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At Popcorn Bistro, we added a tangy salt-and-vinegar flavor to a popular gourmet nut to create our dill-pickle-flavored cashews. Cashews have lower fat content than a lot of nuts and are packed with vitamins, minerals and antioxidants. Adding a dill pickle flavor to this healthy nut turns it into a salt-and-vinegar treat.
Variety is central to our philosophy at Popcorn Bistro. Dill pickle nuts are one of over 150 snack types that we have created while exploring new gourmet tastes and ideas. For our dill-flavored nuts, we added a sour and salty taste to the rich nutty cashew that has long been a party favorite.
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Gender equality gold for Scotland
Published: 07/05/2018
Advance HE is pleased to announce the University of Glasgow's Institute of Health and Wellbeing has been awarded an Athena SWAN department gold award, recognising its commitment to gender equality.
The institute joins an exclusive group of 11 Athena SWAN department gold award holders, while St George's, University of London, joins 13 other universities in achieving an institution silver award.
Advance HE's Athena SWAN Charter recognises higher education institutions' and departments' commitment to tackling gender inequality in higher education. It was expanded in May 2015 to include arts, humanities, social sciences, and business and law departments (AHSSBL) and professional and support staff.
The Met Office and Plymouth Marine Laboratory are two new Bronze Research Institute award holders. In Ireland, where the charter was established in 2015, there are new institution bronze awards for National University of Ireland, Galway and Maynooth University. Maynooth University is the first Irish institution to receive an award under the expanded process.
Advance HE's Athena SWAN manager, Dr Ruth Gilligan, was delighted with the latest results. She said:
"Congratulations to all the institutions and department who have been successful in the latest round of Athena SWAN Charter awards. This has been the culmination of many months of hard work, and this achievement demonstrates your great commitment to advancing gender equality in science, technology, engineering, maths and medicine (STEMM) and AHSSBL subjects and employment.
"The November 2017 round saw 164 applications accessed and 105 awards conferred, an increase over the previous April 2017 round. The overall success rate also increased to 64% (compared with 59% in previous round)."
Advance HE's Athena SWAN Charter is a highly successful international programme, which has grown from ten founding university members in 2005 to 159 UK university and research institute members. Applications for awards are assessed by peer-review panels, and awards are valid for up to four years, after which the applicant must demonstrate progress to renew or upgrade their award.
The full list of winners is available on our website.
Advance HE is formed from the merger of Equality Challenge Unit, the Higher Education Academy and the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education: www.advance-he.ac.uk
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Overview: This course could cover ANYTHING you need. We are here to help after class. Plastic part design, die casting, Pro/Program, advanced Creo Surfacing, exporting to other CAD programs, etc. Make your wish list and we will be your genie, except here you get unlimited wishes (for 16 hours)! This is a fully customized course and can come with custom training materials or videos. Often there are only a few students in this workshop and it is always customized ahead of time. This course will not be listed in the training schedule but can be added wherever requested. Below is a short list of topics your group may want covered.
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It was buzzed on Tuesday, its fragments were published in the media on Wednesday, it arrived on Thursday to bookshops and immediately provoked a political earthquake in France. The book Merci pour ce moment (Thank you for this moment) by Valerie Trierweiler, a former First Lady of France and ex-companion of the current President Francois Hollande, became one of the biggest scoops of 2014 public stage in France. In only two days Merci pour ce moment became the biggest bestseller of the last five years and the most commented book of the Holland's term. After only four days booksellers sold all their stocks (printed in a record number of 200 000 books) and the book is available on second-hand sells' pages for five times its original price. And all this with 0 budget for publicity and a perfectly kept secret.
In Merci pour ce moment Valerie Trierweiler relates the story of her relation with the French President. A relation which finished abruptly in January 2014 when Closer, a French gossip magazines revealed pictures of Hollande during his trip to the flat of his mistress. After discovering the betrayal, Trierweiler consumed an important amount of tranquilizers and was hospitalized during various days. A couple of weeks after the scandal, the President publicly announced the end of their relation. After the recovering, Valerie Trierweiler announced in the media that she would not go public about the time she had spent with Hollande. Despite this announcement a lot of political commentators predicted that the journalist would one day reveals some secrets in a book.
Of course, the former First Lady did not keep her word and nine months later she published a book in which she mixed private matters with some observations of the internal functioning of L'Elysee. A great part of the book is dedicated to the portrayal of the French President. Trierweiler depicts him as a man who with the ascent on the political stage progressively started to be hungry for power and disconnected with the reality. She disproves thus the image of the "normal president" that Hollande has built carefully during the campaign in 2012. She describes that the socialist president, despite his public assurance that he was on the side of the poor and the excluded, founded them repugnant. Following the journalist, he would call them "sans dent" (without teeth), making reference to their limited capacities to pay for the dental care. The expression seems already enter to the French dictionary and the whole book is seen by some political analysts as a coup de grace of Trierweiler. Following recent public trust's polls, Hollande is the less popular president of the 5th Republic. Some residue of his popularity rested on his image of a sympathetic and approachable politician. Merci pour ce moment destroys the only asset of the out of breath president.
In general, the publication received bad critics. It was criticized for its "Harlekin" style which in the eye of many buried the occasion to write an interesting inside politics document. The author thanks to her experience of a senior journalist in Paris Marching formerly responsible for the coverage of the Socialist Party, could have written this kind of book, unfortunately apparently still strong resentment overwhelmed the work and made it look like a personal revenge.
Obviously socialist politicians stood behind Hollande and maintained the same line of defense: they refused to book and to comment it. Segolene Royal, ex-companion of the President and current minister of ecology publicly defended the father of her children. Claude Bartolone, the leader of the French National Assembly described the book as "politics of paparazzi". On the right part of the political stage, Merci pour ce moment was seen above all as weakening the presidential office and thus France. Accordingly, many of right politicians also announced that they would not read the book. Also owners of bookshops voiced their discontent. The wave of clients flooding libraries provoked their angry reaction, as they saw that a paperback romance had higher sells in one week that some classics in some years.
Officially, the Frenchmen decided to follow the decision of politicians and not to buy the book. Actually, there is a tendency of criticizing the book for its mauvais gout, ultimate insult in France. Unofficially, bookshops have been stormed like never before. Booksellers reported that some Merci pour ce moment's buyers pretended to buy the publication for someone else. Others admitted openly to seek to read the book because they wanted to know better their President. Indubitably, who can know him better than a woman who shared a bad with her?
Following current previsions, Merci pour ce moment should be sold in 500 000 copies.


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Deutsche Hospitality's newly announced fourth brand is a conversion- and franchise-friendly brand that will offer more options to owners who are turned away by the standards of the company's Steigenberger Hotels and Resorts, Jaz in the City and IntercityHotel brands.
BERLIN—Deutsche Hospitality's brand umbrella has expanded to a fourth tier with the introduction of Maxx by Steigenberger, officials announced on the second day of the International Hotel Investment Forum.
Claus-Dieter Jandel, Deutsche Hospitality's EVP and chief development officer, said the brand will sit between luxury brand Steigenberger Hotels & Resorts and the IntercityHotel and Jaz in the City brands, toeing the line between select and full service.
It is the first significant announcement from the Frankfurt-based company since Deutsche Hospitality devised the new brand structure 18 months ago, according to CEO Thomas Willms.
The name Maxx has been used by Steigenberger before, Willms said, but there are no similarities with the new launch, apart from Deutsche Hospitality owning the name.
"It is an upscale brand that will be ideal for conversions and have a more flexible approach to brand standards. We have had the pain of rejecting assets because of our other brands' strict standards," Willms said, who added there will still be some codes in place such as minimum room size.
Jandel agreed that Deutsche Hospitality has met some obstacles in the past.
"We've missed some great opportunities because some hotels simply could not fit into our existing three brands," Jandel said.
While no debut Maxx hotel was announced along with the brand launch, Willms said Deutsche Hospitality will likely open its first Maxx property in its home country of Germany, where they foresee significant room for growth.
"Seventy percent of Germany is still unbranded," Willms said.
Willms added the brand would be franchise- and conversion-friendly, be flexible in room count, room size and design depending on location. Deutsche Hospitality executives also are not adverse to owners retaining their property's name, although there would likely be a "by Maxx by Steigenberger" suffix added on.
"We have had discussions with owners, but they said, 'Please launch the brand first,'" Willms said.
Jandel added the first property would be announced in 2018.
"We should have a good number announced this year," Jandel said.
Company outlook
Jandel said that the 88-year-old German company currently is in 18 countries, and growth prospects are promising.
Steigenberger Hotels & Resorts has 60 assets in operation, IntercityHotel has 40 properties open and Jaz in the City—which was created in 2015—has two hotels, one in Stuttgart and another in Amsterdam. Company officials said there are still white spaces for growth throughout Europe.
"We're not in Italy yet, although Steigenberger was there once, or in Greece, and Eastern European is very important to us," Jandel said.
Deutsche Hospitality is interested in new hotel development around the globe in locations including Oman and Thailand.
The emphasis is on resorts and urban assets, and the franchisee base will include owners with both individual and multiple assets. Deutsche Hospitality will target resort properties that are within four hours' flying time from Germany, Jandel said.
But one thing still missing in the company's brand stable is a budget brand, Willms said.
"When we launched Deutsche Hospitality, we spoke about the need for a budget brand, and I think that is still missing," he said. "The umbrella nature of Deutsche Hospitality will help us get there."
Willms added his firm is unlikely to grow in size comparable to AccorHotels or Marriott International.
"We are now four brands, and we have doubled our brand number in a few years, so, no, we will not be at 30 (brands)," Willms said.
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New MeWe Group: Lost in Cyberspace
I have been online for a very long time. Longer than most of the internet's most loyal fans have even been alive. The first cyberspace hangout where I became a regular user was back in USENET days. "rec.arts.prose" back in the old days was a wild, rambunctious place where anyone with a USENET reader could post short stories, novel chapters, article drafts, or any other prose composition and receive a wide array of responses. If they preferred, a person need not post anything at all. They could just as easily spend hours and hours every day responding to the work of others. I learned a lot about writing through participation in rec.arts.prose. I also learned a lot about flame wars, temporary alliances, cyberspace coup d'etat, and waging war using nothing but well-timed sarcasm. It did not take long for me to learn about rec.arts.poems and rec.arts.poetry, two groups with similar names and widely divergent goals. The first was an open newsgroup, just like rec.art.prose. The latter was a closed newsgroup. Closed newsgroups back in the day were carried on USENET news servers just like any other group, but participation was strictly controlled. A person could not post in a closed newsgroup, nor could they reply to posts in a closed newsgroup, until the moderator had added their name to a member's list kept on the main server for the closed group. Anyone could read a closed newsgroup but no one who was not pre-approved by the moderator could participate. Even back in the earliest days of cyberspace there have been people trying to shield themselves behind impenetrable walls. Closed USENET newsgroups were always the home of closed minds. That was another painful lesson learned in those early days.
Then one day I stumbled across an open newsgroup called, "alt.cuddle". Alt.cuddle was an open newsgroup with one very strictly enforced rule: Don't feed the trolls! Any participant could post anything they liked as long as it was not harmful, offensive, or worded as an aggressive attack. Anyone who tried to kindle or feed a flame war quickly found themselves completely ignored. The participants carried on with their own conversations and storytelling as if the troll did not even exist. Alt.cuddle taught me that the "invisible" rule from childhood could become a very real thing in the right circumstances. It was powerfully effective. Belligerent posts very quickly dropped completely off the visible post list simply from being ignored. Bellicose people never stayed for long because absolutely no one in the group paid them any notice. There was never any need to transform alt.cuddle into an actual closed group because the "Don't feed the trolls!" rule functioned with equal effectiveness while allowing anyone who came into the group and enjoyed the repartee to stay and "play in the meadow". The rise of Facebook, however, ended alt.cuddle as surely as if everyone had woken from a dream.
Facebook is an odd place. It combines the best and worst of USENET, supplementing it all with the ability to share photos, videos, news headlines, or random graphics that have become known as "internet memes". The strength of Facebook is the ability to remove from your newsfeed anyone or anything that disturbs you. I assume all of my old alt.cuddle friends are on Facebook somewhere, but I have been completely unable to find them. Facebook uses real names while USENET almost always used pseudonyms. Facebook taught me how powerful a pseudonym can be at preserving anonymity.
Facebook, however, has begun a slow decline. People are fracturing it up into tiny enclaves devoted to the same single mode of thinking, just like in the old closed USENET newsgroups. Trolls thrive on Facebook in unbelievable numbers. Every single day I find myself forced to block or ignore someone, some group, or some company. I like to think of myself as open-minded, but as I get older I have less tolerance for delusional thinking or naive idealism, especially when both come together in a single person or an impassioned social movement. I suppose, if USENET were still active, I'd be a member of a closed newsgroup devoted to firearms or the daily news as seen through a conservative lens. I like to think of myself as "open-minded", but it is clear my mind has been slowly closing down over the past ten years or so. It used to be I honestly believed every idea had merit. Nowadays I find most ideas to be nothing more than a simple, stupid rephrasing of an older idea that has never in all of human history accomplished what it promised.
Now there's a new kid on the block. It's called, "MeWe". Like both USENET and Facebook, the centerpiece is an open newsfeed. This makes it a "social media" site. Anyone who joins can post their thoughts, ideas, an internet meme, a cat video, or whatever, and their post will be carried to the newsfeed of everyone in their contact list. Unlike Facebook, the individual's activity is not added to a giant metadatabase and sold to advertisers. They claim this makes MeWe more secure and more "private" than Facebook, which is laughable, but does make for good advertising copy. One of the most important lessons a person must learn in order to maximize their enjoyment of cyberspace is that nothing here is private. All of it is public information that is readily available to anyone with decent search engine skill. MeWe does not sell their metadata to advertisers, and this is commendable, but this is a long way from being even the simplest form of privacy, let alone anything approaching true privacy. In reality, the only thing this means is that advertisers wishing to take advantage of monitoring the activity of MeWe users will have to set up metadata search parameters and compile their own database from the public posts.
Rule number of one of internet privacy: If you don't want the entire 7 billion people living on planet Earth to know something, then don't post it on the internet and don't put it an email! When you need to keep your conversation private either pick up the telephone and call the person or, better yet, go over to their house and talk to them one-on-one. By assuming that everything you post on the internet or send in an email is public information you can avoid much of the humiliation experienced everyday by celebrities who find their nude photos or most intimate lovemaking videos suddenly available to the entire world. Not all of it, because sometimes someone you trust will put your information online against your wishes, but most of the problems can be avoided simply by not posting it yourself or sending it in an email. Nowadays even text messages between phones can wind up online with the accidental push of a button.
MeWe is still new. I just made a profile there and did a contact search. Their search only uncovered one other person among my friends and family with a MeWe profile. This means one of two things: either their privacy controls are much better than Facebook or no one else has made a MeWe profile yet! Probably the latter. Still, I downloaded the app onto my Japanese smart phone. I'll play around it for a little while and see how it goes. Perhaps it really is, "the next big thing!" Given a little time and more widespread participation, I'll find out firsthand. After all, sooner or later Facebook will go the way of USENET and something will replace it. That something might be MeWe, or it might be an all-new virtual reality cybervillage that no one alive has yet imagined, let alone programmed into existence.


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What is Anandpur sahib railway station code?Hi,
I am from Jharkhand and I want to know what is Anandpur sahib railway station code? As I have heard, the Hola Mohalla Festival 2011 at Anandpur Sahib, like every year, is going to be celebrated with great glory. I thought it would be a great experience to be present there. Now I was trying to book train tickets online to Anandpur Sahib but I could not located the station code of Anandpur Sahib. Can anyone help me by providing me the Anandpur Sahib station code?


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I Dressed Like Coachella For a Week, But Didn't Go to Coachella
What came first, the flower crown, or Coachella? Everyone's favorite music festival and fashion show hybrid kicks off tomorrow, and if you want to play a fun game, take a drink for every person you spot in a flower crown or equally-ostentatious headgear.
I have been to one music festival total in my life, and it was Bonnaroo in 2004, before Bonnaroo and the idea of festival wear became cool. That being said, wearing anything other than a t-shirt and denim shorts to see bands outside in peak heat and humidity was a lost concept on me. In preparation for Southern California's biggest music event second to the Grammys, my hilarious boss Ruthie presented an idea to me. What if I dressed up like I was going to Coachella for a week, but didn't actually go? Before she could even finish the phrase "Flash tat," I was down. I will take any excuse to dress up and make a fool of myself—Halloween is actually one of my favorite holidays. You see so many stories about what to wear to the big event, despite that the outfits are far from practical, not to mention, festival trends that should die. I was planning to wear them all, with the exception of anything walking the line of being culturally insensitive, because appropriation gets on my nerves. It's 2017, you guys! Do better!
Doing this assignment was so much fun. Although I probably wouldn't wear a lot of these combinations in real life, it made me realize how boring my current wardrobe had become—New York winters tend to do that to you. My coworkers also saw a very different side to me that very few have seen, because let's be real, a lot of festival wear is basically lingerie.
Come with me, dear reader, on a journey not to the Coachella desert, but to the InStyle offices where I pranced around in festival wear for an entire work week.
Day One
Day one doing anything is so intimidating, right? On the first day of my freshman year of high school, I was convinced all the super-cool seniors would hate on my Limited Too getup and shove me in a locker as every teen movie led me to believe, but I digress.
To kick things off, I chose a Forever 21 bodysuit that was decked out in a floral print, boasting massive sleeves, and a neckline that went all the way down to my bellybutton. I'm not even kidding. As I put on the outfit, I panicked slightly—there was no way I could wear this without having to go braless. It was a move that was typically reserved for weekend coffee runs, when I'd don a t-shirt and refused to wear real pants, or when I was lounging around on a Netflix binge at home, but this outfit meant that I would have to bring that level of comfort into the workplace.
I got a few weird looks, but the outfit wasn't so crazy that it looked completely out of place. I mean, yes, the shorts were insanely short and showed a ton of thigh, but I kind of looked like I was doing a Penny Lane Almost Famous impression, if Penny Lane wore Forever 21, anyway. My friend Jonathan, who is very sweet, didn't completely know what I was doing and was like "You look so dressed up!" when he saw me in the hallway, but laughed and took a pic for Instagram stories once I explained everything to him. That being said, rompers are tricky when you have to pee really badly and end up having to completely undress in a bathroom stall. I imagine this would be a much harder task when using the port-a-potties situated around the Coachella grounds, not to mention, even dancing to the music in front of you, thanks to the low neckline.
Day Two
If you're gonna do it, then do it, right? And and by "it," I mean the most ridiculous and revealing dress you can find.
The H&M x Coachella bodysuit-lace dress combo ($18; hm.com) showed an overwhelming amount of my ass, so I threw an Xhilaration printed kimono ($23; target.com) over the top, you know, for the sake of modesty. I felt a little like Lana Del Rey wearing a white flower crown, but also pretty exposed. I don't have a thigh gap, in case you didn't notice. Most people probably don't.
This was the day I became aware that I had haters. Like Kylie Jenner, I was realizing things. Although the InStyle team was fully aware of my goal and complimented me on the insane style choices I made, one lady from another company in the building shot me the dirtiest look in the world during my coffee run. That 15-minute span of getting coffee attracted a ton of attention on its own, though, and prompted one man to be all like "god bless you" when I hadn't even sneezed.
Day Three
Another day, another braless crop-top with a weirdly situated keyhole. This top was the most complicated for me since it was a little big, so I had to be conscious of my movements, though the lace pants were pretty similar to comfy pajama bottoms, despite the fact that I felt a little like Natalie Imbruglia's lyrics in "Torn." You know—cold, shamed, naked. Beige-toned undergarments are of the essence here, friends.
All-white outfits kind of freak me out. Of course on the day I wear white, I'm going to want coffee and any brightly colored-food I could easily drop on myself, transforming my outfit into a modern art piece, and I kept freaking out that I was just going to get my period even though I wasn't supposed to for a few more weeks. Bright accessories provided appropriate pops of color, and even though you can't really tell in the picture, I loved how the longer string necklace had a ton of smiley face beads my younger self would have created a charm bracelet out of back in 1997.
Day Four
If Free People is not included in a Coachella fashion story, is it really a Coachella fashion story to begin with? If you don't Instagram your slice of avocado toast, did it really happen?
Despite the knitted, crop top-esque middriff area in this gigantic Free People tunic, this was actually the most covered I had been in days, and personally, I was just thrilled that I could wear normal undergarments. There was a ton of fringe hanging off of this dress, so I spent a lot of time spinning around in the hallway like a cult leader as Mary from our photo department took Boomerang shot after Boomerang shot. I threw on a million necklaces, and the Rag & Bone flatforms kept the fringe a safe distance from the ground so I wouldn't trip over it and injure myself. The flower crown made for a lot of fun stares during our weekly pitch meeting, but again, everyone on the InStyle end of the floor already knew what was up. I was actually kind of into the all-black flower crown, but the headpiece kind of made it hard for everyone else in the room to listen to any of the pitches I was spouting out. I don't blame them. It's hard for me to take myself seriously even when I'm not dressed up to see Lady Gaga perform in a desert.
Day Five
Last day of the dress-up game, and it was the warmest of them all, so I took my Forever 21 jumpsuit, Boohoo cutoff shorts, and fringe til Tuesday out for a post-event iced coffee. Because the bodysuit was completely see-through, I couldn't wear a bra with it—surprise, surprise—so I had to slap on a pair of pasties in hopes you couldn't see my entire boob through the outfit. For extra insurance, I threw a color-coordinating scarf with the appropriate amount of beading and fringe on so I could strategically place it over my chest area and not worry too much about sudden movements. My hair was really dirty, so a Eugenia Kim straw hat won out over a flower crown to help hide my dry shampoo-coated roots.
Something happens during New York in the spring, and the city takes on this entirely different attitude. People are generally nicer, you don't have trouble finding a cab, and men feel the need to make even more unsolicited comments toward you with the reasoning that you aren't hiding under a parka a la Randy in A Christmas Story anymore. Like it even matters. "You should smile more!" one guy in a suit shouted at me as Kyleen shot my picture. "You shouldn't tell women to smile!" I shouted back, because do not ever tell women to smile. An entire work week of wearing the most ridiculous outfits had infused somewhat of a DGAF attitude in me, which I hope stays with me in some capacity once I switch back to my regular wardrobe. I've become such a New York stereotype that wears all black and gets mad at people who stop in the middle of the sidewalk to whip out their selfie sticks, so the 5 days in festival wear were a nice break from reality. As it turns out, I have a brand-new appreciation for fringe, oversized sunglasses, and dare I say, cowboy boots. Maybe, just maybe, I'll be a little more young, wild, and free with my wardrobe choices this spring, after all, I am weirdly comfortable now sans-bra—but you know, flower crowns are where I draw the line.


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It's all over for Sony. Up until now, they've been winning the sales war for the newest, shiniest consoles. This is of course mostly thanks to the innovative light bar on the DualShock 4, which is capable of displaying lots of pretty colours (one at a time, anyway) and eating up battery power approximately four times faster than a DualShock 3. Now, however, Microsoft have come out of nowhere with a killer blow; a device they call the 'Media Remote'.
This strange electronic beast has excited the games press no end, with widespread and suitably reverent reporting. And with good reason! The 'Media Remote' will allow Xbox One owners to play, pause, and even rewind video footage contained on a 'DVD' or 'Blu Ray' – without having to touch the console itself. It sounds like science fiction, but it's true. That's not even all that it's capable of!
Rumours suggest that a mysterious 'fast forward' feature is also included, and – amazingly – the ability to instantly adjust the volume (loudness) of video footage or possibly even audio with no video attached. Hold on to your hats though people, because straight out of Star Trek comes backlit buttons (buttons lit from behind). You'd better be holding on to your hats with both hands, because get this – the lighting is motion activated. Just pick up the 'Media Remote' with your hand, and the buttons will automatically light up as though you are a wizard/witch.
The 'Media Remote' will go on sale in March for the staggeringly low price of $24.99 (that's about £23.99 at the current games industry exchange rate). If you don't have an Xbox One already, you'd better buy one now – because good luck getting one once this peak of human ingenuity is released!


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Vacatia's CEO on Bloomberg TV
Earlier this week, Bloomberg Television interviewed Vacatia's CEO, Keith Cox via "Bloomberg West." The conversation, hosted by Cory Johnson, presented an opportunity for us to share our vision for the timeshare industry.
We're in the midst of an online revolution that blends crowdsourcing with e-commerce. Platforms, such as Airbnb, StubHub and a multitude of rideshare apps, offer very specific services to empower both customers and sellers. They create a marketplace for a product that would have otherwise not existed, or else lacked transparency.
But, where does Vacatia fit in? What do we bring to the timeshare industry?
At the most fundamental level, we complete the market.
As Cox explains, we want to help "people who own their timeshares and have enjoyed them for many, many years, but haven't had an easy way to get out of their timeshare when they're done using it." We seek to provide "liquidity and an exit solution" for the 8 million timeshare owners of America.
There are plenty of ways to buy a timeshare, but many fewer trusted outlets to sell your timeshare. Most of the current resale sites charge upfront to sell, and don't guarantee anything about what you're actually buying. At Vacatia, we offer over 10,000 listings on our site, many of which have been reviewed and confirmed individually by our staff. We foster a secure and safe closing process for buyers and sellers.
Our approach is cooperative. We work with all parties, rather than just the sellers, buyers or developers. "We're there to serve the entire industry, and the sellers, by delivering transparency in a way that has not been delivered to this marketplace in the past," said Cox. And this is how we differ from Airbnb and real estate platforms such as Zillow.
We are working with not just individual timeshare owners, but the brands themselves. "We're dealing with resorts that are managed by Marriott and Disney, Hilton and Hyatt." That means our inventory is "serviced to a brand standard." We bring this commitment of high quality to our platform.
So where are we headed?
Over the next few months "we will launch with rentals." We acknowledge that not all timeshares will sell immediately. And so, as Cox put it, we will be providing "on demand capability" for our users "to leverage this excess inventory." With rentals, we will give our users a way to pay maintenance fees and earn a little extra. No one should be losing money on a timeshare that they aren't using.
We would like to thank Bloomberg Television for giving us this wonderful opportunity to share our mission. We are honored to be part of the solution.
To see the full interview, follow this link: http://www.bloomberg.com/video/shaking-up-the-timeshare-industry-marketplace-IPHfRLV3TwWGstUKuxraKg.html


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As Veterans Day approaches, Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro on Thursday issued a warning to anyone who lies about military service, that his office will hold them accountable.
The latest violation of the Stolen Valor Act in Bucks County was highlighted by Shapiro as he announced the terms of a settlement that will force a Lower Makefield man to pay $10,000 in penalties, $2,500 of which is suspended, for allegedly misrepresenting his status as a military officer who saw combat.
Shapiro said Tapan Patel made the false statements — which included claims to have received the Medal of Honor, Purple Heart and the fabricated "Navy War Medal" while serving in the U.S. Navy — in an effort to gain business for his local company HBK Technology LLC.
In reality, Patel was only a junior enlisted service member who never served in combat.
"This man's decision to lie about military service and awards for personal gain is disgraceful," Shapiro said in a statement. "His actions not only violate the Stolen Valor Act, they dishonor the heroic women and men who have sacrificed to serve our country and who have been awarded the military's highest awards."
A search of public records for a phone number for Patel or his business was unsuccessful Thursday.
Any future violations would require Patel to pay a $2,500 civil penalty and a $5,000 enhanced penalty.
Shapiro cautioned residents and veterans to be wary of scams perpetrated by people claiming to have served in the military or representing a military or veterans organization seeking employment or donations.
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"Our veterans have sacrificed to serve our country. It's now on us to stand up for them, make sure they aren't being scammed, and help keep the money they've earned in their pockets," he said. "If you are a veteran who believes you have been victimized by a scam when filing a claim for benefits, please call or email my Office of Military and Veterans Affairs and file a complaint so we can help."


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In the wake of the Orlando shooting at a gay nightclub a week ago, the LGBT community is rejecting Hillary Clinton's gun-grabbing policy, turning out in droves in support of the presumptive Republican presidential nominee — Donald Trump.
And in turning their backs on Clinton, they're also rejecting President Barack Obama's anti-gun narrative after the slaughter, and supporting Donald Trump's message that we must combat radical Islam to prevent future such attacks.
"I knew I had to fully support Trump because he called out the threat for what it was — radical Islamic terrorism," Stephen Zieman, 23, a gay Trump supporter told FoxNews.com. "He stood up for the LGBT community and called himself a friend. It's something we all needed and he was there — Hillary was not. She was making excuses for the religion and calling for gun control, which is not what I needed to hear."
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*Whoosh Whoosh!*
A gale carried up the sand, bringing about a glittering gold color.
On the endless Golden Desert filled with death and danger, a pack of six large wolves padded across the soft sands at a relentless speed.
Upon the backs of the wolves, there sat a couple human silhouettes.
"We are here! Before us is the Golden Oasis!" The old geezer studied the map and exclaimed brightly.
"Are we here at last?" the rider of a Seated Lupin Wolf raised his head slightly and said. With his astonishingly powerful eyesight, he looked into the distance and saw a blanket of green.
Ever since their encounter with the Golden Giant, Leylin, and his party had been on edge, and had been easily startled by the slightest of things. They had only just started to relax after having been on the run for more than ten days. As a result, they also reached their destination at a faster time than they had originally planned.
This was the Golden Oasis, the only large water source in the Golden Desert.
Also, it was the only traversable path through the Grand Canyon Margaret. The other paths were wrought with dangers that far surpassed the capabilities of a rank 1 Magus.
Leylin spotted a few large bird-like creatures in the far distance that were taking off and landing at the oasis.
They were the Kary Vultures, the main culprits that occupied the land.
The six Magi stopped and stationed their Seated Lupin Wolves at a sand dune not far from the Golden Oasis.
The Seated Lupin Wolves were great against some of the lower level life forms in the Golden Oasis. However, against the adult Kary Vultures, which were comparable to a rank 3 Acolyte, they had no chance of surviving once trapped in their kill zone.
The Seated Lupin Wolves were still needed for the journey ahead. Furthermore, the wolves were borrowed. If the Wolves perished, a huge sum of magic crystals would be needed to compensate the handlers who were supposed to take back the wolves on the other side of the Grand Canyon.
"We can't press on anymore! The Kary Vultures are capable of flight. We will surely be spotted by them from the air!"
The old geezer surveyed the surroundings, "We need to conceal the position at which the Seated Lupin Wolves are situated as well!"
"I might be able to help in this aspect!" Leylin let out a faint smile and waved his two hands at the shadow of the sand dune.
Under Leylin's hand, the black shadow warped and swiveled. As if a giant behemoth hiding in the shadows, it opened its maw and swallowed the entire sand dune.
"Darkness is the natural friend of concealment." In the shadow of the darkness, the large wolves vanished.
"Good job!" Lancey praised Leylin.
In her eyes, although Leylin was still just a budding Magus, she admired his nimble mind and weak, but practical spells.
However, this was just a false front by Leylin.
Upon hearing Lancey's compliment, the big bloke incessantly let out a cold snort, "If it were up to me to do it…"
"Ok, ok! We are a party after all, why the need for that?"
The old geezer interrupted the big bloke, "Our enemies at the moment are the Kary Vulture flock and their King!"
"Lancey, you shall explain the situation to the party!"
Lancey stepped to the middle of the party and produced a blue gem from a small crevice in her chest region.
"This magic artifact is modelled to act as a spying eye, and can examine images within a ten kilometre radius!"
Lancey finished her explanation and placed the gem in her hands. She dripped a few drops of water from her water pouch onto it and chanted a few incantations.
A beam of light blue light was emitted from the gem. The light warped and stretched until it looked like a mirror's surface.
On the mirror like surface, a beautiful lake could be seen. Green shrubbery and coconut trees grew around it. Occasionally, large red birds could be seen ascending and descending from the forest.
The vision on the mirror surface continued to pan in. Leylin could see the true appearance of the Kary Vultures.
The Kary Vulture's wingspan spanned 5 metres and was covered in scarlet feathers. Its talons looked cold and sharp. The pink bald patches on its head were a disgusting sight. A tumor-like muscle bulged on its curved and completely bald head.
There were more than a hundred of these Kary Vultures in the oasis. If they were all fully grown and under the leadership of an official Magus-like Kary Vulture King, the band of Magi stood no chance.
"More than a hundred? This amount is too much! Can we see the Kary Vulture King?"
The old geezer hastily questioned.
"I will try my best!" Lancey was uncertain but continued to pan the mirror in the direction of the flock of Kary Vultures.
Over yonder, there stood a gigantic tree with a peculiar hollow that looked like a den. Hidden in it was an incomparably massive Kary Vulture.
While Lancey was trying to zoom in the mirror to get a closer look, the massive Kary Vulture seemed to notice her presence and let out an angry screech.
"Ga Ga!"
It sounded like a crow, but somehow unexplainably different. Suddenly, the surrounding Kary Vultures in the flock were agitated and stirred up.
Following the angry cry, a terrifying sonic wave swept towards all four directions.
"No way! It discovered my presence!" Lancey's complexion changed for the worse.
*Pa!* The mirror shattered into pieces like a broken crystal. It turned into a blue glow and dropped onto the floor.
"Ga Ga!" The Kary Vulture King's screech echoed from the distance. The Kary Vultures shook their large red wings, and like trained soldiers split up into sections. They spread out like carpet that covered the sky and searched the surroundings, not missing a single area.
"Sorry!" Lancey apologised with a look of embarrassment on her face.
"No problem! At least we saw the situation clearly, didn't we?" The night shift Magus replied quickly.
"That's right! That's right!? The old geezer replied with a brief flash of shame across his face. It was him that allowed Lancey to search for the Kary Vulture King.
"Ga Ga!" The large Kary Vultures patrolled the sky for a long period of time, but it was to no avail. At last, they violently attacked some of the land creatures in the area. The Kary Vultures swooped up what looked appeared to be large lizards, and flew back into the oasis.
For Leylin and the official Magi, it was an easy task to hide from the pursuit of the Kary Vultures.
"Ok! Let's discuss how we should deal with that godd*mn flock of bastard birds.
Below the ground, in a temporary hut crafted using magic, the six Magi regrouped.
"A hundred Kary Vultures with power levels similar to level 2 or level 3 acolytes, plus a Vulture King whose power is far beyond what we expected!"
The old geezer looked at the other Magi.
"What else is there to do? Let's follow the earlier plan and observe their hunting paths and patterns. We will then kill off the small hunting packs before mounting an assault into the oasis!" The big bloke was the not even the least bit concerned as he waved them off with his hands.
This was the plan that was discussed earlier — simple and practical.
However, after the incident with the Golden Giant, the people in the party started to have a pressing sense of urgency and were unwilling to waste time on such plans.
Furthermore, the Golden Desert was the Golden Giant's habitat, and they did not wish to bump into it again.
"Alright! However, we have to increase the frequency of our attacks, and get through here quickly!"
Having observed Leylin and the rest of the party approving this plan, the old geezer grudgingly agreed to it…
A black scorpion-like creature guided by the darkness stealthily crawled along the desert floor. Its hooked tail swung from side to side as it moved along. There was an unusual bright red colouring on it, which was obviously an indication of it being poisonous.
All of a sudden, a muddy yellow tongue lashed across at speed unseen by the naked eye and pulled the scorpion into a sand dune.
*Boom!* The sand dune split open, revealing a muddy yellow lizard. The lizard was covered by bits and pieces of fish scales and had a large beautiful comb growing on its head.
*Zi Zi!* The lizard opened his mouth, and with one gulp and a movement of its neck muscles, the scorpion was eaten.
After ingesting its food, the lizard swayed its stocky body and used its front limbs to rapidly dig into the sand and bury itself in it.
"Ga Ga!'
Almost immediately after the lizard buried itself, an unpleasant vulture screeching echoed in the night sky.
*Whoosh!* Following the vulture's cry, a violent gust of wind swept by.
The large Kary Vulture swooped from midair, and using its black talons, it knocked the sand dune apart and clenched its claws.
*Kacha!* The sharp black talons directly hooked into the flesh of the lizard, and the lizard let out a howl of pain violently flipping its stocky body.
"GaGa!" The Kary Vulture let out a screech of delight and pecked at the lizard with its hooked beak.
*Pu!* The mud yellow lizard's skull had been split. Its brain matter and blood left a mess on the sands.
The Kary Vulture grabbed onto its prey tightly and began to fly back to its den.
Although normal vultures liked rotting meat, the Kary Vultures obviously preferred to ingest fresh and living mammals.
The mud yellow lizard was two metres long, but in comparison to the Kary Vulture's stature, the bird looked like it was grabbing a small fish.
"Latent Fireball!"
Somewhere from within the darkness, several black colored fireballs suddenly appeared and struck the Kary Vulture that was carrying its prey.
In a flash, the black fireballs were all over the Kary Vultures body.
*Bang!* Without a sound, the Kary Vulture, along with its dead prey, were reduced to ashes.
The following fireballs did not decrease in intensity. They shot right up into the sky and killed the remaining Kary Vultures.
Following his attack, the ground vibrated and the sand parted, revealing Leylin's face.
"A.I. Chip! Present the degree of attack!"
For these few days, he had been on watch in the area to hunt down those Kary Vultures that had swooped down looking for food.
Just now, Leylin had been experimenting with the rank one spell that the A.I. Chip came up with.
Long before, when he was a rank 3 acolyte, Leylin had tasked the A.I. Chip with simulating a rank 1 defensive spell model.
However, after receiving the teachings of the great Magus Serholm and advancing to a Warlock, this task had been delayed.
Entering the Golden Desert left him feeling that his attack techniques were lacking. As someone who lacked a conventional attack technique, Leylin decided to place the task back on the agenda.
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Sweden's GRAND MAGUS, featuring current SPIRITUAL BEGGARS frontman Janne Christoffersson, have lined up a Stockholm show on May 29 with ABRAMIS BRAMA and TERRA FIRMA.
GRAND MAGUS have yet to announce the official release date through Rise Above Records for their sophomore album, "Monument".
The complete track listing for "Monument" is as follows (not in final order):
01. Ulvaskall (Vargr)
02. Brotherhood of Sleep
03. Baptised in Fire
04. He Who Seeks... Shall Find
05. Chooser of the Slain (Valfader)
06. Summer Solstice
07. Food of the Gods
The cover artwork and layout for "Monument" was done by Hugh Gilmour (MOTÖRHEAD, BLACK SABBATH, VENOM, BRUCE DICKINSON, IRON MAIDEN).


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Can We Trust France's 'Freedom' When Hate Cartoons Are OK and Hijabs Are Not?
We as a world need to understand and question exactly how a country's barometer for "freedom" is fair when the right of a Muslim woman to wear hijab is not sacrosanct but the publishing of hate cartoons is? Where anti-Semitism is a crime but anti-Muslim is not? I think France needs to examine closely what constitutes "freedom" for them or whether their intensity for secularism both historically and now is even at pace with the existing population of more than five million of their own Muslim residents or their rights.


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Sharp Cut, is a street punk band from Leipzig, Germany.
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Because of its length, I'm splitting up the anthology into two volumes of about 400 or so pages each (5" x 8"), but it'll still be avaliable one big huge one too. I'm making the .indd and .pdf files, as well as Adobe InDesign for Windows, all avaliable, because I checked the pricing at CafePress and it's... not cheap. I'm willing to bet that if people want to print/bind themselves, it'll work out to less and they'll have a much more customised work, picking and choosing what they want. In any case, everything is free (or at cost, in the case of cafepress) and the release date (Hallowe'en) for the slash anthology is on track.
Now, this isn't the absolutely final list, but it's pretty darn close. :)
lemmealone - have remembered why i love this fandom (preface)
eighth_horizon - immutable law
brynwulf - soul searching
hallshellvenus - lost in the sea of sky
olivia_notebook - safekeeping
sevenfists - vagaries of disbelief
veronamay - remembering slow
fatale - devil's in the details
endora_taylor - samson went back to bed
pixel_0 - on the crest of the sun
traveller - the best you can hope for
drvsilla - the highway survivalists' roadmap (1 + 2)
angstslashope - all things bright and beautiful
poisontaster + mona1347 - katakiuchi (if not victory)
moonythestrals - To Everyone Who Thinks Sam Looks Like a Puppy: You Have No Fucking Idea, by Dean Winchester
mikhale - lying in ruins + in the flesh (a vernacular of scars)
nymeria - The winds and the viewless ways
flipmontigirl - the boy who fell
esorlehcar - down to the end'verse (first four stories, 1 + 2 + 3 + 4)
moveablehistory - present tense
sargraf - Brotherly Manlove Catalogue (meta + picspams, all 22 (hopefully!) posts. (appendix a) edit! - this one is going to be released on its own. :)
Remember, this is for the SLASH anthology. There are still a couple of people that I've either emailed today or haven't heard back from, so that could change. If you still want to submit something for consideration, or want to suggest somebody else's work, then leave a comment. :)


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TÜV Rheinland
TÜV Rheinland (Technical Inspection Association) is enhancing the comfort of 2,500 users at its Cologne headquarters. An energy control concept developed by Drees & Sommer – together with the energy-efficiency upgrade – paves the way for the future of the buildings and increases the overall economy. The achieved value-add includes a significant reduction in energy and operating costs through the high-efficiency standard, a cut in primary energy demand of about a third, and a similar reduction in the carbon footprint.
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- Some 30 percent primary energy saving and 30 percent reduction in carbon footprint
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The Football League Trusts Female Football Development programme (FFD) is run by 55 clubs across the country...
Over 30,000 women and girls have starting playing football in the past two years a report reveals this week.
The Football League Trusts Female Football Development programme (FFD) is run by 55 clubs across the country including Coventry City's Sky Blues in the Community and aims to get women and girls playing the game. Perhaps more importantly the figures also reveal that over 97% of the women and girls who have been introduced to football have continued to be involved.
Nicol Meredith, Female Football Officer with The Football League Trust, comments, "Getting so many girls involved in the programme that are new to football and the massive retention rates shows the power that football clubs have in their communities. The programme focuses on having fun as well as the social and health benefits of playing football. This innovative approach has led to football clubs running brand new activities that appeal to girls who wouldn't normally be interested in football such as Soccercise and Zumba Fitness Football, which are football based aerobics sessions. "
The programme is funded by The FA and Sport England and was launched in 2013 to get women and girls aged 14 and over to start, and continue, playing football using the reach Football League Trusts and Premier League to deliver at grassroots. This is the first time that all four organisations have worked on a project of this kind. It was announced over the summer that due to the success of the first two years of the scheme more than £3,700,000 of joint FA and Sport England investment will be allocated to the programme by July 2016.
In the last year, over 500 females have taken up football opportunities with Sky Blues in the Community. Women and Girls Officer at the Sky Blues Toni Wellings said "We have worked with a number of different schools, local authorities, clubs and community groups to increase opportunities for females aged over 14 to get involved in football.
"In many cases those people have either never played before, or are coming back to the game after dropping out due to other commitments like work or family life.
"We are delighted to get another year funding to continue the work of this programme and build on some of the excellent links that we have made."
Another success of the programme is that participation among minority ethnic groups in the FFD programme is over 20%. Nicol, continues "Football has an amazing power to break down all kinds of barriers. As well as getting hard to reach groups involved in the game our sustained approach to developing female participation is getting more women in key positions at professional Football League clubs and their Community Schemes. Furthermore with the success of the Lionesses at the World cup, we are looking to capitalise even more on the extra interest that this has provoked and get more girls benefiting from playing football."
For more information about the Female Football Development project in Coventry, please contact Toni Wellings on 024 7678 6349.


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… and even an hour of missed sleep (consistently) could drastically increase your odds for depression, hopelessness, restlessness and nervousness. So how much is an optimal amount of sleep? We should all be getting between 7 and 9 hours of sleep per night, as this has been proven to be an optimal sleep range. But in a new survey just released, even an hour less than optimal sleep led to significantly higher rates of depression and anxiety symptoms. And consistently getting 5 or less hours a night raised the odds to nearly 4 times normal rates for these psychological symptoms.
In the past year, I find myself asking patients about sleep more often than ever before. I find many (if not most!) patients express either poor quality of sleep or difficulty logging the required hours frequently. And I would certainly say that symptoms of depression, hopelessness and nervousness are on the rise in general. So to see a direct link between even a mild amount of missed sleep and increased adverse mood symptoms, definitely caught my attention. I wonder if perhaps in our current culture, that we might even brag on our ability to get by with less sleep… right up until we seek medical attention for depression and anxiety.
So this intriguing survey found that incorporating even 1 additional hour of sleep had tremendous benefits to lower odds for depression, hopelessness, restlessness or nervousness. Even sleeping an hour more than the 7-9 hours optimal amount, continued to lower risk. One extra hour for those with even mildly insufficient sleep, significantly lowered the odds of these symptoms, (a result that would like compound with even greater than 1 hour added sleep). So perhaps before we reach for anxiety medications, stimulants and others to treat these symptoms, it may be a good time to assess our sleep and aim for 1 extra hour a day. It could make a world of difference!


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Fancy yourself as a football analyst? We do. Anything in football we can talk about. At length. For England. The issues we're passionate about. Promotion. Relegation. Winning the Cup. Or not. The teams we're passionate about. Local. National. The faith we're passionate about. As football fans and followers of Jesus Christ. Up In The Gantry tackles the stories and topics in football we're passionate about.
EPISODE 9: Sins bins are coming to football. After recent trials the introduction of sin bins, initially in disability, grassroots and youth football, was approved in March and if successful we could see them introduced into the professional game within three years. Sin bins have proved successful in rugby union but will the concept transfer well to football? Brighton fan Russ Bravo and Andy Searles, chaplain of Orlando City in the MLS and Ipswich Town fan share their thoughts along with special guest Brian Irvine, the former Falkirk, Aberdeen and Scotland centre half. We also talk to Brian about his career, including being signed for Aberdeen by Sir Alex Ferguson and scoring the winning goal in the penalty shoot-out in the 1990 Scottish Cup final against Celtic. Adrian Barnard hosts the discussion.
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R is the key language for Data and Statistical Analysis. It has been around for some time but is now going to be included in SQL Server 2016. This is a big deal as it provides an integrated set of analytical and data manipulation tools into the SQL environment and simplifies programming over what is available in TSQL and .NET extensions. (Updated for the release of SQL Server 2016).
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1. Composition of the ECB................................................4
2. Independence of the ECB..............................................5
3. Capital of the ECB........................................................6
4. Monetary policy of the ECB.............................................6
5. Price-stability..............................................................13
6. Managing the Euro currency..........................................13
8. The impact of the ECB on the globalisation.......................15
Annex 1..........................................................................19
In order to form a more perfect Single Market, provide a high level of employment, promote convergence of economic performance, and secure the sustainable and non-inflationary growth, 11 (now they are 12) European countries have established a European Central Bank (ECB).
The ECB was founded on the 1st June 1998 and it derived from the European Monetary Institute (EMI), which played the main role in preparing for the launch of the Euro. The ECB and 12 central banks of the countries that adopted the Euro make the Eu-rosystem. It is headquartered in Frankfurt am Main.
First of all, in our project we will discuss the main bodies of the ECB that participate in the decision-making process and as well conduct other tasks.
Secondly, we will discuss the level of independence of the ECB and the composition of its capital.
Then we will pass to the discussion of the main task of the ECB, which is to conduct the monetary policy of the Euro zone. In this context we will analyse monetary instruments and tools the ECB is using to pursue its strategies. We will also talk about how the ECB manages the Euro currency, the essence of its primary goal of price-stability, and the role of the TARGET payment system.
The final part of our project will be dedicated to the impact of the ECB policies in the context of globalisation.
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The Direction of Humankind: Global Unity
Notes taken by Edward Tanguay on October 28, 2013 (go to class or lectures)
Choose from these words to fill the blanks below:
binary, unemployment, capitalist, llama, tomato, authentic, Barbarians, unification, species, macro, Mongol, Christianity, 1492, king, Mesoamerican, Genoa, potatoes, unity, Australian, imagined
while wolf or bee societies are very similar, human societies are very different from one another
even when living in the same environment, human societies have different orders and different social hierarchies
what happened when these societies encountered each other?
various kinds of interactions
religious missionaries
do interactions between societies have an overall pattern or direction, i.e. does human history have a clear direction or not?
the answer is yes. And the direction is: global .
throughout history smaller cultures have combined to form larger and more complex civilizations
over time, the earth contains fewer and fewer cultures and these cultures are becoming larger and more complex
this is true only at the level of history
if you look at history at the level of only a few centuries, it's hard to say if the world is moving toward unity or not
for all the cultures that have combined into larger ones, there are larger cultures which have broken up
in 13th century, the empire expanded, consolidated and combined huge parts of the European and Asian continents, but then shattered into smaller pieces
converted and thus united millions of people, but then splintered into numerous different sects
the Latin language, the language of the Roman Empire, spread over much of Western and Central Europe and more and more people began to speak the same language, but over time it split into different dialects, Spanish, Portuguese, French and so forth
if you look at history at a macro level, global unification is more obvious
seen from the macro level, the collapse of the Mongol Empire and the splintering of Christianity are only speed bumps on the highway of history which is leading mankind inexorably toward global unity
you can see this by looking at any point in history and counting the number of separate worlds that existed
today we think of the planet earth as a single connected unit, but for most of history this was not the case
for most of history, earth was a kind of galaxy of many isolated human worlds
2000 years ago, there were no connections between humans in America, humans in Europe and humans in Australia
as far as the aborigines were concerned, for example, the Roman Empire and Christianity might as well have been happening on Mars
as history progressed, the number of societal worlds became smaller and smaller
around 10,000 BC when the agricultural revolution began, our earth contained many thousands of different human worlds which had almost no connection between them
by 2,000 BC the number of separate worlds had dwindled to hundreds
by it still had a number of separated words in remote jungles and islands, but at that point already 90% of humans already lived in a single megaworld, the world of Afro-Eurasia.
90% Afro-Eurasia World
if you were a Muslim who made the journey to Mecca, you could have met pilgrims from all over Afro-Eurasia
10% was separated from Afro-Eurasia but concentrated in four worlds
1. World (Mexico, Central American, North America)
2. Andean World (Western South America)
3. Australian World
4. Pacific-Oceanic World
rest: small, separated worlds in various remote islands and jungles
then in 1492, the people from the Afro-Eurasia world began to spread around the rest of the world, conquering and merging into all the other smaller worlds
this created the single world which we today live
today in our global world, people in all countries are influenced by the actions of people from other countries, they are no longer separate worlds
a political conflict in the Middle east may cause oil prices to rise in China and in Mexico
countries are beginning to share more and more the same basic understanding of politics, economics and the natural world
all countries share the basic political model that of the sovereign nation-state, every person in the world lives in one of the roughly 200 nation-states that exist in the world
most countries believe that power should come from the general populations, most have elections if not completely free
most are system with social programs
stock exchanges, banks, limited liability companies, money
natural world
a hospital in Tehran or New York will look basically the same, use the same theories, medicines and treatments
we still talk about cultures, but if we mean by this cultures with no influence from other cultures, then there are no authentic cultures left
ethnic cuisine
There is hardly anything more Italian in Italian food than the , yet this plant is not native to Italy, it's a native plant from Mexico which arrived in Italy only three or four hundred years ago. Columbus came from and never ate a tomato in his life. It you were to go to Switzerland in the Middle Ages, you would not find even a single chocolate bar. Chocolate is made of cocoa, and cocoa, just like tomatoes, originated in Central America. Cuisine in Poland and Ireland is based on , but before Columbus, you would not have found one person eating a potato in either of these countries, since at that time the only potatoes were in South America. And what is Indian cuisine without chili peppers? Yet in pre-Columbus days there were not chili peppers anywhere in Asia. Nobody in India ate chili before the Europeans brought this plant back from America. Conversely, if you went to Argentina in 1491, you could look everywhere but you would not be able to obtain any steak except steak. Cattle arrived to America with the Europeans.
our conceptions of ethnic cuisines often actually reflect the globalization of the last few centuries
many local traditions are recent
we usually relate the globalization of the world with European imperialism
but this was only the climax of what began working much earlier
when Columbus was born, most of world was already unified into the giant world of Afro-Asia, the result of a process which began thousands of years previously
the vision of globalization goes back to the first millennium BC
a strange idea when you think about it from a biological or evolutionary perspective
no social animal, as far as we know, thinks about the interests or the identity of the entire to which it belongs
social animals have an us-them approach to other animals, either they are in your group or they are not, e.g. "the people in the next valley"
despite what you see in Hollywood films, no lion was ever the of all lions, they only become the alpha male of a particular pride of lions
bees are biologically set up to help the bees in their hive survive, but they are not concerned about other bees in other hives
humans, as a result of the agricultural revolution, came into contact more and more with people they didn't know who they imagined to be their friends and fellow humans
nevertheless, this growing brotherhood between people was not universal
Menes (3100–3050 BC)
accredited with the unification of Egypt
it was clear to the Egyptians that beyond the borders there were other humans who were considered
most religions ignored a large part of humankind
in the first millennium BC this changed when three potentially universal orders
people who believed in these orders, for the first time started to imagine the whole human race as a single unit which at least potentially may be governed by a single set of laws
according to this vision, everybody in the world was "us" and, at least potentially, there was no "them"
1. monetary order
the belief in money
2. imperial order
the vision of a single empire governing the whole world
3. religious order
the idea that a religion is not connected to a certain people but can be universal
e.g. Christianity, Buddhism, Islam
aim was to include all of humankind as their members, as believers
so merchants, conquerors, and prophets were the first people in history to begin transcending our sense of division which separates people into "us" and "them" and to foresee the potential unity of the whole of humankind
the amazing thing about money is that it succeeded in doing something that no king, no conqueror, and no God ever managed to do: even people who don't believe in the same God or king, have almost always had little problem believing in and using the same money, even people who hate each other and don't agree about anything, money is the one belief that they usually share. It may be that the most fundamental basis of the of humankind is money.


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Poor UCLA. Chances are if you see a highlight reel catch coming from Stanford, it was made against the Bruins. Francis Owusu's grab Thursday night is the latest, and undeniably the greatest.
CC: @StanfordFball #Pac12FB
— Pac-12 Networks (@Pac12Networks) October 16, 2015
Owusu's behind-the-back grab around UCLA safety Jaleel Wadood elicits comparison to Alabama's Tyrone Prothro.
I won't declare one better than the other. It's a pointless and stupid endeavor, so let's just all agree both are incredible. Let's also agree that UCLA has reached a point it should be able to call a do-over on one of these insane Stanford catches at some point.
In the Bruins' last visit to The Farm in 2013, Kodi Whitfield snagged a one-handed, diving touchdown between two Bruin defenders.
Oh, did I say one-handed touchdown catch in traffic? How about Coby Fleener against UCLA in 2011?
Even quarterback Andrew Luck's been in on the act, not to be outdone by Fleener in 2011.
The otherworldly grabs Stanford's turned routine in its meetings with UCLA serve as microcosm for this series of late. Francis Owusu's score Thursday put the Cardinal up 25 points in the second half. As of this writing, Stanford is well on its way to its eighth consecutive defeat of UCLA.
How does that make you feel, David Shaw?
SAME @CoachDavidShaw
#Pac12FB #Pac12AfterDark pic.twitter.com/GZ8JyXALVF
— Pac-12 Networks (@Pac12Networks) October 16, 2015


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Perugia Way Bel Air
The charm of the past meets contemporary era in the development of the new residential villa "Perugia Way", in the suggestive area of Bel Air, Los Angeles Westside. Perfectly integrated within the surrounding context, respecting the urban standards, the villa designed by Studio Marco Piva combines shapes and materials of the past, such as exposed stone walls and linear lines, to the modern ones, like glass and metals. The contrast between materials generates a game of blocks and voids that defines the volume, playing with textures and natural colours. Great monumentaliy has been given to the entrance, a great portal enhanced by the use of black flooring and wall waterfalls, which stands as a focal point for this contemporary fortress.


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Below is a summary of the wording in the resolution passed by Council to adopt the structure plan.
Ms Helen Carr, Mr Roger Fyfe and Mr Kevin Biaggini spoke on the item.
To update Councillors on the consultation process and the revision of the new Draft Ivanhoe Structure Plan and consider its adoption.
1. That Council note the detailed responses to submissions on the New Draft Structure Plan.
2. That Council adopt the revised draft structure plan at Attachment B subject to the following inclusions in the Plan:
(a) Of an additional dot point on page 59 under the "Built Environment Objective" for the Ivanhoe Station precinct which may allow for additional height on the Council car park (the triangle site at 109 Waterdale Road), if replacement of existing car parking occurs and there is a contribution for additional car parking in the activity centre at an appropriate location such as the VicTrack/Scout hall land in Norman Avenue and the provision of a pedestrian ramp linking with a pedestrian overpass at this location.
(b) Of a statement that new residential development should be aged friendly residential development to promote access and consider flexibility around car parking requirements in recognition of the fact that some older people may not require a carpark.
(c) That screening heights of more than 1700mm are considered in residential development to ensure that the noise impact and overlooking of neighbouring residential properties is reduced and that balconies and rooftops are greened
3. That Council undertakes further work to achieve approval from the Minister for Planning for permanent controls for the Ivanhoe Major Activity area.
4. That the Mayor, as a matter of urgency, writes to the Minister for Planning requesting interim planning controls in accordance with the adopted Ivanhoe Structure Plan, dated 17 December 2012.
5. That Council acknowledges and thanks all the Ivanhoe Community Consultative Committee members and Council staff, who assisted at the public meetings, and in particular Vincent Ryan, Rachel Dapiran and the MGS consultant Rob McGauran.
Moved: Cr Jenny Mulholland
Seconded: Cr Craig Langdon CARRIED


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WahRev Review – WahRev Scam Or Not ?
Again, I was doing my usual daily ritual of checking out my site then I check Twitter, Pinterest, Google+, andContinue reading
AppCoiner Can You Make Real Money – Get Paid To Play
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Phishing Scams / Craigslist – Phishing Scams???
HI Everyone, glad to see you guys back here. So today I thought we would talk about a scam thatContinue reading