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BERLIN — Ivanka Trump drew groans and hisses Tuesday from an audience in Berlin while defending her father’s attitude toward women, but she brushed it aside as “politics” during her first overseas trip as a White House adviser.
Appearing on a high-powered panel at a conference to push for more support for women in business, Trump also said she was still trying to define her place in her father’s administration.
“I am rather unfamiliar with this role as well, as it is quite new to me, it’s been a little under 100 days,” she said.
Trump has been a vocal advocate for policies benefiting working women and vocational training. But she also has faced criticism in the United States, particularly from those who think she has done little to temper her father’s conservative agenda.
Sharing a stage with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, International Monetary Fund director Christine Lagarde, Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland and others, Trump was asked by the moderator whom she was representing — President Donald Trump, the American people, or her own business interests.
“Certainly not the latter,” Trump said,
As Trump described her father as “a tremendous champion of supporting families and enabling them to thrive,” she drew scattered groans and hisses from the audience, prompting moderator Miriam Meckel to press her for a response.
“You hear the reaction from the audience, so I need to address one more point: Some attitudes toward women your father has publicly displayed in former times might leave someone questioning whether he is such an empowerer for women,” said Meckel, the editor of a business magazine and a professor of corporate communications at a Swiss university. “Are things changing?”
Trump replied: “I’ve certainly heard the criticism from the media, and that’s been perpetuated.”
She added that her own personal experience and the fact that “thousands” of women have worked with and for Donald Trump for decades in the private sector “are a testament to his belief and solid conviction in the potential of women and their ability to do the job as well as any man.”
“He encouraged me and enabled me to thrive,” Trump said. “I grew up in a house where there was no barrier to what I could accomplish beyond my own perseverance and my own tenacity.”
There was, she stressed, “no difference between me and my brothers. And I think as a business leader you saw that, and as a president you will absolutely see that.”
Talking later to a small group of reporters, Trump said she was unfazed by Meckel’s direct questions in a public forum.
“I’m used to it. It’s fine,” she said, and also shrugged off the audience’s reaction.
“Politics is politics, as I’m learning, and there are many different viewpoints and people with different options and perspectives,” she said.
Trump, who promoted child care and family leave policies during her father’s campaign, also told reporters that child care “is going to be part of comprehensive tax reform.”
Before the event, the president tweeted that he is “proud of @IvankaTrump for her leadership on these important issues.”
The 35-year-old Trump stepped away from both running her fashion brand and from an executive role at the Trump Organization to become an unpaid White House adviser, but she continues to own her lifestyle brand, which allows her to profit off her rising profile and has prompted criticism from ethics experts.
She said she was “humbled to be here with so many formidable leaders” and would bring their advice and knowledge back to her father.
“This is very early for me; I’m listening, I’m learning, I’m defining the ways in which I think that I’ll be able to have an impact,” Trump said.
During Merkel’s visit to Washington in March, she organized a discussion with the German leader, her father, and U.S. and German executives about how companies can better train workers.
On Tuesday’s panel, she applauded a suggestion for a special fund to be created to help female entrepreneurs secure international funding, adding that more needs to be done to help in the U.S.
“We are not where we need to be,” she said.
Later, Siemens CEO Joe Kaeser gave Trump a tour of a Berlin training centre run by the German industrial conglomerate. Germany is proud of its vocational training system, and Trump has said she hopes to learn from German successes.
Siemens said it has some 12,000 young people worldwide, including 9,000 in Germany, in programs that combine study with practical training.
Before heading to a formal dinner, Trump visited the capital’s memorial to the 6 million Jews murdered by the Nazis. Trump converted to Judaism herself ahead of her 2009 marriage to Jared Kushner, also a White House adviser.
During the 25-minute visit, Trump walked slowly through the field filled with concrete slabs. She was accompanied by U.S. Embassy personnel and a strong police guard to keep curious tourists and others at a distance.
She paused occasionally to look at the slabs, meant to symbolize the chaos of the Holocaust, and donned sunglasses before emerging on the other side of the monument to a crush of cameras and onlookers. | <urn:uuid:051dbb63-816d-416c-8f6b-4ccbdd141dbf> | CC-MAIN-2018-30 | https://www.macleans.ca/politics/worldpolitics/ivanka-trump-met-with-groans-as-she-defends-father-in-berlin/ | 2018-07-16T01:26:51Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-30/segments/1531676589029.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20180716002413-20180716022413-00177.warc.gz | en | 0.977983 | 1,169 |
Tonight's News Ten Neighborhood Crime Watch comes with a heads-up from the Clinton County Sheriff's Office.
There was a breaking and entering yesterday afternoon in the 14-thousand block of South Wacousta Road.
An un-locked slider door let a thief break-in,, they stole a large plasma television.
An older red Jeep Grand Cherokee was seen in the area at the time.
Jackson Police continue to deal with counterfeit twenty dollar bills, a suspect attempted to pass one at the Admiral Gas Station on North West Avenue.
In the 700 block of First Street a suspect was staying at his girlfriend's apartment when the girlfriends roommate located a gun there,,, which Jackson Police determined was stolen in a prior breaking and entering.
That suspect is still on the loose.
From the Eaton County Sheriff's Office, there were three daytime breaking and enterings in the 97-hundred,,, 36-hundred and 15-hundred blocks of East Vermontville Highway.
In each case money and jewelry was stolen, the money consisted of of a lot of two-dollar bills.
The thieves passed up on taking guns and electronics.
The Ingham County Sheriff's Office took a report of a theft from a vehicle in the 36-hundred block of Quadrille, in Delhi Township, C-D's, a vehicle registration, and a duffel bag were taken.
Also from Delhi, a vehicle parked in the 26-hundred block of Aurelius Township had a purse, credit cards and a camera stolen from it. | <urn:uuid:684d2bef-bef6-4bce-88c7-ff4f55c5104f> | CC-MAIN-2016-30 | http://www.wilx.com/news/crime/headlines/64414987.html?site=mobile | 2016-07-28T16:28:16Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-30/segments/1469257828286.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20160723071028-00158-ip-10-185-27-174.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968108 | 319 |
Jul. 15/14 sports GamesYou are a professional bike racer. Today you accepted a difficult challenge: you must ride your bike along the off road and to earn as much money as you can. Try not to crash into anything, because you have only one attempt per track. Good luck!
Play Games, Earn Prizes, Chat with Friends and more!
All games and trademarks are copyright their respective owners.if you feel Dirtbike Racing has been used without proper permission. | <urn:uuid:b1efccdf-10a6-480c-ac35-8a4463d369a2> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://www.kanogames.com/play/game/dirtbike-racing | 2022-01-24T06:40:02Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320304515.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20220124054039-20220124084039-00568.warc.gz | en | 0.960034 | 110 |
The Commercial Diver Network
As you can see this week another commercial diver lost is live in Chili due to a Delta P.
As Hal pointed out in is paper this phenomena is among the ones that cause the most lethal accident in our community and yet in most cases it could be prevented.
As promised, thanks to the help of Hal Lomax I’ve now finished the translation of my French doc**ent about these risks.
You may download it for free via the Facebook button by clicking on the following link.
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Programming With Cocoa
by Christopher Roach
An Introduction to RubyCocoa, Part 1
This article, and the second installment that follows next week, can be considered the fourth and fifth in a series covering Ruby programming on Mac OS X. However, unlike the first three articles of this series, this tutorial can be used as a standalone piece. You only need some knowledge of the Ruby programming language with a little prior experience in Xcode to understand the content found here.
That being said, if you wish to pursue Ruby programming further, feel free to check out my first three articles in the series on GUI programming with Ruby/Tk. Also, if you don't have much experience with Ruby, my first article is a handy tutorial of some of the basics. So, with all of that out of the way, let's jump into today's text.
What is RubyCocoa?
RubyCocoa is a framework that provides a bridge between the Ruby programming language and the Cocoa framework of the Mac OS X operating system. This framework allows you to create Mac OS X native, Cocoa-based applications using Ruby. It was created by Hisakuni Fujimoto and is currently in version 0.4.0. It seems to be pretty stable for application development.
In this article I hope to demonstrate the uses of this framework through the creation of a simple GUI for the Unix
tar program. First, I'll cover the installation of the RubyCocoa framework, then some of the basics of using the framework. Finally, I'll demonstrate how to create the
tar GUI using Xcode, Ruby, and the RubyCocoa framework.
If all goes well, when you're finished with this tutorial, you'll have both a working knowledge of developing Cocoa-based applications with Ruby, and a functioning application for creating and extracting
tarred and compressed files.
Getting and Installing RubyCocoa
I wrote this article, and the program for it, on my PowerBook G4 running Mac OS X 10.3.5, and as such I have based my installation instructions on these parameters. If you are running the Jaguar version of OS X, you may want to try installing RubyCocoa using the disk image provided here. However, if you are running Panther, as I am, you may find it necessary to download and install the latest Panther version from the CVS repository. To do this, open up an instance of the Terminal application and type in the following commands, ignoring the dollar marks ($), of course.
$ cvs -d:pserver:firstname.lastname@example.org:/cvsroot/rubycocoa login $ cvs -z3 -d:pserver:email@example.com:/cvsroot/rubycocoa co \ -P -r branch-devel-panther -d rubycocoa-panther src $ cd rubycocoa-panther $ cvs update -d -P
Once you have the Panther version of the RubyCocoa framework, you can install it by typing in the following commands at the same command prompt (make sure you are still in the rubycocoa-panther directory created during the CVS session).
$ ruby install.rb config $ ruby install.rb setup $ sudo ruby install.rb install
The best way to find out if everything installed correctly is to open up Xcode and select "New Project" from the "File" menu. You should see in the "New Project" dialogue a couple of choices under "Application" with the titles "Cocoa-Ruby Application" and "Cocoa-Ruby Document-based Application." If so, you've installed everything correctly. You can cancel out of the dialogue and read on to get the basics down.
The RubyCocoa framework forms a bridge between the Cocoa classes in Objective-C and their Ruby representations. All of the classes available in the Cocoa framework can be found in the RubyCocoa module
OSX, which can be mixed-in to our classes to give them access to everything the module provides.
Methods in Objective-C have a strange syntax to those of us used to just about any language outside of Smalltalk. It uses spaces and colons to denote the different parameters that will be passed into the method at invocation. Thus, a typical Objective-C method call looks like the following code sample:
[oPanel runModalForDirectory:self file:nil types nil]
In RubyCocoa it can be rewritten using two different techniques. The first replaces all of the colons and spaces with underscores so that the same method looks like the following in Ruby:
oPanel.runModalForDirectory_file_types(self, nil, nil)
The other technique can be used to make a little more sense of method names that are extremely long. Using this technique, the method name consists of everything in the Objective-C method's name up to the first detached parameter name. The rest of the parameter names are moved into the argument list. Thus, every argument after the first is prefaced with another argument that is a Ruby symbol with the same name as the parameter it represents. It sounds confusing, I know, but the example below shows you how easy it is once you get used to the syntax.
oPanel.runModalForDirectory(self, :file, nil, :types, nil)
Another gotcha that you'll come across when using RubyCocoa is in the values returned by the Cocoa methods. Cocoa methods will return a Cocoa value and not its Ruby counterpart. Thus, when a method returns a string or an array, it is returning an
NSString or an
NSArray and not their Ruby equivalents. In order to manipulate these properly you will need to convert them into their Ruby counterparts. The
NSString classes provide the
to_s methods respectively. These methods should be called when a Ruby array or string is needed.
Predicate methods (methods that return a Boolean value) can also foul up the works a bit. When calling a predicate method found in a RubyCocoa class, the method will return a 0 or 1, which both evaluate to
true in Ruby. In order to avoid any mix-ups when calling a predicate method, you should suffix the method name with a question mark (
?). Doing this will make the method return a Ruby Boolean value and will make the method name look like the following snippet of code:
Finally, one last problem you may run into when calling RubyCocoa methods is when you come across a method with a name that conflicts with a Ruby method. When this happens, just prefix the RubyCocoa method with "
When instantiating RubyCocoa classes you will use the same methods that you do in Cocoa with Objective-C rather than the
new method supplied by Ruby classes. Thus, an instance of the
NSObject class can be created with the following code:
obj = NSObject.alloc.init
Even though you use Cocoa methods to create Cocoa objects, it is not necessary to use methods such as
retain to manage the memory allocated to each object since Ruby performs garbage collection for all of its objects.
Anything else you may need to know when writing RubyCocoa-based applications can be found on the RubyCocoa programming page.
So, now that you've got the basics of creating RubyCocoa applications out of the way, let's move on to the fun stuff. The next section will cover creating our GUI wrapper for the
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The island fox is one of many endemic species to be seen in Channel Islands National Park. // © 2016 Doug Mangum
Feature image (above): A view from Santa Cruz Island’s Pelican Bay Trail // © 2016 Chelsee Lowe
Composed of five islands off the coast of Southern California — Santa Cruz Island, Santa Rosa Island, San Miguel Island, Santa Barbara Island and Anacapa Island — and the waters that surround them, Channel Islands National Park (CINP) is home to some 150 endemic wildlife species, numerous sea caves and incredible kelp forests. Despite such features, it remains one of the least-visited national parks — a matter of access, surely, not lack of intrigue.
Unless you’re an expert sailor with a vessel of your own, a trip to the remote park requires boat or air transport, which can make the venture rather costly compared to a visit to one of the many drive-in, drive-out national parks. Most Channel Islands guests arrive via Island Packers, a family-owned concessionaire that operates out of Ventura Harbor. Since 1968, Island Packers has traversed the channel, carrying passengers to various piers in the park and collaborating with other local outfitters to get people hiking, kayaking, snorkeling and diving.
We spoke with two Island Packers staffers about how to best tackle this Southern California gem.
Visiting For the Day
A day trip to CINP should not be taken lightly. It takes more than one hour to arrive at the park via boat, and since the earliest Island Packers vessel leaves Ventura at 9 a.m. and the latest return voyage from the park departs around 3 p.m., explorers will only have between four or five hours to adventure around the island of their choice.
Cherryl Connally, co-owner of Island Packers, says that Anacapa is a great island to explore in that amount of time. This is where you’ll find Arch Rock, a 40-foot-tall natural bridge; seal and sea lion rookeries; and tremendous colonies of pelagic birds, including California Brown Pelicans and various species of sea gull. Birders will further delight in the probability of spotting blue- and brown-footed boobies and albatross. Easygoing hikers can try out the 1.5-mile loop trail to Inspiration Point, while others might snorkel or kayak into sea caves.
Another solid day trip choice is Santa Cruz Island, according to Andrea Mills, education coordinator for Island Packers. She recommends hiking the Pelican Trail, a lengthy path that cuts through land that is not within the national park , but the part of the island overseen by The Nature Conservancy. As such, hikers will trek with a Conservancy naturalist who can lend expert insight into the history, flora and fauna of the island.
Mills’ advice on how to best spot an island fox? Sit still for awhile. Sightings of island foxes commonly occur in picnic areas, too — just don’t feed them.
To experience the rugged nature of a particular island — and to see more of it — an overnight trip is the way to go. Connally says that Scorpion Cove on eastern Santa Cruz Island is a particularly popular place for camping. There are 12 miles of trails to access from here, plus a rock-and-sand beach and a visitors’ center. About 1 mile inland, campers will find lovely grounds in a eucalyptus forest, not to mention potable water. Campfires are not permitted here or anywhere else on the islands, but overnight guests are privy to an incredible star show come nightfall.
If crisscrossing an island is of interest, consider getting dropped off at Santa Cruz Island’s Prisoners Harbor, then heading 4 miles away from the beach to camp in the backcountry. The following morning, trek 9 miles to Scorpion Cove to replenish water, then stay another night or two here before returning to Ventura.
The Channel Islands are a great destination for sea-animal viewing. To cater to those who don’t mind staying on the ocean, Island Packers offers whale-watching trips that never dock on the islands. April through December, three-hour narrated tours explore around Anacapa or Santa Cruz, looking for sea lions, seals and island birds, plus the aforementioned Arch Rock. From the end of December through mid-April, cruising the Santa Barbara Channel usually means seeing gray whales and orcas. Humpback whales and blue whales make their way into these waters during the summer months.
If organizing sustenance for an island trip seems overwhelming — remember, there are no shops or eateries in the park —Channel Islands Provisioners (CIP), another park-approved concessionaire, can help. CIP chef Neal Rosenthal provides nutritious options for farm-to-table snacks and meals for day trips or overnight excursions, and his menu changes with the season. This winter, options include breakfast buns stuffed with organic eggs, applewood-smoked ham, spinach and mozzarella; a roasted sweet potato sandwich with Drake Family Farms goat cheese, basil pesto and pickled red onion; and a rice noodle salad with tofu, shiitake mushroom, Napa cabbage, daikon, carrots, peanuts, cilantro and mint. Day trip provisions begin at $32.95 per person, while fare for overnight trips starts at $79.95 per person.
Additionally, in adherence to national park standards, all CIP gear is reusable, from forks and spoons to fabric napkins. As there is no trash collection on the island, travelers should limit the amount of consumable things they bring, as that will require carrying garbage with them as they explore.
No matter what island you visit or what gear you bring, Island Packers’ Mills has an important reminder.
“Don’t try to cram too much into the day,” she said. “Keep it simple and focused so you get to relax and enjoy the park. Remember, as our national heritage, it will always be here. You can come back again and again for different experiences and adventures.” | <urn:uuid:06f2e9a6-328f-427f-9072-fd0d7ccbf790> | CC-MAIN-2018-17 | http://www.travelagewest.com/Travel/USA-Canada/National-Park-Centennial--Channel-Islands-National-Park/?a=travel/usa-canada | 2018-04-23T14:06:25Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-17/segments/1524125946011.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20180423125457-20180423145457-00550.warc.gz | en | 0.918773 | 1,272 |
Peor (pēˈôr) [key] [Heb., = opening], mountain, E of Jordan, to which Balak took Balaam to deliver his curses. In ancient times it was said to be near Heshbon. See Baal-peor.
The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th ed. Copyright © 2012, Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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I had the pleasure of attending the October lunch & learn this week alongside Bridget, and I found it to be a nice event that brings together existing and new members, as well as providing a motivational presentation, courtesy of Dr. Joe Serio. This was my second event (my first being the mayor’s luncheon on my first day), so I had an idea of how it would go, but not much more than that.
We made sure everyone checked in, received their nametag, and wrote their name on a slip of colored paper for the game that was soon to come.
Throughout the lunch, which was catered by Chick-fil-A, I enjoyed watching new members have their first opportunity to get their word out to the community about their business. It felt like a mini induction into the club. There were also several awards and recognitions to be had around the room.
Later, Dr. Serio spoke about overcoming fear and having what it takes to become a leader. His presentation was inspiring, funny, and relatable as he engaged us with one-on-one questions and his personal defeats and triumphs. I couldn’t help but notice the Chick-fil-A cow silently standing and listening at the back of the room. I thought to myself, “Man, this cow is going to chase his dreams after hearing this.”
The lunch concluded with a game of barn animal sounds that corresponded to the colored slip of paper earlier mentioned – “team cow” taking first place. (See, he’s already going places!) Afterwards, everyone was nice and helpful to get everything picked up, and Bridget videotaped short clips of a few members speaking on behalf of the Chamber.
If you ask me, it was not a bad way to spend a Tuesday afternoon and I’m already excited for next month’s lunch. | <urn:uuid:0afe697b-05e9-4405-8df0-7eb4ad8eb7b6> | CC-MAIN-2018-13 | http://greaterleandertx.usachamber.com/custom2.asp?pagename=blog&blog=The+Monthly+Chamber+Lunch%2C+What+to+Expect&id=289 | 2018-03-21T15:00:48Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-13/segments/1521257647660.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20180321141313-20180321161313-00718.warc.gz | en | 0.989308 | 391 |
WASHINGTON — After a monthslong blockade, Senate Republicans have agreed to let at least 19 of President Barack Obama's non-controversial judicial nominees win confirmation in the waning days of the congressional session in exchange for a commitment by Democrats not to seek votes on four others, according to officials familiar with the deal.
Among the four is Goodwin Liu, a law school dean seen as a potential future Supreme Court pick, whose current nomination to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco has sparked strong criticism from Republicans.
As part of the arrangement, the Senate has approved 10 judges in the past few days without a single dissenting vote. One of them, Albert Diaz, had been awaiting confirmation to the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Va., since clearing the Judiciary Committee in January.
The agreement was worked out between Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and his Republican counterpart, Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, with the knowledge of the White House, officials said. Spokesmen for the two Senate leaders declined comment.
In the talks, Reid also pushed for confirmation for James Cole, whom Obama picked last spring for the No. 2 post in the Justice Department. His nomination to be deputy attorney general is opposed by Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama, the senior Republican on the Judiciary Committee, and its fate is unclear.
Officials described the maneuvering on condition of anonymity, saying they were not authorized to discuss private conversations.
Judicial nominations have become intensely political in recent years as presidents seek approval for nominees who frequently spark opposition from outside interest groups aligned with the opposing party as well as from senators themselves.
Democrats filibustered several of President George W. Bush's conservative nominees, refusing to allow a vote on some for years. The logjam was broken in the spring of 2005 in a compromise that allowed some to be confirmed while a smaller number were jettisoned.
More recently, Democrats have accused Republicans of delaying confirmation of even non-controversial nominees advanced by Obama by refusing to permit them to come to a vote without a time-consuming process than can take three days on the Senate floor.
In remarks over the weekend, Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said 49 circuit and district court nominations made by Obama had been approved so far, "less than half the number confirmed during the first Congress of the Bush administration."
Before the action this weekend, Leahy said some 30 Obama judicial nominees, including seven to fill appeals court vacancies, were awaiting Senate confirmation.
"A majority of the nominations pending on the Senate's calendar received unanimous support from the Senate Judiciary Committee, and 17 of the nominations are to fill seats designated as judicial emergencies by the nonpartisan Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts," Leahy added.
The Senate also has confirmed both of Obama's nominees to the Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan.
In addition to the 10 nominees confirmed since Thursday, the Senate is expected to approve at least nine more before lawmakers adjourn for the year. All have been pending in the Senate since Sept. 23 or before. Another 15 have been awaiting a vote for less than a month.
The unconfirmed nominations will expire when Congress adjourns for the year. Obama is free to reappoint them, but Republicans will have more seats in the Senate in 2011, and there is no assurance the most controversial among them would be approved quickly, if at all.
Apart from Liu, they include Edward Chen, Louis B. Butler Jr. and John J. McConnell, Jr., all nominated to become U.S. District Court judges.
Liu is a dean at the University of California law school at Berkeley and the best-known of the four. Supporters and critics alike speak of him as a potential future selection for the Supreme Court by a Democratic president. He also could be the first Supreme Court nominee of Asian-American descent.
Republicans have attacked his nomination from the first.
At his committee confirmation hearing, Sessions Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., noted Liu's criticism when Samuel Alito was nominated to the Supreme Court by Bush. At the time, Liu said Alito's vision was an America "where police may shoot and kill an unarmed boy ... where federal agents may point guns at ordinary citizens during a raid, even after no sign of resistance ... where the FBI may install a camera where you sleep ... where a black man may be sentenced to death by an all-white jury for killing a white man, absent ... analysis showing discrimination."
Kyl called those comments "vicious and emotionally and racially charged."
Liu said he used "unnecessarily colorful language" and added, "I have the highest regard for Justice Alito's career." He said those remarks followed a 14-page analysis of Alito's rulings.
Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, a Republican who supported Obama's nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court, called Liu, "a bridge too far for me. He should take those views and run for office." | <urn:uuid:81f1763d-90ab-495f-96e4-22e4557b85fd> | CC-MAIN-2015-32 | http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/20/obama-appointee-deal_n_799313.html | 2015-07-30T08:26:08Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-32/segments/1438042987155.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20150728002307-00084-ip-10-236-191-2.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965225 | 1,034 |
The Pressure Treated Pine that we supply is without a doubt the highest grade PTP that is available today. What we sell is a #1 grade DSS (Dense Select Structural) which is at the top of the list in the Southern Pine Inspection Bureau Standard Grading Rules for Southern Pine Lumber. This creates a pine pergola of exceptional strength and durability.
Here are the major advantages of Pressure Treated Pine Pergolas:
Ground contact lumber (meaning that every component of the kit, even the 2×2 top slats, is made with lumber that is designed to be able to be buried in the ground for the life of the lumber without rotting)
Twice the density
Twice the strength, meaning you can make longer beam and rafter spans between support posts without sagging
Very few knots
Very low amount of edge wain. Usually none.
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Self-efficacy often has a major effect on the success of actions that an individual takes (Niehaus, Rudasill, & Adelson, 2012). In particular, vocational self-efficacy, which can generally be understood as the belief in one’s ability to achieve success while pursuing goals related to one’s career, and includes such factors as self-awareness and self-determination, gender role awareness, disability awareness (for individuals with disabilities), and career and transition planning, has a profound effect on how successfully one is able to achieve these goals (Ali, McWhirter, & Chronister, 2005).
It is clear that vocational self-efficacy also matters when it comes to people with disabilities; in particular, it has an effect when these individuals are in the stage of transition from high school to their adult life, be it a career or further education (Lindstrom, Harwick, Poppen, & Doren, 2012). Therefore, it is important to investigate the factors which may have an effect on the vocational self-efficacy of individuals with disabilities.
The amount of literature related to vocational self-efficacy of high school students with disabilities and their transition to post-school life is rather limited; therefore, several studies pertaining to vocational self-efficacy in some other contexts were also included in the literature review. It has been shown that the self-determined motivation of learners, which was significantly affected by self-efficacy, and vocational self-efficacy, in particular, had a large and statistically significant effect on students’ intentions to study further or drop out of high school (Alivernini & Lucidi, 2011). Another study has demonstrated that greater job search self-efficacy was associated with better career outcomes of university students (Guan et al., 2013).
Therefore, it is clear that vocational self-efficacy should also be a factor when it comes to students of special education schools. However, it is noteworthy that such learners face additional barriers when it comes to transition to post-school life (Lindstrom, Doren, & Miesch, 2011).
Therefore, it may be beneficial to implement interventions aimed at enhancing vocational self-efficacy of children (Koen, Klehe, & Van Vianen, 2012); for example, positive effects of such interventions on some children with disabilities (more specifically, on children with autism spectrum disorders) have been documented in a number of studies, for example, in the articles by Lee and Carter (2012) and Powers et al. (2012). In order to make such interventions more effective, it should be beneficial to know what factors affect children’s vocational self-efficacy (Michael, Cinamon, & Most, 2015). This provides grounds for investigating the effects of several possible factors on vocational self-efficacy of children studying in institutions of special education.
Such factors as the type of disability of a child and their age may have an impact on vocational self-efficacy of learners studying in special education schools. Therefore, the purpose of the current study will be to investigate whether the type of disability and a student’s age could be used to predict vocational self-efficacy scores of a group of children after an intervention aimed at enhancing their vocational self-efficacy; pre-intervention scores will also be employed as a predictor.
The null hypothesis for the current study will be as follows: “The age, type of disability, and pre-intervention scores cannot be used to predict post-intervention scores pertaining to vocational self-efficacy of children with disabilities.”
The alternative hypothesis for the current study will be as follows: “The age, type of disability, and pre-intervention scores can be used to predict post-intervention scores pertaining to vocational self-efficacy of children with disabilities.”
Ali, S. R., McWhirter, E. H., & Chronister, K. M. (2005). Self-efficacy and vocational outcome expectations for adolescents of lower socioeconomic status: A pilot study. Journal of Career Assessment, 13(1), 40-58.
Alivernini, F., & Lucidi, F. (2011). Relationship between social context, self-efficacy, motivation, academic achievement, and intention to drop out of high school: A longitudinal study. The Journal of Educational Research, 104(4), 241-252.
Guan, Y., Deng, H., Sun, J., Wang, Y., Cai, Z., Ye, L.,…Li, Y. (2013). Career adaptability, job search self-efficacy and outcomes: A three-wave investigation among Chinese university graduates. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 83(3), 561-570.
Koen, J., Klehe, U. C., & Van Vianen, A. E. (2012). Training career adaptability to facilitate a successful school-to-work transition. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 81(3), 395-408.
Lee, G. K., & Carter, E. W. (2012). Preparing transition‐age students with high‐functioning autism spectrum disorders for meaningful work. Psychology in the Schools, 49(10), 988-1000.
Lindstrom, L., Doren, B., & Miesch, J. (2011). Waging a living: Career development and long-term employment outcomes for young adults with disabilities. Exceptional Children, 77(4), 423-434. Web.
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Niehaus, K., Rudasill, K. M., & Adelson, J. L. (2012). Self-efficacy, intrinsic motivation, and academic outcomes among Latino middle school students participating in an after-school program. Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 34(1), 118-136.
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Advances in Human-Computer Interaction
Volume 2011 (2011), Article ID 347171, 6 pages
Working towards Usable Forms on the Worldwide Web: Optimizing Multiple Selection Interface Elements
Department of Psychology, Center for Cognitive Psychology and Methodology, University of Basel, 4055 Basel, Switzerland
Received 1 November 2010; Accepted 22 March 2011
Academic Editor: Mark Dunlop
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If an interactive form in the worldwide web requires users to select multiple answers from a given list, this can be implemented in several ways. This paper discusses an empirical study with participants, where two interface elements for choosing multiple answers (checkboxes and list boxes) were compared. Results showed that participants chose the same amount of options in both conditions but were faster and more satisfied using checkboxes. The time differences disappeared after several trials, revealing a learning effect for the list box element. As a conclusion, it can be recommended that website developers and online researchers should use checkboxes instead of list boxes for their online forms and questionnaires to enhance usability and user satisfaction—at least for a smaller number of options.
Most websites use interactive online forms as the main contact point between users and the company. The design of these forms can be a crucial factor for the success of online transactions. Users do not visit a website with the intention or goal of filling in a form. Focusing on the example of online shopping, once users have chosen the items that they wish to buy, they want to complete their shopping as quickly, easily, and safely as possible. In this context, a form may often be perceived as a hurdle. If forms are difficult to use, it may even lead to customers aborting the transaction, resulting in loss of profit . A successful revision and redesign of a suboptimal online form may result in an increased completion rate in the range from 10% to 40% . The eBay User Experience and Design Group reported that a redesign of the eBay registration form made a significant contribution to eBay's business and user success .
A growing body of research and guidelines have been published on how to make online forms more usable. Some of these have been empirically tested; others instead have been derived from experience and best practice of usability experts (e.g., [1, 3, 4]). Although the knowledge in this field is increasing, there are still many open questions when it comes to designing an online form.
2. Theoretical Background
Research in the field of online forms can be within several topics: (1) form content, (2) form layout, (3) input types, (4), error handling, and (5) form submission. The following section provides a brief summary of the most important results within these areas. This study will explore aspects within the area of “input types.”
A basic guideline of user-centered design is to map the virtual environment as closely as possible to the natural one . If users are familiar with a concept in real life, it will be easier to understand if applied to the online environment. For web forms, this may, for instance, be achieved by using a layout analogous to paper forms. Beaumont et al. state that users' preferred input types for providing answers online are textboxes. A demonstration by Nielsen showed that providing a separate drop-down menu for entering the street type (e.g., road, street, or avenue) caused people to turn back to the previous field because they were used to entering the street type into the textbox for the address. Miller and Jarret recommend not using too many different input types in one form as this can cause confusion, and Beaumont et al. suggest keeping an intuitive order of the questions, for instance, first ask for the name, then the address, and at the end for the telephone number. To keep forms simple and fast, Beaumont et al. recommend asking only questions that really need to be answered because “nice-to-know” questions only annoy users and require more time to fill in the form. Users must be enabled to distinguish quickly between required and optional fields [8, 9]. Nowadays, this is often realized through the use of asterisks. Pauwels et al. examined whether highlighting required fields by color coding leads to faster completion time compared to an asterisk next to required fields. Participants were faster, made fewer errors, and were more satisfied when the required fields were highlighted in color. Tullis and Pons found that people were fastest at filling in required fields when the required and optional fields were separated from each other.
Penzo examined the position of labels relative to the input field in a study using eye-tracking. He compared left-, right-, and top-aligned labels and came to the conclusion that with left-aligned labels people needed nearly twice as long to complete the form as with right-aligned labels. Additionally, the number of fixations needed with right-aligned labels was halved. The fastest performance, however was reached with top-aligned labels, which required only one fixation to capture both the label and the input field at the same time. As a result of this study, Wroblewski recommends using left-aligned labels for unfamiliar data where one wants users to slow down and consider their answers. If the designer wants users to complete the form as quickly as possible, top-aligned labels are recommended. Another advantage of top-aligned labels is that label length does not influence placement of the input fields. In terms of form layouts, Robinson recommends that a form should not be divided into more than one column. Wroblewski recommends matching the length of the input field to the length of the expected answer. This provides a clue or affordance to users as to what kind of answer is expected from them. Christian et al. examined the date entry with two separated text fields for month and year. Participants gave more answers in the expected format (two characters for the month and four for the year) if the field for the month was half the size of the one for the year. In another study by Couper et al. , people gave more incorrect answers if the size of the input field did not fit the length of the expected input.
Another topic in web form design relates to which input type should be used. Beaumont et al. recommend using textboxes as often as possible. However, if the number of possible answers has to be restricted, radio buttons, checkboxes, or drop-down menus can be used . These input types are also recommended to avoid errors, prevent users from entering unavailable options, and simplify the decision process. Radio buttons and drop-down menus are used for choosing only one option (single choice); with checkboxes, users can select as many options as they like. For multiple selection, there is also the list box element (see Figure 2, e.g.), which saves screen real estate. At the moment, there is no empirical comparison of checkboxes and list boxes known to the authors.
Concerning the use of drop-down menus and radio buttons, Miller and Jarret see the advantage of radio buttons in the fact that all options are visible at once, whereas the advantage of drop-down menus lies in the saving of screen real estate. In an empirical study, Healey found that on the single-question level, radio buttons were faster to choose from than drop-down menus, but the use of drop-down menus instead of radio buttons did not affect the overall time to fill in the whole questionnaire. Hogg and Masztal could not find any differences in the time needed to select answers between radio buttons and drop-down menus. Heerwegh and Loosveldt found that people needed significantly more time to select options from drop-down menus than from radio buttons, but these findings could not be replicated in a second study. Concerning the drop-out rate, no differences between radio buttons and drop-down menus could be found [16–18]. According to Miller and Jarret , radio buttons should be used when two to four options, are available; with more than four options, they recommend using drop-down menus.
A frequent issue concerning data input is the design of date entries. Christian et al. examined date entries where the month and year field consisted of two separate text boxes. Their study revealed that 92.9%–95.8% provided their answer in the correct format when symbols (MM and YYYY) were used to state the restrictions. Positioning the date instructions to the right of the year field led to fewer correct answers. Linderman and Fried suggest using drop-down menus to ensure that no invalid dates are entered.
If input fields are used with format restrictions, it is recommended to provide textual details of these format restrictions to users in advance. The most efficient way to communicate these field format restrictions to users is by stating the imposed rule to explain the correct formatting, for instance, “Date of birth in dd-mm-yyyy format” .
It is important to guide users as quickly and error-free as possible through forms. Errors should be avoided from the start by explaining restrictions in advance. If errors occur, it is important to help users to recover from them as quickly and easily as possible. To assure usable error messages in the web, Nielsen and Linderman and Fried state that an error message must be written in a familiar language and clearly state what the error is and how it can be corrected. Nielsen also advises never deleting the completed fields after an error has occurred, as this can be very frustrating for users. Bargas-Avila et al. compared six different ways of presenting an error message, including inline validation, pop-up windows, and embedded error messages. People made fewer consecutive errors when error messages appeared embedded in the form next to the corresponding input fields or one by one in a pop-up window. This was only the case if the error messages showed up at the end after clicking the send button. If the error messages appeared at the moment the erroneous field was left (inline validation), the participants made significantly more errors completing the form. They simply ignored or, in the case of pop-up windows, even clicked away the appearing error messages without reading them [21, 22].
At the end of the fill-in process, the form has to be submitted. This is usually realized through a button with an action label. Linderman and Fried suggest disabling the submit button as soon as it has been clicked to avoid repeated submissions due to long loading time. Some web forms also offer a reset or cancel button in addition to the submit button. Many experts recommend eliminating such a button as it can be clicked by accident and does not provide any real additional value [1, 8, 13]. After a successful transaction, the company should confirm the receipt of the user's data by e-mail [1, 8].
3. Goal of the Study
If users are allowed or asked to choose more than one answer from a set of given options (multiple selection), this is usually implemented using checkboxes or list boxes (see Figures 1 and 2). The advantage of checkboxes over a list box is that all answers are visible at the same time, unless they take more space than screen estate provides. List boxes, on the other hand, have the advantage of putting all options into one box of definable size. The invisible options can be reached with the help of a scrollbar, which saves screen real estate.
A list box is somewhat harder to use, because it requires pressing an additional key on the keyboard in order to select more than one option. Not all users may be familiar with the use of list boxes, and many might not even notice the possibility of selecting more than one answer. An instruction on how to use the list box is usually provided (see Figure 2). Checkboxes, on the other hand, are rather intuitive and easier to handle. Apart from the question of ease of use, it can be expected that with checkboxes people are faster in choosing their answers. No study is currently known to the authors that has empirically tested the usage of checkboxes versus list boxes.
The goal of the present study is to compare the usability and performance of list boxes versus checkboxes. It is hypothesized that participants select more options when using checkboxes (), are quicker in providing their answers (), and are more satisfied ().
The study is realized through the use of a one-way unrelated sample design. The independent variable input type consists of the two conditions checkbox and list box. As dependent variables, number of selected answers, time to select the answers and user satisfaction were recorded.
A total of subjects took part in the study. In the checkbox condition, there were 54 participants of whom 19 were male and 35 were female. In the list box condition, 52 subjects took part of whom 18 were male and 34 female. The gender imbalance is probably an artifact of the uncontrolled online study setting. A check for gender effects in the analyses showed no significant differences. The mean age was 28.7 years (SD = 8.94), with the oldest person being 64 and the youngest 16 years old (there was no significant age difference between both conditions). Participants were recruited through a recruitment database and contacted by e-mail. As an incentive, they had the chance of winning one of three Apple iPod Shuffles.
The study was conducted online. Participants were directly led to the study by clicking on a link in the recruiting e-mail. On the first site, they received a brief introduction and were told that the study explores various personal preferences. They would see 15 questions that should be answered as sincerely as possible. Then, participants were randomly assigned to either the condition with checkboxes or the one with list boxes. Questions like “Which kind of books do you like” were presented one after another in randomized order. For each question, 12 answer options were available, of which participants could select as many as they liked. Please notice that the usage of 12 options is an important constraint of this experiment. Future studies should explore if the results scale also for higher or lower number of options.
The answer options were presented either as checkboxes or as list boxes, depending on which condition the participants had been assigned to. In the list box condition, a text next to the list box explained that multiple answers could be selected by keeping the CTRL key pressed while selecting the options. Figures 1 and 2 show a sample question for each condition. Participants could move to the next question by clicking a button. After the 15 questions had been completed, they were asked to answer three further questions on a six-point Likert scale: “Selecting my answers was comfortable,” “I was able to select my answers quickly and efficiently,” and “I selected all answers that applied to me” (scale: 1 = does not apply; 6 = applies). At the end, they could provide their gender and age and were thanked for their participation.
All data were checked for outliers (difference larger than three standard deviations), normal distribution, and linearity. For a better fit to these criteria, the raw data of response time were log-transformed. An alpha-level of was used for all statistical tests.
5.1. Number of Answers and Response Time
In order to investigate the answer behavior of the participants, first the number of answers for each question was averaged over all questions, so that finally every participant had one averaged score for the number of answers per question. We followed the same procedure to average response times (mean response time per question). To test whether the experimental conditions (list box versus checkbox) differed regarding number of answers () and response time (), a -test for unrelated samples was conducted for both variables.
Concerning number of answers, no significant difference between the conditions could be found, , (one-tailed). In the list box condition, participants gave on average 5.19 (SD = 1.36) answers per question, whereas in the checkbox condition participants gave 5.42 (SD = 1.24) answers. Therefore, was rejected.
In terms of the outlier analysis, six participants had to be excluded due to extremely long response times. We were not able to relate these outliers to demographic or other variables, so we assume that they were interrupted during the study and resumed the experiment after a long idle time. Regarding response time, there was a significant difference between the experimental conditions. Participants using check boxes were significantly faster than those using list boxes, , (one-tailed). Therefore, was confirmed. For means of all conditions, see Table 1.
To investigate whether there were learning effects, the course of the response time over the 15 questions was analyzed. To avoid multiple statistical testing, response times of the 15 questions were divided into 5 sections. For each section, three questions were aggregated in ascending order (questions 1 to 3, questions 4 to 6, and so on). A repeated measure ANOVA with answer method as unrelated independent variable and order of questions as related independent variable was performed. There was a significant interaction (, ), revealing a learning effect for the list box condition. Also the main effect for answer method (, ) and order of questions (, ) were significant. Participants in the check box condition were only faster during the first two sections (the first six questions). From Section 3 to 5, the two answer methods no longer differed (the last nine questions). For the interaction plot, see Figure 3; for descriptive statistics and post hoc test values, see Table 2.
5.2. Satisfaction, Efficiency, and Conformance Ratings
An analysis of the rating data revealed a violation of the criteria for normal distribution. There was a ceiling effect; hence, all distributions were left skewed. It is often observed that satisfaction ratings are not normally distributed (see, e.g., [23, 24]). Therefore, nonparametric Mann-Whitney tests (one-tailed) were used for the statistical analysis of the rating data.
The analysis of the satisfaction scales () revealed that the condition with checkboxes was perceived to be significantly more pleasant for selecting options than the list box condition, , , leading to the confirmation of . Concerning the perceived efficiency, there was no significant difference between the two, , . Also, no significant difference could be found for the question as to whether all answers that applied to oneself had been selected, , . For descriptive statistics of the ratings, see Table 1.
6.1. Discussion of the Findings
The results show that there is no difference in the number of selected answers between the two conditions. The hypothesis that people choose fewer answers when confronted with a list box was not confirmed. It seems that the type of input fields used does not have an influence on the number of selected answers. It was hypothesized that list boxes are harder to use and not all users know that they can select multiple options by pressing an additional key. In the present study, an assistant text, which explained how to select multiple answers, was placed next to the list box. Most participants seem to have read the note and learned that they could choose more than one answer. A subsequent study should include an additional condition of a list box without an explanatory text. It seems that the additional effort of having to press a key evidently did not affect motivation to select all options that applied to oneself. This was shown not only by the equivalent number of answers chosen but also by the answer to the question “I selected all answers that applied to me” in both conditions.
The use of list boxes had a negative influence on the time needed to choose the answers. People needed significantly more time to handle the list box than using checkboxes. This effect can be overcome given time: users learned how to use the list boxes (after 6 trials, the time disadvantage disappeared). The additional time needed with list boxes could be caused by the extra text that the participants had to read, and by the more complicated interaction mechanisms of pressing an additional key (requiring both hands) and having to scroll to be able to see all answers. It is supposed that these factors cause an increase in needed time. This is also bolstered by the fact that there was no learning effect for the performance regarding checkboxes: users were fast right from the start and were able to maintain this speed. In addition, list boxes were perceived to be significantly less comfortable for selecting answers.
In summary, the results of this study show that using checkboxes instead of a list box can be recommended—at least for a smaller number of options. It must be stressed that this study was conducted with a fixed moderate number of options (12 elements). Future studies should be conducted to explore very high and low numbers of options and determine the number of items that can be provided reasonably with checkboxes.
This study helps to clear up an important question regarding the design of usable forms: How should multiple selection be presented to reduce errors and processing time and to increase user satisfaction? At the same time, it must be stressed that the presented findings have to be regarded as a first step. The study was conducted in a rigorous laboratory setting. On the one hand, all chosen tasks were more or less unrealistic and very repetitive. On the other hand, the interactions were not embedded in a realistic setting, like, for example, a shopping or registration process. The ecological validity of the presented findings is therefore low. To overcome this limitation, future studies may vary interface elements within a real setting using real tasks. Another question is whether these results can be generalized beyond web forms to, for instance, forms in mobile applications.
6.3. Future Outlook
Regarding the future outlook, there are many open questions concerning usable forms that must be answered. In recent years, new developments, like, for example, Web 2.0 and form extensions included in HTML5 have led to new ways of implementing interactions on the Internet. Nowadays, for example, users get more and more accustomed to receive immediate feedback in webforms through the use of AJAX technology. It remains to be seen if these technologies can be used to enhance multiple selections in online forms. There is a growing body of empirical research and best practice recommendations by usability experts to achieve usable forms on the worldwide web. Most studies, like the one presented here, choose to explore one specific aspect or interface element to find the optimal solution. Usually this is done in a laboratory situation, using abstract forms with artificial tasks. In the near future, this knowledge needs to be consolidated in practical guidelines (e.g., ). These guidelines must be empirically tested using real forms in realistic user situations, to see whether they really lead to better usability, manifested in faster form-completion times, fewer errors, higher user satisfaction, and reduced dropout rates.
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Every Saturday I get up at o’dark-thirty to go grocery shopping as early as possible so that I can get back home and finish the day with whatever errands need doing. This weekend in particular I really wanted to get going and get back home because last weekend Stan and I made the great escape to Chicago while the baby doll spent the weekend with her cousins, so we got NOTHING done. This weekend I really wanted to get the closet, and more specifically my shoes, organized. We decided to do away with dressers, but have not gotten a closet system, because we are going to move soon and why install a closet system if we can’t use it. (I know I know it will be great for the next person but have you priced closet systems?! We’re trying to save up for a house people. :))
I woke up a little later than usual and then didn’t get up right away (it was around 6:30 am), so I guess it’s my fault that Stan woke up and stated that he wanted to go to the store with me. Don’t get me wrong everyone….I love my husband and really appreciate that he wanted to come and help; however, our views on grocery shopping are VERY different. I take on grocery shopping like it’s a mini battle. It’s me against the price of groceries; and I have a grocery list, my coupon book, and a determination to spend as little time and money as possible. Stan thinks of it as a time to see what’s out there…we can get there when we get there and who cares if it’s on the list or not – it might be good to try.
So we got up, got dressed and the baby doll stated loudly and quite often that she didn’t want to go with us “because it’s boring”. We dropped her off at her cousins (they started calling us the night before to get her to come over). Of course Stan didn’t want to get go to the grocery store without having breakfast and there was no place near where we were that had good breakfast. So at 9:30 am my plans for the morning had completely changed and it seemed if I was just along for the ride.
In addition to the grocery store we needed to go to the hardware store to get brackets to hang the televisions in Kristian’s room and the den, we needed to go to Target to get storage containers and possibly a set of the Closet Maid cubicles for Kristians room and our closet, and Hobby Lobby to get the paper needed to start on Kristian’s birthday invitations. In my mind I had the whole trip mapped out and when I presented this to my husband he agreed that it sounded like a great plan. Did I say that with the “need” to have breakfast, my plans went caput. 😦 We had a decent breakfast at Le Peep’s (I love their Battered French Toast) then headed further up north to our myriad of stores.
I think the highlight of the day was when we went to Hobby Lobby. 🙂 I found a great tall, glass jar/vase to put the “flowers” we had for the newly reno’d bathroom. Plus it was half off and I only paid $11 for it. Stan said he was going to install the toilet today, so hopefully I will post pictures tomorrow if it gets done.
When we finally made it to the grocery store, it was 3 pm. The store was packed and of course game one of the Bulls / Pacers playoff series had started so Stan wasn’t really enthused about grocery shopping. I told him to get his petunia in gear and get to shopping. He programmed his iPhone to give him up to the second updates and proceeded to follow me at a leisurely pace throughout the store.
When we got to the grocery section he found that there were samples aplenty so he perked up a little. I think I mentioned that he has a tendency to pick up stuff that he thinks might be good to try and with all of the samples floating around, I just was cringing with anticipation. I did end up with a few things not on the list (two bags of Doritos, Kettle Chips, stuff to make smoothies, Spinach dip – from one of the samples, extra juice, soda – he promises this is his last week to drink it, I know there’s something else I just can’t remember it).
All-in-all it could have been a lot worse, but I tell you, I was exhausted when we finally made it home. I know that I do a lot more running around typically, but for whatever reason when I got home I HAD to take a nap. I barely got the groceries put away (he helped bring them in, but got busy when it was time to put them away) before I went upstairs to lay down.
The rest of the evening was a blur…I told Stan and Kristian I really didn’t care what they did. (I know it wasn’t motherly/wifely of me, but come on – it seemed like the change in plans caused my energy level to deplete like a balloon. Tell me I’m not the only one this has happened to. Should I be more grateful of his “help”? | <urn:uuid:a321682a-f279-4f50-824a-f607b17fe034> | CC-MAIN-2019-39 | https://redovencreations.com/2011/04/19/is-it-really-helping/ | 2019-09-15T10:06:50Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-39/segments/1568514571027.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20190915093509-20190915115509-00557.warc.gz | en | 0.981791 | 1,139 |
It’s the last week in April and we are only just beginning to see some Springtime colour here in Connemara. The yellow gorse flower is bursting into bloom, a little more each day although it is almost alone – you can see the extent of the brown scrub still in this photo below. The hedgerows and landscape are just starting to turn and the few trees in our garden are not in leaf yet. We’ve had a lot of rain over the past few days however so I’m waiting for a rush of green and colour anytime soon..
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It's been a while since I've posted any videos of castles, life has been hectic and just not had the time.
I decided to go to somewhere that was quite close, did not go according to plan though. It was windy and I forgot both my tripod and microphone so apologies! I'm not fully happy with the video but thought I would upload anyways.
Dunure Castle is located on the west coast of Scotland, in South Ayrshire, about 5 miles (8.0 km) south of Ayr and close to the village of Dunure. Today the castle stands in ruins on a rocky promontory on the Carrick coast, overlooking the small harbour of Dunure.
The site dates from the late 13th century; the earliest charter for the lands dating from 1256, but the remains of the building are of 15th- and 16th-century origin. One tradition is that the castle was built by the Danes and another states that the Mackinnons held the castle from Alexander III, as a reward for their valour at the Battle of Largs.
The castle is the point of origin of the Kennedys of Carrick, who once ruled over much of south western Scotland and were granted the lands in 1357.
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When family-owned Kneaders Bakery and Café opened its first location in 1997, this part of the foodservice industry had not yet risen to the heights it enjoys today. That the fast-casual chain has not only persevered in the face of stiff national competition, but also continues to travel a growth path remains a testament to this concept's success.
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FE&S: What is the key to Kneaders' success in such a competitive segment?
JW: We've worked hard to get to where we can grow at an accelerated rate. We put great value in having a good system in place and using this to advance the business. From production to purchasing, we've developed procedures and then improved these along the way. It helps to have great support from our franchisees, who have allowed us to grow. A big part of this has been maintaining consistency. All of our sites are uniform, and consistency day to day and store to store is what we work hard at attaining.
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JW: Our freestanding sites are 3,600 square feet, with the baking area, dining room and kitchen prep area each comprising one-third of the square footage. We also have a drive-thru, which encompasses between 30 percent and 40 percent of our business. Catering accounts for between 5 percent and 10 percent of our business. Staffing ranges from 30 to 40 people, depending on the site, and may increase to as many as 50 during the holidays.
FE&S: What is the core of your menu?
JW: We offer artisan breads made from scratch, then build sandwiches on those breads. We make between 10 and 15 different types of bread daily. Our menu also includes salads, soups and between 30 and 40 different fresh pastries. A staple of our menu is slow-roasted hand-pulled turkey, which is one of our most popular offerings. Other best-sellers include raspberry bread pudding, éclairs, fruit tarts and artichoke portabella soup. We adapt our offerings to what customers want, and, since their tastes are always changing, we are constantly looking to add new items. Special attention is paid to seasonal ingredients and trends, so we regularly include limited-time offers. The more popular dishes end up on the permanent menu.
FE&S: How does your equipment support your operations?
JW: Locations include three to four large ovens for baking, bread mixers, planetary mixers, scales, a griddle in the kitchen area, sandwich makeup units and prep tables. We have walk-in coolers and freezers on an outside pad, in addition to small reach-in coolers in the kitchen area. Our ovens are imported from Italy. We used to utilize large deck-type ovens, but changed these over to smaller deck ovens that can be more easily accommodated in our stores.
FE&S: What is the most important consideration when purchasing equipment?
JW: Quality is the number-one consideration when specifying equipment. We've built relationships with equipment suppliers to ensure we're receiving units of the highest quality. We also need the support when equipment breaks down. It's inevitable that there are issues in this business, and we need to know our suppliers have our backs.
FE&S: Why do you think bakery cafés continue to grow in popularity?
JW: Bakery cafés are becoming more popular because people want good food that's healthier for them. We've also seen a big shift from sit-down service to fast casual because customers do not want to wait for their food.
FE&S: What are the biggest challenges bakery cafés face?
JW: The biggest challenge when making fresh product is maintaining consistency. Varying humidity levels and altitudes impact our production methods. For example, it can be difficult creating the same loaf of bread in Idaho that is prepared in Arizona. This is why creating the most effective systems is key to saving time and money, and ensuring equipment continues working well.
FE&S: What are Kneaders' plans moving forward?
JW: We are opening a site in Colorado Springs, beginning construction on a store in San Antonio and will add Arizona locations. Kneaders will be in five states next year. At some point, we would like to be a nationwide chain, but right now we're concentrating on staying west of the Mississippi. | <urn:uuid:47aa46e4-0c15-4117-bb4e-942705b0a79a> | CC-MAIN-2014-35 | http://fesmag.com/departments/segment-spotlight/11205-q-a-james-worthington,-ceo-kneaders-bakery-and-cafe,-orem,-utah | 2014-09-01T07:37:41Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-35/segments/1409535917463.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20140901014517-00441-ip-10-180-136-8.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965641 | 1,101 |
The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Brierly, Sir Oswald Walters
Brierly, Sir Oswald Walters, R.W.S., F.R.G.S., marine painter to the Queen since 1874, is the son of the late Thomas Brierly, and was born at Chester in 1817. He was on board H.M.S. Rattlesnake during her surveys of the Great Barrier Reef of Australia, the Louisiade Archipelago, and part of New Guinea. He visited New Zealand, Tongatabu, Tahiti, and many other places in the Meander; and has cruised in different parts of the world for eleven years on board various of her Majesty's ships, an island of the Louisiade and a point in Australia being named after him. Sir Oswald Brierly—as he became in 1885—was during the Russian war present at the operations with the fleet in the Baltic, Black Sea, and Sea of Azoff; he was also by command on board the royal yacht at the great naval review at the close of the Russian war to make sketches for the Queen. In 1867 he went with H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh in his voyage round the world in the Galatea, and his sketches of the cruise were exhibited at South Kensington. In 1868 he was attached to the suite of the Prince and Princess of Wales during their trip up the Nile. He has painted many important historical marine pictures, the principal of which have been engraved. He has been awarded the fourth class Medjidie, fourth class Osmanieh, and the Turkish war medal, and is an Officer of the Redeemer of Greece. He was formerly a J.P. for New South Wales, and is at present Curator of the Painted Hall, Greenwich. | <urn:uuid:c59b7c4c-b05e-4c68-b696-d78b5708dca0> | CC-MAIN-2018-26 | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Dictionary_of_Australasian_Biography/Brierly,_Sir_Oswald_Walters | 2018-06-23T03:11:21Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267864919.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20180623015758-20180623035758-00184.warc.gz | en | 0.982251 | 380 |
Silence of the Lambs: Jodie Foster reveals she and Anthony Hopkins were 'really scared' of each other
The Oscar winner explains on 'The Graham Norton Show' why she 'never spoke' to her costar
Jodie Foster really abided by the silence part of The Silence of the Lambs.
Both she and costar Anthony Hopkins won Oscars for their performances in that 1991 movie, which also won Best Picture, and two others. And now we have better insight into what might’ve made that on-screen relationship work so well.
“Nope, never spoke to him. He was scary!” the 53-year-old revealed on The Graham Norton Show when the host asked her if those rumors were true. There promoting her latest directing effort, Money Monster, Foster explained that the two were separated nearly the entire shoot by the glass partitions and jail cell where his Hannibal Lecter spent much of his time. “We got to the end of the movie and had never really had a conversation,” she said.
“I avoided him as much as I could. I really avoided him,” Foster added. But it turns out, the fearful feeling was mutual, as she discovered on their last day of filming. “He came up to me… And I said — I don’t know, I sort of had a tear in my eye — I was like, ‘I was really scared of you.’ And he said, “I was scared of you!'”
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Warning: This article contains spoilers from a recent episode.
Brenda as a hard time getting around LA by car. She is investigating the possible murder of a model. Brenda discovers that she was murdered possibly by poison. Brenda discovers that they started the interview of the primary suspect without her, and then discovers that it was an agent representing the husband and not a lawyer. She meets again with FBI agent Fritz that helps her with this investigation. Fritz insults Brenda by mentioning her past with Pope. Flynn refuses to arrest the husband of the victim when he goes over Brenda’s head. Angry she decides to arrest him herself. Knowing full well he was not the one that killed her, but one of this many girlfriends. Turns out it was one of them that was pregnant. | <urn:uuid:35149298-4fa5-4e05-9727-feccc6e71005> | CC-MAIN-2021-31 | https://televisioncanada.ca/the-closer-season-1-episode-2-recap/ | 2021-08-03T16:19:46Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-31/segments/1627046154466.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20210803155731-20210803185731-00463.warc.gz | en | 0.986767 | 155 |
RETIRED Colonel Mutero Masanganise, who pulled out of Zanu PF’s Masvingo provincial chair elections a fortnight ago, is waiting for the party’s politburo to address the grievances he expressed through a letter he wrote to national secretary for administration Ignatius Chombo before he can decide on his next move.
By Hazel Ndebele
Masanganise wrote a letter to Chombo a few days before the elections on May 2, arguing that complaints made against former acting chair for the province Joram Gumbo remain unresolved and therefore compromising the elections.
The elections saw Ezra Chadzamira running in a one-man race. Chadzamira retained the Zanu-PF chairmanship with 29 543 votes, while Masanganise polled 1 080 votes despite pulling out.
Chadzamira was suspended as chairman early last year, but the suspension was lifted by the politburo in December.
In a telephone interview with the Zimbabwe Independent this week, Masanganise said he is anticipating that the politburo will address the issues he raised so that he can decide on his next move.
“I do not rush to make a decision on whether I will ask for a re-run or not. I will wait to hear what would be said in the politburo and I believe that the issues will be addressed,” said Masanganise.
“Politburo is going to give me the guidelines of what action I will have to take.”
In the letter written to Chombo, Masanganise said the province was still awaiting the appointment of an acting provincial chair or an interim provincial executive by President Robert Mugabe.
According to the letter to Chombo, the person appointed by Mugabe was supposed to deal with irregularities before the election re-run could be held. However, that was not done.
“To date, no formal announcement of the above-mentioned appointment has been made known to the party structures in Masvingo province. Accordingly, our complaints remain unresolved,” Masanganise said.
He also charged in the letter that Gumbo was supportive of Chadzamira and was re-appointed as acting chair of Masvingo province to ensure that the former chair is re-elected.
Masanganise was part of those who drafted the report against the Masvingo provincial chairmanship elections held at the beginning of April.
“In that report, we detailed a number of irregularities that occurred before and during those elections.
“We also highlighted the biased conduct and partisanship of the then acting chairman and elections’ retaining officer, Cde Joram Gumbo,” said Masanganise in his letter to Chombo.
“We made serious complaints against Gumbo, thus he is therefore compromised and conflicted to lead this process. He therefore cannot be allowed to gatecrash and cause more confusion to an already volatile political environment in Masvingo province.
“Accordingly and in light of the above, I wish to put it on record that I have not offered myself as a candidate for these purported new elections pencilled for the May 6.
“The use of my name as a candidate is therefore mischievous, illegal and scandalous.”
Masanganise said his opponents, mainly consisting of Zanu PF members aligned to Vice-president Emmerson Mnangagwa’s faction, had intensified their activities by further illegally compromising party structures. He claimed that this was being done through the use of military personnel who, according to Masanganise, were intimidating party members in rural constituencies.
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Jones, ca. March 1947
|Birth name||Robert Elliott Jones|
|Also known as||King Louis II|
December 31, 1909|
|Died||April 28, 2000(aged 90)|
|Genres||Jazz, swing, boogie-woogie, jump blues|
|Instruments||Trumpet, alto saxophone|
|Years active||1920s- 2000|
|Associated acts||Stuff Smith, Cab Calloway|
Jonah Jones (born Robert Elliott Jones; December 31, 1909 – April 29, 2000) was a jazz trumpeter who created concise versions of jazz and swing and jazz standards that appealed to a mass audience. In the jazz community, it can be argued that he might be best appreciated for his work with Stuff Smith. He was sometimes referred to as "King Louis II," a reference to Louis Armstrong. Jones started playing alto saxophone at the age of 12 in the Booker T. Washington Community Center band in Louisville, Kentucky before quickly transitioning to trumpet, where he excelled.
Jones was born in Louisville, Kentucky. Jones began his career playing on a river boat named Island Queen, which traveled between Kentucky and Ohio. He began in the 1920s playing on Mississippi riverboats and then in 1928 he joined with Horace Henderson. Later he worked with Jimmie Lunceford and had an early collaboration with Stuff Smith in 1932. From 1932-1936 he had a successful collaboration with Smith, but in the 1940s he worked in big bands like Benny Carter's and Fletcher Henderson's. He would spend most of decade with Cab Calloway's band which later became a combo.
Starting in the 1950s, he had his own quartet and began concentrating on a formula which gained him wider appeal for a decade. The quartet consisted of George "River Rider" Rhodes on piano, John "Broken Down" Browne on bass and "Hard Nuts Harold" Austin on drums. The most-mentioned accomplishment of this style is their version of "On The Street Where You Live", a strong-swinging treatment of the Broadway tune with a boogie-woogie jump blues feel. This effort succeeded and he began to be known to a wider audience. This led to his quartet performing on An Evening With Fred Astaire in 1958 and an award at the Grammy Awards of 1960, receiving the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Album. In 1972 he made a return to more "core" jazz work with Earl Hines. Jones enjoyed especial popularity in France, being featured in a jazz festival in the Salle Pleyel.
A 1996 videotaped interview completed by Dan Del Fiorentino was donated to the NAMM oral history Collection in 2010 to preserve his music for future generations.
He was inducted into the Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame in 1999 and died the following year in New York City.
- Jonah Jones: Muted Jazz (Capitol T-839) (Released 1957)
- The Jonah Jones Quartet - Swingin' On Broadway (Capitol T963 Mono) (Released 1957)
- The Jonah Jones Quartet - Jumpin' with Jonah (Capitol T1039 Mono)
- The Jonah Jones Quartet - Swingin' at the Cinema (Capitol T1083 Mono) (Released 1958)
- Jonah Jumps Again: The Jonah Jones Quartet (Capitol ST-1115) (Released 1959)
- The Jonah Jones Quartet at The Embers (RCA Victor LPM-2004) (Released 1959)
- I Dig Chicks! (Capitol ST-1193) (Released 1960) Grammy Winner Jazz Instrumental
- Swingin' Round the World (Capitol ST-1237)
- Jumpin' with a Shuffle (Capitol ST-1404) (Released 1960)
- Broadway Swings again - The Jonah Jones Quartet (Capitol ST-1641)(Released 1961)
- The Jonah Jones Quartet with Glen Gray - Jonah Jones - Glen Gray (Capitol ST-1660)
- Jazz Bonus (Capitol ST-1773) (Released 1962)
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We offer both steam humidifiers as well as traditional drip system humidifiers.
During Colorado winters, dry air can be a problem. Whole house humidifiers can help with those concerns arising from dry air quality. It is fairly common for people living across the front range to experience dry skin, nose bleeds or snoring due to dry air. This dry air is created when the heating system evaporates what little moisture may be in the air naturally. A whole house humidification system will add needed moisture to your indoor air. Proper home humidity levels also help to prevent wood floors and furniture from cracking.
Let us keep your home comfortable with one of our humidifiers.
Home humidifiers work by pulling the supply air from your furnace blower and passing it through a water-holding condensing pad. When hot air passes through the moist condensing pad it is returned into the heating system. This creates humidified air. There are different variations on the way a residential whole house humidification system works, but most all systems use this basic method.
How is humidity level determined?
Each home is different and it is up to the HVAC company to set the initial home humidity level. Typically, in Northern Colorado, a range of 25% up to 45% is optimal. You will know if there is too much humidity if your windows begin to form water droplets on them. Some Colorado homes with a large percentage of wood floors or wood furniture may require a higher humidity rating. This is because the wood can absorb the humidity before humans can sense it in the air. | <urn:uuid:80b1882c-737f-421b-a1cc-29d9653bd913> | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | https://bestbuyheatingandair.com/humidifiers/ | 2022-09-25T10:25:46Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030334528.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20220925101046-20220925131046-00579.warc.gz | en | 0.915419 | 317 |
Amor Chiquito just came over and the following happened:
She said “eat Ari pie-appo (pineapple). Eat toast.
She climbed on the couch and kissed me on the cheek.
She put her arms around me, her face against mine.
As soon as her face was touching mine, she burped!
She got very excited and said: Ari burped!
I tried to get her to say "excuse me." No go!
She makes me smile. And, she makes her Daddy proud! | <urn:uuid:e321f20b-b74f-465f-80a6-c6e32835060e> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://reluctantcrunchymama.blogspot.com/2010/03/little-things-make-me-smile.html | 2017-06-23T20:43:00Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320174.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20170623202724-20170623222724-00151.warc.gz | en | 0.982467 | 113 |
Sporting Areas in Michigan
Travelers are voting Comerica Park, Michigan International Speedway and Michigan State Fairgrounds Speedway as the best of 8 sporting areas in Michigan. Also popular are Detroit Belle Isle Grand Prix in Detroit, Berlin Raceway in Holland and Flat Rock Speedway in Dearborn. Want more? Check out our map of sporting areas in Michigan or this 1 sporting areas in Holland. | <urn:uuid:c4cf2242-dcb0-4128-a9fd-29e31728a77e> | CC-MAIN-2016-18 | http://www.touristlink.com/united-states/michigan/cat/sporting-areas.html | 2016-05-05T10:34:53Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-18/segments/1461860126502.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20160428161526-00045-ip-10-239-7-51.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.841404 | 78 |
Cutter And Buck Shoes Golf Apparel - CutterBuck.com Clothes
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Welcome to FASM The Finnish-American Society of the Midwest, a Finlandia Foundation Chapter
The society provides a forum for sharing Finnish and Finnish-American history, culture; encouraging strong ties between the countries and hosting cultural events throughout the year in the Chicago area.
The society is a 501(C) 3 non-profit organization. All are welcome as members. See the membership section for more information.
There are numerous cultural events planned throughout the year, see the calendar for details. | <urn:uuid:071b3cb8-c0cd-425a-a4fc-95b431d6daf9> | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | https://www.fasm.us/ | 2021-10-28T01:45:56Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323588246.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20211028003812-20211028033812-00127.warc.gz | en | 0.894126 | 100 |
I hope my first post resonated with more than a few of you and brought you back for more. Moving forward, I intend to share my journey from high school, junior college, and NCAA athlete to a career in greater detail. However, I’d first like to share my transition from student-athlete to student.
Over the past few weeks, I have begun to acclimate to life after college baseball. Going into the new school year, I was nervous about the fact that I wouldn’t be around my teammates anymore, wouldn’t have a group of friends, and that I simply would hate being away at school without baseball. However, since I arrived on Liberty’s campus in late August, my experience has been the exact opposite. School without baseball is great!
I never realized how big the time commitment of a college sport really is. Over the course of a week I would be at school from around 9 am to around 7 pm, my day filled with class, practice, weights and conditioning, meetings, and a whole lot of sitting around waiting for the aforementioned to start. Many times, these events soured my love for the game, but the game itself always seemed to erase those negative thoughts. I played the game because I still loved it. When you’re pigeonholed into activities on the field or in the weight room that don’t produce results, or when you have to wait around for a practice or meeting to start, there is an opportunity cost associated with that time burn which could be spent doing much more productive activities. Only in hindsight has this become clear to me. I guess until recently, I never realized, or I flat out denied, just how frustrating this process can be.
Without having to attend team mandated practices, study halls, and whatever else is on the agenda, I have found and feel anew sense of freedom. I can now lift weights the way I want, put more time into my academics (much easier now that I’m not exhausted from a full day’s worth of class and baseball), and pursue other opportunities (I think most non-athletes call this “having a life”). So far, I’ve been able to put time and effort into my Voice of the Box internship (by writing this blog), vastly improve my résumé (I strongly recommend you go to your school’s career center if it has one), attend various clubs centered around my degree and what I’d like to do in the future, and captain an intramural flag football team.
Over the past few weeks, I’ve quickly come to the realization that life is not all about a sport. You need to have a back up plan, you need to make time for other things even if it’s only a small amount of time, and you need to find balance. Even if you are a phenom, everyone’s career comes to an end at a fairly young age. What are you going to do after sports? 19, not 29, is the age to plan for this.
While I still have a long way to go to get where I want to be, taking steps in the right direction is definitely an invigorating feeling. So far, life without baseball has been a success, but staying motivated to continue bettering myself will be an ongoing process. In my next few posts, I plan on sharing some lessons learned through my athletic career. | <urn:uuid:cf4e029b-914f-479d-b381-a0df7552bc42> | CC-MAIN-2019-09 | http://voiceofthebox.co/tag/voice-of-the-box/page/3/ | 2019-02-22T22:31:09Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550249406966.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20190222220601-20190223002601-00413.warc.gz | en | 0.973819 | 713 |
The Morclean Wheel Wash System is designed to automatically clean the lower part of HGV vehicles by removing mud & clay etc. from the wheels and chassis in one drive through operation. This system is ideal for opencast or quarry sites for the removal of coal, sand, gravel etc prior to the vehicle entering onto a public road.
The unit is activated by infra red sensors and the vehicle proceeds through the wash and exits via the ramps. Washing is carried out using recycled water.
System and features
A Morclean wheel wash is a drive-through wheelwash cleaning system designed to remove mud, dust and contamination from the wheels of vehicles. The wheel wash can be inset into the ground or surface mounted, using a bath or spray bar. The angled entry and exit ramps at the wash also manipulate the tyres, working off the debris. The jet wash pump is activated automatically as the vehicle arrives at the entry ramps.
What are the site requirements?
Units are typically sited on a hard level area normally close to the site exit road. Water can be supplied to the main storage tank by bowser and generally no civils or mains services are needed. Optional washing spraybars or a jet wash can also be incorporated to jet wash and remove mud, dust and contamination from vehicles. All wheel wash units can be powered by diesel or electricity (single or 3 phase).
Where can wheel wash units used?
Wheel wash machines are designed to operate in a wide range of sites and locations including washing dust from quarries, washing wheels at waste transfer stations, mining and opencasting, harbours, distribution and manufacturing centres, landfill, washing mud and soil at construction sites and building sites etc. Under chassis wash systems also offers provide under-vehicle washing needs.
What about my particular site requirements?
Wheel wash units, jet washing, under chassis washing and vehicle washing units can be tailor made to suit your specific site conditions. Installations are available throughout the UK.
What information will Morclean require about my site?
Please note when making your enquiry, Morclean will need to know the following to outline your particular site requirements;
About your vehicles…
- The type of vehicles that are on your site?
- The weights of the vehicles and number of wheels and axles etc?
- The number of vehicles on your fleet that will be using the wheel wash?
About your site and it’s environment…
- The type of site and it’s location?
- The number of movements per day or week using the wash?
- The type of soiling on the vehicles, whether mud, clay, soil etc?
- The availability of power on your site?
- The availability of water on your site?
- The project start date?
Technical Features of our wheel wash
- 84 strategically placed nozzles force muck out of tyre treads
- Unique cross hatch spray pattern
- Each nozzle delivers 4 bar pressure (60 psi)
- Flow rate: 20 litres per minute each nozzle
- 5mm nozzle aperture virtual blockage free
- Larger nozzles can be specified
- 16 nozzles on vertical spray bars pre and post wash
- Cleans side walls, hubs and vehicle sides
- Main wash pumps driven by inverter
- Infinitely variable speed drive
- Unlimited number of starts
- Maximise motor life
- Minimise the size of electrical supply
- Minimise generator size and costs
- 22kW – 63.5amp pump- 44amp start up current
- 30kW – 74.5amp pump – 52amp start up current
- 35kva generator runs 22kW system
- 45kva generator runs 30kW system
- View amps/hertz being used PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC CONTROL (plc)
- Fully programmable: wash sequence, sludge removal sequence, sensitivity of reflux sensors, all timers, wash counter, fault messages
- Number of washes counter
- Running indicators, fault indicators
- Emergency stop/reset
- Auto/manual switches
All submersible pumps are 1.5 kW 3 phase (415v) automatic and 0.55 Cubic Metres per Minute Duty, float switch controlled. The Vertical Multi-stage pumps are stainless steel construction. 5.5kW 3 phase (415v) close coupled. All VMS pumps are fitted with swing check valves and low level sensors, at 80 gallons per minute at 80 psi Duty. The medium pressure section is sensor controlled for pressure loss.
Wheel Wash System Options
Typically the unit is approx. 10m in length and 3.5m wide though all units are bespoke and/or built to specification. The unit can be fitted with extra side screens (SWS) to protect the surrounding area or used in conjunction with a Gantry System (GWS) for irregular cleaning operations. A semi portable high pressure hand lance facility can be installed for vehicle cleaning. The unit is also available as a portable model. Available on Contract Hire or rental, all units bespoke and/or customised. Morclean would be pleased to liaise with end users, Design or Consulting Engineers, and Civil Engineers with any project.
"Washing the Range Rover in the Snow" Morclean Permanent Wash Pad Demonstration
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The Communist Party and the New Party
Contemporary British History
Taylor & Francis
The New Party was never at the centre of the concerns of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB). However, the CPGB had to take a line on the new organisation when it was formed, and tried to use it to smear Labour and Independent Labour Party politicians as enemies of the working class. As the 1931 political crisis unfolded, the New Party became increasingly an irrelevance at the side of the much more tangible threat of the National government, although communists did campaign against Mosley in late 1931. Ultimately, the New Party was significant for the communists because it seemed to offer some vindication of the 'class against class' line; because it suggested that the CPGB was not always wrong in its analysis; because it led to increased attention to the party's youth movement; and because it led to the leading left-wing polemicist of the 1930s, John Strachey, working with the CPGB for almost a decade.
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Turku Hansda-Lapsa Hemram Mahavidyalaya – Admission, Merit List 2019: Turku Hansda-Lapsa Hemram Mahavidyalaya is situated in Birbhum in West Bengal state of India. Established in 2006, it is accredited from UGC and it is affiliated to University of Burdwan. THLHM, Birbhum offers 11 courses across 3 streams namely Arts, Physical Education, Science and across 2 degrees like BA, BSc and official website www.thlhmahavidyalay.com and www.thlhmahavidyalay.co.in.
|Turku Hansda-Lapsa Hemram Mahavidyalaya Admission 2019
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Brazil Presents Immediate Business and Investment Prospects
As it Prepares to Host the 2014 Soccer World Cup and the 2016 Olympic Games, Brazil is Now Generating Numerous Trade and Investment Opportunities
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An open letter to the free speach coalition regarding violations by eros guide
Dear Audience I am sharing a private letter I have just finished sending to the Coaltion of Free speech. I believe it is hypocritical and ironic that within the past five years eros guide has been involved in eradicating certain harmless words used by their advertisers such as the words “child” edge play eros and many other coin phrases that are no longer permisable via the written word.
The eros guide (erosguide.com) is now taking ludicrous measures that violate civil liberties and create drama for their paid advertisers. Under this new “tyranny” a supervisor can now pick through your account deleting key phrases and whole sentences and paragraphs of written advertising text from Paid advertisers or they can deconstruct and take words out of context to contort your original meaning without any care or concern of your intended meaning. You will not be given a chance to correct certain words or phrases if you they decide to pick on you.
Once your ad is picked apart and you are given a call or email you will have to redo your text then risk their punishment which is simply being deactivated and banned from further advertisement permanently.
OUR civil liberties and right to free speech is now being threatened by eros guide team members who proudly boast of being members and supporters of the coalition of free speech.
Your phone conversations are recorded by the eros guide team who will judge you by your words and opinions and concerns after they ask you for your input. I myself was victimized by key members of the eros guide staff and my words were taken out of context and distorted. I was then banned for sharing my concerns and valid feedback. I don’t consider the eros guide to be a supporter of free speech I consider the eros guide (erosguide.com) to be deeply confused about what they wish to convey and in deep fear of freedom of speech.
Here is my open letter to the COALITION OF FREE SPEECH:
Dear Free speech Coalition,
I was a former advertiser banned from the eros guide for using certain Key words in the body of my text that they deemed inappropriate. I own a blog of my own GoddessDianaTantrabutterfly.com and my own private tantra website http://www.tantrabutterfly.com so I am very concerned that the eros guide boasts on its website that they are “proud” members of the free speech Coalition when they have been banning long standing and loyal advertisers for small words that are used out of context.
I was cajoled and harassed this past year every 3 to 4 weeks by supervisory staff that work for the eros guide. I was told not use the term “play with your inner child” so I changed that phrase to “play with your inner psyche”. I was told that I could use the term Yoni worship then six weeks later Lisa from the eros guide called me and pleaded with me not to use Yoni worship so she allowed me to use the word YONI training which is beyond ridiculous.
I was told I could no longer use the phrase “edge play” even though other tantra women in my industry were allowed to use much worse and edge play was used frequently.
I was warned that because I used the word multiple waves of bliss I would have my account deactivated and banned. I was warned never to use the term “eros” because eros guide holds all the legal rights to the word eros no matter how you phrase it.
They banned me after I expressed my worries and the next day Tim from the legal department called me and said based on the tape recorded message that was taped live during Lisa’s phone conversation with me I was deactivated. I lost all my lovely text as they did not send me a copy they simply destroyed all the lovely paragraphs of live text I had without having any consideration about my rights of speech. I was not given a copy of my text or my legal disclaimer or my pictures. They destroyed all traces of me and my prior existence banishing me without fairness or warning or respect for my rights.
I would love to speak with you about the violation of my freedom of speech and written words. I feel that you should not keep the eros guide on your membership list as a result of their misconduct and violation of civil liberties. | <urn:uuid:d2746646-17ad-4561-a878-98918ce0f1d5> | CC-MAIN-2022-21 | https://goddessdianatantrabutterfly.com/2015/10/28/an-open-letter-to-the-free-speach-coalition-regarding-violations-by-eros-guide/ | 2022-05-25T05:14:02Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-21/segments/1652662578939.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20220525023952-20220525053952-00630.warc.gz | en | 0.972132 | 909 |
Good news Beatles fans! It’s the moment you have all been waiting for. Yesterday the Vatican announced that John Lennon was forgiven for his comment in 1966 that The Beatles were more famous than Jesus.
It seems the artist’s death 28 years ago and 42 years of reflection have granted the Vatican the perspective to say, The remark by John Lennon, which triggered deep indignation mainly in the United States, after many years sounds only like a ‘boast’ by a young working-class Englishman faced with unexpected success, after growing up in the legend of Elvis and rock and roll.” (Vatican daily Osservatore Romano)
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Every great sporting team has a great foundation – they do the basics, well. Not some of the time – all the time.
Every good professional, say, an Accountant, understands the basics of the Accrual Accounting System and applies the principles consistently. Always. This allows for complete, timely, accurate, reliable data that when analysed with other information (past and present) allows for better decision making. For the future.
This helps build a great business.
In all of my body re-engineering programs, tailored for all individuals, I stress the importance of building a good foundation, encompassed in the first “A” of my “Triple A” to Life philosophy of self-development. The ‘A” I am referring to is: AWARENESS.
I stick to the basics and get my pupils to perform them properly all the time. Most of them do. Old school training with a modern twist.
In this phase of my life, I spend a lot more time with my two kids now then I used to. I feel very fortunate that I have the opportunity to share these years these formative years with them. To help them and funnily enough, they help me a lot too.
They help increase my awareness. Of myself. Of them. And of the external environment.
This increased awareness (thanks partly to them), has got me thinking about the importance of laying a great foundation for them. Just like a great building. To help them build the loftiest buildings in the universe: their young minds and hearts, which are learning at super-speed, trying to make sense of their lives and learning how to make this world a better place in which to live.
This, I believe is the most important foundation each and every dad out there can help lay in their children: to build the greatest building (positive influence) in their hearts and minds and trying to make the world a better place.
Part of this laying of the foundation for them is to give them a clear understanding of one of the all-time great truths: that life is difficult and often unfair. Whether we like it or not, our sons and daughters may experience doubts, discouragement, loneliness, disappointment. Failure. They may be betrayed by a friend, not succeed in getting in to the university or profession of choice. Be dumped by their girlfriend or boyfriend.
Just like you, I know I will feel the hurt in their hearts too …
But this is all part of building a great foundation. You see, as I see it, we should not go out of our way to look for pain but we should certainly avoid pain when we can (with one exception when you’re in the gym feeling the ‘pump’ in your working muscles).
We should not just explain away moments like these – these trials and tribulations they may likely experience. They are an essential part of foundation building for a great building that they will call ‘their life’. These trials represents the capacity to build strength, maturity, courage and genuine, authentic love. It builds perseverance and resilience.
My role as a parent is relatively new. I am still learning. I know one thing, though is that as a parent, the better we get at seeing our children through these difficult times, through these trials, the better the bond. These trials will help us identify what they can do in our lives and our children’s lives, the better able we’ll be to provide stability, calmness, assurance and genuine love to our children. Even in the midst of a storm. Their trying times.
As a parent I know I have made mistakes along the way, so far. But I embrace the role with all my heart, mind and soul. Every experienced parent understands that bad behaviour in a child rarely happens with no previous signals, incidents. There are usually early signs. We just have to be aware.
I still remember hearing my grandfather say to my grandmother when referring to a relative of mine when I was a child, “be careful, you give him an inch, he’ll take a mile”.
So true, when you’re a parent.
As a parent you need to stay alert. You’re forced to increase awareness. To notice behavioural changes early and be ready to intervene in time to prevent the youngster from skidding in to serious dangerous waters ….
It is essentially ‘risk management’ and depending on the incident, an appropriate assessment of the behaviour needs to be made as to the short-term and long-term risks. Appropriate ‘intervention controls’ need to be implemented to mitigate the likely consequences likely to happen if not addressed.
Simple? Not quiet. But you have to try as a parent.
I believe, a parent’s wisdom in controlling their youngster(s) is one of the best measures of how much you really love and value her or him. The child knows this whether they say anything or not. I know my daughter does. The young boy or girl understands that his or her mother should have a hand in controlling her too. Matter of fact, both parents need to play this role – in equal share.
Children learn so much from their parents. I have found that I needed to improve my own personal standards when my children appears on the scene. Your personal examples are important and so are your rules. My wife and I have established a few rules already in our household. I get caught out sometimes, when my daughter notices ‘double standards’ in what I tell them to do and what I do. For example, I always say that a shirt has to be worn whenever we are seated at the table for a meal.
Sometimes … I get reminded by her. “Dad, aren’t you forgetting something?”
“And what would that be, young lady?” I would reply.
“Your shirt”, she would state matter-of-factly.
This little point makes me think of the bigger message. The message is that – you won’t be able to sell your children any double standards on the important issues in life.
And you shouldn’t.
I have concluded that they will most likely follow what I DO and what I BELIEVE than what I SAY ABOUT these issues.
Stop trying to be the BEST DAD in the world. Be the best dad you CAN BE. Be YOURSELF. That is all your daughter or son NEEDS: the REAL YOU.
Their REAL FATHER.
You see your children does not need to believe that you are the wisest man in the world or the strongest, to count you as their father. No.
I believe that the REAL FATHER they NEED is a MAN who they can approach for answers on the important questions in life. They also need to see that you are still a ‘work-in-progress’ but that you still have the hunger to learn and grow too.
That you make mistakes too. And its ok.
They need to see that you are not narrow-minded and ‘set in your ways’. They NEED to see that you are not afraid to learn and embrace new ideas, new concepts, new paradigms, new philosophies.
Summed up in my “third A” to my “Triple A to Life”:
Be the best parent you can be.
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POLICE jumped into a swimming pool in their uniforms to remove a man causing a disturbance before handcuffing him on the pool side.
Shocked visitors to the Littledown Centre in Bournemouth watched in amazement as the two officers waded half a length of the pool to pull the man from the water at 6.30pm on Tuesday before handcuffing him and using limb restraints on his legs.
Staff members and other pool users were on hand to help remove the man from the shallow end but police later concluded no offence had been committed.
Chief Inspector Chris Weeks of Bournemouth police confirmed officers had been called to the centre following a report of a disturbance.
He added: “Dorset Police responded to a report of an aggressive male shouting and swearing in a public place.
“There were concerns for members of the public as this incident was taking place in a public swimming pool.
“The officers in attendance were faced with a potentially high-risk environment to work in where positive action was essential to prevent a breach of the peace.
“When the officers tried to remove the man from the pool, he was very aggressive.
"On removing the man from the pool he had to be handcuffed to the front. He tried to kick out with his legs requiring the officers to apply limb restraints. The officers acted appropriately at all times using Home Office approved methods and equipment.”
He said swift action was taken to remove the man from the pool but said no further action was taken following inquiries. The man was taken home.
Colette Kiernander, general manager at the Littledown Centre, said: “There was an incident, which is currently being reviewed.
“Employees monitored the situation closely at all times in accordance with our procedures and I’d like to thank them and the authorities for their assistance.”
One spectator at the pool, Sharese Taylor, sent the Echo video footage she took of the incident.
Footage posted by Sharese Taylor on YouTube
One onlooker has told the Daily Echo she believes the man was unfairly treated by Littledown staff and the police.
She said: “A man did indeed have unacceptable threatening behaviour to a bunch of young boys who were splashing around him and potentially being a nuisance. They did not deserve the abuse the man threw at them.
“What followed was farcical – four police cars, an entourage of police and members of the general public filling every window available.
“We need to be much more supportive and open with people who are clearly distressed.
“At no time did I see him hit out. I fully believe this man would have been OK to continue his swim.”
Dorset Police declined to confirm how many officers attended the scene.
Edit: this story was changed on October 4 to correct the suggestion in Chief Inspector Chris Weeks quotes that the man was handcuffed in the pool.
VIDEO: Swimmers shocked as police restrain man at Littledown Centre
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The following deeds were recorded at the local courthouse during the past week. State tax stamps affixed to deeds indicate one percent of the purchase price or of the fair market value:
Shannon S. Dunkle and Joni L. Dunkle to Joni L. Dunkle in Todd Township, tax exempt.
Rosalie Verna DeShong by Adam E. DeShong and Kimberly F. Kulp to Adam E. DeShong and Kimberly F. Kulp in Todd Township, tax exempt.
Kimberly F. Kulp to Wanda Ann DeShong in Todd Township, $ 200 in tax stamps.
Adam E. DeShong and Vickie DeShong to Wanda Ann DeShong in Todd Township, tax exempt.
Michael Gantt and Trina Gantt to William S. Westberry II in McConnellsburg Borough, $1,800 in tax stamps.
Larry N. Foor and Cathy J. Foor to Larry N. Foor and Janet D. Kaltreider in Wells Township, tax exempt. | <urn:uuid:7235490a-e276-411c-9550-aff8a25689b9> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.fultoncountynews.com/news/2011-09-29/Local_(and)_State/Deeds_Recorded.html | 2016-06-25T18:30:53Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393463.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00088-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.921284 | 221 |
Scouting Report on todays starters from MLB.com
Phil Dumatrait – Coming off a poor 3 1/3-inning, six-run Major League debut vs. the Nationals, Dumatrait fared better Thursday vs. the Dodgers. The rookie lefty allowed two earned runs and seven hits over six innings with two walks and three strikeouts in a no-decision. The Reds lost the game, 5-4, in 11 innings. Dumatrait displayed command problems and fell behind often the first two innings when he was pumping one fastball after another. He began mixing his pitches better in later innings and fared better.
Ted Lilly – Lilly struggled with his fastball and curveball command Thursday in Denver, walking five and throwing a season-high 127 pitches. But he made pitches when he needed to and held the Rockies to two runs on five hits in six innings. He’s won seven of his last eight starts.
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DESCRIPTION: Light gold. Moderately light-bodied. Dried herbs and sea air with unusual flavors of buckwheat, bitter almond, and white pepper over a slight graininess in the texture.
TASTING LOCATION: Tasted under ideal conditions at the Beverage Testing Institute Inc., in Chicago.
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The Safeguard Metro Missed
By Steven A. Glazer
Metro asserted recently that a remedy for the faulty track circuitry that may have caused the June 22 train crash near the Takoma Station, killing nine and injuring 80, does not exist and would have to be “invented.”
Yet The Post reported only a week earlier that such a device does exist. I looked it up. It is U.S. Patent No. 7,050,890, issued in 2006 to Ron Tolmei, whom The Post interviewed for the July 7 article “Sister Transit System Took Steps to Counter Hazard.” It’s a simple fix, too: It merely requires the rear-car transmitter of a train to check whether the front-car transmitter properly left a signal on the track receiver for trains behind it to slow down. If a commercial version doesn’t exist, it could be developed very easily.
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Wine Traditions – France
The Wine Traditions portfolio has always been a work in progress, perhaps necessarily so, since the early iteration of the portfolio centered on twenty domains from Southwest France, prompting a French commercial attaché to ask Ed whether or not Wine Traditions was a business. Foundational for Ed and Barbara has been the belief that the meaningful expression of land is not limited to a small group of anointed appellations. Over the last two and half decades, the wine selection has been guided by principles similar to those attributed to the architect, Albert Frey; economy, discipline, functionalism, and beauty. As the portfolio has evolved, so has our understanding of the wine traditions of France. They are “rooted” in the land and brought forward through the cultivation and preservation of the vineyards for future generations. The “organic habit of re-creating what has been received and is handed on” allows the perceptive vigneron or vigneronne to give the land a powerful voice through the wines they produce. Their passion inspires us.
Vinotas Selections – France/Italy
Small farmer Organic, Biodynamic and Natural wines that taste
more expensive than they actually are.
Field Recordings – Central Coast-Paso
Field Recordings is winemaker Andrew Jones’ personal catalog of the people and places he values most. Our wines are all about the flavor — with none of the pretension.
Spending his days as a vine nursery fieldman planning and planting vineyards for farmers all over California, Andrew is sometimes offered small lots of their best fruit on the side. Having stood in just about every vineyard on the Central Coast, he’s all about finding those underdogs with untapped potential. As friendships are made and opportunities are embraced, Andrew produces small quantities of soulful wine from these unusual, quiet vineyards.
HB Wine Merchants – Italy, France, Spain
Baobab Imports – South Africa
Baobab Wines was founded in 2015 with the mission to bring the best of South Africa to the United States. Frustrated with the export driven South African brands that overwhelmed the US wine market we sought out family owned and operated Vineyards from each appellation with a commitment to tell the true story of the South African wine industry – our history, our terroir, our culture, and what is driving the future of winemaking in South Africa
Thirsty Owl Estates – Finger Lakes, NY
Selected Estates Europe – Italy
Terroirs Export – France
Terroirs Wine Export is best thought of as a “Co-operative” approach to exporting small, artisan French wineries to the US. Thibault Poisson is a Loire Winemaker with expertise in the export business. He has gathered a curated group of exceptional “friends/winemakers” to promote their vineyard sites from the some of the key regions throughout France.
Vinaio Imports – Spain
Vinaio Imports – Spain
Portovino – Italy
For over 20 years, we’ve been traveling Italy’s backroads to create a collection of terroir-driven wines that excite us: characterful daily-drinkers, heritage producers, and fringe outliers. In 2021, we added a small German & Austrian portfolio from producers we’ve been friends with over the years.
All are certified organic, biodynamic, or practicing organic with a list of best practices. We don’t work with large scale commercial wineries, and we don’t peddle wines from tank farms to keep the lights on (there are smarter, more environmentally interesting ways to keep the lights on!).
We do the work, knock on the doors, find the producers and the wines, and bring them over the Atlantic with temperature controlled containers that we follow ourselves and load in Italy.
Georgian Wine House – Republic of Georgia
Sera Wine Imports – France
Scenic Valley Farm – Willamette Valley, OR
Airfield Estates / Lone Birch – Yakima, WA
Keuka Lakes Vineyard – Finger Lakes, NY
Luminous Hills/Seven of Hearts – Willamette Valley
UNION SACRE’ WINERY
Alcace-inspired wines rooted in California’s hidden vineyards
Our latest addition to our Domestic wineries. These are terroir-inspired, small production wines from Lake County’s finest vineyard high-elevation sites.
WE LOVE MAINE AND WE LOVE WINE.
We aim to make true, personal wines that connect you to this beautiful state and the delicious wild fruit that has grown here for more than 10,000 years.
Wild blueberries are fundamental to Maine’s history, geography, and culture, and they’re fundamental to our approach to pure winemaking: using local ingredients from local farmers to produce unique, delicious wines that express the character of where they’re from.
Wine for the World is a New York-based import and distribution company of thoughtful, delicious wines. We represent winemakers that have a positive impact on the world, in their communities, and on the environment.
While this often coincides with artisanal wines that are organic, minimal intervention, and natural, our philosophy is broader than that. We were founded in 2013 on a philosophy to support diversity—be it regional diversity, or the people behind the wine. Within our portfolio you will find winemakers who are women, people of color, or people part of the LGBTQ+ community- along with carbon neutral wineries, biodynamic champions, and regional pioneers. Our selections are based on quality, responsible social and environmental business practices, and limited production levels.
Wine for the World helps you discover delicious, thoughtful wines from unconventional wine regions.
We’re a young wine import company working exclusively with boutique producers and artisanal family vineyards. We make our selections based on quality, responsible social and environmental business practices, limited production levels, and micro-market share in the US.
In addition to our portfolio of imports, we produce a collaborative brand that brings together emerging winemakers from abroad and established winemakers from the US. Our aim is to highlight talent, promote exchange, and make the wine world just a little smaller.
We believe that it’s important to be a responsible global citizen. Our producers employ respectful work environments and fair labor practices for all workers – including living, not just minimum, wages. Also, more than half of our wines, are made by women winemakers. Whether this is simply our palate preference, or intentional, is something we’re still trying to figure out.”
Hangtime will start off offering 2 Spanish producers:
Dascas Vives Winery Dasca Vives is a family farm located just south of Barcelona and 20 kilometers from the Mediterranean Sea in an area of Catalonia known as the Alt Camp. Josep Dasca and Alba Vives a forestry engineer and agricultural engineer/enologist, have converted the family land where they were raised completely to biodynamic farming principles. Their philosophy is lead by a necessity and responsibility to heal the land by “following the rhythms of the biodynamic calendar, with the concept of nature as the whole macro-cosmos and applying different preparations based on minerals, plants and animals in order to revitalize the soil, the plants and the people it feeds”.
Chozas Carrascal Winery -VINO DE PAGO Helmed by María José the daughter of founder María José López-Peidro, this Valencian bodega utilizes modern techniques, many invented by the matriarch herself, to create wines with a singular sense of Mediterranean purity.
Here in Utiel Requena, close to the great Sea from which it receives its influence of long, warm summer days and equally cool summer nights the wines of Chozas benefit even further from the family’s deep sense of tradition and respect for their unique biodiversity. The wines are certified organic, and pest control is obtained by planting indigenous flowers, trees and herbs throughout the vineyards, which naturally repel insects, enrich the nutrients in the soil and contribute to the aromatic terroir of the wines.
In the winery, this respect for the ‘cultivo ancestral’ is maintained through the strict use of native yeasts. All of the red wines are spontaneously fermented and the Bodega is has worked with a local university to create a “yeast bank” from strains obtained in its own vineyards. The wines are never clarified and only in some instances filtered through an organic membrane maintaining purity in all of Chozas wines and remaining perfectly vegan.
Chozas incorporates the least amount of sulfur possible to maintain freshness using one-third the amount allowable by the VdP.
Located in a nature preserve, the winery is committed to reducing carbon emissions. The winery currently uses solar panels to reduce its energy use by one-half and a gas system for temperature control subtracting another 20%, and is close to achieving carbon neutrality.
And we have recently added Adama Winery from South Africa. Born from the collaboration of 8 talented women wine professionals, in association with Bosman Winery’s generous contributions, HER Wines will showcase affordable wines in a range of 4 flavors. Learn more at https://www.adamawines.co.za/product
And our latest addition. A local Massachusetts-based supplier with deep roots in Sicily.
Alileo is a celebration of all things Sicilian. Our natural wines are made using traditional methods with varietals from the Wild West Coast of Sicily. We will carry 4 flavors of these delicious and eco-friendly wines, as well as a sparkling wine in 750 bottle. | <urn:uuid:81b101a2-ea97-4c97-bd6c-17a63b286439> | CC-MAIN-2022-49 | https://hangtimewholesalewine.com/portfolio-2/ | 2022-12-08T22:26:05Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446711368.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20221208215156-20221209005156-00806.warc.gz | en | 0.940025 | 2,037 |
by Marie Kennedy
How can progressive planners work more effectively with low-income women to address urgent issues they face, such as the increasing risk and conditions of homelessness? What alternative models of needs analysis and policy planning lend themselves to increasing the power of those most affected?
The experiences of the Roofless Women’s Action Research Mobilization in Massachusetts (R-WARM) offer lessons to planners, academics and researchers who are looking for some answers. This project is an example of participatory action research, an underutilized approach that responds to the shortcomings of more traditional research and education that do little to change conditions such as homelessness.
Adding Participation and Action to Research
When a group of women planners and service providers in the Boston area wanted to investigate the conditions of homeless women in Massachusetts, they started out to design a standard social science investigation. They had already designed a survey which they intended to administer to a sample of homeless women, when they were challenged to be more participatory by two formerly homeless women in the group. Pointing out the sensitive nature of the desired information, these women soon convinced all involved that the results would be better if the project were undertaken by women who had experienced homelessness themselves.
Action to influence public policy and service delivery as it affected homeless women had always been a goal of the project and as the participatory focus of the project developed it was recognized that the advocacy effort would also be more effective if led by women who had experienced homelessness. Enhancing the leadership capabilities of homeless and formerly homeless women became a major goal of the project.
To enhance the goal of leadership development, formerly homeless women were given the opportunity to earn a bachelor’s degree at the College of Public and Community Service (CPCS), where I teach, at the University of Massachusetts/Boston. In the Fall of 1994, six formerly homeless women, chosen on the basis of an interview process, enrolled in CPCS and became the core researchers of R-WARM. They have earned academic credits for some of the project work. Grant funds have provided each with free tuition and fees, a stipend, and reimbursement for child care and transportation. I have provided coordination, technical advice and teaching, along with Lynn Peterson of the Women’s Institute for Housing and Economic Development and Nancy Bristel, then with the City of Boston Emergency Shelter Commission. A steering committee was formed to advise the project, comprised half of formerly homeless women and half of representatives of a variety of groups concerned with homelessness, women, poverty, and domestic violence.
The research project has produced comprehensive quantitative and qualitative data about women’s homelessness in Massachusetts. The formerly homeless researchers designed a broad-ranging survey which they administered to 126 currently homeless women. Informational sessions were held in shelters and drop-in centers throughout the state and the formerly homeless R-WARM researchers conducted all of the interviews. Data from the survey was supplemented with information gathered from four focus groups with formerly homeless women. Women respondents came from urban, suburban, and rural communities in various areas of the state. Included were women of different ages, racial and ethnic backgrounds, and single women as well as women with children.
R-WARM released a report of findings and policy recommendations linked to pending legislation in a well-attended event at the Massachusetts State House a year ago. We are now following up with more individualized lobbying efforts and working with various ongoing advocacy groups to incorporate R-WARM findings in their work. The researchers prepared several pamphlets addressing specific areas of concern to the homeless women they interviewed: the civil rights of homeless women; recovering from domestic violence while homeless; parenting issues while homeless; and the particular situation of “single” homeless women, many of whom are trying to regain custody of minor children. Other formerly homeless women have joined Roofless Women (the shortened name by which the transformed advocacy organization is now known) and the group is distributing the pamphlets and doing outreach in shelters and drop-in centers across the state. They are also doing legislative advocacy and work with agencies to improve their service delivery.
All of us involved in R-WARM learned a great deal, not only about the causes and solutions to women’s homelessness, but also about the strengths and challenges of participatory action research. It was constantly challenging for professionals involved in the project to make their technical expertise and broader perspective on the political/economic/social roots of homelessness available to the core group while making sure that ultimate power for directing the project rested with the formerly homeless women.
Another important challenge for us professionals was to give up rigid notions of how things “should be done” in order to maximize the strengths of the participatory research process. For example, standard social science research dictates that a survey should be administered to each respondent in exactly the same way and that the interviewer should not enter into discussion with the respondent, running the risk of distorting responses. However, dialogue is a critical element of participatory research and when the investigator has experienced the problem being investigated, dialogue is a means of discovering the shared nature of a problem and the common ground for action. Dialogue is the basis for eliciting unusually forthright responses, and more detailed and possibly more truthful answers to interview questions. And this is one of the outstanding strengths of this approach to needs assessment.
Another strength was in the formulation of the survey questions themselves. Critical questions were posed that probably wouldn’t have been thought of by an outside professional, and the formerly homeless women also provided a “sensitivity screen” for the wording and ordering of questions.
To date, the most stunning strength of the project has been the growth in self-confidence and skills of the R-WARM researchers themselves. They have become a strong support group. Each of them has become an effective advocate for all roofless women. They have spoken out in many public forums: a legislative breakfast organized around housing issues in Boston, the United Nations Habitat Conference in Istanbul, local colleges and conferences, the Planners Network conference in Brooklyn, the Highlander Center workshop on participatory research in Tennessee, and national homelessness conferences in Washington, D.C. and Texas. Three of the R-WARM researchers have graduated, each winning one of the highest awards granted by the College of Public and Community Service, and two are continuing in graduate school. The others are still pursuing their degrees. Several of the researchers have gained good jobs and all serve on advisory committees and agency boards as a result of their connection to R-WARM.
Aspects of the R-WARM project have become models for other efforts. Faculty at Arizona State are attempting to replicate the project and the project is being featured in the Grassroots Guide to Participatory Research being prepared by the University of Tennessee. This year, R-WARM won the Taking A Stand award from the Boston Women’s Fund and the Opening Doors award from the Women’s Institute for Housing and Economic Development. With the design help of R-WARM researchers, and modeled on the leadership development goals of R-WARM, Project Hope, the Women’s Institute, and the College of Public and Community Service have now established a new program, Women in Community Development, through which another cohort of low-income women are earning college degrees and becoming leading advocates for other low-income women.
Participatory Action Research: A Progressive Approach
Participatory action research is particularly suited to “lifting all the voices.” It’s a process that supports the voices from the margins in speaking, analyzing, building alliances, and taking action. Participatory action research puts those most affected by the problems being researched in the driver’s seat. One group in our society that continues to be marginalized in planning decisions is women, especially low-income women and women of color.
Participatory action research is particularly appropriate for drawing women into effective participation in policy debates and planning decisions that impact their lives and the lives of their families and communities. The way of knowing that women have historically relied on and which was particularly recognized and developed in the support and consciousness-raising groups of the 1960’s and 1970’s, is essential to participatory research theory. As Peter Park wrote in Voices of Change:
Interactive knowledge makes human community possible. Without a common stock of knowledge of this kind, it is not possible to form social solidarity capable of mutual support and common action.
Participatory research doesn’t turn its back on the type of knowledge that many planning projects rely on solely — quantitative data responding to questions generated by “experts”. However, it insists that the questions be posed by those most affected by the issues being researched and that transformative action result from the research.
Central to participatory research is critical investigation by those most affected into the problems they face and in light of what they wish to achieve. Participatory research is concerned with uncovering the structural causes of social conditions and, through rational discussion and reflection, leads to questions of what is right for the common good. Realization that problems derive from human action lead people to understand that people can also change the way things are. Critique turns into action. Through struggle, people acquire more knowledge, leading to further action, in the process of what Paulo Freire calls “conscientization.”
We can evaluate any planning process by finding out whether it was successful in “lifting all the voices”, in bringing previously marginalized voices into the discussion, in organizing the unorganized to participate. How many people moved from being objects of planning to being subjects in the process? How successful were we as planners in framing a process that is comfortable and encouraging for people to participate, particularly those not used to speaking in public and not facile at articulating their concerns and visions? How culturally sensitive were we to different forms of expression and self-organization? Were we able to successfully confront dynamics of racism, ethnocentrism, sexism, ageism, classism, or other exclusionary patterns of behavior in our society? What practical accommodations did we make to reduce the barriers to participation for groups that have been left out — child care for single mothers, translation for non-English-speaking folks, meeting times that accommodate work schedules, etc.? Overall, how successful were we at nurturing well-informed, genuinely democratic politics and discourse, dialogue about options and the “values” by which those options for policy and design may be evaluated?
Evaluated against these criteria, the Roofless Women’s Action Research Mobilization, through its use of participatory action research, would get high marks.
For more information:
Marie Kennedy with the Roofless Women’s Action Research Mobilization. “A Hole in My Soul: Experiences of Homeless Women,” in Diane Dujon and Ann Withorn, eds. For Crying Out Loud: Women’s Poverty in the United States. Boston: South End Press. 1996, 41-55.
Marie Kennedy and Betsy Reed. “Homeless in Massachusetts.” Dollars and Sense. January/February 1996, 27-29, 39.
Lynn Peterson with Deborah Gray. “Raising the Roof on Research: Case Study of Roofless Women’s Action Research Mobilization.” A 1998 Richard Schramm Paper on Community Development. Available from the Lincoln Filene Center, Tufts University, Medford, MA 02155. $10 (make check payable to the Trustees of Tufts College).
Roofless Women’s Action Research Mobilization. Lifting the Voices of Homeless Women. 1997. Roofless Women, c/o Women’s Institute for Housing and Economic Development, 14 Beacon Street, 6th Floor, Boston, MA 02108. $3.00 (make check payable to WIHED).
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Viewpoints: Where Is The Surgeon General; Unions’ Health Law Waivers; Mass. Plan To Aid Municipalities
Los Angeles Times: The Invisible Surgeon General
Although some of the nation's healthcare issues are abstruse and vexing, others are relatively approachable. Many in this latter category fall within the province of the U.S. surgeon general. But the incumbent is nowhere to be found (Henry I. Miller, 1/28).
Yahoo News: Waivers For Favors: Big Labor's Obamacare Escape Hatch
President Obama's storytellers recently launched a White House blog series called "Voices of Health Reform," where "readers can meet average Americans already benefiting from the health reform law." I propose a new White House series: "Voices of Health Reform Waivers," where taxpayers can meet all the politically connected unions benefiting from exclusive get-out-of-Obamacare passes - after squandering millions of their workers' dues to lobby for the job-killing, private insurance-sabotaging law from which they are now exempt (Michelle Malkin, 1/28).
The Boston Globe: Municipal Health Care Reform?
The fine print often determines whether a reform really works. That will certainly be the case with Governor Patrick's scheme to help municipalities lower their health care costs and thereby preserve other vital services. After temporizing throughout the gubernatorial campaign, Patrick has now embraced the idea that Beacon Hill needs to bring generous local health care plans into line with state government's less costly offerings (Lehigh, 1/28).
Politico: Health Reform's Political Fallout
The Democratic and the Republican approaches are both unacceptable to the American people. Both parties need to get serious about pursuing practical, meaningful health care reforms that a majority of Americans wanted 10 months ago - and still want today. They want a bill that permits purchasing insurance across state lines, covers pre-existing conditions, ensures portability, supports malpractice reform, incrementally increases coverage and contains initiatives to hold down costs (Douglas E. Schoen and Patrick H. Caddell, 1/28).
Hollywood Reporter/Reuters: HBO Documentary Probes Oregon's Euthanasia Law
"How to Die in Oregon," a compassionate documentary about terminally ill patients who choose the physician-sanctioned end-of-life option under the Northwest state's Death With Dignity law, will stir healthy debate and provide invaluable context on the issue when it airs on HBO later this year (Lowe, 1/28). | <urn:uuid:2e137985-5155-4d0a-b7db-695054e7faf6> | CC-MAIN-2016-40 | http://khn.org/morning-breakout/friday-opeds-5/ | 2016-09-29T15:20:01Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-40/segments/1474738661900.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20160924173741-00188-ip-10-143-35-109.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.917046 | 515 |
Alright, we all know how life works. Sometimes it is perfect. On track.. on time.. and sometimes, it is fun and hectic! haha I was suppose to do ZCUT #7 on Weds. but I got home at 7-7:30 pm. Granted, I put my kid right to bed and could've gotten in my workout but I was EXHAUSTED. So, here's what I did instead: I skipped it. Yep. I did. Today was suppose to be my rest day and, instead, I made my rest day yesterday.
Cue today. I feel like I've got a cold or something coming on. I didn't sleep well. I laid around all day and just generally felt terrible. However, because I skipped my workout yesterday, I told myself I absolutely had to workout today. Annnnnd ....
Granted, I showered and took an hour long nap right after...
But I'm pretty sure I needed it. So, I've taken all the vitamins I can think of, drank all my water, and rested. I hope that this just blows over without taking me down. I'd hate to have to change up my last week of the first month of ZCUT anymore than I already have.
Speaking of ZCUT, #7 was still tough. I mentioned how I didn't feel like I did enough when I first encountered this workout. Today, though I burned less calories than the first time, I really do feel like I did better. I didn't whine or give up, I just kept pushing through. I gave all I could give, especially considering I'm feeling sickly. I burned 199 calories in 25 minutes. Not bad for a lethargic person... haa.
Well, that's about it for me today. I'm staying within my calories and have been all week. I also lowered my calories a little. I eat below 1500 everyday now as is consistent for what I weigh. I've been stepping myself down slowly, and weekly, so that I don't notice the changes. Hopefully, I won't have to go much lower than I am now. I figure, at some point, it should level off and I should still be able to lose the remaining weight. I'm not as confident in this week's weigh/tape in. Probably because I don't feel well but I just keep telling myself that it is a journey. I'm still loving all the changes in my body and that's all that matters :)
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Bringing Qubes OS to the enterprise
Qubes OS takes a uniquely effective approach to security. While the cybersecurity threats to companies and individuals have sharply increased in both number and sophistication over the past decade, conventional operating systems have done comparatively little to meet these threats. Most of them still rely on antiquated methods like antivirus scanning for security. The problem with such approaches is that they are inherently reactive in nature. At best, they can indicate that systems have been compromised after the fact, but they cannot prevent whole systems or networks from being compromised to begin with, much less offer any protection against the sophisticated threats enterprises face, such as zero-day exploits.
By contrast, Qubes has pioneered an approach called Security by Compartmentalization, which allows users to compartmentalize different digital activities into securely isolated compartments called “qubes” so that if one qube is compromised, the others remain unaffected. Moreover, Qubes seamlessly integrates all of these secure containers into a unified desktop environment, providing a decisive advantage in user experience and productivity over traditional methods of isolation.
System-level security research
We specialize in system-level security research, including:
Kernel security (kernel compromises, advanced rootkits, integrity checking, kernel exploitation techniques, design and implementation review of kernel/system code)
Virtualization security (attacks on hypervisor/VMM, secure VMM design, hypervisor design and implementation review)
Firmware security (BIOS/SMM/chipset exploitation, code review)
Advanced security technologies (VT-x, VT-d, AMD-v, TXT, TPM)
Whereas most teams specialize exclusively in either offensive or defensive security, ours is renowned in both. Rutkowska and her team have presented numerous attacks against virtualization systems and Intel security technologies, including a famous series of exploits against Intel Trusted Execution Technology. Their attack against Intel VT-d, allowing a full VM escape, is still the only one that has been demonstrated to this date, and they famously demonstrated that it is possible to break into Intel vPro BIOS and Active Management Technology. Rutkowska is also renowned in the security community for writing Blue Pill, the first hardware virtualization-based rootkit, introducing Evil Maid attacks, and for her work on kernel-mode malware for Windows and Linux. This expertise in how to “break” secure systems gives us a unique advantage in building them: We know how to think like attackers, and we understand how to design systems to be truly secure from the ground up.
Chief Executive Officer
Michał is an experienced technology project manager. He has been a partner in several technology commercialization projects, where he has facilitated interactions between scientific and technical teams, and he has experience as a business development manager for hardware security devices, including smart cards, tokens, and hardware security modules (HSMs). He was the coordinator of the European Union project for the Cities of Scientific Culture in Warsaw, Poland and a working group member in the longest-running European framework supporting transnational cooperation among researchers, engineers, and scholars across the continent. He has supported public environmental protection and climate change initiatives and consulted on the building and processing of large spatial databases. Michał is a doctoral candidate in physics in the College of Interfaculty Studies in Math and Natural Sciences at the University of Warsaw.
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Chief Technology Officer
Marek is an experienced system architect and Linux administrator. He specializes in security, virtualization and high availability. He has designed many security-oriented systems based on various different technologies — from simple passwords and keys through OTP to advanced multi-factor solutions based on tokens, cryptographic cards and biometrics. He also has accomplishments in the field of attacks on contactless cryptographic cards. His work as an active open-source contributor can be found in projects like Linux kernel, Linux-HA, Xen, and, of course, Qubes OS. Marek holds a master’s degree in computer science from the University of Warsaw.
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Andrew David Wong
Chief Communications Officer
Andrew is the Community Manager of the Qubes OS Project. In this role, he advocates for the interests of Qubes users and functions as a developer liaison, facilitating fruitful interaction between ITL and the Qubes community. He focuses on communicating his experience with and technical knowledge of Qubes in a way that is clear and understandable to prospective clients and users. He wrote much of the documentation and website for Qubes and manages the issue tracker and community-developed features. Andrew holds a doctorate in philosophy from the University of California, San Diego.
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Founder & Former Chief Executive Officer
Joanna Rutkowska is a founder of Invisible Things Lab and the Qubes OS project, which she has been leading since its inception in 2010. Prior to that she has been focusing on system-level offensive security research. Together with her team at ITL, she has presented numerous attacks on virtualization systems and Intel security technologies, including the famous series of exploits against the Intel Trusted Execution Technology (TXT), the still-only-one software attack demonstrating Intel VT-d escape, and also supervised her team with the pioneering research on breaking into the Intel vPro BIOS and AMT/MT technology. She is also known for writing Blue Pill, the first hardware virtualization-based rootkit, introducing Evil Maid attack, and for her prior work on kernel-mode malware for Windows and Linux in the early 2000s.
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Belligerent Amhara Regional State and Trails of Blood, Rape and Ethnic Cleansing
After the death of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi in 2012, inter-regional federal states and intra-regional conflicts grew among different ethnic groups threatening to split the Ethiopian federation apart. The ethno-nationalist demands intensified after 2015, especially with the rise of Abiy Ahmed to power. Contrary to his graduate work and his expertise on conflict resolution, Abiy helped foment discontent among political elites and sowing seeds of discord became his hallmark of his leadership.
The wars with Tigray and Oromia, the ethnic conflicts and the looming conflict with Sudan that have created adverse economic, political and social conditions in which Ethiopia now finds itself may be a bad omen for the stability of the country. These damning political developments may force Ethiopians to look at themselves and ask themselves in truth whether they are prepared politically and economically to cope with the realities similar to that of the Derg era mode of existence.
At this time of uncertainty and disillusionment of Ethiopians about the fate of their country, the Amhara political elites, the Eritrean army and Abiy Ahmed’s army are accused of being responsible for the worst atrocities in Africa since the genocide of Rwanda in 1994, including the massacres in the western Tigray’s town of Mai Kadra and in the holy city of Axum. In fact, massacres of innocent Tigrayans are a daily ritual now and the entire regional state of Tigray is becoming an open-air mall of genocide.
In western and southern Tigray thousands of Tigrayans have been raped, looted, slaughtered and hundreds of thousands have been expelled. The Amhara special forces and the Fano attacked Tigrayan dominated towns, destroying private and public properties and forcibly expelling civilians from the region in a brutal process that is identified as “ethnic cleansing.” Girls and women are forced into sexual slavery and taken into northern Amhara region as “comfort women.” One day, the Tigrayans’ trails of blood, rape, sexual assault, torture, starvation, imprisonments in western and southern Tigray will be opened and it is going to be a shocker to the conscience of human beings and certainly it will be a violent offense against human decency.
Given the genesis of the war and how the Amhara invaded Tigray, the narrative of all sides suffered in Mai Kadra is, at best, a misreading of what really happened there. The Amharas' fabricated story goes to describe their notion of shared culpability due to the heinous crime created by the revival of the old ethnic hatred between the Amhara and Tigrayans. This is an age-old denial tactic of “blaming the victim;” a weapon of choice for politicized and rationalized violence in order to strengthen the plausible deniability of ethnic cleansing against Tigrayans.
The Amhara political elites did not articulate a coherent policy for their region, but they have generally been highly critical of the TPLF on its management of the country. Never mind about their partnership with the TPLF in running the country for a long time. They have labeled the TPLF the greatest threat to the country and to the region, implying they are keen to work more closely with Isaias Afewerki and Abiy Ahmed to wage war against Tigray. Their only articulated coherent policy for the last three years could be characterized as expansionist settlers’ policy against their neighboring federal regional states and Sudan.
The Amhara elites show no interest in resolving conflicts using constitutional means and following the rule of law of the country. They set out to expand their borders through the use of force, it does so in ways that require misleading the people of Amhara in facing serious sacrifice of blood and treasure. All these human sacrifices, wastage of resources and political capital is done in the name of the unsuspecting the people of Amhara.
The Amhara elites’ actions and political orientation are increasingly becoming similar to that of Isaias Afewerki’s strategy of “belligerent maximalism.” It is a strategy of political survival for the leaders of the Amhara region and it fits very well with the political calculation of Abiy Ahmed. All along, Abiy Ahmed’s political strategy has been to create chaos in northern Ethiopia and in Eritrea. He would love to see the mutual destruction of Eritreans, Tigrayans and the Amhara so that his dreams of becoming a king with power and wealth comes true. If this does not come to fruition, he would love to see Chinese walls or planted explosives and barbed wires on the borders of Eritrea and Tigray, Tigray and Amhara regions.
Political elites of Amhara have used diversionary external policy in order to distract the people of Amhara from the injera and wat issues within their region. The political elites skillfully diverted the attention of unemployed youth to organize under Fano and special forces to find an adventure in the “wild west” of Tigray. They awakened and misled the young about Welkait and Raya (western and southern Tigray) and prepared them for war against Tigray. The Fano and the Amhara extremists’ first taste of blood of Tigrayans took place in different places of northern Gondor in 2016. They killed and expelled thousands of Tigrayans without mercy while the regional officials looked away. Some of the victims were born and raised in Gondor and have no idea where Tigray is. Alas, a significant number of the Tigrayans were forced to move to western Tigray in 2016 and after. They thought they were in their ancestral land and safe but the trail of hate followed them again in fateful days of November 2020.
The Amhara political elites, specially, members of the Amhara Prosperity Party (the old EPRDF), facing a political challenge from a brand-new political organization, the National Movement of Amhara (NAMA), that was created in Bahir Dar in 2018. NAMA embraces a more radical agenda. NAMA gained much popularity from the Amhara youth and it threatened the powers of the ruling party of Amhara. But the very threat of radicalism and chaos that empowered the NAMA eventually provoked a crushing backlash from Abiy Ahmed. Some of the members were jailed. They changed their political rhetoric and tone it down, at least for the time being, and they embraced the diversionary political ploy against the political punching bag (the TPLF). Demonization of the TPLF and the people of Tigray became the national pastime there by creating an environment for the invasion of Tigray.
What is going to happen to NAMA leadership before the national election? I suspect Abiy will find a way to disqualify (possibly jail) them from participating in the coming election. That is if (big if) the election is going to take place. My main point is the war in Tigray and the illusion of winning the war has bought enough time for the ruling party of the Amhara regional state from public demands for reform and from NAMA’s political challenges. In addition, the war looming with Sudan might be used to divert the attention of the people of Amhara towards external forces rather than internal problems thereby sparing the political elites some time.
For how long could the Amhara political elites use such diversionary political tactics? That is anybody's guess. But it could not possibly continue forever. There is a high possibility of the NAMA, the Agaw and the Kemant movements would threaten the Amhara ruling party’s election plans. It is also possible people returning from the war fronts might foment significant political demands for reforms if not for a revolution.
Whenever an evidence of heinous crime pops up, a circular finger-pointing still rages over whether the Eritrean army or the Ethiopian military are equally guilty of fostering the genocide in Tigray or Whether the Amhara forces and the Fano; guided by local, regional and federal officials of the Amhara regional state, are uniquely guilty. Neither Isaias Afewerki nor Abiy Ahmed's efforts to invade Tigray would have been possible had the Amhara political elites not mobilized to demand them. In this context, the Amhara political elites have the remarkable ability to rebuild old oppressions from the ashes of social movements.
Unlike the people of Tigray and Eritrea, the people of Amhara relatively hold a romanticised state of understanding of war. Especially the urban elites and diaspora want to win wars in sacrifice-less ways that do not require their own expense nor harm their securities and fortune. Such conceptions of war are leading to the misunderstanding of the true cost of war and the suffering of people unnecessarily. Whatever truth is coming out from the war crimes in Tigray, it is unlikely to sway hard-core Amhara extremists who still regard Tigrayans as responsible for their alleged persecution of the people of Amhara for the last three decades. In essence, the Amhara political elites joined Isaias Afewerki’s chorus of blame on the TPLF for Eritrea's failure to prosper and to develop democratic institutions. Hopefully, the blame game is coming to an end.
Tigray will Prevail!
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Re: IMAPD license problem?
On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 06:14:48PM -0700, Lori Stevens wrote:
> > First of all, by this message you have our permission to distribute a
> > modified version of IMAPD.
On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 02:36:20AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> This part is a problem; I think it may implicitly fail clause 8 of the
> Debian Free Software Guidelines.
That message was not a copyright notice, so the DFSG isn't really an
issue. I believe that message was a "the developers have no problems
with you" sort of permission.
If she'd said that we *shouldn't* distribute, that would be a problem.
But what she said is that we *could*. And, unlike KDE, the copyright
isn't a problem.
I've already asked her to confirm that she means what she seems to
have said (that they have no problems with Debian distributing IMAPD),
and I kinda wish that people would stop agonizing about being granted
explicit permission to distribute in a case where we already have legal
permission to distribute.
Remember: the reason I asked in the first place was that RMS was concerned
that UW might have issues that weren't reflected in the copyright. Given
my original question, it's perfectly reasonable for her to grant redundant
permission for Debian to go ahead with the distribution of IMAPD.
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In other words, the writing process matters. Speak well of it, encourage others, pass it on. Then release it to the world. Worse yet, you wrote a book, but nobody cared about it. However, you will need another pair of eyes to read it and give you a frank opinion before you go for publishing.
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Could you write an ebook addressing these? We who write in English are fortunate to have the richest and most versatile language in the world. Try to tinker and not re-write complete blocks as you may lose the essence of what you meant when you originally wrote it.
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The Nolan Ryan crisis in Arlington is well in its second week. Thus the questions over his future with the Rangers, and his future in general, continue. But while it appears Ryan is losing the battle for power, it's just not known what role he will continue to serve in with the club.
Ryan issued a statement yesterday saying that he plans to continue with the Rangers for the time being. And that he will continue as CEO. But though he is staying with the team, he and his fellow owners are still trying to determine what, exactly, his role with the team will be in the future. It's not likely this statement will put to rest the rumors surrounding Ryan's future. Yet some of the rumors regarding Ryan's future can be easily laid to rest.
In short: Nolan Ryan is not coming back to the Houston Astros. No matter what uninformed writers in Dallas and Houston might think. Such a move makes no sense for the Astros. The Rangers letting such a move happen makes no sense for the Rangers. And such a move makes absolutely zero sense for Nolan Ryan.
There are a few basic, very simple facts that the people arguing the Astros should hire Ryan are forgetting. First and foremost is the fact that Nolan Ryan is one of the Rangers' owners. While Ryan may step away from his management role with the team, he's not stepping away from his role as an owner. A part-owner of one team just can't take up an employment position with another team. MLB wouldn't allow this to happen. And the Rangers wouldn't allow this to happen.
And the one thing that has yet to be mentioned in all of the Ryan-departing-from-the-Rangers stories is Ryan putting his share of the ball club up for sale. It's possible he's doing this, and that could be why he's maintained media silence, that he's trying to work out a deal to sell his shares. But even if Ryan sells his shares in the Rangers, he's not coming to work for the Astros, because it makes no sense.
A quick refresher. This has become a topic because Ryan is losing a power battle with GM Jon Daniels and Ryan's fellow owners. And now many people who should know better are stating that Ryan should come work for the Astros, where it's doubtful he will have any real power to do anything.
Why would Nolan Ryan want to do this?
Ryan left the Astros to become president of the Rangers because Drayton McLane preferred to have Ryan as nothing more than a PR figurehead. McLane preferred to let Tal Smith have the power and make the decisions in Houston. So Ryan took the offered position with the Rangers. And from there he moved from team president to a member of the team ownership group who was essentially the CEO of the team.
Does anyone see that happening with the Astros?
Let's say Ryan sells his shares in the Rangers and goes about looking for something else to do. Why would he just be willing to be a PR figurehead with the Astros? He's already rejected that role once. There's nothing to indicate that Jim Crane is ready to jettison George Postolos. There's also nothing to indicate that Crane is willing to give up any of his power. And Ryan has been clashing with Daniels in Texas, which means he'd probably clash with GM Jeff Luhnow in Houston since both Daniels and Luhnow share some common approaches to building a baseball team.
But what if Ryan sells his stake with the Rangers and buys into the Astros? That could always be possible, especially since Crane and his ownership group would no doubt love a cash injection into the team. The problem, once again, is that there is nothing to indicate that Crane is going to relinquish his control of the baseball team.
There's also nothing out there indicating that Ryan would want to enter into an ownership group with Crane, especially after the bad blood caused by Crane coming in at the last minute and jacking up the price Ryan and his group had to pay to purchase the Rangers out of bankruptcy. And after what is happening to Ryan with the Rangers, there's definitely nothing to indicate that Ryan would want to buy into a baseball club where he is just one of many owners and one where he has to share power with an owner who is becoming known for stabbing people in the back.
Nolan Ryan is a Texas legend. He's also a Astros legend, and the so-called Astros fans that are angry with him for junking his PR role with the Astros to assume an actual position of control with the Rangers need to rethink a few things. But Ryan coming back to the Astros makes absolutely no sense for Ryan or for the Astros.
In a perfect world, McLane would have chosen Ryan instead of Tal Smith, and then Ryan would have purchased the Astros when McLane put them on the market. In another perfect world, the bid for the Rangers of Mark Cuban and Jim Crane would have been the one approved in bankruptcy, leaving Ryan free to form a group to purchase the Astros.
But this isn't a perfect world. Nolan Ryan's not riding in on a white horse to rescue the Houston Astros. And nothing that nobody writes is going to change that.
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Good afternoon fellow forumites.
I was wondering if I could get some honest feedback from others that have taken the leap and become IT contractors.
The company I work for (who shall remain nameless until I no longer work for them) have decided that the BI function that's currently provided from two sites within their UK operation is one which can better be provided by staff in India, which means that I and 12 other people will be redundant as from the end of September.
I've been with the company in its various incarnations for the past fifteen years, so I'm going to be walking away with a fairly good redundancy package. I've always toyed with the idea of being an IT contractor and picking up short-term contracts, but because I've had a permanent position I've been unwilling to take that leap into the unknown. Now though, that opportunity is presenting itself.
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I am getting close to my goal for this update, and I'll release more information sometime next week (probably Friday or Saturday). This is going to be the 2018 Summer Update, so expect a release sometime around then.
1: Release Date:
I would like to release sometime during June, but this is me we are talking about. Another hindrance is that I won't be able to work on Mpack for the next two weeks or so. All I am going to say for now is expect a release sometime in either June or July; hopefully the first rather than the second.
2: Key Changes:
*Soundscape improvements (getting there slowly but surly).
*Fix issue where guns shred vehicles
*Gun Balancing Improvement
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As another year comes to a close, and many of us gather with loved ones to celebrate holidays important to our faiths and filled with traditions dear to our families, I’m reminded of the incredible spirit of giving that I witness throughout our state.
Across Ohio, volunteers and dedicated staff members work at organizations like the Joseph House in Cincinnati, or Homefull in Dayton, or the Supportive Housing Home for Veterans in Cleveland, serving homeless veterans. It is a tragedy and an embarrassment that so many who have served our country with honor lack a roof over their heads. But I’m equally heartened that so many Ohioans are helping these veterans get back on their feet.
At food banks from Kenton to Canton, I see the outpouring of donations from all walks of life. As paychecks fail to keep pace with the rising cost of raising a family, communities are stepping in to fill the void. That’s why this year I fought to make permanent tax deductions for charitable donations to food banks, to support Ohioans’ generosity.
And during this holiday season, it’s as important as ever that we give back to our communities. If you are fortunate enough to be able to enjoy a hearty holiday meal with loved ones, I hope you will join me in helping our friends and neighbors do the same.
There are many ways we can work to enrich our state and help Ohioans who are struggling — from volunteering, to donating canned goods and warm clothing, to speaking up for policies that invest in Ohio workers and help those who have fallen on hard times.
Service is part of the moral fabric of our state and our nation. As we look forward the New Year, let us remember that spirit of service and generosity. Together we can spread cheer beyond the holidays, and build a more compassionate, more prosperous, and more just society.
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Microsoft has fixed a vulnerability in its login system, a security flaw that security researchers say could have been used to trick secure victims into giving hackers full access to their online accounts.
This vulnerability allowed attackers to quietly steal account codes, which sites and apps use to give users access to their accounts without having to constantly re-enter their passwords. These tokens are generated by an application or website instead of a user name and password after the user logs on. This keeps the user logged on to the site but also allows users to access third-party apps and sites without having to directly deliver their passwords.
Researchers at Israel’s cyber security company CyberArk found that Microsoft had left an unintended vulnerability open, which, if exploited, could have been used to steal account codes used to access the victim’s account. Absolutely.
The site TechCrunch exclusively in the technical affairs of the company (Cyber Ark) that it found in its latest research dozens of unregistered subdomains related to a few applications designed by Microsoft. These internal applications are highly reliable, so associated subdomains can be used to generate access codes automatically without the explicit consent of the user.
With subdomains at hand, an attacker only needs to trick an unexpected victim into clicking a link created specifically for this purpose in an email or on a website, and the token can also be stolen.
In some cases, the researchers said this could be done in a “zero-click” method, whose name indicates that it requires virtually no user interaction. A malicious website that hides an embedded Web page can trigger the same request as a link in a malicious e-mail message to steal the user account token.
Fortunately, the researchers have registered as many subdomains as they can find from vulnerable Microsoft applications to prevent malicious abuse, but they warned there could be more.
It is noteworthy that the security company informed Microsoft of the vulnerability in late October last, has been repaired after about three weeks. “We have solved the problem with the applications mentioned in this report in November and customers are still protected,” a company spokesman said.
This is not the first time that Microsoft has rushed to fix a vulnerability in its login system. Almost a year ago, the software and services giant fixed a similar security vulnerability that would have stolen Office application account codes.
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It was a windy Thursday night at 9 pm and Victory was bored. With no clue of what to do and convinced that sleeping was not an option to consider, she picked her jacket and left the house.
I need to find a place with not so much noise, she thought as she walked the street that was gradually losing its friends to their bedrooms. As she walked, she asked herself what having a meaningful life would really be like. What can I do to make the most of life? Inside of her, she felt completely weak and bored but she had hope and that was a ton of working energy. It was something great.
Oh! That looks like a good spot. Excited, she walked briskly to the pub and sat. The place was spacious. The kind of lights she liked,a combination of golden and fluorescent lights, she always glowed in it and it made her happy, the music was soft, not loud songs with profane words she usually heard in most of the places she visited. Having spent a few minutes there, she was at ease since there were both men and women equally. As she sat, she recounted an incident that almost took her life. She had been out drinking oblivious of the fact that there were only two ladies there and the second was a member of an armed robbery gang. She left that night without her iPhone 6 and the money in her bag.
What do you want ma’am? She looked up to see the bartender smiling at her. Her heart sunk immediately. I haven’t seen someone smile so beautifully in a very long time, she thought to herself. That is a perfect smile, and you are such a charming young man. What is your name? Still smiling, he pulled the empty seat facing her and sat. My name is Miracle, you still haven’t told me what you want. Will you keep me company? I know you have to work, but I really didn’t come out to drink, I just want someone to talk to. I feel bored but I think this is more about an emptiness inside of me and my soul is searching for its miracle. What is your name ma’am? Victory, she answered with tears in her eyes.
Give me a minute, he walked to the serving table, dropped the menu pad he was holding, spoke to his friend to stand in for him for a while then went to join her. He sat on the seat and looked at her for a minute, I am going to tell about a certain young man who taught me so much about about life. He was a great fellow. You recall the verse of the bible that says a virtuous woman who can find? Well, I found a virtuous man. His name is just what he really is. You want to guess what his name was? She smiled, Miracle?
No, he laughed. You want to try again?
I think you should just tell me. I am bad at guesses…
Okay, his name was victor. He watched the tiny spark that brought to her eyes. Her hands felt so warm, still looking at her face, he smiled. Do you know the most intriguing thing about Victor? He was a blind. But you know that blind people have a special gift, he had several of them.
I can imagine. You know, I really haven’t heard anyone speak so nicely of another person. Sometimes, I wonder if there still exists any love in the hearts of men. I grew up hearing my dad call me all kind of names, I just thought it was usual, to hear curse words.
Why do you speak so nicely?
Victor. He was my miracle. Despite his disability and deserving sympathy, he was a man who loved genuinely. He had this angry neighbor who always nagged him.”You are such a nuisance Victor”, I heard the neighbor yelling. He closed his eyes, crossed his legs and started humming softly as he smiled more, this is a demonstration of Victor’s action in response to the man. Thank you sir, he replied the man. Few days later, this neighbor was arrested and nobody had sympathy for him, they all refused to help him get bailed saying he was a troublemaker and a total nuisance. Victor put together all the money he had and went to the police station. He even asked the policemen not to disclose his identity to the man if he ever asks.
My goodness, what is victor’s heart made of she asked with an expression of shock. This is the 21st century and nobody forgives this easily anymore. Besides Miracle, the way the world is, we have all grown accustomed to looking out only for ourselves, why is victor so nice?
Once, I heard someone say nasty things about a man who owed him some money, Miracle continued. The same man owed Victor about eighty thousand naira for a job he had done for him. All my dear friend did was just sit and listen. He made no comments. Nothing! When I asked him why he wouldn’t talk, he said he was growing to be a prudent man.
My mom taught me as a boy that there are ten pillars my life should hinge on. These will honor man and no matter how much any man tries to hurt me, my spirit remains strong. She taught me at all cost to love; to love God and my neighbors. Love has taught me sacrifice too. Beside Love is the pillar of humility. You see, this doesn’t mean that I should think less of myself, rather, I should think of myself less. This way, I would count no wrong done to me. I recall fighting a boy because he called me a blind bat. My mom tearfully pulled me back and told me it wasn’t it fault but I should understand his lack of understanding of divine things. After her admonishment, she asked me to go to him and apologize. It was hard, but I did it. Since then, I realized that a kind heart stays strong.
The fourth pillar was patience. I cannot count how many times I have had to face terrible injustice from others. The times when I reacted to them in the wrong way, I got a regrettable result. I resolved to be patient instead, the return is sweeter. The other pillars are temperance, justice, diligence, courage and obedience. I can’t have a meaningful and fruitful life without these pillars. He held my hand, and smiled, these pillars can only be erected by someone who has chosen to live for Christ.
Mom taught me about them as a child, but I struggled with them and always got bitter when I couldn’t live them. I gave my life to Christ and since then, it has been his grace seeing me through. I hope you turn to him and allow him see you through, he concluded.
She felt shivers run down her spine, she couldn’t hold back the tears. Yes, I want Jesus to help me. I need him, I really do need him, as she sobbed, she held tightly to his fist. Suddenly, she stopped, if you accepted Jesus, why do you work in a pub? His face beamed with laughter, I own this place and we had deliberately made it look like a pub, we do not sell alcohol, she looked stunned. Customers are allowed to come in to the way they are, with their cigarettes and alcohols, at the slightest opportunity, we talk. Those who do not talk on the first day, always come back, our prayers bring them back.
Please pray for me. They held hands and he prayed for her. Sitting still for 10 mins and she felt like she had been bathed with a bucket of ice, she felt peace and she was excited. I should leave now, thank you so much.
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It’s been nearly a year since we last heard Ryan Seacrest kicking off a show with “This is American Idol!” The long-running singing competition aired its final season in 2016, after a fifteen-year run of dominance. But for fans who are eager to see the series make a comeback, some good news might be on the way: NBC is apparently in talks with Fremantle Media for an American Idol revival.
According to reports, Fremantle has been offering the brand around, hoping for a network to pick up the show’s return. NBC has come out on top as the potential new host, though nothing has been finalized just yet.
Voice vs Idol
The most ironic thing about all this? NBC is also home to The Voice, the singing competition credited for unseating Idol. The Voice first aired in 2011, around the same time that American Idol took a sharp downward turn. Longtime judges Simon Cowell and Paula Abdul were missed after their departure. In their place, the bickering of The Voice’s Adam Levine and Blake Shelton was a surprising hit. The blind auditions element of The Voice was also a welcome change of pace from Idol’s familiar format.
Up until that year, Idol was enjoying cruising at the top. Between its 2003 to 2008, the show was hitting over 30 million viewers for its finale shows. In 2006, the show averaged 36 million viewers. Those numbers are unheard of these days for singing competitions and talent shows.
With the 2013-14 seasons hitting all-time lows in ratings, Fox finally decided to pull the plug. Ryan Seacrest ended the final episode saying, “Good night, America… for now.”
As The Voice airs two seasons per year, Variety suggests that NBC is considering cutting it down to one a year. That would, if ever, accommodate an American Idol revival. It would also ensure that the two shows don’t cannibalize each other for viewership.
See You In 2018?
Late last year, Idol’s showrunner Simon Fuller dropped the first hints of a revival when he accepted a special Governors Award at the Creative Arts Emmys. “It’s been 15 years, and this is the first Emmy we’ve actually won for the show. Can you believe that?” he said upon accepting the award.
He then turned to Fox Broadcasting CEO Dana Walden and added, with a playful smile, “Dana, thank you for bringing back the show in 2018. We can’t wait to make it.”
Fuller later commented that he was just being mischievous, and his comments didn’t really mean anything with regards to a real revival. But as they say, all jokes contain a bit of the truth.
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Sigma Gamma Epsilon, the Earth science honor society at St. Lawrence, recently elected three new members. Ashley Robin '12, Molly Patterson '12 and Peter Christoffersen '13 were welcomed to the organization in the fall 2010 semester.
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BAGHDAD — A series of coordinated attacks struck Baghdad Tuesday, including two suicide car bombers and another vehicle that blew up near government sites. At least 121 were killed and hundreds wounded in the worst wave of violence in the capital in more than a month, authorities said.
A total of five attacks, which also included a suicide car bomb on a police patrol, showed the ability of insurgents to strike high-profile targets in the heart of Baghdad and marked the third time since August that government buildings were targeted with multiple blasts that killed more than 100 people.
The bombings reinforced concerns about shortcomings in Iraqi security as U.S. forces plan their withdrawal, and parliament held an emergency session with many lawmakers demanding answers for apparent security lapses.
Iraq's military spokesman blamed the carnage on an alliance of al-Qaida in Iraq and members of Saddam Hussein's banned Baath Party.
The U.S. military has sent some troops and forensic equipment to assist the Iraqis in the aftermath, said Army Master Sgt. Nicholas Conner, a military spokesman.
Overall violence has dropped sharply around Iraq in the past year, though insurgents have stepped up attacks at government sites in recent months. The bombings marked the most serious spate of violence in Baghdad since twin car bombs on Oct. 25 struck outside government offices, killing at least 155. In August, suicide bombers hit the finance and foreign ministries, killing more than 100.
Iraqi officials blamed the August and October attacks on al-Qaida in Iraq and loyalists of the Baath Party — even bringing out three suspects on national television who gave what officials termed confessions.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for Tuesday's attacks, though al-Qaida in Iraq had said it was behind the last two massive bombings against government buildings in Baghdad in August and October.
But there are questions whether Iraq's leaders are trying to shift attention away from a possible resurgence of Sunni insurgents led by al-Qaida in Iraq. A rise in insurgent power could be a serious blow to the government's credibility before national elections, which were set Tuesday for March 6 — a more than seven-week delay from the original mid-January date because of political bickering on the voting rules.
White House press secretary Robert Gibbs condemned the attacks, saying Iraqi leaders who recently passed an elections law were moving the country in the right direction and that "there are clearly those who are threatened by that."
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon condemned the attack, calling the bloodshed "horrendous."
In a joint statement, U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Christopher Hill and Gen. Raymond Odierno, America's top commander in Iraq, called on Iraqis to unite against violence and pledged to assist the government "to bring to justice those individuals or groups responsible for such murder."
Again, Iraq's military spokesman, Maj. Gen. Qassim al-Moussawi, appeared Tuesday to spread the blame between Baath loyalists and al-Qaida-linked extremists.
"The same hands that implemented the August and October attacks have carried out today's terrorist attacks against innocent civilians," he told The Associated Press.
Security forces worry the lead-up to the election date could bring an escalation in attacks seeking to discredit the pro-Western government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.
The core of the attacks hit central Baghdad with three blasts in the span of a few minutes.
The targets were the latest assaults directed at Iraqi authorities: near a compound with the Labor Ministry building, a court complex near the Iraqi-protected Green Zone and near the new site of the Finance Ministry after its previous building was destroyed in major attacks in August.
Police and hospital officials said at least 117 people were killed in those three attacks and at least 390 injured. Iraq's Health Ministry said as many as 513 people were injured. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to give information to media.
About an hour before the blasts, a suicide car bomber struck a police patrol in the mostly Sunni district of Dora in southern Baghdad, killing at least three policemen and one civilian and injuring five people, said a police official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to media.
In eastern Baghdad, a roadside bomb exploded near the Technology University in eastern Baghdad, missing a passing police patrol but killing one civilian passer-by and wounding four others, Baghdad police said.
Iraqi police said at least two of the Baghdad blasts were suicide bombers — one driving a bomb-rigged ambulance heading for the Finance Ministry and the other plowing through a barrier near the Appeals Court building and exploding the car as guards opened fire.
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"What crime have we committed? Children and women were buried under debris. Why did they (Iraqi troops) let this car bomb pass!" cried Ahmed Jabbar as he staggered through the debris near the new Finance Ministry building — an area where all cars pass through checkpoints manned by Iraqi forces.
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"The parliament today is so angry toward the security services which we feel have failed to prevent these attacks ... We all feel — and all the world feels — that the Iraqi people are fed up of sufferings and something should be done to stop this."
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We know we need proper nutrients in order to function properly. But just how much of an impact do they really have on our minds?
“Optimal mental health requires adequate availability and absorption of vitamins, minerals and amino and fatty acids as essential building blocks for our brain cells and neurotransmitters,” said Dr. Jennifer Kraker, a New York-based psychiatrist who specializes in nutrition and mental health. “When our nutritional biochemistry is imbalanced, our mental health is affected.”
For most people, a healthy diet will take care of that. For others, a doctor may need to prescribe a vitamin supplement if the body doesn’t metabolize nutrients properly. (And they don’t have to come in an aesthetically pleasing glass bottle or Instagram-worthy capsule. Drug store brands will do just fine.)
“Because we’re all unique, one person may tolerate lower levels of a certain nutrient (such as vitamin D) very well, and another might not,” Kraker said. “Rinse and repeat for most all micronutrients.”
Nutritional deficiencies can tinker with your mental health on a sliding scale ― everything from mild to disruptive symptoms, depending on the person. Research has found certain deficiencies can contribute to anxiety and depression, as well as exacerbate symptoms in people with specific mental health disorders, such as obsessive compulsive disorder and bipolar disorder. A deficiency can also just slightly impact your emotional well-being.
“More commonly, nutrition-related issues are experienced as symptoms like reduced ability to manage stress, increased anxiety or edginess, lower mood, and poorer concentration or focus,” said Nicole Beurkens, licensed psychologist and board-certified nutrition specialist at Horizons Developmental Resource Center in Caledonia, Michigan.
Of course, mental health is complex and nutrients may be a minimal part of the puzzle (or sometimes they don’t influence it at all). That said, there are some cases where they play a role. There’s plenty that scientists are still working to discover and debunk about the food-mood connection and the impact that specific deficiencies can have on our mind, but here are some of the key nutritional players they’ve managed to suss out so far.
This fat-soluble vitamin influences the expression of over 1,000 genes that regulate mood, sleep, as well as the protection and synthesis of neurons (the cells in our brain and nervous system that run the show).
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Symptoms of a vitamin D deficiency can include depression, anxiety, irritability and fatigue.
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Symptoms of a vitamin B12 deficiency can include fatigue, brain fog, numbness and tingling, shortness of breath and more.
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And, like B12, vitamin B6 helps the body keep homocysteine levels in check, which helps with mood issues, Kraker said. People with kidney disease or malabsorption problems are the ones who are most likely to be deficient in B6.
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It’s pretty uncommon to be deficient in magnesium, but it does happen. Symptoms that might indicate you’re low can include fatigue, nausea, loss of appetite and mood changes.
Zinc is a trace mineral with many important roles in brain function, Kraker said. It also helps vitamin B6 do the best job possible of making feel-good chemicals like serotonin and dopamine.
Most people naturally get enough zinc through their diets. A deficiency can occur in women who are pregnant or breastfeeding, vegetarians and people with gastrointestinal disease. Symptoms can include loss of appetite or taste, loss of temper, depression and learning difficulties.
Besides regulating oxygen delivery throughout the body and brain, iron helps to create and balance mood-regulating chemicals like serotonin and dopamine.
“Those most at risk for an iron deficiency are fertile women, the elderly, and vegans who aren’t particularly mindful about how to eat to prevent an iron deficiency,” Kraker said.
Symptoms of an iron deficiency can include fatigue, difficulty concentrating and dizziness.
Omega-3 Fatty Acids
Omega-3s contain components called DHA and EPA, both of which play an important role in brain function: “They ward off inflammation, maintain brain cell health, and improve communication between brain cells,” Kraker said. They can also help with mood.
Symptoms of an omega-3 deficiency can include mood issues, often accompanied by dry skin, fatigue, allergies and chronic thirst.
How To Figure Out If You Have A Deficiency — And What To Do About It
Before we go any further, one important note we want to reiterate: This all isn’t to say overhauling your diet or taking vitamin supplements on your own will completely cure any mood-related symptoms. Other interventions like talk therapy and medication are the best-known ways to improve mental health issues.
You should look at nutrition as “an important adjunctive treatment to maintain health and prevent relapse, or use lower doses of pharmaceutical interventions,” Kraker said.
There are several physical signs that can clue you into whether there’s a potential deficiency brewing, Beurkens said. These can include frequent headaches, GI symptoms (think: constipation, diarrhea, gas and bloating), weak nails, dry skin or eczema, hair loss and many others.
“High stress levels also often accompany … symptoms and can negatively impact nutrient levels,” Beurkens added.
Similarly, adjusting to a new set of life stressors can impact how you take care of yourself and deplete nutrient stores in the process ― say, a recent move has you eating differently, a new job has upended your go-to lunch habits, or a newly diagnosed autoimmune condition has you adjusting to a whole new way of functioning.
Getting a comprehensive workup of your nutritional status can be helpful in getting to the root cause of what’s going on.
“Physical and mental health are interconnected, so nutrition should always be a part of the discussion when mental health symptoms are raised as a concern,” Beurkens said. “Unfortunately, this rarely happens.”
Start by opening up to your physician or psychiatrist about your suspicions: Share with them the symptoms you’re experiencing, a highlight reel of what your eating habits are like, and anything else you feel might be relevant, such as relatives who have the same deficiency.
Ask your doctor to either order relevant bloodwork that’s consistent with your symptoms or refer you to someone who specializes in both mental health and nutrition. (The Institute for Functional Medicine, Integrative Medicine for Mental Health, and the Walsh Research Institute all list doctors trained in this manner.)
“You know your body and your life best, so if something feels off, it probably is,” Kraker said.
With the right treatment plan ― which can include input from your doctor along with a psychologist or psychiatrist ― you’ll hopefully find a solution that works best for you.
Magnesium May Improve Memory
Only 32% of Americans Get Recommended Daily Allowance of Magnesium, Researchers Say
Having trouble remembering where you left your keys? Forgot the name of an acquaintance?
A new study suggests that increasing your intake of magnesium, an essential mineral found in dark leafy vegetables and certain fruits, beans, and nuts, may help combat memory lapses associated with aging.
In the study, published Jan. 28 in Neuron, neuroscientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Tsinghua University in Beijing found that increasing brain magnesium using a newly developed compound, magnesium-L-threonate (MgT), improves learning abilities, working memory, and short- and-long-term memory in rats. The magnesium also helped older rats perform better on a battery of learning tests.
“This study not only highlights the importance of a diet with sufficient daily magnesium, but also suggests the usefulness of magnesium-based treatments for aging-associated memory decline,” one of the study’s authors, Susumu Tonegawa, says in a news release. Tonegawa works at MIT’s Picower Institute for Learning and Memory.
Although the experiments were conducted in rats, the results have implications for humans, the researchers say.
Half of the population of the industrialized world has a magnesium deficiency, researcher Guosong Liu says in the release. “If MgT is shown to be safe and effective in humans, these results may have a significant impact on public health.”
Liu and his colleagues at MIT developed MgT after discovering in 2004 that magnesium might enhance learning and memory. Liu is co-founder of Magceutics, a California-based company that develops drugs for the prevention and treatment of age-related memory decline and Alzheimer’s disease.
Magnesium for Better Memory
The researchers examined how MgT stimulates changes in synapses, the junctions between neurons that are important in transmitting nerve signals.
They found that in young and old rats, MgT increased plasticity, or strength, among synapses and promoted the density of synapses in the hippocampus, a part of the brain that plays important roles in spatial navigation and long-term memory.
Other experiments performed within the study found that MgT treatment boosted memory recall under partial information conditions in older rats but had no effect in young rats. Aging causes dramatic declines in the ability to recollect memories when incomplete information is provided, the authors write.
“Because [magnesium] is an essential ion for normal cellular functions and body health, many physiological functions are impaired with the reduction of body [magnesium],” they write. The researchers cite that only 32% of Americans get the recommended daily allowance of magnesium.
The researchers conclude that the study provides “evidence for a possible causal relationship between high [magnesium] intake and memory enhancements in aged rats.” They also call for further studies to investigate the relationship between dietary magnesium intake, body and brain magnesium levels, and cognitive skills.
The recommended dietary allowance for magnesium for adults 19-30 years old is 400 milligrams/day for men and 310 milligrams/day for non-pregnant women. For adults 31 and older, it is 420 milligrams/day for men and 320 milligrams/day for non-pregnant women.
Magnesium for Depression
A controlled study of magnesium shows clinically significant improvement.
Magnesium is one of the most important minerals in the body. Years ago, I wrote about the importance of magnesium for the brain; it remains my most read blog post to this day.
We get most of our magnesium from plants (almonds, black beans, cashews, pumpkin seeds, and dark chocolate are all good sources), but it’s the bacteria in the soils that enable plants to absorb magnesium, so all sorts of environmental influences can deplete magnesium in our food, from pesticides that kill off bacteria to potassium-based fertilizers (can be taken up by plants in lieu of magnesium and calcium). Food processing, antacids, diuretics, caffeine, and alcohol can also decrease magnesium absorption. For these reasons, the modern human tends to need more magnesium and get less, leaving a lot of people chronically depleted. Blood levels remain fairly stable, because without magnesium in a narrow range, the heart can stop beating…every ICU doctor checks magnesium levels on patients pretty much every day, and repletes magnesium levels by the bag full to keep up with a patients’ needs under such intense stress as a critical illness.
Increased stress increases magnesium loss (as described here), and the environment may not readily replace it. Since magnesium is such an important mineral to the brain as a part of almost every part of the stress response, recovery, and repair, it seems self-evident to study magnesium as how it relates to brain function and common stress-related ailments such as clinical depression. Small studies have been found to be helpful for folks with fibromyalgia and major depression and type II diabetes. However, most of the studies that have been done are, admittedly, terrible.
The major flaw in most studies is they used insufficient amounts of magnesium oxide. On the face of it, magnesium oxide is about 60% elemental magnesium, which sounds pretty good. However, it is also a very stable compound, so often doesn’t disassociate into the parent compounds and give you the free magnesium you need.
Therefore, out of a 250mg tablet, you might only absorb 6mg. Magnesium malate is only 6.5% magnesium, but almost all of that is available to be absorbed. Magnesium citrate is also highly absorbable and 16% bioavailable. However, it is more likely than the other formulations to cause diarrhea. For a recent and much improved clinical trial of magnesium for depression, the researchers decided to use magnesium chloride.
The full text of the paper is free online at PLOS One. First the flaws: it was not double blinded, placebo controlled. Folks knew whether they were taking magnesium or not. However, the researchers did employ a crossover design as a control. In the first weeks of the study, half the patients took magnesium chloride (12% elemental magnesium and pretty much 100% bioavailable), and then in the second phase of the study, the first half was switched off magnesium while the other half of the patients took the supplement. The study wasn’t huge, but it wasn’t small either, with 126 depressed participants. The scale used to measure depression is my personal favorite, the PHQ9, and the average score was just over 10, which corresponds to a moderate depression. Some patients were on meds, others in therapy, some in neither, but the main key is that other treatments for depression did not change in the course of the study…magnesium chloride was added.
Participants were given 2000mg (248mg of elemental magnesium) daily for 6 weeks on an immediate or delayed (until week 7, the crossover) schedule. Depression scores on average over the trial dropped by 6 points, which brought the mean from moderately depressed to mild or minimally depressed, a clinically important change. Anxiety scores also improved. Participants reported reduced muscle cramps, aches and pains, constipation, and decreased headaches during the magnesium trial (all of these are known already to improve with magnesium supplementation and are signs of magnesium depletion). When asked after the trial if they would continue magnesium, over 60% said yes. Those that didn’t complained that magnesium didn’t help or it caused diarrhea (n = 8).
The positive effect of magnesium supplementation was gone within 2 weeks of stopping the supplement, indicating a relatively quick clearance.
Although the association between magnesium and depression is well documented, the mechanism is unknown. However, magnesium plays a role in many of the pathways, enzymes, hormones, and neurotransmitters involved in mood regulation. It is a calcium antagonist and voltage-dependent blocker of the N-methyl-D-aspartate channel which regulates the flow of calcium into the neuron. In low magnesium states, high levels of calcium and glutamate may deregulate synaptic function, resulting in depression. Depression and magnesium are also both associated with systemic inflammation. The finding that those participants taking an SSRI experienced an even greater positive effect points toward magnesium’s possible role in augmenting the effect of antidepressants.
So…it would have been nice to have a blinded study. However, magnesium supplementation is both inexpensive and pretty safe. The amount of magnesium in this trial was below the recommended daily allowance of elemental magnesium, and as long as you have normal kidneys, it’s difficult to take too much (diarrhea tends to limit outrageous usage). Magnesium can interfere with some medications and vice-versa, so check my old post for that info. For depression and constipation or headaches or restless legs or fibromyalgia, it makes sense to at least try magnesium for a few weeks. Those who prefer not to supplement can be encouraged to add nuts, seeds, and dark chocolate (a palatable and healthy prescription).
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So yesterday I awoke to the lovely deposit of 4 inches of snow in my area--and, of course, I had to make a trip to Cleveland for work. It never seems to fail that there is horrible winter weather for these trips this time of year.
Yesterday's trip was different though--our company was going to work in a soup kitchen in downtown Cleveland. We decided that in these hard times, a blow-out Christmas party at work wasn't necessary when there are so many others in need.
We all gathered at St. Herman's--it's a Greek Orthodox Monastery and Father Vladimir was right out of Greek Mythology himself--he kind of scared me actually--bearded, stern, you did what he said to do!
Despite a early morning water main break in Cleveland, We prepared a wonderful, hearty soup, salad, garlic bread and dessert for about 90 people. As we were preparing, Fr. V invited us to join the Monastery for "prayers". He kept saying "prayers"--so I figured it would be PRAYERS right? A few of my co-workers and I went into their chapel. I would guess about 20 other homeless had gathered--along with the monastery's newest members--8 puppies from the Dorothy the "house dog" and her mate. They were the cutest thing and added so much joy to the place with their playing and fighting with each other. I was amazed at the acceptance of pets at the shelter--Fr. V said that animals are all some of these men have left, so they are allowed to stay.
So--anyway, we go in for PRAYER. Prayers it was not my friends. It was an entire Greek Orthodox Mass--communion and all. This was fine of course--until Fr. V started passing out things to 3 of us. Guess who he decided was going to read scripture during the mass? Yes, you guessed it--ME and 2 of my co-workers.
People, I have to tell you, I feared for the life of everyone in that room when it came my turn to read the 3rd scripture (or whatever they call the reading before the gospel--Catholics only have 2 readings, so I was confused). I have no problem public speaking and having done my time in Catholic school for 12 years, I was comfortable--but I have not set foot in a church in so long, I was afraid God might smite me and in turn, kill all the innocents around me. All went well and no lighting bolts rained down--all were safe--whew!
The mass was over and we headed off to the kitchen to begin serving the meal. People were actually lined up around the building waiting for lunch to be ready. The people who walked through that door broke my heart. They are you and me--just one step in another direction. Some people you would have sworn would be working right along side you at your job. Others were lost souls--their eyes so sad and lacking hope.
What broke my heart was one little girl who came into the line with her mother. She was beautiful and had the face of an angel. Her mother had such a brave face, but the look of despair in her eyes made me realize that all mothers are the same. We only want the best for our children and we all hurt when we cannot provide everything we want for them. Why this little girl was not in school just about destroyed me. I would think she was about 9, but when you have no real home, how do you enroll for school and how do you explain to a 9 year old why she cannot go to school or why you don't have a permanent place to stay?
I talked with people in that room--some told me their stories, others just looked into their plates and would not meet my gaze. Job loss, family problems, death of a spouse or children, drugs, alcohol, mental illness--it all plays a part in the fabric of despair and homelessness. God bless the monks/Fathers at St. Herman's for taking in these people and trying to give them a better life.
The amazing thing about our guests was that THEY came up and asked God to bless US for serving them, providing them food and drink--they showed great appreciation for the meal, they wished US Merry Christmas. I was overcome. They have lost so much, yet blessed us with their love.
We went there to serve--both our fellow man and God yesterday, but I think we all walked away with a sense of how lucky we are and how grateful to God (or your preferred Deity) we should be for what we have. I don't think any of us realize how close we are to being in that soup line.
St Herman's of Alaska feeds men, women and children 3 times a day and houses men in shifts. They have 28 dorm beds that are always full. Monks live at and maintain the monastery and serve the homeless with everything they have. They always need help or donations to keep their programs running. They help with schooling and rehabilitation of those who want to get their lives back on track. This is a drug and alcohol free environment. IF you are in the area, you might consider helping those who are doing so much to serve others.
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Carpet Bag Steak Recipe
For over-the-top taste and low-effort luxe, nothing can beat carpetbag steak, a dish popular in Australia and New Zealand in the mid 20th century. Prime-cut steak is stuffed with fresh oysters for a luscious melding of flavors. Make carpetbag steak as a special meal to impress family, friends or a new romantic interest.
- Thick-cut beef filets mignon or New York strip steaks — 4
- Oysters, cleaned and shucked — 8 to 10
- Worcestershire sauce — 1/4 cup
- Lemon juice — 2 tablespoons
- Salt and pepper — to season
- Oil — 3 tablespoons
- Cognac or brandy (optional) — 1/4 cup
- Beef stock — 1 cup
- Butter, room temperature — 4 tablespoons
- Using a thin boning knife, cut a small incision into the side of each steak just big enough to insert the oysters. Move the knife back and forth inside each steak to create a pocket.
- In a bowl, mix together the oysters, Worcestershire sauce, lemon juice and salt and pepper to season. Set aside to marinate for at least 30 minutes.
- Pour a little of the marinade into each pocket and stuff each steak with 2 or 3 oysters. Secure the opening with toothpicks and let the steaks rest at room temperature for about 30 minutes to allow the flavors to meld.
- Heat the oil in a large skillet or saute pan over medium-high flame until it just starts to smoke. Season each steak with salt and pepper. Sear the steaks in the hot oil, letting them cook for about 3 minutes per side for medium-rare. If you like your steaks more well done, reduce the flame to medium and cook for another 2 minutes for medium or another 4 to 6 minutes for well done.
- Place the steaks on warm plates while you make the sauce. Remove the skillet or saute pan from the flame and carefully pour in the cognac or brandy. Return the pan to medium flame and heat, scraping up any bits from the bottom, until almost evaporated. Then add the beef stock and simmer to reduce its volume by about 1/2. Remove from heat, adjust seasoning with salt and pepper and whisk in the butter.
- Serve the steaks with a little of the sauce poured over each.
Carpetbag Steak Variations
- Grilling Your Steaks Instead: For a fancy barbecue, grill your carpetbag steak instead of pan searing it. You won’t be able to make the sauce at the end, but the smoky flavor of the grill will more than make up for it.
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Plug in for 15 minutes and enjoy the pain relief from hot water up to 5 hours. This innovative solution allows the water to say hot longer: it is more convenient to use. You don’t need to pour boiling water, to refill water like with classical water bottle. No microwave. Safer to use; No wires, no mess, the device is supplied with an auto-shutoff thermostat. Stay warm during these cold nights. Could also be used outdoor at the stadium, fishing, Ski or for people working in the cold for hours. Warm water help to alleviate pain, aches and to relieve stress and muscles. Rechargeable: red light indicates when fully charged. UL Approved. Don’t use while plugged in. | <urn:uuid:27cfc671-2a72-4c25-a1ef-35a48f2b6d17> | CC-MAIN-2018-39 | https://www.verseo.com/wellness/hot-and-cold-therapy/portable-electric-hot-water-bottle-rechargeable-heat-lasts-2-6-hours.html | 2018-09-19T07:57:41Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-39/segments/1537267155942.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20180919063526-20180919083526-00534.warc.gz | en | 0.894114 | 153 |
A New Music Therapy Program Is Helping Syrian Refugee Children Heal
There's a happy cacophony in the "Musiqati" class in Jordan's Azraq Refugee Camp. Syrian refugee children are playing a small orchestra of musical instruments all at once, and the effect is exhilarating. UNICEF's new musical therapy program is a big hit: "We do everything here. Like drum and piano," says 9-year-old Nour. "I like the xylophone. I feel happy."
My friends told me about this place," says 7-year-old Alaa. "I was told there is music, games and anything you want. I like it a lot because music is everything."
Seven years of brutal civil war has taken a staggering toll on Syrian children. UNICEF's "Musiqati" music therapy program, piloted in UNICEF Makani (My Space) centers, provides a safe space for children to be creative and to share their emotions through words, harmonies, rhythm and melodies. Children learn free expression and group communication through solos, duets, trios and groups. Learning musical communication techniques helps bring the children and their families together.
Facilitators, teachers and parents say they've already noticed a positive change in the children's behavior and emotional well-being since the pilot program began — including an improved ability to concentrate, greater self-confidence and taking greater responsibility for their actions at home and at school.
"When the children first come to my class, they are sad and holding many things inside," says Ahmed Al-Kateeb, a psychosocial support facilitator in the UNICEF Makani in Azraq. "When they release that, they become happy. I feel happy for them, boys and girls."
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At the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF) held in Bulawayo at the end of April 2009, more than 400 exhibitors attended the exhibitions' fiftieth annual show. With the many political changes beginning to provide a sense of renewed hope for the country within the international community, the ZITF provides exhibitors with an opportunity to market their products to a country on the brink of massive change and significant potential growth.
Says Oasys Exhibitions Chief Operating Officer Carl Woodland: “This year Oasys provided and delivered 1650m² of exhibitions shell scheme to the venue in Bulawayo, as well as providing the same amount of carpeting for these stands. In addition we designed and built a stand for MTN, one of our long-standing clients, which went on to receive a Gold Medal Award during the exhibition. It is imperative to provide our clients with a strong offering and service, which is available across the continent.”
This competence extends to other countries throughout SADC. Says Woodland: “We have spent the last few months designing and preparing the German Pavilion, which will travel to Luanda, Angola via road this week. The German Pavilion will be on show at the Luanda International Trade Fair (FILDA) to be held in Angola from 12 to 16 July. The Oasys team has spent the last few weeks loading and preparing the containers and the shipment went through customs during this week. The stand is 540m² in size and is built using our 80 X 80 maxima structure and includes a full range of carpeting, furniture and electrical infrastructure.”
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In February of this year, Google announced they would no longer serve ads on the right “rail” (or sidebar) of their search results. This move was designed to improve the consistency of the search experience when using multiple devices, especially mobile devices that lacked the space to show results in the two column format.
Then earlier this year, Google began testing longer ad text which was made possible by the new single column search results. The longer ad text was believed to improve the search experience by providing more information to users before they click. As the use of mobile devices for search grows, this move clearly aimed to make the mobile experience better in what Google calls “a mobile-first world.”
On July 26, 2016 Google announced the roll out of expanded text ads to all AdWords accounts. Expanded text ads are designed with the most popular mobile devices in mind and consist of two longer headlines with up to 30 characters each and a single, expanded description line of up to 80 characters. This adds a significant 45 more characters to the 15 year-long Google ad standard of a single headline of up to 25 characters and two description lines of up to 35 characters each.
In addition, the display URL for expanded text ads allows for 2 optional “path” fields. This lets advertisers improve the display URL’s specificity for the search query and ad text.
Google provided the following illustration of these changes:
While the expanded text ads are available to everyone now, Google is allowing advertisers some time to add/test the new expanded text ads and keep running the traditional (shorter) text ads; but come Oct 26, 2016 all ads must follow the expanded text ad format in order to be served.
The data seems mixed in terms of how this change will impact performance for digital marketers. Many expect to see higher CTRs (click thru rates) and lower CPCs (cost per click) with the expanded text ads. It is likely that we won’t truly understand the impact until after Oct 26 when all ads consistently serve in the expanded format.
My advice is to test the new expanded text ads now (while keeping your best traditional ad text running) and learn as much as possible ahead of Oct 26. This approach allows digital marketers to measure changes and anticipate/mitigate any negative impact it may have on your advertising performance. | <urn:uuid:7756354b-b3ee-4c2e-8aa1-7e1f10e046d0> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | https://smartsearchmarketing.com/implementing-google-expanded-text-ads | 2019-07-17T12:46:15Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195525187.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20190717121559-20190717143559-00183.warc.gz | en | 0.933811 | 479 |
So I was learning to the use the matplotlib library available from Python. Then I saw a feature in there that stuck out to me. It had support for animating things, sort of. I started playing around with it and boom I made it so I could animate between plots. I created a demo program to showcase this feature.
The source code:
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“US buy-side equity trading desks are investing in automation and ramping up their quantitative skills to drive new efficiencies and enable execution capabilities on par with the sell side,” writes Adam Sussman of the TABB Group in a recent report.
“The pace of change on the buy-side trading desk is accelerating. Technology, analytics and process are all undergoing transformations to adapt to competitive and structural shifts in the market at a time when commissions have declined 19 percent since 2010. But this is an industry known for being conservative in its embrace of change – electronic trading may have begun in the late 1990s with some early adopters, but it wasn’t until 2006 that the laggards of the industry finally capitulated, a full seven years later.”
Since TABB Group works for the industry, its commentators described the buy-side firms as conservative, instead of calling them cheap, as just about everyone else does. TABB Group picked up the theme I started looking at last week and will continue in occasional pieces — changes in buy-side technology.
Jon Fatica, global head of analytics at TradingScreen, said “There does seem to be the beginning of a current with the buy-side looking around for the next generation of platforms and technologies, whether because of issues like big data, or the fact that much of what has been installed is getting a little old.”
Some buy-side firms are actually forming their own trade conferences to discuss the business; Templeton had a session two weeks ago in Boca Raton.
“Others have mentioned that they are constantly reassessing what is available in new technology; everything is up for grabs,” Fatica said.
He thinks buy-side firms are looking for lighter-weight solutions in areas like order management systems that can exchange information with portfolio optimization applications, analytical engines and compliance.
“Some have decided that plug and play is better than one big platform.” Modular systems can also adapt more readily to evolving regulations like Dodd-Frank and EMIR, he added.
“In general, the advanced thinkers at buy-side firms are looking around. They want systems that are cost-effective. Asset levels have come back and they make money on assets under management; they have been lean and mean for a few years and now they may have some money for discretionary investments.”
Cloud-based services, which TradingScreen offers, can provide a menu of services that are easily updated.
“We are adding more compute and analytical servers, more functionality with respect to the risk calculations. We do VaR on our end, virtually real-time analytics, and we allow a client to manage their own limits and credit exposures.”
In the past, asset managers often relied on their brokers for technology, usually in return for order flow. In some cases the brokers think some of the requests from the buy-side are non-economic. So while the commission flow is still important, said Fatica, he sees a drift toward a
broker-neutral platform. With TradingScreen an asset manager could work with multiple brokers and use TradingScreen’s Total Cost Analysis (TCA) analytics.
Real-time monitoring has become the norm, Fatica added.
“There is another generation of traders coming along who are used to monitoring markets more effectively and are relying less on brokers. The buy-side has had a long trend in monitoring brokers’ algos, they are not necessarily trusting the algos.”
Asset managers are also looking for post-trade information — where were their orders executed, what if any maker-taker fees where involved, is there information leakage, and is there a way for them to replay the order or review an audit trail.
One client wanted his broker to shift algos once 75 percent of an order was completed by a certain time of the day, and he wanted to see evidence the broker had complied.
“We have a platform through which multiple liquidity providers can present their trades. It’s hard to buy a consolidated source of info, if you work with EBS or Reuters you won’t pick up the other data. We have gone a long ways to helping our clients with that, which is an attraction of a multi-dealer platform.” | <urn:uuid:d5f39684-d32b-4f0b-a741-19dc6a6e9a7b> | CC-MAIN-2017-09 | https://www.forbes.com/sites/tomgroenfeldt/2014/03/19/buy-side-spends-to-beef-up-its-own-technology/ | 2017-02-25T17:25:17Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-09/segments/1487501171781.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20170219104611-00180-ip-10-171-10-108.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963236 | 923 |
Fourthland with Rosalind Fowler
Permissible Notations of
8 – 16 September 2017
Opening Thursday 7 September, 6 to 9pm (as part of First Thursdays)
Reflection, Saturday 9 September, 3 to 6pm – A reflection event with Dr Ben Cranfield (booking required)
Notations, Thursday 14 September, 7 to 9.30pm – An evening of notations and music (booking required)
Estate performance and screening, Saturday 30 September, 2 to 6pm on Wenlock Barn Estate (booking required)
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"He looked at his own Soul
with a Telescope. What seemed
all irregular, he saw and
shewed to be beautiful
Constellations: and he added
to the Consciousness hidden
worlds within worlds" – Coleridge, notebooks
This is a project collaboratively devised by Fourthland, Rosalind Fowler and a gathering of people from across the world whose paths converge on the Wenlock Barn Estate in north London.
At PEER, the artists present a new film and sculptural installation that focuses on a staged performance enacted in the public spaces of this housing estate, informed by Fourthland’s nine-year engagement with people living there.
The film has developed out of a series of what the artists refer to as ‘visits home’; as they accepted invitations into people’s individual dwellings they held conversations, gathering materials and cultural acts that could be made public through collective enactments. These performances feature crafted objects that the artists see as an embodiment of the reference points they encountered, as well as an elementary mobile stage setting or backdrop. The objects and reenactments create a liminal space for stories to collide and take on new forms using the language of myth and symbol. The project aims to use the idea of dreaming, or the unconscious imagination, to shift ways of thinking and allow new forms of kinship to emerge.
Captured on 16mm film this performance becomes a collectively produced constellation of moments, memories and histories that people carry with them; the Estate no longer just a place of residence, but a living archive of cultural inheritance.
“An endless walk, a notation of the sole – this wandering tale of potential and encounter materialises the intangible complexities of experience into something with edges and ambivalence – exposing, cyclical and binding.”
– Fourthland with Rosalind Fowler
Permissible Notations of was shot on 16 mm film and hand processed before transferring to digital format for its presentation at PEER. This will be screened alongside an installation of the objects used within the film. Throughout the exhibition period, the gallery will be activated through gatherings and an open seminar and discussion. This is the first time Fourthland and Fowler have worked together, and they have collaborated on all aspects of the project.
Fourthland (Louise Sayarer and Eva Knutsdotter) is an artist collective that uses objects, ritual, storytelling and enactment to co-create public space and performances. Recent and forthcoming solo works include BearMotherHouse, SPACE, London October 2017, The Storm within Jeremy Deller’s Utopia Treasury Somerset House (2016) and back to where we have not quite been, Arnolfini (2015). Other art commissions include Resilience Lab, Aldo Rinaldi and Everything Happens on The Street, PEER (both 2015) and Public Dreaming, Errant Bodies, South London Gallery.
Rosalind Fowler is an artist and filmmaker, with a background in visual art and anthropology. Her work explores the politics and poetics of place and belonging in the contemporary English landscape through the prisms of folk culture, alternative communities, science fiction, pre-history and the language of dreams. Her recent ACE/Barbican funded film installation was presented at William Morris Gallery, the Barbican and Somerset house’s Utopia season. This work evolved out of an artist residency at the William Morris Gallery (2016). Other commissions and awards include Wellcome Trust, Arts and Humanities Research Council, A-N, NOW gallery. Selected screenings and exhibitions have taken place at ICA, BFI, Jerwood Gallery, Plymouth Arts centre and PLACE: Common Ground curated by Gareth Evans.
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