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Angel is a civil engineer,<|fim_middle|>acard and Bingo in the organization of ECCA 2019 Conference. Therefore, in Lisbon you will be able to see quite a lot of results produced by the RESCCUE consortium, which by then will be entering its final year. | Director of Urban Water department in Aquatec – SUEZ Advanced Solutions. He has expertise in urban drainage, specialising in hydraulics and infrastructures. With more than 25 years of experience in the water sector, he is now the RESCCUE Project Coordinator.
Cities are complex multidimensional systems containing an endless number of elements constantly interacting among themselves. They are growing exponentially, while becoming smarter and more innovative. However, they are still very vulnerable and climate change is precisely posing more and more threats. This is why the United Nations recently stated that managing urban areas has become one of the most important development challenges of the 21st century.
In this context, the RESCCUE project (RESilience to cope with Climate Change in Urban arEas – a multisectorial approach focusing on water) was born in May 2016. RESCCUE is Europe's first large-scale innovation and urban resilience project, aimed to improve the capability of cities to anticipate, prepare for, respond to, and recover from significant multi-hazard threats with minimum damage. The RESCCUE approach turned a new page by leaving sectoral approaches behind and instead considering the cities as systems of interdependent systems. The four-year duration project goes beyond the conventional analysis of the climate change effects on single critical infrastructures, such as energy, water or transportation. The RESCCUE perspective is a holistic one, which focuses rather on the interconnections than on separate city units of the urban infrastructure networks.
The RESCCUE objective is to produce a set of models and tools to analyze urban resilience based on a multisectorial approach that overcomes current difficulties related to lack of information integration of the different urban services. To interconnect the several sectorial models, the project takes advantage of the existent HAZUR tool and methodology to make it the basis of further developed software able to perform the assessment, management and planning of urban resilience in an integral way, assessing the interdependencies and analysing the several cascading effects (which will be further studied by coupling several sectorial models such as urban drainage and sea water quality models).
The project analyses real interdependencies of three European cities: Barcelona, Bristol and Lisbon – all very different in terms of climate type and city characteristics. The aim of having three cities as the validation platform and first application of RESCCUE's results will guarantee that the final product, innovative models and tools for urban resilience assessment, is complete and replicable.
Although urban resilience focuses on improving the city capacity to all kinds of threats, it is worth noting that RESCCUE specifically focuses on the climate-change related impacts, as it has become a critical issue that cities must adapt to.
This is precisely why RESCCUE and its holistic approach to tackle urban resilience, is also producing key results related to climate change adaptation in cities. That's why RESCCUE joined Pl | 580 |
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Pride in the Desert attracts more the 4,000 participants each year. Highlights of the festival are local, regional, and national entertainers performing live on the main stage as well as several small stages and dance areas featuring drag shows and other live entertainment. In addition to the multitude of entertainment venues, Pride in the Desert features commercial and non-profit exhibitors, a food court and interactive displays and activities.
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"It may happen that there is much wickedness in your soul. But let it be known to God alone, Who knows<|fim_middle|> the feeble, the blind and the lame, are called, and they come: those who are weak and despised in this world are often quicker to hear the voice of God, as they have nothing in the world to delight them." | everything that is secret and concealed, and do not show all your uncleanness to others; do not corrupt them by the breath of the wickedness concealed within you. Tell God your grief, that your soul is full of wickedness, and that your life is near to hell, but to other people show a bright and pleasant countenance. What have they to do with your madness? Or declare your soul's sickness to your confessor or to a true friend, so that they may teach you, guide you, and restrain you."
"Faith and hope are not merely casual or theoretical matters. Faith requires a steadfast soul, while hope needs a firm will and an honest heart. How without grace can one readily believe in things unseen? How can a man have hope concerning the hidden things held in store unless through his own integrity he has gained some experience of the Lord's gifts? These gifts of grace are a gage of the blessings held in store, which they manifest as present realities. Faith and hope, then, require both virtue on our part and God's inspiration and help. Unless both are present we labour in vain."
"God has chosen the despised in the world.' Often being despised recalls us to ourselves. The son who left his father and squandered his share of the property came to himself when he began to be hungry. He said: `How many of my father's hired servants have bread enough and to spare?' He went far away from himself when he sinned; he would never have come to himself if he hadn't suffered hunger. The loss of all his worldly goods led him to begin to think of the spiritual goods he had lost. The poor and | 340 |
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The Various Rites of Passage Rituals in Different Cultures
Rites of passage rituals celebrate the transitions in one's lives. Family and friends gather to bare witness, and impart wisdom, support, love, and strength in these crucial transitions.
Shruti Bhat
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Natives of Mentawai islands believe that the soul becomes dissatisfied with its bodily appearance and begins to die. In the pursuit to beautify their body, Mentawai women who have reached puberty sharpen their teeth to a point to make the body more appealing to the soul.
Most of the rites of passages are closely connected to the biological milestones of life, viz., birth, maturity, marriage/reproduction, and finally death. These rites and religious events prepare the person's transition from one phase of his/her life to another. Rites of passage are ceremonial events that mark the passage from one social status to another.
Rites of Passage Examples in Different Cultures
Rumspringa, meaning running around it, is derived from the word "rumpspringen", meaning to jump around. However, in the Amish community, it simply means adolescence.
Rumschpringe or Rumshpringa is a term used in the Amish community. The Amish are a subsect of the Anabaptist Christians, who live in segregation away from the rest of the world. Rumshpringa usually begins at the age of 14-16 and ends when the child chooses to be baptized within the Amish church or chooses to leave the community for good. This is also the time when spouses are chosen for the youngsters.
The youth are also allowed to engage in any form of rebellious behavior. Such behavior is seen as a part of the rite of passage and is often overlooked, and the rules and regulations of the Amish are relaxed in the youth. They are also sent out to acquire experience in the non-Amish world. The teenagers of a certain age and maturity are allowed to attend 'sings'. The main aim of the sings is to focus on courtship amongst themselves. Those who attend these sings may take part into wearing non-traditional clothes or hairstyle, drinking, not attending prayers at home, driving a motor vehicle, etc.
At the end of rumshpringa, they are left with two alternatives―one by which they are allowed to return to the community, are baptized, and have to follow the Ordnung and its laws, or choose to leave. Not many Amish youth diverge from the community during this period.
Buddhists do not require to observe a strict custom. This is because they mainly focus on the internal life. Some choose to take part in the passage ceremonies, while the rest do not. Either way, they are accepted into the community.
Newborn infants are blessed near a temple, and a candle is lit and allowed to melt into a bowl. This symbolizes the union of the basic elements of earth, fire, air, and water.
At the temple, the bride and groom arrive along with their family and friends. A Buddha's image is wrapped with a cotton thread. This thread encircles those who have come for the wedding. This symbolizes the union of all. During this ceremony, the monks chant their holy prayers, and the principle monk blesses the couple. He also cuts the two threads, one of which he ties around the groom's wrist, and the groom ties the other around the bride's wrist.
Some sections of Buddhists do not believe in reincarnation of the soul. It is the person's deeds and duties that cast the soul to the next step.
Rites of passage are also known as sacraments, which are believed to be "an outward sign of an inward grace." Most Protestants' denominations follow the Gospel sacraments.
As per the belief, no one is born a Christian; they become one after being christened as they go through the rites of entering the church. The Church of England practices baptizing infants, while introducing confirmation and holy communion for adults.
This is a practice followed by the Anglican church and is carried out by a Bishop. The candidate renews his baptismal vow and is anointed in oil. This process is still followed if the candidate has not been baptized as an infant.
Marriage is seen as a commitment between the husband and wife in the presence of the Christ, and family and friends who bare witness to their union. The main service is a reminder of the provision made in the Bible, and thus, it begins with the reading of the sermon. The priest leads the vows that are taken of companionship, respect, and love, through thick and thin situations. They are then confirmed with a ring that both the bride and groom place on each other's ring finger of the left hand. The priest then declares the two to be legally wed.
Initially, burials took place at night, and thus, everyone in the funeral procession wore black. However, the practice of wearing black carried on. Funeral procession is followed by burial and then the funeral feast. Christianity believes that death is not the end, but Jesus is victorious over death.
Rites of passage are not mere formalities for the Hindus, but they are part of soul purification during different aspects of life. They are known as 'samskara' or 'sanskara', meaning 'mental impression'. They are initially introduced to the young to teach them what their duties are after the ceremony is complete. As per the holy scriptures, there are 16 samskaras.
Simantoyannayanam (Baby shower)
This ceremony is conducted in the fourth, sixth, or eighth month of a woman's pregnancy. It is conducted to secure the health of both the mother and child. It is believed that the child sees through the mother's eyes, and thus, it is to show the child that he/she is welcome in the world. People and a priest are invited, and a small holy ceremony is conducted. The expecting mother is gifted with things she would need for her child.
Naamkaran (Naming ceremony)
After consulting a priest or an astrologer, a suitable letter is chosen for the child to be named with. Traditionally, the name is decided around the 11th day of the child's birth; however, nowadays, it is done as per the convenience of the parents.
Upanayana/Mundan (Thread ceremony)
This is followed only by the male child in many Hindu subsects. It is a sacred thread tying ceremony called the Yajñopaveetam. The child is taught the Gayatri mantra along with a few other mantras, and he steps into adulthood.
Vivaha (Marriage)
The bride and groom take fire as a witness to their union and walk around the sacred fire 7 times, each round signifying a promise. The groom ties a 'mangalsutra', a holy thread, around the girl's neck and fills her hair partition with red turmeric powder (kumkum/sindoor), which symbolizes that she is wed. Kanyadaanam is another vitally important aspect of any Hindu marriage. This is when the father or legal guardian of the bride hands over the responsibilities of their daughter to the groom.
Antyeshti (Cremation)
The body of the<|fim_middle|> the ceremony is performed by the male next to kin.
Islam and Judaism are two of the three Abraham's religions; thus, many rituals are common between the three.
Adhan
A prayer is whispered into the newborn's ears. These are the first words heard by the child. The child also gets a taste of sweetness with honey.
Tasmiyah (Naming ceremony)
The child is named in the presence of the whole family. Traditionally, the child is named on or before the 7th day of his/her birth.
Aqeeqah
During the seven days after the child's birth, this ceremony is held. The hair is shaved off, after which the child's head is weighed. The family donates gold that weighs the same as the hair in charity. They also sacrifice two livestock. A family and community meal is held thereafter.
Khitān (Circumcision)
This is where the foreskin of a boy child's penis is cut. It is done mainly to show cleanliness and purity. This step is ideally done in infancy and before puberty.
Fasting during the Ramadan starts at the age of 12. Islamic people fast during the day and eat only during the night during the month of Ramadan.
Islamic people believe that they should travel to Hajj once in their lifetime.
The body is wrapped in white and buried directly into the ground. The religion does not believe in coffins or tombstones.
Unlike some religions, a child is considered as a Jew if the mother is a Jew. Judaism sees the two genders under one light, except for two ceremonies.
A Jewish boy is circumcised (Brit Milhah) only as an infant. However, Jewish girls don't go through circumcision. Naming of the boys happens during circumcision. Like Islam, this too should be done within the first seven days of the child's birth.
Many Jews prefer to name the baby girl on the first Sabbath of her birth or any of the Torah readings, which is usually on a Monday, Thursday morning, or Sunday. The father is called to the Torah, and the girl child's name is told to him. A prayer is said for the health of girl child and her mother.
Bar Mitzvah and Bat Mitzvah
When a boy turns 13, he celebrates his stepping into manhood by reading the Torah, which is held at a synagogue followed by a small get-together/party at home. This ceremony is called Bar Mitzvah. Bat Mitzvah is held when a girl turns 12. As the two religions do not discriminate between the two genders, the girl too gets to read the Torah at the Temple on a Sabbath.
Death/Burial
Chevra Kadisha, a Jewish burial society, helps in the burial. Each member of the immediate family makes a tear in his garment, which is called keriah, indicating how death has torn them apart. Kaddish, a prayer recited in praise of the Lord, is said during the funeral process and up to the next 11 months. Following the burial rituals, a condolence meal is held together.
Different religions and cultures have varied forms of rite of passage. Some celebrate it as a party with near and dear ones, some choose to decorate their bodies with tattoos and piercing, while some like the Native Americans choose to go on a quest in search of enlightenment and growth. They leave as children only to return as men. There are many ways in which different stages of life are celebrated, especially coming of age.
Russ (Russefeiring) in Norway
Traditional jubilation for high school students during their final spring semester, indicating their entry into higher education.
Débutante ball
Formal presentation of a girl who has entered adulthood to the polite society.
Quinceañera or Sweet Sixteen in the US
Celebration of a girl's fifteenth birthday to mark her transition into womanhood.
Jugendweihe in East Germany
Coming-of-age ceremony in 14-year-olds, the age where he leaves school, to mark their entry into adulthood
Okuyi in Several West African Nations
Elaborated when an infant becomes 4 months old or when a child enters adolescence
In the professional field, one gets to see the white coat ceremony in the medical field, indicating a student's transition from pre-clinical to clinical sciences. While in the area of sports, we often to get to hear of the black belt, which is the highest level one has to reach in the field of martial arts. | diseased is cremated, and | 7 |
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#2951: The Hydra Stomper
Posted by Ethan Wilson in Reviews and tagged with All Time Toys, Captain America, Hasbro, Iron Man, Marvel, Marvel Legends, What If...? November 12, 2021
THE HYDRA STOMPER
"In the universe you know, Steve Rogers was the first Avenger, Captain America. In this universe, Steve is injured and fights in 'The Hydra Stomper,' an Iron Man armor created by Howard Stark."
Hey, we're back with just a touch more What If…? before we jump down a different Marvel rabbit hole for just a bit. In 2006, Marvel ran an alternate universe miniseries, Bullet Points, which explored a world where Dr. Abraham Erskine is killed prior to turning Steve Rogers into a super soldier. In this alternate reality, instead of becoming Captain America, Steve is given a suit of armor, and becomes that universe's Iron Man. Elements of this story were re-used for the first episode of What If…?, where, after Peggy gets the Super Soldier serum instead of Steve, he still wants to help out in the battle. Howard Stark uses the recently recovered Tesseract to power a suit of Iron Man-inspired armor, dubbed "The Hydra Stomper." He's far too large to be a standard release, so Hasbro has instead released him as his own solo release, tying in with the main assortment. Let's have a look at him today!
The Hydra Stomper is, as noted, a larger-scale solo release for Marvel Legends. He's larger than the usual deluxe release, and is at the same price point as the Surtur figure from the Infinity Saga line. By far, he is the largest of the What If…? associated figures at this time. The figure stands just shy of 9 1/2 inches tall and he has 27 points of articulation. In many ways, this figure's construction is similar to Iron Monger, although it's worth noting that there are no parts at all shared between the two figures. Just similar structures, likely because they're both big Iron Man-inspired designs that were in development by the same team at roughly the same time. The Hydra Stomper sports an all-new sculpt based on its design in the show. For this alternate universe armor, the designers have clearly put a lot of effort into homaging Tony Stark's original armor in the comics (which also served as the basis of the Mark I in the MCU proper), with its bulkier build, the slightly different layout of the faceplate on the helmet, and the presence of the antenna on the shoulder. What was that antenna for, by the way? Research says it was for extending his range for radio signal. Well, I guess it was the '60s, and that was a bigger thing then. It makes even more sense when you move it back to the '40s, even. Whatever the case, the original design is a fine starting point, and Steve was even seen using essentially just that armor in the aforementioned Bullet Points story, so it tracks. For the purposes of the show, they've done a bit to more clearly sell the WWII-era military branding of the design. Effectively, it looks like a Jeep that walks. Unsurprisingly, I am okay with this. The figure's sculpt does a nice job of recreating the design from the show, and turning it into a hefty, impressive looking toy. The line work is all pretty sharp, and he looks properly machined for the role. Range of motion is a little limited at a few spots, as is expected with a figure this chunky, but he's generally not too bad. The roughest bits are definitely in the legs, especially at the knees and hips. He also does need a little bit of care when it comes to making sure he can stay balanced, especially when the rocket pack is in place. Said rocket pack is removable, and features posable thrusters. It's a decent piece itself, though it does fall off just a touch easier than I'd like. As it stands, it's not really possible to get Captain Carter on his back like in the show, even with the handhold present on his back, which I was a little let down by. Hydra Stomper's paint work is pretty basic for the most part, but it does what it needs to. The few printed sections on the armor look nice, as does the slight variation in the exact color of olive drab. Hydra Stomper is packed with two sets of hands (open gesture and fists), plus two blast effects for the rockets. It's not a ton, but he's also a rather sizable figure, so he doesn't really feel lacking.
The Hydra Stomper is something that almost feels tailored to me, really. I mean, it's Steve Rogers in a big, boxy suit of armor with lots of utilitarian design elements and just a hint of Jeep. And he's green, even? What's not for me to like. Unsurprisingly, he was the What If…? figure I was looking forward to the most, so of course he was also the last one I was able to get ahold of. That's just how it goes, right? The final product isn't without its flaws. I wish he was a little more stable, and I wish it was easier to replicate Carter riding on his back like in the show. I also kind of wish that they had gone the Monger route and packed him with a pilot Steve figure, but I can see why that might have been seen as sales prohibitive this early in the game. All those things don't take away from the fact that I really, really like this figure, and I'm glad to have gotten both he and Captain Carter so quickly after the episode's premiere. He's definitely very fun.
#2949: The Watcher
Posted by Ethan Wilson in Reviews and tagged with All Time Toys, Build a Figure, Hasbro, Marvel, Marvel Legends, The Watcher, Watcher Series, What If...? November 10, 2021
"Time. Space. Reality. It's more than a linear path. It's a prism of endless possibility, where a single choice can branch out into infinite realities, creating alternate worlds from the ones you know. I am the Watcher. I am your guide through these vast new realities. Follow me and ponder the question…What If?"
First introduced during Stan Lee and Jack Kirby's second year on Fantastic Four, the Watchers have remained a consistent fixture in the background of the Marvel Universe. Our central Watcher, named Uatu in the main universe, at least, participated in numerous prominent events, most notably the Galactus Trilogy, where he was forced to break his vow of non-interference to help save the planet from destruction. Uatu became a fixture<|fim_middle|> of articulation. The mobility on the figure is a little bit restricted by the design, of course. He's got full articulation on the legs, for instance, but the rubber skirt piece pretty much means you're not ever going to do much with them. The arms at least have a little more room for range, though the right arm has been tweaked so that its articulation won't break up the sculpt of the sleeve too much. The sculpt is an all-new offering, clearly based on his main animation design. I don't know that there's a ton of re-use potential here, but I suppose some of it could be repurposed if they wanted to do an Armored Watcher…that'd actually be pretty cool. The sculpt is a pretty decent one. He captures the character's on-screen design pretty well, while still fitting in pretty nicely with the line as a whole in terms of styling. In particular, I think the head has turned out very nicely. He's got a neutral expression that doesn't seem like it's doing too much, but has some subtleties to it when you look at it more closely, much like a proper Watcher sculpt should have. The Watcher's paint work is overall pretty basic. Mostly, it's just molded colors, like the rest of the assortment, but there's some nice work on the head again, which gives him a fair bit of character. The Watcher is without any extras or accessories, but I'm not sure what there would be to give him, and he's honestly an accessory himself, so it's not a big deal.
The Watcher is one of those important characters from a story perspective that doesn't really make for the easiest toy translation, since he, by design, doesn't really do much action oriented stuff. The Marvel Select kind of fulfilled what need there was for him, but that one got very hard to find, and he started to look a little out of place with some of the newer stuff. An update's not a bad thing, and I was actually pretty happy to see him turn up here. The end product isn't amazingly playable or exciting, but he's a solid piece, and he looks very nice with the rest of the set.
I like this set quite a bit overall. Captain Carter is definitely the star piece for me, with Zombie Cap not too far behind. Strange and Sylvie are both solid figures that are only held back by a few small things. Heist Nebula is a fun, if not essential piece. Zombie Hunter Spider-Man is at least an okay basic Spider-Man under it all, if nothing else. T'Challa's really the only weak link, and it's not even that he's a bad figure, just sort of a messy one with limited applications. And The Watcher's really one of the best choices for a Build-A-Figure in a while.
#2947: Heist Nebula
Posted by Ethan Wilson in Reviews and tagged with All Time Toys, Guardians of the Galaxy, Hasbro, Marvel, Marvel Legends, Nebula, Watcher Series, What If...? November 8, 2021
HEIST NEBULA
"Tech savvy and brave, the intergalactic Femme Fatale, Nebula is an intergalactic opportunist in the galaxy's underworld."
And we're back to the Legends reviews. I left off on Friday only part way through the reviews for the Watcher Series, a largely What If…? based assortment of figures, so for the first half of this week, I'll be wrapping those up. The first of those returning reviews is a second figure from the show's second episode, "What If…T'Challa Became a Star-Lord?" We already took a look at the episode's title character, but now let's take a look at T'Challa's intergalactic love interest and business partner, Nebula!
Heist Nebula is figure 5 in the Watcher Series of Marvel Legends. She's designed for pairing off with the T'Challa figure, and really not much else, but I'm hardly one to complain. This marks Nebula's second time as a Legend, or third if you count the extra head included in the Endgame Hawkeye and Widow pack, which feels like a real stretch to me. The figure stands just shy of 6 1/4 inches tall and she has 28 points of articulation. Nebula is one of the heaviest parts-re-use figures in this line-up, which was probably a large contributing factor to her getting made in the first place. From the middle of the torso down, she's re-using the last Nebula's parts, along with a set of standard female base body arms. The head, upper torso, and belt are what's new here. Generally speaking, the last Nebula figure wasn't a bad sculpt, and the costume design remained quite similar, so it makes sense to re-use. The new parts mesh well, and are generally well-rendered. I quite like the new head; it's got a lot of character, and maintains some of the animation style, without going too deep into it the way T'Challa did. The paint work on this figure supports her overall cleaned up appearance well. The colors are close to her prior figure, while still being brightened up a bit, making them a little more eye-catching. Nebula is packed with two sets of hands (trigger fingers and an open gesture/fist combo), her unique blaster pistol, and the upper and lower torso, collar, and skirt for the Watcher.
I quite liked the show's new take on Nebula, and I really enjoyed her more cleaned up design, so I was certainly okay with her getting a figure. She's definitely the most oddball choice of the assortment, but I still like her as a figure. I think it's a design that translated well, and I'm ultimately glad she got the nod for this set. I hope she signifies a chance to get some of the other secondary characters, should they do another assortment of these figures.
#2944: Doctor Strange Supreme
Posted by Ethan Wilson in Reviews and tagged with All Time Toys, Doctor Strange, Hasbro, Marvel, Marvel Legends, Watcher Series, What If...? November 5, 2021
DOCTOR STRANGE SUPREME
"When an unforeseen event changes Stephen Strange's perspective on life, the path he chooses is one filled with even darker magic."
In the comics, What If…? stories could have a real tendency to end on a major downer note. The show didn't do that quite as much, but episode 4, "What If…Doctor Strange Lost His Heart Instead of His Hands?" goes full-on into that downer territory, as a desperate Stephen Strange's path winds up having reality destroying implications. It's also the first episode to show the Watcher in any way interacting with those he's watching, setting up the events of the season's final two episodes. All-in-all, it's a very classically "What If…?" story, albeit not one that exactly gets the warm fuzzies going. As such a overarching plot relevant story, it's not a huge shock that the altered version of Stephen Strange got a figure, which I'm taking a look at today.
Doctor Strange Supreme is figure 4 in the Watcher Series of Marvel Legends. He's the only figure based on his episode of the show specifically, but there aren't a ton of other looks to choose from, so he can kind of mix in with pre-existing figures, and also pairs off pretty well with the Watcher Build-A-Figure that I'll be looking at next week. The figure is specifically based on Strange's darker "Supreme" appearance from late in the episode, as well as his reappearances in the final two episodes of the season. Definitely a solid choice for design, since it gets a lot of play. The figure stands just shy of 6 1/2 inches tall and he has 32 points of articulation. Strange's sculpt is a mix of old and new. His lower half is re-used from the first movie Strange, while the rest of the figure is an all-new sculpt, based more directly on the show's tweaked design for the character. He sticks much closer to how Peggy's sculpt handled things in regards to walking the line between animation and realism. His head sculpt in particular is clearly very much based on the animation model from the show, but it makes it work, and he doesn't look completely out of place with standard MCU figures. No doubt, his exaggeratedly gaunt appearance in the episode aids in that. Also like Peggy, I feel that this cartoony sculpt manages to have a better overall likeness to Cumberbatch than even the improved Infinity War release had. I really quite like it. The torso and arms are a good middle ground between the realistic legs and the more cartoony head. They're slightly simplified in terms of texturing, and the proportions are certainly a little more exaggerated, but it's generally a good look. To denote his different path in the show, Strange doesn't get his Cloak of Levitation, but instead gets a slightly more evil coded equivalent. It's an all-new piece, and, while the Cloak of Levitation didn't get this, this new cloak pegs into place on Strange's back. It's a little loose, but generally it looks pretty good, and I love how dynamic the sculpt is. Strange's paint work is pretty much on par with the rest of the figures in the set. His base work is clean and colorful, and there's some solid accenting on the face to help sell how far gone he is, which works pretty well. In terms of accessories, Strange is packed with the alternate Time Stone effect hand we saw with the IW figure, as well as the left leg to the Watcher figure. I like getting the Time Stone hand again, and I'm glad that it's just an alternate piece this time around, but it's a shame we couldn't get any alternate parts to represent the alternate forms Strange took while absorbing all of his power. That definitely would have been cool.
The Doctor Strange episode wasn't my favorite episode of the season, but it did certainly resonate with me on a slightly more personal level. I also did really like the redesign they gave him, and it wound up translating quite well into toy form. While I wasn't in a crazy rush to get this one, I did certainly like the look of him a fair bit. He's definitely one of the better figures in the set, behind Peggy and Zombie Cap.
#2943: Zombie Hunter Spidey
Posted by Ethan Wilson in Reviews and tagged with All Time Toys, Hasbro, Marvel, Marvel Legends, Peter Parker, Spider-Man, Watcher Series, What If...? November 4, 2021
ZOMBIE HUNTER SPIDEY
"Zombie Hunter Spidey is in a ragtag group of survivors, fighting his way through a zombie-infested world."
In the original Marvel Zombies, just about all of the major heroes had been zombified, which included everyone's favorite web-slinger, who in the main story actually served as sort of the token good guy of the zombie group. For the purposes of the MCU version of the story, the zombies no longer retain their personalities, and Peter Parker is also spared his zombified fate, instead becoming the story's central remaining human character. It makes him a solid choice for toy treatment, I suppose, and so I'm looking at that figure today.
Zombie Hunter Spidey is figure 3 in the Watcher Series of Marvel Legends, and the second figure in the assortment based on the "Zombies" episode. The figure stands just under 6 inches tall and he has 30 points of articulation. The articulation scheme on the figure is a little bit outmoded in its implementation, so he's not quite as agile as you might hope. Notably, as a first for an MCU Spidey, he lacks butterfly joints on the shoulders. Not exactly sure why, but that's how it is. Peter's design in the episode is a mix of a few of his designs from the movies, most heavily leaning on his Homecoming appearance, which is really the most classically "Spider-Man" look of the bunch. To that end, his sculpt makes use of parts from the Homecoming figure (which does again raise the question of why the shoulder joints were adjusted.) The figure's upper torso and arms are new pieces, following the slightly tweaked design of the suit from the episode. It's really not terribly removed from the other MCU Spider-Men, which I suppose is the point, really. During the course of the episode, Peter inherits Doctor Strange's cloak of levitation, and as such the figure gets its own version of the piece. It's totally unique from the ones we've gotten with the various Strange figures, which was honestly surprising. It also has no peg or anything to hold it in place, which does make it a bit hard to keep it seated properly. Zombie Hunter Spidey's paint work is notably brighter in color than other versions of the MCU suit, bit it works well. There's a bit of shading to indicate the suit's gotten a little dirty during the apocalypse, which makes sense, and also keeps him from being too bland. Spidey is packed with an alternate unmasked head, two sets of hands (fists and thwipping), and the right leg to the Watcher Build-A-Figure.
I had not particular attachment to this figure before the episode aired, and I still really didn't have any after. Mostly, I got him because I was getting the whole set. He's an MCU Spidey wearing a Doctor Stange cape. That's really it. It's not like he does that badly, I suppose, though the decision to remove the butterfly joints and not to include a peg on the cape both do seem rather strange, and also serve to kind of hold him back a bit. Ultimately, he's a rather middle of the road figure.
#2942: Captain Carter
Posted by Ethan Wilson in Reviews and tagged with All Time Toys, Hasbro, Marvel, Marvel Legends, Peggy Carter, Watcher Series, What If...? November 3, 2021
CAPTAIN CARTER
"With the Super Soldier program in peril, Peggy Carter bravely participates by becoming Captain Carter."
Kicking off the What If…? show was a concept that goes back to the earliest days of what we've seen of the MCU (so far, at least; Eternals is definitely gonna change that), with a story that slightly deviates during the events of Captain America: The First Avenger, presenting a version of events where it's Peggy Carter, not Steve Rogers, who becomes the Super Soldier. By far, it's the season's strongest entry, wonderfully capturing the look and feel of the original film, while also doing a fantastic job of exploring in depth the changes that Peggy as a Super Soldier would cause. And, hey, there's obviously a figure, because why wouldn't there be? Let's see how she turned out!
Captain Carter is figure 2 in the Watcher Series of Marvel Legends. She's specifically based on her design from the first episode of the season, while she's fighting Hydra in the '40s. It's the look that got the most play in the lead up, and it's also the one that matches up with Hydra Stomper, who's also in the first drop of figures, so it's a solid choice. The figure stands just shy of 6 1/2 inches tall and she has 31 points of articulation. Compared to the two other figures I've looked at so far, Peggy's articulation scheme is closer to Zombie Cap. It's not quite as optimized as Zombie Cap's was; there are a few more restricted joints, especially at the neck (due to the hair), and the elbows and knees aren't quite as smoothly worked into the body, but it's generally very workable, and she's pretty stable on her feet, which are definite pluses. Peggy's sculpt is a completely new affair, though it's already been slated for a repaint for the Target-exclusive Stealth Captain Carter that's coming next spring. The sculpt is quite a nice piece. She's definitely inspired by the animation style, more so than being a strictly realistically styled figure, but she doesn't go as far with it as the T'Challa figure did, which means she has an easier time slotting in with other figures from the main line. It's a very nice middle ground, and I think it makes for the best possible toy adaptation. Though technically a slightly cartoonized take, the likeness on the head is an even better match for Haylee Atwell than the movie-style Peggy, and is just genuinely one of the nicest head sculpts that Hasbro's done for a Legends figure. The detailing on the rest of the sculpt is quite nice; in order to keep with the animated look, much of the texturing and such is a lot smoother, but there's still a lot of detailing on the actual line-work of the uniform. Peggy's construction uses a lot of smaller parts for the assembly, so there doesn't have to be quite as much actual paint. It means that the base color work is all very clean, since it's not actually paint. What paint is there is generally pretty decent. The work on the face is definitely the best work. There's some slop on the red parts on the torso, but otherwise it's generally pretty clean. Peggy is packed with her version of the vibranium shield, as well as both arms to the Watcher Build-A-Figure. The shield is smaller than Steve's, and it's hard to tell if that's accurate, since it does seem to fluctuate in size based on what it's doing in the show. Generally, it seems to scale well to her, though, and they actually gave her a gripping hand for actually holding the straps for a change. I'll call that a win for sure.
Captain Carter was very definitely the concept I was looking forward to the most when What If…? was announced, and it was by far my favorite episode of the season. I pretty much just loved every minute of it, really. I was absolutely down for this figure as soon as she was announced, and she was the figure I was most looking forward to in the main assortment. There was a pretty high bar for this figure to clear, and to Hasbro's credit, I really feel they cleared it. This is one of my favorite Legends of the last year, and she's just a good all-around toy. I can't wait to get Hydra Stomper in hand to go with her!
#2941: T'Challa Star-Lord
Posted by Ethan Wilson in Reviews and tagged with All Time Toys, Black Panther, Hasbro, Marvel, Marvel Legends, Star-Lord, Watcher Series, What If...? November 2, 2021
T'CHALLA STAR-LORD
"T'Challa grew up in space and became Star-Lord, now leading adventures throughout the galaxy."
Some of the concepts in What If…? are simple minor changes to a specific story, some are straight forward concepts injected into the overall narrative of the MCU, but some are….well, they're kind of out there. Of the more out there ideas, perhaps the most successful is "What If…T'Challa Became a Star-Lord?," an episode that out of nowhere decides to mix Black Panther and Guardians of the Galaxy. Why? Reasons, that's why. It's maybe a little limited in its ultimate scope and at times almost feels like a parody of its self, but it's ultimately a fun story, and one of the first season's more memorable episodes. It makes its main character a pretty natural choice for our first selection of figures, and I'm going to be taking a look at him today.
T'Challa Star-Lord is figure 1 in the Watcher Series of Marvel Legends. He's based on the character's appearance in the second and ninth episodes of the show. The figure stands just shy of 6 1/2 inches tall and he has 30 points of articulation. T'Challa's articulation scheme follows the rather established format for the line, but it ultimately feels like it's not really fully optimized. The articulation is there, the layout is there, the range isn't terrible, but ultimately, it just doesn't feel like it flows. The elbows have a tendency to stick, and getting both halves of the joint to articulate can be frustrating. The knees are similar, though to a lesser extent, and the ankles are also prone to sticking as well, though in a slightly different way. In general, it's just not super pleasant to pose this guy. T'Challa's sculpt is an almost all-new affair. The hands are re-used from the Vol 2 Star-Lord, which seems like it's not a big deal on the outset, but that's…well I'll get to it momentarily. The rest of the sculpt is new. While the assortment as a whole is clearly inspired by the animation style of the show, T'Challa's sculpt is the most directly based on the animation model. This tweaks the figure's the proportions, as well as leaving him a lot simpler on the detail front. It makes the articulation stand out a lot more, which isn't the best from an aesthetic standpoint. It also means he doesn't quite blend in as well with the other MCU figures, which is a might limiting. The head is clearly meant to be the animated T'Challa likeness, but it's a little off, notably with how the hair is shaped. It's just not quite right. Also, remember the hands that are re-used? Well, they still have all the very realistic detailing, plus they're pretty large, which means they just generally don't match up with the rest of the figure. The paint work on this guy is at least pretty decent. It's fairly cleanly handled and generally follows the show design well. It's not the most thrilling design, but it is what it is. T'Challa is packed with two element guns (re-used from the prior Star-Lords), an alternate helmeted head, and the head to the Watcher Build-A-Figure. The helmeted head isn't bad as far as the helmet goes, but for some reason they've given him this weird raised hairpiece, which doesn't match the animation at all, and just generally looks silly, leaving him with two heads that both just don't really jibe with me.
The Star-Lord T'Challa concept is definitely a weird one that I really wasn't sure about at first, but the final episode was entertaining enough. The prototype for this guy wasn't one I was super impressed by, but I was hoping he might be better in-hand. Unfortunately, that didn't wind up being the case. I don't think he's a bad figure, but he just feels like his various parts just don't gel together the way they should. Generally, he's just kind of underwhelming. To give him a little bit of credit, he did grow on me a little during the review process, so he's not a total loss. That said, he's definitely the weakest of this particular set.
#2940: Zombie Captain America
Posted by Ethan Wilson in Reviews and tagged with All Time Toys, Captain America, Hasbro, Marvel, Marvel Legends, Watcher Series, What If...?, Zombie November 1, 2021
ZOMBIE CAPTAIN AMERICA
"Captain America's team were the first responders to the zombie outbreak — and its first victims."
October may be over, but the spookiness continues….well, for today at least. But it's in this great sweet spot of spookiness *and* Marvel. Because, well, it kind of has to be, because how else am I going to get all these Legends reviewed. Yay for the crossover potential of Marvel Zombies! First appearing in the pages of Ultimate Fantastic Four in 2005, later that same year Marvel Zombies launched in its own book, spawning a whole franchise within a franchise. Said franchise within the franchise then made its way into the MCU this year in What If…?'s fifth episode, aptly titled "What if…Zombies?" My opinions on What If…? were a bit mixed, and the zombies episode was itself rather a mixed bag for me, but there's no denying that the zombies make for a good concept for toys, especially when it gives me a good excuse to buy another Captain America, who, it should be noted, remains a Captain in this universe, rather than getting a promotion to Colonel as his does in *some* zombie universes out there.
Zombie Captain America is part of the Watcher Series of Marvel Legends. He's unnumbered, as the one figure in the set that doesn't actually include a piece for the Build-A-Figure (ironic that the zombie is the only one that doesn't include an extra body part), and he's also the double packed figure for this assortment. The figure stands 6 1/4 inches tall and he has 30 points of articulation. Compared to other MCU Cap figures, the articulation scheme on this one is definitely improved. There's a better range of motion on most of the joints, as well as use of ball joints at both the neck and the mid-torso, which supports a more fluid range than prior molds had. He also gets pinless construction on both the elbows and knees. While you would think that a Zombie Cap would be a good excuse to share some parts with older MCU Cap releases, this figure shares only the left boot with the Infinity War version. Everything else is all-new to this release. The helmet and shoulder harness pieces are separate parts, adding some nice depth to the sculpt. The uniform is also nicely detailed, and there's some fantastic work on the tattered remains hanging around the major spots of damage on the body. Speaking of the damage, the actual damage is a lot more gruesome and in depth than I'd had anticipated on a mass retail release. The legs in particular are quite gnarled. It's some truly impressive work. Aiding the rather impressive sculpted work is some pretty solid paint work as well. All of the base work is pretty straight forward, and matches the color scheme presented in the show, but they've also added a degree of blood coverage (albeit in a slightly purple color, so it's not explicitly blood) around the wounds. Hasbro doesn't often do this kind of accent work, so it's certainly nice to see them do it here, especially when the confines of a mass retail release would have given them an easy pass for not including some of these details. Cap's only accessory is his shield; it's the same mold they've been using since the First Ten Years release, but this time with a bit of that purple splatter on the front of it. It's a good piece, but he does end up feeling a little bit light compared to other offerings. That said, I'm not really sure what else he could have gotten.
I run hot and cold when it comes to zombies, and I wasn't super big on the episode this figure was based on, so I wasn't really sure how I'd feel about this figure in hand. That said, he's still a Captain America, and I do have a hard time passing on those. I gotta say, this is honestly one of the strongest figures in this set. He's just a solid figure from start to finish. Really, I just wish we had a more standard Cap that matched this one in quality, but that's hardly on this particular release. He's utterly fantastic, really. | of Marvel's What If…? title with its launch in 1977, serving as a host for the stories featured, much like Rod Serling in The Twilight Zone. For the MCU's animated adaptation of the concept, the Watcher is back in his central role as host, now voiced by Jeffery Wright. And, in a rather fitting fashion, he's also the central piece of the tie-in toy assortment as well.
The Watcher is the eponymous Build-A-Figure for the Watcher Series of Marvel Legends. He's a perfect choice for the spot, since he's got ties to (almost) all of the figures in the set. This is the first time the Watcher has been included in Legends, and only his second time as a figure, following his Marvel Select figure from several years back. He's of course based on his show design, but the nature of that design does also give him the ability to work in a multi-faceted sense. The figure stands 8 3/4 inches tall and he has 28 points | 219 |
This past summer photographer William Brehm had the opportunity to work with John and Ann Lynch and their family to create a new family wall portrait for their den. The shoot took place at the Lynch's home on the Union River in Ellsworth.
Above is the image the family selected for the place<|fim_middle|> Riverside Studio. | of honor in the den. It was a fun session working with the children and the family's Chesapeake Bay Retriver.
This past year we had the opportunity to work with the good folks at Perry's Nut House to help them create a new souvenir brochure. Photographer William Brehm was called upon by Graphic designer Ross Cottrell of Cottrell Designs to photograph the entire location of Perry's in Belfast. Everything from families having fun at the fudge counter to the collection of taxidermy was part of this photo shoot. Excerpts of the finished brochure appear below.
Vist Perry's online www.perrysnuthouse.com/index.htm and when in Belfast make sure you stop and visit the Nut House but be warned, once you have tasted some of the delicious fudge and assorted other goodies you may become addicted. Creating the images used in this project was only the beginning of the creation process. Ross Cotrell did a fabulous job putting this brochure together. He is one of the finest graphic designers we have ever worked with. If you would like to discuss your next print design project with him, he can be reached at 207-567-4228.
Photographer William Brehm of Riverside Studio entered two photos into the Lensbaby Photo Contest today. The first is a floral image taken this past spring at our photo park. The title is: Eyes of Spring.
The second image is Titled: Beagle Eyes. It is an image of our sweet little beagle companion "Bijou".
Any photographer who uses a lensbaby lens is invited to participate. Click on this link http://www.lensbaby.com/getpublished/ to view contest details. Judging will take place during the first week of January. The winning images will be published in a new hardcover book by Lensbaby Guru Corey Hilz, featuring photographic images created using lensbaby lens exclusively..
On August 15th Kate & Ellard tied the knot on Isle au Haut Maine.
It was a spectacular sunny day and the all island event was not to be missed. The ceremony took place at the Union Congregational Church and was conducted by Rev. Ted Hoskins.
The ceremony was followed by a lobster bake on the Head Harbor beach at the home of Kate and Ellard. Lobsters were provided by several local fisherman and other foods were prepared by a number of Isle au Haut residents.
The cake was made by Kate Shaffer of the famous Black Dinah Chocolatiers located on Isle au Haut.
We were truly blessed to be a part of this wonderful community event and have the opportunity to record the special moments of the day.
Based on the good vibes in the air that day it looks like Kate & Ellard's future happiness together is a SURE THING.
Kate & Ellard Isle au Haut Wedding was photographed by Maine Wedding Photographer William Brehm.
Dennis & Jennifer tied the knot on October 3rd in Northeast Harbor and Bar Harbor Maine.
The newlyweds were married in a ceremony at St. Mary's Episcopal Church in Northeast Harbor. The marriage ceremony was conducted by Rev. Patricia Robertson.
The ceremony was followed by a grand reception at the Walsh House Reception Hall at the Bar Harbor Regency.
It was all smiles in the limo on the way to the big party. All the best to Jennifer & Dennis for many years to come.
Dennis & Jennifer's wedding was photographed by Award Winning Maine Wedding Photographer William Brehm.
Over the years we have had the pleasure of photographing what are in our opinion the most beautiful gardens in Maine. The genius and talent of Master Landscape Architect Bruce John Riddell are apparent when you look at these images of his wonderful zen inspired garden designs.
To see more of Bruce's beautiful garden creations be sure to visit his website. www.landartdesigner.com Photography by William Brehm – Riverside Studio Photography. Garden Design by Bruce John Riddell.
We will be featuring more of Bruce's Garden's in future posts.
Stephanie is the latest Maine high school senior to have beautiful senior portraits created at our studio and photo park. Stephanie is a Senior at Sumner Memorial HS in Sullivan Maine. From the looks of things Steph could have a career as a fashion model. Way to go Stephanie and thank you for having your once in a lifetime Senior Portraits taken at | 884 |
Yesterday on Talk of the Nation the lead story was on Medicare's new prescription drug benefit card program. What caught my attention was the way that a government agency in a matter of months was able to put together a very sophisticated customer interaction system from a highly interactive and<|fim_middle|>07. I think we're not very far from it right now. | informative Web site to trained call center agents ready to answer questions.
If you haven't heard much about this program, there are over 70 different cards that a senior can choose from and which one is best depends on a number of circumstances including what drugs they take, where they live, if they're willing to use mail order, and so on. Seniors can call or go online and be walked through a series of questions which, if all goes well, will result in a set of recommendations in a personalized pamphlet.
Its interesting to me that a government agency could be this agile. I suspect that some of that is an "exception mentality." The program is also being pushed hard so that its available well before November elections. Of course, Medicare didn't do this themselves. They outsourced it.
More and more companies outsource their customer service. Over the years, companies that take that business have gone by various names: call center, contact center, and so on. Sento, where I serve on the board, is in the business of providing customer service for other companies, with the aim of creating as many opportunities for customers to self-service as possible. What we're seeing however, is a move toward integrating more and more of the customer touch-points into coordinated systems. Such systems not only integrate a customer service Web site with the contact agent system (including email, chat, and phone) but also customer sales tools. Gartner calls this the "customer interaction hub" or CIH.
As an example of kind of customer sales tool I'm thinking of, the other day, I was on the Comcast site trying to see if they now have service in my neighborhood (they've been digging up streets and lawns for months). I was answering various questions and getting information back from the site. I realized that there was precious little difference, either technically or conceptually, from a pure-play customer service portal and Comcast's pre-sales tool. Pre-sales or post-sales, the customer interaction ought to be coordinated and integrated to give the best experience.
That would indicate that in choosing an outsourcing partner for your customer service, you ought to also ask "can this same company help be build my pre and post sales customer portals, integrate with my CRM tools, and manage a full range of contact options with an eye toward helping my customers have a satisfying experience?" Gartner doesn't think this will happen until 20 | 486 |
Home Contract Awards 6 Firms Awarded $970M in DTRA IDIQ Contracts to Support Cooperative Threat Reduction Program
6 Firms Awarded $970M in DTRA IDIQ Contracts to Support Cooperative Threat Reduction Program
Nichols Martin
Contract Awards,News
Six companies have won contracts worth up to $970 million combined to support a Defense Threat Reduction Agency program that aims to stop the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
DTRA's Cooperative Threat Reduction program seeks to collaborate with foreign countries to counter WMD threats and related technology, materials, expertise and facilities, the Defense Department said Tuesday.
The awardees are:
AECOM's (NYSE: ACM)Â URS Federal Services business
<|fim_middle|> across the globe. | Jacobs Engineering Group's (NYSE: JEC) CH2M subsidiary
Raytheon (NYSE: RTN)
The government received seven offers for the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contracts with a base period and seven options.
DTRA may issue task orders that span for up to three years after the final ordering date and the agency will obligate funds per task order for work that will take place at various locations | 93 |
A reception was held in January at the Landmark Centre in Bristol, Tenn., in honor of Rich Boyd, who recently retired after 28 years as executive director of the Tennessee Arts Commission (TAC).
More than 75 people attended the event, which was hosted by Arts Alliance Mountain Empire, Johnson City Area Arts Council, KingsportARTS, and past chairs of the TAC — Nancy DeFriece, Ed Gerace, and Ann Smith. Tennessee Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey spoke, as well as city officials from Johnson City and Bristol.
Representatives from various arts agencies spoke briefly on their respective organizations and how Boyd and the TAC played a role in making each of them a success. Among those speaking on behalf of the arts were Jordan Pennington, Arts Alliance Mountain Empire; Cathie Faust, KingsportARTS; Cornelia Laemmli-Orth, Symphony of the Mountains; Richard Rose, Barter Theatre; and Leah Ross, Rhythm & Roots Reunion and Birthplace of Country Music Alliance (BCMA).
"The number in attendance to honor the contributions to the arts by Rich Boyd far exceeded all expectations," said Fred McClellan,<|fim_middle|> of the board, an energetic and talented staff, and with so many gifted arts leaders, supporters and artists across the state," said Boyd. "I have been on an incredible journey, enjoying every road I have traveled and delighting in the many individual paths I have crossed. It was a new adventure every day." | founding president of BCMA. "It was a celebration that represented the diverse spectrum of arts organizations and leadership, from throughout Northeast Tennessee and Southwest Virginia. Together, we salute Rich Boyd. The arts make good sense, good business, and improve the quality of life."
During Boyd's tenure with TAC, the organization became one of the foremost agencies in the nation for public funding, arts education, advocacy, promotion and preservation of cultural heritage, strategic planning, support of individual artists, and innovative services to constituents in all arts disciplines. During Boyd's 12 years as director, funding provided by TAC for cultural activities increased from $2.8 million to $7.3 million.
"It has been more than an honor to work with the dedicated members | 151 |
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HAVING ( ?cnt = 3 ) # three incoming nodes
| pattern finding in SPARQL I have a collection of RDF triples like following.
id#7289587 ex:getInfectedBy id#7748320
id#7694711 ex:getInfectedBy id#7748320
id#7748322 ex:getInfectedBy id#7748320
id#7748887 ex:getInfectedBy id#7748320
id#7746679 ex:getInfectedBy id#7748510
id#6434108 ex:getInfectedBy id#7748510
id#7458397 ex:getInfectedBy id#7748510
My goal is to count star subgraph pattern of the various node lengths (4,5,6,...,20). For example, I have written following query to find a star subgraph pattern of node length 4 (?s1 ?s2 ?s3 ?o).
SELECT ?o count(distinct ?o)
WHERE
{
?s1 ?p ?o.
?s2 ?p ?o.
?s3 ?p ?o.FILTER((?s1!=?s2) && (?s1!=?s3) && (?s2!=?s3))
} group by ?o
The above mentioned query count star pattern length of node 4 for both nodes id#7748320 and id#7748510. However it suppose to give me the result for only node id#7748510. If I modify the query with 5 node star pattern then nodeid#7748320 shows up there as well. Could you please help me to fix it?
Is it possible to count star subgraph pattern of various node length (4,5,6,...,20) with one query? Please let me know. I appreciate your help.
A: In addition to my comment, I would simply use a different and more efficient query which "counts all incoming nodes per node" and then filter it by using HAVING:
SELECT ?o (COUNT(DISTINCT ?s) AS ?cnt)
WHERE
{ ?s ?p ?node }
GROUP BY ? | 527 |
West Kirby RNLI rescue Comet the Cocker Spaniel from mud flats
Sunday 2 August 2020
West Kirby RNLI rescued a black Cocker Spaniel dog that had become separated from its' owner after chasing birds to the waters edge on West Kirby beach.
Following a distressed phonecall from the owner of the dog, HM Coastguard contacted West Kirby RNLI's Lifeboat Operations Manager, Richard Diamond, directly for advice at 3:30pm regarding an animal rescue. Whilst walking on Cubbins Green the young dog, Comet, had become excited by the sea birds and darted off from the owner into the distance across the shore.
The owner had contacted HM Coastguard, who had advised her to proceed with caution and to avoid any muddy areas of the beach due to the risk of becoming stuck. The owner acted in accordance with the advice and did not enter the muddy area of the beach, and then proceeded to West Kirby RNLI's station for further support.
The volunteer crew were paged at 3:35pm and the<|fim_middle|>, and was transferred onto the boat prior to the journey back across the beach. Comet was returned to its' very relieved owner, who had acted appropriately by immediately contacting HM Coastguard for guidance. The crew received a round of applause from members of the public who had gathered, whilst adhering to socially distance rules, to witness the safe return of the animal.
Speaking following the call out, Richard Diamond, West Kirby RNLI Lifeboat Operations Manager said: 'The owner should be praised for contacting HM Coastguard and asking for guidance. Never enter into soft muddy areas as it is very easy to become bogged down and at risk yourself if there is an incoming tide, in particular. Please always contact HM Coastguard, who will deploy the most appropriate team to deal with any emergency.'
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West Kirby Lifeboat Station | whole team were deployed to search the beach using West Kirby RNLI's Hagglund BV tractor and on foot. The BV is designed to be easily manoeuvrable on mud flats without risk of sinking, and the ideal vehicle for such a rescue.
The volunteer crew tracked out to the moorings across the soft mud having spotted the Cocker Spaniel at a distance from the slipway. The dog was exhausted, but unharmed | 89 |
Trials, tribulations, tests. These are typically unwel<|fim_middle|> elevate us. Through the times of pressure and stress, you learn about yourself, the people around you. You realize how strong you really are, especially after you've gone through the trials and persevered.
We can't see what's before us, but we can look back and see the troubles in our life and how they've made us who we are. You choose to see that as a good thing or a bad one. Do you become bitter, resentful, closed off? Or do you rise to become wise, knowledgeable and more importantly, empathetic to those going through similar struggles? That choice is ultimately yours.
Some of you may think, "That's easy for you to say, you aren't going through what I'm going through. You'd never think what I'm going through was a good thing if you were me." You're right, I don't know what you're going through, and I'm not you. But I've been through tough times, and it helps me to understand, at least in some small way. I realized that through my tribulations, I learned invaluable lessons. Those lessons made me who I am, and each one makes me stronger.
If you don't learn from the lessons given, those tests will continue to repeat themselves until you do. You can either take the best from it, or let the troubles repeat until you ultimately change. Then other trials begin so that we can learn something else. Think of it like school. We take tests to elevate a grade. We study, we prepare, so that when the test comes we can pass.
I understand that sometimes things happen in which we can't explain. Bad things happen to good people. Good things happen to bad people. Those are uncontrollable, and at times, unable to be explained. By anyone. We don't have all the answers. But I have faith that God does.
If we're always in the same place we become stagnant. We can't grow if we're not being tested. The way I get through my difficult times is through constant prayer and by reading the Word of God. Scripture helps me. I read and study my favorite scriptures over and over to remind myself that I have Him to guide me. I trust in Him. And when I don't, I tell myself that I do until I believe it.
God is good. He has the best in store for us when we press in and rely on Him. We only need to seek and draw closer to know Him better. And in knowing Him better, we are able to transform into something greater than what we were. That won't come without the testing phase.
Tests aren't easy, but we can turn them into our testimonies. We can rise champions.
How will you find ways to trust in Him? | comed in our life. But seen in the right light, they set us up for a higher level. The challenges we face are to strengthen us, and it's our attitude during them that determines how long those trials will last. But how do you trust in that?
Tests | 55 |
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Have you heard of Upright Go? It's a posture pod, and I've been wearing one lately.
I stick it to my spine, push the button, and it either trains me or tracks me as I try to stand up a little taller and straighter.
The funny thing is, I have developed a relationship with this little buzzing buddy. When I hunch and it buzzes, I apologize to it as I pull back my shoulders and lift my chin.
I didn't even realize that I do this until I stood at the elevator with Phil one day, and he heard me say, "Okay, okay, okay…" He didn't know who I was talking to and what I was talking about.
When I realized what I was doing, I explained that my buddy was buzzing and wouldn't stop.
Then I noticed where my hand was. It was patting this posture pod stuck to my back. I was petting it to calm it down. I was trying to soothe it<|fim_middle|> be enough for you.
Work heartily for God's honor, not people's happiness. Colossians 3:23 reads, "Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men." That word "heartily" means with your whole self, or from your soul. It speaks of your motivation, or your focus. When you narrow your motivation to do your best for God, then you are protected from performing for others. God deserves your 100%. When you give Him your best, you can rest there. If others like it and are pleased, great. If not, you are pleased because you know you gave your best self and you did it because you love your Father.
Seek forever affirmation over fleeting attention. Matthew 6:1 says, "Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven." This verse tells us to consider what kind of reward we really want: a temporary reward or an eternal one. Approval from people offers a temporary buzz. They are pleased until they change their minds or standards, and then you have to start all over again trying to please them. But, not with God. When Jesus was baptized, God said from heaven, "This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased" (Matthew 3:17). Jesus hadn't started His public ministry. He hadn't baptized or healed or performed a miracle. He just was. God's approval came before Jesus' performance. God was well pleased. So, when your need to please gets out of whack, think of Jesus' baptism. Remember God is well pleased because you are His.
Remember, sister, whatever the question, the answer is always "yes, you can." You can do all things—including get over your need to please—through Christ who strengthens you!
What is one way this week you plan to ditch your people pleasing ways? | like it was a fussy child hanging on my back.
But, at the same time, I also felt this weird compulsion to obey it, to please it, and to keep it quiet and happy.
It doesn't even weigh three ounces. It is not alive and has no feelings. Yet, I treat it like it is a pest I need to pacify and a boss I need to please. Crazy. It's meant to serve me, not the other way around.
This buzzing buddy reminds me, though, that I often have way too big of a need to please. Maybe you can relate.
Oh, friend, it's a wonderful thing for us to be accommodating, generous, and want to make other people happy. But sometimes our need to please gets out of whack and we do all the right things for all the wrong reasons. And, when this happens, we are left feeling stuck, worn out, and enslaved by the approval of others.
If that's you today, then this episode of the 4:13 Podcast is just the encouragement you may need! KC and I talk about how you can get over your need to please—and, we get super practical. We give you three biblical motivations you can use for everything you do. They'll help you ditch your people pleasing ways for good! And, there's also a free download—Scriptures to help you ditch your people pleasing ways!
Find your satisfaction in God's approval, not others. When you have an unhealthy need to please others, their approval and happiness can become the biggest thing on your mind and heart. But, when you are serving Christ, expect to disappoint others at times (Galatians 1:10). Sometimes you will need to make choices that others won't like or understand. It's okay. You can handle displeasing others. You can survive rejection. Romans 8:31 reminds us, "If God is for us, who can be against us?" So, find your satisfaction in knowing your main goal is to please God. Let His smile | 418 |
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OECD's Ministerial Council calls to make multilateral co-operation work better for all
French President Emmanuel Macron and OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría opened the OECD's annual Ministerial Council Meeting with a call for countries to work harder to ensure that multilateral co-operation effectively addresses today<|fim_middle|> and the Sustainable Development Goals. Yet, many feel left behind from the benefits of a globalized economy and perceive that the multilateral system is not delivering the expected results . Over the next two days we have an opportunity to start rebuilding the foundations of multilateralism to make it more responsible, efficient and inclusive, so that it benefits everybody," Mr. Gurría told the Ministerial audience.
"Multilateralism is not just a collection of bilateralisms. It's a dialogue with several voices, a chorus for action and thought, and we need to work together to build this chorus, to reinvent it and make it fair and efficient for the world we are in," President Emmanuel Macron said. "The OECD has wisely placed itself in the heart of today's decisive battles, and notably the fight against inequality, and it is these efforts that I am here to recognize and support."
Also present at the Ministerial opening were Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite and Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos, who participated in an official signing ceremony signaling their countries' impending accession as the OECD's 36th and 37th members. Their memberships will take effect after Lithuania and Colombia have each taken the appropriate steps at national level to accede to the OECD Convention and deposited its instrument of accession with the French government, the depository of the Convention.
"With the accession of Colombia and Lithuania, the OECD becomes a more vibrant, pluralistic and inclusive forum for the exchange and sharing of best practices," Mr. Gurria told the signing ceremony. "The accession process has been a catalyst for impressive reforms, which have not only benefited the two countries, but are also inspiring learning opportunities for other OECD members and partners facing similar challenges."
French President Emmanuel Macron and OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría congratulate President Dalia Grybauskaitė of Lithuania and President Juan Manual Santos of Colombia after the signing of Accession Agreements for the two countries to join the OECD.
At the two-day ministerial, countries will address how to ensure effective implementation and broaden adherence to level the global playing field. They will also adopt a new OECD Framework for Policy Action on Inclusive Growth and three new OECD Recommendations exemplifying the value of international co-operation in tangible terms:
• OECD Recommendation on Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Business Conduct. This will establish a common, international understanding and a level playing field for business regarding their responsibilities in areas ranging from mineral supply chains and the garment sector to addressing modern slavery.
• OECD Recommendation on Events and Local Development. This will create a framework to help countries learn how to harness the power of events like World Cups and the Olympics and evaluate their contribution to local development and well-being.
• OECD Recommendation on Sustainable Lending Practices and Officially Supported Export Credits. This will oblige Adherents to take due consideration of a country's ability to take on external debt in deciding whether or not to provide export credit support to the public sector in low-income and other countries with external debt problems.
• Opportunities For All: OECD Framework for Policy Action on Inclusive Growth: This new framework calls for urgent and concerted effort from governments to drive more inclusive, sustainable economic growth that benefits everyone in society. It puts the emphasis on ensuring low-income groups access to quality services so that they can contribute to increases in productivity, growth, and well-being.
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The 2018 Ministerial, chaired by France, will tackle issues including co-operation in promoting inclusive growth, fostering international trade, advancing co-operation on taxation and climate change, responding to the impact of digitalization and new technologies, and ensuring the financing of the Sustainable Development Goals. Under the theme "Reshaping the foundations of multilateralism for more responsible, effective and inclusive outcomes", Ministers will discuss how to improve multilateralism and make it better serve the needs of those who feel they have missed the benefits of globalization, while also responding to new challenges.
"Multilateral co-operation has led to unprecedented achievements and has greatly contributed to improving people's lives over the past 70 years, including recent landmark agreements such as the Paris Agreement on climate change | 158 |
Dairy Day
Our delightful family tradition
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In New Zealand, we say "dairy" instead of convenience store, bodega, or mini-mart. It's because these were the original neighbourhood buildings to get things like milk and yogurt in the olden days. Over time they've turned into markets that serve their local community.
Other than the cutesty script typeface at the top, most dairies look pretty much like this. Kia ora is a Te Reo Māori greeting that roughly means "good health" but in everyday usage it is used as an everyday "hello" greeting. It's a bit like Aloha in Hawaii.
Tip Top is a beloved ice cream brand in New Zealand, for good reason. It's delicious and it's everywhere. In fact, Ben & Jerry's ice cream only recently landed in New Zealand (at $11 USD per pint) and many kiwis I know are a bit confused by it. New Zealand has some of the best dairy products in the world, so they're not as amazed by Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough as I am.
Inside the dairy you'll typically find the same products from store to store. Ice cream, lollies (candy), biscuits (cookies), an array of drinks, basic essentials, maybe some lonely fruit in the corner. Maybe some magazines. And don't forget the pies. New Zealand doesn't do fruit pies like apple or cherry. But they love meat pies, and they're sold almost everywhere, including small petrol (gas) stations. I love getting pies at the diary. I don't know why they taste so good, but they always do.
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We believe in what we jokingly call "free-range parenting," where you're more hands-off and less helicoptery. But in Seattle, we'd often send parents into a panic when our kids were at the park by themselves or far from where we were sitting. But in Wellington, kids are often trusted to go out and about on their own. No big deal.
We've done dairy day for a few years now, and it's a great way to end off the week. I never cared much for tradition when I was a kid, but I'm seeing the benefits of it now. The kids get to look forward to their weekly candy excursion and I remember how quaint and free-spirited their childhood has managed to be.
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What Is Oxytocin?
Oxytocin. It's one of those things that makes us feel good, and let's face it, we all want to feel good! But what does oxytocin have to do with physiotherapy? The answer is its relationship to human touch.
Commonly been referred to as the love hormone, oxytocin is released as a response to human touch, or when people bond socially. We all know how it feels to hug, have someone hold your hand or touch your shoulder as a sign of reassurance. It makes us feel good, safe and positive.
Several studies have examined the effects of oxytocin on social bonding and social interaction. It has been shown that increased oxytocin levels in humans creates a greater level of empathy toward others and increased bonding within social groups. Some studies have even examined the effects of oxytocin on dishonesty and amazingly, decreased levels of oxytocin found that individuals were less inclined to be dishonest toward their partners, colleagues or peers.
Oxytocin also plays a role in mediating and modulating the response to fear and anxiety in a more self protective sense. Whilst it does not control our fear or anxiety, oxytocin is a part of our response to a fearful situation or a sense of anxiety. Oxytocin raises our awareness in certain vulnerable situation, and causes us to pay closer attention and assess that situation more carefully. Equally, when a sense of anxiety is present, oxytocin contributes to our response to avoid or approach that situation.
So what does oxytocin have to do with physiotherapy? The answer is its relationship to human touch.
When it comes to manual therapy based treatment, oxytocin can have a very similar effect on the release of oxytocin in a sense of safety, positivity and "feeling better".
Treatment modalities such as massage and other soft tissue techniques can play a role in the secretion of oxytocin. We all know how it feels to have a massage when we are stressed, and to feel suddenly more relaxed, with a general sense of lift in our mood by the time the massage has finished. Furthermore, we then want to go back for more. It is acting like the happy drug in our wellbeing!
In this environment it can often enable humans to feel socially secure, and allows them to open up about emotions, thoughts, fears and uncertainties.<|fim_middle|> treatment when they are feeling emotionally or mentally stressed, anxious or fearful about a situation or their injury.
However, it should also be only be one component of that treatment, where the underlying factors or causes of the injury should be addressed first and foremost. The rehabilitation of an injury through movement retraining, strengthening, mobility work and functional retraining is the most valuable long term plan for the best recovery as supported by research and literature. Therefore, whilst manual therapy and the feelings of positivity associated with this treatment plays a role in facilitating a patients' recovery, this should not be the only part of the bigger picture.
If you are feeling stressed, anxious or emotional about an injury, get in touch now. | It also provides a sense of security to talk about the positives and achievements in an individuals' life.
This is all very positive, and in some cases manual therapy can therefore be a very valuable component of a patients' | 43 |
Mexican sausage, pan fried pinto beans over tortilla chips, melted pepper jack cheese, sour cream and guacamole.
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Top sirloin steak slices grilled with onions, salsa fresca, guacamole.
Served with bell peppers, onions, guacamole, sour cream.
Stuffed with seasoned pork, rolled in cornhusk with masa, mild ranchero sauce and cheese.
Stuffed with vegetables, hint of mint, mild peppers and pasilla cream.
Chilaca peppers stuffed with cheese, fried in batter, ranchero sauce, and cheese.
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Stuffed with you choice of meat or cheese and your choice of sauce.
Grilled deasoned codfish on two corn tortillas, onions and cilantro.
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Prawns, olive oil, garlic, on shredded lettuce, cilantro.
Prawns red and green peppers, onions tossed on grill, sour cream and guacamole.
With salsa fresca and guacamole.
Your choice of dressing (on side).
Romaine lettuce, tomatoes and avocado with caesar dressing.
Marinated chicken breast, grilled bell peppers, onions, citrus and spices wrapped with salsa fresca in a flour tortilla.
Top sirloin strips grilled with onions, tomatoes and cilantro wrapped with salsa fresca in a flour tortilla.
Tender pieces of pork simmered in a red guajillo chile sauce wrapped with beans and cheese in a flour tortilla.
Pork simmered in a green tomitillo sauce with a touch of beans and cheese wrapped in a flour tortilla.
Pieces of pork cooked with citrus and spices wtapped with salsa fresca in a flour tortilla.
Two soft corn tortillas stuffed with tequila flamed grilled rock | 461 |
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Lord Sugar's current business partner and 2012 winner Ricky told What's On TV all about the experience and what he's been up to since his Apprentice victory…
You're appearing in The Apprentice as an interviewer in the dreaded 'interview stage'. That's a surprise…
"Yes, well, hopefully it will be a surprise for everyone. I'm Lord Sugar's surprise new interviewer!"
So how did you find being an interviewer on the show?
"Well, it's what I do as a job now, I run a recruiting business and we interview people day in day out. But to be an interviewer on The Apprentice is so different. I can use all my skills, but also as I was one of the interviewees once, I know exactly what the candidates are thinking and feeling, so it was very insightful."
Why do you think Lord Sugar asked you to join the regular interviewers Claude Littner, Claudine Collins and Mike Soutar?
"Well, very much because of my recruitment skills, but also because we run a recruitment business together, so he knows I do interviewing day in day out. He's also seen me hire people into his businesses first hand. But above all I've got a good idea what it's like to be Lord Sugar's business partner, so I've got an idea of what he'll like, who he won't like and who he could work with. With all these things added together I'm probably the HR element that he doesn't<|fim_middle|> Could it be this person? But we were never told, and no one's told this year either. I'm sure as the day progressed word probably got around, but even then there would have been no time to prepare."
What tips would you give to the candidates approaching the interview stage?
"Well, definitely don't go into the interviews and try to hide things as you'll be found out, especially if you've written something odd or weird on a CV or your application form. The worst thing you could do is say: 'I don't know why that's in there.' And if there's something wrong, then own up to your mistakes, and move the discussion on to how you can change things. Any candidate going into the interviews stubborn and thinking they're always right will come unstuck. There's absolutely no pulling the wool over any of the interviewers eyes, and if they can see you're trying to do that, that's disastrous. You just can't blag it!"
Are there any cringe moments?
"Yes, it's what viewers would expect, but I won't say any more."
So will your famous arched eyebrow be raised?
"Maybe. When I do that it's a subconscious thing, it's my natural reaction to whatever somebody's saying."
Mike Soutar and Claude Littner interviewed you two years ago. Who did you find particularly tough?
"It can be a brutal process – it was for me! They were all tough interviewers because it's all such high stakes. Claude was tough because for me he picked apart my application form which wasn't a great, it was too flamboyant, but I really enjoyed my interview with Claude because I think my confidence rose during the interview.
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"I believed in my business plan, and I could see Claude could see that. And he couldn't tear apart the numbers and the business itself, only the way I went into the process. He really taught me I needed to sharpen up! I don't think any interviewers were unduly unfair. Yes they embarrassed me but I felt I held my own."
Didn't Claude say you were 'crass and Infantile' on your application?
"If anyone had read it, they'd say the same. I sat on my sofa writing that form while watching You're Fired the year before. And I had one thing in mind 'How Can I Stand Out?' Yes, if it was day before the interviews I wouldn't have written it like that."
Have you met Claude since, and before filming these interviews?
"Yep quite a few times. Claude and I get on very well. He's now one of my mentors, someone I can go to and discuss things with. And now he's come to know me, I've done a few favours for Claude too."
How has life been since you won the Apprentice in 2012?
"Things have been busy, very busy, as happens to all when setting up a business. Setting up a business from scratch is so tough, regardless of who your business partner is and regardless of the investment you get. There are no handouts! The last two and a half years have been a huge challenge. This is my baby I'm nurturing, and the business is going well."
Are you in touch with any previous Apprentice contestants who went through the process with you?
"Yes… A lot are running new businesses and having a network of people in a similar situation is helpful. I even used some to do certain parts of my business. And some of the things I learnt on the Apprentice in branding and designed I've really used."
How much day to day contact do you have with Lord Sugar?
"I set up Hyper Recruitment Solutions inside Lord Sugar's corporate office, and I'm there every day, so the reality is every day I'm there and he's there we generally see each other. We've got a really good relationship, and he comes to me quite a bit saying: 'Ricky what can I do for you? Tell me what else you want me to do?' But on the whole I'm running something I know a lot about."
Now you're much closer and business partners, do you still call him Lord Sugar, or can you call him plain 'Alan' now?
"I do call him Lord Sugar. You know if I dropped the Lord I don't think he'd say anything, but in my opinion it's a matter of respect. I knew him as 'Lord Sugar' when I met him and unless Lord Sugar says to me: 'Look Ricky don't worry about calling me Lord' then I'll continue to call him that. It's how I've always known him, but I don't think he's precious about it."
Do you have disagreements over anything, and do you stand your ground with Lord Sugar?
"We have regular board meetings and sit downs, and there'll be times when I say look we're going to do this for the business, and he'll question me on it. But I know what I'm talking about and know the recruitment business well. The good thing about Lord Sugar is if he doesn't agree, but can see the methodology you're giving him, he can see the substance behind it. So he's the fairest business partner you can get. He'll always listen to my ideas, and can change his opinion."
You were a professional wrestler known as 'Ricky Hype'. Have you given up wrestling for good?
"The minute I got Lord Sugar's investment I didn't have any time available. It was my decision to put in the long work hours. So I haven't stepped into the squared circle and wrestled since I won The Apprentice. I do miss it and that was something I always enjoyed. I'll watch it still and speak to a lot of my wrestling peers who are still doing very well. It was a hobby and something I was interested in, and that will never go! But my priorities are making my company work now."
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So would you say you're not going to be as tough as the others?
"All I'll say is I'm firm but fair!"
Did the candidates know they were facing you beforehand?
"They had absolutely no idea. It was exactly the same as when I was in The Apprentice. We all assume we think we might know who will be interviewing us – could it be Claude Littner? | 85 |
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Boston-based Tufts Medical Center and Medford, Mass.-based Tufts University created a new center dedicated to fighting antimicrobial resistance, the entities announced March 7.
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The polytechnic of Turin is a partner of the Be!Sharp program in India. This institution known for its investments in innovatory technologies and participation in the creation of a network of implementers of a sustainable built environment between Europe and India. | .
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How to Make the Most Out Of Your Home, According to An Apartment Therapy Contributor
by Nathalie Peña
Moving apartments, rearranging furniture, and/or designing from scratch can be a messy experience — literally and figuratively. It is however some of the ways to make home feel like home, especially when having to stare at its walls for what seems like 24/7.
I've got built-ins on my mind. 📚 I keep digging around the internet, looking for inspiration, but I'm not quite sure what style I want to go for. I'd kill for modern birch plywood, or dramatic arched shelves, but with the industrial beams in our new place, I'm worried the styles won't meld well. We have a 12-foot wall to fill, which is exciting! Have you seen a set of built-ins lately that were très parfait? Dm me a photo, s'il vous plaît. Perhaps what my analysis paralysis really NEEDS are some more options. 😂🙃 Anyway. We moved the last of our stuff from the old place yesterday, but I'm really happy to share that the next tenant is keeping the shelves. 🙌🏽 📷: @laurenzill for @laurametzlerphoto
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Writer and interior stylist, Dominique Gebru, knows how to make a small space pop and has the Instagram to prove it. From her famous wall-to-wall built-in book shelves, to Article featuring her dining room, you can tell that making a home your own is one of Gebru's joys. I mean, her Insta bio says it all. "Making home feel good in Washington, D.C."
"Home is one of the most intimate spaces people engage in"
Aesthetics play a major part in making a space feel like it's your own. But Gebru also makes sure a space feels good by seeing it as a space of recharge and regularly checking in with herself. Sometimes it's as simple as keeping things tidy. "Home is one of the most intimate spaces people engage in", Gebru says. For many, a lot of emotions can come up when thinking about home. For example, she grew up fantasizing about having a matching bedding set. It's a simple, and some would say, go-to necessity for a home. But it's also something I grew up imagining because like Gebru, I had mixed-matched sets and had to make due with what was accessible.
Gebru did get more than just matching bedding sheets though. Her most recent space caught the attention of many thanks to her wall-to-wall built-in bookshelves. Even as a renter, Gebru was adamant to spice up her space (and for others to do the same). "Remember that your landlord at the end of the day is a person." It's easy to take leases stating you can't make any modifications to your home with a barrel of salt. But, Gebru says she's had a lot of positive experiences when reaching out to landlords about painting her apartment or swapping out those "boob" lights she's not a fan of. It may just come down to settling on a compromise with your landlord and letting them know that you'll paint the apartment back to its original state.
"In the past I've felt that it wasn't worth it because I'm just renting. But a thought I'm trying to use is that regardless of who owns the roof over your head, we're all living here temporarily." Renting shouldn't equate to living in a home that you don't completely feel good in. "Remembering the effort that you put in, even if it means you have to paint the space back, it's worth it because that's your home and it should feel cozy."
When I<|fim_middle|> opened Gebru's eyes to the displacement of people of color that happens when condos like her own exist. This has continued to spark her curiosity on the history of housing in Washington D.C. and her goal to become an urban planner to bring more affordable housing to the city. "We wanted a place where we can start to build wealth. Everyone who lives here wants things that make the neighborhood better." But Gebru also acknowledges that D.C. has a deeply racist history that permeates the housing system.
"It's important for people to consider the context within which they're functioning in the world. Recognize that the neighborhood that you're moving into might have a really deep history of Black and brown people trying to claim that space for themselves and carve out space in a world that is largely unwelcoming to them." For gentrifying communities, it's important to recognize the energy BIPOC have put in the community and consider whether that should be the space to tamper with by moving there.
In all of the places that Gebru has called home, she's found it essential to set up different zones for the different things you can do in them. When feeling sad, seek comfort through soft textures like a bed or a comfortable chair with a blanket. When Gebru feels happy she goes outside, but when that isn't an option, bring the outdoors in with some plants. "So that I can bring that good feeling inside", Gebru says. Here's to bringing good feelings into our homes!
Dominique is a writer, digital strategist and interior stylist in Washington, D.C. By day, she produces a podcast and creates digital content for the federal government. She spends nearly every other moment living and breathing interior design.
Nathalie Peña
I'm a matcha-loving, yoga-doing, environmentalism nerd who enjoys anything that makes me feel cozy inside. I do digital comms for a climate and social justice nonprofit and do some freelance wellness writing on the side.
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by Jessa Chargois | see the home updates Gebru shares on social media, it reminds me to get over that fear of making some unconventional changes in a tiny apartment. So much so, that I included bright geometric sticker tiles on my kitchen floor because I couldn't bear looking at the stained tile underneath.
Geoff took this picture on one of our first days in our new home. The truth is, I haven't done much more to our home since then. There's still a paint sample on the kitchen cabinet. There are still random piles of stuff all over the house. Sure, it's been less than two weeks since we moved in, but because our home is the center of our whole lives right now, it's tough looking around and feeling stuck amid chaos. My theme lately has been "find moments of calm." In the physical realm, that's meant recreating the dining nook, making the bed with cheerful sheets, and getting our kitchen cabinets organized. In the mental-emotional realm, that's meant maintaining a habit of taking long walks, allowing myself to do nothing, and taking sick days when I need to. We're still in the midst of a period of collective trauma and grief. What's been working for you? I'm sharing some ways I'm making space for calm in my stories today. #wip #workinprogress #ourspaceourplace #howyouhome #homesohard #vintagerug #turkishrug #ourarticle #pomsofinstagram #mentalhealth #minoritymentalhealth #cornerofmyhome
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Those types of changes don't have to be expensive either. Most of the fixtures Gebru invested in for her old apartment were from Ikea. Which made me wonder if she had any moving or decor-saving tips, especially for first-time movers. Gebru suggests first focusing on function — think about whether you need a place to sit and read or if you need a workspace in your bedroom. For larger spaces, you can view your living room as a spot where people come together. Plan where people can walk and test out how many of them you can realistically host at once.
When it comes to the fun part — decorating — an inspiration piece can help you ideate on the color scheme and vibe of your furniture. For Gebru that inspiration piece was a rug. Planning out these smaller details comes in handy before a stressful move or renovation. Whether it's scrolling through Pinterest and pulling photos onto Google Slides like Gebru, or using an organizational platform (like my partner and I shameless did) to plan out home necessities, it saves you from what can easily be a frustrating situation.
A sneak peek at the new spot. 👀 It's a complete blank slate, but it's OUR blank slate. 🙌🏽 🌿 Geoff and I moved all of the plants over yesterday, and as I was watering them in the sink (pro tip: it's easier to move plants on watering day, before you water. Why? Because water is heavy!), I found myself gettin all sappy. Envisioning time spent around the island. Slowly growing into the space and making it feel like home. The start of a new chapter. …also the kitchen sink is DEEP and perfect for watering plants lol. 😅🌿🌱🌵
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Now Gebru and her partner find themselves in a new home journey having just bought a condo. She continues to practice what she preaches and dove head first into renovating one of the bathrooms (that is worth the Instagram follow alone if you love seeing before and after photos).
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The event came together with just a few months of planning and a handful of small world connections. Over the summer, while working towards his MFA at Bard College, Jake was introduced to Old Field Farm through an article in the New York Times. The article began with a quote from Peter: "A carrot is not a work of art. I'm not proposing that anyone think of a carrot as a work of art. But what I am saying is that a carrot and the art I make here are both results of the same process." Well, with that Jake immediately knew he wanted to call Peter up and pick his brain. But with a busy fall, getting in contact fell to the back burner.
A few months later our friend Tess Diamond came to Jake with some questions about cutting and selling meat. We already knew that, on top of her job in Food Studies Education, she was the operations manager at a small farm upstate. But about half-way through the conversation, we realized her farm was Old Field Farm! We also learned that their former butcher was Bryan Mayer, Jake's mentor at Fleischer's! Like we said - small world!
We immediately planned a meeting to discuss a butcher demo / charcuterie party and went upstate to scope out the farm. Whoa. Dreamiest. Farm. Ever! Beautiful Tamworths and Old Spots rooting around, chickens pecking, bees buzzing, several ponds, and at the heart of everything, a huge art studio/food space overlooking the Hudson valley, and the Catskill and Berkshire mountains. Everything was too good to be true... until Tess finally introduced us to the pig Jake would be cutting. It was SO HUGE! It ended up being the biggest pig the slaughter house has ever processed! We were a little freaked, but decided we were up for the challenge.
This past Friday we went back to Cornwallville to prepare for the event. We got our recipes in order, took a look at the now-hanging and headless pig, made a huge pot of cider brine, and had some farm-made pork belly before getting a good night's sleep. On Saturday morning we woke up and headed up to the studio. Peter built a fire while Anne put together a beautiful table of local food. Tess and Silka started putting together the dry cures for the lardo, pancetta, and bacon and Jake started to break down the pig. All day artists, food writers, farmers, neighbors, and friends passed through to lend a helping hand and soak in the beautiful afternoon sun. We answered questions about butchery, pigs and charcuterie, drank hard cider and ate freshly cut and grilled pork. It was heaven!
After a day of cutting and curing we went back to the farmhouse for a bath and more food, and revved up to make some fresh sausage and render leaf lard. Finally, with an incredibly successful day behind us, exhausted and stoned on pork fat, we fell into bed. The next morning we woke to an incredible breakfast cooked by one of our favorite food writers, and headed back to the city.
We want to thank Anne and Peter for inviting us to work with them and for sharing their inspiring vision. And we want to especially thank Tess | 714 |
'London Ear' is a simple melody written with Steve's sound and inflection in mind. Originally, I thought it would be just Steve and the rhythm section but when I played the opening figure of the accompaniment on the piano I heard the trombones going in opposite directions. So I orchestrated it for low brass and one low (lone) ranging saxophone (I run out of trombones) and skipped the piano playing.
'Filles de Kilimanjaro' is all about the spaces happening between the phrases. Traditionally, you'd create momentum with a chord cycle implying tension and resolution contours. Here though, the melodies and the silences move the music along without the strictures of a fixed length. It's more like feeling the pulse. It's like breathing in and out. On Miles' original recording from 1968 Herbie Hancock improvises an accompaniment to an imaginary solo. I always loved that bit on the record. When it came to playing the piece with my band I pretended that this was all part of the melody. Essentially, I looked to take in the original texture as much as possible and to envelop all this in a new timbre.
'Slow is the Colour of Love' has melodies simultaneously that happen with irregularity and tentative-ness, without being led by anyone in particular, only getting assured eventually, when things simplify, lighten and open up for improvising. It's a through-composed piece, unfolding slowly and without repetitions. 'I believe in happiness but not that it lasts' says Michelangelo Antonioni. I hope things aren't already decided.
'Braving the Elements' first of all was about football in the winter season (here in England we say the league isn't won in September). Formally, the piece is inspired by Thelonious Monk's 'Epistrophy' a masterpiece of musical economy. I don't remember any verbal communication with Steve about how to play on the piece; he knew what the piece was supposed to be immediately, he knew where to find it and then he took it elsewhere!
'Blame it on my Youth' is an old standard, which I first heard on a Keith Jarrett trio record. I learnt the melody first, then took it out of the 32bar context and composed a completely new background for it. I ended up needing only one chorus, and just a little cadenza at the end, which Claus delivered beautifully. This arrangement is dedicated to Mike Gibbs.
'Blinks' is so Steve! It is basically just a little intro and an 8bar stanza-like figure but there is so much music to it. The possibilities are endless. ('We can do a lot of blinking' he said.) I composed 12 small fragmentary variations, which are cued in and thrown in among the duet – ing of him with Gene. He had sent me a lead sheet through the post before. It had a picture of Edward 'Kid' Ory on it.
'The Touch of your Lips' stays within song form, with its beautiful original melody by Ray Noble. I completed the arrangement at a time when an old cassette of Shostakovich's piano preludes and fugues was stuck in the tape machine in the kitchen, so you hear the odd harmonic interference (I started in Bb and ended up in E) but I think the overall feel is ballad, pure and simple.
'Home' is based on this little idea I had that whenever I change a root note I don't change the upper structure of melody and harmony, and vice versa. So I bumped into this 18 bar sequence. I wrote it on my father's piano, which seems a lot brighter and still somewhat cooler than mine here in London. The piece starts off with a magnificent Mike Williams solo, then has the whole band playing a composed improvisation, and finishes with the vibrant soul mate Claus.
'Marshmallow' is a line by Warne Marsh, based on the song 'Cherokee'. I have always been massively into the Tr<|fim_middle|> on the UK scene over recent years, young composer/player Koller occupies the piano chair in Mike Gibbs' occasional big-band appearances and is currently director of Jazz Composition at the Birmingham Conservatoire - and he was an inspired guide to the old London Vortex club's Sunday night open-jam sessions until the original venue's closure.
Koller's work for big ensembles probably displays his formidable vision most effectively, since in that context he sounds on the way to becoming a descendent of the post Gil Evans school of orchestral writing - to eventually rival Maria Schneider or even Carla Bley. This disc explores Koller's effervescent piano-playing in classic trio circumstances, with the hard-driving support of bassist Dave Whitford and drummer Gene Calderazzo.
The repertoire includes Herbie Nichols 2300 Skidoo and The Third World, Charles Mingus's Peggy's Blue Skylight, two Monk tunes and three originals. Koller plays beautifully off the rhythm section (check his patient improv development on the title track) and understands Monk's rhythmic sense and ability to hint at half-stated turns and resolutions. Fluent, original, and effortlessly virtuosic without losing its expressive warmth.
This is the most expansive, expressive and exciting new jazz orchestral sound to have appeared in this country since the late-lamented Loose Tubes. German-born pianist/composer Koller is a protege of Mike Gibbs. Like Gibbs, Koller favours multi-linear intricacies going every which way rather than the more orderly rhythmic march of the riff. His contrasts of the textures of brass and reeds are often wild and thrilling, and he makes improvisations grow out of the heaving, tidal movements of the harmonies in ways that undermine all the traditional formulaic relationships of jazz big bands and their soloists. Apart from Gibbs, Koller's audible influences are Gil Evans and to a lesser extent Charles Mingus, and the music on New Memories (which features a mix of upcoming young players and old hands, and includes trumpeter Henry Lowther, saxophonist Julian Siegel and drummer Gene Calderazzo) represents an often breathtaking case of the book on big-band jazz being rewritten. If the set has a downside, it is that Koller is so fascinated by harmonic and textural movement with jazz instruments that one or two of the pieces occasionally resemble academic exercises in the art, but for the most part both the written and the spontaneous standards are impeccable. All the pieces are originals, except for My One and Only Love - a radical rearrangement in which all the usual accents and emphases are smoothed out. The other pieces include exhilarating Gibbs-like fanfares and wriggling multi-melody features, slow trombone-anchored reveries over quiet Latin grooves, and trance-like exchanges of understated melody with deep brass building insinuatingly beneath. A formidable set.
The Luton based 33JAZZ label, run by former People Band member Paul Jolly, tends to steer a smooth mainstream course. Occasionally it casts up something less predictable and with LONDON EAR it delivers a real coup; this was inimitable soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy's last recorded performance. The context is a polished, large ensemble session under the direction of Hans Koller, who also plays Fender Rhodes electric piano. Koller is an igenious, well equipped and tasteful arranger, whose most obvious debt is to Mike Gibbs. Indeed, with perhaps a wry touch of modesty, Koller makes Gibbs dedicatee of his surprising and persuasive version of the jazz standard "Blame it on my Youth". Ultimately, though, Koller is his own man, putting afreshly personal stamp even on Miles Davis's "Filles de Kilimanjaro", which the group runs through twice.
The presence of Lacy speaks volumes, of course, and he takes a major role, sounding comfortably at home and on great form despite the health problems that soon after led to his death. Probing the Davis theme, spinning out from the core of Warne Marsh's "Marshmallow", and elaborating his won composition, "Blinks", he sounds as always both spontaneous and thoroughly considered, intensely methodical and by the same means exhilarating. Koller's settings and embellishments correspond beautifully to the contours of Lacy's sinuous improvisational logic, to his idiosyncratic phrasing and singular tone. A real accomplishment, that, which whets the appetite for his latest project with Evan Parker guesting.
Koller's own compositions are weighty enough for the occasion, and the group - including guitarist Phil Robson, saxophonist Mike Williams and trumpeters Henry Lowther and Claus Stoetter - are fully charged as they track the convolutions and gloss the margins. Jolly tells me that after the recording session, drummer Gene Calderazzo approached Lacy and said, "That was really great playing, it was real fun". After a long pause, Lacy smiled, "Yeah man, it's always worth trying." In Lacy's case, it always was. LONDON EAR should be heard for his uplifting contribution, but no less for what Koller has achieved. | istano thing; it was one of the first jazz I heard and got truly hooked on. I love the way the bar lines disappear. This arrangement is pretty straight - forward, except for the last chorus when one half of the horns start chasing the other half.
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Who is John Dalton?
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Merits of Dalton's Atomic Theory
Drawbacks/Limitations of Dalton's Atomic Theory
John Dalton (6 September 1766- 27 July 1844) is an English meteorologist, teacher, and chemist who postulated the atomic theory and is considered a pioneer in modern chemistry.
John Dalton has made numerous contributions to different areas of science, but one of his most important contributions is the introduction of the atomic theory in chemistry.
Besides the atomic theory, John Dalton also introduced other concepts in chemistry like gas laws. His work on color blindness was also quite popular as Daltonism became a common term for color blindness.
Dalton introduced atomic theory via a series of articles called 'A New System of Chemical Philosophy' which was published in 1803.
Dalton's atomic theory is a scientific concept which states that all matters are composed of tiny indivisible and discrete particles called atoms.
The atomic theory was developed by John Daltons after he made the observation that chemical substances combine and break down into other substances by weight which suggested that such chemical substances are made of smaller particles with a particular weight.
Dalton's atomic theory is based on two other important chemical laws of the time; the Law of conservation of mass by Antoine Lavoisier and the Law of definite proportions by Joseph Proust.
Dalton, in the atomic theory, also introduced the word atom<|fim_middle|> of the same element with different masses.
One of the postulates of Dalton's atomic theory states that atoms of different elements have different masses, but the atomic mass of two elements has been found to be the same. For example, argon and calcium are different elements with the same atomic mass (40 AMU).
The formation of non-stoichiometric compounds and heavyweight molecules discards the postulate that atoms combine in simple whole-number ratios.
Dalton's atomic theory fails to account for the existence of allotropes of the same element. For example, the theory fails to differentiate between charcoal, graphite, and diamond.
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Law of conservation of mass- definition, formula, equation, examples | as the most fundamental particle of a chemical substance.
In modern chemistry, Dalton's atomic theory has been modified due to some of the drawbacks in the principle.
The most essential concept of Dalton's atomic theory is the suggestion that all matters are composed of atoms, but there are other different concepts in the form of postulates of the theory.
The following are the main postulates of Dalton's Atomic Theory;
All matters are composed of tiny, indivisible, and discrete particles of units called atoms.
Atoms are the most basic unit of a chemical species that do not undergo any division during a chemical reaction.
Atoms follow the law of conservation of mass and can neither be created nor destroyed during chemical processes. These particles can also not transform into the atoms of other elements. This is called the principle of the indestructibility of matter.
Atoms are specific to elements, and all the atoms of a specific element are similar in all aspects and also have the same mass. The atoms of different elements, however, are different and have different mass as well as other properties.
During a chemical combination process, the combination of two elements occurs by the union of the elements in a simple whole-number ratio to produce a compound atom (molecule).
The mass of elements combining during a chemical process indicates the total mass of atoms combined during the process.
In a given compound, the number and kinds of atoms are constant.
The properties of different elements are respective of the properties of the atoms present in the elements.
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Even though over the years, different drawbacks and limitations have been observed in Dalton's atomic theory, the theory has played a crucial role in the development of the modern atomic theory.
Dalton's atomic theory is the first study to differentiate between elements and compounds based on their fundamental differences.
The theory combines and follows the law of definite proportions, the law of conservation of mass, and the law of multiple proportions.
Dalton's atomic theory was among the first studies to answer many unanswered questions of the 19th century.
Dalton's atomic theory has different drawbacks and limitations and doesn't reflect the modern atomic theory ultimately. The following are some limitations and drawbacks of Dalton's atomic theory;
The theory states that atoms are fundamental particles that are indivisible, but it has been demonstrated that atoms are composed of subatomic particles like electrons, the nucleus, and protons.
According to Dalton's atomic theory, atoms are indestructible, but in modern chemistry, atoms have been destroyed and created through nuclear fission and fusion.
Dalton stated that atoms of a specific element are identical in mass, but the concept has been proved wrong by the discovery of isotopes. Isotopes are atoms | 550 |
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It could be the Shazam of smells. A California-based start-up has developed a device to sniff out substances such as drugs, explosives and viruses. Sniff tech is a burgeoning sector which could have major implications in fields including healthcare and security. The FT's Patrick McGee takes a trip to the lab and gets a good whiff of how the future might smell
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This is Penny, my Hong Kong rescue dog. And she has a powerful nose. When my wife was first pregnant a few years ago, Penny knew that she was pregnant before we did. And she would cuddle up to my wife's belly day after day, week after week.
Of course, pregnancies aren't the only thing our four-legged friends are able to sniff out. For centuries, a dog's innate sense of smell has been used to detect everything from drugs and explosives to viruses like Covid-19.
But what if you could capture the power of a dog's nose and reliably replicate it with a machine? Outside of San Francisco, a company is doing just that.
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Koniku is a start that is mapping out the world of smells and building what it calls a<|fim_middle|> proven to be extremely effective, fast, accurate at detecting cancer by sniffing, let's say, urine. And they can achieve up to 99 per cent accuracy.
Now, what they're sniffing is obviously an odour. And it's not a specific compound because many different compounds can combine and give the same odour. So the AI that we're using effectively emulates the brain of the dog.
And we believe in the next nine to 12 months, I think you will see a big shift and then slowly huge adoption. But it will be a hockey stick, because it really trumps everything else out there in the market. In terms of cost and accuracy, we're talking about huge advancement.
But creating things in the lab can also create new challenges.
You have to first...
Sentience director of science is Andreas Mershin. The MIT researcher founded Osmocosm, an annual conference dedicated to sniff technology. He says legal protections are needed to ensure we remain in control of what's been created.
Would you be happy with someone having your osmodata? That means all the data that comes off of your body as body odour, would you be comfortable with that being recorded, mined, annotated, sold, rented, et cetera by people who aren't you? Let's say your cell phone company.
We are working towards establishing the legal frameworks that need to be in place before this technology is let loose on the planet for us to be able to trust this the same way that we would trust the family dog that is trained to identify, let's say, incipient diabetic shock. You trust this dog even though it has claws and teeth. It can eat your baby, it can can eat you. But yet, you trust it and you love it. That trust is not there with any of our technologies.
So once trust is established, what's to stop sniff tech from transforming the way we live?
The fact that this technology sits in my lab or sits inside of a dog's nose and it's not in your pocket, it's upsetting. And it should be upsetting you too. I think that brave venture capitalists have to come through and find brave entrepreneurs who will bring this to the market. And perhaps, the larger companies such as the Apples and the Samsungs will follow.
Back at Koniku, the team is confident there's no limit to the number of applications the company smells cyborg could have.
What we're doing sounds like science fiction.
Yes. It's not.
It's science fact. The long-term vision is to diagnose disease in real time. From your breath, you're giving off a lot of smell data. How can you empower these doctors, or how can you give these doctors superpowers to do more?
In a sign of growing faith it has in it's technology, Koniku is now building manufacturing facilities in Europe. The sniff tech industry is projected to hit $1.5bn by 2026.
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And if Silicon Valley commits significant resources to sniff technology, a future where the likes of Penny have some serious man-made competition isn't too far off.
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My wife and I think that our dog, Penny, figured out that she was pregnant before we even knew. Are we on to something there?
Oh, absolutely. Absolutely. That's a very great example. The cool thing about that is all human beings, yes, we give off smells. We have these volatile organic compounds that are constantly giving out information on what our mood is, on what our state of health is. If you're pregnant or not, you have VOCs just gushing out of your entire body that Penny is able to smell.
It's these VOCs, or smells, that Osh and his team are trying to decode. And they're doing it by mimicking the receptors inside a dog's nose.
The science at its heart is simple... every smell has a unique molecular structure that can be identified, mapped, and detected. Koniku has developed a way to use living biological cells to react to the smelly molecules in the air. They do this by fusing living neurons with electronics.
Neurons are placed on a computer chip. They're connected to a set of unique lenses. In this way, the complete device is imbued with a sense of smell, like a living creature.
I see. Oh, that's cool.
So what we do here is we take a blank cell. And we need to get that cell to make a protein that detects VOCs, that detects the smell. We package DNA, which acts as an instruction set, and we stick that DNA into the cell to make a receptor that detects a VOC.
There are trillions of different combinations that end up forming the smells of everything around us.
Do you want to look inside?
So you just look in there.
These off.
So what you're looking at the cells that have been genetically modified to carry these receptors at about 10x magnification.
It's just 500...
Here, they call their man-made sniffing device, the KoniKore. Head of engineering, Jos Sebastian, says it's all about mimicking the tiny receptors inside real noses.
When you look at what we are trying to create in the biochip, essentially we are replicating vasculature, the whole capillary system, the mechanism for food to reach there, humidity, all of those things. So essentially, we are mimicking biology.
One business that has been an early tester of the company's biomimicry is Airbus, which recently began using its devices for security at San Francisco airport.
With our partners at Airbus we deployed earlier this year a test deployment within a real airport environment. So you have a situation where you come with a bag that you don't have to touch. You don't have to open anything. And we demonstrated 97 per cent accuracy that we could detect explosive compounds in that bag.
There are other players in the sniff technology field. In healthcare, several new startups are working on sniffing out diseases such as cancer using artificial intelligence.
When cancer is in the body, the body fights it. There are metabolic reactions. And we're using AI to figure out how it changes and detect cancer very early based on that. The controversial part is that we're not looking for biomarkers.
Anybody who is looking into diagnostics, they're looking for biomarkers, which means a specific protein. We're saying dogs have been | 684 |
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UIC is definitively on the "digital track", one year after having launched the UIC Worldwide Digital Platform
UIC's 2nd Digital Conference held in St Petersburg focused on Security, Cyber-Security, Productivity and Services; the 1st UIC Digital Awards; a regularly enhanced Digital Progress Paper and a growing ecosystem
UIC launched its Worlwide Digital Platform in November 2015 which brought together representatives of the digital field among UIC Members at global level. This platform aims to share creative ideas, to ensure harmonisation, to support new developments and to boost innovation. It has identified three main areas of potential interest: security – and in particular the crucial issue of cyber security in which UIC is very involved – as well as services and productivity.
A worldwide Digital Conference organised in St Petersburg
In the framework of the UIC statutory meetings, UIC and Russian Railways (RZD) organised a digital conference on the theme "More trains, More connections, Better services for our customers" on 30 November in St Petersburg. This conference follows a series of events organised throughout 2016 dedicated to the digital issue.
This means that in only one year, by being particularly agile in leading projects, UIC gave the opportunity to its Members, partners, to startupers and Technical Opinion leaders to meet, to share, and even to start to co-build the future of mobility together.
A UIC event was organised in Washington in June on Security; Management of Security, one of the first historical fundamental values of the railway system, is crucial. Otherwise the Transport chain is weakened. Safety and Security are closely related and Safety Professionals use technology more and more to address human factors safety issues. Understanding the man-machine interface between the human and the technology is very important for Safety and Security. When the man-machine interface is not fully understood, human factor safety issues are sometimes traded for security vulnerabilities.
In October UIC also organised a dedicated workshop on Passenger and Freight in Paris; the intersection of digital technology and railways can be seen as an opportunity to improve the service and attractiveness of railways. ICT is already part of the Railways' core functions: from waybilling to accounting and train control systems. Growing uses in passenger services and logistics make railway services more attractive and competitive.
For 2017, UIC will also organise a Conference on IoT input in Services and Infrastructure & Big Data next June in Beijing. Because Key Trends are here today – IOT and mobile apps are areas of development in which railway organisations will need to "play a role". Because the revolution underway in Machine to Machine communications will have profound implications for all sectors, including the rail industry. Sensors, devices, systems and enterprise applications must work collaboratively, interacting with each other, and with the supply chain, regulators and customers in ways that produce lower CAPEX and OPEX project costs, improved customer experience, and more efficient running of the network.
Mr Evgeny Charkin (IT Director of the JSC "Russian Railways"), who became Co-Chairman of the UIC Digital Platform during the UIC General Assembly on 1 December, and Mr Jean-Pierre Loubinoux, Director General of UIC, introduced the conference.
Mr Charkin said:
Regarding big data and IoT, we need to share knowledge, we need to benchmark. We also need standards as we talked about global infrastructure. And as shown today, we have started to build our eco-system together. Presentations given by start-ups were bright and had great potential. We have to continue to build this eco-system to face further digital challenges.
The UIC Digital Conference is the right place to talk about innovative, digital technologies. And it's a good place to try such technologies – our new application allows participants to put all conference documents on their smartphones, ask questions to speakers, write notes and avoid using any paper during the conference.
Mr Loubinoux said:
We are living today in the Digital Era. Today, digital is everywhere. Transport modes and railways as the backbone must take advantage of this new opening. This is not an option…this is imperative. The role of UIC is to provide input, to provide the development framework of a Digital Hub; this role is not to develop projects for itself. Our motto is "Share-open-connect"; open up the relationship with incubators, universities, start-ups. We can all take benefit from this cooperation (not competition!). Share vision, best practices, data. Connect to each others, to others. That is the sense and philosophy of our 1st UIC Digital Awards! The next steps will be to go further with, among others, the development of several Proof of Concepts and then possible IRS. All these developments are included in the UIC Digital Progress paper available online on the UIC website.
Around 10 presentations were given during this conference, highlighting different aspects around three main themes:
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This conference gave participants from all continents and from the railways as well as start-ups the opportunity to share the latest information on these themes and hold lively discussions.
On the other hand, taking into account the development of a data-driven economy and how Big data can make the difference for Railways, UIC will organise a conference on Big Data and IoT in Beijing in June 2017. Indeed digital is nothing without Data, and data is the key, its Collection, its Connection, as well as its Control and Correction, to keep man over the machine, and not vice versa.
1st UIC Digital Awards
In 2016, UIC decided to launch its first UIC Digital Awards. Together with its Members, railway companies, and through establishing ties with digital stakeholders, UIC wanted to seek to recognise the sharing of knowledge between railway companies and start-ups and to give them the opportunity to shape the future of mobility. These Awards, which will be continued in the future, open new perspectives to the railway sector and to future mobility due to the innovative and creative nature of start-up companies. Hence, the slogan of this first edition was "Start-ups! Together let's shape the future of Mobility. UIC is your smart partner, Join the Ecosystem."
This 1st edition was a success by receiving around 25 projects coming from start-ups based on the 5 continents.
During the UIC-RZD Digital conference, the three winners of this first edition had the opportunity to present their projects to railway CEOs in the categories Productivity (the winner was start-up Datadvance, from Russia), Services (the winner was start-up Glowee from France), Safety (the winner was start-up Borna, from Iran).
More details on the projects received at UIC in the context of the 1st UIC digital Awards are available here: www.uic.org/digital
In the near future UIC will set up dynamic mapping of the start-up ecosystem and will catalyse some great success stories in this field.
UIC Digital Progress Paper
All these initiatives are catalysed in a common thread of UIC's actions: the document titled "UIC Progress Paper", enriched by meetings, by iterations, by humble but pragmatic approaches, based on the core business of UIC: the technical expertise.
Several prototypes known as Proof of Concepts have already been set up and concrete answers to concrete questions are already coming, not by themselves but the combined action of a chain of different actors, and coming not only from the Transport world. That's a powerful added-value. These "POC" for example currently deal with the detection of shunting defects on track circuits. These prototypes, presented to our members, will be the basis for new IRSs (International Railway Solutions) which will then be passed on to industry.
UIC is a technical platform, at the service of its members around the world, and stays very attached to pragmatic solutions bringing added value to the railway sector and industry.
Jean-Pierre Loubinoux said:
If we agree that transport is the mobility of goods and people and is therefore the key to social economic growth; if we share the opinion that rail is the backbone of a new optimised transport modal mix, then the question is not if or when we survive this third digital revolution, but how fast we catch up with it and become a vector and driver of it, for the benefit of all, through our modest contribution.
Please visit the dedicated page at: www.uic.org/digital
The projects of the 1st UIC Digital Awards winners are available here: http://uic.org/IMG/pdf/digital_awards_winners.pdf
The UIC Digital Progress Paper is available here: http://uic.org/IMG/pdf/progress_paperv2_page_par_page.pdf
For further information please contact Francis Bedel: bedel@uic.org
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Our one-hour experience measures over 40 dimensions of mental health, from life satisfaction to psychosis and many points in between. Those sixty intense minutes have two goals – spot areas of concern and set a point of comparison for future measures. Find red flags and set baselines. Not thrilling<|fim_middle|> to say your blood work is normal? That's what we're shooting for here. Everything checks out. Keep up the good work. Have a lollipop.
In a field flooded with acronyms, we're aiming for a big one: WNL – Within Normal Limits. No major problems, no need for treatment. You're still unique and vulnerable to occasional discomfort and hardship, as is common for every "normal" person, but there isn't a major obstacle that causes distress for you or those around you.
WNL is what we like to see, but if we find some yellow or red flags we'll guide you to the help you need. We're well-connected and respected in the San Gabriel Valley, so finding good help shouldn't be a problem. Life is better WNL. We'll help you get there. | , but incredibly important.
This isn't a Mensa entrance exam or a Jeopardy qualifier. Success for HeadCheck is ruling out problems, not proclaiming your superiority. You know that relief when your dentist says "no cavities, see you in six months"? Or your MD's office calls | 60 |
Console Corner: Super Mario Maker 2 review
Mario love affair made to last.
Monday, 15th July 2019, 8:00 am
I didn't think my love affair with Nintendo and Super Mario games could get any better, then along comes Super Mario Maker 2.
Released at the end of last month on Nintendo Switch, Mario Maker 2 picks up where the critically acclaimed original left out, and then some.
Players can choose from a selection of prior Super Mario games for their course's visual style and gameplay on, including Super Mario Bros., Super Mario Bros. 3, Super Mario World, New Super Mario Bros. U, and a newly introduced Super Mario 3D World theme.
The mechanics and enemy AI can vary between the styles in what is in itself an epic trip down memory lane for Mario fans.
SMM2 keeps everything that made the original game great but also introduces new assets and tools as well as multiplayer modes and an all new single player story mode.
The<|fim_middle|> to be an apt word because in console gaming terms that's exactly what SMM2 is.
Rating: 10/10
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"We all deserve a treat once in a while with an indulgent meal" | multiplayer element includes co-op course creation, where up to two players can locally create stages together at the same time while also allowing as many as four online players to complete user-made courses, cooperatively or competitively.
But it is Story Mode where I found the most joy as you take on "jobs" - aka crazy new levels created using the Mario Maker tools in varying difficulties - as you seek to earn money to help rebuild Princess Peach's Castle.
You get to play more than 100 Nintendo-created courses, in order to collect enough coins to rebuild the castle. Non-playable characters will also offer players extra tasks and jobs throughout the mode.
This makes for a thrill-a-minute Mario dream ride that is dripping in nostalgia from start to finish.
You can call on the Mario Maker tools at any time during a level to help you solve puzzles or navigate you way through the stage.
Combining the Maker element with story mode throws up a near endless universe of possibilities with the custom levels from other players meaning things never get old or repetitive.
Creating levels is user-friendly and straightforward. Creating robust, good levels, worth sharing with the wider Nintendo Switch gaming audience takes a lot more work but once you do it proves to be utterly satisfying in perhaps a completely unique way for gaming.
Not only is SMM2 one of the slickest game design programs ever created for public consumption, its story mode could genuinely be released as a standalone Mario game, it is that good.
You can flit between playing other people's levels, to progressing in story mode or creating your own masterpieces with consummate ease.
And after two weeks playing for hours on end I still feel like I'm only just getting started.
Masterpiece seems | 344 |
Lindsay Brown
Lindsay Brown is a Vancouver writer. She has written on artists Brian Jungen and Geoffrey Farmer, among others
Rob Brownie
Rob Brownie is a teacher and writer with a degree in urban geography and philosophy from the University of Victoria. He has co-written articles for Artspeak, West Coast Line and Vancouver Matters (Vancouver: Blueimprint, 2008) with Annabel Vaughan on themes related to the cultural interface of art and architecture in Vancouver.
Wayde Compton
Wayde Compton is a Vancouver writer and<|fim_middle|> reconsideration are possible. | editor whose books include 49th Parallel Psalm, Performance Bond and Bluesprint: Black British Columbian Literature and Orature. He also performs live turntable-based audio poetry with The Contact Zone Crew.
Marianne Nicolson
Nicolson is a member of the Dzawada'enuxw Tribe of the Kwakwaka'wakw First Nations who reside on the coastal mainland of British Columbia. She holds a BFA from Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design and a MFA in Visual Art from the University of Victoria. She has presented solo exhibitions at the Vancouver Art Gallery (2008), Art Gallery of Greater Victoria (2007), Artspeak (2006), Thunder Bay Art Gallery (2002), and the National Indian Art Centre (2001). She has also participated in group exhibitions at Equinox Gallery (2011), 17th Biennale of Sydney (2010), Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver (2010), the McMichael Canadian Art Collection and the Olympic Museum, Lausanne (2009), Museum of Arts & Design, New York (2005), and the Taipei Fine Arts Museum (1999), among others. Her artworks are contemporary expressions of traditional Kwakwaka'wakw concepts. Due to an emerging belief that these concepts could be better understood through comprehension of the Kwak'wala language and a growing concern over the endangered status of this indigenous language, she engaged in linguistic and anthropological study at the University of Victoria where she completed an Interdisciplinary MA in 2005. In 2012, she completed her PhD research involving the conceptualization of space and time in Kwakwaka'wakw language and art and the importance of indigenous language to indigenous worldview.
Ian Skedd
Ian Skedd is a Vancouver artist. Since graduating from Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in 2001 he has had solo exhibitions at the Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver and the Trylowsky Gallery, Vancouver. His work has been included in group exhibitions at the Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver; Atelier Gallery, Vancouver; and Antechamber, Regina.
DJ Booth / Listening Booth: two works
February 18–March 25, 2006
Opening: Friday, February 17 at 8pm with DJ Dana D
Additional DJ event with Vinyl Ritchie: Saturday, March 11 from 3 to 5pm
Engaging with the social effects of design and architecture, Ian Skedd's practice centres around the interplay of interior and exterior space. In his investigations into psychological and conceptual relationships to space, Skedd considers architecture as transformative, translational and isolationist. His project for Artspeak, DJ Booth / Listening Booth: two works, defines a controlled system of inside and outside, activating an exploration of the social effects of spatialization where the boundaries between public and private, observer and observed are elided.
DJ Booth / Listening Booth: two works is an architectural and sound installation that uses the form of two separate language translator or interpreter's booths. The booths, with windows facing one another, will each be able to accommodate only a single individual. One booth will house DJ equipment, and a DJ will perform at intervals during the course of the exhibition. The other booth will house speakers in order to listen to the DJ. When the DJ is not in attendance, a recording of the DJ's mixing will play in the listening booth. In isolating the DJ and listener, they become equal participants in the work (particularly when viewed by third parties outside the booths). The work approaches the DJ as a translator of cultural material, the listener as a receptor, and the outside viewer as a spectator who will be transformed into an active participant once s/he steps into the listening booth. As spaces of contemplation, Skedd's work proposes parallels between the listening booth and the gallery as receptacles of culture and places where transformation and reconsideration are possible.
Postscript 19: Rob Brownie and Annabel Vaughan on DJ Booth / Listening Booth: two works (PDF)
Scene of Translations
Title: Scene of Translations
Category: Exhibition Catalogue
Artist: Ian Skedd, Marianne Nicolson
Writers: Lindsay Brown, Wayde Compton
Design: Julian Gosper
Publisher: Artspeak
Pages: 32pp
Cover: Paper
Features: 10 b&w images
Dimensions: 25 x 17 x 0.5 cm
Price: $5 CDN
In Scene of Translations, Lindsay Brown, Wayde Compton, Marianne Nicolson, and Ian Skedd interpret visual, textual, aural, and cultural languages to provide a platform on which multiple translations can occur. The texts by Brown and Compton bring together disparate threads of the problems and potentialities of hybridity and translation. Through etymological investigation, transferals of history, and the metaphors of commuter crows and passenger pigeons, Scene of Translations offers an entry point into translatory perambulations. Nicolson and Skedd present architecture and sculpture as translational, resituating the audience not only within the gallery, but in relationship to other viewers. Both artists present new pathways in their consideration of form's social aspects, indicating that the gallery, like the publication, is a space where transformation and | 1,120 |
Before winter hits, Tooele County School District plans to have<|fim_middle|> temperature inversions are common, air quality is more likely to be poor. Inversions are caused when warm air traps cold air and pollutants beneath it.
With winter fast approaching the school district is pushing to have elementary school sensors installed first since younger children are more susceptible to problems linked to raised levels of particulates.
Overlake Elementary was the first school to have a sensor installed thanks to a donation from KSL last school year during a visit from Meteorologist Dan Guthrie. TCSD Superintendent Scott Rogers liked the concept and wanted to ensure each school had the ability to monitor air quality for students and staff. Since then, TCSD has purchased outdoor air quality sensors for each school and the district office. | every elementary school equipped with an outdoor air quality sensor. Junior high and high schools are on track to have sensors installed by the end of the school year.
Each sensor measures a variety of harmful airborne particulates such as smoke, soot and a common pollutant known as PM2.5. Schools can use results from the sensors to determine if students should stay inside for recess to avoid inhaling potentially harmful air.
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From learning to play trumpet at<|fim_middle|>ely Dan recorded. However, if you want this Kinesis album, they sell at auction for as much as $1, 000 unwrapped.
Kinesis then went on tour for four and a half years playing all over North America, including the Toronto Jazz Festival, where they co-headlined with Pat Metheny. Rumor had it that afterward Metheny wore a Kinesis shirt in some of his shows.
Naturally, Goodman is excited to see Pat Metheny come to the stage that launched Kinesis all those years ago.
For tickets to see An Evening with Pat Metheny at the Lincoln Center, click here.
Looking good Ed! WOW, we were all pups then. But, what great experiences we had. Playing everywhere from Disneyland, to Rainbow Music Hall, to Red Rocks with a great band. The week recording at Caribou was surreal, along with the many other projects we played for up there. Seems like only a year ago. Good to see you! | Lincoln Middle School, to his jazz band debuting at The Lincoln Center, to co-headlining with Pat Metheny at the Toronto Jazz Festival; seeing Pat Metheny perform at the LC is a little bit like life coming full circle for local musician and entrepreneur Ed Goodman.
Before the Lincoln Center became the place to experience music and culture in Fort Collins, it was Lincoln Middle School. It was also where Goodman began playing the trumpet. His love for playing the instrument continued into high school as he took professional gigs in Denver playing backup for the likes of Tony Bennett and Doc Severinsen, Johnny Carson's famed bandleader.
That conversation with Doc would always be on Goodman's mind, from the creation of his own jazz ensemble to building his small business, Spiral Experiences, later in life.
After attending Colorado State University on a performing arts scholarship — where he studied both Engineering and Music— he ended up in Las Vegas playing at places such as the MGM Grand where he performed with greats like Diana Ross.
When he decided to form a jazz band of his own, Doc Severinsin's words were still on his mind. He was determined to make a great jazz band, and he did.
In only six short weeks, he and his younger brother, Dave Goodman, formed the jazz band, Kinesis, in Fort Collins. They found investors and hired a total of eight musicians and a sound engineer (who he affectionately called their ninth performer). Then, they went to The Lincoln Center and sold out the Performance Hall.
Kinesis at the Lincoln Center in the 80s.
After that, Kinesis went straight to Caribou Ranch to record their first album after being signed by Head First Records. Music fans may recognize this iconic studio in Nederland, Colorado where other famous musicians like Elton John, Chicago, John Denver, and Ste | 371 |
Happy Monday! I hope you had a great Easter weekend with family and friends. Kevin and I were busy moving into our house! It is so exciting but we are both exhausted after lots of unpacking and organizing over the weekend. We have a lot of furniture shopping to do, but I will post some pictures of the inside of the house once we<|fim_middle|> carb, protein, and fat daily percentages for you and shows you how you are trending to those goals each day. The key is constantly tracking so that you have good data for the app to analyze.
The best part of a diet centered on macros and calorie intake is you can really eat what you want as long as it fits within your goals for the day. Now, it's still important to make wise choice for your long term health, but I have enjoyed some of my favorite splurge foods (pizza, ice cream, burgers) while tracking macros and I have still been able to reach my goals without feeling one bit guilty! I do eat "healthy" the majority of the time, but I think the 80/20 rule for healthy versus less healthy options definitely holds true.
I have seen some good improvement in my energy levels and my body with the tracking I have been doing, and I am always pushing towards my next goal in my fitness and nutrition journey! | start to furnish our place and decorate. We are already looking forward to some family and friends visiting in the upcoming months!
I wanted to share the nutrition tracking I have been doing through MyFitnessPal with some of you who have asked me about it. I have been tracking using the app for a over a year now. Recently, I have been strictly counting my marcos (carbs, protein and fat) and working to hit my goal percentages for each macronutrient. Some of you may of heard of tracking macros as it's popular in the fitness and nutrition industry. Although macros are important, the biggest thing is hitting the number of calories recommended for your current weight and future weight goals. Obviously I'm not trying to lose weight but I'm working on building lean muscle to better achieve my fitness goals. MyFitnessPal makes it very easy to input your food and the app has many popular brands and restaurants to make it pretty accurate to what you are actually eating. The app calculates your recommended calories and | 202 |
Owning a backyard fountain is something homeowners decide because of its relaxing and therapeutic benefits. Even if you live in built-up area where there may be traffic noise or perhaps noise from the the neighbors next door – the fountain will alleviate that noise and create your own personal living space. And meditative space of utter relaxation.
Backyard fountains produce on overwhelming relaxing ambiance for everyone in the vicinity to wind down. It creates a similar feeling to when you're in nature can you come across a waterfall and you can hear the trickling water you wonder where the waterfall is.
It is an intriguing and very relaxing garden feature that are one of the most popular choices for home buyers.
Backyard fountains are normally fairly large and they are all popular talking points for your guests. Not one person does not like water fountains. Is part of<|fim_middle|> you will yield from such as simple honest water fountain absolutely immense.
For this reason water fountains a very popular home accents in America and they will always people very important to the American homeowner's culture, due to their fantastic benefits in the home and garden living space. | who we are as humans. It's a relaxing luxury and we want you to experience in your daily life.
Backyard fountains can come in a variety of different forms. They range from intricate waterfall displays that's are mounted high above the surface into a series of rock based waterfalls, cascading its way down into artificial valley – to decorative little solar-powered fountains to create a nice little focal point in your gardens design.
Because there are so many yard fountains out there for you to choose from we have categorized each fountain into its on sub categories so that it will make the process of finding your ideal fountain a-lot easier.
If you know the category of fountain you are after, for example perhaps a "bamboo yard fountains", just click the category links on this side of the screen to enter that category so that it displays in-depth information and full product lists from that category only.
As a home owner or a home renter putting an outdoor water feature in your backyard will instantly create and meditative vibe and you will feel like you're in a relaxing day spa. The benefits | 220 |
Blog / Real Estate / Gloria Nilson & Co.'s Matthew Merritt Acknowledged by NJ Realtors
Gloria Nilson & Co.'s Matthew Merritt Acknowledged by NJ Realtors
Having completed transactions last year totaling more than $31 million, Gloria Nilson & Co. Real Estate's Matthew Merr<|fim_middle|>son & Co. has serviced the most discerning buyers and sellers of residential real estate in New Jersey for more than 40 years. With more than 700 sales associates throughout New Jersey and in Bucks County, Pa., Gloria Nilson & Co. is an exclusive affiliate of Christie's International Real Estate in Mercer, Monmouth, Ocean, Southern Hunterdon and Southern Middlesex counties. Along with our luxury lifestyle magazine, we offer our clients and associates the most cutting-edge marketing services globally and locally. For additional information, please visit www.glorianilson.com. More information about HomeServices is available at www.homeservices.com.
Published February 23, 2018 in Real Estate
Tags: Awards, Real Estate, Realtor | itt has been recognized by NJ Realtors with its 2017 NJ Realtors® Circle of Excellence Sales Award® Platinum.
"I strive to become a better agent each and every day," said Merritt. "I've been fortunate to turn my passion into a career, and by doing so, I have been able to earn such a prestigious award while also serving the needs of my local community."
John Burke, regional branch manager of Gloria Nilson & Co.'s office where Merritt is based, said a major aspect of Merritt's success is his effort to fully invest himself in his clients' goals to better understand and achieve them.
"The decisions you make when buying or selling a home are crucial to your financial well-being and happiness," says Burke. "Matt is completely committed to his clients and treats every transaction as if it were his own. It's no surprise this attitude has driven him to achieve this award."
Merritt began his career in real estate at the age of 18, and by the age of 22 he became one of the youngest broker-associates in New Jersey. Merritt has been given a number of awards throughout his career, including the NJ Realtors Circle of Excellence Sales Award, 2008 and 2010, Bronze; 2009, 2011-2012, Silver; 2013-2015, Gold; and 2016, Platinum.
"I continue to be impressed by what Matt has accomplished both early on in his career, as well as his current achievements," said Gloria Nilson & Co. President and CEO Pat Bell. "He's committed to making a difference in the lives of his clients, and that is reflected in his impressive sales numbers. We couldn't be happier for him."
Merritt attended Brookdale Community College in Lincroft, N.J., where he earned an associate's degree while simultaneously launching his career in real estate. Since then, he has focused his efforts entirely on the real estate industry.
NJ Realtors Circle of Excellence recognizes those members who have demonstrated excellence in the field of salesmanship.
About Gloria Nilson & Co. Real Estate Gloria Nilson & Co. Real Estate is a Berkshire Hathaway affiliate and a wholly owned subsidiary of HomeServices of America. Gloria Nil | 478 |
Nels "T.J." Winters (87) passed away peacefully on January 30, 2014 at the Veterans Home in Pocatello. He was born on April 4, 1926 to Thomas E. and Beatrice M. Campbel Winters in Chester, ID, as the first son of seven children (six boys, one girl). He joined the Marine Corps on May 5, 1944, and served in heavy artillery in the battles of Guadalcanal, Peleliu, Okinawa and North China. He Married Bernice Clark on February 7, 1947, in Ashton, ID.
Nels went to work for The Bureau of Fish and Wildlife in 1953 in Jackson Hole, WY, where he operated heavy equipment, worked in law enforcement and waste management. In 1966, he moved to Monte Vista, CO, to continue his career at the Alamosa/Monte Vista Bird Refuges. He returned to Idaho in October of 1982, to American Falls, where he worked for a short time for J.R. Simplot before retiring in 199<|fim_middle|> Winters Capesius, three grandchildren: Christopher, Meghan, Hethe, and three great-grandchildren: Noah, Conner, Chance. Son Tommy N. Winters proceeded him in death.
Nels participated in the Boy Scouts of America and received the Silver Beaver Award for 30 years of service. He helped establish the Ducks Unlimited chapter for Monte Vista, CO. While in Jackson Hole, WY, Nels and the elk refuge manager and the fish hatchery manager came up with the idea of allowing the Boy Scouts to collect the antler sheds from the refuge to sell as a fund raiser for the local boy scouts. This took an act of congress but they got it done and it still continues today. These three men, Joe, Skip and Nels, helped construct the first arch made from the elk antlers collected from the refuge displayed in downtown Jackson.
A viewing will be held at 12 p.m. with the funeral following at 1 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014, at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day-Saints American Falls 3rd Ward. Donations can be made to the Boy Scouts of America.
Condolences and memories can be shared at davisrosemortuary.com. | 0.
He is survived by his wife Bernice Winters, daughter Marcia Winter Rensch, daughter Cherie | 23 |
Today in Hip Hop History: 'It Takes Two'
August 9th, 1988 –>August 9th 2018 (30 years ago)
Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock release their first single 'It Takes Two' from their first studio album 'It Takes Two'.
The album went on be certified platinum by the RIAA on June 12th 1989 followed by the single 'It Takes Two' being certified platinum on December 28th 1989.
In popular culture, 'It Takes Two' was used as the main theme song for the first season of 'Yo! MTV Raps with Fab 5 Freddy. The song has also been sampled by hip-house rapper Mr. Lee on the track "Get Busy," iconic duo DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince on the track "I Wanna Rock," Crunk&B singer turned model Ciara on the track "Make It Last For Ever," as well as TV and film including American Dad!, My Name is Earl, and in the second trailer of the new movie Ant-Man and the Wasp among so many<|fim_middle|> DJ E-Z Rock's 'It Takes Two' is the greatest hip-hop single cut ever. It's hard to disagree with them. Built on a sample of Lyn Collins' 'Think (About It),' the song is a prime example of how the best hip-hop doesn't merely recycle the past — it expands upon it." | more.
Stephen Thomas Erlemine said id best when he said " There are many critics and listeners who claim the Rob Base & | 26 |
The Top Management of Digital Advanced Control Ltd recognises that the disciplines of operating an effective anti bribery policy are an integral part of its management function. The Company views these as a primary responsibility and the key to good business practice.
The policy of Digital Advanced Control Ltd is to operate, at all times, within the legal and legatislive requirements of all markets within which it operates.
Our Anti Bribery Policy is to ensure, as far as it is in our control, that the organisation, its employees, representatives and any third party are not involved in any cash or non cash advantages or facility payments with either suppliers or clients of the organisation. Top Management continues to support and provide direction to reach this goal.
The Company's anti-bribery policy calls for continuous vigilance and monitoring of its management systems and employee activities and business is conducted according to the following principles.
Follow a concept of continuous monitoring to ensure compliance with BS 10500:2011.
Communicate our Anti-Bribery objectives and our performance against these objectives throughout the Company and to interested parties.
Take due care, in as far as<|fim_middle|> an interest in the implementation of such policies. Detection of any bribery threat will be apparent due to the company procedures.
Ensure that the company complies with appropriate legislation, regulations and other requirements to which the company subscribes.
Implement the training of employees to ensure that they are aware of the company policy and their own responsibilities.
Compliance, improvement and the effective operation of the Anti-Bribery Management System is monitored by process measures & internal audits and is maintained by the timely implementation of any preventive and corrective actions as may be necessary. | it is in our control, to ensure that the activities of employees, associates, subcontractors and others with whom we come into contact are operating within the legal and legislative requirements of the markets within which we operate.
Adopt a forward-looking view on future business decisions that may have Anti-Bribery impacts.
Train our staff in the needs and responsibilities of Anti-Bribery operation.
Put in place measures for the reporting of any bribery threat (forms DAC 0055, DAC 0065 & DAC0066) as detailed in the ABMS.
Deal with detected threats as detailed in the ABMS.
DAC considers Anti-Bribery operation a key business responsibility and encourages all stakeholders to take | 144 |
I used the gorgeous DELIGHTFUL SNOW which is a great value set as it comes with the toadstool for Snow to sit on and a sentiment too! I decided to make a diorama/shadow box/theatre card thingy (not its real name) to create a little woodland scene.
I thought it might be nice to add the seven dwarves too, all of which are played with gusto by MR GNOME who is also available for children's parties and supermarket openings!!! J Does look a tad crowded in there though doesn't it!!
Bet you can spot them all! Well it's not exactly 'Where's Wally' is it?!
So 'whistle while you work' and if you haven't a 'gnome' to go to wonder over to the DIGITAL DELIGHTS BLOG where every day there is something<|fim_middle|> Scrapy Land Challenge. | to inspire you and don't forget to visit the SHOP for all of Wendy's gorgeous designs! They'll help you to live happily ever after!!!
Such a cutie Jane. Where do these designs come from! Lots of lovely detail.
WOW!! Thank you for making me smile with your wonderful creation Jane. I love cute images, stunning colouring and a fantastic design.
Oh wow Jane this is pure fairytale delight. Such a happy creation.
WOW Jane this is absolutely, totally awesome and so beautiful, it is wonderful to see all those amazing images a fantastic make.
An adorable card! Thanks for sharing with Crafting for All Seasons!
Thanks for joining in the fun at A Bit More Time To Craft and GOOD LUCK !
Jane, I was in your blog looking for another post, but I had to stop here and tell this is absolutely adorable. Love it, love it!!!
A wonderfull card. I like all the different gnoms.
Oh my, this is so sweet! I love Snow White and her dwarves! The dies you used to make this card go together beautifully! Thanks for playing along with us at Scrapy Land Challenge #23!
This is just too cute! Love the scene you've created. So glad you shared it with us for the | 258 |
Every mountain range has its pinnacle. Every sport, its champion. Every breakthrough, its inventor. In the history of the automobile, one car makes history time and again, not just by raising the standard, but advancing it in ways you never imagined possible.
Anticipates the road ahead. And paves it for other cars.
Today's S-Class previews the future of driving. It can change lanes with a tap of your finger. Slow itself for a tollboth or exit. Turn a traffic jam into easy street. And watch out for danger ahead, even when it's coming from behind.
Beacon of inspiration. Beams of intelligence.
The car that pioneered 100% LED lighting throughout the vehicle adapts its brilliant active LED headlamps to curves and vehicles ahead of you. Their Ultra Wide Beam technology helps the high beams illuminate the roadsides better, too.
Apple CarPlay™ and Android Auto offer new choices in entertainment and navigation. Their unique interfaces work like your phone because they integrate with it, even its voice controls. Wireless charging is also available, front and rear.
To set the benchmark for luxury sedans, the S-Class cabin is sculpted, sewn, appointed and equipped not just to provide unmatched comfort and convenience, but to stimulate and soothe your senses. Especially your sense of contentment.
Distinctive new body lines. A bloodline of distinction.
Majestic in presence, poised on the move, the S-Class is at once athletic and elegant. From its double-bar grille to its new "Stardust" taillamps, every detail advances two deep traditions: groundbreaking innovation wrapped in trendsetting style.
The state of the art. For a new state of mind.
Industry-first ENERGIZING Comfort Control can rejuvenate your senses with a symphony of climate comfort, fragrance, massage, lighting and music. Enhanced ambient cabin lighting lets you choose from 64 colours in a variety of themes and zones.
A wide world of information. In a panoramic panel.
Dual 12.3-inch widescreens are set side-by-side in a seamless floating frame. Each screen, a reconfigurable instrument panel and a central screen for entertainment, navigation and more, delivers a wealth of knowledge with instant clarity.
Touch Control Buttons: "All thumbs" will never mean the same thing again.
Two smartphone-like pads access nearly all the car's features directly from the steering wheel. Scroll, swipe and select from the central screen with your right thumb, and the screen between the gauges with your left.
The S-Class is more than motivated, it's motivational. Biturbo powerplants raise efficiency, and your pulse. And its advanced, adaptive and highly adept chassis and drivetrains are engineered for an ideal balance of composure and confidence.
A powerful pair of engines, each with a pair of turbos.
Advanced engines respond with millisecond speed and molecular precision to keep performance and efficiency at their peak. A 3.0L biturbo V6 endows the S 450 with 362 hp. The S 560 models are roused by a 463-hp 4.0L biturbo V8.
Rides on air, corners more like it's on rails.
Standard AIRMATIC air suspension balances pure comfort with cornering precision. It can self-level for changing loads, adapt to challenging roads, and let you select modes to coddle your passengers or indulge your sporting desires.
Turns slip into grip, and grip into go.
Standard on every S 450 and S 560 Sedan, 4MATIC all-wheel drive continually sends torque to the wheels that can use it best. Lightweight, nimble and efficient, 4MATIC enhances handling and performance in any season.
Some systems are optional. Even the most advanced safety systems may not be sufficient to avoid<|fim_middle|> wait for system alerts before braking or taking evasive action, as that may not afford sufficient time and distance. See Operator's Manual for system's operating speeds and additional information and warnings.
Apple CarPlay™ is a product of Apple Inc. Android Auto is a product of Google Inc. Device and app providers' terms and privacy statements apply. Requires connected compatible device and data plan. Apps, content and features are selected solely by their providers. Connection to apps and streaming services may be limited by the device's network connection. Data usage is routed through device and subject to fees, charges and restrictions in user's wireless plan. Vehicle's factory audio/information interface, including COMAND navigation and the apps of Mercedes-Benz mbrace,® may not be used simultaneously with Apple CarPlay or Android Auto. When Apple CarPlay or Android Auto is in use, the steering-wheel voice control button accesses Siri® or Google voice recognition software for voice commands. Wireless charging available only for devices with compatible technology and size. See Operator's Manual for more information. Devices sold separately.
Some features of Energizing Comfort Control may be optional.
No system, regardless of how advanced, can overcome the laws of physics or correct careless driving. Please always wear your seat belt. Performance is limited by available traction, which snow, ice and other conditions can affect. Always drive carefully, consistent with conditions. Best performance in snow is obtained with winter tires.recognition software for voice commands. | an accident. It is the driver's responsibility at all times to be attentive to traffic and road conditions, and to provide the steering, braking and other driving inputs necessary to retain control of the vehicle. Drivers are cautioned not to | 45 |
A complete guide to choosing inner and outer record sleeves to protect your vinyl records. What are the best protective sleeves for my vinyl records? Which is better, paper or poly inner sleeves? Why are 3 mil. outer poly sleeves better than 1 mil. and more.
Do your vinyl records use protection? Oh yes, records need to be protected as do the record's outer jackets with that beautiful album cover art. DiscoMusic.com readers have spent a substantial amount of money on their vinyl record collection so it's important that we protect them properly. Most albums and singles come stock with paper inner sleeves which over time yellow, tear and worse hold dirt and shed paper onto the vinyl record. Kind of silly to spend time and money diligently cleaning your records only to throw them back into a filthy inner sleeve. Worse yet, are those folks who don't even use an inner sleeve and just throw the naked record back in the record jacket which leaves the record prone to dust and causes seam splits to the cardboard outer jacket because the record keeps rolling freely inside.
Hold on, you don't use an outer plastic sleeve to protect the jacket either? That means that every time you slide the album cover back into the rack it gets scuffed and marred. You've seen those old records in the flea market with ring wear? Stop that by using an outer poly bag or sleeve. With vinyl records becoming harder to replace and increasing in value every day it is time to start treating your record collection with respect.
Generic Paper Inner Record Sleeves The most basic inner sleeve is a plain white paper inner sleeve with a cutout to view the label. This is the bare minimum. The better quality ones use a heavier paper stock and even acid free paper. While this is certainly better than no protection at all, the paper can tear and does shed over time. Also, the simple act of sliding a record into and out of these paper sleeves scratches records, creates static and paper dust. Because there are far better choices today, paper inner record sleeves are NOT recommended. The only reason to buy paper sleeves is if you are selling records in bulk and need to replace torn or dirty sleeve. Paper sleeves are not a good long term storage option for records.
Poly Inner Record Sleeves Next up the quality ladder is the slightly opaque or matte looking thin polypropylene sleeves a.k.a. poly inner sleeves similar to what Polygram Records used in the mid 1980s for its albums. The better quality sleeves are the thicker 3 mil. variety which make them durable and easier to insert records into because they hold their shape. To make it easier to insert the record back into the album jacket some of these poly inner sleeves have rounded corners. Others are square and sometimes require one to bend one bottom corner to make it easier to slide into the jacket. Vinyl record sleeves made out of polypropylene are a great all around choice for economical protection since both sides of the label can be seen clearly without the need for a cutout as with paper sleeves. Not having a cutout means less dust can get to the record. Good quality poly inner record sleeves give the best bang for the money and are highly recommended.
Paper with Poly Lined Inner Record Sleeves This style of inner sleeve is a combination of the two above. The paper on the outside gives the sleeve stiffness and shape which makes it easier to open and insert a record. The poly lined inner surface lets the record slide with minimal friction and static. Get your minds out of the gutter please :-) The only slight negative with combo sleeves is their added thickness which makes putting them into some tight record jackets tricky. In short Poly-lined inner sleeves are a nice choice for record protection and ease of use just watch the extra thickness.
Audiophile Grade Archival Inner Record Sleeves The famed audiophile record label, Mobile Fidelity makes the ultimate inner sleeves<|fim_middle|> of the plastic. Don't bother with the flimsy 1 mil. thick sleeves that feel like Saran wrap because they don't provide much protection, fold, crease and do not hold their shape. Instead insist on 3 mil. thick clear plastic poly outer bags or sleeves. They will hold their shape and provide more than enough protection to your record album jackets. For thicker multi-record boxsets, you'll need a wider outer sleeve. There are also outer sleeves for 7 inch record jackets.
When new, these types of outer poly sleeves are clear, but as they age they get dirty, cloudy and scuffed so they need to be replaced periodically. This is a good thing because it's easier to replace a poly sleeve than the album covers they protect.
Some of the better poly outer sleeves also come with resealable adhesive flaps, which are great for keeping dust out of the records. To reduce the chance of the adhesive coming in contact with a record, the adhesive strip should be on the back of the sleeve and not on the flap. While not completely necessary, having a flap can help keep dust out and should be considered.
Mobile Fidelity Outer Record Sleeves – Top Choice!
Mo-Fi outer record sleeves are the perfect match to their legendary inner sleeves. Protect the artwork on your record jackets with these premium outer sleeves. Select the image above to learn more. | for your vinyl records called the MoFo Original Master Sleeves. These super thin inner sleeves have a slim rice paper like layer sandwiched between two sheets of slick high-density anti-static polyethylene to reduce scratching, and dust attraction. It's silky smooth on the outside and inside so this means the record glides in effortlessly without binding, scratching or static buildup, and the sleeve itself slides into the cardboard outer jacket without snagging. Simply beautiful. Once you use these audiophile sleeves it's hard to go back to anything else. They are pricey, but worth it. There is one thing 12 inch single collectors need to be aware of with these audiophile sleeves: only one side of the label is viewable so you can't read the B-side of the label unless you slide the record out. Nonetheless, the Mobile Fidelity style inner sleeves are the best money can buy.
Which Inner Sleeve to Buy?
The Mobile Fidelity Original Master inner sleeves are not cheap, but they are the very best money can buy. Select the image above to learn more.
Old fashioned paper sleeves shed and can scratch your vinyl records so you should not even consider them! For the best record protection and least amount of friction, get the Mobile Fidelity sleeves however, for most price conscience record collectors, the less expensive poly inner sleeves appear to offer a solid value. Since they're very thin, they even fit into the flimsy lightweight cardboard import record jackets used on British 12 inch singles from the 1980s.
Regardless of which inner sleeve you choose for your records, you will NEVER throw away original sleeves that contain photos, artwork or liner notes. In situations like this, you simply store the original sleeve inside the record jacket and use your high quality replacement inner sleeve for everyday use.
To store your records after playing them just hold the slightly bowed open inner sleeve horizontally in one hand while gently sliding the record in with the other hand. Never let the record plop down into a sleeve or jacket as this will eventually rip the seams. Finally take the inner sleeve with the record inside and carefully and without binding, slide it into the record jacket so that the opening of the inner sleeve is anywhere, but on the open side of the jacket. In other words the opening to your inner sleeve will be on top and the opening of the record jacket will be on the side thus providing double protection to the record inside from dust and room contaminants.
While the inner sleeve is the most important for the actual vinyl record, you must protect the valuable artwork on the outer cardboard album jacket with an outer poly sleeve. If you don't, you will quickly get scratches and scuff marks or even tears on that beautiful artwork.
When it comes to outer record sleeves the main difference will be the thickness | 560 |
Sugar Partner Synolia Implements Sugar Solution and Delivers Immediate ROI
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Justitia in Western Europe
Provides the official French translation of the solution
Manages the francophone community
Offers a variety of value-added services (configuration, development, application maintenance, hosting, training, etc.)
Solution Partner:
Synolia | Justitia is Europe's leading Credit Management Services (CMS) group and offers services designed to measurably improve clients' cash flows and long-term profitability, including purchase of receivables. Founded in 1923, Intrum Justitia has some 3,300 employees in 20 countries. Consolidated revenues amounted to around SEK 4 billion in 2011. Intrum Justitia AB has been listed on NASDAQ OMX Stockholm since 2002.
Headquarters: Stockholm, Sweden
Website: http://www.instrum.com
Monitoring client satisfaction is at the core of Intrum Justitia's business priorities. To achieve it, very early on the company deployed CRM proprietary tools, notably Sage KDP Vente Partner. However, the scope of its customer monitoring was constantly changing and these tools lacked the ability to adapt.Replacing the proprietary systems was an opportunity for the IT division in France (which was also in charge of Western Europe) to standardize IT systems while improving customer monitoring.
In September 2010, Intrum Justitia decided to consider a new solution and evaluated several. Already used in Spain and Portugal, SugarCRM was favored to meet the need to consolidate and standardize the group's IT systems in the region.Besides the proximity of Synolia and the fact that Sugar was already used in other subsidiaries, Sugar quickly won over the Intrum Justitia teams, who were attracted by the simplicity and practicality of a web-based tool.
new solution allows for direct interaction with the customer
guarantee the quality of customer data and complete the data migration quickly and successfully.
implemented Microsoft technologies (Windows Server in particular) with SQL Server.
Already used in Spain, Portugal, and now in France, SugarCRM will soon be launched in Italy and Ireland and then progressively in all eight in Western Europe covered by Intrum Justitia.
For Intrum Justitia, the biggest technical issue was data recovery. But Synolia's data conversion tools allowed the company to guarantee the quality of customer data and complete the data migration quickly and successfully. Similarly, in the context of standardizing processes at the group level, Intrum Justitia implemented Microsoft technologies (Windows Server in particular) with SQL Server.
After only two weeks, the thirty-some businesses that make up the French subsidiary of Intrum Justitia were trained and able to use the Sugar solution. Gains in productivity came quickly, as the new solution allows for direct interaction with the customer who is now situated at the core of the process. As a result, after providing its Irish subsidiary with Sugar, Intrum Justitia will begin to supply all the European subsidiaries of the Intrum Justitia Group.
"As for our return on investment, we consider it to be immediate, since the old system wasn't meeting all our needs," Duchemin concludes. "The standardization of information systems at the group level has also optimized the TCO."
"As for our return on investment, we consider it to be immediate. In only two months, Synolia created an initial working version of Sugar configured to meet our needs."
Yann Duchemin, IT Director for Intr | 638 |
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A contemporary villa finished using the highest quality materials to exacting standards.
The concept throughout the design process of this home was cool, sharp simplicity. The interior designer who designed the villa certainly met the brief as nothing is overstated or too much and meets perfectly the expectations of the most discerning of buyers looking for rare beachfront real estate.
With five bedrooms this is a spacious home which could be used very comfortably and successfully to generate a rental income, or could just be kept for your special family moments. Moments where treasured memories are made.
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Public Lighting as a Strategic Asset: Who Benefits and How?
In my last post, I proposed turning streetlights or public lighting from being a cost burden, purely a line in the highways budget, into a smart city (you can read town, village or campus here too) connectivity backbone that all departments in the local authority or municipality could benefit from. By investing a bit more money during the streetlight upgrade program - many public bodies are looking to invest in their lighting in order to save energy and maintenance costs - the new lighting can be augmented with a radio node to create a wireless network to which a whole host of sensors and controllers can be attached.
The main challenge here is that the lighting department will be focused on meeting their own objectives and may not want to pay for what they would call a Central Management System (CMS) that could be less familiar to them and certainly more capable than they themselves would need. So the question becomes "Who pays for the extra capability?"
This is something that we have come to recognise over the last year or so in our conversations with local authorities as the various departments tend to be pretty siloed when it comes to sharing resources or budget. However, this is not necessarily intentional, it is just a function of how the local authorities are structured from an organisation perspective and the different groups are not familiar with the needs and wants of each other. We think this needs to be addressed if municipalities are going to invest in the right infrastructure to make their budgets go further and do more with less.
In order to encourage cross group interaction and facilitate solution ideas, we are offering a half day workshop to local authorities who know they need to embrace Smart City Technology but are not clear on what it<|fim_middle|> great....together.
Fo more information on our workshop, please visit this link or click the image below. | might look like or to what extent they could utilise a smart lighting network if it did exist. For example, it is pretty easy to imagine air quality sensors in the street sending data from lamp post to lamp post until it gets to the dashboard used by the environmental teams but how might the adult care team utilise it? What about other parts of the highways department or the transport group? Often, it is difficult to imagine the solution if you are not familiar with the options open to you or you may have come up with a solution that could not satisfy a business case because you had to invest in its own infrastructure. If you knew you had a ready made data transport system and only had to fund the edge devices and the service, how would that alter the Return on Investment (ROI)?
So we are launching our Future Cities Workshop this week at the Smart to Future Cities conference in London but if you are in local government and have an interest in Smart City solutions, you can get a sneak peak at our offering and get your name in for a chance to win one of these workshops for you and your council. Maybe we can come up with something | 227 |
Bodysmart Health Clinic has<|fim_middle|> mineral range including fish oils, glucosamine, magnesium and other products designed to aide recovery of the musculoskeletal system and maintain optimal health. Many of our vitamins and minerals are "Practitioner Only" products due to their high quality and potency. These are unavailable from our online site, but can be purchased after consultation with one of our therapists. | a selection of essential injury management products for sale, such as ice and heat packs, gels and ointments, braces and strapping tape. We also offer a range of exercise and rehabilitation equipment such as fitballs, foam rollers, Therabands, Pilates mats, chiropractic pillows and wobble boards.
To purchase our products refer to our Online Shop or available from Level 3, 220 St Georges Terrace Perth CBD .
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When a fixed asset is purchased, it is recognized as an asset on balance sheet by debiting the asset account and crediting cash or accounts payable or notes payable depending on whether it is a cash purchase, credit purchase or deferred payment.
The expenditure incurred on purchase of fixed assets is called capital expenditure which is recorded as an asset initially and charged to income statement over the useful life of the asset through the process of depreciation.
The amount at which a fixed asset is recognized broadly includes all such costs which are necessary so as to put the asset to its intended use. Cost of acquisition includes the purchase price, taxes, transaction costs (commissions, legal fees, etc.), transportation costs, installation costs, cost of test run (minus income from test run production), decommissioning costs (i.e. costs to be incurred in future to remove the asset), etc. Costs which are not included in the acquisition cost of a fixed asset include the ongoing insurance costs, periodic repair and maintenance costs i.e. such maintenance costs which do not result in improvement in the usefulness of the asset, etc.
When a fixed asset is purchased through deferred payment and the purchase price equals the current cash price of the asset, the asset is recorded at the stated purchase price and the periodic interest is recognized as an expense when it is accrued. However, if the deferred payment purchase of fixed asset is such that<|fim_middle|> costs of $1.8 million, present value of decommissioning costs (i.e. asset retirement obligation) of $0.7 million, net testing and commissioning costs of $0.5 million, first-year insurance of $0.2 million.
The discount on notes payable is amortized using the effective interest rate method.
Asset C must be recorded at a cost of $14.2 million by debiting equipment account and crediting accounts payable.
The first year insurance cost is not included in the acquisition cost because it is an on-going revenue expenditure. | no purchase price is mentioned, the asset is recorded at the fair value and the difference between total payments (i.e. the sum of purchase price paid in installments) and the fair value is amortized over the life of the asset.
Asset C: machinery with a purchase price of $10 million, custom duties of $1 million, transportation costs of $0.2 million, installation | 79 |
22-year-old Czech singer Gabriela Gunčíková will represent the Czech Republic at this year's Eurovision Song Contest, which will be held in Stockholm from May 10-14, 2016.
Gunčíková was runner-up at the second edition of Česko Slovenská SuperStar in 2011 at the age of 18. She won a Český slavík for New Artist that year, and has since released two studio albums, Dvojí tvář and Celkem jiná.
From 2014-5, she toured with the Trans-Siberian Orchestra as a vocalist.
The singer will perform the song I Stand at Eurovision, an English-language song with music by Christian Schneider and Sara Biglert and lyrics by Biglert and Aidan O'Connor.
The Czech Republic hasn't had much luck in recent Eurovision contests.
In 2010, the country withdrew from the contest<|fim_middle|> Kabát, Tereza Kerndlová, and Gipsy.cz all finished last or second-to-last in the semi-finals.
Marta Jandová and Václav Noid Bárta carried the Czech Republic back into the contest last year, but it was hardly a triumphant return. They also failed to qualify for the finals. | citing low viewing numbers and poor results from their contestants. From 2007 to 2009, | 24 |
An enjoyable puzzle game with the emphasis on fun.
The aim of the game is to guess the opponents code. Check out Scientist Code for a similar game.
In Scientist<|fim_middle|> are very well drawn and have a very cutsey feel to them. If you unlock the code the monster will jump around and if you lose they start bawling.
The controls are simple. Select a character using the D-pad and the move up and down to select a different coloured monster. Once you are happy with your monster line up press the left soft keyto confirm your selection. You will then be awarded some sweete to show how close you were. A red sweet means one of the monsters is correct, a blue sweet means you have a correct monster but in the wrong location. A carrot means you have no correct monsters whatsoever. The aim is to obtain four red sweets. During the game, your previous guesses and awarded sweets are shown in the top corner (you can scroll up and down using 1 or 7).
What sets this apart from some similar games are the number of options. There is a time attack mode. You have a set limit to unlock each code and bonus time can be awarded if you unlock the codes quickly enough. The highest score is recorded although there is no high score table or name entry system.
You can also challenge a friend or the AI in opponent mode. Here, you can select your own code for the opponent to unlock and then battle each other to try and complete the game in the least amount of moves. There is a story mode of sorts when playing against the AI. Various monster will challenge you. The matches start of quite easy and are a best of 3 affair. By the fourth or fifth opponent, the matches are best of 7 rounds. Completing the whole story will take some serious logic and luck.
If these sort of games are your thing, then this definitely for you. Brain teasing but also fun to play. | Code the emphasis was on pure logic and geekiness. Monster Mind has turned this around to create a fun game which will still test the little grey cells.
The fun starts from the very beginning. The game loads with a cool intro tune that's supposed halloween-esque but it did remind me of the X-Men theme. The graphics are excellent, the little monsters | 72 |
RPS 205 Rolling Out New 'Distance Learning' Website
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Filed Under: Coronavirus, COVID-19, Rockford Public Schools | Pritzker issued the order for all schools to close in Illinois until April 8th due to the COVID-19 outbreak, Rockford Public Schools had no real e-learning plan in place, but that all begins changing today.
WIFR reports that RPS 205 is launching a new "Distance Learning" website today that will soon have access to five-day lesson plans from students' teachers.
RPS Board President Ken Scrivano told WIFR;
the website will give students and parents access to five days worth of learning. Students will be able to click on the school they attend, their grade and their teacher to get the access to their lesson plans.
The website is set to launch sometime today, but the five-day lesson plans will not be ready until early April according to WIFR.
RPS 205 will be looking for input from parents in the next few days as they continue to develop this distance learning website, so keep a close eye on your phone...
The moral of this story is; parents who are about to lose it over homeschooling their children, don't worry, help is on the way!
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Happy Labor Day. Three plus years ago I read that happiness comes from buying memories and experiences rather than things, and for me I have just started an experience that will provide me with a lifetime of memories. You may have gathered that I have an affinity for 19th century resorts, hotels and inns, and the more original the better. Other than some minimal electrical wiring having been added I could not be more original than in the Oceanic Hotel on Star Island, ten miles out from Portsmouth, New Hampshire (well, the ladies are not wearing hoop skirts). Star Island has been on my list to experience for several years, but in February I read of a Road Scholar Digital Photography course on the island this week, and here I am killing the proverbial "two birds with one stone." And as I start writing I hear the surf, gulls, fog horn warning of the rocks, and a group singing in a distant parlour. Tranquil, enjoyable, and I am looking forward to learning, and experiencing as much as possible.
The last few weeks I poured over 4 books I had accumulated in my library on the history of the island getting myself ready, In addition I have been immersed in an on-line course on the WordPress software which I use for this website. I have learned many new things and become unafraid to try the things I have learned. I have a strong feeling that I will be gaining more confidence in the operation of my digital cameras this week with the hope that my images can provide even more of an impact on Shunpiking with<|fim_middle|>. | Ray. And, who knows where else that will all lead, but let's get back to this journey (remember the journey can be more important than the destination).
a 4:25 sailing. I left a tad after nine, even though I only had a two and a quarter hour drive, to cut over to Concord to pick up US 4 to Portsmouth. Known as "antique alley," sadly US 4 has changed a great deal since Cathy and I used to explore it, and after browsing a number of shops I never had to take my check book out. The replica of an old steam ship, Thomas Laighton, sailed on time, and it was a treat to view so many sites I was familiar with, but from the water side, including: downtown Portsmouth, Strawbery Banke, the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, the historic Coast Guard station, and I could even see the roof of the historic Wentworth Hotel that we enjoyed shortly after its restoration. Leaving the Piscataqua River the islands, albeit ten miles out, become the solitary mesmerizing point on the horizon, and I stood on the top deck the entire voyage taking it all in.
you can see my room is Spartan, and unchanged since built in the 1870s except for the platform bed. There is a pitcher of water in my room, one bathroom per floor and the larger one in the basement. The sea breeze comes in my window which faces due west to catch the sunset.
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i agree it's a welcoming retreat. i expect you'll be sharing the results of your course – although i don't know how the pictures could get much better!
Truly a great adventure. Great pictures. Love the Chapel at Sunset. Fantastic | 392 |
This toolkit includes all the essential beginners tools for performing the following bonsai techniques: Pruning and Cutting, Wiring and Styling (<|fim_middle|> Steel Rake, Stainless Steel Repotting Stick, and Vinyl Tool Roll for storage. Highly recommended for new enthusiasts looking for a complete kit to do basic maintenance and shaping on their trees.
This toolkit includes all the essential beginners tools for performing the following bonsai techniques: Pruning and Cutting, Wiring and Styling (Primary and Secondary), Basic Repotting. Kit includes our popular All Purpose Shear, Ryuga Carbon Steel Concave Branch Cutter, Ryuga Carbon Steel Wire Cutter, Ryuga Stainless Steel Rake, Stainless Steel Repotting Stick, and Vinyl Tool Roll for storage.
Highly recommended for new enthusiasts looking for a complete kit to do basic maintenance and shaping on their trees. | Primary and Secondary), Basic Repotting. Kit includes our popular All Purpose Shear, Ryuga Carbon Steel Concave Branch Cutter, Ryuga Carbon Steel Wire Cutter, Ryuga Stainless | 37 |
Welcome aboard the liveaboard dive boat Ocean Hunter III as you embark on a 7- or 10-day scuba diving adventure to the beautiful island nation of Palau and beyond. You will visit remote reefs that are pristine and virtually undived. In addition to visiting well-known dive sites at the southwest islands of Palau and northern Papua New Guinea, Ocean Hunter III will travel to the Yap Islands and the Northern Mariana Islands—wherever the crew determines the conditions are best for maximizing your dives.
Part of the region of Micronesia, Palau is located in the Pacific Ocean, approximately 500 miles (805 km) east of the Philippines. Anguar, Babeldaob, Koror, and Peleliu comprise Palau's main island group. Palau has been named one of the Seven Underwater Wonders of the World, worthy of preservation and protection. There are few places on earth that can boast the amazing physical offerings, diversity of plant and animal life, and variety of diving opportunities such as those in Palau.
Palau's warm waters offer a rich and biodiverse marine environment that present an amazing variety of scuba diving opportunities. With more than 1,500 species of fish and 700 species of corals, you will see something new and different on every dive. A sampling of the marine life you will encounter includes Black- and White-tipped Sharks, Hammerhead Sharks, and Grey Reef Sharks, Hawksbill, Green, and Leatherback Turtles, Parrotfish and Napoleon Wrasses, Manta Rays, Moray Eels, Eagle Rays, Dolphins, and so much more. Unspoiled and spectacular reefs, caves, sheer walls, blue holes, and Jellyfish Lake teem with aquatic treasures. Adding to the thrill and diversity of your Palau scuba diving adventure are remnants and wrecks from World War II. Above water, the tropical beauty, white sandy beaches, rainforest foliage, waterfalls, and azure lagoons will leave you awestruck.
The Yap Islands are part of Micronesia's Caroline Islands in the western Pacific Ocean. The four main islands that comprise this state are geographically close and joined by a common coral reef. The shores are lined with mangrove swamps and the islands are surrounded by an outer barrier reef that encloses a lagoon. Look for Manta Rays as they hover at their cleaning stations, reefs teeming with all types of fish, including brightly colored Mandarin Fish, and amazingly deep walls that drop off into the depths of the ocean.
The Northern Mariana Islands consist of 15 islands in the western Pacific Ocean, between Hawaii and the Philippines. The northern islands are volcanic, some still active. The southern islands are limestone, and present level terraces and fringing coral reefs. Seasonal northeast trade winds moderate the tropical climate of these islands. December to June is the dry season, and from July through November is the rainy season. Scuba diving in this region is excellent. The coral reefs and lagoon here are home to an amazing array of tropical fish. You may experience grottos, wall dives, and wrecks. The marine life in the water includes Eagle Rays, Turtles, and schools of Redfish.
The Ocean Hunter III lets divers enjoy unlimited diving each day, with night dives offered each night. This trip is suitable for scuba divers of all levels of experience. Most dives will be made directly from the boat's dive deck, but a chaseboat is available to take you to dive sites when sea and weather conditions require. Palau, with its tropical climate, enjoys the same warm weather year round. Water temperatures average 83°F (28°C). A 3mm wetsuit should offer sufficient protection and keep you comfortable. The water in Palau is warm enough for divers to wear a skin or T-shirt.
Itineraries from one trip to another may vary as all trips are planned according to sea conditions, currents, tides, and moon cycles. Dive sites are selected so as to ensure you enjoy the best possible scuba diving in Palau and beyond during your time aboard the Ocean Hunter III. During a typical trip, dive sites in the region of Palau you visit may include Big Drop-off Wall, German Channel, Blue Holes, Blue Corner, Turtle Cove, Barnum Wall, Ngedebus wall<|fim_middle|> most innovative liveaboard experience possible. In addition to unmatched scuba diving, guests aboard the Ocean Hunter III will enjoy excellent accommodations and delicious meals as part of their vacation package. This dive boat affords guests both safety and comfort as they travel to the best diving locations in Palau. | and coral gardens, Peleliu Wall and Peleliu Coral Garden, Ulong Channel, Siaes Tunnel, Shark City, and many others.
The Ocean Hunter fleet strives to provide scuba divers and vacationers with the highest quality and | 51 |
Indian car maker Mahindra & Mahindra has just launched its much awaited TUV300 in India today(10-September-2015). Mahindra TUV300 is available in<|fim_middle|> of Mahindra TUV300. Which Mahindra TUV300 color are you choosing? Let us know by commenting below. | 6 colors: Glacier white, Verve blue, Majestic Silver, Molten orange, Bold Black and Dynamo Red.
This is how Mahindra TUV300 looks in white color.
The just launched SUV from Mahindra just not looks great and tough from outside, but its brilliant in the interior front as well. The dual-tone interiors of TUV300 are premium and very welcoming. The car's interiors has got cool chrome finishes with metal accents. The contemporary look of Mahindra TUV300 is enriched by hexagon-themed central bezel.
The Infotainment system in TUV300 has 2-DIN Audio, Bluetooth system with USB and AUX support.
You can download brochure of Mahindra TUV300 from here.
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Sounds like that will be a good read. | .
But author Louis Scatena, who grew up in the Pittston area, has given that name to the "school" at his father's coal mine, the one where young Lou started working as a child.
"It was pretty obvious to me, as I was growing up, that my dad wanted to school me in hard work," said Scatena, 72, who lives and works as a senior structural engineer in Arizona.
His book, "Anthracite Grade School on Irish Hill," explains how, in 1951, when he was 9 years old, his father took him to a mine he owned.
"We called them dog holes; they were near the surface and treacherous," Scatena said, remembering how his dad, Pete Scatena, taught him to run a mechanical loader that brought coal to the surface.
The youth didn't mind. He was happy to spend time with his father and proud to work with him.
Sadly, he recalls the day in September 1959 when he was firing his M-1 on the rifle range in Marine Corps Boot Camp at Parris Island and the drill instructor told him simply "Your mother wants you home." Scatena went home to Northeastern Pennsylvania and learned that his father, Pete Scatena, had died.
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You're the one who is weak.<|fim_middle|>, to protect me, to be scared for me to be a good father. And that's exactly what I'm gonna be.
And Hayley your face will remain metal free, like a good radio station.
I was in awe of my father, and it seemed to me that I often sensed he was afraid of me. Perhaps he was intimidated by my heart that was as his used to be when he was a boy: big, full, open, strong, and tender.
We never get over our fathers, and we're not required to.
— Irish Proverb, Ten Best Quotes To Tell Dad "I Love You" | You'll never know the love of friendship. And I feel sorry for you.
Snape's patronus was a doe. The same as my mother's because he loved her for nearly all of his life, from when they were children.
We've been so busy trying to rewrite our own pasts, we've blighted their present.
If you answer the gossip, you feed the gossip.
You know what? I'm done being made responsible for your unhappiness.
...in spite of the dark and twisting path he saw stretching ahead for himself, in spite of the final meeting with Voldemort he knew must come whether in a month, in a year, or in ten, he felt his heart lift at the thought that there was still one last golden day of peace to enjoy with Ron and Hermione.
I've always said that if my son thinks of me as one of his idiot friends, I've succeeded as a dad.
I know this is the right thing because I would die for this kid just so he won't feel one ounce of sadness. That's why you're here right now | 218 |
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Carol Colfer and Doris Capistrano dedicate their book "The Politics of Decentralization": Forests, Power and People" to "those whose voices have not yet been heard," and this sentiment was at the heart of the T20Q (Top 20 Questions) project—a global project that allows you to have your say about issues of importance.
The T20Q project involved a two-stage process—'crowd-sourcing' questions considered to have high priority for research and policy by anyone with an interest in forestry and landscapes, followed by a return to the crowd to rank those questions. The crowd defined itself; there were no barriers to participation except access to the Internet and an ability to read French, English, Indonesian or Spanish. These barriers are not insignificant for many people, and I will return to the language issue later. Suffice to say that all the partners in the Evidence-Based Forestry (EBF) initiative regularly communicate with and invite participation in their activities online; therefore T20Q made the decision to survey participants wholly via the Internet, and used a variety of social media to reach this global online community.
How did it work?
More than 500 people living or working in more than 100 countries submitted 2,800 questions in the first phase of T20Q. Topics that occurred most frequently were grouped, using index terms from a controlled vocabulary applied by an independent forestry-information specialist, into broad themes.
Representative questions from these themes were randomly selected for the second phase, where participants could score the perceived significance of the questions on a scale of 1 to 10. A total of 818 people participated in this phase, which required assessing the 109 representative questions presented to them in a series of categories. The questions and categories were all randomized so that each participant was presented with the questions in a different order.
What did people say and who said it?
One of the greatest surprises of the project was the level of participation of younger people, women and those from the Global South. These are often the very people whose "voices have not yet been heard." A quarter of all participants were under 35 years old, and 34 percent of voters were women. While this falls short of the target 50 percent, it far exceeds the proportion seen in many international decision-making meetings.
Just under 65 percent of participants who submitted questions were from Asia, Central and South America, and Africa, and while the figure was closer to 50 percent for the voting phase, the country contributing the highest number of voters was Brazil. That is more surprising still in light of the fact that the project was limited in the first phase to French, English, Indonesian and Spanish, and in the second phase to English only. There was very little engagement in T20Q from Russia or China, two hugely important forestry countries. This<|fim_middle|> the Sylva Foundation, a charitable Foundation based in the UK in collaboration with CIFOR.
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Evidence-Based Forestry
There was considerable interest shown by participants (more than 500 people indicated interest when asked this question in the surveys) in repeating this type of exercise regionally and for specific thematic areas, notably ecology, biodiversity and restoration, but also climate change and REDD+. Engaging people for regionally focused exercises modeled on T20Q would need to take the language of target participants into account.
Participants were mostly highly educated, with more than 95 percent having at least a bachelor's degree. Although there was a broad spread of work activities reported, the majority were engaged in research or education; a relatively small percentage (11 percent) worked directly in policy.
The 20 questions that scored highest overall can be categorized or clustered in many ways. For our purposes, they are shown clustered according to six broad topics that emerge from simple indexing and discussion with project colleagues (see the list of questions below).
The highest-ranking question may perhaps surprise many people. It is not about climate change or deforestation, nor does it mention REDD+: It concerns restoration of degraded areas to provide multiple benefits. However, it is a question that concerns all these things, including the much-ignored second "D" of REDD+, namely forest degradation.
The solutions to the question, whether policy or research, will require the sort of integrated thinking that was being strongly promoted in international discussions during 2014. Most of the top 20 questions will require a multidisciplinary approach to answer, and many of them would make fascinating systematic reviews of the sort being undertaken in the EBF initiative.
T20Q is a step in a series of evidence-based activities, rather than the silver bullet that informs us what is most important for research and policy in forestry and landscapes. The questions will be discussed by the EBF partners to identify those that could be systematically reviewed; others may stimulate thinking for new research programmes. All of them can be considered in the context of forthcoming international discussions as representative of the views of a subset of the forestry and landscapes community on what constitutes a priority agenda for further deliberation and action.
The Top 20 Questions for forestry and landscapes research (grouped by theme)
Afforestation/restoration
How can degraded ecosystems be restored to meet the objectives of biodiversity conservation, ecosystem function, ecosystem resilience, and sustainability of rural livelihoods?
How can we develop models of forest restoration that are economically feasible?
What are the implications for biodiversity and the environment of using afforestation as a mean of carbon mitigation?
How can we best select species that simultaneously provide ecological and economic benefits?
What are the best means to ensure that forest/landscape restoration projects add value to the landscape in terms of connectivity between populations and habitats, facilitating gene flow, species migration, as well as complementarity of land-uses and livelihoods of local people?
Types of knowledge
Can we develop practical tools that allow land-planning and forest management to be better tailored to the needs, culture and perceptions of different communities and locations?
How can local knowledge, wisdom and experiences (e.g. on tree species, NTFPs [non-timber forest products]) be effectively combined with national and subnational forest assessment, monitoring and management efforts?
How can inclusive forest and landscape management be enhanced for the resource-poor?
Landscape-scale/integrated thinking
In the context of high human density and scarcity of farming land, how can we address the question of sustainable management of tropical forests?
How can we improve agriculture to reduce the pressure in forested areas?
Adaptation to climate change means answering to trends in future climate and also to increasing risks. These two aspects are often studied separately when they should be combined. How to combine them?
How can we maintain, restore and shape water-friendly landscapes, including forests and trees, while addressing partly conflicting land use and water needs of all stakeholders of a landscape?
Rights and benefits
How do we make sure that the needs of indigenous people who rely on intact forest systems are being met while also providing wood products for economic growth?
What are the institutional arrangements that might enable smallholders within a landscape to jointly market the ecosystems services provided by reforestation of some of their land?
How can we ensure that forests are for the benefit of local economies and forests are not grabbed for the benefit of some foreign company?
How is it possible to develop a sustainable mechanism for payments for ecosystem services?
Can we really use ecosystem service values as a method to value a whole landscape?
How can farmers get money from biodiversity conservation?
How can we integrate sustainability into trade regulation and law?
How can we guarantee effective protection and conservation of environmental services in a world increasingly in need of raw materials at low cost?
Gillian Petrokofsky is a senior CIFOR Associate and James Martin Research Fellow, University of Oxford.
T20Q was funded primarily by the UK Department for International Development (DFID) through their KNOW-FOR grant to CIFOR and co-ordinated by | 1,014 |
QCD Orlando Receives<|fim_middle|> | Golden State Foods' Highest Company Honor
Chairman's Challenge Award Recognizes Orlando Distribution Center As Leading Facility of 2020 Throughout the GSF Family of Companies
Golden State Foods (GSF), one of the largest diversified suppliers to the foodservice and retail industries, announced this week its 2020 Chairman's Challenge Award for outstanding facility achievement in safety, quality, customer service, associate engagement, growth, innovation, and corporate social responsibility. A company tradition now in its 21st consecutive year, GSF's highest internal honor recognizes the Quality Custom Distribution (QCD) team in Orlando, Florida.
"With persistence and integrity, our people in Orlando achieved so much together during a year that brought so many challenges to our industry, our customers, and our communities," said Mark Wetterau, chairman and chief executive officer, Golden State Foods. "Rooted in our GSF Creed and Values, the QCD Orlando 'dream team' unified around their common goals and made their ambitious aspirations a reality."
During GSF's first-ever all-virtual Partners' Meeting this week, Wetterau revealed the Chairman's Challenge winner through a virtual broadcast of the awards ceremony, which included remote presentations from leaders around the globe. The Orlando team's recognition resulted from its remarkable performance in many areas, including key accomplishments in improving safety performance, exceeding financial goals, achieving customer satisfaction, and maintaining the highest standards in associate engagement.
Before the Chairman's Challenge Award announcement during this week's virtual event, QCD Orlando also received GSF's Three-Year Positive Trend Award for its outstanding results in the company's most recent Associate Survey conducted in January 2021. Among this facility team's numerous accomplishments, the Orlando Committee of the nonprofit GSF Foundation garnered 100 percent participation in the 2020 Associate Campaign to generate support for children and families in need in the local community.
Demonstrating steadfast dedication in supporting several quick service restaurant (QSR) customers, the Orlando team's efficient service delivery earned the facility consistently high quarterly rankings and the top annual U.S. recognition last year from one iconic QSR customer. The distribution center also scored above 99 percent on its annual International Featured Standards audit in 2020.
"I am so proud and excited for this amazing team, which came off two very challenging years in the business," said QCD Orlando General Manager Kevin McDade. "At the beginning of 2020, we laid out what we needed to accomplish to win the Chairman's Challenge. This team went above and beyond to meet and exceed the expectations! Never saying no, only saying yes to any challenge in front of them. I was pleased to announce to the team that all their hard work and dedication paid off!"
In addition to the Chairman's Challenge Award, GSF presented its "Best in Class" awards in four categories that recognize large facilities (Platinum Awards) and small facilities (Diamond Awards) in distribution and food processing. The distribution category winners include QCD Orlando for the "Best in Class" Platinum Award and QCD Fontana, Calif. for the "Best in Class" Diamond Award. In the food processing categories, GSF's Protein Products facility in Opelika, Ala. won the "Best in Class" Platinum Award, and the company's Produce Products team, GSF Fresh! China, earned the "Best in Class" Diamond Award. An annual tradition for the past nine years, the "Best in Class" honorees comprise the finalists for each year's highest honor, the Chairman's Challenge Award. | 726 |
Replace your refrigerator's water filter twice a year for refreshing water.
Drinking cold, fresh water dispensed directly from the front of your refrigerator is a simple luxury guaranteed to spoil most anyone -- that is, until the water develops a smell or bad taste. Some water sources contain minerals, metals or other odor-causing ingredients. In that case, you likely have little choice but to live with it. Most other causes can usually be eradicated with a few simple actions.
Smell the water carefully to gain an idea of the possible cause. Musty- or earthy-smelling water may indicate mold or mildew. A plastic smell -- hard to identify but immediately recognizable once you've smelled it -- often accompanies a new refrigerator or new plastic tubing or other parts. The smell of rot is often a clue that the refrigerator interior is dirty and the odor is contaminating the water system as well. A sulfur smell, like rotten eggs, or other chemical or metallic smells may be caused by the<|fim_middle|>. | water supply itself. Compare the water to some from a nearby faucet to differentiate.
Open the freezer compartment and look for food that is uncovered. Move to the refrigerated portion of the refrigerator and continue seeking uncovered or rotting food, spills or other contaminants that may cause smells in both your water and your ice as well. Seal lids on storage containers, wipe up leaks and spills, and wrap food in plastic wrap, freezer paper, or other appropriate storage material.
Clean the inside and outside of the refrigerator to remove food and other contaminants. Turn off the refrigerator first to prevent electrical damage. Mix a solution of 1/4 cup of baking soda to 1 gallon hot water, which cleans while it deodorizes. Wipe down the interior, covering every bit of it thoroughly. Wash the water dispenser area as well, including under the drip area. Use a toothbrush or similar tool to scrub away mildew. Rinse to complete.
Check the drip tray underneath your refrigerator, if equipped. Remove the front grill at the bottom -- typically it tilts and snaps off -- and pull out the square-shaped drip pan. Empty and clean with hot, soapy water before replacing. A dirty drip tray may contribute to refrigerator odors that infiltrate water and ice.
Place opened boxes of baking soda or a bit of activated charcoal, scattered in a cake pan or similar object, to to absorb lingering odors that may seep into the water and ice. Alternatively, line each shelf with newspaper and sprinkle with water. Replace every other day for a week to neutralize refrigerator odors.
Flush the water delivery system to eliminate stale water which may contribute to poor water smell from sitting too long or to remove the smell of fresh plastic. Hold a large glass or jar underneath the water dispenser and push the lever to fill the container. Pour the full container out into a large bucket or the kitchen sink and fill it with water again. Continue until you have run about 5 gallons of water or the water smells better.
Replace the water filter or cartridge that hooks into your water delivery system, if applicable. Most modern refrigerators use a filter to clean and deodorize the water. Read your refrigerator's owner's manual to determine if your system uses one and how to access and replace the filter if it does. Typically, this involves an access panel on the outside of the fridge, behind the dispenser, or inside the fresh food compartment. Pop out the old filter, snap in the new filter, then reassemble the compartment as directed by the manufacturer. Replace filters every six months or as needed to prevent smelly, contaminated water.
In some cases, removing and cleaning or replacing the water tubes that serve as water supply lines will eliminate smelly water. Consult your refrigerator's manual to determine how to access the tubing and how to replace it. Changing out the water reservoir or the tubing that serves as a reservoir may also be necessary. Contact a qualified repair technician for detailed assistance.
If you can't replace your filter and find it's the problem, bypass the filter until you can replace it.
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Lapham, Karie. "How to Get a Smell Out of the Water Dispenser in the Door." Home Guides | SF Gate, http://homeguides.sfgate.com/smell-out-water-dispenser-door-81066.html. Accessed 24 April 2019 | 695 |
Welcome to November: wet, windy and decidedly chilly in places. Comfort food is definitely required, and it doesn't come more comforting than a chewy, warm cookie fresh from the oven. These take <|fim_middle|> with a fork (dipped in water to prevent it sticking).
Bake at 180c for 10-12 minutes, until they are lightly coloured. Don't overcook as they will lose their soft, cookie texture.
The cookies will store in an airtight box for 2-3 days. But I bet they don't last that long. | 20 minutes from start to finish, and are extremely easy to make, requiring a few store cupboard ingredients. What's not to like?
Cream the butter and sugar together. Beat in the peanut butter. Add the egg and vanilla essence and stir.
Sift in the flour, salt and bicarbonate of soda and mix well.
Use a dessert spoon to transfer balls of the mixture onto a lined baking tray, making sure they are not too close together. Flatten slightly | 93 |
Crafting Queen: Experiment with Chalks!
Leaving that aside i tried my new Pebbles Chalk Set - Pearescent Jewel Tones which are also available my Craftstore via Pre Orders.
The card is on its way to a friend :) Sorry for the poor quality pic... its from my point ans shoot. Couldn't wait to shoot.
And yes let me make you a bit jealous!! Am the lucky recipient of Khushboo's Circle Flipped book!! Khush!! Thanks hon! its super gorgeous and loved all the messages as well ;) You can use the link to jump over and see all the pics if you wish :) Here is a sneak peak!
Pretty floral creation. Luv the sentiment too with cuttie butterflies.
WOW !!lucky "friend" !!its cm out well !!
very pretty card loved that stamped sentiment and lucky u on getting that flipped book,its so lovely.
Karuna its always nice to drop in to your blog and see what new technique you have tried!
Nice try Karuna...you have been experimenting with<|fim_middle|> yet, but yours turned out so good, I might want to try make one myself! Great work! | so many new techniques...thats really commendable !
Lovely card! Both your flowers turned out great, I still haven't tried to make the 'royal flower' | 35 |
Home » Groves 10th as Durbridge retains race lead on stage two of the Czech Tour
Groves 10th as Durbridge<|fim_middle|> to the front as possible to keep out of trouble.
"The finishing circuit was quite dangerous, everyone was fresh after sitting in the bunch all day. It was a fast final lap, and then there was a big crash with three kilometres to go, we avoided because we were in front of it.
"In the end we had Kaden going for the sprint and we just came up a bit short with troops. He was by himself with a kilometre to go and had to fend for himself, he did the best he could, it just wasn't to be today."
Czech Tour – Stage 2 Results:
1. Jordi Meeus (SEG Racing Academy) 4:41:34
2. Tim Merlier (Alpecin-Fenix) ST
3. Max Kanter (Team Sunweb) ST
10. Kaden Groves (Mitchelton-SCOTT) +0:01
Czech Tour – General Classification after Stage 2:
1. Luke Durbridge (Mitchelton-SCOTT)
Photos Courtesy of Getty Images.
Tags:Mitchelton-Scott | retains race lead on stage two of the Czech Tour
Fri 7 Aug 2020
Mitchelton-SCOTT and Australian Luke Durbridge retained the race lead at the Czech Tour as stage two came down to a sprint finish in Uničov.
The day concluded with the anticipated bunch gallop, with neo-pro Kaden Groves crossing the line in 10th place behind stage winner Jordi Meeus (SEG Racing Academy).
It took a while for a breakaway to form, but eventually three riders were allowed to escape as the peloton eased up. Mitchelton-SCOTT then took up control of the bunch, putting Italian Edoardo Affini and Kiwi Jack Bauer on the front to keep the gap in check.
The trio of escapees were never allowed more than four minutes of an advantage, with the peloton keen not to give themselves too much work to do ahead of the predicted sprint finish.
Race leader Durbridge also contributed to the chase and the gap to the two remaining breakaway riders was down to just over one-minute as the bunch hit the finishing circuit. It was soon all back together as teams turned their attentions to the upcoming sprint finish.
Sprint Finale
A series of minor counter attacks followed but there was no chance of the sprint teams allowing anyone to get away, and they were all quickly shutdown. A crash in the closing kilometres caused a split in the bunch, but Mitchelton-SCOTT managed to avoid the melee as they drove the pace on the front.
With the focus on protecting the team's general classification contenders, Groves was left to surf the wheels as the sprint approached, and it was a chaotic kick for the line, with the youngster having to settle for 10th.
Kaden Groves:
"The boys did a really good job riding on the front today, firstly to keep the jersey with Durbo. It was pretty hard for them out on the front all day, it was quite a warm day and we had no help from any other team.
"As for the sprint, we ran out of guys a bit too early to do a proper lead out. I just had to freelance and surf on the back of some trains, but there was no team really going to ride and it was pretty messy and dangerous.
"I'm not too stoked with 10th, because the guys did a better job than that. But I was simply tactically on the wrong side, made an error and got boxed in on the barrier once we came into the finish.
"I'm keen for tomorrow, I'm motivated to give it a second crack, and we'll see how we go. I haven't race in a while, but I'm pretty happy with the condition, I just need some things to go right in the finish and have a clean run."
Dave McPartland (Sports Director):
"We were on the front all day keeping the team in position, we're here for our GC candidates so we have to ride as close | 610 |
We spend a substantial part of our life in our beds. Given the amount of time we spend on our mattresses, and the stains that inevitably go along with it, it is surprising to realize that few people actually know how to clean mattress stains! The most important thing to<|fim_middle|>.
Two common types of stains, however, will likely require a more intensive method. If you are trying to get a blood or urine stain out of your mattress, take hydrogen peroxide or white vinegar and apply it with a towel in a circular motion around the stain and in to the middle. In the case of urine, applying a coating of baking soda to the newly cleaned area and letting it sit overnight can help remove unpleasant odors. Using hydrogen peroxide or white vinegar is a far harsher solution than the dry suds method, and may bleach or otherwise discolor your mattress. If this is a concern, it is best to spot check first on a hidden section of the mattress.
Even if you know how to clean mattress stains using the above methods, you will someday face a stain that will not come out. That is why it is important to remember that preventing stains in the first place is the best protection you can give your mattress. | keep in mind is that you need to deal with the stain right away. The sooner you try to clean the stain, the easier it will be to get the stain out. Even if it is the middle of the night, and all you want to do is go back to sleep, do not give in to temptation and just cover up the stain with a towel and go back to sleep. You will get a bit more rest that night, but you could end up ruining your mattress. The first step in cleaning your mattress is to try the gentle dry suds method.
Take a cup of mild powdered laundry detergent and put it in a bowl. Slowly add about a cup of warm water to the detergent, beating the water (preferably with an electric mixer on medium) until suds form. Using a sponge, take the suds and rub them into the stain, repeating as required. The key is to keep the mattress as dry as possible - that is why it is essential that you only use the suds and never the liquid. Dry the spot thoroughly with a hair dryer before putting clean sheets back on. The above method will work for general stains on your mattress | 235 |
In addition to helping you work through emotions, writing can also give you a way to visualize the life you want.
Twenty-four faces look back at me as if I just asked them if they wanted to cut off a limb or crawl through a desert. A few brave hands go up.
For the last 17 years, I have started my Composition class this way. It's a dangerous question. I know the odds are stacked against me. For the most part, my students don't come to me liking to write.
Chances are, you don't like to write either. But stay with me, because as you heal from a divorce or as you move through any other challenging time in your life, writing can be an important tool for healing and self-discovery. It can help you gain more clarity about the stories you tell yourself, about who you are and the events you have experienced. And it can help you create new stories about the life you want, too.
You don't have to love writing or be good at it for it to help, and the research is clear that it does. I don't necessarily love running – my muscles burn; I'm out of breath; it's sweltering hot – but I do love the feeling I have when I am done. The sense of accomplishment. The clarity of mind. The ability to eat pizza. (Just kidding. Not really.) Writing is like that. If you keep at it, if you strengthen that muscle, it will allow you to start seeing patterns, to work through issues you didn't even know were weighing on you, and to change your story if you want to change your path.
Writing doesn't require any pricey equipment or memberships. All you need is a pen and a notebook or your hands and a keyboard, if that's more your style. You don't need other people to do it. It can be done in complete silence or in the midst of three kids playing Power Rangers (trust me). You don't need to be flexible or in good shape. Writing is accessible to everyone. You just need to get over your fear.
So, if you've tried yoga and wine and running and tea and therapy and are still feeling stuck, give writing a try. Why? Because it works. Here are 3 ways that it can help.
The first time I realized what a release writing could be I was 21 and getting over what, at the time, was "the most traumatic break up ever." I was in<|fim_middle|>'m going to get over her and get on with my life, I've got to keep myself busy and my mind occupied." What a great idea!
That motivated me to start my own list and go to work, crossing through items, setting goals and promoting growth and, hopefully building a new life for myself. How about you, do you have a post-divorce bucket list? What's on your list.
Here is what I have so far, I'm sure more will be added as I cross through these.
1. Get a extra large garbage bag and get rid of everything that I don't use, that doesn't fit my new life, triggers painful memories, or that I bought in hopes that it would make me a different person and turned out to be rubbish.
2. Download podcasts that interest me to listen to every time I'm commuting or driving in the car.
3. Have weekend plans. A trip to the beach, a walk in the park. Plan something so I'm not sitting home stewing on the weekends.
4. Make concrete plans to see, in person, the people I miss but haven't been in touch with since my marriage.
6. Open a savings account.
8. Embrace being ordinary. So much of my anxiety comes from the idea that to be average = to be bad, when in fact, all of us – with rare exception – are just average, and there's nothing wrong with that. A world that insists the only people who are successful and worthwhile are the ones at the very top is sick. So, I'll embrace my ordinary!
9. Read the stories of people who were in similar situations to what I'm in, and study how they found their way out.
10. Go out of my way to help others.
11. Stop engaging in arguments with myself.
14. Go see The Nutcracker.
15. Read the Sunday paper in bed more often.
16. Visit Disney World with my daughter.
17. Go to London and buy something at Harrod's.
19. Host holiday meals in my home.
20. Ask a man out on a date.
21. Fall in love again.
22. Get a mani/pedi once a month.
23. See a movie in a theater at least once a month.
26. Take scuba diving lessons.
27. Have a one-night stand.
28. Take a trip alone.
29. Go skinny dipping in the ocean.
32. Have drinks with my ex's new wife.
34. Learn to say no.
36. Take a hot air balloon ride.
37. Take a photography class.
38. Have a Pink Tea with my girlfriends.
The post Post-Divorce Bucket List: 40 Things I'll Be Doing Now That I'm Divorced appeared first on Divorced Moms. | a new city, freshly single and alone in my apartment, as my roommate had moved in with her boyfriend. Journaling was something I had previously done sporadically, but with a lot of alone time and a broken heart, I started to write more. After a while, it turned into a nightly practice. I'd work out (Tae-Bo. Hello, 1999!), then light my peach candle and curl up on the couch with my notebook. I didn't write with a purpose; instead, I just put into words whatever came to mind. Head, hand, paper. Repeat. Sometimes I wrote for only a few minutes; other times, I wrote for an hour.
But regardless of the duration, the feeling at the end was always the same – lighter. It was like putting down something I had been carrying around all day. Once I had written about it, I could give myself a break from thinking about it.
Since then, writing has become the way I work through most experiences. I've seen it work for my students, too, as they write about serving in Iraq, overcoming addiction, ending abusive relationships and recovering from failure.
What you write about isn't important. You could write about your day. You could jot down the first word that comes to mind and do a stream of consciousness entry. You could make a list of things that are going well, or of things you're grateful for or angry about. Don't worry about having a clear direction or focus. What ultimately matters is giving a voice to your thoughts. This is what helps. Think of journal writing like having a conversation with an endlessly supportive friend who never grows tired of hearing the same story a million times.
You might find yourself crying, laughing or screaming while you put the ideas swirling around in your head onto paper. This is OK. Getting your emotions out and putting your feelings into words will allow you to work through them. Feel them, write them down, and free yourself from thinking about them. Don't get caught up in worrying about whether your writing is good or not, either. This is just for you.
Some people even like to burn their pages, but I don't suggest it, because going back over what you've written can be helpful. Which brings me to the second way writing can help.
2. Writing can help you see patterns.
You might also find that your patterns are more about who you are in relationships and what you want for the future. Recently, I came across an old journal that covered a few years in college, the aforementioned grad-school-end-of-the-world breakup, and the year leading up to meeting my ex-husband. At first, it was fun to read through my life in the late nineties, but nothing was notable. It was just a collection of ramblings about my days, about what I was thinking and feeling. But the more I read, the more I realized that I had essentially been writing about the same thing for the last twenty years. The people changed, the cities changed, but when it came to relationships, what I wanted was to be chosen. It was what my entries centered on then and what they came down to now. I wanted someone who was all in, who chose me without reservation. Talk about an "aha moment".
To get this benefit of writing, you do have to have a semi-regular practice, even if that means only writing for a few minutes twice a week. But the results are valuable. Anything that helps us to be more self-aware is. For some of us, our patterns are what led us to a life that didn't end up working out and taking a good look at them is what will allow us to grow.
3. Writing can help you create a vision for the life you want.
In addition to helping you work through emotions, writing can also give you a way to visualize the life you want. It can help you to move forward, no matter how stuck you currently feel, and give you hope.
Instead of writing about what happened to you today, try describing a typical day in your life in five years or even in five months, if that's more manageable. Be as specific as you can. Make it real. What are you wearing? Where are you living? Who is sitting next to you? What food are you eating? What makes you smile? Be there as you write, because someday you actually will be.
Imagining what my life would be like in few years and making it concrete through writing was one of the things that helped me when it seemed like my divorce was endless. I would sometimes create bulleted lists of the things I wanted in six months. Other times, I would imagine a typical day when everything was calmer, describing it from the time I woke up until the time I went to bed.
Future-writing like this is helpful because it can jolt us out of our current circumstances. And while spending time exploring our emotions is important, being reminded that it will pass is equally as valuable. Why? Because it shifts our focus. It shows us that we are not limited to what we are experiencing in the moment. Sometimes, we get so caught up in today's fears and issues that it limits our perspective. And we can end up getting stuck there, with each day just being a repeat of the day before. Feeling what it's like to be in a different place, emotionally, physically or both, helps us to start to move in that direction. And writing a new story is the first step.
So, even if you are convinced that writing is "not your thing", it's worth a try. It will take time; stick with it. You don't decide to go for a jog one day and run a marathon the next, right? But if you give it a chance, writing might just help make sense of your current experience and create a life that you love.
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What's on your post-divorce bucket list?
I have a male co-worker who is recently divorced. He put together a post-divorce bucket list for himself. He says, "If I | 1,302 |
Maguro Brothers Hawaii is a little shop inside Kekaulike Market in Honolulu. It's a bit hard to find as you have to navigate your way through the market to find this stall. They are best known for their fresh sashimi and rice bowls. It is cash only, so make sure you have some with you.
We ordered the sashimi platter and they had various kinds, so we went with the $20 option that comes with 4 different sashimi. There was tako, hamachi, ahi and salmon. All of the sashimi was fresh and delicious, but it really depends where you come from. Being from the Vancouver, we really have a good variety of salmon, so I was more critical on their choice of salmon. Hamachi and the ahi were of course my favourites.
Their knife skills could have been a bit better or use a sharper knife, but now I'm just being picky.
There is limu seaweed, salt, chili pepper, green onions, onion and sesame oil over rice. The delicious marinated mixture was really good. A little<|fim_middle|> which is the cut of the tuna belly that is medium. It was really delicious over the sushi rice. There is also 2 pieces of tamago, ginger and wasabi.
Overall, the sushi bowls and poke bowls were delicious. I am so-so about the sashimi as I come from Vancouver, which has outstanding sashimi. If you are from a land-locked city, you'll love what they have here. | kick of heat with the chili peppers. I really like the limu seaweed as I've never had this before.
There are 6 pieces of chutoro, | 34 |
Q<|fim_middle|> to retrieve this id with a query but I could not because the return is the HTML Id attribute
var query = from a in qntd
select a.GetAttribute("Id");
Where does this ID come from and how do I retrieve it?
A: Unfortunately you won't be able to access this field because the method "FindElements" returns the elements in the form of IWebElement. IWebElement does not have a method implemented to get the ID value you are looking for.
If the FindElements method was to return the type RemoteWebElement, or even ChromeWebElement, we would be able to access this field because the RemoteWebElement has a method to access it. However, this method is not implemented in the interface. So there is no way for us to get it. I've played around with casting and haven't been able to cast in the correct spot. So as of now, I'm not seeing a way to get this ID.
See RemoteWebElement.cs source code for more information:
https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/blob/master/dotnet/src/webdriver/Remote/RemoteWebElement.cs
Hopefully this helps you out a bit
A: If you want to get the IDs from all elements as a List<String> you could do
List<String> query = qntd.Select(it => it.Id).ToList();
A: It's a special id generated by the driver itself, not html property. You can use type cast to RemoteWebElement and then get this value using reflection as it is protected. But hardly this is the thing you need in your tests.
https://seleniumhq.github.io/selenium/docs/api/dotnet/?topic=html/P_OpenQA_Selenium_Remote_RemoteWebElement_Id.htm
| : How to Get this ID I'm doing an automation using Selenium WebDriver and I'm getting all the elements of a Table.
I used the code below:
var qntd= driver.FindElements(By.XPath("//*[@id='dataTable']/tbody/tr")).Skip(3);
I then realized that each element generated an Id that is not of the Id as shown in the Html
I tried | 76 |
Cambs police sergeant who knocked woman off cycle found guilty of careless driving
A POLICEMAN who knocked a woman off her bicycle was today found guilty of careless driving. Sgt Robert Norman, 43, was behind the wheel of a police van yards from Chatteris Police Station when he collided with Post Officer worker Jane Gill outside Barcla
A POLICEMAN who knocked a woman off her bicycle was today found guilty of careless driving.
Sgt Robert Norman, 43, was behind the wheel of a police van yards from Chatteris Police Station when he collided with Post Officer worker Jane Gill outside Barclays Bank.
Mrs Gill, who had been knocked off her cycle in the same spot just six months earlier, was left in need of hospital treatment, including six stitches over her left eye.
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Sgt Norman's clean driving licence was endorsed with five points and he was fined �300 with �200 costs, and he must pay a �15 surcharge.
Prosecuting, William Powell said the accident happened about 1.30pm, as Sgt Norman drove out of East Park Street, at its junction with Market Hill.
"It was his duty to make sure he could proceed safely," said Mr Powell. "He didn't look to his right, or did not look with sufficient thoroughness to see the cyclist coming towards him."
Giving her evidence to the court, Mrs Gill said a black car pulled out in front of her before the accident.
"I was then aware of aware of a white wing in front of me," she said. "I let out a rude word and was then picking myself up. I don't remember the collision at all."
Giving evidence at his trial, Sgt Norman said he had driven every day, prior to the accident.
He had left Chatteris police station just seconds before the accident, and was on his way to a meeting in March when he drove out of the junction and collided with the cycle.
"As a police officer I am always looking around me and ahead of me," he said. The sergeant said he twice looked both ways before pulling out, and had not seen the cyclist. "I don't think I could have done any more," he added.
"My view was obscured because of the front door pillar and mirror and the strip between the quarter light and the side window," he said.
"As I moved across I was aware of the collision with Mrs Gill, she appeared on the bonnet in front of me. I had not seen her prior to impact.
Tom Godfrey, representing the officer, suggested that Mrs Gill had cut the corner, so she hit the front of the police van, rather than the front.
He told the Judge: "His vision must have been obscured; there is not other explanation for it.
"He is a qualified and experienced officer who says he carried out all necessary checks."
Mrs Gill, who still has a scar over her left eye, has given up cycling through the town since the accident.
"I now bike up Station Road and then walk the rest of the way to work," she said. | part of the neighbourhood policing team in Chatteris - had denied that he drove without due care and attention at the time of the accident on December 18 last year.
He claimed that the pillar in his police Ford Connect van had obscured his view as he drove out of East Park Street, planning to turn right into town.
But District Judge Ken Sheraton said at Fenland magistrates court today: "Even if that was the case, he should have been aware of any obstruction to his view and should have taken the time to accommodate any obstruction."
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Why mobile carriers are bidding billions for more 5G airwaves
BYAaron Pressman
An ongoing federal auction for 5G airwave licenses has reached almost $8 billion, hitting double what analysts anticipated and signaling a huge appetite for high-speed wireless networks.
The Federal Communications Commission is selling more than 14,000 individual licenses for service in metro areas nationwide.
The high-frequency bands, known as millimeter wave, don't travel very far—only a few city blocks from cell sites, in many cases—but they can carry a huge amount of data. Downloads in the bands available can approach 2 gigabits-per second, fast enough to download an entire movie almost instantaneously.
Interest is far greater than expected considering two relatively tepid auctions for similar airwaves in the past few years. Analysts had said that mobile carriers like AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile would only bid $2 billion to $4 billion in total for the rights.
The general consensus was that the companies would try to save their money to bid on lower-band spectrum rights that the FCC plans to auction later this year. Those airwaves, at lower frequencies that travel much farther, will also be compatible with 5G.
Instead of modest interest, bidding reached $7.6 billion as of Jan. 30, when the auction was temporarily paused. Bidding resumes on Feb. 18.
"We would have expected most bidders to be preserving financial capacity for the more valuable spectrum that will be auctioned in the next 12 months," analyst Vivek Stalam at New Street Research notes.
The agency won't reveal the winning bidders until after the auction concludes, likely within a few more weeks. But the highest bids were for the biggest cities, with almost $1 billion for airwave rights in New York City, over $700 million for Los Angeles, and about $350 million for Chicago.
The companies are prohibited from discussing the ongoing auction under FCC rules.
The mobile industry is racing to provide superfast 5G—the successor to 4G—nationwide to attract as many subscribers as possible. But companies are challenged by a lack of airwave spectrum.
Currently, AT&T and Verizon offer 5G to consumers in parts of a few dozen cities each, while Sprint offers the service in only nine cities. Meanwhile, T-Mobile provides what it describes as nationwide 5G coverage, reaching areas where about 200 million people live, but at speeds only slightly faster than current 4G networks.
In South Korea, the three major carriers there have already covered 85 cities with 5G. And China expects to expand 5G from 50 of its largest cities today to 300 by the end of the year.
Those countries and many other are focusing on lower-spectrum bands than those the FCC is selling in the current auction. But similar lower-spectrum airwaves in the U.S. are already in use by other players, including military radar installations and satellite to ground communications<|fim_middle|> is accurate, but two of the largest carriers would be sellers.
Even with the auction total approaching $8 billion, it could be dwarfed by the sale of C-Band licenses. Analysts predict that sale could bring in $30 billion to $50 billion. At that rate, the carriers might need speedy 5G phones just to keep up with the bidding.
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Some analysts think the carriers would be wiser to wait for those bands to be freed up in the U.S. The FCC is working on moving the satellite users from a segment known as the C-band, for example. Walt Piecyk, an analyst at LightShed Partners, is skeptical that millimeter wave bands will end up being as useful as airwaves in the C-Band, which can travel much further, requiring fewer cell sites.
"The outcome of the C-Band spectrum will have a larger impact on 5G in the United States than this auction," he says.
One reason for the higher bidding in the current auction may be the size of the spectrum blocks up for sale. In its two prior millimeter wave auctions, the FCC sold smaller blocks. The current auction, however, is for a total of 3,400 megahertz of spectrum across three bands, the most ever sold at one time. That means each license will have far greater capacity for connecting phones and carrying data traffic.
There is also one wrinkle in the auction procedures that may be inflating the bids. AT&T and Verizon already own some licenses in the 39 GHz band, one of those up for bid. Under the FCC's rules, the carriers are entitled to some of the auction proceeds for surrendering those existing licenses to be sold.
That may have encouraged them to bid more aggressively for other licenses. In essence, they would be getting back some proceeds to offset their bids. The FCC reports the total amount bid for the auction without taking into account any refunds, however.
It's also possible that AT&T and Verizon may be sitting on the sidelines, and instead waiting to collect up to $3 billion for selling their 39 GHz licenses, says analyst Stalam, at New Street. In that case the $7.6 billion in total bids | 377 |
Here's heaven in frozen form for you. Make it this weekend – you'll be thanking me afterwards.
Is it obvious that I've been loving my ice cream maker?
In a bowl, whisk<|fim_middle|>, add chocolate chips.
Serve immediately or store in an airtight container in the freezer until firm (about 2 hours).
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Just hearing the name mocha chip has me craving it! Then when I saw your photo I was done in! Must have this ice cream very soon!
Love coffee flavoured ice cream. HOmemade looks great!
I am quite the coffee fan, so this sounds perfect to me!
I'm such an ice cream freak, this sounds wonderful!
Thanks for linking up with Sweet Tooth Friday. I've Stumbled your recipe. I hope to see you again this week. | together milk, sugar, espresso and cocoa until dissolved. Stir in heavy cream and vanilla.
Pour mixture into ice cream maker bowl and mix until thick, about 25-30 minutes. About 5 minutes before mixing is complete | 47 |
Leading<|fim_middle|> | childrens' bike brand Islabikes has appointed Dave Bowater as a Director.
Bowater began his love of cycling by riding mountain bikes back in the mid-nineties and then quickly began racing across a number of disciplines. He became the Espoir National Champion in cyclocross and also represented Great Britain in both mountain biking and cyclocross, until injury forced him to retire from competitive cycling.
The company was started by Isla Rowntree with one mission, to provide a better cycling experience for children. This mission has not changed and remains the key focus for the company, which employs a team of 34. Behind the scenes the company does also make limited amounts of adult builds, usually one offs.
"We have a great team here at Islabikes who are all very passionate and have a very specific skillset; from our onsite frame builder who is constantly working on research and development, through to our customer services team who pride themselves in delivering first class service," said Bowater.
The founder of Islabikes, Isla Rowntree, continues to be heavily involved within the company and pivotal to the business through contributions in all key areas of the business. | 237 |
The amount of bathing and grooming your pet needs<|fim_middle|> with patience and positive reinforcement even the most resistant of animals will eventually come round. | depends on the breed, lifestyle and personality of your pet. Pets that spend time outdoors usually need to be bathed more frequently than strictly indoor animals and pets with long, silky hair need to be groomed more often than pets with short, smooth hair. But you can always tell it's time by feeling (and smelling) the fur; an oily or matted feel means it's time to give your pet some attention.
Why Bath and Groom Your Pet?
There are more reasons to bath and groom your pet than just for aesthetics and for your sense of smell! Bathing also helps with flea infestations and gives you a chance to check for bumps, sores and skin irritations. Grooming helps get out and tangles and stops your pet's fur from becoming matted by removing dead hairs and spreading naturally occurring oils throughout the coat so it stays shiny looking and healthy. Nail clipping keeps the scratch factor down and your pet from getting caught up in the carpet! Ear cleaning stops buildup and health conditions from occurring. Grooming and bathing your pet on a weekly basis has also been proven to cut down on allergic reactions by reducing the amount of dander in the air.
You should always groom your pet before bathing since grooming untangles knots which are far more difficult to deal with when the fur is wet. There are numerous styles of brushes and combs for all different lengths and types of fur so have a chat with the pet store personnel or a groomer before buying your grooming gear.
Give your pet lots of attention and reassurance when you start grooming to ease any feelings of fear. When trimming mats out of your pet's coat, keep the points of the scissors facing away from the animal so no accidental scissor stabbing occurs if your pet becomes nervous and jumpy. You can use a bit of cornstarch sprinkled onto a mat to help with grooming it through and mineral oil to dissolve sticky spots on your pet's fur. Places to pay particular attention to when looking for tangles, mats and food stuck in fur are around the eyes, mouth, tail and in between the toes. Be careful of sensitive areas on your animal that may cause a reaction when touched, like the stomach on many cats.
Before you begin to bathe or groom, make sure you have the area you'll be working in set up for your session with your pet, keeping a wet pet in the bath can already be quite a chore without making it harder by having to get up and grab something part way through!
The water temperature shouldn't be too hot, just above room temperature is what's comfortable for most animals. Always use a pet shampoo as these are specially formulated to work with the PH balance and natural oils on the skin and fur of your pet. Using a conditioner as well cuts down on shedding skin flakes and allergic reactions. Start at your pet's head and work your way down from the cleanest areas to the dirtiest. If your pet is really filthy, you may need to change the water part way through!
If your dog is dismayed by the sight of the bath or your rabbit runs at bath time, one of these factors may be the reason.
Bathtub discomfort: is the receptacle you're washing your pet in too large or small? Choose a bath that is right for the size of your pet. Do you have an anti slip mat to stop your pet from sliding around and getting nervous? If not, you can put a towel down in the bottom. Are you filling the bath too full? Water should only come to about the knees of an uncomfortable animal so they can still maintain their balance and grip.
Fear of the water spray: never spray your pet in the face with the shower nozzle as this scares them. Use a squeeze bottle filled with water or pour the water over with a cup or bowl instead of the shower head. Running water can also be a problem so fill the bath beforehand so the sound doesn't startle them.
Escape artists: make sure your bathing area is completely confined and the door is shut so your wet pet doesn't go streaking through the house. You may need to restrain your pet with a towel or even a mesh laundry bag, though this will definitely result in an upset animal!
Have some treats on hand to reassure your pet and reward for good behaviour, | 867 |
Muslim beauty pageant created by Bexley resident touts modesty
Maya Fenter
mfenter@dispatch.com
Maghrib Shahid grew up watching page<|fim_middle|>owers Muslim women who chose to wear the hijab," Shahid said.
Shahid is planning the fourth annual Miss Muslimah USA pageant, set for Aug. 27 in Detroit, with social-distancing measures and mask requirements.
Shahid held the first pageant in summer 2017 at COSI Columbus and did it all on what she called a "shoestring budget," using the money she had saved from sales of her modest clothing collection, Chimiwear, which she started in 2013 and found success selling on Facebook. Her savings originally were dedicated to her nine children, but she felt that this cause needed her attention more.
She said she initially struggled to gain support from the Muslim community, which, Shahid thinks, got caught up in pageantry stereotypes.
"When you think about pageantry, you think about skin, and Muslim women are not allowed to show certain parts of their bodies," Shahid said.
But Shahid has catered the pageant's events to fit the values and styles of modest Muslim women. Fifteen contestants, ages 17 to 30, compete in five categories: abayah, a robe-like dress; burkini, a modest swimsuit that covers the whole body except hands, feet and face; modest evening gown; talent; and speech.
For the speech portion, every contestant answers the same question: "If you are crowned Miss Muslimah USA, how would you use your title to change the stereotypes around Muslims in the USA?"
Halima Yasin Abdullahi, a Northland resident who won Miss Muslimah USA 2017 as a 20-year-old, emphasized the importance of education.
"The way to remedy ignorance is by educating others," Abdullahi said. "I felt that we needed to do our part as Muslim women to educate others about the hijab. It's one thing to complain about the ignorance of other people, but (it's) another thing to actually answer their questions and open up a dialogue."
For the first pageant, the winner received $5,000, much of which was funded by Shahid's sales from her clothing collection. That amount since has been lowered to $1,000, supported by contestant registration fees and ticket sales. Shahid said she hopes to offer a $5,000 scholarship in the future.
In addition to the prize money, for the past two years, Shahid has partnered with the modest wear brand, PFH (Perfect for Her), to give the titleholder and runner-up a VIP experience at the annual PFH Modest Fashion Convention in Los Angeles. Recipients typically are flown out for three days and attend dinners, receive gifts and walk in the convention's modest-wear fashion show; this year it will take place virtually in advance of the pageant.
"It puts on the pedestal a woman who is entirely clad and shows that you don't have to show your skin and compromise your values to be recognized as beautiful," said Hassanah El-Yacoubi, 31, founder of PFH. "It's really empowering to watch these women to be on stage and be able to pursue what would be a dream of theirs to win this type of competition, but doing it in a way that is true to their values and true to their belief systems."
Participating in the pageant helped Abdullahi feel more comfortable about her identity, she said.
"I should be proud of who I am," Abdullahi said. "I should embrace my skin tone; I should embrace my features; I should embrace my hijab. I've definitely gained a lot of confidence."
Those interested in participating should apply at missmuslimahusa.net.
Shahid said she hopes the pageant continues to be a means of lifting up Muslim women so young girls who dream of being in pageants like she did don't feel like they have to give up.
"I'm able to live my dream through these women," she said. "That there is everything for me."
@maya_with_a_y | ants on TV, dreaming that one day, she could compete in one.
It was a dream she ultimately gave up.
"As I got older, I never saw anyone who looked like me," said Shahid, 39, a Bexley resident. "That dream just got slimmer and slimmer and slimmer."
So in 2016, she set out to create her own pageant specifically for women like her -- Muslim women who dress modestly and wear a hijab (a head covering worn by Muslim women).
"I wanted to show Muslim women that they're not alone and create a platform that celebrates the hijab, that emp | 132 |
Tarek El Moussa: Whoops! Forgot to Tell My Ex I'm Banging Heather Rae Young!
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In late July, Tarek El Moussa was spotted getting hot and heavy with Heather Rae Young, the Netflix star.
Since then, the two have gone Instagram official and been interviewed as a couple, even celebrating Tarek's birthday together.
Now, Tarek is being totally honest -- he didn't actually tell his ex-wife about Heather. He let the news do that for him.
On August 8, more than a week after they were spotted together, Tarek and Heather went Instagram official.
"it's official!!!!" Tarek wrote in his captions.
He continued: "After more than 3 years on my own I'm so PROUD to say that this beautiful, sweet and talented young lady is my girlfriend!"
"I'll be honest and say I never thought I would meet someone special in my life after the last three years," Tarek confessed.
"Then...out of the blue," he marveled. "@heatherraeyoung walked into my life."
"The first time I saw her smile she "did that thing to my tummy,"" Tarek says.
He doesn't mean one of various kinky things, but rather dazzled him with her looks enough to make his heart race and to make him nervous.
"And," he recalled. "I knew right away I needed to get to know her... "
"So I asked her out!!" he narrated. "She said yes."
Tarek gushed: "I just want to let the world know I met someone special that makes me want to be a better man "
August 21 was Tarek's birthday, and Heather was excited to celebrate with him.
"Happy happy happy birthday @therealtarekelmoussa," Heather raved on her own Instagram page.
She wrote: "since you came into my life I haven't stopped smiling."
"When I'm with you," she praised. "The world stops."
"So excited to share your special day with you," Heather affirmed.
She concluded her caption by writing: "You + Me."
Now, Tarek was interviewed on Strahan, Sara, and Keke and grilled about his steamy romance with Heather.
Keke asked: "What were her thoughts about, you know, 'He's working with his ex-wife,' what were your thoughts about telling her that?"
What she means by that is whether and when Tarek told Christina, his ex, about Heather.
"We were together for a short period of time," Tarek says of Heather back in July.
"And." he acknowledges. "We got caught with some paparazzi photos on the back of my boat"
Tarek emphasizes that this took place "after we had just started dating,"
"So I'm like, 'OK, well, the cat's out of the bag,'" Tarek explains.
He wondered at the time if he should call Christina, who has already remarried to Ant Anstead, to let her know that the news had broken.
"'So, should I tell my ex-wife? Should I not?' …" he recalls asking himself.
"So I guess," Tarek says. "The world just let everybody know that we were together."
Sometimes it's like that -- especially when you're a celebrity.
The only thing that changes when you make it official is that tabloids and blogs get to drop the "alleged" before the word "girlfriend."
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Paris 2002 Part 2
When we visited Paris for the first time in 2002, we felt like yokels: Everything was new and we gawked. Now that we have been<|fim_middle|> The second most wonderful thing, after Ste. Chapelle stained glass, was Medieval garden at Musee Cluny. Saw some blue violets blooming.
Richard's favorites, day three:
The Omelette Emental for lunch, which was heaven. The stained glass at Ste. Chapelle, although it was too overwhelming to see in detail. The fleur-de-lis stars on the vaulting of the lower level of St. Chapelle. The tapestries, in general, at Musee Cluny. There was a gold rose there, too.
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gothic style
le style flamboyant
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musee de moyen age
ste. chapelle | there often enough to feel at home on its boulevards, and have visited its most familiar sites enough times that the Musee d'Orsay can feel "old hat," these initial notes, written at the end of each day on that trip, can still bring back that feeling, that sense of excitement at seeing the world through a different culture, and with a wholly different sense of history. These notes and photos are from that virgin trip. Click any photo to enlarge.
Thursday March 28
Sainte Chapelle
There is no denying the beauty of Sainte Chapelle, with its two floors of chapel: a lower floor for the servants and the brilliantly lit upper floor for the king. But one can see a creeping French classicism overtaking the richness of the earlier Gothic. At Notre Dame de Paris, every pier is different, every capital, every boss in the vaulting. At Ste. Chapelle, there is greater unity: only two styles of pier, alternating along the nave walls. The bosses are uniform. The fleur-de-lis motif crops up everywhere, further unifying the decor of the building.
Even in the 13th century, you can see Poussin coming, and Racine. There is a fecundity to the earlier Gothic. Metaphorically, the buildings mimic the variety of nature. One senses in Notre Dame, for instance, a connection with the earth, the seasons, the stars, the animals. At Ste. Chapelle, nature has become an ensignia for royal power and wealth.
No one at Ste. Chapelle, you feel, has ever shoveled manure.
The difference, as Carole stated it, is that Notre Dame feels like a machine meant to take you somewhere, like a traveling machine for the universe, or a time machine. You know, in Notre Dame, that something is happening to you.
At Ste. Chapelle, you admire the decor, recognize the royal taste — the gout royale — and it something you observe, look at, admire, rather than participate in. That doesn't mean it isn't astonishingly beautiful.
Ste. Chapelle, of course, is late Gothic, le style flamboyant, with neither aisles nor triforium. The windows hang like banners down the walls from just above head level to the top, at over 50 feet. Ste. Chapelle is filled with light in a way Notre Dame isn't. There is nothing murky about Ste. Chapelle. It is brilliant.
There are two stories, in both senses of the word. Upstairs is reserved for royalty.
The first floor is a low chapel for servants and burgers. Its ceiling is blue and gold, and anyone using it must have felt privileged indeed, with all that gold leaf and those gilt vaults. (Granted, they are 19th century restorations and only approximate what must originally have been there.)
There is a tiny circular stone staircase that leads up to the main event on the second floor. Because of its two tier nature, Ste. Chapelle looks oddly gangly and tall. Because its foundation is hid from the street, the chapel looks as if it is built on a small hill, above the surrounding buildings. But there is no hill on the Ile de la Cite. The church is just jacked up a full story on its servant chapel, leaving the King's chapel floating in the stratosphere.
When the sun breaks out, as it doesn't often do in Paris, the stained glass projects color on the floor, in blues, reds and a little yellow.
We spent a couple of hours in St. Chapelle, trying to see everything and absorb it. Every inch of the place is either gilt or painted or sculpted. There is little resting place for the eye. Perhaps that contributes to the sense that Ste. Chapelle doesn't function as Notre Dame does.
It is something that allows Louis IX to show off, nearly 800 years after his death. He would have liked that, I'm sure.
Musee de Moyen Age, Cluny
At the Musee Cluny, we began to wear down. We saw the first dozen rooms just fine, and had time to linger over the many tapestries, but eventually, our muscles and bones — to say nothing of our fried brains — made the last part of the museum a mad dash to get through. Which is a shame, because there is so much to enjoy.
The Middle Ages speaks to me in a deep and profound way: I am simpatico with its sense of multiplicity, and its sense of particularity.
"To generalize is to be an idiot," said William Blake, and with that, he dismissed all of English neoclassicism.
But I feel as he does: Every flower, every tree on the mille fleur tapestries is identifiable. There is a daisy, there an iris. It might as well be a Peterson guide.
For me, the Gothic evidences a genuine love for the things of the world. The various classicisms that follow seem infatuated with ideas rather than things.
But you cannot rub an idea between your fingers, hold it to your nose and smell the camphor, as you can in an herb in a garden.
Yes, I admire the rigor of the classicisms. Poussin is no slouch: You have to respect the intellectual energy expended in regularizing the universe.
But in my heart of hearts, it seems like a kind of avoidance. The real world, with its real textures, real smells, real colors, real tactility, real sounds — seem so much more satisfying than the concepts that underlie classicism.
So, the Gothic world dug its arms up to the elbows in the soil, sniffing the moisture in the loam. You see it in the illuminated manuscripts, with their love of the seasons; you see it in the architecture, with its leafy pier capitals; you see it in the tapestries, with their mille fleur horror vacuii.
The classical worlds that followed — and in France, even the Baroque is classical — it is all turned into ideas. Even French Romanticism seems wordy and literary.
So, you have to go back past the 13th century, to the early Medieval world, before you find such quiddity in French culture.
Adam Gopnik, in his book, talks about the French love of "theory." Theory to them, is paramount: Without a solid logic in your theory, your conclusions are suspect.
But theory can be a dread evil. It is just such ideas that, twisted and mangled, turn into fascism, Stalinism, Maoism. No room for goats in such worlds.
When we finally got back to the hotel, we were destroyed. Could barely move. Slept for several hours before supper.
But then, we walked down the street to a little glass-fronted brasserie for some onion soup and apple tart. Quel marvelleuse!
Carole's favorites, day three:
Windows at Ste. Chapelle; Cafe au lait while walking to subway, and the pain au chocolat; learning about Ste. Chapelle from Richard as my own private teacher; I liked the servants' chapel very much. Really really enjoyed was the cut on the fold animal patterns inlaid on floor at Ste. Chapelle; there were hounds, boars, vultures, wolves; At Cluny, saw some little metal pots that were children's play dishes; saw some little metal whistles in the form of animal heads that were children's whistles. I thought the combs were very interesting. | 1,575 |
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Outdoor noise barriers are used to reduce noise disturbance from fixed industrial plant, from aircraft ground operations and from roads. Recent years have seen a growing interest in the potential for use of sonic crystals as noise barriers. Sonic crystals take their name from the analogous effects of photonic crystals on light.
They consist of periodic arrays of circular cylinders and are known to give high attenuation at selective frequencies as a consequence of multiple scattering. The frequencies of highest attenuation can be found by assuming that an integer number of half wavelengths fits the distance between the scatterers. Additional attenuation bands may be achieved if the array is composed of resonant elements instead of solid cylinders. Possibly the main advantage of sonic crystals (SCs) is that by varying the distance between the cylinders and the design of the resonant elements it is possible to attain peaks of attenuation in a certain range of frequencies. Another advantage of an SC barrier would be its relative optical transparency. Another would be its relative permeability to wind, thus reducing the effects of barrier induced turbulence and wind-gradient enhancement. In principle, if SC barriers are used as highway noise barriers on both sides of a road, there should be less reverberation than between solid barriers. The appearance of an SC barrier might also have a rather positive aesthetic impact. After all, the interest in using SCs as barriers started with the discovery that a 'sculpture' consisting of vertical parallel cylinders acted as a sound barrier. Various possible designs of SC barriers have been considered. In addition to 'con<|fim_middle|>2013). | ventional' vertical circular cylinder arrays, the acoustical performance of horizontal cylinders arrays above a reflecting plane as well as arrays of elastic shells and composite resonant elements was investigated both analytically/numerically and through laboratory measurements. The optimisation of the design of SC arrays making use of acoustic lens effects and resonances was investigated. The outdoor performance of vertical cylinder arrays of resonant elements in configurations suitable for road traffic noise will be tested and compared with that of a simple barrier in various wind conditions.
Array of elastic shells installed in an anechoic chamber (Open University, UK).
A.Krynkin, O.Umnova, A.Y.B.Chong, S.Taherzadeh, K.Attenborough, "Scattering by coupled resonating elements in air", Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 44, 125501 (2011).
A.Krynkin, O.Umnova, J.V. Sanchez-Perez, A.Y.B.Chong, S.Taherzadeh, K.Attenborough "Acoustic insertion loss due to two dimensional periodic arrays of circular cylinders parallel to a nearby surface" Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 130, 3736-3745 (2011).
V. Romero-Garcia, A.Krynkin, L.M. Garcia-Raffi, O.Umnova, J.V. Sanchez-Perez "Multi-resonant scatterers in sonic crystals: Locally multi-resonant acoustic metamaterial" Journal of Sound and Vibration, 332, 184-198 (2013).
A.Krynkin, O.Umnova, S.Taherzadeh, K.Attenborough "Analytical approximations for low frequency band gaps in periodic arrays of elastic shells" Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 133, 781-791 (2013).
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Very long ago hats were worn primarily for temperature security. Possibly they soon obtained a more symbolic position. In olden situations, slaves employed by the Greeks and Romans, when freed, could put on the Phrygian cap, which was a sort of skullcap, pointed and curled. Royalty, of course, wore crowns and priests together with other spiritual heads wore different kinds of headgear, based upon their placement while in the spiritual hierarchy.
Hats happen to be crafted from different elements in the course of the ages and that persists even in fashionable periods. Stiff cloth, felt, leather-based, straw, fur, cloth ended up used in early times and now newer materials like plastic, faux leather and other folks are also accustomed to make hats. Hood-like styles and skullcaps, straw and fabric hats have offered way to much more elaborate creations with unique gildings.
Within the Middle Ages, hats were being worn to indicate modesty since hair was anticipated for being coated by a veil or handkerchief. Within the later element with the fifteenth century, hats became extra of a component of manner, obtained additional intricate and experienced a structured look via the sixteenth century. From becoming one thing to deal with their modesty, gals made them a style statement plus they arrived into their unique. This was also enough time that hat-makers and milliners advanced and took their place inside the manner environment, from being merchants who received straw from Milan to weave into hats to designers.
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This is the 5th collection of papers from the biennial Libraries Without Walls Conference (LWW5). Reference to the preceding 4 volumes published in 1996, 1998, 2000 and 2002 respectively is rewarding to see how discourse and practice has developed.
Access collaboration is now commonplace; 135 institutions are members of the UK Libraries plus access scheme, 157 are signed up for Sconul Research Extra. The Peoples Network has put 4000 Internet centres into public libraries, Athens passwords and off-campus access to databases has provided access to a growing collection of electronic content. The last year has seen a doubling of UK domestic broadband Internet access, the parallel growth of digitised content, images, e-prints and open archives. All this plus the shift of Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs) from the fringe to the mainstream and, more recently, the growth of interactive Web technologies such as portals and blogs, have provided learners with unprecedented access to resources, services and learning interactivity. All of which would have been difficult to imagine when the first LWW took place 9 long years ago.
The emphasis in earlier papers on replicating existing levels of service enjoyed by on-campus students for those unfortunate to be studying away from the library has morphed and shifted, now describing technical projects as well as operational strategies of support.
Librarians' roles too are changing, moving away from the more familiar activities. They are now carving new niches and describing imaginative new arcs of activity in supporting learning in the distributed electronic environment.
As with the previous editions, this is edited by the prolific Peter Brophy and Shelagh Fisher both of whom have a formidable track record of contribution to the canon of library knowledge and literature. They have been joined this time by Jenny Craven, Research Associate at the Centre for Research in Library and Information Management (CERLIM), and a previous contributor.
The editors chart the amazing progress made in distance learning, and describe how definitions and foci have changed. They provide a succinct summary of the long journey made. (It will be the tenth anniversary for LWW6). As with all editions, this focuses on the international perspectives on the delivery of library and information to learners who are not 'in the building'. This focus on the user, notes Brophy in his keynote paper, eventually led us to the realisation that it is the library that is distant and not the user.
The range of papers, more than in any other edition, come from nine countries and a wide spectrum of Higher and Further Educational Institutions, national and public bodies and libraries and research units. There are case studies from the UK, Netherlands, Nigeria, Greece, USA, Nigeria, Denmark, Portugal and Italy.
In the first<|fim_middle|> have been deliberately created and labelled as such or not. Librarians can play a positive role in communities by creating and sharing organisational knowledge.
The JISC-funded Exchange for Learning Programme (X4L) is an ambitious development. X4L consists of 25 projects and involves more than 100 institutions and teams from FE colleges, universities, libraries, local authorities and commercial companies. The programme aims to assess whether re-purposing content -the reuse of learning material after metadata treatment to permit relevant use across different audiences or mediums- can become a popular and sustainable way of producing e-learning materials for the future. X4L also addresses the challenges and training associated with re-purposing content, and further still provide a national repository with re-purposable learning materials. Susan Eales the programme manager provides a useful project overview and asks some stimulating questions.
The papers included here serve as helpful stand-alone case studies and discourse in delivering services to the distributed learning communities. But by being brought together they interweave; ideas sparked by reading one paper are further provoked and challenged by reading another, resulting in a cumulative effect which leaves the reader with a critical overview of the contemporary issues and practice. I'd like to see some future discussion take place on non-users, invisible learning, and as mentioned earlier, the role of IT or merged help desks in providing support. LWW6 should be very interesting indeed.
Article Title: "Book Review: Libraries Without Walls 5" | paper Black and Roberts from Edge Hill describe an interesting example of the use of a VLE (WebCT) for staff induction and training, which allows, both for a vehicle for staff to learn about the institution, and in the process allows them to understand the VLE and thus be better placed to support students in this environment. This is an excellent and imaginative strategy which embeds e-learning activity within the daily routines and culture of a service.
Koositra et al from Delft and Utrecht Universities provide a case study demonstrating how they support scientific researchers with the detailed information they need and a place where they can interact with this information and share it with other researchers. It is not enough for libraries to teach people how to use libraries, they maintain, we must provide user-focused integrated access to a substantial number of resources along with the ability to store, exchange and share information.
A rather difficult appendix of tables takes some effort but it is worth persevering.
Scantlebury and Stevenson's brief paper describes the JISC-funded project work of DEViL (Dynamically Enhancing VLE Information from the Library). DEViL created tools which can be embedded within search repositories to create resource lists. Eschewing the technical aspects of the project, Scantlebury and Stevenson seek to identify the key issues in VLE development and explore the often competing perspectives of academics, libraries and learning technologists, They reach some sobering conclusions, there is little evidence of a genuine teamwork approach, a failure to engage, a focus on content rather than outcomes, barriers such as access and authorisation and copyright issues.
Ahtola from Tampere University in Finland reflects on the environmental changes that affect libraries and the activities Tampere University library undertakes. There is little that is particularly innovative here but Ahtola does describe a comprehensive and interdependent array of services which add value to teaching and learning.
Garoufallou et al write of the experience at the University of Macedonia in Greece, and of the unfortunate experience of having a VLE foisted upon them which they originally felt was inadequate for their needs. Their perseverance is admirable and the case study describes typical developments in the country.
If there is one criticism of the papers in theme 1 it is that there is little mention of engaging the silent army of IT support workers on help desks and in the background who contribute so much to the distributed learning experience.
Theme 2 opens with a paper from Moore. This is an overview of the experience at Sheffield Hallam in embedding information skills in the subject-based curriculum. Moore describes the InfoQuest online information skills package delivered through Blackboard. Sheffield Hallam has adopted a customised and integrated approach which is, they admit, costly and time-consuming, but the dividends they find, are worth it. Learners don't tend to engage with generic skills. And as Scantlebury and Stevenson found, faculty engagement can be difficult too. Both learners and academics are more likely to engage with customised and targeted product.
Widening participation is increasingly an issue which concerns us all and Rutter and Dale provide an overview of interventionist activity in embedding information skills in a foundation degree and a professional social work qualification.
Virkus from Manchester Metropolitan University takes us on a theoretical discourse through the literature on information literacy and learning; it is a useful primer on current thinking and has an excellent references list.
Gill Needham from the Open University asks the question 'Information Literacy - who needs it?' in this final paper in Theme 2; she answers by saying 'that everybody needs it'. The Prague Declaration 'towards an information literate society' would certainly concur and Needham provides a sound research case study based upon the free-standing short course in Information Literacy called Making Sense of Information in the Connected Age (MOSAIC).
The opening paper from King et al focuses on an evaluation framework for digital libraries, research which was supported by a grant from the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC). Good Digital Libraries should support task-based information-seeking behaviour and be highly organised. The framework is a useful tool to apply and the authors recommend further research and application for researchers and practitioners.
Kolawole describes the relatively low level state of ICT in Nigeria, but the author touches on the critical universal themes of key skills and employability and the roles libraries can play in supporting them.
A research case study from the Italian National Health Institute finds that there is a significant move towards the use of online resources. Toni recommends monitoring user satisfaction, efficiency and effectiveness of online services, the adoption of federated searching and access to full text.
Botha discusses the impressive African Digital Library which allows free access to anyone living in Africa and has about 7800 e-book titles. It is the start of a very long journey says the author.
From a continent to a state, Moen et al demonstrate the Library of Texas Resource Discovery Service (LOT RDS). The LOT RDS is a metasearch application which enables users to identify, select and access or acquire information through a state-wide virtual library. The usability framework proposed by Moen et al is a more in-depth and resource-targeted tool than the framework proposed by King et al above, though they could be used in tandem. The authors suggest that users may require new mental models in order to contextualise meta-searching, a veritable challenge for information literacy advocates.
Theme 4: Designing the information environment: national and institutional perspectives.
Williams provides a case study from the Library at Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) demonstrating how they support institutional objectives in learning and teaching, research, widening participation, outreach and knowledge transfer. This is a useful overview of the challenges facing libraries in the context of institutional and national drivers in the UK.
Proenca and Nunes provide an evaluation of Internet services in Portuguese public libraries and make sensible recommendations that are applicable in all circumstances, specifically that there should be clear and precise guidelines for implementing online services and for evaluating quality.
The Danish Electronic Research Library, a national virtual research library is described by Ohrstrom and offers an exemplar of activity for the UKs forthcoming Research Libraries Network with the potential for common licensing, common access and a common portal.
Following on the research theme Wallis and Carpenter survey researchers and resources. They find that online resources are becoming increasingly important, that researchers need better tools, and that access to print is still important and will continue to be. They emphasize the important role subject librarians should play.
The fifth theme challenges the traditional perception of users as passive receptors of information.
Kelly and Butters, research associates at MMU, describe the Cultural Objects in Networked Environments project (COINE). Cultural memory institutions are a growing phenomenon , the rise of Wikis, Blogs and the success of the BBC People's War Project, for example, demonstrate that individuals and communities can and are willing to contribute to the growth in online information and resources.
Another JISC-funded project, DAEDALUS (Data providers for academic e-content and the disclosure of assets for learning, understanding and scholarship) is discussed by Ashworth and Nixon of Glasgow University. A welcome look at open archives, this e-prints service was actually launched in June 2004 and provides free and unrestricted access to resources using the Open Archives Initiative's protocol for harvesting metadata (OAI-PMH). Ashworth and Nixon describe the liaison, mechanisms and culture change within the institution.
Cox and Morris explore new roles for librarians in virtual work communities or 'communities of practice'. A community of practice (CoP) is a group or network of people who share a common interest in a specific area of knowledge or competence and are willing to work and learn together over a period of time to develop and share that knowledge. These groups probably exist in some form in almost every organisation - whether they | 1,586 |
About a month or so ago I stumbled on a website that completely<|fim_middle|>Time To Wash Your Hands – You May Have Just Touched Someone's Poop! | blew my mind with the sheer volume of awesomeness that it contained. That website was the Google Merchandise Store. The Google Merchandise Store is not anything I've ever seen advertise anywhere and it doesn't even pop up in search results on Google. Despite the fact that it wasn't easy to find it features a lot of great products that cover a variety of Google's offerings and almost all of their audience.
On the site I was able to find everything from pencils, t-shirts, jackets, blankets, stuffed animals, toys, stickers and dog collars! Everything was branded with one of Google's brands; Google, YouTube, Android, Chrome etc. Quite often you'll see things like this from other brands where you get to pay an arm and a leg due to the branding but in this case Google has kept the prices all fairly reasonable and there was nothing that jumped out at me as being overly expensive. Prices ranged from $2.00 to $100.00 USD.
At the time of my discovery I ordered two shirts for myself, a Google shirt and an Android shirt. They were very quick to ship and very well made. I wear the shirts often and have found them to be durable and comfortable. Check out the video below for an overview of the site and to see more of what the Google Merchandise Store can offer you!
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If your email database is suffering from the dreaded marketing fatigue, you are not alone. Email marketers everywhere are struggling to find the right message frequency. However, there is good news! Based on a first-of-its-kind empirical study I discussed in an earlier post, we have proof that you can achieve a reasonable open rate, even if you increase the number of messages you send. Marketing fatigue does not appear tied to message frequency; instead, it appears tied to message relevancy.
So to reduce marketing fatigue, we must adhere to rules that have proven successful. I have followed five specific rules that have proven successful when communicating with an email audience.
First, to minimize marketing pressure, it's critical to manage relevance and fatigue on a consumer-by-consumer basis. Deploy a one-to-one contact management strategy where communications are optimized using purchase data, behavior, demographics, preferences, etc. (Don't forget to fold in offline data!) And rather than using the traditional approach, where marketers apply a generic threshold to all customers and prospects, communication thresholds should be defined by message relevance to each recipient, on an individual basis, to maximize sales.
If a consumer determines an email subject is not relevant, there is little impact, negative or positive, on a brand or consumer perception. However, if a message is opened that the consumer thinks is relevant, and it turns out to be irrelevant, this damages the brand and decreases future chances of success. So<|fim_middle|> the solution to marketing fatigue could be to create a content-relevance scoring model. This approach could leverage a relevance indicator for each recipient/message couple. The indicator could be calculated using all the information available on recipients (channel behavior, demographics, profile information, preferences, propensity to buy, etc.). Communication strategies could then be uniquely assigned and tracked based on the value of the relevance indicator, much like a scoring engine uses thresholds and business rules to optimize targets for marketing campaigns based on buying behavior.
If the indicator shows the message will be very relevant, then the format can be whatever you wish. If it is relevant, you must minimize the effort required to read the message and take action. If the indicator shows uncertain relevance, you will need to captivate the recipient either by the format you select (images, animations) or content you deliver (important announcements, offers). If the indicator predicts little chance of being relevant: will you be brave enough to not send the message?
2. Create this indicator and revolutionize the way we do marketing by assessing the relevance of every single communication before personalizing each message on a one-to-one basis. Today, conversational marketing technologies help enable this type of intelligent and individualized information management. Thanks to cross-channel campaign management, inbound and outbound communication fusion, and real-time personalization and recommendation engines marketers have all the necessary capabilities to create and capitalize on customer knowledge, and to ultimately calculate a relevance indicator to automatically adapt message form, content, and frequency.
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Once the content relevance has been met, marketers can increase, to a certain point, the volume and frequency of communication, but only if subsequent impressions are designed to continue delivering highly personalized and relevant messages. Research shows that marketers can send relevant messages multiple times to achieve results. This means that more relevance doesn't necessarily require the level of message complexity to rise exponentially for marketing success.
Don't leave it up to consumers to guess whether or not messages are relevant. Rather, make it clear by using subject lines that will help them decide whether to open the message. Remember that there's no penalty for helping consumers classify messages as irrelevant before they open them.
If we cannot determine if a message is relevant enough, then it's best to use a simple, graphical, or fun approach. Keep viewers' effort level low. In these circumstances, the less the viewer has to comb through, the less likely you will create a negative outcome.
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Malawi is a year-round safari destination that offers the best in bush and water fun for the whole family. 'The Warm Heart of Africa' is oriented towards families looking for an African holiday that is not necessarily tailored around cushioned comfort but also offers adventure, rustic charm and hospitality that is genuinely friendly. The slower pace of living and fantastic family-friendly accommodation options ensure a good range and balance of child-friendly activities as well as a more relaxing getaway for parents. Malawi is relatively small by African standards and the south of the country has a number of attractions within a small area, so journeys are relatively short and easy (and through some really beautiful landscapes). And the warmth of welcome towards visitors for which Malawi is famed becomes even stronger when there are children travelling too, so we thought it was time highlight the top 5 places in southern Malawi for family activity holidays.
A World Heritage Site and the world's first freshwater national park, Lake Malawi National Park, is based near to Cape Maclear in southern Malawi. It, of course, offers many water-based activities for the whole family to enjoy together.
From diving in and taking a swim in the clear and calm water, to sailing as a family on a small boat or cruising in a larger vessel, Lake Malawi is fun for young and old alike. The sunny beach-like banks of the lake are perfect to have a lunchtime picnic under a big umbrella or the natural shade of the trees nearby.
There is a massive exhilaration factor in the high adrenaline sports, such as parasailing and water-skiing, which get the heart racing and the blood pumping. Since the lake is surprisingly deep and home to a dazzling array of fish, snorkelling and scuba-diving is a fantastic way to get in touch with the aquatic diversity in one of Africa's largest lakes.
Aptly named 'The Lake of Stars' by David Livingstone, guests at Pumulani Lodge can watch the light dancing off Lake Malawi from deck chairs around the plunge pool. The staff at Pumulani is well-equipped to look after the kids and keep an eye of them during lodge- and water-based activities.
The lodge accommodates all children with the family suite reflecting this in the cot and bedding as well as child-friendly meals.
What could be better than staying on a deserted tropical island? Families can enjoy a choice of two such camps which lie within the Lake Malawi National Park. Mumbo Island is a 45 minute boat ride or 3 hour paddle in a kayak off shore, a 1km diameter tropical island that has never been populated so remains pristine. Accommodation is beautiful en suite reed chalets, including a family unit.
Domwe is even closer to the mainland and larger, with simpler accommodation. Kayaks and snorkelling gear are left on the beaches for everyone to use at their convenience and trails across the islands for young explorers.
The well-frequented Liwonde National Park is a wildlife haven as it has the Shire River flowing along the park's western border. This means that visitors can enjoy game viewing opportunities with the family can be taken on both water and land safaris.
Visitors can expect to see numerous elephants, leopards and hyenas, amongst other animal species. Liwonde has varied birdlife, such as fish eagles and the elusive Pel's fishing owl. The kids can go on walking expeditions with professional guides, getting up close to nature on foot and learning at the same time.
Traditional 4×4 game drives offer an elevated view of the bush, and are usually two people per seat which means everyone gets a window seat. Malawi's 'Emerald Season' between the end of December and the beginning of April is an ideal time to visit Liwonde as lagoon cruises ensure excellent game viewing and birding.
With just four tents, including a spacious family tent, the new Kuthengo Camp is a small and intimate accommodation choice on the banks of the Shire River. Hikes and bush walks begin from the camp and are designed according to each family's time specifications and interests. The staff at Kuthengo are trained to deal with children of all ages and help the whole family make the most of their time in Malawi.
Alternative accommodation is at the long-established Mvuu Lodge & Camp, also on the river banks. The Camp is particularly suited to families, with dedicated family units of two bedrooms with a shared bathroom. It also has a playground and swimming pool to keep the children happy when they aren't out on safari. And trips can be arranged to a nearby local community school so that they can mix and play with some Malawians of their own age.
Malawi was the first country in Africa to grow tea on a commercial scale and one of the original family-owned estates, Satemwa offers a great opportunity to learn more about the history, with the added bonus of a beautifully scenic setting. Satemwa is overlooked by Mount Mulanje, Malawi's largest mountain, and itself overlooks the dramatic Thyolo escarpment that descend to the lower Shire Valley. With its neatly trimmed tea gardens and a mountain (Thyolo) in its grounds, this really is one of the country's most scenic locations – and that's saying something!
Then there is the history. Entering the estate is like stepping back in time and visitors get to stay in old colonial estate manager cottages, one of which, Huntingdon House, has been restored and converted into a wonderful boutique lodge full of antique furniture and roll-top baths. With the scenic setting and the history, activities available across the estate are understandably varied, and can be enjoyed by all ages. Tea tasting might be something seen as an adult activity, but being invited to spit into a bucket usually proves irresistible to the children too!
The estates is free to explore on foot or by mountain bike, with some lovely designated picnic spots and birding hotspots; and when it's time to take it easy, there is always the option of taking high tea on the lawn, perhaps with a spot of croquet thrown in!
Majete Wildlife Reserve is Malawi's only Big 5 game park and is located in the lower Shire Valley, relatively close to Blantyre Chileka International Airport. Despite this, it is still far enough off the beaten track to get away from the maddening crowds. This means the family can take in Malawi's wilderness and wildlife in a peaceful, uncrowded setting.
Families visiting the reserve can experience Majete in various ways, according to what best suits their interests. Well-trained guides ensure bush walks offer an opportunity for fun, learning as well as encountering Malawi's beautiful biodiversity on foot. For those looking for a more strenuous bush activity, the Mabele Hill Hike is a great way for the kids to expend some energy.
Game drives offer a more comfortable way of enjoying the park and can be either self-drive or guided. More ground can be covered and for children that aren't completely convinced of walking amongst animals, the confines of a vehicle should provide a sense of security. There might be some parents that prefer this option too!
Visitors can opt to bed down in the reserve at Mkulumadzi Lodge, which is found at the confluence of two rivers in a large private concession in Majete. This child-friendly lodge caters to the specific needs families in two family chalets and there are activities based at the camp or within its immediate surroundings. Professional guides can lead the kids on short nature walks to identify spoor and droppings, collect pods, seeds and feathers. Keeping to the camp, kids can paint and colour-in or take a dip in the big rock pool.
Close to the main entrance gates of the Reserve is Sunbird Thawale Lodge, another intimate place to stay that has a family chalet with two bedrooms and its own private veranda overlooking a waterhole, no less!
Perhaps the ideal introduction for a family activity holiday in Malawi comes at Game Haven, a lodge just a few miles out of Blantyre but set in its own private game park – Chimwenya. Now that all the airlines serving Malawi fly in to Blantyre a few times a week, for trips to the south of the country it makes sense to use this southern city as your entry point. In which case, being able to get to a comfortable lodge outside the city and see some animals straight away, just 20 minutes after landing, is a real bonus.
Because the game park has been established without introducing any large predators, it is safe to explore on foot or even by mountain bike as well as taking the drives that are on offer. A walking safari is always something special and a game walk in a relatively small, safe park is a really superb way to introduce young children to Africa's animals. Here they will get to within a few metres from zebra, kudu and plenty of other antelope, even giraffe! With the animals well established in the park and pretty relaxed, they are also regular visitors to the lawns outside the restaurant so there are often sightings to be had while eating breakfast and lunch.
As well as the introduction to safaris, if children are looking for something more like home, Game Haven has a large playground and even an indoor play area, as well as an outdoor swimming pool. With residents offered a free round of golf on the stunning course that forms part of the park, and fishing available on its own Lake Bvumbwe, there is lots at Game Haven to make most families think twice about moving on at all!
With its remarkable mix of thrilling wildlife encounters, amazing landscapes to explore and enjoy, enriching cultural interactions and a pristine lake of crystal clear waters and golden sandy beaches, southern Malawi is a wonderful playground for families. Journey times are short and accommodation has family options and plenty of activities and facilities for children. It's an emerging destination but still unspoilt and gives a great taste of a 'real Africa' yet is very friendly, welcoming and easy to access and explore.
Kelly White is Director of the Malawi Travel Marketing Consortium. Malawi Travel Marketing Consortium aims to provide you with the best information to make Malawi your tourism destination.
Yes indeed. And the pictures don't really do it justice – it's even more beautiful in reality.
Going on an African safari has always been a dream of mine and I never would have thought of Malawi to be a destination for such a holiday. I always hear about Serengeti, Okavango, or Kruger National Park. It's nice to see there are other options that could also be cheaper. Plus, you get to enjoy other activities too, like tea tasting.
Yes, Malawi is definitely emerging now as a genuine option for the dream African Safari. And it is a great bonus to be able to see and experience so much more than just the wildlife. Nobody comes back from Malawi disappointed!
This is amazing..cant wait to book my own family holiday in December..
Malawi is a great family holiday location. I think every holiday for children should be rich with learning about new cultures and trying new activities. With so many different experience you can pack a lot into a family trip. It's always important to<|fim_middle|>,e relaxing days to bask in the beauty of the country too. We are planning on going on a safari soon and Malawi sounds great.
Malawi really does tick all the boxes when it comes to family travel and new experiences. If you give it a chance, you'll love it!
Who needs Mindfulness when you've got soothing images like these? They really are so calming, serene and tranquil.
I know they are difficult to take but I would have loved a picture of the African night sky. It just seems bigger than anywhere else and there seem to be more stars.
I'm also a big fan of getting the family together to experience some superb outdoor adventures. It just builds the bonds.
Why is there a Zambian vehicle in the picture which should be Liwonde NP ? Are you sure that was taken in Liwonde ? Which lodge drives with Zambian vehicles ?
That image was supplied by Robin Pope Safaris, who now run Kuthengo Camp in Liwonde. They were originally a purely Zambian operator and now have a number of camps in Zambia and Malawi. Their vehicles will be used across both countries. | take so | 2 |
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Upcycle old, wooden drawers by giving them a new coat of polish and then line the back of the drawer with leftover wallpaper bits. Fix a hook at the back of the drawer and use it as a wall shelf to display your collection of décor objects.
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Episode 037 – Christian Smith Explicit<|fim_middle|>8 – Par Grindvik & Peder Mannerfelt | ERROR: type should be string, got "\nhttps://www.trainwreckspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/TW037-Christian-Smith.mp3\nDustin caught up with Christian Smith (Tronic, Drumcode) during an airport layover for the final gig of his tour supporting his new album \"Input-Output\". Aside from walking us through his early days, the two discussed turntablism, musical influences, and booze.\nChristian Smith is a Swedish DJ, record producer and remixer. In 1994 he founded Tronic Record Label, now one of the top 3 selling techno labels in the world according to Beatport. He is also the founder of Tronic Radio, a weekly show now syndicated to over 100 stations around the globe[1] with their 200th show was celebrated with special guest Adam Beyer.[2]\nAlthough he was born in Sweden, Christian spent much of his youth in Frankfurt, Germany, where his father was working as a pilot. In 1989 he moved to New York City and, 3 years later, to Washington DC where he started DJing in his spare time while studying at the local university.[3] He now lives in Mallorca.[4]\nEpisode 036 – Matrixxman & Setaoc Mass →\n← Episode 03" | 277 |
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EM equities: positioning and opportunities (Q2 2019 update)
The Janus Henderson Global Emerging Market Equities Team provides an update on the Janus Henderson Global Emerging Market Equities All-Cap Strategy, covering market performance, investment activity, portfolio positioning and their outlook for the asset class.
Q1 2019 market performance
Global emerging market equities rose in local currency terms in the first quarter of 2019 with Colombia, China and Brazil among the strongest markets, while Morocco, Argentina and Sri Lanka were some of the weakest.
Source: Thomson Reuters Datastream, as at 31 March 2019.
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Newcrest, one of the world's largest gold mining companies, was a key positive contributor to returns during the period. This was driven by strong operational performance at its mines, most notably Lihir, located in Papua New Guinea. The improved volume of ore mined and higher recovery rates led to strong cost leverage and cash-flow production. The stock price has also been supported by an improvement in the underlying gold price during the period. This commodity is seen as providing a store of value during times of increased risk aversion.
Heineken, the second-largest brewer in the world, was another significant contributor to returns during the period. The company reported strong full-year 2018 results and forecasts attractive operating profit on an organic basis in 2019. The core Heineken brand saw volume growth of close to 8%, which was its best volume performance in more than a decade. Net revenue growth was strongest in Africa, the Middle East and Eastern Europe, which we believe is positive for the long-term health of the franchise.
Remgro, Shoprite and Pepkor were significant detractors to returns during the period. This was less related to any bottom-up specific company event or news but rather to the continued impact of a weak South African economy on these businesses. We believe that these companies have strong balance sheets and capable management teams and are well positioned to benefit from a reduction in the economic headwinds over time.
Portfolio Activity
Portfolio activity has been in-line with our long-term time horizon. Trailing twelve-month portfolio turnover is running at around 20% for the All-Cap strategy*. We exited positions in Delta Electronics and its sister company, Delta Electronics Thailand, as a result of a corporate action and on valuation grounds. Delta Electronics' purchase of Delta Electronics Thailand improved its future growth profile and increased the contribution from faster growth segments. This became reflected in the stock price and the new entity approached our estimate of fair value. The proceeds were added to existing positions within the portfolio. There were no new purchases during the period.
*Source: Janus Henderson Investors, as at 31 March 2019, based on a representative portfolio.
There has been no noticeable change in our investment outlook over the past quarter. We still view the valuations and growth expectations for many good quality Asian companies as being too high. At the end of last year, it looked as though there was the potential for valuations to become attractive. Equity prices for a lot of good quality companies that are on our watch list had moved from 'very expensive' to just 'expensive' but, unfortunately, not into territory where they became attractive to us. Our lack of significant buying activity during this period is a sign that a number of Asian companies that we admire still sport valuations that do not meet our long-term potential return requirements.
A recent investment trip to South Africa highlighted the significant opportunity for those willing to be patient. Near-term commentary from retailers and businesses was almost universally cautious, and it would appear that the economy is stumbling at a 1%-2% annual GDP growth rate. South Africa's economy is still weathering the after-effects of the corruption and mismanagement of the nine-year reign of ex-president Zuma. We believe that the headwinds that the country has been facing could abate and many good quality African businesses should return to growth, and that current valuations do not reflect this. While the pace of change of economic reform within South Africa may not be helping the economy in the near-term, there are some very interesting developments.
The announcement by President Ramaphosa that Eskom, the state electricity utility company, would be split into three separate entities is a potential 'watershed' moment. Eskom serves as a case in point of all that went wrong with South Africa under the Zuma administration. A decade of corruption and mismanagement led to utilities' debts rising tenfold since 2007, and the sector's ability to produce consistent electricity for distribution diminished. It was the worst of all worlds, which sweeping blackouts attest to. The decision to split the company into generation, transmission and distribution units should allow foreign capital to restore its health. It also shows that Ramaphosa is willing to use his political capital to enforce change on a state company that employs 54,000 people. This policy is unlikely to be popular, but it is necessary for the long-term health of the country. Elections to be held shortly may provide an opportunity for President Ramaphosa to receive a national mandate for change.
Unfortunately for the South African companies in the portfolio, life remains hard and short-term results reflect the difficult environment. One example is a relatively small company called City Lodge Hotels. This company caters primarily to business travellers with hotels that are functional and good value. The tough environment in the country has led to less investment, the knock-on effect of which is that business travel continues to suffer. The company is, however, built to withstand this and continues to invest in both its people and properties through the tough times. As a team, we have always been impressed by the quality of management and the widespread ownership of the company by staff. An investment like this should do very well when confidence in the country returns and patience is rewarded.
Thinking and acting like prudent owners
Our investment philosophy and process applies both to the historical and modern connotation of the term 'other people's money'. We have long believed in carefully considering how we, as minority shareholders, are aligned with the interests of the managers and owners of the companies in which we invest. In addition, we also look for capital allocators that associate other people's money with fragility and the risk of a permanent loss of capital.
Significant levels of debt can mean having less room to manoeuvre if a setback occurs and can lead to highly leveraged companies being beholden to a bank or bond markets during periods of cyclical economic weakness or shifting industry trends. There is nothing inherently 'good' or 'bad' about a management team or business owner following a particular capital allocation or investment style. One just needs to follow an investment philosophy and process that is consistent. It is our belief that the inherent vagaries of the emerging market investment landscape reward those who are willing and able to be risk aware and to act like prudent owners over the long term.
Appetite for risk and enthusiasm for the emerging market asset class has increased over the recent period. We are mindful that there are a number of fault lines opening up across the region and, more broadly, globally, and that liquidity alone cannot solve these issues. Speculation also appears to be running high. The current global appetite for loss-making Chinese 'unicorns' (a startup company with a valuation of more than $1 billion) in both local and international markets reminds us that, at times, discretion is the better part of valour.
We are mindful of the need to stick to our beliefs that we do not compromise on quality, we maintain a long-term approach and apply a strict valuation discipline. With a long-term perspective, we remain positive about the opportunities for equity investors created by the structural trend of rising living standards in some parts of the developing world.
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Issued in the UK by Janus Henderson Investors. Janus Henderson Investors is the name under which investment products and services are provided by Janus Capital International Limited (reg no. 3594615), Henderson Global Investors Limited (reg. no. 906355), Henderson Investment Funds Limited (reg. no. 2678531), AlphaGen Capital Limited (reg. no. 962757), Henderson Equity Partners Limited (reg. no.2606646), (each registered in England and Wales at 201 Bishopsgate, London EC2M 3AE and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority) and Henderson Management S.A. (reg no. B22848 at 2 Rue de Bitbourg, L-1273, Luxembourg and regulated by the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier). We may record telephone calls for our mutual protection, to improve customer service and for regulatory record keeping purposes.
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NYC Administration For Children's Services Celebrates National Kinship Care Month
In honor of September's "National Kinship Care Month," the NYC Administration for Children's Services honors New York City grandparents, aunts, uncles, family friends and more, who have stepped forward to become kinship caregivers to children in need. Research has shown that children in foster care who are placed with family members or friends experience less trauma, have greater overall well-being, and are more likely to be reunified with their parents, become adopted, or achieve guardianship.
In New York City, approximately 41% of all children in foster care are placed with kinship caregivers.
Now more than ever, as children in foster care cope with the added uncertainty caused by CoViD-19, ACS recognizes the critical role kin care givers play by providing safety, stability, and a sense of normalcy.
"In recognition of "National Kinship Month," ACS recognizes New York City grandparents, aunts, uncles, and close friends who are providing safe, loving homes for children in need," said ACS Commissioner, David A. Hansell. "We know that children fare best when they maintain strong ties to their families, and increased efforts to place kids with kin reinforce our commitment to improve outcomes for all children and families who come in contact with ACS."
"This "National Kinship Month," The New York Foundling honors and celebrates the countless extended family members who, every day, share and join our mission of providing children with familiar, stable, and caring homes," said Bill Baccaglini, President and CEO of The New York Foundling. "While all of us strive to keep families together, when temporary removal of a child is required, The Foundling believes that the long-term outcome for a family is much more positive if the care is provided by kin. This work wouldn't be possible without the tremendous commitment of kin caregivers across New York City, who support their family members and provide children with a safe and nurturing family setting as parents address the stressors that led to separation and disruption of the family unit."
"Since 1997, I have worked alongside many kinship care services providers and gotten to know thousands of kinship caregivers. Everyone who meets them and hears their stories become their admirers and advocates. They are our nation's original child welfare system, still the best system, and always our greatest natural<|fim_middle|> be able to give two wonderful children a loving home and the structure they deserve. There certainly are challenges, but ultimately kinship care is the best option for the child. To all the other kinship foster parents out there who have stepped up, I applaud you," said Theresa Branch-el, Kinship Foster Parent.
Whenever possible, ACS looks to place children entering foster care with relatives or family friends, people who are known to the children. This work begins by exploring kinship options with the parents and the children, and when a kinship resource is identified, the foster care case planner works with the resource to certify their home as a foster home. Kin are held to the same safety standards as non-kin foster parents and must meet all foster home requirements. ACS and its community partners strive to support kin so that children can stay closely connected to their natural support networks.
Increasing kinship care is a top priority in the ACS Foster Care Strategic Blueprint and a recommendation of the Interagency Foster Care Task Force. ACS has successfully implemented multiple strategies to achieve this goal, including establishing new Kinship Specialist positions within the ACS Division of Child Protection (DCP) who focus full-time on finding and engaging kin caregivers for children entering foster care. Through these and other efforts by ACS' contracted foster care agencies, ACS increased the proportion of children placed with kin from 31% in 2018 to 41% in 2020.
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"The NYS Kinship Navigator has provided assistance to over 20,000 families since its inception in 2006 – we have spoken with kinship caregivers all across New York State that have selflessly stepped in to care for children when the parents cannot parent. Children find safety, permanency and overall better outcomes in the care of relatives and family friends, and this "natural resource" is pivotal to the well-being of our youth," said Rae Glaser, Co-Director, NYS Kinship Navigator.
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