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The news from BlackBerry maker Research in Motion just gets worse and worse. Last month, the company suffered a three-day email outage that had millions of users around the world unable to send or receive e-mail from their phones. Last week, the company announced it had delayed the next version of its tablet operating system, PlayBook OS 2.0, until February. Last but not least, a group of consumers announced they were filing a class action lawsuit for the outage.
This week we learned that the company's U.S. market share has dropped to just 9 percent from 26 percent a year ago. BlackBerry users now account for just 2 percent of mobile web visits compared to 4 percent last December. The company's stock now sells at $18, where it sold for more than $56 a year ago. So what is the company doing to staunch the bleeding? Ignoring what made it a success in the first place, of course.
Based on recent initiatives, RIM is refocusing on entertainment, launching BBM Music, a $4.99-per-month service that lets you have 50 songs a month from its catalogs and also listen to your friends' 50 songs. RIM is also working closely with a number of game developers to bring their titles to the PlayBook tablet. Like Justin Bieber trying his hand at acting or Mr. T rapping, RIM's attempt to rebrand BlackBerry as a play platform will not end well. The company needs to go back to its roots and focus on what mobile business users need in 2011 and beyond.
Don't bother telling anyone at RIM that they have bigger problems than how many high-res games you can buy in the BlackBerry AppWorld store. I was at the company's BlackBerry DevCon two weeks ago, where I got a sense of the company's new direction. During a two-part, three-hour keynote, RIM showed demo after demo of games and social media apps running primarily on its tablet. But the company spent only a few minutes talking about security in the form of a demo showing how work and personal data can be segregated on the PlayBook tablet.
The Outage Outrage
If you attended the keynote and didn't know better, you might think selling business-friendly smartphones is a small side business for RIM, as the company didn't unveil any new handsets and barely showed phones on stage. Company CEO Mike Lazaridis spent exactly 30 seconds talking about the very serious e-mail outage that had occurred just a few days before. He said only:
"The world-wide outages we experienced this week were unfortunate. We restored full service as quickly as we could. Now we're focused on the root cause analysis, our internal systems audits, and making this right for more than 70 million BlackBerry users around the world."
But for businesses that outfit their employees with BlackBerry phones, losing e-mail access for several days is more than "unfortunate," it's downright dangerous. According to one survey, 19 percent of BlackBerry users lost business as a result of the outage! Imagine if you're a stock broker and a client tries to e-mail you to initiate a trade or if you're a real estate agent and someone sends a bid on a home. If those messages arrive late, your clients will go elsewhere. Receiving a free copy of Shazam, a music app that already comes free on iOS or Android, won't make up for your loss. Even getting a few dollars off of your phone bill—something most users aren't getting—seems like cold comfort to someone who has lost thousands.
The sad truth is that, in 2011, RIM's method of routing all mobile e-mail messages through its own servers creates too much risk for too little reward. Businesses like BlackBerry Enterprise Server because it provides stringent security and gives the IT department tight control over users' handsets. Some BlackBerry fans like that BIS—the consumer version of BES—allows them to filter e-mail before it even gets downloaded to their phones. But by allowing RIM to handle all their messages, both groups are introducing another point of failure into the critical e-mail delivery chain.
Isn't it risk enough that your corporate Exchange could go down or your ISP could experience an outage? No other mobile platform requires you to trust your handset maker with your data. Apple could go out of business and you'd still be able to get all your e-mail on your iPhone. Google's server farms could burn to the ground and you'd still be able to connect your Android phone to your company's Exchange server. In fact, with Exchange, IT departments can now exert fine control over users' Android phones, even remotely wiping them if necessary.
Outdated Hardware and Software
If its 1990s-era method of e-mail delivery wasn't bad enough, RIM's 2009-era handsets are even worse. It's as if Lazaridis and company have been living in a bubble where they can't see what the competition is offering. Just this week, BlackBerry unveiled its Torch 9810 on T-Mobile. For $249, you get a 3G keyboard slider with a whopping 3.2-inch screen, a 1.2-GHz single-core CPU, and a 5-megapixel back-facing camera. Apparently, nobody in Waterloo, Ontario has heard that you can get the dual-core, 4.3-inch-screened HTC Sensation 4G for just $99 on T-Mobile, or that the iPhone 4S costs $199.
Even the company's popular BlackBerry Messenger service, which many see as a selling point, feels dated in 2011. Why rely on BlackBerry for real-time messaging when you can always chat on Gtalk, Facebook chat, or any of a dozen other mobile IM clients—all of which work across multiple platforms?
Perhaps the company wants to be known as a maker of classic nostalgia technologies rather than current ones. At a press event for the PlayBook last spring, the company gave each reporter an odd goodie bag filled with an expensive array of old-time swag. Each reporter received a leather-bound journal, a 35mm vintage Lomo-style camera, and a blank plastic figurine to draw on. At its DevCon party, the company filled a room with vintage toys such as Rock 'Em Sock Robots and air hockey tables. Is RIM trying to compete with Apple and Samsung or rotarydialphones.com?
Business Communications: The Next Frontier
If RIM wants to stay relevant, it needs to make a compelling case for itself with productivity-oriented users, not gamers and media mavens. BlackBerry's killer app has always been communication, but e-mail and instant messaging have become commodities that most people are happy to get from Google, Microsoft, and other vendors. However, there's still a very important niche that's wide open to RIM: mobile conferencing.
Look around the industry and you'll see a lack of serious video conferencing or mobile meeting solutions. FaceTime on iOS provides a smooth chat experience over Wi-Fi, but doesn't offer business-level security features or the ability to share much more than your face. Video talk on Android is a bad joke, with Gtalk, ooVoo, Qik, and Skype all providing blocky, jerky images and unstable connections in our tests.
Business users are just waiting for someone to bring telepresence-style video and fantastic remote meetings. You can already run Citrix GoToMeeting on a tablet or handset, but what if RIM supercharged mobile communication by making it faster, more secure, and more IT-manageable than ever?
In order to provide the world's best mobile conferencing/meeting solution, RIM would need to leverage its already-taxed servers for video, write some pretty compelling video meeting software, put front-facing cameras on all its devices, and it would need to finally support 4G. I won't hold my breath.
Refocusing on providing the best business communication experience would help RIM stop the bleeding, but right now its executives are too busy gaming while Waterloo burns.
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Nimbin has changed a lot in the last 25 years. In 1972 it was
like many similar rural villages of its size (about 100-odd people
then) and economic makeup ie dairy and timber. Hit hard by changes
in farm subsidies and market realities, northern NSW was going
through a rural recession. Britain joining the EEC meant the protected
butter trade from the colonies went out the window. The impact
on towns like Nimbin was a reduction in revenue and then jobs,
which in turn led to a population decline as people drifted to
the cities and bigger towns looking for work. Nimbin was not totally
destitute however. There was still a hard core, solid, conservative,
hard-working and very traditional farming community remaining,
but these weren't easy times. Nimbin, though, was about to change.
Probably it was inevitable that Nimbin would get picked up sometime
by the seeming hordes of long hairs fleeing the cities clutching
their "Whole Earth Catalogues" and redolent with the smell of
patchouli, intent on "getting back to the land". The rural decline
meant it was a village wide open for recycling and when the Aquarius
Festival movers and shakers chanced upon it late in 1972, on an
alternate return route home to Sydney from their number one choice
location, Mullumbimby, it was seen as the perfect location for
the Festival that they envisioned. All the infrastructure was
here: the suitably decrepit Hall; the old butter factory and the
empty shops so useful for food distribution, art and learning
workshops, and administration and networking centres; the fields
and river offered itself as a playground; the Nimbin Rocks and
the breathtaking views of the Nightcap Range, a panoramic backdrop
to it all. Verily it came to pass that God dealt Nimbin a full
hand of hippies.
Cannabis had been around this area long before the hippies came,
but on the North Coast in the '70's it became inextricably associated
with the newly arrived counter-culture. It came to be seen and
proclaimed by the traditional conservative politicians as the
primary motivating cause for these new settler's rebellious rejection
of the prevailing social norms. Un-natural things like forming
and living together on land-sharing communities, doing direct
action to stop the annihilation of the last vestiges of the public
land old-growth rainforest, having babies at home and wanting
to be involved in the education of their kids. Fuelled by local
redneck outrage that sought more cops and harsher penalties, Nimbin's
popularised media image became overwhelmingly one of a drug culture.
And a sinful and out of control one for good measure. As Nimbin
moved from sleepy hamlet to its current place on the mainstream
tourist trail, this description came to be a self fulfilling prophecy.
For the alternative culture here, cannabis was a sacrament. A
hardy plant, simple to cultivate, cannabis helped school a generation
of hippie farmers on the realities of producing to serve your
own needs- and more! This versatile, very generous and simple
to process plant served as a comfort to the often harsh and primitive
communard lifestyle, helping make the intolerable tolerable. It
was undemanding of humans except by way of trust. And there was
always the possibility of it generating a little cash flow. Nimbin
acquired the reputation as a destination where your chances of
scoring pot, without any insider knowledge or connection, was
always good. What started as an outlaw fringe of alternative locals
at the Rainbow Cafe turning their few plants into car registration,
new shoes for the kids and maybe extensions to their shelter,
gradually metamorphorsized into the hard bitten, highly competitive
street hustle that's such standard fare on Cullen Street these
days, with little respect shown for anyone or anything other than
their own short term desires . Attracted by the nation-wide sensation
seeking media publicity, the carpetbaggers arrived. Because the
pot trade allowed access to a ready flow of tax free cash, Nimbin
became the mecca for all those whose habits required a constant
injection of money. The village became a way station on the heroin
line, the pub flourished, options for change stayed limited under
prohibition and attitudes continued to polarize.
Not only did this serve to obscure the bigger, broader vision
of the counter-culture, but it provided the access way for authorities
to hinder, harass, raid, intimidate, fine, jail and generally
maintain a state of undeclared war on the original uppity newcomers
and their striving for a culture. But the vision of a whole and
healing community lifestyle persisted, the hippies hung in and
in our own minor ways prospered. But as a legacy of our resistance
we inherited the other darker side of the drug scene. A creation
of the drug laws, the unregulated market in cannabis attracts
a fast buck mentality which is contrary to the Aquarian ethos.
Dressed in "hippie garb", the street dealers find shelter in the
shade of our tolerance and in the process undermine our very roots
and reason for existence. Resolving the illegal drug issue and
the behaviour this promotes has become the acid test of the Aquarian
vision and of our determination to manifest that vision.
For years the most common local public manifestation of the drug
laws was fear. Fear that if you spoke out or made waves about
the offensive Drug Offensive you'd become a target for official
retribution. We smokers all had our little stash of plants, carefully
tended and guarded and which at the time could result in prison
if caught with them in our possession. Fear leads to compromise.
Even if you were a non-user/grower of cannabis, public opposition
to the drug laws and the dominant Drug War strategies was taken
to be a sign of being "soft on drugs" and opponents were actively
discredited. It was a totalitarian mentality that commanded obeisance.
Any deviation were considered morally bankrupt. Meanwhile in Nimbin
suspicion flourished as well. Who was a cop? Who was a potential
In 1988 the first active "drug law reform group", Nearly NORML
Nimbin started proposing drug law re-evaluation and review along
with an immediate re-legalization of cannabis as a means of healing
the growing disrespect on the streets. Most importantly we wanted
to break the cycle of fear that played into the authorities hands
and was dividing the local community. We limped along, lifting
spirits- a lone voice in this ethically totalitarian atmosphere.
We discovered Jack Herer and the "Emperor's New Clothes" along
the way and transformed into Nimbin HEMP (Help End Marijuana Prohibition).
We ran sporadic but succesful political campaigns, maintained
a media tactical response unit, held some great dances and other
gigs, and developed a reputation as outrageous political players.
With a growing support network and an increased public awareness
of the issues,.we managed to keep Nimbin at the cutting edge of
change, leading the NSW populist push against prohibition.
In March 1993, when the police made one of their post-summer
clean-ups of main street dealers a spontaneous siege of the Nimbin
Police Station resulted and the building was pelted with eggs
and rolls of toilet paper. This caused some stridently scornful
anti-Nimbin media publicity and so Nimbin HEMP, which by now had
become the Nimbin HEMP Embassy, decided to hold a public rally
to provide ordinary people with the opportunity to express their
opposition to the drug laws in a peaceful, festive and non-confrontational
atmosphere. May Day, Saturday May 1st was designated and so the
Mardi Grass was born. Despite a lack of police participation and
the stern opposition of the local council who refused us the right
to march and use of the local park, over 1000 people, mainly local,
came out in defiance and took part in a powerful ritual of personal
and community empowerment. We paraded from the Bush Theatre uptown
to the village centre, then on to the Police Station where we
danced and wished the police well. To a tumultus percussion beat
we returned to the Hall for our rally. The contact high was tangible
for days afterwards and we vowed to Mardi Grass every year until
prohibition's end.
The next year, the May Day "Let It Grow!" Mardi Grass and Drug
Law Reform Rally (the official monicker) was held on Sunday May
1st accompanied on the Saturday by a National Conference called
"Beyond Prohibition. This boasted an impressive array of politicians,
academics and sundry experts in their chosen fields. The Parade/Rally,
along with our annual Harvest Festival Ball and Pot Art Exhibition,
became a two day Fiesta. We were still being officially frowned
upon but legal advice had indicated that the Council ban on our
use of the park was not legitimate. Despite gloomy forecasts of
anarchy in the streets of Nimbin, we went ahead and repeated the
previous year's joyful celebration parade and this year rallied
in the park. By now the attendance was so big and the atmosphere
so friendly, peaceful and responsible that the authorities were
buckling under the strain of keeping face.
Last year's Mardi Grass was held in the wake of our End Prohibition
NSW State Election campaign and just kept on getting bigger, with
a veritable carnival of events running in association with the
street Parade- more performance events, seminars, fashion parade,
markets, the Inaugural Cannabis Growers Cup, the film premiere
of the "Hemp Revolution", Jack Herer and Lynn Osbourne from HEMP
USA, High Times magazine's grower's guru Ed Rosenthal, book launches
and Operation Judas as well as Pot Art 3 and Harvest Ball. The
Parade day dawned to spiritual gatherings, croissants with Jack
and Lynn at the launching of the Australian edition of the "Emperor",
and a mega-crowd (by Nimbin standards at least) filling the village.
By now we'd given up seeking Council approval, without which we
couldn't get the official Police nod, and just went ahead high
on trust. The Police responded by ensuring the traffic continued
moving on Parade day but otherwise kept a low profile during the
festivities. Which resulted, surprise surprise, in a lack of any
trouble in terms of violence, vandalism and any serious shows
of interpersonal or environmental disrespect. For local traders
the Mardi Grass was proving a monster boon for business with some
shop-keepers having to close their doors in order to just deal
with the crush of customers in their shops at that time. May 1st
had by now slipped around the calendar to Monday and with the
finals of the Cannabis Cup held just before our closing ceremonies
that day, we became an over 3 day affair.
Drugs are always a hot topic and with world heroin production
predicted to be doubling every 5 years, the potential consequences
of a continuing drug war approach seem all the more calamitous
for society. The NSW Royal Commission into Police Corruption has
revealed to the public the otherwise obvious connection between
official corruption and the drug laws. There's a visible panic
happening with authorities as everything we've been saying for
years is coming true but there appears little commitment by the
politically expedient major parties to enact any fundamental change
in approach. This makes it all the more imperative and apt that
we continue to emphasize just how counter-productive the present
regulations are. Bad laws only breed disorder.The Mardi Grass
is now one of Eastern Australia's classic underground events.
Despite minimal advertising or promotional publicity, we've always
attracted big crowds, earned strong support and received wide
and comprehensive media coverage. Since January, we've been receiving
constant demands for information and accommodation bookings from
all over Australia. At the moment it's impossible to anticipate
what sort and size of crowd to cater for, but it looks big.
The reason we are holding MARDI GRASS is so that together we
can make a powerful statement of the truth that the prohibition
laws are a misguided and miserable failure. We will be celebrating
our culture in a festive atmosphere of peace and fun and harmony.
HEMP activists, artists and experts from all over the planet will
be converging on Nimbin for a major empowerment ritual and a sharing
of knowledge.
The Mardi Grass kicks off on Wednesday May 1st, our traditional
rallying day, with appropriate, born-again, rustic Pagan Mayday
festivities including maypoling, the arrival of the fabulous Kombi
Konvoy, lighting of the Hemp Alternative Olympic flame and a special
Koori music and dance night in the Town Hall, featuring Nunukel
Kunjiel and Quandmooka.
Thursday there is an African dance workshop, the amazing Hemp
fashion designers parade, and cafe cabaret featuring throughout
in the village cafes. Friday's the Full Moon and the night of
our legendary Nimbin Marijuana Harvest Festival Ball which features
top local bands- the Acid Pixies, Pagan Love Cult Inc, Terra Sancta
and the Spliffmasters, and the dancing Cannabis Can Can, Ganja
Fairies and the Sativa Sisters. This follows a day of choir, lantern-making
and bellydance workshops. Pot Art #3 will have become a visual
reality by then. On Saturday: the inaugural HEMP Traders' Trade
Fair will open in the Hall, seminars, forums and think fests will
run throughout the day, markets, a culinary exhibition, Puppets
in parkland, the lantern making continues and will culminate in
the Sunset Moon Lantern Parade and fire ceremony. This will be
followed by another big dance night in the Hall with locals Klang,
Ragadoll, Bush Punk Cowboys and Dr Seuss' Signature. Sunday opens
with sunrise chanting and spirit healing, and is the day of the
Parade. This heads off from the Schools Bus Turnaround at 1.30
pm and will be followed by a monster rally and the Finals of the
Hemp Olympics ( including the bong obstacle course relay, joint
rolling, bong throwing and the Commissioner Woods Cross Country
Pursuit of the "Bent Cop"). Late afternoon sees the final session
in the judging of the 1996 Mardi Grass Cannabis Cup, a screening
of the Australian film "The Hemp Revolution", the lighting of
the beltane fire and burning of the wicker-woman, and then more
music and performance events to take the weekend out.
Market stalls and music, HEMP board game contest, random Ethnocultural
tours of Nimbin by the Alternative Town Council, forums and street
theatre, Pot Art #3, excerpts from the Nimbin Player's production
of a reworked Canterbury Tales (including the Muller's Tale),
hemp videos, an MARDI GRASS Information stall and the Nimbin Hemp
Embassy's Drug Education Centre and multi media port will be on-going
throughout the Fiesta. Plus other such oddball spontaneously scheduling
activities that we can't even begin to foresee at this point in
But that's just the Gig itself. Most of all, though, it'll be
A FESTIVAL OF THE SPIRIT. A celebration of life and a blow against
the absurdity of bad laws. Stating the truth about prohibition
and ourselves, openly, together and in a non-confrontational way
we not only celebrate ourselves but become part of the solution.
If Nimbin was anywhere else in the world we'd be considered a
spiritual centre. Like the great and wildly peaceful religious
Festivals of India, the Mardi Grass is an opportunity for us all
to affirm strongly, peacefully and proudly all that we are.
It gives us a chance, too, to open up to the world, the fruits
of our settlement here in Nimbin, all the things that ordinarily
get eclipsed in the current drug centered focus of the popular
press, to a sort of semi-public scrutiny. . The permaculture gardens,
alternative energy systems, community recycling works, the land-sharing
communities movement, the affinity groups like the Nimbin Environment
Centre and Nimbin News, schools, community health networks and
other support systems, the Nimbin Museum, the diverse local enterprise
and the World Heritage Rainforests that we live beside- all that
is beautiful and vibrant and healthy about life here. We love
our town and are proud to be of this place and land. The nasty
side of life so often portrayed here reflects nothing other than
the behaviour of some desperate expensive-drug users under prohibition.
These same drug laws that cause these problems also restrict our
capability to do anything about it. Like change the system of
marketing. We would like it for visitors who come here seeking
pot to be able to openly, safely and cheaply purchase it in Kafes,
like in Holland, without being intimidated, ripped off or forced
into supporting the hard drug economy. Be patient- we're working
on it.
We welcome you here for our 1996 Peace for Pot Mardi Grass and
in doing so also ask your consideration and respect to the spirit
of the land, the residents, the village buildings, the trees and
all other species who consider this special place home. Born from
the frustration of enduring years of counter-productive prohibition
laws, the Nimbin "Let It Grow!" Mardi Grass has become a positive
statement of the imperative to direct our own destiny and to not
blindly accept the dominant paradigm. To create a healthy world
we need a sound and ethical base. To begin with: let's make Peace
for Pot!
When Injustice Becomes Law, Resistance Becomes
Duty....and in this case Fun!
Written by End, Prohibition, March 1996.
for the Nimbin Hemp Embassy.
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To fulfil the aspirations of the local people Rabindra Bharati Mahavidyalaya was established in 2010 as a co-education college. The college is affiliated to Vidyasagar University and is aided by Govt. of West Bengal. It is situated at the entrance of the district Purba Medinipur by the side of the Rupnarayan River. At present the college is running at Kola Union High School premises in the morning shift and the college authority is trying their best for the construction of it's own college building at Kolaghat town.The college is imparting teaching with Honours in Bengali, English, History, Sanskrit & Education. The college will start Hons. in Geography with effect from academic session 2015-16. The college is in a nursery stage awaiting the development of its own infrastructural facilities exclusively. To bring prosperity in the local area by scratching the light of education and to inculcate the moral values the college is committed to provide excellence in higher education. The college authority seeks help form the Govt. and all other concerned for the construction of its own building and development of infrastructural facilities at this embryonic stage towards the all round development of the college.
The college is at present located near about one (1) k.m. north of the Kolaghat Railway station by the side Of beautiful river Rupnarayan . It is at the core heart of the Kolaghat town embedded with in the beautiful Academic campus.


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The Best Action Movies of 2016
Iconic superheroes, epic battles, and a whole lot of sequels dominated the most exciting action films of 2016. The best 2016 action movies brought in millions at the box office while offering movie goers an array of special effects and thrilling stunts. This is a list of the best action movies of 2016 featuring everything from X-Men Apocalypse to Criminal to Star Trek Beyond.
What films will you find on this list of the top action movies of 2016? If you're a sci fi buff, you might vote Rogue One: A Star Wars Story to the top. A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away, a father and daughter find themselves locked in a struggle surrounding the creation of the most powerful weapon known to man: the Death Star. Felicity Jones starred as Jyn Erso in this blockbuster film. The irreverent superhero flick Deadpool was another one of the most popular action movies of 2016. Tom Cruise returned to the role of a former army police officer in Jack Reacher: Never Go Back. Other good films featured on this roundup of the top action movies of 2016 include Independence Day: Resurgence, Criminal, and Jason Bourne.
Which action movie deserves the top spot on this list? It's up to you to decide. Give your favorites a thumbs up and please add any exciting films that are missing.
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Commission considers ordinances, health inspection
By Michael Johnson, Editor
Mailboxes, unlicensed cars, wind towers, health violations … you name it, city commissioners discussed it at the last Underwood City Commission meeting held Nov. 1. Commissioners covered the gamut of issues facing Underwood in quick fashion. One of the first issues that brought in three concerned residents was the impact drivers from the new bus barn are having on the entrance of Sayler Street off of County Road 14. The residents said that bus drivers are the primary culprits of using Sayler Street instead of the bus barn driveway, and their affect has been detrimental to the street. In talking with drivers, the reason for using Sayler Street was because the bus barn driveway is too muddy. "That's not our problem," Mayor Rick Olson said. Commissioner Roger Britton volunteered to talk with Superintendent Dale Ekstrom to try and solve the issue before the street is damaged anymore. Residents did not want to be stuck with the bill to fix a street that was being overused by someone else.


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- For wireless connection, check for nearby devices, such as a microwave oven or devices using a wireless frequency similar to a wireless router.
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- To avoid wireless interference, connect your TV to the router with a LAN cable.
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DIY Brown Sugar-Vanilla Body Scrub
This is one of the simplest body scrub recipes you'll ever make. The best part is, you likely have all the ingredients in your kitchen right now.
Body scrubs are great for exfoliating the skin. They leave skin feeling soft and smooth. Removing the dead skin cells via exfoliation also boosts your skin with a healthy glow.
Make this simple scrub for yourself or give it to a friend.
The recipe can easily be doubled, tripled, or even quadrupled. Just keep the 2:1 ratio. Use two parts sugar to one part oil. Then add 1 tsp of vanilla for each cup of scrub.
How to Make Brown Sugar-Vanilla Body Scrub
This recipe is adapted from one in my ebook, The Body Scrub Bible.
1 cup brown sugar
1/2 oil (I use grapeseed, sunflower, sweet almond, or light olive oil)
1 teaspoon of vanilla
Mix the sugar and 1/2 cup of oil. Make sure scrub is thick, but not too runny. Sugar scrub should hold together and not slide right off your hand. If it's too thin, add more sugar, if too thick, add more oil.
Add vanilla and stir to combine.
Package in a clear jar. Label with ingredients, especially if giving as a gift).
Customize this scrub even further by adding one of the following:
- 8 drops sweet orange essential oil (buy from Amazon or Mountain Rose Herbs)
- 1 tablespoon ground coffee beans
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
- 10 drops lavender essential oil (buy from Amazon or Mountain Rose Herbs)
- 1 tablespoon grated cocoa butter (buy from Amazon or Mountain Rose Herbs)
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Thanks for another great gift idea. Will be using your ebook Simple Scrubs for many gifts this season. Love your easy to follow instructions. Thank you!
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Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said on Monday he was organizing a conference to look for ways to stabilize Libya, a main departure point for migrants from North Africa trying to reach Europe.
"In agreement with President (Donald) Trump, I'm going to organize a conference on Libya," Conte told reporters at the White House after meeting with the U.S. president.
"We would like to deal (with) and discuss all of the issues related to the Libyan people, involving all of the stakeholders, actors, protagonists in the whole of the Mediterranean," said Conte, who took office last month promising a crackdown on immigration.
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Well, you've met 'the one,' fallen in love, have gotten engaged, and want to start planning your special day… but where to start? "Planning a wedding is such a special time, but can definitely seem overwhelming at the beginning. Start with the basics and build on that," advises Kendra Gatschuff, Wedding and Social Sales Manager at Hockley Valley Resort. Here's Kendra's list of 5 things you need to tackle after getting engaged:
1. Your finger will never look the same! Your new ring will shine on your finger for years to come, so make sure it's the perfect fit. And that it's protected. Getting your ring sized and insured are the first steps to peace of mind – and sanity could be something you come to value over these next few months.
2. The key is to remain as organized as possible though this process, so a planner is a must. Buy a book, borrow a binder, download an app, create a spreadsheet – go with whatever method works for you, but getting a system and sticking to it may just keep you on top of all those important dates and details.
3. If watching your pennies is new to you, start practicing! Besides the "regular" wedding costs, you want to be prepared for any surprises – not to mention having a cushion in case you decide to splurge on something special. Most couples just starting out use a budget to track their newly combined household expenditures, so getting into the habit now will serve you well into your married life.
4. Though your engagement is still fresh, start making a preliminary guest list to get a rough number. You'll need that estimate for venue size, food, favours, invitations and pretty much every step going forward in your planning. Remember that this number isn't carved in stone, but be realistic at this stage. This step can be tricky – sometimes you need to cut or add names, so work to balance your guest list with your budget.
5. It seems simple, but remember that this day is about you as a couple. Two classics come into play here: pick your battles and don't sweat the small stuff. Some things just don't end up mattering in the grand scheme of things. Ask yourself what matters, what is most important and let that guide you. Enjoy the planning as much as you enjoy the day and the honeymoon!
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The best view of Atlanta can be found from the upper floors of Viewpoint, one of Midtown's top buildings. Don't agree? I submit to you Exhibits A and B, pictures from my new two bedroom listing at Viewpoint, located on the 27th floor:
Almost impossible to find a view in Midtown these days that's not encumbered by a construction crane or another building, so I was pretty blown away when I first saw my client's northern facing view. It's the kind of place that literally doesn't need artwork- the city skyline is the piece de resistance here.
A few more reasons why this condo rules:
- Two Deeded Parking Spots- Why force your guests to street park, or pay for shelter in your garage? Two parking spots in an Atlanta condominium building is akin to showing up to Willy Wonka's with a Golden Ticket.
- Superior Building Amenities- I remember the first time I slinked into one of the over sized theater chairs in the movie theater at Viewpoint. I felt a serious pang of jealousy course through my veins. Between the resort style pool, massive fitness center, theater, conference room and outdoor entertaining area, residents at Viewpoint enjoy hotel living, year around (minus the questionable ""hotel blanket"", of course).
- Bonus Room- This unit is listed as a two bedroom, but the second room is really best suited as an office or den. The bonus room is really stellar space, perfect for anyone who feels just a little cramped in a one bedroom condominium.
- The Heart of Midtown- Whether you're looking forward to life down the street from Piedmont Park or just a few blocks from jumping onto The Connector, its hard to beat Viewpoint's location at the corner of Peachtree and Sixth.
- Downstairs, The Art of Touch– The best massage studio in Atlanta is located on the second floor of Viewpoint. This is the place, folks. Fantastic massages, reasonable prices… and if you purchase my new listing, a most convenient amenity.
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Construction labour force recruitment critical
Between 2019 and 2021, a significant amount of competing large-scale, multi-billion dollar projects are expected to commence in British Columbia. Construction demand is growing faster than
Construction trades of the future
With the construction projects becoming more complex, people will not only need strong trade skills but be adaptable to modern technology.
CHBA pres to talk housing affordability with feds
Bob Finnigan, president of the Canadian Home Builders' Association, heads to Ottawa this week to talk to the feds about housing affordability.
Safety data will drive construction performance
Introduction As an industry, we have made great improvements in safety performance, but despite our best efforts safety in construction has largely remained behind the
Harmonization needed for Red Seal apprentices
Established in 1952, the Interprovincial Red Seal Program was developed to form a common set of standards for designated trades and now represents the Canadian
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The construction industry is forecasted to lose 250,000 skilled tradespeople over the next decade, making mentorship more critical than ever.
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Attracting women to jobs in construction
Traditionally, construction has not been a field too many women have considered. In fact, historically they were encouraged to enter teaching, nursing or clerical positions.
Alberta's Temporary Foreign Worker program
Shortages of skilled workers in Alberta are well-known and well-documented, and this year the federal government overhauled the Temporary Foreign Worker (TFW) Program and created a precarious situation for the future of a successful construction industry in Alberta.
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All businesses take on risks to save time and money. But some risks, like those relating to the workplace safety, are just not worth the gamble.
Meeting the demand for electric vehicles
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Demand for skilled workers high in B.C.
The common chorus is that B.C. is going to need more than 50,000 new skilled workers over the coming decade.
The importance of return to work
Six helpful steps employers can follow when developing an injury management plan.
Taking construction safety to the next level
Six key risk factors that construction site workers should consider and the steps necessary for augmenting the chances of success.
Protection against work-related diseases
Preventing disease is a unique challenge for today's businesses because unlike regular jobsite hazards, workers don't know if they've breathed in harmful toxins until they get sick years later.
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Helen Mirren has been confirmed for The Hundred-Foot Journey.
Manish Dayal has also been added to the culinary drama.
Monsters University star Mirren had previously been rumoured for director Lasse Hallström's upcoming movie, which will adapt Richard C Morais's novel.
Set in France, the Steven Spielberg, Oprah Winfrey and Juliet Blake-produced film will centre around the rivalry between a three star Michelin restaurant and a nearby Indian eatery.
Mirren will next be seen in RED 2, which will arrive in US cinemas on July 19 and in the UK on August 2.
Dayal is best known for his roles in 90210 and Switched at Birth.
The Hundred-Foot Journey will begin shooting in September for release on August 8, 2014.
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While our troops in Iraq get blown up, shot up and decapitated by the vilest amoral bunch of dogs to roam the earth, we are requiring them all to go through "core values training", which is the military equivalent of anger management training in civilian life. We want them to be sensitive to the culture of those they are fighting.
What is that culture again? The culture that values decapitating those who show cartoons of Muhammad, the leader of the "religion of peace" (gag). The culture that removes freedom of speech and other rights from anyone who practices a different faith from their own. The culture that becomes absolutely psychotic if they are offended in any way. We want to make our troops sensitive to these behaviors? Wow!
Expectations of our society don't seem to match the realities of this war and our enemy.
I deplore killing babies (if, in fact, our soldiers did that), unlike the values of the enemy they are fighting. I deplore the senseless killing of "innocents" (if, in fact, our soldiers did that), unlike the values of the enemy they are fighting.
Core values training. I think our President and Congress could use some "core values training" to remind them of the core values of our own culture. How about our core value of not killing our own babies through the unmitigated practice of abortion? How about our core value of enforcing our own laws and not letting them be ignored for the sake of cheap labor and enhanced corporate profits? How about our core value of respecting our culture and our own heritage and not letting who we are get diluted by rampant, cultural diversity that places a higher value on illegal aliens than on our own citizens?
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What the hell is a Pescatarian? 🤔No, I haven't started eating pests.
Pescatarian means a person who does not eat meat but eats fish. From the Italian word 'pesce' meaning fish. I hope you learned something new 🤓
My mother's been a pescatarian for years and back then I thought she was crazy for giving up meat. I used to eat meat on the daily, my whole diet consisted of meat for protein. I was consistently thinking about what meat to eat for my next protein hit 💉
One day I started watching a new Netflix doco called 'What The Health'. They talked about the impact of highly processed industrial animal foods and how there are high links to cancer and other diseases. But I'm not gonna go into depth about the doco because you just have to watch it. To be honest, I wanted to experiment on how I would feel and how my body would change.
Luckily for me eating seafood every day is easy. Coming from a Japanese background I've had seafood in my diet since I was born 🍣 The first thing I noticed was the less bloating, slimmer stomach and the less sluggish feeling. I started not to be so obsessive about the protein intake and more about the veggie intake. Sometimes I eat vegetarian dishes that I would have never eaten before which makes eating exciting.
But of course, if you're not a huge fan of seafood then it's gonna be tough. Another way to just reduce the intake of meat without going full veggo, you can simply have 1-2 meat-free days a week. (Sounds crazy? Don't worry you'll live!) But remember that doesn't mean stuff your mouth full of ice-cream, chips and chocolate! And yes, people ask me all the time if I miss meat? Not really, I just don't think about it. However, I don't put a burden on my life with not eating meat. I do make exceptions on special occasions too.
So why not give it ago and save some animals while you're at it? 🐮 To help you get started or just want something new to eat, here are 3 of my easy fish & veggie recipes.
Veggie Burrito Bowl
- A cup of chopped lettuce & baby spinach
- 1/2 cup of brown or black rice
- 1/2 cup of black or pinto beans
- 1/2 smashed avocado
- 1/4 cup of salsa
- 1/4 cup of corn
- 1/4 Tsp of garlic powder
- 1/4 Tsp of onion powder
- 1/2 lime
- salt & pepper
- sour cream & cheese (optional)
- Cook the rice and the beans separately. Add avocado, lime, salt, pepper, garlic & onion powder. Mash until smooth.
- Add all the ingredients into a bowl then add avocado on top. (cream & cheese on top if adding.)
Baked Salmon & Veggies
- 250g of salmon (1 serving)
- 1 tbsp of garlic butter
- 2 x bunches of asparagus
- 2 thin slices of lemon
- salt & pepper to taste
1. Place asparagus in foil then add the salmon on top. Add garlic butter, salt, pepper & lemon on top.
2. Fold it up and place in the oven to bake at 200degrees for 30-40mins.
Veggie Mini Quiche
Ingredients: you can put in any veggies you like
- 9 eggs
- 1 cup of milk (can use almond or coconut)
- 1/2 cup of shredded cheese (optional)
- 250g of chopped baby spinach
- 1 chopped red onion
- 1 chopped red capsicum
- 100g chopped mushrooms
- salt to taste
- Add oil to a pan and saute the onions on medium low heat for 2 mins. Add capsicum and spinach and saute for a 1 min then set aside.
- Grease the muffin pan and divide the veggies between the tins. Crack eggs in a large mixing bowl. Add milk and salt. Whisk together.
- Sprinkle the cheese to each tin then pour the egg mixture into each tin. Bake at 200 degrees for 20-30mins. Poke to see if it's ready.


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The basic principles underlying government's role in society are subject to rapid change. Increasingly, public interests are defended by private players and civil society organizations. These alternative forms of governance have major implications, both for the structuring and operations of government itself and for the way in which other parties defend public interests. These include how this defence of public interests is legitimized, whether and how these changes in regulation protect democratic safeguards, fundamental rights, the rule of law and constitutional principles,
This programme concentrates on relationships between fundamental rights, issues of regulation, and constitutional concepts in a democratic state governed by the rule of law. Research is conducted by researchers with backgrounds in human rights, social security, quality of legislation, government organizations, local government law, etc. They work together in answering these new questions. The answers are highly relevant to recent discussions on the role of civil society.
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Debt Consolidation in Ireland
Debt refinancing is a process in which existing business debts are replaced by a new financial arrangement, often with the same amount of debt carried forward. Also known as debt consolidation, a company may wish to refinance its existing debt if better terms are available from an alternate lender.
In Ireland debt refinancing has recently been a major issue because some commercial lenders such as Danske Bank and Bank of Scotland have pulled out of the Irish market which has forced companies to seek new financial arrangements.
The term "debt refinancing" should not be confused with debt restructuring; which is a process where a reduction in financial liabilities is sought – usually due to a company being unable to refinance its existing debt and deteriorating into financial distress.
The team at Friel Stafford have, for the past two decades, assisted businesses with debt consolidation in Ireland, and have developed deep relationships with Irish lenders during that time. We believe that we can provide expert advice about refinancing debts irrespective of the issues that your business may face.
The Benefits of Debt Consolidation
In certain circumstances there are significant advantages to debt consolidation in addition to getting better terms on a loan. Companies may wish to:
- Reduce monthly repayment by extending the term of a loan,
- Free up cash to take advantage of better deals from suppliers,
- Amalgamate several financial liabilities into one loan to manage the debt more efficiently,
- Alter or reduce risk by switching from a variable-rate loan to a fixed-rate loan (or vice versa).
However, before considering this course of action, companies should seek professional advice about refinancing debts to ensure that it is in the best interests of the business, and that any costs involved do not counteract the benefits of debt refinancing.
Planning the Refinancing of Existing Debt
In order for a debt refinancing proposal to be accepted, it has to be thoroughly prepared and expertly presented to the refinancing lender. At Friel Stafford, we would suggest that a comprehensive business review is conducted and a strong business plan compiled in order that the refinancing lender is assured that the business is sound and that they can clearly see the necessary security and ability to repay.
Although not always necessary to obtain the approval of a debt refinancing proposal, business reviews can often expose obstacles which may need to be removed before a company can benefit from debt consolidation in Ireland, or they may reveal resources which are currently under-deployed and which might assist the future profitability of a business.
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Companies who are experiencing cash flow issues, but whose underlying business is strong, should consider debt refinancing when it is a viable option. Because of our relationships with financial institutions such as the BoI, AIB and Ulster Bank, we feel we are in the best position to offer advice about refinancing debts and to determine whether the refinance of existing debt is the best way forward in your company´s specific circumstances.
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Gen Tenzin is a Buddhist monk of over 20 years and has taught Kadampa Buddhism extensively for over 21 years throughout the United States. As a senior Kadampa student and teacher, he is a close disciple of Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche.
As the Resident Teacher of Kadampa Meditation Center Philadelphia, Gen Tenzin teaches Teacher Training Program, Foundation Program, General Program classes, day courses, and leads retreats. He also grants Tantric initiations.
Through emphasizing the Bodhisattva's way of life, he encourages all the students at the center to bring their practice of Buddha's teachings into their daily lives, bringing joy to as many people as possible. He has a great depth of understanding of the teachings and is skillful in his presentation by sharing them in an entertaining, approachable, and kind-hearted manner.
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The most popular and unique hostel in the heart of town! Fall in love with Tbilisi in this funky and friendly spot run by experienced travellers.This Hostel is run by a group of friends, people from different countries, all travellers in Love with Georgia. And when you stay with us, we make sure that you experience all the best things that you can see and do in this part of the world, just like another friend.We invite you to a place to stay which is comfortable, relaxing and in the best location. Warm in the winter (two fireplaces!) and cool in the summer (high and spacious rooms, terrace and ventilation in every room), and with a funky alive vibe in a real Old Tbilisi historical location. Clean, safe and run with a passion the place really to experience Tbilisi.We know from experience what travellers need, so we offer all of it:− comfy beds with new mattresses (linen and towels included in the price)− breakfast for a good start included in the price− a location 3 minutes from Rustaveli Boulevard and 7 minutes from the Old Town− internet and computer access− beautifully decorated and large rest areas (2 common rooms, terrace, balcony)− 4 showers on site so no need to wait in line− common kitchen where something nice is always cooking− free tea and coffee all day and in great company− free laundry and drying all day− full travel info including alpinist advice, hiking and horse riding routes,recommendations on accommodation in all the best known places and all the hidden marvels of the region− unique urban experiences in Tbilisi original unknown Tbilisi free walkingtour, recommendations for all kinds of fun activities in and around the city rafting, paragliding, bungee jumping, waterfall canyoning and of course the best restaurants, bars & clubs− loads of in-hostel events: BBQ's, film screenings, cooking nights, game nights− a great international atmosphere where you get the best of the local experiencewhile sharing your stay with travellers from all overStay with us and let us show you why we are in love with Georgia and the Caucasus.Have fun, rest and meet other people who know how to have enjoy travelling to the fullest.We speak English, Russian, Polish, German and Spanish. We provide help with visas and travel practicalities. Our hostel has no lock-out or curfew. Why Not? Tbilisi - Legend Hostel is LGBT friendly. Whatever it is you are looking for we can help you find it. Why Not?
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It's REALLY easy to find, but we give you as many details as we can to make it even easier! CHECK OUT THE MAP IN THE PHOTO SECTIONWe are right off Rustaveli Avenue, by the April 9th Park, close to Tbilisi Marriott hotel. 15/4 TABUKASHVILI STREET, TBILISIWhen you are on Rustaveli avenue (we are closer to the Tavisuplebis Moedani Metro), across the street from the Parliment (use the underpass to cross) there is a church, and the April 9th Park. Right past the park (walking away from Freedom Square with the golden collumn), you will see the Tbilisi Marriott on the corner. Turn right, walk down the street and at the first intersection, you will get to Tabukashvili street. Turn left, and on the right hand side you will see our hostel at number 15, in the small alley. FROM AIRPORT:BUSDuring the day from 7 am till 11 pm there is a direct bus, number 37 (to take it you need 50 Tetri - half of 1 Lari - you may change small amount of money to local currency at the airport), when you will cross the river pay attention to the square with huge column with golden guy on a horse (Tavisupebis Moedani - Freedom Square), you are almost here! Just one stop after the column across the street from the Parliament and that is your bus stop (on Rustaveli avenue). After leaving the bus keep on going in the same direction (Parliament on the left, Church on right) till the first street going right (50 meters)- take it (on the corner you see the Tbilisi Marriott Hotel) and go down by this street till the first crossing (you will see cafe with strange kind of "red tower") go left and after 30 meters turn right - on your left you will see our hostel - take the gate, and the stairs, ring a bell and wait for warm welcome!BY TAXI:If you are not that lucky, and landing in Georgia when the bus is not operating you need to take a taxi - let us know and we can arrange it for you - anyway it should cost not more than 30 Lari FROM TRAIN STATION:There is one more possibility - taking the train from airport to main train station (also 50 Tetri) - it starts from airport at : 6:10 am, 8:30 am, 13:50, 18:05 and it takes 30 minutes - but we are located in old town so you need to take metro to Freedom Square (Tavisuplebis Moedani) - 3 stops from Main Train station. Then follow th einstructions as above.


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Comcast, the largest US cable company, wants to be even bigger, and it has agreed to buy Time Warner Cable for $45.2 billion in stock. Together, after planned divestitures, the combined company would have 30 million subscribers, or a little less than 30% of the US cable market.
Zach Seward summarizes the rationale for the acquisition in six charts and this sentence: "The pay TV industry is in flux as Americans drop their cable TV subscriptions but pay the same companies for internet service, and since Comcast and TWC control different regions, why not add to the industry's history of consolidation?"
It wouldn't be M&A without real or imagined synergies. Breakingviews' Jeffrey Goldfarb says the deal will save the combined company $1.5 billion in costs. "Taxed and capitalized, those would be worth about $10 billion. That more than covers the 18% premium to Time Warner Cable's most recent closing price".
The conventional wisdom is that the deal won't be stopped on antitrust grounds. But Kevin Roose runs the acquisition through the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index, which measures industry concentration, and concludes that the deal should be stopped. Roose calculates that the acquisition moves the cable industry from "moderately concentrated" to close to "highly concentrated". The precise amount of the increase, Roose says, raises concerns under the Justice Department's guidelines. The deal is also subject to Federal Communications Commission approval, which has different standards than the DOJ.
Jordan Weissmann points out that the deal may be a fit simply because Comcast and TIme Warner cable don't compete in the same markets. Matthew Klein crunches the numbers and believes Comcast-TWC will be able to invest more money in infrastructure and deliver better cable and faster internet, which would be a good, if not ideal, outcome for customers of both companies.
MG Siegler thinks the transaction is just more of the status quo:
The strangest thing is that this deal isn't actually anti-competitive — because there was never any competition to begin with. Time Warner Cable doesn't operate in areas where Comcast operates. So, if this acquisition goes through, consumers will continue to have no choice in their cable operator.
Cable TV is still a big, profitable business, but as Daniel Gross writes, it's losing customers to the internet. Om Malik writes that the deal is "all about broadband". Not only will Comcast be the largest broadband provider in the US, it will be perhaps the largest outside China, and control "about half of what is called triple-play services — video, voice and internet — in the US". That, says Andrew Leonard, is "internet disaster waiting to happen". — Ben Walsh
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Billionaire Whimsy
The politics of our pension system — and a billionaire's crusade against it – Felix Salmon
America's disappearing middle-skill jobs and wages – Shane Ferro
Bitcoin mining "is becoming increasingly formalised, structured, and dare we say, corporate" – The Kernel
There is no such thing as the banking profession – John Gapper
Financial Innovations
There's a growing market for catastrophe bonds – Georgia Levenson Keohane
Big Ideas
How a $4 minimum wage (plus a host of other benefits) could get Americans back to work – Michael Strain
Strange Bloomberg Headlines
"Sheep-Shearing Wells Fargo Banker Bridges US Income Gap" – Kasia Klimasinska
The puzzling relationship between population growth and stock market returns – The Economist
"The story of capital only has one ending: everyone eventually goes bankrupt" – Karl Smith
New Normal
Two ideas to replace the outdated notion of the dignity of work – Ryan Avent
Retail sales were below expectations in January – Bill McBride
Are we in a bourbon bubble? – Fortune
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16 pages; Interview with Catherine Mosley who worked with Motherwell to make the etchings; the 12 etchings in color with captions. Front cover discolored at the corner. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Museum of the City of New York: 1959
Seller ID: 002964
Condition: Very Good
28 reproductions, 2 color; 49 works on the checklist. An exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York. Board edges are rubbed. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $15.00
Publisher: New York, Berry-Hill Galleries: 1988
Seller ID: 002970
Condition: Very Good
88 paintings by American artists in full-page color with complete text entries. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $12.00
Publisher: Lexington, Virginia, Washington & Lee University: 1976
Seller ID: 002991
Condition: Very Good
80 pages; 40 color plates. Essay; Chronology; Notes (bibliography). More than 80 works were exhibited; those not illustrated are listed and described. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $15.00
Publisher: New York, Richard York Gallery: 2003
Seller ID: 003312
Condition: Very Good
32 pages; 84 works on the checklist, 46 illustrated. Marin saw life even in inanimate objects. Having watched a schooner approach him in his own boat and making 20 drawings of the scene he said, "I couln't begin to describe the wonder of it." View more info
By: N/A
Price: $18.00
Publisher: New York, Knoedler & Company: 2001
Seller ID: 003366
Condition: Fine
The fourteen paintings reproduced in full-page color. No text. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $15.00
Publisher: The Brooklyn Museum: 1987
Seller ID: 003486
Condition: Very Good
unpaginated. Essay by Linda Konheim Kramer; statement by the artist; 13 color and b&w illustrations; checklist of 59 works, all were lent by the artist for the exhibition. Clean throughout; tight stapled binding; no tears or creases. View more info
By: (Burton, Richmond); Dominique Nahas (Essay)
Price: $30.00
Publisher: New York, Cheim & Read: 2000
Seller ID: 002983
Condition: Fine
unpaged. Color illustrations, most full-page, some two-page. View more info
By: (Johnson, Ray and John Willenbecher)
Price: $75.00
Publisher: New York, Between Books:
Seller ID: 003103
Condition: Very Good
c. 1977. 20 pages. Modified photos, drawings, notes, commentary, Arts Magazine article. View more info
By: (Kuh, Katherine)
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Washington, D.C., Archives of American Art: 1987
Seller ID: 003313
Condition: Very Good
45 pages. An interview with Katherine Kuh fills the first 36 pages. View more info
By: (Power, Kevin; Carla Schulz-Hoffmann)
Price: $55.00
Publisher: Madrid, Fundación Caja de Pensiones: 1988
Seller ID: 002681
Condition: Very Good
129 pages; 37 catalogued paintings illustrated in color; numerous other illustrations; essay in German and English. An exhibition at Staatsgalerie Moderner Kunst, München. View more info
By: (Reich, Sheldon)
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Tucson, Arizona, University of Arizona Museum of Art: 1974
Edition: Limited to 2500 copies
Seller ID: 000141
Condition: Very Good
221 pages. Ex-library. Blind stamp with withdrawn stamps on title page. Otherwise no markings. First retrospective in American museums of Bishop's work, including paintings, drawings, etchings and aquatints. 150 plates. Student of Guy Pene du Bois and Kenneth Hayes Miller, Bishop along with colleagues Reginald Marsh and Raphael Soyer, recorded the life of New York City during the Depression. Essay by Sheldon Reich. Very clean and tight. View more info
Price: $12.00
Publisher: New York, Richard York Gallery: 1997
Seller ID: 003288
Condition: Very Good
37 American artists, 41 works. Complete catalogue entries are opposite full-page color illustrations, View more info
Price: $12.00
Publisher: New York, Richard York Gallery: 1992
Seller ID: 003428
Condition: Very Good
33 American artists, 36 works. Complete catalogue entries are opposite full-page color illustrations, View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Washington, National Gallery of Art: 1967
Seller ID: 003246
Condition: Very Good
115 pages. Opening essay; 54 b&w illustrated portraits with adjoining essay and catalogue entry. Bibliography; Index of Sitters. Clean and tight; edges of the spine are worn. View more info
By: (Sotheby's)
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, Sotheby's: 1994
Seller ID: 003871
ISBN: no
Condition: Very Good
207 lots representing more than 120 artists. View more info
By: (Stern, Louis; Michael Duncan)
Price: $35.00
Publisher: West Hollywood, CA, Louis stern fine arts: 2008
Seller ID: 003417
Condition: Fine
128 pages; 47 color Catalogue plates; Checklist; Bibliography. Wight was director of the UCLA Art Gallery; had a teaching position at UCLA and became chairman of the Department of Art. View more info
By: Adams, Adeline
Price: $125.00
Publisher: New York, American Academy of Arts and Letters: 1938
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 002960
Condition: Good
144 pages; 28 b&w illustrations; color frontispiece. An intimate portrait. Endpapers cracked at the hinges; hinges still tight, but broken one-inch at the top front; spine-top pulled away; one interior illustration creased along the outside margin. Other illustrations and text clean and tight. View more info


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If you were very interested in buying it, maybe we could meet in Houston. But only if you were serious, because I live 5 hours from Houston.jasmin 04-02-2020, 04:00 PM
Shello fellow Mermaids and Mermen!
I'm a brand new mermaid joining the North Pacific Pod
I live about 4 hours from Seattle and
Yes I do live in Texas, I live in San Antonio!Sugarwitch 04-02-2020, 10:32 AM
Yes it is. Where do you live in Texas? If you were to buy it, I might be able to drive it there, depending on where you are.
I have one that would be perfect size for you, since your the same size as me.


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Kogan to Australian Government: Look For a Better Deal On Set Top Boxes
The Government is today outlining a $308 million scheme to ensure Australian pensioners still have full access to TV broadcast services following the digital switchover.
As analogue signals turn off and Australia becomes fully digital, the Government doesn't want too many people left in the dark. At Kogan, we want everyone to have fair access to digital broadcasts going forward.
It isn't our place to comment on whether the digital set top box scheme will be the next Pink Batts disaster. We hope that not a single cent of tax payer money is ever wasted.
As technology experts, we know that the Government is proposing to spend far too much by allocating $350+ to each installation of a set top box.
As a rough guideline, without any specific Government tender (where due to the size of the order, better prices might even be possible!), Kogan sells a Digital Set Top Box for only $49. This is a device that goes far above and beyond what the Government needs to meet the minimum requirements of pensioners gaining access to digital broadcasts. In additional to receiving SD and HD digital content, it even allows you to record, pause, and rewind live TV.
These devices are extremely easy to install - it usually takes just one cable from the Set Top Box to your TV. Each Kogan Set Top Box comes with unlimited phone, email, and web support. Our trained staff help customers install their products each and every day. We have thousands of mature-age customers who manage to install these products year round, sometimes without phone support, and sometimes with a helping hand from friends and family.
We think the $350+ being proposed by the Government is far too much. We can do much better!
For example, an Australian pensioner could buy a HD LED TV from Kogan with a built-in Digital Tuner for only $129. This would require no additional installation: you simply plug an antenna in and you're ready to go, even once the digital switchover begins.
Even in the small percentage of cases where a technician may be required to fix an old antenna, the total cost should not be anywhere near the $350+ the Government is proposing to spend.
To the Australian Government, we say look for a better deal. Most people don't need official government help to install Set Top Boxes - they can do it themselves, get unlimited assistance from a company like Kogan, or get help from tech-savvy family and friends.
If the Government is serious about this program, we honestly believe we could deliver a Set Top Box to each and every one of the proposed recipients for under 1/6th of what the Government has provisioned. The Government can spend as little as $50 million instead of the proposed $308 million on helping pensioners get access to digital TV.
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Miracle Toyota is the only Green Certified Toyota Dealership in the Orlando Metro Market!
LEED is an acronym for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design. LEED certification is a measurement that is used in the United States, as well as countries around the world, to determine a building's sustainability. It gives value to how "green" a commercial building is and it takes into consideration how the building was designed, built and operates. Has the building maximized its location and does it minimize the non-renewable energy usage? The goal is to reduce negative impacts on the environment while improving the well-being and health of those inside the building. The LEED credits are based on 6 categories.
Environmental sustainability was a primary focus in the design of the new facility at Miracle Toyota, which is constructed using regional and recycled materials. The building features LED lighting, energy-efficient HVAC system and low-flow fixtures. In addition, a rainwater cistern has been installed, which not only reduces the dealership's water usage, but can also be made available for the Haines City and Polk County Fire Departments for emergencies.
As value-added services for customers, Miracle Toyota provides solar charging stations for electric vehicles, such as the Prius Plug In and RAV4 EV; clinics for new car owners and car washes ; play area for children; a nature walk and more!
"We strive to be an environmentally responsible member of this community, and provide added value as a neighborhood business partner," said Mike Murphy, owner and CEO of Murphy Auto Group. "Most importantly, we value our customers and want to provide a pleasant and enjoyable experience for them when they visit us for service or to purchase a new car. The goal is to create a space that makes our visitors want to return."


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Minority Outreach
The Minority Organ and Tissue Transplant Education Program (MOTTEP), founded by Dr. Clive O. Callender, is the first national organization designed to educate minority communities on facts about organ/tissue donation and transplantation. Since 1993, National MOTTEP has been working to solve the shortage of organ and tissue donors. National MOTTEP expanded from three sites in 1993 to 15 sites in 1995 across the country. Michigan's MOTTEP, based in Detroit, was launched in 1995 and serves multicultural initiatives focused on the African-American, Native-American, Hispanic/Latino and Asian/Pacific Islander, and Arab American populations.
- Nearly 114,000 patients nationally are currently on transplant waiting list; more than 3,000 of them live in Michigan
- Well over 50 percent of patients waiting for transplants nationally are of an ethnic minority
- Of the more than 3,000 patients awaiting kidney transplants in Michigan, 38 percent are African-American
Organ and tissue donation is extremely important in multicultural communities, because the populations in general – and African-Americans, in particular – are disproportionately affected by diseases that can lead to organ failure, such as diabetes, hypertension, obesity/poor nutrition, drug and alcohol abuse. Minorities do DONATE; however, the organ need and the donation rates are disproportionate.
Gift of Life MOTTEP uses a community-based approach with ethnically similar messengers and the use of multimedia to dispel the myths and misconceptions about the process of donation.


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Look Over New Food Trends That are Ruling The World
Every year, there is a smooth shift in consumers eating and dietary habits according to which new food trends are set. The global food industry revolves around consumer's preference. From ordering the local sweet taste of India in Dubai through an online sweet shop to taking away ready-to-eat meals wherever to travel; there has been a continuous change that is making this world a better place to relish and enjoy some good food.
So, here we are listing few new food trends that are ruling the world to treat taste buds with some of the best food experiences. Take a look:
- Immersion of Ready-to-Eat Snacks and Foods
From ready to eat meals to ready to eat snacks; there is a whole range of food that you can open and eat anywhere while enjoying a taste of home cooked recipes. Among the list, the top favorites of masses are soups, frozen sweet corn and peas, snacks like upma, poha, cheese balls, French fries, smileys etc. Isn't it a quick, instant, easy and convenient of relishing on food that you like the most?
- Preference of Organic and Herbal Dietary Products
Now when people have started avoiding consuming food with preservatives and additives, it is a time when people have started preferring herbal and organic food over the packaged and chemical treated food. There are endless options in this category too that may range from beverages to complete meals.
- Extended Range of Beverages
Apart from the alcoholic drinks, people can now enjoy variety of other beverages too that are not only non-alcoholic but is also healthy to drink. Be it a wide range of teas to try from around the world or the local drinks of any place; there is lots of choices to choose from.
- Increasing Popularity of Online Food Stores
No wonder online food stores are the most preferred way of doing grocery shopping nowadays. From ordering sweets from online sweet shop to picking traditional snacks from these stores; there is almost everything that you can find on these online food stores.
Read More: Get the Best Indian Food in Dubai.


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Dr. Grant grins at you from behind his desk. Without a word, he hands you a thin photo album and a sheet of paper.
The paper asks you to label the unmarked map (shown below) with the names of the seven major cities. It explains that the map is of the land of Maple, where Dr. Grant spent his last vacation. Maple has 15 cities in a 5x3 grid. The solid lines are roads. Each road, from one city to another, is 1 mile long.
The photo album contains pictures of road signs. There is one picture from each of the major seven cities. The road signs indicate the shortest road distance from the city the picture was taken in to the cities indicated on the sign.
Dr. Grant coughs. "One of the cities, you see, was named after my uncle, Mr. Function," he says.


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Global Relationships Program
Glendal Primary School has developed longstanding positive and productive relationships with schools around the world.
We aim to prepare our students so that they understand and appreciate different cultures and thrive within a global community in the challenging, complex 21st-century world.
Our Global Relationships program includes:
- Regular student exchanges with our sister schools in the USA (Pennsylvania and Hawaii) and Sumner School, New Zealand.
- The opportunity to work with other students and teachers from Joint Environmental Mission (JEM) sister schools, every four years at the Earth Summit in Pennsylvania.
- Communication with schools in other Australian States and Territories and other countries using ICT tools such as Skype video conferencing, email, publishing letters / report.
- Hosting visits from interstate and overseas teachers and educationalists.
Our French language program for senior school students (Years 5 and 6) includes the opportunity to spend a week in Noumea, New Caledonia, to further develop French language skills. This French immersion program gives students the opportunity to broaden their knowledge of the French culture, to enhance and develop their French language skills and to experience some of the local culture and sights of Noumea, where French is spoken as a first language. Most of our year 6 students go on to secondary schools, where French is taught as a LOTE option.
Student Exchange Program
Students in years 5 and 6 have the opportunity to be involved in regular student exchange programs, as hosts to visiting schools and as guests of our schools in Hawaii, Pennsylvania (USA), and, every 2 years, Sumner School in Christchurch, New Zealand.
Sumner School Visit 2018
The student exchange program between the Kamehameha School in Hawaii and Buckingham Friends School in Pennsylvania is operated on a four to five year cycle of visits.
Joint Environmental Mission (JEM) Program
This is a unique, international program with Glendal Primary being one of the founding schools and the only Australian school involved.
The JEM Mission Statement is: "To help the children of all nations walk together in balance with the environment"
The goals of the program are as follows:
- To develop lasting friendships in JEM schools around the world and foster the notion of kindness and sharing with others around the world.
- To forge a viable environmental future through these international friendships and reawaken our students to the beauty and majesty of the earth we share.
The JEM program involves schools from America, Russia, Haiti, China, India, Ecuador, Kenya, Hawaii and Glendal PS. Each year a theme is established and schools conduct their own research and experiments to share and compare findings. Themes that have been explored include Water, Air, Energy, Endangered Species and Earth.
An Earth Summit is held at the Buckingham Friends School every 4-5 years.
Glendal is actively participating and encouraging all aspects of JEM. Each class elects a JEM representative, who attends regular meetings to discuss ways to protect, improve and beautify our Glendal environment.
School activities are provided for students from Foundation to Year 6 which focus on environmental activities, managing the school 'Reduce, Reuse, Recycle' program and other conservation programs. Guest speakers and excursions are also incorporated into the program throughout the year.
The strength and special nature of the friendships forged, during these international exchanges, is testament to the values and success of the JEM program.
International and Interstate Communication
Students have the opportunity to communicate in writing and digital technology with other schools in Australia and overseas.


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Why would you want to optimize for image search and how do you do it? Here are some reasons for doing it:
Image search results are being increasingly used by the search engines in contextual search results to improve usability.
Google is serious about images. In October last year Google added an opt-in to Enhanced Image Search in Webmaster Tools. In conjunction with Image Labeler this allows Google to associate the images included in your site with labels that will improve indexing and search quality of those images.
If you search in Google or Yahoo for |pictures of diamond earrings|, |images of mowers|, |hammer image| or something similar, just above the organic listings you will get a row of relevant images. In Yahoo's case sometimes the images are from Fliker rather than Yahoo image search, for example search Yahoo for |funny pictures|.
All three of the major search engines have a separate image search; Google image search, Yahoo image search and MSN image search.
Image search Statistics from Hitwise http://www.hitwise.com/ show image search is growing at 90% year on year and represents nearly 0.5% of all internet visits.
Traffic from image search can be targeted. It may not convert as well as organic search but it's free!
Ok so how do you do it? The easiest way to explain is by example and I have created a new image for this page:
We will be optimizing this image for the term |image search| which currently has 5,660,000 results on Google Image Search.
- Put the search term in the page url. In this case it's http://www.seo-blog.com/images/image-search.php
- Put the search term in the page title. In this case it's <title>Image Search</title>
- Use the search term in close proximity to the image. In this case the search term appears twice in the sentence immediately following the image.
- Make sure the page topic corresponds to the search term. In this case the page topic is definitely image search!
- Make sure the image size is non-standard. In this case it's 304 x
203 pixels.
- Make the image in .jpg or .gif format. In this case it's .jpg
- Name the image with the search term. In this case it's image-search.jpg
- Use the search term in the alt attribute, the title attribute and make sure that you have included the width and height declarations. In this case we have <img src="http://www.seo-blog.com/images/image-search.jpg" alt="Image search" title="Image Search graphic signed by Googlebot" width="304″ height="203″ />
I am not suggesting that you do all of the above for every image on your site but if you choose some key pages and optimize the image(s) (or create them specially and then optimize them) on those pages there will be a tangible benefit.
The search engines image databases are not updated all that frequently but when the image above ranks I will post an addendum here.


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Penny Black has a new challenge for the next couple of weeks, so in the spirit of summer stamping to help Beat the Heat I figured I'd share a few bright and fun cards this week!
So yesterday I promised more flowers...
Featuring Penny Black 4311K Flower Poetry, 40-201 Roman Surround, 1999L Letter Background, 4312F Learn, Live, Hope
Featuring Penny Black 4307H Water Lily, 40-201 Roman Surround, 30-163 Love Chapter
Featuring Penny Black 4308K Field of Poppies, 30-160 Friendship
See ya tomorrow with a FASHIONABLE Friday! :)


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Our Swagger Series started life as our devastatingly popular Natural Diplomat and Panatela Cigars and were taken hostage by our resident mad scientist and set free as a beautifully blended mild and fruity must for fans of our flavored cigars. Guaranteed to put a swagger in your step.
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