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Modern cars are becoming safer for drivers due to advances in technology and increased safety features. The features on some cars, trucks, and SUVS not only keep you safer but could also save you money on auto insurance. Continue reading to find out which vehicles are considered the safest to drive and why, brought to you by the insurance experts from Altra Insurance Services, providers of reliable, affordable auto insurance San Diego drivers know they can rely on for outstanding service.
Toyota Camry 4-Door Sedan
The child seat anchors in this sedan are excellent, and so are the headlights, seats, and head restraints. When driving in the Toyota Camry, your family can rely on features designed to help with crash avoidance. For example, the front crash prevention system can lower the risk of colliding with another vehicle. Drivers can feel safe thanks to optimal blind spot detection, standard lane warning detection, and other tech features that put the Toyota Camry 4-Door Sedan ahead of its competitors.
The Optima’s front-impact airbags for passengers and drivers were created to protect people during frontal crashes, but the vehicle also features overhead, knee, and side-impact airbags that increase its safety rating. If a tire has stopped rotating due to extreme braking, the Optima has anti-lock brakes that can sense this and modulate the brake pressure, allowing the tires to rotate. As a result, drivers have an increased ability to turn even when their vehicles are braking. To lower the risk of losing control, the Optima’s stability control feature reduces engine power when the automobile senses its handling limits have been exceeded.
Other safety features on the Kia Optima that drivers love include:
• Child safety locks
• Daytime running lights
• Cross-traffic alert
• Integrated turn signal mirrors
Lexus RX 350
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Modern life is so convenient that we often fail to appreciate the complex systems that make it possible. For example, our plumbing system enables us to get water from the tap without thinking twice. However, sometimes, we turn on the faucet to find that the water pressure seems nonexistent or vice versa. What to do? When dealing with abnormal water pressure for house, you should always call a plumber to help out. This article discusses the importance of proper water pressure.
What Is Water Pressure?
- 1 What Is Water Pressure?
- 2 What Causes Water Pressure Variation?
- 3 What Happens When Water Pressure Drops?
- 4 What Happens When The Water Pressure Spikes?
- 5 Call Robinson Plumbing For All Of Your Plumbing Requirements
The technical definition of pressure is the force applied per unit area. In the context of plumbing, water pressure is the force exerted by the liquid as it passes through the pipes. This is commonly measured in pounds per square inch or PSI. It has to stay within an ideal range to maintain good flow to faucets, showerheads, toilet tanks, and various home appliances. Sometimes the pressure dips too low or rises too high, resulting in system malfunction. Homeowners can observe the symptoms to get a better grasp of the situation.
What Causes Water Pressure Variation?
The pressure will always be affected by gravity. Water will have a harder time climbing up to elevated areas such that the flow is stronger on the first floor than on the third floor of a house. We should also consider the amount of water being consumed at the same time. For example, early mornings are usually when people are busy cooking, washing, and bathing to prepare for their day. This can cause a temporary drop in pressure with undesirable results. Sometimes the problem is worse such as pipe damage or blockage. The issue might also be traced to the water source itself.
What Happens When Water Pressure Drops?
1. Slow Water Flow
If the pressure drops below the ideal range, then you can expect the water to flow more slowly than before. Water might trickle out of the faucets at a snail’s pace. Household chores can take forever to finish such that dirty dishes pile up and dirty clothes begin to smell before you can attend to them. Even the simplest tasks such as making coffee become difficult when you need to wait a long time to fill up the kettle. Few will have the patience for this during the morning rush. Water should be available when you want it the most.
2. Output Issue
When dealing with low water pressure, the output can become uneven across the home. People who need water at the same time might find that it is impossible to do their tasks simultaneously. For example, the shower may suddenly stop working because someone started using a nearby faucet. This can be incredibly irritating for someone who is getting ready for work. There are those who try to live with it by scheduling usage but this is sub-optimal. It is far better to improve the pressure and allow simultaneous use. Just call a plumber to get it done for you.
What Happens When The Water Pressure Spikes?
1. Pipe Damage
Higher than normal pressure can be destructive. The force could damage pipes that are not prepared to handle the stress. The problem tends to build up over time so you might not be aware of it right away. Once the pipes reach their breaking point, the damage will become difficult to ignore. A repair can take a lot of money if the affected areas are extensive but it will be necessary to return to normal. Let a plumber check where the problem lies so that this can be isolated immediately.
2. Water Leaks
The damaged pipes can cause leaks in and around the house. Water can spill all over the kitchen and cause further problems. Kitchen cabinets could get ruined by moisture over time if there are made from wood. Leaks will also be smelly and messy. They will be difficult to clean up each day. Small leaks tend to become big leaks over time so it is a good idea to move as fast as possible. The reality is that a lot of things can cause leaks so you need an expert plumber to help you determine the best course of action. There is a different solution for high water pressure that will not apply to others.
3. Higher Bills
The leaks can lead to large volumes of wasted water. This is particularly unwelcome during times when water is scarce. What’s more, homeowners will have to pay for the water that they can’t even consume properly. This can lead to soaring water bills that may put a strain on the household budget. It makes more financial sense to pay for the services of a plumber. It is better to fix the problem right away rather than pay for wasted water indefinitely. You can save money and reduce your stress.
Are the problems described above familiar to you? Have you been experiencing the symptoms of low or high water pressure? Maybe you have been feeling helpless because you don’t know how to make things better. Just remember that you don’t have to live with the inconveniences. It is possible for the flow of water to improve by tweaking the pressure. Plumbers know exactly what to do so you can leave the problem to them and be amazed by the results. You will have a flawless plumbing system in no time at all.
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VMware Carbon Black is out with its latest Global Incident Response Threat Report, which describes "the perfect storm" for increasingly sophisticated attacks heading into 2021. Cybersecurity strategist Tom Kellermann discusses what that means - and how these trends should inform our defensive strategies.
Security experts are urging organizations to patch a newly revealed serious flaw in Microsoft SharePoint as quickly as possible because proof-of-concept exploit code is already available. The U.K.'s National Cyber Security Center warns that hackers frequently target fresh SharePoint flaws.
To mitigate the risks posed by ransomware attacks, enterprises need to move from file-based security to a behavior-based approach, says Jennifer Ayers, vice president of the OverWatch division of Crowdstrike.
The Joker's Stash darknet marketplace has posted a fresh collection of 3 million credit cards that are likely related to a breach of the Dickey's Barbecue Pit chain of franchised restaurants, according to Gemini Advisory.
A report by New York state investigators calls for Twitter and other social media companies to implement greater cybersecurity measures and advocates greater federal regulatory oversight of social media companies to help prevent the misuse of their platforms.
Despite the takedown of the Trickbot botnet by Microsoft and others Monday, the malware is still functioning, and its operators retain the tools needed to rebuild their malicious network, some cybsersecurity experts say. So the impact, while significant, could prove to be temporary.
Ransomware attacks remain the top cyber-enabled threat seen by law enforcement. But phishing, business email compromises and other types of fraud - many now using a COVID-19 theme - also loom large, Europol warns in its latest Internet Organized Crime Threat Assessment.
Microsoft collaborated with cybersecurity companies and government agencies to take down the million-device Trickbot botnet in an effort to help protect the Nov. 3 U.S. election and stop the global spread of ransomware and other malware.
A hacking group is taking aim at industrial targets in an ongoing cyberespionage campaign, security firm Kaspersky reports. The group, dubbed "MontysThree," uses a variety of techniques, including steganography, to avoid detection.
Within a few days of President Donald Trump testing positive for a COVID-19 virus infection, fraudsters began deploying phishing emails using the president's health as a lure, according to the security firms Proofpoint and KnowBe4.
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is warning about a recent spike in Emotet botnet attacks - designed to spread other malware - that are targeting state and local government agencies.
Microsoft is warning that hackers with connections to Iran, as well as other threat actors, are attempting to exploit a critical vulnerability in Windows Server dubbed Zerologon, for which it has issued a partial patch. | <urn:uuid:2bacd397-f5a9-4c10-bd9f-90a6a26871cc> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 2,972 |
Using a combination of word-of-mouth and advertising, Alibaba Group Holding is tapping the millions of Chinese outside its homeland from Singapore to San Francisco to accelerate global expansion.
The e-commerce company, which met last week with potential investors for its initial public offering, is attracting people of Chinese heritage drawn by hard-to-find items on its Taobao Marketplace like pineapple cakes and motorbike brake pads, as well as bargain-basement prices.
“I buy everything on the platform because it’s so cheap,” said Sam Ng, a 33-year-old Web designer in San Francisco, who shops for car gadgets and Korean fashion clothes on the website and learned about Taobao from friends.
Alibaba’s success — and the prospect of pulling off the largest IPO in U.S. history — is built on its business in China, the country of 1.35 billion people where the company dominates the fast-growing e-commerce industry. Still, Chairman Jack Ma is looking beyond his base, betting that Chinese abroad will help him reach a wider array of customers in Asia, Europe and the home turf of Amazon.com and eBay.
“If Alibaba’s strategy is to follow the Chinese diaspora, it’s a smart strategy because you don’t have to build a brand from scratch,” said Niraj Dawar, a professor of marketing at the Ivey Business School in Canada. “To be a global player they eventually have to serve markets that are non-Chinese.”
To reach those new markets, Alibaba, which gets more than 85 percent of its sales from China, is making acquisitions and developing its own platforms. AliExpress, the company’s market for customers outside of China, was founded in April 2010 and is available in English, Russian and Portuguese.
In the U.S., Alibaba has acquired stakes in Fanatics, a Web retailer of officially licensed sports merchandise, as well as ShopRunner, a membership-based shopping platform for brands like Calvin Klein, Tommy Hilfiger and Neiman Marcus.
To complement its word-of-mouth reach and tap into overseas Chinese, Alibaba uses advertising on taxis and big screen displays in Hong Kong to magazines in Taiwan and buses in Singapore.
Cui Lichuan, a 30-year-old who works for a financial firm in Tokyo, first discovered Taobao through Chinese friends. Cheaper prices and a broader selection of products, including hard-to-find items such as mung bean powder for cooking, have won over Cui, who has lived in Japan for a decade.
“Clothes are cheaper, especially for real silk and wool clothes,” said Cui, who also cites Alibaba’s ability to deliver within days as an attraction.
There are nearly 50 million people of Chinese descent living outside the country, larger than the population of Argentina, and more than 1 billion people who speak Mandarin.
“Alibaba seems to have strong connections with the immigrant population,” said David Lee, executive director of the Chinese American Voters Education Committee in San Francisco. “It makes sense to go after this market.”
Targeting this group is a strategy others are already using. Xiaomi, which toppled Samsung Electronics last quarter to lead smartphone sales in China, is targeting overseas Chinese to lead its global expansion as it starts sales in Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand and India.
Hangzhou, China-based Alibaba said that part of its international strategy is focused on helping Chinese manufacturers and merchants to reach businesses and consumers across the world, according to its filing.
Florence Shih, a spokeswoman for Alibaba, declined to comment on the company’s international plans citing restrictions ahead of its IPO.
Alibaba is seeking a valuation of as much as $162.7 billion, larger than 95 percent of the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index, based on its IPO filing. The company could raise as much as $21.1 billion, which would exceed Visa’s $19.7 billion IPO in 2008 as the biggest U.S. offering.
Founded in Ma’s Hangzhou apartment, Alibaba has ridden China’s economic liberalization to be the nation’s biggest e-commerce operator. It doesn’t sell merchandise itself, instead operating platforms including Taobao and Tmall to connect retail brands with consumers and getting most of its revenue from commissions and advertising.
Through its reach in China, where the company accounts for more than half the nation’s package deliveries, Alibaba can meet demand for products that can’t be bought elsewhere and provide direct access to manufacturers for lower costs.
That’s what attracts Mu Peng, a Chinese expatriate in Tokyo who turns to Taobao because savings on products such as iPad cases compared with local retail outlets far outweigh the cost of shipping from China.
“Other things I buy are Chinese cultural items that I can’t buy in Japan. I bought Xiaomi’s set top box for TV. I wanted to see Chinese language shows from overseas,” said Mu.
Moving beyond the diaspora may be helped by Alibaba’s efforts to improve service with a customer review system and technology that lets buyers and sellers chat online with each other.
“A consumer in Iowa is wary of buying products from some smaller mom and pop store in Wuhan, so how do you connect those two directly,” said Dawar. “The question is can Alibaba fill that gap, sort of the way EBay has done, through a reputation score system and monitoring of suppliers.”
There are more than 4 million overseas Chinese in the U.S., about 8 million in Indonesia, 7.5 million in Thailand and almost half a million each in France and the U.K. at the end of 2012, according to data from Taiwan’s Overseas Community Affairs Council. There are 1.2 billion Chinese speakers across 33 countries, according to research project Ethnologue.
As consumers become more comfortable buying from overseas websites, transactions are forecast to surge. Last year, eBay’s PayPal unit published a study that predicted cross-border shopping will nearly triple to $307 billion by 2018.
Alibaba’s success so far in Russia shows how tailoring its platform to new users is winning customers through lower prices for items made in China as it uses advertising on platforms like Yandex NV to support word-of-mouth recommendations.
AliExpress more than tripled its monthly users in Russia to 15.9 million over the past year, beating local rival Ozon.ru’s 8.5 million users and EBay’s 8.2 million visitors, according to researcher TNS. AliExpress also broke into Russia’s top 10 of most visited websites in July, TNS said.
The Chinese marketplace’s transactions in Russia may reach up to $1 billion this year from estimated $400 million to $500 million last year, Data Insight said.
Sales from outside China are an unexploited opportunity for Alibaba, said Zia Daniell Wigder, a research director at Forrester Research that studies the e-commerce market.
“The cross-border e-commerce market is growing but many retailers have not tapped in to it yet,” she said. Alibaba “is not alone in looking to bringing in customers from around the world.”
Taking on Amazon is no easy task. Amazon has also set a road map to expand internationally to help U.S. retailers and Europe and Middle East suppliers sell outside of their home countries through its third-party marketplace.
For customers such as Si Shen, co-founder of application developer and marketing platform PapayaMobile which has offices in Beijing, San Francisco and London, Alibaba still has some way to go to win over customers in the U.S. If it can, Alibaba can look forward to getting more sales.
“When I am in China I definitely use Alibaba’s Taobao to buy all kinds of things,” said Si. “When I am in the U.S., I tend to use Amazon or the commerce site of the product itself. I might start to use Alibaba’s service in the U.S. in the future if its service and product coverage improve.” | <urn:uuid:41b335ed-4d8b-48c4-bec4-80ea6a2effb1> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 7,724 |
Good points. Animframe must be an error. Likely I remembered incorrectly the key name and typed animframe instead of endframe at first, and then forgot to delete the wrong key. Sorry about that.
Wait is indeed to make sure the script isn't launched multiple times. And the entity description says wait is only valid with the always_on, so that's why it's checked. Might be redundant with the endframe, but who knows. Just like Jesterspaz, I'm not overly concerned, anymore, about pure ways but working ways.
Edit: There might be other ways than the wait to control multiple firings. One way could be a key to target an entity instead of the usescript key. Like usetarget, or something. Then that corresponding entity could set the wait. However, that wouldn't solve the issue with the animmap. Well, this was an elegant way, and seemed to work. Did you have some concerns regarding it?
Frozen by ICARUS | <urn:uuid:ba6b99d0-3365-4a48-bda8-597a0c4d0b8d> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 902 |
The Name Game
Before stepping into the rap game, many artists struggled with carving out a niche and identity. It took a while for many of them to fully assemble their career before etching out a name and identity they were proud of. In many cases, some rappers in the middle of the careers, felt the need to change their names because they were in a different standing mentally in life. Take a look and see which rappers changed their names at one point in their careers.
From Puff Daddy to P.Diddy to Diddy, the Bad Boy executive is probably one of the few entertainers to have multiple recognizable stage names.
Before 2 Chainz became a huge staple on guest appearances, he was once known as Tity Boy. During his Playa Circle days, 2 Chainz ran with that moniker until he became a solo entity.
We’re sure Birdman quashed his old stage name of “Baby” simply because he got tired of grown men referring to him as such. We would be too. | <urn:uuid:f320fb0d-c0d7-4b9c-af59-92b0ac0ffaa6> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 936 |
Shimla: For universities to become a hub of research, Pranab Mukherjee, the union finance minister asked them to effect reforms in the structures of their governance that presently fail to preserve autonomy and do not promote accountability.
Speaking at the 17th convocation address of Himachal Pradesh University here today, Mukherjee said, “the size and composition of various university bodies, such as university courts, academic councils and executive councils, slowed down decision making processes and sometime constitute an impediment to change.â€
The minister said that he was in favour of establishing smaller universities that are responsive to change and easier to manage. “It is only thus that universities would become a hub of research to capture synergies between teaching and research that mutually benefit each other,’ he said.
To create skills commensurate with requirements of industry, the central government has initiated a National Skill Development Mission, he said, adding that based on the National Knowledge Commission report high priority has been placed on education for achieving rapid and inclusive growth.
Proposed allocation of Rs 3 trillion in the 11th plan, a fourfold increase over the 10th plan, showed the government’s commitment towards achieving the targets, said Mukherjee. Share of education in the total plan would increase from 7.7 percent to 20 percent representing a credible progress towards the target of 6 percent of GDP, he added.
Calling upon young scholars to steer the country’s future course, the minister said that India was well on its way to become a economic power to reckon with and country needed young people to take charge of affairs.
He said that with 65 percent the current population below 30 years of age, this large mass was both an asset and a threat. The daunting task before governments and educationists was to turn this population into an asset through the instrumentality of education, he said.
On corruption, he said, to build a strong and prosperous nation, there was need to fight corruption in all walks of life, especially so, in public life.
Earlier Governor Prabha Rau presided over the convocation where PhD scholars were awarded their degrees. Toppers of post graduate and undergraduate courses were awarded gold medal by the union minister and ID Dhiman , the state education minister.
As many as 415 degree’s, medals and prizes were conferred and decorated, which included one D.Lit, 187 Ph.D.’s and 227 Medals and Prizes, during the convocation. Girl students beat their male counterparts in both the degrees and medals awarded.
Vice-chancellor Sunil Kumar Gupta in his concluding speech said that convocation would be held annually and all the previous years backlog of awarding the degrees stood cleared.
Incidentally this is the second time that Pranab Mukherjee has been the chief guest at a HPU convocation. It was in 1982 that the minister was chief guest at the convocation, revealed vice-chancellor Gupta.
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by Ivan Jordan and Frank Tucker
Visual art can be very useful in supporting oral communication. This is particularly the case when communicating with people who are predominantly oral-aural communicators.
VISUAL ART IN COMMUNICATING THE GOSPEL
Visual art can be very useful in supporting oral communication. This is particularly the case when communicating with people who are predominantly oral-aural communicators. Visual art can be very useful in supporting oral communication. This is particularly the case when communicating with people who are predominantly oral-aural communicators. According to Barbara Sayers, the Warlpiri, Aboriginal people of Central Australia, living in the Western Desert region are predominantly "left-brain" (the side of the brain believed to be used in the appreciation of art), concrete oral-aural people who express themselves through song, art and drama. Communicating the gospel to such people in culturally relevant ways has been a challenge to Western missionaries who have been largely influenced by a literate culture that has mostly abandoned the preliterate means of communication, and have been encouraged by formal education to be right-brain dominant. When Ivan began work among these people he used simple line drawings like the one in figure one.
Such drawings are Western in style, and it is not axiomatic that non-Western people, especially people who are nonliterate, will recognize the objects as referring to another reality. Foreign illustrations may need to be "translated" before the meanings intended can be understood. However, this issue is unimportant when indigenous art forms are used because adult viewers will have developed the necessary competencies to understand their cultural forms. In this case, it is the least complicated and most appropriate to use Warlpiri symbols for communicating with Warlpiri people.
The Warlpiri people share with other Western Desert people the most abstract of Aboriginal art-the patterns of tracks, concentric circles and lines. The drawings, whether they have something to do with ancestors or current events, have the same basic structures which are adapted to each particular situation.
This art was not used primarily for aesthetic purposes but rather for religious purposes-to release the creative powers of the primal spirit beings in the present and to communicate this with other people. The symbols may be drawn in the sand, on the body or, in the case of men, drawn on stones or wooden artifacts.
Warlpiri graphic symbols are iconic in nature. Iconographic symbols are images representing and bearing a likeness to the object to which they refer. Warlpiri symbols are mostly patterns or imprints left in the sand by people and animals indicating the close link the people have with the land. While the tracks are drawings of animal tracks they are used as representations of the animal that made the tracks (Munn 1973,127). The perspective is from above, not from the side (see figure two).
These symbolic illustrations represent movement, that is, the symbols are not arranged as snapshots in a sequence, but sequences may be diagrammatically represented spatially in one scene.
The use of iconographic symbols is ever present in Warlpiri story telling whether it is the recounting of daily events and dreams, or the stories of a clan’s dreaming totemic ancestors (Munn 1973, xix). They form part of the visual, non-verbal communication process that, with the verbal story telling, contribute to the meaning. The particular meaning of the pattern of symbols must be derived from the narrative context of their use (Berndt, Berndt and Stanton 1982, 40). Some symbols are secret and only the initiated men are privy to them, but most symbols are public domain.
THE DEVELOPMENT OF WARLPIRI ICONOGRAPHY TO COMMUNICATE THE CHRISTIAN STORY
A competent linguist and student of Aboriginal culture, Wilf Douglas, who worked with the United Aborigines Mission (now Australian Indigenous Ministries) in western Australia, explored the possibility of using indigenous art forms to communicate the gospel to Ngaanyatjarra people in the Western Desert region. In 1975 a copy of Wilf’s paper on this subject was handed to Ivan Jordan who grasped the potential of this use for the Warlpiri people, yet also saw some limitations. Some of the drawings used, such as the star of David, were foreign to the Aboriginal people. Also the particular medium used, the sacred stick, could only be seen by the initiated men. Nevertheless, Wilf’s paper was a catalyst for significant developments in the use of indigenous Warlpiri art in communicating the Christian message.
The very imaginative and original thinking behind these drawings suggested that if the Christian message could be presented in symbolic form on a small board, about the same shape as some of the tjuringas (sacred objects belonging to the important Aboriginal ceremonies) a very direct and understandable presentation of Christianity could be made to the tribal elders. (Jordan 2001)
Ivan consulted with Jerry Jangala and other Warlpiri elders concerning their use. They affirmed the possibilities but added that they would use their own symbols, rather than the symbols of the neighbors and counseled that certain sacred men’s symbols should not be used. This marked the development of an innovative, indigenous graphic art form to communicate the Christian story by the Warlpiri people in collaboration with Australian Baptist Missionary Society missionaries.
Over a period of time the symbols used were modified to suit the message. This development is documented in the manuscript "Their Way: Indigenous Expressions of Faith Amongst the Warlpiri Aborigines" by Ivan Jordan. Some of the commonly used symbols can be seen in figure three.
The use of these symbols was eagerly embraced and has been used regularly in worship and training programs since 1975.
Soon drawings were being done in meetings using the chalkboard. Today both OHP transparencies and the chalkboard are still used. This approach has become standard with the teaching in … each Sunday service… (Jordan 2001)
Warlpiri art, combined with song and dance, was used for traditional religious purposes. Now Christians are using indigenous art, song and dance to communicate the Christian message in ways that are familiar to, and resonate with, the Warlpiri people.
The graphic symbols proved to be very useful in illustrating Bible stories such as the life of Christ (see figure four on page 306).
But their use is not confined to stories, they are also used to depict abstract theological concepts such as the concept of two groups of people (see figure five on page 307). Such abstract concepts are difficult to conceptualize for people who are predominantly concrete thinkers such as the Warlpiri.
After some years of observing these developments it can be said that the genius of the Warlpiri symbols is that when the Warlpiri people see them, there is an immediate sense of identity as they relate to the message portrayed in graphic form. However, the use of such indigenous means of communication raises several questions. Does the use of indigenous art, which has been closely associated with traditional Aboriginal religion, inevitably lead to syncretism? How has the use of such graphic art influenced Aboriginal Christian spirituality? Has its use enabled the Warlpiri people to develop an indigenous Christianity?
THE IMPACT OF USING CHRISTIAN WARLPIRI ART ON ABORIGINAL SPIRUTALITY
It may be argued that the adaptation of traditional art for Christian purposes introduces an external change dynamic detrimental to the maintenance of Aboriginal culture. If this is so, the change is minimal compared to the popularization of traditional art by the use of acrylic and canvas for commercial purposes widespread throughout the central desert communities. It is encouraging to note the observation made by an independent observer, Tony Swain, an anthropologist, that the style of graphic symbols used by Warlpiri Christians was virtually indistinguishable from the symbols traditionally used for telling the dreaming stories (1988, 452).
It may also be argued that the use of indigenous religious symbolism may lead to syncretism. This could not be denied anymore than not using indigenous forms of expression to communicate the gospel will inevitably lead to Westernizing syncretism. The accusation of syncretism is often a pejorative applied by the critics who are blind to their own syncretism. It is important to note the traditional religious symbols are not used but the traditional medium and style is used, and the icons adapted for Christian use.
In the case of the Warlpiri, Tony Swain also noted that some men considered that Abraham, Moses and Jesus were contemporaries leading him to postulate that, for Warlpiri, time is understood spatially (1998, 454). The depicting of historical sequence spacially in drawings reinforces this understanding. These people traditionally do not have a developed concept of linear time. To them (to use our meanings) past is present. The past is ever present in ritual enactment and the telling of the dreaming stories. So people who have lived in a different era, from a Western perspective, live in a different location, from a Warlpiri perspective. While the people may need assistance to fully understand the revelation of God in history, this does not mean that they hold unorthodox views on the key doctrines of the Scriptures. Swain, while looking for examples of syncretism from the adaptation of indigenous religious symbols for the Christian story, found that the Warlpiri were thoroughly orthodox concerning the key tenets of Christianity (1988, 452-4). This observation is confirmed by the missionaries working with these people.
The Warlpiri experience of time makes some distinctive contributions to Christian spirituality. The anthropologist T.G.H. Strehlow observes:
"In my own view, the great and specifically Australian contribution to religious thought has been the unquestioning conviction that there is no division between Time and Eternity." (1970, 132)
When Aboriginal people draw, sing and dance the story of Jesus and celebrate the Lord’s Supper they do not think of him as being in the past. To them he is jukurrpa, he is present.
"Maybe we won’t do that purlapa anymore," said an old man after the conclusion of the crucifixion drama of the Easter corroboree (indigenous dance). Why? Because "killing God" made him sad (Swain 1988, 458). While this comment raises some questions, it shows that participants in the Christian message are not detached observers. With this approach to spirituality it may be a lot easier for Warlpiri people to understand some of Paul’s deep teaching about being "in Christ" and being crucified and risen with Christ than it is for us non-Aboriginals.
While it is impossible to isolate the spiritual impact of the use of iconography from other media used, such as the corroboree, singing and the development of indigenous leadership patterns, such developments have contributed significantly to the development of a sense of ownership of the gospel and a distinctive Aboriginal Christian spirituality based on oral methods of communication.
This development has been a significant step towards freeing the Warlpiri church to develop their own style of ministry and worship. Consequently, to quote John Harris, "… a vibrant distinctively Aboriginal Christian church is emerging" (1990, 863).
Bendt, Ronald M., Catherine H. Berndt and John E. Stanton. 1982. Australian Art: A Visual Perspective. Australia: Methuen.
Harris, John. 1990. One Blood. Sutherland. NSW: Albatross.
Jordan, Ivan. 2001. "Their Way. Indigenous Expressions of Faith Amongst the Walpiri Aborigines." Manuscript to be published.
Jensen, Richard. 1993. Thinking in Story: Preaching in a Post-Literate Age. Lima, Ohio: C.S.S. Publishers.
Munn, Nancy. 1973. Walpiri Iconography: Graphic Representation and Cultural Symbols in a Central Australian Society. London: Cornell University Press.
Sayers, Barbara. 1998. A Fair Go: Aboriginal Living and Learning in the Dominant Australian Culture. Australia: SIL.
Strehlow, T.G.H. 1970. "Geography and Totemic Landscape in Central Australia: A Functional Study." In Australian Aboriginal Anthropology: Modern Studies in the Social Anthropology of Australian Aborigines. Edited by R.M. Berndt, Perth, Australia: University of Western Australia Press.
Swain, Tony. 1988. "The Ghosts of Space." In Aboriginal Australians and Christian Missions, edited by Tony Swain and Deborah Bird Rose. Bedford Park, Australia: Assoc. for the Study of Religions.
Ivan Jordan has worked with the Australian Baptist Missinary Society amongst the Warlpiri in Central Australia for nearly 30 years. He is now the missions’ area leader for Aboriginal Ministries, and author of Their Way: Indigenous Christianity Amongst the Warlpiri People.
Frank Tucker was a missionary in Irian Jaya (now Papua), Indonesia, teaching at the Irian Jaya Theologial and Vocational School. He is now a Baptist pastor and senior lecturer in Intercultural Studies at Tabor College, South Australia.
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- When and Who invented the Difference Engine and the Analytical Engine?
In 1822, Charles Babbage noticed how many errors there were in calculations of star and planet positions. This meant trouble for sailors who navigated by the stars. Babbage got to work on a machine that would do the calculations correctly.
His 1822 invention was called the Difference Engine. Then in 1837, he invented the Analytical Engine, which could perform more mathematics tasks. Babbage made detailed plans for machines that could do tedious calculations perfectly.
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Cashify unveiled their fourth annual “User Behaviour study” for the pre-owned phone market. The study captures behaviour and preferences of users in the segment, and focuses on variables that affect the buying and selling decision of users. It further sheds light on differences in user behaviour across brands such as Apple, Mi and Samsung.
Cashify analysed the buying and selling data of over 1 Million users on its platform in the year 2019-20. Besides the leading pre-owned smartphone brands in India, the study also revealed key trends and drivers in the growth of the pre-owned smartphone market during the year.
The study revealed that Mi is the top selling brand in the pre-owned market with a 27% share, Apple (16%) and Samsung (16%) leading the second position, followed by Motorola (12%). Among cities, Delhi (18%), Bangalore (13%), and Mumbai (12%) comprise the top 3 for sales of pre-owned smartphones. In a surprise entry, Gurugram (6%) is in the top 5, ahead of metro cities such as Kolkata & Chennai. Satellite towns Faridabad and Ghaziabad have shown the fastest growth, taking top spots in the upcoming city category.
Cashify – as a part of this year’s study – revealed the Truth Index for cities, measured by percentage of smartphone users who stated the actual condition of their devices most truthfully, while putting them up for sale online. Bangalore topped the index with a score of 36%, followed by Chennai at 28%. Delhi was the least truthful with a score of 23%.
Among other insights unveiled by the study, a majority of Indians listed their smartphones for sale between 12 Noon and 1 PM in the day. Delhiites seemed to be breaking their smartphone screens the most, with 33% among all Indian metro cities. Bengaluru came in second with 21%, followed by Gurugram with 19%.
Despite the generally slowing economy even before covid, the 2019 Q2 smartphone shipment in India was estimated around 36.9 million units, a 9.9% year-over-year growth & 14.8% quarter-over-quarter growth. (CANALYS says the smartphone market grew 14% in Q4 2019, with total shipments at 39.0 million units. For the full year, India grew by 8%, reaching a total of 148 million smartphones) Among the major reasons for upgrading for most smartphone users are high speed network connectivity (3G to 4G), support for gaming, mobile camera specs, and so on. Nearly a fifth (19%) of the users upgrade their devices within the first year, and 44% within 1-2 years. The life span of mobile device ownership is continuously shortening.
Commenting on the survey, Nakul Kumar, COO & Co-Founder, Cashify, said, “Numerous launches, more brand options, new price points and the overall aspirational value of an upgrade, are some of the factors that led the second-hand smartphone industry to widen its turf during 2019-20. Be it selling or buying, a majority of Indian smartphone users have come to trust platforms and services such as ours to derive maximum value out of their pre-owned smartphones. The Recommerce industry has seen a definite surge in 2019-20, as more people are opening themselves up to selling and buying used devices.”
What users like across brands?
- iPhones are most favoured by females as they have 29 percent women users, higher than other major brands
- Samsung smartphones are mostly used by consumers within the age bracket of 25-34 years, as 63 percent users fall in this age group. The brand has seen 72 percent male users and 28 percent female users in the past year
- Occupying the largest chunk of market in the INR 30,000+ segment, OnePlus clocked up a whopping 35% market share by the end of Q3 2019. The top user base of OnePlus is based out of Bengaluru, as 15% users are from the city. Mumbai comes next with 12% and New Delhi is the third with 11%. Male users form 74% of users, and 65% are within the age group of 25-34 years.
- Xiaomi has the highest user base in New Delhi, as 12% of Xiaomi smartphone consumption comes from the capital. Bengaluru and Mumbai follow suit with 11% and 8% respectively. Females comprise 28% of users in India, and 62% fall in the age bracket of 25-34 years.
COVID 19 has pushed users to buy more second hand gadgets
According to the study during Covid-19, 36% of the respondents invested in refurbished gadgets due to the need for remote working, followed by requirement by family members. The survey suggested that price/affordability was the key criterion for buying refurbished smartphones during Covid 19, indicating that the consumer has become cautious due to unprecedented times.
- Delhi (18%), Bangalore (13%), Mumbai (12%) are leading the sales/need for pre-owned smartphones
- Delhiites seemed to be breaking their smartphone screens the most, closely followed by Bengaluru and then Gurugram.
- Satellite towns of Delhi lead the pack in the upcoming city with Faridabad and Ghaziabad taking the lead
- Bangalore was the most truthful followed by Chennai and Delhi was the least truthful
- Delhiites seemed to be breaking their smartphone screens the most, with 33% among all Indian metro cities followed by Bengaluru, which came in second with 21%, followed by Gurugram with 19%
- A majority of Indians have sold their smartphones between 12 and 1 PM in 2019 and maximum users sold their phones on weekends
- Post COVID 19, 32% of the respondents invested in refurbished gadgets due to the remote working followed by 26% invested in refurbished gadgets for their family members due to shift in work, digital learning and entertainment
- E- learning as well as work from home solutions has become an essential commodity and influencing refurbished buying
- Mid- range (10k- 20k) dominated the purchase during Covid and will be so in coming months due to impact in disposable income
- Impacted by COVID 19, price and affordability played a key role during in the lockdown phase
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The English poetic "set forms" are all imports, if you discount count Anglo-Saxon alliterative metre, which hardly constitutes a form, and, I suppose, the Clerihew - fun, but hardly a likely vehicle of profound expressiveness.
Perhaps it's not surprising that the few still-thriving forms (pre-eminently, of course, the sonnet) originate from Southern Europe and that the complex inventions of our nearest neighbours in Wales and Ireland never wholly made the transition - with the exception of the limerick, perhaps (though whether this jolly little tumbrel actually originated in Limerick is far from certain). Latin, the mother of the romance languages, is after all in our linguistic bloodstream.
The ghazal is a relatively new and farther travelled arrival, but for form-o-philes it is a wonderfully welcome one. Though its roots lie in 12th-century Persia, variants are found in many Middle Eastern and Asian cultures. Ghazals, in Urdu, are usually sung, in both populist and classical styles. Goethe made the form fashionable in 19th-century Germany. The word (which rhymes, roughly, with muzzle, its "gh" pronounced similarly to the "ch" in "chutzpah") is said to translate as "talking with women." This is where, we might suppose, the chutzpah of the ghazal begins, because the poems were traditionally love-poems addressed by men to younger males. The name itself is a smoke-screen. However, ghazals express divine as well as illicit love, and are closely linked with Sufism.
The strict ghazal is composed of five or more regular couplets. The couplet is called a sher, and must be self-contained. The second line of each ends with a refrain of one or a few words, known as the radif. This is preceded by the rhyme, the qaafiya. In the first couplet both lines end in the rhyme and refrain, so the rhyme scheme is AA BA CA, etc. The last sher contains the poet's signature, his name or a variant thereof.
I first discovered the ghazal in Adrienne Rich's Ghazals: Homage to Ghalib, and The Blue Ghazals. Hers are not strict ghazals, but they use the notion of the "closed couplet" to create a kaleidoscopic effect of "fragments, glimmers, exclamations." The form has been explored by many other American poets. But the writer who has done most to popularise and westernise the tradition was surely the Kashmiri-American writer, Agha Shahid Ali. His ghazals conform rigorously to the tradition, and are at the same time subtle and evocative love-poems, see, for example, the title poem of Call me Ishmael Tonight (Norton, 2203). Before his death in 2001 he produced an anthology of American ghazals, Ravishing Disunities: Real Ghazals in English (Wesleyan University Press, 2000). His work is continued by such scholarly enthusiasts as Gene Doty (nom de web Gino Peregrini) who runs a lively e-zine and blog devoted to the form, to be found at The Ghazal Page.
In England, our leading exponent of the ghazal is Mimi Khalvati. Khalvati was born in Tehran, went to school in the Isle of Wight, and currently lives in London. She has published several fine collections of poetry, including Mirrorwork and The Chine, and writes in many other forms apart from the ghazal. She is one of that rather special band of poets whose first language is not English but who bring to the adopted tongue a particular feeling for its structure and nuance. Khalvati is a particularly fluent sonnet-writer, but her free verse, too, is effective. English and Persian traditions mix fascinatingly in her work.
Her ghazals are distinguished by a particularly light touch. Polysyllabic rhyme is wickedly difficult in English: it can seem destined for humour only, but even then it can sound clunky. Khalvati's ghazals have wit and grace.
I've chosen two from a section of ghazals in her latest collection, The Meanest Flower. One is an "imitation" (i.e. a very free translation) and the other an original poem. I like the emotional honesty of both these pieces. The poet seems to be completely at ease as she writes. Note the intimate tone of her address to her great forebear, the poet Hafez, and how unselfconsciously she introduces a word that would have puzzled him, a word that conjures her love of the natural scenery of the Isle of Wight, "chine". "After Hafez", she writes, "attempts an imitation of one of Hafez's most famous Ghazals, borrowing his radif and staying close to his conceits, but straying from the original metaphors." The second poem is her own, and, again, I love the wit, frankness and warmth, as well as the way the signatory stanza brings in a reference to La Boheme. It is easy to become self-centred in the ghazal's last sher - the form invites it. Khalvati gracefully deflects the invitation.
How ever large earth's garden, mine's enough. One rose and the shade of a vine's enough.
I don't want more wealth, I don't need more dross. The grape has its bloom and it shines enough.
Why ask for the moon? The moon's in your cup, a beggar, a tramp, for whom wine's enough.
Look at the stream as it winds out of sight. One glance, one glimpse of a chine's enough.
Like the sun in bazaars, streaming in shafts, any slant on the grand design's enough.
When you're here, my love, what more could I want? Just mentioning love in a line's enough.
Heaven can wait. To have found, heaven knows, a bed and a roof's divine enough.
I've no grounds for complaint. As Hafez says, isn't a ghazal that he signs enough?
Ghazal: To Hold Me
I want to be held. I want someone near to hold me when the axe falls, time is called, strangers appear to hold me.
I want all that has been denied me. And more. Much more than God in some lonely stratosphere to hold me.
I want hand and eye, sweet roving things, and land for grazing, praising, and the last pioneer to hold me.
I want my ship to come in, crossing the bar, before my back's so bowed even children fear to hold me.
I want to die being held, hearing my name thrown, thrown like a rope from a very old pier to hold me.
I want to catch the last echoes, reel them in Like a curing-song in the creel of my ear to hold me.
I want Rodolfo to sing, flooding the gods, Ah, Mimi! as if I were her, and he, here, to hold me.
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LIVERPOOL, England -- So much for Liverpool's "nightmare" start to the season. Three games in and the reigning champions have aced it so far by beating last season's Championship winners (Leeds United), Europe's biggest summer spenders (Chelsea) and a resurgent Arsenal side -- 3-1 on Monday at Anfield -- that only last month overcame Jurgen Klopp's team at Wembley to win the Community Shield.
Thanks to the early stumbles of others this season, it already looks as though the only team capable of stopping Liverpool winning another title this season will be Liverpool themselves.
While all of their likeliest challengers have already slipped up and dropped points -- Manchester City, Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur all have a Premier League defeat in their column less than month into the campaign -- Liverpool have bagged maximum points from their three games so far and are sitting in second position right now only because Leicester have a better goal difference after also winning their first three fixtures. And best not forget Everton, who have also won three of three since the start of the season.
Leicester supporters will point to their remarkable 2015-16 title triumph if anyone discounts their early hopes of another table-topping season. Meanwhile, Evertonians will believe that the clock is being turned back to the 1980s, when they twice dethroned neighbours Liverpool to become champions themselves, after seeing Carlo Ancelotti guide their team to a flawless start so far.
But while Everton and Liverpool could both contest this season's first Merseyside derby next month with 100% records if they win again at the weekend, nobody should be fooled into thinking that Everton or Leicester will push Liverpool all the way this campaign. The harsh truth for all of the teams harbouring title ambitions this season, realistic or otherwise, is that Liverpool still look a class apart from the rest.
City's problems were exposed by Leicester in Sunday's 5-2 defeat -- Pep Guardiola will hope that new signing Ruben Dias will fill the gaping hole in defence created by Vincent Kompany's departure more than 12 months ago -- while United continue to resemble a car going round in circles under Ole Gunnar Solskjaer. Chelsea are a work in progress under Frank Lampard -- a young manager with an inexperienced but exciting team -- while Arsenal are still at the beginning of their rebuilding programme under Mikel Arteta. Tottenham, meanwhile, have been in decline since before Jose Mourinho replaced Mauricio Pochettino last November, and nobody has ever really considered Spurs serious title challengers, anyway, so they will not be taking the Premier League trophy from Anfield anytime soon.
As for Leicester and Everton's prospects, time will tell, but even now, less than a month into the 2020-21 season, it is difficult to see who can realistically beat Liverpool to the title.
Arsenal arrived at Anfield with a 100% record and confidence high after winning the FA Cup and Community Shield. Arteta's team even had the audacity to score first when Alexandre Lacazette capitalised on a mistake by Andrew Robertson on 26 minutes to make it 1-0.
Within two minutes, though, Sadio Mane had equalised for Liverpool. Six minutes later, Robertson made amends for his earlier mistake by making it 2-1 with a cool finish from Trent Alexander-Arnold's cross.
Liverpool's response exemplified why they are the best in England by some distance right now.
Despite all of their recent success, no team works harder out of possession than Liverpool, and they chased Arsenal down, pressed high and switched gears after falling behind. When winners get used to success, they sometimes allow complacency to blunt their edge, but that has not afflicted Liverpool yet.
The only hope for the rest is that, at some point this season, they allow their dominance to diminish their intensity and give their rivals a chance to capitalise. Perhaps their defending offers a glimmer of hope, too, with Lacazette scoring from a mistake and then twice wasting clear chances after beating the offside trap in the second half before being denied by goalkeeper Alisson Becker.
It was those lapses of concentration that prompted former Manchester United captain Roy Keane, working as a television pundit, to describe Liverpool as "sloppy." Keane had a point, but Klopp was not happy with his description of Liverpool's performance.
"Did I hear right? Mr. Keane said we had a sloppy performance, did he say that?" Klopp said. "Did he say that it was sloppy? I want to hear it, that is an incredible description of this game."
In the 4-3 opening-day win against Leeds and here against Arsenal, Liverpool's back four was unconvincing, but on each occasion, Klopp's forwards delivered to ensure victory, as they have done many times before. Liverpool's defending will improve, so that does not bode well for the rest, and their attacking machine has been boosted by the signing of Wolves forward Diogo Jota, who marked his Anfield debut with a classy goal on 87 minutes to make it 3-1.
That this victory was achieved without Thiago, who will be out until after the international break with an unspecified fitness issue, so Liverpool's strength is looking ominous -- unless complacency and poor defending trip them up. But with Klopp in charge, it is hard to envisage either being an issue for too long. | <urn:uuid:f45bbb33-986d-4d9d-b240-5326a344a379> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 5,387 |
With unemployment at record levels and confidence waning among consumers and employers, a good old-fashioned public display of patriotism and national pride might be just what the French people need this summer.
But this year, not even the traditional annual Bastille Day military parade is to survive the knife of austerity, it would seem.
According to French daily Le Figaro, the government plans to cut 10 to 15 percent, or €400,000 to €600,000 from the cost of the lavish July 14th military ceremony on the Champs Elysées in Paris.
Here's a summary of how the financial squeeze has put the brakes on the annual parade, according to Le Figaro.
This year, only 265 of the most modern, frontline vehicles such as jeeps and tanks will be kept. Ambulances and other vehicles, amounting to a third of last year’s convoy, have been scrapped.
One of the highlights of the annual ceremony – the aerial flypast – will include 58 airplanes and 35 helicopters – 12 percent fewer than usual this year. The move is expected to save €90,000-worth of fuel.
The one-third cut in the number of vehicles on display should also amount to savings of €100,000 in the cost of fuel.
Less space for crowds
The government plans to save €60,000 this July 14th by cutting out two stands for officially-invited guests.
With just as many due to be invited as last year, however, attendees might just have to squeeze in, or stand.
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Publication Type: Review Article
Publication Acceptance Date: January 23, 2010
Publication Date: April 15, 2010
Citation: Chang, P-K., Ehrlich, K. 2010. What Does Genetic Diversity of Aspergillus flavus Tell Us About Aspergillus oryzae? International Journal of Food Microbiology. 138(3):189-199. Technical Abstract: Aspergillus flavus and Aspergillus oryzae belong to Aspergillus section Flavi. They are closely related and are of significant economic importance. The former species has the ability to produce harmful aflatoxins while the latter is widely used in food fermentation and industrial enzyme production. This review summarizes the current understanding of the similarity of the A. flavus and A. oryzae genomes, the genetic diversity in A. flavus and A. oryzae populations, the causes of this diversity, and the relatedness of nonaflatoxigenic A. flavus strains to A. oryzae. | <urn:uuid:15bc67fe-29d0-489e-9819-1636152a217a> | HuggingFaceTB/smollm-corpus/tree/main/fineweb-edu-dedup | smollm-corpus | eng_Latn | 944 |
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Ironton Second Saturday this weekend
Published 7:49 am Thursday, May 10, 2018
Citywide yard sale, activities planned
This weekend, Ironton will have a citywide yard sale and other activities as part of its first ever Second Saturday.
The goal is to show people from around the region what businesses the city has while they browse for good deals along Third Street and at the farmers market.
“The goal is to show off what Ironton has to offer,” said Casey Compston, a trustee with the Ironton Business Community. The event runs from 9 a.m.-4 p.m.
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For the residents of Ironton, they can set up tables in the downtown area to sell their wares without having to pay a fee.
“The city has been awesome with this, with waiving the yard sales fees for this weekend,” Compston said. “And the city also waived the ordinance about putting things on the sidewalk.”
Compston said the original plan was to open up the lot next to the Ironton Farmers Market for the yard sale.
“We wanted to push to make sure the yard sale was down Third Street so people could, while they are looking for all the treasures you find at a yard sale, see what our businesses have to offer,” he said.
Compston said numerous groups, are putting on Second Saturday, including the Ironton Business Community, Ironton aLive, Ironton In Bloom, and the City of Ironton.
“Everybody has been involved to try and bring this together to try and make sure everyone knows that Ironton is open for business and try to bring people to downtown,” he said, adding that part of it was to get all the businesses to be open at the same time. “Everybody has agreed to have their businesses open at the same hours. They are going to have their sidewalk sales to promote their individual businesses and have incentives to bring people in and to show everybody there is a lot going on down here.”
The farmers market will open on Saturday and besides the offering of produce, flowers and home made goods, the parking lot and on Bobby Bare Boulevard will be open for yard sales.
Sam Heighton, executive director of Ironton aLive, said people who want to set up in the lot need to set up between 7-8:30 a.m.
If there is enough demand for space at Market Square, they will set sellers up on the sidewalk on Vernon toward Third Street and possibly some sellers on Third Street.
People will need to sign an agreement requiring them to remain with their items and that they will remove all unsold items by 4 p.m. when the event ends.
Ironton In Bloom will sell plants at the Splash Park parking lot as part of its annual fundraiser. And they will be giving out chips and salsa donated by Toro Loco.
And for the kids, there will be activities at the Rotary Fountain on Center Street.
Consigned Books will have a sidewalk book signing with Kathy Cannon-Weichman, author of “Not On Fifth Street,” from 1-4 p.m.
The book focuses on the 1937 flood that devastated communities along the Ohio River, from Pittsburgh to the Mississippi River.
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Imagine I give my son a perfect gift. After diligently studying his maturity, interests, and weaknesses, I create a gift ideally suited to develop his wisdom, faith, and character. Nothing else could better match his needs and deepest desires. When I give him this gift, he says, “Thanks, Mom, but you gave my sister more paper clips than me.”
God gives us such perfect gifts in the roles we play in His church. Yet, we grumble about who got what.
“Why is her small group bigger than mine?” “Why does he get to serve at the podium while I serve in the nursery?” “He must be more important.” “God must love her better.”
To compare roles is to count paper clips. Neither is a valid measure of our worth.
Worth comes from identity. Identity is who you are in Jesus Christ, a unique person created by God in His image. Roles are to identity what works are to faith. Works result from faith, not vice versa. Similarly, roles express our identity, but do not determine it.
You may have many roles throughout life: friend, spouse, boss, student. parent, child, caretaker… Roles are opportunities God gives us tailor-made to further both our own growth and His glory. Some are glamorous. Some are not. All are custom designed by God to make us the people He wants us to be. They are perfect gifts.
In 1 Corinthians 12-14, Paul reprimands the Corinthians for comparing gifts. Paul acknowledges that gifts vary in their importance, but insists that the people who have the gifts do not. For example, Paul had a greater impact on Christianity than I have, but we are equal before God. Or as Paul says, a foot is no less part of the body because it is not hand (1 Corinthians 12:15). Even as God designed us to be differently gifted, He made us fellow-heirs of His kingdom.
So while we play unequal roles, we are equal members of God’s family. We have the same Spirit, the same Lord, and the same God (1 Corinthians 12:4-7). That is our identity.
In comparison, our roles are paper clips. Any role that offers the opportunity to serve God’s kingdom is important — including the “secular,” “mundane,” and “trivial.” God calls some to be hands, some to be feet, and some to be elbows, but we all receive the same grace, same mercy, and same salvation.
Joy is found in faithfully and obediently fulfilling the roles God designs especially for you, regardless of how glamorous or invisible they are.
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2013: Played in games at UConn and Cornell.
2012: Saw action in one contest, playing 11 minutes.
2011: Played in 12 matches including four starts...saw six shots on the year with two on goal.
2010: Played in 13 matches in the midfield ... started three matches, all Ivy League contests ... saw season-high 77 minutes of action in season finale against Cornell ... tallied shots against Cornell, Princeton, Penn and Saint Peter's.
Troy High: Three-year letterwinner ... named captain as a senior ... two-time all-area, all-league and all-district selection ... named all-region as a senior ... led Colts to undefeated Division I OAA League Championship in 2009 and was named team MVP ... team ranked sixth in Division I in state of Michigan ... registered 33 assists over four-year career ... two-year member of the Michigan State Olympic Development Program team ... only player from Michigan named to 2009 Region II ODP team ... captained the Michigan ODP team in 2009 ... six-year captain of Varder Soccer Club ... also played basketball.
Personal: Biology major ... son of Kathy and Jeffrey Daws ... brother, T.J., is enrolled in the Columbia University College of Dental Medicine ... father played baseball at University of Detroit from 1977-79 ... OAA All-Association Scholar-Athlete as a junior and senior ... National Honor Society member ... born June 25, 1992 in Royal Oak, Mich. | <urn:uuid:747ab350-1976-4c54-b7db-c3b4367ff048> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 1,388 |
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From new series to memorable guest stars and the film releases that will have you racing to the theatre, Hello! Canada’s weekly report on buzz-worthy movies and TV shows is your all-access guide to the big and small screen.
This week, Tomorrowland’s Matthew MacCaull dishes on co-star George Clooney and his biggest inspiration (hint: it’s his grandmother!), while Rachel McAdams, Emma Stone and Bradley Cooper say Aloha to love in Cameron Crowe’s latest drama.
On the small screen, 'tis the season of game shows with Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader making its return to primetime and celebrity contestants facing off in I Can Do That. Also, David Duchovny is a daring detective in Aquarius and Oscar-winning actress Susan Sarandon and nominee David Oyelowo give golden performances in made-for-TV movies.
Don't forget to check back on Mondays to stay up to date on must-see TV and noteworthy silver-screen news!
THREE QUESTIONS WITH … Matthew MacCaull
“It’s been surreal!” says Canadian actor Matthew MacCaull about his journey to Tomorrowland – Disney’s latest adventure flick co-starring George Clooney and Britt Robertson. The film (in theatres now) tells the story of Casey (Britt), a young astrology enthusiast whose unwavering optimism and belief in innovation spurs a world-saving expedition to a land where anything is possible. Matthew plays Dave Clark, a mysterious agent who tries to stop Casey from completing her mission. Here, the Montreal native (who now calls Vancouver home) reveals to Hello! Canada where his own ‘Tomorrowland’ is, why George Clooney is such a superstar and his heroic plans for the summer.
The film is bursting with inspiration... who or what inspired you when you were a child?
My grandmother. She’s non stop. She raised an entire family, she’s a farmer’s wife, she teaches herself to play new instruments all the time. She’s taught me the value of a good work ethic but also to just see that there’s nothing you can’t do if you put your mind to it. My real 'Tomorrowland' is my grandparents' farm in PEI. That’s my superman’s fortress of solitude. It’s this stereotypical Canadian dairy farm in the middle of nowhere, the ocean's just over the hill with tall grasses blowing in the fields and, yeah, that’s definitely home. So if I could touch a pin and it would take me there then that would be perfect.
What was it like working with George?
He has a magic spell and just charms everybody. He really is that genuine, down-to-earth guy. And you think "Dammit! He’s a really good guy!" ( Laughs). The humility that he carries himself with is just so inspiring and refreshing to see. When you first meet George he just looks at you and gives a wink that says, "Hey, you’re okay" and he lets you in on the secret and you’re like, "Yeah, things are okay here." He just puts you at ease.
Any big plans for the summer?
Well I’ve started filming Cedar Cove with Andie MacDowell. I’m brought in as a new character called Dr. Chad for season three. But, also, when I first moved to Vancouver as an actor starting out, you have to have so many jobs to try and make a go of this, so one of the jobs I started way back when was lifeguarding on the beach in the summertime. I love the ocean so to this day I’m a lifeguard! It’s something I really enjoy doing. I love interacting with people and the environment. It’s a beautiful job.
BRADLEY COOPER SAYS ALOHA
Director Cameron Crowe ( Almost Famous, Jerry Maguire) returns to camera duty in the new romantic-comedy Aloha (May 29). Set in Hawaii, Bradley Cooper plays a military contractor who returns to the Pacific island to work on a new project. He soon finds himself dealing with unresolved feelings for his ex (Rachel McAdams) and a budding relationship with his new boss (Emma Stone). The real star of the film, with its lush greenery and crystal-blue waters, is Hawaii - and it's sure to have you daydreaming about your next vacation. To keep you in a Hawaiian state of mind, here are ten hit films that also call the Polynesian oasis home.
IN THEATRES MAY 29
San Andreas: Dwayne Johnson kicks into hero mode to save his family after the “Big One” hits California.
Barely Lethal: Fresh off her vocal victory in Pitch Perfect 2, Hailee Steinfeld stars as a young special-ops agent who dreams of being a normal teenager.
Results: A personal trainer’s (Guy Pearce) plans to expand his gym business become interesting after a wealthy client wants in on the action. Also starring Canada’s Cobie Smulders.
SPRING ON THE GAME SHOWS!
Archery, acrobatics and arithmetic – this season’s offerings of competition game shows are as diverse as they are entertaining.
Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader (May 26, Fox): Jeff Foxworthy’s late-2000 hit is back with even smarter kids ready to school adults and viewers alike.
America’s Got Talent (season 10 debuts May 26, City/NBC): Heidi Klum, Howie Mandel, Melanie Brown and Howard Stern are on the hunt for the best undiscovered talent in the United States.
I Can Do That (series premiere June 9, NBC): Celebrity contestants (Nicole Scherzinger, Joe Jonas and Ciara) tap into talents they didn’t even know they had. First up, the stars will try to master double dutch and archery before a live audience judges their performance.
Bullseye (series premiere May 27, Fox): Extreme sports meets brains and brawn in this new physical game show hosted by Twilight’s Kellen Lutz.
ONE TO WATCH
In the new thrilling drama Aquarius (series premiere May 28, NBC), David Duchovny plays a detective in pursuit of the soon-to-be infamous criminal, Charles Manson. A father suspects his daughter might be trapped in Manson’s web and seeks the help of Detective Sam Hodiak (David) to find her before it’s too late. The series is set in the months prior to the Manson family’s murderous rampage, which left nine people dead (including actress Sharon Tate).
Nightingale (May 29, HBO Canada): Oscar nominee David Oyelowo (Selma) delivers a chilling performance as a war veteran battling a new enemy – post-traumatic stress disorder.
The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe: (May 30 and 31, Lifetime Canada) A behind-the-scenes look at the screen siren’s tumultuous life away from the cameras, including her rocky romances and ongoing struggle with mental-health issues. Starring Kelli Garner and Susan Sarandon. | <urn:uuid:258c56b3-09b2-4f1e-817d-9a28a7d77233> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 6,305 |
Welcome to the website of Chinese Embassy in Iceland. Despite the geographical distance between China and Iceland, the two peoples enjoy mutual understanding and closer friendship, and friendly cooperation has been strengthened and enhanced continuously. The China-Iceland relations has entered a new stage. The two countries would continue to work together to promote the bilateral ties to a higher level and bring benefits to both peoples.
Wish you an enjoyable visit to the website! Your comments and suggestions are warmly welcomed.
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NB. this is taken from a post I originally wrote on Instagram back in July 2020, but still very relevant! In fact I'm going to share a series of skin health-focussed posts here since this is very much the foundation of Apothaka's range!
It seems everyone these days is talking about the importance of the skin barrier, and many brands have jumped on this in terms of products which promise to repair the skin barrier (a couple of years ago when I wrote the brief for my barrier support serum, skin barrier health was rarely discussed!). The thing is, a single product isn't going to save your skin barrier - you need to ensure that your entire skincare approach centres around respecting your skin barrier. And that means a gentle, minimalist approach which suits YOUR skin (forget what everyone else is doing/buying!).
I often receive messages from people asking about barrier support serum. They have a compromised skin barrier, usually from an overuse of exfoliants, aggressive products and/or overly complicated routines (and we've all been there so I don't pass judgement!). As much as I know my barrier support serum is a fantastic, gentle formulation, I tell everyone that it isn't a miracle worker on its own! I didn't formulate it as an ad hoc repair product - I created it to help maintain healthy skin when used on an ongoing basis as part of a gentle routine.
Our skin has an amazing ability to function well if we are careful with it. That means gentle but effective cleansing, keeping it suitably hydrated (which in itself aids skin cell turnover and offers some protection), and protecting it from UV damage.
It's so easy to get into a cycle of throwing too much at our skin and upsetting its balance, especially when bombarded with new product launches, multiple actives, increasingly aggressive products (stronger isn't better!) and using a product that isn't suitable for you just because it drowns your Insta feed.
Over-exfoliation through using products which are way stronger than needed, and/or using them more frequently than needed upsets that balance and opens up the skin to irritation. The usual reaction is to add even more products to counteract the drying/irritating effects when really what's needed is to stop and go back to basics.
So rather than being reactive and thinking about barrier repair after the damage has been done, let's instead think about ongoing barrier protection - not from a single product but through our entire skincare routine. Let's break the cycle of damage & repair, and instead focus on health & prevention. And this also means finding the right balance for your skin, not someone else's. Remember perfect / flawless skin doesn't exist so let's reset the goal to healthy skin and save the skin barrier!
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Eiko, Sho, Saya and I huddled close under sleeping blankets on thin pads, sweatshirts rolled up under our heads as make-shift pillows. It was a tight fit in the three-person tent, but we had been grateful for one another's body heat in the cold night. I sat up cross-legged, pulled out my journal and wrote for a while. Saya softly snored and sucked on her fingers next to me. What a wonderful way to start the day.
After everyone was up, we hiked down a short gravel road to eat breakfast at the island's one hotel. We filled up at a buffet of sliced tomatoes, cucumbers, muesli, bread, apple cake, ham, etc. We then explored the island, passing by farms, summer homes and a quaint church with an impressive mural covering the ceiling and walls. The painting was made in the 1960's in exchange for free accommodation by Baltasar Samper, a Catalan artist. He localized the image by including puffins and an image behind the altar of Christ wearing an Icelandic wool sweater while preaching to two sheep farmers. As we made our way through a field back to our tent, we passed too close to some arctic tern nests and were reprimanded by the protective parents. Saya did not like the experience and ran crying into my arms as a screaming bird swooped down within an inch of her head.
We took the afternoon ferry to Stykkisholmur, a town on the northern coast of the beautiful Snaefellsnes Peninsula. As we waited for the ferry at the dock, a tractor rolled up carrying a group of smiling kids in its scoop. "Now that's a good way to travel," Sho commented. The grandfather behind the wheel decided to have some fun and rolled to the edge of the dock so that the kids were dangling precariously over the water. They screamed in excitement, and yelled back at their chuckling grandfather not to drop them in. While Eiko and Saya dug in the dirt with sticks, Sho and I joined other kids at the seaside, hopping from rock to rock and exploring. I thought, "This is what childhood is all about."
Once the ferry arrived, we rolled our bicycles next to the line of vehicles in the broad car deck. I placed the bikes in an open spot near the front of the boat, not realizing that ocean water would splash in and soak them during the journey. Good thing we have water resistant panniers...
Once in Stykkisholmur, we visited a volcano museum, where we enjoyed a variety of volcano art and learned about the different types of rock spewed out by Iceland's many volcanoes. Sho and Saya particularly liked watching footage of some recent eruptions. We ended the afternoon at the local swimming pool and playground, where Sho and I raced one another on an obstacle course. We studder stepped through tires, swung across monkey bars, climbed up and down a rope ladder, army crawled under a long net, carried rock-filled buckets, etc. Man, he's getting fast!
Here are some pics:
Saya by the sea on Flatey Island:
Sho pretending to take a dive into the sea:
Farm house with grass roof to keep out the wind:
Part of the ceiling mural in the church on Flatey:
The best way for kids to travel:
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“Men were the masters of their destinies and their bodies,… a widow needed to be punished for her misfortune of outliving her husband.” A short story.
Here is the first winner of our November 2016 Muse of the Month contest, Pooja Sharma Rao.
The cue was: “When one was reinventing oneself, anywhere could be home.” ― Manju Kapur, The Immigrant
Kusum rested her old and frail body in the corner of one of the bogies of Howrah-Varanasi Express. The general compartment was as usual overcrowded; she had to sit on the floor throughout, clutching at her potli of another pair of clothes and a few rotis, while her son was hanging around all night.
How she wished to evade this journey, this last journey that was taking her away from her home and family forever.
The train had halted at a junction at dawn; all kinds of vendors were hawking their goods. Kusum lay huddled like a lifeless object. Her son had gone out to buy bidi and chai.
A few minutes later he shook her and handed over half-a kulhar of limp watery tea. Adjusting himself with three other men on the edge of the seat near her he said, “Amma! In three hours we will be at Varanasi junction. You are soon going to be at the city of liberation. Jai Bholenath!”
Kusum did not what to say about that. The storytellers back in her village sung songs about Kashi, also known now as Varanasi or Benares- the city that shined the city of light, the city of Moksha.
But she also knew that for widows like her it was a pilgrimage till death. Though her sons had assured her that they would regularly visit her, pay her some maintenance and ensure that she remained safe and healthy in some Widhwa Ashram, she could see the deception in their eyes.
The fact that her three sons whom she had raised and educated by working hard as household help for decades in cities now did not want her in their homes had broken her heart as a mother. Her shaking hands fumbled the edge of the pallu of her Sari; there inside the firm knot were four tablets of Sulphas- a pesticide her sons used in the fields.
Kusum knew she could not live away from her home and her children now, so she had resigned to her fate. Death it would be for her at the Ghats of Varanasi.
Two days later after depositing her like an abandoned antique at an ashram near the famous Sankatmochan temple her son had returned home.
The older residents had told her all the rules of widowhood again- no meat, onion, garlic in food, never let your hair grow more than a close-crop, always keep your head covered, no colourful possessions ever, live a life of penance.
They were 10 of them in a small room with a single barred window. They had to sleep in a long row across the floor on a single threadbare rug. Dull white saris, hanged on a tattered washing line, only two bare meals a day consisted of dry, coarse rice often served without any curry or gravy.
Kusum fumbled with the Sulphas tablets and the idea of suicide every day, but never could generate courage enough to end her own life. Also even worse tales of other widows around her of abandonment, humiliation, disease and sometimes even forced prostitution made her question her own pride as a ‘mother of three sons‘ in this society.
Men were the masters of their destinies and their bodies, as fathers, husbands, brothers and sons. A widow needed to be punished for her misfortune of outliving her husband. They were ostracised in homes and villages, considered inauspicious and deprived of all inheritance.
In her first two weeks in the holy city she had heard numerous gruesome tales of torture and inhuman sexual exploitation of younger widows at the hands of ashram officials, shopkeepers, landlords, politicians and the police.
The older ones sang bhajans for paltry money and begged when pressed for survival. She was told death of a widow was even worse than this life as ‘living Sati’, she was told the staff of the ashram did not want to spend any money on their cremation and last rites and often discreetly discarded off dead bodies in gunny bags in the river itself. So much respect for dead mothers in a country that worshipped ‘Devi’, the hypocrisy made her cringe.
On a warm sunny afternoon as she sat at the stairs of the famous Manikarnika Ghat seeking alms for sustenance, Kusum thought she saw a familiar face, leading a group of young people and setting up a kiosk. Her roommates told her that they were the NGO people who ran health check-ups etc. for the destitute and widows.
She looked again, peeping from the corner of her white sari; the lady indeed looked like Reema jiji. The eldest daughter-in-law of the Pathak family for whom she had worked in Delhi for more than a decade before moving back to her village with her ailing husband.
But this was also now almost twelve years ago she wondered. Reema jiji’s son would be almost 25 now, she estimated. Kusum looked again for any visible signs of Reema’s marital status; she wasn’t wearing any sindoor in the parting of her hair, or any red bangles, mandatory for all married women. She wondered, so had her husband Mahendra bhai passed away too and just like all other widows she had come to spend the rest of her life at Varanasi.
Meanwhile the kiosk had been set up and they had started distributing free medicines. She too was tugged along by her roommate to the queue. Timidly she moved closer. Reema jiji’s grey head was bent on a register as she asked, “Name, Age?”
As she muttered her name, Reema looked up and after staring into her wrinkled and freckled face for a few seconds, immediately enclosed her in a warmest hug she had experienced now in a long-long time.
She asked about her whereabouts and promised to come to meet her the next day at noon at the Panchganga Ghat.
When they met, Kusum was shocked to hear that Reema’s husband was very much alive, but had brought another woman to live in the house years ago, and that her son chose his profligate father over her. He had chosen his inheritance from the family over his mother’s honour.
She was even more shocked to know that like her Reema too had moved to Varanasi to kill herself, but realised her death would mean nothing to anyone, but her life could be made useful for other women. She could use her pain and her education to help others and also seek solace.
Mrs. Reema Pathak- was no longer just a wife or the mother of a son, or an abandoned woman. She had reinvented herself, had made this city her new home and the widows here her new selfless family. She was part of a social organisation that provided vocational training to younger widows and offered support and assistance to older and sick ones in their last years.
Kusum opened the knot at the edge of her sari and threw the Sulphas tablets into the Ganga. A few months later she was training other widows to stitch costumes for deities and earn a respectable living.
She now lived with dignity with Reema and joined hands with so many others to take their destinies in their own hands.
In a few days it was the festival of colours, Holi, and after centuries of colourless life, all the widows along with Reema and Kusum were preparing herbal colours to break another taboo that chained them. They would play in colours like everyone else and reclaim their identities as living beings even after their husbands had passed away.
They now knew that if they were free in their minds, anywhere could be home, and Varanasi could actually be the city of liberation for widows too, as it was deemed to be.
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World lacking once-in-a-generation probability of sustainable post-pandemic restoration: UN- Know-how Information, Alenz
Agence France-PresseMar 11, 2021 13:20:06 IST
The world is lacking a once-in-a-generation probability to rebuild a sustainable post-pandemic future, the United Nations stated Wednesday in an evaluation displaying lower than 20 p.c of restoration finance could be thought-about “inexperienced”. Though the unprecedented financial slowdown attributable to COVID-19 noticed greenhouse fuel emissions fall dramatically in 2020, establishments from the UN to the Worldwide Power Company have warned towards a fossil-fuel powered rebound. The UN says emissions should fall practically seven p.c – roughly equal to 2020’s fall – this decade with the intention to preserve the Paris local weather deal’s temperature objectives in play.
However the UN’s Setting Programme stated Wednesday that simply 18 p.c of introduced pandemic restoration spending might be thought-about inexperienced, equivalent to renewable or low-carbon power initiatives and nature-based options.
“We’re not but constructing again higher in terms of restoration spending,” stated UNEP Govt Director Inger Andersen. “Thus far international inexperienced spending doesn’t match the severity of the three planetary crises of local weather change, nature loss, and air pollution.”
The UNEP evaluation, co-authored by researchers on the College of Oxford, confirmed that out of the $1.9 trillion introduced for COVID-19 restoration amongst 50 main economies, simply US $341 billion was earmarked for inexperienced initiatives.
When pandemic rescue packages had been factored in, the inexperienced hole turns into even starker.
Simply US $368 billion of US $14.6 trillion (2.5 p.c) COVID-induced rescue and restoration spending in 2020 was inexperienced, the report discovered. The evaluation singled out Spain and Germany for reward with their giant subsidies to renewable power initiatives, in addition to France and Britain for his or her dedication to extend power effectivity by way of constructing retrofits.
“There are clearly some main international locations which are taking inexperienced restoration critically,” Brian O’Callaghan, lead researcher on the Oxford College Financial Restoration Undertaking and report creator, instructed AFP. “Sadly, the overwhelming majority of nations are usually not and there’s a lengthy option to go.”
He voiced hope nevertheless that as international locations transition from rescue packages – that’s, “conserving companies and folks alive” – to restoration, extra governments could search to prioritise renewables and nature preservation.
A number of nations had been named for prioritising “soiled power”, together with China and India for saying expanded home coal plans, and the US, Canada, Mexico and Australia for planning extra oil and fuel exploration.
“Alongside the adverse (emissions) penalties of those coverage choices, the adverse well being penalties for proximate communities and staff could be vital,” the report stated.
Incommensurate with environmental crises
A number of deliberate stimulus packages weren’t included within the evaluation, together with the massive US inexperienced spending plan, “which paves the best way for a major acceleration in US inexperienced spending in 2021,” the report stated.
Globally, the report discovered that inexperienced spending had been “incommensurate with the dimensions of ongoing environmental crises”.
“A one-dimensional give attention to short-term financial restoration dangers additional exacerbating long-term social and environmental crises,” it stated.
The evaluation additionally warned that failing to make use of restoration spending to handle structural inequality threatened to undo a long time of progress towards poverty in creating nations.
The overwhelming majority of inexperienced finance has been pledged by the worldwide North, as debt constraints had been holding creating nations again from greening their economies.
O’Callaghan stated the discrepancy in inexperienced spending may “enlarge the gaps that exist already between the wealthy and poor international locations.”
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|موضوع: What do we teach when we teach Listeningتدريس الاستماع الى اللغة الانجليزية الإثنين أبريل 27, 2009 2:28 pm|| |
What do we teach when we teach Listening?
When we teach listening we need to teach not only English, but we also need to teach how it is used. We need to teach both:
1. the language system, (our knowledge of language: grammar and vocabulary etc.) and
2. the use of the language system, (the skills of language use)
The problem with most listening classes, is that they get stuck at number 1. Too many classes concentrate on teaching the language system and miss the skills of language, in this case listening.
Our knowledge of the language system includes our knowledge of words, how these words are properly put in order (syntax or grammar), how these words are said in connected streams (phonology), how these words are strung together in longer texts (discourse) and so on.
Using the language system involves how we apply this knowledge of the language system to understand or convey meaning and how we apply particular skills to understanding and conveying meaning. | <urn:uuid:2f6ddb85-5db0-4a9b-af06-03bbb57546a5> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 1,135 |
Nintendo announced that The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom will retail for $69.99. Several video game publishers have been embracing the $70 price tag as the new standard for major releases.
Creator Toru Iwatani wanted to make a mass-market product that nongamers and girls would love, too.
How an obscure Russian programmer made the world’s most popular computer game.
The app requires players to leave their couches and roam the streets, and businesses are taking advantage.
The mobile gaming market is a $35 billion opportunity.
Travel to the Netherlands ... and back in time.
Gaming giant Nintendo announces its first smartphone game. | <urn:uuid:5daeeeab-d771-4517-ac4e-ffffcbc6e1e6> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 645 |
Responding to a concern that it violated the free software license used by most open-source software, Microsoft has pulled a tool that helps netbook users install Windows 7.
Blogger Raphael Rivera Jr. was digging through the code of the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool and found that part of it looked suspiciously like it was lifted straight from an open-source application distributed under the GNU General Public License version 2.
From Rivera’s blog post:
I had a weird feeling there was just wayyyyyyyyy too much code in there for such a simple tool. A simple search of some method names and properties, gleaned from Reflector’s output, revealed the source code was obviously lifted from the CodePlex-hosted (yikes) GPLv2-licensed ImageMaster project. (The author of the code was not contacted by Microsoft.)
Rivera first posted on Friday, and on Monday Microsoft took the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool offline. The tool, which allowed netbook users to download a disc image of Windows 7 and install the operating system from a USB drive or DVD-ROM, is no longer available.
ImageMaster, the program Microsoft allegedly ripped code from, reads and writes disc images.
“We are currently looking into this issue and are taking down the Windows USB/DVD Tool (WUDT) from the Microsoft Store site until our review of this matter is complete,” a Microsoft spokesperson told seattlepi.com. “We apologize to our customers for any inconvenience.”
ZDNet’s Mary-Jo Foley points out that this isn’t the first time Microsoft has been accused of violating the GPL licensing terms.
With the WUDT, netbook users could purchase and download Windows 7 Home Premium, Professional or Ultimate. Windows 7 Starter, which Microsoft built specifically for the miniature laptops, is only available on brand-new netbooks.
A recent study by shopping site Retrevo showed that 54 percent of people in the market for a netbook would not be satisfied with Windows 7 Starter, which is stripped of many performance-dependent features. In fact, according to the survey, 41 percent of the 1,100 respondents didn’t know about the different versions of Windows 7.
Retrevo wondered whether Microsoft is trying to kill the netbook market, which has driven PC prices down and netted tech companies less income. I don’t think the netbook market could really be killed – the little laptops are too popular.
The WUDT controversy also comes as Microsoft celebrates the third anniversary of its partnership with open-source leader Novell. Representatives from both Microsoft and Novell spoke to reporters Monday at the SIMposium for IT executives at the Westin hotel in Seattle.
“It’s a mixed-source world out there and there’s both open-source and proprietary software,” said Ted MacLean, Microsoft’s general manager for Strategic Partnerships and Licensing.
When Microsoft and Novell struck the agreement three years ago to improve support for businesses that use both Linux and Windows, one major part raised a lot of controversy – that the software superpower and the open-source giant would share patented technology.
During the past three years, the companies have tried to assure customers that their innovations were still covered under intellectual property laws.
“It was controversial at the beginning,” said Susan Heystee, Novell’s vice president and general manager for Strategic Alliances. “It is far from that today.”
Nevertheless, Microsoft has always been in shaky standing with the open-source crowd.
Recently, the company’s stance seemed to soften a bit when it helped found the CodePlex Foundation and when it released 20,000 lines of source code to the Linux community. But it was later revealed that Microsoft released the code to comply with the GPL.
We’ll see what Microsoft ends up doing in response to Rivera’s concerns that the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool violated the GPL. But Microsoft’s removal of the tool suggests it is concerned, as well. | <urn:uuid:ad649e06-ec51-4759-b0db-55567572a764> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 3,935 |
Balenciaga is breaking off its partnership with Kanye West. Parent company Kering confirmed to FN sister publication WWD that the French fashion house would no longer work with West, who know goes by Ye, following a series of controversial and anti-semitic statements. Balenciaga has no longer any relationship nor any plans for future projects related to this artist,” parent company Kering told WWD.
The “Billionaire” rapper, has worked with the French fashion house, most recently opening their summer 2023 show during Paris Fashion Week earlier this year. Kanye appeared in one of the latest fashion trends.
The image of Ye’ in rugged tactical gear with a Balenciaga mouth guard has been removed from Balenciaga’s website. West terminated his deal with Gap in September 2022 — ahead of his controversial Yeezy Season 9 fashion show in Paris, where he showed the “White Lives Matter” tees that erupted in backlash. | <urn:uuid:cad10c6c-461f-483e-8343-d5cea992b039> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 917 |
Yasir el-Halawany said he came to Friday’s protest in central Cairo to send the world the message that he was standing up for the Prophet Muhammad. There was something else he needed to take care of as well.
A tall and burly 32-year-old with a long black beard, he had been walking in lockstep with other sizable Salafists down the middle of the street leading to the U.S. Embassy that has lately been the scene of violent confrontations between demonstrators and police. The men formed a human bulldozer, forcing back agitators who sought to hurl rocks and bottles at the cops. “There are all these little people causing problems, and we are trying to stop them,” Halawany said.
Tear gas wafted down the street behind him as he moved to a side road for a short break. Occasional shouting matches broke out between the Salafist enforcers and demonstrators who seemed to have come to fight.
Halawany said he was annoyed at what had become of a peaceful, Salafist-led march to the U.S. Embassy on Tuesday against the anti-Islam film that has sparked clashes at U.S. embassies across the Muslim world. That demonstration turned violent—young men scaled the embassy’s walls and replaced the American flag with an Islamic one—and protesters have been battling police on this street ever since.
The people doing the fighting, Halawany said, were hurting his cause. “Some people already had their own problems with the police—old problems, and they came here to solve them,” he said. “That’s why they’re here. But the real people came to speak for the prophet.”
A crowd of Salafists gathered around Halawany as he spoke, and all expressed the same concern—that the violent clashes that have been the focus of international attention on Egypt were sending the wrong message. “We don’t hate Americans. We hate bad people. Our president has a degree from America. He taught in America. His children have American nationality,” Halawany said.
Since protests erupted in Cairo on Tuesday, the country’s Islamist leaders—President Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party, and the politicians of the influential Salafist bloc—have been toeing a difficult line, blasting the film and calling for its creators to be punished while denouncing the violence of demonstrators who say they’re pushing the same cause.
At Friday’s protest, billed by the Brotherhood as a nationwide call to the streets before that call was canceled Friday over concern that things would get out of hand, people like Halawany worried that the violence was leading to a blunt portrayal of what they saw as a nuanced message they had come to send. They doubted that message was likely to come through in Western press accounts, expressing concern that any interviews would be manipulated and cut.
One Salafist man wearing a polo shirt and jeans wanted this point made clear: that his anger at the U.S. government came from his belief that it had consciously allowed the film to be made. “The American government accepted this film to try to show a dark side of Islam on Sept. 11,” he said. “The movie was made with the purpose of making Muslims get angry and do things like attack the American Embassy, so they can say, ‘Look, Muslims are terrorists who kill people.’”
“I think they accepted the film and they knew about it,” he continued. “They know what’s happening. They knew this would harm relations between Muslims and Americans. They don’t care.”
“The movie was made with the purpose of making Muslims get angry and do things like attack the American Embassy, so they can say, ‘Look, Muslims are terrorists who kill people.’”
Amr, a 33-year-old sales director from Cairo who declined to give his last name, said that what had been portrayed by some as an apology by the American government wasn’t really an apology at all. (“The U.S. government has absolutely nothing to do with this video,” Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Thursday. “To us, to me personally, this video is disgusting and reprehensible…We absolutely reject its content and message.”)
“There are a lot of people who said the U.S. government apologized for what happened—I think it’s wrong,” he said. “About the film, they said: ‘We are sorry, but we have nothing to do with that, because there is freedom of expression in America. So there’s nothing we can do to take action against these people. But we are sorry.’ This is wrong. They are tricking us. They are always tricking us.”
Even if the government did apologize, Amr and the others said, it wouldn’t be enough. The people behind the video should be punished, they said, while new laws should be established to make sure something like this doesn’t happen again. “Every two or three years, they do this in the West,” Amr said, citing the 2005 controversy over cartoons in a Dutch newspaper that portrayed Muhammad.
“They always kill our people and steal our money and say they are sorry. Not just in Egypt, in all Muslim countries. They say they are sorry after they kill our people and our children and rape our women,” Amr said. “We know that the people of America, a lot of them are good. But the American government is not good. They are always against Islam.” | <urn:uuid:7c3344fc-b018-44b7-a441-9a57595707fc> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 5,189 |
Monday, December 22, 2008
Hub 51 is in the lead in the second-annual nightlife poll. (Photo: Hub 51)
Who would've thought River North newcomer Hub 51 would command such a lead in the second-annual 312DD nightlife poll?!
Props to them, but you still have four days left if you want to break the lead. To vote, just scroll to the bottom of the page! | <urn:uuid:1459e47a-8b07-4e32-990a-d3957e9eb0b5> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 347 |
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In the age of short attention span, GIFs have become more popular than ever. While a video is often too long for our quick lives, GIFs manage to synthesize an interesting or funny part of whatever they display for only a few, short seconds. Since they often sacrifice quality for size, as the latter one ensures faster download and display speed, GIFs have to feature suitable sizes for being embedded onto webpages. This is where tools like GIF Optimizer come into play. GIF Optimizer compresses GIF files, making them smaller. And by being smaller, they eat up less disk space, get to be displayed faster, and help to save money on bandwidth costs.
When it comes to compressing GIFs, the quality often gets sacrificed in favour of a smaller size, but GIF Optimizer lets you also control this aspect: the quality, by providing handy previewing panels that let you see how a GIF will look like once it is “optimized”.
I also like the options of this tool, as they also show how exactly the GIF is compressed, and toggle these methods on or off. These methods include removing redundant pixels, deleting unused palette entries, cropping transparent images, disabling interlacing, and even reducing colours.
To sum it all up, GIF Optimizer is a small, simple, and reliable tool that offers a convenient method of shrinking GIF files. Last but not least, this handy application is also completely free.
- Simple-to-use interface
- Allows previewing the GIF optimization result
- Shows the compression methods and lets you customize their usage | <urn:uuid:33faee76-9756-4c76-8bad-c6b665db3a5b> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 1,560 |
Thousands gather in New Zealand to show Muslim community ‘we are one’
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern joined about 20,000 people in front of the al-Noor mosque where most of the victims were killed last week
Christchurch — The Muslim call to prayer sounded out over Christchurch and around New Zealand on Friday, as thousands gathered to remember the 50 people killed by a lone gunman at two mosques a week ago.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern joined about 20,000 people standing quietly at Hagley Park, in front of the al-Noor mosque where most of the victims were killed during Friday prayers last week.
“New Zealand mourns with you. We are one,” she said in a short speech, followed by two minutes of silence.
Most victims of New Zealand's worst mass shooting were migrants or refugees from countries such as Pakistan, India, Malaysia, Indonesia, Turkey, Somalia, Afghanistan and Bangladesh.
“We are broken-hearted, but we are not broken. We are alive, we are together, we are determined to not let anyone divide us,” Imam Gamal Fouda told the crowd, many wearing headscarves in support of the grieving Muslim community.
“To the families of the victims, your loved ones did not die in vain. Their blood has watered the seeds of hope,” he said in prayers broadcast nationally.
Tens of thousands of people paid their respects around the country with some forming human chains in front of mosques. Others said silent prayers at schools, cafes and even offices.
In Christchurch, relatives and other mourners thronged into a cemetery where 26 victims of the attack, and one person who died in a car crash that was unrelated to the mosque shooting, were laid to rest in a mass burial.
“This is a special janazah. We don’t do these every day,” one mourner said over a microphone, referring to an Islamic funeral prayer.
“We don’t bury 27 of our brothers and sisters every day.”
The first to be laid to rest was Naeem Rashid, who was hailed as a hero, killed trying to tackle the gunman at the al-Noor mosque.
Australian Brenton Tarrant, 28, a suspected white supremacist, has been charged with one murder following the Christchurch attack and was remanded without a plea.
He is due back in court on April 5, when police said he was likely to face more charges.
Ardern, who swiftly denounced the shooting as terrorism, announced a ban on military-style semi-automatic and assault rifles on Thursday.
She came to Hagley Park surrounded by ministers and security officials, wearing a black headscarf and a black suit. Female police at the park also wore headscarves, with a red rose on their uniforms.
Islamophobia is real. It is a targeted campaign to influence people to dehumanise and irrationally fear Muslims.
In a powerful speech that lasted about 20 minutes, the imam, Fouda, said through its love and compassion, New Zealand was unbreakable.
“We are here in our hundreds and thousands unified for one purpose — that hate will be undone, and love will redeem us,” he said.
He thanked Ardern for her compassion, saying: “It has been a lesson for world leaders.”
Fouda also denounced Islamophobia, saying it had killed people.
“Islamophobia is real. It is a targeted campaign to influence people to dehumanise and irrationally fear Muslims. To fear what we wear, to fear the choice of food we eat, to fear the way we pray and to fear the way we practice our faith,” he said.
Muslims account for just more than 1% of New Zealand’s population.
Many women wore headscarves in New Zealand as a sign of support to the community, and a #headscarfforharmony movement was trending on Twitter.
“We are wearing headscarves showing our support, love and solidarity, and hope that by everybody doing this it will demonstrate to Muslim women … that they are one with us,” said Robyn Molony, with a group of friends wearing headscarves at Hagley Park.
Residents of Christchurch are still recovering from a devastating earthquake that hit in 2011, killing 185 and injuring thousands.
“Since the earthquakes, we’ve gone through a lot as a city and we’re a lot more caring and looking out for one another,” said James Sheehan. | <urn:uuid:e6fd523a-67bd-4e01-b95e-631ad02611f2> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 4,103 |
This is another in a series of blogs on the basics of estate planning. Last week, we looked at the taxation of trusts. This week, we’ll look at some of the reasons we use trusts.
There are many reasons to use a trust. Here are a few:
Probate avoidance. This is not the most important reason, but it is the reason most attorneys think of first. At death, the assets titled in the name of the individual must go through a process to retitle the assets to the appropriate people who’ve inherited them. In some states this process may be rather simple, while in other states it may be cumbersome. There may be substantial legal and court costs associated with the probate process, as well.
Privacy. A trust is a private document. A will, on the other hand, must be filed in the probate court before it is determined to be valid. This process called probate is a public process (except in very rare circumstances). Thus, everyone who wishes may know the contents of the will and the assets which were part of the probate estate. So, for example, they would know about the child born out of wedlock who received an inheritance or the child who was disinherited because of a family dispute. The nosy neighbor would know the dirty laundry and could spread the gossip. Also, predators would know how much money beneficiaries are inheriting. For example, they might know that a weak-willed beneficiary is inheriting $200,000 and could be approached for money. So, if a client is at all concerned about privacy, a trust will serve their needs better than a will.
Incapacity planning. A will does nothing to help with incapacity planning. As is often said, a will only “speaks” at death. So, if the testator is not dead, the will does not control anything, even if the testator is incapacitated. Conversely, a trust can provide for the management of the assets upon the grantor’s incapacity. This is one of the great benefits of a trust compared to a will. The trust can have whatever standard is desired to determine incapacity. For example, it could require the certification of one or two physicians.
Management. A trust can provide a vehicle for the management of assets during life and after death. Often, even if a grantor of a trust has capacity, they may reach a time in their life when they no longer wish to manage their assets. A trust provides a simple mechanism for this to happen. The grantor, who typically serves as the initial trustee, simply resigns and the person who was named as the successor trustee is notified and takes on the management responsibilities.
In addition to the benefits which revocable trusts have which wills do not, the trust has other capabilities which wills can also achieve. For example, trusts and wills both can save estate taxes, spawn trusts for beneficiaries at the death of the grantor/testator, etc.
In upcoming blogs, I’ll discuss whom you should choose as trustee. In another blog, I’ll discuss various ways in which you could leave assets to beneficiaries, and the pros and cons of each method.
Stephen C. Hartnett, J.D., LL.M.
Associate Director of Education
American Academy of Estate Planning Attorneys, Inc.
9444 Balboa Avenue, Suite 300
San Diego, California 92123
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As Oil & Gas industries face challenges of oversupply, weaker demand, and therefore lower oil prices, executives are looking for more creative solutions to maintain profitability. The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) opens up many opportunities to innovate and this hasn’t gone unnoticed by the industry.
Research, from the McKinsey Global Institute, suggests that by 2025, the impact of the IoT on the global economy could be as high as $6.2 trillion. So it comes as no surprise that research from Markets & Markets suggests spending on IoT solutions in the energy market is expected to climb to $22 billion by 2020. However, many executives face a limited understanding or perspective of the solutions available to them, given that the applications vary broadly and the overall trend is still in its infancy.
How the IIoT can transform business
IIoT solutions are a natural fit for any business looking to decrease CAPEX. For example, using IoT-enabled drones to inspect pipelines can be cheaper, faster, and more accurate than inspections by manned helicopters and cameramen. Clouds and analytics become closely linked, saving time and cutting costs.
New technologies have resulted in a growing shift to ‘as a service’ models that increase productivity and lower costs. These models allows for a flexible, ‘pay as you go’ approach seen in other industries, and are now beginning to affect cost control initiatives. More companies are taking cues from this model as they look to streamline their processes and reduce up-front costs.
The advantages of SaaS
There are several advantages of employing a Software as a Service (SaaS) solution. It takes less time to take to market, reduces internal responsibilities, and is more resilient in the event of a problem. These solutions can flex according to the size of the company, making them more appealing for those who want to minimize up-front costs. As explained in previous post Lessons in Cyber Security for Oil Pipelines, common concerns holding executives back from committing to these improvements are cybersecurity and compliance, but advances in these areas are developing quickly and minimizing risk.
The good news is that a number of businesses are driving IIoT solutions. These businesses can offer process efficiency, maintenance, safety, and even sustainable growth through decreasing CO2 emissions. With the rapidly changing face of IIoT and, as more solutions present themselves, the Oil & Gas industry should look to these businesses to support its growth and development.
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Pine bark felt rough under Brandon’s fingers. It wasn’t a talking tree, yet it felt a bit like home. Tonalderr has three shelves, and they’re all very different from Earth, but Brandon noticed many things that let him know that Tonalderr was equally as important to save.
“Hello? … … Oh, hey,” Hal said in the distance. Brandon turned towards his colleagues voice. Who was he talking to?
“Y-yeah. I g-guess.” Brandon furrowed his brow. He could hear Hal but he couldn’t see him.
“B-but like, … what?”
Brandon broke into a run. He looked around him as he ran. “Hal?” He yelled out to the forest. There was a pause before he responded. “Brandon?”
“Where is he?” Brandon whispered under his breath. The voice seemed to be coming from behind him. Did I pass him?
Brandon turned and ran the other way. All the trees were either pine or blue and purple. It seemed like they went on and on forever. He had now forgotten where the Jemon den was. He seemed also to have forgotten where Hal was.
“I’m over here,” said Hal’s voice. Brandon swiveled around and saw a bright glimmer of gold in the distance. He ran towards it and started hearing not just Hal’s voice, but a murmur of someone else’s. Did he find a lourdwarf?
Brandon coud now make out the vague shape of a tree. The bark was a beautiful, shining gold, with vibrant, luscious green leaves. Hal was attempting conversation with the magnificent plant. Brandon waddled behind Hal awkwardly to see the face of the tree. It had glimmering honey coloured eyes, with a knot for a nose.
“Hi, my name’s Br-” Brandon started, but Hal immediately covered his mouth.
“Our new friend here is telling us about Port Malocum,” Hal explained. “There’s ears everywhere.” | <urn:uuid:9ec30ec9-f657-48aa-a679-90a00737686a> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 1,704 |
How the government's drive for a low wage economy affects us all - and what we can do about it
Jan Logie and Denise Roche, Green Party MPs, are on a national tour to discuss the impact of the government's welfare reforms and funding cuts on community organisations and on our communities. Based on the increasing popular Pecha Kucha* format, we'll have a series of fast-paced 5-minute presentations from a range of speakers from different organisations, including those representing: Workers, Woman, Disabled People, Youth, Children, Refugee and migrant communities, Māori, Pasifika, Mental Health, Problem Gambling
Please advise if you require a NZSL interpreter for this meeting
* Pecha Kucha Night events consist of around a dozen presentations, each presenter having 20 slides, each shown for 20 seconds on a timer. Thus, each presenter has just 6 minutes and 40 seconds to explain their ideas before the next takes the stage. The format keeps presentations concise and fast-paced and is being used increasingly as a way for people to meet, show their work, exchange ideas, and network. | <urn:uuid:2a5fbe50-3853-4cd7-b0cc-73dd9a9bd266> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 1,090 |
RISMEDIA, April 7, 2011—Luxury Portfolio International™, the luxury face of Leading Real Estate Companies of the World®, has announced six new brokerage members and four new developments to its’ luxury brand during the first quarter of 2011. The positive signs indicated by the program growth show a commitment to high-end space as well as Luxury Portfolio’s success in helping its members market their listings through innovative technology and tools not offered by other luxury real estate networks, the company reports.
The new brokerages include: Allgemeiner Grund & Boden Fundus GmbH in Berlin, Germany; Bean Group in Portsmouth, NH; Joshua & Company in Aspen, CO; Leonard Ryden Burr Real Estate in Winston-Salem, NC; Moreland Properties in Austin, Texas; The Grubb Company in Oakland, CA. The developments include 1 Gevray in Geneva, Switzerland; Golden Oak at Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, FL; Kiawah Island Real Estate Development in Charleston, SC; and Signal Palace Hotel & Private Residences in Chexbres (Vaud), Switzerland.
“Our growth in new markets is a positive sign, not only for our program, but also the strength of the luxury market as a whole,” notes President of Luxury Portfolio International™ Paul Boomsma. Paul adds, “Our growing share of the luxury real estate market continues to strengthen the network and provide additional exposure and business opportunities for all members.
By joining during the first quarter, new members were able to participate in the Leading Real Estate Companies of the World® Annual Conference, which took place March 6-10 at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas. The event represented global real estate professionals and a noteworthy line-up of over 150 speakers from within the industry, and included The Luxury Portfolio Top Sales Associates SUMMIT, an annual event that host’s the industry’s most prestigious and well-respected real estate professionals.
For more information, visit http://www.luxuryportfolio.com. | <urn:uuid:e8f307ad-a249-4543-bf41-dbdc848904f5> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 1,973 |
Are you always troubled when you find an infographic on internet and try to modify the chart data but find they are irreversible? Don’t worry! Try this Linux infographic software where charts value can be modified easily. Just control the yellow button shows in the pictures and change the data.
There are over 10000 infographic elements in the built-in libraries and all of them are classified into different groups such as basic shapes, text blocks, callouts, technology, transportation, marketing and so on. All the elements can be customzied to fit different needs, such as changing the colors, dimensions, directions or grouping/ungrouping, etc. And we are keeping creating more elements.
A large quantity of well-designed infographic templates are offered for free. And all of them are editable. Users can create their own infographics on the basis of built-in templates which simplifies the drawing process a lot.
This linux infographic software supports inserting local pictures and crop them to any shapes as users like. Users can crop the pictures with predefined clippings, trim with certain shapes or carve the pictures to remove the parts you do not want.
What if when you need certain element, but you can not find in the libraries? Never mind! This linux infograhic software provides a set of drawing tools for users to create their own elements. And all the drawing tools are free while some other software may charge those beautiful elements. | <urn:uuid:b8ae0f34-9cf3-4d2c-a43d-b1fa63bb4e1f> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 1,459 |
It makes no difference what business you are in, suppliers and vendors play a key role in your company's success. Having a formalized system in place to track and evaluate supplier and vendor performance is essential to the smooth operation and profitability of your company.
Successful companies embrace their suppliers and vendors, viewing them as partners in helping to grow the business. Making sure that this is a mutually beneficial partnership will impact the price you are negotiating today and the quality of service you get in future, says Dennis Wright, a management consultant from the SCORE Orange County office. If a supplier/vendor is a key part or service to your operation invite that supplier or vendor to strategic meetings that involve the product they work with.
A common mistake companies make is to have a combative relationship with their suppliers and vendors. 'That is the opposite of what you want to do,' says Drew Greenblatt, president of Baltimore-based Marlin Steel Wire Products, which makes custom stainless steel metal baskets, brackets and other parts. 'A lot of companies will actually have an adversarial relationship where they hire purchasing people who have on brass knuckles and try to beat up on vendors to get better prices or better terms.' That is a very shortsighted way to do business, according to Wright and Greenblatt.
Instead of getting stuck on price, focus on quality of service. A vendor can have the lowest price and the lowest quality of work, too. Your goal is understand what value-add is a given vendor bringing to your company. Your business should have a system in place for evaluating, selecting and then reevaluating the suppliers and vendors it works with.
Here are seven tips and tools you'll need to effectively rate your suppliers and vendors, track their performance, and ultimately increase your company's overall productivity.
1. Establish Performance Indicators
At the onset of the vendor relationship you have to determine what characteristics a vendor needs to have, demonstrate, or maintain to continue doing business with your company. Create specific performance criteria for tracking and evaluating your suppliers and vendors on a regular basis—monthly, quarterly, and/or annually. Considerations include size of the company, number of certifications, quality management systems, complaint history, and financial stability. For instance, you might consider if they have a documented procedure for the product or service they provide? 'We look at a couple of driving metrics to evaluate how good our vendors are,' says Greenblatt, 'including percentages of on-time performance, number of times we received a quality part or product, and how quickly the vendor responded to requests for quotes.'
Your own processes and needs will dictate what criteria you apply. For a business owner who is looking for a shipping company, the biggest concerns might revolve around what is that supplier's on time delivery track record, how many trucks they own, how many accidents have their drivers reported, and what certifications do they hold.
A basic consideration for every business owner should be whether the supplier has a quality management system in place. 'This doesn't just apply to manufacturing but any business including service providers,' explains Miriam Boudreaux, president of Mireaux Management Solutions, a Houston-based consulting that specializes in the implementation of quality management systems. 'It's really about if the supplier has a certain set of procedures in place that its people are expected to follow. Is there a system for handling complaints or problems? Are there corrective or preventive actions?' Such standards will be addressed if the vendor is ISO certified.
Dig Deeper: Turning Vendors Into Partners
2. Classify Multiple Suppliers and Vendors
If you have a huge number of suppliers and vendors and you intend to craft a survey to evaluate them, it will be cumbersome to apply the same survey to each and every one, says Boudreaux. It is better to separate suppliers into levels (1, 2, and 3) based on how critical they are, she advises. Decide the classification that is best for you and evaluate suppliers according to the effect they have on your product or service in order of importance, Boudreaux adds.
Marlin Steel exports wire baskets and forms all around the world including Japan, Columbia and China. Greenblatt points to the fact that 'about 80 percent of my vendors do 20 percent of my dollar amount of work and about 20 percent of my vendors do 80 percent of my activity.'
By divvying up suppliers into two categories such as critical and non-critical or primary and secondary, you can devote more time to measuring the performance of your critical suppliers.
3. Devise an Evaluation Method
There are common techniques for rating a supplier's performance including evaluation forms, surveys, system metrics, and software applications. Marlin Steel tracks vendor performance using a customized program he created in QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions accounting software, the Manufacturing & Wholesale edition.
You can craft a survey where you ask your own employees to answer questions and to rate suppliers and vendors. You can review how many corrective actions you had to issue a supplier or vendor, how many products you had to scrap or return because the supplier or vendor failed to meet specifications, or how many customer complaints you received due to a bad part or service from a vendor. You also can monitor suppliers and vendors by doing an audit periodically. The bottom line is that you need to generate measurements or reports at the onset of the purchase and throughout the course of the supplier and vendor relationship.
'We did vendor reviews where we would bring them together offsite at a hotel with our IT and procurement people,' says Wright, who in his last business life for eight years was vice president and director of procurement for a large global engineering company. At the point he retired, the company had 100 plus suppliers and vendors ranging from Microsoft to United Airlines to a small staffing agency. 'We would line them up. So, at 9 in the morning AT&T would be making a presentation to our group. When AT&T finished and left the room they would find the Verizon salespeople standing in the lobby waiting for their turn,' Wright explains. 'We created a little competition amongst vendors.'
Wright says periodic vendor reviews would also entail a discussion about what the company had been buying, how much it had been buying, what did that vendor have on the shelf or working on for push out six months or a year down the road and did it represent a significant improvement over what had been previously purchased, and what were competitors buying from a particular vendor.
Dig Deeper: Vendor Management for Small Retailers
4. Determine Who's Calling the Shots
Once you establish the criteria for evaluating suppliers and vendors, who in your company will be responsible for reviewing the data. It depends on how much resources you have to dedicate to evaluating your suppliers, says Boudreaux. 'You may want to assign one person or a team with this task.' For instance, selecting and evaluating level 1 suppliers and vendors, might require the chief financial officer or someone from the finance department along with the president and representatives from purchasing, operations, and engineering or IT. With level 2 and 3 suppliers and vendors, it may be the purchasing or procurement officer who approves the supplier or vendor list and monitors performance.
'I always made sure that the user group was involved in the process. The individuals who were using the product or service were very active in the process from the very beginning—at the point of selection,' Wright says.
Dig Deeper: Supplier Relations
5. Maintain Good Relationships
Consider your suppliers and vendors as part of the team and treat them as such. Communicate often and openly. Technology is great but don't overlook the personal touch of a phone conversation or face to face meetings, says Greenblatt. Also, avoid supplier and vendor conflicts by paying on time or at least honestly addressing late payment issues and talking with your supplier or vendor about it. Be upfront and transparent with suppliers and vendors. Make sure they understand your needs and expectations.
'To improve our relationship and communication with our vendors, we added a page to all of our print materials (drawings) calling out exactly how we are going to package things,' adds Greenblatt. 'So, if it is going to be two layers of bubble wrap or an extra layer of padding between each part so that there is no scratching. We go through that level of detail so that we are not disappointed when parts come in.'
Dig Deeper: Product Supplier Agreement
6. Decide When to Issue a Red Flag
As you monitor a supplier's performance, you have to decide when to praise them and when to issue a read flag, says Boudreaux. Show appreciation for a job well done; give a supplier additional business because of excellent performance. 'A bad supplier will provide you with mediocre or poor products and services and cause a problem with your customers,' adds Boudreaux.
You can drop a supplier for poor performance but strategically it is better to retain your vendors and not to flip around all of the time to replace them. By giving a warning, you give the supplier or vendor an opportunity to correct the problem. Use data that you have collected like on-time delivery rate, return rate, and number of supplier corrective actions to work with your suppliers, says Boudreaux. 'This process is not just about reviewing your suppliers but helping them to improve their performance.'
Dig Deeper: A Knack for Sweet Deals
7. Cut Loose Weak Links
No one of course should tolerate ongoing bad service. There may come a time when you have to let go of an underperforming supplier or vendor. 'We fired a vendor that was really cheap but was not meeting the ship dates. They were also non-responsive to complaints. They cut corners and handed in shoddy paperwork,' Greenblatt cites an example.
'We give a warning and then put them on notice or a short leash before we cut ties completely,' he explains. 'We will call the vendor and give them an opportunity to correct the situation. We will send them digital pictures, e-mails, and quality reports. So, there is no mystery when there is a challenge or an issue.'
The relationship with your supplier is a business partnership, says Wright, and if both parties are working to make sure that the partnership is a success it will be a success. In the long run, having a win-win supplier and vendor relationship will be a competitive advantage. | <urn:uuid:d1d7da91-ac89-4d25-b26f-928e06a06c8c> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 10,779 |
Albion MI Real Estate & Homes for Sale
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The median home value in Albion, MI is $134,000. This is higher than the county median home value of $102,000. The national median home value is $209,892. The average price of homes sold in Albion, MI is $134,000. Approximately 47% of Albion homes are owned, compared to 36% rented, while 17% are vacant. Albion real estate listings include condos, townhomes, and single family homes for sale. Commercial properties are also available. If you like to see a property, contact Albion real estate agent to arrange a tour today! Learn more about Albion Real Estate.
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What a cute home. Large livingroom with fireplace, dining, master bedroom. Basement is semi finished with laundry and shower bath. One car garage and nice backyard. Many updates including, windows, roof, furnace & air, waterheater and some electrical.
$198,500 131 Bushong Drive Albion, MI 49224
You won't want to miss out on this home. Sits at end of cul-de-sac so private and not a lot of traffic. Nice open kitchen to familyroom/dining with fireplace and sliders to large deck (20 x 24) has gas line for gas grill. Great entertaining space. Separate living room if you need some quite space. 2 1/2 baths, 4 bedrooms, large walkout basement if you think you need more space. Great extra 22' x 30' workshop with 100 amp electric service out there, heater, central vac in back for all the dust!, just to many options for this space. 2 extra sheds, carport, 2 car garage attached. Many updates in the last few years including, windows, roof, composite decking, whole house generator, furnace, air and the list goes on. Extra lot tax # 130110105900
Older home with charm. Room for entire family. Screened in front porch, 2 car garage. Good solid home for right price. Need more room? Also includes VACANT LOT next door. Vacant Lot Size 59' x 99'.
Older Home with room for everyone. Needs some TLC. Big back yard with room to grow our own veggies or flowers. Home has two front porches.
Welcome home to a well-maintained home in a lovely, quiet part of Albion. This home will go quickly because it is adaptable to older residents looking to live on a quiet street with all amenities all on the same floor and younger homeowners looking for their first low-maintenance home.High end finishes like ceramic tile accents in high traffic areas and luxury carpet on the inside make this home feel just right. Let the dog or kids roam around the fenced in back yard while you sit on the covered cement patio. You can also stop brushing snow off the car as you park it in the 1.5 car garage.Updates are too numerous to cover all of them here, but include a newer roof, Pella Windows, and tasteful vinyl siding.Welcome home! Call Joe for a tour today - 517.680.0081
Three bedroom, one bath 2 story with spacious yard, detached garage and easy access to I-94. Property is being sold as is.
$134,900 203 Albion Road Albion, MI 49224
Country ranch style home sitting on almost an acre of land! Features include: 3 bedrooms, 1 full bath, large living room, kitchen and dining with walk out sliding door to the spacious back yard! There is a 2 car attached garage as well as a full basement which could easily be finished off! Schedule a walk through today before this one is gone!
Want land than this fixer upper is just the thing your looking for. Hasn't been lived in for quite sometime and needs everything. Two parcels: house sits on 3 acres and second parcel sits (corners touch) on Pleasant St which is in the Albion City limits around the corner off of Austin Ave. Nice building site and very private. 3.788 acres has city water & sewer just need to hook up to once home is built. Great hunting! Seller will split property: Home and 3 acres for $25,000 and vacant land: $28,000.
$777,777 19544 26 Mile Road Albion, MI 49224
Ever dream of owning a working ranch? Well dream no more. Beautiful ranch home with lots of updates. Main floor master and laundry, great storage in the basement and 3-4 bedrooms with one upstairs that has a 1/2 bath right in it. Lots of outbuilding with a list of sizes attached to listing in MLS. Great stocked fishing pond with bass, blue gill & perch and a wading pond. Whole house generator, newer stove, refrigerator, furnace. Electric fence for your livestock. Pear, apple & cherry trees. Can be purchased with all farm equipment and livestock. Call for price.
Spacious! Tall ceilings and large living room give this house an advantage above the rest. Kitchen has a lot of cabinet space and a center island. Huge living room! Open staircase leads up to the spacious master, with a bonus room/closet. 2 additional upstairs bedrooms. Nice back yard, just big enough to do some gardening or summer lounging.
$279,500 14780 28 Mile Road Albion, MI 49224
Call Listing Agent ''C.J.'' Shapiro at: (269) 209-4076. THIS IMPRESSIVE TRI-LEVEL IS A ''PERFECT'' FAMILY HOME! Sitting on 3.79 acres that includes a huge private stocked pond w/bluegills & bass is this 4 bedroom, 2.5 bath home featuring a light filled living room w/a bay window & cozy wood burning fireplace. The formal dining room opens into an eating area w/6'bay windows overlooking the pond & wildlife. What a view while preparing dinner in your kitchen featuring newer appliances & ample cabinetry! Upstairs are 3 bedrooms w/the master bedroom opening onto a balcony, 2 full baths & beautiful wood floors. The lower level features a family room, bedroom,half bath & a huge deck. A ''rec'' room would be perfect for the basement.
A beautiful house and pole barn with PRIME hunting in Calhoun County, this property has it all! There's a 3 bedroom 2 1/2 bathroom house with a 40 by 50 pole barn that overlooks a spacious front yard planted in a clover food plot with a variety of trees planted throughout it. There's a maintained trail system throughout the property leading to a one acre pond and an eight acre pond providing wonderful views and ideal waterfowl hunting. The landowner also has three beautiful clover foodplots with five hunting shacks strategically placed throughout the property. This property has ideal pinch points between the ponds that increase the hunting success dramatically. Near one of the clearings in the woods there's a building that could be used for storage or turned into a very cool cabin.
Open House: Sunday, 7/21 12:30-2:00PM
Cozy and cute, best describes this updated ranch/mini farm on 2.55 acres. Home has 3 BR, 2 Bth, LivRm, Kitchen, and adorable enclosed back porch. Property has a beautiful old style barn once used for farming and is currently being used for storage. Home has updated plumbing and electrical through out. Furnace, central air, garage, roof, siding and windows are all new within the last 10 years. This package is a real gem of a property.
Nestled in the nicest part of Albion and just minutes from Albion College, this beautifully remodeled house is the perfect mix of country and small town living. Park the cars and toys in the oversized two-car garage and take it all in.The home has been completely updated and is ready for a family to enjoy the excellent Marshall schools, wildlife from nearby Whitehouse Nature Preserve and up and coming downtown Albion.This home has been lovingly renovated to include a brand new kitchen with soft close doors and drawers, stainless steel appliances and gorgeous, maintenance-free quartz countertops. The baths and plumbing/hot water heater/water softener are also completely new, with modern features. Plenty of room in the basement for a non-conforming 3rd bedroom.
$129,900 405 Cedar Street Albion, MI 49224
History abounds with this 1875 beauty! Home is located on 3 city lots and is the only home on this quaint, quiet street. Home has 10 ft ceilings through out and hardwood floors on main level. Main floor offers large rooms featuring living rm, formal dining rm, office/den, kitchen & bath. Upstairs: 4 large bedrooms (One BR currently being used as walk in closet) & full bath. Walkout basement offers laundry area plus additional storage. Replacement windows through out, deck off kitchen, & a front porch which covers the front of the home, showcasing the large turret. Don't miss out on this piece of history!
LAND CONTRACT TERMS AVAILABLE!!! 7000 down Completely renovated with all new mechanicals. Warranty included. Call today to make your dream of home ownership a reality!
$144,900 604 Linden Avenue Albion, MI 49224
Updated Albion ranch sitting along the Kalamazoo River includes new roof, 3 nice-sized bedrooms, additional room, 2 full bathrooms, large laundry room, and 2 car attached garage. There's plenty of room for entertaining between the large family room, living room, and quaint back yard with river setting. This updated kitchen has with stainless appliances, beautiful tile backsplash, and stone countertop. The whole home has fresh paint too! Come enjoy the wildlife and serene views this home has to offer. Clint Burghdorf 269-317-0127
2 bedroom, 1.5 bath 2 story home in the City of Albion. The home features: large living room, formal dining room, well appointed kitchen, ceramic tile in the kitchen and dining room, and all appliances included. The dining room has French doors leading out to the deck and fenced in back yard. 2 bedrooms on the upper floor and 1 full bath. Hardwood floors throughout. 1/2 bath on the main floor, full basement with rec room, and 1 car attached garage. There is ample storage throughout the house and above the garage. In the backyard is a very large shed perfect for storing any and all outdoor yard equipment. Call/Text Linda Powers today for more information at 269-209-4136 or email firstname.lastname@example.org.
$44,900 207 Ford Road Albion, MI 49224
Good find in Albion for only $44,900....This 3 bed 1 bath has a full basement and attached garage. Call Listing agent Dustin Damon at 269-317-0988
Good find in Albion....Three bedroom two bath with full basement for only 62k. The home has a large living room and formal dinning room. Downstairs is not finished but makes a great workshop with the walkout service door. Great location within walking distance to the City of Albion Water St. park on the Kalamazoo River. Call Realtor Dustin Damon at 269-317-0988
Priced well below the SEV for a quick sale, This 3 bedroom home located on a large lot with 1 car garage is ready for just the right person to give it a little love and repair. Call Special Agent Andy Frantz today for your private showing at 269-209-1790
$233,000 29175 Albion Road Albion, MI 49224
Spacious, immaculate ranch home near campus with all updates already completed. New lighting, cordless window treatments, new vanities in baths, new shower doors in main bath. Hardwood floors, new/newer carpeting t/o, fresh paint & new electric stove top. Gas fireplace to warm up cool evenings and 4 season room for more entertainment options. Head out to the deck and relax under an electric awning for a late afternoon retreat or unwind in the hot tub. Finished basement has storage and work area. Within walking distance or short ride to campus. Mechanicals also newer. Both garages have gas heat and electric service. Detached garage with workshop. This beautiful property has plenty of living space and has been meticulously cared for and updated. Call for your private showing!
Great place to call home in Albion. Sitting on the corner of Burr Oak and E North St is this 3 bed 1 bath home with lots of updates for only $57,500.00. Features main floor bedroom, main floor bath, two more beds upstairs, 2 car detached garage, new vinyl siding, replacement windows and much more...call Realtor Dustin Damon at 269-317-0988
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I speak to many women who do not wish to start HRT (Hormone Replacement Therapy) for various reasons – some have a family history of breast cancer, or risk factors for stroke/heart disease, or simply want something non-pharmacological. Unfortunately there are few good alternatives, although the following are worth discussing with your doctor:
- certain antidepressants may reduce hot flushes by 50% – side effects may limit this form of treatment though. The most popular one at the moment appears to be Efexor.
- Clonidine and Gabapentin, two non-hormonal conventional medications, are also effective – but again, often cause side effects such as dry mouth and dizziness.
It never ceases to amaze me when new over-the-counter products appear on the shelves with very cute names (I won’t name any for fear of libel!) but currently there is little evidence to support the use of these products (and I’ve never met anyone who swore by a particular product either). That isn’t to say that the active ingredients are not effective – it more reflects the lack of research. However, a recent re-appraisal of all the studies on black cohosh (also known as Remifemen) concluded that it is no better than a placebo. Pfft! There goes that! The only supplement with any reasonable evidence so far is soy isoflavone, which may reduce hot flushes by 25%. Recently I’ve come across single studies that suggest Chinese herbal medicine (a formula called “Dang Gui Bu Xue Tang”), pine bark extract and licorice may help but I don’t think it’s wise to draw conclusions from one study – just look at black cohosh.
There’s interest in the mind-body connection with hot flushes, with talk about the link with serotonin and adrenaline, and Prof Myra Hunter in the UK has published studies that suggest psychological strategies, such as cognitive behavioural therapy, can reduce hot flushes. A small study found yoga could be helpful, as well as studies on paced breathing and exercise. Certainly the area of the brain that tells us that we are feeling hot also seems to have a role in emotional control, so this could be another reason why these therapies might help.
I would encourage all women who are flushing to consult their doctors if they are not coping, to discuss their options. Don’t suffer alone! More useful information can be found on the Jean Hailes website and the Australasian Menopause Society website.
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Haymaking at Knapp
Farming always looks to be a lonely business these days with one person, alone, in his or her air conditioned cab. In the past some aspects of farming were much more social and one of these was haymaking.
This picture shows more than a dozen people during a lull in proceedings at Knapp Farm. This picture dates from the 1920s.
Clearly, another wagon, laden with the vital winter fodder is due to arrive at which point the chaps on the ground, contentedly leaning on their pitchforks in this photo, will set to, transferring the hay to the elevator which will carry it up, well above head height of the people on the stack who will work to hove the dried grass to the required position.
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Everyday Low Pricing (EDLP) Definition and Explanation PDF Download
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Everyday Low Pricing (EDLP) Definition:
In retailing, a constant low price with few or no price promotions and special sales.
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Everyday Low Pricing (EDLP) Explanation:
Everyday low price (EDLP) is a pricing strategy provides consumers an opportunity of low pricing without the wait for sales discount events
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Match the Following Terms Relating to Stock Valuation.
When it comes to stock valuation, there are several key terms that every investor should be familiar with. Understanding these terms is essential for making informed decisions and maximizing potential returns. In this article, I’ll explain three important concepts related to stock valuation: price-to-earnings ratio, book value, and dividend yield. By gaining a clear understanding of these terms, you’ll be better equipped to evaluate stocks and make strategic investment choices.
One of the most widely used metrics in stock valuation is the price-to-earnings ratio (P/E ratio). This ratio compares a company’s stock price to its earnings per share (EPS), providing insight into how much investors are willing to pay for each dollar of earnings. A higher P/E ratio suggests that investors have high expectations for a company’s future growth, while a lower ratio may indicate undervaluation. By analyzing the P/E ratio, investors can assess whether a stock is overpriced or potentially a bargain.
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What is Stock Valuation?
Stock valuation is the process of determining the intrinsic value of a company’s stock. It involves analyzing various factors to assess whether a stock is overpriced or undervalued. As an investor, understanding stock valuation is crucial in making informed decisions about which stocks to buy or sell.
In stock valuation, several methods can be used to assess the true worth of a stock. Some common valuation methods include:
- Price-to-Earnings (P/E) Ratio: The P/E ratio compares a company’s stock price to its earnings per share (EPS). It helps investors gauge whether a stock is overvalued or undervalued based on its earnings potential. A higher P/E ratio suggests that investors have high expectations for the company’s future earnings growth, while a lower P/E ratio may indicate that the stock is undervalued.
- Book Value: The book value represents the net value of a company’s assets after subtracting its liabilities. It is calculated by dividing the company’s total shareholders’ equity by the number of outstanding shares. Comparing a stock’s market price to its book value can give investors insights into whether the stock is trading at a discount or a premium.
- Dividend Yield: The dividend yield measures the annual dividend payment of a stock relative to its share price. It is calculated by dividing the dividend per share by the stock’s market price. A higher dividend yield indicates a higher income potential for investors. Dividend-paying stocks are often favored by income-focused investors.
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Don't let trouble skin give you anymore grief! Take control with this Trouble Skin Collection. Both of these items work great together and are full of powerful ingredients to detoxify and heal without being overly drying. Wash daily with the Charcoal Face Wash Bar, follow with the Everything Serum on trouble spots and finish with a light moisturizer.
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Waldorf Education was developed by Rudolf Steiner in 1919. The essence of this method of teaching is for teachers to present education as fun, creative, active and a learning experience based on experiencing the subject. In mathematics, it highlights basic mathematical principles and operations without stressing on the mechanical aspects of write and learn.
Waldorf techniques for teaching math take into account the overall involvement and development of one’s senses in connection with a topic. While basic and non-Waldorf techniques rely on pencil, paper and memorizing methods, Waldorf math endeavors to make the child reason the mathematical problem unconsciously through the approach of songs, music , dance, games, drawing, coloring and fun techniques. Not only does it incorporate activities of the five basic senses but uses colors to sharpen the senses, music and movement to appeal to the spirit of the child and art forms to bring out varying forms of expression.
# 1. Musical and Song Expressions of Math:
Basic math concepts like number names or 10’s series may be learned through song and dance form, with each child representing a number.
a) For example, one song for number names goes as:
Let us learn to spell, numbers one to ten
O N E – 1, you have learned it well
T W O is 2 and surely you
Can spell 3, T H R E E.
F O U R, that is number 4
F I V E – 5, is the next to know,
Don’t go any farther, for we are half way there
Learning how to spell, numbers 1 – 10
S I X that is number 6
S E V E N – that is number 7
E I G H T is 8 and you will see
8 is a number and also means to eat.
N I N E – is the number 9
T E N – 10 is the last of them
Don’t you think it’s easy, learning how to spell
1, 2 3, 4 , 5
6, 7 8, 9, 10.
b) 10’s series’ song
If you want to count in 10’s
As every number ends,
You will find a zero (0)
If you want to count in tens.
10, 20, 30, 40
50, 60, 70
80, 90, 100 (one hundred)
That’s how you count in tens.
c) Repetitive Number Songs for Toddlers
1, 2, 3
1, 2, 3, 4, 5
I know, I know, five numbers now.
# 2. Artistic Expressions of Math
Children hate it (too strong an emotion for a child to begin schooling experiences with that block free thinking) when they are drilled to read and write and write and read in mechanical fashions. They do not intend to hate it, but it is an automatic response to force. A child’s brain is a sponge that absorbs senses and signals in jumbled codes, and parents and teachers have to train a child on how to convert these signals to the right expressions of learning concepts and operations. Not all children respond the same way, and while one approach of teaching may work for one, it may not necessarily work for another child.
Colors brighten the senses and sharpen the mind. This is a known scientific fact and psychologists and counselors have made use of this knowledge to reach out to children. Similarly the Waldorf approach too uses this principle to teach children mathematical principles.
For example, the child has to learn how to write the numbers 1 to 10. You may dot the numbers, you may drill it strictly into a child, you may use all forms of teaching and get the child to finally learn to write, but whether the child has experienced and enjoyed these numbers might not always balance well on this equation.
Use the Waldorf method. Teach a child to write by making the child draw pictures. Teach a child to draw a candle. The first step is to draw one standing line followed by another standing line and marked off by two small sleeping lines at the top and the bottom with a scribble of a circle as the fire on top. Color the picture. It is artistic, expressive and a delight to see, for the child has enjoyed art class instead of math class. On the contrary, the child has unconsciously developed the knack for writing # 1 by practicing the standing lines.
The child may be taught to draw a duck or a swan facing left in order to learn the number two. A snake may be drawn for number 3, a boat for number 4, an apple for number 5, a clown’s face for number 6 and so on. Each number follows a drawing pattern based on the shape of the number and additional details added to it after that. When drawing a duck, the first stroke would be the outlining of the number 2 followed by the markings for the head, neck, body, etc.
# 3. Games
Games may be used to teach children basic mathematical operations like addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. Divide the class into teams. Spread them around the room. Each team represents a mathematical problem to be solved with values/digits attached to each child. Using a number line system of children spaced out on number placemats across the floor, the team may deduct the answer by enacting the problem.
For example. 2 + 2 = 4
Team 1 organize themselves by standing on number mats on the floor. One stands on zero (0), while the rest stand in order from 1, 2, 3 4 and so on. For the problem 2+2, the person standing at zero may first take two steps (to join the child at number 2) and then jump another 2 steps indicating an increase of 2 in the problem to land at place 4. Children find this fun and this exercise helps to memorize facts easily. They begin to understand that + or addition means and increase, and that subtraction means a decrease which lessens the total value.
Ideally, every teacher should be trained in the art of teaching children the Waldorf way. It could be English, Math, Science or Arts & Humanities, with the basic underlining principles the same for all; creativity, movement, personal involvement of children in a subject, use of teaching aids like sand tray, bean bags, abacus, beads, play dough, crayons, place mats, and musical instruments or a music player. There is no fixed rule, but just one basic principle; get the child totally involved in the subject mentally, physically and on a personal level. | <urn:uuid:72fa52aa-e38b-4e3b-b6b0-0db422c49c1c> | HuggingFaceTB/smollm-corpus/tree/main/fineweb-edu-dedup | smollm-corpus | eng_Latn | 5,884 |
Poorly performing housing markets in Florida and California put a damper on Lowe’s overall sales in its second fiscal quarter, but the company still managed to boost revenues to $14.2 billion, a 5.8 percent rise from $13.4 billion during the same quarter last year. Earnings for the industry’s second largest home improvement retailer were $1.02 billion, up 9.0 percent from $935 million in the second quarter of 2006—a record, according to the company.
Comparable-store sales were down, however, by 2.6 percent. Lowe’s two regions in California experienced double digit declines in sales comps, according to chairman and CEO Robert Niblock. The Gulf Coast region, which includes Florida, showed some improvement from the first quarter, but comp-sales were still a negative 15 percent.
The central part of the country, including Texas and Oklahoma up through the Ohio Valley, delivered positive comp sales, as did some Mid-Atlantic states that weren’t part of the earlier home-building frenzy.
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“If we go back a year ago, no one was aware of how deep the subprime market would go, how much the lending standards had been relaxed, and the impact [those events] would have through the marketplace,” Niblock told analysts during an Aug. 20 conference call. While these macroeconomic factors don’t have a direct impact on Lowe’s business, Niblock said the company was prepared for “[some] fallout that may occur” due to tightened lending standards.
Consumers are already showing a reluctance to take on big ticket projects, according to Lowe’s, which reported a slowdown in its installed sales and special order programs. Commercial business outperformed the company average, however, with positive sales comps in many of the commercial merchandise divisions.
Overall, only six of 20 product categories achieved positive comps during Lowe’s second quarter, which ended on Aug. 3, 2007. Lawn and garden sales were strong, especially live plants. Other solid performers were paint, rough plumbing, fashion plumbing, hardware, lighting, flooring (except carpeting) and appliances.
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When it comes to air purifier vs humidifier, both have a useful purpose in your home. Both can help lessen allergy symptoms, but air purifiers have the bigger advantage. To find out more about choosing the best air purifier for your needs, take a look at some of our product reviews .
Air purifier or a humidifier for allergies? An air purifier is the best option for allergies. Air purifiers remove dust, pollen, pet dander, mold spores, and more from the air so they don’t end up in your eyes, throat, or lungs. A humidifier doesn’t remove these items, and
TruSens Air Purifier | 360 HEPA Filtration with Dupont Filter | UV-C Light | Dual Airflow for Full Coverage (Small)
- CAPTURES AND DESTROYS POLLUTANTS: 360-degree DuPont filtration captures pollutants such as allergens, VOC gases and microscopic particles with our 4 levels of purification. Ultraviolet light destroys germs and viruses that can build up on the filter, reducing the re-circulation of germs. SensorPod not included with small size.
- DUAL AIRFLOW: PureDirect proprietary technology splits clean air into two air streams, delivering purified air more comfortably and efficiently throughout the room. The result of rigorous testing has proven that bi-directional airflow delivers purified air more effectively throughout a room, and in some cases, has been proven to be up to 24% more efficient.
- TOTAL ROOM COVERAGE: Most purifiers can leave rooms with areas of little to no air circulation, or dead zones, by only shooting air either vertically or straight out. TruSens PureDirect proprietary technology uses two separate airflow streams to minimize those dead zones. From quiet speed to Turbo cleaning mode, the Z-1000 has been carefully optimized to deliver cleaner air
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2016/9/13 · Air Purifiers and Humidifiers Serve Different Purposes An air purifier serves a different purpose than a humidifier.Air purifiers are designed to clear the air of allergens, dust, reduce mold or control odors. Humidifiers, on the other hand, work solely to control the …
An air purifier for allergies needs to tackle mold, pollen, dust, dander, and more.The Levoit Air Purifier is the right machine for the job. This best overall air purifier is equipped with a true HEPA filter to make sure particles as tiny as 0.3 microns are captured. A pre …
- Captures up to 99% of microscopic particles, 2 microns and larger, from the air that passes through the filter
- For maximum efficiency, replace filter (s) every 4 months
- HEPA-Type filter w/ built-in odor reducing pre-filter
- Designed specifically for the Febreze Air Purifiers
- To ensure stated product performance, use only Genuine Febreze Filters
If you have allergies and asthma, do a little research and see if an air purifier is right for you. Especially if you live in an area that is prone to forest fires, or a big city with lots of pollution. I hope this clears up any confusion about humidifiers vs standing air purifiers.
An air purifier may help reduce allergy or asthma symptoms by cleaning the air inside your house. Learn what to look for in an air purifier, plus find out what air purifiers are best for allergies.
Fellowes 9286201 AeraMax 290 Large Room Air Purifier for Allergies, Asthma and Flu with True HEPA Filter and 4-Stage Purification
- Recommended for large rooms sized 300 – 500 square feet
- Certified asthma & allergy friendly by the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America
We test air purifiers in the quest to see which can best provide relief for the allergy sufferer. From our testing you can see the best air purifiers for allergies. Through performance testing we see a wide range in the ability of air purifiers to clean the air of allergens.The …
2019/5/23 · What’s the difference between air purifiers vs humidifiers? And which is better for you, an air purifier or humidifier? This video has the answers. Discover …
Dreval D-950 Air Purifier and Humidifier- True HEPA Filter Negative Ion Generator Home Humidifier Filter Combo Air Cleaner with Built in Odor Sensor
- BOOSTS A 7 STAGE AIR PURIFICATION SYSTEM: The Dreval d 950 Air Purifier True HEPA Filter Humidifier includes a cold catalyst, cellular activated carbon, antibacterial and high efficiency HEPA filters; it also includes an ultraviolet germicide light, Anion purification and an ultrasonic humidifier that ensure effective filtration of airborne pollutants up to 99.9 percent. removes 99.97% of particles sized 0.3 um or larger
- SUPERIOR AIR FILTER: This humidifying air purifier combo takes care of all your air filtration needs from poor quality air, foul odors, dry air, dust, pet dander, germs, viruses, bacteria, allergens, and other airborne particles and pollutants; ideal for all rooms in the house including the bedroom and kitchen. Works as an antimicrobial agent to eliminate and prevent the growth of dangerous microorganisms, mold and bacteria from the air.
- ODOR SENSOR: This air purifier for home detects pollutants and odors and adjusts fan speed to changing air quality; the filter will show the color RED for Poor, ORANGE for Normal, and GREEN for Excellent Air Quality to keep you aware of the quality of air in your home at all times. Delivers a 98% absorption rate, removes odors from the air, and absorbs harmful gases; it has an increased surface area for the effective absorption and removal process
- CONVENIENT BUILT IN FEATURES: Our air purifier and humidifier combination boosts an ultrasonic humidifier; negative ion generator, a UV Sterilization Lamp for excessively poor air quality and a timer for specific purification sessions or blocks of time; it also has multiple button settings for different purification needs such as a SLEEP, UV STERILIZE and MIST; 2 YEAR WARRANTY
- EXTREMELY QUIET OPERATION: This whole house HEPA air purifier is specially designed to maintain a peaceful environment while purifying large rooms; it is safe for kids and pets
The Best Air Purifiers for Allergies Amazon.com Breathe easier at home with a HEPA air purifier, which will clear dust, smoke, VOCs, and other allergens from the air.
Both air purifiers and humidifiers offer unique benefits to people looking for help with allergies, asthma and other respiratory ailments. But air purifiers and humidifiers are not the same thing, and to get the help you need, you should understand the differences and how to use each machine most effectively.
LEVOIT H13 True HEPA Filter Air Purifiers for Allergies and Pets, Smokers, Smoke, Dust, Mold, and Pollen, Cleaner for Bedroom, Large Room with Optional Night Light, LV-H132, White
- Designed in California. The UVC Light and Anion that other Brands adopt to purify air could produce a kind of air pollutant-Ozone, which is especially harmful for the children and Asthma sufferers. Levoit air purifiers never use these for 100% Ozone free
- Advanced 3-Stage Filtration System: The Pre-Filter, True HEPA Filter, and High-Efficiency Activated Carbon Filter capture allergens, pet hair, dander, smoke, mold, odor and large dust particles, in addition to removing 99. 97% of airborne contaminants as small as 0. 3 microns
- Genuine Replacement Filters: Search for lvh132rf for Replacement filter. Use genuine Levoit replacement filters to maintain the best performance and to ensure what you’re buying is worthy of your investment
- Ultra-Silent Operation: Filters the air with the lowest noise level as quiet as 25dB for a restful and soothing indoor environment, helping you sleep deeply
- High-Efficiency Air Purifier: Circulates room air over 4 times per hour to achieve rapid purification. Unique size and contemporary design make the Levoit air purifier suitable for small or medium-sized rooms, like offices and dorms
- Smart Filter Change Reminder: Built-in Replacement Indicator reminds you when you need to replace your filter. It is recommended to replace your filter every 6-8 months depending on the use and air quality
- Night Light: Choose between two brightness settings at night to help you see in the evening or turn the light off entirely to create your ideal sleep environment for an undisturbed slumber
- Quality Assurance: CARB Certified –Compliance with California’s stringent standards for indoor cleaning device, FCC certified, and ETL listed
Air purifiers are clean indoor air, but do nothing for indoor humidity levels 3. They remove dust and smoke from the air, as well as allergenic substances like animal dander and pollen. Humidifiers add water into the air, but do not clean it. They are used to relieve2.
Air purifiers and humidifiers can both impact the air you breathe in your home, but they each serve a different purpose with unique benefits.If you are looking for ways to help allergies, respiratory symptoms or dry air conditions, or if you want to create a healthy home …
Blueair Blue Pure 211+ Air Purifier 3 Stage with Two Washable Pre-Filters, Particle, Carbon Filter, Captures Allergens, Odors, Smoke, Mold, Dust, Germs, Pets, Smokers, Large Room
- Advanced Swedish Design. Swedish Filter Technology Captures 99% of Airborne Pollutants Like Viruses, Pollen, Dust, Pet Dander, Mold, Bacteria and More
- Eliminates odors. Activated carbon filter reduces gases, VOCs, and annoying odors from pets, smoking, cooking, wildfires and more
- Colorful. Includes machine washable fabric pre-filters in diva blue and dark shadow. Leave the mesh filter housing exposed for a Scandinavian look
- Low energy consumption. Rated by energy star for low energy consumption (30–60 w).energy consumption:30 – 61 watts
- Independently Tested. Performance Certified by Aham to Filter Room Air 5x an Hour in Medium to Large Bedrooms, Living Rooms and Spaces Up to 540 Square feet
- Quiet. No louder than a whisper on the lowest speed (31 decibel.) and equivalent to the noise level of rainfall on the highest setting (56 decibel.)
2020/1/15 · An air purifier provides contaminant-free air to breathe while the humidifier moisturizes the air with the correct temperature during hot and cold seasons. Babies will be comfortable. Allergic people: Air purifiers would be better options because they are designed to eliminate contaminants from the air and prevents the allergens from getting in your lungs or eyes.
Air purifiers circulate a home’s air through a filter, which traps smoke, pollen, dust mites, and other contaminants. Thus the air moving through your home is cleaner and easier to breathe. An air purifier can be installed in the ductwork of your HVAC system to clean the air of your whole house, or a smaller, portable unit can clean the air in a particular room.
LEVOIT Air Purifiers for Home Allergies and Pets Hair, H13 True HEPA Filter for Bedroom, 24db Filtration System with ARC Formula, Remove 99.97% Odors Smoke Dust Mold Pollen, Core P350, Gray
- Genuine Replacements: Search for “p350-rf” or “B087R7ZFPB” for levoit 3-in-1 customized pet filter with ARC Formula to ensure excellent performance
- Perfect Gift for Pet Families: Ideal for pet allergies, improve your air quality and help you and your pets relieve allergic symptoms such as sneezing, coughing, sinuses and heavy breathing. Ozone-free, approved by CARB, ETL listed and CA PROP 65 certified
- H13-Grade True HEPA Filter: Reduces up to 99.97% of harmful air pollutants, smoke, pollen, mold spores, dust mites and other allergens as small as 0.3 microns from the air. This new fine non-woven fabric pre-filter is more effective than other common pre-filters at capturing floating hair, pet fur, pet dander, dust, fibers, lint
- Sleep Mode & Timer: The QuietKEAP Technology keeps noise levels as low as 24dB. Set a timer for 2, 4, 8, or 12 hours, then turn off the display light to enjoy a perfect and undisturbed night of sleep. The pet lock button prevents your pets from tampering with any of the other buttons or settings
- What You Get: Along with the 3-in-1 customized pet filter and user manual, every Core P350 Air Purifier comes with a 1-year warranty and a lifetime of customer support from our California-based team. Extend your warranty by an additional year when you register your product online
- High Powered: The Vortexair Technology offers an increased CADR of 141 CFM / 240 m³/h, handily covering rooms as large as 219 ft2 (20㎡) and refreshing the air 5 times per hour, perfect for bedroom, living room, dining room or pet room
Humidifier: Adds extra moisture to the air. Dehumidifier : Removes excess moisture from the air. Let’s get into how these two devices work, how they can benefit your health when used indoors …
Air purifiers work by trapping and removing contaminants in the air that are affecting the air quality in order to purify the air, making it cleaner and healthier to breathe in. Unfortunately, sometimes the air we are breathing is full of unhealthy particles like dust, allergens, pet dander, mold, and other bacteria that could affect our bodies when we are consistently breathing it in.
Germ Guardian True HEPA Filter Air Purifier with UV Light Sanitizer, Eliminates Germs, Filters Allergies, Pollen, Smoke, Dust Pet Dander, Mold Odors, Quiet 22 inch 4-in-1 Air Purifier for Home AC4825E
- 4-in-1 air purifier for home: True HEPA air filter reduces up to 99.97% of harmful germs, dust, pollen, pet dander, mold spores, and other allergens as small as .3 microns from the air
- Kills germs: UV-C light helps kill airborne viruses such as influenza, staph, rhinovirus, and works with Titanium Dioxide to reduce volatile organic compounds
- Traps allergens pre filter traps dust, pet hair, and other large particles while extending the life of the HEPA filter. Bulb wattage is 55 watts
- Reduces odors: Activated charcoal filter helps to reduce unwanted odors from pets, smoke, cooking fumes, and more
- Quiet operation: The lowest setting can be used as gentle white noise at night for a quiet, restful sleep
- Settings: Choose between 3 speed settings and an optional uv c light. CARB EO# G-12-006. EPA Registration # 87267-CHN-001.
- Genuine replacements: Only use genuine germguardian replacement parts to maintain performance
- Replacements: Replace the filter every 6 to 8 months and the uv c bulb every 10 to 12 months; Filters: Germ guardian filter b (model flt4825) or a 4 pack of germ guardian carbon filters (model flt22cb4); UV C bulb: Model lb4000
- Aham verified & energy star certified: This air purifier was rated for its ability to filter tobacco smoke, dust, and pollen from rooms and be energy star certified and carb compliant
2019/6/22 · Fellowes AeraMax Air Purifiers for Allergies, Asthma and Flu with True HEPA Filter and 4-Stage Purification Using automatic detection technology to sense the air quality, this device cleans the …
LEVOIT Air Purifier for Home Allergies Pets Hair Smokers in Bedroom, H13 True HEPA Air Purifiers Filter, 24db Quiet Air Cleaner, Remove 99.97% Smoke Dust Mold Pollen for Large Room, Core 300, White 4.7 out of 5 stars 9,292
BISSELL MYair Purifier with High Efficiency and Carbon Filter for Small Room and Home, Quiet Bedroom Air Cleaner for Allergies, Pets, Dust, Dander, Pollen, Smoke, Hair, Odors, Timer, 2780A
- 3-in-1 filter includes pre-filter layer and a combination of an activated carbon and high efficiency filter that work to capture 99. 7% of 0. 3 micron particles or larger on sleep mode, including pollen, dust, smoke, and dander.
- Activated carbon captures common household odors, pet odors and volatile organic compounds.
- Operates at a whisper-quiet level to contribute to a peaceful sleeping environment.
- Choose between High or Low fan speed, as well as a Sleep fan speed that operates at a whisper quiet sound level.
- Recommended for spaces around 100 sq. ft. , so it’s great for home offices or bedrooms.
On average, you can find a great humidifier for under $100, which cannot be said for the air purifiers as their prices go well over that range. But, as I said, it all comes down to what you need the appliance for…
Since air purifiers are not really capable of removing all viruses from the room and only special ones have actual power of removing them, I will say that the better choice here is a humidifier. With a humidifier and proper humidity levels, your body will fight sinus infection easier.
LEVOIT Air Purifier for Home Allergies Pets Hair Smokers in Bedroom, H13 True HEPA Air Purifiers Filter, 24db Quiet Air Cleaner, Remove 99.97% Smoke Dust Mold Pollen for Large Room, Core 300, White
- Genuine Replacement Filters: Search for core300-rf or core 300 replacement filter for Replacement Filters. Use genuine Levoit replacement filters to maintain the best performance and to ensure what you’re buying is worthy of your investment
- Higher Purify Performance: Use the Core 300 to fill your environment with crisp, clean air. Its Vortexair Technology creates a stronger air flow, CADR number is 230+m3/h, allowing it to cover up to 219 sq. ft. AC 120V/60HZ for USA and Canada
- Improved Filtration: With larger expansion area and longer length than others, the H13 Ture HEPA filter works with ultra-fine Pre-filter and activated carbon filter, trapping 99. 97% of fine particles and allergens as small as 0. 3 microns and large pollutants such as dust, pet dander, smoke, mold, pollen
- Most Silent Air Cleaner: The noise level is nearly voiceless at sleep mode with only 24db, its QuietKEAP Technology reduces noise so you can sleep in a restful and soothing indoor environment
- Ultra-long Service Life: Industry leader provider’s bearing makes this levoit core300 hepa air purifier durable and reliable. The AC capacitor motor uses durable high-precision bearing, and excellent internal structure increases abrasion resist, which obviously extends the life of machine
- Full Certified for Safer: Energy Star Verified, Complies with California air resources board (CARB) for indoor cleaning devices. Also FCC certified, ETL listed, CA PROP 65 certified
- Ozone Free: Levoit air purifiers avoid using UV/Ion light, an air cleaning method that research has shown can produce harmful ozone and secondary pollution
- Undisturbed Operation: display light can be turned off to enjoy a perfect night of sleep without the effect of light. A timer for 2/4/6/8 hours and filter life time indicator for your convenience
- What you get: Air purifier that is designed in California and has won CGD 2019, 3-in-1 H13-grade True HEPA filter and user manual. Professional and California-based Customer Service from Levoit
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Air Humidifier Vs Air Purifier Both an air humidifier and an air purifier works hard to keep improving your indoor air and to keep it comfortable. And for this reason lots of people today use these devices in their room. Even though many people know that they need to …
Air purifier and humidifier are different from each other basis on their works and quality. Though both of them are the electrical device of performing for improving your home environment more comfortable. An air purifier mainly works as an air cleaner. Most importantly …
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Kuang Chiang’s practice focuses on export and import controls, with a particular emphasis on economic sanctions as regulated by the U.S. Department of the Treasury, Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). Ms. Chiang advises U.S. and international companies on compliance and enforcement matters, including licensing requests and voluntary self-disclosures. More >
Kuang Chiang’s practice focuses on export and import controls, with a particular emphasis on economic sanctions as regulated by the U.S. Department of the Treasury, Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). Ms. Chiang advises U.S. and international companies on compliance and enforcement matters, including licensing requests and voluntary self-disclosures.
Ms. Chiang worked as a License Examining Officer at OFAC in its Blocked Assets and Complex Matters licensing section from 2009 to 2012, a period during which major developments occurred in the sanctions environment, including a significant tightening of restrictions against Iran, intensified enforcement of OFAC regulations, and increased cooperation from international allies with U.S. sanctions efforts. During her time at OFAC, Ms. Chiang reviewed complex license requests from exporters and financial institutions in a variety of sanctions programs, including the Iranian Transactions Regulations, the Libyan Sanctions Regulations, the Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferators Sanctions Regulations, and the Zimbabwe Sanctions Regulations. She prepared licenses, denials, and interpretive rulings on behalf of the agency on a wide spectrum of topics including the exportation of commodities to sanctioned countries, the re-exportation of U.S.-origin goods and technology from third-party countries to sanctioned countries, the disposition of blocked property, the transfer of funds and property to and from sanctioned countries, and the operation of corporations owned by blocked persons and entities. Her work required frequent collaboration with the U.S. Department of State to implement sanctions consistent with U.S. foreign policy. She also communicated with foreign treasury and finance ministries, such as Her Majesty’s Treasury of the United Kingdom, to administer multilateral sanctions programs, and delivered presentations on OFAC’s behalf to the People’s Bank of China and the Bureau of Foreign Trade of Taiwan.
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| R. Jack Garret chapter 39 . 3/17/2012
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| IadoreFluffyRomance chapter 39 . 3/17/2012
DON, MR. D & OR TYSON!
| sangkar chapter 38 . 3/17/2012
Do Paul. You have to do Paul. I love Paul.
I really liked Ella's one. It was funny.
| PLKBerry chapter 38 . 3/16/2012
Whoa! Love it! Please do Paul and Nancy?
| somebody chapter 38 . 3/16/2012
| Capilla007 chapter 38 . 3/16/2012
Romans are all abou honor and teamwork, aren't they? I'm still going for Ella :3 and I wouldn't mind Tyson. Have we done him yet?
| MMJrox88 chapter 38 . 3/15/2012
daeldulus- children of athena must be clver, but also wise.
its in the battle of the labyrinth. maybe you can make it more descriptive
| StarrySea chapter 38 . 3/15/2012
Haha! Awesome! I love that part!
(pst: do Tyson)
| PerseusSlayerOfMedusa chapter 38 . 3/15/2012
Update soon! i have a character preference: Lou Ellen, from The Lost Hero!
| perfectlyODD chapter 38 . 3/15/2012
I still request Sammy.
| somebody chapter 37 . 3/15/2012
please please please please please please please please plesae please do tyson.
| owlgrl99 chapter 37 . 3/15/2012
Sammy and frank! Awesome story! Post soon!
| lolol hehehe chapter 37 . 3/14/2012
I'm a Filipino so I should know this. ( I Think )
Cry of Balintawak or 186-something
By a guy who's last name starts with an A.
I think it Alvero.
Anywho... Phineas or Miranda G.
| lollimewirepirate-ninja chapter 37 . 3/14/2012
THE CRY OF BALINTAWAK I'M PRETTY SURE
BOB THE FRIENDLY TITAN HE WAS IN DEMIGOD FILES
| StarrySea chapter 37 . 3/14/2012
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About Recover Me
At University, one of our close friends was struggling with a gambling addiction. It took a number of months to have a conversation with him about it. It started off with going to the casino after a night out and sometimes, placing a bet on the local football team. Soon we found out that this behaviour had escalated and on the night that our student loan had dropped he had put all his student loan on red. This risk had not paid off and he found himself in a very difficult situation. We wanted to find him the best help.
of gambling-related harms. Something that we believe is preventable.
As trainee doctors in the NHS, we met a patient who was suffering from mental health issues secondary to gambling addiction. We witnessed first-hand the serious implications of this devastating addiction. Our patient was unable to access appropriate care to manage his gambling addiction and we found out that current treatment options only cater to 8% of those who need it. We wanted to do more.
Following further research and discussions with gambling addicts, psychologists, and psychiatrists we began to understand the frequency, severity and nature of gambling-related harms. Something that we believe is preventable.
As a result, in 2018, RecoverMe was born. A prototype was built and this was tested with current and ex-problem gamblers. From this, we have shaped the therapy and app to position us to launch RecoverMe in Spring 2020. | <urn:uuid:58711db7-b8a5-4fb8-a017-181e0495d934> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 1,452 |
- Morningside of Lexington
218 Old Chapin Road, Lexington, SC, 29072
Community InformationMorningside of Lexington is an assisted living facility in Lexington, SC. Morningside of Lexington offers activities at their location for residents. These activities generally allow residents to maintain healthy lifestyles by encouraging movement and socializing with their peers.
Being able to chat with other residents becomes an important part of many peoples' lives and Morningside of Lexington offers common spaces indoors to support that need. The benefit of living in an assisted living community is that making meals can be costly and time consuming process so Morningside of Lexington provides meals for residents.
Staff is awake and available 24 hours a day so if any emergencies occur no matter the time, there will be someone ready to help. Morningside of Lexington is operated by Five Star Senior Living.
Unique Features• Close to Hospital and local area shopping
• Onsite Wellness nurse
• In-house physician makes rounds every week
• On site therapy services
The minimum age that a resident may be is 55 years old.
StaffingNurses on StaffDoctor on Call24-Hour Awake StaffVisiting NurseHomecare OnsiteVisiting PodiatristVisiting Physical TherapistVisiting Occupational TherapistVisiting Speech Therapist
Facility Care Level
Care Level Percentage Light Care 0% Medium Care 50% Heavy Care 50%
Morningside of Lexington prefers that residents need: light care, medium care
Additional ServicesDiabetic Care
This community can administer insulin injections and blood sugar tests, although are it is not necessarily able to offer sliding scale therapy.
Memory Care Offered
This community employs technology to prevent residents from wandering and becoming lost, for example bracelets that will ring an alarm if the resident leaves the community.
This staff at this community can remind incontinent residents to use the restroom. This community can care for residents with bowel incontinence. This community can care for residents with bladder incontinence.
Non Ambulatory Care
This community can provide a 2 person assisted transfer for residents who need help transferring, for example, from a bed into a wheelchair.
This community is provides multiple levels of care allowing residents to remain at the community while receiving increasing care.
TransportationResident Parking Available
Additional AmenitiesActivities OnsiteActivities OffsiteDevotional Services OnsiteDevotional Services OffsiteOutdoor Common AreasIndoor Common AreasBeautician Onsite
Other ServicesWheelchair Accessible ShowersHospice AvailableRespite OfferedAging in Place
Activities ProvidedNone specified at this time.
Average Room Pricing at Morningside of Lexington
Room Type Assisted Living Studio Averages $3,100 - $3,900 Monthly 1 Bedroom Averages $3,700 - $4,600 Monthly Semi-Private Averages $2,400 - $2,900 Monthly 2 Bedrooms Averages $4,100 - $5,100 MonthlyDisclaimer: The prices, amenities, features and care offered at senior communities are all subject to change; therefore information on this community profile may be out of date. Please note the costs per community are rough estimates; actual costs may vary depending on special offers and discounts, additional fees for services and care, and availability.
Estimated Fees at Morningside of Lexington
Fee Type Assisted Living Community Fee Averages $900 - $1,200 One-time Respite Fee Averages $200 - $200 Daily Buy-In Fee High Care Needs Fee Averages $1,100 - $1,400 Monthly Medium Care Needs Fee Averages $500 - $700 Monthly Low Care Needs Fee Averages $300 - $400 Monthly 2nd Person Fee Averages $900 - $1,200 MonthlyDisclaimer: The prices, amenities, features and care offered at senior communities are all subject to change; therefore information on this community profile may be out of date. Please note the costs per community are rough estimates; actual costs may vary depending on special offers and discounts, additional fees for services and care, and availability.
Paying for careCommercial InsurancePrivate paySocial SecuritySeparate pricing structure for careVeteran's benefits
If Morningside of Lexington isn't quite what you're looking for, take a look at a few other nearby communities that might be a better match.
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1.4 What Is College Really (Know what resources your college makes…
1.4 What Is College Really
Describe differences between large and small college classes and discuss the implications for learning
you are lest likely to get stage fright in a smaller class.
it is easier to build a relation ship and mutual respect with the professor and students in a small class.
you're more reliant on yourself.
more access to help in a small class.
it is harder to hear the lecture in a bigger class.
Understand courses within your own college program: core courses, electives, and major courses.
Electives are courses you choose freely to complete the total number of credits needed for your program or degree.
Most colleges require a list of courses.
Required courses in major are determined by an individual academic department.
Core courses or general education requirements, involve a range of courses from which you can choose to meet requirements.
History, Math, English, ETC
Know how to learn your college’s policies and understand their importance.
most important policy is academic honesty
Sometimes students do not understand the rules and find themselves in trouble.
know policies regarding alcohol , sexual harassment ,hazing , hate crimes etc
be mindful of add an drop dates, payment schedules and refunds.
Describe different skills needed for online courses.
Must be motivated to do your work since you don't physically go to class
time management to make sure you finish your work in due time.
Having that this is an online coarse you will need to keep focus on your task without an instructor having to direct you. Learning on a computer is not as easy as it seems so please feel free to take notes.
You need to own or have frequent access to a computer or device with high internet speed.
Know what resources your college makes available to students and how to access them.
Financial and business offices for taking care of your responsibilities
Bookstore to buy books you may need for classes
Writing centers for taking before or after classes to write essays or get help on becoming a better writer
numerous computer labs
tutoring center: writing center, biology tutoring, Math tutoring,
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Using the blueprint from its successful launch of an amateur event in Asia, the Masters -- along with the R&A and the United States Golf Association -- announced a foray into Latin America on Wednesday that will reward the winner of an amateur tournament there with a spot at Augusta National.
The Latin America Amateur Championship will be played in January 2015 and will be open to amateur golfers from South America, Central America, Mexico and the Caribbean.
Much like the Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship -- which led to 14-year-old Guan Tianlang of China becoming the youngest to compete in the year's first men's major -- the tournament will offer a place in the Masters field for its winner, as well as spots to the winner and runner-up in final qualifying for the Open Championship and U.S. Open.
The winner also will receive full exemptions into the British Amateur Championship, the U.S. Amateur and any other USGA event for which he is eligible. At this point, no exemptions are given to USGA events for the Asia-Pacific Amateur.
The announcement was made Wednesday in Buenos Aires, Argentina, with Masters chairman Billy Payne, R&A CEO Peter Dawson and USGA executive director Mike Davis in attendance.
The first Latin America Amateur Championship will be Jan. 15-18, 2015, at Pilar Golf Club, a course outside of Buenos Aires that has twice hosted the Argentine Open. Players from 27 countries or territories in the region will be eligible.
"We believe this event will be motivating to current and future generations of golfers and, one day, create heroes that will inspire others to give the game a try," Payne said. "This belief has guided us well through the early successes of the Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship, and with the collective expertise in guiding the game of golf provided by the R&A and the USGA, we are hopeful in achieving equally exciting results."
Japan's Hideki Matsuyama won the Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship twice and proceeded to make the cut both times at the Masters as an amateur. He turned pro last year and has already climbed to 23rd in the world.
Guan sparked worldwide attention when he made the cut at last year's Masters. He went on to play in several PGA Tour events on sponsor exemptions later last year. | <urn:uuid:71bfec29-22c5-44f1-a94c-ebb0b6d81c6a> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 2,262 |
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You’ve probably already seen the Rolls-Royce Vision NEXT 100 concept car, a car that looks like a 1930’s designer’s vision of the future. It’s easily one of the most fascinating and polarizing concept cars in recent memory, regardless of how people feel about it. However, what you most likely haven’t seen is just how cars like the Rolls-Royce Vision NEXT 100 are made, as most mortals haven’t. Well, we recently spent a day in Goodwood to give you fellow readers a look inside one of the most incredible factories in the world.
The seven acre factory in Goodwood almost acts as a massive showroom for the Rolls-Royce brand. Built down low into the ground and with an entirely grass-covered roof, the Goodwood factory peacefully blends into the beautiful countryside. Tall glass surround the entire building and, along with skylights, fills the entire factory with natural light, which makes for a serene working environment. It’s impressive, but subtle. Just like the cars made inside of it.
Inside the factory, everything is white, gray and clean. Perfectly clean. It almost looks as if they perform surgery there instead of build cars. There isn’t a drop of oil anywhere on the floor. It’s fitting how clean and sterile the environment is because what the Rolls Royce engineers and craftsmen do is as close to precision as surgery.
Each Rolls-Royce is built with incredible precision and attention to detail. The amount of work, much of it done by hand, that goes into building each Rolls-Royce is simply astonishing. There are eight areas of production, as the Goodwood plant handles both manufacturing and design, with two working shifts.
The process in which a Rolls-Royce is built is long and extremely thorough. It isn’t so much putting engines and transmissions is cars that takes time, that’s the easy stuff. It’s hand crafting parts of the interior, inspecting every piece of leather to make sure there are absolutely no blemishes, hand painting most of the car and assembling all of the minute details, such as the ‘starlight’ headliner. Each car takes weeks at least to create. The fastest car that Rolls can make is the Ghost, which takes a minimum of 30 days and 60 hands to make. The Phantom takes a minimum of 45 days. Some Rolls-Royces can even take up to a year.
Most of what takes so long is the intense customization involved with building a Rolls-Royce. It’s pretty well known in the car world just how extensive Rolls Royce’s customization program is. However, until you see what actually goes on and how much these workers do, it’s almost impossible to actually understand.
Some of the simple painting of the car is done by machine, but a lot of it is hand sprayed. Rolls-Royce has over 14,000 paint colors to choose from but will make literally anything a customer wants. Rolls-Royce can and even will match the color of a customers lipstick or anything of the like. Then all of the tiny details, such as the coach line and any other striping, is done by hand by one man. And this one man can paint anything on the car, from floral designs to initials. He has a steady enough hand that he simply doesn’t make mistakes. In fact, he can’t make a mistake, because Rolls-Royce uses special paint that immediately bonds with the car, so any mistake could ruin the paint job of a $500,000 car.
Inside the car, the leather is had from Scandinavian bulls only, as bulls don’t get pregnant so their skin doesn’t get stretch marks and the Scandinavian climate doesn’t promote a lot of bugs that bite the bulls skin. Rolls-Royce also only gets leather from bulls that have already been killed for food and do not specially kill any animals for leather. That probably won’t make any vegans feel better, though. The leather can also be dyed in a simply ridiculous variety of colors, however the seat upholstery can only be done in leather, as nothing else holds together as well. But, for trim, door panels or anything else that can come in leather, a wide variety of materials can be had, such as alligator or ostrich leather.
For the interior wood, the veneers are sourced from all over the world and many different woods are available. Customers can even source their own wood, for instance one customer wanted wood from a tree that fell in his yard. Rolls-Royce made that happen. But Rolls can also use other materials than wood and can use anything really. If a customer dreams it, and can afford it, a customer gets it. Rolls-Royce can even embroider anything a customer wants into the seats, door panels or pretty much anywhere else.
The headliner is also impressive. The starlight headliner is home to hundreds of LEDs that give the driver an impression of a starry sky. Each starlight headliner is assembled by hand and is a meticulous process that takes dozens of man hours to finish. Customers can also customize the lights so as to resemble certain constellations in the sky. It takes each associate three months training to be able to work on the starlight headliner. It’s so impressive, 50 percent of all Rolls customers get it.
Each Rolls-Royce is meticulously assembled and crafted by some of the finest men and women in the industry. Buying a Rolls-Royce is an experience in itself and a privilege for anyone who has the fortune of doing so. While many cars on today’s market are supremely luxurious, such as the BMW 7 Series, Mercedes-Benz S Class, Mercedes-Maybach and Bentley Mulsanne, Rolls-Royce creates and sells luxury like no one else.
The Goodwood Rolls Royce place is among the most impressive manufacturing plants in the world, if not the most impressive, and in it the most impressive luxury cars in the world are made. | <urn:uuid:8660d60e-1360-495b-b6c2-9248be26a6d6> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 5,661 |
For the seventh year running, DJ Earworm has woven the greatest songs of the year into his "United State of Pop." Every year, this mash-up defines the highs of the past year in pop music by merging the top-ranking songs on the Billboard charts into an emotional aural journey.
This year's is one of his best yet.
The four-minute song is framed by Maroon 5's hit "Animals," the trumpets from Taylor Swift's "Shake It Off" and a surprisingly prominent vocal from Swedish newcomer Tove Lo's "Habits." There are divas (Ariana Grande, Katy Perry, Lorde and even Idina Menzel), British guy groups (One Direction and Bastille) and, of course, a healthy sampling of "Turn Down for What."
The song actually reflects a few big shifts in our musical culture, too. In an interview with Billboard, where the supercut first appeared, Earworm explained that this year's version is slightly slower than years past because of electronic dance music's slow decline in popularity.
"The 'United State of Pop' became this dance track from '09 to '12, and then starting last year, there just wasn't enough in that genre to fully support it, so I went down-tempo," he said, adding that 2014 was "dominated by these slow, ponderous songs" like John Legend's "All of Me" and "swaggering hip-hop songs" like Jason Derulo's "Talk Dirty."
"It's a little bit more diverse, and definitely softer than it's been," Earworm said.
And no wonder: It was a serious year for the world, and our music rose to the task. Through soul and dark pop songs, our pop musicians chronicled a turbulent year. And this is what 2014 sounded like. | <urn:uuid:f6f3b4f8-8111-44d9-890a-827740e3e8a2> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 1,596 |
Monday, November 26, 2012
Wirelessly-Charged Electric Bus Unveiled in Utah
Dubbed the “Aggie Bus,” the 22-foot vehicle powers-up by sitting over charging pads embedded in the roadway. Through a magnetic field, the bus receives 25 kilowatts of energy — enough power to drive approximately 30 miles before needing a recharge.
For the initial demonstration held on Thursday, Nov. 15, researchers charged the bus in a garage-like laboratory with an above-ground charging pad, and then took university and media passengers on a short ride.
Officials tout the Aggie Bus as the first bus to receive wireless energy of up to 25 kilowatts with more than 90 percent efficiency over an air gap of six inches. That gap includes roadway materials such as asphalt.
From a consumer perspective, the system is similar to rechargeable pads that mobile devices sit on to wirelessly recharge. But in this case, the device could sit on a shelf above the pad and still receive power.
The idea is that eventually, a public transit bus could charge up, go on its route and, every time it stops to pick up passengers, it would sit above an in-ground charging pad that would recharge the vehicle.
If it works as planned, the technology could set the stage for a viable form of non-fossil fuel power. Some work still needs to be done before you’ll see big city transit authorities adopting the technology, however. Researchers must still test various forums of surface materials to determine which are the most conducive to charging, and they need to increase the height of the air gap. But officials believe the question is now a matter of “when” rather than “if.” Government Technology | <urn:uuid:82d18056-25ee-4b8b-99ac-2cb3d4dd8c47> | HuggingFaceTB/smollm-corpus/tree/main/fineweb-edu-dedup | smollm-corpus | eng_Latn | 1,661 |
The first time Team stays in Win’s room after a fuck is a complete accident. It had been a long, tiring day and Team just so happened to be horny and Win just so happened to be in the same mood and they just so happened to live in the same building, one floor apart.
Sex with Win is always great and always pleasurable for Team. When it’s over, Win will let Team shower first and it’s as Win’s heading for the bathroom that Team will take his leave and let fitful sleep take him. The one time Win offered to let him stay, Team had refused the offer saying that it was easier to sleep in his own bed.
The simple truth was that he didn’t want Win to find out about his nightmares.
But this night, muscles aching in the best way and fatigue tugging on their eyelids, Team falls asleep to the warmth of Win’s naked body beside him, legs tangled together and bodies still slick with cum and sweat.
And then a nightmare shakes him awake and Team jerks upright, mouth choking back a scream. Next to him, Win stays fast asleep, exhaustion keeping him deep in dreamland even as Team trembles with the force of stifling his sobs.
The urge to burrow again under Win’s arm and return to those few blissful hours of rest is strong. But Team doesn’t think that that’s what their relationship is. He and Win are simply swim team members, a senior and his junior, using each other for fantastic sex. Nothing more.
That’s the thought that buoys Team off the bed carefully, rooting for his clothes and sandals in the dark and then easing the door quietly shut behind him so that he can make his way back to his own room for the night.
In the darkness, Win opens his eyes as he rolls onto his back and sighs up at the ceiling. It would seem they still have a long way to go.
English is his most difficult subject because English is the most difficult language. Win can try and reason with him but Team knows that there should be no good reason for some idiot centuries ago to have looked at words and decided that ‘ph’ had to make a ‘fff’ sound and not a ‘puhuh’ sound.
So yeah...fuck that guy.
And fuck the guy who agreed with fucker #1.
Still, Team’s very valid concerns about why English is a stupid language do not really fly with his professor and he’s told in no uncertain terms that his 1000 word essay on verb conjugations will still be due the next morning.
Swearing under his breath, Team makes his way to the library to seek out the one person who’d be able to help him. He knows Win is there, working away on his own term papers and he was both smart and nice enough to lend some of his superior brain cells to Team.
Except that when Team peeks out from behind the ordered shelves, there are three juniors all vying for Win’s attention. The blonde looks as fresh as a daisy, his own notebook and highlighters pushed aside in favor of explaining math concepts to freshmen.
Team watches for a few seconds, bouncing back and forth on his heels in hesitation before turning away. He pulls out his phone and shoots Pharm a message filled with pleas, praises and full on begging.
Pharm is a heaven sent angel which is why he invites Team back to his apartment so that they can work on the essay together and Team leaves with a happy hum, shouldering his backpack.
He fails to notice Win’s eyes watching him walk away despondently.
There’s a new action movie that Win has been waiting to see and Team is hiding two tickets to the evening show in his backpack.
It’ll be the first time Team suggests a sort of date-night for them and he’s nervous. And also excited. Win’s been the best type of boyfriend for the last few months, planning really nice dates that both he and Team enjoy as well as becoming a very sturdy support system that Team is learning to lean on.
For all the sweet gestures that Win has bestowed on him, Team figures that he should proffer one of his own which is why he’s planned tonight well. They’re both done classes early today and there’s no swim practice so they can catch the 7:30 performance, have dinner at one of Team’s favorite road-side stalls he’s been dying to take Win to and then end the night up on the rooftop of their dorm building where Team has set up a mattress, sheets and a portable stove to keep them warm.
It pays to say hi and be nice to the security guard.
Team sees Win then, engaged in a lively conversation with P’Pruk, P’Dean and a few others from the swim team. He returns a couple of hellos thrown his way, easing into the seat Win readily opens for him.
Win doesn’t give him a verbal hello but under the table, Team can feel warm fingers curling around his knee and a thumb stroking the fabric. It produces a pleased smile from Team, one that he hides by rooting around in his backpack for the tickets and then covering with his hands.
He waits for a lull in the conversation or at least for a moment where Win’s attention isn’t being commanded. It takes a while but when it does happen, Team reaches under to tap at Win’s hand, fingers still lazily brushing his knee.
“Hia?” He says softly.
Win turns to him, head cocked in readiness for Team’s question.
Team opens his mouth, hoping to Buddha above that his cheeks are not red.
Mew falls into Win at that very second, loud and annoying as he brandishes two VIP tickets, “Yo, P’Win! I got those tickets for that movie; we're still good for tonight yeah??”
“Yeah Mew sure, now get the fuck off me!” Win says with a laugh, shoving Mew off of him and towards P’Pruk. “What were you gonna say, Team?” He asks, looking back at Team who’s trying to shove his own stupid, regular seat tickets back into his bag.
“Nothing; I need the bathroom.”
Team’s gone before Win can find holes in his excuse, hoping against hope that his utter disappointment wasn’t visible on his face.
Unfortunately for Team...it was.
Team’s finger hovers over the call button, tears splashing over his hand as he bites down on his bottom lip. His eyes flicker between the time on his phone (2:45 am) and the red blinking numbers on his desk which has long since been set to London time (8:45pm).
It’s Wednesday which means Win is in his Statistics Theory lecture which is Win’s least favorite class which means he’s going to use every trick in the book to not fall asleep or be distracted.
And Team calling all of a sudden to tell his boyfriend that he hasn’t been able to sleep for the past week because of nightmares is bound to be distracting...isn’t it?
With a wet shuddery inhale, Team switches off his phone, turns on his side and prepares to watch the sunrise for the third time that week.
And the one time…
Team’s lack of sleep catches up with him in the worst of ways, his legs crumpling under him as exhaustion and stress hit him with the full force of a brick.
He’s at Pharm’s apartment, both of them trying to work away on an assignment and Dean has dropped by on a surprise visit. He’s the one who catches the swimmer before Team’s face can kiss marble and he also makes the decision to call Win.
When he does finally wake, Team is faced with two looks of disappointment and one of concern. The concern comes from Pharm who tugs Dean out of the apartment as Team sits upright with the laptop, Win’s face staring back at him.
“Why didn't you tell me you weren’t sleeping?” Win starts softly and the misery in his voice is enough to make Team’s eyes burn. “You told me everything was okay and that you were doing fine. Why lie to me?”
“I...I didn’t lie to you...not on purpose anyway, hia. It’s just-”
“Just what, Team? What reason could you possibly have had to not tell me you’ve gotten a grand total of ten hours of sleep in the last week? Do you understand what it feels like, two years into a relationship with you and to find out from Dean from all people that you apparently have been lying to me and don’t sleep?”
Team looks just as miserable as he feels, his knees drawing up to his chest as he tries not to cry, “I didn’t want to be a distraction to you.”
The bitterness in his voice makes Win pause and he stares at Team in confusion. “What? What distraction?”
The first few tears slope down Team’s cheek, streaking two lines of wetness that Team hurries to wipe away. He’s not quick enough because Win sees it and his voice immediately softens. “Hey Team- baby, it’s okay. Just talk to me. You can always talk to me, you know this. What do you mean you didn’t want to be a distraction?”
Team doesn’t speak right away, small sniffles breaking the silence and Win doesn’t push him further, always willing to wait.
Then the smallest, most distressed voice whispers out, “You’re in class and I didn’t want to disturb you. I just wanted to try fixing it by myself instead of making you worry about me. You’re always so busy with class and stuff and I just- I just didn’t think you had enough time to help me too.”
It takes Win a few seconds to find his voice and Buddha above if he doesn’t want to reach through the screen and pull this vulnerable boy, blankets up to his chin and sleep mussed hair into his lap and rock him to sleep. Fuck him and fuck his brain for deciding to move all the way to fucking London for his graduate studies.
Running a hand through his own messy hair, Win sighs out, part amused and part relieved. “Team, baby, look at me. Come on, look at me.” He coaxes and smiles softly as red-rimmed eyes peek out at him.
“Listen to me very carefully, okay? I know I’m busy and I know classes are annoying. But I will never not have time for you. I can make time; somewhere, somehow, I will. I promise you that. But you have to promise me that you won’t ever lie to me again. About anything. This long-distance thing can only work if we’re both honest with each other about whatever problems we’re going through. Got it?”
The tears make a grander appearance this time, a sob catching in Team’s throat as he stares at Win, “I really miss you, hia. I miss you by my side.”
Win can feel his heart break and he reaches out his fingers, pressing it against the screen, “I miss you too baby, all the time. It sucks sleeping without you. But we can take a nap now, yeah? Together. Come on, close your eyes, I’m right here.”
By the time Dean and Pharm return from their impromptu grocery trip, both Team and Win are fast asleep in their respective beds, an ocean away from each other. It takes almost no thought for Pharm to leave a second set of keys by the table for Team to lock up and then leave for Dean’s apartment that night.
In the days that follow, Team finds himself falling asleep a little easier but the first night that he wakes up from a nightmare, cold tendrils of fear still clutching at his heart, he doesn’t even hesitate to press Win’s name in his phone.
It rings twice and then Win’s voice fills his ear, low and hushed, “You okay, baby?”
“Nightmare.” Team chokes out, breathing still heavy.
“Okay, it’s okay. What do you need? You need me to talk to you? I can call you on video right now.” Team can hear soft voices in the background; Win’s in class he realizes and must have left the classroom.
“No- no hia...can you just...just do whatever you were doing before I called. I just- need to know you’re there.” Team offers instead. Win’s voice, so smooth and so full of love have brought his labored breaths back to normal and right now, all Team really needs is absolute knowledge that Win is close to him.
Win agrees without hesitation, “I’m going back into the classroom but I’ll have my headphones in, okay? One sec.”
Team lays back down, drawing his covers under the chin and keeping his phone near him on speaker. He can hear Win apologizing softly as he settles back in his seat, a soft crackle as headphones slide in and then Win’s voice is back, “Good?”
“Yeah. Thanks, hia.” Team mumbles back out, tension leaving his shoulders.
“Anytime. Love you baby.” Win’s whisper is just as soft, just as warm and affectionate as if he were here in person and it brings the smallest of smiles to Team’s face as Win’s breath and heartbeat lull him to sleep. | <urn:uuid:e846334c-b6c0-4718-8e5c-553eb2b250ec> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 11,961 |
When did the Presidents wife, known for nothing other than servicing the President, (except Mrs. Clinton), become anything other than a White House tour guide, a la Jackie Kennedy?
When is the Congress going to cut off all funds for any project these unelected concubines seek to steal from the American taxpayer?
If the position of First Lady is anything requiring the spending of one dime, than they should have to run for it separately, and it should not just automatically be the Presidents wife.
If these women are going to spend millions of taxpayer dollars, shouldn’t they be vetted? Or is sleeping with an elected official all it takes?
Hillary Clinton, Americas most famous political prostitute, had absolutely no experience in anything but having sex with Bill Clinton, (at least once as evidenced by the existence of Chelsea, although, without a DNA test, I doubt it), and destroying all the women who actually seemed to enjoy having sex with Bill Clinton, or those he assaulted or raped, like Kathleen Willey and Juanita Broderick, yet she was put in charge of trying to take over the health-care industry! Is that the only experience needed to spend hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars without oversight?
When will Elliot Spitzer’s, (better known as Client Number 9), girlfriend run for office? With her resume, she is a shoe-in!
What has Michelle Obama done in her life, besides being forced to give up her law license and sleeping with obama, (when Larry Sinclair wasn’t available)?
Did anyone vote for this woman, who is now trying to tell all Americans how to raise their children?
Why should anyone listen to her, and why has no one had the stones to stand up and tell her to STFU about anyone else’s family but her own?
When are we going to do something about this most corrupt usurption of Presidential power by America haters and sperm recepticles?
There should be no “Office of the First Lady.”
If that is to continue to be an official position, then any woman should have the right to run for that office, it should not be relegated to inexperienced housewives with no oversight over their outrageous intrusions into Americans lives
When will someone stand up and tell these miserable power hungry scabs that their only job in life is to warm their husbands bed. If they want to run an office, let them run for that office.
Or, let their ELECTED husband pay, personally, for their mindless excursions into irrelevance, and all the trappings, travel and office personnel their hobbies entail.
Congress should immediately pass legislation that strips all official duties other than the traditional protocol duties from the unelected wife of any President, now and in the future.
Or, they should define the position of First Lady, and make it an elected position.
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Since genetically modified (GM) foods appeared on our radars more than a decade ago they have been the cause of fierce debate among scientists, activists and the like. So, I decided it was time to get myself properly informed on the topic in the hope of better understanding their impact on me personally, my family and our planet. Below is a summary of what I found.
Please note that this is a complex issue, so while I’ve tried my best to be brief, this blog is a little bit longer than usual. You may want to grab a cuppa and get comfy! Please read on …….
What are GMOs?
Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are plants or animals which have had their genetic material altered in some way. Unlike selective breeding, a centuries old method of inter-breeding plants and animals to achieve desirable characteristics, genetic engineering allows for the transfer of genes from one unrelated species to another – something that does not occur in nature.
At the present time, genetic engineering is mainly used in agriculture to produce crops that can withstand the direct application of herbicide and/or are able to produce their own insecticide. The possibilities for genetic engineering are, however, endless.
GMOs in Australia
The only genetically modified crops currently being grown in Australia are cotton and canola. While of course we don’t eat cotton, we do ingest it in the form of cotton seeds, which are crushed to produce cotton seed oil (widely used in the food industry, mainly for deep-frying). Cottonseed meal is also used in animal feed. Canola oil is used in margarine-type spreads, dairy blends and as an ingredient in tinned and snack foods and is also often used in animal feed.
There are currently no GM fresh foods grown in Australia, such as fruit and vegetables, however, government regulations allow manufacturers to use imported GM food ingredients in their products. These include GM varieties of soybeans, canola, corn, rice, sugarbeet, potatoes and cotton.
Labelling and Safety testing
Foods containing GM ingredients – either as a whole food or as an ingredient in a processed food – for sale in Australia must have their GM status identified BUT only if introduced genetic material or protein is present in the final food. This means that oils from GM cotton seed or GM canola don’t need to be labeled as they don’t contain any protein. There are several other loopholes in the labeling laws which mean you could be eating GM foods without knowing it. For example, foods made at bakeries, restaurants and takeaways and foods from animals that are fed GM feed do not need to be labeled.
The safety testing of GM foods is another area of contention. While Food Standards Australia and New Zealand (FSANZ) carries out safety assessments on GM foods for sale in Australia, some argue that this testing is inadequate. For one thing, FSANZ doesn’t carry out it’s own tests but instead relies on data supplied by the company applying for approval.
The Pros and Cons
The topic of GMOs is extremely controversial and there are many arguments both for and against their use. On the pro side, supporters of GMOs argue that they have the potential to produce crops with higher yields, improved nutritional qualities and the ability to withstand drought and rising temperatures, which could improve food security and help to feed the world’s ever-increasing population.
The arguments against the use of GMOs include the following:
Potential harmful health effects
We simply don’t know if GM food is safe to eat because there have been no long-term studies looking at their impacts on human health. Studies on animals have raised some serious concerns. These studies include a peer-reviewed paper, published in 2007, which found evidence of liver and kidney toxicity in rats fed a variety of GE corn that has been approved for human consumption.
Other potential health concerns include increased pesticide levels in our food; the introduction of unfamiliar or unexpected proteins, toxins and allergens; and the use of antibiotic-resistance genes in GM plants.
Potential harmful environmental effects
There are several ways that GMOs are thought to impact the environment negatively. These include: threatening biodiversity; increasing the use of pesticides; and the potential for cross contamination with non-GM crop varieties.
Opponents of GMOs argue that their use will lead to the monopolisation of the world food market by large multinational companies. Of particular concern is that the major company pioneering the use of GMOs is Monsanto, which was recently voted “the most evil corporation in the world” and described by a Gaurdian journalist as “a corporate bully that has put its own bottom line above the good of the planet.” The fact that new GMOs can be patented, so that life itself could become commercial property, is also a worry for many.
Animal welfare could be adversely affected. For example, cows given more potent GM growth hormones could suffer from health problems related to growth or metabolism
How to avoid GM foods
As the labeling loopholes described above make it very difficult to know if the foods you are eating contain GM foods, probably the best way to avoid GM foods is to minimize the amount of processed foods you eat.
You can also check out the True Food Guide produced by Greenpeace at http://www.truefood.org.au/ where you can check which products contain GM ingredients and which are GM free.
Buying certified organic food is another way to avoid GMOs. According to the Australian Standard for Organic and Bio-Dynamic Produce, the use of GM crop varieties or any products made from them is prohibited, as is the use of animal feed derived from GM crops.
For me personally, while there are still so many unanswered questions regarding GMOs, I’ll be doing my best to avoid them. Nature is pretty awesome and I don’t like messing with it.
If you’d like to read more about GM food please check out our sources:
Also, you can sign a petition calling for greater regulation of GM foods here:
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Assessment is an integral part of the education system. It helps educators and stakeholders measure the effectiveness of their teaching methods and the learning outcomes of their students. Traditional assessment methods, such as multiple-choice tests, have long been the norm in education. However, there is a growing movement towards performance-based assessment methods that measure students’ abilities to apply their knowledge and skills to real-world situations. This article explores why educators are turning to performance-based assessment methods and their future in education.
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The Problems with Traditional Assessment Methods
Traditional assessment methods have several drawbacks that limit their effectiveness in measuring students’ learning outcomes. For example:
- Lack of Authenticity: Multiple-choice tests are often not authentic, as they do not measure students’ abilities to apply their knowledge and skills to real-world situations.
- Limited Scope: Traditional assessment methods focus on testing students’ recall abilities rather than their ability to apply their knowledge to solve complex problems.
- Standardization: Traditional assessment methods are standardized, which means they do not account for individual differences in students’ learning styles and abilities.
Performance-Based Assessment Methods
Performance-based assessment methods measure students’ ability to apply their knowledge and skills to real-world situations. These methods include:
- Project-based Learning: Students work on projects that require them to apply their knowledge and skills to solve real-world problems.
- Problem-Based Learning: Students work on real-world problems, often in groups, using their knowledge and skills to find solutions.
- Performance Tasks: Students perform a task or demonstrate a skill to show their mastery of a particular subject.
Benefits of Performance-Based Assessment Methods
Performance-based assessment methods offer several benefits over traditional assessment methods, including:
- Authenticity: Performance-based assessment methods are authentic, as they measure students’ abilities to apply their knowledge and skills to real-world situations.
- Relevance: Performance-based assessment methods are relevant to student’s lives, as they require them to use their knowledge and skills to solve real-world problems.
- Individualization: Performance-based assessment methods allow for individualization, as they account for students’ differences in learning styles and abilities.
- Higher-Order Thinking: Performance-based assessment methods promote higher-order thinking skills, such as critical thinking, problem-solving, and creativity.
Challenges of Implementing Performance-Based Assessment Methods
While performance-based assessment methods offer several benefits, there are also challenges associated with their implementation. These challenges include:
- Time-Consuming: Performance-based assessment methods can be time-consuming to implement and grade, as they require teachers to evaluate students’ work individually.
- Assessment Bias: There is a risk of assessment bias in performance-based assessment methods, as teachers’ subjective judgments can influence the grading process.
- Logistical Issues: Implementing performance-based assessment methods requires logistical changes, such as changes to classroom arrangements and the availability of resources.
The Future of Assessment
Despite the challenges associated with implementing performance-based assessment methods, they are gaining popularity in education. Many educators and stakeholders believe that these methods offer a more accurate and comprehensive measure of students’ learning outcomes than traditional assessment methods.
In the future, it is likely that performance-based assessment methods will continue to gain traction in education. As technology advances, it may become easier to implement and grade performance-based assessments. Additionally, there may be a shift towards more personalized learning experiences that cater to individual student’s needs and abilities, which would further promote the use of performance-based assessment methods.
Performance-based assessment methods offer several benefits over traditional assessment methods, including authenticity, relevance, individualization, and higher-order thinking. While there are challenges associated with implementing these methods, they are gaining popularity in education. As the education system continues to evolve, it is likely that performance-based assessment methods will become more common, especially as educators continue to seek more accurate and comprehensive ways to measure students’ learning outcomes.
However, it is important to note that performance-based assessment methods are not a panacea for all the challenges facing education. They are just one piece of a larger puzzle. To fully realize their potential, educators must also address other challenges, such as unequal access to resources, funding, and teacher training.
In conclusion, the future of assessment in education is moving towards performance-based methods. These methods offer a more authentic and comprehensive way to measure students’ learning outcomes. While there are challenges associated with their implementation, educators, and stakeholders are increasingly recognizing their value. As education continues to evolve, it is likely that performance-based assessment methods will become even more common and will play an even more significant role in shaping the future of education. | <urn:uuid:5c1ea7a5-308a-4300-9913-e57d631e368e> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 5,572 |
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These farm implements have hung in the Dale’s living room for over 20 years. They have been collected from various sources. Many have been painted or altered but will be used to enhance the displays in our barn at the Bradley Museum. The Dale's are long time volunteers at the Museums of Mississauga.
The pitchfork was first used in the early Middle-Ages in Europe and was originally made of only wood. It is an agricultural tool used to lift or throw loose materials such as hay, leaves, straw, grapes, etc. It is similar to a spading fork and usually has 2 to 6 pointed tines also called prongs. From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitchfork | <urn:uuid:2920793a-55b8-4fc6-93d1-16406c224fd9> | HuggingFaceTB/smollm-corpus/tree/main/fineweb-edu-dedup | smollm-corpus | eng_Latn | 793 |
How come individuals state they truly are interested in somebody on these dating internet sites, however when u become talking in their mind and begin to learn them, they let you know they dont do the internet dating thing??
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People utilize the internet sites for fun-
Like catch and release fishing,
You are free to know some body and after that it is possible to persuade them to meet up you or have sexual intercourse, then it is an excitement.
Right here’s an online site, completely free, seriously-
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Well, it is not correct that individuals do not do dating that is online. =)
As an on-line consultant that is dating I’m able to really state that when no body did, i mightn’t earn an income!
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Slippery slopes, new rules for `critical areas"
By Ruth Longoria
The City Council, at its Nov. 21 meeting, approved a new Critical Areas Ordinance for the Island with a vote of six-to-one. Councilman Dan Grausz was the lone vote opposing the new ordinance. But Grausz wasn't the only one at the meeting in opposition to something about the ordinance.
It's an ordinance some considered too streamlined and others considered too broad. This despite months of refining by the planning commission, several public meetings, and discussions by the Council. And though a few councilmembers attempted to attach various amendments to the ordinance with councilman Jim Pearman not in attendance to break each three-to-three tie during the votes, all but one amendment to the ordinance failed. And the ordinance -- as approved by city staff and the Council -- lived on.
The new ordinance is controversial in part because Islanders can't agree on how much detail should be within the document. But, some say, despite winnowing the planning commission's prior 50 page draft to what's now about two dozen pages, not much has changed, according to city staff.
``This ordinance is very similar to what's been on the books for 20 or 30 years,'' said Londi Lindell, city attorney.
The Critical Areas Ordinance (CAO) is a statute that regulates what can be done in and around areas such as watercourses, geologic hazard areas, wetlands and wildlife habitat conservation areas. According to the state Growth Management Act, each city or county government is required to create and regularly update its CAO, which designates and protects critical areas. The ordinance is aimed at preventing possible hazards such as flooding and landslides, and protecting natural resources, wildlife and water quality.
With about 62-percent of the Island considered to be a critical area, it could be expected that the CAO would apply to most of the Island. It doesn't. And, with the Island surrounded by water, it might be surmised that the buffer zones around the Island's waterways would be more stringently imposed than that of other cities, where water is less abundant. It isn't.
During the public comment portion of the Council meeting, before the vote, several Islanders stood up to ask the Council to consider strengthening its new Critical Areas Ordinance.
The new ordinance is ``the most streamlined in the state -- Bellevue, Medina and Issaquah are all stronger,'' said Sue Stewart, who spoke on behalf of the Friends of Luther Burbank Park. ``We worry that much of Luther Burbank (Park) might not fall within the ordinance.''
It doesn't. The CAO isn't overly concerned with land within Luther Burbank Park. ``It does not specifically impact Luther Burbank Park any more than any other park on the Island,'' Lindell said. One reason, is that the ordinance doesn't include shoreline management issues. ``We have until 2007 to look at shoreline management,'' she added.
The Island's ordinance is different from that of other area ordinances partially because some water and wildlife issues affecting nearby cities don't necessarily affect the Island. ``You're unique -- streams on the Island aren't salmon-bearing,'' Lindell told residents. ``Because of the rocks, salmon couldn't get up there if they wanted to.''
One revision to the new ordinance, at issue for some, is the decision that city utility projects do not have to be reviewed by the planning commission as must be done by private projects in areas deemed critical. In the past year, 12 of the 16 city utility projects were done without planning commission input, or approval, in order to save time and money, since the projects were not considered ``big'' projects. Those projects were approved by the City Council, as all new projects would be, but that isn't enough for some residents who spoke at the public input portion of the meeting, or for Councilman Grausz. ``No one is above the law, including local government,'' Grausz said.
But city staff and other councilmembers saw it differently. ``I'm trying to understand where the problem is,'' said Councilman Steve Litzow. ``We've had 16 projects in the past year and we've had no problems.''
According to the new ordinance, if residents have an issue with specific city utility projects, they can still appeal to the planning commission.
The ordinance has since been sent on to the state level for approval to ensure it meets GMA requirements, Lindell said. ``We do want to fully protect the environment,'' she said. ``And I think this ordinance does that.'' | <urn:uuid:fe0629bd-799d-4aee-882f-00f166d53a75> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 4,639 |
A Cure for Diabetes in Dogs?
Can you picture a future where diabetes can essentially be cured with a one-time injection? This reality may not be as far off as you might think. In fact, it looks like some dogs with type one diabetes have already been cured of their disease.
First some background information:
Most dogs have what is called type one diabetes, as opposed to type two diabetes (the opposite is true for cats). With type one diabetes, the pancreas stops manufacturing sufficient amounts of insulin, usually because the cells that normally do so have been destroyed by an abnormal immune reaction. In type two diabetes, adequate amounts of insulin are produced by the pancreas but the body does not respond as it should.
Insulin is responsible for moving glucose, a type of sugar used as an energy source, out of the blood stream and into cells. Without enough insulin or the ability to respond to it, blood glucose levels rise while cells are starving for energy. Glucokinase also plays an important role in responding to high blood sugar levels (more on why this is important in a moment).
And finally, one last definition. According to the Mayo Clinic:
Gene therapy is a treatment that involves altering the genes inside your body's cells to stop disease ... Gene therapy replaces a faulty gene or adds a new gene in an attempt to cure disease or improve your body's ability to fight disease.
Now on to the study that was recently published in the journal Diabetes. Scientists in Spain used gene therapy to put dogs with type one diabetes into long-term remission. One injection of "adenoassociated viral vectors of serotype 1 (AAV1) encoding for Gck and Ins," or in layman’s terms, "viruses carrying insulin and glucokinase genes" into a muscle in the dogs’ hind legs produced staggering results. Their fasting blood glucose levels were consistently normal, blood glucose was cleared from the blood stream more quickly after eating, and no episodes of low blood sugar levels during exercise were noted for more than four years after the procedure. The dogs gained weight, had lower "glycosylated plasma proteins levels" (high levels are associated with poorly controlled diabetes), and experienced "long-term survival without secondary complications." Therapy that included only the "Ins" or "Gck" genes but not both did not result in the same level of success.
I’ll admit that I was throwing the word "cure" around a little prematurely at the beginning of this post. The authors correctly use the phrase "long-term remission," since the dogs in this study were not followed out to the end of their natural life span to determine whether or not they experienced a relapse. The next phase in this research is to test gene therapy in client-owned dogs with a clinical trial. Let’s all keep our fingers crossed that the treatment will be as successful there as it appears to be in this initial study.
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Scientists in Tennessee, USA, claim they’ve turned carbon dioxide into the fuel ethanol.
Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) made the discovery by a fortunate accident.
Working on a process to discover how to turn carbon dioxide into ethanol, the scientists hypothesised that it would be a multistep process involving many complex chemical reactions.
The process involved adding “nano-spikes” of carbon and copper to the carbon dioxide, which transformed the greenhouse gas into ethanol.
Apart from being drinkable alcohol and a sanitiser, ethanol is also of interest as a renewable fuel source. Such as adding it to petrol/gasoline (or replacing it entirely), to reduce reliance on fossil fuels and carbon dioxide emissions from vehicles, the greenhouse gas said to be the major factor in anthropogenic climate change.
The scientists have dubbed their discovery a “twist to waste-to-fuel technology”.
While the discovered process converts carbon dioxide into ethanol, which when burned as fuel emits more carbon dioxide, which could be reconverted back into more fuel, and so on, don’t expect this to be of a beneficent carbon-neutral version of Maxwell’s demon or a perpetual motion machine of some form.
Entropy with energy lost as heat almost always has the final say.
However, now that the process has been discovered it’s a question of developing it further to get it beyond the lab and into the everyday lives of people. | <urn:uuid:c6a33417-e0b2-478e-a597-5b6bc23c5f75> | HuggingFaceTB/smollm-corpus/tree/main/fineweb-edu-dedup | smollm-corpus | eng_Latn | 1,470 |
Sun, Nov 03|
Six Eagles Haven
An Afternoon of SoulCollage(R)
Connecting to Your Soul's Wisdom
Time & Location
Nov 03, 2019, 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Six Eagles Haven, 50158 Eagles Way, Mesa, CO 81643, USA
About the Event
Connecting to Your Soul's Wisdom: An Afternoon of SoulCollage(R)
SoulCollage(R) is an inspired, intuitive process through which you create 5"x8" cards, something akin to a personal Tarot deck. You then use the cards to reveal information about issues or questions you may have on any topic. This work is not therapy, per se, but it is highly therapeutic. It requires no artistic skills beyond cutting and pasting. It is simple, yet profound. By the end of the workshop you will have the beginnings of a deck of personal wisdom cards and an inspiring practice to continue on your own or in future SoulCollage(R) Circles.
Please bring a journal or notebook, pen, and, if you have them, a pair of sharp scissors and an X-acto knife (we have quite a few that can be shared).
Maximum 12 participants.
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Like a child running to hide behind her mother's skirt, I ran back to America. And like that child, I found that it did no good. It didn't erase the big, frightening world out there. In my case, Aliyah did not fail me. I failed myself. I gave up when we were on the brink… Continue reading Failure?
"So do Jews hate Jesus?" a coworker asked me the other week. The question itself wasn't particularly disturbing; I knew it was asked out of genuine curiosity and naivety. But the truly unsettling part was the remembrance that I was in exile. A stranger in a strange land. I had gone from living in Israel… Continue reading Exile | <urn:uuid:cedf1816-2e77-4bb5-a0c7-fbdb5e710102> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 627 |
A hard core of problem families is costing the taxpayer £9bn a year, ministers claimed yesterday ahead of the launch of an assault on those "locked in a cycle of state dependency".
Eric Pickles, the Communities Secretary, said public money had been "squandered" on schemes that fail to deal with the causes of social breakdown, which begins with truancy and worklessness but leads to gangs, crime, violence and children being taken into care.
This week David Cameron will unveil the latest attempt to tackle the deep-seated problems that blight parts of the country, mainly in inner-city areas. For the first time the Government will give a definition of a "troubled family", comprising seven factors, including having a low income, no one in the family working, having poor housing and parents having no qualifications. The Government's Troubled Families Team, led by the former head of Tony Blair's Respect Task Force, Louise Casey, estimates that 120,000 families could be covered by the criteria. Ms Casey was appointed last month to lead the Government's fightback after the summer riots.
Ministers say that £8bn of the £9bn is spent reacting to the troubles caused and experienced by these families. They believe the new multimillion-pound programme will tackle the source of the problems, saving money that would otherwise be spent later in the criminal justice system, health service or social services.
"Over the years millions have been squandered on fruitless, unco-ordinated investment and we can no longer afford to foot the bill," Mr Pickles said. "Worklessness has been passed down from generation to generation. The moment some children are born their life chances are simply written off. And this has got to stop."
Ministers are to cut the number of agencies dealing with problem families, after research found that up to 20 different bodies can be involved in dealing with the same family.
A small number of families can have a devastating impact. A study in Birmingham found that two of the city's biggest gangs, the Johnson Crew and Burger Bar Boys, each contained five dynastic criminal families, costing the taxpayer £187m in the past 40 years. On 2 January 2003, Letisha Shakespeare, 17, and Charlene Ellis, 18, were shot and killed after being accidentally caught up in a feud between the two gangs.
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Energy and Living Things. Outline. Energy Sources Solar-Powered Biosphere Photosynthetic Pathways Using Organic Molecules Chemical Composition and Nutrient Requirements Using Inorganic Molecules Energy Limitation Food Density and Animal Functional Response Optimal Foraging Theory.
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Photosynthesis energy (usually from light) … to store in organic molecules
Capture and transfer light energy to chemical bonds
Not a perfect process – some energy is lost - entropy
How Photosynthesis Works energy (usually from light) … to store in organic molecules
Only certain Wavelengths of Light are Used in Photosynthesis energy (usually from light) … to store in organic molecules
Wavelengths most useful in driving photosynthesis energy (usually from light) … to store in organic molecules
Absorption spectra of chlorophylls and carotenoids
Wavelengths not used - reflected
Modifications of Photosynthesis for Dry Climates energy (usually from light) … to store in organic molecules
CO2 enters passively so stomata have to be open for long periods of time
C3 grasses (yellow) dominant in cool temperate – C4 plants don’t compete so well there
C4 grasslands (orange) have evolved in the tropics and warm temperate regions
Producers don’t compete so well there
Classes of Herbivores Oxygen
How do animals respond?
Cecum is site of much bacterial activity, moist fecal pellets enclosed in protein produced
European River Otter: Oxygen
Widest ranging of otters
Diet varies with abundance of prey
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7 Ways Your Difficult Client Can Make You a Better Event Manager
We’ve all had one, that certain client that wanted you to move the moon and back with little to no budget and no time to do it. That’s the thing with a difficult client, every once in a while they come along and we wonder why we chose this demanding industry to work in.
There is the old adage, however, that says a company shows its worth when things are going bad, not when all is running smoothly. When mistakes or accidents happen, that’s when you start earning your wages. Not when everything is going well.
So are there lessons we can learn from even the most difficult client and put them to good use?
We think so, here’s seven ways your difficult client can make you a better event manager:
1. You learn to look from another person’s perspective
Our lives revolve around ourselves, or course they do. But by looking at the problem from another person’s perspective we can see things in a totally different way. You’ll find that the people in call centres who handle complaints day after day are taught to look at the customer’s perspective, even before they start speaking. That angry customer might have been on hold for over an hour, had an issue with the company that has been outstanding for months and not resolved, and so on. So before you start taking things personally, look at it from their side.
2. You are reminded that it’s not personal it’s just business
As for it being personal, how do you keep a cool head and not let your emotions get the better of you when you are dealing with a difficult client? Remember it is business, not personal. The client isn’t unhappy with you per se, it is the outcome or the situation they are disappointed with. Grow a thick skin, get back up after a battering and do your best work.
3. They help you to communicate better
When dealing with a difficult client you not only have to listen to what they are saying, but you also have to communicate back to them in a way they fully understand. This makes sure that there are no misunderstandings in the future. A difficult client will certainly test you to the limit, but this is good practise for future customers.
4. They sharpen your managerial skills
There’s nothing like a demanding client to push you, but instead of resenting the added stress, you can rise to it and do your best work. Some people thrive on additional pressure and need a little push to motivate them. Meet the challenge and vow to yourself that despite the problems created by your client, you are going to stun them with an excellent event.
5. Difficult clients mean you have to be more flexible
Most of us have certain ways in which we like to do things, and sometimes we can get a little stuck in these old habits. A difficult client will push you to become much more flexible. This could be anything from picking different suppliers, using an unknown caterer, staging an event in a venue you are not familiar with, and such like. By becoming more flexible and compromising on the important issues for the client, you are sure to carry out your best work, and get recommended in the process.
6. You have to become more organised
The one thing to learn from a difficult client is that you will need to back-up everything you have promised, hired, supplied and staged. For this you will need to be mega-organised. Keep important documents together where you can find them easily and make sure you have receipts and invoices that you can present to the client. Furthermore, make sure you can back up everything you have said with facts proved by data.
7. You learn when to turn down a job
Having given the following advice, there are some cases where you have to manage your expectations and the clients. Sometimes it is better to turn down a job, if you foresee that you are not going to meet their expectations, then take it on and let it divert your attention away from your other clients. Learning when to say no is as important as knowing when to say yes.
No one wants a difficult client. But if you can successfully manage your relationship and navigate through the hurdles, you’ll come out the other side with a wealth of valuable experience. | <urn:uuid:28906585-0285-4fc4-84ca-8864e4ecd227> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 4,192 |
In the Library with the Lead Pipe is a library and information issues blog maintained by a group of librarian publishers ranging from academic, archive, special, and small community library settings.
The blog posts explore new ideas, start conversations, document concerns, and argue for solutions. Some of the more recent posts have discussed the WikiLeaks incident, a library’s journey conducting survey research with a student sample, and the idea of welcoming the homeless into libraries.
In the Library also welcomes contributors and has accepted content from library students and professionals. Click here to learn more about the submission guidelines. | <urn:uuid:c4ace091-d954-474a-8b5d-9335f4736ea6> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 658 |
Longtime Lyon County Child Care Licensing Surveyor Mary Sutton is retiring.
Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Flint Hills is hoping area men and women -- and Emporia State University students -- step up to become mentors this fall.
Thursday is a day which has been seared into our nation's history: the anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001, and the terrorist attacks on the Twin Towers, the Pentagon, and in Pennsylvania.
Lyon County Commissioners had a pretty straightforward action session Thursday.
The Kansas Preservation Alliance conference begins Thursday, lasting through Friday with a hefty schedule of keynote presentations and tours of historic Emporia buildings.
The Emporia School Board is continuing its work to improve security districtwide.
Emporia fire crews were called to a downtown business on Wednesday morning after a smell of smoke. | <urn:uuid:ffc46381-5536-4b39-8b41-3a1f8d233c0a> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 845 |
People usually discard their cyclamen plants when they are done flowering, because they require a rest period and special temperature conditions. However, you can try coaxing your plant to rebloom by following these recommendations.
In late spring, after the plant has finished flowering, the leaves will start to turn yellow. Stop fertilizing and gradually space waterings farther apart, stopping completely once all the leaves are yellow. Do not remove any leaves that are still green; wait until they are thoroughly dry, because this is the time when the tuber stores up the energy it needs to rebloom. Then place the pot in a cool location, preferably one with not much light (for instance, a basement with a temperature of about 15°C). During this time, keep the tuber dry, but without allowing it to become desiccated and shrivelled.
New vegetative growth from the tuber
At the end of the rest period, toward late August, repot the tuber in a slightly larger pot. The potting soil must have good drainage. A good mixture is two parts tropical plant potting soil, one part peat moss and one part perlite. When placing the tuber in the new pot, leave the top one third to one half exposed to the air. Resume watering and fertilizing, increasing the frequency of waterings gradually as new leaves form. Place the pot in a moderately cool room (about 20°C during the day and a bit cooler at night) with plenty of light but no direct noonday sun. Cool nighttime temperatures and proper lighting are essential to flower bud formation. Once the foliage is fully developed and the plant is in bloom, cooler daytime and nighttime temperatures will extend the blooming period. | <urn:uuid:ee224f16-3fba-4c0e-8853-07d6bd9bc705> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 1,672 |
Adjunct Music Education Faculty
FBBC&TS is seeking to identify a qualified individual to be an adjunct Music Education Faculty member/Music Education Program Coordinator at Faith Baptist Bible College. Applications are accepted until the position is filled.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities
- Teach Music Methods courses as appropriate to the candidate’s area of expertise.
- Assist music education students in preparing for student teaching and licensure.
- Assist the Teacher Education Department in observing music education students during clinical and student teaching placements.
- Serve as the Music Department representative to the Teacher Education Committee.
- This position reports to: the Chair of the Music Department and the Chair of the Teacher Education Department.
Adjunct Music Education Faculty/Music Education Program Coordinator
July 19, 2021
Convictions and Character/Religious Qualifications
FBBC&TS seeks to maintain its theological and ecclesiastical identity as a Baptist institution of higher education. Therefore, we seek only to employ faculty whose beliefs, lifestyle, and convictions align with FBBC&TS’s religious positions. As such, all applicants must meet the following expectations:
- Applicants must agree without mental reservation with FBBC&TS’s foundational documents.
- Applicants must be Baptists in their beliefs and practice.
- Applicants must adhere to Biblical standards of morality and living.
- Applicants and/or their spouses must not be or ever have been divorced.
- Carefully read FBBC&TS’s foundational documents.
- Complete and submit your application to email@example.com.
- Email your resume and/or curriculum vitae to firstname.lastname@example.org.
- Complete the Predictive Index Assessment.
- Applicants must possess at least an accredited Master’s Degree in Music Education or Music.
- Applicants must hold an active K-12 teaching license.
- Applicants must have a minimum of five years of K-12 music teaching experience. | <urn:uuid:c6859a17-9a71-4885-bc6f-ec86f9cbb351> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 1,984 |
Robo-Rats Locomotion: Biped
Bipedal locomotion is locomotion using two legs. When done by humans, bipedal locomotion is not statically stable. However, it is possible to do statically stable bipedal locomotion. To accomplish this, the walking motion must be done relatively slowly and the robot must be able to balance on one foot. The latter is usually done by making the foot very large--much larger than is necessary in humans, for example. The feet used on walking wind-up toys is a good example, they are very wide in order to keep the downward projection of the center of gravity within the foot area. Note the protrusions on the feet of the wind-up toy shown below. They prevent the toy from tipping when it is balanced on one foot. Another way to increase stability is to make the center of gravity as low as possible.
Below is a photo of the H6 humanoid robot developed at the Inoue-Inaba Laboratory at the University of Tokyo. Although this robot looks very human-like, it walks with static stability.
Depends on architecture - An anthropomorphic design may have five or more motors per leg.
Versatility - A bipedal locomotion system should be able to negotiate any terrain a human can.
Complexity - The large number of DOFs makes the design difficult to implement.
Control - If static stability is required, then movement must be slow and precise. If dynamic stability is used, real-time processing is critical.
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Untitled from "Les Enfants", 1929
A French-Japanese painter and printmaker Tsuguharu Foujita, also known as Leonard Tsuguharu Foujita, is credited with being the “first Japanese artist to free that country’s art of its legendary and classic image”. Tsuguharu Foujita spent most of his career in Paris, where he was associated with revolutionary artists including Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque and Henri Rousseau. However, the artist often returned to his native country and was there for nine years during World War II. After that, Tsuguharu Foujita returned to Paris where he served as President of the Association of Japanese Artists.
His painting style was primarily expressionist, although he did some realism as well. After his conversion to Catholicism, Tsuguharu Foujita did frescoes for the Chapel of Our Lady of Peace in Reims. The artist also did the decoration at the Japanese House at Cité Universitaire in Paris.
In Tokyo, Japan, as a youth, he studied at the Imperial School of Fine Art and received much recognition including the purchase of one of his paintings by the Japanese Emperor. In 1912, Tsuguharu Foujita went to London and the next year to Paris to live and this ended what appeared to be a career in Japan.
In 1917, Tsuguharu Foujita had his first exhibition in Paris, and by 1924, was exhibiting with the Fauves at the Salon d’Automne. That same year, he became an elected member of the Tokyo Academy of Fine Arts.
Tsuguharu Foujita died in Zurich, Switzerland in 1968 at the age of 81.
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That sense of hospitality is apt for its literary festival, opening today.
But everyone in the hospitality business knows that if you make a first visit unpleasant, the visitor may not return.
Walk into a good hotel bar, and you will sense the sort of hospitality that is difficult to match in any other watering hole.
Before there was McDonald's, businessman Fred Harvey built the first fast food—and hospitality—empire across America.
To many Chinese, the incident mars the atmosphere of hospitality that Beijing has been trying to project while Biden is in town.
Voltaire never forgot the hospitality received at Stanislas' hands.
They were noted for their hospitality, and subsisted chiefly by agriculture.
I have proved that everywhere in this country the spirit of hospitality reigns.
Yet for all that, the hospitality of her little home in Ajaccio was lavish and famous.
The embarrassment was because of her inability to extend to us the hospitality she desired.
late 14c., "act of being hospitable," from Old French hospitalité, from Latin hospitalitem (nominative hospitalitas) "friendliness to guests," from hospes (genitive hospitis) "guest" (see host (n.1)). | <urn:uuid:8aa876e6-3820-4695-aaba-b390e34f0604> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 1,170 |
As you approach Chattanooga, Tennessee from any direction, billboards, birdhouses, and barns exclaim, “See Rock City!” And you should. This magical outdoor experience is a great adventure for families. The beautiful gardens, spectacular views, and natural wonders capture the imagination of both young and old.
Discovered by missionaries who went to minister to the Native Americans living on Lookout Mountain, this location was notable for its large boulders and narrow passageways between the rocks. Today Rock City features an easy-to-hike trail that leads through 14 acres of gardens, boulder passages, and rock caves decorated with a fairytale theme.
We stopped at Rock City while on a road trip with our cousins. All seven children with us loved this place. One of the most stunning views is from Lover’s Leap. Legend has it that a Native American was thrown from this point for being in love with a woman from another tribe. Despite this morbid tale, the view itself is breathtaking.
On a clear day, you can see seven states from the top of Lover’s Leap. Rock City is located in Lookout Mountain, Georgia, but only half a mile from Tennessee. A sign points in the direction of Mt. Pinnacle (on the Kentucky/Virginia state line), the Smoky Mountains in North Carolina, South Carolina is 80 miles away, and Alabama is even closer (a mere 25 miles away). This was a great way to sneak in a geography lesson for the kids.
Along your hike you will see the High Falls, a 1,000 ton balanced rock, swinging bridges, and well-labeled gardens. Rock City also has special events in the fall and during the holidays.
This is one of those places that Luke cannot wait to return to. He talks about it often and remembers details I was sure he would have forgotten.
Rock City is open year round, but times vary depending on the season. General admission tickets cost $19.95 for adults and $11.95 for children (ages 3-12). You can also buy tickets in combination with other attractions in the area – the Incline Railroad and Ruby Falls. | <urn:uuid:509b8dac-1f37-48f7-8f7b-19c24e29c853> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 2,027 |
Security Council Session on Venezuela: Hard Truths v. US Big Lies
A Trump regime-called special Security Council session on Venezuela was a pretext for pushing its Big Lies about the country on the world stage – effectively countered by the Bolivarian foreign minister. See below.
On Wednesday, at their 16th trilateral meeting in Wuzhen, China, RIC (Russia, India and China) foreign ministers met to discuss issues of concern to their governments – notably to enhance cooperative multilateral relations on regional and global issues.
On the sidelines of their meeting, Sergey Lavrov addressed the Trump regime’s aim to topple Venezuela’s democratically elected government, saying the following:
“We are watching closely the reports about what is really happening there. We see how absolutely (US) brazen attempts have been taken to artificially create a pretext for military intervention.”
“We hear direct threats from Washington that all options remain on the table. The actual implementation of these threats is pulling in military equipment and training (Pentagon) special forces.”
On Saturday, attempts were made to forcefully breach Venezuela’s borders from Colombia and Brazil “in hope that there (would) be casualties” – caused by US proxies, falsely blamed on Maduro, hard truths about weekend events unreported by establishment media.
“(H)ysterical (US) screaming…follow(ed) under the well-known scenario” – a pretext “military intervention,” Lavrov added.
“Washington, which says in public that President Maduro’s days are numbered, directly states that Cuba and Nicaragua are next in line. The US is usurping the right to use force wherever it wants in order to topple unwanted” governments, brazenly ignoring their legitimacy.
In their Wednesday joint communique, RIC foreign ministers stressed the importance for all countries to observe UN Charter principles in dealing with Venezuela – the US most of all, hellbent for regime change by whatever it takes to achieve its aims.
Russia’s Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev cited intelligence reports that the Trump regime is planning to intervene in Venezuela militarily, the possibility discussed in a previous article.
At Tuesday’s Security Council session, Venezuela’s Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza denounced Trump regime’s aims against his country – calling its imperial agenda the “politics of death,” adding:
“Now is the time for us to return to sanity and respect international law and respect the Venezuelan constitution. We are waiting to see the members of the Venezuelan opposition.”
“Mr. Guaido and whoever else they will decide who will sit down with the constitutional government of Venezuela, then among Venezuelans, we can build our own solution. Without intervention, interference from anyone, much less the United States.”
“We are prepared to sit down and to come up with solutions with Mr. Guaido and whoever else wishes to sit down with us, but they don’t wish to sit down with us.”
“They say there is no time for dialogue. Mr. Maduro has to go. The (government) has to change. There has to be an invasion in Venezuela. But there’s no call in this Security Council to say, ‘You have to sit down.’ ”
“Venezuela is staying out of the internal affairs of the United States and the electoral campaign here..”
“There’s a lot of hypocrisy and arrogance at play here. And this is what the UN security council should address.”
“The security council is not here to make war, the Security Council is not here to establish conditions for others to make war. The Council is not here to endorse violent breaches of the United Nations Charter.”
“Rather the Security Council is here to maintain international peace and security and to preserve future generations from the scourge of war…:et’s save Venezuela and this generation because the threat of war is here today.”
“Washington’s sole aim (is) not resolving the problems of Venezuela. Their aim is regime change via foreign intervention.”
Showing photographic evidence, Arreaza explained that when US Trojan horse “aid” was inspected, “there was not just food and medicine in the trucks, but there was equipment for barricades. There were nails, wire and so on and so forth. And this is what is (to be) used by the opposition in Venezuela.”
A previous article explained that so-called aid included tainted unfit to eat food and meds past their expiration dates, unsafe to use.
US proxies on the Colombian side of the border with Venezuela set two trucks with so-called “aid” ablaze, not Bolivarian National Guard forces, Arreaza stressing separately via Twitter the following:
“The CIA expert in false flag operations, Pompeo, thinks he can fool the world with a truck set ablaze by his own agents in Colombia…Pompeo and his hitmen are desperately searching for a pretext for war.”
Photographic evidence showed anti-government guarimbas on the Colombian side of the border making Molotov cocktails used to torch two trucks with Trojan horse “aid.”
Others were supplied slingshots to launch rocks and firebombs at Venezuelan security forces. In self-defense, they responded largely with tear gas.
Russia’s UN envoy Vassily Nebenzia stressed that “under no circumstances can (the US PR stunt) be described as a humanitarian mission,” adding:
“What took place on Saturday looks not like aid. It looks like what the US calls ‘force-feeding.’ It’s a type of torture, in case you did not know.”
“Instead of a hypocritical attempt to deliver aid worth $20 million, it is necessary to immediately unblock the accounts of Venezuelan state-run companies in US banks, worth $11 billion, which were allocated by the government to purchase medicines, food and daily essentials.”
US-orchestrated weekend violence continued on Monday and Tuesday, Maduro explaining the following:
In cahoots with the Trump regime, “(g)angs of Colombian criminals, armed formations, and Venezuelan thugs were set up to attack (the Venezuelan) border on February 23. But they did not pass, and they shall never pass. Hands off Venezuela. We demand respect for our sovereignty and territory.”
Turning truth on its head, warmonger Pompeo threatened “action against those who oppose the peaceful restoration of democracy (sic) in Venezuela.”
In Hanoi, Vietnam ahead of the second (Feb. 27 and 28) Kim Jong-Un/Trump summit, John Bolton tweeted threats against Maduro, vowing he won’t “go unpunished.”
Russia, China, Cuba, Bolivia, Nicaragua, African Union countries, and many others support Maduro’s legitimacy as Venezuela’s president and the nation’s sovereign independence.
They oppose Trump regime imperial aims to transform the country into a US vassal state by brute force.
Note: Convicted felon, Trump regime point man for toppling Maduro, Elliott Abrams, represented the US at Tuesday’s UN session on Venezuela.
He recited a litany of bald-faced Big Lies, heard time and again before by him, Trump, Pompeo, Bolton, and others in the US – unjustifiably justifying Washington’s lawless regime change tactics.
The whole world knows what’s going on, what the scourge of imperialism is all about, its aims essential to defeat in Venezuela and everywhere else.
World peace and the fate of humanity depend on it!
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The State of Michigan is very serious about keeping people who drink and drive off the roads. A breath alcohol ignition interlock device (BAIID) is one of the main ways the state attempts to reduce drinking and driving in Michigan. If a person has two or more DUI offenses within seven years the state revokes the offenders license for a minimum of one year. When eligible for its return, the state will require the use of a BAIID for at least one year.
Once revoked a person must petition the Michigan Department of State Driver License Appeal Division (DLAD) with several documents. Once the petitioner has submitted the substance abuse evaluation and testimonial letters to the Driver’s License Appeal Division and a hearing has taken place, a determination will be made on whether the person is approved to drive again. If approved, a restricted driver’s license will be issued. The restrictions can be by time like 8 am to 7 pm, or by place like to and from work and school only.
In addition to having driving restrictions, Michigan law requires the driver to have an ignition interlock device installed on their car for a minimum of one full year as a prerequisite to receiving full driving privileges. This helps prove to the State that the driver can drive safely and is evidence that all alcohol consumption has ceased.
Where do I get the interlock and how much does it cost?
The Secretary of State has a list of providers who are authorized in Michigan to install ignition interlock devices. The driver will be responsible for all of the costs associated with the device including an initial installation fee of $100.00 to $200.00 and monthly rental fees between $70.00 and $100.00.
What exactly is the ignition interlock device?
An ignition interlock device is a Breathalyzer for a car. It is a very small device that is installed on the dashboard. The purpose of the device is to detect the presence of alcohol in a person’s breath. Before the car can be started, the driver must provide a breath sample into the device. A positive reading will prevent the car from starting. To ensure that the driver didn’t have someone else blow into the device for them, random breath samples will be requested during the entire time the engine is running. If alcohol is detected while the engine is running, the device will log the event, give the driver a warning and then start up an alarm. The alarm is typically flashing lights and horn honking until the car is shut off or a clean breath sample is given. It is extremely important in this instance to provide another breath sample when asked.
In addition to detecting alcohol, these devices are also designed to detect any sort of tampering. If you try to remove the device or tamper with it in any way an alarm will sound and the event will be logged.
Can anything other than drinking alcohol cause a positive reading?
It’s important to understand that there are many things besides drinking alcohol that can cause a positive reading on the device such as: windshield washer fluid, gasoline, paint solvents and any other product that contain alcohol. Even certain foods contain alcohol and consuming it before blowing into the device can cause a false positive like vanilla, pizza, and some energy drinks. Keep in mind that if you can smell things like paint solvents in your car, it’s quite possible that the interlock device can detect it as well.
Because consuming alcohol isn’t the only thing that can cause a positive reading, it is extremely important that you provide additional breath samples when asked to do so. Providing a negative reading for alcohol within minutes after a positive reading will help prove that you weren’t drinking and driving.
Maintaining the device and keeping a record
The interlock device must periodically be taken back to the provider for maintenance, at which time all of your event logs will be downloaded. If there are any major violations a report will be sent to the DLAD office. Examples of a major violation are a missed or positive rolling retest, tampering with the device, or three start up failures with a level above .025 grams of alcohol per 100 liters of breath. Once the DLAD is notified of a major violation, the driver’s restricted driving privileges will be revoked and he or she will have to go before the hearing officer and explain what happened. The rehearing takes about 8 weeks to be scheduled. If there is a violation, all documentary evidence should be collected for presentation to the hearing officer including receipts and letters from witnesses. These receipts along with your personal records will drastically increase your chances of success at a violation hearing.
It is very important to keep good records. It is always a good idea to keep track of any alarms or error messages that you receive and to immediately call the provider and explain what happened to them. Keeping good records will always keep you and your attorney one step ahead of any potential problems and when it comes time to explain it to the hearing officer you will be ready
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Two young girls — one 2, the other 5 — were struck by stray bullets while playing yesterday in The Bronx, police said.
The toddler was in extremely critical condition.
The 20-year-old intended target was shot in the back just hours after he got into a fight with the suspect, police sources said.
The most seriously injured child, Patience Boyd, was with her mother just outside their apartment building on East 181st Street in West Farms, along with at least 10 other youngsters, when the shots rang out.
Police tonight arrested the suspect, Luis Moore, 23, of the Bronx in connection with the shooting. He was charged with charged with attempted murder, assault, criminal possession of a firearm, and criminal use of a firearm.
The three victims were standing near each other at around 7:45 p.m. when a gang of thugs approached and the gunman began firing wildly from about 50 feet. A witness heard at least five shots.
Another witness said, “There were a whole bunch of kids playing outside. It was peaceful. A whole bunch of guys come and just start shooting at the crowd.
“It all happened really quick. Everyone was running away.”
A shocked resident saw the man “lying on the ground, bleeding everywhere.”
Patience was struck in the head, and the older girl was grazed in the neck.
Patience was at Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital last night, while the 5-year-old was in stable condition at St. Barnabas.
The man, whose name was withheld, was also in stable condition.
After the earlier dispute a block from the shooting scene, the suspected shooter warned the victim he’d be back for him, according to the sources.
The victim has at least two prior arrests. In February, he was charged with weapons possession after being picked up with a loaded gun near the scene of last night’s shooting.
He was also charged with menacing in December.
Just a week ago, a 24-year-old mother, Yaritza Pacheco, was killed by a stray bullet in The Bronx, about a half-mile from last night’s tragedy.
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How big is the E coli genome?
|E. coli O157:H7||5.44 x 106||5,416|
|Pseudomonas aeruginosa||6.3 x 106||5,570|
Thus, the thousandfold greater size of the human genome compared to that of E. coli is not due solely to a larger number of human genes. The human genome is thought to contain approximately 100,000 genes—only about 25 times more than E. coli has.
- Sequencing the first human genome cost about $1 billion and took 13 years to complete; today it costs about $3,000 to $5000 and takes just one to two days.
- 3 billion
- In genetics, the gene density of an organism's genome is the ratio of the number of genes per number of base pairs, usually written in terms of a million base pairs, or megabase (Mb). The human genome has a gene density of 12-15 genes/Mb, while the genome of the C. elegans roundworm is estimated to have 200.
Bacterial genome. Bacterial genomes are generally smaller and less variant in size among species when compared with genomes of animals and single cell eukaryotes. Bacterial genomes can range in size anywhere from about 130 kbp to over 14 Mbp.
- Most bacteria have one or two circular chromosomes. Humans, along with other animals and plants, have linear chromosomes that are arranged in pairs within the nucleus of the cell.
- Genome sizes are typically given as gametic nuclear DNA contents ('C-values') either in units of mass (picograms, where 1 pg = 10−12 g) or in number of base pairs (in eukaryotes, most often in megabases, where 1 Mb = 106 bases). These are directly interconvertible as 1 pg = 978 Mb (or 1 Mb = 1.022 × 10−3 pg) (7).
- The earliest direct estimates of the size of human genome clustered around 3,000 Mb (megabase pairs) or 3.0 ×109 bp (base pairs). The textbooks settled on about 3,200 Mb based mostly on reassociation kinetics.
As you know eucaryotic cells contain a very large quantity of DNA (human cells have at least a thousand times more DNA than a typical bacteria cell). E.coli chromosomes have about 4.7 x 106 base pairs which results in a length of 1.6 mm. An E.coli cell, however is only 0.002 mm long .
- As you know eucaryotic cells contain a very large quantity of DNA (human cells have at least a thousand times more DNA than a typical bacteria cell). E.coli chromosomes have about 4.7 x 106 base pairs which results in a length of 1.6 mm. An E.coli cell, however is only 0.002 mm long .
- Doctors typically treat UTIs with a wide range of different antibiotics, such as ciprofloxacin (Cipro) and trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole (Bactrim). However, some strains of E. coli, called extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL) E. coli, are resistant to most antibiotic treatments.
- Escherichia coli is a rod-shaped bacterium. Each bacterium measures approximately 0.5 μm in width by 2 μm in length. E. coli is a Gram-negative bacterium. E. coli cells stain Gram negative because they have a thin cell wall with only 1 to 2 layers of peptidoglycan.
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There are several Dired commands for visiting or examining the files listed in the Dired buffer. All of them apply to the current line's file; if that file is really a directory, these commands invoke Dired on that subdirectory (making a separate Dired buffer).
dired-find-file). See section Visiting Files.
dired-find-file-other-window). The Dired buffer remains visible in the first window. This is like using C-x 4 C-f to visit the file. See section Multiple Windows.
dired-mouse-find-file-other-window). This uses another window to display the file, like the o command.
dired-view-file). Viewing a file is like visiting it, but is slanted toward moving around in the file conveniently and does not allow changing the file. See section Miscellaneous File Operations.
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Trade Fair Review & Trends : February 2012
As we get ready for the August Trade Fairs, I thought I would reshare my Feb recaps: First Up: AGA.
I love trade fairs, at home and abroad. Meeting suppliers and/or customers, old and new, fellow exhibitors, association members and touching base. These are all important reasons and functions of a trade fair.
Equally as important is the product, marketing support & ideas exhibitors show. Sadly I felt this was lacking on the whole. There were very few ‘Wow, look at that’ moments for me. There was a lot of, ‘that’s nice’, ‘what a great idea’ but not a lot of ‘wow’.
Of the 3 fairs on at the same time, the AGHA exhibitors were the most proactive and engaging and ready to interact with visitors. I truly don’t understand the staff (yes they are staff who do not have to pay the very expensive cost of the stand out of their pocket) who sit (yes physically sit) on their stand tapping away on their phone or computer – not looking up and engaging customers.
Interestingly I didn’t even look at what they were selling, I just kept walking, why would stop and promote such behaviour? If I was a visitor, I simply would not stop at these stands and spend my money. If they’re like this before they get your money, imagine what they would be like after?! This is so important as it is the personal contact that makes the whole experience and effort of the trade shows worthwhile.
Rather than be embracing 2012 Trends, exhibitors seemed to stick to safe, tested, conservative ranges, if anything I saw 2011 Trends that I didn’t see last year. I couldn’t help but feel that conservatism and caution were key motivators and there was generally a lack of excitement all around. Exhibitors who stuck to tried and true ‘safe’ products did not have as good a fair as those who invested in new products.
Furniture and homeward stands were bigger and better, with less walls with exhibitors taking more care with display and visual merchandising.
The overwhelming trends since GFC has been children’s products and concepts. There were definitely less this year and I think this is due to so many ‘at home’ businesses leaving the market rather than a waning trend.
Something close to my own heart is stationery and there seemed to be a smattering of stands but none of the big names. This indicates the big brands are using other channels to reach retailers and staying away from the shows, which is a pity as lifestyle, homeware and fashion stores would enhance their offering if they had a decent selection.
Very lacking was also a social media / online lead up to the fairs. There should have been a lot of activity, posting, informing and promoting but there was not (on the whole). I posted on all of the trade fair pages offering to visit and feature exhibitors who let me know where they were. Sadly I had only 2 exhibitors posted. Missed opportunities!
Rather than a Trade Fair Trend Report I choose to share a different angle and some insight into what I thought were stand out products or concepts and some buying tips as a way to recap the February trade fairs.
The standout thing for me when looking at exhibitors is that they have a good assortment, more than one interesting products well as a keen sense of introducing new products / designs and evolving the range. I do not understand why retailers buy one or two items from one supplier times 20??!! Just doesn’t make sense. Buying, the supply chain and ultimately the product assortment are very important to every retail business. Dealing with fewer suppliers and forging strong relationships is the key to survival. I go into this in much more detail in my book, ‘7 Powerful Ways To Boost Retail Profits, In Any Economic Climate’.
The other important thing I looked out for was web and social media presence. If they are using it and mastering it then they can support their customers and drive traffic to them. I approached a number of exhibitors I didn’t know (yes there are some left in Australia!), if they ummed and ahhhed or didn’t understand that I would be sharing pictures and info online, then I moved on. They don’t understand the value of connection and referral and will not be able to offer it to their customers.
This by no means is the definitive list of the who’s who of the trade fair as there are so many things to see and do. This is just my ‘standouts’ for one reason or another.
CONTENTS; Party, Christmas, Home
The Contents stand was full of visitors for most of the show. In the last 18 months they have diversified their range from a lot of Christmas with a little bit of homewares and general party, to equal parts homewares, Christmas and expansion of general party with a boutique party range, Polka Party.
The stand out piece on the stand and the draw card for the most part was the Candy Floss Cart, easily the most photographed thing at the fair. Bloggers, stylists and retailers waited patiently to inspect the cart and the products it was displaying. This cart has already been featured on the Amy Atlas Blog, one of the most prominent party and event stylists in e world, so the Contents crew was not surprised.
They also had new pieces what worked with 2011 collections and staples as well as new collections: Seraphina and Botanica. This is important so that a range evolves in store and the retailer can freshen up existing stock without large investments and losses due to markdowns.
Contents customers already order online and interact on the Facebook page and twitter. New prospects and customers had also done their homework and visited the online sites and were acquainted with the collections before they arrived at the fair, making the most of their limited time at the fair.
Kate and Peter Clarkson, tell me that a lot of pieces sold out at the fair and the next shipments are almost sold out too. This illustrates the importance of visiting the fairs – otherwise you may miss out or be seen to be a follower not a leader / innovator.
Disclaimer: Contents are a client of mine. They are featured here because they are a great exhibitor and doing a lot of things right, which was evidenced in their activity and response at the show. This is what we work on together and has proven results.
TREND: vintage, retro, nostalgia, cocooning, festive, design, party
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WALK TALL STUDIO
The stand grabbed me straight away, the products were on display and easy to browse, everything you want at a trade show. Sheffi & Yael Shapira, the husband and wife team, design and manufacture their own products. I very much enjoyed learning about where the products came from and how they were developed.
The products; tea towels, aprons & t-shirts, are bold, simple AND VERY CLEVER. They have combined 3 strong trends:
- Bold Graphics / block colour patterns
- Slogan / posters
- Personalizing / locality
They product designs with local suburbs printed on the front or can personalize then for clubs, associations, community groups and retailers. The minimums are really small and accessible and the prices very reasonable.
This is a great service to pass onto the consumer too – imagine telling your customer they can have their own details / suburb / club / event on the product?! Not only is it a great service but it is right on trend, Consumers live in a world that is being personalized to them more and more and are spending their money on them.
Really sweet and cheeky range of babywear too with great words and design on the front.
If words and graphics aren’t your thing, then the bold floral silhouettes are for you.
This is a good supplier who understands their customer and their product.
TRENDS: personalization, humour, cocooning
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SCIENCE & NATURE
This stand stopped me in my tracks. I have an inner geek and am a daughter of a scientist and have been despairing at the nature of children’s educational toys and use of computer games of late.
What I found was even better; I met the owner Nigel Kirby who is the new AGHA President and learned that they developed a lot of the products themselves. Great considering a lot of my friend’s children had American accents, when they said certain words, from the speaking toys they grew up with!
Even better was that it is his lovely wife Patricia who researches the Australian content and his daughter that supplies some of the illustrations.
I grew up with educational toys and viewing the range took me back a few years (yes just a few, wink wink!) but looking at the products themselves I was really impressed with the depth of the range and details.
To give you an idea of some of the products:
- Make Your Own Volcano
- Mini Micro-scope
- Solar Windmill Kit
- Dinosaur replicas
- Assorted Science Toys: Bouncing Putty was a fav!
There is much more than the above list, visit the website and be 6 again!!
This is a great range to add to lifestyle, kids and homeware stores. Parents and gift givers may be watching their budget but children’s education is not something to skimp on.
The fact that they are quality products as well is a bonus!
TREND: conservation, education, nostalgia
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NAYA – COLONIAL GIRL
This collection is the perfect marriage for any range – gorgeous packaging and beautiful products! I was drawn to the whole thing, the look and the product. The attention to detail is fantastic and you can see the respect the brand has for its products.
Each collection has its own name, scent and look: colour, font and design. The new ranges are:
- A Walk In The Woods: woodland figures with red accents + woodsy scent
- Queen Of The Snow Bees: cool blue, golden highlights and snow drops + scent of fresh garden
- Curiouser & Curiouser: Alice & her looking glass are the inspiration for the black packaging and gold foil mirror, with a hint of boudoir pink
- Vanilla Musk & Amber: All White with a touch of gold foil with gorgeous clear resin handles on the packaging that conveys the cool freesia and magnolia scent of dew in the garden
Owner and creator, Rena Benjamin took me through each collection. Open the top of the box of the scent sticks and discover the exquisite text that tells a story. The packaging is a product on its own! There is a collection here for any taste or colour!
I particularly loved the book covers they supply that co-ordinate with each collection which wrap around any book. They are just that extra little touch that shows Rena’s love of her products, attention to detail and understanding of creating the story on the shelf.
Only quality ingredients and components are used: Less is more :
NO mineral Oils | No paraben preservatives | No propylene glygol | No PEGS | No animal by-products | NO animal testing
I particularly like this on every page of their website:
“Environment : We have always formulated our products with care and respect to our precious environment, long before it was a ‘fashionable’. For instance we are well aware of the real concerns regarding the degradation of the forests, the illegal plantations, the degradation of the rainforests and the resulting loss of habitat of the Orangutans in Kalimantan, Indonesia. We have ensured that our palm oil is sourced from a reputable and long established ex rubber plantation on the Malaysia Peninsular.”
Customers can buy with confidence and use without concern for their skin or health.
Each collection has a wide assortment of product that will create impact on shelf as well as keep the consumers coming back for more. This range fits into fashion, gift, homeware and lifestyle stores.
TREND: fashion, conservation, personalized gifts, design
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Consistently, one of the biggest and best stands at the trade fair, this year they didn’t disappoint. Twin sisters Pat and Joan develop the products and design of every collection and collaborate on the eye catching displays on the stand.
This was one of the rare companies embracing bold colour and design across their wide range of products:
- Cushions & throws
- Table & Kitchen Linen
- Rugs & Doormats
- Christmas Decorations
- Decorator Pieces
This stand could have been at any international show.
The new collections stand on their own as well as work into existing palettes and collections in-store. The designs show attention to detail as well as innovation. The 3D cushions with embellishment are a design piece on their own and not just a functional piece of decor.
The colour palettes are striking:
- Burnt red, orange, red on a neutral base
- Blue, green, taupe, moss on a neutral base
- The nostalgic retro collection of flowers, musical notes and gingham
The designs are right on trend:
- Bold geometrics
- Floral silhouettes
- Exquisite Bird illustrations with vintage handwritten script
- Tonal 3D floral stitching
The Decor pieces are perfectly co-ordinated with the homewares: Bird illustration and vintage handwritten on dishes and bowls co-ordinate beautifully with the cushions and throws.
Madras Link is a great supplier, they have been in business since 1999 and know what they are doing, they add value to customer’s business and understand the role of a brand builder.
TREND: bold colour, animal prints, strong design: floral silhouettes, vintage illustration, hand-made feel, co-ordination, metallic, nostalgia, cocooning
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POTTERY LANE IMPORTS
This stand is busy every day of the fair, in past years I have not been able to get near it so I headed there first thing in the morning and met CEO Josee Tom, the woman behind the brand. Josee is an engaging and informed business woman who knows her business. She travels internationally for the business and has her finger firmly on the pulse of fashion.
Pottery Lane is a striking compact stand of homeware and fashion accessories that are colour blocked to create impact as well as help the customer buy in stories. They offer a solution to the customer not just eye candy. She was one of the few exhibitors I saw using Tangerine, the Pantone Colour of the Year.
Josee develops the range to create impact: each story, colour or design has 4 – 5 product categories.
Over the years they have lessened the homewares and grown the range of accessories. Currently the range consists:
- Bags & Handbags
- Decor: lamps, prints, textiles
- Furnishings: Tables, Chairs, Ottomans, Sofas, Outdoor
The price points are very reasonable and the colours and designs are right on trend!
TREND: colours, metallic, fashion, animal print, vintage
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I met Rodney King at the AGHA Trade Shows at my Social Media Seminar and have been connected to him on Twitter and Facebook ever since. I feel like I always know what is happening with the business not just touching base at trade fair time which is great Brand Building Activity!
I have endless amounts of fun on his stand every time I am on it. Last February, I had a lot of fun with the gun and augmented reality iPhone screen. This year I had oodles of fun with the Rubik’s Cube and Facebook paraphernalia, fake moustaches, vinyl record coasters, Crayon sauce dispensers, Cool Clocks and more.
Novelty and humour encourage consumers to open their wallets. Items with humour and novelty value that have a trend or fashion element will appeal more.
I love the iPhone accessories, especially the docking station that is a phone with handset!
If you are old enough to remember the Rubik’s Cube or if you like the design but don’t remember it, you will love the:
Love Facebook? Gadget King has something for you too! The ‘Like” thumbs up features on
- Sticky Notes
- Like / Dislike Stampers
Gifts for men are hard to find, well interesting gifts are hard to find and Gadget King has so many useful, funny and just plain nostalgic products in their range, like the remote control esky!
Everyone has an I-thingy, and is looking for holders, cases and accessories. This is a must have for EVERY store!
TREND: novelty, nostalgia, social media, humour, technology
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N E R O
A very cool collection of Reclaimed Furniture and decor that are almost design pieces on their own! The material is reclaimed timber and metals, creating unique original pieces.
The range has so many pieces, designs and elements:
- Clocks – novelty and executive
- Watches – novelty and executive
- Handmade Stationery made from eco-friendly recycled material and leathers
- Leather Accessories for men and women
- Travel Accessories
- The all important leather laptop bags, and tablet sleeves
They have a gorgeous assortment of products! Special mention goes to:
- Metallic leather
- Olde Worlde Map Design on albums
- Embossed chocolate leather albums
- Reclaimed Metal Birdhouse (sooo cute)
- Reclaimed Metal Nesting Tables
- Cool Retro Chair
This is an ideal supplier for everything gift – you can buy from different collections through the year and build a strong relationship with them rather than buy from her and there to create an assortment like NERO’s.
TREND: Recycled, sustainable, eclectic, technology, executive, design, metallic
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I was drawn to the stand because I thought the products were interesting but more importantly, owner Diane Harvey was standing opening and closing her umbrella (the product) and speaking to people as they walked by and came onto her stand!
They carry a range of novelty umbrellas, rain coats, and masks. They match and co-ordinate and tell a nice story. This range would also work in a wide cross section of stores: from kids to gift and homeware / lifestyle.
They appeal to the children, who are strong influencers if they are in store as well as the grannies who want to buy something attractive yet practical for the grand kids which is a win win for the retailer.
TREND: kids, novelty
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The range of novelty tea sets has wide appeal and interest. Although they don’t have a wide assortment of products, they do go deep into their category with a wide range of designs, colors and patterns.
The animal sets are fun and yet practical and can be used. They are complimented but the floral designs and the UK memorabilia which will have extended appeal this year thanks to the Olympics after the hype around the 2011 Royal Wedding.
Their price points were very reasonable. I chatted with owner, Adrian Hewton, who told me how he develops the range and negotiates great pricing based on his volume. This is an exhibitor who understands his role in the supply chain and the price the market will pay.
TREND: novelty with functionality, personalizing to tastes
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I hope this gives you a good insight into great suppliers who can support you and your business!
About Nancy As The Retail ‘Miss Fix It’ and the Chief of Ideas at Magnolia Solutions, I have drawn on my own experience of over 20 years in retail and with my first business Paper Magnolia, to help clients create integrated marketing solutions online and offline that are based on sound retail practices.
In 2009, I gave myself the challenge of finding a super low cost solution to get Paper Magnolia started selling online. At the same time, I started to use this new ‘thing’ called Social Media with great results! In 2010 I co-founded Social Media Women and continue to support new social media users. I hope my experience will help you start off on the right foot.
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Breast milk is recognized as the best source of infant nutrition. The components in breast milk provide both nutritive and bioactive functions. Unlike infant formulas, the composition of breast milk changes dynamically to meet the infant's physiologically-changing needs. This infographic explains the composition and variability or adaptability of breastmilk, specially focusing on proteins.
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The production of pure phosphoric acid by purification of wet process acid has become economically competitive with thermal phosphoric acid.
Societe de Prayon, a Belgian company, has developed a liquid-liquid extraction process using a mixture of ether and tri-n-butyl phosphate as solvent (patented). The process includes a pre-treatment of the raw weak acid (28-30% P2O5) or merchant acid (52-54% P2O5).
The original mixture of solvents used gives to the extraction and re-extraction steps some substantial advantages: high extraction capacity and selectivity for phosphoric acid, simplicity and stability in operation, low power consumption.
According to the post-treatment applied to, several purified acid grades can be produced, up to the pharmaceutical grade and up to 62% P2O5.
One pure phosphoric acid plant, 33,000 MTPY P2O5, is now (1981) running since 1976 in one of Prayon facilities near Antwerp. The white acid produced is sold for a majority of uses reserved up to now to the thermal acid.
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