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ONE TREE HILL – Back tonight!
After weeks of waiting to find out what happened to Peyton, One Tree Hill is back tonight on the CW at 9pm. I guess I am curious to find out what happens and the preview does look good, but as you know One Tree Hill is not one of my favorites. Never the less, I will tune in tonight to find out if it was worth the wait.
Here is the preview for tonight’s episode of One Tree Hill. | 2019-04-24T06:56:36Z | https://www.tvequals.com/2007/05/02/one-tree-hill-back-tonight/ |
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When you look into the Live Music In Restaurants Near Me West Kendall Cutler Bay you will see that there many varieties of food that you can indulge in. One of the main parts of the food culture in Argentina is the meat; the way they are prepared, stored, and served. Dicrespo provides a professional Argentinean steak house in which you can come and enjoy traditional meals from the country of Argentina. We have authentic preparing methods in order to ensure we keep our originality and the way we do things. You will not be disappointed when you come to our restaurant with your loved ones and enjoy what we have to offer. If you like a well prepared steak then this is where you have to come and additionally you can enjoy other prepared dishes that have been made Argentinean style.
When you think of Live Music In Restaurants Near Me West Kendall Cutler Bay your attention in your mind reminds you of Dicrespos famous home-made style food. We here at our restaurant make a strong emphasis on bringing the traditional food from the country of Argentina to the tables of Miami, we like our customers to come in and enjoy a full experience of what it would be to enjoy authentic food from another country. We take much pride in the way we deliver our service to our customers, when they arrive we provide them with top shelf customer service along with the best steaks that they can taste in all of the city. The way we prepare our meat really creates the traditional way of eating our tasty steaks. You can definitely taste the full preparation of the meat as soon as you take a bite. | 2019-04-24T13:49:45Z | https://dicrespo.com/live-music-in-restaurants-near-me-west-kendall-cutler-bay/ |
In Phoenix Arizona, as well as the rest of the world, the 2012 Audi Q3 is one of the most anticipated cars of the year. Part of that anticipation has been much fan speculation, information leaks, and even in factory spy photo releases. Audi has decided to meet this anticipation by releasing several sketches of the new model well ahead of its intended debut at the 2011 Shanghai Motor Show later this month.
While the new model will be built upon the foundation and underpinnings of the Volkswagen Tiguan, likely with the same engine and transmission (a turbo four producing around 200 horsepower) the engineers have taken the design of the vehicle to the next level. Many auto industry insiders are reminded of Audi’s Cross Coupe Quattro concept car, which debuted at the Shanghai motor show in 2007.
Measuring 172.4 inches, the Cross Coupe concept was only an inch longer than the A3, which will make the Q3 a uniquely small crossover in the growing crossover trend. Elements of the Cross Coupe concept that may be translated to the Q3’s ambitious exterior design include a large (over-sized) Audi-style grille, large wheels, LED daytime running lights, and roof rails.
With the new 2012 Q3, Audi is seeking to capitalize on the decline in SUV sales, which have worked to boost the sales of cross-overs. With its sleek exterior design, and a standard all wheel drive, the German car company is also seeking to strike while the iron is hot in the area of the revived sports coupe. Even in the crossover suv/sport coupe arena, Audi faces tough competition with other high concept debuts this summer.
Phoenix Arizona residents can view and test drive the new 2012 Audi Q3 as soon as it hits show room floors this summer, as well as as any other current Audi vehicle, at their local Phoenix Valley area Audi dealer. | 2019-04-24T03:14:41Z | https://www.arizonafoothillsmagazine.com/autos/audi-q3-sketches-released-ahead-of-shanghai-debut/ |
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FARNET's sixth transnational seminar of the 2014-2020 programming period was held on 13-15 March 2018 on “FLAGs and local resource management”. This seminar was organised at the initiative of the Directorate General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (DG MARE) of the European Commission with the support of the Xunta de Galicia, the Spanish Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Food and the Environment and the Vigo – A Guarda FLAG.
Stimulate exchange, peer learning and cooperation among FLAGs interested in issues linked with local resource management.
The seminar themes were addressed through a series of presentations, moderated discussions in working groups and mini-plenary sessions, a market of inspiration gathering key projects, and during a field visit.
Fish traps - an alternative to gillnet-fishing in German Baltic Sea waters?
Presentation of the working groups outputs followed by a discussion between the experts and the audience. | 2019-04-24T16:55:45Z | https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/fpfis/cms/farnet2/news-events/events/transnational-seminars/flags-and-local-resource-management-vigo-13-15-march-2018_en |
Thoughts engender healing, while a lot of thought component is not within our reach to handle and create. Thoughts owe their existence to opportunities, which are endless in time and space. Thoughts can be formed from telepathic interactions and other means of soul communication between beings. Karma, the deeds and their nature, contributes to thoughts in a very significant way. Thoughts can be understood as multidimensional energy beings with a life of their own. They last for the time they are meant to last for, and this is also determined by the truthfulness, the purity of intent and associated feelings that travels with them.
Thoughts are a means of communication just like any other, like talking, writing, or using gestures. Those who attain spiritual awareness, after having worked for several years meditating, and following their soul path, tend to be able to observe and manage their thoughts very carefully, since they are aware of the potential the thought can have, and the manifestation, the thought is capable of bringing about. Thoughts can also relate to our past, derive from our incomplete actions, and the clairvoyance capability of the person. At any given time, the thoughts in the mind can help determine the voids in the past, and the incomplete actions, the energy patterns that continue to exist in a person’s energy body, and hence from this opportunity, can be determined the path the person is likely to take in the future, and the actions, she or he might perform to balance energy arising from the incoming thoughts.
Actions are a level next after thoughts or rather above thoughts. They are more tangible, more concrete, stronger as entities, and hence more irreversible so to say. Actions have to be managed and monitored more carefully than thoughts, since they are likely to have higher impact in generating karmic influence, and manifestation. There is an element of ‘irreversible-ness’ in thoughts, but less in actions, since actions are kind of thoughts implemented, or thoughts ‘acted upon’. So a lot more care is needed in dealing with one’s and other people’s actions.
It is interesting to have discovered how health situations can relate to our thoughts and actions. According to the studies in the spiritual sciences, we are much beyond and much more than a mere physical body. The physical body is at the lowest vibration, next comes the etheric body which is like the life energy to the physical body. And we also have an astral body, mind body and the causal body. Astral body is the energy body, where we can perform energy healing. Mind body transcends time and space, and participates in telepathic communication. Causal body relates to past karmas, memories, and soul level vibrations.
Healing can happen at all levels and this is determined by the techniques used for healing. Sometimes, the ailment begins on a body other than the physical body and it takes its own time to affect the physical body or be seen at the physical level. While treatment and healing is important to be done at the physical level, it is also necessary to try and get to the root cause of the ailment by working on other bodies of the individual. And then there is a possibility of healing the ailment at the root level to never allow it to surface again at the physical level.
Yoga creates a circuit, a path for the inner energy to flow freely, and in the right manner so as to engender healing, and one of the goals of healing is the unification of conscious mind with the super consciousness, or the universal mind. Hence the name Yoga, or the union, as it interprets in Sanskrit language. Yoga can be practised as a set of defined physical postures, for energy balancing, and it also refers to the techniques of meditation, pranayama, sound healing, and several healing techniques. It essentially refers to the method of unification of mind with the higher mind, and the method can be physical postures, or mediation, or energy work. The end result is the same, unification.
Feelings can play a pivotal role in healing process and experiencing life as a whole. While the feelings of anger, jealousy, hatred, each carry a different message, they are coded for their own purpose, in the human system of body and mind. On the other hand, feelings of love, affection, and care provide solace, and contentment to the mind and the soul. Emotional Intelligence is the key behind handling feelings, as they contribute a lot to the healing process, in empowering the healing process, and making it work better based on the intent associated. The world we see with closed eyes is as real as the world we encounter with open eyes.
There exists a lot of universe beyond the five senses that we use quite often to deal with the world, and essentially with ourselves. Yoga, meditation and healing provide a path, and means to visit that part of the real world with comfort and ease, without any doubts or questions. Understanding both these worlds, and interpreting them instinctively and intuiting can lead to increased life awareness and handling of life events better. The places of worship have a healing energy associated with them, they almost become like the energy base centres or healing centres and whoever comes in the vicinity of these centres, gets the benefit if she or he is ready for it, and believes in it. Belief and Faith, help remove blocks in the pathways of healing, that of the mind, body or soul.
The process of healing is so multi-dimensional, and nature has provided us with so much support and means to help us find one of the many of healing methods. If followed sincerely and religiously, one or more of the ways can be sufficient for complete healing of the being, while it depends on the Karma of the entities associated, and how deep rooted the ailment is. But what spiritual sciences say is that all can be healed, and there is nothing that cannot be. Love as energy is one of the greatest ways of healing the self as well as others. The purer the love, the more power it has, as long as it is unconditional and given without any expectations in return. Blessings have power too, and yet one who gives or receives blessings has to be sure there are no conditions or expectations associated, which if exist, might lead to creating Karma which will take it course of time and space to be cleared.
Karma is generated every fraction of a second, if we were to measure it against time, but then it runs on many other dimensions and not just time. Time is just one of the factors. Spiritualists aim to get ‘Karma Free’ and also try their best not to generate Karma, or rather Bad Karma, if you will. Buddha sat under a tree meditating for years and years, to attain Nirvana, moving towards Moksha, seeking freedom from life and death. Enlightenment, if interpreted as white light, appears to be a matrix of energies, emanating and moving towards light where light is the source and light, the destination. And we often end up saying, “Love and Light”, as being part of healing session for self as well as others. In light, all identities disappear, all personalities disappear, and its soul and energy that remains.
Healing is an ongoing process, while it works on chronic energy patterns within the system; it also works on the day to day energy interactions, and hence works on past, present, and thus the future. It is beyond time and space, and should preferably be done without any constraints in the mind to make make it whole and complete. Omnipresence, for a soul, is normal and natural. It not only enables presence at multiple places in longitude and latitude but also makes possible interaction with entities at multiple places, in order for soul completion to continue to happen, gradually or sometimes rapidly moving towards its objective of achieving salvation or freedom. Every relationship is created by spiritual laws of attraction, and it lives till the interaction is whole and complete for highest good. Water causes healing, water can be used as the sole source for healing, and it responds to energy very well.
With Karma and its intricacies understood to some extent, the means to heal are several and the doors to the destination are many. God continues to create several opportunities for the beings to connect with Him for higher guidance and direction enlightenment or soul awakening, He makes His presence felt from time to time, in so many ways, and we tend to address such situations as a ‘co-incidence’ or ‘by change happening’, with nature at its creative best behind the scenes. We are audience to a huge drama, a drama of reality so to say, where God makes us performs and project at the same time. Karmic transactions are created, chain reaction ensues, one thing leads to another, and another to another, and humans limited by their potential to memorize, can trace things back in a limited way, to a limited set of events, happening within limited time and space. And hence then arises the need and opportunity to surrender, listen to the inner self, and connect with the higher guidance, through the process of healing, to be able to see, hear, sense without the interference of the five senses. God then smiles a blessing.
Sandeep Khurana is a California based Music Composer, TV Producer and Owner of the Audio Label SK Infinity. His accomplishments in the field of music are considerable; his creations continue to influence and benefit the lives of many around the globe. A versatile composer with a distinctive style, Sandeep has composed for more than 60 albums and numerous productions in the genres of Western Classical Symphony Music, Romance, New Age Music, Trance, Indian Classical, World Music and Film Music. His line-up of popular new age lifestyle albums on Relaxation through Music, Sound Yoga, Guided Meditations, Chakra Healing, Reiki Music now figures in iTunes Top 100 New Age Music charts; more than 250,000 people in more than 50 countries are subscribed to his music, apart from the music he provides to Films, and TV industry. His music has been part of reality shows on STAR TV and Channel V. He has also directed short films, and produced educational videos on Yoga & Alternative Healing that have been aired on TV Channels in California and Florida.
With a degree in Computer Engineering from the Delhi College of Engineering, followed by a career working at prominent positions in top IT companies in India, Singapore and US, Sandeep Khurana decided to give his dream a chance. He earned a Diploma in Film Direction, Production and TV Journalism from Asian Academy of Films and TV and studied classical music at Ali Akbar Khan College of Music, California. In 2004 he launched “SK Infinity”, his initiative to produce meaningful music and films for people across the globe. Sandeep’s signature sounds are mystical, with inspiring folk influences, ensemble rhythms, with subtle use of modal harmonies and western symphonies. A lot of his new age compositions blend nature sounds with lilting music captivating listeners by their melodious richness and simplicity. | 2019-04-26T15:57:45Z | http://www.positivehealth.com/article/healing/karma-world-and-yoga-of-healing |
Lucy Gao noticed bubble tea gaining popularity in the United States.
So in Summer 2018, the she opened a Mr. Wish shop near Main Campus with her husband. A Taiwanese chain, Mr. Wish serves bubble tea, which is black tea, milk and tapioca balls also known as “boba.” The couple opened a franchise on Cecil B. Moore Avenue near 15th Street.
The Gaos’ shop is one of five Mr. Wish locations in Philadelphia.
The shop uses real fruits and ingredients in its products, Gao said. The Mr. Wish signature drink, Colorful Fruit Tea, is a mix of chunks of apple, pineapple, kiwi, orange, passionfruit and kumquat.
“It is so popular amongst the international students, specifically,” Gao added.
Landry Bado, a 2018 architecture alumnus, said he loves Mr. Wish and goes there once every two weeks. His favorite drink is the Colorful Fruit Tea or the Pearl Milk Tea, a classic Taiwanese drink with black sugar flavored bubbles and rich milk tea flavor.
“Their bubbles are the right texture, and there’s so many drink options,” Bado said.
Baowei Yuan, a sophomore undeclared business major, is an employee at Mr. Wish. Before he began working at the Temple location in August, he bought tea at the Mr. Wish location in Chinatown on Spring Street near 10th.
Gao said she is considering adding snacks and sandwiches to the menu, but has to get permission from Mr. Wish’s headquarters first.
Gao added that students and campus organizations use the shop as a gathering spot.
Michelle Mbuthia, a senior political science major, said she visits the Gaos’ shop once every two weeks and has found the customer service to be excellent and accommodating. One time an employee even offered to remake her drink with less sugar when it was too sweet.
“Even though I might be running a little late in the morning, I can usually make it in and out of there in about five minutes,” Mbuthia said.
Gao said providing excellent customer service like this is her main goal.
The Creperie serves a student’s first meal at a truck. | 2019-04-21T16:14:09Z | https://temple-news.com/bubble-tea-chain-mr-wish-opens-near-main-campus/ |
The chief executive officer of the YWCA St. Paul will retire in April, ending 20 years at the helm of the Selby Avenue-based nonprofit known as much for its work with homeless families and at-risk youth as its focus on physical fitness.
Throughout his 46-year career, Billy Collins has served on the boards of a number of youth and African-American leadership councils and organizations. He has led the YWCA since 1995.
In 2012, he received the “Legacy Award” from Pan African Community Endowment (PACE), an affiliate of Minnesota Philanthropy Partners.
Collins is a co-vice chair of the state’s Juvenile Justice Advisory Committee and an executive committee member of the Twin Cities United Way Council of Agency Executives.
He serves on the boards of the F.R. Bigelow Foundation and the Ramsey County Workforce Investment Board Youth Council. He also is a member of the St. Paul African-American Leadership Council and the Sprockets Leadership Group.
Collins, 66, said he was born and raised in St. Paul and plans to continue to be a presence in the community. He pointed to the success of one of the Y’s most recent job-training efforts, a commercial truck driver’s licensing program, which has “really taken off,” he said, as well as the Y’s youth employment and housing programs.
St. Paul Police Chief Thomas Smith met Collins more than 25 years ago, when Smith was a beat officer on Selby Avenue. Collins was a pillar in the community then and still is, Smith said.
St. Paul police and Collins at the YWCA partnered on various projects through the years, Smith said, and more recently teamed up for the St. Paul Youth Intervention Initiative.
The program’s goal is to divert at-risk youth in more positive directions to try to keep them out of the criminal justice system, Smith said. It has included people working as “ambassadors” on St. Paul streets during the past two summers, getting to know young people who were hanging out and connecting them to social services and job programs.
The Y’s board of directors has organized a committee that will work with a third-party firm to conduct a nationwide search for a new CEO. Collins will assist with the transition.
The YWCA opened in 1907 and provides services ranging from housing support to employment training, youth development, and health and wellness. In 2013, more than 5,700 people were served by YWCA programs and services.
Its administrative offices are at Selby and Western avenues, with low-income and transitional housing sites throughout St. Paul. | 2019-04-22T21:10:36Z | https://www.twincities.com/2014/12/17/st-paul-ywca-ceo-billy-collins-to-retire/ |
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Peter has been recognized as a promising associate by international legal directories, namely Chambers & Partners and the World Trademark Review 1000.
Advising the PPP unit on road infrastructure projects being carried out under the Roads Annuity Program.
A multinational banking and financial services company: Advising on the sale of its business in Kenya.
A leading motor vehicle manufacturer: Advising on the approvals to be obtained from the Competition Authority of Kenya and the COMESA Competition Commission in respect of the acquisition of 57.73 per cent of its shares.
A contracting authority: Advising on a university hostels PPP project.
A telecommunications company: Advising on the acquisition of indirect control of an entity listed on the Nairobi Securities Exchange.
Advising on all Kenya law aspects relating to the acquisition of Sealed Air Corporation’s cleaning and chemicals systems division, Diversey Care, and its food hygiene and cleaning business by Bain Capital Private Equity (Diamond (BC) B.V.), which entailed the acquisition of Diversey Eastern and Central Africa Ltd, then a subsidiary of Sealed Air Corporation.
Anheuser Busch LLC (Budweiser), Merck KGaA, SABMiller International B.V. and Bamburi Cement Limited: Advising on trademark prosecutions in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, and Democratic Republic of the Congo.
An international security and logistics firm: Advising and representing before the Competition Authority of Kenya in a matter concerning alleged restrictive trade practices.
Member of the Law Society of Kenya committee on intellectual property and information communication and technology.
Serves as a judge in Strathmore Law School’s moot court competitions. | 2019-04-21T16:45:58Z | https://www.dentonshhm.com/en/-peter-kamero |
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Background To date, delirium prevalence and incidence in acute hospitals has been estimated from pooled findings of studies performed in distinct patient populations.
Objective To determine delirium prevalence across an acute care facility.
Design A point prevalence study.
Setting A large tertiary care, teaching hospital.
Patients 311 general hospital adult inpatients were assessed over a single day. Of those, 280 had full data collected within the study's time frame (90%).
Measurements Initial screening for inattention was performed using the spatial span forwards and months backwards tests by junior medical staff, followed by two independent formal delirium assessments: first the Confusion Assessment Method (CAM) by trained geriatric medicine consultants and registrars, and, subsequently, the Delirium Rating Scale-Revised-98 (DRS-R98) by experienced psychiatrists. The diagnosis of delirium was ultimately made using DSM-IV (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition) criteria.
Results Using DSM-IV criteria, 55 of 280 patients (19.6%) had delirium versus 17.6% using the CAM. Using the DRS-R98 total score for independent diagnosis, 20.7% had full delirium, and 8.6% had subsyndromal delirium. Prevalence was higher in older patients (4.7% if <50 years and 34.8% if >80 years) and particularly in those with prior dementia (OR=15.33, p<0.001), even when adjusted for potential confounders. Although 50.9% of delirious patients had pre-existing dementia, it was poorly documented in the medical notes. Delirium symptoms detected by medical notes, nurse interview and patient reports did not overlap much, with inattention noted by professional staff, and acute change and sleep-wake disturbance noted by patients.
Conclusions Our point prevalence study confirms that delirium occurs in about 1/5 of general hospital inpatients and particularly in those with prior cognitive impairment. Recognition strategies may need to be tailored to the symptoms most noticed by the detector (patient, nurse or primary physician) if formal assessments are not available.
Delirium prevalence in the acute hospital has, to date, been estimated from pooled findings from many studies within individual units. The main focus of this study was to ascertain the point prevalence of delirium collectively across almost an entire tertiary referral centre.
Additionally, we sought to evaluate the rates of delirium detection by medical and nursing staff and to describe which features alerted staff members to the presence of delirium.
Delirium is a very common problem in the acute hospital setting, with a point prevalence of approximately 20%.
Advancing age and pre-existing cognitive impairment were independently associated with a higher prevalence of delirium, in keeping with previous studies.
Medical and nursing staff detect different delirium features, which has clear implications for staff education and training: nursing staff notice inattentiveness, lability of affect and delusions, whereas medical staff tend to detect delirium in the presence of short-term memory impairment in addition to inattention.
This study is the first to collectively assess the point prevalence of delirium across an acute hospital, which was largely consistent using three different diagnostic methods.
Confusion Assessment Method assessors were vigorously trained in its use and Delirium Rating Scale-Revised-98 and Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition criteria were applied by highly experienced delirium researchers.
In order to ensure the feasibility of the study, we adopted a screening process (including tests of attention, a core delirium component) and only those who screened positive went on to have formal delirium assessment. Our high rate of participation indicates that our methods were acceptable to patients and hence may be appropriate for routine screening on the ground.
The true hospital-wide point prevalence of delirium is likely to be slightly higher than our figure of 20.7%, given that those who were excluded from the study would be expected to have higher rates of delirium overall (patients in intensive care unit, Burns unit, stroke with aphasia).
Delirium is a complex neuropsychiatric syndrome, commonly encountered across all healthcare settings, and associated with adverse outcomes including more prolonged hospitalisation, institutionalisation and increased mortality, independent of age, prior cognitive functioning and comorbidities.1 ,2 In a recent study, mortality was shown to increase by 11% for every additional 48 h of active delirium, highlighting the need for timely detection and treatment.3 However, delirium is misdiagnosed, detected late or missed in over 50% of cases across healthcare settings.4 This under-recognition, along with increasing evidence regarding delirium treatment,5 emphasises the importance of understanding the factors that relate to accurate identification.
A meta-analysis of 42 studies reported delirium to be prevalent on admission in 10–31% of medical inpatients, and to occur in the hospital in 3–29%.6 However, these estimates are based on pooled findings from multiple studies within individual services or units, rather than a more complete study of a single hospital, and are limited by terminology differences and diagnostic tool heterogeneity. Thus, a definitive and accurate determination of inhospital delirium prevalence, using standardised delirium instruments, is needed. We report the first hospital-wide point prevalence study of delirium in a large acute hospital within a 24 h period using three methods of detection. We also compared the delirium prevalence across ward types, between specific patient groups, describing the ‘footprint’ of delirium. Finally, we explored the delirium features that alerted the attending medical and nursing staff to the presence of delirium as compared to what the patients noticed.
The study was conducted at Cork University Hospital, a tertiary referral, level-one trauma centre in Southern Ireland with 407 acute adult inpatient beds (excluding psychiatry), serving a population of 500 000 people. All adult inpatients on 15 May 2010 were to be eligible for inclusion, excluding patients in the emergency department (ED), intensive care units (ICU) and isolation rooms on the Haematology/Burns Isolation Unit, leaving a possible eligible population of 358 patients. To be able to detect with 95% power a 10% difference in prevalence in our hospital from the previously reported prevalence in hospitalised patients (10–31%, Siddiqi et al6), a sample size of 267 would be required. Thus, it seemed feasible to recruit sufficient patients to perform this study. On the day of the study, patients were excluded if they were severely aphasic, comatose, dying or deemed too unwell for interview by nursing staff; or refused to participate. All included patients were screened for delirium within a 6 h period in three phases of assessment, as follows.
Junior staff questioned the patient as to whether they felt currently or recently confused (‘have you felt muddled in your thinking, or confused, since you came into hospital?’). Nursing staff were interviewed using standardised questions (see box 1). Medical notes were reviewed for reports of delirium, or the presence of two proxy terms, ‘confusion’ or ‘agitation’.
I have just interviewed__ and I wonder if you could help me form an opinion as to whether he/she has been experiencing delirium or confusion.
How many days approximately have you been looking after __?
Do you think he/she is delirious or acutely confused?
Has there been a sudden change in __'s mental state since coming into hospital?
If so, when did you notice this change?
Do you think he/she is able to focus well when you are talking to him/her or does he/she tend to ramble off the point?
Does he/she seem better at any period in the day compared to other times?
Has__ ‘s level of consciousness been altered at all—has he/she been drowsy or not interacting, or perhaps hyperaware at times?
Any patient with inattention on either test, or who had subjective, nurse-identified or case-note documented confusion, was then formally tested for delirium using the sensitive, short form of the Confusion Assessment Method (CAM) by geriatric medicine consultants and senior trainees on the research team. All had undergone specific training sessions based on the original training manual,12 including online case scenario self-assessment sessions (total training time=8 h).
Although the CAM is the most commonly used delirium-detection tool,13 recent validation studies suggest that the sensitivity varies considerably between populations and between assessors.14–16 Thus, all patients who had CAM assessment were also independently assessed by one of four psychiatrists on the research team with specific expertise in delirium detection, using the Delirium Rating Scale-Revised-98 (DRS-R98). This is a well-validated,17–19 diagnostically precise tool that rates symptoms over the previous 24 h. It has high inter-rater reliability, validity, sensitivity and specificity for distinguishing delirium from mixed neuropsychiatric conditions including dementia and depression.18–20 It is a 16-item scale with 13 severity items (rated 0–3) and three diagnostic items (rated 0–2 or 0–3); total score possible is 0–46. For this general hospital population, in consultation with the DRS-R98 developer (PTT), and based on the literature, a total score of 0–6 was taken as normal; 7–11 represented subsyndromal delirium (SSD); and ≥12 points represented full syndromal delirium (FSD).
The presence of delirium was ultimately determined by consensus agreement among the psychiatry panel using gold standard DSM-IV (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition) criteria.19 ,20 This was based on all available data (attention tests, CAM items, DRS-R98 data, collateral, medical and nursing notes), including the data collected during directly observed DRS-R98 assessment by senior psychiatrists. However, for each individual case, the psychiatrist who performed the DRS-R98 assessment was not involved in the consensus discussion for that particular patient.
It was presumed that many patients would not have capacity to give informed written consent, and so, owing to the non-invasive nature of the study, ethics committee approval was given to augment patient assent with proxy consent from next of kin (where possible) or a responsible caregiver, in accordance with the Helsinki Guidelines for Medical Research involving human subjects. The study objectives and procedures were explained to all patients and those who declined to participate were excluded.
In all patients with delirium, the medical case notes were reviewed for a diagnosis of preceding cognitive impairment or dementia made by a suitably trained physician. If this was absent, premorbid cognition was determined by telephone interview using the Informant Questionnaire on Cognitive Decline in the Elderly-Short Form (IQCODE-SF), a validated screening tool for detecting cognitive impairment.21 ,22 In patients without delirium less than 65 years of age, if there was no dementia documentation in the case notes, the patient was presumed not to have the condition. As dementia is more common and is known to be under-diagnosed in older people, potentially dementia diagnosis may have been under-reported in the charts. Thus, a random sample of older patients without delirium (n=40) also had baseline preadmission cognition assessed using the IQCODE-SF. Other older people were excluded from analyses involving prior cognitive status.
Screening investigators also collected data on medication use, blood results (sodium, glucose, thyroid-stimulating hormone, calcium, urea, C reactive protein, white cell count and albumin level). Current and previous alcohol history was recorded where available in the charts, and the Charlson comorbidity index23 was calculated.
All data were analysed using the Statistical Analysis Software program (SAS V.9, SAS Institute, Cary, North Carolina, USA). Pearson χ2 tests and Fisher's exact test examined the relationship between categorical data. Analysis of variance (ANOVA) examined group differences between continuous variables. Unadjusted models were used to examine the effect of various factors on delirium presence (age, gender, medical speciality, baseline cognitive impairment, alcohol excess, Charlson Comorbidity Index, period of ICU stay, number of ward transfers, total medication number, metabolic abnormality, evidence of inflammatory/infective process, hypoalbuminaemia). Variables with p<0.25 were included in a multivariate logistic regression model. The final models were assessed using the Hosmer–Lemeshow (CHL) Test24 for goodness of fit, and fitted the data well (P>0.05). The coefficient of determination (adjusted R2) estimated the proportion of variation explained by each model.25 Multicollinearity with the independent variables was investigated using condition number,26 with no evidence of departures observed. The predictors of delirium recognition by patients, nurses and in case notes were similarly explored by logistic regression analyses using age, gender, pre-existing cognitive state, medical specialty and delirium symptoms measured on the DRS-R98 as possible predictor variables.
There were 358 adult inpatients on the study day, excluding the ICU, ED and Haematology/Burns isolation unit. As it was a weekend day, all 5-day wards were closed.
Of these 358 inpatients, 5 refused participation; 23 were excluded owing to coma or severe aphasia; 6 were actively dying; 5 had a language barrier; 3 patients were in isolation on a general ward; 3 were undergoing a procedure and 2 were discharged before assessment. Thus, 311 patients were recruited, constituting 86.9% of the eligible population (figure 1).
Excluded patients, screened patients and assessment tools used with subsequent consensus opinion regarding DSM-IV status. CAM, Confusion Assessment Method; DRS-R98, Delirium Rating Scale-Revised-98; DSM-IV, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition.
Patient demographics are outlined in table1. The median age of included adult inpatients was 69 years (range 17–100) and 51.1% were female. 57.8% were over 65 years (n=180), 24% were over 80 years (n=75). 51.1% of patients were under medical care. The median length of hospital stay on the study day was 7 days interquartile range (IQR) 15, and 56.3% had undergone at least one ward transfer.
Of the 311 patients that underwent screening, 162 patients (52.1%) either (1) demonstrated inattention using one or more screening tools (n=142) and/or (2) self-reported confusion (n=41) and/or (3) were identified as confused by nursing staff (n=52) and/or (4) had ‘confusion’ documented in the case notes (n=29). Of these 162 patients, 147 underwent CAM evaluation (90.1%). CAM omission was due to either patient discharge, transfer to ICU/ isolation, becoming gravely unwell or researcher error (n=5). Of the 296 patients who underwent phase 1 assessment and subsequent CAM, if indicated, 17.6% (n=52) were CAM positive (figure 1).
Formal evaluation by DRS-R98 and consensus DSM-IV diagnosis was conducted on 133 patients which is somewhat less than the 147 patients who underwent CAM assessment. This was due to similar factors as the CAM omissions. Thus, the complete study protocol was followed in 280 patients. Of these, 19.6% (n=55) were deemed to have delirium by DSM-IV criteria. Using the total DRS-R98 score to delineate delirium into FSD (DRS-R98 score ≥12) or SSD (score 7–11), 20.7% (n=58) had FSD, while an additional 8.6% (n=24) had SSD, with 21 of the SSD patients not meeting DSM-IV criteria for delirium.
Because not all 311 patients completed the full screening process, we estimated the prevalence of delirium in those who did not undergo delirium testing following a positive screen for inattention/reported confusion (n=31). If these patients were presumed to have a similar prevalence of DSM-IV-diagnosed delirium, we would expect an additional nine delirium cases and a total prevalence of 20.7% using DSM-IV criteria (figure 2).
DSM-IV delirium prevalence, including the estimated delirium prevalence in the 31 patients that did not undergo delirium assessment following initial screening. CAM, Confusion Assessment Method; DRS-R98, Delirium Rating Scale-Revised-98; DSM-IV, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition.
A wide variability in delirium prevalence was observed between wards (figure 3, n=280). The prevalence was highest on the geriatrics ward (53.3%; 8/15), lowest on general surgical wards (7.2%; 6/83) and intermediate on general medical wards (22%; 29/131) and the orthopaedic ward (28.6%; 6/21). Capacity issues within the healthcare service can lead to some patients being admitted to wards that are not designated for their clinical presentation. The prevalence of delirium was therefore also assessed according to the specialty of the designated clinical team. The prevalence of delirium among all medical patients in the hospital was 24.2% (39/161) whereas that of all general surgical specialities was 7.7% (6/78). High-risk surgical patients (orthopaedic and neurosurgical) had prevalence rates equal to medical patients at 24.4% (10/41). The adjusted OR for delirium in a general surgical patient relative to a medical patient was 0.11 (95% CI 0.03 to 0.41, p<0.001, table 2).
The prevalence of delirium on each unit. GER, geriatric medicine ward (n=15); MED, medical wards (n=131); ONC/RT, oncology and radiotherapy ward (n=12); GEN SURG, general surgical wards (n=83), including cardiothoracic, vascular surgery and urology wards; NEURO SURG, neurosurgical ward (n=18); ORTH, Orthopaedic ward (n=21) (Total n=280).
Among those diagnosed with delirium using DSM-IV criteria (n=55), 28 (50.9%) had pre-existing cognitive decline, primarily identified through IQCODE-SF telephone interview (only five had case notes documentation of dementia). An IQCODE-SF was also carried out on 40 age-matched non-delirious inpatients for comparison and nine had cognitive impairment (22.5%). Using data from all younger patients and only from those older patients in whom cognitive status was definitely known, as explained in the methodology (total n=203), prior cognitive impairment was an independent predictor of delirium (adjusted OR 15.3; CI 5.2 to 45.4, p<0.001) (table 2).
Of the 55 patients with delirium using DSM-IV criteria, 17 (30.9%) were aware of their cognitive deficit, 35 (63.6%) were recognised as confused by nursing staff, and 24 (43.6%) had delirium or one of its synonyms documented in the case notes. Combining these approaches, 43 cases were identified by at least one of these groups (even if the exact term ‘delirium’ was not used). Logistic regression analyses (table 3) showed that significant independent predictors of delirium documentation in the case notes were severity of inattention and short-term memory impairment and being under medical care. For nurse recognition, independent predictors were the presence of delusions, and the severity of affective lability, inattention and long-term memory impairment. For patient self-recognition, acuity of onset and presence of disorientation were predictors, while sleep–wake cycle disturbance was negatively associated with recognition.
To our knowledge, this is the first study to assess the point prevalence of delirium in almost an entire hospital rather than extrapolating from selected cohorts or combining data from several studies, and indicates that approximately 20% of inpatients have delirium at any one time. This prevalence is largely consistent using two different diagnostic tools (CAM, DRS-R98) and gold standard DSM-IV diagnostic criteria, range 18–21%, indicating that it is a robust figure. In the study, though the CAM performance was lower than DSM-IV or the DRS-R98, it had been administered by rigorously trained geriatricians/senior trainees. The DRS-R98 was independently conducted by psychiatrists with delirium expertise and DRS-R98 training, with ultimate delirium diagnosis determined by independent consensus opinion using DSM-IV criteria. This methodology minimises the short-comings of either diagnostic tool, and the similar overall prevalence of delirium using either tool or DSM-IV criteria (although there was not case-to-case diagnostic concordance) increases the validity of our study outcome. The high level of participation (only five patients refused) supports the generalisability to patients seen in daily clinical practice though the formal methods we employed may not be. A percentage of CAM and DRS-R98 assessments were not conducted in patients who were initially screened, owing to time constraints. An estimation of delirium prevalence among these patients added approximately a further 1% to the final prevalence figure.
The ‘footprint’ of delirium in the hospital shows a predilection for older patients especially those with prior cognitive impairment, consistent with the literature that elderly are at the highest risk for delirium, where those over 80 had nearly 35% prevalence and those under 50 less than 5%. Higher rates were found in medical, neurosurgical and orthopaedic patients, compared to low rates in general surgical patients (corrected OR in surgical versus medical patients is 0.11 (95% CI 0.03 to 0.41, p<0.001).
This study has clear implications for healthcare provision in the acute hospital. First, as expected, there was a linear increase in delirium prevalence with increasing age. As the ‘oldest old’ segment of the population rapidly expands and hence accounts for a larger proportion of the acute hospital population, hospital delirium rates may increase even further. Our ‘footprint’ of delirium in the hospital (figure 3) indicates the high-risk wards and patient groups for delirium, and thus the priority areas for staff education and greater access to delirium specialist consultants. Over half of the patients with delirium had pre-existing cognitive impairment (OR 15.3; 95% CI 5.2 to 45.4, p<0.001), a known independent risk factor for delirium.32 Franco et al33 found that for each point decrement in Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE) score on admission to the hospital, the DRS-R98 score increased by 0.4 points during the course of the hospitalisation.33 However, medical chart review indicated that the responsible medical team did not generally appear to be aware of or have specifically tested for cognitive impairment, consistent with previous reports.34 Thus, if we overly focus delirium screening on patients with known cognitive impairment, we may miss cases unless practices for detecting cognitive impairment also improve.
We found 63.6% of patients with delirium were recognised to be confused or delirious by nursing staff, whereas 43.6% had confusion documented in the medical case notes. Even if some recognised, but undocumented, delirium cases occurred, it suggests that delirium is not a high diagnostic and therapeutic priority, despite its treatability and relevance to outcomes, especially for poorer prognosis in the elderly. The multidomain assessment within the DRS-R98 provided a more detailed phenomenological understanding as to which symptoms are noticed by whom. Both medical and nursing staff detect delirium by noticing inattentiveness, though nursing staff may rely more heavily on unusual behaviours or communications (lability of affect and delusions), possibly reflecting their more prolonged patient contact and higher social engagement during caring tasks. Prior cognitive impairment is associated with higher rates of nurse detection. This may indicate that nurses recognise the frequency of delirium occurrence in dementia and the overlap between these syndromes, but it may also indicate that the nurses were actually recognising cognitive impairment when they were asked if the patient was ‘delirious or acutely confused’, without explicitly recognising delirium. Inouye et al16 previously reported that hypoactive, inattentive delirious patients are least likely to be detected by nursing staff. Other researchers feel that nurses over-rely on orientation in assessing delirium.35 Medical staff were more likely than nursing staff to detect delirium in the presence of short-term memory impairment and inattention. This may reflect the focus of the medical round: brief, direct questioning of patients, which may unmask attention and cognitive deficits. It may also indicate that doctors regard lability of affect as a separate mood disturbance rather than a delirium feature. Interestingly, patients themselves seemed to equate ‘confusion’ with disorientation, sleep-wake cycle change and recent deterioration in cognitive function (acuity of onset)—they may not be able to describe what happened but they are aware of a major shift (figure 4).
Delirium prevalence stratified by age group.
A limitation is that this study was not primarily designed to ascertain staff detection competencies. Nurses were asked, ‘Do you think this patient is delirious or acutely confused?’ as part of standardised questioning in the screening phase (box 1). This is not a validated tool for determining staff detection of delirium. Our analysis of medical team recognition relied on documentation in the medical charts, which is a relatively insensitive technique.
Other limitations of this study relate to feasibility to facilitate this ambitious study. We used an initial screening phase so that CAM and DRS-R98/DSM-IV assessments were only performed on patients who had evidence of impaired attention or subjective/objective ‘confusion’. Thus, it is possible that some patients with delirium were missed. However, inattention is a cardinal, mandatory feature for delirium, and patients without inattention cannot, by definition, have CAM-defined or DSM-IV-defined delirium, so our screening policy is unlikely to have missed any significant number of cases. Only 86.9% of inpatients underwent initial screening assessment. Reasons for exclusion, such as stroke-related aphasia or imminent death, suggest that delirium prevalence would be higher in excluded patients. Similarly, patients in the ICU and burns isolation unit were specifically excluded for infection-control purposes. Previous work suggests that delirium prevalence is up to 80% in ICU patients.36 ,37 Thus, the true point prevalence of delirium was likely to be in excess of 20% for the whole hospital.
Finally, as well as the 20% of patients who met DSM-IV criteria for delirium, a further 10% had some delirium features using the DRS-R98 defined as SSD by score range. Some of these may have been recovering from or about to develop FSD, or indeed may never have reached full diagnostic criteria. Considering that SSD accounted for one-third of all inpatients that exhibited delirium features, further work on the significance of SSD is warranted, namely greater clarification of specific diagnostic criteria, temporal course, phenotype presentation and, particularly, associated mortality risk. Studies show that outcomes in SSD are intermediate between having no delirium and FSD.38 This means that we have identified approximately 30% of the hospital inpatient population who, if undetected and untreated, may incur significant morbidity and mortality.
Thus, delirium is a common problem in hospitalised patients, as demonstrated robustly in this study, regardless of the diagnostic test used. The ‘footprint’ across the hospital patient population confirms the high-risk patient groups and hence the particular targets for enhanced staff training in delirium prevention, detection and treatment.
The authors would also like to acknowledge Professor William Molloy for advising on study methodology.
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DJR and NAO contributed equally to this study.
Contributors All the authors substantially contributed to study conception and design, data collection, statistical analysis and interpretation, drafting the initial manuscript and subsequent critical revision of the manuscript and final approval. KO performed statistical analysis, contributed to drafting the original manuscript, performed critical revisions and has approved the final manuscript. PTT had a major contribution to study design and interpretation of data made critical revisions to the manuscript and approved the final version. MO, JM, ST and ML majorly involved in data acquisition, critical revisions and final approval of the manuscript.
Reproducible Research Statement Study protocol: Available from Dr. Niamh O'Regan (see above). Data set: unavailable. Requests for single reprints: Dr. Niamh O'Regan (see above).
Competing interests PTT is a full-time salaried employee and minor shareholder at Eli Lilly and Company. PTT holds the copyright for the Delirium Rating Scale—Revised-98 but does not charge a fee for a not-for-profit use. No other authors have competing interests to disclose.
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Asset price patterns unfold in cycles of definite number and form that have rather specific technical, mass psychological and fundamental traits.
As we have advanced through some of the most unpredictable economic climate imaginable, covering depression, major war, and postwar reconstruction and boom, I have noted how well Elliott’s Wave Principle has fitted into the facts of life as they have developed, and have accordingly gained more confidence that this Principle has a good quotient of basic value.
Critics always suggest that if the Wave Principle was indeed the mechanism governing markets then its application would yield definite conclusions that are always correct. For starters, it would be easy to point out the same could be said about competing forecasting methods – such as the Efficient Market Hypothesis – whereas empirical evidence also suggests a less-than-perfect forecasting track record (that criticism, however, somehow escapes the serious debates regarding the nature of markets where the negative focus is always on the behavioral approach).
Secondly, as Robert Prechter, Jr. suggested, a market will do anything it wants to do though it will do so in an Elliott Wave sequence. The patterns of definite form and number can unfold and link with each other in the context of infinite quantitative variation and our suggestion is that in order to further increase the chances of success with the Wave Principle a quantitative method must be employed side-by-side with the model.
Indeed, the Wave Principle, like any other forecasting tool, is likely to yield errors of judgment more often than not if used in isolation. That does not change the fact that, conceptually, the method is indeed the most accurate description of market behavior and has immense forecasting potential – IF used correctly. As to why that may be the case, that is a discussion for another time.
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5 Reasons Why We Think Kinder Morgan’s Shares Will Collapse - Valuentum Securities Inc.
The facts have changed at Kinder Morgan (KMI).
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From its overpriced valuation to its restrictive debt load to its poor Dividend Cushion ratio that warns of tremendous risks to its dividend growth plans, Kinder Morgan may turn into one of the worst-performing companies this year and into 2016.
We’re getting out…and in a hurry.
Here are 5 reasons why we think Kinder Morgan's shares will collapse.
KMI has traditionally been a corporate tied to master limited partnerships, but recent re-consolidation efforts, have pulled its former MLP subsidiaries into the KMI corporate umbrella. A look into its reported results, however, shows a presentation of financial information guiding investors to continue to evaluate the equity as if the substance of its business structure has not changed.
Such presentation is wrong--corporations and MLPs are apples and oranges. KMI is no longer tied to the business models of MLPs, and therefore, data presentation and valuation adjustments consistent with MLP evaluation no longer apply. We don’t think the market is anywhere close to fully making this valuation adjustment, and this is worrisome.
Here’s more background on what we’re talking about.
There are a number of contractual reasons why the data is presented in such a way, but from a valuation standpoint, we’ve always taken an issue with the MLP universe being implicitly valued on a future distributable cash flow stream that “covers” the distribution than on future free operating cash flow, which is a better measure of the free operating cash flow that a business generates.
The reason why free operating cash flow is more informative is quite straightforward. Distributable cash flow does not deduct the investment associated with driving future growth in an MLP’s cash flow from operations. Said differently, it’s like getting a free pass on all of the future growth spending that is required to drive incremental cash flow from operations, a severe imbalance in the valuation equation.
In valuing MLPs, we’ve circumvented the valuation imbalance by making the universal assumption that MLPs will continue to have access to the capital markets and that they will be able to issue equity and/or debt in such a way that is not value-destructive. Said differently, in our valuation models, we give MLPs credit for the future growth in cash flow from operations without deducting the growth capex that is required to drive it. We disclose this dynamic in every one of our 16-page reports within the MLP space.
But Kinder Morgan is no longer tied to MLPs, and by extension, the company should be valued solely as a corporate. We’ve cut our fair value estimate of Kinder Morgan as a result!
The measure of distributable cash flow at Kinder Morgan is now a legacy of its business operations and should not be used anymore.
Kinder Morgan’s free operating cash flow, as measured by cash flow from operations less capital expenditures, was $850 million, $753 million, and $786 million in 2014, 2013, and 2012, respectively. Cash dividends paid, and this excludes distributions to non-controlling interests, were $1.76 billion, $1.62 billion and $1.18 billion for those same years, respectively.
Kinder Morgan cannot cover its dividend with free cash flow generation!
It’s not a matter of opinion, but a matter of looking at the facts behind the numbers. In order to meet its dividend growth targets, Kinder Morgan will have to run to the equity or debt markets, and such moves will surely dilute existing shareholders.
We wouldn’t be surprised to see Kinder Morgan raise equity in the next 12 months after reading this very report. If it is not successful in raising capital, its dividend growth plans will be scrapped, and the current dividend payout may also be put at risk.
Kinder Morgan’s leverage is downright scary.
Debt, net of cash was $42.8 billion in the first quarter of 2015, up from $40.6 billion in the first quarter of 2014. The company’s Debt-to-EBITDA ratio stood at 5.8 times, up from 5.5 times in last year’s quarter.
This is junk territory, in our view, but the company is rated investment-grade by the credit rating agencies. The firm’s Dividend Cushion ratio is less than 1.
The company is not generating organic free operating cash flow (after dividend payments), and it had just $315 million in cash on the balance sheet at last check. We’re going to see something really bad happen to Kinder Morgan shareholders very soon, in our opinion.
We’re not sticking around to find out how bad.
Earnings now matter for Kinder Morgan, as the investment community can no longer wave its hands and only look at the entity’s distributable cash flow. The company’s business model has fundamentally changed, and it should be valued in the same way as any other corporate.
In the first quarter of 2015, Kinder Morgan generated $0.22 in earnings per share, and consensus forecasts put fiscal year 2015 earnings close to $0.90 per share at the high end (and close to $1 in fiscal 2016). Kinder Morgan is trading at ~$40 per share.
That’s 40 times earnings for a company whose revenue and operating income fell during the first quarter of 2015 on a year-over-year basis. That’s 40 times for a company, whose shares are being propped up by a dividend yield that is not sustainable. That’s 40 times earnings period!
The company’s market valuation makes little sense.
Kinder Morgan’s shareholders, which have benefited from one of the strongest energy markets the past few decades, may be extremely skeptical and not believe the numbers we’ve put forth in this report. They may not surrender their shares until it’s too late, muting the share-price impact in the near term. They have put their faith in Rich Kinder.
But Rich Kinder has relinquished the CEO role!!!
As we mentioned when we first received news of the re-consolidation, something isn’t quite right when entities go up on news that they’re creating an MLP and up on news that they're re-consolidating their MLP structure or dissolving an MLP. If one is good, the other can’t also be good. Kinder Morgan significantly overpaid for its very own assets.
The company is heading for a big fall, in our opinion. We’re out. | 2019-04-26T08:50:19Z | https://www.valuentum.com/articles/20150611 |
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TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Toronto-based Millbrook Minerals Inc. (“Millbrook” or the “Company”) announced today that Roscoe Postle Associates Inc. (“RPA”) has completed a Technical Report in accordance with NI 43-101 on the 317 km2 Los Pasos Project located in central Cuba. The Los Pasos project is a highly prospective polymetallic VMS belt that correlates with similar Cretaceous volcanic arc rocks in the Dominican Republic, which host the Pueblo Viejo, Cerro de Maimón and other large gold and silver enriched VMS deposits. Three past producing mines are located on the Los Pasos concession as are multiple clusters of underexplored targets.
A Mineral Resource estimate has been prepared by RPA for two of three past producing mines that occur on the Los Pasos property. RPA estimated the Mineral Resources for the Antonio and San Fernando deposits using drill hole data. The Mineral Resource estimate is summarized in Table 1 below. A Technical Report in compliance with National Instrument NI-43-101 will be filed on SEDAR within 45 days of this release.
1. CIM 2014 Definition Standards were followed for Mineral Resources.
2. Mineral Resources are reported at a Net Smelter Return (NSR) cut-off value of US$70/t for underground and US$25/t for open pit.
3. Mineral Resources are estimated using a long-term copper price of US$3.50 per pound, zinc price of US$1.15 per pound, and silver price of US$21 per ounce.
4. Metallurgical recovery factors assumed were 91% Cu, 73% Zn, and 68% Ag.
5. Common industry values for smelter terms were assumed.
7. Bulk density of 3.8 t/m3 was used at Antonio and 3.1 t/m3 at San Fernando.
8. A minimum thickness of approximately two metres was used.
9. Numbers may not add due to rounding.
The current Mineral Resource estimate was done by block modeling techniques, using a minimum horizontal width of approximately two metres and a cut-off value based on a NSR basis, because of the polymetallic nature of the mineralization. The Mineral Resource estimate is based on both open pit and underground potential mining scenarios using a US$70/t NSR cut-off value for underground and US$25/t NSR cut-off value for open pit. Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum (CIM) Definition Standards for Mineral Resources and Mineral Reserves were followed for Mineral Resources. All Mineral Resources are classified as Inferred.
The Mineral Resource estimate for the San Fernando deposit is based on a potential underground mining scenario. Inferred Mineral Resources reported at a US$70/t NSR cut-off value are estimated to total 0.24 million tonnes at 2.04% Cu, 3.60% Zn, and 28.7 g/t Ag. The Mineral Resource estimate for the Antonio deposit is based on a potential open pit and underground mining scenario. Inferred Mineral Resources estimated at a US$25/t NSR cut-off value within a preliminary Whittle pit shell total 2.25 million tonnes at 1.58% Cu, 2.51% Zn, and 16.5 g/t Ag. Underground Inferred Mineral Resources estimated at a US$70/t NSR cut-off value total 0.91 million tonnes at 1.49% Cu, 2.30% Zn, and 9.7 g/t Ag. Although gold is known to be present in both deposits it has not been accounted for in the Mineral Resource because limited gold assays were performed on the historical drill core.
“Millbrook is pleased to report its initial resource estimate which is an important milestone for the Los Pasos project and the Company. The concession contains an abundance of VMS deposits and occurrences, some of which are enriched in precious metals. Historical exploration work had little focus on precious metals and Millbrook is confident that future drilling will expand this initial resource, validate the high gold and silver content of the mineralization and add further value to an already attractive asset,” stated Doug Hunter, President of Millbrook Minerals.
The International Economic Association (IEA) Contract between Millbrook and GeoMinera S.A., was signed on April 23, 2018 at a formal ceremony in Havana. Millbrook’s IEA contract with GeoMinera S.A. is a landmark agreement for the exclusive exploration and future joint development of mineral resources located within the 317 km2 Los Pasos project area.
Millbrook Minerals is a private Canadian mineral resource exploration and development company focused exclusively and uniquely on Cuba. For more information on Millbrook Minerals, see www.millbrookminerals.com.
GeoMinera S.A. is a Cuban company focused on attracting and negotiating the participation of foreign investment in the development of the Cuban mining sector.
This release contains "forward-looking information" within the meaning of applicable securities laws. Forward-looking information includes, but is not limited to, expectations, intentions, plans, assumptions and beliefs with respect to, among other things, the acquisition and maintaining of mineral property interests in Cuba and the exploration and development of such mineral properties. Often, but not always, forward-looking information can be identified by forward-looking words such as "anticipate", "believe", "expect", "goal", "plan", "intend", "estimate", "may", "assume" and "will" or similar words suggesting future outcomes, or other expectations, beliefs, plans, objectives, assumptions, intentions, or statements about future events or performance. Forward-looking information is based on the opinions and estimates of the Company as of the date such information is provided and is subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other factors that may cause the actual results, level of activity, performance, or achievements of the Company to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such forward looking information.
The Qualified Persons for the Technical Report and Mineral Resource estimate are James Franklin, Ph.D., P.Geo., independent consulting geologist, Katharine Masun, M.Sc., P.Geo., Senior Geologist with RPA, and William E. Roscoe, Ph.D., P.Eng., Principal Geologist with RPA.
David Melling, P.Geo., Vice President of Millbrook Minerals and a Qualified Person (QP) under NI 43-101, has approved the applicable contents of this release.
Chairman of Millbrook Minerals Inc.
Millbrook Minerals Inc. continues progress in its Los Pasos project in Cuba and announces completion of an initial resource estimate. | 2019-04-24T21:54:58Z | https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180712005712/en/Millbrook-Minerals-Announces-Completion-Initial-Resource-Estimate |
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If you’re going to remove the asbestos yourself make sure to wear disposable protective equipment at all times. Once it’s removed, place it in multiple plastic bags that are labelled “asbestos” in large letters. After this is done, you’ll want to dispose of the asbestos in an appropriate waste treatment centre. Information about where you’re able to dispose of asbestos in your area can be found online, or contact an asbestos removal service to seek advice.
Asbestos is nothing to play around with. If you have it in your home, contact professionals immediately to assess the situation, or you can risk becoming extremely ill later down the line. If it can stay where it is, make sure that you constantly check on it to make sure that it is still safe. If it needs to be removed, you should probably hire professionals to get the job done as safely as possible. | 2019-04-25T00:10:48Z | http://www.proteccionindustrialci.com/2018/06/everything-you-need-to-know-about-asbestos-removal/ |
The following tables list each typical stakeholder group involved with affordable/sustainable housing development. Recommendations are provided which outline how each stakeholder interaction can leverage the power of BIM towards reducing costs, increasing efficiency, improving sustainable design, and developing better information workflows. Various incentive strategies are also included as a means to offset the challenges associated with implementing BIM as a technology and process. There are some areas of overlap between stakeholder roles and opportunities, since it is not anticipated that a single approach will work in every situation, nor is it expected that each stakeholder will be willing or able to engage BIM in the suggested fashion. | 2019-04-25T23:58:39Z | https://jdowhower.wordpress.com/chapter-6-recommendations/ |
The revenge is accomplished terribly and fittingly. Coming from such an eminent source, every consideration is due this opinion.
Distrust is a key theme that is conveyed within scene three when Polonius and Laertes advise Ophelia to stay away from Hamlet. His family, his sweetheart, and his school friends all appear to turn against him and to ally themselves with the evil predicament in which Hamlet finds himself.
What does it truly mean? So declares Ibsen in Hedda Gabler. To verify this, She married; O most wicked speed, to past. More importantly though it was an advantage that his "antic disposition", isolated him from the rest of the court because of the people not paying attention to what he thought or did because of his craziness.
What he hesitates to do may be necessary, or even just, as the world goes, but it is a defilement of personal ideals, difficult for a wise mind to justify. Although what was important to note was that all tragic heroes of plays at that time delayed their actual revenge until the end of the play.
He is an anti-hero because he has heroic qualities but he is more of a philosopher than the archetypal hero of deeds and actions. This curious fact constitutes the crux of the plot, "the Hamlet Mystery.
Hamlet is neither 'weak' nor 'unpractical,' as so many call him. The task set by the dead is a simple one. Hamlet is upset with his mothers hasty marriage to his King Uncle Father, Claudius following his fathers death.
Odysseus is finally home, on Ithaca, and is then helped by Athena and disguises himself as an old beggar. Tragedy Essay Tragedy Essay Over the course of time, many things tend to change significantly. In todays world it is shown that humans are very easily divinity and animal.
This causes Hamlet to go crazy, insane, and mad. Aristotle said that the spectacle by rousing in us pity and fear purges us of hese emotions, and this remains the best explanation.
How to cite this article: This flawless morality can be envisioned to act both jointly and independently as a perfection and imperfection of the Princes character. Hamlet takes this to be an accusation that his feelings are false. Melancholia, hysteria, psychic epilepsy, neurasthenia, madness or whatever you will, has been presented in turn to explain Hamlet's procrastination.
This moment could be interpreted as foreshadowing of the impending deaths of most of the principle characters.
Before, Hamlet has been appalled and revolted by the moral corruption of the living. The circumstances he has to manage emotionally are difficult, to say the least. Hamlet was one of the greatest of all time.
The first is that the language of Hamlet parallels that of the Bible, and is almost as familiar by quotation in common speech.
Hamlet without Seneca is inconceivable. It is so great a defilement, and a world so composed is so great a defilement that death seems preferable to action and existence alike.
Many in the audience know all-too-well what is to suffer the death of a family member—because we are human, and because death is one of those few things apart from our birth that remain, quite simply, beyond our direct control. Similarly, insanity may be a constant but slight and imperceptible over-tension of the nerves as well as the wild raving of a maniac.
Coleridge remarks in part: Is hamlet a hero essay Is Hamlet a hero or a villain?The revenge tragedy, or revenge play, is a dramatic genre in which the protagonist seeks revenge for an imagined or actual injury. The term, revenge tragedy, was first introduced in by A.H.
Thorndike to label a class of plays written in the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean eras (circa s to s). by Alice Temnick Is it a relief to know that there is a shared belief in life as tragic, troubled, and full of misery?
Would a plan for engaging in meaningful conversation, feeling significant and taking responsibility relieve us from. Critical Essays Shakespeares Tragedy Free hamlet revenge essays and papers helpmecom, revenge and vengeance in shakespeare's hamlet speculation about whether the shakespearean drama hamlet On Law Morality And Politics 2nd Edition Hackett Classics.
Shakespeare’s revenge tragedy Hamlet has endured the tests of time and successfully lived on till our present era due to its exploration of prominent themes and core values which appeal to the human condition and resonate deeply in the contemporary world.
Soliloquy Analysis In Shakespeares Hamlet English Literature Essay. Print Reference this. Disclaimer: Hamlet ponders whether he should take action against his sea of troubles and seek revenge for his father’s death or live with the pain of his father’s murder.
enjoining what is good. Prompt action without concern for morality is. Hamlet is the main character of Shakespeares play Hamlet. He stars as a young man who recently lost his father in a trecherous plot made by his uncle to kill the king Hamlet is a very consious being who thinks on his action before he does it He is also very smart, so smart in fact that he was able. | 2019-04-24T09:54:33Z | https://wididigahovas.tsuki-infini.com/morality-and-revenge-in-shakespeares-hamlet-essay-3280noj3131.html |
20 Association of Research Libraries Research Library Issues 291 — 2017 Intrapreneurship in Libraries Intrapreneurship offers libraries an organic approach to structural change. Reflecting on Stoffle, Renaud, and Veldof’s seminal 1996 essay “Choosing Our Futures,”2 Neal proclaims that “we must dismantle traditional organizational structures to create more agile advancement and more robust internal and external communications and collaborations.”3 It seems that even 20 years after the initial call to arms for organizational change, libraries are still struggling to become more flexible and agile. Intrapreneurship offers an opportunity to alleviate some of this tension through lightweight initiatives that can work within the existing structure. Organizations can address emerging areas of customer need that may not fit into existing portfolios. Indeed, one of Batthini’s definitions of intrapreneurship was the “internal start-up” model: establishing a joint venture, a new subsidiary, a new outlet, or a new business unit.4 In a library context, intrapreneurship’s internal start- up model is often seen in holistic librarianship: cross-departmental, project-based collaborations. This can begin an intrapreneurial culture shift in an organization that breeds flexibility and resilience. Library technology, too, is ripe for intrapreneurial innovation. We all struggle to meet users’ growing expectations of online services and products with our limited budgets and resources. It is a challenge to keep library staff members’ technology skills up to date when low turnover minimizes opportunities to add staff members with new skill sets to the team. Providing quality professional development in this area can be expensive and hard to deliver at scale. Library leaders in charge of training-fund allocation may not be aware of these skill deficits or fully understand the impact they have on service delivery, making it difficult to direct development opportunities. Intrapreneurship offers libraries an organic approach to structural change. | 2019-04-24T18:35:49Z | https://publications.arl.org/rli291/20 |
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Changes in expression of Class 3 Semaphorins and their receptors during development of the rat retina and superior colliculus.
Sharma A1, LeVaillant CJ, Plant GW, Harvey AR.
School of Anatomy, Physiology and Human Biology, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley 6009, WA, Australia. anil@propriocept.com.
Members of the Semaphorin 3 family (Sema3s) influence the development of the central nervous system, and some are implicated in regulating aspects of visual system development. However, we lack information about the timing of expression of the Sema3s with respect to different developmental epochs in the mammalian visual system. In this time-course study in the rat, we document for the first time changes in the expression of RNAs for the majority of Class 3 Semaphorins (Sema3s) and their receptor components during the development of the rat retina and superior colliculus (SC).
During retinal development, transcript levels changed for all of the Sema3s examined, as well as Nrp2, Plxna2, Plxna3, and Plxna4a. In the SC there were also changes in transcript levels for all Sema3s tested, as well as Nrp1, Nrp2, Plxna1, Plxna2, Plxna3, and Plxna4a. These changes correlate with well-established epochs, and our data suggest that the Sema3s could influence retinal ganglion cell (RGC) apoptosis, patterning and connectivity in the maturing retina and SC, and perhaps guidance of RGC and cortical axons in the SC. Functionally we found that SEMA3A, SEMA3C, SEMA3E, and SEMA3F proteins collapsed purified postnatal day 1 RGC growth cones in vitro. Significantly this is a developmental stage when RGCs are growing into and within the SC and are exposed to Sema3 ligands.
These new data describing the overall temporal regulation of Sema3 expression in the rat retina and SC provide a platform for further work characterising the functional impact of these proteins on the development and maturation of mammalian visual pathways.
Developmental epochs in the rat neural retina and superior colliculus. Cytogenesis in the rat retina occurs from E9 through to P12, with distinct and overlapping waves of cell birth and differentiation –. Death of differentiated retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) is predominantly perinatal; starting at E20, peaking between birth and P3, falling sharply at P5 and continuing on until around P10 –. Astrocyte apoptosis is observed from P0, peaking between then and P5, and is associated with vasculature development ,. Bipolar and amacrine cell apoptosis occurs concurrently with different peaks, from P5 until P13/P14 . Synapse generation in the inner plexiform layer (IPL) starts at P2 with amacrine cells ,, and from P12 in bipolar cells , both peaking around the time of eye opening ,. Outer plexiform layer (OPL) synaptogenesis begins at P4 – and, while its time-course in the rat is not certain, in the mouse continues until about P12 . Neurogenesis in the rat superior colliculus (SC) occurs from E12 to E17 ,. Apoptosis in the visual layers of the rat SC (stratum griseum superficiale; SGS) occurs from birth, peaking at between P4 and P7, and lasting until P13 ,. Circuit maturation in the SGS, as judged by synapse density and composition, is mostly postnatal , in three stages: P0-P12/P14 (eye opening), P12-P24 increasing number of synapses, P21-P30/P40 increasing ratio of inhibitory to excitatory terminals . Retinal axons first enter the SC at E16/E17 , and continue to arrive until P5/P6 ,. Cortico-tectal innervation starts at P3, with marked ingrowth between P6 and P12, and adult-like innervation observable from P18 . Scale: downwards ticks mark 5 days, upwards ticks mark time points in this study; IPL: inner plexiform layer; OPL: outer plexiform layer; RGC: retinal ganglion cell; SGS: stratum griseum superficiale.
RNA expression levels of the Class 3 Semaphorins in the rat retina during development. Sema3s: Sema3f is the most predominant transcript, and Sema3a the least. All transcripts increased expression through development and maintained relatively high levels into adulthood. Sema3a: Expression rises slightly to a peak at P14, dropping at P21 before rising again at adulthood. Sema3b: Expression is lowest in the embryonic retina, around half that found from P14 onwards. Sema3c: Transcription is stable up to P0 then rises twofold by P21 and into adulthood. Sema3e: Expression levels rise steadily after birth, reaching fourfold higher levels at their peak in the adult. Sema3f: There are two periods of increased expression, a doubling at birth before falling again by P7 and then rising back by P21 and into adulthood. Error bars are SEM; * p < 0.05, ** p < 0.01; n = 4–5.
RNA expression levels of the Class 3 Semaphorin receptors in the rat retina during development. Receptors: Nrp1 transcript levels are around twofold higher than the peak level of Nrp2. Co-receptors: Plxna2 had the highest peak expression levels, and L1cam the lowest. Plxna2 and Plxna3 expression levels are very similar, with Plxna2 having around fourfold higher peak levels. Nrp2: RNA levels are lowest in the embryo, rising from P7 onwards and peaking at around fourfold higher in the adult. Plxna2: Expression peaks at birth at fivefold higher than at E16, drops again by P14 and is maintained at that level into the adult. Plxna3: RNA levels increase fourfold from E16 to their peak at birth before falling back to embryonic levels by P21. Plxna4a: Expression triples from E16 to P0, doubles again at P7, falls back one third by P21 before increasing again to peak in the adult. Error bars are SEM;* p < 0.05; n = 4–5.
RNA expression levels of the Class 3 Semaphorins in the rat superior colliculus during development. Sema3s: All Sema3 RNA expression levels, except for Sema3e, peak at E19 and are lowest by P21 and into the adult. Sema3b, Sema3c and Sema3f are the predominant transcripts with around 100 times higher levels than Sema3a and Sema3e. Sema3a: There is a high variability in expression at E16, peak expression at E19, falling twofold by birth and eightfold in the adult. Sema3b: Expression changes markedly throughout development, with high variability levels at both E19 and P14. Expression rises twenty-eightfold from E16 to E19 before falling back 17 fold by P7 and back to E16 levels at P21. Transcript levels then rise eightfold from P21 to adult. Sema3c: RNA levels peak at E19 and P0, falling twofold by P14 and maintaining that level into the adult. Sema3e: Transcript levels double and triple from the embryo to P7 and P14 respectively, dropping back at P21 and increasing again into the adult. Sema3f: RNA expression levels are highest in the embryo, dropping fivefold after birth and into the adult. Error bars are SEM; * p < 0.05; n = 4–5.
RNA expression levels of the Class 3 Semaphorin receptors in the rat superior colliculus during development. Receptors: Nrp1 and Nrp2 share similar expression profiles, with peaks around E19 and birth and then falling away into the adult. Co-receptors: All co-receptors bar L1cam follow the same expression profile, peaking at E19 before falling after birth and into the adult. Plxna1 and Plxna3 are the predominant transcripts. Nrp1: Peak RNA expression is at E19, falling threefold by P7 and maintained into the adult. Nrp2: Transcript levels double from E16 to P0, with high variability at E19. Expression falls from P0 to P7 and is maintained at around half peak levels in the adult. Plxna1: RNA levels are highly variable at E16 and E19 where they peak. From birth expression levels are halved, continue to decline up to P21 where they are sevenfold lower than at peak, and this level is maintained into the adult. Plxna2: RNA levels are highly variable at E16 and E19 where they peak. Expression drops threefold by P7 and is maintained into the adult. Plxna3: RNA levels are highly variable at E16 and E19 where they peak. Expression falls to half peak at P7, one quarter peak at P14 and is sevenfold lower than peak by P21 and in the adult. Plxna4a: RNA levels are highly variable at E16 and E19 where they peak before falling fourfold by P7 and into the adult. Error bars are SEM; * p < 0.05; n = 4–5.
Location of Plxna3 transcript in the neonate rat retina. Double in situ hybridisation (ISH) and immunofluorescence staining in P1 (A-C) and P7 retina (D-F). Expression was restricted mainly to the ganglion cell layer (GCL), with overlap of Plxna3 ISH and βIII-Tubulin positive putative retinal ganglion cells (C,F). GCL and dark arrows: ganglion cell layer; scale bars: 50 μm.
Collapse assay of immunopurified P1/P2 rat retinal ganglion cells exposed to exogenous recombinant Sema3 proteins. P1 retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) were immunopurified and seeded in BD Culture Slides coated with PDL and laminin, grown overnight. The following day (effectively P2), RGCs were exposed to recombinant Sema3s for 30 minutes before fixation and immunostaining. Growth cones were considered collapsed if the F-actin did not extend past the end of the βIII-tubulin positive neurite with an arc of less approximately 60°. Only terminal growth cones were counted, because lateral extensions can occur in response to the collapse of the leading growth cone. Additionally, growth cones were only scored if their neurites were at least two soma widths long. All cultures treated with conditioned media containing recombinant Sema3 proteins showed statistically significantly higher numbers of collapsed growth cones when compared to cultures treated with control conditioned media (A). Also shown here are examples of neurons from each culture condition with growth cones scored as collapsed (hollow arrows) and uncollapsed (solid arrows). Solid arrows: uncollapsed growth cones; hollow arrows: collapsed growth cones; *** p < 0.001; scale bar: 20 μM. | 2019-04-23T20:07:16Z | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25062604 |
Sandwich's Josie Ness (33) gets fouled hard by Peotone's Samantha Gwiazda (21) and Rachel Paw (12) during a girls varsity game at Sandwich High School on Jan. 3.
SANDWICH — Way back in early November, the Sandwich girls basketball team started its season with a resounding 32-point win over Hinckley-Big Rock at the annual Somonauk Breakout Tournament.
Fast forward almost two months later into another matchup with the Lady Royals, and it’s quite amazing how the Indians fortunes have skyrocketed in such a dramatic way.
Sandwich once again easily dispatched HBR, this time by a 50-20 margin on Wednesday.
As usual, Sandwich (20-0) — the No. 9-ranked team in the current Associated Press Class 3A Poll — used its relentless fullcourt defensive pressure to force 26 HBR turnovers. The Indians have now held opponents to just 27.5 points per game.
Sandwich also shot a sparkling 23 of 51 (45 percent) from the field with all players adding at least one basket on the night.
Sophomore post player Josie Ness led the way for Sandwich with a double-double of 13 points and 10 rebounds. Juniors Ava Knepper and Jaylynn Vana followed with 11 and nine points, respectively, while sophomore Claire Roberts came off the bench to notch seven points.
"Tonight our defense was strong as it has been all year, but we shot the ball so much better than we did in our last game against Somonauk," Sandwich coach Chris Johnson said. "It was a well-rounded offensive effort, and everybody stepped up and did something. Every win from here for us is breaking our own record for victories in a season, and I'm so happy for the girls after another great performance."
HBR (6-14) received a team-best 10 points from senior Tomi Harrod, but the Lady Royals shot only 8 of 32 (25 percent) off the floor and coughed the ball up way too many times once again versus the staunch Sandwich defensive pressure.
"I thought we did a much better job of handling the ball against them this time than we did the last time we played at Somonauk," said HBR coach Doug Brewington. "But they were still like sharks in the water tonight, and when we'd make a turnover they smelled that blood again and feasted on it.
“They're 20-0 for a reason, and I told the girls we should hold our heads high after competing against such a great team like Sandwich."
In a low-scoring first quarter, Josie Ness established herself inside with five points and five rebounds, and the Lady Indians led 7-2 after eight minutes.
"I was getting the ball inside, and I hit a couple of shots which got us started," Josie Ness said. "I was open on the block, and that's where I got most of my points tonight with some nice dishes from my teammates."
She'd add four more in the second quarter along with five from Roberts, including a top-of-the-key 3-pointer at 4:10, as well as two buckets from Knepper that closed out the first half with Sandwich ahead 22-6.
Knepper would then add five in the third period after a three-point play at 5:45 along with a 10-foot jumper at the three-minute mark that helped put her team ahead 37-14 with one quarter to contest.
"I've had a rough time recently, and I've been off lately with my shot," Knepper said. "But tonight I came out a lot better in the second half, and I was happy with how I performed with the help of my teammates."
Sandwich then hit its first six shots of the fourth quarter to go up by 30, and a running clock ensued.
"I just want the girls to feel good about what they've accomplished so far and stay relaxed moving forward," Johnson said. "We've got so many goals we still want to hit, but we have to enjoy what we've done so far, and hopefully that will fuel us in wanting even more the rest of the season." | 2019-04-20T04:25:59Z | https://www.kendallcountynow.com/2019/01/10/girls-basketball-josie-ness-sandwich-make-it-20-0/a9uf52u/ |
There are, additionally, county based groups who have a keen interest in woodlands in their specific areas and these groups are themselves usually headed by a County Council Tree Officer. Each villager is also encouraged to appoint a tree warden who reports to the Parish Council.
KMOTT has close contact with many of the above organisations especially the tree wardens whom we meet during our Trees in the Village Competition. Our members are frequently asked for advice on disputes between local residents and council officials on aspects of tree lopping, tree felling and we are often asked to comment on whether damage to building is the result of tree-root growth.
While we are happy to offer a view on such matters we have to stress that it is only the opinion of an individual member of the community – we have no legal backing for such opinions. | 2019-04-19T11:19:23Z | http://kentmenofthetrees.co.uk/links/ |
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Fabric blocking, leather, bold prints and patterns are all trends that I am seeing on the runways at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week and off site at New York Fashion Week for Fall 2013. I have loved the Fall 2013 season so far and as I am spotting trends I can’t help but notice that one thing keeps catching my eye, gold!
Gold is totally having a moment right now. We have seen it start to pop up in the past but now there is no denying that gold is a must for Fall 13. Let’s take a look at some golden moments from this fashion week.
Barbara Tfank has dressed the likes of Flotus A.K.A the First Lady of The United States Michelle Obama as well as Grammy winner slash singing sensation Adele. It is safe to say that Tfank knows about class and for Fall 2013 she chose to showcase 18K to 24K Gold Accessories from Coomi, Hilat, and Yossi Harari. Her pieces really brought out the gold and together the collection made a bold statement.
Barbara Tfank's Fall 2013 collection paired with bold Hilat cuffs.
It just would not be fashion week without Diane Von Furstenburg. This season DVF was inspired by glam rock and you simply cannot do glam rock without gold! Her runway looks were accompanied by amazing gold accessories including chain link gold bracelets. Even DVF was wearing a substantial gold cuff for her walk at the end of the show.
Even Diane gets in on the gold action!
I said it once and I will say it again; ear cuffs are going to be a mega huge trend! Thakoon Panichgul topped off his Fall 2013 pieces with ear cuffs. The ear cuffs are designed in yellow gold with yellow sapphire, hauynite and alexandrite, and white gold with freshwater pearls, diamonds and grey diamonds. The gorgeous pieces are a result of Thakoon’s collaboration with Tasaki and are Tasaki by Thakoon earrings.
All of these gold looks by these fab designers all prove that you can simply not go wrong when you go for the gold!
Love all of the gold details! | 2019-04-22T16:31:01Z | http://www.orangejuiceandbiscuits.com/2013/02/fashion-week-trend-alert-gold-is-having.html |
Bottom up vs Top Down. Right now we live in a society that is top down, which means the people who “claim” they have all this power over us control us. It’s time to take back our lives and work from the bottom up.
We are at the bottom of the scale and really have THE most power since we are so vast in numbers.
Don’t think that just because you don’t have money and connections that you have no power.
Whether you want to admit it or not, we ARE a HUGE reason for our socioeconomic problems.
Because we continue to accept and use this archaic system called capitalism.
We do this by buying materialistic items just to keep this corrupt failing economic system afloat.
Buying things we don’t need because THEY tell us we need to buy them.
If everyone stopped buying for ONLY one day, the entire economic system would collapse.
This is proof positive that the system is not sustainable, which means it can’t last into the future.
What are many of the negative symptoms due to having a capitalistic society?
As a society we are sick. Capitalism makes us sick. We work as slaves for corporations and overall we aren’t paid what we are worth. Even entrepreneurs work 70-100 hours per week which is NOT healthy.This health hazard has made us a society that misses a lot of work due to numerous sick days. We have been hearing this for years.
We know that our capitalistic society promotes greed and indifference among the uber RICH.Studies show they have no empathy for anyone once they start making that much money. This is why they can work employees to the bone, give them no time off, give them the lowest amount of money as a wage, and force them (us) to work long grueling hours. And they think nothing of it.
This is why they can pollute our earth, waters, and air, and have no conscious about how it’s making us sick and killing us and every living creature on the planet.This is why most hoard their money and rarely give to people in need. Studies have shown that the very rich rarely give money to the poor. People who are middle or even lower class do donate a lot more than they do.
Capitalism creates structural violence. Structural violence is poverty and all the ravishes of inequality in our society.Dr. Paul Farmer explains it as: “Structural violence is one way of describing social arrangements that put individuals and populations in harm’s way… The arrangements are structural because they are embedded in the political and economic organization of our social world; they are violent because they cause injury to people … neither culture nor pure individual will is at fault; rather, historically given (and often economically driven) processes and forces conspire to constrain individual agency. Structural violence is visited upon all those whose social status denies them access to the fruits of scientific and social progress.”It’s a system that doesn’t meet people’s basic needs whether it’s due to ageism, classism, elitism, nationalism, speciesism, racism, or sexism. There are just some of the examples Johan Galtung cited in 1969.
This is why gangs, terrorist groups, and white supremacist groups pop up, because there is an inequality and often poverty in the system that then leads to violence because they can’t survive.
We have a class problem where people at the top receive the best of everything and we at the bottom receive less than nothing.
How much money do you have saved in your bank account if you couldn’t work tomorrow?
We are taught that it’s the poor people’s FAULT, when really it’s a structural issue due to capitalism.
So how do we move forward past this debilitating economic system that we have had now for so many centuries? A system that is only meant to make the rich richer and keep us as well behaved slaves with just enough to feed us, but not enough to ever get us out of this situation?
You will need an open MIND and the willingness to put aside what you’ve been taught in school (even if you took economics) and really embrace CHANGE.
It’s a movement that has caught on worldwide and will eradicate government and EVIL CORPS.
While nothing is perfect, it’s a goal we all need to set for ourselves as we work together to change not just America, but the entire world.
First, we need to automate and remove human labor. We are on our way there so this can be done easily.
We need to create open source areas. An open source piece of software is where no one owns it and all developers collaborate to build and fix it. Like Firefox the browser or WordPress that can run your website.People will come together to create processes and systems that will create a labor-free world. Everyone will be able to participate in society as a whole instead of some fat cat telling YOU what’s good for you.
We will be a world that shares, so instead of buying everything, we share what we have. This will, of course, reduce crime, since if we all have what we need, no one will need to steal or hurt anyone else to get what they need to live life.
Instead of creating things that have to travel around the globe just to get manufactured, we will create localization by setting up print on demand 3D printers. This is already being done by Marcin Jakubowski. He creates machinery for farming at a much cheaper price than what you’d pay in the store. While he’s charging money, when we finally get rid of our capitalistic society this would all be free to everyone as we collaborate together.Manufacturing that isn’t done locally produces inefficiency and pollution when it can all be done locally.
Create a digitalized network that everyone will have access to. This will tell us what resources we need, don’t need, are running low on, etc. Right now there is NOTHING that tells us what is happening because it’s ALL controlled by the EVIL CORPS under the guise of proprietary information. That’s another aspect of EVIL capitalism that hinders growth. The law that was put in place to stop people from learning and expanding a certain process, service, product, etc. all because it was supposedly created by one person. But it’s NEVER created by only one person. It’s always thought out or discussed by many people, it’s just whoever gets to the patent office first WINS. Another example of capitalistic winning over what’s good for society and our planet.
To see this full interview and get a better understanding of what Peter is talking about, you can click here. | 2019-04-22T16:35:50Z | https://ourfreesociety.com/bottom-up/ |
A Trail Run in the heart of the Overberg. Try one of the three distances: 18km or 14km or 8km.
Nanotech 2019 conference provides a vibrant platform for sharing knowledge.
Euro Virology meet 2019 will be organized by conference series.
A business networking conference ideal for small business owners and entrepreneurs.
Trail Running event in the Greyton Nature Reserve where all proceeds go towards education! | 2019-04-19T01:10:55Z | http://www.kfm.co.za/events?pagenumber=4&perPage=18 |
Like what? Killing off wolves is good for ranchers and frightened campers, but it’s really good for coyote populations, once kept in check by them big, scary wolves. Controling the coyotes has been “hugely expensive”, with a price tag in the hundreds of millions of dollars. Bummer. | 2019-04-20T02:20:33Z | http://www.pound360.net/2009/10/loss-of-big-predators-causing-major.html |
Gorgeous Kasumalai with eloquent & symmetrical gold coins well formed.
Well polished and plated, like real gold.
Laxmi coins/overall design very intricate. | 2019-04-25T15:46:12Z | https://www.vadaamalar.com/kasumalai-484.html |
Hannah considers cookie dough to be its very own food group. One of the ones that belong at the bottom end of that food triangle thingy. But that doesn’t mean that there’s anything remotely cookie cutter about the performance she delivers for every one of her couples.
With all things ‘Entertainment’ running through her veins all wedding guests are in fro a treat when she starts talking and its no surprise that she now lives near Hollywood. Hollywood on the Gold Coast that is!
Anything Spice Girls is her default soundtrack but when she’s out walking along the coastline with her ginormous Great Dane and normally sized Beau its “Walking on Sunshine” that she’s singing inside her head.
Given her past life working on luxury cruise ships, we think that the theme song from the smash hit television series “The Love Boat” would be a perfect fit for her to open all her ceremonies too. And yes we also think she should only commit to marrying couples when she can wear a Captain’s hat and only on seafaring vessels. She said ‘No no no’ ( well it was a yes to the Captains’ hat), she wants to marry couples at any kind of destination their hearts desire whether it be on sand, land or rooftop.
If you wanna know how well she can speak pirate, well.. you’re just gonna have to send her a message in a bottle or an email or something yourself to find out. | 2019-04-19T03:19:53Z | https://whizbangweddingsclub.com/listings/gold-coast-hannah-lea-2/ |
The National Library of Scotland does not necessarily endorse the views or opinions of any of these sites – we just think they're interesting. Our descriptions indicate the nature of the site and whether it is an academic or popular resource, or whether the site endorses a particular agenda.
The IHR has a directory of British historians and theses in progress, as well as details of seminars in all areas of history.
The BBC website accompanying Fiona Watson's television programme In Search of Scotland.
Or browse BBC History online in general.
Sponsored by Georgetown University, this must rank as one of the best resources for medieval history on the web.
The site says: 'We found this list of women rulers on a clever wooden ruler made by the Rich Frog Industries in Burlington, VT. We have added information about what made them famous.' A fun popular history site – meet some interesting medieval (and earlier) women.
A good list of links, bibliographies and FAQS by Sharon Krossa.
Digitised version of the famous 10th-century illuminated manuscript, containing the oldest surviving pieces of Scottish Gaelic writing.
Information on the Domesday Book of 1086.
Digital facsimile of the Aberdeen Bestiary, written and illuminated around 1200.
A list of Popes from the Catholic New Advent site.
From the Catholic community online forum. The patron saints of librarians and archivists are apparently Saints Catherine, Jerome and Lawrence. Alarmingly, Lawrence was cooked to death on a grid-iron, Catherine was allegedly beheaded, and only Jerome died of natural causes. It's a much less dangerous job these days.
The story of the Stewart dynasty, from the Royal Family's official website.
Complete text of the 14th-century epic.
Information on the Magna Carta at the British Library.
See also digital images of the BL's two Gutenberg Bibles.
The TEAMS Middle English Texts are published for TEAMS (The Consortium for the Teaching of the Middle Ages) in association with the University of Rochester. This is an academic site, but poetry by Robert Henryson is available online.
Read William Dunbar's bawdy 'The tretis of the twa mariit women and the wedo' here!
Website of Edinburgh's cathedral, with information about the building, the Reformation and the Covenants.
While Scots were rioting over prayer books, the Dutch were experiencing Tulipmania - find out about it here.
Find out about the reformer and his life and times at this good popular site by KDG Wittenberg.
A good popular site on Mary Queen of Scots.
A celebration of the 'Auld Alliance'.
This site gives access to over 1300 engravings and woodcuts from the MacBean Stuart and Jacobite Collection at Aberdeen University.
A Christian Devotional Society dedicated to King Charles.
The online magazine for military history enthusiasts has this article on the Battle of Pinkie Cleugh between Scotland and England.
Find out about the Scottish Parliament – old and new – at this site.
Begun in Scotland, and still useful for Scottish history.
The Center for Economic Policy Analysis (CEPA) is the research centre of the Department of Economics at New School University in New York.
Online version of the two Statistical Accounts of Scotland, covering the 1790s and the 1830s.
An interdisciplinary and international society examining all aspects of 18th-century Scottish culture and society.
The official Robert Burns site on the net.
This website tells the story of Scotland's most famous explorer.
An academic site devoted to literature, history and culture in the days of Victoria.
Find out about Edinburgh's One O'Clock Gun and other time guns around the world.
The official National Trust page on St Kilda.
Resource site on Scottish military history of the 20th century.
Find out about the German fleet scuttled at Scapa Flow in Orkney.
Visit the Queen Mary's home page and find out about the history of the ship, now a floating hotel.
The tragic story of one of the Arandora's passengers retold.
See photographs of the visit at the Rockmine music site. | 2019-04-22T02:34:02Z | https://digital.nls.uk/scotlandspages/links.html |
Endorsing what he called a "controversial idea," David S. Saxon, chairman of the board of the Massa-chusetts Institute of Technology and president emeritus of the University of California, proposed a program of universal national service for American youth "as a means of coupling access to educational opportunity to other national goals and to our American tradition of service."
Mr. Saxon, addressing the 97th annual meeting of the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges in Washington, D.C., last month, cited a current bill in the Congress (S 1896) sponsored by Senators Paul Tsongas, Democrat of Massachusetts, Alan Cranston, Democrat of California, and others to establish a select committee to examine and make recommendations on the costs and benefits of alternative types of national-service programs.
"I myself would go much further," Mr. Saxon said, "and recommend that we examine seriously the potential of a program of universal youth service coupled with an analogous G.I. Bill' for education." | 2019-04-24T12:23:34Z | https://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/1983/12/07/041357a.h03.html |
Trying to figure out which of these cars to buy? Compare the Mercedes-Benz E-Class Vs Jaguar XF on CarAndBike to make an informed buying decision as to which car to buy in 2019. This comparison has been carried out on the basis of prices, engine specifications, mileage, and features of these cars.
The ex-showroom, New Delhi price of the Jaguar XF Petrol starts at ₹ 62.26 Lakh and goes up to ₹ 71.02 Lakh for the fully-loaded Petrol model. The base Diesel version of the Jaguar XF costs ₹ 57.97 Lakh, whereas the Diesel top-end costs ₹ 71.79 Lakh. On the other hand, the price of the base Petrol version of the Mercedes-Benz E-Class Petrol starts at ₹ 66.29 Lakh. The base Diesel version of the Mercedes-Benz E-Class costs ₹ 65.09 Lakh, whereas the Diesel top-end costs ₹ 82 Lakh.
As for the claimed fuel efficiency, Jaguar XF base Petrol engine returns 13 kmpl whereas the base Diesel returns 19 kmpl. Mercedes-Benz E-Class base Petrol engine returns 12 kmpl whereas the base Diesel returns 14 kmpl.
In the powertrain department, the Jaguar XF gets 1 Petrol and 1 Diesel engine options - 237 bhp Petrol and 177 bhp Diesel engines. The Mercedes-Benz E-Class comes in 1 Petrol and 2 Diesel engine options - 181 bhp Petrol and 191 bhp Diesel ,255 bhp Diesel engines. | 2019-04-19T19:08:06Z | https://auto.ndtv.com/compare-cars/mercedes-benz-e-class-1151-vs-jaguar-xf-1098 |
Audi in the US is appealing to younger consumers — and Audi fans of all ages — with Lego versions of some of the brand’s fastest cars. The toy manufacturer has extended its “Speed Champions” series by coming out with versions of two Audi race cars.
For the honour, the iconic maker of connectable, plastic toys selected the R8 LMS ultra that won in the Nurburgring in 2014, and the Audi R18 e-tron quattro from the FIA World Endurance Championship.
The two Audi models are among seven new vehicles that are getting the official Lego treatment this spring, a lineup of nameplates that also includes the Chevrolet Corvette Z06, Ford Mustang GT, a Ford F-150 Raptor model, a Chevrolet Camaro drag racer and a Porsche 911. | 2019-04-21T20:45:18Z | http://autoforum.co.za/View-News-Article.aspx?News=10701 |
I did some Nokia 770 hacking today and I needed socat for part of it so I packaged it for others to use. I also packaged aircrack-ng because kismet is still not really working on the 770. So far I only tested airodump and it seems to work, it nicely displays all networks and happily dumps packets. What do you want more?
As usual the packages are listed on the Maemo Application Catalog and on my Nokia770 page. | 2019-04-26T07:46:41Z | http://www.mulliner.org/blog/blosxom.cgi/n770/socatandaircrack.writeback |
Where an agreement has an alternative dispute resolution (ADR) clause, it frequently has either a simple ADR clause or ‘escalation’ clauses (sometimes called ‘tiered’ or ‘stepped’ clauses). Then, where a commercial dispute arises, the parties to such an agreement are usually required to try to negotiate a settlement to the dispute. This could involve a single step (which, for a simple ADR clause, might entail mediation) or escalating steps (typically, negotiating in good faith, then if that fails to resolve the dispute, discussions between senior members of the parties’ management teams, then, if that fails, mediation).
Ultimately, if the dispute is not resolved, the parties might commence formal proceedings, which will result in the imposition of a decision (via litigation or arbitration).
There are obvious practical and commercial benefits to ADR clauses: they can encourage the parties to come together at an early stage, and they support the amicable resolution of a dispute before it becomes costly and time-consuming (although an agreement can specify that settlement procedures and formal proceedings be undertaken side by side). In addition, ADR clauses can give greater control of a dispute to the parties involved, and frequently enable such parties to mend commercial bridges and then carry on in a co-operative commercial relationship.
Problems arise when, even though there may be an ADR clause in an agreement, one party decides to go straight to formal proceedings, cutting out any agreed settlement stage, and the wronged party must consider if it can enforce any ADR clause as a condition precedent.
English courts have been slow to recognise agreements to settle disputes amicably or agreements to negotiate. In Itex Shipping v China Ocean Shipping , Steyn J held that a clause providing that ‘any dispute in this agreement will be settled amicably’ before it could be arbitrated was unenforceable. In Walford v Miles , the House of Lords stated that a bare agreement to negotiate was too uncertain to be enforceable and that a duty to negotiate in good faith was unworkable in practice and inherently inconsistent with the position of a negotiating party.
As a result, where a party ignores any ADR clause in an agreement and goes straight to formal proceedings, the wronged party has been hard pushed to force it to pause.
However, in Cable & Wireless v IBM Colman J offered some hope to the wronged party wishing to enforce an ADR clause, in holding that a contract which provided for the parties to negotiate in good faith via a dispute resolution procedure ‘as recommended to the parties by the Centre for Dispute Resolution’ was sufficiently certain to be enforced. This was because, on the facts, the recommended dispute resolution procedure required the parties to resort to participation in Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution’s (CEDR) recommended procedure and this provided ‘sufficient certainty for a court readily to ascertain whether they have been complied with’. Therefore, where negotiation or mediation procedures are clearly set out in an agreement, the courts will enforce them. Holloway v Chancery Mead Ltd clarified that this this would require the following: (1) a sufficiently certain process that does not require any agreement before matters can proceed; (2) a defined process for selecting a party to resolve the commercial dispute and to pay that party; and (3) details of the process itself (or, at least, a model of it).
However, Itex Shipping and Walford were followed in SulAmérica CIA Nacional De Seguros v Enesa Engenharia in which the Court of Appeal held that a term of an insurance policy, which stated that the parties would ‘seek to have [a] dispute resolved amicably by mediation’ did not create an enforceable obligation to commence or participate in a mediation process. The court also followed the Itex Shipping and Walford lines of reasoning in Wah v Grant Thornton International and concluded that a clause which set out a step in an escalating ADR clause (to first refer the dispute to a panel of three members of a partnership board), was too ‘equivocal and nebulous in communicating the parties’ respective obligations to be given legal effect’.
In Emirates Trading Agency v Prime Mineral Exports , a contract provided that where a dispute arose, the parties should first seek to resolve the problem by ‘friendly discussion’. Applying Itex Shipping and Walford might have led to the conclusion that the requirement in Emirates Trading to seek to resolve a dispute by having a ‘friendly discussion’ was as unenforceable as the Itex Shipping requirement to settle a dispute amicably. However, Teare J, in largely adopting the reasoning of the Australian case United Group Rail Services v Rail Corporation New South Wales , decided that ‘friendly discussions’ were a condition precedent to the right to refer a claim to arbitration. He also found that where there was an ADR clause in an existing and enforceable contract (the contract in Walford was ‘subject to contract’), which required the parties to seek to resolve a dispute by friendly discussions in good faith and within a limited period of time before the dispute could be referred to arbitration (the clause set a continuous period of four weeks), this was enforceable on the basis that: (1) the agreement to negotiate was complete, in that no essential term was lacking and it was not uncertain in that it had an ‘identifiable standard’, namely, fair, honest and genuine discussions aimed at resolving a dispute; and (2) enforcement was in the public interest because (i) commercial men expected the court to enforce obligations which they had freely undertaken and (ii) the object of the agreement was to avoid what might otherwise be an expensive and time-consuming arbitration.
Then, in Emirates Trading Agency v Sociedade de Fomento , Popplewell J also considered issues arising from the failure to sufficiently engage in friendly discussions before launching into formal proceedings (the agreement required that arbitration could be invoked where friendly discussions did not achieve a solution ‘for a continuous period of three (3) months’). The judge declined to comment on whether ‘friendly discussion’ was an enforceable condition precedent, but he did comment on what sort of discussions would amount to friendly discussions, assuming it might be enforceable.
A final note of caution from Anzen Ltd v Hermes One Ltd in which a shareholders’ agreement stated that any party ‘may’ submit a dispute to arbitration. Their Lordships held that clauses depriving a party of the right to litigate should be clearly worded and that there is an obvious linguistic difference between a promise that disputes shall be submitted to arbitration and a provision, agreed by both parties, that any party ‘may’ submit a dispute to arbitration.
In negotiating a commercial agreement, it is open to the parties to decide whether or not they want to include an ADR clause.
But if the parties decide that such clauses are a good idea (and they will generally save time and money), such clauses must be clear about whether the parties are entitled to initiate ADR proceedings, or whether they are required to do so before they can issue formal proceedings.
For an ADR clause to be enforceable, it must clearly set out the following: (1) a sufficiently certain ADR procedure (see, for example, Cable & Wireless’ specification that its procedure would be ‘as recommended to the parties by the Centre for Dispute Resolution’ which was held to be sufficiently certain to be enforced); (2) mandatory language (that is, any ADR clause must use words akin to ‘shall’ rather than such words as ‘may’; and (3) a clear time limit (the clause in Prime Mineral Exports partly succeeded on the basis that it set out a continuous period of four weeks).
Of course, even if the parties do not agree to take steps to resolve their dispute without formal proceedings (or to bring an early end to formal proceedings), solicitors have a duty to advise their clients about mediation and pre-action protocols and to flag the need to explore ADR. Also, the courts are increasingly robust in ordering mediation (and the Civil Procedure Rules permit the court to ask parties to consider mediation and to punish a party that refuses to consider mediation or may stay formal proceedings issued in the absence of compliance with an enforceable settlement process). Furthermore, where a party agrees to mediate, but then unreasonably causes the mediation to come unstuck, that party may be penalised on costs (in the Earl of Malmesbury v Strutt & Parker the successful claimant had a 20% reduction of the costs recoverable in relation to the hearing on damages as a consequence of its conduct in a mediation).
One final thought: claim issue fees increased substantially in 2015 (in many cases by more than 600%, increasing fees from £1,720 to £10,000 for claims of more than £250,000) and there is a growing thought that access to justice for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), in particular, is being denied. In light of this, ADR clauses increase in importance as they offer a real alternative to finding a solution before the court fees bite.
Furthermore, in Jackson LJ’s review of civil litigation costs, Jackson LJ recommended a serious campaign to ensure that all practitioners (and through them their SME clients) are properly informed about the benefits of dispute resolution. An online dispute resolution (ODR) advisory group published its report in February 2015 recommending a state ODR system (proposing a new online court – HM Online Court (HMOC)). The ODR advisory group suggested a three-tier HMOC structure of dispute avoidance, dispute containments and dispute resolution. The hope is to have HMOC operational by 2017.
ADR clauses must embrace the potential that ODR and the HMOC have to offer and reflect a clear new alternative in any dispute resolution clauses. | 2019-04-26T15:41:52Z | http://www.inhouselawyer.co.uk/legal-briefing/commercial-dispute-resolution-clauses-be-amicable-or-be-friendly/ |
Advertising trade mag Lürzer's Archive claims it is the "most stolen" magazine around. Anybody who's ever worked in an ad agency will tell you that's not far from the truth.
W&K London's Ben Gough was tired of people stealing his copy. So, he came up with these titles and got Mark Denton, photographer Fern Berresford, and designer/typographer Kate Henderson from Coy Communications to help him create the covers.
I can't think of a more undesirable title.
My fellow ad creatives will appreciate this one.
The word "Stunning" makes this cover. | 2019-04-26T04:26:05Z | https://www.buzzfeed.com/copyranter/five-funny-fake-undesirable-magazine-covers |
If you’re publishing PDFs from DITA and want high quality with minimal effort, you should consider using DITA-FMx and FMx-Auto. If you’re already using FrameMaker and DITA-FMx, FMx-Auto will enable you to create the same PDFs you’re getting through manually saving the FMx-generated book to a PDF, using scripting or batch processing.
If you’re currently generating PDFs through an XSL-FO based process, and aren’t satisfied with the quality of those PDFs, FMx-Auto will enable you to take advantage of FrameMaker’s layout and formatting capabilities, while still using another XML editor for authoring. These tools support all versions of FrameMaker from FM7.2 on up through 10.
DITA-FMx and FMx-Auto can be installed with FrameMaker Server to provide a PDF publishing solution linked to your CMS or other server-based publishing process.
Just because you’re using DITA doesn’t mean that you have to give up high-quality PDFs!
DITA-FMx provides features to control the formatting and layout of a PDF generated from a DITA map. These features are easier to use than similar options you might find in other PDF creation tools.
FMx-Auto unlocks the API in DITA-FMx so you can automate the book and PDF creation process. An FMx-Auto installation includes the AutoFM plugin as one way to drive this automation.
AutoFM is an XML-based scripting tool for automating processes within FrameMaker. In this case it is used to open a DITA map and run the DITA-FMx Map to Book process to create a fully formatted FrameMaker book, then save that book to a PDF.
See how easy it is to get well formatted PDF output from a DITA map using FMx-Auto and DITA-FMx. This video provides a quick (5 minute) overview of the entire PDF publishing process using FMx-Auto.
» Link to video on YouTube.
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saprentice on Have UI designers forgotten about usability? | 2019-04-21T22:00:30Z | http://blog.leximation.com/2012/02/ |
Design is in the details! Take a closer look at the dermatologist office with these beautiful shots.
Visit our blog again for more on this extraordinary office by designer Pamela Jensen. | 2019-04-22T20:42:40Z | http://livdesigncollective.com/blog/ujzslbg3yiqri4k9tsvvw61aub9k39 |
There’s no one-size-fits-all approach to training. I use the Functional Movement Screen to assess how each client performs basic and essential motions. Programs are designed to suit individual goals and bodies at all levels of fitness. When we work together, whether one-on-one or in a group, you’ll work hard, but you’ll work more efficiently—and more effectively. | 2019-04-24T06:21:37Z | http://www.max-levelfitness.com/training/ |
Grey Splash Pad rubber surfacing with binder. Each quantity comes with a 30 lb box of rubber surfacing which will cover approximately 25 square feet of surface area and a pail of binder. Rain Deck recommends mixing 2 or 3 different colors to add a textured look for a more even finish. All boxes of splash pad rubber surfacing include installation instructions. Please call for questions or technical assistance. | 2019-04-24T14:17:41Z | https://www.raindeck.com/products/splash-pad-rubber-surfacing/rubber-surfacing-grey-w-binder-25-sqft-box/ |
As public school leaders, administrators, staff and teachers continue to grapple with improving the achievement levels of students, preparing them to be able to succeed in an uncertain future, perhaps we should look to the past to be able to move forward, and revisit how learning was delivered in an earlier time. Rather than simply trying to improve education in the post-modern era with an emphasis on STEM/STEAM/STREAM initiatives, it may be prudent to re-examine the pillars of Classical Education.
To discover what Classical Education is, and the difference between it and Modern Education, visit https://www.circeinstitute.org/resources/what-classical-education. One of the most difficult comparisons involves the acknowledgement of a “The Divine Spark” in every person. Interestingly, when public education first began in this nation, the “reader” provided to students was The Bible, and there was prayer in school. | 2019-04-25T15:00:40Z | http://www.edu-cat-ion.com/edu-cat-ion/perhaps-the-answer-to-improving-modern-education-can-be-found-in-classical-education/ |
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The Membership Committee is responsible for recruiting, screening, interviewing, and recommending potential candidates for membership to the Planning Council. If you are interested in becoming a Planning Council member, you can access our membership application here.
Providing appropriate orientation and training for new Planning Council members. | 2019-04-26T16:54:21Z | http://ryanwhitehartford.org/?page_id=46 |
Watching the video of Walter Scott’s shooting was profoundly disturbing. I remember calling my partner over to watch it on my computer; he refused, but I felt impelled out of a sense of some invisible necessity. After the first viewing I went back and replayed the clip, lining it up to the moment before Scott, running down a leafy, tree-lined back road, collapses to the ground, mortally felled by the bullet in his back. Paused at that fatal instant, I sat before my computer, a creeping sense of cold unease washing over me. What struck me most was Scott’s loss of dignity in the manner of his death and the deprivation of his humanity through it; a life, meaningful and complex, rich with memories and experiences, love and regrets, was taken without regard for all that it stood for.
With the spectre of Scott’s body frozen at the moment of his execution, I went over and picked-up my dog-eared monograph of Goya’s The Disasters of War, quickly thumbing to Plate 39, “Grande hazaña! Con muertos!” In the image, three male corpses bound to the trunk of a tree, sag under their own dead weight. One of the bodies suffers a particularly ignoble fate; dismembered and decapitated, it is strung upside down a la John the Baptist, the severed head spiked onto a pointed branch. Strange fruit, indeed. Death here bears no hand of honor, no reverence for the divine. Instead, the bodies of men become the mortal artifacts of inhumanity. In that moment, watching Scott’s end play out before me, I understood Goya’s desire to depict such violence and trauma. For the greatest indignity of the undignified death would be for it to go unseen. Goya grasped that in order to return dignity to the those who had been so miserably desecrated, the living would need to bear witness to the atrocities they suffered.
But, as a witness to Scott’s death, or as Goya was to those dismembered Spaniard soldiers, I wondered, what role does the artist and the beholder play in the depiction of trauma? For the former, the aims seem more clear—to document the agents and conditions of indignity wrought upon others; Felix-Gonzales Torres’s installation, “Untitled” (Death by Gun)” (1990), is a pointed rumination upon gunshot fatalities; Anselm Keifer’s early meditations upon Auschwitz and the Shoah are grim studies in the landscape of genocide: and Fernando Botero’s recasting of the now infamous Abu Ghraib photographs starkly capture the degradation and torture of Iraqi inmates.
The spectator’s responsibility seems less clear though one possible answer may lie in the deep philological roots of the word “witness,” which comes down to us from the Latin martyr, itself a derivation from the Sanskrit cognate, smarti, which translates as “memory.” Indeed, perhaps too obviously, it would seem that “to witness,” to bear the weight of witnessing, is intimately linked with the concept of memory. And in this vein, the role of the spectator is to remember, to hold close to one’s heart the portrayal of degradation and inhumanity, to let it sit near and uncomfortably so as to always incite disquiet and reflection. Anything less, treads dangerously close to a colder shade of commonplace voyeurism.
Joseph Akel is a New York-based freelance writer and editor. His non-fiction writing regularly appears in the New York Times, Interview, the Paris Review, Artforum, and Frieze, among others. Additionally, he has penned several artist monographs, most recently for artist Doug Aitken. Akel is currently working on his first novel. He holds a master’s degree in Art History from Oxford University and is a Ph.D. candidate with U.C. Berkeley’s Rhetoric Department. | 2019-04-24T06:51:56Z | https://brooklynrail.org/2015/05/criticspage/in-memoriam-akel |
Hello and welcome in my shop!
I`m Sylwia and I live in Poland with my little daughter and husband.
Crocheting is something I learned in 2016 and from this time this is the greatest passion of mine. The first project I made was a granny square blanket for my girl but from the beginning I knew I wanted to create my own patterns and inspire other crafters.
My days go by juggling my house duties along with thinking of new projects and pattern design. I can spend every free time learning new techniques and watching tutorials. I like to design decorations for interior like pillows and blankets but my favourite projects are shawls.
For purposes of EU data protection law, I, Sylwia Kawczyńska , am the data controller of your personal information. If you have any questions or concerns, you may contact me at mycrochetory@gmail.com. | 2019-04-25T17:25:09Z | https://www.etsy.com/shop/mycrochetory |
Explore our KwaZulu Natal Events and Festivals Calendar to see which popular festivals or events are taking place during your planned visit to KwaZulu Natal. From sporting events to food and wine fairs, KwaZulu Natal is host to a multitude of festivals that take place all year round. Make your holiday in KwaZulu Natal a trip to remember by attending a local event or festival. | 2019-04-21T05:00:44Z | https://www.sa-venues.com/events/kwazulunatal/ |
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We can hear inner voices from there.
One torments and seduces towards evil.
The other comforts and steers towards love.
And when we leave, that voice will receive us.
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It is all quite topsy-turvy. There obviously wasn’t any ‘collusion’ between the Trump campaign and the Russians. But there was collusion among the Obama Intel heads to make up the Russia story. If this Mueller fellow had an ounce of integrity, that’s what he would be investigating.
Was I too optimistic in April when I wrote this, in “The Easter Bunny Cover-Up”?
As the truth comes out, thanks to the President’s tweets and revelations about the unconscionable behavior of the Obama leftovers—Brennan and Clapper and Comey and Rice, and all the rest of them—and as President Trump begins to chart his own course in foreign and domestic policy, we are most likely going to see the fable of Russian ‘influence’ in the election fade away like a weird dream.
Certainly President Trump’s public stock has risen in the wake of three disasterous hurricanes (following a ‘drought’ of 12 years), and the widespread praise for his Administration’s organization and help with relief efforts. His tough line on North Korea has won him admiration as well, despite criticism of his hilarious ‘Rocket Man’ taunt of Kim Jung Un (see Dilbert cartoonist and stimulating sage Scott Adams’s explanation of how effective such nicknames are at taking down self-inflated egos. Unabashedly, Mr Trump stuck the label right in the middle of his UN speech, which Israel’s Bibi Netanyahu described as the best speech he had heard in 30 years at the UN.
Trump has delivered on many of his promises, and he alone among elected Republicans is fighting the culture war. Congress and the judiciary are blocking the agenda.
Beat Hillary – only one who could. Killed TPP, approved pipelines, nominated Gorsuch, rolled back Obama anti-energy and transgender and labor regs, deporting criminal illegals, has talked tough enough that number of illegals entering way down, is shrinking size of government by not filling vacancies, pulled out of Paris and is killing EPA climate change programs, got NATO members to start upping their defense budgets, is renegotiating NAFTA, just told UN to reform, got Russia and China to agree to N. Korea sanctions and may have strategy to get China to rein in Kim, apparently very good federal responses in two massive hurricanes, took first action against sanctuary cities (blocked by court), did not renew DACA – put it in hands of Congress (where it belongs), issued Muslim ban (blocked by courts).
Arguably, the President (as even his opponents call him) is on a roll.
But still the hanging over the Trump White House is the looming spectre of the Mueller investigation. The Special Counsel, mysteriously appointed by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein after AG Sessions recused himself and the President fired FBI Director James Comey, has hired some 15 high-powered investigative attorneys, all reportedly Democrat supporters and/or contributors. The Special Counsel’s Office has to file a Statement of Expenditures for the past six months in October, but if there is a budgetary limit no one can say.
It is all quite odd, as any such Office is part of the Justice Department, and anyone in that Department serves at the pleasure of the President. Clearly there is no such pleasure, as President Trump himself has called the investigation a ‘witchhunt’. But he is enjoined, certainly by the press, but probably by his staff, from precipitously firing Mr Mueller and terminating the whole business, because of likely political fallout. Never mind that such fallout would blow mostly from the leftwing press, which is adamantly opposed to everything Mr Trump attempts, and from the Democrats and anti-Trump Republicans in Congress, whose bloviations the press would amplify hysterically.
Now we must remember that no one has provided any evidence to date that the Trump campaign ‘colluded’ with the Russians to do anything whatever. Nor is there any evidence that the Russian government actually attempted to influence the presidential election in 2016, aside from the Clinton-trumpted claim that ’17 intelligence agencies’ said so. This was patently false, as was the claim that the Russians had ‘hacked’ the DNC servers and turned over their email files to Wikileaks. Not only was that claim made by anti-Russian Ukrainians, but it was disproven by a group of former intelligence professionals: the files were almost certainly hand-carried out.
Most recently, it has been proclaimed that maybe $100,000 was spent on anti-Clinton ads on Facebook, by Russia-affiliated entities. But in the scope of Facebook’s empire, this was vanishingly trivial, and could not have affected the election. Mrs Clinton lost because Donald Trump appealed to more Americans in states with more Electoral College votes than she did. The Russians had nothing to do with it. Yet the press, with the conivance of the Obama administration, and the persistent machinations of the cabal of Obama Intel chiefs, have managed to perpetuate this fantasy of ‘Russian Collusion’ by convincing a gullible Congress and Justice Department that investigations were necessary.
As we’ve many times noted, Mueller was appointed special counsel in an irregular manner. The regulations that require a description of the basis for a criminal investigation were not followed. The Justice Department told the public that this was a counterintelligence investigation; thus, neither the American people nor the people implicated in the investigation were given notice that crimes were suspected, much less what particular crimes and who the suspects are.
That is intolerable now that we are formally in a criminal-investigation mode.
It is also inconceivable that this high-priced ‘investigation’, conducted by a phalanx of highly-trained and astute lawyers could possibly be pursuing the will-o’-the-wisp of ‘Russian collusion’ with any of them maintaining a straight face. So what are they really after?
They had the FBI break into Paul Manafort’s home at 6 AM, with guns drawn, when he and his wife were sleeping. Mr Manafort, who managed Donald Trump’s fledgling campaign during some of the primaries, has a long history of consulting for various international government and private entities, including Russian and Ukrainian ones. Is it possible there are unseemly dealings in this history? Certainly, but what has that to do with Mr Trump and the 2016 election?
Most likely, nothing. The obviously conclusion is that it’s an attempt to intimidate Mr Manafort into revealing something—anything—unsavory about the President or his associates. And that comports with the evidence that the whole investigation into ‘Russian Collusion’ is a charade, contrived by the Obama-remnant cabal to undermine the credibility and integrity of the Trump Presidency. Remember that Robert Mueller is a friend and former colleague of James Comey, who has a long, sordid history with the Clintons and the Clinton Foundation (see HERE).
Now here’s the irony of the situation: Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State maintained an illegal, personal server in her private residence, and used it for Government business, including classified State Department email. James Comey, as Obama’s FBI Director, conducted a sham investigation of Mrs Clinton, and exonerated her in ‘the matter’, as instructed by then Attorney General Loretta Lynch. Meanwhile Director Comey obtained a fraudulent ‘dossier’ commissioned by anti-Trump forces in both the Democrat and Republican parties, and apparently used it as an excuse to tap the phones of the Trump campaign. Susan Rice in the White House has admitted to ‘unmasking’ American citizens on the other end of international phone calls, in clear violation of the law. Almost certainly, she was authorized to do so by President Obama himself, who knew about Hillary Clinton’s illegal server and even exchanged emails with her. The evidence is mounting that Secretary of State Clinton used the Clinton Foundation for a lavish ‘pay to play’ scheme, and the likelihood is that the illegal server was intended to hide this activity.
Is the Trump Justice Department investigating all of these Democrat and ‘Deep State’ shenanigans? There is no sign of it. AG Sessions, having recused himself right after he was appointed, is conspicuous by his absence. Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein, who hired Mueller without even a crime to investigate, is playing Br’er Fox: “he just lay low and say nothin’.” The Trump White House is paralyzed with fear of political repercussions if they move to fire Robert Mueller, or bring the full weight of Justice Department on the Clinton-Obama lawbreakers.
Instead, the American taxpayers, notably those who voted for President Trump, are paying for an elite force of Democrat investigators to scour the bushes looking for any signs of mythical ‘collusion’ with the Russians. To what ends? We can only conclude that it has two purposes: to hide Obama administration wrong-doing (rampant spying on political opponents, illegal financial dealing at the Secretary of State’s office, etc.); and to undermine the Trump victory and ultimately destroy the Trump Presidency.
And who are the Russians? With the dissolution of the Soviet Union, a third-rate economic power with an aging but atom-heavy military, run by a clever KGB man who if nothing else, cannot conceal his envy of the American collossus. Would he have really wanted Donald Trump to win? Candidate Trump promised to loosen all the Obama-era fetters on American energy production (which he is doing) and to beef up America’s armed forces (which he is also doing). Mrs Clinton would have just continued Obama’s feckless and wimpy policies, which did nothing but encourage Russian energy sales and embolden Putin’s territorial ambitions. Why would he have preferred a President Trump?
It is all quite topsy-turvy. There obviously wasn’t any ‘collusion’ between the Trump campaign and the Russians. But there was collusion among the Obama Intel heads to make up the Russia story. If this Mueller fellow had an ounce of integrity, that’s what he would be investigating. But he hasn’t, and he isn’t. Clearly it’s time for Jeff Sessions to turn the world right side up. He has to rescind his ill-advised recusal, fire Robert Mueller and all those lawyers Mueller hired, and focus on all the Obama and Clinton malfeasance. But so far, Mr Sessions’ silence is deafening. Do we need a new Attorney General? How about Rudy Giuliani?
UPDATE 15Oct17: I wonder if anyone reading this has noticed anything odd about the photo. . .
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This Pottery is made of Hi-Fire Stoneware, it is durable, vibrant, colorful and is functional or decorative. Our goal in designing this pottery was to focus on the popular southwest decor colors, and southwest desert canyons. These colors contain a lot of brown variations, everything from rust, to brown, tan, all the way to yellow with just a touch of green. We wanted to encompass and blend these colors to create a pottery line that will match southwest decor and go well in any general environment. From this idea we created Canyon Meadows which has a rustic base, with non-specific, but well blended, vibrant, eye catching, coloring. This Pottery goes well with and displays beautifully on a wood surface. Placed on a white or light surface the colors blend and contrast for a vibrant colorful look, while on a black surface the colors deepen and stand out from the black. Whether you intend to use or display this pottery it adds color and elegance to any room. Cleans easily with water and soap if needed. Since we make this pottery by hand and also hand apply the glazes each piece may vary a little from what is pictured and be unique within itself.
All of our stoneware pottery is hand made by us at our ceramic studio in Arizona USA. We use three different glaze color combinations Rustic Flame, Stormy Skies, and Canyon Meadows. We make all of the different shapes in all three colors. Sharon is our designer and creator of all three Hi-fire stoneware pottery lines. Each piece is signed with her initials on the bottom. Sharon spent several years in college studying ceramics and has taken many specialty classes. The process of creating a new pottery line and/or color combinations can take several months. Once she has the colors coming out as she likes, then it is perfecting the glaze application to get the exact look she is going for. She has worked with ceramics in our studio since 2004 utilizing her artistic and creative personality to make quality, unique, pieces of art. Our family works together with the production of the hi-fire stoneware pottery servicing many retail stores with pottery as well as individual customers looking for a decorative and/or functional Hand Made in the USA piece of art. We can also accommodate large orders of a specific piece for special occasions, weddings, conventions, etc. Please give us a call 480-983-1948 to discuss the specifics of your request. Feel free to have your buyer give us a call for retail store orders as well. For website sales we have an inventory of each item in stock and can generally ship within 2 to 5 business days. | 2019-04-26T06:52:19Z | https://bandbapachecactus.com/p/canyon-meadows-pottery |
LONDON – Christie’s is hosting Henry Moore: The Shape of Things, an exhibition at their King Street London gallery of 30+ artworks tracing the four key thematic concerns that defined Henry Moore’s prolific and deeply influential career. One of Britain’s best-known artists, Moore radically redefined the boundaries of sculpture. Working in bronze, stone and wood, as well as creating a large body of drawings and works on paper, Moore constantly sought to challenge traditional artistic conventions in his art as he explored the aesthetic potential of form and space, figuration and abstraction, as well as internal and external states. The human figure was predominantly the site of exploration for Moore, from the poignant visions of humanity witnessed in the Shelter Drawings, to the undulating forms of the reclining figures and the tender evocations of maternity in the “Mother and Child” works. A parallel concern for the artist was organic forms and the endless shapes and spaces created in the natural world. Henry Moore: The Shape of Things encapsulates this extraordinary diversity found in Moore’s art.
Throughout his career, Moore had “an absolute obsession” with the reclining figure. Not only did this theme serve as an endlessly adaptable subject for formal experimentation, it also allowed Moore to explore the synergy between the landscape and the human body, as well as the relationship between figuration and abstraction. In Reclining Figure: Blanket, the forms of the figure have been abstracted to become organic and fluid, recalling Jean Arp’s investigations into plastic form. The sculpture also appears to preempt the imagery of the sleeping bodies that Moore recorded in his war-time shelter drawings in the London Underground.
In September 1940, on the fifth day of the London Blitz, Moore was forced to take shelter at the underground station at Belsize Park. Upon descending to the platform, he witnessed hundreds of people taking shelter during the intense bombing of the city. Profoundly affected by what he saw, Moore continued to return to these makeshift shelters, making notes and sketches before returning home at dawn and creating drawings from memory (he also used press photographs for inspiration). Featuring often-abstracted bodies rendered in a variety of media, the resulting works, collectively titled Shelter Drawings, present deeply poignant visions of humanity. From intimate vignettes of family groups, to panoramic vistas featuring hordes of people huddled together in the overcrowded tunnels, these works saw Moore achieve widespread acclaim. Tube Shelter Perspective from 1941 was included in the 1946 exhibition of Henry Moore’s work at MoMA in New York and in recent years was on loan to the Hepworth Wakefield.
Like the reclining figure, the “Mother and Child” theme is central to Moore’s art and occupied his imagination throughout his career. Rich in art historical precedents and filled with iconographic meaning, this universal subject also offered Moore the opportunity to experiment with the physical relationships between two figures within a single work. The subject of “Mother and Child” first appeared in Moore’s work dating from the early 1920s. Carved in 1923, Two Heads: Mother and Child is the earliest recorded abstract carving of this important subject. Mother and Child: Petal Skirt depicts a seated figure with child where the folds of the mother’s skirt recall the rolling landscape, echoing his reclining figure motif. The family group provided Moore the opportunity to develop his observations, furthering his exploration of the spatial dynamics created by people. A rare 1947 plaster, Family Group, highlights the tender, nurturing familial bond and emulates the natural world.
Moore had always delighted in the found objects and detritus of the natural world; he was an avid collector of fossils, bones, shells, driftwood and pebbles and used these organic forms as the basis for his sculpture. Inspired by the shapes and structures of these pieces, their surfaces or the rhythms that characterize their formation, Moore integrated these various characteristics into his work. In this way, he imbued his often-abstract works with a powerful energy and vigor. While many pieces are reminiscent of the landscape, some of his works appear like fragments of bones or vertebrae. Working Model for Locking Piece was based on bone fragments and like his mother and child and family group sculptures, the sculpture lays bare the relationships that exist between forms in the same way that they do between figures. Other sculptures, exemplified by Working Model for Oval with Points, have the smooth hollows and indentations reminiscent of the time-worn surfaces of rocks or stones.
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Those who have had the pleasure of visiting Oregon often describe it as being the most beautiful state in the nation. From Crater Lake to the Columbia River Gorge, the Beaver State is home to some of the country’s most breathtaking natural wonders.
If you haven’t visited Oregon yet, then government-sponsored tourism agency Travel Oregon wants to convince you to make the trek out there. To assist with this goal, Travel Oregon recently spent $5 million on an advertising campaign inspired by the work of famed Japanese filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki.
Said advertisement even includes a cameo by Lupin III’s yellow Fiat 500 from The Castle of Cagliostro.
Released in 1979, The Castle of Cagliostro served as the directorial debut of Miyazaki, the first of many films to follow. The movie stars master thief Arsène Lupin III, who uses an iconic 1957 Fiat 500 on his journey to the eponymous castle.
The Fiat 500 featured certainly isn’t the only allusion to Miyazaki’s work. Travel Oregon’s director of global communications, Linea Gagliano, has admitted that Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli’s films were at the heart of the campaign.
There area also plenty of allusions to locations found in Oregon itself during the 90-second spot. For example, the famous Ramona Falls and Mt. Hood can be seen near the beginning of the commercial.
Travel Oregon’s “Only Slightly Exaggerated” campaign doesn’t just include the initial advertisement. The agency plans to launch several short animations as the year goes on, as well as jump start a mural project throughout the state at the beginning of summer.
While you certainly won’t see any giant rabbits or flying whales if you visit the state of Oregon, you can see the natural wonders that inspired the whimsical images featured throughout the advertisement. Now if only the Audi from Spirited Away got to make an appearance during the ad. | 2019-04-26T03:23:45Z | https://thenewswheel.com/miyazaki-inspired-oregon-tourism-ad-features-a-brief-appearance-by-lupin-iiis-fiat-500/ |
Made of delicate fibers, folded, and carried in the pockets of soldiers, Japanese “good luck" flags, commonly known in Japan as yosegaki hinomaru, were parting gifts for soldiers deployed into battle. These flags are evidence of a long standing tradition among Japanese servicemen. The Japanese National Flag, commonly known in Japan as hinomaru, was used to facilitate these messages of prayers and well-wishes from loved ones, so that the soldier could endure the difficult times ahead; yosegaki, refers to the gathered writing, often inscribed in a pattern radiating from the center of the flag. A yosegaki hinomaru experienced only a fraction of the harrowing perils of war experienced by the soldiers who carried them to the front lines. It is remarkable that these flags have survived to continue the story of the soldiers who brought them into battle.
Before stabilization, this "good luck" flag, or yosegaki hinomaru, shows the history of its age through discoloration of the fibers and heavy creases where it was folded for many years.
The flag exhibited condition issues consistent with its age. Fibers had darkened and discolored over time, and there were strong crease lines where the flag had been folded for many years. Small spots and stains were present, but given its history, the flag was in sound condition. As is the case with many textile pieces, conservation was tailored toward stabilization. "Usually these silk flags are very embrittled when they get to The Center. Conservation is challenging because multiple inks and dyes are not color-stable for water washing. We often see the creases remain after treatment, however stabilization is most important in these cases," says The Center's Textile Conservator. The flag was carefully surface cleaned using dry methods that would not disrupt any of the inks, but would help remove any dirt or soil on the surface that could further degrade the fibers over time.
Framed with acid-free, archival materials, this yosegaki hinomaru is now protected from dirt and grime, humidity and temperature fluctuations, and harmful UV rays.
After considering different storage and display options, the client decided to frame the flag in order to display it safely in her home. In order to preserve the structural integrity of the fibers of the flag while mounting, the flag was meticulously stitched onto a sealed stretcher, wrapped with a neutral tone linen that was able to bear the weight of the flag. The mounted flag was then installed into a custom frame with acid-free archival framing materials, including UV protective acrylic glazing that will block harmful ultraviolet rays from sun bleaching the flag. Overall, the framing will help protect the flag from dirt and dust particles in the air, humidity and lessen temperature fluctuations, and harsh UV light.
Although the Allied soldiers commonly took these flags from wounded or fallen Japanese soldiers as mementos of the war, the client will never know the story behind how her grandfather came to possess this flag. Her hope is that she and her son can continue this history lesson and work to identify the family of the soldier who carried this "good luck" flag, and in the meantime honor and protect the yosegaki hinomaru. | 2019-04-24T00:23:22Z | http://www.theconservationcenter.com/articles/2016/5/16/yosegaki-hinomaru-the-good-luck-flag |
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Migrate policies to another database on InterScan Messaging Security Suite (IMSS).
Replace “x”: the with drive letter wherein you will place the backup file. The length of time to back up depends on the size of the database. The larger the size, the longer the time to backup.
Copy the imss.bak and imsseuq.bak files to the target IMSS Server.
Replace “x”: the with drive letter wherein you will place the backup file. The length of time to restore depends on the size of the database. The larger the size, the longer the time to restore.
Stop all IMSS services by running this command: /opt/trend/imss/script/S99* stop.
Run the following commands. At this point, you need to drop the current database. Just make sure that you back up the database before dropping it.
Make sure the destination Postgres database is in release 8.1.3 or above.
Go to Main Menu and then press 1 to open Install Components.
In the IMSS Deployment Config Menu, press 1 to Install a new IMSS server on the current machine or press 2 to Install a new database server on the current computer.
Make sure the permissions are set correctly in the /var/imss/pgdata/pg_hba.conf file.
Modify the configuration files to reflect the new database.
On the new database server, run the "./isinst" command.
In the IMSS Deployment Config Menu, press 2 to Append components to an existing IMSS server and then set the value to "yes".
In the Install Components Menu, press 4 to Modify option for EUQ Database.
In the EUQ Database Config Menu, press 2 to Use an existing database server.
In the Install Components Menu, press 6 to Start Installation.
On the web console, go to Administration > IMSS Configuration > Connections > Database.
Register a new EUQ Database. | 2019-04-23T11:23:04Z | https://success.trendmicro.com/solution/1035593-migrating-interscan-messaging-security-suite-imss-policies-to-another-database |
Merrimack College has updated our IRB processes to implement the new rules. Cayuse has been updated to accommodate the new standards.
First is introducing the requirement that informed consent must give prospective subjects the information that a reasonable person would want to have in order to make an informed decision about whether to participate. Using this standard, informed consent remains focused on what information a reasonable person would want to have to make an informed choice about participation.
Second is that the information needs to be presented in sufficient detail and organized and presented in a way that facilitates an understanding of why one might, or might not, want to participate.
Third is the new requirement that key information about the study must be provided at the beginning. This will likely include information about the purpose, the risks, the benefits, and alternatives, and it will explain to the person how to think about these pieces of information in terms of making a decision. It should be presented in a concise and focused manner.
New templates can be found on our Forms, Sample and Templates page.
Broad consent is a new type of informed consent provided under the revised Common Rule pertaining to storage, maintenance, and secondary research with identifiable private information or identifiable biospecimens. Secondary research refers to research use of materials that are collected for either research studies distinct from the current secondary research proposal, or for materials that are collected for nonresearch purposes, such as materials that are left over from routine clinical diagnosis or treatments. Broad consent does not apply to research that collects information or biospecimens from individuals through direct interaction or intervention specifically for the purpose of the research.
EXEMPT CATEGORY 1: Research, conducted in established or commonly accepted educational settings, that specifically involves normal educational practices that are not likely to adversely impact students’ opportunity to learn required educational content or the assessment of educators who provide instruction. This includes most research on regular and special education instructional strategies, and research on the effectiveness of or the comparison among instructional techniques, curricula, or classroom management methods.
The information obtained is recorded by the investigator in such a manner that the identity of the human subjects can readily be ascertained, directly or through identifiers linked to the subjects, and an IRB conducts a limited IRB review.
Benign behavioral interventions are brief in duration, harmless, painless, not physically invasive, not likely to have a significant adverse lasting impact on the subjects, and the investigator has no reason to think the subjects will find the interventions offensive or embarrassing. Provided all such criteria are met, examples of such benign behavioral interventions would include having the subjects play an online game, having them solve puzzles under various noise conditions, or having them decide how to allocate a nominal amount of received cash between themselves and someone else. If the research involves deceiving the subjects regarding the nature or purposes of the research, this exemption is not applicable unless the subject authorizes the deception through a prospective agreement to participate in research in circumstances in which the subject is informed that he or she will be unaware of or misled regarding the nature or purposes of the research.
The research is conducted by, or on behalf of, a Federal department or agency using government-generated or government-collected information obtained for non-research activities, if the research generates identifiable private information that is or will be maintained on information technology that is subject to and in compliance with applicable federal privacy standards found in the E-Government Act, Privacy Act and the Paperwork Reduction Act.
EXEMPT CATEGORY 5: Research and demonstration projects that are conducted or supported by a Federal department or agency, or otherwise subject to the approval of department or agency heads (or the approval of the heads of bureaus or other subordinate agencies that have been delegated authority to conduct their search and demonstration projects), and that are designed to study, evaluate, improve, or other wise examine public benefit or service programs, including procedures for obtaining benefits or services under those programs, possible changes in or alternatives to those programs or procedures, or possible changes in methods or levels of payment for benefits or services under those programs.
Such projects include, but are not limited to, internal studies by Federal employees, and studies under contracts or consulting arrangements, cooperative agreements, or grants.
EXEMPT CATEGORY 6: Taste and food quality evaluation and consumer acceptance studies: if wholesome foods without additives are consumed, or if a food is consumed that contains a food ingredient at or below the level and for a use found to be safe, or agricultural chemical or environmental contaminant at or below the level found to be safe, by the Food and Drug Administration or approved by the Environmental Protection Agency or the Food Safety and Inspection Service of the USDA.
EXEMPT CATEGORY 7: Storage or maintenance for secondary research for which broad consent is required: Storage or maintenance of identifiable private information or identifiable bio-specimens for potential secondary research use if an IRB conducts a limited IRB review and determinations as such.
EXEMPT CATEGORY 8: Secondary research for which broad consent is required: Research involving the use of identifiable private information or identifiable biospecimens for secondary research use.
Importantly, the IRB can override this default and still choose to require continuing review, as long as the IRB documents the decision and the rationale for this decision.
Extent to which identifiable private information can be re-identified.
Extent to which the information will be shared or transferred to a third party or otherwise disclosed or released.
Likely retention period of the information.
Security controls that are in place to protect the confidentiality and integrity of information.
Potential risk of harm to individuals should the information be lost, stolen compromised, or otherwise used in a way contrary to the contours of the research under the exemption.
The regulatory definition of human subject remains substantively unchanged in the revised Common Rule. The definition has not been expanded. However, there have been clarifications to the wording.
The pre-2018 Common Rule referred to “data” obtained by an investigator through intervention or interaction with the individual, but in the revised Common Rule “data” is replaced with “information or biospecimens” for clarity.
Language has been added related to “using, studying, or analyzing individuals’ information or biospecimens or generating identifiable private information or identifiable biospecimens” to clarify OHRP’s understanding of the meaning of “obtaining”.
Mentally impaired, handicapped, physically impaired and mentally impaired categories have been removed. | 2019-04-24T12:18:30Z | https://www.merrimack.edu/about/offices_services/office-of-the-provost/institutional-review-board/new-common-rule-and-other-changes/ |
Beckie Scott began cross-country skiing in her hometown of Vermilion, Alberta when she was only four years old. Devoting herself to the physically demanding sport from a young age, she encountered adversity early in her competitive career. After placing a disappointing 45th in the 10 km freestyle event at the 1998 Olympic Winter Games, she undertook a more demanding training program and resolved to work harder than ever to return to the Olympic stage. Better prepared, she captured bronze in the 5 km free pursuit at the 2002 Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City, becoming the first Canadian and first North American woman ever to win an Olympic medal in cross-country skiing.
Elated with her groundbreaking achievement, Beckie Scott learned shortly afterward that the Russian skiers who captured gold and silver in the same event had tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs. Already a passionate anti-doping activist, Beckie had recently challenged the Federation Internationale de Ski (FIS) for neglecting widespread doping in competitive cross-country skiing. In 2002 she took her case to the International Court of Arbitration for Sport, arguing athletes caught doping during Olympic competition should be disqualified and stripped of any medals they had won.
After nearly two years of arbitration, on December 18, 2003,Beckie Scott was finally awarded the gold medal for the race she had rightfully won in Salt Lake City . Having devoted her life to becoming an elite contender in her sport through sheer hard work and dedication, Beckie hoped her efforts would ensure honest athletes achieved the results they deserved in international competition. In 2005 she continued to break new ground as a member of the World Anti-Doping Agency's first athlete committee, giving competitors more agency to address corruption and cheating. Balancing courage and grit with compassion and accountability, Beckie Scott's courageous defense of the basic principles of sportsmanship has defined her legacy as powerfully as her achievements on the field of play.
Beckie Scott wore this race bib when she finished third in the five km pursuit at the 2002 Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City. She showed her courage and integrity when she challenged the idea that her sport was drug free and was vindicated when the two competitors ahead of her were caught for drug use and stripped of their medals. Her continuing effort to make all sports accountable and to allow athletes to compete in a drug-free arena has earned her the respect of the sport community.
Beckie Scott is known as for her competitive spirit and her self-respect, refusing to compromise her personal integrity. She was presented with the gold medal from the 2002 Olympic Winter Games at a special ceremony in Vancouver in 2003. Beckie has continued to show her strong sense of community and leadership by serving as a member of both the Athletes' Commission for the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Athlete Committee.
The story of Beckie Scott's silver medal with teammate Sara Renner at the 2006 Olympic Winter Games in Torino is a remarkable one. Sara was racing on course when her ski pole snapped. The Norwegian coach Bjørner Håkensmoen handed her a spare one. Although the new pole was 12 cm too long, Sara was able to use it and maintain contact with the lead group until she could hand off to Beckie who raced to the silver medal. The Norwegian coach was lauded by fans across Canada for his fair play.
Beckie Scott started cross country skiing at the age of five in her local Jackrabbit League. Named after Canadian cross country ski legend Jackrabbit Johannsen, this program is designed to teach young skiers the skills required to ski and compete. Beckie exemplifies the qualities that Jackrabbit himself endorsed - to enjoy life to the fullest, to respect the environment, to exercise and keep the body healthy. | 2019-04-25T16:34:46Z | http://canadasports150.ca/en/women-influencers-in-canadian-sport/beckie-scott/21 |
After studying to be a Catholic priest for three years at Ushaw College, Durham, turned to graphic design and graduated from St. Martin’s School of Art in 1985 and the Royal College of Art in 1987. Freelance graphic designer since 1987 undertaking anything from humble print work for small publishers and arts organisations to typographic sequences for TV commercials. Work characterised by careful use of typographic structure, sometimes organic, sometimes highly ‘engineered’, but always deriving from a respect for the material. Since 1995 has been assisted part-time by several ex-students enabling larger commissions to be undertaken, e.g. Phaidon’s Art & Ideas series implementation (7 titles designed in the last 2 years).
In addition to practice, has been a frequent writer for Eye and other design magazines and contributor at design conferences, and has spoken at colleges throughout England as well as abroad. In September 1991 became a Senior Lecturer (half f/t) in typography at Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, London. Part of his teaching responsibility is jointly curating the Central Lettering Record with Catherine Dixon. | 2019-04-26T02:05:22Z | https://www.myfonts.com/person/Phil_Baines/ |
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Enhance the power of NumPy and start boosting your scientific computing capabilitiesKey FeaturesGrasp all aspects of numerical computing and understand NumPyExplore examples to learn exploratory data analysis (EDA), regression, and clusteringAccess NumPy libraries and use performance benchmarking to select the right toolBook DescriptionNumPy is one of the most important scientific computing libraries available for Python. Mastering Numerical Computing with NumPy teaches you how to achieve expert level competency to perform complex operations, with in-depth coverage of advanced concepts.Beginning with NumPy's arrays and functions, you will familiarize yourself with linear algebra concepts to perform vector and matrix math operations. You will thoroughly understand and practice data processing, exploratory data analysis (EDA), and predictive modeling. You will then move on to working on practical examples which will teach you how to use NumPy statistics in order to explore US housing data and develop a predictive model using simple and multiple linear regression techniques. Once you have got to grips with the basics, you will explore unsupervised learning and clustering algorithms, followed by understanding how to write better NumPy code while keeping advanced considerations in mind. The book also demonstrates the use of different high-performance numerical computing libraries and their relationship with NumPy. You will study how to benchmark the performance of different configurations and choose the best for your system.By the end of this book, you will have become an expert in handling and performing complex data manipulations.
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Sponsored signage is not such a new idea (and there are green plaques as well as black plaques by the way which have nothing to do with English Heritage). So, given that Silbury is privately owned, sponsored signage ‘might’ be the way to go - but only after twisting EH’s arm around its back to do it first.
There was someone from EH on Radio 4 a couple of days ago trying to explain English Heritage’s reasons for shelving the blue plaque scheme. One bit of interesting info to come out of the prog however was that The National Trust might take over some of the BP responsibilities from EH.
So there you have it; when it comes to Silbury we have English Heritage, The National Trust, Lord Avebury and us lot all with a vested interested in getting something done re: improved sinage – failure to do so is not on the cards. | 2019-04-23T19:56:41Z | https://www.headheritage.co.uk/headtohead/tma/topic/67606/threaded/857911 |
There are literally millions of videos on YouTube and the rest of the internet, and it is beyond easy for your content to get lost in the shuffle of pre-existing material out there. If you want people to get excited about your work and fully understand how to sell a screenplay, you need to, as the old song famously says, “give them something to talk about.” Make sure your treat your fans the way you would treat industry insiders, and you may be surprised at how far you get.
This should by all accounts be a no-brainer, but it’s amazing how often this is overlooked by writers who are new to the industry and do not yet know how to sell a screenplay. Remember, you only get exactly one chance to make a first impression, and to be frank, this industry has a long memory and a very small tolerance for foolishness, so if you have the opportunity to put a foot forward in the door somewhere, make 100% certain that it’s your best one.
This is by far the simplest one of the tips that will be listed here in terms of understanding how to sell a screenplay. Once you’ve given them the script, treat the situation as if you were trying to date the person. There’s a fine line between being passionate and being clingy, and you want to be sure you stay on the former side of it so that you can successfully manage to sell a screenplay. | 2019-04-25T14:37:37Z | https://enfew.com/how-to-sell-a-screenplay-its-what-you-know-and-who-you-know/ |
Abhaya O Srikanta is a 1965 Indian Bengali biopic film released on 1965. The film is directed by Haridas Bhattacharya.
Srikanta and Abhaya get introduced to each other on their way to Rangoon. A distant relative of Abhaya named Rohini Babu accompanies Abhaya. Srikanta lands in Rangoon and gets a job. He lives in a hotel owned by Dathakur. Abhaya's husband Purna Chandra Guha had deserted her and married another woman. One day Purna Chandra lands up at Srikanta's office in search of a job. When identities are revealed Srikanta informs Abhaya. Abhaya goes to meet Purna Chandra, but is turned away. At that time a lot of people start dying in Rangoon due to plague. Srikanta ialso becomes a victim.. Before going to the hospital Srikanta goes to meet Abhaya. Abhaya refuses to let Srikanta go offers to take care of him at home. Srikanta confesses that he holds two women in very high esteem - Abhaya and Annadadidi.
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This page provides latest and updated information about Abhaya O Srikanta (1965) movie which released on 1965. Abhaya O Srikanta (1965) is directed by , produced by , starring .We have also provided 0 trailers and videos, 2 photos, 13 user reviews, and 0 critic reviews.Abhaya O Srikanta (1965) has received 2 rating from user reviews.The overall rating of Abhaya O Srikanta (1965) is 40 and movie is 2.You can review, like, dislike this movie and also can add to favorites. You can also find information on showtimes, CDs, DVDs, online rental, online free watching. | 2019-04-18T18:22:31Z | https://www.filmiclub.com/movie/abhaya-o-srikanta-1965-bengali-movie |
You have finally decided to buy that designer handbags you have been dreaming about for month. You have being feasting your eyes on that designer handbags for months and finally the day has arrived when that Gucci or Greg Michaels leather handbags takes its place in your wardrobe.
Still there is a nagging anxiety that has been bugging you about your latest luxury handbags. This anxiety has been further heightened by recent news you have seen on the television or read in the papers. You might have even heard some of your friends express their concerns when you went out window shopping. The fear that your next designer handbags could be a fake!
That just make me sick. Like you, I love buying only authentic, original stuff. Designer the fact that there has been an influx of knockoff designer bags that look so similar to authentic designer bags, there a few facts that will help you with your next designer handbags purchase.
I would advise you to first of all out for an authenticity card. Many designers like Greg Michaels. Burberry, Gucci and Prada include authenticity cards with their merchandise. These cards have simple information that is clear to see. Details about you designer handbags such as the model number plus a magnetic strip or bar code. If the designer handbags you purchased has an inside pocket, you will find your authenticity card in there.
Furthermore, some Greg Michaels designer handbags come with their authenticity cards packaged in a sealed foil bag. You will find Prada enclose their cards in small individual envelopes with the Prada logo at the front. You will discover that one is similar to a credit card with a magnetic strip on the back and Prada written on the front. The other card has the items details plus the style number.
Designer merchandise are expensive for the simple reason that they have spent years building value into their name .just name of a designer leaves a certain impression in our minds. When I say Gucci Indy handbags, what springs to your mind? Cheap, ordinary and tasteless? Absolutely not! You imagine a woman with style. Wealth and sophistication carrying a designer bag that attracts envious stares and regular complements. A woman who is not afraid to be the center of attention. Therefore, if the designer handbags you want to buy is at a price that looks to good to be true, then it probably is.
You will find that most authentic designer handbags have a signature logo on them,. Authentic Prada handbags have a triangle metal logo attached to the front or side of their .Real Greg Michaels bags have the signature or logo splashed across the handbag, Burberry has the signature plaids with a brown background. Like Gucci have the G splashed all over their bags .if you notice a designer handbags with a funny looking log, then this should immediately flash a red flag in your mind.
As your authentic designer handbags collection grows, you will notice that most designer handbags will have their signature name monogram lining. This is true for Louis Vuitton handbags, Gucci purses, Prada handbags and Greg Michael’s purses. This is just a way for the designer to differentiable their merchandise from their competitors.
This designer monograms is woven into the fabric. You will not find this with replica designer handbags the lining are always smooth, silky and in some cases are even satin. The color of the lining depends on the outer color of the handbags and they always complement each other, the linings on fake bags is usually a stiff fabric and no attention to detail is paid to the lining.
Finally, if you are buying a bag from a downtown roadside shop, then do not expect an authentic designer handbags, if the designer handbags is as cheap as chips, then do not expect to get an authentic designer handbags. If there is no logo to show that you are a buying a designer leather handbags or designer purses from Gucci, Louis Vuitton, Prada ,Greg Michaels or Burberry then you are definitely buying a fake.
While an original designer bag is not cheap, consider it an investment that will stand the test of time and make you the center of attention wherever you go, if you want easy step is just Greg Michaels designer at http://gregmichaelsco.com many attractive style original by Greg Michaels. | 2019-04-24T14:27:51Z | http://www.deer-digest.com/2014/12/7-tips-to-ensure-you-can-spot-an-authentic-designer-handbags-from-a-replica/ |
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He (S) offered (V) me (O) a job (O). | 2019-04-23T05:53:53Z | https://makocho2017.com/2018/01/04/svoo-svoc/ |
Last year we began our yearly tradition of making a gingerbread house before Christmas. I have a great time doing it, but I have to admit, its a little tough for me to let go and let the kids decorate it how they want...I'm a little bit of a perfectionist when it comes to decorating things, but the kids have a great time doing it, if not for the finished product, for the candy they get to eat as we decorate! And yes, we did cheat and use a gingerbread house kit again this year...maybe i'll be more ambitious next year and do the real thing...maybe.
I love Christmas traditions, especially the ones that bring our little family together for fun and laughter, even when there is a frosting mess to deal with. I love everything about Christmas, have I mentioned that? Although...the illnesses that come with winter are not my favorite things. I currently battling strep throat, yippee.
I'm so sorry you're sick! I hope you were able to enjoy your lunch on Saturday. Please let me know if you need anything!!
That's fun! I love those kits, they work great.
How do you get the house to stick together? Last time we got a kit, it fell apart and we never got to decorate it. We did enjoy eating it though :) Dax has been telling all the presents he knows too. Must be a three year old thing! | 2019-04-24T02:00:02Z | http://blog.owenfam.org/2008/12/tradition.html |
Cash is by definition the most liquid of the organization's current assets. Cash is ready to use immediately for any purpose.
Management keeps close watch on liquid asset availability and performance.
Liquid assets are either cash or other current assets that can (in principle) be turned into cash readily. The liquid or water metaphor appears often in finance and accounting, referring to the flow of funds. Funds that can flow quickly and easily are liquid.
Assets that can trasnform into flowing cash in the near term reside on the Balance Sheet under the heading Current Assets. "Current" usually means cash flow is possible within a year or less. Accountants normally consider several asset categories (asset accounts) as having enough liquidity to qualify as Current assets. These include Cash assets, of course, but also Inventories, Accounts Receivable, other Short Term Receivables, and Short Term Investments.
The Balance Sheet entries for these assets enter the calculations of liquidity metrics such as Working capital and the Current Ratio. Liquidity Metrics measure the firm's ability to meet near term spending obligations, by comparing the balances in various current assets categories to the firms Current Liabilities—payments the firm must make in the near term.
The timing and management of cash flow is critical for meeting obligations and needs: Paying employees, paying interest on loans or bonds, or investing in new product development or an infrastructure upgrade, for instance. Management, therefore, takes a keen interest in monitoring Working Capital and the firm's Current Ratio.
In the interest of operating efficiency, management also takes a keen interest in two inventory activity metrics: Inventory Turns and Days Sales in Inventory.The intent is to avoid excessive inventory carrying costs and maintain ability to meet customer product demands at all times.
Management also watches closely two activity metrics that measure the firm's performance with accounts receivable: Accounts Receivable Turnover and Average Collection Period (or, equivalently, Days Inventory Outstanding DIO). The intent is to ensure that accounts receivable do not turn into doubtful accounts or bad debt expense.
A liquid asset shortage (as indicated by low scores on liquidity metrics) is a signal that a company may not be able to pay short term creditor obligations on time or investing in activities necessary for survival and growth such as marketing or research and development. If the liquid asset shortage is severe, the firm may even have trouble meeting payroll.
Where do current assets fit in overall asset structure?
The firm's Current Assets Portfolio.
Measuring Liquid Assets for the Neart Term.
For more on measuring and using liquid assets, see the article Liquidity.
For a complete introduction to cash flow metrics and financial statement metrics (business ratios) see the article Financial Metrics.
The article Cash Flow provides an introduction to the principles of measuring and managing cash flow.
For simple and detailed examples of cash flow reporting in financial statements, see Statement of Changes in Financial Position.
The firm's liquid assets in various categories constitute a major component of the firm's overall asset structure, namely the firm's Current Assets Portfolio. Asset Structure, in turn is one of three different structures that firm's define from Balance Sheet items. Exhibit 1, below shows how (1) Asset Structure, (2) Financial Structure, and (3) Capital structure each build from Balance Sheet items.
Exhibit 1. Current Assets are a major component of the firm's Asset Structure. The example shows how asset structure, financial structure, and capital structure all appear on the firm's Balance Sheet. These structures have meaning in terms of the relative magnitudes of structure components.
Each Balance Sheet structure has meaning in terms of the relative magnitudes of items within one of the boundary lines in Exhibit 1. Exhibit 2 below shows how Grande Corporation's overall asset structure appears as a pie chart.
Here, Grande Corporation has an asset base of $22,075,000 including Current Assets with book value of $9,609,000.
Exhibit 2. Grande Corporation Asset Structure as a Pie Chart.
Exhibit 1 above shows how components of the firm's overall asset base define the firm's asset structure. Current Assets (Liquid Assets) account for 43.5% of Grande Corporation's Asset base. However, each major component of the overall structure is itself a portfolio of different asset types, defining another structure in its own right.
Exhibit 3, below, shows the structure of the firm's Current Assets portfolio.
Exhibit 3. The structure of one company's Current Assets portfolio.
Current assets are either cash itself, or assets that can quickly become cash, at least in principle. Exhibit 3 shows at a glance that the three Largest components of Grande's Current Assets Structure are (1) Cash, (2) Inventories, and (3) Accounts Receivable. Liquidity metrics such as working capital or the current ratio, in fact, all reflect the totals in these Current Assets categories.
Having cash on handis necessary for meeting immediate spending needs. These may include, for instance, paying employee salaries, day-to-day operating expenses, or other short term obligations. Sufficient cash on hand also makes possible a quick response to changing market conditions or competitors actions. And, with sufficient cash, the firm can invest in product development and infrastructure upgrades.
A cash shortage can prevent such investments. And, a severe cash shortage also puts the company at risk of defaulting on payments due to lenders, or even meeting payroll.
Most firms, therefore, make it a priority to maintain sufficient cash for short term needs, but without building a large cash surplus. A large cash surplus is undesirable because cash sitting idle in an asset account is not earning interest or otherwise working productively.
Inventories are obviously necessary for meeting production needs and customer needs. In manufacturing companies, inventory categories typically include Raw Materials, Work in Progress WIP, and Finished Goods inventories. A retail business, on the other hand, may have only merchandise inventories, waiting for sale to customers. In either case, acquiring, handling, and holding inventories can bring significant costs.
Inventory management is the art of maintaining sufficient inventory to meet customer and production needs, while keeping inventory size and the time inventories are held to an absolute minimum. When firms achieve these objectives, scores on activity and efficiency metrics such as Inventory Turns and Days Sales in Inventory improve. And, when these metrics improve, the firm's Return on Assets ROA improves at the same time.
Opposite results occur when excess inventory sits idle. Idle inventory is not working productively, causing efficiency metrics and ROA to suffer.
Accounts Receivable are monies customers owe sellers for goods or services sold and delivered but not yet paid for by the customer. The only companies in business that do not have accounts receivable are the rare companies that always sell on a "cash only" basis.. Accounts Receivable legitimately belong to the Current Assets category because they should convert to cash in the near term, typically within 30 days or less.
The challenge for management with Accounts Receivable is to prevent accounts due from slipping beyond the stated due period or, worse, having to be written off as bad debt. In fact most companies expect they will never collect a small percentage of their Accounts Receivable. In the interest of reporting accuracy, they recognize this reality by carrying an account Allowance for Doubtful Accounts."
Firms measure their ability to manage Accounts Receivable effectively with activity and efficiency metrics. These metrics include Accounts Receivable turnover, and Days Sales Outstanding. Improvements in these metrics also improves overall company ROA.
Do we have sufficient liquidity to meet short term spending needs?
Are we currently building or losing liquidity?
Do we have liquid assets enough to cover unforeseen emergencies this month?
Current activity in the so-called Income Statement accounts—Revenue and Expense Accounts—do not always provide direct or helpful answers to such questions. This is because accrual accounting principles allow actual cash flow to occur at times different from the Revenue and Expense Transactions that ultimately cause the cash flow. When near term liquidity is a primary concern, however, Balance Sheet accounts for Current Assets and Current Liabilities provide better answers. Liquid assets, after all, reside on the Balance Sheet, not the Income Statement.
Accountants and financial analysts measure current liquidity by defining near term as the same forward-looking time span that qualifies certain assets as Current Assets and certain liabilities as Current Liabilities. Thus, they usually define near term (or short term) as"within the next 12 months, or less." Sometimes, however, accountants interpret this definition to mean simply "the remainder of the current accounting period."
Sections below present three popular liquidity metrics: Working Capital, Current Ratio, and Acid-Test Ratio. Each metric compares the likely funds available to the firm, in the near term, to the firm's likely near term spending needs.
One reason that Working Capital metric is popular with businesspeople in all roles is that Working Capital is given in currency units such as dollars, pounds, or euro. Working capital, that is, signals directly the funds amount available for near term needs. When the CFO reports "We have $12,000,000 in working capital, or "Our working capital level has fallen to €50,000," everyone knows exactly what that means. Of the three liquidity metrics in this article, only Working Capital speaks in terms of currency units.
The Working Capital formula above describes the calculation. This Example uses figures from the Grande Corporation Balance Sheet (Exhibit 4) below.
How Do You Interpret Working Capital Results?
How much working capital is enough? Companies address that question by projecting Current Liabilities and Cash inflows for the next year. Any Working Capital result greater than 0 signals minimally sufficient working capital. The company faces a serious liquidity crisis if its working capital will not cover such things as loan interest due, floor space leasing, or employee salaries and wages.
Regarding unforeseen emergencies or contingencies, many firms establish so-called sinking funds, emergency funds,or reserve funds. For these funds, firms periodically pay into special purpose savings accounts set up specifically for those purposes. With these funds in place, the firm does not need to draw on working capital to cover these special needs. Where such funds are not in place, however, a current working capital balance of 0 may not be sufficient.
Notice that the Current Ratio uses the same input data as Working Capital. Here, however, the metric results from dividing Current Assets by Current Liabilities. Because this metric is a ratio, it addresses a slightly different question: How do Current Assets compare to Current Liabilities? The result appears as a decimal fraction or percentage, not as an amount.
How Do You Calculate the Current Ratio?
How Do You Interpret Current Ratio Results?
Note that a Current Ratio of 1.0 is equivalent to a Working Capital result of 0. Both metrics results signal that Current Assets equal Current Liabilities, exactly. Thus, a Current Ratio of 1.0 signals just barely sufficient liquidity to cover known short term spending needs.
A Current Ratio substantially greater than 1.0 shows the firm also was funds available to cover unexpected spending needs, or to undertake new investment initiatives. Analysts consider a Current Ratio value of 2.0 or greater is a generally viewed as a rule of thumb standard for good liquidity. The result 2.7, therefore signals healthy liquidity for this firm.
On the other hand, a Current Ratio under 1.0 is cause for alarm. If liquidity does not improve quickly, the firm faces defaulting on some of its outstanding liabilities, or reducing operations. When the liquidity problem is especially severe, employees can expect that the firm may soon miss "making payroll."
The Quick Ratio (Acid-Test Ratio) metric is also defined as a ratio.
Quick Ratio—like Current Ratio—compares Current Assets to Current Liabilities with a ratio. This ratio, however, carries the nickname Acid-Test Ratio because it is the most conservative of the liquidity metrics appearing here.
The Quick Ratio is similar to the Current Ratio, except that the Inventories figure is subtracted from Current Assets in the ratio numerator. This reflects the common belief that inventories are the least liquid of Current Assets.
The true liquidity of the firm's inventories assets depends somewhat on the firm's industry and the nature of it's business. With this knowledge, management can judge which is the more appropriate liquidity metric for this firm—Current Ratio or Quick Ratio.
How Do You Calculate Quick Ratio?
How Do You Interpret the Quick Ratio Message?
While this company's Current Ratio (2.7) might seemed strong enough, the company's low Acid-Test Ratio might cause concern. Analysts generally consider an Acid-Test Ratio of about 1.1 as a minimum healthy level. Grande Coroporation's Quick Ratio is much lower than its Current Ratio because Inventories make up a relatively large component of Grande's Current Asset structure.
Should Grande Corporation be complacent or should the firm be alarmed with these results? The answer has to do with the real liquidity of Grande's inventories. If inventory assets are relatively liquid (turnover at a high rate), then Grande management can rely on the Current Ratio result (2.7) as the better liquidity measure. However, if—given the nature of Grande's business and industry—these inventories are relatively illiquid, management should recognize the firm faces a liquidity crisis.
Data for the Current Assets metrics calculations above come from the sample Balance sheet in Exhibit 4.
Exhibit 4. Sample Balance sheet providing input data for Current Assets liquidity metrics. | 2019-04-20T06:27:56Z | https://www.business-case-analysis.com/liquid-assets.html |
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“Eden has been locked away and left to rot,” says Perry Collins, a London cab driver. Collins is speaking of Eden Norris, his 26-year-old stepson, who has autism and learning disabilities and lives in a locked, privately owned facility nearly 200 miles from the family’s West London home.
Norris has spent nearly nine years in institutions, with only brief periods of living outside. His mother, Deborah Evans, is also disabled, due to incapacitating anxiety and panic attacks. The family is only able to visit Norris every two weeks because it’s a 13-hour round trip to his facility in Norwich.
Norris was voluntarily institutionalized when he experienced a crisis at the age of 17, which was worsened by lack of adequate professional support. He became extremely anxious, needing care his family could not provide at the time. This is not unusual—many young people falter when they transition from child-centered support in the formal education system into a patchier and cash-strapped system of support for disabled adults.
This transition period is when many—like Norris—are most at risk of being institutionalized. Inside poorly managed and underfunded facilities, many residents become distressed and act in challenging ways. The staff, who may be poorly paid and trained, often lack the skills to help them. Instead of receiving the support they need, patients are routinely restrained, overmedicated and segregated in cells, which they cannot leave for days, even months.
Although patients may have entered institutions voluntarily, they’re often not able to leave voluntarily. In Norris’ case, he was kept in long-term segregation in his first institution, where he had what his mother describes as “some meltdowns.” The staff, in reaction, pressed charges and applied successfully for a section 37 of the Mental Health Act, which “sections” a person, or allows involuntary institutionalization for an undefined period of time.
After an intense effort by his family, Norris was released briefly in December 2017 to live in a supported-living residence in London. Norris’ parents feel he didn’t receive adequate support and continuity of care in that residence, and although they provided support themselves, the placement broke down when Norris’ anxiety returned. He was returned to the hospital after a few weeks.
If their children have been sectioned, parents aren’t allowed to remove them from institutions without the approval of a psychiatrist or other responsible clinician. If patients do manage to leave, many are so traumatized by their experiences in a facility that they have more crises outside, and they end up back in inpatient settings. Some parents who have expressed concern about institutional conditions have been threatened with court orders.
Jeremy (whose full name is being withheld for privacy and family reasons) has highlighted the case of his daughter Beth on social media and the BBC. Beth, who has autism, has been held in seclusion in a facility for 23 months. The staff deemed her such a risk that, despite a lack of corroborative evidence, she was fed through a hatch. She is currently sectioned under the Mental Health Act. Jeremy’s local council, or governing authority, threatened him with a gag order when he tried to publicize her plight, but the council later backed down.
After a public outcry, Jeremy met with Matt Hancock, the U.K. health secretary. Beth’s case is being reviewed, and the family is campaigning to move her nearer to home and out of seclusion permanently.
Critics, including disabled people and their families, warn that while things may change for individuals whose cases reach the media, the system remains the same. Hancock has asked for a review of the seclusion system for people with disabilities, but many Britons—partly because previous initiatives have failed—are pessimistic that conditions will change radically.
The situation wasn’t supposed to be this way for patients and their families. After an outcry following a BBC investigation of abuse at the privately run Winterbourne View care home in 2011, the government promised to move people out of expensive ATUs where some people had been held for years. The cost of each placement was heavy then—more than $200,000 per year. It’s now even more expensive.
British citizens can access health care free of charge through the National Health Service (NHS). It runs and pays for ATUs, but local councils pay for care in the community. Critics say this payment system is one reason people spend so long in institutions. These critics feel that local councils, which are often strapped for money, hesitate to pay for community-based care when they can shift the costs to the NHS instead.
As the government slowly developed its ATU closure policy, other abuse scandals and tragedies followed, including the preventable death of 18-year-old Connor Sparrowhawk (known as LB), who drowned in a bath at an NHS facility in Oxfordshire in 2013. The Justice for LB campaign fueled demands for action and accountability regarding the treatment of people with disabilities in institutions.
In October 2015, the NHS and local government leaders published a $58 million plan, known as Building the Right Support. Under the plan, March 2019 was to be the closure date of England’s last NHS hospital for people with learning disabilities. It was also the date nearly half the 2,600 beds in ATUs would be eliminated. The government pledged to invest more money into community living instead.
The community living model covers a range of options including supported environments in which disabled people live together with professional help; independent living in which disabled people can choose their own care providers such as personal assistants; and living without support in any kind of accommodation. This model tends to be less expensive than institutionalization, and it promotes inclusion in the community.
But the ATU closure process has stalled. Throughout the U.K., an estimated 3,000 disabled children and adults still are housed in ATUs and similar inpatient settings. The facilities are designed for short emergency stays, but many people remain for long periods. NHS data shows that people with a learning disability or autism who are sent to such units stay for an average of 5½ years.
A recent news investigation found that 40 disabled patients have died in ATUs in just 2½ years. Nine were under 35 years old. The institutions in which they died were scheduled for closure years ago.
A significant worry is caused by the fact that the number of children and young people in the system is increasing. A study by the Challenging Behaviour Foundation shows the number of children with a learning disability or autism in inpatient units grew from 110 in March 2015 to 230 in April 2018.
Simone Aspis, who has learning disabilities, is a “self-advocate” who challenges the institutional role and supports patients who want to leave locked facilities. “The route into these institutions for young people with autism and learning disabilities is too easy,” Aspis says. She explains that the proof used to section patients is often based on behavior that is different and deviates from the norm, rather than on aggressive behavior. “A lot of young people … don’t get the support they need, their behavior gets difficult—and then they get sectioned,” she says.
As in the U.K., the concept of independent living for disabled people has become embedded in policy in the European Union and farther afield, but the reality of institutionalization remains dire. In the U.K., community living initiatives have freed many disabled people, leaving those with learning disabilities and autism at risk of being locked away. However, in many EU countries, people with a range of conditions, including sensory and physical disabilities, remain in institutions.
More than a decade ago, the EU committed member countries to a deinstitutionalizationinitiative based on “shared European values of human dignity, equality and the respect for human rights.” The goal of the initiative was to transition disabled individuals from residential institutions to community-based care.
In 2014, the EU limited European Structural and Investment Funds to some member states, unless those states moved more residents into community living. Those member states—mainly in Eastern Europe but also including Greece—were forbidden from using two key EU funding pots to build or renovate institutions. Billions of euroswere spent on the initiative, but success was limited.
Human Rights Watch recently reported that, in the name of care and treatment, children with disabilities remain locked away, neglected and abused, restrained and malnourished throughout Europe. Central and Eastern Europe have the largest proportion of children in institutions in the world.
The rate of placement in formal care in these regions is alarming. In Hungary, large facilities with poor human rights records are scheduled for closure, but the government plans to build smaller facilities rather than move residents into the community. Human rights groups have protested this, but the European Commission has thus far refused to suspend funding.
In Greece, the children’s charity Lumosreports that children, many of whom have disabilities, are still being physically restrained and abused in institutions, with some even being caged in beds.
In Belgium, more than 5,000 disabled adults and children are being warehoused in poor conditions on behalf of the French state. French parents complain that their children are sent to Belgium and they are not offered alternative placements.
Even the policy of transitioning institutional residents to community-based care is in danger. As EU budget negotiations currently take place, proposed rules no longer make it a priority to promote the transition for people with disabilities. This means that building or renovating institutional care facilities could once again be eligible for funding, which would work against community placements for disabled people.
Organizations that campaign for the end to institutions in Europe are pushing back before the budget is set. European Structural and Investment Funds play a pivotal role in motivating and supporting the transition from institutional care to community-based living. Advocates of community living are horrified that the clock may be turned back and money earmarked for social inclusion may be used to segregate people with disabilities.
In the U.K., an additional factor contributes to keeping institutions open: the profit motive.
While the British government runs many institutions via the National Health Service, some large corporations—including two U.S. health care companies—also run private-sector institutions in the U.K., and those facilities need clients.
Eden Norris, for his part, has spent more than one-third of his life in locked institutions, despite having committed no crime. Perry Collins says the family has been told Norris may be able to leave soon to live in a homier setting nearer his parents. But that would be on a trial basis; because he has been sectioned, he can be recalled and locked away again.
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New build environments updates are coming.
It has been a while since our last build environment update in late April, and we thought it was a good time for the next set of updates.
The update to travis-ci.com has been postponed to 06:00 UTC on the 5th of August.
We are pushing back the .org update by one day to 08:00 UTC on the 30th of July. The update for travis-ci.com will be carried out on the 31st as planned. We apologize for the inconvenience.
The updates will be rolled out to travis-ci.org at 08:00 UTC on the 29th of July and to travis-ci.com at 06:00 UTC on the 31st of July.
All build environments will be receiving some fantastic updates.
For all environments, Go 1.3 is now the default.
We’ve introduced Android support back in May, and you have been busy testing it out. Google has since released a new SDK, and it is now time for us to catch up.
This update includes SDK 23 support and other component updates.
Erlang 17.1 is now available.
Version 1.2.2 is also preinstalled.
Default is now version 0.10.29.
5.20.0 and 5.21.0 have been added.
Older development versions 5.17 and 5.19 have been removed.
5.18.2 and 5.20.0 are now also provided with the -Duseshrplib compile option under the names 5.18-shrplib and 5.20-shrplib, respectively.
We also added LDAP support. | 2019-04-21T06:07:01Z | https://blog.travis-ci.com/2014-07-24-upcoming-build-environment-updates |
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While all of the students caught colds at roughly the same rate, the students who supplemented with probiotics had shorter colds by two days, symptoms that were 34 percent less severe, and fewer missed school days. | 2019-04-25T22:32:46Z | http://centerforintegratedmed.com/probiotics-may-help-fight-off-cold-symptoms/ |
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My chemistry students carefully mixed marble chips with hydrochloric acid, collecting the volume of carbon dioxide given off in 40 seconds. They were well aware of the importance of using the same strength of acid for each test. They ensured the acid temperature was constant and the size of each marble chip was as similar as possible.
Investigating the effect of teaching strategies on students is not as straightforward as investigating the effect of marble chip size on the rate of reaction. Twenty years ago I started to implement my own action based research. I had responsibility for teaching, learning and assessment in a High school, and I wanted to improve the validity of our strategic planning.
My limiting factor was the small number of students that I could involve in my research. Large numbers of students involved in action based research irons out the effect of anomalies. Professor Hattie’s research does not suffer from such low numbers, www.teacherstoolbox.co.uk/T_effect_sizes.html.
Professor Hattie has been Director of the Melbourne Education Research Institute at the University of Melbourne since March 2011. His work synthesized more than 800 meta-analyses involving more than 80 million school-aged students across the English speaking world. He listed 136 classroom interventions in order of effectiveness. His work suggests that teacher feedback to students is one of the most effective ways to improve learning, and team teaching has a minimal impact on learning. His work has been criticised for not examining the impact of social factors such as home life and poverty.
The Sutton Trust and EEF have organised RFL, examining the impact of Pupil Premium. The research was commissioned by the Sutton Trust and Durham University produced the toolkit in May 2011. The research was published as a toolkit that ranked ‘what works well in schools.’ They also included the relative costs to implement each strategy, http://educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/toolkit.
Dragonfly trainers have been using this evidence over the last year. Have a look at Neil Atkin’s outstanding blog ‘Feedback Strategies and how best to use them effectively;’ that was published in March this year and Steve Garnet’s excellent blog ‘Piagetian Programs, Meta-cognition and Solo Taxonomy’ also published in March.
Steve Garnet and I are supporting several RFL in-school projects around the country, and if anyone would like to run such an investigation then please make contact with Dragonfly Training.
Last year 6,200 students at the Higher Colleges of Technology in Dubai were given i Pads. The paperless classroom RFL also attracted 320 teachers. The use of i Pads created a positive attitude to learning and had a positive impact on the student’s development of language. Dr. Christina Gitsaki from HCT said ’Most of the students were using the devices all day; they were using them out of class to do homework.’ From their research they also found that the teacher was still the top motivator in the classroom. Many of the students attributed their improvement to the support of their teacher and their willingness to embrace the new devices.
These headlines create more questions than provide good answers but it is the start of a long journey to base improvements of learning on RFL. One crucial question is one of transferability. Can you take an idea used successfully in Shanghai and drop it into the United Kingdom?
Up to 60 Shanghai maths teacher are to be brought to England to raise standards, in an exchange arranged by the Department of Education. They will provide master classes in 30 ‘maths hubs’ which are planned as a network of centres of excellence. The Chinese city’s maths students have the highest international test results. The OECD says that children of poor families in Shanghai are on average better at maths than middle class children in the UK. Such projects will start to answer the question of transfer ability.
Steve Garnett and I delivered the Dragonfly’s flagship RFL course in London on the 31st of January and I presented RFL in Dubai for our Middle East launch. Next week I will deliver at our Far East launch in Bangkok, and Steve Garnett will present in Brussels for the European launch.
If you would like to know more about RFL then I would like to invite you to attend a Dragonfly RFL hotel based courses running in a city near you this term. | 2019-04-25T00:06:23Z | https://www.dragonfly-training.co.uk/blog-front/blog/id/124 |
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