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Innovation can solve many of our most pressing health-care problems by making the delivery system more efficient.
Breakthrough drugs can help treat disease, but prevention and better use of information can also go a long way.
Radical transformations can help keep Americans healthier outside of political solutions.
As politicians debate who should pay for America's declining health and ever-increasing cost of health care, they are overlooking the key to simultaneously improving the health of Americans and cutting costs: innovation.
Innovation can solve many of our most pressing health-care problems by transforming lives, preventing disease, restoring people to full health and making the health-care delivery system more efficient.
Medical technology innovation to restore health to people suffering from chronic disease.
Scientific breakthroughs in drugs that treat and cure the most debilitating diseases.
Delivery of health care outside of the hospital setting, letting hospitals focus on the most seriously ill patients.
Innovative use of information to improve diagnosis, treatment and after-care.
Moving upstream to prevent disease occurrence with innovative approaches that enable people to lead healthy lives.
In the last 30 years, breakthroughs in medical technology have transformed the treatment of cardiovascular disease with implantable defibrillators and drug-coated stents, of Type I diabetes with the sensor-based pumps and the advent of the artificial pancreas, and of spine, hip and knee surgery with implantable prostheses. Now, advancements in medical technology are addressing debilitating neurological diseases like Parkinson's, incontinence and sleep apnea. With investment and imagination, the future of medical technology to help people seems almost unlimited.
Decades of scientific investment in genetics, genomics and proteomics have led to treating the immune system as the most promising way to cure cancer and other debilitating diseases. Breakthroughs in personalized medicine like immunotherapy and CAR-T therapy hold the potential for genuine cures, not just palliative treatments.
To make these high-priced treatments more affordable, they should be offered on a sliding scale based on ability to pay. Meanwhile, a wider array of generic drugs should be approved for traditional drugs such as statins to lower the overall cost of drug therapy. In addition, the multiple layers of drug distribution should be creatively disintermediated by direct-to-consumer approaches, thus dramatically cutting the overall cost of drug therapy.
In recent years, focus on health-care delivery has been making doctors and hospitals more efficient, leading to shortening appointments to less than 10 minutes — only enough time to issue a prescription without thorough diagnosis — often creating misdiagnosis and excessive drug use. Instead, we need to rethink the entire health-care delivery system by changing the basic model of one-to-one physician-patient interaction in a traditional health care institution by providing health care in community centers, YMCAs and retail centers like MinuteClinic (now owned by CVS), using nurses, allied health professionals and group classes.
Hospitals need to undergo massive consolidation to ensure that severe diseases and complex treatments can be carried out in the highest-volume centers that will lead to improved outcomes at lower costs. This will require clear movement away from fee-for-service to innovative health plans covering total costs with people having a fiscal stake in their health.
Health care's information technology is woefully inadequate. From inability to match patient records with claims data to inadequate cost accounting data to poor transparency of prices to consumers, health care has been unable to provide even the basics of information. Now, however, opportunities to use the internet to connect patients and their basic information like EKGs to their physicians and health-care teams, along with artificial intelligence and big data married with patient data, offer entirely new fields for innovation, improved diagnosis, treatment and after-care.
This fifth category of innovation – leading healthy lives – holds the greatest promise of all, as self-care becomes the new primary care. It is well known that unhealthy life styles account for 50 to 70 percent of health-care costs. For example, America's obesity epidemic is the leading cause of Type II diabetes, heart disease, and spine, hip and knee issues. Yet instead of focusing on enabling people to lead healthy lives, we concentrate downstream on those who are sick and extremely ill to the point of nonrecovery.
Eating healthy. Innovative food and beverage companies, such as Boulder Brands and Suja Juice are transforming eating and drinking habits along with products like Earth Balance all-natural spreads, Udi's gluten-free cereals and baked goods, and organic juices.
Physical fitness. A relatively simple device like Fitbit has become transformative in changing people's behavior by walking at least 10,000 steps per day or exercising in Lifetime Fitness clubs that focus on healthy living.
Stress reduction. The mindfulness movement is revolutionizing daily behaviors that reduce stress through myriad mindfulness practices. Don't know how to meditate? Innovative on-line products like Headspace provide guided meditation sessions and mindfulness training.
Today, the usage of these products is heavily concentrated among the middle and upper social-economic classes. The key now is to get them as ubiquitous as mobile phones by offering them in local communities and at lower prices.
For decades, American health-care systems have been mired in trying to become more efficient with essentially the same methods. What is needed to transform health care's broken system is much more radical transformation that these innovations can bring. Rather than looking for political solutions to a broken system, the focus must shift to innovation to create more radical approaches that create entirely new systems.
Commentary by Bill George, a senior fellow at Harvard Business School, former chairman and CEO of Medtronic, and the author of "Discover Your True North." He is a CNBC contributor. Follow him on Twitter @Bill_George.
Bill GeorgeSenior Fellow, Harvard Business School and Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Medtronic, Inc.
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So, I am finishing up my posts on our visit to New York this week….and in celebration of my 40th birthday last weekend, the fact I have reached 200 followers (thank you all), I would like to include you all in my experience in the Lotta Jansdotter Surface Printing class I have a GIVE AWAY :-).
All you have to do is leave a comment below, by midnight Thursday 20th June, about what inspiration do you get for your projects from the environment around you. For a second entry, just let me know if you are a follower. If you are a no-reply commenter please leave an email address. I will announce the winner next Friday.
The New York finale is really simple, here are some of my favorite photos and views of New York.
The park is so large we only saw a small part of it. We had amazing weather both days. The boys visited the Central Park Zoo where the Polar Bear was the star. There was a great sense of community and fun here. I also loved the statues at one of the entrances of the zoo.
This was a great (new-ish) place that used to be a railroad track above the factories in the meat packing district. It is now ~ 2 mile walk through gardens, some vendors (like coffee, ice pops, and food items) and various art pieces. This is my favorite place in New York.
To get a good view of the city on such a wonderful day, we took advantage of the views at the top of Rockefeller center. We were lucky with the atmosphere which was buzzing as it was Puerto Rico Day and a parade was occurring. At the top we saw the Empire State building on one side and a great view of central park expanse on the other (wow is all I can say).
What an amazing Building, even in the pouring rain it was captivating. Celebrating its 100 anniversary, it is still in its glory. Look at the amazing ceiling with its celestial paintings.
We were very lucky with the atmosphere in Times Square when we were visiting. Obviously we went at night to get the full impact of all the lights….but the night we went there was a viewing party going on. In the middle of Times Square you could sit and watch the Tony awards which was broadcasting on an extra-large screen – there must have been thousands of people out that night.
I hope you enjoyed our view of New York.
Have a great weekend!!! Linking up with Amanda Jean @ CrazyMomQuilts.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged Central Park, Central Station, Charm Park, give away, High Line, Lotta Jansdotter, New York City, printing, quilting, Rockefeller Center, sewing, Times Square on June 14, 2013 by mlwilkie.
1. Oh I love the Bella line. I am a sucker for flowers.
Me too, I love the bella line and glimma but I missed out on the echo line 😦 I love the colors she uses.
3. Environmental inspiration: not 10 minutes ago, I collected some twigs from boughs that my partner has cut from our plum tree. (It is winter here in New Zealand, a good time for tree thinning.) With their tiny, woody buds just starting to appear, the twigs remind me of bug’s legs. I think there’s going to be a textile bug coming from my studio soon.
Ooops, I forgot to hit “notify me” in the previous comment, so if I’m luck enough to win, please drop by my blog or mail me at carolinelarnach (at) hotmail (dot) com.
6. A lot of nature inspires the colors I use in projects! Thank you. Sounds like a great birthday!
Me too….I am such a color person.
7. And I imported my Reader feed into Bloglovin today (sigh) and you are on my list!
8. I am a new follower!
9. I never know when it will hit, sometimes and advertisement, sometimes the clothes people wear, or looking up (in a city) for a skyline. I, like Laura, am also keeping my fingers crossed for the strawberry journal. Thank you for the chance.
I am the same – you never know when it will hit, but what I like is it makes you think differently and more aware of things around you.
Oregon is definitely wonderful place and beautiful.
12. I follow via bloglovin’.
13. Thank you for the generous giveaway and happy birthday! I really like to look at plants & flowers for color schemes for my quilt ideas.
Color is definitely the first thing that makes we think about things, shapes etc are usually next.
14. I follow through Bloglovin, thanks!
15. Wow, love the pictures of your trip, i love NY and wish i could come back for a visit!
I know how you feel at the moment – obviously one trip to New York and all I see are quilts 🙂 The only store I went shopping in was quilt store.
17. I actually have gotten a lot of inspiration from road trips. Seeing architecture in a different way!
That is what happened on this trip. I really enjoyed seeing things differently.
20. I get a lot of inspiration from shapes and forms in nature. I really love Bella and Glimma – I was not “in the know” for Echo.
21. I’m a new follower w/bloglovin.
22. Oh wow! A giveaway from your trip! What an incredible gesture!
So I, of course, have to enter!
First of all – my inspiration comes from many sources – a person I see walking down the street, a picture of a beautiful setting, a combination of colours and textures, a striking building, brightly coloured crafts by other people…..
24. I’m a new Bloglovin’ follower! Love architecture (I’m an Architect! ehm…) and nature continuously surprises me!
25. Forgot to divide the comment into two and to say I love Lotta’s work. Your lucky girl for following the workshop!
would love to enter this contest for fun..
27. I’m a new follower..
30. Right now my inspiration comes from my 3 month old grand daughter. So I am into pink and soft.
31. Most of my inspiration comes from my environment…..both near and far. I love abstracting patterns from mountains, icebergs, water, light through glass, textured wallpaper, folds in fabric and so on! Great giveaway, thanks.
33. i get inspiration from colours. they could be colours anywhere in a dept. store in nature architecture textiles. i adore all colours the brighter the better .
34. lovely giveaway i’m a follower of your blogg would love to win and am sendinfg positive vibes to the angels!!
35. I would have to say that the imperfect perfectness of what I see. Color is so important to our peace of mind.
36. I was lucky enough to get some yardage of the fabric inspired by Grand Central Station. Thank you for sharing pics of Grand Central Station. Now, what to do with the fabric? However, loved your New York pics. I want to visit. Thanks for the giveaway.
38. i just found your blog, so wasn’t a follower before, but am now! in case things get screwy and you can’t respond, my email is (cbiro@alumni.iu.edu).
39. i love lotta! i have some bella and echo, but no glimma yet. i get inspiration all around-from my gardens and my son-the things he says, his art. i love nature inspiration-rocks, plants, taking hikes in the woods-inspiration hits. thanks for the giveaway and happy birthday!
41. What a great weekend! I love the pictures, thanks a million for sharing them.
42. I’ve loved reading about your New York visit, my sister & daughter were there in May & went to & raved about many of the same places as you – your photos were much better though. I am inspired by my environment, I live in a beach suburb in Sydney Australia & even though we don’t have huge colour changes with the seasons I still find that my fabric choices relate to time of year & what’s happening outside.
43. Thanks for the lovely giveaway, I follow you via Bloglovin.
44. Thanks for the virtual visit to New York! That city has such wonderful energy. I get my environmental inspiration from shorelines of any kind – ocean beaches, rivers, creeks. I guess that’s why most of the stuff I make ends up with blue in it! Thanks for the awesome giveaway too!
48. I am so inspired by graffiti art and everyday color combinations. Every once and while I just “see” everyday colors differently. Then I just NEED to translate those colors into art. Thank you for the giveaway! Your trip to NYC sounds lovely.
51. I take inspiration wherever I can find a pattern – the bolder and more geometric the better. This weekend, I took a photo of a wrought iron fence with a deer emblem because I thought it might make a good Christmas quilt!
52. I find inspiration everywhere! Whether it’s on a building or on the ground I’m walking on, there are patterns in everything. I once took inspiration from the cracks in asphalt.
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One by one I found all the doors closed and locked.
As I grappled and fought with my demons of fear.
That it was all so achingly clear.
The paradox, the enigma, the madness.
Until only hope and goodness remain.
A mystery only pure love could ever explain.
But we can surely learn together, side by side, hand in hand.
It’s with you, my dear, I will continue to grow.
You bring me such immeasurable joy.
I thank you for choosing me, my precious Sebastian.
My darling, beloved baby boy.
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Solo Moonstone. These are natural stones that will vary by size, color and shape. The stones average between 1/2-1inch in size.
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After the first leg draw against Atletico Madrid , we take a look at Barça’s results of second leg games played after a 1-1 result at Camp Nou . The first time Barça found themselves in this situation was 25 seasons ago ( 1988/89 ) in the second round of the European Cup Winners Cup when they ended up beating Lech Poznan on penalties in the second leg .
The following season, in the knockout phase of the Cup Winners Cup , another Polish team , Legia , were Barça’s opponents and after a 1-1 draw at the Camp Nou, the tie moved to Warsaw , where Barça won 0-1.
In the 1989/90 season, Barça drew 1-1 in the first leg of the European Super Cup against Milan, only to narrowly lose in the return game to hand the Italians the title.
The team again lost in the quarter finals of the 1994/95 season when after drawing 1-1 at home to PSG, they were beaten 2-1 in Paris.
Two seasons later, Barça again failed to finish off a game at the Camp Nou, drawing 1-1 with Fiorentina in the semi-finals of the European Cup Winners, but this time goals from Couto and Guardiola gave them a ticket to the final in Rotterdam against PSG, which they ended up winning thanks to a Ronaldo penalty.
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The VA-2000FC is a fireman control panel which shall be used by fireman at a fire center. The fireman control panel communicate with the controller through CAT5 cable up to 1kms distance. Four messages buttons with security cover is supplied to push for alarm. A PPT hand-clip microphone is also supplied for fireman announcement ..
The VA-2000FC is a fireman control panel which shall be used by fireman at a fire center. The fireman control panel communicate with the controller through CAT5 cable up to 1kms distance. Four messages buttons with security cover is supplied to push for alarm. A PPT hand-clip microphone is also supplied for fireman announcement under emergency. Its standard configuration is 16 zones, could be expanded to 64 zones by link with extension control panel.
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Home › One Piece Balls. Six-petalled template. › Oiled leather ball, Six-petalled template, 75mm, 170gr, Spanish leather.
We make these balls with a flower-shaped template of six petals and a Spanish oiled leather. These balls are hand cut and hand stitched.
Set of three balls costs $130. If you want more balls, send us an email and we will make you a custom order.
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Inspector Muggins leant back in his chair and took a long drag on his cigar, with the contented air of a man who is paid to do nothing but sit in an office and drink whisky and puff on cigars. Which is exactly what Muggins did. The town Muggins lived in was a quiet one, so there was rarely any need for him to get off his considerable bottom and lumber off to some crime scene. So it came as something of a surprise when the phone rang. So much of a surprise, in fact, that Muggins fell off his chair.
The first thing that appeared above the Inspector’s desk was a shiny, bald head, followed by a pair of beady, piercing eyes, and then a most amazing ginger handlebar moustache, which was finely treated and rather oily. This moustache bristled angrily, and rose a couple of feet as Muggins stood up and brushed himself off. The phone kept ringing, until Muggins picked up the receiver.
He was greeted by a voice, which suggested that the caller was very stressed, and slightly hysterical.
“Inspector Muggins, Police Department” Replied the Inspector, in a practiced, professional calm.
There was a click and the line went dead. Muggins picked up his nametag, took one last swig of whisky, threw on his overcoat, and strode out the door. A grey fog was descending over the town of , accompanied by a grey drizzle. Muggins frowned at the sky, and quickened his pace a bit. A scant ray of sunlight caught Muggins’ nametag. “Bill Muggins” it read. “Chief Inspector, Lillydale Police Station”.
Bill halted outside a particularly grand house, painted a gleaming white, which looked a bit pallid through the drizzle. Bill walked up the garden path, and pressed the doorbell. There was the sound of footsteps, and the door opened. A woman’s head poked around the door.
A glimmer of recognition crossed Bill’s face.
Bill walked inside, and was briefly impressed by the size and grandeur of the house. His awe was interrupted as Mrs. Britchworth reminded him of the task at hand.
As Bill made his way to the study, he heard several choked sobs. He sighed, and pushed the door open.
Two glazed eyes stared up at the ceiling, as though contemplating some deep thought. A mouth, half-open, trickled blood. A pool of blood lay underneath the man, surrounding him. Bill winced. The man had taken quite a beating. His nose was down where people usually reserve for chins. His jaws were completely smashed, bits of bone stuck out through the skin. The lead pipe that Mrs. Britchworth had alluded to was there, flecks of blood splattered down it. Muggins inspected it. He thought he could see finger marks. He pocketed it. That would be handy as evidence and for clues. Muggins walked over to the body and peered at it closely. His eyes widened in shock and surprise. There was a bullet wound.
As Bill continued to patter around the study, looking for clues, Mrs. Britchworth made the necessary phone calls, to friends and family and suchlike. Most of them had sounded suitably shocked and/or distressed, but one had been different. Spencer, Paul’s brother. His voice had sounded flat, emotionless. Almost as if he had been expecting the whole thing. At the time, Mrs. Britchworth thought nothing of it. But later, she voiced the thought to Bill, who was immediately interested. ‘Had they had any recent fights?’ he had asked. Mrs. Britchworth replied that Spencer had always been a bit jealous of Paul, but they had not had any recent fights.
Bill opened the door to his bedroom and flopped onto his bed. He stared at the ceiling. He frowned at it. It wasn’t a very nice ceiling; with paint flaking and bits of plaster almost falling out. He closed his eyes. He would visit Spencer Britchworth first thing in the morning. And with that thought, he drifted off into a restless sleep.
A small, white car pulled up outside a rickety old house. Its paint was faded with time, and one window was hanging from a single hinge. Bill walked up to the door and rapped sharply. No answer. He knocked again. Still no answer. He looked at the door, sizing it up. The wood was rotted and it didn’t look very strong at all. Bill mustered all his strength, and gave an almighty kick. The door broke, and Bill stepped inside.
A terrible sense of fear and foreboding washed over Muggins as he stepped into a dimly lit hallway. Something was wrong, he could feel it. As he walked further, the sense only increased. When he reached the lounge, the feeling weighed down on him like a piano on his chest. A voice, nasal and high-pitched, penetrated the silence.
“Oh? And who’s speaking?” Bill tried to sound calm, but his voice cracked, and his knees quaked. Alarm bells were going off in his brain, screaming at his legs to ‘RUN! RUN! RUN!’, but they wouldn’t obey. Bill was rooted to the spot.
Spencer ignored the question, and continued.
“Why? Because I hated him. I always did. He had everything. Brains, looks, money. And what did I have? Unmanageable hair and ingrown toenails. And it was all luck. ALL LUCK!” He roared the last words, his voice breaking into a menacing fury.
“I can’t let you turn me in, Bill. I can’t. I don’t want to go to jail, and it would wreck the whole feeling of revenge. That’s why I’m going to kill you.
Bill’s whole body convulsed at the cold, metallic touch of gun barrel against the back of his neck. He tried to scream, but nothing came out.
A bang, a thud. That’s all anyone heard. When they came to see what happened, all they saw was a body, with blood flowing from a hole in his neck. And, off in the forest behind the house, Spencer Britchworth began to laugh.
You call this all SHORT?
Haha, well our teacher called it short. around 1,100 words.
Great story. I enjoyed it... it just needs a little editing (just in a few places where there is an over use of words) but i'm not a professional, so there isn't much credit to what i am saying of course =). I really enjoyed it though, good plot, well thought out.
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Many students make mistakes when they ask and answer questions about their families.
Question: Do you have any brothers (and/or) sisters?
Answers: I’m an only child (no brothers or sisters).
A: I’m the youngest child. I have 1 older brother and 1 older sister.
A: I’m a middle child. I have 1 younger sister and 1 older sister.
A: I have one younger sister.
Q: How big is your family?
NOT: My family is 4.
NOT: The people in my family is 4.
A: There are 4 people in my family: my parents, my sister, and myself.
A: My family has 4 members: my parents, my sister, and myself.
A: I have 2 sisters.
I have 2 siblings: 1 brother and 1 sister.
I have 2 siblings: 2 older brothers.
When asking people about their family, it is safest to ask about their brothers or sisters. This will avoid any awkwardness if the person’s parents are divorced or possibly dead. Also, when talking about your family, it is often not necessary to talk about your parents. People will assume that you have 2 parents unless you tell them differently.
As I promised last week, I’m going to talk about specially today.
Specially means “for a particular purpose” and is almost always used with the past participle.
This course has been specially designed to teach you English grammar.
The vitamins are specially formulated to increase your memory.
That scarf was specially made from goat hair.
Informally, specially is sometimes used as a short form of especially.
I baked this cake ‘specially for you.
As with especially, specially cannot be placed at the beginning of a sentence.
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Mnemosyne has a built-in sync mechanism to sync your learning data between different machines. It supports an unlimited number of machines, and adding cards on one machine while reviewing cards on another machine will not result in a conflict and will be seamlessly merged. The sync protocol has been heavily optimised, and is much more efficient than e.g. putting everything on Dropbox.
To enable syncing, pick one machine as your server (e.g. your desktop computer). On that machine, go to 'Settings - Configure Mnemosyne' and in the 'Sync server' tab, activate the sync server and pick a usearname and a password that the client should provide. After clicking 'OK', Mnemosyne will tell you on which IP address the server is running, e.g. 192.168.2.33 . Everytime you want to sync another machine with your server, Mnemosyne needs to be running on that server. (Note: if you want to run the sync server on a headless machine, i.e. without a UI, start Mnemosyne from the command line with the --sync-server argument).
For the initial sync, if you're on a desktop client, make sure you start from an empty database which has the same name as the server database. (For Android, the initial sync will fetch the database currently active on the server, which cannot be changed later on.) Then, choose 'File - Sync' and fill in the server address (e.g. the IP address you got above), username and password. The initial sync can take a long time, as the entire database needs to be sent across, but future syncs will be much faster. Note that both the client and the server should be running the latest version of Mnemosyne.
If you run into issues, the first thing to check is that there's no firewall or router configuration that blocks Mnemosyne's traffic. It's best to try the setup above with two computers on your home network, and make sure it works there.
If you also want to use e.g. a server on your home network and a client at work, you will probably need to configure your internet router at home to forward the port Mnemosyne uses (by default 8512) to your server. Consult your router documentation for this.
You can also contact us for support here.
If for some reason you can't or don't want to use Mnemosyne's built-in sync mechanism (e.g. because you can't keep your server running all the time), for desktop clients alternatives like Dropbox work (in combination with starting Mnemosyne with the -d <datadir> option to set a custom datadir, as described here.), but will be less efficient. However, make sure you sync the entire Mnemosyne data directory (under Windows e.g. C:\Users\<your user name>\Application Data\Roaming\Mnemosyne), and not just the database file itself, otherwise the statistics you submit to the science server will get confused. Also, make sure that you don't leave two copies of Mnemosyne running at the same time on different machines, as this will corruption and issues with the science log upload.
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Rainfall was the main determinant for Angola’s crop production in /06, with . such as cabbages, tomatoes, lettuce, onions, peppers, carrots, pumpkins, . The incidence of crop pests and diseases was normal and low. The tomato leaf miner Tuta absoluta (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) is an invasive insect pest of tomato and other solanaceous plants which is. Various insects, nematodes and mite pests can damage tomato crops in the home garden and nematodes, russet mites and budworms can be.
They resumed on time in mid-January but again stopped early, about the beginning of April. Avoid watering tomatoes from the top, as the spray can force the spores developing on the leaves back into the soil and continue the disease cycle. Tomato psyllids Paratrioza cockerellialso known as potato psyllids, have an extensive range of hosts, and have a preference for solanaceous plants.
Other health-related factors diseases such as diarrhoea will become more prevalent during the last months of the calendar year. Isolation and poor access to basic services and market opportunities found in all communities, except those close to provincial capitals and international borders. Food assistance has been provided by WFP under different programmes including food for work and food for assets, among others.
The tomatoes you do have on the plant are small or tasteless. The CFSAM confirmed that dry spells affected most of the provinces visited and this resulted in some crop losses. However, they contributed to excellent livestock and pasture conditions and will provide adequate livestock watering for several months. This is predominantly a cereal-growing region.
The Government cites the development of irrigation as one of its immediate agricultural priorities. It should be noted that some of the assistance started ahead of the harvest which in most places starts in June.
Prior to independencefood production was high and the country was a major exporter of maize and coffee. The rains came on time in the north of the province, and October-planted millet and sorghum look set to give satisfactory yields by June.
Qualified health personnel only assist in half of all deliveries, and only one-third of all women consult qualified health personnel during pregnancy.
Use tape to make a collar around the plant, leaving about two to three inches around the stem. You water them, and the problem gets worse.
These may contribute towards the movement of cereals and pulses from surplus to affected areas in the coming months, but it is expected that the quantities involved will be limited. Prices of beans, groundnuts, maize and cassava flour, fresh or semi-processed are currently low and affordable for psts majority of the households.
Hornworms are perfectly camouflaged so they look exactly like a tomato stem or branch, making them difficult to spot. Tree and shrub nursery. The very poor condition of most roads is a severe constraint to the movement of agricultural commodities. It included recommendations to revitalise the agricultural sector in the short-run, such as distributing agricultural inputs, promoting local seed production and supporting production in the nacas.
Field level visits were undertaken and this provided the main opportunity to crosscheck and establish the validity of the findings of the inter-agency assessment. Interested in bumblebee pollination?
After the leaves turn brown, they fall off. Tomatoes may feel light when harvested. Anthracnose What it looks like: Already a Biobest customer? However, this is mainly an agro-pastoral area with sorghum and millet as the staples.
Weed control is generally poor in smallholder fields, and the effect of this on the availability of soil moisture to the crop can anhola be very evident. The estimates were based on synthesis of information gathered at all levels. WFP emergency operations closed down this year and the focus of its current PRRO programmes has shifted to non-emergency assistance.
It should be noted that the yield levels of cassava seem to be angpla in comparison with the levels in other countries in the region. These developments means the capacity to implement the recommendations is fairly amgola.
When you upload a photo or ask us a gardening question, we’ll get on the case and offer suggestions for your next steps. Markets activities, animal raising, fishing, occasional tomatl and charcoal. UNHCR operations have also declined significantly and its repatriation programme for Angolans will be phased out by 31 December Too much nitrogen in the soil encourages plenty of green leaves but not many flowers. Sending specimens for identification.
This creates the lumps and bumps typical of catfacing. It is believed Angola has the lowest prevalence rates in the region – at 2. In the northern provinces where the rainfall was more or less normal, the level of food insecure is considerably lower than in the central and xngola provinces. The impact on nutrition and health was not immediately clear. Viral diseases mainly attack the tomatoes themselves.
Detailed analysis of the crop and livestock was carried out and reported in the first part of the report. In Malanje and Uige the options include market activities, occasional labour, agricultural, charcoal and hunting, animal rearing and wild products.
The period between September and May accounts for about 95 percent of the total production of cereals and pulses, angolx are also the major food crops: Secondary information from the reports reviewed formed a basis for making judgement on the changes in the household food and nutrition situation.
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He is a wicketkeeper-batsman who hit the winning runs for India in a World Cup final. On Friday, he scored an unbeaten, although a bit sluggish, eighty. But no, we're not talking about the man you are thinking of.
This is about Harvik Desai, who scored the winning four in the Under-19 World Cup final in New Zealand last year. One year later in the Ranji Trophy quarter-final against Uttar Pradesh in Lucknow, he scored an unbeaten 83 off 208 balls for Saurashtra.
Desai is primarily a wicketkeeper-batsman but Snell Patel has been doing pretty well for Saurashtra - today, too, he scored 72 - meaning there was no place for Desai in the side. However, an injury to Avi Barot, a regular Saurashtra opener, just before the start of the tournament threw up a vacant opening slot. Saurashtra coach Sitanshu Kotak took the gamble of playing Desai as a pure batsman and the 19-year-old didn't disappoint.
Making his debut against Chhattisgarh, the right-handed batsman scored 78 and 46. By the time, the group stages ended, he had 538 runs from eight games at 35.86, including five half-centuries.
In the first innings of the quarter-final, Desai once again batted with authority but failed to convert yet another half-century into a hundred. And despite his 84, Saurashtra were bowled out for 208 in response to UP's first-innings total of 385, and ended up conceding a big lead.
The visitors, though, led by left-arm spinner Dharmendrasinh Jadeja, restricted the hosts to 194 in the second innings. But Saurashtra's task wasn't easy. While with five-and-half sessions left in the game, a target of 372 didn't look impossible to achieve, no team in Ranji Trophy has been successful chasing that many.
Ankit Rajpoot triggered the horrors of the first innings by beating Desai's outside edge with the first ball of the chase. But from there on, the teenager batted with caution. At the same time, he didn't fail to convert bad balls into boundaries.
Trying to repeat his first ball, Rajpoot ended up bowling too full. When it was straight, Desai flicked him through midwicket and when it was wide, it was driven through covers. Yash Dayal, the most successful UP bowler in the first innings, was guilty of providing too much room outside off, and Desai duly steered him past gully for four.
UP then switched to Plan B. In the tenth over of the innings, Rajpoot switched to around the wicket and hit Desai on the thigh. A big appeal for lbw was denied as the ball would have sailed over the stumps. From the other end, Mavi was introduced and he started dishing out the short stuff. But Desai was decisive in his shot selection, either ducking and swaying, or pulling it away.
The shot that stood out came in the 11th over of the innings. Mavi, who was Desai's team-mate during the U-19 World Cup, bowled one short outside off. But, perhaps Desai had already played such deliveries during various net sessions. He went back and pulled it towards midwicket boundary for four. Mavi's first six overs went for 34.
But UP posed one more threat, in the form of Saurabh Kumar. The left-arm spinner had 50 wickets in nine games coming into this match, and was just three away from breaking Rajinder Hans' record tally of 52 wickets for UP in a single Ranji season. In the first innings he went wicketless as the three pacers shared all the wickets. However, now UP were banking on him, especially after the opposition's left-arm spinner picked up seven wickets in the match.
Saurabh bowled a fourth-stump line with a dominant off-side field, but Desai had a plan for him as well. He consistently shuffled his front leg outside the line and swept him fine. Whenever he failed to make the connection, and when there was an lbw shout, the umpires deemed the impact was outside the line of off stump.
Desai and Patel took the side to lunch without any damage. After the break, Desai brought up his fifty, off 126 balls.
Mavi dismissed Patel from the other end when the team score was 132. Desai, who until then was batting with utmost care, also suffered a lapse in concentration. In the very next over, he pushed at a length ball from Saurabh but wicketkeeper Upendra Yadav grassed the chance. He was on 59 then.
In the last session of the day, Saurabh switched to over the wicket in search of Desai's wicket but bowled either too full or too short. Desai took full advantage of that and along with Vishvaraj Jadeja took the side to 187.
At stumps, Desai was 17 short of what would be his maiden first-class hundred if reaches there tomorrow. And if he can help Saurashtra to victory - they still need 177 more - it would taste even sweeter.
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One Kentucky health department has announced it has found mosquitoes with West Nile virus.
"The recent wet and increasing hot weather has created the ideal conditions for the Culex mosquito that carries West Nile Virus", Mark E. Wallace, Executive Director of the Weld County Health Department wrote in a release.
To prevent mosquito bites, drain standing water around your home, limit outdoor activity at dusk and dawn, use Deet (an effective ingredient in insect repellents), and dress in long sleeves and trousers where mosquitos are active.
West Nile causes mild flu-like symptoms, but it can lead to a more serious condition that includes swelling of the brain, muscle convulsions, coma, paralysis and death, according to the DEP. "It's extremely important to avoid getting bit by mosquitoes".
DUSK and DAWN are when mosquitoes are most active. These agencies are responsible for monitoring the potential public health threat of mosquito-borne diseases.
To combat the risk of infection, residents are advised to use mosquito repellent, wear long trousers and sleeves to cover exposed skin, and avoid areas where mosquitoes congregate.
A 24-year-old-woman with a suspected case of West Nile fever, a relatively unknown viral infection in this part of the region, has been admitted to the Kozhikode medical college hospital. Wear proper clothing and repellent if outside during these times. Repellents containing DEET, picaridin, IR3535, and some oil of lemon eucalyptus and para-menthane-diol products provide longer-lasting protection. Birds are the natural hosts of West Nile virus.
Health experts ask the public to use repellant to help prevent mosquito bites.
The CAES maintains a network of 91 mosquito-trapping stations in 72 municipalities throughout the state. Mosquito traps are set Monday through Thursday nights at each site every 10 days on a rotating basis.
Jim Jordan (R-OH), announced his candidacy for House Speaker after Paul's tenure is completed this session. President Donald Trump has fumed about Mueller's probe and repeatedly called it a "witch hunt".
Business groups urge United States not to impose more tariffs on Chinese imports The biggest exporter of American-made cars is a German company - BMW, through its plant in Spartanburg, South Carolina. As with Europe, Trump has accused China of unfair trade practices that hurt US sales and undercut American workers.
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Each year, the Salt Lake County community invests $42 million in government and private funds on the complex issue of homelessness, helping Utah’s Housing First initiative to dramatically reduce chronic homelessness. Currently, resources are invested without coordination either among funders and service agencies or between them. Efforts of funders and service agencies are disconnected, and no one has a common understanding of the problem, shared solutions, or common ways to measure progress resulting in isolated pockets of efficiency and impact.
Salt Lake County is coordinating a system-wide effort to identify gaps in current homeless services and improve services delivery to individuals and families experiencing or at risk for homelessness. The County is also organizing broader community efforts around these outcomes by developing an innovative, integrated set of supportive finance strategies, including an innovative portfolio approach to related Pay for Success projects, a public-private funding collaborative, and an initiative to coordinate Community Development Block Grant funds region-wide. The Mayor is also determined to make the resulting data widely accessible online through a public dashboard, now in development, which will demonstrate accountability to residents.
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Before you begin reading this write-up, I must warn you that it might involve a certain amount of cribbing, although the title suggests otherwise. However, in my defense I’m entitled to it, for November has been gritting, ruthless and rather unapologetic about it; especially on CA students like me. The first half of the month went in appearing for exams and the rest of the month trying to reconnect with the world. Surprisingly, the latter proved to be the more challenging of the two tasks, for it seems as if I’ve lost all my socialising skills in those months I spent living like a hermit. That, coupled with the fact that I was rather vexed this morning, led to pretty melancholic foreday.
However, as thanksgiving had just passed and the fact that I had resolved to not do bad days anymore, I decided to list down things I’m grateful about.
H: I think people are weird.
S: Even I think everyone is weird except me.
S: I think that’s the most lamest conversation we had.
So my fellow readers, no matter how lousy (or not) the year has been, its December; the time to bid adieu to the year that has gone by and embrace the many more eventful years to come.
On how Facebook and Candy Crush has ruined our lives.
So I’m sitting in the train, looking at my fellow commuters and all I see are heads bowed down. Almost all of them, besides a couple of guys dozing away to glory, are staring at their mobile screens either furiously scrolling as if might miss something of significance if they don’t reach the end of the page by the end of the journey, or playing this game popularly known as candy crush. The purpose of the game evades me like the way Charlie Sheen misses cocaine. I could very well list down the reasons for me disliking the game (chronologically or alphabetically as you prefer) but I shan’t bore you with the details. However for records sake, the game requires no extraordinary cognitive skills nor does destroying candies gives me any pleasure and hence my disinterest.
2. It has pretty much intruded the privacy in each and every compartment of our lives.
4. Since Facebook is mostly used to spy on people, it has pretty much singlehandedly caused a downfall in business detectives (refer technological unemployment) used to get from wives and girlfriends (okay, I had ran out of points).
Ergo, although these are just two small examples, it doesn’t need a technophile to conclude that technology has replaced the brains of our generation and unless we rise our heads above all this (not metaphorically) we are doomed to be a slave of it.
Around 3 years back, when I was new to the world of blogging, a friend had requested me to write down a story. At that point of time neither did the notion of penning down a book entice me, nor could I imagine myself as a raconteur. Nevertheless a couple of notions had been formed back then and have been nagging me ever since.
In these past few years I’ve had my share of ups and downs as a budding writer; ergo the lack to time. I did try my hand at a couple of short stories, with one of them still in progress. However, since the last few days, due to the abundance of time and the ubiquitous inspiration found in the beautiful North East cities of India, the nagging sensation has become much more predominant. So here I am sitting at the foothills of the mountains, donning the metaphorical writers’ hat, trying my hand at my first real story.
Signing off, with the hope of penning down my first full-fledged story.
It has been a while since I’ve fired up the laptop with the sole purpose of writing a blog. The prolonged absence(almost a year) was due to a couple of unfortunate events (re: failing Final CA exam). However here I am, enroute Delhi via train, watching the silhouettes of trees and mountains as they pass by, unperturbed, for those who genuinely care about my writing (however few you’ll might be :D). In all these months I have formed in my mind several write-ups on various topics ranging from politics to chess to raconteurs. However as I try penning it down today, most of them seem vague and absurd. Thus, ‘a long break’ has been added to my list containing reasons for writers block.
In other news, I tried my luck at Ghost writing. The money sure is an added bonus but the feeling of the knowledge that my work is worthy of being published in the papers and on the web is just unparalled.
Checking out with the hope that I find the time and the motivation to write many more blogs.
The Finance Minister namely; Mr. P. Chidambaram presented the last budget for the current UPA tenure two days back. The last budget of any outgoing government is an interim budget, which is in effect for merely till the time the incumbent government leaves the office, due to which not many significant changes were expected. However, the Finance minister tried his level best to grab the attention of as many voters as possible for the upcoming elections with as few populist measures as possible such as one rank one pension for military personnel and the education loan subsidy to clean up the bank loan. What was noteworthy was the bold move undertaken by the FM by decreasing the excise duty of all segments across the automobile industry by 4-6% in an attempt to revive the automobile industry. Although the news was hailed by auto industry and investors alike, skeptic critics termed it as an end result of ubiquitous lobbying.
As Indian budgets tend to be, this too was packed with dramatic hyperbole statements, with the most apt example being the aforementioned couplet by Sage Thiruvalluvar. In all probability the words were a potshot at his fellow competitors, while pointing out not-so-subtly, UPA’s achievement over the years. The FM in order to back his point, narrated the attainments of UPA over the last 10 years.
The most important of all points in the speech, which the FM was exceptionally proud was the Fiscal deficit and the CAD figures. The FM proudly pointed out that he had contained Fiscal deficit at 4.6% of the GDP and the current account deficit stood at $45 billion. However, the ends doesn’t justify the means. The ways used by the FM to achieve those figures were criticized by experts, who pointed out that the FM had merely rolled over some expenses and slashed planned expenditure.
Merely altering rates of taxes, clearing projects and reducing expenditure cannot get out the economy from the dump. Fundamental changes such as introducing GST, DTC and IFRS along with privatization is the key to fiscal consolidation. The FM has quite clearly failed to address these issues. However whether or not he has managed to convince the people of India to stick to his party remains to be seen.
Right now he’s just content sitting out there. Gazing at the cars which zoom past by. He knows there’ll come a time where he’ll suddenly feel restless. He’ll get up and do something. Something with a defined motive. Something that will bring about a change. He knows that time will come soon. But right now he’s just content sitting out there. Gazing at the cars which zoom past by.
As every writer is obliged, I too am to write about the year which passed by. With a few more hours to go, it is almost time to bid adieu to 2013 and thus I shall recollect the events which made this year notable. I shall not be exaggerating if I would claim that the year has been a depressing one. On a worldwide scale, the Cyprus Bailout early in the year, put a dent in the much shaky EU financial system. Moreover, the Edward Snowden chapter raised questions on the fundamentals of human rights, while the Wikileaks latest release on the secret Transpacific Agreement further propagandizing the fact and alluded the ever-widening grip of capitalism in our lives. The ObamaCare programme fiasco and the US Shutdown marred Obama’s administration, while we are once again poised for another showdown between the Republics and the Democrats in the first half of 2014.
Closer to home, the UPA did not seem to have learnt from their earlier mistakes. The PM failed to adequately respond to allegations of him being involved in the 2G spectrum scam and the Coal Blocks allocation scam. The Food Security Bill passed in September 2013, which aimed at providing food grains at a subsidized rate was touted as a delusionary tactic in order to win over the masses before the upcoming elections. The Sand mining scam involving IAS officer Durga Shakti Nagpal and the NSEL scam further pointed out how incompetent the UPA 2.0 era was.
Nevertheless, the year did bring its reasons to be cheerful. The financial markets made a comeback with most indexes outperforming their corresponding debt market benchmarks; while Dow trades at all time high. The European Union finally stabilized during the latter half of the year after a rocky couple of years. Shifting focus back to my home country; as India was embroiled between a BJP – Congress war of words, there emerged another successor in the form of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) led by Arvind Kejriwal. Not that I am a stout supporter of any particular party, AAP has managed to spur a nation wide movement against corrupt leaders, which had seemed impossible until only a short while ago.
On a much personal level, Manchester United winning the Premier league earlier this year did cheer me up while Pierre Omidyar and Jeff Bezos investing in various kinds of journalism reinstated my belief in its future.
In the end, a moment for those we lost during the year; Nelson Mandela, James Gandolfini of the ‘Sopranos’ fame, Martin Richard and others who were killed during the Boston bombings amongst various other people.
Concluding the post with a hope that 2014 be memorable. Cheers!
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Quite simply, the contents of my literary pursuits: an assortment of book reviews, eccentric musings, and practical insights.
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Off the feng shui. Do I hear Cha Ching?? Wearing this bracelet attracts money money money $$ Handmade comes blessed. Turtles are big in the spiritual world for Good Luck & money.
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Why Am I Writing My Story?
Recently, I have been seeing some news about INTCAS immigration fraud and visa scam. As an INTCAS victim, I also want to share my story here. It is a story of what seems too scary to be true. Yet, it is. It is a reality of a scam administered by a Pakistani gang, of how a bogus college turned out to be human trafficking of asylum seekers, and of the mastermind of it all, Zakaria Mahmood.
My name is Aisha, and I am a 22-year-old girl living in Lahore. I was born in Sheikhupura and went to university in Lahore to study computer science. I always wanted to go abroad for a Masters degree. After some research online, I found INTCAS. I contacted them, asking about the process of getting a student visa. In the beginning, everything seemed professional. However, I noticed that getting a student visa for the UK is not as easy as I hoped. It requires a lot of money and a high level of English. I had to get an IELTS 7 along with around £30,000 to cover my tuition fee and living expenses for a year. On top of that, I had to add a flight cost and an English exam cost.
I told INTCAS staff that it is too expensive, and I want to defer it for later. However, they told me not to worry and that someone will contact me soon to discuss other opportunities. After two days, my phone rang. A person on the other end introduced himself as Zakaria Mahmood, the owner of INTCAS. He said that from my accent, he guesses I speak Urdu. Then he switched to Urdu, wanting me to trust him. He asked about my background and family. Then, about my goals after getting a Masters. I told him that I just want to leave Pakistan for good because I am young and I know I have no future here. Thus, I would love to live in Britain.
Zakaria Mahmood told me that under a student visa, I would not be able to work. Additionally, when my one-year visa expires, I have to return back to my own country. It wasn\’t a very good option for me. Having to spend £30,000 only to stay in Britain for a year did not sound great. However, Zakaria Mahmood told me that he has a suggestion, given my background. He suggested seeking asylum in the UK, which was the first time I ever heard of it. I got slightly scared and asked how that was possible. He said that when I arrive, I will get a free house, free money paid to my bank account every week, and also free healthcare. He told me I also can become a British citizen in a few years. I was still worried and told him that I really don\’t know how this can work. He told me not to worry as he will do everything from A to Z for £10,000.
I was ready for the flight. INTCAS sent me a ticket, which was under my real name, to Istanbul. In Lahore airport, I showed my Pakistani passport and boarded the plane. However, when I landed in Istanbul, according to the plan, I showed my Spanish passport. I was scared to death to be caught. I passed the border and got an entry stamp on my forged passport.
In Turkey, a man from INTCAS was waiting for me. He got me a taxi, and we went to a guesthouse, which was a cheap hostel, in Istanbul. The guests there were mainly Pakistani men waiting for their flight. He told me to stay there for 3 days. I called Zakaria Mahmood and he suggested me to enjoy Istanbul for a few days before my next flight. On the day of my flight to London, the same man from INTCAS took me to the airport. He didn\’t fill out an online check-in, so I had to go to the kiosk myself. A person at the kiosk asked me where I am flying to. “London,” I replied. He scanned my passport. It was a regular procedure, after all. Suddenly, his face changed and he told me to wait a minute. My heart sank with fear. But I held on. The kiosk guy came back with another, a slightly older, man. They scanned the passport again. I heard them talking in Turkish. These were the most difficult moments of my life. I was terrified. They asked me to wait for another couple of minutes.
Then, my worries and anxieties became real. I felt that trouble was coming, and quickly. Two armed police officers came. The airline staff told me that they found out my passport to be fake. They had no choice but to hand me over to the border police. I started crying and couldn\’t speak, fear and emotion engulfing me. I got arrested. The police officers led me to a detention room. They took all my belongings, including my phone. I was not allowed to even talk to my family.
There were around 10 other women in the airport detention centre. All were from different nationalities, and all caught for a forged passport or visa. One of them was also an INTCAS customer. She was from Tajikistan. She was crying vigorously, and her English wasn\’t good. She was only asking for help. We were detained there for 3 days. After that, we went for an interview with the airport police. An officer told me I got caught with a fake passport, and I will be deported back to Pakistan with a ban to enter Turkey for 5 years. They returned my belongings and asked me to book the first flight back.
I called Zakaria Mahmood immediately. I was screaming at him. There was no way I could hold back all the fury and devastation I had. He tried to calm me down. He promised that it is not a big deal and that he has people in Pakistan to take care of me. How could I argue? I had no choice. I was desperate, but I trusted him. Only now I understand what a fool I was. I was sent back to my country. However, on my arrival, Pakistani police retained my passport and arrested me for immigration fraud. This was a lot worse than Turkey. Although, at least I had the chance to call my family.
Much happened, but my family released me under a bail. My passport stayed with the police, and I am barred from leaving Pakistan for 3 years. Now, I have police records. My future is ruined. I called Zakaria Mahmood and all he is promising is another passport, so we can give it another try. But I am too scared. I will not do this thing again in my life. However, if there is anything I can make out of this experience, it is a warning. Do not sign up for INTCAS, or any similar visa scamming company or group. This is a human trafficking Pakistani gang. This is passport forgery and immigration fraud. They lure people in with their bogus college and fake promises of a bright future. Learn from my experience and avoid them at any cost. I think it is vital for people like me to come forward and expose the crimes of INTCAS and Zakaria Mahmood.
I genuinely hope Zakaria Mahmood reads this and will contact me soon. I want my money back.
P.s. Please find the pictures of the passport and ID forged by INTCAS here.
This complaint and/or review was posted on HolySmoke.org on 08:14 am, January 27, 2019 (CST) and is a permanent record located at: https://www.holysmoke.org/crime/intcas/.
The reviews & complaints posted about INTCAS was submitted by a member or guest on this website. Any and all opinions and information are published as is. HolySmoke.org does not edit or remove any aspect of the report and is simply a consumer grievance free-speech platform. As such, HolySmoke.org cannot be held liable for the complaints and reviews posted about INTCAS as per Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.
I am a minor shareholder at INTCAS. I was approached by their management last year and I was offered a small share in the company and I accepted it. However, I am finding very disturbing materials about this company which I really don’t want to be associated with at any capacity.
I watched the whole of this video and there is not a single reference to Zakaria Mahmood or INTCAS. You have taken a genuine video of a crime in Thailand and have attempted to link these crimes to the above named bodies simply to malign their reputation. Also your fake story about Aisha makes absolutely no sense! Unfortunately the world is full of low lives like the person publishing this story.
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GEM elettronica developed specific Tools for Surface and Underground Projects in the field of Mining and Civil Engineering. ORIENT and ORIENT PLUS meet the most demanding industrial engineers requirements removing the human setup errors. Wireless Connectivity makes the product easily controllable and manoeuvrable by a single technician, improving productivity and safety.
Thanks to absence of moving parts and High Reliability Technology, these systems does not require any maintenance or recalibration and they can ensure a long lifetime in extreme environments.
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Like many other Web sites, www.boomgates.com.au makes use of log files. The information inside the log files includes internet protocol ( IP ) addresses, type of browser, Internet Service Provider ( ISP ), date/time stamp, referring/exit pages, and number of clicks to analyze trends, administer the site, track user’s movement around the site, and gather demographic information. IP addresses, and other such information are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable.
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Discussion in 'F1 2010 - The Game' started by Kris Cabrera, Oct 30, 2010.
Just wondering if i pick the red bull car to go run in time trails and figure out a setup for a track and then save it.
Then transfer that setup to my career lotus car, will it be the same?
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Does individual rational behaviour lead to collective rational outcome? It is time to dive in to the world of individual definitions, nomenclature and qualitative perceptions.
Since Obama came to power in 2008, the running money spigots added about $2.6 trillion to the system through multiple Quantitative Easing (QE) programs. From the end of 2008 to end 2011, US GDP increased by $800 billion. c.$3.3 of fresh money printing corresponded to $1 increase in GDP. Some may argue, as indeed they do, that absent this QE, the danger of economic contraction was real, considering how much credit markets and confidence had frozen up. With the latest QE (Sep 13, 2012) the Fed is empowered to print money in unlimited amounts, dressed up in novel nomenclature, and they stand ready to do whatever it takes to revive the economy and until the labour market 'improves substantially'. This is essentially euphemism for more digging into the bottomless money pit to create new forms of debt. However, viewed against the grave counterfactual, one may put forward a case for Obama, supporting the money printing exercise. Benefit of doubt.
Considering government numbers, the unemployment rate was essentially unchanged over Obama's term. It went up, then went down, quite coincidentally close to the election. Depending on how one looks at the numbers and who one peruses, figures vary but overall, it may be summed up that Obama's first stint wasn't a job-fuelling term. Again, one may argue that in the absence of QE, unemployment might have been worse. Benefit of doubt.
All newly created money is essentially debt, which has balooned over Obama's term.
Household Debt as a % of disposable income peaked at 130% of income in 07/8, has reduced somewhat since; and now runs at 110-115% of income. Deleveraging? A chunk of this reduction has come thanks to bad debt written off by banks, many of whom were receipients of Obama's QE handouts. Never mind the circle. Benefit of doubt.
A tidbit about US debt is insightful. It took the US 193 years to ratchet up the first $1 trillion to its sovereign debt. It then took 20 years to add the next $5 trillion, then just 10 years to add $10 trillion. Building inertia of acceleration.
Obama administration opened the bottomless money pit in an attempt at reviving the economy/creating jobs, put money in the hands of those already sinking in debt, grappling with restructuring...so they could spend more. On the first two counts one may extend the benefit of doubt (Obama inherited a busted economy at the onset of the crisis), on the last, benefit of doubt may be sought under the refuge of 'time will tell'. Ask Japan.
New debt is being created (an expenditure), in order to kick start spending (another expenditure), while increases in revenue is mired in a haze. Piling on debt when overall debt is a fraction of GDP is different from piling on debt while sitting atop a debt mountain.
Hispanics and African-Americans strongly preferred Obama. This followed a repeat in 2008.
Low net worth + home repossession concerns + uncertain job scenario + pro-common man's presence + assumed familiarity + easy money policies, is a strong premise pointing to where this vote was most likely headed.
This kind of extreme performance in financial markets in the backdrop of a flaccid economy may strike one as paradoxical. Much of it is thanks to the near costless, easy money programs that Obama administration championed.
If one turns next to the investor base that would benefit from this kind of performance, one would notice something interesting.
In summary, a Left-leaning President's pro-common man policies was the best thing to have happened to the pro-market, pro-wealthy 1% (Right leaners, mainly); while having a soft impact on reviving the economy/creating jobs. Even if Obama increased taxes, the 1% would breathe easy, thanks to the windfall gains they made in the financial market.
Much of the developed world's problems is thanks to spending more than their revenue and borrowing to fund the gap. The Republicans' plan, while vague (one cannot spell out everything), clunky, and with visible loose ends and gaps, would draw the curtains on QE, and easy money.
The 1% benefited under Obama (thanks to QE). Prospective Occupy Wall Street groups and haters of the wealthy might do well to pause awhile before re-training their guns on the 1%. Romney would have been quite the party spoiler.
The herd directs its ire on the 1%, while the strongest catalyst that helped the 1% (Obama) is loved and voted back in power. But it is fair to expect that the 1% will continue to be vilified, even as perceptions towards Obama rise concomitantly.
The Right would rather sit well with the Left candidate. Kicking the can down the road is the in thing with no reversal in sight.
Oddities are the order of the day.
Would the Republican plan of deficit balancing work? Could a gaffe-ridden, politically gauche Romney have turned out a better candidate? Would Obama be able to translate oratorical elan and gallery-playing into addressing deep-rooted issues facing the economy? What of foreign policy? Climate change? Healthcare reform?
Many have articulated views on some, or all, these topics without really knowing whose policies might really work. A mental anchor is sought and the first available anchor, howsoever a Chimaera, is embraced.
Humans exhibit a ready tendency for optimism. The murkiness hierarchy typically runs from the present, past, to the future; in increasing order. When standing in the present, with a cursory picture of the past record, and little or no anchor to depend on for the future, humans innately lean towards a mix of preferring the status quo and optimism.
To expect an entire voter base to express an opinion considering all factors, and assigning appropriate weights to each, is a Holy Grail expectation. Individual self-interest frequently leads to sub-optimal collective outcomes.
The anti-Romney brigade tend to project their immediate self-interests and belief systems, frequently using these as a yardstick against which to judge the rest of the electorate. The anti-Obama camp reciprocate.
Voting one's self-interest is an individually rational choice, aimed at leading to a workable outcome, even if far from ideal. However, the process of interaction of individual actions frequently leads to sub-optimal outcomes. As an ancillary consequence, the opposite emotions of ire and exuberance that follow, turn out to be frequently misplaced too.
The prevalent dogma is feel-good, hear-good, and perennial can kicking. Voters get what they look for, not what is in the collective best interest. In a clash of propaganda, the camp with the strongest conviction prevails.
Long feel-good, short reality; continues to remain the flavour of the season.
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The whole idea behind the project is that courts and their associated programs often don’t have the necessary resources to obtain good information about program functioning. In RSI’s experience, the courts’ biggest need was for well-designed participant surveys and set out to develop them in collaboration with the ABA Section of Dispute Resolution and with the help of a fantastic group of nationally-known experts in ADR research and program administration.
Participant surveys are essential for obtaining information not only about participant experience, but about mediator quality as well. Unfortunately, it’s not easy to design them correctly. They are deceptively complex to create. There’s a science to them, and if you don’t know the science, you’re not going to write the types of questions that let you obtain good information from them. You need to write clear, unambiguous questions that respondents have the ability to answer. Time and again, we had seen surveys that failed on one or more of these factors.
That’s where the Model Surveys Committee stepped in. Our group worked out every question based on years of experience designing surveys. We then sent the surveys for comment from other experts, and then tested them in the field. The process led us to include some new questions not used before in post-mediation surveys and to omit ones that are commonly used. We found, for example, that the commonly used question, “Was the outcome of the mediation fair?” was not a good question – for a very surprising reason. Some had thought it might not provide any information because no one would sign an agreement they didn’t think was fair. We discovered instead that people who said the outcome wasn’t fair weren’t upset by this; they saw the outcome as the best they could get and were satisfied with it. Therefore, the question wasn’t providing us the information we were seeking and we deleted it.
Although we developed surveys with large civil cases in mind, I’ve worked with several programs to adapt the surveys for other types of cases. In Illinois, they are currently used for foreclosure and family cases, and they will soon be used for family cases in Nevada. Their use is helping to address incipient problems. For example, in one program, survey responses indicated there were issues with neutrality, leading the program to discuss this problem with the mediators. I encourage you to check out the surveys and to reach out to RSI for help in adapting them.
This entry was posted on Wednesday, April 6th, 2016 at 1:58 pm and is filed under Program Evaluation, Research. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
This was an outstanding effort – by all concerned – with an outstanding result. NOW if systems use the forms and collate the results, they can on a running basis improve their systems. To the extent they SHARE the bottom line results with others, “best practices” could be developed. Of course there may be variances between systems, etc., etc., BUT this is the first unified effort I have ever heard of to do this. For those actually interested in the system(s) working better, the foundation has been laid. Like RSI’s path-finding efforts in Mortgage Foreclosure integrated system evaluation and improvement, this is really getting the job done. Bravo to all who had a hand in it. Hopefully there will be some presentations at conferences about this! If I were an academic, I would really like to get into some of these court systems where it is going to be used and analyze what is going on! They could really benefit from such studies.
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In 1984, Tim Burton made Frankenweenie, a short live-action film that restages the Frankenstein myth in terms of a little boy and his dog. At the time, Disney was so baffled by Burton's macabre vision that it shelved the film and fired the young director. 38 years later, Disney teamed up with Burton again to turn that short into a big-budget stop-motion animated feature film. After 16 features, Burton, the misunderstood genius pushed into exile to follow his demented dreams, has shown everyone just how truly marvelous his monstrous vision can be. Danny Elfman's Music from the Films of Tim Burton celebrates the magic the director and composer created together, but it's also a good time to recognize the cinematic alchemy that is Tim Burton.
It's no accident that the Frankenstein myth is central to Burton's work, and not simply because he finds beauty in monsters. Starting in 1985 with Pee-Wee's Big Adventure (the first work in which Burton and Elfman collaborated), Burton's feature films have re-animated different genres, styles, and formats to create something new and startling. With each new film, Burton demonstrates a remarkable talent for inventiveness, for recombining bits and pieces of past movies, comic books, and stories to create something entirely new. From turning the ghost story on its head in Beetlejuice to infusing the superhero myth with new blood in Batman to taking classic literature through the looking glass of his imagination, Burton frames the stories we think we know to show us something strange and wondrous. Like the good Dr. Frankenstein, Burton stitches together the fragments of our shared cultural experience––be they B-movie thrillers, European art film, comic books or high modernism art––to create cinematic creatures that take on a life of their own. Here are nine feature films that showcase the remarkable range of Burton's transformative imagination.
From the start of Danny Elfman's 4/4 beat, step-right-up-folks music for the opening credits of Tim Burton's 1985 Pee-wee's Big Adventure, we know the circus is in town. If Elfman set the tone, it was the meeting of two crazed minds, Paul Reubens and Tim Burton, that set the adventure in motion. After the unexpected success of his TV series The Pee-Wee Herman Show, Paul Reubens was given the opportunity to write (and star) in a feature film. He had nearly completed a script when new inspiration struck him after he noticed all the people riding bicycles to get about the Warner Brothers lot. Taking his cue from Vittorio De Sica's neo-realist The Bicycle Thief, Reubens conjured up a yarn about Pee-wee traveling the country in search of his stolen bicycle. And Reubens found just the man to bring his tale to the screen while watching Burton's short, Frankenweenie. "I was looking at the wallpaper in this bedroom and the lighting and just going, 'This is the guy who has style and understands art direction,'" he told Ain't It Cool News in 2012.
The appreciation was mutual. For Burton, Pee-wee was so dynamic a character that all he had to do as a director was put him on screen. "What we did was thrust people into his world," Burton explained to Starlog in 1988. "We said, "This is Pee-wee, believe him or not." Every stop along Pee-wee's trek across the American West gave director and star another chance to stretch their imaginations. From the cartoon-come-to-life biker bar to the dinosaurs as props to the stop-motion animation of a ghost truck driver, the film is as chock full of ideas and allusions as Pee-wee's own playhouse was with wacky gadgets. Wrapped up in a candy-color palette, the film made no distinction between the childlike and the adult, with references to Jacques Tati and Kiss Me Deadly racing about with Tex Avery cartoons. Buoyed by Elfman's delightful score, Pee-wee's Big Adventure maps out a cultural landscape filled with infinite jest and possibility, a world that Burton would explore further with each new film.
Danny Elfman's high spirited musical intro to 1988's Beetlejuice, with the French horns, tubas, and trombones blasting out a melody both jubilant and ominous, sets just the right tone to Burton's cinematic danse macabre. "It has elements of horror, but it's not really scary and it's funny, but not really a comedy," explained Burton when asked to describe the film in an interview with Starlog. "Beetlejuice is one of those movies that just does not fit any place." It was the impossible-to-pin-down structure of Michael McDowell's original screenplay that drew Burton to the project in the first place. "When I read it, I thought 'Wow! This is sort of interesting. It's very random. It doesn't follow what I would consider the Spielberg story structure,'" Burton told Rolling Stone. As a sort of updated Topper, Beetlejuice turns the haunted house genre inside out by telling the story of the dead being tormented by the living. A recently deceased couple, Barbara and Adam Maitland (Geena Davis and Alec Baldwin), are trying to protect their quaint Connecticut farmhouse from a yuppie family––a hilariously shrill artist (Catherine O'Hara), her stressed-out husband (Jeffrey Jones), and their Goth daughter (Winona Ryder)––who have bought the Maitland's residence and are trying to hideously redecorate it. To protect their home, the Maitlands turn to a renegade "bio-exorcist," played by Michael Keaton, to wreak havoc on the living. Like the score, which moves madly from Elfman's allusions to Grieg's In the Hall of the Mountain King to a full-throttled rendition of Harry Belafonte's "Day-O," Burton's imaginative world is equally diverse. Starting with a Grant Wood-like New England landscape (quickly overtaken by a spider), the film moves with the jittery stand-up comic energy of its malevolent hero all over the place. Part stop-motion animation, part prop humor, part slapstick, part social satire, Beetlejuice is less a haunted house than a crowded attic of cultural and cinematic artifacts. And for some critics, that jumble makes the film great. "With crazy comedy," the New Yorker's Pauline Kael wrote, "you settle for the spurts of inspiration, and Beetlejuice has them…enough…to make this spotty, dissonant movie a comedy classic."
At the start of Burton's 1989 Batman, Elfman's score has violins and trombones, separated only by a few octaves, play the same melody, as if in agreement on the emergence of a new hero. Finding a new hero was exactly the mandate that Tim Burton and the producers set for themselves in bringing DC Comics's other great superhero back to the screen. According to Alan Jones in Cinefantastique in 1989, the movie's producer Michael Uslan announced at the time, "The film must be about the creature of the night and capture the spirit of what Batman was originally about." For Burton, that meant ignoring the campy '60s version, as well as a script provided to him that was, he told Burton biographer Mark Salisbury, Superman with the names changed: "It had the same jokey tone… They didn't acknowledge any of the freakish nature of it… it's a guy dressing up as a bat and no matter what anyone says, that's weird." For his version, Burton would take what was "weird" about the character and made it even stranger and more sinister. The hero was solitary, so Robin was vanquished. To keep the hero unpredictable, Burton cast Michael Keaton, a traditionally comic actor, as the lead. The film's black comedy would fall to its villain, Jack Nicholson, who was given free license to unleash his anarchical talent as the Joker. But even more overwhelming would be his Gotham City. Mixing comic book style, German expressionist lighting, and allusions to Fritz Lang's Metropolis, Burton and his team re-built not just a franchise, but a whole universe as well. "You should create your own reality," Burton's production designer Anton Furst explained to The Hollywood Reporter. "We ended up with this rather interesting idea of canyons, with structures cantilevered forward and bridges over them. We even took things like prison architecture and stretched into skyscrapers." And Elfman's score, from its heroic intro to a silky waltz number for the Joker to its joyous trumpet fanfares, keeps the dark mystery of this comic adventure alive (and weird) throughout.
Elfman's title music for Burton's 1990 Edward Scissorhands, with each note of its wintery waltz of celesta and plucked strings as sharp and brilliant as the blades of the hero's hands, tells us we are entering a world of childhood dreams. Elfman told Entertainment Weekly that "Edward was this pure joyful experience, just a very simple thing." The film originated from Burton's own childhood in Burbank, CA, from a drawing he made about a boy, as Burton explains in his DVD commentary, "who couldn't touch, a character who had emotions, who wanted to feel things, but, because of the sharpness of his fingers, couldn't actually touch somebody." Later, Burton commissioned novelist Caroline Thompson to transform that image into a screenplay. What emerged was a retelling of the Frankenstein legend in which the monstrous meets the mundane. A man-made boy, Edward (played by Johnny Depp in his first of many films with Burton) finds his fate sealed when his Inventor (Vincent Price) dies before he can finish his hands. Eventually adopted by suburban mom Peg Boggs (Dianne Wiest), Edward almost finds a normal life––he even falls in love with Winona Ryder––before his razor-sharp appendages cause the town to turn on him in a scene reminiscent of the villagers trapping the monster in James Whale's 1931 Frankenstein. For Burton, this poetic split between the suburban and the strange was in many ways a self-portrait. While many of the townsfolk, and their love for Tom Jones, were lifted directly from his memory, the film's casting of Vincent Price and its referencing of classic Universal horror movies showcase the things that most touched him as a boy feeling alone and separate in suburban Burbank.
The moment we hear the eerie whine of a theremin in Elfman's score for 1996's Mars Attacks!, we are transported back to the movies of Burton's youth, specifically Robert Wise's 1951 classic The Day the Earth Stood Still, featuring composer Bernard Hermann's unworldly musical cues. "That was the first film where I noticed the music," Elfman recalled to Cinefantastique in 1996, "and was aware as a kid that the music isn't just there by magic." Burton's movie is both a salute to and spoof of those Saturday matinee adventures, as well as a nod to '70s disaster film. With a cast that includes Jack Nicholson, Glenn Close, Annette Bening, Pierce Brosnan, Martin Short, Michael J. Fox, Rod Steiger, Tom Jones, Jim Brown, Pam Grier, Jack Black, and Paul Winfried––to name only a few––the film recalls the mega-wattage star power of film events like The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno. The title and premises, however, were gleaned from a series of 1962 trading cards that rather violently imagined an alien takeover. Screenwriter Jonathan Gems found the cards in a junk shop and suggested Burton option them for a film. The resulting big-budget extravaganza, exalting in intentionally schmaltzy effects and a comic-book art direction, chronicles the widespread death and destruction levied on earth by a Martian army, until the film's young hero (played by Lukas Haas) discovers that the creatures explode when they hear Slim Whitman's "Indian Love Call." Despite Mars Attacks!'s many allusions to classic sci-fi, it was a modern alien invasion, Roland Emmerich's 1996 Independence Day––released just months before it––that most defined it. While the two covered the same ground, Burton quipped at the time "it almost seemed like we had done kind of a Mad magazine version of Independence Day."
While Burton's 1999 adventure Sleepy Hollow is inspired by Washington Irving's 1820 short story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, a classic of early American literature, Burton and his team took their visual cues from British films and characters. The story, of course, has been drastically altered. Irving's schoolteacher gives way to the film's Ichabod Crane (Johnny Depp), a police detective looking to debunk the myth of the headless horseman with newly developed forensic science. Burton, whom Paramount hired to direct the dark period piece, had an early connection to the story. One of his CalArts animation teachers had worked on the 1949 Disney version. The film also allowed him to dive fully into a genre he'd been splashing in for decades. "I had never really done something that was more of a horror film," Burton told The Guardian's Mark Kermode. But rather than turn to Hollywood horror, Burton wanted to reference the British Hammer Films studio, famous in the '60s and ' for such macabre Technicolor works as Dracula: Prince of Darkness and Dr. Jekyll & Sister Hyde. As Burton told the newspaper, Hammer's brand of horror, with its "dark and lurid colors, the sexiness of it and the strength of them going for it in the way a good folk tale would," provided just the right aesthetic to transform Irving's tale from a ghost story to a full-blown sensual horror. Burton even cast Christopher Lee, a star of the Hammer genre, for a cameo. That luxuriant overgrown sensibility extended into nearly every aspect of the film. "We wanted a sort of portentousness,'' production designer Rick Heinrichs explained in the New York Times, ''houses with growths on them: tumorous, interesting shapes growing out of other shapes all kind of huddled together.'' And Danny Elfman's score, mixing lush romantic string cues with ethereal and haunting vocals, intertwined horror and beauty through out the film, capturing the feel of those dark films in which danger and decadence were so closely aligned.
Burton's 2003 Big Fish mines the rich vein of American folklore to come up with a film that speaks to the director's experience both as a son and storyteller. "My father had died before I got the film," he recalled to the BBC's Jamie Russell at the time. "And I was thinking a lot about those issues and how abstract that relationship is and how hard it is to communicate those feelings in that parent-child relationship." Adapted by John August from Daniel Wallace's novel, Big Fish dramatizes the relationship between William Bloom (Billy Crudup) and his dad Edward (Albert Finney), a rascally teller of tall tales that makes his son doubt he can believe anything his dad says. With Ewan McGregor standing in for the young Edward, we see his stories come to life with brightly colored country landscapes populated with mermaids, werewolves, human giants, glass-eyed witches and, of course, a whale-like catfish. For Burton, and eventually for William in the film, the question is not whether the stories are true, but how true. "I've always been fascinated by what people's perception of normal is, and the quest for what normal is," Burton told KCRW's Elvis Mitchell. And Elfman's score, drawing on the idiom of American bluegrass, with its earthy mix of banjos, guitars, and fiddles, helps ground this distinction between fantasy and folklore, between what is made up and what is exaggerated. Indeed, Elfman's twangy tones, like Edward's drawn out tales, are all about stretching the truth, not abandoning it. For many, the film's balance between his folkloric menagerie and a more personal family tale marks a new direction for Burton and his collaborators. "The tension inherent in this fable of a father with his head in the clouds and a son with his feet on the ground brings out a bracing maturity in Burton and gives the film its haunting gravity," wrote Rolling Stone's Peter Travers. "As the son learns to talk to his father on the father's terms and still see him clearly, Big Fish takes on the transformative power of art."
Before adapting Roald Dahl's 1964 classic children's book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory to the screen, Tim Burton and Danny Elfman had to confront the proverbial cotton-candy elephant in the room––Mel Stuart's iconic 1971 musical Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, with Gene Wilder as the confectionary tycoon (and a delightful score by Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse that resulted in at least one chart-topping hit, "Candy Man"). The filmmakers' solution was to look the other way. "Tim made it really clear from the beginning that we weren't even going to get close" to the original, Elfman told Entertainment Weekly, "In fact, he wanted to do the opposite." With that decision, Burton opened up the factory gates, providing both composer and director unlimited access to a massive warehouse of pop music and movie references. The project gave Burton a golden ticket to run wild with his imagination, styling his sugary fantasy from things as diverse as Bill Brandt's art photography, fascist architecture, and sci-fi classics like 2001: A Space Odyssey. And Elfman was like a kid in candy store, pulling freely from musical traditions and styles to match up with the personality of the different children who'd won an opportunity to visit the famous chocolate factory. The gluttonous German girl Augustus Gloop was given a Bollywood theme, a genre that would prove a stylistic inspiration for both Burton and Elfman through out the film. The shallowness of the spoiled Veruca Salt was played out by her Abba-esque theme, with just enough of quivering sitar to recall the Bollywood conceit. The ultra competitive Violet Beauregard gets down with a funky beat. And the violent TV-obsessed Mike Teavee rocks out with a Queen-like rock anthem. Elfman even added his own voice to the mix of Oompa Loompas.
Filmmakers have always found Lewis Carroll's 1865 fantasy Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, an adventure about a little girl thrown into a dream landscape ungoverned by laws of time and space, to be a perfect metaphor for cinema itself. First adapted in 1903, the story of Alice has been remade some 15 times, in versions ranging from ponderous to pornographic, before Burton decided to visit Wonderland. As Tim Burton explained to a 2009 Comic-Con crowd, these earlier interpretations inspired him to give "some framework and emotional grounding that I felt I'd never seen" before. While a very loose interpretation of Carroll's original tale, Burton's Alice in Wonderland nevertheless echoes the original's inventiveness and unpredictability. Keeping the book's iconic cast of characters, from the Mad Hatter (played by Johnny Depp) to the haughty Red Queen (Helena Bonham Carter), Burton tried very hard, he explained, "to give them their own specific weirdness." Equally weird and specific is his wonderland, a whirling hallucination of distortion and beauty created by CGI and shown in 3D. But the heart of the story is Alice (played by Mia Wasikowska) as a young woman intent on taking control of her destiny. Fueling her adventure is Elfman's wondrous score, which glides gracefully between delicate pastoral cues to Wagnerian tones to its glittering operatic opening, "Alice's Theme." But, as the composer explained to TrailerAddict.com, "Alice doesn't have one theme; she has several. One playing the sweeter more innocent side of her as she begins the story, very naïve and somewhat weak. And one for the Alice that emerges at the end, which is stronger." As such, Elfman's second theme brings Burton's Alice through the looking glass to give her an emotional trajectory so missing in previous versions.
Danny Elfman's Music from the Films of Tim Burton runs Monday, July 6-Sunday, July 12, with a special artist talk on July 9.
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An increase in material well-being is in itself a good thing, but it also changes the quality of our lives in other ways.1 In 1000 AD the vast majority of lives were dominated by the simple business of survival. There was little need of education and little opportunity for it. Only the simplest forms of music and culture existed, and the human experience was further narrowed by superstitious fears. The move away from poverty resulted in a blossoming of the human experience.
Improved material well-being also resulted in substantially longer lives. Infant mortality (defined as death within the first year of life) declined, and the life expectancy of those who survived infancy rose. Malnutrition and its associated diseases became less common, and the mass killers, famine and plague, receded.
Maddison’s life expectancy statistics show that the evolution of life expectancy broadly replicates the evolution of material well-being across both time and space. The two tables below show European and global life expectancies.
As a reference point, the first table shows Egyptian life expectancies during the Roman occupation of Egypt. At the moment of birth a child’s life expectancy was only 24. Almost one-third of the children died within the first year of life, but those who survived that perilous year could expect to live to the grand old age of 36.
Now look at England roughly twelve hundred years later. What gains have been made in life expectancy? None at all: it’s still 24. The first year of life has become less dangerous — only 1 in 5 infants are dying — but life expectancy for those who survived that year has fallen to 31.
The English experienced a gradual improvement in life expectancy over the next few hundred years, mostly through an increase in life expectancy at age 1. By the end of the Industrial Revolution, life expectancy had increase from 24 to 41, a 70% increase. Life expectancy for those who survived the first year of life had increased by almost 60%.
The French in the early eighteenth century had the same life expectancy as the Egyptians had had seventeen hundred years earlier. It is possible that war and famine, which pushed France to the edge of collapse at this time, were responsible for these brutal numbers. One hundred years later, French life expectancy would match that of the English.
The next table shows the evolution of life expectancy from the end of the Industrial Revolution to the end of the twentieth century. Western Europe experienced a rapid rise in material well-being over this period, and it was accompanied by a doubling of life expectancy. Japan also experienced sustained growth in material well-being, and life expectancy rose by almost 240%. Wealth and long life go together.
Russia did not develop early. The majority of its people remained locked in something like feudal serfdom until the Great Reforms of 1861, and even then progress was slow. The switch from a primarily agrarian economy to a primarily industrial economy did not even begin until the Communist revolution of 1917. This history is reflected in the life expectancies, which did not match European life expectancies until 1950. But neither Communism nor its late-twentieth century abandonment generated sustained growth in material well-being, and Russian life expectancies rose no further.
China, India and Africa are all parts of the world where increases in material well-being came late and slow. Life expectancy in each of these regions in 1900 was the same as life expectancy in Roman Egypt! China and India experienced late and small increases in material well-being, so they experienced big gains in life expectancy only between 1950 and 1999. African economic development continues to lag, as do its life expectancies.
It seems unlikely that the increase in life expectancy can be attributed to the advance of medicine until at least the late nineteenth century. Scholars have keenly studied medicine for millennia, but progress was minimal until modern times. A medical textbook written by the Greek physician Dioscorides around 60 AD was still being reprinted more than 1100 years later, and textbooks written by the Islamic physician Ibn Sina around 1000 AD were still actively used in Europe more than 600 years later. After the Battle of Waterloo (1815) wealthy patients who had had limbs amputated (without antiseptics and without anaesthetics) received medical care that included daily bloodletting. Balancing the humours was believed to be the key to their recovery.
It could be argued that medicine did not become really effective until the introduction of antiseptics, anaesthetics and antibiotics, and these innovations are relatively recent. The use of antiseptics to cleanse wounds and sterilize the operating room was pioneered by Joseph Lister in 1865. Ether was sporadically used as a surgical general anaesthetic during the 1840s, but was not widely used for decades after that. The breakthrough in antibiotics was Alexander Fleming’s isolation of penicillin in 1940.
Not medicine but simple prosperity seems to have been responsible for our lengthening lives. Prosperity gave us better housing with less crowding, better basic hygiene and better nutrition. It gave us time to rest, and the resources to recover from injury or disease without starving. It permitted the development of systems to provide clean water and carry away sewage, reducing the incidence of disease and injury and stretching out our lives.
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Call To Action: How to Solve the Underbanked / Unbanked Problem?
How Much Is Your Pre-Revenue Startup Worth?
Does It Really Matter How Big The Market Is?
Who Is the Father of Venture Capital?
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Join the Grab PowerHour Plus Program, a powered up programme that lets you rent by the hour and makes more by the hour.
Weekly trip incentive by Grab.
$50 referral fee when your friend completes 10 trips within their first 7 days upon activation.
$15 each when you refer a friend with your own referral link and your friend top up $50 into his/her e-wallet.
(a) Do you need to provide Grab any information?
Simply sign up for an account with Grab and mention Tribecar as your rental partner. You do not need to provide any rental agreement/logcard or insurance to Grab.
(b) Do I need to attend Grab’s briefing?
Simple sign up online under the Grab PowerHour via the link below.
At the time of your booking, logout and login your Grab app to see the updated car plate.
(d) What are the terms and conditions of the new promotion launched on 28th Mar 2018?
All Grab drivers registered with Tribecar will be able to book the Standards Cars and the Economy+ Cars from only $3.90 to to $5.90 (starting 2nd Apr 2018, 12:00 hours). These discounts only apply to Weekday hourly rates.
(e) How can I be eligible for the Tribecar's on-going incentives under Grab Powerhour?
You must also fulfill the number of trips as stated above AND have an average rental of $4 (existing Grab drivers already on Tribecar platform) or $5 (new Grab drivers aft 27th Mar 2018) per hour. Example of calculation - $30 (Total rental spent on the week) / 5 (Total number of hours booked) = Average of $6 spent per hour.
(f) Are existing Grab Drivers on Tribecar automatically enrolled in this program?
To enjoy the discounted rates and weekly incentives, the Tribecar member must have been eligible for Grab weekly trip incentives in the last 4 weeks.
(g) I am a new driver from a non-Grab car rental/car-sharing company, is there anything else I need to do to sign up for GPH?
We need to flag your account for Grab usage. Before we can do that, please email us ([email protected]) a copy of your car rental agreement or a screenshot of your past online booking records.
(h) What happens when I stop driving for Grab? Am I still eligible for the discounted rates?
- As a new Grab drive, you obtain a Grab weekly trip incentive for at least 2 weeks in a month.
- For existing Grab drivers, you obtain a Grab weekly trip incentive for at least 3 weeks in 2 months.
If the status is removed, you will not be entitled to the discounted rates.
(i) How long will this program be?
We will review this program every 3 months. For as long as this program is economically viable, Tribecar will continue to run this program.
* To qualify for the above weekly incentives, new drivers need to maintain Acceptance Rate of above 90%, Cancellation Rate of below 10%, Driver Rating of at least 4.3 and be compliant with PDVL Regulations.
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For the past decade or so, a pelvic mesh piece has been one of the treatment options for Australian women living with internal prolapse. Now, many of these women are suffering complications.
The mesh was touted as a revolutionary treatment to minimise complications of prolapse caused by childbirth, injury or hysterectomy.
‘Ambassador for Change’ Jaynie Morris told 6PR’s Chris Ilsley the device was approved for use by the Therapeutic Goods Administration in 2003, despite claims controlled trials were needed.
As a victim of the Dow Corning breast implants controversy in the 1990s, Ms Morris shared her views as to whether Australian women fitted with the mesh were unwitting participants in unofficial clinical trials.
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Art Deco decorative glam is back with this 1930's inspired lantern. Stylishly constructed of a polished nickel stainless steel top and bottom frame, this lantern is surrounded on all sides by heavy weight solid glass tubes.Dress the inside with a candle for reflective, soft lighting.
H:12.5" X W: 9.5" X L" 9.5"
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Are you looking to sell your junk car? It’s something that thousands of people all across country have to contend with. You’re not alone. Have you decided how you’re going to sell it, though?
Most people start out trying to sell a junk car using an online classified site such as Craigslist. Unfortunately, though, this rarely goes as planned. In most cases, private buyers aren’t really interested in junk cars. They want running, functional vehicles -- not cars that are falling apart. The same goes for dealerships, too.
In the end, the best way to sell a junk car is by working with a junkyard. But, going this route comes with its own set of problems. If you’ve ever talked to someone that’s worked with a junkyard, you may have heard one of the many horror stories floating around about them. Not all junkyards are out to scam you, but there’s no question that some of them are.
How do you avoid junkyard scams? The best way is by being aware of some of the most common junkyard scams so that you can spot them from a mile away. Here are the top scams that you’re most likely to encounter at a junkyard.
This might be the most common scam we’ve seen in the world of junk cars. First, you call up a scrap yard and get a quote for your vehicle. They quote you a great price, and you’re excited to sell. Everything seems fine at the outset.
But, when you go to actually collect your cash, the junkyard has changed the price. We’re not talking a tiny change: we’re talking a completely different price. Sometimes, it’s a small fraction of what you were originally offered. If you find yourself in this situation, just walk away. A reputable junk car company won’t do this to you.
Just like the “price change” scam, some junkyards will start out quoting you a fair price for your vehicle...only to change the price on you at the last second. However, rather than changing it outright in an obvious way as mentioned above, this method involves tacking on all sorts of extra, last minute, hidden fees to the transaction. Charging you for towing is a good example of this. Before you know it, you’re getting significantly less for your junk car than you were originally promised.
Some junkyards will try to pay you with a check. We never recommend going along with this. Unfortunately, some consumers have had terrible experiences with junkyards intentionally writing bad checks to customers. When you try to cash the check, it bounces -- and you’re left without a car or any cash to show for it.
Don’t get caught by a junkyard scam artist. Rusty’s Auto Salvage pays major cash for junk cars all across the country, and our reputation is second to none. Visit our website to find out how you can get the most cash for your junk car.
Rustys really made a bad situation turn into a good one by eliminating the hassle of selling my son's car when it broke down. They gave us a great price too. Thanks for the service.
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Think you have what it takes to design premium T-shirts, golf shirts, dress shirts and more? There’s a Baltimore fashion company looking for you . . .
New Start-up Fashion Company seeks creative fashion designer talent for premium shirt designs. T-Shirts, polo shirts, dress shirts, etc.
Could be an excellent opportunity to make an additional income and portfolio builder for exceptional talent. Contact us with examples of your work if you have them. We will provide guidance on what we are looking for and what the message or theme we are interested in creating to.
Thanks for looking and good luck. We look forward to working with great talent.
To apply – See the Original Post.
Hello, I am interested in this work from home job opportunity. I have experience with designing logos and clothing design. I am proficient in Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop.
Creative, Hard working, self-motivated, result-oriented detailed professional with over 5 years extensive experience in creative fashion designer for premium shirt designs. T-Shirts, polo shirts, dress shirts, jeans.
@salem_designer@yahoo.com: That was a job posting on Craigslist in 2009, which is why the page is no longer available there. If you’ve got those mad skills, you certainly have a lot to offer. Look on Craigslist for job postings like this one from 2009 and/or hop on to oDesk and create a profile for yourself to spread the news! If you’re awesome with T’s you might also consider working for yourself via CafePress, Zazzle, or Etsy?!
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The "Southland" star tries his hand at the sitcom world.
Actor Dorian Missick spent several years policing the streets of L.A. on "Southland," but even that might not have prepared him for his latest role as dueling exes with Brandy on "Zoe Ever After," about a mother and her famous boxer husband who have different views of how their divorce should go.
What did you think of this show when they first pitched it to you?
When I first thought about it, the thing that attracted me to it was that Brandy was doing it. I wanted to work with her. And I'd been actively looking for a comedy project after "Southland," which was really heavy. Regina and myself were the comic relief at times on that show to kind of make up for the heaviness, but I wanted to take it further and do a full-on comedy.
It's a comedy, but it does have its moments of seriousness.
Yeah. Which is another reason why I wanted to do it, because it's not just a "three lines, tell a joke, three lines, tell a joke" kind of format that you get a lot of times with sitcoms. I like the fact that you kind of explore all aspects. You can go through every emotion through an episode of "Zoe," and that part was exciting. It's kind of a throwback to the sitcoms that I grew up watching, like "Cheers" or "the Cosby Show," that kind of thing where they were comedic but they also dealt with the issues of the day and dealt with them in a way that they weren't beating you over the head.
What do you think of the idea of starting this couple off so contentious?
I was concerned in the beginning, like, "Where are we going to go with this?" But anybody who's ever been through a big, heavy breakup, it's very rarely clean. I mean, this is a couple that's been together for 20 years and they have a child together. You know it's not just going to be a clean break. It's about watching a couple work through the pain.
Which can be a challenge to make funny.
Yeah, which is why I wanted to do it. Anytime you read something and you think, "How the hell are they going to do this?" that's usually the one you want to jump on board. Because if you can predict it before you even read it, to me as an actor it's not really worth doing.
How does it change your approach to a character when you're playing someone who, in the world of the show, is famous?
It doesn't really that much. His fame is more of a backdrop in the show. It's the same as if you're playing a rich guy; that's just his reality. The little bit of notoriety I've had and being around people who are super-famous, it's really about how other people respond to you. It doesn't change your core values or your behavior, it's just that you have access to better things in life. You don't have to make reservations at restaurants anymore, you have those kinds of benefits. But in terms of how you approach your life and solving problems, it doesn't change that much. At the core, he's a father going through a divorce with the love of his life.
What was it like working with Brandy?
We had to do a screen test together, and two seconds in I knew this was going to be the job. I could kind of tell. She came out to the lobby and we talked before we went in and did the scene in front of the network and stuff, and we hit it off at hello, essentially. We walked into the room and the energy changed. Everybody was so excited to do the scene, and that energy continued out through the entire shoot.
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It is no more news that Governor Ikpeazu is building the first ever over-head bridge in Aba at Osisioma Junction. If you understand the science of semiotics, the Osisioma flyover in Aba must come to you with far deeper meanings that transcend value and convenience. To me, it communicates meanings that are somewhat esoteric. The first interpretation is that it is a project that will add value to the city of Aba and create convenience in transportation for motorists and other road users. Osisioma Junction is a hotspot for traffic jam, a place where madness is taken as part of the daily chore, a place where man and mermaids compete for space within a small radius. The overhead bridge will end this bad narrative.
But, beyond the aesthetics value and the structural importance, I see a message of transition from one milieu to another. I see a revolution but not of victory of arms but victory of change. Revolution is not just about taking up arms and overthrowing an existing political regime, it is also about taking drastic steps and actions that progressively expand the frontiers of our human existence. In discerning the signs embedded in the Osisioma Overhead Bridge, I see a meditated intention at social transformation. Ikpeazu is looking beyond transportation values to creating a new world order for Aba and Abia State. He is creating a new life, a new man and a new season. Indeed, it was part of his campaign promises.
A little ride of about 400 metres and you are at Brass junction. Here a sign beckons on you. The newly paved T-junction and the median that leads to the famous Faulks Road resonate beyond the message of environmental design to a sign about the destination of this all-important road – the Ariaria International Market. There is a concerted effort to turn Ariaria into a great centre of business not only for Nigeria but for the entire West African sub-region. This dream led to a synergy with the office of the Vice President which produced the Ariaria Independent Power Project financed by the Rural Electrification Agency of the Federal Govt. The power project is giving an uninterrupted power at the market to 2,000 shops, on a pilot basis. A second power station that is under construction will provide uninterrupted power to another 34,000 shops in the market.
The construction of Faulks Road and the technology employed in combating the challenge of storm water is another all-important sign. The Ifeobara artificial lake and the effort in recovering Ukwu Mango signify a sincere political will for the victory belies the long-drawn legend of buck-passing, a lazy resignation to fate and a substitute of reason with superstitious beliefs. The sign is that man is indeed the master of his fate.
The sign extends to the large-scale work of comprehensive infrastructural renewal of the commercial city of Aba which has given a new lease of life to the residents. The achievement in fulfilling the primary obligation of government which is the maintenance of law and order. The Governor has excellently fulfilled this primary obligation of government by ensuring that there is adequate security in the state. His fight against kidnapping and other violent crimes has yielded maximum result. There is also the strategic public-private partnerships with various institutional agents in the area of human capital development and skill acquisition.
Significantly, the effort in developing the Small and Medium Scale Enterprises in Abia has produced great results in developing the latent ingenuity and creativity for which Aba is celebrated. It has led to a renewed attention to the artisans of Aba and a review of the future of the fabled Aba Made Goods.
In the first year of his administration, 60 shoemakers were mobilised to Turkey to understudy modern technologies in shoe production. And later another 30 youths were also mobilised to China as the first batch of 100 ambassadors selected for the training in China.
Today, the vision of the New Enyimba City, an economic hub for entrepreneurial integration of the South East and South South regions with a free trade zone status is a landmark project that will raise the bar of development in Aba. Indeed, Ikpeazu charges his people to try to discern the signs. Today, the signs have come alive.
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something i found in Mercs:POG while attacking an NK bunker, testing the shotgun, i saw the words, 'pick up grenades' so i picked them up, and now i have 12 lethal grenades, but no flashes (please note, it doesn't bother me one bit) i don't know what caused it, but i think it had to do with a crate or killing a nk soldier right after he hopped in a turret.
Saw some vehicles in the background of Alpha and Beta screenshots. A variation of the chinese scout car, a North Korean MLRS, and a Russian Mafia Mil Mi-28. Thought these were neat. Anybody got anymore?
New concept art about Mercenaries 3.
Hello. I got nostalgia after playing Just Cause 3 and started looking up on this wiki. I saw the Mercenaries 3: No Limits demo and tried to dig up anything I could. I found this blog spot link when googling "Mercenaries 2 concept art" and was amazed to find this.
This guy, COURT CHU, worked on the entire series as a concept artist.
He talks about the pro-military view of current pop-culture and not the series, unfortunately.
So I'm going to speculate on what the art is showing.
-Mercenaries 3: No Limits was to take place in at least some of the United States, showing the mercenaries in Hollywood, Washington D.C. and NASA HQ in Florida.
-The guy in the demo is shown in a full body shot, he looks like a Native American. He was supposed to be the new guy, I think.
-A Blackfire mercenary, mentioned in the trailer, is also seen. Based on the patch on his arm. Some alternate heads has one of those Army of Two masks.
-Some of the storyboard images show the character of the demo fighting a jet. Maybe hinting that the sequel was going to have fighter jets.
-What I think is the most crazy of all is that the series wasn't supposed to be a new IP, but was to be "Desert Strike 2" a sequel to the Desert Strike on the Sega Genesis and Amiga.
Again this is all speculation, except the last part. I'm not going to take the pictures and post it here because it says at the bottom "All personal artwork is copyrighted by Court Chu unless otherwise noted".
EDIT: He changed the link so I changed it too.
"This vehicle is also available with a PMC disguise as the Broadside."
This is the only mention of the Broadside SUV on the whole wiki. Anyone have any ideas where to get it? If it's a Playstation exclusive like the Serrano light tank? I want to investigate this further and give the vehicle its own page if possible.
I can't decide whether I want to fight with the Allied Nations or the People's Liberation Army. Who do you think?
I like to fight with the morally just factions in video games, but in Mercenaries 2, the morals are blurred. I'm leaning towards China because I strongly dislike UP, and I'm not a fan of this new corrupt oil-seeking iteration of the Allies. Plus, they betray you at the end of the game.
One of the main things that sway me towards them is that they strongly resemble the Allies from the Command and Conquer series, of which I am a hugely massive fan of. I play for the Allies in that series.
I like it when the M1 Abrams appears in fiction, but if I pick China I'll have to fight against it.
vehicles sometimes, not to mention the fact that the white/green camouflage scheme is much better looking in my opinion than the green/brown scheme of the Allies.
Overall, is China/PLAV better morally? I think I'll go with the better morals no matter what the Allies do or have.
Does anyone have any idea where the Emissary Semi is?
I play on PC and I've found a location for every vehicle in the game, or made one by purchasing it, but I can't find the Emissary Semi anywhere. If you remember seeing it somewhere could you tell me where? Also what mission did you do right before that, because I noticed that spawns in the game are affected by mission progress.
My name is Usernamehere and I'm a big editor of the Just Cause wiki, but I have decided to come over here and help you guys out. I thought I'd introduce myself. I play on PC and have Mercenaries 2 only.
Best moneymaking strategies in Mercinaries 2?
I really liked doing the Black Market, Warm Heart delivery but now the time is decreased really low 2:00 minutes, and it's hard to do without losing the hearts. Any other ways to make good amounts of money?
Cheats for Mercinaries 2 XB360 Ed.
Is there a way to get cheats if you don't have the online update? I have read on several websites that the October 2008 update or something is required for cheats, and as I finally bought Mercinaries 2 in the past month for my Xbox, after having it for the PS2 for many years. I am assuming that this update is no longer able to be obtained? Or am I doing something wrong? Anyway, any reply is greatly appreciated.
The Mercenaries Wiki now has Wikia's latest forum feature enabled. The forum feature provides the wiki with a central location for discussions about the wiki and anything about Mercenaries. A link to the forum is provided on the top navigation menu under "On the Wiki" for convenience.
Keep an eye on on News and Announcements for... well... News and announcements.
Give admins your input about large changes on the Admin Discussion board.
Start or engage in a talk about anything relating to the wiki at General Discussion.
Got a burning question about the wiki or Mercenaries? Ask it at Questions and Answers.
Want to share something that's just been posted on this wiki, or congratulate somebody for an outstanding contribution? New on Mercenaries Wiki is the place!
Found something cool on the internetz, a funny video, something slightly disturbing or just plain cool? Let everyone know about it here.
There are some changes I'd like to make to the Wiki navigation; game logos (images) in place of text for the Mercenaries games and a background for the navigation bar. Here's the image I'd like to use for the latter. Both changes would be done by adding the necessary code to MediaWiki:Wikia.css.
One of the more recent features available from Wikia is Maps.
"Wikia Maps allows users to create interactive maps for real world places, images, or fictional worlds. Map pins can be added, edited and customized by the community to create a rich mapping experience. These maps can also be embedded in articles or external websites."
I think Maps would be a good feature to enable on the wiki. I'm sure users will find great use for maps of North Korea and Venezuela with important features and locations pinned.
The Mercenaries Wiki aims to be the provider of the best source of information on the Mercenaries video game series. From Playground of Destruction to World in Flames, surgical strikes to nuclear bunker busters, a rickety old Jaju to a devastating Warsong attack helicopter, the Mercenaries Wiki will provide the best information on everything Mercenaries. Vehicles, weapons, characters, air strikes, contracts and everything else anyone would ever need or want to know about the series can be found here. But we're not finished yet - we need your help - become a merc today. Remember - Everybody edits!
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General Lamps Blog - Which dimmer switches are compatible with my LEDs?
Which dimmer switches are compatible with my LEDs?
Whether you’re installing a new lighting circuit or replacing the lamps in your existing circuit, if you want to use a dimmer switch it’s important to know that the lamps and switch are compatible.
To help us on our way, lighting manufacturers provide lists of all the dimmer switches that they have tested their lamps are compatible with. Unfortunately these lists are sometimes hard to find so to make life easier we’ve created this resource.
To learn more about mains dimming then read our guide which explains the differences in leading edge and trailing edge dimmers and how to check the min-max loads the dimmer can take.
We’ll do our best to make sure the links are kept up-to-date but if you find a link isn’t working do let us know.
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Bankrate: How Much Money Should I Have Saved by Age 30?
Yahoo! Finance: How Does a Health Savings Account Work?
My clients tend to be smart, hard-working, middle-class people who are pretty savvy with their finances before they get to me. But they recognize that knowledge alone doesn’t translate automatically to behavior or success, and that it takes a lot of time to be your own advisor as your life becomes more complex.
So if you feel like you know what you should be doing with your money, but to some extent it’s not happening or is causing you too much time and stress, let’s work together – I work with people both locally and virtually across the country.
As an Accredited Financial Counselor (AFC®), I know how to help you understand your own relationship with money and it's meaning to you. Then I use my knowledge as a Certified Financial Planner™ (CFP®) to utilize the investment and tax strategies that will keep more money in your pocket and build your wealth efficiently. And I believe in providing that service in a transparent, affordable way that has not been available to young families in the past.
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A TRUE ROYALLY BLUE MERMAID!
These socks are so fun and unique! Find your style and have fun wearing! Everyone will be asking where you got these!
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During the economic depression, Huseyin Ozer created cafes where we served healthy, reasonably priced food and at times even allowed the customers to determine the price they paid.
So this is how the chain was born. Our restaurants now are situated in some of the most important areas of London. One is named Özer, and others are Sofra. Huseyin Ozer has contributed to the Turkish-English Chamber of Commerce for many years, sponsoring the Civil Society Organization in London.
Our restaurants have been the first and only Turkish restaurants recommended by the Michelin Guide. Our restaurants distribute Turkish tourism brochures. We promote good Turkish food and hospitality. Our English cookbook ‘Sofra’’ is still in print and sells worldwide.
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Legislation sponsored by Assembly Democrats Pamela Lampitt, Joseph Egan, Annette Quijano, Shavonda Sumter and Joe Danielsen to establish innovation zones surrounding research institutions in the Camden, New Brunswick and Newark areas gained final legislative approval from the Senate on Thursday.
The bill (S-726/1257/A-1405) requires the New Jersey Economic Development Authority to establish an innovation zone program. The executive director of the authority is to recommend the precise geographic boundaries of the innovation zones and subzones to the members of the authority, who are to give their final approval to the geographic boundaries of the innovation zones.
"Innovation zones are a win-win for universities, businesses, hospitals and the state as a whole," said Lampitt (D-Camden/Burlington). "These zones will make New Jersey more inviting to businesses planning to move here as well as keeping the state regionally competitive."
"Taking advantage of the talent and expertise already available in this state to improve our business climate and help our workers is a smart approach," said Egan (D-Middlesex/Somerset). "This is especially important in tough economic times."
"By drawing on existing research and academic facilities, we will do a better job of fostering innovation and creating new entrepreneurial opportunities," said Quijano (D-Union). "New Jersey already boasts one of the most highly educated population centers in the country, and with this we can do more to firmly establish this with new businesses, new opportunities and good jobs."
"By creating a means for a collaborative support system among universities, hospitals and businesses across the state, New Jersey will continue to lead the way academically, technologically and economically and see business and job growth," said Sumter (D-Passaic./Bergen). "Innovation zones create a network for businesses in New Jersey and maintain a pipeline of new employees through relationships with our higher education institutions."
"An innovation has the potential to attract a collaborative research effort between the academic communities, research institutions and New Jersey's high-technology industry, resulting in business and job growth," said Danielsen (D-Somerset/Middlesex). "It's a smart approach for a 21st century economy."
The bill requires the authority, with the approval of the State Treasurer, to modify its existing business assistance programs where permissible by law, to give bonuses or other enhanced incentives to high-technology businesses that locate in an innovation zone, so long as the business location is within the surroundings of a research institution, as determined by the authority in the designation of the innovation zone.
The bill requires the authority and the Secretary of Higher Education to modify their programs, where permissible by law, to promote and support networks and collaboration between high-technology businesses and research institutions in the innovation zones, to increase federal funding to research institutions in areas of strategic importance to New Jersey's high-technology industry, to promote the transfer of technology and commercialization of new ideas in the innovation zones, and to further develop support for high-technology companies in the innovation zones including, but not limited to, business incubation and grant writing assistance services.
The bill also requires the authority to work cooperatively with other state departments, agencies, boards, commissions, and authorities to explore and implement opportunities to direct resources to those areas within the innovation zones that surround a research institution, as determined by the authority, and may provide technology, financial, and workforce development opportunities, infrastructure, and housing elsewhere within innovation zones. With the assistance of these state entities, the authority and the secretary may recommend potential future innovation zones and subzones to enhance cluster-based economic development strategies anchored by research institutions.
Further, the bill requires the authority to establish an advisory committee for each innovation zone whose membership is to consist of local high-technology business leaders and representatives from the research community. Each advisory committee is to meet quarterly to advise the authority and the secretary with respect to the functioning of the innovation zones and the needs of the local high-technology industry.
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Iâ��m good-looking, down to earth, confident person belonging to Rich and affluent class and well-respected family. I am a very understanding, straightforward and broadminded person... I am looking for a fair and tall partner, who will be a friend, willing to stand by me at every stage of my life...� should be well qualified, intelligent understanding by nature. Iâ��m known to be a warm, caring, friendly, and family oriented and rational person. I'm pretty easy to get along with, generally a happy, and like to be around people. I need a simple and caring life partner.
My son is currently working for one of the largest railways company in Florida,USA. He is on H-1B visa and graduated in Computer Science. He is simple,ambitious,entrepreneurial and respects family values and traditions.
We are a simple family of 4. Where I had one sibling(elder sister). She got married and lives in Hyderabad.
My son did his Master's in computerscience and he is employed as a Software Professional at Isobar as full time employee in Boston. We belong to a Rich Nuclear family with Moderate family values.
This profile is created for my younger brother. Our family is from Warangal, Telangana. My brother did his Master's in Computer Science and currently working as a Software Developer. In short, my brother is very responsible, caring, smart, affectionate, adventurous, easy going and fun to be with.
Originally from Guntur, I am 5 feet 9 inches tall and moderately built. Working as a software engineer with work permit (H1B) in Jersey City, New Jersey ,USA.
My name is Vijay and I work in the Private Sector as a Software Professional. I belong to a Upper Middle Class, Nuclear Family with Orthodox Values. I have completed my B.Tech..
He is working as software engineer with top financial company .We are nuclear happy family of four with moderate values In person he is brilliant in academics ,energetic and jovial by nature .broad minded , understands people very well and enlightens atmosphere with good sense of humour .his hobbies include trekking,travelling, running ,tennis,badminton.
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Tuesday, February 12th , 3:30-5:00 p.m.
Dr. Rosane Gomes Battistelle earned a master’s degree in Civil Engineering and a doctoral degree in Environmental Engineering from the University of Sao Paulo (2002). She later completed a postdoctoral degree in the area of new materials at the University of Aveiro- Portugal (2010). She has been teaching at the State University of Sao Paulo since 1997. Her recent research and publications have explored topics such as sustainable civil engineering practices, household solid waste management, organic waste treatment and biodegradable packaging. Her presentation at Santa Fe will provide an overview of sustainable building practices in Brazil.
Wednesday, February 13th, 1:30-3:30 p.m.
Walk-in advising by advisor Robin Snyder for biological engineering. BE is an area of study and career which can impact the necessities of life – food, water, and environmental safety. Biological Engineering applies engineering principles to biological sciences to produce biofuels, food, feed, fiber and other agricultural products from renewable bio-resources. It also aims to protect the environment and conserve and replenish our natural resources and engineer environmentally sustainable packaging solutions for the consumer and food industries.
Walk-in advising for the Agricultural Operations Management degree, College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, provided by advisor Robin Snyder in the UF@SF Center, HA132. This is a great major for students interested in ag business and relates to other areas such as science, construction and even engineering.
Thursday, February 14th, 1:30-3:30 p.m.
Walk-in advising for the Family, Youth and Community Sciences degree, College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, provided by advisor Kathryn Ivey. This is a great major for students who want a profession of helping others and are interested in community involvement, development and leadership.
Thursday, February 14th, 2:00-4:00 p.m.
Walk-in advising for the Food and Resource Economics major, College of Agricultural and Life Sciences. Find out information on their two specializations, Food & Agribusiness Market and Management and International Food and Resource Economics. For additional questions come see advisor Jermaine Dunn.
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I no longer subscribe to magazines but I fondly remember the good old times when I first started subscribing to my favourite fashion magazines like Cosmo and Elle during my university days. My schedule as a student was less hectic so after a day of studying and working in uni, and I had ample time to pore over magazine after magazine when I got home. It was also very cheap to subscribe to magazines back then so the decision to jump into the magazine bandwagon was happily made with ease.
I collected quite a few titles too, which weren’t available here in Malaysia and when my boxes arrived from the States two years later when I returned home to KL, I was ecstatic to have my collection with me! It was a hefty price to bring them home with me but a girl’s gotta do what a girl’s gotta do sometimes!
Nowadays, I don’t really buy magazines anymore unless it’s one of those Hollywood entertainment magazines, which I love and a few local celebrity magazines. Other than that, I usually get my information and need to browse through a magazine, online. I love reading about Hollywood celebrities so I have quite a list of dazzling celebrity blogs, which I follow.
Recently however, I came across an awesome site offering Magazine Subscriptions at incredible discounts so once again I am enticed to start collecting magazines. I really should not because I don’t want to end up being a magazine hoarder. If you’ve seen an episode of Hoarders, you will definitely share the same sentiments as yours truly and will try to avoid compulsive shopping whenever possible!
Having said that, I figured a title or two won’t hurt especially since I discovered some really cool cat magazines online! Cat magazines don’t come by very often, perhaps due to the niche market it caters too. But for cat lovers like me, I’m certain we wouldn’t mind spending on and owning a collection of cat magazines. If not for the very useful information contained within, cat magazines almost always offer awesome cat photos too, which is mostly why I am enticed! Check out the meow-licious rates of this really cute I Love Cats magazine!
Oh, I also collect TV soap magazines and these I usually get when travelling abroad. If you don’t already know, I am an ardent fan of Bold and Beautiful and I love reading stories about the Forrester clan! This site I discovered however does not seem to offer TV Soap magazines unless I missed it while browsing through their endless categories.
With so many categories to go through and loads of great discounts to take advantage of, I’m definitely checking in with this site again later. Tonight however, I am going to be very busy preparing for the Eid Mubarak celebration tomorrow. I would like to take this post to wish all my friends celebrating this festival a wonderful Aidilfitri with your family and loved ones. Drive safely to and fro your destination, eat aplenty, be merry and Maaf Zahir Batin from Mariuca & B and our four fluffy cats!
Phoebe and her pinky tongue!
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Hey all I am currently building an Ewok for myself. I have a quick question. I was given fur and made a body suit out of it. I am now starting to think the fur pile length might be too short, and the fur too shiny. Any insight would help a ton.
I agree. Any fur under 1 1/2" is going to look too short. Mine is actually 3" long and it has a lot of "empathetic movement" to it.
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What does the Keto Diet have to do with Entrepreneurship?
As entrepreneurs, we are our business. Our performance, passion and vision all serve the purposes of our business. How we show up for ourselves is how we show up for our business. For our customers. To play at the top of our game, we need our mind and body to be in sync.
No one tells us that we need to be healthy to achieve peak performance, like athletes. Or we haven’t been paying attention. It’s easy to neglect to our health when these headlines get our attention. Every time. For example: “Hustle Your Way Into Millions”, or the opposite “Grow Your Business With Ease and Grace”.
Don’t you feel guilty not growing your business with ease and grace? Don’t you feel overwhelmed when you “hustle”? That’s what I’m talking about.
Having had health issues all my life until recently, I’ve been careful to avoid the trap of wishful thinking. I know better. No one can imagine playing any game without good health.
Peak performance requires us to be healthy, so that we can handle all the ups and downs in our business. Understanding this basic idea, I designed health into my business model.
As an introvert, I’m uncomfortable about sharing my personal health journey. But if my lessons can help you, I’m more than happy to share. We all want to make our struggles and lessons learned useful, for ourselves and others.
I did a “Keto experiment” at the beginning of this year. More and more studies and findings have proved the benefits of the Keto diet. It’s not for everyone. But for people who experience inflammations, mental fog and weight issues, the Keto diet is worth trying. My weight was never an issue. I did it for three reasons: for mental clarity, physical performance and discipline building.
I enjoy being creative and innovative. I also want to be able to remember people’s names. From simple daily things to formulating strategies with clients, I have to think fast. Staying sharp also can prepare me to work and serve till the minute I drop. As least that’s my intention.
Having Alzheimer’s disease in my family makes me aware of our vulnerability. Alzheimer’s is becoming an epidemic. Our choice of our modern-day lifestyle likely pays a factor in our exposure to Alzheimer’s. If we learn how to make better choices, we may reduce the risk.
Running a business or two can be taxing on our bodies. We need all the energy we can get to keep us on top of our game. What’s the best way to generate instant energy? To me, it’s running. But I can no longer run, after an Achilles’ injury.
When I found out the Keto diet can increase energy and reduce inflammations, I wanted to try it right away.
Before starting the Keto journey, I practiced with a weekly juicing plan. Every Monday, I had vegetable juice. It was hard not to eat. I LOVE food. Food is my “religion”. I tend to overeat and then feeling sick, so often. The juicing plan gave me a way to practice disciplining myself. Usually, after the juicing day I felt energetic for the next few days. Then Friday came and the cycle of suffering from overeating started again.
The Keto diet helped me shift the game. To start, I read the book The Keto Reset Dietby Mark Sisson and his blog, “Mark’s Daily Apple”. I also did other research to understand all the good and the bad about the diet. Once I trusted the science and the results behind the Keto theory, I jumped right into it.
Knowing other people’s results might not be my own, I customized the approach. My main goal was to be physically fit and cognitively alert and sharp. I intended to stay on the plan as part of my lifestyle instead of as a short-term diet plan. So with the goal in mind, I started the Keto experiment in February this year. The diet calls for the elimination of sugar, grains and refined vegetable oils.
My experience was that I felt great the first day and then had no energy for the rest of the first week. Low energy and loss of appetite lasted for another two weeks, when I experienced the so called Keto flu.
Starting from the fourth week, my energy and appetite slowly returned. The best part was, I had no craving for desserts. After two months with no sugar, everything tasted extra good. I felt energetic daily. My voice projected louder.
My memory was sharper than ever before. For example, one night at an event I remembered the names of ten people, effortlessly. Usually, I can hardly remember any one’s name right after the introduction. I also noticed some inflammation in my body healed quickly.
After three months, I chose to transition out of the Keto experiment by adding back more carbs. The Keto plan was restrictive when eating out with friends and family. So a more flexible diet strategy is my choice going forward, mixed with the Keto plan a few times a year.
I’d still enjoy some ice-cream or cookies sometimes. But I do feel I have less energy the next day after eating heavy sugary food. Knowing there’s always a trade off and feeling the downside right the next day, I now make better decisions and choices in terms of food.
Staying healthy with high performance is still my priority. Knowing what’s possible is the most empowering part of the Keto experiment.
1. It’s not for everyone.
2. If it works for you, it’ll make you feel good and look good.
3. People can feel your energy from your voice.
4. You can still enjoy delicious food and feel satiated.
5. You’ll more be productive when you stop thinking about food all the time.
6. You’ll make better food choices.
Besides food, our daily movements, sleep, and stress level all play a major part in our health. It is a challenge to pay attention to all these areas in our busy modern lives. But to be able to think long-term and play the long game, we need to stay on top of our health. I’d encourage you to pay attention to your health. Are you up for the challenge? If you plan to try the Keto diet, do some research first to see if it’s right for you.
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Dubai is an exceptional country which can be considered as a complete package for tourists which is filled with adventures you have never experienced before, the things to do in Dubai are going to blow your mind because there are just so many things that you can possibly do in such a short time.
Starting the list of things to do in Dubai with the most beautiful thing that anyone can do if given the opportunity is visiting the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque. Yes, it is a mosque but it doesn’t limit to just Muslims, even non-Muslims can visit this breath-taking piece of art which is located in the capital city of Abu-Dhabi.
Following the content of things to do in Dubai, the next in the list is going to see the amazing architecture of Burj Al Arab which is located in Jumeirah. It was built in 1999 and even to this day, it remains a sight of amusement for the people visiting Dubai. While you are in Jumeirah, you can go to Jumeirah Beach where you can spend a relaxing time and the sight at night there is something worth staying for.
You must have seen the great Palace like structure associated with Arabs in the movies. Well, to bring to your knowledge as good news. It is the Emirates palace that leaves your jaw open. This majestic building was built at the cost of around AED 11 billion and it contains ravishing crystal chandeliers and amazing luxurious rooms that will make you feel like a King. Be sure to make this a priority in your things to do in Dubai.
Apart from being such a big oil tycoon, Dubai has one of the biggest Aluminum productions in the world which is the country’s second export after oil. Another thing to add in the things made in Dubai, it is permissible to say that the paper industry is on the brink of rising to new heights in the coming time.
Well, going back to things to do in Dubai we have the Burj Khalifa. Now it is not possible that you haven’t heard the name of the tallest building in the world. So, missing it would be a big loss. Next up for your things to do in Dubai should be going to the top of Burj Khalifa and dining on the 122nd floor of this huge building. The total height that is huge landmark touches is 828m which makes it a sight to see.
To add in the historical site in Dubai, Dubai Museum is the perfect place which briefs you about the history of the country starting from the beginning. One of the biggest Dubai tourist attractions is the Ferrari World in Abu Dhabi which is filled with the world of speed, let it be a roller coaster, a 4D adventure and live car exhibitions are held in this lavishly perfected place that you are bound to fall in love with.
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So if you read my post yesterday, you can see i’m not having the best luck with the house at the moment, for those of you who have no idea what I’m talking about, the jist is this. The guy who owned the house before us thought he could DIY everything…including plumbing. He couldn’t. So our downstairs toilet is rotting away with leaks galore, and many more problems around the house which need fixing. Though now the leaks are fixed, thanks to an actual plumber, it’s now time to make it look like a bathroom and not a mini construction site. So here are a round-up of my favourite tiles, I have an idea which ones I’m going to use, but I’ll keep it a surprise for when I reveal our new bathroom!
Pretty pretty tiles no? Any to the details.
Contour shadow hexagon, Walls and Floors, £29.95 sqm. 2. White gloss herringbone mosaic, Walls and Floors, £3.95 a sheet. 3. Souk teal tile, British Designer Tiles, £280 sqm. 4. Indian ocean, madagascar Seaspray, Fired Earth, £154.90 sqm. 5. Blue cube decor, Walls and Floors, £49.45 sqm. 6. Gloss black hexagon, Walls and Floors, £3.95 a sheet. 7. Gallicia & temara, British Designer Tiles, £160 sqm. 8. Hula hoop black, Fired Earth, £99 sqm.
So there are my favourites…I’m so looking forward to having a nice downstairs bathroom…though i’m a do it yourself tile- virgin so might be interesting to see how it goes. Anyone got any tips, let me know!
Decorating your home on a budget is it doable?
This entry was posted in DIY, Home Decor, Uncategorized on November 7, 2016 by Sophie.
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CE Marking indicates that a product conforms to specific product standards known as harmonised European Norms (hEN). It enables a product to be placed legally on the market in any European member state.
From the 1st July 2013, it will become mandatory in the EU and the UK for manufacturers of construction products to apply CE marking to any of their products that are covered by a harmonised standard (hEN) – in this case windows and doors covered by BS EN 14351.
What forms a CE Mark?
To qualify for a CE Mark products must achieve the prescribed levels of performance as outlined but also be manufactured in line with a factory production control system (FPC). Nolan currently holds EN ISO 9001 Quality Management Systems audited by BM TRADA so is already compliant.
This details the minimal information required to be in the public domain and entitles the organisation to put the CE Mark on the finished product.
If the CE marking symbol only is affixed to the product, the additional information is to be contained in document(s) accompanying the product.
Do Installers need to CE Mark?
Yes! Window installers who purchase unglazed frames and IGU’s separately are responsible for CE Marking as they are deemed to be the manufacturer as they are putting the component parts together and bringing the complete product to market.
If they currently buy unglazed frames and IGU’s separately then they assume the role of the manufacturer and as such become responsible for CE Marking.
This means they will need to demonstrate evidence of a FPC System and provide a DoP and CE Mark.
By buying complete units from Nolan they avoid the expense and hassle of complying as it’s all done by Nolan as the manufacturer of the product.
What if I don’t CE Mark?
If a manufacturer places a product on the market they must meet the essential characteristics of the standard and make a declaration of performance. Failure to do this will be investigated by Trading Standards and could result in a Court case with a fine and potential custodial sentence for the most serious offences.
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Conceived and designed the experiments: VC OB PB MH. Performed the experiments: VC TA HK AR JS. Analyzed the data: VC TA OB MH LC. Wrote the paper: VC LC.
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The story of Juteopolis is a tale of two cities, both of them Dundee. One was a city populated by the mill workers living in overcrowded squalor. The other was the world of the wealthy Jute Barons, with their mansions and estates.
With so many women working in the mills it was left to the unemployed men to become ‘kettle bilers’ and look after the babies and cook the meals. The diet was meagre in the extreme. Meat was a rare luxury. Potatoes and porridge were the staple diet for a 19th Century Dundonian, with ‘bread meat’ for the babies, an unwholesome mix of bread and boiling water. The early 20th century saw the introduction of so-called ‘convenience foods’ like margarine, white bread and sugar, more expensive but easier and quicker to prepare. Poor diet was a contributor to the low life expectancy, which, in 1863, was just 33 years for a man. The living conditions didn’t help either. The average number of people to a home was eight, often sharing four to a bed. Water was often polluted and cholera and typhus epidemics swept the city. Small wonder so many sought solace in the pubs.
All this was in stark contrast to the privileged lives of the mill owners. Well educated, well fed and well off, theirs was a genteel existence. However, they also felt a sense of duty to the community and gave much money to be spent on philanthropic works in the city.
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Microsoft Promo Coupon – 50% OFF Xbox Games!
One of the biggest companies in the world… surely they don’t need to do voucher codes?
You’re right… They don’t NEED to do voucher codes… but they do! In fact Microsoft Store Voucher Codes are pretty common and they release a good number of exciting offers to encourage consumers to buy directly from their Microsoft Store rather than spend through other resellers.
Microsoft Store Special offers on Xbox, Microsoft Surface Laptops and Tablets, Microsoft Office packages…there are often deals for a whole range of Microsoft offers. Check out some of the latest deals on the Microsoft pages on FreeVoucherCodes.co.nz and be surprised. Very often special offers for students on Microsoft Store products.
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Firstly these washing line covers are very practical. They allow a rotary clothes line to double as a garden parasol. When there is no washing on the line, chairs and a table can be popped underneath to enjoy a meal in the shade. A washing line cover is a very cheap alternative to a garden parasol and it is in effect exactly the same thing. You can find one to match any kind of rotary washing line, old or new, for a snug, practical fit.
If you remove the garden furniture a washing line cover makes a great shady spot for a child to play under, or a pet (or parent!) to lounge in, with the added bonus that it can’t be knocked over.
Invest in a good quality washing line cover. It should be waterproof so washing can be left outside in any weather. It should be UV treated so neither it nor your clothes fade in the sun. It will be made from strong material that is easily adjustable.
Not only are washing line covers practical, but they are ascetically pleasing too. They come pleasantly designed in a range of styles to suit any tastes. With washing on or off they can turn a washing line in a feature of the garden.
But, I hear you cry. Why are washing lines so popular now that they come with their own washing line covers! Well, before the invention of electric clothes driers, washing lines were the most practical and efficient way to dry clothes.
Clothes can be hung very quickly, then left to let nature gently dry the garments, causing no harm to the fabric and letting creases gently drop out.
Then came the electric drier and many other electrical devices too. Everybody was happy because in many ways they made housework a lot easier and did improve peoples lives. This is very true of the washing machine and the fridge. But the electric drier does not take any effort out of drying clothes because there was no effort in the first place.
So after that initial burst of everybody wanting all the mod cons, many people realised that the clothes drier was in fact very unnecessary and took up a lot of space, was incredibly noisy and was bad for fabric. Add to this the fact that it is one of the biggest users of electricity in the home, which sends electricity bills rocketing and is bad for the environment.
So for all these reasons people stopped buying new electric driers and have switched back to a simple and gentle way of drying clothes.
Washing lines took off. Innovative designs were launched, and with them attractive additions like washing line covers were added to the market to make them even more functional and stylish to boot.
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Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/089f72/global_telecom_mar) has announced the addition of the "Global Telecom Market Status and Forecast, 2008-2013" report to their offering.
This 75-page report will give telecom managers around the world the information they need to develop winning and informed strategies to compete and survive in the increasingly challenging and complex telecom environment.
This report also gives you an insight on the world's top 20 operators, top 15 equipment vendors, as well as the top 20 countries in the fixed, mobile, Internet and broadband markets.
Global telecom services revenue reached US$1.7 trillion in 2008, representing a 5,5% increase on 2007, and a significantly slowing of growth (which stood at 9.3% in 2007). Over the forecasted period to the end of 2013, growth is projected to slow to a five-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 2.8%.
The world's total number of fixed telephone subscribers reached 1.27 billion in 2008, representing a minimal growth of 0.6% over 2007 and a penetration rate of 19.2%. Global fixed customer growth drastically slowed from 2006 onwards and expansion found in Asia and the MEA failed to offset the erosion of fixed access in North America and Western Europe.
Middle East and Africa's mobile subscribers grew by 30.2% to 595 million in 2008, making it the fastest growing mobile region in the world. It will continue to be the fastest growing market after Asia over the next 5 years with a CAGR of 9.6%, nearly doubling its number of mobile subscribers to 937 million by the end of 2013.
China was by far the largest fixed market in Asia and the world in 2008 with 340.8 million subscribers, representing 55.4% of the region's fixed lines and 26.9% of the world's subscribers. Japan and India followed with 42.7 and 37.9 million lines respectively.
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EVERETT, Wash. – Blake Lyda made 40 saves in 65 minutes of action and Bryce Kindopp scored twice, but Payton Mount’s goal in the ninth round helped the Seattle Thunderbirds sneak past the Everett Silvertips, 4-3 in a shootout at accesso ShoWare Center in preseason action on Tuesday.
UP NEXT: The Silvertips complete the preseason “home and home” series with the Thunderbirds and in the preseason finale on Saturday, Sept. 15 at 7:05 p.m. Tickets are available at www.everettsilvertips.com/preseason.
Nolan Volcan buried a rebound at 3:16 and Graeme Bryks scored similarly at 12:51, both on power play goals to put Seattle up 2-0. The Tips immediately got to work erasing the deficit when Sean Richards cashed Luke Ormsby’s feed to the net off a turnover at 13:41 to slice the deficit to a goal, and Bryce Kindopp’s two-man advantage one timer at the left circle drew the Tips even at 15:15.
Samuel Huo converted Dillon Hamaliuk’s post-to-post feed at 7:33 of the second period for a 3-2 Thunderbirds edge, but the Tips tied the score with 8:14 left in regulation on Kindopp’s second goal of the game. Kindopp emerged out of a battle with the puck, walked out from the left circle and fired a snap shot past Eric Ward.
Following a scoreless overtime, Kindopp converted in the first round and Sean Richards was stopped in the second round in an attempt to put the game away. Zack Andrusiak converted a blocker side wrister in the third round to keep the game alive, and after a Matthew Wedman goal in the sixth round, Ormsby kept the Silvertips alive on his five hole bid. Mount snuck a backhanded deke for the Thunderbirds ninth round goal, and a shootout tying attempt by Martin Fasko-Rudas fell awry on a puck that slipped off his tape on a forehand bid.
Ward made 27 saves for the Thunderbirds to collect the win.
NOTES: Silvertips scratches include Peter Melcher, Riley Sutter, Jake Christiansen, Wyatte Wylie, Connor Dewar, Bronson Sharp, and Sahvan Khaira … Richards earned a goal and an assist, and leads the club with 7 points in preseason play … the Tips went 1-of-5 on the power play.
Opening the Silvertips home schedule, which covers 34 games this season at Angel of the Winds Arena, is Opening Night against the Vancouver Giants on September 22 at 7:05 p.m. All fans will also witness the raising of the Silvertips sixth U.S. Division championship banner and second Western Conference championship banner to the rafters before the opening puck drop, and the first 5,000 fans at the doors will receive a collectible Silvertips magnet schedule, presented by Lamoureux Real Estate and Sound Transit. Season Tickets and Mini-Plan Packages are available at www.everettsilvertips.com/season. Opening Night for the Tips 2018-19 season is Friday, Sept. 21 at Vancouver (7:35 p.m., 1380 AM / 95.3 FM KRKO).
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Polynesians have lived on Tonga for something like 3,000 years. The Dutch were the first to investigate the islands, arrival on Tafahi in 1616. English pilgrim James Cook arrived on islands in 1773 and 1777 and named them the Friendly Islands.
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This is a different product than all of the rest. For one variant, you are actually purchasing 15 high quality prints of fifteen original Polaroids that compose one image.
Please allow 7-12 days for your print to arrive.
This is a different product than all of the rest. You are actually purchasing 15 high quality prints of fifteen original Polaroids that compose one image.
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Pennies for Poverty: 2 Cents 4 Change, Inc. was founded with the belief that if everyone in the community does a little to help those in need, we can substantially reduce poverty and improve the well being of all members of the community. We are a 501(c)3 nonprofit run by volunteer members of the community. With no paid staff or related expenses, we direct the full amount of your tax-deductible donation to fill the most urgent and important needs. We make every penny count.
Raising funds to address urgent needs at local anti-poverty agencies. We raise money in ways that the agencies we serve do not or cannot undertake, including community events and donation boxes in local stores.
Increasing awareness and educating about poverty in Greater Newburyport. We do this through newsletter and social media postings of recent research and relevant articles as well as public forums on key topics. Our focus in 2018 is homelessness. Hundreds of people have attended our forums on this topic and our work has sparked the formation of a community group to further educate and find ways to address homelessness in our area.
Helping people in need to find ways of getting help through our mobile-friendly, searchable, online Resources Directory. We do regular updates and additions to the directory. It is used by social service providers as well as people in need of services.
Promoting volunteerism by advocating the use of VolunteerMatch.org by local non-profits to publish their volunteer needs and publicizing its availability to the community and recruiting volunteers for other non-profits as needed. We also coordinate delivery of bread 6 days a week to people in to public housing, councils on aging, anti-poverty agencies and others in need.
Publicizing food drives and other local anti-poverty activities. We aim to energize the community around all agency fundraisers and events.
Guiding Principles: Pennies holds itself to the highest moral and ethical standards; promotes and fosters understanding and awareness of poverty and related issues; keeps the goal of ending poverty forefront in making decisions and policies; works to create an atmosphere of cooperation and collaboration within the Board as well as with the community at large; is open to new ideas and new initiatives that lift people out of poverty; is conscious not to initiate programs or events that could reduce funding or volunteering for the agencies who directly serve those in need.
Please consider joining our efforts to end poverty in Newburyport and surrounding towns. We need your ideas, your time and your efforts to make this program work. For more information or if you would like to be involved, email us at pennies@penniesforpoverty.org. To be added to our email list to receive our newsletters and announcements, please fill out this form. If you are an organization seeking funding, please use our Grant Application.
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Cheap Land and No Persecution!
By Avery B. and Parker J.
Getting Tired of Political and Religious Persecution?
Here in America people can be whom ever or what ever they please to be. When you are in our country you can be apart of the government and make suggestions about what you want to happen. Now lets be honest if you were to do that in your country you'd probably be thrown in jail or even killed.
There are many chances to get rich. The gold that can be mined is in the Klondike region of the Yukon in Canada. Sure it's just a little bit farther than you are already having to travel but when you find the gold your going to become rich faster than you could ever imagine.
We are taking a boat that will usually last about a week, but the service is incredible. There will be many games and festivities that will be hosted. There is going to be a diner to order gourmet food and drinks.
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There is a certain easy charm about Addis, LA. The town prides itself on being a place that allows residents to live big in a small town. Apart from living in one of the most welcoming places in the state of Louisiana, the residents are happy to enjoy the super fast internet connections courtesy of CenturyLink in Addis, LA.
The superb service by CenturyLink is available in all parts of Addis and has made it possible for the residents of the town to enjoy the high speed internet speeds that are commonly associated with big cities. It thus means that whatever your internet needs, you will be sorted by the reliable service from CenturyLink. If you happen to run a business that requires extremely fast internet for heavy downloads, the provider has just the right plan for you.
The service is not just available within the town; rural residents of Henry County can also enjoy this high speed internet service. In comparison the DSL services they have been used to, most residents are amazed at the lightning-fast speeds of the CenturyLink service. The service delivers download speeds of up to 40 Mbps and Upload speeds of up to 5 Mbps. With such speeds, one can understand why Addis residents make CenturyLink their provider of choice for internet and phone services.
Impressive streaming speeds in Addis – When watching the latest videos with your friends or guests, you do not want any interruptions. A slow internet connection will be interrupted numerous times with the ‘’now loading’’ message. Should you choose our reliable internet, your viewing experience will be smooth and enjoyable with a high-quality video and audio.
If you happen to be a fan of social media or you do social media marketing, you will love the CenturyLink service. As a resident of Addis or the surrounding Henry County, this service gives you a chance to keep in touch with your friends and family at all times. Being a reliable internet connection, you will not miss out on any new developments on the social scene.
Despite the various claims made by our competitors regarding their operations, none of them seems able to keep its word like we do at CenturyLink. Our Addis subscribers know that they can trust us to provide them with the super-fast internet connections that we promise. It is therefore no surprise that many of the residents make CenturyLink their number one provider of both internet and phone services.
Make Bundle savings in Addis, Louisiana!
As part of our commitment to the residents of Addis, we have acquired Qwest Internet to give us the local knowledge needed to serve you better. We are always looking for ways to improve our service as we provide you with unmatched high speed internet and phone services in Addis LA. If you are keen to make savings on your phone and internet bills, we have good news for you. By choosing our phone and internet bundle service, you can reduce your total bills by an astonishing 20%. Our bundle billing is easy to understand and does not have any hidden charges.
If you are looking for the best internet deals in Addis and Henry County, we welcome you to call us today in Addis, and you will love our fast and professional installation.
If you are looking for a 24/7 connection in Addis, you cannot go wrong with CenturyLink Internet. We bring you a fast and affordable internet that makes your life so much easier. You can now check your mail, conduct business, download movies or even stream live media without any worries because the fast and reliable internet does not let you down. We offer you a high speed connection courtesy of using the latest internet technology that makes it possible for us to offer you the best market rates on your phone and internet.
With the challenging economic times, any savings you can make are always welcome. CenturyLink understands that you want to have a fast internet connection and a reliable phone service at a fair cost. For this reason, the provider introduces a bundle package that offers you the best services at an affordable cost. On this bundle package, you can customize your phone and internet services to fit your needs and budget. CenturyLink in Addis, LA offers you 3 phone and internet service plans to suit your communication needs.
Following an acquisition by CenturyLink, Qwest Internet in Addis is now offering its services as CenturyLink in Addis. The service comes with the best internet technology that facilitate super fast speeds and at the low prices associated with CenturyLink.
The provider has a powerful and lightning fast internet service that serves the residents Addis as well as those from the neighboring rural areas such as Henry County. Residents that were used to the painfully slow dial-up internet services can now engage in online activities that need a powerful internet such as streaming videos and playing online games.
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The Cookies Show, which was showcased from 7 – 9 July 2015 at Berlin-Tempelhof Airport, yields positive results after its first event and will be launched again next January.Søren Kischkewitz, Project Manager of the Cookies Show, states: “We are very happy with the premiere of the Cookies Show in Berlin. 82 brands, as well as numerous accreditations from the press speak for itself for the media interest; and approximately 4,000 international, specialist visitors came on the first two exhibition days. In just 2 months, we have successfully created an internationally relevant exhibition venue for the children’s and design markets under the aegis of Berlin Fashion Week. This showcase has really been a good start we can develop from and which we are proud of. After the exhibition is before the exhibition, and our next appointment for the coming year is planned for Berlin Fashion Week in January 2016.
This year, the Cookies Show exhibited 82 international brands, for the first time, from the areas of clothing, shoes, accessories, lifestyle as well as exhibiting young designers and their baby, kids’ and maternity lines.
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The e-commerce market is a fast-changing sphere. To stay on top and be ahead of competitors, online retailers should learn more about current trends. Education never really stops for new entrepreneurs as well as veterans of the industry. E-commerce website owners could receive useful information from video tutorials, podcasts, and blog posts. Still, we think that books are a source of information that contains much more details compared to other sources.
In this article, we share the best e-commerce books. They include insights and advice from some of the industry’s most influential thinkers on marketing, branding, analytics, and management. When making the article about the best books on e-commerce in 2018, we have decided that apart from learning, it is essential for retailers not to lose faith in what you are doing. For that, we have added the bonus inspiration section to the best e-commerce books with the top three success books about modern business heroes.
Attracting the target customers is the primary concern of all online and offline merchants. Strong knowledge in marketing will help you to get more traffic to the online store, tell the target audience about your unique value proposition and as a result, increase conversions. Below we share the best books for learning e-commerce marketing.
Despite this book not having an exact plan, still, this is a classic marketing manual. In this book, Dan Kennedy tells us about the critical elements of marketing and tips on how to adapt your message to your target customers. Moreover, you can use all the ideas from this book for present-day consideration. If you are looking for a complete guide on marketing, this book would be enough to understand the basic principles and implement them into your e-commerce business strategy.
This practical book would be useful for start-ups since their common problem is the absence of customers at early stages.
From the book by Weinberg and Mares, you will learn about 19 different “transaction channels” e-commerce businesses should try to attract new customers. They also include channels that average online retailers would typically dismiss. Still, they appear to be sufficient for customer acquisition. You will receive a comprehensive view of contemporary best practices in marketing. It also includes the guide on choosing your channel and grows conversions over time. Also, you will find some tips for building product and testing traction channels simultaneously.
From this book, you will receive an overview of the most popular social media. Moreover, it includes tips on how to adjust your message to a specific digital platform. The main focus of this book by Gary Vaynerchuk is how to build long-term relations with clients using storytelling. This book will teach you how to tell compelling and relevant stories to your target audience. Moreover, you will receive insights when the content influences the buying decision. By using six rules of writing great content, you can build and maintain an authentic and active relationship with your customers.
The profit of an online store depends on the amount of traffic. To find the best strategy for the target traffic, online retailers should know how to measure its effectiveness. The books on analytics will help you to avoid wasting marketing budget.
If you are a beginner, this book, written in a conversational tone, is precisely what you need. It covers everything from Google searching algorithm to creating the ranking strategy. Adam Clarke included powerful SEO tools that might help you to fulfill the tasks listed in the book. You will also improve your online store ranking and attract more target customers. It is a chance for you to learn things about SEO ranking you never knew before.
We recommend this book by Alistair Croll and Benjamin Yoskovitz as a guide for start-ups. It will teach you the most critical business metrics. It includes the basis of analytics together with handy tips on how to reach the end objective faster and cheaper from a long-term perspective. You will learn how to make the right decisions and set new directions of an online store ranking. This practical book covers typical analytics, performance management, and statistics.
The book by Avinash Kaushik will help readers to develop their analytic strategy. With this book, you will learn about an entirely new generation of tactics and tools to measure aspects of your online store success. Also, with competitive analysis, broad world of usability studies and surveys, you will understand your website visitor’s needs. In the last chapters, the author covers advanced techniques of creating dashboards, multi-touch attribution, and KPIs.
To run an online store successfully, you should have at least a basic understanding of financing, management, and leadership. The books listed below contains all the instructions on starting and developing online shop team from the perspective of management.
In case you have just started an e-commerce website, and you need some guidance, this book is a perfect choice. It is useful for not only setting up and running an online store but for product development as well. You will receive a roadmap you can use for the online business. Together with essential elements of business, you will learn about the proven approach how to make your startup successful within the timeline.
The difference between a failed and highly profitable online and offline business lays in details. In particular, in the formula, about which most business owners do not know. In this book, you will find an easy-of-use success formula and answers to the vital question of why your business is not as profitable as you expected. By sharing own experience of failure and success, Mike Michalowicz gives readers an excellent guide to business profitability so simple a non-financial person can easily understand it.
Building a work culture is not a simple task, especially if you had no previous experience in management. You will learn about the understanding of basic principles on how to build a successful online shop team. It includes tips on how to make your employees become a part of something meaningful. For this book, William Vanderbloemen used tons of interviews of successful companies’ leaders. This book would be a perfect choice for people, who want to develop an award-winning company culture but have a lack of experience.
The online retail market is overcrowded with competitors. For that, you need a strong brand. Moreover, the best option is to learn from branding leaders experience. The books listed below will help you to build a great brand for your e-commerce website.
Branding goes beyond just logos and names. It is more about culture. From Denise Lee Yohn, you will learn about seven critical principles of great branding. You can apply them for your online business. With examples from popular brands, it is easy to figure out how to create a culture that helps them stay in the market. The author offers to answer the questions and do some exercises for your future brand. The book suits marketing practitioners and online merchants for strategy development.
Every business should have its own message. Still, it is hard to make it clear and attractive to your target audience. This book by Donald Miller includes principles of connecting with online customers you can use for your blog, presentations, and business cases. Using service-focused roadmap, business building, and marketing framework anyone can convey a particular message in digital, life, and written to any audience. This book will transform the way you talk about your brand.
IIt is hard to capture the shoppers' attention and keep it. This book by Nick Westergaard includes real-world examples and step-by-step guidance on how to build a meaningful brand. By using handy advice, you can develop your brand that resonates with your audience online and offline through engaging content. The absence of jargon makes complex ideas easy to understand. In the end, you will have your action plan with the ideas on how to strengthen your branding strategy.
All these books are beneficial and valuable. However, it is important not to lose inspiration for running your online business even when things get rough. Below we share some suggestions that might inspire you not put down your hands and follow your dream.
The life of Steve Jobs is a perfect example that demonstrates the impermanence of life. For instance, the accident when he was kicked out from the company he had started in his garage before it became successful. Still, he had terrific imagination and skills of a true leader. Also, he was fortunate to find people with the same precise work ethic. His passion and vision made a real revolution in the tech world. This book is a must read for beginners in online and offline business to understand that sometimes things go wrong, but it is okay. Never lose your passion and give up your principles.
Sam Walton, the father of Wal-Mart, tells his story of building the retail empire. The secret of his success is based on being customer focused and showing care for associates and partners. By overcoming obstacles and adversity, he understood the fundamental truth. The success of your business lays in constant changes. This book will show you what it takes to gain customers and compete with powerful companies. Being a man with a big dream, Mr. Walton frankly tells his story of ups and downs. It would be useful for online merchants to read about what real success is.
Many people consider Elon Musk as the real-life Tony Stark. Why? This man is changing the world right now. His vision of the world and the future of humanity is just fascinating. From the very beginning, Musk regularly breaks every standard, every tradition, and every convention. His goal is to make American innovations growing as faster as possible. Being a CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, he does everything to achieve his goals and to bring changes in everyday reality. The book contains interviews with Elon Musk and different people from his life. It tells us a story of a live hero that dream of colonizing Mars shortly and making space travels possible.
The e-commerce sphere is fast-growing. To be ahead of competitors, you need to be aware of new methodologies, modern tools and new ways of running online stores.
At the same time, we think that success stories will inspire you to keep running your e-commerce business.
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William Blue at Torrens University can help you score your dream job! Find out more about this exciting industry at our Day In The Life workshop on 10th July at 9:30 am.
Get ready to immerse yourself in all things hospitality. You will start the day with morning tea at our campus. If you are interested in Culinary Management, you’ll explore a top restaurant venue and then have a hands-on workshop at William Blue Dining. If you are interested in Hospitality or Tourism Management you will visit exclusive hotels in Sydney to see what a day in the life looks like in a 5-star hotel; including an exclusive tour of the suites, restaurants, and kitchen.
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This abstract Dalmatian print in gold is an absolute stunner. It will give your room a unique, hand-painted feel while creating a neutral backdrop to pair with endless color schemes.
Designed by Caitlin Wilson in Dallas, TX and hand screen printed in Chicago, IL on coated paper manufactured in the USA. This high-quality paper is designed to be extremely durable and fade resistant.
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Conference recognises that UNISON has many retired members, and these numbers are growing year on year.
Conference believes that retired members bring huge value to self organisation: strengthening our voice and campaigns and retaining the experience of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) members when they retire. Further, retired members gain from their continued involvement in self organisation.
However conference notes that only a relatively small number of LGBT retired members are currently involved in UNISON LGBT self organisation.
Conference recognises that some regions now have specific LGBT seats on regional retired members committees and a retired members liaison rep on their self organised group committees (SOGs).
Conference further notes the successful and well attended meeting on involving retired members at last year’s national LGBT conference and welcomes the ideas and insights that arose from this meeting.
Conference welcomes the endorsement secured by the National LGBT Committee from the other three national self organised committees, the National Retired Members’ Committee and UNISON’s Equality Liaison Committee for the proposal for a rule change giving the national retired members group the right to send representatives to national SOG conferences, with speaking but not voting rights.
3. Continue to feature retired members’ stories in Out in UNISON and other publications.
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A lot of times, we see people joining the gym after dealing with a challenging time, or sometimes they might also just take the gym as their escape route from life’s issues. They may tell you how they feel ‘the rush’ when they exercise and it makes them feel good about themselves, easing them out at mind which right then is no less than a static television: buzzing! So how does this really happen? And does exercise really contribute to your mental health in any way? Team Nutright did its part of the research and it turns out to be that the way exercise adds to your psychological well-being is more than what we generally know.
Salman Ahmad – Pakistani bodybuilder.
The fact that the performance of our brain deteriorates as we age has a lot of truth to it, which is why we see our grandparents losing memory because of the gradual disintegration of the hippocampus. In simple terminology, the very significant cognitive processes slow down. What exercising does is that it highly improves the regulation of chemical fluids inside the brain, hence preventing the degeneration of important parts of the brain.
Exercising facilitates the process whereby your brain creates new cells and this process is known as neurogenesis. There is a protein in the human body which is a product of the brain, it helps in the development of high intellect as well as efficient decision making. This specific protein is produced at a rapid rate when you are working out. So how about an extra mile on that treadmill, hmm?
Working out really does help a lot in managing the stress levels in your brain. Putting aside the cramps and muscle soreness that accompanies you in the initial days of your exercise routine, when you finally get in the rhythm you realize what a superb relaxing effect exercise has on your mind as well as your body. When you work out, your body releases more and more sweat, which when cools off and you shower afterward, it leaves you with a cooling effect.
It’s not always about reaching the bigger goals in the fitness world, each small achievement is a milestone unlocked and even the slightest bit of improvement in the way your body looks and feels is a great confidence booster itself. It helps you get rid of body image problems and any complexes that you might be having.
No doubt about this one, exercising releases hormones inside your body that give you a sense of euphoria and happiness, they are known as endorphins or just simply ‘happy hormones’. Which is why even when you indulge yourself in a sport your mood feels elevated afterward. This really is a great help for those who are battling depression and anxiety. Because it’s all about the hormone game here and certain chemical imbalances that we are dealing with.
So ask yourself, do you still choose to keep away from your exercise mat and/or the nearby gym?
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I sat by by the Kanawha River the other morning. I rolled down the window and was enjoying the morning sun as danced on the water. It’s my time to enjoy life and absorb a few minutes of peaceful contemplation. The ducks are swimming around playing follow the leader as a sleepy butterfly flexes it’s wings. A long lonely cry breaks the silence as the mourning dove announced its presence. I looked around and saw only one. It’s mate was nowhere to be found. Again it cries out with a heart-wrenching tone. Soon it hobbled into view cocking it’s head from side to side and straining to listen for a reply. The other life on the river becomes quiet and still as the next call echoes. I began to feel the desperation of the lonely mourning dove searching for its true love. Then I heard it. The reply came from the other shore. The little dove perks up as does a vertical take-off as it flies towards true love. Faith never gives up. Faith calls out expecting the answer regardless of the current circumstances. And when the answer comes, faith responds without hesitation.
It’s not easy to step out onto the edge. There’s something about that place if transition from one state of being to the next that really gets our attention. We get butterflies in our stomachs and our knees begin to tremble. We can feel our hearts pounding as adrenaline surges through our veins. That’s the feeling I would have during a repelling exercise or leaping from the tall cliffs into the water. In my young mind I knew that this is what it felt like to fly. Fear, excitement and recklessness all come together to form the experience. When I was a kid I had the opportunity to spend some one on one time with some of the Blue Angels flight team and I like the way one of the pilots described this feeling. He said that “There’s no difference between the thrill of flying and the fear of falling.” His point was that it’s in overcoming your desire to remain comfortable with your circumstances that we become more than we was yesterday.
It doesn’t have to be piloting the latest and hottest high performance jet at beyond the speed of sound. It doesn’t even have to be leaping into water or sliding down a cliff on a rope. (In fact especially not the cliff in the feature image. There’s no water under the rocks here and it’s not a legal place to repell from.) It could be as simple as deciding to strike up a conversation with that person who you’re interested in or starting a blog where you share your deepest thoughts with the world. Whatever it is know that when you overcome that shaky feeling that this is what it’s like to fly.
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Nani is a perfume by Compagnie Royale for women and was released in 2015. It is still in production.
Write the first Review for Nani!
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This ultra cooling, soothing gel by Skin Rx contains Canadian willowherb, clinically proven to calm redness and irritation while acting as an anti-bacterial agent as well. Vitamin K is added for it's blood clotting ability, thus aids in healing and calming capillaries/blood vessels that have enlarged or burst. Vitamin K is also great for those dark areas under the eyes. This wonderful product also contains Gingko Biloba, Aloe and Hyaluronic Gel (which naturally binds moisture to the skin). It is an excellent product for calming mild rosacea and other skin problems. Use this serum 2-3 times a day as needed. No oil, perfumes, fragrance, dyes or irritating alcohols. An excellent choice for those with oily skin or mild rosacea.
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Gently tap serum onto entire face, to help tone skin tissues while the soothing serum is better absorbed. Use both night and day.
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PCEvaluate is an authorised reseller of PeopleClues and was established in 2013 to deliver a wide range of personality profiling products to employers, HR professionals and coaches.
PCEvaluate believes that the majority of business issues can be solved by employing the right people in the right roles within a company, supporting their development and all at a cost that will not have a detrimental impact on the organisation’s bottom line. PeopleClues uses the latest online technologies and developments in psychometric profiling to provide accurate, accessible and low cost profiling services direct to end users.
The company’s management team has extensive UK and international experience, and decades of hands on expertise in human resourcing and personality profiling in all sizes of businesses. PC Evaluate provides products which guarantee to help companies recruit, retain and develop their most import assets and achieve their corporate goals.
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Inspired by photographs of runners after finishing Color Run races, this speckle dyed yarn is bursting with colors. The skein is first dyed a cool grey and then pops of many bright hues are layered on top. Finally hints of black are added for contrast. This is truly a unique colorway!.
This is one of the most popular colorways created by Destination Yarn!
Pairs With: Anything! There are so many layers of color in this skein it truly looks great with just about any bright color. I especially recommend the colorways Shining Sea, Electric Storm, or Harvest.
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According to unofficial results as of March 25, 3pm, Palang Pracharath won 7,938,893 votes and Pheu Thai 7,422,600, putting the former in first place with 28.09 per cent ahead of Pheu Thai with 26.37 per cent.
Future Forward Party followed with a whopping 19.33 per cent which it gained from zero from a mainly young urban voter base. Then came nationalist Bhumjaithai Party and the Democrat Party almost abreast with 11.96 per cent and 11.71 per cent, respectively. For the Democrats, it was a devastating result and its leader Abhisit Vejjajiva, a former prime minister, resigned.
As for the seats in the Lower House, Pheu Thai reached 135 and Palang Pracharath 117, followed by Future Forward with 80, the Democrats with 53 and Bhumjaithai Party with 51. This means that the army party is technically missing out on 9 MPs to support its choice for prime minister but will certainly get support from its alleys.
The announcement of the final results has been delayed until March 25, 2pm.
Khaosod Englisch reported of several irregularities in the voting process, including errors in reports of tallies sent from local officials, a 200-per cent voter turnout in one constituency and total ballots count larger than those present for voting in others. There were also reports of vote buying by some parties, including Palang Pracharath.
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Dream ideas are so fragile. They are quiet, powerful packages containing unlimited opportunity.
The decision you make about what to do with the thought, can take you closer to your goal or leave you drifting from it.
The idea pops into your head and can change your life, or it can be discarded, or rejected in a fraction of a second.
Each moment you exist is a moment of choice.
The next time an idea pops into your head, care for it like a newborn.
Don’t reject it just because it doesn’t become an adult in a day.
Enjoy the dream of what it could become.
An idea is God’s way of bringing you solutions to your problems. At times they seem absurd, but they wouldn’t be there if they weren’t possible (and likely intended) for YOU.
Don’t worry so much about making mistakes that you remain paralyzed.
Ask if it is in line with your purpose, and ask if it will get you closer to your goal.
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Don’t be afraid of falling, because everyone will fall sometimes.
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Fall forward, and keep on keeping on.
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Leslie Householder, thanks! And thanks for sharing your great posts every week!
I love this idea of falling forward. One of my favorite movies, Meet the Robinson’s gets this idea (as well as a few other great truths) across so well in an inspiring way the whole family can relate to.
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This marvelous side table is a unique and modern take on your standard table design. This table is designed with a clear tempered glass top and an ABS plastic base, available in black or white. So add some modern style in your beautiful home with this exceptional piece.
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With swift connections by train to all its three capitals, Gothenburg is the true heart of Scandinavia. For many centuries the mouth of the Göta River has been a natural meeting place for kings, vikings and regular folks. The ”geographical jackpot” also laid the foundation for the city’s growth.
This is also the starting point for the idea of RegionCity. Gothenburg can once again capitalise on this ideal location and reclaim its historical position as a Scandinavian powerhouse. RegionCity with bring together the Central Station, Nils Ericson Bus Terminal and the future main station for the West Link, thus becoming becoming Western Scandinavia’s most accessible meeting place; offering offices, apartments, shops, restaurants, conference facilities and a large center for public transport within the city and region.
At the same time, a new neighborhood is being built that links the Region Västra Götaland with the city, whilst also connecting new and old districts in Gothenburg.
Jernhusen’s endeavour with the station area goes hand in hand with the city’s vision for Älvstaden, currently creating a detailed plan for the area. The first stage of RegionCity is expected to be completed in 2021, just in time for Gothenburg’s 400th anniversary.
Together we are developing a sustainable RegionCity for increased mobility, more human interaction and greater economic growth. Our entire approach is based on the conviction that meetings between people form the basis for innovation and growth.
Please see the film capturing our vision.
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Ahava for Men Age Control All in One Eye Care is a refreshing gel-textured eye cream provides an immediate cooling sensation while fighting the signs of aging and tired looking eyes. Combats multiple concerns around the eye area: puffiness, dark circles, dryness and fine lines. The result is smoother and younger looking eyes.
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Welcome to our new guide to master Lords Mobile a little more. We’ve been playing this game for a long time now and know a lot of Tricks and want to share them with you. So, we made this nice little list to give you tips on what is really important in the game, especially in the beginning. We were looking for these types of guides for those who are either new players or want to start a new account, and we didn’t find any real helpful guides. So we hope you will find this helpful and if you have any questions, leave a comment our write us directly.
Equipment: You want all of the construction and research gear. Cavalry Mail, Vice Grips, as well as flutes should be the higher priority. Since you are willing to spend, buy at least 1 $5 Gryphon pack, and hope to get the boots blue. Pre-lvl 40 gear isn’t entirely useless, but it isn’t really that helpful either. You might delay better gear by making the pre-40 stuff. War gear is a later on thing, and that often depends on what ultra rares you get. Forge the noceros gear, placing a higher priority on the sword over the chest for your vials (we would also recommend a $5 noce pack). Check this gear guide, if you want to know more.
Gear: War gear we’d focus on the free to play set at the start, as lvl 60 gear will be better than most sub lvl 60 so you’ll be swapping to those eventually. There are a lot of youtube videos on f2p gear and war gear, so just look those up and u will be fine. You want to max out flutes first as if your aspiration to become a t4 player the research is over 5+ years long with help and decent research gear (250%+ research boost).
Early on, your focus should be monster hunt. Ideally you get to monster hunt 4 or close. You really want to be able to hunt monsters efficiently, as there is lots of loots there. After that, you should make sure you get to at least Pact 2 in the familiar tree. Beyond those two, just work on your Military and Econ tree. Do not do much in Defense, Upgrade Defense. The remaining trees are more personal choice.
T2 are not useless when that is all you have. You still want to help with nests (assuming your guild is doing 1-2). Once you have T3, T2 are significantly less useful than before, generally. T2 siege are generally useless regardless of where you are. Don’t train too much siege, as they are worth significantly less than the other troops. Otherwise, keep your troop levels even, perhaps with a slightly higher number of ranged.
There is no “max” number of troops. There is a point where you cannot shelter and otherwise protect all your troops, but that isn’t too concerning until T3.
You can do a lvl 1 300k might nest with 25k T3, probably less. We don’t know the numbers for T2.
As we wrote above, a $5 gryphon and noceros pack go quite far, even if the equipment is too high level to use right away. Hero packs: if you aren’t planning on getting them to at least blue over time, the only one worth it is Lore. If you are planning blue+, Lore, Witch Doll, Petite Devil, and several others become more worthwhile.
Research: We’d add to max construction asap in economy tree, and maybe gathering and army capacity as u want to be able to gather as much rss as u can to continue to grow.
For packs: sweet deal is best bang for your buck, speed ups, holy stars, VIP points; heroes colo – lore weaver, witch doll, petit devil, femme fetal, grove garden; war hero – songstress, lore weaver, prince of theives, bersker; if you buy $5 dollar packs only u can max a hero after 1+ year to gold for $115 bucks to $140ish (this is off the top of our head). If you expect ot play a while, thoe $5 monster gear equipments will help with your hunting and allow you to join mh guild events (kill 3 lvl 3 monsters). Check out this guide for more information about packs.
Troops: t2s are at best good for meatshielding t3s, but this game has been around for so long now there are a lot of t4 players who will migrate over when kingdom opens up and slaughter u unless u have a decent troop count (1 mil+). But if your going to train t1s and t2s, train archers only and don’t be in range formation when your’re taking a hit, you want your front line to be the cavs or inf t3s/t4s holding the line while your millions of archers are unleashing from the back. But this build is more when you have millions of archers , and a few hundred thousand t3s and t4 front line + range.
Lastly, Rss are hard to come by the higher lvl you get, and gathering isn’t enough. As such you may want to focus on becoming a hyper farm. Wood is good for building as in firms kills your wood stock, Ore and Stone will help with buildings but also with troops as a lot of rallies are Inf/Cav hits (against players not DNs) so you’ll be training a lot of those more than other troops. Both Inf and Cav requires ores.
Feel free to pop in some comments and give us feedback for this guide for Lords Mobile. If you’re looking for more, check out our guide-section.
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Board of Education votes to include challenges to Charles Darwin's widely accepted theory in curriculum.
By a 6-4 margin, the Kansas Board of Education voted Tuesday to mandate that students learn about the "controversial" aspects of Charles Darwin's widely accepted theory of evolution. The move was seen as a victory for religious conservatives who question Darwin's theory in favor of one of "intelligent design," which suggests that life is too complex for evolution to have happened without the assistance of some higher power.
According to the Los Angeles Times, the new standards — which were seen as a free-speech victory by supporters and a move into questionable science by detractors — allege a "lack of adequate natural explanations for the genetic code." The move makes Kansas the fifth state to adopt standards that question evolution.
"This is a great day for education. ... This absolutely teaches more about science," said Steve Abrams, the Republican board chairman who voted with the majority, which overruled a 26-member science committee and ignored the National Academy of Sciences and the National Science Teachers Association in passing the standards.
Opponents of the measure on the school board accused Abrams and his colleagues of using a smokescreen of science to mask the injection of religion into public schools. According to the Times, they called the decision bad for education and bad for the state's reputation.
"This is a sad day, not only for Kansas kids, but for Kansas," said Janet Waugh, who voted against the new standards. "We're becoming a laughingstock, not only of the nation but of the world."
The new standards suggest that several aspects of evolution that the majority of scientists believe to be fact, including the concept that all living things are biologically related, have been "challenged." But prominent scientists and science organizations say there is no significant controversy, and evidence from fields ranging from paleontology to molecular biology shows all life on Earth originated from a single simple life form.
Intelligent design "does not provide any natural explanation that can be tested," said Francisco Ayala, an expert in evolutionary genetics and past president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He told the Times that the Kansas standards "are an insult to science, an insult to education and an insult to the American Constitution."
The Board's decision does not mandate what public school students will be taught, which is left to local school boards. But by determining what students are expected to know for state assessment tests, state standards typically influence what students are taught in the classroom.
In 1999, Kansas approved standards that eliminated all references to evolution. But after the conservative majority on the board was booted in 2000, the anti-evolution standards were repealed. The latest reversal came when religious conservatives regained a majority on the education board last fall.
While Ohio, Minnesota and New Mexico have already adopted standards that encourage questions about evolution, a verdict is expected in January in a Pennsylvania trial over whether teaching "intelligent design" violates the Constitution's ban on state promotion of religion. The eight Dover, Pennsylvania, school board members who introduced "intelligent design" to the curriculum were voted out of office Tuesday, replaced by candidates who challenged the policy.
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Mechanicville – Patricia Mae Amoroso, 81, of Kennedy Garden Apartments, died Thursday, Nov 29th in the loving company of her family, after a very brief illness.
A gathering of family and friends will be held on Saturday from 2 to 4 PM at the DeVito-Salvadore Funeral Home, 39 So. Main St., Mechanicville.
In lieu of flowers, remembrances may be made to American Cancer Society.
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Iron Man - the hero of all time Each generation has its own heroes.It seems that the age of movie stars is very short.Yesterday was popular Superman and Catwoman - today they no longer remember.Maybe that's because they think modern teenagers.Most teens do not realize that the movie heroes live much longer films, which have made them popular.Most often superheroes came into our life from the pages of the world-famous comic book, already then being on the silver screen.A similar thing happened with Iron Man.Wrong those who thought that the character first appears in the film.In reality, life is much longer than the Ironman.For almost half a century has passed since 1963, when the fans of Marvel comics have seen it in the pages of magazines.Of course, Iron Man game online appeared much later.Then, in 1963, the hero acts in several cartoon stories, and movie premieres to the performance of "co-star" did not trust him.Only a few issues of comics, can justly be devoted to the exploits of Iron Man.World created by Marvel, full of mysteries and secrets.Here there are parallel universes, where the same characters are completely different.So, in a universe with a terrible name Zombie Ironman infectious virus and becomes a zombie.Later it will go to the team of superheroes, zombies, which keeps at bay the entire galaxy.The man, clad in iron, in our understanding - is the character of the universe, called Ultimate.In general, the filmmakers managed to bring all the features of the on-screen image.Naturally, the Hollywood image format added new, interesting, especially for flash designers, details.Therefore, despite the well-thought-out dramatic line, it is a pure action film, and quite effective.What took advantage programmers and flash designers.There was a lot of interesting game products, which has a Iron Man.Games, by the way, are easy, simple and fun.Aimed fire at enemies, flying at a dizzying height and countless pursuits await players who decided to spend the evening in the society of Iron Man.It is clear that the basis of all the game stories are not stories from the comics, and the script of the acclaimed film.Online games involve intuitive and easy gameplay.Of course, the game follows the adventures of man in a steel suit does not violate this rule.To manage often need only the mouse.And we do not break the tradition of such games of Web resources and offer to play for free.
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When you first connect a Windows Phone an Explorer window will open to the phones folders and files. You’ll also be prompted to install Phone App for Desktop.
After installing Phone App for Desktop management of options moves from AutoPlay to the Phone App and you’ll likely default to copying images to a folder named after your phone.
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Maintaining and efficient and effective boardroom can be the key to running timely and productive meetings. Green Energy & Electric can craft video and display solutions that take your meetings to the next level. Whether you simply need one screen or ten, we can work with you to create an easy to operate, cost effective solution that will benefit your business.
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I am the programme leader for the part-time MBA Global and MBA Global Finance programmes. I lead various modules, with specialist subject knowledge and experience in Supply Chain Operations, Business Improvement Methods and Leadership.
I have a passion for business improvement with knowledge developed through many years’ experience working with commercial and public sector organisations, designing and managing learning solutions which apply the learning direct to the work place for significant business impact.
My work with such organisations also enables the curriculum of my on campus modules and programmes to be informed and current, which gives students the opportunity to develop skills and knowledge for enhanced employability and level of business acumen.
I continue to develop modules which incorporate the use of digital technology to enhance the learning experience of the student, examples include the use of innovative computer business simulation software, lecture capturing systems and making short films.
I am a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Transport and Logistics and Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Module leader at PG and UG levels.
Application of methods to improve the levels of service to customers and consumers in supply chain and public sectors.
Supply chain and the alignment of business improvement concepts, values and commitment and how these link to organisational leadership and strategy development.
My current role includes working and liaising with many organisations, many within the Supply Chain and Logistics Sector, including significant experience in the area of business improvement.
Prior to working within an academic environment, I was a senior manager in the semiconductor industry, a role which included the day to management of people, a whole engineering function, project management and working closely with operations and process development. This significant industrial and management experience is drawn upon today, during teaching, subject development, commercial development and research.
Over my career to date I have visited various organisations in different countries for work activities. These include Singapore, America, Bangladesh, France and Italy.
I also have a depth of experience teaching students from many different parts of the world.
I am passionate about business improvement and working with organisations to learn from the application of business improvement methods.
Outside of work my passion is motor racing and running. I am a championship winning driver and regularly compete in 5k, 10k and half marathon events.
I am occasionally interviewed for local BBC radio.
Marshall, J., and Smith, S. (2008) 'Learning Organisations and Organisational Learning: What Have We Learned?
The 8th International Conference on Knowledge, Culture and Change Management Cambridge August 2008, International Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Change Management Vol 8 2008.
Smith, S., Gallimore, H. (2015) A Conceptual Framework for Service Improvement and Business Sustainability in Last Mile Logistics’, paper presented to 20th Logistics Research Network, Derby, 09/09/15.
Smith, S., (2017) Sustainable Business Improvement Within Supply Chain Organisations, paper presented to 22nd Logistics Research Network, Plymouth, 07/09/17.
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Our company was formed in 2016, after witnessing first-hand how many ice suppliers were working from home & transporting ice in a standard LDV, without the necessary care of refrigeration. All of this spurred us on to create a plant with high capacity and reliability by designing and building a fully automated, closed system. Today our constant focus is that of optimization. Optimizing quality, space, capacity, storage & transport, while also ensuring cost effectiveness.
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By their very nature, islands are places of magic, of mystery. Washed constantly by the sea and scoured by the wind they cant help but manifest a certain primal power. And thats true whether youre talking about a small islet in the Caribbean, a remote coral atoll in the vast expanse of the South Pacific or, as in this case, the bustling madhouse that is modern Oahu, the "gathering place."
Hawaii, the most remote island chain in the world, is a land of sometimes violent contrast. Lush tropical beauty exists virtually side-by-side with sere, almost lunar, landscapes. On Oahu in particular, breathtaking natural splendor competes with the ultra-tacky at nearly every turn. Although they may not be able to articulate it precisely, nearly everyone who visits that spellbinding place senses at some level that they are in a land that is both ancient and, simultaneously, as young and chaotic as the first day of creation.
"For Gods sake, Karen," Tom Kincaid implored his wife. "The least you can do is try to have a good time. Were in Hawaii, after all!"
In their early thirties, the couple was sitting in a small restaurant hidden in the basement of the old Ohana East Hotel in Waikiki. The place was right out of the fifties or sixties; low-ceilinged and dimly lit with red faux-leather booths against one wall. Opposite that, a long bar with mirrored shelves reflected the light from small neon signs advertising a variety of local microbrews. It was one of the few such quaint establishments left on the island that hadnt succumbed either to the current economic woe or been gobbled up by a Mainland chain.
Karen looked up and a wan smile lit her aristocratic features. Tom caught a fleeting glimpse of the young woman with whom he had fallen in love over a decade ago now. As committed as he was to making things work, he was beginning to realize that there wasnt much of that "old black magic called love" left between the two of them. Karen, or so it seemed to Tom, had reached that conclusion months ago. She was already in the process of letting go; of distancing herself from their relationship, their life together.
"Im sorry," she said distractedly. "Im just tired. Weve done a lot in the last week. Maybe Ive had too much wine."
Karen was tired; tired of putting up a front, of putting up with Toms frequent, if minor, infidelities, of his teary-eyed remorse after the fact and his empty promises that "itll never happen again." The funny thing was, she did appreciate how hard he was working lately to make things right but it was a matter of "too little, too late."
He had filled their days with activities parasailing, a trip to the Big Island to see the volcano, dinner cruises, midnight swims and moonlit walks on the beach in the hopes that something, anything, would bring them back together. But the wound in their marriage was too deep. The romance, the magic of the islands, seemed only to reinforce the hollowness of their lives. Although she didnt know how she knew, Karen knew with a clarity that was perhaps enhanced by the salty air and soughing of the palms that if she didnt make a change now she might be condemning herself to a life of quiet, nondescript desperation.
"Hey, check it out," Tom whispered. Karen looked up to see a blind man being led into the restaurant by a pretty young Hawaiian woman. The woman kissed the man on the forehead. She turned to leave and her former charge used the bar to orient himself as he made his way down the length of the room.
"Aloha, Ronnie," the bartender said. "When you gonna fix me up with that gorgeous daughter of yours?"
"Dream on, Eddie. She too busy with school. Maybe inna couple of years. Who knows?"
Ronnie bumped gently into a piano that was tucked into a corner at the end of the bar. He sat down and, in a moment or two, all trace of clumsiness, gracelessness gone, he began to play.
"Jesus, Karen," Tom quipped. "Stevie Wonder. Go figure."
Used to her husbands chronic insensitivity, Karen ignored him as she sipped her wine. Ronnie worked his way through a number of jazzy standards: "The Shadow of Your Smile," "The Nearness of You," These Foolish Things" and "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes." An ardent jazz fan, Karen was shocked by just how good Ronnie was; certainly not Oscar Peterson good, but far better than merely competent. She had tears in her eyes by the time he finished with "My Funny Valentine."
Good music usually lifted Karens spirits. Tonight, however, it only made her feel even more lost, more adrift on a wind-whipped sea of emotion. She noticed Tom, seemingly oblivious, keeping time to the music by quietly snapping his fingers. Not for the first time she concluded that their hearts had been forged by the gravity of different planets and nurtured under the light of disparate stars.
Ten minutes or so later, Ronnie took a break. He was replaced by the restaurants sound system and the crystal tones of Ella Fitzgerald doing a live version of "Witchcraft." It was at that point that Karen and Tom both noticed a well-dressed and impeccably groomed Asian man seated at the bar across from them. He appeared to be in his early to mid-fifties and quite fit. Tom, who prided himself on looking sharp and staying in shape couldnt help being a trifle envious.
"Hes got to be a Japanese businessman on a layover for a night or two," Tom surmised nodding his head discretely in the direction of the mysterious stranger. "Hes in Waikiki because thats where the action is. He probably asked the concierge at his hotel where he could get a decent American meal; figured hed pass the time having a few drinks and eyeing the pretty young island girls."
"Im disappointed," Karen replied. "You used to have more imagination than that."
Unconsciously she had begun collaborating in a game the two of them had been playing since before they were even married. Theyd create "back stories" or fantasies about interesting characters theyd encounter in public places like restaurants, bars, shopping malls and airports. It was a harmless pastime that seemed to draw them together by creating a plethora of unique even if entirely fictitious experiences and memories.
"Hes clearly a drug lord from the Golden Triangle here in the islands to consummate a major deal," she countered.
With that, Karen began vamping it up for the older man who, quite openly now, was staring at her. Surreptitiously she slid her leg out from under the table and dangled her sandaled foot over the edge of her booth.
"Maybe," she continued, beginning to enjoy herself in spite, or perhaps because, of Toms apparent discomfort, "hes a white-slaver from Thailand. Hes here looking for new women for his stable. He might even be searching for that special someone, procuring a companion for a wealthy and especially discriminating customer."
"Sure, Karen, I bet thats it," Tom laughed half-heartedly, inwardly becoming angry at his wifes open flirtatiousness. "Right now hes plotting to kill me so he can have you all to himself."
Ronnie began playing again and Tom and Karen lapsed into silence. It wasnt a comfortable silence bred of contentment but rather something that spoke wordlessly from the vacuity of their relationship. Before long, Karen could endure it no longer. She wasnt angry; she just wanted to be alone. She stood.
"I need some air. I have my keycard. Ill see you back at the hotel."
Before Tom could protest, Karen turned and walked away. He watched her ascend the steps of the restaurant that led to the street. Before she disappeared she was bathed in the soft light from an enormous saltwater aquarium that stood just inside the door. He was tempted to follow her out, to plead with her to give things another chance. In the end, he surrendered to futility. "A mans got to know his limitations" he thought silently quoting Clint Eastwood. He ordered another drink.
The sun had set and the trades had picked up by the time Karen emerged on Kaiulani Avenue. The temperature was a balmy 75 degrees but she was chilled given the fact that, earlier in the day, it had been in the mid-80s and quite humid. She crossed Kuhio and continued up Kanekopolei until she reached Ala Wai Boulevard. Turning left, she found herself walking along the canal. The lights from the residences on the hill to the north were reflected in its inky waters. All the while she sensed something moving stealthily beneath the surface of the channel that, over a century before, had drained the taro patches and swamps of Waikiki paving the way for the resort that took their place for better or worse today.
She walked for a good forty or forty-five minutes, all the way down to McCully and then back toward her hotel along Kalakaua Avenue. She distracted herself by window shopping at the likes of Tiffany, Coach, Burberry and Louis Vuitton. When she reached Seaside she had almost convinced herself to stop somewhere for another drink. Maybe by then Tom would already be in bed asleep. Shed do just about anything to avoid another scene, to forestall going back to the prison they had unwittingly created for one another.
Instead of a drink, she found herself strolling amid the madhouse of the International Marketplace, testament to the tawdry with its stalls of cheap souvenirs, cut-rate jewelry and Taiwanese vendors demanding "How much you wanna spend?" Having reached the point of sensory overload, Karen had tuned it all out. She was preoccupied by the incessant twittering of the birds that had perched for the night in the gigantic Banyan tree that overarched the entire outdoor complex. It seemed to her that they, too, were trying to make sense of their lives and doing a much better job of it than she.
Wandering, almost somnambulating, Karen unaccountably found herself seated at a kiosk advertising Fortune Telling & Palm-Reading by Aunty Ala - $20.00. A heavy-set Hawaiian woman of indeterminate age sat across from her. When the woman reached out and grabbed her hands, Karen felt what could only be described as an electric shock. The warm glow of Aunty Alas bronzed skin contrasted sharply with Karens light tan.
"Youre looking for something but you havent found it yet," the Hawaiian prophetess stated.
Great, thought Karen. How perceptive. Who isnt? Next thing, shell be telling me Im going to meet someone tall, dark and handsome.
the land and the water to you."
"Im sorry," Karen apologized with a nervous giggle, "I want to believe, I really do. I dont mean to be rude; its just that I have a lot on my mind right now."
"Yes, yes you do. But things will be clarified very soon. Just remember what Aunty Ala told you. When your chance comes, take it!"
or for whatever it was she had just experienced. Aunty Ala waved her off. "This ones on me."
Bemused, but at the same time feeling much better than she had in months, Karen waited at the signal light. She watched the traffic stream down Kalakaua Avenue and listened to the Doppler strain of an emergency vehicle fade somewhere off in the distance. When the light changed she crossed the street and, in a moment or two entered the ornate lobby of her hotel. She could just hear the rhythmic cadence of the waves as they washed ashore blending imperceptibly with the sounds of a small combo playing contemporary Hawaiian music out on the beachfront verandah. At that moment she almost believed that there might just be a little magic in the soft Hawaiian night after all.
When she got off the elevator, the heat and humidity of the day which had been trapped in the hallway hit her like a wave. If Tom had in fact returned to the room before her, Karen hoped that he had the presence of mind to open the sliding door of their lanai. Its funny, she thought, how we still worry over the little things even when our lives are falling apart.
Karen opened the door to her room as quietly as she could. She felt a cooling breeze and realized that Tom must in fact have returned first. At least he opened the lanai to air out the room. Again, she prayed that her husband was in bed and already asleep.
When she flipped on the small light on the table near the door, she was startled to see the mysterious Asian man from dinner sitting calmly with his legs crossed in one of the rooms comfy rattan chairs.
Without so much as a thought about her husbands whereabouts, Karen reached down and slipped off her sandals. As she stood up once again, the man rose from his chair and approached her. An enigmatic smile played across the handsome features of his face. Karen reached behind her and, almost as though she were conscious of opening a portal to some alternate reality, engaged the deadbolt on the door.
James C. Clar teaches and writes in the wilds of western New York. His work has been published in print as well as on the Internet. Most recently his short fiction has found a home on Antipodean Sci-Fi, Apollo's Lyre, Flashshot, The Taj Mahal Review, The Shine Journal, Static Movement, Residential Aliens, Powder Burn Flash, Bewildering Stories, 365 Tomorrows and The Magazine of Crime & Suspense. His short story "Starbuck" was voted "Story of the Year" for 2008 by the editors of Long Story, Short.
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An ESPC is a way to finance the cost of making improvements to a home or business or public building that would save energy. The mechanism is to use the money that comes from lower utility bills to pay back an energy services company who pays the upfront costs of making the energy efficiency or renewable energy improvements. The improvements could include updated energy equipment, improved windows, efficient lighting, a better boiler, sometimes a renewable energy system. The owner pays the equivalent of today’s utility bills for several (5-20) years to the energy services company to pay them back, and then pays lower utility bills through the rest of the lifetime of the improvements. The advantage to the owner is that the owner gets the reliability, comfort, and bragging rights about the new improvements right from the start, and he/she then gets financial benefits of lower monthly payments for utility bills after the contract time is over and for the life of the improvements.
While ESPCs are most commonly used for improvements to existing buildings, they can be used for new construction as well. The following description was provided by Jeff Dominick of the National Renewable Energy Lab, and discusses how ESPCs are being used for new construction at federal government facilities by federal agencies. The principle process would be the same for any building owner.
“An ESPC can be used to incrementally improve the efficiency of planned and funded building construction projects without using capital appropriations to reimburse the ESCO.
First, the agency, ESCO, and architect (perhaps with the general contractor, if selected) meet and form a consensus about the baseline (non-improved) building design and energy use. At a minimum, the baseline building must meet existing energy codes and standards.
Then the ESCO “audits” the baseline design, perhaps through simulation in conjunction with review of any baseline equipment and building material selections. The ESCO suggests more energy efficient materials and systems (windows, insulation, chillers, boilers, air handling equipment, etc.), and the incremental costs and savings are presented.
All parties (ESCO and agency at a minimum) then negotiate and come to agreement on the incremental costs and savings, and confirm that the savings will pay for the incremental costs over a reasonable contract term. The new, more efficient equipment and materials become part of the building design, and their costs are allocated to the ESCO and the general contractor (GC).
The costs are allocated by comparing the total incremental cost increases to the costs of building systems and materials, and several items are identified for the ESCO (rather than the GC) to purchase and install. In this way, the ESCO might buy a complete chiller and several air-handling units, while the GC purchases more efficient windows and wall insulation. Although the building now costs more to construct than the inefficient building, the value of the GC’s contract does not go up since some costs are borne by the ESCO. The ESCO coordinates the installation of its equipment with the GC in much the same manner as a GC subcontractor.
This process allows each party to buy complete systems, since one can’t typically buy an incremental improvement (lower kW/ton for example) separate from the system (chiller, etc.). The ESCO uses its own funds to buy its systems, and is not paid any capital dollars.
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Chaos erupts on board the Colonel Sanders aircraft carrier, as four Air Treck teams and a special police squad converge into battle. Agito is plagued by a pair of foes with vexing reflective powers, and Kururu must search deep inside herself for the inspiration to stand up and seize her dreams. But how will this coalition against evil respond when a freak accident threatens to derail their entire plan?
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If you didn't know the name Elon Musk before this week, you do now. The 42 year old millionaire is an entrepreneur and an inventor who set out to to change the world when he was just a boy. At the age of 10, he received his first computer and by 12, he had taught himself to program. He sold a software game called Blastar for $500 less than a year later.
Skip ahead 30 years and the world is following him with open eyes as he just unveiled his latest concept that has the world split between wild skepticism and support. The Hyperloop - a futuristic transportation system that he says could take people from San Francisco to Los Angeles in just 30 minutes. Hogwash? Maybe. But maybe not. Given his track record of creating uber-successful companies, his latest idea shouldn't be taken lightly.
If you're a budding entrepreneur with a revolutionary idea, you shouldn't take it lightly either. Maybe your product won't be at the same scale as Elon Musk's, but by launching your product, you are helping the world and leveling the playing field for all your fellow makers and inventors. And you NEVER know. At one point in time, not too long ago, Elon was a 17 year old South African boy who took a risk and left his country for America. He said that he chose the U.S. because "It is where great things are possible." And while the Hyperloop is one of the biggest ideas we've known, it's simply in response to a need that he saw. Current train travel in California is expensive and slow - and proposals for future trains aren't much different. So he thought of a better idea. We see our Grommet partners doing this every day (and succeeding).
Who do you find inspirational? Comment below on who you think is worthy and why.
Below are 5 more reasons that entrepreneurs should be inspired by Elon Musk.
1) His company, SpaceX has sent people to the moon as a private company, not associated with the government.
2) He co-founded PayPal, and turned the world of e-commerce payments upside down.
3) He co-founded Tesla Motors as he's passionate about clean energy solutions for our planet.
4) He serves as Chairman of the board for Solar City, the largest provider of solar systems in the U.S.
5) He even wants to colonize Mars! He hopes that Space X can propel this idea forward and someday the red planet could hold up to 80,000 humans, should earth no longer be a viable place to live.
Have next big idea? Tell us about it - maybe you'll be our next Grommet.
My son always had some type of learning disability in my eyes, but it didn't show on paper. He dropped out of school because of gans in 9th grade, did little but stay online, 3 years later, with no further training, he built me a computer, sent for varias pieces in china. Got a GED, and a drivers license, meanwhile I had gotten him on SS dis., he got off of that, got married and has 3 kids, he continues to inspire me as he shops at thrift stores and does all kinds of neat things for his family. I do believe if there weren't so many kids and more teachers where we grew up, he would and should have been diagnosed earlier, because the whole time he stayed up in the Section 8 housing unit I got him, he didn't seem to be doing much, but he learned a lot about the computer, and if he had been in a special class that wasn't quite for slow people but fit for him things would have gone smoother, I had to work so he was off on his own, somehow stayed out of Corrections being on his own, no friends really, and that's a case where kids usually go to the mall and start shoplifting. This is ia great site I showed it to him, he has some ideas, hope they come through soon.
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Activities include Deployment management, SQL Development including Tabular Model and Mobile/Adhoc Reporting development, system design, specification and estimation, development of Service Based Applications (Windows & WCF Services), quality Assurance and peer review for other team members.
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Under "Clippings and Photos" posted 4 more postcards from an old postcard collection.
Under "Clippings and Photos" posted 4 postcards from an old postcard collection.
Added links to 44 biographies for the 1907 book "The Semi-Centennial Souvenir of Nothwood, Iowa.
This completes putting online the the Worth County portion of this book.
Added data to the 1930 census for Union Township.
Added data to the 1930 census for Broookfield, Danville, Grove, Hartland, and Silver Lake Townships.
Added data to the 1930 census for Barton Township.
Complete list of populations for all towns and townships in Worth county for the years 1910, 1900, 1890. Populations.
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Franklin. This man was my high school computer science teacher. He enjoyed his job to the fullest extent. The fact that he could teach us what he had spent so many years doing made him a happier person. In his leisure time away from teaching, he would spend a portion of it planning things to make the class more interesting and better for us. He would also take more time to spend with his family, or go out and have some personal time playing video games at a local arcade. He also did a lot of the things that he never got a chance to do as student, laboring through school.
Personally, I felt that as a worker that I spent my leisure time more constructively. I had once worked as a tollbooth worker in a local amusement park. I enjoyed that job and had nothing if little to say bad about it. I noticed that when I had time off, I took more time to spend it with my friends. I read more and did the things that I wanted to get to that I previously didn’t have time for. I am presuming that these events occurred because I didn’t have to worry about going back to work the next day. That my next hours of work wouldn’t be a personal hell, but rather a place where I can consider something that I like doing, I get paid for.
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Sigh. February, and I’m trying to be back. I have plenty of insecurity.
Welcome back me and everyone, to the Insecure Writer’s Support Group! On the first Wednesday of every month, bloggers get together to share their thoughts and experiences, and find/offer support across the blogosphere.
ISWG is captained by Alex J. Cavanaugh. The awesome co-hosts for today are Misha Gericke, LK Hill, Juneta Key, and Joylene Buter! Please also be sure to congratulate the new site admins, Heather M Gardner and C. Lee McKenzie.
Now on to my issues. Late fall and early winter was a chaotic time in our household. Bear and I bought a new house. To clarify, new to us. It is, in fact, a rather old house. And it needs a lot of work. We’ve been spending the last couple months doing as much of the demo as we can ourselves and scraping together as much cash as possible to pay professionals for the things we can’t do. So, I’ve had to work more hours to bring in more funds.
Bunny is also getting older, and while he’s more independent, he’s certainly not ready to take care of himself. We’re in the midst of potty training at the moment, and he’s learning how to dress himself. It’ll be a long time before all I have to do is bang on his door in the morning and leave him on his own to get ready.
As such, writing has fallen off considerably.
I am still writing. I did a short piece for a contest a few weeks back. I’ll post the story here in a few weeks after winners are announced. I’m critiquing quite a bit to keep up my membership on the two critique sites I use. My short story, “Wilde Born,” is chugging along (Chapter 5 out this Friday!) and sometime after that’s finished, I’ll be releasing Chalice. I have plans to submit a few works to ebook publishers, and with any luck, next winter I’ll be able to work on the revision for Cry of the Hawk, the third novel in the Threads series, and finally get it published.
All is moving slowly, but steadily. I feel a bit melancholy about this update, for many reasons. I’m sad that I don’t have as much time for writing or my blog, though I hope that will change once things even out a little. Wish me luck and good luck to all of you as we head into the second month of 2017.
Sounds like you’ve had a busy few months. Good for you that you keep chugging along with your writing anyway. Progress, no matter how slow, is still amazing progress!
Its pretty common to have periods that are more and less productive. Definitely happens to me. Life happens. Key is to know that you can come back. Good luck.
Oh hang in there. We all go through weird spells during our writing career. You’ll get inspired and then the words will flow.
Good luck to you on your writing goals and on everything else you have going on. I learned a long time ago that my husband and I are not handy at all. The thought of us even attempting any kind of demolition cracks me up.
GOOD LUCK! Sounds like you’re actually doing pretty well considering that you have so much on your plate. Try not to be discouraged, it will all come together. Keep writing, even if it’s only a few words each day. Blogging can wait, if it has to. for me Blogging is the last thing on the list, when life gets in the way. Your blog friends will understand.
Potty training! One of the more discouraging events in a parent’s life. I potty trained five children, so I know. Your tramping along in the trenches right now, but your future is bright. A home just the way you like it. A child who will one day thank you for that he didn’t go to kindergarten still wearing pull-ups. And you’ll find time to write. As others have said, a little here a little there. It does add up.
Good luck and hang in there! These things all pass. We all do the best we can. Take care!
Moving can be VERY disruptive, but it always calms down over time. Sounds like you have a lot going on in addition to that. Blogging can definitely wait!
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Box Storage Shelves - Awesome Storage Cabinets With Baskets. wall shelf with baskets. grey storage cabinet baskets. basket drawers.
Published at Sunday, April 14th 2019, 23:20:50 PM by Hugues Jauffret. Display Cabinet. Another tip here is to try not to stock these cabinets too much. One of your big challenges as a store owner is to get people to buy right away and to come in now rather than going away to think about it - because more often than not a purchase is an emotional rather than logical decision. By making it look like you don't have many of these items you can ensure that people will come in quickly to pick them up before they sell out.
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Published at Friday, November 09th 2018, 00:26:58 AM. Bar Cart By Dimitri Jeannin. However, just buying a kitchen island based on its appearance is not at all a good idea. You may end up buying a kitchen trolley that you just are not able to move around easily. So, you need to think about what size should be your kitchen trolley. The size should be just right so that it is easy to move it through tight spaces, as that's the whole point of using such a utility in the first place. How you plan on using the kitchen trolley is also another thing that you need to consider. If you want to use your kitchen cart for food preparation, then you need one which has drawers. The drawers will help you keep the basic utensils and kitchenware and also frequently used sauces and spices. These kitchen carts also make fantastic mobile bars if you frequently entertain guest. You can easily find versions that come with wine bottle racks as well as holders to fit your wine glasses.
Published at Friday, November 09th 2018, 00:16:43 AM. Bar Cart By Igor Saunier. If you want to get in on the trend of using kitchen carts in your kitchen, you need to know about all the variety of kitchen carts that are on the market. No longer are you limited to a cart with a top and one shelf underneath. Those old-fashioned kitchen carts have been revamped in a number of styles and designs that will fit your specific entertaining needs. Whether it is in the kitchen, or as a serving assistant, there are a wide variety of kitchen carts out there.
Published at Friday, November 09th 2018, 00:16:36 AM. Bar Cart By Ludovic Pasteur. On a popular home network, a couple that was doing a remodel while living in the home used a cart. While installing granite counter tops. They used this makeshift cart to keep their cooking items. This was a great solution that allowed them to keep living comfortable while remodeling. Where can you purchase a kitchen cart? There are a many places that you can purchase these carts. Department stores that have a kitchen appliance area more than likely sell these carts. The super convenience stores might sell a cheaper version. For the best quality cart, go to a high end department store. The internet has several stores that boast good quality for a good price. The only problem with internet shopping, the cart might not look like the picture; it pays to do your research before purchasing. Most all websites have reviews. The savvy internet shopper can find out just about anything you want to know about a retailer.
Published at Friday, November 09th 2018, 00:16:25 AM. Bar Cart By Patrice Haillet. So, when you decide you need a kitchen cart your first instinct might be to run all over town to every store that might carry one. Rather than wasting time and gas money why not shop from the comfort of home online. You will find the largest selection as well as the best prices on kitchen carts of all sizes and colors. Most have rungs for kitchen towels and some have spice racks or slots for knives. Your kitchen will be organized in a snap. If you are short on floor space but want more countertop space you could try one with a flip up breakfast bar extension. Not only will you have the workspace you need, but you will also have a spot to enjoy a warm cup of coffee or a glass of OJ.
Published at Friday, November 09th 2018, 00:16:20 AM. Bar Cart By Rodolphe Vandame. And kitchen carts don't have to stay in the kitchen. Try rolling one with a wine rack into the living room or out on the patio to prepare and serve drinks to your guests. Are you into scrapbooking? A kitchen cart is the perfect spot to store your paper and embellishments and keep them ready to roll when you are working on your next layout. Just flip-up the extension and you can work on your pages anywhere. So no matter if you love to bake or just need more work and storage space to make anything in your kitchen, kitchen carts are the solution to your woes. Choose one that suits your style. Try one with a marble top and warm wood base or maybe a stainless steel top and a red wood base. Or go for the classic look of a wooden butcher block top. It has never been easier to find kitchen carts that match your motif.
Published at Friday, November 09th 2018, 00:16:15 AM. Bar Cart By Tristan Lazard. Along with adding to the overall appearance of your kitchen, kitchen carts are also a wonderful option for bringing some additional work space and storage space into it as well. You can use its table top, which will typically be crafted from wood, stainless steel, or granite as touched upon earlier, as a nice food prep station while the drawers, shelving, and even cabinetry that one could feature provide you with a wealth of space to stow away a variety of items like pots and pans, cook books, extra canned goods, and even small kitchen appliances. Some options will even have wine racks built right into them while others will have utensil hooks and towel holders.
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Searching For Bradford Exchange Customer Service Number so you are in right place here we provide all the details regarding Bradford Exchange which help you to solve queries related to Bradford Exchange products we all know that Bradford Exchange is such a huge company in the industry of goods, jewelry, sports, memorabilia.
Their headquarter is in Niles, Illinois, Bradford Exchange is founded by J. Roderick MacArthur in the year 1973, Not only Consumer Marketing but Bradford Exchange also provide other services like apparel collectible goods, jewelry, sports memorabilia now, Richard Tinberg is the CEO of a company, Bradford Exchange is the $37 M Industry. there is 500+ work under them and have huge thousand lists, with all these names and products people still facing the problem with their services that’s why best way is to call on their toll free number 1-866-503-9057 to contact their customer care executive.
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Here we provide Bradford Exchange Customer Toll Free Number which you can use to contact their executive and solve your issues facing their company products all you have to do is select their product and contact them that’s why below we provide the number of their different products so select the product and call them.
Due to some technical issues or server problems if your call is not connect with their service center then as an alternative we will provide their customer email address which you can use to solve your complaints all you have to do is write about your issue and send them on the provide email follow the below link to visit their contact us page.
You may reach our Bradford Exchange Customer Service department by call on their toll free at 1-866-503-9057 or send them an email regarding your problem on their email address A representative they will gladly take your order.
Social media is the best way is to connect with someone that’s why here we provide company social accounts which includes facebook pages, twitter handle and linkdin profile all you have to do is ask about your question in their public forums, community and public wall after sometime you will got the solution of your question.
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« Stacy Sakai interviewed by Ioulia Reynolds for the Art Collective Network!
Today, I attended Malcolm Parry’s photography exhibit. The Wing Sang Building in Chinatown (Bob Rennie’s private gallery for his art collection) showcased 365 photographs by Malcolm Parry, who has documented over 40 years of Vancouver’s social scene. It was amazing to see the people and events he has captured over the years. In 2009, Malcolm wrote a piece in the Vancouver Sun about my Spaced Out! art show.
Hallway inside the Wing Sang Building…previous building structure is blended with the modern design of the gallery.
The view from the rooftop of the Wing Sang Building.
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