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Subway Train Stations: (Cheonan Station & Bongmyeong Station).
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but a small one immediately under the capsule of the right kidney.
the little fellow used a match for purposes of illumination.
states of the system which very generally determine their action.
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Remind is a communication platform that allows for safe interaction from teachers between students and parents. Remind can be used to send out messages regarding upcoming events, assignments, and general class announcements. Students and parents have the option of signing up for SMS (text) messages or e-mail. The LMS Band Directors would like to use Remind this year to increase communication with families regarding band. We would appreciate if everyone, students and parents, would sign up.
We hope you are able to take advantage of Remind this year. We will do our best not to bombard you with messages! | 2019-04-26T07:55:44 | http://louisvillemsband.weebly.com/remind-mr-stankey.html |
If you wwant to be a plumber in Baugh or you just want to try your own plumbing then read on!
Make a schedule for plumbing work, so it occurs all at approximately the same time. You might be tempted to have a Plumber Baugh come out for every little thing that happens, but kicking the can on some issues until you have a list means you can save a few bucks. You can save money by only paying a single service call fee instead of ending up with multiple hours being billed from multiple visits.
As made obvious here, there is quite a few things that can be done to fix up your home plumbing. Using this advice for your plumbing needs saves you the money you would spend on a Plumber Baugh.
Don't give a Plumber Baugh the total bill payment upfront; pay them only when they have finished the job. There might be a down payment required, but you do not give him the total cost before he is finished. If you pay everything up front, you have no recourse if the Plumber Baugh doesn't finish the job or doesn't do it correctly.
Plumbing issues are a headache for people who don't know how to fix them. If you hire a professional Plumber Baugh you are looking at a wait time and pretty costly repairs, most likely for something that can easily be solved on your own. Avoid the wait and the expense by following these simple tips!
Having to repair pipes that freeze could be very costly. It can also be easily prevented. First, insulate your outside pipes well. Once the temperature starts to drop, disconnect your hoses after you have drained them out, and make sure the outside faucet is turned off. This will keep you from paying too much to your Plumber Baugh.
As you can see, plumbing problems don't have to be so difficult. If you can solve the problem yourself, you can save time waiting for a Plumber Baugh, as well as saving a whole lot of money. Try applying what you've learned from this article next time you have a plumbing problem!
Knowing how to begin the process of tackling a plumbing project can be tough. There is equipment to consider, project know-how and that little matter of county ordinances that may crop up. This article's tips will help you turn into a better Plumber Baugh.
Don't give a Plumber Baugh the total bill payment upfront; pay them only when they have finished the job. There might be a down payment required, but you do not give him the total cost before he is finished. It is a good thing to know the Plumber Baugh did his job as he agreed to before he get's all of his money.
Iron will cause orange or pink stains in and on your fixtures if you have a well. A water softener is the easiest way to solve hard water problems relating to rust, but you can also consult a Plumber Baugh if you are unsure.
Now you know that there are plenty of things you can do to increase your plumbing skills. By utilizing these tips in your home, you can not only fix your plumbing in an emergency, but you can also cut costs by reducing the need for a professional Plumber Baugh.
Plumbing issues are a headache for people who don't know how to fix them. Sometimes, you may have to wait if you are calling a Plumber Baugh, and it can be expensive as well. Continue on for information to help simply your plumbing problems!
Have all the plumbing repairs done in one visit. This allows you to save up for necessary parts and equipment while saving money on hiring a professional. Most Plumber Baughs have an hourly rate and a flat rate for the trip: asking a Plumber Baugh to fix multiple problems in one trip is cheaper than calling them more than once.
Do not give a Plumber Baugh the entire payment for a job until the whole job is completed. Some Plumber Baughs may require a deposit, but don't fork over all the dough until the job is completed to spec. If you pay everything up front, you have no recourse if the Plumber Baugh doesn't finish the job or doesn't do it correctly. | 2019-04-21T04:18:30 | http://greenplumberstraining.com/local/plumber/baugh |
War of the Rebellion: Serial 034 Page 0328 KY., MID. AND E. TENN., N. ALA., AND SW. VA. Chapter XXXV.
forgot to mention that I pressed 4 horses from citizens, to bring my men and prisoners home on, and which I returned. I also gave receipt for all forage, with my name signed. I was compelled to feed on one Union man (Mr. Mahew), near Scottsville, the first night out. He accompanied me to Bowling Green, and I hope the proper vouchers will be given him for his grain. He is true man, and had two sons in our army, one being killed at Shiloh. They were members of the Ninth Kentucky Infantry.
MAY 3, 1863.- Scout from Triune to Eagleville, Tenn.
Report of Brigadier General John M. Schofield, U. S. Army.
Triune, May 3 - 9.30 a. m.
COLONEL: My scouts have just returned from Eagleville and near Versailles. Saw only about 60 rebel cavalry; killed 1 and captured 6, with arms and horses. McCann was near Versailles night before last, having been in that vicinity recently.
MAY 5, 1863.- Skirmish at Rover, Tenn.
GENERAL: Lieutenant-Colonel Brownlow, while on a reconnaissance yesterday, charged through a rebel cavalry camp at Rover; lost 2 men and captured 4. I gather from the prisoners captured, and from other sources, that there are six or seven regiments of infantry on Duck River, near Chapel Hill. I hear of no other change in position of rebel troops. | 2019-04-21T08:36:42 | https://ehistory.osu.edu/books/official-records/034/0328 |
Around 10% of UK emissions are associated with the manufacture and transport of construction materials, and the construction process; and refurbishment projects make up a significant percentage of activities in the built environment. The UK is committed to reducing carbon emissions by 80% by 2050; savings linked to refurbishment will have an important part to play in meeting this target.
Our experts have written a paper, funded by the BRE Trust, to discuss how to reduce the environmental impacts of refurbishment with a focus on the embodied impacts of construction materials. It describes tools and other forms of support available, particularly from BRE, that can be used for assessing the environmental impact of refurbishment projects and products and provides some examples in the form of case studies. | 2019-04-20T20:23:26 | http://brebuzz.net/2016/09/06/sustainable-refurbishment-how-to-better-understand-measure-and-reduce-the-embodied-impacts/ |
The 2019 Mayoral Creative Writing Prize is open to adults (aged 18 and over) and children (aged 8 to 17 years) who live in Blacktown city. The poems and short stories must be works of fiction.
Entries open midnight, Saturday 1 June 2019. Entries will be accepted online at that date.
The prize winners from the 2018 Mayoral Creative Writing Prize are available to download here(PDF, 2MB) . | 2019-04-20T04:30:45 | https://www.blacktown.nsw.gov.au/Community/Awards-scholarships-and-competitions/2019-Mayoral-Creative-Writing-Prize |
In a recent readers’ poll, MUTTS was chosen to become a daily comic in the Dayton Daily News. Appearing as a daily strip is exciting news for MUTTS fans and readers of the publication who want to enjoy the special friendship between Mooch and Earl every day.
“It’s just cute the way the dog and cat interact,” says Jan Davidson of Tipp City, who voted for “MUTTS” in the recent readers’ poll, and says she finds the strip very funny.
Readers have fallen in love with the animal-and-earth friendly philosophy of MUTTS, making it an easy favorite. Artist Patrick McDonnell’s special outlook on the contribution that animals have in people’s lives makes the comic relatable and meaningful.
If you are a reader of the Dayton Daily News, then check out MUTTS appearing daily starting March 10, 2014. | 2019-04-20T11:19:26 | https://mutts.com/2014/03/05/mutts-to-begin-appearing-in-dayton-daily-news/ |
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In the text editor it looked fine, but when he imported the file into the Pyramix audio workstation he only got the first 70 events into the timeline, but wasn’t able to get the rest of the events in. He even tried other EDL software, but nothing helped.
When he sent me the file I first took a look at it in a normal TEXT editor. As you can see everything looks normal. But when I used my cursor to step through the lines I found some characters that weren’t visible on the line before event 71.
I then changed the Editor to HEX mode, this is a mode that let’s you see the raw content of the file both in Hexadecimal numbers as well as ASCII characters (the right column). Now I saw that the hidden characters on the line before event 71 had a value of 00, which is interpreted as “End-of-file” by some programs. This i why the Pyramix couldn’t read past event 70.
The problem was easy to solve, I went back to TEXT edit mode and removed the line with hidden characters before event 71 and now the EDL worked just fine.
I have seen many EDLs which have this problem, both AVID and FCP throw some extra crap characters after the actual EDL, I don’t know why though. So remember to remove these before you start adding new lines to the EDL. | 2019-04-20T18:57:46 | http://www.niwa.nu/2013/05/edl-trouble-hidden-characters/ |
I will not spoil it if you have not seen it yet and if you are into murder mysteries... it is a fascinating show and there is a ton of controversy around the show right now.
The story revolves around a man who was falsely imprisoned for 18 years and after he gets out from serving his sentence he is accused of another crime with an accomplice and throughout the series you get to hear some of the real life interviews that were conducted by the police and other detectives.
At one point 2 detectives are questioning a 16 year old and after going round and round with him one of the detectives asks one of those sneaky "assumptive" questions.
Now this may not seem like an unusual question to ask especially during a police interview... yet up until that time if I recall correctly... the fact that a victim had been shot had not been established.
So let us look at this seemingly innocent question and take it apart.
First... it assumes that someone has been shot.
Which may not seem like a big deal unless of course you are going on trial for murder and you are the main person of interest.
Second... it assumes that a gun was involved.
The investigators did not say anything about a bow and arrow or any other means that the victim could have been shot... so the gun is the logical assumption.
Third... either the 16 year old suspect shot the victim or his accomplice did.
I mean the police were looking at 2 people and if this kid did not shoot the victim then it must have been his partner.
Later the defense attorneys would look at this interview and say that it was not a confession as the 16 year old did not bring up the idea of “shooting” anyone... that that idea came entirely from the police.
Now assuming that you are not on trial for murder... do these types of questions ever come up in other real life examples?
I mentioned some sneaky types of questions to ask... this particular type of question that I used in the example was an "assumptive question."
When I worked as a youth worker I used this type of question all of the time as many of the clients that I worked with were addicts and of course they did not think of themselves as addicts.
And when I first started out... I focused on asking the wrong questions.
Guess what 99% of the answers were?
Which in 98% of the cases was a complete lie.
This question assumes that they are using drugs and the question simply asks them to narrow down what they are using.
You can see questions like this in the business world as well.
"How much money have you committed to this project?"
Assuming that the prospect has committed any money at all.
"Did you want to meet on Tuesday or Thursday?"
Assuming that the person you are speaking with wants to meet at all.
"Would you prefer the red sports car or the blue one?"
Assuming that the person is interested in purchasing or test driving a sports car in the first place.
Here is what you have to watch out for when you answer a question like this... you are going along with the assumption and if that assumption is in your best interest... then go for it... if it is not... then do not fall into this trap.
"Would you prefer Tuesday or Thursday to sit down and talk?"
If you are not sure that you want to sit down with them... let them know that without feeling pressured into one of the two choices that they gave you.
"Thank you... unfortunately I am not at the stage where I need to sit down and talk about anything right now and if you have any more information that I can read up on that would be great."
Just because someone gives you a choice does not mean that you have to choose based on the limits that they set.
Especially if you get the feeling that they do not have your best interests at heart. | 2019-04-22T20:39:20 | https://www.dynamic-life-development-systems.com/ange-fonce-articles-and-writings/how-one-simple-question-can-transform-your-life-by-ange-fonce |
How do Ohio Courts work?
The Supreme Court serves as the highest court authority in Ohio, and exists mainly to review decisions made by the Court of Appeals. This allows the Supreme Court to resolve any conflicts, questions, and precedents raised. The Court of Appeals in turn reviews the decisions made by the courts below it, after one party decides to contest. These lower courts are the 88 superior or trial courts across the 88 Ohio counties. There were 397 cases in the Supreme Court in 2018, 145 cases in the Court of Appeals first district and 477 cases in the second district.
Civil cases are those in which a petitioner is looking for an amount of money over the value of $250,000. Around 175,000 of these are filed each year on average in Ohio alone. These types of cases can also involve non-monetary dispute over things such as property, name changing, and restraining orders. Small claims court deals with petitions under $3,000 in value, of which there are just under 100,000 a year in the state. These can include anything from a dispute over deposits and warranties to loans between friends.
There are some differences in the appeals process and court limits surrounding both small claims court cases and those in civil courts. You are allowed to both use pretrial discovery and have a lawyer accompany you and file papers in civil court, but neither are allowed in small claims. Civil court also allows up to 120 days after the initial filing to complete your case, compared to the 30-70 days in small claims court. The filing itself costs between $180 and $320 in civil court, whereas small claims only cost $30-$100 per claim. Either party can appeal a decision made in civil court, while only the defendant in small claims cases has the right to appeal. However, in small claims court you do not have to be a US citizen to file or defend, and if you lack English skills, you can hire an interpreter.
Why are court records public?
The Ohio Open Records Law was passed in 1954, with the latest amendment coming as recently as 2008. The aim of the law is to guarantee that court records, as well as other public records, can be accessed by any member of the public. It was signed by the legislature to allow all Ohio residents the ability to request government records at all levels. When the law was passed, it declared this ability as a fundamental right of all Ohio residents. This is to maintain maximum disclosure and safeguard government accountability. It is similar to the Ohio Open Meeting Law which governs how public meetings are conducted.
People can find out more information and access records online.
State archives hold over 91,000 cubic feet of records.
There are 2 levels of courts – trial and appellate.
The Supreme Court of Ohio is the highest court in the U.S. state of Ohio, with final authority over interpretations of Ohio law and the Ohio Constitution.
The U.S. state of Ohio has a Supreme Court of seven members, who are elected for six-year terms.
The highest court in Ohio is the Supreme Court of Ohio. | 2019-04-22T04:03:05 | https://ohio.staterecords.org/court.php |
Managers and owners of building have been advised to check glass canopies and frontages by Highland Council following a number of incidents in its area.
Although the incidents mainly concern retail establishments, the local authority has extended its call to include all buildings and structures with glass canopies.
Those responsible are being asked to check that they have the necessary inspection and maintenance procedures and processes in place, according to SHP magazine.
This includes the need to check all fixing and support methods and mechanisms to ensure that all procedures comply with the appropriate recommendations from manufacturers.
The council stated that it was not aware that glass canopy safety had become a national issue, but had contacted all Scottish councils to ask if they had seen similar incidents.
Its call to action comes after a glass panels fell from shop frontages in the Inshes Retail Park and the Inverness Centre.
A member of the public was injured in the Inverness Centre incident and a dangerous building notice for the Inverness Retail Park was issued by the Building Standards department within the council. | 2019-04-26T04:30:23 | https://www.pfmonthenet.net/article/151558/Building-owners-and-managers-warned-over-glass-canopies.aspx |
Facebooking Friends: How Soon is Too Soon?
Trent: You know I used to wait two days to call anybody, but now it’s like everyone in town waits two days. So I think three days is kind of money.
A modernized version of this problem has emerged in my new-friend-finding life: How soon is too soon to Facebook someone?
It sounds silly, maybe, but it’s the most modern of social conundrums: I’m ready to make someone my social network pal, but we only met this morning. Is it too early? Will l seem over-eager?
Take this weekend. I met a girl who is brand-new to Chicago and we totally hit it off. We shared loves of Friday Night Lights, How I Met Your Mother, and Never Say Never. (Yes, that is the Bieber documentary. Stop judging me and watch it. You’ll be a convert.) We grew up some 20 minutes from each other in New York and discovered some this-world-is-crazily-small connections. When I got home I started telling Matt about the meeting and suddenly exclaimed, “Oh! I’m going to Facebook her now.” But before I got to my computer, I changed my mind. Would that seem weird? Or desperate? Like I ran home from our meeting with nothing else on my mind and zero to do but ask her to be my virtual friend?
I held back, deciding I would “get around to it” (translation: pry my hands away from the “Add Friend” button until) a few days later.
Imagine my pleasant surprise when, that night, I checked my phone and found an email waiting: “New Friend wants to be friends on Facebook.” Phew.
I know I’m not alone in overanalyzing the protocol of the Facebook friend request. I generally follow a two-pronged plan. Option 1: Request a new friend while I’m with her, as a kind of laughably honest recognition of how silly the whole thing is, but also to say-without-saying “I like you. We shall be friends.” When I was at a bachelorette party this summer, I was chatting with a girl with whom I totally clicked. That night I declared my intention: “I am totally Facebooking you. You will have a request by morning!” And she did.
Or you can wait a day or two, so as not to seem that all you do is spend time on Facebook.
Oh, the games we play.
Still, I was psyched when I got my request this week, not scared off by any too-soon nature of it all. So maybe I should shove my two-pronged plan down the toilet. Perhaps that’s option 3.
What’s your Facebook tendency? Add a new friend as soon as you meet? Always wait for someone to friend you? Is there a required waiting period, or is there no such thing as too-soon? Or do you only friend someone when you want to stalk their pictures (another valuable reason, in my humble opinion)?
I think friending on Facebook after the second meeting is appropriate. Just like in dating, a second friend date can be pretty elusive. But if you get one, then there’s a pretty good chance there will be a third, and so forth.
But then sometimes you can’t help but be eager. I met my cousin’s new girlfriend (new to me – she’s been in the picture for about 2 years now) last weekend, and she friended me between a rehearsal dinner and wedding we had both attended. And when I got the request, I was a little excited and not at all weirded out.
one very important nuance….it’s all about how much of the profile you can already see when not friends with said person. if you cant see anything, friend immediately. if you can already see wall posts, photos etc, wait some time. works like a charm.
Mmh. I would have suggested the opposite. If someone keeps their profile more private, I would probably wait a few more days/weeks to make sure that the person will actually accept my friend request and not ignore me, because she doesn’t add “strangers”.
Arg! Two days, just the thought makes me feel like my space is being invaded! Just this week I FB friended some new friends as I have known them for 6 months now and feel like we are friends now, as opposed to acquaintances!
Um, how did she know that I also love Janet? How did she know I’m not the kind of girl that likes to be alone?? Instant friends! And I never would have done that. She’s much braver than me.
The fact that your new friend immediately friended you and that you were delighted about it speaks volumes – everybody likes to be liked! And although probably everybody thinks they might come across as desperate, I don’t think anyone actually gets creeped out by friendly enthusiasm. Friend them immediately and find how much more quickly you will make time to hang out in real life!!
This fits in nicely with a quandary I am in at the moment. I know you’ve written about finding friends in unusual places in the past, and the questions about what do to when you’d like to be friends with someone like your stylist. This is the situation I am in. I have an awesome stylist. She does a great job. She’s also about my age and seems pretty cool. I’d like to ask her to hang out, but I was thinking Facebook friending might be the right first step. That way, if she doesn’t feel the same way, she can ignore the request or let me know she’s not allowed to be friends with clients.
However, I wonder if I’m thinking about this too much. I’m thinking through what message to add when I friend her, of if I should just ask her to hang out first and FB friends come later. What do you think?
I’m new to a Miami and I work from home so making friends has been really hard. I want to put myself out there more. That’s one of the reasons I’ve been loving your blog! | 2019-04-26T00:51:19 | https://mwfseekingbff.com/2011/09/12/facebooking-friends-how-soon-is-too-soon/ |
Asperger-4-Life: What's in a name?
Self reference seems to be an issue with people who have Asperger Syndrome, and rightly so...it's a bit of a mouthful. Personally I use the universally accepted standard of abbreviation, loved the world over by organizations such as NATO, NASA and the USA. To keep in such illustrious company I refer to Asperger Syndrome as "AS" and I refer to myself as "someone with AS".
Alas I am seemingly alone in this practice. The preferred language on the internet is to use the term "aspie". To me that's just a cutsie name and you give cutsie names to dogs and cats, not to mental disorders. It's like calling AIDS "aidsie" or referring to a heart attack as a "harkey". It seems to be another facet of people with AS (do you see what I did there?) to dress up something negative as something positive. The only thing more apt of the phrase "you can't polish a turd" is actually attempting to polish a turd.
AS is a disorder, it is an impairment, it excludes you from the large section of society that is called "normal", it forbids you from interacting with the world on the world's own terms. Why give it a cutsie name like it's a good thing, or a positive thing? Like it's something you should be proud to have, something you want to have curled up at your feet.
I just posted a comment on your recent entry using the term "Aspie". After reading this, I get what you're saying and will not be using that again. It is a cutsie term and raising a child and dealing with it... there's nothing cute about it. | 2019-04-26T04:37:36 | http://asperger-4-life.blogspot.com/2008/08/self-reference-seems-to-be-issue-with.html |
Taste Test: Does McDonald’s Chocolate Pie Live Up To Its Hype?
You can almost hear the distant hallelujah chorus when news broke that fast food giant McDonald’s will start selling its Chocolate Pie in Singapore from 1 March 2018.
Now, there’s no need to project your petty jealousy to the citizens of Korea, Japan and Thailand, where these chocolate delights are only available in. Instead, you can soon flaunt your bragging rights with pictures of the pies’ oozy dark goodness on Instagram. Multiple .gifs are proven more effective, we think.
But all gloating aside, how does the Chocolate Pie really fare though?
Like a tall, dark and handsome stranger, the Chocolate Pie is like a sexier version of the Apple Pie with its coffee-coloured exterior. Boasting the same crispiness, the pie cracks open with sprays of crumbs to reveal the molten chocolate treasure. While not very oozy, the gooey consistency of the chocolate custard still passed in our books. Because if you think about, too oozy and the pie will be one heck of a mess to consume, especially if it serves as a grab-and-go midday snack.
Taste-wise, the chocolate pie has our team divided. With the pie’s chocolate-flavoured crust to boot, some declared that it is enough to quell the lust of a chocolate lover. Others beg to differ, calming that the richness of the chocolate is fleeting as the yolk-ness of the custard takes over within seconds. Also, ready a tall glass of water as the chocolate filling claws at the throat a little.
Kickstart 2019 With McDonald’s Newest Offerings Inspired By Local Flavours! | 2019-04-25T07:43:41 | https://weekender.com.sg/w/dining/taste-test-mcdonalds-chocolate-pie-live-hype/ |
The Wild Within by Mike Kinsey - 8.000" x 6.750"
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Happy Monday friends! After a disappointing preseason loss to the Jets last night the Oilers management has made a few moves this morning.As reported by Mark Spector: Kevin Gravel, Keegan Lowe, and Brad Malone have been placed on waivers. This comes at no surprise as they weren’t really projected to make the team to begin with. After signing Kevin Gravel to a one year contract this summer, it’s sort of a shame that he didn’t even make it to the end of training camp.
Oilers place Kevin Gravel, Keegan Lowe and Brad Malone on waivers. First sign that Evan Bouchard and Ethan Bear are both pushing for jobs.
As Mark Spector points out, what’s interesting about this move is that Evan Bouchard and Ethan Bear are one step closer to cracking the opening lineup. They’ve still got a lot of work to do, but as long as they’re playing games and are in the conversation, anything is possible. Evan Bouchard has had his ups and downs this preseason and so has Bear. With three preseason games remaining, it will interesting to see how far these two make it as none of the defencemen signed to a PTO are really performing well in this camp. In my opinion, I think Bouchard is a lock to get a few NHL games under his belt out of training camp. Ethan Bear is the guy I’ll be watching to see how the remainder of his camp goes.
Are you surprised at all by these moves by the Oilers? Let me know in the comments.
I’m not a fan of Bear. I see an AHL dman with good offensive instincts. If he’s in our top 6 I suspect the playoffs are out of reach by Christmas.
You are an optimist. Christmas ….really? Mid November, Connor is solidly in the lead in the Art Ross chase, Oil are 12 pts out.
I agree about Bear. Disappointed about Gravel though. I thought he played with an intensity at least that is sorely missing in the Oilers Dcorp. Kegan Lowe should never grace an NHL sheet of ice again. Yes he is suffering the sins of the father, that and the fact that he is a very below average defenceman. Malone is just plain bad. Put a fork in him because he is done.
Why the hate for Bear? He’s putting up points, has a canon that gets through. Scored a beauty last night. He hasn’t been terrible defensively. He’s young and developing. What’s not to like here?
I’m a huge fan of bear. I see an AHL D-man with good offensive instincts who is still growing. If he continues developing the way he has so far since we drafted him we’ll have a great NHL D-man in a year or two, and a viable call up right now.
I think having him in our top 6 is maybe a bit of a stretch now, but not a huge one. He’s getting very, very close.
Between Bear, Jerabek, garrison and Bouchard there is a good battle for the last D Spot! I’m leaning towards keeping Jerabek and Bear and rotating them in and out of the lineup allowing Bear to get both perspectives and tons of NHL practice time.
Jerabek is horrible. I fear they may keep him only to make Bouchard feel better about his game, lol.
Jerabek should have been waived. If he’s on the team to start the season Talbot is going to be under siege.
Nothing really unexpected here just clearing out some AHL players. I would be surprised if any were claimed.
…maybe there is still a trade involving a d-man coming in to be made?
None of the moves are surprising. I think Bear is going to become the first callup option so they maybe assign him first. Got to give the guy good reps in the AHL to continue his development – unsure about the hate on him, he’s looked pretty good to me, great shot, has improved significantly in his own end, def a few things to tidy up in transition and decision making but that comes with experience. I think Bouchard gets 9 games but similar to Bear, probably better to get him more reps in minors(junior), no point in having him or Bear ride the pine too much. | 2019-04-19T01:36:31 | https://oilersnation.com/2018/09/24/gravel-lowe-malone-get-placed-on-waivers/ |
Shifting emphasis to media that reach younger consumers, international broadcaster Christian Vision plans to cease shortwave service to Latin America on Friday. It cites declining listenership to shortwave.
The organization, headquartered in the United Kingdom, says its programming of CVCLAVOZ, formerly Voz Cristiana, is growing via Spanish-language Christian radio affiliates in Latin America and Spain. It says it has about 413 affiliates in 23 countries and is using Internet, mobile and social platforms to increase consumption by the 18- to 35-year-old demo.
According to the announcement, Christian Vision purchased the property and shortwave transmission equipment in Calera de Tango, Chile, in August of 1996; it subsequently received a license from the Chilean regulator Subtel, and launched Voz Cristiana in 1998, with four radio services to Latin America.
Director of Broadcasting Andrew Flynn was the engineer who headed the Chile site in its early years. He is quoted by the organization thanking the technical team led by Antonio Reyes for helping send Christian programming to “countless millions” in Latin America via shortwave. | 2019-04-26T14:21:28 | https://www.radioworld.com/news-and-business/christian-vision-to-turn-off-shortwave-in-latin-america |
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Pop star Selena Gomez once again has placed her luxurious mansion on the market. The residence located in the exclusive community of Montserrat, west of Fort Worth, Texas, is now for sale a third time.
The property is listed at just under $3 million. The 10,000-square-foot house was on sale for the first time in 2016 and the second time at the beginning of 2017.
The house features a variety of amenities, including a movie theater, golf course, and a tennis court.
The 25-year-old singer bought the house in 2015 to use when she was visiting her family in Texas. Gomez, who was born in Grand Prairie, considers northern Texas her home. | 2019-04-25T22:56:33 | https://www.nbcbayarea.com/entertainment/entertainment-news/-Inside-Selena-Gomez-puts-her-luxurious-mansion-for-sale-474905573.html |
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According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, almost 70% of Americans turning 65 today will need some type of long-term care (LTC) as they age. And 20% will likely need care for five or more years. Given that the annual cost of that care can extend into six figures, that’s a daunting prospect for many retirees.
For decades, purchasing a long-term care insurance policy has been a common solution. But many insurers—facing lower interest rates and higher claims payouts—have raised their premiums or stopped offering the policies. Fortunately, the long-term care industry has developed a variety of new options that may provide more appealing coverage, given your needs and overall financial plan.
Traditional LTC policies (in addition to their increasing expense) are typically “use it or lose it” products, similar to homeowner’s insurance. You might pay premiums for years without ever needing coverage—and never get your cash back.
There are newer LTC policies, however, that are different. They’re often combination products that provide either a life insurance or annuity component and may allow premium returns. Here are three common types of newer long-term care policies, with some advantages and drawbacks.
1) Hybrid long-term care policies merge traditional long-term care insurance with life insurance, while offering a return of the premium.
The advantage of a hybrid policy is that it offers a benefit whether you need long-term care, pass away, or discontinue the policy and want your premiums back. That said, this type of policy also comes with drawbacks, including how the premiums are paid, as well as a higher bar to qualify for the coverage.
Hybrid plan premiums are typically paid in a lump sum, or spread out over a short period of time (10 years, for example). And because you’re paying for life insurance as well as LTC coverage, plus the return-of-premium feature, the cost can be prohibitive. Also, because this option bundles two products in one, you’ll need to qualify for both coverage types in order to get a policy.
2) Permanent life insurance policies with long-term care riders enable a percentage of the death benefit to be used for long-term care costs.
These policies can offer some payment flexibility—allowing lump sum premiums or annual payments over a lifetime. And their costs tend to be lower than other types of combined coverage.
The drawbacks? The policies don’t offer the return-of-premium option and the terms of reimbursement can be stringent. For example, with these policies a doctor must attest that your inability to perform basic activities is permanent—which could seriously limit the benefits you receive. For a traditional or hybrid LTC claim to be paid, on the other hand, you typically only need a doctor’s validation that you cannot perform certain activities of daily living (or that you’re cognitively impaired).
Similar to the hybrid policies above, applicants must also qualify for both life insurance and the LTC rider.
3) Annuities with long-term care riders have terms that are similar to those of fixed annuities. You typically purchase the annuity with a lump sum and receive a monthly benefit. In some cases, no extra cost is incurred for the long-term care component because it’s funded by the annuity premium.
For example, you can buy a deferred long-term care annuity with a lump sum premium. The annuity creates two funds: one for long-term care expenses, the other for whatever you choose. That said, the terms of the annuity dictate how much you can withdraw from each fund, and the tax implications can be complicated.
Given the complex terms of some annuity products, you may want the advice of a tax professional when exploring this option.
Buying LTC insurance can be an exacting process, but one that’s well worth it.
What sort of inflation protection does the policy offer?
Are there limitations on preexisting conditions?
What is the lag time until the benefits kick in, and how long will they last?
How often has the insurer raised rates?
With the cost of long-term care rising, now is a good time to explore how you can integrate LTC insurance into your financial plan.
If you want to review your situation, call 800-355-2162 or talk to a Schwab Financial Consultant at your local branch.
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...to GRIZZLE,BEULAH Find the ancestral town: Many a researcher is stuck behind records that say, BIRTHPLACE: IRELAND without saying where in Ireland, or whatever other country. Remember that your immigrant ancestors siblings probably were born in the same ancestral town, so check all of their records, too. Around 1900, the Roman Catholic churches reported marriages to the churches where the persons were baptised, and before the wedding, they would require a baptismal certificate from that church, without marriage notations, to make sure that the persons were not already married, ordained, or whatever, and were free to marry. Do check the Catholic records especially for ex loco and the home town. If your ancestors sister had a daughter who generated a marriage or death record saying, MOTHERS BIRTHPLACE: and the exact town, then you know where to start searching for records that will confirm it is your ancestors home town. BEWARE: Just because you find a family with the same names does not mean they are the same family, as they could very well be an unrelated family from a different town in the same ancestral country. The webmaster has learned this. One clue was that one family was still having babies in Potenza city, Italy while the other was having babies in Colorado, U.S.A. | 2019-04-19T23:15:41 | https://sortedbyname.com/index_pages/g384.html |
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This feature allows you to un-assign questions or sections that are previously assigned.
Note: Only the Questionnaire Owners and Questionnaire Admins have the ability to un-assign.
1. Click on the cross icon to un-assign questions or sections.
When you receive a questionnaire, you have the option to change the assignee for a particular question or a previously assigned question.
2. Click on the assessment and further click on the question you wish to change the assignee for.
3. Within the Answering pane, to change the assignee, click on the Edit icon next to the Assignee name as shown above.
4. Click on the drop-down to select a new assignee as shown above. You can also add a new assignee, if required, by entering their email address. You can enter an optional message for the new Assignee.
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Note: You can change the assignee for only one question at a time.
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1. Navigate to My Assignments from the Assessments module and click on the assessment as shown above.
2. To change the assignee, click on the Edit icon next to the Assignee name, as shown above.
3. Click on the drop-down to select a new assignee as shown above. You can enter an optional message for the new Assignee. Click on the Assign button to proceed. | 2019-04-23T02:56:24 | https://supportcenter.oncentrl.com/hc/en-us/articles/360000546612-Assigning-Questions-and-Sections |
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PHNOM PENH — Ruling party lawmakers at the National Assembly pass the first of three draft laws in judicial reform, defying an opposition boycott and ignoring calls for further review by outside legal experts.
The Law on the Organization of the Courts will put more power within the Ministry of Justice and was passed without critical questioning.
At least six lawmakers for the ruling Cambodian People’s Party spoke on the law’s behalf, saying it will enhance the judicial system.
CPP lawmaker Chheang Von urged Minister of Justice Ang Vong Vathana to ensure that judicial staff are properly paid, in order to ensure effective work for the public.
The minister said the revised law would play a major role in judicial reform.
“That is why we have spent time and effort, not to give me more power or influence, but for better changes to the judicial system,” he said.
Critics of the law, like Sok Sam Oeun, head of the Cambodian Defenders Project, say it will not turn around the reputation of a court that is widely seen as politically biased and corrupt toward powerful interests.
The lawmakers on Thursday also began to debate a draft law regulating judges and prosecutors. More discussion is slated for Friday. | 2019-04-20T16:23:44 | https://www.voacambodia.com/a/assembly-passes-first-of-three-contentious-laws-on-judicial-reform/1920338.html |
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The Waste Land as an iPad app demonstrates how we might re-imagine the book, but it also illustrates how editorial choices can limit value.
The Guardian recently documented a June trek of 25 people through the city of London, on (TS Eliot's The Waste Land 2012 – a multimedia walk, (Henry Eliot, 30 July 2012). That a poem written in the early 20th Century remains resonant with people who live nearly a century later offers a testament to its often misunderstood and always daunting language, allusion and structure.
But being citizens of the 21st Century, we need not rely solely on the manuscript and printed commentary to bring the poem to us. With new devices like Apple’s iPad, the very idea of the book as a book has been reconsidered. The Waste Land, a cooperative work between Touch Press, Faber and Faber, BBC Arena and other collaborators, releases the text of the poem through the lens of the iPad. From its earliest incarnations, The Waste Land was as much a initiator of non-fiction as it was a poem. As Eliot sought to pad out his poem for book publication, he included a series of notes, which have become famous in their own right. The scholarship and commentary on the poem continues with the Touch Press treatment, which migrates much of its new insights from print to video.
The Waste Land app first reveals a navigation screen that offers seven content choices and a Tips screen. First is the full text of poem as published in the book from in 1922 (The poem had previously appeared in Eliot’s own journal, The Criterion, and in The Dial, without notes). The app also offers the facsimile manuscript of the poem, previously published as book.
Unfortunately, the editors of the app, trying it appears to stay aligned with the published text, omit the first manuscript page with Eliot’s excision, leading to an incomplete context for the work and its history. They also fail to share any of the scholarship from the book, just images with short captions. The introduction and the editorial notes from the published version of the manuscript do not appear in the app. This is a first incompleteness. I will come to others later.
The Waste Land, like any good poem, is meant to be heard, not read. This is where multimedia offerings succeed beyond the standalone text, the random MP3 file or an LP gathering dust in a garage. Touch Stone includes five different readings of The Waste Land, two by Eliot himself. Others include Alec Guiness (Star Wars' original Obi Wan Kenobi,) Ted Hughes (British Poet Lauret and husband to poet Sylvia Plath,) Viggo Mortensen (Aragorn in Peter Jackson’s film adaptation of the The Lord of the Rings) and Fiona Shaw (Harry Potter’s Aunt in the film adaptations of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series).
Shaw also offers a performance interpretation of the poem, complete with music and sound effects. Shaw’s performance is available as a short, standalone film, and as an audio reading that, like the other readings, follows the text as the performers read it.
The performances are all good, and hearing Eliot with his mid-Western-affected-proper-English continues to haunt and delight. Although the other readings offer more thoughtful emoting on behalf of the audience, Eliot's rendition provides the poet's internal rhythm and pauses, inflections and glottal stops.
Eliot's own notes, as mentioned, fueled enormous amounts of scholarship. Much of that scholarship was curated and condensed into line-by-line annotations derived taken from B.C. Southam’s excellent A Student’s Guide to the Selected Poems of T.S. Eliot. Southam’s book serves as the source for the app’s annotations. Click a line and the annotations display. These notes are fine for the casual reader, but because parts of Southam’s book, like sources (on page 31-42 of the sixth edition) aren't included, the notes ultimately prove incomplete. To do the annotations justice, Touch Press needs to include Southam’s introduction and appendix.
As my three bookshelves dedicated to Eliot attest, I will acquire interesting material related to Eliot, and this app counts as interesting material, especially given the lack of DVD or download access to the original BBC documentary from which its interviews were drawn (though most of the BBC Arena documentary can be found on YouTube). The commentaries are joyfully affirmative and personally insightful.
Former punk rocker Frank Turner draws connections to Bob Dylan and contemporary pop culture. Paul Keegan provides erudite comments on Eliot and his relationship to the poem. Jim McCue a history of publication. Craig Raine dishes haughty interpretations and observations. Fiona Shaw marvels and connects with personal anecdotes. Jeanette Winterson offers right-professorial insight. And Seamus Heaney discusses what The Waste Land means to him as a poet. Unfortunately, the entire collection of commentary fits much more with documentary film-making than with serious literary scholarship.
I return to incompleteness here. Many important voices on Eliot don’t appear in the app beyond scattered references to particular lines in the annotations. Most notably, these missing scholars include Hugh Kenner, Frank Kermode, F.O. Matthiessen, Lyndall Gordon, Helen Gardner, George Williamson and Russell Kirk. They may not be available as video (or audio), but their text remains important. The majority of these critics and scholars might have presented Touch Stone with licensing issues, but given the partnership with Faber, Helen Gardner’s excellent tome, The Art of T.S. Eliot, would have been a good addition to the app’s content.
Much of the early scholarship about Eliot and The Waste Land has not yet arrived in e-reader format, though much of it is available on scholarly websites. Selections of essays or chapters would go a long way to making the app a more useful resource. Even better, given the publication and financial resources associated with Touch Press, would be a site that linked to the app, providing additional reference material on-demand.
The app offers some additional data in the form of a very small set of poorly integrated snapshots meant to illustrate the poem, its author, his collaborators and the publishing process. Given the visual and location-based references in the poem, more images could surely be found that could lend value to the reading. The app would benefit from the publishers going beyond the slideshow by fully integrating the images with the line readings and annotations.
I always felt that The Waste Land prepared me for success in the Internet age. The poem that Eliot wrote and Ezra Pound helped craft fills the consciousness with fragmented jumbles of allusion and synthesis, of memory and creation, of studied eloquence and discerning observation. Blogs and other web-based content sources with their wildly far-flung links echo The Waste Land in reality, if not intent.
On the surface, the poem seemingly weaves together incongruities, but on deeper study it reveals a multi-layered structure. That hodgepodge of sources force the reader to engage beyond the surface, much as the Internet forces one from the page being scanned, to underlying sources or additional commentary. Before Vanevar Bush suggested a hypertext-like idea, Eliot apparently thought in hypertext-like form, recording his internal musings, broad reading, personal experience and intellectual associations into an exculpated whole.
For readers coming to The Waste Land for the first time, an app on an iPad with video commentary and clickable links that illuminate its language and allusions provides an appropriate entry point. For people who have studied the poem over the years, the app offers convenient access and a few new, easily consumed perspectives. I can also argue for The Waste Land app as a compelling and relatively inexpensive tool for teaching the poem, but one far from complete in its library of criticism and interpretation, and shameful in its lack of references.
The app is perhaps best for those who want to re-read The Waste Land and reconnect with a writer and an age now far removed from contemporary experience. As a work of art, The Waste Land continues to reveal truths 90 years after its first publication, in a new era of raging uncertainty and despair tempered by emergent potential. | 2019-04-22T20:07:53 | https://www.popmatters.com/the-ipad-release-of-t-s-eliots-the-waste-land-is-adequate-but-could-be-better-2495809515.html |
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Usually when referring to the so-called oil weapon, analysts are talking about the decades old policy of major oil producing nations withholding production to tighten supplies and drive prices up, often driven by geopolitical motivations.
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BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.—Hustler Hollywood has gone back to its roots in a sense, with its new West Hollywood boutique on the Sunset Strip officially open for business. “West Hollywood is our home. We could never imagine leaving such a strong, accepting and diverse community—moving to another part of town wasn’t an option. We look forward to staying on the Strip and being a part of WeHo for years to come,” said Larry Flynt, founder of the iconic Hustler lifestyle brand. A grand opening celebration will take place at 7 p.m. Saturday, April 20; additional details TBA. The event will be free and open to the public. The store moved just a few doors down from the building it occupied for 21 years; it is now located at 8873 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood. Hustler Hollywood is a sophisticated lifestyle boutique that offers all the top pleasure product brands, lingerie and much more, including an extensive selection of high-quality toys, apparel, sportswear, accessories, jewelry, gifts and novelties, along with bath and body items. The store has knowledgeable staff who are trained to provide education and recommendations based on individual needs and who are dedicated to ensuring every customer feels welcome and comfortable while experiencing a high-end shopping environment. The store carries something for everyone. The first Hustler Hollywood opened in 1998 on the famed Sunset Strip in West Hollywood making this its 21st year in business. There are currently 28 locations throughout the U.S. For more information, visit HustlerHollywood.com. | 2019-04-23T09:02:32 | https://www.adultwebmasters.org/cgi-bin/search/news.cgi?new=71243 |
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In the Module drop down menu, select avt.SearchBoost.Results.
Then click the Add Module button.
The template is configured in UI Settings in the Search Boost Control Panel. Note that unlike the Search Box template this type of template is less restrictive. Some templates are capable of building photo albums or product listings.
You can open the Search Boost Control Panel by clicking on Manage > Settings on the Search Input Module. Here you will see search settings specifications for the Search Results module.
You can the access settings for search results by opening Search Boost Control Panel. You would need to click on Manage > Search Settings in the Search Results module. In the Search Boost Control Panel, click on the UI Settings tab to locate the Search Results settings.
Results Page. This specifies the page that contains the SearchBoost Results module. It receives the input then retrieves the results.
Template for Search Results. Defines the layout and color scheme of Search Results. They are used to render the search results.
Read Create New Templates for additional information.
Results per page. Determines how many results appear on each page.
Strip HTML from descriptions on Results Page. If this option is selected HTML is stripped from results description so only plain text is displayed. We recommend that you always select this option because the description may have terrible HTML code that could reconfigure the design.
Maximum Description Length. This option determines how long the description is allowed. If descriptions are bigger than the value specified in this field then it is stripped down.
Search Boost comes with only one template for the results page - actually there is two, but the other one just displays Page Title instead of Module Title for each search result. We plan to extend this in the future and provide other templates out-of-the-box as well for the most common scenarios.
Visually, the search results are rendered like the image below. Though it is possible to customize appearance by changing the template or create new templates. This is covered in the next section.
Search Boost can replace tokens in results. This option can be configured from the General Settings window. You can open the General Settings window in the Search Boost Control Panel.
Starting with version 4, in order to include My Tokens in the Search Boost Results Template follow the instructions bellow.
The syntax for using tokens is [SourceName:TokenName] for DNN or My Tokens, and [TokenName] for local tokens. | 2019-04-22T20:01:45 | https://docs.dnnsharp.com/search-boost/customize-appearance/search_results.html |
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5.Shoes, clothing, bags, handbags, packaging, color printing and other industries.
Using the most advanced touch control system at present, the debugging operation is simple and easy to understand. | 2019-04-26T06:49:46 | http://en.dgcnxn.com.cn/offer/296839.html |
After court yesterday, I didn't want to go home. Not in a dramatic way, but I wanted to be out in nature and surrounded by people. So first we walked in a park, then we went shopping. My husband had our two youngest in the cart, and something distracted me, so I wandered off.
My littlest didn't, of course, understand that his life had been dramatically altered by a man's word just hours before. He doesn't know that in a few days, he's leaving forever the only home he's ever known in his 29 months of life: 872 days and counting. I guess it's a countdown now.
As we shopped, he realized he couldn't see me, so he began calling out for me.
I offered a fake smile when an older woman poked her head around the corner.
"Is he calling for you?" she asked.
"Don't worry," I said, "He's with his daddy, he isn't lost."
"Well, enjoy this then, because he won't be calling for you for long," she said with a smile and pushed her cart off.
I stood there, deeply affected by the simple, everyday advice from a likely grandma, the kind of thing my mom probably says to people harmlessly, and the kind of sentiment others have said to me dozens of times as a young mom.
"They don't stay little forever."
"Savor the memories when they're small."
Her wording was unfortunate, as I know my son will soon, indeed, have another face in his mind when he calls for "mommy." But at the same time, how could I wish for anything but their greatest success in their new relationship? How could my mothering love for this child not pray for him to have the very best future, including an intimate, caring relationship with his mommy?
I do not wish to be replaced, but I know I will be. God's plan is continuing to unfold before me. I choose to observe it and live in it in faith. The promises are just as real today as they were yesterday morning.
Tomorrow's gonna come too soon. | 2019-04-22T20:00:33 | http://www.kelleyrosewaller.com/blog/2017/5/17/yesterdays-gone |
“It feels like I’m at a firefighters conference and no one is allowed to speak about water” Rutger Bregman speaks about the elephant at the Davos Economic Forum, the role of tax avoidance that keeps wealth stockpiled for the richest as inequality increases.
You can watch it here. For more information on inequality and international volunteering, check out our Issues to Consider resource. | 2019-04-24T20:55:11 | https://comhlamh.org/blog/video-stop-talking-about-philanthropy-and-start-talking-about-tax-billionaires-called-out-for-tax-evasion-davos-economic-forum/ |
If I had a bed & breakfast inn, where would be the best place for it? Do people like the beaches more than the mountains? Do they like the country or the city better? Would America be the best place or would I need to venture out of my native soil for this? In 2001 I began a journey of visiting the bed & breakfasts across America online. | 2019-04-24T12:23:37 | https://www.blog-search.com/sites/if-i-had-a-bed-breakfast |
Perfect home for any investor or someone who wants an easy fixer upper! Home sits on a large lot with a fenced in backyard. Built in 2016 and is waiting for the right buyer to invest some TLC. Master bedroom is downstairs along with a formal dining room/office. Eat in kitchen with an open floor plan into the living room. Home is being sold in AS IS condition.
136 Green Palm Ct is a 2,740 (*estimated) square foot home with 5 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms located in St Augustine FL, ST. JOHNS County. This property is listed for sale at $225,000 and is currently active and accepting offers. | 2019-04-25T07:46:13 | https://www.homesofstjohnscounty.com/fl/st-augustine/crescent-key/136-green-palm-ct/977275 |
Many of us neglect our lofts, simply using them as a space to store clutter- they can easily become dumping grounds for junk. But this space could be turned into extra room for living in, so why wouldn't you utilise it? Whether you're in need of an extra bedroom, guest room, home office or even a hobby room, the loft could provide the perfect space. As an added bonus it will even add value to your home too. Here are a few attic conversion ideas to create the ultimate loft.
The first step should be to remove all the clutter from your loft. Some of this you may be able to sell, whilst other bits can be donated or chucked out. Getting rid of possessions may not be something you want to do, which is why more people are using self storage – this could allow you to keep onto these possessions even without the space in your home. Once your loft space is empty, you can then start the conversion process.
For a loft space to be classed as a liveable space it may need to meet certain requirements. For example, the room needs to have a minimum head clearance of 2 metres between the joists. Altering the height could involve raising the roof. This is an expensive job that some may not be able to afford and could require seeking planning permission first. Loft conversion also need to have a suitable fire exit, which means having some form of staircase and not just a ladder. This could be an internal staircase or an external staircase – again this could push the price of the project up and may require planning permission.
Lofts can get chilly, so make sure that this space is insulated. You may also want to add some home radiators, these could be electric or they could be plumbed in. Insulation and plumbing isn’t always an easy DIY job, so consider hiring professionals.
The space will also need some electricity. This could mean adding sockets and lighting. If you’re DIYing your loft conversion, check whether the work you’re doing requires an electrical license as they may mean you have to hire a professional. You could even install solar panels on your roof to power up your loft space.
A loft is perfectly located for adding skylights – this could allow natural light to flood the room, whilst offering a view of the stars at night. Look into the costs of installing a skylight as you could find that it pushes you over your budget. Opting for double or triple glazing will keep you insulated.
Without a bathroom in your loft, whoever is staying there may have to take a trip down a level to use the bathroom in the night. An en suite bathroom will push the price of your project up, but could be convenient. Decide whether you want to just add a lavatory and sink, or go all out with a bathtub and shower. Be wary that getting a tub into your loft won’t be an easy task and could involve removing some of the roof and using a crane. | 2019-04-26T03:43:51 | https://www.homemakingandhorticulture.co.uk/2018/06/many-of-us-neglect-our-lofts-using-them.html |
We have our site set up for Single Signon. Under privacy we have Private and SSO Users selected. This is all working great.
However if a user clicks Logout or follows a link in an email (when not already logged in to UserEcho) they get the "This forum is private" page. The problem is the "Sign in" link on this page, it points to the standard UserEcho login screen and we would like to direct them back to our SSO login page.
Is there a way to customize this page for our site or at least provide a custom link for the "Sign in"?
Ok give us link and we will forward unauthorized users to it.
return_link and you will redirect back to it after user sign in at your side.
Also we send return parameter which contains url where you must return user after successful authorization. You need to return sso_token when redirecting user back.
Both of these sound great. Thanks.
Ok will set your custom link soon, and add option in settings. | 2019-04-22T14:39:57 | https://feedback.userecho.com/communities/1/topics/6066-single-signon-needs-alternate-login-link |
Find cheap Birmingham United Kingdom to Islamabad Pakistan flights with our free search service. Compare all available fares for direct or connection flights from Birmingham to Islamabad.
What is the distance between Birmingham and Islamabad?
The average distance from Birmingham to Islamabad is 6141 kilometers (equals to 3816 miles or 3316 nautical miles). Your flight will departure from Birmingham, United Kingdom and arrive on Islamabad, Pakistan.
How long is the flight from Birmingham to Islamabad?
How much is the fare for flight between Birmingham and Islamabad?
The average price for one-way airfare from Birmingham to Islamabad is 572 USD (none-taxes) for economy class.
How many flights fly from Birmingham to Islamabad on the daily basis? | 2019-04-25T12:19:39 | https://www.flightpedia.org/flights-from-birmingham-to-islamabad.html |
Brother DCP-330C Driver Download – Brother is known as a company that releases different kinds of printing equipment. The goods range from easy home made printer into industrial printing machine with complicated functions. This provider releases Brother Printer drivers as the accompanying goods to the printing apparatus. Every Brother printing machine has an accompanying driver.
Driver of a printer is truly pivotal in assisting proprietor conducting the printer. It’s crucial in case the printer has been connected with other devices like desktop computer. Without a driver, the printer will not work since it is supposed to. This report can help readers getting better understanding of this software and methods to operate it.
Driver is software that’s necessary as a external device is connected to a pc system. This software program helps translating the language used by external device (printer in this case) for the user’s computer. You may not notice that computer’s OS and printer don’t operate in similar programming language.
Brother Printer drivers are necessary when user want to join printing machines introduced by this maker to a particular computer system. Every printer series is going to have particular driver. In addition to that, the kind of operating system installed in user’s computer also affects the driver. Normally, a printer driver is supplied at no cost by the manufacturer.
Physical copy of driver normally comes together with the printing product. However, in some cases, user could be required to download the driver. Here are the steps to do that.
When the necessary driver has been downloaded to the computer, then the next thing that consumer must do is to install it. The procedure is not complicated whatsoever. Follow these steps for installation.
Choose language of installation. It will also be utilized for operating the printer once the program is installed.
Everybody will tell you Brother Printer drivers need to be updated regularly. Updates are completed to ensure that problems occurring from the older version will be taken care of. In addition, it makes sure that printing apparatus will function in optimum manner and stay compatible with system.
Throughout the process of installing the driver to computer system, consumer can elect to get automatic updates whenever new model of software is released by Brother. If not, user needs to check on available updates through placing or control panel to ensure they don’t overlook one.
The driver has different menus that user can choose. It all rides on attributes offered by special printer series. The basic options are coloured and black printing. Some machine also offers faxing and scanning options. The navigating process is quite straightforward. The info should help consumer using Brother Printer drivers properly. | 2019-04-19T20:48:17 | https://3kcomputers.com/brother-dcp-330c-driver-download/ |
Boletus edulis Bull. : Fr.
Cap up to 20cm, hemispherical, then convex, flat convex or flat, more or less viscid, darker in the center, paler towards the margin, beige, pale brown, brown to dark brown, sometimes greyish, not blueing when bruised. Stipe club-shaped, cylindrical or sometimes tapering towards the base, bulbously swollen or rooting, white or whitish to pale brownish, with well defined network, not blueing when bruised. Flesh white, sometimes spotted brownish at the stipe base, rarely somewhat pinkish below the cap cuticle, unchanging when exposed to air. Tubes initially white, then cream, pale yellow to yellow with olivaceous tint, unchanging when exposed to air. Pores concolorous with the tubes, unchanging when bruised. Smell not distinctive. Taste not distinctive. Spores 12.0–19.5 × 4–7 μm, ratio 2.5–3.9. Pileipellis (the cap cuticle) trichodermium of interwoven septate, slightly gelatinized hyphae. Cells of the hyphae long cylindrical, not incrusted. Chemical reactions: hyphae of flesh in the stipe base inamyloid with Melzer’s solution.
Habitat. Coniferous, mixed and broadleaf forests, mycorrhizal with conifers – spruce (Picea), fir (Abies), pines (Pinus), or with deciduous trees – beech (Fagus) and birch (Betula).
Distribution. In Europe widespread, mostly mountain species in south.
Note. In the past there was a number of similar species recognized. Boletus betulicola (Vassilkov) Pilát & Dermek, growing with birch and having grayish cap, B. persoonii Bon with entirely white fruitbodies, and B. venturii Bon having yellow cap. Recent molecular research have proven that all three of them are very closely related with B. edulis, and that is why some authorities reduce all three taxa to mere forms of B. edulis. However, there is no consesus among the boletologists and some other authors still treat B. betulicola as a separate species (see Korhonen & al. 2009).
Bulliard's illustration accompanying the original description of Boletus edulis. | 2019-04-23T08:59:07 | http://boletales.com/genera/boletus/b-edulis/ |
This is the place to learn about all of the new things happening on the forum!
As I continue to add new features and spruce things up a bit, I'm a bit curious. What would you like to see more of on the forums? I know the forum is in it's infancy, so content is a bit lacking and thus it's hard to want to visit often. I'm trying to spread the word as best as I can, to folks who may have been a member in the past and let them know the board as returned.
Is there a feature or something you think is missing that we should add? Something like forums, features, avatars, themes, ect. I always want to try to present the very best possible, and without your help and feedback it becomes a bit harder to judge whether or not it's worth spending the time on, or if it should be as big of a priority.
Also, if you think there needs to be more tutorials or a step by step guide for something, let me know! I have a few guides up here already pertaining to avatars, but I know there has to be other questions.
Spread the word as well! I'm looking to do some contests and giveaways as well to drum up some traffic.
Good ideas, yeah the Boy Toys and Girl Toys is more of a catch all until we need specific forums for those shows so I wouldn't expect them to stay that way for long. One of the ideas with the collectors guide is to create posts with all of the information, that way it's in a single place and people can discuss them at will.
I started it with the Funko Pop guide here, but I'd love to add more to that space. I'll look to see if there is other options out there as well. If you have stuff to put in there, please do. I can help with formatting or whatever you need as well. | 2019-04-24T18:47:06 | http://memoriesboard.net/viewtopic.php?f=10&p=104 |
Cecilia is a waitress in New Jersey, living a dreary life during the Great Depression. Her only escape from her mundane reality is the movie theatre. After losing her job, Cecilia goes to see 'The Purple Rose of Cairo' in hopes of raising her spirits, where she watches dashing archaeologist Tom Baxter time and again.The Purple Rose of Cairo featuring Mia Farrow and Jeff Daniels is streaming with subscription on Prime Video, streaming with subscription on Hulu, streaming via tv everywhere with EPIX, and 7 others. It's a comedy and fantasy movie with a very high Rotten Tomatoes (critics) score of 91% and a high IMDb audience rating of 7.7 (42,881 votes).
The Purple Rose of Cairo has a very high Rotten Tomatoes (critics) score of 91% and a high IMDb audience rating of 7.7 (42,881 votes). The movie is popular with Reelgood users lately. | 2019-04-25T08:22:02 | https://reelgood.com/movie/the-purple-rose-of-cairo-1985 |
Access and exit facilities not specifically covered in this section shall not be used to satisfy the exit requirements of this code. Fire escapes shall not be permitted on new construction, with the exception of group homes. Fire escapes may be used as exits on buildings existing on December sixth, nineteen hundred sixty-eight when such buildings are altered, subject to the approval of the commissioner, or as provided in subdivision (b) hereof. Elevators or escalators shall be provided in all new buildings exceeding four stories in height except that buildings or building sections classified in occupancy group H-2 exceeding one story in height and buildings or building sections classified in occupancy group G or J-1 exceeding two stories in height shall be provided with elevators. | 2019-04-18T18:39:00 | https://www.lawserver.com/law/state/new-york/ny-laws/ny_new_york_city_administrative_code_27-368 |
Designing interior spaces for memory care residents comes with its own set of guidelines that help create familiarity, avoid confusion, stimulate senses and make residents feel at home. What may be beautiful for other residents can be agitating, confusing, or disorienting to residents with dementia or other memory conditions.
Visit the Invacare Interior Design blog. | 2019-04-23T03:01:28 | https://interiordesign.invacare.com/designing-for-memory-care |
When her parents announce their impending separation, Natalie can’t understand why no one is fighting or at least mildly upset. Then Zach and Lucy, her two best friends, hook up, leaving her feeling slightly miffed and decidedly awkward. She’d always imagined she would end up with Zach one day—in the version of her life that played out like a TV show, with just the right amount of banter, pining and meaningful looks. Now everything has changed and nothing is quite making sense.
Until an unexpected romance comes along and shakes things up even further.
It Sounded Better in My Head is a tender, funny and joyful novel about longing, confusion, feeling left out and finding out what really matters—from an exciting new voice in Australian YA writing.
Nina Kenwood is the marketing manager at Readings bookshop in Melbourne. She has worked in the book industry for ten years, but has been writing, secretly, for much longer. It Sounded Better in My Head is her first novel. | 2019-04-18T23:30:33 | https://www.textpublishing.com.au/books/it-sounded-better-in-my-head |
A university in the region is hosting a daylong conference where senior engineering and design students will present 96 capstone projects.
Western Michigan University will host the 64th Conference on Senior Engineering and Design, featuring the work of 290 seniors.
The bi-annual event is scheduled for April 16 from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences' Floyd Hall on WMU's Parkview Campus in Kalamazoo, at 4601 Campus Dr.
The conference involves students from a variety of disciplines: chemical and paper engineering; civil and construction engineering; computer science; electrical and computer engineering; engineering design, manufacturing and management systems; industrial and entrepreneurial engineering and engineering management; and mechanical and aerospace engineering.
The projects tackle real-world problems facing local businesses and industries. Many of the projects are sponsored by southwest Michigan companies.
One group of students, presenting at 1 p.m., designed 2D and 3D models for a new obstacle course for runners at the annual Kalamazoo Mud Run charity event.
Another group, presenting at 1:30 p.m., designed a new nature-themed, ability-inclusive playground and gazebo for the YWCA's Children's Center. | 2019-04-24T22:25:47 | https://www.grbj.com/articles/93118-engineering-students-presenting-projects |
Major U.S. stock averages rise Wednesday after encouraging U.S. data.
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Major U.S. stock averages were trading higher late Wednesday morning as investors cheered a larger-than-expected rise in pending home sales, an increase in durable goods numbers, and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's reiteration of easy monetary policy at his second-day of testimony before Congress.
Investors were also focusing on Apple(:AAPL), whose annual shareholders' meeting is set to begin Wednesday at 12 p.m. EST. Tim Cook, Apple CEO, is likely to be asked what the iPhone maker plans to do with its massive cash hoard of more than $137 billion.
"We have some rumors about Apple and what they might do today at a meeting ... I'm going to focus on what we see in tech ... and if we really get a solid bounce and Apple stays above ... maybe there's some credence to the rumor," Matthew Cheslock, equity trader at Virtu Financial, told TheStreet late Tuesday, as the tech-heavy Nasdaq rebounded strongly along with Apple.
Apple shares were down 0.7% Wednesday.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average was rising 73.64 points, or 0.53%, at 13,973.The S&P 500 was rising 8.17 points, or 0.55%, at 1,505. The Nasdaq was up 18.55 points, or 0.59%, at 3,148.
Major U.S. stock averages rebounded Tuesday from the prior session's swoon after a raft of upbeat economic data and earnings reports, and after Bernanke indicated continued support for monetary easing in his semi-annual testimony before Congress.
Speaking before the Senate Banking Committee Tuesday, Bernanke said, though, that the Fed alone couldn't bear the entire burden of spurring the economic recovery, and urged lawmakers to find alternatives to the sequestration ahead of a March 1 deadline.
On Wednesday, Bernanke was giving his semi-annual testimony before the House Financial Services Committee in Washington. He reiterated his continued support for easy monetary policy and once again voiced his concerns about the looming spending cuts in Washington.
The Census Bureau reported that durable goods orders fell 5.2% in January after rising 3.7% in December. Excluding transportation, orders rose 1.9% after a 1% increase the prior month. Economists were expecting durable goods orders to fall 3.5% in January and the number to rise 0.2% excluding the transportation component.
The National Association of Realtors said that its pending home sales index rose 4.5% in January after falling 1.9% the previous month. Economists were forecasting a rise of 1%.
"Between this report and the upside surprises in the housing market data released yesterday (prices for December and new home sales for January), housing market activity appears to have ended 2012 on a positive note and is off to a strong start in 2013," said Cooper Howes, U.S, economist for Barclays.
Gold for April delivery was sliding $10 to $1,605.50 an ounce at the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange, while April crude oil futures were down 5 cents to $92.58 a barrel.
The benchmark 10-year Treasury was rising 9/32, diluting the yield to 1.857%. The dollar was falling 0.27%, according to the U.S. dollar index.
In corporate news, Groupon(:GRPN), the daily deals site, is forecast to report fourth-quarter profit of 3 cents a share on sales of $638.4 million after the markets close. Shares were rising more than 2%.
Priceline.com(:PCLN), the travel Web site operator, said Tuesday that fourth-quarter net income rose 28%, as bookings on its Web sites jumped 33% to about $6.6 billion in the quarter. Shares were popping 2.75%.
Coach(:COH) shares were jumping more than 4.5% amid rumors that the luxury goods company is thinking about selling itself, and following its announcement of new appointments to its creative team, including Zach Augustine. Augustine joins Coach from Nike, where he held the role of global creative director.
First Solar(:FSLR), the solar panel manufacturer, swung to a profit in the fourth quarter but issued first-quarter net income and sales guidance below analysts' forecasts. Shares were plunging 16.5%.
Accretive Health (:AH), a provider of services to the health care industry, announced that it will postpone the release of its financial results for the fourth quarter and full-year 2012, as well as its previously announced investor conference call scheduled for Wednesday, because it is evaluating the timing of revenue recognition for its revenue cycle management agreements. Shares were plummeting nearly 26%.
Edison International(:EIX) booked better-than-expected quarterly earnings. Shares were rising more than 2%.
Target(:TGT) shares were falling more than 1% after the company reported that its fourth-quarter gross margin rate declined to 27.8% in 2012 from 28.4% in 2011.
DreamWorks Animation(:DWA) shares were falling more than 3% after the company reported a quarterly loss of $82.7 million, or 98 cents a share, including the impact of a write-down of film costs for "Rise of the Guardians" and charges related to the decision to return "Me & My Shadow" back to development. | 2019-04-21T00:27:27 | https://www.wayneindependent.com/x1893339335/Stocks-Higher-on-Rise-in-Pending-Home-Sales |
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wikiHow is a “wiki,” similar to Wikipedia, which means that many of our articles are co-written by multiple authors. To create this article, 132 people, some anonymous, worked to edit and improve it over time. Together, they cited 5 references. This article has also been viewed 1,127,310 times.
To pray, get into whatever prayer position feels most natural to you. Try sitting, kneeling, or lying down, with your hands clasped or held up. Then, start to pray in whatever way feels right to you: by speaking out loud, thinking, singing, dancing, reading, or calling on the god(s) you’re praying to. You can ask for answers or strength, send good thoughts to others, give thanks, or even have a simple conversation. When you’re ready, end the prayer with a word, phrase, or gesture. Let the spirituality and peace you feel carry you through the rest of your day. | 2019-04-20T10:18:49 | https://m.wikihow.com/Pray |
Q: What is the greatest challenge facing the United States’ relationship with Canada?.
A: No two countries are more closely linked than the United States and Canada. Canada buys more U.S. exports than any other country in the world. Economic ties to Canada are responsible for nearly 5 percent of U.S. employment and 6.5 percent of GDP. Canada and the United States are partners in The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) and have institutionalized security mechanisms running several layers deep. The two countries have occasional differences over commercial or trans-boundary issues, but there are very few real problems. Canada and the United States have an interest in the defense and prosperity of their shared geographic space, but Canada has a distinctive way of achieving its foreign policy goals: “soft power diplomacy”, characterized by consultation, mediation and accommodation.
Q: Could Canada be a “Wing Man” for President-elect Donald Trump?
A: As Mr. Trump seeks to reconfigure the United States’ relationship with the world on interest based terms, a strengthened partnership with Canada could help the U.S. achieve its goals and ensure that promotion of interests is not misinterpreted as aggression by U.S. foreign partners.
Through its role as a middle power, Canada can have conversations with allies and adversaries that the U.S. simply cannot without provoking a defensive or hostile response. As a bridge builder, Canada can help the U.S. to develop the full spectrum of negotiating options through dialogue, exploration of options and consensus building with key interlocutors. In the language of negotiation theory, Canada’s more cooperative- approach can help to make the competitive bargaining strategies of the United States more successful.
The interests of the United States and Canada are closely aligned: security, prosperity, and opportunity for those excluded by traditional channels of influence. While Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and President-elect Donald Trump have distinctly different styles, the two, working in concert, may be a highly effective team for achieving joint objectives with third parties, such as the European Union and China.
Q: Will Justin Trudeau and Donald Trump be able to work together to further mutual interests?
A: Those who doubt Prime Minister Trudeau’s ‘sunny ways’ will be compatible with President-elect Trump would do well to remember that Mr. Trudeau is also his father’s son. Canada’s Prime Minister for nearly 15 years, Pierre Trudeau was outspoken, did not back away from confrontation, and maintained productive relationships with world leaders of all political stripes. | 2019-04-21T18:10:39 | https://www.wilsoncenter.org/article/what-does-the-world-expect-president-elect-trump-canada |
Residence possession includes one convenient point; the garage. The garage is actually added area which if used carefully can include a whole lot of value to the residence. Garages are utilized to protect the autos and for many individuals; they are even utilized as offices. Anyway, if you are still suffering with their garage door, you can go for a pro garage door repair near me to quickly solve you issue. Let us check out a few uses of a garage.
One of the uses of a garage is the antique security for your vehicles. When automobiles are inside the garage, they are shielded from vandalism, weather components and even burglary. This come to be much more so the more expensive an automobile is.
A garage can likewise be used for organisation functions. There are individuals that select not to park their vehicles inside the garage altogether and instead utilize that area to establish a workplace and job from residence. This has specifically come to be the rule with the development of numerous home-based businesses.
No matter what the garage is being utilized for, most of us agree that is requires to be secured and safe and secure. The most effective means to do this is to make sure that there is an appropriate garage door that functions as it should. One way of locating out whether your door is working well is to open it, pull it up and afterwards launch it. A good door ought to remain up. If it comes tumbling down in a loud collision, after that it requires repairs.
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Appointed to the post by President Barack Obama in 2015 and retained by Trump, McGurk said in his resignation letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that the militants were on the run, but not yet defeated, and that the premature pullout of US forces from Syria would create the conditions that gave rise to IS.
Shortly after news of McGurk’s resignation broke, Trump again defended his decision to pull all of the roughly 2,000 US forces from Syria in the coming weeks.
Although the civil war in Syria has gone on since 2011, the US did not begin launching airstrikes against IS until September 2014, and American troops did not go into Syria until 2015.
McGurk, whose resignation is effective Dec. 31, was planning to leave the job in mid-February after a US-hosted meeting of foreign ministers from the coalition countries, but he felt he could continue no longer after Trump’s decision to withdraw from Syria and Mattis’ resignation.
The withdrawal decision will fulfill Trump’s goal of bringing troops home from Syria, but military leaders have pushed back for months, arguing that the IS group remains a threat and could regroup in Syria’s long-running civil war. US policy has been to keep troops in place until the extremists are eradicated.
A former Supreme Court law clerk to the late Chief Justice William Rehnquist, McGurk worked as a lawyer for the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq after the 2003 US-led invasion and joined Bush’s National Security Council staff, where in 2007 and 2008, he was the lead US negotiator on security agreements with Iraq.
IS militants still hold a string of villages and towns along the Euphrates River in eastern Syria, where they have resisted weeks of attacks by the US-supported Syrian Democratic Forces to drive them out. The pocket is home to about 15,000 people, among them 2,000 IS fighters, according to US military estimates. | 2019-04-18T14:43:32 | https://www.starfeed.com/koreaherald/us-envoy-to-anti-is-coalition-quits-over-trump039s-syria-move/ |
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Sure it is! And, we’ve got the tips to show you how. From setting goals to tidying up as you go, here are six things highly organized people do that you should do too.
Highly organized people always have a plan in place and a reason why they do what they do. Whether it’s to create a more relaxing home environment or to speed up a morning routine, there’s always a reason for making that extra effort to stay organized. Once you understand why it’s important, taking the steps necessary to achieve organization gets easier with each passing day.
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Before you leave a room, take a few seconds to tidy up. Take that empty glass on your end table to the kitchen. If you’re heading to bed at the end of the day, fold up the blanket you were using and grab your slippers before turning off the lights. Doing these simple and hardly-time-consuming chores as you go greatly reduces the amount of clutter you have to deal with later.
One of the key factors to being organized is not holding onto things you no longer need or want. It’s very easy to accumulate a lot of stuff by shoving it in the back of a closet or in the rafters of a garage only to forget about it for the next several years. Organized people don’t let this happen, because they regularly get rid of the things they no longer use.
Whether you choose to recycle, donate, or otherwise dispose of the things you don’t need or want anymore is up to you, but plan a day once a month or so to purge your home of these things. If you haven’t used something in a long time, but you simply can’t part with it, consider putting it into a storage facility near you for safekeeping.
Just because you weren’t born an organizer doesn’t mean you can’t become one if you want. It’s a matter of setting your mind to the task and following through with the things highly organized people do listed above. | 2019-04-26T12:17:44 | https://www.boxie24.com/en-de/magazine/6-things-highly-organized-people-do/ |
Oil-exporting states of the (Persian) Gulf Cooperation Council are heading “in the right direction” to plug budgetary gaps thanks to fiscal reforms, but more change is still necessary, the International Monetary Fund said Tuesday.
“If they continue on this path in the next three to five years, the level of deficit will be less than 2%” of gross domestic product, IMF regional chief Jihad Azour told AFP in an interview.
“This is going in the right direction,” said Azour, who was in Dubai on Tuesday to launch the IMF update for its regional Economic Outlook for the Middle East and Central Asia.
Revenues in the oil-dependent economies of the six Arab states (Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, and Oman) have nosedived since the price of crude plummeted from its mid-2014 peak, forcing the monarchies to cut expenditure.
Such cuts have included energy subsidies in nations that have traditionally subsidized main services both for their own citizens and also for large populations of expatriate workers.
“Fiscal adjustment is still needed. Additional reforms are still needed, especially on the structural side,” Azour said.
This would be “in order to diversify the economy and to allow the economy to grow outside the oil sector, to create additional jobs as well as to be less dependent on the volatility in the oil market”, he added.
Saudi Arabia unexpectedly announced last week it would reinstate some allowances for civil servants that were cut last year as part of a reduction in expenditure.
Although this could be interpreted as a step backwards in the kingdom’s program to cut spending, the IMF regional chief called the measure “minor compared to the overall trend”.
“Whenever you have a large program of adjustment, you still need to adjust or tweak some measures here and there,” Azour said, referring to the kingdom’s “Vision 2030” strategy to diversify its economy and reduce public spending.
“The Saudi government made strong fiscal adjustments over the past two years and were able to reduce expenditure,” he said, adding that Riyadh has renewed its commitment to achieving a fiscal balance in 2020.
“Given the level of buffers that Saudi has, they can phase in a more progressive way their fiscal adjustment and they can space it over time,” Azour added. | 2019-04-26T06:53:15 | https://financialtribune.com/articles/world-economy/63572/imf-says-pgcc-states-should-accelerate-reforms |
If you’re short on budget, staff, time — or all three — a public-private partnership (P3) may be the tool you need to build your next facility. Here are answers to six common questions about P3s.
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What types of projects can be developed under a P3?
P3s are used to deliver a wide range of public facilities, public buildings and public infrastructure projects. Common examples include municipal facilities (fire stations, police, city hall, libraries, convention centers, and more), education, transportation, recreation, public utilities, wastewater treatment, redevelopment of neighborhoods and riverfront, public housing, energy savings programs, defense, telecommunications, and public healthcare projects.
Yes. In fact, 36 states have enacted laws enabling and supporting public-private partnerships. A P3 must be established properly and is generally considered a real estate transaction. Thus, it is not subject to the same selection requirements often used for design services or construction procurement.
Am I eligible for a P3?
P3 project delivery is a valuable development tool that may be considered by state and local municipalities, public works, non-profits, economic development boards, alumni boards, transportation boards, port authorities, school districts, public housing, military branches and federal agencies.
How is a P3 different from design-build or construction management services?
Design-build and construction management services are creative project delivery methods used primarily for the design and construction of capital improvements. A P3 is not a construction delivery process, it is a contractual arrangement between a public agency and a private sector entity that often includes the design, construction and financing of a public facility. Many times the maintenance and operation of the public facility are also included in the contract.
Why should I consider a P3?
There are many benefits to partnering with the private sector on a project. Here are a few. | 2019-04-20T18:40:27 | http://www.sehinc.com/news/frequently-asked-questions-about-public-private-partnerships |
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Have you ever visited Disney World? Within E.P.C.O.T. Center there is a strange place called the World Showcase. It consists of over the top tributes to various countries. You won’t find anything like the U.S. of A at the World Showcase (except for the workers, their attitudes, and the Almighty Dollar). No, each and every building, costume, and meal are straight out ETHNIC.
One day, while pondering Disney’s view of the world, I had an epiphany. The World Showcase is a model of the occidental unconscious. This is what we expect and strive for. We demand that every people group recognize and embrace the same values as ourselves. Is your country poor? Make T-Shirts for Americans! Prostitute your population to the needs of those who are better off. Sure, we want you to be true to your cultural heritage, but that means eating native foods on the weekend and wearing a sarong, in the name of all that is comforting don’t think differently!
Here we are, drowning in weight of our consumerism and we want to “help” other nations by bringing them into the same cycle.
Less of a rant next time. | 2019-04-25T06:12:30 | http://selfunfocused.blogspot.com/2004/05/westerners-want-cosplay.html |
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The Ohio Republican Party held the biggest annual fundraising dinner in the organization’s history on Friday – headlined by President Trump.
The Trump factor will certainly be part of this fall’s midterm elections and Ohio’s major statewide races this fall, with some experts predicting big wins for Democrats. However, guests at the annual state dinner say they’re unified behind their party.
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Regina says, “Many more doctors and scientists were looking forward to giving their testimony before the council at the next City Council Meeting but we were informed the Mayor canceled the meeting that was on the City Calendar for January 21st. The alternative now will be to send the testimonies to the City Council via the City Secretary, like Dr James S. Beck, MD, PhD already has done. Dr Beck was born in Dallas in his letter is says "Fluoridation of public water supplies has been for the most part a well-intentioned mistake. Its justification would be that it is ethical, safe and effective in prevention of cavities. It is now clear that it is none of these." Dr Beck's letter is attached to this press release. His and many other testimonies can be seen by going our web-site https://www.dogsagainstfluoridation.com ”.
Regina says, “The Media has been silent about the upcoming vote and the serious concerns about the neurotoxin that is being added to the Dallas water. I have pleaded with the reporters to stay and cover our presentations to the Council, but I have been told, they have been instructed not to stay. The people need to hear about how dangerous this chemical is and how unnecessary it is to be adding it to our water that already has .5ppm and (many days even higher amounts) in the raw untreated water. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vCgB_PGbTE#t=58 This is a practice that has been going on for 50years. It is hard to change status quo, but by presenting science and being persistent we have opened the eyes of many of the council-members. Councilman Adam Medrano only days ago stated he is “standing with Sheffie”. Councilman Medrano said to me “I have been listening”.
Regina says, “Many, many people in Dallas do not know about the vote on January 28th and the serious concerns about Fluoridation. The facts and science show the risks far outweigh the supposed benefits. I believe many wanted this vote to go under the radar. We need to try to bring more attention to it and put more pressure on the Media to report about this Council vote. We will be standing outside Channel 8/WFAA studios 2500 Victory Ave (Olive St), Dallas, TX 75219 Thursday January 22 at 3pm with signs saying “Report the News about Fluoridation” and we invite others to join us. Details can be found on our web-site along with our email and phone number. I believe many like Adam Medrano have been listening, and like him they are on the council to serve the community. They will realize doing the right thing, would have to mean voting no on January 28th”.
I hope you will consider the following brief argument on the matter of fluoridation of your public water supply. I am a physician and scientist (biophysics). I have doctorates from Washington University School of Medicine (St. Louis) in medicine and the University of California (Berkeley) in biophysics. I studied at Rice Institute (Houston; now Rice University). I am a co-author of a 2010 book on fluoridation. I was born in Dallas.
Fluoridation of public water supplies has been for the most part a well-intentioned mistake. Its justification would be that it is ethical, safe and effective in prevention of cavities. It is now clear that it is none of these.
It is generally accepted by health authorities and scientists that the necessary way to determine whether a procedure is safe and effective is by randomized control trials. No such trial exists for fluoridation as a preventive of cavities. The four early trials in the United States, Canada and New Zealand had faults varying from unacceptable methodology to outright fraud (fraud in the New Zealand case). And no good control study has been done—at least none have been published in the scientific literature.
However, it has been observed on the basis of huge amounts of data that the occurrence of cavities does not decrease due to fluoridation. For example the World Heath Organization collected data from the early 1960s to 2004 from 18 industrialized countries. This data shows a steady decrease in prevalence of cavities in all 18 countries. But only four of those countries were fluoridated; fourteen were not. Clearly other changes, such as better diet and fluoridated toothpaste introduced in the 1970s were among the likely causes. Now it is generally accepted, even by promoters of fluoridation, that any protection of the teeth, minimal at best, is due to a topical action on the tooth enamel, not due to swallowing fluoride. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Dental Association admitted this in 1999.
In contrast with the lack of demonstration of effectiveness there are many studies, published in peer-reviewed journals, that show that stopping fluoridation is not followed by an increase in incidence of cavities but rather by either no change or a reduction in incidence.
Though no general toxicological studies have been published on the chemicals used in fluoridation, there is an abundance of credible papers on particular toxic effects. Associations of fluoride exposure in drinking water with many adverse conditions have been observed. Defects in reproductive processes, in teeth, in bone, in neurological development, and in thyroid function are particularly certain. Others have been observed with less certainty. This variety of toxic effects is not surprising since fluoride is well recognized to interfere with the function of enzymes, the proteins that catalyze (accelerate) biochemical reactions in all tissues. Also fluoride interferes with signaling across cell membranes—for example, in the case of hormones—a process essential for cellular functions in all organs and tissues.
The canons of medical ethics include strict conditions on what must accompany medical procedures. Some requirements are: informed consent, the option to stop the procedure, and monitoring of effects. None of these conditions are met in fluoridation of a public water supply. In fact, a council that implements fluoridation is doing what a physician or dentist can not do, which is to admnister a medicine without having examined the recipient, without having the consent of the recipient, and without observing the results.
Ethics touches law here, but I hopefully leave that to your informed conclusions.
Let me add a few points not embedded in the above. (1) Fluoridation chemicals are medicines. They are administered to prevent dental caries (cavities), a disease. (2) Fluoride is not a nutrient. It is not essential or helpful to any biochemical, physiological, or developmental process of the human body. Consequently fluoride is not a dietary supplement. (3) Controlling the concentration of fluoride in a water supply does not control the dose a person gets. The dose is the amount per day and the amount of water individuals ingest varies hugely. (4) There are groups, large and small, in a population that are more sensitive to exposure to fluoride. These groups include infants, the elderly, people with kidney disease, diabetics, people with low-iodine diets and others. (5) There are ways to prevent cavities that are matters of free choice: a good diet including adequate vitamin D, good dental hygiene, and occasional professional care. Currently there exist public programs involving these measures that have been very successful.
Finally, if you have questions you would like to ask me, feel free to contact me by e-mail. I am willing and ready to say what references and consultations have led me to the conclusions that fluoridation is not safe, not ethical, and not effective.
In this Dallas Morning News “Letter to the Editor” (Jan 23, 2015), Vincent Zanfagna describes his knowledge from involved family members about how WATER FLUORIDATION first came on the scene. And he goes into the TOXICITY, because his uncle had to deal with people exposed to excessive Fluoride.
Rudolph Bush hits the nail on the head when it comes to fluoride — science and evidence must always prevail. As president of the Dallas County Dental Society, representing nearly 1,400 dentists in the area, it is my duty to support health, safety and facts. The fact of the matter is those of us in the dental profession could sit back, allow the end of water fluoridation in our city and enjoy the financial benefits. The fact of the matter is that such a decision would inevitably increase dental decay in our city and mean a whole lot more fillings and treatments. The fact of the matter is, we’re not in this fight for the money.
First and foremost, we are obligated to health and safety. It is our responsibility as health care providers to support evidence-based practices that are in the best interest of our patients and community. Equally, it is our city leaders’ obligation to trust the experts over activists. Junk science, viral videos and Facebook groups can be persuasive. But making decisions about the health and well-being of our city’s population should be entrusted to the educated, evidence-backed professionals whose commitment is to health.
… But were they misled?
We were sold a bill of goods 70 years ago based on a hunch, manufactured “trials” and marketing. My uncle, Dr. Phil Zanfagna, was in charge of a 1,000-bed military hospital during World War II. He worked with soldiers, scientists and chemists who used fluoride to manufacture the atomic bomb. He was president of the International Society of Allergists and the International Association of Fluorine Chemists. He tested fluorine compounds for 10 pharmaceutical companies.
He knew fluoride, and he recognized the symptoms of fluoride toxicity. He opposed the implementation of community water fluoridation. My uncle co-wrote Fluoridation and Truth Decay in 1974, describing back-room deals between R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. and Alcoa, working within the government to hide the deadly effects of smelting with fluoride throughout America. With community water fluoridation in place, they averted billions of dollars in settlements, and never again had to worry about disposing of this deadly toxin.
The corporations concocted a lie, marketing fluoride as a dental nutrient, using dentists as their shills. They did not advertise the toxic effects to brain and body — ADD, Alzheimer’s, arthritis, bone diseases, thyroid disorders and dental fluorosis.
My uncle was concerned about informed consent. Dallas should be, too.
~~ The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) passed a resolution opposing fluoridation.
~~ Andrew Young, former Atlanta mayor and U.N. ambassador during the Clinton administration.
~~ Dr. Gerald L. Durley, a clinical psychologist, environmentalist, and Pastor of the Providence Baptist Church in Atlanta.
~~ Rev. Bernice A. King, a pastor, attorney, and daughter of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
~~ Dr. Alveda King, the niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
~~ Rev. William Owens, President of the Coalition of African American Pastors.
I am concerned about your upcoming Dallas City Council decision regarding water fluoridation. I am a board certified Family physician practicing in California and maintain medical licenses in three states.
I prescribed fluoride for more than twenty five years believing that I was protecting children’s teeth.
I have taken the time to read the literature, the research of globally respected toxicologists and neuroscientists, the consensus of foreign investigative scientific bodies and our own National Research Council (2006). By complying with a reckless public health policy to alleviate dental neglect, I exposed the brains of my young patients to a neurotoxin that harmed them over their lifetimes. I contributed to more illness in the populations that I served. We all did.
Systemic (swallowed) fluoride does not prevent cavities. Dental hygiene and nutritious diet does.
Population studies indicate that children are already “overdosed” from total fluoride ingestion.
Fluoride harms cells generating protein-mineral matrices. Fluoride promotes fractures in mature teeth and bones.
Fluoride corrupts collagen and cartilage, is associated with painful arthritic conditions.
Water fluoridation has been found to increase cancer rates in animal and human studies.
Fluoride interferes with immune function and contributes to autoimmune disease.
Fluoride is an endocrine disruptor and impacts fertility (reduced), sexual development (earlier), glucose metabolism (diabetes), thyroid function (hypothyroidism), heart disease and stroke (risks increased).
Fluoride is used universally as a rodenticide, a mammalian enzyme poison. The human body has no use for fluoride; in fact, it tries to minimize fluoride in breast milk.
Fluoride is a recognized neurotoxin and impairs brain function and intelligence.
Water fluoridation is a profitable remedy for industrial toxic waste disposal.
All exposures to fluoride, toxic chemicals, and harmful heavy metals, should be avoided wherever possible. According to trend indicators of the Center for Disease Control, one in three Dallas boys born today will be diagnosed with autism; one in six children will struggle with a developmental disability. Mental illness, sleep disorders, and neurodegenerative diseases are increasing at alarming rates. We are losing more precious minds, more functional adults every year. The ultimate cost for all of us is devastating and truly incalculable.
Thank you for appreciating the whole child; for protecting your family and community. Thank you for voting against increasing fluoride in Dallas city water.
A) Spend $1 million for a chemical waste product to be administered as an unapproved drug without the informed consent of people taking it in order to increase the naturally occurring neurotoxin fluoride from 0.5 ppm to 0.7 ppm for no apparent purpose, since it hasn't been proven it provides any additional cavity protection.
B) Save the $1 million and let people make do with the 0.5 ppm water they get already, notwithstanding we will be deprived of the additional lead, arsenic and uranium we were getting as a bonus with the hydrofluorosilicic acid.
Maybe we could get the chemical industries to just sell us the lead, arsenic, and uranium. It would be a win win. We still get our fluoride (albeit 0.2 ppm less), but can keep up with the daily dosages of the other poisons for no doubt a lot less money. Someone call the Mayor.
of Santa Monicans for Safe Drinking Water Coalition (2002-09), I wish to join with other informed safe-clean water advocates by respectfully asking for your unanimous vote on Jan 28 2015 to END artificial fluoridation in Dallas.
Political ploys and weak claims aside, sound precise proof for the longtime environ-health safety for the mass consumption of fluoridation's hazmat products appears to be egregiously absent.
(or query) of mine, I wish they could please check in with the whole (28 min) video.
Thank you kindly for listening - and possibly for watching.
Thank you for your e-mail of 7 May 2014.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), a low level of fluoride in drinking water provides protection against dental caries. The WHO’s "Guidelines for Drinking-water Quality" published in 2011 has reaffirmed the health-based guideline value of 1.5 mg/L for fluoride in drinking water after an extensive review of scientific studies and literature.
A large number of epidemiological studies have been conducted in many countries concerning the effects of long-term exposure to fluoride. There is so far no conclusive scientific evidence on any health hazard of long-term exposure to a very low amount of fluoride in drinking water.
Dallas Raw Source Water (before added Fluoride) has that amount of 0.5 ppm or 0.5 mg/L of Fluoride.
Hong Kong (population over 7 million) TRIES to use this amount and no more as a result of their scientific research and WHO, the World Health Organization. | 2019-04-22T10:18:03 | https://www.dogsagainstfluoridation.com/statements |
You know what’s probably really unhelpful for a client or business owner? Being told to write “great content.” Because what does that mean? How is that actionable?
We’ve all been told that creating unique, awesome content is our key to visibility gold and customer loyalty. But how do we do it, consistently? Awesome content isn’t going to write itself. It doesn’t just happen. You have to figure it out.
This is how you write it.
Getting that Great Content ball rolling means first understanding what your customers are looking for both in content form and function. You don’t even have to be a mind reader to find out! By using simple tools, content creators (and even content creator wannabes) can decipher exactly what customers are searching for, how often they’re searching for it and the specific phrases they’re using to look for the information.
Ubersugget is a great tool to help you understand what consumers are searching for. You give Ubersuggest a search term to use as a base, and it works off it, adding new keyword ideas in all directions. This can help you find related queries and learn more about the intent behind them.
For example, one of my most favorite clients is a nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing awareness of problem gambling. When the client first came to us, we knew content was going to play a significant role in our plan to increase awareness.
To help us understand what their audience was searching for around this topic, we used several tools including Ubersuggest. By entering [problem gambling] into our keyword tool, we’re able to see lots of opportunities for content. Many of which have since been implemented into our content marketing strategy.
Another tool I really like for content ideas is Google Keyword Planner. While this tool is free to use, it does require having a Google AdWords account. However, you don’t have to put any money in there. Just create the account.
Understanding what your audience is searching for and segmenting topics is the basis of any content strategy.
Bonus Tip: To really understand the needs of your customers, interview whoever answers your phones and support emails. They know!
Hey, what’s the point of your customers using the web for social conversations if you can’t stalk them and use those conversations as competitive intel, right?
And like all delicious things, stalking customers on social media comes in a variety of different flavors.
There’s Social Q&A stalking which happens on sites like Quora. Here, potential customers are looking for answers on a variety of different topics related to your business. You get to hear in their own words what they’re struggling with, what’s important, and what they’re looking to accomplish.
Bonus Tip: If you’re a super savvy business, you may even decide you want to hop into these conversations and be their expert.
There is Advanced Search stalking that happens on sites like Twitter, where customers are talking directly to one another, seeking out expertise.
Because these conversations are so freeform, it provides a unique opportunity to get those natural language searches and identify the topics your customers will most relate to. That last question pictured above may seem like an oddball thing to cover (because it is), but it may relate you to your audience in a fun way. Or, at least, serve as a link-friendly piece of content.
You can also talk your audience via Business Conversations that happen on LinkedIn, by identifying the skills and expertise important to a particular industry. Or via Lifestyle Information shared on Facebook to clue you into what television shows or characters your audience relates to, giving you a list of references to build content from.
When it comes to information gleaned from social media intelligence, you’re bound only by your creativity.
Mimic a searcher and head to the search engine results to see what information already exists for your topic. Based on our social research from above we already know the types of questions our customers have. Throw them into Googlethe search engine of your choice and see what comes up.
Is what’s there adequate? Would it answer your question?
How could it be improved or added to?
Did it “work” last time?
What buying stages are being addressed?
What answers do you still need?
What keyword opportunities could you dominate?
Why would a consumer leave that page? Where would they be going?
What format does the content take?
How could you be different and shake things up?
With your analytics information in one hand and search in the other, you’re able to match query intent with the proposed web answer. If it doesn’t work, create something that does.
I don’t want to get all hippy-dippy right here at the end, but you aren’t going to create amazing content by staring at a computer all day and only crunching the data. You have to get out of your bubble, your box, and sometimes your own way and let the content come to you.
Get inspired. And then find ways to stay inspired whether that means becoming a content-sharing ninja and exposing yourself to lots of great stuff, or proactively boosting creativity to keep that creative fuse alight. Don’t let it go dormant.
Awesome content, the type users can’t help but share, doesn’t happen by itself. It takes research, understanding and the creative spark to tie it all together. | 2019-04-25T08:08:27 | https://searchenginewatch.com/sew/how-to/2291151/how-to-write-great-content-because-awesome-content-wont-write-itself |
mySupermarket is an independent price comparison site. Established in 2006, our aim is to help customers save money on their grocery shopping. mySupermarket collects prices directly from the main UK supermarkets and our site is updated every day, which means that we have all the latest prices and promotions available for you. Our unique money saving features compare prices as you fill your basket, allowing you to switch to a cheaper product or even a cheaper supermarket!
Around 5 million people visit our site each month. Across the UK, over 200,000 households regularly use mySupermarket to save money on their grocery shop. We are proud to work for the customer to ensure they get the best value for their household, on each and every shop.
We want your experience using mySupermarket to be enjoyable and positive. In order to ensure that you have the best possible experience on mySupermarket, we ask that you review, understand and comply with these policies In addition, we have put together answers to a wide range of frequently asked questions, including “how-to” questions; you can find those in the Help Centre.
“app” : the mobile application of mySupermarket, iPhone version and android version.
“business days”: “London” business days, that is, business days in London, England (and which may differ from business days in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland).
“Help Centre” – the online resource containing all FAQs, policies and information for shoppers.
“mySupermarket”, “MSM”, “we” or “us”: mySupermarket Limited, Company No 5920495 registered in England with our registered office at Lower Ground Floor, 1 Great Cumberland Place London W1H 7AP. mySupermarket Limited is the creator and owner of the site and provider of the services.
“Service Centre” – mySupermarket’s small but very dedicated customer support team. You can learn more about the Service Centre and how to contact them in the Help Centre .
“shopper”, “user”, “customer” or “you”: A person using any of the mySupermarket sites or services.
“site”: mySupermarket.co.uk, however it may be accessed (e.g. via a browser or by using our app).
We endeavour to respond to emails within 3 business days.
Please note that our Customer Support Team are ready and eager to help you, but certain issues are the responsibility of the retailer. In this case, you are advised to contact the retailer directly.
All issues related to an order you have placed or a purchase you have made from a retailer must be brought directly to them. If you have an account with a retailer, you are able to contact their Service Centre for help and assistance.
You can find details of how to contact all of the retailers listed on our site here.
While we do our best to avoid them, or to spot them when they occur, errors do happen. A substantial amount of the information on our site is received or collected from third party sites. Errors happen to them and on their sites as well! As such, we do not guarantee that there will never be any errors or omissions and we do not accept liability if an error or omission does occur.
If you have found an error anywhere please contact our Service Centre on support@mysupermarket.com .
We will do our best to correct any errors or omissions as soon as practical after being notified of them.
Unregistered users are welcome to browse our site, but most services (including adding products to a basket) are available only to registered users. Registration is free, simple and you only need to register once to use all of our services, including those offered via the app. We reserve the right to decline a new registration or cancel a registration at any time. Please note that you may have only one registered account. If you are found to have multiple registered accounts, we reserve the right to close all or some of these registered accounts, at our sole discretion and without advance or any notice.
When you register, you will be asked to provide your full name (first name and last name), your postcode, your email address and chosen password. We request this information in order to provide our services. For example, your postcode allows us to identify which supermarkets deliver to your area and what products are available at those supermarkets. Products in particular supermarkets do sometimes vary by locality. We do not ask for sensitive personal details such as gender or ethnicity.
You can also register for mySupermarket through Facebook. When you click “Register” you will be given an online form that includes the option “Connect using Facebook”. You may be asked to provide additional information, such as your postcode. If you select this option and register through Facebook, we may receive access to information that is stored in your Facebook account.
Please note that all information provided must be true, complete and accurate. When your information changes, please update the data by updating the details in the ‘My Account’ page. Furnishing false data including false names, addresses and contact details or other information is prohibited, as is using someone else’s data when registering for the site. We reserve the right to close accounts of individuals found to be providing false data or using another person’s data.
For more information on how to register, please see our Help Centre.
When you register for mySupermarket you may choose your own password. It is important to keep your password confidential. If you suspect unauthorised use of your email address or any breach of security, please notify us immediately. If you give your username and password to another person, you are agreeing to their use of the mySupermarket site and service on your behalf. You alone are responsible for the confidentiality of your password and any information that can be accessed using that password.
You may change your password at any time via the “My Account” section of the site. You will need your old password in order to set a new one. If you forget your password, you can reset a new password by clicking “Forgotten your password?” in the “Sign In” form.
For more information on how to change or reset your password, see the Help Centre.
The Personal Details section of the My Account Page is where you can view a portion of the personal data we keep for you. You may check the accuracy of this data, change it or delete it here. You will need to enter your current password in order to access or amend any information (including to change your password). Please note that some data (for example, your postcode) is required, and while you may update this information, you will not be able to delete it entirely.
For information on how to view and update your Personal Details, please see the Help Centre.
You are responsible for ensuring that your delivery address has been entered correctly. Please note that currently we allow for only one delivery address per user account. If you wish to have your shopping delivered to a different address, you may use the form presented during the checkout process to enter an updated delivery address. The latest delivery address you fill in during the checkout process will be saved in the “My Account” section.
For more information about delivery, please see the Help Centre.
We request your email address in order to communicate with you. We may send you service or marketing emails. You may unsubscribe from marketing and promotional emails by changing the settings in the “Preferences” section of “My Account”. You may also unsubscribe directly by clicking “unsubscribe” on any marketing email you receive. Please note that even when you unsubscribe, you will continue to receive service emails.
allow us to confirm your shop details as part of validating and paying Cashback .
If you do not yet have an account with an individual retailer, you can set one up via mySupermarket. Please remember that each retailer has its own policies (listed on its website), and any purchases you make from a retailer will be in accordance with that retailer’s policies.
You can find more information on how to manage your online store accounts, how to import favourites, how to set up an account with a retailer via mySupermarket and other information related to retailers in our Help Centre.
Currently, all the most recent versions of Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome and Safari are supported. If you experience performance issues while using mySupermarket, try to update your browser’s version or switch to a different one. If this doesn’t help, please contact our Service Centre. The list of browsers that we support is subject to change in the future without notice or warning.
The mySupermarket site enables you to browse, compare prices and create orders which you can place with any of the retailers on our site and shopping lists which you can fill at the retailer’s physical store. Our goal is to ensure that you get the best price available from the leading retailers, no matter how you like to complete your shop!
We collect the data you see on our site from a variety of sources.
A significant portion of our product information and images are provided by Brandbank, a leading digital content company. We may also obtain images or data from the manufacturers or retailers themselves. Other information we provide is received or derived from sources such as the National Health Service or the Food Standards Agency. Naturally, we collect some data ourselves. Some of the images have been taken by us and we collect some product information directly (e.g. from “back of pack” information).
While we do our best (and the sources from whom we receive or collect information do their best) to ensure that there are no errors in the product information and images we present and that they are up-to-date, errors do occur and information changes. So, for instance, the nutritional information or ingredients of a particular product might be changed by a manufacturer, but it might take a few days before that is reflected on the website. As such, it is your responsibility to check nutritional information and other details.
Price data for the online retailers is collected directly from their sites on a daily basis.
Price data for Aldi is collected for us once a week by an independent company that specialises in the collection of retail pricing information. While we believe that this is frequent enough that you will receive reasonably accurate pricing information, we update less frequently than we do for retailers with an online service. As such, the prices we display may have changed in the physical store between the time of the last update and the time you visit Aldi to make a purchase.
On occasion, the price of an item in an actual store will be different from the price of the same item in their online retailer website. This is because occasionally a specific branch will have its own pricing policy and not honour the online prices.
While we do our make reasonable efforts to ensure that all prices are accurate and up-to-date, we are collecting the data periodically (and not on real-time basis) and from third parties over whom we have no control. As such, there may be differences between the pricing information we provide and the final price charged by the retailer. It is your responsibility to verify the final prices charged, either when confirming your online shop or completing your in-store purchase. We do not accept any responsibility for any pricing variances.
Delivery slot data is based on information we collect at that time from the retailer’s website. However, you should remember that delivery time slots indicated as being available are subject to a time lag between your inputting your requested slot, and our communicating with the retailer’s website and confirming from there that the delivery slot has been accepted or confirmed. On occasion, you may find that a time that was free when the information was displayed is then not free by the time you come to book that delivery slot.
Certain of the retailers may offer loyalty point programmes (“Loyalty Points”), which award shoppers a number of points based on basket size, items purchased and other parameters as set by the retailer. As part of our service, we present an estimate of the number of Loyalty Points you may earn on your basket. However, as we are not connected with the programmes, this is only an estimate, and it may not be correct. You must check your Loyalty Points balance and/or the number of Loyalty Points received on any purchase or product with the retailer running the program.
“Traffic lights” are a food labelling system set and regulated by the Food Standards Agency. Products are assigned a color label based on the levels of fat, sugar and salt in the food. For more information about what the labels mean, please see here or look at our Health Display Policy.
For information about Sugar Swaps, a third party campaign run by Public Health England, please see here.
As you fill your basket, mySupermarket will check what you have chosen and will suggest alternatives for items you have selected. These are proposed either to improve the value of the basket or to replace unavailable items.
Our money-saving and replacement suggestions are based on our ability to compare and match goods. We do this by using algorithms intended to offer an honest comparison based on a number of factors related to each of the products, so that you get a close match to the items you had originally selected. The variables include similarity, price, popularity and availability. The system finds the closest alternative based on the lowest price. We try to exclude subjective factors and subjective views where we can, so as to operate in accordance with honest practices and to retain our impartiality to always offer an impartial alternative. However, although we operate in this manner, you may disagree with our alternative offerings and replacements for a variety of reasons, not least because in the real world, some people (including you!) may have subjective views. For example, you may always prefer one particular brand of cola to another brand of cola – in which case you will not be happy with our alternative offerings and replacements. However, we assume for the purpose of offering alternative offerings and replacements that no such personal preferences exist (unless you have personalised your use of the service to take account of your personal preferences). Therefore, for example, (in absence of any such personalisation by you) you may be offered one brand of cola in place of another brand of cola – if, for example, that other brand is cheaper.
You are always free to ignore suggested alternatives and to reject automatically replaced equivalents for unavailable items. It is your responsibility to check that the alternative offerings and replacements are acceptable to you. You must always satisfy yourself that you are happy to transact with a retailer on the basis of any alternative offerings and replacements after you have considered the matter and that you take full responsibility for this. Although this is relevant in all areas, it may be particularly relevant for an alternative offering or replacement for any medicinal products for which you may choose to transact with a retailer.
mySupermarket is constantly tracking and analysing prices so that we can present you with the best deals. These include Top Offers and Savvy Buys. “Top Offers” are offers in which a product is being discounted by the retailer. The item will be priced at least 15% less per unit, based on the original and discounted prices quoted by the retailer for that promotion. “Savvy Buys” are products that are at least 30% lower than the average price for that product across all stores for the last 12 months. When calculating Top Offers and Savvy Buys, we try to exclude subjective factors and subjective views where we can, so as to operate in accordance with honest practices and to retain our impartiality. We try to always present Top Offers and Savvy Buys impartially.
There may be a large number of Top Offers and Savvy Buys at any given time; some will be more relevant to you than others. In order to make our site more helpful, we use various filtering algorithms to select Offers, Top Offers and Savvy Buys which we believe are suitable and appropriate to display to you. This may be based on your preferences, where you have personalised your use of the site (e.g. set sorting or set up favourites). Alternatively, it may be based on what you have purchased in the past. You may disagree with our presentation of a particular selection of Offers and/or Top Offers and/or Savvy Buys, due to your personal preferences. You can always view a listing of all Offers, Top Offers and Savvy Buys that are available in your selected retailer by clicking on Offers in the top navigation bar.
You can learn more about Offers, Top Offers and Savvy Buys in the Help Centre .
You may be given an option to “split” a basket between various retailers, in order to take advantage of lower prices for specific items from specific retailers. For example, you might do this to take advantage of specials at one retailer while buying basic items at another. Please bear in mind that while our comparison service might show that this will result in savings, it does not take into account additional costs such as additional delivery fees or, if you are using our service to do your shopping at the retailer itself, the additional time you may need to spend in going to more than one retailer. As always, you should review the final total of any baskets before you complete an order with any Supermarket.
You can earn Cashback or get discounts on your shopping! You can learn more about this in our Help Centre and in our Cashback and Vouchers Policy.
A Featured Store (which was known in the past as a Mini Store or a Brand Store) is a page which has been sponsored by individual manufacturers, brands or other third parties, and which features their products or services. Featured Stores may change from time to time.
We may give you the opportunity to subscribe to a particular Featured Store. By subscribing to a particular Featured Store, you agree to receive emails from mySupermarket which have been sponsored by the relevant manufacturer, brand or third party, and which contain promotional and other information related to their products and services and which may include special offers. You will always have the option to unsubscribe from any Featured Store, in which case you will no longer receive these emails.
By subscribing to a particular Featured Store, you may also be eligible to participate in promotions offered by mySupermarket or by the Featured Store’s sponsor. Participation will be subject to the terms and conditions specific to that promotion which shall be made available to you on the Featured Store page.
For more information and to find out more about how to subscribe to or unsubscribe from a Featured Store, please see here.
For more information about Promotions, please see below.
mySupermarket may run competitions, free prize draws or other promotions on the site. Any such promotion will be subject to additional terms and conditions that will be made available to together with the promotion information..
We may also allow third parties to run promotions on the site. We will always tell you whether a relevant promotion is a promotion run by mySupermarket or by a third party. These promotions will be run by third parties unaffiliated to mySupermarket (for example, a retailer or a manufacturer) and therefore, third party promotions are not under our management or control. By entering or participating in any third party promotion, you agree to be bound by the relevant terms and conditions provided by such third party (which will be made available to you together with the information on the promotion itself).
mySupermarket does not endorse, sponsor or administer any third party promotion. We are not responsible for the provision of any prizes or winnings in any third party promotion. Any and all claims you have with respect to any third party promotion, any prizes you wish to claim, and any notices that must be sent must be directed to the applicable third party managing that third party promotion. We have no obligation to provide the third party with any claims or notices which you send to us. We retain the right, at any time and without notice, to remove any third party promotion from the site at any time and for any reason, without any liability to you or any third party.
In order to make shopping on mySupermarket as user-friendly and convenient as possible, we have created various opportunities for you to personalise and streamline your shopping experience.
view special offers that have been selected for you based on previous purchases.
For more information on how to use this service and manage your lists and preferences please see the Help Centre.
You may set a ‘Price Alert” on a product if you wish to receive a notification when the price on the selected product or service drops by a minimum amount at any of the retailers. The minimum drop required is determined by mySupermarket and may change from time to time. You may discontinue receiving Price Alerts with respect to any or all products and services at any time.
For information on how to set and manage price alerts, please see the Help Centre.
For more information on importing your favourites, please see the Help Centre.
You may choose to view products or services based on different criteria. For example, you may search alphabetically, by brand, popularity, price or other criteria. We will try and display products and services based on your chosen criteria; however, our algorithms make certain assumptions and incorporate certain internal considerations. This means that the order in which you see the results of your search may not be objective and we might not order products in the same way you might have done so.
In addition, we may choose to display certain products and services depending on criteria chosen by us and in a different order than you have requested. This might include “sponsored” products, which we are being paid to promote or other commercial reasons (e.g. if we are participating in an affiliate program); Savvy Buys, and Top Offers (including the Cashback Programme) that we wish to promote); and/or according to your browsing and shopping history.
You can learn more about sorting options and how to sort in our Help Centre.
You can filter products and services based on certain “dietary and lifestyle” categories, including whether certain products are organic, gluten-free, satisfy certain specified dietary needs or requirements, or may be considered fair-trade or environmentally friendly goods. We have selected categories based on what we think will be most useful to our users and based on what users expect to see on supermarket websites; we want our site to be as user-friendly and helpful as possible. At the same time, we cannot add every category that users might wish. As such, the inclusion (or non-inclusion) of any category should not under any circumstances be taken as either a recommendation to purchase such products or services, or our endorsement (or non-endorsement) of any particular category or lifestyle choice.
We make good faith efforts to ensure that this selection and filter process reflects generally accepted standards for such categories. At the same time, we receive our information from third parties and we do not guarantee that any products or services that we indicate as satisfying any such category actually comply with any particular definition of such category. As always, you are solely responsible for any purchases that you make using the service or otherwise; please check them to make sure that they do comply.
You can learn more about dietary and lifestyle categories and how to use filters in our Help Centre.
For more information on any aspect of the order completion process, including technical instructions, please see our Help Centre.
While mySupermarket will facilitate your purchase from a retailer (and hopefully allow you to save some money while doing so) we are not a party to the transaction. We do not process the payments for these purchases and we neither request nor retain nor have access to any details of your credit cards and/or debit cards and/or other payment forms. You will need to provide these details to the retailer directly. You can do this after we send your basket over to the retailer’s third party website; at this point you will be asked by the retailer to provide payment details. All payment is conducted directly through the third party site of the retailer and not through mySupermarket. You are responsible for transmitting all payments due to retailers on the terms agreed with the relevant retailer and we shall have no responsibility for transmission of payments to a retailer. Your order is only complete once you have done this and have received an email confirmation directly from the retailer.
If you have a problem regarding payment, you must contact the retailer directly. Retailer contact information can be found on the individual retailer websites, or you may find a listing in our Help Centre.
For more on payments to retailers, please see our Help Centre.
If you have sent your basket from mySupermarket to the retailer’s website but you have not yet paid for your order, your existing order will be in your basket on the retailer’s website. You can open up your order and add/change items. Alternatively, you can simply change your basket on mySupermarket and resend it for checkout at your chosen store. The new basket will simply override the previous basket.
Any amendment or cancellation to an order for which you have already paid may only be addressed to the retailer. Your order number will appear in the confirmation email received from the retailer. You will need your order number in order to cancel an order. Contact details for the retailer can be found in the confirmation email, on the retailer’s website or here. Cancellation or order amendments are always subject to the retailer’s terms and conditions.
For more information on any order cancellation and amendments, please see our Help Centre.
mySupermarket does not offer any delivery. However, we facilitate your booking a delivery slot through our site functionality so that you can receive your order from the retailer of your choice. However, the actual delivery is made by the retailer alone and NOT mySupermarket. As such, to track, change or cancel your delivery, you must contact the retailer directly or put through a change through your account at the retailer’s online store. Likewise, any questions regarding any problems with a delivery (e.g. the delivery did not arrive or was received late) must be directed to the retailer.
You may book a delivery time slot from mySupermarket.co.uk or from the retailer’s own site. Once the slot is marked ‘booked’ you have that slot reserved for 3 hours in order to complete your shop. If you wait longer than 3 hours the booking will expire and you will have to re-book it.
Delivery costs are determined by the retailer who you are shopping from. Costs are not the same in all retailers, at all times of day and in all areas of the UK.
For more information on any delivery and how to manage delivery slot bookings, please see our Help Centre.
Use of the app is subject to the same terms, conditions and policies as apply to the use of the site and services in general. Where there are differences (e.g. Cashback) this has been noted.
For information on how to use the mySupermarket app, please see the Help Centre. | 2019-04-19T10:44:03 | http://help.mysupermarket.co.uk/index.php/knowledgebase/mysupermarket-shopper-policies/ |
A social worker is required for the Assessment and Intake team in Tewkesbury. The Assessment & Intake Team has responsibility for receiving work from the Contact Team (the front door team) and to process requests appropriately including a timely assessment of risk and a responsive safeguarding service. The team completes initial assessments and fact finding to determine Care Act eligibility and/or to signpost or provide services to mitigate risks. | 2019-04-22T10:21:25 | https://www.4recruitmentservices.com/jobs/qualified-social-worker-assessment-and-intake-tewkesbury |
Spirit Airlines. Fly With Us And…We’ll See!
Get a good laugh out of Spirit Airlines. | 2019-04-21T00:33:18 | https://pizzainmotion.boardingarea.com/tag/frontier/ |
Summer is ramping up, as are the number of events we’re hosting. In June alone, we’re expecting a whopping 8,000 delegates to come through our doors! Our mission? To show each guest our warm, east coast hospitality, provide them with a memorable event experience and inspire them to love Nova Scotia like a local.
From our Pop-Up Program to the use of local products featured on our menu, it’s easy to give our guests a taste of the east, but since we’re on the doorstep of downtown, we want to show our guests what’s happening beyond our facility. So what do locals love most about Nova Scotia?
Locals’ love for patios could come as a result of those long, cold winters we endure, but it’s also because we have some of the BEST patios east of Montreal.
If you’re looking to snag a spot in the sun to grab food and drinks with other delegates, take a walk along the newly redesigned Argyle St., the Halifax boardwalk and Spring Garden Rd.
Check out some of these patio top picks from Discover Halifax.
With the first signs of summer also comes the craving to be outside as much as possible. If you’re looking for a breath of fresh air, check out some of our province’s most popular walking and hiking destinations along our rolling orchards and expansive coastline, like Point Pleasant Park, Shubie Park, Cape Split Provincial Park Reserve and Balancing Rock.
If relaxing near the water is more your speed, you can find a cozy waterfront hammock to take in our refreshing sea breeze, or curl your toes in the sand at Lawrencetown Beach – only 30 minutes from downtown.
They say the grass is always greener on the other side, but locals know that Nova Scotia has something special to offer. With so many unique attractions in our province, like Halifax Citadel National Historic Site, Lunenburg UNESCO World Heritage Site, Peggy’s Cove and the Wolfville Magic Winery Bus which tours our many wineries, locals can be found taking day-trips around the province to discover what’s in their own backyard.
Need help finding the place that will make you love Nova Scotia like a local? Ask our delegate experience team! They’ll be happy to guide you. | 2019-04-20T01:13:26 | https://www.halifaxconventioncentre.com/whats-happening/2018/love-ns-like-a-local |
The town will now consider changing its animal ordinance.
A Berlin woman is trying to keep her pet goat despite a town ordinance.
A dwarf goat named Benny has been living in a backyard pen at 452 New Britain Road in Berlin for five years, but in December, his owner was notified that her quarter acre of land is too small for a goat.
Zoning regulations require three acres, but Sheri Sala is fighting to keep Benny and got some unexpected help on Tuesday when a town board agreed to look into the zoning issues at the heart of the ordeal.
"No one has three acres in this town unless you have a farm. That goes back to 1965," said Sala.
Sala stepped in to take care of Benny when he was young.
"His mom wouldn't feed him so I took him in to bottle feed him for six weeks and he's been with me ever since," Sala said.
And, she has been fighting the zoning that would prohibit her from keeping the goat and she has received lots of support.
Hundreds of people have "liked" a Facebook page about Benny's plight. Meanwhile, three dozen Benny supporters have been writing to town officials, saying Benny should stay.
"We have received a lot of letters. A lot of people have had concerns about this," Helen Riggins, Berlin's director of development, said.
On Tuesday night, Sala planned to ask the Berlin Zoning Board of Appeals for a variance to keep Benny. However, before she could speak Bruce Moore, the planning and zoning commission chairman, asked the board of appeals to table the issue while the Planning & Zoning Commission decides whether the ordinance needs to be changed.The Zoning Board then voted unanimously to table the issue.
"I'm not sure what they're going to say, but it's kind of a good thing that they are going to study it," Tony Fracanlangia, the Zoning Board of Appeals Chairman, said. That means Benny can stay, for now, but Sala isn't declaring victory.
"No it's not. It's just postponing. It's still waiting," Sala said.
It's unclear when the Planning and Zoning Commission will take up the issue and how long the process could take.
If Sala can't keep Benny in Berlin, she'll move to a town where she can keep him. | 2019-04-19T04:21:59 | https://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local/Berlin-Woman-Fights-For-Pet-Goat-120755219.html |
Public Speaking Success Suggestion – Develop Vibrant Characters To Enliven Your Stories!
For some of us, it began in school, when we hid behind a book, hoping the teacher would not contact us. Possibly that’s a hint to why a few of have a fear of public speaking, Glossophobia. Are we afraid that what we don’t know will all of a sudden be exposed to the world? Regardless the origin, an overwhelming portion people dread the thought of speaking in public.
There are a lot of good books available. It is a good concept to sign up with a Public Speaking Course Adelaide practice group like the International Toastmasters for instance. Doing it is the very best method to learn.
It really is pleasurable to score your abilities. Use self-scoring quizzes to maintain your power up. Inspect yourself at unique times this sort of as before and following a crucial discussion. You’ll find that your knowledge establish swiftly.just by retaining the questions top ranked of mind.
The finest online presentation training programs have simple access to experts. This is very crucial since if something is uncertain or fuzzy, you can send out an email and get an individual response. While studying at your own pace is fun, it’s also excellent to understand that assistance is just an e-mail away.
Try a thing you have not done 3 times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Two times, to public speaking coach find out how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.
Look around if you’re simply beginning out. Discover who your competitors is. What can you discover from them? What are they doing that you should imitate? What are they doing that you should avoid? You have fresh eyes to see opportunity. Jump on it and construct your story on your energetic interest.
Try the above basic public speaking technique for success the next time you need to speak in public. To further enhance yourself, do try to find other resources that will help you even more enhance in public speaking. | 2019-04-20T00:51:58 | https://laserjetprinterrepair.info/public-speaking-success-suggestion-develop-vibrant-characters-to-enliven-your-stories/ |
Did you know that Megan Hilty, star of the hit Smash, studied dance at Carnegie Mellon with Forest Dancing faculty member Michelle Van Doeren?! We are all very excited for Megan’s success!
Click on the image to learn more about Megan and her new show. | 2019-04-20T13:12:45 | https://forestdancing.com/news-and-updates/page/2/ |
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My name is Dave and several years ago I read a book that told me that fluoride was bad for you. I am a naturally trusting person, so I believed what was in the book and stopped all fluoride in my diet.
In the following months, I needed 2 fillings and just after I got the second filling, I learned how to heal tooth decay using a special type of fish oil that reverses it. I wished I had of found out the information I am about the share with you before I got my fillings as having your natural teeth is so much better!!
Your natural teeth are so much better due to the fact that fillings wear out over time. Some people even have reactions to the materials that fillings are made from and I have had one fall out and it is very painful until you get it replaced. I have since used it to reverse decay in some of my other teeth, so I know it works.
Here is a link to a review regarding this fish oil I use to reverse decay and it also stops any new decay from forming.
How I healed the decay in my teeth.
I took the recommended dose of the fermented cod liver oil capsules (two per day) for approximately 4 weeks after finding out I had decay and at the next visit to the dentist, when I was scheduled to have the filling put in, the decay was gone.
The dentist didn’t understand, as this is completely out of their realm of thinking and they just said, “Oh, maybe I made a mistake last time when I looked at your teeth to tell you, you had tooth decay”.
At this time, I was experiencing a great sense of satisfaction as I could explain something that they couldn’t.
If you want to contact me, leave a comment and I will get back to you. Alternatively, you can email me if you prefer at dave@preventingtoothdecay.com.
Hello again Dave, It's a nice site! I would make the beginning header a different and more apealing colour. Otherwise not bad at all. You are way ahead of myself; I "farmed" out my website and it is in the making.
Another thing, about that fluoride bit. Fluoride affects your brain if used over a long period of time and "dulls" the senses. It was introduced in the sixties and by purpose, not to help theeth health but to dumb down the population and come up with what we have today as a "society"!
I am sorry to have to put it this blunt. Fluoride only helps the teeth of young people up to twelve years old. At least that is what I read in a report and it had been substantiated bt other reports. Don't ask me which, I am not into this sort of thing much but I am into what happened since the 50's and 60's and how human kind ccame about and human kinds development over the not only centuries but thousands of years. as far back as 245,000 years. That is what my website will be about!
Hi Mike, thanks for the comments on my site. I don’t want to get into an argument about whether fluoride is good or not on my site as I didn’t make it for that. I would much prefer to sit on the fence, so to speak as there is good/bad points on both sides. The main purpose of my site is to show people how I have reversed tooth decay. | 2019-04-22T08:26:54 | https://preventingtoothdecay.com/about-dave/ |
From being someone who came to accounting the long way round, we’re grateful to have Shakira back in our ranks.
Despite loving accounting when she was younger, Shakira instead qualified as a teacher after she left school and travelled the state helping kids with special needs. But being back with family, and accounting, beckoned.
In 2011 she joined Carrick Aland in Dalby, her hometown, and subsequently completed her second degree in a Bachelor of Commerce in Accounting.
Shakira also has a knack for organising clients’ records in Xero, although she is proficient in also using Phoenix, QuickBooks and MYOB.
Right now Shakira is anticipating the impact of Single Touch Payroll procedures and compliance on employers and is ready to handle any queries. Playing netball and squash each week, as well as spending her downtime with her family, keeps her equilibrium in check. | 2019-04-25T04:55:15 | https://www.carrickaland.com.au/2018/09/18/meet-accountant-shakira-elliott/ |
DistrictBug offers details on school districts and ISDs. This record is for MOUNT HOLLY SCHOOL DISTRICT school district in MOUNT HOLLY, VT. ISD and school district data is deemed reliable, but not guaranteed. More info at SchoolBug. | 2019-04-22T02:24:16 | http://districtbug.org/district-5005820.html |
United Bank at the Fair Lakes Shopping Center caught fire just after 4 p.m. May 2 after someone discarded a cigarette into mulch, which ignited a pine tree and spread to the roof of the bank, investigators said.
Now Dmitry Christensen is charged with burglary and larceny.
Police were investigating Christensen on a drug charge when he gave an officer permission to search his phone, according to a search warrant. That revealed photos of safes and computer parts.
Christensen admitted going into the burned-out bank and taking money, computer equipment, safes, surveillance equipment and keys to the bank's locks and putting the items in a storage unit, according to court documents.
A search of the storage unit found some of the stolen items. | 2019-04-26T06:57:52 | https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Virginia-Man-Accused-of-Robbing-Burned-Out-Bank-484313091.html |
Mulching not only improves the attractiveness of your landscape, it is also beneficial to your soil and plants. It improves the soils structure by adding organic matter and nutrients as it decomposes. It also conserves the moisture and moderates soil temperatures while preventing erosion, the growth of weeds and the freezing of roots. | 2019-04-23T04:44:31 | http://www.skilandscape.com/ski-landscape-corporation-blog/fall-is-a-great-time-to-mulch |
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The 2015 Volkswagen Jetta is an award winning vehicle in safety thanks to excellent engineering, strong materials, and multiple airbags. It is the only vehicle to have received the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety's Top Safety Pick+. The 2015 Volkswagen Jetta also earned a superior rating for front crash prevention along with side, roof strength and head restraint tests. The 2015 Volkswagen Jetta is in a superior class.
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An ensemble of research projects designed to understand the nature of various “goods” and to promote their realization in our time.
The Good Project promotes excellence, engagement, and ethics in education, preparing students to become good workers and good citizens who contribute to the overall well-being of society. Through research-based concepts, frameworks, and resources, researchers seek to help students reflect upon the ethical dilemmas that arise in everyday life and give them the tools to make thoughtful decisions.
Founded as “The GoodWork Project” by psychologists Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, William Damon, and Howard Gardner in 1996, The Good Project has two decades of experience carrying out qualitative research and developing practical materials with an emphasis on topics including the meaning of good work, effective collaboration, digital citizenship, and civic participation. The Project’s frameworks and curricula have been used in a wide variety of classrooms and organizations, both within the US and abroad. The group is currently exploring how best to disseminate its messages and partner with like-minded initiatives in order to reach a greater number of students and educators.
With an award from the Dean’s Venture Fund, The Good Project is currently pursuing avenues to spread their messages and instruments to a larger audience of educators and students through collaborations with complementary organizations, reformatting of existing resources, and other strategies. | 2019-04-19T10:39:31 | http://pz.harvard.edu/projects/the-good-project |
Brown - Brown University, founded in 1764, is a member of the Ivy League and recognized for the quality of its teaching, research, and unique curriculum. Providence, RI.. Brown is a composite color.In the CMYK color model used in printing or painting, brown is made by combining red, black, and yellow, or red, yellow, and blue. In the RGB color model used to project colors onto television screens and computer monitors, brown is made by combining red and green, in specific proportions.The brown color is seen widely in nature, in wood, soil, human hair color, eye. Brown as a noun and adjective to describe people with a brownish skin color is often perceived as insulting. Historically it has been used by anthropologists and scientists as a racial and ethnic classification to describe various dark-skinned populations,.
Known internationally for excellence in academics and innovative research, Brown offers a wide range of undergraduate concentrations, master's programs and doctoral degrees.. Adjective. workers whose backs are brown from long hours in the sun . Noun. The room was decorated in brown. a mix of browns and reds . Verb. Brown the chicken in a pan with butter. Her skin was browned by the sun. The chicken is browning in the oven.. Brown University is a private Ivy League research university in Providence, Rhode Island, United States.Founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, it is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution..
brown (broun) n. Any of a group of colors between red and yellow in hue that are medium to low in lightness and low to moderate in saturation. adj. brown·er, brown·est 1. Of the color brown. 2. a. Having a brownish or dark skin color. b. Often Offensive Of or being a person of nonwhite origin. 3. Deeply suntanned. tr. & intr.v. browned, brown·ing. We Are Brown & Brown. Our culture is built on integrity, innovation, superior capabilities, and discipline. We craft insurance differently by using our experience, carrier relationships, and principled customer focus to deliver exceptional service and solutions.. See Brown/image gallery. Trivia. Brown is sometimes shown dating Jessica or Sally. He is one of the four original characters. As he is a brown bear, Brown's mother.
For over 90 years, Brown Distributing has been charged with delivering the worlds finest beers to the most diverse palates. From the smallest craft brews, to the most iconic domestics and imports, our massive selection and intimate knowledge of all things beer is the market’s go-to access for the beer, wine and spirits industry.. | 2019-04-24T16:20:26 | http://akaamet.net/brown.html |
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Adele has broken down in tears on stage as she dedicated the latest leg of her worldwide tour to victims of the Orlando shooting.
A seven-year-old Adele fan had his dream of meeting her come true when he was invited backstage before her gig last night.
Adele has topped a chart of the most popular acts in the world according to an international music trade body; the IFPI.
The London born singer has been named as the most popular recording artist in the world for 2015 for sales, downloads and streams. That's despite her album 25 only being released in November but still managing to sell more than 15 million copies.
The lead single from the album, Hello, was number one in more than thirty countries globally, including the UK, US, Germany and Australia.
Pop star Adele is one of the hot favourites to headline next year's Glastonbury as tickets for the 2016 festival sold out in minutes.
Madame Tussauds have revealed the multi-award winning singer Adele as the latest celebrity to join their waxy Hall of Fame. | 2019-04-19T16:53:48 | https://www.itv.com/news/london/topic/adele/ |
Ruleme Center is a medium-sized nursing home facility in Eustis, Florida (Lake county). The Nursing Home Site profile for Ruleme Center includes: Pricing, Visiting / Business Hours, Resident Health and Wellness, Ratings, Activities, Comparisons, Directions, Surveys, and CMS Reviews.
They have 138 beds and 105 residents (which would leave 33 beds available). Ruleme Center participates in Medicare and Medicaid and are classified as a For profit - Corporation ownership. They offer residential councils. They are not located inside a hospital. They do not belong to a continuing care community.
Ruleme Center received an overall rating from CMS of 4 stars compared to the FL average of 3.72 and a National average of 3.31. Ratings from residents, family members, and visitors to our site are available below. We encourage you to leave one of your own if you are familiar with their services. We also recommend giving them a call to address any additional senior and nursing care questions you may have after reviewing their Nursing Home Site profile.
They are located at the following address: 2810 Ruleme St in Eustis Florida 32726.
They can be reached by phone at (352) 357-1990.
The average length of stay at Ruleme Center is approximately 30.4 days. (this may include both short and long-term care (LTC) visits).
According to our latest records from CMS, the average daily amount billed by Ruleme Center to Medicare is $434.63 per day (compared to a Florida average of $597.71) and Medicare reimbursed them an average of $317.32 per day (after any deductible and coinsurance).
Please note that the pricing above is the average billed to Medicare. Each person and case is unique. (Supplemental Insurance / Medicare Advantage Plans, single or double rooms, etc). If you are interested in this facility you should contact Ruleme Center directly for exact pricing and what options are available for you or your loved one's personal care needs.
The average age at Ruleme Center is approximately 80 years old.
The last time this data was collected they cared for at least 93 men and 149 women in a one year period that received Medicare benefits. This number fluctuates with each new resident.
Medicare and Medicaid participation for Ruleme Center began on Aug 01, 1994.
Additional Staffing can be viewed below. Each number represents a Full-time Equivalent (FTE) Employee of the type listed above it at Ruleme Center. Read how FTE is defined.
Ruleme Center in EUSTIS, Florida has 138 beds compared to the Florida average of 120.71 and a National average of 106.16.
This results in a 76.09% occupancy rate compared to the Florida average of 85.59% and a national average of 81.38%.
Averaging the available ratings gives an aggregate star rating of 3.8 for Ruleme Center versus the FL average of 3.55 and a national average of 3.20.
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The DPRU’s successful Working Paper series has a broad target audience, including fellow academics and researchers (both local and international), students, representatives from civil society and the business community, the media, as well as policy-makers and government officials.
The majority of these papers represent socioeconomic research on labour market issues, poverty and inequality. A Working Paper traditionally seeks to answer a specific research-focused question, and routinely includes a literature review, in-depth study and analysis of data, a presentation of results, and one or more research conclusions.
This is the first study to consider the effect of minimum wages on employment in Mauritius specifically. Using data between 2004 and 2014, we find that a 10% increase in the minimum wages brings about a slightly positive effect on employment in the covered sector.
The services sector in South Africa is diverse and intertwines with the functioning and transformation of the economy in diverse ways. This report aims to examine the impact and potential of generating a services industry-led growth path in South Africa.
This paper serves to present a snapshot of the current profile of Small, Medium and Micro Enterprises (SMMEs) in South Africa as well as the key inhibitors of growth for SMMEs: evaluating the endogenous and exogenous impediments to growth.
To understand the role that structural change has had on inequality in the labour market this paper provides an overview of key labour market trends in the post-apartheid era followed by an analysis of labour demand trends, and structural transformation.
This report, produced as a background paper to the World Bank Systematic Country Diagnostic (SCD), provides an detailed overview of the Seychelles labor market, highlighting the relationship between changes to the overall structure of the economy and employment levels. Our analysis suggests that future economic growth in the Seychelles is dependent on increasing overall labor absorption levels in a manner which ensures that high quality employment opportunities grow at a sufficient pace to absorb the rising number of labor force participants.
Common correlates of crime, such as unemployment, poverty, and inequality, are at extreme levels in South Africa – making the investigation of the determinants of crime highly pertinent. We combine published crime statistics with demographic data from the 2011 South African Census Community Profiles to investigate which socio-economic factors attract crime at a police precinct level.
The impact of ICTs on the employment prospects of those in SSA have been poorly recorded. This paper models the impact of ICTs on the employment outcomes of individuals in 12 African countries, taking into account the varying nature of self-employment compared to other types of third party employment.
A key source for more and better types of jobs is the labour intensive manufacturing sector, but we find that compared to other sectors of the economy, the South African manufacturing sector has performed poorly, both in terms of GDP growth and job creation.
The paper uses longitudinal data for South Africa to explore the magnitude of social progression among people living within informal settlements compared with the residents of rural areas and formal urban areas. The objective is to assess whether shack settlements foster or frustrate human progress in the way they link people to the services, contacts and livelihoods concentrated in cities.
Why some countries choose a combination of highly protective laws and little enforcement is a puzzle that cannot be rationalized with traditional explanations. This paper collects administrative, legal and household survey data to emphasize a stylized fact about labor regulation that has been generally overlooked – countries with more protective employment regulations tend to enforce these regulations less, and usually focus their enforcement efforts on large firms.
This paper sets out to update the impression of vulnerability in the labour market, by examining how low pay and informality interact with each other, and with poverty. Throughout, we try to include comparative results from within the sub-Saharan Africa and Latin American regions. What becomes clear is that a job alone is not a solution to poverty in South Africa. And informality in South Africa plays an important role as a buffer to unemployment in contrast to the higher levels of voluntary informality in Latin America.
This report is divided into Part I: a quantitative analysis of the feasibility of a national minimum wage for South Africa (completed by the DPRU); and Part II: a qualitative analysis that investigates how a national minimum wage might affect young people’s labour market outcomes in South Africa (completed by the CSDA). The DPRU was commissioned by the Department of Labour to provide an analytical and empirical rubric, with which a more informed and nuanced decision could be taken around the promulgation of a NMW for South Africa.
Disappointing job creation in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), despite improved economic growth, is drawing greater attention to the labor market. Recent research has highlighted the paucity of formal employment and large disparities between formal and informal sector incomes. Formal private sector wage employment has grown too slowly to offset declines in public sector employment and to keep up with labor force growth, so employment remains overwhelmingly informal, with very low wages, no benefits or job security, and hazardous working conditions. The question arises as to whether labor market regulations play a role in limiting formal sector employment creation.
Sub-Saharan Africa’s (SSA) bilateral trade and cost competitiveness with China shows an extraordinary imbalance in the structure of trade, in that China overwhelmingly exports manufactured products to SSA and almost exclusively imports primary products in return. African relative unit labor cost (RULC) levels have generally been very high relative to China, but declined over the 2000s as China’s wages have risen faster than Chinese productivity, while the reverse is true for some SSA countries. Generally high RULC along with weaknesses in the business climate suggest that most SSA countries are unlikely to be competitive in labor-intensive manufacturing any time soon.
This paper reflects on possible early lessons for wage-setting regimes in the region, and the research agenda to inform the policy makers on key trade-offs in minimum wage setting. The release of country-level earnings and employment data at regular intervals lies at the heart of a future country-focused minimum wage research agenda for Africa.
Recent studies on poverty trends in South Africa suggest that poverty increased in the 1990s, before a continuous downward trend took place after 2000. This study augments the income and expenditure-based literature by examining poverty trends using household assets and services. We consider numerous private assets, household service variables, and educational attainment in order to derive a non-income welfare index.
The informal sector is often associated with micro- and family-based firms. In West Africa, however, some informal firms are very large. Based on detailed surveys and interviews carried out in Benin, Burkina Faso and Senegal, we compare the characteristics of formal, large informal and small informal firms.
This paper examines the impact of exchange rate fluctuations on sectoral employment in South Africa from 1975 to 2009. Overall, following a real exchange rate appreciation, the results show strong support for a negative and significant employment decline in the tradable sector, limited evidence of a positive employment impact in the non-tradable sector and generally no effect on aggregate employment.
Most developing economies yield positive economic growth simultaneously associated with little or no change in non-income welfare. This paper estimates the extent to which non-income welfare has improved in South Africa since democracy.
This paper provides a historical overview of the South African trade union movement before and after the end of apartheid. Labour market legislation and institutions formed since 1994 are discussed, with an evaluation of the impact of trade unions and wage legislation on labour market outcomes in South Africa.
As the 20th anniversary of the transition to democracy approaches in 2014, the economic policy debates in SA are in full flow. The forthcoming Oxford Companion to the Economics of South Africa contributes to the policy and analytical debate by drawing together perspectives from leading economists working on SA.
Theory predicts that an increase in employment protection may reduce employment levels by acting as a tax on firms by constraining hiring and firing decisions. We use a unique administrative database of the country’s dispute resolution body – the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) – to create a nuanced and empirically based measure of employment protection for the labour market in South Africa.
This study, primarily descriptive in nature, is one of the first to examine the claiming behaviour of unemployment benefit recipients within the South African Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF) system. In the period between 2005 and 2011, those with the lowest potential claim periods were also subject, on average, to lower absolute benefits compared to their wealthier counterparts.
One Achilles’ heel of post-Apartheid South Africa is the growing intra-racial income inequality, particularly among Africans. This paper examines the role of labour unions in explaining this phenomenon among African men given that labour markets are at the core of income inequality in South Africa.
The inflation crisis of 2008 drew greater attention to the varying experiences of inflation in South Africa and, in particular, to the fact that different groups within society may have significantly differing inflation experiences. The groups may be defined according to income level, but may also be categorised according to demographic, labour market and other characteristics.
Based on 2005 estimates of National Transfer Accounts for South Africa, this paper investigates the resource flows across ages within the generational economy. The paper provides estimates of the lifecycle deficit and describes the financing of the deficit. The final section of the paper discusses the first and second demographic dividends and looks at potential policy options that would help the country maximise the benefit that arises through the demographic transition.
Despite the explosive growth in the number of people receiving disability benefits in South Africa, very little is known about the labour supply effects of the disability grant (DG). This study investigates the impact of disability grant receipt on labour force participation. Consideration is given to potential bias that may arise from unobserved confounding factors.
This paper investigates the role of demographic, community and macroeconomic effects on Disability Grant programme (DGP) participation. The study descriptively analyses demographic patterns of the disability grant (DG) beneficiaries using data from the 2002 to 2007 rounds of the General Household Survey (GHS). The decision to participate in the programme is empirically examined by probit techniques using data drawn from the 2007 wave of the GHS.
This paper attempts to investigate the impact of sectoral wage laws in South Africa. Specifically, we examine the impact of minimum wage laws promulgated in the Retail, Domestic work, Forestry, Security, and Taxi sectors using 15 waves of biannual Labour Force Survey data for the 2000-2007 period.
This paper attempts to understand some of the key drivers of employment and earnings trends within the South African labour market in the 15 years following the demise of apartheid. A number of factors are discussed which feature in the understanding of South Africa’s labour market dynamics in general, and its high unemployment levels in particular.
The post-1994 period in the South African economy is characterised, perhaps most powerfully, by the fact that the economy recorded one of its longest periods of positive economic growth in the country’s history. One of the more vexing issues within the economic policy terrain in post-apartheid South Africa though, has been the impact of this consistently positive growth performance on social welfare.
I provide six possible employment creating policy options within the arena of principally, but not exclusively, active labour market policy. The notion is that interventions in these areas should provide for short-term and possibly long-term employment creation avenues and options for the currently unemployed.
Assessments of the impact of minimum wages on labour market outcomes in Africa are relatively rare. In part this is because the data available do not permit adequate treatment of econometric issues that arise in such an assessment. This paper attempts to estimate the impact of the introduction of a minimum wage law within the Agriculture sector in South Africa, based on 15 waves of the biannual Labour Force Survey (LFS), starting in September 2000 and ending in September 2007.
We estimate the gender wage gap for Africans in post-apartheid South Africa over the 2001 to 2007 period. Separate male and female earnings equations yields no significant decline in the conditional wage gap, regardless of whether we correct for selection into the labour force and employment or not.
This paper investigates the take-up rate or claim-waiting rate of the unemployed under the South African Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF) system. The goal is to identify disincentive effects that income replacement rates (IRR) and accumulated credits may have on the claimant‟s behaviour in terms of their claim waiting period rate (or how quickly they apply for UIF benefits).
The literature on the union wage gap in South Africa is extensive, spanning a range of datasets and methodologies. There is however little consensus on the appropriate method to correct for the endogeneity of union membership or the size of the union wage gap. Furthermore, there are very few studies on the bargaining council wage premium in South Africa due to lack of data on coverage of employees under these agreements.
This paper attempts to estimate the causal effect of government enforcement on compliance with minimum wages in South Africa, a country where considerable non-compliance exists. The number of labour inspectors per capita is used as a proxy for enforcement, whilst non-compliance is measured using an index of violation that measures both the proportion of individuals violated, as well as the average depth of individual violation.
What prevents the unemployed in Khayelitsha, South Africa from trying self-employment? Perceptions of a small group of academic economists are presented and compared to the perceptions of unemployed Khayelitsha residents themselves.
Minimum wage legislation is central in South African policy discourse, with both strong support and strong opposition. The validity of either position depends, however, on the effectiveness of minimum wage enforcement. Using detailed matching of occupational, sectoral and locational codes in the 2007 Labour Force Survey to the gazetted minimum wages, this paper presents, we believe for the first time, estimates of minimum wage violation in South Africa.
One of the key interventions aimed at improving the welfare of South African households has been local government’s provision of a package of free basic services (FBS) to poor households. It is, however, not completely clear how different municipalities identify households which are eligible for FBS. Evidence suggests that many municipalities currently provide services to all households with a monthly income of less than R1500 per month.
This paper is based on data from interviews with a number of mostly Western Cape based companies and employees with the objective of understanding the barriers to the achievement of employment equity for African people.
Even though the South African economy is formally categorised as an upper-middle income country, it has one of the highest unemployment rates in the world. The economy’s unemployment rate stands officially at 26.7 per cent and 38.8 per cent. This characteristic, more than any other, has placed market regulation high on the agenda of pertinent policy issues in South Africa.
Analysis using data from the 1995 and 2000 Income and Expenditure Surveys has found a significant increase in income inequality over the period and, further, that this increase in inequality eroded any significant poverty-reduction gains from higher economic growth.
This paper, while broadly located within reforming the labour market policy debate, is specifically focused on one aspect of the labour regulatory regime, namely the dispute resolution system. Hence, we attempt to understand the efficiency and effectiveness of the country’s institutionalised dispute resolution body, the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA).
During 2006 and 2007, a selection of research papers, in the main written by labour law experts, have provided critical input and guidance on the nature of the debate around the efficiency of the labour regulatory environment in South Africa.
The role of bargaining councils, the central pillar of collective bargaining in South Africa, in the formation of wages is important in the context of high unemployment rates in South Africa. In this study we find that while institutionalised collective bargaining system covered substantially more formal sector workers in 2005 (30 percent) compared to 1995 (15 percent), this still meant that less than a third of the formally employed were covered by bargaining councils.
This paper reports on research that involved the analysis of 873 Commission for Conciliation Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) arbitration awards sampled from unfair dismissal and unfair labour practice cases for the years 2003 to 2005. The sample of awards was selected in proportion to the case load of each of the Provincial offices of the CCMA.
In brief, the paper firstly summarises old and new theoretical and technical issues on measuring poverty, secondly analyses poverty from different perspectives and highlights various research findings on poverty trends in South Africa and thirdly clarifies the notion of ‘second economy’ and attempts to ‘measure’ it.
The paper argues that significant progress has been achieved by SETAs and the Skills Development system.
The World Bank’s Doing Business survey seeks to measure and compare the costs to business of various types of regulation, including labour regulation. As such it is an important driver of labour market ‘reform’ globally and in South Africa. It may also be encouraging a tendency of different systems of regulation to converge.
The research examines the current state of collective bargaining, the nature of existing bargaining structures, alternative models that have developed, and the problems being experienced in the current system.
By monitoring the price changes experienced by some representative household, consumer price indices provide an important measure of changing purchasing power within a given economy. Group price indices offer one method of more accurately reflecting the inflation experiences of specific types of households, such as poor households, elderly households or households with children, for example.
The objective of this study is to provide a comprehensive measure of shifts in welfare in post-apartheid South Africa by examining changes in both income and non-income welfare between 1993 and 2005. Research considering the changes in non-income welfare in the post-apartheid South Africa has found significant increases in the levels of non-income welfare, driven to a large extend by the increased delivery of basic services by government since 1994.
Rapid increases in government expenditure on social security between 2000 and 2006 has further increased poor households’ reliance on welfare grants and has been important in the fight against poverty. Already there is evidence of a substitution taking place within the social budget: expenditure on education and health seems to have declined in favour of increased welfare transfer expenditure.
This country study evaluates the experience of the South African economy with respect to growth, poverty and inequality trends since the advent of democracy in 1994.
Setas - A Vehicle for the Skills Revolution?
Sector Education and Training Authorities (Setas), established in terms of the Skills Development Act, 97 of 1998, were launched amid much fanfare and expectation of delivery towards achieving a skills revolution in the country.
This paper aims to place, in the South African policy context, selected issues from the international literature on skills training. The main lessons are that skills training resembles education in being partly a public good.
The major cause of poverty is unemployment. This paper looks at aspects of the way government responds to claims that are made, chiefly by academics, about poverty and unemployment. Official statistics on poverty and unemployment enjoy little favour among senior politicians and civil servants.
This paper conducts a review of the literature on skills shortages in South Africa. It is demonstrated that different Government departments have different views concerning the definition of skills shortages. This is largely due to the omission in any official government literature of tying the concept of “skills shortages” to productivity.
This paper investigates the relationship between education and unemployment in post-apartheid South Africa, and probes the argument that employment growth has been inhibited particularly by skills constraints. We use probit regression analysis to show that higher education protected against unemployment in both 1995 and 2003, and that overall, the relative benefits to tertiary education rose over the period.
This paper is a response, from a business perspective, to Halton Cheadle’s concept paper titled ‘Regulating flexibility: Revisiting the LRA and the BCEA’ (DPRU Working Paper 06/109). This paper seeks to respond to each of the issues raised by Cheadle, and to his reflections on each. As previously noted, the paper has been drafted to present a business perspective.
The objective of this report is to provide an overview of the changes in the status of women in the South African labour market between 1995 and 2005. The report finds that the feminisation of the South African labour force between 1995 and 2005 has been driven specifically by greater numbers of African women entering the labour force.
This paper examines South African wage earnings trends using all the available post-1994 household survey datasets. This allows us to identify and address the sources of data inconsistencies across surveys in order to construct a more comparable earnings time series.
This paper welcomes the fact that the discussion about the labour market and small business has broadened in scope. It considers some of the suggestions made by Cheadle (2006) in his recent concept paper. These include dismissals, unfair labour practices, appointments and promotions and collective bargaining.
The paper reflects on the findings from a firm survey conducted among twenty of South Africa’s largest firms across a range of sectors. The survey formed part of research conducted by the Development Policy Research Unit on graduate unemployment in South Africa.
There is consensus among analysts that South Africa’s unemployment is structural in the sense that the unemployed generally possess lower skills than what is required in the marketplace. In the context of increasing demand for skilled workers due to technical progress and the need to become more competitive globally, graduate unemployment would be expected to fall.
The paper specifically examines: labour regulations and their relationship with employment and investment; trade regulations; permits and licences for businesses; visa regulations; the predictability of regulatory application; and the costs of regulation. It also investigates the ways firms respond to regulations.
The paper aims to identify the impacts of sector-specific policies and regulations on the growth of – and job creation by – SMEs in eight sectors of the South African economy. Where appropriate and, where possible, impacts are quantified. The aim is also to develop suggestions for policy changes and regulatory reforms which would reduce the regulatory cost burden on these SMEs and permit them to grow and take on workers more readily.
The past two decades have witnessed an unprecedented globalisation of trade in goods and services. This process has been driven, inter alia, by technology, ideology and the availability of relatively cheap energy. By extrapolating this trend, one may expect further integration of world markets and increasingly unhindered international trade.
The study involves a statistical analysis of the case management system (CMS) data base of the Commission for Conciliation Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) for the financial years 2001/2, 2003/4 and 2004/5.
The object of the paper is to identify the conceptual underpinnings of the labour law reforms of the 1990s, particularly the concept of regulated flexibility, and the changes to the labour market since then in order to review the performance of those reforms and to propose changes to more appropriately regulate that market.
The aim of this study is to provide an analysis of the shifts in non-income welfare that have occurred over the period 1993 to 2004. This analysis serves as a complement to existing research which has focused on shifts in income poverty and inequality in the post-apartheid period. In addition, the study is one of only a few that provides a complete overview of the first decade of democracy by means of the comprehensive time period it covers.
The regulatory impact of municipalities on small enterprise is inextricably linked to their developmental and service delivery roles. A general lack of information about municipal regulations and their enforcement was also discerned among the small businesses interviewed.
The research examines the different forms of regulation of conditions of employment (i.e. bargaining council agreements, the Basic Conditions of Employment Act (BCEA), and sectoral determinations) and what sort of accommodation they make for small firms.
Regulatory compliance costs impose a deadweight burden on firms and therefore should be minimised. In achieving this goal, it is necessary to embrace a process of smart regulation, rather than focus on deregulation. Tax compliance cost is one type of regulatory costs that is often viewed to have a large negative impact on SMMEs.
Using a constructed data series and another data series based on the All Media and Products surveys (AMPS), this paper explores trends in poverty and income distribution over the post-transition period. To steer clear of an unduly optimistic conclusion, assumptions are chosen that would tend to show the least decline in poverty.
This paper seeks to investigate some of the changes that have occurred within the South African labour market in the post-apartheid era between 1995 and 2004 and some of the challenges the labour market presents in the attainment of shared growth, updating previous work by Bhorat and Oosthuizen (2004).
The idea of a second economy has become a feature of recent government economic policy. In this paper we focus on one important element of the second economy – the informal economy. We analyse the nature of the informal economy in South Africa, providing some descriptive statistics and analysis to highlight the nature and extent of the informal economy.
This is an overview of poverty and well-being in the first decade of post-apartheid South Africa. It is an introduction to a volume that brings together some of the most prominent academic research done on this topic for the 10-year review process in South Africa. This overview highlights three key aspects of the picture that the detailed research paints.
This paper seeks to investigate how the demography of households relates to individual labour market outcomes. We comprehensively examine household size and structures in the October Household Surveys 1995, 1997, 1999 and the Labour Force Surveys September 2001 and 2002.
Minimum wages have been in place for South Africa’s one million domestic service workers since November of 2002. Using data from seven waves of the Labour Force Survey, this paper documents that the real hourly wages, average monthly earnings, and total earnings of all employed domestic workers have risen since the regulations came into effect, while hours of work per week and employment have fallen.
This paper argues that the economic literature on unemployment and poverty in South Africa has under-explored potentially important feedback mechanisms which, because they serve to change the structure of labour markets and affect human capital trajectories, serve to endogenise labour market exclusion.
In this paper we investigate labour market trends in South Africa between October 1995 and March 2003. In particular, we evaluate the South African governments claim that over this period, the economy created two million net new jobs. Using the same household survey data as that used to generate official employment estimates, we also find an almost two million net increase in employment.
Subjective Well-being Poverty versus Income Poverty and Capabilities Poverty?
The conventional approach of economists to the measurement of poverty in poor countries is to use measures of income or consumption. This paper asks: to what extent are these different concepts measurable, to what extent are they competing and to what extent complementary, and is it possible for them to be accommodated within an encompassing framework?
Using a South African data set, the paper poses six questions about the determinants of subjective well-being. Much of the paper is concerned with the role of relative concepts. We find that comparator income – measured as average income of others in the local residential cluster – enters the household’s utility function positively but that income of more distant others (others in the district or province) enters negatively.
The paper analyses poverty and inequality changes in South Africa for the period 1996 to 2001 using Census data. As regards population group inequality, within-group inequality has increased; while between-group inequality has decreased (inequality has also increased in each province and across the rural/urban divide).
Since the demise of apartheid, the South African economy has undergone significant changes with the government implementing various policies aimed at redressing the injustices of the past, fleshing out the welfare system and improving competitiveness as the country becomes increasingly integrated into the global economy.
This paper examines, through the application of available data, the poverty, inequality and labour market challenges facing Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The paper illustrates that apart from levels of poverty and inequality that are inordinately high in SSA, the region is also beset with perhaps the more worrying problem of accounting for almost all of the world’s ultra-poor: namely those individuals living on less than half of the standard $1 a day poverty line.
This paper estimates an earnings function where the dependent variable is a mix of point and interval data using an interval regression model based on a pseudo-maximum likelihood estimation procedure. The analysis uses the 1999 OHS, and takes into account point and interval income observations, as well as design features of the survey including stratification, clustering and weights.
The focus of this study is on household income generation among previously disadvantaged households in South Africa. Households’ income sources are divided into categories that reflect differing extents of association with the core economy.
Simulations suggest that under the most optimistic conditions, halving the official rate of unemployment would require 3.7 million jobs to be created between 2004 and 2014. Halving the number of expanded unemployed under pessimistic assumptions about the growth rate of the economically active would require 11 million jobs in the same period.
Gauteng, South Africa's economic powerhouse, has long been dependent on immigration to supply its labour requirements, a phenomenon deeply rooted in the province's early economic history and the development of mining and heavy industry. Although migration has contributed to the development of the province, it also poses challenges to the provincial government partly through the added burden on state-financed services and programmes.
Firstly, the paper at tempts to identify the features that distinguish the affluent and specifically the black affluent from the rest of the population with a descriptive analysis. The paper investigates how affluence predictors vary between different race groups. It shows a dramatic increase in black affluence.
South Africa lost more than 890,000 jobs, but saw an increase in the number of skilled workers from 1989 to 1999. We argue that this is the consequence of well-documented acute apartheid-era distortions which led to a current coordination failure where (i) firms are locked into a mostly skillintensive technology where they have very little demand for semi-skilled and unskilled labour, and (ii) there are too few semi-skilled and skilled blacks.
This paper investigates the relationship between labour productivity, average real wages and employment in South Africa’s manufacturing sector, using cointegrating VAR and VECM econometric techniques. A long-run equilibrium relationship was found between real wages and productivity, with an elasticity of 0,38 indicating that productivity has grown more rapidly than wages.
There has been a dramatic increase in the labour force participation of women in South Africa since the mid-1990s. Male participation has also been increasing but at a substantially slower rate, such that a feminisation of the labour force has occurred, mirroring a more general global trend that has been occurring since World War Two.
This study, through an exploratory but promising methodology, provides a tentative analysis of the relationship between HIV, poverty and labour markets. The paper illustrates that the relationship between poverty, labour markets and HIV is not homogenous but multi-dimensional in character.
The paper attempts to provide a descriptive overview of absolute and relative shifts in labour demand in the South African economy over the post-apartheid period, 1995-1999. The paper debunks the myth that the domestic economy is characterised by ‘jobless growth’ in this period.
The current misalignment of labour supply and demand in South Africa constitutes one of the factors that hold back the countrys economic growth. Consequently, efforts have recently been made to estimate future labour demand so that current policies are designed in such a way as to attempt to minimise the skills mismatch.
This paper documents the phenomenal contribution that technikons have made to the development of human resources in South Africa, particularly high level human resources throughout the period of the 1990s. This is done by examining the enrolment and qualifications profile of technikons over a fifteen year period.
The workplace training dispensation that is evolving in South Africa represents a significant advance over previous initiatives in the country. While it is funded on the basis of payroll levies, the relatively sophisticated institutional structure in the administration of the system has caused delays in its set-up and operation.
Whilst much has been said about the employment effects of the privatisation of state-owned enterprises in South Africa, the debate has largely overlooked the impact of these events on the wage levels of those workers that retain their jobs in the restructuring process. This paper estimates earnings functions for workers in the South African economy to determine the impact of these changes.
The labour market is central in determining individual and household well-being in South Africa. Therefore, an understanding of earnings and employment dynamics is a key policy issue. However, the absence of panel data has constrained empirical work addressing these topics. This paper conducts such a study using a regional panel data set, the KwaZulu-Natal Income Dynamics Study (KIDS).
We develop a model where blacks in the private sector earn no returns to education if there are relatively too few educated blacks. Using a sample of black females in the late apartheid Kwa Zulu to control for labour market specific effects, we find that more than a fifth of labour market participants are self-employed. There are no returns to primary education and positive returns for the first two years of secondary education.
Through the use of the standard tools of poverty analysis, this paper attempts to firstly measure the minimum financial contribution required from the state to eliminate poverty in the society. Secondly, we measure the absolute and relative household poverty impact of instituting a universal income grant, set at different monthly values.
This paper attempts to redress the lack of research into temporary labour migration at a national level in South Africa. Using the 1993 Project for Statistics on Living Standards and Development and the 1995, 1997 and 1999 October Household Surveys, we explore three broad areas: the extent of labour migration over the period 1993 to 1999; the characteristics of migrant workers and how these have changed over time; and the economic ties that labour migrants have maintained with their households of origin.
Not surprisingly, the education system is widely perceived to be the major tool to overcome human capital and labour market inequalities in South Africa. This paper asks how well the education system accomplishes this goal. The first part of the paper examines human capital differentials between races and provides evidence of persistent race-based educational attainment and quality differentials.
This study uses three key South African national household survey instruments – the 1993 Project Statistics for Statistics of Living Standards and Development, the 1995, 1997 and 1999 October Household Surveys, and the September 2000 Labour Force Survey – to identify the problems involved in capturing information on who works in the informal sector and the kind of work they do.
Towards the end of 2000, a study was commissioned into the projected economic impact of the new Cape Town International Convention Centre. The study set out to measure the macroeconomic impact of the Convention Centre as well as identify industries that could be promoted by the existence of the Centre.
The paper considers the complex process of introducing a regime of shorter working hours in the private security sector in South Africa. While the process of reducing the working hours of security workers in 1999 was bold, there is potential for real gains and losses to be derived from the process and this depends on the system and levels of compensation that are negotiated for the period of transition to the new schedules in working hours.
The paper explores the inter and intra firm dynamics that are instrumental in shaping the determination of skills training within the South African labour market. The essential starting point is to show that the size of the enterprise and nature of the economic sector in which these enterprises operate, sets conditions on the regimes of enterprise training and skills development.
This paper explores some of the key issues related to FDI in Southern Africa. It takes a look at comparative patterns and trends of investment flows in developing regions (including the SADC). In addition, an account of the institutional and regulatory framework in the SADC region and consequences for investment flows into SADC, is provided.
This paper focuses on the clothing and textile industry in the SADC region, with specific reference to the locational characteristics and developments of these two industry sectors over the last decade. The study links the economic and spatial characteristics of the clothing and textile industries, looks at the current situation and analyses the drivers and barriers to industrialisation and location.
This working paper looks at clothing and textile trade in the Southern African Development Community (SADC). Clothing and textile production is important in terms of employment and development, and thus they have been priority sectors since the SADCC inception in 1980. Evidence of intra-regional trade is presented. The scope for increased trade is then discussed and transaction costs are examined as one of the major factors restricting this increased trade.
This paper examines the potential trade-off between growth in employment and growth in wages. In order to assess the trade-off between employment growth and real wage growth, we make use of a simple decomposition model, following Mazumdar (2000), in which real wage growth is determined by growth in real value added, employment growth, a trend in the wage share of value added and a relative price effect.
This paper sets out to investigate relative wages and wage dispersion for formal sector workers in the private and public sectors. The paper explicitly measures the size of the public sector wage premium and offers some reasons for its existence. It also attempts to document the changing pattern of wage differentials between public and private sector employees between 1995 and 2000.
This paper will seek to analyse the performance of the public sector in implementing affirmative action policies intended to promote employment equity. This will be done primarily by examining the pattern of changes in public sector employment over the past five years.
Significant declines in employment have coincided with trade liberalisation in South Africa stimulating many debates on possible causal relationships between the two. Existing research has, however, focussed on explaining employment trends rather than changes in the relative wage of less skilled to skilled labour. Further, the role of technology in influencing relative wages has been neglected.
The central theme of this working paper is the way that the racial wage hierarchy evolved in South Africa over the period 1993 to 1999 amongst full-time regular employees of normal working age, but excluding those in the primary sector and the defence forces.
Previous studies have indicated that there may be untapped potential for exports from non-SACU SADC countries to the SACU market. The share of non-SACU markets in exports to the rest of the world has been increasing while the SACU share has remained the same. Concerns have been raised that the size of the South African economy and the net trade surplus of the Customs Union relative to that of the other SADC members may lead to polarization within the region.
The textile, clothing production, sugar, and agro-processing largely account for intra-regional cross-border supply chains, and drives trade within the region. These industries hold potential for strengthening ties throughout the region by integrating value-added supply chains and intra-industry trade (IIT) across borders.
This working paper analyses consumer indebtedness among urban South African households. The theoretical basis of the topic lies within consumption theory, and the empirical exercises are conducted on Part Two of the October Household Survey – the Income and Expenditure Survey (Statistics South Africa, 1995) and an adjusted 1999 dataset constructed by Wefa Southern Africa.
Policy makers are well aware that creating jobs is an important priority if the health of our economy is to be preserved and improved. However, the first step towards a successful strategy of employment creation is an understanding of the labour market. Much attention has been devoted to analysing the unemployment/employment divide without sufficient attention being given to labour market participation itself.
An explanation of inflation that focuses on the costs of production, wages (or unit labour costs) plays a central role. In South Africa, the recent change to an inflation-targeting monetary policy framework and the relative strong role of trade unions has increased the need to understand and quantify the interaction between inflation and wages.
Spatial Development Initiatives (SDIs) form an integral part of the South African government strategy to attract investment. SDIs are claimed to be short-term and targeted undertakings to foster economic growth. This working paper reviews two SDI projects, namely the Maputo Development Corridor (MDC) and the West Coast Investment Initiative (WCII).
The paper puts forward a case for more attention to be paid to fundamental structural factors that will determine the scope and success of any regional integration initiative in the Southern African Development Community (SADC). The paper provides a review of current estimates of trade potential in the region and contrasts this with the author's own estimates of intra-regional trade.
The objective of this working paper is to highlight the major issues facing sugar industries in SADC. This is achieved within a framework that recognises the existence of distortions in global sugar markets. To this end, a conceptual framework whose central pillar is the existence of market distortions is presented. It is followed by a description of the characteristics of the SADC sugar industries and the kind of distortions that they face in the real world.
Apartheid in South Africa was formally discarded by the first free election in 1994. Prior to 1994, discrimination in the labour market was embodied in a number of policies (pass laws, occupational colour barring etc.). While such polices have been eliminated by the ANC government, it is likely that the eradication of racial wage discrimination altogether will be a lengthy process.
The aim of this working paper is to highlight the influence of South African trade unions on African and White earnings as well as their role in the reduction of wage inequalities and discrimination between these two groups. The econometric analysis utilises a 1997 microeconomic data set. Findings show firstly that the union wage premium for African male workers lies between 13 percent and 20 percent, depending on the methods used.
Maputo Development Corridor (MDC), what actors and stakeholders are involved in the policy- and decision-making processes, and draws some lessons for future development corridors and spatial development initiatives (SDIs) in the broader Southern African region.
This working paper applies the Foster Greer and Thorbecke (FGT) (1984) index of poverty measures to the subsistence fishing industry in South Africa in order to evaluate the impact of resource transfers on poverty. The sample of subsistence communities was identified by the Chief Directorate: Marine and Coastal Management of the Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism.
The aim of this working paper is to investigate the optimal regulatory routes from a competition and public interest point of view for the South African water industry. The working paper presents the basic conditions of the water sector by outlining the main characteristics of water, providing an historical and international overview of water management in South Africa.
Launched in 1995, Spatial Development Initiatives (SDIs) are currently the main vehicle used by the South African government to promote regional development. SDI project(s) purport to be short-term and targeted attempts to stimulate "growth" by creating globally competitive spatial entities, new investment, infrastructural development and job creation.
The aim of this paper is to highlight wage trends and patterns in the South African labour market through examining wage premia and wage differentials. The analysis utilises data from the October Household Survey of 1995. Findings show that the regular race, gender and educational differentials arise when looking at median wages, with the racial wage gap being more severe than the gender wage gap.
The aim of this paper is to highlight key issues arising from regional trade integration in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) as well as the concomitant policies required to facilitate the trade process. The paper highlights issues pertaining to distribution effects arising from integrating unequal partners and the need for open trade policies in order to realise potential positive spillovers.
This paper utilises a basic simulation exercise to analyse the possible poverty and employment reducing effects, of instituting a minimum wage in the South African labour market. The simulation is undertaken for three groups of unskilled workers, namely domestic workers, farm workers and drivers.
For several decades the analysis of the so-called brain drain has been hampered by measurement problems. It is now recognised that the official figures significantly underestimate the extent of the brain drain phenomenon and its increase since the political changes in the mid-1990's. This paper, using data from various reliable sources, provides new statistical evidence on the size of the brain drain from South Africa.
The aim of this paper is to determine if macroeconomic policy convergence amongst member countries of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) is required for establishing and sustaining a free trade area (FTA). The paper also investigates whether a restraining mechanism is required in order to compel member countries to have compatible macroeconomic policies.
This paper provides an analysis of the effect of the Maputo Development Corridor (MDC) on freight flows between Mozambique and South Africa. By analysing the transport infrastructure of the MDC, this paper seeks to provide insight into the relationship between investment in infrastructure and economic growth.
The aim of this working paper is to contribute to a strategy for developing the high tech sector in the Cape Metropolitan Region (CMR) through a better understanding of the high tech firms that already exist.
The petrochemicals industry in South Africa has grown significantly over the past two decades, largely as a result of the expansion and diversification of the premier petrochemical producer - Sasol. This working paper examines the role that producer services have played in this growth.
The mining industry has been at the heart of South Africa's economy for over 100 years. This working paper explores an aspect of the mining industry that has received little attention - the producer services used in production. It finds that producer services are a key part of the mining industry, especially in the exploration and commissioning stages.
This paper outlines the recent labour market reforms in South Africa and discusses their likely impact on poverty and the working poor. Using an innovative framework developed elsewhere in the literature, the paper shows how labour market processes and outcomes can affect the level of household poverty in a country.
This paper sets out the methodological issues for the measurement of poverty before presenting a poverty profile of South Africa. It tests the sensitivity of the poverty profile to choices around the metric used to measure well-being, the equivalence scale used and the level of the poverty line.
Drawing on a comparative overview of the earnings function work on South Africa, this article presents an alternative and comprehensive model of earnings in the South African labour market. The paper uses the standard Heckman two-step approach in trying to model participation, employment and earnings.
The existing work on household poverty and inequality in South Africa has shown that poverty and inequality differ markedly by race, location, education, gender of the head, household demographics and household labour market participation. However, it is important to try and go further than this listing of key correlates and to give any indication of the relative importance of these dimensions.
This paper provides an analysis of the role of social policies in alleviating poverty in South Africa. In doing so, the paper assesses the contribution of education and social security in reducing poverty in the country.
This paper provides an analysis of poverty in South Africa by focussing on the labour market. It seeks to understand inequality and poverty in contemporary South Africa by analysing the main factors that have contributed to these socio-economic outcomes. The paper shows that poverty and inequality are still widespread in South Africa, and have their origins in the labour market.
This paper provides an institutional analysis of the South African Spatial Development Initiative (SDI) policy. It deals, firstly, with the concept of regional institutional structure, secondly, with the SDI program in South Africa and how it attempts to address national industrial strategy concerns in a spatially redistributive fashion, and thirdly, describes the case study of the growth-pole bulk-export port of Richards Bay.
Using the October Household Survey of 1995 (OHS95), this paper seeks to understand the determinants of indigence in the South African labour market. To this end the study presents a description of the labour market, focusing on how covariates such as race, gender, education and location help explain the poverty observed in the labour market.
The paper utilises a class of poverty measures to determine the potential cost to the fiscus, in 1995 Rands, of alleviating poverty in South Africa. The simulations are undertaken for both households and individuals in the society, by the different covariates of poverty.
This paper uses various decomposition techniques to understand the nature of household inequality in contemporary South Africa. It examines, firstly, the importance of race in overall inequality; secondly, the contribution of major income sources to national inequality; and thirdly, the relationship between inequality, poverty and the labour market.
This paper forms part of the DPRU Industrial Strategy Project: Phase Two.
This paper is the fourth in a series of issue papers prepared within the SDI Policy Programme. It aims to support and enhance the application of work already completed on economic empowerment and to guide/influence the planning and development processes applied in respect of each of the individual tourism led SDI's.
The cornerstone of the South African government's economic policy lies in the Growth Employment and Redistribution (GEAR) programme.
The research findings and policy recommendatons presented in this report owe their existence to the Industrial Strategy Project (ISP), who commissioned the study as a mechanism for providing input into the Spatial Development Initiative (SDI) policy framework nationally.
This paper has been prepared as part of the Spatial Development Initiatives (SDI) policy research program.
The concept of tourism led socio-economic developemnt in not new or peculiar to South Africa, and international experience and best practise are being assessed as part of the SDI Policy Programme (Agri-tourism SDI's).
The two companies chosen for this study were chosen specifically to explore how companies, facing similar competitive pressures, have decided to respond.
The essence of the story is that this is a factory with a heartbeat. There is a constant focus on product development, quality and cost. Communication is high on the list of objectives. There is a joint definition of productivity as a state of mind, a collective will to improve and a general belief in the human desire to do better.
In an article published in the Harvard Business Review in 1989, Magaziner et al give a compelling description of the entry of the Korean conglomerate, Samsung, into microwave oven production in the early 1970's.
The debate on industrial policy is often counterposed between two truisms.
This paper, as part of teh Industriap Strategic Project (ISP) Phase Two, Sectors, Clusters and Regions Project researches the effect of industrial restructuring in the town of Newcastle, KwaZulu/Natal.
The aim of this research project is to determine the role that institutions, including government at all levels, could play in bolstering economic performance in sectorally and geographically concentrated manufacturing firms, and to examine whether such initiatives can form part of a regional industrial policy.
Dating back several decades, and shaped by the history of the region, the clothing industry in Durban is unique in its relationships, functioning, institutions and prodpects. But it is also one of the largest concentrations of clothing manufacturers in the country.
In terms of economic development, regional and local government strategies in South Africa (SA) have focused on the attraction of foreign direct investment and promoting tourism.
The South African Fruit Processing Industry: Is the Climate Ripe?
The previous government's Regional Industrial Development Policy (RIDP) was premised on a logic of dispersion. This policy resulted in the relocation of labour-intensive industries to the homelands and other 'deconcentration points'.
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This process starts with your content. Growing your business by using social media can be easy if you make your content exciting and relevant to your audience. Craft it to be something that will engage your audience so that they want to like it and share it with their friends. If your content is full of information that grabs your viewer's attention and educates your users, they will share it on other social media platforms. You want social media users to spread the word like wildfire. Make sure to craft your content using your market research, and keep an eye on what is happening with the trends you notice in your industry. It is better to have fewer users engage regularly than a mass of users who will share your content once and then disappear forever.
One of the best ways to make your post go viral is to encourage users to like and comment on your social media post for a chance to win something your business offers that users will like. But don't do it just once and expect your followers to hang around. This type of social media marketing needs to be done periodically. The goal is to get users to visit your page, become interested and visit your website. Some businesses include a link to their business's website, and have users register for the giveaway on their website. Social media users will then peruse your site and could potentially make a purchase, which is your ultimate end goal.
Successful social media campaigns understand that relevant content is what draws in users, and that a regular presence on social media sites attracts more customers. If you are going to depend on social media to help boost your business, then you must maintain and update your social media daily. It takes time and effort, but if you put these two elements together with great, fresh content, you have a recipe for success. Social media campaigns in Arkansas that enjoy success use these tactics and put forth the dedicated work.
Don't rely on one site to get the job done, employ these same skills across any social media sites that could benefit your business. Get your name out there. Make your name familiar to users, but don't bombard them with ads. Ads are the last thing anyone wants to see. Use your personalized and relevant content to garner their interest and keep their attention. You don't have to be a marketing genius to have a successful social media campaign, but you do have to be willing to put in the work.
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Undoubtedly one of the most anticipated summer events, Honda’s Celebration of Light kicks off July 29. This year, Japan, the UK and Canada will battle it out for the title of best firework show. To secure a good spot, be sure to head to English Bay early and watch as the night comes alive with colour and music. Perfect for the whole family, factor in some extra time to check out the entertainment before the show, including live music and kid-friendly activities.
Travel back in time for a Shakespearean experience with the 28th season of Bard on the Beach. Choose from popular plays like Much Ado About Nothing and The Winter’s Tale, for a night of culture and laughter. Don’t forget to visit Bard Village for shopping, food, and a range of educational activities.
The Mount Pleasant and Strathcona neighbourhoods are about to get a lot more colourful. The city’s largest annual free public art celebration, Vancouver Mural Fest, is back this August 7-12. Featuring more than 50 large scale murals, it’s an incredible opportunity to view work by some of Vancouver’s most talented artists.
Grab your friends and head to Stanley Park every Tuesday after sunset for a family-friendly flick. Showcasing a range of movies like National Lampoon’s Vacation (July 25) and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (August 15), it’s guaranteed to be a good time. Don’t forget your lawn chairs and blankets.
Celebrate BC’s legendary Fair at the PNE starting August 19 running through to September 4. Featuring special Canada 150 shows and entertainment, this is something you won’t want to miss! Until then, check out the PNE’s Summer Night Concert series happening nightly at 8:30pm. Or, opt for adults-only Playland Nights happening every Friday during the month of July.
Which summer event are you looking forward to most? Tweet us at @vanextendedstay or visit our Facebook page to let us know! | 2019-04-22T06:31:16 | https://vancouverextendedstay.com/2017/07/21/summer-events-in-vancouver/ |
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I scooched closer and then she was interested in my foot. And of course, she moved too fast for the camera so I ended up with a bunch of blurry fat cat pics. Apparently, catnip makes her hungry. I got myself in the doorway to block her exit and finally got a good shot. The focus is soft because I had to use a really wide aperture. But doesn’t she have a gorgeous face? Those eyes! I love her eyes.
And then she hid behind our bed instead of going to her sunbeam. Stupid, anxious cat.
What a pretty cat! Animals (and small children) can be very difficult to photograph! | 2019-04-22T14:47:47 | https://deuxsouriceaux.com/2018/04/09/photo-monday-cat-hates-camera/ |
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