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Thank you for your interest in the Oak Grove R-VI School District.
For a listing of available position click here www.moreap.net Go to Fast Track Menu, then job opportunities, Search for jobs in one school district, then specify Oak Grove.
If you have an application on REAP, you may submit a cover letter and resume to Mr. Bryan Thomsen, 601 SE 12th St., Oak Grove, MO 64075 stating the position you are interested in.
If you do not have an application on REAP you may fill out the application below and submit it. Follow up with a cover letter and resume to Mr. Bryan Thomsen, 601 SE 12th St., Oak Grove, MO 64075.
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We are a nonprofit organization that works with kids around the world who have had difficult or traumatic experiences, and we teach them how to process and tell their stories through photography in a way that impacts how they view themselves and their role in their community.
We provide a platform to sell their photographs and give 100% of the proceeds to fund the most pressing needs in their communities, enabling them to see the impact of their contribution.
Our program provides a clearing where kids can process and tell the stories of their past, present, and future through photography with no judgement or expectations.
Working with kids worldwide ranging in age from 10 - 18 years old, our custom curriculum teaches both storytelling and technical photography skills in a way that impacts how they view themselves and their role in their community.
100% of the proceeds* from student photo sales fund much-needed supplies, and our model partners with local organizations in each community that determine which medical, educational or basic needs they need funded the most. In addition, the cameras are left behind with the kids or organization so that they can continue the work.
*After production, 100% of the proceeds from our student photos sold online equates to 94% of each sale.
Established in 2009, 100cameras is a registered 501c3 non-profit organization in the United States of America and funded entirely through the generous donations of individuals, businesses and foundations. Tax ID Number: 26-4692506.
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Welcome to http://www.ieccovers.com (the "Site").We understand that privacy online is important to users of our Site, especially when conducting business.This statement governs our privacy policies with respect to those users of the Site ("Visitors") who visit without transacting business and Visitors who register to transact business on the Site and make use of the various services offered by Industrial and Environmental Concepts, Inc. (collectively, "Services") ("Authorized Customers").
Personally Identifiable Information collected by Industrial and Environmental Concepts, Inc. is securely stored and is not accessible to third parties or employees of Industrial and Environmental Concepts, Inc. except for use as indicated above.
How does Industrial and Environmental Concepts, Inc. use login information?
Industrial and Environmental Concepts, Inc. uses login information, including, but not limited to, IP addresses, ISPs, and browser types, to analyze trends, administer the Site, track a user's movement and use, and gather broad demographic information.
http://www.ieccovers.com contains links to other web sites. Please note that when you click on one of these links, you are moving to another web site. We encourage you to read the privacy statements of these linked sites as their privacy policies may differ from ours.
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Moroccan medinas can be overwhelming to put it midly!! But behind the hustle and bustle lies a beautiful (all be it wonderfully worn and weathered!!) world of vibrant colour, beautiful details and intricate beauty! This set of photographs shows our very favourite finds after many many hours lost in the medinas of Marrakech, Fez and Tangier!
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The five-day SNOR training will provide participants with an understanding of the general principles of school health services; identify best practices and resources; and learn practical tips and survival skills for school nurses. Topics include school health laws, school nurse guidelines, medication administration, mandated screenings, immunizations, communicable diseases, school health records and other school health topics.
Continuing education hours are available for each meeting attended. Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number 12715 for 7.0 contact hours each meeting.
For complete event information, please click on the “For more information and to register, click her” link to the left.
Registration closes on Friday, October 12, 2018 or when capacity has reached its limit; whichever happens first.
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The young couple who live in Capton, and who look after the cottage, were so very welcoming and came to my assistance when I failed, repeatedly, to open the key-safe upon our arrival!!
Many thanks for your kind review of The Stables at Capton. It is fantastic to hear that you had a brilliant holiday and experienced no problems during your stay. Your kind feedback regarding our service is particularly appreciated and it was also lovely to hear that the caretakers were able to assist you on your arrival day! We do hope to welcome you back to the Dartmouth area in the very near future.
Some concerns about the drop from the car parking space to the property below. This was covered by ivy that gave way when leaned upon. I would recommend that this is fenced off or secured in some way as it was a small gap of about 50 cm - but easy to miss and fall through. Also the instructions about recycling could be clearer - e.g. we found recycling sacks in the 'play room' but were unsure from the instructions what we were supposed to do with them (e.g. take them to the recycling centre ourselves or was this something the owners were dealing with?). Also instructions told of the 'black bin' out the front - this was where the rubbish was to be put out on the last morning. I looked round for a black wheely bin but guessed that they instructions were referring to the silver bin with the black lid??
Thank you for your positive feedback in respect of The Stables, Capton. We do hope you had an enjoyable stay and look forward to welcoming you back to the South Hams again very soon.
We loved the fire place and quietness around us, however, retrieving and returning the key is a scary issue. We enjoyed the friendly village people and the beautiful views from the river as we walked across the marvelously green Dittisham fields.
We loved our week there. It had everythink you need.Great views lovely walks and near to Dartmouth.
Well catered for all ages. Ideal for our dog.Close to Dartmouth & many other bays etc.
Set at the edge of the rural hamlet of Capton, The Stables is a delightful converted stone barn offering peace and tranquility all year round.
The cottage provides cosy holiday accommodation with comfortable furnishings and a woodburning stove.
The house is perfect for a family or one/two couples looking for a quiet base to explore the beauty of the Devon countryside including nearby Dittisham and Dartmouth. Entrance into a small hallway off which are a short flight of stairs up to the lounge and three steps down to bedrooms and bathroom.
Modern kitchen with cream units and beach work surface, 4-ring gas hob with electric double oven and integrated microwave, dishwasher, fridge/freezer and laminate flooring.
With original oak flooring and wood burning stove, high vaulted ceiling, TV with DVD and Freeview, double sofa bed (the sofa bed can be used for additional sleeping accomodation for up to two guests), sofa and single armchair, oak table with four chairs and bench, and other occasional furniture. Fully carpeted double bedroom with 5' bed, bedside units and chest of drawers.
Bedroom two has twin 3' single beds (pushed together), bedside units, wardrobe and drawers.
Stylishly tiled bathroom with bath, shower (over), w.c., wash hand basin, shaver point and light and heated towel rail. To the rear of the property is a large timber framed garage/play/utility room.
On the ground floor is a utility area with separate shower room (with shower, w.c.
and wash hand basin) - the utility area houses the washing machine.
Stairs lead up to an open playroom area with sofas and TV. Two good sized terraces to the side of the property with table and chairs.
Large area to the front and side of the property laid mainly to lawn with flower beds and gravel path.
Parking for one car at the front of the property and a further car at the rear. Capton is just two and a half miles from the River Dart at Dittisham and a short drive to the fine naval town of Dartmouth and the stunning South Devon coastline.
Beautiful and varied country walks are available from the door.
Dartmouth Golf and Country Club (day membership available) and Woodlands Leisure Park are nearby.
Two bedrooms: 1 x King bedroom and 1 x Twin bedroom (with beds pushed together). Family bathroom with shower over bath, w.c, basin and heated towel rail. Kitchen. Lounge/dining room. Playroom/utility room.
The property is set in a very rural location. The nearest town/shops are a 10-15 minute drive away. Please note the garden area is not totally enclosed.
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We arrived at our destination and found that Wedge Pond, in all her autumn glory, was completely and utterly ours. We were blissfully alone—it was just us, the Gray Jays and the chickadees. That is my idea of heaven.
We hiked around the pond and made our way to a sunny wooden bench, where we basked in the warmth of the late autumn sun and listened to the last of the leaves falling off the poplars. It was so quiet and still, we could hear the sound of a single leaf falling from a tree, making distinctive tick, tick, tick sounds as it glanced off bare branches on its way down to the forest floor.
Every now and again, a gentle puff of air sent a leaf parasailing over the pond, gliding in wide circles until it gently landed on the water’s surface. Trout jumped out of the pond to snag insects and plopped back in with a solid kerplunk. Every sound was so magnified—once, I thought I heard a single leaf land on the forest floor and echo across the water. It was so quiet and still we dared not speak, out of reverence for all that beauty. When one of us finally broke the silence, it was with a whisper. I have no idea how long we sat there—I lost all sense of time.
Autumn grasses growing along the pond, illuminated by the morning sun.
More autumn colours—perhaps my favourite colour palette of all the seasons.
Fallen leaves shining in the morning sun, like gold coins.
Frost-covered leaf in the morning sun.
Every leaf gone but still beautiful.
A red leaf in the undergrowth.
Wedge Pond panorama (Tokina AT-X 11-20mm f/2.8).
Me, making my way around Wedge Pond. (Photo by my partner).
Oh Jeannie! It’s like heaven on earth indeed. Gorgeous, simply amazing. I can almost see the smile on your face as you take in the beautiful surroundings and breathe the crisp autumn air. Wow :) Wishing you and your partner a lovely weekend!!
are wonderful, I love the light. Congratulations Jeannie.
Wonderful post, Jeannie.. I see you enjoyed this outing very much. Your photos are beautiful. I wish I had more time to be out here in BC..when I am not gone somewhere else and could also be one with the nature. I love your text. It is so nice to read. I could almost feel I was there with you looking over your shoulder. :-) Thanksgiving is gone but I thank you and hope yours was also nice.
Thanks so much, Jeannie, for taking us with you on this glorious and peaceful visit to Wedge Pond. Each photo is a work of art, and your writing and descriptions are heavenly. I, too, love being the only humans on outdoor adventures, and the peace of hearing leaves drop, hearing the wind, it transforms my state. It is always a breath of fresh air to visit you here.
Such beauty you captured! But your words make the beauty you capture shine with brilliance! Outstanding!
Sorry I am late to wish you a belated Happy Thanksgiving!
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Infant toy Yoee Baby has smashed its Kickstarter goal, raising $35,663, making it the most funded baby toy on the crowdfunding platform.
Backed by 650 pledgers, Yoee Baby surpassed its original goal of $20,000 in thirty days.
Yoee Baby’s characters boast a soft feather-like tail deigned to stimulate a baby’s senses and encourages sensory development, body awareness, language development and fine motor skills.
“When we met our initial goal in just five days, we were thrilled to see the parenting community embrace the concept of an interactive bonding toy that helps them playfully connect with babies from day one,” said Jillian Lakritz, founder of Yoee Baby.
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20,000 People in Reshan deprived of electricity for the last one year.
43 People Killed in Chitral Floods. Bodies found in Afghanistan's Province.
CHITRAL: The anti-polio campaign was launched in 10 union councils in the district on Monday as the drive was postponed in the remaining 14 UCs due to the tough weather conditions.
Additional Deputy Commissioner of Chitral Abdul Ghaffar inaugurated the anti-polio drive at the Women and Children Hospital by administering oral polio vaccine to kids. District Health Officer Dr Israrullah was also present on the occasion.
Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI) District Coordinator Dr Irshad Ahmad said that 39,690 children would be vaccinated in Chitral-I, Chitral-II, Drosh-I, Drosh-II, Ayun, Arandu, Daneen, Ashrait and Koh union councils in the district.
He said the anti-polio drive would be launched in the remaining union councils after the weather conditions eased up. Dr Irshad Ahmad said that some 687 personnel were providing security to polio vaccinators in the 10 union councils.
The official said that Chitral had never reported a single polio case in the last 20 years as the parents didn’t refuse vaccination and cooperated with the Health Department and vaccinators.
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Customer Loyalty is necessity for business survival. Without repeat customers, an organization will forever be busy acquiring new customers and losing out on old ones.
It is a known fact that acquiring a new customer is far far more costlier than retaining old ones. Whether you are in grocery business with millions of customers or in a highly technical business with only one customer, Customer Loyalty will make sure that you have consistent revenues for your organization. Even in the times of recession.
Loyal customers would not walk away if you do make small mistakes sometime.
The above are only a few reasons , why customer loyalty should be on the mind of company’s bosses and entrepreneurs.
Unfortunately these days, there is more focus on getting customers rather than retaining the old ones. The old customers usually get a raw deal. As a consequence, they feel cheated and become disillusioned. They, then move to competitor who offers them much better services at may be same or lesser price. I am sure this has happened to all of us. Many time we felt wronged and our trust was broken by a company that we loved so much.
People like to be connected . They like to known, cajoled, appreciated , thanked etc. It is important that this connection be made much in advance rather than later. Many times, the loyalty programs are offered very late, only after the customer has spent a lot of money. At this time, organizations perform extensive analysis on customer spending and the then decides on the customer’s loyalty. Meanwhile, the customer finds more value in the similar program offered by a competitor and moves on.
With increasing competition, retention strategy has assumed prime importance. Customers armed with knowledge obtained from internet are a dangerous bunch. They can make or break a product’s reputation within days. A bad review online is sufficient to hurt the sales of a product.
Hence, it is amply clear that an organization needs a strong customer retention strategy to keep generating money.
As a next step, let us chalk out some Do’s and Dont’s guidelines when comes to retaining customers for long and keep them satisfied.
At the conclusion let me make one thing clear. It is not possible to ignore customers of today and there are so many ways they can destroy credibility of your organization . I am not suggesting that you should bow to each and every unreasonable demand of customer but to treat them well and keep them informed.
An open and honest communication with your customer will go a long way in establishing your credibility.
Successful businesses typically see 80 percent of their business come from 20 percent of their customers. If you meet customer needs. If you give customers a reason to return to your business than you can achieve more than 20%. For instance you could give away something like an ebook and upgrade it frequently in order to give to your visitors a reason to come back to your site.
Brilliant once again. Customer is the King…Isn’t it? Its pity that slowly but surely this thing is being buried down somewhere. The loyalty thing which you have mentioned in your post is so very important and I don’t see companies taking it seriously. Exceptions do prevail with the big brands.
Very recently, being a customer…I had one worst experience with a very popular name in the market, The Mobile Store – A well known retail outlet for mobile phones. I won’t go in detail but I have to say that their customer service was one of the worst ever customer services for me till date. The people were good till the product was sold and then they had no time to listen to my complaints. Those complaints were related to some defects in the mobile phone which I had purchased from them. They never took my complaints seriously, instead hurried to close the matter. Never ever bothered to listen…Finally, I had decided not to visit them again.
I guess most of us would have done the same. What say ??
What computer manufacturers are rated best on customer satisfaction and reliability of laptops?
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just thought I would share my image from the January marker class by kit and clowder.
I haven't used the image from the class but chosen to use one of my lilies (retired).
I've really surprised myself with my efforts even though I didn't have any rubbing alcohol I've used my blender in the sky colours.
at some point this will be framed and displayed in my craft room.
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On Saturday I reffed a level 9 game. During the maul phase players went to ground, not deliberately. On two occasions players insisted they could remain holding the ball on the ground to prevent the player in possession getting the ball to scrum half ie (blue tackles red, remain on feet, maul formed. Blue and red players wrestling for ball fall to floor on red side. Blues remains holding ball preventing continuum of play). What worries me that both teams attempted this tactic and inferred this was allowed.
I sanctioned both plays as playing the ball on floor preventing release. Was I incorrect. I have re read the Law 16.16 but I am non the wiser?
Unfortunately the players were correct on this occasion, but well done for questioning yourself and hopefully you will be able to get it right from now on.
When a maul goes to ground legally (i.e. it was not pulled down by anyone) then players who have a hold of the ball or ball carrier do not have to release or roll away (law 16 doesn't say they have to; as it does in the tackle law for instance).
This then becomes an unsuccessful maul because the ball has become unplayable and/or was not immediately available. The result is a scrum turned over to the team that didn't take it in (unless it was formed from a kick in open play; see law 16.18).
The wording of the law has changed slightly in the new 2018 law book, but the law itself hasn't changed.
Also remember they don't have to roll away if they are on the ball as it collapses, but they can't dive over the ball after the maul goes down. And the ball must be available immediately for play to continue.
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a note from apple seeds: the duo does the du(athlon)!
the duo does the du(athlon)!
When I met Allison 9 years ago in a baby music class with our twins, I knew she had something special, something that I wanted to attach myself to, a friendship that I wanted to foster and cultivate. She was smart and beautiful, kind and outgoing, all at the same time. What impressed me the most was how she looked at and cared for her twin baby boys.
In the long list of things that impress me about Allison, this past weekend stands out as one of my favorites.
Last spring, Allison signed us up for a duathlon in Central Park, a 2 mile run, 12 mile bike ride, 2 mile run race. This was something that I knew intimidated her, and yet she pressed the registration button knowing that she would have to find the time to train. Setting a goal is one of the best ways to motivate us all, and Allison set her goal with me in mind. We would do this challenge together.
This past Sunday, we completed the duathlon and not only rocked it, we had so much fun doing it!
As we crossed the finish line and our 6 kids ran up to us, I remember feeling proud of myself, but even more for my closest friend. She overcame her nerves and her fear of the unknown, and she prioritized herself in a month when work and school are incredibly time consuming.
As she hugged her 3 gorgeous boys, I saw that she was role modeling for them in a way she may not even realize. They were so happy for their mom, and I was too.
They saw her make the time to train and exercise this month, they saw her overcome her anxiety, facing this unknown, and they saw her cross that finish line with a giant smile of accomplishment.
Later that day we were already looking up other duathlon races, and I can’t wait to take on the next one with her!
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So I've been dying to try my hand at milk bath photos for a while now and last weekend I got my chance! I'm so in love with how they came out. It's amazing how something so simple can create such an ethereal and whimsical effect. This little guy was so smiley and sweet. I'm hooked now! I can't wait to do more and to do maternity and even MORE creative sessions as well! Please contact me if you have any interest and let me talk you into booking one!
I love lifestyle photography. The purpose of this photography genre is to capture people how they are in their own, organic, environments. The primary goal is to tell stories about people's lives or to inspire people to find beauty in their every-day.
This is my very first time editing like this and I loved it. Definitely not for the faint of heart and not for my every day but it's so nice to break out from the norm and for Abbey and Jo I think it's perfect.
I think most people assume photography is just point and shoot. I constantly hear "wow that's a great picture, what camera do you have?" and while the camera is an important tool it's just the canvas... or the paintbrush..? It's a tool, it's not the artist. you can make great images no matter what "box" you're using.
There is so much that can be accomplished with post processing. Just a few minor adjustments can change the entire mood of a photo.
Very cute picture of a very cute kid but definitely feels unfinished.
I'll edit this way for sneak peaks sometimes just to give a client an idea of what the pictures look like. I have a preset made and can do this edit in less than a minute but its not a completely polished look.
This is a popular way to edit. The subject is cooler and bright but not too cold. it feels natural but ethereal.
This is a really trendy way to edit but if you're not careful it just ends up looking underexposed.
This style is also really trendy right now, it actually has been for a little bit. the flat, velvety shadows can be really romantic and are popular for engagement announcements and even some weddings.
I really think Black and white can make just about any image look sophisticated. It's so classic.
Many photographers develop a signature style or visual voice through their edits and it becomes their calling card. I haven't been able to choose. Which style is your favorite.
Some of my favorite subjects seem to appear out of nowhere. I drive this road every single day but the light yesterday was amazing. The green image is what it looked like through my camera, exactly. I did no editing. With the help of my kids though we made some fun changes. Which one do you like best?
I'm going to be listing Metallic prints of these images on my Etsy page if you'd like a copy for your home, or you could contact me with your request.
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It’s that time of year again – the Lush Valentines Day 2019 range has dropped – and it’s full of cheeky surprises!
A bubble-bath dwelling, adventure-seeking, bird-keeping, squirrel-whispering, cute-collecting pasta bake enthusiast. Here you'll find posts on Lush, hauls, lists and snippets of my everyday life.
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In December 2016, the banking company UBS organized a wonderful Christmas afternoon inside the sumptuous Oceanographic Museum in Monaco.
Some soldiers, some elves and even Father Christmas came for the occasion ! All the children were very excited to meet them and our artists managed to create a marvelous afternoon thanks to their magical spirit !
What an enchanting moment for everyone !
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Powerflute, a Smurfit-controlled, Finnish-based and London listed paper and packaging group is changing ownership. The company's businesses include the 280.000 tpy semi-chemical fluting mill in Kuopio, Finland, previously called Savon Sellu. Powerflute also includes Stora Enso's old coreboard (300.000 tpy) and core-production facilities (230.000 tpy). The deal, proposed by Madison Dearborn Partners, is set to cost £268.
9/20/16 Do you have news?
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Professional Paint Finishes for Almost Anything!
Langstaff Classics have the professional low bake oven facilities to produce top quality paint finishes on a variety of external and internal furniture, fixtures and fittings. We can give old items a new lease of life, as well as creating something completely bespoke.You will be amazed what you can achieve with a little imagination in any style, colour or paint finish!
Ercol furniture was first introduced into British homes in the fifties. Here Langstaff Classics have professionally lacquered these Ercol Elm chairs in flame red, Intense Blue and Ocean Green to give them a high gloss mirror finish – a cheerful addition to any kitchen or dining room.
This 1970’s plain wooden Coffee table has been professionally designed and lacquered by Langstaff Classics to give it a striking jet black and ice white, high gloss designer finish.
These iconic 1960’s Arkana dining chairs have been completely stripped, sanded and restored by Langstaff Classics. The Flawlessly smooth finish has been achieved by professionally priming and spraying the chairs in a low bake oven finishing the stylish metal bases in bright matt white and the fibreglass seats in matt black carefully preserving their orginal markings so that the chairs retain their value.
Why not give your kitchen a face lift by treating your kitchen cupboard doors to a brand new finish. Langstaff Classics can provide you with a stunning re- spray in any colour and any finish. Here these plain kitchen cabinets were professionally re-sprayed and polished to achieve a mirror gloss finish in Electric Blue.
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SharonH and Lindsay Pennell like this.
Are you sure it wasn't checking the wind direction?
i think we have Deer farms here now And I might have to go for a drive one day to see one for real.
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VancouverEmergency Communications Corporation for Southwest B.C.s (E-Comm) failure to address critical issues related to working conditions has left emergency dispatchers with no alternative other than to withhold services. As of Monday, October 2nd, E-Comm emergency dispatchers are stepping up their job action by refusing to process non-emergency calls.
For over a year, the more than 200 dispatchers, members of CUPE Local 873-02 have been working to resolve these issues which impact both public and emergency personnel safety and have been bargaining with E-Comm for more than eight months.
The Lower Mainland is in emergency service delivery crisis, says CUPE Local 873 President John Stohmaier. Weve raised concerns over inadequate communication systems, harassment, workload and staff shortages. Weve told them that our members are forced to log overtime far in excess of what any emergency personnel should be allowed to work. Yet our concerns have fallen on deaf ears.
The emergency dispatchers are also calling on the provincial government to intervene and use its authority to appoint an industrial inquiry commissioner to mediate this dispute.
It was the provincial governments decision to support the creation of E-Comm, says Stohmaier. Unfortunately neither the province nor the municipal governments whose citizens are being put at risk are treating our concerns with the urgency thats required to resolve these issues. Nothing short of a serious undertaking by government can prevent what has been a quiet, administrative dispute into becoming far more public and volatile.
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As a new year approaches, it is time to review leasing policies and strategies to maximize the profitability of your rental business.
1. Send delinquent rent files out for collection. Don’t allow tenants to get away with not paying rent. With Rent Recovery Service’s flat fee option, for a nominal fee landlords can send collection letters from a bona fide collection agency, and keep whatever money comes in.
2. Make sure to get emergency contact information from your tenants. If your rental application doesn’t provide for at least three personal references or emergency contacts, modify it going forward. This information becomes crucial for collecting delinquent rent money, should the need arise. And, it’s also useful if there’s an emergency.
3. Punch up your lease to make sure you can evict in the event of crime. Standard lease language may not give you all you need to get bad tenants out quickly — before they drive out the good ones.
4. Review your occupancy policies to avoid a discrimination suit. Protecting families with children is the latest mandate from HUD, so use best efforts to accommodate big families in small spaces.
5. Take advantage of all of the screening options AAOA has to offer, like the Nationwide Eviction and Nationwide Criminal reports, and the SSN Fraud report, to make 2013 the year of no bad tenants.
6. Go smoke-free and save on clean-up costs, reduce risks of fire, and attract quality tenants who are willing to pay more for non-smoking units.
7. Regularly maintain appliances to squeeze out every bit of life, and reduce the chance of emergency repairs which eat up the maintenance budget.
8. Participate in a Crime Free Multi-Housing Certification in your area. This training can reduce risks of liability and property damage, lower insurance rates, and attract good tenants.
9. Take some decent photos of your rental property after the next vacancy to use in your online ads.
10. Watch your reputation online and respond to any negative feedback that might scare away prospective renters. Set up Google Alerts with your name and the property name or address so you’ll know when someone out there posts information about you.
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Meet Nelle, she is up cycled from used kitchenware. She would be a perfect addition to your kitchen or would shine brightly hanging from a tree. She is 19 inches by 22.5 inches.
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Samsung has been trying to beat Apple at its own game for a long time now, and in some ways they've succeeded (more market share), but in others such as brand loyalty and getting people so excited as to stay hours at a time in line for the new device, they still have a lot to learn from Apple. That's why they've now sent a crew of videographers to find out what's going on and why do these people always stay in line for a new iPhone?
"Other companies release new phones, but there's not as much passion and heat (from buyers)," a Korea-based producer from Samsung Broadcasting Center/Cheil Worldwide, who asked not to be named. "It's only Apple. Why? We're curious.
Samsung will then use the video internally so the executives can understand why people are so passionate about the new iPhones, and try to replicate that with their own marketing campaigns. But I believe they're going to have their work cut out for them.
Besides the fact that Apple has always had very passionate and loyal customers, because of their strong belief in making high-quality and beautiful devices, it's important to remember that Apple did revolutionize the smartphone market, and changed the game to such a degree that everyone else had to follow them and make touchscreen phones, that work more or less the same.
When the iPhone launched, it was very exciting because everything was so new, and people had pretty good reason to stay in line. But everything else after that has been Apple being very masterful at creating buzz about their new iPhones, and also artificial scarcity.
I really don't buy the idea that year after year Apple "fails to predict the demand" of the new iPhones. If one year you have 2 million units sold on launch weekend, then the next 3 million, and the next 4 million, how hard would it really be to predict you're going to need at least 5 million for the next one? My guess is it's not that hard.
I also believe Apple has extremely accurate internal predictions. I remember back in 2007, they predicted the iPhone demand for the whole year almost exactly, and that was for a totally new type of phone, and Apple's first phone ever. Something like that is usually almost impossible to predict by any other company, and yet Apple got extremely close to predicting how many they would sell that year.
In the following years, it can only get easier, since the company should know exactly what to expect for growth, depending on how in many other countries they launch, how much money they spend on marketing and so on. Yet for some reason they still give us this excuse that they "failed to predict the demand" for the new iPhone, which I don't believe. They're obviously doing it on purpose at this point, to give people the feeling that the new iPhone is in such high-demand that it sells out almost immediately.
That's one way to get people to wait in line for it, but there's also the fact that many of these people have gotten used to doing it. It's like a tradition for them at this point. It's like going camping (which some of them actually do at the Apple stores - camp there from the night before).
It's going to be very hard for Samsung to replicate some of this stuff. They can use the artificial scarcity tactic, but it will be a lot harder to replicate the "tradition" thing. They can certainly try, though. But to do that much more easily, they need to start making beautifully designed and high-quality hardware, too, because that's a huge reason for why so many people fall in love with the new iPhones, and so far Samsung hasn't been that impressive in that regard.
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Ljubljana, 16 October - Telekom Slovenije, reinsurer Sava RE and port operator Luka Koper all recorded substantial losses on the Ljubljana Stock Exchange on Tuesday to drag the SBI TOP index 1.32% lower. Pharma company Krka was the most traded item, contributing EUR 310,000 to the day's total turnover of roughly EUR 1m.
The news item consists of 389 characters (without spaces) or 66 words words.
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The first full-service ‘hotel’ for your bicycle in Bangkok Thailand – BikeInnBox is the first bicycle hotel in Bangkok Thailand which provides services for bicycles only. BikeInnBox is located on the Bang Khun Thian-Chaitalay Road in Bangkok’s Bang Khun Thian district.
BikeInnBox opened for business on the 19th of December 2016.
1st floor – Reception area and lockers for cycling shoes.
2nd floor – Blue and yellow zone bicycle storage cages and a full-service bicycle cleaning area.
3rd floor – Red zone bicycle storage cages and shower rooms with lockers (including safety boxes) for cyclists to keep their clothing and valuables.
What sets BikeInnBox apart from other bicycle-themed hotels is that BikeInnBox provides the full services needed by cyclists, such as: secure bicycle storage, cafe with snacks, bicycle cleaning, showers and bathroom facilities with lockers and other services meant only for cyclists. *Think of it as a ‘hotel’ where your bike can stay and get pampered while you have the choice to wait for it in the cafe or change out of your cycling clothes, take a shower, and leave your bike and pick it up at some later date.
The author of this article also said that he liked the idea of having shower rooms and relaxing areas for cyclists as it provides a new choice for riders who come to get their bicycles serviced at BikeInnBox. *Services offered at BikeInnBox: Long and Short-term bike deposit (Members and VIP rates on website), Bike cleaning, Shuttle service, and Sticker wrap (bike frame protection).
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CALDEIRA A VAPOR MIURA LX 150-07, ANO: 2008, SÉRIE: 47S482599, CAP.: 5.175 LB/HR. Loc.: Indaiatuba/SP.
CALDEIRA A VAPOR MIURA LX 150-07, ANO: 2008, SÉRIE: 47S482600, CAP.: 5.175 LB/HR. Loc.: Indaiatuba/SP.
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Add Iris to your order?
A bunch of stunning blue Iris.
I always have a great experience when I use your services. A pleasure!
I love that the courier delivered my flowers on schedule. Thank you!!!
The iris bouquet was beautiful! My client loved them. The Iris flowers were fresh. I will be using you guys again.
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This technologically advanced cleaner from Nautical Ease is the only product of itsí type on the market. White calcium and mineral deposits that accumulate on inboard outdrives and outboard lower units are easily removed. This non-corrosive product does what formerly an acid had to do. A much safer and environmentally friendly product. NAUTICAL EASE OUTDRIVE CLEANER will not remove the paint as acid based products do. Will also remove water spots from boats and boat windshields.
For the boat owner who wants his boat to look perfect all the way around. This easy to use cleaner is an easy solution. Spray on and let set for several minutes. For light film use a cloth or brush lightly. For heavy film brush harder or re-apply as necessary until deposits are dissolved. Rinse well when cleaning is finished.
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Free Zone Establishment (FZE) is a single share holder limited liability company which can be incorporated in all UAE Free Zone. However Free Zone Company (FZC) will be a similar incorporation with multiple shareholding (maximum 5 shareholders).
An FZE / FZC is a limited liability entity.
Not only natural persons but juristic persons like Companies can also incorporate FZE/FZCs in UAE Free Zone.
FZE / FZC's, like branches of local or foreign companies, will have to get a Free Zone License after incorporation/Registration.
An FZE will be sole shareholder company. An FZC will be multi shareholder company with 2 to 5 shareholders.
The Financial Years shall be from January to December each year, except the commencement of the first year which shall be the date of Incorporation.
Free Zone Establishments (FZE) / Free Zone Company (FZC) should abide by the FZE / FZC Implementing Rules and Regulations. FZE Implementing Rules and Regulations are equivalent to its Memorandum and Articles of Association where as FZC Implementing Rules and Regulations are equivalent to its Articles of Association.
FZE/FZE should submit its audited financial statements to UAE Free Zone Authority every year within 3 months from the end of the financial year.
There should be at least 2 Directors and a Secretary for FZE / FZC's.
Letter of Appointment for the Manager with specimen signature (Notarized) along with his passport copy and Power of Attorney.
Letter of Appointment for the Manager with his specimen signature (Notarized) along with his passport copy and Power of Attorney.
Upon signing the agreement for Facility Lease and Personal Secondments the Free Zone prepares the license.
On payment, the Free Zone issues the license and all other related documents.
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NEN-ISO/IEC 19286 aims to normalize privacy-enhancing protocols and services by - using the mechanisms from parts of ISO/IEC 7816 and parts of ISO/IEC 18328 that contribute to security and privacy, - providing discoverability means of privacy-enabling attributes, - defining requirements for attribute-based credential handling, and - identifying data objects and commands for ICCs. Existing privacy-enhancing protocols available in a generic context are adopted for distributed systems including ICCs. Additionally, existing authentication protocols between an ICC and an external device used for establishing a secure channel are enhanced with privacy protection. Secure communication between an ICC and an on-card device is also considered. All the protocols and services described in this document contribute to privacy. Annex B describes an example of privacy impact assessments of respective systems.
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The project "Maintaining Work Ability in the Era of Digital and Demographic Change" seeks innovative approaches for strategic management and suitable measures for the operational management level.
Theoretical basis builds the Finnish “Work ability model" with the four dimensions “health”, “competence”, “values” and “work”. While a large number of concepts in the dimensions of health and functional capacities already exist, the dimensions of work, values and competence are explicitly taken as the starting point in the research project for future-oriented management strategies. In contrast to the usual interpretation, the dimension of work is also understood here as an individual resource that can positively influence the commitment to work through motivational factors.
Building on conceptual work, the aim is to empirically test key aspects of maintaining work- and employability in digital and demographic change with national and international cooperation partners such as the Institute of Labour Studies and Policy (IAA) at the Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria.
"Continuing vocational training to maintain the work ability of the older generation – Recommendations for practice". In: C. Kuttner/C. Schwender (eds.), Immer WEITER mit der BILDUNG – Mediale Lernkulturen im höheren Erwachsenenalter, volume 12 Gesellschaft - Altern – Medien, kopaed-Verlag 2018, p. 109-132.
Reviewed-Article: „Maintaining work ability: The Importance of Management“, Focus Issue „Ageing in Companies“, WSI-Mitteilungen 1/2018: pp. 38-45.
Article: „Challenges of Digital Work in the Public Sector – The Dimensions of Work, Values and Competence as a Tool for managerial Skills to Preserve Employability", Deutsche Rentenversicherung 1-2018, pp. 65-101.
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This scanned image is of Michael Mvogo, who has been held in a Canadian jail for seven years. Immigration officers can’t deport him because they can’t confirm his identity.
What should Canada do with those migrants it cannot deport for a variety of reasons? Is indefinite detention the answer?
That’s the crux of a petition to the United Nations by migrant advocates who want hundreds of migrants currently held for immigration violations to be released.
On Wednesday, members of End Immigration Detention Network, a community umbrella group, filed an official complaint to the U.N. High Commissioner for Human rights on behalf of Michael Mvogo, a Cameroon man, who has been detained in jail for seven years.
“Canadians need to be concerned that we are holding hundreds of people at a cost of $239 a day for the purposes of removal when they clearly cannot be removed,” Macdonald Scott, counsel for Mvogo, told reporters at a rally in front of the Federal Court on Queen St.
Syed Hussan of the End Immigration Detention Network said immigration detainees are stuck in immigration hold because they are refused travel documents by their country of origin, deemed convention refugees despite their criminal convictions in Canada or placed on a removal moratorium due to volatile conditions back home.
Canada, a signatory to the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights, should abide by the international law and limit immigration detention to 90 days, Hussan said.
Mvogo, 46, arrived Canada in 2005 allegedly with a fraudulent American passport and was arrested a year later in a Toronto homeless shelter by police for possession of a small amount of cocaine.
For years, immigration officials were unable to confirm his identity. Attempts were made to deport him to the U.S., Haiti and Guinea, where Mvogo was linked.
Mvogo ultimately told officials he came from Cameroon but he has yet to be issued a passport to return there.
“It is up to the Canadian government whether it decides to be a rogue nation in contradiction to international law or follow the international law,” said Scott.
The End Immigration Detention Network has asked the UN to issue an opinion to demand the interim release of Mvogo while the complaint is being examined.
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We strive to give back to the communities that have supported us by undertaking responsibilities in the neighborhoods where we work. Our corporate sponsorship and community service programs are designed with one goal in mind: to care for the people we serve.
We're jazzed to give back to the Rochester community!
Once again, the Avangrid Foundation and RG&E are proud to present 10 free shows of great music on our Fusion Stage during the 18th edition of the Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival.
Five of Rochester's most popular bands will be rocking the Avangrid Foundation / RG&E / Barclay Damon Fusion Stage, located in the RG&E parking lot at the corner of Chestnut Street and East Avenue. The bands will perform for five consecutive nights at 7 pm and 9 pm starting Sunday, June 23.
Visit XRIJF 2019 for complete details on this year’s lineup.
Visit XRIJF for more information about this city-wide, week-long event.
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Niagara Falls, New York, is both a small town outside of industrial Buffalo and also home to one of the world’s most popular tourist attractions. Spanning both sides of the border, the Niagara Falls are a draw for visitors of all nationalities wanting to experience the beauty of one the Seven Wonders of the World. Stay in one of the area's many hotels, and you will be just blocks away from Niagara Fall’s many attractions.
A towering stained glass building houses the Seneca Niagara Casino and Hotel. It is the biggest hotel in Western New York, at nearly 600 guest rooms. Opened in 2006, the Native American-inspired hotel rooms are larger than the average, with views of the downtown area. Guest rooms include flat-screen televisions and stereo systems. Jacuzzi tubs are featured in some rooms. A full-service spa is located on site, and the hotel has a number of dining options, from the Java Cafe to The Western Door: A Seneca Steakhouse Experience. A large indoor pool is open for use year-round, and guests are welcome to use the fitness facility. The on-site casino is open 24 hours a day.
If you are looking for something a little different, try the Hanover House, a 10-minute walk from the Falls. Decorated in the Victorian style, each room has its own distinct theme, with queen-sized beds and cable television. All rooms, but one, have a private bath, and some also have sitting areas. A hot, home-cooked breakfast is included in the cost of your room, and the Hanover House is within walking distance of a number of restaurants. Guests checking in later than 7 p.m. must inform the staff ahead of time.
Stuhler, Rachel. "Niagara Falls, New York Accommodations." Travel Tips - USA Today, https://traveltips.usatoday.com/niagara-falls-new-york-accommodations-29254.html. Accessed 18 April 2019.
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4-koma spin-off of the Dungeon ni Deai wo Motomeru no wa Machigatteiru Darou ka series.
Kamisama no Nichijou has been published in English as Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? Days of Goddess by Yen Press since March 20, 2018.
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Today Hubby and I celebrate our thirty-first wedding anniversary! It truly seems like it was only a few short years ago we were married. The husband of my youth is the husband of my "old" age. I would not have it any other way. God has given me the perfect man for me. He is a wonderful, godly husband and father.
Okay, I am going to have to work on post headings for birthdays. We have several months that we celebrated multiple birthdays and I fear that the headings are bit on the 'blah' side!
On Friday, the 19th of September, Daughter #2, who just happens to carry the title of Child #6, celebrated her 22nd birthday! I remember being in labor and watching the Miss America pageant. Our little Miss America was born just four minutes before midnight. It has been a wonderful 22 years!
Today Grandson C turns TWO! We will be celebrating the big day on Saturday. It I so fun to watch this little man. He knows how to steal your heart!
Some of my men repairing the dining room ceiling from some storm damage. As always, things never go a smoothly as planned. I am happy that it is not hot and humid as they replace the ceiling!
Maybe an update will f follow tomorrow!
Today we gained another teenager! Daughter #6 turns 13 today! I can remember the day she came into our lives...a tiny baby weighing only 2 pounds 9 ounces! We watched a miracle before our eyes as she continued to grow outside of the womb. It was not without many setbacks and tears. Today she is a healthy young lady and we are so thankful to our Lord for walking us through the days of a preterm baby!
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To review scientific literature to assess nutritional status of elderly patients with osteoarthritis in the last 16 years. This is an integrative literature review that included articles published in national and international journals indexed in PubMed, SciELO and BIREME. We selected 14 articles, and English language was predominant. The year of publication of articles ranged from 2006 to 2016, and most of papers were cross-sectional studies. To gather papers and for posterior evaluate, we used a validated data collection instrument and the included studies were critical analyzed by reading, gathering and analysis of articles. Studies suggested that there is a positive correlation between obesity and knee osteoarthritis. Obesity is one of the most important modifiable factors in worsening of osteoarthritis symptoms.
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General chat is toxic at most times but when a moderator hands out bans it`s for a reason & I get this.
But it`s still a family game....or so I thought?
rokgoowor (21:54:02) "What do women and police cars have in common? They both make a lot of noise to let you know they are coming"
Edited by Veritas_Omnia_Vincit, 06 April 2019 - 10:48 PM.
That is highly offensive. What have the poor old police cars done to deserve this?
Thx for letting us know. I had a genuine smile.
I have no idea why WG keeps rok around. That guys takes incompetence into his own dimension, parallel to Murazor's.
Your wife screams "weeeooohweeeooohweeeoooh" when she enters the room? Why does she do that?
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Short haircuts and hairstyles have been the traditional look for guys. This is because cool short haircuts for men are stylish yet easy to manage and quick to style.
Where better to get ideas for your next hairstyle than from people whose job is to always look trendy? Here we found some latest hairstyles for men, that we offer you to go these versatile cuts, hope you will feel something change in this year.
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I'm based out of San Diego, originally from South Florida, and up for wherever the adventure takes me.
Weddings that speak my language are made up of couples who are wild about each other, who desire to capture genuine and candid emotion, and who love the outdoors.
A few wedding spots on my wedding bucket list: Big Sur, Scotland, and India.
Film packages in California begin at $3,500.
Thank you so much for reaching out! I will be in touch within 48 hours, and look forward to learning more about your vision for your day.
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14-5.80 Machine construction. Food vending machines are to be constructed and maintained to protect food furnished from contamination under conditions at the machine location. These conditions include temperature, dust and dirt, chemicals as dust, fumes and vapors, power failure and vandalism.
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It’s a fact, sad but true: When the children’s playroom is cluttered and messy, it’s not only a nightmare to clean, but the contents spill out and flow like lava into other parts of your home. That’s why you painfully step on Lego pieces or trip over a Transformer after you turn out the lights.
The more toys children have, the fewer they actually play with. So stick to the favorites. Keep the playroom simple to begin with, and it will be a calm room that’s easy to maintain. Go through it each season to get rid of broken items and what’s not being used regularly.
Use trays to store and organize everything from building blocks to toys and games. Then store the trays in cubbies. Look for clear storage bins, so it’s easy to identify what’s inside. Or else label the trays for easy visibility. For young kids, pictures or a letter from the alphabet will be an identifier. Wall units are great because they combine everything into one place – cubbies, storage lockers, shelves.
Want a place for all those stuffed animals? Drop them in nets or tote bags, and then hang everything from a wall coat rack or hooks – within reach of small hands, of course. Once the kids are finished playing, Teddy goes back in the bag and up on the wall. Hanging cups (plastic or metal) are great for storing pencils, crayons and paintbrushes.
An integral part of every playroom is a desk or table, where the computer or tablet resides and plenty of activities like painting take place. If you have more than one child – and the extra space – then push two tables together for an even bigger work area.
Nothing is more versatile than bookshelves. You can easily put a bench seat between two of them. To maximize space, consider corner bookcases. Remember too, these shelves hold more than just books, if you organize them right for stuffed toys, board games and so on.
Okay, so now the playroom is in great shape, so the kids can recognize and find toys on their own. Everything has a place. When it’s time for clean-up, get your children in on the act. Start teaching them about organization at a young age.
At TidySquares, our entire focus is on home storage solutions. When it comes to playrooms, we’re the experts. Wall units, cubbies, bookshelves, desks and tables – and anything else you need. Using our custom-design technology, you create what works perfectly in your space. Then leave it to us to build it and deliver it right to your home.
And see how clean and clutter-free the rest of the house is. You might not ever step on a Lego piece again.
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Premiums for individual and small-group health insurance products sold in Texas will go up an average of 4 percent come Jan. 1, a San Antonio Express-News analysis of federal data shows.
The increase applies to coverage sold both in and outside of the government-run marketplace established under the Affordable Care Act.
The data, released by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, focuses on health plans sold to consumers shopping for their own coverage and small employers providing health insurance to workforces of fewer than 50 full-time employees.
Not included are large-group health plans provided by employers with larger workforces.
The good news is that consumers and small employers have more choices this enrollment season because additional carriers have entered the federal exchange. Customers may be tempted to renew the same health plans for the sake of convenience, but officials urge them to shop around.
“There may be new players in the market who can offer a better deal, even a new product,” said Anne Dunkelberg, associate director of the health and wellness program at the Center for Public Policy Priorities, a Texas public advocacy group.
The data do not factor in tax credits that many shoppers get to reduce out-of-pocket costs, a practice established by the Affordable Care Act. The only way to get a tax credit is to buy a plan through the marketplace by the Feb. 15 enrollment deadline.
“A plan that was a really good deal last year might not be nearly as good a deal this year,” Dunkelberg said, if the benchmark plan used to calculate tax credits has changed.
Consumers shouldn’t assume their coverage will stay the same in 2015 if they keep the same plan.
During the previous enrollment season, nearly 734,000 Texans bought health plans through the government-run marketplace, including 76,414 Bexar County residents. How many purchased private coverage outside of that venue is not known.
More than 5.7 million Texans lacked health insurance in 2013 before those policies kicked in, based on estimates released by the U.S. Census Bureau in September.
Proposed rate boosts of 10 percent or more for individual and small-group health plans must be reviewed, as required by the Affordable Care Act. In Texas — one of five states found to have ineffective rate review — HHS scrutinizes planned increases.
The rate increases revealed in the HHS data are final.
Some carriers are raising rates far in excess of 10 percent for specific products in Texas both on and off the exchange.
Humana is enacting what amounts to the state’s largest rate boost across a single product line — an average increase of 24 percent for HumanaOne EPOx individual major medical coverage sold only in Hidalgo County, federal data show.
The product — containing 12 “Rio Grande” exclusive provider organization health plans sold both on and off the exchange — covered about 6,000 people as of Sept. 30, a Humana spokesperson said.
That rate increase is listed in HHS data showing average price changes for specific product lines. Different health plans within a product line may deviate from the overall average rate change.
Consumers’ rates can vary based on demographics, such as a policyholder’s location and age, and the benefits selected, carriers said.
Humana told HHS that rate calculations for all of its Texas plans are affected by many factors, including changes to contracts with hospitals and physicians, shifts in expected claims costs and changes in the use of medical services. Greater use of new, costly medications, such as those designed to fight Hepatitis C, also played a role, they said.
“Our premium rates for 2015 reflect many changing factors in the marketplace — for instance, the growing use of high-cost specialty drugs, increasing or decreasing numbers of people with chronic health conditions or medical needs, and the increasing (or decreasing) cost of medical services,” Humana said in a prepared statement to the Express-News.
Humana provided no other details on what drove the 24 percent rate boost for its EPOx product in Hidalgo County. But Dave Axene, a fellow with the Society of Actuaries and the owner of a health care consulting firm in California, said large rate increases are sometimes proposed for products that were priced too low the year before.
On the other hand, a large rate reduction often indicates prices were set too high previously, Axene said.
That is what happened with Community First Health Plans, a nonprofit insurance provider based in San Antonio. The insurer is enacting some of the biggest rate reductions in Texas next year for its HMO individual major medical plans.
Rates for Community First’s marketplace product line — which includes the Value, Plus and Premier plans — will drop by an average of almost 38 percent on Jan. 1, HHS data show. Those plans, which are available both on and off the exchange, are sold in Bexar, Atascosa, Bandera, Comal, Guadalupe, Kendall, Medina and Wilson counties.
During the last enrollment period, only 17 people purchased Community First health plans on the exchange because the prices far exceeded those of competing products. CEO Greg Gieseman said in July that Community First’s prices needed to be more competitive for its marketplace products to succeed.
The second-largest average rate boost for a product line in Texas will affect some Assurant Health individual major medical plans that are sold statewide. Rates will go up an average of 21 percent for two of the company’s Essential Health Benefits product lines, which contain 400 plans underwritten and issued by Time Insurance Co., HHS data show.
Assurant Health told the Express-News the average rate increase for all of its products in Texas is 19 percent.
Statewide, those increases will vary widely, from 8 percent to 26 percent, the company told HHS. The changes affect nearly 6,400 Texas consumers.
In Bexar County, Assurant Health’s rates will increase anywhere from 10 to 14 percent, with the average change being a 13 percent rate boost, a spokesperson said.
“We have a history and expertise in the individual medical market — it’s our primary focus — and we believe our pricing is appropriate due to our broad network offering and the overall marketplace risk,” an Assurant Health spokesperson said in a prepared statement.
The new rates reflect the company’s assessment of the market and overall costs, including market risk and the influx of new customers who previously lacked coverage, the spokesperson said.
Cigna Health is raising rates nearly 20 percent, on average, across its Texas LocalPlus product line, containing 15 preferred provider organization plans sold to individuals and families in the Austin, Houston and Dallas markets. Those plans are not sold in San Antonio.
Humana also raised rates for other products. The company’s ChoiceCare PPO individual major medical plans — which are sold statewide, including in San Antonio — will see an average rate increase of almost 19 percent. The move is expected to affect almost 7,000 customers in Texas, Humana told HHS.
Humana’s San Antonio HMOx individual major medical plans, sold both on and outside of the exchange, will see an average rate increase of 16 percent across the product line, as will the company’s HMOx plans in the Houston, Austin and Waco markets. That change is expected to affect more than 44,000 Texas customers.
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas will raise rates an average of almost 15 percent for its Blue Choice PPO plans sold to individuals and families statewide, HHS data show. The company did not disclose how many Texas customers are covered by Blue Choice PPO.
BCBS of Texas proposed raising average premium rates for all nongrandfathered individual major medical policies by 12 percent, according to notes it provided HHS. The carrier said, however, that proposed rate changes varied substantially from one customer to another, ranging from a 12 percent rate reduction up to a 54 percent increase.
Those changes are expected to affect more than 550,000 customers in Texas.
BCBS of Texas said any discussion of average rate increases can be misleading to consumers.
Marketplace customers have until the Feb. 15 deadline to adjust coverage — even if their health plan is automatically renewed and they change their minds afterward.
Open enrollment is the only time of year when people can get nongroup coverage, regardless of whether they go through the exchange, the Kaiser Family Foundation said.
Peggy O’Hare reports on housing, demographics and the census for the San Antonio Express-News’ Metro Desk. She joined the Express-News in April 2013. She is a former reporter at the Houston Chronicle, where she worked for 11 years. She is a graduate of Texas A&M University.
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While the Old Testament Law provided for divorce, Jesus was adamant God only allowed it because of the hardness of people’s hearts (Mathew 19:7, 8).
This verse not only says God hates divorce, but explains one of its byproducts through the phrase “covers his garment with wrong.” The NASV translated the Hebrew word “chamas” as wrong, but the word actually means violence and by implication wrong.
A garment was an idiom used to describe the covering and protection the husband provided the family. Through divorce this covering turned from one of protection to one of violence.
Since divorce involves separating “one flesh” (Mark 10:8), a phrase used to describe marriage, then divorce is inherently a violent act.
This violence not only affects the spouses but has a devastating impact on children, which I believe is the real reason God hates divorce.
Parents used to stay together for the sake of the kids. Today, many (including Christians) believe that it is better to divorce than have children suffer through a difficult marriage.
There is no doubt a bad marriage will negatively impact children, but studies reveal we can’t reduce the harmful affects of divorce by saying it is less damaging than a marriage in conflict.
In 2001, Rebecca O’Neill wrote a report for the Institute for the Study of Civil Society based in London, England. In her study, entitled Experiments in living: the Fatherless family, O’Neill analyzed the incredible amount of research showing the profound impact that absent fathers have on children and families.
O’Neill stated the number of fatherless families in England is on the increase due to three contributing factors: divorce, separation of co-habitation arrangements and an increase in unwed mothers.
Many of the studies O’Neil reported on, focused on the impact of divorce while others looked at families with absent fathers without differentiating between women raising children because of pregnancy outside of marriage or cohabitation/marriage breakdowns. In the end, the result is the same with one parent, usually the mother, forced to raise children on her own.
In her study, O’Neill summarized the negative consequences by age groups: children, teens and adult children. In this article, I will present some of her findings on how divorce impacts children.
Since “other” factors can cause a child’s negative social behavior, where possible, researchers tried to neutralize these “other” factors to discover the true impact that divorce or single parenting has on children.
Children in single parent or divorced families struggle with interpersonal relationships.
Of course it is impossible to stop divorce, if one of the partners is determined to end the marriage. In situations, where mothers are left to raise children alone, God promised He will be a Father to the fatherless (Psalm 68:5). In such situations, moms need to repeatedly claim this promise and petition God to fulfill His word for her children.
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The semifinal match Russia — Ukraine started in Khanty-Mansiysk. The amateurs of the chess history have a good reason to recall on the previous matches of our heroes, to discuss them at the cup of coffee.
And then read its grounds in order to know «what happened, what will happen and what will quench the heart’s worries» at the Final of the World Cup 2011. However, most of the time in this modern world people meet and guess in forums. It is not crowded in the playing hall as well as in the café near the Chess Academy, but since the beginning of the tournament its official site was attended by almost one million visitors!
This time Peter Svidler has a chance of playing off to revenge for the defeat in the semifinal of the World Championship 2001 in Moscow.
Is Peter playing this match keeping this in mind?
The Russian chess player avoided Berlin endgame in the first game, but it did not surprise Ponomariov — Black equaled the game and on the move 20 the game was drawn.
Ruslan was not that talkative after the game. He explained that after the moment when White lost the advantage of two bishops, it was the right time to offer a draw.
The play was developing in a more dynamic way in the second game, however, it lasted two moves more than the 1st one.
Alexander Grischuk set some problems in the French Defense, but several moves later the position was simplified and equaled very sharply. Alexander was not satisfied with his play in the middle game. He emphasized that the position reminded him the game with Morozevich at the Russian Team’s Championship in Dagomys where he missed the advantage almost in the same way.
«Only one thing is sad in this situation: I consider myself to be stronger than my opponent. I am dreaming about the match-revenge in order to prove it. In case if we face each other at the chess board again, first of all, Ponomariov will not be «a cat in a poke» for me: I studied his weak and strong points during the match. Secondly, it is inevitable that Ruslan will change as a personality as well. He will have a more sensible view of situations in the chess game and if the position is hopeless, he would do as all super tournaments participants — he would resign instead of being stubborn as a boy as he was acting in the final match hoping for miracle. Miracles, as a rule, happen only once. And as for him, he has already had it once».
Each semifinalist is motivated in his own way. We can only suppose that the most important objective for all of them is to win the World Cup and the minimum aim of course is not to take the 4th place that does not give the right to play in the coming Candidates Cycle.
Short draws do not inspire you for writing, nevertheless, they offer you an opportunity to go for a walk around the city before it gets dark. I have discovered a symbolic statue near the museum of nature and human being.
Monday, 7 p.m., the roads are empty. One can forget about traffic jams that can be kilometers long.
The «decoration» of the tournament (from right to left): interpreters/translators Kema and Bambusha and FIDE Treasurer’s Assistant Danara.
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Welcome to The Vein and Vascular Institute of Riverview. In preparation for your EVLT procedure, Sclerotherapy session, or outpatient surgery, you may download the information packets below. Please do not hesitate to contact our office with any questions you may have. Thank you for choosing The Vein and Vascular Institute of Riverview as your vascular health care provider.
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The median home value in Everson, PA is $16,850. This is lower than the county median home value of $83,900. The national median home value is $185,800. The average price of homes sold in Everson, PA is $16,850. Approximately 57.14% of Everson homes are owned, compared to 24.93% rented, while 17.92% are vacant. Everson real estate listings include condos, townhomes, and single family homes for sale. Commercial properties are also available. If you see a property you’re interested in, contact a Everson real estate agent to arrange a tour today!
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Welcome to Big Dog Surveys where we teach you how to make money online by taking paid surveys. Yes, you can truly make money with surveys if you follow a few easy steps. Keep reading and learn what you need to do and where to do it.
First….. you need to set your expectations correctly. There are many websites out there that want to tell you that you can make thousands of dollars a month taking surveys. This is just not true, survey taking will never make you a full time income no matter what anyone says. The people and websites telling you that are usually trying to scam you or just make a dollar off of your back. A realistic goal is closer to $200 to $800 a month . It will not make you rich but it can make you a nice supplemental income. And, since you can do it anytime you want, it is perhaps one of the best part time jobs ever.
These are the types of websites that you should be looking for. Notice that they do not charge you for admission and they are not loaded with advertisements. You should NEVER pay to join a website and if it looks like a survey website is more interested in selling you something than making you money, you should avoid it.
Registering for the sites is easy. If you find one that is difficult, that is your clue to move on. Most websites will let you register with little more than your email address and a password. Once registered, you will need to confirm your email address and then possibly fill out a profile. Profiles are often optional but they can help you get matched to better surveys so if you skip it now, try to come back to it later.
Now Get Organized….. by putting your websites into their own folder in your browser and saving all the passwords. This will allow you to open up all of your websites at once in tabs. Then you can go from site to site, making the most of your time.
Now Take Care of the Details….. now by filling out all of your profiles. This is a bit tedious at first but it will allow you to be matched to better surveys. If the surveys that you get are more interesting to you and relate more to you, they will be more interesting. This will make your work more enjoyable and will let you get through it faster. Also be sure to check your email and click on any confirmation links that the websites have sent you. You will not get paid and may not receive any good surveys until you do this.
Now Get To It….. and start filling out surveys and earning money. You might find that you are a bit slow at first but with practice comes speed. You will soon learn to skim the questions because you will be able to anticipate what they are asking. Just be careful of trick questions that are there to make sure you are paying attention. Practice, practice, practice and you should be able to double or triple your speed in no time.
In the past, online surveys have gotten a bad reputation. This is usually because people have chosen the wrong websites to work with or they have set their expectations entirely too high. For you to have success, you need to go into the business the right way.
For starters, you should choose the right websites. This is not hard to do if you realize what the bad websites are doing. The bad websites just want to advertise to you or charge you admission. You are in it to get paid, not to pay out money. If a credit card is involved at the sign up process, move on. In addition, if a website has any paid advertisements on it, you can rest assure that surveys are not their main goal. A good website will get right to the point. They will ask you your name, a few details and will ask you for your email address. Confirm the email address when they send you a confirmation email and you should be ready to go. If you can not get started making money in five minutes or less, it is not a good website for you.
Next, you need to set your expectations right for what you will get paid online. If you think you will be able to eventually replace your full time job, you are wrong and you will be greatly disappointed. If, however, you go in knowing that you can make $200 to $500 a month in additional income you will be happy with your experience. The more work that you do, the more you will make but it is just not possible to make thousands of dollars a month and there are very few surveys that pay more than a few dollars a piece.
So, if you can only make a few dollars a survey, how can you make any real money? Simple, volume. By having lots of survey websites to pull work from, you can do dozens of surveys in a single sitting. You just need to practice and be organized. You will find that your speed will greatly increase the more you do this work. You will learn to anticipate the questions being asked and to even skim questions. This will greatly increase your speed and in no time, a survey that might have taken you 10 minutes to complete can be finished in 5. So the key is to be patient, practice and keep at it.
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The Department of Endodontics, at Hamdard Dental College (HDC), organized a progress appreciation ceremony, to distinguish and award the best house officer, best supervisor and best assistant.
This ceremony was carried out to appreciate the staff and house officers, and to encourage them to perform better in their line of work, to attain a successful career.
Associate Professor, Dr. Syed Abrar Ali, Head of Department, Operative Dentistry, HDC; and CPSP Supervisor, distributed the certificates amongst the winners. He appreciated their efforts and encouraged them to continue giving remarkable performances.
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Malaysia’s leading armoured vehicle maker DRB-Hicom Defence Technologies Sdn Bhd (DefTech) is in talks about new projects with the relevant authorities in Myanmar, a top company official said.
The company is also finalising a deal with the Cambodian government for a new maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) contract for T-55 tanks, chief executive officer Amril Samsudin told Malaysia’s national news agency Bernama.
The project, which has an estimated worth of $50-$60 million for a five-year period, was set to commence by October, he said on the sidelines of the Defence Services Asia Exhibition and Conference 2014 (DSA 2014).
DefTech was also in talks with the authorities in Myanmar for similar MRO contracts, he added.
Another Malaysia defence firm Sapura Secured Technologies Sdn Bhd is also reportedly planning to make an overseas foray this year.
Another firm Zetro Aerospace Corporation Sdn Bhd has set its sights closer to Malaysia, eyeing ASEAN countries such as Indonesia, Thailand and Brunei for a further growth, Bernama reported.
The four-day biennial DSA 2014 ushered in a total of 33,544 trade visitors from 77 countries and regions, up from 26,980 two years ago. A total of 1,000 companies from 60 countries flaunted their latest offerings at the exposition this year.
Palm oil as edible oil is the second biggest important food item after rice in an average Myanmar household. However, Myanmar’s domestic edible oil production is not enough to meet the demand, so it imports palm oil from some of the world’s largest palm oil producing nations like Indonesia and Malaysia.
During the military rule palm oil import was controlled by state enterprises. But the recent economic and democratic transition has resulted in a market-based economy, which resulted in the Ministry of Commerce opening up the previously-restricted palm oil import market to local private players in April 2011. Myanmar imports refined palm oil, which is the liquid form of palm kernel oil after a process called fractionation, and is used for cooking and frying.
In Year 2012 Myanmar imported 400,000 tonnes of palm Oil and which has grown to 485,000 tonnes in 2013. Market is expected to expand further to 700,000 tonnes by 2017-18 due to growing demand, rising income of Myanmar households and shifting from costlier peanut oil.
One of the biggest challenges for palm oil trade is the cargo storage facility at Yangon port, which results into long waiting period for vessels at the port to discharge the cargo, leading majority of importers to face demurrage claims from their suppliers.
Due to shortage of storage space, importers are pushed to liquidate the cargo as soon as possible. Another concern is usage of delivery order mechanism in the local market where speculators and distributors play with forward contracts, creating speculation and defaults. Road infrastructure is also underdeveloped in Myanmar, so transportation cost also becomes very high, hurting margins and causing delays in delivery of cargoes to northern Myanmar.
Another major area of challenge is illegal border trade of palm oil from Thailand to Mon state and Tanintharyi region which impacts importers who are bringing cargoes to Yangon legally after paying customs duty, commercial tax and income tax.
Private players have invested in palm plantation in southern Myanmar to increase domestic production but it will take at least two to three years to make any significant impact on the palm oil trade. Various stake holders from government and industry can pursue the idea of promoting manufacturing industry for converting crude palm oil to refined palm oil which could create technical know-how and employment.
Currently in the local market palm oil is traded in loose which results into quantity loss and quality deterioration. However, that also provides great opportunity for investors to set up blowing units for ferry can production and packaging and distribution with right quantity and quality.
Vijay is working as Business Manager in Myanmar commodities market for more than two years. He is an agri commodity trader by profession. He can be contacted at vijaydhayal.eca@gmail.com. This Article was accomplished by the author in his own personal capacity. The opinions and views expressed here are his own.
With a population of more than 60 million people,opportunities in Myamnar are not limited to extractive industries, but also exist in manufacturing and the domestic market for consumer goods. Even so, Myanmar’s natural resources should not be underestimated: natural gas, petroleum, timber, zinc, copper, lead, coal, precious stooft, and agricultural land exist in abundance.
A general election is set to be held in Myanmar in November 2015. These elections could see Aung San Suu Kyi, Nobel laureate and leader of Myanmar’s main opposition party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), brought to power. Her release in 2010 after almost eleven years of house arrest imposed by the previous military regime, was instrumental in opening up trade relations with the West. Regardless of whether the current ruling Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) or the NLD forms a government next year, it is expected that political and economic modernisation efforts begun in 2010 by current President, Thein Sein, will continue.
However, it is important to note that at this time, Aung San Suu Kyi is barred from becoming President of Myanmar by virtue of the country’s Constitution, which prohibits anyone with family members who are citizens of another country from holding the country’s highest office. This provision did not prevent her from being elected to Parliament in 2012, when vacancies in 8 percent of the seats (46 out of 664) were filled following by-elections, with the NLD capturing all 43 seats in which they ran candidates. Another round of by-elections is anticipated late in 2014, to fill approximately 30 more vacancies. It remains to be seen whether the Constitution will be amended to enable Suu Kyi’s candidacy for President prior to the general election expected in late 2015.
Other legal reform is ongoing, making it more practical for multi-national companies to invest in Myanmar. It is anticipated that a new Companies Law will be introduced in 2014, to replace the current law that dates back 100 years. A draft Trademark Law is before Parliament and a proposed Condominium Law, that will allow foreign citizens to own a form of property for the first time, was also placed before Parliament in November 2013.
The government of Myanmar places restrictions on foreign investment within the country. The State-Owned Economic Enterprises Law (1989), Foreign Investment Law (2012) and the Foreign Investment Rules (January 2013) restrict certain types of business activities from occurring without government approval. Foreign investment is monitored and approved by the Myanmar Investment Commission (MIC) which has published a list of activities in which foreign investors are prohibited from participating or which require a joint venture with a local business.
At the same time, the country is also providing incentives to foreign investors. In January, 2014 a new Myanmar Special Economic Zone Law (MSEZL) was enacted, repealing earlier legislation regarding special economic zones. The MSEZL offers up to seven years of income tax exemptions for foreign investors, with further 50 percent discounts on income tax for another five years. Currently, this law applies in Myanmar’s three Special Economic Zones: Kyauk Phyu, Dawei and Thilawa. The MSELZ provides for the establishment of additional zones and contains dispute resolution procedures.
Domestic strife and ongoing corruption issues have certainly not disappeared. While Canada’s Special Economic Measure Regulations (sanctions) have been relaxed in recent years, Canadians are still prohibited from dealing with certain businesses and individuals, including the state banks of Myanmar. Military shipments are also prohibited. These sanctions are enforced by the Export Controls Division of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada, the equivalent of the US Office of Foreign Assets Control. It is worth noting, however, that the Canadian list of restricted persons is more limited than comparable US prohibitions.
While Japan did not impose economic sanctions against Myanmar, there was a pronounced slowdown in government aid and private sector investment during the years that Aung San Suu Kyi was under house arrest. China expanded its economic and political influence during this period, but faces greater competition now that other countries, including Japan, are investing heavily. The Japanese government has pledged almost $2 billion in loans and grants since Prime Minister Shinto Abe was elected in December 2012.
Japan and Myanmar are jointly developing the ambitious Thilawa special economic zone just outside of Yangon, the country’s largest city. Plans call for a deep sea port, a power plant and waste water treatment facility, all in support of a 2,400 hectare industrial park. Construction began in November, 2013 and commercial operations are expected to start in mid-2015.
Despite some remaining trade restrictions imposed by various countries, growth of foreign investment in Myanmar has been substantial. At least 14 banks in Myanmar now permit foreign currency accounts. Even though foreign banks are currently permitted to only conduct research in Myanmar, 35 foreign banks have opened representative offices and it is expected that some licences for foreign branches may be tendered within the year. Daiwa Securities from Japan is one of the interested foreign financial firms.
In late 2012, automated teller machines (ATMs) linked to the international payment system were introduced in Myanmar. There are now hundreds of ATMs around the country, and while not as reliable as similar-looking ATMs in North America, they are providing much needed convenience and liquidity. On a visit this year, one of the authors of this bulletin found it’s possible to access funds held in Canadian accounts using some ATMs.
Further bank reform is needed and is on the way, with the IMF assisting in changes to the central bank and the launch of the Yangon stock exchange planned for 2015. Myanmar has also acceded to the New York Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards, as of July 15, 2013. This will allow multi-national companies to settle commercial disputes outside the domestic legal system. Myanmar has also drafted a new arbitration law, expected to be enacted in 2014, which is required to allow for the enforcement of foreign arbitration awards by the courts of Myanmar.
At the end of 2013, Myanmar became the 180th member of the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), meaning MIGA guarantees are now available for foreign direct investments. The US Ex-Im Bank also opened in Myanmar on February, offering financial support for short and medium-term US export sales to Myanmar.
The country is endowed with hydrocarbons. The first barrel of oil was exported in 1853 but little production or exploration took place during the past 50 years of military rule. However, Myanmar has 50 million barrels of proven oil reserves and 280 billion cubic meters of natural gas. This is expected to increase with the recent arrival of foreign oil and gas companies. After a tender process for 16 on-shore blocks, Canadian company Pacific Hunt Energy won two oil concessions in Myanmar last year.
Even more recently, in March the government announced the awarding of 20 offshore oil and gas blocks. Majors such as Shell (in partnership with Mitsui) British Gas (with partner Woodside Petroleum), Total, Chevron and Statoil (in partnership with ConocoPhillips) were among the successful bidders.
In the manufacturing sector, GM and Ford have both entered Myanmar. Coca-Cola re-entered the country in September 2013 after an absence of more than 6o years. GE, VISA, and MasterCard are all increasing their presence in Myanmar.
Telenor (Norway) and Ooredoo (Qatar) both received investment permits after winning a tender in June 2013 for provision of telecom services. Significant investment and rapid growth is expected in the wireless sector.
In the garment industry, H&M has started placing test orders to explore possibilities, and a group of 12 Hong Kong garment manufacturers look to be the first to invest in the Thilawa special economic zone.
To sustain ongoing investment in Myanmar, parallel growth in infrastructure is required. In addition to the ambitious Thilawa special economic zone project already mentioned, two other major port development projects are planned: a deep sea port at Dawei, 3ookm west of Bangkok, supported by Thailand and a smaller port on the Bay of Bengal, a joint project between India and Myanmar. Completion of these projects may not be imminent, but the need for related bridges, roads, highways and water systems are major opportunities.
The electricity grid is inadequate by western standards. Companies offering a distributed power generation model are taking up the challenge, particularly outside Yangon. Large scale thermal and clean energy projects are also expected over in next few years. In March, 2014 the Japanese government pledged approximately $450 million in new loans to help finance additions to Myanmar’s electrical system. Mitsubishi, Marubeni, Fuji Electric, Toshiba and Hitachi are among the foreign firms already involved or actively pursuing involvement in this sector.
The tourism industry is growing at a rapid pace. Myanmar is welcoming almost two million tourists each year. While this is less than lo percent of the number of visits to neighbouring Thailand, this gap is starting to narrow. Those plane loads of tourists are looking for a place to stay, and hotel chains such as Hilton, Pan Pacific, Peninsula, Accor and Best Western are responding to the opportunity presented by nightly rates that have tripled in recent years.
This also creates strong opportunities for airlines flying into Myanmar. Expansion of the country’s largest airport, Yangon International, has been announced, with a goal to handle 3.3 million passengers per year. A new international airport is expected to open in Bago in 2018, and expansion projects at other airports are expected. The private sector has been encouraged to participate but delays have hit some projects, particularly the planned new $1.1 billion Hanthawaddy International Airport, 100km from Yangon International Airport.
There are eight domestic air carriers operating in Myanmar, with at least four more preparing to launch. However, these carriers only operate a combined total of 40 aircraft and only two, Myanma Airways and Air KBZ, operate more than five aircraft. Consolidation of domestic airlines seems probable, even as growth in domestic air travel continues.
Myanmar is also looking outwards and is playing a more active role in the international economy. The country hosted the East Asia World Economic Forum in its new capital city, Nay Pyi Taw, in June 2013. Myanmar also hosted the Foreign Ministers Meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in January 2014, and for the first time ever Myanmar is now chair of ASEAN. The biggest newsmaker, however, was when the 27th Southeast Asian Games were held in Myanmar just before Christmas 2013.
For those considering doing business in Myanmar, the cost of leasing office space or renting reasonable accommodation in Yangon can be daunting. Rents currently surpass $100/square foot, which is higher than the average rental rate in Manhattan. Relief may be on the way, however, as construction cranes are sprouting across the city.
Although the tight real estate market seems to have delayed the promised opening of Canada’s first embassy in Myanmar (it was intended to open in mid-2013), Mark McDowell was named last year as Canada’s first ambassador to Myanmar. He and a small contingent of staff are currently working out of the British Embassy, but for now Canadian citizens requiring consular services are still required to seek assistance at the Australian Embassy. Canada’s Embassy is now expected to open in mid-2014.
Myanmar’s rich resources and untapped market and labour potential have made it a hot bed of new international economic development. Still, there remain significant challenges in navigating the emerging financial and legal systems. Caution and careful planning is recommended.
Right before US President Barack Obama’s Asia trip, the US Department of State announced it would open its first commercial service office in Myanmar.
It has been widely noticed that the US is back. However, it isn’t back just for a new market. The situation is different from China’s seeking development drives across the world or transferring competitive industries to other countries and regions.
In January, the US embassy in Myanmar provided technological training for 150 civil society activists in Myanmar. And in February, the US funded the social activities of Bar Camp, an international network of open online workshops, which has attracted more than 5,000 participants.
These moves have naturally triggered China’s worries, and some media outlets exclaimed that Washington is nosing around China’s backyard. This is reminiscent of similar arguments from some US media outlets during Chinese President Xi Jinping’s Latin America visit last year that China was entering the backyard of the US.
Certainly, compared with the US, China is still a latecomer and is way behind in terms of soft power. Even with close neighbours like Myanmar, China still faces the challenge of winning more trust from them.
In a recent interview with the Beijing-based Caijing magazine, Elizabeth Economy, director for Asia studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, said that ultimately who would lead Asia would depend on the country’s development route and its diplomatic attitude in wider areas.
According to the historic logic of a great power’s rise and especially when a new order is still lacking in Asia, the fight for leadership may provide more room for speculation about Sino-US conflict.
But will things end differently? Just as a Chinese poem once quoted by Hillary Clinton goes, “After endless mountains and rivers that leave doubt whether there is a path out, suddenly one encounters the shade of a willow, bright flowers and a lovely village.” If we see each other’s “backyard” as a platform to know more about each other and contribute more to that region, we may find a way to establish a new order in the future.
Take Myanmar. Currently what’s most urgently needed in this country is to boost ethnic reconciliation, without which further realization of democratic politics and stable development will be unlikely.
The stability of northern Myanmar is very important for China, and it is not meaningless for Washington’s promotion of its own human rights values in Myanmar.
This is where the two sides’ interests converge, and cooperation on this point will enhance mutual trust.
So far the US has started to promote some activities facilitating the fostering of civil society, which is helpful for Myanmar’s good governance in the future. However, the arrangement of similar projects should lean more to specific issues of ethnic reconciliation.
China has made some efforts in this regard, such as collaborating and arranging negotiations between the Myanmar government and ethnic minority independent armed forces in northern Myanmar. It needs to consider how to also bring Washington in to promote such negotiations.
If China and the US can strengthen collaboration, communicate on these issues and accumulate experience of cooperation, this will be more important than increasing investment in Myanmar in the short term.
There are more than a few similarly thorny issues in the Asia-Pacific region, especially in China’s neighbourhood. If the two powers can cooperate over these specific issues that concern third parties in this region and influence the peace and stability of the entire area, it will benefit the construction of the future regional order, and will provide a peaceful way out of the fight for future leadership.
China and the US have already established diplomatic mechanisms for Asia-Pacific affairs, and the situation in Myanmar has been on the agenda. Nonetheless, the two should not just exchange information, but also solidly cooperate over specific issues.
As China and its workers get wealthier, globaI manufacturers are looking south for less expensive places to do business. But Cambodia faces labour strikes. The Thai government suffers endless protests and Myanmar needs infrastructure updates. As a result, many companies are setting their sights on Vietnam.
Hundreds of them, in fact, descended on Ho Chi Minh City last month for Saigon Tex, a garment and textile expo. Sharing a border with China, Vietnam boasts geographic convenience, as well as political stability and low costs. Those attract companies like Spain-based Jeanologia, which showed off its laseron-denim technology at the expo.
“It is becoming such an important hub for American and European brands,” Jeanologia area manager Borja Trenor Casanova said of Vietnam.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) helps, too. As one of 12 countries negotiating the trade pact, Vietnam stands to benefit most from a clause that would cut tariffs on textiles and apparel, which are among the nation’s top exports.
“I see a lot of investment going on, because we see quite a lot of inquiries recently,” Cam Tu said, as a giant yarn spinner roared at the vendor slot next to hers at the expo.
The growth is reflected across the country. Textile exports increased 20 percent in the first quarter of 2014, compared with the same period last year, according to the General Statistics Office.
While production and revenues have risen steadily, Vietnamese companies and officials recognise a gaping weakness in the garment industry: It buys most of its materials from other countries. The Vice Minister of Industry and Trade Ho Thi Kim Thoa told an audience at the expo that Vietnam must set targets to produce more fabrics on its own.
“These targets demonstrate an urgent need for technological innovation, improvement of quality control, labour management, environmental management, as well as improvement in the textile and garment supply chain in accordance with international standards,” Kim Thoa said.
If it doesn’t develop more local suppliers, Vietnam won’t be able to tap the full potential of the Trans-Pacific Partner ship. The agreement is likely to include a yarn-forward rule, which requires Vietnam to make clothes with materials from TPP member countries in order to receive tax-free import benefits.
But people are looking to improve the garment sector in other ways, too. Casanova said Jeanologia’s laser-printing is one of the technologies that could help Vietnam become a value-adding step in the production chain. The country, which achieved lower middle income status in 2010, is still very dependent on cheap labour. But to avoid the middle-income trap, it needs to find ways to add value to its exports. Casanova said it seems to want technology for that purpose, as well as to promote environmental substainability in business.
“Vietnam is showing interest in a change in the industry,”he said.
Thai AirAsia X, Thailand’s first long-haul low-cost airline, will take to the skies in June despite the tourism market being dragged down by the country’s political turmoil.
The new long-haul low-cost carrier was officially unveiled at an event in Bangkok last week, with CEO Nadda Buranasiri announcing the airline’s first routes and in-flight products.
Operating from its home base at Bangkok Don Mueang International Airport, Thai AirAsia X will start flying on June 17 with daily services to Seoul. It will then expand its operations with flights to the Japanese cities of Tokyo and Osaka commencing later in the year.
Nadda revealed that future destinations could include Australia and China, as long as the flight times fitted in with the airline’s strategy.
Thai AirAsia has already established a strong presence in China, with flights to nine mainland cities. And while Tassapon Bijleveld, CEO of Thai AirAsia, confirmed that “Thai AirAsia X will not take over any routes from Thai AirAsia”, the new airline’s four-to-nine-hour flight times could open up such destinations as Beijing.
Thai AirAsia X will also be looking to use Thai AirAsia’s network of short-haul routes to offer a greater range of destinations for its passengers. For example, passengers on inbound flights from Seoul, Tokyo and Osaka will be able to connect to a range of Thai domestic destinations such as Phuket, Krabi and Chiang Mai, or regional hubs like Siem Reap and Yangon, via Bangkok.
Thai AirAsia X will initially operate two Airbus A330-300 aircraft, each offering 377 seats 12 in business class and 365 in economy.
Thai AirAsia X received its Air Operator’s Certificate late last year, but delayed its launch-initially planned for February 2014 — due to the impact of Bangkok’s political protests on the country’s travel industry. But Nadda said he remained confident the airline would record load factors of up to 80 percent on both its new routes.
The CEO also predicted that traffic on both Korean and Japanese services would be a 50-50 mix between Thai and international. The destinations were selected in part due to the fact that South Korea and Japan both offer visa-free travel for Thai nationals.
Thai AirAsia X becomes the seventh branch of the AirAsia group, following AirAsia Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines and India, and AirAsia X in Malaysia.
A prominent Chinese labour activist has been missing and his wife suspects he was detained by state security agents after trying to help workers involved in China’s biggest strike in years organise their case.
Zhang Zhiru was last heard from when he spoke to his wife, Xiao Hongxia, by telephone at around noon on April 22. He told her he had been summoned to a meeting with state security agents from the industrial southern city of Dongguan.
Workers at a Yue Yuen Industrial Holdings Ltd shoe factory complex with about 40,000 employees have been on strike since April 14 over social insurance payments.
Labour activists say the strike, in the Dongguan town of Gaobu, is one of China’s biggest since market reforms started in the late 1970s.
“When he went out in the morning he said he was meeting Dongguan state security,” Xiao said by telephone from Shenzhen, where Zhang lives.
Zhang’s mobile telephone appeared to be off when Reuters tried to call him.
The Ministry of State Security (MSS) is the Chinese equivalent of the KGB in the former Soviet Union, an intelligence-gathering agency that also suppresses dissent and other activities it deems threats to Communist Party rule.
A man surnamed Wang who answered the telephone at the Dongguan branch of the MSS said he had not heard of Zhang’s possible detention.
Zhang had been closely following the Yue Yuen strike and was working with other activists and lawyers to try to help the workers organise to press their demands.
Lin Dong, a colleague of Zhang’s at the Shenzhen Chunfeng Labour Dispute Service Center, may also have been detained, Xiao said. Calls to the centre went unanswered.
On April 21, however, Zhang and a lawyer involved in labour issues went to Gaobu and met several workers to discuss their options, said Wang Jiang-song, a Beijing-based labour researcher.
Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda said consumer inflation may exceed the central bank’s projection in the fiscal year that ended in March, voicing confidence the world’s third-largest economy continues to make headway in meeting its price target.
Deputy Governor Hiroshi Nakaso added to the optimism, stressing that Japan can withstand the pain from a sales tax hike that kicked off this month as companies are increasing hiring and wages due to brighter prospects for the economy.
“I think consumer inflation was actually slightly higher in fiscal 2013 than our current projection of 0.7 percent,” Kuroda told a parliamentary session last week.
His remarks suggest the BOJ will revise up the previous fiscal year’s price forecast and maintain its bullish projections for subsequent years in its twice-yearly outlook report due this week.
But both Kuroda and Nakaso reiterated the BOJ’s readiness to “adjust policy” with additional monetary stimulus should risks threaten achievement of the price target.
“There are various ways to adjust policy. We will decide what among these measures is appropriate depending on economic and price developments at the time,”Kuroda said”.
The International Finance Corporation (IFC), the World Bank’s private sector lending arm, has launched an internal investigation into a complaint lodged against the institution for investing in a Vietnamese rubber firm accused of illegal logging and land grabbing in Ratanakkiri, an NGO and a villager said last week, according to Cambodian media reports.
Earlier in April, representatives of the IFC’s Compliance Advisor Ombudsman (CAO) met with leaders from 17 indigenous communities in Andong Meas and O’Chum districts, along with representatives of Vietnam-based Hoang Anh Gia Lai (HAGL), which operates rubber plantations on economic land concessions in the Kingdom’s northeast, according to Eang Vuthy, executive director at NGO Equitable Cambodia.
The IFC is accused of supporting HAGL’s actions by investing millions through an intermediary fund called Dragon Capital Group since 2002.
Last year, HAGL came under fire after UK-based NGO Global Witness published a report accusing the rubber giant of illegally logging outside concession areas and being in possession of at least 47,000 hectares of economic land concessions — almost five times the legal limit.
Indonesia’s decision to start cancelling investment treaties with 62 countries has passed with little comment, but the move may have a greater impact than the recent banning of mineral ore exports.
Indonesia in March kick-started the process of terminating all of its bilateral treaties by notifying the Netherlands that its agreement to protect and promote investment would end in 2015, and signalling that the others would end as soon as possible.
Most importantly for many investors in countries like Indonesia, with its patchy record on legal certainty, is the right of appeal to the Washington-based International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID).
The main argument seems to be that their time has passed and they belong to an earlier era when foreigners feared assets would be nationalised. The treaties are seen favouring foreigners over domestic investors, something at odds with the government’s drive to ensure greater control of Indonesia’s mineral resources.
Indonesia is the world’s biggest exporter of nickel ore and supplies about two-thirds of top buyer China’s imported bauxite, the raw ingredient for making aluminium.
The Jakarta Globe reported on February 28 that the government will appeal the decision and it doesn’t want to face the risk of paying compensation to Churchill, which the newspaper said could be as much as $1.05 billion.
This means the Indonesian government may well have to deal with foreigners in an international tribunal, but it’s a safe bet they will play for time if this is the case.
The trend still appears clear, Indonesia is doing all it can to get control of its natural resources from foreign investors. Clyde Russell is a Reuters columnist. The views expressed are his own.
US President Barack Obama assured ally Japan last week that Washington was committed to its defence, including of tiny isles at the heart of a row with China, but denied he had drawn any new “red line” and urged peaceful dialogue over the islands. Obama also urged Japan to take “bold steps” to clinch a two-way trade pact seen as crucial to a broad regional agreement that is a central part of the US leader’s “pivot” of military, diplomatic and economic resources towards Asia and the Pacific.
US and Japanese trade negotiators failed to resolve differences in time for Obama and Prime Minister Shinto Abe to shake hands on a deal at the summit, but the two leaders reported progress and ordered their teams to keep working.
Obama, on the start of a four-nation tour, is being treated to a display of pomp and ceremony meant to show that the US-Japan alliance, the main pillar of America’s security strategy in Asia, is solid at a time of rising tensions over growing Chinese assertiveness and North Korean nuclear threats.
“We don’t take a position on final sovereignty determinations with respect to Senkaku, but historically they have been administered by Japan and we do not believe that they should be subject to change unilaterally and what is a consistent part of the alliance is that the treaty covers all territories administered by Japan,” Obama said.
“This is not a new position, this is a consistent one,” he told a joint news conference after his summit with Abe, using the Japanese name for the islands that China, which also claims sovereignty over them, calls the Diaoyu.
“In our discussions, I emphasized with Prime Minister Abe the importance of resolving this issue peacefully,” Obama added.
Obama also said there were opportunities to work with China – which complains that his real aim is to contain its rise – but called on the Asian power to stick to international rules.
“What we’ve also emphasised, and I will continue to emphasise throughout this trip, is that all of us have responsibilities to help maintain basic rules of the world and international order, so that large countries, small countries, all have to abide by what is considered just and fair,” he said.
Some of China’s neighbours with territorial disputes with Beijing worry that Obama’s apparent inability to rein in Russia, which annexed Crimea last month, could send a message of weakness to China.
Obama told the news conference that additional sanctions were “teed up” against Russia if it does not deliver on promises in an agreement reached in Geneva last week to ease tensions in Ukraine.
The two leaders also agreed that their top trade aides, US Trade Representative Michael Froman and Japanese Economy Minister Akira Amari would keep trying to narrow gaps in their trade talks.
Abe has touted the TPP as key to “Third Arrow” reforms needed to generate growth in the world’s third-biggest economy, along with hyper-easy monetary policy and fiscal spending.
Both sides have also stressed that the TPP would have strategic implications by creating a framework for business that could entice China to play by global rules.
But the talks have been stymied by Japan’s efforts to protect politically powerful agriculture sectors such as beef, and disputes over both countries’ auto markets.
Australian inflation was surprisingly tame last quarter showing a moderation that greatly lessened the pressure for a hike in interest rates this year and sent the local dollar sharply lower.
A key measure of underlying inflation rose by only 0.5 percent in the first quarter and 2.6 percent for the year, well below forecasts of 0.7 percent and 2.9 percent respectively.
That was a big relief following a high reading the previous quarter and supported the Reserve Bank of Australia’s (RBA) confidence that inflation would stay consistent with its long-term target of 2 to 3 percent.
“The coast is relatively clear on the inflation front for the RBA to keep rates low,” said Ben Jarman, and economist at JPMorgan. “On the inflation front itself, things look relatively benign still.” Investors reacted by paring back the risk of a hike in the 2.5 percent cash rate at least until very late in the year. That in turn knocked the Australian dollar down over half a US cent to $0.9303, though local yields still remain high by rich-world standards. The anxiously awaited report from the Australian Bureau of Statistics showed the headline consumer price index (CPI) rose 0.6 percent in the first quarter, from the previous quarter when it climbed 0.8 percent.
The annual pace did edge up to 2.9 percent, the highest since late 2011, but that was well below forecasts of 3.2 percent. The quarterly increase was driven in part by seasonal increases in some sectors such as healthcare, transport and school fees, and by a large hike in tobacco duties. Education costs have been one of the main drivers of inflation, climbing by 5.1 percent in the year to March. That was balanced by falls in the cost of clothing, furniture, holiday travel and car maintenance.
The RBA had argued the pickup in inflation seen last year was temporary and that sluggish wage growth would keep it consistent with the target band over time.
“That high Q4 reading just never fit with weak wage growth and rising unemployment,” said Michael Turner, a strategist at RBC Capital Markets.
General Motors Co filed a motion in a US court to enforce a bar on lawsuits stemming from ignition defects in cars sold before its 2009 bankruptcy as it fights proposed class action litigation that seeks to set aside the restriction.
Plaintiffs suing the company also filed a proposed class action lawsuit in Manhattan bankruptcy court last week, seeking an order declaring that GM cannot use the bankruptcy protection to absolve itself from liabilities.
GM emerged from bankruptcy protection in 2009 as a different legal entity from the so-called old GM. Under those terms, the “new GM” shed liability for incidents predating its exit from bankruptcy, and any lawsuit involving pre-bankruptcy issues must be brought against what remains of old GM.
“New GM’s recall covenant does not create a basis for the plaintiffs to sue new GM for economic damages relating to a vehicle or part sold by old GM,” the company said in a filing in the Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.
The motion did not address claims stemming from accidents, including personal injury and wrongful death. GM has said it is committed to replacing the defective switches in cars.
“GM has taken respon- sibility for its actions and will keep doing so,” spokesman Jim Cain said in an emailed statement.
The company recognises its “civil and legal obligations relating to injuries” tied to the recall cars, Cain said, adding that GM has retained lawyer Kenneth Feinberg to advise it of its legal options.
Feinberg is known for his work in administering special payment funds for high-profile catastrophes like the September 11, 2001 attacks and the BP Plc oil spill.
Also last Tuesday, GM said it was restructuring its engineering operations to improve the quality and safety of its vehicles.
Since it began to recall vehicles in February, GM has been hit by dozens of lawsuits on behalf of individuals injured or killed in crashes involving recalled cars, as well as protection from liability.customers who said their vehicles had lost value as a result of the company’s actions.
The plaintiffs have said they bought or leased vehicles that had the defective ignition switch and accused GM of fraudulently concealing its knowledge of the defect. As a result, they said, the company was not entitled to protection from liability.
“GM’s argument suggests that the US Government would have agreed to extend $4o billion of taxpayer money for GM’s restructuring, and supported shielding it from liability through the sale order, had it known of GM’s intentional misconduct,” the plaintiffs said in their lawsuit.
In its filing, GM asked the court to direct the plaintiffs to stop suing new GM for claims that are barred by the bankruptcy sale order and the injunction, and to dismiss the earlier claims.
“GM’s filing last night was a preemptive attempt to dominate the discussion about its so-called concern for the damages caused by defects it has been aware of for nearly ten years,” Mark Robinson, a lawyer for the plaintiffs, said in a statement.
The US Food and Drug Administration proposed measures last week that would ban the sale of e-cigarettes to consumers younger than 18, but would not restrict flavoured products, online sales or TV advertising, likely disappointing some public health advocates.
Electronic cigarette advocates lobbied against restrictions on flavours and advertising, saying they would stifle innovation. Critics argue flavours such as strawberry and butterscotch appeal to youngsters, while unrestricted advertising threatens to make the products glamorous and could act as a gateway to traditional cigarettes.
If finalised, the long-awaited proposal would subject the $2 billion e-cigarette industry to federal regulation for the first time. A law passed in 2009 gave the FDA authority to regulate cigarettes, smokeless tobacco and roll-your-own tobacco and stipulated the agency could extend its jurisdiction to other nicotine products after issuing a rule to that effect.
I know that winter is not actually coming to Myanmar, literally speaking. Not now or ever. However, the recent premier of that bloody soap opera for men that, I waited so long for, reminds me of the need to be forward thinking even in an age where winter is not the life threatening yearly event it used to be. It also reminds me that the great oversized returns the market has recently delivered will not go on forever, as this cycle will eventually come full circle.
In colder climates than Southeast Asia, people used to have to spend most of the nice months of the year working very hard to try and prepare for the brutal winters that came every year relentlessly. One never knew what kind of winter was coming, so every year they had to get ready for the worst and hope for the best. Being ill prepared meant death, so this way of life definitely fostered a forward looking way of thinking.
Nowadays however, the only winter most of us have to deal with is the winter of our lives. This modern winter is a time when our financial demands outpace our ability to earn. Finding a balance in life during our working “summer” between preparing for a future that isn’t even guaranteed to come, and enjoying our lives in the here and now is a difficult thing. Many say there is only one here and now so live for today, and there is a lot of truth in it. Yet the future can be a long and tiring slog if you aren’t prepared for it financially.
When I look at the state of the world and the amount of financial life support the printing presses of the central bankers have given the financial markets, one thing becomes very clear to me. Winter is coming. It is not a question of if, but when. All Yellen has to do is open her mouth and if market participants view her comments as dovish, markets go up. If they view them as an indication interest rates could rise sooner rather than later, the markets go down. Since we know how this will eventually have to go (interest rates cannot remain low forever), many of those out there making the quick gains while this market pushes on to new highs on a less than stable world economy and political scene are certainly living for the day. We don’t know what kind of winter the next crisis will be, but one thing that is historically certain is that it will come.
So yes, winter is coming. Your earning potential will eventually wither and die and you need to be spending some of your earnings saving for what could be a very long winter with all of the advancements we are likely to continue to make in the field of increasing human longevity. Winter is also coming on this six-year-old bull market, but it is going to be the central bankers who determine when it is time to set the clocks back.
David Mayes MBA provides wealth management services to expatriates throughout Southeast Asia, focusing on UK Pension Transfers. He can be reached at david.m@faramond.com. Faramond UK is regulated by the FCA and provides advice on pensions and taxation.
Amazon.com Inc’s evenue grew more han expected for the first quarter, largely offset by a sharp increase in spending on technology, content and new warehouses as the e-commerce company branches into new businesses.
Amazon’s international unit, which accounts for 40 percent of sales, continued to be a drag as sales growth slowed to 18 percent during the quarter. Global unit sales, a closely watched measure of how many items Amazon has sold, also decelerated, rising only 23 percent.
The company is investing heavily in new markets abroad, particularly China, where it faces tough competition with Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba.
“A lot of the things that we’ve done – making sure that we have the right pricing in place on behalf of the customers, making sure that our service levels are where we need them to be — those are the things we continue to work on in China,” Chief Financial Officer Tom Szkutak said during a conference call.
Szkutak added that Amazon was “encouraged” by the weekly growth in Prime users, even after the company increased the price of the service by $20 last month.
Shares of Amazon, which is also aggressively expanding its lineup of devices and computing services to sustain its growth pace, were little changed in after-hours trading.
Tourism in Myanmar, the formerly most isolated Southeast Asian country, is witnessing an unprecedented boom with an astounding surge in international tourist arrivals, up 93 percent since 2012 as compared to 2013.
Tourism receipts were also skyrocketing and reached $926 million in 2013 against some $400 million in 2012, according to official government figures. The country is confident that visitor numbers will more than double, from 2 million in 2012 when the reclusive nation started to make it generally easier for tourists to visit and move around, to 5 million by 2015, said Myanmar’s President Thein Sein at a speech he gave earlier in April to tourism organisations in Yangon.
This is the upside of the development. The downside is that the country is in dire need of tourism and hospitality infrastructure and depends to a great extent on foreign investors to build enough hotels, resorts and roads, as well as develop formerly almost inaccessible areas that hold enormous potential for tourism such as the southern island in the Andaman Sea and the northern mountainous regions which boast Southeast Asia’s highest mountains but are practically out of reach for tourists due to non-existing roads or airports.
Thein Sein mentioned that the Myanmar Tourism Master Plan 2013 to 2020 has identified 38 projects that require $486 million of funding to bring tourist attractions up to an international standard, and this is only the beginning.
Tourist arrivals are expected to reach over 7 million in 2020, and revenue from the tourism industry should reach $10.18 billion in the same year, which indeed indicates explosive growth.
This is a window of opportunity for investors and tourism developers from the Gulf, as companies feel definitely enticed by the new open access to the country, with the two most remarkable developments being Qatar’s Ooredoo investing billions of dollars in Myanmar’s telecom infrastructure and Qatar Airways having opened direct flights from Doha to Yangon in October 2012.
Another Gulf company that has already set up shop in Myanmar is UAE industrial group Al Mar-wan, which wants to build road infrastructure and hotels and also set up trade and marine services in the country.
In the tourism segment, basically everything is needed, most of all, hotels and related leisure facilities, together with appropriate infrastructure. Yangon, for example, is suffering from a strong under supply in hotel rooms which has led to extreme price distortions in the hospitality market. Meanwhile, Novotel, Best Western, Hilton, Shangri-La and other chains have already entered Myanmar or have signed agreements with local partners.
What will also be needed are resort developers for high-end tourism project on Myanmar’s southern islands, which have been almost completely off the beaten tourist track up to now — apart from a few diving sites accessible by boat and special permit — but are part of Myanmar’s tourism master plan with which is obviously wants to compete with Thailand.
And the comparison is not far-fetched: Experts see Myanmar similar to Thailand 30 years ago with regards to tourism development, and having the same if not a better potential. And it could close up fast to its wealthier neighbour.
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I'm back with another Face of the Day! I rocked this gold smokey eye to the last day of PhamExpo in LA. Check it out!
The look centered around Sugarpill Goldilux Pigment. I love pulling out this pigment when I want a glam look, and it also perfectly accessoried my gold headband.
I paired it with some glam lashes and neutral browns to smoke it out. The face is all Graftobian Glamour Cream Foundations with Nars Taj Majal Blush.
On my lips I wore my go-to combo - Alcone at Home Enduring Lip Color in Creme Brulee with NYX Nutmeg Lip Pencil.
Hope you all enjoyed! Till next time Ciao Bellas!
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Viennese-born Trude Dothan is considered to be among the most important archaeologists of Biblical Erez Israel in Israel and the entire world.
In the mid–1940s Trude began her studies at the Hebrew University, where her teachers—Eliezer Lipa Sukenik (1889–1953), Moshe Stekelis (1898–1967), Benjamin Mazar (1906–1995) and Leo Ary Mayer (1895–1959)—were friends of her parents. After interrupting her studies to serve in the mapping and photography division of the Israel Defense Forces from 1948 to 1950, she received her M.A. degree in 1950. In the course of her studies she participated in digs at Beit Yerah (1945–1946), a Canaanite city of the third century B.C.E. and Tel Qasila (1949–1950), for the first time becoming acquainted with Philistine culture, which became the topic of her doctoral thesis. From 1950 to 1951 she received a Beyrson fellowship to do post-graduate studies at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago and then went on to further studies at the Institute of Archaeology at the University of London. After receiving her Ph.D. degree from the Hebrew University in 1961, she began her teaching career at its Institute of Archaeology, where the topics she taught were Egypt, Cyprus, the countries of the Aegean area and their connection with The Land of IsraelErez Israel. During the 1960s and 1970s she was a guest professor at Brown, New York Institute of Fine Arts, Harvard and Berkeley in the United States. In 1977 she was promoted to the rank of full professor. In 1985 she was appointed to the Eliezer Sukenik Chair of Archaeology at the Hebrew University and served for many years as head of the Berman Center of Biblical Archaeology.
1971–1972: Atienou in Cyprus, where she headed the team together with her colleague Professor Amnon Ben-Tor. This was the first dig conducted abroad by an Israeli team. At the site, which dates from the Bronze Age, the team found stores of metal spears, ritual sites and numerous imports from Greece.
1972–1982: At the important site of Deir el-Balah in the Gaza Strip Dothan headed the expedition, which uncovered an Egyptian border fortress, dating back to the Late Bronze Age, that defended the king’s highway between Egypt and Canaan. Among other extremely significant finds was an assemblage of anthropoid clay coffins.
1982–1996: At Tel Miqne-Ekron, where her co-director was S. Gitin, the director of the Albright Institute in Jerusalem, the expedition uncovered one of the five Palestinian cities mentioned in the Bible—a fortified city marked by clear urban planning, which existed for some six centuries from the late Bronze Age to the Iron Age.
As a result of the excavations at Tel Qasila Dothan began researching the secrets of a unique period in the history of The Land of IsraelErez Israel, that of the Judges, the thirteenth to twelfth centuries b.c.e., when the country was under Egyptian rule and inhabited simultaneously by Canaanites, the tribes of Israel and Philistines. The subject of her doctoral thesis was the Philistine and Egyptian pottery in the country at that time. Since then, her research has centered on the connection between the cultures of the seagoing nations, Egypt and Canaan.
Her major research is on the latter topic and on the culture of the Philistines and the seagoing nations in the late Bronze Age and the Israelite period. Her book of research is the major source for understanding Philistine material culture. The work she published following the excavations at Tel Miqne-Ekron is her crowning achievement among the research that focuses on the well-developed Philistine culture in Erez Israel. The city, which existed for hundreds of years in the Late Bronze Age and the beginning of the Iron Age, in the twelfth century b.c.e. became a new ethnic force which erected a new fortified city, with industrial and residential areas. It was the Philistines who brought with them their culture of the Aegean region. The most important find at the excavation, which confirmed the existence of the Philistine city of Ekron, was an inscription referring to Achron son of Padi son of Aada son of Yair, ruler of Ekron.
Dothan is considered to be among the most important archaeologists of Biblical Erez Israel in Israel and the entire world. Her excavations and her research have brought to light the material culture of the Philistines, the cultural connections between the seagoing nations and Erez Israel and the connections with Egypt. Her books and articles on these topics provide the cornerstone of an understanding of these cultures.
Married in 1951 to fellow archaeologist Moshe Dothan (1919–1999), she has two sons, Danny (b. 1954), a musician and author, and Uri (b. 1959), a computer artist.
Dothan is the recipient of the Israel Museum’s Percia Schimmel Award in Archaeology (1991), the Israel Prize (1998) for her unique contribution to the understanding of the material culture of Erez Israel during the Biblical era, an honorary doctorate from Hebrew Union College, Jerusalem (2003), and hadassah’s Women of Distinction Award. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Israel Museum, Jerusalem. A lecture series established by the Dorot Foundation in her honor is held annually at the Hebrew University, under the auspices of the Albright Institute and El-Kuds University. A researcher in Near Eastern Studies is invited to lecture each year. The goal of the series is to foster dialogue between Israeli, Palestinian and foreign researchers and students in Jerusalem.
Hazor, Vols. 1, 2, 3–4 (with Y. Yadin, Y. Aharoni, I. Dunayevsky and J. Perrot). Jerusalem: 1958–1961 (English and Hebrew).
En Gedi Excavations in 1961–1962 (Atiqot V) (with B. Mazar and I. Dunayevsky). Jerusalem: 1966.
Excavations at the Cemetery of Deir el-Balah. Qedem 10. Jerusalem: 1978.
The Philistines and their Material Culture. Jerusalem: 1981 (Hebrew version 1967).
Tel Miqne (Ekron): Excavation Report, Spring 1981 (with S. Gitin). Jerusalem: 1981.
Tel Miqne (Ekron): Excavation Report, Spring 1982 (with S. Gitin). Jerusalem: 1982.
Excavations at Athienou, Cyprus. Qedem 16 (with A. Ben-Tor). Jerusalem: 1983.
People of the Sea: In Search of the Philistines (with M. Dothan). New York: 1992.
“Archaeological Reflections on the Philistine Problem.” Antiquity and Survival 2 (1957): 151–164.
“Spinning Bowls.” Israel Exploration Journal 13 (1963): 97–112.
“Anthropoid Clay Coffins from a Late Bronze Age Cemetery near Deir el-Balah (Preliminary Report).” Israel Exploration Journal 23 (1973): 129–146.
“Tell Qasile.” In Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land, Vol. 4, Jerusalem: 1978.
“Forked Bronze Butts from Palestine and Egypt.” Israel Exploration Journal 26 (1979): 20–34.
“What We Know About the Philistines.” Biblical Archaeology Review 8 (1982): 20–44.
“Deir el-Balah: The Final Campaign.” National Geographic Research Reports 1 (1983): 20–44.
“The Philistines Reconsidered.” Biblical Archaeology Today (1985): 165–176.
“Ekron of the Philistines” (with S. Gitin). Biblical Archaeology Review 16, No. 1 (1990): 20–26.
“Ekron of the Philistines, Part I: Where They Came From, How They Settled Down and the Place They Worshipped.” Biblical Archaeological Review 16, No. 1 (1990): 26–36.
“Tel Miqne-Ekron: The Aegean Affinities of the Sea Peoples (Philistines) Settlement in Canaan in Iron Age I.” In Recent Excavations in Israel: A View to the West, edited by S. Gitin, 41–59. Archaeological Institute of America No. 1 (1995).
“Initial Philistine Settlement: From Migration to Coexistence.” In Mediterranean Peoples in Transition, edited by S. Gitin, A. Mazar and E. Stern, 148–161. Jerusalem: 1998.
“Bronze and Iron Objects with Cultic Connotations from the Philistine Temple Building ‘350’ at Ekron.” Israel Exploration Journal 52 (2002): 1–27.
The excavations and research of Israeli archeologist Trude Dothan have shed light on the material culture of the Philistines and on the cultural connections between ancient Erez Israel and its neighbors.
Hess, Orna. "Trude Dothan." Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia. 27 February 2009. Jewish Women's Archive. (Viewed on April 21, 2019) <https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/dothan-trude>.
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In case this is new to you, Patreon is a way you can help support my comics by donating as little as $1 per month.
That went over really well, so I did a few more. And they all got a big response. So I decided this would be the perfect way to reward the people who support me on Patreon! As of last week, those bonus cartoons have become Patreon-exclusive. That means that only my Patreon supporters can see the finished cartoons.
And, again, many of them are supporting me with $1 per month. Of course, when a whole bunch of you pledge $1, the cumulative result is pretty significant for me. Plus, I have some pretty tempting rewards to entice you to support me at $5, $10, $20 or even $50 per month!
To give you a glimpse of what you’ll get as a Patreon supporter, I’m posting all of the bonus cartoons below — even the ones that were exclusives last week. I’m pretty sure my Patreon backers won’t mind — especially if it brings a few more of you into the group.
And, heck, there’s even a chat function under each entry, so you can comment, expound, eye-roll, shriek… whatever feels right, y’know?
Consider backing me on Patreon. My goal is to do at least three of these bonus cartoons a week. Let me know what you think.
I’m new to Patreon. Do I get an email when each month’s strips are ready? I haven’t received one for July.
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Get rolling again in no time with our Glueless Patch kit. Unlike standard inner tube patches, there is no gluing required here, just peel, stick, and ride.
The Bike Tires Direct Glueless Patch kit includes five patches, a small piece of sand paper, and a micro-sized storage case.
I had a flat that left a cut in a tire with significant tread left on it. I put the glueless Patch on the cut in the interior of the tire and it has maintained the integrity of the tire and allowed me to continue to ride on the tire.
So far the one patch I tried worked. It was easy to apply and has held to date.
The case is large. The Park patches are thinner and smaller case. I have very limited space to pack anything on my bike so the more compact an item is the better.
Bike patches are easy and quick to use, i wouldn't want anything else when i go on those long buke trips where blowing a tire is always a risk. I have only had to use one patch thankfully but it has held up for a few months now.
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Our work helps people do all sorts of things, like buying a raincoat, booking a hotel, and traveling from the Tate Modern to Buckingham Palace. We’re responsible for making information clear and meaningful for everyone, including people with disabilities. So how can we approach content and accessibility? How can we write for people with a range of abilities?
With a few strategic tools and a commitment to inclusion, we can improve our writing, reach more people, and avoid legal issues.
Accessible content is good content for everyone. Being clear and appropriate is a great starting point. Let’s explore a real example to take it to the next level.
Transport for London provides public transit information for the UK’s capital. The site seems pretty clean and even includes an accessibility statement. But when we unearth the content, a few basic problems come up, like how the content is organized, named, and cross-linked. I’ll guide you through these issues and show you how to resolve them.
A great tour guide shows you things you didn’t know existed.
The Accessibility link is easy to spot in the global header. It takes you to the Website Accessibility page, which outlines how to change the site’s presentation and navigate with a keyboard. We can assume most people with disabilities already know how to do these things. Is this the best use of top-level navigation?
Likewise, the Accessibility Statement mentions design decisions that support people with disabilities. How can we make this section useful?
Journey Planner lets you pick the fastest way to your destination with the fewest number of stairs or escalators.
Freedom Pass makes almost all public transport free for disabled Londoners.
Transport for London took a similar approach in the “Information in Other Languages” section at the bottom of the homepage. For each language page, like the Italian guide, the site provides a tailored, concise list of tools and downloadable information.
When developing content, the main W3C guideline we can follow is to write for readability. This means a person or assistive technology can read and interpret what you wrote.
If someone needs travel assistance, would the information on the Transport for London homepage help them? Can we organize the content so a person with visual or cognitive disabilities can navigate easily? Can we make the headings more understandable or reduce the number of words on the page?
Let’s look at the current hierarchy. To see how the homepage content flows, view it in your browser with styles turned off. This exercise is also helpful when evaluating how the content sounds to someone with a screenreader.
Let’s momentarily ignore the capitalization inconsistency. The user needs the Assisted Travel link in the Getting Around London section, but it comes after line upgrades, the Transport for London souvenir shop, and Google advertisements.
This structure makes it seem like almost everything is more important than getting around London. But isn’t that why people visit the site?
To avoid frustrating visitors, organize information so it focuses on their needs. Depending on the size of your organization, this may be a daunting task. You’ll probably need approval to make changes and help implementing them. But if you can get this right, you’ll save everyone time and frustration, especially your visitors.
Test your site with people of various ages and abilities. Research people’s mental models by asking them why they’re using the site and what they expect to do with it.
Study any information you can get about how people use the site (e.g., analytics, contact center data, surveys).
Define top user tasks from your research.
Create a message hierarchy that outlines what you need to say. Start with the most important information to your users.
Group similar information and separate unrelated topics.
Work with your team to update the hierarchy.
Without making too many assumptions about Londoners, here’s a suggestion of a cleaner outline for what’s already on the homepage with consistent titlecasing.
By taking time to structure what you want to say, you can ensure the information is easy to understand, no matter how it’s presented.
You know your site more than you realize, as you probably spend hours looking at it. When writing instructional content, give users turn-by-turn directions or include a link that does. Give people a clear path to what they need; never assume they know how to perform a task.
Choose terms and names for things carefully. Clear headers and links guide people through content quickly, like big signposts in a Tube station.
Avoid jargon, slang, and acronyms. If you have to use an unusual term, include a brief definition in plain language. Labels like “Oyster,” “TfL,” “DLR” assume the user is a local. Since London is one of the world’s top travel destinations and the transit system is growing quickly, it would help to write out these terms.
Create contrast between similar ideas and sections of content. Use distinct, meaningful links consistently. For example, look at these terms on the Accessibility page.
Make a list of labels from tabs and links. Don’t stop with your global navigation; sift through body paragraphs, forms, and your site map.
Organize the labels by topic.
Change anything that’s inconsistent, too similar, or unclear.
Clear navigation and link names eliminate confusion and improve site usability for everyone. And for extra points with your boss, consistent labels make localization cheaper too.
Revisit your content regularly with fresh eyes and ears. Schedule time to reread one or two pages of the site each month.
Find a quiet room and read the content aloud slowly or listen to it with an online screenreader.
Does the order support our users?
Is the most important information at the top?
Can this be broken down or better organized?
Does this cover what we need to say in the simplest way?
Fix or remove these issues and keep trekking.
Don’t use generic links like “read more” and “click here.” Be precise with links and calls to action.
Don’t assume the user knows how to perform a task. Give step-by-step directions or provide a link that does.
Don’t use unusual words, acronyms, and idioms.
Focus on top user tasks.
Read content aloud for comprehension.
Surface useful and relevant links.
How do you approach accessibility when writing? What other sites do it well?
Nicole Fenton is an editor, strategist, and interface writer. She recently cowrote Nicely Said, a guide to writing for the web.
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Feel the Love with Lennox & Rescue Air!
At Rescue Air Heating and Cooling has always believed in giving back to our community and supporting those who need a little help. We take pride in doing charity work and using our time and resources to make life better for everyone. So when we were given the opportunity to take part in Lennox’s “Feel the Love” program, we jumped at the chance and dove right in.
Lennox is one of the leading manufacturers of heating and cooling equipment, and donated a number of whole home central heating and cooling systems to the cause. Through this program, Lennox sent these systems to installers taking part in the program, who then installed them free of charge in the homes of a person or family in need.
Families across the country (including in Canada) were nominated to receive free heating and cooling equipment from Lennox. The recipients of this equipment were chosen by Lennox directly based on factors such as their military service, community involvement, and even their story of hardship. From there, participating dealers in their communities donated their time, supplies, and labor, including obtaining the proper permits for the installation.
Then, on Feel the Love Day, Rescue Air Heating and Cooling, along with hundreds of other contractors all across North America, went to the homes of those selected families and individuals and installed a brand new heating and cooling system at no cost.
The new system should last for at least the next 15 years or so, giving Ms. Clay nothing to worry about for roughly the next decade and a half. And with the experienced team from Rescue Air on her side helping keep her new system running smoothly, she’ll be able to enjoy her home in cool comfort in the summer and warm heat in the winter.
For more information about installing a new air conditioning and heating system in your home, reach out to the Dallas heating and cooling experts from Rescue Air Heating and Cooling! Call us at (972) 201-3253 to request more information.
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The saying “We are what we eat” has an element of truth in it. What we eat affects not only our digestive system but it also plays an important role in strengthening our immune system. Taking a healthy and balanced diet can help improve our immunity.
You want to fight the flu that’s spreading in office. You want to keep your child away from constant cold & cough. In order to do this, you need to take extra care of your immune system. Keeping your immune system healthy must be done throughout the year, whatever is the season.
A healthy immune system is very important for fighting bacteria & viruses. Poor nutritional intake results in immune system dysfunctions such as increased infections, and slow healing from injuries and infections. It is true that as we age, our immunity drops. However, recent research suggests that with proper nutrition this decline in immunity can be reduced and can even be stopped completely.
However, there are no short-cuts for this. Just by eating an orange or amla or grapefruit , do not expect your immunity to miraculously improve. You need to eat a good and healthy diet over a period of time in order to strengthen your immune system.
These 11 immunity boosting foods can add an extra flu-fighting punch to your healthy diet.
the immune system healthy. It is also full or proteins, vitamin B12, vitamin D, and vitamin B2 (riboflavin). Good Vitamin D level is also important for robust immune function.
active ingredient in turmeric boosts immunity as it has anti-inflammatory properties. Studies suggest that turmeric can help provide a boost to the white blood cells that help your immune system fight off bacteria, viruses and other ailments.
It can be added to soups or to season lean meats or stir fries.
immunity. In one study, participants given a daily allicin supplement experienced colds 63% less often than the placebo group. In addition, when they did get sick, participants in the allicin group recovered 3.5 days earlier, on average. So to boost immunity try to eat one small clove of garlic 2 – 3 times a day.
Add chopped garlic to salads, curries etc.
Ginger contains gingerol which fights infections & in turn improves immunity. Ginger also has anti-inflammatory & antioxidant properties.
Grated ginger can be steeped in water to make ginger tea.
immunity. Studies show that mushrooms increase the production and activity of white blood cells, which help to fight any infection or pathogens. Mushrooms are also full of anti-oxidants.
Mushrooms can be added to omelettes & scrambled eggs or to soups, salads & lasagne.
Mushrooms are rich in selenium, Vitamin B2 & Niacin; which makes them one of the most sought after immunity boosting foods.
Polyphenols & flavonoids in green tea makes it a super food for boosting immunity. L-Theaninein green tea helps in fighting viruses & bacteria. Try to consume 2 – 3 cups of green tea a day.
free radicals that damage our immune system.
Pomegranate has high antioxidant properties, which stimulate the white blood cells to neutralize toxins in the body. This promotes a strong and healthy immune system.
movement which in turn decreases mucus production. This soup also provides ample amount of an amino acid, cysteine, which chemically resembles the bronchitis drug acetylcysteine, which helps in clearing mucus.
boosting white blood cells. Oysters can be consumed raw, grilled and can be added in stews as well.
Coconut Oil contains lauric acid and caprylic acid, which are natural antibacterial, antifungal, and anti-viral. Both are known for fighting off candida & bacterial infections. Coconut oil also strengthens a weak immune system by improving the white blood cell count.
A spoon of coconut oil can be added to smoothies, yogurt & cereals.
So, your diet plays an important role in strengthening your immunity. The deficiency of certain nutrients can cause your immune system to become weak. In order to build a strong immune system, eat the above mentioned super foods along with a healthy balanced diet throughout the year.
Rashmi Cherian is a Registered Dietitian with a Master’s Degree in Food & Nutrition and a Certified Sports & Exercise Nutritionist. She has been providing nutritional counselling for almost a decade, displaying a vast diversity of clientele seeking her expertise. A leading Sports Nutritionist, Rashmi works with a wide variety of professional and amateur athletes in swimming, tennis, badminton, triathlon, cycling, football, basketball, cricket, golf, go karting etc. She teaches them how to have more energy, lose undesired body fat, enjoy a winning sports diet—and feel confident bout their food choices.
She currently serves as the Official Sports Nutritionist for Birel Art. As Rashmi’s love for helping other’s continued to grow, she decided to open WELLNESS VOWS Nutrition Clinic, which focusses on overall wellness, sports nutrition, weight imbalances, lifestyle disorders, auto immune diseases etc. Rashmi has been a key note speaker at conferences, lectures, sports academies, schools and corporations across the country. Two of her research papers have been published in international journals – “Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry” and “Nutritional Neuroscience”.
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Includes unlimited streaming of Dropup via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
NYC-based producer and DJ crafts the most bend-bending sonic obstacle courses I've ever encountered. Not for the faint of heart.
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Every step of the tomato is under control!
AKAS soil-less agricultural project prepared in three phases. Primarily, construction of the first phase will be in 48.000 m2. The production will start right after the completion, in 2014. After the second phase, 48.000 m2 more will be ready for production in 2015. Finally the third phase will complete in 2017, which is 60.000 m2. As a result, AKAS Agricultural Products and Greenhouses Incorporated Company will make production in a sum of 260.000 m2 area.
SEMAY soil-less agricultural project prepared in two phases. First phase is planned to be 58.000 m2. Production in the first phase will start when the construction ends, in 2014. Second phase will be 45.000 m2 and planned to be completed in 2015. As a result SEMAY Agricultural Products and Greenhouses Incorporated Company will make production in a sum of 103.000 m2 area.
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After 10 years, Regina Spektor returned to Phoenix, Az on a small and limited month-long solo tour. Stopping at The Celebrity Theater, Spektor took the stage to a packed house full of what some consider to be the most die hard fans in the industry. The decade long wait was well worth it to all; after a rapturous applause welcoming Spektor to the venue, a pin drop could be heard throughout the venue as Spektor in turn addressed the crowd. Recovering from a week-long bout with bronchitis, Spektor assured the crowd that stepping out into the center of such a “circle of love” (Celebrity Theatre is a theater-in-the-round) would surely extinguish any last remnants that the “tinctures and potions” and rest did not. As she sat down at her spot-lit piano, a hush of anticipation fell upon the crowd as Spektor launched into what would become a glorious and heartfelt two hour set. The evening consisted of many tracks from her deep back catalog, including fan favorites “Samson”, “Us”, “Eet”, “Hotel Song”, and “On The Radio”, as well as multiple songs off of her newest album, “Remember Us To Life”, including “Grand Hotel,” “Black and White”, and “Tornadoland”. Regina Spektor is on tour throughout the US for the next month. Complete tour dates can be found on her website, and this intimate solo tour is not one to be missed.
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3 Jan 2012, 17:26 UTC Happy Perihelion!
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SPEEDWAY AMUSEMENT COMPANY OF FORT GEORGE has been set up 12/31/1923 in state NY. The current status of the business is Inactive. The SPEEDWAY AMUSEMENT COMPANY OF FORT GEORGE principal adress is private address. Meanwhile you can send your letters to same as principal. The company`s registered agent is FL. The company`s management are . The last significant event in the company history is DISSOLVED BY PROCLAMATION which is dated by 6/4/1936. This decision is take in action on unknown.
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1. Tap the habit you want to change. In this example, we'll change the sleeping habit.
2. Tap the three-dot icon at the top of the screen.
3. Tap Habit Settings in the menu that appears.
4. You are now in the settings section of the habit.
1. Tap the existing habit name.
2. Enter the new name and tap Save.
3. Tap Done on the main settings screen.
1. On the habit's settings screen, tap the Icon icon.
2. Search for a new icon with a keyword. Tap it to select.
3. Alternatively, scroll through the available options to select a new icon. Tap it to select.
1. On the habit's settings screen, tap the Color icon.
2. Select a new color by tapping on it.
3. Tap Done on the habit's settings screen.
1. On the habit's settings screen, tap the Sound icon.
2. The preset sound will be Default. Select a new sound from the list by tapping on it.
3. Tap the back icon.
4. Tap Save on the habit's settings screen.
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The Venezuelan people together with President Nicolás Maduro and the Constituent Assembly and popular organizations, are daily mobilizing, organizing, resisting, defending their sovereignty and dignity, to meet the needs of the people and to advance in development.
AND: Follow @MovPaz_Cuba on Twitter and @MovPazCuba on Facebook, and @Siempreconcuba on both media for ICAP’s account, which will share details of a panel taking place March 15, at ICAP Headquarters, 10 AM-12 noon, EDT, related to this important theme.
And don’t forget to become a Twitter follower of @CubaVenezCte, and FB for Cuba and Venezuela Solidarity Committee!
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While the stock markets were dropping moderately in value, cryptocurrencies lost their owners an estimated $60 billion in the last week of March, including a $20 billion drop over one dramatic six-hour period. As I write this, Bitcoins are trading below $9,000, and the trend is taking them toward their February 6 low—and, perhaps, further. In case you’re not up on other cryptocurrencies, there’s something called Etherium (now $621 per coin); Bitcoin cash ($1,282.82); Litecoin ($145.71) and Ripple (81 cents).
The problem, as always, is figuring out whether these alternative currencies are actual investments. For now, there are very few stores which accept them as actual money. Bitcoin’s primary purpose in the marketplace has famously been to enable drug and weapons traffickers to buy and sell without leaving a paper trail for international police agencies to follow. Chances are, those markets are not of much interest to you or your portfolio, so it might be wise to watch this crytpo-mania play itself out from the sidelines.
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EPICentre Makerspace members must use this form to pay for the equipment usage fees as specified by EPICentre.
Please show proof of payment to EPICentre staff to access the service.
Contact us at epicentre@uwindsor.ca with any questions or comments, or if you are having difficulties with payment.
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New Intermusic 30PCM Bb Clarinet outfit including Mouthpiece, modern Ligature and Case. Also includes Reeds, Reedguard, Cork grease and Pull-thru. Matt finish, nickel plated keywork and adjustable thumb rest. Well constructed Case.
This Clarinet would be ideal for a beginner, or for someone wishing to take up the instrument again!
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Yes, this is what Spring and Summer should be all about! Little Paige and Instamom Sylvia Tribel is giving us major holiday envy with their daily adventures by the sea. Just watch how the mini style icon is working all her adorable outfits! While we wish they could bring us along, her gorgeous, cheery Instagram feed will be enough for now..
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I’m really drawn to the colour green at the moment, and I guess it’s because I’m looking forward to spring so much. In my head it also represents a new start, new shoots and laying down roots. Plus it’s just a really pretty colour!
My local Aldi had these muscari and hyacinth bulbs for sale which I just had to buy, and plant in rustic containers. The still life was completed with a collection of vintage bottles, and this lovely old clock. It’s like having a little bit of the garden inside!
My Dad is staying with me for the week, and is kindly doing lots of jobs for me whilst I’m at work. Putting up pictures, building a compost bin, putting shelves in a cupboard…the sort of things which make this house my home. Thank you so much Dad!
These are beautiful, I think everyone needs some green in their lives at the moment when everything else is so grey.
Gorgeous colours. I gave some lovely pale green carnations currently brightening up my kitchen, they really do make me think of spring.
Awww aren't Dads the best?!
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You been there, done that. Every week you drive your car on weekends to a supermarket like Lulu, Carrefour….fill up the shopping cart, wait in queue for your turn to bill the products, push the cart towards your car, empty the shopping trolley to your car’s boot, arrive home, carry the polythene bags to your home and done.
What if I said that you could avoid 80% these hassles by shopping for the same things online?
There are many websites that do it and my intention for you is to educate you on the same.
You save loads of time.
You save money and effort.
You indirectly help in reducing traffic on roads if you drive.
Credit card payment on site and Cash on Delivery facility is available.
You are unable to cherry pick the products which matters when selecting vegetables and other perishable goods.
Online payment is still considered is risky if you pay by credit card. You are at the mercy of the seller!
You are not aware of any offers that are present at the real supermarkets.
There is a minimum order amount without which you may need to pay delivery fees.
The above list should not be taken as an endorsement from me to shop on these sites. Please read the sites’ terms and conditions and do not get confused.
How to say numbers in Arabic?
Will there be any ban on overstaying in Dubai? My visa was not provided by new employer. The fine was paid. And I am planning to come back. But just want to make sure that I dont have employment ban.
Great list Deepak. But i see that you missed http://www.elgrocer.com I have been using ElGrocer to order groceries home delivery online from quite some time and really liked their service. They provide the groceries at similar prices as the store and also do free home delivery within an hour which is really great.
It saves me a lot of time and money.
Hi Mr Deepak, i just like to ask if my employer can ban me here in uae if i will cancel my visa…. They give me 3yrs contract for my visa…. And my contract in working for them is only 2yrs…. I just like to finish my 2yrs then ill cancel my visa… You think they can ban me with that…..
I would like to ask if we have ban beacause our company were going to close and were in a limited contract for 2yrs but its not yet finished we still have 10months left to finished the two yrs?!
To cancel my employment visa due to he is sick but that time I’m not working already in here company cz they told me to stop working and find new job. Now my visa already finish last July 6 2015 I’m trying to pleasing his /her son to remove my absconding but they said they don’t have time to remove . Sir there is another way to solve about thise problem . Can you plsss.. Help me? Thank you..
There is no other way than to approach the legal owners.
You could on the other hand visit MOL/Immigration for solution.
I’m on a limited contract and still on probationary. In my clinic we do some work not related to the job we signed for. I would like to ask what will happen if i resign even if im still on probationary period? and if i can apply to tother company with different profession?
and if i apply in a goverment hospital si the ban still applicable? thank. hope ull answer my query.
If you get a job in government, there is no labour ban applicable.
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2,5-Dimethoxyphenethylamine (also known as 2C-H and DMPEA) is a lesser-known psychoactive substance of the phenethylamine class. 2C-H belongs to the 2C-x family of substituted phenethylamines. However, it does not have psychedelic properties and is primarily used as a precursor in the synthesis of other phenethylamines such as 2C-B, 2C-I, and 2C-N.
2C-H was first synthesized in 1932 by Johannes S. Buck. Its effects in humans were explored in the 1970s by Alexander Shulgin, who published his findings in the book PiHKAL (Phenethylamines I Have Known and Loved).
In PiHKAL, Shulgin lists both the dosage and duration as unknown, commenting that 2C-H is likely easily broken down by MAO enzymes in the liver and is thus probably inactive. However, there have since been some anecdotal reports that suggest it may be active when taken sublingually. It is theorized to be orally active if taken in combination with a MAOI. However, it is unknown whether this would result in typical 2C-x psychedelic effects.
Very little data exists about the pharmacological properties, metabolism, and toxicity of 2C-H. It is highly advised to use harm reduction practices when using this substance.
2C-H, or 2,5-dimethoxyphenethylamine, is a substituted phenethylamine featuring a phenyl ring bound to an amino (NH2) group through an ethyl chain. 2C-H contains methoxy functional groups CH3O- attached to carbons R2 and R5 as well as a hydrogen atom attached to carbon R4 of the phenyl ring. 2C-H belongs to the 2C family of phenethylamines which contain methoxy groups on the 2 and 5 positions of the benzene ring, and is also their simplest member. It is commonly used as a precursor to other compounds of the 2C family, including 2C-B, 2C-C, 2C-I, and 2C-N.
There is no record of 2C-H trials in humans, as it would likely be destroyed by monoamine oxidase enzymes before causing any significant psychoactive effects. Very little data exists about the pharmacological properties, metabolism, and toxicity of 2C-H. However, it has been shown to have binding affinity towards 5-HT2C and 5-HT2A receptors in rats. 2C-H has been shown to inhibit MAO-B activity by over 50% in experiments.
The toxicity and long-term health effects of recreational 2C-H use do not seem to have been studied in any scientific context and the exact toxic dose is unknown. This is because 2C-H is a research chemical with very little history of human usage.
Anecdotal reports from those who have tried 2C-H suggests that there are no negative health effects attributed to simply trying the substance by itself at low to moderate doses and using it very sparingly (but nothing can be completely guaranteed). Independent research should always be done to ensure that a combination of two or more substances is safe before consumption.
It is strongly recommended that one use harm reduction practices, such as volumetric dosing, when using this substance so as to ensure the accurate administration of the intended dose.
Although no formal studies have been conducted, it is not unreasonable to assume that as is the case with psychedelics in general, 2C-H is not habit-forming and that the desire to use it can actually decrease with use.
Tolerance to the effects of 2C-H are built almost immediately after ingestion. After that, it takes about 3-5 days for the tolerance to be reduced to half and 7-10 days to be back at baseline (in the absence of further consumption). 2C-H presents cross-tolerance with all psychedelics, meaning that after the consumption of 2C-H all psychedelics will have a reduced effect.
Austria: 2C-H is illegal to possess, produce and sell under the NPSG (Neue-Psychoaktive-Substanzen-Gesetz Österreich).
Canada: As of October 31st, 2016, 2C-H is a controlled substance (Schedule III) in Canada, and is thus illegal to possess, produce and sell.
United States: As of July 9, 2012, 2C-H is a Schedule I controlled substance in the United States, under the Synthetic Drug Abuse Prevention Act of 2012.
United Kingdom - 2C-H is a Class A drug in the United Kingdom as a result of the phenethylamine catch-all clause.
↑ Buck, J. S. (1932). HYDROXY-AND DIHYDROXYPHENYLETHYLMETHYLAMINES AND THEIR ETHERS. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 54(9), 3661-3665. https://doi.org/10.1021/ja01348a024.
↑ Shulgin, Alexander; Ann Shulgin (September 1991). PiHKAL: A Chemical Love Story. Berkeley, California: Transform Press. ISBN 0-9630096-0-5. OCLC 25627628.
↑ Wagmann, Lea; Brandt, Simon D.; Stratford, Alexander; Maurer, Hans H.; Meyer, Markus R. (2019). "Interactions of phenethylamine-derived psychoactive substances of the 2C-series with human monoamine oxidases". Drug Testing and Analysis. 11 (2): 318–324. doi:10.1002/dta.2494. ISSN 1942-7603.
This page was last modified on 12 March 2019, at 23:32.
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RWNZ national president, Fiona Gower.
“Sharing and disclosing information between government sectors, such as health and education, may place the privacy of family violence victims at risk," says RWNZ national president, Fiona Gower.
“Although RWNZ supports the Government’s efforts to create an effective preventative response to family violence through information sharing, we do not support a system that puts people at risk and leaves victims feeling vulnerable and unable to seek help because they are afraid of confidentiality breaches,’ she says.
“Rural victims of family violence often cannot leave their situations easily and this isolation and lack of support is significant as 39% of rural women will experience violence, compared to 33% of urban women, as cited in our submission on the Family Violence Legislation Bill in July 2017,” says Gower.
The Ministry of Justice recently released a summary of feedback on draft guidance for information sharing under new family violence legislation.
The Family Violence Act 2018 outlines how and when family violence agencies and social services practitioners can share information about victims or perpetrators of family violence.
“The purpose of the new law is to encourage agencies to work together to identify, stop, prevent and otherwise respond to family violence,” says Jan Logie, Under-Secretary to the Minister of Justice (Domestic and Sexual Violence Issues).
The Ministry of Justice will now update the guidance, taking into account the comments and suggestions made. The updated guidance will focus on enabling safe, appropriate and consistent practice across the sector. It will be released when the Family Violence Act comes into effect on 1 July 2019.
Rural Women New Zealand (RWNZ) National President, Fiona Gower and National Chair Penny Mudford OMNZ have arrived in New York to attend the United Nations’ 62nd Commission on the Status of Women (CSW62).
As schools return this week, Rural Women New Zealand (RWNZ) is renewing their call for mandatory signage and flashing lights on school buses.
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Member of the Varsity 8 crew that earned UCSDtritons.com Athlete of the Week (6/5) honors ... Helped the Varsity 8+ crew to a first place finish at the Western Sprints Championships ... Claimed first in all three races at the Western Sprints Challenge with the Second Varsity 8 crew ... Placed first with the Varsity 8+ crew at the San Diego City Championships.
Part of the Varsity 8 boat that placed second at the Western Sprints Championships ... Earned second place in the Varsity 8 Grand Final at the Western Intercollegiate Rowing Association (WIRA) Championships.
Assisted his crew to a second place finish in the Second Varsity 8 Grand Final at the WIRA Championships ... Took second in the Third Varsity 8 Grand Final at the San Diego Crew Classic.
A 2015 graduate of Paso Robles High School ... Competed in basketball, track and field ... Captain of high school basketball team ... Named to the Pac-8 All League 4x4 Team (2015).
Born April 8 in Paso Robles ... Parents are Ken and Paula ... Physics major in Roosevelt College ... Aspires to attend graduate school for physics or biology ... Favorite moment was racing at the Henley Royal Regatta ... Favorite hobbies are watching movies and listening to music... Favorite movies are Interstellar and A Beautiful Mind ... Fan of the Los Angeles Lakers, Los Angeles Angels and the Philadelphia Eagles ... Loves pancakes.
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After a slow and sometimes painful number of years, real estate sales are bouncing back in resort and second home locations. What new second home products and resort amenities are emerging in the market? What kinds of locations are seeing the most new investment and development? What innovative and creative approaches are being used to position and market resort and second home communities to meet the current needs and demands of prospective buyers?
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Crunchy, flavourful and delicious; that's what banana chips are to most of us! These fried delights make for a great snack, a side dish and sometimes, a traditional food on most occasions in South India. Banana chips are generally dry, mostly salted or spiced and sometimes jaggery or sugar-coated. Widely enjoyed in the Indian states of Kerala and Tamil Nadu and locally known as nenthra-upperi, these chips are mostly fried in coconut oil. The sweet counterpart, which is made using jaggery, is known as sharkara upperi. Made with unripe plantains, these chips are easy-to-prepare at home.
According to Food Blogger Nithya Ravi, "There are two types of banana chips; one is Nendrankai (translated as raw fruit) banana chips and the other one is plain banana chips. The bananas used in Nendrankai chips are generally different from the normal ones; they are slightly longer and broader variant. They are majorly seasoned with turmeric and salt, while the normal ones are seasoned with red chilli powder and salt. The techniques used in making these two kinds of banana chips are slightly different from each other. Nendrankai banana chips are a Kerala specialty and are enjoyed anytime."
As per Chef Prem, "Nendrankai banana chips or ethakka upperi is very popular in Kerala and is served as a side dish. It is also served at Onam Sadhya. These crunchy and crispy chips with the flavour of coconut oil are very quick and easy-to-make."
Unless you are a skilled knife expert, don't hesitate to use a mandoline slicer.
Enjoy the crunchy batch of banana chips along with a piping hot cup of tea and make the most of the rainy season!
Kerala & Cooking with Coconuts: Why is it so Special?
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All customer gear is serviced by a certified, in-house service technician. If you have any questions you would like to ask our service technician, please send them to Alex Blevins (our certified EASE service technician) via alex@adventuretampa.com.
Read more about gear upkeep on our blog here.
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Seems like the whole town turns out for ACE Hardware's annual Garden Party at the Oak Hill store! We were there, too, promoting the Scarborough Community Garden. We were joined by the Cumberland County Master Gardeners and the Scarborough Garden Club, who were on hand to promote their annual plant sales, learning opportunities, and offer soil test kits and gardening tips. Thank you, Rebecca, Dan, and Anne and all our friends at ACE Hardware for including us in this Scarborough Spring tradition.
Pictured: Elizabeth Richter (Scarborough Garden Club), Ralph Wink (Cumberland County Master Gardeners), and our neighbor, Becky Delaware who stopped in to say hello.
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I need to extract my text messages off of this phone somehow.
:excl:I would like to do it digitally, there are some conversations that are really important to me. I would like to back them up and archive em, problem is there is no screenshot function in the phone and no obvious way to back them up. I don't know what I need to do it homebrew, any good homebrew apps or tools on my msdn account that might help. I figured I'd check with you guys, I don't care if it is a crazy method. I have a Windows 8 machine, a Windows 7 Machine, and a Mac running Mountain Lion.
If I can't figure it out I'll just take pictures using my other phone, but this isn't my preferred way. I checked the FAQ and did a search and nothing turned up. Even a definitive no would be nice.
Definitively, no. :) Unless you are running a device that can be hacked for sideloading there's no way to get your texts off a WP7 device, I'm afraid.
Didn't Nokia release something for that recently?
I want to see these apparently epic texts.
If they did I haven't heard about it.
You're talking about them releasing an update for Nokia Suite supporting Lumias, but that didn't include text message backup.
Don't most phone carriers keep texts for two years? Ask them if yours does.
Well, if you had a dev account ($99/yr) you could sideload Screenshot which would do what you need need it to. Do you know any developers? They can add up to three devices to their account. You probably only need to be unlocked for a week or two. The unlock process is simple, but you really need to be sitting at the devs machine to do it. Sideloading is just as simple.
Bit long winded, but can't you just copy and paste them into an Office note for example?
That will make you a backup...if you want to see them afterwards you would need to restore the backup to your phone as far as I know. But its a start I suppose.
Their is a website called (Treasure Text) all you need to do is send your text to the number they provide so just copy then send all your texts you want to keep, and you'll have your own we hub of texts you want to keep on that site works a treat! Hope that helps.
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Summary: Are we using the debugging resources available in so many MCUs in the most effective manner?
In the olden days processors just didn't have any on-board debugging features. This was a boon for tool makers, and kept me fed for many years as my company made in-circuit emulators. Early ICEs offered little functionality beyond a handful of instruction breakpoints, but over time they sprouted a wealth of features like data breakpoints, trace, profiling and much more. The 80s and 90s were halcyon days for the ICE industry.
That business is all but gone. Sure, pockets still exist. Microchip's REAL ICE and a handful of other products still keep a flicker of life in the emulator business. But very high bus speeds, tiny all-but-unprobable packages, and the staggering array of on-chip debugging features hollowed out that industry.
Multiple hardware break- and watch-points are now common on-chip, as is trace and much more. In the ARM market, of course, vendors are free to pick and choose (for a fee) from a variety of debug modules, or to have none at all.
How many of these resources do you typically use at a time when debugging? I bet the answer generally no more than a few.
I'd like the IDE vendors to offer a mode that automatically enables these resources to capture common problems. For instance, wouldn't it be nice if the tools always monitored stacks? Or watched large data structures for buffer overruns? Of captured null pointer dereferences by watching for accesses through location zero?
A user could provide the debugger with a script that configures each debugging resource independently when not explicitly in use. If the IDE sees that several data breakpoints aren't needed it would run the script to enable those in a useful fashion. The script would also have a message that is displayed if the breakpoint is taken to remind the engineer what violation occurred, as he or she may have set this up months before. RAM is not the only kind of memory that leaks.
Going a bit further, at ship time the script could be integrated into the code so production systems that experience a bug fail in a safe and predictable manner.
Of course, there's no reason we have to wait for the IDE folks to enable the last feature. We do often have this wealth of debugging transistors that almost always is left unused, just wasting power, when the system is "done." Why not set them up to look for common problems that we know will never happen. but all too often do? In many cases it's possible to program the control registers to toss an exception, rather that stop execution, when a breakpoint fires. Write a handler to take whatever action is appropriate, which could be to shut down, restart cleanly, or simply report the condition.
I call this "proactive debugging," and have been advocating it for years. Alas, the message has gone largely unheard. Other examples include seeding all of unused memory with software interrupt instructions, since when a program crashes it generally just wanders to a random location. So is arranging (when possible) the code and fixed data adjacent to each other with the stack and other variables above, so a single data breakpoint can capture any write to addresses that should never be written. There are a lot of ways to debug proactively, but they all require a mindset that recognizes that there will be bugs, so we need to seed the code with constructs that will automatically catch them.
When the 386 came out three decades ago almost everyone complained that its MMU took the memory segmentation we hated on the 8086 from a manageable four segments to thousands. Most programmed in a flat 4 GB address space (including Windows). They missed the point that the MMU made exquisite control of rogue programs easy. A tiny bit of code could watch for problems and take appropriate action.
Too many of us are still letting these debugging resources lay fallow.
What sort of proactive debugging do you employ?
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YUMOSHI FISHING FF150 is a finesse Fishermans reel. Made for ultra light applications. Great panfish or Trout reel.
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Apple is on quite a roll with their iPod/iTunes music combo, which has propelled the once "beleaguered" computer company to the forefront of the technology leadership curve. In fact, at one point last month, only a few years removed from Michael Dell's catty comment that he would close Apple and divide up the take among the shareholders, Apple's (AAPL) market capitalization eclipsed that of Dell (DELL) itself. Though the stock has gone down a bit since then, the company's momentum has not.
Now, three years into the iTunes Music Store launch, Apple is on the verge of selling its one billionth song. The company announced a plethora of gifts to loyal music store customers, offering a free iPod Nano and gift card for each song sold at a multiple of 100,000 and is ramping up for the big prize -- whoever purchases the 1 billionth song will receive a new 20-inch iMac, 10 60 Gigabyte iPods, and a whopping $10,000 to spend at the iTunes Music Store for any media. I can't even think how I could spend $2,000, but I'm sure I'd find a way, given the challenge.
According to my iTunes library, my "purchased" collection from the iTunes Music Store numbers just under 1,000, at 982, since my first song purchase on April 28, 2003. I purchased 25 songs that day, ranging from R.E.M. and U2 to Traci Lords and DJ Encore. The iTunes Music Store has grown up in a big way since, offering a much greater set of music to choose from. The company's consistent pricing also throws a wrench into any of the retail stores who might otherwise get my money, and I've practically eliminated my spending on Amazon.com since the iTunes Music Store's introduction.
In the next hour, Apple will most likely hit 1 billion, and I'll try to win the big prize. If I do win, you'll be sure to know.
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If the world’s two largest economies are heading toward a trade war, time is on China’s side.
On Tuesday evening, the Trump administration announced 25% tariffs on more than 1,000 industrial technology, transport, and medical products amounting to about $50 billion in 2018 imports. China swiftly countered with proportional tariffs of up to 25% on more than 100 U.S. goods. The latest move followed a previous round of reciprocal tariffs worth about $3 billion.
And while Chinese officials encouraged negotiations, Beijing doesn’t seem to be backing down.
There’s no telling how long the trade tensions will last. Trump faces pressure that don’t exist for Xi, including criticism for market turmoil and political risks in the run-up to 2018 midterm elections. At the same time, the American president is buoyed by the popular notion that a rising China has taken advantage of the current trade relationship.
Trump tweeted that the trade war with China was already lost, blaming previous U.S. administrations.
In any case, markets are jittery as China patiently matches the Trump administration’s moves.
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A treaty may be declared void if it conflicts with the general principles of International Law. Article 53 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties 1969 lays down that a treaty is void if, at the time of its formation, it conflicts with a peremptory norm of general International Law, which is a norm accepted and recognized by the international community of states as a whole, as a norm from which no derogation is permitted and which can be modified only by a subsequent norm of general International Law having the same character. On an objection raised to the claim of invalidity of the treaty by any other party, the parties will have to seek a solution by negotiation, inquiry, mediation, conciliation, arbitration, judicial Settlement, resort to regional agencies or arrangements or other peaceful means of their choice as enshrined in Article 33 of the United Nations Charter.
There are Certain Principles of International Law which all the States must observe. Their non-observance may affect the very foundation of the Legal system to which they belong. They, therefore, cannot be altered by concluding treaties. These rules possess the rule 'of Jus Cogens. If a treaty is concluded which is violative of these principles shall be regarded as invalid.
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Great opportunity to own property on Unity lake. 5.5 acres of lakeside property. Plenty of land to build and have a vacation house to come and enjoy summer recreational sports like fishing, swimming, water skiing and boating or ice fishing in the winter.
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I was privileged to speak at The MOKO Foundation's Leadership Summit at Waitangi in the weekend, and to attend the dinner the previous evening to launch the 2017 Hawea Vercoe Leadership Programme. The young people who are the 2017 recipients of these scholarships, that partner them with amazing mentors, were impressive - as were the citations of their achievements already, and their aspirations! I was even more inspired however, by their probing questions of those of us who spoke at the Summit the next day! They certainly kept us on our toes, as they should.
Congratulations to The MOKO Foundation and everyone involved - the mentees, the mentors, the MOKO team, particularly Dr Lance O'Sullivan and CEO, Deirdre Otene. I was inspired!
Older PostWhere's the $40 million for Culturally Responsive Teachers?
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"Thanks for sharing. Please check if Total Probability is correct , whether your notation is inconsistent or you are missing the P(1st red), P(1st green) etc…"
"Thanks for Sharing great P sheet"
"In the "Before" calculation, the last steps, g'(x)=g'(f(3)).10, why f(3)? We said that x=2, so, could it be the following instead? "g'(x)=g'(f(2)).10""
Here I present the backpropagation algorithm for a continuous target variable and no activation function in hidden layer: although simpler than the one used for the logistic cost function, it's a proficuous field for math lovers.
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The Wildhearts have announced a new album and tour for May.
North East rockers The Wildhearts have announced their first studio album in 10 years, plus a UK tour to accompany it.
Renaissance Men, the band's ninth studio album, will be released on May 3, and an eight-date tour starts the same day.
The album has made by the classic Wildhearts’ line-up of Ginger, CJ, Ritchie and Danny, and it's their first since 2009's Chutzpah.
The tour starts in Manchester at the Academy 2, and concludes with a homecoming show at the Riverside in Newcastle on Sunday, May 12.
Guitarist CJ said: "It’s only been 10 years since our last release and we have a monster album on its way.
"Danny is back in the band and we hit the road in May, playing new tunes and all the old hits.
With a career spanning nearly 30 years The Wildhearts helped change the landscape of British rock through the '90s.
Despite numerous line-up changes, with various members battling drug abuse and depression, they are still standing.
Last year saw them touring to celebrate the 25th anniversary of debut album The Earth vs The Wildhearts.
Now, with new songs under their belt, they are raring to go again.
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MOGA have been making gamepad accessories for Android devices for a while. Today, they have announced on their website an adapted version compatible with iPhone and iPod touch. The company is the first to officially announce availability of an accessory that works with iOS 7’s GameController API (but not the last this week ;).
Logitech, ClamCase and others have hinted that they have competing accessories nearing release, but MOGA is the first company to openly announce available. The accessory will be available tomorrow — priced at $99 — from the Apple retail stores and the Apple Online Store in addition to MOGA’s site.
TouchArcade has published a hands-on review of the accessory. The gamepad doubles as a charging case, which helps to offset the power drain of heavy 3D games. In terms of hardware, the site complains that the device does not justify its price that well; the device is hollow and build quality is generally substandard.
More importantly, as this is an issue that will plague every iOS 7 controller that comes to market, TouchArcade note that the experience of using the controller will vary from game to game.
It looks like it will take time for developers to properly adapt to this new input mechanism for iOS games.
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The terminal has no airbridges; mobile stairways or the aircraft's own airstairs are used for boarding. The airport can handle aircraft up to the size of a Boeing 767. In February 2017, it was announced that the current passenger terminal, which was inaugurated for the 1964 Winter Olympics will be replaced with a new, larger facility that is planned to be constructed from 2019.
Innsbruck Airport is well known for having a difficult approach due to surrounding terrain, prohibiting certain aircraft types from operating at the airport. The approach and descent is a very complicated process—the Alps create vicious winds and currents, which pilots have to deal with throughout the process. It is a Category C airport, an airport with special difficulties requiring pilots to have special training before using it.
Innsbruck Airport served as the base of Tyrolean Airways and Welcome Air until their demise, although the newly established independent technical division Tyrolean Airways Luftfahrzeuge Technik GmbH remains here. Innsbruck also used to accommodate the head offices of Air Alps.
The airport is connected to the city and to Innsbruck main station by city bus F. The bus runs every 15 minutes and takes 18 minutes to reach the city.
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An insight into the author's account of the current and past equipment used to capture the cosmos.
Access to Milky Way - filled skies!
In order to "escape" the light-polluted cityscapes, there are regular pursuits to dark skies for serious stargazing and astrophotography sessions. Join us and you will never look back again!
There are periodic public outreach sessions for all walks of life.
© Celestial Portraits. All rights reserved.
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This Little Light is a coming together of my love for Christmas and my work as a conflict and communication skills trainer. What brightens your light? What weakens it? Can you be more intentional with it?
...refresh your spirit and encourage joy.
...reinforce the reason for the season.
...remind you that your presence is the greatest gift.
...renew your little light and encourage it.
The Spirit of Christmas is present throughout the year.
Judy doesn't just walk her talk, she sings it! Judy Is a Light - curl up by the fire and enjoy!
Judy Ringer has produced an inspiring CD of songs and stories that compels us all to consider the positive. Her voice is clarion, and her musicianship is extraordinary. Judy’s heart-felt musical expressions will bring joy and peace to your holiday celebrations, and its listening will become a holiday tradition.
"There is a sweet friendship in these songs and stories, which are as great a blessing as the Christmas season they welcome. The album calls forth a much needed peace into the world."
Judy - Your Christmas CD arrived and I treated myself to it this morning over a warm cup of tea. It was so full of love that it made my tea taste even sweeter! Thanks for starting my day off with beauty.
Judy Ringer has crafted a gentle, wise, and warm collection of personal stories, quotes, and carols that shines like a steady candle in the rush of the holiday season. Her kind invitations to presence and meaning are just the messages we most need to hear at this time of year. And her warm voice brings new life to familiar carols, perfectly accompanied by Woody Allen on acoustic guitar. Thank you, Judy for this beautiful oasis!
Judy Ringer's voice creatively balances wisdom, honest sincerity and musical talent in her new holiday CD, "This LIttle Light." She will bring you joy and light this holiday season.
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Here’s a look at upcoming events happening in the Seattle area this February!
Experience the new Highway 99 tunnel as WSDOT and the City of Seattle host a grand opening celebration. Saturday’s events include an 8K fun run, tunnel and viaduct tours, family-friendly activities, and ribbon cutting ceremony.
Michelle Obama’s live U.S. book tour in support of her memoir, BECOMING, makes a stop at the Tacoma Dome on February 8. The event will feature a conversation between Mrs. Obama and a to-be-announced moderator.
Celebrate the Year of the Boar/Pig at Seattle’s Chinatown-International District on Saturday, February 9. The Lunar New Celebration includes traditional dragon and lion dances, Japanese Taiko Drumming, martial arts, and other performances—in addition to a number of family friendly activities throughout the day.
The four-day festival of food and wine kicks off on Thursday, February 21 at Sodo Park with Comfort—featuring Seattle’s best feel-good foods and brews. Friday’s feature is Pop! Bubbles & Seafood highlights the PNW’s seafood at The Sanctuary. The Grand Tasting on Saturday will be held at the Bell Harbor International Conference Center. To wrap up the weekend, Sunday Supper will take place at Block 41.
Seattle’s largest consumer home show features everything for the home—indoors and out. The show runs from February 23 through March 3 at the CenturyLink Field Event Center.
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