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Friday 14 March 1969
It was Friday, under the sign of Pisces. The US president was Richard Nixon (Republican). In that special week of March people in US were listening to Dizzy by Tommy Roe.
In UK Where Do You Go To (My Lovely) by Peter Sarstedt was in the top 5 hits.
Charro!, directed by Charles Marquis Warren, was one of the most viewed movies released in 1969
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Volume 26 - Article 5 | Pages 131-150
Sampling and Surveying Hard-to-Reach Populations for Demographic Research: A Study of Female Labor Migrants in Moscow, Russia
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Because household-based survey designs are notoriously ineffective in studying hard-to-reach groups such as irregular migrants, these groups, however numerically large they may be, are rarely represented in demographic analyses. In this paper, we report on the application of a workplace-based stratified probability sampling design, response rate, and item-specific refusals in a recent study of irregular female migrants from Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan working in bazaars, eateries, and small retail outlets in Moscow, Russia. We argue that workplace-based survey, while not flawless, provides a uniquely feasible and cost-effective tool for studying irregular migrants and other marginalized groups.
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Victor Agadjanian - University of Kansas, United States of America
Natalya Zotova - Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Federation
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The arbitrariness is displayed by Mr Clarke's cheerful dismissal of advice from both the Bank of England and his own officials. In fact, he has disagreed with the Bank for most of the past two years. For part of 1995 and again since last May, the Bank has been much more hawkish - and with reason if you remember that inflation has only been below its 2.5 per cent target for two months during that entire period. Now many Treasury economists have come to share the Bank's diagnosis, and Mr Clarke turns out to be ignoring them too.
As for credibility, its absence is clear in the verdict of the financial markets. The British Government has to pay a lot more to borrow money than any other European government apart from that of Greece. Nor have inflationary expectations in Britain changed very much. There is a simple way of measuring this - by comparing the yield on index-linked and conventional gilts - and it has fallen only slightly, with UK inflation expected to be above 4 per cent on a five-10 year horizon.
A new Labour government would set the Bank of England on the road to independence by introducing a Monetary Policy Committee consisting of the Governor, Deputy Governor and six directors reporting to a more broadly based Court of the Bank of England. If it worked well, the Bank would earn its independence.
Paradoxical as it seems, giving the Bank its independence is the best way to make monetary policy less arbitrary. Its independence will be required eventually in any case if Britain decides to join the single currency. But whether this happens or not, Labour's proposals would, shorn of their vagueness, be a huge improvement over the present arrangements. These have turned out not to check at all the untrammelled decisions of a Chancellor bowing to political pressures.
A broader - but sensible - range of appointments to the Bank's Court; a policy committee which could deliberate and report in secret, and therefore with honesty, but its minutes published with a delay; and ultimately an independent Bank - it is hard to see the flaw in what Labour is proposing.
If there is one, it would surely lie in the Chancellor's ability to pick and mix the advice of the monetary committee. If the committee were divided, for instance, he could chose the option that most suited him politically. The beauty of the present system is that the Governor's advice is unambiguous. That said, however, these reforms would be a clear advance.
G7 cannot hold back the tide
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The G7 finance ministers were right back in April 1995, when they collectively decided to take the steam out of the yen and the mark. The slow steady rise of the dollar since then in any case reflects the healthier US economy compared with its European and Japanese counterparts. But the idea that the trend will stop here simply isn't plausible.
When credible authorities announce that the economic fundamentals demand a particular (if broadly defined) correction in exchange rates, and convincingly convey their determination to get it by intervening in the markets, then traders take note. Why waste your time betting on a rising dollar if you know the Federal Reserve and the Bank of Japan have the power and the confidence to prevent it happening?
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This may be the time for the G7 to start thinking seriously about "target trading zones" for their currencies. Sounds a bit like a global version of the ill-fated ERM, doesn't it? But actually that is the implication of what finance ministers said this weekend. They want exchange rates broadly where they are for the time being. But are they prepared to do what the markets require in terms of intervention and policy to keep them there?
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If you take the view that Mr Regan is the next Lord Hanson, then possibly. But actually, there's not much reason, so far, to think he is. For a start, he's only 31 years old, and as befits someone of that age, his record of deal making is unspectacular. Right now there's lots of noise and speculation but not much action.
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Pulsed, high-power LED illumination for tomographic particle image velocimetry
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This paper investigates the use of high-power light-emitting diode (LED) illumination for tomographic particle image velocimetry (PIV) as an alternative to traditional laser-based illumination. Modern solid-state LED devices can provide averaged radiant power in excess of 10 W and by operating the LED with short high current pulses theoretical pulse energies up to several tens of mJ can be achieved. In the present work, a custom-built drive circuit is used to drive a Luminus PT-120 high-power LED at pulsed currents of up to 150 A and 1 μs duration. Volumetric illumination is achieved by directly projecting the LED into the flow to produce a measurement volume of ≈3–4 times the size of the LED die. The feasibility of the volumetric LED illumination is assessed by performing tomographic PIV of homogenous, grid-generated turbulence. Two types of LEDs are investigated, and the results are compared with measurements of the same flow using pulsed Nd:YAG laser illumination and DNS data of homogeneous isotropic turbulence. The quality of the results is similar for both investigated LEDs with no significant difference between the LED and Nd:YAG illumination. Compared with the DNS, some differences are observed in the power spectra and the probability distributions of the fluctuating velocity and velocity gradients. These differences are attributed to the limited spatial resolution of the experiments and noise introduced during the tomographic reconstruction (i.e. ghost particles). The uncertainty in the velocity measurements associated with the LED illumination is estimated to approximately 0.2–0.3 pixel for both LEDs, which compares favourably with similar tomographic PIV measurements of turbulent flows. In conclusion, the proposed high-power, pulsed LED volume illumination provides accurate and reliable tomographic PIV measurements in water and presents a promising technique for flow diagnostics and velocimetry.


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Chapter 2
Casimir woke with a start, pillow tossed aside and dagger in hand before he took his next breath. A brief scan of the room revealed no arrows, darts, swords, or any other convenient source of death, nor should it have. He knew there was no assailant lying in wait – it had been another damned earthquake that had woken him – but it was relaxing to run through the routine.
Visible threats? No. Wounds? No. Disruptions in the room?
The small frame on the desk beside his bed had fallen over; he flicked it upright to reveal the familiar caricatures of his family, exactly as his sister had painstakingly captured them five years ago. There was his father's bulbous nose, like a mushroom attached to an otherwise angular face (it was a blessing that neither he nor his sister had inherited that monstrosity). Beside it glowed his mother's weak, pale countenance, which could only remind him now of her last few sickly months when it had only grown paler. It didn't help that his sister's limited knowledge of the subtle arts of shade and tone at the time had led her to choose pure white for the face, making it appear for all the world like a death mask.
His eyes moved to the center, where the artist had awkwardly inserted herself between the two – bless her, but eleven years wasn't apparently enough time to develop a sense of perspective. To her credit, the charm of the image more than made up for it. She had painted herself with a huge grin and that floppy red had she always used to wear, and scrawled at the bottom in yellow, "Happy Birth-day, Cas". Saints, how long had it been since he had seen Lanaya or Papa?
With a sigh, Casimir rearranged pillow and dagger into their proper places, and sank back down into bed. That little painting had lived in his satchel for his first two months of duty, until the days following the first attack when he learned that there was not a man among them without some trinket from home. Now, thirty-six attacks later, he had learned two things only: sleep with a dagger close at hand, and value all those little paintings, or lockets, or letters, for they kept men sane.
The ground lurched again, much more violently, and Casimir sprang from his bed. Sure enough, even as he had just begun to pull on a tunic and gather up his quiver, the bell rang out from the barracks' guard tower, and the sound of bootsteps thundered out in the hall.
A final check revealed that everything was in place – breastplate, gauntlets, bow, sheathe, quiver, boots, helmet, all strapped securely to his muscled frame in preparation for anything the Rift could throw at him. The sounds of boots outside had somewhat diminished, but there was no shame in being last to the fight. Better well-equipped a moment late than dead a moment early.
Casimir stepped out his door directly, very nearly colliding with a fellow soldier, a fairly fresh recruit by the way he trembled with each clanging of the bell.
"What's the word, lad?" Casimir asked, steadying the boy before he fell over. "Leathers again?"
The lad looked at him, still more or less in shock, and Casimir had to remind himself that any new recruit wouldn't have picked up the terminology of the Shield's informal bestiary. Wizards had their names for all of the various fiends, of course, but who remembers that rubbish?
"You know, the big, slippery ones, look like they're clad in green leather. You're boots are made of their hide – you know the type? We've had a fair run of them lately."
The recruit managed a stammered, "I-I don't know, sir."
Casimir clapped him on the shoulder, then drew his sword. "Stay close to me, lad. I know the first attack is like having your heart squeezed in a vice, but trust your sword and your training, and you'll get through it. Follow me."
The boy fell in line as Casimir walked swiftly through the halls, trying in vain to ask a few passing men as to what, exactly was attacking today. Finally, about twenty feet from the main gate, he caught the attention of a reserve archer, just come off the walls with a burn on his leg. It wasn't serious, just enough to make the man cringe as the doctor attending him applied water and bandages.
"It's nothing too awful out there today. Leathers and Hooktails, same as last week – Saints' blood, man, that stings!"
The doctor, to whom the last comment had been directed, glared sharply at his patient. "Perhaps you shouldn't think to block fires with your thigh!"
Their bickering faded into the background din of battle as Casimir and the recruit made their way through the postern gate and onto the wall itself. They came just in time to see Captain Fardin put a pike through one last Hooktail, and cast the scaly thing back down into the wispy mists of the Rift from whence it came. The men all raised their weapons in a hearty cheer, just as the sun broke free of the mountains to the east, and it seemed almost like an image taken off one of those dusty old tapestries Casimir's father kept in a storeroom. Dawn glinted black off the bloody pike tip, and even the recruit behind Casimir let out a choked and squeaky hurrah.
Coming back from the edge of the wall, the Captain gave Casimir a hearty clap on the back, his gauntlets ringing off the steel of Casimir's breastplate. "How nice of you to finally join us, Lieutenant," he said.
"Sorry, sir. Just helping this lad through his first attack, is all."
The Captain gave a hearty chuckle at this. "Well, there's no helping that, is there? I remember my first attack, nearly wet myself, and for good reason too. Back then we had Wisps coming up something fierce, and damned if there's anything worse than watching a man disintegrate before your eyes."
Casimir eyed the Captain with a little surprise – he didn't usually talk about his days as a recruit. In fact, it was hard to imagine old Leather-hide Fardin without a face full of scars and a smile almost wholly devoid of teeth. It must have gone quite well today, or quite poorly, to unearth such scraps as these. "What's the butcher's bill today, Captain?"
"Five wounded, none seriously, and none dead."
Casimir whistled. "Can't have been too bad at all, then."
The earth heaved again, and Casimir and the Captain exchanged a wary glance as they helped the recruit back on his feet. Thrice in one day was never a good sign.
"Back to the edge!" the Captain called out to the other men, who were already in the process of walking back inside with much congratulating and back-slapping. Casimir followed him to the nearest crenelation, and peered over along with the recruit down into the Rift.
The recruit gave an audible gasp when he saw it; the mists swirling in unearthly colors over a dull yet ethereal glow that was the Rift was quite the sight to behold the first time. Men often said it was a wound in the world itself, that some dark and powerful wizard had torn a chasm into something deep in the earth that wasn't meant to have been disturbed. Many believed it was the source of all magic itself, but Casimir felt that those sorts of people were easily convinced by flashing lights and pretty colors. As for himself, he freely admitted not knowing the nature of the Rift, and why should he? All he needed to know was that the beasts came out of it, and it was his duty to see that they didn't get far.
"Saints preserve us!" the recruit mumbled as a few slick shapes formed out of the light and mist, scrabbling up the cliff face a few hundred yards beneath them.
"Calm down, lad," Casimir said, "it's just a few Leathers. See the green color, the wet-looking skin?"
The lad nodded.
"Good," Casimir said. "Now, watch that one in the middle."
In a fluid motion Casimir sheathed his sword and brought his bow around from his back, nocking an arrow to the string as he went. Taking aim for only a moment he loosed, and the creature fell back into the mists. "Nothing to get worked up over. They die like any other creature."
Indeed, all along the wall a few dozen archers were proving that empirical truth with just as much accuracy. "Leathers aren't the ones to worry about," the Captain informed the recruit. "They're weak, slow, and a thimble-full of bog water could outsmart one."
After picking off two more, Casimir handed his bow to the wide-eyed recruit, who looked back at him in awe. "Really, Lieutenant, sir? Your bow?"
Casimir replied by handing the lad a few arrows, and pointing down at a Hoooktail flailing its way up the cliff face, hook then teeth then hook grasping the rough stones in rapid succession. "Those are nasty business if they make it up onto the wall itself. But, they're vulnerable as they're climbing – I'd say a single arrow should do it."
The recruit nodded, taking a deep breath before falling back into the comfortable familiarity of his training at the archery range. Casimir could almost read the words passing over his lips: two fingers on top, thumb supporting. Breathe. Draw, aim. Breathe. Loose.
The arrow flew true until a Wisp rose from nowhere, overtaking the Hooktail just in time to be pierced through its heart by the bolt. Casimir and the lad exchanged a glance, and burst out laughing. "If that isn't the luckiest shot I have ever seen..." Casimir said. "Here's my quiver. Just keep firing, and hopefully you'll make a few more like that. I'll be back in a moment."
Casimir moved left along the wall, following the familiar serpentine curve of the stones as they followed the contours of the mountains they were built upon. Rounding a bend he saw that the battle on this side was a different matter entirely, for a decent contingent of Leathers had broken through the line of archers. Drawing his sword, Casimir walked deliberately up to one from behind and stabbed it through the back, careful to avoid the hard, plated spines it had for ribs. Many a man had been unfortunate enough to lose his sword stuck in one of those ribs.
Pulling his blade clear he let the body fall with an unpleasant squish and hiss as air left and the frame of the creature deflated into a bloody mess. Moving on, Casimir neatly lopped off the head of another as it crouched to spring on a nearby archer. The man, slowly relaxing his anticipating cringe, gave Casimir a nod of thanks, and put an arrow through yet another Leather approaching him from behind.
"Have you seen the Captain?" Casimir shouted, bringing the flat of his blade down on the head of a Hooktail trying to fling itself over the edge of the wall.
"Further down!" the man replied, pointing Casimir into the thick of the battle, where a few Hooktails had managed to secure part of the wall, and beasts were pouring up from the Rift like water from a burst dam.
Casimir swore to himself and plunged into the chaos, leaping a bolt of fire from the first Hooktail and cleaving it in two against the stones. A second came at him in a flurry of teeth, which simply meant that he could hold his sword out and let the thing impale itself.
Before he could remove the scaly thing from the length of his blade a group of Leathers clambered up over the edge, but he kicked them off with a solid blow to the first one up.
Finally, off in the distance he could vaguely make out the shape of the Captain and two other men fighting, backs to the wall, against a dozen Leathers. Making a dash for them Casimir barreled through the closest two, and by the time he arrived the Captain had dispatched of the other ten as he and his men made an organized offensive that drove the fiends off the wall, back into the abyss.
Casimir was about to make a comment to the Captain when a Leather a few dozen yards behind him let out a piercing cry.
"Saint's blood," the Captain muttered, and Casimir felt his pulse race. The creatures had always been dead silent before.
Other creatures took up the cry, one by one along the length of the wall until Casimir forced himself to clamp a hand over his ears. It was like listening to a hundred kettles shrieking at uneven pitches. He shot a questioning look at the Captain, who returned a blank stare. Men all along the wall stopped fighting to close their ears, though a few still seized the opportunity to kick some beasts back over to their doom while they maintained their motionless shrieking.
Then, as quickly as it had begun the cries stopped, and the creatures in one great motion cast themselves off into the Rift.
"Twenty years," the Captain said, nearly shouting from the ringing in his ears. "Twenty years, and this place still has surprises left for me. Bring the wounded to the infirmary!" The last exclamation was to the soldiers, who were standing stock-still in shock after the mass suicide of their opponent. One by one the Captain's orders turned them to their duties, and they began working their way through the dead and dying.
"What do you think, Lieutenant?" the Captain asked.
"I couldn't even begin to think about it, sir," Casimir replied.
Casimir and the Captain both turned to see the look of horror in the face of the recruit, waving Casimir's bow at them frantically. "Sir! Lieutenant! Someone!"
"What is it, lad?" Casimir asked, taking his bow back from hands that readily yielded it.
"I-I don't know," the recruit replied. "B-but I think you need to see this."
The lad led them back at a breakneck run to the spot where Casimir had left him to his archery, very near the gate.
"Well, what is it?" the Captain asked, and the recruit led them over to the edge.
Flares in the Rift weren't entirely uncommon. The odd light that emanated from somewhere down within the expanse would sometimes pool together into a small, brilliant cluster before shooting upwards in a glowing and fairly benign display of color before dissipating well below the top of the wall. But this wasn't the sight that confronted the three men, each staring, transfixed.
Light that normally floated softly now writhed and thrashed, forming a bulbous and twisted shape that constantly shifted to more and more sickening incarnations of itself.
"W-what is it, sir?" the recruit asked, fingering his short sword nervously. "M-more fiends?"
"Shoot it, Casimir."
The surety in the Captain's voice caught Casimir off guard. "Excuse me, sir?"
"Shoot it before it has a chance to come up here. I don't know what that thing is down there, but I don't mean to find out."
Nodding, Casimir nocked and arrow and took aim at the blob of light as it heaved gelatinously. "What should I be aiming at, sir? It all looks the same to me."
"Just hit it, and we'll see what happens."
Hitting it proved to be fairly simple given the thing's enormous size; his arrow flew straight into it, though the effect seemed minimal as the tiny bolt simply disappeared into the writhing mass. If anything, its agitation seemed to increase, as it now convulsed with such fury that the earth began to tremble.
"Hit it again!"
Even as Casimir went to nock another arrow something burst forth from the glowing light, something long and black and sinuous.
The recruit let out a choked wail, and Casimir took a final shot at the newly-emerged creature even as the Captain kissed his ring finger and made the symbols of prayer over his chest. The arrow vanished into it without a trace, and the creature flew up before them with astonishing agility for something of its size – and it was massive, towering over them like a great black tree that sparked and oozed and smelled like nothing.
Casimir dropped his bow as it turned its head downward, towards them. "Saints preserve us," he whispered.
The creature opened its massive jaw, and from the depths of its mouth poured oblivion.


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I'm 27 and my face is sagging significantly and my skin texture is disgusting. Will fillers and Botox help me? (Photo)
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Aging skin, wrinkles, blemishes, jowling and folds; what's a pretty girl to do?
Thanks for sharing your photos! While I believe you are being too harsh on yourself, there are many things available today for "rejuvenation and anti-aging" there weren't even a decade ago.
Botox and Fillers will not help you with skin texture, elasticity and pigmentation. There are many ways to reduce lines around the mouth and lips, fill the aging descent of skin and soft tissues and rebalance facial expression. Each depends on the level of the wrinkle deformity, ie., epidermis, dermis, fat, muscle and skin color.
The most popular of the fillers, Restylane and Perlane, a jelly-like clear skin filler is used to fill lines, wrinkles and folds. Juvederm and its longer lasting "cousin" Juvederm Ultra Plus are similar skin fillers, used to soften and fill the nasolabial ("parentheses") and marionette folds, the brow ("number 11") lines and fill and lift the cheeks and lateral brow or chin. Voluma and Lyft are the longest lasting HA fillers, up to 2 years and 1.5 years duration HA. Each one is used to expand, project or volumize the loss of tissue associated with expression, weathering or aging. All the fillers come with numbing anesthetic!.
Restylane Silk is a wonderful new addition to the filler family. It is thinner and smoothening, particularly for the lines around the mouth and lips. I have also found it useful for the crow's feet and forehead lines too.
Scuptra is the latest of the injectibles stimulation collagen at different levels of the skin adding volume but primarily firming and adding resistance to the formation of wrinkles, folds and descent.
Botox and Dysport too have been found to rebalance excessive facial expression, provide a non-surgical brow lift and lip lift and reshape the nose, as well as reducing wrinkles even around the mouth!
1. Fillers in the lip like fillers elsewhere require and understanding of the anatomy and injectable results. For example:
- beyond the white roll, upper and lower lip wrinkles improve with Botox and smoothening fillers such as Silk in the dermis
- the white line and philtrum project better with smoothening or volumizing fillers like Silk or Restylane
- the lipstick lines of the dry (pink) vermillion are best injected with a volumizing filler like Restylane in the sub-mucosal layer
- lip fullness is best with projecting to volumizing fillers such as Lyft, Juvederm Ultra Plus along the wet/dry border of the vermillion lip
- lip pout can be improved with filler injections in the buccal mucosa (ie., back of the lip, inside the mouth) allowing the lip to push off the teeth.
Dr. Obagi's new, second generation ZO Skin Health programs may be added to personalized chemical peels, light and laser resurfacing and tightening and will, smoothen and even the color of your skin.
IPL and fractionated lasers such as CO2 and erbium and now RF (radiofrequency) are additions to smooth the texture of the skin, tighten and reduce red and brown uneven pigmentation.
These options maybe used similarly around the eyes with the caveat that the Injector must understand the art and science behind the injectables he or she are using and the anatomy and dynamics of facial expression.
All surgical, minimally invasive and non-invasive procedures and their combinations should be discussed following a proper examination with a well versed, Board Certified Plastic Surgeon who performs all of these options so you will not receive a biased approach because he limited in his skills.
I hope this has been helpful. All the best!
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Thank you for your question.
It is very common to have facial asymmetry and a difference in muscle movement on each side of the face. If this is something that bothers you, it may be helpful to discuss subtle options for injectable treatment, (Botox or Dysport for example.) with a skilled injector, and then decide if that's the right option for you.
Injectable fillers and dermal fillers are products that erase the signs of aging in a simple injection treatment. These may help restore lost volume and fill line.
Concerns with texture are typically best addressed with laser treatments and/or skin care products.
I'd recommend booking a consultation with a skilled and qualified injector to determine your best treatment options.
All the best.
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I'm 27 and my face is sagging significantly and my skin texture is disgusting. Will fillers and Botox help me?
Cheek augmentation using a dermal filler (Restylane Lyft) can create full, round cheeks in the front that will feminize the entire face. Cheek implants can be used for a permanent enhancement. A 30 % TCA chemical peel can improve the texture and tone of the facial skin. If you have "jowls" this is sagging facial tissues and an indication for some form of a facelift. The underlying SMAS layer, of the face, must be dissected, lifted, trimmed and re-sutured. The excess skin is then removed and the facelift incisions closed.
My most popular facelift is the minimally invasive, short incision facelift that has all the benefits of more invasive facelifts (traditional, mid-face and subperiosteal facelifts) but with these added benefits:
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•excess fat can be removed
•excess skin removed
•cheeks, chin and jaw line can be augmented with dermal fillers (I prefer Perlane) or facial implants
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Unhappy with face at 27
- I am sorry you feel so poorly about yourself. A lot can be done to improve your self-confidence.
- But - I don't see abnormal asymmetry in your face.
- Everyone is significantly asymmetric - nothing in our body totally matches the other side.
- I suggest you start with skin care - you have a delicate skin with what appears to be adult acne under make-up.
- The bunching from pulling certain faces is normal muscle action -
- A tiny amount of Botox can soften that.
- Botox and skin care will hep the fine lines and the skin's elasticity.
- If you spend a lot of time on the beach and in the sun - please reconsider.
- The English skin does not take kindly to excess sun.
Hope you find this information helpful. Best wishes.
??? Face sagging
I do not think you do need neither Botox nor fillers !!
best wishes
Mr J Tahery
Otolaryngologist /Facial Plastic Surgeon
Fillers and Botox for sagging
Skin Texture and Sagging
A combination of fillers, skin tightening (Thermage) to produce collagen and improve the jowls, and Clear&Brilliant to improve the skin texture would all help. Please consult a board certified dermatologist who specializes is cosmetic dermatology for the best results. Best, Dr. Green
Web reference: http://www.michelegreenmd.com/botox-cosmetic
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Little Anthony & The Imperials: "Little" Anthony Gourdine, Ernest Wright, Tracy Lord, Glouster Rogers, Clarence Collins.
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Amazing venue with the cutest coffee & ice cream shop! Great place to drop in for a dessert and amazing place to host a wedding, corporate event, or celebration of any kind.
We've been to several events here, it is a great place! Beautifully restored and friendly staff! The coffee shop has goodies and delicious treats, and local artwork is on display in the lobby.
Once you walk up to the Capitol Theater and enter the doors you are transported back to a time of ice cream sodas, sock hops, and classic Hollywood. They offer a variety of yummy ice cream selections, drinks, and candies. The staff has always been friendly and welcoming. There is even a photo booth to relive those good old days...
Ice cold perfectly made Dirty Chia. The coffee/concession adjoins the theater and what a beautiful place it is.
Step back in time to 1950's. The theater now is available for private events. It was built in 1921 and refurbished in 2002. Every attention to detail was given. Wish this was in my home town.
As a wedding photographer, I'm always looking for great venues to work with. This place is wonderful! All my brides that have been here have loved it! The area where the bride & bridesmaids get ready has enough room for everyone to relax, touch-up hair & make-up, etc. And the are where the guys get ready is awesome! Pool table,...
Best wedding venue!!! Debbie and Heath make a great team! They were great with helping us plan and coordinate our wedding. They had helpful suggestions and ideas to help make our wedding unforgettable. We loved that the Capitol theater was a package deal. Debbie took care of the decorating, catering, and cleaning up. Heath was our deejay and did an...
My high school prom (2013) was located at the Capitol and it was amazing. Our theme was A Gatsby Affair and it was perfect. It made my senior prom amazing!!!
We stopped by the Capitol Theatre to get a cup of coffee from the shop attached to the Capitol. What a beautifully renovated theatre!! It would be a fabulous venue to have a wedding reception. Very, very well done!
I visited the coffee shop and had an excellent mocha. The theatre is stunning, very upscale and themed. Awesome!
I love photographing weddings here....the decor is awesome and the whole building has quirky areas that are perfect for ooh to shoots...check out the man cave...I could shoot all day in there!!! Great staff, always helpful and it has such a cool retro feel...plus it's just 300 feet to my photography studio also in the historic area...a win-win place!!!
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Aalborg Charter
The Charter of European Sustainable Cities and Towns Towards Sustainability otherwise known as the Aalborg Charter (1994) is an urban environment sustainability initiative approved by the participants at the first European Conference on Sustainable Cities & Towns in Aalborg, Denmark.[1] It is inspired by the Rio Earth Summit's Local Agenda 21 plan, and was developed to contribute to the European Union's Environmental Action Programme, 'Towards Sustainability'.[2]
The Charter is based on the consensus of individuals, municipalities, NGOs, national and international organisations, and scientific bodies.
Approximately 2700 local authorities from more than 40 countries have signed the Charter.[3] This has resulted in the largest European movement of its type.
There are three related parts to the Charter. Part 1 is a consensus declaration of European sustainable cities and towns towards sustainability. Part 2 relates to the creation of the European Sustainable Cities & Towns Campaign. Part 3 is declaration of intent that local governments will seek to engage in Local Agenda 21 processes.[4]
The Aalborg Commitments[edit]
Ten years after the release of the Aalborg Charter, the 4th European Conference on Sustainable Cities & Towns was again held in Aalborg (2004).
The purpose of the event was to develop a common understanding of sustainability, and as a consequence to develop a framework to be used at the local level that would better articulate how to embed sustainability across municipality sectors. By consensus of participants, including organisations such as Association of Cities and Regions for Recycling (ACRR); Climate Alliance -Klima-Bündnis -Alianza del Climae.V; Council of European Municipalities & Regions (CEMR); Energie Cités; EUROCITIES; ICLEI Local Governments for Sustainability; Medcities; Union of Baltic Cities (UBC), and the World Health Organisation (WHO) - Healthy Cities, the Aalborg Commitments were agreed on and have so far been signed by more than 700 mayors from across Europe.[5][6]
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- ^ http://ec.europa.eu/environment/urban/pdf/aalborg_charter.pdf
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- ^ http://www.sustainablecities.eu/the-aalborg-commitments/
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- Stocks ended the month on a high all around the world.
- This did not make up for the gloom of a very bad month.
- Uncertainty is the watchword for today, the start of a new trading quarter.
Stocks rose around the world yesterday, which could mean the bear market is over. Or, as some warned, it could just mean that mutual funds stopped selling in anticipation of the end of the quarter, and that normal, downward service will resume this morning.
Markets started strong, fell from 11 am through the noon hour, then resumed their advance, finishing near the highs of the day. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (INDEX:INDU) wound up rising 235.57, to 1.47%, to finish at 16,285 and that was the worst performance among the major averages. The S&P 500 (INDEX:SPAL) rose 35.95, 1.91% to 1920. The Nasdaq Composite (INDEX:COMPX), which has been hit hardest in the latest downturn, came up the smartest, rising 102.84, or 2.28%, and finishing at 4,620.
The World Rose As One
The Nikkei gave permission for stocks to rise during its session, rising 2.70% on hopes for more stimulus from Prime Minister Abe. China was relatively quiet, the Shanghai average rising .48% and the Hang Seng in Hong Kong 1.28%, with Mumbai up 1.48%.
Europe kept the party going, with the German DAX rising 2.22%, the French CAC-40 rising 2.57% and the English FTSE 100 going up 1.91%. Against all that, the Dow's rise was practically black coffee.
Still what all analysts emphasized, around the world, was that the day's gains were not enough to make for a terrible, horrible, miserable and very bad quarter for the world's stock markets. The same problems that existed on Monday – low commodity prices, worries about China, and the Volkswagen (OTC:VLKAY) scandal – will also exist today.
Commodities: Good Day, Bad Month
Commodity prices had a good day, with West Texas Intermediate oil up .71% to $45.41. But it finished the month down 5.83% and remains mired below replacement costs.
The piper is going to be paid. Arabs are raiding their rainy day funds, and Texas oilmen are looking ahead to some hard meetings with their bankers. Their equity may be watered down, if they're lucky, in swaps for debt, or they could be taken out entirely, merged into larger entities for pennies on the 2014 dollar.
Carl Icahn tried to show confidence by raising his stake in Cheniere Energy (NYSEMKT:LNG) and giving a TV interview where he predicted financial gloom if his bets don't come back. He didn't get a lot of sympathy.
So What Went Up?
In general, what had fallen hardest earlier in the week got the best gains yesterday. Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN), a $540 stock last week, gained $15.80 or 3.14% but still finished at just $511.67. Facebook (NASDAQ:FB), which started Friday near $96, was up $3.23, or 3.73%, but still finished at $89.90. Drug maker Allergan (NYSE:AGN) was up $19.71 on the day, a whopping 7.82%, but those who bought at $290 last week are still out of the money – it finished at $271.81. Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) rose $15.76, 2.53%, to $638.37, but on Friday it was trading at $650.
Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL), the largest cap stock in the world, typified the ambivalent action. The company is becoming an enterprise player, but doesn't that mean it's going the way of Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT)? The company is getting both sales and production savings out of China, but doesn't that mean it's tied to China?
Thus the shares started strong, and rose to what turned out to be the day's high of over $111 by mid-morning. Then it lost nearly all those gains by 12:15, and began a long sideways slide – it was actually down for the day at 2:30. Then the bargain hunters arrived and it rose to its closing price right near $110.
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This morning is the start of a new quarter. October is usually a good month in financial markets, except in years of sheer panic like 2008, and there will be hopeful faces walking into offices. But it's anyone's guess how they will feel when they go home.
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Security has evolved at an almost dizzying pace. Technology, scope, management, processes, are all in flux. Meanwhile, the stakes have never been higher. The cost of a breach can include the loss of assets, even loss of life. And then there are litigation and regulatory compliance penalties. What do you see as the underpinnings of the security business? Let me offer what I believe are three critical drivers behind the changing face of security operations.
First is the criticality of integration. Most security operations have invested heavily in new technologies. In the past it was pretty simple. Fire Alarms, CCTV and Access Control were the mainstay. Today, however, there are many new systems and sensors that have entered into the equation: GIS, perimeter protection, chemical sensors, asset tracking, biometrics, License Plate Recognition, and Panic Buttons to name a few. You've probably heard the phrase "Connect the Dots" a lot recently, and with good reason. Consider this. All of these sensors and systems, from many different security vendors, generate tons of data. But for the information to be truly useful, you need seamless visibility across all of them. Thus integration is critical.
Another leading driver is the emergence of IP networking in security. From the improvement in technology to the effect on costs to increased partnership of IT in security system choices, IP Networks are changing the security landscape. IP enables technology deployment strategies that are very cost effective and efficient. With IP, infrastructure can be shared. And information can be shared…seamlessly…securely. New systems and upgrades to existing systems can be rolled out faster. Another positive effect of IP networking is that security and IT (once friendly foes, now allies) work closer together, ensuring that IT requirements are met and that solutions are deployed in the most cost effective way possible.
Last is the impact of an increasingly regulated business environment. As regulation grows in scope and complexity, compliance is more difficult to manage, with penalties for non compliance stiffer. As an example, last year, in the first significant fine of a utility associated with NERC compliance, Florida Power & Light was fined $25M for NERC violations that occurred during a blackout in Florida in 2008. Universities have also seen an escalation in campus safety regulations with new Clery Act requirements. The TSA, FAA and NTSB all have a greater 'say' in airport security. Almost every business has at least one regulatory body governing its security standards. The tentacles can be far reaching, touching many areas – from how systems and sensors are deployed to requirements for defined Conops plans, to incident reporting and auditing. Violations can have significant repercussions and costs, ranging from fines and litigation, to reputation damage, to incident resolution and recovery costs. It's easy to see why managing regulatory compliance isn't just another hot topic – it's business critical.
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We build our bears with love right here in Union City, California, where we train and employee individuals through California's welfare-to-work program, CalWorks. We believe building a strong community is part of the solution to a sustainable future.
CalWorks, California's Welfare-to-Work Program
Bears for Humanity has a clear goal, and it starts at home. We are proud to be located in Northern California, creating jobs for our community. Partnered with CalWorks, we are able to provide jobs to at-risk mothers, fathers and caregivers. Learn more at www.cdss.ca.gov/calworks. Our team in Union City California, stuff the teddy bears, hand sew the teddy bears, brush and groom the teddy bears, and ship them with love just for you.
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Bears for Humanity has partnered with socially conscious manufacturers in China to make the 100% certified organic teddy bear shells. After they are produced, we bring to California for filling, finishing, assembly and customization.Actions speak louder than words. As a business, we have chosen select manufacturing partners in China who adhere to manufacturing standards, labor rights and human rights. This is not easy. We are not just building certified organic teddy bears - we are building lives, one teddy bear at a time. By incorporating this hybrid model in manufacturing, Bears For Humanity is able to keep the costs down and pass the savings to you - the customer.
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Our teddy bear makers are from CalWORKs program. CalWORKs is a welfare to work program funded by fellow tax paying Americans in California. Our teddy bear makers are women and at-risk mothers with a desire and ambition to become accountable Americans. We hand pick, select and train every teddy bear maker based on 3 qualities - work ethic, character and commitment to excellence. Once they are selected, we immerse them in a hands-on training program in the art of making the perfect teddy bear. We teach and coach all our teddy bear makers in every aspect of making the perfect teddy bear just for you. Bears for Humanity makes the effort to care for our people first, a directive often neglected by the majority of the toy industry.
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It's a good thing our teddy bears are so fun to be with, because we spend an awful lot of time with them! Constructing these furry buddies is no small feat; you might be interested in a quick walk-through of the behind-the-scenes magic that goes into Bears for Humanity's mission.
Unlike most stuffed toys on the market, BFH teddy bears are hand-sewn, stuffed and finished in America. This allows for remarkable control over every aspect of the construction; challenges can be addressed in real-time, long before your little ones get their hands on these premium certified organic bears. Every bear must meet some pretty high standards before going out into the world to spread a little joy.
The Teddy Bear Journey
Premium and Baby bears are made from GOTS certified Organic cotton and Certified Organic Hemp. We custom make certified organic faux fur. This means absolutely no chemicals are added to the teddy bear fabric. From the fabric factory, they travel to a cutting and sewing factory that cuts the patterns of each and every teddy bear in China. These teddy bear shell fabrics arrive at our Northern California facility and start their journey in the loving hands of our awesome teddy bear makers.
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Teddy bear makers make each and every teddy bear with love and care. Each and every teddy bear is hand-sewn and stuffed. Folks, this takes time! Each bear-to-be enjoys a one-on-one relationship with its teddy bear maker, who works with the bear from start to finish. Because of the great care we take to make all of the limbs move just right and to make the little guys uniformly squeezable, each of the bear's parts are stuffed separately and then hand-sewn. It takes 25 minutes to hand sew each teddy bear. It takes another 10 minutes to hand stuff each teddy bear. Did you know that every teddy bear is filled with eco-friendly recycled fiber made from plastic bottles and caps. We do this to support our Mother Earth and Environment. These bears aren't "factory made"; they are lovingly constructed.
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Once the bear gets its final cuddly shape, the teddy bear makers focus on the more cosmetic elements of the process. Dont worry, we do not apply any make-up. Our teddy bears are cuter than Hollywood Stars. Bears for Humanity bears are not divas exactly, but the brushing and fluffing they undergo might suggest otherwise! The organic faux fur used for the bears looks its best after a little primping and styling, which also ensures that they are free from any factory fluff. These bears come with a "hugs on delivery" guarantee.
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