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Knorr Vegetable Stock Pot 4 x 28g
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- Brands: Knorr
- Dietary & Lifestyle: Vegetarian, Gluten Free
Store in a cool dry place.
After opening store in the fridge and consume within 3 days.
Dissolve into 500ml of boiling water to make delicious stock for gravy, casseroles or soups. Or add directly to vegetables, pastas or rice.
Preparation and Usage
Adding directly to your dish, each versatile little pot will enrich gravies, pastas or even stir fries, smoothly melting to bring a full and rich taste. Alternatively, dissolving into 500ml of boiling water will make a delicious stock for soups, risottos or casseroles.
For a lighter stock, use 750ml water.
Knorr Top Tip
Do you know that after opening, the pot can be kept in the fridge for up to 3 days?
Product can crystallize - this is a natural process which doesn't impact on quality.
Country of Origin
Country of Packing
Unilever Foods UK,
Unilever House,
Unilever Ireland,
20 Riverwalk,
Dublin 24.
Package Type
Other Information
Additives Information:
No artificial flavour enhancers, No added MSG
Full Product Name:
Concentrated vegetable stock.
4 Servings
Additional Information:
x 1 = each pot makes 500ml stock
Packed in a protective atmosphere
Allergen Information
Allergens can be found in the ingredients list
Free From Gluten
Allergy Advice: For allergens see highlighted ingredients
Concentrated Vegetable Stock (Water, Carrots, Leek, Red Bell Pepper, Celeriac) (43%), Glucose Syrup, Salt, Yeast Extract, Palm Fat, Sugar, Potassium Chloride, Parsley, Vegetable Juice Concentrate (Celery, Carrots, Leek, Onions) (0.9%), Spices (Celery Seeds, Lovage Root, Nutmeg, Pepper), Gelling Agents (Xanthan Gum, Locust Bean Gum), Flavourings, Caramel Syrup, Maltodextrin
Dietary Information
Suitable for Vegetarians
Nutritional Data
|Typical Values
|Per 100 g
|per portion**
|%* per portion**
|740 kJ/180 kcal
|50 kJ/ 15 kcal
|9 g
|0.6 g
|of which saturates
|5 g
|0.4 g
|17 g
|1.5 g
|of which sugars
|5 g
|0.4 g
|1.5 g
|0.1 g
|6 g
|0.5 g
|15 g
|1.1 g
|*% of Reference intake of an average adult (8400 kJ / 2000 kcal)
|** 1 Portion = 125 ml (each pot contains 4 portions)
Customer Reviews
27 April 2017
Dangerously high salt level in these stock pots!
This was a substitution for the pouch of Cooks Ingredients vegetable stock. I made an emulsified sauce with a pot of stock and unsalted butter, as I often do. The sauce was so salty it felt like it was burning my mouth! As we try to avoid ready meals and ready sauces etc, our salt taste receptors have not become repressed and are triggered at lower, Food Standards Agency recommended, levels. Each pot when diluted to half litre contains thirty, yes,THIRTY times the salt in the alternative pouch. This is a seriously unhealthy product.
30 October 2015
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Transformed turkey
On a bit of health kick, my other half had taken to steaming boring turkey breast in the microwave. Add in half one of these, a tablespoon of water and 4 minutes later it's like a different experience. They're fabulous for everything and anything. Personally I'd like a readable pot as often I don't use the whole one but that's a small complaint and nothing a bit of cling film can't fix.
12 April 2014
Adds fantastic flavour to rice, stews and casseroles. They are gluten free which is a plus if someone in the family is on a gluten free diet. A staple in my cupboard. The chicken pots are also very good.
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Additionally, Sudeikis imprisons Stewart's 'Twilight' co-star Taylor Lautner in the back of a taxicab before making his escape to the street.
Jason Sudeikis is seemingly restless to fulfill his quest to meet and introduce himself to the nominees of the 2011 MTV Movie Awards. After interrupting Emma Stone's massage session in a promo for the forthcoming show, Sudeikis now goes to "Twilight" beauty Kristen Stewart and shows off his skill with a pair of scissors.
The clip sees Stewart settling in to get her hair cut. Once Sudeikis comes into the room, K-Stew gives him a deadpan statement, "You're not my hairdresser". At the end of the video, she gets what is called as a "bowl cut", when Sudeikis puts a bowl on her head and cuts her hair.
In another footage, Sudeikis drops in on Taylor Lautner. This time, Sudeikis, who tells the 19-year-old hunk that he is the host of the event, locks the werewolf of "Twilight" series in the back of a taxicab before running away into the street.
The 20th annual MTV Movie Awards will be held June 5 and broadcast live by MTV at 9 P.M. from Gibson Amphitheater in California. Selena Gomez, Leighton Meester, Steve Carell, Shia LaBeouf and more are tapped to present the Golden Popcorn. People are encouraged to vote for the winners of the awards show, whose nominations are dominated by "The Twilight Saga's Eclipse" with eight nods.
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2002 (2004) - Elite Group Enterprises/EDKO Films (Miramax)
review by Bill Hunt, editor of
The Digital Bits
Film Rating: A-
Disc Ratings (Video/Extras): C+/C-
Audio Ratings (DD/DTS): B+/A
Specs and Features
99 mins, PG-13, letterboxed widescreen (2.35:1), 16x9 enhanced, single-sided, RSDL dual-layered (layer switch at ??), keepcase packaging with slipcase,
Hero Defined
production featurette (24 mins - 16x9, DD 2.0),
Inside the Action: A Conversation with Quentin Tarantino and Jet Li
interview featurette (13 mins - 4x3, DD 2.0), storyboard-to-film comparisons for 4 scenes (
Golden Forest
Ring of Iron
- 5 mins total, 4x3, DD 2.0), chapter selection insert, animated film-themed menu screens with music, scene access (14 chapters), languages: Mandarin (DD & DTS 5.1), English (DD 5.1) and French (DD 2.0 Surround), subtitles: English, English (for the hearing impaired) and Spanish, Close Captioned
2,000 years ago, China was a land divided into seven separate states gripped in a constant state of war. Among their leaders, only the ruthless King of Qin held the goal of uniting these states into a single, great nation. But the sole path to this future lay in many years of conquest and bloodletting, and the King was hated throughout the land. Many attempts had been made on his life, by ruthless assassins from the other states - assassins known by names like Sky, Broken Sword and Flying Snow. Then one day, a warrior with no name is given an audience with the King. It seems he has single-handedly defeated all three of these great assassins. Nameless tells the King how he defeated the assassins, but does he speak the truth? And why did he defeat them? As the answers to these questions gradually unfold in a series of flashbacks, the mystery and beauty of
is revealed.
is a remarkable film. This is certainly an actioner, of the likes of
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
, but it goes well beyond that film in audacity and scope.
is a stunning meditation - a kind of epic ballet of love, honor and loyalty, told through a near perfect blending of movement, color and meaning. Jet Li stars here as Nameless in a role that elevates him above the ranks of the simple action star. Other standouts in the cast include longtime HK familiar Donnie Yen (known to American audiences for his role in
Blade II
), Zhang Ziyi (whom you'll recall from the aforementioned
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
) and Maggie Cheung (previously seen in Wong Kar-Wai's
In the Mood for Love
). But it's the film's stunning production design and cinematography that will leave you breathless. This is visual poetry, pure and simple. Directed by Zhang Yimou (of
Raise the Red Lantern
probably isn't to everyone's taste, but it remains one of the best films we've seen in some time.
As you may recall, a few months ago after Matt and I first saw this film in the theater, I noted in my daily column that when Miramax finally got around to releasing this film on disc, the transfer had damn well better sparkle. Sadly,
does not sparkle. The film is presented in anamorphic widescreen. Color is generally excellent. Contrast is also very good, and while there's notable film grain visible, it's appropriate to the original theatrical presentation. The problem here is that, like so many of Miramax's recent DVD releases, the video has a slightly too soft and slightly too "digital" look about it. It just isn't as clean and vibrant as it should be. It's very strange - it almost looks like a high-frequency filtering pass was done after the transfer to reduce film grain, then edge-enhancement was added to increase detail and the whole mess was then over compressed -
Robert Harris has noted similar problems on Miramax DVDs in a recent column
). There's visible MPEG-2 compression artifacting in chapter 6 for example, during the battle in the leaves, and in other places as well. When there's little in the way of onscreen movement, the image looks just fine. But when you start to have a lot of complex movement, the image is average at best. In fact, average is probably the best way to describe this DVD in a lot of ways. Don't get me wrong - there's a whole bunch of you who watch movies on a 32-inch TV, and you're going to look at this DVD and go, "What the hell is he talking about? It looks fine!" But for those of you who demand more performance from your DVDs, and who watch them on large front or rear projection systems, you're going to be disappointed with the quality here. I can't tell you how much I wish this film was a Columbia TriStar title so it could get the Superbit treatment.
The audio is the sole area in which this disc excels. The film's original Mandarin soundtrack is presented in both Dolby Digital and DTS 5.1 surround (optional English subtitles are included). The DTS in particular is outstanding. The soundfield is smooth and natural, with tremendous ambience and terrific low frequency reinforcement. Listen for the subtle dripping of water all around in the House of Chess scene, for example, or the pounding beat of war drums when the Qin army attacks. The sounds of swordplay are crisp and airy, just as they should be. On the audio front at least, you're going to be very pleased. Dubbed English 5.1 audio is also available, although why you'd want to listen to that I don't know.
The extras, unfortunately, are average at best. There's a fairly straightforward "making of" featurette (
Hero Defined
) that runs about 24 minutes. It's moderately interesting, but just as it's starting to really get to the meat of what you want to know about... it moves on to the next topic. Surely there must be more on-set footage available for this film! How about a look at the staging of the massive armies? How about a more in-depth examination of the wire-fu process? How was digital enhancement used to achieve the final look of the film? What was the rational behind the color schemes in the film, and how was that achieved through cinematography and production design? Those are just a few of the things I want to learn more about with
. Instead, what you get amounts to interview clips with the director (and a few of the cast and crew) intercut with quick glimpses of generic production video - just superficial stuff. Anyway, at least it's 16x9.
In addition to the main featurette, there's also a 13-minute "conversation" between Quentin Tarantino and actor Jet Li. Basically, it's Tarantino gushing about Li's work and the HK/action genre, while Li occasionally reveals an interesting bit of information. Every now and again you get a clip from one of the films they're talking about. It gets a little better toward the end, when it becomes a little more of a behind-the-scenes on
. You've got to appreciate Tarantino's enthusiasm for this material, but someone shot much of this thing shaky-cam style and with a dolly that keeps tracking back and forth, and you wish the camera operator would just lock the damn camera down and let the discussion speak for itself.
The final bonus item here is a very short set of four storyboard-to-film comparison videos. These would be great... except they run less than 5 minutes in all and they're digitally compressed to hell so you can't really even appreciate the storyboard art. Oh... and you get a TV spot shilling the film's soundtrack CD. Joy.
Somebody at Miramax needs to get their head screwed on straight. See those five stars on the cover art? The film deserves them, but this DVD sure doesn't.
should have been presented all by itself on a dual-layered disc, so the video bitrate could have been maxed out. The extras should have been handled as more than just an afterthought and should have been included on a second disc. A soundtrack spot? Seriously? Miramax, what the hell were you guys thinking? Nobody that's going to be interested in buying this film is going to give a rip about the soundtrack commercial. What about theatrical trailers? What about the reams of production design artwork that must exist for this film? What about an audio commentary with the cinematographer, or a film historian, or a few of the stars who speak English, or... hell, even Tarantino?
was nominated for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film a couple of years ago. It deserves MUCH better treatment than this from Miramax. And the studio desperately needs to rethink their telecine and compression process. The video quality on their DVDs just doesn't stack up against the work being done by any other major studio. I'm getting sick of seeing so many of their great films looking simply average on DVD.
Bill Hunt
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Former president Bill Clinton spoke at a rally on the campus of Tyler Junior College on Friday, Feb. 15 on behalf of his wife's increasingly troubled campaign.
Speaking for over 50 minutes without notes, the former president wandered the stage in the area of the podium using a hand mic to talk about universal health care, the war in Iraq, America's standing in the world, the failings of the Bush administration, the successes of his administration and the prospect of a government project to develop 100 mile-per-gallon cars using revenues from an increase on the taxes levied against oil companies.
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Islamic forces burn ancient Timbuktu library
French and Malian military forces have closed in on the city of Timbuktu after armed Islamist extremists fled into the desert leaving ablaze a library holding ancient manuscripts.
Its mayor said the Islamists had torched his office as well as the Ahmed Baba institute – a library rich with historical documents – in an act of retaliation before they left the city of mud-walled buildings.
"It's truly alarming that this has happened," Ousmane Halle said. "They torched all the important ancient manuscripts. The ancient books of geography and science. It is the history of Timbuktu, of its people."
Timbuktu, long a hub of Islamic learning, has been home to 20,000 manuscripts, some dating back as far as the 12th century. It was not immediately known how many of the priceless manuscripts had been destroyed.
Owners have succeeded in removing some from Timbuktu to save them, while others have been hidden away from the Islamists who seized Timbuktu, Gao and Kidal in the wake of a coup last March.
They imposed the strict Islamic version of Shariah, or religious law, across northern Mali while carrying out amputations and public executions.
"In the heart of people from northern Mali, it's a relief – freedom finally," said Cheick Sormoye, a Timbuktu resident who fled to the capital, Bamako.
The French said Mali's weak military must finish the job of securing Timbuktu. But they have generally fared poorly in combat, often retreating in panic in the face of well-armed and battle-hardened Islamists.
The French-led military operation against the Islamists, who seized the northern half of Mali last year, began 17 days ago when the insurgents encroached further toward the south.
It has scored several successes, but hard questions remain about how the Mali Government will hold the cities that have been wrested from the Islamists, and whether there is the will and the ability to chase them into the Sahara, which is home to many of these desert fighters.
On Saturday French forces secured key installations in the northeastern town of Gao. Then overnight Sunday troops secured the Timbuktu airport without firing a shot.
Ground forces backed by French paratroopers and helicopters took control of Timbuktu's airport and the roads leading to the town in an overnight operation.
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The Challenge of Scaling an Adserver
Editor's Note: This post originally appeared on Mike On Ads.
So much of our time these days is spent talking about all the new features & capabilities that people are building into their adserving platforms. One component often neglected in these conversations is scalability.
A hypothetical ad startup
Here's a pretty typical story. A smart group of folks come up with a good idea for an advertising company. Company incorporates, raises some money, hires some engineers to build an adserver. Given that there are only so many people in the world who have built scalable serving systems the engineering team building said adserver is generally doing this for the first time.
Engineering team starts building the adserver and is truly baffled as to why the major guys like DoubleClick and Atlas haven't built features like dynamic string matching in URLs or boolean segment targeting (eg, (A+B)OR(C+D)). Man, these features are only a dozen lines of code or so, let's throw them in! This adserver is going to be pimp!
It's not just the adserver that is going to be awesome. Why should it ever take anyone four hours to generate a report, that's so old school. Let's just do instant loads & 5-minute up to date reporting! No longer will people have to wait hours to see how their changes impacted performance and click-through rates.
The CEO isn't stupid of course, and asks
"Is this system going to scale guys?"
"Of course"
Responds the engineering manager. We're using this new thing called "cloud computing" and we can spool up equipment near instantly whenever we need it, don't worry about it!
And so said startup launches with their new product. Campaign updates are near instant. Reporting is massively detailed and almost always up to date. Ads are matched dynamically according to 12 parameters. The first clients sign up and everything is humming along nicely at a few million impressions a day. Business is sweet.
Then the CEO signs a new big deal… a top 50 publisher wants to adopt the platform and is going to go live next week! No problem, let's turn on a few more adservers on our computing cloud! Everything should be great.. and then…
New publisher launches and everything grinds to a halt. First, adserving latency sky-rockets. Turns out all those fancy features work great when running 10 ads/second but at 1000/s — not so much. Emergency patches are pushed out that rip out half the functionality just so that things keep running. Yet, there's still weird unexplainable spikes in latency that can't be explained.
Next all the databases start to crash with the new load of added adservers and increased volume. Front-end boxes no longer receive campaign updates anymore because the database is down and all of a sudden nothing seems to work anymore in production. Reports are now massively behind… and nobody can tell the CEO how much money was spent/lost in over 24 hours!
Oh crap… what to tell clients…
Yikes — Why?
I would guess that 99% of the engineers who have worked at an ad technology company can commiserate with some or all of the above. The thing is, writing software that does something once is easy. Writing software that does the same thing a trillion times a day not quite so much. Trillions you ask… we don't serve trillions of ads! Sure, but don't forget for any given adserver you will soon be evaluating *thousands* of campaigns. This means for a billion impressions you are actually running through the same dozen lines of code trillions of times.
Take for example boolean segment targeting — the idea of having complex targeting logic. Eg, "this user is in both segments A and B OR this user is in segments C and D". From a computing perspective this is quite a bit more complicated than just a simple "Is this user in segment A"? I don't have exact numbers on me, but imagine that the boolean codetakes about .02ms longer to compute on a single ad impression when written by your average engineer. So what you say, .02ms is nothing!
In fact, most engineers wouldn't even notice the impact. WIth only 50 campaigns the total impact of the change is a 1ms increase in processing time — not noticeable. But what happens when you go from 50 campaigns to 5000? We now spend 100ms per ad-call evaluating segment targeting — enought to start getting complaints from clients about slow adserving. Not to mention the fact that each CPU core can now only process 10 ads/second versus the 1000/s it used to be able to do. This means to serve 1-billion ads in a day I now need 3,000 CPU cores at peak time –> or about 750 servers. Even at cheap Amazon AWS prices that's still about $7k in hosting costs per day.
Optimizing individual lines of code isn't the only thing that matters though. How systems interact, how log data is shipped back and forth and aggregated, how updates are pushed to front-end servers, how systems communicate, how systems are monitored … every mundane detail of ad-serving architecture gets strained at internet scale.
Separating the men from the boys…
What's interesting about today's market is that very few of the new ad technologies that are entering the market have truly been tested at scale. If RTB volumes grow as I expect they will throughout this year we'll see a lot of companies struggling to keep up by Q4. Some will outright fail. Some will simply stop to innovate — only a few will manage to continue to both scale and innovate at the same time.
Don't believe me? Look at every incumbent adserving technology. DoubleClick, Atlas, Right Media, MediaPlex, OAS [etc.] — of all of the above, only Google has managed to release a significant improvement with the updated release of DFP. Each of these systems is stuck in architecture hell — the original designs have been patched and modified so many times over that it's practically impossible to add significant new functionality. In fact, the only way Google managed to release an updated DFP in the first place was by completely rebuilting the entire code base from scratch into the Google frameworks — and that took over two years of development.
I'll write a bit more on scalability techniques in a future post!
Prior to founding AppNexus, Mike was Director of Analytics and Product Manager at Right Media, where he designed and managed key applications including predictive optimization, inventory forecasting, and Media Guard, which protects publishers from harmful or unwanted ad content. At Right Media, Mike was instrumental in helping clients including Yahoo, MySpace, CPX Interactive, and others to leverage the Right Media Exchange for maximum benefit. Mike's insight into the intersection between business needs and technology innovation began at 15, when he sold his first software application, and continued at Princeton University, where he studied Economics. Mike is an active blogger at MikeOnAds where he analyzes the fast-changing display ad management and buying space, examining the interplay of ad networks, ad exchanges, real time bidding and the entire ecosystem of players.
Happen to work in one of the companies you're talking about in these two articles. You are spot on. The problem here is that when I sent these to people in the chain, the response I got was basically "do not know what he's talking," which, of course, that I expected. Very funny. Thank you for your understanding. I appreciate getting statement of my mensagens para orkut views.
I agree that in today's market few of the new ad technologies that are entering the market have truly been tested at scale. Thank you for such an informative site. There is so much useful information.
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Chris March Files Lawsuit Against Thierry Mugler Over Beyonce's Costumes
Chris March is usually very jovial and humble when he's competing on "Project Runway," but sometimes a man has to put his foot down if he's being disrespected. March has filed a lawsuit against fellow designer Thierry Mugler for allegedly not paying him for the work he did on Beyoncé's "I Am" tour costumes. Now hold on a sec before you get all hot and bothered. Mugler did design the costumes, but March executed them because he's used to designing for the stage and "wild" dancing. March says he had to figure out a way to attach a harness into one of Beyoncé's costumes and had to mold corsets to fit her figure perfectly. Everything was going smoothly, says March, until he submitted his last payment invoice after getting the finished costumes to Edmonton, Canada by March 26, the day of Beyoncé's first show. March says Mugler left for Paris without paying anyone. (Beyoncé had paid Mugler and he was supposed to pay his team.) March told The Cut, "There's just been a refusal to pay with no reason."
This seems to be an oversight. I doubt Mugler handles his own invoices. Though, it's too bad that the seven-year work relationship between these two has to end this way.


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Nettie Navy dressThursday, June 05, 2014
Hello everyone! So summer is here I hear! Looking forward to summer sewing? I definitely am! Many sewing happenings are taking place right now around the sewing blogosphere. Voting for Sewing Indie Month is starting today and ending at the 13th of June and an different and really interesting contest, the Knitcation contest is taking place over at Coletterie. You basically have to use Colette's Mabel and/or Moneta patterns to create a 7-day wardrobe for a (real or imagined) trip. This sounds really interesting!
But over to this dress now! This is my very first Nettie dress. If you don't know about the Nettie pattern by now I have to think you're leaving under a rock. Nettie bodysuit and dress pattern is the newest pattern from Closet Case patterns created by the lovely Heather Lou. Heather's blog is one of my favorites to read and her makes are an instant inspiration for me! When the pattern launched my first reaction was finally! Someone spotted the gaps in the pattern industry. But Nettie is not an ordinary pattern! The pattern has two options, one is a bodysuit version and the other one is a dress. But it doesn't stop there. It also includes a choice of 3 sleeve lengths, 2 necklines and 3 back variations (a high, a medium and a low back!!!). Multi-pattern or what?
For my first version I went with the 3/4 sleeves, scoop neck and medium back. I used a 2-way stretch, medium weight striped knit fabric. I sewed a straight size 10, but it turned out to be a little big in the bust and as a result the shoulders are dropping if much movement is involved. I will try to fix this, but next time I definitely have to go with an 8 for the bust.
I seriously love this pattern. The possibilities are endless, the drafting is amazing and the instructions are really clear and easy to follow. I love seeing versions of this pattern all around the internet and I' m already planning my next version. You're definitely going to see more of this pattern around here!
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Mediation in Massachusetts is an informal, confidential process where a neutral person called a mediator acts to encourage and facilitate the resolution of a case without prescribing what it should be.
In contrast to a judge who decides for the parties how a dispute will be resolved, a mediator (or conciliator) helps the parties reach their own mutually acceptable and voluntary agreement.
The role of the mediator may include: assisting the parties in identifying the issues, assessing and reviewing the relative strengths and weaknesses of their case, determining common interests, fostering joint problem-solving, exploring settlement alternatives, and finalizing a settlement agreement.
Here you would do this by letter to the judge as follows..
Honorable XXXXX XXXXX
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Re:Your Case Number XXXXX Names
Dear Judge Smithi,
ok...thank you
I am requesting mediation be ordered in the above styled case to which I am a party.I feel that there is at least potential for settlement and that mediation may solve the need for trial and allow the parties to conserve the resources and time of the court.
Sincerely Yours,
Something like that shoudl do the trick for you.
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CITES chief Willem Wijnstekers is in southern Africa for two weeks to oversee auctions of some 108 tonnes of ivory, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora said Monday.
Wijnstekers arrived Monday in the Namibian capital Windhoek, where the first auction of nine authorized tonnes of ivory will be held tomorrow, said the UN-backed group.
Botswana will follow with the next auction of 44 tonnes on October 31; Zimbabwe host an auction of four tonnes, while South Africa will auction 51 tonnes, the group said.
Ivory sales were approved in July by CITES, with China and Japan expected to be among the biggest buyers, after CITES agreed over the last two years to allow them to take part in legal auctions.
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in britain, entrusting healthcare to the loan sharks who ate us
The bankers crisis cut Britain deeply, in the form of a bailout that peaked at £1.16 trillion, or $1.84 trillion, according to the National Audit Office. Now, David Cameron's Conservative government is busy selling off national services in chunks to private corporations coincidentally, to those same investment bankers who created the mess to begin with.
Privatization and cuts threaten services including public healthcare, education and local services as the drive for profits against a background of cutbacks means drops in provisions. Worst still, the corporations that will receive massive contracts with British taxpayers money are financially unstable: they share track records of financial irregularities, many are subsidiaries of tax-avoiding multinationals, and included are even tax haven-based investment and private equity groups.
In short, Britain is putting its public services, the vital safety net that we get in return for our taxes, in the hands of the least trustworthy and transparent investors imaginable. These are the individuals, remember, who gambled money into an over-inflated property bubble that burst and turned their crisis of speculation into a human crisis. Now, after being bitten by a great loan shark of financial banking, it seems the same shark is going to be entrusted to care for the sick, look after our children and run our local swimming pools.
Getting out the water, instead, seems a sensible idea now.
The banking crisis proved that when banks that are too big to fail crash, human crisis ensues - especially in terms of cuts to vital healthcare and welfare spending, which keep people above the poverty line. The cuts alone will reduce British healthcare spending by 8% over the next three years, according to the Financial Times. While there are already 6,000 fewer nurses since the Conservatives took the lead role in government, education spending has also dropped the largest amount in any four-year period since the 1950s, reports the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
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1. With regard to healthcare
changes are mainly attributable to over use of PFI's which have completely screwn the budgets of some of our Area Health Authorities.
Background here ;
The PFI is ultimately a kind of project finance, a form of private sector delivery of infrastructure that has been used since the Middle Ages. However, the pedigree of the current private finance initiative (PFI) was in Australia in the late 1980s.
In 1992 PFI was implemented for the first time in the UK by the Conservative government of John Major. It immediately proved controversial, and was attacked by the Labour Party while in opposition. Labour critics such as the future Cabinet Minister & Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, Harriet Harman, considered that PFI was really a back-door form of privatisation (House of Commons, 7 December 1993), and the future Chancellor of the Exchequer, Alistair Darling, warned that "apparent savings now could be countered by the formidable commitment on revenue expenditure in years to come".[7] Nonetheless, the Treasury considered the scheme advantageous and pushed Tony Blair's Labour government to adopt it after the 1997 General Election. Two months after the party took office, the Health Secretary, Alan Milburn, announced that "when there is a limited amount of public-sector capital available, as there is, it's PFI or bust".[7] PFI continued and, in fact, expanded under Labour, resulting in criticism from many trade unions, elements of the Labour Party, the Scottish National Party (SNP), and the Green Party,[8] as well as commentators such as George Monbiot. Proponents of the PFI include the World Bank, IMF and (in the UK) the CBI.[9]
Both Conservative and Labour governments have sought to justify PFI on the practical[10] grounds that the private sector is better at delivering services than the public sector. This position has been supported by the UK National Audit Office with regard to certain projects. However, critics claim that many uses of PFI are ideological rather than practical; Pollock recalls a meeting with the then Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown who could not provide a rationale for PFI other than to "declare repeatedly that the public sector is bad at management, and that only the private sector is efficient and can manage services well."[11]
In 2003 the Labour Government used Public-private partnership (PPP) schemes for the privatisation of London Underground's infrastructure and rolling-stock. The two private companies created under the PPP, Metronet and Tube Lines have now been taken into public ownership due to their financial problems, at significant cost to the UK taxpayer.[12]


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Egg Laying
Australorps fall under the category of "utility
chicken." Breeders cross bred Australorps with the utilitarian goal of egg production in
which they succeeded. In fact, Australorps hold the world's individual record and even a
team record for egg laying. They usually lay five, light-brown eggs a week from five
months of age onward. Although bred for egg production, Australorps adequately qualify as
a dual-purpose chicken. Large and meaty they reach butchering age at eighteen weeks. The
hardy Australorps bear up well to cold weather and confinement. Very ordinary in most
categories, Australorps when taken as a whole rank as truly a very extraordinary
Australorp owners say little about the temperament of the breed primarily
because Australorps cause very little problem. Temperament descriptors read,
"calm,friendly, peaceful, dignified, , sweet, and shy. Breeders classify the most radical
Asutralorp as "active." Their careful breeding has created an active chicken without
creating a flighty or feisty one. They like to brood, fly little, fight less, and stay
close to the coop.
The Australorp, every man's chicken, has a solid, ordinary look. They
have a solid black plumage with hints of green or purple hue in direct sunlight set off
with a single red comb, medium matching wattles, red earlobes, and dark eyes. They
sport no crest or feathers. Handsome but not showy, the Australorp looks the very part
of a blue-collar chicken that just does his/her job without fanfare. In recent years
breeders have introduced two new lines in the breed: a blue and a white Australorp.
Build a standard coop and run for your Australorp flock. Insulate
for heat retention in the winter and heat reduction in the summer. Eliminate
drafts. Australorps like to forage as do most egg layers. Build a spacious clean
run for them. Australorps lay well into the winter months without electric lights.
However, artificial lighting always increases egg production. Using a timer, add
the light to the morning hours. They need to have a natural sunset with the light
fading gradually. Sudden darkness will frighten your chickens and decrease egg
production. Use a good "layer" feed that contains elysine, methionine, calcium, and
phosphorus to support the prodigious egg production of this breed. Feed ad
The name of the breed comes from blending names of the Astral
breed and the Orpington line. In reality, Austrlorps also have Rhode Island
Red, White Leghorn, Langshan, and Minora genes. Bred as a utility breed in
Australia, it gained acceptance to England's Standard of Prefection in 1929.
Australia developed their own standards for the breed after World War II. One
hen laid a world record 364 eggs in a year. Six hens set a world's team record
of 1857 eggs in a year. Australorps captured both records without the aid of
modern day lighting protocols. The breed put Australia on the map in poultry
circles and paved the way for utility breeding worldwide.
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Ballard Power (BLDP), FuelCell Energy (FCEL) and Plug Power (PLUG) are a trio of energy stocks that have had more twists and turns than a daytime soap opera. And the recent performance in BLDP, FCEL and PLUG stock has led me to the following conclusion:
The investing world is a few fries short of a Happy Meal.
I don't know how else to explain the outperformance of these stocks, whose companies focus on fuel-cell technology. Ballard, Fuel Cell and Plug Power aren't profitable and haven't been so for years, and Wall Street analysts see red ink at these companies to continue for a while. And while there have been some signs that these companies are turning the corner, it doesn't appear as though they will make money on a consistent basis for a while.
And yet … BLDP has surged more than 235% since the start of the year. FCEL is up more than 132%. And PLUG stock has skyrocketed nearly 300%.
Watch Out for BLDP, FCEL and PLUG Stock
Unfortunately, investors have gotten badly burned by this sector before. Shares of these companies skyrocketed along with other clean-energy names during the dot-com bubble, only to come crashing to earth. For example, even after PLUG stock's monster 2014, shares still are off 99.7% from their 2000 reverse-split-adjusted price of nearly $1,500.
Granted, times have changed. Fuel cell technology has gotten better and more economical thanks to cheap, abundant supplies of natural gas, which they need to convert hydrogen and oxygen into electricity.
The technology, though, still isn't economically viable.
As Quartz noted last year, fuel cell-generated electricity costs between 14 cents to 15 cents per kilowatt-hour, more than double the 6 cents to 9 cents per kWh that natural gas-created power costs. Coal-generated electricity costs 7 to 15 cents.
Like other types of alternative energy, fuel cell providers have stayed afloat courtesy of taxpayers. That's because of their green benefits — fuel cells have a significant advantage over other types of conventional electric generation because they produce no pollution.
Click to Enlarge So when evaluating these stocks, people have thrown away their calculators and are relying on their gut, which has created some interesting charts.
These stocks have experienced some recent blowback, though for odd reasons. PLUG stock plummeted more than 40% Tuesday (and FCEL and BLDP also took double-digit hits) after a Wall Street analyst estimated Plug Power's fair value at 50 cents. That's pretty harsh considering that shares traded above $11 recently, but probably closer to the truth than current prices.
But what's most bizarre about it is that the Citron Research analyst who doled out the report referred to Plug Power as a "casino stock."
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Ondo's Spanish Tapas Bar celebrates its third birthday tonight
Deicy Steinbecker and her husband, Curt, opened Ondo's in 2009.
Ondo's Spanish Tapas Bar, 250 Steele Street, is commemorating three years in business this evening with drink specials -- including $3 Basque cider and $5 house wines -- throughout the night. There will also be a traditional, Basque-style Pintxos bar featuring a variety of tapas for $2 each.
See also: -Ondo's Spanish Tapas Bar rolls out a traditional Basque happy hour -Last Supper: Our outgoing critic ends things at Ondo's, where they're easing into excellence
Ondo's was the last Denver restaurant that Jason Sheehan reviewed for Westword before his move to Seattle -- and the tapas bar has lasted longer in Denver than he did in Seattle.
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Following the regional Festival of Music for Youth that took place in the Fairfield Halls last March, Two groups from Homefield Preparatory School Sutton, were selected to participate in the National event in Birmingham. The six members of the Composers Ensemble performed a piece that they had written for themselves in Symphony Hall on Wednesday 9th July and the Trio performed a three movement work by Tomasini in the Birmingham Conservatoire Recital Hall on Thursday 10th July. The Composers Ensemble (2 Trumpets, Clarinet, Cello, Xylophone & Piano) was awarded a special certificate for innovation and the Trio were awarded a special certificate for performance practice. The award for the trio (Clarinet, violin & cello) was a particular surprise, as the boys were the youngest players in this under 18 section.
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by Staff Writers
Warwick, UK (SPX) Aug 31, 2011
Research led by astrophysicists at the University of Warwick has resolved a 40 year old problem with observations of turbulence in the solar wind first made by the probe Mariner Five. The research resolves an issue with what is by far the largest and most interesting natural turbulence lab accessible to researchers.
Our current understanding tells us that turbulence in the solar wind should not be affected by the speed and direction of travel of that solar wind. However when the first space probes attempted to measure that turbulence they found their observations didn't quite match that physical law.
The first such data to be analysed from Mariner 5 in 1971 found a small but nonetheless irritatingly clear pattern in the turbulence perpendicular to both the direction of the travel and the magnetic field the solar wind was travelling through.
While it was an irritating aberration the affect was relatively small and has been essentially ignored by physicists until now.
However the most recent space missions to look at the solar wind, such as the Cluster mission, are examining it with such sensitive and highly accurate modern instrumentation that what was once a small aberration was threatening to become a significant stumbling block to us getting a deeper understanding of what is going on in the solar wind - which is effectively the solar system's largest and most interesting natural turbulence lab.
Research led by Andrew Turner and Professor Sandra Chapman in Centre for Fusion, Space and Astrophysics at the University of Warwick has found a solution to this 40 year old problem.
The research team looked at data from the Cluster mission and they also created a virtual model of how magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence builds up in the Solar wind.
They then flew a virtual space probe through that virtual model in a range of directions unlike the single direction of travel open to a probe such as Mariner 5.
University of Warwick researcher Andrew Turner said that what they found was that:
"The analysis clearly showed that when all these results were considered together any correlation between changes in the turbulence in the solar wind and the direction of travel simply disappeared. The observed non-axisymmetric anisotropy may simply arise as a sampling effect of using just one probe taking a single particular path through the solar wind."
The research paper, entitled Non-axisymmetric Anisotropy of Solar Wind Turbulence, is published in PRL and is by A.J. Turner, S. Chapman B. Hnat Centre for Fusion, Space and Astrophysics, University of Warwick; G. Gogoberidze, Centre for Fusion, Space and Astrophysics, University of Warwick and the Institute of Theoretical Physics, Ilia State University; and W.C.Muller of the Max-Planck-Institut fur Plasmaphysik.
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After much time spent looking at my options (I drive a 2001 Honda Accord 2-door with a ridiculously short trunk), it became painfully obvious that my only options were the Saris Bones or a roof rack.
I decided to go with Saris because it was significantly less expensive and when I changed cars it would be a sure thing that the Saris would work. The Bones system arrived disassembled, but putting it together was a snap. The instructions were almost unnecessary.
The main piece of the Saris system is an aluminum cylinder with ridges. The ridges basically determine the height of the clearance and the travel distance for the rack. For example, if you have a spoiled on your trunk, you adjust the base accordingly and a standard rear spoiler can be easily bypassed.
The base arms and the arms that carry the cycles are made of some kind of plastic composite. Personally, I think that the composite is kind of lame and it doesn't inspire a lot of confidence (because of this I've not tried carrying three bike). I did, however, carry two bikes a number of times without any issues. If Saris ever makes an all aluminum system I'll be all over it.
There are three straps that tie the system down and they fit my car without any trouble. The Saris also includes bike straps on the carrying arms, as well. They are well made and easy to use.
The reason the Saris bones system is so easy to use is because it is extremely flexible. You can adjust the height of the clearance AND you can adjust the horizontal travel of the support arms, which comes in handy if you have a bike with weird geometry.
The only caveat is the plastic composite of the arms. I will reiterate that so far they have held steady and nothing has broken, but the system would rock so hard if the arms were made of aluminum. Perhaps there is a reason other than cost associated with the existence of the composite arms (maybe the weight of the bikes would help strip the screw taps, or scratch the bikes). But if cost is the primary reason then I beg Saris to consider building an all aluminum system as it would become the best bike carrying system on the market.
Last but not least – one of my screws arrived stripped (they are also made of plastic) but I contacted Saris to ask where i could buy replacement screws. Their support said not to sweat it and that they would mail me two screws. Three days later I got the screws. Saris has a customer for life.
Product Features
- 3-bike trunk-mounted rack conceived by famed designer Fabio Pedrini
- Made of heavy-duty, 100-percent recyclable plastic for durability
- Ratcheting anti-sway straps secure and stabilize bikes to rack arms
- Arched design fits over most car spoilers; articulated rubber feet protect finish
- Attractive, gallery-worthy design keeps bikes easily accessible; lifetime warranty


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Taking a look back when I first started college, I wish I had known what I knew today about the job search. I figured once I get out, I will have a degree and employers will be throwing themselves at me. Unfortunately, the recession happened, and the veterans in the job world were taking all the entry-level jobs.
Here I was, happy about graduating, but depressed about finding a job. After two months of being jobless, I realize it was no longer about using my degree, but about obtaining an income to pay the bills. I have talked with several students that have recently graduated or who are about to graduate and they are all in the same boat. The advice that is constantly circling around the Internet varies depending on who you talk with and their profession. For instance, if you are attempting to land any form of marketing job, you'll have those marketing professionals scrutinize your work while HR professionals will be looking at it from a different angle.
I'm growing fonder of creating lists of the things I wish I had done while still in college. So here is a just a few that I wish I would've known and executed.
Value your Network
I didn't start appreciating those within my circle of influence until about my junior year. I knew the President of the university, I knew directors of various offices, and I was pretty well known by most faculty and staff in the Business department. However, I didn't start talking to them about my future employment options and how they could assist me. I don't believe in Career Services because I have yet to hear a success story that was directly because of the department. Career fairs and resume workshops are nice, but you can get those same things without visiting your college's Career Services department. Use your network to your advantage.
Get an Internship
I cannot express how much real-world experience trumps scholastic knowledge. For that reason, the veterans that didn't go to college are getting all the jobs. Employers should start looking towards younger generations because we have more to offer than real-world experience. It's weird that employers still have to list that you must be proficient in Microsoft Office products. Don't graduate without having some real-world experience. Even if all you did was file build your resume to make it look like you were way more awesome. Don't lie though.
Forget the 4.0 GPA, Get Involved.
I'm not saying don't do well in school, but don't just aim for that 4.0 GPA and not be involved at the same time. I recently heard the saying A students work for the B students, C students own the business, and D students are the geniuses€ I think that is true in some respect. You don't want to focus all your energy on achieving perfect grades. Three things I wish I had been more proactive with while attending college. I've built my post-college network and it would've been a lot easier when the recession wasn't shot. I'm told wait until the beginning of the year, but another person told me that they mentioned that she has been waiting for the beginning for several years now. A degree in itself is not as effective as the network you build and the friends you make.
What kinds of things did you do in college and what do you wish you had done? Let us know!
Blake McCammon, is an intern at Xceptional HR. Connect with Blake on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook. Blake is a recent grad of Northeastern State University with a degree in Business Administration. During school he created and managed his university's social media strategy. He is currently the co-moderator for the Twitter chat, #genychat which takes place every Wednesday at 9pm EST.


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text: Apr 22 3:24 PM CT By Todd Archer | ESPNDallas.com IRVING, Texas – The keeper of all things salary cap when it comes to the Cowboys, executive vice president Stephen Jones understands the importance of the team hitting on draft picks. "You can't continue to go to the well and pay the veteran players the $1 million, the $800,000, the $1.2 million," Jones said. "We've got to do a better job going forward of taking your lumps early, but developing these guys and putting them in your lineup, those $300,000 and $400,000 and $500,000 guys. I think that is the big difference compared to where it was three, four, five years ago when you could get the veteran guys. "I think obviously, when we start the season, that veteran guy is probably a little more ready to play than the young guy coming out of college. It's a big jump. But with the cap where it is today, that's one of the things you're going to have to focus on is plugging these young guys in regardless of if they're a third-round pick, a fourth-round pick. We had some injury issues last year that didn't allow us to do that, but I certainly expect those guys to come along as well as the young guys we'll pick in the third and fourth and fifth round this year." Read the rest: http://espn.go.com/blog/dallas/cowb.../for-cap-purposes-cowboys-need-a-middle-class


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Multnomah's Impact
The Washoe County Commissioner's Office recognized Multnomah Reno-Tahoe with a letter of recommendation for its enrichment of Washoe's community through its accredited theological studies, degreed programs, and new library.
Commendation Reading
The letter was read to county representatives, the local press, Multnomah staff and faculty, and community members. Unanimous applause followed its reading, which served as an encouragement to the staff and faculty who were present.
Executive Director's Thoughts
"There is still a lot of school yet to build, but the library dedication is a significant milestone," John McKendricks, Executive Director of Multnomah Reno-Tahoe, said. "This achievement is the culmination of the hard work of our staff, especially Kati Andreano who had to learn an entirely new job skill in order to support it. To have the city take the time to recognize our work in Reno is incredibly affirming and deeply meaningful to me. It indicates to me that we are rowing in the right direction."
Letter of Commendation
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Hawke's Bay's "Big Easy" makes shortlist
Hawke's Bay's "Big Easy" makes shortlist in the 2014
NZ Event Industry Awards
The Big Easy cycle event has been announced as a finalist in the 2014 New Zealand Association of Event Professionals (NZAEP) awards for 'Best Partnership for an event.'
The NZAEP awards are the gold standard for event industry recognition in New Zealand and being recognised as a finalist is testament to the work which the Hawke's Bay Regional Event Strategy group, led by Hawke's Bay Tourism, has done in developing The Big Easy as a quality event which serves both the local community and encourages visitors from out of region in just two years.
The Big Easy numbers have grown from 900 in its first year (2013) to over 1500 for 2014. 2014 also saw the inclusion of a series of complimentary events, the "Not So Easy" and the "Ride the Runway" event where local cycling organisations could incorporate existing or introduce new events with the Big Easy weekend.
A partnership approach to the coordination of The Big Easy was undertaken with the lead role taken by Hawke's Bay Tourism working in partnership with Hawke's Bay Regional Council, Hastings District Council, Napier City Council and Sport Hawke's Bay. Local business also contributed to the event with promotional offers and in-kind support.
Previous winners in the 'Best partnership for an event" category include Oxfam Trailwalker (2009), WOMAD (2008), and the Art Deco weekend (2006).
Annie Dundas, GM, Hawke's Bay Tourism said the Regional Event Strategy Group was proud of what they had achieved. "The Big Easy has shown that a strong event idea can bring together a diverse range of partners; in this case local authorities, regional organisations and local businesses who are then galvanised into working together on a shared strategic outcome. The Big Easy has paved the way to a much more collaborative approach to event coordination, bid planning and resource sharing from all of our regional event stakeholders."
The winners of the 2014 awards will be held at an awards dinner in Christchurch on August 6.


text: Merck (NYSE: MRK), known as MSD outside of the United States and Canada, announced interim results from a Phase II, multi-center, randomized, dose-ranging study (n=332) assessing the safety and antiviral activity of MK-5172, an investigational, once-daily, oral NS3/4A protease inhibitor for the treatment of chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) genotype 1 infection in combination therapy in treatment-naïve patients. These data will be presented this week at the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases Annual Meeting (AASLD). The primary efficacy endpoint of the study was to evaluate the complete early viral response (cEVR) of four regimens of MK-5172 in combination with peginterferon alfa-2b and ribavirin (PR) compared to the control arm in which patients received a 4-week lead-in of PR followed by the addition of VICTRELIS ® (boceprevir) 200 mg Capsules. cEVR was assessed by the proportion of patients who achieved undetectable virus (HCV RNA) at treatment week (TW) 12 in the investigational arms and at TW 16 in the control arm. The MK-5172 regimens had rates of cEVR ranging from 82.8 to 93 percent, versus the control of 74.2 percent. In the initial cohort, termed the "Vanguard Cohort," (n=136), 96 percent of patients (25/26) who received a regimen containing 100 mg QD of MK-5172 with PR achieved sustained virologic response (SVR) 12, defined as having undetectable virus (HCV RNA) 12 weeks after treatment ended, compared to 54 percent of patients (13/24) in the control arm. "We are excited by these interim results evaluating MK-5172 in combination therapy," said Eliav Barr, M.D., vice president, Infectious Diseases, Project Leadership and Management, Merck Research Laboratories. "Our commitment to chronic hepatitis C remains steadfast. We look forward to continuing our studies of MK-5172, including in interferon-free regimens." Currently planned studies evaluating interferon-free regimens with MK-5172 will be dosed at 100 mg QD.


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The Undergraduate Assistantship (UGA) Program provides a unique opportunity for students. The UGA Program was established in 2002 and awards approximately 300 students each year. The program offers on-campus, research and/or creative activity opportunities for SIU undergraduate students. Students selected for an Undergraduate Assistantship are able to work directly with a faculty member or professional level staff member in a project that leads to a poster or oral presentation at the Annual Research and Creative Activity Forum on Campus in April. Students should spend 10-20 hours per week working on the project and are paid approximately $10/hour. Positions are available for the fall and spring semesters. The UGA Program is not usually funded during the summer term.
The UGA Program is a program of CURCA, a unit of the Provost Office, and has cooperating support from Human Resources, Payroll, Research Development and Administration, University Honors and the University hiring departments. The Undergraduate Assistantship Advisory Committee serves as the selection committee for faculty and/or student proposals.
The 2017-2018 Undergradate Assistantship application period is now OPEN.
Undergraduate Assistantships for the 2016-2017 academic year are posted. Please click here to view posted positions.