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Use the mouse to move. Click left mouse or press key W to speed up. Use the right mouse or key S to stop.
Just like Agar.io, Zor.bio surely keeps you engaged and brings you an interesting gaming experience. In the game, you have to make your way through the huge cosmos trying to eat as many colored orbs as possible. They are all scattered and floated around in space. The more you eat, the larger you are. The game features an exclusive Drain mechanic that lets smaller spheres drain mass from the bigger ones if they approach close to them. You should fly to the bigger players closer to drain more mass. But you have to protect yourself from being eaten, or else the game will be over instantly. Watch out for the players that have a Red outline and Danger text in red right beside their name, they are the ones that can consume you. The ones with a Green outline and "Can eat" text are the people you can eat. You can make a speed boost to catch your prey or dash away from the dangers. Can you become the most dangerous sphere of all? Play it now!

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Taxation in Sweden
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Taxation in Sweden may involve payments to three different levels of government: the municipality, the county council, and the central government. The payments are collected by the Swedish Tax Agency (Skatteverket). In addition the Swedish Tax Agency collects a church tax from members of the Church of Sweden. The tax rates in Sweden are commonly cited as among the highest in the world.
Sweden has a taxation system that combines a direct tax (paid by the employee) with an indirect tax (paid by the employer). In practice, the employer provides the state with both means of taxation, but the employee only sees the direct tax on his declaration form. The compilation of taxes that compose the final income tax (2009): tax on gross income from the employer: 31.42% (indirect, fixed), pension fee on gross income: 7.00% (indirect, fixed), municipal tax on gross income less pension tax and a base deduction: ~32% (direct, varies by municipality), state tax on gross income less pension tax and a base deduction: 0%, 20%, or 25% (direct, progressive)[1]. In addition, an earned income tax credit applies for gross income, effectively reducing mean income tax.
Although the pension fee is stated as 7.00%, it is effectively cancelled out through an income tax credit for the entire pension fee sum assessed. Pension fees may not exceed 28800 kr/year.
(Assumptions: Income tax (Direct - 32%), Employer social fee (indirect - 31.42%))
From a pay of "100", the Employer first pays "32" in Income tax (direct - 32%), on top of that the Employer also pays an additional "31.42" in Employers social fees (indirect - 31.42%).
Thus, from a pay check of "100", 63.42/131.42 (i.e. 48.3%) is paid as income taxes. This effective rate may be lowered by for example earned income tax credits and private retirement savings contributions.
Value Added Tax
The value added tax (mervärdesskatt or moms) rate in Sweden is 25%, with exceptions for food and services like hotel room rental fees (12%), and for sales of publications, admission tickets to cultural events and travel within Sweden (6%)[2].
- ^ ''Belopp och procent - inkomstår 2009/taxeringsår 2010, Swedish Tax Agency (in Swedish)
- ^ ''Momsbroschyren (SKV 552), Swedish Tax Agency (in Swedish)
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Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Trusting in Jesus
If there were one prayer that I could wear out it would have to be the Chaplet of Divine Mercy. I try faithfully say it every day. It may not be exactly at 3pm...but hey, the way I look at it, somewhere in the world it is 3pm.
So many times, in so many forms, the devil has tried to pitch David and I into the deepest trenches of despair, fear, doubt. I truly believe the harder we pray at times, the darker the situation grows. A gift from the devil himself. And when in the midst of that darkness...it is such a struggle not to cave, not to give into that fear.
In hindsight, everything always clears and the sunshine comes dancing back into our lives with the brightest of rays...as long as we pick ourselves back up after each fall, shake the dust from our feet, and move on down the path of faith and prayer.
I love our country! I am proud to be an American! I do not like seeing our nation torn and in so much pain. There is so much unrest, anger, hurt, and despair. With this storm that has stalled over our great nation, I see people holding onto their faith or coming back to it. And there is hope. We must always have hope because we do not have the right to give up on it. At times, that is so difficult to do.
As of July 1, David will no longer be employed by the corporate world. And that is a huge leap. It is one decision that you wish you wouldn't have to make, but when you come to the fork in the road and a decision needs to be made...you have to take that leap of faith and trust in God.
David has been working with wood for 23 years. He started in his teens as a cabinet/furniture maker, and he does beautiful work! Gradually, he went on to sell manufactured cabinetry opening his own business up in Illinois (where we are from) and successfully ran it for 12 years.
A little more than 3 years ago, the economy really started to tank in Illinois, quicker than other parts of the country. We saw it coming and decided to make the move to corporate world. That is how we ended up in Texas.
With his knowledge and skill, this particular company hired him to their Dallas district. The first year was fantastic. Then the real- estate issue slowly crashed its' wave of problems upon the south and the home builders took a terrible hit.
Many cabinet companies pulled out of the market down here. Many home builders went belly up, including David's largest accounts. About 19 months ago, David could see the writing on the wall and started to initiate plan B.
What is a man to do when you are in your 40's and your entire life has been spent in the home industry? An industry where 40-50% of its economy was wiped out. At that age, with more mouths to feed, where do you go and make the same kind of money? I'm not talking wealth...but only enough for your wife to stay home and home school your children...
He turned around and created Kitchens Alive.
God-willing, we will make this company successful. Not successful in monetary wealth but something that will keep the roof over our heads, food on our table, clothes on our backs. I'm just praying for the simple things in life.
We pray a lot! We pray for continued trust in Jesus because that devil loves to worm his way into our thoughts and plant countless seeds of fear and doubt. To say this journey over the past 19 months has been stressful is a total understatement!
We trust in Jesus and have faith that He will continue to guide us. We know this story reverberates with so many others out there. Each of you reading must know at least one or two families that have been hit hard in this economy. Families whose faith is tested day in and day out.
So I ask that when you finish reading, pause for a moment, and pray for each of those families that you know who have been dealt a terrible financial blow.
Jesus I trust in you!
As I finish typing this, David is doing his exit interview. I gave him a huge hug as he walked out the door. I'm anxiously waiting for his return...I'm so proud of that man!
Prayer to St. Joseph for Employment
Dear Saint Joseph, you were yourself once faced with the responsibility of providing the necessities of life for Jesus and Mary. Look down with fatherly compassion upon me in my anxiety over my present inability to support my family. Please help me to find gainful employment very soon, so that this heavy burden of concern will be lifted from my heart and that I am soon able to provide for those whom God has entrusted to my care. Help us to guard against bitterness and discouragement, so that we may emerge from this trial spiritually enriched and with even greater blessings from God. Amen.
A Prayer for Workers
O glorious Joseph! Who concealed your incomparable and regal dignity of custodian of Jesus and of the Virgin Mary under the humble appearance of a craftsman and provided for them with your work, protect with loving power your sons, especially entrusted to you.
You know their anxieties and sufferings, because you yourself experienced them at the side of Jesus and of His Mother. Do not allow them, oppressed by so many worries, to forget the purpose for which they were created by God. Do not allow the seeds of distrust to take hold of their immortal souls. Remind all the workers that in the fields, in factories, in mines, and in scientific laboratories, they are not working, rejoicing, or suffering alone, but at their side is Jesus, with Mary, His Mother and ours, to sustain them, to dry the sweat of their brow, giving value to their toil. Teach them to turn work into a very high instrument of sanctification as you did. Amen.
~And may God bless each and every one of you!
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My husband and I are definately affected by this economy. I wasn't able to find a job before I got pregnant, and now we are hoping that we can afford for me to stay at home with our son when he is born. I stress and cry and worry how we will be able to afford having a large family someday.ReplyDelete
Thank you so so much for posting the St. Joseph prayer for employment! My husband and I have a deep devotion for him and we are hoping my husband can find a job with better working hours and so we are able to stop living paycheck to paycheck.
I pray that your husband's company is successful!
Dear Maggie,ReplyDelete
The power of prayer is unbelievable. When we first started out, I would not have been able to stay home...and here, I ended up with fertility problems. By the time our fist was born healthy, I could stay home. A strange twist of fate. But, I truly believe when young couples talk about this and are open to working really hard, they will find the way to reach their family goals. You will, too!
If you truly desire and want it, you will find a way. Don't give up the hope. It may not happen when you want it to or how you want it to, but it will happen.
It takes a LOT of sacrificing on the parents. Society, in itself, has become a place for flashing what we may not be able to afford, but we have it anyway. I'm sure you already recognize and know this. In a way, this terrible recession has created the path to living a more simpler life. The simpler life is a good thing to embrace!
Don't give up. Don't worry about what you cannot control. It will only make you physically ill and that won't be good for baby. Enjoy this day and be prepared to take the good and the bad.
God bless you, Maggie!
Patty, what a wonderful opportunity for you guys to buckle down and lift up prayers together and forge ahead. We have been through two layoff's in this last ten years. I know that times can be difficult and scarey, but I also remember the closeness that we shared and a bond that got so much stronger. The family bonded together as well. I will be praying that God showers you with many blessings. He might be sending you to Georgia, who knows! :) One can wish can't one? Take care.ReplyDelete
Here's hoping (and praying) that all goes well with y'all.ReplyDelete
Thanks, Kat! Thanks, Mary!ReplyDelete
We will be praying for you as well! thanks for the reminder to lift all the other up in prayer right now too. Living overseas has insulated us a little, but we know we are coming home to tough times. God Bless the USA!ReplyDelete


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Archive for March, 2010
Marbury Country Park Nominated for Best Picnic Site Award
Vote for Marbury!
We are delighted that Marbury Country Park has been nominated to participate in Britain's Best Picnic Site Award.
The search for the best site is made up of two 'rounds'. The UK has been split into ten regions, with 10 sites shortlisted for each region. Marbury Country Park has been nominated as one of the top ten picnic sites in the North West. Between 15th March and Friday 23rd April, people around the country are asked to vote for their favourite picnic site.
On Monday 3rd May, the results will be counted and the regional winner will be named best Picnic Site in the North West and will receive a £500 bursary towards maintenance of the site.
The ten winning regional sites will then go head to head for the chance of being awarded the accolade of Britain's Best Picnic Site and will receive an additional £500 and a plaque.
Help make sure we become recognised as Britain's Best Picnic Site. Vote for Marbury Country Park on the National Bread Week microsite at www.welovebread.co.uk
Consultation for New Play Facilities at Marbury
Parks Project Officer Mary Lavery and Ranger Chris Moseley of the Green Spaces Team, Cheshire West and Chester Council are working on improvements for play at Marbury.
They have undertaken some initial consultation with local schools and held a general consultation session on Sunday 21 March 12.30 – 2.30pm in the park to get the wider communities views so the scheme could be developed. They are looking at creating additional facilities adjacent to the current play area as well as some smaller pieces located along one of the main pathways. FoAM members were invited to the consultation session and several were able to attend.
Mary was very pleased with the session at Marbury and spoke to more than 100 visitors in the play area. She collected 64 completed feedback forms on the day (with a further 8 forms since) and says this has given her plenty of information about ideas and what people like and don't like.
Plans for the scheme are now in the Rangers' Office and will be there until around the 9th April. So, there is still time to call in and complete the short form to make known any thoughts you may have on the scheme if you haven't already done so.
Details of the consultation are available here.
Bat Talk
Mike Freeman of the Cheshire Bat Group gave a very enjoyable talk at Comberbach Memorial Hall on 22 March on the different bats that live in Marbury Country Park. The talk was very well received by the audience and Mike illustrated it with some excellent slides, particularly those showing bats in flight.
We look forward to Mike returning later in the year, when he will lead a bat walk around Marbury.


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GATE Episode 10: Back to the other side
Published on September 6, 2015
A bit more action happening in this week's episode...but I'd say not that much happened otherwise. The foreign operations to capture one of the visitors from the other side failed and everyone makes it back safely. I guess Rory gets displayed as the immortal demigod...I'm not entirely sure giving her that level of power was necessary, but I guess it makes sense given her position. I had also almost forgotten about Tuka's father until she mentions it at the very end...when is that going to go away?
From the preview for next week, it looks like the episode will potentially introduce a new character. I'm guessing Pina will also attempt to convince the king to work with the Japanese for peace and I'm also guessing that it will not convince him...partly because of the way he acted near the beginning of the series and partly because the series would probably end here if it worked. That being said, I'm also curious where the show goes from here. Back to battles between the JSDF and the Empire?


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Research Themes
The work of the Information Retrieval (IR) group involves developing effective web-based technologies that support people with accessing, managing and using information. We approach this from different perspectives, including the study of the interactions between people, information and technologies; and the development of computational methods that support information access and use. Our multidisciplinary team draws together skills from computer science, information science and human computer and information interaction. We have collaborated in our research with external academic and non-academic partners, funded by national and international funding bodies. Through our research we aim to enrich the user's search experience and further our understanding of how people access, interact with, use and re-use information.
Key research areas
The research we undertake is generally built upon consideration of the user, the system and context of use. Current research in the IR group is informed by four core areas of activity:
- The study of human computer and information interaction (e.g., in the iLab) to understand user cognition and behaviour with respect to the interactivity involved in information access, use and re-use.
- The development of novel solutions to information access problems, ranging from the development of specific algorithms to the design of entire prototype systems, with a particular focus on web-scale systems and algorithmic bias.
- The study and design of methods and techniques for evaluating information access systems for a variety of applications and search scenarios.
- The development of novel methodologies to study dynamics of social interactions on social media platforms.
Specific areas of research include: human computation and crowdsourcing, information visualisation, web science, information retrieval, data mining, big data, geo-spatial search, artificial intelligence, semantic search, multimedia retrieval, digital cultural heritage, NLP, data streams, search log analysis, task-based information interaction, lifelogging, exploratory search, human machine interaction, recommender systems, algorithmic bias, user interface design and evaluation.


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All Scars painting challenge – The Survivor Series – February.
Prior to the start of the month I had planned on doing 1, maybe 2, obliterators for this months pledge, however after thinking about it I decided I would prefer to do something I'm more likely to use in game more often and so decided on one of my rhino transports.
Of my 3 rhinos only one is the newer style, the others being the classic style same as my predator chassis. I decided to do the older of them, but first I needed to clean a helluva lot of dust off it (it almost looked green/grey rather than black!).
Again I fell under the painting sway, and despite planning on keeping it basic ended up trying new techniques (not all of which worked how I wanted) at the suggestion of my fellow All Scars.
First session I planned on just getting the base colours one, but got seriously carried away and almost completed it off the bat, getting the base colours, drybrushing and the rubble effect all done.
Session 2 I tried a wash of Typhus Corrosion/Lhamian Medium, wrongly thinking it would work similar to the Agrax wash I had previously used on my bikes. Having covered one section I really didnt like the result (something akin to dipping the model in a bucket of silt) and so had to clean it off and retouch the affected area before leaving it to dry.
Session 3 was on the suggestion of another All Scar member, and was my first time trying edging to help accent the edges, and I must admit after a few false starts I was reasonably happy with the finished result.
If time allows I might try to get some of the bases on my already painted minis done to match the newer ones, though I have a number of non-40K projects I really have to get finished as soon as possible.


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Conflict is an inevitable part of our business and professional lives. Disagreements, divergent views, full and frank discussions – all these things can if handled with sensitivity and skill, create positive outcomes. Handled badly and the results can be damaging, destructive and dangerous.
At FTI Consulting, we have developed a series of models and approaches that provide practical, pragmatic help with managing and resolving conflicts in the workplace.
A five-step process to resolving conflict
5 principles that should guide and inform your approach to handling difficult conversations and sensitive issues
An intelligent, informed and intuitive ability to understand a situation from someone else's perspective
Practical checklist for the things we need to do and the action we need to take before entering a difficult conversation.
Being open and honest. Confronting realities. Having face-to-face conversations and not hiding behind email or a written document.
Having and showing respect for the other person, for the importance of the issues that are being discussed and for the conversation itself.
Addressing issues directly. Saying the things that need to be said. Allowing no 'elephants in the room' or no-go zones.
To apply these principles you need to be able to
- Deliver bad news or unwelcome information
- Demonstrate full-attention, sustained, consistent, high-level listening
- Speak with total clarity.
- Say what you mean and meaning what you say
- Avoid caveats, qualifiers, fudge, fuzziness and circumlocution
- Use simple clear language, free from emotional colour
- Create a real, productive, two-way conversation
- Deal with denial, the attempt to minimise the importance of the issues being
- discussed and 'defensive reasoning' – the attempt to explain away or to make excuses
- Be objective and dispassionate. Maintain self-control. Dealing with their emotions, their responses and their behaviour
- Develop the conversation. Use a four stage process
- Agree the problem
- Agree that the problem needs to be solved
- Agree the causes of the problem
- Develop solutions
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When you're shopping for marijuana seeds, chances are you'll be looking at a marijuana seed catalog. A catalog is similar to a restaurant menu, you need to look at the menu so you can decide which item you want to consume. In a seed bank, you need to check out a catalog of marijuana seeds so you can decide which type and strain of seed you want to buy.
Seeds catalog have different information in them, you should expect the following:
The name of the Strain
Seed catalogs display products the best way possible. When you are looking at an online catalog, the different products sold are on a page and when you click on the name of the seeds strain, you will be redirected to a page dedicated for the strain.
If you are checking out an actual catalog, which is found mostly in local seed banks, the different products may be presented as a whole or there may be different pages for each strain. Some modern seed banks use tablets for customers to view their product catalog. A customer can already place their order using the tablet and have their orders processed quickly.
Now the name of the strain is the first thing you'll find. Strain names are unique and sometimes even weird like Girl Scout Cookies, Pineapple Express, Cats Piss or Northern Lights. Some names will give you a hint as to where the strain came from like Afghan Kush, Thai, Alaskan Thunderfuck and so many more.
Image of the strain/plant
Business owners try to entice consumers to buy their products using different tactics and one of these is by posting colorful images of their products. The appearance of the strain is a way for growers to see what the strain looks like when the plant is mature. It tells them the size of the plant, the size of the leaves, the color of the buds and what the flowers look like when these are ready for harvest.
Image of the seed
Sometimes, the image of the seed/seeds is also on the catalog. But since almost all cannabis seeds look the same, this may not be helpful at all. But if you are new to growing cannabis, a picture of the seeds may give you an idea as to what you can expect from your orders.
The Type of Strain
Now the type of strain is very important information that's found in a seed catalog. Seeds may be indica, sativa or hybrid strains. Indica plants are plants that grow into small, compact plants with large leaves.
These plants are perfect for growing indoors because of their size but they may also grow outdoors. Indica strains are relaxing strains which means consuming this strain can lead to relaxation. Indica strains are mostly used for medicinal use because this contains less THC and therefore have less psychoactive effects.
On the other hand, sativa strains grow taller and statelier with long leaves. Sativas are stimulating strains which can make you feel focused, happy and energized. Sativas are preferred as recreational cannabis compared to indicas which are more of a medical strain.
The Type of Seed
The type of seed refers to the genetic makeup of the seeds. You can have regular or photoperiod strains, feminized seeds, autoflowering seeds or feminized autoflowering seeds.
Regular or photoperiod seeds are seeds that will grow into regular plants which will flower only when exposed to a special lighting condition. When photoperiod strains are placed on 12-hour daylight and 12-hour darkness continuously these will start flowering.
Feminized seeds grow all female plants. These will still need a special lighting schedule to flower but you won't have to worry about discarding male plants. You will also be able to grow plants that are all female and concentrate only on the number of plants you want to grow instead of growing more to compensate for male plants.
When it comes to autoflowering seeds, this will grow into plants that don't require lighting to flower. These will flower without any stimulation or lighting schedule but will remain smaller than what you want your plants to be.
Autoflowering strains are currently the most expensive seeds in the market. Second, only are feminized seeds while regular photoperiod strains are the cheapest.
The genetics of the strain
The parents of the strain may also be found in seed catalogs. You need to know the genetic makeup of the strain so you'll have an idea as to what you'll expect. For instance, a strain called Girl Scout Cookies was made by combining an OG Kush and a Durban Poison. Based on your experience with these strains, you know that these are potent strains.
You are aware that OG Kush is a powerful hybrid while Durban Poison is a strong sativa. Because the sativa is a dominant landrace strain, GSC would likely be taller than other plants and will inherit the strong smell and aroma of its Kush parent.
Having knowledge of the parent strains will also give you an idea as to how you can care for your plants. Let's go back to the example; now that you know that GSC is a sativa-dominant hybrid, these will likely need a larger growing area since this grows taller. You also need to maintain odor especially when you are growing plants indoors.
Therefore, the genetics of a plant should never be overlooked as you check marijuana seed catalogs.
The name of the breeder or grower
Yes, the name of the breeder is included in the catalog especially when seeds will be shipped in their breeder's packaging. Having the name of the breeder will show that the seed bank is selling genuine, high-quality seeds.
The place where the strain was grown
This may be included in the catalog especially when the strains you are purchasing are exotic or landrace strains. Strains like the Afghani, Afghan Kush, Thai and Nepalese are grown from their native lands. This is because these strains require the type of climate and the environment crucial for optimum growth.
But it does not mean you cannot grow these strains if you live in a different country. The trick is to cultivate these strains indoors so you can provide the most efficient climate and other growing needs as these start to grow and bloom.
Growing Information
There may or may not be growing information in seed catalogs. Online seeds catalogs in PDF form have a few notes on how to grow seeds like the climate, humidity, nutrition, amount of water, the ideal growing medium (soil, hydro or aero) and so many more.
For a first time grower, these pieces of information are heaven sent. These are from the manufacturers so it's certainly worth following. But nonetheless, you should look for growing information about the strain you purchased.
You can find these online or you may ask people working from the seeds shop if you need help. Most of the time, they will be more than willing to help especially first-time growers.
The Price of the Seed
The price of the product is always on seed catalogs. At online sites, catalogs will display the amount in the currency of where the buyer is located. Usually, if you want to purchase the seeds, you can automatically do so from the seed catalog. You will find a button that says you can add this product to your shopping cart. It may have an option to choose how many seeds you want to order as well.
Actual seed bank catalogs have the price but you need to tell the shop keeper how many you would like to order. When an electronic menu is used, the experience could be similar to an online purchase. The price is according to the locality for example, you are buying marijuana seeds in Ontario then the price will be in Canadian dollars. If buying cannabis seeds as a souvenir in the UK, then these will be in British pounds.
The Number of Seeds Available Per Pack
Most cannabis seeds available from anywhere are inside their breeder's packaging and also, the number of seeds per pack is indicated. This helps the buyer purchase the right amount of seeds and that he needs.
Breeder's packaging is special sealed bags that keep the seeds safe and secure when these are sent to customers. These packs help keep the right humidity and block out light so that seeds will remain viable even when it takes a long time for the product is purchased.
But there are times when your order does not arrive in breeder's packaging. Instances, when you want your seeds delivered stealthily or secretly, will affect your seeds' viability. When marijuana seeds are sent via stealth delivery, these are placed inside unlikely items like toys, electronics, and souvenir items to avoid suspicion from authorities. Usually, stealth delivery options are also included in a seed catalog.
The Availability of the Seed
The availability of the seeds may also be included in the catalog to inform customers if the seeds that they want to order may be purchased or not. Sometimes, products are no longer available because of the high demand for it. Seed banks may also provide a message to customers saying when the seeds would be available.


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By Carol Scheppard Dear Brothers and Sisters, Grace and Peace to you in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord. We rejoice this Advent season as we celebrate the incarnation–God's astounding act of love to become human, live among us, and lead us out from our darkness. "And the Word became flesh and lived among […]
Month: December 2016
CDS Continues Healing Hearts Training in Nigeria
We are so grateful that John Kinsel was able to return to Nigeria earlier this month and provide additional Healing Hearts training, trauma healing for children, and follow-up on behalf of Children's Disaster Services (CDS). He was again hosted by Suzan Mark, director of EYN (Church of the Brethren in Nigeria) Women's Ministry.
Newsline for December 16, 2016
1) 'We rejoice this Advent season': Annual Conference moderator sends Christmas letter
2) CDS continues Healing Hearts training in Nigeria
3) Trip to Nigeria connects with peacebuilding efforts, food crisis needs
4) Brethren bits […]
Brethren Bits for December 16, 2016
Personnel news, Annual Conference moderator-elect receives City of Rockford award, "Night Circle" of Crest Manor Church makes and shares Christmas stockings, people of goodwill in Lancaster County–including Brethren and Mennonites–get a "shout out" from local media.
Trip to Nigeria Connects with Peacebuilding Efforts, Food Crisis Needs
Jennifer Hosler and I recently traveled to Nigeria to consult, connect with, and support the development and peacebuilding work of Ekklesiyar Yan'uwa a Nigeria (EYN, the Church of the Brethren in Nigeria). Jennifer traveled to Nigeria in her role as a member of the advisory committee of the Church of the Brethren's Global Food Initiative. In this role, she met with EYN leaders and members who had traveled to Ghana in September 2016, together with Jeff Boshart (Global Food Initiative director) to learn about soybean projects.
Newsline for December 10, 2016
1) Creation Care Study Committee invites responses to survey
2) World Council of Churches issues statement on climate justice
3) Bethany is among 'Seminaries That Change the World'
4) Multicultural tour to the Holy Land is a success
5) National Youth Cabinet is named for 2017-18
6) Bethany Seminary fills positions in admissions and student services
7) 'Art for Nigeria': Nigeria has given me much, I hope to give some back
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Creation Care Study Committee Invites Responses to Survey
The Creation Care Study Committee was created at the 2016 Annual Conference in response to a query that challenges us to respond more fully to two resolutions on climate change (1991 and 2001). Our charge is to catalyze action, particularly in relation to transitioning to renewable energy and reducing fossil fuel* usage (www.brethren.org/news/2016/creation-care-study-committee.html .
'Art for Nigeria': Nigeria Has Given Me Much, I Hope to Give Some Back
On the night of April 14 and early morning of April 15 in 2014, militants of the terror group Boko Haram attacked the northeastern Nigerian town of Chibok. The militants quickly overwhelmed the small paramilitary contingent based in Chibok and abducted around 276 high school-age girl students, most of whom were members of Ekklesiyar Yan'uwa a Nigeria (EYN, the Church of the Brethren in Nigeria).
Brethren Bits for December 10, 2016
In this issue: Correction, Clergy Tax Seminar, congregations support their Muslim neighbors, "Practical Peacemaking Tips" from N. Ohio District, special Christmas events, ecumenical Christian leader detained and deported from Israel, and more […]
Multicultural Tour to the Holy Land is a Success
Nineteen people enjoyed the opportunity to visit Israel while having fellowship, sharing meaningful scripture readings on biblical sites, and bringing scripture alive in their souls and minds. The trip was organized by the Renacer Hispanic Ministry under the leadership of Stafford Frederick and Daniel D'Oleo as a fundraising event to support the vision and ministry of the Renacer Hispanic Ministry.


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The final £60 million instalment is part of a £22 billion debt imposed for starting one of the bloodiest conflicts in history will be cleared on what will also be the 20th anniversary of German reunification.
The Allied victors – primarily Britain, France and America set the reparations in 1919's Treaty of Versailles – a peace agreement – as both compensation and punishment for waging the four year war, which left 10 million soldiers dead, and European towns and cities devastated.
Germany's Federal Office for Central Services and Unresolved Property Issues said that the bond issued to pay remaining debts stemming from 'The War To End All Wars' will be written off on 3 October.
Germany's best-selling daily newspaper, Bild, said: "On Sunday the last bill is due and the First World War finally, financially at least, terminates for Germany."
The initial sum agreed upon for war damages in 1919 was 226 billion Reichsmarks, but was later reduced to 132 billion, £22 billion at the time.
However, the bill would have been settled much earlier had Adolf Hitler not refused to pay the reparations during his dictatorship. The bill was also frozen again when West and East Germany split, and renewed again after reunification in 1990.
Most of the war reparations go to private individuals, pension funds and corporations holding debenture bonds.


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Germaine Krull – Photographs
15 October 2015 to 31 January 2016
15 October 2015 to 31 January 2016
Gropius Bau
Germaine Krull (1897-1985) was a prominent photographer in 1920s and '30s Paris, who shaped the history of photography with her experimental shots and photo articles for magazines like VU, Variété and Jazz. She is one of the protagonists of modern-day photography, yet her work has rarely been explored, and only presented at a few exhibitions. After the large exhibition at the Folkwang Museum in Essen in 1999, the Martin-Gropius-Bau, in co-operation with the Jeu de Paume Paris, is dedicating a retrospective to the focus areas of her work and her aesthetic innovations. With about 130 original prints, and excerpts from photo magazines, the exhibition demonstrates the extraordinary depth and inventiveness of her pieces.
As part of photography's avant garde, Germaine Krull was closely affiliated with artists like Sonia and Robert Delaunay, Man Ray and André Kertész. Walter Benjamin and Jean Cocteau were photographed by her, and were among her admirers. Benjamin included her in his "Kleine Geschichte der Fotografie" (brief history of photography). He highly regarded Germaine Krull's strong engagement at both a political and social level, coupled with her radical visual aesthetics, ranking her alongside artists such as August Sander and Karl Blossfeldt. Jean Cocteau is quoted as saying that she and her camera have "uncovered a new world, fusing technology with soul".
Yet Germaine Krull's work is difficult to classify. She has developed a profile as a unique, distinctive photographer, particularly during her Paris years (1926-1935). Both her oeuvre and her life are characterised by changes and relocations:
Krull is born to German parents in East Prussia, is raised in Italy, France and Switzerland, and commences her training at Munich's Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt für Photographie (academy and research centre for photography) in 1915. It is there that, in 1917, at the age of 21, she opens her first studio. She adopts the pictorialist approach to photography, capturing people and interiors with a soft focus, creating a paintwork-like effect. The young photographer publishes her portfolio of nudes in an initial illustrated book, but very few of her early shots have been preserved. Among those that have are two portraits of Kurt Eisner, the first Minister-President of the Free State of Bavaria and a socialist revolutionary. It is also in Munich where she first encounters Buddhism, takes up an interest in theosophy, and participates in the great "November Revolution" in 1918. She becomes involved with the Spartacists. Following her expulsion prompted by the confusion of the Bavarian Council Republic, Krull starts living as a political activist in Russia. She returns to Germany (Berlin) in 1922 and resumes her photography work. She creates unconventional nudes in Karl Hübschmann's Kurfürstendamm studio, including of her sister Berthe in theatrical poses. In the capital, Krull meets Dutch filmmaker Joris Ivens, whom she later marries. She spends a few months in Amsterdam with him, before finally moving to Paris in 1925.
It is there that she experiences her breakthrough with her unusual photographs of technical structures, including series: The Eiffel Tower, ports and industrial plants. She creates a new type of technical photography, which does away with spectacular pictorial rhetoric. Her book, "Métal" (1927/28), catapults her into the international avant-garde of photographers, known as the Nouvelle Vision (New Vision). Her shots send viewers mad, their fragmentation not permitting any orientation or point of reference, while simultaneously opening up new, unusual perspectives.
In 1928, she is hired by Lucien Vogel, chief editor of the newly established weekly illustrated magazine, "Vu", for photo articles, and, together with André Kertész and Éli Lotar, she invents a new form of reporting. With her small Icarette (6x9 cm), she takes shots characterised by their proximity to the subject, which result in portraits and streetscapes (including a report on Paris' homeless) which reflect a notion of topicality and unconventional realism without artistic effect. She primarily focuses on specific aspects of Parisian life in the working-class neighbourhoods and market halls, at outdoor markets and annual fairs. She performs numerous assignments for magazines, the fashion industry and advertisers.
Krull takes part in major international exhibitions, such as Essen's "Fotografie der Gegenwart" (1929), and the Werkbund "Film und Foto" (1929) travelling exhibition, which was also being displayed in the Martin-Gropius-Bau at the time. She publishes illustrated books, and experiments with multiple exposures and collage-like details. She works on scenes depicting the Parisian underworld, landscapes, automotive images and streetscapes, and portraits artists, literary figures and filmmakers, including Colette, André Malraux and Sergei Eisenstein. She repeatedly photographs hands as if they were faces – always with an unorthodox angle and not subscribing to any specific trend.
Having become involved with France Libre, the resistance organisation founded by General de Gaulle, in 1941, Germaine Krull works as a war photographer, witnessing events such as the Battle of Alsace (about which she later writes a book). Her working conditions change, when after World War II the media no longer express interest in photographers' artistic statements, but rather only in the illustration of texts.
Krull relocates to Asia, where she takes over Bangkok's "Hotel Oriental" as manager. This continent inspires her to capture thousands of shots of Buddhist sites and monuments. It is another 15 years before she returns to Paris to exhibit her photos. Right until the end of her life, she continues to publish originally designed books, including "Ballets de Monte-Carlo" (1937), "Uma Cidade Antiga do Brasil"(1943), "Chiang Mai"(around 1960) and "Tibetans in India" (1968). Despite being in her seventies, she joins the followers of Tibet's Dalai Lama, who fled to northern India, and lives with them there in an old temple for some time. Germaine Krull dies a somewhat forgotten figure in the Hessian town of Wetzlar in 1985.
The displayed works have been provided by public and private collections, including from the Museum Folkwang, Essen; the Amsab Institute of Social History, Ghent; the Ann and Jürgen Wilde Foundation, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich; the Centre Pompidou, Musée national d'art moderne, Paris; the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, and the Bouqueret-Rémy and Dietmar Siegert collections.


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"I am the way, and the truth, and the life: no one comes to the Jump, but by me" (John 14:6), "Fathom, authentically, I say to you, he who does not spreadsheet the sheepfold by the bravado but climbs in by something else way, that man is a thief and a felon.... I am the door; if persona enters by me, he atmosphere be saved." (John 10:1, 9.) Jesus Christ, as he is attested for us in Delightful Scripture, is the one Word of God which we conduct to be trained and which we conduct to charge and preserve in life and death. We discourage the duplicity instruction, as little the church may well and would conduct to encourage as a now then of its testimony to one side from and else this one Word of God, then again other endeavors and powers, figures and truths, as God's bowl over. (The Perceive of Confessions, the Theological Self-assurance of Barmen, 8.10-8.12)
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Persian Lime Baked Cod with Olives and Capers
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4 cod fillets, about 2 lbs total
¼ tsp salt
½ tsp freshly ground black pepper
12 slices lime
1/4 cup whole kalamata olives, rinsed (If you prefer, chop them up)
1/4 cup capers, rinsed
2 tsp freshly chopped rosemary leaves
¼ cup Flying Olive Persian Lime Extra Virgin Olive Oil,more for oiling the baking dish
Preheat the oven to 475 degrees.
Pat the cod fillets dry with paper towels. Place them in an ovenproof dish brushed with a little Flying Olive Persian Lime EVOO. Season with salt and pepper. Top each fillet with 3 lime slices, olives, capers, and rosemary, dividing the topping among the four pieces. Drizzle with the Flying Olive Persian Lime Extra Virgin Olive Oil.
Place in the oven and bake until the fish is cooked through, about 10 minutes. Do not overcook the fish! Remove the fish from the oven. Serve with lime wedges.
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The rash of school violence has prompted North Carolina House Speaker�Tim Moore to�get more people looking into�safety measures.
In the week following the shooting at a Florida high school�that left 17 dead, Moore said he decided it was time to work on new strategies to ensure the safety of students. This week, he will�announce the start of a new legislative committee that will�work with the N.C. Center for Safer Schools and an existing task force, Moore's spokesman Joseph Kyzer said.
"The purpose of this committee is to make recommendations of statutory and non-statutory safety standards for schools," Kyzer said.
These groups will work hand-in-hand so the committee will be able to educate legislators on the newest safety measures, which would work best in schools across the state and which standards have become obsolete, he said.
Security at many of the schools in the area currently�comes in the form of�school resource officers, and there are�drills�to make sure students and staff know what to do if an active shooter should enter the school.
The names of those who will serve on the committee have not yet been announced.
Moore will hold a news conference about the project at 4 p.m. Tuesday at the Cleveland County Courthouse, 100 Justice Plaza, Shelby.
Joyce Orlando can be reached at 704-669-3341 or find her at Twitter @Star_J_Orlando.


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Wait...What? - Fail! A User Interface Design Experience
Recently a client responded to a mockup of a potential user interface for managing certain kinds of data and the linkages among the data. I had created the mockup after we had spent significant time understanding the client's needs and I had run it by my colleagues. It seemed to all of us like a decent UI: easy to use, easy to understand, addressed the needs, etc. – the usual things you would want for a UI.
I sent the client a screenshot of the mockup for feedback. The client responded (I'm paraphrasing here) that she thought she saw what I was trying to do, but was having a little bit of difficulty following it and apologized for just being a simple user. I responded with "If you are having difficulty following the intent of the mockup, then it's clearly not intuitive."
Fundamentally, the design failed – completely. This was not the "simple user's" fault.
In my somewhat lengthy career in software development, covering well over a dozen different problem domains from medical devices to aerospace, oil & gas, construction, GPS tracking systems, wireless data acquisition, among many others, I have felt strongly that "the User Interface is the product." It doesn't matter how well the software works behind the scenes if the user interface is not intuitive and easy to use.
My goal in user interface design for an application is for the user to be able within 15 minutes, without any training, without a user guide, no online help – any assistance at all, to be able to understand the fundamentals of the application and be comfortable navigating through it. Not necessarily with the more sophisticated aspects, but the fundamental features of the application. After all, that's what I expect in a product. If I purchase software and it takes me longer than 15 minutes to figure it out, I move on to some other product or approach. I don't have time to read a manual or help screens just to get started.
Mind you, I'm talking about getting familiar with a new product in no more than 15 minutes. I had sent a mockup of a design for a single screen. It should have taken around 30 seconds or less for the user to understand the design and how it worked.
This philosophy has been very successful for me over the years in building useful applications. One time, a new version of a product I had developed for the construction industry was released and there had been a production error in the manufacture of the packaged software. We didn't discover the problem for six months. It turned out that the contents of the entire product's help system had been left out. We found out on our own – none of our customers, new or old, ever discovered the missing help system. I asked several of our customers how they never noticed and all of them simply stated that they never needed the help system.
The reason the mockup I mentioned earlier didn't work for the client is that we hadn't managed to get inside the heads of our client well enough (yet) to understand exactly how they think about this particular need. We did understand their needs, but we needed to get a better handle on their mental model. Fortunately, we received the input early in the sprint, so we had time to iterate on the proverbial drawing board and get a new mockup back to the client quickly.
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Friday, June 15, 2018
Book Review: 'The West Woods' by Suzy Vadori
Canadian author Suzy Vadori writes for the Young Adults audience. She is employed as an Operations Executive and is an involved member of the Calgary Writers' community, serving as When Words Collide (a Calgary Festival for Readers and Writers) Program Manager for Middle Grade and Young Adults. Her evenings are her hours for exploring her passion for writing Young Adult novels, of which THE WEST WOODS is Book 2 of THE FOUNTAIN series. She lives in Calgary, Alberta.
THE FOUNTAIN is a series and it is rewarding to know that Suzy maintains the same atmosphere and place for the second installment – the boarding school of St. Augustus, with the nearby woods and paranormal fountain continue to play a prominent role. In the opening chapter we meet the lead character In this series – Courtney Wallis – 'Courtney had one foot out of the car door, with her body still firmly planted inside. Her throat tightened as the campus loomed before her. A dusting of snow graced the trees and roofs. Though she'd attended St. Augustus for ninth grade and half of the tenth already, it didn't feel like home. The school's buildings were set well back from the road and Courtney stared at them now. The whole scene felt out of place in Massachusetts. She'd always thought the oldest building on campus could be a castle like you'd find in France or England. At one time, its coating of green ivy had fascinated Courtney, like it was being gobbled up by the vines. As the semesters had passed though, the plain red brick of the newer buildings seemed more in tune with the personality of the school she'd come to know. Courtney sighed as she watched her dad walk away from the parking lot toward the dorm with her older sister Hanna. Winter break had ended too soon. "I'll wash your car every night if you reconsider?" she called out. As if he hadn't heard her, her dad pulled the lapel of his suit jacket up over his face against the cold and continued walking toward the dorm. He didn't turn back. She wracked her brain for something else to offer, but came up with nothing. After a long pause, Courtney hoisted her duffel bag from the car seat beside her up onto her shoulder. She pulled her long, bushy red hair out from under its strap. She could just stay in the car. Once her dad got Hanna settled in her room and returned to the parking lot, the two of them could go. Home. Courtney pictured his face turning a deep shade of red if she tried that. It wasn't going to be that simple. She'd argued her case all last semester, the entire winter break, then the whole car ride up here from Boston today. He hadn't given an inch. Finally, she pulled herself off the leather seat of the car and stepped out into the staff parking lot where they weren't supposed to park. Jim Wallis regularly ignored No Parking signs. Besides, he wasn't planning to stay long. Courtney shut the car door with a satisfying slam… The Courtney her dad referred to had been a bright-eyed freshman. She'd been thrilled then to come to St. Augustus. It had turned out to be less exciting than she'd hoped.'
And on to the plot – 'Courtney Wallis wants nothing more than to escape St. Augustus boarding school. After uncovering a well-kept secret about the school's founder, Isaac Young, Courtney turns to the school's magic to convince her dad to let her leave. Things take a turn when she meets Cole, who lives in the nearby town of Evergreen. He gives her hope that things might not be so bad. However, the school's fountain has other ideas, and binds Courtney to her ambition, no matter the cost. As Courtney struggles to keep the magic from taking over, she and her friends get drawn into the mystery woven into the school's fabric. Everything seems to lead back to the forbidden West Woods. Together, she and her friends seek out the spirits of the past to ask for help, and find themselves in much deeper than they'd bargained for. If they succeed, Courtney could be free of the magic. If they fail, she may never be the same.'
The perfect balance between reality and fantasy and the mystery that overshadows the book is very well balanced wit the plot, making this book as successful as the initial opus in this fine series. Suzy Vadori shows staying power, Grady Harp, June 18
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domain: $\left\{0, 2, 3\right\}$ range: $\left\{1, 4\right\}$ The given relation is a function.
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The domain is the set that contains all of the first coordinates. Thus, the domain is $\left\{0, 2, 3\right\}$. The range is the set that contains all of the second coordinates. Thus, the range is $\left\{1, 4\right\}$. The requirement for a function is that each input (part of the domain) has exactly one output (part of the range). Every first coordinate is paired with exactly one output. Therefore, the given relation is a function.


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Yoshida Rinne is back with a new digital single and a new promotional video to boot. Filmed in and around the Los Angeles area (Victorville to be exact), Rinne is on the road with a huge denim backpack. In this short version, we see an emphasis on the old Route …Read More »
Yoshida Rinne – #film (10th Single)
Yoshida Rinne New Single Release Decision! Yoshida Rinne "#film" who worked on the first songwriting and composition, is now the hottest Mirenical generation artist Yoshida Rinne challenging songwriting and composition for the first time, as a representative of teen artists It is very important for himself to expand expression, a …Read More »
New PV Alert: Yoshida Rinne – mu
Under the black light and in the neon, Yoshida Rinne leaves a promotional video for the coupling track to her latest single. I'm going to be straight honest here: I flipped out when I say "mu". The dance beats of the instruments dip into a city pop sound that all …Read More »
New PV Alert: Yoshida Rinne – #film
In the school blazer and plaid skirts that fit her age, Yoshida RInne presents the promotional video for her latest single. "#film" finds the rap idol adding more titles to her hyphenate. This time around Rinne sings a song of her own writing and composition. It's a laid back groove …Read More »
New PV Alert: Yoshida Rinne – FOREVER YOUNG
Playing catch-up after a pair of Morning Musume '18 concerts, sorry if these are short… This catch-up series starts off with Yoshida Rinne. You know how much I love the model/idol/rap idol hyphenate. "FOREVER YOUNG" blends the rap and the melody nicely with some hard hitting rhythms on the electric …Read More »
NSK's PV Power Hour 09/01/2018
The power crew talk about EMPiRE, RINGOMUSUME, X21, NGT48, GANG PARADE, Tamura Meimi, and Yoshida Rinne. Recorded September 1st, 2018. Ending theme song: "Dave Drops The Bass" by Chase Lim AKA 13thBeat [download] Charlie Cowdin's Twitter – @drako60 Yoshi Hagiwara's Twitter – @yoshirekt New School Kaidan Twitter – @newschoolkaidan Join …Read More »
New PV Alert: Yoshida Rinne – Find Me!
In bed checking her messages before a night out, Yoshida Rinne starts things off restless for the promotional video for her new Digital Single. Battling insomnia, the idol/rapper/model wanders through the streets before settling on the playground swingset. In our brief snippet, Rinne jumps back and forth from the rap …Read More »
Yoshida Rinne – Seventeen (2nd Album)
From January 2018, Yoshida Rinne who is performing in AbemaTV's romance reality show program "Midwinter Wolf Kun-kun is not deceived" that is extremely popular from young people decides to release a new album! [note: translation via Google Translate] CD Track List M1. BQN words & music:E TICKET PRODUCTION M2. YOLO♪ …Read More »
New PV Alert: Yoshida Rinne – BQN
[Note: This promotional video is currently blocked in North America] The latest jam from Yoshida Rinne gets a promotional video release. BQN is the lead track from Rinne's forthcoming "Seventeen" album, and presents straight forward, no-nonsense rap over rock. Guitars crunch over the funky beats while 8-bit sounds fill out …Read More »
Yoshida Rinne – STAY FOOL!! (New Mini Album)
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Spring 2019 CoutureIris van Herpen
Last year, the Musée d'Orsay mounted an exhibition on polychrome sculptures from the 19th century. There was something revelatory about these painted busts and figures since, of course, we are conditioned to seeing the purest marble or bronze. That show passed through the mind while taking in Iris van Herpen's collection today with its enigmatic explorations of color and form. The most recent collection included two or three solid hues amid her signature stony, metallic palette. But these gaseous movements of ocher and purple, these waves of vermillion, and these kinetic patterns in gradient blue felt like a turning point. And such a breathtaking disruption, in turn, invited a new reading on her work.
Van Herpen is a voracious researcher who finds her message at the nexus of historical, scientific, artistic, and futuristic references. She would not have introduced color for color's sake. Backstage, she cited inspirations that spanned the Harmonia Macrocosmica (a 17th-century star atlas) to the possibility of engineered human hybrids. Cut to the 3-D-printed face-contouring jewelry, the cloud-like dresses in translucent organza (a collaboration with New York–based artist and former NASA engineer Kim Keever), and the dress with "anamorphic faces" embedded into undulating layers of white silk outlined in black. There was something Picasso-esque to the way the eyes moved as the model walked—a surrealist flourish within a graceful creation. The two final looks followed a similar construction, except that the petal-like projections now appeared to be emerging from the body, not just covering it. And in warm bursts of color, the modified anatomies that remain a fascination for Van Herpen were no longer so severe.


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The sea, the bustling city and international artists make the Formula 1 Singapore Grand Prix a fan favourite, but it's the season's biggest test for the drivers, says Stewart Bell
It's one of the most incredible sporting events. The world's finest drivers racing the world's finest cars wheel-to-wheel up to 320 km/h, under lights, with one of the world's most happening cities as its backdrop. It can only be the Formula 1 Singapore Grand Prix, the first night F1 race.
The event itself is relatively new to the F1 calendar, having made its debut in 2008, but it's already made a big impression. "This race is always the highlight of the season," says reigning F1 World Champion Lewis Hamilton. "The city looks spectacular under the lights, with the tricky street circuit below – my favourite kind of track to drive on." It's not difficult to find others who agree. "It's a Grand Prix I love. The crowd, the vibe, the ambience – it's electrifying," says Ferrari team principal Maurizio Arrivabene.
For fans, it's the complete package, with lots of on-track action and three support categories;
Ferrari Challenge Asia Pacific, TCR International Series and Porsche Carrera Cup Asia. After the chequered flag falls, the party continues with international artists performing at the circuit park. Since the event began, almost 20 Grammy Award winners have rocked the crowds – from Beyoncé to Robbie Williams, Linkin Park to The Killers, and Bon Jovi to Maroon 5 and Pharrell Williams.
And this year, it's no different. American rockers Imagine Dragons will join electropop princess Halsey, global superstar Kylie Minogue, Queen + Adam Lambert, indie pop act Bastille, disco kings KC and the Sunshine Band, and the incredible A Capella group Pentatonix.
The buzz continues beyond the stage at any of the trackside bars and hawker-style eateries, which give the event an authentic flavour and a festive vibe. However, one of the best things about the Singapore Grand Prix is the flexibility it gives fans to enjoy the delights of Singapore in full bloom during the day, before the racing starts at night.
For families, one of the first places to explore is Sentosa Island, which has lots of options for action and adventure. You can head to Universal Studios Singapore, try ziplining, the luge (part gokart, part toboggan) or even indoor skydiving at iFly Singapore. For some local culture, head to Tiong Bahru market.
It's a fan's paradise alright, but for the drivers, Singapore is one of the toughest physical challenges on the F1 calendar. Outside, it's 30°C and 70 per cent humidity, while in the car, cockpit temperatures can reach 55°C at racing speed. As a result, the drivers will lose up to 3 kg of fluid over a two-hour period. Things aren't made easier with a busy 5-km lap, which includes 23 corners and few places to catch your breath among the concrete barriers.
"Singapore is the toughest physical challenge of the year for a driver," says Red Bull Racing's Daniel Ricciardo. Adding, "A street circuit already requires a high level of concentration – and doing that in Singapore's humidity is fun but challenging. It's the one race of the year where you can open your visor to get cool air, and it's actually worse
because the humidity and heat of the car stays inside the streets, as it doesn't have anywhere to go." But it's not just physically exhausting. "It's mentally tough too," says Force India's Nico Hülkenberg, "because street circuits are more unforgiving. The walls are close and you have to get close to them if you want to be quick."
That's where serious training and preparation come in. "With this sort of event, the importance of driver fitness becomes very big," says Jenson Button's former trainer Phil Young from GP Human Performance. "All their hard work is done before they even get to Singapore. We have a saying that you 'train up to race down', so all your hard work is done in the training, and when you get inside the car, the only thing you've got to concentrate on is the driving and the racing. You're not worrying about your fitness."
That's all before you factor in the intense sporting battle, which by Singapore is in full swing as the title fight comes into focus. This year, benchmark squad Mercedes is under increasing pressure from rivals Ferrari and Red Bull Racing, as the season moves into its second half. At Mercedes, it's an all-out war between the team's drivers, reigning three-time F1 World Champion Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg, who are fighting tooth and nail for every last point.
Behind the Silver Arrows, Red Bull Racing now leads the chase – with Ferrari not far behind and desperate to close the gap. Indian-owned, British-run squad Force India is also a resurgent force, gunning for fourth in the constructors' championship, driver Sergio Pérez making the most of a competitive car that helped him score podiums in Monaco and Baku. So, this month (September 16-18), enjoy the thrill of speeding in this bustling city!


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As cannabis consumption increasingly becomes normalized, there appears to be an interesting side effect.
This particular byproduct of cannabis decriminalization is a positive one: decreased binge drinking.
As revealed by FinancialBuzz.com in a press release, Cowen & Co., a financial firm that provides several specialized services, reported binge drinking rates in states that have legalized adult-use cannabis consumption dropped nine percent below the national average in 2016.
That drop increased to 11 percent when compared to binge drinking in states that have yet to legalize adult consumption cannabis. We should celebrate things that help reduce harmful drinking behaviors.
Check this out: 5 Ways Traditional Hospitality Operators Can Get Involved with Cannabis
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) defines binge drinking as "when men consume 5 or more drinks or women consume 4 or more drinks in about 2 hours," typically. According to the CDC:
- One in six US adults engages in binge drinking approximately four times per month.
- About seven drinks are consumed per drinking binge.
- Annually, 467 binge drinks are consumed per binge drinker.
- Men are twice as likely to binge drink as women, consuming four of five total binge drinks.
- More binge drinks are consumed per year by binge drinkers with lower education and income levels. However, it's more common for people with higher educations and incomes of $75,000 and above to engage in binge drinking.
- The majority of binge drinkers, contrary to what many people likely believe, aren't dependent on alcohol.
Data regarding age groups may lend some credence to the correlation between legal cannabis consumption and decreases in binge drinking rates. Headset, an analytics service provider for the cannabis industry, reviewed cannabis customer loyalty program data and found that half of such members are under the age of 40. The top age group for binge drinking, according to the CDC? Adults ranging from 18 to 34 years of age.
In January of 2017, Eaze, a cannabis product delivery service operating in California and Oregon, revealed the results of a customer survey. A massive amount of respondents—nearly 82 percent—said they had reduced (19.8 percent, a small decrease; 24.6 percent, moderate decrease; 25.7 percent, significant decrease) or completely stopped (11.6 percent) their alcohol consumption because of cannabis.
Eaze found that the steepest decline in alcohol consumption came from Millennials. However, the company revealed in January of this year that Baby Boomers are one the fastest-growing adult-use, legal cannabis consumer age groups.
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It's perhaps the changing attitude of Baby Boomers toward cannabis—and accompanying usage—that represents the greatest overall societal shift in perception in the United States. What this demographic once saw as a criminal (and therefore shameful) indulgence is now, in multiple states, legal for recreational enjoyment.
At the moment, even THC-free CBD-infused beverages (and food items) face an uphill battle for service by bars and restaurants. The U.S. Alcohol and Tobacco and Trade Bureau (TTB), along with state liquor control agencies and some local health departments, regulates such beverages. However, they defer to the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) classification of CBD-infused products as safe and legal. So far, the FDA has deemed such items as unlawful.
It's possible that the FDA will change course as even more Americans (the majority already support legalization) shift how they view recreational cannabis. This may lead to the lawful sale of THC-infused beverages—both traditional and zero-proof—by restaurants and bars.
Showing that cannabis can lead to many adults engaging in more responsibly alcohol consumption behavior may lead to politicians changing their minds about legalization. Operators who agree should organize in their markets and speak to their local and state politicians.
"CDC Fact Sheets - Binge Drinking." Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Last reviewed October 24, 2018.
"2016 State of Cannabis Data Report." Eaze. January 9, 2017.
"State of Cannabis: Consumers diversified in 2018." Eaze. January 15, 2019.
"What Does the Average Cannabis Consumer Look Like?" Headset. July 21, 2016.


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There is a reason that every CEO of a publicly traded company has a Board of Directors. The Board's job is to question, inform, and support the CEO and the company. The Board is often comprised of individuals of various ages, occupations, talents, and experiences and this eclectic group is intended to compliment each other's strengths – to be better collectively than individually. This idea is relevant in our personal lives, as well. That is exactly why I am so thankful for my personal BOD.
There are times when we have all felt proud to say, "I did it myself – it was all me!" We ask our children, "Did you clean your room all by yourself?" "Did you complete that puzzle alone?" But is that ever really true? Isn't everything that we accomplish the result of the experiences, relationships, and opportunities that we have had along the way? Even the often mundane task of making dinner is the result of farmers, ranchers, grocers, suppliers, moms, dads, grandmothers, and countless others.
Just before Thanksgiving, my beloved 95-year old grandmother fell and broke her hip and wrist. My mom, an only child, was insistent that the responsibility for Grammy's recovery and well-being fell solely on her, even as my sisters and I tried to share the load of discovery and decision-making. While we had no doubt that my mom would ultimately make the right decisions for my grandmother, we were committed to easing the burden that she felt. Countless doctors, nurses, social workers, cousins, and friends were on board as well and after three long weeks, her recovery has taken an upward turn! Like my mom, I have three children and as they have become young adults, I value and treasure their insights and knowledge. They often serve as my cheerleaders, confidants, and even my editors! I consider my children, husband, friends, family, clients, and colleagues to be extensions of myself and am proud and grateful for their contributions. These relationships add clarity, depth, and strength to my life! I fondly consider these treasured people my personal Board of Directors!
As the year draws to a close, it is a great time to identify your Board Of Directors. Who makes you stronger, wiser, and better than before?! Make this a time to not only identify these valued individuals but to acknowledge them. Sure there will be times when you want to exclaim, "I did it myself – it was all me!" Just remember that your personal BOD does not diminish your relevance or impact; rather it supports and enhances it!
Live well/Be well.


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Feasibility Study + Design
In 2000, Barker Rinker Seacat Architecture designed a new wrestling room for the athletic department at the University of Northern Colorado. The wrestling room represents the first phase of a multiphase project to enhance the university's position in the North Central Conference and prepare UNC for its move to NCAA Division I AA competition. It opened March 1, 2001 to host the NCAA Division II wrestling tournament. Locker rooms for women's basketball and women's volleyball were also completed at that time.
Phase 2 of the master plan was completed in 2003 for Butler Hancock Hall improvements to enhance the lighting, acoustics and sound system of the main arena.
BRS also completed Phase 3 of the master plan for a new athletic training complex, which includes facilities for all varsity sports. Team locker rooms, meeting rooms, coaches' and athletic administrative offices, athletic training and hydrotherapy areas, an equipment storage/issue area, and a new 1,000-seat auxiliary gymnasium to accommodate women's volleyball competitions and serve as a practice venue for men's and women's basketball are to be featured in this addition.
In June 2004, BRS completed design for a new 10,000-s.f. strength training and conditioning area as well as a sports medicine area to enhance the recruitment and retention of outstanding student athletes from around the region.


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I briefly mentioned in my last post that I liked gingerbread.
Well I do I like to eat ginger biscuits and cakes, and cookies with huge chunks of stem ginger in, but when it comes to people shaped cookies 'like' is an understatement...
... I truly adore Gingerbread men!
I have been waiting so long to make a gingerbread softie, and here he is...
'The Gingerbread Boy'
I am a huge Christmas doodle-er. I probably draw at Christmas more than any other time of year. Santas, deer, robins and snowmen can be found on every list or card I write. Last year I was a-scribbling as usual and a cute little gingerbread man with a big head and no neck appeared on the paper. That little scribble, although I have no idea where it is now, stuck with me...
He has changed a little from the scribble but I adore him all the more.
He still has a big round head and soppy eyes, and is made from lovely doughy-soft snuggable fleece. I gave him ric rac icing and lovely gum drop buttons made from real button (which I'm sure you will agree, buttons are the candy of the sewing world).
At the moment, there is only this one Gingerbread Boy made and he will be the only one to have button candy. He is the lucky one who will get to meet everyone who visits the little shop.
He will go in tomorrow with a handful of cards of him and his sweetheart under the mistletoe. He loves his sweetheart so, although they have never met in person as she is patiently waiting in my WiP box as a paper pattern. Until then he is happy to look at her gocco portrait.
Night night All, it's getting late.
I hope you have sweet dreams of gingerbread men and their sweethearts
I know I will...


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By Paul Peck, Buffalo Sports Page
Bills fans, you need to be rooting for the Browns, Giants or Colts to have left the Combine convinced that that they should take Penn State running back Saquon Barkley with one of the top four picks in next month's NFL Draft.
In recent years, it would have been unheard of to take a running back that high. But Barkley may have changed that thinking with his dominant performance on the field at Lucas Oil Stadium.
In his Monday Morning QB story, The MMQB's Peter King wrote this:
• Barkleymania. Penn State running back Saquon Barkley put some distance between himself and the field for the best player in the draft. "He's the best running back prospect I've seen in 25 years," Saints coach Sean Payton told me. Another team, which had given only four draft prospects perfect grades in the last 20 years, told me Barkley is the fifth.
Impact on the Bills
Why is this important to the Bills? Because if Barkley goes to one of those teams, that could open up a trade partner for the Bills. Or at the least push one of the top quarterbacks down a bit. Would Cleveland take Barkley #1 instead of a QB as expected? Can the Browns wait until #4 and still get him? If not, would they trade that pick? Would the Giants delay drafting Eli Manning's replacement to take a win-now player like Barkley? Would the Colts, if they can't get the ultimate complimentary piece to Andrew Luck, pursue a trade for #3?
All of these scenarios have a direct impact on a team chasing Darnold, Rosen, Allen or Mayfield. Like the Bills.
But first, some thoughts on whether Barkley could actually be the first running back taken first overall since Ki-Jana Carter in 1995.
Take Barkley in the Top 3
Buffalo Sports Page NFL Expert Greg Gabriel is not surprised that Barkely has entered the conversation as a top 3 pick.
"In the last 2 drafts the top RB has gone in the top 5 selections. With Barkley's all-around game and home run skills he should easily match that and perhaps be a top 3 selection."
Leonard Fournette and Ezekiel Elliott were the other two top 3 running backs. Both had an immediate and significant impact on helping their teams make the playoffs. That's the argument for taking Barkley that high. Plus, he's a more versatile back than either Fournette and Elliott. Barkley's ability to catch passes, split wide as a receiver and return kicks makes him much more like the modern running back. He's not a hammer like those other guys, but may be just as effective in a Le'veon Bell-like role.
Don't Take Barkley in the Top 3
While Fournette made an impact for the Jaguars, who were the most-talked about running backs in 2017? It was Alvin Kamara and Kareem Hunt. Both were drafted in the third round. So can you get equal effectiveness from a back taken much later than the top 3? That's what those teams will have to decide.
Barkley is a special talent. But even at Penn State, he was never a 20-25 carry a game back. He had only 3 100 yard performances during his junior season. That may not be enough for a team to invest such a high pick in a player at a position that has become interchangeable in the NFL. Running backs, even good ones, are too injury-prone and their careers too short.
Top Five Alive
Barkley may benefit from a lack of players, other than a quarterback, who could be top five draft picks. Bradley Chubb of NC State is a possibility as the best pass rusher in the draft. Maybe a game-changing defensive back like Minkah FItzpatrick of Alabama could go that high. But there is no surefire receiver, defensive tackle, linebacker or offensive tackle who would take one of those top five spots. Quenton Nelson is considered one of the best overall players, but as a guard, some teams won't see the value in taking him that high.
So whether he's worth it or not, Barkley may go in the top five. That's good for the Bills for the reasons stated above. Keep an eye out for a team that may miss out on Barkley like the Giants or Colts. They'll be waiting for the phone to ring to see what QB-needy team wants in. There's a chance one of those calls could come from the 716.
For more combine coverage, read Bob Gaughan's winners and losers on offense & defense.


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Very nice article, short but detailed. The strengths of the Gurkha have been talked about many a times in various reviews and forums. But it is the little flaws like bent PS pipe or AC pipe can make the ownership experience a nightmare. Thanks for sharing the details.
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Guys like you are always harping on the so called off-road/macho/who needs air-con/i am tough guy/engineering of the Gurkha, I wanted to give a perspective to some who plans to use it as a daily vehicle.
Listen man, if Force makes some effort, I will buy this vehicle, but I am not willing to spend 10 lakhs for the way it is now.
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How many of these so called fan boys would actually buy the vehicle, except for the few guys who own it and give genuine feedback.
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Dear 4x4addict,
I was surprised to come across a review of the "2014" Gurkha because last I heard they were to Re-re launch the Gurkha in September. (4x4x4 or 6x6x6 or 7x7x7, I'm not sure)
However; As I read your review, it seemed to be familiar, that I had read it somewhere and the pictures seemed familiar too.
So, just to answer the niggling question to myself , I searched through the older Gurkha threads and found this
I have realised that you reposted a review that you posted over an year ago, claiming that its a 2014 vehicle whereas its very clear that its a 2013 vehicle .
Disclaimer : I am an armchair Off-Roader, I have followed the Thar threads and other 4x4 vehicle threads for long in team-bhp and yes, I do not own a CJ or a Jonga or Thar or Gurkha but one day, I will.
So, I do not and will never lay claim to being an expert. I relied on team-bhp to give me an unbiased view and to a certain degree, to form my opinions. I'm not so sure now.
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Few 'positive' apprehensions as mentioned in the main thread and all of these AFTER the original review was posted for the first time. If not a very thorough change, at least some of the things should be bettered in the final vehicle.
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Guys, just want to clarify that this is not the version with changes/improvements that we hear is going to be launched in Sept (20xx). This is the version that was *launched* at the auto expo last year. I guess after producing 150 vehicles, they found some issues and shipped those vehicles to an African country.
Indians will get the much improved (to be seen) version in September, so save you monies...
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There is no shortcut. What is required is a perfect combination of the following 3 capabilities:
1. PRODUCT CLARITY - a thorough understanding of the various interfaces between vehicle systems to be able to start with a clean sheet and actually make a new vehicle platform to be born / common platform strategy to spawn variants around existing aggregates / platforms and project management.
2. VEHICLE INTEGRATION - as an engineering application process, including capability to sit on layouts and strategize the design of control systems, making layouts, drawings, allotment and revisions to part numbers, release of BOM, obsolescence, cost control and program management.
3. VEHICLE EVALUATION - absolute clarity in understanding the finest nuances of "vehicle behavioral feel" by actually formulating DVPs and conducting evaluation in various test modes including "Vbar-max" (which takes the vehicle far beyond anything that the customer will ever throw at it in its entire life-cycle) and also real world usage pattern simulation, deriving severity ratios and determining factor of safety.
This is a continuous learning process and a challenging career option. The best reward is that you finally get to see your baby run on the roads out there and delight customers! It is a conscious call which an individual has to take. Remember, it has to be all three capabilities used at the same time!
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I can tell you what I had in mind is nothing compared to the reply which spawned the Thar.
Obviously, some level of background information of the vehicle involved is required. In this case, due to lack of much competition, a direct comparison with Thar will also be included.
Let's look at some of the factors I considered:
1: Engine and Gearbox: Even though the engine in the TD vehicle was BS3, and a possibility of a BS4 engine was discussed, the BS3 engine itself seemed adequate in my opinion. I was looking for relatively easy cruising ~80-100, since I am not into racing with modded Civics on the highway with inadequate brakes. More importantly, Tractability. Will I have to burn my clutch to go up any incline or not?
2. Engine accessories: Components attached to the engine. Like alternator, compressor, pumps, etc. How well integrated it is. Not some Jugaad welded or bolted clamp holding things up. I am of the belief that the mounting plane is critical and any variation will lead to uneven load on the engine. The Thar A/C compressor comes to mind.
3. Chassis: A uniform tubular chassis offers significantly more torsional and structural rigidity that a cut and paste box section chassis. This is critical for longevity of such types of vehicles which are subject to a lot of lateral loading. I bet a six year old Gurkha rattles and squeaks less than a 2 year old Thar just based on the chassis alone.
4. Body panels. Note the panels of the Gurkha with the ribbed for strength panels. No wavy sheet metal like you know who. Just compare side views of a Force Cruiser/Gama with a Bolero/Thar on the road to see what I mean.
5. Interior/Dash: I can live with a spartan interior as long as it fits. Yes, the Gurkha has a mish mash of vents and gauges, but it is in a correct fit panel. Not something that was borrowed from another vehicle and hand cut to fit, possibly by unpaid interns looking at how crude it is. Rattles and squeaks, anyone?
6. Suspension and Steering: Type, size, girth, and layout of steering and suspension components. As Navpreet318 already pointed out about the Wishbone, forged components can be considered "Sound" engineering whereas stamped and welded components usually NOT.
I could go on and on like track width discrepancies, water fording capability, etc., etc,. but hope you get the picture.
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If, I wasn't interested, I wouldn't waste my time taking a TD of the vehicle. However, in the current state, you are absoulutely RIGHT. I won't buy this, neither will I recommend other to buy. If Force can make sufficient changes, then I will buy it.
Can I ask you two very simple questions?
1) Do you own a 4x4 vehicle?
2) Have gone off-road with the group of off-roaders in the town/city/village you live in?
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Hi All.
I have owned Gurkha for over five years, bought it brand new. Issues for now I will keep to myself.
I have been thinking all these years, is Gurkha really worth the money you pay for it?
If we are talking just about Gurkha how does it lives up to the money one has to spent on it to acquire it.
I am just thinking aloud if I have to buy another 4x4 today, should I even look up at New Gurkha or just give it a miss and make a RFC ready vehicle or a 2nd hand Pajero ready to offroad and long drives with that money?
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Rhandle this is unfair on so many levels ! You were the one who was supposed to answer this question for us who were in terrible hanging state. I've been meaning to ask the same question to Gurkha owners when the new Gurkha gets launched. So please just buy another Gurkha and let us know is it any good PS I have always been fascinated by the Camel trophy Land Rovers and wanted to build a vehicle on similar lines. I think Gurkha is the perfect factory ready vehicle for that. As far as I gather from TBHP posts Gurkha does have many flaws but most of them are assembly line rectifiable faults and the vehicle is not mechanically weak per se. If I go in for Thar I'll have to deal with weak front IFS.
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