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Ragamuffins Nursery School
70 Rectory Road, Headless Cross, Redditch B97 4LL
Group: Ragamuffins Day Nursery
Person in charge: Pauline Baker (Manager)
Local Authority / Social Services: Worcestershire County Council
Number of Staff: 10
Service Offered: Day Nursery (Privately Owned), Open all year, Full Day Care
Total Places for Children: 33
Age Range: from 0 years 3 months to 8 years 0 months
Opening Days: Mon-Fri
Opening Hours: 0730-1800
When Closed: Bank Holidays
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Review of Ragamuffins Nursery School
I can fully recommend Ragamuffins without any hesitation. My son attended part time between the age of 8 months and 4.5 years and flourished there. The staff are knowledgeable and approachable. The environment was clean and welcoming. Not too big and not too small! The experience I had was brilliant and I have recommended the setting to other parents since. The facilities have been expanded since my son left and I continue to hear good things about the setting locally.
Overall Standard: Excellent |
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Learning: Excellent |
Resources/Equipment/ICT: Good |
Care: Excellent |
Activities: Good |
Staff: Good |
Food/Nutrition: Good |
Management: Excellent |
Safeguarding: Excellent |
Value for Money: Good |
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Twelve students and staff members from Sterling College drove to Wilmington, Del., to participate in Christian missions during their spring break. Wilmington is the home of Urban Promise, a non-profit organization whose goal is to equip children and young adults with skills necessary for academic achievement, life management and personal growth.
The final group of students, faculty and staff from Sterling College returned to the United States on June 11, coming back from nine locations from around the world. The teams learned about the other cultures and participated in service projects including working with local churches, teaching in schools, giving out school supplies, preparing meals for distribution and many other tasks.
The Sterling College mission trip to Ghana this summer will stretch the eight members of the team as they preach, witness and build relationships throughout the country. The team will have opportunities to speak in local churches, schools and even on the street, but team members will also serve in any other way they can.


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Ferrari wrested the initiative from Lewis Hamilton and Mercedes in the final runs of the last free practice session for the 2013 Formula 1 UBS Chinese Grand Prix in Shanghai on Saturday.
Under cloudy skies Hamilton had set the pace with a lap of 1m 36.065s, which undercut team mate Nico Rosberg by half a second. But on soft rubber at the end of the session Felipe Massa went fastest with 1m 36.013s before Fernando Alonso went another six-tenths quicker still to take the honours with 1m 35.391s.
Behind Hamilton, Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber jumped their Red Bulls to fourth and fifth with 1m 36.286s and 1m 36.420s respectively, as Adrian Sutil took sixth for Force India on 1m 36.549s from Lotuss Kimi Raikkonen on 1m 36.605s, Jenson Button and Sergio Perez in their McLarens on 1m 36.693s and 1m 36.777s, and Saubers Nico Hulkenberg on 1m 36.853s.
Hulkenberg was the only man to have a real off during the hour-long session after coming across team mate Esteban Gutierrez running slowly in Turn 2.
Jean-Eric Vergne and Daniel Ricciardo were 11th and 12th for Toro Rosso on 1m 37.072s and 1m 37.205s apiece, as Pastor Maldonado and Valtteri Bottas in improved Williams's sandwiched Rosberg in 13th and 15th places. The Venezuelan lapped in 1m 37.300s, the German in 1m 37.349s and the Finn in 1m 37.457s.
Paul di Resta didnt get going as well as his Force India team mate and was only 16th on 1m 37.487s ahead of Gutierrezs Sauber on 1m 37.740s and Romain Grosjeans Lotus on 1m 37.813s.
Once again, Jules Bianchi spearheaded Marussias challenge with 1m 38.496s from Caterhams Charles Pic on 1m 38.821s, with the other Marussia of Max Chilton on 1m 39.627s and Caterham's Giedo van der Garde on 1m 39.652s.
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Wednesday, July 9, 2014
Dee Perry broadcasts from Cleveland's up-and-coming cultural neighborhood - Hingetown - at West 29th and Detroit Ave. Dee speaks with the arts and cultural folks who call (or will soon call) Hingetown home: The Transformer Station, Rising Star Coffee, ICA-Art Conservation, SPACES, The Music Settlement, Juke Box Cleveland and Ohio City Stages.
Dee Perry meets up with the following business owners to get you the scoop on what to do in Hingetown in Ohio City:
- Graham Veysey, Hingetown Developer
- John Johnson, Rising Star Coffee
- Laura Bidwell, Transformer Station
- Albert Albano, ICA - Art Conservation
- Christina Vassallo, Spaces
- Charlie Lawrence, Music School Settlement/BopStop
- Alex Budin, Juke Box Cleveland
- Tom Welsh, Cleveland Museum of Art Transformer concerts
Graham Veysey, Hingetown Developer
John Johnson, Rising Star Coffee Roasters
Laura Bidwell, Transformer Station
Albert Albano, ICA - Art Conservation
Christina Vassallo, SPACES
Charlie Lawrence, The Music Settlement-Bop Stop
Alex Budin, Juke Box Cleveland
Tom Welsh, CMA Ohio City Stages
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Luxury goods
In economics, a luxury good is a good for which demand increases more than proportionally as income rises, and is a contrast to a "necessity good", for which demand increases proportionally less than income.[citation needed] Luxury goods are often synonymous with superior goods.
Market characteristics[edit]
Luxury goods are said to have high income elasticity of demand: as people become wealthier, they will buy more and more of the luxury good. This also means, however, that should there be a decline in income its demand will drop. Income elasticity of demand is not constant with respect to income, and may change sign at different levels of income. That is to say, a luxury good may become a normal good or even an inferior good at different income levels, e.g. a wealthy person stops buying increasing numbers of luxury cars for his automobile collection to start collecting airplanes (at such an income level, the luxury car would become an inferior good).[citation needed]
Some luxury products have been claimed to be examples of Veblen goods, with a negative price elasticity of demand: for example, making a perfume more expensive can increase its perceived value as a luxury good to such an extent that sales can go up, rather than down.
Although the technical term luxury good is independent of the goods' quality, they are generally considered to be goods at the highest end of the market in terms of quality and price. Classic luxury goods include haute couture clothing, accessories, and luggage. Many markets have a luxury segment including, for example, automobile, wine, bottled water, tea, watches, jewelry, high fidelity, and chocolate.
Luxuries may be services. The hiring of full-time or live-in domestic servants is a luxury reflecting disparities of income. Some financial services, especially in some brokerage houses, can be considered luxury services by default because persons in lower-income brackets generally do not use them.
Market trends[edit]
The three dominant trends in the global luxury goods market are globalization, consolidation, and diversification. Globalization is a result of the increased availability of these goods, additional luxury brands, and an increase in tourism. Consolidation involves the growth of big companies and ownership of brands across many segments of luxury products. Examples include LVMH, Richemont, and Kering, which dominate the market in areas ranging from luxury drinks to fashion and cosmetics. Leading global consumer companies, such as Procter & Gamble, are also attracted to the industry, due to the difficulty of making a profit in the mass consumer goods market.
Market size[edit]
The luxury goods market has been on an upward climb for many years. Apart from the setback caused by the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis, the industry has performed well, particularly in 2000. In that year, the world luxury goods market – which includes drinks, fashion, cosmetics, fragrances, watches, jewelry, luggage, handbags – was worth close to $170 billion and grew 7.9 percent.[1] The largest sector in this category was luxury drinks, including premium whisky, Champagne, Cognac. This sector was the only one that suffered a decline in value (-0.9 percent). The watches and jewelry section showed the strongest performance, growing in value by 23.3 percent, while the clothing and accessories section grew 11.6 percent between 1996 and 2000, to $32.8 billion. North America is the largest regional market for luxury goods; unlike the modest 2.9 percent growth experienced by the Western European market, the North American market achieved growth of just under 10 percent.[citation needed] The largest ten markets for luxury goods account for 83 percent of overall sales, and include Japan, China, United States, Russia, Germany, Italy, France, United Kingdom, Brazil, Spain, and Switzerland.[citation needed]
In 2012, China surpassed Japan as the world's largest luxury market.[2] China's luxury consumption accounts for over 25% of the global market.[3] The Economist Intelligence Unit published a report on the outlook for luxury goods in Asia, which explores the trends and forecasts for the luxury goods market across key markets in Asia. In 2014, the luxury sector is expected to grow over the next 10 years because of 440 million consumers spending "a total of 880 billion euros, or $1.2 trillion."[4]
With increasing "democratization",[5] several new product categories have been created within the luxury market, aptly called "accessible" or "mass luxury". These are meant specifically for the middle class (in this context, sometimes called the "aspiring class"). Because luxury has now diffused into the masses, defining the word has become difficult.[6]
Luxury bans[edit]
In July 2010, the United States Department of Energy banned the sale of luxury showers that use more than 9.5 liters of water per minute.[7]
In February 2013, China banned advertisements for luxury goods on its official state radio and television channels.[8]
Socioeconomic significance[edit]
Several manufactured products attain the status of "luxury goods" due to their design, quality, durability or performance that are remarkably superior to the comparable substitutes. Thus, virtually every category of goods available on the market today includes a subset of similar products whose "luxury" is marked by better-quality components and materials, solid construction, stylish appearance, increased durability, better performance, advanced features, and so on. As such, these luxury goods may retain or improve the basic functionality for which all items of a given category are originally designed.
There are also goods that are perceived as luxurious by the public simply because they play a role of status symbols as such goods tend to signify the purchasing power of those who acquire them. These items, while not necessarily being better (in quality, performance, or appearance) than their less expensive substitutes, are purchased with the main purpose of displaying wealth or income of their owners. These kinds of goods are the objects of a socio-economic phenomenon called conspicuous consumption and commonly include luxury vehicles, watches, jewelry, designer clothing, yachts, as well as large residences, urban mansions, and country houses. Also see positional good.
Luxury brands[edit]
A luxury brand or prestige brand is a brand for which a majority of its products are luxury goods. It may also include certain brands whose names are associated with luxury, high price, or high quality, though few, if any, of their goods are currently considered luxury goods.
For example, following a nearly crippling attempt to widely licence their brand in the 1970s and 1980s, the Gucci brand is now largely sold in directly-owned stores. The Burberry brand is generally considered to have diluted its brand image in the UK in the early 2000s by over-licensing its brand, thus reducing its cachet as a brand whose products were consumed only by the elite.
Unlike Burberry, English counterpart Barbour isn't as saturated in the retail market in terms of over-licensing; but bases its successes to global positioning in offering quality merchandise in directly-owned stores on four continents.
LVMH (Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy) is the largest luxury good producer in the world with over fifty brands, including Louis Vuitton, the brand with the world's first designer label. The LVMH group made a profit of €2 billion on sales of €12 billion in 2003. Other market leaders include Kering (after it purchased the Gucci Group) and Richemont.
A rather small group in comparison, the wealthy tend to be extremely influential. Once a brand gets an "endorsement" from members of this group, then the brand can be defined as a true "luxury" brand. An example of different product lines in the same brand is found in the automotive industry, with "entry-level" cars marketed to younger, less wealthy consumers, and higher-cost models for older and more wealthy consumers.
The advertising expenditure for the average luxury brand is 5-15 percent of sales revenue. This rises to about 25 percent with the inclusion of other communication such as public relations, events and sponsorships.[9]
Luxury department stores[edit]
Since the uprising of the 'luxury brand' in the 1800s, department stores dedicated to selling all major luxury brands have popped up in most major cities around the world. Le Bon Marche located in Paris, France is credited for being one of the first of its kind, but also Neiman Marcus, Selfridges, Fortnum & Mason, Lord & Taylor, Harvey Nichols, Saks Fifth Avenue, David Jones, KaDeWe, Harrods and Holt Renfrew are seen as some of the most influential and historical. Most big fashion houses & jewelers from Chanel to Tiffany & Co. have boutiques located inside these massive stores.
Luxury shopping districts[edit]
Another phenomenon of the luxury market are "Luxury Shopping Avenues". Certain thoroughfares like Leeds' Victoria Quarter, Milan's Via Monte Napoleone, Rome's Via Condotti, Tokyo's Ginza, Moscow's Tverskaya Street, New York's Madison Avenue and Fifth Avenue, Hong Kong's Causeway Bay and Admiralty, Chicago's Magnificent Mile, Beverly Hills' Rodeo Drive, Paris' Champs-Élysées, Avenue Montaigne and Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, London's Bond Street and Sloane Street, Mexico City's Avenida Presidente Masaryk, São Paulo's Rua Oscar Freire, Prague's Pařížská, Toronto's Mink Mile, Düsseldorf's Königsallee, Lisbon's Avenida da Liberdade, Melbourne's Collins Street, Singapore's Orchard Road, Amsterdam's P.C. Hooftstraat, Athens' Voukourestiou Street and Kolonaki district and Frankfurt's Freßgass area are some places where most luxury brands tend to be concentrated.[citation needed] These retail districts concentrate luxury good stores that are managed by large corporations, while conventional and independent retailers are pushed out because of increasing rent and real estate prices.[citation needed]
See also[edit]
- Commodity fetishism
- Designer label
- Luxury real estate
- Positional good
- Veblen goods
- Wealth effect
- Superior good
- Inferior good
- ^ "The World Market for Luxury Goods." Global Market for Luxury Goods. Nov 1, 2001, March 5, 2007.
- ^ "China bans television ads for bling". Retrieved February 15, 2013.
- ^ "China Wants Your Products" May 13, 2014
- ^ Zargani, Luisa (28 January 2014). "Luxe Spending to Grow to $1.2 Trillion". WWD. Retrieved 29 January 2014.
- ^ Wong, N. Y.; Ahuvia, A. C. (1998). "Personal taste and family face: Luxury consumption in Confucian and Western societies". Psychology & Marketing 15 (5): 423–441. doi:10.1002/(SICI)1520-6793(199808)15:5<423::AID-MAR2>3.0.CO;2-9.
- ^ "What is luxury?". Paurav Shukla. 2010-05-14. Retrieved 2010-08-09.
- ^ Power, S. Wall Street Journal "A Water Fight Over Luxury Showers" July 21, 2010
- ^ Inocencio, Ramy (February 8, 2013). "China bans television ads for bling". CNN. Retrieved February 15, 2013.
- ^ Okonkwo, Uché. Luxury fashion branding: trends, tactics, techniques . Page 145.
Further reading[edit]
- Chadha, Radha; Husband, Paul. (2006). The Cult of the Luxury Brand: Inside Asia's Love Affair with Luxury. ISBN 1-904838-05-7.
- Heine, Klaus: (2011) The Concept of Luxury Brands. Luxury Brand Management, No. 1, ISSN: 2193-1208


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Crooked Oak High School Alumni
Michael A. Hays Class of 1968 |
Don Bard Class of 1964 |
Richard Williamson Class of 1974 |
Bobby Gates Class of 1969 |
This site has been created for the former students of COHS located in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. If you are an alumn of COHS you should register now in the alumni directory. We also encourage you to interact with the rest of the alumni on this site. You can find old friends, share photos and stay updated on the latest school news. You can share memories of those activities that you were involved with at Crooked Oak HS and you can view other alumni and read what other former students have posted about the time they spent at Crooked Oak.


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Half-life size plaster models of "Norma" (circa 1945) and "Norman," (circa 1950) designed by Robert Latou Dickinson, M.D. and modeled in plaster by Abram Belskie
Out of this research, Dickinson oversaw the production of 24 life-sized plaster casts depicting conception, fetal growth, and birth for the 1940 World's Fair in Queens. A few years later, he designed "Norma" and "Norman" with help from sculptor Abram Belskie. They are the product of measurements of over 15,000 women and a like number of men.
Dickinson donated the sculptures to the Cleveland Health Museum, which after its 2007 merge with the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, donated the models in turn to Harvard's Center for the History of Medicine.


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(Phyllopteryx taeniolatus)
The weedy sea dragon is found in shallow coastal waters among the kelp forests and reefs of southern and western Australia, including the southern tip of Tasmania. These slow, graceful swimmers use their olive green, yellow, purple and blue coloration, combined with their leaf-like appendages, to camouflage themselves among seaweed and sea grass.
Sea dragons are related to sea horses and pipe fish. They have the same characteristic long snout and armor-like plates covering most of their body. In addition, male sea dragons also brood their young. The female will implant 250 to 300 eggs in the soft skin of the male's abdomen where they will develop and eventually hatch as small juveniles closely resembling the adult.
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International Relations
Iraq continues to increase its representation in international organisations and since September 2003, it has successfully re-established its seat in most multilateral bodies including:
• Arab League
• United Nations General Assembly
• Organisation of Islamic cooperation
• International Monetary Fund
• Regional Conference of Iraq's Neighbouring Countries
• Non-Aligned Movement
• World Bank
• World Trade Organisation
On behalf of Iraq and its people, I welcome you to our official website. The Embassy of Iraq in Athens, Greece aims at becoming the cornerstone of the development of the relations between the Republic of Iraq and the government and people of Greece.
Our main target is to provide useful information and links about Iraq, its culture, governance and economy. Please feel free to contact the embassy directly, and our staff will be happy to assist you with your inquiry and listen to any of your suggestions for our further communication improvement.
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Milton Keynes Dons 1-1 Stevenage: Match Report
Doumbe miss sends Dons crashingMathias Doumbe missed the decisive spot-kick as MK Dons crashed out of the FA Cup after losing their first-round replay to Stevenage 7-6 on penalties.Boro keeper Chris Day denied the Dons victory in the shoot-out when he saved Peter Leven's penalty, before Doumbe blasted his effort over the bar.Boro substitute Darius Charles had earlier blasted a stoppage-time equaliser to cancel out Lewis Guy's 49th-minute opener for the Dons.Stevenage bossed the first half and Scott Laird struck the foot of the post with a curling 30-yard free-kick before drilling another shot just wide.Stevenage's Michael Bostwick and Chris Beardsley then both went close, while Jon Ashton's deflected 12-yard strike hit the bar following a Stacy Long corner.But the Dons improved after the break and Guy put them ahead just four minutes after the restart, racing clear onto Leven's pass to slot past Chris Day for his third goal of the season.Doumbe and Leven missed good chances to double the Dons' lead before Charles equalised in the fifth minute of stoppage time, lashing home after keeper David Martin had dropped Yemi Odubade's cross.The Dons dominated extra-time but substitute Daniel Powell dragged their best chance inches wide from 10 yards before their shoot-out defeat.
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What a wild year. I hit an age milestone and one child has grown up and is training me on how to be the mother of someone who has her own car, job, boyfriend and still never makes her bed.
School is almost out for the summer. Already my son finished the baseball season for team number one, and now he's on his second team, where they play into July. They've only lost one game so far. Freshman high school football camps and practice for him start the week after school ends. Hockey in the morning for him ends this Friday. No more waking up at 5:30 am! Yay!
We're replacing carpet, painting rooms, building another deck, and making way for a hot tub given to us by a friend. I still haven't finished the veggie garden, so we'll have harvest in December. No vacation or trips to conferences, but I'm helping to plan a local SEO gig for the Fall.
While home life is complete chaos and I'm officially "old" and not sexy/attractive anymore (according to marketers and porn sites), I'm still working and supplying web site usability support to search engine marketers and web site companies and enjoying my volunteer local web site projects (doc.).
As some of you may know, I'm also creating and building a new web site called Akesana.com. A MySpace page for Akesana was set up to blog on the progress.
A wee bit of a tease…
Akesana.com is the brain child of Kim Krause Berg, aka "Cre8pc". World weaving requires an open mind and the capacity to love. We're not just talking about selective open minds. We're not talking about regulated love. To understand Akesana is to walk into a world where touch and connections are not taboo and energy is creative, curious, and welcoming. You may be surprised to find string theory, art and web site design – all in one site. Few will understand Akesana. Some may have the courage to visit but few will remain there. Because what we'll create is going to be painful.
My friend, Donna Fontenot, has some new projects going too. One of them is for SEO and related bloggers.
Do we still need Meta Keywords?. I just about forgot we ever used them. Ammon Johns delights with:
There is a (sneaky) use of keywords however. You use it to deliberately mislead your competitors keyword research.
Did you know Cre8asiteforums has a Tech News Reporter?. We never stop trying new things there. This idea was started by a member and we supported him.
Of course, you have to still believe in forums. I do.
The May 2008 issue of the Journal of Usability Studies is out now.
The Search Engine College has a new course Article Marketing and Distribution! (And will have more if I ever get my act together and write the two I proposed, in addition to my existing Web Site Usability Course.)
I'm Reading (Thanks to a lot of birthday gift cards from those who know I'm a bookaholic!)
The Elegant Universe. Weird how this book came into my life. I have no recall on how I came to know the book but it fits perfectly with what's been going on in my head.
Eckhart Tolle's The Power of Now and A New Earth, because so many people recommended them.
Web Form Design: Filling in the Blanks by Luke Wroblewski. I couldn't wait to buy his book. Nobody knows forms better than Luke.
Building powerful and robust websites with Drupal 6.
In the "Nobody Cares Kim Department"
I love to stir-fry and my step-son chose a new Wok to give me for my birthday. This pork stir fry idea turned out well. If you have any favorites, I'd love to hear about them. It's the easiest way to get veggies into the kids. Except for zucchini. The youngest one thinks I'm trying to kill him when I make zukes.
Graduation party on Saturday night with family. Then "senior week", where my kid opted to go to Canada rather than the beach. (Free place to stay sells.) I squished out more funds to help her buy her first car. A 1995 Saturn coupe with 50,000 miles on it. It's not the Eclipse she wanted. Poor baby.
Her college forms are almost done.
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National and International Issues
World agricultural and food production (see Table) declined in 1993, according to preliminary estimates of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Excessive rain and flooding severely damaged feed-grain and oilseed crops in the U.S., and economic disruptions in the former Soviet Union and, to a lesser extent, Eastern Europe continued to obstruct the expansion of agricultural production and trade. The drought in southern Africa, which brought famine to much of the region in 1992, was broken, but food supplies remained scarce in several areas. Other countries in Africa were still afflicted with or not yet recovered from war or civil strife. Food-aid commitments in 1992-93 reached a record 15.1 million tons of cereals as donors responded to emergencies. The FAO published an important assessment of the likely course of the world food situation, especially as affecting the less developed countries (LDCs) through the first decade of the 21st century, that had both optimistic and sobering elements. (For Shipment of Food Aid in Cereals, see Table.)
Trade issues affecting agriculture captured the headlines during much of the year. Agricultural issues were critical to U.S. acceptance of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and to the conclusion of the Uruguay round of multilateral trade negotiations under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). The agricultural provisions of NAFTA had less effect on trade between the U.S. and Mexico than provisions for other sectors, but modifications of some provisions, particularly those dealing with sugar, were vital to the agreement's passage. An 11th-hour agreement resolving long-standing differences between the U.S. and the European Community (EC) on agriculture made possible the completion of the GATT negotiations and U.S. submission of the pact to Congress before expiration of the "fast-track" negotiation authority on December 15.
Food Emergencies
Reports by the FAO and the World Food Program suggested that civil warfare or its aftermath continued to be a greater threat to food security than weather in 1993, especially in Africa. In Angola internal strife brought collapse of the country's economy and marketing system, drove many farmers away from their farms, and prevented outside help from reaching famine-stricken areas. Continued fighting in The Sudan created more refugees and displaced persons at the same time that many people stricken by famine earlier were returning to their homes. Some 40,000 Sudanese were reported to have crossed into Uganda and another 60,000 into Ethiopia, Kenya, and Zaire.
In Somalia the intervention of UN and U.S. troops may not have brought political stability, but it did lead to a significant improvement in the country's food situation. Relief agencies began to scale down their operations as food became more available in markets and prices fell, but the need for food for returning refugees also contributed to the necessity for continuing outside food aid.
The slow return of some 650,000 Rwandan refugees following the September peace agreement delayed the planting of 1993-94 crops and created a continuing need for food aid. Eritrea continued heavily dependent on food aid because of the large number of returning refugees with the end of conflict there. Food supplies were considered satisfactory in Ethiopia, thanks to good crops and substantial food-aid imports.
Kenya's corn crop--normally the source of substantial exports--was hard hit by drought. The country was already burdened with nearly half a million refugees from neighbouring Somalia, Ethiopia, and The Sudan. Continuing civil strife in Liberia was disastrous for food production and distribution, especially in central and northern areas, but the midyear peace agreement gave hope of expanded food relief.
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What annual cultivars come true from saved seed?
I've started a list on plant cultivars (of all kinds, perennials, annuals, shrubs etc) that come true from saved seed. I was wondering if anybody here has any information to contribute on what annual cultivars have come true from saved seed? Did they all come true or only some? What did they look like if they didn't come true or were only similar looking?
Anybody mind if I added their info to my seed database?
Thanks much!
Here is a link that might be useful: My Seed Database
These are all annuas I've grown from collected OP seeds the last few years:
Impatiens Walleriana/Impatiens 'Tango Xtreme Mix' comes true from saved seed in form and color intensity BUT not exact color as parent; ie, seeds from orange parent does not result in orange offspring, but another color with the same color intensity as parent.
Browallia Speciosa/Bush Violet comes true in both form and color.
Lobelia Erinus/Lobelia 'Sapphire Cascade' comes true in both form and color.
*Torenia Fournieri/Wishbone Flower 'Duchess Blue' comes true in both form and color.
Lobularia maritima/Sweet Alyssum 'Easter Bonnet Mix' comes true in form but not in color.
*Begonia tuberhybrida/Tuber Begonia comes true in form but not in color (variation).
Begonia Semperflorens/Wax Begonias comes true in form and color.
Impatiens Balsamina/Balsam Impatiens comes true in form and color.
Cosmos bipinnatus/Cosmos comes true in form but not color (variation).
are we side stepping the whole.. your z5 annuals are really warmer zone perennials debate ... i dont know the latin on a lot of these ...
clematic paniculata.. sweet autumn .. a perennial of course
lychis .. rose champion
johnie jump up
native violets
4 o'clocks
some of the annual poppies i have in the back.. that i have no clue their name ... though i dont know what the true color is ... red.. red w/white .. white with red.. pink ... spotted.. striped.. i think they are prostitutes with the dna sharing ... lol ...
malva .. mallow also if not just another name
phlox -- old fashioned.. not creeping
bachelor button .. corn flower.. not the perennial
some sedum
woodland poppy
Lol, just about all of the above mentioned plants are botanical perennials, though many are used AS annuals. I think that larkspur is a true annual. Many of our most popular 'annuals' are tender herbaceous perennials, which means that in colder parts of the world, they are killed by freezing temperatures and do not return though many of them reseed. That behavior still doesn't make them annuals in the botanical sense of the word. It makes them tender perennials. ;-)
We'll see them labeled as annuals in catalogs and seed packets and on-line because that's how the vast majority of us use them.
The annuals in your data base are perennials, with the exception of the genus Linaria, in which there are true annuals and perennials. Canna, for example, is a rhizomatous plant. It's not hardy where you are, but actually quite long lived warmer temperate zones.
I'm only being a stickler on this because you seem to be taking great care in compiling your database. I know that you want it to be accurate. And you really couldn't be faulted by clumping many of these plants together because they are used AS annuals.
You should do a search on true annuals so that you can add to your list. Zinnias and marigolds qualify. If you are collecting information on other categories of plants besides those known for their flowers, there are lots of grasses and food crops that are annuals, too.
well yeah rhiz.. thats why i said setting the annual/perennial debate aside ... jeez ... lol
i just listed everything in my garden.. that seems to come back for 10 years straight .... i wasnt going to google them all ...
i see you have a tree section.. i can send a couple billion redbud seedlings if you wish .. lol ... according to flower color .. they are all the same. ..
"Annuals" that are sold in garden centers are typically propagated in one of two ways: from seed, or vegetatively. Those that are propagated vegetatively GENERALLY don't produce viable seed. Of the cultivars propagated from seed, the F1 Hybrids are genetically impossible to produce seed that is identical to the parents. They may produce seed, but they will exhibit traits and characteristics of one or both of the hybrid parents. You may THINK that they are identical, but trust me, the person who developed the cross will be able to point out all of the differences. OP cultivars can produce "true" seed, with the understanding that there will typically be some slight variability between the progeny.
started_with_bean had the right idea of what I was going for with my list. Thanks for the info by the way SWB! ;-)
I think most folks know that hybrids will not produce identical (genetically anyway) offspring. My list is meant more for those people out there that enjoy starting all kinds of seeds and seeing what the offspring will look like for the fun of it. Some folks are even content if they do get only similar looking plants that are not identical to the parent cultivar. I feel the same in certain cases, especially if is outrageously priced annual ($7 for a gal petunia at HD??!) and don't mind if the offspring is a shade or two darker or lighter or some other minute variation. I DID add the disclaimer to my list that just because a seed raised offspring looks similar or even identical to the parent cultivar does not mean it is genetically 'true'. And that all cultivars raised by seed should be stated as such.
Anyway, it is just for fun. I'm not trying to make a list for the nursery industry on what comes genetically true from seed. It is meant for home gardeners that like to play with seed and compare findings ;-)
Anyone else know of annual cultivars that come true from saved seed?
How about some of the basics? Nasturtiums? I just collected some seed from my variegated 'Alaska Mix', anyone know if it will come true next year? What annual Rudbeckia cultivars come true? Sunflowers? Zinnias?
Any and all information is very much welcome ;-)


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I've had a bit of a debate with an SEO specialist called Bikash. I was going to turn it into an informative post outlining the mistakes he made when he pitched me by email. Having a webmail address, not looking at my site, contradicting himself. That sort of thing.
Then he finished off with something so stunning, so moronic that I can't bring myself to critique it. I'm going to regurgitate his "pitch" to you all, and you can take from it what you will. Hell, let me know what you think his biggest mistake was in the comments section.
Now brace yourselves, and read on.
How Not to Pitch an SEO Client By Email – a Tragedy by Bikash of SEO by Spark
Bikash to Me
Dear Sir/Madam
How are you today? I hope that every thing is ok with you as it is my great pleasure to contact you in having communication with you.
Being based in India, we are able to provide our services within your affordability. We are handling offshore clients and providing them low cost link building services, organic SEO, Social Bookmaking, Directory and Article submission, web designing & web development services etc…..
We have a proven track record and are quite capable of ranking sites higher in search engines. For our success stories mail us and we will provide you a list of clients divided into industrial segments where we have delivered high quality SEO services.
Looking forward to hearing you.
Thank you & Best Regards
OK, I'll bite. Should be good for the blog if nothing else.
Me to Bikash
Bearing in mind that Unmemorable Title is ranking on "Copywriting Blog" in the major search engines, could you advise me on the key phrases you'd want to target to get my SEO and Copywriting Blog higher up on the search engines?
Andrew Nattan
Bikash to Me
Dear Andrew Nattan,
Hope you are doing Great and business is good. Yes Ofcourse we will give you top rank on Google, Yahoo,MSN, Bing for "Copywriting Blog" URL: http://www.unmemorabletitle.co.uk/
Guaranteed services i am providing to my all clients. If interested kindly let me know.
At this point, I don't reply. This doesn't put off dear Bikash. He's not one for the subtle!
Bikash to Me, AGAIN
Dear Andrew,
I hope you are doing Great. Can i start work for this info: Title: Copywriting Blog & URL: http://www.unmemorabletitle.co.uk/ ?
If interested kindly let me know.
No, he's definitely not one for subtle hints. Best be blunt
Me to Bikash
Ok, the subtle hint didn't work.
Have you looked at my blog? Have you noticed it's a copywriting and SEO blog?
Have you seen the bit saying I'm an SEO consultant who does SEO for a living?
Have you seen its already ranking on Google UK, Yahoo UK and Bing UK?
In all honesty, do you think I'd pay you to do my job?
Surely Bikash can't ride roughshod over this evidence that I don't need any SEO services?
Bikash to Me
Q– Have you looked at my blog? Have you noticed its a copywriting and SEO blog?
Ans: Yes I have been looked at your blog www.unmemorabletitle.co.uk and Of Course its an seo and copywriting Blog.
Q– Have you seen the bit saying I'm an SEO consultant who does SEO for a living?
Ans: No, I did'nt find so
Q– Have you seen its already ranking on Google UK, Yahoo UK and Bing UK?
Ans: Yes its between 100 on Google UK, Yahoo UK and Bing UK
Q– In all honesty, do you think I'd pay you to do my job?
Ans: I don't know exactly. If you will not pay me then I'll not do work.
No. Bluntness doesn't work either. He's now lying about my results too. And a threat that he won't do any work for me? He's raised his game.
Me to Bikash
Are you logged into Google? I see my site in position 6 on Google UK, and position 14 on Yahoo UK. As you know, Google is the important one.
You've still not explained the techniques you'll be using either. I'm not feeling the love here.
Andy x
Surely, he must understand that I'm toying with him now
Bikash to Me
Aha, I was looking result on google.com, Yahoo.com and bing.com . I know Google is the Important.
No? Fine. Let's go for broke with the "I do SEO for a living"
Me to Bikash
But you definitely mentioned me being "around 100 on Google UK" before. Are you being honest with me?
Also, can you just give me an outline of the tactics you intend to use? My boss would be mad if I used black hat SEO as we're committed to ethical white hat SEO where I work.
He's got to get it. He must. Nobody can be this pig-headed
Bikash to Me
Yes I am very Honest with you and I only provide whitehat SEO, You will get only ethical links from me. After work with me you can understand.
I'll give you 10% genuine services. Can I have your Messengers ID ?
OK, he's not ever going to stop. Time for my out.
Me to Bikash
No thankyou.
Unfortunately 10% genuine service isn't quite enough for me. I insist on no less than 97.4% genuine service from anyone I work with.
Please do not contact me again.
Mr Nattan
So, I'll throw this open to you, my dear readers. Just where did Bikash go wrong with his pitch? I'm hoping we can put together a proposal to write some new pitch emails for these guys. And of course, I'll share my profits with my readers. I'm 10% serious.
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Thank God Japan has the stringent sort of safety regulations that may prevent a meltdown. But, nuclear energy has failed nonetheless. During this horrific time of crisis in Japan, the government has had to devote major resources to the nuclear crisis, there is no quick replacement for the nuclear energy, and there are explosions being felt miles away. But, the psychological impact, especially given Truman's atrocities against Japanese civilians, must be severe. Imagine the terror that people who are hungry, have lost everything, have lost loved ones must feel knowing that they are surrounded by failing nuclear plants. Between the earthquake, the tsunami, and the explosions at nuclear plants, this is a trauma that must rival that of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Poor Frauders. Ignorant of both reality, and history itself. Thank god for Truman. His courage in making an extremely difficult decision, something only genuine leaders do, no doubt saved hundreds of thousands of lives. Did someone say atrocities? **VERY GRAPHIC** - google image search of Nanking Atrocities Nanking Atrocities - Google Search Nanking Massacre From Wikipedia The Nanking Massacre or Nanjing Massacre, also known as the Rape of Nanking, was a mass murder and war rape that occurred during the six-week period following the Japanese capture of the city of Nanjing (Nanking), the former capital of the Republic of China, on December 13, 1937 during the Second Sino-Japanese War. During this period, hundreds of thousands of Chinese civilians and disarmed soldiers were murdered and 20,000–80,000 women were raped[1] by soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army.[2][3][4] YouTube - Massacre- Atrocities Against Humanity Japanese vets admit on film to Nanjing atrocities Last Updated: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 | 2:17 PM ET CBC News Back to Japanese director Tamaki Matsuoka, shown in Hong Kong on Tuesday, has fought to make her fellow citizens aware of Japan's wartime record of atrocities. (Vincent Yu/Associated Press) Activist Tamaki Matsuoka is challenging Japanese perceptions of the country's war record with a new documentary on the atrocities known as the Rape of Nanking. Her film, Torn Memories of Nanjing, combines the memories of Japanese war veterans with accounts by Chinese survivors of the massacres of 1937-38, after Japan captured the former capital city of Nanking. The film was shown at the Hong Kong International Film Festival on Sunday in its first screening outside Japan. In the documentary, Matsuoka captures former soldiers admitting for the first time to mass rape and to the masscre of unarmed civilians in Nanking, which is now called Nanjing.
Real, where I come from the murder of civilians in the name of war is called terrorism. There is ample evidence that the Japanese were defeated. Besides there is no justification for killing tens of thousands of the elderly, women, and children, but then perhaps you're more afraid of those groups than I am. But, as to your point, American propaganda does fool some of the people some of the time. Do you believe Washington never told a lie?
Tell that to the families of the troops killed on Okinawa weeks before the bomb was dropped and don't forget the sight of women and children committing suicide to avoid 'capture' by the Americans. Speaking of deliberate atrocities there is UNIT 731. What happened there is terrible bringing up Turman is totally out of place IMO. Glad the reactors vessels are secure so far.
Please. You're as ignorant of reality as would be an infant son. The Japs, very unlike they are now, were absolute savages then. The notion that they would have happily surrendered without a single shot fired is insulting to one's intelligence. It was a regrettable and unfortunate action for sure, but one that was required none the less. If it comes down to saving the lives of allies, at the cost of ending those of the japanese, I choose the allies 100 times out of 100. That is the unfortunate reality. Something that you can't understand because you simply can never grasp what's real.
Where I come from, it has different labels that more accurately describe what actually happened, so that we can learn from it. What the Japanese did is called Total War. Horrific, yes. Terrorism, no. Calling everything bad in war terrorism is like calling everything left of center communism during the 1950s.
I agree it's tasteless, but like Gifford's shooting taught us, people will stoop to all kinds of levels to get in a political shot. I can't imagine why we have a toxic environment in Washington today.
Oh, come on, the "Japs" were "savages"? If that's not racist stereotyping on your part I don't know what is. No one said that the Japanese would have happily surrendered, but they were negotiating, and many people felt the mass murder of civilians was unnecessary. That said, there was a concerted propaganda campaign to rewrite American history; I guess that's where you got your idea of the "Japs" being "savages." They were a dangerous, but defeated enemy. Hiroshima: Quotes "During his recitation of the relevant facts, I had been conscious of a feeling of depression and so I voiced to him my grave misgivings, first on the basis of my belief that Japan was already defeated and that dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary, and secondly because I thought that our country should avoid shocking world opinion by the use of a weapon whose employment was, I thought, no longer mandatory as a measure to save American lives. It was my belief that Japan was, at that very moment, seeking some way to surrender with a minimum loss of 'face'." - Dwight Eisenhower, Mandate For Change, pg. 380
Patters, most people would agree it's very LOW of you to use the catastrophe in Japan to make an idiotic past-tense political point. Why did you do that? No matter what your political POV, anyone would view the fact you posted an entire thread in an attempt to link this tragedy to something that is irrelevant. That's pretty sad on your part. Hang your head in shame...
I'm not sure what your point is, PR. My point was that the threat of radiation poisoning must be doubly traumatizing to the Japanese because of what happened in WWII. I'm not sure why you can't see the relationship between the two events. I don't think it's difficult at all. Do you not consider nuclear war an atrocity?
Like most Americans, I don't consider Hiroshima & Nagasaki atrocities. Never have, never will. Why don't you ask the Chinese survivors of WWII if they believe it was an atrocity? Your heart seems to weep for just about everything you think America has done wrong. You're not guilty of anything and neither are any of us. Has the United States ever done anything wrong? Yes, many, many times. Does my heart weigh heavy over any of them? No, it does not.
I don't think there's ample evidence that Japan was going to surrender. And there was far less evidence available at that time. Civilians die in all wars. Labeling all such deaths atrocities deprives the term of any real meaning. (The one area where you and I probably would agree is that I think many Americans do have a double standard in how they view our actions versus those of other nations. Understandable, perhaps, but not really defensible.)
Some pretty significant people, and certainly not liberals, felt dropping the bomb was unncessary: Hiroshima: Quotes It's terrorism if you intentionally kills civilians, and the fact that the US is the only nation in history to use atomic weapons is a disgrace to our values. Yes, civilians die in all wars, but only terrorists target them or don't give a damn who they kill.
The US & Great Britain also purposefully targeted German civilians in the last days prior to Germany's surrender. We bombed city after city and pummeled them...look it up. "Up to the end of March 1945 there had been a total of 314 air raids on Berlin, with 85 of those coming in the last twelve months[32] Half of all houses were damaged and around a third uninhabitable, as much as 16 km² of the city was simply rubble. Estimates of the total number of dead in Berlin from air raids range from 20,000 to 50,000; current German studies suggest the lower figure is more likely.[33] This compares to death tolls of between 25,000 and 35,000 in the single attack on Dresden on 14 February 1945, and the 40,000 killed at Hamburg in a single raid in 1943. The relatively low casualty figure in Berlin is partly the result of the city's distance from airfields in Britain, which made big raids difficult before the liberation of France in late 1944, but also a testament to its superior air defences and shelters" Bombing of Berlin in World War II - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia "We shall bomb Germany by day as well as night in ever increasing measure, casting upon them month by month a heavier discharge of bombs, and making the German people taste and gulp each month a sharper dose of the miseries they have showered upon mankind." Winston Churchill "This air campaign killed an estimated 600,000 German civilians and destroyed or seriously..." Area Bombing Am I proud of that? No, but I'm not ashamed either...it was WORLD WAR II!! I watched a WWII special and they showed us bombing those cities in Germany and the narrator said point-blank that we targeted civilians to break any remaining moral they had left. Ask the survivors of auschwitz if they feel bad about it. Ask them if it was an atrocity! I'll look forward to your reply.
Wierd perspective on this, Patters. Really wierd. Where did you get this idea? There is nothing left of the A-bomb survivor mentality in Japan to speak of. The people there are trying to survive this tsunami and nothing could be further from their minds as WWII right now.
Its easy to sit behind a key board 60+ years after the fact and moralize. You have to put yourself in their shoes in 1945 and know what they knew and know what they felt to make any kind of judgment. Patters says these were civilians when in fact they all looked at themselves as warriors who would die to defened the Emperor who was seen as devine. The would have defended Him to the last man and women, the casualties would have been horrific. More people died during the fire bombing of Tokyo than died from Atomic boms attackes. More people on Both sides would have died if a full scale invasion had taken place. I have spent a great deal of time reading about WW11, i believe in the end that Truman made the right decession. In the past i have contimplated the idea of a demonstration of the A-bomb by detonationing one off the coast of Japan, but actually these were very crude garage bombs. what f it failed to detonate we would have alerted the Japanese about our intentions Etc.
Racist? LOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!!! When do you know a moonbat has no logical leg to stand on? When they start tossing the term racist around. Yes the japs. That's short for japanese. You know, like the "pols" is short for the polish. The "brits" short for the British. The yanks short for yankees. Pats for patriots. As for savages, when you slice open pregnant women and kill the babies inside them, you're pretty much a savage. When you decapitate women and children you're a savage. When you rape tens of thousands, including children, you're savages. Just read up on the things the japs, ahem, the japanese did in China. Just read up on what they did to prisoners of war. Savages indeed. That's Eisenhowers opinion and he's entitled to it. Most would disagree. I think Truman did the right thing. Like I said, it's a regrettable and unfortunate action. Truly a choice you don't take any joy in making. It was the right decision none the less. The japs used to fight to the last man. They used to put armed grenades under their arm pits when surrending, because they knew the american soldiers would tell them to put their hands up when they approached. They did so only at the last possible moment so that the grenades would fall out as they put their arms up, killing the american soldiers nearby. They may have been defeated, but more american and allied lives would have been lost trying to prove to them so.
Had Japan been able to produce and deliver an Atomic Bomb on the USA they would have done so in the blinking of an eye and every Jap in Japan including women and children would have danced in the streets and screamed "Banzai" fo a month, America beat them to it, Truman did what any leader would have done when at war in 1945, those were far different days than 2011. Read This Link: Bataan Death March - A Survivor's Story: The Bataan Death March I Harry Boy am very proud to say that I at the age of 17 was a truck driver working in Pasco Washington and participated in the making of the Atomic Bomb that ended WWII a war where thousands of young Americans were dying daily (I lost ten friends from my neighborhood during WWII 7 of them were slaughterd by the Japs. This is where I worked during 1943 and part of 1944. HistoryLink.org- the Free Online Encyclopedia of Washington State History
Patters never ceases to amaze me ! I am just greatful that his lifesyle choice does not make it easy for him to reproduce.
I don't deny that -- but it doesn't mean that Japan in fact would have surrendered. I didn't go through all of those, because they are mostly after the fact opinions that don't offer up evidence that japan would have surrendered. Look at macarthur, for one example: he doesn't claim that the Japanese would have surrendered. In fact, he says they wouldn't -- due to the condition of renouncing the emperor. By that definition, we were terrorists before dropping the bombs, and the Japanese, Germans and other Axis members were terrorists as well.


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We discuss the physical meaning of the nonmetricity vector. A relationship between the time derivative of the nonmetricity vector and the Hubble constant is revealed. On the basis of a solution to the equation for the nonmetricity field, it is concluded that the expansion rate of the Universe is different at different points of the Universe. This process can be a cause of the large-scale inhomogeneity of the Universe.
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