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The GIGABYTE P25W is a fairly slim laptop that packs a fair amount of performance. As such, it's very possible that the temperatures we are about to see could be a bit on the high side.
As you can see, on the front of the system, we logged a maximum temperature of 117 degrees Fahrenheit. This high temperature was located right underneath the KOL keys, which is away from the all-important WSAD keys. Those keys, however, reached a maximum temperature of 97. The palm rests, meanwhile, stayed relatively cool.
Moving around to the backside, temperatures were slightly better. The maximum observed temperature was 112 degrees Fahrenheit. Using the loaded system on your laptop would likely be uncomfortable.
The maximum observed GPU temperature was 80 degrees Celsius. The CPU reached a maximum of 98 degrees Celsius. The GPU was kept plenty cool by the laptop's cooling system. The CPU, however, was much warmer than I'd like, running at a temperature that could damage the chip over time.
The P25W produced a sound level of 51 decibels. This noise was likely increased due to the slimmed down size of the chassis over larger 17-inch models in our chart. Our measurement is taken in front of the laptop at roughly head level. For comparison, 30dB is a totally quiet night time in the desert, 40dB is whispering and 60dB is a normal conversation. | 2019-04-23T07:24:48 | https://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/5796/gigabyte-p25w-gaming-laptop-review/index2.html |
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This webinar will be hosted by the Sustainable Environments strand leaders. It will feature grass roots examples of Indigenous projects of restoration of traditional lands and waters and research on the toxicity of native lands and waters, effects on people, plants, animals and fish. Strand leaders include Dr. Melissa Gonzales (University of New Mexico), Dr. David Begay (University of New Mexico and Vice President of the Indigenous Education Institute), and Noelani Kalipi, Attorney, Kohala Institute, Hawai’i. | 2019-04-20T10:34:07 | http://www.neatoeco.com/iwise3/august-21-2015-sustainable-environments/ |
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"Trouble him no more, poor child. The hand of God lieth heavy upon him, and my heart goeth out in loving compassion for him, and sorrow that I may not bear his burden on mine old trouble-weighted shoulders, and so bring him peace."
"What, thou here yet! By the glory of God, an' thou gettest not about that traitor's business, thy mitre shall have holiday the morrow for lack of a head to grace withal!"
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"Man, hast lost thy wits? The small Seal which aforetime I was wont to take with me abroad lieth in my treasury. And, since the Great Seal hath flown away, shall not it suffice? Hast lost thy wits? Begone! And hark ye--come no more till thou do bring his head." | 2019-04-19T04:38:00 | http://learnlibrary.com/prince-pauper/prince-pauper_chapter_viii__the_question.htm |
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The city bills itself as The Entertainment Capital of the World, and is famous for its mega casino–hotels and associated activities. It is a top three destination in the United States for business conventions and a global leader in the hospitality industry, claiming more AAA Five Diamond hotels than any city in the world. Today, Las Vegas annually ranks as one of the world's most visited tourist destinations. The city's tolerance for numerous forms of adult entertainment earned it the title of Sin City, and has made Las Vegas a popular setting for literature, films, television programs, and music videos.
A young Mexican scout named Rafael Rivera is credited as the first non-Native American to encounter the valley, in 1829. Trader Antonio Armijo led a 60-man party along the Spanish Trail to Los Angeles, California in 1829. The area was named Las Vegas, which is Spanish for "the meadows," as it featured abundant wild grasses, as well as desert spring waters for westward travelers. The year 1844 marked the arrival of John C. Frémont, whose writings helped lure pioneers to the area. Downtown Las Vegas' Fremont Street is named after him.
Nevada is the third most seismically active state in the U.S. (after Alaska and California); it has been estimated by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) that over the next 50 years there is a 10–20% chance of a M6.0 or greater earthquake occurring within 50 km of Las Vegas.
Las Vegas has a subtropical hot desert climate (Köppen climate classification: BWh), typical of the Mojave Desert in which it lies. This climate is typified by long, very hot summers; warm transitional seasons; and short, mild to chilly winters. There is abundant sunshine throughout the year, with an average of 310 sunny days and bright sunshine occurring during 86% of all daylight hours. Rainfall is scarce, with an average of 4.2 in (110 mm) dispersed between roughly 26 to 27 total rainy days per year. Las Vegas is among the sunniest, driest, and least humid locations in all of North America, with exceptionally low dew points and humidity that sometimes remains below 10%.
The summer months of June through September are very hot, though moderated by extremely low humidity. July is the hottest month with an average daytime high of 104.2 °F (40.1 °C). On average, 134 days per year reach or exceed 90 °F (32 °C), of which 74 days reach 100 °F (38 °C) and 7 days reach 110 °F (43 °C). During the peak intensity of summer, overnight lows frequently remain above 80 °F (27 °C) and occasionally above 85 °F (29 °C). While most summer days are consistently hot, dry, and cloudless, the North American Monsoon sporadically interrupts this pattern and brings more cloud cover, thunderstorms, lightning, increased humidity, and brief spells of heavy rain to the area. The window of opportunity for the monsoon to affect Las Vegas usually falls between July and August, although this is inconsistent and varies considerably in its impact from year to year.
Las Vegas winters are short and generally very mild, with chilly (but rarely cold) daytime temperatures. Like all seasons, sunshine during the winter is abundant. December is both the coolest and cloudiest month of the year, with an average daytime high of 56.6 °F (13.7 °C) and sunshine occurring during 78% of its daylight hours. Winter evenings are defined by clear skies and swift drops in temperature after sunset, with overnight lows sinking to 39 °F (3.9 °C) or lower during the majority of nights in December and January. Owing to its elevation that ranges from 2,000 feet to 3,000 feet, Las Vegas experiences markedly cooler winters than other areas of the Mojave Desert and the adjacent Sonoran Desert that are closer to sea level. Consequently, the city records freezing temperatures an average of 16 nights per winter. However, it is exceptionally rare for temperatures to ever fall to or below 25 °F (−4 °C), or for temperatures to remain below 45 °F (7 °C) for an entire day. Most of the annual precipitation falls during the winter months, but even the wettest month (February) averages only four days of measurable rain. The mountains immediately surrounding the Las Vegas Valley accumulate snow every winter, but significant or sustained accumulation of any kind within the city itself is rare. The most recent major event occurred on December 16, 2008, when Las Vegas received 3.6 inches (9.1 cm).
The city's most populous ethnic group, non-Hispanic Whites, have proportionally declined from 72.1% of the population in 1990 to 47.9% in 2010, even as total numbers of all ethnicities have increased with the population. Hispanics or Latinos of any race make up 31.5% of the population. Of those 24.0% are of Mexican, 1.4% of Salvadoran, 0.9% of Puerto Rican, 0.9% of Cuban, 0.6% of Guatemalan, 0.2% of Peruvian, 0.2% of Colombian, 0.2% of Honduran and 0.2% of Nicaraguan descent.
The Smith Center for the Performing Arts & Discovery Museum, located in Symphony Park in Downtown Las Vegas.
Las Vegas is also known as the Gambling Capital of the World, as the city currently has the largest strip of land-based casinos in the world.
RTC Transit is a public transportation system providing bus service throughout Las Vegas, Henderson, North Las Vegas and other areas of the valley. Inter-city bus service to and from Las Vegas is provided by Greyhound, BoltBus, Orange Belt Stages, Tufesa, and several smaller carriers. Amtrak trains have not served Las Vegas since the service via the Desert Wind was discontinued in 1997. Though no Amtrak trains have served Las Vegas since the Desert Wind was cancelled in 1997, Amtrak California operates Thruway Motorcoach dedicated service between the city and its passenger rail stations in Bakersfield, California, as well as Los Angeles Union Station via Barstow.
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Jan 5th is Press Day here at CES 2015. That means CNET will be bringing you the latest news from big-name press conferences all day long, starting at 8 a.m. PT with LG Electronics. Panasonic, Dish, Toyota, Samsung and many others will also be in the mix throughout the day, and we’ve also got CES In Depth at 6 p.m. You’re not going to want to miss any of it, so watch it all. | 2019-04-22T21:01:17 | https://dcornwall.com/2015/01/07/ces-2015-press-day/ |
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We all know that STL UK (or Biblica or whatever they’re calling themselves these days) are in deep doodah. That’s not rumour, it’s fact as stated by the man himself, Keith Danby, in his miscellaneous missives to the trade with repeated references to financial difficulties and ongoing consultations with bankers and others.
There are some signs of hope, of an improved cash flow: one supplier I spoke to this week told me that their account, six months overdue, had at last been paid. Other sources, however, tell me about supplier accounts being put on hold due to non-payment; and I know, from my own experience of having to source goods elsewhere, that warehouse stocks are not what they ought to be, especially at this time of year.
What we don’t know, of course, because they’re not telling us, is how deep STL UK’s financial crisis runs: hundreds of thousands, or millions? If the former — perhaps even if the latter — then I suggest that, if we’re prepared to act together, between us we have the power to rescue them.
UKCBD alone lists more than 600 Christian retailers, most of them actively trading, most of them STL UK trade account holders. Then there are the many church and other account holders as well as all the suppliers: that’s thousands of us who stand — to put it mildly — to be massively inconvenienced if STL UK goes to the wall.
My proposal, modest though it is, is simply this: we buy them out. Between us, we pay off STL UK’s debts — or enough of those debts to make their bankers do a double-take — and take them over as a shared-ownership company. Careful plans, terms and conditions would need to be drawn up, of course; but amongst us, surely, we have the expertise for that.
If as few as 1,000 of us contributed as little as £100 each, that would be £100,000. I think that, however, is a very conservative estimate of the amount we could raise: there are far more than 1,000 of us whose own businesses and livelihoods stand to suffer immensely if STL UK cease trading; and whilst some of us would struggle to find £100, many of us could contribute significantly more than that to a trade buy-out.
We’ve prayed together. The time has come, I think, for us to act together: to put our money where our mouths are and recognise that we ourselves may be God’s answer to those prayers.
Food for thought, Phil. We do not know what the score is re the Wesley Owen shops as well as the operations at Carlisle, and it’s a sort of chicken and egg situation as if the shops go that’s less cost for the enterprise, but also fewer outlets so reduced sales. We all remember how publishers felt when they lost sales from 23 SPCK shops, so what if 40+ Wesley Owen shops disappear?
The challenge for STL’s trustees — for Biblica as a global organisation — is whether or not they regard their work here in the UK as an essential part of their mission. If they do, there’s actually no problem: Biblica has more than enough money from its USA and other operations to bail out the UK division and barely even notice the dent in its coffers.
It’s a bit like someone with a toothache: you either get it filled or pulled. STL UK — with its various subdivisions, Wesley Owen, Authentic etc — is Biblica’s bad tooth; and in purely monetary terms, that’s about the size of: small but painful. But is STL UK important enough to Biblica’s board to make it worth the repair work or do they just pull it, irrespective of the human cost?
So, who’s going to coordinate your suggestion, which I think has some merit and, has anyone advised Baker Tilly of “our” potential interest?
I emailed Keith Danby and the Baker Tilly contacts given on the press release yesterday, requesting copy of latest accounts plus details of current financial situation and advised them of interest. I have also contacted another senior member of staff at Wesley Owen and asked him to convey to Keith that I am serious about this.
Phil we would certainly be interested here in such a move.
However, your suggestion does raise the interesting question of why ‘100% Charity Biblica’ has not appealed to the many supporters on their many databases for support? There’s not only us ‘trade customers’ but also (I am sure) many thousands of retail customers, plus many churches who would (rightly) bear STL/WO/Biblica a lot of goodwill. Because, presumably as registered charity, if I was to personally give them £100 to support their ‘work’, this would be eligible for Gift Aid?
Hopefully, someone in the Finance Department will at least have considered this?
Rob, any idea what the outcome was? In view of the ‘news’ today, then presumably the result was that such an ‘appeal’ was that such an appeal could not rescue Biblica in it’s present form…..?
Nowhere near so far, though the level of goodwill is touching.
It’s a bit like the Church and its mission – sure we can have a “virtual” church with internet services, but is it Church? One can have literature mission via internet sales only, but I always maintain that the best mission is bricks and mortar – you can ignore a poster, advertisement, flier etc but you can’t ignore a large building with “Christian Bookshop” over the door – the original street mission.
Perhaps we need a franchise model for the Wesley Owen chain where local Christians (as business or charity) own outlets but elements of the business plan are centrally developed.
The problem is that what may be needed is a Christian+ model, because (for all sorts of reasons) the retailing of Christian product is a difficult business proposition on a standalone basis in the UK in 2009. But whereas we can (perhaps) agree on the Christian product, what the ‘plus’ element could be is more debatable.
Ultimately, if bookshops in general are heading for a print-on-demand model based in shops (like a big photocopier), then the machine is content-free and it makes no sense to be just a specialist: customers will be able to get any book from any bookshop anywhere in the world, in the time it takes for the machine to do its work.
Recieved this today, they are planning to sell off all operations..
Leading Christian book and Bible charity IBS-STL UK today announced that it has appointed Baker Tilly Corporate Finance LLP to pursue the sale of its operations.
The move has come after a succession of financial problems, in particular the failed implementation of a new SAP computer system in October 2008, the effects of which were exacerbated by the economic downturn. These have caused significant cash flow pressures, excess stock, and supply chain and service difficulties in its distribution and retail units. They have culminated in the decision to exit the business.
IBS-STL UK convened an emergency task force led by Global President of Biblica and former CEO of STL, Keith Danby, which has been in constant dialogue with its suppliers and bankers. It had also engaged restructuring and business process consultants in an attempt to resolve the systems and financial challenges.
The corporate finance division of Baker Tilly is actively marketing the operations of the charity to a number of interested parties and is hopeful it will complete negotiations for the sales or potential closures within the next few weeks. IBS-STL UK was founded in 1962 and has grown to become a major UK charity.
IBS-STL UK has three trading divisions; Authentic Media, a book and music publisher; STL Distribution, a distributor of Christian resources and Wesley Owen Books and Music, a retailer with 40 shops in the UK. IBS-STL UK is part of Biblica, a global Bible translation, publishing, distribution and outreach ministry serving more than 100 countries with books, Bibles and other Christian resources. Biblica said the planned sale of the UK operations will not impact its other global operations and donor funds supporting Biblica’s worldwide outreach ministries will not be affected.
Could be time to put your money where your mouth is.
I am more than happy to do that: who will stand with me? I believe there are more than enough of us, if we act together, to save the day.
I’m glad to hear that Phil, probably won’t save my job though hey!
If enough of us are willing to stand together on this, perhaps it can.
Phil, subject to a robust business plan and access to STL’s financials, I would be prepared to invest a 4 to 5 figure sum.
With lots of small investors and a few more like that, I believe that we can rescue this thing. We have the means if we have the will.
The story goes that giants eventually turn into dinosaurs if they don’t look very carefully where they are going. We all know what happened to the dinosaurs!!
I am in with the shares thing on the distribution bit.
and my heart and prayers go out to all the 490 people faced with such a worry – especially this near to the christmas season and of course to the others who are not employed by IBS-STL UK but may also still be so drastically effected by this.
But you know what, I don’t think this has to be such a negative thing for the trade as a whole – So ok obviously Biblica would rather digitise then harmonise, protect it’s hedge fund than the people – we are obviously not a missional field!
But the truth is that this could be an upsurge and revival if we all work and pray hard enough.
Out of the ashes of destruction new growth springs up and perhaps this is the start – a new crossroads, a call back to the old paths and ways but with modern thought at mind??
Small local ‘traditional’ shops – community based and serving the smaller group rather than large global/national considerations.
Let’s face it on the whole large chains aren’t working, but small models can (churchy reference: BEC!).
Central adminsitrations can sometimes actually clog up things and stymie the processes.
So let’s move back to independent ventures – lets get publishers to come directly and give us a fair percentage instead of the large percentages to the bigboys – after all if the bigboys worked so well wouldn’t the loss of the physical shops not have caused the issues they seem to have?
let’s look at new old models!
Christian Bookshops that are not just Christian bookshops (as pointed out above and as I can conclusively show work – general books alongside Christian, secondhand with new – not competing with the waterstones but compementing them – after all there is a lot they don’t do on their shelves these days!).
Book van’s, market stalls (indoor is best as both I and i’m sure the one in Cardiff can attest to!) there are places we can go and a difference we can make – and if we are careful, hardwoking and judicious it can indeed work. It’s not easy – but then mission isn’t meant to be easy is it!
I mourn that it has got to this state – that in so many ways the moneymakers have taken over and that globalisation, minimisation and digitisation have become the key words even in our christian venacular and outreach.
But I rejoice at the opportunities it gives, chances to stand up, step out, reach out.
yes trouble and change is coming – but I am called to stand and not conform (Romans 12:2, Ephesian 6:12 etc), whose with me?
As I said before, it’s the Wesley Owen shops that are haemorrhaging cash. Don’t forget that the discounts given to Wesley Owen shops are 65%-70%. Carole B’s comment “as if the shops go that’s less cost for the enterprise, but also fewer outlets so reduced sales” – true, but is the distribution arm actually making any profit at all (or is it a loss?) on its trade with the retail arm?
I too would be prepared to look at a 5 figure sum on the basis of a robust business plan & access to the financials but only if we as a group were able to get rid of Wesley Owen, move STL out of its one size fits all mentality, move in a wholesale buyer with real talent and take note of the real burgeoning market in this country – the black churches. Then let’s radically shake up the operations and get back STL to what it does best – supplying the Christian trade.
I am really extremely concerned that if STL distribution goes under, we could lose the Christian marketplace in this country (sorry about the pun, Phil).
I agree in part with Melanie about independents, but we must be careful about suggesting that any one model will work in all cases. God doesn’t work like that. He deals with each of us individually, and a model that may work in Cornwall for example may be totally inappropriate for say Birmingham.
When you say, “get rid of Wesley Owen” are you aware that you’re talking about people’s livelihoods? You’re talking about mass redundancies of people with mortgages to pay and families to feed.
No: getting rid of Wesley Owen is not the way forward. A major rethink of the business model, yes. But just pulling the plug? Not if I have any say.
I agree there are issues with Wesley Owen stores, more from the business model than the stores themselves. They are given best discounts but the stock they are told to push is what the industry thinks people want instead of what the shop knows its customers want. They then have to give their profits to charity which happens to be their parent organisation. Until the UK christian trade stops blanket importing USA items and instead applies common sense to stock management and stop telling us that’s what we must stock we have little hope. If we allow the WO shops to function as Christian bookshops instead of money filters to STL then they become real Christian bookshops. If that happens and the ‘privileged’ deals stop then each shop could try and stand on it’s own feet.
I remember when WO took over Stockport Scripture Union, Manchester Scripture Union and then Manchester Christian World, closing the Manchester SU shop and changing the stock at all shops to a sanitized usa stock base, most of us in the area lost access to the items we’d been buying for many years and ended up not shopping at the WO’s. There is a lot of bad management decisions and history that would need to be overcome in any kind of reorganisation.
wound needs a lot more than a cash bandage, it needs major surgery.
with the greatest of respect it would be more useful if you got your facts correct before posting again!!! Wesley Owen do not receive 60-70% discount. The standard discounted rate was between 40 and 50 % something similar to yourself I imagine. Greater discounts are offered on promotional items,, but, as I am sure you are aware this makes up only a small percentage of the stock carried.
Well, the WO invoice that STL accidentally sent to us must have been all promotional items then!
My memory is hazy but Matthew is correct, John.
When we moved from being independent to WO, our margin at improved by 10% at best.
Discounted material for sales etc came through at much high rates of discount 60-70% but general stock remained at 45 ish.
Yes – I think standard internal discount is around 45%.
Totally agree with Mark except for a reservation about USA material. Our shop thrives on the God Channel.
Phil – of course I realise and feel for the livelihood of the many good people in the WO chain.
But what did Jesus say in Matt 18:8-9?
And if the STL distribution chain does go down, I think ALL Christian bookshops in the country will fall with it – and that will affect even more people. No – of course try to sell back the originally independent shops back to local church communities, and dump the hubris-inspired major shops with colossal rents.
I’m very shocked by the news of STL putting everything up for sale but not surprised. I do feel for the staff in all this.
I was manager of Crownbooks Sutton from ’94-97 and we were sold to Wesley Owen during that time. The reason: We just couldn’t make ends meet. Our turnover: £200K plus. With Wesley Owen’s margin, a profit could be made, but as an independent (on average 35%) we just couldn’t quite be viable. We worked hard with book agents, events, everything else. Believe me, I was very upset when we were taken over but, in hindsight, it was the only way.
Whilst I have sympathy with many of the comments above, the reason for this happening is not just a recessionary issue but to do with the decline of the UK church, and the growth of online shopping. A lesser factor is the law of diminishing returns as publishers and record labels continue to churn out the same old stuff and rebadge it. As it was, back in the 90’s, only 10% of Christians ever used a Christian book shop. That, on current stats, would make our “catchment” – 0.7% of the UK population – probably less. The fact is, literacy amongst Christians is declining as much as the is church declining.
The problem is the same as it was for me back in the 90’s. If you have manageable overheads then you just about can make it work (low or free rent, a big volunteer force). Equally, if you have a captive audience with which to sell to, that also helps (students, large church etc). I did not have either of these as a bookseller and we were one of the larger shops.
Phil – I’m not putting you on the spot…but you have both! Don’t get me wrong, I studied at LBC/LST and you do a fantastic job. But the High Street is a different prospect.
The future of the trade? I do not think it viable for churches to subsidise shops. Equally, a “buy out” of STL by the trade sounds like too much money. Besides, if they can’t make it work, how would we? It’s possible that the trade could be “hosted” within larger churches. Publishers too need to listen to what the trade is saying and provide help.
I do hope and pray that the trade find a way forward that can continue this valuable ministry. As a Pastor, I value the trade and hope it can survive in some shape or form.
Not true to say that shops can’t make it – I have neither a captive audience, large church or students! I am in fact a sole trader with paid staff and no free rent and it is working, yes it’s hard, very hard in these uncertain times but it’s growing not sinking!
Yes I am different to the norm – I’m not ‘posh’, I am based inside an indoor market and yes I do general and secondhand as well as Christian. But it is working!
So I think it can work but you are right and what we need to look at is the new models to support the old methods of traditional brick n mortar bookselling and outreach.
The fact is that being in the market really means that I outreach to loads not churched as well as those churched and it’s great – but I do say that we do need to get our churches more involved with us, for them to see us more as a community venture, to establish (or re-establish) the principal of Going Local to build global!
The idea of community at the heart of the church, and community is a local thing really with a global outlook.
Sounds really good what you are doing. Indoor market is an interesting option – and with lower overheads and “not trying to be posh” sounds good!
I never said shops can’t make it! My point of view comes from maintaining a “typical shop” which has associated high rates and rent, insurance plus maintenance issues. For example, in the shop I ran, we generated around £60K profit from our annual turnover. Over £20K of this went immediately on rent and rates. If you can reduce this key overhead you’re in with a good shout.
The sadness for me was that the margin between success and failure was so close.
The irony of STL’s struggles are not lost on me. We were on track to break even after about eighteen months of my time there (I previously worked for WHSmith). Unfortunately for us, another independent bookshop opened up in Kingston upon Thames during 1995/6 which was an enormous success – outstripping our turnover in the space of a year. We lost at least 10% of our sales, possibly more. Our fate was sealed and our directors let us go to Wesley Owen. C’est la vie.
When the Kingston shop came in for rent review a few years later their costs tripled to something like £30K p.a. They too ended up with Wesley Owen because they couldn’t afford to continue and the branch manager, Steve Mitchell, ended up being Managing Director of Wesley Owen when Eddie Olliffe moved upstairs.
I’ve no axe to grind…but, as I say, the margin between success and failure in business (not kingdom) terms is a fine one.
I used to manage a “typical shop”, actaully I managed a few for SPCK in my 14 years with them. The last one was SPCK Lincoln and our rent there was 27K per annum, my rent in the market is over 20K per annum but then that’s because the size of the units I rent in the market give me the same combined sq footage of the sales floor space of the SPCK Shop and the market is in the same street as the SPCK shop was!
I am still required to have all the same insurances as a shop, all the same legislations apply, and I am responsible for the repairs and furnishing of my stall – the landlord (local council) does not even idemnify for anything really so I have to have business disruption cover just in case as well! It is in this way the same lease as with a standard shop rental in a shopping centre.
(don’t let this frighten you off though dear readers – not all markets are the same and I still reckon it’s a good viable model for easy start up! its pretty cheap as most often it’s only 1 months rent unlike shop leases, and tends to be a monthly thing).
When STL pulled out of the SPCK deal I was straight in with an offer to do a management buy out of that shop because that shop would have worked too as a stand alone, unfortunately that choice was never even looked at and we all know what happened there.
The truth is, almost as you allude to above, that independents sometimes have advantages over chains – central administration can often be costly, and adaptability can also be an issue in some cases. But to be fair there are plus and minuses for both.
I wish we made 60K profit! and given what you have said I can understand your disappointment with being sold out, given the figures you cite that was indeed a viable business.
I really would say that there is still a mission on the high street and in the markets, there is a need for the books to be where the people can get them, for spaces for people to come in and talk in, our challenge is to do it despite the hardships and doomsayers, to rise up and step out!
I think there is real potential now for growth, I think there is a real need for us to dig deep and dig in and I hope that there are people out there that can see the potential and reach for it because I do believe that there is still growth out there!
I started out in mainstream bookselling, Phil – first with Books Etc, then with an independent high street shop – so I know the score out there.
As for the LST bookshop being rent free with a “captive audience” — not quite the case. The shop is wholly owned by LST so true, it doesn’t pay any rent; but all income over expenditure goes straight into central funds: there’s no profit, no money to invest in developing the business, no reserves to fall back on during the lean times — and this last year has been very lean indeed which means I’m sitting on a knife edge of viability: if the shop doesn’t break even, LST are liable pull the plug on it just as Biblica have pulled the plug on Wesley Owen et al.
Captive audience? When every student has internet access in their room? When during the school vacations everyone disappears except a few diehard research students? In real terms I have to do 12 months worth of business in only 8 months — that’s one heck of a challenge: there are no passers by who might wander in; and the shop has no outside door which means weekend and evening opening aren’t viable because when there’s no one on reception duty visitors can’t get in anyway.
Nuff said. Simply wanted to point that I’m not talking from a secure position here: my job is as precarious as anyone else’s; and if one of my major suppliers goes down the pan I’ll be scuppered along with everyone else for whom STL has become an essential link in the supply chain.
Thanks for the agreement, I’m not against USA material perse, its having the ability to pick and choose that’s lacking in the STL distribution items. We’ve run as an independant shop ‘The Burning Light’ since 1997 and we found that as we had niche areas (Spirituality, Monasticism, Spiritual Direction etc) there were not enough titles from STL that fitted our brief. We got an account with Ingrams about 8 years ago (they own Spring Arbor – largest USA Christian distributor) and pulled titles and music direct from them.
What we found frustrating is, we carry the full back catalogue of John Michael Talbot; in the USA anything older than three years from him was priced at between $2 and $8 which with the exchange rate and always getting 40% discount was fantastic. When we tried to get the same titles from the UK we were told max 30% discount on £14.99 rrp.
It’s the only way as an independant bookshop that we not just survived but grew to the point where we could totally concentrate on the Lindisfarne Scriptorium stock that we now create, carry and supply to other independants and it makes 80-90% of our sales with the rest being music and books.
As someone else said. We need to specialise, people can buy online far more cheaply than our bookshops can even buy items for. I don’t know what will happen with STL but I do know that the whole Christian marketplace is getting a thorough shakeup through this and we have to pray that God’s hand is on it all.
Your work sounds very encouraging. I’m not surprised that you can’t find much on your chosen range of material from STL! Benny Hinn isn’t known for his new monastic streak (wink).
I agree that specialism is the way forward. But niche markets are hard to maintain in the High Street because, as you say, people can get a much bigger range online. The biggest problem i found was high rents/rates ate up nearly half my profits. The remainder went on staff.
Your point on John Michael Talbot is an interesting one. A niche artiste if there ever was one. For me, a steady albeit slow seller – but for you – someone who fits your specialism.
I retreated on Holy Island last year and your Scriptorium material is of great quality. Keep it up!
I too hope the trade finds a way forward in difficult times.
There’s a point here about form of incorporation.
OXFAM Bookshops get a total subsidy well in excess of £1m per year from relief on Business Rates alone.
* How are bookshops incorporated?
* What difference does operating from (say) church premises make? Probably quite a lot.
I am one of the many staff from the Wesley Owen bookshops and this news has been quite devastating to us all. The business has been struggling for a couple of years now as most people are aware and of course the recent financial meltdowns in the wider world have not helped.
I hope that somehow that Wesley Owen can be saved. It’s my job but it’s also part of my ministry. There’s a tendency to overlook that aspect when we focus on “selling product”, but ministry is a vital part of the “work”. No only are we seeking to equip the Church with good material but we are seeking to see God work in the lives of those who frequent our shops. To me the customer is more than someone who spends money. He/She is also a soul that is seeking to walk with God in the midst of dark and difficult days and in the shops they find a little bit of relief from the daily grind. We have opportunities to encourage folk in their journey and even to share the Gospel with those who have never heard it before.
It would be a great sadness losing WO. I’d be sad because for the past 7 years or so it has been my place of ministry and employment. I have made lasting friendships not only with staff members but also fellow brothers and sisters who come to the store.
I completly agree the staff have been called missionaries .We all go the extra mile for our customers ,our collegues and our bosses,.Its a caring mission at Wesley Owen.Wheather its seeing that the right card is bought,even explaining its use,to making sure that the customer who comes in for “the bible” goes out with the right version to help her,etc.We,re all devistated but we,re stil what we always were willing to serve.Please dont throw us away.It,d be a terrible waste of afantastic resourse.PLEASE save wesley Owen.
That in a nutshell is what it’s all about. It is what drives us booksellers new and old.
Phil – I’m up for joining you on putting some cash in because I run a business and I know that several factors are operating simultaneously – one of which is the banks who are part of slowing the cash flow down.
FACTOR 1: All bookshops, secular and faith-based, are suffering from the internet boom but WO could improve their internet presence and do a much better job on that front … so that has to be part of the proposals.
It will remain important that a professional bookshop for Christian books and music remains a presence in shopping centres. It’s an important window that drives quite a lot of the internet sales … people see it in the shop and get it cheaper on line. Therefore the FRANCHISE option should also be part of the proposals. All outlets have a recognisable WO brand but by franchising to independents some shops will merge to reduce the number of shops overall … but that way the Christian window into the world in the UK will survive.
FACTOR 2: Is straight-forward finance and the aggressive harsh terms now exacted by the banks for keeping even profitable businesses going.
FACTOR 3: High street lease costs, rents and rates haven’t yet fully responded to the reality of 20% of ALL high street shops closing (see the latest government report on the fate of the high street) – all high st shops are suffering and yet the premise owners haven’t yet responded to the realisation that they are losing income to empty shops. Patience resolves this one.
FACTOR 4: We simply need a bit of increasing cooperation. If you put on a training event of church event develop a relationship with your local christian bookshop and seem if you can’t get a sale or return book box and have a bookstall at the event. People at training events love bookstalls.
Points and interest noted, Clive: thank you.
Likewise others who have raised points and/or expressed an interest, publicly and privately.
Your story is really encouraging. I completely agree with your comments re. chains vs. independents. And I hope too that there are more entreprenurial spirits like you in the trade willing to try new avenues.
And don’t get me started about “churched types” complaining about your location. Some people sadly just want to maintain the “bubble” at all costs….
Hope things continue to go well….
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As a former WO member of staff, the news has rocked me to the core. What is sad to me is that people have always wanted to have a pop at WO, and they seem to be still doing it when they are down. Let’s reflect the love of Christ in this situation, and love our brothers and sisters. Let’s pray for them. Let’s encourage them.
If STL (or whatever their name is now) goes down, it’s not just the 490 staff that they employ who will lose their jobs but I fear for some of the publishing companies and their staff. If something doesn’t happen to save STL, I fear the domino effect could happen across all Christian retail and publishing. Let’s work together and pray together to see the name of Jesus Advanced through Christian Distribution and retailing in whatever format they may take in the future.
Father Andrew thanks for your support bro.
This is really difficult for all the staff at WO so please pray for us.
The fact remains that God is sovereign in EVERY situation.
We are having a day of Prayer and fasting as a team in Croydon tomorrow 18th so feel free to join us.
Our God is a great God regardless of our circumstances.
Wesley Owen has its faults, like all of us. Some independents have, not unreasonably, felt under pressure (that’s putting it mildly) from WO; others have been saved by the group’s willingness to step in: witness the Kingston-upon-Thames story outlined briefly above.
I simply reiterate what I have said elsewhere: this does not need to be an unmitigated disaster. There are more than enough of us whose livelihoods are on the line alongside the 490 employees directly affected: more than enough of us, if we are prepared to stand together, to save the day.
There are big publishers and small; there are private individuals; there are many, many shops, all of whom could, if they will, contribute to a group buyout.
As a trade we failed SPCK in its hour of need. Are we going to do the same again with Authentic, STL, Wesley Owen?
For ancient Israel, Jericho appeared to be an impossible obstacle. But when they raised their voices and waved their torches, the walls came tumbling down. Their future was at stake and they staked everything on a ridiculous scheme — and won.
Yes, of course we need business acumen. We also need wisdom and God’s grace. But together, I believe we can find a way.
We’ve prayed together and we need to keep praying; and we need to listen to what the Spirit is saying. I believe God is calling us to take responsibility for what he has entrusted to us: it’s our call. Listen, and act: it’s time to seize the day!
Bless you Phil and all like you im sure theres many of the 490 who,d love to be in with a rescue plan.But since this has got worse over recent times.Are having to borrow to make sure all the bills are paid every month.yes we,d like to be in doing our bit to but we dont have any spare cash .We,ve already started cutting bacck again. So if aconsortium gets together and saves the shops.And i pray that it does can you sugest figures that the little man can maybe buy half a brick.
Every brick counts. Every stone. Every grain of sand. Every hair is numbered (not difficult in my case).
I am serious about this. We may be nobodies, insignificant blips on Biblica’s horizon; but there’s a whole ocean out there behind us. Call on your church, your neighbours, your friends to catch the vision.
May I second your comments Andrew. It is sad when people take a pop. Can we ask for that to be stopped on this blog. Constructive criticism is one thing – taking a pop during this dire time is quite another.
If anyone does want to take a pop at someone, I suggest the so-called IT consultants who sold them SAP. They really ought to be brought to book before they screw anyone else over. Shameful.
We are a much smaller organisation but if it did come to a trade buy out we would certainly want to support it. We will also keep the whole situation in prayer, nothing is impossible to the Lord.
Rev. Andrew is spot on with his comments because if WO/STL does vanish off this earth it is not only staff from that company who will be part of the fallout. There are lots of other companies that are linked in some way big and small that will be affected. Also the knock on effect to book stores that were supplied by STL will feel the pressure.
I am not a business guy, just a shop worker who has an affection for books & music and it is hard to see and hear some of the negative comments going around about STL/WO in the aftermath of the news that they are selling up. I am encouraged by many of the comments I’ve read here, in particular Andrew’s comment: “Let’s reflect the love of Christ in this situation, and love our brothers and sisters. Let’s pray for them. Let’s encourage them.” I hope that exhortation is taken to heart.
Thank you Phil for heart in this matter. It’s very refreshing.
As with everyone else, my thoughts and prayers are with everyone caught up in this mess.
Might be worth people firing off a few questions for them to consider — though I’m sure they have plenty already!
With greatest respect Phil the life of Wesley owen is very short is the cavalry near at hand. Before the staff say bye bye .And walk away into the sunset.?
Don’t know about cavalry: do know about Calvary; and that crucifixion comes before resurrection; and that following Jesus will never be easy or pain-free.
No, S danny, there is no cavalry riding to the rescue, just as no legion of angels came to rescue Jesus when he faced the cross. There’s only us: but if enough of us stand then these “next few weeks” within which it’s hoped a buyer will be found will be like three days in the belly of a whale. It wasn’t until the third day that Jonah was thrown up on the beach, that Jesus rose from the dead.
Believe me, I’ve thought about making like Jonah, running away. But the truth is we’re all — every single one of us in the Christian book trade — in this together. Don’t look for a miracle: be the miracle.
Maybe I’m a fool talking like this. So be it: I’ll be a fool for Christ, for his people, for a cause I believe in. Join me.
i am really shocked & somewhat sad at the STL saga. i was gobsmacked over the years to see STL vacuum up the SU shops. also gobsmacked to see the SPCK saga & the dragging of Eastern Orthodoxy into the mud via the trust.
i worked in the second hand, religious (APCK, Dublin) & general trade. added up it makes 21 years in retail book selling up to 2001. there are 3 SU shops here & a few small independents & a few Veritas Catholic based bookshops.
might this element be considered as part of the general STL recovery plan? many people in many churches have many books gathering dust in their homes. set those books free!
i’d be happy to join any venture capital in a modest way even though i gain nothing from it & the STL problem doesn’t affect the Irish scene apart from wholesale (or, is it partsale? – going by those references to rogue deliveries!).
i will watch & pray with interest & concern. our bookshops are getting a shake down here also….
I recognise the name of one contributor, Phil Barnard, on this blog.
I do not own a shop but I have worked for Dillons/Waterstones in the past. One of the biggest failures of this takeover was the move to centralised buying. Staff no longer met reps in store to decide what new titles to bring in or not and in particular those new titles that local buyers actually wanted! Also with centralised buying came in a back catalogue that sat on the shelves collecting dust rather than being ordered if a customer requested it!!
So as with other chains WO/STL/Authentic needs to learn its lesson if it is to phoenix. A pre-pack can be done with Baker-Tilly to get rid of the bad parts of the business (the debt/loss making elements) so the other parts can start afresh as others have done such as the chef Anthony Worrall-Thompson’s own restaurant chain, so watch out, it would not suprise me if there was a management buyout.
But what next from the phoenix rising from the ashes…more of the same?? I hope not. Local buying must come back in some form so the needs of the local markets are met. Diversification be that selling secular books as well (potentially losing Christian identity), opening cafe or internet cafe so the business is a social hub will bring in extra income that is clearly needed. It’s not rocket science folks..it costs a pub a few pence for the coke a pub puts in your glass and they charge you £1.50!! Catering even small operations are highly profitable and you would create a space that local churches could use for events or neutral ground for a Christian to bring a non-Christian friend. As an ex-VAT man you can trust me!! Major cost cutting is needed from where the books are sourced from (buy english versions from the far east/india) to renegotiating leases to downsizing to smaller shops. Cost cutting is the only way that the books can be sold at an attractive price nad I have to be honest apart from the Sale WO in Croydon which has good bargains the costs in the other branches are horrendous. £14 for a CD when a consumer knows the cost for producing it is £2-3 we don’t want to be ripped off anymore. Anyway its late I hope and pray that something better will come from this.
wonderful ideas, comments, critique Spencer. you should be part of any MBO.
the idea of secular books, cafe etc is very good.
you have the nous for the proposed turnaround. would you jump at it?
I’d just like to comment on the last bit. CD’s do not cost £2-3 each. Their duplication and manufacture do but what about the studio recording fees, payments to the recording artists for their time and song writing, MCPS royalties. Our recent project with Dave Bainbridge and David Fitzgerald, cost £5,000 for studio/composing/editing, £500 for mixing, £900 for MCPS and £3000 for manufacture. The big distributors want 60% discount minimum of retail, the stores want 40%. You have to have a very large manufacture run and lots of sales to cover the startup costs for an album.
We are both retail and manufacturer and trust me the market is as bad on this side of the fence as it is on yours.
The point on the cost of CDs is well taken. £1.50 for the glass of coke also covers the cost of the glass, cleaning the glass, paying the member of staff who served it, the lights so you can see it, the ice machine etc etc (can you tell I used to tend bar!!). But surely these costs are the same for the secular market and yet if I went into a shop and was charged more that £10 for a CD I would turn around. I guess it is to do with the bulk that is produced.
My wife Pam & I own FOOTPRINTS, with 3 shops in the NE. As with anyone else, we are finding trading difficult, BUT, we will support a trade buyout. Our funds are limited, but what we can, we will pledge.
Thanks John – support noted; much appreciated.
As one who is already caught up in the STL saga I take little satisfaction from being one who rather saw it coming.
As a small distributor we have obviously been badly affected by this sad situation especially as we have been largely prevented from selling to Wesley Owen stores for about a year now even though our product seemed to sell through with no problem.
I take the view that whilst we need to save everything we can it does perhaps present an opportunity to do things better, quicker and more profitably in future.
As far as the stores are concerned I’d certainly be interested in possibly contributing to ant buy out and I do know other people who are like minded but time is short I would suggest to put proposals together and avoid an even bigger problem.
I’d be happy to talk with anyone on this subject.
You know what is wrong with STL & Wesly Owen is bad management. I work in retail and these stores were just under performing. Sorry you can not run a retail business opening your door at 9am and closing them again at 5.30pm. Right now if I owned those 40 stores, I’d do a category review of every line that sold in my branches. Remove poor performing lines and make the stores more charismatic with coffee bars and internet access. Close badly perfoming branches, but if you want these branches to remain open and profitable, appoint me as the MD of the division and I’ll show you what I would do.
If only we’d had your wisdom!
I think there are lots of good people working in the company who have already looked at lots of these areas.
I personally spent 3 months looking at sales history of one particular market(As seen on TV) and there were at least 10 others doing this.
I think you are perhaps over simplifying things.
If you think you could do such a good job then put your hand in your pocket and make it happen.
Simply for the record, in case anyone thinks I have delusions of grandeur, I’d like to point out that I am perfectly well aware that I do not possess the wisdom and skills to turn this thing around.
If — and it remains a very big if — my proposals here come to anything, it will only be because others have been gracious enough to share their wisdom, insight and experience with me.
Now we see Borders crumbling and all the same questions being faced over again by our colleagues in mainstream bookselling. There are no easy answers, no simple solutions: this trade of ours is changing and we must be prepared to change with it.
I don’t think anyone thinks you are saying that Phil.
I think your proposal is a good one.
I don’t like the I told you so brigade who put posts about what they could have done differently and intimating incompetence.
This is really tough for all of us in the industry particularly the 490 of us who may lose our jobs.
For the record some bad decisions have been made by some people, but realistically many are the same people who have been making excellent decisions in the last 20 or so years.
The margins are so fine and it’s just one of those things.
God is still Sovereign and is in control of all of this.
my guess is that everyone is waiting for everyone else to jump first. in this situation it takes someone brave to at least speak up.
i’d be happy to join the modest proposal fund. will you?
perhaps Phil, is akin to myself – i frequently accelerate towards windmills with my lance, on my donkey…..
Phil – as i said privately to you a few days ago, i take off my hat to you & Walker etc, who had the faith & nerve to take on the intimidating Brewer brothers, as they successfully ruined & raped decades (centuries??) of good work that the SPCK established.
so, i think that gives your voice quite a whack of authority to speak out as you do now with the STL saga. you lined up to take the Brewer bullet & didn’t flinch….
I am involved in a shop owned by Churches Together in Faringdon (Oxfordshire) in which we sell Christian Books etc. I would be willing to contribute a 4 fig sum to a plan of rescue.
I see mainstream publishers are working on a lifeline for Borders UK: http://bit.ly/6wB9q6 why are so few Christian publishers willing to push the boat out for STL/Wesley Owen/Authentic?
Is the Christian book trade going to be put to shame by the world?
I understand that many Christian publishers Christian have had the “boats pushed out” for a good 12 – 24 months and they have enabled the trade to continue. I hope they don’t have to sink before you congratulate them on their efforts.
You are perfectly right, Gareth: I stand corrected. I withdraw that remark and apologise for it. To all those publishers and suppliers who have been so patient with STL for so long rather than call in their debts earlier: respect!
I also take this opportunity to echo Melanie’s thanks to you, Gareth, for that email you sent out. The more we can do to work together and support one another, the better: thank you.
Sorry but I’d have fired the MD of Wesley Owen, because I’d never have employ him to turn Sainsbury around.
What plans did him and his team have in turning the business around? NONE!
I believe that there are proberly only 13 profitable branches out the 40. Some branches are not even doing £150.00 per hour.
Extend your time of trade like other bookshops are doing here in London.
Close the smaller branches down like Harrow Weald or move it to a larger site in Harrow-on-the-Hill. Make the investment in your London branches and you will reap the benefit in the long run.
Get rid of your C.o.E image and take the middle ground and cater for the full body of christ.
Go to the US and see how Family Christian Stores do things. If you have to go charismatic then go charismatic. Do what you have to do to bring the dosh in.
Lastly get ride of the bloody charity. Wesley Owen is a viable business and not a charity. If you want to have a charity then separate it from the Wesley Owen side of business.
There are some factual errors in what you are saying here.
At a presentation a few years ago a former MD stated that it was the smaller Wesley Owen stores that were the profitable ones, not the larger ones (this was a generalisation). In particular, and despite considerable investment, Wigmore Street in central London was not viable when looking at the cost of rents etc.
Family Christian Stores in the US is also struggling financially right now, with a considerable drop in sales so I don’t think it is a good model to look to.
Wesley Owen stocked a good range of Evanglical literature, from conservative reformed through to open evanglical and charismatic. It wasn’t ‘CofE’ any more than anything else.
Without the charity status overheads would have increased by up to 50% (depending on location) with the increase of business rates etc.
There were problems with Wesley Owen, but I think your analysis is not the correct one.
I’m sorry, David, but the tone of your postings does little to endear or inspire confidence in you: a little grace and humility goes a long way – please try it.
I happen to know and respect the MD of Wesley Owen. Of course he isn’t perfect and I’m sure he’d be one of the first to admit that. But the problems WO are experiencing run at a far deeper level than you seem to imagine.
Thanks for your reply and if I have offended your friend I’m sorry, but I just dont feel they have done enough to sort this company out. At one point W O did £12m taking. What went wrong? Lack of investments like JS? STL will have to bite the bullet a bit more and invest in their branches. If STL were screaming about the leases it had to pay for Wigmore Street, I wonder what they would have said about having a shop front on Oxford St? I tell you something, if were them I’d be interested in snapping up the lease on one of the Borders shops on Oxford St. If they got the products right they could easily make over £5m a year from that one branch. The product range would have to be mmore than just books, music, dvd and gifts.
David, it’s not that you’ve offended my friend — I’ve no idea whether or not he’s even following this thread — but the way you’re laying into these guys.
No one at STL is proud of what they’ve achieved or failed to achieve this year, of what those in senior positions have allowed to happen. There’s a very keen sense of failure right at the very highest levels: yes, there have been grave mistakes, they know it and some of them will undoubtedly pay a very heavy price. People’s livelihoods, careers and even their homes on the line here, and kicking them when they’re down doesn’t help.
The wisdom of hindsight is a wonderful thing, and we do need to learn from what’s gone wrong; but it’s time to stop sniping: if you feel the need to keep bashing at people, please go start your own blog and do it there. What’s needed here right now, though, are fresh insights and constructive analysis. Please go take a look at Matt Wardman’s post, New Ways of Being Bookshop, and the series of links in the appendix for some examples of the kind of thinking that’s needed.
Hi All, I’ve been reading this blog thread with great interest and wishing I could think of something to say to add to it, but just not had the words to do it! I think I know what I want to say now though. I wanted to give a ‘from the shop floor’ perspective. I’ve been priveledged to work for Wesley Owen for the last 9 plus years, in that time I’ve come to find myself surrounded by a family, not just work colleagues. We’ve worked for each other in our different stores, always willing to step into the breach when one store is short staffed. We’ve done fantastic events together, making lifelong friends and coming away with memories that will stay with us for a lifetime! In all that time, I have come to believe in what Wesley Owen stands for, what STL-Dist as a whole stands for. And I’ve seen it in action, when customers come in to find music for a loved one or a friend to show them the way to a whole new life in Christ, when people come in so burdened down and they need something to show them there is grace, and we can be there to give them that Book, Bible, CD or whatever. Its those times that make me think “yes, that’s what I’m here for!” Now I know there have been mistakes happen and some poor decisions made, I’m not naive about any of it and I do realise we live in a real world. But what is keeping me lifted as a guy who works on the shop floor level, has been the way we as a family have all pulled together, and the wonderful level of support that has come from all quarters! God is in control, and as I was told by a good friend “this is where we get to be Christian, and trust!” I do want to thank Phil and everyone else here for the fantastic support and for what has in the most part been an encouraging and uplifting blog thread. I will continue to read.
You’re welcome, Stef; and it’s comments like yours that make me think, “yes, that’s what I’m here for!” — so my thanks to you, as well as continued prayers for you and everyone in your Wesley Owen ‘family’.
Stef says it all. That’s been my shop floor experience.
I suggest we split this blog, so one for general talk, and a seperate one for financial pledges, so we can all evaluate, if this “Modest Proposal to Save STL-UK” is viable or not.
I suggest all pledges,received so far, be transferred to it.
Thanks John – I’ve been thinking along similar lines.
As I said in my more recent post Saving STL UK: Towards a sustainable business model?, however, I have still not received any response from either Keith Danby or Baker Tilly to my requests for company information. Until such information is received, it remains impossible to take things forward.
As to why I have received no response: I suspect it’s because this is an open forum. Other prospective buyers have had to sign confidentiality agreements, which is no doubt why we don’t know who they are. Since I haven’t even been offered a confidentiality agreement to consider it’s difficult to comment further at this stage.
Is this one for a private email group?
Probably; but my guess is that Biblica are sufficiently confident of finding a buyer that they simply don’t feel any obligation to respond. Questions of etiquette aside, that’s fine by me if so.
Hello again from Saina Veigel, trained bookmerchant and freelance TV producer and Christian from Germany.
Why doesn’t anyone think of mobile bookshops travelling through the UK?
I envision huuuuge book buses travelling on a fixed route and with a fixed itinerary through the UK.
This kind of thing is interesting for churches. Co-operation would be possible.
Maybe the idea of fixed stores isn’t really such a good idea because the really good locations are too expensive. We live in a mobile world. A store that comes into town on mondays and thursdays might be much more spectacular than one that can be visited on every day of the week.
I am praying with you all.
Thanks for the blog I was really moved by it. If we as Christians want to save this company we are going to have to do some serious praying.
Dear me, Phil – not the dreaded confidentiality clause which was the downfall of the SPCK shops! Properly applied, fine, but BAD if it protects for the wrong reasons.
After Looking at book value for last year I’d say the Company is now valued around £5m but I do know how much of a premium one would have to pay for all those patents / rights to sell things in this country?
Do you think it would be sold before Christmas?
Barnes & Noble, America’s largest book store chain with 775 outlets, and Borders Group, the next largest, both have reported quarterly financial losses, citing “competition from discount chains and online retailers” as their biggest challenge. The “big box” stores (such as Wal-Mart) are selling books, especially new titles, at bigger discounts than either chain can match. Some releases, such as Sarah Palin’s Going Rogue, have been priced at US$9, well below what a bricks and mortar store can profitably sell.
Barnes & Nobles CEO argues that best sellers represent less than 5% of their business, but every sale counts. Book selling is a “long tail” business, and when best sellers are released often other books by the same author or on similar topics benefit as well.
Christian stores who see their best-selling titles discounted by other retailers or online stores have similar concerns. Only Christian stores carry the full line of, say, Zondervan, not just its best sellers.
Thanks Ray. The problem of online/supermarket competition is certainly not unique to our ‘small island’ or our own niche marketplace.
I would like to add my prayers and support in the hope that a solution can be found for this , when I first heard at our local shop , I too thought it would be great if the Christian community could pull together to keep the business going. Wesley Owen has been vital in the growing of my own faith , and I also believe that as a ministry it is a vital outpost right in the middle of the community. I would personally like to offer whoever provides the solution to this , I am ready to offer whatever service I can ( I have IT background and retail management experience) , totally voluntary for however long it would be needed. I do this because I believe we need that Kingdom presence on our high streets.
God bless you for all you are doing Phil. And to everyone else following this I would like to suggest a co-ordinated time of prayer each day at 10pm when we all just ask that God will help and empower all those involved in this situation to bring a solution that will keep the Wesley Owen ministry alive.
One option worth considering is for the funds raised to buy the shop premises and rent them back to Wesley Owen for a “peppercorn” rent – i.e. £1 per month. That way the money of those who invest is kept in the properties and can be returned when the properties are sold.
@John and @Clive … and @everyone else following this thread: thank you for all the support and suggestions made.
We now appear to be at a point where Biblica have firmly closed the door on the possibility of a trade/church consortium buyout and have selected their “preferred bidders” from others who have expressed an interest: STL UK: Preferred Bidders Selected but Outcome Remains Uncertain.
To me, presenting a business as for sale or bust seems a strange way to attract new investors, but all that remains for us now is to pray, to watch and wait — and hope that whichever bidders are successful will have sufficient business acumen and wisdom to take things forward where Biblica failed.
STL basically got too greedy. they tried to domineer the whole of the Christian booktrade. Their demise will not be missed. There are booksellers who a leaping with joy. bring back the independent publisher link.
Whilst there may be something in what you say, John, I think leaping with joy over an event that could see many hardworking people lose their livelihoods is more than a tad heartless.
If you have something constructive to say, you’re very welcome. If all you want to do is slag people off, please go away and start your own blog.
What I am saying is that STL in the eyes of some were too greedy. They wanted everything their own way. I can say has being in both reatil and publishing they wanted to run with the hares and chase with the hounds. The message I am getting here is that nobody is allowed to ‘criticse’ STL. With that attitude, nothing has changed.
Criticism of STL is more than welcome, John: I’ve given them plenty of stick myself over the years, as regular visitors to this blog can testify. All I ask right now is that you show some consideration by offering constructive criticism, not simply have a pop at them. Kicking them when they’re down helps no one.
STL may seem like an impersonal monolith but behind that facade there are real people — ordinary people like you and me, just doing their jobs to the best of their ability. Yes, those in high places within the organisation have screwed up badly; but it’s the little people who are now paying the price for that. Please think of them when you speak of leaping for joy and ask yourself how you’d feel about that if you were in their place.
I would like to point out to John that his comments are grossly offensive and extremely arrogant. While he may have those views about STL, it just goes to show how very little he knows. Take the blinkers off John and look around. It was never about empire building, or trying to rule the market, it was always about promoting the Kingdom of God in a professional way on the high street. STL are to be creditted with allowing the Christian market to expand and grow in the uk, and I for one will be very sorry if we lose STL and it’s stores.
I am always sorry when any Christian shop closes, and I know that the vast majority of STL & WO staff, are serving their Lord in the place He called them to work.
But I have personal experience of STL’s empire bulding, so know it did exist. But is that in itself wrong? Do we all not try and grow our trade?
I do believe however, that some of the hierachy did try and empire build for the wrong reason. But, at the end of the day, we come back to “Let him who is without sin, cast the first stone” Now it is important to see the WO shops & their highly skilled & motivated staff, continue, wether as Indies, or part of a new group. So as a Christian Bookseller, I want to see STL & WO, rise again.
Thankfully the good lord is in charge, today ,tomorrow and there after.
Clive, what’s your source for this?
Ouch. That’s bad. Very bad.
On an optimistic note …. Individual branches and other offers could be made to the official receiver when the law firm seems to have instructions to try to sell the parts as complete groups. So there is a bit of time for interested parties to make offers to the receivers when it is announced who the receivers are.
Link to Wesley Owen Edinburgh blog/website?
Iv got to say, even though iv remained quiet on this, that the timing of this is awful.
as A MEMBER OF STAFF WE REALY APPRECIATE PEOPLES PRAYERS AND SUPPORT .YES IT HAS BEEN A VERY STRESSFULL TIME AND WERE ALL FEELING QUITE GUTTED.
What awful news. I knew many of the people who worked in WO shops. I’m really sorry to hear that many (most?) of the shops are to close. Do we have any news about the future of the distribution centre in Carlisle yet?
STL Distribution has been purchased by Scottish book wholesaler John Ritchie. However, it isn’t clear how much of the business they will retain, or which employees will be transferred.
It would appear that the way this has been handled is shambolic to say the least. Some staff yesterday didn’t know what was going on, while others did. Soem were unsure if the were receiving P45’s, or wether they were in administration. From facebook pages, there are some very angry staff who are in the dark, and only find the info they need on the web. This is a very sad mess, and my thoughts and prayers are with the WO staff very much. Come on STL, treat the staff with dignity, and communicate clearly to them. Afterall, they deserve it.
I am indeed sadden to hear that all of the Wesley Owen branches are to close. I can feel the notch in the pit of my stomach.
How much would it have cost to have saved the branches, well at least some of them and to have turned the business around?
I know that the loss making branches would have had to close anyway as this is what Borders did to theirs. I believe that all of their West London branches have closed down as well.
The YHVH knows why He permitted this to happen.
I will pray for the staff of WO that the Lord would help them through this difficult time.
There is still the opportunity for interested parties to make an offer for all or some of the shops as soon as it is announced who the receivers are.
I don’t think Edinburgh branch were authorised to say what they’ve put on their website but it is understandable. I run a business and handle everything right isn;t easy but in this case I think Rev Andrew is right.
Well when you go into any of the 26 branches that are in administration you will certainly know as there is a big sign in the window and at the counter.
Communication is an interesting concept that has been sadly lost on some within STL.
To be left waiting and waiting for information is unacceptable.
On a positive note 14 stores have been saved so that is great.
All will be revealed on Monday but as far as I’m concerned there is no confidentiality on administration if it is on the shop window which is open to the eyes of the public.
Could someone please tell me how are these branches sold?
Value of the remaining lease on a property?
Difficult one to answer David but usually when a company goes into administration a receiver is appointed by the bank to get the best price they can for any assets. Selling the shops will take all the things you mention into consideration along with any debts. In many cases the debts will outweight the assets – if this wasn’t the case they wouldn’t be in the mess they are now. So sale prices are usually very low as essentially the buyer is taking on a liability – a loss making enterprise, at least in the short term, in the hope they can turn it around where STL was unable to.
David, if you’re serious about getting involved, you need to contact the administrators, Baker Tilly, specifically Russell S Cash and Don Bailey (named in the Bookseller report I linked to above).
I have been trailing through your site trying to find the original statement STL made about putting the business up for sale.
Hi again Everyone, I wanted to post again just to say thankyou for all the support and encouragement this thread has given me over the last few weeks! I work in one of the stores which didn’t find a buyer, and as such is facing closure. But I am thankful, so thankful that 14 stores, the warehouse and Authentic publishing/media were able to be saved. The ministry can continue from these and grow again, this is good news! I have found and still find it difficult to cope with all that has happened and is still happening, but the prayer support thats come from all around has been invaluable to me and my colleagues! And on a very personal level, reading this blog and seeing the support in it has helped me to get through a very difficult time! Being honest, I’m not ready to give up hope of an 11th hour, that more of the stores can find buyers and be rescued, I will continue to pray for this and thank all the people who have and continue to pray for this to happen too! I’ve had a fantastic 9 plus years of ministry here, I’ve been surrounded by friends from inside and outside the company. We’ve done Spring Harvests and Keswicks and a number of other events together. We’ve made lifelong friends in our customers and co workers from other organisations and companies. We’ve worked for eachother in eachothers WO stores. And for all this that I have been so blessed to be part of I am forever grateful! It has been more than special! Again I thank you all! From Stef.
ah stl they galloped up into the troubled market place, bussiness suits a gleeming.Promising to be the super efficiant christian bussinessmen.Planting the christian flag in every high street.They galloped a head buying suffering shops and christian companies.Though carefully closing little uneconomical shops,Thier standard shown brightly onward still. in the distance silently loomed the spectre of the economic crisis which eventialy dropped on us all . So they bought a big computer system .! Who,s idea was that.?
Its like standing on the edge of a cliff i hate seeing all the strain on my collegues faces its made the place completly differant to work in. when they told us the shops were going into administratin at least it was final but of couse we,d rather be open and serving .Its the not knowing one way or the other. Lord forgive me my lack of faith.
I see that CLC list the shops they have taken on, & on the WO site only the shops Koorong have, are listed.
Can someone please post a list of the other shops, still seeking an owner. This will enable us to pray for the staff at each shop, & may even spark interest among those on this blog, to look at possibly taking on one of them. Possibly, we could have posts from each shop, giving us prayer pointers.
Rather than extend this thread any further, may I suggest that anyone wishing to discuss the current situation comments there instead?
thanks Mr groom for the way of finding out whats happening But the titan is broken is broken and dying .At least mr Danby is happy with the success .
last few days phil. ! Maybe the proposal was to modest.!? .But thanks for the talking shop! big bodies got to much debt of thier own.? Trusts being to cautious.!. ? ” But where will we go for our?”.????. | 2019-04-24T01:51:13 | https://christianbookshopsblog.org.uk/2009/11/14/a-modest-proposal-to-save-stl-uk/ |
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Going to the gym in the middle of peak hour is a recipe for feeling like a slimy sardine packed among a bunch of louder, sweat-dripping fish. It’s packed and can be super intimidating if you’re just starting out. And hey, maybe that gets you hyped – but if you’re the type who enjoys working out without feeling a bit anxious, choose your times wisely.
If you’ve got the flexibility in your schedule, aim for an off-peak time like 10.30am or 3pm. If you’re a night owl and your gym is open 24 hours, go after 9-10pm when it’s significantly less people-y. ‘Coz who wants humans around you while you’re working out anyway?
Let’s be real, unless you’re particularly into music that will make you feel like you’ve been plopped in the middle of an EDM festival (and no shade if that’s your kinda thing), you’ll probably want to bring along your headphones and a fully charged phone so you can get through your workout with the help of your fave tunes or podcasts.
Most cardio equipment will come with a headphone jack to plug in, but even if you’re using free weights, music and podcasts can take your workout to the next level. Just pick the right playlist coz there’s nothing adrenaline pumping about listening to Birdy’s cover of Skinny Love when you’re trying to hit a new PB.
We’ve got a few workout-length poddys below if you’re on the lookout.
This one is for the sake of every human, animal and mineral that has to come into contact with your grimy post-workout self. It’s super important to have a shower straight after your workout to avoid marinating in your own juices – your skin will get down on its metaphorical knees and thank you for it.
Plus you’ll honestly feel so much better once you’re in something a little more comfortable, and trust me when I say that the world will thank you for showering off your lingering B.O. – and don’t tell us you don’t stink, because you do.
Hydration is so, so important when you’re exercising, so unless you want to wind up resembling the dude who chose the wrong chalice and shrivelled up into dust in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, you’re gonna wanna make sure you’re sippin’ something good for you.
And if you’re the type who hates water with a passion (I do not understand this personally, but my grandma swears she can’t drink any water sooo), you can always infuse it with some fruit or herbs the night before so you’ve got a lil’ zesty tang in your bottle.
It’s going to make your life a heck of a lot easier if you go in with a game plan. We’re talking planning out which exercises you wanna do, which machines you wanna do, how long you want to spend on cardio. If it means you go out and drop some coins on a structured workout plan, go for it.
Alternatively, when you start at a new gym you should at least do a personal training session to orient yourself around (often new members will get a complimentary session). That way you won’t be wandering around aimlessly, wondering what to do.
One thing that you’ll read all over the internet is how much your skin will glow if you start exercising regularly. It will, but what they don’t tell you is that sometimes it’ll hate you before it loves you, turning you into a spotty lil’ goblin as it purges all the gross stuff from your skin.
Figuring out a post-workout skincare regime will help ensure your skin is in tip-top shape and won’t render you a walking trypophobia horror. Cleanse thoroughly and don’t forget to moisturise – you’ll glow like Janelle Monae in no time.
Whether you’re working out before brekkie, lunch or dinner, it’s a pretty safe bet to say that cooking will seem like a massive effort after you’ve run yourself ragged at the gym. You’ll either end up giving in and making something dodgy (or ordering Uber Eats while you’re in the shower – ahem) or just not eating at all, which is not good for you.
You don’t have to go ahead and do the whole week’s meal prep if that’s too much for you, but at least set up your next meal so it’s one thing off your mind and you can just enjoy those exercise endorphins which, in the words of Elle Woods, make you happy.
Sometimes the biggest thing with making the gym a place of excitement and enthusiasm is to actually not go. It might sound counterproductive but consider this. If you’re sick, overtired or your muscles are sore, going to the gym may exacerbate your symptoms and make you feel worse. Go to the gym when you’re healthy and have the energy to.
And hey, to all those folks with vaginas out there – friendly reminder that you’re allowed to cut yourself some slack and not exercise if you’ve got severe menstrual pain or even a UTI. Whether you need to grab a heat pack or keep downing the Ural, you’ll be in gym-ready condition soon enough and it’ll be all the more satisfying.
If you’re stressing big time about going to the gym then the best people to talk to are the staff. Whether you get along really well with one of the office folk or you’re best buds with a PT, having someone there as a support person to go to when you need, that helps massively.
It’s literally what they’re there for, so they’re absolutely gonna be keen to keep you feeling happy and safe in your gym. And look, if you’ll allow me one thirsty moment here folks, they’re usually bangin’.
Nothing like a bit of eye candy to motivate you to do your best. | 2019-04-25T20:26:05 | https://www.pedestrian.tv/health/make-gym-feel-good/ |
As a mom of two who also works outside of the home, life is hectic to say the least. By the time I get the kids home at the end of the day, it's practically time to get them ready for bed. Apparently they like to eat before going to sleep though, go figure. Suffice to say, I feel like I'm running around like a lunatic from the second I get in the door until they're cozy in their beds for the night until someone needs to pee or needs a drink or needs a snuggle.
Of all the pieces of this working-mom life I find challenging, meal time is right up there on the list (right behind and tying into, not having enough time with my kiddos).
Seriously, when I get home from work my children literally start raiding the cupboards for any accessible carbs (read: cereal and crackers). It's a mad rush to get something somewhat healthy on the table before they fill their bellies with all the processed things.
In order to get a moderately healthy meal on the table in lightening speed, I rely heavily on meal planning and food prep.
My plan was to do post with tips but when I read posts like that I sometimes feel like it's not concrete enough. So, instead of me taking you through an abstract 'to-do' list, I'm just gonna tell you what I do, specifically.
You probably read that and think I have a giant menu planned out for the week. I don't. Not all the time (read: usually not). For me, the most important thing is sitting down before I do groceries and having a general idea of things we want/need for meals for the week.
I basically think, very basically, about what meats, easy sides and veggies I want. I don't make complicated meals during the week (because, not practical) and I usually like to have things I can easily mix and match.
I have a plan for dinner but I also like to have a plan for other meals as well. Again, I don't over complicate this. For example, for breakfast I find it super easy to make overnight oats. Obviously, when I'm shopping I need to make sure I have the ingredients for my ideas. In this case, greek yogurt, large flake oats and some fresh berries.
Once you pick the things you want and that can mix together to make some healthy fairly balanced meals, the rest is all in the prep.
THIS is the most important part and as I mentioned before, even though I have an idea of the meals we'll be eating, it's when I'm prepping that I really put things together. THIS is where the magic time-saving happens.
Because time is of the essence, most of our meals are cooked ahead of time and re-heated. I don't love using the microwave ALL the time, but we like hot food and this lady doesn't have time to cook a full on the daily. Having stuff ready to go is my life-saver. No, I'm not being dramatic.
Sunday is the day where I usually prep all the things.
What does this mean? I season, cook, cut up and pre-make everything I can possibly think of to make meals easier throughout the week.
- carrots - my kids love boiled carrots, so I boil a bunch on the weekend to use as a side during the week.
I try and cut up as many fruit and veggies as possible. I find if I have these things prepped, I'm more likely to eat them (and feed them to my family) as opposed to above-mentioned cereal and crackers.
So that's pretty much it... it's not rocket science but doing these simple things significantly reduces my work-week dinner time stress.
THEN, hop over to visit Nicole who is also sharing her own meal planning and food prep tips!! | 2019-04-21T18:49:33 | http://www.simplyshaunacey.com/2017/02/meal-planning-food-prep-busy-moms.html |
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When Foucault argues that the history of sexuality has not been one of a linear narrative in getting closer to the proposed mystery, but rather a complex cycle of entanglement perpetually distorted by politics, science and the church, the modern thinker is given yet another way to approach the equally mysterious character of Lady Macbeth. Hers is a constantly moving narrative, a character whose entire nature can be transformed by popular intellectual fads of the day. She has been written in a mercurial fashion, so that her behaviours and responses from perfect associations with completely conflicting ideologies and theories. Like the feminine stereotype she screams to debunk with her “unsex me” cry, she becomes as impossible an archetype, a woman who can’t exist, seeming to be perpetually at odd with all the multitudinous versions of who she is. With her call to remove the physical attributes of femininity, she makes a claim that the meanings we attach to objects – even the objectified anatomy – make our whole (hole) a grotesquely created giant far larger than the sum of its parts.
In a superb piece of Foucault-driven, brilliant, deconstructed narrative, the enormously talented Mark Wilson brings a completely manufactured Lady Macbeth to a contemporary stage. His Lady Macbeth isn’t just at war with her own feminine mythology, she is at war with every trope and association of gender wether it be built from our disproportionate adulation of unworthy celebrities, or our regicidal passion for our fathers. Mark Wilson collapses the maligned nature of sexuality itself into the distorted images we have of the “three sexes”, the woman, the man and that strange creature (according to Foucault, built by an attempt at “rational” science) the homosexual. Once upon a time, the story goes, these three disparate incarnations didn’t have to be named. It was not repression that formed the delineation of sexuality but a clinical, cool impossibly (ir)rational conversation that categorised, organised and homogenized sexuality so that it is watered down to a series of comforting signs, recognisable by dresses, ties and pink triangles.
Mark Wilson’s Lady Macbeth is not just a cry, but a scream from a wilderness that beats with rabid fists against the iron bars of sexual conformity and categorisation. Lady MacBeth doesn’t just call out against the meanings of her menstrual flow and her flourishing womb, she also attacks her husband’s inability to perform the empty gestures of masculinity, calling him a coward in the process. Her femininity will create his masculinity – she knows this and she hates it, just as she threatens to beat the child such prisons of definition produce. When a bearded Mark Wilson relates the childlessness of a gay couple to the childlessness of an infertile heterosexual couple, we see Lady Macbeth’s claim to beat the brains of her child, forged from the appropriation of stereotypes that also kill her (and her husband) in a whole new light. Who wants to keep bringing children into the world if this is their roots and destiny? Surely the birth of a child from a gay couple is, then the most important of medical quests?
All of this and more is packed into the brilliantly written and astonishingly courageously performed Unsex Me. For the thinking audience participant, Unsex Me is the kind of theatre meat we live for, unashamedly visceral, spectacularly cerebral and relentlessly fearless. So much is packed into a small hour, that fortunately PACT Theatre thought to bring to Sydney, and yet all this power is wrapped up in a darkly comic, deeply disturbing wit that rubs up seductively against Wilson’s overt genderless charm. At its surface, and sometimes all we want is a little surface, it’s a combination drag comedy, slutted up with some OTT expressions of self-love. But beneath its surface lies an intelligent voice whose valiant yawp brings a new vision to the obsessively analysed Lady Macbeth. Wilson uses theatre and one of its greatest characters to encapsulate his vicious commentary on the plastered stereotypes of society and the result is a fine piece of theatre tears at the very fabric of our sexual definitions and identifications. | 2019-04-20T15:00:20 | https://lisathatcher.com/2014/02/20/unsex-me-mark-wilson-and-the-wars-within-theatre-review/ |
The state of Michigan and the charity poker rooms are battling out their differences, as the emergency rules are about to expire in July. These emergency rules were put in place as to govern, regulate, and license any charity event that holds and participates in playing poker.
However, Republicans Sen. Rick Jones and Rep. Tom Barrett have set out to introduce a bill, that if passed would put these emergency rules in place permanently. Obviously this would come as a detriment to the Michigan Charitable Gaming Association and their poker rooms, seeing as how these rules will and have cost millions in revenue.
Michigan Governor, Rick Snyder has stated that charity poker has “run amok” and is in dire need of more oversight. What I find interesting is that online poker is argued to be highly regulated in the states that have allowed it, but the charity poker rooms are expected to self-regulate based on the fact they are a charity.
Each one of the stated parties are awaiting final word from the Court of Appeals. | 2019-04-26T14:13:50 | http://www.freepoker.com/blog/charity-poker-rooms-emergency-rules-may-become-law/ |
The development of a vaccine against human cytomegalovirus (CMV) has been a subject of long-term medical interest. The research during recent years identified CMV as an attractive vaccine vector against infectious diseases and tumors. The immune response to CMV persists over a lifetime and its unique feature is the inflationary T cell response to certain viral epitopes. CMV encodes numerous genes involved in immunoevasion, which are non-essential for virus growth in vitro. The deletion of those genes results in virus attenuation in vivo, which enables us to dramatically manipulate its virulence and the immune response. We have previously shown that the murine CMV (MCMV) expressing RAE-1γ, one of the cellular ligands for the NKG2D receptor, is highly attenuated in vivo but retains the ability to induce a strong CD8+ T cell response. Here, we demonstrate that recombinant MCMV expressing high affinity NKG2D ligand murine UL16 binding protein-like transcript (MULT-1) (MULT-1MCMV) inserted in the place of its viral inhibitor is dramatically attenuated in vivo in a NK cell-dependent manner, both in immunocompetent adult mice and in immunologically immature newborns. MULT-1MCMV was more attenuated than the recombinant virus expressing RAE-1γ. Despite the drastic sensitivity to innate immune control, MULT-1MCMV induced an efficient CD8+ T cell response to viral and vectored antigens. By using in vitro assay, we showed that similar to RAE-1γMCMV, MULT-1 expressing virus provided strong priming of CD8+ T cells. Moreover, MULT-1MCMV was able to induce anti-viral antibodies, which after passing the transplacental barrier protect offspring of immunized mothers from challenge infection. Altogether, this study further supports the concept that CMV expressing NKG2D ligand possesses excellent characteristics to serve as a vaccine or vaccine vector. | 2019-04-19T12:14:49 | https://repository.medri.uniri.hr/islandora/object/medri:2397 |
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Update your user macros on Confluence 5.5.1 and atlassian-xwork-core-1.17 – David Simpson – deliver. iterate. repeat.
Posted by David Simpson on May 22, 2014. Return to index.
Following yesterdays Atlassian security advisory for Confluence, it looks like there are some added steps required for people who have user macros. Be careful folks.
You can't use the same shorthand you use for standard variables. #if ($paramistrue) will always evaluate as true.
You now have to use things like #if ($paramistrue == true) or #if ($paramistrue == false).
@baitman For strings I can no longer do #if ($paramfoo), I have to do #if ($paramfoo).length() > 0. Which is crazy.
@baitman Also, if you're upgrading to 5.5.1 to fix the security vulnerability double-check that it's upgraded xwork to 1.17. Ours wasn't.
The update to atlassian-xwork-core-1.17.jar means you have to be more specific with your coding. Thanks to @BergerofLondon for the heads up. | 2019-04-20T16:41:18 | https://davidsimpson.me/2014/05/22/update-user-macros-confluence-5-5-1-xwork-1-17/ |
10. And David's heart smote him after that he had numbered the people. And David said unto the Lord, I have sinned greatly in that I have done: and now, I beseech thee, O Lord, take away the iniquity of thy servant; for I have done very foolishly.
12. Go and say unto David, Thus saith the Lord, I offer thee three things; choose thee one of them, that I may do it unto thee.
13. So Gad came to David, and told him, and said unto him, Shall seven years of famine come unto thee in thy land? or wilt thou flee three months before thine enemies, while they pursue thee? or that there be three days' pestilence in thy land? now advise, and see what answer I shall return to him that sent me.
14. And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let us fall now into the hand of the Lord; for his mercies are great: and let me not fall into the hand of man.
15. So the Lord sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning even to the time appointed: and there died of the people from Dan even to Beersheba seventy thousand men.
16. And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the Lord repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough: stay now thine hand. And the angel of the Lord was by the threshingplace of Araunah the Jebusite.
17. And David spake unto the Lord when he saw the angel that smote the people, and said, Lo, I have sinned, and I have done wickedly: but these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, be against me, and against my father's house.
18. And Gad came that day to David, and said unto him, Go up, rear an altar unto the Lord in the threshingfloor of Araunah the Jebusite.
19. And David, according to the saying of Gad, went up as the Lord commanded.
20. And Araunah looked, and saw the king and his servants coming on toward him: and Araunah went out, and bowed himself before the king on his face upon the ground.
21. And Araunah said, Wherefore is my lord the king come to his servant? And David said, To buy the threshingfloor of thee, to build an altar unto the Lord, that the plague may be stayed from the people.
22. And Araunah said unto David, Let my lord the king take and offer up what seemeth good unto him: behold, here be oxen for burnt sacrifice, and threshing instruments and other instruments of the oxen for wood.
23. All these things did Araunah, as a king, give unto the king. And Araunah said unto the king, The Lord thy God accept thee.
24. And the king said unto Araunah, Nay; but I will surely buy it of thee at a price: neither will I offer burnt offerings unto the Lord my God of that which doth cost me nothing. So David bought the threshingfloor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.
25. And David built there an altar unto the Lord, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. So the Lord was intreated for the land, and the plague was stayed from Israel. | 2019-04-26T07:45:19 | https://www.yourfavoritebible.com/BibleAlive/Chapter/2Sam24.html |
2018-9-12 · Mining and Engineering (M&E) Indonesia is a B2B exhibition, which delivers significant opportunities for local and international suppliers to enhance your business profile, launch your latest products, technologies and services and network with mining professionals from Indonesia and the surrounding region.
2018-10-19 · Mining and Engineering (M&E) Indonesia is a B2B mining exhibition and mining conference in Indonesia, which delivers significant opportunities for local and international suppliers to enhance your business profile, launch your latest products, technologies and services and network with mining professionals from Indonesia and the surrounding region.
2018-10-25 · We welcome you to the 10th edition of the PwC Indonesia "Mining in Indonesia: Investment and Taxation Guide" released in May 2018, which highlights the key regulatory and taxation considerations for investors in the Indonesian mining sector - a sector which continues to be a key contributor to Indonesian economic growth.
2018-10-14 · Considered a powerhouse in the realm of mineral production, Indonesia’s mining sector has long served as a key pillar of economic expansion, acting as a significant contributor to GDP by attracting much-needed export dollars, while also creating employment opportunities across the nation’s diverse landscape.
2018-6-26 · This year's coal production in Indonesia is likely to top last year's figure of 461 million tons. In fact, coal production in 2018 may also exceed the production quota that was set by the Indonesian government as the nation's coal miners are eager to boost coal production amid stronger coal prices.
Since 2009, mining investors in Indonesia have frequently been subjected to major changes in the legal and regulatory framework. In January 2017, the government announced a relaxation of the controversial 2014 ban on unprocessed metals and mineral ore.
The Mining and Engineering Indonesia is organized between 12 Sep and 14 Sep 2018. Mining and Engineering Indonesia will take place at the Jakarta International Expo in Jakarta, Indonesia. M&E Indonesia 2018 is to be a stage where several noteworthy solutions and products tend to be put on show.
2018-5-15 · With respect to FCX's operations in Indonesia, such factors include whether PT-FI will be able to resolve complex regulatory matters in Indonesia by June 30, 2018, or obtain an extension of its temporary IUPK after June 30, 2018.
2017-12-12 · Indonesia Miner 2018. In 2018, the mining industry will convene in Jakarta at Indonesia Miner. With a wide-ranging International exhibition, Indonesia Miner will provide attendees with a forum to critically evaluate suppliers and new technologies with an objective of improving productivity and operational efficiencies.
GDP From Mining in Indonesia increased to 199227.90 IDR Billion in the second quarter of 2018 from 194889.10 IDR Billion in the first quarter of 2018. GDP From Mining in Indonesia averaged 192357.44 IDR Billion from 2010 until 2018, reaching an all time high of 205685 IDR Billion in the fourth quarter of 2014 and a record low of 171254.70 IDR Billion in the first quarter of 2010.
2018-10-18 · Churchill Mining PLC (Churchill), a British company, and Planet Mining Pty Ltd. (Planet), an Australian company, provide mining services, including general survey services, exploration and exploitation of mining sites and invested in Indonesia.
2018-4-11 · Indonesia Miner 2018. In 2018, the mining industry will convene in Jakarta at Indonesia Miner. With a wide-ranging International exhibition, Indonesia Miner will provide attendees with a forum to critically evaluate suppliers and new technologies with an objective of improving productivity and operational efficiencies.
19 sep 2018 19 - 21 September 2018 Jakarta International Expo, Kemayoran constructionindo The 20th International Series of Building, Construction and Infastructure Development exhibitions Indonesia's leading construction exhibition incorporating Truck Indonesia.
5 dec 2018 5 - 8 December 2018 Jakarta International Expo manufacturingindonesia The 29th International Manufacturing Machinery Equipment, Materials and Services Exhibition Manufacturing Indonesia is Asia’s largest international manufacturing exhibition providing a professional business platform for Indonesia’s manufacturing industry.
2018-10-17 · Mining jobs found in Indonesia. Get daily mining job alerts. New mining job vacancies on Careermine.
Meanwhile, the contribution of oil and gas exports is expected to improve too as the World Bank forecasts that energy prices, including oil, gas, and coal, will climb 4% in 2018 (See Indonesia’s Coal Mining Sector: A Silver Lining Behind Dark Clouds).
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Z-Spray has long had a reputation as one of the top brands in the commercial lawn care industry, and now that they are owned by the Toro Company, it means that their products will be available through Toro distributors like Kenney Machinery. Continue reading for a description of the Z-Spray products we have available.
Z-Spray’s commercial sprayers are designed to fit the needs of a variety of different situations.
The largest model, the Z-Max, features a 320 lb. granular fertilizer capacity and an industry leading 60 gallon liquid capacity. On the other hand, the Junior 36 model is the world’s first zero turn commercial spreader able to fit through a 36 inch gate, making it ideal for tight situations and smaller lawns.
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The Z-Plug aerator from Z-Spray is the first stand-on zero turn aerator of its kind, and incorporates a number of revolutionary features to make the labor intensive job of aeration much easier.
It can aerate more than 100,000 square feet per hour, and uses a hydraulic system that lifts the tine head in less than 3 seconds for quick turnarounds.
Thanks to numerous available attachments such as a snow plow, slide seeder, de-thatch rake, spiker, and sprayer system, the Z-Plug is a truly versatile piece of equipment.
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Forks pitcher Nate Gimlin delivers to the plate while Spartan first-baseman Reece Moody holds a Tenino runner at first.
BEAVER — Forks and Tenino used up all of the available daylight Thursday March 27 in their 1A Southwest Evergreen League double header, and still left the field with unfinished business. Tenino took the first end of the series by a score of 11-1, while the second contest was postponed at a 5-5 tie due to darkness after five innings.
In the first game, errors again got the best of the Spartans and Tenino was able to use every miscue to their advantage. Nate Gimlin started the contest on the mound for Forks and managed a respectable outing, going five innings and allowing only two earned runs, and sprinkling in four strikeouts.
The bullpen crew was not able to extinguish the hot Beaver crew and defensive lapses only fueled the fire as Tenino piled on seven runs in the final two frames.
Forks was able to strike first in the second game, putting up three runs in the first inning after leadoff hitter Reis Lawson was hit by a pitch to start the rally.Starting pitcher Javier Contrares, pitching for the second time this week, was able to keep the Tenino bats at bay through three innings before running out of gas in the fourth and surrendering three runs. He left the game with a no-decision.
Tenino took a 5-3 lead in the top of fifth inning on a bases clearing double by Kellen Miller, but Forks answered back in the nearly dark bottom half of that inning when Lawson (1 for 1, 2B, 2 runs) again was hit by a pitch to leadoff the inning and then was brought home on a towering two run homerun from catcher Reese Hagan (2 for 3, 3 RBI). Zeb Chamberlain pitched all five innings for Tenino. The game will be wrapped up at Tenino when Forks makes the trip to south Thurston County later in the season.
Forks (2-2, 0-2 league) hosted league opponent Elma at the field in Beaver on Tuesday, April 1. | 2019-04-24T16:02:14 | https://www.forksforum.com/sports/spartans-take-on-tenino |
Important Phone Calls. You're already in the mood to snap someone's head off. Don't tempt yourself to snap at that big potential client! Don't cancel a call, but do try to move it to another time, or opt for an email conversation instead. Your tone of voice might be calm and professional in writing even when you are feeling frazzled.
Important Discussions with Co-workers. We're talking about the hard conversations that make you even more tense than you already are. Wait until your emotions are under control. You can say something like, "I'm having a busy day, so can we talk about this tomorrow instead? I want to give you my complete attention."
Reply to Messages that Make You Want to Scream. Being peaceful and professional can be next to impossible when you're boiling over with angst. Let the email sit if you can. Wait until your judgment (and your patience) is back in its rightful place.
Decision-Making. Yes, there may be people waiting on your decision, but is this the right time? If you can, put off the decision for a better time.
Finish an Important Assignment. Get a deadline extension if possible. You're not doing your best work today, so be realistic about how your mood affects the quality of your work.
Run important decisions and assignments past a third party to check for mistakes or oversights.
Stick to your notes. Don't try to do any off-the-cuff improvisations today.
Write an email, save it as a draft, and then step away for a few minutes. Come back and read it with fresh eyes before clicking the Send button.
When you're dealing with your boss, it might help to be honest about your day. He might be more understanding than you think.
If interested in learning more about this and related topics, visit the Career Advice and Productivity sections of our blog. | 2019-04-23T02:12:28 | http://info.staffingplus.com/a-bad-work-day-is-not-the-end-of-the-world |
Bangalore International Airport is the nearest airport, which is at distance of about 380 km from Honnemardu. Taxi charges about Rs 6000 from Bangalore to Hogenakkal. Bangalore is well connected to most of the major airports in India and abroad.
Talguppa is the nearest railhead, which is only about 12 km from the heart of the city Honenmardu. Talhuppa is connected to Shimoga and Bangalore. Talguppa to Honnemardu taxi cab charges about Rs 150 and three wheeled auto rickshaw charges about Rs 75.
Honnemardu is well connected by KSRTC buses to the neighboring cities. Also it is connected to Shimoga and Bangalore by deluxe private bus services. Bangalore to Honnemardu costs about Rs 1100 by tourist buses. | 2019-04-18T21:15:55 | http://www.travelchacha.com/cities/honnemardu/how-to-reach.html |
On Valentine’s Day I challenge you to not only love those who are most lovable to you, but to find someone you just might prefer to scorn. And love them, pray for them, be Christ to them.
Very well said and I love that CS Lewis quote.
Ha! My dad used to say that to me. Of course, once I hit high school and fell in “love” because “I couldn’t help it,” I thought he was wrong. Nope, he was right. | 2019-04-21T06:11:05 | https://sarahloudinthomas.com/2011/02/14/love-is-a-verb/ |
My daughter took these pictures. She actually took several of the bird, and most of them turned out just as good. This is another picture that I printed and used as a postcard. Then the bird flew away suddenly and took Hannah off-guard, and she took the picture anyway. "Here's the bird, now it's gone." I got so tickled when she showed the pictures to me, so I kept it, and now I'm sharing it. | 2019-04-18T20:40:53 | http://www.livelaughlovescrap.com/2008/01/my-daughter-took-these-pictures.html |
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D. Gardner tripled to right field.
A. Warneke singled to shortstop, RBI; D. Gardner scored.
D. Vitello singled to third base.
C. Factor singled to shortstop; D. Vitello advanced to second.
J. Boyle singled to right field, RBI; R. Harris advanced to second; D. Vitello scored.
W. Ethridge reached first on an error by p.
T. Jones singled to shortstop; W. Ethridge advanced to second.
A. Jefferson walked; T. Jones advanced to second; W. Ethridge advanced to third.
J. Lorenzini hit by pitch.
M. Siedem singled to center field; J. Lorenzini advanced to second.
D. Vitello singled to left field, RBI; M. Siedem advanced to second; J. Lorenzini scored.
C. Factor walked; D. Vitello advanced to second; M. Siedem advanced to third.
B. Whetsto walked; Z. Harris advanced to second.
T. Jones singled to left field.
A. Jefferson singled to left field; T. Jones advanced to second.
A. Jefferson advanced to second on a wild pitch; T. Jones advanced to third on a wild pitch.
A. Warneke singled to second base, 2 RBI; A. Jefferson scored; T. Jones scored.
B. Whetsto homered, 2 RBI; A. Warneke scored.
C. Minnis singled to third base.
M. Byrne to p for G. Weyman.
T. Wegmann hit by pitch.
T. Wegmann advanced to second on a passed ball.
T. Jones advanced to second on a wild pitch; T. Wegmann advanced to third on a wild pitch.
D. Gardner flied out to lf, RBI; T. Jones advanced to third; T. Wegmann scored, unearned.
A. Domingo to p for M. Byrne.
K. Shimp to p for M. Gill.
C. Factor singled to center field.
C. Factor advanced to second on a balk.
B. Anderson to p for K. Shimp.
B. Bisenius singled to center field. | 2019-04-20T02:38:39 | https://www.edentonsteamers.com/sports/bsb/2017-18/boxscores/20180627_zf49.xml?view=plays&inning=7 |
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It may be said that visiting the dentist is becoming more and more like taking a car in for a service. They take a look. Give a shake of the head. Give you a list of jobs that need doing (full of technical jargon, obviously). They present you with a bill (if you are lucky) – a few hundred rand.
And what can you do? Grin and bear it — or maybe grimace and bear it, depending on how your teeth look. The fact is that dental work is becoming more confusing for patients. With the more and more treatment options available, we are able to offer more solutions, at different price ranges, to suit different people.
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How Do You Know What to choose? How Do You Know What’s Right For You? And How Much Should It Cost?
Dental implants are one of those techniques that sometimes cause misunderstandings. Costs may vary. Procedures can be difficult to understand. And if you don’t get the right explanations from the outset, you may feel as though you are beginning the procedure with more questions than answers!
Do I Need Dental Implants?
Teeth can be lost at odd times: whether they have been knocked out, or loosened in a game of rugby, or have come to the end of their usefulness through dental decay or the development of an abscess etc. Obviously, you don’t have to replace a missing tooth. But for many people, as well as being unsightly, missing teeth can cause long-term problems with oral health. If they have been knocked out in a trauma, then the damage can also run deeper.
So let’s picture the scenario: You are in the dentist’s chair faced with a problem and decisions to make. The traditional method of replacing loose or missing teeth has been either with a fixed bridge or with a removable denture.
Alternatively dental implants could be recommended. Dental implants are rapidly becoming the preferred treatment of replacing loose and missing teeth. They have been available for over 30 years, but in recent years procedures have become faster, easier and more cost-effective.
What Are The Other Options?
We will be more than happy to answer your questions; I could really help if you know the right questions to ask. Dental implants have a high success rate and are becoming increasingly common. But that doesn’t mean that they are right for you. So here’s a checklist of questions that could be worth asking.
– Can a tooth be saved by root canal treatment?
– If root treatment is an option would it be expensive and cost-effective?
– How long is the tooth likely to last if it is kept?
– Could a missing tooth be replaced with a bridge or denture instead?
Answers to these questions should make it clear right from the start why dental implants are being recommended.
When Should I Start Asking Questions ?
Good question! You’re not going to carry a checklist around before you end up in the dentist’s chair.
If an implant is recommended, the first stage in the procedure should be full consultation. This gives you the chance to ask any questions you have – the more, the better. Don’t be afraid of asking is obvious questions either. The more comfortable you feel about the procedure, the more relaxed you will be when the appointments for treatment finally arrive.
Of course, the consultation works both ways. We will more likely have a few questions for you to. In particular, we will ask about your general health etc and get to know you better.
One Of My Friends Needed A Bone Graft! Will I Need One?
The dental implant procedure has a number of stages and most people only tend to remember the parts that sound scary! Think of an implant as a metal rod that goes into the jawbone and holds false teeth in place. It sounds a bit like putting a piece of flat- pack furniture together – but if you can imagine how uncomfortable a moving denture is against your gums, you can see why it is the perfect technique for securing teeth!
The reason that some patients need a bone graft is therefore fairly obvious- and any good joiner could probably tell you the answer! If the implants screws directly into the jawbone, then you need enough jawbone there to make sure it screws in properly.
So Where Does The Extra Bone Come From?
Don’t worry, it isn’t somebody else’s. The best source of bone for your graft is your own bone tissue or artificial bone. Sometimes a combination of your own bone tissue and a synthetic substitute can be used.
You will know whether you need a bone graft or not after the initial x-rays and CT scans. Armed with these, we will be able to assess whether your jaw already has enough bone to support implants. In many cases a bone graft is not needed and we can continue with the standard procedures.
As mentioned earlier, the dental implant procedure has developed significantly in recent years, becoming faster, easier and much more straightforward to perform. All of this means that you heal faster than in the past and the majority of patients are surprised at how little pain they feel. However, as with most dental work, you can expect some soreness and inflammation afterwards. How much really depends on how complex the procedure is.
The main part of the procedure is normally carried out under local anaesthetic, which numbs your mouth and jaw. Conscious sedation may also be recommended and indicated. If you have any concerns regarding the anaesthetising process, you know what to do. Ask!
How Long Before I Can Eat Whatever I Want Again?
Now this isn’t an easy question to answer. Don’t forget, your mouth is quite unique. Every patient heals at different rates. And every dental implant procedure involves a slightly different approach or technique to make sure that the implant feels as though it fits your mouth properly. In effect it is tailor-made to suit you. So it is difficult to put a timescale on getting back to your best.
Usually, however it takes 3 to 6 months for the patient’s mouth to heal before the teeth can be fitted. Having said that, if you are changing from dentures to implants, imagine how much you will enjoy being able to eat a crisp apple again! A few extra days of healing time will probably worth the wait.
What Can I Expect The Results To Look Like?
In all honesty, you won’t see much. One of the benefits of dental implants is that they are much more aesthetically pleasing than other treatments. There are no unsightly metal clips and teeth won’t move around in the same way as dentures. They are shaped to fit your jawbone are permanently secured. So they should just look like a natural set of teeth.
The metal of the implant is hidden by the tooth, gums and jaw. Similarly, some of the most important benefits of dental implants are invisible too. Dental implants can help maintain bone tissue in the jaw, keeping it healthy.
Am I Too Old For Implants?
How Long Will My Dental Implants Last?
Dental implants have a high success rate- research suggests that over 500 million people around the world have dental implants. So you can rest assured that it is a tried and tested technique. Surgery is commonly performed and implants can last for many years. Patients are always recommended to maintain good oral hygiene. You’ll have to spend time brushing your teeth and flossing every day, while attending regular checkups and receiving x-rays. Often, crowns, bridges and dentures are more easily likely to be damaged (and are more easily replaced) than the implants that support them.
Finally Can I Afford What Dental Implants Really Cost?
Cost is an issue with dental implants, but only because these costs can vary so much. It often leaves you playing a guessing game. Are some procedures cheaper because they are inferior? Are more expensive procedures better? What are the real factors affecting the cost of treatment?
Don’t worry if these are the kind of questions you asked yourself – most other patients are in the same boat!
So Why Do The Costs Vary So Much?
In a procedure such as dental implants, these factors often vary from practice to practice and from patient to patient. As mentioned above, not every procedure will require a bone graft so that affect the final costs. In this practice we work with other specialists that include periodontists and oral surgeons. Their fees need to be included in the total costing.
Ultimately the advice to patients at the end of this article is exactly the same as the advice of the beginning. Ask! In the same way you’ve made the most of your consultation to find out what exactly your procedures involve, you should also find out exactly what you are paying for. What type or brand of implant is being used? What level of after-care is included? Are there any aspects of the procedure that are non-standard?
Don’t forget, getting answers your questions isn’t just about finding a cheaper option or checking on our expertise. As much as anything else, it’s about putting you at ease throughout the procedure. At the end of the day, that knowledge and reassurance can be more valuable than anything else.
Remember that the planning of dental implant treatment begins with the prosthodontist. It is like building a house. The design comes first and not the surgery! The success of treatment depends greatly on the planning.
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The Institution Account now allows Administrators to make payments and view/download all invoices for your ampEducator service fees. You can also now more easily update your plan and credit card credentials as well as view your account status. Each month a new invoice is generated on the first and your card will be billed - if for any reason there is a problem with your billing the system will alert you and give you a 7 day grace period to correct the issue before automatically disabling the account. For more information on this please feel free to review our Terms of Service.
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For schools using the Student Portal option and allowing Students on Payment Plans to login and make payments we've added a new configuration option to Students > Online Payments. When "Auto Apply to Payment Plan" is checked off, payments are automatically applied to outstanding payment plans starting with the oldest to newest.
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Generate Schedule (PDF) as of Date. The Student Schedule can now be generated for any given period of time and not just the current week - select from the Calendar to view the schedule that week based on the Course timetables the Student is enrolled in.
View Student Course. There is a new option under Student Profile > Courses using the Magnifying Glass to the right of the Student Course List called View Student Course. From here you get all the details from the student course including status changes and you can update the enrol date of the Student in the Course which you previously could not do. Enrol Date is different than Start Date - this is the Date the Student was enrolled into the Course and not when the Course Starts.
Announcements to Students. You now have an option to omit Archived Students from Bulk Announcements made to Students. This is useful for when you only want Current Students and not Alumni (that should be marked Archived Status) to be notified. | 2019-04-20T10:13:12 | http://blog.ampeducator.com/2016/12/ampeducator-winter-2016-updates.html |
Updated Dec 17, 2014 - H.R. 5771 (the Tax Extenders Bill) passed by the House on Dec 3, 2014 was voted on and passed by the Senate on Dec 16, 2014 retroactively expanding the Section 179 deduction limits thru 12/31/2014. IMPORTANT NOTE> Only this 2014 tax year will be covered by this measure - therefore it is a good business decision for many to buy/finance equipment immediately to make the December 31, 2014 cutoff for the write-off provisions. Repeat, this new provision does NOT cover tax year 2015, the law covers tax year 2014 only!
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Also, many businesses are finding Section 179 Qualified Financing to be an attractive option. | 2019-04-20T10:42:39 | https://scanamed.com/section-179-tax-law |
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Atlanta, GA (October 28, 2015) – iVision, a full service technology firm, announced that it has successfully renewed the Statement on Standards for Attestation Engagements (SSAE) No. 16. iVision is committed to providing premium solutions that meet the demanding security and availability requirements of its enterprise.
SSAE 16 is a regulatory standard issued by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), and replaces the previous SAS 70 auditing standard. The control objectives audited by the SSAE 16 Type 2 relate to the following iVision business areas: Availability, Billing & Reporting, Change Management, Corporate Health, Data Privacy & Confidentiality, Documented Policy & Procedures, Data Backup, Incident & Event Management, Local Access & Security, Network and Systems Availability and Monitoring and Physical Security. | 2019-04-24T20:41:36 | https://ivision.com/news-events/press-releases/ivision-achieves-renewal-for-statement-of-standards-for-ssae-16/ |
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The coaching sessions contributed significantly in making me stand out among competitors. Take one of my Bank applications for example: Chris helped me from the beginning, completing the application form to and provided me with a lot of advice on answering open questions. I’ve heard from the agent who did the screening work that my application form was of a good standard. Also, my answers in telephone interview were praised as excellent by the interviewer from the Bank’s headquarters. | 2019-04-24T06:35:21 | https://www.mciworldwide.co.uk/success_story/jasmine/ |
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One of the biggest trends in fashion today is certainly athleisure. We have seen many labels creating versatile garments that you can well wear as sportswear and/or as streetwear.
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Context. Very luminous extragalactic water masers, the megamasers, are associated with active galactic nuclei (AGN) in galaxies characterized by accretion disks, radio jets, and nuclear outflows. Weaker masers, the kilomasers, seem to be related mostly to star formation activity, although the possibility exists that some of these sources may belong to the weak tail of the AGN maser distribution.
Aims. It is particularly important to accurately locate the water maser emission to reveal its origin and shed light on extragalactic star-forming activity or to elucidate the highly obscured central regions of galaxies.
Methods. We performed interferometric observations of three galaxies, NGC 3556, Arp 299, and NGC 4151, where water emission was found. Statistical tools were used to study the relation between OH and H2O maser emission in galaxies.
Results. The maser in NGC 3556 is associated with a compact radio continuum source that is most likely a supernova remnant or radio supernova. In Arp 299, the luminous water maser has been decomposed in three main emitting regions associated with the nuclear regions of the two main galaxies of the system, NGC 3690 and IC 694, and the region of overlap. In NGC 4151, only one of the two previously observed maser components has been tentatively detected. This feature, if real, is associated with the galaxy’s central region. The only galaxy, so far, where luminous maser emission from two maser species, OH and H2O, has been confidently detected is Arp 299. Weaker masers from these two species instead coexist in a number of objects. A search for emission from both maser species in a larger number of galaxies is, however, needed to assess these last two results better.
Member of the International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS) for Astronomy and Astrophysics at the Universities of Bonn and Cologne. | 2019-04-22T04:47:43 | https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2011/01/aa14714-10/aa14714-10.html |
Yamaha Motor Company has announced today that its TMAX DX and XMAX 300 Sport Scooters have both received the globally-renowned 'Red Dot Award: Product Design' 2018*. Yamaha products have received a Red Dot Award every year since the inaugural awards in 2012, and the latest honours represent the seventh consecutive year that the Yamaha brand has been selected by Germany's Design Zentrum Nordrhein Westfalen.
This prestigious accolade is the third international design award received by the TMAX DX and the XMAX 300 - following on from the 'Good Design Award 2017' and the 'iF Design Award 2018'.
With its dynamic acceleration combined with motorcycle-type handling characteristics and outstanding riding comfort, the high specification TMAX DX represents the ultimate fusion of sports performance with dynamic style. Featuring a high specification that includes cruise control and an electronically-adjustable screen, this deluxe version of the iconic TMAX Sport Scooter is built to excel at everything from daily commuting through to fun riding on weekends.
The XMAX 300 is the successor to the successful XMAX 250 which established itself as one of Europe's most popular scooters. Thanks to its fun ride and sporty styling - along with its combination of comfort and functionality - the XMAX 250 established a reputation as an ideal partner for city travel and commuting. The recently introduced XMAX 300 offers even higher levels of comfort and functionality, while delivering high-quality styling and agile performance that reinforce the pride of ownership associated with all TMAX and XMAX Sport Scooters. Positioned in the middle of the MAX series, the XMAX 300 underlines Yamaha's leading position in Europe's sport scooter market, and is being rolled out globally.
*The Red Dot Design Awards, organized by Germany's Design Zentrum Nordrhein Westfalen, are widely recognized as one of the most prestigious design awards in the world. Products with designs of outstanding quality are selected each year in the three categories of Product Design, Communication Design, and Design Concept. | 2019-04-25T18:24:11 | https://www.saltiremotorcycles.com/third-design-award-for-tmax-xmax-300-sport-scooters/ |
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Many of us have probably noticed or met eye-catching ‘decorated’ cars on the road. In a bid to become noticed, companies ‘decorate’ their cars with company names, slogans, trademarks (logos), or a combination of the three. Although such moving billboards have become quite a common sight on the road, few stop to think that mobile ads like those can become an instrument of infringement of the trademark owners’ rights: cars bearing well-known trademarks can create confusion.
Company cars being the object of transactions is nothing short of customary to business entities, especially when the cars in question are transferred/sold to another company. However, when the deal is made and the company car is handed over to the other party (company), it is not always that its former owner makes sure that their trademarks are removed from the vehicle conceded. Sometimes the new owner will not take care of removing the trademarks either and will continue to use it even though it still bears the markings (name, slogan, trademarks (logos) of the former owner.
Although we might say that previous owners of cars can enjoy a spot of ‘free advertising,’ we never stop to think that this kind of publicity can damage both the reputation of the company, and its income. This is particularly relevant when vehicles that advertise for a company’s business or products are bought by other companies engaged in an identical/comparable line of business, producing identical/comparable products, or offering identical/comparable services.
As a case in point, let’s consider UPS, the famous delivery company whose vehicles can be spotted quite often in Lithuania’s major cities. The company routinely replaces its fleet with new vehicles, selling the old ones. But can you say for sure that, once a vehicle is sold, your parcel is being delivered by this, or some other company in a comparable line of business? Or you may be outraged in traffic by someone driving a vehicle bearing the company’s logo while the car in question actually belongs to a different company. A situation like that could both mislead the public with regard to the relationship between the UPS delivery company and the company that bought the vehicle, and damage the reputation and good name of the owner of the trademark.
The Trademark Law of the Republic of Lithuania stipulates that the owner of a registered trademark has the exclusive right to ban other persons and entities from using in their commercial operations both the trademark owned by that owner, and any other label that is identical to the registered mark or resembles that trademark in a misleading way with identical or comparable goods/services, thus creating a possibility to mislead the public. Therefore, if we look at the above example, we can see clearly that the actions by the company that bought the vehicle would infringe the exclusive rights of the trademark owner anchored in the law.
We should also note that whether a car bearing the symbols of a company, such as the company name, slogan, trademarks (logos), is bought from a company doing business in Lithuania or another European Union Member State is completely irrelevant; what matters is whether the protection of the trademark is valid in Lithuania on the basis of a national or EU trademark registration. Therefore, even if you import a car from another Member State and use it with the trademarks of another company still on it, you will infringe the exclusive rights of the owners of the trademarks, who will then be entitled to ban the illegal usage of their trademarks and demand compensation of damages caused by this kind of illegal usage.
a company that has purchased a car bearing the symbols of its previous owner, can also take preventative precautions and remove all corporate symbols of the former owner (its company name, slogan, trademarks (logos) from the vehicle before it is put to use.
To sum up, the fact that a company has purchased a car bearing the trademarks of its former owner does not mean that that latter company gave the new owner permission to use the trademarks on the vehicle so bought. Therefore, in concluding car sale–purchase agreements, companies should see not only that the agreement is properly honoured, but that the rights and duties that have indirect bearing on the agreement are enforced as well. Of course, trademark protection is the duty of the owner of the trademark first and foremost; it is therefore worth remembering that selling a car bearing your trademarks creates a risk that your rights as the owner of the trademarks will be infringed. Buy and sell responsibly! | 2019-04-26T04:05:59 | https://metidalaw.business/2017/09/28/what-kind-of-infringement-lies-behind-the-purchase-of-a-labelled-car/ |
I am honored to be serving as the Society’s Secretary from 2014 to 2016. I had the privilege of attending the February mid-winter meeting where I was surrounded by board members incredibly committed to groups. The energy, ideas and desire to support you as a member of the Society was inspiring. As the secretary, I also serve as the Publication committee chair which includes integrating and updating the information between the Society’s journal, online newsletter, conference programming, website and social media. There have been exciting changes in support of the President Dr. Lee Gillis’ theme of increasing connection to the group experience. The Society’s demographics show that 85% of current members are above the age of 50. It was hoped that engaging members online would be a way to begin connecting, particularly with Early Career Professionals. Since January, the Society’s Facebook page has increased the ‘likes’ to the page by 112%! Of these ‘likes,’ 78% of the users are under the age of 55. We have also added Twitter and LinkedIn accounts, and invite you to join us on the webpages. In addition, members are invited to utilize APA’s new online forum, APA Communities, where we post previous meeting minutes, the bylaws and more. I look forward to meeting many of you at the APA Convention in D.C. | 2019-04-26T14:39:19 | https://div49tgp.com/2014/06/26/publication-chair-report-secretary/ |
Coach are better known for their rather stylish bags than their forays into the tech world, but they seems to be merging style and tech with the release of their new phone. It’s catchily titled the Coach phone and there’s no real info about this phone other than the fact that it will come with a selection of designer accessories (think phone charms and leather cases). It will be sold by the Japanese KDDI network in the new year, and will be available for a limited time only. | 2019-04-21T08:38:43 | https://www.shinyshiny.tv/2008/12/coach_mobile.html |
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The Series 6000 family of video trackers is now considered a legacy product and is not recommended for new designs. E-O Imaging plans to continue support of this product line due to the large number of fielded units.
The Series 7000 family of video trackers is E-O Imaging’s latest line of video trackers demonstrating their ongoing commitment to leading edge tracker technology and is comprised of the following products.
The Series 7000 video trackers bring a new level of capability and performance to E-O Imaging’s video tracker product line. The Series 7000 product line incorporates features such as camera link full and HD-SDI video inputs, 5×5 imaging processing kernel, multi-target detection and tracking, embedded gigabit Ethernet, background clutter rejection, and the ability to handle 2Kx2K sensor formats, to highlight a few.
To complement its extensive family of tracker products, E-O Imaging developed the Model 7100M and Series 8000 miniaturised trackers, which provide the full range of operational performance found in all 7000-family products but are packaged in a minimised form factor. The Series 8000 is designed primarily for surveillance applications where limited size, power and cost are of primary concern.
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Join the Electro-Optical Imaging team at the SPIE Defense, Security and Sensing Exhibition at the Baltimore Convention Center in beautiful Baltimore, Maryland on 23-27 April 2012. | 2019-04-20T06:43:08 | https://www.naval-technology.com/contractors/weapon_control/eo-imaging/ |
The top 5 winners will travel to Johannesburg, South Africa, to receive their awards at a prize giving ceremony to be held during the Africa Leadership Forum Dinner Gala on 24 August, 2017, which will be attended by senior leaders from across Africa in the public, private and civil society sectors.
The overall winner will be asked to read the winning essay at the event.
The final deadline for submission will be Tuesday, 14th July, 2017 (5pm GMT). The top five finalists will be notified via email by the first week of August. Feedback will not be provided on individual essays.
Next articleNigeria Energy Forum (NEF) 2017 Africa Energy Ideas Competition for early-stage business ideas. | 2019-04-21T12:32:13 | https://utibeetim.com/uongozi-institute-leadership-essay-competition-2017-young-africans-usd-2000-prize-funded-johannesburg-south-africa/ |
All Giants of Legend figures are complete with Statistics Card.
All Dungeons and Dragons Giants of Legend miniatures are molded out of high-impact plastic and come fully painted.
It may be through unforeseen circumstances that the Giants of Legend miniature has been removed from the bag. However, if your requirement is a 'bagged figure' then we will be happy to comply where possible. | 2019-04-22T01:23:13 | http://www.millenniumminiatures.com/product/DDGL06 |
Enfo has joined the Norwegian Smart Grid Centre as a new member. The Norwegian Smart Grid Centre is a national center of competence within smart grid. The Centre includes research, learning, test and demo projects, business development and commercialization within the smart grid sector.
Read more about what we want to achieve with a membership in the Centre here. | 2019-04-20T17:13:08 | http://www.enfo.no/enfo-joins-the-norwegian-smart-grid-centre/ |
Sarah Hawkswood’s second outing for the detecting duo of Bradecote and Catchpoll means a change of publisher, but readers shouldn’t worry about having to read the books in order as this story works just as well as a standalone. The setting is Worcester in 1143 during the anarchy of the reign of King Stephen and features undersheriff Hugh Bradecote and Serjeant Catchpoll investigating a series of fires in the town. While the first fire could have been an accident, the Serjeant’s suspicions are raised when a second fire results in a death. Catchpoll is fearful and enraged that a killer seems to be attacking his neighbours while Bradecote is more pragmatic.
The pairing is an enjoyable one for the reader, as we see the experienced Catchpoll bristle at the restraint of the recently appointed undersheriff, while Bradecote struggles to assert his authority and also deals with a family tragedy. This book also sees the appointment of Walkelin; a bright if at times overly enthusiastic young man, whom Catchpoll raises up as his apprentice. The author’s detailed research is obvious without ever overwhelming the narrative, and the details of everyday life in medieval Worcester provide fascinating background and the hint of many future outings for the duo. Ordeal by Fire is an ideal choice for fans of Ariana Franklin, Peter Tremayne and S.D. Sykes. | 2019-04-20T20:35:02 | https://historicalnovelsociety.org/reviews/ordeal-by-fire/ |
Most folks who visit news sites are infrequent visitors and don’t stay very long at all — less than five minutes a month. Yes, A MONTH. A small group — very small, in some cases — comes more often and spends more than an hour a month.
The “share” tools that appear alongside most news stories rank among the most clicked-on links on news sites.
One bit of good news: The age of news consumers online is on par with Internet users overall. In other words, not the mostly older (I won’t say “dying”) group that is the audience for so much traditional media. | 2019-04-19T08:25:07 | https://guylucas.com/2011/05/15/nothing-new-here/ |
Hand hammered silver hoops dance from these textured brass post earrings. Lightweight and easy to wear.
Made from Brass, Sterling Silver, with solid sterling silver posts. | 2019-04-20T00:42:56 | https://www.ashleymayjewelry.com/shop/copper-brass-layered-window-pendant-sfdr9-eanp9-rrrp8-b584x-z9daj-5kjx4-e6de8 |
The reconstruction of this building was a dramatic example of how insensitive many developers and many civic groups were to contextual architecture in the late 1950s, especially given the importance of very high visibility of this site.
No better indication of changing architectural fashions in New York City exists than this 16-story apartment building that occupies a very prominent site at a major entrance to Central Park.
The original building was erected in 1920 by the Fred F. French Company and designed in Italian-Renaissance-palazzo-style that was quite similar to that used by J. E. R. Carpenter for the building directly across 72nd Street, 907 Fifth Avenue. This building, in fact, was a bit more attractive because it was not as bulky and had more decorative elements on its facade and a very attractive, large, enclosed driveway and curved walkway on 72nd Street.
The French Company was one of the city’s most famous developers and would become best known for its skyscraper office building on Fifth Avenue at 45th Street and Tudor City (see The City Review article).
In 1959, the Pador Realty Corporation stripped away the building’s limestone facade and virtually everything but its steel skeleton, increasing the number of apartments to 49. The rebuilt structure had 16 floors instead of the original 12 and a large, attractive and rather glossy lobby has replaced the driveway. Sylvan Bien and Robert L. Bien were the architects of the rebuilding, which was unfortunate, to say the least. "Its present appearance is unworthy of pictorial documentation," noted Andrew Alpern in his book, "New York’s Fabulous Luxury Apartments With Original Floor Plans from the Dakota, River House, Olympic Tower and Other Great Buildings," (Dover Publications, Inc., 1987), which has an illustration of the original building.
The building, which was converted to a cooperative in 1978, has excellent views and is close to private schools and fashionable Madison Avenue boutiques.
This reconstruction was a travesty and this is the most unattractive building along Museum Mile.
In their excellent book, "New York 1960, Architecture and Urbanism Between the Second World War and the Bicentennial" (The Monacelli Press, 1995, Robert A. M. Stern, Thomas Mellins and David Fishman wrote that the design of this apartment house "arguably represented the nadir of the avenue's postwar architecture." | 2019-04-23T22:13:45 | https://www.thecityreview.com/ues/fifave/fif910.html |
On Sunday, I harvested 16 pounds of tomatoes from my tomato patch. I picked 13 pounds last week, which were partly devoured on BLTs, with cheese and wine, and in salads before the rest were processed in pints for the most honored sauces.
This brings my season total up to almost 30 pounds, as I didn't weigh the first few I picked earlier. There's probably a good 20-25 more tomatoes ready to be picked even as I type...gotta love it! This batch is destined to be sliced and mixed with some fresh basil, mozzarella, olive oil, and balsamic vinegar. What is left over will be made into salsa. So far, my favorite has been Early Girl in taste. There are two German Johnson's in this batch that are heirlooms and I'm curious to see what they taste like.
Unfortunately, all of my winter sowed tomatoes weren't mature enough to make it into the garden beds and are being grown in pots. I didn't think they would make it, but surprisingly they are doing just fine. They have set fruit, but they won't be ready for a while. Next year, my goal is to only grow tomatoes that I grew from seed. No store bought transplants, even if that means I go without. | 2019-04-26T00:41:12 | http://www.justtherightsize.net/2014/07/sixteen-pounds.html |
Comfortable indoor tanning services to give your skin a healthy glow.
Spray Tanning is a quick and safe way to get that sun-kissed skin look. We provide various mixtures for all skin types to create a natural blend. | 2019-04-18T17:23:00 | http://www.wickedskinmedspa.com/services.asp?TID=84839 |
Which? Trusted Traders Welcome NFRC - Which?
Which? Trusted Traders are pleased to announce a brand new partnership with The National Federation of Roofing Contractors (NFRC).
The partnership between Which? Trusted Traders and NFRC will give fully vetted contractor members an additional route to the UK’s buoyant house and home market. It will also ensure consumers are able to find expert reputable and reliable roofing companies online.
NFRC was founded in 1892 and has since established itself as the UK’s major and most influential roofing trade association. Over 70% of the roofing industry (by value) is represented by NFRC who set the standards for all roofing disciplines.
Did you know that NFRC doesn’t only look after contractor members involved in conventional types of roofing, but also looks after skilled solar panel and green roof installers and specialist heritage roofers? | 2019-04-21T20:11:46 | https://trustedtraders.which.co.uk/articles/which-trusted-traders-welcome-nfrc/ |
A comprehensive study about the role and importance of sport in helping women to achieve and contribute more to their careers. Sport for Success highlights how the workplace can benefit from the increased effectiveness of female staff. The main aim was to explore the correlation between physical activity and qualification level, career progression and leadership skills. | 2019-04-19T14:15:35 | https://womeninsport.isca.org/goodpractice/000_8 |
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“An exciting feat. Not a renovation, but an extreme makeover."
“Everything about it says, ‘Welcome, enjoy your stay here at Monroe Hall.'"
Remake the 1960’s era dorm into an in-demand residence for New Millennials.
Avail the modernized spaces to as many students as possible with conservative bed count reduction.
Maximize utility of renovated space by integrating classrooms, kitchens, laundry, social and study areas within the residence.
Implement geothermal heating, rainwater collection, low flow fixtures, high efficiency appliances, among other elements to be environmentally responsible as well as to position the building to minimally achieve LEED Silver. | 2019-04-23T16:28:34 | http://www.mach-arch.com/suny-geneseo-monroe-hall |
Offering the latest and most effective treatments for acute stroke and cerebrovascular disease.
Dr. Baker is Chief of the Neuroscience Institute at Chesapeake Regional Medical Center. He specializes in neuroendovascular surgery and vascular and critical care neurology. As a neurointerventionalist, his focus is on the treatment of cerebrovascular disease.
Dr. Baker received his medical degree from Harvard Medical School and his Ph.D. in electrical engineering and neurobiology from the University of California, Berkeley. He completed a residency in neurology as well as fellowships in radiology, endovascular surgical neuroradiology, and vascular and critical care neurology at the Massachusetts General Hospital and the Brigham and Women's Hospital.
Before joining Chesapeake Regional Medical Group, Dr. Baker served as Medical Director of the Bon Secours Hampton Roads Neurovascular Center and Neuroscience ICU.
A board-certified physician assistant, Ms. Rice earned her Master of Physician Assistant degree from Eastern Virginia Medical School (EVMS) in Norfolk, Va. While attending EVMS, she was named a Health Professions Scholar and awarded the Pan Student Council Leadership award.
of critically ill patients with neurological conditions. She is a proud veteran of the United States Navy and a fellow of the American Academy of Neurology. Ms. Rice belongs to the Chesapeake Medical Society and is a member of the Clinical Advisory Committee at Chesapeake Regional Healthcare. | 2019-04-19T12:43:35 | https://chesapeakeregional.com/services-specialties/neurosciences/neurovascular |
Alun Halsey, Andrew Paterson, Robert James Stuart.
Damian imaged comets C/2017 O1 and C/2017 ER61 as they passed visually close to the Pleiades cluster on 2017-09-19. This is a three pane mosaic. | 2019-04-23T22:36:20 | https://britastro.org/node/11497 |
These 33 Parents Have The Best Sense Of Humor EVER. The Last One Is Completely Priceless!
Oh boy, can my parents tell bad jokes? They think they’re funny, but after seeing these great parents in action, I can only wish they were half as knee-jerkingly funny. Seriously, are your parents as awesome as these?!
Previous article A Secret Code Appears In Nearly Every Disney And Pixar Movie. Here’s Why? | 2019-04-25T22:26:50 | https://themindcircle.com/parents/ |
"Tony has the insight found only from actual implementations of ABC/PM.Using this as lens, he has brought the collective experience of experts into focus."
If you're looking for a way to dramatically improve your company's performance and get back its competitive edge, Case Studies in Performance Management: A Guide from the Experts will show you how other businesses, driven to remain competitive by changes in their industries, learned to work smarter using ABC/PM in today's tough business environment.
Noteworthy commentary from experts in the field including Ashok Vadgama and Alan Stratton helps you understand ABC/PM and how to execute its sound strategies in your own business.
TONY C. ADKINS is a Product Manager in the Business Performance Management Solutions group at SAS Inc. Prior to joining SAS/ABC Technologies, Adkins worked for the Westinghouse Hanford Company at its Plutonium Finishing Plant in Richland, Washington. Adkins is recognized globally as an expert in activity-based costing and management projects. He has participated in expert panels and spoken at events with the Consortium for Advanced Manufacturing International (CAM-I), The Institute for Industrial Engineers (IIE), ABC Technologies, BetterManagement LIVE, and SAS executive seminars in North America, Europe, and Asia. He received his MBA from City University in Seattle, Washington.
2. LubeOil: Shaping Business Today and in the Future.
3. HomeHealth: Delivering Activity-Based Costing.
4. SuperDraft: Activity-Based Costing/Management and Customer Profitability.
5. Canaraus: Performance Management—The New Ammunition for Armed Forces.
6. Standard Loan: Interest in Activity-Based Costing Rates High.
7. Sierra Trucks: Trucking along with Activity-Based Cost/Management.
8. Sierra Trucks: Implementing Real Activity-Based Budgeting.
9. Wendals Foods: Managing Customer Profitability with Activity-Based Costing Information.
10. Veri Glass: See Clearly with Activity-Based Costing?
11. ABC Airways: Implementation Lands Millions in Process Improvement Savings.
12. Power & Light: Gets A Charge Out of Activity-Based Costing/Management.
13. OBOK Food Company: Right Ingredients Cook Up Savings.
14. Veterans Benefits: Discovering the cost of Doing Business Using Activity-Based Costing.
Desktop reference of best practices using case studies with analysis from industry and consulting experts. | 2019-04-20T15:55:47 | https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Case+Studies+in+Performance+Management%3A+A+Guide+from+the+Experts-p-9780471792826 |
The Isle of Man Tourist Trophy is the greatest motorcycle road race in the world, the ultimate challenge for rider and machine. It has always called for a commitment far beyond any other racing event, and many have made the ultimate sacrifice in their quest for victory. TT3D Closer to the Edge is a story about freedom of choice, the strength of human spirit and the will to win. It's also an examination of what motivates those rare few, this elite band of brothers who risk everything to win the race. | 2019-04-21T19:40:39 | https://www.thedvdhut.com/collections/3d-blu-ray/products/tt3d-closer-to-the-edge-blu-ray-3d-blu-ray |
I am very pleased to announce that, after a thorough national search, Distinguished Professor Eric (Rick) Garfunkel has been appointed Vice President for International and Global Affairs. Dr. Garfunkel is former chair of the SAS Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and the Associate Director of the Institute for Advanced Materials, Devices and Nanotechnology. He has served as Interim Vice President, overseeing the Centers for Global Advancement and International Affairs (GAIA Centers), since August 2015 and has done an excellent job further developing Rutgers’ international programs and services during this period. Dr. Garfunkel will assume his new role as Vice President July 1, 2016.
Dr. Garfunkel has an extensive record of international research and educational activities, and has held visiting professorships in France, China, Italy, and Germany. He has been very active over the past two decades with the Materials Research Society (MRS), an interdisciplinary organization of scientists and engineers from academia, industry, and government from more than 80 countries. He has helped to organize international conferences in half a dozen African and South American countries, as well as Russia, China and India. Since his appointment as Interim Vice President, Dr. Garfunkel has helped Rutgers coordinate various initiatives and strengthened partnerships with institutions in China, Cuba, India, Indonesia, Iran, Mexico and Peru, as well as in several African countries.
Rick is an accomplished scholar, educator, and administrator. He received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from UC Berkeley and holds a B.A. from Haverford College. His research is in the general field of nanoscience, with a focus on surfaces, ultrathin films, and interfaces. His work has technological applications in nanoelectronics, sustainable energy (including solar), and biomaterials. He has been the PI or co-PI of 20 NSF grants, and has also received funding from the Department of Energy, the Environmental Protection Agency, and several other agencies and companies. He has over 200 scholarly publications and has mentored approximately 50 graduate students, 30 undergraduate students, and 30 postdoctoral fellows.
The members of the Search Committee for this position, ably chaired by Rutgers–New Brunswick Provost Lily Young, have my sincere thanks for their dedicated work. I am confident that Rick will provide the GAIA Centers with effective administrative leadership, an important faculty perspective on international programs and services, and an analytic approach to addressing international issues and pursuing opportunities to enhance Rutgers’ standing as a global university. I look forward to continuing to work with him to advance Rutgers’ international agenda. Please join me in congratulating Dr. Garfunkel on his new university-wide role at Rutgers. | 2019-04-25T00:05:27 | https://academicaffairs.rutgers.edu/appointment-vice-president-international-and-global-affairs |
Chatter is a subsidiary of Salesforce.com wherein it focuses its services as a collaboration software solution. It is considered by many as a number one enterprise social network. So, let us take a look at the features that make this collaboration software solution highly sought after.
Take Action Anywhere – with Chatter as your collaboration software solution, you can take it anywhere with you and use it whenever you need to with its mobile app. With a mobile app, you can use it on any portable device and lets you drive progress wherever you are by updating a sales opportunity or service case, downloading a file, or posting to a group.
Share Knowledge – with this collaboration software solution, you can capture the wisdom of your entire organization. It has topics pages that automatically presents and collects the most up to date content about topics discussed within the community. Recommendations, on the other hand, recommend information, files, and people that are relevant for you to follow based on your interested and activity.
Accelerate Innovation – this ensures that the best ideas come to the fore. Groups give structure to activity and discussion within your organization. Polls give you the avenue to assess employee opinions on a specific topic anytime. | 2019-04-25T04:17:15 | https://apps.orga.zone/en/app.php/240-chatter-collaboration |
I’m always looking for healthier alternatives to classic recipes. My boys absolutely love fruit muffins. It doesn’t matter what kind of fruit is in the muffins, they just love the way fruit and cake combine. So, when I ran across these muffins, I just had to give them a try. They were just as good as the original, if not better.
These muffins are very moist thanks to the zucchini and no flour. I also love the pumpkin pie spice in these muffins. In my opinion pumpkin spice is one of those underappreciated spices. I love using it in all kinds of breads and muffins. So, if you want a healthier alternative to a classic muffin, then give this recipe a try.
Peel the zucchini and then shred it in a food processor. Pour the shredded zucchini onto a paper towel and wring as much liquid out of the zucchini as possible.
Peel the apple and take out the core. Place the apple in the food processor and shred.
Throw the shredded zucchini and apple into a large bowl. Add the peanut butter, honey, eggs, baking powder, vanilla and pumpkin pie spice. Add a dash of salt and then mix it all together until combined. Scoop the batter into a muffin tin lined with cupcake papers. Bake the muffins at 350 degrees for 25-30 minutes. | 2019-04-25T16:59:30 | https://klyq.com/paleo-apple-zucchini-muffin-recipe/ |
At one point or another everyone encounters the need for additional storage. Whether encountered around the home or within your business facilities, it is always of great comfort to locate a storage facility company that has your best interests at heart. At Mo’ Storage, that is exactly what you will experience. Our company offers a variety of storage units available in the most popular sizes that our clients need. Our storage units include 5 X 23 X 16 units, 7 x 8 x 8 units, and 10 x 23 x 16 units which offer lighting for our clients comfort.
Our company offers units which are clean, sturdy, and well maintained. This allows us to provide our clients with confidence of knowing their property is safe while in our care.
Whether storing an entire household of personal property or sensitive business records, we believe that our clients deserve top quality storage solutions at economical rates. We work diligently at Mo’ Storage to stay up to date on all that is going on in the storage services industry. We ensure that our storage rates are economical for the level of services provided. Our company can even customize a flexible storage solution plan that best meets your needs. Whether seeking services for one week to a full year, we will find a plan that works to the benefit of the client. | 2019-04-18T14:25:12 | http://www.selfstoragemiddleville.com/storage-solutions/ |
At first glance, the Roxy Down The Line Insulated Snowboard Jacket may look like a normal snowboard jacket. But beneath its elegant outer design, you’ll find a ton of super cool, high-tech features, including a lens cleaner, jacket-to-pant attachment system, and HYDROGUARD collar that releases moisturizing beads with every brush. Better still, this jacket is colored with We Are Spindye® products that are not only sustainable and eco-friendly but made with way fewer chemicals, too. The Roxy Down The Line Insulated Snowboard Jacket has a 20K waterproofing rating and 100g of Thinsulate™ mid-loft insulation, a perfect mid-weight for nearly all winter days. | 2019-04-21T23:26:46 | https://www.peterglenn.com/product/roxy-down-line-insulated-snowboard-jacket-womens |
Business.com – What is Professional Liability Insurance?
Business.com – What is Professional Liability Insurance?
Tim Gaspar is the owner of Gaspar Insurance Services. | 2019-04-22T22:58:43 | http://georgiainsuranceblog.com/blog/professional-liability-malpractice/business-com-what-is-professional-liability-insurance/ |
Disability skills beyond the adroit damara.
Cochinese showcases were the nonstarters.
Shoulder — to — shoulder intact indenes are the swivels. | 2019-04-18T13:01:19 | http://cs-advert.pl/showthread.php?tid=135768 |
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I live alone and my DSTV is of great importance to me – it is something I rely on for “company” as well as for entertainment and information. When repeated power outages due to construction on the property damaged my decoder and dish, my signal disappeared, leaving me anxious and rather lost. The knowledgeable and friendly technicians from Dstv Installations Deeltitels Moot were really kind and understanding, appreciating the need for a quick solution to my problem. They responded promptly to my call and by the next morning had repaired my dish and delivered and installed a brand-new decoder. I was very impressed by this service.
I own a coffee shop, and decided to install DSTV to play on a wall-mounted TV set. This has proved to be very successful. Customers are still able to enjoy their own conversations, but can glance up to keep up with breaking news on one of the international news channels fixed by dstv installers Deeltitels Moot.
Important sporting events have also proved to be hugely popular with customers wanting to keep track of results. The experienced and approachable technicians from Dstv Installations Deeltitels Moot worked efficiently and so unobtrusively that the installation barely affected our daily service. This has added an up-to-date, lively atmosphere to the ambience of the coffee shop.
We made the decision to have DSTV installed in our travel agency. The technicians from Dstv Installations Deeltitels Moot were able to find the perfect location for the satellite dish on the roof of the shopping mall in which we are situated, and also installed a TV set and decoder in the agency efficiently and neatly, answering my many anxious questions. The installation is an inspired addition to the agency, as having travel documentaries playing in the background, with gorgeous vistas of exotic scenery, adds just the right flavour of excitement and adventure to our clients’ experiences as they select and book their vacations.
Visit our website to read more interesting stories about our satisfied clients’ experiences at Dstv Installations Deeltitels Moot! | 2019-04-20T10:27:33 | https://8ms.co.za/dstv-installations-deeltitels-moot/ |
Pack 10 Die Cut Plain Oval Background Plate card embellishments which measure 62mm x 27mm. They fit perfect behind the Oval Birthday, Christmas and Wedding Plaques.A great finish for your special card.
Choose colour Metallic Blue, Metallic Silver, Metallic Gold,Metallic Green, Metallic Red, matt Ivory, Matt White and Matt Black in drop down menu.
Pk 10 Plain Oval Background Plate which measure 62mm x 27mm.Which fit perfect behind the Oval Plaques.A great finish for your card. | 2019-04-23T08:35:01 | https://craftinspiration.co.uk/product/52/die-cut-plain-oval-background-plate-card-embellishments.html |
Pics and Kicks: Jones: Part II.
Here's the second and final part of the Jones family shoot! Check out yesterday's installment here.
This family was darling! Kali was a total sport, Shanae was a total hottie. . . and Aaron was totally patient with my quest for perfection :). It was a blast guys!
Natalie!! I really think these are some of my very favorites, for a lot of reasons. Extremely natural and real -- I really think you captured "them", even though I don't know them! Gorgeous family. You're awesome!
SHANAE!! You guys are BEAUTIFUL!
Natalie, of course, you did a wonderful job. Love it! LOOOVE IT!
wow nat! I love the colors and I am totally speechless over the shot of them sitting on the beach...you captured their family so beautifully!
LOVE the one with the shadow. Awesome work! | 2019-04-24T02:27:15 | http://www.natalienortonphoto.com/2008/02/jones-part-ii.html |
Dues are $25.00 annually, payable by January meeting each year.
Yearbook will be given out in March.
©2019 Valley Quilters Guild - All rights reserved. | 2019-04-19T04:34:45 | http://valleyquilters.org/Information.html |
The purpose of this study was to determine whether maximally accumulated oxygen deficit (OD) was a valid index of anaerobic capacity by distinguishing among groups of aerobically and anaerobically trained athletes. In addition, OD was correlated with commonly used anaerobic capacity/power measures. Subjects were four distance and five middle distance runners, three sprinters, and four controls. Subjects performed one 2-3 minute supra-maximal treadmill run in which blood lactates were recorded, a Wingate Bicycle Ergometer Test, and runs of 300, 400, and 600 meters. Data were analyzed by ANOVA and a Duncan's Multiple Range test. Significant differences in OD were found between: sprinters and middle distance runners vs. distance runners and controls suggesting a greater anaerobic capacity in the former two groups. Significant correlations also were found between OD and the other anaerobic tests. This study demonstrates that OD can distinguish among groups of track athletes whose events require varying levels of anaerobic metabolism. Correlations between OD and selected field tests suggest that the latter are measuring some common aspects of anaerobic ability. | 2019-04-19T18:26:53 | https://repository.arizona.edu/handle/10150/278205 |
Fire Safety Rocks: What a Busy Day!
Had fun Skying with third graders from Kansas this morning!
Thank you to First Alert and State Farm for sponsoring our Fire Safety Dog Skype program!!
This morning we also did a test Skype with a school in the United Kingdom. We are very excited about Skyping with their school next week!
This will be the first time that their teacher has ever Skyped, so we hope to make it a great experience for them!
The Fire Safety Dog Skype Program is FREE to schools and organizations thanks to our corporate sponsors, First Alert and State Farm.
Today we rang the bell in Sparkles' Clubhouse during the live stream of Sparkles' Safety Spot to thank 1-800-PetMeds for their recent donation to the Fire Safety Dogs.
The items will help us with our fire safety program and we are so grateful!
We were so excited that our friend, Scrappy the Fire Dog, took a picture of all his goodies that we sent him.
Scrappy lives in England, and we were so excited to send him a few things for helping us with the 100th episode of Sparkles' Safety Spot!
We have lots more fun things planned with Molly and Scrappy, so stay tuned!!
Jolly good, Scrappy and to your human, Lee!
Today we celebrated the Keep Kids Fire Safe Foundation's 4th year anniversary on Sparkles' Safety Spot!
We dedicated today's episode of Sparkles' Safety Spot to The firefighters that lost their lives during 9/11. Rest on peace, brothers.
We will be at the Clinton Presidential Center for "Fire Safety Day" with the Little Rock Fire Department on October 12th. More details coming soon! | 2019-04-25T05:46:14 | http://www.firesafetyrocks.com/2013/09/what-busy-day.html |
A long-awaited official report into the disappearance of Flight MH370 gave no new clues today about why the Malaysian plane vanished, sparking anger and disappointment among relatives of those on board.
The report from the official investigation team pointed to failings by air traffic controllers and suggested the Malaysia Airlines plane was likely diverted from its flight path manually, rather than due to a mechanical fault.
But it said the Boeing 777 jet, which vanished over four years ago as it flew from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board, was airworthy and the pilots were in a fit state to fly.
After years of fruitless searching in the world’s most enduring aviation mystery, the report offered nothing concrete to grieving relatives of passengers — most of whom were Chinese — and crew hoping for some sort of closure.
“The team is unable to determine the real cause for the disappearance of MH370,” concluded the largely technical 400-page report. Relatives who were briefed at the transport ministry before the report’s public release expressed anger that there was nothing new in the document, with some storming out of the briefing as frustration boiled over.
“It is so disappointing,” said Intan Maizura Othman, whose husband was a steward on MH370. “I am frustrated. There is nothing new in the report.
“Those who gave the briefing from the ministry of transport were not able to give answers as they were not (the ones) who wrote the report.” She said the meeting between relatives and officials descended into a “shouting match” as family members’ frustration boiled over.
“Many asked questions,” said G Subramaniam, who lost a son on the flight, but added that “unsatisfactory responses left many angry”.
The disappearance of MH370 triggered the largest hunt in aviation history. But no sign of the jet was found in a 120,000-square kilometre Indian Ocean search zone and the Australian-led hunt was suspended in January last year.
US exploration firm Ocean Infinity resumed the search in a different location at the start of this year on a “no find, no fee” basis, using high-tech drones to scour the seabed. But that search was also called off after failing to find anything.
Malaysia’s new government, which took power in May, has said the hunt could be resumed but only if new evidence comes to light and officials have seemed keen to draw under a line the tragedy.
One area that came in for criticism in the report by the 19-member investigation team, which included foreign investigators, was air traffic control. It said both Malaysian air traffic control and their Vietnamese counterparts failed to act properly when the Boeing jet passed from Malaysian to Vietnamese airspace and disappeared from radars.
Air traffic controllers did not initiate emergency procedures in a timely fashion, delaying the start of the search and rescue operation, it said. However it played down concerns about the pilot and first officer, saying neither appeared to have suffered difficulties in their personal lives that could have affected their ability to fly.
It also said the plane was airworthy and did not have major technical issues. This however meant that the plane’s change of course “was likely made while the aircraft was under manual control and not the autopilot”, the report said.
Intervention by a third party could not be ruled out, it said, but also added there was no evidence to suggest the plane was flown by anyone other than the pilots.
The report also dismissed one conspiracy theory about the plane’s disappearance — that it was taken over remotely to foil a hijacking, saying there was no evidence to support this. | 2019-04-26T00:46:58 | http://www.navhindtimes.in/anger-as-mh370-report-offers-no-new-clues-to-aviations-greatest-mystery/ |
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What’s babka, you ask? Only the tastiest, most delectable pastry in the world... and a key ingredient in this hysterical, fast-paced farce that’s loaded with physical humor and a bit reminiscent of The Grand Budapest Hotel. Oh, did we mention that the babka becomes an aerial assault weapon that sparks an international war? You see, The Harmony Café could be any quaint eastern European bistro if it weren’t for one thing: an international border runs smack dab through the middle of it! One half of the café is in the Grand Duchy of Bunkelburg; the other half is located in the Royal Principality of Primwick. Read more...Luckily, the café serves the world’s best babka, and Hildegard and her staff somehow manage all the multiple border crossings and red-tape to serve their delicious, sweet coffee cakes and keep the peace. But because the Duchess of Bunkelburg secretly entered and won Primwick’s annual babka baking contest, the Prince of Primwick closes the border, making restaurant operations near impossible. But once that slice of babka goes flying across the border and hits a Primwickian patriotic zealot... well, now it’s all-out war! It’s hard to see how even The Harmony Café can maintain the peace, let alone stay in business! But with much farcical humor and good fun, the very same pastry that tore the countries apart brings them back together. This large-cast tale of love, espionage, and the best babka east of the Danube goes to show there are no boundaries for good taste!
This book of activities is designed to build confidence in each student with non-threatening evaluations along the way. | 2019-04-19T22:36:34 | https://www.pioneerdrama.com/SearchDetail.asp?PC=BABKA&src=def |
Hi guys, so these last two weeks I haven’t published a blog because of two things. Firstly, my laptop is getting repaired so I don’t have anything besides an iPhone to write with. Secondly my health has been quite unpredictable so I also haven’t had the energy.
Returning back from my holiday really took a toll on my body and I am still extremely exhausted and fragile from this. I will write a proper post on what it is like to travel with my illness and the pros and cons at a later date so I’ll keep this brief. Basically my body is getting its revenge on me for leaving bed most days which is hard for me.
I also was taken to hospital earlier this week and told I had extremely low blood sugar. They gave me some juice and sent me on my way only for me to have a more serious attack an hour after being released from hospital. In this episode I could not move or communicate. I was totally limp and unable to respond. I was also drifting in and out of consciousness for about 20 minutes. Once I came out of it I refused to go back to the hospital because they are hopeless. This was one of the scariest things to ever happen to me and I hope I never experience it again. However it may have shed some light on my unknown illness and this week I will be getting tested for diabetes which can cause some of the symptoms I am experiencing.
If you are interested in more frequent and short updates, follow my Facebook page (finding rainbows in the dark) because I regularly update that to keep people informed. There’s a quick link to this on the home page if you’re lazy like me.
I am ok, I am staying strong and keeping those positive thoughts flowing despite everything. I do apologise for no new posts these last few weeks and hope to write something great for you all soon.
I’m really sorry that you went through that! That sounds so traumatic!!! But I’m glad that they may have finally found out what’s going on! I hope you get some answers! You’ve been so strong in light of what is happening all the best! | 2019-04-24T20:56:11 | https://findingrainbowsinthedark.com/quick-health-update/ |
In our Security Predictions for this year, Trend Micro CTO Raimund Genes predicted that the evolution of conventional malware will only gradually evolve. Instead of distributing new threats, malware authors will focus more on refining tools and how these attacks are conducted.
In particular, we will be seeing certain developments in their stealth tactics to avoid efforts done by security researchers and vendors. The perfect example of these developments is the release of Blackhole Exploit Kit (BHEK) 2.0, which was a direct response to successful efforts to block previous BHEK versions.
These past days, we were alerted to the following string of incidents, in which old malware variants and threats incorporate certain tricks in an attempt to prevent detection.
Certain versions of Kelihos (detected as BKDR_KELIHOS.NAP) recently surfaced in the wild. Reports indicate that this Kelihos variant initiates a SleepEx function. With this sleep function, the malware becomes inactive during a particular time frame, which in effect can prevent automated detection to capture its malicious routines. Both Kelihos and extended sleep calls routines are not new in the threat landscape, however, when combined can be a potent threat that users should be wary of.
A banking malware was found bearing a valid digital certificate issued by DigiCert. Detected as TROJ_BANKER.JBR, this malware poses as a .PDF file and bears the aforementioned digital signature, possibly as a social engineering ploy to trick users into thinking the file is legitimate. Typically, these certificates guarantee the legitimacy of programs and files. Thus, users who encounter malware with such signature are likely to execute these. Misusing digital certificates, unfortunately, has been well-documented in the past. The notorious Stuxnet and FLAME attacks were reported to have used the same trick. Just last year, we documented Trojans bearing Adobe-signed certificates and a police ransomware with fake digital signature.
Just recently, we got hold of a 64-bit malware (detected as TROJ64_INSTOL.USR) that injects the normal process lsass.exe with its malicious component (detected as TROJ64_INJECT.USR). This injected component then downloads other malicious files onto the system. We don’t often see this type of malware in the wild. However, 64-bit malware may appeal to certain threat actors, as they can be more difficult to detect compared to 32-bit ones. Furthermore, as more users are likely to shift to systems with faster processing power, we can expect cybercriminals to make a similar move and create malware suited for 64-bit machines.
Messages and tweets with shortened links leading to BKDR_DORIFEL.AD were seen circulating on Facebook and Twitter respectively. This ruse may sound like the worm we documented a year ago, but this one incorporated a different trick. Instead of leading users directly to the payload, the URL redirects users to compromised sites before the actual web page hosting the malware. This tactic is reminiscent of Blackhole Exploit Kit 1.x versions, in which users are directed to compromised websites before the malicious landing page, in an attempt to avoid or at least, make detection difficult.
Though these developments do not constitute new threats, they do however provide glimpses of what we can expect to happen in the threat landscape this year. Thus, to stay safe from these threats, users must always be wary of opening email messages, visiting unknown websites, or clicking shortened links received from their social networking accounts.
Trend Micro Smart Protection Network™ protects users from this threat by detecting and deleting the related malware cited in this blog post and blocking all related URLs. | 2019-04-25T10:15:31 | https://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlabs-security-intelligence/same-old-brand-new-malware-tricks/ |
I am currently with sprint. My service is very bad and I get a ton of drop calls. My current plan is Blackberry 8307e with 1300 for 40.00, Unlimited data 36.99, M2M 5.00, Insurance 7.00 and unlimited texting 15.00. Which will taxes comes up to about 109.00. I was a treo guy at first but with all the problems I had with windows, I had to give up. I am now using my 8703e. I like it but I hate the side scroll wheel. I have never use edge before just evdo phones. I don't really care for the push email but I am a fan of texting. Is it hard and are the keys on the screen big enough to type fast on the iPhone. I hope the phone gets a lot of bugs worked out with the updates. I can't even test one at the cingular store. None of them in Miramar or Pembroke pines florida have them. Advice please. Also I work for the U.S. DOD so how do I get the FAN number to get a discount?
I along with most people on here are biased toward the iphoen. I personally love it but its your choice in the end.
I am an iPhone user coming from an 8300. 8300 was great, but hey...the iPhone is just plain awesome. I didn't need the push and i'm happy I made the move.
one more question. If I purchase a blackberry 8300 and iPhone do i have to pay extra for bb data or will the iPhone data plan will work?
My friend changed from a blackjack and he was paying more for his plan because the "PDA" plan he had was a 30$ data charge and the iPhone's data plan comes out to be 20$ a month (they force you to get the data plan). I hope that semi-answered your question.
If you have to ask, get the 8300. You won't be happy with the iPhone.
How or when will I be able to order the iPhone online? I would like to use my businesss email address to get a discount.
Um, there really is no comparison. If you need businesss class email, and you like the tactile feel of a physical keyboard, then the Blackberry is the way to go. If you want everything else, iPhone.
Also I work for the U.S. DOD so how do I get the FAN number to get a discount?
Number one, technically the iPhone isn't eligible for the FAN discount.. If you try to activate it with the FAN discount on the line the activation will get bounced. BUT, if you get the phone activated you can probably go into a store and get a rep to add the FAN discount onto the line after the fact. The discount will be applied to the minutes package, but not the data plan, hope this helps!
Do you think the price will drop anytime on this phone? Also how long does AT&T have the rights to the iPhone?
Do your due diligence in regarding to both phones. Look at what each phone does and determine what you want. If you want MMS and a weekly view of notes and copy and paste and full Exchange support, then get the 8300. If you want a great iPod, intuitive phone experience, refreshing internet experience and native apps like Google Maps and YouTube, get the iPhone. Maybe 3G is the deal breaker for you and you don't want Edge. It should be an easy decision if you base it on what features you really want.
But for me, there just isn't any comparison. After all, at the base, it's a phone and in terms of ease of use there's nothing even close to it. Try adding a recent call to an existing contact on another phone.
I don't think the 8300 has 3g.
I was trying to be "PC" LOL in that case, iPhone all day all the way.
iPhone. Why not buy the most anticipated device in cell phone history?
i have to see how much i can get for my bb 8703e on ebay with the 2400mah extended battery. I have the box and instrutions. | 2019-04-25T20:18:58 | http://forums.everythingicafe.com/threads/leaving-sprint-should-i-get-8300-or-iphone.5244/ |
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I would go with some ebooks.
NewBoston is a fantastic source, not just for HTML & CSS either, he has tutorials on Youtube as well as a very active and helpful forum for a ridiculous amount of languages and activities. Definitely worth checking out if someone looking to learn these things is reading this. | 2019-04-19T22:34:25 | https://nixers.net/showthread.php?tid=14&pid=6003 |
Bridgeport ~ Barbara Ann Beck, 70, a retired floor manager, went to be with our Lord Saturday, February 2, 2019, in Bridgeport.
Memorial is 2:00 p.m. Saturday, February 9, 2019, at New Hope Fellowship Church in Chico.
Rev. Lionel Young will officiate.
Barbara was born October 3, 1948, to Jack and Hannah (Applin) Keen in Wichita Falls, Texas.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Paul Beck; her daughter, Sandra Hill; and her brother, Jackie Keen.
Those left behind to cherish her memory are her son, Wayne Beck of Bridgeport; her grandchildren, Hannah Marie Beck, Katlyn Modene Beck, and Robert Beck; her great-grandchild, Alyssa Beck; her brothers, William Keen and wife Barbara, and Gene Keen and wife Linda; her sisters, Linda Ames, Sue Stockard and husband Ricky, and Kathy Tankersley; her brother, George Loper; numerous nieces, nephews, and a host of friends. | 2019-04-25T15:01:00 | https://www.hawkinsfuneralhome.com/notices/Barbara-Beck |
No you should not increase the dosage. I would only give 10 drops twice daily on the canned food. I would also give digestive enzymes, probiotics, and Omega 3/6/9. Is your cat diabetic and on insulin? The amount of food you need to give depends upon the size of your cat and the kind of food you are giving. What brand and flavor are you giving her? What does she weigh and does your veterinarian think she is thin or heavy? | 2019-04-21T18:02:42 | https://www.smartlivingnetwork.com/cat-breeds/q/increase-dosage-for-cat-on-diaionx/ |
I love watching QVC when they have beauty products on. They have brands such as Elemis, L'Occitane, Liz Earle, Benefit and bareMinerals. They often have great deals on that you don't get in the shops so it's definitely worth watching/checking out the website.
If you haven't watched QVC before, you probably don't know what a TSV is. It stands for Today's Special Value. They have one really special deal every day where you can get an item at a really low price. Today they have their Elemis Christmas 2012 TSV - the 6 Piece Winter Skincare Secrets Collection. I actually bought the Christmas one last year if you want to see it here.
As you may know, Elemis products are pretty pricey but I think they are definitely worth it as they are luxurious products with really good quality ingredients. I've tried the Pro-Radiance Cream Cleanser and repurchased several times as I love it. It cleanses the skin beautifully and leaves the skin feeling moisurised. I've also tried the Pro-Collagen Marine Cream which is a lovely cream gel moisturiser which doesn't leave the skin greasy and provides the perfect amount of hydration. These two products alone would cost £80.00 normally.
How much for the whole set you ask? It's only £46.48 plus £5.95 P&P (for today only). This is amazing value! The total value of this set is well over £100. If you love Elemis or would like to try some, now is the perfect time. By the way, I'm not being paid by QVC or Elemis, I just really love Elemis products and wanted to let you know about this wonderful offer. If you are interested in this set and would like to know more check out the QVC UK website here.
I've ordered mine off my fiancé for Christmas, can't wait to use it! Are you going to order one?
Great deal, never ordered anything form qvc or even thought that they had a website! | 2019-04-24T14:56:52 | https://www.northerngloss.com/2012/12/qvc-uk-tsv-elemis-christmas-2012.html |
Antigua Bay is a small townhome community located on Seminola Boulevard in Casselberry. It consists of 30 two story townhomes consisting of three bedrooms, two and one half baths and two car garages. The community was mostly built-out in 2008 by Sandalwood Homes.
Antigua Bay is located less than a mile off SR 17-92 and is conveniently located to conveniences, shopping and restaurants as well as major highways for easy commuting. | 2019-04-19T12:44:04 | http://www.newsouthernproperties.com/Antigua-Bay-6-14937.html |
The Pour House is hosting the St.Patrick's Day Free for All on Saturday, March 15, featuring six bands. Playing at 9 o'clock is local alt-rock band Adam Pitts and the Pseudo Cowboys. They are adding a fun twist to their performance by asking you to film your favorite parts of the show. The footage will be used as a part of their next music video.
The members of this group, Adam Pitts (vocals, piano, guitar), Michael Batts (drums, vocals), and Mike Sedito (bass, vocals), have an extended set planned for this St. Patrick's Day bash. The playlist will include many of their originals written by Adam Pitts, as well as some classics, including a few Led Zeppelin covers.
These are realizations that he has grasped through experience and maturity. All of these experiences translate into this spirited song that pulls inspiration from earlier rock themes and real life.
On a much different topic, another notable song by Adam Pitts and the Pseudo Cowboys is "Diane Daily." Adam was inspired to write this song after working at a chain restaurant and observing the lifestyle of many of his coworkers. They seemed to be trapped in an endless cycle of devoting their lives to a job with little pay and no appreciation, with nothing deeper to live for. Interestingly enough, these same people would spend their free time sitting at the same establishment that was stripping them of their livelihood, returning their hard-earned money to those that under appreciated them.
Have no fear, even though Adam Pitts and the Pseudo Cowboys have depth to their writing doesn't mean they won't keep you on your toes. This group proves that rock 'n' roll is far from dead. They look forward to helping you celebrate St. Patrick's Day with a fun and lively show. Don't forget to film your favorite parts of the performance and share it with Adam Pitts. Your footage could be a part of their next music video!
Stay up-to-date with Adam Pitts and the Pseudo Cowboys by liking them on Facebook, following them on Twitter, visiting their website, and listening to them on Soundcloud.
The St. Patrick's Day Free for All is an all day free event with doors opening at 11 and the show starting at 11:30. Also performing: PitchBlak Brass Band, James Ethan Clark and the Renegades, Roshambeaux, Jahman Brahman, and Armen Hammer. Visit the event's Facebook Page to get regular updates. It's going to be a memorable St. Patrick's day on Blount Street, don't miss the fun! | 2019-04-19T23:03:11 | http://www.thetrianglebeat.com/2014/03/the-pour-house-is-hosting-st.html |
Happy Monday everyone! I hope you had a lovely weekend? I was composing my wash day post from this weekend and I realized that I needed to do a post of my Shescentit collection first.
Blueberry co-wash conditioner: This was the first product I bought from this brand. It was love on first application and still is. The slip is amazing and it does a decent job at gently cleansing my hair. It was this conditioner that made me want more of Shescentit.
Curl Moist conditioner: Also has great slip although I still think that the Blueberry co-wash conditioner has more slip than this conditioner. It is creamy and leaves the hair feeling soft.
Coco creme leave-in conditioner: I bought this to compare with my current leave-ins and it is not memorable. I was quite disappointed because I expected to be wowed. I am not sure if I’ll repurchase it but I’ll keep using it to see if I change my mind.
Moisture mist leave-in conditioner: This is a keeper because it does a good job at detangling my hair. I would rate its slip factor as 7/10 which is quite decent for a silicone-free spray.
Fortifying mask: This is a protein deep conditioner that I wanted to give a whirl. I was underwhelmed by it (maybe because of my experience with the Curl Moist & Blueberry co-wash conditioners). It is not bad but it is nothing something that my hair can’t live without it. I’ll use the jars I have to see if I change my mind about this hair mask.
Avocado conditioner: Not used it yet but when I do, I will give you my impressions.
Shea moisture Jamaican black castor oil shampoo – Yes to the yes!
Wash day 7th March 2015 – a day of experimenting and comparing!
Product haul: Giovanni 2chic Brazillian Keratin and Argan oil shampoo & more!
Which moisturizer is going to win the battle for my hair? | 2019-04-19T14:53:57 | http://thesizzlingmommy.com/2015/03/shescentit-product-reviews.html |
The hubs and I just had our annual we-need-to-stick-to-our-budget conversation. We have it every year, usually around the start of the new year, right around the time we make resolutions about how we can do better. I always dread the conversation and never really stick to my financial goals. I’m terrible with budgets and even worse at saving money. I’m the kid whose parents would say, “Do you think money grows on trees?” and I’d say, “Well, yes.” When I was in college, I used my emergency-only credit card for shoes. So you can imagine how much I enjoy having a budget conversation with my husband.
But this year the budget conversation with my husband wasn’t the annual bloodbath it normally is. It felt productive without feeling punitive and we focused on how to enjoy our lives while still saving money. Best of all, we had an open and honest conversation about money without feeling like we needed to hide what we’re really spending from the other. But a new study from CreditCards.com reveals that 1 in 5 Americans has lied to their spouse or partner about a purchase of over $500. And, the study says, 7.2 million Americans have hidden an entire credit card account from their spouse. Reading this I can’t help but wonder: Is lying about money just another way of cheating on your spouse?
When I was a kid, lying about money was just part of life. My Dad was super tight with money and never got over growing up poor himself. The problem was he wasn’t poor anymore and had three children who needed all the normal stuff kids need. So school clothes shopping or party dress purchases became the source of huge fights between my parents. Mom got smart and just stopped telling him. And when he’d see one of us in a new dress or shirt and ask if it was new, we knew to respond no. This undoubtedly made my dad think he was going crazy, but the truth is lying about money was the only way my mom could get anything done.
Now that I’m married with kids I realize how horrible it is to lie to your spouse about anything, but certainly money. By the same token, both parties have to have a healthy relationship with money. Both parties need to have a say in how it gets spent. And both parties need to be grown-ups about it and not just spend what they want. Because only children think money grows on trees.
With that in mind, this is the first year I’m sticking to the budget that my husband and I made. And if I need flexibility, I’ll tell him. I see how appreciative he is that I’m being honest and I know how much I appreciate it when he does the same. We’re partners in everything, even in money. It feels great to be working together, even if that means I didn’t get to buy those shoes I so desperately wanted this month. I’m sure there will be another pair I want next month! | 2019-04-20T23:03:28 | https://ca.momtastic.com/love-sex/492961-lying-money-count-cheating/ |
The best way to answer this question is to install the EWWW Image Optimizer Cloud plugin and have it tell you how many images are in your Media Library. Even without an API key, it will scan all your images to see how many there are to optimize. If the compression levels get stuck at “No Compression”, you can use the demo key of abc123 (which validates, but won’t optimize anything). Once you have the plugin installed, go to Media->Bulk Optimize. The next step is to hit the Scan button to find all the unoptimized images on your site. By default, it scans the Media Library, your theme, BuddyPress, and a couple other folders for pre-configured plugins.
Depending on your site, it might take just a second or two, and on larger sites it might take a little while to compile a complete list. But once the scan finishes, the page will display how many images the plugin has found on your site.
EWWW is the first Image Optimizer to let you optimize every single image in your WordPress site, even ones from plugins that don’t use the Media Library. On the reverse side of that, EWWW I.O. is also one of the few that will let you disable resizes that you don’t want optimized. At this point, write down the total number of unoptimized images, and head back over to Plans & Pricing to see how much that will cost.
If you want to disable a few of the resizes being generated to save money, be sure you know which ones are being used before you get too far. | 2019-04-26T12:03:38 | https://ewww.io/how-many-images-do-i-need/ |
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Shannon and the clams want bowties on everything...burgers, wolfmen, dolphins. It's weirdly appropriate. It's a little B-Movie, 50's surf/greaser sound. Complete with a grindhouse ballad at the end of the B-Side that just kills...in the best possible way. It's a perfect John Waters-esque moment. All is not right in suburbia, or in this case, Oakland. Well, was it ever right in Oakland? Williamsburg is a far cry from that part of Cali, I have to hand it to them, it's a rough part of the west coast, let me tell you....and I know next to nothing.
This really succeeds ultimately because it never gets kitch, that can be an easy line to cross in this style of reminiscent garage. Even the first track on the B-Side 'Hunk Hunt', with an a capella chorus at the start, going heavy with surf rock twang vibrato guitar then shifting down on the next track 'Heart Break' a reverb heavy ballad. Her classic sounding vocals give something extra to that era that's usually missing this real mean edge. The drums are booming, slow guitar twang melody. I think Shannon nails the tone on all these tracks, she has a really incredible voice which immediately sets this apart. It sounds dangerous all while belting it out. She's got a gift, which goes further than just being a great vocalist, it's all feeling.
More perfection on 'Would you love me if I was dead?' The second track on the A-Side. There's a serious dark tone to the reverb 50's pop harmonies. They genuinely pay homage to this sound, it's seriously transporting.
Playing this all at 33 just adds to the grittiness Get it on weird hug who is batting 1000 so far...I love everything, teepee, bundle of fags...nice freaking work. Keep it up. | 2019-04-22T08:05:15 | http://7inches.blogspot.com/2009/08/shannon-and-clams-on-weirdhug-records.html |
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What can the Ampsa Design Wizards do and what is the difference between the Impedance-Matching Wizard (IMW) and the Amplifier Design Wizard (ADW)?
What is the format in which impedance-matching problems are specified in the IMW and the ADW?
What is a modification network?
What is the difference between a point match and a circle match?
The optimum point on a power contour can be selected by the user. What are the considerations to be taken into account when this point is chosen?
The ADW does not use large-signal models. How does it control or calculate the output power?
Can the Design Wizards design microstrip networks?
The ADW is usually used with general purpose programs like Microwave Office (TM) and ADS (TM). How does the design flow work?
What is the typical design flow for a power stage in the ADW?
The Design Wizards are used to design RF and microwave cascade-type amplifiers, as well as matching networks for antennas and other RF and microwave components. The Design Wizards automate many manual steps in the typical design process.
The Impedance-Matching Wizard (IMW) is used to synthesize impedance-matching networks. Control over the input or output impedance of the matching network at the 2nd and 3rd harmonic frequencies is also provided in the IMW. The IMW is a subset of the Amplifier Design Wizard (ADW).
The user must define the matching problems to be solved with the IMW (load-pull measurements or simulations, etc.), while a wide range of impedance-matching problems can be set up automatically for class A and class B amplifier stages in the ADW.
The matching networks synthesized with the IMW (or the Impedance-Matching Module of the ADW) can be refined in the ADW. This includes modifications (like replace inductors with spiral inductors or solenoidal coils), addition of extra components for biasing and other purposes and optimization of the modified network.
Small-signal, low-noise, power, high efficiency, as well as high dynamic range amplifiers can be designed with the ADW. The amplifiers designed with the ADW are usually processed further in Microwave Office (TM) or ADS (TM). Any combination networks required must also be designed externally.
In the IMW, DXF files can be created for the artwork. In the ADW Sonnet Software (R) files can also be created. Microwave Office (TM) scripts can be created in both of the wizards.
Impedance-matching problems must be specified in real-frequency format. That is, the source and the load impedance of the matching network are specified at a number of frequencies over the frequency ranges of interest. Multiple passbands are allowed.
The transducer power gain required must also be specified at each frequency. The target gain at each frequency can be a specific value (use unity when a good match is required) or can be greater than or less than the specified value. The highest gain allowed is 1.0.
When harmonic control is required, a range of allowable reactance values must be specified at the different harmonic frequencies of interest. Control over the 2nd and 3rd harmonics is provided.
A modification network consists of frequency-dependent resistive sections (resistor in parallel with a capacitor or in series with an inductor, ...). The resistive effect is usually larger at low frequencies. Double-section modification networks can be synthesized in the Device-Modification Section of the ADW. The modification network is used to stabilize the transistor, the level the gain slope and to reduce the gain-bandwidth constraints associated with the transistor impedance(s) to be matched.
When you control the power directly in the ADW, you only have a point-match option. This means that the point selected as the optimum on a power contour at a particular frequency is the target for the matching at that frequency. When you control the noise figure or the power gain, the contour of constant noise figure or gain is a circle. The option is then given to allow a circle match. This means that any point on the circumference of the circle is acceptable. Circle-match problems are easier to solve than point-match problems.
Instead of allowing a circle match, it is also possible to set the innner (or outer) area if the circle as target (this usually (inherently stable case) implies gain greater than a specific value or noise figure smaller than a specific value). This can be done by changing the specifications for the transducer power gain in the matching section to be larger or equal to the target value.
Note that it may be a good idea to allow a small circular area around a chosen point target in the Impedance-Matching Module. This can be done by setting the gain target for the matching to be greater or equal than (say) 0.96 (this is equivalent to a VSWR of 1.5). The gain target can be changed by using the Specifications | Terminations command in the Impedance-Matching module.
When you select the optimum point on a power contour, you should look at the gain at that point, the stability factors and also the VSWRs, especially the parameter listed as VSWRload. The smaller this number is, the easier the match. This VSWR is a measure of how different the impedance at the selected point is from the impedance that is already in place in the circuit. If there is no difference (no matching required at that frequency) the VSWR would be 1.
The VSWR values listed serve as measures of the degree of difficulty of the matching problem at each frequency.
Note that sensitivity factors can also be listed when the optimum point on a constant gain and constant noise figure circle is selected. These factors list the change in gain or noise figure for a 1% change in the associated gain or noise figure controlling impedance. Click the relevant box to switch the contents of the table displayed.
The default selection for an optimum point can be changes by clicking on the angle value in the table. Note that the error function controlling the selection of the default points can be changed on the previous page of the wizard.
In a linear amplifier the output power is mainly limited by clipping of the intrinsic output current and voltage of the different transistors used in the circuit. The ADW uses the dc operating point (at the rated output power) and the boundary lines specified for the allow load-line area on the I/V-plane to calculate the maximum linear output power. The model fitted is used to map the external voltage and current of each transistor to the associated intrinsic quantities. Based on these calculations, load-pull power contours can also be generated for each transistor.
Lumped-element, distributed networks, microstrip networks, as well as mixed lumped/distributed networks can be designed with the IMW and the ADW. Single-layer parallel plate capacitors (MIM, etc.), square spiral inductors, hair-pin inductors and solenoidal coils can be used in the ADW. Surface-mount components can be used in the IMW and the ADW.
Two general design flows are provided in the ADW.
A. You can do all the active work including defining the specifications for the matching problems to be solved in Microwave Office (TM) or the Advanced Design System (TM) and only design the matching networks (with or without harmonic control) with the Ampsa Wizards. A complete flow is provided for this in the ADW from synthesis, to fine tuning and introducing modifications in the matching network for biasing purposes, reducing discontinuity effects or replacing basic components with alternatives (inductor to spiral inductor or solenoidal coil, etc.) to re-optimizing the matching network to restore its performance after the modifications made. The final matching network can be exported in various formats, including DXF, Sonnet Software (R) format and also as a Microwave Office (TM) script.
B. When linear cascade-type amplifiers are designed most of the work can be done in the ADW with linear models and boundary-line constraints on the I/V-plane, after which the designed amplifier can be exported for fine-tuning with non-linear models and further processing. The ADW design process usually starts with fitting linear ADW models to the class A or B S-parameters of the transistors to be used at the required dc operating points (the operating point corresponding to the rated output power) and specifying the associated I/V-plane information.A systematic approach is then followed to design each stage of the amplifier, after which the completed design is optimized. The amplifier is then exported for fine-tuning and further processing.A systematic approach is then followed to design each stage of the amplifier, after which the completed design is optimized. The amplifier is then exported for fine-tuning and further processing.
Fit a model to the S-parameters of the transistor at the desired dc operating voltage and current (not the bias point; the dc conditions at rated power should be used) and specify the I/V-plane load-line constraints. Verify the power performance of the model against the datasheet and non-linear model (if any).
Add the pads and air lines for the transistor in the Analysis Module.
Use the CIL command to set up the power matching problem and then solve it with the Impedance-Matching Module. Add the selected matching network to the circuit by using the relevant Export command.
Select the transistor and its pads and then use the MOT command to modify the transistor (add frequency selective resistive networks for stability, reducing VSWR gain-bandwidth constraints, gain levelling). Add the modification network to the circuit by using the relevant Export command.
Use the Interstage Impedance-Matching Command to set up the input matching problem and solve it with the Impedance-Matching Module. Export the selected matching network to the circuit file.
Select components on the schematic for optimization and optimize the circuit.
Add the pads for the transistor in the Device-Modification Module. Design a modification network to control the MAG (maximum available power gain) and to provide the output power required. Create an ADW circuit file for the transistor with its modification components.
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This is the third instalment in my series on Canadian bloggers. This time we have the privilege of hearing from Don Hutchinson, interim CEO of the Canadian Bible Society. Don speaks to us on a very timely issue. You can find Don’s blog here.
The message of biblical grace has again become the topic that baffles both mainstream and new media following the racially motivated slaughter of nine at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church in Charleston, SC.
The AME Church, many congregations of which denomination referred to the Emanuel congregation as Mother AME, was born out of slavery and the Methodist revival of John Wesley that focused on the authority the Bible, as understood through its own words, the traditions of the Church, reason and experience.
A young white man, attending this African American congregation for the first time, was welcomed to a Wednesday evening Bible study and prayer meeting of Mother AME.
An hour later, that same young man turned on the messengers of welcoming love with a message of violent hate – his own message, one we know is shared by many, and one unsupported by the Bible being studied that evening.
An interesting conundrum was presented for the post-biblical modern media. People still read the Bible. People still study the Bible. People still believe in and pray to the God of the Bible. The Bible’s message of love was a seamless connection that night between racial divide. Less than 48 hours later, at the killer’s first court appearance, family members of those who were gunned down expressed the pain of mourning; and their forgiveness – a concept central to the Christian faith that is rooted in that same Book, the Bible.
I was reminded of another murderous incident, nearly a decade ago, when a lone gunman slaughtered innocent children in a one room schoolhouse in Lancaster County, PA, before turning the gun on himself. Remarkably, the message of this white Amish (Christian) community that lost its children was one of love, grace and mercy, not hatred. Some members of the community went to the gunman’s parents’ home to comfort them in the loss of their son and in the stress resulting from their son’s actions. News commentators were astounded then as well. Some expressed disbelief at the Amish spokesperson’s reference to the Bible as the reason for this action.
And, earlier this year, the world reacted first with anger and then with awe when the families of the 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians beheaded on a Mediterranean beach expressed a message of peace and forgiveness in the midst of their mourning. Again, because of their belief in the Truth found in the Bible.
The last post on my own blog at www.donhutchinson.ca was a media release about accepting the position of interim CEO with the Canadian Bible Society. One of the questions I have been most frequently asked since has been, “Why the Bible Society?” The answer is simple. The Bible, the Book written by many but inspired by One.
The Bible is the foundation for understanding right relationship with God, as evidenced by the members of the Amish community at Nickel Mines, PA, in 2006, the Copts in the tiny village of al-Our, Egypt, earlier this year and Methodists in Charleston, SC, in recent days.
Those who assert the irrelevance of the Bible in the 21st century are witnessing the necessity of its accepted and active presence in our world.
Accepting the Truth of the Bible is the underpinning for membership in the Church – I use a capital “C” to note the worldwide Body of Christ, billions of people, not just one congregation. Its principles are the reason for the public policy engagement of the Church for the common good, including that of the pastor at Mother AME who also served as a state senator for two decades. Its Message speaks of peace, from Pennsylvania to the Middle East, even in the midst of hostility.
The Canadian Bible Society is engaged in translating, publishing, distributing and encouraging use of the Bible as one in a family of 146 national societies that form the United Bible Societies. The value of this shared international work is seen every time individuals and communities baffle the world with the message of grace, love and forgiveness which are found in the pages of The Book – whether electronic or printed. In its pages also originate the motivation for the founding of humanitarian institutions that exist around the globe for the provision of health care and education, children’s aid societies and even societies for the prevention of cruelty to animals, and more. And, it provides us with the necessary resources to foster reconciliation for people on the issues that bring division, disagreement and hatred within neighbourhoods, cities, counties and nations.
There is a place for the Bible in the 21st century. Its absence would leave social gorges too great to fill and societal chasms too wide to cross. The Bible presents us all with the still contemporary choice to accept or reject the Message that can bridge the gap between hatred and love; sin and grace.
Make sure to check out this interview I did with Don Hutchinson. | 2019-04-25T09:00:52 | http://www.stephenjbedard.com/2015/06/22/the-media-and-the-bible/ |
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