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Thomas Jefferson didn't just write the Declaration of Independence. He also invented one of the world's first macaroni machines and founded the University of Virginia (UVA). UVA has the distinction of being the university with perhaps the oldest honor code in the nation. On every test and paper they write, UVA students must pledge not to "lie, cheat, or steal" in carrying out their work. They must also promise to report any honor code violations they observe. The only penalty for breaking the honor code is immediate expulsion from the university.
In 2002, UVA responded to reports of a widespread plagiarism scandal by conducting a 20-month-long investigation that led to the permanent expulsion of 48 students. Most of the students involved in the UVA case were caught copying other students' research papers word for word, the most obvious form of plagiarism and a clear violation of UVA's honor code.
Most student plagiarism results from a misunderstanding or ignorance of what plagiarism means in all its forms. So we'd like to clear up the fuzz and set the record straight while we're at it:
What is plagiarism and what does SparkNotes really think about it?
SparkNotes and Plagiarism
At SparkNotes, we never include disclaimers in our books because we trust that students who care enough about school to use SparkNotes value their education and therefore won't cheat themselves by plagiarizing our study guides.
We'd be dishonest if we claimed that students never cross the line and use SparkNotes content without proper acknowledgement in their papers. Sometimes they do. SparkNotes has always aimed to support and improve education, not undermine it. SparkNotes condemns plagiarism in any form.
Here's why we think plagiarizing SparkNotes content (or any content) is a very bad move:
Many schools acknowledge that students they expel due to plagiarism claim to have had no idea they were doing anything wrong (see "Paraphrasing" below). That's not an acceptable excuse, of course, but it is an indicator of a greater plague: ignorance.
We view students' misunderstanding of plagiarism as a failure in education, not a downfall in morality. We believe that services that purport to "detect" plagiarism are mostly aiming to profit from a gap in education that's given rise to the recent plagiarism plague, rather than trying to stop the problem at the source. Students need to know what plagiarism is and how to avoid it. So we're here to help clear things up.
What is Plagiarism?
Plagiarism is copying the words or the ideas of another person or institution without acknowledging that you got those words or ideas from that source.
It's as simple as that, and guess what? We took that definition almost verbatim from the explanation of plagiarism posted on the webpage of Emory University's writing center. If we had not acknowledged our source and just kept on writing the rest of this article, you'd probably never know, but we'd be guilty of plagiarism and somebody at the Emory University writing center might end up justifiably pissed.
A quick way to understand plagiarism is to think of thoughts as you think of property: you should get the same feeling about stealing words and ideas as you do about stealing cars—they both belong to someone else and can't be taken without serious repercussions. In the academic world, we're not talking about jail-time, but the most frequent penalty for proven plagiarism is suspension or expulsion. Many students slack off in their senior year of high-school or college, plagiarize a paper, and end up not graduating or being rejected by college admissions departments or potential employers.
Most people think of plagiarism only as copying someone else's essay word for word, but as the definition above shows, it's more subtle and sprawling than that. Here are the three most common types of plagiarism, with a brief explanation of each:
I. Copying Verbatim
The most basic form of plagiarism happens when you copy someone else's ideas word-for-word without acknowledgement (a sentence, a paragraph, or more) and call it your own work. An obvious no-no.
II. Copying Verbatim, but Including Acknowledgements
Students often think that if plagiarism is all about providing "acknowledgements" for your sources, then it's OK to just copy word-for-word as long as footnotes are included. That's kind of like saying it's OK to steal a car as long as you leave a long apologetic note addressed to the owner. No dice. If you ever use verbatim language from anywhere, you must include it in quotes. Alternatively, you can express the ideas contained in your source entirely in your own words with attribution to the source via a footnote or endnote.
III. Inappropriate Paraphrasing, or "Patchwriting"
Take heed because this one's the real killer. What's the difference between "inappropriate paraphrase" and expressing ideas in your own words? Think of paraphrasing as a half-assed attempt to present someone else's ideas as your own. It's for people who know full-on copying is wrong, but who think "expressing ideas in your own words" means changing the source's word choice a bit and maybe throwing in an extra word here or there. That's paraphrasing, or "patchwriting," a.k.a plagiarism.
For example, let's say you decide to write your own declaration of independence from your family. You include a line early in your declaration that reads something like this, "Everybody's equal and there are a few rights everyone deserves. For example: life, liberty, and the right to have a good time." Clearly the source of both your ideas and your word choice is the Declaration of Independence (1776), but you haven't acknowledged the source—instead you present the idea and its phrasing as your own.
Notice how in the above example the word choice is not exactly the same as the Declaration's language. Remember: you don't have to use the exact words from your source to commit plagiarism. If you use unoriginal ideas expressed in language even vaguely close to your source without proper acknowledgement, you're plagiarizing. That applies to all previously published work, even if it's in the public domain like the Declaration of Independence.
How to Avoid Plagiarism
Now that you know precisely what plagiarism is, the next step is to figure out how not to do it. Here are two guidelines you need to commit to memory to avoid plagiarism.
1) Acknowledge All Non-Original Words and Ideas
Every book begins with "acknowledgements" in which the author thanks everybody without whom "this book would not have been possible" or something like that. You need to acknowledge everybody who helped make your papers possible too, even if that's Thomas Jefferson or William Shakespeare. If you express someone else's ideas entirely in your own words and properly acknowledge the source of every non-original idea in your work, you won't plagiarize and you don't have to worry about getting booted from school—unless you do something comparably heinous.
What's proper acknowledgement? Usually it means including quotations to indicate language you're using verbatim and keeping thorough footnotes or endnotes to document the sources of ideas that are not your own. Your "sources" can be everything from a teacher's lecture to an interview to a professor's textbook to a SparkNote (ahem). Requirements tend to differ among educational institutions, so check with your school's policies to be sure your work meets their expectations.
2) Make It New
The aim of all academic research is to use existing ideas as a springboard for your own "contribution to the field," as college professors like to say. You make that "contribution" by infusing all of your academic work with your own ideas (and citing the ideas of others whenever you use them to support your own arguments). That's not to say all of your ideas must be 100% original—thousands of papers have been written on stuff like The Scarlet Letter and Romeo and Juliet—but they must come from you and your thoughts.
Remember in The Catcher in the Rye when Mr. Spencer tells Holden that "Life is a game that one plays according to the rules"? Whether you agree with Mr. Spencer or not, plagiarism is one of the rules everybody has to abide by in the educational game. If you know the rules, which we've tried to spell out clearly here, you'll play the game and graduate with ease. If you don't play by the rules, or worse—if you don't even know the rules and then break them—you could end up having done a ton of work for nothing.


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Exodus 21 Amplified Bible, Classic Edition (AMPC)
21 Now these are the ordinances you [Moses] shall set before [the Israelites].
2 If you buy a Hebrew servant [as the result of debt or theft], he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall go out free, paying nothing.
3 If he came [to you] by himself, he shall go out by himself; if he came married, then his wife shall go out with him.
4 If his master has given him a wife and she has borne him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out [of your service] alone.
5 But if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go free,
6 Then his master shall bring him to God [the judges as His agents]; he shall bring him to the door or doorpost and shall pierce his ear with an awl; and he shall serve him for life.
7 If a man sells his daughter to be a maidservant or bondwoman, she shall not go out [in six years] as menservants do.
8 If she does not please her master who has not espoused her to himself, he shall let her be redeemed. To sell her to a foreign people he shall have no power, for he has dealt faithlessly with her.
9 And if he espouses her to his son, he shall deal with her as with a daughter.
10 If he marries again, her food, clothing, and privilege as a wife shall he not diminish.
11 And if he does not do these three things for her, then shall she go out free, without payment of money.
12 Whoever strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death.
13 But if he did not lie in wait for him, but God allowed him to fall into his hand, then I will appoint you a place to which he may flee [for protection until duly tried].
14 But if a man comes willfully upon another to slay him craftily, you shall take him from My altar [to which he may have fled for protection], that he may die.
15 Whoever strikes his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.
16 Whoever kidnaps a man, whether he sells him or is found with him in his possession, shall surely be put to death.
17 Whoever curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.
18 If men quarrel and one strikes another with a stone or with his fist and he does not die but keeps his bed,
19 If he rises again and walks about leaning upon his staff, then he that struck him shall be clear, except he must pay for the loss of his time and shall cause him to be thoroughly healed.
20 And if a man strikes his servant or his maid with a rod and he [or she] dies under his hand, he shall surely be punished.
21 But if the servant lives on for a day or two, the offender shall not be punished, for he [has injured] his own property.
22 If men contend with each other, and a pregnant woman [interfering] is hurt so that she has a miscarriage, yet no further damage follows, [the one who hurt her] shall surely be punished with a fine [paid] to the woman's husband, as much as the judges determine.
23 But if any damage follows, then you shall give life for life,
24 Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
25 Burn for burn, wound for wound, and lash for lash.
26 And if a man hits the eye of his servant or the eye of his maid so that it is destroyed, he shall let him go free for his eye's sake.
27 And if he knocks out his manservant's tooth or his maidservant's tooth, he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.
28 If an ox gores a man or a woman to death, then the ox shall surely be stoned, and its flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall be clear.
29 But if the ox has tried to gore before, and its owner has been warned but has not kept it closed in and it kills a man or a woman, the ox shall be stoned and its owner also put to death.
30 If a ransom is put on [the man's] life, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatever is laid upon him.
31 If the [man's ox] has gored another's son or daughter, he shall be dealt with according to this same rule.
32 If the ox gores a manservant or a maidservant, the owner shall give to their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.
33 If a man leaves a pit open or digs a pit and does not cover it and an ox or a donkey falls into it,
34 The owner of the pit shall make it good; he shall give money to the animal's owner, but the dead beast shall be his.
35 If one man's ox hurts another's so that it dies, they shall sell the live ox and divide the price of it; the dead ox also they shall divide between them.
36 Or if it is known that the ox has gored in the past, and its owner has not kept it closed in, he shall surely pay ox for ox, and the dead beast shall be his.
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Brimscombe & Thrupp 3 Chalford AFC 1
Saturday 1st July 2017, Pre-season Friendly
Pre-season proper wasn't kicking off for another week but, itching to take advantage of the glorious sunshine, I decided to get myself to one of the smattering of games that was taking place in the first week of July. My choices consisted of Brimscombe or Nailsea United. Nailsea was the obvious choice because it was half the distance but the fixtures list stated that the match would be taking place at Nailsea School, not the setting I had in mind for an impromptu countryside adventure, so Brimscombe it would have to be. Brimscombe & Thrupp are a Hellenic Premier outfit based near Stroud, Gloucestershire. They've been on a bit of a roll in recent years, winning the Gloucestershire County League in 2010-11 before spending two seasons in the Hellenic Division One West, going up as champions in their second season. Meanwhile Chalford were last season's winners of the Gloucestershire Northern Senior League Division Two (whatever that is) so another local team on the up.
Joining me this afternoon were smashing Gas lads Jack, Chris and Matt which meant I'd have to stop off in Redland and Yate on the way to darkest Gloucestershire. Adding these detours plus a stop-off at Tesco and a brief pause to prevent Jack from vomiting due to my erratic driving meant that we missed the majority of the first half, an unfortunate Partizan Bristle first. However, knowing that we were never going to make it in time did put me in the correct frame of mind to enjoy the lovely drive through this strange part of the world full of oddly named towns such as Petty France and Minchinhampton; a place so posh it's main road dissects a golf course. Less enjoyable were the hilly roads leading out of Nailsworth (Forest Green Rovers country), which my little car had serious trouble manoeuvring whilst full of stocky lads and probably didn't help poor Jack's stomach.
We arrived at The Meadow just as the teams were returning to the centre circle, Brimscombe having just scored in the 39th minute to cancel out an early goal from Chalford on 4 minutes to draw the sides level. Despite the fixture's early date, the atmosphere was thick with pre-season spirit. The barbecue was out and the several dozen ever-presents had re-emerged blinking-eyed and were busy chatting and reacquainting themselves with their preferred spots on the sidelines. While we acquired some frosty beverages in the clubhouse, Brimscombe pulled ahead with a goal in the 44th minute.
The Meadow has been Brimscombe's home for over 100 years, most of that time being before the club merged with Thrupp in 1970. It's one of those multi-tiered grounds, like Larkhall Athletic's Plain Ham, that uses grass hillocks to afford it's visitors a raised view of the pitch. One side and one end are on the elevated part of the hill, whilst the opposite side and end are at ground level. The only stand in the ground is on the elevated side and is a long jobbie with half given over to fold-down seating and the other half metal terracing. This side also contains the clubhouse and a large raised concrete area which I have dubbed the patio stand.
Three sides of the ground have hard standing but the end closest to the clubhouse doesn't. During the match the hill at the end opposite the clubhouse had a smattering of people watching from it, like a smaller-scale version of Springfield Park's famous Grassy Bank. Overall I was a big fan of The Meadow. I'm a sucker for multi-levelled grounds as they give a good view of the pitch whilst retaining standing space and are naturally pleasing to my eye, the big nature-loving beatnik that I am. There pitch did have a bit of a dip in it due to the grass verge but it was only on the very edge so hopefully doesn't cause too much trouble.
Whilst doing a lap round the ground and taking my pictures, I witnessed the only goal of the four that occurred while I was in the ground. A deep cross from a Brimscombe player into the box saw the keeper charge off his line but fail to connect with any of his frantic swats at the ball. Another white player touched the ball into control, took it to the edge of the box and put in a second cross whilst the keeper ponderously made his way back to goal, making a simple header from Sam Blackie all that was needed to notch Brimscombe's third of the afternoon.
Throughout the second half Brimscombe play well and do a fine job of passing the ball nicely along the ground, always an unexpected treat in non-league. Chalford for their part look tired and I couldn't really blame them in this heat but whenever they really needed to cut out an important pass between opposition players, they'd struggle to rise to the occasion. One moment in particular towards the end stood out where Chalford had possession but when the player met with his opponent, rather than try to take the ball around him, simply turned and charged into him with his back, falling over and losing the ball in the process.
We're nearly treated to a 5th goal on a couple of occasions, one lob struck from afar seemed to be dropping dangerously but hit the bar and another good effort was stopped manfully in the top corner by the Chalford keeper, who clattered himself on the post in the process and was down for a few minutes as a result. Ultimately another goal wasn't forthcoming and we'd have to be happy with a tame 45 minutes of football but that's pre-season and poor planning for you. The Meadow is a lovely ground and was an absolute treat to be in on such a beautiful summer's day with friends, hopefully the first of many this pre-season.


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"...becoming aware of this general imposture that concerns all of us would ease our love relationships. It is because I want to be loved from head to toe, justified in my every choice, that the seduction hysteria exists. And therefore I want to seem perfect so that another can love me. I want them to be perfect so that I can be reassured of my value."
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Two rivals with eyes on the same Miami City Commission seat this November faced off in court Monday in an early morning hearing.
Judge Jorge Cueto heard arguments over whether District 5 Commissioner Michelle Spence-Jones can legally run for a third term this fall in a lawsuit filed by Rev. Richard Dunn.
Cueto said he's made a decision and is ready to rule but won't reveal his ruling until Wednesday.
Spence-Jones Holds Her Own Swearing In Ceremony
"I'm really ready to rule from the bench but I know whatever I do will have consequences," Cueto said.
The City of Miami charter only allows two consecutive terms but a city attorney has said since she did not fully serve her two terms she's eligible to run again.
After Spence-Jones' election in 2009 she was suspended while she faced bribery and grand-theft charges. She was exonerated of the charges and reinstated.
"I think the voters should have the right as to who we elect and I think that if we're doing things from a democratic standpoint, we should allow the voters to make a choice, it should not be based upon what a judge is saying," Spence-Jones said.
But Dunn, who took over Spence-Jones' commission seat during her suspension, is taking her to court, insisting her time should be up.
"The charter, which has been written, is clear. Right is right, you can't get around it, the law is the law," Dunn said.
The hearing to decide the issue was set for 6:30 a.m. Monday. An attorney for Dunn said the hearing was scheduled so early to expedite going before a judge.
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When he filed the lawsuit earlier this year, Dunn said it was about the city charter, not a personal rivalry with Spence-Jones.
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Labour's malicious breach? No, human failure.
It's all over the news at the moment - political blogger Cameron Slater, aka Whaleoil, has got his hands on a whole raft of Labour files, as well as the personal details of their online donors. In terms of a breach of data security, this is pretty much worse case scenario.
In Cameron's latest blog post, he outlines exactly how he got the data:
Quick summary of the video: using the online tool My-IP-Neighbors Cameron worked out the other sites running on the same IP address as Labour website lets-not.co.nz - one of those sites was healthyhomeshealthykiwis.org.nz, and with no index file and directory browsing switched on, it gives any visitor to it a complete file listing of every file and directory hosted on that site. It also contained a surprising amount of files that really shouldn't be there - MySQL database dumps, personal and credit card details, plus other sensitive files. To add insult to injury, the site has also been indexed by Google, meaning all the information on that site is now part of the Google cache.
Malicious hacking? Hardly. Epic fail on the part of Labour's web team? You bet.
The "real life" analogy of this happening is not WhaleOil breaking into a Labour car and retrieving a briefcase of private documents and taking copies - it is more similar to Labour leaving the files spread out on the footpath, and them complaining when someone discovers and reads them.
I'm not condoning what WhaleOil does with the information; what I do want to point out is how he obtained the data is not hacking, not by any stretch of the imagination. What has happened is the staff in charge of their websites have failed in the most basic steps to secure their websites, and it is not a design fault. Hopefully this experience also teaches them not to store sensitive files online, especially not backups from their main website's MySQL database. I also question why credit card details are being stored online - the industry standard is to use a third-party credit card processor who stores (if required) credit cards securely, removing this liability for your own website.
I would be asking some serious questions of the Labour staff, and how such a slipup could occur.
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You spend a third of your lifetime sleeping, and doctors agree you need 7 to 9 hours of sleep, including the best kind, REM in which you completely relax and dream, for optimal performance the next day and long-term health. That's why you should replace your mattress every 10 years to make sure it's still up to the job of completely supporting your body. That's why the mattress store at Underpriced Furniture carries Gwinnett County's finest stock of memory foam, hybrid, and innerspring models at affordable prices for the budget-conscious shopper.
Below are just two examples, from our popular queen mattress sizes, of what we have to keep your bed in top shape.
In one of our top-selling hybrid queen mattresses, a luxurious firm pillow top augments the mattress' support while air-cooled state-of-the-art memory foam supports your frame as well as "breathing" to draw away excess heat, especially important if you are a "hot" sleeper. The mattress' support is aided by its trademark pocketed coil technology.
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|Rediff India Abroad Home | All the sections
British PM won't receive Dalai Lama at home
May 12, 2008 12:40 IST
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown will not receive the Dalai Lama [Images] at 10 Downing Street, a move seen by many as an effort to appease China, which has accused the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader of masterminding anti-Beijing protest in Lhasa.
Brown will, instead, meet the Dalai Lama in Lambeth Palace, home of the Archbishop of Canterbury. This will enable the prime minister to claim to the Chinese that he is receiving the exiled leader in spiritual rather than political capacity,
'As he said in Parliament, the prime minister intends to see the Dalai Lama. What is important is that they are
Brown told Parliament in March that he would meet the exiled leader when he visits Britain, angering China which
With regard to the meeting in Lambeth Palace instead of at Downing Street, the spokesman said: 'He is a spiritual
Brown's decision has dismayed supporters of the Dalai Lama and has been criticised by British political leaders.
Sources close to British Opposition leader David Cameron said that the move was typical of Brown. 'He seems completely incapable of making a decision and sticking to it,' a source was quoted as saying by The Times.
'There is no reason why he should not see the Dalai Lama at No 10, and the suspicion must be that he is responding to the Chinese government,' said Sir Menzies Campbell, the former Liberal Democrat leader.
Brown's predecessors Tony Blair [Images] and John Major held meetings with the Dalai Lama in Downing Street. In the face of stiff Chinese opposition, US President George Bush [Images] received him at the White House and presented him with the Congressional Gold Medal.


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My husband and I were enjoying a rare and treasured Saturday afternoon away as the leaves turned at the end of 2016. It took me the entire two-hour drive to our favorite city to get out the words in a faint whisper, "Ben…I think I might be depressed." Motherhood, at the time, presented as the…Read More
Before this post will make sense, you need to know what a Lily Jade bag is. Quite simply, it is the most perfect bag on the planet. They are full leather, designer-quality bags, with inserts to carry all of your baby items. And they are G-O-R-G-E-O-U-S. Early on in my blogging days I started hearing…Read More
A New Year's Day tradition I've carved out for myself is to process the goals swirling around in my head. As an ENFJ I can be overly idealistic. I get excited over leading myself and others into new territory, but I have a great tendency to bite off more than I can chew – which…Read More
My goal in writing is to be 'gut-honest'. That means I tell tough truths, hopefully in loving ways. Not because I think I'm all that and a bag of chips, but because I know the human experience is a common one and we learn from each other. In that gut-honest spirit, I need to say…Read More
As a twenty-something millennial, I suffer from self-diagnosed 'Elizabeth Bennett Syndrome'. In other words, the propensity to insert myself as the heroine of every story I read. From animated princesses to plucky schoolgirls, the adventures of admirable women have been fixtures in imagination. And, naturally, I am inclined to interchange my name synonymously with theirs.…Read More
When I found out that I was going to meet Gloria Furman at #TGCW16, my husband took great pains to remind me that Gloria and I aren't besties. I can be forgiven! Familiar is exactly how you feel after reading one of Gloria's books; her latest, Missional Motherhood, is no exception. (Update: Gloria did graciously spend a few moments talking…Read More
Several months ago I received a copy of Steadfast Love by Lauren Chandler, courtesy of B&H Books & The Influence Network. I have been a woefully negligent blogger and am only just posting the review, though I couldn't put Lauren's book down as soon as I received it. The Chandlers are a (now) well-known couple in Christian circles. Matt Chandler…Read More
My roles Virtual Assistant and Birth Doula are highly non-traditional, but unmistakably God-orchestrated. As a VA, I work with clients on a variety of online projects to ensure the success of their businesses: preparing blog posts, creating images, managing social media, and so on. This is a bread-and-butter job, it provides necessary supplemental income for…Read More
The days between Christmas and New Year's are some of my favorite. I enjoy using the time to look back, and plan forward. My husband and I rearranged our home office and, in the process, I found several tools I'd purchased over the months to help me get more done. Tools that were halfheartedly attempted…Read More
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STEFANY® Jewellery is designed so that each stone has its own handmade mounting that allows the pattern, shape and character of the individual mineral to excel. Our designs incline toward elegant and wearable shapes.
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We use an innovative stone mounting technique during the production process, and a different method for shaping the precious metal mountings. This allows us to create unique and unchallenged designs. STEFANY goldsmiths do not use any mouldings, casts or semi-finished products. We pride ourselves on 100% ORIGINAL HANDMADE PRODUCTION.
Our Bijoux jewellery is made from an alloy of copper, zinc and pewter which is than galvanised with a 0,3 micron layer of Rhodium to ensure colour stability. All of our pieces are non-toxic and nickel-free.
We also use the so called 'old copper' hard lacquer finishing technique to protect the integrity of the surface. We do not offer gilt finishes as the soft nature of gold is not conducive to long-term durability.
Custom-designed precious metal pieces can be ordered in our shops and via email, or you can call us and arrange a meeting with a STEFANY designer.
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This listing is for a Genuine Dell Optiplex USFF (Ultra Small Form Factor) Desktop PC Tower as outlined below:
Type: Desktop USFF Computer Barebone Kit
Part Number: 225-2669 Optiplex 9010 Ultra Small Form Factor
Size: USFF 9.33-Inch High x 2.56-Inch Wide x 9.45-Inch Deep
Condition: New
This Listing/Item Includes:
- Complete Chassis + Removable Cover w/Thumbscrew
- Motherboard LGA-1155 Socket (CPU NOT Included) + Rear Chassis Ports/Connectors
- Power Supply Unit + Cable/Harness
- Optical Drive Bay / Cage / Sled (Optical Drive NOT Included)
- Front System Fan (Heatsink / Processor Fan NOT Included)
- Power Button/Switch + Board
- Front Bezel + I/O Panel Ports (Internal Speaker NOT Included)
Refer to list below of what is NOT included in this computer
Prior to purchase, please review all photos and description details to ensure this item suits your needs. This is a bare-bones USFF Desktop PC and does NOT include every component necessary to make it run.
This computer does NOT include the following:
- Does NOT include a WLAN card or Optional Wifi Antenna
- Does NOT include the optional Intrusion Switch
- Does NOT include an Optical Drive or filler bezel
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Google cars have been in 11 accidents over six years of testing but will definitely make driving safer, the search giant said.
Automated driving systems are more effective than the easily distracted human mind, Chris Urmson, director of Google's driverless car project said following reports that a number of Google cars had been in accidents since testing began.
Smartphones and other in-car distractions can fatally hinder a driver's concentration however "a self-driving car has people beat on this dimension of road safety," Urmson wrote in a blog post.
With 360-degree visibility, the sensors in Google's fleet can keep track of other vehicles, cyclists, and pedestrians to a distance of nearly two football fields, he claimed.
Yet even Google's cars have been involved in 11 accidents in the six years the company has been testing them, Urmson admitted. The fleet of over 20 cars has covered 1.7 million miles of autonomous and manual driving in that time.
In all cases, there was only light damage and no injuries - and the Google car was never the cause of the accident, he wrote.
Urmson's response comes after reports of US road accidents involving Google's cars.
Three of the firm's high tech Lexus SUVs were involved in collisions. Delphi's autonomous car also had an accident, bringing the tally up to four since September, according to the Associated Press.
Urmson highlighted an issue that Google and other autonomous driving hopefuls must address before self-driving cars go mainstream: how to recognise and respond to the wacky driving habits of humans.
Take intersections. To account for the possibility of another driver running a red light, Google has programmed its cars to pause briefly after a light turns green before proceeding into the intersection.
With their software and sensors, Google's cars can take action earlier and faster than an alert human driver, he wrote. But sometimes they can't overcome the realities of speed and distance, and they get hit just waiting for a light to change.
Out of the 11 reported accidents, Google's cars have been hit from behind seven times, mostly at traffic lights.
The company's cars have also been side-swiped a couple of times and hit by a car rolling through a stop sign, he added.
Google's cars now average 10,000 miles of autonomous driving a week, mostly on city streets near Google's headquarters in Mountain View, California.


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Last night, Governor Howard Dean streamed his keynote speech LIVE on Ustream.TV from the YearlyKos Convention. Governor Dean gave a motivating and powerful speech to nearly 1400 in person and another 200 online.
"There is so much great content that mainstream media just doesn't cover" says Brad Hunstable, Founder of Ustream.TV. "Ustream.TV now gives the world access to all the great conferences and events around the world."
Tune in Saturday, August 4th for Senator Harry Reid, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senator Chuck Schumer at 8am cst. Later that day at 1pm cst watch the Presidential Leadership Forum LIVE on Ustream.TV.
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Children play in a stream of water, spraying from a fire hydrant, in Cotabato City, in Soccsksargen Region, on the island of Mindanao in the Philippines © UNICEF/NYHQ2011-2388/Giacomo Pirozzi
As the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) continue to mobilize global action on fighting poverty and enhancing livelihoods, efforts are also underway to include citizens' voices in the global debate for the development agenda after the MDGs target date of 2015.
MY World is anonymous and asks participants only for their gender, age and country, to allow for disaggregation of data. The data will be presented to global leaders and will paint an accurate picture of the top six issues that impact people's lives the most.
MY World aims to be a simple entry point for ordinary citizens to engage in the post-2015 development process while also introducing voters to the World We Want web platform-- a joint initiative between the UN and Civil Society where citizens and stakeholders are participating in a more extensive and interactive post-2015 debate.
Results from MY World will be submitted to the Secretary-General's High-level Panel on the Post-2015 Development Agenda during their meetings in Monrovia, Jakarta and New York. It is intended that findings from the global survey will be considered by the panel before presenting their final report to the UN Secretary-General.
In the run up to 2015, MY World will continue gathering people's voices and results will be shared with the Secretary-General and other global leaders. This initiative is coordinated by UNDP, the United Nations Millennium Campaign, ODI and the Web Foundation – with the support of partners across the world.
The United Nations and partners invite citizens everywhere to take the survey, and join the post-2015 process to define the world we want after 2015.
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Treasurer's Guidebook: Second Edition
Author: Steven Bragg
Book Description
The treasurer can provide significant value to a business, not just by managing its money, but also through fundraising activities and proper attention to the management of credit and risk. The Treasurer's Guidebook shows how to enhance the treasurer position; it does so by discussing how the treasury department's performance can be organized and fine-tuned, focusing on bank relations, cash concentration systems, investment strategies, financing sources, credit management, insurance, and more. The book also addresses the administrative aspects of the treasurer's job, including the accounting for treasury transactions, treasury management systems, controls, and measurements. In short, this book is the ultimate toolkit for anyone intending to expand and improve the treasurer position. [285 pages]
Note: This book shares some chapters with the Corporate Cash Management book.
Table of Contents
Part 1 - Primary Treasury Functions
Chapter 1. Treasury Management
Chapter 2. Bank Relations
Chapter 3. Cash Concentration
Chapter 4. Cash Forecasting
Chapter 5. Clearing and Settlement Systems
Chapter 6. Investment Management
Chapter 7. Equity Financing
Chapter 8. Debt Financing
Chapter 9. Supply Chain Financing
Chapter 10. Treasury Risk Management
Part 2 - Ancillary Treasury Functions
Chapter 11. Insurance
Chapter 12. Credit Management
Chapter 13. Working Capital Management
Part 3 - Treasury Back Office
Chapter 14. Accounting for Treasury Transactions
Chapter 15. Treasury Management Systems
Chapter 16. Treasury Controls
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Well, we're nearing the end of Celiac Awareness Month. Truthfully, I've been very aware of my celiac this month, after my worst glutening yet last weekend. But just because May is over, don't let your awareness dwindle. I probably won't let you.
Anyway. On to three fabulous things.
1. We have two lucky winners from the giveaways I was hosting - congrats to Kari and Molly on their prizes! Your goodies will be heading to you shortly, ladies.
2. Not sure if I've mentioned this before, but Fox Barrel now has a pomegranate pear cider. In a box. That you can tap. You're welcome.
3. Related, it's playoff hockey time in Chicago, and nothing says "playoff hockey" like, um, nachos. I'll be whipping up a batch for Saturday's game, I do believe, and I'd love to hear your favorite nacho fixings.


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Last night, I dreamed of the mountains close to my home. It's a jagged place, where the once mighty Appalachians recede to coasting hills and sweeping valleys. I spent my childhood days playing in these wooded hills, my shoes caked in red clay and my knees covered in scrapes and scratches. It was a good place to be a child.
It's a place that I still see in my sleep. Nostalgia for childhood, I suppose. But it's also where my mind ventures when it wants to be afraid.
In this dream, it was dark. My headlights danced on the back ends of a pair of white transfer trucks. I followed them as closely as I dared. There was an urgency in me, something deep and inborn. I wanted to get around those trucks and blast off into the night, into nothingness, but I couldn't get around them.
I ground my teeth and followed, tires bumping over road reflectors and dried leaves scattering around me. I'd look in the rear view mirror, expecting to see a monsters, but seeing nothing.
After a time, I felt my body compressed by an unknown pressure. There was a flicker of terror in my heart. Dread, like my soul knew what had happened, but my mind had not yet caught up.
Something streaked across the night sky. Ahead of me, in a direction I instinctively recognized as northeast, there was a flash.
A wall of sound and force rushed into me headfirst. The trucks crashed. They tumbled into the forest, trees groaning and snapping beneath their bulk. My tires hissed across the sprinter-covered pavement. The flash turned to a low, pulsing light.
I turned to the sky. Through a filter of smoke cast off from the wrecks, I watched as that grimey light spread across the sky in a slithering halo, devouring the moon and the stars, and turning pristine night into a sickly, sallow day.
Through the abstractions of my dreaming mind, I recognized a nuclear weapons strike. Northeast of what my dream-self recognized as home. There could be only one target – Atlanta.
Atlanta was gone in the twitch of a finger. The urban hub of the south. Family and friends, relocated for better jobs or a more lively environment. The narrow, zig-zagging streets and the unassuming city diners, the Underground, the quirky shops at little five points, the CNN center, the olympic park, the aquarium, all of it gone.
Every memory of childhood visits, where I'd look up in wonder at the lights in Buckhead or where I'd cling closely to my mother as we walked between towering skyscrapers. No more Peachtree Street or Tabernacle, no Phillips Arena, no Turner Field. The place I'd first seen the twinkle of city lights, or witnessed the tragedy of urban poverty. The place where a poor country girl learned that the world was bigger. Erased. Completely erased.
There was a grotesque pause. It was too late for Atlanta. Too late, even, for the truck drivers tangled and motionless in the cabs of their rigs. But it wasn't too late for me. A wall of radiation was tumbling towards me. That news organizations across the world were buzzing with the news. Phones were staring to ring.
The weight of the moment strangled me. Did I return home and save who I could, or did I point my vehicle west and save myself? If I did stop, who did I stop for? Did I take the time for two stops? One? A phone call?
My insides twisted. I felt a longing, even more bitter than nostalgia. A deep and terrible desire to roll time back a mere minute, to the last happy moments before impact. To revise this disaster and start anew. Couldn't I just try again? Couldn't things go back to the way they were before?
The moment right after a car accident, when you sit with your face in your hands and ask yourself why. When you look in the mirror to investigate a wound, only to wish you hadn't. The moment when you realize something terrible has happened, and you can't go back. The half-second where you curse the clock.
There is no mercy, no matter how we cry. That is what I felt most keenly as I woke, snapping back to consciousness, and vividly recalling my car's engine howling as I sped off into the night, away from the wall, delivering myself to safety. But wishing so badly to relive my last minutes, to drive beneath an empty sky, and realize the disaster itself was the dream.


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The legendary concept hadn't been driven since the 1967 Monaco Grand Prix.
In 1967, the Lamborghini Marzal concept caught the eye of Prince Rainier III of Monaco when it was showcased at the Formula One Grand Prix. Created by Carrozzeria Bertone, the futuristic four-seater prototype attracted a lot of attention during its public debut, thanks to its glazed gullwing doors, silver leather upholstery, and rear transverse engine. As soon as he saw it, he chose it as the car he would drive for his lap of honor to open that year's Grand Prix alongside his wife Princess Grace.
One year later in 1968, the Marzal concept paved the way for the Espada, one of Lamborghini's most successful historic cars and one of the first four-seater GTs. Now, 51 years later Lamborghini has brought the Marzal back to Monte Carlo to open the start of the Grand Prix de Monaco Historique. Behind the wheel was Rainier's son, the current sovereign Prince Albert, who was accompanied by his nephew Andrea Casiraghi. The historic run marked the first time the Marzal has been driven in public since 1967. It was recently restored to its former glory by Lamborghini Polo Storico and is said to boast "perfect mechanical performance".
Joining the Marzal was a fully restored 1976 Lamborghini Espada, which is also celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. The model shown at the event is an unusual example that has remained in Lamborghini's possession since it was constructed. It was used for several type-approval tests for the American market and development. The restoration project took ten months to complete, with reworked mechanics, electrics, bodywork and interior, which still has the original upholstery. Only original Lamborghini parts were used for the restoration of one of Lamborghini's forgotten classics.


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Project Name: Water Conservation Garden
Story Theme: Iconography or Buildings as Icons
This garden is eastern San Diego county was designed by Deneen Powell Atelier for the Otay and Helix Water Districts, and through a design build contract with the Highland Partnership. The garden is used as a xeriscape demonstration project for homeowners, and many of the typical landscape elements were designed as "Calderesque" sculptures. We used a similar concept for the design of the buildings.
- Watering can
- Prototypical watering can of galvanized steel
- Watering can as information kiosk…curved sliding panel opens for visitors when staffed
- Clock tower
- Clock tower in European town square
- Conceptual sketches for tower
- Proposed elevation…yellow gable end used as secondary theme of residential iconography
- Tower at entry plaza… provides focus and orientation from most areas of garden
- Reclaimed water pipe
- Purple pipe used for reclaimed water
- Design sketches…studying roof geometry and pipe
- Elevation of restroom building
- Purple pipe…collects rain water from roof
Lesson learned: Through value engineering, cedar siding on the Admin Building was replaced with HardiPlank lap siding to simulate cedar, and as a fiber-cement product has more durability and requires less maintenance than cedar. The smooth panels were also used…at the base of the tower. This product provides good fire resistance too.


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Lets face it guys, this is the 21st-century and men do get facials. Honestly, a well kept woman loves a well groomed man in her life. You might be saying, well " I go to the gym and I'm nice and buff, but just as you don't care for a woman that is growing hair on her upper lip, we don't care for a the uni-brow you may be sporting! Did I really just say that.
All kidding aside, my male clients love their facials and they range from business men, teachers, dentists and lawn care specialists. So what about you, take the plunge and give it a try. You won't regret it and you will see ever so clearly why that women in your life takes the time to pamper herself.
Mint will start out with a doubling cleansing of your skin, and an analysis of your skin type to see if you are oily, dry or perhaps a combination of both. After an exfoliant has been applied you will enjoy an arm massage while steam is blowing gently on you face. We will remove the exfoliating product with an aromatic steamed towel. Oh, so nice! Your Master Esthetician will then clean out those pores if needed as gently as she can so that not to cause to much discomfort. I know you can handle this guys because you were designed to be the stronger sex, right? Application of the proper mask for your skin type will be applied following this procedure. As the therapeutic mask is penetrating into your skin, the therapist will massage your shoulder and neck muscles to promote a level of relaxation that you have looked forward to all day! Once again, she will use yet another steamed towel that has been treated with an essential oil that promotes relaxation to remove the product.
We will send you out the door feeling like a Million Bucks!
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Our passion and our music started here, in Houston.
Mercury was started by four friends in the year 2000 as an intimate chamber ensemble with the goal to enrich and entertain Houston audiences with an exciting repertoire of music performed on period instruments.
What began as a grassroots effort over lunch at a local restaurant has blossomed into a lively chamber orchestra beloved by the community. In 2013, Mercury rebranded and expanded its repertoire to include works outside of the Baroque period. In this evolution, the goal remains the same—bringing music to life and to people across Houston and beyond.
Mercury continues to receive critical and audience acclaim for innovative and welcoming performances, while also impacting the lives of young Houstonians through award-winning music education programs.
To serve the community by celebrating the power of music—Baroque and beyond—through teaching, sharing and performing with passion, intimacy and excellence.
Over 50 vibrant performances annually
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Our audiences become an essential part of a live Mercury performance. The energy you share with the musicians on stage is what makes for an unforgettable and intimate experience.
From purchasing tickets, to arriving at the venue -- each with a distinct vibe -- to Antoine's passionate introduction of the music, to the world-class performance by our musicians, we strive to provide a friendly, memorable experience.
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Connecting with music changes lives. Whether in the concert hall or in the classroom, Mercury musicians engage and inspire people of all ages.
Students in our in-school residencies show a growing love of music that parallels not only improvements in their playing but in their behavior, grades, self-esteem and leadership skills. Other programs awaken and renew a life-long interest in music in youth and adults.
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Mercury creates distinctive concerts. By standing while performing, Mercury musicians bring an unparalleled energy to the stage.
Through the integration of multi-media, unique dance, costume and narrative elements Mercury is redefining the orchestra experience. In recent seasons, Mercury has presented crowd-pleasing original productions such as The Crimson Prince, Bach & Piazzolla, and Xtreme Baroque! The 2017-2018 season features the highly-anticipated Vivaldi's Four Seasons multi-media event and a collaboration with director Tara Faircloth, Loving Clara Schumann, on one of the most important female composers of classical music.


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Richard Broderick is the author of two collections of poetry, Woman Lake (New Rivers Press) and Rain Dance (University of Wisconsin-Parallel Press), and Night Sale (New Rivers Press), a collection of short fiction. He is the two-time winner of the Many Voices Project Competition sponsored by New Rivers Press, recipient of both a Minnesota State Arts Board Fellowship and a Minnesota Book Award, a Bush Foundation and Robert Frost Foundation finalist, and a two-time nominee for the Pushcart Prize in poetry. His work has been widely anthologized, including in The Next Parish Over (New Rivers Press) and the definitive The Book of Irish-American Poetry from the Eighteenth Century to the Present published by University of Notre Dame Press in 2007.
Before returning to her hometown of Minneapolis, Zoë Bird performed widely in the Southwest and co-hosted the Open Poetry series and Poets Against the War readings in Santa Fe for five and seven years, respectively. Her poems have appeared in art installations and multimedia collaborations with musicians, ceramicists, dancers and fellow poets. Recent publications include vacpoetry.org, The Royal Breadshow (Axle Contemporary, 2014) and Bringing Gifts, Bringing News (DownStairs Press, 2011). Bird recently completed her first full-length poetry collection, Poultice for a Wooden Leg.


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LDC's annual charity quiz is always a night to remember – and this year's event was no exception as it saw us hit the £1million mark for money raised for good causes since 2005.
Our 11th annual quiz took place on 12th October 2016 and saw 169 teams compete to be crowned 2016 champion. They gathered at venues near our offices in London, Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds, Aberdeen, Nottingham and Reading, with Cardiff hosting an event for the first time since the office opened.
After an evening of fierce competition, the winner emerged in Birmingham, as Orbis Partners claimed bragging rights for the next 12 months. GCA Altium in Manchester took second place, while it was back to Birmingham for third spot, which was taken by BDO.
Just under £150,000 was raised on the night, thanks to generous team donations and 'on the night' fundraising events. This helped us pass the landmark million-pound mark, with just over £1million having now been raised since we started the quiz 11 years ago.
All funds gathered on the night will be distributed to our local LDC charity partners - Birmingham Children's Hospital, Camp Mohawk, Children In Need, Francis House, London Air Ambulance, Maggie's (Yorkshire), Special Nursery and When You Wish Upon A Star.
We'd like to thank everyone who over the years has helped us raise an outstanding amount for such deserving causes. All eyes are already on next year's event, when we'll be looking to raise even more money to fund the great work that these organisations do.


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NEW YORK, NY – May 16, 2012 – Students for Education Reform (SFER) is happy to announce that it's going to be part of the Draper Richards Kaplan portfolio of social entrepreneurs. But there is a lot more to go." As the testing bought underway at schools around the state, schooling officers and activists on either side of the testing problem had been waiting to see how many mother and father felt the identical manner. The U.S. Senate should not confirm John King, a man who will convey the failed insurance policies he pursued as training commissioner of New York State to all the nation," Goyal harassed.
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Thoughts on Strength & Conditioning for Paddleboarders
Given that Ruthless Performance is based out of a land-locked state, the paddleboarding or surfing communities are not populations which we traditionally cater to, but given my own predisposition to the sport (surf when I'm on the west coast, paddleboard on the east…), I've spent some time thinking about the demands of paddleboarding, as well as what it takes for me to make sure that I'm most prepped for when the opportunity to take a road trip with the board arises.
Paddleboarding itself is a workout and can be easily classed as its own sport, so with this in mind, most of the strength & conditioning exercises and techniques I'll employ to maximize performance on the board are done to stimulate some of the neglected or underused movement patterns, muscles, and skills while alleviating some of the overuse that can develop over long days on the board.
Consider the following points to help develop your skills on the board no matter how far away you are from your favorite spot…
1. Glute Development Still Reigns Supreme
The glutes are the powerhouse of the body and are pretty heavily correlated to peak athletic function (regardless of domain). Even in the case of paddleboarding, where you are more stationary and have less force input/output demands than some other sports, you still need the glutes for a handful of reasons.
Glutes work in synchrony with the lats (most notably through the lumbodorsal fascia) to assist in each stroke of the paddle. Weak glutes in paddleboarding can also cause severe long-term back pain. Because the standing position on a paddleboard relies on a hinged hip, the inability to maintain tension over time throughout the glutes causes unnecessary tightness in the low back.
Consider including box squats, 180 hip extensions, side-lying clams, lateral band walks, deadlifts, and glute bridges/ thrusts to maximize development of all three glute muscles (max, min, med).
2. Don't Fall Into Sport-Specific Traps
It's easy to see how an athlete would want to utilize his/her time in the gym replicating paddle after paddle, pop-up after pop-up, but this is not an efficient use of time. Keep the paddleboarding-specificity in the water. When strength training for the sport, you should want to engage in what we call 'anti-specific training', which mostly just means engaging in exercises, drills, and positions that bring about a more neutral posture while maximizing power and force development that you couldn't otherwise get while on the board.
Many paddleboarders will align themselves with the ski erg for their energy system training because it most closely replicates their sport. I'm highly averse to the ski erg to begin with, then putting a population whose entire sport exists in a state of flexion onto this machine is a recipe for overuse injuries in the shoulder (and elbow for that matter), slipped discs in the lumbar spine, and hindered transverse plane arthrokinematics.
3. The Value of Unilateral Work Can Not Be Overstated
There aren't very many sports or events that exist on such an unstable surface, so maximizing strength and stability at contact points is paramount. Then, take a guy who boarders on flatfooted like me and put him on a paddleboard for a few hours and his/her ankles will be smoked. Strengthening the feet with various unilateral drills will help extend a paddleboarders' time on the board each day.
Most exercises that can be done on two feet can be done on one. In fact, performing some of the aforementioned glute exercises on a single-leg is a great way to maximize time in the gym. Some of my favorite unilateral exercises are Unilateral Cable Deadlifts (can be done with barbell, dumbbells, kettlebells…), contralateral push press, contralateral low cable row, pistol squat, Chaos Rear-Foot Elevated Split Squat.
This shouldn't be misconstrued as instability work on a BOSU ball. The goal of the exercise isn't to make balancing harder, but rather to make balancing easier over time. This can not be achieved on something like a BOSU ball / instability trainer.
Overall this has barely scratched the surface of strength training for paddleboarders. These are just some quick thoughts I've had on this topic, mostly as it has related to my own development as a paddleboarder, but from the perspective of a scientific and methodological practice and training environment.
Are you a paddleboarder interested in starting a workout program to maximize your skills on a board? Reach out to me at email@example.com to get started today.


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It's funny the things you hear when you're out and about, going about your business. Today involved meeting some industry types and, while siting in the boardroom waiting for the main agenda of the day, an interesting titbit came my way. 'I hear a rumour from a very well-placed source that Jaguar Land Rover is considering buying Vauxhall,' this industry executive said.
Now that is very interesting indeed. Because it's not the first time I've heard this – nor is it the first time I've expounded this very idea.
Rewind to the day that the PSA-Opel/Vauxhall deal was made public, and I was in the fortunate position of being able to speak to a number of Vauxhall and Opel types. It was at the Geneva Motor Show, and I was upstairs in the Opel/Vauxhall lounge. Not only that, but it was at a good time – the CEO of PSA Group, Carlos Tavares, was standing on stage telling the world why his company was in the process of buying General Motor's European carmaking division.
Opel confident, but what of Vauxhall?
While he addressed the crowd, I looked down from above, and watched the address – alongside me, an Opel executive stood. 'You must be very excited,' I said to the young blade from Russelsheim. 'Oh, yes,' he replied, chest puffed out. 'We will be very good indeed for PSA. Opel will be a great fit in the portfolio.'
Minutes earlier, I'd been speaking to Rory Harvey, the Chairman and Managing Director of Vauxhall. You can read what he had to say in my piece on the CAR website, but somehow, his chest wasn't puffed out in the same way. He was very positive, of course, as were the rest of the Vauxhall PR team in attendance – but, somehow, they didn't look as relaxed as their German colleagues. Fielding all those questions about the future of Luton and Ellesmere Port must have been very tiring indeed.
The American view
At the show, I'd also caught up with Richard Truett, our man in the USA. There's been much discussion about PSA's deal. He said that he thought that Vauxhall possibly had less value for PSA than Opel, and that it would make perfect sense for JLR to look at taking on the Griffin. He's explained why this is a very good idea for JLR in his blog on the Automotive News website – and you can't argue with his logic.
Given that JLR wants to crack a million cars a year – and wants to do it at speed – you can see how a new brand in the portfolio would make sense. Ellesmere Port, especially, would add much-needed production capacity for Jaguar Land Rover and, as brilliant new products such as the Jaguar I-Pace, E-Pace and Range Rover Velar clearly demonstrate, the company is on a roll making cars that people actually want.
How to make a million…
Last year, the company built approaching 600,000 cars a year – and that's still some way off the magic million. So, adding Vauxhall to the portfolio would surely be a good way of adding volume, and doing it using a brand that's not tainted like so many in its back catalogue. Richard and I both thought Rover could have been that brand, but the chaps at JLR went a long way in telling us that they disagreed…
Could a plan involving Ellesmere Port, Luton, and a conversation with PSA and GM over licensing agreements on the excellent new Insignia Grand Sport and Sports Tourer (below) make sense? That, as well as a deal over the big-selling Corsa and Astra, may be in the offing – in lieu of co-developing a new range of cars. And this could possibly happen with the help of Tata.
Given how closely JLR engineers are working with Tata on its future model line-up right now (so I've been told, anyway), it's looking like an outside bet. But it's one that might be worth putting an each-way on, if you catch my drift. Certainly, there's a bit of a buzz about the whole thing right now, and it's slowly gaining momentum.
Keith Adams
Is the Editor of the Parkers website and price guide, formerly editor of Classic Car Weekly, and launch editor/creator of Modern Classics magazine. Has contributed to various motoring titles including Octane, Practical Classics, Evo, Honest John, CAR magazine, Autocar, Pistonheads, Diesel Car, Practical Performance Car, Performance French Car, Car Mechanics, Jaguar World Monthly, MG Enthusiast, Modern MINI, Practical Classics, Fifth Gear Website, Radio 4, and the the Motoring Independent...
Likes 'conditionally challenged' motors and taking them on unfeasible adventures all across Europe.
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Audrey Kitching x Tattify / Illustration + Art Direction
Ever since MySpace (whoa throwback), Audrey Kitching has been a style icon for me. Her edgy style, crazy colored hair and quirkiness are an inspiration to be different and not care what others think. I'm also an avid lover of birds and wildlife, so when we talked about her temporary tattoo collection and what she wanted… it was kind of a match made in heaven.
I had the pleasure of illustrating these birds and butterflies for Audrey's collection, Lady of the Birds. Once the artwork was finalized, I put together a moodboard for the art direction of the shoot. Audrey and her PR representative, Erica, were amazing in organizing the shoot and getting a wonderful photographer by the name of Sean Scott to shoot it.
After I received answers for the Q+A questions I sent to Audrey, I named and described all of the temporary tattoos based on the vibe of her answers.
I created a newsletter and homepage website banners with a mix of the photographs from the shoot, and the illustrations I designed, giving it an overall etheral feel.
Audrey is such a down to Earth person, making this collaboration super fun to work on!
You can shop Audrey's collection, Lady of the Birds, here.


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Smartphone Projector And Speaker Gift Set
Your cinema in a box just got surround sound…
Smartphone Projector And Speaker Gift Set
Your cinema in a box just got surround sound...
Your cinema in a box just got surround sound…
Your cinema in a box just got surround sound...
Stuck for prezzie ideas? Not anymore…Introducing the Smartphone Projector and Speaker Gift Set – your cinema in a box just got surround sound!
Smartphone Projector was created by Luckies of London LTD so that you and your friends could project funny images and videos from your phone onto a wall. Whether you want to project a film on to your tent wall whilst you're on a family camping trip or set up visuals for your Maid of Honour speech at your best friend's wedding (including all those Ibiza '07 pics…), the self assembly Smartphone Projector is the solution. With up to 8 x magnification, it's also light, compact and portable! A superb gift for young and old alike…
Now you've got the visuals sorted you need to do something about the sound. Enter Smartphone Speaker! Smartphone Projector's audio sister plugs into your smartphone creating surround sound for your mini cinema experience. With 40 hours playback and impressive sound quality, you could even have a Lord of the Rings (or Twilight Saga) marathon…Perfect for festivals, Christmas office parties or just chilling at home, the Smartphone Projector and Speaker Gift Set makes for a fun little gift all year round.
Smartphone Projector is suitable for use with iOS and Android compatible smart phones (fits iPhone 6 but not iPhone 6 +). Phone brightness must be turned up to 100% and for maximum effectiveness use in a dark room and project onto a smooth white surface. Fits phones up to a maximum size of 8cm x 14.5cm and 3.2 x 5.7 inches.
Please note that this product is intended as a fun gift and is not suitable for commercial or professional projections. It functions by reflecting the image on your phone through a glass lens which will mean any text will appear in reverse.
Smartphone Projector: made from cardboard, with glass lens. Self assembly, glue is not included.
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Yoga for peaceful minds, and happy bodies
Suitable for all levels
About Vinyasa Flow Yoga
Vinyasa flow yoga connects the body to the breath. Each movement is done on an inhale or an exhale, so that the poses flow from one to the next. Flow helps those new to yoga to have a gentle, but thorough, overall body stretch, whilst introducing the poses. For the more experienced, flow yoga keeps the body moving, lubricating the muscles, enabling the practitioner to deepen their practice
About the Teacher
Claudia Timpson discovered yoga in her late thirties, and found it helped her deal with the challenges of modern, city living. She now combines her practice with regular meditation, which is where she believes the real yoga begins. Claudia is qualified in Vinyasa Flow Yoga and is certified by the Yoga Alliance (RYT 200).
She hopes to share her joy of yoga with you, inspiring calm minds, peaceful breath and happy bodies.
About the Classes
There are two classes that take place on Thursday evenings:
- Beginners Yoga: 6pm - 6.50pm
- General and Intermediate Level: 7pm - 8pm
Please arrive 10 minutes before the class starts.
Yoga mats are provided, but please feel free to bring your own.
Classes are drop-in, so no need to book.
Payment is in cash and will be taken before the class.
£10 (£9 concessions) drop-in, or £48 (£45 concessions) for block of 6 classes, valid for 2 months.
Please check website for further details: www.purpletigeryoga.co.uk
For further information, please get in touch
Email: email@example.com
Telephone: 07879 434981
This course on offer is not being offered by Kagyu Samye Dzong London but by the course leaders personally. Kagyu Samye Dzong London is not responsible for what takes place in the class and accepts no liability in respect thereof.


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Demi Lovato has gone nearly every single colour of the rainbow, we think she's officially earnt the title of hair chameleon by now.
She's switched her style up so many times we've lost track, but what colour has she gone now? Spoiler: it's GORGEOUS.
Gold hair, don't care. Demi has taken the peroxide plunge and we're obsessed with it. She's rocked blonde before, but we totally forgot how wonderfully it suits her.
One thing's for sure – she's set up for the PERFECT Goldilocks/Disney princess costume this Halloween. Want more Demi? You can find her username in our Snapchat Directory.
Do you love Demi's new locks or nah? Let us know your thoughts and what colour you reckon she'll go next in the comments below.


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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — Shares of the following companies were among those making noteworthy moves in Wednesday's U.S. stock market:
Ener1 Inc.'s HEV, -9.85% rose 5% after Wunderlich Securities Inc. raised to hold from sell shares of the manufacturer of electric-car batteries.
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Green Dot Corp.'s GDOT, -2.78% shares climbed 5.3% after Janney Capital Markets upgraded to neutral from sell its take on the prepaid-card company.
Hutchinson Technology Inc.'s HTCH shares jumped 24% after the supplier of disk-drive components said it would post better-than-expected results for its fiscal third quarter.
ImmunoGen Inc.'s IMGN, +0.40% shares added 6.8% after Jefferies initiated coverage of the drug developer with a buy rating.
Kenexa Corp.'s KNXA shares gained 10% after Lazard Capital Markets said the recruiter's resolution of a legal dispute with Taleo Corp. TLEO would likely add to 2011 and 2012 earnings.
Kinetic Concepts Inc.'s KCI, +2.34% shares climbed 13% after Bloomberg and the New York Times reported the provider of wound-healing technology is in talks to go private in a leveraged buyout.
PhotoMedex Inc.'s PHMD shares climbed 6.2% a day after the maker of skin-care products said it would acquire rival Radiancy Inc. for $174 million in stock in a reverse merger.
DragonWave Inc.'s DRWI U.S.-listed shares fell 13% after the Canadian telecom-equipment maker said its chief of sales had resigned.