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Uber, the cab-booking app, has not come out to officially say it, but according to a Financial Times report, the company is investing $500 million on an initiative to create their own maps.
Apart from the huge amount dedicated to the mapping project, what makes this an eye-brow raising news is the fact that Uber wants to end their association with Google Maps.
The reason could be the fact that Google recently increased the fee charged companies like Uber for using Google Maps. Which means Uber is making less money.
The other reason could be because Uber want to have their own map infrastructure customized to meet their business requirements. That makes a lot of sense if you consider that Google Maps is bloated with information that a cab company like Uber doesn't need. And they have to pay for the things they don't need.
From the point of view of solely finance, Uber is at the moment flushed with so much cash. Individuals and corporate investors are rushing to invest in Uber. So that kind of money is handy in building something like a custom maps to help their own drivers.
This news fits in with a blog post penned by Brian McClendon where he made the right sound bites about why there is a need for an Uber Maps. McClendon is very qualified to make such pronouncements as he was once an employee of Google. While at Google, he was in charge of creating what the world now knows as Google Earth.
Basically, his pedigree is impeccable
Here is a bit of what he said in the blog post:
Behind every successful Uber ride is a technology many of us take for granted: maps. Mobile maps and GPS allow us to match you with the closest available driver, navigate the fastest path to your destination, and give you an accurate ETA. Accurate maps are at the heart of our service and the backbone of our business.
In fact, Uber wouldn't exist if comprehensive interactive digital maps hadn't been created first. For over a decade, I helped lead that effort as the head of Google Maps. Today I lead Uber's mapping efforts to ensure we can provide a safe, reliable ride — no matter where you are. To do that, Uber uses a mix of mapping technologies (including our own) to provide the underlying infrastructure for our apps.
Existing maps are a good starting point, but some information isn't that relevant to Uber, like ocean topography. There are other things we need to know a lot more about, like traffic patterns and precise pickup and dropoff locations. Moreover, we need to be able to provide a seamless experience in parts of the world where there aren't detailed maps — or street signs."
To make sure their own mapping software is top-notch, Uber did acquire several mapping technologies and hired some top engineers from Microsoft.
Personally, this move by Uber is very surprising to me. Having used Google Maps and Google Earth to do basic navigating in several cities, I just can't understand how Uber or anybody can accuse Google Maps of being inadequate.
And it was just recently that Google Maps upgraded their services moving over to new satellites with more modern cameras. The net effect of that was better resolution and sharper images.
I guess when you have so much money, the tendency is to spend it if your plan is to be the best in the world. For now though, at least from what one got from the blog post, only the US has being fully mapped by Uber engineers. That was done last year.
Presently the team is in Mexico mapping the country for the Uber app. At this rate, it would take a while before the whole world is covered. Unless there is a plan to accelerate the project at some stage in the future.
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Arm Lift
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Arm Lift
The Arm Lift, or Brachioplasty, is a surgical procedure offered by our Board Certified Pittsburgh plastic surgeon. It lifts, tightens and re-contours the arm by removing excess skin and fat deposits. As we age, or if major weight loss occurs, the upper arm begins to sag due to the great affect of gravity, skin laxity, thinning skin, muscle and fat tissues. An Arm Lift does not affect muscle tone, and normal physical activity is not only possible but highly recommended once recovery is completed.
An Arm Lift can be performed in conjunction with liposuction of the upper arm and other body contouring procedures, but it not recommended for patients who have had mastectomy surgery. You will want to discuss the restrictions for an Arm Lift in detail with your Pittsburgh plastic surgeon if you have undergone a mastectomy.
People who have had major weight loss and post bariatric surgical patients can benefit greatly from an arm lift procedure as well as other procedures like a face lift, tummy tuck, thigh lift and body lift. Significant skin sagging can greatly affect your appearance after losing excessive weight. You should consult with our staff at our Pittsburgh plastic surgery center if you have any questions.
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To tighten loose skin around the arm, liposuction is frequently used in tandem with an arm lift to re-contour the upper arm and remove unwanted fatty tissue from the area.
Any significant weight loss or bariatric surgery will usually leave a patient with undesirable extra skin, which is why a thigh lift or even a tummy tuck can be ideal to combine with these treatments to create a more consistent body figure.

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We are pleased to announce our 2018 event CoachingOurselves: A Day with Henry Mintzberg and the CoachingOurselves Team. Join us on September 7th, 2018 at the prestigious McGill Faculty Club in Montreal to immerse yourself in the world of peer-coaching with Henry Mintzberg and Phil LeNir. For more information and to register, click here.
The Reflections 2017 Global Conference is now complete and was a huge success. We want to extend the warmest thank you to everyone who joined us and to our esteemed speakers who made this a truly special event. It was inspiring to see everyone come together to learn and improve their leadership development practices through CoachingOurselves' peer-coaching methodology.
If you weren't able to attend, click here to view photos of what you missed, including eye-opening sessions and workshops by the likes of CoachingOurselves co-founders Henry Mintzberg and Philip LeNir, author and management great Philip Kotler, professor and consultant Raye Kass, and many of our esteemed partners. Video recordings of all sessions will be available soon!
Stay tuned for information on the Reflections 2018 Conference! We'll see you there!
What is Reflections 2017 Global Conference? Two highly interactive days, 15+ renowned speakers, the Great Canadian Canoe Trip, and a lot more! Built around Henry Mintzberg's approach to leadership development, communityship, and views of rebalancing society, the Reflections 2017 Global Conference is a unique opportunity to interact directly with top management thinkers, leaders, and pioneers from around the world.
During this two day event you will focus on exploring CoachingOurselves, Mintzberg's approach to management and leadership development through peer-coaching groups. CoachingOurselves Peer-coaching is used by over 20,000 leaders in organizations around the world.
At this conference you will learn why organizations use CoachingOurselves peer-coaching, how it's deployed and scaled, and how they evaluate results. There will be dozens of practitioners from organizations around the world sharing their experiences helping you learn about this powerful approach to developing leaders and organizations.
In addition you will be able to participate in a parallel event focused on social change, based on Henry Mintzberg's "Rebalancing Society" work.
Are you OD or HR professional constantly challenged to deliver engaging programs with organizational impact? Day one will focus on exploring CoachingOurselves, Mintzberg's approach to management and leadership development through peer-coaching groups.
This day provides a unique chance to interact with and learn directly from Henry Mintzberg and CoachingOurselves authors including Philip Kotler, Edgar Schein, and Raye Kass.
Attendees will experience:
During the second day we have prepared sessions focused on designing programs with CoachingOurselves. You will learn from professor Jonathan Gosling and participate in an innovation lab for the CoachingOurselves L&D Community.
The day will conclude with a master session by Dan Pontefract, former head of learning at Telus. Dan will lead us on an exploration of his latest work the Purpose Effect: how you can achieve a purpose mindset, on a personal level and for the organization where you work.
Running in parallel on Day 2 will be Henry Mintzberg's "Rebalancing Society" event — for L&D or operational leaders interested in learning from and working with leaders of other sectors for positive change. Participants to the CoachingOurselves conference will have full access to all sessions from this "Rebalancing Society" event.
Attendees will experience:
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NeoCities and Nostalgia for a Simpler Time
By Deane Barker on June 29, 2013
A friend sent me a post from a guy trying to make another GeoCities, called (awesomely) NeoCities.
His argument boils down the fact that there's too much structure on the web today, both in the form of rigid social media publishing paradigms and (presumably) hosted CMS solutions:
Instead of having adventures into the great unknowns of the web, we instead now spend most of our time on social networks: boring, suburban gated communities, where everybody's "profile" looks exactly the same, and presents exactly the same content, in the same arrangement. Rarely do we create things on these networks; Instead, we consume, and report on our consumption. The uniformity and blandness rival something out of a Soviet bloc residential apartments corridor.
He's right, in a lot of ways. The "exploration" of the web has gone away. The web comes to you now. You don't go looking for anything, due to a combination of social media, link sharing, and the power of Google.
(This, in part, is why I was so interested in Tor Onion Sites. It suddenly seemed to me that there was some secret, unexplored part of the web, and this was super-cool to me.)
I lamented about something similar, years back in RSS and the Waning Mystery of the Web:
I remember way back when the Web was young, you used to have to surf — go from site to site to get what you needed. It was halfway exciting — you were living on the edge, man. You were surfing the Net. You never knew what you were gonna find.
If we want to publish content we just push it out with Facebook or Twitter or Squarespace or WordPress.com. This is both a medium and a publishing model.
We don't have to "create" anything anymore except the content. Content models, URLs, image handling, etc. – these are all handled. Decisions have been made for us. We have little rigid CMS boxes in which we organized stuff.
But is this a problem? While I appreciate the nostalgia of GeoCities, these new platforms were created to solve a problem – people didn't want to learn anything to publish content. Yes, even HTML was too much for a lot of people.
In general, people like structure. People don't like blank pages. They like to connect the dots, fill in the blanks, color by number – and this means giving them publishing platforms which are a little rigid, but give them a shell in which to work.
I think NeoCities is a great idea, and I absolutely wish the guy the best of luck with it. But thinking that all the web was missing was free hosting (hint: it's not) might be a little optimistic.
Some people will do some great things out there, but more won't because they're looking for a rich text editor into which they can write content then press "Publish."


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Is your child's Lunch Box providing the required Nutrition
A very important aspect of overall development of a child's mind and body is the amount of nutrition that their body gets in a day. A child's metabolism is much faster compared to that of an adult and hence they need proper diet containing all the essential nutrients, carbohydrates, proteins etc. It has been a difficult task for parents all around the globe to prepare healthy and flavorsome Lunch Box. It is imperative that children take healthy lunches and snacks to their schools as it would help them to concentrate and learn better. But worry not, our tips and tricks will have you preparing a balanced healthy lunch in no time.
To match the active environment in school it is necessary that a child's diet should include fresh fruit, green leafy vegetables, and a combination of protein, dairy and carbohydrate foods.
With many kids having an aversion to healthy food options such as green vegetables and fruits it is necessary to encourage children to make healthy choices and make their lunches creative. Some suggestions for lunch boxes are:
- Paratha wraps
- Stuffed Idlis
- Boiled eggs
- Different types of Dosa's
- Chappati with cooked veggies
- Fruit salad
- Sprouts
- Muffins and cakes
- Youghurt and custard
- Different types of breads with dips such as hummus, beetroot sauces
- Rice pulav
- Legumes including peas, beans, lentils
With busy schedules of both the parents, sometimes it gets difficult to prepare a wholesome lunch, so the lunches should be easy to prepare. Sandwiches prove to be a very good option in this category which can include various healthy fillings and are mess- free and simple to prepare. Drinks such as water and milk should also be included in the daily lunch box rather than fruit juices, soft drinks, flavored mineral water which are unnecessarily high in sugar content.
One aspect which is easily neglected by parents is the quality of the lunch boxes. Undoubtedly, food is stored in containers for long hours and if their quality is not up to the mark it can negate the effect of nutritious foods that you put all your hard work to prepare.
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So, make it a habit to sit with your children and encourage them to eat healthy foods and definitely make their lunch boxes fun so they eat their proteins hidden within a surprise. Children eat what is familiar to them and develop their eating habits early in age, so invest your time in preparing a wholesome lunch for your kid, well, the one that keeps both you and your kid happy.
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You don't have to buy beef tenderloin to enjoy succulent, low-fat, flavorful beef. Slow-cooking methods tenderize less expensive beef cuts. The next time you're preparing a pot roast for your friends or family, purchase an economical chuck shoulder cut and rest assured that your Crock-Pot will cook the meat so tender that you can cut it with a fork.
About Arm Roast
The United States Department of Agriculture includes arm roast -- also called chuck shoulder pot roast -- among 29 lean cuts of beef. The fat content of a serving of shoulder roast is less than 10g of total fat, and it contains less than 95mg of cholesterol. You'll consume more fat from a chicken thigh than from a 3.5-oz. helping of chuck roast.
Bone-in or boneless, chuck arm roast comes from the muscular shoulder area of the cow or steer. The Texas Beef Council cautions that this cut of meat can be tough and recommends slow, moist cooking methods such as stewing and braising.
Stewing and Braising
Stewing and braising are similar slow-cooking methods -- both require patience and a pot with a tight-fitting lid. To stew a roast, cover the meat with liquid and simmer it for several hours. You can brown the meat in a little oil, first, for extra flavor. To braise, brown the meat on all sides. Drain the liquid and add 1/2 cup wine, broth, juice or beer. Simmer for a few hours until the meat separates with a fork.
Crock-Pot Cooking
Crock-Pot is the brand name of a line of electric, counter-top appliances with stoneware cooking crocks. Sunbeam, maker of the Crock Pot, boasts that you can "poach, stew, braise, simmer, water bath, infuse, roast, and bake" in your slow cooker.
Set your Crock Pot on high to reach a simmer point of 209 degrees F in 3 to 4 hours, or low to reach the same cooking temperature in 7 to 8 hours.
The total time it takes to cook an arm roast depends on its size. A 3- to 4-lb. chuck roast takes 5 to 6 hours on high and 10 to 12 hours on low. Chuck roasts usually contain enough marbled fat to cook without water, but most Crock-Pot roast recipes call for a little liquid. Most importantly, resist the temptation to lift the lid while your roast is cooking. Crock-Pot cooking relies on a slow build-up of heat to cook food. Lifting the lid releases heat and adds more cooking time.


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I need to document who Abe is as a new 4 year old, before he becomes 4 1/2 or even worse, 5! I'm so behind over here. And sitting at the computer is the last thing I want to do when I have time to myself. But here I am. I want to remember it all one day. I want the boys to be able to read about themselves and our family life.
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Thursday, March 16, 2017
4 year old Abe.
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Wednesday, January 25, 2017
Abe's 4th Birthday
Abe turned 4 on December 2nd. So behind over here.
He began his day by opening a gift from Holden and Pax. New legos!
Then our sweet Master Builder helped him to build it right away!
Everyone's favorite breakfast at our house is always donuts.
We also let him open this new fire station. It was actually handed down to us without the furniture. I ended up buying a set of wooden pink furniture for it, because it was the cheapest I could find. He didn't mind at all that it was pink. :)
He was so excited to have a fire station.
Not long after breakfast we took off for Chuck E Cheese to meet a few friends and celebrate.
We had games, pizza and Paw Patrol cupcakes.
After lunch, we came home and Abe had a nap. Then my parents came over that evening for frito chili pie (one of his favorites!) and more presents and cupcakes.
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Wednesday, January 11, 2017
November consisted of....
(OK, this first one was actually the last weekend in October.) Jeremy participated in a Spartan race with a few of his best friends. These relationships go all the way back to middle school. These three had a full weekend together. I'm so thankful these friendships are still going strong.
They stuck together through the entire race.
Holden's dream of getting glasses sort of came true.
We converted Abe's toddler bed into a full bed. He affectionately refers to this bed as his "firetruck bed".
We celebrated 14 years of marriage with a fun little date night at Painting With a Twist. It was such a fun and special evening.
I'm so thankful for this guy. Good seasons and hard seasons, busy seasons and restful seasons... I'm glad he is by my side.
And without our monthly date night, I think I would go cuh-razy! :)
Also, during the month the boys had their very first piano recital. They did so great!
And then our sweet teacher retired to stay at home with a new baby. I can't blame her, but goodness I thought we had found such a great fit.
And also in November we went to ICE at the Gaylord. We have taken Holden and Pax one other time. They were so young then they could barely walk without falling in the blue parkas. So it definitely felt like a new experience for them this time.
It was 9 degrees.
These two skinny boys can not handle 9 degrees very well. Holden was miserable. Daddy was attempting to warm him up.
But the ice sculptures are pretty incredible. And Pax and Abe loved the ice slides. Holden would have also loved the slides if there was sunshine and it was closer to 40 degrees.
And finally, also in November, a good friend of mine took some family pictures for us. She captured some great photos of the boys and our family. We found lots of keepers.
I can't believe how big and grown up these two are. Didn't they used to be babies?
And this baby of the family smiled so good. I bribed him with Skittles! His favorite!
December update is right around the corner...
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Sunday, January 8, 2017
Halloween 2016
I'm determined to do a major blog catch up this week and never fall behind again. Hahaha. That will be impossible. When I look at our winter/spring calendar it is extra full and extra exciting. And like always, documenting on this little blog will most likely take a back seat. But Jeremy is always encouraging me to keep these little posts going, knowing that one day it may be special for our boys to look back on all of our family adventures. So here we are at Halloween...
Abe had a little fall party at Mother's Day Out and he wore one of my favorite shirts that the big boys had worn several years ago.
This year, we painted pumpkins instead of carving. The boys loved it.
And keeping with tradition, we had our friends over for frito chili pie and then walked the neighborhood with them and some neighbors. Unfortunately, right about the time I had dinner ready, Holden informed us that he had a migraine headache. He gets them on occasion. So he spent the evening at home being sick from the migraine while I took the boys trick or treating with their friends. For the record, Holden had a black ninja costume, similar to Paxton's costume. He is determined to wear it next year. And this momma is just hoping it will still fit. He grows at a very rapid rate. :)
Here we have a green ninja (Pax), a firefighter (Cruz) and Batman (Abe). It was a great night. I was just a little sad that our biggest boy had to miss out on the fun. But sweet Cruz, Pax and Abe made sure to fill his pumpkin with their own candy.
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Mount Gargano, known as "Italy's spur", stands tall in the northern part of Apulia, within the Foggia province. This area, considered holy ground by saints and pilgrims alike, is a protected reserve, part of the Gargano National Park.
This beautiful area displays a perfect communion of fauna and splendid flora, where the seasons crown the territory, and all those working to reveal its treasures, with amazing landscapes. The Gargano promontory is composed of dolomite rock and limestone, at several degrees of altitude, all contributing to hide a deep network of creeks and underground rivers.
Gargano olive trees populate the entire territory, reaching the shoreline, in this land of unique natural beauty and deeply rooted agricultural tradition. This beauty show itself day after day, in a kaleidoscope of colours, flavours and fragrances, amidst ancient trees that produce an exceptionally rare and valuable oil.
Dauno Gargano DOP Promontolio Extra-Virgin Olive Oil is an oil of unparalleled taste and flavor, hailing from of a spectacular territory and stunning landscapes which bring together the rocky mountains and the marvelous southern shoreline of the Adriatic Sea.


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Metro-East Living
A meal can feed the stomach and uplift the soul
Never let it be said that people who live in big cities are any less caring than those in smaller communities.
I've been traveling to Chicago weekly since March to visit my younger sister Stacy, who is in hospice care at home. She lives downtown in a high-rise with her husband. Their two married daughters live in the city, too, each about 20 minutes away.
I haven't had to cook when I'm there because the fridge is always stocked with meals delivered by neighbors, tennis and book club friends, and family, who often hope to visit my sister when they arrive at the building. But if that's not possible, the caring people who work at the lobby desk call to say a package has arrived, or even bring the food up to us. I haven't once been in the building's elevator that someone hasn't asked about Stacy and how our family is doing.
A sampling of what I've seen in the fridge the past two months includes homemade chicken noodle soup, chicken salad with croissants, my sister's favorite Christmas cookies, brownies, chicken Parmesan, lasagna, baked spaghetti casserole, fruit salad and jambalaya with rice. And while Stacy now cannot eat any of it (she did enjoy a cookie, though), the food comes with notes, cards, poems, inspirational books and flowers that she has seen. (We've also amassed an amazing array of Tupperware and plastic containers!)
When I was there last week, her friend Marianne brought a beautiful green salad big enough for my brother-in-law to eat for lunch and dinner if he wanted. Packed along with it in the cooler were containers of blue cheese crumbles and homemade vinaigrette, two small warm loaves of bread and a roasted turkey breast, already sliced and ready to be added to the salad.
It's so easy to see that feeding stomachs can also feed and uplift souls. That it is a gesture that nurtures and soothes the cook as well as those in need. As a girl, I helped my mother and grandmother prepare casseroles we would take to relatives and neighbors who needed a meal — there was little energy left to think about eating at the end of a day spent taking care of a loved one.
I'm glad to know that while the world moves on as we focus intently on caring for one person, loving gestures like this continue and remain so important. No matter what decade or century it is.
I hope I get the chance to say thank you in person. But for now, I do this.
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2016 Online Retailing across Canada, Europe and the US
By on August 29, 2016 in News
In North America and Europe, online retail sales have continued growing. Online sales in eight countries namely Germany, Poland, UK, Spain, Poland, Netherlands, Italy and France grew between 2014 and 2015 from £132.05 billion to £156.67 billion. The growth trend is expected to continue with online sales expected to hit £182.80 billion for the mentioned nations in 2016 and a whopping £215.38 billion by 2017.
North America
U.S. online sales are expected to keep growing right into 2016. From £215.38 billion in 2015, the sales are expected to grow by 14.4 percent to a high of £246.39 billion by 2016. The Canadian online retail sector is a bit smaller in terms of forecast comparatively and expected to grow from £10.57 billion in 2015 to hit £14.16 billion by 2016 in a percentage increase of 34 percent.
It's worth noting that the retail online sector remains a major driver in North American and European retail spending. In Europe, growth in online retailing grew by 18.4 percent in 2014, 18.6 percent in 2015 with the 2016 growth expected to be 16.7 percent and 15.7 percent by 2017.
Recessionary effects
Lots of shoppers are buying furniture online today in contrast with traditional stores, which has been deduced as a recession-induced change. Today, web search is very predictable and easy, which has made internet retailing one of the most attractive for various products. The growth in mobile technology is also seen as another factor that has made online retailing highly convenient and attractive around the world.
The online market in Europe has been dominated by key players namely France, Germany and the United Kingdom that together contribute to 81.5 percent of the entire online retail sales in Europe across Poland, Sweden, Netherlands, Italy, Spain, France, Germany and the UK.
Online retail market shares
The market shares across Europe were comparatively low if you didn't consider Germany and UK markets in 2015. The market share mean in Europe stood at 7.2 percent in 2014 and 8.4 percent in 2015 with 2016 percentage mean expected to stand at about 9.4 percent. In 2010, 9.4 percent was the online share of United Kingdom and currently stands at 16.8 percent. As such, the European rate of growth has been fast, comparatively.
Among the top countries in terms of online shares within their own markets include Germany with a 2016 forecast of 13.5 percent, the UK with a 16.8 percent for 2016 and France with a 2016 forecast of 9.4 percent. Netherlands and Sweden also have higher market shares although Germany has enjoyed the fastest online sector growth for the last couple of years. However, Germany's 2016 forecast online retail sector growth of 18.3 percent is expected to lose to Spain's 18.8 percent.
In contrast to Europe, the United States remains the online retailing leader where among the eight nations surveyed about 62.3 percent of the US public were online shoppers to Europe's 49.6 percent in 2015. While the typical US online shopper spent about £1,119.79 in 2015, the average European online shopper spent £820.05 on average.
Mobile e-commerce
The growth of online retailing cannot be separated from mobile technology and mobile responsive e-commerce. Lots of retails have reported that about 70 percent to 80 percent of internet browsing on their sites takes place through mobile devices for tablets and Smartphones. By 2015, about 20 percent of web spending across Europe took place through mobile devices, as much as the mobile e-commerce proportions across Europe stood at 26.2 percent in Sweden, 27.7 percent in Germany and 28.6 percent in the UK.
In web retailing, increased sales through mobile devices are one of the reasons why the sales have gone up, about 88 percent in Europe; laptop and PC based online growth stood at only 6 percent.
77 percent of internet users in the UK were found to have made online purchases in 2015, making it a leading online market in Europe. Of the entire 64.91 million UK population 92 percent are web users, meaning that e-commerce has a huge potential across England. This is the reason most UK retailers have adopted e-commerce in their growth strategies taking cue from giant e-commerce players such as Amazon and eBay. These UK retailers include Asos, Argos, Next, Tesco, John Lewis, Marks & Spencer, IKEA and B&Q among others.
Traditional stores and online sales
Online sales growth currently will most definitely lower the market for traditional stores according to marketing analysts. If the domestic retailing hits 5 percent in terms of online sales, it's expected to come at the expense of traditional stores. The forecast for online retailers in Europe growth is expected to be 16.7 percent if the retail market remains stagnant.
As a result, the store sales are expected to dip by 1.5 percent in total in 2016 and 4.3 percent across the United Kingdom and 2.2 percent in the United States. As such, it creates a major issue for retailers who work chiefly through stores; policymakers are also looking at the results showing reduced direct employment within the retail sector.


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Gibbous ♋ Cancer
Moon phase on 9 November 2006 Thursday is Waning Gibbous, 19 days old Moon is in Cancer.Share this page: twitter facebook linkedin
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 81% and getting smaller. The 19 days old Moon is in ♋ Cancer.
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Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 3 days on 5 November 2006 at 12:58.
Moon rises in the evening and sets in the morning. It is visible to the southwest and it is high in the sky after midnight.
Moon is passing about ∠9° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Lunar disc appears visually 4.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1859" and ∠1937".
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2006 after 25 days on 5 December 2006 at 00:25.
There is low ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at big angle, so their combined tidal force is weak.
The Moon is 19 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 84 of Meeus index or 1037 from Brown series.
Length of current 84 lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 4 minutes. It is 1 hour and 21 minutes longer than next lunation 85 length.
Length of current synodic month is 4 hours and 20 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 2 hours and 43 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
This lunation true anomaly is ∠207.1°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠238.7°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
5 days after point of perigee on 3 November 2006 at 23:50 in ♈ Aries. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 6 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 15 November 2006 at 23:20 in ♍ Virgo.
Moon is 385 620 km (239 613 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 6 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 405 193 km (251 775 mi).
7 days after its ascending node on 2 November 2006 at 06:55 in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 6 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 15 November 2006 at 13:25 in ♍ Virgo.
7 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
1 day after previous North standstill on 8 November 2006 at 17:58 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠28.531°. Next 13 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-28.442° in the next southern standstill on 23 November 2006 at 07:12 in ♐ Sagittarius.
After 11 days on 20 November 2006 at 22:18 in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.


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Just like Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror and The LEGO Movie, the podcast series Serial became one of those pop culture moments that everyone you knew ordered you to consume. Everyone on social media ate up your precious bandwidth with their thoughts and feelings on the latest, surprising details to come out of each new episode and the only way you could remain relevant to their existence was to consume it and discuss it along with them.
Of course, there's a very good reason why these types of shows, movies and podcasts earn such glowing praise. They accomplish something that so much mindless media fails to even attempt: They make you feel emotions that are real and genuine.
So it makes perfect sense that the latest and biggest innovator in the art of podcasting should be part of the biggest podcasting convention in the country. Fort Worth's Podcast Movement announced that Serial host Sarah Koenig will close their first convention to what's sure to be a packed room of attentive ears.
The Podcast Movement, a massive gathering of famous podcasters, speakers and seminars on the digital radio arts, will feature Koenig at the tail end of their two day conference that kicks off on August 1 at the Omni Hotel & Conference Center in Fort Worth. Tickets for the conference will go on sale on February 2.
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Koenig got her start on NPR's This American Life and was a producer there for more than 10 years. Koenig and fellow producer Julie Snyder created Serial as a spinoff of the storytelling series that focuses on a single story throughout the season.
"And we won't know what happens at the end until we get there, not long before you get there with us," according to the "About" page on the Serial website.
The first season told the story of the grisly 1999 murder of 18-year-old Hae Min Lee and the subsequent conviction of her ex-boyfriend Adnan Masud Syed, who maintained his innocence following the first-degree murder conviction that earned him a life sentence. The podcast received scads of positive reviews, a massive audience and 40 million downloads as of December 23, 2014.
So, if you followed it religiously, you'll probably be heading to this talk in August. Just don't ask her who killed Hae. The rest of us listened to a dozen episodes on the journey to her answer.


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We learn about the committee that was set up to investigate these claims and how by admitting they were using comics to try and influence people not to be anti-Semitic, the authors also had to admit that they were influencing young minds with them. As this was happening, a gang of Jews were also caught who had been stalking the streets for some time, sadistically attacking and torturing random, innocent people.
Shortly after this scandal of the Brooklyn Thrill-Kill Gang the comics code was set up and anyone violating it was banned from the news stands.
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Colin Dyer: Good Recessions and Global Growth
- Jul 27, 2010
Colin Dyer has served as president & CEO of Jones Lang LaSalle Inc. since September 2004, overseeing a global real estate services firm that comprises more than 30,000 employees in 60 countries. The London-based executive recently spoke with CPE senior editor Paul Rosta about company strategy, the global economic outlook and real estate trends. (A profile of Peter Roberts, the firm's CEO for the Americas, appears in the July issue of Commercial Property Executive.)
Q: What will be the main elements of Jones Lang LaSalle's global strategy for the next several years? In particular, which of your service lines appear to be especially well positioned for growth?
A: If you can have a "good" recession, we've had one. We did a very astute acquisition of the Staubach organization before the recession, and we were able to integrate the two businesses. We continue to be able to pick up on the momentum that we had during 2006, 2007 and 2008. So we start the 2010-2015 period with a lot of confidence and a lot of momentum.
Obviously, the agenda is growth. We see a lot of opportunity for LaSalle (Investment Management) to grow its investment management business worldwide. … We see growth opportunities for our corporate services business. For us, it's a very appetizing strategic menu for the next couple of years.
Q: Generally speaking, what do you expect to account for the majority of Jones Lang LaSalle's growth globally over the next few years?
A: Our principal driver is organic growth. We have set the entire business (plan) by that agenda. If you have a business that's focused on organic profit growth, you've got the right sort of mindset across the organization. Selectively … as our confidence in the business and economic recovery is strengthened, we will be looking at acquisition growth.
Clearly, the economies that are internationally in better shape are the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) economies. We're in a very fortunate position of having been in these countries for 15 and 20 years, such as Russia and China. That gives us a very good position in these economies.
Q: By all accounts, the global economic cycle is in a time of transition, if not turmoil. Which concerns should be foremost for real estate executives around the world?
A: The good news is, the depths of the recession are behind us and economies are growing. Although things are moving forward, there will be periods where individual countries or individual businesses will go backward for a while.
You can't drive a business forward by looking in the rearview mirror. We are moving the business forward—we are committed to a growth plan. … We are just getting on with life, and that's what I believe the rest of the business world has to do.
To my mind, there's a great opportunity for real estate. Gradually, over a period of time, transparency in all markets is improving. … By transparency, (we mean) honesty in dealing with people, (simple, understandable business structures), legal guidelines, and visibility in pricing and returns.
Q: On another front, what operational and strategic challenges are on your mind these days?
A: (In running) an advisory business, an investment management business, there is a whole raft of continual improvements. The challenge is in technology, in training people, in hiring the best people, in joining up businesses between countries.
All of these are challenges that any business wanting to grow can address. We at Jones Lang LaSalle have always chosen a comprehensive approach to the demands of growing a business. Because as a business we are very collaborative, we've deployed methods for moving all these agendas forward.
The big challenges of developing all those areas of a business are ones that we are (approaching) on an increasingly worldwide basis. To me, the challenges are managing a very broad-based business going forward in the most efficient possible way, making sure that the best practices are spread. We are increasingly finding ways of connecting up our businesses, client needs and business systems around the world.


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'Birther' attorney Orly Taitz just won't give up on Obama
COLUMBUS, Ga. — Orly Taitz, the so-called "birther" attorney who's led charges across the country against President Barack Obama's legitimacy to hold office, continues to defy a federal court order to pay $20,000 in sanctions and to challenge the judicial system.
The California attorney/dentist/real estate agent has risen to the national stage with her arguments that Obama can't be the president because he wasn't born in America.
Two of her cases in Columbus challenging Obama's legitimacy to hold office were tossed out by U.S. District Court Judge Clay Land. Then her second client, Capt. Connie Rhodes, wrote a letter to the court in September 2009 claiming that Taitz exceeded her authority as an attorney and that she no longer wanted the California lawyer to represent her.
Taitz kept pushing the issue of Obama's legitimacy with Land, who ultimately gave her a warning and then a time limit to explain why he shouldn't levy a hefty fine against her. In October 2009, when Taitz did reply, though not to the judge's specific command of why he shouldn't sanction her, Land then issued $20,000 in sanctions against her.
Taitz appealed to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta, and the appeals court upheld Land's sanctions in May.
She then forwarded U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas a brief for stay, in which she asked that the sanctions be reversed.
According to the Supreme Court's website, that application was received July 8 and denied by Thomas on July 15.
On July 20, Taitz posted a motion requesting that she be allowed to verify that it is, in fact, Thomas' signature on the denial of her application. She's also sent her request for stay to Justice Samuel Alito, though she said a clerk told her it had been returned because of a small technical issue.
"So, they're playing a new game," Taitz said Wednesday. "This cannot happen in the Supreme Court of the United States."
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Columbus attorney William Mason, who taught law at Columbus State University, said Taitz raises issues that someone would bring up in a writ of certiorari. To Mason, "writ of certiorari" is the key component. Taitz's filing is an application for stay.
"It's not in the proper form or the proper time," Mason said. "A writ of certiorari is a very formal document. You actually have to send it to a printer and send it in booklet form."
In addition, the document would state on its cover, "Writ of certiorari." Inside, it would state "Issues presented," and it would explain in two or three pages how the appeals court erred, he said.
The Supreme Court gets around 8,000 such writs each year, and they examine about 80 a year, Mason added.
A request for stay is done under extraordinary circumstances once a case has been appealed properly by filing a writ of certiorari, which hasn't happened. If it had, the issue should have been whether the court could sanction her $20,000. Instead, Mason said, Taitz appears to challenge the underlying argument that Obama can't legitimately be president.
"There's no logical way to address what she's doing," he said. "I have written certs to the U.S. Supreme Court. This is not how you do it."
Read more: http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/2010/07/30/1211939/birther-movement-taitz-keeps-fighting.html#ixzz0vCHexPWy
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Mark Zuckerberg released photos of Facebook's highly advanced and rather dystopian-looking data center
Fresh-off of saying he really wants to remedy every illness on the planet to get a fairly little bit of cash, Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg really wants to display the planet a few of the additional specialized problems he's helping surmount.
In an article by himself social-network Sept. 28, Zuckerberg discussed a recording of pictures of the company's data-center in Luleå, Sweden. Their article confirmed the way the organization is utilizing the Arctic atmosphere within the really city that was Upper to maintain the machines within the huge building awesome all the time. Based on Zuckerberg, the information centre, concerning the dimension of six National soccer areas, is "10% more effective and utilizes nearly 40% less energy than conventional information centers."
Clearly happy with this task that was specialized, Zuckerberg made a decision to publish some perfectly-constructed pictures in the data-center of Facebook. He stated that he'll be offering additional reduced-recognized Facebook initiatives on his site within the coming weeks. But exactly what the images appear to display, whether deliberately or not, is just a somewhat raw, short, and significantly joyless eyesight of Facebook—an organization that when compared itself to seats and it is headquartered at "1 Hacker Way" in Menlo Park, Florida. Within the pictures Zuckerberg published, the data-center that was huge is vacant and dim, and never there is just one worker truly grinning.
Here's several alternative pictures from Zuckerberg's post:
While Zuckerberg claims it appears like a -fi movie which does he suggest? The Matrix? Probably the Demise Celebrity from Starwars, or even the Captiol from The Starvation Activities? Often the future in sci fi films' chilly, metallic eyesight is intended to become construed as dystopian precisely anything mankind must desire towards.
I believe Blade Runner was shot below.
Would be the improvements remarkable and inside additionally angular?
Profiling a developed, unsmiling official does provide a feeling that Facebook desires its customers to understand that their information is secure. But inaddition it feels as though you're where they intend to ruin the planet taking a look at among the henchmen from the Relationship villain's key headquarters.
Spiderman informed the planet that "with great-power comes obligation that is good, Max although " simply doesn't appear also phased.
"As our are spirits."
This really is possibly the nearest the workers profiled in pictures involves grinning.
I'm not persuaded this isn't a nevertheless from the Terry Gilliam film.
Unpublished research data raise concerns on morning sickness drug
The only real Food-accepted medication for day nausea, obtained by some 33 thousand females worldwide because the 1950s, has already established a brief history of good and the bad. A research that is brand new provides further doubt concerning the medication.
Diclegis may be the renamed version of Bendectin was named by an early on medicine. That tablet was broadly recommended for over 50 years, however in the late-1970s, lawsuits started contacting into question its security, claiming that defects were induced by the medication.
Dow Drugs ripped on the merchandise in the people market. But reports that were further suggested the birth-defect link was misguided. In its acceptance of Diclegis, the Food offered its greatest security score to the medication.
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But what exactly is simply today visiting lighting would be the information which the agency-based information mainly arising from the research within the 1970s of Bendectin which was never printed, its choice.
A set of scientists in the College of Toronto got 000 websites of info on Bendectin in the Food hold of 36, in addition to files in the agency's upper sister. Their evaluation, which seems in PLOS ONE, shows that the initial "Bendectin Antinauseant 8-way" test was barely a slamdunk in support of the therapy.
The test was damaged by many methodological flaws even though outcomes don't show Bendectin was associated with severe unwanted effects. Included in these are the increasing loss of huge levels of information, prevalent inconsistencies in how doctors documented outward indications of day nausea, a higher price of dropouts in the study, and, many frightening of, the unavailability nowadays — or in 2013, for instance — of the natural data of the study.
Main point here, based on the Toronto scientists: "the prescribing of the medicine shouldn't be centered on this trial."
And, the study's writers state, "regulatory choices which are centered on this test ought to be revisited." We acknowledge.
Getting information to lighting
This information chest is just the most recent discovered from the "restoring unseen and forgotten trials" (RIAT) effort. Released in 2013 from the BMJ, PLOS, along with a number of experts, the aim of RIAT would be to provide experts, specialists, physicians, and sufferers use of information which have always been concealed from view and that might have now been vulnerable to prejudice.
Lots of people are amazed to discover that scientists who perform medical tests don't publish or submit all their research information. and sometimes even the majority of it. Occasionally, none is openly accessible. the procedure continues to be sluggish, to express minimal, although rIAT is to create these information to lighting.
The first RIAT task looked over whether a specific protein was helpful in determining which individuals with cancer of the colon required another surgery. It unearthed that the initial study had reached the outcomes that were right .
Another was a 2015 overview of Paxil, an antidepressant generally recommended to kids about the power of the questionable 2001 document. The evaluation unearthed that the document, that was tainted by ghostwriting, overstated the advantages of the medication. Within the lighting that is fresh, Paxil today seems not just to become inadequate in teenagers, it might be more threatening compared to book that is unique documented.
Reports like these speak of erring privately of writing more in the place of less information to the significance. We notice that writing reports — even publishing natural information or — does take assets and time. Though some scientists intentionally store their information to maintain it from "research parasites" — a dreadful phrase — several might just not differentiate publishing documents, for harmless factors. A study of clinical trialists posted in early 2015, for instance, unearthed that "it was obvious from trialists' balances they were frequently truly unacquainted with the possible issues their choices to not submit might cause." The writers of this study named this "scientific naivety," in the place of "intentional wrongdoing."
Another element, obviously, is — or, more correctly, the possible lack of it. Initiatives like RIAT are respectable suggestions, but vulnerable to getting curiosities and never the type of important study, they're without sufficient financing they deserve to become.
Therefore here's a thought: Probably The Food might request medication businesses seeking acceptance to get a medicine that is fresh to create aside cash for a completely independent re-evaluation their trial data of all. The company might subsequently give involved researchers these resources.
With future approvals, that just assists obviously. For all those currently occurred, let's wish that RIAT yet others enjoy it may persevere in releasing the information that display whether our medicines are efficient and truly safe.
UK narrows current account deficit after major data error
By David Milliken BIRMINGHAM, December 6 (Reuters) – England seems to have depended somewhat less about the "kindness of visitors" prior to the Brexit election, following its sta…
Pandora Streaming Data To Be Added To Billboard Hot 100 & Other Song Charts
Nowadays (January. 30), it's been introduced that Billboard and Pandora have created a unique contract that'll include Pandora loading information towards the Billboard Hot 100 graph. Pandora ties additional developed music loading providers as Billboard data allies, including Spotify, Apple Audio, Tidal, Amazon and SoundCloud, in addition to Slacker, Google Stereo, Napster and AOL Stereo, and movie-on demand systems facebook (including Vevo on facebook) and VidZone.
Including the style-certain graphs such as for instance Warm Country Tunes, Warm Stone Tunes, Warm R&W/Hip Hop Tunes, Warm Rap Tunes, Warm R&W Tunes, Warm Latin Tunes, Warm Party/Digital Tunes, Warm Religious Tunes and Warm Gospel Tunes.
Nielsen Audio, today along side Pandora's unique loading information, aswell measures the data. Information that is Pandora's is likely to be integrated in to the charts starting on Feb. 11.
If set alongside the graph missing of Pandora information data may definitely influence 35 tunes about the Warm 100, eight which enhance by five locations in position. Such tunes are Bebe Rexha's "I Obtained You" and Rihanna's "Sex With Me."
"We're delighted to create Pandora aboard like a factor to the tunes graphs," claims Silvio Pietroluongo, VP of charts and information improvement for Billboard. "The music preferences and hearing practices of Pandora's big and important user-base are components that we've wished to incorporate like a way of measuring tune recognition within the Warm 100 and different additional Billboard charts."
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The Ocean and President Trump – National Geographic Society (blogs)
Just like a criminal wave the selection triumph of Donaldtrump for Leader quit about 50% the country surprised and also the partner giddy with foam. One of The concerned events environmentalists are girding to get a long-series of fights around environment and anticipated assaults on keystone companies, government purchases and regulation such as the EPA, exhaust requirements and also the Clean Water Act.
Sea promoters are concentrating on issues less mentioned but similarly apt to be deep sixed like the Ocean Policy. Leader Obama released this this year to motivate greater control of offshore sea utilizes and deeper cooperation between national organizations in local level and the condition. Nevertheless it is considered the Obamacare of the Sea, therefore anticipate it to become scuttled by some Republicans.
We are able to also anticipate ongoing Senate inaction on ratifying Regulations of the Oceans Conference, the UN agreement through which all of the world's countries agree with problems associated with navigation, medical pursuit and territorial statements on and below the ocean. Hillary Clinton had pledged to determine it handed if she turned Leader however many Senate Republicans view it like a UN energy get therefore the U.S. won't be signing on for this sail.
President elect Trump has ignored the medical opinion on climatechange like a "hoax" marketed by China even though he strolled this back somewhat in a post-selection take a seat using the New York Times, he's nevertheless pledged to extended acrylic, coal and gasoline manufacturing "by starting onshore and offshore rental on national countries and waters." Increasing, heating oceans, sea acidification along with other influences from burning fossil fuels, as well as the risk of more BP kind oil pollution problems might find orange activists mobilizing a powerful opposition from coastal towns and companies to any recently recommended offshore positioning.
Even though some people are nicely attuned towards a healthier ocean's financial advantages billionaire value investor Ross, its nominee for Assistant of Business, understands that his work that is new actually contains error of Administration and the National Oceanic.
You will find nevertheless many motion places which have a background of assistance, which might observe improvement actually under Congress and a Presidency typically aggressive to ecological problems.
An example may be the ongoing quest for IUU – Unlawful, Unreported and Unregulated – sailing fishing such as the utilization of servant teams caught about the high-seas (for more with this begin to see the fresh Pet World sequence 'Ocean Warriors'). This battle was significantly increased with a bipartisan angling administration work approved by Congress and closed into regulation in 2015 using the assistance of U.S. industrial fishermen. in order a we all know Republicans and Democrats may nevertheless interact atleast to oppose devils.
Another sign that cooperation may be possible: In 2015 Congress served rapidly to move the "Microbeads-Free Water Act", a bar on small plastic drops which are utilized being a coarse in health insurance and beauty items however slide through waste water treatment flowers to become concentrators of dangerous substances within the food internet of the Sea and also the Excellent Lakes. With Florida along with other claims moving restrictions and ecological problem developing among elegance item customers the cosmetics business chose to get in front of the issue and help the brand new national regulation while reformulating their products. this may give a collaborative design For handling not just plastic pollution's bigger issue but a variety of maritime problems that are additional in which a greener (or bluer) market may currently be in front of the government.
Problem over our weak coastlines has additionally been attaining political grip whether its associated with restoring Louisiana's shrinking coastal bayous or handling hazardous algal plants (aka "green sludge") that's been affecting the economy and atmosphere along Florida's shores for a lot of the entire year. I recently visited Stuart California, one of many cities that great toughest & most substantial dangerous algal bloom within the state's history. irrespective of terrifying underwater wildlife and individual wellness, the episode, associated with agricultural runoff, likewise intends the state's multiple-billion-dollar visitor industry. I talked to Irene Gomes, the little business proprietor of the Driftwood Resort about the Indian Water who explained she'd dropped $15,000 of company simply in September because of the noticeable and odorous pollution. Condition republicans and democrats, combined with the glucose and acid sectors have decided to start operating together to locate a solution. With smog given dead-zones and harmful algal plants today happening on every coastline handling this risk that is nationwide to individual wellness, good sense congressional activity may however encourage.
With increasing ocean ranges and also the associated harm from extreme rainstorms and seawater invasion that led to some current huge sewage leak in Tampa Bay, Coastal Resiliency for towns, locations, energy plants along with other structure will probably turn into a trillion-dollar expense within the arriving years. Miami Beach has already been trading 400 thousand bucks to boost its roads and deploy water pumps because it encounters growing occurrences of "sunny evening flooding," during high tides.
With president elect Trump pledging to purchase structure fix there's a powerful situation to become designed for the repair of 'living shorelines' such as the planting and rebuilding of sand dunes, sea-grass meadows, oyster reefs, mangrove woodlands, salt wetlands along with other organic surprise obstacles that offer extra benefits. Some reports recommend this is often completed in a portion of the price of building seawalls along with other hard coastal defenses.
"We can't certainly safeguard our world without guarding the Ocean." Trump, who possesses several ocean-front qualities may state, is, such as the guy herself, extremely unknown as Obama has stated.


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Where do you like to shop for necklaces? I love supporting independent shop owners, and I've also found that their pieces are often more beautiful and unique than what you can get elsewhere. Here are three of my favorite shops for necklaces:
Dear Mushka // for simple gold or silver pieces. For each piece Katie makes, she includes a Scripture verse that corresponds with the jewelry. I love this idea, and I already have my eye on the next necklace I want (hello not-so-subtle Valentine's day hint for Caleb).
The Jones Market // for everyday necklaces. I loved and wore these necklaces before I had a baby, because they are just so pretty. Now that I have Madeleine, I love wearing them even more, because they're nontoxic and tuggable. Madeleine loves pulling on it and chewing on the beads (#alwaysteething), and I love that I can still feel pretty and put together even on a casual day at home.
Lily Noelle // for bright and bold pieces. Heidi is a dear friend of mine, and she has got some crazy talent when it comes to decorating, making jewelry, and just being fabulous in general. I love the wooden bead necklaces for brightening up a simple outfit. Also about 75% of all of my earrings are Lily Noelle, so there's that too.
If there's a shop you love for pretty necklaces (and other jewelry!), please share! I love discovering new shops to support.


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– The players in both change rooms are calm just an hour before kick-off. After all they are confident they have been well coached on how to carry out their designated roles. The referee and linesmen have trained for this day and are quietly confident everything will go to plan without controversy.
That is until officials walk in unannounced for a last-minute chat. This is no pep talk but rather a grim warning, as they tell everyone in the rooms they have information that this top-level Italian game is bent as a corner kick.
The information has come from Sportrader, an international betting monitoring service that picks up unexplained late plunges that mirror previously fixed games.
This one is what is called a five-star fix – that is the betting syndicate has players on both sides on the take as well as the referee.
Such games can be manipulated to a 5-0 result – the gold-star standard for fixers. Any game where five goals are scored now raises suspicions, as match fixers are attracted to the long odds offered for high-scoring games.
But this time the gig is up. Within minutes players text the betting agents and Sportradar watches as the crooked punters desperately lay off their bets to minimise losses.
Sportradar has spent years analysing betting patterns of games known to be crooked and has developed software that identifies similar punting traffic.
"There has been a massive turnaround in Italy," says Victoria Police Deputy Commissioner Graham Ashton, who late last year was briefed by world experts at a sports integrity conference in Paris.
In confidential meetings, senior sports officials, police, government agencies and anti-corruption experts discussed what has become a worldwide problem – match fixing on an unprecedented scale that crosses national boundaries and sporting codes.
Three sports were named as being in deep trouble: soccer, cricket and tennis – all codes where players travel across the world to play countless matches, often in areas considered notoriously corrupt.
Millions of dollars are now punted on obscure games in strange locations. Exotic bets can be made on the next six hit, the next no-ball, the next double fault, the outcome of a penalty or even how many players will wear sunglasses on the field. And many of the players come from deeply impoverished backgrounds.
Elite competitions, including the Olympics and the World Cup, are rumoured to have been compromised.
Asian sports now identified as match-fixing targets include sumo wrestling, karate, badminton and table tennis.
Now cycling is tarnished with claims that Lance Armstrong was involved in bribery as well as doping.
This week what was discussed at the Paris conference was finally made public: the world game is hopelessly infected by match-fixing.
The European Union law enforcement agency, Europol, says nearly 700 games around the world are suspected of being fixed. It declared that 435 match officials, players, club officials and known criminals were linked to 380 suspected crooked games at different levels of professional soccer played throughout Europe.
A key to the claims is an international police operation code-named VETO, carried out in 13 countries that involved analysing 13,000 questionable emails.
Europol says the main ring is based in Singapore. In fact, police believe there are two major syndicates running out of Singapore with the capacity to influence sports around the world.
One was run by Wilson Raj Perumal, a Singaporean arrested in Finland two years ago this month.
His phone records read like those of a World Cup executive – he had the numbers of senior soccer officials in Asia, Europe and Africa. And they took his calls even after he was identified as a match-fixer.
Perumal was accused of bribing as many as 11 Finnish players, fielding a fake side as Togo's national team in a rigged match against Bahrain and bribing players to lose in Thailand, Malaysia and Syria.
And his fingerprints were all over a suspicious 5-0 win by South Africa over Guatemala in 2010.
Ashton left the conference convinced that many local sports were vulnerable to being corrupted.
Another delegate at the conference was AFL integrity services manager Brett Clothier. What he learnt confirmed the league's fears.
Some time ago, the league identified three threats to the integrity of the sport: gambling, salary cap breaches and performance-enhancing drugs.
It is now facing the perfect storm: Adelaide is implicated in player payment manipulation with Kurt Tippett; Melbourne is under investigation over tanking allegations connected to the draft; and there is Essendon's questionable use of unspecified performance-enhancing supplements.
Clothier has become the most important man in football. If he finds that Essendon has used banned substances the results will catastrophic. But AFL chief executive Andrew Demetriou told Fairfax Media the integrity of the game would not be compromised, no matter what the cost.
The AFL's integrity unit has been enlarged, with a new intelligence analyst due to join later this month, and there are plans to recruit more investigators.
And the off-field rules have been tightened. Now investigators can seize all records, which means as part of the Essendon supplement investigation computers, phone records and financial documents are likely to be taken.
The AFL is looking at technology used by US baseball authorities to retrieve deleted tweets and emails from players and officials.
Increasingly, sports investigators are looking to electronic tracks rather than the results of dope tests to identify corrupt activity.
Indeed, the operation VETO soccer investigation relied more on the email trail than human sources to expose the major match-fixing syndicate. And the joint AFL-Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority investigation could attract police involvement if there is seen to be any criminal involvement or if illegal substances were imported into Australia.
Police are so concerned that they have had preliminary discussions about setting up a sports corruption squad to deal with code infiltration. But they believe at this stage the codes themselves should be aggressively dealing with the threats.
Ashton certainly believes match fixers will already be looking for likely targets in Australia. "I would be surprised if people were not being groomed here," he says.
Police say that of all the sports, racing and AFL are the two to have developed the strongest integrity units, while others, particularly soccer, have left themselves exposed.
Asian gamblers are punting about $2 billion a month with legal and illegal bookmakers and increasingly, due to similar time zones, Australian sport has become a growth industry.
The international seminar was told that A-League soccer and Big Bash League Twenty20 cricket were particularly vulnerable. "Soccer is at the greatest risk and then cricket, " says Ashton, adding that it is inevitable there will be attempts to fix matches here.
He says the threat has increased because a large number of international players are imported for the competitions, some of whom could already have relationships with match fixers.
He says the syndicates had talent scouts who groomed players as young as 13, providing them with sporting gear and coaching, only to call on them to fix a match when they turned professional.
Police also say sports have to develop integrity checks on sponsors and high-rolling supporters who can infiltrate clubs. Police know some overseas soccer teams have effectively been bought by the match fixers.
With the latest investigation into Essendon and possibly other clubs involving high-performance staff, the AFL will examine its own due-diligence protocols concerning staff and contractors employed within the industry.
Ashton says sports identities dabbling in illicit drugs are prime blackmail targets for match fixers. "It begins as a friendship and then turns nasty."
As soon as the player is persuaded to perform a small favour, the demands become greater. "It may start with inside information on injury status or player position and then move to exotic betting such as first or last goal.
"It will not start with throwing a game but a spot-fix, which would be seen as more socially acceptable.
"Spot-fixing will be a huge risk for players here. Drop a mark, bowl a no-ball, miss a shot – that is a real risk."
So much so that Ashton and racing integrity commissioner Sal Perna have helped the AFL produce scenario videos to show players how they could be compromised by betting syndicates.
For the past three weeks AFL officials have visited clubs, lecturing players on gambling, doping, illicit drugs and the dangers of being groomed by crooks.
Demetriou says: "We have beefed up the education programs to remind players about the pitfalls of organised crime."
Users, including sports identities, caught on police phone taps buying small amounts of drugs from major dealers are not to be targeted. And the codes cannot be warned that their stars may be compromised, as tap material cannot be passed to non-law enforcement bodies.
Last month Perna asked the state government to change the laws so police could pass on information from phone taps that could expose race-fixing gangs. The AFL has also written to the government asking for the same deal.
Police want to cooperate but they cannot under present legislation. But Ashton says sporting codes would have to prove that they could hold such information securely before police would provide operational intelligence.
However, he says, information on phone taps gathered as part of serious crime investigations could be used to start separate police investigations into match fixing.
A recent example was how the homicide investigation into the 2011 murder investigation of trainer Les Samba stumbled upon information that a Cranbourne race may have been fixed.
In the current soccer scandal, detectives from a German organised crime taskforce investigating a Croatian gang connected to drugs and prostitution picked up links to match-fixing pivotal to the VETO inquiry.
And while the AFL has embraced the gambling dollar it is also well aware of the risks. The integrity unit monitors betting trends, investigating any suspicious activity.
Sport in Australia is no longer a game but a big business and there are crime syndicates looking for a slice.
If sporting codes want to chase the cash, they are duty-bound to spend some of it protecting the integrity of the competition. That's why they call it a level playing field – John Silvester


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The Green Washington 2010 Award
Ducky's is excited to announce it was a finalist and runner up for Seattle Magazines Green Washington Award for 2010! Ducky's used furniture trade-in program and innovative green products were both determinative factors in receiving this great honor.
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From 100% recycled fabric options to the first panel system to use an annually renewable core instead of fiberglass, Ducky's carries a long list of greener choices when it comes to your office furniture needs. Our main product line, Hon, manufactures entire lines from cubicles to seating which conform to the Indoor Advantage indoor air quality standard which aims to reduce indoor air pollution prevalent in office environments.
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Artists on display: Gina Adams, Carrie Adams, Martin Arnold, Jamie Bates, Isabelle Day, Andrea Degener, Rebecca George, Clarissa Gerber, Amber Hany, Andrew Hendrixson, Jesse Howell. Erica Kempler, Junsoo Kim, Anne LaFond, Virginia McKinney, Erica Nickol, Virginia Pierrepont, Todd Pospichal, Mackenzie Reynolds, Benjamin Rogers, Samuel Scharf, Jason Thompson, David Titterington and Sarah Stewart Wright.
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28 November 2012
HOLY MOTORS- Review
All of this is my high-faluting, but honest way of saying that Holy Motors is pretty damn good. In a film with multiple interpretations, we follow Monsieur Oscar from his home, into a white stretch limousine, as he goes about his day of appointments. Using the wardrobe and make-up in the back of the car, he transforms himself into an elderly woman and, for his first appointment, begs for money on a crowded bridge. He changes his appearance and persona for each and every one of his subsequent appointments too, and over the course of the day, we're shown something of the effect that Oscar's unusual job has upon the world, and upon himself.
Here's a film with such depth of meaning, it almost feels as if that big fuck-off klaxon from QI will go off if I say it's a film about cinema. The plainest interpretation is that Oscar is an actor, and that his transformations inside the car are that of a method actor, getting into character as he's ferried between film sets. These characters range from the elderly beggar woman, to a dedicated family man, via such bizarre detours as a goblin called Mr. Shit, a character that director Leos Carax dreamt up for a previous short film. But then as the characters remark at one point, we never see any of the film crew in each location.
What you'll have gathered is that this is a tough film to describe in any kind of way that makes it sound commercially appealing. It's a deeply unusual film, but one which is surprisingly accessible and enjoyable in the watching. At its centre, you have several superb performances by Denis Lavant, as Oscar and his characters. He's reminiscent of actors from the silent era, equally as poignant in some roles, as he is repulsive when hobbling around as Mr. Shit. He really lends to the multiple meanings that can be drawn out of this thing, and his is nothing short of the best lead performance I've seen in a movie this year- perhaps in several years.
It's his role that makes me think that it really is all about acting. In the course of his consecutive performances, an idea emerges in which an actor might still carry the past experiences and traumas of characters they've played, as if reincarnated. This is most memorably brought to bear in a scene that features Kylie Minogue, from which we can only gather that her character and Oscar have worked together in the past, but is their chance meeting an appointment in itself? Considering that Oscar has nine appointments, and we see him make more stops than this, it's difficult to be sure of anything outside of his mobile dressing room being real, but tantalising when we see him in a comparatively mundane assignment, arguing with a young girl, apparently his daughter, as he drives her home. Is this real? And more importantly, what's real anymore?
Holy Motors is now available from Curzon On Demand, and will be released on DVD and Blu-ray on 28th January 2013.
If you've seen Holy Motors, why not share your comments below? Film of the year? We'll see...
I'm Mark the mad prophet, and until next time, don't watch anything I wouldn't watch.
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LinkedIn is one of those sites that you hate but use. It is boring. It has horrible user interface. But it is useful as a secondary professional network -- to loosely stay in touch with professional acquaintances. There is however one ridiculous problem with how it support groups. You can setup a group for managing communications between people within that group. It should be useful for non-profits, SIG's, etc. I recently setup a group for the people who attended the iPhone bootcamp in Boston. Often you want a group's membership to be approved by the organizer. Here is the catch -- LinkedIn will not notify the organizer if a group membership request comes into LinkedIn. So you have to log in and check for requests. That screen is of course four clicks away. Tedious.
This bug is actually documented on their website here.


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