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Lucky was I to get an opportunity to spend a few hours inside the Golden Temple at Amritsar. The most sacred place of worship for the Sikhs, the "Harmandir Sahib or the Darbar Sahib"- as it is otherwise known, taught me some golden lessons of life. As I walked in through the main entrance of the Golden Temple, I stood mesmerized- by its sheer beauty, the sereneness despite the sea of humans (the Golden Temple receives over a lakh visitors on a daily basis), and the faith that lay in abundance all around me.
There were rules and it was followed without any one having to remind
Head covered… As you step into the courtyard of the sprawling temple campus, you can't but notice the extent to which rules are followed, with ease. You wouldn't spot a single soul without a cloth on their head. The long line to enter the main sanctum moves in unison. There aren't any VIP queues or special "darshan" queues. It's a single line irrespective of who you are (except for women with small babies).
Keeping your place of worship clean
As I walked along the holy tank or the Amrut Sarovar, I noticed a young couple in crisp cotton clothes stooping down with a broom and mop, scrubbing the marble white floor off the black dust and mud that lay strewn. When inside the complex of the Golden Temple, don't be surprised to find several people volunteering to keep the complex clean. People volunteer to sweep, swab, dust, serve water to the millions of devotees who throng to pray. It doesn't matter whether they are the wealthy or the poor. It is their temple, their abode of God; hence it is their responsibility to keep it clean.
You would never go back hungry
Langar– or another word for the common kitchen in a Gurudwara. So here is the fact- The kitchen at the Golden Temple feeds up to 100,000 people a day for free- making it the largest community kitchen in the world. It is said that even the Mughal King Akbar came and sat among the ordinary people to share Langar.
It is here that everyone eats together, seated on the floor, irrespective of caste, creed, religion or gender. Everyone is welcome to eat the delicious meal of roti, dal/sabzi and a nice rice kheer.
Each week a family or several families volunteer to provide and prepare the Langar. All the preparation, the cooking and the washing-up is done by volunteers and or by voluntary helpers (Sewadars). People peel garlic, cook, and make roti, serve, wash dishes, mop floors, and help pass out new dishes. This is done seamlessly.
As the sun sets in the evening, the Golden Temple shimmers. The magical reflection of the temple in the Amrut Sarovar soothes the mind, as the soulful sounds of the Kirtans that are being sung by the Sikhs waft through the air. I close my eyes, soaking in as much as I can, unable to move away, unable to walk out of a complex that radiates and resonates so much positivity.


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Called to Be Holy - Stewardship Series #4
Holiness. It's a very familiar word to those of us who have spent any time at all in church. And if we had a whole room full of people who call themselves followers of Jesus, we would probably get a number of different definitions.
But regardless of how we respond to the idea of holiness, if we honestly read our Bibles, we can't possibly deny that we are called to live holy lives. Anyone who tries to teach that holiness doesn't matter, that we can just live however we want to, can only do so by ignoring a very large portion of God's word.
Holiness is the Will of God for You…Holiness is Made Manifest in Real Actions in Real Life…Holiness is the Work of God's Spirit in You as You Give Yourself to Him.

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Gavril Ilyich Myasnikov (Russian: Гаврии́л Ильи́ч Мяснико́в; February 25, 1889, Chistopol, Kazan Governorate – November 16, 1945, Moscow), also transliterated as Gavriil Il'ich Miasnikov, was a Russian metalworker from the Urals, who participated in the Revolution of 1905 and became a Bolshevik underground activist in 1906. Tsarist police arrested him and he spent over seven years at hard labor in Siberia. In 1917, Myasnikov was active in factory committees, the soviet, and the Bolshevik party in his hometown of Motovilikha and in Perm.
Gabriel Myasnikov is known as the execution initiator and killer of the Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia (1918).
Myasnikov was a Left Communist in 1918, opposed to the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. He was dissatisfied with elements of Party policy toward workers, but he did not support the Workers Opposition in 1920-21. Myasnikov disagreed with the Workers' Opposition's call for unions to manage the economy. Instead, in a 1921 manifesto, Myasnikov called for "producers' soviets" to administer industry and for freedom of the press for all workers. Leaders of the Workers Opposition Alexander Shlyapnikov and Sergei Medvedev feared that Myasnikov's proposals would give too much power to peasants. Despite their disagreements, however, they supported Myasnikov's right to voice criticisms of Party policy. Along with former members of the Workers' Opposition, Myasnikov signed the "Letter of the Twenty-Two" to the Comintern in 1922, protesting the Russian Communist Party leaders' suppression of dissent among proletarian members of the Communist Party.
In February 1922, Myasnikov was expelled from the Russian Communist Party. In 1923, he formed an opposition faction called "Workers Group of the Russian Communist Party" that opposed the New Economic Policy. The group included some former members of the Workers' Opposition. Party leaders arrested Myasnikov in May 1923, but then released him and attempted to isolate him from his support base by assigning him to a trade mission in Germany in 1923. There Myasnikov formed ties to the Communist Workers' Party of Germany, a group at odds with the Russian Communist Party. These groups helped him publish the Manifesto of the Workers Group,[1] without permission from the Russian Communist Party. Workers' Group was suppressed and later in 1923 Myasnikov was persuaded to return to Russia, where he was arrested and imprisoned.
In 1927, his sentence was changed to internal exile in Yerevan, Armenia. In 1928, he fled the USSR for Iran. He was arrested in Iran and then deported to Turkey. In 1930, he immigrated to France, where he worked in factories until 1945. In 1945, the Soviet secret police returned Myasnikov to the USSR, where he was executed.
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Connecting decision makers to a dynamic community of knowledge, individuals and ideas, Bloomberg shortly and accurately delivers business and monetary info, information and perception world wide. As with much of the laws, regulation, and enterprise drivers behind blockchain, it begins with fintech (monetary technology). All that's wanted is a pc and connection to the web to plug into online learning. The survey revealed a wealth of insights into students' use of computing units, angle towards technology and awareness of campus assets. Plex: Plex uses the Ethereum blockchain, machine studying, and synthetic intelligence to provide insurance coverage companies actual-time remote diagnostics on automobiles and drivers.
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When the cold wind blows, a little shelter means a lot. Today I saw a brave Gulf Fritillary butterfly nectaring on Lantana on a south facing slope out of the wind. The North Wind wrapped the flag around the flagpole. I spent time out of the wind potting up some rooted pentas that needed more room for roots.
I moved the narcissus off my potting bench. A bag of potting soil sits on the floor.
The corners are full. Gingers and Gerbera daisies crowd in with alternanthera.
Begonias, Pentas, Duranta and Kalanchoe share a space with forced bulbs.
Chlorphytum comosum dangles over a Kalanchoe in bud beneath a Gardenia.
Gerbera, Begonia, Persian Shield, Foxtail Fern, Alyssum and Gingers.
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Sony to consider spinning off its entertainment division
Japanese electronics and entertainment conglomerate Sony could drop one of those divisions in the near future, as the company's board will soon discuss spinning off its entertainment division in order to help its electronics arm better compete against Apple and Samsung.
The news that Sony's entertainment division could soon be spun off emerged on Wednesday, when Sony CEO Kazuo Hirai revealed that the board would consider a proposal put forward by U.S. hedge fund manager Daniel Loeb, who runs Third Point LLC. Loeb suggested last week that Sony sell off or spin off its entertainment division â which includes movies, music, and television â in order to shore up its electronics manufacturing unit.
Under Loeb's proposal, Sony would sell off 15 to 20 percent of its entertainment business in a public offering that would result in a separately listed company.
"This will be deliberated by the board," Hirai told reporters, according to Reuters. "We have only just begun to study this."
Hirai hinted that, if Sony were to go through with any similar plan, it would likely result in the entertainment business being made public, but not in the unit functioning as a separate entity.
Sony's entertainment arm â which includes the James Bond film franchise, the world's largest music publishing library, and shows like "Breaking Bad" â pulled in $862 million in operating profit last year, nearly as much as its consumer electronics division lost. The division was Sony's second-largest source of earnings.
Since taking over as CEO in February of last year, Hirai has sought to implement a turnaround plan for the Japanese giant. Hirai's scheme â the "One Sony" plan â consists largely of narrowing the giant's focus to a few areas: digital imaging, gaming, and mobile.
In the gaming segment, Sony is coming off a a third-place finish in the home console race and continues to struggle in the portable console fight. The company hopes to turn around at least its home console fortunes by releasing a PlayStation 4 that is easier to program for. That console will compete with Microsoft's Xbox One, the follow-up to the Xbox 360.
To shore up its PlayStation Vita portable console, which lags behind both Nintendo's 3DS and mobile devices, the company is dropping developer fees in the hopes that game makers will take notice.
In the mobile sector, Sony may have an even more difficult road ahead of it. Once a major player in the mobile phone segment, Sony has struggled to have an impact in the smartphone era.
In April of 2012, the company spent $1.4 billion to take full control of its mobile business from erstwhile partner Ericsson. Its mobile division, though, has seen continual losses as Apple and Samsung grab up all the profit in the segment. Sony's most recent offerings â Android-powered tablets and smartphones under its Xperia line â have received warm critical reception, but have seen little traction in the consumer market.


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Nigerian superstar, Wizkid announces his forthcoming single featuring Drake.
Wizkid who just got his Sony Music Deal is set to unleash his first single under the American imprint and it features Canadian rapper, Drake.
"6god x Real Starboy about to school everybody!!," Wizkid tweeted on Wednesday, October 11, 2016. Drake is also renowned as 6god while Wizkid has been tagged "StarBoy" since he launched his record label –Starboy Entertainment.
6god x Real Starboy about to school everybody!!
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The Glasgow ECMC works with ideas from laboratory programmes at the CR-UK Beatson Institute, including its Drug Discovery Programme, and the University of Glasgow and develops these into clinical studies.
This includes the development of novel therapeutic agents and the use of biological markers to optimise, target and personalise treatment, with the ultimate aim of enhancing our understanding of drug actions and host response, thereby improving the success rates in developing new therapeutic strategies for patient benefit.
The Glasgow ECMC is also a paediatric centre and the Centre has active early-phase (phase I/II) clinical trial programmes in adult and paediatric settings, offering treatment for a range of solid tumours and haematoloigcal malignancies.
Cancer Research UK Beatson LaboratoriesSwitchback RoadBearsdenGlasgow, G61 1BD
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Paul O'Gorman Leukaemia Research Laboratories1053 Great Wester RoadGlasgow
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Professor Jeff Evans is the Lead of the Glasgow Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre. He is also Professor of Translational Cancer Research and Director of the Institute of Cancer Sciences, University of Glasgow, Honorary Consultant in Medical Oncology at the Beatson West of Scotland Cancer Centre, Glasgow, and a Group Leader (Translational Cancer Therapeutics Laboratory) at the CR-UK Beatson Institute, Glasgow.
His research interests are in the pre-clinical and clinical development of novel anti-cancer agents, particularly in Upper GI Cancers, and he leads the Phase I clinical trials and drug development team in Glasgow. Professor Evans leads in particular, studies looking at gastro-oesophageal, HCC, and pancreas cancer. He is a member of the ECMC – Industry Alliance Joint Steering Committee.
The Glasgow team has developed a West of Scotland Comprehensive Cancer centre which encompasses NHS (Beatson West of Scotland Cancer Centre), Glasgow University (Institute of Cancer Sciences including Translational Cancer Research Centre on the Garscube Campus and the Paul O'Gorman Leukaemia Research Laboratories), and Beatson Institute facilities.
This allows us to develop laboratory ideas and transfer these into proof of principle clinical studies which include intelligent use of biomarkers and pharmacodynamics to enhance and expedite the process of early drug development.
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ECMC funding provides infrastructure support for early phase and translational research. From the ECMC Glasgow portfolio, the following trials have been carried out.
Trial by disease type between 2012-2015:
Glasgow ECMC Paediatric centre delivers phase I/II trials to children and young adults in Scotland and the North East of England.
The Haematology/Oncology Department of the Royal Hospital for Children in Glasgow is the largest UK CCLG centre in Scotland and sees approximately 90 new cases of cancer a year, of which two thirds are solid or brain tumours.
The clinical trials service is embedded within the Children and Young Adult Cancer Unit at The Royal Hospital for Children, Glasgow (opened June 2015).
In 2011 the Scottish Government established a Managed Service Network (MSN) for Children and Young People with Cancer. As a result cancer services for Children and Young people in Scotland are now delivered as a single cohesive service through working of MSN.
Paediatric Haematology is provided by 5 Consultant Haematologists, and there are a further three full time clinical Paediatric oncologists caring for children with solid tumours and brain tumours from the West of Scotland and beyond. The Royal Hospital for Children Oncology service also looks after patients from other principle treatment centres who are referred to Glasgow as per agreed pathways of MSN, or as required for consideration for Early Phase trials.
Radiotherapy facilities are available at the nearby Beatson West of Scotland Cancer Centre and two dedicated Consultant Clinical Oncologists support this service.
Support services available through the Paediatric ECMC centre:
In line with Glasgow's cancer research strategy, which aims to explore and develop novel therapeutic strategies for patient benefit, the Glasgow ECMC is leading the way in early phase clinical studies of novel combination therapies.
Professor Jeff Evans, in collaboration with colleagues in Belfast, Leicester and King's Health Partners ECMCs, has recently opened the PIONEER study; a Phase I study of olaparib in combination with chemo-radiation in locally advanced pancreatic cancer, which aims to investigate the effectiveness of a novel combination treatment strategy.
Patients with inoperable ductal adenocarcinoma of the pancreas (PDAC) are typically treated with capecitabine, a radiation – sensitizer, in combination with radiation therapy. However, the median survival of most patients is only approximately 15 months and hence improved treatments are needed.
Poly (ADP-ribose) polymerases (eg PARP-1) are enzymes which play a critical role in signaling and repair of DNA single strand breaks. The PIONEER study is the first step towards exploring whether inhibitors of PARP-1, such as olaparib, may potentiate the anti-tumour effects of capecitabine-based chemo- radiation therapy.
The PIONEER study will explore the safety and toxicity of olaparib in combination with chemo - radiation in patients and aims to recommend a dose of olaparib for subsequent clinical trials. The PIONEER study will also will determine the pharmacodynamic effects of this novel combination regimen in patient blood and tumour (where available), and will explore anti-tumour efficacy.
These results will form the basis of randomised phase II studies comparing this regimen with capecitabine-based chemo-radiation in patients with locally advanced inoperable PDAC, and (separately) in patients with "borderline" resectable disease.
The Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre initiative is jointly funded by Cancer Research UK, the National Institute for Health Research in England and the Departments of Health for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.


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Christians on the Left put the following questions to the Leadership and Deputy Leadership candidates.
- What role do the candidates see churches and people of other faiths
playing in the future of the Labour Party?
- In line with our campaign would you support full legal separation of
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Liz Kendall (leadership candidate) @Lizforleader
As you yourselves have said before, the Labour Party's history is rooted more in "Methodism than Marx", and people of faith have played a crucial role in our party throughout its history. I'm proud to have the backing of Christians on the Left Chair Stephen Timms in this contest.
One of the greatest issues in British politics in the years ahead will be where power lies in society. I've argued throughout this contest that far more power needs to lie in our communities. Decisions taken at a local level are often the best way to secure the best outcomes – Churches, Mosques, Gurdwaras, Synagogues and other places of worship would all have a role to play in those decisions.
Churches, alongside other places of worship, play a vital role in their local communities, and the Labour Party must embrace that and work with them.
In line with our campaign would you support full legal separation of 'casino' investment banking and retail banking?
Christians on the Left have rightly raised concerns about this – and it's definitely something that the next Labour leader will have to return to over the coming Parliament.


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Edwards falls just short of victory in bizarre finish
Carl Edwards and fans alike weren't sure who won the Coke Zero 400 after the race ended on Saturday.
After NASCAR officials reviewed the scoring loops and video monitors, Kyle Busch was awarded his sixth Sprint Cup Series victory of the season, beating Edwards in a door-to-door battle.
The race restarted on lap 161 to end on a green, white, checkered finish. After the restart, Edwards spun out Jeff Gordon, sending the No. 24 car from second to 30th.
Gordon, a two-time Kansas Speedway winner, took the blame for the accident.
"It was probably my fault," Gordon said. "We were going for the win and trying to get momentum and the No. 99 (Edwards) got a run. I went low to block him and he kept going low and I guess I must have come across his front bumper."
Officials did not throw the caution flag because the Gordon spin-out affected no other driver. Busch and Edwards were side-by-side coming out of turn four when a multi-car wreck forced a yellow, signifying the end of the race.
Video footage would reveal Busch was slightly ahead of Edwards when the caution flag was thrown, giving him his first victory at Daytona.
"Well, it was close, I knew that," Busch said. "When I did see the yellow light come on, I could barely see the nose of the 99 car at my right-front fender. I was hoping that we were the winners and it ended up that way."
Edwards didn't find out who won the race until moments after the finish.
"I wasn't sure about who had won until we were going down the backstretch after the caution flag, but I saw the yellow light going on as I was going by it," Edwards said. "I was just getting a run on Kyle's door, so I figured I was probably second."
Busch can relate to the disappointment Edwards feels. Just last year at Daytona, Jamie McMurray, a
"I know how Carl feels, for sure," Busch said. "I remember all too well what happened last year and how we lost it."
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Catch Edwards, Busch, Earnhardt Jr. and NASCAR's other top drivers as they make their way to Kansas Speedway to compete in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Kansas 400 (Sept. 28, 2008) and the NASCAR Nationwide Series Kansas Lottery 300 (Sept. 27, 2008).
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June 13, 2016
Breaking the Cycle of Obesity
Adequate folate levels in obese pregnant women may substantially reduce risk that their children will become overweight or obese
Adequate levels of the B vitamin folate in the blood of obese pregnant women appear to reduce by 43 percent the risk that their children would be overweight or obese up to nine years later, new research from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health suggests.
Folate is an essential B vitamin and maternal folate deficiency around the time of conception is known to cause fetal neural tube defects.
The findings, published June 13 in JAMA Pediatrics, add to the growing evidence that the nutritional status of pregnant women may play an important long-term role in the metabolic health of their children.
"Half of mothers in the United States enter pregnancy either obese or overweight and maternal obesity is a major risk factor for childhood obesity, part of a vicious cycle fueling the current epidemic," says the study's principal investigator, Xiaobin Wang, MD, MPH, ScD, the Zanvyl Krieger Professor in Child Health at the Bloomberg School and director of the Center on the Early Life Origins of Disease. "What we have found in this study is that pregnant women with adequate levels of folate appear to be much less likely to pass obesity on to their children. It could help break an unhealthy cycle."
Folate is a primary component of prenatal vitamins taken by many pregnant women. It is found in certain fruits and vegetables and, in the United States, bread, cereal, flour, cornmeal, pasta, rice and other grain products are fortified with folic acid (a synthetic form of folate). Yet, some women aren't getting enough or their bodies aren't properly absorbing it, leading to insufficient folate levels in their blood. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that one in four women of reproductive age in the U.S. have insufficient folate for preventing neural tube defects.
The researchers also determined that the level of folate associated with a reduced risk of passing obesity on to the next generation may be significantly higher than what is currently considered adequate for a pregnant woman. Folate levels under 10 nanomoles per liter have been the standard definition of deficiency based on the role it plays in a certain type of anemia. Wang's new research suggests that pregnant, obese women need levels of 20 or more nanomoles per liter in their blood to begin to see a reduction in obesity rates in their children. However, much beyond the 20 nanomole range, the benefits of additional folate tapered off.
Complicating matters further, emerging research suggests too much folate in pregnant mothers may also be detrimental for child health. Preliminary research conducted by Wang and her colleagues and presented in May at the 2016 International Meeting for Autism Research suggested that excessive amounts of maternal folate – more than 59 nanomoles per liter – was associated with increased risk for autism in their offspring.
"These findings are not contradictory," Wang says. "They do, however, reflect the complexity of these nutritional questions and the importance of developing and getting evidence-based, more specific guidance out to expectant mothers. We hope that our work will stimulate more research to look into these complex nutritional issues in the future." The work suggests that too little, and too much, may be detrimental to child health and that further focus should be on optimizing "adequate" levels in the context of maternal obesity, genetic background and diet, she says.
For the study, researchers analyzed data from 1,517 mother-child pairs in the Boston Birth Cohort, a predominantly low-income minority population. The mothers were recruited at the time of their child's birth and their children were followed for up to nine years from 2003 to 2014. Of the mother-child pairs, 29.2 percent of mothers were overweight and 25.1 percent were obese pre-pregnancy. A total of 590 children (38.9 percent) were overweight or obese by the ages of two to nine years old.
Wang and her colleagues found that obese mothers had significantly lower folate levels than normal weight mothers, but adequate maternal folate concentrations could mitigate the adverse effects of maternal obesity on the child's risk of developing obesity. About a quarter of mothers in the cohort had folate levels below 20 nanomoles per liter (24 percent in normal weight mothers and 27 percent in obese mothers).
In the study, the researchers also linked inadequate folate levels in obese mothers to an increase in blood concentrations of insulin and leptin, two hormones related to metabolism, in their children. These findings lend further evidence that inadequate folate in mothers can lead to metabolic disorders in the offspring, the researchers say.
While all women who seek preconception and prenatal care should be encouraged to take folate supplements, Wang says, a wide range of blood folate levels in the study participants was observed.
"Given the important role of folate, it would be worthwhile for physicians to check folate levels in obese women." she says. "This way, we hope to be able to ensure an optimal folate level in order to decrease adverse outcomes due to either too little or too much folate."
"Associations of Maternal Prepregnancy BMI and Plasma Folate Concentrations with Child Metabolic Health" was written by Guoying Wang, MD, PhD; Frank B. Hu, MD, PhD; Kamila B. Mistry, PhD, MPH; Cuilin Zhang, MD, PhD; Fazheng Ren, PhD; Yong Huo, MD; David Paige, MD; Tami Bartell, BS; Xiumei Hong, MD, PhD; Deanna Caruso, MS; Zhicheng Ji, BS; Zhu Chen, PhD; Yuelong Ji, MSPH; Colleen Pearson, BA; Hongkai Ji, PhD; Barry Zuckerman, MD; Tina L. Cheng, MD; and Xiaobin Wang, MD, ScD, MPH.
The Boston Birth Cohort (BBC) has been funded continuously by National Institutes of Health's National Institute of Child Health and Human Development over the past 15 years (2R01 HD041702; R01 HD086013). The BBC was also supported by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, as well as the Health Resources and Services Administration's Maternal and Child Health Bureau and the March of Dimes.
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How to Pack for a Family Snow and Ski Trip in Utah
Packing for a family trip at any time of year can be overwhelming and stressful, but it can be especially daunting when having to think about gear necessities times three, four, five or more people for a family ski trip.
While you can easily rent some items, or buy other necessities, it's always helpful to have a system to plan ahead and pack wisely. That way, when you realize you've forgotten something, it's less likely to derail the fun. Nothing causes a snow vacation melt-down quite like discovering that you've overlooked essential items like the stuffed animal that keeps your child from a crying jag.
Create Ski Trip Packing Lists
When packing for a skit trip, the list doesn't have to detail every single, tiny thing that'll go in your bag, but writing down the important elements helps you remember what you need to pack. Keep gear separate from clothing, and personal entertainment items for the plane or car ride separate from both.
Depending on the ages of your children, you can make it a fun assignment where they can either draw or write the items that they'll need to pack. If the little ones are taking their first skiing lessons, check with the instructor for recommendations to ensure your kids will be comfortable and well-equipped for a good time on the mountain — as much as is within your control.
Assign Responsibility
Train everyone to be responsible for their winter gear and have them pack it. This works better for adults and older kids than for younger children, so as with the ski trip packing lists, you may need to assist. I've found that making sure that each traveler gets a backpack or boot bag for their own snow gear:
- boots,
- helmet,
- goggles,
- gloves,
- hat,
- sunglasses and
- neck gaiter
A suitcase for warm clothing:
- ski jacket and pants,
- insulating layers — typically polyester blends or merino wool —
- socks,
- off-snow clothing,
- swim suit and
- pajamas,
works well. For my daughter, I sit on her bed while we go through her list and she chooses her items to pack. Make sure everyone knows that all their snow gear goes in their backpack. This makes getting out the door in the morning much easier: Put on your winter clothes, and grab your bag — you've got what you need.
Check Fit
Kids grow quickly, and snow boots, pants and jackets that may have worked well last season might be too small this season. When you're planning your trip, have your child try on those items of clothing so you can plan to either replace them, or opt for rentals. Don't wait until you're packing for your ski trip (or worse, the morning of ski school) to realize that gear doesn't fit.
Schedule Rentals and Lessons
Sure, you can grab what you need at the rental shop when you arrive at the resort, but since many offer the opportunity to reserve gear online in advance, it'll often save you time to take care of that step before your trip. Same goes for ski lessons. Printing out forms and filling them out in advance, or signing up online, saves time on the morning of the first day.
Don't Forget Small Extras
- Small packs of tissues,
- snacks for ski jacket pockets,
- hand and foot warmers,
- lip balm
- sunscreen (a small roll-on type, that you can operate with one hand)
are all easy-to-forget items, but valuable to have along for optimum outdoors enjoyment. Packets of instant oatmeal are great for family ski trips because it can be difficult to get everyone ready in the morning in order to get out on the mountain, let alone do it all earlier so everyone has a good breakfast. Tuck some instant oatmeal packets into your suitcase, and use the coffee/tea maker in your hotel room to make hot water (and don't forget some cups and spoons). Adding these small extras to your ski trip packing list will go a long way in keeping your skiers happy and ready!
Pack Electronics and Old-school Entertainment
Some families treat ski vacations as opportunities to spend more time together without the tether of electronics. Ski resorts have plenty of activities to keep you busy, from roasting s'mores over bonfires to board games, from movie theaters to bowling alleys. But each family knows what's right for them. With your phones, pads, laptops and cameras, don't forget charging cables, and pack them together so you won't leave them behind. If traveling with smaller children, small toys, coloring books and crayons, reading books, and stuffed animals are also important to consider while you're stuffing that suitcase.


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What is stopping you changing a survey from face-to-face to online?
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You are ready to do your first online survey or increase the volume of surveys that you are conducting. The obvious thing to do is to use Google to find the right tool. Whilst Google's algorithms are undoubtedly impressive, when you are searching for a more professional online survey tool than the one that most people use, it can be tough finding that right software system.
The aim of this article is to guide you to the right online survey software for your needs and question whether online reviews are helpful and reliable. If you rely on Google, you will find the most used online survey systems rather than, perhaps, the one that meets your needs best.
A lot of organisations now conduct surveys. Many of these surveys just would not have happened 15 years ago. If you belong to a club, you might receive a link to a questionnaire by email asking you (sometimes very badly) about your opinions about the club or frequency of visiting etc. Students often use free software to conduct simple surveys to assist with their research.
The problem comes when you want to conduct online surveys professionally. If you look for online reviews, you will find plenty of people raving about some of the free online systems. However, if their needs are very basic and they have no budget, this might be a very different market from someone who wants to conduct research for a prestigious client.
Free software is free for a good reason. There are two main reasons – a) It is very or fairly limited – in other words, it needed little investment to put together or b) The pricing is designed to tempt you in with a low/free entry point which increases as you start to use the system more. I guess there is a third possibility that someone is testing the market and seeing how well their offering is received before investing more.
Let's start by saying that if it does what you want and is good enough for all the surveys you wish to carry out, there is no reason to look further. The reality is though that often you want features that may not be present. Here's a few examples:
You probably do not need all of the features listed above, but the more surveys you conduct professionally, the more likely it is that you will want a growing number on the items on that list. And, of course, the list doesn't stop there.
I admit that I am biased. I strongly believe that Snap is the best product on the market, offering all the above and a lot more. But this is not about Snap, it's about considering the limitations of the free or low entry cost online survey tools that are available and not relying on Google. Google will veer towards the most popular sources, but in a market where the amateurs outweigh the professionals in numbers, you will not necessarily find the most relevant reviews.
We sell Snap as we think it gets the balance right. It makes questionnaire preparation reasonably easy and intuitive. It is packed with features. It handles data, tabulations, charts and reports to a high standard and allows you to export data to all the common formats. Added to that, it is competitively priced.
Our policy is only to sell you Snap if we think it is the right product for your needs. That might sound as though it is easy to say, but we only want clients who are well matched to our products and services. If a free product does everything you want, then that's fine. Similarly, if you need a product that you can program to do whatever you may ever want, Confirmit is probably a good choice.
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The obvious thematic comparison is last year's The Railway Man, but here wartime is the present, and we are in the thick of it. Unbroken is brutal, and may be too much for some viewers to bear, although it certainly doesn't reach the horrors of the recent 12 Years a Slave (not a war film itself, but similar in terms of portrayal of torture). Occasional glimpses into Zamperini's earlier life provide some relief as these are juxtaposed against his barbaric treatment in the POW camp. Competitive running is almost made to look enjoyable, and this reviewer considers that a remarkable feat of filmmaking in itself.
Film rights for the story of Louis Zamperini were sold as far back as 1957, but only with the recent success of Laura Hillenbrand's 2010 biography has it finally come to fruition. The Coen brothers usually direct what they write, and so their screenplay here – with the help of Richard LaGrevenese and William Nicholson – does not clearly showcase their usual flair. That may be a positive or negative depending on whether you have an affinity for the pair. The pacing is somewhat off – the most gripping moments (notably when Louis and his fellow comrades are lost at sea) happen too early, and despite a lengthy running time the ending feels rushed. Adding further disappointment is the sudden disappearance of a character the audience are sure to be invested in, until a mention in the end credits. But maybe such is life.
Despite its pacing issues, Unbroken succeeds in maintaining tension, and a late powerful scene rams home the key message of the film. Perhaps above all, Unbroken is beautifully shot, with awe-invoking cinematography by Roger Deakins. Though not set in Australia, we can also bask in the knowledge that the beautiful locations are in fact our own, with the entire film shot in Queensland and New South Wales. Alexandre Desplat contributes yet another sumptuous score to the mix, rounding out a brilliant year for the composer.
British actor Jack O'Connell has come a long way since his breakout role in TV series Skins. Here he delivers a mesmerising performance as Zamperini, and deserves every success that awaits him. Jolie's refusal to include any major names pays off, and supporting performances by Domhnall Gleeson and Garrett Hedlund are strong. Most compelling is musician Takamasa Ishihara (stage name Miyavi) as Japanese Imperial Army Sergeant Watanabe, a.k.a. 'The Bird'. Truly terrifying, one has to wonder if his character was written as a tad too one-dimensional, though Ishihara nails it either way. The way his hat flickers around his stern facial features is particularly memorable and further credit to the production team there.
Unbroken is clearly Oscar bait, and it doesn't shy away from demonstrating brazen American sentimentality. This is sure to turn certain viewers off – as well as those who decide they hate anything Jolie is involved with – but nonetheless, it is an impressive feat for someone relatively new to the director's chair. Oscar won't come knockin' just yet, but there will be plenty more opportunities for that later.
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The full pageantry of Valve's whopping great Dota 2 tournament The International won't kick off in Seattle until Friday, but already it's seen a few upsets. Seven days of playoffs ended last night, whittling nineteen teams down to eight–with last year's champions, Alliance, notably knocked out.
We haven't seen all the fun and dressing Valve plan to fill the 17,000-capacity KeyArena with as teams fight over a $10 million prize pool, but we have got a fair look at how they're trying to welcome newcomers, not to mention the state of the game. It's a bit mixed, really.
While Valve do have videos of everything to watch, you should at least try the in-game game-watching stuff. Dota 2 has by far the best spectator system in video games, allowing viewers to choose from different commentary streams, follow streams' cameras or jump around as they please, pause and skip around the timeline, and loads of other things I'm astonished other games aspiring to be digital sports don't copy. Dota 2's free to download on Steam so go on, even if you don't care about the game itself.
One big addition to the show this year commentary stream for newbies, which is supposedly intended for people who are either new to Dota or don't play it at all. It is certainly more friendly than the regular commentary. However, the bits I tuned in for focused too much on carefully explaining skills and items, the intricacies of which are perhaps less important for the uninitiated than high-level themes and movements of the game. It did improve over the week, though.
As for the Dota 2 itself, well, it's been a bit wonky for my liking. Far too many matches have dragged on with little action, only teams poking at other then running away and setting up camp outside each other's bases, slowly chipping down towers. A lot were dull to watch, and I don't fancy an International filled with these sorts of games. Teams began adapting to this conservative play over the week, mind, and may have a few tricks up their sleeves for the main event.
Many games have brought murders galore too. A remarkable match last night between Titan and Newbee saw Newbee going for Roshan before kick-off then snowball into pushing Titan's barracks after 12 minutes (I realise this sentence is gibberish to many). The controversial 'rat Dota' style has brought some great moments too.
The International's prize pool is up to $10,764,294 as I write this, with $4,951,575 earmarked for the first-place team (teams are five players). Even 14th place will get at least $21,529. These numbers will all go up as people continue spending money on the Compendium, The International's virtual sticker album thing.
I suppose recommending a game to watch is the sort of thing one does in these situations, so sure, go watch that Titan vs. Newbee game. Skip to about 2:30:00 in the stream replay to see it or, better yet, go to the in-game viewer (it's match ID 776170591). Or here's where another level 1 Roshan attempted ended very badly (poor old Alliance):


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Tech-savvy Vietnam coffee farmers brew global takeover; Most Vietnamese coffee farmers can tell you the price of the beans, the second most traded commodity in the world after oil, in their sleep
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Most Vietnamese coffee farmers can tell you the price of the beans in their sleep. -AFP
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Buon Ma Thuot, Vietnam – Most Vietnamese coffee farmers have never heard of a double tall skinny latte, but they could tell you the price of the beans that go into one in their sleep.
From high-tech Israeli irrigation systems to text message updates of global prices for the commodity, coffee farming in Vietnam's Central Highlands has come a long way since the French first introduced the bean over a century ago.
"I used to carry my coffee to market by bicycle," said 44-year-old farmer Ama Diem. "Now I check the bean price on my mobile phones" before making the trip.
By texting "CA" to the number 8288 from any Vietnamese mobile phone, farmers almost instantly receive a message with the London prices of Robusta coffee beans and the New York price of Arabica beans from a data supply firm.Farmers are only too aware that the price of coffee – the second most traded commodity in the world after oil – can move quickly. "We only take the coffee to market when we can be sure of getting a high price," Diem told AFP at his plantation outside Vietnam's coffee capital Buon Ma Thuot.
"We check the price a lot." Vietnamese coffee farmers have changed the global market: if you had a cup this morning, there is a high chance you consumed at least some Vietnamese beans with companies such as Nestle and Britain's Costa Coffee among major buyers.
In 20 years, Vietnam went from contributing less than 0.1 per cent of world production in 1980 to some 13 per cent in 2000 – staggering growth that has been partially blamed for the collapse of global coffee prices in the 1990s.
The rise of cash crops such as coffee in the Central Highlands has come at a price, however. Some indigenous minorities have lost their land to large-scale plantations, often run by majority Kinh who have migrated to the region. Demonstrations have been repressed.
The communist country is now the world's second-largest coffee producer, but is seen as high volume rather than high quality – its bitter-tasting Robusta wins few accolades internationally and is mostly exported as raw beans.
"Vietnam is an amazing phenomenon," said Jonathan Clark, general director of coffee exporter Dakman.
He said exports "shot up" last year to nearly rival Brazil, the world's top exporter and producer.
Last year, Vietnam exported 1.73 million tons of coffee, worth some USD$3.67 billion(SGD$4.5 billion) and accounting for more than 50 per cent of the world's Robusta, which is used in instant coffee or other blends.
Putting Vietnam's Robusta on the map
Coffee consumption in Asia is on the rise and roasters are eyeing the low-cost country – where there is no tax on coffee exports – to set up operations to boost their regional presence, Clark said.
As consumption volumes have stagnated in the west, Vietnam, with its growing middle class and long standing love of coffee, is full of "tremendous opportunities", Jinlong Wang, president of Starbucks Asia Pacific, told AFP.
Starbucks – which opened its first store in southern Ho Chi Minh City in February – says it could open hundreds more in the near future in Vietnam, which it describes as a "dynamic, exciting" market.
The country's volcanic soil is perfect for growing coffee, and while global coffee drinkers are more used to Arabica – which has 1.5 per cent caffeine – they should wake up and smell the joys of 2.5 per cent strength Robusta, according to Vietnam's "coffee king" Dang Le Nguyen Vu.
The founder of home-grown coffee giant Trung Nguyen – which has 55 stores in Vietnam and five in Singapore – is passionate about putting Vietnam's Robusta coffee on the map.
"Robusta is not lower quality. It's just that globally, people have learned to drink Arabica coffee," Vu told AFP in an interview at the Trung Nguyen Village in Buon Ma Thuot.
A big part of the company's work is to improve the quality of local beans, working with farmers to introduce high-tech irrigation, reduce pesticide use and boost their income.
Trung Nguyen already exports to 60 countries and Vu said Starbucks' recent arrival in his homeland had increased his determination to open cafes in the United States offering Vietnam's traditional style of thick, strong coffee brewed in individual drip filters.
"We must be able to surpass Starbucks. We must offer something more attractive for US consumers," Vu said.
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Sanghar by-election updates
Sanghar by-elections: Late MPA's son might carry on his father's legacy – The Express Tribune
HYDERABAD: The son of the late MPA Abdul Salam Thaeem appears set to romp home in the by-elections for PS-83 in the Sanghar district.The seat fell vacant on April 22 after the demise of the late MPA who was elected thrice from here –the Shahdadpur taluka.
Former union council nazim, Shahid Khan Thaeem, is 39 years old and a bachelors in civil engineering. He is the second son of the late Salam Thaeem. He will contest the elections on a ticket of Pakistan Peoples Party. His two competitors are – 35-year-old Rafique Jakhro of Awami Tehreek and 55-year-old Tehseen Zaban, a Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf supporter, who is contesting as an independent candidate.
Both Jakhro and Zaban seem to be relatively new to electoral politics. Jakhro entered politics through Sindhi Shagird Tehreek (students movement), while Zaban began via Islami Jamiat Taliba. Zaban is also the president of a local traders' association and will contest the election for the first time this year. Meanwhile the candidates of Pakistan Muslim League-Functional, Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F) and other independent candidates withdrew in support of Shahid Thaheem.
Meanwhile, Justice Shakirullah Jan, the acting chief of Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), visited the constituency on Sunday. He was accompanied by an ECP member, Muhammad Roshan Esani, chief commissioner of ECP Sindh, Sono Khan Baloch, ECP secretary Justice (Retd) Syed Shabir Aksi. All of them expressed their satisfaction over the arrangements.
More than 116,000 people are eligible to cast their votes while 93 polling stations have been set up in the district. ECP Sindh's chief commissioner said that 25 polling stations were declared to be sensitive. At least 1,600 policemen will be deployed in the district. The late Abdul Salam Thaheem bagged 30,542 votes in the last general elections. Mahi Khan Wassa of Pakistan Muslim League-Functional was the runner up with 22,631 votes.
PS 83 Sanghar: By election tomorrow,6/19/2012 3:08:38 AM
The by-election for Sindh Assembly seat PS 83 Sanghar left vacant by the death of Peoples Party's minister Abdus-Salam Thahem would be held tomorrow.
PP has nominated late Thahem's son Shahid Khan Thahem its candidate for this Sindh Assembly seat.
Meanwhile, Muslim League Function has not fielded any candidate and that leaves two independent candidates- Rafiq Jhakro and Tahseen to contest election against Shahid Thahem.
PS 83 Sanghar has 193,000 registered votes.
Of the 93 polling stations 25 have been declared sensitive.
An insight into local Sindhi electoral alliances
Nationalist parties Awami Tehreek and Sindh Taraqqi Pasand Party have also started negotiating with Sharif, while the Arbab Ghulam Rahim-led group of the Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid has signed an election pact with the PML-N.
The meeting of Mahar group of Ghotki, Shirazi group of Thatta and Jatoi group of Naushero Feroze led by their respective leaders Sardar Ali Gohar, Shafqat Ali Sheerazi and Ghulam Murtaza Jatoi with PML-F leaders decided in principle to form a lose alliance whose details would be sorted out later on, an insider told Dawn.
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Tool that helps demystify raw Ethereum transactions which are usually one of the most daunting structures encountered when learning to develop against Ethereum. Using clear colors and directional lines, it breaks down all the subcomponents of a raw eth transaction. Works for both standard value transfer transactions and more complex contract interactions.
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Trickling Gemstone Pendant Necklace
Gold pointed, oval, hand fabricated pendant with a chain of trickling gemstones down the side. Multiple styles of chain with little aquamarines dotting the chain.
Complete with our signature handcrafted tension "S" clasp closure. Perfect for anyone that struggles with solo-clasping a lobster or spring ring clasp.
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The absence of mirrors (as well as windows) is one of the first things Joseph Garcin, a South American journalist killed in a cowardly attempt to flee Rio during a political uprising, notices upon being ushered into the room at the beginning of the play by a bellboy. Estelle Rigo, a voluptuous young Parisian socialite who killed her baby before succumbing to pneumonia, nearly has a breakdown when she realizes that from henceforth she'll have to survive without the comfort of her lovely reflection: "I don't know what I look like anymore. I don't know who I am. Is my lipstick still on? Is it crooked? Does it make me look like I'm smiling? Does it make me look sad? I can't tell what you're seeing. I can't live like this. I need a mirror!" Only Ines Serrano, a lesbian postal worker who dispatched her lover's husband only to be killed in turn by her lover, understands that a reflection can be more than skin deep:
Garcin: So, you think I look like a torturer? Please tell me, how do you recognize a torturer?
Ines: He's scared.
Garcin: Scared? That's very funny. Scared of whom? Of his victims?
Ines: Go on. I know what I'm talking about. I've seen myself in the mirror.
Sartre's use of the metaphor of mirrors in No Exit to depict a kind of inner hell is like Shakespeare's in Hamlet. In Act 3, Hamlet tries to make his mother, Gertrude, see the truth of her "o'er hasty marriage" to his murderous Uncle Claudius by showing her her reflection in a "glass," but the glass in question is not a real mirror so much as a metaphysical one: Hamlet hopes that by turning Gertrude's gaze inward, she will begin to understand her crime. Hamlet's tactic seems, at least momentarily, to work, as Gertrude is tortured by what she sees within:
O Hamlet, speak no more:
Thou turn'st mine eyes into my very soul;
And there I see such black and grained spots
As will not leave their tinct.
No Exit's Second Empire-style salon, with its stiff furniture, may be a bizarre version of hell (the bellboy explains that newly arrived patrons are often puzzled by the absence of conventional instruments of torture like "stakes," "branding irons," and "wooden stretching racks"). But without being able to see their superficial selves reflected in a mirror, the three inhabitants, like Gertrude, are forced to look inside themselves. It's the worst form of torture imaginable.
In the Cutting Ball Theater's production of No Exit, the actors are presented with the barest of canvases upon which to paint Sartre's vision of eternity. The economy and precision of Rob Melrose's unembellished translation set a tone as chilly as that of the original. Jon Brennan's scenic design -- with its stark cream-colored walls barely enlivened by a repetitive, old-fashioned wallpaper motif stenciled in dull gold and some primly upholstered seating -- seems flat and almost two-dimensional against the permanent glare of cold white light. On the few occasions when the door at the back of the set opens, a hard, pale blue wash emanating from the corridor, coupled with a droning windlike noise, makes the outside appear even less welcoming than within.
Against the sparseness of the text and the stage, the audience's gaze cannot help but be focused as intensely on the characters as they are forced to focus on one another. Indeed, Sartre's words make much of the old adage of the eyes being the windows to the soul. The damned, we learn, don't have eyelids: Condemned to a condition of eternal wakefulness and torturous self-reflection, they cannot blink, wink, or sleep. When Estelle complains about the absence of a mirror, Ines says she'll serve as Estelle's reflection: "No mirror could be as faithful," she promises. Estelle is thrown off by what she sees reflected in Ines' eyes. Trapped in the confines of the room, the characters are continuously plagued by visions of the real world. The daily lives of friends and acquaintances play on a constant loop inside their heads, like private satellite broadcasts for an audience of one, as they attempt to describe what they see.
The actors' eyes are particularly fascinating to watch in this production. As the bellboy, Nick Maccarone spends most of his short time onstage regarding the other characters through half-closed lids, making the bellboy seem as sarcastic as he is otherworldly. Conversely, the eyes of the three newbies -- Ines (Darcy Brown-Martin), Estelle (Danielle O'Hare), and Garcin (Adam Kenyon Venker) -- are often pinned wide open, alternating among indignation, horror, and disbelief. The trio gives beautifully controlled performances, delivering Melrose's succinct prose with acerbic poise. The only moments when we're not held in thrall occur when the characters experience visions from the "outside." Director Adriana Baer has the actors stare longingly into the middle distance as they try to explain what they're seeing -- a funeral, a day at the office, an apartment being put up for rent -- but because these reflections from the real world lack the venomous drive of the dialogue directed at the others onstage, they come across as rather lifeless.
As the lights go down at the end of the play, we're left with the transfixing image of the three characters quietly resuming their seats and gradually fixing their eyes upon each other: Garcin looks at Ines, Ines looks at Estelle, and Estelle looks at Garcin. "Well ... let's continue," says Garcin, premeditating Waiting for Godot (Beckett's play appeared roughly a decade later). Through Baer's incisive direction of these closing moments, the three seem to reflect each other to infinity. And so the cycle of torture goes on.
Barely a year goes by without some Bay Area company or other seeing fit to give No Exit an airing. This year marks the centennial of Sartre's birth, an auspicious time to premiere a sharp new translation. The Cutting Ball's production, with its elegance and force, mines deep into the soul of Sartre's text, holding up a mirror to human nature.


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GLOW Executive Committee
GLOW members assemble once in a year for the GLOW Annual Assembly. At this occasion the GLOW Council convenes, which is the supreme panel of GLOW. It makes all primary decisions of GLOW and elects the GLOW Executive Committee (EC), which represents and acts on behalf of GLOW between the Council meeting. The EC organizes regular telecons of the Extended Executive Committee, which additionally comprises working group chairs and vice chairs beside the EC.
The members of the executive committee are:
- Marcus Brüggen (Hamburg, chair)
- Ralf-Jürgen Dettmar (Bochum, vice chair)
- Matthias Hoeft (Tautenburg, secretary)
GLOW Working Groups
GLOW has established the following working groups:
- Scientific Working Group (SWG)
led by Benedetta Ciardi (chair, Garching)
- SKA Working Group (SKA WG)
led by Karl Mannheim (chair, Würzburg), Michael Kramer (vice chair, Bonn), Hans-Rainer Klöckner (secretary, Bonn)
- LOFAR Working Group (LofarWG)
comprises LOFAR station owners, LTA hardware owners and KSP representatives, led by Dominik Schwarz (chair, Bielefeld)
with subgroup
- Technical Working Group (TWG)
led by Jörn Künsemöller (co-chair, Bielefeld) and David Rafferty (co-chair, Hamburg)
- Resource Allocation Committee (RAC)
led by Matthias Hoeft (chair, Tautenburg)
GLOW has nominated Dominik Schwarz (Bielefeld) as representative at the International LOFAR Telescope Board.


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CIGR Newsletters can be found online here.
CIGR will award the venue of the 2024 International Conference during XIX CIGR World Congress. Any interested candidate city/country please advise on the intent to apply by 31 March 2018. The candidate is expected to make a presentation at the Executive Board meeting during at the XIX CIGR World Congress on the April 22, 2018 in Kyrenia, Cyprus.
For inquiries, please contact the CIGR Secretary General.
CIGR will invite a candidate for next Incoming President (2019-2020). He/She becomes president (2021-2022). Next Incoming President will be elected by voting at least 2 months before the Congress 2018 in April. Would a candidate apply CIGR Secretariat by 31 January 2018.
CIGR Newsletters can be found online here.
CIGR Newsletters in Russian can be found online here.
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During the CIGR General Assembly held in Valencia, Spain on 9 July 2012, Turkey was approved to host the XIX CIGR World Congress.
The Congress will be held on 22-25 April, 2018 in Antalya, Turkey (Formerly at Kyrenia, Cyprus).
The Organizing Committee is already preparing for the conduct of the said event.
For queries, you may send an email to Prof. Can Ertekin of Akdeniz University through email address firstname.lastname@example.com.
(appended 21st Mar 2017)
During the CIGR General Assembly in Beijing, China on 17 September 2014, Quebec was approved to host the 5th CIGR International Conference.
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Congrats to the U14 Ladies footballers who won their Shield final and to the Ollie's sponsored Senior ladies footballers who beat St. Peregrines during the week to sit on top of league with one match remaining. Hard luck to the Minor Ladies footballers and to U15 Hurlers who lost out in Finals at the weekend.
Best of Luck to Senior Footballers on Wednesday Night in Senior Football C'Ship V Castleknock in Parnell Park. All Support for the Lads Very Welcome.
Fixtures: Wed 19th Oct: Senior Football C'Ship Quarter Final V Castleknock at Parnell Park 6.45pm. Sun 23rd Minor Football V Kilmacud Crokes Home Time TBC. Junior 1 Football V St. Brendans Home 11am and Junior Hurling V St. Marks Away 11am. For all fixtures, up to date news and information see skerriesharps.ie and our Facebook page.
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Online Santa Drawing Game for Kids - Snow Line
Ho! Ho! Ho! Get ready for a brain-teasing yuletide drawing adventure where you have to skillfully sketch lines of snow to help Santa Claus recover a bunch of lost gifts (nicely wrapped presents) in each level. Snow Line is a challenging physics-based skill game for kids where you have to carefully guide Santa's sleigh across obstacles and ravines up to the summit of the mountain using a special Snow Crayon. In each tricky level, you have to carefully direct Santa toward the finish line by creating pathways and bridges of snow, ensuring he picks up all of the gift-wrapped boxes along the way. This is no time to be singing along to "Jingle Bells", Santa needs your help!
This fun, Christmas-themed puzzle should be ideal for kids who like to exercise their creative engineering abilities, as you have to methodically create channels, paths and bridges to guide Santa to his goal. There's plenty of potential trial and error required before you find a suitable solution in each level, so keep drawing those lines of snow. Your creative abilities are thoroughly tested as you attempt to engineer a smooth journey for Santa through the treacherous mountainous terrain. There's still plenty of time to be good and to practice helping others, so let's reach our "peak" for the Holiday Season. Good luck, and happy path building!
How to Play: In each of the 12 tricky levels, your goal is to guide Santa's sleigh across the dangerous mountain toward the Checkered Flag, collecting 3 Presents along the way. At the start of each level, Santa is far away from the Checkered Flag which is usually situated on the right side of the game screen. You must draw a bridge or pathway of snow to get him there with your magical Snow Crayon.
Use your computer mouse or touchpad to draw your Snow Lines. Left Click and drag along the game screen with the Crayon to draw a pathway for Santa in the direction of the Checkered Flag. Your pathway or route should help Santa to build up sufficient momentum to reach the Flag, while also bringing him in contact with the gifts along the way. When you think your path of snow is ready – click the green 'Play' button' at the top of the game screen to set Santa on his way.
If Santa collects all three gifts and reaches the Checkered Flag, excellent! However, if he falls down a ravine or gets stuck, you have to go back to the drawing stage and make alterations to your pathway (Santa must also collect all of the gifts in each level – 2 out of 3 is not enough to progress). if Santa gets stuck, click on the green 'Stop' button during the sleigh journey to return to the drawing stage. You only have a certain amount of snow to work with, as indicated by the Snow Bar on the right of the game screen. Click on the blue 'Undo' Arrow to undo the last line of snow that you created. Click on the red X button to clear your pathway completely, and start again.
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Just about any kid who is able to walk can learn how to move with the Strider balance bike. The child will initially hold onto the handle bar with their feet on either side of the bicycle whilst walking without even sitting down on the bike's seat. The kid is perfectly balancing on the bicycle with the fingers grasping the handle and the feet firmly fixed to the floor.
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