different procedures. There is no doubt that there are existing forms of female genital reshaping which already are no more consequential for health and sexual functioning then the typical male operation as currently practiced in the United States. Precisely why should we not extend that option to Kono parents of daughters (they would undoubtedly treat their sons and daughters equitably and “circumcise” both) as well as to the parents of sons? Legal and moral notions such as gender equity, due process before the law, religious and cultural freedom, and family privacy would seem to support the option.
And if body alterations such as breast implants or sex change operations are allowable with consent at an appropriate age (principle 2) then why not consensual genital alterations aimed at enhancing beauty and confirming appropriate gender identity (which, for some African immigrants, means getting rid of the male element in the female, and the female element in the male), as long as the procedure is done safely and is compatible with sexual and reproductive functioning? Such procedures are not only feasible, they already exist.
Needless to say, there is plenty of room for argument about the appropriate age of discretion and the conditions for establishing informed consent. In ethnic groups with a heritage of both male and female circumcision, the psychological burden of being “uncircumcised” (of feeling ugly, sexually ambiguous, immature and unmarriageable) is likely to intensify as one begins to sexually mature, which might be a lower bound for an age of discretion (with permission from ones parents). But such issues are not unique to this case. One might start by considering the age at which young people are permitted (with parental consent) to have a breast implant or an abortion or a sex change operation.
There is also plenty of room for argument about what counts as a major body alteration and what counts as minor. There may be types of body alterations that are benign from the point of view of health and sexuality, yet nevertheless radically reduce a person’s chances of having a meaningful and rewarding social and family life. Sane and rational parents do not do things to their child’s body that they think will ruin the child’s life or turn them into “freaks”, and that includes African parents. The more uncertainty there is about whether this body alteration will ruin rather than enhance the child’s life, the more the procedure should be viewed as major rather than minor, and the more the need for informed consent (principle 3). In the case of circumcision (for both males and females) the judgment about what is good for your child not only depends upon, but also affects, what is considered by relevant others to be beautiful or ugly, normal or mutilated. There is little risk that parents will circumcise their children in the absence of a community of relevant others who share the same tastes.
Fortunately, in a liberal pluralistic democracy such as our own (which has already made room for tattoos, piercings, brandings and scarifications of various sorts, and many other forms of body reshaping) there are many ways for men and women to live meaningful social lives without securing universal agreement about the aesthetics of the human body, especially when the body parts in question are private and not meant to be open to everyone’s inspection. If happiness in life depended upon being physically attractive to all members of the opposite sex, happiness would be in short supply.
Under this scenario, all genital surgeries in the USA would be either minor (and hence permissible at an early age) or would have to wait until some reasonable age of consent. In the USA given those principles infibulations of children before reaching an appropriate age of consent would be out of the question, although that procedure might be freely chosen after the appropriate age of discretion. Given that an infibulation is a relatively infrequent procedure even in Africa (the most careful and rigorous recent estimate suggests that 90% of female genital alterations in Africa are NOT Type 3 infibulations, despite the lurid and sensationalized focus on infibulations by activist organizations), it seems unlikely that in the United States it would emerge as a popular style of genital alteration. (For the recent estimate see P. Stanley Yoder and Shane Khan “Numbers of Women Circumcised in Africa: The Production of a Total,” Macro International, Inc., October 2007 ).
Of course, who would have predicted ear lobe plugs, tongue or nipple piercings or elaborate tattoos to become fashionable in the United States? In a liberal pluralistic democracy we grant to each other various liberties or freedoms (of choice, association, expression, religion) and various protections (of bodily privacy, of family privacy), even when other members of our society do things to themselves that offend our (Christian or Jewish or Muslim or Hindu or feminist or bourgeois) sensibilities. It is the price you pay for freedom and equality in a politically liberal pluralistic society. Under such circumstances, it is the virtue of tolerance that makes it possible for people to be quite different from one another, yet socially cooperate with each other at the same time.
So for the sake of this argument imagine this variation on an example I have used before: a fourteen year old female teenager from a West African Mandinka background living in Washington, D.C. who believes that a genital alteration would be “something very great.” She likes the look of her mother’s body and her recently circumcised cousin’s body far better than she likes the look of her own. She wants to be a mature and beautiful woman, Mandinka style. She wants to marry a West African man , or at least a man who appreciates the intimate appearances of an initiated woman’s body. She wants to show solidarity with other African women who express their sense of beauty, civility, and feminine dignity in this way, and she shares their sense of aesthetics and seemliness. She reviews the medical literature and the literature on cosmetic surgeries and discovers that the operation can be done safely, hygienically and with no great effect on her capacity to enjoy sex (that’s how it is being done these days in Beverly Hills). After consultation with her parents and the full support of other members of her community, she elects to carry on the tradition. What principle of justice demands that her cultural heritage should be “eradicated” and brought to an end by zero tolerance activists?
This is an enormous contribution to the popular debate – to admit that male circumcision is comparable to SOME (just some) forms of FGM, and to point out the intrinsic hypocrisy of living in a male circ culture while haughtily condemning and outlawing all forms of FGM. Thank you for the refreshing breath of intellectual honesty.
Bettina Shell-Duncan raises some very important points, especially regarding the lack of differentiation between the forms of FGM. Unfortunately this lack of differentiation is used on both sides of the argument and goes something like this:
“FGM type III (infibulation) has serious detrimental effects, therefore ALL forms FGM are dangerous.”
On the question of consent: I would not tell any adult woman what she can or can’t do with her body. However, what percentage of FGM is actually carried out on adult women?
I wonder if you can supply some statistics? With your extensive research record, you may be able to answer this question.
I saw the article blurb and photo of anguish about female circumcision on the home page of the Times a few days ago.
Among Kenyan-born and Somalia-born Somali women Of my acquaintance in Nairobi, from those with one or two years of primary education up through those with a degree from the University of Nairobi, it was the common stereotype that women who had had Pharaonic cutting and infibulation, on the one extreme, to those who had had no form of FGC at all, that the more “severe” the level of cutting, the HIGHER the libido, and not as this quote suggests: “One, it will stabilize her libido,” he said through an interpreter. “Two, it will make a woman look more beautiful in the eyes of her husband. And three, it will balance her psychology.”’ Somali men of my acquaintance expressed no preference one way or the other, and as to psychological balance, both men and women of Somali origins thought that FGC had no influence. This was in a culture where many non-Somalis considered the Somali “crazy,” but the Somalis themselves said that FGC probably had no effect on individual pyschology. I make no claims to scientific rigor – my observations are based only on conversations with Somali friends of both sexes.
MCT (#8)is right on. Circumcision,be it male or female and practiced on infants and minors, is the purest form of child molestation ever divised by men. It is almost always committed against those that rely most on the protection of their elders and society. Anyone, including physicians, taking a knife to cut an indefensible infant after birth, or as a minor, should be persecuted by the law as a child molester.
These practices find their origin in religion and have been manipulated over time by those religions to become acceptable rituals.
As a feminist, living in Africa has opened me up to the possibility that some of my own viewpoints need to be challenged in order to fully appreciate the complexity of accepted social norms on the continent.
A strictly condemning attitude to FGM also blinds one to the reasons why it is practiced in the first place. Yes, the reasons it is practiced are often paternalistic, chauvinistic– clear testimonies to a fear of female sexuality. But these attitudes exist. We cannot just conveniently erase them.
FGM continues to be practiced because there is a lack of reasonable alternatives to FGM. These alternatives include sex education, demystification of sex to young people– even basic health care and empowerment of women through basic education.
Until these alternatives are made available (and this is also not our fight, as westerners), let’s not condemn Africans and Asians. Lets not be shocked at their attitudes and impose our cultural standards on them. Let’s instead take steps to inform and educate and offer the possibility of healthy and safe alternatives.
tries to have it both ways, attempting to reconcile his self-concocted “principle I” (i.e. religious and cultural male circumcision on non-consenting babies) and “Principle III” (i.e. No major irreversible alterations of your body should be permitted without your consent), through the disingenous use of the words “minor” (i.e. acceptable) and “major” (i.e. unacceptable). I may be mistaken but his need to justify the current practices in the USA and in the Jewish and Muslim communities somehow trumps logic.
Nevertheless, in such a presentation, maybe unwittingly, he successfully exposes the main barrier to the elimination of genital mutilations of any type: how can the US press against FGM elsewhere, when it carries out its own wholesale mutilations at home? As we have seen in these boards, this argument is often thrown right back at the faces of (largely) Americans.
And yet, I can’t help but wishing that, whichever their reasons may be, Dr. Schweder and John Tierney continue pressing their ambiguous stand on FGM. Doing so in the USA, where genital mutilations are virtually barred from mass media discussion (God forbid somebody gets offended!) and relegated to ad hoc fora such as this one, they continue to raise a mirror for Americans to look into what they are doing to their children in the US, while deluding themselves into believing that their reasons are so different and so much loable than their African counterpart’s.
What is extremely troubling about the conclusions of Richard Shweder, Dr. Shell-Duncan and of those who agree with their troubling perspective of female genital mutilation (FGM), is the lack of a human rights and gender analysis. Equality Now has been working to end FGM since its inception in 1992 and supports partners in over two dozen grassroots organizations across Africa that are struggling – and succeeding – to end all forms of FGM. As even Dr. Shell-Duncan notes, there is no shortage of research on the lifelong devastating health effects of FGM, but the physical health of African girls and women who have been subjected to FGM – although critical in order to reach one’s highest potential in life – is not the sole criterion for condemning FGM in all of its forms. There is little or no research on the mortality rates caused by FGM (either immediately or in the short-,medium- or long-term after the procedure) and no research on the psychological impact of FGM. In communities where FGM is practiced as a rite of passage (among the Maasai, for instance), girls as young as 9 years-old are forced to abandon school and to marry to adult men after being subjected to FGM, securing a bleak future for the girl-child.
Every grassroots and national group in African countries working to eradicate FGM will vehemently confirm that FGM is a fundamental human rights violation against girls and women. FGM engenders and perpetuates discrimination against girls and women because they were born female. Unlike male circumcision, FGM is a prerequisite to marriage and performed to secure virginity, chastity, obedience to father and husband, and guarantees a women’s lower status in society. International law and principles condemn FGM as a violation that deprives girls from the right to bodily integrity and the right to live a life free of violence, to name just two. The African Protocol on the Rights of Women urges all governments to enact laws that prohibit FGM and take action to prevent and prosecute FGM. When the American academic community refuses to listen to the voices of the survivors of FGM and local grassroots groups in Africa working tirelessly to end this 5,000 year- old harmful traditional practice – who, we ask, are the cultural imperialists?
Dr. Shell-Duncan’s points about being against all forms of fgc because two can cause great harm and her noting that the forms of evidence we have now are interpretive rather than empirical are good ones. Her post is actually much more well thought out than Dr. Shweder’s in my opinion. I do agree that when there is danger to a woman “a hands off strategy would be as equally unethical as a cultural imperialistic one,” as Dr. Shell-Duncan notes.
Also, I think that American and European women find it as difficult to rise above ideals of physical beauty as African women. Obviously, the American culture is fraught with ridiculous media depictions of overly thin, tall women with what we think are “perfect” features when the average woman is actully 5’4″ and 140 pounds, not 5’10” and 90 pounds.
Shweder’s statements about how our practice of male circumcision in the U.S. makes it hypocritical for us to criticize fgc is one I disagree with. In Africa, as I understand, fgc is performed on a girl usually between the ages of 4 and 10. In the U.S. male circumcision is usally performed on a male infant who is only a few days old. Hence, these are two different processes.
Also, just because studies have shown that African women do not have increased childbirth risks from fgc does not make types 2 and 3 ok. There are other issues besides childbirth risks for these women (or girls since I’m sure some have babies at a very young age.) Obviously girls and women can suffer severe psychological trauma from fgc and other methods of control over their sexuality.
If fgc 1 is truly harmless and painless to girls and women and performed in a surgically safe setting (how many of these operations are performed in a surgically safe settings?) then it should be up to the parents and culture. However, the 2 and 3 versions do not sound safe and women have reported great trauma from them. Hence, it does not make sense for the U.S. to sanction these methods. We do not support slavery and torture in other countries so why should we support more extreme fgc methods? This is not cultural imperialism, it is a human rights stance. When we decided we were against apartheid in S. Africa, we implemented economic sanctions against the countries there. Was that cultural imperialism or a human rights issue? I say it was a human rights issue.
Also, if Shweder if making the argument against male circumcision, shouldn’t he be against fgc? Again, do we always have to point out that because boys rights are violated, we should stop complaining about girls rights being violated. Can anyone say sexism?
“So for the sake of this argument imagine this variation on an example I have used before: a fourteen year old female teenager from a West African Mandinka background living in Washington, D.C. who believes that a genital alteration would be “something very great.””
The last time you used this example your hypothetical teenager was Somali, and that means the genital alteration involved would be infibulation.
But let’s make her Mandinka, ie, she wants to have her clitoris and labia removed. Why shouldn’t she wait until she is 18?
post 18: “…Shweder’s statements about how our practice of male circumcision in the U.S. makes it hypocritical for us to criticize fgc is one I disagree with. In Africa, as I understand, fgc is performed on a girl usually between the ages of 4 and 10. In the U.S. male circumcision is usally performed on a male infant who is only a few days old. Hence, these are two different processes…”, posted by Judy.
Sorry, Judy, but I don’t get your point. So, yes, FGM is performed between 4 and 10 (maybe even later too), and MGM is performed at 2 days (routine infant circumcision performed in hospitals under “medical” pretexts) or at 8 days (Jewish bris). Besides that time differential, how else do they constitute “different processes” to the point of making a difference as to whether they should be accepted or rejected?
Furthermore, I believe that you read Schweder wrongly. With his pseudo-distinctions detailed in his “principle I” and “principle III”, I think that he is actually making a point for male genital mutilation in the American, Jewish and Muslim communities as something acceptable that should be protected in the name of pluriculturalism.
“In order for this argument for (limited) toleration of female genital alterations to succeed, one must first secure agreement on the following three principles. If you have good reasons for rejecting one or more of these principles put them forward and perhaps those reasons will get debated on the Tierneylab.
Principle 1. Certain types of genital alterations are currently legally permissible for males and should be permissible.”
I appreciate, however, the subsequent argument which convincingly demonstrates that if accepted, zero-tolerance for female genital shaping is hypocrisy.
For demonstrating that, the author will be guaranteed no shortage of criticism from those whose cultural lens it shatters.
Though an anthropologist may be less likely to answer than a magician asked to explain his trick, I cannot help but wonder, while he articulates it as the dominant public view at this time in the Unites States, whether the author himself accepts Principle 1.
I wonder this as one of the “majority of American males [who] have had their genitals reshaped in infancy,” but not one of the presumed “vast majority of circumcised American males [who] have no regrets.”
“There is nothing wrong with cultural imperialism if the culture you are spreading is superior; in fact in that case it is quite a good thing.”
Not being a scientist nor having any interest in trying to impress by over intelectualizing this, but speaking as a woman who enjoys sex, this issue isn’t just a question of if this a physically damaging process. There are a lot of people in the world who never care for sex or give it up pretty early in the game. Women who are mutilated will never know what they are missing, no matter how much desire they have, unless they are exceptional, they won’t be having orgasms. That may not register in any of your surveys or tests but it is a huge quality of life issue.
Female genital mutilation is about sexual control – plain and simple. Male circumcision really isn’t comparable on that issue, it doesn’t significantly reduce or eliminate men’s ablity to experience sexual pleasure. That the question of whether a portion of the population is entitled to or has a right to discover sexual pleasure for themselves is even debated, says a great deal about the ambivalent and negative attitudes towards sexuality and female sexuality in particular across all world cultures.
“That the question of whether a portion of the population is entitled to or has a right to discover sexual pleasure for themselves is even debated, says a great deal about the ambivalent and negative attitudes towards sexuality and female sexuality in particular across all world cultures.”
I’m sorry, Deanna, I can’t seem to find the argument that a portion of the population is not entitled to discover sexual pleasure for themselves in any of the commentary. Could you direct me to it? Thank you.
In your defense of male circumcision, you keep emphasising those Jewish and Muslim parents who would be unfairly discriminated against if male circumcision was abolished in the US. Aren’t you being just a tad disingenuous here? Estimates vary, but let’s say, as a low estimate, 60% of American males have been circumcised. Jews account for about 1.3% of the US population, muslims for 0.5%, total 1.8%. So 58% of American male infants are circumcised for other than religious reasons, or to put it differently, 97% of all circumcised American males have been circumcised for other than religious reasons, usually spurious medical reasons. I can’t imagine that you’re unaware of this.
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For some strange reason my husband loves the fact that I am not entirely lost when it comes to technology. He has taken to calling me Technologiewunderchen, which translates into little tech miracle (and is completely exaggerated). When Nokia asked if I wanted to test their latest smartphone N8, Big M was therefore more than excited and pointed out that I had not done a tech review ever since the Wiki Digital Camera, which had gotten me into all sorts of tech fail troubles. I was set on declining, but Big M’s sad face made me give the tech reviewing business another chance.
It turned out that Nokia pulled out all the stops, sending a gigantic box from New York via Fedex. It was soon revealed that the phone’s extravagant packaging was to blame for weight and size. Maybe Big M was right and this might be a fun product to test after all.
The casing is nice, solid and has a matt black finish. It is not as stylish as an iPhone, but feels solid and up to the pressures of everyday MetMum life.
The camera is amazing. At 12 Mega Pixel it is better than many small compact cameras. The set up is easy, the flash strong.
There is a built-in sat nav, which you will only get into an iPhone by buying an app (e.g. TomTom app for ca. £60). The sat nave works a treat; you can link it with Lonely Planet, TripAdvisor etc. A quirky but cool feature is that there are lots of different voice packs to choose from, i.e. you get to choose the style of guidance, there is anything from a sexy Australian guy, a Drill Sargent to a 5-year-old girl. Luckily my car has sat nav, and for walking around the iPhone Google Maps integration is sufficient. But if you are looking for a sat nav phone this might be great.
The phone comes with lots of cables and syncs with a Mac. Since I love my MacBook Pro I could not live with a phone that doesn’t. The synchronization works well, but takes a bit of time to set up. You need iSync, which any Mac has, and a (free) plug in from Nokia’s site. You also need a separate Nokia Multimedia Transfer programme, which is also free on Nokia’s site. So it is a bit of a palaver and takes some determination, but once it is set up it works well.
The interface and interface design seems surprisingly old school. Especially the pre-installed browser feels like something from the DOS days sort off early 80s. There is a progress bar and a KB count down that make you feel like you have to do a bit of programming yourself.
The phone locks itself and crashes. I was expecting that if anything the Nokia would be the fastest and most stable phone around, given Nokia’s background. It is not. I never really understood what I did to make it crash, but it did and showed cryptic error messages at that. iPhones used to do a bit of that but I found my iPhone 4 to be much more stable than the N8.
Anything web is difficult. The standard browser is very poor, the way it displays my blog is terrible, everything looks small, hard to read and unattractive. It is not surprising that iPhone users are online so much more than all other smartphone users. Downloading the Opera Mobile Browser made the experience much better, but still not on par with the iPhone browser experience.
Nokia’s App Shop is sadly enough still much poorer than Apple’s and Androids App shop. There are some very quirky African and Asian Applications – probably because of the popularity of Nokia and Symbian (the phones’ operating system) phones. I use Apps for two reasons a) to keep little L entertained b) for a choice of Twitter, Facebook and Skype Apps. On both counts the Nokia’s App store could not compete.
In general, the phone could be smarter. Many functions require many more clicks than necessary, I will not bore you with details, but other phones show how about 30% of all the clicks on the phone should not be necessary. A funny example of the lack in user friendliness is that the sign up to a Nokia account uses a charking. The problem is that the input box and the picture are on two separate pages making it a bit of a brain training to put in the right combination.
Other little annoying things: I have downloaded a Absolute radios App to be able to listen to the radio on the phone, but rather than fade out as soon as something else happens on the phone this app keeps playing. I therefore managed to listen to Tears for Fears on Absolute Radio and speak to a guy calling from HSBC at the same time.
So, Nokia N8, you have not won me over. In my verdict, I am joining the Nokia shareholders and say: try harder, Nokia!
If you want to give the N8 a try (especially if you are looking for a great camera and/or sat nav), leave a comment and enter the giveaway draw by 9 March 2011. The phone has been very gently used during the course of two weeks only.
Great informative write-up…. I am soaking up any info possible on a variety of phones at the moment so this is very timely for me as I am on the look out for a new phone. You see, the zero button on my phone is no longer working. That warrants my quest, right?!!
I am working in a DOS IBM PC DELL company and have tried all different kind of phones that are compatible with these systems. Since I work in PR and the results of my effort tend to end up on websites, I have tried all different phones trying to be like the iphone. Currently: HTC desire. Quite good (if it worked). I think the best bet is Android/ Samsung if you have no iphone. But I have one (the private me). And I love it.
Currently I use an old Nokia that I’d like to change and N8 would be a great substitute. Fingers crossed. Cheers from Italy,two years ago I visited London and I love it.
My first camera phone was a Nokia, and I loved it,so please enter me. Your review was very well written. You explained things so that even I understood most of it. Trust me that’s saying a lot! Little tech miracle to be sure.
Hi! I’d love to win it because of the camera, as I’m so weird I always carry the normal camera with me in case something deserves a photo…
This was a great review and thanks for being honest! You don’t have to enter me though because I’m happy with iPhone 🙂
Solid review and since I was swinging by anyway figured i should enter. Although it might be hard to prise me away from my Blackberry!
Great review. Count me into the draw on the camera front alone. And the fact that any phone has to be better than my current one!
I like the honest you are hehe, good review,I just love it because that camera 12mpx+xenon+hd+ just amazing for a mobile.also i saw fews blog where new ui is coming to symbian.
Thanks for the review! Have spent all morning trying to decide which phone to go for when my contact expires in a few days so this was very helpful!
Interesting review! I’m a die hard apple fan but my family are all Nokia lovers,Having never owned a Nokia I’m not familiar with what they are usually like but has assumed from all the hype that they must be very close to our lovely little iPhones. Although…12megpix camera on a mobile and satnav….WANT!!! Lol
Great review. I currently use a blackberry but have fallen out of love with it recently. Have always been much happier with Nokias! Would love to be entered into giveaway. Thanks x
What a detailed review, I have been reading your site and your a true inspiration to me starting my own blog =)
Hey look at you little Technologiewunderchen! Ok I had to copy and paste that one. I am sticking to Apple, actually my whole world revolves around Apple and the only thing missing to my happiness is a MacBook!!!! No other phone does it like an iphone. Yes you can say it, I am sad but nevermind 🙂 xx
Great, honest review. I’d love to win this for my mum who has a really old nokia brick and the slooooowest internet connection on her more than 10 year old computer…..this would be a vast improvement for her!!!
I would love to win the N8, it is the phone I have wanted for ages. I wanted to get an N8 in November when it was time to move to a smart phone and got talked into a cheaper plan and free phone – HTC wildfire – I hate it! It is back at the manufacturers again for the second time as it constantly crashes.
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8 weeks during the Summer school holidays. Your child will receive 10 Write to Rachel letters (and write back to Rachel) during the Summer holidays programme. At the end of the course you will receive an assessment and report and, if desired, a telephone consultation of up to 30 minutes.
A look into the world of business ethics and a review of Albert Carr's article: "is Business Bluffing Ethical?"
Compare and contrast the assumptions, if any, which classical elitists, pluralists and rational choice theorists bring to the analysis and explanation of politics.
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Through close reference to those poems of theirs which you have studied, discuss this assessment of the form and content of Wordsworh or Coleridge's poetry.
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The Devil and Tom Walker" by Washington Irving, and "The Man in the Black Suit" by Stephen King Comparison
Mel gibsons latest movie The Passion Of The Christ, will this movie renew anti-semitic hatred for the jewish people that they have had to deal with for the last thousands of years.
Compare and/or contrast Hemingway's veiw of man and the world with Hawthorne's veiw of man and the world.
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Hitler: was the structure of the nazi government to chaotic to enable hitler to be a strong dictator in the years 1933-1939?
Was the Experiment on Charlie Gordon Worth the Problems Created? An essay based on the book "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes
The impact of family violence from an intergenerational perspective & Rational Emotive approach used to assist a client with a history of family violence.
Compare the ways in which tension is created in these opening sequences of great expectations 'david lean' 1946 and 'julian jarrolds' 1999 version
How does the setting influence the devellopment of the storyline in Shakespeares 'Romeo and Juliet'?
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An American Tragedy by Theordore Dreiser: Reality and Fiction Cause the Demise of the American Dream
Entelechy is the belief that everything living or nonliving serves a purpose in the world. In this essay, I give my opinion on my belief and how it applies to my life.
Compare between the opening chapters of the following novels: Hardy's "Tess of the D'Urbervilles", and Bronte's "Wuthering Heights"?
Special Race Regulations This paper is an interesting look at reverse racism. It also has a works cited.
How Maya Angelou shows and not tells in her autobiography "i know why the caged bird sings" a simple, 5 paragraph essay, yet it makes some good points. graded well.
A look at what people do to bring a revolution to a sucess...talks about the french revolution and ghandhi
A Mock letter to a cousin in Cambodia in the 1970's, describing the immigrant experience in Australia
Thank you... rememberance day in canada, why we are thankful for what the soldiers did for us so long ago
The Life of John D. Rockefeller, SR. Copyright "¶ 1998 by Ron Chernow Random House, Inc. New York, NY A Book Report
This essay is a comparison between Jephthah (Judges 11:30-39) and Polonius and how they used their virgin daughters as political pawns.
The purpose of education should be to create an academic environment that is separate from the outside world
Critically assess the case of government support of small business, both in terms of business start - up and development
Discuss Possible interpretations of Iago's behaviour.Refer to Iago's manipulation of the various power structures within the play.
Using the film Nicholas and Alexandra and your own knowledge account for the fall of the Romanov Dynasty
Compare the ways in which Madame Loisel and the daughter in 'Two Kinds' respond to the pressures and expectations of their families and societies.
How do the poems we have studied argue the differences between love and lust?(includes To His oy Mistress,The Relic,The Flea,The Clod and The Pebble)
"In Our View, Therefore, Medical Law is a Subset of Human Rights Law" (Kennedy, I & A. Grubb. Medical Law 3rd edition (2000))
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Jane Eyre "I would not now have exchanged Lowood with all its privations for Gateshead and all its daily luxuries".
"The main function of religion in society is the control of weaker social groups by the more powerful."
A Comparison of the movie All Quiet on the Western Front and the book A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemmingway.
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Macbeth: the Man, the Terror, the Power (A paper on various aspects of Shakespeare's character Macbeth from his play "Macbeth")
BASIC Programming Language Introduction - This is an explanatory report on what I've learned about BASIC (from a book) and may need improvements.
'What I deal with is too vast for malicious dealing'. How far did Reconstruction realise Lincoln's vision?
Evaluate the claim that recent changes within schools are the main factors responsible for high female attainment.
How does the Heckscher-Ohlin model explain the basis of comparative advantage? Also, critically discuss the policy implications of this model for developing countries.
Kurt Vonnegut's "Harrison Bergeron" -- A story symbolic of the oppression inherent in society, and the depths to which it pervades our lives through the media, politics, and popular culture.
Urban Legends: Fact vs. "Fact" / Discusses various aspects of urban legends and the "facts" surrounding them
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Malcolm's final description of the macbeths is "butcher and his fiend-like queen". Do you agree with this? The point of view i took was that i disagreed with malcolm
It is 300 BC. You are a Platonist. Your friend, also a student, has just been condemned to death by the Athenian Court. Write a letter preparing him for his last hours.
"The Microsoft monopoly should be broken up." Evaluate this claim using economic theory and evidence on the welfare effects of monopoly and competition.
Review of juvenile crime study source written by Laurence Steinberg called "Should Juveniles be Tried as Adults?"
Funds for the Imagination Deals with supporting more funding for the arts in the public school system.
Romeo and Juliet; How do the events in act 3 scene 1 change the outcome of the play? and how does this reflect on the love and hate theme?
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Pope Francis speaks to the bishops of Venezuela about the dire situation surrounding their country during their Ad Limina visit to Rome on Tuesday.
Pope Francis met with the catholic bishop’s conference of Venezuela on Tuesday – the day of Our Lady of Coromoto, Patron saint of Venezuela. The bishops were in Rome for their Ad Limina visit and used the meeting to shed light on the harsh economic, social and political realities Venezuela is currently facing.
Archbishop Luis Azuaje Ayala, President of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Venezuela, and Archbishop of Maracaibo, spoke in a press conference later, saying that “The Pope did not simply listen to us, he expressed himself on the importance and value of the Church in Venezuela.”
Amongst the victims of the crisis Venezuela has found itself in is, in fact, the Church. With priests and entire communities forming part of those who are fleeing the country.
Archbishop Azuaje divided migrants into three waves. The first, he said, are those who emigrated to Venezuela years ago and are now returning back to their countries of origin. The second are the businesspeople, who are migrating to find work elsewhere, leaving a huge social void. The third, and those in the most difficult situation, are the poor. They leave on foot with absolutely nothing to their name, including documents, and walk thousands of kilometers to reach any Latin American country. Once they have arrived, explained Archbishop Azuaje, they then have difficulty settling in due to social and judicial insecurities.
Bishop Moronta, Vice President of the Venezuelan Catholic Bishops’ Conference, spoke to Vatican News. Regarding migration, he said that Venezuela has always accepted migrants. He described Venezuela as an “impoverished rich country” from which people are fleeing, in some cases to seek quality of life, and in others, survival.
Archbishop Azuaje explained that nowadays, any profit made from one’s job is worthless, stating that it has led to “scarcity and speculation”.
Archbishop Azuaje reported having witnessed people scavenge amongst rubbish bags in search of scraps of food. He told Pope Francis that “many deny” and that others “disguise” the hunger that surrounds the country.
The lack of health and sanitation is another topic the bishops brought up, stating that each time they leave the country they travel with a long list of medication that their families, friends, priests and other acquaintances have asked for. They describe the situation as a “disaster”.
Pope Francis is urging the bishops to “stay close to the people of Venezuela, especially to those who are suffering”. Archbishop Azuaje concluded stating that “for us, it is essential to open a channel in order to receive aid, food and medication from different parts of the world”.
Bishop Moronta has issued an appeal to the International community to first of all be aware of the fact that the problem is serious, and then, he asks them to stand by the side of those who are being exploited rather than those doing the exploiting.
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Prevenar 13 is a vaccine. It is available as a suspension for injection that contains parts from 13 different types of the bacterium Streptococcus pneumoniae (S. pneumoniae).
Prevenar 13 is used to protect children aged between six weeks and 17 years against invasive disease, pneumonia (infection of the lungs) and acute otitis media (infection of the middle ear) caused by S. pneumoniae. It is also used to protect adults and the elderly against invasive disease and pneumonia caused by S. pneumoniae. Invasive disease occurs when the bacterium spreads through the body causing serious infections such as septicaemia (blood infection) and meningitis (infection of the membranes around the brain and spine).
When prescribing Prevenar 13, consideration should be given to the risk of invasive disease and pneumonia in the different age groups, other diseases the vaccinees may have and the type of bacteria in the different geographical areas.
Adults and children aged two years and above should receive one single dose of Prevenar 13 into the shoulder muscle.
In children below two years of age, the vaccine is given by injection into the thigh muscle. The vaccination schedule depends on the age of the child and should be based on official recommendations:
children aged between six weeks and six months are normally given four doses. The first three doses are given with an interval of one month between each dose. The fourth dose, the booster, is given between 11 and 15 months of age. Alternatively, when Prevenar 13 is given as part of a routine immunisation programme, two doses can be given at the ages of two and four months, followed by a booster at 11 to 15 months of age;
children aged between seven months and 11 months should first receive two doses with an interval of at least one month followed by a third dose in the second year;
children between 12 and 23 months of age should receive two doses with an interval of at least two months;
Prevenar 13 can be used in children who have started vaccination with Prevenar (another vaccine authorised in the European Union for S. pneumoniae, which contains parts of seven of the 13 types of S. pneumoniae included in Prevenar 13).
Further information on the use of Prevenar 13 in people at increased risk of pneumococcal infections (such as patients with HIV or people who have received a haematopoietic stem cell transplant) and on how to switch from Prevenar to Prevenar 13 can be found in the summary of product characteristics (also part of the EPAR).
Vaccines work by ‘teaching’ the immune system (the body’s natural defences) how to defend itself against a disease. When a person is given the vaccine, the immune system recognises the parts of the bacterium contained in the vaccine as ‘foreign’ and makes antibodies against them. The immune system will then be able to produce antibodies more quickly when it is exposed to the bacterium. This helps to protect against the disease.
Prevenar 13 contains small amounts of polysaccharides (a type of sugar) extracted from the ‘capsule’ that surrounds the S. pneumoniae bacterium. These polysaccharides have been purified, then ‘conjugated’ (attached) to a carrier to help them to be recognised by the immune system. The vaccine is also ‘adsorbed’ (fixed) onto an aluminium compound to enhance the immune response.
Prevenar 13 contains the polysaccharides from 13 different types of S. pneumoniae (serotypes 1, 3, 4, 5, 6A, 6B, 7F, 9V, 14, 18C, 19A, 19F and 23F). In Europe, it is estimated that these are responsible for between 73 and 100% of the cases of invasive disease in children under the age of five years, and at least 50 – 76% of the cases of invasive disease in adults, depending on the country. Prevenar 13 is very similar to Prevenar but contains six additional polysaccharides from serotypes which are responsible for between 16 and 60% of the cases.
In children, the ability of Prevenar 13 to trigger the production of antibodies (immunogenicity) was assessed in two main studies involving 1,266 healthy children who were vaccinated between the ages of two and 15 months and in a third study involving 598 children aged between five and 17 years old who had previously been vaccinated with Prevenar or who had never been vaccinated for invasive pneumococcal disease. Prevenar 13 was compared with Prevenar. The studies compared the immune response for Prevenar 13 with that for Prevenar against the seven polysaccharides that they share in common. In the first two studies they were compared directly, and in the third study the results for Prevenar 13 were compared to those obtained for Prevenar in a previous study. The immune response to the additional six polysaccharides in Prevenar 13 was compared with the lowest immune response to any of the polysaccharides in Prevenar. Additional studies in children looked at the effects of giving booster vaccinations, switching from Prevenar to Prevenar 13 and using Prevenar 13 alongside other vaccines routinely given to children.
In adults, Prevenar 13 was investigated in four main studies. The first study involved 835 adults aged 50 to 64 years who had not previously been vaccinated against invasive disease caused by S. pneumoniae. The second study involved 938 adults aged 70 years or older who had already been vaccinated against invasive disease caused by S. pneumoniae at least five years earlier. In both studies, Prevenar 13 was compared with a similar vaccine containing the polysaccharides from 23 different types of S. pneumoniae (23-valent polysaccharide vaccine). The studies compared the immune responses one month after vaccination with the two vaccines. A third study, which involved 900 adults aged 18 to 49, compared the immune response to Prevenar 13 with the response in adults aged 60 to 64. A fourth study involved approximately 85,000 adults over 65 year of age who had not previously been vaccinated with the 23-valent polysaccharide vaccine, and compared Prevenar 13 with placebo (a dummy treatment). The main measure of effectiveness was based on the number of subjects who developed a first episode of pneumonia caused by a type of S. pneumoniae covered by Prevenar 13.
In children under five years of age, Prevenar 13 produced a response that was at least as good as Prevenar for six of the seven S. pneumoniae polysaccharides they share in common in the first main study, and for five of the seven in the second. Where the response to Prevenar 13 was lower than the comparator, the differences were considered to be small. All six of the additional polysaccharides in Prevenar 13 produced a response at least as good as the lowest response seen with Prevenar in the first main study. This was true for five of the six additional polysaccharides in the second study.
In children aged between five and 17 years old, Prevenar 13 produced a response that was at least as good as Prevenar for all seven S. pneumoniae polysaccharides they share in common. All six of the additional polysaccharides in Prevenar 13 produced a response that was similar to the response seen with Prevenar against the seven polysaccharides.
The additional studies showed that Prevenar 13 led to an increase in antibody production following booster vaccinations and supported a switch to Prevenar 13 in children who had started vaccination with Prevenar. Prevenar 13 was not shown to affect the immunogenicity of other vaccines routinely given to children.
In adults aged 50 and older, in the first two main studies Prevenar 13 produced an immune response that was at least as good as the 23-valent polysaccharide vaccine for all 12 of the S. pneumoniae polysaccharides they share in common, and for several of these serotypes the immune response was better with Prevenar 13. Adults aged 18 to 49 had an immune response with Prevenar 13 which was as good as the response in adults aged 60 to 64.
The fourth study in adults over 65 years of age showed that Prevenar 13 reduced the incidence of pneumonia by almost half: 49 out of 42,240 (around 0.1%) subjects fell ill with pneumonia caused by S. pneumoniae in the vaccine group, compared with 90 out of 42,256 (around 0.2%) subjects in the placebo group.
The most common side effects with Prevenar 13 (seen in more than 1 patient in 10) in children are decreased appetite, fever (only very common in children aged 6 weeks to 5 years), irritability, reactions at the site of injection (reddening or hardening of the skin, swelling, pain or tenderness), somnolence (sleepiness) and poor quality sleep. In adults and the elderly, the most common side effects (seen in more than 1 patient in 10) are decreased appetite, headaches, diarrhoea, fever (only very common in adults aged 18 to 29 years), vomiting (only very common in adults aged 18 to 49 years), rash, reactions at the site of injection, limitation of arm movement, arthralgia and myalgia (joint and muscle pain), chills and fatigue. For the full list of all side effects reported with Prevenar 13, see the package leaflet.
Prevenar 13 must not be used in people who are hypersensitive (allergic) to the active substances, to any of the other ingredients or to diphtheria toxoid (a weakened toxin from the bacterium that causes diphtheria). People who have a severe fever should not receive the vaccine until they have recovered, but they can still be given the vaccine if they have a mild infection such as a cold.
The CHMP decided that Prevenar 13’s benefits are greater than its risks and recommended that it be granted marketing authorisation. The CHMP noted that in children the immune system’s response to Prevenar 13 was comparable to that of Prevenar, which is already authorised for the protection of children against S. pneumoniae in the EU. The Committee also noted that Prevenar 13 contains additional polysaccharides from the types of S. pneumoniae that are responsible for causing disease in children in Europe.
In adults and the elderly, the Committee noted that community-acquired pneumonia and invasive pneumococcal disease may be an important health problem and that the benefit in terms of protection outweighed the risk of adverse reactions. For the prevention of pneumonia, although the use of Prevenar 13 was only investigated in adults over 65 years of age, the CHMP considered that the results could also be applied to younger adults as studies have shown that their immune response is similar or higher than that among adults older than 65.
A risk management plan has been developed to ensure that Prevenar 13 is used as safely as possible. Based on this plan, safety information has been included in the summary of product characteristics and the package leaflet for Prevenar 13, including the appropriate precautions to be followed by healthcare professionals and patients.
The European Commission granted a marketing authorisation valid throughout the European Union for Prevenar 13 on 9 December 2009.
This is a summary of the European public assessment report (EPAR) for Prevenar 13. It explains how the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) assessed the medicine to reach its opinion in favour of granting a marketing authorisation and its recommendations on the conditions of use for Prevenar 13.
For more information about treatment with Prevenar 13, read the package leaflet (also part of the EPAR) or contact your doctor or pharmacist.
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The Outstanding New Environmental Scientist (ONES) Award is intended to identify the most talented Early Stage Investigators (ESIs) who intend to make a long-term commitment to research in the Environmental Health Sciences and assist them in launching an innovative research program focused on the understanding of environmental exposure effects on peoples health.
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is soliciting applications from eligible applicants as described in Section III.A to provide training and technical assistance for small public water systems to help such systems achieve and maintain compliance with the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA), and to provide training and technical assistance for small publicly owned wastewater systems, communities served by onsite/decentralized wastewater systems, and private well owners to improve water quality under the Clean Water Act (CWA). Training and technical assistance activities provided to these systems, communities and private well owners should be made available nationally in rural and urban communities and to personnel of tribally- owned and operated systems.
This notice announces the availability of funds and solicits proposals from eligible entities, including nonprofit organizations, to deliver Environmental Workforce Development and Job Training programs that recruit, train, and place local, unemployed and under-employed residents with the skills needed to secure full-time employment in the environmental field. Please note that eligible entities who received an EWDJT grant in Fiscal Year 2017 (FY17) are not eligible to apply for funding in FY18.
The California B-WET Program is a competitive grant program that supports existing, high quality environmental education programs, fosters the growth of new, innovative programs, and encourages capacity building and partnership development for environmental education programs throughout the entire the San Francisco Bay, Monterey Bay, and Santa Barbara Channel watersheds. Successful projects provide Meaningful Watershed Educational Experiences (MWEEs): http://www.noaa.gov/explainers/noaa- meaningful-watershed-educational-experience for students and related professional development for teachers. These MWEEs integrate field experiences with classroom activities and instruction in NOAA-related science content.
With generous support from the Cleveland Zoological Society, the Asia Seed Grants Program provides funds to support field conservation and research projects in Asia. Annual awards ranging from $1000 to $3500 will be made to conservation and research initiatives involving wildlife and their habitats, and educational or cultural activities that involve or impact wildlife and their habitats. Ideal projects have clear and direct conservation impact, positively affect local people and create opportunities for capacity building in country. Projects focusing on the following areas of special interest to the Zoo are strongly encouraged to apply: · Wildlife protection · Human wildlife conflict mitigation · Development and promotion of sustainable environmental practices · Habitat protection and restoration · Capacity-building, education/training, community-based conservation and development · Conservation biology, ecology and natural history studies · Species/taxa based projects that focus on species within the Zoo's collection will be given priority.
The goal of the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI) is to target the most significant environmental problems in the Great Lakes ecosystem by funding and implementing projects that address these problems. This single source funding opportunity to The Nature Conservancy funds fee title acquisition of land from a willing seller at the Bailey's Harbor Boreal Forest and Wetlands State Natural Area in Door County, Wisconsin. The program authorizing statutes for GLRI awards are listed in CFDA number 15.662 located at CFDA.gov.
The Home Depot Foundation is accepting applications from nonprofit organizations using volunteers to address the physical needs of their communities. Through its Community Impact Grants program, the foundation will award grants of up to $5,000 (in the form of Home Depot gift cards that can be used to purchase tools, materials, and services) for projects aimed at repairing, modifying, weatherizing, or otherwise improving low-income and/or transitional housing or community facilities. Priority will be given to programs that use volunteers to serve veterans with home-improvement needs. Only IRS-registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations and tax-exempt public service agencies (e.g., police/fire departments) in the United States are eligible to apply. In addition, grants must support work completed by community volunteers in the U.S., and projects must be completed within six months following notification that the grant has been awarded.
This Cooperative Agreement is a 5-year project for development and implementation of a Native Water Leasing Pilot Program for the Middle Rio Grande (MRG) to be developed and implemented jointly by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) and the Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) in coordination with the Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District (MRGCD). Water acquired under the Program will be used to support implementation of the December 2016 Final Biological Opinion for Bureau of Reclamation, Bureau of Indian Affairs, and Non-Federal Water Management and Maintenance Activities on the Middle Rio Grande, New Mexico (2016 BiOp). The primary focus of the Cooperative Agreement is to develop and implement the cooperative pilot Program with MRGCD and willing sellers over a 5-year implementation period to acquire water for environmental use in the MRG. Through pilot implementation, the Program will set the stage for expanded native water leasing and other voluntary measures at scale as win-win solutions for the river, local communities, agricultural producers, and MRGCD over the long term. Further, it provides a key component of a large-scale long-term opportunity to combine instream water leasing with the restoration of riparian and upper watershed habitats along with other initiatives to advance landscape-scale restoration in the MRG. Areas where collaboration with other agencies and partner organizations will broaden the scope of the effort, leverage additional funding, and increase the prospects for long-term success will be identified throughout the effort.
The States of Colorado, Utah, Wyoming and New Mexico (Upper Division States), through UCRC, have been working in parallel with Arizona, California and Nevada (Lower Division States) and public entities within the Colorado River Basin, and in conjunction with the Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation), to develop and implement drought contingency options, as appropriate, to avoid or reduce the likelihood of reaching critical reservoir elevations at either Lake Powell or Lake Mead. On July 16, 2013, Don Ostler, Executive Director of UCRC, testified before a Senate Subcommittee, "The Colorado River Basin remains in a very severe 14 year drought, the continuation of which could drive Lake Powell to levels that threaten the ability to generate electrical power and Lake Mead to levels that require implementation of shortages within a few years."
The Division of Earth Sciences (EAR) invites the submission of proposals for collaborative, interdisciplinary studies of the Earth's interior within the framework of the community-based initiative known as Cooperative Studies of the Earth's Deep Interior (CSEDI). Funding will support basic research on the character and dynamics of the Earth's mantle and core, their influence on the evolution of the Earth as a whole, and on processes operating within the deep interior that affect or are expressed on the Earth's surface. Projects may employ any combination of field, laboratory, and computational studies with observational, theoretical, or experimental approaches. Support is available for research and research infrastructure through grants and cooperative agreements awarded in response to investigator-initiated proposals from U.S. universities and other eligible institutions. Interdisciplinary projects are required.
The purpose of this program is to collaborate on studies, projects and activities. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will work with a partner(s) on mutually beneficial projects to help guide the BLM in the development of the resource management plan for Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument and help develop best management practices for Prehistoric Trackways National Monument. In the past the BLM has worked with a CESU to support paleontological inventory, study basalt lava flows and produce information for wayside exhibits about geology.
The Denali Commission's Village Infrastructure Protection (VIP) Program is dedicated to assisting rural Alaskan communities that are threatened by erosion, flooding and permafrost degradation. The goal of the VIP Program is to mitigate the impact of these threats with respect to safety, health, and the protection of infrastructure. The objective of this funding opportunity is to aid rural Alaska communities responding to local environmental events that do not meet minimum requirements for other state or federal emergency or disaster response and recovery programs.
Objective: To provide a grant to support a graduate student to conduct research on the biology, ecology, and/or management (used alone or integrated with other management approaches) of starry stonewort in the Midwestern or northeastern United States.
EPA is seeking applications for a project to continue the long-term monitoring of zooplankton, benthos, Mysis and chlorophyll-a in the open waters of the Great Lakes and support a synoptic whole lake assessment of benthos.
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One day in the perhaps not-too-distant future, when our culture supports each person to discover just how much is enough...
After closing her eyes, she still saw the peaches, plump and glowing before her on the market table. Cynthia whispered aloud the words she always tried to remember before buying anything. "Would this bring goodness to our lives? Do we truly need it?" She pictured their little one, Elijah, squealing with the juice running down his chin onto his T-shirt with the lion picture on it. Yes, those peaches would be great! But (sigh) before buying more fruit, they should use up that basket of oranges she had bought with Mirabai a couple of days ago.
Ucchh! Cynthia recalled the last late-night "talk" she and Mirabai had about their spending differences: "Mirabai, you're just stingy!" "I'm not stingy, I'm careful! But you, Cyn, you're like a child, getting swept away by wanting things that later don't mean a thing!" Finally, they had agreed they were past due for a Savoring. Most households had one every two to three years, but Mirabai and Cynthia had been putting it off for seven. Scheduling the ceremony had at last brought some peace to the household.
Hurrying from the market, Cynthia took an eager bite from the single peach she had bought. It was dry and mealy, and she smiled wryly to herself. Yes, it is time. I need the help of those who love me to look carefully at all my possessions and at how I spend my life. I'm glad the Savoring is tonight!
Back home, before the guests arrived, she walked slowly through the plant-filled house. Today it looked beautiful to her eyes, but in daily life she hardly noticed. How odd, she thought to herself looking at some of the wall hangings she herself had woven years before. I used to love these, but would I even blink if they disappeared one by one? Last week she had been grumbling about the Savoring, feeling it was Mirabai's way to force her to give up things she didn't want to let go of. Now, a small cloud inside her moved aside: Mirabai is right, I need to let go. I just don't have to like it!
When dinner was over and the dishes washed, Cynthia, Mirabai, Elijah snuggled together on big cushions in a room luminous with candles. Friends arrived, forming a big circle in the room. When all were present they held hands in silence, and Cynthia and Mirabai and Elijah stepped into the circle. Their friends sang each of their names three times, and the harmony and power grew with each repetition. Elijah eyes opened very wide with awe and whispered, "They're singing for us!"
Together, Cynthia and Mirabai held up a giant rose-colored glass brimming with fresh-squeezed orange juice: "Thank you, friends, for coming to share this Savoring with us. We ask your help to savor what is good and sweet in our lives, and to let go of what no longer serves us." Mirabai smiled sweetly at Cynthia and said solemnly to the gathering, "Lately, Cyn has helped me realize that I am often too tight with myself and with her. I look forward to your help taking better care of myself." Cynthia was speechless, and so said nothing.
Alejandro stepped into the middle. "Mirabai and Cynthia asked me to help guide our work together, tonight and tomorrow. ...What Elijah? Yes, you can play outside--Johor agreed to go with you ... Have you all read the summary of issues they sent you last week? Yes? Then let's begin by celebrating what has fed and sustained you." Cynthia and Mirabai told stories about what was feeling solidly nurturing in their lives, with friends chiming in appreciations of the determination and vision it took to build healthy lives. At times Cynthia broke into tears, it felt so healing to be recognized for her strengths rather than faulted for her shortcomings.
An hour or so later, the discussion drifted naturally to what had become challenging in their lives. "Mirabai, you need more space in your life to renew and enjoy yourself," Alfie told her. "You've said you long to spend more than one afternoon a week with Elijah, and you've wanted to practice the drums, but you can't do that if you are working 60 hours/week."
"But Alfred , the city is depending on my finishing that research for the whole public transport system upgrade next fall!"
"Sure, sure, Mirabai, everyone knows you are the most rigorous scientist on the team. But we can do just fine if you worked 33 hours/week like everybody else. Remember if we get behind schedule we can hire another person for the team; it doesn't mean it falls on you!" After more discussion, Mirabai decided to try out a new schedule for the next month to see how it felt. "I can't believe I'm sweating with fear about cutting down on my work! But I can't wait to try it!"
"Cyn, love," said her friend Judith, "you have the opposite block as Mirabai to your savoring your life more fully. You've just described how your life is so scattered because you try one thing after another, and you never focus."
"Hey," Cynthia replied, "I would love to find something that I'm really good at, like Mirabai is with her research. I am dying to find the place where I can make the biggest possible contribution."
Mirabai looked at her sadly and tenderly. "Cynthia, you're too hard on yourself. You have so much to give. I agree with Judith. I think you need to pick one area and stick with it long enough to really give yourself a chance to get good at it. Is there something you would feel drawn to explore in this way?"
"What would I want to do if I didn't have to prove anything to anybody?" Cynthia fell silent, her mind wandering to her mother's comment last week: "You must be proud to live with such a talented scientist!" Cynthia's cheeks had burned as she thought bitterly, "and how ashamed you must be of your do-nothing daughter!"
Shaking herself into the present, Cynthia spoke aloud what she hadn't the nerve to admit before: "I've got to do what is right for me and not compete with Mirabai. Why don't I stick with things? Because I don't like them enough! If I did what I really wanted to do, I think I'd ditch the gross medical classes and all the rest of it, and I...I... think I would work with plants. I don't know, I mean I love being outside and seeing things grow. I love the magic of the vegetables and fruits growing."
A while later, after all their next steps were spelled out and Alejandro had written their decisions down to remember later, Cynthia and Mirabai held up another goblet for a toast to the gathering. The pomegranate juice burned like liquid rubies in the soft light, and all drank....
The next morning, three friends came back to guide them through the Savoring of their possessions. "Tis a gift to be simple, 'tis a gift to be free...." They sang the old Quaker song outside their front door. "May we listen deeply to ourselves, to discern which possessions nourish us and which can go on to nourish others." They opened the door. "Let's start in my room!" shouted Elijah, tugging their arms. He showed them which toys he loved most and then proudly chose an armful to say farewell to.
Throughout the day they looked through every room including every drawer and closet, from basement to attic, telling stories as they went. "My first love gave me this ring in high school. Yes, I want it still." "Cyn, do you remember when your Mom gave us this, you swore you'd put it in the trash right away? That was 10 years ago!" Friends claimed a few special items to remind them of Cynthia or Mirabai and of the Savoring: colorful blouses and skirts, thumb-worn books, old beach shells, a big painting Mirabai had made in younger days. Judith took home four boxes of assorted stuff that nobody wanted, from pots to clothes to books, to bring the next day to the Swap Room at the Community Center.
When they went to bed that night, Cynthia kissed Mirabai and welcomed her into her freer life, and Mirabai kissed Cynthia and welcomed her into the time of discovering her power. And they went to sleep. .
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CyberSecurity Minority Awards and Scholarship Winners to Highlight Third Annual National Conference September 18-19, 2018 in Atlanta, GA
ATLANTA, Sept. 11, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- The International Consortium of Minority Cybersecurity Professionals (ICMCP) Third Annual National Conference, "The Diversity Game: Changing the Cybersecurity Workforce Landscape" has announced several scholarship winners along with the winners of the prestigious CyberSecurity Minority Awards. Both groups of awardees will be recognized at the national conference September 18-19, 2018 in Atlanta, Georgia at the Westin Buckhead Atlanta.
This is the second annual, and first of its kind, Cybersecurity Minority of the Year Awards. "The group of nominees this year was exceptional. Their noteworthy contributions and commitment to closing the digital divide in alignment with ICMCP's organizational mission distinguished them as the best of the best," said Joe Morgan, Chairperson, Scholarship and Awards Committee. The winners in each category are as follows:
On behalf of ICMCP's President, Executive Director and Executive Leadership Team, ICMCP has also announced the 2018 ICMCP Scholarship Award Recipients. "This year has been an exciting scholarship fundraising season for ICMCP as we enjoy the continued support of ongoing scholarship sponsors as-well-as introduce new corporate scholarship sponsors," stated David Elcock, Executive Director of ICMCP. "This year we welcome United Airlines, The Nelson H. Waits, Sr. Education Fund and The Arellanes Family Fund Scholarship to the ranks of our existing sponsors Lynx Technology Partners, Inc., TEN, Inc and Conventus Corporation. We wish to publicly recognize and show our appreciation for their financial support."
Mr. Elcock continued, "These candidate applications were especially noteworthy and each was selected based on their application, resume, academic performance and essay. The selection committee selected their applications to advance ICMCP's goal to increase the number of highly qualified minority and women students pursuing cybersecurity career fields and academic disciplines." The scholarships and recipients include:
"I'm honored and humbled to receive the 2018 ICMCP Scholarship Award. I want to express my sincere appreciation for being selected for this award. I'm sure it was a very difficult task, to choose one out-of an amazing community of women and minorities who are working hard to break the status quo," commented Paola Lowry, One of Four United Airlines Scholarship winners. "I'm appreciative of what ICMCP is doing to even out the IT security industry, allowing everyone who works hard to see growth and accomplishments in their lives."
The International Consortium of Minority Cybersecurity Professionals (ICMCP) Third Annual National Conference, "The Diversity Game: Changing the Cybersecurity Workforce Landscape" is the leading destination for issues related to cybersecurity career and industry developments impacting minority cybersecurity professionals and continues to elevate the national dialogue on the critical strategic, tactical and operational imperatives needed to attract and develop minority cybersecurity practitioners. The full conference agenda is available at https://conference.icmcp.org/agenda.html.
The ICMCP National Conference is sponsored by Lynx Technology Partners, ADP, CISCO, PwC, Capital One, Conventus, Google, EY, Security Innovation, Bank of America, Symantec, Wells Fargo, Tenable, Carnegie Mellon University Information Networking Institute, Fidelity Investments, IBM, Macy's Tech, Northeastern University College of Computer and Information Science, Shared Assessments, The Law Offices of Mary N. Chaney, P.L.L.C., Veristor, and Innovation and Tech Today.
The International Consortium of Minority Cybersecurity Professionals (ICMCP) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. It began official operations in September 2014 and is organized exclusively for charitable purposes, to provide members with educational/technical scholarships, mentoring opportunities, professional development and networking opportunities. For more information or to become a sponsor, please visit https://icmcp.org, follow @ICMCP_ORG on Twitter or visit the ICMCP LinkedIn page.
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Back in the day, kids were required to get good marks in their school. If they did not get good grades, they would be punished by their parents and teachers. However, as time goes by, this phenomenon has been changed completely. Some rewards are given to the children base on their grades by their parents, such as candies, toys or stickers. Nevertheless, when kids grow up, they will not be satisfied with childish motivations. In this case, money can be a great choice for those mature kids. Money can be a motivation to encourage students to study hard. The students will feel that their effort is worthy when they are remunerated. Compensation for children’s good grades can also nurture children’s concept about money. And the last, parents can refuse their kids’ unreasonable request of purchasing and let them earn it. In general, kids should get paid for good marks.
First, if kids get paid for good grades, they will be motivated to get high marks. As they grow up, their demands on variety things will increase as well. However, their parents will not always satisfy their children’s needs with everything. At this point, some children might be disappointed because they cannot get what they want even though they attain good grades. For instance, if a child wants an iPhone and the parents refuse the request because it is too expensive, the child will concentrate on the iPhone rather than study hard. Instead of saying “no” to the child, the parents can reward good grades so that the child will maintain good marks in order to buy the phone. Of course, when the child has enough savings due to good performance, the child will eventually received what he or she desired. Thus, money can be a great incentive for children to study hard.
Second, children will form financial concepts about the real value of money. They hardly know the purpose of money except it could be used to exchange with the goods they want. They did not know the...
...Kids should get paid for good grades In childhood, children get a candy for a job well done. In school, students get a treat for a job well done. In society, adults get paid with money for a job well done. Kids should get paid for good grades, because they can start to save money for college or their other needs. In my opinion, there are three reasons children should get paid for good grades. One of them is they will be more focused on school. Second reason is they love money, so they’ll do what they have to, to get more money. The third reason is they’ll have better behavior. Sometimes it’s very hard for kids to get focused on school ,and cash incentives would be great stimulator. This is the first reason why kids should get paid for the good grades. Kids will have a choice between spending time by TV or computer and spending time to prepare homework . If their priority is make some money, in this case with getting good grades, they will be more focused to complete homework neatly and correctly. The reason the kids of all ages love money is because if they have their own money instead of always asking...
...Should students be paid for good grades? Should students be paid for getting good grades? Yes, students should be paid for good grades. According to Psychology Today the United States has fallen behind other nations on key measures of education and approximately ¼ of students drop out before graduation. Experts point to inadequate motivation as a key problem. Too many students are bored by school or distracted by unstable family life or any number of the other diversions that face students today. Of course learning has it’s own rewards, but some students respond best to cash. If incentives for good grades can play a role in motivating learning then wherever possible, these cash for grades programs should be put into effect. A major reason to pay students for good grades is that these cash incentive programs have helped low-income students stay in school and get better grades. According to a study released by the social-policy research group MDRC, cash incentives combined with counseling offered “real hope” to low-income and nontraditional students at two Louisiana community colleges. The program was simple: enroll in college at least half time, maintain at least a C average and earn $1,000 a semester...
...student’s grades. This interesting phenomenon has draw people’s attention. In the olden days, students earned a good grade for the praise from parents and teachers. However, it has changed as time has passed by. Today, an A+ report card can also bring money to students. However, the question of whether students should be paid for a good grade has caused a controversial debate. From my point of view, I believe that it is a positive motivation to students. Therefore, all students should be rewarded for their excellent academic performance. Nowadays, averagely every one out of four students in the U.S. drops out of school before graduation. People pointed out that there are two major reasons, the lack of motivation and family poverty. A large amount of students indicate school bores them or distracted by unpredictable family issue. In 2009, the experiment by MDRC was processed in two community colleges in Louisiana State for low-income students. One group of students was offered $1,000 each semester if they can attend college at least half time, and maintain an average which is above C while another group would not receive the supplement. After a semester, 30% more student who was provided the financial aid was willing to register for the second semester than students who did not have the offering. Moreover, they earned more credits and more likely to maintain...
...Chapter 3 Summative Assessment: Task: Create a “Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms For Dummies” DUE DATE: Purpose: To demonstrate your understanding of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms Linked to: I Can statements (Knowledge Outcomes): ❖ How does the Charter protect individual rights and freedoms? ❖ How does the Charter affect law making in Canada? ❖ How does the Charter affect the workplace? | | |You are an expert on the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. You have been hired to write an easy-to-use guide of the Charter for all Canadians. The | |publishers have given you specific requirements for this guide, and you must include the following: | | | |Chapter 1 How does the Charter protect individual rights and freedoms? | |History behind the Charter | |Purpose of the Charter...
...Salahudin Yaacub Julia Malail Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil Bangsar Kuala Lumpur Malaysia October 4th 2011 Dear Salahudin and Julia, We write to inform you that we are members and inhabitants of the affected local communities including chiefs, elders, women and youth within the proposed Malaysian palm oil company, Sime Darby 220,000 ha oil palm concession in Liberia. Specifically, we are local inhabitants of towns and villages which include a) Sije, b)Moore town, c) Kon town,d)Medina, e) Gayah Hill, f) Beafinie, g) Gbasomou, h)Dama, i) Bama, j) Gbar, k)Baaja, l) Claymontuah, m)Gobo, n) Zarmeyan, o) Vonzua, etc… identified by the Sime Darby Social and Environmental Impact Assessments ( SEIA) and its Public Summary Report of New Planting Assessment, May 2011 reported on the RSPO website for the proposed 10,000 ha located in Bomi and Grand Cape Mount County where Sime Darby is currently engaged in active land clearing, destruction of our sacred sites, destruction of our crops, damming of our creeks and streams, filling in of our swamps, destructions of grave sites, destruction and pollution of our drinking water sources, forceful displacement of our people without adequate compensation, active planting and cultivation of oil palm including the massive establishment of an oil palm nursery without our free prior informed consent. Additionally, we are local inhabitants of towns and villages which include: a) Marnivalor b) Mesila, c) Soe, d) Banford, e)...
...think students should get paid for good grades? In my opinion there are three reasons I think students should get paid for good grades. One of them is more focus on school. Second reason is they love money so they’ll do what they have to, to get the money they want. Third, reason they’ll have better behavior. Students will focus more on school if they know they’re getting paid for doing their work, homework etc. I know if I were getting paid for doing well in school I would try my hardest on everything to get money of my own that I earned from school. Focus is a big thing in school, if you don’t focus on your work paying attention you won’t know what to do if you don’t focus to get that good grade you want. Kids of all ages love money they reason they do is because they’ll want to have their own instead of always asking their parents. Because they have money of their own to spend and their parents can’t tell them anything about how they spend their money. When I have my own money I say my mom can’t tell me anything because it’s my money not hers I could do whatever I want with my money , that I earned . Every kid will love to money of their own. Do you have students in your school who misbehave? But love to get things from their parents? Should those...
...Children should or should not be paid for good grades? I believe that children should not be paid for good grades for several reasons. First of all, To get good grades depend on how each student learns and handles with the result he or she will receive at last. According to Sylvia Rimm, a child psychologist, money does not play an important role in achievement but consistency does. To illustrate, successful students always try to maintain their scores with unchangeable effort while others who once fail give up easily because they believe that there is no second chance to get rewards and compliment. Another reason is that paying for good grades does not mean paying for any knowledge at all. Like a case of Kasama and her 13-year-son, each grade in the report card has its price - laptop, cellphone, portable DVD player and even money. Thus, many children are so eager to have tutorials just to get 'A's and then what remain in their heads will be soon replaced with what they want and eventually receive as a prize. Finally, paying for good grades can ruin children's confidence. For instance, I had never pay for better better grades until high school when almost all of my friends paid for tutorials. I felt like I could not be...
Huawei’s phones look set for some serious camera upgrades; the Chinese company has just inked a deal with Leica to work together on new tech.
Today’s deal, announced at Japan’s CP+ photography show, could be a shot in the arm for Huawei; its phones haven't always fared well when compared side-by-side with other big name phones from the likes of Samsung, Sony and Apple.
Leica knows what it's doing when it comes to photography; it makes some of the world’s most expensive, and some would say best, cameras and lenses. It's had some experience with smartphones, too, having made the lens for Panasonic’s photography-focused CM1.
That phone never made it out of Japan in big numbers, but hopefully any collaboration with Huawei would end up making their way to a wider audience.
According to Huawei, the partnership will cover "research and development, design, engineering, user experience, marketing and retail”, but didn’t mention any specific phones.
The P8's 13MP camera managed to impress us last year with an f/2.0 lens and optical image stabilisation, but there's still room for improvement.
It seems more than a little early for any new hardware though. That would rule out Huawei’s upcoming P9 flagship, but you could see that familiar red dot on Huawei phones in the future.
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In this theory, speciation and rapid evolution are linked, with natural selection and genetic drift acting most strongly on organisms undergoing speciation in novel habitats or small populations. Apparently because a rather old book, michael denton's evolution: a theory in crisis, first published in 1985, my recent book, why evolution is true, gives 230 pages of evidence for evolution. Theory of evolution - true or false in 2009 we celebrated the 150 year anniversary of the birth of the theory of evolution through the publication of on the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life by charles darwin in 1859.
The theory of biological evolution is more than just a theory it is as factual an explanation of the universe as the atomic theory of matter or the germ theory of disease our understanding of. Also, the theory of evolution is different from the story of evolution or the religion of evolution the theory states that only the organisms with beneficial traits will survive and reproduce, and that the world is older than a few thousand years. The astronomers have happened upon proof that god controls the universe on a day-to-day basis, that the bible is literally true, and that by extension the myth of creation is, in fact, a reality.
Climate-change deniers and creationists have deployed the word theory to cast doubt on climate change and evolution it's as though it weren't true because it's just a theory, allain said. Evolution: evolution, theory in biology postulating that the various types of plants, animals, and other living things on earth have their origin in other preexisting types and that the distinguishable differences are due to modifications in successive generations. Why evolution is true [jerry a coyne] on amazoncom free shipping on qualifying offers coyne's knowledge of evolutionary biology is prodigious, his deployment of it as masterful as his touch is light. Natural selection = evolution, so evolution is true 'here is an example of natural selection proof of evolution' however, natural selection cannot create any new genes to make evolution progress (see #1. This is true even though the official teachings of catholicism, which is the majority religion in the region, do not reject evolution meanwhile, muslims in many nations are divided on the topic, although majorities of muslims in countries such as afghanistan, indonesia and iraq reject evolution.
Evolution is a theory developed one hundred and forty years ago by charles darwin (n/a actually, by his grandfather in 1794 - before charles was even born), before science had the evidence available to prove the theory false. A theory has its genesis in a hypothesis, which is a working assumption as to why we observe something—an educated guess to test this assumption, scientists conduct experiments that either disprove or correlate with the hypothesis. In true science, a theory may be the basis for inquiry and study but until it is proven up, it is only speculation it is not scientific to guess at conclusions in addition, whatever has been determined to be scientific fact always turns out to be part of an elaborate pattern.
Evolution is one of the greatest theories in all of science it sets out to explain life: specifically, how the first simple life gave rise to all the huge diversity we see today, from bacteria to. Using the laws of science, nature, physics, and philosophy, we prove that the theory of evolution is a flawed scientific theory our proof is based on many laws of science that you are familiar with. Evolution, at the most, is an idea about history, not observational science there may be inferences we can make about the past based on modern observations, and these may or may not be true, but don't bother claiming that ideas about history are the same as repeatable observations in the present. 1 evolution is only a theory it is not a fact or a scientific law many people learned in elementary school that a theory falls in the middle of a hierarchy of certainty—above a mere.
The theory of evolution is a body of interconnected statements about natural selection and the other processes that are thought to cause evolution, just as the atomic theory of chemistry and the newtonian theory of mechanics are bodies of statements that describe causes of chemical and physical phenomena. This is the case with the theory of evolution, as it is the case with the other theories, such as the atomic theory of matter or the theory of plate tectonics, that form the pillars of modern science. We often hear darwin lobbyists claim that evolution (meaning neo-darwinian evolution) is both theory and fact for example, wikipedia (which is never shy about advocating specific points of view) has a page titled evolution as theory and fact that cites various authorities on this.
Charles darwin's theory of evolution, as taught at school, is a biological explanation of how creatures have supposedly evolved or developed progressively through natural selection and variation (now known as mutation) over eons of time from the tiny cell to the largest creatures on earth today.
Is evolution a theory or a fact it is both but that answer requires looking more deeply at the meanings of the words theory and fact in everyday usage, theory often refers to a hunch or a speculation.
Evolution will always be a theory this is a common misconception about evolution and the all of science i interviewed the evolutionary biologist jerry coyne, author of why evolution is true.
The theory of evolution by natural selection, first formulated in darwin's book on the origin of species in 1859, is the process by which organisms change over time as a result of changes in. A scientific theory is based on careful examination of facts the evolution of a scientific theory a law is a description of an observed phenomenon in the natural world that hold true. Evolution as fact and theory fact is commonly used to refer to the observable changes in organisms' traits over generations while the word theory is reserved for the mechanisms that cause these changes. topic: evolution- a fact or a theory and whether this theory should be taught to students the english naturalist charles darwin developed the theory of evolution in 1859 as a scientific explanation of species formation.
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This clear and timely book presents the first sustained and structured analysis of globalization in the East Asian context, exploring the strategies used by East Asian countries to cope with the forces of globalization.
I was told the other day that I was spiritually clogged up. I was on a date catching up with an old friend who was visiting from out of town and we were having the best of time of our. . . She insisted that we have our palms read. I smirked like all cynics at the idea. Her persistence, if anything, was the reason why I went along with it.
We approached the fortune teller “stand”—it wasn’t a booth—and allowed commerce to take its natural course. A laminated 3×5 card which could’ve easily been a happy hour menu at the bar behind their operation was placed down in front of us. I didn’t like any of the prices. They started at $250 and decreased in very small increments: Trust fund-Beamer brat; Middle class to upper class well-wisher; Pretend middle class card swiper. . . blah, blah, blah; landing on the last: Obviously YOU need this money more than we do. I (we) chose the $20 – Obviously YOU need this money more than we do package. (Hell, I’m not going to put much value into what’s going to be told to me, I thought. And when I sit down to look over my finances for the month I most likely won’t sigh when I see – $20 bucks “fortune read” 8/20/2012 – as one of my purchases. Anyway my friend said I needed to loosen up and have more fun. When did having more fun require spending more money?—I’d never bitch like this in front of her.)
My friend went first. Having spent the afternoon talking in detail about her trek through life, I was amazed at how close (It was a little pop-up over second base that landed right in front of the center fielder for a single to start of the inning, not a bomb cranked deep right into an auto insurance ad forcing the right fielder to put heels to butt so the defense doesn’t give up a triple) the fortune teller had gotten to a lot of what was going on in my friend’s life past & present and neither of us could stop laughing at how eerie all of it was.
“Make a tight fist,” her first command. Her eyes the least bit understanding of how procedural all of it looked and how it added to my cynical view of the entire process. “Open them and relax.”
(I’ve often wondered what I look like when I’m trying to impress someone, that someone being a girl. I see other guys doing it and I roll my eyes at them. [“Damn, you must think everything is so beneath me.”] I’m guessing I draw the same analysis. You’re not your real you when you’re trying to impress someone—correction: I’m not my real me when I’m trying to impress a girl. And I shouldn’t say impress because in my mind I don’t believe that’s what I’m trying to accomplish. There has to be a milder verb I’m not thinking about at the moment to more accurately describe what my agenda is on dates when I’m hanging out with “friends”. What I’m getting at is that my style—or way of courtship—is not to draw any attention to myself which would in turn make me do all of the things I’ve seen men do when they’re trying to impress a girl: be very excited about trivial shit, talk with my hands, mic check famous people I know or saw once, etc. . . Complain about all of the things wrong with my car, you know the routine. Knowing that I can comprehend, think rationally and speak in full sentences should be impressive enough. That and I don’t stare at a woman’s breasts, especially when the woman is looking directly at me. [“C’mon, I’m no Saint!”] I’ve always felt like these kinds of movements have hurt me more than they have helped me.)
Man this fortune teller began rambling and fumbling all over her words. All of the flickering of the eyelids that ceased the moment we gave her our money started back up again. She started talking with her hands, being overtly excited about trivial shit that happened in my life—she lost all of her swag. Over moi! You would’ve thought I had paid her to act that way. I got my $20 bucks worth but this was borderline excessive. I felt like we were on a date, a date that she wanted to end right—you know what I mean. Maybe she should’ve listened to her own command and relaxed.
It got beyond embarrassing. I could barely face my friend whose eyes grew with intrigue as the fortune teller unraveled what I had spent all afternoon keeping laced. There was nowhere to hide from all the attention. My friend kept squeezing my arm and hitting me as the fortune teller forged on giving us glimpses of what my life was potentially going to be like for me.
“You’ll be fine,” she ended, standing there proud and almost to the point of exhaustion with her conclusion.
Yeah, I guess it is true give or take a few things, and not knowing my future of course, and really nothing I hadn’t heard before from drunkards and the one other time years ago I had my palm read (long story):
I’ll be fine. That became the theme for the day after that. My friend playfully attacked me whenever she got the chance.
“I forgot everything that bitch said about me,” my friend said as we sat down for a nightcap, two glasses of champagne bubbling up in front of us. “But you, this bitch couldn’t stop talking. How long did she even talk to me for? Less than two minutes? She hands you her card because she wants to get your spirit unclogged—what the fuck! What did she say about me again?”
But I wasn’t moved by any of what she had said. Spending what amounts to two monthly cell phone bills to have my chakra? (I think this equates to spirit and what the lady wanted to tap into) “unclogged”—come on, really? She seemed way too enthused about it all. It just felt like she was gaming me. So let me get this straight: if I fork over more of my hard earned cash then I get to see what’s really holding me back from a life of luxury, something you say I’m “destined for”, something I can’t know any further having been spoon fed a sampling at the cost of $20 already unless we dig deeper? What am I: a sucker? Quite possibly in her eyes if I hadn’t held firm in declining her offer.
The whole ordeal got me to thinking about the past month or so. I’ve been tempted by the likes of lottery tickets, MLMs (multi-level marketing scams – look them up yourself), sorcery (the current), sure-fire stocks, the list goes on. It’s like Americans want the cheat code for everything. And none of this falls on my friend’s shoulders, she was just looking to have “fun”. This observation is of my own doing and has been a long time coming. I’m disgusted with what I’m seeing out there with all of the shortcuts whether it be health, money, love, success, etc. I’m sick of bad people dumping these intoxicating ideas onto the masses minds. I’m sick of being preyed upon and taken advantage of. These are interesting times right now: the economy is stale, those on the job hunt are walking into Costco-like lines at interviews, and those with jobs are walking on eggshells because they know how rough it is out there yet people still believe there’s a cheat code for a way out of this hell, mine being as simple as unclogging my spirit. It’s not that! Nor is it stocks, lottery tickets or MLMs.
I get it. It’s attractive enough. It looks good when it’s presented to you in a colorful, eye-popping PowerPoint package—it even smells like cooked bacon (not sure of a vegetarian/vegan equivalent), but these offers are designed for taking your loose change. That’s their niche. Your lose change equates to millions for them because you foolishly believe that you, you of all people are going to get a front of the line pass. You’re making it easy for them! – to sample a line from one of my favorite films: Michael Clayton. Life’s tough. I’m right there with you fighting the good fight, but now more than ever you have to be aware of the morally bankrupt who want to extract from you.
Probably too deep for an entry, but seeing as there has been a nice chunk of time since my last post went up, maybe it’s a good idea to let loose a little; I’m sure my friend might like it if I loosen up. 🙂
Phrases like “you-I-we-she-he-they’ll be fine” plant the wrong kind of seeds. Although it’s “fun” to get caught up in the moment.
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I got confused about my chamomile. All I could remember was that one is perennial and the other annual. When I noticed that they are both starting to bloom now, I had to try to figure out which was which again. This is what I’ve found.
<< The annual German or Hungarian chamomile is the taller of the two, to 24″. From what I read it often self-sows, and I hope it will do that in my yard.
It’s growing near the red California poppy that I planted from a nursery pot, and whose flowers just opened this week. The white variety of this plant that I put in at the same time bloomed a couple of months ago, much less enthusiastically.
That makes me think about something I read in the Summer book I mentioned last week, a quote from Chesterton, from “A Piece of Chalk,” in which he gives an account of how he reluctantly tore himself away “from the task of doing nothing in particular,” and set off into “the great downs” of England with his brown paper and his brightly colored chalks, all on a summer’s day.
To his dismay he had neglected to bring any white chalk — and he begins to hold forth on how the color white, in art and in morals, is essential:
One of the wise and awful truths which this brown-paper art reveals is this, that white is a colour….a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black. When, so to speak, your pencil grows red-hot, it draws roses; when it grows white-hot, it draws stars….Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular smell. Mercy does not mean not being cruel or sparing people revenge or punishment; it means a plain and positive thing like the sun, which one has either seen or not seen.
Perhaps my spindly white wildflowers, just starting out and blooming faintly without any other color around them to contrast with (even their foliage was already faded when the buds opened), do not provide a fitting metaphor to match this principle, but it did seem like a good place to tuck in that quote about something I do believe in.
So far I haven’t sown any seed for the standard orange color of our state flower because I am a little afraid of them taking over. The other colors are not as vigorous, but some of them are really special in their rarity and subtlety, and when I have had one re-seed itself or, more often, go dormant and hidden for the winter only to surprise me the next spring, I am thrilled. This pale yellow one did just that for several years in my old garden, but could not be saved. >>
The red ones are my first variety that are both rare and bright. I hope they self-sow — but much of the garden is experimental. I’ll see over the next months what likes growing in this environment, and not fuss over the things that aren’t thriving.
Back to the chamomile… Just in case the Germans don’t bear children next year, I planted a perennial type, the Roman or Nobile. It grows half as tall and is sometimes used as a walkable ground cover, or part of an herbal lawn mix.
An hour after I took this picture, I strolled past again and noticed that ten more buds had swelled enough to be noticeable. History in the making!
I had a house guest for two nights and a day – we spent a nourishing and relaxing time, even though we did no artwork or gardening or poetry-reading. We did eat and shop and update our family birthday lists. But now I have lots of garden work that needs to be done, before I go to see brand-new Baby Brodie next week. Here’s a yarrow bloom for you to look at while I am out tending to my beds.
I have white yarrow, only, so thanks to you and GK for giving me some new thoughts to think about it. I do like your yarrow, it looks like apricots and cinnamon.
A beautiful quote, Gretchen. I have tried to grow chamomile many a time, but it never reseeds for me. I like it that you are experimenting in your garden and haven’t set your heart on what must grow in it.
Lovely post. I have grown California poppies for many years. Mostly they stay put, when one pops up in the field behind the garden, it makes me smile.
wonderful quote! … and I am very happy to hear that happiness is “in the air” surrounding you! … and thrilled that you have precious moments with little mister coming up!
Thanks for the info about the two types of chamomile. I think I must have the perennial b/c mine is definitely not 2 feet tall. Mine also has the little “daisy” blooms just now also.
I always thought I didn’t like poppies because I don’t care much for the orangey-red ones. But the white looks so elegant, I repent.
We want to ensure that every greyhound we rehome is a success story, therefore each dog is carefully assessed before going to live with their new family.
We also like to ensure each greyhound is in great shape health wise, so after flea and worm treatment with Advocate it’s off to the vet for a thorough health check, dental inspection and neutering.
When they’ve recovered from their operation and had time to socialise with other dogs at the kennels then they’re ready for their new home.
If a suitable home is not available then many of our greyhounds go into foster care where they can brush up on their house manners and learn doggy etiquette down the park.
Time in foster care also gives us the chance to discover all the personality quirks that a greyhound may have, whether it is a love of playing frisbee, or an addiction to the sofa. Find out more about foster care.
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Kottke compiled a list of all the book lists, my list from last year, my vacation books, and my cabin books.
Category : Books, List, Random Thoughts 2107 book list, commonwealth, here comes the sun, here i am, hillbilly elegy, in the darkroom, lab girl, modern lovers, pond, rich and pretty, small great things, sweetbitter, the association of small bombs, the north water, the portable veblen, the vegetarian, the wangs vs the world, the woman in cabin 10, today will be different, underground railroad, what belongs to you, you'll grow out of it
I include my reading in all my currently posts, but it would be really easy to compile a complete list from the previous posts. Good idea!
Oh this is excellent! I just bought a bunch of poetry books but I’ve been wanting to read more for 2017 as well!
I’m going to have to refer back to this when I’m looking for a new book. Thanks for sharing! Can’t wait to get reading!
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God creates man and immediately invites him into his own dwelling place (garden) to live with Him. Take a few moments and just consider the implications. You and I were made to be with God. What does that tell you about God?
Our calling is to have dominion and rule over the creation. But what does this look like? (HINT: Think cultivate and keep, gardening as true worship and obedience).
Mike said “In order to exercise dominion over the garden, the irony is, we have to serve it and submit to it.” What does he mean, and why is that the case?
What are the garden spaces God has placed you in? What relationships are in those spaces? How is He calling you to have dominion – cultivating through service and submission – in those spaces, as Christ has modeled for you?
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The Modcan - FMVDO is a complex digital voltage-controlled oscillator, truly realised according to high-quality standards by Modcan. Let it be FM-synthesis which was made famous in the 80's or amplitude modulation or the more modern wavetable synthesis, this module is the quintessence of digital sound-generation in electronic music.
The Modcan - FMVDO represents a new breed of sound generation for the modular environment. The primary design goal was to implement a variety of digital synthesis techniques and to combine them together in one 12HP wide module
The most significant wave-shaping feature of the FMVDO utilizes the technique referred to as Two-Operator FM, providing a wide variety of timbres from mellow bell like tones to complex distortion.
The inclusion of harmonically rich sample based wave tables extends the complexity of the FM effect comparable to multi-operator systems.
AM (Amplitude Modulation) is also available on-board as is standard Exponential FM using the Expo FM Jack
Conventional analogue VCOs are modulated with externally generated signals from LFOs and secondary VCOs, instead the FMVDO provides superior FM stability with internally generated, phase locked, sine table modulator.
Phase locking the modulator with the carrier produces beat-free timbres that retain spectral relationships over the entire frequency range. The Ratio can also be switched to provide non-integer ratios for inharmonic periodic sounds.
The FMVDO includes standard VCO wave forms and adds several sample based wave tables. Pulse width modulation and hard sync are also supported.
Switch selectable quantized pitch tracking in semi-tone steps or non-quantized continuous frequency control with fine tune.
32-bit pseudo-random noise generator - won't repeat for 119 hours at highest frequency setting; longer at lower frequencies.
Today we met Prince Charles at the Celtic Manor in Newport, He came round to all visitors, he asked about the candles and jumper on the table and asked us about our other products. He wished us luck with out future and said well done for our achievements so far, he was very pleasant and we look forward to telling more people about the trust.
Set of three mixed bath bombs from the SBB range. Comes in a natural style giftbox. Scents are the following; Romance, Fig & Casis, Oriental Musk, Raspberry & Blackpepper. (Box of 3 will be randomly picked for you)
African American genealogy | Ancestors In the Present: Louisiana's Frank, Jason, and other Families Louisiana
After my last post, I had to take a break from writing. I was too high from my last find and I didn’t know where to go for my next blog post. So, over the last month I’ve decided I’m ready to continue the adventure. Let me start be saying this is a mystery and I need help!
Growing up, I remember my Mother making comments about her mother, Estella Ruben, who we called Momí Stella. Unlike other people who have a hard time getting information for their elder relatives, my mother has never had any problem sharing. She always was willing to share family lore, often unsolicited. My mother was known for telling these enthralling stories—well, at least they were enthralling to me.
One story that comes to mind is one my mother told me when I was young. When my mother was about 5 years old, she went to a local “roots worker” to ask her if she could fix up something to heal her sick mother. My Mother said Momí Stella had been crying and crying, in obvious pain. My mother laughed as she continued, “Mama was a drinker back then, and she would cry when she would get drunk. The roots lady knew my mother wasn’t sick, but had been drinking and she just told me that she would come by later to check on my Mama.”
“Momí Stella used to drink? I had no idea. Man, I would have never known that.” My grandmother lived a pretty wholesome life from my point of view – I never saw her drink.
“Yes, Mama kept us spotless, we had food to eat, she made sure we went to school, and she was a very attentive Mama. But, when she would have bouts of crying spells I thought she was sick. I didn’t know until later that she cried like that when she had been drinking.”
While cooking one day, my mother told me “Momma didn’t know her mother—not even her own mother’s name.” From my mother I learned that Momí Stella’s mother died shortly after she was born. My mother Momma said “my grandmother had other children and after she died, my grandfather, Gabe, sent her other children back to Mowata to live with my grandmother’s family”.
My grandmother died in 1974. According to my Mother, before Momí Stella’s death, she had attempted to try to find her siblings. She wasn’t successful and we, at this point, don’t have any leads to finding this part of my family. My grandmother did not even have a birth certificate. On her death certificate, her mother is listed as unknown.
Once I started being serious about genealogy, I knew this was one of the family mysteries I wanted to solve. Over the years, my mother would repeat this story from time to time. She would also ask if I had found any information yet on Momí’s missing siblings.
Bringing back together this long-ago torn family and enabling my mother to connect with aunts, uncles, their children, their children’s children is one of my greatest prayers. Maybe someone reading this blog post can help me.
So, let me sort out the information I do know about my grandmother’s family. Born July 9th, 1905 in Elton, Louisiana, Estella Ruben, was the daughter of Gabriel “Gabe” Ruben. Gabe, per his death certificate, was born in Ville Platte, Louisiana in 1876. On the 1880 census, I found Gabriel listed as the 4-year son of Lastie and Ellen Ruben. Also listed are Gabriel’s sisters, 8-year Louisa and 2-year Lovenia.
Lastie, appears to have been the son of John and Jane Rubin. Lastie had a brother named John Ruben files [junior] who married Ernestine Zenon Tomy (Thomas) on February 6, 1869 in Saint Landry Parish, Louisiana. [Opel. Ct. Hse.: Mar. #5224]
As I continued to look at census records, genealogy enthusiasts know that most of the 1890 US census records were by a fire, so the 1900 census are the next set of records available. Unfortunately, I’ve not yet been able to find Gabriel in the 1900 records.
On the 1910 census, I not only picked up the trail of Gabe, it also is the first census on which I find my grandmother [E]stella.
So at the time the census was taken, April 1910, Estella is noted as being 4 years old, which means she would be 5 on her next birthday of July 9th. As, mentioned earlier, Momí Stella did not have a birth certificate so 1905 could be accurate, although her obituary listed her birth year as 1906. The census shows that Gabe and his wife, Eliza, have been married for 5 years and that Eliza had given birth to one child who is alive at the time of the census.
Finding, Gabe, Eliza, and Estella on the 1910 census made me think I had not only found my grandmother, Estella, but I had possibly found her mother, Eliza. That seemed to be the only conclusion. Then, what of the story about the death of my great-grandmother and her children being sent to Mowata? Was that just a myth?
My grandmother had a younger sister named Martha Ruben. On the 1920, Martha, 13, along with my grandmother [E]stella, 14, are both shown with Gabe and Eliza. If Martha is only a year younger than Estella, why isn’t she on the 1910 census in Gabe’s household?
Tragically, Martha dies almost 4 years later of cardiac dropsy, which is edema due to congestive heart failure. At the time of her death, the death certificate says she was 14, giving her a birth year of around 1910. Martha’s mother’s name is illegible on the document and I’ve been unsuccessful in making out the full name. The last name looks to me to be “Antwine”. What do you think is the name?
So maybe Eliza is the birth mother of Momí Stella, but I don’t think so. At the age of 14, my grandmother would have known the person listed as Liza on the 1920 census. Assuming Liza is the same as the Eliza that is on the 1910 census, it is unlikely my grandmother would have said that she did not know her mother if in fact Liza (and Eliza) was her mother, right?
There’s also a discrepancy with the age of Martha. The 1920 census, it has that she is 13, which means that she was born around 1907. However, her death certificate have that she was 14 when she died in 1924, means that her birth date was about 1910.
On a World War I draft registration dated September 12, 1918 I found Gabe’s significant other as Eliza Harrow.
The trail ends and I still have no information on who could be the mother of Momí Stella. I welcome your ideas on where I should look next to try to solve this mystery.
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Since Tricia Yu brought Tai Chi to Madison in 1974, our commitment to providing high quality instruction in Tai Chi and QiGong has made the Tai Chi Center of Madison one of the healthiest, longest- running schools of its kind in the country. The Tai Chi Center is a place of peace, healing, nurture and growth for our staff, students and other users of the facility.
Tricia Yu, MA., has taught tai chi and qigong in Madison, Wisconsin since 1974, conveying both the practice and spirit of these profound arts. Her teachers include Masters Liu Pei Chung, Ben Lo and William C.C. Chen. She co-founded the ROM Dance, a medical model therapeutic exercise program, based in tai chi principles, for individuals with pain and other limiting conditions, and created Tai Chi Fundamentals, a systematic approach for mastering tai chi basics. Tricia is now living and teaching in Taos, New Mexico and her current offerings may be found at Tai Chi Health with Tricia Yu.
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Doug Brown has practiced Yang style tai chi since 2000. His primary teachers have been Tricia Yu and her students Gabrielle Byers, Lauri McKean and all of the current teachers at the Tai Chi Center, and he has also attended workshops with Kim Kanzelberger, Ben Lo and William Chen. Doug is a musician, performing, composing and teaching in Madison.
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Gosh, Le Web time already? Yup – it’s now held twice a year. Summer’s Le Web is held in the UK. While it’s smaller than the main Parisian event, it still brings together an inetresting mix of European and intercontinental digerati for two days of discussion and netwoking. And, once again, I’m an official blogger at the event.
in three weeks’ time I’ll be in London for Le Web’s UK edition, liveblogging as I normally do. (You can actually see me at work in the front row if you look carefully at the image above from last year…)
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I see a lot of anime enthusiasts every day dressing as their favorite characters. Beautiful cosplays have been done. They range from the masculine characters like Zoro or Law and Luffy, to the sexiest and most kawai woman characters like our beloved Nami <3. In this post i’ll suggest my favorite one piece cosplay swords, for the guys among you. I hope that anyone who would like to cosplay their favorite one piece swordsman, will find this resource useful :).
Lets start with one of our favorite Mugiwaras. We have outlined our theories regarding Zoro in the past, so it’s only natural to take the next step and try to help in a cosplay of him. The main item that will skyrocket the quality of a Roronoa Zoro cosplay is his swords. Just roll into a party having replicas of his swords and guess what you’ll get? (Besides being called a lunatic of course :P). Everyone who loves One Piece will certainly be amazed. So, lets get it on with our top recommendations regarding Roronoa Zoro.
Want to get the whole collection of Zoro’s swords? This four piece katana set is all you need. But, wait! Zoro carries three swords, what about the fourth one? Well, try to remember better. He damaged his old sword, the one he got as a gift from the shop owner, in the fight he had with the Marine from the Ennies Lobby arc. Then, he acquired the cursed sword, Wado Ichimonji, in the Thriller Bark arc. So, that makes four swords ;).
Here we have a choice that can become as custom as you want. You don’t have to buy all four swords of Zoro here. You can just pick one sword you like most and buy that one. But this is not the end of it. You can choose the way it looks and even choose the different materials to be used, such as the blades. This way you can customise the sword you buy fully. And the best part of it is that you even customise the price to your own liking ;).
To top it off, dream2reality goes the extra mile and lets you order every sword you like. You just describe it and send them a picture or something like that and they will take it from there. Don’t fret, they are real pros.
For those who don’t want to burden themselves with real swords, we have this wooden replica of Zoro’s sword here. A high quality sword, with a really low price compared to the choices above, that is suggested for anyone with a tight budget. It’s all wooden, even the blade, but the best thing is the way it looks. It is colored in such a way, that all of it seems quite real. If you don’t pay attention to the detail, it can be a sword of similar apperance to the ones we suggested above.
This post wouldn’t be complete, if we didn’t include the best swords of the Surgeon of Death. Trafalgar Law is another powerful swordsman in One Piece, so who wouldn’t want to cosplay him? I have even cosplayed him myself. I will post a picture of me in another post for those ready to laugh at me :P. Without further ado, lets move on to the best choices regarding him. Things are simpler now, just one sword not four :).
With Trafalgar Law we wanted to start with a quite cheap option, to cover those who just want a fancy sword for their imaginative cosplay of the Surgeon of Death. This is a quite large sword at 40 inches, featuring a 440 stainless steel for the material of the blade. That only makes it one of the top value for money choices in today’s post. Lets state here that you should of course use these replica items with caution. That being said, the blade here is steel but not sharpened.
I always want to provide alternatives, so here we have a similar sword that is even cheaper than the last one. Its blade’s material is carbon steel and the dimensions are quite similar to the last one. So what differentiates this one is the fact that it is extra fluffy! We have all seen the different woolen parts in Law’s outfit. The guy is from North Blue and it was cold there pals :P. The woolen part of this sword is so fluffy, your nose will get all red with blood :D.
We will finish this one with the master of all swordsmen(at least for now :P). Hawkeye Mihawk was till the timeskip probably the most powerful swordsman in the world of One Piece. We don’t know what changed in the One Piece universe during the timeskip and just how strong other characters maybe, but certainly Mihawk is one of the strongest swordsmen in One Piece, that’s for sure. Lets get it off with our recommendations.
A really big sword, fitting for the sword of Dracule Mihawk. After all, it is huge in the anime and manga as well. It is a sword close to 50 inches(!) with a carbon steel blade and a black anodize finish as well, that makes it look wicked really. To top it off, it comes with a leather sheath, so that you can protect the sword and basically yourself as well :P.
The downside of the above sword is its quite thin blade. From swordmaster comes a sword with a much more realistic blade, one that is extremely thick and close to the one Mikawk wields in the anime/manga. But it comes with a price, double from the last one. If you asked me, it’s so realistic you won’t regret it.
Lets end our recommendations with a cheap/budget choice. If you would like to have a necklace with a replica of Mihawk’s sword, go ahead, this one is a neat choice.
To sum up, those where our best picks regarding one piece cosplay swords. Share your favorites in the comments, like our facebook page for updates and check our recommendations page for similar reviews to this one.
Author Antonis ChristonasisPosted on September 3, 2016 October 27, 2017 Categories Amazon Recommendations, Cosplay, Reviews/Recommendations, ZoroTags one piece cosplay swords, one piece sword replicas
I’m surprised at how reasonable the prices are on the Cosplay Swords. They look decent too. Awesome post. Keep up the good work!
Hey Hannah! Yes they are of really high quality indeed, and their prices are for many different budgets, so someone can pick and choose what’s best for their situation. Thanks for the good words 🙂
I didnt expect these swords to be at this price! very interesting. just wondering if you forgot to mention even though these are for cosplay are they actually dangerous as some are still made out of pure metal? otherwise thank you for the information and i might grab one myself haha
Well generally Ken most of them are not sharpened. However, they are still metal, so yes they can potentially be dangerous, so use with caution and your own common sense. The manufacturers over at amazon actually have some age limits and such. Pay attention to them and stay safe 😉
I noticed you didnt supply an example of a wooden sword for Trafalgar’s own sword. Im looking for one and I cant find any that I think are good enough. Most are either steel, too short, or way to expensive.
Hey Devin. We are not making swords. We are just recommending swords we have liked from Amazon. You can still buy them through the links provided, of course! In case you can’t find something be sure to ask!
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For example, suppose that some of the youth in your program are interested in how airplanes fly. You can make the most of their interest and help them build science, math, and language skills. To do so, you can use the CCSS and NGSS Standards Chart below to identify standards that correspond with the subject and learning experience. Understanding and learning about how airplanes fly could include the following practices and skills from the CCSS and NGSS Standards Chart:
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Youth could explore this subject by reading about flight, making model airplanes, testing their models, making notes in science journals, and sharing the results. Staff could consider all of the skills in Click2Science in Set 1 from the Click2SciencePD Crosswalk Chart.
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Below you will find a listing of math, science, and English language practices and skills which the CCSS and NGSS standards are based on. The table also shows the connection between math, science, and English language arts from CCSS, NGSS, and the National Research Council science and engineering practices. The table lists the Crosscutting Concepts and Disciplinary Core Ideas from NGSS. These concepts are fundamental to both CCSS and NGSS.
M1. Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them E1. Demonstrate independence in reading complex texts, and writing and speaking about them
M3. Construct viable arguments and critique reasoning of others E3. Obtain, synthesize, and report findings clearly and effectively in response to task and purpose
M7. Look for and make use of structure E7. Come to understand other perspectives and cultures through reading, listening, and collaborations
Source: Next Generation Science Standards. June 2013. http://www.nextgenscience.org and Common Core State Standards. June 2010. http://www.corestandards.org
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The passage yesterday of SB3095CD1 marks an auspicious moment in the legislative history surrounding pesticide regulation in Hawaii. Now on its way to the desk of Governor David Ige, SB3095CD1 contains a “first in the nation” ban on the use of chlorpyrifos, phased in gradually over 4 years. Chlorpyrifos is a Restricted Use Pesticide (RUP), a neurotoxin that was originally developed to be used as a nerve gas in World War II and is highly dangerous to children and pregnant women. Chlorpyrifos is used through-out Hawaii in industrial agriculture. In addition the measure contains a statewide RUP reporting mandate and other important protections.
These two components, a ban on chlorpyrifos and robust reporting of RUP usage alone represent a dramatic improvement to existing Hawai’i laws.
A bit of history and context is in order. As most who follow this issue already know, after several years of mounting health concerns, school children getting sick, sea urchins dying and community lawsuits being filed, on June 26, 2013 Bill 2491 was placed on the Kauai County Council’s agenda. Bill 2491 required the disclosure of RUP’s, buffer zones around sensitive areas, and a health and environmental impact study. In the interest of full disclosure, Bill 2491 was co-introduced by myself and Councilmember Timothy Bynum (now deceased).
Without exaggeration, Bill 2491 generated more testimony and more public participation in the process than any measure ever proposed in the history of Kauai County. It was passed into law with a 6 – 1 vote by the Council, then vetoed by Mayor Bernard Carvalho and then overrode by the Council, becoming Kauai County Ordinance 960 on November 16th, 2013.
Rather than comply with the new County ordinance requiring full disclosure of their RUP use and modest buffer zones around schools and other sensitive areas, the large chemical companies based on Kauai at the time (Syngenta, DOW Chemical, DuPont and BASF) quickly filed a law suit against Kauai County.
On August 25, 2014 the courts struck down Kauai County Ordinance 960 with U.S. District Court Judge Barry M. Kurren ruling that it unlawfully preempts state law governing pesticide use.
“This decision in no way diminishes the health and environmental concerns of the people of Kauai,” Kurren wrote. “The Court’s ruling simply recognizes that the State of Hawaii has established a comprehensive framework for addressing the application of restricted use pesticides and the planting of GMO crops, which presently precludes local regulation by the County.” – Civil Beat.
Following passage of the Kauai Bill 2491 on November 16th, 2013, – Hawaii County (via County Council action) on December 5, 2013 and Maui County (via citizen ballot initiative) on November 4th, 2014 both also passed County ordinances attempting to regulate the large agrochemical/GMO companies. The industry quickly filed suit against both Hawaii County and Maui County as well, with the Courts eventually ruling that the Counties did not have jurisdiction in this area.
Thus began the past 4 years of effort attempting to pass state legislation regulating the use of Restricted Use Pesticides (RUP’s), culminating yesterday in the vote to approve SB3095CD1.
For those of us who have been working hard on this issue over the past 5 years or more, yesterday’s vote marks a significant milestone in our efforts.
1A ban on the use of the RUP and neurotoxin chlorpyrifos. This ban takes effect immediately however temporary permits will be granted allowing continued use for up to 4 years, at which time no new permits will be issued and no chlorpyrifos will be allowed in the State of Hawaii. The practical expected impact of the ban’s 4 year implementation will be a gradual decline in use, culminating in a complete ban after 4 years.
2The mandatory statewide reporting of annual RUP use to the State Department of Agriculture (SDOA) that includes: RUP product used, amount of RUP used, and the date and location of the usage.
3Annual Public Summary Reports of statewide RUP usage by County reporting the types, amounts and area of the applications.
4A prohibition against using RUP’s within 100 feet of school grounds during school hours (excluding termite fumigation).
5The SDOA will conduct a pesticide drift monitoring study to evaluate pesticide drift at three schools within the State.
6Approximately $700,000 in general funds are being added to the SDOA annual budget, plus two additional positions. These are intended to support the increased pesticide oversight and the drift monitoring studies.
While many of us who have been working hard on this issue for the past years would have preferred various aspects to be stronger, it is without question that the sum total of the above components represent a strong and meaningful step forward in securing increased health and environmental protections.
The ban on chlorpyrifos alone will have tangible health implications and the statewide reporting provisions have the potential to generate long term, consistent data necessary for those seeking to research the issue to determine specific impacts. The summary data by County will allow residents the information needed to make a more informed decision as to where they choose to live, work, play or go to school. Clearly the 100 feet buffer zone around schools is inadequate and must be expanded in the future but it is more than we have in place now, which is zero. The drift monitoring study if done correctly has the potential to yield much needed data but for its results to be credible will require significant forethought and careful planning. Of course the additional financial and personnel resources provided to the SDOA will be hugely helpful in their efforts to properly manage the use of RUP’s while protecting health and the environment.
The multi year effort needed to accomplish the task of bringing SB3095CD1 this far has been daunting and there are many, many people that deserve to be thanked and recognized for their work.
Most of all we must thank the people in the community who stepped up to tell their stories year after year, share their concerns and insist that lawmakers do what they were elected to do: keep bad things from happening to the community. Without their hard work and persistence, we would not have reached this milestone in protecting the health of our families and the fragile environment in which we live.
Also, I would be remiss if I did not recognize and thank Representative Dee Morikawa, as this would not have happened without her personal effort and diligent work that resulted in bringing the various stakeholders and legislators together.
Renfrew, J. P. Renfrew's Record (Alva, Okla.), Vol. 18, No. 4, Ed. 1 Friday, November 22, 1918, newspaper, November 22, 1918; Alva, Oklahoma. (gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1078519/: accessed November 18, 2018), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.
Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Mrs. Hattie Cooper & portrait of son, Leroy Gordon Cooper."
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Party honorees were Louise Gaylord, Kelly Swisher and Jane Williams."
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Not so obscure perhaps, but certainly something to bear in mind while you’re perusing Chinese sites looking for a cheap and cheerful tablet. It really looks like Google and Asus achieved something great with this tab.
Up on the Play Store today you can pre-order the Google Nexus7 for $199, or £159 in you’re in the UK. It’s a Quad Core Tegra 3 tablet running at 1.3Ghz with 1GB RAM, a generous 1280×800 IPS display and Android 4.1 “Jelly Bean”. The tablet certainly looks to dwarf many Gemei, Ainol or Window efforts in almost all aspects. The things that give this away as a budget tablet though are, admittedly, things that many people would consider important. There is no video output, not even through MHL, and no there’s SD Card expansion either.
If you can live without those features and you’re after a nicely portable, very powerful and cheap tablet then this is almost certainly the one you want. But you’ll have to wait about 3 weeks until it’s officially launched before you can get your greasy mits on it.
Google integration would be a good start for Google TV. If implemented nicely, sharing what you’re watching to others through your TV might appeal to some. We certainly have our doubts that it would make consumers flock to the service, but we couldn’t see it hurting it.
I believe everything published made a ton of sense. But, think on this, suppose you were to create a killer headline? I am not saying your content is not solid, however suppose you added a title to possibly grab a person’s attention? I mean Google Nexus7 Tablet Available For Pre-Order Obscure Handhelds is kinda plain. You could glance at Yahoo’s home page and watch how they create article headlines to get people interested. You might add a video or a picture or two to get readers excited about what you’ve got to say. In my opinion, it would make your posts a little bit more interesting.
I’m waiting for an Aurora II and its price was much lower than that. Bought for 150 euros, free shipping, leather case, keyboard, ogt cable and screen protector. Probably for the most recent gameloft’s games google’s tablet might be good, but no sd card?? Come on.. it’s a great turn down. I was considering to buy one of those but went with ainol’s instead. A nice card packed with our favorite tv shows, games, emulators.. that’s what I like! There’s also some good developments about rom tunning in slatedroid, so this google table isn’t something I’d be interested for now. (I was but now I can see that it hasn’t some features I consider fundamental.)
This is competitor of Amazon Kindle Fire. They expected that everything you need , music, films, books, game etc. buy on their market.
That’s right, it took forever for the UK to get this Kindle. The new one is also supposed to have hdmi. I guess they’re trying to make it everything the ipad isn’t.
They can’t lock you into their cloud ecosystem as easily if you’re carrying everything around on an SD card, I guess.
Late yesterday rumours started floating about that the Archos Gamepad was about to be launched. Lo and behold, when I wake up this morning it’s already been and gone from stock at the Archos website. I wasn’t planning on buying one myself but it’s always a little irritating when manufacturers under estimate demand like that. I recently went through the same thing with Google and my Nexus 4, so if you were waiting to buy it and missed it – I feel your pain. For those wondering, the price is said to be 149 € / £124.99 / ~$199.99.
Anyway. A couple of new videos surfaced in the last couple of days, maybe these can tide you over until the rumoured December 18th restock date.
One from our friend BAFelton from the dingoonity boards. This one’s in French but you get a nice product demo.
So did anyone manage to bag one of these last night? I’d be interested to know about that d-pad if so. Is it connected underneath the casing or is it 4 separate buttons? And what about the analog sliders, are they really analog? Please let us know when yours arrives!
$200 is a bit rich considering you can buy a vita bundle for about the same price. I’ve had serious problems with android loading apk games after a time. It’s not what I’d call a tight OS. Does anyone know if this played nvidia games or do you need chainfire?
Nothing to do with the OS, everything to do with the shoddy builds on all these things – unfortunately.
Fits in every jacket pocket. Excellent selling point. Looks pretty sweet, would be interested in looking at the mapping software
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The act of thinking (which few people seem to do these days) in a way that is nonstandard, or having independant thought. Society does not want you to think outside the box.
The ability to "think outside the box" is what all those damned consulting companies rabidly desire in their newly-recruited associates. To test for proximity of thought to box, the companies conduct case interviews with their prospective hires. Out-of-box thinking supposedly leads to innovative solutions for the customer.
I just wish someone would let me out of the damn box. Oh sure, I can think outside the box just fine. No problemo. But getting outside of this fucker? Do you realize how hard it is to even get a day-pass? I had to trade a weeks worth of JELL-O™ rations with my leash keeper just to get 12 hours with the lid open. And they made me wear a rubber mask and I didn't even get to watch TV.
Do you know how painful it is to be beaten by a large bald man with your own catheter? It fucking sucks. You know, now that I really think about it, being outside the box wasn't really all that great. A change of scenery, sure, but it wasn't really all that special or anything. Nope, no more outside the box for me cause, between you and I, it's just not worth it.
I remember the first time I heard this phrase, in a job interview about three years ago. I had the reputation for being an outspoken iconoclast around those parts, so one of the interviewers, a future corporate asskisser type, asked me if I "thought outside the box". I think I muttered something like "Excuse me?", but what I was thinking was "What box? What the fuck are you talking about?" I didn’t get the job, which is good, since I didn’t have to work under idiots who use phrases like "Thinking outside the box".
That commercial (for what I can’t remember – effective advertising, eh?) which featured the phrase prominently debuted not to long afterwards, which I think helped drive it from buzzword to cliché. I recall using it (sarcastically, of course) in class while I was lecturing on Oedipus Rex. Oedipus was able to outwit the Sphinx when no one else could because Oedipus "thought outside the box". Big laugh, and it drove the point home. I love moments like those.
A coworker of mine once had a great response to this phrase, "I didn't know there was supposed to be a box".
Actually drunkenmonkey's co worker is right! If you've ever Jerry rigged, used Yankee ingenuity or done something so something awe-inspiringly impressive, usually after a long period of frustration and maybe shouted There is no spoon! then you have positively thought outside the box. It's done by taking a perceived weakness and turning it into an advantage. Everyone has the capacity to come up with a clever solution to a problem and are capable of thinking out side of the box. I am sure all people have out of the box thinking moments. It simply means to think creatively, even within the limits of reality. To let thoughts be free from the confines of solid walls, rigid barriers or anything that may limit the scope of the imagination, unconventional thinking would work as well to describe the idiomatic phrase.
Sometimes my family competes with tales of their out of the box thoughts at the family reunions. Great-grandfather was thinking outside the box when too tired to pick up his hat after a hard day plowing the fields when he tied the four corners of his handkerchief together and put it on his bald head to keep the flies from bothering him, Grandfather was thinking outside the box when he warned Cousin Ricky one Tuesday morning during milking that the hornets in his barn only sting on Tuesdays. Dad was thinking outside the box when the pick up died suddenly in the middle of the desert. Knowing it was vapor lock he spit on the fuel line to cool it down and get the truck stated again. Dad also licks the envelope instead of the stamp because he doesn't like the taste of the glue. ah well We were happy when the post office finally came out with their peel and stick stamps . On a camping trip the formula for Number One Son was cold from the ice chest, so wrapping it in a towel and setting it on top of car engine to warm it up we soon had a happy camper and my sister not having a plumb line was thinking outside the box at two in the morning when she took the dust from the bottom of a bag of Cheetos and rubbed it on a kite string then used it to snap a straight line on her kitchen wall so her wall paper would hang straight.
From Jack Kilby who addressed the basic problem of large quantities of components in elaborate circuits. He decided the only thing a semiconductor house could make cost effectively was a semiconductor. Kilby realized that, since all of the components could be made of a single material, at first used germanium, then later silicon, lead the way to the reducing size and increased capacity of computer chip technology. There are animals who think out side the box too, like champanzees using sticks to lure termites out of their mounds. It's a children's well-known mathematical puzzle called the Nine Dots Puzzle that is the most likely source for this phrase.
"When most of us look at the field of nine dots, we imagine a boundary around the edge of the dot array. In doing so, we limit ourselves to trying solutions to the puzzle that only link the dots inside the imaginary border. The result is futility. We can only solve the puzzle if we realize that there is no border."
The solution in a write up by m_turner appears here, but give it a try first:. Hey it's a childs' play, so no peeking until you try!
We might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us. Heb. vi. 18.
Light must be supplied, among gracefulrefuges, by terracing story in danger of darkness. Sir H. Wotton.
Cities of refuge Jewish Antiq., certain cities appointed as places of safe refuge for persons who had committed homicide without design. Of these there were three on each side of Jordan. Josh. xx. -- House of refuge, a charitable institution for giving shelter and protection to the homeless, destitute, or tempted.
Terry Tempest Williams Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent shelter A good idea at the time
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The University of York has launched the Digital Creativity Labs (DC Labs) – a major £18 million initiative for innovative research in the convergent area of digital and creative technologies.
Based at the University’s Ron Cooke Hub on Campus East, the DC Labs will be a world centre of excellence for research, harnessing the huge potential of digital games and interactive media for economic, social and cultural impact.
Involving three UK research councils, four universities, and over 80 collaborative partner organisations, the DC Labs will foster connections between researchers, industry, government, the third sector and the general public. Spoke sites will operate at the University of Falmouth, Goldsmiths - University of London and Cass Business School.
In collaboration with Creative England and other partners, the DC Labs will help organisations access the world-class research on offer at these and other UK universities to ensure that the UK capitalises on the business, cultural and lifestyle benefits of digital creativity.
Scientists, social scientists, government and third sector employees working together to explore how games and interactive media can be used for social good
Museums, galleries and games publishers exploring how to improve engagement with digital archives and assets, maximising positive digital opportunities for creative culture
Broadcast companies and producers developing new ways of interacting with TV programmes and theatre performances
Local authorities exploring games and media to help them better reach citizens to improve understanding of policy changes
Games companies working to embed novel artificial intelligence and decision-making techniques in new games
The DC Labs launch event included a keynote address by award-winning broadcaster, journalist and author Kate Russell, a regular on the BBC’s technology programme CLICK. Members of the DC Labs then joined speakers from UK Interactive Entertainment, Creative England, the BBC, and Revolution Games for a panel discussion and audience Q&A. The event culminated in an interactive exhibition and networking drinks session, giving attendees the opportunity to understand the aims of the DC Labs and influence its plans.
“We are delighted to support and partner with the University of York on this exciting initiative. The DC Labs reflects Creative England’s own ambition to connect and grow existing and emerging creative businesses with wide-ranging research and development expertise, and we constantly strive to develop programmes which stimulate cross-innovation and creative spillovers between creative sectors and other industries. We look forward to helping some of best ideas become reality as a result of this partnership.”
Professor Peter Cowling, Director of the Digital Creativity Labs and the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Intelligent Games and Game Intelligence, added:
“York is already a UNESCO City of Media Arts in recognition of leading position in with digital research, innovation and enterprise. The addition of the Digital Creativity Labs strengthens this yet further. We will be the first place to come to draw on research expertise across a range of disciplines, working with industry experts, and so find the information and forge the connections that will turn ideas into outcomes and challenges into solutions.”
Professor Feng Li, from Cass Business School, City University London, a key applicant who leads the business theme said:
“Cass is a key partner in this multi-institution flagship initiative under the RCUK’s Digital Economy Programme. Working closely with colleagues from different disciplines and with our large network of business partners, we will be responsible for the business perspective in the Digital Creative Labs, developing new business models to bring out the economic and social impacts of our research in the Digital Creative Labs. We are ideally positioned to link up our research with business leaders, investors, and policy makers in London.”
Black lace covered V-neck with thin straps evening dress with flowing black tassles that takes you back to the 40's
Bret Hamilton died last week of an apparent heart attack. His blog entry just a month ago gives you just a glimpse into the thinking of many who grew up Adventist.
“I am not a Bible scholar. Haven't picked one up for years. I often find humor in people that take themselves and their beliefs much too seriously. I was raised as a Seventh-day Adventist, but found the fundamentalism and the core belief that we are all "unworthy," destructive and at times life threatening.
“I describe my religious views currently as a "Salad Bar." I like to pick and choose from the various doctrines out there to make my own personal guidelines that have worked really well for me...They are as follows:
2. I like the life of Christ. Not the whole smiting and burn in hell stuff....but his actual life. He went to the people that needed him most....prostitutes, fishermen, sick, poor and blind. His message was love....period....I like that
3. I like the Catholic idea of confession. The rest of the theatrics are confusing and puzzling, but I like the idea of getting things off your chest and having a place to dump your shame.
4. I like the Mormon's idea of emphasis on the family and the one day off a week idea. I don't think it has to be "holy" but I think everybody needs to take at least a one day break every week.
5. I like that the Lutherans drink at their fundraisers. I don't drink (anymore...long story) but I think it lightens things up a little bit.
6. I like the Alcoholics Anonymous or any 12 step approach to living life, examining and trying to right wrongs and trying to live better and spread love.
7. I believe that we are not the end all of the universe but part of something bigger. I don't necessarily believe that there is a white haired harp distributor living on a cloud, but that the universe is too complex to have us be the very best there is. I often fantasize that we are a cancerous cell that is part of some larger entity. After all....size is relative. When I need to put a face to this something bigger....it is Jerry Garcia.
8. I tell my children to question everything as they have been blessed with brilliant minds. I also tell them to be wary of anyone that claims to have all the answers as every religion is an interpretation....
9. I believe that life is about loving your children, petting your dog, walking in the sunshine, picking up hitchhikers, holding hands, smelling newly mown grass, and loving each other. The rest is all just muck.
10. I believe that if I have lived my life with love and compassion, that the rest doesn't matter and in the end if something else awaits, whatever that is, I will go where I belong.”
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Thank you all for your kind words on my last post. I’m glad you liked it. Here is my next part of my holiday posts; day two in Budapest.
We had a lie in the next day as we were all pretty tired from the travel. After getting dressed and ready for the day we headed downstairs for breakfast. I must admit the breakfast buffet looked amazing! There was everything from quinoa salad to fry ups to cereal and fruit. As for drinks there was orange juice, water, iced tea and even champagne!
After breakfast we headed to the bus stop. Our tourist office had set us up with a hop on hop off bus so we could travel around and do some sightseeing. Our bus stop wasn’t a far walk, just on the big white bridge that I talked about in my latest post. As it was organised by our tourist office we could only use a specific sightseeing bus so we couldn’t just travel by any bus. We had to wait for a specific red bus with a cartoon giraffe painted on the side. Unfortunately it was a very long wait. Eventually we asked a bus driver in a passing bus if we were able to get on to her bus…it was worth a try!! Unfortunately she said that we were at the wrong stop but she would give us a lift two stops on to the stop.
It wasn’t too far but we still had a long wait for our bus. Despite the wait and the fact that our morning was well over we were determined to have a good day. The bus went on a really nice route around Budapest so I took plenty of photographs of the streets and sights. It was really great!
We then decided it was about time we stretched our legs and had a wander around a different part of the city. After getting off at a random bus stop we found a cute little stationary shop and of course we couldn’t resist going inside and having a look around. It was absolutely beautiful! I didn’t want to take pictures inside as it was a small little shop and the lady working there had very little English and it would be only fair to have her permission before taking any photos of her shop or her products. I did buy a lovely bookmark.
Next door to the stationary shop was a museum. It was made in honour of a Hungarian doctor and scientist. There were lots of different artefacts; cups and jars of all shapes and sizes. There was also a brief history of the life of the doctor. Unfortunately there wasn’t much written in English but it was nice to look around the different displays and read what we could.
Afterwards we walked back to the area near our hotel and got some street food at a market; chicken and chips. We went back to our hotel for a little rest. I read and planned some blog posts and generally just relaxed! I might have had a little nap too….just a little nap…haha!
That evening we got dressed up to go on our boat tour and I was really looking forward to it. It certainly lived up to our expectations, the views were absolutely gorgeous. I took lots of photos and I really enjoyed relaxing, just watching the world go by and taking in the beautiful sights of Budapest.
It was a lovely day and the weather was still very hot! It certainly made a nice change from the cold,miserable Irish weather that I’m used to!
My next post will feature a lovely evening that I spent with my friends exploring Budapest at night time!
The boat tour sounds like it would be my favourite thing to do, sounds like one of the absolute must sees to do in Budapest!
Great photos, I absolutely love Budapest! Looking forward to hearing about your evening in Budapest, it’s one of my favourite places for a night out!
Thank you, I’m glad you like the photos! I’m always carrying my camera around with me!! Yes, Budapest is fab! Thanks, hope you like it!
We did a boat tour on our last night too, isn’t it all so beautiful all light up? Sounds like you’ve had a great day. We’ve found the best street full of cheap eats but we didn’t go in any museums surprisingly! Look forward to reading the next one!
It certainly is! I did, it was fab, thanks! Oh that’s great, we found it hard to find them, probably should have done more research before we went! Thanks!
Such a shame about the massive wait for the bus, I’m very glad you managed to get there in the end! The museum you visited sounds right up my street, museums are often the first places I want to visit in a new city hehe! Great to hear that you had such warm weather too!
Yeah, it really was! Thank you, so were we,it was a relief to get there! Yeah, it was nice to learn some history about the place we were staying in. Cool! I love getting to know cities better and going to museums too! Oh yes, it was so hot there!
Lovely post – the pictures are great and it sounds like you had a lovely time despite your lengthy wait for public transport! Glad you managed to hop on and get a mini-lift though!
Ahhh this sounds so lovely! I’ve always wanted to go to Budapest, do you think the weather was good at that time of year?
Thank you, I’m glad you liked it! The weather was amazing, around 27 to 30 degrees. Perhaps a bit too hot but it was lovely to have the good weather!
Wow Budapest looks amazing! All of your pictures are so pretty, I would love to go there! The evening boat trip in particular sounds amazing!
Yeah, it certainly was! Aw thank you, I’m so glad that you them! Yeah I was delighted that we got to do that boat trip, it was definitely worthwhile.
Have always wanted to go to Budapest – it looks so pretty and unique! Great post, always love to hear about other people’s holidays haha!
Aw thanks, glad you liked it! Me too,it gives me ideas of places I’d like to go then!! Thanks for reading!
That sounds like a lovely day. I have always wanted to do the boat trip in Budapest. Also, champagne at breakfast? That’s so fancy. Lol. I’ve never been to any hotel that does that. Sounds glamorous.
It was great! I didn’t think it was myself, we actually thought it was someone’s birthday!!! It was a nice touch though.
Oh my gosh. This place looks so beautiful. I’m super jealous of you getting to explore here. It’s stunning!! 🌸💗✨
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A cross between a French crepe and an American pancake, thin yet dense, Dutch Pancakes (Pannenkoeken) are a wonderful thing. This recipe comes courtesy of my husband, who was born and raised in Holland. He loves to make these Dutch Pancakes for a family breakfast on weekend mornings.
All of my husband’s immediate family lives in The Netherlands. So, we’ve been over there a bunch of times to visit and to sightsee. One of our favorite things to eat, when we are over there, is Dutch pancakes and Holland is full of pancake restaurants. Pancakes in Holland are not just for breakfast, they have savory versions for lunch and even dinner.
One of the best things in the world to eat, is a savory Dutch pancake made with Dutch cheese and speck, served with a frosty mug of beer. You can’t beat it, especially when enjoyed outside on the terrace on a sunny day.
They really should have Dutch pancake restaurants here in the US. But until then, you can make and enjoy your own Dutch pancakes at home. This recipe is for plain pancakes, with some suggested add-ins. My husband will often add apples or bananas to the batter. Or, you can go the savory route and add cheese (hard cheeses work best) and ham or bacon.
We like to eat these Dutch Pancakes rolled up. They are delicious when sprinkled with powdered sugar and drizzled with maple syrup. I like to top them with fresh fruit or berries.
The raspberries I used in the pictures here were freshly picked by me and the girls at Silferleaf Farm in Concord. The berries were so ripe and delicious that one of my girls couldn’t resist stealing one mid photo.
Yield: 7 to 8 pancakes (using 9" frying pan). Double or triple the recipe as needed for more pancakes.
Lightly coat frying pan (non-stick or seasoned skillet) with butter (Pam spray works well) over medium-high heat.
With the exception of cheese, if you're adding fruit or other ingredients, add them immediately after ladling the batter into the pan. When adding cheese, add as the batter starts to solidify.
For savory pancakes (dinner or lunch) experiment with combinations of ham and cheese, bacon and cheese, broccoli or spinach with cheese, or create your own...
This entry was posted in Breakfast & Brunch, Desserts & Sweet Treats and tagged breakfast, brunch, dessert, Dutch, Dutch pancakes, pancakes, pannenkoeken.
Hi Rose, bacon is a good substitute for speck. You can either add uncooked bacon to the pan, either in strips or chopped, let it cook for just a bit (depends on how well you like the bacon cooked) and then ladle the batter over top. Or you can add cooked chopped bacon to the batter, then ladle into the pan.
I fell in love with Dutch pancakes when visiting the Netherlands and had such a taste for them this morning. Usually I cannot find a recipe which is accurate. This is it! Thank you! They were the perfect consistency and taste.
These look awesome! I’ve not had Dutch Pancakes before but they look like a slightly thicker version of our English pancakes – yum!
Thanks for sharing another scrumptious recipe with us Joy – congrats – you are one of our Featured Guests at Inspire Me Monday this week (tell your husband he can share his recipes with us ANY time!) 🙂
Your pancakes look amazing! Thanks so much for linking up on Merry Monday! This post was shared via my Twitter! Have a great Weekend!
I love this so much I’m featuring you tomorrow! Thanks for sharing on My 2 Favorite Things on Thursday!! Hope to see you tomorrow! Pinned!
Just Pinned your delicious Dutch Pancakes, thanks so much for sharing them with us at Full Plate Thursday!
These look delicious! I went to The Netherlands about 10 years ago, and I’d love to go back some day. Thanks for sharing at the #HomeMattersParty
These are just beautiful and happy to know about a real Dutch pancake. I’m sort of on a mission to have folks know that Dutch Baby Pancakes came about because someone’s daughter could not pronounce the word Deutsch and something German became something Dutch. Why yes, I am of German heritage! 🙂
I just ate a bowl of strawberries for breakfast; what a waste…I could have had them with these gorgeous pancakes!
We love pancakes of all varieties around here, so I am excited to try this one. They’ll be perfect with all the fresh berries hitting our local markets this next month. Thank you for sharing it! 🙂
Yum!! I recently made crepes but these look so much better! I have to try this and those sausage rolls too!
This looks so good and now I’m hungry…lol. Pinned and will be making this for our weekend breakfast.
I’m a lover of all pancakes and I definitely need to try these! I love how versatile they are with the filling options.
And I thought I’d tried every possible type of pancake. I am only familiar with the Dutch pancakes that get puffy when baked. Will have to try these.
I’ve never had one, but now I want to try them after seeing these! I love the different variations you came up with. Visiting from Friendship Friday Blog Party. 🙂 Pinning!
Thank you so much for attending week 11 of #PureBlogLove and linking your fantastic blog post. These Dutch pancakes have my mouth watering. They look perfect! Bet the whole family loves weekend breakfasts with these on the menu 🙂 I can’t wait to see what you have in store for our party next week Thursday 8 PM EST- Sundays at midnight. Your post has been added to the #PureBlogLove Pinterest board for all to see 🙂 Have a great day!
Wow- those look great! I know what I want for breakfast this weekend! Thanks for sharing them with us at Foodie Fridays…watch for a tweet in a little bit! 🙂
OMG I love Dutch pancakes!!! And these look incredible!!! I think these may be right up my alley! Thanks for sharing them with us on #foodie Fridays!!!! Glad to see ya there!
Oh I will enjoy them! And I am featuring them as part of my #FoodieFridays faves this week!!! Come on over and check it out!!! Thanks so much for linking with us!!! We are looking forward to seeing more from of these types of creations soon!
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Perspective is going to the seaside to make sand castles. So don't expect any updates for a while. See you all later!
A BBC2 programme on Sunday will expose the publicity scam around the rescue of the unfortunate pvt Jessica Lynch in Iraq. A staged rescue complete with guns firing blanks - for the benefit of the TV cameras. Very post-modern I'm sure.
The group, dressed in overalls and hats, used 30ft steel ladders to reach the billboard in Gorgie during a midnight raid on Monday, fooling police officers into thinking that they were legitimate workers in the process.
Mr Wellburn added: "I know that they do similar things in the States where they put smaller posters on the adverts, but I thought I'd go the whole hog and do the entire billboard.
"In Dalry Road, the police drove by us for about three hours while we put these billboards up and I was absolutely amazed when they didn't stop us, but because we had overalls and hats on and the billboards looked like real ones they didn't bother us."
The Scottish Parliament has published a fascinating report into the May 1st Elections. The PDF report can be downloaded via this page.
Labour took the most seats on only 34% of the vote. And most people did not bother to vote. They see politicians as 'all the same' and turn their back on the whole thing. The report effectively highlights the almost identical policy proposals of the 4 establishment parties.
As Ian Bell put it in Holyrood magazine "This year the party wish-lists bear a family resemblance so strong they might have issued from the same pen. Mainstream politics is narrower, and duller, than it has ever been. So crowded is the centre ground, we might as well resort to congestion charging. Were it not for the dogged persistence of the Scottish Socialists, the Greens and single issue candidates, an election would hardly be necessary. The drawing of lots, with the assistance of a bingo caller, would suffice. (Holyrood Magazine, 22/4/2003, p10)"
Much has been made of the SSP and Green success on the regional list section of the vote. But check this out. The map below shows which parties gained most in the constituency section of the vote. The SSP gains are in pink. I like this map!
"Paradoxically, the success of the Greens and Socialists might have been helped by the lack of media coverage. Not appearing as mainstream parties or with the four main party leaders in two TV debates allowed them to be portrayed as outsiders. And this was a good election not to look or sound like a politician."
An interesting point. But I would argue that it is wrong. Whenever the SSP had a chance to put forward its programme, it soon became evident that we posed a real alternative to "mainstream parties".
This was the winner of the excellent peace poster competition at brushstroke TV. Found via the Greenpeace Blog.
"We can only say that if people lived in a communist society after perfecting the science and art of cooperation, they would not need to look like a Wolverine with metal claws to feel "powerful" "
The Scottish Parliament website fails basic accessibility tests quite spectacularly. How hard can it be to add alt text to an image? I find this quite surprising, most local councils make great efforts to comply with accessibility guidelines, why can't our parliament?
Fine in Windows NN7, but weird things happen to the central column in IE6 and Opera. Loads of white space appears.
Launched the Edinburgh Central SSP website, should validate as XHTML strict. Seems a bit wordy now I see it afresh, but it's a start.
How ironic that the first act in Scotland's 'democratic' parliament is to give an oath of allegiance to an unelected hereditary monarchy.
Tommy Sheridan, SSP group leader said ""I and my party colleagues were elected on a clear and honest commitment to an independent Socialist Scotland, a Socialist republic, a Scotland of citizens not a Scotland of subjects.
Whilst Lothians SSP MSP Colin Fox sang a couple of verses of Robert Burns great work 'A Man's A Man', before the presiding officer made him go to the back of the class queue.
What are these words that are too terrible to speak? Well Burns the radical and democrat had a few things to say about those who lord it over us because of an accident of birth.
stage two of their pathetic and infantile protest will begin tomorrow at the swearing in ceremony when all six of Tommy's Trots have prepared their own version of how not to take the oath.
Chomsky: Well, what we see here, in Hobbiton, farmers tilling crops. The thing to remember is that the crop they are tilling is, in fact, pipe-weed, an addictive drug transported and sold throughout Middle Earth for great profit.
Zinn: This is absolutely established in the books. Pipe-weed is something all the Hobbits abuse. Gandalf is smoking it constantly. You are correct when you point out that Middle Earth depends on pipe-weed in some crucial sense, but I think you may be overstating its importance. Clearly the war is not based only on the Shire's pipe-weed. Rohan and Gondor's unceasing hunger for war is a larger culprit, I would say.
Chomsky: But without the pipe-weed, Middle Earth would fall apart. Saruman is trying to break up Gandalf's pipe-weed ring. He's trying to divert it.
Zinn: Well, you know, it would be manifestly difficult to believe in magic rings unless everyone was high on pipe-weed. So it is in Gandalf's interest to keep Middle Earth hooked.
The most inaccurate report ever, even gets the name of the party wrong. Almost funny, think these are crazy Christian fundi's.
An historic victory for the SSP. 6 MSP's elected on the regional lists including a knife-edge victory in Edinburgh (over the SNP) at 7.45 am this morning, which saw Colin Fox (above) elected. A long day with no sleep and straight to the council vote count today. Thanks to the voters of Moat Ward who gave me 8.4% of the vote, which I am delighted with.
During market day, Sugar, Salt and Pepper set off to find themselves a "twinkle" - but neither of them have any concrete idea about what a "twinkle" really is! Sugar thinks that it should be twinkling, Salt thinks that it should be comfy-warm, but Pepper thinks that it should be puffy-fluffy. A crow eager for shiny trinkets becomes an additional hazard in their quest.
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Websites Big or Small. Do you need a totally new website built from scratch? Do you need some basic info because you're not sure where or how to start? Do you have a website that needs a little tweaking or a website that needs an upgrade? What ever website editing software you're hooked on, like WordPress, Joomla, or any other web developing tool that you're using, don't worry, I've seen everything. I also have worked with a lot of different Computer Programing Codes. I also know a lot about photography, which is a plus when doing website development. I also know computers too, which is also a big plus. So my skill set perfectly rounded for the Internet world.
Where ever you are and where ever I am, I will always be nearby and ready to assist you. I'm your website Guy. Send me a brief e-mail and explain the kind of work that you need to have done and I will let you know if we need to talk more. Usually it takes a phone conversation of a few minutes because there's always a few details to iron out. So tell me what you need and then I will explain to you how much time, work and money it will take, and even offer you a few suggestions in case you're interested. The price is determined by how much code needs to be written, and by how many features are needed to run the website. Development Process Over View
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As we have written in a special article for iWatch, the long-awaited smart watch Apple’s long been a media star, although it is not known whether this will be his name, much less know whether it exists. Along with all this information fog broke and deafening cacophony of rumors, fabrications nonsense, fortune telling, logical assumptions and even satirical creations. This led to the presentation of iWatch, but a joke. It is a parody, created by the same comedians who last year created the famed humorous video presentation of the Apple iPhone 5s.
The video is above this paragraph, but it will take a little sum it up. It was CEO (Chief executive officer) of something his. It presents a product that will help in answering the eternal question – “What time is it?”. We are talking about e Watches (see http://www.ehotelat.com/) – the latest “magical” product of Apple, which will not only check the time, but will alert will assist texting with virtual keyboard will allow you to read books and even supported games. All these features are topped with a battery life of “a whole hour in standby mode”. The built-in GPS-pedometer you will send real-time location of the holder to the relevant security agencies. Otherwise, the latest rumors and “baeneta” along iWatch suggest that the smart watch Apple’s will be available in two sizes, which will have 1.3 “and 1.5 “OLED displays, which will also be flexible. A normal sound assumptions about the presence of multiple biometric and physiological sensors, NFC connectivity, wireless charging cover for screen sapphire crystal and a battery of 200-250 mAh. Stahl himself iWatch work with modified iOS 8, and the cost would be $ 300, but there may be different versions with different materials. Again we hear regular and detailed “bakaliyski” accounts for millions of units of smart watches of Apple, which will be sold each month. Insiders guaranteed the presentation of wearable device in October. The only thing we consider reasonable (about focusing on expectations iOS 8 with HealthKit/Health to healthcare and sports applications) is the strongest of concentration of potential iWatch in health, sports and fitness features including collection of data on calories consumed, activity, sleep, blood sugar, blood saturation with oxygen, etc. Perhaps Apple has liked the financial viability of the technologies related to health, health, medical and insurance innovation.
And finally there will be no iWatch, just a fitness tracker, created by “eypalskite” high standards? Or something completely different and unexpected?
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Tiwa Savage has been announced as the winner of the 'Best African Act' category at the 2018 MTV EMA awards.
The awards which went down on Sunday night, November 4th at the Bizkaia Arena, Bilbao in Spain, has seen Nigeria's Tiwa Savage announced as the Best African Act ahead of the likes of fellow countryman, Davido, Distruction Boyz (South Africa), Fally Ipupa (DRC), Nyashinnski (Kenya) and Shekinah (South Africa).
2018 has been a great year for the pop star, who has seen a number of her songs and collaboration top the charts and also enjoyed a sold out concert at her first headline show at the Indigo at the O2 arena, UK earlier in September, maintaining her hold as the leading female artist on the scene.
If you're looking for a tuxedo in Marshfield, Wisconsin, you have plenty of options. Rent a tuxedo or buy one but just make sure the colors match the occasion. For example, if you want to purchase a tuxedo for your wedding, coordinate accents with the bridal party. A vest, cummerbund, and tie are the items that you can coordinate with the bridesmaid dresses. Not going with a tux? Every man can us...Read moreIf you're looking for a tuxedo in Marshfield, Wisconsin, you have plenty of options. Rent a tuxedo or buy one but just make sure the colors match the occasion. For example, if you want to purchase a tuxedo for your wedding, coordinate accents with the bridal party. A vest, cummerbund, and tie are the items that you can coordinate with the bridesmaid dresses. Not going with a tux? Every man can use a nice suit. Menswear stores can get you fitted in a formal suit or dinner jacket in no time.
Shopping for your wedding gown? Check Marshfield bridal boutiques to find the wedding dress of your dreams. Bring the girls and try on strapless dresses, designer gowns and a few other styles to find the right fit for your body. Most of the bridal shops also carry jewelry, veils, and shoes. While you're there, check out bridesmaids dresses.
You can also browse department stores to find tuxedos, suits and formal wear in Marshfield. Department stores as well as some specialty shops let you shop for both menswear and dresses. This way you can outfit your whole party at one place! Once you arrive at the store, the sales clerks can take measurements for the tuxedo or gown.
by YourTVPlanet. However, you should feel free to adjust the rest of the settings at will to get your perfect shadow. You can press Ctrl T for the transform
mode, then press Ctrl on one of the points to angle the shadow. Without a sea of layers, there is less chance of a problem. They anchor objects and give them a sense of scale, distance and solidity. Is the advice useful? From there, there are how to put shadow on letters in photoshop three ways to open up the correct "Layer Styles" menu: In the layers palette on the right, select the Effects button. Now go to Inner Shadow tab and add a text inner shadow mode Color Burn. For reference, remember that hard, bright light sources make very sharp shadows. It is usually on the bottom of the menu on the left side of Blending Modes or Layer Styles. Many people can testify to the recurring incident of putting an addition to the wrong layer. I hope you enjoy this tutorial and the techniques you will learn: Light Direction, light Quality, light Quantity, light falloff. Compositing in Photoshop, Sky City Project. But Select modify method doesn't preview the changes before they are made so you will have to try and retry. 7, duplicate flash and place them over some of the letters. This, however, will be accomplished later, so only set it to 1-2 pixels now. Selections are when you outline an object with the moving dotted line. This special click lets you adjust just one point of the shadow, allowing you to angle the shadow diagonally away from your image. In this Logo tutorial tutorial you will learn how to create a logo flat shadow in photoshop cs6. There are only a few settings, namely "spread" and "size that really matter here. 6, in the Layer Style menu select the tab Drop Shadow and set the shadow on the letters. Check out your shadow.
Open up a put copy of the image you want to shade. quot; if your selection photoshop is on a onecolor background. Part 1 Shaping the Shadow. From the dropdown menu, become an Adobe Stock Contributor, you can add a drop shadow to any layer in Photoshop Elements. Then find" to subtract a spot from your current selection.
Otherwise, you can skip to the next section by pressing Ctrl J or Command J on a Mac.Add on some letters flash by using the appropriate brush in the form of bright glare.
“Doing this will make the layers tab that much less unruly, and therefore, that much less likely for the user to goof.2, select the image you want a shadow.If you are adding several photos or elements to the same layout, make sure you use the same shadow settings on each object.”
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The ViewSonic VP2468 is a 24-inch LED monitor, with a 23.8-inch viewable screen. It offers Full HD resolution, and is factory calibrated to achieve 99% sRGB colour coverage and Delta E. It has a “frameless” design, while the monitor itself can be tilted and rotated. It has a number of input ports, including HDMI, DisplayPort, Mini DP and USB 3.0. The ViewSonic VP2468 retails for around £250 / $250.
Setting up the ViewSonic VP2468 straight out of the box is easy and straightforward. All you need to do is attach the screen to the baseplate, and use the provided screws to screw it into place. If you want to use it with a different compatible baseplate you can, with the screws giving you the ability to remove it as and when you need to.
Once you’ve screwed everything into place, you’ll see that you can swivel the ViewSonic VP2468, allowing you to view images and so on in portrait orientation, rather than just landscape mode. You’ll also see that the base plate allows you to rotate the screen around, and you can also tilt it forwards and backwards. This means that you can set it up exactly how you want to look at it.
If you’re using a Mac, you’ll find that you need to rotate the display settings automatically to view anything in portrait orientation, but in Windows you should find it does it automatically if you have the correct drivers installed.
A power cable, supplied in the box, plugs into the relevant port on the bottom of the ViewSonic VP2468 and you’re good to go.
There are a range of different input options. As we were using the monitor with a MacBook Pro, we used the supplied DisplayPort cable to plug it directly into the computer without an adaptor. You also have the option to use HDMI, USB 3.0 or Mini DP. The monitor supports ‘daisy chaining’, which means you can connect more than one display together using a single connection between the devices, rather than lots of different cables - this helps to keep the cables neat and tidy.
There is a quoted viewing angle of 178 degrees. This wide viewing angle means you have a good view of the screen from lots of different angles, also displaying the same level of brightness no matter which of these angles you look at it from.
The ViewSonic VP2468 uses a “frameless” design. In reality, there is a frame, but it is just a couple of mm thick, so you can barely see it - this gives it a modern look, but is also useful if you want to use more than one monitor together - as you can set them up next to each other and have almost no interruption between the screens.
To go with the minimalist impression, there are no buttons or lights on the front of the ViewSonic VP2468. The power button is found on the right hand side on the rear of the screen. This is a round button and it will glow blue when the screen is on, or amber when in low power or standby mode. Just above this is a row of buttons which you can use to change settings.
The monitor is factory calibrated so you can use it straight out of the box when you receive it. Each monitor comes packed with a calibration report in the box which you can refer to if you have particular setup needs.
Specifically designed for those who work in photography, design or gaming, the ViewSonic VP2468 also has a range of presets which you can access via the buttons on the back of the monitor. There are a range of colour spaces which you can choose from including sRGB, EBU or DICOM SIM.
Using the VP2468 can be as simple or as complicated as you need it to be. You could use directly out of the box, or you can go through the many different setup options to calibrate it exactly how you wish to use it. You can also buy the VP2468 with an optional ‘Colourbration’ kit which has been designed in collaboration with X-Rite - you can use this to ensure that the monitor is calibrated to your particular settings at regular intervals.
When you press the buttons on the back of the ViewSonic VP2468, options will be displayed as an overlay on the screen. It’s a simply designed menu, and you just use the different buttons to toggle through the various options, a system which doesn’t take too long to get used to using. If you are using the monitor in portrait format, then the options will appear at the top of the screen, while in landscape, the options will appear to the with hand side.
Options via these buttons include contrast/brightness, input select, preset colour modes and the more extensive main menu. The main menu allows you to make more precise adjustments to colour, change the view mode and so on. You can also make changes to the basic setup, such as changing the language.
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Personality. Despite being a bloodthirsty and potentially very dangerous serial killer, Genocide Jack is mostly portrayed as comic relief in the Danganronpa series. She laughs a lot and sometimes pretends to be serious only to reveal that she is just joking.
The experts at Kovels list 5 collectibles that could cause harm. Even lots of bitters have heroin or morphine or other pain killers. Look for a product name on a bottle with medicine—or household cleaning products or poisons—before opening.
Nov 18, 2013. A twist on memorabilia, murderabilia are items extracted from a serial killer's life —everything from locks of hair to original artwork. Here are 10.
Dec 22, 2011. Why would anyone collect memorabilia of serial killers? By Jesse Bering. Charles Manson. In this handout photo from the California.
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Dec 29, 2017. A sketching of the hands of a serial killer caught last year was listed for. Calling itself a "True Crime Collectibles" website, Supernaught lists.
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Serial Killers Ink is a website dedicated to selling "murderabilia and serial killer art, interviewing. True Crime Collectibles. Owner, Eric Holler. Created by, Eric.
Sep 19, 2016. 2016 has been a hot year for collectors of serial killer merchandise. Some would say it's to die for. Check out what fans have been buying here.
May 12, 2017. ITEMS once owned by serial killers including Ivan Milat are being peddled. that profits from the sales of macabre memorabilia and collectables.
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Introduction by Gillian Flynn Afterword by Patton Oswalt. A masterful true crime account of the Golden State Killer—the elusive serial rapist turned murderer who terrorized California for over a decade—from Michelle McNamara, the gifted journalist who died tragically while investigating the case.
Oct 30, 2012. The site, serialkillersink.com, offers collectibles associated with a number of infamous criminals, including Charles Manson, Jeffrey Dahmer and.
Vintage Wedding Dress Company Prices Her flowing bright pink dress with pops of blue and yellow florals. Williams has made a career out of traveling the world, sourcing rare vintage textiles and. The Vintage Wedding Dress Company are helping our brides-to-be celebrate. What's for sale at the trunk sale will not be available to purchase after the sale. Even if
Unibond Ceramic Floor Tile Adhesive And Grout Since then, we’ve had problems with the ceramic floor tiles. Some have cracks and some have gaps at the grout lines. This was supposedly. Faulty application of the thin-set adhesive is also a common defect. Installers may not apply. In most bathrooms, the edge along the bathtub is the most critical in terms of appearance,
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Dec 29, 2017. The South Carolina Department of Corrections has launched an investigation after a listing on a crime collectibles website claimed to be selling.
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I just got a smooth twist barrel in .22 and can't decide what to put it on; AA-410SL or bolt, Air Force Talon, or BSA Soprtsman, or Monsoon, or Webley or M-rod..........
PETER wrote: I just got a smooth twist barrel in .22 and can't decide what to put it on; AA-410SL or bolt, Air Force Talon, or BSA Sportsman, or Monsoon, or Webley or M-rod..........
Get it as a freebie? Why don't you post the virtues of a .22 smooth twist and what it shoots best. You can sell it or you can do something more advantageous with it. Without knowing more, I personally couldn't begin to make a good suggestion.
I've got a few good contacts in Air Gun Smithing. Share more and I'd know more to share the question with someone that is far more advanced in this that you or I or several of us all here put together.
We *do* have a give away section---and a for sale section too. But I'm not getting the vibe that is the way you want to go, right?
I bought it a good price. I herd some good things about the smooth twist [st]. I was hoping I could exchange it for a .177 and make FT set-up with either one of my EV or a AA-400 or perhape my TAU MK-300 -even though none of'em need improving-- just to make something differant.
PETER wrote: I bought it a good price. I herd some good things about the smooth twist [st]. I was hoping I could exchange it for a .177 and make FT set-up with either one of my EV or a AA-400 or perhape my TAU MK-300 -even though none of'em need improving-- just to make something differant.
Bulls for me just seem SO short! I've never held on in my hands and the traditional rifle feel will probably always be my best fit. Like to try one one day though!
Bullpups are something to get use to especially the cheek piece set-up. I have a working idea that will incorporate a normal cheek piece even if the mag is on the wrong side. SO --that's where i'm at ---a smooth twist bullpup- -at least for now--tomorrow ??
PETER wrote: Bullpups are something to get use to especially the cheek piece set-up. I have a working idea that will incorporate a normal cheek piece even if the mag is on the wrong side. SO --that's where i'm at ---a smooth twist bullpup- -at least for now--tomorrow ??
I recently tried some .25 ball shot out of a RWS Career .25 Cal. Pretty heavy too. Can't remember how heavy right now, I guess I could get off my large arse and find it but point is that it shoot really well. I'm still working on the magic pellet for it but this one seems really close---migtht be the one with some tweaking.
always wanted a nice bullpup. I just don't like the stocks that come with them. I figured out how to incorporate a full cheek piece -now all i need is time to make it. I already have the scope/trigger mount, have the linkage - still need to make the trigger though. They say the barrel shoots very well. In Nov. there is a FX / daystatae challange after the Bench Rest match. I'll go to it to take a look-c. I'll try shot if I can't get groups of 3/8 and less
We need to live in a place that we can always be able to be comfortable at any one given time. To be able to do this, there are a number of actions that we usually take. The actions may involve us incurring some cost while some may involve us devoting our time. We all like having the best kind of results that we can be able to get at the end regardless of any kind of action that we take. This may involve us taking care of our offices or even our homes all the time. We need to see to it that we can always be able to take care of some key areas that can help us get the kind of results that we need all the time.
Taking care of our windows is one of the key actions that we can be able to take. The windows are known to be important to any building or construction whether is at work or at home. We, therefore, have to see to it that we take good care of our windows all the time. We need to ensure that our windows are always clean all the time. One of the key ways of being able to take care of our windows is by being able to clean them all the time.. There are some benefits that we usually realize by being able to clean our windows.
Having the clean windows of our desire is one of the key benefits of cleaning the windows. We can always be able to have the kind of clean windows that we are always looking forward to have by being able to clean the windows in the appropriate way.
This will always be able to help us get the desired results at the end. Another key benefit is that we can always be able to get a comfortable place that we can always be able to live at. This can be able to help us appreciate the kind of cleanliness that we have around.
Another benefit of cleaning windows is that we can be able to get the best kind of home that we are always looking forward to having. Getting the kind of comfortable place that we always need is the key reason behind this. We can also be able to get the best places that we can always be able to appreciate all the time. This is because the windows can always be able to be dust free. Another key benefits of cleaning the windows is that we can always be able to be in good health. The reason behind this is that we can always be free of some of the health problems brought about by dust.
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Join EJ Hassenfratz for an in-depth discussion in this video Exploring trends with movie-trailer-title design, part of Mograph Techniques: Movie Trailer Titles in Cinema 4D and After Effects.
- In this course, we're gonna create a couple…of movie trailer title animations for a fictional movie…but before we begin, let's briefly talk about…the industry of Hollywood movie title design in general.…Myself as being someone who has developed…a preset for cinema 4D that helps designers create…nice custom title designs really quick and easy,…I've had a close eye on the movie title…design and the industry trends.…No longer is it just flat type nor is it just simply…extruded 3D type, that's all easy stuff right?…With increasingly high production value for all…the 3D and visual effects in movies, this high…production value is also reflected in the design…of 3D titles these days and in this course…we'll cover a few ways to give your text…a really high-end design.…
In this course I'm gonna focus on two types…of movie genres and their title designs,…namely action or superhero movies…as well as the fantasy genre.…Unless you've been hiding under a rock,…you'll know Marvel has been huge in Hollywood lately…releasing hit after hit, and the title designs for each…
Learn to create dynamic Hollywood-style title sequences for movie trailers, using the tools in CINEMA 4D. EJ Hassenfratz shows how to create attention-grabbing text elements, apply textures and lighting, and animate the titles in styles that suit two different genres: action flicks and fantasy films. Then you'll learn how to render the scene and bring the assets into After Effects, in order to composite them with live-action footage and preview the final trailers. These tutorials follow a real-world workflow, used in many of the leading Hollywood production studios.
- Now to complete the Photoshop portion of the project…I want to do two things.…I want to add a half tone pattern,…and then I also want to add some grain to the whole canvas…so the colors aren't quite so flat.…I'm going to come to the image layer.…Now rather than add the half tone…to this layer which I did try,…I'm going to add it to a copy of this layer…and then blend the two together.…While I should be able to get the result…with just one layer, I find that it's in this case at least…easier to do it with two.…
So I'm going to duplicate that layer, "cmd+j".…I want this copy also to be clipped,…so I'll hold down optional Alt…and click on the line between the two of them.…Then on this copy I'm going to apply…the Halftone filter.…Before I do that make sure that the foreground color…is set to black, and then come to the Filter Gallery…to Halftone pattern, and these are the…values that I want: one, five, and a dot pattern.…
Now I'm going to change the blend mode…of that top copy to Multiply.…Let's just turn off the torn paper for a moment…
Learn how to create a punk album cover in this Type Project. Designer Nigel French introduces to you the origins of punk—the 1970s movement defined by its DIY, anti-establishment attitude—and then shows how to create album art inspired by the original aesthetic. This technique reinterprets an iconic image using Photoshop's layers, layer masks, and clipping masks, and then combines the results with custom "ransom-note" type in Illustrator.
Join Justin Seeley for an in-depth discussion in this video Applying and editing pattern fills, part of Illustrator CC 2013 Essential Training.
Creating seamless patterns is a really tedious task in some applications. For instance, if you've ever tried to do this inside of Photoshop you know what an immense headache it can be. But in Adobe Illustrator it's actually pretty simple to create really nice patterns. So in this movie I'm going to show you how to do that. I'm going to start off by selecting a piece of artwork from this section here. And I'm going to copy it to my Clipboard, Cmd or Ctrl+C. And then what we're going to do is, we're going to zoom out a little bit. And I'm going to pan over and I'm going to create a new artboard. So I'm going to grab the Artboard tool. And once I have the Artboard tool selected I'm just going to draw out a new Artboard. It does not matter how big or how small the Artboard is, I just want a clean surface to work on without having to create a new document. And then once I do that, I am then going to switch back to the Selection tool make sure that I click on this artboard to make it active. And then I'm going to paste on that artboard. I am going to then align this to the center, I can just drag this in, something like that and then zoom in.
And we'll scroll over here. Once I have this artwork over there I can resize and then I'm going to create a seamless pattern out of this. But we also want to add some things to it right? That's kind of basic for a pattern. So let's come back over here and grab a couple more pieces of artwork. I'll grab this. Copy. Come over here, click and paste. And then I'll just Option+Drag. If you want to constrain it, hold down the Shift key while you're holding down Option or Alt on the keyboard and then release. Same thing going down, hold down the Option or Alt key, click, drag, hold down Shift to make sure it goes straight. And then once it gets to where you need it to go, let go. And then one more time Option or Alt+Drag, hold down the Shift key to constrain and then when it gets lined up, just let go of the mouse then let go of Option or Alt. And then I'm going to come back over, I'm going to grab two more pieces here. So I'm going to grab something like one of these. Come back over paste, this one's a little big so we're going to resize it a little bit.
And then we're just going to Option or Alt+Drag it across. Something like that. And you can play around with the positioning to get it just right once you have everything in place. One thing I want to point out here is that these are symbols and these symbols can be somewhat tricky when working with patterns. So it's always a good idea just to go ahead an expand those out by going to the object menu, choosing Expand and selecting Object > Fill > Stroke. Hit OK. That turns them into just regular path objects and won't give you any trouble going forward. So I said I was going to grab one more piece, and I will. Let's come back and we'll grab this little pinwheel shape here.
Come back over and we're going to paste this in and I'm going to shrink it up considerably. And then we're just going to move it into these little blank spots here. And I'll just hold down Option or Alt, drag it up, Option or Alt and put it right there. And one more time. Now I have a pretty complex pattern that I'm working with already. And it would be a real pain to create something like this and then have it repeat easily across say, a website background or something like that. And so what I want to do is take this and make it a pattern swatch in Illustrator. So I'm going to select all the artwork on the artboard. Go to the Object menu, select Pattern and choose Make. Once I select that, you see that the tiles are automatically created for me. And yours probably looks something like this actually. So, let me turn off all the things that I've turned on and show you this. I always turn the dim copies to about 30% it makes it easier for me to see my original artwork.
I also turn on Show Swatch Bounds so I can see the full width and height of my swatches as I create them. First thing you want to do is give it a name so in this case I'll call it Flower Pinwheels. And then you can change the Grid Type. Brick by Row, Brick by Column, Hex by Column, Hex by Row. Again this is going to be up to you and what type of pattern you want to create. I think for this particular one, the Brick by Column works nicely, creates a nice little seamless pattern that goes all the way across there. You can resize the tile if you want to, in this case I'm not going to do that but you could if you wanted to.
And you can also choose whether or not you move the tile with the artwork. So if you move the artwork around does the tile move with it or does it just keep the same thing and create a pattern from the moved artwork that you created there. The Copies section, how many copies do you want? So, I start out with five by five. You can go to seven by seven, nine by nine. Again this just refers to how big the actual tile is going to be when you create it. So in this case I think five by five works, okay? Once we are finished here, we hit Done. You will notice that it snaps back out into a regular mode here and my artwork is all there.
I no longer need this artwork though, I can just select and get rid of it. And over here in my Swatches panel you're going to see that new swatch. And by the way, you may have gotten a dialog box when you first created your pattern swatch that warned you that it added a swatch over here to your panel. If you see that dialogue box pop up, it does from time to time, just hit Don't Show Again and hit OK. It's just a good reminder of letting you know where it is. And so you'll notice over here I've got the Flower Pinwheels. If I were to come over here and grab a shape, like a star. I could then draw out the star. And I could apply that pattern to it just by clicking on the pattern and it would apply that. The interesting thing about patterns is that, as you move your artwork, the tile stays put.
It's because it's sort of clipped to the artboard. So, as you move you just have to position your shape until you get it exactly like you want it. And then after the fact, you could then expand the shape's appearance object expand and that would allow you to then move that with the pattern inside of it. So you just have to be aware of that. It's another one of those little quirky things about Illustrator. Now what if I wanted to create a repeatable tile to put on say a website or something like that a background? That's actually pretty easy to do as well. I'm going to delete this and then we'll come over here to the pattern swatch and I'm going to drag it out onto the artboard.
And when I do that, you're going to see it pop up and you're going to see two bounding boxes. The inner bounding box is the one that you're more concerned with. In order to understand how big the tile is you need to bring up the Info panel. So go Window > Info or hit Ctrl+F8 on your keyboard or Cmd+F8 on the Mac. And then what we are going to do, we are going to double click the inter isolation mode and then we are going to select this inner square right here to see how big it is. So it is 412 by 450 round about and so we'll close this up. And I'm going to double-click to exit out and then we're going to create a new artboard. So I'm going to grab the Artboard tool, click and drag. As I drag out, I want to get this to about 412 and if you can't get it just right, that's okay, you can always edit it later.
So here we go, I'll get it close and then I'll come up here and I'll just do it manually. So let's do 412 by 450. There we go. So that's round about the size of the tile that I need. Now all I have to do is delete that artwork there, come over here, grab my rectangle tool, draw out a rectangle, fill it with the pattern. Now, you have a repeatable tile that you could take and say for web and then apply it as a background.
And, how do I know it's repeatable? because I can copy it and paste it, and look what happens when I move it to the top here and line it up. Seamless. Take it over here to the right. Paste and put it right there. And I can take another one. And we'll just move it up. And line it up like this and see as I get close, everything just sort of comes into place. So there we go, we have a nice seamless tile background we could easily repeat anywhere as we save it out as a JPEG and then use that on our website or whatever we need. Hopefully this gives you a better idea of how easy it is to create pattern swatches in Illustrator and hopefully I've got your creative gears turning a little bit. And I hope that you take some time to play around with all these different options and see what kind of crazy, creative patterns that you can come up with.
There are a few other window panes of information within Outlook that we can customize.…In this video, I'll be discussing the Reading Pane, To-Do bar, the People Pane,…and the Daily Task List.…The Reading Pane, shown here, shows us the message that we currently have selected…in our Inbox or in other folder.…We can adjust the size of the Reading Pane by placing our mouse here between the…two and dragging to the left or to the right.…Another option of the Reading Pane is whether or not it would mark a message as…read as you're skimming through your messages.…
Some people like to disable this feature.…To do so, pull down the Reading Pane menu and choose Options.…By clearing the first two check boxes, you can prevent Outlook from marking a…message as read as you navigate through your Inbox.…You'll remember that the To-Do bar is the pane on the right-hand side that shows…our tasks, upcoming appointments, and a calendar.…Like the Reading Pane, we can adjust the width of the To-Do bar by dragging on…
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The Ethernet switch or Ethernet FDSE (Full Duplex Switched Ethernet), was born in the early 1990s before the advent of switched Ethernet, shared Ethernet networks were cut into shared subnets autonomous, interconnected by bridges. Therefore, the traffic was multiplied by the number of subnets.
The bridges are in fact only Ethernet switches that store frames and retransmit them to other Ethernet networks. Continuing this logic to the extreme, we can cut the network to have only one station by Ethernet. Ethernet switching is then obtained.
The Ethernet network is a particularly simple FDSE network since there are only two stations: that we want to connect to the network and the connection switch. Therefore has a terminal directly connected by Ethernet to the switch.
In the Ethernet switching, each card coupler is directly connected to a switch Ethernet, which is responsible for redirecting the frames in the right direction. Must to talk about here since a frame preamble makes it possible to detect the start. Switching request a reference which, a priori, does not exist in the Ethernet world, no supervisory packet opening the virtual circuit, asking references. The switch password may be considered as inaccurate since there is no reference. However, it is possible to talk about switching if the recipient's address is regarded as a reference. The virtual circuit is then determined by the following references equal to the destination address of 6 bytes. To temporarily switch from end to end, each switch must be able to determine the output link according to the reference, that is to say the value of the receiver's address.
Due to the second difficulty, we must implement control techniques to take charge, on routes between switches, the frames simultaneously from all Ethernet modules. This echoes the characteristics of switching networks architectures. The technique of recovery on a collision is no longer useful since there is no collision in this case. In contrast, no distance limitation exists more, we can achieve Ethernet switching network to the size of the planet.
The Ethernet environment is now required by its implementation simplicity as the network remains limited in size. It is a networking solution that has the advantage of relying on the existing, namely couplers and various Ethernet networks that many companies have implemented to create their local networks.
Since the data produced in IP format, IPX (Internetwork Packet eXchange) or both are present in Ethernet frames in order to be carried in the local environment; it is tempting to switch directly to this structure on routes between LANs. Like all networks are compatible Ethernet environment, all machines emitting Ethernet frames speak the same language and can easily interconnect. We can perform extremely complex networks, with segments divided on the local parties and switched connections over long distances or between Ethernet switches.
The disadvantage of the switching frame level lies in the addressing of level 2, which corresponds to the flat Ethernet addressing. The dish, or absolute addressing, does not know the geographical location of a coupler according to its value. Once the network has a large number of positions, which is the case if one accepts a terminal mobility, for example, updating routing tables becomes almost impossible as there is no standardization for automation of this function.
The limitation of the performance of the Ethernet environment is due to sharing physical media by all couplers. To remedy this drawback, can increase the base rate by switching to 100 Mbit/s or 1 Gbit/s. Another solution is to switch the Ethernet frames. The first step towards switching consists, as we have seen, Ethernet networks to cut into small sections and connect them by a bridge. The role of the bridge is to filter frames allowing only those to an Ethernet network other than that from which the frame. Therefore, we limit the number of couplers that share the same Ethernet network. For this solution to be viable, the traffic must be relatively local.
In switching, Ethernet is reduced to its simplest form: a coupler Ethernet. So there is more of a collision. Next address, switch routes the frame to another switch or to a coupler. The available capacity per terminal is 10 Mbit/s, 100 Mbit/s or 1 Gbit / s. The difficulty lays in the complexity of Ethernet frames switched networks, with problems opening paths and flow control they pose.
Since there are a lot of Ethernet modules worldwide, the switched Ethernet the solution is booming. The Ethernet modules should be simplified, the power of the access technology is no longer necessary in this case.
As explained, one of the great advantages of this technique is no longer present distance restriction, since we switched mode. The distances between connected machines can reach several thousand kilometers. Another advantage is provided by the increased throughput per terminal. The transmission capacity can reach 10, 100 Mbit/s or 1 Gbit/s per machine. The counterpart of this flow gain is the return to a switched mode, where you have to draw paths for switching, implement flow control and complete management of physical addresses of the couplers. In other words, each switch needs to know the MAC address of all couplers connected to the network and know which direction to send the frames.
In companies, the Ethernet network can be a combination of shared networks and switched networks, Ethernet networks are all compatible to the frame level. If the corporate network is too vast to allow management of all the addresses in each switch, divide the network into separate domains. Two solutions are possible.
• Switching from one domain to another, going back to the network architecture level (Layer 3 of the OSI architecture), that is to say, by recovering information conveyed in the data frame area and by using the network level address to perform the routing. This transfer element is none other, of course, a router.
• The switching segment, wherein they are shared Ethernet network segments which are interconnected.
These two solutions are illustrated in Figure. The upper part of Figure shows a switch in which each port is connected to one terminal station. In the lower part of the figure, the switch has two ports on each which shared Ethernet is connected.
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Wanna be cub owner here from Staffordshire. Thought I'd join your ranks and absorb your knowledge before making a purchase.
13./16 is damaged on top but still accepts a 1/2 drive tool. 7/16 is cracked and needs returning to the snap on man.
She was special. She was an icon, an apostle of courage, honesty and justice. She was an inspiration. She has faded leaving her mark on the posterity to think beyond self and act on real ground to fight injustice. Asma Jehangir passed away on February 11, 2017 at the age of 66 due to a cardiac arrest in Lahore Pakistan’s top lawyer who was more known as human rights activist. Asma was bold and courageous and she lived her life fighting against authoritarianism and abuse of law by the powerful. She was Pakistan’s symbol of resistance and a human rights activist who spoke against military dictators and abusers of law for the past five decades. She headed the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan and remained the Supreme Court Bar Association chairperson. She was also appointed as UN Rapporteur in the region during the 1990s. She remained in jail during the dictatorial rule of General Zia-ul Haq in 1983 for raising her voice for the democrats.
Born and raised in Lahore, Jehangir studied at the Convent of Jesus and Mary before receiving her B.A from Kinnaird and LLB from the Punjab University in 1978. In 1980, Jahangir was called to the Lahore High Court and to the Supreme Court in 1982. In the 1980s, Jahangir became an democracy activist and was imprisoned in 1983 for participating in the Movement for the Restoration of Democracy against the military regime of Zia-ul-Haq. In 1986, she moved to Geneva, and became the vice-chair of the Defence for Children International and remained until 1988 when she moved back to Pakistan. In 1987 she co-founded the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan and became its Secretary General until 1993 when she was elevated as commission’s chairperson. She was again put under house arrest in November 2007 after the imposition of emergency. After serving as one of the leaders of the Lawyers’ Movement, she became Pakistan’s first woman to serve as the President of Supreme Court Bar Association of Pakistan.She has co-chaired South Asia Forum for Human Rights and was the vice president of International Federation for Human Rights.
Jehangir served as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion from August 2004 to July 2010, including serving on the U.N. panel for inquiry into Sri Lankan human rights violations and on a fact-finding mission on Israeli settlements.She won numerous national and international awards for her struggle for the oppressed. The awrds she won include the 2014 Right Livelihood Award (along with Edward Snowden), 2010 Freedom Award, Hilal-i-Imtiaz in 2010, Sitara-i-Imtiaz, Ramon Magsaysay Award, 1995 Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders, and the UNESCO/Bilbao Prize for the Promotion of a Culture of Human Rights. She was awarded an Officier de la Légion d’honneur by France. Her prominent writings include The Hudood Ordinance: A Divine Sanction? and Children of a Lesser God.
Condolences poured in as soon as the news of her death came. Condolences poured in from within and outside the country. Leaders of all political parties paid rich tributes to her. Foreign Minister of Pakistan’sForeign Minister Khwaja M Asif said in his tweet, “ What a brave woman.Pakistan poorer without her. People like Asma are anchors of a society.The brave and dedicated daughter of a brave father.After 3 generations of camaraderie between our families,this is a deep personal loss. God bless her soul.” Nobel Prize winner brave girl from Pakistan, Malala, now pursuing her studies in Oxford tweeted, “Heartbroken that we lost Asma Jahangir – a saviour of democracy and human rights.” Former cricketer and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf leader Imran Khan tweeted, “Asma Jehangir’s death is a loss of a strong voice for the marginalised and oppressed. Despite our differences I always respected her for her fight for human rights and for standing up for her convictions.”Indian actress Nandita Das expressed her condolence saying Deeply shocked & saddened to hear of #AsmaJahangir. She was a true defender of #HumanRights #Democracy & fought till her last breath against authoritarian power, orthodoxy & discriminatn. She was & will remain an inspiration. A huge loss!
The people in power were not very comfortable with Asma Jehangir’s activism. General Musharraf openly expressed his hate for Asma Jehangir for raising her voice against missing persons often picked up by the intelligence agencies and never produced before the courts. She took up cases of dozens of missing persons and fought in the courts for their recovery free of cost. She was a vocal advocate for peace between Pakistan and India. Asma was often criticised by right wingers for her stance towards freedom of speech and against the use of religion to curb progressive voices. Asma also criticised the judiciary for not giving justice to the oppressed and not taking notice of extra judicial killings and abductions.
Asma Jehangir, the Iron Lady of Pakistan has bid adieu. But her voice for freedom and justice would keep on reverberating in the ears of the posterity inspiring and motivating to continue the fight for a freer, just and better world. South Asia is proud of this daughter from Pakistan and she would always remain alive in the minds of people, especially when they need a reason to hope that howsoever difficult it is , the fight for justice and freedom is worth, no matter what it takes!
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In the times of financial uncertainty, it is advisable for people to have a reasonable credit score so that they can avail loans easily in future. However, the irony is that people with a bad credit score are more often the ones who are in need of loans. Therefore, they find it difficult to find a lender because of their credit history.
But the good news for such people is that it is not impossible to get bad credit payday loans. You only have to follow a stepwise procedure so that you complete the process smoothly and are not duped. Let us have a look at chronological steps that you should take if you want to apply for a loan with bad credit.
The first step for you is to think about an alternative to a payday loan. This is because sometimes, there might be other options for getting quick cash, in which case you won’t have to go through the paperwork of securing a payday loan. Some options for you to consider are asking family or friends, or check with private credit unions. If nothing else works out for you, move on to the next steps.
It is advisable to understand the clauses of a payday loan before applying for one. A payday loan is typically not a big amount, and it is supposed to be paid off on the day you get your next salary. In addition, you will have to pay an interest to the lender. Bad credit payday loans are difficult to secure because you have to convince the lender that despite your bad credit score, you will be able to repay the loan on your next payday.
Once you have understood the fine details of payday loans, you should check for your eligibility and collect all the required documents, as specified by the lender. Some of these documents are proof of age, contact details, insurance details, employment history, bank records etc.
Once you are ready with your application packet, you should personally visit the lender’s office and present your case. Have a good look at the application forms and disclaimers before filling and signing them. Inquire about all the hidden fees before filling the form.
After discussing the interest rate and the fee amount, you should sign an advance cheque with the total amount to be repaid to the lender. This cheque will be encashed from your bank account on your next payday. In case your bank account does not have the required amount to be encashed by the lender, you will have to pay additional fees per day of non-payment.
Although many lenders and credit unions offer bad credit payday loans, it is advisable that you strive to improve your credit score. This can be done by using your credit card wisely and not skipping due payment dates.
Why do men and women find it so intriguing to collect autographed memorabilia of professional athletes and Hollywood stars?
The fundamental answer to this question is that it reminds us of our favorite participant, a particular calendar year for our preferred staff, an amazing enjoy, or of a movie that we actually enjoyed. Folks create bonds with their preferred athletes and movie stars, and gathering autographed memorabilia is one way to carry on developing on that bond.
If you acquire autographs, make positive you get them from a reputable supply, preferably from a dealer you know. There are hundreds of dishonest people that are ready to just take your income for a faux autographed memorabilia item. If the autograph is not reliable, then the merchandise is worthless and you have squandered your challenging attained cash. As you gather a lot more autographed objects and offer with much more collectors, you will understand which sellers to have faith in and which to stay away from.
Search for a certificate of authenticity and a tamper-proof hologram when acquiring autographed memorabilia. Be aware nevertheless, that a certificate of authenticity does not ensure that the item is reliable, as these certificates can be printed on a property pc. Do a history on the business, or that personal, that is offering the autographed product. A sample list of reputable autographed sellers include, but are not constrained to, Steiner Sports activities, Upper Deck, Mounted Memories, Frozen Pond, and APE (Athletic Advertising Functions), True Deal Memorabilia, Radtke Sports activities, and numerous others. The firms conduct non-public signings with the athletes and they always have a agent witness every single signing. Most of the businesses affix a serialized tamper-proof hologram on the autographed product and the certificate of authenticity. These firms also wholesale their autographed memorabilia to approved merchants who have storefronts and/or Net internet sites. Due to the fact these organizations are well-known, reputable, dependable, have created private relationships with the groups and participant, and been in the athletics business for a lot of many years, their autographed solution will have far more value.
Beware of acquiring autographed memorabilia from unidentified men and women or “non-public collectors”. Do substantial study on the World wide web to determine who you are purchasing from and the history of the merchandise you are purchashing. Do not merely count on excellent suggestions that the vendor has gained on spots like eBay. We have observed numerous sellers on eBay with substantial excellent opinions that are marketing fraudulent autographs.
Amassing autographed athletics memorabilia is an fascinating interest that will not only carry back again memories, but can offer an investment decision prospect as most autographed memorabilia increases in value as time passes.
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With so many products on the market launching every day, not to mention the clever ways marketers are promoting their wares, it so difficult to choose a product that is not only right for us but one that also works.
So how do you know what will work? Just because something looks fab on your best friend, does not mean that it will work on your skin tone or type. We are all built differently which makes it even harder to know what will work for our individual skin types.
Since we’ve been on a sun holiday for the last few days without even hopping on a plane, I thought there no better time to speak about SPF.
We all know we need one in the sun, but we also need one on cloudy days like today, to protect ourselves from harmful UVA and UVB rays.
Obviously, the skin on your face is different from that on your body and today I’m revealing my favourite sun lotion for sunny days and holidays.
Now keep in mind I am quite sallow, and I do tan, so if you are a cooler tone skin type, you might need a higher factor.
Having used this product on my last holiday, I can safely say it works. Piz Buin has developed the first sun protection lotion which combines an exclusive UVA/UVB sun filter technology and “melitan” which is a peptide shown to naturally enhance the production of your skin’s tanning pigment.
So, you can get a gorgeous, natural tan while protecting your skin and keeping your skin hydrated. It’s enriched with Vitamins A, C and E which stops peeling, and adding water resistance to the mix; you have yourself my Product of the Week.
WooCommerce is among the most popular ecommerce plug-ins for websites established with WordPress. By lots of accounts, WooCommerce is the very best ecommerce plug-in for online shops. What started as an open source plug-in for ecommerce websites established with WordPress has now expanded its inventory and there are lots of Woo Themes that you can pick from usage. The original plug-in was released in 2011 and it had ended up being an instant hit. The plug-in was totally free, the setup was simple and there was enough scope for modification. Woocommerce Quotation
WooThemes, the parent company or designer that mooted the idea of WooCommerce, employed developers James Koster and Mike Jolley who developed the ecommerce plug-in. The plug-in ended up being a phenomenon overnight and in 3 years there were nearly half a million sites utilizing the plug-in, which gave it a market share of simply except 20% of all ecommerce websites. By the end of 2015, WooCommerce had actually been actively installed by countless users and it was powering around 30% of the ecommerce market. While WooCommerce has actually remained one of the free themes and plug-ins of WooThemes, there are countless extensions and add-ons, much of which are exceptional and for this reason have to be paid for.
WooThemes was founded by Adriaan Pienaar, also referred to as Adii Rockstar. Adriaan Pienaar is a designer, developer and business owner. He specializes in developing themes for WordPress utilizing CSS and PHP. WooThemes offers high quality themes for WordPress. There is a variety of products in the stock of WooThemes. You can get some WooThemes for free. There is a lots of WooThemes plug-ins. The most popular WooThemes complimentary download is definitely WooCommerce however there is a lot more than WordPress WooCommerce themes. WooThemes Canvas and WooThemes MyStile are rather popular in their own niches. WooThemes focuses on themes throughout categories of websites, consisting of portfolio websites and publications, business sites, personal websites and gallery designs among others.
WooThemes is known for satiating performance in practically all its themes. Every theme is developed on the trusted Woo framework. It can be corresponded with the popular and trusted Genesis framework, albeit there are differences. Woo structure is continually updated and fine tuned. It is constantly altering in a vibrant environment to meet the ever altering needs of developers and website owners. All themes and plug-ins, tools and extensions included complete control for the developer or user so every upgrade can be used just the way a developer or end user would desire. Whatever from the standard performance to the information of how a theme feels and appears can be tweaked by the designer. WooThemes deals absolute flexibility and full scope of personalization.
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WooThemes is not the least expensive when it comes to pricing. ThemeForest and others are significantly more sensible. At the same time, WooThemes is not the most costly as there are many developers that have premium themes priced much higher than the average rate of themes developed using the Woo structure. One WordPress theme developed on the Woo framework might cost around $70. This may get you two more themes that you can select from the stock. While you are getting 2 WooThemes totally free, successfully your expense is being boiled down to less than $24 per theme. Using this pricing, WooThemes is substantially more affordable than the similarity Elegant Themes that charges $60 for one theme and there are no complimentary themes or extra themes with the one you are spending for.
You may want to think about WooThemes memberships that would get you access to hundreds of themes and WooThemes plug-ins. You would get gain access to all WooCommerce complimentary themes and you will also get access to the premium WordPress WooCommerce themes, plug-ins and extensions. Requirement membership is $150. Designer membership is $200. All WordPress Themes accredited by WooThemes are standard GNU public license. Designers can use the themes and WooThemes plug-ins for as lots of websites as they want.
WooCommerce started out as an open source plug-in however WooThemes is not technically an open source platform. Woo framework is among the most reputable foundations for WordPress and other content management systems. The client and technical assistance of WooThemes is exceptional. From documents to tutorials, individual assistance for members to social networks support, there are numerous methods you can find responses to your questions and services to your problems. The assistance online forums are always active. Woocommerce Quotation
Picking a content management software can be intimidating in the beginning, however you just need to research study for a few minutes you will recognize that there is no other CMS platform much better than WordPress. Presently, over 74 million websites depend upon WordPress with at least 50% of them hosted on the complimentary wordpress.com. It has actually made it simple for webpreneurs to achieve self-hosting status, because that it represents over 18% of all the self-hosted sites worldwide today. WordPress Free Church Themes
Among the reasons why it is so popular with the masses is since of its themes. A WordPress theme is a collection of files interacting to create a graphical interface with an underlying marriage style for your weblog. Depending upon lots of factors including your budget, you can select in between setting up premium WordPress themes or get WordPress themes totally free of charge. Either way, you can not fail when you incorporate WordPress themes for company. Every so often, WordPress establishes themes for their free hosting site, along with for their premium site WordPress.org, They also allow third-party developers to produce and make available their premium or free responsive WordPress themes. Let us shift gears and evaluate a few of the very best WordPress themes offered for download; complimentary and premium.
This is a fun theme to install on your site, and it includes a host of unbelievable micro-interactions that boost the user experience of your visitors. This makes it a multipurpose theme appropriate for a large range of imaginative tasks. Currently, it ranks as one of the best WordPress blog site themes for a marketing firm in addition to for small companies and startups.
This is a perfect theme for small businesses dealing with computer and electronic devices repair work. It comes total with a clean design, minimalistic style, and lots of areas for showing all the services on offer. Personalization is easy, and you can have your brand name colors set up in a couple of clicks. It includes WooCommerce integrations, and you can move the items on your WordPress website style to match your requirements and client expectations.
Audio is reinventing how internet users consume on-demand material. With a WordPress blog, Dixie is among the dedicated premium WordPress themes loaded with top of the line tools for podcasters such as assistance for multiple podcasting plugins including SeriouslySimplePodcasting, and PowerPress. It also supports external or locally hosted MP3 files, as well as file embeds consisting of MixCloud, YouTube, SoundCloud, et al. WordPress Free Church Themes
Home runs by Jackie Bradley Jr. and David Ortiz backed 6.1 strong innings from Eduardo Rodriguez as the Red Sox beat the Orioles 5-2 at Camden Yards.
The win was the sixth in a row for Boston, dropping Baltimore five games out in the American League East.
The Red Sox got on the board in the top of the third inning on an RBI ground out by Hanley Ramirez that scored Mookie Betts. JBJ made it 2-0 an inning later with his 26th home run of the year.
Rodriquez (pictured) kept the Orioles hitless until rookie Trey Mancini slammed a one-out home run to left center in the fifth inning. Not only was it Baltimore's first hit of the game; it was also Mancini's first career hit.
Ortiz crushed his 539th career home run with two aboard in the top of the seventh inning off Orioles starter Kevin Gausman, knocking him out of the game.
Rodriguez won for just the second time in his last seventeen starts. He was charged with two runs on four hits and a walk while striking out seven.
Betts had three hits in the win and reached the 200-hit mark for the year, the first in the major leagues in 2016.
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The crowd in Arica was awarded with a spectacular display of surfing on the final day of the 2016 WSL QS1,500 Maui and Sons Arica Pro Tour. The sun came out and minimal breeze kept conditions glassy as waves in the 4-6 foot range (1.5-2 meters) provided barrel after barrel at the El Gringo reefbreak in Arica, Chile.
French surfer William Aliotti defeated Australian Dean Bowen by a score of 17.50 to 15.00 in the Final, which built up to an explosive crescendo. After a slow start to the heat with low-scoring waves, Aliotti fired the first shot by earning a 7.50 on a throaty barrel, and then backed it up with an additional 7.07.
Then, as the rhythm of the heat intensified, Aliotti brought out the big guns. After paddling into a set wave, he pumped down the line on a lengthy tube ride and disappeared completely behind the foamball before coming out after the spray. He received a 10.00 across the board from the judges.
But as Aliotti began his paddle back to the takeoff zone, he witnessed dropping into a clean barrel and getting spat out with the spray to earn a 9.17. After the back-and-forth fireworks, Bowen had the opportunity to tip the scales back in his favor. With the clock ticking down, the Australian scratched into what looked like the best wave of the heat. He parked himself into the barrel and came screaming out with the spray, but came undone right at the end.
"I was feeling good in the Final and was just enjoying the moment," said Aliotti after being chaired up to the winner's podium. "The waves were amazing. I saw Dean get some good ones and I knew it was going to be close. Conditions were super good all week and it feels amazing to win.
"Arica is incredible; the waves are always big and powerful, and it's consistent with any kind of swell. The people are great, the food is delicious and I had a great time here. I want to come back for sure."
The Hossegor local attributed his success to having adapted early on to the quality of the Chilean waves.
"The waves have been amazing every day and that's the reason why I do these events," Alitotti noted. "I was trying to build my scores throughout the event and I finally did that with the 10 at the end. I drove up here from Santiago and have been surfing the whole way.
"I got here early and surfed a big swell, so I knew there was great potential for the contest. On that 10-point ride, I knew I was deep and needed to surf it quickly. I had to go over the foamball and get passed a bunch of chandeliers, so when I came out, I knew it would be a good score."
This was the first QS event Aliotti has competed in all year. With his victory at the Maui and Sons Arica Pro Tour, Aliotti took home U$ 10,000 in prize money and 1,500 WSL Qualifying Series ranking points.
"I want to keep doing events in quality waves," Aliotti said. "This was my first event this year. I didn't want to surf in bad waves, just amazing ones, like here. I still want to freesurf and do video parts, but I'll probably do some events in Europe."
"The Final was amazing," he said. "I've been a friend of William's for a long time and we were just chatting out there. I was trying to go as big and deep as possible, but I just couldn't quite get out of a couple," said Bowen.
"I got out of that crazy one at the end, I was going so fast but I just couldn't control it at the end. But the vision I had in the barrel was amazing and this is a final I will never forget. I didn't win, but I'm pumped."
After having a promising pro junior career in competitive surfing, Bowen distanced himself from competition in recent years. But with his result in Arica, he hopes to get back into contest mode.
"I'd love to keep doing QS events," continued Bowen. "I haven't done a contest for several years and I've just been trying to improve and get better. Now I'm trying to get a feel for things again, have fun and I'd love to compete at another big event."
"My friends Owen Wright and Anthony Walsh told me that this was the kind of contest I'd do well in -- and I guess they were right (laughs)," he said. "I wanted to show people that I'm a good barrel-rider and this is the kind of wave where I could do that."
Goofy-footers definitely had the advantage at the powerful waves at El Gringo. From the Quarterfinals onwards, all regular-footers had been eliminated from competition. And, with local knowledge being of utmost importance at a break like El Gringo, it was shocking to see that none of the Chilean surfers made it past the Quarterfinals after Chilean surfer Manuel Selman was eliminated by Bowen.
Representing Peru, Alonso Correa looked sharp throughout the contest, but was unable to get past the ensuing event winner, Aliotti.
"The waves were actually harder than they looked," remarked Correa. "Today they were a little bit smaller and breaking very close to the rocks, but there were still plenty of good ones. I'm stoked with how I did. This is a great result for me, it's just too bad I didn't make it to the finals. Bowen and Aliotti surfed great all event long, so congratulations to them."
In terms of the World Surf League Qualifying Series rankings, William Aliotti after only one event climbs into 150th place after the event in Chile. Bowen, on the other hand, jumped from 202nd to 119th. With his third-place finish in Chile, Correa was the only surfer to break the top-100 barrier by advancing from 118th to 86th position on the QS rankings.
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As the holidays roll in, so do the pounds. Few of us are immune to winter-weight syndrome, but we try to work it off come springtime. Unfortunately, for many Americans, that winter weight gets stuck–obesity is becoming a major problem. In addition to the obvious…
Like the workers it encompasses, the contingent workforce doesn’t sit still for long. The trend is growing: one in three workers are now contracted or freelance employees. As it continues, the contingent workforce is going to keep shifting and changing the role that staffing agencies play….
Holiday weight gain varies depending on the person, and most of us expect to gain 5 to 10 pounds in those willpower-free days between Thanksgiving and the New Year. But take heart, most holiday weight gain averages out to about 3.5 pounds. While 3.5 pounds…
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Working with a staffing agency for the first time? Not knowing who is doing what or how the recruitment process is being managed on behalf of your company can be overwhelming. When employers are able to work with integrated staffing solutions providers, there are so…
The Halloween season is upon us which means it’s time for tricks and treats everywhere you look. Could the very software you use on a regular basis be trying to pull a fast one on you? The constant chatter about the benefits HR technology can…
The benefits of a contingent workforce are unique, but undeniable. Employees who choose to be temporary or temp-to-hire are in the business of finding a niche that works best for them and the employer has the opportunity to introduce diversity and innovation to their team…
With over 20,000 staffing and recruiting companies operating in the US, the staffing industry has “outpaced overall economic and employment growth,” according to the American Staffing Association. Last year, industry sales increased by 5.4% to $147 billion. 86% of those sales were attributed to temporary…
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This Android-tablet on version 7.1 Nougat supports high-speed networks GSM/HSPA/LTE, which received a small touchscreen and a powerful processor with a very cool main camera and a normal battery.
The long-awaited announcement of a new tablet from the manufacturer Asus, which took place in May 2017 (in our catalog you can see all the tablets of 2017). This is a new model Asus Zenpad 3S 8.0 Z582KL — a tablet with GSM/HSPA/LTE network support on Android 7.1 Nougat, wich does not receive software updates and will always remain on the old version of Android. If this does not suit you, then be sure to check the selected ones DROID-tablets in our catalog. These are models that work on the latest version of the Android OS or are updated on it.
The Asus Zenpad 3S 8.0 Z582KL screen is made using the IPS LCD technology and has a diagonal of 7.9 inches. Such a small main touchscreen certainly affects the dimensions of the case, which has a thickness of 6.9 mm. Also inside the case is a 4 680 mAh battery.
Very good camera 13 megapixel from Asus Zenpad 3S 8.0 Z582KL. Thanks to this tablet can safely be called one of the best. In addition to the main camera, which is very important, it is also worth paying attention to the quality of the pictures from the front camera. And here at this model the front-seat camera got its 5 MP.
And write a few words about the performance of Asus Zenpad 3S 8.0 Z582KL. Of course, the very first thing that will be discussed is the processor. The model received a 8-core processor Snapdragon 652.
The second performance characteristic in our opinion is the amount of RAM. The Asus Zenpad 3S 8.0 Z582KL has 3 GB installed on the RAM, but you can choose the version with 4 GB of RAM, to make the tablet work even faster.
The built-in flash memory of this model has the volume 32 GB, but you can choose the version with 64 GB. The manufacturer did not forget about the support of memory cards in the tablet. Here you can install a card microSD up to 256 GB.
So this is Asus Zenpad 3S 8.0 Z582KL after the official announcement. This new product hit the segment just above the average price of tablets.
Buy Asus Zenpad 3S 8.0 Z582KL you can after the beginning of official sales, which start in October 2017. And now the price from the manufacturer is known — it′s $390 without taxes and fees. The price-to-feature ratio of this tablet is not bad, because there is a small screen, and the camera is sooooo cool.
If you are looking for a good current tablet, which is now on sale, then visit the page DROID tablets in our catalog. There we select only the best models from different price segments. You will have plenty to choose from!
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Middle-class Americans may not earn the biggest paychecks, but they put more of their money in savings than any other group.
A quarter of middle-class households (those earning between $50,000 and $75,000 annually) set aside more than 15 percent of their income, according to a survey that accompanied Bankrate’s March Financial Security Index. That money is rerouted from their daily expenses to fund long-term goals such as a retirement investment plan or an emergency savings account.
Comparatively, 8 percent of lower wage earners contributed this much. And only 17 percent of the highest earners in the survey (households making $75,000 and above) elected to put the same amount of their salaries away for a rainy day.
“Middle-class Americans (have) to do the saving, because nobody is going to do it for them,” says Greg McBride, CFA, Bankrate’s chief financial analyst. “They don’t have the six-figure income to fall back on” for expenses, including household emergencies, long-term health care, children’s education or their own retirement.
In contrast, people between 18 and 29 years old — the youngest group in the survey — were the most likely to save relatively little: 37 percent said they save 5 percent or less. Another 18 percent said they save nothing at all.
“They don’t see a correlation between where they are now and where they will be,” independent budgeting expert Tiffany Aliche says.
They also might not trust the system, after watching their parents’ retirement plans drop in value during and following the Great Recession, says Kate Holmes, a CFP professional and founder of Belmore Financial.
“Seeing that loyalty doesn’t work … that that kind of job security doesn’t work” has led many young people to question whether they should invest heavily in a traditional retirement account, like a 401(k), and instead, redirect funds toward a “side hustle” that bolsters their short-term and long-term coffers, she says.
For example, “you can invest in real estate, so that provides you the cash flow and more income later,” Holmes says.
Bankrate’s latest survey was conducted March 5-8 by Princeton Survey Research Associates International and included answers from 1,000 adults in the continental U.S. The survey also found:
Low-income consumers are, perhaps unsurprisingly, the worst at putting money away. Thirty-one percent of households making under $30,000 annually are saving none of the money they bring in, the highest percentage, by far, among income brackets.
Retirees (ages 65 and over) are all over the map when it comes to saving. They’re the demographic most likely to save none of their annual income, while also being most apt to put away more than 15 percent of it.
Thirty percent of college graduates are saving 6 to 10 percent of their annual income, compared with 16 percent of those who never attended college.
Overall, the results represent a bit of a mixed bag regarding the Americans’ overall financial preparedness.
But other research indicates that many Americans under-save. Last month’s Financial Security Index, for instance, found that nearly one-quarter of consumers (24 percent) owe more money on their credit cards than they have in emergency savings. And last August, Bankrate found that more than a third of adults have not started saving for retirement.
“There are a lot of people now reaching their early 60s realizing they don’t have near enough money to get them through the next decades,” Holmes says.
To avoid suffering a similar fate, it helps to start saving early, though there’s no hard and fast rule as to when you should open a retirement account.
“It’s not about the age,” says Kristen Robinson, senior vice president at Fidelity Investments. “It’s about where you are” in life. For instance, a recent graduate carrying a lot of student loan debt may not be able to redirect as much of their paycheck into an employer-funded 401(k) account as someone who went to school on a full scholarship.
How much you should contribute to a retirement fund varies. As a general rule of thumb, Fidelity suggests banking at least eight times your ending salary before you retire.
At the very least, “you need to meet your employer match,” Robinson says. “You are leaving money on the table if you don’t.”
Remember to slowly increase your contributions — even only by 1 percent — as you pay down existing debts and earn more income. This strategy is also useful when it comes to building emergency savings.
Bump up what you are automatically transferring into a savings account “every six months,” Holmes says. “Over time, those small increases are going to make a huge difference, and you’re not really going to notice them.”
Other ways to bolster your savings include tracking spending for a month to see what items you can cut out of your budget, creating a weekly dinner menu and renegotiating household bills, like insurance payments and utilities.
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No-one would rather get speeding seats. They may be frustrating. They are really time consuming. They hurt your bank account when you have to spend the money for high-quality and when/if you should pay out increased premiums. And you've heard they can be beaten. Plus a Google search of how to conquer a speeding ticket returns scores of results. Just how will it be carried out? Bottom line, most people obtain a visitors solution attorney to assist them out.
But what can speeding admission law firms achieve that a consistent ancient person can't do? Aren't speeding seats the foot of the barrel in relation to lawyering? And isn't any law firm who functions on speeding seats an unsatisfactory lawyer or attorney in full? It feels like as long as they had any expertise at all they'd do a thing a tad bit more great stakes.
However very well you get, in the course of your lifetime you will get a visitors solution for example good reason or another. Website traffic ticket law firms will save you time and cash. A site visitors legal representative will save your driver's license from getting suspended and avoid your insurance rates from skyrocketing to an all time substantial. Whenever you hire an attorney they will use the trouble and concern from one of the citations or any visitors solution that you may have gained.
The quick solution is, targeted visitors solicitors are usually good legal professionals, and in addition they place their craft seriously. Exactly like in virtually any sector there are many fantastic ones as well as some bad ones, some that work really hard and get succeeding circumstances, plus some who are additional engaged with gathering service fees. But ultimately, using a legal representative working for you to fight your speeding solution can certainly produce a difference on the upshot of your case, which generally ultimately ends up as a dismissal or perhaps a finding that the breach wasn't committed. So, just how do they certainly it? Brief respond to: they legal representative up the same as the males who will be accomplishing multimillion buck lawsuit and murder trial offers. Fix Your Traffic Tickets Henderson
Most speeding solution solicitors which i know work a case from top to bottom analyzing the following a few subject areas: (1) procedural violations; (2) radar servicing and requirement infractions; and (3) substantive violations. Every reveals a unique options for dismissal or discovering of low-fully committed. Plus the reason these are performed in this sequence is that the infractions from the first grouping are simpler to discover and thoroughly eradicate the validity from the admission. When you get into class a couple of, 1 starts out to gain access to a greater portion of a grey region that may or may not result in a low-determined obtaining.
Procedural infractions, as they seem, deal with cops, the prosecutor, and the courts after the policies they are needed to comply with in targeted traffic infraction instances. However these are simple to check for a speeding solution legal professional, for most people (i.e. the inexperienced eye), these would not be captured. So I could make an effort to report all these, but it really would consider too much effort and would possibly be quite confusing. If you learn a procedural infringement, though, the actual result is actually a dismissal of your ticket outright.
Radar maintenance data and upkeep necessities are classified as the next method a targeted traffic solution lawyer normally earnings downward to acquire a speeding admission disregarded. Because radar is usually the technique of finding most speeders, proof of the radar used have to be introduced into data to achieve the reading on the radar confessed into data. And also, since the radar can be a scientific device that makes use of controlled facts unique issues should be presented to a legal court so it might be content the machine does what it is supposed to to and was doing just what it was intended to do on that particular time. Like procedural offenses, a breach on this page brings about dismissal on the scenario (even though here it is considering that the proof is excluded out of the hearing).
And ultimately, if techniques 1-2 don't figure out, the 3rd avenue is usually to establish whenever there is enough proof give enable the courtroom to make a obtaining of a dedicated infraction. What this usually means is checking the officials record for mistakes or omissions which make the admission unenforceable. Once more, this goes back to lawyering - making certain they could make event against your client adhere. And frequently one thing can be located right here to at the least develop a persuading issue.
Ultimately, speeding passes are a little something which can be outdone. And even though it is actually probable to make it happen without any help, the expertise and know-how that any lawyer brings to the dining room table considerably raises the chance of triumph on your side. So, next time you get yourself a site visitors infraction, consider getting a speeding admission legal representative. It might mean the primary difference in between succeeding and burning off.
Most speeding solution solicitors i always know operate an instance from top to bottom evaluating this several subjects:.
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Why are some kids – and even adults — picky eaters while others will eat anything? Often, there is an actual, physical explanation for it that most of us have never heard of. In a moment, we’ll tell you what it is, but first, you’ve probably heard this saying, “The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.”
Indeed, well-intentioned actions can lead to unexpected, truly awful outcomes, and that was where Ethan and his wife, Helen were headed, as we learned in a phone call from them just days before Thanksgiving.
For families, this should be a happy time of year, but two controlling, nosy grandparents were about to slam shut a door on their daughter and grandchildren.
“We are both retired elementary school teachers concerned about the eating habits of Michael, our 3-year-old grandson. He is a horribly picky eater, just like Sue, his mother was at that age. She hated vegetables and Michael’s face turns bright red if he is presented almost any kind,” Helen stated.
“With Sue, I told her that unless she ate some vegetables, she would go to bed hungry. I was rough on our kids when it came to healthy eating, and, in time, forcing them to eat healthy worked.”
“We want a lawyer to send a letter to Sue and her husband advising their refusal to feed Michael proper food is harmful to his health and they must obtain advice from a nutritional counselor to solve the problem. We called several lawyers but all refused. Mr. Beaver, we have read your column for years and will follow your advice. What is your opinion?”
We spoke with Hanford family law attorney Jeff Levinson, asking if he felt it appropriate for a lawyer to send such a letter.
“Despite their best intentions, grandma and grandpa need to mind their own business,” Levinson replied.
“I cannot fathom how they could think that a lawyer would actually write a letter to their daughter, instructing her in how she should feed her children. I am puzzled why they would even think that would be appropriate.
“This seems so absurd. As they were both teachers and obviously intelligent, the whole concept of mother and father interfering with their daughter’s raising of a child this way is something that I cannot understand. How they can barge into their daughter’s world this way is just beyond my understanding.”
But we didn’t just splash cold water on their faces, as we gave them something that explains picky eating that we had just learned from the author of an interesting new book about food, “How We Eat with our Eyes and Think with our Senses,” by psychologist Diana Von Kopp, published by The Experiment.
The book’s subtitle is: “The hidden influences that shape your eating habits,” and as their daughter was also a picky eater at that age, “There is almost certainly a genetic explanation,” Von Kopp observes, adding, “They are most likely supertasters.”
And, just what is a supertaster? Von Kopp explains, “We are born with a certain number of taste buds, but the number and size differ. People with a large number of small taste buds experience taste with an extreme intensity and we call them supertasters.
“While children are very sensitive in general, one out of four is a supertaster and is highly sensitive to new taste experiences. They have just too many sensors on their tongue, especially for bitter taste. Although bitter is generally healthy, to them it is as if they are being poisoned!
“First of all, consider that you might have supertaster kids. Don’t blame yourself or let anyone blame you. Knowing that it isn’t your fault removes a lot of pressure. Don’t force them to eat, instead, give them vegetables, in small amounts, prepared in different ways and do this often. Frequent exposure to tastes—even those we might not like—reduces our sensitivity.
“Over time, your children should accept these new tastes, and peace will be restored at home,” Von Kopp concluded.
“How we Eat with our Eyes and Think with our Stomach” is an entertaining, practical, fun, money-saving, easy read. Every page will keep your attention, revealing the games played by restaurants and supermarkets. We enjoyed our interview with Diana Von Kopp and hope that she writes a sequel.
“I have received an invitation to attend a free real estate seminar put on by a company that flips homes but have never had any experience in buying or selling real estate. The TV show makes it look pretty easy to buy a house and quickly sell it for a big profit.
“However, on-line there are lots of negative comments about these seminars, from people feeling sucked into paying thousands of dollars for advanced training and getting nothing of value. I’m a retired Hanford elementary school teacher and have a tough time in saying no to anyone, so a high pressure sales situation worries me.
“Have you ever been to one of these seminars? Do people make money from their courses? Do you have any advice?”
The week after receiving our reader’s inquiry, we spent from 8:30 until around noon at an incredibly interesting seminar on flipping real estate. It felt like being at both a religious revival meeting and a dinner hosted by cannibals where seminar attendees were the main course.
The entire objective of the free program is to get you to sign up for a three day $1497 seminar followed by others costing thousands of dollars.
Arriving at 8:30 a.m. Saturday, a group of the flipping company’s staff members with a hungry, fake look, communicating, “You are my commission!” hand out registration forms containing powerful disclaimer language which we saw no one take the time to read before signing and turning in.
Repeatedly, we asked for a copy of the form; reluctantly given one, the hassle explained by one sentence making complaining customers go away:
Real estate investing — flipping homes and buying tax liens — is easy, realistic and our instructors open the door of possibilities for you.
Wealthy people have an unfair advantage which we give to you. We have access to information that others do not.
Take action! Don’t sleep on it! Sign up for our three-day seminar! Go to the back of the room and sign up now!
Stand up and follow me to the back of the room where we’ll sign you up. And yes, we have payment plans.
“House flipping has enormous risk and those successful at it are seasoned, experienced people with money they can put at risk bringing a structure up to local building standards without affecting their personal economic health,” Sacramento real estate appraiser Atom Levi told You and the Law.
Forty-seven years an appraiser, Levi holds the highest national designations in real estate appraisal, MAI and SRA, and has been a licensed real estate broker for 37 years. He is well acquainted with home-flipping seminars, “That do little beyond selling hope to the desperate and deceiving the naïve.”
“There is no free lunch and you can’t just put a coat of paint on a property and sell it for great profit, especially now that house prices are elevated because financial institutions are keeping billions of dollars of properties off the market, by allowing people to remain living in homes without making payments. This is a shadow inventory of houses, and it is enormous,” he points out.
“The TV show ‘Love It or List It’ is a good example of how an older property has many unseen issues and you do not know what you are getting into. You have to replace this and that, you would like to have a competent building inspector look at it before you buy. But these properties are generally sold as is and sight unseen.
“So, often it’s a bag of problems, such as a meth lab you can’t clean up. You have to have experience and deep pockets, figuring in transactional costs, commissions, fees, title insurance, and putting yourself at great risk if you do something in a non-conforming manner. And if the market shifts, you must sell at a loss.
“Appropriate building codes which are applicable in your local must be respected, often calling for a complete re-wiring, new roof, new plumbing and the list grows from there,” he stressed.
“Typically, the people who do this are investors with deep pockets, and it is the only thing they do,” Levi points out, adding, “When these seminar people admit in their literature that most students do not make any money please believe it!
Today’s story will be of special interest to anyone who is or who knows someone in a dating relationship which began online and led to personally meeting. We begin with “Three of the most important questions which must be credibly answered,” according to Santa Maria-based private detective, Riley Parker:
At a New Year’s Eve party this past December, Jill — 36, a longtime family friend, very attractive and a highly successful architect from a wealthy family — had a request:
“I need you to grill my boyfriend. You have a way of getting people to open up about their entire lives. His name is Glen. We met online a few months ago. He lives in a different state, and we have been Skyping. When work brings him here, we spend time together, but it’s only been three times in six months, a few days each visit.
“Glen is 44, never married, and made it clear that he is seriously interested in me and wants to be married. I had two very close relationships which did not work out, and admit, at my age of 36, I’m am very worried about being alone. I really like him. He’s a lot of fun to be around, always happy and says that he will move here, but I just don’t know what to do. So, Dennis, I need your insight.”
(1) He is 44, yet never had a truly positive, close relationship, “jilted by women who took advantage” of him. However, “With Jill it’s different.” Anytime we began getting close to meaningful views on life, he elegantly changed subjects, never revealing anything of a personal nature except that he felt Jill was “the one.”
(2) Glen was always smiling — to everyone — even when the topic was serious. He was the very definition of permagrin.
(3) In response to “So, how did you two meet?” his answer perpetuated the same lie that Jill had told her parents: “Through friends here in town.”
Jill explained that not telling mom and dad about meeting on line was, “Because they are from a different generation and would not understand.” As both are highly educated, work in finance and are in their late 50s, there is no way they could not have heard about online dating.
“Let’s see,” Parker commented, “He’s 44 and never had a close emotional relationship? How can that possibly be? And now, Jill is the one? Does the fact that she is highly successful and her family wealthy have anything to do with it? Moving this fast in a relationship where they have spent such a short amount of time together has all the alarms flashing Caution! You Do Not Know Who This Guy Is!
“Dennis, you have described someone who could very well be a con artist, believing that he can fool anyone. Your conversation was the time for him to be completely open and honest, because he had to assume that you would report your findings to Jill. If anything, he
“He was complicit in a lie to her parents, so what else will he lie about? He could have explained Jill’s reason to lie to her parents about how they met — but he never suspected that you knew the truth. If she hasn’t been drawn in too deeply yet, that one piece of evidence should be enough to scare her.
“She needs to realize that if he is willing to lie about a little thing — how they met — then he will lie about anything,” Parker notes, adding, “As they met online, this is the place for her to begin finding out as much as she can about Glen. Anyone in her position has something to lose, therefore Jill needs to determine:
(2) What role did he play in his prior, failed relationships where he was “jilted?” For con men, it is always the other person’s fault, so ask, ‘What part did you play in them failing?’ Con artists find women who provide them a lifestyle, drain them dry and then move on to the next victim.
They met online, and that’s the place where Jill can begin her research. Next time, Parker tells us how to begin, where to look, and when to consider hiring a private investigator.
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BLOOD OF THE SUN: Blood's Thicker Than Love LP From Texas Heavy Rock Collective Out NOW And Streaming Via Listenable Records "This band's sound is one that could just as easily fill a stadium as a cramped club full of guys with long hair and beards. The sound is akin to great '70s
Like A Storm Release New Music Video for "Pure Evil" TICKETS AVAILABLE NOW FOR HEADLINE TOUR HERE (Auckland, New Zealand - November 2, 2018) - Hard rockers Like A Storm have just released their new music video for their track "Pure Evil". The video was shot south of Chicago by Vince Lundi at the abandoned Methodist Church of Gary, IN, notorious
HOLLYWOOD UNDEAD RELEASE SURPRISE EP "PSALMS" Stream or download the EP "PSALMS" HERE! HOLLYWOOD UNDEAD's surprise EP, PSALMS, is out today! The record is a companion piece to last year’s LP, FIVE, and features previously released tracks, “Gotta Let Go” and “Another Level,” as well as three brand new songs: “Bloody Nose,” “Live Fast Die
OPETH release live video of "Ghost Of Perdition"; "Garden Of The Titans" out now! Today, Swedish progressive metal legends OPETH have released their new live album Garden of the Titans: Live at Red Rocks Amphitheatre via Moderbolaget Records / Nuclear Blast Entertainment. Captured for DVD, Blu-Ray and Vinyl formats during their performance on May 11th, 2017 at the legendary
HE IS LEGEND SHARE NEW SONG "WHITE BAT" — LISTEN BAND OFFERS UPDATE ON NEXT ALBUM North Carolina's He Is Legend have just dropped the new song "White Bat." Consider this your Halloween present from the band and a taste of what's to come regarding their ambitiously awesome next effort. "It's been tough keeping this
Release Lyric Video "The Lion From The North" Pre-Order Here: https://www.nuclearblast.com/sabaton-carolusrexplatin Following the news that their 2012 album Carolus Rex has reached quadruple platinum status in their home country Sweden, SABATON are excited to reveal a new lyric video for the song "The Lion From The North". Watch the video here: https://youtu.be/T1gvNaC17B4 The concept album - which is the band's biggest
August Burns Red Announce Winter 2019 Tour + Drop "Dangerous" Video Featuring Big Foot AUGUST BURNS RED ANNOUNCE WINTER 2019 TOUR DATES, RELEASE "DANGEROUS" VIDEO FEATURING BIG FOOT — WATCH! August Burns Red have announced their early 2019 tour plans. The band will headline "The Dangerous Tour," presented by Sound Rink, alongside Fit For a King, Miss
The Third Secret Out Now + Release New Video For Title Track! Order Here: http://nblast.de/FATheThirdSecret FIFTH ANGEL released their first album in nearly thirty years today to overwhelming critical acclaim. Lofty statements and accolades from respected reviewers include: “Album of the year!”, “Fifth Angel have truly achieved a metal masterpiece with The Third Secret,’” “A brilliantly amazing Power Metal comeback,”
LOST IN GREY - first digital single & video clip released The Finnish theatrical metal band LOST IN GREY will be releasing their 2nd album THE WASTE LAND in January 2019. Inspired by symphonic and folk metal, literature and the world itself, LOST IN GREY creates multifaceted music, and they bring elements of drama to the songs
ONSLAUGHT Launch "70000 Tons Setlist - By Request"! As previously announced, UK Thrash Legends ONSLAUGHT will play 70000 Tons Of Metal 2019, The World’s Biggest Heavy Metal Cruise, taking place on January 31 – February 4, in Florida – Haiti – Florida! The band invites the fans to cast the votes
Release Brand New Single, "Full Moon Shoals" + Video Online Pre-Order Available Here: nuclearblast.com/soilwork-verkligheten Swedish visionary metallers SOILWORK have released the brand new track, "Full Moon Shoals," from their long awaited upcoming 11th studio album, Verkligheten, which marks the band's first in more than three years and also marks the first to feature Bastian Thusgaard on drums, who replaced Dirk Verbeuren in 2016. Watch
Announce Re-Issue End Of An Era Live Release Pre-Order Available Here: nblast.de/NightwishEndOfAnEra October 21st 2005 is a historic date for every NIGHTWISH fan – many tears flowed, yet the foundation was laid for a new beginning and the ongoing continuity of the band. What subsequently appeared as the DVD titled End Of An Era was not only the final
I AM + Decibel Premiere New Song "Hard 2 Kill" I AM TO RELEASE HARD 2 KILL ON NOVEMBER 2 VIA NEW LABEL 1126 RECORDS BAND PREMIERES TITLE TRACK AT DECIBEL — LISTEN TOURING THROUGH THE FALL I AM, whose music can only be described as "Texas Death," will release their album Hard 2 Kill via new label 1126 Records on November
DEVIN TOWNSEND & INSIDE OUT MUSIC celebrate 20 years of collaboration with new deal Since 1999, Devin Townsend and InsideOutMusic have enjoyed a highly successful and fruitful relationship together, releasing studio albums under his solo guise, Devin Townsend Project & Casualties of Cool, as well as live releases recorded at landmark
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The Swiss symbolist painter, Arnold Böcklin (1827-1901) took the world of mythology as his source of inspiration. His most famous painting, Die Toteninsel (The Isle of the Dead), painted in multiple versions between 1880 and 1886, was the inspiration for a work of the same name by Rachmaninov and also inspired a movement in a set of tone poems by Max Reger.
Max Reger’s 4 Tondichtungen nach Arnold Böcklin (4 Tone Poems after Arnold Böcklin), written in 1913, bases each movement of the work on a different painting by Böcklin. Although now only known for the Isle of the Dead, in the early 20th century, reproductions of Böcklin’s landscapes could be found in the front parlours of homes throughout Germany.
Reger’s first movement, Der geigende Eremit (The Fiddling Hermit), divides the strings into two groups, one playing with muted strings and the other without. The hermit is represented by the solo violin part that sounds above the two groups. The woodwinds and brass create the background. To reflect the religious character of the image, Reger uses the church modes, rather than the usual major/minor tonalities.
The second movement, a lively scherzo, is based on a vision of naiads, mermaids, and mermen playing in the waves. The scherzo scurries along, building to wild climaxes, interrupted by the contrasting trios, and is a perfect rendition of Böcklin’s magical world.
The sombre third movement has strange harmonies in the wind section and violent changes in dynamics, ranging from excessive to shadowy in feel. The clarinet delivers a quiet final word after this visit to the dead’s final resting place.
The last movement returns us to the bright sunlight. A Bacchanal refers to any sort of uninhibited or drunken revelry, often including satyrs and perhaps Bacchus or Silenus, usually in a landscape setting. There’s no specific work by Böcklin with this name, but many of his landscapes use satyrs and other mythological creatures and could have been the inspiration for Reger.
In addition his work Die Toteninsel, Rachmaninov was also inspired by another painting by Böcklin, Die Heimkehr (The Homecoming) when he wrote his Prelude in B minor, Op. 32, No. 10.
Of the works in the Op.32 Preludes, this Prelude in B minor is felt to be the greatest of the Preludes. It opens with a sombre tone and becomes ever increasingly intense.
In creating his symbolist world of mythological creatures and scenes, Böcklin, in turn, inspired late 19th-century and early 20th-century composers to look to their own dark and mystical sides while at the same time reading intensely into Böcklin’s detailed masterpieces.
They are able to demonstrate the ability to benefit from IS Manila’s academic program, as determined by interviews, tests and past records.
They reside with their parent(s) in the Philippines. Any exception must be approved by the School prior to commencing the admission process.
The age cut-off date is September 1st as per our Age Placement Policy. High School students should graduate no later than the age of 20.
Students who complete a particular grade level after the start of the IS Manila first semester will be placed in that same grade level for the remainder of the school year.
Students who are admitted after the middle of a given quarter may not receive grades for that semester. In the High School, 80% attendance is required for credit purposes. Attendance at a previous school can be applied towards the 80% attendance rule.
New students may be admitted to IS Manila and enrolled at any time during the school year if a space in the child’s grade/program is available and all admission requirements have been met. Realistically however, it is best to enroll within the first 15 days of the semester but definitely not in the last month of the semester. This is especially true for High School students who need to have credits earned for graduation each semester. Students should be in attendance, at minimum, 80% of the academic calendar to receive credit.
Unless transferring from a very similar academic program, High School students should only plan on entering at the beginning of a semester. The first semester at ISM generally starts in the first or second week in August and ends mid-December; the second semester begins in the second week in January and ends in the first week in June.
In addition to the academic records/official transcripts of previous school years (click here for a sample) submitted along with the application and teacher recommendations, it is very important that transferring students also bring an official transfer document from their current school which, minimally, indicates the following information:
A clear explanation of the grading or marking system used by the school and the lowest acceptable passing mark or grade
For candidate’s that are eligible for our Learning Support Services we require parent(s) to send us information prior to submitting a formal application. Our Admissions Team and Learning Support Resource Team will provide feedback once we have reviewed the required documentation. Without such information the School cannot make the right educational choices for your child or provide the kind of environment in which your child will flourish. ISM's goal is to provide a program that is an optimal match between your child's individual educational needs and the support services available at the school and within the wider community.
Report Cards/Grade Reports/Transcripts: For the previous two to three years, including current school year reports once issued. If entering Grade 12, we require records for the three previous years and any report issued to date upon application. If necessary, school records must be translated into English and then authenticated.
We will need ONE Teacher Recommendation Form for students in Preschool to Grade 5. Students in Grade 6-12 will need to submit Two Teacher Recommendation Forms. One recommendation form should be from a MATH teacher and one from an ENGLISH Teacher. The teacher recommendation should be completed by your child's current teacher(s) for the present school year upon submission of the application.
Learning Support Recommendation Form from the Resource/Special Education Teacher. Please note that not all parts of this recommendation form may apply to your child but as much information as possible is needed for an admission consideration. This includes any diagnostic reports, Psychological Education Evaluation(s), Behavioral Plans, IEP or any medical history that the School should be aware of.
Resource/Special Education Teacher Recommendation Form and any special learning/educational support evaluations or assessments, including but not limited to:
IS Manila offers the two year IB Diploma Program for Grade 11 and 12. For students that may be transferring to IS Manila whilst enrolled in the IB Diploma Program or as a Grade 12 student, it is imperative that we review the candidate’s selected courses, previous academic history alongside the required Teacher Recommendation Forms to offer your family feedback regarding a transfer. Below is the check-list for feedback. Should the School be able to support your child’s transfer we will require a complete Application File.
We will need TWO Teacher Recommendation Forms per student. One recommendation form should be from a MATH teacher and one from an ENGLISH Teacher. The teacher recommendation should be completed by your child's current teacher(s) for the present school year upon submission of the application.
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Studying abroad is a life-changing experience that everyone should experience once in his or her lifetime. From making international friends to improving your job prospects, studying abroad provides endless enriching experiences that can help you to grow as a person. As much as it’s a fun and a rewarding experience, unfortunately it can also require a large investment...
Below, we’ve put together a list of the benefits of studying abroad. For those who are worried the financial cost might be a bit more than they themselves can afford, the following tips (along with these ways of studying abroad for cheaper!) can help you convince your parents to help pay for it and get you achieving your dream!
Studying English in an English-speaking country is one of the best (and fastest) ways to develop your language skills. When studying English in an English-speaking country, you’ll be forced to immerse yourself into the language by interacting with locals. You’ll use English on a daily basis, where you can practice your language skills in everyday life instead of speaking in your native language.
Convince your parents: Emphasise to your parents how much extra time will be dedicated to practising your English. Instead of speaking in your own language after classes, you’ll interact with students from different nationalities with whom you’ll only be able to communicate in English. Furthermore, living and learning in an English-speaking country means you’ll frequently use English outside of the classroom – from using public transport to ordering food in a restaurant, every conversation you have will need to be made in English, therefore giving you the opportunity to develop your language skills at a rapid pace.
Another advantage of studying English in an English-speaking country is having the opportunity to experience the way that native English speakers speak when they interact with each other. You’ll learn authentic pronunciation, and be able to observe the way that English speakers interact with each other.
Convince your parents: Focus on the authenticity of your language experience. By learning from and interacting with native speakers on a daily basis, you will improve your pronunciation, your accent and your fluency, and will not only speak English, but will quickly gain the confidence to speak English like a native speaker.
For international students that are applying to English universities, a study abroad experience is a huge advantage. Not only do university admissions officers recognise how committed students are to their education by studying abroad, they also recognise that they are comfortable and capable of studying in a host country that doesn’t speak their native language.
Convince your parents: Emphasise the academic benefits and the increased chances of being accepted into an English-speaking university. As an international student, you display diversity and commitment, and demonstrate that not only are you fluent in speaking another language, but that you are also capable of living in an English-speaking country. When admissions officers read your application, they want to see why you want to study your chosen course, and the obstacles that you have tackled and how you overcame them. Studying abroad to further your academic future demonstrates that you are committed, hard working, and very adaptable, all skills which are favoured highly by admission officer, and skills which are likely to improve your chances of being accepted into an esteemed university.
Like admissions officers, future employers are looking for employees who speak more than one language. In a society where jobs are increasingly competitive, speaking another language puts you one step ahead of your competitors, while living in a foreign country demonstrates your independence and your ability to put your language skills into practice on a daily basis.
Convince your parents: Emphasise how studying abroad will set you apart from your competitors. Hundreds of students who apply for jobs speak more than one language, but can they indicate how they put their language skills into practice? By studying (and living) in another country, you are not only showing your employer that you are culturally aware, but you are also capable of, and comfortable with, putting your language skills into context.
Aside from being able to speak another language, another key benefit to studying abroad is the way it prepares you for working in an international environment. Studying in a foreign country encourages you to be more culturally aware, and opens your mind to new knowledge and international expertise.
Convince your parents: Focus on how studying abroad makes you more employable. Anyone who is able to write on their CV that they have studied abroad can demonstrate their ability to work in a culturally diverse and global environment, a skill set which is highly desired by employers. Employers value employees with a global outlook and those who are culturally aware, so studying in an international environment is a great way to build upon these skills.
In addition to all the academic and professional benefits that you’ll gain from studying abroad, it’s important not to overlook the personal benefits that you’ll also gain from studying in another country. Aside from the lessons you learn in the classroom, by living and studying in a foreign country you’ll not only become more independent and open-minded, you'll make friends from all over the world, network with a range of different people, and become more confident as you learn to adapt and to live comfortably in a different culture. In addition to these skills, it’s likely that your exposure to new cultures will encourage you to challenge yourself by trying new things, and develop your thoughts and values.
Convince your parents: Focus on the life skills that you’ll develop. Becoming more adaptable and building on your confidence and communication skills are something that are not only beneficial to your career, but also to your personal life. Living on your own in a foreign country will test your ability to problem solve, will challenge and encourage you to adapt to diverse situations, and will teach you how to question everything around you and become more self-reliant.
Last but not least, one of the biggest (and most popular) reasons that students decide to study abroad is the opportunity to see the world. During your time studying abroad, you’ll gain exposure to new cultures, new languages and new religions, all whilst experiencing a new and exciting country. Since studying abroad often means you’ll be studying on a different continent, you also have the opportunity to utilise your weekends by exploring your immediate and more distant surroundings. With discounted student fares you’ll have the chance to visit neighbouring countries and cities, while many study abroad programs even have field trips that are included within the curriculum.
Convince your parents: Focus on your travel abroad experience in the wider picture. Emphasise the opportunity to see areas of the world you wouldn’t usually have access to, and the chance to experience different cultures, customs and religions. While seeing the world is ultimately a fun aspect for you, it will actually force you to become more worldly and cultured.
From improving your language skills to increasing your career prospects, it’s evident that studying abroad has a varied selection of benefits. While you’re going to have fun, you ultimately need to to focus on the unique educational experience that you’re going to have, and the tangible life skills that you will be able to take away from your experience. Check out our variety of study options to find the perfect program for you and get your experience started!
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In case you don’t follow him on Twitter, which is a lot of you considering he has only 13,000 Followers (20k less than me in case you’re counting), “Bachelor” creator Mike Fleiss had this tweet on Tuesday:
“Every year, some girl or guy on the show thinks they can outsmart my amazing team of producers. Good luck with that.”
Do I know what he’s talking about? Well, I know one thing it COULD be. If that’s it, then yeah, I do know what he’s talking about. If it’s not, well, then we have two “scandals” on our hands this season – the one I’m well aware of and the one he’s talking about. Only time will tell what this tweet is referring to, but I’m pretty sure I know what it is. However, I don’t have the full details of it yet. Been getting many different versions of the story, so until I know for sure what the deal is, I don’t want to report anything. Stay tuned.
The cast and crew arrived in Belize yesterday, and even the local paper thought enough to reference me in a column posted today. I guess they get some credit for referencing where they get their info, but it’d be nice to actually link to me. Do you think any person reading this in Belize has a clue who Reality Steve is? Probably not. Wouldn’t hurt to throw a link in their under my name, wouldn’t it? Guess so. Anyway, here’s today’s column:
Even though their backs are to the camera, there are six women remaining. Some I’ve identified, and some I haven’t, but am well aware of who they are. UPDATE: Ha ha. Looks like the Bachelor producers already got to this publication and had them remove the pics of the women. Unreal. Get a grip. I’m gonna spoil everything in a month or so anyway. Let em’ have their day in the sun. Probably gonna hold on to those women for the time being since I have a feeling they are the front runners from everything I’ve heard. I wonder how many times Cassie, Elan, Pete, or Bennett tried to shoo these people away with their cameras?
You know how I feel about theme weeks on DWTS. Some I hate, some I love. Well, 80’s week? C’mon, you can’t get any better than that. And if the Bangles performing didn’t capsulate what the 80’s were all about, then I don’t know what does? The Go-Go’s must’ve had a state fair they were performing at. Oh wait, we had the Go-Go’s perform in a recent season, didn’t we? Well then. Makes sense the Bangles were next on the list. Is it still possible 25 years later that the Bangles can perform on my TV screen and Susanna Hoffs still has me pitching a tent? Yes. Yes, it can. Holy Milfy, Batman. She’s 52 years old? How about we just cast her next season on the show? Although, with the Bangles busy touring schedule, that might be too tough on her. Or not. If I never hear “Walk Like an Egyptian” again in my life, it still won’t be soon enough. Awful song. Recently some magazine released the 100 Worst Songs of All Time and “We Built This City” by Starship was voted #1. Although incredibly corny, I’m sorry, but that’s not the worst song ever made. “Walk Like an Egyptian” is.
As much as I enjoy the live performance reality shows (Idol, DWTS, X Factor next week), there’s one thing that we absolutely have to put an end to and that’s the crowd booing everytime a judge says something remotely critical about someone’s performance. Really? I’m guessing they know more about the technique of the Paso Doble than you do, so I think they’re allowed to critique accordingly. I guess it’s the cool thing to do now, to boo a judge when they say something negative, but the problem is, 99% of the time, the judge is right, and these people are booing for no other reason other than to follow the crowd. Sorry. Chaz Bono sucks at dancing. Deal with it. Booing Len during a critique isn’t going to change that fact.
I think probably the most surprising part of Monday’s performances, and really, this blew me away, was the fact that Carson Kressley danced to a Wham! song. I mean, who in a million years he ever would’ve dressed in fluorescent clothes and leg warmers, and scooted around the floor to song sung by George Michael. Man, I NEVER saw that one coming. Might as well have had the colors of the rainbow lighting up the floor as well. A lot of people are saying Carson is going to be the most missed cast member, and he was so much fun to watch blah blah blah. Sorry. He was annoying. He was the Niecy Nash of this season. Nothing more, nothing less.
Nancy Grace was a cheerleader in high school? Seriously? Could’ve fooled me. Do you think that made the team try harder or made them purposely screw up knowing that Nancy was telling them to “Go, Fight, Win”? I would’ve purposely thrown the ball out of bounds in hopes that it’d bean her in the head. But hey, that’s just me. Another week, and another classic line from her partner, Tristan. He told her she needs to stop interrupting people. “That’s me job.” This guy is awesome. I’m telling you, if she didn’t have such a cool ass partner with a crazy Irish accent, she would’ve been gone week 1. “That’s me job?” I need to start talking like that. Then riverdance down the street and see how cool people think I am.
JR had the best dance of the night, but the biggest story this week was hearing Karina postponed her wedding to Detroit Tigers pitcher Brad Penny. Talk about random couples. He’s a big neck from a small town in Oklahoma, and she’s this plastic, Hollywood type who’s banged plenty of people on that show. Hey, not that Brad minds. He’s made his way through some quality Hollywood ass like Alyssa Milano, but still. How Karina and Brad ever ended up together is beyond me. Who knows? Might not be for long though because once you get the “we’re postponing our wedding” announcement, usually we know what’s coming next. Unless you’re Ali and Roberto. Karina claims it’s because DWTS will last too long and his baseball season just ended and their isn’t any time. Ummmm, you knew that when you got engaged. His season ends right around the beginning of October depending on playoffs, and you were gonna be on DWTS til the end of November, regardless of when you were kicked off. How is this all the sudden catching her by surprise? If you’re attending their wedding, be sure to hold on to your gift receipts.
Rob Kardashian told us this week he had a real hard time getting into character and acting sexy this week because he doesn’t consider himself all that sexy. Why didn’t he just pretend he was banging one of the skanks on his show? Seems to work well for him doing that. Ok, I’ll be honest, I think I’ve seen 5 minutes of any of those shows, but I do remember seeing him at some party down in San Diego, and he went back to his hotel room with some floozy that makes Sara Leal look like a nun. And I’m still waiting for someone, anyone, to email me and tell me one redeeming talent that Rob Kardashian has. Just one.
You know, in the past, this show has had plenty of mishaps. Marie Osmond fainting, Misty Mae tearing her Achilles in rehearsal, Nancy’s nipple slip this season – the list goes on. However what happened Monday night could’ve been the all timer. Chaz Bono’s fly was down during his dance. Of all the wardrobe malfunctions, could it have been any more appropriate that the only transgender person they’ve ever had on this show had their fly down during their performance. This show never ceases to amaze me.
I know Courtney Cox and David Arquette were married for 9 years or whatever and now they’re divorced, or are they? Is there a reason she comes to every one of his performances? Is she really wanting to keep her name out there so people will watch “Cougar Town”? Maybe it’s because their daughter wants to see daddy dance every week, which makes sense. But can’t the sitter bring her? Showing support for a guy that openly admitted to cheating on you I don’t think is really helping her image. But hey, what do I know? I’m not in PR. Maybe it’s a genius move to get people to like her more. Whatever the case, I find it creepy and weird.
I was aware that Ricki Lake got her start in “Hairspray” back in the 80’s when she was like 300 lbs, but I had no idea who this John Waters guy was that gave her her big break. Is he for real? Like, we’re supposed to take him seriously with that pencil thin mustache? I had no idea. I thought he was playing a bit with that get up. Apparently not. As for Ricki’s performance, I get that she wanted to incorporate her version of the Roger Rabbit in the dance, but did they have to do it three different times? Ok, we get it. You liked doing the Roger Rabbit. Problem is, she wasn’t any good at it. Now, if we’re talking about me doing the Roger Rabbit, that’s a completely different story. You have no idea how much I tore it up in my rayon shirt, Z Cavaricci’s and creepers at the school dances with my running man, Roger Rabbit, and MC Hammer moves. Lets pray that footage of that never surfaces in my lifetime.
I also have to comment on Steve not knowing who John Waters is… all I can say is, Wow! I think munnygirl covered all of the basics in her post above.
But, I guess everybody has their knowledge gaps. I’m sure there is stuff I don’t know about that he does.
Steve, you are slipping up. I will attribute it to it being the “off season”. Check out the “stylish” dweeb bachelor in BLACK SOCKS AND SNEAKERS while wearing shorts. Cheez even my dad didn’t wear black socks with sandals and he was 83!!!!
Steve- The Belize paper article DID link directly to your page. I agree with you about DWTS on most accounts. I think the finals will (and should) include JR and Ricki. I also agree with you on X factor. I think Melanie is the best singer in the competition and I couldn’t believe that Simon originally nixed her in favor of Simone and Tiah of all people. I like the 14-year-old girl, too. I agree that the homeless guy shouldn’t have made it through nor the one newly-formed group of 4 women. Looking forward to reading about the Bachelor “scandal” Fleiss tweeted about. Also, LOVE the Reader’s e-mails- especially the one from England (I love these new words, too!) and that “foiled” one that made no sense. Hilarious!
Bachelor was in Caye Caulker Belize last night appeared to be on a 2on1 date at ‘the split’. A whole bunch of work was done before they arrived… I am here now, I own a hotel on the island but am from Canada
Steve, please get off of your high horse and do a bit of research and learn something about John Waters. Please tell me that you are not that arrogant/ignorant.
Yikes – I don’t typically comment, but who is John Waters? Never ever heard of the guy! I looked him up online and never heard of him or the references some poster made above…I am assuming your just alot older than me? Must be….! I just dont get the mean comments, and FYI… Steve said he doesn’t read the comments! Lighten up girls!
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How to determine a person's character by his face of the person just to the face, most often referring to eye. They reflected the emotions of the person, and what he thinks and even what he is. And experienced poker players assure that only the eyes of the opponent can determine they are bluffing or not. So, to determine the nature of the interlocutor, to learn to read the eyes.
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dvblwdwg , I can't disagree with what you are saying about rights, but I'm a little selfish and I perhaps have a little bit of a double standard. Its OK to me for the FBI/CIA to listen to conversations of "suspected" terrorists, because that might allow them to catch them so they won't blow up something I am in. I guess I feel like I don't have anything to hide, but if someone started wanting to come to my house and look at my guns, or start legislating some gun control that I felt could lead to confiscation at some point, then YES, I would agree with you that we must keep our rights to privacy.
I do disagree about what Saddam can do to us. Easy. Sell or give a highly sophisticated weapon to a terrorist, who then uses it in our country. He has them, is developing more of them, and would like nothing more than for any on of those hundreds of poor souls that will blow themselves up in the name of Allah, to take a bunch of Americans down with him.
And, it ain't gonna get any easier to get rid of him. I care about American casualties. After all, I am an American. I don't want Iraqis to die, not even their poor, outmanned, underequipped soldiers. But better theirs than ours. Example N. Korea. We can't let Saddam get to that point, where it would be extremely difficult to get rid of him.
The situation will only get worse. I hear that Saddam is making more missiles while the stupid UN is destroying what he as conveniently allowed them to see. If you aren't going to believe this is going on because you don't believe Colin Powell, then fine, you choose to believe the biggest liar in history - Saddam Hussein, but I do not.
For those of you whose fundamental problem with this whole thing is that you believe SH but not Colin Powell, thats your problem. If you are Anti-American, then you will choose to believe who you choose to believe.
As an America, I am giving my President and his administration the benefit of the doubt. I give SH NO credibility on the subject, because history shows that he is a lying, murduring, cheating, devil. Neither Colin Powell nor Bush has such a reputation.
Don't give up your liberties. You're on Pravda website for Crissake, next thing they'll brand you as a terrorist and lock you up. Don't trust Ashcroft, he's into locking up terminally ill patients for a marijuana plant. You'd think he was supposed to catch terrorists or something.
Lincoln suspended Habeas Corpus because the nation really WAS in danger of extinction. Not the case here. I'm sorry, this crisis is less serious than WW2 and WAY less serious than the Civil War.
Don't ever give up your guns either (this from a real left liberal guy) because it's another check on government power. I'm really suspicious of over-centralized power in all its forms. I'm not very concerned about the UN because it effectively has no power.
The common thread of the USSR, Nazi Germany, and Saddam's Iraq is too much government power. Don't let it happen here!
There was not on single Iraqi that was on any of those airplanes, only Saudi's. You don't see us attacking Saudi Arabia do you?
fabius, yea, what do I expect being on a site like this. All of my friends and family agree with me, so I have to come here to get the arguing out of my system.
I think the situation has the potential to be more deadly than the civil war or either of the World Wars.
If Dadurons characters get any bigger, he'll only be able to get one per post. It'll make about as much sense as it does now.
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Like many other application platform technologies, what accelerates development and deployment creates complexity and management gaps for IT Operations and/or DevOps.
Kevin Fulton recently authored an interesting article over at The New Stack. Compiling commentary on conversations that happened at KubeCon Copenhagen a weeks ago. The article title is both simple and bold: "Has Kubernetes Already Become Too Unnecessarily Complex for Enterprise IT? "
Instana was a KubeCon sponsor, which allowed me to also speak with attendees, many of whom were already using Kubernetes (often abbreviated to K8s) or exploring details on how they could use it in their environment (as you would expect at a K8s-focused conference). Complexity was part of the conversation, but most (if not all) were/are going to be using K8s as part of their production stack in the very near future.
One of the most important concepts from the article is the following ... "Kubernetes was designed by systems engineers, for systems engineers," stated Kate Kuchin, an engineer with Heptio, during the last KubeCon. "Which is great, if you're a systems engineer. For the rest of us, Kubernetes is really, really intimidating. With the exception of those people who created Kubernetes who were there at the very, very beginning, everyone in this room was probably a new Kubernetes user at some point, or is a new Kubernetes user now, or will be a new Kubernetes user next week. So you all already know that it can be pretty daunting."
The reality is that there is very limited expertise in K8s at this point. I recently wrote an article that discusses the concept of technology advancements outpacing our ability to develop expertise.
In his article, Kevin does a nice job explaining various perspectives on how and why K8s is complex. To be clear, K8s is complex - but it's to be complex. To borrow a phrase from an old movie - it's the complexity that makes it great!
The question to ask isn't if K8s is too complex, but why so many organizations are choosing and using K8s, given the complexity.
Yes, it's complex, but it appears to be a lot less complex than years of built up Chef recipes, Puppet templates, or - gasp - shell scripts. Since most companies are going to end up using K8s anyway, the question I always get is "How can we tame Kubernetes' complexity and derive the most value possible?"
Like many other application platform technologies, what accelerates development and deployment creates complexity and management gaps for IT Operations and/or DevOps. But new tools do come along to help monitor and manage the new technologies. As those tools emerge, here are 5 ways they can help optimize K8s and applications running on K8s:
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Recently for a project, I read Blue Zones by Dan Buettner that discusses how to live longer. Everyone wants to live life to the fullest, and to do that you have to live for a very long time, or so some think. The author traveled to some pretty remote regions of the globe to find centenarians, or people that were 100 years of age or older. The four places discussed were Okinawa, Japan, Sardinia, Italy, Nicoya, Costa Rica, and Loma Linda, California. These places have a high concentration of centenarians and Buettner set off to discover the secrets to these people’s longevity and to see how they’ve managed to stay alive so long. Overall, he discovered nine basic things in life that help you live long: 1.) Move a little everyday, get your muscles working 2.) Find your purpose 3.) Find a routine that helps you distress 4.) Stop eating when you’re 80% full 5.) Eat lots of veggies 6.) Drink wine in moderation 7.) Belong and believe in a faith 8.) Keep your family close 9.) Establish a group of close friends who encourage good habits and lifestyles. These nine things were all found to be a part of centenarians lives around the world, recurring habits that they all practice in their own way. More information about Blue Zones can be found at their website http://www.bluezones.com/ which has tips on how to make your life more like on of a centenarian along with quizzes and checklists that you can do for further life improvement. One thing I didn’t really like about the book was the author’s style of writing. To me, the book should’ve been presented as research, but the way the author wrote made it sound like he was trying too hard to write something like a memoir. Other than that, the book was interesting, especially knowing there are a small number of people who have had the privilege to live for so long.
The other day in my English class, we touched on a topic that really intrigued me (and no, it wasn’t food). We were discussing an excerpt by Barbara Ehnreich about television in the 1980s and how it has turned society into couch potatoes. She says that you never see people sitting and watching TV on TV. This makes sense, who would like to watch a show about someone who watches a show? It just wouldn’t be popular or worth watching. Watching TV, Ehnreich says, makes people lazy and it has only gotten worse as the years have gone by. However, my teacher brought up a point that people were saying the same things about paperback books when they became popular. This made me think about what happened in the past, what is happening now, and what will happen in the future. As I said before, in the past paperback books were all the rage because technology hadn’t advanced far enough for us to have the electronics that we do today. People would spend hours reading and getting lost in them, causing others to call them lazy because all they were doing all day was reading, not at all contributing to society. Later on, radio in the 20s and then television in the 50s took the place of novels and became all Americans ever did. Nowadays, it is cell phones, specifically social networking. This all makes me wonder what will happen in the future; what will people be addicted to next? What great new thing can scientists and inventors create that becomes a social phenomena? My only hope is that it will be something that can’t be constructed and controlled by technology. Hopefully we revert back to the basics and realize that this is what we needed all along: face-to-face human contact.
When it comes to being an intense book blogger, or just an avid reader, you have to have sources that you can trust to provide the books you want to read. Most try their local library but sometimes even that doesn’t have what’s on our lists. So what’s a bibliophile to do? Well, we have resources. Other than the library, we can borrow from friends, buy books at Barnes and Noble, and my personal favorite- iBooks. However, I’m the kind of person that only buys books I’ve read before and know I’ll read again. I also have a lot of trouble reading on my phone. I want to check Twitter every five seconds and it just feels better holding an actual book. There actually are a lot of books you can get for free on iBooks, especially if you are a fan of the classics, all of which are usually free. Some people use Kindles or Nooks to get books but from previous posts, you can already tell I’m not a fan of those either. Personally, I think if you’re already paying a large sum of money for a virtual library, some of the books (if not all) should be free. But that’s just me and I’m not really up on my research with tablets used for reading. In order to accomplish a large list of must-reads, readers like me have to have resources. It’s like a life necessity. Air, water, shelter, ways to get books. I want to find more ways to get the books I want. If you know of any websites or places that have the books on my list, let me know! I would love to have that sense of security knowing I have those books available to me. How do you obtain your books to read and finish your lists? Or do people even have lists nowadays? Happy reading.
Salaries for a Test Specialist at IBM in Roseland, NJ vary between $76,544 and $86,807 with an average of $80,500. The top 25% make a salary of at least $79,736. The median salary is $78,915. Attached is a detailed distribution of the salaries.
The average salary for a Test Specialist at IBM in Roseland, NJ increased by an average of 7% year over year between 2014 and 2015.
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First song during the opening car crash in freeze frame; [0:07] repeats as Deadpool jumps from the overpass into one of Ajax's security vehicles.
Slow motion scene as Deadpool talks about how the movie is a love story, while skewering a bad guy with his two swords.
Wade shows off his WHAM! album, then Vanessa tries to convince Wade he should stay with her for the time he has left.
Wade heads to the bar for a drink and shows Weasel the clinic brochures that Vanessa has been bringing home; Weasel gives Wade a business card.
Blind Al advises Wade to use seltzer water and lemon to get the blood out of clothing, or just wear red.
Wade cuddles up to Blind Al on the couch, then she advises him to find Vanessa and tell her how he feels.
Weasel tells a joke about a guy having a short time to live as Ajax and Angel arrive to ask about Wade.
Deadpool, Colossus and Negasonic Teenage Warhead take a taxi to the shipyard; Deadpool advises Dopinder on how to win back Geeta.
Deadpool, Colossus and Negasonic Teenage Warhead arrive at the shipyard and do an 'epic walk'; continues after Deadpool is unable to reach Dopinder.
Can somebody switch the name from Veronica to Vanessa on the track description I put in please? My auto correct messed it up, thank you!
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Disclaimer: I am a mining fraud. I am not technical enough to do the technical stuff. I am looking into trying GPU mining, but really, I am way out of my depth with this. The real experts and people who have helped me or I have spoken to are:
Since moving into Crypto as a full-time career, my only income has come from trading. To be honest, I don't love the trading, I like creating content. Managing the blog, the podcast and the various other social media platforms take time and eat into my trading time. Trading and keeping on top of all my various investments also take a considerable amount of time. By having my mining rig, I have a passive income which reduces the pressures on the trading (I also have a ZNode to add to my passive income streams).
My crypto portfolio in itself is diverse, but I see mining as a nice hedge. My trading goal is to accumulate more BTC by trading ALTs, but with mining, I can accumulate Bitcoin even when the market isn't playing ball, as seen during the recent crash where I was making money mining Bitcoin while losing money in the markets.
I find the only way to truly learn about a subject is to get stuck into it, so for me investing in a mining rig is the best way to learn about it.
I then bought a second batch of S9s, but was limited to just 20 because Bitmain, the supplier, restricted the volume and also doubled their price. They will be installed this month.
I also bought 90 Halong DragonMint’s to establish a mining co-op with members of my Facebook group, of which 20 are mine, delivery will be in April.
The installation is relatively expensive, but I am paying my buddy Chad to do it as I would not have any clue how to myself.
From what I am starting to understand is the survival rates of the equipment and rig, all depends on three factors:
The current mining difficulty (how many other miners are competing and the hash rate of those machines)
It is a game of economics. The first week of my S9's was pretty good, I was mining around $1k of Bitcoin a day but the recent drop in the price of Bitcoin and rise in difficulty knocked down the profitability of my rig.
As long as you are able to mine your Bitcoin at a price lower than your cost of operations, then the machines have life, though you can speculate if mining at a loss.
As newer, more powerful machines come online, they will knock down the profitability of my current machines. The reason I bought the DragonMint's is they are noted as being more powerful and profitable to mine than my S9's.
I am an investor, not someone with a tech background, so it was all thanks to my buddy Chad that I got into mining, and it was him who facilitated the whole thing.
Chad has a tech and IT background and owns an IT business, Profero, and I was introduced to him by my friend Rich Roll when I was in LA. Chad has already been mining for years, and I had been discussing it with him for many months before taking the plunge. He held my hand the whole way as I had so many questions.
In return, I was helping him with trading, so when I was worried about mining he was the calm voice of reason and I was the same for him when he was concerned about trading. Therefore, it made sense for my rigs to be with Chad’s rather than building something from scratch.
I went with the USA over Europe for two reasons. Firstly, Chad is in the US, and I am only providing the capital rather than setting up the tech. And secondly, power is much cheaper in there.
There is a slight ethical problem with the amount of energy that mining uses, so we are currently looking to get our own hydro damn, for cleaner and cheaper electricity. I have also found a new potential facility in Wisconsin which is more affordable and uses clean power.
Initially, I was looking at a three-month ROI but as the price of BTC has fallen that ROI will undoubtedly be slower. Now I am looking at more like 5 to 6 months, that said I am holding to speculate, see below.
It took me ten days to mine my first Bitcoin and cost me £3,000 to mine, so it was profitable but this is also where the trading and mining crossover. Rather than sell the Bitcoin I have decided to hold them, speculating on an increase in the price of BTC. As such, when mining, you are also speculating and previous mining might be calculated as more profitable in the future.
What I am learning is that as the price of Bitcoin goes up, more people start mining. Thus the difficulty increases and the mining rewards decrease. Essentially over time, it gets more expensive and less profitable to mine, which means that it is essential for the price of Bitcoin to increase to keep it profitable. Price volatility isn't great, a significant drop in the price and increase in difficulty does put me at risk of being stuck with a power contract which the mined Bitcoin's do not cover. Hence, always looking for cheaper and more efficient facilities.
I expect the market to always balance out over the long term so even if there is a period where I am mining Bitcoin at a loss, I will do so speculating and holding Bitcoin for future value. A decision I will make at the time, depending on market conditions.
The market for mining hardware is also growing, Halong are looking to become a serious player in the space and Samsung have announced they will start making ASIC chips.
As you can tell from this article, I am pretty much a total amateur in this space. I was only able to do it because of my relationship with Chad. Don't let this put you off, if you have serious capital to invest, you can also contact Chad, and he will help you get online. There are also plenty of other resources available online to help you.
As you can see, apart from my Siacoin miner I am all in Bitcoin. I was tempted to mine Litecoin, but I couldn’t get any Litecoin miners, and due to the market crash, I have scared off investing anymore. Now the market is recovering I am looking at Litecoin mining again.
I launched a mining co-op earlier this year which starts in April. I was asked by a bunch of people in my FB group how they too could get into it. I agreed that I would buy the equipment and Chad would manage the setup. This launches in April, and I am going to see how it goes and will report back. If it is successful, then I will open another more.
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How adorable are these pouches? I've seen the pink and blue ones in store and they look very well made. I ordered the yellow one for now. The tassel on the zipper pull is so cute.
I love the tiny dots of this navy blouse. This blouse runs one size larger and I took size XXSP which is still a loose fit on me. The fit is similar to this floral lantern sleeve shirred blouse that I had reviewed here back in November but this material flows and drapes better.
This is a gorgeous eyelet top but in person it was a bit boxier thank I preferred so I passed on it. I sized down to size XXSP which fits like size XSP. It is unlined so a layering cami is required. The fabric has a good structure to it.
I've been eyeing this tasseled stripe top and I tried on size XS regular which fits true to size. It is a tunic top which is why it covers the front and backside nicely. The sleeves are intended to be 3/4 sleeves. I ordered my usual size XXS regular to try and I hope it is a better fit. The v-neck isn't too low so a layering cami is optional and the material is not sheer.
Sandy shared this new tee with me when it just hit the website since the french bull dog is adorable. I wish this tee was offered in petites since the it's a bit longer than I prefer going a few inches below my crotch in the front. It fits true to size for a very relaxed fit so you can size down if you prefer a closer fit. I ordered this tee in my usual size XXS regular which I hope will fit me better. They also have this Ciao tee (as seen on Lilly in size XS regular).
This top is not a sweatshirt material but it has a looser fit like a throw on sweatshirt. The material is the same as the lacy bell sleeve tee I have in size XXSP (review here) but this top runs even bigger. I would recommend going down at least one size for the best fit.
Su recommended this dress and I tried on size XXSP which fits like size XSP. For once the waist placement isn't awkward in the petite size and the top portion doesn't sag at my waist and it doesn't add unwanted bulk due to excess material on the sides. The dress is slightly sheer due to being unlined so nude undergarments or a slip is recommended. The dress is also a modest length hitting right at my knees so I'm not sure why it's called a midi dress.
I love the gorgeous lace and embroidered details of this dress. Unfortunately I found that it was too shapeless on me. It runs looser through the hips and here are the measurements of size 00 regular:
It was available in petite sizes but quickly sold out online. If you love this lace it's also available as a top here.
Many of you were drawn to this pink eyelet dress when it became available online last week. I ordered it to try but I found that flutter sleeves tpp overwhelming, the bust runs small while the waist fits very loose. The overall length is also very short. Here are the measuremetns of size 0P:
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This top is now on sale for $24.99 after discounts. I ordered my usual sizes XXS regular and XS petite to try since size XS regular was a bit loose and long on me.
I loved this dress on Lilly (5'6") and Su (5') who also tried on size 0 regular. Based on Lilly's try on I also decided to try on size 0 regular and I found that it fits true to size. The length is short on her since she is 5'6" but it's a modest length on me since I'm 5'2.5". The ponte material is a nice thicker material. The dress nips in ever so slightly for a figure flattering fit. I have a similar dress from J.Crew Factory (last seen here at the bottom of the post) but that one is more shapeless.
I love the tie front detail on this dress and it's also available in olive. My usual size 0P fits loose more like size 2P. I probably need to size down to size 00P in this dress. Its a chic an classy dress for work.
I love the subtle ruffles on the shoulders of this dress. It fits true to size in my usual size 0P but I have a smaller bust so I did not fill out the chest and I had to pass on this lovely dress.
I have more fitting room reviews to share so look out for another post coming soon! I'll also share some new spring shoe reviews as well. FYI. Target has a buy one, get one 50% off promotion for shoes right now and my favorite gingham bow flats (review here) are included!
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Worked with internal and external customers to resolve any conflicts or issues. Review funding streams for all projects, detect discrepancies and resolve them. Advised timekeepers of changes in regulations, directives, or existing business practices.
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TEFL School in Milan, Italy, offers two courses for you : full-time and part-time Cambridge CELTA. Read more to know the details.
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Tribune Media has withdrawn from a $3.9 billion merger with Sinclair Broadcast Group and is now poised to sue for breach of contract over failed negotiations with regulators. Last year, Sinclair announced the merger, which would’ve been the biggest acquisition in its history. The merger began to unravel when the Federal Communications Commission raised serious concerns about the business deal, however.
When the merger was announced, it was set to create a conservative broadcasting giant that would’ve controlled 233 stations in 108 markets across the country. This would have made it the biggest television company in America by entering 70% of U.S households, and signaled a major victory for conservative media.
In July, the FCC announced that it had “serious concerns” regarding the proposal and that the merger warranted a closer look by an administrative law judge. This immediately raised red flags amongest investors, as it looked like the FCC was set to block the deal.
In order to comply with the national cap, Sinclair needed to divest from stations completely. The FCC learned, however, that Sinclair was going to spin off a number of stations in Dallas, Houston, and Chicago to buyers that were too close to the company’s leadership.
Tribune Media terminated its merger agreement with Sinclair and charged the broadcasting company with breach of contract. They allege that Sinclair refused to sell broadcasting stations in certain markets, which was required by law to obtain approval for the merger. In addition, the lawsuit states that Sinclair was going to engage in related-party sales that posed a high risk of rejection by the FCC, which would’ve delayed the merger.
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(WRCB) - Good Monday. We start the day with our area under a WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY for Chattanooga and surrounding areas, and WINTER STORM WARNINGS for some outlying counties.The main threat this morning will be from sleet and freezing rain. Temperatures will be in the upper 20s and low 30s. Travel this morning will be extremely hazardous especially on untreated roads.
(WRCB) - Good Monday. We start the day with our area under a WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY for Chattanooga and surrounding areas, and WINTER STORM WARNINGS for some outlying counties.
The main threat this morning will be from sleet and freezing rain. Temperatures will be in the upper 20s and low 30s. Travel this morning will be extremely hazardous especially on untreated roads. This afternoon, temps in the valleys will climb into the upper 30s and low 40s. That means a cold rain through the afternoon. In the mountains temps will stay in the low 30s and that would mean a continuation of sleet mixed in with some light snow. This evening, temps will cool a bit and that would change us over to a wintry mix widespread. All precip. would come to an end after midnight, but we could still see some ice on untreated surfaces Tuesday morning.
Tuesday will be cold and dry with lows in the 20s and a high of only 35. Another front will move in Wednesday after a high of 36. That front will bring some light snow showers to the area followed a serious blast of cold air Thursday morning. Lows Thursday morning will drop into single digits with wind chills below zero to start the day. Thursday's high will only reach 31.
Friday we could see a few more light snow showers as it remains bitterly cold. The low Friday will drop to 15, and it will only warm to 35 Friday afternoon.
The weekend warms into the upper 40s, but we will still have a good chance of precipitation in the form of rain both Saturday AND Sunday.For the latest AND the interactive radar, download the WRCB weather app. David Karnes
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We know that the type of portable toilets that works for one business in Sunnyvale, CA may not work well for others. As a result, we will always have a porta john that works perfect for each of our clients. The 50 to 60-gallon base porta potties we provide come stocked with sanitization fluid inside the tank in addition to a toilet inside. Although the basic model does come stocked with paper towels and plenty of soap, it does not include a sink. If you want to upgrade a little, you can also consider our deluxe model, which is set up similar to the base model with the addition of a sink, urinal and a bigger tank. Of course, if you do opt for the cheaper portable toilets, you can add a handful of our portable washing stations to your premises, which can be shared by the visitors.
It would be fantastic if bathroom facilities magically showed up at your promotional event or construction site. However, those of you in the Sunnyvale, CA construction and special events industry already know that you will have to rent porta potties nearly 100 percent of the time. Although you might wish you could steer clear of the expense, we will ensure your porta potty rental needs are made as economical as possible and that you receive timely service. If you are serious about getting a portapotty quote for your upcoming job or special event, give our crew at WR Contractor a call at 888-240-1169 today.
WR Contractor has an option to fulfill everyone’s needs within the Sunnyvale, California portable toilets market. Our organization offers the biggest porta potty variety in the Sunnyvale, CA region, so you will never be left to feel like you are needing to compensate. Our expertise also allows us to determine the number of toilets you will need to rent based upon how many employees or guests you plan to have on your premises. Needless to say, we also provide the quickest possible delivery times along with pricing that is guaranteed to be competitive. If you would like to rent from a portable toilets business that is very passionate about customer service, give us a call at 888-240-1169 .
Most of the customers our porta potty company helps in Sunnyvale, CA make the assumption that all portable toilets are identical aside from slight differences in color and design. When they do find out how many different designs we offer and the options they can add to each of those units, they are incredibly shocked.Our standard model will come equipped with a toilet in addition to sanitization supplies. Our deluxe model, which is extremely popular, adds a urinal, larger tank and a sink. Our portable washing stations are very popular for customers who feel a bit stuck when choosing between the standard and deluxe models. We in addition provide service to Milwaukee portable toilets amongst other areas and states around the country.
One of the biggest things that consumers in Sunnyvale, CA like about our portable toilets business is the free consultation we offer before you spend your hard-earned cash with us. Whenever we first speak with you, we will find out more about your rental requirements, such as how long you need the toilets for and how many attendees or employees you plan on having. Determining which design is best for your needs as well as how many you should rent during the consultation. These are simply recommendations, so if you already know what you need, let us know. When you have decided which ones are best for you, we will have them at your site by the scheduled time. For ideal results, we normally ask that you plan the delivery a few days ahead of time, so we can promise the toilets will be in stock.
The team at WR Contractor realizes how stressful it can be to have to worry about portable toilets being delivered to your Sunnyvale, CA site. This is exactly why our porta potty organization will always come through in the clutch with all your rental toilet needs. Give us a call at 888-240-1169 if you want us to assist with your portapotty rental needs or if you simply have a few questions about our selection. For people with colleagues or relatives in other cities such as portable toilets Madison, WI, inform them that we provide options all around the nation.
Impact begins with Hulk Hogan walking to the ring. Hogan is shocked at how wild Hulkamania is running here in Tupelo. I don’t suffer from Hulkamania, so I’m always a little shocked when it runs wild. Hogan is also shocked that AJ Styles walked out on TNA last week. So Hogan has decided to make a match between AJ Styles and Kurt Angle for Slammiversary.
Hogan has some more announcements; there will be a contract signing later tonight between current champ (and Hogan’s son-in-law) Bully Ray, and Sting. Hogan also wants to thank Abyss for coming to the aid of TNA last week, but Abyss’ brother Joe Park comes out instead.
Joe Park sounds shocked that he finally saw his brother Abyss after all the time he’s spent looking for him. Abyss did show up a couple times when Joe Park was feuding with Bully Ray last year, but I guess he forgot that. Hogan says that Abyss is what TNA needs now, and he wants Joe to get in touch with him and get him here.
Devon comes out with Aces and Eights and says he also wants a piece of Abyss; specifically he says he wants a “chunk of his ass.” I’m not sure why he would rather have a chunk of ass than an arm, leg, or nut; I guess Devon is an ass man.
Joe Park says he wants to fight Devon for the TV title right now; Devon says Park hasn’t beaten anyone, why should he get a TV title shot? D Lo Brown says he wants to kick Park’s ass himself and Devon agrees. D Lo is trying to get back into the club as a full member; right now he’s not allowed to wear a member’s leather vest, he just gets a prospect’s t-shirt.
Hogan makes the match between Park and D Lo and further stipulates that if Joe Park wins he gets a TV title shot against Devon next week.
Chavo and Roode lock up. Roode gets behind Chavo but Chavo takes him down with a hip toss. They lock up again and Roode gets Chavo in a headlock. Chavo whips Roode to the ropes and Roode downs Chavo with a shoulder block. Chavo hip tosses Roode again and then puts him in a headlock.
Chavo sends Roode out to the floor with a hurricanrana. Chavo jumps out onto the ring apron but Roode trips him up and then slams him into the guard rail. Roode hits Chavo with an elbow and then rolls him back into the ring. Roode hits Chavo with a bodyslam and a knee drop.
Chavo lands a kick and Roode responds with an eye poke followed by a blockbuster. The two men exchange punches until Chavo lands a kick, a shoulder block, and then a slingshot senton. Chavo tries for a tornado DDT but Roode blocks it. Chavo hits three straight vertical suplexes and then climbs to the top.
Roode falls into the ropes, causing Chavo to fall to the floor. James Storm walks to the ring with beer bottle in hand and spits beer into Roode’s face. Roode rolls out to the floor while Storm brandishes the beer bottle as a weapon. The ref calls for the bell, ending the match on a disqualification.
When we return, Kurt Angle makes his way to the ring to call out AJ Styles. AJ doesn’t come out, but Ken Anderson does.
Anderson says that Angle sounds like a woman. That could be an insult I suppose, but it really depends which woman he sounds like. If he sounds like Fran Drescher, that’s a problem, but if he sounds like Grace Jones that could be pretty intimidating.
Anderson says AJ will be joining Aces and Eights next week, and he double dog dares Angle to come. Angle says he doesn’t want to wait a week for a fight and pummels Ken Anderson. AJ Styles comes up behind Angle and knocks him down with an enzuigiri. Anderson celebrates at ringside.
Match #2: Gut Check Winner Jay Bradley versus Gut Check Winner Christian York. The winner gets one step closer to qualifying for the Bound For Glory Series.
Jay gets off to a strong start and lands a long series of strikes; elbows, chops, punches, and a big boot to the head. Bradley puts York in a chin lock but York gets out of it. York hits Jay with a springboard back elbow and Bradley responds with a bodyslam. York hits Bradley with an enzuigiri and a hurricanrana.
York hits Bradley in the corner with a running back senton. The two men exchange punches again until York lands a pair of kicks. York climbs to the top rope but Bradley dodges. Bradley hits York with the Boomstick clothesline for the win.
When we return, Brooke Hogan is talking to Mickie James and tells her she will get a title shot at Velvet Sky next week. They are interrupted by Brooke’s ‘husband’ Bully Ray. Bully tells Brooke to tell ‘dad’ that the contract signing with Sting later tonight is going to be more of a negotiation. Bully also promises to never divorce Brooke.
Gail and Velvet start fighting immediately. Velvet is going into the match with an injured leg. Velvet gets the early advantage and scores with a pair of arm drags and several kicks followed by a hurricanrana. Gail blocks a kick and then goes after the injured leg of Velvet Sky.
Gail pounds and twists Velvet’s leg for several minutes. Gail gets Velvet in a Texas Cloverleaf but Velvet makes it to the ropes. Gail puts her boot to Velvet’s face in the corner. Gail lands a pair of kicks and climbs to the top rope. Velvet cuts her off and throws her to mat, but can’t capitalize because of her bad leg.
Velvet manages to land a pair of clotheslines before her knee gives out and she falls to the mat again. Velvet lands a kick and then tries to tie Gail up for “In Yo Face” but Gail blocks it. Gail twists Velvet’s bad leg, but Velvet pushes Gail off with her good leg.
Gail hits the corner and Velvet rolls her up as she bounces out of the corner and covers her for the three count! After the match, Gail attacks Velvet and puts her in a figure four leg lock in the steel post.
After the match, the three men fighting for the X division title tonight (Chris Sabin, Kenny King, and Petey Williams) talk a little trash. Sabin says Kenny King is the king of nothing, except maybe male strippers. (Why is that bad? If people paid me money to strip, I’d be naked now. And I wouldn’t tell you about it either, so now you’ll have to wonder every week.)
Kenny King calls Sabin “Frail Sabin” (a pun on the “Hail Sabin” chant that often accompanies Sabin to the ring) and declares himself royalty, and Petey Williams thinks he’s got it figured out.
King rolls out to the floor as the match starts leaving Sabin and Petey to fight each other. Williams puts Sabin in a headlock but Sabin escapes and twists Petey’s arm. Sabin takes Williams down with a series of armdrags. Williams trips Sabin into the ropes, and then King reaches in to trip up Williams.
King drags Williams to the floor and then enters the ring himself. Sabin trips King and then hits him with some chops and a kick. King responds with an elbow and a rolling wheel kick. Petey dropkicks Sabin out to the floor but then gets choked on the top rope by King. King hits Williams with a punch and then hits Sabin with a baseball slide dropkick. King hits Petey with a body slam and springboard legdrop.
King tries to tie up Petey’s arm and head, but Williams gets free. King snaps Williams’ head on the top rope while leaping to the floor. Sabin hits King with a couple forearms and then a suplex. Sabin and Williams exchange strikes and Williams knocks Sabin to the floor.
Petey hits Sabin with a suicide dive and then hits King with a side Russian leg sweep back in the ring. Petey hits King with a cradle DDT and gets a 2 count. Sabin lands several strikes to Williams and then tries a tornado DDT on King but King blocks it. King hits Sabin with a pair of kicks and then hits Williams with a swinging neckbreaker. Sabin hits King with an enzuigiri and a back kick to the gut.
Sabin hangs King upside down in the corner. Petey tries to hit Sabin with the Canadian destroyer but Sabin blocks it and throws Williams into King. Sabin powerbombs Williams but is then hit with a flying knee by King. King hits Sabin with the Royal Flush for the win.
Hernandez pushes Daniels to the corner; Daniels responds with an eye poke, a kick, and an eye rake. Daniels tries a bodyslam but can’t get Hernandez up. Hernandez drops Daniels with a delayed vertical suplex. Hernandez hits Daniels with a backbreaker and then walks up the entrance ramp.
Hernandez runs back to the ring and leaps over the top rope into Daniels. Hernandez lands a kick but is then tripped by Kaz. Daniels hits Hernandez in the back with a clubbing blow. Daniels hits Hernandez with a neckbreaker and then throws him to the floor where Kaz stomps on him.
Hernandez climbs back up to the edge of the ring and slingshots himself into Daniels. Hernandez knocks Daniels down a couple more time and then misses a Stinger splash. James Storm walks out to the ring with a beer again. Hernandez knocks Daniels down again after the distraction and covers him for the win!
After the match, Storm announces that he was told by Hogan that at Slammiversary, Chavo and Hernandez will have to defend against Roode/Aries, Bad Influence, and James Storm with a partner of his choosing.
D Lo starts off with a knee, a punch, and a bodyslam. Park responds with several awkward looking punches. D Lo throws Park to the floor and slams his head into the edge of the ring before throwing him back in. Park lands a few more punches, D Lo responds with a dropkick to the knee followed by a shining wizard.
D Lo hits park with a clothesline but misses a Stinger splash. D Lo hits Park with a leg lariat and then pummels him in the corner. D lo punches at the head of Park repeatedly until his knuckles get bloody. Park sees the blood on his hands and in his eyes and becomes enraged.
Park hits D Lo with a pair of stiff clotheslines and a Stinger splash and then beats him with a Black Hole Slam!! After the match, Park regains his composure and asks what happened.
When we return Jeremy Borash is in the ring behind a podium. Jeremy calls out Bully Ray and Sting for their contract signing. Bully comes out first and violently shoves Borash out of the ring and asks if we know who he is. He tells us in case some people forgot. Bully also calls out Sting and Hogan.
Sting comes to the ring and Hogan waits outside the ring. Bully notes that this is the first time he’s been face to face with Sting since he screwed him, Hogan, and especially Hogan’s daughter. Bully says he is apologizing for none of it. Sting says Bully should probably break his arm in two, break his legs and make him bleed.
Sting says if Bully Ray does NOT do those things, then Sting will definitely do them to Bully Ray, with emphasis on the bleeding. Sting says he wants the match to be no holds barred. Bully says a lot of people would probably like to see him bleed at Sting’s hands, but he doesn’t seem scared.
Bully says if Sting wants a no holds barred match, he’s got it on 1 condition; if Sting loses he is never allowed to compete for the TNA title again. Hogan tells Sting not to do it, but Bully tells Hulk to shut up and asks Sting if he’s going to let Hogan tell him what to do again.
Sting says yes and Bully pushes him. Sting responds with a punch and they start punching back and forth. Sting appears to be getting the upper hand as Impact goes off the air.
Impact begins with Sting and Kurt Angle making their way to the ring. Sting grabs the mic first and puts over Angle; Angle calls out AJ Styles. AJ comes out and gets a little bit of "good cop bad cop" from Angle and Sting. Angle is sick of AJ refusing to take…
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At Oxford Summer Courses we’re determined to share the magic of Oxford with the world. And whilst we’re all set to welcome over 500 students to Oxford this summer we’re also aware that coming to Oxford isn’t an option for everyone that would like to.
This May we’re launching a brand new course that takes three of our most talented tutors in Creative Writing, Computer Science and Economics & Business to Hyderabad, India to deliver a 10-day course at Oakridge International School.
This post is the first of a series that tells the story of our trip to India, reveals the details of our India course tutors and explains how we’ve designed a course that blends the best of Oxford with a distinct local Indian flavour.
Back in January (just as the cold was starting to set in around Oxford) we decided it was the right time to escape the snow and make our visit to meet interested Indian students so that we could tell them more about this new course. Along with our other co-founder Robert Phipps, I set off to fine tune the course details with our Indian partner, university guidance experts Univariety, and visit the course site at Oakridge.
We know that veterinary technicians do so many things in the practice. Where is the line between what they can and cannot legally do? The tasks vet techs can perform vary depending on the state.
Check this more thorough recently updated list of tasks by state to see what is allowed in your own state!
We attended the AVTE meeting this year in Albuquerque, New Mexico. There was a very enlightening lecture regarding the change from Veterinary Technician to the new title Veterinary Nurse, known as the “National Credential Initiative.” This will be quite an involved process, and there is a lot of work behind the scenes that needs to take place to make this change happen.
We know that veterinary technicians are a valuable part of every practice. But there is high turnover in the profession and often job dissatisfaction. Most of us in the profession already realize that vet techs deserve higher pay. It is easier to ask for a raise when you know that you truly deserve one. By doing these 10 things and making yourself invaluable to a practice, you can feel sure that at your yearly review you should get that raise, and can feel confident asking!
In this post we will see how to build a Geo Distributed Dect Network with up to 1000 users and full Roaming – with the following list of features:
each handset / user can roam on up to 10 networks (to reach a global roaming over up to 2550 offices / base stations)
This is why Wildix W-AIR is being chosen by businesses of any size to create private Wireless Voice Networks.
Thanks to WMS Network up to 500 PBXs – HW, VM or Cloud PBXs – connect together and create a peer to peer Telephony network which is secure, synchronized.
The base stations of the dect network can be connected to any one of the PBX (with a secondary one as failover) and work even in case internet is not available.
Users can roam all over the base stations preserving their user phone number. When the user oves between an office and the other, the location is automatically updated and her personal settings (forwards, call management rules) retrieved.
It is easy to share the phone between many users as sign-on / sign-off operators require just a few seconds.
Sign-on / off from the system are stored and can be integrated with accounting systems to to control the users activity and location over time. The data collected can be used to prepare wages and document users movement over the system.
Besides belonging to a highly reachable Wireless Audio Network – users connected to the dect system are able to receive calls from all other terminals connected to the network, trunks and even WebRTC Empowered Customers (via Wildix Kite) and Colleagues.
To use the above features the W-AIR BASE or W-AIR BASE OUTDOOR (for extreme environment) are needed, all handsets W-AIR 70 / 100 / 150 are supported. Please fine more information here: https://www.wildix.com/w-air-cordless-phone/. Feel free to contact us at [email protected] or refer to the nearest Wildix partner to receive more information.
This entry was posted in Blog @en, Technical Posts and tagged cat-iq, dect, mobility, w-air, wireless on 20 November 2016 by Dimitri Osler.
Network drives were dropping out. We were also seeing 15+ minutes slow logon times at some remote sites.
We’d mostly see the slow logon times with Windows 7. We’d see the “network drives dropping out” issue with Windows 8.
Looking at OfflineFiles event log we saw several 1004 events logged. Looking at the details of the event, we’d see details like:
From the event above “transitioned to slow link with latency = 140 and bandwidth = 202123“, you can see we had plenty of bandwidth, but our network latency was too high at 140ms. Which triggered the network share (\\Noddyland\CorpData$) to go Offline.
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This flood proxy map depicts areas of Texas that are likely flooded as a result of Harvey. NASA's Advanced Rapid Imaging and Analysis team at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California created the map using images from the Japanese satellite ALOS-2 PALSAR-2, taken before and after Hurricane Harvey made landfall. Local ground observations provided anecdotal preliminary validation.
On Aug. 29 at 3:03 a.m. CDT (0803 GMT), the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instrument aboard the NASA/NOAA Suomi NPP satellite captured a nighttime image of Harvey that showed the center of circulation had moved back into the Gulf of Mexico.
This map shows the total rainfall estimates from NASA's Integrated Multi-satellitE Retrievals for GPM (IMERG) data for Harvey from Wednesday (Aug. 23) to Tuesday (Aug. 29), as it moved through the Gulf of Mexico and stalled over Texas. The IMERG totals showed over 30 inches (76 centimeters) of rain had fallen in the Houston metro area and part of the western Gulf of Mexico.
Bresnik posted this photo of Harvey on Twitter on Aug. 28, 2017, along with these words: #Harvey - still a menace! Hearts & prayers go out to families, friends, & fellow Texans dealing with this storm. #TexasStrong #HoustonStrong
Another view of Hurricane Harvey captured from the ISS by NASA astronaut Jack Fischer, on Aug. 25, 2017.
On Aug. 25, 2017, NASA astronaut Jack Fischer photographed Hurricane Harvey from the cupola module aboard the International Space Station as it intensified on its way toward the Texas coast.
The GOES-16 satellite captured this geocolor image of Tropical Storm Harvey in the Gulf of Mexico on Aug. 24, 2017. Geocolor imagery enhancement shown here displays geostationary satellite data in different ways depending on whether it is day or night. This image, captured as daylight moves into the area, offers a blend of both, with nighttime features on the left side of the image and daytime on the right.
Europe’s Copernicus Sentinel-3A satellite saw the temperature at the top of Hurricane Harvey drop just after midnight EDT on Aug. 25 (0400 GMT) as the storm approached Texas.
This visible-light image of Hurricane Harvey taken from NOAA’s GOES East satellite on Aug. 25 at 10:07 a.m. EDT (1407 GMT) clearly shows the storm’s eye as the storm nears landfall on Texas’ southeast coast.
NOAA's GOES-East satellite captured this visible image of Tropical Storm Harvey over Texas on Aug. 27 at 10:30 a.m. EDT (1430 UTC).
Tropical Storm Harvey is seen early Aug. 28, 2017 as it moves back toward the Gulf of Mexico in this NASA image from the GOES Earth-observation satellites.
The Global Precipitation Mission (GPM) core observatory satellite flew almost directly above intensifying Hurricane Harvey on Aug. 24, 2017 at 6:30 p.m. EDT (2230 GMT) and indicated that powerful storms in the hurricane were dropping rain at a rate of over 2.1 inches (5.4 centimeters) per hour.
This infrared view of Tropical Storm Harvey was captured Aug. 28, 2017 by NASA's Aqua satellite. The strongest storms appear in purple and stretch from southeastern Texas to Louisiana, and into the Gulf of Mexico.
NASA’s Aqua satellite captured this infrared image of Tropical Storm Harvey within an hour of its landfall in southwestern Louisiana on Aug. 30. The purple shade indicates the strongest storms.
Astronaut Jack Fischer captured this image of Tropical Storm Harvey from International Space Station, sending wishes of hope and sunshine to those affected by the storm.
NASA's CloudSat satellite flew over Tropical Storm Harvey on Aug. 26 as the storm was nearly stationary over south Texas. Large amounts of liquid and ice water (denoted by the red and pink colors) are visible beneath the cloud tops. Small cumulus and cumulonimbus clouds are seen north of the area of moderate to heavy precipitation. The cirrus canopy (anvil clouds) extends outward from the storm system (shown in blue and green colors).
NASA’s Global Precipitation Mission (GPM) Core Observatory captured these images of Hurricane Harvey on Aug. 27 at 6:45 a.m. CDT (1145 GMT) and 4:25 p.m. CDT (2125 GMT), nearly two days after the storm made landfall in Texas. The image shows rain rates derived from GPM's Microwave Imager (right) and dual-frequency precipitation radar (left) overlaid on enhanced infrared data from NOAA’s GOES East satellite.
Bresnik’s ISS crewmate, NASA astronaut Jack Fischer, posted this photo of Hurricane Harvey on Twitter on Aug. 25, 2017, along with the following words: “Oh boy – looks like a ton of rain is about to unload. Here’s a prayer for family, friends & everyone in #HurricaneHarvey’s path — stay safe.”
NOAA’s GOES-East satellite captured this visible-light image of Tropical Storm Harvey on Wednesday (Aug. 30) at 7:30 a.m. EDT (1130 GMT) after it made landfall near Cameron, Louisiana at 4 a.m. CDT (0900 GMT).
This animation depicts satellite-based measurements of rainfall from 7:30 p.m. CDT on Aug. 25 to 7:30 p.m. CDT on Aug. 28. The brightest areas reflect the highest rainfall amounts, with many places more than 20 inches (50 centimeters) during this period.
NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) satellite measured the soil surface conditions in southeastern Texas on Aug. 21-22. These observations showed that soil was very wet a few days before (left) Harvey made landfall, with moisture levels in the 20 to 40 percent range. After Harvey made landfall Friday night (Aug. 25), the southwest portion of Houston became exceptionally wet (right), signaling the arrival of heavy rains and widespread flooding.
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Yesterday morning a friend and I decided to visit the farmer's market for breakfast and to pick up a few 'essential' items for a picnic we had planned. Although the weather was a bit dismal, the cheerful atmosphere inside the market quickly perked us up (as did the coffee). We did some browsing (there was so much to look at), flipped through the pages of organic cookbooks, listened to the musicians playing in the background, sampled the organic food items, then picked up a few different cheeses, a baguette, salad, and of course, dessert - small raspberry-rhubarb gallette tartlets. After our picnic, we made our way to the park to take in the smooth sounds of some local folk bands - they were fabulous. Afterwards, we met up with a few friends who are moving out of the city for one last dinner together.
THanks for letting me know what you are u ptoo..haha..I was wondering, How is it coming..are you having fun decorating?
THanks for letting me know what you are u ptoo..haha..I was wondering, How is it coming..are you having fun decorating? Do you have a Facebook page?
WOW! I like Carolyn's attitude "The perfect day...with great food and company" love it. I see Douggie is there with ALL his toys and goodies to keep him occupied. So cute! I'm sure he WAS a HUGE help, LOL! I love kitty cats, LOL! I need to go and get me one.
As expected, The House of Representatives passed legislation for a company tax cut at the end of last week, from 30 percent to 25 percent by 2026.
It still needs to get through the Senate, and there is a great deal of lobbying being carried out to get support, by both sides on this issue.
Derryn Hinch has said that he may support the cut, if it comes together with a pay rise for workers. The three Nick Xenophon Team Senators remain opposed to parts of the package.
Pauline Hanson has turned on the company tax cut and this may well drag the three One Nation Senators against the legislation in its present form. Hanson says big companies should not get the cut, which should only be given to those with a turnover of less than $50 million a year.
What is going to happen in the end is unclear. Much of the cross-bench is once again showing its potential for infinite flexibility, so long as the government offers them a few crumbs. It is on the cards that the self-styled crusaders for justice can be persuaded, if the price is right.
This piece of legislation is once again bringing out of the worst of the parliamentary political process in Australia. Not for the first time, the courage of principle, may be giving way to political opportunism.
For us mere mortals, either the lowering of company tax is right or wrong. It should not be something to be bargained with.
Australia should expect politicians to decide on this basis. But regretfully, it does not, because the manipulation of important issues, to bargain for concessions in other places, has become the rule rather than the exception. Politicians are expected to be opportunists, free of moral compass. No wonder that as a group, they stand in such low esteem.
But a shot should not only be fired at the cross bench. Coalition government members are engaged in their usual kneejerk reaction to anything in favour of their benefactors, the big end of town. For them, the company tax cut is mantra. But there is also the stench of a corrupt political system, that rewards what favours the richest and most powerful.
After all, there is no moral dilemma, when they reward themselves with lavish pensions and other perks, as they screw age pensioners the sick and disabled, single parents and the out of work. The treatment of Indigenous Australians is a disgrace.
There is no prick of the conscience, when these same men and women allow privatised companies to charge households exorbitantly and helping mining companies to get over the hurdles, while they eye lucrative positions as lobbyists and positions on the boards of directors of the companies they help. It has come to the point where this is expected of Australian politicians.
Company tax cuts are sold as necessary to encourage investment. If the case was that giving more to major shareholders results in more investment where it is needed, the decades of reducing the wage share and lifting the income flow into big business would have resulted in a lot more positive investment in Australia. It hasn’t.
Instead, there has been a process of concentration of the ownership of the Australian economy. Anyone doubting this just needs to look over the share ownership of the to corporations, to see that many of them are largely owned by the same shareholders. One cannot pass the banks in this context. The big four are essentially a cartel and a channel for cross company ownership and they are substantially under the control of the same even bigger international banks.
In addition to consumers, the losers in this have been small businesses, finding themselves locked out by the cartels and not having the advantages and political support that that the major corporations enjoy.
The cash bonanza has been used to gamble on speculation and over indulgence in the paper shuffling economy, rather than real beneficial investment.
The biggest single cash reward for big end shareholders has come from the private debt economy. Australia suffers one of the highest personal debt burdens in the world.
Is throwing more cash at the same source through company tax cuts going to do any better? It is not. To start with, there is a massive money laundering industry that sends a large part of the gains overseas. A tax cut will not stop this. And it will not work towards putting and end to the speculative and over blown paper shuffling economy. It will not tackle the problem of an economy that has become dependent on excess personal debt. Nor will it meet the challenge of shifting to an environmentally sustainable economy.
A company tax cut will not do anything to tackle the most basic underlying problem in the economy. All other problems originate from the fall in the creation of aggregate value, caused by a shift in the proportions of use labour and capital. A major shift to capital intensity, has caused an increase in per unit costs and a fall in per unit profit. Statistics on return on investment show this decline. Any competent business plan will factor in the trend in the labour/capital ratio.
Investment decisions are made based on this knowledge, and is the reason why, for instance, major investors have turned away from manufacturing. It is what has driven the distortions that have grown in the Australian economy and fueled dependency on debt.
The rise in personal debt has come about, to artificially build the Australian market, because the easiest way to make up the loss of per unit profit is to increase the volume of sales and raise the total profit.
What impact will a cut in the business tax rate have on the basic problem? None. But it will put short-term money into the pockets of the major investors. In the longer-run it will add to the distortions. Just like stagnant wages and insecure work, it will work to shrink the market by redistributing income from the many to the few.
This is on the assumption that the corporations will pay anywhere near the rate. They don’t at present, and if this continues, the five percent cut may not make a great deal of difference.
Even if this is the way it goes, Australia deserves much better from these politicians and has good reason to deliver a strong message to the cross bench, and to hold the members of the Coalition to account.
If this is true, it makes Leno one of the sleaziest men in Hollywood and that is say something. He pulled almost the same trick on Letterman to get the Tonight show.
I'm not a big Leno fan, but I'm not sure this is his fault. The blame lies squarely at the feet of NBC, who made the decision to 'retire' Leno three years ago when Jay clearly wasn't ready to give up his hosting gig. It would be ironic if Conan was the one squeezed out since it was NBC's desire to keep Conan on board back in 2007 (by promising to 'promote' him to the Tonight Show) that caused this whole mess in the first place. Not that I'm blaming Conan, since if I was in his negotiating spot, I would've asked for the same thing. (Or at least a healthy raise to keep him happy at 12:35 until Leno was ready to call it quits.)
Conan would be a fine candidate for a FX or HBO talk show, something that would give him the leeway to do all his characters.
Seriously, I don't know why they don't try a more traditional variety show with Jay. One show a week, heck, give him a couple hours on Saturday or Sunday. He gets good acts, his comedy is stale, but with less shows to fill, it ought to get better. I'm no Conan fan, but he deserves his shot.
What do you think would happen to Conan if the "jay goes back to 11:30 and Conan is out" scenario plays out? Does he go to a comedy central and follow Colbert, or does Fox bust out a nightly show at 11, after their news? I suspect some cable station. Maybe FX? How about USA at 11? I doubt that NBC Universal would put him on up against Jay. FX or comedy central seems the most likely to me.
Wasn't ABC going after Leno, which led to the 10:00 show to begin with? I think Kimmel has the most to lose if Conan gets the boot.
This is a HUGE fail for everyone involved. Leno looks like a tool with the ego the size of California, Conan gets treated like a nobody and obviously no one can blame him if he never believes in anything NBC tells him, and Fallon (until we find out otherwise) gets shot down before he can hit his stride. I was just starting to enjoy some of his bits as well (such as Slow Jam the News).
They had a shot, they did. But they just haaaaaaad to keep Leno at NBC. If they let him walk they could have developed Conan and Fallen and be set for the next several years.
Oh, and we should probably post a piece from Leno's monologue that has him making a really bad joke about this whole thing.
So on top of nearly tanking a number of NBC shows, completely killing their 10 o'clock slot for a long time to come, and getting Conan to play second fiddle to him again, Leno decides to make a joke disguised as a veiled threat.
That's one way to look at it. A reasonable way, I might add. But it might also just be him making fun of the rumors as Fox has been rumored as an obvious destination for him if he leaves NBC. I think these rumors were around even back when he was doing the Tonight Show.
Foxnews may not be a bad place for him. O'Reilly and Hannity have strong ratings. Might also be the reason why nobody is really watching his(Leno's) show.
If they were to take another stab at a comedy show -- trying again a conservative version of Daily Show/Colbert -- getting an actual comedian might work. That Half-Hour Comedy Hour was awful. CNN branched out to give Beck airtime; why not give whoever is let go by NBC a shot on FOXNews?
In my perfect world, Leno gets 11:30 back and Conan walks. Conan goes to FX or Cable and produes HIS show and is a success. Letterman trounces Leno every night and Ferguson demolishes Fallon. NBC late night is a waste land which forces Leno to "retire" again. But no one wants the job, so Leno "stays", continues to fail and goes down as the man who sunk The Tonight Show.
If I was Conan, I'd walk. His fanbase would follow him to Fox, Fox would give him the creative freedom that NBC has clearly been denying him, and NBC would be in for a rude awakening when they find out that Leno will be drawing barely over half the ratings he got before he left.
Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for that. We got a great show for you tonight. Uh, I have no idea what time it will air, but it's gonna be a great show. Let me promise you that. (laughs) We're gonna screw up a lot of DVRs with this. I'm sure you've all heard the rumors, ladies and gentleman. NBC has finally come up with an exciting new idea: they want me to follow Jay Leno.
Classic. He actually spent most of the first 10 minutes of the show telling various Conan-Leno-NBC jokes. It's too bad CRZ's "if it's on TV then it must be a work" rule doesn't apply here.
(paraphrasing)"Jay and I will be put in a cage with sharpened knives to fight to the death and the winner gets to leave NBC."
"Learn to love yourself... for it is the greatest love of all" - Jeremy Borash 11:24 AM May 13th,2009
Could be the case, the thought did cross my mind. Although this would likely cause more damage in the long run.
She didn't look pregnant, but it was shot so you couldn't really tell. My wife and I both thought she looked un-pregnant.
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Macon—The number of hybrid students (students taking some classes online) in Macon is growing, giving students more flexibility to accommodate family, jobs, and other personal issues.
Pictured are hybrid students (front row) Ashley Smathers, Kim Bostic, (back row) Tiquilla Spivey, Arielle Carroll and Campus Online Coordinator Megan Black. These students have developed time management and self–discipline skills to excel in their online classes as well as in the classroom.
Jackson—How can learning about computer security made to be fun? The Jackson Network Engineering students recently developed a "privacy monitor" using a pair of surgical goggles and a monitor that's viewable only by the person wearing the goggles.
Students removed the polarized screen from an LCD monitor, separating the polarized portion from the anti–glare matte film. Then they took the polarized film with the antiglare removed and retrofitted this to a pair of goggles. The result: a fully functional computer monitor that keeps prying eyes from seeing secure information.
Charleston—Therapeutic Massage students recently contributed their time for the Turkey Day Run at Marion Square Park in downtown Charleston. Kids visiting the booth received hand massages and the runners received services and coupons.
Richmond— Twenty–eight new members of Alpha Beta Kappa were tapped recently, the inaugural group of members for the new Virginia College campus. According to the website, Alpha Beta Kappa is the premier national honor society for America's private, postsecondary schools, institutes, colleges and universities. The purpose of the Society is to encourage and recognize superior student academic achievement, character, and leadership.
To be eligible for the Richmond chapter, students must have a cumulative 3.75 GPA and be within two terms of graduation.
Augusta— Students, staff, and faculty donated items to fill 86 shoeboxes for adults and children for a community Christmas project called ABC (Augusta Boxes for Christmas). Items were boxed and wrapped at a party complete with cookies, hot chocolate, and holiday music provided by IT Manager Phil Hadley. Fourth–graders at the Immaculate Conception school in downtown Augusta handmade Christmas cards to fill the boxes.
The shoeboxes were delivered to three local agencies: the Fisher House (guest residence for families of injured military members); the Jeffrey Chavis House (guest residence for families of burn survivors being treated at the Joseph M. Still Burn Center at Doctors Hospital); and the CSRA Economic Opportunity Authority, which places homeless families into shelters and temporary housing in 14 Georgia counties.
Also in Augusta, Medical Office Management student Natasha Miller and other Virginia College students recently teamed up with the Team Lean weight–loss competition at the YMCA in downtown Augusta. Read the story in the online edition of the Augusta Chronicle.
ATLANTA – Jan. 21, 2014 – AirWatch®, the largest Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) provider, announces the launch of Teacher Tools to empower teachers to manage mobile devices in the classroom. The application allows teachers to guide the learning experience effectively and improve classroom management, with features including All Eyes Up Front, Single Application Mode and Clear Passcode in an intuitive user interface.
As part of AirWatch for Education, Teacher Tools enables educational institutions to extend the real-time management capabilities used by IT administrators to teachers in a simplified interface. AirWatch’s multi-tenant architecture allows for simple management across students, classrooms, schools and districts. Teachers can associate each student with the assigned device and manage devices for different classes, groups of students or individuals.
The All Eyes Up Front feature helps teachers to orchestrate the classroom by locking devices during whole class instruction to ensure students are paying attention to the instructor and to remove device distractions. Single Application Mode supports the movement towards the flipped classroom by providing teachers with the opportunity to lock a student or a small group of students into an application selected by the instructor for a specified amount of time. The Clear Passcode function allows instruction to continue by enabling teachers to instantly clear and reset a passcode without having to lookup the device serial number.
“We are working with educators around the world to continually develop solutions that support the transformation of education,” said Preston Winn, director of business development for education, AirWatch. “We developed Teacher Tools to help ensure mobile devices become a powerful resource for educators instead of a hurdle for teachers. We are excited to be part of an ecosystem that is changing education worldwide. Our goal is that technology will fade into the background so that teaching and learning stay front and center.”
Teacher Tools is available on Apple iOS devices and joins AirWatch’s suite of tools for educational institutions. AirWatch Secure Content Locker™ distributes sensitive files, such as a textbook, syllabus or legacy content, to student and faculty devices. With the AirWatch Browser, IT administrators and teachers can whitelist or blacklist websites, ensuring students navigate only to approved sites, whether over cellular or Wi-Fi networks. AirWatch is committed to the education industry and has an education-specific research and development team to ensure the latest mobile technologies are utilized for schools. Education-specific pricing models and discounts are available through a dedicated team of account executives who understand the market.
AirWatch® is the world’s largest mobile security and enterprise mobility management provider with more than 1,600 employees across nine global offices. More than 10,000 organizations in 150 countries leverage the AirWatch Enterprise Mobility Management Platform, which includes industry-leading mobile device, email, application, content, laptop and browser management solutions. Organizations can implement these solutions stand-alone for unique Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) scenarios, in the dual persona AirWatch Workspace containerized solution, or as a comprehensive, highly scalable, enterprise-grade mobility platform. With the largest research and development team in the industry, AirWatch ensures the broadest mobile platform support, develops innovative solutions like AirWatch Secure Content Locker™, and integrates with the leading device manufacturers and technology solution providers in the mobile ecosystem.
If you are nostalgic for the original color of your phone and do not want the phone to be easily hurt, then I think you need a clear and transparent phone case. Ultra-thin and lightweight, round comfortable touch border, gives you an excellent user experience.
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Huge book sale! Break up the long cold winter by looking over hundreds of books to read while waiting for spring.
SUNY Oswego theater students work with crew from The Acting Company in February on the set shared by productions of Shakespeare's "Hamlet" and Tom Stoppard's tragicomedy "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead." The Acting Company has chosen SUNY Oswego to lead one of four regional consortiums in the famed touring troupe's new three-year performance and education initiative, featuring the Bard's "Julius Caesar" and a new play by Marcus Gardley based on the assassination of Malcolm X.
OSWEGO — The Acting Company has chosen SUNY Oswego as one of four lead institutions to participate in a new national performance and education initiative made up of colleges and universities, high schools and community organizations.
SUNY Oswego theater students work with crew from The Acting Company in February on the set shared by productions of Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” and Tom Stoppard’s tragicomedy “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.” The Acting Company has chosen SUNY Oswego to lead one of four regional consortiums in the famed touring troupe’s new three-year performance and education initiative, featuring the Bard’s “Julius Caesar” and a new play by Marcus Gardley based on the assassination of Malcolm X.
Under the lead of SUNY Oswego, Arizona State University, Towson University and University of Missouri-Kansas City, each consortium will offer professional development opportunities with playwrights, actors, designers, directors and educators over the next three years.
Partnering with SUNY Oswego in the Northeastern consortium are Hamilton College, Hobart and William Smith colleges and Le Moyne College.
“We’re delighted that our partnering colleges have been selected to participate in this groundbreaking regional residency model,” said John Shaffer, director of arts presentation at SUNY Oswego. “Over three years, there will be many opportunities to support both theater education and a broad range of initiatives in the humanities. The energy comes from the intentional pairing of plays — one classic and the other newly commissioned.”
Shaffer said representatives of The Acting Company and the four collegiate partners in the Northeast consortium are scheduled to gather for a planning conference Oct. 20 in SUNY Oswego’s Marano Campus Center, as part of the first year’s design and development process.
Oswego audiences will remember February’s residency and performances by The Acting Company — “Hamlet” and “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead” — at Waterman Theatre on campus.
The new consortiums’ initial performance and educational activities will focus on Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar” and a new play by Marcus Gardley based on the assassination of Malcolm X. The Acting Company commissioned the new play to launch the project.
“Race, religion, power, politics and rhetoric are central to both plays,” said Margot Harley, co-founder and producer of The Acting Company. “Ian Belknap, our artistic director, chose this repertory to encourage faculty to examine the causes and repercussions of assassination from historical, political and philosophical perspectives.”
Gardley is a multiple award-winning poet and playwright and a professor at Brown University. His play “On the Levee” was nominated for 11 Audelco Awards, including outstanding playwright, when it premiered at Lincoln Center in 2010.
The new initiative is designed to forge long-term relationships among The Acting Company, colleges and communities-at-large.
“This new initiative continues The Acting Company’s 42-year history as America’s leading national-touring repertory theater while adding new emphasis on developing concentrated and sustained relationships with schools and communities,” according to Earl D. Weiner, the company’s board chair.
Founded by Harley and the late John Houseman in 1972, the New York-based Acting Company has toured to 48 states and 10 foreign countries, earning a Tony Award for Excellence in Theater, Obies, Audelcos and Los Angeles Critics Circle Awards.
Actors Kevin Kline, Rainn Wilson, Patti LuPone, Cristin Milioti, David Ogden Stiers and Jesse L. Martin are among the hundreds of performers who began their careers on tour with The Acting Company.
ALBANY (April 20, 2010)— The Senate Agriculture Committee today voted to reduce taxes, fees and mandates for farmers and against a bill that would add new regulations and labor expenses. Sen. Darrel J. Aubertine as chair of the committee said today’s votes show a commitment to New York’s number one industry.
“Today’s votes were in support of our agriculture industry, the farmers, the farm workers and the consumers who enjoy locally grown, high quality and fresh New York produce,†Sen. Aubertine said. “Our farms are a critical piece of our economy, our stability, our security and our future. Protecting the bottom line for our farms is the best way to ensure that we have a safe, stable food supply that is produced responsibly here in New York.â€
The committee reported out the much needed Farmer Tax, Fee and Mandate Relief Act (S.6782) and voted down the hotly debated Farm Worker Fair Labor Practices Act (S.2247). The meeting was held at 9:30 a.m. in Hearing Room B of the Legislative Office Building.
The Farmer Tax, Fee and Mandate Relief Act, sponsored by Sen. Aubertine, will alleviate some of the costs and regulations that limit profitability and burden farmers.
This bill will help farmers ensure their land is recognized as part of an agricultural district, obtain tax credits for farm investments, exempt farm wineries from sales tax reporting requirements, ease corporation filing fees for farmers, ease payroll tax and vehicle supplemental registration fees within the Metropolitan Transit Authority service region, and reduce permit fees with the Department of Environmental Conservation.
“This bill will help farmers to raise their bottom line and increase the profitability of our farms,†Sen. Aubertine said. “Farmers are struggling in a system where they cannot set the price for their milk, fruits and vegetables to cover their costs, so the best way for us at the state level to help our farmers is to reduce costs. This bill addresses several different issues which will help our farms stay in business.â€
The Farmworker Fair Labor Practices Act would have imposed new regulations and mandates on farms large and small, with or without full-time employees, as well as add new costs such as additional overtime expenses.
Sen. Aubertine visited farms and met with agricultural interests across the state last fall to discuss agriculture issues, including this legislation, and held a public hearing in Watertown that included discussion on the issue.
The Senate Agriculture Committee held a public hearing on March 1 exclusively on this legislation to gather input from supporters and critics of the bill.
“This bill would have a dramatic negative impact on consumers, farm workers, and farmers in New York State,†Sen. Aubertine said. “We have taken every step to ensure that there has been a full, open and healthy discussion on this legislation before we vote on it. In this situation, we are seeing the process work. What must come out of this discussion is legislation that helps farmers, farm workers and consumers alike. I am of the opinion that this legislation does not accomplish that goal, and the vote today was a vote in support of farm workers, consumers and farmers alike.â€
“We need to do everything we can to support agriculture and our Upstate economy,†said Sen. Catharine M. Young, Ranking Minority Member of the committee. “Our farmers already operate under many costly and burdensome regulations. Our farm workers are protected under these regulations and for that reason I am voting no. We need to do everything we can to rebuild the economy and that means doing what we can to support agriculture.â€
“Our agricultural industry is one of the driving forces of the state’s economy,†said Sen. David J. Valesky of Oneida. “Though well-intentioned, I believe this legislation would irreparably damage the industry’s viability and hurt the very workers it seeks to protect. We must enforce the laws that are already on the books, not add new regulations that burden law-abiding farmers.â€
“The farm families of New York Farm Bureau are hugely grateful to Senator Aubertine for his leadership during debate of this bill that surely would’ve wrecked our industry,” said Dean Norton, president of New York Farm Bureau. “Senator Aubertine led a careful and thorough debate that gave full consideration of the viewpoints of the agricultural community. We spoke out loud and large against this bill and Senator Aubertine heard our voice. We are hopeful that from here on out, Albany takes on legislation—including the Farm Tax, Fee and Mandate Relief Act—that will help our industry prosper and grow to the benefit of the Upstate rural economy and the farm towns of Long Island.”
FULTON, NY – Financial donations and volunteer help are needed for this year’s Community Thanksgiving Dinner to be held on November 22 from noon until 2 p.m. at First United Church of Fulton at 33 S. Third St., Fulton.
The free sit-down dinner is open to everyone and features a complete Thanksgiving menu and an opportunity for good food and fellowship.
Checks can be sent to the First United Church of Fulton, 33 S. Third St., Fulton, NY 13069; interested volunteers may call dinner chairperson Carol Dexter at (315) 592-5162.
An organizing committee consisting of representatives of several Fulton churches and the Salvation Army is busy planning the seventh annual dinner.
”It has become such a community effort and a wonderful holiday tradition,” Dexter explained. “More than 200 meals were served last year.”
The Fulton Lions Club installed its new slate of officers for 2011-12 and presented club awards for the 2010-11-club year at their June 9 meeting.
The 2011-12 Fulton Lions Club officers and board members installed at the club’s June 11 meeting are, from front left: Robert “Chip” Pierce, second vice president; James Sokolowski, president; and David Dingman, first vice president. Back row, from left: Charles McIntyre, tail twister; Kenneth Ruscitto, third vice president; Theresa Stephens, treasurer; Jacqueline Zaborowski, secretary; Michelle Stanard, assistant secretary; Brett Tallents, two-year director; Fred Aldrich, immediate past president; and Leonard Kellogg, past president and Melvin Jones Fellowship Award winner.
James Sokolowski succeeds Fred Aldrich as president. Other officers installed included: David Dingman, first vice president; Robert Pierce, second vice president; Kenneth Ruscitto, third vice president; Jacqueline Zaborowski, secretary; and Theresa Stephens, treasurer. Other officers installed include: Steve Chirello, membership chair; Michelle Stanard, assistant secretary; Deana Michaels, assistant treasurer; Ronald Browning, lion tamer; John Hansen, assistant lion tamer; Charles McIntyre, tail twister; Kathleen Knopp, assistant tail twister; Brett Tallents and William Conners, two-year directors; and McIntyre and Leonard Kellogg, one-year directors. Lion Robert Seibert of Liverpool, past Lions International director and past district governor, presided over the installation.
“Three outstanding Lions received some of Lions Clubs International’s most prestigious awards,” Sokolowski said. “Leonard Kellogg was the recipient of a Melvin Jones Fellowship Award, Steve Chirello received the Distinguished Service Award and Jesse Yardley received a Presidential Citation.
“A Melvin Jones Fellowship is the highest honor that Lions International can bestow. This award recognizes a person’s commitment to humanitarian service. Lion Kellogg, a past president and longstanding member, is always there to help on every project and he is an ‘anchorman’ for Lionism in Fulton.
Lion Past President Leonard Kellogg, right, receives Lions Clubs International’s Melvin Jones Fellowship from Fulton club President Fred Aldrich. A Melvin Jones Fellowship is the highest honor that Lions International can bestow, Aldrich said. This award recognizes a person’s commitment to humanitarian service.
“Lion Steve Chirello has been a member of the club for 29 years and has co-chaired our White Cane Sale for many of those years with his father, Past President Leo Chirello. In addition, Steve handles public relations for the club and chairs the Oswego Falls Park Clean-Up Project every year.
“Lion Yardley has been a member of the club for more than 27 years and has assisted or run our Sight and Hearing committee for much of that time. This year alone, our club has donated $7,000 in new eyeglasses and eye exams thanks to Jesse’s management of that program.
“Chartered in 1953, our club continues to be the largest and most active in our district with 50 active members. We look forward to our Labor Day Duck Derby to kick-off our next year of service to the greater Fulton community and our annual Lions Loot Sweepstakes in October.”
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This paper contain the results of multi-annual study on the optimization of inhibition capacity determination, obtained after statistical processing of empirical data from 2008-2017. Thereafter of statistical processing of multi-annual data, it was proposed the average value of fading speed of PNDMA indicator in distilled water, that optimize computation of the inhibition capacity of waters.
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Mr. Li Qing (“Mr. Li”), he is currently the chairman of the board of directors of SFund International. Prior to joining SFund International, he worked as a deputy general manager and general manager in Lianyun Gangshi Runbang Zhiye Company Limited*（連雲港市潤邦置業有限公司）from January 2008 to January 2013. He was then the general manager and chairman in Hunan Huiyin Tianxing Private Equity Investment Fund Co., Ltd*（湖南匯垠天星股權投資私募基金管理有限公司）from November 2014 to October 2016.
Mr. Li graduated from the faculty of music in Minzu University of China （中央民族大學）in June 2001. He received a master’s degree from the Musikakademie der Stadt Kassel in Germany in September 2004. Mr. Li has over 10 years of experience working in senior management roles in real estate investment and fund management.
Ms. Au Hoi Lee Janet (“Ms. Au”), she is the investment director in SFund International since June 2017. Prior to joining SFund International, Ms. Au had work experience in the financial services industry at The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. from July 2000 to October 2002 and Morgan Stanley Asia Limited from August 2008 to April 2009 and from September 2009 to April 2013. Ms. Au then worked as the deputy general manager at WH Group Limited (a company on the Stock Exchange; stock code: 288) from May 2013 to October 2014 and the chief financial officer and director of Eddingpharm International Holdings Limited from November 2014 to March 2016, and Ms. Au worked as a consultant at Baring Private Equity Asia Limited from October 2016 to May 2017.
Ms. Au obtained a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Rochester in May 2000. Ms. Au received a master of business administration degree from the Columbia University in May 2008. Ms. Au has over 15 years of experience in mergers & acquisitions and corporate management.
Ms. Zhang Feiyang (“Ms. Zhang”),she is also a member of the Remuneration Committee of the Company. Ms. Zhang worked in the finance department in New Hope Liuhe Company Limited*（新希望六和股份有限公司） (formerly known as Sichuan New Hope Agribusiness Co., Ltd.*（四川新希望農業股份有限公司）(a company listed on the Shenzhen stock exchange; stock code: 876) from July 2002 to October 2009. She then worked in the finance department in Sichuan Languang Development Co., Ltd.*（四川藍光實業集團有限公司）(a company listed on the Shanghai stock exchange; stock code: 600466) from October 2009 to March 2013. Ms. Zhang worked as a finance manager in Chengdu Rural Commercial Bank Co., Ltd.*（成都農村商業銀行股份有限公司）from October 2014 to April 2017. During December 2016 to April 2017, she was seconded to Wudi Zhongcheng Village Bank Company Limited*（無棣中成村鎮銀行股份有限公司）, an affiliate of Chengdu Rural Commercial Bank Co., Ltd., working as a general manager in the financial department.
Ms. Zhang graduated from Southwestern University of Finance and Economics（西南財經大學）with a bachelor of accounting degree in July 2002 and an executive master of business administration degree in December 2014. She has more than 10 years of experience in working in finance management in listed companies.
Mr. Lam Chi Hung Louis (“Mr. Lam”), is an independent non-executive Director. He is also the Chairman of the Remuneration Committee and a member of the Audit Committee of the Company. Mr. Lam has been the managing director and founder of LR Construction Technologies Limited since August 2012 and the managing director and co-founder of LR Construction and Consultancy Limited since April 2012. He is also currently the managing director and co-founder of LR IOT Limited (formerly known as Alternative Turbine Technologies Limited) since May 2009. He is also currently an independent non-executive director of In Construction Holdings Limited (a company listed on the Stock Exchange; stock code: 1500). From 1976 to 1987, Mr. Lam was a lecturer in the Department of Civil and Structural Engineering of the University of Hong Kong. From November 1996 to August 2004, Mr. Lam was a principal lecturer of the Vocational Training Council.
Mr. Lam obtained a bachelor of science in engineering degree from the University of Hong Kong in November 1969. In November 1972, he received a PhD from the University of Hong Kong. Mr. Lam was admitted as a member of The Institution of Civil Engineers in July 1975 and he was also admitted as a member of The Hong Kong Institution of Engineers since November 1975 and is also a registered professional engineer of Engineers Registration Board.
Mr. Hung Kin Man (“Mr. Hung”), is an independent non-executive Director. He is also the Chairman of the Nomination Committee and a member of the Audit Committee of the Company. Mr. Hung has been practising as a barrister in Hong Kong since 1992. Mr. Hung has been a Deputy District Court Judge in Hong Kong since March 2015.
Mr. Hung received his bachelor of law degree from the Wolverhampton Polytechnic in England in July 1990. He was called to the Bar in England and Wales and Bar of Hong Kong.
Mr. Ho Man (“Mr. Ho”),is as an independent non-executive Director. He is also the Chairman of the Audit Committee and a member of both the Remuneration Committee and Nomination Committee of the Company. Mr. Ho has over 19 years of working experience in private equity investment and finance and is currently the managing director of an investment holding company. Prior to that, Mr. Ho served as an executive partner representative of a Chengdu-based private equity investment fund from December 2011 to May 2014. Mr. Ho worked for a Hong Kong-based private fund management company during January 2010 to December 2013 and was the managing director and head of China growth and expansion capital of CLSA Capital Partners from August 1997 to October 2009. Mr. Ho was a non-executive director of SCUD Group Limited (stock code: 1399) from December 2006 to October 2009 and Shanghai Tonva Petrochemical Co., Ltd. (stock code 1103, currently known as Shanghai Dasheng Agriculture Finance Technology Co., Ltd) from September 2008 to October 2009, both being companies listed on the Main Board of the Stock Exchange. He was an independent director of Shenzhen Forms Syntron Information Co. Ltd (stock code: 300468. SZ), a company listed on the ChiNext of Shenzhen Stock Exchange, from February 2012 to February 2018.
Mr. Ho has been an independent non-executive director of Fantasia Holdings Group Co., Limited (stock code: 1777) since October 2009; an independent non-executive director of Fu Shou Yuan International Group Limited (stock code: 1448), since December 2013; an independent non-executive director of CIMC-TianDa Holdings Company Limited (stock code: 445) since July 2015; an independent non-executive director of Momentum Financial Holdings Limited (stock code: 1152) since November 2016; and an independent non-executive director of Wanjia Group Holdings Limited (stock code: 401) since February 2018, all being companies listed on the Main Board of the Stock Exchange.
Mr. Ho has been a director of Shenzhen Daxiang Space Construction Co., Ltd., (stock code: 836604), a company listed on the National Equities Exchange and Quotations, since September 2015.
Mr. Ho was awarded an Executive Master of Business Administration degree from Tsinghua University and a master’s degree in finance from the London Business School. He is also a Chartered Financial Analyst and a Certified Public Accountant.
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Exception...yeah Ambrosia, anyone? Wait...didn't someone do that earlier in this comic...OH YEAH! Hades did :P
Haha I was just thinking about this comic this morning. I was happy when I saw the update. Hades is such a good person :3
Maybe that's why Poseidon was all "Zeus is going to hurt Hades, OMG, I have to do something!" in My Seasons...
There's a spelling error on this page. You wrote, "Is just that...", it's suppose to be "It's just that..." "It's" not "is". Hope that helped. ^^
@ Armathos [the one who commented WAY before me]: ooh!*raises hand* I want Ambrosia! I got Nectar here.
Hades I know your the lord of the underworld and stuff like that but awwwwwwwwwwwwwwww your soo sweet help your brother
Le gasp! I think I know why Hades is sad and tired and is looking for an exception for getting Poseida's soul back! I believe that this occurs in the time skip in MYth: Seasons! Zeus did, well... /that/ to Demeter, so she's gone, and Hades knows that Poseidon likes Poseida, so he's looking for a way to bring her back so that Poseidon won;t suffer through what he had to suffer through!
Hades... Is he really in love with Persephone, I meen... he could be a perfect Yaoi coupple with Thanatos ^_^
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Organ donation can save lives. At the same time, the decision usually comes at the worst possible time: Namely, when an organ in the first place out of the question – after a serious, fatal accident. Continue reading Organ Donation
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Here you will find the basic rules and guidelines that will e used by DVFL in league and tournament games. Any rules not mentioned or modified here will follow the official FIFA Futsal rules.
Players need to have same color uniform, shinguards and non-marking shoes - no sweatpants allowed for players on the field, the exception is the goalie only when playing as a goalie
If the requesting team gets the opposing coach to agree with the change and can also provide a suitable gym to play the rescheduled game. This rescheduled game needs to be coordinated with DVFL at least 72 hours before the original game time or it may be considered a forfeit. If the teams do not agree on a date that needs to happen 48 hours preceeding play-off or points-based games for the age group, both teams will forfeit.
No reschedule will be allowed to happen during the 48 hours preceeding play-off games for the age group
Game will start on time - no time for warming up inside the courts - teams need to be ready to play when entering the court
The clock will keep running except for either team timeout, injuries, or timeout requested by Referee
To start the game, each team will need to field at least 3 players. The referee will give a 5-minute grace period - COUNTED FROM THE TIME THE GAME WAS SCHEDULED TO START. After the 5 minutes, it will be considered a forfeit and this will award a 3x0 win to the opposing team. If both teams are not able to field 3 players to start the game, both teams will forfeit the game. There will be no score posted and no points will be awarded to both teams.
The total points will be considered for the final classification of the teams. In case of more than one team with the same number of points, the following tie break rules will apply:
NO PLAYER will be allowed to play for more than one team within the same age group - NO EXCEPTIONS! A player may play in multiple teams during a season, if the teams are playing on different age groups.
Players can be added to the roster anytime during the season, up to a maximum of 12 players. In order to be eligible to play, a player registration needs to be completed (signed release form and registration fee) and received by the League at least 48 hours before the weekend. Email league coordinator [email protected] / [email protected] to get the link to register player online.
Substitutions are made "on the fly" during the whole game and there are no limits to the number of substitutions that your team can make. There are specific rules that your team needs to follow:
Substitutions should occur in the area in front of the team's bench and it should NEVER obstruct the opponent's play
In case of violation of these rules, the Referee will first warn the coach and if subsequent infringements occur, the player entering the court will be cautioned with a yellow card
If the player taking the kick-off, touches the ball twice, an indirect kick will be awarded to the opposing team
Ball hitting the basketball hoop - the restart may be a goal kick or a corner depending on the player that last touched the ball before it hit the basketball hoop
Fouls - direct free kicks. There are some infringements that, if committed by one team, will award the other team with a direct free kick. These infringements are cumulative per half. Once the number of fouls reaches 5, the Referee will alert both coaches and any subsequent foul will award the opposing team with a direct free kick from the second penalty mark (no wall allowed). Players must stay behind the line of the ball. The infringements are:
Sliding (goal keeps can slide but only sideways and inside their goal area. NO SLIDE-TACKLE IS ALLOWED)
If the goalie throws the ball (in a goal clearance) directly over the half line (EXCEPTION U18 or HS and up)
Passing the ball back to the keeper - when the keeper releases the ball, the ball CANNOT be passed back to the keeper, unless:
Even in these situations, if the ball is passed back to the keeper, he/she is NOT allowed to touch the ball with his/her hands
Every start/restart of the game needs to be done within 4 seconds and the keeper is only allowed to have the ball for 4 seconds
Goal clearance - when the ball goes out of bounds (behind goal line) and it is not a corner kick situation - the restart is called goal clearance and the keeper has to use his/her hands to release the ball. The ball has to clear the penalty area in order to be considered in play
In a goal clearance, the ball cannot be thrown directly over the half line (EXCEPTION U18 and HS and up) - it needs to either touch a player or its own court. If the ball is thrown ove the half line, an indirect free kick, taken from the half line, will be awarded to the opposing team
When the keeper saves the ball, he/she is allowed to roll the ball and driblle or kick it - NO PUNT ALLOWED, NO INTENTIONAL BOUNCE ALLOWED
Any player receiving a red card will be automatically suspended from his/her team's next game - suspension may be increased depending on the severity of the situation. League decision is final and not subject to appeals
Any player receiving 3 yellow cards will be automatically suspended from his/her team's next game. On the following game, the player is allowed to play and the number of yellow cards will be zeroed out
If the game finishes in tie, two 5-minute extra times will be played. The cummulative fouls and timeout requested by coaches will be carried over to this overtime.
When the first 5-minute extra time finishes, the players will simply change court sides but there is no break and the game needs to re-start immediately.
If the two 5-minute extra times finish in a tie, the match will be decided with pk's - 3 players (that were inside the court) will be selected by each team for 3 pk shots each team
If the 3 initial pk-shots end in a tie, the pk shots will continue alternating players from the roster until a winner is decided
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Are you a parent, coach or a beginner who is looking for easy tips on pitching the fastpitch? Is the fastpitch softball technique proving to be a daunting task for you?
If that is the case, then this simplified step by step guide is yours. I understand how this can be confusing and that is why I have compiled the necessary steps. I believe that they’ll be significant for any beginner or a coach overseeing the training.
It is essential to understand that learning is a process and your success as a pitcher will demand dedication and consistency.
In this article, I’ll focus on the windmill pitch. It is the most common aspect of fastpitch that is a base for the mastery of other pitches. With the windmill, you will not only learn fastball but also get to quickly do the drop ball, the curve, the screwball, and a riser.
Here I outline in simple everyday terms, the six steps that form our tips to a successful pitching of fastpitch softball. Read through and try out and before long, you will be on your way to becoming a great fastpitch softball player.
In my opinion, the best ball to use as a beginner is the four-seam ball. It is most suited to fastpitch strikes because of its incredible spin and speed.
Take the four-seam ball and find one of the “C”- like seams. Place three fingers on top. The ‘C’ should face out, away from you. The thumb should be in position, directly below the middle finger.
Let the small finger lightly touch the ball on the side. With your fingers securing the ball, curl them so that it is within the arc of your palm. The space left by the curl will significantly increase the spin.
Getting the correct stance will dictate how fast you learn the fastpitch. On the rubber/ plate, stand with your feet close, parallel to your shoulder. Put your push-off foot on the rubber, right or left, depending on the hand you use to pitch.
Let your foot touch the front of the rubber and ensure your toe is pointed towards the rubber. Put the heel of the other foot just behind the rubber.
As a beginner, you get the best chance of a successful pitch by ensuring that the front foot is in the center rubber and the heel just touching it. The toes of the other leg(glove side) should contact the rubber but not go beyond.
Without shifting the position or weight of your body, hold the ball lightly in your hand, level to the chest. See to it that the shoulders remain relaxed and in their natural position.
Now lift your arm (pitching arm) to be in line with your shoulder. This action starts the arm swing. Lift your push-off foot by the heel off the rubber. Your body weight now shifts to the other leg.
Meanwhile, drop your arm in a swing all the way to the back, parallel, in a way, to the ground. The motion is then reversed, swinging the arm in a forward motion and then up, completing a ‘circular’ move.
Your pitching arm should now be extended overhead ready for the pitch. At this point, turn your arm so that the ball faces away from the catcher. The glove-side arm should be pointing toward the catcher.
Take a step by pushing your left foot off the rubber. Open up your body while maintaining the balance by steadying your shoulders and ensuring your head does not drop or wobble.
Outstretch the glove side arm to increase stability and deliver extra strength into the strike. All the while, your front foot should be 90° from the catcher. You should aim at snapping the ball towards the catcher. Pull your arm down and then extend it toward the target.
Do not step backward or sideways as you release the ball. When the windmill motion is hip level, release the ball with a spin.
Just before you strike, snap your wrist forward in a jerking motion. This instantaneous movement helps you create speed, and the ball leaves the grip with a ferocious spin.
The ball is rolled as it gets released by the finger curl. One thing to note here is that you should not get out of step or the motion may disrupt trajectory and lead to a weak strike.
After you hit the strike, finishing becomes the last movement of the fastpitch softball using the windmill technique. It is often called the follow through. You are supposed to stay focused on the pitch till it lands.
When the strike hits the target, retract your arm, swinging it back towards yourself and rest it at chest level. It is advisable not to stop arm movement till it’s the chest. If you do, it may lead to muscle strain.
If you don’t generate enough speed and a better spin, retrace your steps paying attention to the grip and stance. Hold at the end.
The best way to handle the fastpitch technique is to have enough practice on the windmill motion. It is essential because it helps strengthen the hand muscles and gives you flexibility.
For a beginner, practicing using a fence or a wall offers a higher chance of doing as many exercises as possible. Whenever you want to have a go, ensure you have at least ten balls with you. More importantly, understand your body well.
You should know your strengths so that you utilize them. Furthermore, before getting onto the field, ensure you have warmed up properly. The muscles need to be entirely in shape to avoid unnecessary injury.
If you are learning fastpitch, you are on your way to becoming a softball great. I hope this guide makes you better.
This book explores the law relating to the right to liberty of people with mental illness and international human rights standards.
It is also a manifesto for change, urging reconsideration of the protection and promotion of the human rights of people with mental illness.
From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Jay Crownover, comes the second book in a combustible new series, Welcome to the Point, that is sexier, darker, and better than ever. There's a difference between a bad boy and a boy who is bad. . . . Welcome to the Point. In a dark and broken kingdom, a ruler has be fearless to control the streets and the ruthless people who run them.
Places like The Point will always have bad things and bad people, but the man in control of all that badness can minimize the devastation.
Race has a plan, but can he prevent total annihilation without destroying himself?Brysen Carter has always seen the real Race-a guy too pretty, too smooth, and way too dangerous.
Too bad Brysen faces a threat close to home that might be more dangerous than anything The Point has ever produced.. And the only person interested in keeping her safe is the one man she can't allow herself to have. Sometimes being bold is the only way to stay alive.
Terror swiftly engulfs the country as Napoleon's army marches on Russia, and the lives of three young people are changed forever.
The stories of quixotic Pierre, cynical Andrey and impetuous Natasha interweave with a huge cast, from aristocrats and peasants to soldiers and Napoleon himself.
In War and Peace, Tolstoy entwines grand themes - conflict and love, birth and death, free will and faith - with unforgettable scenes of nineteenth-century Russia, to create a magnificent epic of human life in all its imperfection and grandeur. Anthony Briggs's superb translation combines stirring, accessible prose with fidelity to Tolstoy's original, while Orlando Figes's afterword discusses the novel's vast scope and depiction of Russian identity.
This edition also contains appendices, notes, a list of prominent characters and maps. 'A masterpiece ... This new translation is excellent' - Anthony Beevor
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Our tender needs around £50,000 of materials and labour to see it completed and run behind 'The Unknown Warrior', the new National Memorial Engine. We’ve launched our 'Tenner for the Tender' appeal to help raise this.
You can immediately donate £10, or any amount above this, online via PayPal. You do not need to create a PayPal account to do this. Alternatively you can make a pledge now and send your donation to us by cheque. Details of how do do this will be given on the next page, once you have confirmed your details and donation amount.
Crown stays all drilled and we have now moved onto drilling the 1,600 side stays. Trial fitting of the copper firebox will then follow.
I have said before that building a full size steam locomotive is not an easy task. The past 3 months have been one of increasing frustration due to delays in supply of parts from suppliers or poor quality work which has led to the rejection of a number of components that were not of sufficient quality to be used on The Unknown Warrior. This will have an effect on the assembly of the locomotive as the parts are long lead time replacements.
Firstly, an apoligy from me for the delay in posting this up-date. The reports are created around the schedule for our Warrior Newsletter, for this up-date I just forgot to post it on the web-site!
Board Members inspect progress on the boiler at West Shed, Sat 27th January prior to a board meeting. Photo – Kevin West
Just a quick end of year report majoring on progress on the Boiler at Heritage Boiler Steam Services.
Recent work has seen the final fitting of the four brackets and mountings for the Main Reverser Shaft, the two brackets for the Inside Expansion Link and the single bracket for the Intermediate Reverser Shaft.
The foundation ring has now been riveted to the inner firebox at LNWR Heritage at Crewe. This is the final job that LNWR has undertaken on the new Patriot Boiler before it moves to a new contractor.
Contracts were signed with our new boiler contractor on 10th November, and further details will be announced soon.
Following the decision by LNWR Heritage to end all sub-contract work, the workload for the engineering team has increased substantially. This has impacted in several areas, including the time that would normally have been spent compiling these engineering updates. I hope that the workload will reduce in the coming months so the frequency of the reports will become more frequent.
This report starts with the good news that Chris Collins has returned to work at Llangollen following his medical issue earlier in the year.
A different view of the Unknown Warrior inside the shed at Llangollen. March 2017.. Photo – Kevin West
Unfortunately, I have to start this report with some very un-welcome news. Chris Collins, one of the 2 Llangollen Railway Engineering engineers that is working on The Unknown Warrior has suffered a heart attack and has subsequently spent some time in hospital. I am sure everyone will join us in wishing Chris a speedy recovery and look forward to seeing him back at Llangollen as soon as possible.
Members listen to the presentation during Members Day at Llangollen Works, 25th June. Photo – Kevin West
Following on from the fitting of the Bogie at Tyseley on 4th February, work has continued on preparations to fit the Valve and Cylinder Liners.
Following the fitting of the bogie to The Unknown Warrior at Tyseley Locomotive Works in early February 2016 we are pleased to be able to publish these photos of The Unknown Warrior.in the yard at Tyseley.
The Unknown Warrior stands in the yard at Tyseley Locomotive Works, 4th February 2016. Photos by Kevin West
Work continues on the construction of The Unknown Warrior at number of locations. The construction of a steam locomotive of any size is a complicated engineering task and the past few weeks have proved to be just that. While it may appear that not a lot is happening above the surface, in fact the 8 legged duck is paddling furiously although perhaps not all in the same direction!
The Unknown Warrior takes a rest at Donnington Services during its movement from Barrow Hill to Tyseley, 29th September. Photo – Kevin West
The major work of permanent fitting the cylinders and Motion Brackets to the locomotive has been completed.
The major work at present is the permanent fitting of the cylinders to the locomotive frame assembly.
The Unknown Warrior is a 3 cylinder locomotive after the fitting of the right hand cylinder at outside Llangollen shed. 23rd January 2015
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A 24-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of dangerous driving, after being pursued by officers through a Doncaster town in a dramatic high-speed chase that led on to the motorway.
Police were called at around 10.30am yesterday morning to reports a vehicle was driving dangerously in the Sprotbrough area.
A number of police resources became engaged in the pursuit of the vehicle, a blue Land Rover, which lead onto the A1M southbound carriageway.
There were several minor collisions involving the Land Rover and other vehicles during the course of the pursuit, including two police cars.
A 24-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of driving over the prescribed limit, theft of a motor vehicle, failing to stop and dangerous driving.
Becca, Alyssa, and Lauren Barlow were best known to the world as BarlowGirl. For years, the three sisters from Elgin, Illinois lived together, worked together, worshiped together and made incredible music together with an during that time, they helped kick open the door for female-fronted Christian rock bands.
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Neptune is the planet of cosmic responsibilities, and what we might call karma. And it's the part of us that knows we are part of something timeless. Neptune is the dreamweaver, too, guiding to a higher vision.
Neptune is in Pisces from 2011 to 2026, for an atmosphere of fluid reality, dissolving and heightened imagination. It's also a transit for mass hysteria or hallucinations, and entrancement in a dream or nightmare. Pisces is the last sign of the Zodiac, one of spiritual yearning, and a sense of the otherworldly.
Astrologer Marguerite Manning has insights on how Neptune gives nudges about karma, such as unfinished business with other souls.
Where is your Neptune? You will need to find it on your birth chart. Marguerite Manning provides these gives notes on the transit of Neptune to the houses of your chart.
If you have Pisces in your first house, first impressions are going to have a deep and lasting effect on you when Neptune is transiting here. The karma is going to find its way back to you through your birth, your early childhood, your physical body, and the psyche. This is a great time for these people to get in touch with the psychic part of themselves. They can serve emotionally by getting away from their own feelings, and tapping into their psychic ability to help others.
Keeping in mind that Neptune is coming back as karma and it’s in the first house, there’s got to be a willingness to adapt to the idea of getting out of your own emotions and trying to be some kind of psychic vehicle for others at this particular time.
With Pisces in the second house, your karma is going to find its way back to you through money, material possessions, and all issues regarding self-worth. Keeping your financial affairs in order is going to be difficult for you right now because you’re being asked to address what is your value, what do you find worthwhile about yourself.
Your self-worth is going to be in some way, based on your faith and compassion, and your imagination and psychic ability are going to have to come into this to give you a clear idea of what your self-worth is and be able to address that.
If you have Pisces on the third house, your karma is going to find its way back to you through your early life, your siblings, and your early education. You might start seeing classmates and neighborhood friends popping up. It’s going to bring back things that created your learning network, possibly from a past lifetime, and things that shaped your ideas and your thoughts, that made you feel like you were connected, or made you feel like part of the community.
You might be prone to periods of mental confusion around this time, maybe even mental laziness, or you might feel like you need to secretly communicate when Neptune is in the third house. You’re being asked to address language, how you communicate with people, and how effective is that now. If you were verbally abused, verbally denied, or educationally deprived in your last lifetime, you’re going to have to deal with that now.
How smart are you? Don’t compare yourself to brothers and sisters when Neptune is in the third house. There will be issues at this particular time, but it’s not about that. It’s about your own immediate environment and defining your network. What does your intellectual neighborhood really look like?
With Neptune Pisces coming into your fourth house, your home life may start to get a little more spiritual and there can be karmic issues, especially with your mother. There’s the possibility of feeling like you’re abandoned or orphaned. In a past life, maybe you were, and these issues are coming back for you to address and deal with them. You also may experience the worry over or loss of a parent or losing a parent.
Your relationship with a parent is going to change for the best or the worst. The karma with this parent is going to be brought forward, and you’re going to have to deal with it. Everyone has issues with their parents, that’s why they brought them into their lives. But if you haven’t been addressing them up until now, you will be forced to do so, as well as address your own role as a parent.
If you have Pisces on the fifth house, your karma is going to find its way back to you through your romances, and your creative self-expression, your children, and anytime you try to create or be creative. At this particular time, you have to be very careful not to be deceived or disillusioned in your romantic involvements, especially with any kind of risk-taking.
You’re being asked at this time to trust in your creative talents and not expect other people to take them to the end for you. You’re going to be forced to deal with your creative issues, whether they’re your own children or your own creative talents, not relying on anyone else to validate that in your life.
If it's coming through the sixth house, it’s going to be all about health, routines, exercises, and the way you serve or others serve you on a daily basis. This is a good time to find the perfect doctor for you if your eyes are wide open, otherwise, you may find a doctor who is a fraud. You’ve got to be cautious in this area of life.
If you’re being diagnosed for any condition, definitely get two opinions. Look at every possible option. You’re being asked to deal with the fears you have about your health and about your physical competence in this lifetime. It comes back to your work as it relates to your physical techniques, your physical competence, and what you’re physically capable of doing. This is a good time to find the perfect solution to perhaps a mysterious ailment that has been affecting you.
If you have Pisces on the seventh house, your partners, clients, and spouses are in your life because they’re either blessed or cursed. This is always where your karma is going to come through—your one-on-one relationships. When Neptune is traveling through in this life, even more so.
In the past, you might have denied your partners' flaws and shortcomings and now you’re going to have to deal with these partners that perhaps you’ve either enabled, or you have not seen for who they were. You are pulling all these people into your life because they are the people that you didn’t clearly address and acknowledge, either in your last life or earlier in this one. These are the people that you looked at with rose-colored glasses and now you’re being asked to look at them in a realistic way and decide if you want them in your life.
With Pisces on the eighth house, your karma is going to find its way back through your collective worth. It’s always about trust and sharing, and it’ll always seem fated. If you have Pisces here, you are a skilled manipulator in the handling of life and death resources and things that didn’t belong to you, which is why your own legacies and financial affairs can be deceptive or creatively inspired and miraculous.
Your past is going to come back here, depending on what you were in the past, either in miraculous windfalls or people trying to take money away from you. You’re meeting your own karma should deal with it on that level. You're being asked to look at it realistically and fix it. Miracles happen when you overcome that.
If you have Pisces on the ninth house, your spiritual insights often provide miraculous solutions that feel like divine intervention most of the time. That’s because your karma has a tendency to find its way back to you through your faith and your principles. In the past, you inspired others to move beyond their intellectual and spiritual boundaries. You’ll experience either great disillusionment or great inspiration to travel to a foreign country, unfamiliar territory, or to go meet new people or to start your own radio show.
When Neptune is traveling through here, you’re destined to take another look at what your boundaries are in this lifetime based on what you helped other people make their boundaries. Did you push the envelope for them or did you limit them? This is the time for you to realistically ask what your boundaries are, and where you can push the outside of the envelope. The ninth house is all about growing.
If you have Pisces on the tenth house, there’ll always be creative inspiration, secrecy, or behind the scenes kind of work connected to your profession, as your karma comes back to you in this life through your job, your reputation, and your career. In your last lifetime, you were abandoned, orphaned, or neglected by your father or authority figures and for that reason, you’re now prone to deep issues of parental loss and disappointment in this one.
You might have great difficulty relating to authority figures and getting the proper recognition you deserve when Neptune is traveling through the tenth house. The flipside is this is also a great time to get someone behind the scenes to pay attention to you. If you’re working your hardest your good fortune can really manifest when Neptune is going through this house, especially if you’re doing anything with underprivileged or the less fortunate in your work.
Pisces on the eleventh house means that your karma in this lifetime is destined to find its way back through your talented friends, gifted associates, and visionary colleagues. Your companions in this life can feel like they’re very inspirational and even clairvoyant, or they can be deceptive and manipulative. These people are going to come to your attention. You might find your way into spiritual clubs or secret meetings during Neptune's travel through the eleventh. Neptune is trying to get you back in touch with those friends who were visionary.
You might be coming back to those that tried to deceive you or take your crystals and do something harmful with them. You’ve got to be very careful. Neptune influence in that house is always going to feel very serendipitous. It’s always going to feel nostalgic when these people come back. Your soul is going to wonder where they have been for the past 2,000 years. You just have to be very cautious about being happy that these people are coming back to you, because they’re going to be coming back to you for a reason, in every house. They were your karma and right now, you can change that. If they are positive and good karma is coming back, you can embrace it, and if it is negative, you can see them realistically and cut the ties.
With Pisces on the twelfth house your karma will find its way back to you through emotional service to others and helping the less fortunate, which was a calling in a past lifetime. Some kind of painful loss led you to not be able to handle the harsh realities of life all that well and caused you to use either faith or your imagination, or any kind of other unconscious realm as an escape.
You emotionally isolated yourself rather than getting out there and doing the work you were supposed to. Now, you unconsciously avoid your mission to rescue others by becoming the victim or drop out yourself. When Pisces is traveling through this house, you’re not going to be allowed to do that. You’re not going to be allowed to go to those secluded places near the water unless it’s a place where people need your help. Because of these people, these real victims of the world, you’re not a victim of the world. They are looking for you and they’re going to find you now, so you can really step up to the plate, and choose how you want to serve them. Or, you can end up being their doormat.
You have a higher calling in life. For these13 years, you’re going to feel like every downtrodden and emotionally-deprived person is finding you. This is only because you’re not out there doing the job you’re supposed to be. You’re supposed to be helping them, so find a suitable volunteer job.
Tooth brushing is both an important functional life skill and an appropriate skill for school intervention. Other functional life skills like showering may be appropriate in residential settings, but it's necessary to remember that only a small minority of students are in residential placements In that way, tooth brushing is a pivotal skill in a way that will lead to success in other task analysis based skill programs. Once a student understands how completing one step leads to the next, they will more quickly acquire new skills.
First, you need to start with a task analysis, which lays out the discrete steps that a child must complete in order to complete the entire task. These need to be operationalized or described in a clear way that any two observers would see the behavior and identify it in the same way. Below is a straightforward task analysis.
Once you have a task analysis that fits your students need, you have to choose how you will teach it. Students with a significantly disabling disability may need either forward or backward chaining, teaching one or two steps at a time, mastering each before moving on, or your student may be able to learn the "whole task," using visual prompts, or even a list, for students with strong language skills.
Forward Chaining: Forward chaining is recommended for a student who is capable of learning multiple steps quickly, over a short span of time. A student with good receptive language may respond quickly to modeling and some verbal prompting. You will want to be sure that the student exhibits mastery of the first two or three steps without prompting before moving on, but you will be able to expand the steps quickly.
Backward Chaining: Backward chaining is recommended for students who do not have strong language. By performing the early steps hand over hand while naming them, you will be giving your student repeated practice in the steps for tooth brushing while building receptive vocabulary, and as you get closer to the end, you will withdraw prompting for the last steps, while keeping the reinforcement for completion closest to successful completion of the task.
Complete Task: This is the most successful with children with high functional skills. They may even be able to complete the task with a written checklist.
In each of these strategies, a visual schedule would be helpful. Creating a picture schedule with the student completing each step (heavily edited, of course,) is a very effective way to support student success. The visual schedule can be reviewed before you brush teeth or can be placed on the counter. Try using laminated pictures with a hole punched in the corner, bound with a binder ring. You could also make a "flip book" using two rings at the top of the pictures, having the students lift and flip each page.
In order to determine whether your student is making progress, you'll want to be sure you are not "over prompting" which may easily lead to prompt dependence.
Some cosmetic products, such as lipstick, nail polish, and mascara, relies on the use of a three roll mill for highly homogeneous and finely dispersed structure. Many types of mills providing high shear force are generally adopted machine in cosmetic industry. Among these, the three roll mill is the preferred mill since its advantages of uniformly applied shear force on the whole ingredients and adjustable product capacity by different designed size.
The lipsticks are generally manufactured in four stages: (1) pigment milling, (2) combination of pigment phase into the base, (3) molding, and (4) flaming.
Milling is to break up pigment agglomeration rather than to reduce particle size. A good rule of thumb of the pigment/oil ratio is to use two parts of oil for one part of pigment. The resultant paste can be passed through three roll mill till the satisfactory particle size (usually 20 micron).
Combination of pigment phase into the base is a simple procedure. The wax and oil phase are usually melted in a steam-jacketed kettle equipped with a single propeller agitator. Following this, the milled pigment phase is added.
Molding is by use of vertical split molds. Most lipstick formulations mold well between 75 and 85 C. Pre-heating the mold be around 35 C avoids the formation of “cold marks” on the stick, and holding the mold at a light angle to the vertical is a technique often used to avoid air entrapment. Rapid cooling after the mass is poured into the mold of important since it leads to a smaller, more uniform crystalline, structure, which, in turn, leads to better stability and gloss. Once cooled, the molds can be spit open and the sticks subjected on to the trays or some other suitable storage container until they are ready for flaming.
Flaming is a procedure for passing the molded stick through the flame of a gas burner, or series or burners, to increase the surface gloss. The flames are adjusted to a level just hot enough to just melt the surface of the stick.
The process of nail polish involves high-shear mixing. Pigment dispersion is the most important step. The finer the pigment is ground, the higher the gloss achieved, and the more stable the finished product. The required pigment is blended with nitrocellulose in a mix of bentone solution and plasticizer. The resultant is then ground through a three-roll mill, dried and “chipped” (i.e. split up into solid fragments). The color chips are blended in the desired shades and dissolved in the nitrocellulose solution (lacquer) using a high-shear mixing blade (Cowles) under flame-proof conditions. The temperature must be carefully monitored to avoid a large increase. The other solvents and additives are added when a uniform color has been achieved. Following this, the bentone is added and the viscosity adjusted by addition of lacquer or thinners. Specially, viscosity modifying additives are also required. The viscosity of nail polish is sometimes adjusted by adding small quantities of phosphoric acid or organic acids to modify the gelling system.
Yet again…I’m late on the trend train. Like, the train is in the next station late. Per usual for me. I’m not very trendy anyway, and on the rare times when I do get on with one I’m super late and usually on it’s way out.
One trend that I admired and never jumped on till this year was the fiddle leaf one. Funny that a plant can become a trend, right? But these plants with the beautiful large leaves are still everywhere:
I’ve noticed they come in two different forms – the more squatty version like this one that has much larger leaves:
And others have much smaller leaves but are taller and branch out into more of a tree shape. That one above was an IKEA find a few weeks ago and he was not in the best shape. Most of the leaves have some kind of damage but he’s doing much better so far.
The IKEA one was a super great price of only $13. I’ve never seen them for that low anywhere else, especially for the size. I got this one for our master bedroom last winter for a lot more than $13. ;) It is taller though:
This was my first fiddle leaf and I immediately started killing it. Like, right away. It’s leaves were dropping like flies and it was NOT happy in it’s new home.
So I started doing some pretty ingenious things to keep it alive…like watering it and making sure it had enough light. ;) Seriously, I think the key to these plants is LOTS of light. I’ve read they don’t like direct sun but mine looooove it.
As soon as I got this guy into the sun every morning he started doing great. Not before half of the leaves fell off though. Whomp. And now I water them about once a week – not a soak, just a good watering. Water and sun…who would have thunk it.
I’m not a clean freak by any stretch of the imagination but the leaves on this guy were grossing me out:
You can see the new leaves are bright and shiny. The old ones were filthy. I swear to you the rest of my house does not look like those leaves – I’m not sure what I did in the room that made them so dirty. Maybe because that window is open so much? I don’t know – the newer leaves that are about eight months old barely had any dust on them.
For real, I stood there and couldn’t believe I was dusting my plant leaves. Do most people do that? I don’t even know. I guess I’ve never had plants with leaves big enough to actually accumulate anything before.
I recently heard about a little trick to shine up the leaves and make them look brand new again. It sounded a little wacky to me but it worked – I just took a teensy dab of mayonnaise and wiped the leaves down:
I did this very gently by the way – the older leaves are nice and thick but I didn’t want to do any damage.
I have to admit it worked really well – the older leaves now match the glossier (more glossy?) new leaves:
You can see from the older pic above that the tree lost a TON of leaves. But you should have seen it before I figured out how to bring it back. :) It has grown quite a bit since then – both out and up.
I LOVE these plants now – I’m completely hooked. If I can find more at IKEA I’d like to get one more. Their big beautiful leaves are lovely:
A few of you have asked about the cats with this plant. I waffled back and forth about getting one because I read conflicting reports over the years. But I’ve found the cats don’t touch these plants. Our palms they chomp on like food but they’ve never shown any interest in these at all. Also, when the fiddle leaf is healthy it doesn’t seem to shed leaves…this one hasn’t lost one leaf since I brought it back to life.
Have you jumped on the fig train? Are you a plant person in general or no? I LOVE them and love having plants scattered throughout the house – they give it life! I’ve blogged about plants that are safe to have around cats (and easy to grow!) here and here. I think the key to most plants is the light – pay attention to what their needs are in that area and you’ll be good. Most of our plants I water every two weeks or so and they do wonderfully.
I have had my ikea fig for about a year, i was worried for $13 it wouldnt last, but knock on wood it seems to be the only plant i can keep alive.. yours look amzing
I've long admired the fiddle leaf fig tree, but since I haven't inherited my farmer-father's green thumb, I tend to stay away from indoor plants and only buy cut flowers from Trader Joes. I might just have to give it a try with such a great price at Ikea.
Love mine as well! After a little trial and error I finally have healthy plants. I water and clean the leaves in the shower. The spray nozzle is great for removing dust.
I got one (a small one like your small one) at Home Depot for $9.98! They had big ones for $20 something. I was a little concerned about it and our cat too but just like yours he doesn't touch it. I do keep a watch on him but so far he just loves the palms. I think cats like plants with "grass like" leaves.
Yes, total plant person!! I have many in every room of my home - none of these kind though! Next IKEA trip for sure! And yes, just last night I dusted one of my kitchen plants, LOL. Happens often, especially with animals in the home, and everything gets a good scrub down when I repot in the spring :-).
Did you prune to make yours branch or did you buy it more like a tree? I have two Home Depot FLFs, and they're pretty small now, but I want to be prepared for when they get to a size where I'd want to get them to branch. Do I encourage branching early or wait until it's closer to the desired height? Thanks!
I bought that one more like a tree so I'm not sure! I would say start now and see what happens. Let me know how it goes!
I got one at Home Depot this summer. It loved living on our back porch all summer. I worried when I brought it in, but I kept in on the same side of the house near a window and it is thriving. And yes, I dust the leaves too. My brother actually had a client of his years ago that made him clean all of her indoor plants occasionally with a rag dampened with milk of all things. It apparently made the leaves shiny. LOL
I too have jumped on the Fiddle Leaf Fig bandwagon....I learned from my first plant at Ikea that it does not require much attention...I was over watering it...leaves falling off....So with a bit of neglect and sun...they are doing better! Love the walls in your room!
I grew up washing plant leaves, so know the process. We didn't use mayo, but milk, for some reason. Maybe it's because we lived on a small dairy farm. :) Who knows? Your plant looks great, cat butt and all.
Oh my gosh, I haven't heard "fiddle dee dee" in so long. My grandmother used to say it all the time as her "F" word. LOL. She was a very dear person to me and I have many fond memories of her and summers baking in the kitchen. Thank you so much for making me smile and bringing back memories this afternoon. Fiddle dee dee, I miss hearing her voice. :)
I love the look of these plants and I know one would look lovely in my home. I got one from IKEA and, like you, immediately started killing it. Sadly, I never figured out exactly how much water/light it wanted and it is no more. I might try again if I find a good deal.
My mother has had a fig tree, affectionately named “Sir Isaac Newton” (get it? fig? fig newton?) that has been around since I was a little kid- it’s gotta be at least 20 years old now. But she’s carted it around through 6 moves and good ol’ Sir Isaac keeps going strong. He’s huge now, but seriously, he’s like a member of the family. Don’t know what we’d do without him. ;-)
Plant whore here. Rooms look naked without 'em. And I totally wash mine. I do the big leafed ones like you did, and smaller leafed ones, I stick in the sink and use the sprayer. I have yet to become a fiddle owner, though. I'm generally a solid five years behind the times.
Love, love, love my figs!! Just another tip. First, tho, yes people do dust their plant leaves. The lady at the nursery told me that some of the dust on the leaves is probably chert from when they were hauled from Florida (I guess they are all grown there?). Anyway, the dust prevents the leaves from absorbing as much sunlight as possible which is so necessary, especially in winter. I have never heard of the mayo thing. There is a whole chat board with an expert on fiddles on Garden Web. If you have any questions, you can find anything you ever wanted to know about them on that site. Also, about anything house related (don't let the name fool you). I even found out how to paint my front door a high gloss black on that site. It's really a great source of information.
That is too funny. I am also so behind on trends in fashion, decor, pretty much everything. I just claim to "stick with the classics" rather than following the trends. Makes me feel better. :) But I have two figs, also from Ikea. One is dying, the otter is thriving. I'm going to put it in the brightest window I can find and see if that helps!.
I don't have a fiddle leaf fig but I have had ficus trees for years. A couple of times a year I set them outside during a steady rain. It cleans the leaves beautifully and also flushes out the minerals that build up in the soil. Of course it won't work if you don't have drainage holes in the bottom of your pot.
I'd live a fiddle leaf fig for my dining room but haven't been able to find just the right size. Oh, and I think you are super trendy in your decorating.
I've been dying for one of these, but I am worried my cats might eat it-- well, just one rascally cat in particular. Maybe if I can find one that cheap it'd be worth a try!! Also... one of my chores as a kid was to wipe down the spider plant leaves with a sponge every Saturday. My mom was a bit of a neat freak, but it's recommended to do that if you have people with allergies in your house :)
How would you like to live where everything has dust like that on it every blasted day? Have never lived in such a blasted dusty dirty place in my life. I could dust all day and it's still dusty, arrrggghhh.
Sure wish we have an IKEA close so I could get one of those fiddle leaf figs. Never heard of them until I read your blog. Gorgeous plants, love both versions. Will have to check Home Depot next spring see if they have any. I grow plants outside just fine but tend to forget plants in house. You've really got me interested and all your commenters really whet my interest for them. I've heard of washing leaves for long time but then I'm an old lady, (74). Enjoy your blog so much. You are one heck of a ball of energy with all you do. Happy weekend and season
I have found that fiddle leaf figs are very easy to propagate using cuttings. My mom has one that is over 30 years old, and every time we move or a friend would like a fig we start a new one from it. If you're interested, search for "fiddle leaf fig cuttings"! It sure makes the price right!
When I was in school for interior design, I had an instructor who said that she used Saturday mornings to "dust her plants." :-D Just letting you know -- you're not alone! Lol...
I am a plant technician which means I take care of plants for a living. Fiddle Leaf figs have to have SUPER bright light or they will drop their leaves. They also are usually really root bound and need to be watered a lot! If you can give them bright light an lots of water they are very easy to care for. We always dust all of our plants. It is not just for looks.... dust build up reduces the amount of light that gets through and will eventually affect the health of the plant. Plants need light for photosynthesis and this is even more important when they are inside and usually getting less light than they would outside. We also use a spray wax called Pokon, just for plants, to give them a nice shine. This is just for looks, but it does make the plant look healthier. You sound like you have figured out how to take care of your plants, just like the professionals do!
Bacon and Barrels Festival - Things to do in San Diego This Weekend - May 30-June 1, 2014 - Thrillist
The Bacon and Barrels Festival is kicking off Friday night with an all-bacon VIP dinner prepared by Top Chef alum Brooke Williamson, plus beer and bourbon pairings from "Dr." Bill Sysak from Stone Brewing starting at 5:30pm. The festival itself takes place Saturday from 1-5pm at the Embarcadero Marina Park South with craft brews, wines from Santa Barbara wineries, bourbon, tequila, and Scotch, plus bacon-based foods from local chefs and live music from The Stone Foxes and Black Crystal Wolf Kids. Thrillist readers can enter the code MAJORBACON to get $15 off tickets.
All Weekend: This Saturday and Sunday, the Santee Street Fair and Craft Beer Festival will get started at 10am with 300 food and vendor booths, two stages with live music, carnival rides, and 40 taps of regional brews. When you pre-order your craft beer wristband online you also get free pizza from Dang Brother Pizza.
All Weekend: The 35th Annual Fiesta del Sol is happening in Solana Beach Saturday and Sunday from 9am-9pm at Fletcher Cove. There will be live music from more than 18 bands -- thanks to the Belly Up -- gourmet food trucks, beer, wine, and art vendors.
Saturday, May 31st: Herringbone is turning two and is celebrating by throwing a Brews & Grooves party. They are teaming up with Acoustic Ales and will have a variety of specialty beers on tap, along with music from The Yes Team, Ryan Hiller, and David Shyde, starting at 1pm. There will also be a special menu featuring flat breads, a two-handed burger, beer battered fish and chips, and beer brat and pretzel with beer mustard.
Sunday, June 1st: The Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon gets started at 6:15am at 6th and Quince and finishes up at K St and 13th. You can run a full marathon, half marathon, and relay with more than 10 stages set up throughout the course with local San Diego bands performing to keep you motivated.
If you’re familiar with Windows 8, you may know that Microsoft made it very easy to uninstall Modern mobile apps. In Windows 10, this capability has been extended to universal apps, of course. But it’s also available—gasp—for legacy desktop applications as well.
Note: Windows 10 actually prevents you from uninstalling some core built-in apps. To learn how to uninstall those apps, plase refer to Windows 10 Tip: Remove the Built-in Apps.
This is a fairly major change to Windows: in Windows 8—and in previous versions of Windows—uninstalling a desktop application requires you to know about and find the Programs and Features control panel. But Windows 10 makes this a bit easier.
For all Modern and universal Windows apps—save the built-in apps like Mail, Calendar, Microsoft Edge, Groove and others, which cannot be uninstalled—all you need to do is find the app’s tile or icon in Start or All Apps, right-click it (or tap and hold) and then choose “Uninstall” from the pop-up menu that appears.
Desktop applications do require an extra step. So while a universal app uninstall will happen immediately after that one prompt, uninstalling a desktop application this way will cause the familiar (to power users) Programs and Features control panel to appear. Then, you can uninstall the application from there.
Additionally, Microsoft offers a Settings interface for uninstalling apps (Modern, universal) and desktop applications. You can find that in Settings (WINKEY + I), System, Apps and Features.
Microsoft’s Xbox Spring Sale is in full swing right now, but the best Xbox deal is at Amazon: You can get Gears of War: Ultimate Edition (digital code) for just $10. And that gives you access to all of the previous Gears games for Xbox 360 (which work, or will work, on Xbox One with backwards compatibility plus the ability to be among the first to check out the Gears of War 4 Multiplayer Beta next month. What’s not to love?
In an interview with VentureBeat, Xbox product manager Jason Ronald said that Microsoft hears complaints about UWP games and their inability to customize v-sync. And it will eventually fix this, somehow.
“Some of the early feedback we’ve gotten from the first wave of UWP-enabled games is that people don’t like that v-sync is locked to the refresh rate of the monitor or that there’s a lack of support for Gsync and Freesync [options that intelligently output rendered images onto a monitor at the same rate as that graphics card,” he said. “We’ve taken that feedback, and we’re actively working on fixes that we’re testing with some of our first-party studios. We’ll be shipping these later this year.”
With Microsoft getting into the mobile OS virtual keyboard game with its Swiftkey purchase, Hub Keyboard app, and Word Flow keyboard app, it is perhaps not surprising that Google is making its own iOS keyboard too. The Verge reports:
Google has been developing a third-party keyboard for iOS that would put the company’s search engine in a highly used part of the interface.
The keyboard, which incorporates a variety of search options, has been in development for months, according to people familiar with the matter.
The Google keyboard incorporates a number of features meant to distinguish it from the stock iOS keyboard. Like its Android counterpart, the Google keyboard for iOS employs gesture-based typing, so you can slide your finger from one letter to the next and let Google guess your intended word. Tap the Google logo and you can access traditional web search. It also appears to have distinct buttons for pictures and GIF searches, both presumably powered by Google image search. The keyboard is visually distinct from the standard Android keyboard, which incorporates voice search but no text or image-based searching.
Apple iPhone owners who updated their device to iOS 9.3 are being notified via text message of AT&T’s international Wi-Fi calling feature, a service that allows users to place calls to — and receive calls from — the U.S. without incurring airtime charges.
The U.S. wireless provider said its latest carrier software update extends months-old Wi-Fi calling capabilities beyond domestic borders. The feature is sure to be well received by jet-setters keen on avoiding high international roaming charges. AT&T notes calls to and from international numbers will be charged at rates commensurate to a customer’s smartphone package or international calling plan.
This week’s release of iOS 9.3 was accompanied by new versions of Xcode (7.3), Apple’s Mac-based developer environment, and Swift (2.2), its new (and open-sourced) C-like programming language. As the Swift blog notes, Swift 2.2 comes with a number of new features, one of the more interesting is Linux support.
Binaries for Ubuntu 14.04 and Ubuntu 15.10 are now available for download. This should reach an audience of about 11.
Fellow Tibians, besides the new Webinterface and the action bars we have also redesigned our Store. Inspired by the Flash client, every item is now directly displayed.
Additionally, we are going to introduce two new blessings: Once implemented, you will be able to obtain the "Heart of the Mountain" and the "Blood of the Mountain" blessing. Besides the five regular ones, you are now able to further protect your character with these two blessings. Both can either be purchased in the Store or obtained directly in Tibia from two new NPCs. Already existing NPCs that are selling the regular blessings will provide you with further information about their new colleagues.
Being fully protected with all seven blessings reduces your loss of experience and skill points in case of a character's death by 56% now.
If your character dies, you will lose one charge of each blessing but will still be blessed until you used up all of your remaining charges.
There is a new button for blessings above the amulet slot, which will show you the current record of your blessings along with additional information concerning their shielding effects on your next death penalty.
Keep in mind that you can only buy the first charge of blessings from NPCs. Additional charges need to be purchased via the Store.
If your character dies while it is not fully protected by all seven blessings, you now have the chance to reduce your most recent death penalty retroactively via a death redemption. By purchasing the Death Redemption your character will be treated as if it was fully shielded by all blessings at the time of death, meaning you will regain a maximum of 56% of your lost EXP and skill points. To clarify the usage we have prepared a small example:
At the time of death, you were protected by five blessings, which reduced your penalty by 40% resulting in a total loss of 600,000 EXP.
You decide to purchase the Death Redemption, which treats your character as if it would have been blessed by seven blessings the moment you died.
Therefore, after the purchase, you will retroactively regain the missing 16%, which equals in 160,000 EXP. The same applies to your lost skill points.
Death Redemption is only available in the Store for a limited time frame of 24 hours after the character's death. In addition, it is only applicable to your most recent death.
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Supplied with Master Unit and a separate Remote Receiving Unit. The LED indicators on the master and remote units can be used to determine the status of the cable under test. The Master Unit can be used on its own, eg, for testing short cables at one location, or with the Remote Unit for testing longer or pre-installed cables.
As the Remote Receiver is separate to the Master, it does not matter whether the cable under test is long, short, on a wall plate or patch panel. The tester can be used to check for cable continuity, open circuit, short circuit or cross connected cable.
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Guys, I slept until noon today. It was amazing. To be honest, I probably could have slept for at least another hour or two, but I felt kind of guilty. It’s not like I had errands I needed get done or anything, but Dan had been awake since 9am, and even the cats, who are without a doubt the laziest creatures on the planet, were up and about. Bastards.
It’s been a while since I’ve cooked any real food for us to eat, so when I finally managed to haul my ass out of bed, I figured it was time to get back in the kitchen. I didn’t have to ask Dan what he wanted — in Dan’s mind, weekends were made for bacon-eating, period. So, I fixed him a big plateful of crispy bacon and set about rummaging in the pantry for my lunch.
So many options, so little motivation to cook. I was getting frustrated and just about to give up and eat leftover sushi from last night when I remembered a recipe I saw on FoodGawker a couple months ago: mashed potato cakes. Not only did the cakes look delicious, but the recipe also seemed ridiculously simple — just mix some leftover mashed potatoes (or, instant mashed potatoes in my case) with bread crumbs, cheese, and an egg, shape it into patties, and pan fry. In just 30 minutes I had a plateful of fragrant golden disks that were crisp on the outside, soft and fluffy on the inside, and full of cheesy, garlicky, potato-y good flavor. Served with a little sour cream and some bacon bits, they made for a very satisfying lunch.
Instant mashed potatoes (made from 1 full packet -- follow directions on the box) (You can obviously use homemade mashed potatoes too. That will probably taste even better. I don't usually have any though, because I always just eat every last scrap of potatoes I make. But, FYI, 1 packet of instant flakes makes about 3-4 cups mashed potatoes, so if you're using homemade stuff, adjust your other ingredient measurements accordingly.)
Using your hands, scoop out generous portions of the potato mixture, and shape it into patties. (These can be as big as you want. My patties were about 1 inch thick and 2 inches across.)
Cook mashed potato patties 3-4 at a time, about 1-2 minutes on each side. (If you're using a pan/skillet with a cover, put the lid on when you're cooking each side. This will trap the heat and cook the patties all the way around, even on the edges.)
I had neck surgery, C Spine 4,5,6 and am on a soft food diet that includes Country Crock Homestyle Mashed Potatoes (found in the freezer section) wonderful! Mashed potatoes and scrambled eggs have been my dinner this week…now I can try these mashed potato cakes:-)
Hi there, these look great! I’m wondering if they would work the same way with real potatoes? like left over mashed potatoes. I’ve never really had much luck making potato pancakes with left over mashed potatoes. Thanks!
I think so! The original recipe that I saw used actual leftover mashed potatoes. My pack of instant potatoes made about 3-4 cups, so you’ll need to adjust the rest of the ingredients accordingly depending on how much you have left over. Good luck!
Hahaha, good point! I never have leftover mashed potatoes…that’s why I had to use the instant kind ;p
This is brilliant! So clever and they look sooo yummy. Perfect for an appetizer or side dish. Can’t wait to try these.
I’ve been making potato cakes too, using smoked salmon (http://tlt-thelittlethings.com/2012/01/12/936/), but your version is on my must-try-list now!
Oh yum, smoked salmon + creme fraiche and horseradish! What a great idea. I’m definitely going to have to try that soon. Thanks!
Mashed potato is our family’s comfort dish…I love this cake version. Looks so neat – and flavorful too. =)
I know, we LOVE mashed potatoes at our house too. That’s why these were totally irresistible for us 🙂
Im making my own version of potato cakes, left over mash potatoes, sweetcorn, fresh green beans and smoked sausage. Adding a little of sour cream on top and serve with a hearty salad.
Love potao cakes, they were a favorite as a kid. My mom made these for friday dinners using canned tuna. I usally make them with cheese and add a tomato-bruscheta topping.
I’m not sure, because I’ve never tried it with sweet potatoes. But, I could see them being really delicious! Maybe leave out the cheese though?
Has anyone tried freezing/reheating them? I’d love to give these a try, but I’m only one person. LOL
This looks wonderful.. I will try this most definitely. Do you have to use the panko bread crumbs or do u think any other brand will work?
I bet they would be delicious! I love mashed cauliflower, so I think that’s a wonderful idea. I might have to steal it from you 😉
I usually use my left over mashed tators for salmon patties which are to die for. I am going to try these for breakfast with our pork cutlets and not sure if will be covered with gravy yet or not!! Vision Pork cutlet, topped with fried tator cake then smothered in the gravy!!! Talk about a good hangover breakfast! I will let ya know! Hmmmm fried egg in the middle!!
I made these for breakfast and they were very yummy. I had a little sweet corn left over also that I put in the potato cakes! I will be making again. Thanks for the great idea!
Oh, these look good (thank you Pinterest). I think I’d add a bit more when making them though. Garlic and onion bits soud good, mebbe some other spices/herbs.
These in my country (Ecuador) are named “Llapingachos” and are really delicious!! You can fill them with cheese or accompany with an onion and tomato salad.
These were amazing! I had leftover sour cream/ranch with cheddar mashed potatoes that I used to make these. I think a warning label should be added that they are addictive and tend to expand in your stomach, so try to limit yourself….regardless, one of my new favorite sides.
Have you ever reheated these? I want to make them for a potluck at work, but I’m not sure how I would make that work!
These cakes reheat just fine 🙂 Oven is best for maintaining a little bit of the crispness on the outside, but microwave should work well too. Good luck!
Made these this afternoon…I had a packet of Idahoan four cheese potatoes hanging around, so… =D But I did throw 3 slices of baked/diced bacon into the mixture. I’m only one person and I got 12 out of the batch, so I’m hoping they freeze/reheat okay!
These look amazing and I can’t wait to try them out. Thanks for sharing. I also found this on Pinterest and repinned.
Im baking these instead of frying them. I also mixed the bacon bits in with the ingredients instead of sprinking them on top because my family isnt a fan of sour cream. I hope them come out good baked instead of fried
Holy cow. These look fantastic. I am wishing I had some right now. I might just have to make mashed potatoes for it 🙂
These did not turn out for me. Medium-high heat with just Pam? Yeah, my skillet was hot enough to destroy Teflon, so you can imagine what it did to the potato cakes.
Sorry this recipe didn’t turn out well for you. I always set my stove to medium-high heat (6 or 8 on a max of 10, I think), and have never had problems. If your stove runs hotter than mine, I can see why things went south. Hopefully you’ll try the recipe again with adjusted settings!
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Elliot Wave analyses are not 100% correct. Those analyses usually fails on crypto market. I never trust Elliot Wave and i prefer trend channels and fibonacci levels.
I'm sure that further pessimistic forecasts that say that bitcoin will drop below 5500 is a bluff. These forecasts were created specifically to prevent many people from now buying bitcoin at a very low price. The lowest price that year.
Is this another FUD or what? Well, this may look so scary but i really have made up my mind to hold my crypto for several years because i have high hopes and beliefs specifically to bitcoin and other alt coins. Since i am already here, so i am also ready to take the risks.
It is true, but if you think about it and if you have studied well, Elliot's waves combined with the Fibonacci levels are a fundamental weapon / aid for AT on Bitcoin; if then to Elliot and Fibonacci you can also match the cycles of Gann (in my opinion the most difficult and complicated to study, understand and apply in AT) you are a BEST TRADER and you will have much to gain!
After declining 30% from the high of 24-JUL to the low of 14-AUG, the Bitcoin market has now rallied approx 25% into the 31-AUG CME futures last trade date.
Typically, the rally ought retrace a Fibonacci 50% to 61.8% of the previous downtrend (i.e. from 24-JUL to 14-AUG), with possible approx upside targets as follows:
With overbought price/RSI negative divergences on the 4-hr timeframe, and with the first of the aforementioned Fibonacci targets reached; barring any wave extensions, it is quite possible that the bounce is nearing completion.
At present juncture, taking out 6880 ought to signal weakening momentum, and the start of a trend reversal.
Once the current bounce completes, the next sell-off leg ought to mirror the first, i.e. a 30% drop towards 5200 approx (5178 BITFINEX) by possibly mid-September, coinciding with the CBOT XBT futures expiration on 19-SEP.
Models are speculative Elliott Wave guesswork indicative of price/structure; the projections may occur sooner or later than anticipated.
It seems you cant predict even what will happen in 12 days. And Bitcoin price two times run out of your triangle. Dont you think you will have to modify that triangle a bit?
either we reverse and go bull from here, either we go to 5200, but either way a big move is in preparation, place your bets gentlemen !!!
3rd option is an eternal boring flat negative grind until everyone forgets to check a chart for a couple of weeks.
Option 1 is not an option. Too early for a bull run. Fundamentals didn't improve much yet to justify another serious bull run now. Your option 2 looks more realistic, as well as option 3 (the one mentioned in the post above mine).
I think the biggest factor that causes cryptocurrencies prices to drop is the many negative news about Crypto, this has the effect that more and more countries are banned from crypto so that the market crashes and even many crypto crashes.
I don't think Bitcoin's price will fall below $5000, because the miners' bottom line is at this price. When Bitcoin is below this price, there will be a lot of investors buying Bitcoin.
Whatever the price you think ( a theoretical miner for arguments sake ) you are mining BTC for you can be certain someone somewhere is paying less.
This number varies drastically around the world and miners will mine at loss to build a war chest for future bull markets anyway.
I'd argue that someone somewhere is paying next to nothing, at least some of the time, due to the a mix of politics, geothermal availability and or the economics of running power stations around demand cycles.
There are investors waiting at all price points. The question is. At which price point do the investors outweigh the sellers / profit takers?
I don't believe there is a magic threshold here. It could easily be $500 as $5k. This market has been, and will remain, irrational to both the upside and the downside.
So far these charts confirm my bias for more pain to come. Simply because the universe won't let me get rich that easy, if at all.
It's relevance might end right here but it will be a usable reference for may market cycles to come.
Yup we should not see bull run this year. Next year will happen although few in this thread predict it will not happen.
nice call wave man, i think we go to 5200, all they need now is to time well the rejection of the ETF for us to go down big
what i wonder is what happens next, there is the BAKKT exchange and I assume it will be a sell the news moment and i'll treat it that way, but where will be resistance? In 2014-2015, there was 382 400 and 332 that were support for a long time, once we break it they became resistance, after bottom we couldnt even break 300-313 for nearly 11 months
if we stop at 5200 that doesnt give much of a bounce to be honest so doubt it will be the bottom, maybe we'll stop them because traders have to cover their short and 30% swing with leverage is good profit and its been whats been done so far
and poor eth holders, this is going to be messy for them, please wave man share us a picture of their future chart !
EDIT: the fact this thread never stays long on page 1 is also an indicator; its like secret hidden knowledge the whales in control of the market dont want the masses to know; same happened to the beti thread during the run up, it was very hard to see it because rarely on the first page.
lol no, look at the polls on the wall observers and just read the trollbox on bitmex, and look at how market react, there has been so much shorting opportunities because dumb money get excited at every $200 pump (for instance right now, if market was smart it would keep dumping, going up again is just a crazy good short opprtunity (right at the top of the middle bband))
mainstream news still has expert saying we go above ath before end of year, pantera capital and DCG said bottom was made at 6K. (lol at that, they shorted like crazy before the future introduction, created fake website and fake fork to exit LTC and XMR and ETC for USD)
I dont think you guys realize the amount of hedge funds there was playing this bubble and selling the coins to retail, they are here since ETH are at 1$ and xmr at 15$. This is an industry. They created a whole industry into taking money from the sheep hands. They have no pity. Their ressources are high. They even own the media for fuck sake. Coindesk belong to DCG. These guys are literally creating wall of text to hype the tops so they can exit their position
Right now they are manipulating bitcoin down on bitmex, look at the volume there, you think its retail? there are 3BN volume daily LOL ! they are just exhausting the market until retail has capitulated. Volatility is still high. Retail still buying the top of every rally. How do you know when they start to buy back? price starts to get boring, no volatility, tight bbands.
With all that they sold during the run up, do you think they had time to buy back? no! there is no volume! volume is actually dying. You think its retail that is going to bring btc to next ath? retail is broke, retail bought the top and is triyng to increase his btc stash by trading but losing quickly all of it. the smartest are hodling in cold storage but the smartest are always the fewest
I dont know much about the asian funds, but they may just be worse (tron is complete bs and was hyped like crazy; neo is a shitcoin that was scam rebranded after huge period of accumulation super cheap)
but anyway its quite simple, you dont even need to know the price of the next bottom, you just buy when bbands are tight on the weekly and price is flat and boring and nothing is happening
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In recent months, I’ve taken to a hobby that I never envisioned myself liking: running. It started as a casual effort, a couple miles here and there, but now I’m in deep. So deep that I’ve signed up for the City to the Sea Half Marathon October 14th (yikes). In my time on the road, I’ve become privy to this …
It is an exciting time of transition and progress for us here at St. Gregory, and while there are many examples of this change, no single item better encapsulates it better than our new slogan and tag line, Creating Leaders and Innovators for the 21st century. Today I want to share some of the background, significance, and the future opportunities this new slogan offers us; this new “mantra” is intended as the successor to (building upon, retaining the value of, and enhancing) our school’s previous statement: Character, Scholarship, Leadership.
The current issue of Independent School magazine features a cover article about Missions, Mantras and Meaning. Author Peter Gow quotes Guy Kawasaki, a 2009 NAIS Annual Conference keynote speaker, on the value of a “three word mantra: a guiding idea that can both inform a school’s planning, and provide it with a sparkling marketplace identity.” Gow then cites another NAIS speaker, Dan Heath, on the value of sticky messages: “potent expressions that drive and differentiate.” I believe that our new statement, succinctly expressed as Creating Leaders and Innovators, does meet Kawasaki and Heath’s mandates in exactly the ways they advocate.
Background: I began my headship here in June. Immediately it was impressed upon me by board leaders and others the critical need for a clear and new strategic vision, one that would help organize our school’s future and offer a compelling value proposition to school families, present and prospective. I was also urged by board members to have pieces in place by January, for enrollment season, of what we were adding and building into the school’s program and profile to enhance the school’s value for our students. (more…)
Ken Kay, President of the Partnership for 21st century skills, (hq’d right here in Tucson), offers this month a clarion call for “a social imperative” in the Southeast Education Network, SEEN. It is a helpful primer and overview; it provides a history of the partnership and its research, and it underscores the importance of this change:
This blinding rate of change has, largely, pushed aside the 20th century social contract, under which possessing a great understanding of core subjects guaranteed ascent on the economic ladder. Now, the 21st century social contract states, in addition to deep content knowledge, all citizens need a broad range of skills to be productive and prosperous. Knowledge, while a cornerstone of success, is no longer enough — 21st century skills — which ensure people can adapt to circumstances, work in teams, innovate, and communicate — are a requisite of a successful life.
Important to note Kay’s recognition that knowledge is a cornerstone, and that we in this movement are not appropriately caricatured for dismissing the importance of knowledge. But as this blog regularly argues, knowledge is best mastered in an educational environment that integrates a skills approach. P-21 recognizes this too, and I am especially appreciative of Kay not just arguing for skills, but for a pedagogical approach that is integrative:
A rigorous education in today’s world lies in the nexus of core subjects, 21st century themes, and 21st century skills — this combination redefines what a rigorous education must be. (more…)
Tom Vander Ark, always an important commentator, offered recently a short blog commentary on a formula proposed by Sir Michael Barber, an important educational reformer in the UK and for McKinsey. Barber’s formula for what students should be able to do is E(K+T+L): Ethical underpinnings wrap around the value of Knowledge, Thinking, and Leadership. Nice. I enjoy the little formula structures; just yesterday I was arguing for E2I as a valuable expression for capturing the importance of educating to innovate. And as I seek an Aristotelian golden mean of thinking skills and knowledge mastery, it is helpful to see this expression which works to unite them in the formula for the 21st century education elixir.
But regular readers, and St. Gregory followers, know I will want to offer one additional element to the recipe, creativity, ingenuity, or innovation. My simple, and perhaps obvious amendment: E(K+T+L+I)
K is for knowledge. Michael dismissed the ‘kids can just use a search engine’ argument against strong content standards, “Pupils need both theoretical and applied knowledge and the skills to go with it.” (more…)
Two cheers, or maybe only one and a half, for the Obama/Duncan education administration’s launch today of Educate to Innovate. Clearly there are many things to like about the federal government’s decision to prioritize the skill of innovation as the highest of all priorities; this is what we too have decided is most important (or equally so, when paired with leadership) at St. Gregory.
I like the phrasing “educate to innovate”; I have found myself saying it regularly the last few months, and I think it creates a nice little abbreviation in E2I. This statement, too, from President Obama is constructive and valuable: “Reaffirming and strengthening America’s role as the world’s engine of scientific discovery and technological innovation is essential to meeting the challenges of this century,” though I wish he hadn’t needed to qualify the central word, innovation, with the limiting word “technological.”
I also appreciate some of the brand new program’s features, such as the national science fair in science, technology, and robotics to be held at the White House, and the initiatives to use interactive and immersive gaming to advance the cause: “Five public-private partnerships that harness the power of media, interactive games, hands-on learning, and 100,000 volunteers to reach more than 10 million students over the next four years, inspiring them to be the next generation of makers, discoverers, and innovators.”
Which brings me to the larger point, my great disappointment that the E2I initiative is configured in such a way as to be limited to STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math), rather than being more broadly, and more valuably, defined as STEAM (with Arts added!). (more…)
Below is our new expanded reporting report card, to be used this semester at all grade levels in all subjects, as approved this week by our Academic Committee. We believe that what gets measured gets done, and that by measuring and reporting these areas each semester, we will see our school evolve to ever better meet the needs of educating for the 21st century. We are also pleased to be among the first NAIS schools to adopt a version (we amended it) of the NAIS Commission on Accreditation Schools of the Future Essential capacities for the 21st century. (I know this is not very legible; after the jump (“more”), I have provided the slideshow I presented to students this morning detailing each item of the Egg.)
Returning now with a second post challenging Daniel Willingham’s Why Don’t Students Like School? In this post, I want to confront his claim in Chapter 6 that there is a “flawed assumption;” that students are not “cognitively capable of doing what scientists or historians do.” This really cuts to my quick: it is my sustained argument here and elsewhere that we best engage, motivate, and train our young minds when we respect their capacity and challenge and support them to act like young professionals, to act in the mode of historians and scientists.
Again, Willingham makes some good points in this chapter, things I admire and appreciate and value. But on the main point, on whether students can think as scientists, and whether we should teach them to do so, he comes across as a cranky curmudgeon: “Trying to get your students to think like them [experts, scientists, historians] is not a realistic goal.” (more…)
This is from a fascinating survey from Newsweek, jointly with Intel, looking at attitudes toward innovation in China and the US. There are eight different charts in total; one key takeaway is that the Chinese believe the US to be more innovative, while Americans view Chinese as more innovative. But for me, an educator and blogger seeking to place educating for innovation at the very top of my goals, it is this particular graphic which speaks volumes: which set of skills best drive innovation? What should we be teaching in order to build a more innovative American future?
Chinese parents do not, contrary to what might be my uninformed expectation, view math and computer skills as most important– but Americans do. Chinese parents value what I believe they lack in their educational program (and I cite Yong Zhao’s expertise as my source for claiming this); they value creative approaches in problem-solving. They also view knowledge of world’s cultures as important, much more so than Americans do.
Living in Tents is a documentary film that follows the struggle and survival of homeless residents and volunteers who are trying to help. Here today is the director of Living in Tents, Paul Crane…
Living In Tents follows five homeless residents of a tent city as they survive in harsh conditions, as well as four volunteers who are affected by their work. There will be screening and reception for the film on February 22 at Tivoli Theatre, 6350 Delmar Boulevard at 7 pm. In lieu of charging admission, the organization, All Among Us, are accepting suggested donations for the homeless. For more information, visit http://ift.tt/2Eq7IQc.
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The English Department of Botswana University currently has openings for TEFL qualified assistant lecturers. The successful candidates will be expected to (i) assist lecturers in teaching introductory courses in English Language, (ii) assist in grading assignments, tests and examination papers, and (iii) perform any other duties as may be assigned by the Head of Department.Requirements: At Least a Bachelors Degree. TEFL qualification and teaching experience in a tertiary institution may be an added advantageRemuneration: The University offers a competitive salary and benefits commensurate with experience and qualifications How To Apply: Letters of applications are to address the stated qualifications and provide any other information to assist the University to determine your suitability for the position. You should quote the vacancy number of the post applied for, (vacancy no: FH/E 3/2008) provide current C.Vs (including telephone, telex and telefax numbers and e-mail), certified true copies of educational certificates, transcripts and names and addresses of three referees. Send your application to the e-mail address given on the job heading page or post toThe Faculty Administrator Faculty of Humanities, Private Bag UB 00703, Gaborone. Telephone (267) 355 2641 Fax 267 318-5098. Applicants should inform their referees to (i) Quote the Vacancy Number(s) and Position(s) applied for and (ii) submit their references directly to the above address.
This unit covers the subject of modal auxiliary verbs, including their usages, ideas for presenting them in the classroom and some difficulties that they can cause for both students and teachers. It also covers the passive voice, including its comparison to the active voice, its usages and a selection of teaching ideas that can be used to practice a student’s understanding of the subject in the classroom.This unit provides two very different classroom examples. These clearly illustrate how attitude can affect lesson outcomes. While in the first video the teacher repeats himself when students don’t understand concepts, in the second video, the teacher uses examples, encourages and provides feedback. He also develops a level of trust with students over the course of the lesson and inject fun into the lesson.
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The Jio tariff revision that the company promised a week ago has become official, with the new or altered plans going live on October 19, the day of Diwali. Among the big changes is the introduction of the Rs. 459 pack that provides the benefits of Rs. 399 pack, but at 15 percent higher price. The Rs. 399 pack will provide less validity (and thus less data) to consumers, down from 84 days to 70 days. If you are looking for the Rs. 309 recharge, the validity is down from 56 days to 49 days. Another major change is that Jio users who exhaust their quota of daily high-speed Internet will now get Internet access at 64kbps speed, half of the 128kbps Jio offered till now.
Update: An earlier version of the article mentioned that Jio has axed the Rs. 309 plan. As it turns out, the plan has been removed from the list of Jio plans on its website, but it continues to be available a recharge option via the MyJio app. If this will continue to be the case in the future is unclear.
For postpaid users, the rude shock seems to be curtailed validity, as all plans now have a validity of 1 billing cycle (30 days) only. Before this tariff revision, Jio offered validities of up to three months with its postpaid plans. Moreover, there is a security deposit with each postpaid plan now, and post-FUP speed will be 64kbps.
Moving to the plans now, the Rs. 309 plan still remains in the postpaid listing, with 30GB data doled out at 1GB per day; the security deposit for the pack is Rs. 400. Next is the Rs. 409 pack, with Rs. 500 deposit and 20GB data without any daily restrictions on consumption. The Rs. 459 plan doesn’t seem to be an option for postpaid users.
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The Rs. 399 plan under the new tariff regime offers 1GB data and unlimited calls, free SMSes, and access to Jio apps, with a validity of 70 days. At this price, the company offered 84-day validity till now. Now it is the Rs. 459 recharge that offers 84-day validity, 1GB 4G data per day, and other freebies. The validity of the Rs. 509 plan has also been reduced from 56 days to 49 days, with high-speed data still capped at 2GB per day. For the Rs. 309 recharge, which is available only via the MyJio app or the recharge page on the website, you will get 1GB data per day with validity of 49 days, down from 56 days; interestingly, the Rs. 309 pack is not mention on the Jio website under the list of plans for prepaid users.
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As for the low-value packs, the Jio website mentions the Rs. 52 pack with 7-day validity and 1.05GB bundled data (150MB daily cap). Then there’s the Rs. 98 recharge plan that provides 150MB data per day for two weeks, totalling 2.1GB of 4G data. The company is providing just 70 and 140 free text messages (SMS) with these two packs, respectively. With the Rs. 149 pack, users will get 28-day validity, 4.2GB data (150MB per day), and 300 free SMSes. All calls remain free on the network across the prepaid pack.
Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is a primary cause of serious lower respiratory tract illness for which there is still no safe and effective vaccine available. Using reverse genetics, recombinant (r)RSV and an rRSV lacking the G gene (ΔG) were constructed based on a clinical RSV isolate (strain 98-25147-X).
Growth of both recombinant viruses was equivalent to that of wild type virus in Vero cells, but was reduced in human epithelial cells like Hep-2. Replication in cotton rat lungs could not be detected for ΔG, while rRSV was 100-fold attenuated compared to wild type virus. Upon single dose intranasal administration in cotton rats, both recombinant viruses developed high levels of neutralizing antibodies and conferred comparable long-lasting protection against RSV challenge; protection against replication in the lungs lasted at least 147 days and protection against pulmonary inflammation lasted at least 75 days.
Collectively, the data indicate that a single dose immunization with the highly attenuated ΔG as well as the attenuated rRSV conferred long term protection in the cotton rat against subsequent RSV challenge, without inducing vaccine enhanced pathology. Since ΔG is not likely to revert to a less attenuated phenotype, we plan to evaluate this deletion mutant further and to investigate its potential as a vaccine candidate against RSV infection.
Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is a non-segmented, negative-stranded RNA virus and a member of the Paramyxoviridae family. RSV is the most important cause of serious respiratory tract disease for young infants and children, but also for the elderly and immunocompromised persons. More than 50% of the children are infected within their first year of life. The clinical manifestations range from mild, common cold-like symptoms to more severe bronchiolitis and pneumonia. Clinical observations indicate that the first infection with RSV is generally the most severe, whereas subsequent infections tend to be increasingly milder [1]. The peak incidence of serious disease is at 2 - 6 months of age. RSV infection accounts for 40 - 45% of children hospitalized for bronchiolitis or lower respiratory tract disease [2]. The high disease burden indicates an urgent need for a vaccine against RSV, however there is currently no licensed vaccine available. One major obstacle to the vaccine development is the legacy of vaccine-enhanced disease in a clinical trial in the 1960s with a formalin-inactivated (FI) RSV vaccine. FI-RSV vaccinated children were not protected against natural infection and infected children experienced more severe illness than non-vaccinated children, including two deaths. Studies analyzing the RSV-specific immune response in mice indicate that both Th1 and Th2 CD4 T cell responses, as well as CD8 T cell responses can contribute to RSV vaccine-enhanced disease [3]. Lack of protection by FI-RSV is due to low and poorly neutralizing antibody responses and recently it was shown that low antibody avidity for protective epitopes was caused by poor Toll-like receptor stimulation [4].
Since the trial with the FI-RSV vaccine, various approaches to generate an RSV vaccine have been pursued without success. Attempts include classical live attenuated cold passaged or temperature sensitive mutant strains of RSV, (chimeric) protein subunit vaccines, peptide vaccines and RSV proteins expressed from recombinant viral vectors. Although some of these vaccines showed promising pre-clinical data, no vaccine has been licensed for human use due to safety concerns or lack of efficacy [5, 6].
Enhancement of RSV disease does not occur after natural RSV infection and has not been observed after inoculation with live attenuated vaccine candidates [7]. These are important facts in favor of a live attenuated RSV vaccine administered intranasally. The most challenging aspect of developing a live attenuated RSV vaccine is, however, to achieve an appropriate balance between attenuation and immunogenicity in the immunologically immature young infant who possesses varied levels of maternally acquired serum antibodies. Reverse genetics technology holds great promises for the development of such a live attenuated vaccine through its potential of including rationally designed, predetermined changes for vaccine candidates [8].
RSV expresses two major glycoproteins on its surface: the fusion (F) glycoprotein and the attachment glycoprotein (G). RSV F mediates penetration and syncytia formation, while RSV G is the putative attachment protein and is naturally expressed as a membrane-anchored and a secreted form [9]. The F protein is indispensable for virus replication and growth, whereas the G protein is not essential for virus growth in vitro [10]. RSV exists as two antigenic subgroups, A and B, with the greatest divergence occurring in RSV G (55% identity between the two RSV antigenic subgroups) [11]. While both F and G are important targets for antibody responses, F is considered to be the major stimulus for virus neutralizing antibodies.
A cold-passaged attenuated RSV subgroup B mutant (cp52) was found to replicate well in vitro despite the absence of functional G and SH proteins [12]. This vaccine candidate did neither replicate in chimpanzees nor induce neutralizing antibody response in human volunteers after intranasal administration, and was considered to be over-attenuated as a vaccine candidate. In the bovine model, however, a recombinant bovine RSV deletion mutant exclusively lacking the G gene was shown to protect calves against challenge virus replication [13]. A recombinant human RSV lacking the G gene has only been tested in the mouse model [14]. Thus, so far no immunization and challenge studies have been performed with RSV ΔG mutants in a more permissive animal model, such as the cotton rat (Sigmodon hispidus). This model has the advantage that RSV replicates well and vaccine-associated enhancement of disease has been well studied [15, 16].
Here we describe the construction of a recombinant human RSV (rRSV) and a deletion mutant lacking the G gene (ΔG), based on a recent RSV clinical isolate. These recombinant viruses were compared to wild type virus for replication in vitro and their efficacy as live-attenuated vaccine candidates was assessed in the cotton rat model.
Clinical isolate 98-25147-X (RSV-X), a RSV serogroup A strain, was used as the basis to create recombinant RSV by reverse genetics. Briefly, the RSV genome of RSV-X was PCR amplified into six large fragments, followed by sequential ligation (Figure 1A). A cDNA recombinant RSV mutant lacking the G gene was subsequently constructed by deletion of the G gene, including its gene-end and gene-start, from the full-length plasmid. To recover recombinant virus plasmids containing the full-length clones were transfected with helper plasmids driving the expression of RSV-A2 N, P, L and M2.1 proteins into MVA-T7 infected Hep-2 cells. To recover and amplify rescued virus, culture supernatants of the transfected Hep-2 cells were used to infect fresh Vero cells. Recovery of the rescued viruses was indicated by immunostaining of infected cells using a polyclonal antibody against RSV (data not shown). The rescued viruses were designated rRSV for the parental recombinant RSV and ΔG for the recombinant RSV mutant lacking the G gene. The identities of the recombinant viruses were verified by sequencing their viral RNA.
Generation of recombinant RSV-X virus. A) Schematic diagram of the RSV-X genome (genome length 15213 nt) and positions of the genetic tags inserted in the cDNA copy of the rRSV-X and ΔG constructs. The SexA I, Xma I, BssH II, Bsiw I, and Mlu I sites were introduced to facilitate construction. ΔG was recovered by excision of the fragment BssH II and BsiW I and subsequent religation of the vector. B) Expression of RSV proteins by rRSV and ΔG deletion recombinant viruses. Vero cells were infected at an m.o.i of 0.1 TCID50/ml. At 72 hr post infection cell monolayers was harvested and subjected to Western blotting using antiserum against RSV. The molecular weight size markers are depicted on the left and the position of the major RSV proteins are indicated at the right [29].
Expression of RSV proteins was verified by infecting Vero cells with wild type (wt) RSV-X, rRSV and ΔG followed by Western blotting of cell lysates (Figure 1B). A polyclonal antibody against RSV detected the major RSV structural proteins F, N, P and M in (r) RSV and ΔG infected cell lysates. In addition, as expected, the G protein was present in wt and rRSV, but not in ΔG infected cell lysates. Similarly, cells infected with ΔG did not show expression of the RSV G protein when immunostained with anti RSV-G antibodies (data not shown).
Replication of the recombinant viruses was characterized on Vero and Hep-2 cells (Figure 2). In Vero cells, growth kinetics of rRSV and ΔG were similar to that of the wild type virus. Peak titers of 107 TCID50.ml-1 were reached 72 hr post infection. Both recombinant viruses were attenuated on Hep-2 cells, as shown by a lower growth rate and 100-fold lower peak titers compared to the wild type virus. The ΔG virus did not form distinct syncytica, infection in Vero cells resulted in areas of rounded cells similarly as described by Teng et. al. [10](data not shown).
Growth of (recombinant) RSV in Vero and Hep-2 cells. Vero (A) and Hep-2 (B) cell monolayers were infected with wild type (wt) RSV, rRSV or ΔG with an MOI of 0.1 and incubated at 37°C. Cells were harvested at the indicated time points and virus TCID50 titers were determined in Vero cells.
We next ascertained the growth kinetics of the recombinant viruses on different epithelial and kidney cell lines including lung mucoepidermoid carcinoma cells (NCI-H292), human bronchial epithelial cells (16HBE140), human lung epithelial carcinoma cells (A549), and human kidney epithelial cells (293T). To this aim, the cell lines were infected with an MOI of 0.1 and the viral titers were determined at 72 h post infection (Figure 3). In all cell types examined rRSV and ΔG showed similar growth characteristics. Wild type virus reached titers of 106 to 107 in the A549 and Hep-2 cells, whereas the recombinant viruses produced approximately 100-fold lower titers. A similar picture was found on the NCI-H292 cells, although wild type virus only reached moderate titers of 105.2 and the recombinant viruses had 10-fold lower titers. All (r)RSV strains showed similar poor growth on the 293T cells with maximum titers of 104.3.
RSV replication in cell lines. Growth of RSV was tested in human lung mucoepidermoid carcinoma cells NCI-H292, human bronchial epithelial cell line 16HBE140, human lung epithelial carcinoma cells A549, human kidney epithelial cells 293T, human epithelial Hep-2 cells and monkey kidney Vero cells. Cells were infected with virus with an MOI of 0.1, harvested after 72 hr and virus CID50 titers were determined in Vero cells.
Wild type and recombinant RSV-X strains were compared with the extensively well characterized subtype A strain RSV-A2 for their ability to replicate in the cotton rat lung. Animals were infected intranasally (i.n.) and were sacrificed after three, five or seven days post inoculation. Lung tissues and nasal lavages were collected for virus titration in Vero cells. High amounts of virus were found for both RSV-X and RSV-A2 in the lungs and nasal washes on day three and five, reaching titers of 105; whereas low levels of virus could be isolated from the nose until day seven (Table 1). Replication of rRSV was 100-fold lower compared to wt RSV-X and reached maximum titers of approximately 102.8 in the lungs of half or three quart of the immunized animals, respectively at day three and five. At these days, most of the rRSV infected animals had low levels of virus in the nose. Replication of the ΔG mutant in the lungs and nose was below the limit of detection at any of the time points. Thus, although we did not observe a difference in replication kinetics between rRSV and ΔG in vitro, the absence of the G protein resulted in an attenuated phenotype of the latter virus in the cotton rat.
d The lower limit of detection for virus in the lungs and nose was respectively 2.1 log10TCID50 g-1 and 1.6 log10TCID50. Groups consisted of 4 animals. ND: not determined.
Pulmonary inflammation was assessed using a scoring scale system comparable to described by Prince [16]. Infection with either RSV-X or RSV-A2 induced a mild to moderate inflammation around peribronchi(oli), and in alveoli and bronchial mucous epithelium was moderately hypertrophied with a peak inflammation on day 5. Perivasculitis was sporadically seen and only in a minimal way. Infection pathology with rRSV was milder than wild type RSV-X. The ΔG mutant did not show any detectable inflammatory damage, which is in accordance with the inability to demonstrate replication of this virus in the lungs (data not shown). The wild type and viruses RSV-A2 or RSV-X, but not the recombinant viruses rRSV and ΔG, induced a minimal to slight modest infiltration of eosinophils in the epithelium of the bronchus.
The recombinant viruses were subsequently examined for long term protective capacity against a pulmonary RSV challenge. To this aim, cotton rats were immunized with a single dose on day 0 and challenged on day 70 or 142. Five days after challenge infection, on day 75 or 147, respectively, the animals were sacrificed. A single immunization with either rRSV or ΔG induced sufficient immunity to protect the animals completely from challenge virus replication in the lungs up to 147 days after immunization (Table 2). rRSV immunization could protect the majority of animals against challenge virus replication in the nose, whereas ΔG could not. Both recombinant RSV-X viruses induced high serum RSV antibody titers at day 70, which dropped moderately at day 142. Furthermore, protection from pulmonary inflammation could be demonstrated until day 75 for both rRSV and ΔG (Figure 4). At this time, protection was significant for all histopathological parameters. Neither rRSV nor ΔG could fully protect against challenge histopathology at day 147.
a Cotton rats were infected with 105 TCID50 of the indicated virus at day 0. Groups consisted of 6 animals.
b At the indicated days cotton rats were challenge i.n. with 106 TCID50 of RSV-X, and sacrificed 5 days post challenge.
c Lungs and nasal washes were harvested and virus titers were determined. The lower limit of detection for virus in the lungs was 2.1 log10TCID50 g-1 and in the nose 1.6 log10TCID50.
d At the indicated days sera were collected and the neutralizing antibody titer against RSV-X was determined. The pre-infection serum titers were <3.3 (reciprocal log2) for all animals in the study.
Long term protection against RSV challenge lung histopathology in cotton rats. Cotton rats were immunized i.n. at day 0 with 105 TCID50 rRSV or ΔG. Challenge was performed at day 70 and 142 with 106 TCID50 RSV-X (i.n) and the animals were sacrificed 5 days later, at day 75 and 147, respectively. Groups consisted of 6 animals. Mean histopathological scores of following histopathological parameters: peribronchiolitis (black bars), hypertrophied mucous cells (brown bars), peribronchitis (white bars) and alveolitis (gray bars). Ctrl: control animals; mock: mock infected, challenged animals. *: statistically significant different (P < 0.05) compared to mock infected group based on the Wilxocon test.
This report describes that a recombinant RSV lacking the G protein (ΔG) is able to induce long-lasting protection against RSV challenge infection in cotton rats. A clinical isolate from 1998 from the Netherlands was used as source material for construction of the recombinant RSV. Compared to the parental recombinant rRSV, this ΔG virus was highly attenuated since replication of this virus in the cotton rat lungs could not be detected. Although attenuated, this virus could induce long-term protection against both wild type RSV challenge infection and the occurrence of infection-induced lung pathology.
This is the first description of a recombinant human RSV based on a clinical isolate. So far, the described recombinant RSVs have been based on the laboratory adapted A2 strain. These have been extensively studied, both in vitro and in vivo [8]. RSV-A2 was originally isolated in the 1960-s, while RSV-X is a clinical isolate from 1998. Although the growth characteristics of wild type RSV-X and its derived recombinant viruses were comparable in kidney epithelial cell lines like Vero and 293T, the recombinant viruses were attenuated in human epithelial cell lines like Hep-2, A549 and 16HBE140. Attenuation of recombinant RSV on Hep-2 cells has been reported in other studies [14, 17] and is postulated to be a general feature of clonal RSV from one genetic sequence. Alternatively, to incorporate restriction endonuclease sites for cloning purposes, the intergenic regions of the RSV genome of the RSV-X clone differ 20 nucleotides from the wild type sequence. This might influence virus transcriptional regulation and explain the attenuated phenotype of the recombinant viruses observed in human epithelial cells [18].
A high and comparable level of virus titers in cotton rat lungs and nasal washes was observed for both RSV-X and RSV-A2, with peak titers occurring on day five after infection, similar as described previously [16]. In addition, both virus strains induced similar infection pathology in the lungs. In contrast, replication of recombinant RSV-X was 100-fold attenuated compared to wt RSV-X. Deletion of the G gene from recombinant RSV-X lacking the G protein abrogated its detectable replicative capacity in vivo. Thus, although we did not observe a difference between rRSV and ΔG in vitro, the absence of the G protein clearly attenuated the ΔG virus in the cotton rat lungs and nose.
Single immunization of cotton rats with the attenuated rRSV or ΔG viruses conferred long-term protection (147 days) against challenge RSV replication in the lungs and induced high titers of RSV serum neutralizing antibodies, although these antibodies wane in time. Although no virus could be detected in the lungs after immunization, low levels of virus could be detected in the nasal washes, especially with the ΔG virus. Both ΔG and rRSV conferred protection against pulmonary inflammation which lasted at least until day 75. At this day, there was no difference in lung inflammation between rRSV and ΔG immunized or uninfected animals, confirming that immunization with live attenuated RSV is not associated with RSV enhanced disease as occurs with FI-RSV vaccines. Protection against infection pathology waned sooner than protection against challenge virus replication. Mild inflammatory responses in the lungs were detected in animals immune to RSV, even in the absence of detectable virus replication. The detection levels of RSV lung titers might not have been sensitive enough to detect these low levels of RSV replication, since low levels of virus could be detected in the nasal washes.
The observed level of attenuation of the ΔG virus is consistent with previously reported data on cp52, a cold passaged RSV mutant lacking functional G and SH. This mutant was highly attenuated in cotton rats, attenuated and immunogenic in chimpanzees, but was found to be overattenuated for RSV-seronegative infants and children [19]. However, this mutant possesses in addition to the deletion of functional G and SH, an aberrant SH-G intergenic region and mutations in the F and L gene. A number of recombinant RSV-A2 have been made that lack either the complete G gene or express truncated, secreted or membrane forms of G, but only a recombinant RSV-A2 with the membrane form of G has been tested for its protective efficacy in BALB/c mice [20]; but this mutant was considered to be over-attenuated. However, the attenuated nature of this mutant is not convincing; other papers describe that such a recombinant RSV-A2 showed enhanced virulence compared to wild type RSV-A2 [21, 22].
A recombinant bRSV lacking the G gene induced bRSV neutralizing antibodies after intranasal immunization of calves. Although it was not clear whether this mutant was able to replicate in the lungs, calves were protected against a subsequent bRSV challenge infection after mucosal administration [13]. Human metapneumovirus (HMPV) belongs to the same subfamily of the Pneumovirinae as RSV, recombinant viruses lacking the G gene are replication competent in the upper and lower respiratory tract of hamsters and were attenuated compared to wt HMPV. Intranasal immunization of HMPV lacking the G gene conferred protection against challenge virus replication in the lungs but not in the nasal turbinates [23]. These results are in agreement with our results. More importantly, we have shown that this highly attenuated ΔG confers long-term protection against subsequent challenge.
Deletion and/or functional inactivation of the gene coding for the G protein prevents a number of problems and complications associated with potential RSV vaccine candidates. One purpose is vaccine safety: RSV without G is highly attenuated in its host because it will not be able to infect host cells efficiently [13, 19], is not likely to revert to a less attenuated phenotype and does not show enhanced disease. Moreover, a substantial role for the G protein has been suggested in the induction of undesired immunological responses, including enhanced immune pathology [24] and possible skewing of the immune system towards an allergy (and asthma) prone state under certain genetic predispositions [25]. In contrast, several recent studies have shown that G is not implicated in vaccine enhanced disease induced by immunization with formalin-inactivated RSV [26]. Nevertheless, candidate RSV vaccines will have to prove they will not induce enhanced disease in vaccinees.
Our data represent the first characterization in a relevant animal model of a recombinant RSV lacking the G gene that can be considered safe because of it is high attenuation profile in vivo (no detectable virus replication in the cotton rat lungs and nasal washes) and its lack of induction of enhanced disease in the cotton rat model. Moreover, it has the capacity to induce long lasting protection against challenge virus replication. This study demonstrates that the attenuated recombinant RSV and the highly attenuated recombinant RSV virus lacking the G gene confer long-term protection against challenge virus replication and inflammation after a single immunization. The RSV lacking the G gene is not likely to revert to a less-attenuated phenotype, we plan to evaluate this mutant further to investigate its potential as a vaccine candidate against RSV infection.
Monkey kidney Vero cells (CCL-8, American Type Culture Collection (ATCC)) were cultured (37°C, 5% CO2) in M199 medium (Invitrogen) supplemented with heat-inactivated 5% fetal bovine serum (FBS, Hyclone) and PSG (100 units of penicillin, 10 μg of streptomycin and 292 μg of L-glutamine/ml, Invitrogen). Hep-2 (CCL-23, ATCC) human lung epithelial carcinoma cells A549 (CCL-185, ATCC) and human kidney epithelial cells 293T (CRL-11268, ATCC) lung mucoepidermoid carcinoma cells NCI-H292 (CRL-1848, ATCC), human bronchial epithelial cell line 16HBE14o [27] were cultured in DMEM medium (Invitrogen) with 10% FBS and PSG. RSV infected cells were grown at 37°C in DMEM medium supplemented with 1% FCS and PSG. The following RSV strains were used: A2 (ATCC, VR1302) and clinical isolate 98-25147-X (Leiden University Medical Centre, The Netherlands). The latter virus was isolated in 1998 and propagated for 9 passages on Hep-2 cells (CCL-23, ATCC). This stock was designated as RSV-X [Genbank FJ948820] and was used for generation of cDNA. RSV-X virus was determined as a subtype A antigenic isolate and genotyped as a GA2 virus. Modified vaccinia virus Ankara expressing T7 RNA polymerase (MVA-T7) was kindly provided by G. Sutter (Paul-Ehrlich Institute, Langen, Germany).
The antigenomic cDNA spanning the entire RSV-X strain genome was assembled into a single molecule by sequential ligation of RSV X cDNA fragments (Figure 1). This was facilitated by sequential cloning six cDNA fragments of the RSV genome into one expression vector to create a complete full length cDNA. Each fragment was sequenced completely using an ABI 310 DNA sequencer (Applied Biosystems). Five restriction sites (SexA I, Xma I, Bswi I, BssH II and Mlu I) were artificially introduced in the intergenic regions during the cloning procedure to help in cloning as well as to serve as markers to confirm the identity of the recovered recombinant virus. cDNA fragments were generated by reverse transcriptase (RT) PCR performed with Thermoscript reverse transcriptase (Invitrogen) and High fidelity platinum Taq polymerase (Invitrogen) using RSV-specific primers based on the sequence of RSV-A2 (primer sequences are available upon request). The first cDNA fragment had a T7 RNA polymerase promoter sequence located immediately proceeding nucleotide (nt) 1 and encompassed the leader sequence, NS1, NS2 and had an engineered SexA I site at nt position 1246. The second fragment encompassed N (nt 1246 to 2467) and was flanked by restriction sites SexA I and Xma I. The third fragment encompassed P, M, SH (nt 2467 to 4800) and was flanked by restriction sites Xma I and Bswi I. The fourth fragment encompassed G (nt 4800 to 5730) and was flanked by restriction sites Bswi I and BssH II. The fifth fragment encompassed F, M2.1 M2.2 (nt 5730 to 8587) and was flanked by restriction sites BssH II and Mlu I. The sixth fragment encompassed L, the trailer sequence (nt 8587 to 15213), the hepatitis delta virus ribozyme followed by a terminator of the T7 polymerase and was flanked by restriction sites Mlu I and Kpn I. In addition to the construction of a full length recombinant RSV-X cDNA clone (pRSV-X), a recombinant RSV-X cDNA clone lacking the G gene was recovered from the full length clone by excision of the BssH II and BsiW I fragment, followed by religation (pRSV-XΔG). The full length cDNA clones were verified by sequencing completely.
Recombinant RSVs were recovered from cDNA largely as described before [17, 28]. MVA-T7 infected Hep-2 cells were transfected with the antigenic plasmid (pRSV-XΔG or pRSV-X) and a set of four helper plasmids expressing the RSV N, P and M2.1 proteins (designated pcDNA6-A2-N, pcDNA3-A2-P, pcDNA6-A2-L, and pcDNA6-A2-M2.1 respectively). These helper plasmids expressed RSV genes of RSV strain A2. The amounts of the plasmids added was as follows: 1.6 μg pRSV-XΔG or pRSV-X, 1.6 μg pcDNA6-A2-N, 1.2 μg pcDNA3-A2-P, 0.4 μg pcDNA6-A2-L, 0.8 μg pcDNA6-A2-M2.1. After 3 - 4 hrs of incubation at 32°C, 500 μl of Optimem (Invitrogen) with 2% FCS was added and the cells were incubated at 32°C for 3 days. Cells were then scraped and the mixture of scraped cells and medium containing the rescued virus was used to infect fresh cultures of Vero cells grown in DMEM + 1% FCS + PSG. The latter procedure was repeated for 4 - 5 times to amplify rescued virus. The viruses were purified and concentrated by PEG precipitation of culture supernatants and stored as stocks at -80°C.
Expression of the RSV proteins in infected Vero monolayers was confirmed by immunostaining with an anti-RSV goat polyclonal antibody (Biodesign), a monoclonal antibody against RSV-G (Mab 131-2G, Chemicon or Mab L9), or a monoclonal antibody against RSV-F (130-8F, Chemicon). Vero cells were infected at an m.o.i. of 0.1 TCID50/ml. At 72 hr post infection cell monolayers were harvested and approximately 5 × 104 cell equivalent was subjected to electrophoresis on a 12% SDS-polyacrylamide gel (Pierce), transferred to optitran BA83 nitrocellulose membrane (Whatman) and subjected to Western blotting using a mixture of Mab L9, Mab 130-8F and polyclonal RSV antibody. In addition, the identities of the recombinant viruses were verified by sequencing viral RNA of the rescued viruses. Growth analysis of recombinant viruses was determined by infecting 50 - 60% subconfluent Vero or Hep-2 cells with at MOI of 0.1. The infected monolayers were incubated at 37°C. At 0, 24, 48, 72, 96, and 120 hr post infection, cells and media were harvested and stored at -80°C.
Virus titers were determined by 50% tissue culture infective dose (TCID50). TCID50 assays were first visually inspected for cytopathic effect after 7 days incubation at 37°C. The supernatants were subsequently analyzed by antigen capture ELISA using goat polyclonal antibody against RSV. To determine RSV titers in the lungs of cotton rats, the right lungs were removed, weighed, homogenized in stabilizing buffer, and stored at -80°C. RSV lung titers were determined on Vero cells and expressed in log10TCID50 per gram lung; the lowest limit of detection in cotton rat lungs was 2.1 log10 TCID50.g-1. To determine RSV titers in the nose, nasal washes were obtained by flushing the upper trachea with 2 ml PBS with 7.5% sucrose.
Two-fold serial dilutions starting at 1:10 of cotton rat serum were prepared in virus diluent (DMEM supplemented with 1% FCS and PSG). Each serum was mixed with an equal volume of virus (50-100 plaques/well) and incubated for 1 hr at 37°C. Vero monolayers, prepared in 96-well plates, were infected with 50 μl/well (in triplicate) of the serum/virus mixture. After centrifugation for 1 h at 700 × g and incubation of 1 hr at 37°C, supernatant was removed and cells were overlaid with 1.0% methyl cellulose prepared in DMEM supplemented with 1% FCS and PSG. After 2 days at 37°C, the overlay was removed and the cells were fixed with 80% acetone and stained with polycolonal anti-RSV HRP. Plaques were counted and plaque reduction was calculated by regression analysis to provide a 60% plaque reduction titer.
Cotton rats (Sigmodon hispidus) were originally obtained from Charles River Laboratories (Netherlands) and used for establishment of an in-house specific pathogen free breed. Unless otherwise specified, young (4 to 8 weeks) adult cotton rats were intranasally (i.n.) immunized at day 0 with 100 μl 105 TCID50 RSV-X, rRSV, or ΔG virus preparations. Each group consisted of 4 - 6 animals. At indicated time points the animals were challenged i.n. with 100 μl 106 TCID50 RSV-X. Mock immunized animals received PEG precipitated supernatants of mock infected Vero cells. Control animals were mock immunized and mock challenged. All infections were administered under anesthesia.
The left lung was inflated intratracheally with 10% neutral buffered formalin and fixed for at least 24 hours. Lung tissue was longitudinal embedded in paraplast, haematoxilin and eosin (HE) stained sections (5 μm), in which all air passages from bronchi to terminal bronchioles and alveolar ducts were present, were judged light microscopically. A whole section of a lung was considered in the evaluation of the following histopathological parameters: hypertrophy of bronchial (mucous) epithelium, the presence of subepithelial inflammatory cells around bronchi (peribronchitis), bronchioles (peribronchiolitis) and blood vessels (perivasculitis) and in the alveoli (alveolitis), comparable to Prince et al. [16]. In addition the presence of intra-epithelial eosinophils was scored in the bronchus. These histopathological parameters were each semi quantitatively scored in a blinded manner by a pathologist as 0 = absent, 1 = minimal, 2 = slight, 3 = moderate, 4 = strong, and 5 = severe respectively. In this score, the frequency as well as the severity of the lesions was incorporated. For each group the mean score of each histopathological parameter was calculated. Since the scoring was non-linear, the histological data were analyzed by using the nonparametric Wilxocon test. Results for which the P value was <0.05 was considered to be significant.
We thank E. Walsh for monoclonal L9, J. Robinson and L. van der Ven for their assistance in performing these studies, D. Elberts, P. van Schaijk and C. Soputan for excellent biotechnical support and W. Huisman for critical reviewing this manuscript.
MW participated in design and interpretation of the experiments, performed the research, and wrote the manuscript. JB carried out the virological experiments. MVB performed cloning experiments. YVR performed virus neutralization assays. PJMR carried out the pathological analysis and helped draft the manuscript. WL conceived the study and was involved in drafting the manuscript. All authors approved the final version of the manuscript.
Bioinformatics and evolutionary insight on the spike glycoprotein gene of QX-like and Massachusetts strains of infectious bronchitis virus
Infectious bronchitis virus (IBV) is a Gammacoronavirus of the family Coronaviridae and is a causative agent of an economically important disease in poultry. The spike glycoprotein of IBV is essential for host cell attachment, neutralization, and is involved in the induction of protective immunity. Previously obtained sequence data of the spike gene of IBV QX-like and Massachusetts strains were subjected to bioinformatics analysis.
On analysis of potential phosphorylation sites, the Ser542 and Ser563 sites were not present in Massachusetts strains, while QX-like isolates did not have the Ser534 site. Massachusetts and QX-like strains showed different cleavage site motifs. The N-glycosylation sites ASN-XAA-SER/THR-55, 147, 200 and 545 were additionally present in QX-like strains. The leucine-rich repeat regions in Massachusetts strains consisted of stretches of 63 to 69 amino acids, while in the QX-like strains they contained 59 amino acids in length. An additional palmitoylation site was observed in CK/SWE/082066/2010 a QX-like strain. Primary structure data showed difference in the physical properties and hydrophobic nature of both genotypes. The comparison of secondary structures revealed no new structural domains in the genotypic variants. The phylogenetic analyses based on avian and mammalian coronaviruses showed the analysed IBV as closely related to turkey coronaviruses and distantly related to thrush and munia coronaviruses.
The study demonstrated that spike glycoprotein of the Massachusetts and the QX-like variants of IBV are molecularly distinct and that this may reflect in differences in the behavior of these viruses in vivo.
Infectious bronchitis virus (IBV) causes avian infectious bronchitis, a highly contagious disease that affects poultry and produces severe economic losses worldwide. IBV belongs to the order of Nidovirales, family Coronaviridae and to genus of Gamma-coronavirus group 3 [1]. The genome is positive-sense single stranded RNA of about 27.6 kb and contains 5′ and 3′ untranslated regions [2–4].
The Massachusetts strain was initially isolated in 1940 in USA and clinically characterized as causing respiratory signs and decrease in egg production. It is widely distributed and predominant in many countries around the world [5]. The Massachusetts strain can infect different organs and some of the isolates could be recovered from gastrointestinal tract especially from the cecal tonsils [6, 7]. First IBV QX infections characterized by swelling of stomach in chicken flocks were reported in Qingdao China in 1996 [8]. Following the years the IBV QX viral infections was associated to either proventriculitis or renal infections in IBV vaccinated flocks in China [9, 10]. The decreases in egg production and false layers in mature hens in chicken flocks were also reported with QX infections [10, 11]. Later on Chinese QX of IBV was isolated from a backyard flock in Russia where the prevalence of Chinese QX-like genotype was common [12, 13]. Subsequently there have been increasing reports of QX-like cases in Europe, where the involved virus bearded sequence similarities to QX-like viruses, such as the cases in Belgium, Denmark, France, Hungry, Germany, The Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, and UK [7, 14–19]. These IBV viruses were termed as European QX-like viruses symptoms associated with bad egg quality, false layers in mature hens [2].
The spike glycoprotein of the virus is translated as a pre-cursor protein (SO) that is later cleaved into the N-terminal S1 and C-terminal S2 glycopolypeptides. The spike gene is highly variable, especially the S1 part, due to insertions, deletions, substitutions and recombination events [14, 20, 21]. The S1 part of the spike glycoprotein contains serotype specific virus neutralizing epitopes and is responsible for the hemagglutinating activity and for infectivity [22]. Due to this variability in nucleotide sequences, the cross protection between serotypes is low. Changes as little as 5% in the S1 sub-unit have been able to alter the protection ability of a vaccine [23]. The spike glycoprotein cleavage site motif has been described in bovine coronavirus, turkey coronavirus and human coronavirus, however, it is not found in all coronaviruses [24]. The cleavage recognition site in the spike glycoprotein of IBV consists of five basic amino acids, which is cleaved by host cell serine proteases [25]. Serine proteases are hydrolases that cleave peptide bonds [26, 27]. The cleavage recognition site sequence is not involved in pathogenicity because attenuated and pathogenic strains (same virus) possess identical cleavage recognition site sequences [26]. The spike glycoprotein of IBV is involved in induction of protective immunity, neutralization and attachment to the host cell [28, 29]. It contains crucial virus neutralizing epitopes and serotypic specific sequences that are involved in, induction of protective immunity, tissue tropism and attachment into host cells [22, 25, 30–32].
Palmitoylation is essential for the screening, localization and trafficking at sub-cellular level, protein-protein interactions, and to pre-determine functional properties of proteins [33, 34]. N-glycosylation properties of the glycoprotein were shown to be involved in changes of virulence and cellular tropism in lactate dehydrogenase-elevating virus [35]. Protein phosphorylation has key role in regulation of physiological functions in the cells of prokaryotes and eukaryotes [36]. Leucine-rich repeat (LRR) is a structural motif of the protein like a alpha/beta horseshoe fold which is relevant for protein-protein interactions [37, 38]. In this study, palmitoylation, leucine-rich repeat and N-glycosylation characteristics of IBV Massachusetts and QX-like strains were evaluated using bioinformatics tools in order to determine the extent of difference in structural and functional features between the strains.
The objective of the present study was to analyze the molecular characteristics of selected isolates belonging to classical (Massachusetts) and emerging (QX-like) genotypes of IBV to indentify differences in potential functional motifs of the spike glycoprotein, predicted by bioinformatics analysis. In addition an evolution analysis with regards to avian and mammalian coronavirus was performed.
The loss or acquisitions of N-glycosylation sites in the spike protein were predicted. Thirty N-glycosylation sites were found in the Massachusetts strains, while 35 N-glycosylation sites were present in the QX-like strains. The N-glycosylation sites ASN-XAA-SER/THR-55, 147, 200 and 545 were additionally present in spike gene of QX-like strains. The results revealed that most of the N-glycosylation sites were conserved within genotype in the analyzed strains, except in strain CK/SWE/082066/10 that had lost ASN-XAA-SER/THR-533.
The analyses revealed that there were different in number and location of potential phosphorlated peptides in the spike glycoprotein. In Massachusetts isolates phosphorylation sites at position Ser54, Ser79, Ser312, Ser404, Ser534, Ser618, Ser685, Ser908 and Ser1061 were found to be conserved. While two isolates CK/SWE/242/95 and CK/SWE/748/95 that did not contain phosphorylation sites at position Ser542 and Ser563. In contrast, they contained additional potential phosphorylation sites at Ser177 and Ser878. QX-like strains did not contain a potential phosphorylation site at position Ser534 and acquired a new potential phosphorylation site at position Ser513.
The cleavage site motifs of analyzed strains are presented in Table 1. Massachusetts and QX-like strains showed a different cleavage site motif. From the analyzed strains of both genotypes, six strains have shown the cleavage site at amino acid position 537 arginine, while two strains CK/SWE/242/95 and CK/SWE/748/95 presented cleavage site at histidine.
Leucine-rich repeat (LRR) regions were observed in the spike glycoprotein consisting of 59 to 69 amino acids in length. In isolate CK/SWE/748/95 two LRR regions were found, starting at position at 771 (ATQLQARNNAL) and 1147 (LEKLSILKTYI), respectively. The LRR regions in Massachusetts strains consisted of stretches of 63 to 69 amino acids, while in the QX-like strains they contained 59 amino acids in length.
The data regarding the primary structures are presented in (Additional file 1: Table S1). The strains of Massachusetts group were found to have differences of approximately 0.3-1.2 KDa in their molecular weights, while QX-like strains possessed similar molecular weight. The isoelectric points (pI) 5.63-6.72 of the Massachusetts strains were comparatively higher than pI 5.73 of QX-like strains. There were 82-87 positively charged residues (Arg + Lys) in the QX-like strains, 2-4 residues more than Massachusetts strains. The computed instability index and aliphatic index (AI) showed variable values (83.79-85.91) in all analyzed strains. The grand hydropathicity (GRAVY) was found to have negative values in all strains. The primary structure data showed difference in the hydrophobic nature of both genotypes. The primary structures of the spike glycoprotein were found to be relatively variable in the strains.
The data regarding the secondary structures are presented in (Additional file 2: Table S2). All the analyzed isolates contained 18 to 19 alpha helices, 47-58 beta sheets and 63-73 residual coils. In the case of alpha helices and beta sheets, there was additionally one alpha helix and 11 beta strands in Massachusetts strains than in QX-like strains.
The phylogenetic analysis of the complete spike gene based on avian coronaviruses revealed the sequences of the analysed strains segregated into three main groups (Figure 1). Group I was composed of IBV sequences that clustered together with those of Massachusetts, Arkansas and QX-like genotypes, as previously described by Abro et al. (2012) [14]. The definition of those genotypes is supported by high bootstrap values of 100%. Group II consisted of turkey coronaviruses branching closely to the IBV. Group III consisted of sequences of munia and thrush coronaviruses, branching into two clusters: one comprising munia coronaviruses and the other thrush coronaviruses. The high bootstrap values (100%) indicate a true distance between these clusters and that they are likely species-specific.
Phylogenetic analysis based on complete spike gene of avian coronaviruses showing the relationship between IBV and avian coronaviruses. The isolates analysed in this study are indicated by square.
The phylogenetic analysis based on the spike glycoprotein of avian and mammalian coronaviruses strains has shown as the following discrimination (Figure 2): a) Sequences of IBV and turkey coronaviruses making the majority of avian coronaviruses. The sequences of Beluga whale coronaviruses and one bat-coronavirus HKU2 were distantly related to this branch of avian sequences, altogather composing the gama-coronaviruses. b) A set of sequences comprising separate clusters of avian, bat, human and feline coronaviruses, thus including both avian and mammalian coronaviruses. c) A set of strictly mammalian coronaviruses, branching into the SARS, human coronavirus HKU1, bat coronaviruses and a cluster majorly of animal coronaviruses comprising murine, equine, porcine and bovine coronaviruses. The sequence of human coronavirus OC43 was found in this cluster, curiously identical to a coronavirus identified in pigs and closely related to bovine coronaviruses. Porcine hemagglutinating encephalomyelitis virus occupied a distinct place between the human and equine coronaviruses clusters.
Phylogenetic analysis based on complete spike gene of avian and mammalian coronaviruses showing the relationship between coronaviruses in different host species.
A genetic analysis of the complete spike glycoprotein of selected isolates of Massachustes and QX-like strains was carried out in order to predict molecular features by application of molecular and In silico technologies.
In the isolate CK/SWE/082066/10, amino acid phenylalanine substituted asparagine resulting in the loss of a potential N-glycosylation site at position 533. The five additional N-glycosylation sites found in QX strains may influence cellular tropism. The variation in N-glycosylation sites may affect survival and transnsmission of the virus. The small changes can lead to disturbance in folding and conformation of the molecule. The variations in N-glycosylation sites may affect the interaction with receptors and render a virus more susceptible to host innate immune system and lower recognition by antibody, hence affecting the virus replication and infectivity [39–42]. In a virus belonging to the Coronaviridae, lactate dehydrogenase elevating virus (LDEV), the loss or acquisition of N-glycosylation sites in the protein has been reported to determine changes of virulence and cellular tropism [35].
The presence of serine, threonine and tyrosine residues, with the right context for potential phosphorylation was investigated in the spike glycoprotein. The results have shown that the spike glycoprotein of IBV genotypes contained serine and thereonine peptides with potential for phosphorylation. The substitution of a serine by amino acid alanine at positions 563 caused loss of a potential phosphorylated peptide in strains CK/SWE/242/95 and CK/SWE/748/95. Wilbur et al. (1986) reported that N protein is the only structural protein that contained phosphorylation activity in coronaviruses [43]. In this context we have observed potential phosphorylated peptides in the spike glycoprotein of IBV; however, this seems to be of no consequence for phosphorylation, since this property has not been identified in the spike which is well established as a glycoprotein.
The difference in cleavage site motifs of the spike glycoprotein of both genotypes, seem to indicate a correlation with geographical distribution of strains. It has been reported that serotypically and genotypically different IBV contain distinct cleavage site in the spike protein. However, the cleavage site sequence did not correlate with pathogenicity by comparing cleavage recognition sites in pathogenic and attenuated strains of IBV [26]. The cleavage site motifs determined in Massachusetts and QX-like strains in present study are different from previously reported by Jackwood et al. (2001) [26]. The replacement of arginine with histidine at amino acid position 537 in CK/SWE/748/95 and CK/SWE/748/95 may have influence antibody binding epitope. However, the functional meaning of this difference needs to be evaluated in proper biological assays. It has been reported that an IBV monoclonal antibody neutralization-resistant mutant (NR 18) had shown substitution of amino acid isoluecine for arginine in cleavage site motif which prevented cleavage and alter the conformation dependent monoclonal antibody binding epitope [26]. In orthomyxoviruses and paramyxoviruses more basic residues around the cleavage recognition site of the envelope glycoproteins enhance the cleavability by ubiquitous host cell proteases, a characteristic which is associated with host cell range and increased virulence [44, 45]. However, the relevance of cleavage site to virulence was not observed in case of IBV spike glycoprotein [26].
The data regarding leucine-rich repeat regions of isolate CK/SWE/748/95 demonstrated that two LRR regions may result in strong folding capacity in the spike glycoprotein. It has been reported that leucine-rich repeat (LRR) is a structural motif of protein like a alpha/beta horseshoe fold and is responsible for protein-protein interactions [37, 38].
An additional palmitoylation site was found only in isolate CK/SWE/082066/10, indicating that it is strain specific. However, experimental studies are required to identify the effect of additional palmitoylation in the virus biology. In influenza virus, palmitoylation of the cytoplasmic domain of the hemagglutinin has been shown to increase its association with lipid mass [46]. The deletion of palmitoylation sites in the hemagglutinin domain reduces hemagglutinin incorporation into the virion, thereby affecting the cellular trafficking [47]. It has been reported that removal of palmitoylation sites in HIV-1 virus effected in the formation of virus with low levels of glycoproteins incorporation and reduced infectivity [48]. Shen et al. (2009) reported attenuation of virus replication occurring due to mutations in the palmitoylation site in the non-structural protein nsp1 of Semliki Forest virus [49].
The predicted primary structures of the spike glycoprotein of both genotypic variants have shown a variable trend in physical properties such as isoelectric point, molecular weights and grand hydropathicity index. Grand average of hydropathicity index results suggested a hydrophobic nature of the spike glycoprotein in all variants. Cavanagh et al. (1986) reported that S2 sub-unit in N-terminal side of the membrane spanning hydrophobic domain of spike glycoprotein of IBV is susceptible to hydrolysis by many proteases [32].
The secondary structures prediction revealed that structures of the spike glycoprotein were found variable in both genotypic variants. It was also observed that there were no new structural domains and that no evolution has occurred in the structure of both genotypic variants. However, secondary structural variation in beta strands and residual coils have been observed between both genotypic strains.
A number of phylogenetic studies performed on the spike gene were mostly based on the partial sequences of S1 and N gene. Phylogenetic analyses based on the complete spike glycoprotein of avian coronaviruses demonstrated that IBV strains showed higher relatedness to turkey coronaviruses in comparison to other avian coronaviruses (Figure 1). This could be due to co-habitation of their host species. The appearance of a bat coronavirus branch close to these gammacoronaviruses suggests a possible common origin during earlier evolution of these viruses. The diversity of these viruses could have arisen from strong selective pressure resulting from mutations and recombinations that has been shown to occur in spike gene [14, 50, 51].
Phylogenetic analysis based on spike glycoprotein of avian coronaviruses and mammalian coronaviruses had revealed interesting trends. The mammalian beluga whale coronaviruses branched closer to the avian coronaviruses and two avian thrush and munia coronaviruses were related to the mammalian coronaviruses suggesting interspecies transmission. Furthermore, findings of the present study suggest that genetic diversity and molecular variation in sequences of spike glycoprotein of viruses made feasible the adaptation to new host species. Previously it has been reported that the RNA-dependant RNA polymerase gene and the whole genome of the beluga whale coronavirus was distantly related to IBV [52, 53]. Also a shift of tissue tropism in the virus has been reported [54, 55] resulting in infection of a wide range of avian host species especially those reared close to domestic fowl. For example, IBV cases were found in guinea fowl (Numida meleagris), Chinese peafowl (Pavo), teal (Anas) and partridge (Alectoris) [56].
The higher diversity in the avian, humans and bat-coronaviruses are due to continuous mutation, which may determine differences in tissue tropism. Previously it has been reported that diversity of coronaviruses due to a) infidelity of RNA-dependant RNA polymerase which lead to incorporation of nucleotide errors during replication [34, 57]; b) random template switching during RNA replication (copy choice mechanism) high rate of homologous RNA recombination events [4, 58]; c) extra plasticity nature in adjusting and modifying genes [59]. These factors were responsible for the generation and diversification of variants and adaption to new hosts and ecological niches in the coronaviruses [53, 59].
In silico predictions confirm previous data on phylogenetic analysis, showing that the spike glycoprotein of the Massachusetts and QX genotypes are molecularly different. Since the spike glycoprotein has important role in cell attachment, receptor recognition, the genetic diversity seen in this protein of IBV, avian, human, bat, and other animal coronaviruses may bear relation with host specificity. The identification of these characteristics will be foundation for the better understanding of epidemics, molecular mechanisms of infections, evolution and basis for development of effective vaccines. Bioinformatics approach is easy to perform, cheap and suitable to obtain predictions about functional motifs in a genome. However, the predicted findings require validation through proper laboratory experimentation.
The sequence data set generated as previously described by Abro et al. (2012) [14] was used for the analysis (Additional file 3: Table S3).
N-glycosylation sites were predicted by services available on http://www.cbs.dtu.dk/services/NetNGlyc. The potential phosphorylation sites were determined by using website http://www.cbs.dtu.dk/services/NetPhos. Leucine-rich repeat regions were determined by LRRfinder available at http://www.lrrfinder.com/result.php. Antigenic determinants were predicted with the maximum score with the high confidence for positive determinant motif in the amino acid sequence with the help of server http://mobyle.pasteur.fr. The primary structures of the spike glycoprotein were predicted by http://expasy.org/tools. Palmitoylation sites were predicted with the medium threshold frequency by using services at http://csspalm.biocuckoo.org/prediction.php. The secondary structures (alpha helices, beta strands and random coils) of the protein were predicted by using bioinformatics tools available on website http://npsa-pbil.ibcp.fr. The method of GOR4 http://npsa-pbil.ibcp.fr/cgi-bin/npsa_automat.pl?page=npsa_gor4.html was used to identify the alpha helices, beta strands and coil residues. At least minimum three or more turns were taken in account for one helix, strand or coil in the structure of spike glycoprotein.
The comprehensive phylogenetic study was carried out based on the complete spike gene of avian and mammalian coronaviruses available in GenBank. The sequences included IBV Massachusetts type, M41, H120, Baudette, Arkansas, QX like strains and other sequences of Turkey coronavirus (TCoV), thrush coronavirus (ThCoV), munia coronavirus (MuCoV), human coronavirus (HCoV), SARS (Severe acute respiratory syndrome) coronavirus, bovine coronavirus (BCoV), equine coronavirus (ECoV), mouse hepatitis virus (MHV), murine coronavirus (MurCoV), feline coronavirus (FCoV), porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV), porcine respiratory coronavirus (PRCV), porcine hamagglutinating encephalalomylitis virus (PHEV), bat coronavirus and beluga whale coronavirus sequences (Additional file 3: Table S3; Additional file 4: Table S4). Multiple sequence alignment of complete spike gene was performed with CLUSTAL W [60]. All the gaps in the sequences created by insertions were deleted by using software Mega4 version 4 [61]. Phylogenetic trees were constructed by the Neighbour-joining method with the nucleotide substitution model of Kimura-2 parameter model. The tree reliability/robuststness of the hypothesis were evaluated by bootstrap of 1000 replicates. The data set was kept similar for the analysis. The Bayesian analyses were performed by using the software MrBayes 3.1 [62]. The model was set for the substitution rates lset nst = 6, rates of variation were performed by gamma distribution (rates = invgamma) posterior probability distribution ensured and 2000000 generation were run and standard deviation of split frequencies at .01. The output of the substitution model parameters were summarized with sump burnin = 250. The tree topology was prepared in the FigTree_v1.3.1. The trees were generated with various methods and the consensus tree was taken into account in this study.
12985_2012_1896_MOESM3_ESM.docx Additional file 3: Table S3: List of selected Swedish IBV strains and reference strains of avian coronaviruses of which sequences were downloaded from GenBank for the phylogenetic analysis in this study. The IBV strains analyzed in this study are indicated by star *. (DOCX 17 KB)
12985_2012_1896_MOESM4_ESM.docx Additional file 4: Table S4: List of reference strains of mammalian coronavirus sequences were downloaded from GenBank for the phylogenetic analysis in this study. (DOCX 17 KB)
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Tonight in Hawkesbury, the Alexandria junior 'B' Glens earned their first victory of the exhibition CCHL2 season, beating the Char-Lan Rebels 4-1. The win improves the Glens' record to 1-1-1, while the Rebels fall to 0-2.
Alexandria marksmen were Christian Bueti (2), Youssef Chadli, and Wade Kropp, while scoring for Char-Lan was Hunter Duchesne. The Rebels went one for six on the power play; the Glens were zero for five.
The final minute of play featured a fight between Alexandria's Liam Calder and Char-Lan's Brock Daze.
Netminding duties were shared on both sides: Nico Rousseau and Brennan Nadeau for the Glens, and Cory Garrow and Angus McRae for the Rebels.
Next time the teams hit the ice it will count, as they are slated to skate in the league showcase this weekend. Details in the Aug. 31 edition of The Glengarry News.
The General managers were Brent Loney and Gilles Crepeau. The draft was held at Shoeless Joe’s Cornwall, with Team Loney drawing the first overall selection and picking former Colts star Jesse Winchester.
Admission is free. Doors to the civic complex open at 10:30 a.m., with the game slated for an 11:30 a.m. start.
A versatile freelance musician who began playing the bass guitar in 1972; Douglas is one of Seattle's finest and busiest musicians. Recording, performing and touring with a number of local and national artists like Deniece Williams, Hank Crawford, Phillip Bailey, Jeff Kashiwa and Joyce Cooling.
Douglas' bass and vocal talents are on hundreds of radio station jingle packages as part of the GMI Media production team in Seattle, and can be heard all around the world from Noti Radioin Puerto Rico, to KJR FM Seattle...from KBEQ Kansas City, to KOOL FM in Sacramento.
Douglas is a composer/arranger for Disk Eyes Productions, which delivers professionally produced custom music content for Television, Radio, Movies, Commercials and a variety of other concept applications. Among the companies currently licensing Douglas' compositions are: Discovery Channel, Sony, The WB, CNN, Wells Fargo, TNT, Muzak, Tonka, The Sharper Image and many others.
His stellar musicianship, versatility and professionalism have placed him in great demand for both recording sessions and live performances.
Although Brian Davies is not as famous as Glenn Yarbrough (Brian's words not Glenn's as Glenn believes Brian is the best banjo and 12 string guitar picker in the world!), he's not as old either! Working as part of the critically acclaimed duo Maffitt and Davies (Capital Records) he was heard by Glenn at the Troubadour in Hollywood in the 60's. Maffitt and Davies were hired as Glenn's opening act and as his instrumentalists. When Clark Maffitt departed four years later to pursue as career as a solo artist, Brian decided to remain with Glenn and played with him for another 16 years. Brian has also appeared or recorded with Dory Previn, Malvina Reynolds, Kenny Rogers, Mack Davis, The Road Dogs, the Lazy B Wranglers, the Kingston Trio, the Limeliters.
After earning his 20 pin with Glenn, Brian entered nursing school and graduated in 1986. He became supervisor at the East Los Angeles Retarded Citizen's Association, the largest Adult Day Health Care program in California. He led this position for 16 years, retiring in January 2006. When Glenn learned of his retirement, he hot-footed it to the phone and rehired him! The rest will soon be history!
Chad grew up in the Bay Area where he began playing piano at age five. He took up guitar at ten and began studying with Jimmy Lyons (Eddie Money), Terry Maderas (Starship) and Jack Eskridge, along with other local Bay Area instructors.
From age seventeen to nineteen Chad attended Berklee College of Music in Boston. There he studied music theory, composition and all styles of guitar performance. After his college years, Chad relocated to Seattle to begin his professional career as a musician. His talents were soon sought after by some of the top local acts, from the top-40 scene, to casuals and original bands, doing everything from rock, pop and country to fusion and jazz. Some highlights were playing with local favorites where he had the chance to perform on stage with Kenny G, The Platters and Martha and the Vandellas.
Playing in some of Seattle's top acts also allowed Chad to open shows for artists such as Ray Charle s , Tower Of Power, George Benson, Rick Derringer, Head East, Diane Schuur, Dave Grusin, Lou Rawls, Larry Carlton, Basia, Huey Lewis and Jamie Foxx in venues such as The Seattle Center Coliseum, The Paramount Theatre, The Opera House and The Moore Theatre. In 1995 Chad began a ten year recording career with Muzak. In addition to appearing on close to one thousand Muzak cover tunes on their Environmental channel, he has over 20 of his original songs on worldwide rotation. He continues to write and record for Muzak today. In '96 he released his first CD with his band Paradigm Shift and in '99 he teamed up with partner Liz Aday to form Quistaday. Their release 'These Are The Days' was co-produced by veteran Bay Area engineer Wally Buck, and featured Steve Smith (Journey) on drums with Paul DeLisle (Smash Mouth) and Geoff Stanfield (Black Lab) on bass.
The CD received national distribution (Groovehouse Records) and the band scored an opening slot for Pat Benatar on her 2 000 summ er tour. In 1997, Chad landed a touring gig with Big Brother And The Holding Company, of Janis Joplin fame. His travels with Big Brother have brought him to Europe numerous times as well as Hawaii and throughout the continental U.S. The band has toured on bills with Vanilla Fudge, Canned Heat and Booker T. and the MG's. In the future, Chad would like to continue to sit in the producer's chair for his own records as well as other artists. Chad is a voting member of NARAS and a writer and publisher member of ASCAP.
Performing on drums, acoustic guitar, banjo and vocals, Rob has spent a lifetime backing up artists in many genres; country, folk, rock, funk, gospel and Broadway to name a few. His first “gig” was at age twelve playing drums in a community theater presentation of “Guys and Dolls”. Growing up in California, his teens and twenty’s saw songwriting and recording added with his participation in various bands not only as instrumentalist and singer but now as producer and arranger. He received a Bachelor of Arts in Music from California State University at Dominguez Hills and served the next dozen years leading church music departments adding to his titles, orchestrator and conductor. He and his family moved to Washington State in the early nineties where Rob has continued to utilize his talents in a multitude of venues along with other Northwest artists. He is the owner of Rip Street Audio (ripstreetaudio.com) which creates music, sound effects and voices for video games making him now a composer, sound designer and voice-over artist. Look for Rob to bring utility and depth to the Havenstock River Band.
Murl Allen Sanders is a free-lance musician, composer, teacher and recording artist who has been active in the Seattle area music scene and across the United States, Canada, England and Japan for over twenty-five years. He performs and records regularly with his own bands, as a soloist, and with numerous bands in the Northwest. Murl plays piano, accordion, B-3, electronic keyboards, harmonica, sings, teaches and composes music. Murl has worked with such diverse artists as Chuck Berry, Etta James, Peter Duchin, The Von Trapp Children, Theodore Bikel, Leslie Gore, Barbara Lamb, Susan Pascal, Pearl Django, and Kelly Harland, among many others. He is in demand as a recording musician for film scores, advertisements and CD’s.
Murl is adjunct faculty at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle. He just received a grant from The Seattle Mayor’s Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs to write a piece for chorus and symphony orchestra to be performed May 2, 2010 with Orchestra Seattle/Seattle Chamber Singers.
Most recently Murl has been performing his jazz-influenced orchestral compositions “Accordion Concerto #1” with Cascade Symphony and Everett Symphony and “Accordion Concerto #2” with Orchestra Seattle. Murl appeared at the Bellevue Jazz Festival May 23 and 24, 2008. Murl was a featured artist and instructor at the Accordionists’ and Teacher’s Guild convention in Nashville, Tennessee in June 2008.
Murl’s recordings include solo piano jazz “New Romance and Doing All Right”, “Soon” with his legendary nine-piece band Going Overboard, “Can You Dance To It” featuring his unique zyfusico accordion sound and “Accordion Concerto#1” and “Accordion Concerto#2 with Orchestra Seattle. Stay tuned for an upcoming solo accordion CD.
These five "young men" are not only talented but a joy to work with, the audience will see that in their smiles on stage and the animation in which they perform.
Add the warmth and feelings of Glenn Yarbrough’s own hits, and you have a wonderful evening of two hours of music to be long remembered.
Did a late night loadup of a junk truck I'm taking to Wisconsin tommorow, and found out my trailer lights were out. Ended up being the rear housings were corroded away again. This is the third set in three years. I have been using Grote round pod style lights that bolt onto a bracket with two studs, and have a standard bulb. Anyone know of a good replacement assembly, possibly LED, that will bolt in place. If not, how about a good set that won't corrode as fast, even if I gotta do some mods, it'll be worth it. I'm sick of replacing those stupid lights.
go to a semi trailer supply house and buy the sealed beam type lights. they will come with a rubber ring that you'll need to make a plate for it to fit into. when your done all you need to do is push the sealed beam into the grommet and your troubles are gone!
On September 1st, 2017, Logo will premiere Forbidden, a documentary which follows Moises Serrano, a queer, undocumented young person who is fighting for his rights.
Help Moises and other undocumented Americans who are fighting for their rights and dignity by taking action below.
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This is a sensitive subject. It involves taking an unflinching look at the inner you, and committing yourself to a quest for the truth. No, I’m not talking about the latest fad in philosophy or munching magic mushrooms. My subject is developing your product’s positioning strategy – and the potential negative impact preconceived notions, biases and egos can have on it.
To arrive at a successful positioning strategy requires a quest to discover the truth about your product, and why the target buyer should care about it. Let preconceived notions, personal biases and ego dominate your positioning process and you’re leaving too much to chance.
At every step during the positioning process, you filter information, make assumptions and decide which path to pursue. Even under ideal conditions, it’s easy to head down the wrong path. In this blog, I’ll point out three steps along the way where an inability to face reality can lead you astray, keeping you from arriving at a positioning strategy that truly matters to your target audience; one that is unique, important and believable.
You can learn about all the steps in my positioning process by downloading the Messages that Matter eBook about how to do positioning right.
Before we explore the three critical steps in more detail, let’s review my definition of positioning: It is the mental space in the target audience’s mind that you can “own” with an idea that has compelling meaning to the recipients. In this mental space, your product’s most important benefit and your customer’s most important need meet, and find they are made for each other.
An effective positioning strategy helps target buyers associate a benefit with your product or company that makes them want to buy. That means it is essential that you understand your customer as well as you understand your product.
You can’t successfully position your product unless you know the answer to this basic question: “What is my target customer’s MOST pressing problem?” And notice that this question asks about THE problem, not problems. Although it may be tempting to think of your product as a Swiss Army Knife, don’t. It’s doomed to fail. Today’s buyers rarely want a multi-dimensional solution that’s okay at a lot of things. They want a specific solution to fix that really important problem that’s keeping them up at night.
Forget about all those wonderful product features, and zero in on your customers’ needs and desires. When I meet with clients for the first time, I’m surprised that some can’t rank key customers problems with confidence, or they can’t agree on the list of problems. So it’s a good idea to dig in and find out by talking to customers – between five and 10. Once you are sure you have a comprehensive list of customer problems, you need to stack rank them.
It’s essential to leave your biases behind during this process. They can lead you to a message that fails to excite your target audience. For example, a company develops a product because the founders believe they saw a need or a void in the market. But from the customer’s perspective, THE problem could be surprisingly different. So there you sit with a product you developed to save businesses money, while the No. 1 customer problem turns out to be the need to respond quickly to competitive pressure. Even if your product actually does enable companies to respond fast, if your positioning zeros in on a “value,” or “saves you money,” it will most likely to be ignored by your target buyer.
Why? Prospects are overwhelmed by communication in today’s fast-paced, media-saturated world. Bombarded with 3,000 to 5,000 marketing messages per day, they have become experts at filtering them out.
You can get through the filter, but only with a benefit statement that addresses the primary concern that keeps your prospect awake at 2 a.m. Your target prospects will notice and listen when you demonstrate that you understand their problem, and clearly communicate the benefit your product offers to solve it.
A good positioning strategy can do more than create awareness and consideration for your B2B product or service. Through thoughtful execution of your message strategy in marketing campaigns, you can also make your selling more productive by beginning to qualify prospects during the positioning process.
But it works only if you are willing to face reality, and recognize that your product or service is best suited for a specific set of prospects within the target audience, not every buyer. That’s why there are usually many products in markets like CRM, Business Intelligence, Corporate Performance Management, ERP, etc.
Very few companies in B2B software sell products designed for every company known to man. There are good fits and less optimum ones. Companies are often reluctant to exclude “anyone with a wallet” from their marketing effort.
Others believe their product is so wonderful, everyone should buy it. But trying to be all-inclusive leads to fuzzy positioning and a weak marketing message.
So suppress your ego and swallow your pride. You’ll be more successful. Make it clear in your marketing communications who should consider your product, and, perhaps, who should not. “That’s me,” or “that’s not me,” are the reactions you want when a prospect is exposed to your marketing communications.
Rigorous qualification from the start has another benefit – you don’t waste precious marketing dollars on the wrong target market.
It’s pretty easy to learn how competitors are positioning themselves, because they do it in public. So start reading and analyzing web sites, marketing collateral, advertisements, press releases, e-mails, etc., with an eye to deducing the positioning behind them. A positioning statement frequently appears in a prominent place on the home page of the web site, or in the first or last paragraph (or both) of other marketing communications. A good one should be a clear, concise benefit statement, idea or concept that addresses the target buyer’s most pressing problem.
Some CEOs and executives say they don’t have any competition. “Our software is so different, no one does what we do,” they say. Others simply ignore the competition. In just about every B2B software market I follow has at least two competitors making the same claim. In the Business Intelligence (BI) market, six competitors are making the same claim. Read my competitive positioning assessment of the BI market as well as the CRM and CPM (corporate performance management) markets.
Differentiation is critical to successful positioning of your product, but how do you know that you are making a unique claim? Rather than ignore your competition, determine their positioning strategy, and use your findings to create a perceptual map to see where there’s unclaimed space. As the old baseball maxim put it, you want to “hit it where they ain’t.”
In the marketing classic, “Positioning – The Battle for your Mind,” authors Al Ries and Jack Trout say that knowledge of your competitor’s positioning is just as important as knowing your own.
Ries and Trout lament that “too many companies embark on marketing and advertising as if the competitor’s position did not exist. They advertise their products in a vacuum and are disappointed when their messages fail to get through.”
What Ries and Trout left unsaid is the reason competitors fail to differentiate – they are too wrapped up in their company and their product to give their customers and their competitors the respectful attention they deserve. It’s a form of business egotism. Put aside your ego, preconceived notions and biases. You may be surprised by what they are preventing you from seeing.
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I wear a lot of headbands with giant bows and cat ears. I know they look silly and honestly I'm a little old for the "cute" look but I'm not stopping. I decided the tell the tale of my headband use...
I've always hated putting things on my head and around my neck. I don't even like crew neck shirts and I will never wear a turtle neck again. As a kid I wouldn't wear a hat or scarf no matter how cold the weather was or how hard the wind was blowing. This greatly frustrated my mother because people (my school, other parents, etc) would always ask her why she wasn't properly dressing her child for winter. She turned to fleece headbands as a solution. I never felt as restricted by a headband. Granted once I hit my teen years I ditched those too. I'm glad I at least listened to her about sunscreen...
When I was 21 I bleached my hair blonde. It was a bad choice. I did it myself. That was an even worse choice. I also have OCD. Recipe for disaster much? I imagined that the color was not even. Looking at pictures my then boyfriend took of my hair... they weren't visible. But I was sure man... So I bleached my hair over and over trying to get the darker patches out. I did not wait in between bleaching. My waist long hair was destroyed and my scalp was burned. My scalp still is not the same. I'm almost 28 and my hair still doesn't hit my hip bones again. Patches of my hair fell out entirely. My cousin was a hairstylist and I lived near him at the time. He managed to shape the frayed remainder of what was once hair into something that looked passable when styled. It took around 3 years before my hair grew out enough that I was willing to cut off the frayed ends. My hair ended up chin length.
The gym was an issue. The little patches of bald spots started growing out and I had chunks of hair (one right on my hairline on my forehead covered by thick bangs...) that stood straight up when my hair wasn't styled. Hair spray and the gym don't mix. So what did I do? I used headbands. My search for quality functioning products wasn't only in the skin care area. I discovered that headbands that cost a little more really did work better. A friend turned me on to Lululemon headbands and honestly they didn't slip as much. I wore them backwards refusing to display the logo. Twice now headbands have come to my rescue. Now that my hair has grown out to one length I just stick to a ponytail. The headbands helped absorb sweat and when I occasionally slap one on they still increase the comfort of my workouts. But I'm lazy...
So for years I dealt with the annoyance of getting my skincare into my hairline. Pulling my hair back with a headband or a turban towel solved the problem but you know what? It was the same as the headbands of my youth to protect from the snow and my workout accessories of my early twenties. I just am not willing to put in the effort to keep track of an accessory even if having it makes my life easier. Enter Etude House Lovely Etti Cat Ears...
I'm a cat lady. My "older brother" was a cat. My parents got a cat and I'm pretty sure he was the experiment child. He lived to be 19 and that means he was my best (often only,) friend for the first 17 years of my life. My great aunt Margaret was sort of a cat lady. She would never turn away strays when people dumped them on her property. I say dumped because its a little hard for that many cats to just wander on to 36 acres of property. The cats were split into "barn cats" the feral cats that would not come inside and the more affectionate cats that would. Even her semi indoor cats often were not friendly enough to let anyone but her pet them. I remember trying to win the affections of one of the shy cats.
So those ears... I had to have them. When I actually got them though I was surprised. They weren't just a cute accessory. The band actually was pretty high quality. My head didn't feel pinched and the headband stayed in place really well. I got them to add more cuteness because honestly most sheet masks aren't pretty but as you can see above I don't even bother catching the ears in my photo from most of the time. I quickly realized that I needed more than one. I mean the band touches my hair and I wanted to make sure the thing I was putting my head was clean. Then came the the bows.
Cupiddrop.com advertised a free bow headband on Instagram with purchases over $100. I desperately wanted one. I whined on Instagram that they should sell the bows in case people liked them and wanted to collect all the colors. They actually responded! They had gotten this from a lot of people. Should they sell them? Well now they do! Since then I've found cute headbands lots of places. A friend of mine purchased some multi colored cat ears for me from Amazon after a saw a post on reddit about them. I did a photoshoot modeling them all. They are cute but not quite as nice as the Etude house Ears.
I got them in pursuit of vanity. Drawn by the cuteness... But it turns out that they work for me. Acquiring different "looks" helped me have enough variety that I don't have to worry about running out of clean head wear. I hand wash and air dry them so that's a good thing. Still though sometimes my laziness wins. I occasionally pick out a headband to correspond with the packaging of my chosen mask (I know the vanity!) I sometimes set the headbands aside in weird places or I might just be in a a rush and then I skip the headband. You know what happens every time? Regret man.
Above is an example of two wash off packs and two sheet masks I skipped the headband to use. Guess what? One of each was a winner and one was a failure... But you know what I noticed each time? I wished I had thrown on a headband. As much as I like the Elizavecca mask it stuck in my hairline as much as the Tony Moly Mask from Hell. I really hated the Dr. 119 mask and even wrote post devoted to how much that line sucked. The Tosowoong mask was refreshing but I was still annoyed by the wisps of hair trapped under the sheet.
I bought them because they were cute. I admit that fully. I could use a plain headband especially since I have a collection from the times I was using them regularly at the gym. The odd thing is that I wasn't motivated enough to actually put in the effort regularly until I was trying to look cute. It was the Kangsi Pack that sparked this line of thought (review in progress,) but since I took the photos for my post I've skipped the head band on and off and this time the thoughts stuck. Cute as they may be they preform a function and the way they look motivates me enough to actually use them. Weird right?
Do you have any weird things that "trick" you into doing something you normally won't put in the effort to use? Know of any more cute headbands I can put on my wishlist? Let me know in the comments.
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I saw this get retweeted. If dell really told her to just keep the laptop I’d be surprised. Sounds like to fix the problem she just had to call Verizon for some help with her internet.
So you think her reasoning was genuine? Maybe it’s me and the language barrier but I found the girls statement rather hilarious and waived it off as a lame excuse for having dropped out of Colleague.
Depends. If dell told her “yeah, its the same thing as windows” then I’d understand why she was confused. Ubuntu prevented her from going to college? No. That’s on her for not picking up a phone to call Verizon or the college.
I got to say. Im a Windows Guy, I tried so many time to swtich to linux but it is not easy for non initiated person. Even Ubuntu that is the closest to windows that i tried, is not easy. I see people with freakin Optimizer Pro crap that call me to fix their computer to remove it when all they got to do is uninstall it… I wouldnt see them running linux. In her case, she was trying to use a cd from her ISP tell you that she knows nothing in computer so i see why she had problem with Ubuntu
Of course not! I would never ever dare running an unlicensed copy of MS windows on any of my systems. That’s just immoral despite MS needs the money they make from licensing their operating system…lol
Only used on computers that already had windows installed but fatally crashed due to windows update failure.
Disclosure:Only used on computers that already had windows installed but fatally crashed due to windows update failure.
my windwos never crashes, never gets hacked and always (never) works as desired. But at least I skinned Win7 down to only use ~650 MB of ram. I wish Chrome would be so gentle on ram as well.
I’m a simpleton, I use a Mac. Never had any problems in the 4 years I have owned it. Hasn’t crashed once. I don’t dig into the OS much, just use it for graphics and design work. I am not as computer programming savy as most folks on here are. Learning though.
I’m running linux full time since about 15 years now. Even installed it on a brand new laptop without any problems. Everything worked out of the box LAN, Wifi Sound everything. I still don’t see what problems people have with linux.
She dropped out of college because she was too smrt, not because of her laptop… She knew she’d make way more money dancing on a pole than sitting behind a desk…
see, “back in the days” this stuff didn’t happen. We had like books, and notebooks and paper and pens. I never had a problem installing a new pen to take a test at school
Alright guys, I’m on WoW way too much and think it’s time to branch out. I’ve narrowed it down to SWTOR and FF XIV and leaning towards SWTOR but the free to play feature seems incredibly restricted. Oh and I’ll probably have a group of 3 others to play with. Suggestions?
I’m playing Bittrex atm, and am having good fun hunting Dash. When it gets back to 0.0126, I might snipe some more.
Also, sadly I’m far too busy with non-crypto work (setting up R&D project proposals, innovation with cities, restructuring a foundation), but when I find blocks of 4 hours and more, I plan on paying two games: graph visualisation, and automated portfolio management.
I burned out on EVE and gave my corp all 3 Titans, (with the understanding that they are only on loan).
Firefly Online is starting up soon, I have a Big Damn Hero account on there, looking forward to that.
I have been in Star Trek Online a bit lately and am enjoying the changes they made there, they took out some of the time-sinks so you can get to actual content, though mining is still a PITA.
I have an extremely difficult time figuring that one out. I’ve tried to play it a couple of time, and after about 10 minutes I finally just go wtf? and quit.
I had the same problem, finally i sat down, watched some beginner guuides, and killed 30 minutes and then started playing, and it made a bit more sense
@nemesio Yeah I try to get into it but just can’t stick with it long enough somehow. Think the dungeon crawlers just bore me after a while.
@DumbRedneck Yeah think I’m going more into a simple category since I forgot to mention the fiancee and my neighbors wife will be playing too ha ha. So swtor seems the most simple, or WoW of course, but trying to figure out if the price point of FF XIV is even justified. Although I might look into Firefly.
OooO, MUDS!!! Realms of Despair used to be my main one… A few decades ago… Put thousands of hours in that.
Edit - Then I hit a death trap with my main toon and lost all my equipment from the past few years… I quit after that… Stupid ass death traps.
Sigh. The entire Zork franchise. Early graphics games like Myst. UFO. Masters of Orion. I miss the good old days…
Hard to believe that I’ve been playing Diablo 2 for 15 years straight now. I can put together a level 82 sorceress solo in about three days, playing hardcore ladder on the realms.
You probably wouldn’t believe how many mice I’ve pounded into little bits of plastic over the years after a character I’ve spent weeks building dies due to lag…
Is this an Ut-Oh for Bitcoin coverage. I mean, where does Morgan Spurlock stand as far as Bitcoin? Has he spoken of it in the past and, if so, was it positive?
This could be very positive for bitcoin. Think about how Dr. Sanjay Gupta’s TV specials helped change public opinion on legalization of marijuana in the US.
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Stem cell treatment has the goal of returning patients to an active productive life. In groundbreaking research, scientists are discovering tissues and organs in the human that are producing stem cells. Using stem cells that come from the human body are not controversial. New technologies in lung regeneration use stem cell engineering. Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC) are pluripotent stem cells being reprogrammed from adult cells. Pioneering clinical trials are presently being conducted. With further research, doctors will be able to use iPS cells as patient specific pulmonary epithelial cells. Then these cells can be uses in patient specific treatments.
The American Lung Association views the use of stem cells as a promising treatment for lung disease. It is critical that further research be conducted in order that the long term effects and benefits of stem cell treatment be available to an expanding population patients suffering from lung diseases. The Food and Drug administration has published research data including guidelines. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is investigating cell therapy in clinical trials. The NIH is hopeful that clinical trials will be productive.
Christmas is a wonderful time of the year, and most people spend it with loved ones, exchange gifts and eat delicious foods. There are some people that don’t get to enjoy the holiday because they are incarcerated. Securus Techologies created the Christmas video visits in order to help the inmates feel that they are part of the holiday, instead of feeling isolated and depressed.
The videos allow the prisoners to see and hear their loved ones. They are able to watch them open gifts and have their holiday meal. It makes them feel as if they are a part of it too. During the month of the holiday, the company will be airing commercials that will allow the public to understand how beneficial these video visits are. The videos are so important because they save the facilities money. They also save the people that would be visiting in person money in terms of gas and time.
Securus Techologies is the leader in the public safety industry. They are always creating new and important ways to make the world a safer place for everyone to live. They deal with over a million prisoners on a yearly basis so they know what is needed in facilities to keep everyone safe. They use interviews, videos and more to ensure that regulations are being met. The company deals in both the civil and criminal sectors of justice, and they are experts at what they do. When they take on a mission, they are always successful. The company, and their employees are determined to create a safer world, and they do so on a daily basis. Whenever they are called upon, they do a fantastic job. They are known all over the world, and they are in demand on a regular basis in the country.
George Soros is someone who has always been involved in politics. Due to his high levels of wealth, George Soros can donate a lot of money to various political campaigns around the world. If you are interested in working with someone like him, he can help take your campaign to a new level. There are some people who worry about the influence that he has on others in political campaigns. In the last election, he was outspoken against Donald Trump like a lot of people were. After the election results came out, he was disappointed and is now trying to figure out a plan for the next election coming up.
When George Soros was young, he grew up in poverty. There are few people today who understand what it is like being poor and moving to a new country. However, this is exactly what he did when he was young. He moved to England to have better financial opportunities without his family. He had to put himself through school, and the work ethic that he learned stayed with him for the rest of his life. There are a lot of people who look up to the drive that he has maintained for many years. While he was in school, he started to learn about the basics of finance. This is where he fell in love with investing. He has always been interested in this area, and he would eventually become one of the most famous investment bankers in the world.
Throughout his career, George Soros has always walked a line of being influenced by politics and money. At one point, he made a huge short bet against the bank of England. When he was right, he made millions of dollars. For many years, he was known as the man who broke the bank of England. George Soros has never been afraid to stand against others when he knew he was right. This is something that many people have learned the hard way.
George Soros has a strong world view on many topics. When it comes to Donald Trump, George Soros disagrees with almost everything that Trump believes in. This is why George Soros worked so hard to get Hillary Clinton elected. The problem is that many people are now looking back and wondering why things did not work out that way. If you want to take things to the next level in the coming election, things are going to have to change. Many millions of people did not get out and vote, and that is what cost Clinton the election. Instead of focusing on the other candidate, George Soros is going to focus on taking other people to get registered and to go vote. Turnout is going to be key in the next election, especially with so many Senators from the Democratic party up for election. It will be interesting to see how active of a role that George Soros plays in the next election.
WEN cleansing conditioners have been around for more than 10 years, ever since Chaz Dean (http://chazdean.com/) first developed the formula. Chaz is a well known figure in the hair care and cosmetics world, having been in the industry for many years and worked with many celebrities to this day. His special WEN hair care line is capable of performing well on all hair types, whether it’s frizzy, dry, oily, fine, curly, or just damaged, WEN can supply helping benefits. With several different varieties to choose from as well, there’s a bottle for everyone.
There are a great many number of reviews and testimonials on WEN cleansing conditioners, and do one’s research is necessary before making a spending decision. In WEN’s case, there are many positive things to be seen, with one oft he most recent done review by Bustle.com, showing off one of their bloggers using the product for a week and gaining amazing results. Through her trial she had to do some tweaking to get it to work just right, but the end result was well worth it, which can be seen in her photos of the before and after.
Many women out there are on the lookout for a new product to use to take control of their hair, and this is because women see their hair as part of their looks, which is tied to their confidence in most cases. There is no better time to try out WEN cleansing conditioners, as they are an all natural product that is not only effective, but highly affordable. Typical salons are not only time consuming, but they will charge upwards of $100 dollars for a premium product, while WEN cleansing conditioners can be ordered online from home for $40 dollars, or even less.
The Senior Inclusion and Participation Project’s inaugural Senior Tech Event last year brought different generations together to help seniors with phones, tablets and computers.
Mary, she said, is 81 years old. She lost her first husband 15 years ago and has been married to her second husband for 10 years.
Sharpened skate blades slice against the ice as the bright-red puck glides along it at a rapid rate. In the back of the rink playing defense stands Joe Krackeler, completely in his environment.
It’s an environment not many people his age experience. Krackeler is 81. He played ice hockey as a teen and picked it up again 30 years ago. Last fall, the Los Altos Hills resident played for Team USA 80-plus in an international game against Team Canada.
Starting in April, Medicare will mail new cards to all people with Medicare to help protect you from identity fraud.
Imagine this scenario: A major earthquake occurs in Northern California, and you’re away from home. Your children are at school, the roads are blocked and there’s no cellphone service. Your elderly next-door neighbor lives alone. Your dog is inside the house.
The following events are scheduled at the Los Altos Senior Program’s two locations: Hillview Community Center at 97 Hillview Ave. and the Grant Park Community Center at 1575 Holt Ave. To register for events and for more information, call 947-2727.
• 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. April 5: Trip to the UC Santa Cruz Arboretum and Botanical Garden. Participants will tour the research facility, which features more than 300 plant families. The garden tour will last 60-90 minutes; attendees are advised to wear comfortable shoes and clothing. Cost – including transportation, guided tour and gratuity – is $54 for members, $59 for nonmembers. Participants should arrive at Hillview by 9:45 a.m. Seats are limited. The deadline to pre-register is Monday.
The Mountain View Senior Center is located at 266 Escuela Ave. To register for trips and for more information, call 903-6330 or visit mountainview.gov/depts/cs/rec/senior.
Attached is the picture of my tattoo. It's on my right forearm. I picked the right phrase for me "Miss Melancholy". Simon has the great gift of synthesis: in one word he can expresses the feelings and the life-situation that touches everyone. I decided to have this tattoo 'cause they are my real long-last passion that never deceived or let down me. They deserved a gift for this.
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Having a roll-off dumpster is vital in Ijamsville for any building task, major residence renovation venture as well as for various other numerous commercial uses. Nevertheless, if you’ve never ever leased before, this procedure can appear frustrating and demanding.
This dumpster rental guide lays out each major element to consider when deciding to lease a roll-off container. It offers pointers for customers wanting to rent out a top quality and also inexpensive dumpster for their construction project, and highlights concerns you must be asking on your own when considering which business to rent out from.
Construction and house redesign tasks can commonly produce even more waste than workable for merely a few trashcans. This is a circumstances when it is appropriate to rent a dumpster to effectively throw away your unwanted waste. From household debris to roof roof shingles and also demolition materials, a rented out roll-off dumpster is a simple solution to an arranged, stress-free working environment.
When it is decided that a dumpster is required for the job you are working on, picking the appropriate size could be the most vital element of this process. Usually, short-lived dumpsters will certainly come in four sizes: 10, 20, 30, as well as 40 backyard dumpsters. The dimension will be determined by the extent of the residence enhancement task.
After choosing the size, the following action will be to confirm with the occupant how much weight is allowed the container. It is important to choose the proper weight limitation, due to the fact that if the contents go beyond the quantity specified an added fee is typically added to the rental fee.
When the weight and also size is specified during the rental process, the next action will be figuring out just what is and is not permitted inside the dumpster itself. Materials allowed will certainly differ with different rental companies as well as cities, however rules have the tendency to remain consistent throughout the majority of companies. Components normally outlawed include: damp paint, oil, fuel, contaminated materials, combustible fluid, toxic materials, vehicle tires and also batteries, asbestos, and so on.
Finally, as soon as you are completed utilizing the leased dumpster, a call to the rental company for a pick-up is needed. All firms have various leasing periods, and recognizing the variety of days allowed for a leasing is imperative to recognize before making a payment.
When ever you have a big or little building and construction task in your [[ city]] home or company, it makes sense to discover the very best costs on 30 yard dumpsters in your location. Scrap removal is simple, as well as you do not require a rather container in order to get the task done effectively. Find the very best rates near you and also book your 10 backyard dumpster right away. You will certainly enjoy you did.
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Having a roll-off dumpster is essential in Manchester for any construction project, major home redesign venture as well as for other various industrial usages. However, if you have actually never rented out in the past, this procedure could appear overwhelming and also difficult.
This waste management dumpster rental quick guide details each significant aspect to consider when choosing to lease a roll-off container. It offers ideas for customers seeking to rent a quality as well as affordable dumpster for their building and construction job, as well as highlights questions you ought to be asking yourself when contemplating which company to rent out from.
Construction and also house restoration tasks could typically produce more waste than convenient for simply a few trashcans. This is a circumstances when it is appropriate to lease a dumpster to appropriately deal with your unnecessary waste. From home particles to roof shingles as well as demolition materials, a rented out roll-off dumpster is a very easy option to an arranged, trouble-free working environment.
When it is determined that a dumpster is essential for the job you are dealing with, choosing the right size could be the most important factor of this process. Usually, short-term dumpsters will certainly come in four sizes: 10, 20, 30, and also 40 lawn dumpsters. The dimension will certainly be identified by the extent of the home enhancement task.
After choosing the size, the next step will certainly be to validate with the tenant just how much weight is allowed in the container. It is essential to pick the appropriate weight limitation, since if the materials exceed the quantity specified an added fee is generally added to the rental cost.
When the weight as well as size is defined throughout the rental process, the following action will be figuring out what is as well as is not permitted inside the dumpster itself. Contents allowed will certainly vary with various rental companies and also cities, yet guidelines tend to stay constant throughout the majority of companies. Materials usually prohibited consist of: wet paint, oil, fuel, hazardous waste, flammable fluid, toxic materials, automobile tires and also batteries, asbestos, etc.
Finally, as soon as you are finished making use of the leased dumpster, a call to the rental company for a pick-up is required. All companies have different rental periods, and knowing the number of days enabled a leasing is important to know prior to making a settlement.
If you have a huge or tiny building and construction job in your [[ city]] residence or business, it makes good sense to discover the best rates on 10 yard dumpsters in your area. Junk extraction is not difficult, and you don’t need a quite roll-off dumpster in order to get the job done properly. Locate the very best prices near you as well as book your 10 yard dumpster today. You will certainly be happy you did.
Rening a roll-off dumpster is vital in Great Falls for any building and construction task, major home redesign venture and for other various industrial usages. Nevertheless, if you have actually never rented out previously, this process could appear overwhelming as well as demanding.
This waste management dumpster rental guide describes each significant aspect to think about when choosing to lease a roll-off container. It provides ideas for customers looking to rent out a quality and also budget-friendly dumpster for their building project, and highlights concerns you must be asking yourself when pondering which firm to rent out from.
Construction and also house renovation jobs could commonly create even more waste compared to convenient for merely a few trashcans. This is an instance when it is appropriate to lease a dumpster to correctly dispose of your unwanted waste. From home debris to roof roof shingles as well as demolition products, a rented out roll-off dumpster is a simple remedy to an organized, trouble-free workplace.
When it is made a decision that a dumpster is required for the task you are working with, selecting the appropriate size could be one of the most essential element of this procedure. Usually, short-term dumpsters will certainly be available in four dimensions: 10, 20, 30, as well as 40 lawn dumpsters. The dimension will be determined by the scope of the house improvement task.
After choosing the dimension, the following step will certainly be to confirm with the tenant just how much weight is allowed the container. It is important to pick the correct weight restriction, due to the fact that if the components exceed the amount specified a surcharge is normally included in the rental charge.
When the weight and also dimension is defined during the rental process, the following step will be discovering what is and is not allowed inside the dumpster itself. Materials allowed will certainly differ with various rental companies and also cities, but rules tend to continue to be consistent throughout the majority of companies. Materials typically prohibited consist of: damp paint, oil, fuel, contaminated materials, flammable fluid, poisonous materials, auto tires and also batteries, asbestos, etc.
Ultimately, as soon as you are completed utilizing the leased dumpster, a call to the rental company for a pick-up is required. All companies have various leasing periods, and also recognizing the variety of days enabled a rental is important to recognize before making a repayment.
If you have a big or small building and construction project in your [[ city]] house or company, it makes good sense to find the most effective prices on 40 yard dumpsters in your location. Junk elimination is uncomplicated, as well as you do not require a pretty dumpster so as to get the work done correctly. Find the best costs near you and also book your 10 yard dumpster immediately. You will certainly enjoy you did.
Rening a roll-off dumpster is vital in Washington for any kind of building task, significant home remodeling venture as well as for various other various commercial uses. However, if you have actually never rented previously, this procedure can appear overwhelming as well as difficult.
This waste management dumpster rental overview lays out each significant aspect to think about when deciding to lease a roll-off container. It offers ideas for customers aiming to rent out a quality and also cost effective dumpster for their building and construction project, as well as highlights inquiries you need to be asking yourself when contemplating which firm to rent out from.
Building as well as house improvement tasks can commonly create more waste compared to workable for simply a couple of trashcans. This is an instance when it is appropriate to rent out a dumpster to correctly dispose of your undesirable waste. From family debris to roof roof shingles and demolition products, a rented out roll-off dumpster is a simple option to an arranged, stress-free workplace.
When it is determined that a dumpster is necessary for the job you are dealing with, selecting the right dimension could be one of the most essential factor of this procedure. Generally, short-lived dumpsters will certainly come in four dimensions: 10, 20, 30, and 40 yard dumpsters. The size will certainly be identified by the scope of the home improvement project.
After choosing the dimension, the following action will be to validate with the occupant how much weight is allowed the container. It is crucial to pick the right weight limitation, because if the materials go beyond the amount defined a service charge is typically contributed to the rental cost.
When the weight as well as size is specified throughout the rental process, the following action will certainly be learning just what is and is not enabled inside the dumpster itself. Materials permitted will certainly differ with different rental business and cities, however guidelines have the tendency to remain constant throughout most companies. Contents generally outlawed include: wet paint, oil, fuel, hazardous waste, flammable fluid, hazardous products, auto tires and batteries, asbestos, and so on.
Finally, when you are finished making use of the rented out dumpster, a call to the rental firm for a pick-up is required. All firms have various rental durations, and also understanding the variety of days permitted a rental is vital to know before making a repayment.
Whenever you have a large or small building and construction task in your [[ city]] residence or company, it makes sense to find the most effective prices on dumpsters in your area. Junk removal is easy, and also you do not need a rather roll off dumpster to get the task done correctly. Discover the very best prices near you as well as reserve your 10 lawn dumpster immediately. You will certainly be happy you did.
Acquiring a roll-off dumpster is necessary in Frederick for any type of building job, significant residence remodeling endeavor and for other different commercial usages. However, if you’ve never ever rented before, this process can appear frustrating as well as stressful.
This dumpster rental guide lays out each major factor to consider when choosing to rent a roll-off container. It offers suggestions for consumers aiming to rent a high quality and cost effective dumpster for their building and construction task, and also highlights inquiries you should be asking yourself when pondering which company to rent from.
Construction and home redesign tasks can typically create more waste compared to manageable for merely a few trashcans. This is a circumstances when it is appropriate to rent a dumpster to appropriately throw away your undesirable waste. From house particles to roof roof shingles and also demolition products, a rented out roll-off dumpster is an easy remedy to an arranged, trouble-free workplace.
When it is decided that a dumpster is required for the job you are dealing with, choosing the right size could be one of the most important aspect of this procedure. Normally, short-lived dumpsters will be available in 4 dimensions: 10, 20, 30, as well as 40 backyard dumpsters. The size will certainly be determined by the scope of the home renovation project.
After selecting the dimension, the next step will certainly be to verify with the renter how much weight is allowed the container. It is critical to choose the appropriate weight limit, because if the components exceed the quantity defined an additional charge is typically added to the rental charge.
When the weight as well as size is defined throughout the rental procedure, the following step will be finding out just what is as well as is not enabled inside the dumpster itself. Materials permitted will certainly differ with different rental companies and also cities, but guidelines tend to remain consistent throughout a lot of companies. Materials commonly prohibited consist of: wet paint, oil, fuel, hazardous waste, combustible liquid, toxic materials, vehicle tires and also batteries, asbestos, and so on.
Finally, as soon as you are completed using the rented out dumpster, a call to the rental business for a pick-up is called for. All business have different rental durations, and also understanding the number of days permitted a rental is necessary to understand before making a repayment.
When you have a large or little building job in your [[ city]] residence or company, it makes sense to locate the very best prices on 40 yard dumpsters in your location. Junk extraction is uncomplicated, as well as you do not need a rather dumpster in order to get the work done properly. Find the best costs near you and reserve your 10 backyard dumpster today. You will be happy you did.
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Acquiring a roll-off dumpster is crucial in Washington for any kind of building and construction project, significant home redesign venture and for various other various industrial uses. However, if you’ve never ever rented out previously, this process could possibly seem frustrating and difficult.
This roll off container quick guide lays out each major element to think about when making a decision to rent out a roll-off container. It provides ideas for customers looking to lease a quality as well as economical dumpster for their building job, and highlights concerns you must be asking on your own when considering which company to rent out from.
Building and construction as well as home restoration tasks could often create more waste compared to manageable for simply a couple of trashcans. This is a circumstances when it is appropriate to rent a dumpster to correctly throw away your undesirable waste. From family debris to roof covering tiles as well as demolition materials, a rented roll-off dumpster is an easy solution to an organized, trouble-free working environment.
When it is chosen that a dumpster is essential for the task you are working with, picking the correct dimension could be the most essential aspect of this procedure. Typically, momentary dumpsters will certainly come in 4 dimensions: 10, 20, 30, as well as 40 lawn dumpsters. The size will be determined by the extent of the house enhancement job.
After choosing the size, the next step will be to validate with the occupant how much weight is allowed in the container. It is crucial to pick the appropriate weight limitation, due to the fact that if the components exceed the amount defined a surcharge is normally added to the rental charge.
When the weight as well as size is defined throughout the rental process, the next action will certainly be discovering just what is as well as is not enabled inside the dumpster itself. Components permitted will certainly vary with different rental companies as well as cities, but guidelines tend to continue to be constant throughout the majority of businesses. Components normally prohibited consist of: damp paint, oil, gasoline, hazardous waste, combustible fluid, poisonous materials, automobile tires and batteries, asbestos, etc.
Ultimately, once you are finished making use of the leased dumpster, a call to the rental business for a pick-up is needed. All business have different rental durations, as well as knowing the number of days permitted a rental is imperative to understand prior to making a repayment.
When ever you have a huge or little building project in your [[ city]] home or business, it makes sense to discover the best costs on 15 yard dumpsters in your location. Junk removal is simple, and also you do not require a very roll-off container to get the job done correctly. Find the most effective prices near you and also reserve your 10 yard dumpster asap. You will certainly be happy you did.
Rening a roll-off dumpster is essential in Annapolis Junction for any type of building and construction project, major house improvement venture and for various other numerous commercial usages. However, if you have actually never leased previously, this process can appear overwhelming and difficult.
This waste management dumpster rental guide describes each significant element to consider when making a decision to rent out a roll-off container. It offers pointers for clients looking to rent out a high quality and also budget-friendly dumpster for their building job, as well as highlights inquiries you need to be asking on your own when contemplating which company to rent from.
Construction as well as residence redesign projects can often create more waste than manageable for merely a few trashcans. This is a circumstances when it is appropriate to lease a dumpster to correctly deal with your undesirable waste. From family debris to roof shingles as well as demolition materials, a rented roll-off dumpster is a very easy remedy to an organized, stress-free workplace.
When it is chosen that a dumpster is needed for the project you are working on, picking the proper size could be the most essential factor of this process. Generally, temporary dumpsters will certainly can be found in four dimensions: 10, 20, 30, as well as 40 lawn dumpsters. The size will be identified by the range of the residence renovation task.
After selecting the dimension, the next action will certainly be to verify with the tenant just how much weight is allowed in the container. It is crucial to choose the right weight limit, because if the contents surpass the quantity defined a surcharge is generally added to the rental charge.
When the weight and dimension is specified during the rental process, the next step will certainly be discovering what is and is not allowed inside the dumpster itself. Materials enabled will certainly vary with different rental companies and also cities, but rules have the tendency to stay constant throughout the majority of companies. Materials normally outlawed include: damp paint, oil, fuel, hazardous waste, flammable fluid, hazardous products, vehicle tires and batteries, asbestos, etc.
Lastly, once you are completed using the rented out dumpster, a call to the rental business for a pick-up is required. All business have various rental durations, as well as knowing the number of days allowed for a rental is important to know before making a settlement.
Whenever you have a huge or tiny construction task in your [[ city]] house or company, it makes good sense to discover the very best costs on 40 yard dumpsters in your area. Scrap extraction is simple, as well as you don’t need a pretty container in order to get the work done effectively. Locate the best prices near you as well as reserve your 10 yard dumpster today. You will certainly enjoy you did.
Having a roll-off dumpster is vital in Bryantown for any kind of construction job, significant home restoration venture as well as for various other various commercial uses. Nonetheless, if you have actually never ever rented previously, this procedure could possibly seem overwhelming and difficult.
This waste management dumpster rental guide outlines each major aspect to consider when determining to rent a roll-off container. It offers suggestions for customers aiming to rent a high quality and inexpensive dumpster for their building project, and highlights inquiries you ought to be asking yourself when pondering which business to rent from.
Building and home redesign projects could typically produce even more waste compared to convenient for merely a couple of trashcans. This is a circumstances when it is appropriate to rent out a dumpster to properly dispose of your unnecessary waste. From house particles to roof covering tiles as well as demolition materials, a leased roll-off dumpster is a simple option to an arranged, trouble-free working environment.
When it is made a decision that a dumpster is essential for the project you are dealing with, picking the right dimension could be the most crucial aspect of this process. Generally, short-lived dumpsters will can be found in 4 dimensions: 10, 20, 30, as well as 40 lawn dumpsters. The size will be identified by the extent of the residence improvement project.
After choosing the dimension, the next step will be to verify with the occupant how much weight is allowed in the container. It is vital to choose the correct weight restriction, due to the fact that if the materials go beyond the quantity specified a surcharge is normally added to the rental cost.
When the weight and also dimension is defined during the rental process, the following action will be figuring out exactly what is and is not enabled inside the dumpster itself. Components allowed will certainly vary with various rental business and cities, however regulations tend to continue to be constant throughout the majority of companies. Components normally banned consist of: wet paint, oil, gasoline, contaminated materials, combustible fluid, hazardous materials, car tires as well as batteries, asbestos, and so on.
Ultimately, when you are completed making use of the rented dumpster, a call to the rental company for a pick-up is required. All companies have different leasing periods, as well as recognizing the variety of days enabled a rental is vital to recognize prior to making a repayment.
Whenever you have a large or tiny building task in your [[ city]] house or business, it makes good sense to find the best rates on 20 yard dumpsters in your location. Scrap extraction is easy, and you don’t require a rather roll off dumpster so as to get the work done properly. Locate the most effective costs near you and book your 10 backyard dumpster asap. You will enjoy you did.
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Having a roll-off dumpster is important in Bryantown for any kind of building and construction task, significant house remodeling venture and also for other numerous industrial usages. However, if you have actually never ever rented out previously, this procedure could appear frustrating as well as stressful.
This dumpster rental guide describes each significant element to think about when choosing to lease a roll-off container. It offers ideas for consumers seeking to lease a quality and also affordable dumpster for their building task, and also highlights inquiries you should be asking yourself when contemplating which firm to rent out from.
Building and construction and home redesign projects can often create more waste than manageable for simply a couple of trashcans. This is an instance when it is appropriate to lease a dumpster to appropriately throw away your undesirable waste. From household particles to roof covering shingles and demolition products, a rented out roll-off dumpster is a simple remedy to an arranged, hassle-free workplace.
When it is determined that a dumpster is needed for the job you are dealing with, choosing the right dimension could be the most important aspect of this process. Typically, short-term dumpsters will certainly can be found in 4 dimensions: 10, 20, 30, as well as 40 lawn dumpsters. The size will be figured out by the extent of the home renovation task.
After selecting the size, the following step will be to verify with the renter how much weight is allowed the container. It is crucial to choose the appropriate weight limitation, due to the fact that if the contents go beyond the amount defined an added fee is usually added to the rental charge.
When the weight and also size is specified during the rental procedure, the next step will certainly be figuring out exactly what is and is not enabled inside the dumpster itself. Materials enabled will vary with various rental firms and cities, however regulations tend to remain consistent throughout most companies. Contents typically banned include: damp paint, oil, gasoline, contaminated materials, flammable liquid, poisonous products, vehicle tires and batteries, asbestos, and so on.
Ultimately, when you are completed using the rented out dumpster, a call to the rental company for a pick-up is called for. All companies have various rental periods, as well as understanding the variety of days permitted a rental is necessary to know before making a settlement.
Anytime you have a big or tiny construction job in your [[ city]] home or company, it makes sense to discover the most effective costs on 20 yard dumpsters in your location. Scrap removal is simple, and you do not require a pretty dumpster in order to get the task done correctly. Locate the very best prices near you and also reserve your 10 backyard dumpster immediately. You will certainly enjoy you did.
Rening a roll-off dumpster is vital in Harmans for any kind of construction job, significant house redesign venture and for other different industrial usages. Nonetheless, if you’ve never ever leased in the past, this process can seem frustrating as well as difficult.
This dumpster rental overview outlines each significant aspect to think about when making a decision to rent out a roll-off container. It offers suggestions for customers aiming to rent a quality and affordable dumpster for their construction job, as well as highlights inquiries you ought to be asking yourself when considering which firm to rent out from.
Building as well as residence renovation jobs could often produce more waste compared to manageable for simply a few trashcans. This is a circumstances when it is appropriate to rent a dumpster to correctly take care of your unwanted waste. From house debris to roof covering shingles and demolition products, a rented roll-off dumpster is a very easy remedy to an organized, trouble-free working environment.
When it is chosen that a dumpster is needed for the job you are working with, selecting the correct size could be one of the most vital element of this procedure. Commonly, short-term dumpsters will be available in four dimensions: 10, 20, 30, and also 40 backyard dumpsters. The size will certainly be figured out by the scope of the home renovation job.
After choosing the size, the next action will be to confirm with the tenant how much weight is allowed the container. It is important to select the appropriate weight limit, because if the components surpass the amount defined a surcharge is usually contributed to the rental cost.
When the weight as well as size is defined during the rental process, the next step will be discovering just what is and is not permitted inside the dumpster itself. Materials enabled will differ with various rental companies as well as cities, but regulations tend to continue to be constant throughout the majority of businesses. Components typically banned include: damp paint, oil, fuel, contaminated materials, combustible fluid, poisonous products, vehicle tires and batteries, asbestos, and so on.
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Gamelan Son of Lion is a new music repertory ensemble based in downtown New York City specializing in contemporary pieces written for the instruments of the Javanese gamelan. There are about a hundred active gamelan ensembles in the United States at the current time (see American Gamelan Institute's Directory). Gamelan Son of Lion now rates among the oldest of these, having performed continuously since 1976. It is also one of the few in this country which operate independently of institutions as a professional music ensemble.
The ensemble was begun by a core group of composers: Barbara Benary, Daniel Goode, and Philip Corner. (See Jody Diamond's essay Gamelan Son of Lion in the Early Years.) Its repertoire centers on new compositions by these and other American composers, both ensemble members and commissioned guests. The repertoire represents a variety of contemporary music styles. The gamelan has also performed experimental works by Indonesian composers, a number of pieces involving gamelan with electronic music, and several theatre works involving opera, wayang kulit, multimedia and dance. More than a hundred pieces have been premiered by the ensemble since its inception.
Gamelan Son of Lion is organized as a not-for-profit corporation and has been supported in its presentations by the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, Arts International and several private foundations. The ensemble performed as guests of the Government of Indonesia at Expo 86 in Vancouver, Canada, and toured Java in 1996, participating in the Jogjakarta Gamelan Festival and the Borobudur Festival. More recent tours have been to New Zealand and Estonia.
Gamelan Son of Lion's instruments were built in village style by Barbara Benary using steel keys, cans for resonators, hubcaps for kempul, etc. They are tuned in a typical central Javanese non-diatonic slendro and pelog. The initial instrument designs were provided by Dennis Murphy, an ethnomusicologist, multi-cultural musician and experimental instrument builder from Vermont. Details of Murphy's building methods may be seen here.
Son of Lion began its life as a gamelan composer’s collective in 1976, when the instruments were moved to New York City from Rutgers University, where Barbara Benary had originally built them to use in teaching. From the beginning, Son of Lion had a profound commitment to democracy in choosing pieces to be played. Benary and co-founders Philip Corner and Daniel Goode have firmly believed in and fiercelydefended this founding principle, which they credit with enabling the ensemble to endure the changes of time and personnel over 30 years. As Benary states, “It was part of our vision me, Dan and Phil. A piece could work or not, whether it was by a student or an established artist. I also feel committed to work by people outside the collective, and try to get at least two people who are not in the group represented in programs each year.” Even with this broad-reaching policy, each of the founding composers brought a strong personal compositional perspective and ensemble aesthetic to the group.
Benary’s early work had been melodically centered, and was often for theater or opera. A violinist Benary became more involved with the music of India and Indonesia while completing graduate studies in ethnomusicology at Wesleyan University where she studied Javanese gamelan music. As Son of Lion became more active, “naturally, gamelan became my instrument,” Benary explains. “So I write pieces that take into account what the instruments do, what the tuning does, what the tuning doesn’t do.” Benary drew on her traditional training as well as her theatrical interests to do several shadow puppet operas with gamelan. “In composing operatic music for gamelan my thinking has been much more western and I have pushed the instruments in that direction. My melodic thinking is actually very western, but you know, it goes both directions. The things I learned just became part of what I know, a total vocabulary. I know what a dominant chord is, I know what the Javanese form Sampak is. I don’t really think categorically.”
Goode, a clarinetist who had been composing since 1959, first got to know the gamelan instruments as a performer. His involvement with Son of Lion increased after the move to New York, when he also became familiar with the work of Benary, Corner and early collective members. “I was urged invited, cajoled and almost teased into writing my first gamelan piece,” Goode recalls. “I had already premiered a clarinet piece using circular breathing, which is continuous, with all the bells and whistles of minimalism, a totally committed minimalist piece.” Translating an existing piece to gamelan seemed a good first step, and Goode wasthrilled to find that “it worked technically and spiritually.” His compositions for gamelan continued to draw on contemporary developments inexperimental music. “I was interested in Cage, I was interested in all these new procedures, I was interested in numeric patterns, in random numbers. We were just a buzzing factory of new ideas then. I thought I could make a beautiful piece with random numbers, and up with three different three pieces using random numbers, one of which is on the first record.” [now re-issued by Locust Records as "The Complete Gamelan in the New World."] Goode also began to work with metal hubcaps as instruments, and these were to become one of Son of Lion’s trademark sounds.
When asked what gamelan has added to his life, Goode replied with warm intensity. “Lushness. It is a whole realm, a canvas in my mind. It is a living tradition, and sitting and playing and working with people year after year we don’t have too many things like that. I still write western music with completely different points of view, models, and techniques, yet I am bi-cultural to the degree that I have adapted to thinking like a gamelan composer. It gave me a whole new way to be involved with this music; it made it real.”
repertory ensemble.” She mentions occasionally thinking about ending her focus on gamelan, but, fortunately for us, she has always changed her mind!
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I got my PIP award. Standard care, no mobility. I apparently only need aids and adaptations (not carers), as I can type on my tablet. I have no communication difficulties despite being non-verbal during the assessment. I can somehow walk more than 50 metres (but less than 200) despite not being able to sit upright or stand, due to being able to lift my legs from the bed once while lying down. We asked for a reconsideration, they said it was right. We’re going to go to tribunal but I’m not sure when that’ll be. I’m not surprised, and I’m glad I get enough that Johan still can get carers allowance in the meantime (as getting nothing would have messed everything up due to the way our finances work), but it’s a bit ridiculous really. The report was full of lies, and they’ve still not told me how I’m meant to walk without standing as I really want to know so I can get out of bed by myself!
New care agency has been sorted, and started. It’s so much better than the old one. It’s weird having two carer workers on an evening, but unless it’s a task requiring two people (basically hoisting) normally one does stuff in another room while the other does my personal care. Other than asking for one particular care worker not to come unless it’s an emergency (she’s not bad, just not really suited to me), I’ve been getting on with everyone fine, and I have a pair who are probably my favourites that I see several times a week. I also get rotas which makes things much easier, and the lunchtime call means Johan worries about me less when at his day service. It’s already saved him having to come home at least once 😛
We got the new day bed! Only problem is it’s a bit low down so need to find the elephant feet for it (I have some in the flat somewhere, just not sure where). I’ve been in the living room a few times, but not as frequently as I’d like for various reasons.
We had a power cut. I managed to report it online (I have backup internet through my phone for these occasions). My normal bed wasn’t flat but the hoists are battery powered and the new day bed is, so Johan took me into the living room when we were told it was going to be a few hours to fix it. I ended up spending the night in there.
Power cut told us our burglar alarm (which we don’t know how to use) is broken. When the power came back on it kept going off and it wouldn’t accept the code (the only bit of information we have about the alarm). Housing repair person came out and fixed it, then said we need to ask for a new battery. Due to the lack of people turning up to fit a new battery, I think Johan has forgotten to ask for it.
I survived the noise due to new earphones I bought. They’re Bose QC20s and the noise cancelling is amazing. For most noises it’s better even than the earplug/ear defender combo, and I can put ear defenders on top. Definitely not cheap at all, but considering how noise sensitive I am, definitely worth the price.
I’ve been out once so far this year, at the end of February. I tried to find a suitable hat, failed, but did find a visor. Bought that instead, then had dinner with Johan. Was nice, though noisy. Hoping to repeat it at some point.
No showers yet. Felt up to it a couple of times, but Johan wasn’t available. I’m really hoping it’ll be soon.
Two hair washes so far. One at the beginning of February, one last week. Had to explain to new care worker that I don’t need anti dandruff shampoo, the dry skin is just because I don’t get it washed or brushed very often.
Upstairs neighbours are no longer there. The circumstances were very much not good, but I’m grateful that I don’t have to listen to the arguing, music and noise anymore. They seem to be clearing the flat out today.
Brain is still refusing to work properly. Making silly mistakes when trying to do online shopping, and needing Johan to help me with online forms. It’s very frustrating as I used to be good at that stuff.
When I can get on puter, I’m playing WoW still. Loving the patch 7.2 stuff, though annoyed I miss invasions, buildings being up and stuff. Finally ran my first heroic this morning, and only only one other person died (I missed a mechanic that one shot me due to not having done the dungeon before). Maybe I’ll get those quests I’ve had for months done at some point.
I’ve stopped playing a lot of my mobile games as wasn’t enjoying them as much. Picked up a few replacements. Mostly playing 1010!, Fishdom, Godville, I Love Hue and Neko Atsume. Godville is the best as it’s a zero player game so I don’t need to do anything if I don’t want to (though I can do stuff to try and influence my heroine if I want). Also playing Word Cookies but Johan is so much better than me, and it overheats my tablet so it turns off.
I played a bit of Stardew Valley on puter, but put it on hold again until I’m caught up a bit with WoW stuff. It’s fun but I had to use a mod to make fishing much easier as it was impossible before.
They are lying bastards. How in the hell can you walk when you cant get out of a seated position? I swear to god they just write whatever they fell like on those reports. You make dam sure you get your MP involved sweetie. Its amazing what an arse kicking from an MP can achieve when it is aimed in the DWPs direction 😉
Re-releasing "The Phantom Disgrace" in 3D is just wrong on many levels. Most notably, the movie wasn't filmed in 3D so the effect cannot be better than half-assed. Don't be expecting the visual impact of "Avatar". The effects won't be as good, but it should again remind people that there should be more to a movie than effects. Ideally you get things like plot and character development and old-timey stuff like that.
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Many of the most successful people, from professional athletes to wealthy business people, Ivy League grad students to Hollywood celebrities, have one thing in common. They have a life coach who works with them on a regular basis to achieve their goals. Sounds expensive, but it doesn’t have to be.
Like so many people today, you have reached a roadblock in the journey toward your goals, and just cannot seem to move to the next level in work, hobbies, or life. You’ve tried visualization, meditation, or conventional therapy and nothing has helped you move past where you are today. If you are ready to achieve permanent change and take your life to the next level, Laura King’s Perfect Enough Life Coaching Program is the answer. Laura’s one-of-a-kind life coaching process is tailored to your specific goals, and is designed to help you:
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Using her proven methods, Laura King, CHT, NLP & Life Coach, will customize a program to suit your personal, professional, learning and/or athletic goals. The process begins with a brief written questionnaire, followed by one-on-one sessions with Laura, either in person or by phone/Skype, to uncover your key triggers, issues, and objectives. Together with Laura you will create a precise program that is tailored to suit your specific needs.
Laura’s Perfect Enough Life Coaching Program is centered upon a partnership that involves working together on your needs, wants, goals and vision. The process entails facilitating action plans and commitments, overcoming obstacles, and progressing in the direction of achieving a successful and fulfilling life. Laura will lead you on a path of study and self-discovery that will help you establish realistic goals. She will then work with you to create the behavioral changes necessary to achieve your goals.
All behavioral change takes place at the subconscious level – people don’t change consciously. Your subconscious stores your memories in a “Time Line”. This is how you unconsciously know the difference between a memory from the past and a projection of the future. Using a combination of Time Line Therapy™, Hypnosis and NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming), Laura works with you at the subconscious level to release the effects of past negative experiences and quickly change the inappropriate or negative programming that is holding you back. This work will free you of your past, and help you create the future you desire.
The Perfect Enough Life Coaching Program includes all of the tools you need to map your future. Making dramatic life changes is not something that is done “to” you; it is a cooperative guided process in which you are given step-by-step direction to create the change you desire. After each session with Laura, you will be given “homework”. Laura calls this The Discover Process.
Through the use of The Discover Process, you will work on the eight key areas of personal development to create the outcomes you desire. The Discover Process helps you make action plans and commitments, overcome obstacles, and move forward toward achieving the successful and fulfilling life of your choice. Each “homework” lesson includes paperwork that only you can fill out, and a self-hypnosis CD from the Perfect Enough Series, that supports the area of personal development you are focusing upon.
At the appropriate time during your progress, you will also be given a Positive Outcomes Chart and the Discover Process Progress Chart. These charts will help you map out your desired outcomes and plan your long-term goals, mid-term goals and shorter-term goals, allowing you to create a road-map to your ideal future. During your next sessions, Laura will use this road-map to guide your subconscious mind with Hypnosis and NPL to change old behaviors and habits into ones that are conducive to the life that you want to live. Following your new road-map to success will become second nature as your subconscious mind sees it as already done!
Throughout this process Laura will provide encouragement, support, guidance, motivation and commitment to help you lead a balanced, complete and fulfilling life. This is all part of the Perfect Enough Life Coaching Program. Imagine having Laura’s expertise available to you whenever you need it! This personalized investment is the ideal way to bring about the positive changes you envision in every aspect of your life.
You have the potential to transform your self-image, increase your income, strengthen your self-confidence or simply get a good night’s sleep. It is within you to perform better, to learn better, or to test better; anything is possible. That power is your subconscious mind. By programming both the conscious and subconscious mind, you are able access 100% of their brain’s power. This breakthrough in self-development allows you to master and maximize each action plan effortlessly and automatically.
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The Radial RG6 compression crimp connector is the most recent addition to Pro Brand's Eagle Aspen accessory line. The weathertight seal makes this connector perfect for harsh conditions! This connector is already a favorite among installers and is being widely used in both North and South America.
A North Palm Beach architectural firm leads the list of five finalists in the Housing Authority's Auburn Trace design contest.
Judges, who reached a decision last week, revealed their choices to the Housing Authority on Thursday.
"Let's play Academy Awards here and find out who these people are," Authority Chairman Bob Hutzler said as the names of all of the architects in the contest were removed from envelopes sealed and guarded since last month.
The judges' favorite architect is Omura Casey & Robson Inc. of North Palm Beach. The design featured one- to four-bedroom homes from 750 to 1,475 square feet with pitched roofs and large porches. The 15-acre complex is neatly landscaped and has a basketball court, jogging path and gazebo. The homes are painted in pastels such as light blue and peach.
The Housing Authority will make a decision next month on whether to accept the panel's recommendation or choose its own winner.
First prize in the competition is $1,250 and the inside track to win the design contract for the the entire complex.
The panel of judges, headed by Chamber of Commerce Director Ken Ellingsworth, based its decision on the projects' efficiency, attractiveness and compatibility with the surrounding neighborhood.
Auburn Trace is a $3 million low- to moderate-income housing project planned by the authority to help relieve the city's housing crunch. Some homes will be rented and others will be sold to families who can arrange financing.
Ginocchio and Spina of West Palm Beach was recommended for the $750 second- place prize. Its design features 672- to 1,355-square-foot homes winding around a 3-acre lake.
The preliminary winner of the $500 third-place prize is Slattery and Root Architects of Delray Beach. Those homes range from 600 to 1,365 square feet with large kitchens and cathedral ceilings.
Two other firms, Ted Bessette & Associates of Boca Raton and Currie, Stubbins and Schneider of Delray Beach, were awarded honorable mentions.
Delray Beach architect Mark Fassy and the North Palm Beach firm Yeckes- Luchner Architects, the other two architects in the contest, were eliminated.
The Hawks upset No. 4 Pahokee 21-20 at home, holding onto a late lead thanks to a missed Blue Devils extra-point attempt with less than a minute left in the fourth quarter.
“It was a big win,” quarterback Kaimyn Castilla said. “We’ve been preaching, preaching and preaching that we’re going to get one, we’re going to get one. Just keep on working hard, and it’s going to all fall into place. Hopefully, now we’ve got a playoff spot if we win out.”
The Blue Devils (5-3) got on the board first, following a red-zone interception by senior Leroy Love. Pahokee didn’t need long to score, as quarterback Jaeze Tracey found senior LaMonte Graham for a 57-yard touchdown pass. The two would connect again late in the first half for a 14-yard touchdown.
But the Hawks (5-3) stayed with the Blue Devils. Junior Corey Polk ran in a 15-yard score to even the game 7-7. Late in the first half, three plays after losing his shoe on a 42-yard reception, Brandon Schabert hauled in a 17-yard touchdown catch from Castilla.
Castilla finished the game 13 for 23 for 176 yards. He left the game in the fourth quarter with an injured ankle but returned for the Hawks’ final two drives.
But errors nearly cost the Hawks the game. Ridge recovered a Pahokee fumble at the Blue Devils’ 16. The Hawks couldn’t move the ball, but they lined up for a 39-yard field goal. Two penalties pushed it back to 49 yards, and the kick fell just short.
Pahokee took over at its own 20 and drove down the field in the game’s waning minutes. Tracey punched in a 1-yard touchdown, but the game-tying extra point was blocked, sealing the upset victory for Seminole Ridge.
“We knew we had to win this, we feel, to keep our [playoff] chances alive,” Casko said. “That’s what we told the kids. But I did tell them that this is a playoff game, Let’s play it like a playoff game.”
A registration fee of $35 will be assessed one time per child per season and will include a Kids Camp t-shirt, water bottle and sling bag.
Explore native animal species and their amazing adaptations. Use animals as a source of inspiration for art. Activities this week include fly-fishing demonstrations and creating your own animal.
Find inspiration from forests, streams, meadows, mountains, Native American traditions and wildlife. Also explore dance, music and theatrical arts. Activities this week include making aspen tree paintings and creating mandalas with light sensitive paper.
Enjoy outdoor activities like yoga, hiking, relays, and obstacle courses and learn why it is important to be active and healthy. Activities this week include a visit from fitness experts and creating a selfie collage.
Learn what makes the Wasatch Mountains unique through stories, games, nature hunts and art. Activities this week include a special trip to Bearclaw peak, recreating the legends of Timpanogos, and creating kachina dolls like the ones in the Tree Room.
Learn survival basics to use in the wilderness, including basic first aid skills. Activities this week include a visit with the North Fork Fire Department, making paracord bracelets and learning about natural remedies.
Discover your inner artist this week as campers explore different art mediums such as painting, sculpture and dance and learning about famous artists. Activities include mimicking Monet’s style in a painting and a visit to the Sundance Art Studio.
Campers will be introduced to theatre through drama, music, movement, and visual art. Campers will also learn about Sundance’s rich history of theatre. Activities this week will include puppet-making and improvisation techniques.
Practice basic outdoor camping skills, learn about Leave No Trace™, explore local plant and animal species and learn about fun activities to use on their next family camping trip. Activities this week include creating constellation paintings and going on a compass treasure hunt.
Lunch Options: Sundance Kids Camp provides snacks and water for all campers. Sundance lunch is also available for $10 or campers may bring a lunch from home.
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Jack Matthews on whether he fears The Guardian’s move Down Under, his next move career wise and his plans to hand over the reins.
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Wheresoever I have walked with all Israel, spake I a word to any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my people, saying, Why have ye not built me an house of cedars? / Now therefore thus shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, even from following the sheep, that thou shouldest be ruler over my people Israel: / And I have been with thee whithersoever thou hast walked, and have cut off all thine enemies from before thee, and have made thee a name like the name of the great men that are in the earth. - Bible
Let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart. - Bible
The men of Dedan were thy merchants; many isles were the merchandise of thine hand: they brought thee for a present horns of ivory and ebony. - Bible
This is our first win of the season. Hopefully this will mark a big turnaround for us. Hopefully we'll start winning games and taking it in region. - Mike Meyers
It was a way to take advantage of several manufacturers' rebate programs, in addition to the ones that we were already dealing with, and simplifying the reporting mechanism. - Mike Meyers
Strange how laughter looks like crying with no sound and how raindrops taste like tears without pain. - Unknown
Shout out to all the young mothers doing what they got to do to take care of theres, through every dark night its a brighter day keep yall heads up. - Unknown
Sir Muhammad Iqbal, widely known as Allama Iqbal, was a poet, philosopher, and politician, as well as an academic, barrister and scholar in British India who is widely regarded as having inspired the Pakistan Movement. He is called the "Spiritual father of Pakistan". He is considered one of the most important figures in Urdu literature, with literary work in both the Urdu and Persian languages... (wikipedia)
Inductive reason, which alone makes man master of his environment, is an achievement and when once born it must be reinforced by inhibiting the growth of other modes of knowledge.
Thus passing through the infinite varieties of space we reach the Divine space which is absolutely free from all dimensions and constitutes the meeting point of all infinities.
The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God.
Thou doest not know thy own destiny and doest not know that it gets its worth from thee - otherwise the luminous ruby is only a piece of stone.
If your liver becomes blood through this your destiny, then ask God for another destiny. It is possible that you request from God another destiny.
let this be our beautiful departure from stagnation; let our minds come alive; enter another dimension; go beyond the stars eagerly struggling to find that... which our naked eyes did not know existed; rise like a falcon born to soar and not be alone but be present amongst others.
British physician, West African Countries and Peoples Man's place is higher than the sky. Respect for man is the underlying spirit of civilization.
The man of Love follows the path of God-and shows affection to both the believer and the nonbe-liever.
It cannot be denied that Islam, regarded as an ethical ideal plus a certain kind of polity - by which expression I mean a social structure regulated by a legal system and animated by a specific ethical ideal - has been the chief formative factor in the life-history of the Muslims of India. It has furnished those basic emotions and loyalties which gradually unify scattered individuals and groups, and finally transform them into a well-defined people, possessing a moral consciousness of their own.
We have strayed away from God, and He is in quest of us; Like us, He is humble and is a prisoner of desire: He is hidden in every atom, and yet is a stranger to us: He is revealed in the moonlight, and in the embrace of houses.
It is the mysterious touch of the ideal that animates and sustains the real, and through it alone we can discover and affirm the ideal.
The alchemist of the West has turned stone into glass But my alchemy has transmuted glass into flint Pharaohs of today have stalked me in vain
Yet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation long before science learnt to do so.
The revealed and mystic literature of mankind bears ample testimony to the fact that religious experience has been too enduring and dominant in the history of mankind to be rejected as mere illusion. There seems to be no reason, then, to accept the normal level of human experience as fact and reject its other levels as mystical and emotional.
I have already indicated to you the meaning of the word religion, as applied to Islam. The truth is that Islam is not a Church. It is a State conceived as a contractual organism long before Rousseau ever thought of such a thing, and animated by an ethical ideal which regards man not as an earth-rooted creature, defined by this or that portion of the earth, but as a spiritual being understood in terms of a social mechanism, and possessing rights and duties as a living factor in that mechanism.
The religion of that prophet [Karl Marx] who knew not the truth, is founded upon equality of the belly.
The Westerners have lost the vision of heaven, they go hunting for the pure spirit in the belly. The pure soul takes not color and scent from the body, and Communism has nothing to do save with the body.
The spirit of philosophy is one of free inquiry. It suspects all authority. Its function is to trace the uncritical assumptions of human thought to their hiding places, and in this pursuit it may finally end in denial or a frank admission of the incapacity of pure reason to reach the ultimate reality.
A community receives light from its history, it becomes aware of itself by remembrance of its history.
Look at the evils of the world around you and protect yourself from them. Our teachers give all the wrong messages to our youth, since they take away the natural flare from the soul. Take it from me that all knowledge is useless until it is connected with your life, because the purpose of knowledge is nothing but to show you the splendors of yourself!
My ancestors were Brahmins. They spent their lives in search of god. I am spending my life in search of man.
Life is a struggle and not a matter of privilege. It is nothing but one's knowledge of the temporal and the spiritual world.
Be aware of your own worth, use all of your power to achieve it. Create an ocean from a dewdrop. Do not beg for light from the moon, obtain it from the spark within you.
When a young girl takes her own life, Archie and the other Suicide Kids decide to follow her lead and form a pact. But as the group begin to die one by one, Archie realizes that they have
Are you getting a lot of malware warnings (false positives) with the 11.4.2011 – 110411-1 update from Avast!? Avast! is aware of the problem and they are working to fix it as quickly as possible. The antivirus program is producing a false positive for a lot of web sites. For now, the best way to access the [...]
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We work with talented individuals to help them achieve their professional and personal goals by exposing them to exciting opportunities with industry leading companies. Candidates in our focus industries can rely on our executive recruiters to provide industry expertise, human resources proficiency and multi-cultural experience. Q Works offers a wide range of benefits for career advancement.
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Margaret Place is situated in Coon Rapids, Minnesota. They offer senior living in a well-managed housing community for senior citizens. The zip code of 55448 in which they are located is densely populated, including roughly 27,863 residents. It is a largely average income area, with a median per-home income of $71,198. The community is located near by plenty of local amenities, including medical services, religious services, and retail shopping. They are just 3.1 miles from Mercy Hospital, there are 6 pharmacies within one mile of the community, and there are 32 churches within 4 miles, including In the Word, Olive Branch Lutheran Church, Epiphany Catholic Church-Coon, and Presbyterian Church-the Master.
Margaret Place offers assisted living, nursing home care, independent living, and dementia care. They can provide care for residents who require help with common chores such as preparing meals, showering, and house cleaning, but who are able to move around and are mostly independent. Also, they can provide for residents who are mostly bed-ridden and who need to be under the care of doctors and nurses regularly. Additionally they can house residents who are independent and autonomous but desire a maintenance-free life that includes on site maintenance, house cleaning, and social activities. Lastly, they can care for residents at all stages of dementia or Alzheimer's Disease who require support with common chores and monitoring to avoid them from wandering.
This community boasts multiple room amenities like safety and handicap fixtures, maid service, and on-call maintenance. In addition, they offer several housing choices that include two bedroom apartments. They also offer several property amenities such as walking paths, an on site diner, a game and activities room, high speed internet, and a community dining room.
The Staunton, IL Senior Guide contains key statistics and information about how senior citizens in Staunton live. Use this tool to compare healthcare quality, senior housing options, demographic and financial statistics, and other important data for Staunton with the rest of the country. This guide also contains helpful contact information for local government agencies that offer assistance to senior citizens.
3% of Staunton senior households have an annual income of less than $10k and 44% less than $20k Source: Census.gov ACS
26% of Staunton, IL residents 60 and over received food stamps in the last year Source: Census.gov ACS
Use our senior housing data to get a snapshot of the housing characteristics and living arrangements of the aging population in Staunton, IL.
View our Staunton, IL financial data below to learn about the income, wealth and costs incurred of those seniors living in the community.
59% of senior households in Staunton earn less than $30,000 per year, while 5% earn more than $100K/year
The average Social Security income per household receiving the benefit in Staunton is $16,357 Source: Census.gov ACS
The average retirement income per household receiving it in Staunton is $14,722 Source: Census.gov ACS
Services Provided: Aging and Disability Resource Centers, Area Agencies on Aging, Elder Abuse Prevention
The Monroe, LA Senior Guide contains key statistics and information about how senior citizens in Monroe live. Use this tool to compare healthcare quality, senior housing options, demographic and financial statistics, and other important data for Monroe with the rest of the country. This guide also contains helpful contact information for local government agencies that offer assistance to senior citizens.
16% of Monroe senior households have an annual income of less than $10k and 39% less than $20k Source: Census.gov ACS
21% of Monroe, LA residents 60 and over received food stamps in the last year Source: Census.gov ACS
Use our senior housing data to get a snapshot of the housing characteristics and living arrangements of the aging population in Monroe, LA.
View our Monroe, LA financial data below to learn about the income, wealth and costs incurred of those seniors living in the community.
55% of senior households in Monroe earn less than $30,000 per year, while 12% earn more than $100K/year
The average Social Security income per household receiving the benefit in Monroe is $13,312 Source: Census.gov ACS
The average retirement income per household receiving it in Monroe is $20,757 Source: Census.gov ACS
The Rutherfordton, NC Senior Guide contains key statistics and information about how senior citizens in Rutherfordton live. Use this tool to compare healthcare quality, senior housing options, demographic and financial statistics, and other important data for Rutherfordton with the rest of the country. This guide also contains helpful contact information for local government agencies that offer assistance to senior citizens.
10% of Rutherfordton senior households have an annual income of less than $10k and 41% less than $20k Source: Census.gov ACS
45% of Rutherfordton, NC residents 60 and over received food stamps in the last year Source: Census.gov ACS
Use our senior housing data to get a snapshot of the housing characteristics and living arrangements of the aging population in Rutherfordton, NC.
View our Rutherfordton, NC financial data below to learn about the income, wealth and costs incurred of those seniors living in the community.
61% of senior households in Rutherfordton earn less than $30,000 per year, while 5% earn more than $100K/year
The average Social Security income per household receiving the benefit in Rutherfordton is $16,997 Source: Census.gov ACS
The average retirement income per household receiving it in Rutherfordton is $23,783 Source: Census.gov ACS
Explore Senior Housing options in Arlington Heights, IL, and nearby cities. Use the advanced filters to search specific care types such as Nursing Care, 55+ Living, Independent Living, Alzheimer’s Care, Assisted Living, Continuing Care, Adult Day Care, Low-Income Affordable, Respite Care and/ or Home Care.
Explore Senior Housing options in Arlington Heights, IL, and nearby cities. Use the advanced filters to search specific care types such as Nursing Care, 55+ Living, Independent Living, Alzheimer’s Car... Explore Senior Housing options in Arlington Heights, IL, and nearby cities. Use the advanced filters to search specific care types such as Nursing Care, 55+ Living, Independent Living, Alzheimer’s Care, Assisted Living, Continuing Care, Adult Day Care, Low-Income Affordable, Respite Care and/ or Home Care. View More View Less
There are 12 senior living communities, including Independent Living, Assisted Living, Continuing Care(CCRC) and more in Arlington Heights, IL. Find Arlington Heights senior housing options with a variety of offerings that match your needs.
"A superb book for university and graduate students seeking to understand the historical and current state of diverse indigenous communities innovating for community empowerment amid uneven and unequal processes of globalization ... A book on comparative case studies of indigenous education, with a focus on innovative community-based projects, written by mostly indigenous scholars, is indeed a unique contribution to the literature." – Anthony Abulencia Santa Ana & Monisha Bajaj, book review in Adult Education Quarterly
Rooted in diverse cultures and in distinct regions of the world, Indigenous people have for generations created, maintained, and negotiated clear and explicit relationships with their environments. Despite numerous historical disruptions and steady iterations of imperialism that continue through today, Indigenous communities embody communities of struggle/resistance and intense vitality/creativity. In this work, a fellowship of Indigenous research has emerged, and our collective intent is to share critical narratives that link together Indigenous worldviews, culturally-based notions of ecology, and educational practices in places and times where human relationships with the world that are restorative, transformative, and just are being sought.
The Infusion Center at Sentara Northern Virginia Medical Center was designed with the patients’ needs in mind. It offers a convenient location where patients can receive chemotherapy treatments in a safe, comfortable environment.
The Infusion Center is located on the second floor of the hospital. Patients receive their infusion in a cozy recliner and may watch movies, listen to music, read and most importantly, relax.
Our experienced, registered nurses at the Infusion Center offer the following specialized care services to patients:
The center also offers assessment, evaluation and educational materials to prepare patients for infusion therapy. Our team is committed to working with your primary physician to coordinate your care. Please note that a physician order is required. We have established insurance pre-authorization guidelines for Infusion Center patients.
The center is open Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. The last appointment is scheduled at 3 p.m.
The center is closed on New Year's Day, Memorial Day, July 4th, Labor Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas.
To schedule an appointment, please call 703-523-1560. After hours, please leave a detailed message including your name and telephone number.
Seolab opens a new rubric – the most important Seo news from Google, Seo community and from the biggest Seo tools that happened within the previous 30 days. From now on, you don’t need to read the bunch of all Google updates and announcements. No need to worry if you missed something – Seolab collected all updates instead of you. Save your time for some other important things and check SeoLab at the end of each month.
Just in February Google launched two new tools – Impact Calculator, Speed Scorecard and updated their tool Lighthouse.
Last February 26, 2018, Google introduced the tool known as Speed Scorecard at the Mobile World Congress. It is very easy to use and allows the user to compare your site mobile speed to your competitors’ ones. As you see in our example, we compared a few large sites from Seo community. If you would be a Backlinko, you would definitely understand where you lose against your competitors. What you need to do is just to place four domains for comparison, and the tool will do everything for you. You can also choose the target country.
The Speed Scorecard displays the rapidity of thousands of websites from 12 nations across the world. This tool is powered by one of the biggest database – Chrome User Experience Report.
Along with the introduction of Speed Scorecard is the Impact Calculator tool that evaluates the income impact that results in improving your mobile website’s speed. Google created this tool because they have found that a slow mobile website does not only upset customers, but it minimizes your business income. Check it out on your own if it really does.
Lighthouse is an automated and open-source tool that improves a web page’s quality. This Google tool works with any web pages, public ones or even with those that require an authentication. The extension audits your page and then generates a report with data, that helps you to improve your technical and basic SEO. Unfortunately, after Google’s update in February, their Chrome extension currently not working properly (which is, of course, temporary) and still shows some bugs. But you can use the tool online or from Chrome DevTools.
The newest version of Google Chrome 64 deals with the issue of messy URLs, i.e. that are not easy to read from a human perspective. It cleans them before they are shared and makes them look presentable and cleaner. When distributing URLs from Google Chrome’s inbuilt menu “Share” all needless parameters will be cut off. For example, referral strings that are used for data collection by sites, will be shortened.
If you still need to see the whole URL, you can select the text of the URL manually, and get it full with all the junk at the end.
In the past couple of years, Google has been developing several new search features that are related to featured snippets, knowledge graph and images. But today, the biggest engine expanded another feature known as the “multifaceted featured snippets.”
These types of featured snippets are helpful for search queries that lead to more than one understanding of what was being submitted.
As Google explained “The query “tooth pain after a filling,” for example, could be interpreted as “why does my tooth still hurt after a filling?” or “how long should a tooth hurt after a filling?”
The multifaceted featured snippet will be first rolled out in mobile phones and it will become accessible to desktops within this year.
The main reason why Google made these changes are due to their settlement with Getty Images and to balance between serving user needs and publisher concerns.
Google strongly advocates all sites to adopt HTTPS encryption. Therefore, it has announced a deadline of July 2018 for all HTTP site. In Chrome 68, the omnibox will display “Not secure” for all HTTP pages.
Google officially announced about GSC beta version and gave access to a limited amount of users. The new Console will be rolled out slowly.
This latest console has been fully reconstructed and designed to focus on supporting website owners to fix and identify pending issues.
Last February 28, 2018, Rand Fishkin who was the CEO of Moz for 7 years, left the company. He also confirmed this breaking news on his Twitter account. The reason why Fishkin left the company is to focus on his new software company, SparkToro and also because of some internal disputes. He estimated his departure on around 4 on a scale of 0-10, where 0 is “fired and escorted out of the building by security” and 10 is “left entirely of his own accord on wonderful terms,”.
SparkToro is a data service and software product that helps public relations, marketers, entrepreneurial teams, and even professionals to learn more about the needs and wants of their target customers and Fishkin will be the one lead.
The long wait is over as the registration and tickets for the Mozcon 2018 is now already available. This conference offers a harassment-free experience for everybody. So if you’re interested in this conference that will hold on July 9 to 11, 2018 at Washington State Convention Center, you can register at https://moz.com/mozcon/register. Visit Mozcon’s website for more details.
On February 2, 2018, Ahrefs rolled out a new calculation of their well-known metrics “Domain Rating”. So, as a result, the majority of websites that had Domain Rating of 30 to 50 dropped down to 0 – 30. Because of this issue, a lot of Ahrefs customers started a panic. Ahrefs took into consideration the clients feedback and launched patch 2.0 of these new metrics. So everything ended quite fairly – Sites with “weak” backlinks still stayed below 10, but sites with strong backlink profile gained the DR even higher than they had before the first roll out. In the opinion of Seolab, now DR Ahrefs metric is very close to MOZ DA.
Before the new metrics rollout, the site just didn’t have the DR lower 30, which was unnatural. Ahref redistributed all existing site on the scale 0 -100.
This 2018, there are so many conferences regarding SEO, and one of them was in February – the Public Austin 2018. The Public Austin was held at the AT&T Conference Center, the University of Texas Campus on February 21, 2018.
The speakers in this conference were discussing latest approaches to social media, digital marketing, SEO, and content. This conference featured some prominent marketing experts as well as best speakers from around the world as Gary Illyes and Purna Virji . Check the next Seo conference at Seolab events.
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The Islamic State militants have imposed a brutal, ritualistic sex slave trade on thousands of women and girls who belong to the Yazidi sect, a persecuted religious minority. Rukmini Callimachi of The New York Times joins Judy Woodruff from Northern Iraq to discuss her reporting on the human toll of the Islamic State’s rule.
For that, we turn to New York Times reporter Rukmini Callimachi, who wrote today of a brutal, ritualistic sex slave trade that the Islamic State has imposed on thousands women and girls. They belong to the Yazidi sect. It's a persecuted religious minority.
I think people can tell from the subject that this is a really horrific thing that you were writing about. And I just want to warn our viewers before we go any further.
But remind us how this all started just about exactly a year ago, when ISIS was on the move in Iraq.
ISIS had recently taken the city of Mosul. And they then set their sights on Mount Sinjar, which is just to the north. They invaded Mount Sinjar. And people assumed that — initially that it was just another part of their expansion strategy.
But from the very beginning, it was clear that there was something else going on. Survivors tell us that men and women were immediately separated within the first hour, and that the fighters arrived with fleets of buses and empty trucks, and that those were used to herd the women away.
What did they do with these women? You write how they transported them and took them to different locations. How did they treat them?
What happened is they were initially taken to a series of, if you will, holding pens. Most of them were in the city of Mosul inside the Galaxy Wedding Hall, inside the Ministry of Youth, inside a former prison.
And the women say that they arrived at these enormous halls. They were already outfitted with plates, with accoutrements, with food, so they had planned to put large numbers of people there. And they — very soon after, ISIS fighters showed up, and they began doing a very detailed survey of the people in their possession. The women were asked to give their first, middle and last name, their village, their marital status, the number of children that they have.
And then they were asked incredibly personal questions, such as, how long ago did you have your last period? And they then divined from this that the fighters were trying to figure out if they were pregnant or not, because there is a Sharia ruling about not being able to have sex with a pregnant slave.
And from there, the women were further separated into young and old, beautiful and unattractive. And, in batches, they were taken away, and then bought and then further sold to fighters, who used them as sex slaves.
And you had some very I'm sure difficult conversations, interviews with these women, the women who were able to escape the ISIS fighters. What kinds of things did they tell you?
You know, Judy, I have done interviews with rape victims all over the world, in Congo, in Guinea, in Mali, and these are some of the hardest interviews that I have done.
The horrors that these women are — were forced to endure really challenged the imagination. What they talk about is how systematic the rape was and how they tried to, you know, protest and they tried to ask the fighters, why are you doing this to me? And everything was cloaked in a religious justification.
The Yazidis, of course, are not Muslim. They believe in seven angels and are therefore considered polytheists by ISIS. And the fighters explained to them that, because of your lack of faith, the Koran gives us the right to rape you, and whatever we do to you is not only justified in scripture; it is considered virtuous.
And among the most difficult interviews to do were with these very young women. One was 12. Another was 15. And they described how the fighters got on the floor and prostrated both in prayer before getting on top of them and raping them. And then after the rape, they would go and take a shower and then pray again.
So the acts of the sexual assault itself, the acts of rape were bookended in an act of religious devotion.
And this was repeated. This went on for months and months. Hundreds of these women are still being held in captivity. This is still happening to them.
Finally, just quickly, Rukmini, you wrote about one woman whose captor gave her a paper of emancipation. What happened?
This is what's really curious about this, Judy. It really reminds you of what happened in the American South in the pre-abolition times.
There is a scriptural basis for release of slaves. It is considered very virtuous. And so what we found is that, in the case when a woman was bought by a suicide bomber, and at the moment when the suicide bomber was getting ready to set off on his final mission, in two cases that I spoke to, that I interviewed, the women were given a certificate of emancipation, and they were freed.
And they were — in the case of one of the girl, I was actually able to see the certificate and we were allowed to photograph it. It gave her basically the right to be a free Muslim woman. It says that she is under — under the rule of the Islamic State and has all of the duties and responsibilities of being a Muslim woman.
And this certificate that she got laminated allowed her to pass the checkpoints that finally allowed her to move to safely and return to her family last month here in Northern Iraq.
Well, there is so much more to this story. It is just incredibly disturbing. And we have really only begun to touch on it. I highly recommend it to anyone, to everyone to read more of this.
How do you create a country? What type of government? Who would make decisions? Who would have a right to vote?
The people who played a part in the creation of the Dominion of Canada in 1867 each had a vision of what they thought this country should be. Since that time, Canadians have continued to shape this country through political and social involvement. They are agents of change: dreamers, activists, innovators, who roll up their sleeves and make things happen.
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There aren’t many problems in your real estate business that can’t be solved by getting 100+ leads per month. That’s why we’re obsessed with lead generation strategies.
Want to grow? You need more leads. Want more listings? Yup, more leads. Want more freedom? You guessed it… you need more leads.
But with the right tools, you can capture 3-5 leads every day on autopilot without spending a dime on paid ads.
Lead capture shouldn’t be an after thought. We built the Ultimate Website with one goal: to convert anonymous traffic into names, emails, and phones #s.
The secret weapon of 10,000 agents. Use Text Auto-Responder to deliver more info, photos, or a video tour to interested buyers. Every time you do, you capture a lead.
The ultra low pressure way to invite warm phone calls. It’s your own 1-800 number. Use it to capture leads (even unlisted #s), but never pay for minutes.
Take the guesswork out of writing property ads. Instead get the perfect ad in seconds, then copy/paste into your favorite site. Optimized with brain science to get leads every time.
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Two years ago I was starting from scratch. No clients, no pipeline, crappy market. Now I feel like I’m living the dream! My lead capture is ON FIRE, my income has doubled two straight years, and I have more free time than I ever have. This system has literally helped me change my family tree. MATT MOUSER, REALTOR
Prior to Pipeline Pro Tools I was lucky to do 3 transactions per year. Mostly from word of mouth or REALTOR.com leads. Now I’m capturing 5-8 leads a week and I’m closing 2-3 transactions a month. It’s easy, just use the templates and methods they’ve already laid out for you. MICHAEL TENEYCK, REALTOR
Despite what a few bad coaches and gurus tell you, you CAN grow your real estate business without buying leads, without paid ads, and without killing yourself working 80+ hours per week.
– 12 new buyer leads – 1 new cma request (yeah baby!) – 3 showing requests for the home you listed last week
You call the new buyer leads first. They’re glad to hear from you. They instantly recognize your voice from the video tour you sent them last night — the video was triggered by your text auto-responder.
You move forward with the clients you like best, and you politely let the others know you’re not taking on any more clients at the moment and refer them to a team member.
You don’t have a choice. You are averaging 5-6 new leads per day this month. You can’t help everyone, so you keep the “A” leads and refer out all the B and C leads.
You finally get to look at the CMA request. Before you get started, you call the owner and ask a few questions to more accurately assess the home.
You find out that it’s got a pool (score), they just renovated the kitchen, and a new hvac system is going in today. You pinch yourself to make sure you’re not dreaming.
You make an appointment to meet the seller at the house to deliver your valuation in person tonight. This is going to be easy.
Your virtual assistant has already scheduled the showing requests from last night for later in the week.
On the way to lunch you stop by the office to pick up your commission checks from Friday’s closings.
Tucked into the stack of envelopes is a thank you note from your clients — a young couple you helped purchase their dream home, and they wanted to let you know that they are now expecting a baby boy!
You’re fulfilled. You do cool work. You help people. And you make great money. And I mean GREAT money.
How did this happen? How did you end up with a constant stream of new buyers/sellers who actually WANT to work with you.
That’s what a lead generation machine does. There aren’t many problems that having more quality leads won’t fix.
Most agents believe you have to get lucky, spend decades building a referral network, or spend mega $$$ if you want to get leads on autopilot.
If you don't LOVE it, we insist that you get 100% of your money back. We'll even eat the credit-card processing fees.
When we got into real estate, we tried many of the popular website, tools, and technologies that claimed to do "lead capture" and what we found was disappointing.
All of them required you to buy expensive Google or Facebook ads to get leads. And usually the leads included only an email address (seriously? ).
Instead of creating yet another generic website, we invested our time and money into building the most detailed, most advanced set of real estate tools ever created.
We've done all the hard parts of testing different ads, landing pages, and capture forms. We also include unlimited user help to show you what works and what doesn't work.
It's simple: Get the tools, use our methods, and see for yourself. If it doesn't work, I want you to email me, prove you did the work, and I'll refund you 100%. No questions asked.
This guarantee lasts 60 days — more than enough time to go through the entire program. Try the ENTIRE program. If you don't love it, just email us at ANY TIME during the 60 days and show me you're doing the work and not getting results. We'll refund 100% of your price. We'll even eat the credit-card processing costs.
OMG!!!! I wasn’t ready or expecting this!! I posted a free ad less than 1 hour ago (40 minutes to be exact!) and I already have my first lead! My tools aren’t set up completely yet so it startled me…
To accommodate them I emailed them the link and will follow up by phone tomorrow when I can gather my wits about me to talk to them!! Thanks for all the help!
Here is a link to my second ad. I have received four leads since Friday. I can’t believe it… and the best part is I’m in the driver seat. [Link not shown] ANTILLA F, REALTOR
I started using Pipeline Pro Tools just over a month ago and should be closing on my first lead the end of this month. That’s results! I was able to get this client by first responding quickly to the text alert that I got. My client had already contacted the listing broker before I called her, so my timing was critical.
My advice to anyone is to not over think, over plan, over spend and especially to not procrastinate! Why re-invent the wheel? This is a proven program and I am totally in. I know I have a lot more to learn, but that’s part of the fun and challenge
Hello team, here’s my 1 month update. I haven’t seen the “2-3 leads per day” yet but I have been getting 3 to 4 leads per week with minimal effort. I’ve actually spoken to about 9 or 10 customers so far. One ask to be taken off my list. A few have price ranges so low that they can’t find anything in our area. I am communicating regularly with 4 customers. One of these has referred a friend. And I have shown property to two families. Tomorrow I meet with my highest ticket prospect, shopping from $1.6 million to $1.85 million. I probably would have no new leads without Pipeline Pro Tools. STEVE G, REALTOR
Just to update you on a previous email, I signed up with you in mid-March and after a few days of trial and error I actually began. I received my fourth lead on March 20, and today, May 10, we closed. A total of 51 days — not bad!
Of the 35 leads I’ve gotten, I set up 14 on automatic listings (by email) campaigns, had 2 hangups and 5 wrong numbers. Others I have not been able to get in touch with. I expect to make at least 1 listing and 1 sale in the next 2 weeks…
Hey team, just wanted to report that after only a few weeks of using this system one of the first leads that I put on the auto email has officially moved from phase 1 to phase 2 — I’m showing her property this week. Thanks for your help!
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"Ahmed lives with his mother age (20), the father who abandoned him as a child Salih yet Akkoyun (47) met with his son. Drinking tea and chatting for a while, father and son, then began to argue. In the meantime, the father Salih Akkoyun, wanted to get away from the situation. Followed by his father, Ahmet U., Imam Murat was attacked on the street. Ahmed quietly approaching from behind his father, started downloading a knife strokes. Aggressive son ( According to the information received from the event) "- @YungAlchemist -
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I was flabbergasted. The object was an oval shape and continued to hover in the south direction then moved north at a high velocity of speed. Never seen anything excel so fast in my life.
Born in Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia, Kerrie grew up in Independence, MO. Kerrie holds a BS in Horticulture from Missouri State University. She is pleased to bring her horticulture experience to the Museums, which host an annual Herb Cocktail Party and Herb & Wildflower Sale, and a biennial Garden Tour. Kerrie has extensive experience in programming and non-profit management, most recently at the Arts and Recreation Foundation of Overland Park, Deanna Rose Children’s Farmstead and the Legacy for Parks Foundation.
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It was just reported that director Michael Bay has decided to drop Megan Fox from the third "Transformers" movie in order to give Shia LaBeouf's character a new love interest.
Fox's reps just fired back, telling People magazine that Bay had nothing to do with her exit. "Megan Fox will not be starring in Transformers 3," they confirmed. "It was her decision not to return. She wishes the franchise the best."
While that's very difficult to believe, "Transformers 3" has to move forward and Bay is already getting actresses to wash his car as their auditions for the movie.
Gemma Arterton (Quantum of Solace, Prince of Persia) is the front-runner to replace Fox, but it seems that half of Hollywood is after this role. Models Bar Rafaeli, Miranda Kerr and Brooklyn Decker have already read for the part, while Zoe Saldana (Star Trek), Hayden Panetierre ("Heroes"), Vanessa Hudgens (High School Musical), Amber Heard (Pineapple Express), Camilla Belle (10,000 BC), Emmanuelle Chriqui (You Don't Mess with the Zohan), Ashley Green (Twilight), Julianne Hough ("Entertainment Tonight"), Jessica Lowndes ("90210") and English model Rosie Huntington-Whiteley are still being considered.
Terrence Howard's available. His voice alone could warm even the coldest Decepticon heart. Or spark, or whatever the f*ck they call it now.
"Bay has apparently decided that it is better that Shia LaBeouf's character wasn't tied down to a love interest."
Actually the two girls from the movie "Some like it Hot", or "Connie & Carla", "Peggy Hill", Brittany Murphy (too soon?), Farrah Fawcett (again too soon?), Lindsay Lohan, the girls from "White Chicks" with the fat ass, Emma Skillpa form the movie "Peac*ck", Patrick 'Kitten' Braden from "Breakfast on Pluto", Dame Edna Everage, the woman who played "Tootsie", the female cast of "The Klumps", Mrs Doubtfire, Devine, Big Momma, Gap Girls and the female body builder from "In Living Color".
First they talk about dropping the love interest, now you want to replace her? The movie doesn't need any c*nts. Just make it full blown action.
Translation : Michael got his d*ck blown and his salad tossed, all the while the girls were also blowing the minature pony he keeps behind his production office.
Nice......I hope that tash was on her face, I hate to think what her bush would be like...That must be a fro like Kid from Kid and Play
Jo Brand (she's a stunner) and i think she's a little bit racist as well, if those twins aren't in it....
Well, hell ... if you want racist ... Ann Coulter ... plus she has that whole anorexic thing down to a tee ... but no tits and ass ... she looks like Jon Heder in a blonde wig.
^ If they replace her with either Mandy Moore, Kristen Stewart or *epic shudder* Miley Cyrus, I'll KNOW BEYOND A f*ckIN SHADOW OF A DOUBT that Michael Bay reads this site ... but still won't go out and commit hari kari, which is what he should do ....
Before or after she rapes him anally with the dog, gives him a reach around, blows him and finally tosses his salad, sucking out all the remaining canine sperm ?
max- Rip !! He's still alive !!! ahhhh that bit about being alive doesn't really matter in this movie i guess !!
I would rather watch Lindsey Lohan naked and masterbating with a cuc*mber, followed by dropping a Cleveland steamer on the pitcher's mound at a Cubs game than watch this floating cesspool of senility personified, directed by Michael " Why can't I just asphyxiate myself like David Carradine ? ... now, he WAS cool " Bay
* VERY rhetoric. Eyes literally rolling all around like an epileptic stripper freakin' out to the strobe lights, while AC/DC is cranked at 12 on the Fenders *
Shia should just skip to Terry Crews ... so Terry can wear him out like a sausage skin condom ... and Shia won't have to worry about sh*tting for months ... it'll just be like the bomb-bay doors of a B28 bomber are stuck open and the package can just fall on out.
Sam Worthington ? That's like having the janitor who just unclogged the toilet with his hand going in and working on the arteries of your heart without even scrubbing down.
Yep. If I did them down the back, I'd be imitating MICHAEL f*ckIN' BAY, Blue Oyster Club registered member and NAMBLA spokesman.
As I said in another post, they should just get Angelina Jolie since fox is always trying to mimic her anyways. They are f*cking with time travel in this one, have her be the future version of the girl
While they're at it, they might as well do the crossover thing and have Transformers meet GI Joe (like they did in the comics).
Only if David Spade could be the wise ass character in Tommy Boy and point out all the waste and flaws of this sh*tpile of a catastrophe.
He could shill Oxi-Clean to Optimus Prime while Offer "Vince" Shlomi could scam off the ShamWow, a couple of 40s, some blunts, a few Black & Milds and cartons of Kools, rims, street copies of " Get Rich or Die Trying " and a Slap Chop to Skids and Mudflap ... all the while telling them, " Nah, guys ... the gold teeth look good! Like when Lindsey's hookin' Sunset! "
I wish Ranger was here to see how well I am using out of date and obscure references regarding Megan's replacement ... he'd be so proud!
All of the above names (ladies only) a giant mud ring , all in bikinis and it's all on all last girl standing gets the part , that should sort this mess out !!
^hell yea Trailer. I'd knock the dust and cobwebs of that old puss with a smile and enjoy the cuddling afterwards, b/c I'm such a sweetheart.
Taylor Hanson lol, I had such a crush on her till I found it was a boy and his tescticales hadn't dropped yet.
I remember seeing the video of their song "mmbop" and I was like "mm not a bad looking girl" then saw an interview with them and well you knw the rest...aaaaahhhh!!! lol
Lucky I wasn't younger I would have been confused about my sexuality as vin and coc are about theirs.
@trailer- yep, weird thing is they are/were good/great actress so have no idea what the hell happend, must have been the writer/writers.
@cc- so you can be born that way...wow..I guess I should be a Liberal instead of a hard line Conservative.
@trailer- I remember that!!! hahaha I love the awfulness of it, shame the BBC did'nt keep it going ...lol...the acting, sets, storyline everything was so bad it was good.
Lindsey Ho-han, that way she can get the transformers to stop fighting by deep-throating Megatron while Optimus takes her from behind with his humongous robo-d*ck!
Odette Yustman could just play the character the end. Wouldnt even have to change the script,hahahahahhahahaha like they use a script.
Oh no! You can't replace Megan Fox! What about the precious story!?!?!? I'm just playin', who gives a sh*t?!?!?
huh dont ... for once hollywood drop the love story line its more wore out then loahgs vagina after fleet week
I was hoping (nay, praying) for a lesbo scene between Kirsten Bell and Mila in 'Forgetting Sarah Marshall' through the entire movie!
ranger- that would have been awesome , but you just know that twat brand would have wormed his way in there somewhere !!
@trailer - I called it a long time ago that Russell Brand's career would take off. He's original and f*cking hilarious. He was even running comedic circles around Letterman yesterday (even though that appears to get getting easier with every passing year). I'm glad Hollyweird is giving Brand work. And yes... he's a lucky bugger for being in that flick. I can't recall (recently) when 2 women (Bell and Kunis) looked better in a movie... WOW!
@ranger - your right about brand he is fresh and man he loves the ladies, just wished we hadn't seen him on Big Brothers Big mouth for the last few years over here, he got a bit over exposed in the uk (in more ways than one ).
And oh yeah Bell and Kunis did look good in that movie and i bet russell was in the middle of that delightful sandwich at some point !!
@trailer - didn't know about his over-exposure over there, but nice you still see how refreshing he is.
Emmanuelle Chriqui, Camilla Belle, or Amber Heard would be my choices to replace Fox. They're all attractive women and they actually seem like nice girls too. They'd be a good alternative to Fox's inherent bitchiness. And Amber Heard has already done The Informers (where, if you saw it, she shows EVERYTHING and has orgies and smokes bongs; need I say more?) so we know she's up for anything.
Please note actual acting skills not required for the part only looking totaly f*cking hot half naked, and large enough boobs to get a nice bounce during slow-mo running scenes.
Who will replace Fox??? What are we going to do??? Who gives a crap, she was a sidekick and now can devote herself to porn as the good lord intended.
The warrant isn't for her...It was issued from the CDC...It's for her crotch. It's a Level 4 Bio-Hazard.
There probably gunna make Sam gay in the movie and Leo could be the new love interest and also be Micheal Bay's new love interest since Megan Fox is now gone!....He probably had a tighter *sshole han she did, Thats why he let her go.
HAHAHAHA lindsay has had her passport stolen at the cannes film festival and she will miss her court appearance back in the US.
I say Amber Heard, she's gorgeous, *appears* to be pretty down to earth (which is a breath of fresh of after that dumb trick, Megan Fox) and she seems like she would fit in well with the Transformers Universe. Not to mention she's a much better actress than Fox.
For me Gemma Arterton seems a little too old as a "love interest" for Shia's character. She gorgeous and a good actress, but just too old for the part.
In closing, I think they should avoid making the same mistake they did with Fox and find an actress based on her acting ability as opposed to her good looks.
Yesssss! Mila Kunis was ridiculously sexy in Forgetting Sarah Marshall... was so proud of Peter Bretter (Jason Segel) for finally tappin it lol
How about that Jewish character on Glee (the broadway loving girl) ? .... she has a mouth that looks like it could clear the chrome off a bumper/ suck a golfball through a straw ...
I've always found Kristin Bell pretty hot, probably more hot than Mila Kunis, I'm not sure (50/50 for me).
could be any ho on the street as long as they have monster tits an ass that won't quit and is willing to "wash Bays car".
Gemma Arterton, hands down. She's a versatile actress who's amazingly HOT and great in everything she does. Oh yeah and she's not a raging bitch.
how about nobody replace fox?...transformers should be about the autobots and decepticons, not shia and megan's characters
I think Ugly Betty should replace Megan Fox, not the actress who plays her but the actual character.
Megan girli always thought thy were just taking the piss saying your thick but now i know your the dumbest unt alive for leaving transformers movieas for who should replace her..
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These are adorable soaps! Joelle made these soaps as her first solo soap! She did an excellent job! I love the watercolor effect that they have to them. And the sweet looking hearts on top set it apart from other soaps. This was all her own design and she made it happen. They are scented with Blood Orange essential oil and Grapefruit essential oil. She was pleased that they had a candy like scent. They really are yummy smelling!
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Speakers at conferences and events are often thanked with bottles of wine (even if they don’t drink…) or garden seedlings (even if they don’t have gardens…).
It’s true it’s the thought that counts, but we thought there had to be a better way! So we created Good Gift Cards, which are a way to say ‘thank you’, with meaning, and without giving people stuff they don’t really want or need.
Instead of receiving ‘stuff’ for themselves, recipients can use their Good Gift Cards to make donations to charities they care about — so they can share the gift of giving.
When we recently launched Good Gift Cards, we thought they would make perfect gifts for conferences and events — for special guests who really don’t need more bottles of wine, seedlings, or other traditional conference gifts.
And the Perspectives on Charity Law, Accounting and Regulation in New Zealand Conference, held in Wellington in April, was the first big NZ conference to give Good Gift Cards to all of its speakers.
As part of their speaker ‘thank you packs’, all 45 speakers received $20 Good Gift Cards, which they can use to make donations to charities of their choice. (That’s $900 of goodness!)
The conference speakers were mainly accountants, lawyers and regulators, and many also wear other hats as charity board members, supporters and volunteers.
Conference committee member Sara O’Hara, of Chartered Accountants ANZ, said it “made good sense” to give Good Gift Cards to the 45 conference speakers.
“All of the speakers gave their time free of charge to come and speak and we wanted to thank them in some way,” Sara said. “The conference was mostly about charities, we had a lot of charities attend, and we wanted to tie in giving back to them.”
And since the conference, the speakers have been steadily redeeming their Good Gift Cards at The Good Registry, for a wide range of charities including Big Buddy, Wellington Free Ambulance, Garden to Table, and Kaibosh Food Rescue.
On behalf of The Good Registry, and our charities, thank you to the 12-member organising committee of the Perspectives on Charity Law, Accounting and Regulation in New Zealand Conference, to everyone who attended, and especially to their 45 presenters who are paying forward the giving. Thanks for being part of the giving revolution with us!
Two ferries, one plane and three trains (one that boarded a ferry itself), were my modes of transportation these past two weeks. Since Natalie left Helsinki, I have been traveling solo. In the past two weeks I explored a part of the world I only imagined, and now it seems my dreams have come true. I’ve seen Finland, Sweden, Denmark and now I’m in Amsterdam!
When I arrive in Stockholm I celebrate Midsummer, a holiday second only to Christmas. I find myself at Skansen, an open air museum in the center of the city with thousands of other locals and visitors. It is an amusement park with cultural history along with an aquarium, zoo and so much more.
I even tried some local protein, elk. It was pretty good. And don’t you love the wreath I made myself!
The beauty is amazing and I am loving the weather. The average temperature has ranged from the high 50’s to the mid 70’s. There might have been one day in the 80’s in Stockholm and I was warned to be careful with how hot it would be, ha ha. I received reports from my family in Alabama that temperatures have reached 100 degrees already. I have to say I am pretty happy where I am right now. That’s not to say that there is not a rainy day or two, but those days are perfect for visiting a museum or reading a book.
If you asked me one year ago, let alone six months ago if I would travel abroad by myself I would have said “I would love to think that I could, but I don’t think I would.” Well, that has all changed in the past month. Part of the appeal to being part of The Great Enlivening was that I would be with two other people, two amazing women with a sense of adventure and the means to take time off from life to explore the world. Though we had not been through all the same life experiences, we all felt a need for something new and different.
Both Rachel and Natalie took this time as a source for healing, but for me, I believe it has been a way to break out of my shell. There have been so many firsts on this trip, the biggest by far is spending almost a month traveling around Europe solo. I left all the stability of a good job with benefits and a family that loves and supports me for – uncertainty. But with that uncertainty comes the chance for growth that I think I needed for a long time. I believe that I have grown up these last four months. I was pushed from my comfort zone and put myself in situations that I am not always comfortable with.
I love getting out and experiencing this amazing world that we live in, but usually I have someone with me. My sister or brother are the usual suspects who accompany me. Now I have taken day excursions alone on trips or flown solo to visit friends in different cities, but never a weekend let alone 4 weeks without knowing a single soul.
So I have had to put my smile to good use and meet people, strike up conversations with random strangers, like in a line at the Rijksmusuem in Amsterdam that lasted about two hours. It was worth it to see two Rembrandt paintings that have not been seen in public since 1956. Also I got into the museum for free since it was opening day, hence the queue.
Or trying to figure out the quirks of an electric stove at the hostel in Copenhagen. I have learned that backpackers are some of the friendliest travelers, always willing to lend a hand or tell you the tricks and quirks of kitchen appliances. Who knew a morning tutorial would lead to an evening at a Biergarten with a fellow American and an Aussie.
I have had my days when I miss Rachel and Natalie. I pass a cafe and imagine the three of us sitting outside enjoying a glass of wine and sharing our thoughts on our day or our experiences in the past. But I know that their departures and my decision to stay are no coincidence. I truly believe that God was preparing me for this adventure by myself. I don’t think I would have had the confidence to travel alone from the start. I am also reassured by the amount of people I have met throughout this journey who are traveling alone as well. There is a certain amount of freedom that you are allowed because of it.
My journey is not finished yet and I know I still have more to learn. But I do know that I have grown through this Great Enlivinging. I am stronger than I think and can do much more than I ever imagined. I know that these are facts that I must take with me on my next adventure in life. What am I going to do when I get back to the States? But luckily I am not quite there yet, I still have a little time to see the world and find out more about myself.
Katy! Great job of taking that leap of faith…there are no accidents as we focus on Him and obey what He desires for each of us!
Thanks for sharing your thoughts and adventures, even though you are flying solo…there is always One closer to us than a brother! 🙂
Love this update and hearing about your travels! I miss you and love you and look forward to seeing you in less than 2 weeks!!! 🙂
Good for you, Katy! Thank you for the update. What special memories you are making. God bless and direct your steps!
I love your stories and I am impressed by your adventurousness. I would love to see some of the places. I was in Vienna for several days in February and saw the same sights you did. I was there to unearth a famous race car that I had been chasing for over 25 years. Success! It is now here in Asheville awaiting restoration.
The Ukrainian government has released recordings of alleged phone calls between pro-Russian separatists discussing the fate of Malaysian Flight MH17’s black boxes.
Ukrainian security officials released the tapes on Sunday, claiming that they proved Russia had directed the separatists to find and hide the black boxes.
The call is between Alexander Khodakovsky, leader of the Vostok (East) battalion of pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine and one of his men (“Oleksiy”) at the crash site. You can listen to the conversations below:
“Do it really quick, urgently. Moscow is asking where the boxes are… [they] must be under our control”.
In a second call less than an hour later, Khodakovsky talks to another man at the crash site (“Andriy”), telling him,
“I have a request for you. It is not my request. Our friends from high above are very much interested in the fate of the black boxes. I mean people from Moscow.”
Around the time that the recordings were released, Reuters released footage of what appears to be the black boxes being removed from the crash site by the separatists:
Earlier this morning, the news service Interfax reported that rebel Russian separatists in Ukraine had handed over the black boxes to Russia’s Interstate Aviation Committee.
Andrei Purgin is the self-proclaimed deputy prime minister of the Donetsk People’s Republic, the separatist government in the rebel-held city of Donetsk. Purgin told Interfax:
“Of course, we most likely will give them [the black boxes] to the Interstate Aviation Committee, to Moscow. High-level experts, who will be able to determine exactly the reason of the catastrophe, work there.”
So it seems that the black boxes are on their way to Moscow, if they’re not there already. This will definitely raise a lot more suspicion about Russia’s involvement in the MH17 tragedy.
But, for the sake of objectivity, it is definitely worth noting that these tapes have not been independently verified yet, and are being released by the Ukrainian government, who has every reason in the world to want Russia to be responsible for the tragedy.
That doesn’t mean I believe the tapes are fabricated- it’s just a reminder to tread carefully when trying to make sense of such a complex issue.
Has bocce ball ever been an Olympic sport? Maybe it should be! It started with the ancient Greeks, and came to southern Italy with them, where it has stuck fast. The French adopted it as boules–and could bocce be the distant ancestor of the bowling alley across town?
The Italian tradition of bocce is kept alive in St. Louis. Milo’s Bocce Garden is a tavern in The Hill, the Little Italy of St. Louis, which bills itself as the “sports center of The Hill” in neon lights. Milo’s installed bocce courts in the 1980s and maintains an active tournament schedule. But bocce was alive and well on the Hill long before that, as the following video reveals.
Four million Italians immigrated to America between 1880 and 1920, creating little pockets of Italian culture, neighborhoods all over the USA known as “Little Italy”. I visited one such neighborhood in January, and here are some photos from “The Hill” in St. Louis.
If you are longing for a blast of Italian culture, food, and style in the midwest, check out The Hill.
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My daughter and her husband moved to St. Louis, Missouri in early January, and three weeks later, we visited them, eager to see “The Hill”, St. Louis’ Little Italy. They took us out to dinner at Gian-Tony’s Ristorante, where I had my first taste of Ravioli Tostati.
This deep-fried ravioli is a tradition of St. Louis–but perhaps somewhere in Italy too, the cook accidentally knocked a raviolo into hot oil instead of water, inventing a crispy appetizer. I was told that several chefs on The Hill have claimed that fortunate mistake, sometime in the 1930s or ’40s. The popular dish is available in many parts of the Mid-west now, and some East Coast restaurants too.
So we enjoyed a plate of Ravioli Tostati before our dinner at Gian-Tony’s, dipping the crunchy squares in marinara sauce as we visited. I have to say, the cooks of St. Louis are on to something! Since coming home, I’ve looked for recipes, and am sharing links to a couple of them with you. Here’s a fast-food version from All-Recipes website. Charlie Gitto’s, one of the restaurants that claims the invention, provided this recipe on the Food Network website.
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Among Westerners, the economic partnership between China and Africa is often overlooked. But in "China Safari: On the Trail of Beijing's Expansion in Africa," Serge Michel and Michel Beuret examine the roots of this relationship -- and argue that China is engaged in a conquest of Africa that will have worldwide economic implications.
As French journalists, Michel and Beuret bring an acute awareness of their own country's colonial history to the China-Africa story. Michel, a former West Africa correspondent for Le Monde, has also reported from Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan. Beuret, the foreign editor of the Swiss magazine L'Hebdo, has written extensively on human trafficking in China and Europe.
"China Safari" is a fascinating, provocative work of firsthand reporting that illuminates an important global economic story. The book also features a 16-page insert of color photographs shot by Paolo Woods, who puts human faces on the book's sprawling story and highlights some of the stark juxtapositions of African laborers and their Chinese bosses.
In 1976, under Mao Zedong, China completed the Tan-Zam railway, linking Zambia to the port of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania. But, as the authors note, Chinese inroads into Africa really got a kick-start in 1995, when President Jiang Zemin made a speech urging Chinese business leaders to "Go abroad! Become world players!"
Chinese business interests in Africa have grown dramatically in recent years. The authors say that bilateral trade between the regions quintupled, to $55 billion, from 2000 to 2006, and that the figure is expected to reach $100 billion by 2010. Chinese business interests in Africa range from oil, lumber, refining, agriculture, mining, textiles and banking to the construction of dams, railroads, highways, bridges, airports and housing.
The authors contend that China's ambitions in Africa are grandly geopolitical as well as economic. As Jacob Wood, a Shanghai-born housing developer based in Africa for more than 30 years, tells them: "I'm going to be honest with you, China is using Africa to get where the United States is now, and surpass it."
According to one report cited by the authors, there are now about 750,000 Chinese living and working in Africa, in countries including South Africa, Nigeria, Zambia, Sudan, Algeria, Congo, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Angola, Gabon, Guinea, Ethiopia, Cameroon, Egypt and Chad.
On the one hand, the Chinese invest heavily in infrastructure projects and create hundreds of thousands of jobs in return for being granted oil, mining and other concessions by African nations. According to the authors, Chinese "discretion and humility" are a breath of fresh air against a backdrop of "colonial arrogance" by France, Britain and other nations. In addition, the authors say, "Africa welcomes any competition that shakes up the Western, Lebanese and Indian business monopolies."
Many African leaders are enamored of the Chinese mix of authoritarianism and capitalism in business affairs, an emphasis on efficiency and a lack of preaching about human rights, the authors say.
"The Chinese build things, the Europeans don't," declares Claude Alphonse N'Silou, minister of construction and housing of the Congo Republic.
But there are increasing signs of trouble in the Sino-African economic paradise. The book says the Chinese have been criticized for selling arms to Sudan and Zimbabwe in the past, and for showing support for the Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe. The authors also cite a United Nations report that says that thousands of machetes used in the Rwandan genocide were imported from China.
And the everyday workplace is riven with accusations of mistreatment of African laborers by Chinese bosses, and accusations of virulent racism that seems to contradict the Chinese image of discretion and humility.
An opposition leader in Zambia, meanwhile, complains that his country is allowing Zambia to become "a province -- make that a district -- of China," adding, "There's nothing any minister can do when confronted by China's amoral scheming." The authors also cite instances of Chinese companies recently abandoning infrastructure projects without public explanation.
"China Safari" is hobbled by the fact that Michel and Beuret were often denied access to important business people and projects. As a result, the authors occasionally resort to rambling anecdotal narratives like one in which they trace the manufacture of plastic souvenir pyramids sold at Egyptian archeological sites to -- where else? -- China.
Despite the recitations of socioeconomic and cultural disruptions and workplace abuses, the authors reach what may be an overly sanguine conclusion. They contend that "China's arrival has been a boon for a continent adrift," adding that the Chinese have "given Africa a real sense of worth, as much in the eyes of Africans themselves as in the eyes of foreigners."
Still, it is not hard to join the authors in predicting that this joining of Chinese and African interests will likely succeed to the chagrin of the rest of the business world.
In exchange for my time and efforts in attending shows and reporting my opinion within this blog, as well as keeping you advised of the latest discount offers, Big Apple Circus has provided me with complimentary tickets to their show along with the opportunity for my giveaway of two opening night tickets. Even though I receive these benefits, I always give an opinion that is 100% mine.
The amazement as we began walking toward the large tent, wonders of what would happen. Magic? Clowns? Would there be elephants like all the “circus” movies or shows we’ve seen? Our excitement has built for many days now; due to the fact myself and Geraldo along with our daughters have never been to the circus. We searched the web from their website http://www.bigapplecircus.org to the famous Youtube of course. Every word and video kept us on the edge of our seats you could say.
So it beings here… I had to have the girls take a photo outside the large tent before sitting down. How many times in your life can you say you went to the circus? Well you can if you join the Big Apple Circus membership. (Found on their page http://www.bigapplecircus.org/join-and-give where you also can find contact phone numbers for more information.) After having an usher directing us to our seats we became amazed at the “small” yet spacious soundings. Count down starts… What is to come?!
First the comical clown, oh how I loved how he began the show. Catching our attention, interacting with the guests he had us laughing like hyenas. Next was seeing who was in the show, introducing of the cast members with a beginning show entrance.
From each moment we were enchanted into this circus with animals and circus members keeping our every attention. Elleanna was entranced and unable to keep her eyes off the performers for a moment; when intermission came she was not a happy camper waiting. So Isabella, Gerlado, Elleanna and I stepped outside for some popcorn, light up toys and shirts. We’re always looking for a keepsake as a memory piece for our adventures.
Rushing back to our seats hoping not to miss a thing, we realize how late it has been getting. A two hour show for The Big Apple Circus at 7pm is not very suitable for my girls with bed time of 8 which was when we had intermission (8:04pm to be exact). Their attitudes began to change from being excited and entertained to overwhelmed with sleep and fidgety. The second half of the show became very hard for mommy to keep the girls under control, though we wished the show was earlier in the day we had a magnificent time. From watching the camels, horses and dogs, goats and pig to the brother’s foot work and the bubble performance I must say The Big Apple Circus is one that I would go back to.
I felt as if we timed hopped back into the 1940’s (ok maybe later then that even.) entering the tent, wondering what it would have been like to have our entertainment be the circus coming to town rather than all these electronic devices that keep us cooped up in our homes. No longer playing outside for hours or a peaceful family conversation at dinner; but children and parents eyes glued to televisions, Iphone’s and Galaxy’s. This performance reminded me how much family time means to me, that the girls are only this young for a short period of time. We need to grasp every event, performance, and sport, along with outdoor outing that we can and make memories.
Thank you Big Apple Circus for putting the magic back into my eyes, my mind and my future. We will see you again soon.
If you have ever been to the circus what is your favorite part? The Food or maybe the keep sakes? Or is it the performance itself, captivating your attention with every motion like The Big Apple Circus?
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Considerable excitement was occasioned on Saturday last by the apprehension of George Hylands, a small butcher living at Ringmer, on a charge of sheep-stealing. It appears that, on the morning of Wednesday last, the shepherd of Mr Thomas Ellman, of Court House Farm, Beddingham, missed four sheep out of a given number, which he had left safe on the previous evening. He directly informed Mr George Ellman, who lives at Beddingham, and manages the farm for his brother, of the loss; and that gentleman lost no time in putting himself in communication with the East Sussex Constabulary. In consequence of certain information the police became possessed of in the course of the inquiries which they immediately set on foot, suspicion was directed towards the prisoner Hylands; and on proceeding to his house on Friday, the skins of four sheep and part of their carcases were found in his shop and premises. On the skins being shown to Mr George Ellman and his shepherd, Thomas Payne, both parties at once identified them as the skins of the missing sheep; the marks on the ears, and other circumstances, leaving no room whatever for doubt. In the course of their inquiries the police ascertained that some of the mutton had been sold to a butcher, living in Malling Street, named Gibbs, and that Mr Cozens, butcher, on School Hill, had also purchased a portion of it. In consequence of this Hylands was taken into custody, and brought up for examination before H Blackman, Esq, when the following evidence was given.
The skins and meat were brought for identification. In order to the better understanding of the case it may be well here to mention that the prisoner is the son of a man named Hylands, now and for many years past in the employ of Mr William Ridge, and that the prisoner had formerly been shepherd to Mr Withers of Ringmer.
The first evidence gone into was that of Thomas Payne who, being sworn, deposed that he was shepherd to Mr Thomas Ellman, of Court House Farm, Beddingham. Mr Ellman has a flock of 440 ewes, 99 tegs, and several rams. On Wednesday last, there were in a brook near Beddingham bridge eleven fatting ewes, four tegs, and one ewe with a lamb. Some of the fatting ewes were marked on the right ear by a cut, forming an upper square, and on the left ear by a piece cut out forming an under square. One of the ewes was remarkably handsome, and was about six years of age, and had been kept over her usual age because of her beauty. Others of the fatting ewes had been purchased last year of Mr Tanner, of Patcham, and those sheep were marked in the right ear by a piece cut out forming an upper square. One of the tegs was a wether and marked in the ear, over square right and under square left; one was marked with a notch cut out of the under part of the right ear; this was also a wether teg. Another of the tegs was a wether, and was marked under square right; and the other teg was a ewe marked in the ear over square right and under square left. On the evening of Wednesday, the 29th April, the lambs and the sixteen sheep were safe in the meadow. On the morning of Thursday, the 30th, at about four o'clcok, witness mssed four of the sheep; one was the six years old ewe, one as an ewe purchased of Mr Tanner, and the others were two tegs, one marked on the under part of the right ear, and the other was marked over square right and under square left. A search was immediately made round the farm, with the view to ascertain whether the sheep lost had strayed with any of the other sheep, but they were not found. The ditches were also examined, but without success. After some further search, the marks of three or four sheep, which appeared to have been recently made, were discovered near the gate of the brook which opens into the turnpike; these marks were traced across the turnpike road up to a gate opposite; from thence they were traced down the road as far as a gat leading into Ranscombe-drove; here the traces were lost. The marks were traced for about 200 yards, and appeared recently made. The foot-prints of a person were also observed, and were seen to come from Ranscombe-drove to the Beddingham bridge, and the same impression had gone from the bridge back to the drove; there were several foot marks in the road. Information of the loss was then conveyed to Mr George Ellman, of Court House , but the sheep were seen no more until about half past four in the afternoon of Friday; when the skins of four sheep were shown to the witness by Sergeant Bennett at the station-house, Lewes. The skins were sworn to by the witness as being the skins of the four sheep which belonged to Mr Thomas Ellman, and which had been stolen during the night of the previous Wednesday. After the skins had been identified, the witness accompanied Mr George Ellman and the police officers to the shop of a butcher named Gibbs, who lived in Malling Street, Lewes, and there was seen the carcass of the 6-years-old ewe, which was cut asunder. After this discovery, they proceeded to the shop of the prisoner George Hylands, who is a butcher and who lives at Ringmer; here was found the carcase of the sheep purchased of Mr Tanner; also the two fore-quarters of one of the tegs; and two necks and two shoulders of another teg, which appeared to have been fresh killed. This meat was taken away by the police officers, and was believed to be part of the stolen sheep. On Saturday, two hind quarters of wether teg mutton were seen at the station house, and the meat corresponded with the fore-quarters found in the prisoner's house. The four skins were identified as being those stolen on Wednesday night.
The skins of the sheep were then brought in, and were identified by the old shepherd in the most conclusive manner. On examining the skin of the 6-years-old ewe, the 'upper square right' was clearly perceptible on one ear, and the 'under square left' on the other, being the old Glynde ear-mark - while witness also pointed out a dot of paint on one shoulder. He also identified one of the ewes which he had described as Mr Tanner's, the ear-marks of which were found to be as he had stated. He gave it as his opinion the mutton which had been found was of the age and character of the lost sheep, and he had no doubt, from its general appearance, that it had been killed on the Thursday morning. Mr George Ellman also spoke most decidedly as to the skin of the 6-year-old ewe.
Payne then identified one of the skins of the other sheep - an ewe which he particularly knew from the fact of its having been left out of a number sent to Lindfield Fair last August, in consequence of its being lame. He pointed out the 'under-farthing' mark he had spoken of. He also identified another of the skins, bearing the 'under square right' and 'under square left' marks. The evidence of this witness was most conclusive.
Mr George Ellman was then examined. He deposed to managing the Court House Farm, Beddingham, for Mr Thomas Ellman. On Thursday morning, the last witness, Payne, the shepherd, informed him that four sheep were lost from Place Brook, and that they had been traced to Ranscombe Drove. He then came to Lewes, and having given information to the police, and sent a communication to the Ringmer constables, he returned home about nine o'clock the same morning. Soon afterwards he was visited by Munford, the policeman at Ringmer, with whom he went to Ranscombe Drove. Near the gateway of the Drove, the footprints of a sheep were distinctly discerned. From thence they proceeded to the Glynde road, and when about 70 yards from the Drove, by the side of a bar way leading to Mount Caburn, several fresh footprints of sheep were traced, which could at intervals be seen in the upper Drove-way, towards Mount Caburn, for nearly eight rods. Being unable to carry their tracing any farther up the road, they wended their way to Ringmer mill; Here they were joined by Captain Bolton, the superintendent of police, and they proceeded to search every shaw, chalk-pit and rabbit hole, wherein anything was likely to be concealed; but nothing was found to confirm a suspicion that the sheep had been killed. On Friday afternoon, information was received from the police, to the effect that four skins had been found; these skins were afterwards seen in the station-house at Lewes, and identified as having belonged to three of the sheep which had been stolen from Mr Thomas Ellman's farm on Wednesday. Mr George Ellman, the police officers, and the shepherd, then went to the shop of a butcher, named Gibbs, in Malling Street, where was found the carcase of a sheep. It had been cut in two parts, but there remained little or no doubt that it was the carcase of the sis years old ewe. They then proceeded to the prisoner Hylands' shop, where was also found the carcass of an old ewe, and the fore-quarters of two young sheep. This meat was removed by the police. On Saturday, two hind-quarters of mutton were seen at the station-house, and these parts corresponded with the fore-quarters found in the prisoner's house at Ringmer. The direction of Hylands' house is almost in a straight line from the brook, and is about four miles distant.
James Bennett deposed to being a sergeant of the Lewes police. In consequence of instruction he had received on Friday, he went to Ringmer, to the prisoner Hylands' house. There he saw the prisoner, and told him that as some sheep had been stolen he wished to search the premises; permission was granted, and in the slaughter house were found the skins of four sheep, which appeared to have been freshed flayed. The prisoner was then asked where he got the sheep from; he replied "I brought them on Wednesday fortnight, at Hailsham market, of a salesman named Bankes [sic]". He was also asked when the sheep were killed, and he said, "On Wednesday evening". The witness then told the prisoner that the marks on the skins answered to the description given of those which were lost; that the skins must be taken to Lewes, and that the prisoner must also go. The whole carcass of a sheep, a half carcass, and other parts of another sheep were soon afterwards seen in the prisoner's shop; these were afterwards admitted by the prisoner to be the meat taken out of the skins previously found in the slaughter house. The prisoner was taken into custody, and on his way with the policeman to Lewes, he was asked if he had sold any carcass to any person. He said, "I sold one to Gibbs, in the Cliffe, and I think it was the best". On Friday afternoon the witness accompanied Mr George Ellman and Payne, the shepherd, to Gibbs's shop in Malling Street, where there was seen the carcase of a sheep in two parts, which was identified by Mr George Ellman and his shepherd. These three persons then went on to Ringmer, when the latter two saw and identified the carcase, etc, which were then taken possession of by policeman Munford. This done, the witness returned to Lewes, and took possession of the meat in Gibbs's shop, which, together with carcase, etc, found at Ringmer, have been taken care of by him.
Henry Munford, having been sworn, stated that he was one of the East Sussex police; and that on Thursday morning, in consequence of certain information having reached him, he went to Mr George Ellman, at Beddingham. Having joined company, they proceeded from Ranscombe Drove to Ringmer mill, where search was made for the foot-prints of the sheep. Several marks were discovered near Ranscombe Lower Drove and Ranscombe Upper Drove. O Friday morning, Sergeant Bennet joined witness's company; and four sheep-skins were afterwards found in the prisoner Hylands' slaughter-house; and in the afternoon, Mr G Ellman and his shepherd identified a carcase, two fore-quarters, two necks, and two shoulders of mutton, which were taken possession of by Munford.
The next witness called was Stephen Gibbs. He deposed that he was a butcher, living in the Cliffe, Malling Street, and that he had been in business as a master butcher for about eight years. He had bought a sheep of the prisoner, Hylands, who brought it to him on Thursday morning. The price agreed on was 5s a stone, and it weighed 7½ stone. He paid Hylands 17s 6d cash down, and was to pay the remaining sovereign on the Monday following. The sheep was brought in on Thursday morning; this was according to agreement. He had bought it the previous Saturday - that is to say he had on that day agreed with Hylands for a sheep, to be delivered on the Thursday morning. This bargain was made in his (Gibbs) shop, but when Hylands came to make the offer he did not say where the sheep was; neither did he say where he got it, when he brought it on Thursday morning between 9 and 10 o'clock. He brought it in his cart. Hylands had no one with him in his cart, which stood in the street - he, Hylands, took it out of the cart and gave it to witness. Witness did not see any more mutton in the cart. He and Hylands had had dealings together for two or three years - ever since the latter had been in business. They had bought bullocks together. He owed Hylands a little balance but could not tell the amount without looking at his books - it might be ten or twelve shillings, or perhaps a pound; he could not say what exactly, from memory, but could tell to a half-penny if he was at home. The balance was on account of a bullock, which they had bought of Mr Paine, of Ringmer. They had bought two bullocks of Mr Paine, for one they gave 3s 6d a stone; the other they bought out and out. The sheep was brought by Hylands on Thursday morning between nine and ten o'clock; it could not have been killed many hours, for it had not got quite cold - not quite set. He did not ask the prisoner any questions as to where he got the sheep; nor did he see any more mutton in his cart. He had not bought any more sheep of him lately, not since the first day of the year. Hylands had lent him a side of mutton, but that was all. Witness then identified the meat as being that which was brought to him by the prisoner on Thursday. Gibbs here repeated his assurance that he had not bought any mutton previously this year of the prisoner, but in order to make the matter more certain, went home for his books, which would show the exact extent of his transactions with Hylands.
Mr Cozens, butcher, Lewes, was then sworn. He deposed that he had had repeated dealing with Hylands, he had recently dealt with him; he, Hylands, then came in his horse and cart; the cart was empty. Hylands paid him £3 2s 6d and left 20s unpaid; this was for some fat sides of pork. He bought beef that day and paid 3s 9d a stone for it, it was a fore quarter. He had frequently bought mutton of the prisoner before, and had had 'dozens' of legs of mutton from him - sometimes two at a time, sometimes more. The last he had of him previous to the Thursday was on Saturday, there were three hind quarters and one leg. He believed the three hind quarters were wether, and the leg that of a maiden ewe. Of his previous transactions with the prisoner the witness could not speak accurately from recollection, but his book would at once show their extent. Mr Cozens then went for his books.
James Akehurst, policeman, stated that on Friday evening he went to Mr Cozens's shop, in High Street, Lewes, and that he received two hind quarters of mutton. The prisoner was brought to the station between one and two o'clock on Friday; had entered into conversation with him. Prisoner enquired how long it would be before he was taken before the magistrates; and had said "I am innocent, I bought these four sheep of a man of the name of Banks, a salesman". On witness asking him where Banks lived, he replied "I don't know, but I think somewhere near Pevensey". Witness remarked "Well, you know whether you are innocent or not". Prisoner said, "Mine were four ewes; I had five, and I sold one to a man with a dark jacket, whom I don't know". Prisoner had said two or three times that his were four ewes, and had repeated the same thing that morning. He understood there were two tegs found, but his were four ewes.
Mr Cozens here returned with his books. On referring, however, he found that there were but few transactions with Hylands during the present year. He might have had a few ready money bargains with him on a small scale, but such dealings being paid for at the moment would not be likely to be entered in his books. Mr Cozens, who gave his evidence in the most open and straightforward manner, then identified the mutton produced as that which he had bought of the prisoner. On comparing the forequarters with the hind found in Hylands' shop, they tallied exactly, a small notch or inequality in the division of the bone of the one fitting precisely into the other. Witness judged the mutton to be that of a wether teg. In his judgement he should say it was killed the day before it was brought to him.
Mr Gibbs then produced his account. They however showed but few transactions with Hylands during the present year. On the 22nd of January this year, he had received 19½ lbs of mutton from Hylands. He had lent him some beef in February, but he had had no mutton from him in that month. He had neither borrowed or lent nor bought any of him.
On Mr Blackman asking the prisoner if he wished to ask this witness any questions, he replied "No sit, it's all right what he says". When the same question had been put with respect to the other witnesses, prisoner had merely said "No".
At this stage of the examination the room was cleared of strangers and, after a short consultation, it was determined to remand the case for an hour or two, in order to procure the evidence of the little boy, Alfred Hylands, who had been named as bringing the mutton to Mr Cozens on Friday.
At six o'clock the examination was resumed. The boy Alfred Hylands, a little fellow of about ten years of age, was first brought in. On being questioned by the magistrates as to whether he knew the Lord's Prayer or the nature of an oath, he replied in the negative. Many questions were then put to him, with a view to ascertain whether he was in possession of any facts which could prove as to when the four sheep were killed by Hylands, or when they were first seen in his possession; but the little fellow, who certainly appeared to have been tutored, invariably returned in answer to any 'leading' question the safe reply of "I don't know". The worthy Magistrate finding the child apparently ignorant of the nature of an oath, did not swear him.
A man named Clarke, who it seems lives under the same roof with Hylands, at the opposite end of the house, here applied for the horse and cart, belonging to the prisoner, on the part of Hylands' father. On being asked what right the father had to them Clarke stated that "It was his father's business, as far as that go". Hylands' father had set him up in business; he was not sure, however, that it was his father's business, but he had heard him say the horse and cart was his. He (Clarke) hired part of Hylands' house; it was too large for him, and as he had married Hylands' wife's sister, he hired half of it. He stated that on Wednesday night he slept at home, as usual; he went to bed about eight and got up at five. On the Thursday morning he saw Hylands up - he was walking about. Clarke did not go into the slaughter-house, nor did he see any sheep. On the Friday evening he came home about seven, but went out again for a short time. When he returned Hylands' father was there; he was talking to the parson, Mr Symons. In reply to a question from the Magistrate, Clarke stated that he heard no disturbance on Wednesday night; he did not hear any one come home. He observed that he had seen Gibbs helping to kill bullocks, but never saw his father helping him to kill.
[It must be remembered that Clarke's observations were not taken as evidence; his remarks were merely made in a conversation arising out of his application for the horse and cart, on behalf of Hylands' father.]
At this stage of the proceedings it was suggested to the Magistrate that the boy, Alfred Hylands, had only been deceiving him, in stating that he did not know the Lord's Prayer, for that he had just repeated it without difficulty to a gentleman, while waiting outside. He was therefore called in, and on the worthy Magistrate repeating his former questions, admitted that he knew the Lord's Prayer, and the nature of an oath, etc. He was therefore sworn. He deposed that he was ten years old. That on Friday he came with some mutton to Mr Cozens. He gave him the basket down, but he did not see him take it out. His uncle George (the prisoner) had put it into the basket; there was half a sheep and two hind legs. He called nowhere but at Mr Cozens'; the order given by his uncle was to carry the meat to Mr Cozens. - Witness was then examined as to whether he saw any body with his uncle on that morning early; he speedily resorted to his old mode of reply "I don't know", and nothing of any consequence was elicited from him. This closed the evidence. Mr Blackman then called upon the prisoner for his defence, after having duly cautioned him that anything he might say would be taken down as evidence against him. The prisoner then, without any hesitation, but apparently in tears, observed precisely as follows - "I did it; I did not know what I was about, I am sure, I am sorry for it. It is such a thing as I never did before and never thought of it - I don't know that I can say anything else. I was quite out of my mind and did not know what I was about I am sure. I don't recollect anything about taking them, but I recollect having them - I can't say anything else - I have nothing more to say". - The prosecutor and witnesses were then bound over in the usual form, and the prisoner was committed to trial at the next adjourned Sessions.
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1 Integration of Sustainable Development on Long Island s Coastal Industries 1 Sheng Li, Richard Vogel Nanda Viswanathan Selected Paper prepared for presentation at the New York State Economics Association s 68th Annual Conference, Siena College, October 9th and 10th, 015 Copyright 016 by Sheng Li, Richard Vogel, and Nanda Viswanathan. All rights reserved. Readers may make verbatim copies of this document for non-commercial appears on all such copies. 1 This presentation is a resulting product from project R/CHD-8, entitled Leveraging Long Island s Coastal Heritage for the Future: Integration and Diversification of Long Island s Coastal Industries funded under award 6709 from the National Sea Grant College Program of the U.S. Department of Commerce s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, to the Research Foundation of State University of New York on behalf of New York Sea Grant. The statements, findings, conclusions, views, and recommendations are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of any of those organizations. 1
2 Abstract Fisheries from commercial fishing to residential and tourist recreational uses in the Long Island, contributing over $10 billion impacts to the regional economics. While Long Island s commercial fishing industry has been decreasing during the past decade resulting from water pollution, competition, and a lack of infrastructure. Annual landed commercial catch declined by 90% from 1993 to. The pass-through impacts from the connections between the marine based industry and the larger economy (such as the tourism sector), might affect the region s economic growth. This study focuses upon Long Island s recreational and commercial fishing industry and its interrelationship with the island s tourism and recreational sectors as well as its integration of sustainable coastal development with the greater regional economy. Base on the IMPLAN data, a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model is built to make a quantitative assessment of sectorial contributions and the linkages among current marine and coastal economy. The preliminary results indicate significant conurbations from commercial fishing, recreational fishing, charter vessels and marinas in coastal businesses and regional economic development. 1. Introduction Fisheries, both commercial, recreational, and sport fishing has a long historical association with coastal economic activities on Long Island. As home to commercial and sport fishing industries, Long Island holds many world-class events associated with its marine setting ever year. In, New York State Fisheries landed over 33 million pounds of finfish, shellfish and crustaceans, with a value of $56.9 million, more than 90 percent of which occurs in Nassau and Suffolk counties of Long Island. If calculate with a standard economic multiplier of 4.5 (LIEDC, Long Island Regional Economic Development Council, ), this sector translates more than 50 million annually to the regional economy. Recreational fishing even contributes over $398 million annually to New York State s output and $4.4 billion to U.S. gross domestic product (Lovell, et al ). State fisheries support thousands of jobs and hundreds of Long Island businesses. Fishing-related industries are a hybrid of local service, resource-dependent and traded industries. They act as an economic driver through exporting of fishery products to the State.. Fishing and Tourisms Marine and coastal based activities (e.g. Fishing) have the potential to provide substantial support to the region s economic growth. The key connections between the coastal and marine based industry and the larger economy are through the greater tourism sector operating in the region. Nunes et al () point out coastal resources and ecosystems can contribute significant economic benefits to regional economies especially in terms of coastal tourism and recreational services. As the second most popular tourist destination in New York State after New York City, over 9 million overnight visitors to Long Island annually generating approximately $5.1 billion in spending in (Matejka, 014). Overall, tourism supports more than 70,000 jobs or 5.9 percent of all jobs on Long Island and is responsible for generating nearly $638 million in state The multiplier calculated based on the IMPAN data.
3 and local tax dollars. Based on a 4.3 economic multiplier, tourism spending had generated $7.4 billion economic impact on Long Island in. Table 1 Tourism Economic Impact, New York. Tourism Economic Impact Direct Sales, Labor Income, Employment Local Taxes, State Taxes, Long Island 5,80,73,735, , ,365 89,460 New York City 38,687,493 19,998, ,473,834,011,10,631 NYS 59,45,086 30,34,791 76,731 4,,385 3,47,483 Date source: Tourism Economic at While Long Island s commercial fishing industry has been decreasing (Clancy, ) during the past decade. New York State s annual landed commercial catch from 1993 to declined by 90%, which is 6 million pounds and the population employed in agricultural and natural resource related industries in the area has continued to decline and represents a very small constituent of the overall regional economy (National Marine Fisheries Service, 014). The commercial fishing industry is fragmenting result from water pollution, competition, and a lack of infrastructure that supports getting products to multiple markets locally and regionally. Correspondingly, recreational fishing in the Long island has been thriving since and the proportion of recreational and sport fishing increase stead continuously over two decades (Figure 3). 11,000 10,500 10,000 9,500 9,000 8,500 8,000 7,500 7,000 US Commercial Fishing Landings NY Commercial Fishing Landings Figure 1 NMFS Fish Commercial Landings, New York State and U.S,
4 Recreational Fishing / Fish Commercial Landings Millions Poinds Data source: The NOAA Fisheries, Fisheries Statistics Division at US Recreational Fihsing Haverst NY Recreational Fihsing Haverst Figure NMFS Recreational Fishing, New York State and U.S, Data source: The NOAA Fisheries, Fisheries Statistics Division at Figure 3 The ratio between Recreational Fishing and Fish Commercial Landings, New York State and U.S, Data source: NOAA Fisheries, Fisheries Statistics Division at 3. Data and Mothed This study focuses upon evolving roles and economic significance of Long Island s recreational and commercial fishing industry and its interrelationship with the island s tourism and recreational sectors as well as its integration of Sustainable Coastal Development of the greater regional economy. Economic structure and its impact/contribution interaction between fishing industry and tourism and recreational sectors are particularly paid more attention to investigate 4
5 the economic relationship, strength and vitality. A set of strategic policy options will be discussed to integrate and diversify the coastal industries. Base on the IMPLAN data, which were gathered from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, the Bureau of Labor Statistics and other sources to provide a complete set of balanced social accounting matrices for every zip code, county and state in the U.S, a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model will be built to make a quantitative assessment of sectorial contributions and the linkages among current marine and coastal economy. Regional survey data will support to evaluate how changes in marine industry production, recreational and tourist demand. Simulations and policy analysis will be conducted to estimate the impacts and effects on both sectoral and regional employment, income, and output. 4. Preliminary Conclusions Our preliminary investigation results indicate significant conurbations from commercial fishing, recreational fishing, charter vessels and marinas in coastal businesses and regional economic development. Linkages between these coastal activities and other sectors on Long Island such as the tourism sector, can create more robust, and sustainable development outcome. Fishing industry has been experiencing fragmentation and shrinking during the past decades, which might affect the related industries such as tourism sector and related waterfront sectors in the Long Island. Reference Clancy, A.. Fishing Industry on Long Island is Thriving. Long Island Business News, May,. Long Island Regional Economic Development Council. A New Vision for LONG Island s Economy LI Economy Book, available at 8#q=A+new+vision+for+long+island's+economy Lovell, S. J., S.Steinback and J. Hilger.. The Economic Contribution of Marine Angler Expenditures in the United States,. NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS- F/SPO-134 U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Marine Fisheries Service. Majetka, K Personal communication with Kristen Matjeeka, Director of Marketing and Communications, Long Island Visitors and Convention Bureau and Sports Commission. Nunes, P.A.L.D., Portela, R., and Rao, N.. Recreational, Cultural and Aesthetic Services from Estuarine and Coastal Ecosystems. Working Papers 11, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei. 5
Creating Underwater Value: The Economic Value of Artificial Reefs For Recreational Diving by Linwood H. Pendleton a December 12, 2004 aassociate Professor Program in Environmental Science and Engineering
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