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And you are most welcome! At Ashcroft Vets we may be highly qualified veterinary practitioners, but the real reason we do what we do is to put a smile the face of your pet - and that, we hope, will put a smile on your face too, like to 10,000 plus animal we see each year!
We know that a pet is more than just an animal that shares your home. We prefer to think of them as friends who share your life. And that's how we treat them. So you know who to trust if your pet has a problem - our number's at the top of the page.
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Need experienced results-driven Pay Per Click (PPC) manager to manage all aspects of online ads for our small business including:
- Google AdWords
- Bing
- Facebook
- Linkedin
We need someone to review all existing PPC ads (we don't currently have many). Ads manager shall review our company website for an overview of our services, and create a PPC marketing strategy to best utilize our ads budget across all search engines. Ads budget will be approximately $300-350 per month total across all platforms.
Specific goals (in order of priority):
- Generate quality leads with a high conversion rate of services purchased.
- More contact & registration forms filled out on our website (lead generation)
- More quality website page visits with low bounce rates.
- More Facebook Page likes (if budget allows)
- More Google+ Page followers (if budget allows)
- More LinkedIn Company Page followers (if budget allows)
- Must have experience with quality PPC ad campaigns
- oDesk Work Diary will be utilized for tracking work
- Results and return on investment (ROI) should be measurable and quantifiable
- Quality over quantity - We're not just looking for clicks, we're aiming for high quality customers to purchase our services.
To apply, please include the following:
- Basic outline of your PPC marketing plan process
- Will you be self sufficient? (Can you look at our website to research and learn what ads would be most effective to create?... I have very limited time to walk you through the details of every service we want to advertise, so I would like someone who can assimilate the information from our website into relevant ads.)
- Please provide example of results from previous clients
- How will you measure the effectiveness of your efforts?
- Will you be available for ongoing support over the next 6-12 months?
- What is your ongoing PPC management strategy?
- How much billable time should be expected in the first month for initial setup?
- How much billable time for ongoing support in the months after the initial setup?
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Under new CEO George Plassat, France-based retailer Carrefour has looked to sell international businesses where it is not a market leader. This focus on its core domestic business as well as higher-growth markets where it has a strong presence has been further demonstrated by its decision to sell a controlling 60% stake in its Indonesian business to domestic company CT Corp for US$673mn - valuing the unit at about US$1.12bn.
Carrefour has been making tangible progress in France, where it is focusing heavily on price. G iven that most of the retailer ' s business is centred around hypermarkets, a core focus on price is critical , in our view. This is especially true as Carrefour is fighting against the tide somewhat given the ongoing evolution of French food retailing away from big-box hypermarkets. Plassat has also been aggressively selling businesses in countries where the firm is not a market leader and would have to invest heavily to establish a strong presence.
|Indonesia Growing Quickly; France Mature
|Selected Countries - Total Mass Grocery Retail Sales (US$bn)
In different circumstances , we believe that Carrefour would have been very reluctant to leave Indonesia. Organised food retailing in the country still accounts for less than half of overall sales, with wet markets and kiosks still very prominent. To 2017, we see mass grocery retail sales growing at a comp ound annual rate of 13.9% in US dollar terms, indicating that CT Corp has a real opportunity here.
Although the deal with CT Corp will see the Carrefour franchise remain in Indonesia , it will be present on a much smaller scale. What is not in doubt is that Plassat ' s decisive action is being welcomed by the market . The company ' s share price has gain ed about 14% over the past three or so months in what has been a truly testing economic environment .
Carrefour ' s exit from promising markets is lowering its exposure to potentially fantastic growth; however, companies will need to invest heavily to benefit in these markets. The interesting thing about Carrefour's recent exit s from Indonesia and Colombia , where it sold its business to Chile's Cencosud in October 2012 for US$2.3bn, is that Carrefour still had a strong position in the market. It was the second largest organised retailer in Colombia and ha d a top two position in Colombia. However, pursuing heavy expansion in both countries would have been incr e asingly expensive given the issues the retailer is having in France, which is its core focus right now.


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Hot Spots: Afghanistan
Taliban expansion poses big challenge for Obama
After numerous missed opportunities and a half-hearted strategy by the previous administration because of its preoccupation with Iraq, stabilizing Afghanistan will be one of Barack Obama's greatest challenges.
Two years ago, the Taliban insurgency was confined to a few provinces in the south and east. Today the Taliban have expanded to the gates of Kabul and have a growing presence in the west and north of the country. The Afghan Taliban's secure bases in Pakistan and, increasingly, in Iran -- which provide logistics and innumerable recruits -- have created a regional dimension to the Taliban's expansion. The creation of Pakistani Taliban and even a Central Asian Taliban, all linked to al Qaeda, have created new transnational bases of operations.
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To meet this threat, the U.S. has talked about sending 30,000 troops by the spring, and will lobby NATO to match its commitment. It will be difficult for European nations to say no to Mr. Obama's first request, but at the same the administration will have to mend relations with Europe, involve European leaders in decision-making and demonstrate that the White House has a credible strategy for Afghanistan. However, finding more international forces and aid money will be extremely difficult at a time of global recession, and when most Europeans are highly critical of their own governments' troop commitments to Afghanistan.
To pre-empt the U.S. buildup, the Taliban has said it will, for the first time, continue fighting offensively through the winter and spring of 2009 to try and demoralize already deployed NATO forces while trying to force U.S. troops onto the defensive. (The Taliban usually rest during Afghanistan's harsh winter.) The Pakistani Taliban are already on the offensive in northern Pakistan by attacking U.S. and NATO supply convoys that travel through Pakistan to U.S. bases in Afghanistan. Al Qaeda appears to be strategizing for all the groups to ensure that it does not lose the strong bases it has acquired in the Afghan-Pakistan border regions.
The U.S. troop surge must be accompanied by a strategic game plan and a comprehensive political and economic surge that should include expanding the capacity and authority of the Afghan state, speeding up the building of the Afghan army and police, increasing development aid and aid coordination through the UN, investing serious money in the country's so-far neglected infrastructure, and winning over moderate Taliban who may be tired of the war. After seven years, Western forces have yet to agree on a common drug-eradication policy, so Afghan heroin will continue to fund the extremists in 2009 and undermine the creation of a legitimate economy.
There must also be a major U.S. regional diplomatic initiative, perhaps carried out by a Special Envoy for the region who will deal with neighboring countries such as Pakistan, Iran, the Central Asian Republics, India and China. U.S. diplomat Richard Holbrooke is being tipped for the job. The region's problems are now deeply interlinked. Focusing solely on Afghanistan, while allowing neighboring countries to either continue interfering in Afghanistan or sink further into becoming failed states, is not feasible.
In spite of the dire security situation, one of the most important U.S. aims will be to help Afghanistan hold free and fair parliamentary elections on time by October 2009. A massive international security effort will be needed to also ensure that the elections do not lead to major ethnic strife in the country.
Although the U.S. should allow all presidential candidates an equal running space, privately the administration will have to make a choice whether to continue backing the incumbent President Hamid Karzai, who is running for office again but faces intense criticism from many Afghans and the international community for failing to deal with corruption, drugs trafficking and governance issues. Mr. Karzai has staked his re-election bid on a successful outcome of talks with the Taliban and a tougher line against civilian casualties at the hands of the U.S. military.
Ahmed Rashid, a Pakistani writer and journalist, is the author of four books, including "Descent into Chaos: The United States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia."


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Family Values
The Boys of C Street
It's been a long, hot summer at 133 C Street SE in Washington, D.C., a nondescript red-brick town house a few blocks from the Capitol run by the shadowy quasi-evangelical group The Family. Six devout "family values" politicians rent rooms at C Street House, as it's called, and another dozen or so regularly attend prayer breakfasts and Bible study there. But when three C Streeters disgorged sordid confessions of adultery and betrayal over the summer, the cherished wall of secrecy surrounding the house began to crumble. The media glare has extended to other members, who might not want us to know just how far C Street has strayed from Main Street values.
Related: "Haute Time, Summer in the City," by Graydon Carter.
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Chipmaker Qualcomm (NASDAQ:QCOM) announced wonderful second-quarter results Wednesday afternoon. Revenue jumped 24% year-over-year to $6.1 billion, exceeding consensus expectations. Non-GAAP earnings per share rose 16% year-over-year to $1.17 per share, which was also above consensus estimates. Free cash flow for the quarter jumped 10% year-over-year to $1.99 billion, equal to a whopping 33% of revenue.
On the expense side, the firm did a fairly good job of keeping costs contained. Research and development costs increased 100 basis points (28% year-over-year on an absolute basis) to 20% of revenue. Management cited development of CDMA-based 3G tech and 4G LTE technology as the main drivers, though stock-based compensation was also 24% higher year-over-year at $156 million. Because the firm is generating excess free cash flow and repurchasing shares, we aren't worried about dilution at this time.
SG&A expenses rose 14% year-over-year to $661 million, but declined 1% as a percentage of sales to 11%. Although total compensation rose, the firm did not increase share compensation and was able to leverage fixed costs. While legal and patent costs will drive SG&A to increase 21%-23% for the full-year, we're confident that Qualcomm will keep fixed costs from soaring.
As for sales, both equipment and licensing sales were strong, growing 27% and 18%, respectively. Qualcomm's licensing revenue lags a quarter, so its sales represent smartphone shipments during the fourth quarter of 2012, which were up 18% year-over-year for a total of $61.1 billion of devices sold. Interestingly, we're seeing an industry decline in average selling prices per units (ASPS), which fell to $214-$220 in the fourth quarter from $227 in the prior quarter. EVP Derek Aberle cited device release timing and holiday competition as the drivers, saying:
"I think the December quarter is obviously a very competitive dynamic. A lot of things going on in pricing. And it's a quarter where we have less volume coming from some of the higher ASP regions like Japan. But as I said, as we look out and we have a certain amount of information already from our licensees and then based on publicly available data, we do expect ASPs to increase in Q3. And then as you suggested, there are a number of new higher end products launching that should have a positive impact on the Q4 ASP as well."
Still, we would not be surprised to see industry-wide ASPs fall as smartphone devices are extended to lower-end consumers. Although we do not believe this means the industry will become heavily commoditized, low-end consumers remain underpenetrated relative to high-end consumers, so ASPs should fall. We do not believe it will impact the demand or pricing for high-end Apple and Samsung phones. We doubt some slack in pricing will materially impact Qualcomm.
Image Source: Qualcomm Q3 FY2013 Earnings Presentation
Looking ahead, Qualcomm is forecasting a strong fiscal year 2013 third quarter. The firm provides wide ranges, but anticipates revenue growth of 25%-36% year-over-year for the third quarter to $5.8-$6.3 billion, driving earnings per share of $0.97-$1.05 (up 14%-24%). If Qualcomm can maintain its current pace, free cash flow could total $1.7-$2 billion. Global 3G/4G devices growth looks strong for 2013, as the firm forecasts growth at 8%-16%.
Given Qualcomm's cash rich business model, strong results and terrific guidance, we were a bit surprised to see shares retreat. However, if share price weakness persists, we could become interested in adding the name to the portfolio of our Best Ideas Newsletter at a price below the low end of our fair value range ($55).
Disclosure: I have no positions in any stocks mentioned, and no plans to initiate any positions within the next 72 hours. I wrote this article myself, and it expresses my own opinions. I am not receiving compensation for it (other than from Seeking Alpha). I have no business relationship with any company whose stock is mentioned in this article.


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Now that I am an older player in my 60s, old age is creeping up on me (I can feel it in my knees), but I can still enjoy chess. Even after playing almost 50 years in hundreds of tournaments, I still like the chess tournament atmosphere and can always play chess online. I want to play tennis and chess until I can no longer move or think. So let's look at some older players in chess.
Yuri Averbakh (1922- ) is currently the world's oldest chess grandmaster in his 90s.
Joseph Henry Blackburne (1841-1924) played chess until he died at the age of 82. He tied for 1st place in the British championship at the age of 72. It is estimated he played over 100,000 chess games in his career.
Paolo Boi (1528-1598) played world class chess until he died at the age of 70. He defeated Ruy Lopez in front of the king of Spain. He played chess with church members, including Pope Paul III. He was offered to be made a cardinal, but he refused. At the age of 70, he was playing an important chess match with Salvio in Naples, Italy, but lost. Some say he was poisoned by jealous rivals and died. Others say he caught a cold when hunting a died as a result of it.
Grandmaster David Bronstein (1924-2006) still took an interest in chess in his 80s. He was writing another chess book in his 80s.
Jane Lady Carew (1797-1901) was a chess player who lived to 104 and lived in three centuries. She played chess up to age 100.
Arthur Dake (1910-2000) was once the oldest active chess grandmaster. He played chess for over 75 years. In 1987, at the age of 77, he scored 8-4 in the US Open. He was still playing in rated chess tournaments at the age of 89. He died 20 days after his 90th birthday.
Harlow Daly (1883-1979) won the chess championship of Maine in 1969 at the age of 85. He had previously won in 1961 at the age of 77, and in 1965 at the age of 81. He was still playing chess in his 90s. At age 90, in 1973, he won the New Hampshire Open tournament with a perfect 5-0 score. He died at the age of 95. He played chess for 75 years.
Arnold Denker (1914-2005) died at the age of 90. He was active in chess until his late 80s.
In 1994, Bernard Friend became a chess master for the first time at the age of 71.
Valery Grechihin (1937-2008) became a grandmaster the regular way (gaining GM norms) in 1998 at the age of 60. He was the first deaf grandmaster in history.
Gisela Gresser (1906-2000) won the U.S. Women's Championship at the age of 63. She died at the age of 94.
James Hanham (1840-1923) played master level chess until he died at the age of 84. At his death, he was the oldest chess player of master rank in the United States.
A good friend of mine, Rea Hayes (1915-2001) won the Tennessee championship in 1992 at the age of 76. He was the winner of the first U.S. Senior Open in 1981. He was still playing in it in 1998, at the age of 83.
Hermann Helms (1870-1963) wrote a chess column for 62 years. He published the American Chess Bulletin for 59 years. At the age of 84, he was awarded the International Arbier title. He died one day after he reached his 93rd birthday.
Kirk Holland (1910-?) was once the President of the American Chess Federation. He was still playing in rated USCF chess events at the age of 94 in Chicago and was once considered the oldest active chess player in the United States.
Mona Karff (1914-1998) won the U.S. Women's Championship at the age of 60. She died at the age of 83.
Larry Kaufman, born in 1947, was awarded the grandmaster title at the age of 60.
George Koltanowski (1903-2000) edited a chess column in the San Francisco Chronicle for 52 years. He was still playing blindfold chess in his 70s. He was still giving his Knight's Tour in his 80s. He was awarded the Grandmaster title (honorary) at the age of 85. He died at the age of 96. I visited him several times at his San Francisco apartment and he was quite alert and funny in his late 80s.
Viktor Korchnoi (1931- ) is still playing grandmaster level chess at the age of 82. He is currently the oldest grandmaster on the world chess tournament circuit. In 2005, he was still ranked in the top 100 in the world at the age of 74. In 2007, he tied for 2nd in the National Open.
Edward Lasker (1885-1981) was playing chess until he died at the age of 95. He was still playing correspondence games when he died. He became an International Master at the age of 75.
Emanuel Lasker (1868-1941) played chess until he died at the age of 73. At the age of 68, he took 6th place in the Moscow Intenational tournament in 1936.
David Lawson (1886-1980) became a world famous chess author at the age of 89 when he wrote Paul Morphy: The Pride and Sorrow of Chess.
Andor Lilienthal (1911-2010) died three days after his 99th birthday. He had been the world's oldest grandmaster.
Alina Markowski (1910-?) is still playing chess in San Diego in her 90s. She started playing postal chess at the age of 61. She now has a chess club named after her.
Jacquest Mieses (1865-1954) died at the age of 89. He was still giving simultaneous chess exhibitions in his mid 80s. He became a grandmaster at the age of 85.
Mario Monticelli (1902-1995) was awarded the Grandmaster title at the age of 83. He died at the age of 93.
Jared Moore (1893-1995) was still playing correspondence chess at the age of 100. He died at the age of 101. He first started playing correspondence chess at the age of 67 and was perhaps the oldest player to play correspondence chess.
Walter Muir (1905-1999) played postal chess until he died at the age of 95. In 1997, he wrote his autobiography, My 75 Year Chess Career.
Miguel Najdorf (1910-1997) played chess until he died at the age of 87. At the age of 81, he played in the Argentina chess championship. At the age of 82, he played in the strong Mar del Plata open.
Gyorgy Negyesy (1893-1992) was a Hungarian chess master. He died just short of his 99th birthday. He may have been the longest-lived master.
Enrico Paoli (1908-2005) became a grandmaster at the age of 88. He was the strongest active nonagenarian in the world, still playing chess at the age of 97. He died less than a month away from his 98th birthday.
Edith Price (1872-1956) won the British Women's Championship at the age of 76. She was still running her chess club, the Gambit Chess Room in England, while in her 80s.
Samuel Reshevsky (1911-1992) was still playing chess until he died at the age of 81. At the age of 70, he took 3rd place in the U.S. Championship. At the age of 72, he won a grandmaster tournament, held in Iceland.
Rober Scrivener (1881-1969) won the Mississippi State Championship at the age of 80. He was still playing chess until he died at the age of 87.
Oscar Shapiro (1924-2004) was the oldest person to first make chess master. He became a chess master at the age of 74.
Vassily Smyslov (1921-2010) became a Candidate and oldest qualifier for the World Chess Championship at the age of 61. At age 61, he took 2nd place in the 1982 Las Palmas Interzonal. In 1988, at the age of 67, he was the oldest person to play in a Soviet chess championship. He won the first World Seniors Championship in 1991 at the age of 70. He won the Staunton Memorial at Groningen at the age of 75. He ended his chess career at the age of 80 because of failing eyesight, rated 2500.
William Stienitz was the oldest world champion. He was world champion at the age of 58 years and 10 days before he lost his title to Emanuel Lasker on May 6, 1894.
Mark Taimanov (1926- ) is still involved in chess at the age of 80 and still gives simultaneous exhibitions. He was World Senior Champion in 1994 (age 68) and 1995 (age 69).
George Thomas (1881-1972) won the London championship at the age of 65. He was awarded the International Master title at age 69. He died at the age of 91.
Wolfgang Uhlmann, born in 1935, is still playing in German Team matches at the age of 77,Wolfgang Unzicker (1925-2006) was still playing grandmaster chess in his late 70s.
Norman Whitaker (1890-1975) played chess until he died at the age of 85. He became an international master at the age of 75.
Louis Zeckendorf died one month before his 100 birthday in 1937. He was a member of the Manhattan Chess Club.
Players that made it into their 80s include Unzicker, Bernstein, Cochrane, del Rio, Euwe, Lasa, Reshevsky, Van Scheltinga, Maroczy, Rudenko, Szabo, Winawer, Atkins, Blackburne, Botvinnik, Eliskases, Golombek, Karff, Canal, Kasparian, Whitaker, Kottnauer,Rubstova, Johner, Najdorf, Mieses, Milner-Berry, Smyslov, and Elo.
Players that made it into their 90s include Dake (90), Denker (90), Bohatirtchuk (91), Thomas (91), Monticelli (93), Gresser (94), Ed Lasker (95), Muir (95), Koltanowski (96), Paoli (97), and Lilienthal (98).
A recent study showed that playing chess in old age could be one of the best preventative measures against Alzheimer's disease, which affects one in 14 people over 65.
I was surprised not to see Anatoly Karpov mentioned in this article: at 63 years of age he's still rated 2628. This puts him at 177th in the world, by far the oldest player in the World Top 200.
Great article. Inspiring for older chess players !!!
Great article!!
Plus Arthur Bisguier and Walter Shipman are still playing tournament chess into their 80s, and are not bad either! Last year Bisguier beat GM Alexander Fishbein!
My first husband and I started playing chess about the time we were married, in 1950. Then we got too busy with children and family obligations. I started in again when I married my second husband and just in the last month or so I got involved on chess.com. At age 85 I am still just a beginner, but enjoy the challenge and hope to improve my game.
Great article!! Amazing research, well done. Does Hector Rossetto deserve a mention? He was still playing tournament chess at age 78. ELO 2285.
Didn,t learn to play until i was forty, and that was by chance, i fell victim to Scholars Mate.
Very insperational to this 73 year old. Thank you.
well done mate, my bones are to old for sport but chess is a game for all ages, i to will keep playing for as long as possible the only thing with me now is i can not sit in one place for long,
chess and tennis will be mine too
Billwall: thank you for your research on this issue. It inspires us older players, and gives a good lesson in chess history for younger players, and us all.
Good luck with it erik.
Wolfgang Uhlmann was playing in German League 2 weeks ago
This article is an inspiration to all us older folks! Chess is great for keeping the mind clear and it is just plain fun! It offers a great way for older folks to meet and socialize with other people both old and young. So why sit alone in your room when you can come to the chess club?
This gives everyone something to aim for. The dates for Mieses need to be checked for a fingerfehler.
Lilenthal recently died, as well as Smyslov. In 2010, 3 famous players died:Smyslov, Larry Evans and Bent Larsen.
billwall--excellent article. How on earth did you research it?
Wolfgang Uhlmann is still alive!
Now this gives me some inspiration..!
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I played Minecraft again this week with my friend Mark, whose world I've been playing in. He built a railway from one ocean to another. It kinda of disappointed me to not build the railway myself, but I couldn't wait to get the On A Rail achievement; and besides, I had built the first railway in his world even though it didn't satisfy the achievement because it wasn't dead straight. So I just let it go and quickly got the achievement.
After that, I had one more achievement to go, When Pigs Fly. You have to find a saddle in a chest in a dungeon, put it on a pig, ride the pig, and then have the pig fall from a height and hurt itself. I began hunting for the dungeons which are randomly generated and located in many of the natural caves on the map. Last week, I had literally fallen into one while running from a Creeper. I had got the saddle, but I ruined the achievement by killing the pig with my sword while I was riding it. I had expected the saddle to be reusable, but it disappeared with the death of the pig. That was the first disaster on my quest for this final achievement.
During my first whole game day of the week, I continued looking for dungeons in natural caves. I found a very deep one that had an old mine in it loaded with poison spiders. My friend Mark and I cleared it out and found two chests and spawners, but no saddle. I came up to the surface at night time to do some crafting at my workstation made up of furnace, double chest, and workbench surrounded by protective torches. I was feeling frustrated, but still wanting to explore the cave further. I was smelting iron ore to steel bars, and crafting new pick axes. Then I saw a green face just above the menu box for the work bench. I said to myself, "oh dam" and a huge explosion destroyed the entire work space, chucking loads of items and material everywhere. I survived because I was armored head to foot in iron, but I had to rush to build another chest, pick everything up, and put it away before it all vanished. My buddy Mark was furious, but I was giggling with the humor of the Creeper appearing at just that moment and me with no chance of escape. Despite the humor of it, this event signaled to me that it was time to move on from this cave. This was the second disaster on the road to When Pigs Fly.
After that, I went to search for a new natural cave system and explored several ravines without any luck. Then my buddy Mark found a dungeon and a saddle and brought it to me. Just as he was about to hand it over, a Creeper blew him up, and I had to quickly pick it up out of the crater. Then we both went to a house I had made on the edge of a ravine where we had penned in a pig. He dug the pit on the other side and I jumped in the pen with the pig and saddled it up feeling like a cowboy about to ride a bucking horse. What followed was like a YouTube video of a rodeo gone horribly wrong.
As soon as I mounted, one of my dogs got in the pen and started chasing the pig back into the house away from the pit. The pig kept trying to jump through a hole in the upper corner of the house. I must've been hitting my head on the ceiling, or my dog was attacking this pig-man thing it saw, because I was taking damage like crazy. Near death, I jumped off the pig and took out my pick axe to open a hole in the house for the pig to get out before it killed itself or the dog killed it. You might guess what happened next. Yes, the pig jumped right into the path of my axe and was killed in one hit. Pig gone, saddle gone. I was so surprised by this turn of events; I just had to laugh at the sheer stupidity of it all. Then my buddy Mark freaked out and yelled in disgust that he wasn't going to help me find a saddle anymore. I shrugged and went off on my own while my friend went back to his glass works house. I hadn't really asked him to help me in the first place. This was the third disaster in my quest for When Pigs Fly.
After some wandering around, I finally found a dungeon in a shallow cave, but there wasn't a saddle in the chest. As I was trying to destroy the spawner, a zombie appeared and started to attack me. I was surprised because it was day time, and I was only a few meters below ground. I wasn't worried though, being armored up and full of gear, but my equipped stone sword was in bad shape and got used up quickly. I had to go to the menu screen to find my steel sword amidst all the other stuff I had there. It took too long, and being trapped in that small room, the zombie killed me. I respawned half way across the map with little hope of finding my way to that remote spot before all my equipment vanished. This was the fourth disaster and, for me, the last straw.
For a little while, I was so frustrated, that I went around doing outrageous and suicidal things. I dug straight down until I hit bedrock sixty meters below, somehow not breaking into a cavern and falling to my death. Looking up from the unlit bottom of the pit, the hole showing the sky above was so tiny. I thought about just staying there in the dark, but what would the point of that be. I jumped and dropped blocks in the dark until I got back to the surface. Then I built a sixty-four block high tower straight up. What a view!
I almost jumped from that height to my certain death, but decided to look around instead. I saw my friend Mark as a tiny speck coming out of his glass house all the way across the map. He saw the huge tower I had made from far away and came rushing over to see it. We both had a laugh, and then I just came back down. Then I built a stairway as high as I could with the same sixty-four blocks. It wasn't half the height of the straight vertical tower I was just on. I could've just figured that out by doing a little math, but in my fragile mental state, I wasn't thinking too much; and anyway, it was interesting to actually see the result by building it. Then time ran out on my game day.
As I was leaving my friend's place, I thought of how to make a systematic search of all the natural caves on the map the next day. I was renewed in my quest to get that last achievement.
The next evening I got back to gaming and went into my friend Mark's other world that had a lot of desert. I started roaming the map for natural caves and found a bunch but no dungeons. I found several towns along the shore and then a group of really tall mountains. I began to realize how big the world was in this game and the variety of terrain. Within these mountains were some especially large caves with really long passageways deep underground. I set up base camp at a small set of buildings near the huge cave and worked there for several days with Mark.
I found not a single dungeon there, so I moved farther down the coast. So far in fact, that when night came, I didn't have time to get back to the safety of the camp. So I rushed to find a cave and found one at the seaside bottom edge of an enormous mountain. I quickly lit the place and sealed both entrances. Then I decided to just dig down in stair steps as far as I could, hoping to come across a subterranean cavern. I dug all the way to bedrock without finding one. In frustration, I dug along the bottom about ten meters and started a stair step passage back up. Probably about two thirds of the way to the surface, I hit on some natural caves and started following them. I ran into water, and then lava, and then a Creeper surrounded by Zombies. I killed them all, but the Zombies kept coming about three at a time. I knew I had to be near a spawner and thus a dungeon. I was so excited, but I couldn't get close to the spawner with my lame stone sword. As soon as I had killed off three Zombies, three more would appear. I needed a steel sword, and I had the ingredients, but I needed the furnace I had built on the way up from bedrock. I should've just built another one right there, but I decided to go back. I went down a wrong passage to a dead end, and just as I turned to go back, a Creeper appeared and exploded, killing me. I couldn't believe it. I was so close to the dungeon and this Creeper just appeared out of nowhere to destroy me at the last moment! I respawned at my base too far away to make a return trip quickly, and I had no gear, and was very far from the main base. I decided to stay there and rebuild my supplies for a return trip. This was the fifth and last disaster to happen.
In the meantime, my friend Mark was trying to locate me (we had lost the map a while ago) and went so far past me, that he actually passed the cave I had just died in. I directed him to the entrances I had sealed, and he followed my tunnels to the spot of the spawner. There, with a steel sword, he cut his way through the Zombies and stopped the spawner in the dungeon. There were two chests there and both had saddles! "Yeehoo!" I yelled, "Finally!" I went back to the mine cart tracks and then followed them back to the main base where Mark gave me one of the saddles. Then he pointed out a pig stuck high on a steep hill. I climbed up there the next day, saddled it, mounted it, and as Mark pushed, the pig fell down to the water and I got the achievement. What a relief!
Now that I've finished the achievements in Minecraft, I'm not sure what to do now. Maybe build something, but maybe play something else like the demo for Ni No Kuni that's up now on PSN. Oh heck yeah!
And that was my week of gaming.


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He'd probably have better luck with something from the ACME catalog. Or not.
I think the comic is saying you have to live in Canada to actually take off to get close to the Sun before your wings melt.
Tough luck Winslow.
Ew, what did he use to stick the feathers on?
"Ew, what did he use to stick the feathers on?"
Presumably wax, like Icarus, but it looks more like that liquid bubblegum stuff…
The daring part of this is using mythological motifs. With the educational system struggling as it is, I doubt that a third of the people under thirty even know the story of Icarus.
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Hero worship at the expense of historical accuracy? Surely not. It has been portrayed as the story of the lone genius who solved the greatest scientific problem of his day despite the hindering efforts of those ranged against him, saving thousands of lives.
On the one side was John Harrison, the self-taught clockmaker from a humble Yorkshire background. On the other, the 18th Century's wealthy elite charged with the task of presiding over the problem of longitude – the knotty task of working out how far west or east a ship has sailed.
Harrison's story has been the subject of a best-selling book and an award-winning film but science historians believe that the true account of how the problem of longitude was solved has yet to be told.
To uncover the full story, they have started dusting off the forgotten archives of the British Board of Longitude, the panel of distinguished experts set up in 1714 to sit in judgement over proposed solutions to the Longitude Problem. The Board was responsible for awarding the £20,000 prize – equivalent to about £3m today – to the first person to come up with a way for ships to navigate safely at sea by knowing longitude.
"Think of The X Factor, but much more money and much more important," said Professor Simon Schaffer of the University of Cambridge. He is the principal investigator on the archival research project which is being jointly conducted with the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich. The prize was the first time the government had used legislation to address a specific scientific problem.
In Dava Sobel's 1995 book Longitude, and the later film based on it, carpenter's son Harrison is depicted as the solitary virtuoso pitched against the scientific establishment of a society suffocated by class, exemplified by the eminent gentlemen who sat on the Board of Longitude.
But Professor Schaffer and his colleagues believe that the important role of the Board of Longitude in finding a solution has been largely forgotten or downplayed in the rush to promote Harrison as the unsung hero of the popular story. Far from being a force of conservatism, the board, they believe, did much to generate the climate of open inquiry that allowed pioneering scientific research to flourish – a climate that fostered Harrison's historic achievement.
"The Board of Longitude has had a pretty bad history because it has either been forgotten or condemned. Its creation was a turning point in British history, but after it was abolished in 1828 it was largely forgotten and its impact was never properly assessed," Professor Schaffer said.
Indeed, Professor Schaffer goes as far as to suggest that British science today owes the Board a debt of gratitude rather than contempt, because in effect it laid much of the groundwork for the kind of state-funded scientific research that we now take for granted. The precedent of the Board of Longitude may indeed have led Britain to become one of the global leaders of modern science.
"It has been forgotten, I think, because we don't like remembering how important the state is in promoting science and technology in British history. And we ignore or condemn the Board of Longitude because there is a hero in this story and his name is John Harrison."
He added: "We still like to believe that we are a nation of enthusiastic amateurs like Harrison, making huge breakthroughs against the odds and in spite of a state hostile to scientific progress. In fact, we have a long history of state-sponsored ingenuity which made Britain into a military and technological world player. The Board is in many ways that history."
It was a naval disaster in 1707 that led to the Board of Longitude being set up in 1714. A fleet of four large ships led by Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell foundered on the rocks of the Isles of Scilly, with the loss of nearly 2,000 lives. An investigation later concluded that it was the inability to determine longitude accurately that caused the disaster, and this led the Parliament of the day to establish a substantial Longitude Prize to be given "for such person or persons as shall discover the Longitude".
Although it was easy to determine latitude on a ship's rolling deck by analysing the height of the midday sun, determining longitude was far more difficult using classical astronomical techniques. Another way was to have an accurate clock that could keep the time of the home port, where the longitude is known, and compare this time with the time on board the ship – as determined by another clock set regularly to the local midday sun.
As Dava Sobel describes: "The two clock times enable the navigator to convert the hour difference into geographical separation. Since the Earth takes 24 hours to revolve 360 degrees, one hour marks 1/24 of a revolution or 15 degrees. And so each hour's time difference between the ship and the starting point marks a progress of 15 degrees of longitude to the east or west."
The problem in the 18th Century was getting accurate enough clocks that could work at sea. Pendulum clocks would speed up or slow down with the motions of the ship, and the lubricants used by clockmakers performed differently in various temperatures and humidities.
Harrison's genius was to make a marine chronometer that was compact enough to take on a ship; that worked on springs rather than a pendulum; and that did not require the lubricants used by standard clockmakers. His fourth prototype, the H4 chronometer that resembled an oversized pocket watch, eventually led to him winning most of the money assigned to the Longitude Prize. But this was despite the considerable delay and fudge by the Board, which suggested the chronometer's success in two transatlantic sea trials – when it determined longitude to within one nautical mile – was down to luck.
The popular account of the episode makes much of the role played by Reverend Nevil Maskelyne, a member of the Board and the Astronomer Royal. Maskelyne was a proponent of the lunar distance method of determining longitude. Sobel's account portrays him as obstructive to the point of being unfair on Harrison. Indeed, Harrison had to petition both Parliament and King George III to get the full amount he rightly felt he deserved – but he never received the official award, which in fact was not given to anyone.
As part of the new investigation into the archives of the Board of Longitude, experts will also dismantle the chronometers made by Harrison in pursuit of the prize. Richard Dunn, curator of the history of navigation at the National Maritime Museum, said that it is clear from earlier work on some of the prototypes that Harrison was not working alone.
"One of the things we will be doing is taking apart the timekeepers Harrison made, which can give us an alternative version of the story. If you look inside the first clock, it quickly becomes clear that several people were involved in making it. Clearly this wasn't just about a lone genius working by himself," Mr Dunn said.
As for the Board, longitude was not its only scientific success. It was also involved in stimulating interest in other fields of research, such as the expeditions of Captain Cook, which led to the discovery of Australia, the invention of the sextant, the global survey of geomagnetism, the building of the first overseas astronomical observatory and the search for a North-West passage.
Professor Schafer said that we live in a culture were we prefer to see success as the achievement of a unique author rather than the fruits of collective action. Yet without the board, British science could have been very different today.
"Essentially the Board represents the germs of our national science policy," Professor Schafer said. "State-backed science is still an issue which matters a lot now, whether it's on stem cell research or climate change. We don't know whether to trust it, and we don't know how to respond when scientists and the state fall out.
"If we can find out what worked as that relationship was beginning – and why – then we will have lessons to teach from the project we are starting now."Reuse content


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France Télécom -Orange has launched a new subsidiary calle d Orange Horizons to develop business projects in countries where the g roup does not yet provide mass market telecoms services. The projects will take advantage of the global reputation of the Orange brand and existing assets , to create new revenue streams and improve customer loyalty across its footprint with minimum investment and risk. BMI believes t his move is part of France Telecom 's overall emerging markets growth strategy , for which it has set an ambitious revenue target by 2015.
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According to a press statement by the group on January 16, the projects that will come under the Orange Horizons services include online stores, travel solutions, OTT services and, where possible, MVNO activity. There is a precedent for this business model among global telecoms service providers. Spain's Telefónica and South Korea's SK Telecom have launched digital services to expand their international footprint and create value for existing customers. We expect major operators to increasingly adopt this model to drive revenue growth, amid declining revenues from traditional voice services, and increase the capacity utilisation of their existing assets. One of the key assets France Telecom will look to fully utilise, is the Africa Coast Europe (ACE) submarine cable system, which launched on December 19 2012 and has the capacity to connect more than 20 countries in Africa ( see our online service, January 4 2013, 'ACE Boosts Broadband Capacity But Poor Last Mile Limits Potential').
Although Orange Horizons is expected to have a global footprint, BMI expects a heavy focus on emerging markets, particularly the Middle East and Africa (MEA) where France Télécom has set an ambitious revenue target of EUR7bn by 2015. In 2011, France Télécom's MEA operations generated EUR3.746bn or 8.3% of total revenue. However, the group's performance in both regions in 9M12 suggests it is on track to hit EUR4bn in FY12. This is a significant step towards its medium-term target but still wide off the mark.
With three financial years left to achieve its goal, Orange Horizons appears to be a viable strategy for France Télécom to boost revenue growth in the region by extending its services to key countries it is not already present in as a mass-market service provider. It is, therefore, not surprising that the operator launched the service in South Africa and to coincide with the Orange Africa Cup of Nations, for which it is the primary sponsor. France Télécom has launched Orange branded e-commerce and infotainment sites in the country as a first step in the Orange Horizons initiative. Other key markets in Africa we expect Orange Horizons to expand into include Angola, Nigeria, Ghana, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe. ACE is extending connections to Angola, Ghana, Nigeria and South Africa, and we expect these links to support Orange Horizons services in those countries.
BMI believes Orange Horizons will benefit from the partnerships that France has established with content providers in recent years. These include Baidu, Google, Facebook and Wikipedia. Meanwhile, we expect the operator's OTT entertainment platforms, Deezer Music and Daily Motion, to be key parts of its OTT services. Over the long term, we expect Orange Horizons to precede the expansion of France Télécom's hugely successful B2B subsidiary, Orange Business Services (OBS), into Africa. OBS provides high-end corporate solutions, including cloud computing, machine-to-machine (M2M), enterprise mobile management and video solutions in bigger markets. However, we believe the operator is looking closely at emerging opportunities in Africa on the back of increasing investments in advanced telecoms infrastructure and a positive economic growth outlook over the medium term.
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|e-commerce sites
|Sell wireless devices, accessories and other electronic equipment. These could also serve as assistance corners for Orange customers visiting from abroad
|Launch over-the-top country websites to leverage existing assets such the group's pan-continental web-portals StarAfrica (Africa) and StarMedia (LatAm), and content providers Deezer and DailyMotion
|Travel Solutions
|Launch multi-country travel solutions, using Wi-Fi or VoIP technologies, for professionals and tourists visiting from countries in which Orange is already present
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Good review, I pos'd.
If it's as good as you make it sound I'll have to check this out, though I wasn't a big fan of their earlier work.
Hm i'll have to check this out. Doubt it is any good though.
Digging: Christian Loeffler - Mare
Thank you, whatshisname and ASnideRemark.
More than the usual genericore, Rosa.
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Album Rating: 4.0Nice review, have a pos. this album rules hard
Thanks man!
Album Rating: 4.0Review is great.
Used to have this at a 4.5. It kinda lost it's appeal for me. Still good though.
Album Rating: 4.0It's probably cause I haven't given it a listen in a while. So much more interesting stuff out right now.
I love this album without an end. Me and my buddies blast this shit like delinquents. Hasn't lost any playback value.
It All Comes Out has one of the most beautiful choruses I've ever heard. I'm a bass voice and can't sing worth a lick anyways but I go falsetto to sing that shit anyways.
Pretty good.
Album Rating: 3.0 | Sound OffWas a pretty good album. Nothing amazing though. One or two songs will go on my car mix lol
Album Rating: 4.0Is this album really worth checking out? I wasn't sure since it's just Scott singing now.
Album Rating: 4.0yeah. this album is pretty great. Scott's screams are better than the old screamer IMO.
Album Rating: 4.0Really? I like the old guys screams a lot.
The vocals have really stepped it up. Check it out, Kenbo.
Album Rating: 4.0I just listened to this album. God damn. I didn't think they would ever top Your World On Fire.
It is incredible, right?
Album Rating: 4.0album fucking rules m/
Album Rating: 4.0It is a very awesome album.
Album Rating: 4.0I heard these guys broke up. Shame, they had a good thing going with this album.
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SheWill: Mentorship Program
SheWill 2013 Mentorship Program: Summer
SheWill will be hosting a summer mentorship program for the Metro Atlanta, Georgia area and South Carolina that intends to focus on developing the financial literacy of our young girls. The program will be hosted from June to August to develop personal, financial and career goals. Mentors will keep in contact with mentee to guide and monitor progress toward their goals.
We are looking mentors who are willing to give their time and knowledge to promote a better today and tomorrow for girls everywhere. For more information, links are provided below.


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Your Club Your Way
September 26th Update
Greetings! If you have not read the previous updates, please do so; they follow this one. Things are moving quickly as our home and place of business sold in one day, well before the date we even considered putting it on the market! So our expected schedule for winding down has had to change rather drastically.
October 28th will be the last day to purchase physical handbooks, sashes and tees. At that time, all awards will need to be purchased through Keepsake Awards on Amazon. We are diligently working to convert our materials to pdfs. They will become available for purchase on keepersofthefaith.com once they are ready.
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Greetings to Our Dear Friends,
Some of you folks have already seen this blurb, so this is a NEW UPDATE on Keepers. Although it has been our joy to work with families and children for over thirty years, we realize that there is a beginning and end to all things. We are now in our late sixties, and after much prayer, we believe that God is leading us to the next phase of our journey.
We are Keepers, so, much of the Keepers program will, alas, not be available when we make this transition. As we are out of materials, we will not be reproducing them. We will keep our doors and website open while we have quantities of everything necessary to fill most orders. This includes handbooks, sashes, and tees, which have all been reduced in price. As we know that many of you have ongoing operations, we are diligently working toward insuring a source of continued availability for awards. Those of you who are interested, please check our home page for continued updates.
The NEW UPDATE, is that, since we have received a number of calls already from people interested in opportunity to continue on with their Keepers programs, we will make PDF versions available for the handbooks. It will take some time, but we will have pdf versions available for any hardcopy versions that go out-of-stock in the interim. Also, the awards will continue for the foreseeable future via another source when they are no longer available here.
It has been wonderful to get to know so many of you through these years. We will miss you! Thank you and may God bless you!
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After finding myself unexpectedly with a full day to spare on my most recent business trip to Southern California, I decided to take the Pacific Surfliner Amtrak passenger train out of Union Station in Los Angeles and check out the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley.
What a magnificent display of the lifelong achievements of this distinguished late President. No doubt, one of the most influential world leaders of the previous century. And not just one of the 43, but a true statesman... the type that only comes around every several decades.
But even if your political persuasion gets in the way of standing in awe of his transcendent legacy, just the chance to see and tour the retired VC137C in all its original livery and glory has got to be worth the visit.
Anyone else been there recently, and if so what are your thoughts on the various exhibits?


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Location: Room 505, Old Kirk Building, Gate 3 Kelburn Pde, Kelburn Campus
Teaching in 2016
HIST 338 - Prelude to Peace: Displaced Persons and Refugees in Post-War Europe
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BA (Hons) PhD Melb
Research Interests and Projects
- Geographies of Displacement in 20th-century and contemporary Europe
- Testimony of Transmigration
- European Refugee worlds in SE Asia and the Caribbean
- Children, Youth and Genocide
Publications in preparation
- Monograph: Enough of this Europe: Home-seeking and Holocaust Cinema
- Co-edited book, The Wiley Companion to the Holocaust
- Journal article: "Dachau, Warsaw, and Kingston: Refugee lives between empires and islands" for the Jamaican Historical Review
Publications (from 2012/ in print and forthcoming)
- Book Chapter, "Home-seeking: cinematic geographies of displacement in Meyer Levin's The Illegals", in Paul B. Jaskot and Alexandra Garbarini (eds.,), Lessons and Legacies (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2017/18)
- Book Chapter, "A Mobile Holocaust? Rethinking Testimony with Cultural Geography", in Paolo Giaccaria and Claudio Minca (eds.,), Hitler's Geographies: the Spatialities of the Third Reich (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016)/forthcoming.
- Editor, The Memorialization of Genocide (London: Routledge, 2016)
- Co-editor, The Young Victims of the Nazi Regime: Migration, the Holocaust and Postwar Displacement (London: Bloomsbury: 2016)
- "To whom do the children belong? Genocidal displacement in Europe and Australia", in Cathie Carmichael and Richard C. Maguire (eds.,), The Routledge History of Genocide (Oxford: Routledge: 2015): 38-54.
- (Co-editor), Ethics, Art and Representations of the Holocaust: Essays in honour of Berel Lang (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield), 2014.
- (Co-author) "From the camp to the road: Representing the evacuations from Auschwitz, January 1945." In Geographies of the Holocaust, edited by Anne Kelly Knowles, Tim Cole and Alberto Giordano. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2014): 192-225. (2015 American Association of University Presses Outstanding Selection—and A Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2015).
- (Co-author) "From Europe to the Antipodes: Acculturation and Identity of Deckston Children and Kindertransport Children in New Zealand. In: Yearbook of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies, vol. 13, The Kindertransport 1938/39: New Developments in Research, Eds. Andrea Hammel, and Bea Lewkowicz. Amsterdam: New York: Rodopi. Vol. 13 (2012): 103-124.
- "The Voice as a Human Document: On Listening to Holocaust Survivors in Postwar Europe", Yad Vashem Studies, 40, no. 2 (2012): 217-235.
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In developing his latest project for the Washington, D.C.-based company Liz Lerman Dance Exchange, choreographer and director Peter DiMuro strives to pierce his audience's consciousness. To do this, DiMuro wants to use the unique stories of the town he's performing in. To customize his ongoing oeuvre Near/Far/In/Out, a cross-generational dance work about gay life, he's staging a two-day workshop for anybody who has something to say. The work will be featured as part of the 25th Annual Florida Dance Festival, taking place June 15-29. In order to get a local flavor, DiMuro and three other dancers from the company will lead volunteers in movement and storytelling exercises. Do not fret if you've never performed before an audience; the troupe is looking for authentic voices to reflect the gay experience in Miami, from teens to seniors. Those who are chosen to perform the piece at the festival will be asked to commit to an intensive rehearsal schedule during the last two weeks of June. -- By Juan Carlos Rodriguez
The workshop takes place at 7:00 p.m. Thursday, May 22, and 1:00 p.m. Saturday, May 24, at The New World School of the Arts, 25 NE 2nd St, Room 5709. Admission is free. Call 305-867-7111.
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Great classical guitarists don't come exclusively from Spain. Finland produces plenty of them too. Take Juuso Nieminem, for instance. He can't be too bad at what he does. The young virtuoso won the prestigious International Guitar Competition in Coria, Portugal, last summer. Guess beginning those guitar lessons at age nine has its advantages. Nieminem plays as part of the International Masters Series presented by the Miami Classical Guitar Society at 8:00 p.m. Saturday, May 24, at Miami-Dade Community College Wolfson Campus (300 NE Second Ave, auditorium). Tickets cost $15. He'll also pluck the strings at 8:00 p.m. Tuesday, May 27, at the Centro Cultural Español (800 Douglas Rd., Coral Gables). Tickets cost $5. Call 305-412-2494. -- By Nina Korman
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Right-click a folder in the partition, select "Properties", and cancel "Read-only". When you open the "Properties", you will find Read-only is still there.
The above symptom may occur on the following systems:
All Idea Laptops
All Idea Desktops
The above symptom is probably caused by security settings.
Right click on the partition --> select "Properties" --> click the "Security" tab --> edit permission for "Administrators" --> check "Full Control". (You can also change the permission for a specific user.)
In addition, you can create an "Everyone" account and set up its permission as "Full Control".