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What is Stamp Collecting?
Stamp collecting is one of the world's most popular hobbies, and involves collecting postage stamps and related items. There are estimated to be more than 20 million stamp collectors in the United States alone, and tens of millions more have stamp collecting as a hobby throughout the world. Although stamp collecting may be viewed as a form of investment, it is generally thought of as a hobby rather than an investment practice, simply because the value of the assets is thought to be fairly flexible.
The study of postage stamps, which should not be confused with stamp collecting, is known as philately. While some philatelists do engage in stamp collecting, many do not, treating stamps as objects of study and not objects of collection. At the higher levels of stamp collecting, however, most collectors do possess at least a moderate level of philatelic knowledge, as it is necessary for them to accurately assess the value and rarity of stamps they may be collecting.
While some postage stamps, especially those with printing errors, or those produced in very small amounts for commemorations, are worth a great deal of money, the vast majority are relatively affordable. This helps to contribute to the popularity of stamp collecting as a hobby, as it means that even those without a great deal of disposable income can acquire very old and historically important stamps, as they tended to be produced in sufficient numbers that enormous quantities still remain.
The Penny Black, for example, was the first postage stamp ever produced. It was issued in Britain in 1840 and has a portrait of Queen Victoria on it, and had to be cut out of a sheet before it could be used, as it had no perforations. In spite of the fact that the Penny Black is more than a century and half old, so many were printed and still exist that used stamps can be found for around $100 US Dollars (USD), with many examples available for $20 USD or less. While unused copies are still quite rare, and therefore more valuable, even they do not reach the exorbitant prices seen in many forms of collection.
One reason for the relatively low value of many stamps is that they are quite easy to store, and fairly easy to keep in mint condition. For example, during the 1920s many stamps issued in that time rose in value quickly, as they were quite rare, and collection was beginning to become a popular hobby. As a result, in the 1930s many collectors hoarded mint issues of stamps as they came out, hoping to capitalize on another quick surge in value, which of course, because of the large numbers kept in mint condition, never occurred. To this day, many of these popular stamps from the 1930s can be found in perfect condition at little more than the cost they were originally issued at.
Many tiny independent countries or dependencies have made national industries out of selling stamps to those who pursue stamp collecting as a hobby. In some cases, the sale of stamps may be one of the major sources of income for a country, even though the cost of these stamps is relatively low. Some famous stamps include the Treskilling Yellow, a Swedish stamp from 1855 with a color error, which sold for more than $2 million USD in 1990, and the Mauritius Post Office stamps, of which only five hundred of each of two colors were printed in 1847, and which sold for more than $4 million USD in 1993.
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I am always wondering whether stamp collection should be collected in unused or used stamps;
with the post mark? -IDN
(1) How does one write up or put captions on a stamp collection mounted on a black page album?
(2) How does one mount stamps on to an album without using expensive and bulky plastic strips?
I had a friend many years ago, for whom stamp collecting was his life. He knew all about the inexpensive and common stamps, to rare and very expensive ones. It is a good hobby to have.
I am sure he spent more on the hobby than what he got out of it, financially speaking only.
I thought stamp collecting was any science other than physics?


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The purpose of this project is to strengthen pre-service teachers' mathematical knowledge, particularly higher order thinking capabilities such as mathematical problem solving – a significant issue in Australian and German education (e.g., Office of the Chief Scientist, 2012; Kunter et al., 2011). Strong mathematical knowledge is essential for pre-teachers' effectiveness in the classroom. This project takes account of the rapid expansion towards on-line delivery of pre-service teacher education programs by generating a Framework for Designing Challenging Online Mathematical Tasks (FDCOMT) – activities that promote problem solving capabilities in addition to basic mathematical skills. The study will (i) develop a FDCOMT and (ii) test the effectiveness of FDCOMT for generating new Challenging Online Mathematical Tasks (COMT).
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Letnes farm, culture trailKilde:
Welcome "into nature" at Letnes farm, which faces the fjord on the west side of Inderøy municipality in North-Trøndelag.
Culture Trail
On Letnes farm you can participate in a guided walk, from the farm along the culture trail. The trail runs through beautiful landscape and down along the fjord. During the walk you get to learn about the history and see the burial grounds from the Migration Period.
Along the trail you can also see an old stone extraction site, a catch fence, burial mounds, «jektskipper», croft, a lean-to shelter and more.
On the culture trail, you can follow the path to Sandvika. There is a narrow passage in the rocks, which leads to the fine and undisturbed shoreline. This is a special landscape that has been honed by the forces of nature over time.
Plants and vegetation
The Letnes islets have vegetation with bio diversity of national value.
Many plants have their northern boundary in the area. By mid summer many different species of plants can be found, like Saxifraga Cotyledon, Antennaria dioica, ground mint, wild flax (Linum Catharticum), wild onion, wild oats, polygara vulgaris and more....
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Letnes farm also offer accommodation in:
Spettspiret, a cabin out of the ordinary in the treetops
Meiseriet, an apartement at the end of the main house
Husmannsplassen Wigen, a large cabin built on the foundation of the old croft
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Maybe you know a trustworthy second hand dealer, in this case I would also take second hand microscopes into consideration. There are simply too many things that can go wrong, even if the quality of the second hand microscope is otherwise quite good. Be aware that a quality second hand microscope from well-known manufacturers can be obtained for a fairly low price. If well maintained, these microscopes may provide greater value (and more spare parts) than new no-name devices, which may be more expensive. Still, without advice you run the risk of buying a microscope with objectives that are not appropriate for you, or microscopes that are not operating reliably. There is no way to see from a picture if the objectives are intact, if there is no stage drift and if the gear operate smoothly.
Hospitals and research institutions sometimes sell useful used microscopes, but these may be equipped with specialized optics, which can push the price up. Unlike consumer products, which come out of the box, microscopes are commonly assembled according to the research needs and second hand microscopes may have a combination of (expensive) parts that are required for a specific research or medical task, but which may not be necessary or suitable for enthusiast microscopists or for educational use.
Also do not buy microscopes from people who do not know much about them. Non experts are not able to assess the quality of a microscope and are not able to give a reliable account on the operation of the device. I have seen horribly over-priced used microscopes on Online auction websites. Some of them were in a very bad condition and it was clear that the seller did not know how to assess the quality of the microscope (or its true value).
If you do choose to buy second hand microscopes, keep the following check list in mind. Again, not all of these points can be seen by looking only at a picture.
Here are some problems that can be expected from older microscopes:
- Inappropriate objectives: Some research microscopes are equipped with special purpose objectives, which can be expensive, but which may not be suitable for general-purpose microscopy work.
- Smoothness of operation: Are all mechanical parts operating lightly and smoothly? Knobs which are difficult to turn are a clear sign that the oil in the gearing system has become solid and that the microscope needs to be cleaned and re-oiled. Over the years the lubrication oil in the gears accumulates dust, which causes it to solidify. Some natural lubrication oils also solidify over time. Do not force turn the knobs, as this might damage the gears.
- Stage drift: Older microscopes may show stage drift. In this case the stage does not stay where it is, but is pulled down by gravity. it is then impossible to focus the microscope, because the focus is lost immediately again. The gears need to be tightened in this case (servicing costs). If not repaired, microscopes that show a stage drift are completely useless.
- Delamination of objectives: In older objectives, some of the lens elements may become unstuck from each other. The kit holding gluing together different lens elements becomes loose. Air bubbles start to appear between the lenses of the objective. these can only be seen when looking through the objective from the inside out (the objective has to be unscrewed from the revolving nose piece). Delamination will reduce contrast and image quality, and is a sign that the microscope is older. The is nothing that you can do about this. Delaminated objectives may still be usable, but there is some reduction in resolution.
- Fungal growth: Microscopes which have been used in tropical areas may show fungal growth on the optical surfaces. Some of these may be in parts which are not directly reachable. This is the reason, why some manufacturers produce optics with an anti-fungal coating on the glass surfaces.
- Loss of coatings: Te optical surfaces of the microscope are coated to prevent light reflection and to increase contrast. The use of improper cleaning solvents might remove the coating.
- Dirty objectives: I have seen objectives which were covered with solidified mounting medium.
- Loss of lens coatings: This is due to improper cleaning technique and the use of the wrong cleaning solutions.
- Bad general appearance: microscopes which shows sign of external damage could have been dropped. There is the possibility that there are other problems as well.
- Cracks and other mechanical defects: This can include broken off teeth of the gearing, cracks due to drops, etc.
- Cracked objectives: Take care that the objectives are clean and not cracked. Unscrew the objectives and look through the objective from the back side. Cracks then become visible.


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A good 10km from the nearest island, accommodation here is broken up into three types; the 2,217sq ft Beach Revive comes with a private pool and beach access, plunge bath and rain showers and 24-hour butler service; the 3,293sq ft Island Revive has additional features like a personal chef; and the sprawling 6,458sq ft Island Villa which also includes a walk-in wardrobe, a plunge pool and a full-sized pool, a private massage area and sala, a private beach and its very own stretch of sand.
The offer includes a four-course candlelit dinner on the beach with a bottle of champagne, an in-villa champagne breakfast on any one morning of your choice, a one-hour couples' massage at the Talise Spa that only uses organic products, a romantic bath, private yoga lessons, a snorkelling or underwater photo taken by your butler, complimentary two-way airport transfers by speedboat on a minimum stay of four nights, and of course—late check out.
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– JEFFERSON, S.D. (May 9, 2017) – Jack Dover can breathe a little easier now that the first mark has been tallied in the victory column.
Dover captured his first win of the season last Saturday at Park Jefferson International Speedway, giving him a triumph during all 13 seasons he's competed in a full-size sprint car.
"It feels awesome," he said. "Once you get that first one the next one is a little easier. We're starting to figure some new stuff out as far as the setup and shocks so it's going to get better. I'm really looking forward to the next few races."
Dover opened last weekend on Friday at I-80 Speedway in Greenwood, Neb., where he kicked off the Carpet Land Nebraska 360 Sprints event by charging from fourth to win a heat race. That locked him into the feature redraw, in which he pulled the No. 3 to start the main event on the inside of the second row.
"We got up to second right away and rode around there," he said. "About halfway through the race Thomas Kennedy and I battled it out for second place. With five laps to go the yellow came out and I was third. My car got way better after that yellow. We were able to get second. Ryan (Roberts) snuck away because there were two lapped cars between us, but it could have been close if he was right there. Our car was really good after that late caution."
Dover finished second, which marked his first podium of the season.
The strong performance continued on Saturday at Park Jefferson International Speedway, where Dover maneuvered from fifth to claim a heat race win – his third straight. That advanced him into the feature redraw, in which he pulled the No. 3 for the second straight night.
"We rode around in second for probably 10 laps," he said. "I waited for traffic to make my move on the leader. There was a car in the middle and one on the top. The leader went to the top and I went to the bottom and snuck my way through. We had a couple of yellows after that, but I had good restarts and we pulled away to win."
Dover has won six of his last nine races at Park Jefferson International Speedway.
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New Drug Addiction Treatment Using Injectable Medication Found To Be Effective
There is a new breakthrough drug addiction treatment that involves the use of injectable medication, which is yielding positive results in clinical trials and actual tests on recovering addicts. The injectable Naltrexone carried by the Vivitrol brand is now helping drug addicts continue to be clean and sober with few incidences of going into a relapse.
Drug addiction is a difficult problem to treat because it is not just the mind that needs to be controlled, but also the body's cravings that need to be stopped. Many recovering addicts often fall into a relapse when their body experience withdrawals symptoms that bring not only pain but also a lot of stress both mentally and physically.
It is not surprising then that even the best drug addiction prevention program fail to prevent relapses and the cycle of substance abuse continues. Recent figures compiled from 2003 to 2013, reveal that opioid deaths in the United States have significantly increased to 92 percent while heroin deaths rose by 300 percent across the states, The Washington Post reported.
Evidently, drug addiction has also increased, while prevention and treatment lag behind, but not for long. A breakthrough drug Naltrexone is now made into an injectable medication using the Vivitrol brand name has proven to be effective in treating persons with opioid and heroin abuse.
Vivitrol works by blocking opioid receptors in the brain, curbing cravings and even preventing the feeling of getting high even when taking opioids, WTHITV reported. This helps addicts in the recovery stage from going into a relapse with carvings no longer a primary challenge.
The drug is administered monthly, but the patient must be clean of opioid for at least a week before getting the shot. The wonder drug is actually an old one, which was made into pills in the 1970s but never achieved wide patronage.
Medical researchers have recently made an injectable version and tested these in various clinical trials. The results were impressive with patients receiving the shots reporting higher success rates of fully leaving bad habits behind.
However, some doctors warned that the drug needs to be further studied particularly on its long-term effects on its users. There is also the issue of its cost, which is as much as $1,000 dollars per shot, an amount that may be covered by persons with Medicaid or Medicare, but in many cases, they are not.
As of now, Vivitrol is offered by private practice doctors with a few detention centers with a subsidized program for the shot. Drug addiction may have found an effective treatment, but who pays for it remains unresolved.
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Fundamental rights under the Irish Constitution
The Irish Constitution recognises and declares that people living in Ireland have certain fundamental personal rights. These rights are natural human rights and are confirmed and protected by the Constitution.
Not every fundamental right that you possess is set out in the Constitution - you have many personal rights that are not specifically stated in it. These rights may be derived or implied from the Constitution. For example, the Constitution does not specifically state a right to privacy but the courts recognise that the personal rights in the constitution imply the right to privacy.
Fundamental rights are not absolute - they can be limited or restricted by the Oireachtas for certain reasons, for example, for the common good or public order.
Every constitutional right has the same status and value. If there is a conflict between the constitutional rights of individuals, the courts will look at all the circumstances and weigh all of the factors to decide which constitutional right is more important in that particular case.
Main constitutional rights
Equality before the law
All citizens shall be held equal before the law (Article 40 of the Constitution). This means that the State cannot unjustly, unreasonably or arbitrarily discriminate between citizens. You cannot be treated as inferior or superior to any other person in society simply because of your human attributes or your ethnic, racial, social or religious background.
However, when the State is making laws, it may consider differences of capacity and of social function between individuals in society.
Right to life
The Constitution specifically recognises and protects your right to life.
Your right to life also means the right to have nature take its course and to die a natural death. That does not mean that you have the right to have your life terminated or death accelerated. Your right to die is simply the right to die a natural death and not to be kept alive by artificial means.
In 1983, a constitutional amendment inserted the following text into the Constitution (Article 40.3.3):
"The State acknowledges the right to life of the unborn and, with due regard to the equal right to life of the mother, guarantees in its laws to respect, and, as far as practicable, by its laws to defend and vindicate that right."
In May 2018, the people voted in a referendum to replace this text and related provisions with an amendment allowing the Oireachtas to pass laws regulating the termination of pregnancy. The Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018 was signed into law on 20 December 2018.
Personal liberty
The Constitution guarantees that you have a right to liberty and freedom, except in accordance with the law (Article 40.4).
This means that, in general, you are entitled to your own personal freedom but legislation may provide for your arrest and detention in certain circumstances. The State may only breach your right to personal liberty in circumstances that come within a law that provides for your arrest and/or detention.
If you believe that you are being detained or held unlawfully, you can make an application to the High Court. If the person or institution detaining you cannot justify your detention or prove that it is lawful, the High Court may order that you be released. This is called a habeas corpus order.
Freedom of expression
You have a right to freely express your convictions and opinions (Article 40.6.1.i). However, the Constitution asserts that the State should try to make sure that the radio, the press and the cinema are not used to undermine public order or morality or the authority of the State. It also states that it is an offence to publish or utter blasphemous, seditious or indecent matter.
Following a referendum in May 2018, the Thirty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution (Repeal of offence of publication or utterance of blasphemous matter) Act 2018 has removed the word "blasphemous" from the Constitution.
There are some limitations on your freedom of expression. For example, the Censorship of Publications Acts and the Censorship of Films Acts allow censorship of publications like books, films and DVDs.
Freedom of assembly
You have a right to assemble or meet peacefully and without weapons (Article 40.6.1.ii). This right is limited by legislation to protect public order and morality. The law prevents or controls meetings that are calculated or designed to cause a riot or breach of the peace.
There are other limitations on your freedom of assembly. You cannot meet on private property without the consent of the owner - that is trespass. Parades and processions are not illegal but it is a public nuisance to obstruct a highway. You may not hold a procession or meeting within half a mile of the Houses of the Oireachtas when it has been prohibited by the Gardaí or you have been asked to disperse.
Freedom of association
The Constitution guarantees your right to form associations and unions (Article 40.6.1.iii). You may form any type of association for whatever purpose you choose, whether it is sporting, social, charitable, commercial or political.
This right is limited by legislation to protect public order and morality. For example, associations formed for the purpose of treason or some anti-constitutional or illegal purpose cannot rely on this right to freedom of association.
The right to fair procedures
The courts, and all other bodies or persons making decisions that affect you, must treat you fairly. There are two essential rules of fair procedure.
- The person making the decision that affects you should not be biased or appear to be biased.
- You must be given an adequate opportunity to present your case. You must be informed of the matter and you must be given a chance to comment on the material put forward by the other side.
Bodily integrity
You have a right not to have your body or person interfered with. This means that the State may not do anything to harm your life or health.
If you are in custody, you have a right not to have your health endangered while in prison.
Trial by jury
Your right to trial by jury only exists in certain criminal cases.
If you have been charged with a "non-minor" offence, you will be tried by a judge sitting with a jury. There are some offences for which you will be given a choice - whether you want to have your case decided by a District Court judge sitting alone or by a judge sitting with a jury.
The jury must consist of non-lawyers who have been chosen at random from a diverse range of jurors from the community.
Religious liberty
Article 44 of the Constitution deals with religion.
You are free to practise your religion and your freedom of conscience. The State guarantees not to endow or favour any religion and not to discriminate on the grounds of religion.
State aid for schools cannot discriminate between schools of different religious denominations. Every child has the right to attend a denominational school receiving State funding without having to participate in religious instruction in the school.
Your right to religious liberty may be limited to protect public order and morality.
The right to privacy
The Constitution does not specifically state a right to privacy but the courts recognise that the personal rights in the Constitution imply the right to privacy.
For example, your private written communications and telephone conversations cannot be deliberately, consciously and unjustifiably interfered with. However, your right to privacy may be limited or restricted by legislation in the interests of the common good, public order and morality.
The right to earn a livelihood
As a citizen, you have a right to work and to earn a living, whether you are male or female.
The State has a duty to protect your right to work and earn a livelihood from unjust attack.
Freedom to travel
You have a right to move freely within the State. You also have a broader right to travel and to get a passport for the purpose of travelling.
Your right to a passport may be restricted or limited. For example, before granting you bail, a court may require you to hand over your passport. The State may also restrict your right to travel for the purposes of national security.
Inviolability of a citizen's dwelling
The Constitution declares that the dwelling of a citizen is inviolable and shall not be entered forcibly except in accordance with the law. This means that no one, including the Gardaí, may enter the place where you live without a warrant or other legal authority to enter.
If you are arrested as a result of an unlawful entry into your home, your arrest is illegal. Evidence obtained as a result of an unlawful entry onto your dwelling is inadmissible in court.
Property rights
The Constitution declares that the State will vindicate the property rights of every citizen. This means that you have a right to own, transfer and inherit property. You also have the right to bequeath property upon your death. The State guarantees to pass no law to abolish these rights.
Article 43 acknowledges that these rights ought to be regulated by the principles of social justice. This means that the State may pass laws limiting your right to private propety in the interests of the common good. If the State passes a law that restricts your property rights, it may be required to compensate you for this restriction.
Examples of restrictions or limitations on your right to own property include town and regional planning, protection of national monuments, compulsory acquisition of land and property taxes.
The rights of the family
The family founded on marriage possesses a collection of constitutional rights. These include:
- The right to marital privacy. This means that couples may make their own decisions about family planning.
- The right to consort together, to enjoy each other's company and to procreate. This right may be limited or restricted where a family member is in prison or where one spouse is not an Irish citizen. Read more about prisoners' rights.
- The right of parents to be the main and natural educators of their children. The State must respect your right as parents to provide for the religious, moral, intellectual, physical and social education of your children. The State cannot oblige you to send your children to school or to any particular type of school but it may require that children receive a certain minimum education.
- The right to free primary education - this means that the State must pay for your children's primary education. State aid for schools must not discriminate between schools of different religions.
- The right to decide the religion of your children. The State cannot interfere with this right.
There is a constitutional principle that married parents have equal rights to and are joint guardians of their children. If the parents separate or divorce, the courts may decide who will have custody of the children. The paramount consideration is the welfare of the children.
The rights of children
Article 42A was added to the Constitution in 2015. It affirms children's natural and imprescriptible rights and the State's duty to uphold these rights. Children have the right for their best interests to be of paramount consideration where the State seeks to intervene to protect their safety and welfare.
This right applies in all court proceedings concerning adoption, guardianship, custody, and access. In these proceedings, children also have the right to have their views ascertained and considered by the courts. The courts are to have regard to a child's age and maturity when considering their views in accordance with this right.


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He was the creator of the comic strip 'Garth', which I used to read many, many, years ago, but is more famous as the creator of 'Modesty Blaise'. She first appeared in a comic strip; it was superb (approximately 4.7 billion times better than Joss Whedon's incoherent drivel, and original artist Jim Holdaway and his successor Enrique Romero were as far above Georges Jeanty as Michaelangelo was above a blind cave-dwelling neotonous gilled amphibian) but it was when he started writing the stories as novels that he reached his greatest heights.
The first novel was initially written as the script for a movie. The finished film used only one line from O'Donnell's script and it was... utterly abysmal. The novel, however, was sublime. A masterpiece of the spy caper genre - far outclassing the Bond novels. Alas the dire movie tarnished Modesty's image and, although the novels did sell millions, they failed to achieve recognition as the matchless works of genius that they were.
Towards the end of the novel series they deteriorated a little, and the villains became slightly too similar, but even the weakest of them is better than the best of any other thriller writer (except possibly Gavin Lyall at his absolute peak).
It's probably my heroine-worship of Modesty that has led me to specialise in writing stories with strong female central characters. I know none of my creations can ever match her but, if you shoot at the stars, you'll still reach a decent height even if you fall short.
Rest in piece Peter O'Donnell; if there is a Heaven I hope you are there with Modesty and Willie, Sir Gerald, Jack Fraser, Weng, Steven and Dinah Collier, Lucifer, Lady Janet, and Little Krell.


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For every employee of the company, great importance is placed on their employment records, including the accuracy of their attendance records. Inaccurate information could result in the employee not being paid the right amount of money or lead to disputes regarding annual leave or sickness records. Using HR software to track an employee's time and attendance can significantly reduce the amount of errors that are made and saved in the employee's personnel file.
Although most Time and Attendance systems are generally linked to the HR and Payroll Departments, organisations are still deploying Time and Attendance monitoring software as a standalone application, where it is often being viewed as a replacement for the old fashioned 'clocking in' system. The integration of HR, Payroll and Time & Attendance systems could significantly reduce the time taken to manually extract data for transfer into a separate software system.
The benefit of having an integrated system is that it eliminates incorrect data being input from one system to another, thus reducing errors and saving administration time for HR Professionals. More time that they can then spend on the strategic part of the business.
The argument for integration is not all about saving time though. The power of integration gives managers a vital insight into the business. Data can be produced to analyse working and absence patterns and how much overtime is being spent in each department. This in turn can help managers to take a more strategic view of the business; it will empower them and give them the knowledge to deal with situations such as poor absence quickly, without having to wait for monthly reports.
Of course it is not just the HR Department that can benefit from Time and Attendance integration. The Payroll Department has a huge responsibility to pay people accurately and on time. They will therefore need accurate records of time worked, overtime, sick leave and holiday taken by each employee. The guaranteed accuracy of data applies in other areas that could otherwise prove quite a headache for payroll staff. For example when deductions need to be made to pay for excessive lateness, part-paid or unpaid leave.
It is fair to say that more can be achieved in a business when there is greater teamwork, the sharing of data, intelligence and knowledge. People working together, problem solving and improving the business' productivity would be championed by all senior managers, so why not adopt this way of thinking to software applications?
The way ahead in today's society has to be one of openness and transparency so why would two departments not work together to share common data, such as Time and Attendance? It surely makes sense…


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In this research group, we study the behavioural ecology and evolutionary biology of animal populations, often within the context of environmental and habitat change. We work across multiple landscapes in India, including the Trans-Himalayas, Western Ghats and Eastern Ghats.
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Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Tirupati
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London has never have seen an outside broadcast like it. An estimated 8,000 TV and radio journalists and technical staff from around the world will be descending on the capital for 29 April, the day Prince William dons his RAF uniform and marries Kate Middleton.
Despite the severe strain placed on newsgathering budgets by the recent glut of major foreign news stories, UK and overseas broadcasters have committed considerable manpower and resources in one of the world's most expensive cities to cover the Westminster Abbey wedding. "This will almost certainly be the biggest team of broadcast crew and reporters ever assembled for an outside broadcast in London," says a senior BBC source.
It is not hard to see why. Optimistic estimates suggest that up to 2 billion people will be watching the live coverage, a figure which (while a definitive number is impossible to prove even after the event) dwarfs the supposed 750 million global audience who watched Prince Charles marry Lady Diana Spencer in July 1981. Little wonder then, as one CNN source tells MediaGuardian, that advertisers were booking slots within seconds of the chosen date being announced.
"It will be the biggest event in television history because there are no bigger celebrities in the world than the royals," says Piers Morgan, the former Daily Mirror editor who now fronts a New York-based chatshow for CNN and will predictably be part of the US news broadcaster's royal wedding presenting team.
All broadcasters will be reliant on the pooled live feeds inside Westminster Abbey provided by the BBC, Sky News and ITN, which will share the costs and the rights income. But they will have their own reporting teams and cameramen outside the abbey and there is certain to be fierce competition to provide the best commentary, get the first live shots of particular incidents and find the most compelling human interest stories.
Nerve centre
Logistically, the heart of the vast broadcast operation will be the main hub in Green Park, where about 140 OB trucks will be thrumming with activity. The BBC reckons this single compound is three times bigger than any seen for a previous royal event, and there will be many more journalists around the capital covering proceedings and harvesting reaction on the streets.
On-screen coverage will be anchored from a three-storey temporary structure being erected just outside Buckingham Palace near the railings of Canada Gate, with glass-fronted studios and viewing stands for individual cameras. A reporters' gallery at the QE2 centre opposite the abbey in Parliament Square is also being built and trees have been pruned to secure better views.
Negotiations on other camera pitches around London began in earnest months ago. They have proved extremely complicated, involving scores of bodies including Westminster council, the Metropolitan police and the Royal Parks. Discussions with Clarence House and the Cabinet Office about access and pitches are also continuing.
Any suitable vantage points are being snapped up or put up for auction. According to one locations company, various spots in commercial buildings with a good view of the abbey are being bartered to broadcasters and photographers for high sums – some in the region of £120,000.
Some observing the preparations believe that Americans, and even Germans, are more interested in the event than the British.
US broadcasters in particular are pulling out all the stops, wheeling out a host of Brits to provide local flavour for their coverage, including Morgan, Cat Deeley, Martin Bashir, Sharon Osbourne, Amanda Holden and Jane Seymour.
CNN is supplementing its London bureau with 50 more staff flown in. "London will experience a real American invasion," a CNN source tells MediaGuardian. The CNN presenter Richard Quest, one of the lead anchors for its royal wedding coverage, adds: "The Americans see it as a reality show, a soap opera which perhaps people in Britain miss because this is about their future head of state and his consort."
BBC plans
An estimated 400 personnel across BBC news and radio will be working on the event.
BBC1's coverage, headed by Huw Edwards, will be carried on BBC America, the BBC Entertainment channel across Asia, India, Latin America, Europe and the Middle East, and on BBC Knowledge in Africa and ABC Australia – the first time the corporation has attempted a live international broadcast on this scale.
"The undoubted good news appeal of the event and the traction any coverage will get on social networking sites will offer a special opportunity to draw in viewers and ad revenue and showcase services," says one BBC source. "And they aren't just taking our pictures – for the first time the programme will be showcased to a massive audience so when Huw says good morning on the day he will be speaking to massive numbers of people."
Edwards will be based in the temporary Canada Gate studios with fellow newsreaders Fiona Bruce and Sophie Raworth anchoring the BBC coverage. According to a BBC source present at various high-level internal meetings, corporation strategists and controllers are anxious to strike the right balance – catering for fans of the royal family but not going overboard. "It is a celebration and God knows we need some good news at the moment, but it is a weird one for us because it is a news event and not our celebration if you like," says one BBC source.
The biggest call by the BBC was the choice of Edwards – a decision which is understood to have come "from the very top" – over other high-profile BBC anchors such as David Dimbleby. "David does politics and elections so the press may have thought he was snubbed, but we didn't," says one BBC source. "He now expects the funerals and the elections, not this," adds another.
Anyone looking to avoid the royal wedding altogether should probably switch to Channel 4, which will not be covering the event live but has commissioned related programming including Meet the Middletons, about the bride's family, and E4's 50 Worst Wedding Shockers – a rundown of the worst TV and celebrity weddings in showbiz history.
ITV's biggest asset in royal matters, political editor Tom Bradby, who is a friend of Prince William, is a wedding guest so will not be working on the day - although he will offer the broadcaster some words coming in and out of the service.
ITV1's main anchors will be Phillip Schofield and Julie Etchingham and the broadcaster's event co-ordinator, executive producer Cristina Nicolotti-Squires, says the tone will be "light and fresh" – as befits the wedding of two people "the country seems to like a lot but doesn't know much about".
Sky News's coverage will be anchored by Eamonn Holmes across the day and aims to be "serious, fun, original, vibrant and celebratory" with the broadcaster already putting the finishing touches to packages and graphics, such as a graphic of the abbey with a guest seating plan, which it hopes will help it steal a march on the opposition. Kay Burley will bring her usual brio outside the abbey, where the first opportunity to see the bride's dress will take place just before 11am.
The broadcaster's royal wedding planner, Kate McAndrew, says Sky News is aiming to do the best it can without worrying about people flocking to the BBC as they traditionally do on national occasions.
Sky's request to film in 3D was overruled by the palace and the Cabinet Office, which decided that the specialist cameras required would be too bulky inside the abbey – even though the broadcaster filmed a mock wedding with the two leads played by stand-ins at a Sussex church.
Comparisons with 1981 (in relation to the dress and other topics) are almost certain to be made regularly by all the main networks. According to one BBC source, while the popularity of the royal family has perhaps diminished since then, the public are still very much in love with weddings, having experienced those of their own friends or family. "Ironically the 1981 wedding was a kicking-off point for this and has become the archetypal white wedding," says one BBC strategist.
CNN's Quest does not expect much anti-monarchy feeling, but is determined not to fill his CNN commentary with "the duke of so and so" and royal jargon. "All that crap makes people want to go and switch the kettle on." So expect there to be plenty of other verbal filler instead.


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In a chapter of the New Testament, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are generally agreed to symbolize Conquest, War, Famine and Death. We may not agree on the several interpretations, but I believe we can agree that when it comes to non performing assets, distressed loans and workouts, the results may be similar. An organization may survive – but it won't be pretty.
"What's the difference between a Hollywood movie, a workout for a non-performing loan and a bank robbery? Not much. Bring together a team of the very best experts in specific fields for a (relatively) short period of time with a common goal."
…Tim Paulsen, author of Paid in Full
The steps involved in bringing any loan or account up to date involve reminders, persuasion, and then negotiations. And they should proceed in that order. Persuade rather than negotiate. In persuasion one offers reasons while in negotiations – concessions. A reminder is simply the squeaky wheel and there is no reason to enter into persuasion if a customer can be 'reminded' to pay.
When all of those steps have not worked and a firm may be at the end of their rope, you are faced with deciding on which of the four horsemen of the non-performing asset will suit you best.
One – Jump off the horse – Sell
You have other and hopefully better things to do with your time. The account or the asset may be sold to another party who will find it profitable through a combination of their business acumen and strategy combined with a (sometimes sizable) discount.
There is nothing wrong with making your asset more attractive and getting the most you legally and morally can, but although all may be fair in love and war, despite our horsemen reference, this is business. You need to be careful of fraud or misrepresentation. It would be expected and even admirable to wash and wax your Nissan Versa to get it ready for a sale, but don't try to pass it off as a Lexus.
- You may have cash flow issues of your own and an immediate payment, albeit with a discount, may be preferable to even a successful workout for the full balance that takes 18 months.
- Workouts require time and expertise and you may be short on one or both.
- Selling the asset (like liquidation) may improve the risk of the creditor it tends to terminate the relationship with the customer
- It may jeopardize the sales of other financial products to that customer
- May jeopardize future sales to that customer
- Could harm your reputation
Two – Pull up on the reins – Wait
The asset may indeed be non-performing by just about any definition of accounting yet for various and verifiable reasons – may not be at risk. An example might be an asset backed up and supported by government with budgetary or bureaucratic issues, but 'good for the money'
The risk in a situation such as this one may be the tying up of assets and funds.
- It is a gentle ride. Of the Four Horsemen, waiting is the least time consuming and expensive option (presuming that you do get paid).
- Your customers will love you for itIn our section of the back room of finance we know that we're not running in a popularity contest, still – this option is the one most desired by the customer.
- It's been said that all things come to those who wait. It ain't necessarily so! The customer said, "Don't worry about it. Things could be worse. "So, I didn't worry about it and sure enough…they got worse.Continually being pushed off by the customer, standard stalling tactics are a different story and should be resolved thru standard collection techniques.
Three – Force owner to sell the horse – Liquidate
It could be compulsory or on a volunteer basis and while there are a number of grounds for liquidation, for our purposes, most of the time it is because the company is unable to pay its debts as they fall due.
In this situation a company cannot or will not meet their obligations.
- It may be the only way to get a financial settlement and often the sooner the better. Some firms may not want to face the music and the asset to loss ratio will do nothing but become worse.
- Accuracy – Maybe recognize an NPA quicker than letting it linger and cloud audit reports
- If you and other creditors are forcing the firm into liquidation, your customer is gone and the corporation may never return but the individual players may surface in the future with their pockets empty but memory intact
- Potential damage to your reputation. "They wouldn't work with me!"
- Lawyers and accountants will love you. They tend to be the only ones who tend to make money in situations like these.
Four – Turn the horse around – the Workout:
Everybody has to roll up their sleeves and pitch in but there is also the chance, sometimes the only one, for a win for all involved when management, owners and creditors attempt to nurse an organization back to health.
The reasons for an organization to be may or may not be of their own making. Problems could be with management, ownership; competition for them or their major clients, expansion, technology, market loss, the list goes on, perhaps proving that Murphy was indeed an optimist.
However, if the light at the end of the tunnel has not been turned off to conserve power, it may be determined there is a reasonable chance of the firm's survival. If there is a bath to be taken, we're in this together. Or, we could say, everybody gets a haircut, but enough of the analogies, you get the idea.
It is best to identify a single distressed or workout manager (rather than a committee or even a team) and then identify responsibilities. They would include the identification of suitable financial action as well as decisions and recommendations on non-financial strategies.
Not for the faint of heart, this option involves the most work but may also be the most rewarding not only financially but personally "you have the opportunity save an organization as well as jobs and more"
What can a successful workout team achieve? Not only the recovery of the investment/asset, but also helping an organization to get back on its feet and return to being a good great customer!
After all, if that isn't the objective – what's a recovery department for?
Author's Note: This article was inspired by the work of Dr. Thomas C. Knecht, partner at Roland Berger Strategy Consultants.
To download a pdf copy of this article, click the following: The Four Horsemen of the NPL


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Well college basketball fans, we are now less than three weeks away from Selection Sunday. Many of the small conference schools will be wrapping up their regular seasons this week, while the bigger conferences will go into next week. Following that, it will be conference tournaments a plenty.
With such little time remaining until the NCAA Tournament, it is time for projected brackets to be thrown about like crazy. Every day people will be checking to see where their favorite team is on Joe Lunardi's latest bracket on ESPN. Or Jerry Palm's over on CBS Sports. While three weeks is not a long time overall, it is still a period of time that can see a lot change in the college hoops world. So keeping updated on almost a daily level does not make you crazy. It just makes you a fan.
So I decided to jump in on some of the fun by making my very own projected bracket. With just three weeks until we know the field of 68 for sure, here is how I see things breaking down (Even if it is likely to change by the end of the day).


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The Speedbox LTE III is a new wireless router for Telekom, which could support for LTE Advanced. The device is intended for home use and provides the terminals via WLAN or LAN with high-speed internet. Based on LTE CAT6 technology, a speed of up to 300 Mbit/s is possible. There is an overview of the technical data of the Speedbox LTE III.
Features and Specifications of Speedbox III
|Manufacturer and type designation
|Huawei E5186s-22a (HiSilicon chip)
|Download rate
|up to 300 MBit/s
|Upload rate
|up to 50 Mbit/s
|Supported LTE bands:
|LTE 2600 MHz / 2100 MHz / 1800 MHz /
900 MHz / 800 MHz (FDD) LTE + 2600 MHz TDD
|LTE-Advanced Support
|Backward compatible with:
|HSPA, HSPA+; UMTS (900/2100 MHz); GSM
|MIMO Support:
|Connector for external antenna
|yes, 2 SMA sockets(Buy 4G antenna for Speedbox LTE III)
|LTE modem category 6 (CAT6)
|With integrated PABX
Network | LAN & WLAN
|LAN Ports
|4 LAN Gigabit ports (RJ45)
|Wi-Fi standards
|WLAN 802.11b/g/n/ac for up to 64 users
|5 GHz Wi-Fi support
|Dimensions / Weight
|190 x 200 x 32 mm at about 518 g
First impression
Coming from the original Huawei model E5186 LTE CPE, the Telekom presented the series as usual in noble black. On the back there are only 4 gigabit ports. The front informs with four LEDs information about "Power", "Mode", "wifi" and signal. A configuration of the router can be done directly through the browser. The right flank of the router has a WPS and Wi-Fi button, and a reset button. The SIM card slot is on the top right place.
Anyone looking for a new, high-performance wireless router, gets an attractive solution with the new device Speedbox III LTE from Germany Telekom. The Speedbox LTE III supports LTE Advanced with up to 300 Mbit/s download speed (50 Mbit/s upload speed) and the latest WLAN standard by 802.11ac. This transmits at 2.4 GHz and 5.0 GHz. With the LTE frequency bands 800/900/1800/2100 MHz and 2600MHz, a wide range is covered. The external antenna connector is actually hiding at the back behind a small cover to find. The box can bring the network for up to 64 Wi-Fi enabled devices.
The Speedbox LTE III is technically based on the Huawei E5186 4G Router, however, still there are some differences between them. The E5186 LTE CPE also called E5186s-22a indicates the modification. The original E5186 has two RJ11 connectors and a USB port of the standard 2.0 interface. The software (firmware) is different and you will find a logo of the network operator on the front. In addition, the front lacks the "Voice" Info-LED.
The DECT or analog telephone is not supported. If you want the function, probably you should choose the Vodafone B4000 or Huawei E5186 original model. And VOIP will not be a problem. The send and receive short messages (SMS) via the Speedbox LTE III is actually possible.
Since September 2014, the Speedbox LTE III is available on the Germany Telekom, and now the unlocked Speedbox LTE III is also available on www.4gltemall.com . And the price is certainly reasonable for the first CAT6 router. The package includes a power adapter, an RJ45 LAN cable and a Quick Start Guide. If you want to change your 3G Router to 4G, the Speedbox LTE III should be a good option. If you want to get the full functions of the 4G Router, huawei original E5186 should be better to choose.


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Safeguarding of hangars and maintenance buildings at airports against fire is achieved by foam systems that blanket leaked aviation fuel.
Mostly, conventional foam systems with sprinklers and firemonitors are employed here. However, innovative systems with rotating sprinkler nozzles that come up from the floor and spread a foam layer underneath an airplane, are coming more and more into use. For these systems, InnoVfoam can also supply the foam proportioning systems, remotely controlled firemonitors, and the so called pop-up


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BELCHERTOWN — Cady Lalanne, starting center for the University of Massachusetts men's basketball team, is due back in court next month for a follow-up hearing in his assault case.
Lalanne, 20, of Orlando, Fla., was suspended indefinitely from the team in the wake of charges he assaulted UMass Amherst police Sgt. Jessica Moore at a campus dance Saturday night.
Lalanne, reached by phone Wednesday, didn't have much to say about the incident. "My coach told me not to talk to you guys," he said, referring to Coach Derek Kellogg. Asked if he had a lawyer who might speak on his behalf, Lalanne replied, "At this point, no."
Moore and other UMass officers were in the process of escorting Lalanne's friend, Clyde Santee, 20, from the dance for failure to pay admission to Saturday night's event. That's when Lalanne allegedly intervened and shoved Moore, according to case records.
Lalanne pleaded not guilty to charges of assault and battery on a police officer, disorderly conduct and resisting arrest at his arraignment Monday in Eastern Hampshire District Court in Belchertown. Judge John M. Payne Jr. released Lalanne on personal recognizance and ordered him to return for a Jan. 9 pretrial hearing.
Lalanne, who had started every game this season as center for the basketball team, was suspended by Kellog for violating "athletic department policy for his conduct at an on-campus function Saturday night."
It remains unclear how long that suspension might last. "We'll continue to monitor the situation and make a decision (about the length of the suspension) over the next few days or so," Kellogg said.
Lalanne did not travel with the basketball team this week.
UMass spokesman Edward F. Blaguszewski said Lalanne is still enrolled as a student, but he declined to discuss what sort of disciplinary action might be taken against the 6-foot-10, 250-pound sophomore.
"Under federal law, it's confidential, so we cannot comment," Blaguszewski said Wednesday. He said Lalanne's case was forwarded to the dean of students for review. "There's due process ... and evidence must be looked at."
At Oak Ridge High School in Orlando, LaLanne was named "Player of the Year" during his senior year, averaging 21 points, 13 rebounds, four blocks and three assists per game, according to ESPN.com.
At UMass, Lalanne was averaging about 4.8 points and 5.2 rebounds in 20½ minutes per game this season. He also was leading the team in blocks, and he was fifth in rebounding. His season was cut short last year by an injured foot.
Earlier this season, Lalanne was among three UMass basketball players suspended for violating team rules during a Nov. 3 exhibition game against American International College. School and team officials have declined to elaborate on that incident.
Lalanne's hometown is Orlando, but he was born in Haiti, according to court records.


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Chattanooga Times Free Press: U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander sees med 'bomb'
Posted on April 15, 2012
Tennessee's fine U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander is a realist not an alarmist. So when he rings an "alarm," we'd better pay attention.
Sen. Alexander says he fears the current Health Care Law is a "ticking time bomb."
He said: "Millions of Americans, because of the health care law, are going to lose their employer-sponsored insurance and millions of Americans are not going to have as many jobs because of the costs imposed on businesses."
Well, you can see why the senator is issuing a warning.
Sen. Alexander explained: "I remember during the debate two years ago, I suggested to our colleagues on the other side of the aisle who were supporting the health care law -- which I thought was an historic mistake because it expanded a health care delivery system we already knew was too expensive -- instead of taking steps to reduce it.
"I suggested to them that they ought to go home and run for governor if they voted for it and see whether they can implement it over an eight-year period of time."
Sen. Alexander explained his concern: "The health care law mandates that the states spend more money on Medicaid, and, as a result, the state cuts the money it is spending for the University of Tennessee or Nebraska or North Dakota.
"In order to keep the quality of education up, tuition goes up. So students are paying more for tuition and they are paying more for interest on their student loans directly because of the health care law."
Sen. Alexander continued: "Now we are at a point where, because of the health care law, we are going to add 25.9 million more Americans onto Medicaid ....
"What most people do not realize is the effect this has on higher education and student tuition. I hear a lot of talk about, 'Let's see if we can lower student tuition.' One way we can lower it is: Not take money from student loans and spend it to pay for the health care bill.
"Most people are not aware that the federal government took $8.7 billion in so-called profits it earns when it borrows money at 2.8 percent and loans it to students at 6.8 percent -- the government took that money and spent it to pay for the health care bill."
Does that sound complicated? Fortunately, Sen. Alexander understands the problem.
Shouldn't we pay some attention -- before a "ticking time bomb" goes off?
Well, you see why the senator is concerned. Are you?


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This bread is best when eaten the same day it's baked. If you have any left over, do as the French do: Use it to make French toast or a bread pudding.
How to Make It
Dissolve the yeast in warm water in a small bowl; let stand 5 minutes.
Lightly spoon flour into dry measuring cups, and level with a knife. Place the flour and salt in a food processor, and pulse 2 times or until blended. With the food processor on, slowly add yeast mixture through food chute, and process until the dough forms a ball. Process for 1 additional minute. Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured surface, and knead lightly 4 to 5 times.
Place dough in a large bowl coated with cooking spray, turning to coat top. Cover dough, and let rise in a warm place (85°), free from drafts, 45 minutes or until doubled in bulk.
Punch dough down, and shape into a 6-inch round loaf. Place loaf on a baking sheet coated with cooking spray. Cover dough and let rise 30 minutes or until doubled in bulk.
Preheat oven to 450°.
Uncover dough, and make 3 diagonal cuts 1/4-inch deep across top of loaf using a sharp knife. Combine 1 tablespoon water and egg white, and brush mixture over top of loaf. Bake at 450° for 20 minutes or until loaf sounds hollow when tapped.
Note: To make a baguette, let the bread dough rise once. Punch dough down, and roll into an 18 x 9-inch rectangle on a lightly floured surface. Roll up the dough starting at the longer edge, pressing down firmly to eliminate any air pockets; then pinch seam and edges to seal. Cover the dough, let rise, and bake according to the recipe instructions at left.


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I'm doing this new thing. After realizing I own a lot of random shit I acquired over the years thanks to capitalism and mass consumption. I start to evaluate all the clutter in my house. Do I really need 10 pairs of jeans in the same colour? Do I need all the magazines from years ago under my bed? Do I need that random medium sized box filled with junk in my closet or my bags from 2014 that I never use anymore?
I recently watched the documentary Minimalism on Netflix, I highly recommend it. It gave me a lot of insight about all the clutter we consume on a daily basis, the amount of money we spend on all the useless junk that help us fill voids in our life that we feel we lack.
I then realized that I consume way too much stuff. I used to buy shirts I probably already owned just because I was going to an event or I just liked the feeling of new things or buying shoes I don't need. I would spend money on services like lash extensions or get my hair done just because I felt like it. There was always a need to spend money I didn't even have. I don't know where I acquired this habit, it sort of manifested itself and I knew I had to do something about it quick.
I should have known better and instead of beating myself up about it, I devised de-cluttering my room first. I spent half the day listening to Michael Jackson's greatest hits while noticing this giant pile of clothing that occupied most of my room.
It was pretty ridiculous to see how much clothes I never even wore or things I stopped wearing years ago stuffed in a tiny closet. I always found myself wearing the same pair of jeans, same shirts, and sweaters. So once I removed all the stuff I didn't wear at all, my room looked way freer and more organized.
I was shocked to see the amount of stuff that would stress me out, make me feel disorganized, left me feeling clean and orderly.
All two pairs of the jeans I wore constantly were in one side, a couple dress shirts, a few casual shirts to match all my bottoms, and coats I wore daily. It made it so much easier to find the things I need for the day.
I also started this new budgeting system called the Envelope system I found on Pinterest created by Dave Ramsey. I've been experimenting for a month now and I might do a blog post on how it's working out for me, but so far I think this is working for me in terms of giving me a clear picture of prioritizing all the necessities (i.e. groceries, credit card bills, phone bills, bus pass, house bills, loan), 30 percent goes to wants/personal expenses, 20 percent goes to savings and repayments of debt.
So far, I really like seeing a clear picture of what I need to do and feel like I have more breathing room in terms of enjoying life with these little lifestyle changes. I will update for future lifestyle edits. By clearing my space of some material things I don't need I definitely see some improvement in terms of appreciating all the important things I do own and it helps me decide if I really need something before making a big purchase.


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We almost heading towards the end of winter but with the cold weather still lurking around there is nothing better than hearty chicken and corn soup. It just warms your soul when you taste it. Unlike other soups that takes hours to boil, this recipe is super quick and easy to prepare. I have added my own twist to this recipe just to spice it up a little bit and to give it a bit of a kick.
With less than an hour to prepare and cook, you will serve up a delicious meal in no time. It is yumminess in a bowl.
Hearty Creamy Chicken and Corn Soup
Soul warming and deliciousness.
Baking time: 45 min
1 tbs butter
1 medium onion
5 boneless and skinless chicken breast
1 cup cream (240ml)
2 celery sticks
1 tsp smoked paprika
2 cloves garlic
1 tsp cayenne pepper
1 tsp cumin
Salt and pepper
1 tin creamed styled sweetcorn
1 packet cream of mushroom soup
- Cut chicken breast into small chunks.
- Chop onions, celery and crush garlic.
- In a large pot, melt the butter and add the onions with a pitch of salt.
- Cook onions for 4 minutes until onions are glossy. Once onions are glossy, add crushed garlic and celery.
- Then add crushed garlic and celery and satay for another 3 minutes.
- Add smoked paprika, cayenne pepper and cumin with a little pit of water.
- Add chicken and let it satay for 15 minutes.
- Then add sweet corn.
- Mix the packet of cream of mushroom soup with 250ml of milk to dissolve particles. Add to the chicken and sweet corn mix along with the rest of the milk (750ml).
- Simmer for 10 minutes. Stir with wooden spoon to check if it does not stick to the bottom of the pot.
- Add cream and pepper to taste and let it simmer for another 3 minutes.
- Serve and enjoy.
15 comments on "Hearty Creamy Chicken Corn Soup"
With the winter creeping into the UK this looks amazing and definitely something I'd want to try!Thank you for sharing this with us at #TriumphantTales. I hope to see you back next week!
I love a good soup for autumn, this looks like a great family recipe #TwinklyTuesday
I love a hearty soup especially during the colder months X #triumphanttales
A proper autumn/winter warmer – yummy #TriumphantTales
Oh this does sound nice, good comfort food for this time of year. #stayclassymama
I have never tried making chicken soup but maybe this winter… (there is a chill in the air already!) Thanks for linking up with #globalblogging
We've all had such an awful virus this week, this would have gone down an absolute treat. Pinning! #twinklytuesday
This looks and sounds delicious! Perfect now that its starting to get cooler here, will add to the list to make. Thanks for linking up! #twinklytuesday
Thanks for linking up with #stayclassymama
This sounds amazing. I'm a lover of soup and would for me there is nothing more comforting than a nice chicken soup. Thank you for sharing with #styaclassymama


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Recipe: Green cilantro sauce (mojo verde)
Green cilantro sauce (mojo verde)
Total time: 10 minutes
Servings: Makes a generous half cup of sauce
2 cloves garlic
1 jalapeño pepper, or to taste
1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
1 teaspoon oregano
2 tablespoons chopped parsley
1/2 cup loosely packed cilantro leaves
3 tablespoons olive oil
3 tablespoons wine vinegar
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup water
Place all ingredients in a blender container and blend until smooth. Sauce keeps one week, refrigerated. Serve it at room temperature.
Each tablespoon: 39 calories; 0 protein; 1 gram carbohydrates; 0 fiber; 4 grams fat; 1 gram saturated fat; 0 cholesterol; 0 sugar; 118 mg. sodium.


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Okay…Posting new recipes publicly is a new thing for me that took me some time to warm up to…
You see, as a researcher and advocate, I'd usually be busy sharing with people how to proactively help preventing cancer far beyond "just" good nutrition and exercise, that is by regular fasting + some nutrient supplementation + chemoprevention (though essentially plants).
Otherwise, I'd be busy educating on how to avoid the other third of unnecessary suffering and premature death – cardiovascular disease – by relying on low-fat whole-foods plant-only nutrition, with no oil/no sugar/no salt. In short, by eating what healthy cultures call "food" as explained in detail in the fascinating Forks over Knives.
I'd normally be busy working towards the abolition of animal exploitation, by engaging with people on the many issues tied with eating/using animals and typically pointing to documentaries Earthlings, Gary Yourovsky's speech, Cowspiracy or Forks over Knives for people to transform by-default cluelessness into conscious, educated choices.
I became a scientist/researcher to help people. What is the point of more research, when best practice was already researched, found, documented, but then ignored and unused? So I've been spending less time with facts and figures, more time directly with people, communities, always around food.
Food is where many decisions are taken daily on the relationship we want to have on the process of Life; a destructive self-dooming one, or one of universal thriving.
So today, my first publicly-shared recipe is also one my favorites because it's been a fun challenge. I found a new use for nature's magic, and made a Veglaze.
It's short for vegan glaze, a glazing agent or egg wash substitute that leaves animals alone, and calls only for whole-food ingredients. The happening and lovely Wellington (NZ) Vegans voted to call it Veglaze!
It's a small, fun, little thing, yet, I love it!
Q: "Why don't you just use eggs, I don't get it?".
A: Fair question. This is why. I cannot possibly explain it any better.
Ever found yourself making burger buns, or some sort of vegan bread and wanted the top to look super-shiny? Obviously the last thing you want to use is an egg, or anything based on sugar, other processed foods, or anything leading to sticky fingers?
So let me guess…
You went online and looked for the name of that stuff we use to make burger buns and brioche breads shiny…what is it called…Oh yeah, it's called an "egg wash" or a "glaze", "glazing". You found pinterest pictures with a dozen different options that leave animals alone, using soy milk, aquafaba, cornstarch, olive oil…and you tried it on your buns. All you truthfully get is this: your buns are browner, but still obviously dry-looking and nothing even remotely close to shiny, glossy, glazy…
I know your frustration, I grew up with brioche breads and burger buns as shiny as my lovely dad's balding head. The brioches used eggs, we didn't know any better back then. Nonetheless, there's something strange about food that makes it very appealing when it's shiny. Well, this is not a browning agent, I like to call a spade a spade, or "a cat a cat" as the French say, and this is the deal folks! A true Veglaze!
I hope you will feel the same satisfaction as we did with the shiny Hot Cross Buns we baked.
Walking in the footsteps of the amazing Aquafaba project, this will be the Veglaze project group on Facebook, focusing exclusively on veglazing, to replace the glossy effect obtained by eggs washes in baking, or by unhealthy/processed foods undesirable in a whole food pantry (sugar, oil, processed flours…). This is a place for people to posts their own attempts, new uses, findings, fails, etc…A Veglaze is a concept, what plant the Veglaze uses can vary and hopefully will expand.
This is is about Amaranth seed veglaze
Start with ½ (one half) cup of amaranth seed.
This will yield us about 1 ~ 1 ½ cups of Veglaze by volume, 200~350g by weight.
Egg white equivalent: Not sure at this point, but I veglazed 3 batches of 12 large hot cross buns with it. So relax, this will make more than enough if you're veglazing less than the size of a standard oven tray.
Add 4 cups of room temperature water. And set on the stove on medium for 30 min. No lid on.
It will start to boil after about 10 min.
This will be what it will look like after 30 minutes of cooking. See that glossiness?
Pour in a strainer.
Squeeze it a bit *gently* if needed. You want to strain it, not press the grains through the sieve. The pictures shows a thicker experimental version. But with 4 cups of water as per this recipe, it should strain even more easily.
This is what you get from a first pass of sieving. Lots of a glossy Veglaze in the making, but still with lots of amaranth seed germs in it.
Sieve that one more time.
Et voilà! A uniform, transparent clean veglaze.
Egg white replacement: If you want to use it as a transparent veglaze, use it as it is.
Full egg or yolk-containing replacement: If you want the Veglaze to also have a browning shine (like for brioche, pain au chocolat, challah, etc.) add tamarind paste, or turmeric for color and maybe a plant milk for a creamy aspect. In all cases, share your successes and fails in the project. Here (as per the picture above) I experimentally added a bit of soy milk. Another previous time, I had successfully tried before with tamarind paste and turmeric powder.
Q: When to veglaze?
A: Either before baking and/or 5~10 minutes before the end of baking.
I'll count on you guys to upload more "WITH vs. WITHOUT" photos, I was busy making ALL the buns veglazed whenever I could, only our car or my hair I haven't used this Veglaze on…yet! 😀 But I did take some photos.
Above is WITHOUT VEGLAZE picture, where you can see the dull dry surface. Anything shiny? Oh hold on…
Ah okay…now we're talking. WITH VEGLAZE.
Why do I love this stuff so much?
- it leaves animals alone
- it works, shines, and makes relevant foods look beautiful
- it's easy to make
- tasteless, it won't interfere with wonderful taste of the vegan whole-food treats you veglaze with it
- stores in the fridge for days. Leftover can be used like vegetable stock or water
- inexpensive: a small amount veglazes large surfaces
- prevents madness: leaves clean fingers, doesn't stick to fingers nor have a greasy feel.
- suits whole-food kitchens as it does not include oil, sugar, or other processed products in order to live long happy healthy lives
- can be made year-round
- safe: no risk of food-poisoning typical to eggs
- nothing goes to waste: the amounts of cooked amaranth grain it makes are very realistically sustainably edible.
The Aquafaba project might provide part of the answer. The glossy aspect here adds to the open mystery. I'm guessing proteins and saccharides have a lot to do with the shine and viscosity of the mucilage.
All I know from practice, is that the dry-food to water ratio to get separate grains of amaranth is close to 1:10 which is enormous. In fact pretty close to the dry to wet ratio of many seaweeds, which are excellent water binders. That is a rather high water binding capacity. This suggests that amaranth seed mucilage (or "glamAranth" like a friend calls it because it makes foods look glamourous) could likely be a highly-efficient egg-substitute not just for veglazing but all sorts of uses previously relying on eggs, and the many problems that inevitably come with using eggs.
How I found that amaranth could be used to make Veglaze is one of those little fun little quests I love to play with and try to solve.
I was making a first big step towards whole-foods, looking into buying/eating whole grains instead of the processed grains we were having as staple: pasta, polished white rice, couscous, etc. Amaranth was one of many whole grains in this book. Its small size fascinated me, so I bought it out of curiosity along with 20~30 other whole grains, seeds, pea and beans. With amaranth, the aim was to have something like couscous, separate grains, just "nano-sized". Like everyone I cooked it, using a ratio I am comfortable with, that of brown rice to water (~1:2 ratio by volume). And like everyone cooking amaranth for the first time, I got a sticky mess so impossible to sieve that I broke my sieve trying to get the gooeyness out! The tiny bits of gel I managed to squeeze out was very much reminding of egg whites. I took note of that but remained focused on the grains more than the Veglaze.
So I added a lot of water, enough to make the grains separate and I sieved that.
Wonderful, nano-sized couscous!
Now I was left with quite a lot of thick water and set on reducing that to see if it could glaze like eggs do. I put some of that thick water in an hollow oven tray for some time to dehydrate it. Put it in the warm oven, turned it off before going to sleep, then completely forgot about it! The days pass and I see the word "amaranth" somewhere and remember "Oh snap! The amaranth gel has been in the oven for days!!!" Ready to encounter a moldy stinky mess, I rushed to the oven, held my breath and opened slowly in apprehension…But what I saw was quite different from the doom I had imagined!
The water had completely dried out. What was left behind was a blessing of serendipity!
The oven tray was clean and spotless, in fact so shiny I could see my ecstatic face in it! The water had dried, and that was a ~1 mm dry thick layer of shiny varnish. At that point, I definitely knew amaranth would make an excellent glazing for baking (and maybe other things). That mistake had conveniently saved me a few experimental steps.
Soon enough, I found excuses to bake various breads and cakes (100% whole-meal and whole-foods of course) and played around for a bit. Although it shined, it still needed more tries to find the right thickness or amaranth/water ratio. On the first attempts the gel was so thick, that the veglaze once cooked looked like those transparent slug trails in the garden…Not quite as appealing as I was aiming for!
So I kept playing with ratios and mixes and got to something pretty good now. I am still fine-tuning the ratios and making the recipe as easy and simple as possible. I'm sharing it already though so anyone can benefit from this as it is now. You can take on from here with your own uses, experiments, attempts. Whether they're brilliant glows (successes) or whether you slip down some slippery slopes (opportunities to learn) share it anyways!
Join the Veglaze group on Facebook and share your experiments, trials, errors….
=> Facebook Veglaze Project – A community project with open discussion and sharing, trial and error etc. If you knew aquafaba, you will feel like at home!
Warning: The group *does* encourage healthful whole-food pantries. Remember to Read the pinned post.
Comments? => on the veglaze project group above 😉
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Arizona Fur Con 2013 was the first Arizona Fur Con convention. It was was held over October 11 - 13, 2013, in the Embassy Suites Phoenix - Scottsdale hotel in Phoenix, Arizona, U.S.A.[1]
The theme for 2013 was "Cowboy Campfire".[2] 533 people attended the convention.[3]
Guests of Honor[edit]
The Guests of Honor were FurPlanet,[4] with additional "special guests":[5]
- Krista Campbell, who is known for her costuming work in the traveling Broadway shows, including Disney's The Lion King, Mamma Mia & Cats.
- Dimitri Davis, a professional screen writing consultant.
- Rukis, an noted artist and writer known for her work within the fandom.
- Myenia, a noted artist within the fandom.
- Laura Garabedian, a noted artist within the fandom.
- Wicker, owner of skyprofursuit.com and the creator of Telephone.
Events included panels and workshops, gaming, Masquerade, a dance contest, Fursuit games and a themed cafe.[6] Themed Cafes were described as "a very popular event in the anime convention community and we are excited to merge this event over into the furry community [...] This years theme will be a My Little Pony; "Pinkie Pie Cafe Party.""[6]
Pre-registration was available by March 2013.
|Full event Badges Prices:
$35 until 4/15/13
$45 until 6/15/13
$55 until 10/9/13
At door $60[7]
The convention chair was Trick (Danielle Kemper).[8]
- ↑ Arizona Fur Con website. Retrieved February 13, 2013.
- ↑ http://www.arizonafurcon.com/ Retrieved April 1, 2013.
- ↑ Tweet on the Arizona Fur Con account on Twitter. Dated October 15, 2013. Retrieved October 16, 2013.
- ↑ Guest of Honor at Arizona Fur Con! - Fuzzwolf, furplanet (27 May 2013)
- ↑ http://www.arizonafurcon.com/guests.htm Retrieved April 1, 2013.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 http://www.arizonafurcon.com/programming.htm Retrieved April 1, 2013.
- ↑ http://www.arizonafurcon.com/registration.htm Retrieved April 1, 2013.
- ↑ http://www.arizonafurcon.com/about.htm Retrieved April 1, 2013.
External links[edit]
- http://www.arizonafurcon.com/
- ArizonaFurCon on Facebook
- Azfurcon on Fur Affinity
- Azfurcon on Twitter
- ArizonaFurCon on Tumblr
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Controversial social media personality, Kemi Olunloyo, likes to express herself unapologetically
Some hours ago, the Nigerian controversial self acclaimed
Investigative journalist Kemi Olunloyo took to her
Twitter handle, calling on the federal government to shut down all social media platforms in Nigeria against EndSars Protesters.
According to her, she claimed that China did it, Turkey did it, Togo did it, that Nigeria government can do it too.
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AN Examiner story about a famous FA Cup Final has rekindled memories for a Huddersfield man.
The report was about the forthcoming auction of a ticket to the 1930 Wembley match.
And Dennis Sheerman has just discovered that he owns a football memento that could be worth hundreds of pounds.
In the 1950s an elderly friend gave Mr Sheerman, 82, a programme for the April 26 game against Arsenal.
It was Town's fourth appearance in an FA Cup Final, but they lost 2-0.
The match became known as the Zeppelin final, after a giant German airship flew over Wembley Stadium and dipped its nose in salute to King George V.
Mr Sheerman, of Bradford Road, Fartown, never thought his programme could be valuable, until he saw the Examiner article last Thursday.
The story told how a ticket from the match was to be sold for more than £600 at London auction house Christie's next Tuesday.
Mr Sheerman said: "I have had the programme for years and years. An old gentleman gave me it when I left the Army.
"He was just someone I knew. I don't know how he got it.
"I never gave a thought to it being auctioned. I've always liked football, so I just kept it."
Mr Sheerman played football while he was in the Army.
He was 18 when he joined, two days before the Second World War broke out in 1939.
He left in the 1950s.
Instead of returning to his home town of Lincoln, Mr Sheerman came to Huddersfield with his late wife of 56 years, Nellie, whom he married in 1942.
They had been penpals for three years, after an Army friend of Mr Sheerman's from Huddersfield encouraged him to write to her.
Despite learning of the programme's value, Mr Sheerman has no plans to sell it.
He said: "I think I will just keep it and maybe later give it to some young person who is interested in football."