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ST. LOUIS -- His Cardinals tenure interrupted by injury from its start, Luke Gregerson now faces another recovery. The reliever is expected to miss four to six weeks after undergoing arthroscopic surgery Monday to repair a torn meniscus in his right knee.
Gregerson said his knee "flared up" last month, shortly after he was placed on the disabled list with shoulder and elbow soreness. The pain worsened in the three weeks that followed, prompting an MRI that revealed a meniscus "lodged in the joint," the reliever said. Gregerson also missed time in Spring Training with oblique tightness, then began the season on the DL with a left hamstring strain.
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In between, the 34-year-old pitched to an 8.64 ERA across 8 1/3 innings in 12 appearances. Signed this offseason to potentially fill the Cardinals' closer role, Gregerson had a 3.66 ERA and 47 saves over his previous three seasons with the Astros. He'd averaged 69 appearances per season over his nine-year career before signing with St. Louis.
"I take a lot of pride in staying healthy and contributing, being a role model for the young guys," Gregerson said. "This is frustrating and upsetting. You feel like you're letting people down sometimes."
Gregerson's injuries have been just part of a variety of maladies to hit the Cardinals' relief corps over the season's first two-plus months, a unit president of baseball operations John Mozeliak described this week as "in an exhaustive state."
The club has already used 23 pitchers this season and placed 10 on the disabled list -- including eight relievers. Gregerson, Greg Holland, Tyler Lyons, Dominic Leone and Matt Bowman are all currently inactive, forcing manager Mike Matheny to rejigger his bridge to the ninth inning on a near-daily basis. Collectively, Cardinals relievers rank 12th in the National League with a 4.49 ERA.
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You’ve been booed halloween activity is one of our most loved Halloween traditions when our kids were younger. Now that they are older George and I have started our own adult booing tradition, “You’ve Been Boozed.” If you are lucky enough to have younger children be sure to use these BOO printables and have some family fun.
Find a container that you can turn into a ghost. I found this white bucket in the Halloween section at our local dollar store. It says trick or treat on one side and on the other side I cut out black construction paper circles to make a ghost face.
Download the files. Print one copy of the poem and the ghost. Cut out the poem and attach to the side of the ghost bucket. Place a ghost in the bucket for the recipient to hang in their window.
This friendly ghost has come to say BOO!
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Then fill with new treats as soon as you’re able.
Just be sure your shoes are not squeaky.
Place the ghost at your friend’s front door please.
Ring the doorbell, run quickly, before anyone sees.
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May good Halloween wishes go on and on.
Wait until it is dark and sneak up to your friends house and leave the goodies.
Have fun! Looking for more fun ways to celebrate check out these fun Halloween Activities.
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White space technology could be rolled out across the UK as early as next year, with regulator Ofcom revealing there are seven trials taking place involving the likes of Google and Microsoft.
Trials include the likes of next generation Wi-Fi, internet on ships and boats and using white spaces to stream live video onto YouTube. Ofcom said more trials will be launched in the coming months.
One example of the trials under way is the Oxford Flood Network, a citizen-built sensor network that provides flood warnings. The network is working with Love Hz and Nominet. White space is used to send information about water levels in real time using Adaptrum devices.
Another trial explores how triple-band Wi-Fi and other technology can be used to boost indoor and outdoor locations in cities. Ofcom said the trial, held by the University of Strathcylde's Centre for White Space Communications along with Microsoft, 6Harmonics, MediaTek, Spectrum Bridge and Sky, could help explore smart city functionality.
White space technology is also being used to connected areas with no wireless broadband. A trial between CloudNet IT Solutions, Fairspectrum and Carlson Wireless Technologies is connecting ferries travelling between the Orkney Islands and Pentland Firth.
CloudNet is hoping to extend the technology to other transport companies. In a seperate trial, Microsoft, Neul, recently bought by Huawei, and 6Harmonics are testing how white spaces could connect boats at sea in a trial with Click 4 Internet.
The latest trial to go live is using white spaces to stream live video of London Zoo's meerkats to YouTube. Ofcom is working with Google and its spectrum database with equipment from MediaTek and 6Harmonics.
Ofcom said white spaces could be eventually used to give internet access to rural communities, provide "Wi-Fi like" services, stream video wirelessly or connect machine to machine networks.
The regulator said white space technology can travel further distances and penetrate walls more easily then conventional Wi-Fi or Bluetooth tech. As well as new uses, the trials are identifying what spectrum can be used and how interference can be minimised or overcome.
Ofcom said once the trials and policy development have been completed, the technology could be rolled out in earnest.
Philip Marnick, Group Director, Spectrum Policy Group said: “In a world where consumers’ demand for data services is experiencing huge growth, it is essential we find the most efficient ways to share the airwaves. White space technology could be one way of meeting this demand.
Ofcom first announced details of the trials a year ago, claiming white spaces could solve growing strain on data networks.
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Major Internet service providers in the United States have long taken a beating in customer satisfaction surveys, but the latest survey from the American Customer Satisfaction Index has the grimmest news yet for American ISPs: They now have the lowest customer satisfaction ranking of any industry in America, worse than even airlines, health insurance companies and gas stations. The survey shows that American consumers are particularly unhappy with ISPs’ call center service, with the variety of Internet plans they offer and with their quality of online video streaming.
Comcast lay at the very bottom of the American ISP customer satisfaction heap, with an overall score of just 62 out of 100. It was followed closely by Time Warner Cable, which had an overall score of 63, and CenturyLink, which had an overall score of 64. In fact, the only major American ISP to score above a 70 on the ACSI this year was Verizon FiOS, which posted a score of 71.
How bad are these numbers? Consider that other than ISPs, only three other industries posted average scores of under 70: Airlines, subscription television service and Internet social media companies. The fact that only one major ISP could top even this minimal threshold speaks to deep dissatisfaction with the state of America’s home broadband market.
The ACSI is published quarterly by the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business and is considered one of the most comprehensive customer satisfaction surveys in the United States.
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Swimming and diving competitions are held throughout the state in family and fan friendly swim centers offering plenty of seating and amenities athletes will love. A few outstanding centers are highlighted below.
This brand new, state-of-the-art swim center in Stafford is the premier choice for hosting swimming events. At 76,000 square feet, there is plenty of space for events large and small. Inside the facility is a 50-meter competition pool, over 800 spectator seats, a 25-yard recreation pool, heated therapy pool, group exercise room, fitness room, hard court gym and café grille to serve guests. Read more.
The Virginia Tech Hokies’ men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams not only practice at the CAC, but now call it home. The 50-meter Olympic-style pool supports 2-6 foot bulkheads, a Colorado scoreboard with video surrounded by diving boards and a 10-meter platform. The aquatic center not only serves as host to the Hokies’ home meets, but has taken the lead in Virginia for hosting age group championships. Balcony seating for 1,000 spectators creates a welcoming environment for all visitors. In addition to the competitive pool the CAC provides leisure recreation for their citizens by including a pool with water slides, spray fountains, beach entry and a therapy pool. Read more.
This state-of-the-art, 54,000 square-foot facility features the 50-meter competition pool used in the 2008 U.S. Olympic Trials where 21 American records and 9 World records were set. The 50-meter, 8-lane Myrtha competition pool has moveable bulkheads that convert to 22-short course lanes. In addition to the competition pool, the facility is home to a 25-yard, 6-lane multipurpose pool that allows for warm-up/cool-down to run concurrently with meets taking place in the competition pool. There is grandstand seating in the competition pool area for 700 spectators with completely unobstructed viewing of the full facility making this a very spectator-friendly pool. Read more.
This state of the art aquatics center is the ideal location for a swim meet given its longer than traditional 25 yard pools and a movable bulkhead that provides the flexibility for numerous configurations for a swim meet which includes 8 lanes at 25 yards for competition and 15 lanes at 25 yards for practice/public swim. Three of the courses are certified by USA Swimming. Read more.
The Jim McKay Natatorium, located inside the Aquatic and Fitness Center of George Mason University, has been the host facility for the past five CAA Swimming and Diving Championships and is expected to become the annual home of that event. The 66,000 square-foot, two-pool complex features a 50-meter Olympic-sized pool and a 25-yard recreational pool. The Aquatic and Fitness Center also includes a fitness gallery, four classrooms, whirlpool and sauna. Read more.
Located in Virginia Beach, this facility is an 83,931 square foot multi-faceted center. Facilities include a 50 meter by 25 meter competitive pool, gymnasium, multi-purpose rooms, dance and aerobic studio, two racquetball courts, bowling lanes, weight room, craft workshop and a demonstration kitchen. Read more.
The Brittingham-Midtown Community Center is a multi-purpose center with 80,415 sq. ft. of recreation space, including a 500-seat natatorium with a 50-meter indoor pool, 10 competitive scored and timed lanes, a 3-meter diving board, two 1-meter diving boards and a 14-foot diving well. The center features therapeutic areas and mature adult recreation areas, seven multi-purpose rooms, a 100-person meeting room, two full-scale demonstration kitchens, and a 14,000 sq. ft. covered outdoor area for special events. Read more.
The state-of-the-art 75,000-square-foot Liberty Natatorium will elevate Liberty University’s NCAA Division I women’s swimming & diving team and men’s club swimming and water polo programs. The facility will feature a nine-lane, 50-meter pool with a movable bulkhead. A separate 17-foot-deep diving well will include 1- and 3-meter springboards and a three-column tower, featuring 1, 3, 5, 7.5 and 10-meter platforms. The 25-yard wide pool can be divided into 20 lanes for short-course training, with an additional eight lanes in the diving well, allowing multiple teams to practice concurrently. The natatorium, currently under construction, is expected to open November 2017. Read more.
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Did you know that the leading cause of premature death in the United States is no other than cigarettes? A preventable death but it claims almost half a million lives each year. To the extent that the government required larger and more prominent warnings on cigarette packaging and advertisements as part of the strategy to help consumers quit smoking and prevent young people from starting. But despite of this it seems like tobacco users are not conscious about it.
The effects of cigarette smoking to human health are really serious and in fact deadly. There are approximately 4000 chemicals that are present in the chemical composition of cigarette and hundreds of which are toxic.
Smoking effects on the human body are destructive and widespread. The ingredients in cigarette affect everything from the internal functioning of the organs and target the efficiency of the body’s immune system. Smoking harms nearly every organ of the body. Smoking causes many diseases and reduces the health of smokers in general.
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Due to these facts, it is now known that cigarette smoking is deadly. An estimated 443, 000 deaths, or nearly one of every five years, each year has been noted in United States alone. It is more than the deaths caused by human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), illegal drug use, alcohol use, motor vehicle injuries, suicides, and murders combined. Smoking causes an estimated 90% of all lung cancer deaths in men and 80% of all lung cancer deaths in women. An estimated 90% of all deaths from chronic obstructive lung disease are caused by smoking.
This is very bothering. That is just some of the diseases that one can get from cigarette smoking. Smoking can also increased heart heath risks, cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease and cancer not to mention infertility, preterm delivery, stillbirth, low birth weight, and sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).
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I'm a local so I'm very lucky to be at Disney quite often. I don't have to carry or spend any money on water bottles. More money for SOUVENIRS!!!
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One of these coupons is only available at Target and the bonus is only available if you purchase at Target so head there. To make things even better, Evol Burritos are already on sale for $2 each!
As soon as you get home redeem both Ibotta offers for $2 off and you’ll automatically get the $1 Ibotta Bonus. In the end you make $2 profit and have two free products! The Evol Burritos sale runs through 11/2. While you’re out, see if you can use any more of these new Ibotta offers!
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This entry was posted in Pro-Israel Bias in NY Times and tagged Gaza, Intifada, Israel, New York Times, Palestine, West Bank by TimesWarp.org. Bookmark the permalink.
As always, NY Times presents a very convoluted, distorted view of Palestinians… I hope others will come up with a better media that speaks truth these days.
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Whenever we’re in London we usually stay in Notting Hill, but this time we decided to explore another area and we booked an AirBnB near Sloane Square, in Chelsea. Turns out it’s a really cool area as well, with lots of cute cafes (Good Life Eatery is an absolute dream) and also, it’s super close to pretty much everything else in Central London.
Outfit wise, as you can see I tried my best to make a warm outfit summery – as you guys probably know London is not best known for its hot summery weather, and indeed it was quite cold when we visited! I did however wear my See by Chloe espadrilles and my favorite hat to make the whole thing a bit more summery.
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Today was probably the laziest of all days, but I'm in no way complaining, as my last vacation was almost two years ago. I did get to meet Todd ("Flashwing" on the RX8Club website) from the Black Halo team however, as he stopped by for dinner and to catch some of the Hot Version movies I subjected Ray to. Nothing like some good Japanese racing movies and a warm dinner.
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Besides commercial banks, the financial system of Pakistan consists of a number of specialised financial institutions. The Council has already submitted its recommendations in respect of elimination of interest from the operations of National Investment (Unit) Trust, Investment Corporation of Pakistan and House Building Finance Corporation. The Council’s recommendations relating to other specialised financial institutions are contained in this Section.
The Pakistan Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation (PICIC) was established in October, 1957 to provide finance to the private industrial sector in the form of long- and medium-term loans in local or foreign currencies, equity participation, purchase of debentures or underwriting of public issue of shares and debentures. It guarantees and counter-guarantees loans and obligations, arranges participation of local and external finance from private and institutional investors, helps facilitate creation, issue or conversion of capital in any form and acts as a trustee in this regard.
PICIC is a public limited company, with a paid-up capital of Rs. 79.68 million. Of this, 65 per cent is currently held by private investors and financial institutions in Pakistan and 35 per cent by foreign investors. Foreign shareholders consist mostly of financial institutions belonging to various industrialised countries. The International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, also holds 3.5 per cent of the total paid-up capital.
On the assets side, PICIC’s operations involving interest consist of: (a) debentures purchased; (b) loans in foreign currency as well as in local currency; and (c) deposits held with banks. On the liabilities side, interest is involved in: (a) debentures issued; (b) long-term Rupee borrowings; (c) line of credit in foreign currency; (d) borrowings from banks; and (e) borrowings from the State Bank of Pakistan.
The Council’s recommendations for elimination of interest from PICIC’s operations and its substitution by feasible arrangements consistent with the Shari'ah are given below. A noteworthy feature of PICIC which is distinct compared to other specialised financial insti- tutions is that a portion of its share capital is also held by foreign investors. It is, therefore, necessary that the foreign shareholders be taken in confidence and requested to give their assent to the new arrangements. In case they are not agreeable, they may be given the- option to disinvest their shares.
PICIC purchases and holds debentures of joint stock companies. After the cut-off date for the elimination of interest from the operations of PICIC, no new interest-bearing debentures may be purchased. Instead^, it may purchase the Participation Term Certificates (PTCs) which have been proposed as a substitute for debentures in this Report. The existing holdings of debentures may also be converted into PTCs or equity participation with mutual consent of the parties concerned. In cases where the parties are not agreeable to such a conversion, the debentures may continue on interest-bearing basis till maturity.
The PICIC provides loans both in local currency and foreign currencies for periods of 10 to 15 years for acquisition of fixed assets. No loans are provided for meeting working capital requirements. The interest rate margins over its own borrowing rates in respect of both foreign currency and local currency lines of credit are fixed by the Government. After the cut-off date for the elimination of interest, PICIC may switch-over completely to interest-free forms of financing discussed in Section I. It may make use of the methods of PLS, investment auctioning, leasing, hire-purchase or Bai Muajjal as considered advisable. Foreign currency loans obtained by PICIC on the basis of interest would be guaranteed by the Government of Pakistan both in respect of principal and interest liability and it is hoped that on account of this guarantee foreign lenders would not insist that relending transactions pertaining to foreign loans should continue to be on the basis of interest.
A large proportion of PICIC’s balances with banks consists of time deposits, while a small proportion is maintained in current accounts. After the elimination of interest from the deposits side of commercial banking, PICIC may hold its time deposits with banks on PLS basis.
Under its underwriting arrangements, PICIC provides bridge finance for periods between the establishment of companies and floatation of their shares for public subscription. Bridge financing, which carries interest, may be replaced by the system of “firm commitment” underwriting which is compatible with Shari‘ah.
P1CIC issues debentures to raise local currency resources for its Rupee loans. After the elimination of interest, PICIC may issue the proposed PTCs. The debentures already issued by PICIC may also be replaced by PTCs, to the extent possible, with the consent of the holders of such debentures, and the rest may be allowed to run their course.
PICIC has been securing long-term Rupee loans at concessional rates of interest from the Government of Pakistan. These loans are subordinated to the share capital of PICIC so as to broaden its equity base for borrowing purposes. After the elimination of interest, these loans may be converted into Government investment on PLS basis or replaced by PTCs to be issued by PICIC to the Government. In future, the Government may provide assistance to PICIC either under PLS arrangements or through purchase of its PTCs.
PICIC received a long-term loan of Rs. 30 million from the U.S. Government in 1967 through the Agency for International Development. The loan is repayable in twenty-one equal half-yearly instalments commencing from December, 1976. It carries interest at the rate of 5 x/i per cent of which 3A per cent is payable to the USAID and 4% per cent to the Government of Pakistan. The outstanding amount as on December 31, 1978 was Rs. 22.9 million. The Government of Pakistan may forego the interest payment due to it from PICIC on this loan and instead share in PICIC’s profit/loss related to the daily product of the amount of the loan. In the case of interest payment to USAID, the USAID may be approached to make the loan interest- free. If they do not agree, the existing arrangement may continue till the liability is fully discharged.
PICIC’s foreign currency borrowings consist of loans from the World Bank, Asian Development Bank and other agencies. Since it does not appear possible at present to obtain such assistance on a basis other than interest, the Corporation may continue to obtain it on the basis of interest until viable alternative conforming to Shari‘ah is available.
PICIC’s borrowings from State Bank consist of cash credit, on which interest is payable at the bank rate, and loans under the State Bank’s refinance scheme designed to promote local sale of Pakistani machinery on which interest is payable at 2 per cent below the rate charged to sub-borrowers by the Corporation. After the introduction of interest-free system, State Bank’s assistance to PICIC may be provided on PLS basis. The profit-sharing ratio in respect of finance provided by the State Bank to PICIC under its refinance scheme for locally manufactured machinery may be kept suitably lower.
PiCIC’s other operations involving commission, project examination fee, fee for undertaking feasibility studies and charges for technical and managerial advice may continue on the existing basis.
The Industrial Development Bank of Pakistan was established in August, 1961 to meet the long- and medium-term credit needs, in foreign as well as local currency, in the private industrial sector, particularly for the development of small- and medium-sized new industrial units. The Bank provides medium- and long-term loans for the acquisition of fixed assets and short-term loans for meeting the working capital requirements. It also provides guarantees for loans raised by industrial concerns from other sources and invests in equity and debentures of industrial companies.
The Bank has a paid-up capital of Rs. 50 million held entirely by the Federal Government. Apart from share capital and reserves, the Bank’s resources consist of deposits held by the public with it, borrowings from State Bank of Pakistan, loans from the Federal Government and foreign credits from institutions like Asian Development Bank, the World Bank, etc. The nature of IDBP’s functions and operations is similar to that of PICIC. For elimination of interest from its operations, therefore, the changes required would also be similar to those suggested in the case of PICIC. It, however, differs from PICIC in so far as it also provides finance for working capital and accepts deposits from the public. In these respects, therefore, the recommendations made by the Council in regard to commercial banks would also apply to IDBP. To offer competitive return to depositors, IDBP should be free to determine its own profit-sharing ratios.
The National Development Finance Corporation was established in 1973 to provide financial and technical assistance for the establishment of new enterprises and for balancing, modernisation and expansion of existing enterprises in the public sector. The functions and activities of the Corporation include: (a) provision of medium- and long-term loans in foreign and local currencies; (b) provision of loans for working capital requirements; (c) equity participation; (d) purchase of debentures; (e) underwriting; (f) issue of guarantee for local and foreign currency loans; (g) participation in loan syndication both in local and foreign currencies; (h) financing sale of locally fabricated machinery; and (i) mobilisation of savings through various deposit schemes.
The share capital of the Corporation is Rs. 120 million which is held entirely by the Government of Pakistan. Apart from the share capital and reserves, the resources of the Corporation consist of deposits of fixed maturities held with it, assistance from State Bank of Pakistan and foreign credits.
Cash credit from the State Bank, which is currently available at the bank rate, may be provided on PLS basis. The concessionary refinance under the State Bank’s scheme for locally manufactured machinery may also be on PLS basis but at a suitably lower ratio than that applicable to cash credit.
The deposits accepted for medium- and long-term may continue to be subject to existing terms and conditions during the transitional period of, say, two years, as suggested in the case of commercial banks. Thereafter, fresh deposits may be accepted only on PLS basis and the Corporation may determine its own profit-sharing ratios. Deposits outstanding at the cut-off date may continue on interest basis but depositors may be given option for conversion of these deposits into PLS deposits.
After the elimination of interest from the deposits side of commercial banks, NDFC’s fixed deposits with commercial banks would also be on PLS basis.
All foreign currency borrowings by NDFC would continue to be subject to the terms and conditions agreed with the foreign suppliers of credit till such time as alternative arrangements permissible under the Shari‘ah are evolved. This means that interest would continue to be paid on foreign borrowings. However, in providing finance with the help of foreign currency loans, the Corporation may use PLS or other alternative methods, as suggested in the case of PICIC and IDBP.
Local currency loans provided by the Corporation include long- anu medium-term loans, loans for meeting working capital requirements and suppliers’ credit. In addition, it participates in syndicate loans in conjunction with other financial institutions. Under the new system, term loans would be substituted by PLS and other methods as suggested above, while finance for working capital including opening of L/Cs may be provided under PLS arrangements or Bai Muajjal.
The Agricultural Development Bank of Pakistan was established in 1961 by merging the Agricultural Development Finance Corporation (ADFC) and the Agricultural Bank of Pakistan (ABP). The Bank provides credit to individuals as well as corporate bodies engaged in agriculture and for development of agriculture which, according to the Bank’s Charter, includes raising of crops, horticulture, fisheries, forestry, animal husbandry, poultry farming, dairy farming, bee-keeping and sericulture. Loans may also be granted for the cottage industries in rural areas. The Bank advances loans for short, medium and long terms. The short-term loans are given for financing the cost of seasonal inputs and thus cover items like seeds, fertilizers, labour charges, hire of bullock carts and small agricultural implements etc. Medium-term loans are given for periods exceeding 18 months but not exceeding five years. These are usually granted for purchase of agricultural implements, means of transport and light machinery, cattle and sheep breeding, dairy farming, poultry farming and reclamation of land. Long-term loans are given for periods exceeding five years and are meant for development purposes, like construction of ware-houses and cold storages, purchase of tractors and other heavy machinery, agro- industries, installation of tubewells and plantation of orchards etc.
The Bank’s financial resources consist of its capital and reserves, different types of deposits and borrowings from domestic as well as foreign sources. ADBP’s loaning operations pertain largely to loans in local currency and most of these are for long term. In 1978-79, for instance, 80 per cent of the loans disbursed were for long term, 11 per cent for short term and 9 per cent for medium term. The bulk of ADBP’s loans (74.4% of the total) was for financing purchase of tractors. The shares of other categories were: seasonal inputs, such as seeds, fertilizer etc., (10.5%); draught animals (4.4%); tubewells (2.6%); poultry, dairy and marine fisheries (0.5% each); and miscellaneous (7.6%).
During 1978-79, 98.7 per cent of ADBP’s total income and 68 per cent of its total expenditure was accounted for by interest receipts and payments. ADBP’s interest payments are on account of deposits accepted by it, borrowings from State Bank of Pakistan and loans from international institutions. After the elimination of interest, deposits accepted by the Bank should be subject to the same arrangements as those suggested for commercial banks and the Bank should be free to determine its own profit-sharing ratios. Loans received from the State Bank of Pakistan may be on PLS basis or even free of any charge if considered necessary. Borrowing from international agencies may continue to be interest-bearing until alternative arrangements compatible with Shari‘ah become feasible. For its financing operations, the ADBP may adopt the same methods as suggested in the case of agricultural financing by commercial banks.
The Small Business Finance Corporation, previously known as the People’s Finance Corporation (PFC), was established in 1972 to provide financial assistance to persons of small means. The Corporation provides finance on interest basis to all types of small business owned or sponsored by individuals or firms. These include shopkeepers and traders; owners of small scale and cottage industries; artisans; taxi/ rickshaw/bus/truck owners; owners of power-driven fishing boats; professionals, such as physicians, surgeons, engineers, architects, chartered accountants, advocates etc., interested in setting up their business; small exporters and importers; and new entrants in business. The Corporation is authorised by law to provide loans up to a maximum limit of Rs. 50,000 to individuals and firms and up to Rs. 150,000 to cottage and small scale industries. To be eligible for borrowing from the Corporation, the net assets of such individuals and firms should not exceed Rs. 50,000. Cottage and small scale industries eligible for borrowing from the Corporation are defined as those the value of fixed assets of which, excluding the cost of land but including the amount of any loan advanced by the Corporation, does not exceed Rs. 300,000. The Corporation also provides loans for purchase of cycles and motor cycles.
The paid-up capital of the Corporation is Rs. 70 million, which is held as follows: Federal Government: Rs. 30 million; State Bank of Pakistan: Rs. 9.60 million; and nationalised commercial banks: Rs. 30.40 million.
Although the bulk of financing by SBFC is for productive purposes, financing of a few consumer durables such as motor cycles and cycles may technically be categorised as consumption loans even though loans for purchase of cycles or motor cycles help in increasing production by increasing mobility and efficiency of workers.
It is suggested that the Corporation may provide finance for purchase of trucks, wagons, taxis etc. on the basis of hire-purchase of Bai Muajjal while cycle advances may be provided free of cost. Financing of small industries, small business and for professions may be on the basis of “normal rate of return”.
Other transactions of the Corporation involving interest include its deposits with banks and borrowings from the Government and commercial banks. After the elimination of interest, the Corporation’s deposits maintained with banks would be treated in the same manner as other private sector deposits. Borrowings by the Corporation from the Government may be either free of cost or on PLS basis while those from commercial banks should be on PLS basis.
The Equity Participation Fund was created in 1970 by a special legislation to foster and accelerate the growth of small- and medium-sized industrial enterprises in the private sector in the less developed areas of the country. The Fund, which is administered by the Industrial Development Bank of Pakistan, is empowered to provide equity support in the form of direct pruchase of shares and underwriting of public issues of shares and offers bridge finance facilities for projects set up in less developed areas. The resources of the Fund consist of paid-up capital of Rs. 50 million of which Rs. 20 million is held by the Federal Government and Rs. 10 million each by the State Bank of Pakistan, Provincial Governments and institutional investors.
Except for bridge finance, interest is not involved on the assets side of the Fund. The Council, therefore, recommends that after the cut-off date, the Fund may adopt the system of “firm commitment” underwriting, as suggested in the case of commercial banks so as to avoid the bridge financing on interest-bearing basis. In case any interest element is involved on its liabilities side, it may be eliminated on similar lines as those suggested in respect of IDBP. The deposits held by the Fund with banks may continue to be interest-bearing until interest is eliminated from the deposits side of commercial banks, after which such deposits would be on PLS basis.
The co-operative credit structure in the country consists ol three tiers. At the apex is the Federal Bank for Co-operatives which provides credit to the Provincial Co-operative Banks which form the middle tier of the system. The third tier consists of the primary cooperative credit societies.
The Federal Bank for Co-operatives was established in December, 1976 to improve the flow of credit to agriculture through the co-operatives and to assist the Federal and Provincial Governments in the development and revitalisation of the co-operative movement. It has a paid-up capital of Rs. 200 million of which the State Bank of Pakistan has subscribed Rs. 150 million, while the Federal Government and the four provincial governments together have subscribed Rs. 20 million and Rs. 30 million respectively. The Bank is the principal financial institution for meeting the credit needs of Provincial Cooperative Banks and multi-unit co-operative societies. It is authorised to: (i) accept money on deposit; (ii) borrow funds from the Federal Government, specified financial institutions and such other financial institutions in or out-side Pakistan as are approved by the Government; (iii) raise funds through issue and sale of bonds and debentures; (iv) make secured loans and advances to Provincial Co-operative Banks and multi-unit co-operative societies; and (v) invest its funds in Government securities and other approved securities and in the share capital of a Provincial Co-operative Bank and a multi-unit co-operative society up to specified limits.
There is one Provincial Co-operative Bank in each of the provinces with branches in different areas. It is the main agency for providing credit to primary co-operative credit societies. Agricultural co-operative credit societies represent the bulk of all types of co-operative societies. In 1977-78 the total number of agricultural cooperative credit societies in the country was 16,609 with a membership of 0.81 million.
The main source of funds for the co-operative credit institutions is the State Bank of Pakistan which provides loans to the Federal Bank for Co-operatives at a rate of interest which is 3 per cent below the bank rate. The Federal Bank for Co-operatives, in turn, provides loans to Provincial Co-operative Banks at 2 per cent below the bank rate while the latter provide loans to primary co-operative credit societies at 1 per cent below the bank rate. The ultimate borrowers receive loans from the primary co-operative credit societies at rates of interest which are 2—3 per cent above the bank rate.
The Council recommends that in general the financing operations of the co-operatives may be re-organised on the same lines as proposed in regard to the agricultural financing operations of the commercial banks viz., wherever PLS on actual basis is feasible, this method may be adopted while in other cases, normal rate of return, hire-purchase of Bai Muajjal may be made use of. In the case of farmers cultivating holdings up to subsistence level, the co-operatives may also provide interest-free loans for input financing. To the extent of these loans they may receive interest-free financial assistance from the provincial co-operative banks and this chain of interest-free loaning should extend back to State-.Bank’s financial assistance to the Federal Bank for Co-operatives. However, in the case of financing carrying return under the various methods suggested, the provision of finance at all the consecutive stages may be on PLS basis with profit-sharing ratios rising at each lower tier. For instance, the State Bank may provide funds to the Federal Bank for Co-operatives with a profit-sharing ratio of 10:90, F.B.C. may provide to Provincial Co-operative Banks with a profit-sharing ratio of 20:80, while the Provincial Co-operative Banks may provide their assistance to co-operative credit societies with a profit-sharing ratio of 30:70.
Deposits of the co-operative banks and co-operative credit societies may be governed by the same stipulations as suggested in the casQ of deposits held by commercial banks.
The Council considers it necessary to stress that in view of the prevalent situation in the co-operative sector there is a great danger of misuse of the new system of financing in the form of undue pre-emption of funds by influential persons, concealment of profit, showing of fictitious losses and delays and defaults in repayments. It would, therefore, be necessary to bring about an improvement in the quality of management of the societies, tighten their supervision by the Provincial Co-operative Banks, expand the system of supervised financing and provide for deterrent penalties and punishments against malpractices of the kinds mentioned above.
Insurance business consists of Life Insurance and General Insurance. While the former pertains to life insurance of individuals, including group-term insurance, the latter covers fire, marine and some other types of insurance. Essentially, insurance is a means for covering risks collectively through creation of a common fund with the help of the premium paid by each member. The funds built up by insurance companies are presently invested mainly in interest-bearing securities and the benefit of these earn. This is the classical “Without Profits” business.
A good deal of insurance business is written on the assumption of a certain expected rate of return from premia received. The insurance company takes the profit if the rate of return on investment exceeds the premium assumption and assumes the loss if the rate falls below the premium assumption. This is the classical “Without Profits” business.
For many classes of business, the only practical way is to proceed on a “without-profits” basis. For example, temporary or “Term” insurances, where the policy covers a relatively short period, do not develop any substantial reserves, and it would be extremely expensive administratively to share out the meagre investment returns to the customers. Here the only practical way is either to assume no investment return and the insurance company keeps as a profit whatever little is earned or to assume some rate of investment return and make a corresponding reduction in the premium.
There is another category of business where substantial reserves are developed and where it is perfectly feasible to share out the investment income as and when earned to the policy-holders in one way or the other. This is the so-called “With Profits” business where the dividends or bonuses to policy-holders fluctuate upward or downward depending on the performance of the fund. However, even in “With- Profits” business it is not customary to assume a zero rate of return on investment. Instead usually a low rate of return is assumed and a specific bonus loading added to the premium. This is the procedure generally followed by insurance companies in Pakistan.
Insurance, both life and general, should be organised on cooperative lines. Every person desiring to take insurance should pay to the company its specified premium. The income from these premia should be invested in profitable business and a portion of the annual profit so earned should be reserved for the distribution among the members. Distribution of profits may either be apportioned annually or adjusted toward payment of premium during the next year or allowed to accumulate and paid in lump sum at the time of maturity of the policy. Undistributed profits may be applied to building a reserve fund which may be utilised for payment of claims.
At the time of maturity of the life insurance policy the insured will be entitled to receive the principal along with the profit to his credit if any. However, if a person stops paying instalment before the maturity he will not be deprived of the principal amount paid by him although a condition may be imposed that payment will be made on a specified future date. For example, if a person had agreed to pay instalments for 15 years but stopped paying after one year, a condition can be imposed that'he cannot withdraw the amount paid by him, say, before five years. However, if he has paid instalments for a fairly long period he may be paid the principal as also some part of the profit that may be due to him.
This procedure can be adopted in all those situations in which insurance is spread over a long period, such as life insurance, or those instances where one and the same insured keeps on renewing the contract as for example the third party insurance of vehicles or insurance of buildings, machines and ships. Some contracts of insurance are of an extremely short duration, related to a temporary phenomenon such as air travel or goods on high seas etc. For these types of insurance the Government may establish a separate trust whose function should be to invest the premia payment made by policy-holders and create a reserve fund. The money so invested and profit accruing therefrom would be the property of the trust. These should be used to meet the obligations on account of claims. Any other policy holder should neither be paid the principal nor profit from this fund, but the instalments paid should be treated as a subscription in favour of the trust.
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So you’ve embarked on this amazing journey, you’re all ready to live the life of your dreams, but for some reason you’re not happy! What the hell gives? I mean we go through this whole process to better our lives and were still feeling the same as we did BEFORE surgery!
Well I’m here to tell you depression and anxiety are VERY real side effects of WLS! I NEVER had depression or anxiety until a year post op. One day I woke up and COULD NOT stop crying. I thought I was going crazy! I mean i didn’t feel sad. I wasn’t angry. I wasn’t hurt. But here I was sobbing like someone had run over my puppy. I went straight to my doctor, sobbing uncontrollably the entire time. Turns out I had depression. The big bad D word that NO ONE wants to talk about.
Here some things you need to know!
You’re not alone. Millions of people suffer varying degrees of depression daily.
Its treatable with medication, and therapy.
It a CHEMICAL issue! as we lose weight the estrogen that is stored in our fat cells is released and floods our system. That in turn throws our brain chemicals off.
It’s OK to feel the way you do. Some times all you can do to get through the day is breathe! That is perfectly acceptable.
It’s OK to talk about it! We have got to stop pretending it doesn’t exist. Pretending a medical condition doesn’t exist makes it worse, NEVER better.
There is light at the end of the tunnel. You may not see it but it’s there. I PROMISE.
Listen to your body. It will tell you when you’re “off”. Listen to your emotions, they will tell you when you need help. Listen to your friends and family, they may come to you if they noticed your moods changing rapidly. SPEAK to your doctor if you even POSSIBLY think you maybe suffering from depression. YOU DON’T HAVE TO SUFFER! Be proactive in your mental health…… That’s the only way you’re going to find your happy in this journey.
So I am 1 year post op and have been having menopause hot flashes again! Because I had a complete hysterectomy 20 years ago, this threw me for the loop. But my wl Dr told me estrogen is stored in our fat cells, so when we lose the weight… the estrogen is bouncing around again, hence the hot flashes and moodiness! I’ve been on an antidepressant for about 3 years but think I may benefit from a different antidepressant?
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So much can be said.
But Let’s focus on one moment.
It was in the Figure Skating — not sure if it was Long Form or Short Form.
The Beauty of the Figure Skaters tends to give me Stendhal Syndrome.
But there was one Male Skater.
I tried to find his name, but most Olympic Athletes, like Singers and Dancers in the Ensembles of Broadway, are known for their Contribution to a Team, moreso than their individual name or notoriety.
Perhaps this is why we Admire them So Much.
It was not one of the Medalists.
Not even sure he was a finalist.
Older, somewhat disheveled, unshaven, ungroomed, in old clothes.
He was smoking and walking toward me.
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The University of Reunion Island is a meeting place for knowledge dissemination and different cultures, and welcomes several hundred foreign students annually.
A vector of dynamism and openness to the world, the development of partnerships with foreign universities represents one of the University's strengths. Different exchange programmes, ERASMUS, CREPUQ, PPI and ISEP already link it to European, Quebec and American universities, while new partnerships are being formed with South African, South Korean and Chinese universities.
Studying at the University of Reunion Island is a chance to discover Reunionese society and culture, but also to meet students from over 50 nationalities.
The University of Reunion Island focuses on welcoming foreign students. The International Relations Office supports the students in preparing their stay. They then welcome them at the airport, and assist them in all their arrangements, from university enrolment to opening a bank account.
Meanwhile around a hundred Reunionese students go abroad every year to acquire new knowledge and perfect their proficiency in a foreign language.
The University of Reunion Island also has numerous research partnerships with foreign universities.
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Howard H. Fine, CPA/ABV/CFF, CVA, is the Partner-in-Charge of the Accounting & Auditing Group at Gettry Marcus CPA, P.C. He has over 30 years of experience providing accounting, auditing, and tax services to middle market closely-held businesses. Mr. Fine has extensive experience in diversified industries such as professional service firms, wholesale distribution, employee benefit plans, manufacturing, health care, retail, hospitality, apparel and textile, and not-for-profit organizations. He works with clients at various stages of the business cycle to supply them with the appropriate financial information they require, including proactive reporting packages, key ratios and benchmarking, as well as budgeted information and forecasts. He also specializes in conducting internal control reviews and due diligence for mergers and acquisitions. Mr. Fine is also the Partner-in-Charge of the Employee Benefit Plan Auditing Group and is the firm’s designated Partner for the Employee Benefit Plan Audit Quality Center of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA). Additionally, he is a key member of Gettry Marcus’ Business Valuation and Litigation Support Group, providing services to law firms and other organizations.
A graduate of SUNY at Binghamton, Mr. Fine is a member of the AICPA, the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants (NYSSCPA) and the National Association of Certified Valuators and Analysts. Mr. Fine is actively involved in the NYSSCPA; in 2007, he was elected to and served through May 2014, on the Executive Board of the Nassau County Chapter and he also co-chaired the Sponsorship Committee which is instrumental in raising funds to support Continuing Professional Education (CPE) programs and college scholarships. He is past Chairperson of the Litigation Support Services Committee Nassau Chapter and the Cooperation with Bankers and other Credit Grantors Committee Suffolk Chapter of the NYSSCPA. Additionally, he is an associate member of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners.
Mr. Fine is Chairperson of Gettry Marcus’ Quality Control Committee, where he oversees internal reviews and provides CPE on various accounting and auditing issues, including current updates to Gettry Marcus partners and staff. In addition, he has lectured to various groups such as accountants, attorneys, business owners and professional networking groups on “Hands-On Guide To Auditing”, “Audits of 401(k) Plans”, “Understanding and Uses of Financial Statements”, “Steps in Starting a Business”, “Understanding the AICPA Statement on Standards for Valuation Services”, “Business Valuations & Litigation Support”, “Forensic Accounting & Business Valuation for Matrimonial Dissolutions”, and “Protecting Your Business from Fraud”. Mr. Fine has participated, as one of three expert panelists for the past three years, in an interactive video webcast, along with CNA, the endorsed underwriter for the AICPA Professional Liability Insurance Program, entitled, “Accountant’s Liability—Raise Your Risk I.Q.” In November 2015, Mr. Fine presented, “How to Read & Understand a Financial Statement,” to the New York City Bar Association.
He has written “Guarding Against Theft: Comprehensive Internal Controls”, School Business Affairs; “Internal Controls for a Law Firm,” NYSSCPA Nassau Chapter Newsletter; “Tighten Up the Money Controls Throughout the Office,” Law Office Administrator and co-authored the chapter “Accounting and Tax Policies as They Relate to Intellectual Property” in the book Intellectual Property Operations and Implementation in the 21st Century Corporation. In 2015, Mr. Fine was awarded the NYSSCPA Distinguished Service Award, which is bestowed on an individual who has distinguished themselves as a society leader and has given outstanding service to the society through dedicated service, publication, public service and other activities. Additionally, he received the Long Island Business News’ 2013 “Around 50 Award” which recognizes and honors individuals for their leadership in business, support of professional and not-for-profit organizations and a commitment to the needs of the local community. He was also featured in the Who’s Who in Accounting & Auditing of Long Island Business News.
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Title REBEL, Producer - Aditya, Direction - SV Rajendra Singh Babu, Music - Jassie Gift, Cinematography - Vamshi Krishna Prakash, Cast - Aditya, Deepika Rao, Sanjana, Suhasini, Sharat Lohitashva, Ramakrishna and others. Rebel against the corrupt system! Director of high reputation Singh Babu is known for taking social issues at the national level. In this ‘Rebel’ he has focused on Defense scandal of importing arms and ammunitions. Question raised from a long time of attacks from weapon not reaching the protagonist is too much in Rebel. What for 20 thousand crores transferred to China Bank is confusing. Screenplay is in zoom. Dialogues are not well written. The shoot in Singapore is mesmerizing. It is a power filled film.
The first Rebel Star aka Krishnam Raju wants his son to be a Maryada Ramanna. Sadly, he turns out to be a firebrand Puli Bidda. He publicly beats the local MLA to pulp. This causes the murder of his parents and his girl friend and there starts Rishi, calling himself Rebel, hunting for the murderers.
Rebel is an revenge-based action film. Prabhas is known as one of the best mass stars of Telugu cinema. Lawrence’s movies are known to appeal to the raw senses of mass movie lovers. Rebel is no exception. Interval block is really good. Rebel has decent commercial elements and targeted at masses. Masses will like it.
The best of the aspiring director is yet to come and "Rebel" is definitely not even close to be called enjoyable.
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Toast to love and happiness with Kate Aspen's classic-themed stemless wine glass wedding favors, the perfect party favor for your loved ones. Printed with a charming grand script, these functional and beautiful wedding favors can be personalized with your names and wedding details.
Details: Though we try to package our glassware very carefully, we are unable to replace any glasses broken in transit. Please be sure to order additional pieces to cover any breakage or extra guests. Clear, stemless wine glass with pad printing personalization available in a variety of designs and colors. Hand wash recommend. Rush processing may be available for this item. Please call for details.
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Here's a peek into my sketchbook for the clothing range for Mali summer 2015. It's always helpful to start with fabrics then assign styles to them. Then a bit of mad sketching goes on while I hone each design. Simultaneously print samples and lab dips of potential colours are requested. Then, after many considerations and permutations… out pops a range!
See the full summer collection of clothing here.
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Hand knitted wool / alpaca scarf. Designed and knit in such a way that both sides are the right side. Black background with pinky purple pattern on one side and then a black pattern with a pinky purple background on the other side. Really unusual knit which will be a talking point when wearing!
Length 44inches / 120cm , width 6inches/ 15cm.
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New casual summer shoes? Check.
Just when you thought the Disney craze had reached its peak, you see something else that’s too adorable to pass up.
Like these Keds Minnie Mouse shoes, which are now on sale just in time for summer. In addition to these Disney-inspired kicks, Keds has a whole bunch of casual sneakers on sale for up to 75 percent off right now.
Here’s a small sampling of some of the deals you can find on the Keds website. Shoes start at $19.95 but they’ve also got socks on sale for as low as $6.95!
These white Minnie Mouse champion shoes are on sale for $39.95 (regularly $54.95).
But the fun doesn’t stop there. Keds has a ton of Minnie gear on sale right now, including these triple decker slip-ons, which are available in grey and blue for $44.95 (regularly $59.95).
And for those of you who aren’t huge fans of Minnie, Keds has a bunch of other super cute shoes on sale as well.
These white perforated shoes would be perfect to pair with a casual sundress. They’re on sale for $49.95 (regularly $64.95).
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The Ministry for the Environment has recently announced the next funding round for the Waste Minimisation Fund (WMF) and we are currently looking for new opportunities to promote the fund. Approximately $10 million is available each year through contestable funding rounds to fund new projects that minimise waste.
decrease waste going to landfill.
The criteria, priorities, application form and guidance are available on the Ministry's website.
The Ministry is encouraging potential applicants to talk to them directly so that they can provide advice on what can help make an application successful. The team can be contacted by email or by phone on 0800 499 700.
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Trygve Thorsen, 88 passed away peacefully at his home on June 19, 2018.
He attended Petersburg High School and fished with his father until March 1951 when he enlisted in the Army during the Korean War. He was stationed in Fairbanks, Alaska, 4th Regiment, 3rd Battalion, Company K with several other young Petersburg men. He was honorably discharged March of 1953 at the rank of Corporal and remained as a Reservist.
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Home » Beaches » Where Did You Go This Summer?
I spent a few days on Point Reyes and the Inverness Peninsula in California this summer. We hiked over 20 miles up and over this large piece of granite that is sliding out to sea along the San Andreas Fault. We enjoyed walking and swimming in the Pacific – brief dips in the cold water – and were also refreshed by the cool winds and mists. It is a beautiful coastline.
At one of the trailheads, I was surprised to read a warning about potentially hazardous debris from the 2011 Japanese tsunami. In my new book I have written about the trash accumulations in the oceanic gyres but had not seen prior examples of trash traveling 8000 miles from Japan all the way to North America. My interest was piqued.
When we got to the beach the very first thing I encountered was a black spherical object that resembled a mine, but upon inspection appeared to be a buoy. It was not like any buoy I had ever seen along our coasts. Upon inspection, we found it labeled with Japanese script.
This experience made me stop and think – trying to visualize the vastness of the Pacific, the currents, and the ubiquitous presence of human activity. The debris from all of the continents ends up following the currents, collecting with the other wastes from shipping in the great oceanic gyres. The one in the North Pacific is the largest and best documented one.
The plastics found floating in these areas far from shore last a long time, awaiting consumption by marine life. We are trashing the planet. There may not be much we can do to stop seismic events and the resulting tsunamis but we can certainly cut down on the wastes that we generate and improve on our disposal practices. Maybe by working together we can come up with a way to waste less. It is clearly a global problem with lots of local action needed by all of us. Reduce, reuse, and recycle! Lets work toward a zero waste society.
Send us a story of where you went this summer, the challenges faced by the planet, and suggestions on ways we can all help to preserve these natural wonders.
By nedtillman in Beaches, Oceans on September 5, 2014 .
That image of trash accumulation spots is horrifying.
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Save time and money with Harbortouch POS for retail businesses. Efficiently manage your business – whether it’s a clothing store, convenience store, hardware store, or any other retail location.
A high quality system that is unmatched in both reliability and functionality.
Keep a comprehensive record of customers, purchasing history and contact information to identify sales trends and best customers, which is ideal for loyalty and other incentive programs.
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Take a look at any online craft retailer and what do you see? Dozens upon dozens of sewing machines. Do you really need all of them for a simple sewing room setup? Of course not.
…then how on Earth will you ever sort through the endless assortment of sewing machines you DON’T need, to find the one or two you actually DO need? The answer is…you can’t. And you’ll make some pretty dumb purchases, and waste a lot of time and money in the process.
To spare you the headaches that so many of us have gone through when starting out, I’ve compiled a comprehensive guide which outlines everything beginners need to know, so they can choose the right sewing machine for their home craft studio.
Click here to move down the page, and we’ll get started.
How Do We Choose the Best Sewing Machines?
Which is Better for Sewing?
Different Parts of a Sewing Machine!
I reviewed hundreds of the best sewing machines on the market in order to put together this list. All of the models I’ve included are outstanding.
There are different types of sewing machines intended for specific uses, though, so I’ve highlighted the “best uses” for each sewing machine when writing these reviews. That will hopefully make it easy for you to quickly find the best machine for your needs.
Here’s my list of the top 5 best sewing machine reviews of 2019.
For most of the last 150 years, people have used the name “Singer” interchangeably with the phrase “sewing machine.” Even after all that time, the company hasn’t lost its fastball; quite honestly, Singer still makes some of the best machines out there. And the Singer Stylist 9985 has won numerous industry awards since it hit the market, for very good reasons. It may be the best sewing machine for the price that you’ll find.
This is a small, computerized machine that really doesn’t look like anything special at first glance. But it’s a powerhouse. The Quantum Stylist 9985 has 960 different built-in stitches with a huge range of basic, stretch and decorative stitches, plus alphanumeric fonts and 13 built-in one-step buttonholes. There are 13 presser feet, and an adjustable speed up to 850 stitches per minute. It’s everything a beginning or intermediate sewist needs to create their own clothing, to quilt or to craft.
The features just keep coming: automatic buttonholer, auto-pilot mode so you can sew without using the foot pedal, programmable needle position (whether you want the needle to stay up or down when you stop sewing), a light that illuminates the workspace, even a free arm where you can store your needles. The only negative is a slight one: this Singer is a little louder than I’d like.
To see my complete rundown and reviews of all the best electronic sewing machines, click here.
The SE600 certainly doesn’t have as many built-in stitches as the Singer Quantum Stylist 9985, with 103 instead of the whopping 960 you get with the Singer. But it’s a better all-purpose sewing machine for most beginners and intermediate sewists who are also into embroidery, thanks to its 80 built-in embroidery designs, 120 frame pattern combinations and nine lettering fonts, making this a fabulous model for sewing, quilting and 4×4 embroidery.
In fact, if embroidery is your thing this Brother may be your dream machine. It allows you to connect to an Internet-enabled device (via the USB port) to import any of the thousands of designs available online at iBroidery.com or other sites. You can also download machine updates the same way. If you prefer, you can use the USB port for a memory stick, to load your favorite designs.
There’s a large workspace for your embroidery machine and sewing work, an automatic needle threader and thread cutter, a drop-in top bobbin system and bobbin winder, a sewing and embroidery arm as well as a 4×4 embroidery hoop, seven interchangeable feet and seven-point feed dogs that make it easy to advance your fabric at exactly the speed you want.
The backlit LCD color touchscreen display not only makes stitch selection and design editing simple and intuitive, but even lets you watch tutorials right on your sewing machine – a very cool feature. Brother is known its quality and affordable products; whether you’re a relatively new or experienced sewist, this baby will let you sew and embroider for a very long time before it needs to be replaced. I love it and think it’s one of the best sewing machines for home use, particularly for beginners who want to both sew and embroider.
To see the rest of my choices and reviews of computerized sewing machines, click here.
As you undoubtedly know, an overlocker machine (or serger) is by far the best way to create perfect seams on your garments. (If you didn’t know that, you might want to skip down to my tutorial section and read it before continuing with this review).The Singer 14T968DC is a professional serger which I’ve found to be the perfect companion for any computerized or electronic machine, as long as you don’t need to work with extremely difficult material like canvas. It’s the best sewing machine for overlocking.
This high-end serger machine is terrific. It has 2-3-4-5 thread capability (with color-coded threading), allowing you to choose from an enormous selection of styles and then sew, finish and trim in one operation.
Chain stitching, decorative edges, cover hems and rolled hems are all effortless thanks to a self-adjusting tension system that automatically chooses the proper settings for each stitch, and a separate rolled hem mode that’s available with the flip of a switch. For example, you can choose from narrow, wide or triple cover stitching, double chainstitching, or perfect rolled hems in just seconds.
Not only is the 14T968DC versatile, it’s fast, with a maximum sewing speed of 1300 stitches per minute. It’s sturdy too, with a metal frame that ensures your fabric stays in one place and that there are no skips in the stitches. Seven presser feet are included. There’s a fairly steep learning curve for those new to sergers, but the time spent learning this Singer machine is well worth it, as its rather high price.
Interested in seeing more of my top serger machine choices and reviews? Click here.
Chain stitches and cover stitches are your primary interest? Then the Juki MCS-1500 is calling your name. It’s definitely on the expensive side, but it’s a beast of a machine which will create strong, perfect seams that make your garments look impeccable.
The Juki uses three separate needles (with color-coded threading) to do its work; when you’re working on standard stitching for cuffs, necklines, armholes or hems, the four-thread or three-thread (wide or narrow) cover stitch functions are just right. And side seams and waists will never fail when chain stitched with the MCS-1500.
This is a well-designed specialty sewing machine. The looper is simple to thread and lowers when you touch a button, and the height and pressure of the presser foot can be adjusted to fit the thickness of the fabric you’re working with. The adjustable differential feed feature works with any type of fabric, even knits and other stretchable materials, and both the presser foot guide (which presses down on both right and left sides) and seam guide lines on the extension plate make sure your sewing is straight and true. There’s a built-in thread cutter on the pressure foot, a thoughtful touch.
Juki is known for its outstanding products. Quiet, easy to master and fast (up to 1350 stitches per minute), the MCS-1500 is no exception. You’ll pay a lot for it, but any serious sewist will want it in their arsenal.
You can check out my reviews of other chainstitch machines and coverstitch machines.
The phrase “mechanical sewing machine” may bring to mind grainy photos or home movies of grandma using an old-fashioned machine that operated strictly on elbow grease instead of electricity. That’s far from the reality of today’s mechanical machines, which are most definitely of the plug-in variety. The phrase just means that they’re simple, dependable and don’t use internal computers to program their functions.
The best of the bunch is the Janome HD1000, produced by a manufacturer that many experts think makes the top sewing machines in the world. It has a heavy-duty body (although it’s made from cast aluminum and not steel), it’s powerful, and it turns out great stitches. The HD1000 is an excellent machine to learn on, but many serious sewists also count on it for its straightforward and reliable performance.
This Janome doesn’t have an LCD screen or fancy graphics. You choose your preferred stitch with one of the knobs on the machine, choose the length of your stitch with a second knob, and use a lever on the body to reverse direction – that’s it. However, if you simply want to sew, that’s all you need. There are 14 stitches (including four-step buttonhole) to choose from, four presser feet, a three-piece feed dog system and an automatic needle theader, plus a removable free arm, a front-loading hook bobbin and push-pull bobbin winding which is easy once you get the hang of it.
Fancy? Not at all? Inexpensive? No, because the HD1000 is built like a tank and will last like one, delivering outstanding results the entire time. This is a very, very good sewing machine- and not just for traditionalists.
For a look at my reviews of all of the mechanical sewing machines worth considering, click here.
Choosing the right sewing machine is far from an easy task. This is even more true when you’re looking for something more specific than just about any machine for trying your hand at sewing.
And this where sewing beasts like us come in. We have reviewed more sewing machines than we can ever remember, and we would be surprised if there’s any type of machine under the sun that we haven’t seen or reviewed yet.
Well, with that said, some of the important factors we consider when picking our products include the following.
As surprising as it might seem, a sewing machine specifically designed for quilting may turn out to be great for quilting projects, but nowhere near as good when it comes to embroidery stuff. Now, while this seems to be obvious, not many seem to get it.
And therefore, we always make sure we recommend products that are specifically designed for your needs, especially if they are specific and a generalist sewing machine won’t be able to cut it well.
While this might seem obvious, the way we analyze the features of a sewing machine may be well beyond most sewers. Remember, it’s not just about the number of stitches or readymade designs they come with, or even the simplicity of use for that matter. Not that these things don’t matter, but there’s a lot more to it.
Let’s face it. Most of the people reading our articles are beginners to the world of sewing, and they would be scared into thinking it’s not for them if we introduce them to a super sophisticated and advanced sewing machine.
Hence, the ease of use tends to be a crucial aspect of the products that we take into consideration when choosing our top picks, especially unless we are writing for advanced sewers that couldn’t care less about the ease of use offered. If you’re a beginner, check out our list of sewing essentials!
These are just some of the things we consider when choosing the best sewing machines, and we shared it just to give you a bit of an idea. There’s a lot more that goes into our research process and explaining everything of it would probably require writing a new article solely dedicated to it.
Will fit into 1 of these 2 categories. That part’s real simple.
The harder part is understanding the 8 KEY WAYS in which they compare.
Industrial sewing machines are more stitch-specific; performing one stitch really well.
Domestic sewing machines can do every type of stitch pretty well.
While the truth of the matter is far more complex, it’s a good rule to start with.
Industrial machines specialize in one stitch.
Therefore, they produce a cleaner, better-looking stitch.
Domestic sewing machines will usually require a little extra fussing to get the stitch just right.
The upside of domestic sewing machines is that they operate at a much slower pace.
As we mentioned above, you’ll sometimes need to fuss with the stitch to get it just right.
By operating at a slower speed, you can easily control the machine reducing the amount of fussing required.
Industrial machines allow you to sew extremely quickly. That’s the benefit of the machine specializing in one stitch.
The downside of domestic sewing machines is that they have smaller motors which cannot handle all types of cloth and fabric.
Home machines generally CANNOT handle larger cloth and thicker fabric.
Made with commercial production in mind, industrial sewing machines CAN handle larger cloth and thicker fabric.
Being built for commercial production means that industrial sewing machines can be operated for longer periods of time.
The General Rule of Thumb is that you cannot use a home sewing machine for more than 5 hours at a time.
If you go over 5 hours, you risk burning out the motor.
Industrial sewing machines can easily work for more than 5 hours at a time.
It should be pretty clear by now that industrial sewing machines can handle heavier projects.
Thread capacity and type is no different.
Industrial machines can easily handle thicker thread and larger cones.
You’ll use thicker thread when sewing through heavier cloth or thicker fabric.
Domestic sewing machines need to use lighter thread with smaller cones.
However, because you’ll be using your domestic sewing machine for smaller projects, this shouldn’t be a problem.
Because you’re going to be doing smaller projects with home machines, you’ll only have to clean and maintain them every few months.
Industrial machines are going to require a bit more maintenance if you’re using them for long periods of time.
Both types have readily available replacement parts.
Plus, any brand that we recommend below will have exceptional customer service.
Industrial sewing machines can cost as much as $2-5 grand EACH.
Don’t worry, because there are plenty of options available for budget craft studios.
Many beginners INCORRECTLY conclude that industrial sewing machines are somehow better than domestic sewing machines for sewing.
And from what we’ve covered so far, it’s not hard to see why.
But the truth is…NEITHER machine is better overall…and NO machine on the planet is perfect for EVERYTHING.
That is why, more than just these two umbrella categories….
Sewists use a WIDE range of sewing machines, each one tailored for specific tasks.
First things first, although all sewing machines are made different, they share remarkably similar fundamental features. And while you can learn a lot about cleaning and caring for your machine by just referring to the user manual, the same certainly cannot be said about “understanding” your sewing machine.
Using a sewing machine isn’t something as simple as it may seem, and while you may be able to learn the basics on your own, being able to get the most out of your machine is going to take some time and effort.
With that said, this rather technical but straightforward guide will help you get familiar with your machine and its parts, which, in turn, will help you build a strong “sewing” foundation.
Bobbin is something that holds the thread for the machine, and makes up the bottom part of the machine stitch. The bobbin case, as you could guess, is what the bobbin is placed in.
It’s important to note here that both bobbins and bobbin cases are specific to a particular model and brand of sewing machine, and hence can’t be shared across different machines. You would only want to use bobbins and bobbin cases that are specifically designed for your machine’s brand and model.
Depending on your machine, it may either have a slide plate or a bobbin cover that allows you to manage the bobbin.
This is a removable part of your sewing machine that is responsible for keeping the fabric in place. Depending on the nature of the sewing job, different types of pressure foots may be required for best results.
For instance, a nonstick foot would turn out to be ideal for working on an oilcloth.
The needles are another removable part of a sewing machine, and available in a wide range of sizes. The needle clamp is the part of the machine that holds the needle.
Also sometimes known as the needle plate, the throat plate is an important part of your sewing machine located underneath the needle and pressure foot. It has a small opening that allows both the thread and needle to do their job.
A vast majority of throat plates come with small notches that go a long way in doing sewing tasks such as sewing straight lines with a great accuracy. A throat plate can also be removed for cleaning the parts of your machine below it.
Feed dogs are small teeth-like metal parts that help you sew a better stitch. They move and pull the bottom fabric gently as you sew and make it pass through the machine in a uniform manner to avoid uneven sews.
It’s highly recommended to use them instead of trying to pull the fabric manually, which can result in uneven sewing as well as damage some parts of your machine such as the needle.
As the name suggests, this tiny dial ensures that the top thread is working with the right amount of tension. This is crucial to have the right balance between the top thread and bobbin, which is again an important requirement for uniform stitching.
A higher-than-needed tension on the top thread is likely to result in broken stitches, while a tension that’s too low is going to leave you with very loose stitches.
Depending on your machine, the take-up lever may be located at different areas of the machine. The take-up lever allows the top thread to pass through it, moving in total sync with the needle in the process.
Before starting to work on any sewing task, make sure the take-up lever is pulled up to its highest position (which means the needle too should be at its highest position); this will prevent the fabric from getting caught in the handle.
If your machine has an external bobbin winder, it will allow the thread to pass from the spool to the winder.
The bobbin winder holds the spool when you’re filling the bobbin. To ensure an evenly winding thread, make sure the bobbin is empty before you start working.
There’s the upper thread guide and the lower thread guide, and the thread passes through them in a way that helps it move with just the right amount of tension.
This part looks like a slightly thicker, different needle, and holds the thread while the machine is working. Some machines also have more than one spool pins though, for unique sewing tasks or to achieve different results. It’s sometimes referred to as twin-needle or decorative sewing.
While spool pins usually seem to be vertical, it’s not exactly unusual for them to be horizontal in shape as well.
A flywheel or handwheel, as it’s sometimes called, takes care of lowering and raising the take-up lever. It should always be turned towards you.
The name of this part does a good job of explaining its purpose, so we will spare ourselves the trouble of doing that. Something to note here, however, is that while the older machines have a dial that you can use to select from different stitches, the newer ones have buttons.
All manual machines and some electronic machines will have a dial to let you decide the stitching length. The way the length is going to be measured, though, is going to vary quite a bit from one machine to another.
On some machines, the length will be measured by inches, while on some others, by metric scale; there will also be some machines where you will only have a numerical scale from 0 to 9.
Coming to the ideal stitching length, it’s going to vary too, depending on the type of sewing project as well as the fabric being sewed. For the usual sewing projects, medium lengths may work well. While working on fine fabrics, however, you would want to keep the stitch lengths short.
When it comes to heavier fabrics, as well as sewing jobs such as gathering or basting, the stitches will need to be long.
Some electronic and advanced sewing machines will come with a menu option that will allow you to manage many functions and even the stitches. They would also replace other features and parts such as dials for setting the stitching length and width, as well as for separate stitching.
The reverse button is also known as a backstitch button because of what it does. Basically, it allows you to switch the direction of the stitch, from the beginning to end and vice versa.
The foot controller can partially control the speed of the stitching.
When feeding fabric into the throat plate, make sure there’s a safe distance between your fingers and the pressure foot. When pausing while working on the fabric, don’t keep your foot on the foot controller in order to avoid accidentally starting the stitching.
If the pause is going to be very long, you might simply want to disconnect the machine from the power plug just to be on the safe side.
For the final section of this post, let’s take a moment to discuss BRANDS.
The deeper you get into the world of sewing, the more apparent it becomes that virtually ALL of the top sewing machines come from a small group of 5-6 big brands.
Click any of the above links, and what you’ll find is a list of the top sewing machines from each company.
Go through each of these articles and by the end, you will know 95% of the top machines in the sewing industry.
Click here to go back to our reviews!
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Punt Returner Mel Gray excels into the open field on one of his 2 punt returns against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers during the December 1987 contest that ended in a 44-34 Saints victory. It was the 6th straight victory that season and the 9th of the year. Gray finished with 203 total return yards on 5 returns that day.
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The Marines’ Memorial Club & Hotel is a classic San Francisco hotel dedicated as a “living memorial” to the U.S. Marines. It’s at the heart of the city in Union Square with 138 guestrooms and 13 luxury suites.
Our room block at the venue is now SOLD OUT.
By public transportation: Click here.
There is no airport shuttle offered by the Marines’ Memorial Club & Hotel.
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Whether you are training for a marathon or dreaming of a better career, motivation to work towards your goals is something that evades us all from time to time. However, pushing through those low points is integral to ensuring success. To help stay motivated to achieve your dreams, check out our top inspirational quotes.
Need more motivation? Get inspired by these incredible world records which push the boundaries of health and fitness.
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The Bike Challenge is a fundraising event hosted by Raleigh Orthopaedic and benefiting the Carolina Hurricanes’ Kids ‘N Community Foundation. Teams (recommendation of 12+ participants) work together and ride a bike over a 24-hour period. This year’s event will take place from Friday, August 19 at 6pm until Saturday, August 19 at 6pm. In addition, each rider is required to raise a minimum donation of $50 to participate. To view a video from a past event, click here.
What/who does the Bike Challenge benefit?
The Bike Challenge benefits the Carolina Hurricanes’ charitable arm the Kids ‘N Community Foundation. As “The Heart of the Carolina Hurricanes,” the Kids ‘N Community Foundation strives to meet the health and educational needs of underserved populations in our community through programming and financial assistance to local, youth-oriented organizations.
During the 2015-16 year of funding, the Kids ‘N Community Foundation donated $575,000 in cash grants to 27 different children’s non-profits. This grant cycle brings the Foundation and team’s donation totals to more than $13 million in cash and in-kind services since 1997.
To find out more about the Kids ‘N Community Foundation, please visit www.carolinahurricanes.com/foundation.
Where does the Bike Challenge take place?
The Bike Challenge takes place indoors at EXOS @ Raleigh Orthopaedic located at 2400 Sumner Blvd., #120, Raleigh, NC 27616.
Do I have to ride a bike for 24 hours?
No! Team members will take turns riding the bike throughout the 24 hours. Every team is different, but some teams will create a schedule where specific team members come for a certain shift and rotate within that shift. Some teams will choose to have each participant ride the bike for 3 minutes at a time or some teams will have each member ride for 30 minutes.
For example, a team will assign five to six participants to a 3-5 hour shift. During this time, the team members will rotate riding the bike for 15 minutes each. This results in each team member riding a total of about one hour during their shift.
Example: People 1-5 are responsible for riding from 6pm-9pm on Friday. SignUpGenius.com is a great place to organize the schedule and its free!
Are we able to stay overnight if we plan on being there for 24 hours?
Yes! There is an area reserved so people can spend the night. You are welcome to bring a sleeping bag, air mattress, etc. if you plan on staying overnight.
As many people as possible. There is no limit on how many riders you can have! The more people you have at each shift over the 12/24 hour period will lessen the amount of time each person has to spend on the bike.
No, there is no participation fee. However, each rider in the competitive and recreational divisions is required to raise a minimum donation of $50 to participate during the event. Invite your family, friends, coworkers, etc. to make a donation on your behalf using this form. All it takes is five people to each make a $10 donation for you to raise your minimum $50 donation.
There is no participation fee for a corporate division team. The minimum donation for a corporate team (as a whole) is $1200. This can be raised by employees, donated by the company, or a mix of both.
Each rider will receive a t-shirt, food and drink throughout the event, and the opportunity to win raffle prizes. There will be food served for dinner, late night, breakfast and lunch.
What is the difference between the competitive, recreational and corporate division?
The competitive division is for advanced teams to compete throughout the 24 hours while the recreational division is for teams hoping to enjoy the event, help the cause and enjoy the 24 hours. The corporate division is a 12-hour race for companies to promote team building and wellness.
Registrations: If you have not done so, please register for our team using this link: https://carolinahurricanes.formstack.com/forms/bikechallenge The team name is ‘Raleigh Ortho’ and I am the team captain. Please do this prior to Friday.
Donations: Also, remember each rider must make a minimum of $50 donation to the Kids ‘N Community Foundation. This must be done prior to riding.
Food, Drinks & Fun for the Entire Family: Food and drinks will be provided during the Bike Challenge! We will have dinner Friday Evening and beverages, Continental breakfast Saturday morning and Lunch Saturday afternoon! Also remember, there will be fun for the entire family, so bring them along to cheer you on! With special guest appearances from Hurricanes Players, Stormy and the Storm Squad!
Schedule: Below is the final schedule for the Bike Challenge. If you have concerns, please let me know! Please make sure you show up a few minutes before your scheduled time to ride so you have time to check-in, and the person before you doesn’t get stuck on the bike! SignUpGenius.com is a great place to go to organize a schedule and it’s free!
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Christianity and Other Religions: Comparative Spirituality, Comparative Eschatology, Comparative Doctrines of the Divine.
"Belief in Reincarnation and Some Unresolved questions in Catholic Eschatology," Religions, vol. 8, no. 9, 2017. (Web).
"Some Thoughts on God and Spiritual Practice in Yoga and Christianity," Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies 30 (2017):33-45.
"The Mystery of the Infinite in the Hindu Spirituality of Non-Duality: Some Observations from a Christian Perspective," in: Finding Beauty in the Other. Edited by Peter Casarella and Mun'im Sirry. University of Notre Dame Press, 2017.
God's Other Children: Personal Encounters with Faith, Love, and Holiness in Sacred India. NY: HarperOne, 2013. Winner of the Huston Smith Publishing Prize.
The Role of Divine Grace in the Soteriology of Sri Samkaracarya. Leiden: Brill, 2001.
Malkovsky's area of interest is the doctrinal and spiritual relation of Christianity to Other Religions. His area of specialization is the Hindu-Christian Encounter. He was the editor of the Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies from 2002-17.
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Updated Friday April 13, 2018 by basketball.
• When: Last week of May through August 4th-5th. Weeknights for league games, playoffs August 4-5.
• Game Times: Game times are 5:30, 6:30, 7:30 and 8:30 (at Herbst) and 6, 7, 8 (at Hanusey).
• Make up games will be played on the weekends.
• Registration: Online only - will close on May 14th.
Please contact Glen Ockenhouse with any questions.
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MISS ELLE (a.k.a. Loranne Meek) is the founder and owner/director of The Baton & Dance Company. During her athletic career she was the 1983 and 1985 Grand National 2-Baton Champion and was a member of the 1986 World Silver Medalist Team. Loranne has coached many National Champions over the years: Carolyn Day, Kirsten Mack, Jordan Madley, Corry Topp, Lindsay Pylychaty, Vicki-Ann Jean, Brianne Jensen, Candace Zwarich, Sherri Clark, Margaret Williams, Kendra Masters, Megan Enns, Cory Archer, Jessica Parnell, Caitlyn & Tianna Tedford, Delaney Sarro, Nikki Blackmore, Cassandra Frank, Hayley Dunmire, Alisa Rozan, Hannah Curwen, Britney Denroche, Rachel James, Hayley Hegland, The A Team, Move, Five, Co. Swings, Co Supreme, Intergalactic Co., Joi, Dive, Scream, R-E-S-P-E-C-T, Grand National Dance Twirl Team “Jump”, Getting in the Mood, Saturday Night,Back Street's Back and Feel This Moment. In 2000, Miss Elle trained The “A” Team” who represented Canada at the World Championships in Den Bosch, Holland. In 2004 Loranne had the opportunity to travel to Lausanne, Switzerland to teach athletes on the Swiss National Team. At the 25th World Baton Twirling Championships in Osaka, Japan she taught a record number (300) of children in the International Athletes’ Clinic! In 2005 Loranne accompanied her student Cory Archer to the World Championships in St. Paul, MN where he won a bronze medal. In 2006 Cory reached another lifetime goal – winning the Gold Medal in the Senior 3-Baton Event in Rome, Italy. In 2007 Cory and his pair partner Jenna Jemieff won a bronze medal at the World Championships in Hamilton, Ontario! In 2008 Miss Elle co-trained the Group “Music in Me” who won the Gold Medal at the International Cup in Limerick, Ireland. Most recently she trained the 2011 International Cup Bronze Medal Pair of Gallant and Boyle!
Loranne is a CBTF Level 3 Certified Coach, NCCP II Certified Coach, certified in the FMS - Community Leader (Multi-Sport Module) of the NCCP, a Module 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 CBTF Certified Judge, Skills Development Adjudicator and Course Conductor for the CBTF SDP Program and the Level 2 Coaching Course. One of the highlights of Loranne’s career was being appointed the Competition Director for the 3rd Annual International Cup that was held in Hamilton, Ontario in 2007. She has recently become certified in the Acrobatic Arts program allowing her to teach Pre-Primary - Level 5 Acro Skills.
Loranne’s professional dance career has taken her on many adventures. She was the co-owner/director of the professional dance troupe “DANCE TECH” from 1998-2002. She performed and choreographed for the Western Premier’s Conference, the Noel “O” Concert, the Alumni Concert, the Calgary Women’s and Bridal Show, the 1997 Annual Aids Benefit, The 1998 Black Achievement Awards, Latitude and Jacob Fashion Shows, the Maestro Fresh Wes Concert, the Reel to Real Concert, three music videos – Jason McKoy, Dive and Exsanguis, Josie D’Ambola’s CD Release Party, and the Love Inc., ATC and Underground Project Concerts.
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If your client software supports this (Mozilla Sunbird/Lightning 0.8+ and Apple iCal do. Evolution and Korganiser don't. Others???) then when you attempt to schedule a meeting the software will make a request to DAViCal to extract the availability of the meeting participants around that time.
This lookup is based on the e-mail address of the participant, so it is important that all DAViCal users (and resources) have their e-mail addresses set up. In this context it is more important that the e-mail address is filled and unique rather than that it is set up to actually receive e-mail, so using a non-existant address for scheduling e.g. rooms may be an option.
This is the method that we can expect most clients will use automatically in the future, but it is not so good for cross-domain freebusy requests.
CalDAV specifies a particular query type to retrieve free/busy information, and from 0.6.0 this is supported. Unfortunately this method is not used by any known client software, though it is implemented in DAViCal.
Access to the freebusy URL usually requires authentication to DAViCal, and the appropriate rights be granted (i.e. free/busy access) to the authenticated user in respect of the calendar (or user) they are accessing free/busy information for.
A configuration setting public_freebusy_url can be turned on to allow for the freebusy URL to be made public. In this way DAViCal could provide freebusy information to (e.g.) a Kerio server, or other service capable of federating the freebusy information.
start: A start date in a format recognized by PHP.
end: An end date in a format recognized by PHP.
period: A period of time in a format defined in RFC2445. Example: P1DT5H30M means 1 day, 5 hours and 30 minutes.
format: Output format, currently accepting only text/calendar.
user: the user whose calendar will be shown.
token: the user's token (calendar) to be shown.
ticket: A ticket granting specific permission to see the freebusy information.
User and token can be set as freebusy.php?user=username&token=home or freebusy.php/username/home.
Since no clients have yet been observed to make CalDAV free-busy-query requests, but Evolution (at least) provides an alternative based around using e-mail addresses, the free/busy information is also available on a direct request. The URL may follow the form identical to the structure for the 'caldav.php' URL (with 'caldav' replaced by 'freebusy' of course), and will return freebusy information to a suitably authorised user.
This format is accepted by a Mozilla Lightning extension from Inverse.
In this case the e-mail address searched for must be unique, and the freebusy information retrieved will be merged from all of their calendars (excluding PRIVATE events).
The user accessing this URL will still need to authenticate against DAViCal, of course.
You can either create a contact and specify the server in the free/busy section, or ensure the parent domain of the server matches the email domain.
If a user has read permission to a calendar, they will quite naturally have the ability to read free/busy information. If you want to bestow permission for Free/Busy without full Read permission you should grant the 'read-free-busy' permission.
If you want to give a particular person access to your freebusy URL without logging into DAViCal to retrieve it you can create a 'ticket' granting the 'read-free-busy' permission and they can use this with the freebusy.php URL to request the information without logging in.
This page was last edited on 31 December 2015, at 19:35.
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Abstract The armored cable used in a deep-sea remotely operated vehicle (ROV) may undergo large displacement motion when subjected to dynamic actions of ship heave motion and ocean current. A novel geometrically exact finite element model for two-dimensional dynamic analysis of armored cable is presented. This model accounts for the geometric nonlinearities of large displacement of the armored cable, and effects of axial load and bending stiffness. The governing equations are derived by consistent linearization and finite element discretization of the total weak form of the armored cable system, and solved by the Newmark time integration method. To make the solution procedure avoid falling into the local extreme points, a simple adaptive stepping strategy is proposed. The presented model is validated via actual measured data. Results for dynamic configurations, motion and tension of both ends of the armored cable, and resonance-zone are presented for two numerical cases, including the dynamic analysis under the case of only ship heave motion and the case of joint action of ship heave motion and ocean current. The dynamics analysis can provide important reference for the design or product selection of the armored cable in a deep-sea ROV system so as to improve the safety of its marine operation under the sea state of 4 or above.
GB/T 7714 Quan WC,Zhang ZY,Zhang AQ. Dynamics analysis of planar armored cable motion in deep-sea ROV system[J]. Journal of Central South University,2014,21(12):4456−4467.
APA Quan WC,Zhang ZY,&Zhang AQ.(2014).Dynamics analysis of planar armored cable motion in deep-sea ROV system.Journal of Central South University,21(12),4456−4467.
MLA Quan WC,et al."Dynamics analysis of planar armored cable motion in deep-sea ROV system".Journal of Central South University 21.12(2014):4456−4467.
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Hard Bargaining: Equipment Rental as a Cost Reduction Strategy .May 22, 2014 . As seen in Construction Executive's Managing Your Business. As the construction market continues to recoup losses incurred by harsh demand conditions following the recession, contractors have been forced to rethink purchasing habits that were once considered the norm. For example, when demand for.mining equipment hire cost reduction,Tips For Reducing Equipment Costs | Warren CATApr 24, 2015 . Business owners who use heavy machines inevitably end up spending time thinking about ways to reduce equipment costs. . Agriculture; Defense; Excavation/grading; Forestry; General construction; Government; Heavy construction; Landscaping; Mining; Oil and gas; Paving; Power generation; Quarrying.More Mining Companies Will Be Looking To Rent And Not Purchase .Apr 10, 2017 . Technovia's Global Mining Equipment Rental Market 2016-2020 report demonstrates how the high cost of capital, overhead costs, and maintenance costs . According to the report, it is a shielding strategy that companies adopt, where they go slow on new explorations, cut down expenditure, and run tighter.
Since 2001, Brandeis has offered our customers in Kentucky and Indiana a lower cost approach to renting common class construction equipment to get the job done. Brandeis understands our customer's cost pressures and has taken the proactive step of investing in. Late model; Low hour; Highly reliable machines.
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Most manufacturers of machinery supply data for the cost of owning and operating their equipment that will serve as the basis of machine rates. However, such data .. If the money comes from savings, then opportunity cost or the rate this money would earn if invested elsewhere is used as the interest rate. The accounting.
Sep 15, 2017 . As companies in numerous industries become increasingly aware of the benefits of leasing versus purchasing equipment — including lower administrative overheads, reduced capital expenditure, and zero replacement costs — this trend towards equipment rental is expected to continue to grow.
Aug 5, 2014 . Maintaining earth-moving machinery is something that must be done to prevent major problems down the road. The last thing you want on a mining site is non-working equipment. Improper maintenance will shorten the lifespan of machinery, cause it to breakdown frequently, require costly repairs, and slow.
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Cougar promotes the advantages to mining equipment hire: Conserve Capital – hire the equipment you need and use your capital to expand your business further or other ventures. Get the right equipment for the job – hiring lets you fit the right type and size of equipment for the job. Reduce down time – if the equipment.
Prepared for: MeMO 2016 - Reducing Mining Costs and Value Optimization . Traditional cost accounting methods simply allocate costs, down onto the cost .. $3.00/ft. Equipment Cost – (based on $/hr) $4.00/ft. Allowance (10%) – $0.70/ft. Total Drill Cost - $7.70/ft or. - $2.10/ton. ITH Service Costs. ITH Rental. - $10,000/m.
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Check out this 1 min video introducing a new resource that features real life stories, captured on HD video, to share with your mates.
At CVM we’re, once again, excited to be able to announce the launch of yet another brand new evangelistic resource.
Check out this 1 min video intro to the Crazy Way Cards.
The Crazy Way Cards are a perfect tool for individuals, men’s groups or churches to use in sharing the Gospel. They come as a set of 11 differently themed cards. Each of the 11 cards tackles an interest or issue that men are often forced to encounter in the ‘arena of life’. The cards link to a different HD online video of someone who’s story of meeting Jesus, is closely linked to that theme.
The Crazy Way Cards and linked videos are made to a very high quality and designed to resource individuals and churches.
We believe the men in your group (and church) will feel confident in passing them on to their mates who may be involved in one or more of the subjects covered by the cards and could be a very good ‘way in’ to sharing the good news of Jesus with them.
The Crazy Way is the overarching title name for a suite of evangelistic resources/events, created to present the good news of Jesus using everyday language via different forms of media. It’s fun, uncomplicated and relevant.
If you think your group or church will be able to deploy the Crazy Way Cards to be equipped and continually fired up for getting the gospel to men, then we want to send it to you.
We believe we’ll see thousands of men get these gospel cards, access the Crazy Way booklet and discover the video stories of faith in men’s lives.
An introduction to the Gospel.
A web link to a couple (2min & 5min) of powerful testimony videos*.
The normal price for this package would cost you £17.50 but we are able to offer it at the heavily discounted rate of £5 thanks to a generous donation.
However, if your men’s group is officially partnered with CVM, you can get the Full Display Set for FREE!
Of course, you are most welcome to still make a donation, over and above the cost of the pack, that way we can get more cards printed and into as many churches and men’s groups as possible.
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[Episcopal News Service – Hong Kong] On Presiding Bishop Michael Curry’s first official visit to the Anglican Province of Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui, he discovered that the Christian church in Hong Kong and the rest of Asia is growing, and it reinforced his belief that relationships centered in the gospel are essential to missional partnerships.
“Christianity is growing here, Anglicanism is growing here in Hong Kong. … Hong Kong is a critical relationship in being in real relationship with Asia, and it’s clearly a relationship of equals and that becomes a model or a template for other relationships as well,” said Curry.
Curry spent two days in Hong Kong; the second stop on his first official visit as presiding bishop and primate to Asia and Southeast Asia that also included the Philippines, China and Taiwan.
Peter Ng, the Episcopal Church’s officer for Asia and the Pacific, now retired; the Rev. Charles Robertson, canon to the presiding bishop for ministry beyond the Episcopal Church; the Rev. David Copley, director of global partnerships and mission personnel; Neva Rae Fox, the church’s public affairs officer; and Sharon Jones, executive assistant to the presiding bishop, accompanied Curry.
It was Hong Kong, said Robertson, that set the example for becoming an independent province outside colonial rule. “And they quickly became a leader,” he said.
Hong Kong, which became a special administrative region governed by China in 1997, was a longtime British colony. The first colonial chaplain was appointed in 1843. The Diocese of Victoria was created in 1849 and later became part of the first national church organization in China. In 1951, following the formation of the People’s Republic of China, the then-Diocese of Hong Kong and Macau became a detached diocese. It became an independent Anglican province in 1998.
Its partnership with the Episcopal Church dates to the 1940s and ’50s, said the Most Rev. Paul Kwong, archbishop of the Province of Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui, in a Feb. 20 interview with Episcopal News Service.
The partnership has included companion diocese relationships, and the Episcopal Church helped to build churches in Hong Kong and Macau in the early years, he said.
“So, we’ve had that link for a long time,” he said.
The presiding bishop’s visit, Kwong said, was significant in that it served to strengthen the link between the Hong Kong Anglican Church and the Episcopal Church.
But the presiding bishop’s visit also was significant in that Curry is new to his primacy and it brought together two primates, said Kwong, who in was elected chair of the Anglican Consultative Council in April 2016.
“Over the years, the Communion has been deeply divided and impaired by some contentious issues, and the Episcopal Church has been at the center these arguments and division,” said Kwong, referring to the 2003 ordination and consecration of now retired New Hampshire Bishop V. Gene Robinson as the first openly gay bishop in the Episcopal Church and 78th General Convention’s canonical and liturgical changes in 2015 to provide marriage equality for Episcopalians.
It’s time, said the archbishop, to shift focus to mission and to ask, “What is the Communion for? How can we make our communion relevant in our own contexts and to the world at large?
Curry’s message, rooted in what he calls the “Jesus Movement,” underscores the Episcopal Church’s focus on mission partnerships, Kwong added.
“His message has demonstrated very clearly that the Episcopal Church has a very strong sense of mission and evangelism, and homosexuality isn’t the only issue the church has to address, even though it’s a very serious issue that no one should ignore. … The message about the Jesus Movement and reconciliation is very significant to the communion.
“In his sermon yesterday in the cathedral he passionately indicated that God has a dream for every one of us, every church and particularly for the communion. I’m sure that God’s dream is for us to reconcile to each other and that we should work together in unity for the common good.
Curry brought his fiery Jesus Movement message to a standing-room-only crowd that overflowed into the courtyard of St. John’s Cathedral in the heart of Hong Kong’s central business district.
It was a message that David Xia, who studied Anglicanism in England, traveled more than three hours from Shenzhen, across the border with mainland China, to hear. A message that he said impressed him because of the presiding bishop’s passion and his humility.
Following the Feb. 19 Eucharist, Der gave a presentation about the Province of Hong Kong’s history and ministry to the presiding bishop and his staff.
The Province of Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui includes the dioceses of Hong Kong Island, Eastern Kowloon, Western Kowloon and the Missionary Area of Macau. Some 30,000 people worship in about 40 congregations and mission points, served by more than 70 clergy members. The province operates social service ministries, including its prison ministry, mental health and elder care ministries, its mission for migrant workers and its program to assist domestic workers.
Many migrant workers from Indonesia and the Philippines work as domestics in Hong Kong. Many Filipinas, from the Episcopal Church in the Philippines, the Philippine Independent Church and the Roman Catholic Church, worship at St. John’s Cathedral, which holds eight weekend services in four languages – English, Mandarin, Cantonese and Tagalog — for more than 2,000 people, 65 percent of them from the Philippines.
The Province of Hong Kong has grown 40 percent over the last decade and has 50 parishes, 140 schools and 400 social service units across Hong Kong and Macau, said Der.
Click here to watch a video of the presiding bishop preaching at St. John’s Cathedral on Feb. 19.
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Celebrating Christmas any time except, well, Christmastime always seemed silly to me. Like, what in the world is up with the whole “Christmas in July” phenomenon?
To me, it seems like nothing more than an excuse for various companies to spike their sales during the summer doldrums. But there’s at least one unseasonable celebration of Christmas occurring in Colerain Township, Ohio, that I wholeheartedly approve.
This chronologically displaced Yuletide started with little Brody Allen. Just a month or so ago, the 2-year-old started having problems with his ear.
According to WKRC, doctors initially thought the boy was dealing with a series of nasty ear infections. But that wasn’t little Brody’s problem.
As doctors started to investigate, they found a mass in his brain. And another one. And another one. And yet another one.
Brody had cancer, and a particularly horrible type at that. He was suffering from ETMR (i.e., embryonal tumor with multilayered rosettes), a highly aggressive form of the disease that usually only afflicts young children.
CBS News reported that Brody’s family immediately started treatment, but after multiple months of chemotherapy, he wasn’t improving.
Worse yet, a fifth tumor had appeared. That was when the Brody’s family had to face the awful truth: Their adorable toddler didn’t have long to live.
The prognosis is grim. When the boy stopped receiving treatments on Aug. 4, he was expected to have about two months to live, CBS reported.
Brody loved experiencing the only Christmas he can remember, and one of the hardest parts of his disease is that he won’t likely live to see another one. The Allens asked if anyone would donate decorations so they could deck out their home early and started making it Christmas in September.
That sparked something in their community, with neighbors stringing their houses with lights and strangers sending Brody Christmas cards. An inflatable Santa appeared in a nearby yard.
The most amazing thing about this Christmas celebration is that it occurred spontaneously. No one tried to organize it.
Ryan Miller of Cincy Xmas Lights was shocked by the display.
The whole thing has delighted young Brody. His family said that all the decorations thrill him.
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The plates of settler W-Tank are manufactured by flex molding process. The Flex Molding process is used to obtain reinforced plastic pieces with high glass fiber content, arranged in the direction of the stress, which leads to high mechanical strength.
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The static sand collector has the function of extracting the sand (solids) that deposit on the tank bottom. A spillway edge is mounted on the top of the static sand collector to make the water overflow and flow into a convey pipe.
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Especially at overflow crests the measurement of the overflow discharged to the receiving water is of high interest to operators and governmental agencies. In several places it is required to record this overflow already.
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ACT provides corrosion resistant sheaves and blocks for gate handling at hydroelectric dams, stoplog handling beams, gate handling equipment, and gate hoist machinery as well as cranes. We can provide our customers products with coatings, and designed for immersion in water.
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By Erosion Protection Systems Pty Ltd (EPS) based in North Narrabeen, AUSTRALIA.
Also known as stop logs or bulkhead gates, these are used to seal off water flow to the spillway gate so it can be serviced.
By AFI Hydro Inc. based in Paris, ONTARIO (CANADA).
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I have been accepted into the product photography fold at work - which is a scary prospect! At the moment, our photography department is churning out crap like this, which then comes to me to have an hour or two of meticulous turd polishing until it looks presentable enough to be displayed and is on a white background.
Lighting there is a mix of ambient energy saver, window light from the right and a truly crappy assemblage of energy savers in a square reflector. Yes that's the leg of the tripod and yes that's the office floor.
My plan is to use a 3m white bacckdrop lit by my YN560s, balanced with ambient. Not sure what material would be best? It's car parts so needs to be cleanable really since there is a lot of grubby stuff. Portability will be important as I'm most likely going to be stuffed into a new corner each week as there is no space for this sort of thing. There's no budget either, though when I point out how much he's paid me for the last 50 photos I might be able to prise a couple of hundred from him. So where should I be looking?
In fact, the background is the least of your problems. My advice is to do without one, and simply cut the products out on computer, which is a very quick and easy job with products that don't have "fluffy edges". If you did have a background, then you would need to have a lot of space, lighting equipment and skill to get good results.
The only other thing you'll need is something to photograph the products on, some kind of bench or a couple of sawhorses with a sheet of chipboard on top will be perfect..
My advice, if they aren't willing to spend the small amount of money needed, is to tell them to find someone else to do it because you simply can't do a workmanlike job without the basic equipment.
And of course, they need to allocate space too, it can be a corner but it will need to be your corner.
There are plenty of detailed, specific tutorials in the Lencarta learning centre that will show you how to get started.
I completely agree, and obviously you will need to make a case for spendiing even a small amount of money, i.e. you will have to submit a bid for the money, and you either get it or you don't. All that I'm saying is that if the answer is 'No' then your own answer needs to be the same, because without the essential equipment, you will fail.
The (perceived) problem is that small businesses often don't value the importance of good photography. Their answer is often that sales are "O.K. as it is" - not realising that they could be so much better, or that "our photos are about the same as our major competitors, so we don't need to do anything different" and if they don't appreciate that the businesses that are successful are those that project a more professional image, then you're working for a firm that will never grow, and that will probably not even survive for much longer, and so you'll be wasting your time.
Depending on the size of the business, and the understanding (or otherwise) of the decision makers, they may or may not understand how much extra staff time is involved in answering queries that good photos would answer for them, and they may or may not understand that the vast majority of potential customers don't even ask the questions, they just go to a competitor instead.
One powerful argument to include in your bid is the fact that all successful online sellers take their product photography very seriously indeed. They may not go for top or even reasonable quality photos (in the sense that they are mostly nowhere near true professional quality) but they do have multiple photos from multiple angles, that show exactly what is on offer, normally with simple graphics included that show essential dimensions - what this does is to reassure the potential customer that they're buying the right widget, and these photos, together with the graphics, overcome language problems too. Even if excessive (and expensive) post processing work could replace the correct lighting approach, it's so time-consuming that it wouldn't be viable either in terms of the value of your own time or in terms of the amount that one person could achieve - and when this problem is balanced against the solution, which only involves about £1000 and a couple of days of practice, it's a no-brainer.
Here is your opportunity to help your Company increase market share, sales and profits, and to improve your own position within the Company, at the same time increasing your own photography skills.
Is there a really big window anywhere that you could set a large table next to? Put a plain net curtain over the whole of the window and you have a free enormous soft box.
How much are these piles of metal that you are selling? Are they multiple hundreds of pounds or under £100 or even under £50?
With respect, wrong approach. The photography needs to be consistent, regardless of the weather conditions, time of day, time of year etc., and it needs to be capable of being carried out quickly. And anyway, a "free enormous soft box" is useless unless it's in the right place.
Well he's open to the possibility of spending some money, but the sort of setup Garry is talking about is completely out of the question, though will be worth revisiting in a few years when there may actually be room to set up a studio, though I suspect by the time that comes around there will be a lot less need for one. Till then it's speedlites and kit that can be packed away. All I care about is getting the things on a nice plain background so I can spend as close to zero time in post as possible (both for my own sanity as well as from an economics point of view). So with that i mind... can we get back to the point which is some budget backdrop equipment that isn't total pish?
Trying to get back on topic, but having zero knowledge of prod shots - would you always use white for this or would a colour (like grey / black) work?
Well, the OP isn't prepared to take the lighting and background advice that I've given him, or the business advice that we've both given him and is still asking about a background that won't help him and which isn't even needed, so my answer is for you, not for him.
White is the general colour of choice for web shots, simply because it produces consistent results. People tend to use some kind of background for portrait and fashion shots because it makes life easier (quite difficult and time-consuming to cut our around hair and other fine detail) but for product shots, a background is only rarely used by experienced product photographers simply because the results are so much better without one and because it's so easy to cut them out.
The reason for this is, again, consistency, coupled with ease of use.
1. Even a white background ends up grey unless there is more light falling on the background than on the subject.
2. It's easy to get the right amount of light on the background, given enough space and enough lighting to allow the background to be lit separately (it needs to be lit separately because it's a separate subject) but the product floor (the part of the background that the subject is sitting on) is much more difficult, this requires a translucent surface through which extra light is passed.
3. Even when this can be achieved (requires much more lighting, much more space, much more skill, much more care) light either reflected from or transmitted onto the main subject from the lighting on the background will adversely affect the lighting on the main subject, reduce contrast and create flare.
4. Effects such as full or partial reflections of the product, shadows etc, which are dependent on camera height, reflectivity and lighting position, mean that these will vary shot to shot, destroying consistency.
So, we don't bother with a background, although it might sometimes help to have some kind of a background, just to avoid having to cut out clutter.
Post production, we simply cut out the background, a very simple job with products that have hard edges. We can then make the background any colour or shade required, without any risk of either colour or light being spilled onto the subject. We can very easily add gradients too, plus semi or full reflections, shadow etc, and all with total consistency.
Being able to change the colour (instantly) in post production is even more important when the same shot is to be used for more than one purpose, for example we may need a pure white background for the web, but a black, coloured or gradient background for a brochure or a printed advert.
Ok then, I'll be sure to ignore all of that I didn't ask you for lighting advice and definitely not business advice on behalf of my employer, I asked about background stands and backgrounds which everyone has been deathly silent about, so at the risk of sounding like a broken record ... a semi decent background stand suggestion, anyone?
You're right, you didn't ask for business advice, and you didn't specifically ask for lighting advice either (although you did detail the 'lighting' that you plan to use) so we kind of assumed, base on your obvious lack of understanding of the real issues, that you were asking for real, useful information.
Unfortunately, your response to our attempts to help you do tend to discourage future help.
Turning now to your specific questions, get any background and any background support system you like, neither are needed and neither will help, so your choice will make no difference.
The phrase "f*** you very much" comes to mind.
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The topic here is the weather & how long winter has been & all the snow. More snow today & cold weather. Better next Fri. & Sat. & then another cold wave! But we're talking about going to Jamestown on Fri. so I hope it does warm up a bit.
I'm watching golf in sunny & warm Calif.
Back to last Fri. with Benson's. One of our group, Sig & Carol Decker from Kane, haven't been with us for awhile due to Carol's illness. She has dementia & it has gotten worse. Pat saw them in the grocery store & Carol just had a blank look. I sure hope they can find something to help Alzheimers. I keep wondering how Gen will take it when she will have to go into a home for more care. Pat felt bad for her. Carol.
They announced this A.M. that starting Mar. 15, we will have a new organist. She has subbed for us & knows the Luth. service. It will be so nice to have the organ. Just hope the next good news will be a new pastor.
Finished my puzzle & started another. This one has a lot of colored flowers so it will be hard. But I'm in no rush. Too hard so I started another one.
Barb looked over some of her clothes & has 2 big bags to be given to the Salvation Army. I should do the same. They say if you don't wear something for a y ear or so get rid of it -- they are just taking up space in the closet. The only thing for me -- sometimes I wish I still had a blouse I gave away. My closet is too crowded. I can't resist a bargain! Sometimes they don't turn out to be bargains -- I get carried away by the price.
Betty Casey told me today the USA would be at war this week. She listens to an evangelist who was using Bible passage to prove his point. It said so sin the Bible! You can prove many things by taking Bible verses out of context. Also did you know JoAnna is a Biblical name. In the 3rd chapter of Luke: "Joanna, whose husband was an officer in Herod's court...." was a follower of Jesus. The Jo and Anna aren't separated.
I really had a good laugh when I read your letter concerning the -- what do you call them, a nose razor? It was so funny & I could imagine the situation in my mind. Dad had such an implement & I still have it & use it at times. Mine is a Remington make.
More snow & enough to shovel. Lar was at Carey's & Dale is shovelling our walks. Erie was having snow as well & has 125" & if it keeps snowing in March, they could pass their high mark of 150".
Got a note from Gen. They now have a P.O. box number & John picks up the mail. I'm sure he can keep better track of bills, etc. this way. You could tell this letter wasn't Gen of past years.
It was 3 at 6 A.M. We are living thru a history-making period, weatherwise. The big cities have high snow levels & low temps. Andy & Eddie can tell their children about the snows of '03! And the lack of snow in Wis.
Just finished a note to Gen to tell her I got the change of address.
Also made out my needs for Mar. Fri after I get my hair done, I'll go to the bank for my monthly withdrawal.
The church makes out financial sheets & I noticed I didn't pay my pledge in full. After checking I realized I had increased it by 5.00 but when Jan '02 came around I hadn't remembered. So for 14 months I owed money So I'll ad some each month to make it up. The Lord has been good to me so it's only right to reflect that in my giving.
Someone was looking at Carey's house this A.M.
Last Sun nite H&G had a House Hunters, USA, showing buyers in New York City, San Fran. & New Orleans. I liked it.
Had a letter from Millie yesterday. Linda was home for a weekend & they took Gen out to lunch, then to Filene's where she bo't a pair of shoes. Millie said "I hope she will wear them." To get out of the house Millie takes the bus to the Holyoke Mall. Nice that she can get there but I'm sure she has to transfer along the way. No buses go by Gen's house so she is stranded. Maybe it's just as well as she could forget which bus to get home. I'm glad I can still walk to get my hair done; to the library & bank. Just waiting for nicer weather.
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Mister Harms has been teaching Social Studies since the turn of the century. All resources have been tried, tested, and proven to be successful by Mister Harms in his own classroom. If you’re looking for creative and engaging lessons for your classroom, you’ve come to the right place.
This back to school activity is a must have for any history or social studies class! Start the first day of school, or the first lesson, with “WHY” because students always want to know why? Why am I learning about history? Why do we have to study this stuff anyway? When am I ever going to use this in life? Isn’t history about a bunch of old dead people and things that have already happened? You’ve heard these questions before. These are great questions that should not be dismissed but rather explored. I always begin my first day of any history class going through this resource. I have found that the “WHY” must be answered before the “WHAT.” When students know why, then learning can begin. Read more about this great resource on my blog!
Oregon Trail here we come! This interactive activity about westward expansion gives students a glimpse of what life was like on the Oregon Trail! By rolling dice, keeping track of supplies, and following a map, students will get to learn about this historical event in an enjoyable way. Grouped into wagon trains, students must depend on teamwork to successfully finish the trail. This simulation is a nice complement to your existing Oregon Trail or Westward Expansion unit. It's a game, simulation, and an educational experience all in one. Come travel the Oregon Trail with this student centered lesson. It's the highlight of the year for my students as they talk about this simulation for years to come. Read more about this fun resource on my blog!
This Legislative Branch Simulation has become one of the highlights in my government class. Students love the opportunity to write bills in hopes of influencing their school, community, or state. Once a bill has passed through the entire process, many of the students' bills can actually change school policy. Our school has had numerous changes due to my 8th grade bills that became law (water bottle fountains, locker room changes, school course offerings, etc.). Learning about the law-making process is good, but actively being engaged in the process is great! This resource has even been featured on the Teachers Pay Teachers Blog! You can also read more about this Legislative Simulation on my own blog!
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Bupa employs more than 21 000 people across Australia and NZ who are all working to help people live longer, healthier, happier lives. World-wide, we employ more than 80 000 people.
Career opportunities at Bupa are endless. There are caring roles within our aged care network, jobs for health professionals within our dental clinics, optical and audiology stores and visa medical centres, marketing and communications roles in our corporate centres, customer facing employees in our stores and call centres, internships and much, much more.
Read some of their stories and learn a bit more about what it's like to have a career at Bupa below.
For a full list of vacant positions and how to apply to work at Bupa Australia, click here.
The Bupa team in Brisbane hosted a groovy International Women’s Day celebration today, paying tribute to the history of the women’s rights movement with a GoGo dancing class.
Meet Samjhana, a carer at Bupa Campbelltown, South Australia.
Samjhana shares what she loves about her role as a carer at Bupa Aged Care Campbelltown in South Australia.
Being able to help people find meaning and purpose in their lives is what gets occupational therapist Jacelyn Goh out of bed every morning.
It was a TAC ad more than 20 years ago which first had Vicky Cook thinking about the power of physiotherapy.
A warm welcome to our Bupa interns at the CareerTrackers Winter Kick-Off for 2017.
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At least， that’s the way we saw it as George finished tying the string to the red， heart-shaped box. We giggled as Ron added the final touch: two plastic red roses， glued to the lid. "I wonder what will surprise her most，" I asked as Geor豪享博娱乐城真人百家乐ge practiced jerking the box out of reach by yanking on the string. "Seeing a box of candy on her step， or watching it fly away when she tries to pick it up?"豪享博娱乐城真人百家乐Somebody said you learn how to be a mother by instinct... that somebody豪享博娱乐城真人百家乐 never took a three-year-old shopping.
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some times people do complain of mobile data not working on Samsung, teckno, infinix and other android devices. If you cannot access social media, Google Play and other websites, either through the app or the web site, or cannot load an app, you would possibly have a bad network connection. a powerful Wi-Fi or mobile data connection can assist you browse and transfer apps, and enjoy Google Play digital content. If you’re using Google Play on a Chromebook, try and fix your connection problems here.
Downloads do not begin, time out, or stay at 0.33.
You can’t load web content in a browser.
Open your Settings app Settings and so “Wireless & networks” or “Connections”. looking on your device, these choices could also be completely different.
Turn Wi-Fi off and mobile data on, and check to examine if there is a difference.
First, make sure mobile data is turned on and you’ve got a data connection.
Turn mobile data on. If it’s already on, flip it off and on once more.
Check that there’s a data indicator (for example, 2G, 3G, 4G, H) next to the signal strength bars at the top of the screen Signal.
Note that sometimes this may not show if you’ve got an active Wi-Fi connection. If this is often the case, flip Wi-Fi off and check back.
If you do not see a signal data indicator, you may be in a neighborhood without coverage. If you can, move to a distinct area (for example, go outside) and check your signal once more.
Note: If this happens plenty, contact your mobile service supplier.
Next, flip airplane mode on and off.
Open your Settings app Settings then “Wireless and Networks” or “Connections” then tap airplane Mode. reckoning on your device, these choices could also be totally different.
Check to examine if the connection issues are resolved.
If you continue to have issues when you complete these steps, contact your mobile service supplier.
confirm Wi-Fi is turned on and you’re connected.
Open your Settings app Settings then “Wireless and Networks” or “Connections” then tap Wi-Fi. reckoning onyour device, these choices could also be completely different.
Find the Wi-Fi connection indicator at the top of your screen Wi-Fi.
If this is often not displayed, or none of the bars are crammed in, you’ll be out of vary of a Wi-Fi network.
Move nearer to the router, check to examine if you’ve got a stronger Wi-Fi connection, and try once more.
Unplug the router from the electric outlet and check that the lights on the router go out.
Plug the router back in and wait thirty seconds for all the lights to come back back on.
Advanced tip: Check to see if firewalls are blocking access to ports needed by Google Play (TCP and UDP 5228).
If you continue to have connectivity problems once you complete these steps, contact your net service supplier or the host of the network. The above ways are the only ways to solve data connection problem in android mobile for now.
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It would be churlish not to welcome the government’s plan for the NHS to receive an additional £20bn by 2023. Yet there is something about the announcement that smacks of both deceit and desperation.
Much has been made already as to Theresa May’s preposterous repetition that the extra money would derive from the “Brexit dividend” as well as from unspecified new taxes. I won’t dwell on this here as the notion of a Brexit dividend has already been widely panned. The “Brexit dividend” would be better branded a “Brexit cash call,” since companies pay dividends out of profits and issue cash calls when they need to raise money. Brexit will yield only net costs, not net savings, and because all of us as taxpayers will effectively finance any extra NHS spending, this seemingly innocuous branding is important to get right.
A proper discussion about the challenges the NHS and care systems face and how they can be properly funded cannot be held often enough. It is probably one of the most important non-Brexit issues of our time. Given this, the government’s announcement deserves scrutiny. National demand for adequately funded healthcare and social care needs to be considered not only over a five-year time horizon, but over a much longer period. The respected Institute for Fiscal Studies has spelled out the realitiesof future healthcare spending. In this sense, time, the government still seems rudderless when it comes to a sensible strategy.
The key issue for our health and social care systems is the scale of the ageing society problem, which, as I have highlighted before, is unprecedented. We have no templates as to how to prepare for or manage the consequences, and know only that the status quo arrangements we have are not up to the task.
Between now and 2050, it is predicted that the UK population will grow by about 15 per cent, or a compound rate of 0.4 per cent per year. Funding the NHS if the economy is growing at 1.5 per cent a year isn’t rocket science, though that would still entail significant political questions about new sources of tax revenues and how to prioritise public spending.
Yet ageing makes it all more complicated. The age group over 65 will grow three times as quickly as the total population, and the age group over 80, six times as quickly. By 2050, the over 65 share of the population will have risen from 17 to over 25 per cent, and the share of the over 80s from less than 5 to 10 per cent. Put another way, between now and 2050 there will 7.3m more people aged over 65, and over 4m more people aged over 80. And remember, the number of working people to support each older citizen is on an inexorable path of decline.
The ageing of the population, in other words, is the defining issue when it comes to the demand for and affordability of health and social care. Empirical evidence tells us, moreover, that the cost of tending to non-communicable diseases is significantly higher when caring for older citizens than it is when looking after the health needs of children and younger adults. Preventative and social care follow the same pattern.
If we already had a fully functional and well-funded healthcare system, we would still have reason for concern. Yet our starting point is not great, according to the OECD’s 2017 Healthcare Statistics report. Using OECD data, the King’s Fund issued a reportrecently looking at the UK compared to 20 other advanced economies. Even though total health spending in the UK as a share of GDP is just under 10 per cent, more or less in line with the median estimate for the countries under review, it is less than the 11 per cent of GDP or more prevailing in Germany, France and Sweden.
It is not just that we spend less than some of our rich peers do in relation to GDP, but that these aggregate measures mask serious shortcomings when it comes to the way that resources are supplied and financed in the UK.
For example, the data show that the UK has 2.8 doctors per 1,000 of population, which is below the average level of 3.6 and third from the bottom of the list of countries compared. We have fewer nurses per head of population (7.9) than the majority of European Union countries and Australia and Canada. The UK is also close to the bottom when it comes to beds per 1,000 and to beds in long-term residential care facilities per 1,000. The Fund also drew attention to the UK’s bottom position on CT and MRI scanners per head of population, and only marginally better status on expenditure on pharmaceuticals and preventative drugs. In all these areas, we can and must do a lot better to alleviate the stress under which too many professionals work nowadays.
The question about NHS and social care under-funding is now getting a better airing, finally, but this government and its successors are going to have to try and de-politicise it and plan for it through—and not between—electoral cycles if we want to put healthcare back on a stable path. Healthcare needs to be better resourced not for the next five years but with a view to the next 25 years. We need to have a grown-up discussion about hitherto taboo topics, such as entitlement rights, the costs of healthcare provision, ways in which private and philanthropic capital could be accommodated within the NHS system without compromising its nature, and ultimately, who pays and how?
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Oct 8, 2018, 11:05 AM San Ng edited Attending BRAC University's Regional Research Workshop on Access to Justice in Asia, in Bangkok from 18-19 October 2018.
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Claire Williams says she will fight with every inch of her being to rescue her family's team from its current position in Formula One.
Williams ended a dismal 2018 campaign bottom of the standings with just seven points, continuing the slump which has followed the team finishing third in 2014 and 2015. The team also confirmed the loss of its title sponsorship deal with Martini last year, although it will announce a new one with the unveiling of its 2019 livery on Monday.
Williams' role is officially deputy principal but she is the defacto boss of the team started her by father, Frank, in 1977. Despite its current struggles it remains one of the most successful teams in the sport's history, with 114 race victories as well as nine constructors' and seven drivers' championships to its name.
The team's current predicament has increased pressure on the current management structure at the team but Williams says her motivation is as strong as ever.
"This is our family's team, so there is a lot riding on that," Williams told Racer. "One of the reasons why I took this job was to protect not just my dad's but my mom's legacy in this sport. It's a legacy that we're enormously proud of. So there's that pressure.
"And I care very deeply about the reputation of this team, I care very deeply about the people that work for us and I want to make sure that they have a team that they can be proud of and that this team survives for many, many, many years to come in our sport.
"So I have a huge personal investment, but I wouldn't be doing anything else. I love what I do, I'm very lucky to do what I do, and I actually find the challenge probably more invigorating than if we were just happily cruising around in P4 and grabbing the occasional podium.
"For me, I very much actually almost liken my journey to that when Frank started the team. We're on our uppers from a performance perspective and you have to fight hard if you're going to be successful in any sport. Because success is so incredibly rewarding, that success isn't easy to come by. Just ask Toto [Wolff, Mercedes boss], it takes an enormous amount of hard work -- luck doesn't necessarily come into it.
"I'm prepared for that and I've got my sleeves rolled up and I'm going to fight with every inch of my being in order to achieve what I want Williams to achieve and I won't give up until I do. I'll go down fighting if I have to, but I will continue to fight for this team because I believe in it. I believe it has a place in this sport, I believe it still has a very great relevance and it shouldn't be where it is at the moment."
Williams will have a new driver line-up this year. Lance Stroll has moved across to the team now owned by his father, Racing Point (formerly Force India), while Sergey Sirotkin was not retained. Instead, the team will contest the season with the returning Robert Kubica and reigning Formula 2 champion George Russell.
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Home » Blog » How Does Oral Health Affect Heart Health?
February marks the beginning of a month-long dedication to heart health. It’s officially known as American Heart Month, and its purpose is to raise awareness of the risks associated with heart disease. Many people know that things like smoking and a poor diet can cause troubles with the heart, but at our dental office in Kettering, we also know that your oral health can affect your heart health.
You may have heard the expression that the eyes are the window to the soul, and while that may be true, another part of your body can tell you a lot about your overall wellbeing. The truth is, your mouth can give your dentist in Kettering insight to other problems that may be going on in the rest of your body. More specifically, researchers have found a connection between gum disease and an increased risk for heart disease.
If you notice any of the signs of gum disease, it’s important to see your Kettering dentist as soon as possible.
The team at our Kettering dental office wants to encourage all of our patients and neighbors to practice a good oral hygiene routine at home as well as get professional teeth cleanings and dental checkups at least twice a year. These appointments can help catch and treat gum disease before it has a chance to cause bigger, more serious complications.
Don’t leave your heart at risk, call to schedule an appointment today. We have three dental offices in Middletown, Kettering, and West Chester.
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How can conflict be minimised in long-term collaborations where there is the potential to change priorities over time?
Partners who contributed to creating a collaborative initiative or who joined it early might, quite naturally, prefer to look back at the times when they were most influential and able to shape priorities and contribute significantly to achievements in which they believed.
Also, quite naturally, those who joined a collaborative initiative later may prefer to look forwards towards new approaches and ways of doing things that might increase their influence and enable them to shape priorities and achieve things important to them.
When these preferences for either the past or the future clash, they will form the basis of an often heated argument about a collaboration’s strategy: should it consolidate and build upon existing gains (so maintaining the esteem, credibility and influence of the founders and early joiners of the collaboration)? Or should it break its mould and flow into new and innovative areas of activity (so increasing the influence of the late joiners of the collaboration)?
Even when a strategy has been agreed, especially if the old or new guard feel they have won or lost the argument, the noise and conflicts from within which it was forged will continue to reverberate down the timeline of the collaboration. They will likely cause uncertainty and disagreements about the effectiveness of the collaboration and the value of its achievements. The old guard will continue to look towards the past and point to evidence that the collaboration has failed to live-up to initial expectations. The new guard, keen to introduce new ways, will point to evidence of the collaboration’s ability to move with the times.
Old and new understandings and agreements will overlay within people’s minds in the present of the collaboration, weakening its resolve and clarity of purpose.
New partners will challenge old and founding partners about their failure to do this and that in the first place: they will ‘blame it back’. Old partners will challenge new partners about their inability to do this and that now: they will ‘blame it forward’.
This mutual blaming will be at its most pronounced and dangerous when old and new partners are separated by time: when old partners have left the collaboration and are no longer directly involved in its activities.
Past partners (some of whom will be founders) will be quick to offer their opinions and advice as they watch the future of the collaboration unfold before them. They will be especially sensitive to any criticisms of their work or decision making that are offered as justifications for changes to well-established priorities, plans and practices and very quick to launch counter-blaming offences designed to undermine these justifications and question the competence of those currently doing the collaboration’s work.
In response, current partners will immediately seek to safeguard their reputations by countering the counter-blaming with increasingly strong justifications for their decisions and actions. These justifications will most likely increase past partners’ perceptions of being criticised and blamed (and separation in time could quickly become separation through antipathy).
Partners preferring and fighting for the credibility and reputation of different times, agreements and achievements (perhaps accompanied by the ill-feeling this could generate) will create an unstable and damaging ‘timeflux’ within the collaboration. This will, slowly but surely, encourage ambiguity about the ultimate worth of the collaboration’s achievements to grow within people’s minds. Eventually, this ambiguity will severely weaken the collaboration’s credibility and reputation (and, perhaps most importantly, threaten its legacy).
This situation is most obvious and likely to happen within large scale ‘mega-project’ collaborations; those likely to last for years and often decades, which means there will be much toing and froing of partners during the lifetimes of these collaborations and the type and mix of partners involved at their beginnings will be very different from that at their ends.
Being consistently open and transparent, especially about necessary changes to the work of the collaboration in response to new pressures and demands (and being patient and willing to repeat these reasons as often as required).
Having regular meetings between partners and holding ‘scouting meetings’ where old and established partners can get to know new and potential partners (and where all present can discuss current activities and how these may need to be continued, adapted, changed or added to in the future).
Ensuring meetings between partners are chaired by someone who is trusted by and credible to all, and (to further encourage transparency and promote shared accountability) giving this person the authority to approve meaningful and significant decisions at the meetings with (preferably) the explicit support of all those present (both old and new partners alike).
Noticing blaming language and behaviour and challenging it early so that it does not become a habit which could eventually lead to a damaging culture of blame.
Ensuring the leaders of the collaboration and other high profile and influential partners model a no blame culture and, where necessary, they receive help and support (including coaching and interpersonal skills training) to achieve this.
Does this resonate with your experience? Do you have other management strategies to add?
Biography: Charles M. Lines is an independent management consultant and a past Senior Lecturer at the UK Civil Service College, where he was Course Director of its partnership and collaborative working programmes. Since leaving the Civil Service well over a decade ago, he has continued to search out and share best practice in collaborative working.
Thanks for your reply Mr. Gadlin. I agree that tensions between partners are not necessarily undermining: it depends upon how they are managed, the motivations for them and what their outcomes are. Indeed, I feel that creative and perceptual tensions between partners are essential for collaborations that have to deal with wicked and stubbornly complex problems. Thanks also for pointing out that context is crucial when considering the most effective approaches to collaboration. The business and scientific worlds each have their unique cultures, traditions and drivers that will affect what does and does not work in terms of collaborative activity. That said, as your last sentence makes clear, being willing to think about how good practice in one world could be adopted and adapted by another is always likely to freshen things up and offer some helpful insights.
As for people personalising things, good old human nature will out at some point. That is, at least, my experience.
In Anna Karenina Tolstoy wrote “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” Maybe, but I am not convinced that what he said about families holds for collaborative initiatives. I would argue that generally ‘happy’ collaborations have unique ways of addressing the various challenges they face as they proceed over time. Among those challenges is the challenge of change – change in personnel, change in direction, and change in methods. What ‘unhappy’ collaborations share is the failure to manage those changes. Charles Lines correctly points to the potential tensions between those who initiate a project and those who join it after it is underway. Indeed those tensions can emerge even if there is no change in project priorities. But his post seems to imply 1) that those tensions necessarily undermine effective team functioning; 2) that oldtimers and newcomers are oriented toward personalizing differences differences in approach and; 3) that there is a linear directionality to a project. While that seems to be true for business ventures I think interdisciplinary science based collaborations have the potential to be different. To begin with, in science the very reason for assembling and maintaining an interdisciplinary team is to integrate different perspectives in order to address a complex multidimensional problem. To do that there needs to be a creative tension among perspectives and that requires promoting disagreements that are substantive, not personal. In well-functioning teams the focus is on designing research that will address the problem. Of course scientists are also subject to personal rivalries and team leaders need to be skilled at managing and diluting those rivalries. While there may well be some tensions over the direction of a project, especially as data comes in that points to problems in the initial formulation of or approach to addressing the problem, the primary issues to be addressed in a scientific collaboration are not directional but rather integrative. That said Mr. Lines five guidelines for reducing forward and backward blaming can be applicable to science based teams if we think in broader terms than blaming.
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Last night (November 1), Broad City star Ilana Glazer was scheduled for a talk at Murmrr Theatre, an event space located in Brooklyn's Union Temple. But the event was cancelled when anti-Semitic graffiti was discovered at the venue.
As the New York Times reports, a series of hateful phrases were written at various locations throughout the temple. The police department's Hate Crime Task Force is investigating the incident.
The hateful phrases written around the synagogue included "Die Jew rats," "We are here," "Hitler," "Jew Better Be Read" and "End it now."
Naturally, organizers felt unsafe and pulled the plug on the show. If it had gone ahead as planned, it would have featured Glazer in conversation with Democracy Now!'s Amy Goodman.
Glazer appeared on the show today to discuss what happened. You can listen below. The relevant section begins at the 49:37 mark.
This hate crime comes less than a week after 11 people were murdered while attending a service at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh.
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A family business is not only a financial asset, but it is a collection of values, reputation and memories. One is not just transferring wealth, but the values that are important and that the owner would like to see continued. With proper planning, management, and family relationships, many problems can be avoided in a transition of a business from one generation to the next.
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Stothers, R.B., and C.-W. Chin, 2001: Yellow hypergiants as dynamically unstable post-red supergiant stars. Astrophys. J. , 560, 934-936, doi:10.1086/322438.
According to recent tehoretical studies, the majorirt of single stars more massive than 30 M☉ successfully evolve into red supergiants but then lose mose of their hydrogen envelopes and metamorphose into hot blue remnants. While they are cool, they become dynamically unstable as a result of high radiation pressure and partial ionization of the gases in their outer layers. It is shown here that these unstable red supergiant models repeatedly shrink and reexpand on a thermal timescale when perturbed by heavy bursts of mass loss. Consequently, they fill up the domain of yellow hypergiants on the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram and display very fast rates of evolution there, as observed.
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A tourist dream vacation has to involve traveling to the blissful beaches of Bali to explore all its glorious wonders. Since going to Indonesia is said to be inexpensive, tourism has grown tremendously. This is causing a little bit of a problem.
The islands are becoming a little overcrowded with guests, and those guests don’t have proper manners. They leave behind trash that gets washed up on the shores. Well, the Bali government has found a way to fix that. Balinese regional government drafted a new law implementing a $10 tax on foreign tourists to be charged when they leave the country. “Tourists come to enjoy our environment and culture. Why not contribute to preserving it?” head of Bali’s provincial parliament I Nyoman Adi Wiryatama said.
New projections say that Bali might see over 18 million visitors in 2020, more than four times its population. Foreign tourists, not domestic visitors will only pay the tax, but there are some other details still be talked through, like how the taxes will be collected and when it will be put in place.
Bali isn’t the only part of the Asian region taking control of their tourism. Japan just put a tax in place for foreign travelers. Called a ‘sayonara’ tax, the fee is about $9 and goes toward maintaining tourist infrastructure. The tax went into effect this month and is enforced for visitors leaving by air or sea. Last year, the price went up for visitors sightseeing in India. Ticket prices increased at the Taj Mahal and the number of time visitors can spend at the site went down as a form of “flood control” to manage the popular destination.
Travelers visiting Venice for a day trip by cruise ship will be charged an $11 fee to help with the loss of hotel revenue.
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Another click-baity, reductive headline, I know. But hey, I need people like you to visit my website. Today we’re going to talk about one of the absolute basics of content hierarchy, website menus – otherwise known as the navigation – and why yours could probably be a lot more effective.
Content hierarchy is a fancy-ish way of describing how you structure the information on a website to get a desired outcome or goal from your visitors. This could be a checkout completion, a contact form submission, or communication of important information like opening hours and location.
Your primary navigation (you might call this a main menu) is the biggest influencer in how your visitors should move around your website, and so needs careful consideration to make sure it’s working as hard as possible to reach your website goal.
So here’s a list of mistakes you’re making, and how to fix them.
If a visitor is returning to your homepage after navigating a few pages on your site, chances are they’ve gotten lost. If they’ve gotten lost, they’re not having a good time and are less likely to complete a goal.
Adding a ‘home’ link to a navigation feels like admission of defeat, and is telling visitors that actually they have missed something very important on the first page. A good homepage should be directing your visitors to the relevant inner page with as little friction as possible, so why are you trying to send them back to the beginning of their journey? Stop it.
Logos linking back to the homepage are well understood to provide a link back to a homepage, and should suffice for visitors who genuinely need some information from your home page.
Imma be real now. Nobody cares about you.
I have a personal beef with ‘About Us’ pages. A brief, poorly written biography is rarely the difference between a goal completion and failure. Knowing where you went to uni doesn’t help a visitor find your shop’s opening hours, seeing that you can write CSS won’t convince me to buy a t-shirt, and yes, it’s nice that you spent a year teaching Mandarin to children in Cameroon, but that doesn’t make me want to employ you for my next copywriting job.
The about page can be a useful way for small businesses to communicate their smallness, I guess, but is it really deserving of some of the most valuable space on your website? No!
The same for galleries (which I hate on a whole other level) and blogs that are only interesting to you or people who already work for you.
Be brutal with your primary navigation, cut everything that won’t directly help you reach your goal and chuck the rest in your website footer or top bar menu.
Not every website should have the same navigation, as they don’t all have the same goal. Sure, learn from competitors and successful similar brands – but always have in mind what you want from your visitors, and what they need from you.
If your primary goal is to get people to a physical location, then including Hours & Location in your primary navigation is a good idea, as well as having this information on your homepage.
If you’re a service-based business, you want to make it as easy as pie for visitors to give you some data. Have a big ol’ link to your contact page, and make alternative contact methods super easy to find.
Sure, dicks like ASOS and Facebook make it nearly impossible for you to actually speak to a human being – but you’re lovely. Chuck your phone number, email address and yes, a contact form, all over the place so it couldn’t be easier to start a conversation.
If you are selling online, then you want to get visitors to the right product as quickly as possible. Instead of a generic ‘shop’ link, dedicate your entire navigation to product categories that immediately allow potential customers to filter their choices and reach the checkout in fewer steps.
So yes, your website menu is probably losing you sales, but it’s not that hard to fix. Put in place these 3 quick fixes and get your visitors to convert just a little easier.
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A foreboding vision of our planet's future. Manhunter: New York evolves around the life of a detective in New Your City two years after an alien invasion and consequent world takeover. Contracted by the newly founded alien dictatorship, the detective's goal is to track human activities, monitor their movements, and report subversive activities.
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Editors: Media are welcome to attend today's signing ceremony. Contact George Vlahakis at 812-855-0846 or vlahakis@iu.edu for more information.
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Indiana University's Kelley School of Business and the Indian Institute of Management-Lucknow will announce several teaching and research initiatives resulting from an agreement signed by IU President Michael A. McRobbie last year.
McRobbie signed memorandums of understanding with two IIM locations, including the one at Lucknow, during his historic trip to India with an IU delegation in August. Today, another signing ceremony will be held at the Kelley School, for an agreement that will enable the prestigious business school to make its first significant foray into the Indian market.
As a result of the partnership between the two schools, two selective, graduate-level, yearlong certificate programs in the emerging field of business analytics and global strategy will be available to about 100 students. One program will be for students enrolled at IIM-Lucknow and another will be open to working professionals in India.
"The Kelley School is on the cutting edge in the rapidly growing field of business analytics. Likewise, the Indian Institute of Management at Lucknow is widely recognized as being among the finest business schools in India and, indeed, the world," said Dan Smith, dean of the Kelley School.
"Our collaborative goal is to fundamentally advance the quality of decision-making by business leaders by improving their ability to draw meaningful insights from the massive amounts of data available to them today," Smith said. "We are indeed honored to pursue this aim with Dr. Devi Singh and his colleagues at IIM-Lucknow. We share ambitious goals and a positive entrepreneurial culture. I am confident that this partnership will be long-term and will likely give rise to other collaborations."
"Information systems and business analytics is a very strong area at Kelley," said Devi Singh, director of IIM-Lucknow. "Their experience in developing programs successfully, particularly working closely with American and multinational companies -- which have operations around the world, including in India -- is impressive.
"As organizations become more global and complex, and as data volumes grow, they will need tools to make decisions that will have great impact in the future," Singh added. "What we bring to the table is a well-trained faculty and an understanding and access to large Indian data and Indian corporations. I think it will be a good combination of our two schools and talents."
Kelley's student and faculty ties to India already were extensive. Of the more than 850 Indian students enrolled at IU, about 400 are enrolled in Kelley's graduate and undergraduate programs. In recent years, students and faculty have frequently traveled to India for classes and social entrepreneurship activities. The school has 14 faculty of Indian descent.
Munirpallam A. Venkataramanan, associate dean for academic programs at Kelley and a native of Chennai, India, is gratified by the progressive development of his school's activities in the South Asian country.
"In the changed world that we live in, the global universities not only will be here, but also be able to go to any part of the world -- not just through your students but through programs," Venkataramanan said. "It is pretty exciting. We've had a significant number of students coming in from India. ... In India, this strategy works in part because of our great alumni there who have demonstrated the value of a Kelley education."
Earlier this year, the Kelley School welcomed its new Institute for Business Analytics, which works with companies in how to best use data about their practices and consumers -- using techniques such as predictive analytics, optimization and simulation -- to make fact-based decisions that improve productivity, increase profits and create competitive advantages.
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Fort Worth Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 297, Ed. 1, Sunday, September 16, 1894, newspaper, September 16, 1894; Fort Worth, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth109956/: accessed April 22, 2019), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .
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Office Design: Office Remodel Ideas. Office Remodel Images. Business Office Remodel Ideas. Home Office Remodel Ideas. Commercial Office Remodel Ideas. Office Bathroom Renovation Ideas.
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The Palestine People's Party (PPP) denounced the latest Israeli decision to demolish five Palestinian homes in the town of Bruqin in the northern West Bank Oct. 31. Senior PPP member Isam Baker called the decision "part of the ethnic cleansing policy that is carried out by the Israeli authorities in the Palestinian territories."
See our last posts on West Bank and Palestine.
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This is a surprising pin as it is the only pin which depicts Jessica in the bath tub. She is modestly covered by white bubbles while sitting in a light green antique tub. She has one hand out and is blowing the bubbles out which leads to them about her reading, "Bubble Fun" in maroon with glitter fill.
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"As a community, we should be able to laugh at ourselves and have a good time," says Vickie Shaw, the sweet-but-not-shy lesbian comic in her Texan lilt. Shaw knows that people struggling with their sexuality need every opportunity to let loose in a comfortable environment. But she is quick to point out that her set will include material to which everyone will relate regardless of sexual orientation. "I'm not just a gay comic. I'm a woman, female, mom, grandma, menopausal comic. Much of my act is just about life." She appears June 12th at Santa Rosa's 16th annual Pride Comedy Night.
Shaw channels her frustrations into her routine with refreshing honesty. She extracted one of her favorite jokes from a delicate real-life situation. After she came out, Shaw worried about what bullies would say to her children on the playground. If one of them asked her children if it was true that their mom was gay, she instructed her children to respond, "Why, does your mom wanna date her?" Other gay parents have since confided in Shaw that they gave their children similar advice. "[Comedy] is all about pain and anger and frustration and being annoyed and pissed off, whether it's about politics or your family or your life," Shaw says. "You can either kill yourself or laugh about it."
The North Bay's LGBT community would not have access to this outlet if not for the pioneering spirits of Ellen Silver and Robyn Bramhall, who started We Mean It! Productions in 1995 to rectify the distinct deficiency of gay comedy shows in this new neck of the woods. Since then, they have spearheaded 16 Pride Comedy Night events. Bramhall says she is "excited" about this year's lineup, calling both Shaw and special guest Daniel Leary "hilarious and talented."
Leary, a young comedian with a background in theater and dance, has recently landed a job writing for Ellen Degeneres. Bramhall characterizes him as clever, imaginative and cute, too. "The guys will appreciate him," she laughs.
Vickie Shaw and Daniel Leary perform at the 16th Annual Pride Comedy Night on Saturday, June 12, at the Wells Fargo Center. GLAM presents a dance after the show. 50 Mark West Springs Road, Santa Rosa. 8pm. $19.75–$39.75. 707.546.3600.
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Dr. Abdel-Aty-Zohdy received the B.A.Sc. degree (with First Class Honors), from Cairo University, the M.A.Sc. and the Ph.D. degrees from the University of Waterloo, Canada, ALL in Electrical Engineering.
She is the Founder (1992) and Director (1995-present) of the Microelectronics System Design Laboratory at Oakland University. She is Coordinator of the Engineering Physics Program, and a Professor of Electrical Engineering in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. She is an IEEE Circuits and Systems Society’s Distinguished Lecturer (2004-2005) on: (1) Exploring the Bio-Computing Frontier, and (2) Bio-Inspired Intelligent Systems-ona- chip.
She is the elected Chair for the IEEE/SEM Section Chapter-I (on Circuits and Systems, Signal Processing, Information Theory, and Control) since 2000. She served as a Program Evaluator for the Computer Science Accreditation Commission (CSAC)/Accreditation Board (CSAB), the technical program co-chair for the IEEE Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, 2000 Track Chair 2001 and 2003, and President of the committee for future symposia. She served as the Organizer and General Chair of the Educational program for the IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC88). A member of the Steering Committee and technical program for the IEEE International Conference on Electronics Circuits and Systems, IEEE MWSCAS since 93, and the IEEE CICC. She served as a member of the Technical Program Committee for the IEEE Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI. She is a member of technical program committee for the IEEE International Conference on Microelectronic Systems Education, MWSCAS, ICECS, CICC, GLSVLSIC, and ICM.
Dr. Abdel-Aty-Zohdy served as the General Chair for the first Collaborative Technologies Workshop in 1999 at the MBH, Oakland University. She is a Member of the IEEE, Eta Kappa Nu, Sigma Xi, ACM SIGDA, AWIS Detroit Area chapter, IASTED, CSEE, EIC, and a senior member/faculty advisor (1982-98) for the Society of Women Engineers(OU).
Currently supervising 4-graduate students. Graduated Four Doctoral (Ph.D.) Students and supervised over 250 graduate and undergraduate thesis and projects.
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Congratulations are in order to New York’s most seditious daughter, Patti Smith: her memoir, Just Kids, has been nominated for the National Book Award in Nonfiction.
Just Kids is the coming-of-age chronicle of Smith’s life in 1960s-70s New York City and her inspiring relationship with provocative photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. The pair first met as poor, ambitious young adults in Brooklyn and bound together, first romantically and then as deep friends, to climb up into the fabled bohemian whirlwind of Hotel Chelsea, Max’s Kansas City, and Andy Warhol’s Factory. Their artistic kinship manifested many times over in their lives, most famously in her iconic album Horses (with Mapplethorpe’s cover photo), before Mapplethorpe died of complications from AIDS in 1989.
“The boy I had met was shy and inarticulate. He liked to be led, to be taken by the hand and enter wholeheartedly another world. He was masculine and protective, even as he was feminine and submissive. Meticulous in his dress and demeanor, he was also capable of a frightening disorder within he work. His own worlds were solitary and dangerous, anticipating freedom, ecstasy, and release.
Sometimes I would awaken and find him working in the dim light of votive candles. Adding touches to a drawing, turning the work this way and that, he would examine it from every angle. Pensive, preoccupied, he’d look up and see me watching him and he’d smile. That smile broke through anything else he was feeling or experiencing – even later, when he was dying, in mortal pain.
The National Book Award winners will be announced on November 17.
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GoffonRugby: Can USA Rugby Host RWC 7s?
Chad Keck has joined the USA Rugby Board, replacing Bill Middleton, and this former captain of West Point and the Harvard Business School rugby teams has a job to do – get the 2018 7s World Cup in the USA.
For years, whenever we talk about a major international event coming to the USA (in addition to the USA 7s, already here), the 7s World Cup seems to make the most sense.
It doesn’t require, as the 15s World Cup requires, a multi-city, multi-venue offering. It’s not two months, it’s three days. The question is, can USA Rugby execute it?
The short answer is, no, they can’t, not unless they, like every other major event hosting governing body, enlist the help of private and public organizations. USA Rugby is still dipping their toes into major event management. Houston was a huge success in terms of crowds and interest, but that was in large part thanks to the partners on the ground. The USA v. Tonga match in Carson, Calif. was nowhere near the same – actually as an event you’d have to call it a disappointment - because USA Rugby resources were devoted more to Houston, and the local partners weren’t as engaged.
One of USA Rugby’s greatest failings as an organization is the desire to be all things to all people, and thus take control of a venture rather than work with others to make something better. The Super League wasn’t made better by being under USA Rugby’s umbrella. It wasn’t made worse, either. Private enterprises such as the USA 7s, CRC, and the boys and girls High School invitationals have done just fine. The HS NITs were arguably better, both organizationally and financially, for not having USA Rugby involved.
But it should be somebody – a state sports commission plus a knowledgeable group dedicated to this effort will be needed.
To make a 2018 RWC 7s work, you need an awesome venue. The United States does have the opportunity to put the last two tournaments to shame. Moscow had a lot going for it, but its stadium is massive – too massive – and its surrounding fields a bit of an afterthought. As a result, there was no video broadcast of the secondary field, and Luzhniki Stadium always appeared completely empty. It was, actually, really sad, and drastically detracted from the spectacle.
In Dubai the complex gave more of a nod to Field 2, but the complex is a bit bare bones in many respects. USA could do much better.
Now, what I wish is for a dedicated 7s stadium to be built. For this to work, it would need two fields, with good stands for both, plenty of space for fans to relax and take a break – out of the sun. You need space for teams to warm up in (Moscow had lots, Dubai almost none), and locker room facilities for 40 teams. It’s a massive undertaking, but could be possible if done right.
We know we can’t build such a venue, but maybe you can find it. There are many venues that could serve, but the key is you need two playing surfaces, the secondary venue has to be within walking distance, preferably right next door, the field has to be nice, and it has to be more than just a field with a few temporary seats thrown up.
And then you have to have that venue in a place that can accommodate hotels, training facilities, TV, and internet, and is relatively easy to get to so fans will show up.
What you can’t do is just shrug at Field #2 and accept any old thing. What you can’t do is have an enormous stadium that echoes with emptiness. And especially for American rugby in general, what you can’t do is promise a lot and not deliver.
And company associations aside, what they should do is at least meet with the United World Sports guys to find out how it’s been done, and how it all could be better.
So it’s a good thing that someone with Chad Keck’s background is involved in the game, and that he’s also not just hanging around wondering what to do. He has a task before him, and a worthy one. The question is, will Keck, Nigel Melville, Kevin Robert, and USA Rugby ask for help?
We know they will need it.
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Medium - $56.99 Only 5 left! Large - $56.99 Only 3 left!
In a galaxy far, far away there is an evil force trying to gain power and control the universe. This force is called the Sith and there can be only two at a time, a master and an apprentice. The master teaches the apprentice all the ways of the Sith until the moment where the apprentice takes over. One of the scariest villains to ever be a Sith warrior was the apprentice of Darth Sidious, Darth Maul. He wielded a double bladed lightsaber and had a passion for destroying the Jedi. Now your little one can look like vicious Sith Lord in this Star Wars themed costume!
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So colored eggs could blend in better with the nest, giving them a better chance for survival. So she and some colleagues studied 66-million-year-old egg fossils, searching for the two pigments - a red one and a blue one - that are known to mix and match in bird eggs, creating all of the lovely colors.
No hint of pigment was detected in the eggs of several herbivorous long-necked sauropods or a duck-billed dinosaur Maiasaura, suggesting these species-which are on more distant branches of the dinosaur family tree-had white eggs that they buried in the ground like modern-day turtles.
"The egg colors of birds reflect characteristic preferences in nesting environments and brooding behaviors", Yale explained. Additionally, the mechanisms by which the eggs received their color seems to be identical between birds we see today and dinosaurs from millions of years ago. As part of a new study, published recently in the journal Nature, Wiemann and her colleagues expanded their research to include eggshells from 15 Cretaceous dinosaurs and extinct birds, along with the eggs of living birds like chickens, emus and terns, reports John Pickrell of Science. According to a new scientific report, dinosaurs also invented - or, if you want to get technical, first evolved - eggs of different colors.
For an instance, the predator named Deinonychus had a blue egg with brown blotches and the bird-like Oviraptor, famous for its toothless beak, had eggs that were dark blue in colour. That was intriguing. Still, it was just one dinosaur.
"We infer that egg color co-evolved with open nesting habits in dinosaurs", Wiemann said. The researchers will now need a larger sample of eggshells to analyze.
The red-brown and blue-green pigments were present, however, in eggshells from the group of dinosaurs that includes birds and their close relatives. The analysis revealed spotted and speckled patterns, deposited in a very similar fashion to what is observed in modern bird eggs. They also describe "identical mechanisms of pigment deposition in nonavian and avian dinosaur eggs".
"Dinosaur eggs could have been camouflaged, they could have been individually recognized, they could have been mimetic", says Hauber. Scientists used to think colored egg shells evolved with modern birds.
JASMINA WIEMANN: This dinosaur is particularly interesting because oviraptors were the first dinosaurs that built open nests. And the presence of speckling raises the possibility there may have been nest parasites long before the appearance of birds - the cuckoo dinosaur.
China's manufacturing growth slowed for the second straight month in October, dragged down by its trade dispute with the US. Investors awaited industry data on US crude inventories, due to be released at 4:30 p.m.
Celtics: Boston's previous franchise record for 3-pointers was 19, done twice, most recently January 16 in a win over New Orleans. Boston improved to 6-2 with its fourth straight win and will go on to play the Pacers in Indianapolis on Saturday night at 7:30.
In a legal first for Australia, Graham Morant was charged with counselling and aiding his wife to suicide in 2014. Mr Morant claimed he had been acting through compassion when he talked her into killing herself.
Last May, a gunmen attacked a bus carrying Coptic Christians in a similar attack to Friday's in the same Minya province. Earlier Friday, the church television channel had said 10 people were killed.
Alec Baldwin has been arrested following a dispute over a parking spot near his New York City home. He was charged with battery, and later acquitted, in a case involving a photographer in the '90s.
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When you have a maintenance contract with Vipond you have one point of contact for all of your various systems, regardless of your locations in the UK and Ireland.
Vipond also provide a 24 hour emergency call out system, with mechanical & electrical engineers on standby 365 days a year – to ensure minimum down time for your systems in the event of an emergency.
All service contracts are carried out in accordance with the latest British Standards, ISO, and LPC, FM and NFPA rules where applicable.
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Discussion in '1st Gen. Tacomas (1995-2004)' started by carolinaTRD, Oct 3, 2010.
completed my first "mod" today. de-badged it, only badge i left on was the tacoma badge which i painted black. going to paint the toyota symbol on the grill black tomorrow. before and after pics to come tomorrow.
do the deckplate next, it rocks.
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SOUTH EAST ASIA - Nguyen Van Hung, Genesus Technical Sales Manager for Vietnam, attended the Embassy of Canada roundtable meeting with the Honourable Lawrence MacAulay, Minister of Agriculture and Agri-food Canada (AAFC), on 28 February in Hanoi, writes Paul Anderson, General Manager, South East Asia.
Tran Tuan Anh, the Trade Commissioner for the Embassy of Canada in Vietnam, also led a visit to Genesus customer DABACO the day prior to the roundtable meeting. The delegation was very interested in Genesus’ business with DABACO, which is highlighted by the very recent arrival of 775 head of Genesus registered purebred swine from Manitoba in Canada to the quarantine farm prior to entering the DABACO nucleus herd in Bac Ninh Province.
For Genesus, there is nowhere more important to be every other year in March than VIV Asia in Bangkok, Thailand. This year was no exception. VIV Asia is the largest international platform for Southeast Asia’s booming animal protein production and processing industry. VIV Asia has propelled itself to become the most important gateway to Asia’s emerging markets for professionals from throughout Asia involved in producing and processing animal proteins. Genesus staff had 3 excellent days at VIV Asia supported by staff from our Thai distributors. We met many global customers, contacts and friends in the trade. I guess we are all hoping that we never experience the lack of organisation at Bang Na Sky Train station, causing long, hot, sweaty and frustrated crowds at the end of the first day.
During the morning of the 2nd day, one of our distributors, Vet Inter, organised a meeting in the nearby Maple Hotel which was a perfect choice for a Canadian company. I gave a 90 minute presentation on the topic "why Genesus is the answer for the swine farm in Thailand”. The meeting was well attended by more than 70 Thai farmers. Finally, we enjoyed a delicious Thai buffet lunch before heading to Bitec for VIV Asia.
The middle stop for the this business trip to Asia was Manila in the Philippines, where besides the usual business meetings to further grow the Genesus business, Mike Van Schepdael (the Vice President of Genesus) and myself were fortunate to be invited to the swine production performance monitoring project annual presentation of the 2016 swine production performance monitoring data at club Filipino in Manila. The focus of this swine association is to work together to benchmark and improve their swine performance levels by focusing on their weak areas and beat agreed set targets. Each member submits their performance which then forms part of this swine performance data. After this meeting, every member will get a follow up visit to discuss their results, especially the weak areas, and what improvements can be made. Prior to the main event, there were some presentations including increased productivity and efficiency through DNA marker selection in swine breeding. Just prior to the setting of targets for 2017 was refreshments sponsored by Atlas Nutrition. The liveweight pig price is currently at a profitable level in Luzon of 126 PHP (2.50 USD).
Final stop of this business trip was to visit some of our new potential clients with Nguyen Van Hung in the South of Vietnam. Although the industry is positive and the large scale producers continue to expand, they are currently experiencing a liveweight pig price as low as 32,000 VND (1.40 USD) with an average breakeven of around 39,000 VND (1.71 USD) giving a current loss of up to 34 USD.
The pig price and profitability varies more Country to Country in S.E. Asia than the temperature, which was mainly between +30 and 34 degrees Celsius. These hot and humid climates challenge the performance and health status of the pig. At Genesus we just see this as opportunity with our high appetite, easy breeding genetics. We are honoured to be associated with several leading swine businesses in S.E. Asia and all of these are producing well at between 28 and 31 PWSY.
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Assoc. Dir. Admissions, Recruiting, Corp. Dev.
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Create your own inner beauty palette by selecting 2 spiritual treatments. Make your selection from: Angelic Reiki, Crystal Healing, Intuitive Tarot or Messages from the Angels.
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Angelic Reiki, Intuitive Tarot + Messages from the Angels can all be received remotely. Whereas in-person is recommended for Crystal Healing sessions.
For further information or to make your booking, please contact me here.
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Listen to your requested song being played for you by FayFay & Ladani.
Download the Urban96 Apps via Google Play or iOS app store and make use of the ‘send voice message’ option or record a voice note telling us your name, hood you rep and song banging in your head then send to bimh@urban96.fm.
Listen to this week’s episode of BIMH.
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Just completed this beautiful 1971 Schwinn Grey Ghost. We took care to restore this Classic bike to match all of the factory specifications. Check out the Gallery! Be sure to subscribe to our email list for all upcoming projects.
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Margaret Simek’s name is well-known and widely respected among dog sports enthusiasts and professional trainers. Margaret’s One Happy Dog trainer seminars and sports camps, and online classes for trainers sell out regularly, and many a trainer has Margaret to thank for their canine sports titles.
Margaret has more than a few titles herself—in obedience, hunting, tracking, and Nosework. And what’s particularly impressive as you consider her list is that they’ve been achieved with non-traditional breeds, including a rescued American Staffordshire Terrier, Jack Russell Terrier, Chesapeake Bay Retriever, Brittany Spaniel, and Australian Shepherd. She’s also used only positive methods—something that for many years traditional trainers said couldn’t be done.
Margaret’s passion for putting positive training methods to their most effective use infuses every private session, class, and workshop she teaches. She stresses efficiency and clarity in training, employing strategies that give the dog the most freedom of choice so that they truly learn. Margaret avoids nagging, “popping,” and scaring dogs, as these methods slow the learning process and get in the way of a well-functioning dog-and-human team.
Based on these concepts, Margaret has pioneered the Simek Method of Nosework training, using operant conditioning to teach dogs to choose odor over food, and using early proofing to stay at the source for rewards. By the time dogs begin searching, they know exactly what to do. It’s a prime example of clarity of task—a foundation of Margaret’s success in both training and teaching.
Training happens at both ends of the leash, and Margaret spends just as much time and passion on her teaching of humans as she does the training of dogs. Margaret isn’t just a great dog trainer herself—she knows how to make great dog trainers of others. She understands that good teaching is about starting where you are and moving forward at the right pace for you, and she takes equal joy in watching dog owners learn to turn their dogs on, in watching novice sports students get hooked, in watching trainers reach new heights of skill and achievement.
As Margaret likes to say, “Excellent training produces excellent behavior.” And excellent training should be fun for dog and human alike. Whether you’re working with Margaret one-on-one on a pet dog problem, taking your first (or 10th!) Nosework class, or attending a trainer seminar or camp, you’re going to do some excellent training and have some excellent fun doing it. And her own commitment to excellence includes ongoing attendance of professional development seminars in the quest to constantly increase her own skills.
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If you are planning to buy almond butter online you might be looking for ways to use it. Here are 9 recipes to use your best almond butter in India.
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ANCHOR LEAD: As millions of children head back to school this month, many of their parents are considering their own education options… and with good reason. Brian Osuch has more. (:60) SCRIPT: Education Now, I'm Brian Osuch. Times are a changing. While college enrollment in the U.S is on the rise, the real increase is with students over the age of 25 who are trying to balance work, family and other obligations with their desire for higher education. Michael Philips is with the University of Phoenix. And he says the University uses technology to support educational ambitions. CUT: (Philips) Well, schools now offer a variety of online and campus course offerings and technology is really playing a huge role in the evolution of higher Ed and the ways that we learn. At the University of Phoenix for example we don't just use technology; we really integrate or embrace it in all aspects of our approach. SCRIPT: Philips says the University of Phoenix has really pioneered many of the techniques that are considered best practices in higher Ed learning. Michael, where can people go for more information? CUT: (Philips) Phoenix-dot-edu; and there are all types of tools and ways to get information on that particular website. SCRIPT: That's Education Now from the University of Phoenix. I'm Brian Osuch.
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It was a poor performance by Canada to end the tour but they managed to get by Scotland 28-25 to claim the win. It was Scotland ahead 15-14 at the half and it was Canada's forwards who kept them in the match, the backline performance was worrying and Canada will have to improve their consistency in backline attack to challenge the top 3 and keep ahead of the chasing pack, including Scotland.
Canada's aggression and line speed on defence was down a notch from the Wales game and there was no hint of the exquisite try they produced to end the match against Wales.
Canada scored first in the 2nd half using a strong scrum and grinding forward play once they got close to the Scottish line. The Scottish forwards returned the favour after a line break through a porous Canadian backline put them in attacking position. Canada made a great steal at the breakdown but the referee, who was more one eyed than the jack of hearts, decided a ruck had formed. One of several shady calls by the ref in the game. The score was now 21-20 in Canada's favour.
Canada again scored through the forwards with pick and goes and crossed the line, it was wise to keep the ball away from the backs on today's form. It was now 28-20 for Canada with 20 minutes left. On the ensuing kickoff a perfect example of how Canada's day was going, they worked their way outside their 22 through several phases with the forwards when it got passed back inside the 22 the flyhalf kicked it straight into touch gifting Scotland an attacking position inside Canada's 22. They stayed there using a balanced attack to batter it ahead in the forwards and spread it wide through the backs eventually crossing the line and closing the gap once again. It was now 28-25 and Scotland's poor kicking for goal would be the difference in the match.
Another palm to the forehead moment at 65 minutes when the replacement scrum half box kicked the ball straight into touch from outside her 22 and it felt like deja vu. Canada managed to keep Scotland out and went on attack, Scotland's defence was swarming and the ref started looking away when hands in the ruck slowed down Canada's ball.
Scotland almost wrapped the game up when Canada's blindside flanker missed a key tackle with 6 minutes left but good cross cover from Elise Allarie who had subbed in saved the day. The Scotland player knocked the ball on during the next phase as she was crossing the line. That would have been the win for Scotland. They had one more chance to tie the match with a penalty kick in front of the posts but the kicker shanked the ball. Canada were very fortunate to come away with this win.
Canada are currently ranked 4th and Scotland 11th. The next World Cup will be much more competitive and Canada will have to develop a cohesive backline attack to remain competitive with the top teams, they have the tough forwards but coaching staff will have to continually work on focused defensive line speed throughout 80 minutes.
The next World Cup is 2021 in NZ so it's still early in the cycle with a chance to identify new talent and develop existing talent.
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The latest Words Without Borders is out: Writing from the Silk Road, featuring fiction, poetry and non-fiction from Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Georgia, Kazakhstan and Xinjiang, China. Half of the work was actually written in Russian while the other three pieces were translated from Uzbek, Georgian and Uyghur.
Exiled Uzbek writer Hamid Ismailov, who has a poem here, has appeared in English before. His novel The Railway was published in an English translation by Robert Chandler in 2007.
Uyghur poet Exmetjan Osman’s work has also appeared online in translation before by Joshua Freeman, who translated his poem for WWB and wrote a fascinating introduction describing the modernist school of poetry Osman founded – the “gungga (‘hazy’) movement in Uyghur poetry” and how he left Xinjiang to study in Damascus in the 80s. (Introduction and poems can be found here).
Photo – Politicians in an Opium Shop, Tashkent, by Vasily Vereshchagin, 1870 (proof that being a politician might once have been much more fun than it is today – or, on the other hand, that it was just as dreadful and that politicians knew how to dull the pain and didn’t need to worry about being hounded by reporters and their cameras).
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Corporate fleece jackets help your brand stand above the crowd by giving a thoughtful gift that is high on utility and style. Personalise this snug and cosy jacket that is light yet warm to be worn in extreme winter as well as while driving to protect from wind.
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We have a large national tenant in one of our centers, and that tenant blew a deadline for giving a certain notice under their lease. It's not subject to serious dispute, although they're disputing it. If we're right, this will cost them large coin. It may wind up in court, and I will cheerfully present our position there, because it's not a close call.
I have one tiny heartbeat of compassion -- some poor person on the other side, a paralegal, an assistant director of lease administration, maybe an attorney -- dropped the ball on this. And they are going to suffer, unless I miss my guess.
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Worlds apart, close to home.
Refugees from three countries this week gathered in the childhood home of US president Donald Trump and nibbled on Dunkin’ Donuts. It was a clever bit of political theatre in Queens, New York, as world leaders convened 12 miles away at the United Nations to discuss, among other things, refugee crises around the globe.
Anti-poverty organization OxFam was behind the rental, which was booked through Airbnb and timed to coincide with this week’s meeting of the UN General Assembly (UNGA).
“What better place to show world leaders the value of a safe, welcoming home for those fleeing unthinkable situations than the childhood home of the US president,” the organization says on its website.
Of course, choosing Trump’s childhood home was a very deliberate move by OxFam. During the 2016 presidential campaign Trump was outspoken about keeping Muslim refugees out of the US, even as Syria faced one of the worst humanitarian crises in recent years. And the president has stuck to his position since entering office, saying allowing more refugees into the US would increase the risk of terrorism.
On Monday, The New York Times (paywall) discovered the White House rejected a US Department of Health and Human Services study that found refugees brought in about $63 billion in additional government revenue over the past 10 years. Other world leaders don’t expect any immediate change in Trump’s stance, as spotlighted today (Sept. 19) in UN secretary general António Guterres’ first General Assembly speech. Also in New York for the UNGA, Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina told Reuters she did not expect Trump to offer help as thousands of Rohingya Muslims flood across the border from Myanmar.
So as Trump mingles with other world leaders, refugees from Syria, Somalia, and Vietnam will be gathered in his childhood home to make a political statement.
The Trump administration is expected to announce how many refugees the US will resettle in 2018. Some anticipate the number will be capped at about 50,000 people—less than half the number admitted under former president Barack Obama in 2016.
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Here in this galley you will find just a few of the assorted alien masks and alien costumes we have available.
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Superb navy jogging pants, for girl.
Its particularity : it is all over printed with flower patterns and dots.
It has 2 pockets, pink inside, and a lovely bow on the waistband and a nautical patch in the back.
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I laughed out loud, as I recall. Easily amused? Maybe. I didn’t get out much as a teenager. But 50 years later, this scene still makes me smile.
At the time, it was a good perspective realignment for a stuffy teenager inclined to take everything, including myself, too seriously. After all, Eugenia—she of the dull dresses as a matter of principle—was an unattractive character: judgmental, small-minded, unable to enjoy the fun of life, and prone to sucking the fun out for everyone else, too.
Sophy, by contrast, was an engaging, larger-than-life character who did everything in style, whether that was saving a naïve young cousin from a moneylender’s clutches, or dressing for dinner.
However improbable the characters, the message was clear. Forget all self-importance and pomposity, and just be in the moment. Do what each moment demands—what’s important in each situation—and it will all be good. Right?
Sort of. There’s just one thing. Life’s moments don’t just happen: I make choices that shape the situations I’m in and, therefore, what the moment demands of me.
I choose to eat out or to carry meals to shut-ins. To watch TV or an online university course. To meet friends-like-me for a drink or to start a book club in my multicultural community. To edit sales proposals or academic texts. To write fluff or to write my heart.
Not all my choices must be selfless. But some should be, so that my life isn’t just about me.
Not all my choices must be high-minded. But some should be, so that my life isn’t just about the superficial.
Moment by moment, day by day, year by year, the choices add up.
Be in the moment? Yes.
Choose the moments? Yes, that too.
Living for the moment is really tough. It would require NOT thinking down the flow chart of unfolding possibilities. If this moment is all that counts, I might well have another beer with a friend before driving home. But if I then drive while impaired, and hit a girl walking home by the side of the road…. On the other hand, worrying about a possible car accident could rob me of the last time I have a beer with that friend, because he dies of a heart attack next week….
Damn! You’ve made me think again.
Jim – Sorry about that! But I think Sophy was talking about giving each moment its due, not living as if there were nothing beyond this moment. That shouldn’t lead to impaired driving.
Um, I think Isabel means being mindful in the moment. Making the wiser choices but not necessarily conventional choices, not just going with the flow.
Laurna – Yes. Being mindful of the immediate demands (and not being too stuffy to attend to them), while not getting caught up in them to the exclusion of all else.
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