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We develop innovative medical devices containing effective and safe active ingredients that focus on people's well-being.
Hormones, clogged pores, excess sebum, but even certain foods and stress are among the main causes of acne. Do you know how to treat it?
When we burn ourselves, the skin becomes red and dehydrated. What is a burn and how is it treated?
Red skin, blisters and discomfort caused by rubbing? Discover the causes and the right solution
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It must be treated with particular care. What to do if you have chaffed, sensitive or reddened skin
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They are small but painful cuts that can appear on the hands, feet, breasts and anus. How can they be treated?
It's caused by fungi that affect the skin, nails and the genital area. How is mycosis treated?
It's a very annoying infection. What causes cold sores? How can they be treated and prevented?
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Drafting Patterns for Smocks and Kirtles
I finally got the chance tonight to begin my Pennsic garb sewing. I decided to start with the simplest garment, the smock, and work my way out. I drafted a pattern based on my measurements and the instructions at http://www.elizabethancostume.net/smockpat/. I cut out some inexpensive muslin, sewed it, and it worked!! The smock was surprisingly easy to make and looked good. The only thing I'd change from my original pattern are the sleeves — I want them to be a bit wider and a bit longer — I think an inch at least.
So after my success with the smock, I moved on to the kirtle. I didn't have any muslin for that, so I raided my stash of cheap fabrics procured from Scrap Box (recycled materials shop) which cost nearly nothing to me. I found some ugly brown twill that I think must be at least part polyester (but it wasn't stretchy!) and used it to make a kirtle. Again, I drafted a custom pattern from my measurements and these directions: http://www.elizabethancostume.net/kirtlepat/gored.html. I decided to go with an A-Line Kirtle because I like the option of wearing my farthingale under it. The first try worked pretty well, though I think the shoulder straps need to be a bit shorter and the waist narrower. Those are both very easy to fix when I go to use the actual linen for the real kirtle. I tried my farthingale under it and it looked good.
Unfortunately, I didn't measure the brown fabric before I cut it, so I'm not sure how much material I needed. If I were to guess, I'd say between 3 and 4 yards. The circumference of the skirt bottom is 132″, but I pieced it to make the most of the material. I think I'll take apart the brown test kirtle apart and lay it out on my linen, using it as a pattern.
All in all, great progress for the evening! Once the patterns are down, I think I'll be able to cut and sew these pretty easily.

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Joe Arpaio, the former Maricopa County, Arizona, sheriff previously convicted of contempt of court, wants his old job back.
"On this day, August 25, 2019, after consultation and approval from my wife of 61 years, Ava, I have decided to run to be reelected Sheriff," he said in a statement. "Watch out world! We are back!"
Arpaio was pardoned by President Donald Trump in August 2017. He is now running for the same office he used to illegally target and jail Latinx people in an abusive "tent city" that he himself once described as a "concentration camp."
Over the course of 20 years, detainees in the camp were left to swelter in dangerous temperatures exceeding 120 degrees Fahrenheit during the summer. During the winter, inmates were exposed to the elements and not allowed to wear insulated clothing. People detained in the tent city told reporters of broken fans and a lack of cold water; they said it became so hot, their shoes melted. The camps were surrounded by electric fences.
"I was in the tents when we hit 120 [degrees]," one former inmate, Francisco Chairez, wrote for The Washington Post in August 2017. "It was impossible to stay cool in the oppressive heat. Everyone would strip down to their underwear. There was no cold water, only water from vending machines; and eventually, the machines would run out. People would faint; some had heatstroke. That summer, ambulances came about three times. One man died in his bed."
Arpaio made it a practice to humiliate the detainees at the facility. In 2009, he paraded hundreds of Latinx immigrant detainees picked up on non-violent offenses through the city streets from the county jail to the tent city.
In 2008, the Justice Department launched an investigation into claims that Arpaio had illegally used racial profiling to detain Latinx people. A 2011 report by the department's Civil Rights Division found Arpaio's deputies frequently used racist language when discussing Latinx inmates. The 22-page document also outlined how Arpaio's office had engaged in "unconstitutional policing" and established a "pervasive culture of discriminatory bias against Latinos" extending to the "highest levels of the agency."
Arpaio denied the racial profiling charges, though the Maricopa County board of supervisors later voted to settle portions of the DOJ's subsequent lawsuit against the sheriff's office over the matter.
In December 2014, a federal judge wrote to Arpaio, who was refusing to comply with a previous court order to stop racially profiling, warning him that he faced possible contempt of court charges. In March 2015, Arpaio admitted to violating that court order, and in October 2016, following an investigation, federal prosecutors announced plans to charge him with criminal contempt of court.
Arpaio was found guilty of contempt in July 2017. Two months later, while facing a sentence of up to six months in jail, he received a presidential pardon from Trump.
Arpaio's history of alleged abuse were chronicled through exhaustive investigative reporting by a number of outlets, including The Phoenix New Times, which won a $3.75 million settlement after the sheriff arrested one of its reporters for covering him.
He was apparently a profoundly ineffective sheriff: A 2011 investigative report alleged that Arpaio's office had failed to investigate over 400 alleged sexual assault cases reported to his office, including dozens of child molestations between 2005 and 2007 alone.
Between 1996 and 2015, the New Times reported, at least 39 people hanged themselves in Arpaio's jails. Of the nearly 160 people who died in jail under his watch, 24% committed suicide, while dozens of others died without explanation.
In 2012, the same day President Barack Obama announced Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, Arpaio arrested a 6-year-old child during an immigration sweep.
Arpaio is also a supporter of Trump's racist "birtherism" conspiracy theory, which claims that Obama was not born in the United States, but forged his birth certificate in order to become president.
Arpaio's targeted, cruel treatment of immigrants and Latinx Americans has notable parallels to the way the Trump administration has treated immigrants in federal detention centers. Among other things, the administration has forcibly separated families, placing adults, children, and infants in "inhumane" and overcrowded facilities without basic resources like beds, toothpase, or soap.


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Who doesn't like to travel? If you're reading this, you probably do. Now, what if you could couple that with work? The Trainee Programme is tailored for you then.
One of the best part of our programme is the "Abroad Rotation", where Trainees can visit countries all over the world, from China to Germany and Singapore, to better understand how SKODA and the VW GROUP work. This is just the beginning of it! The "Abroad Rotation" is also your chance to get the experience of a lifetime, while building your network.
But mere words can't give you the whole picture, so let's hear what three of our Trainees had to say about this.
José, Portugal
Abroad Rotation: Volkswagen Wolfsburg
As a purchaser from ŠKODA AUTO, I went to the VW counterpart to understand how things work at the group level. I was introduced by my boss to the team, and I asked them to speak only German to me. As I am still learning German, this required a lot of "Sorry, können Sie langsam wiederholen?".
As I was learning how the processes work at the group level, it made me realize how it's possible for VW to organize and oversee the general purchasing activities of more than 10 group brands. There was, and still is, a great deal of cooperation between brands that surpassed any cultural differences given the common goal of seeing the group succeeding as a whole.
The two months spent in Wolfsburg where also a great opportunity to visit the Saxon country side and meet VW Trainees. While meeting them I started to observe the differences both graduates programmes have, as well the inner workings of the different brands. It's like a one man brand bridging, I share my experience with the VW Trainees and they gave their insight. In the end, I learned how similar we are, plus I got some ideas that could be implemented back at ŠKODA AUTO. I also loved hanging out with them, since we are all active people. It was good to build this international network that will most likely be useful in my future career!
Manu, Germany
Abroad rotation: SKODA AUTO India
I was given the opportunity to spend my abroad rotation in the upcoming third-largest automotive market worldwide. I was excited to visit one of the most populated countries on the planet, and get to know a new culture. It was an unforgettable adventure! Due to the fact, that every country has its own customer requests, challenges are always on the rise. Therefore, I went to India to help setting up the organization for the new technical project house in Pune. The support from my Indian colleagues was impressive, and I felt very welcome there. During my stay, the annual "Pandharpur Wari" took place and I saw thousands of pilgrims. One of the highlights of my experience was the opportunity to meet the Managing Director of Skoda India, Mr. Gurpratap Boparai, which insisted on meeting me on his way to the canteen.
From Pune, I continued my journey to Mumbai, where the streets were flooded because of the Monsoon season. After working with the technical project and product management department, the product-marketing team welcomed me in their offices in Mumbai.
I got lucky on Sunday, when the rain stopped for a while. The rain caught me on the way again, but this time it was with a smile on my face!
Martin, Slovakia
Abroad rotation: SKODA AUTO China
It was an experience from both personal and professional point of view. China is the biggest market for ŠKODA AUTO, and communication and collaboration are the key. From the cultural point of view, I saw China as a mix of an Eastern world, with very friendly people, and of a Western world, with modern architecture and thousands of shopping malls. The gastronomical differences gave me a bit of a ruffle, but I got used to the food in the end.
Regarding the job, it was even better! I was part of the "Electrocars" project for the whole year, and this is what I also did in China. I managed to create new connections for the future cooperation with China's assembly line planning department. I believe this will be beneficial for both parts, Czech Republic and China: networking is essential, because it's always easier to call someone as a friend, rather than as a stranger.
No matter where you decide to go, all Trainees agree: the Abroad Rotation is one of the best parts of the Trainee Programme, and not just for fun. It's about networking, developing yourself and bringing back a new mindset. The question now is: are you ready for the Trainee experience?


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Your gift to the Knights Annual Fund will assist us in our ongoing effort to strengthen St. Thomas More Collegiate's curricular program and prepare our Knights for the future through the following:
Development of Model Classrooms
Curricular Program Enrichment
With the implementation of the 1:1 Chromebooks, a specialized software would be acquired to assist students in practicing their verbal skills and provide a new tool for teachers to assess students.
Exercise and Health Science Program
Incorporating a variety of diagnostic tools and equipment to support those students in our Life Sciences, Anatomy & Physiology, Sports Therapy, and Fitness courses (e.g. V-Max Testing Equipment and Heart Monitors).
Robotics Lab (Phase 2)
Incorporating 3-D Printer Technology to allow students to modify and/or fabricate additional parts and components for their VEX Robots.
McCarthy Library Upgrades
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• Large portable screen for community use during presentations in the StanJean Centre
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Music: A Review of Mayhem's Ordo ad Chao
December 21, 2015 by RJ
by JERENY TACKETT
Mayhem is, to say the least, a divisive band. There is no questioning the important role they played in both the first and second waves of black metal, particularly with their now classic album De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas.
However, one can argue that they are more known for their actions outside the realm of music including but not limited to murder, suicide, arson, assault via severed animal parts, and just general criminal activity and mayhem (had to say it).
Their musical quality and sound have changed through the years due to a highly unstable line-up including at least 3 vocalists and the length of time between official full length releases. To give you some perspective on this, their first full-length, the aforementioned classic De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas, was released in 1994, and their most recent full-length, Esoteric Warfare, was released in 2014. During this 20 year period the band has managed to put out only 5 full-length albums, the other 3 being 2000's Grand Declaration of War, 2004'sChimera and the subject of this review, 2007's Ordo ad Chao.
Between these releases have come a slew of live albums, splits, demos, and EP's (the most notable of which is 1987's Deathcrush, the band's very first noteworthy release and 1997's Wolf's Lair Abyss). Many of these have included much of the same material along with a ton of live and rehearsal material of dubious quality.
To put it simply, Mayhem has no definitive sound. Each album has sounded different and has been released surrounded by such an apparently never-ending nebulous of low quality demo, live, and rehearsal material one has a hard time pointing to any one period of specific sound for Mayhem. Thus it has been with some understandable trepidation that fans have received each new full-length release.
De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas was a venomous and dark but well-produced black metal album that set the tone for the strong second wave of black metal music (probably the most well-known and most documented period for black metal as the genre became internationally known as much for the music as for the violent antics of some of the bands). Grand Declaration of War was a strange experimental piece of music as different from black metal itself as it was from its predecessor. Chimera was somewhat of a return to a truer black metal style and was a strong if unspectacular release. The most recent album, Esoteric Warfare is another departure with a high quality production value, featuring somewhat of a blend of black metal, progressive metal, and industrial music.
The album that, in my estimation, stands out most from these other releases is 2007's Ordo ad Chao. This album marked the return of vocalist Attila Csihar, his first album with the band since 1994's De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas. The first thing that stands out about Ordo ad Chao is the fact that the album begins as if had already been playing and we are joining it in progress. There is no build or intro, just a sudden rush of music that sounds as if someone unmuted a song that had already been playing for a couple of minutes.
This first short song, A Wise Birthgiver, is a mostly instrumental intro to the album and sets the stage well for what is to follow. Without going into a song by song breakdown, a general tone for the album is one of ominous dread. Each song goes through various shifts in tempo including pauses that were they to be experienced in conversation would rate as uncomfortable. The production for this album is decidedly murky, almost demo quality. One can only assume that this is a stylistic choice as the albums before and after this one featured crisp production values. Some fans complained about the production, but to say that it adds to the atmosphere of the album is an understatement. The drums and bass stand out which is unusual as guitar is almost always the focal point in black metal. Attila's vocals are at the front of the mix as well, which adds to the strength of the album as his vocals slither and wind their way through each song like a serpent rising through the murky depths of a swamp. He alternately growls, whispers, moans, and shrieks throughout this album like a man possessed. The sinister vocals add to the already dissonant and ominous atmosphere creating cohesiveness in an album that at first glance seems to lack cohesion.
The unifying factor about the various parts and layers of Ordo ad Chao is the fact that everything about it appears to be specifically designed to make the listener feel uncomfortable. Everything from the muddy production to the dissonant tempo shifts and pauses to the ominous vocals and lyrics add to the sense of lurking dread. The album's lyrics deal primarily with enlightenment/awakening from a world ordered by strict religions, technology, and authoritarian values. The way to this awakening as reflected in these lyrics appears to be through a figurative and literal global shift, a dichotomy perfectly depicted by the songs Psychic Horns and Wall of Water. While Wall of Water and Anti feature more apocalyptic visions of global reset, others such as Great Work of Ages,Deconsecrate and Psychic Horns speak of a more psychical enlightenment (i.e. opening the third eye) primarily through rejection of both religious control and blind belief.
Mention of the Annunaki in the final two songs, Key to the Storms and Antihint at an anti-cosmic philosophy (for more on this look up anti-cosmic and Annunaki on Wikipedia). The album's central songIlluminate Eliminate stands apart as it speaks of a dissatisfaction and disillusionment with the status quo and lyrically can be seen as catalyst for the songs before and after it. It is also the album's longest song at nearly 10 minutes.
Ordo ad Chao ends as it began with no outro, just a sudden stoppage of music at the end of Anti as if someone hit the mute button mid-song. Overall, Ordo ad Chao stands as Mayhem's most defining, cohesive, and relevant album since their first groundbreaking full-length, De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas. For those fans who abandoned Mayhem as having spent their artistic load in the 1990's, this would be an apt re-entry point.
JERENY TACKETT is a father, husband, poet, pagan, nature lover, ghost hunter, scribe, cryptozoologist, noisemaker, codebreaker, and liberal. Sometimes NSFW. Find him on Twitter @JerenyTackett.


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Monday, 12 April 2010
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Brutal assault on Range Bandara:
Sandasen MARASINGHE and W.C.B. Fernando
United National Party Puttalam District defeated candidate Shantha
Abeysekara and four others were arrested by Police in connection with
the brutal assault on former UNP Parliamentarian Palitha Range Bandara
and his supporters Saturday.
Furniture destroyed by the mob. Picture by Prasad Purnamal
Police spokesman SP Prishantha Jayakody told the Daily News that
Bandara was admitted to the Colombo National Hospital (CNH). Bandara was
assaulted at a UNP supporters' meeting presided by him held at a house
on Sinhapura Road, Chilaw. He was admitted to Marawila Hospital and
thereafter transferred to the CNH.
SP Jayakody said Shantha Abeysekara had lost at the election while
Bandara was elected and according to inquiries the brawl was over the
preference vote issue. The suspects were produced before Chilaw
Magistrate yesterday.
Abeysekara obtained the third highest number of preferential votes
from the UNP in the Puttalam District at the April 8 General Election
while Bandara and Niroshan Perera were placed first and second. Only
these two were elected to Parliament from the UNP from the Puttalam
district. Witnesses told the Daily News that a mob prevented Bandara's
supporters from admitting him to the Chilaw Hospital.
Hence he had to be taken to Marawila Hospital, the
ex-Parliamentarian's bodyguard police constable Ratnayake and another
supporter P.M. Suriya Bandara of Arachchikattuwa too suffered injuries
in the attack and were admitted to the Chilaw Hospital.
The meeting had been organized to thank voters who supported Bandara.
When the meeting was in progress the thugs numbering about 15 rushed in
vehicles with swords and poles and began assaulting the participants.
Most participants fled the scene while Bandara and two others confronted
the mob. Chilaw Police are investigating.
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Ageing South Korea
South Korea is experiencing rapid population ageing. Businesses will face skills shortages and increased costs of doing business. Consumer markets targeting young consumers will decline as older people become the main consumer group.
However, consumer businesses that can adapt to the changing consumer profile can benefit from the demographic change.
The ageing of South Korea's population has accelerated in recent years:
- The number of people aged 65 and above reached 4.4 million in 2006, which made up 9.2% of the population, compared to 5.4% in Vietnam;
- The fertility rate, which represents the average numer of children born per woman, stood at 1.08 in 2005, down from 1.16 in 2004. This compares to Japan's 1.26 figure in 2005, and their well-documented problem with ageing.
The ageing population will affect businesses since they face a declining work force. Consumer businesses, however, can benefit from this demographic change if they adapt to the changing consumer profile.
South Korea has experienced strong GDP growth rates which averaged 5.2% over 2000 to 2006 driven by strong exports of manufactured and IT products. However, the country faces difficulty in maintaining its labour force and sustainable economic growth:
- South Korea's fertility rate is one of the lowest in the world. Many women are marrying later or choosing to be single to persue their career;
- The median age of South Koreans rose from 32.5 in 2001 to 35.2 in 2006 and is projected to be 39.5 by 2015. The ratio of over 65s in the economically active population to the total economically active population was 5.9% in 2006, compared to 1.7% in Taiwan.
Source: Euromonitor International from International Labour Organisation/national statistics.
The ageing population means there will be fewer people in the workforce to finance the rising number of pensioners:
- The number of pensioners in South Korea reached 6.0 million in 2006, an increase of 11.4% from 2001. During the same period, the number of economically active population grew by only 8.1%.
In general, it will be more difficult for businesses to get young workers. Consumer businesses will be confronted with changing consumption patterns as older people become the main consumer group.
The demographic shifts will have important implications for businesses, consumers as well as long-term growth in South Korea:
- South Korea could lose its competitiveness as the number of young workers in the labour force declines. Young people add innovation and know-how of advance technology, while older workers would need to be retrained. An ageing population can also lead to a lack of skilled workers. South Korea will lose its competitiveness against countries with growing populations in the region such as India or Vietnam. In 2006, foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows to South Korea declined to US$1.9 billion, down from US$7.2 billion in 2005 as there were delays in reforming the country's investment environment. The country may experience slower growth in the future due to a declining workforce and the loss of competitiveness;
- There is a growing burden on the work force. The elderly dependency ratio, i.e. the proportion of the elderly population to the population of working age, is expected to jump to 69.4% in 2050 from 10% in 2000. This is the fastest growth rate in the world;
- With a rapidly ageing population and shrinking work force, tax revenues will decrease, while expenditure on pensions and health care will expand, undermining the country's fiscal position. Government expenditure on health increased at an annual average rate of 8.2% over the period 2000-2006. While public social spending in South Korea is currently the lowest in the OECD (6.0% of GDP in 2001 according to OECD), it is forecast to increase to around the current OECD average of 21.0% by 2030. GDP per capita growth could therefore stagnate resulting in lower disposable incomes and consumption;
- Consumer markets will change as older people become a significant group of consumers. Medical and healthcare service providers can expect increasing demand from an ageing population. However, businesses offerring leisure, recreational products and durable goods will lose out as their target consumers tend to be younger. Businesses that adapt to this changing consumer market will be able to benefit from the ageing population.
Future Scenarios
South Korea's economic growth will slow in 2007 to 4.4%, down from 5.0% in 2006. In order to tackle the problem of an ageing population and to ensure long-term economic growth, the government has introduced several policies:
- The government promised to increase its healthcare as well as drug and pharmaceuticals R&D expenditure. It hopes to make available suitable services for their ageing population;
- The government has proposed raising the retirement age to 60 by 2008, and then to 65 by 2033. On average, South Korean workers retire at 57. Under the new proposals, the country would remove barriers facing older workers seeking employment, and toughen laws against discrimination of older workers;
- In August 2006, the government announced the Vision 2030 plan on public spending. Government expenditure will be put on a restraint and government revenues will be boosted throuh tax reform. This would help achieve a balanced budget in the medium term, helping prepare for future spending pressure.
Additionally, the South Korean labour market has been characterised by a growing part-time and casual workforce over the past decade, which is being encouraged by government and business. This will enable elderly participation.


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This course will introduce you to the three levels of business strategy and show you how to take advantage of opportunities at each level.
You will Create an Overall Strategy For Your Business
We'll teach you a framework called The Cascade model that is broken up into these three levels of business strategy and made up of a series of simple business tools that you can use to grow your business. These levels are:
- The Environment and it's driving forces. Driving Forces are those things that create and destroy opportunities in real time that you have no control over.
- The Market which is where your competition, suppliers and customers live.
- The Organisation and how you can become more efficient and effective.
This framework has been used to coach business leaders in Australia, Indonesia, New Zealand, Singapore and Vietnam for more than 30 years, some of the things you'll learn (and be able to apply) are:
- Create a Sustainable Competitive Advantages Table that will help your organisation meet and exceed your industries critical success factors.
- Decide whether your organisation should focus on price or difference, and whether you should promote your product or create a new version using The Lifecycle tool.
- Learn how to offset your weaknesses with your strengths and your threats with opportunities using a SWOT Analysis.
After completing this course you will have the tools to manoeuvre your business (or opportunity) to it's next level of growth, and out-compete your competition!
What are the requirements?
- This course is most useful to those people that already have a business or are investigating a new commercial opportunity as there are activities to do at the end of each lecture group which will help you develop your overall strategy. That said, we provide the example of a restaurant using these tools throughout the course so that you can see how they can be used.
What am I going to get from this course?
- Over 36 lectures and 2 hours of content!
- Identify the three different levels of business strategy and how to implement strategies at each level.
- Use a PESTTG Analysis to identify the creation and destruction of opportunities in the Environment.
- Use an Industry Value Chain to map out your market, determine the mark-ups in each link of the chain, and identify potential integration strategies your organisation can take advantage of.
- Determine if a market is attractive or unattractive for your existing organisation to stay in or leave (or to enter the market if you are not already in it) using a Five Forces Analysis.
- Figure out the adopter category and risk profile of your customers and how you can influence the rate of adoption by new customers of your organisations products using The Adoption Curve.
- Find the gaps in your market using a Positioning Map and determine if those gaps are profitable.
- Shorten the knowledge gap between your competitors and your organisation using a Learning Curve strategy.
- Discover strategies that you can adopt to reduce the time your organisation spends on both product and process innovation.
- Understand how your organisation is made up of different functions and how you need to make sure all of them are working together at the same speed by using the Organisational Value Chain.
- Bring all of the strategies outlined in the course together to create your Corporate, Business and Functional Strategies.
What is the target audience?
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- Intrapreneurs (people working within existing organisations) who want to help grow their organisation.
- Business owners who want to understand their organisation, the market it operates in, and the environment which impacts upon it and be able to take advantage of the opportunities that this understanding provides
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Smarter Ways to Charge your Smartphone
Smartphones are fast becoming a crucial part of our lives. They touch every aspect of our daily routines starting from providing us our early morning news to helping us navigate successfully through the least crowded route to the office while keeping us entertained – they are indispensable!
Living without them even for a few hours can be quite a harrowing experience as we struggle to accomplish tasks that are a breeze with the smartphone on our side. However, a phone is as good as its battery. While it is a good idea to plug it into the socket every night before you sleep, there are times when it is just not possible to find a charging source when you need it.
This is where some smart alternate ways of charging your smartphone come in. Try these out if your smartphone runs out of juice just when you have an important call.
Charge your Phone as you Travel
A simple car charger plugged into the cigarette lighter socket of your car can get your handset up in no time. While a standard car charger can charge most smartphones you might have to check for compatibility if you own an iPhone, if you own more than one mobile phone then getting a charger with dual USB outlet is a good idea.
For the cycling enthusiasts, a bicycle dynamo charger can ensure a live smartphone no matter how long the journey or how high the volume of the music streaming into your ears.
Then there is the Atom generator which can harness the human generated power as we merrily pedal away and then use this to charge our phones. While most bicycle chargers would require you to part with you phone for a while as it charges, an Atom generator allows you to stay connected while your phone is seamlessly charged.
Charging the Eco-friendly Way
The great outdoors can be a lot of fun but it can also have some drawbacks. A missing electric socket is one of them that can lead to a lot of inconveniences. Keeping your phone charged to keep you connected to your near and dear ones can become an issue here unless you opt for some alternate charging methods that are not only effective but also eco-friendly. Renewable energy can help you ride the tide.
Solar chargers can convert the sun's heat energy to a form that is useful to charge your smartphone. There are different kinds of solar chargers, some that sit on a window facing the sun while others which have solar panels that have to be flat on the ground.
These chargers are not very bulky and can be easily carried in your backpack. Certain solar chargers even allow you to charge them when there is enough sun light and then use them later even in the dead of the night.
HYmini is a wind powered mobile charger that uses the wind energy passing through blades to charge smartphones.
Do your bit for the environment with these eco-friendly means of charging.
Charge through Manual Cranking
Hand cranking chargers can come in handy for those emergency situations when even a 5% battery can make a big difference. Connect the hand cranking set to your mobile and get cranking, a minute of rotating the crank should get you around 1% battery.
If you switch off you mobile then the percentage per minute of cranking goes up to 1.5%. This might seem negligible for general purposes but if you are standing next to your totaled car and looking for help then the 5% becomes pretty significant.
Power Banks
As the name suggests these are power stores that can be charged once and then used to charge other devices through the various sockets available on them.
This is an exhaustive source that would run out over a period of time as the power stored in the power bank also dwindles with repeated charging, unless you have intermittent access to an electric socket to recharge the power store. This device can not only charge your phone but laptops, tablets and more.
You can also use the above methods to charge th epower bank and then later use it when needed.
Also Read: VINSIC 20000mAH is One of the Best High Capacity Power Banks in the Market Today
Some Unusual but Effective Chargers
If you are looking to recharge your phone, go ahead and order yourself a coffee. Sounds ridiculous, trust us, having a cup of coffee or even a cold smoothie can get your mobile charged in little time. Epiphany onE Puck is a charger in the shape of a disk. Place your hot or cold coffee mug on top of this and it uses the heat or chill energy to charge your phones.
If you are not much of a coffee drinker then the EverPurse or Phorce chargers can come to your rescue. These are essentially bags which can charge you smartphone when it is inside them. This is perfect for those people who keep their phones inside purses and then forget charging them. There are many other interesting chargers out there.
The Electree that not only looks decorative but also captures light through its various mirrored branches and converts it into energy that is then used to charge smartphones.
Orange Power Wellies are great for walkers; convert all the effort your legs are putting into energy to charge your phone through these cool looking boots.
If walking is not your style and you'd rather play then invest in Soccket which is a ball that stores power as you kick it around and then it is to charge your phone.
Final Thoughts
There are some other cool ways of charging your phone as well but the ones listed here are definite winners. The next time you forget your charger at home or are on a trip to the wild, do not scrooge on your phone usage.
Go ahead and allow the children multiple games of 'Subway Surfers' or indulge yourself with a movie while traveling. These cool charging solutions will ensure maximum battery for your favorite gadget no matter what the time or occasion.


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Our Man Gregory!
We NEVER have favorites, but....well, Gregory is always the one purring loudest, snuggling the closest, and an all-around good man! (kitten) He's just plain adorable, mellow, and sweet. He was born here to a feral mother, but was always happy to be help and cuddled. Come see for yourself!


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Another over-the-top LA mansion is for sale.
The listing agent, who previously listed Michael Jackson's house, said that he has never seen anything like it. Hmmmmm……
Fairly standard Tudor wannabe McMansion at first glance, but the features of this home are the things that make you go WOW.
Like that monster fireplace:
The home is located in California's Hollywood Hills on 3 acres of flat land, which is rather rare in the uber-crowded Sunset Strip area.
But of course, that rarity is reflected in the $24.5 million price tag.
Marmont Manor was owned by a wealthy CEO who passed away earlier this year. His wife decided to downsize and listed the home recently.
The main Tudor style house dates back to 1937.
The home has a whopping 14 bedrooms and 17 bathrooms!
Square footage you ask? 20,000!!
Have a look at the beautiful wine cellar:
And – is this a garage?
I can't even tell.
The Marmont Manor compound actually has seven buildings in total including a caretaker's cottage, carriage house, two-story aviary and a pool pagoda with a restaurant-style kitchen and sushi bar. The property also has its very own on-site fire station that is officially recognized by the Los Angeles County Fire Department.
The humble caretaker's cottage:
Isn't that scrumptious?
The entire property is extensively landscaped, complete with a fully stocked fish pond.
The property also comes with custom sculptures that seem to interact with the landscaping….
Though not pictured, there are also 3 dog houses that mirror the Tudor architectural style of the main house.
You know it's a pricey pad when there is an aerial shot in the listing photos!


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For every beast of the forest is Mine, the cattle on a thousand hills. I know every bird of the mountains, and everything that moves in the field is Mine. – Psalm 50:10-11
You'll never guess how many ways God has made me smile, even while I wait in so much discomfort. He's also answered so many prayers along the way – and I'm convinced once again that He even cares about the small stuff!
We are reminded of God's love and care continually. Sadly, we are often wrapped up in the business of living and don't recognize His hand in things. It's not that I have anything special, but I am not as busy as most folks, so I notice His hand.
I seriously had a very personal problem that needed an immediate solution – and wondered how God would work it out for me. I didn't doubt that He'd make a way, because praise His name – He has always made a way – but today – right in the nick of time – He fixed my problem. Is it okay for me to say I just love it when that happens???
This is my God. Everything that creeps around in the forest, moves in the field and flies in the air is His. I'm very happy to say – I am His too. I belong to the King of kings and He takes such good care of me.
Thank You, Lord, for the way You watch over me. I'm so grateful for Your timing. You are never too early, but You are never ever too late! I know if I keep leaning on Your strong arm, everything will be okay. I thank You for caring about the little things as much as the big things.
On this Memorial Day, I thank God for being God. I thank God for America and for freedom to practice my faith. I'm also thankful for the men and women who fight for my freedom. All gave some – but some gave all. We won't forget. 🙂


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Scent Queen: How To Make Your Perfume Last Longer And Stay Stronger
Perfume is an everyday art form.
Spraying on a scent that speaks to you is like a public declaration of the best parts of your personality.
If you're confident, wearing a spicy perfume conveys that attitude to the world. Similarly, a woman who's romantic and sweet can share her worldview by way of a floral fragrance.
But as spicy or sweet as the perfume may be, it sometimes seems to fade almost instantly. Instead of trying to coat yourself in a scent, get smarter about the way you apply it.
The key to perfume wear is subtlety: a lingering scent that those around you can barely detect but not dismiss. Instead of committing to a "more is more" approach, try these tricks for better, more enduring perfume wear.
Maintain a scent-based palette.
The shower is a veritable garden of scents: mint body wash, lemon shampoo and rose face wash.
Sure, you smell like a cherub upon toweling off, but you've practically mixed a custom perfume. Instead of aiming for every flower, pick a palette of smells that complement one another.
Layer the fragrances, creating a complex palette of scents that doesn't overwhelm the noses of everyone around you. And for the days you plan to spray just your signature perfume, purchase unscented bar soap.
Time your spritz to your skin.
Applying a spritz of scent before going out smells wonderful, but you may find the fragrant notes fading after an hour or so on the town.
Instead of treating perfume like a last minute addition to your look, plan to apply it earlier in the night.
Directly after a shower, your damp skin is adept at soaking up moisture. You confidently slather on moisturizer or body oil after bathing, so apply that same idea to your fragrance.
After a few quick sprays of your favorite floral scent, the skin will happily soak up the liquid. Soon, you won't have to even bring your perfume along at night.
Give your scent longevity with oil.
There's no sweeter smell to you than your shelf of perfumes, but sometimes it feels as if they wear away no matter what you try.
Any fragrance you apply sits on top of your skin, and can often wear away sometime between your morning meeting and late night concert.
Instead of depending on your skin to do all the work, bring in back up. Dab on a touch of body oil or moisturizer in the spots you frequently apply perfume, then spray away. The oil will hold onto the fragrance much longer than your dry skin can.
Find your body's hot spots.
You may remember your mother swearing by the application of perfume to the insides of the wrists and the neck.
She may not have known why she loved the scent there, but you're about to outsmart her.
Perfume diffuses best when applied to pulse points, where high blood flow pumps through the body and raises the skin's temperature. The heat, in turn, helps spread the fragrance's scent.
That means scent works on any hot point in the body: the neck, the oft-forgotten inner elbows and even behind the knees. Actress Halle Berry even swears by spraying a bit on her inner thighs.
You'll be radiating fragrance in no time.
Keep the friction to a minimum to maintain scent.
Unfortunately for mom, she may have misled you a little. Although women are popularly portrayed rubbing their wrists together after daubing on perfume, that's actually not the correct technique.
Experts warn that the heat and friction between the skin can actually warp the perfume's delicate notes, skipping over some scents that should be released slowly.
The same goes for rollerball perfumes, which can pick up the body's oil and make the formula's scent murky over time. Instead of relying on your fingers or hand, always apply perfume with an atomizer or spray nozzle.
Plan for romance ahead of time.
Most of us have a special bottle of perfume reserved for late nights and candlelit dinners. When that fragrance — it's more like a love potion, really — gets applied, we get serious.
But, it's also important to approach a sexy fragrance the right way. As sensual as it smells, perfume isn't necessarily meant to be tasted.
Before spritzing on pre-date scent, consider what's likely to get a little lip service. Avoid spraying the perfume on the neck.


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'Tis a sad thing, alas, to be faced with one's own mortality. It brings with it many memories, such as life's experience and loves shared, but it also visits upon us such ravages as only age can. It is with heavy heart and (appropriately) drooped head that I must face my own personal doom. Once… Read more »
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<Quirk week will be delayed a day for medical reasons as detailed below. Now, read on…> Wow. Just wow. I recognize the inevitability; I do. Combine the irresistible force of continued physical activity with the immovable object of advancing age and I know that I am going to incur increasing chances of soreness. But still,… Read more »
Man! I really AM old!
Heading to the graduation of my younger niece, I was selected for chauffeur duty for my Dad, Stepmom and older niece (the Avalon being a fine, large car that outclasses my Dad's Cadillac – don't ask me, ask him!). My older niece piled into the passenger seat up front and we proceeded to have our… Read more »


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Story by Eryn Carter, junior (ACJ)
Cheyenne Moyer, an agricultural education graduate student, is starting her thesis with excitement and high hopes. Her research will focus on secondary education students in Kansas agriculture programs decision to pursue a future career in agricultural education.
Through 14 interviews around the state, Moyer will collect qualitative data to decide what impact current teachers are having on their students. "I always thought my agriculture teacher made his job look difficult and he never pushed me to major in agriculture education," says Moyer, a leading reason for choosing a major in animal science rather than agricultural education for her undergraduate degree.
"There is a shortage of agriculture teachers in Kansas because the teachers make their jobs look too hard for future agriculture students. Hopefully this project will create data that will be used for recruiting", Moyer says.
Moyer worked at the Kansas Animal Science Leadership Academy as a councilor for the past two years, inspiring her to rethink a future in agriculture education. She decided to return to school to pursue a master's degree.
In addition to gathering research about agricultural education from this project, Moyer also has personal goals for herself. After graduation, she hopes to be an agriculture teacher in Kansas. "This is a professional development exercise for me," Moyer says. She is hoping the qualitative work will help further diversify her to be better prepared for a teaching career.


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I've noticed that in spite of my room's contents being 80% books, and in spite of belonging to three different academic disciplines that have a vested interest in studying old tomes, I have blogged comparatively little about my reading.
Part of this is that it feels less nerve-wracking to write about fluff; with a piece of great literature, I'm often inhibited by the thought of, "what more can be said, really?" Also, the paranoid part of me wonders if my own academic background is stymieing my ability to write about books in a casual sense.
Anyway, in recent weeks I found myself revisiting Charles Dickens' David Copperfield. I had read most of it before as a teenager, but stopped three quarters of the way through for some obscure reason (as I remember enjoying it quite a bit back then). This time around I enjoyed it all the more, in large part because the intervening years of experience have convinced me that Dickens' tragicomic grotesques are even closer to reality than my younger self thought.
But back to the fluff. Lately I've been cycling through three different games depending on my humors, one of them being Final Fantasy XIII.
On the one hand, I feel bad for having always assumed the worst about this game these past six years – trailers, reviews, fan reactions and the like all created the impression of the most boringest Final Fantasy title rendered in glorious HD. But there is in actuality a great deal to like about it. And a lot to dislike, but we'll start with the high points.
XIII has by far the best version of the Active Time Battle system that the series pioneered way back in '91, and its core design plays to that strength: usually any individual non-boss fight in an FF is a rote affair, with the real strategy being in equipment and skill development and surviving the dungeon. XIII starts each battle with your characters in tip-top shape, and makes skill development an afterthought. Instead it jacks up the difficulty of each individual fight, and rewards you for finishing them as soon as possible. Since you no longer have to worry about whether you'll have enough MP for the boss, each fight has a lot more possibilities open to it.
Masashi Hamazu's musical score is also excellent, easily equaling the best of Uematsu's work in the series. The art direction is stunning, and the setting is also pretty cool (a dyson sphere ruled by a totalitarian, stalinesque government!).
But the pacing just kills it. 70% of the game moves at this breakneck pace where the heroes are either running away from enemy forces or having epic showdowns with enemy forces, peppered with Michael Bay-esque CG cutscenes of things going all explodey.
The result is monotony; this sort of frenetic approach just doesn't suit a lengthy JRPG. Balls-to-the-wall action is best suited for short one or two hour affairs (like shmups or side-scrolling shooters) that don't last long enough to become annoying. Even longer games that successfully feel action packed recognize the need for some downtime.
The pacing also hurts the story, sacrificing important exposition for more of those exquisitely rendered explosions. And the plot itself also shows poor priorities elsewhere, frequently shoving away the setting's orwellian potential in favor of third rate shonen anime melodrama and nonsensical character motivations.
The other 30% of the game grinds to a halt and becomes the worst sort of open world aimlessness.
I'm making it sound like I loathe this game more than I do; I do genuinely like it. The underlying mechanics are fun enough to make me want to press on to the end. I still haven't gotten tired of launching my enemies into the air and then jumping up and punching them while big numbers appear on the screen. Yet.
Meanwhile, Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga is a game I didn't like at first. The first couple of hours felt like a bunch of tired shonen anime/JRPG tropes with a grimdark cyberpunk paintjob. The turn-based combat felt kinda stale (especially compared to the likes of FFXIII) and the environments all had a dreary sameness to them.
Several hours later I love it – to the point where it has a chance of making my list of favourites, if it pans out. Nothing has drastically altered about it, but things have clicked.
Anyway, the story of DDS goes something like this: in a post-apocalyptic landscape called the Junkyard, seven tribal factions are locked in constant warfare with each other, as mandated by a creepy computer-god thing that has promised Nirvana to the victorious tribe (pretentious religious symbolism is abundantly present here, albeit with a focus on Hindu rather than Judeo-Christian imagery). This changes slightly when a mysterious magical girl falls from the sky…along with an egg thing that transforms the tribes into horrible monsters that eat each other. As Serph, the leader of the Embryon tribe, you have to go battle the other tribes and figure out what the whole mysterious girl's deal is.
The characters are all very hard to like at first because they are literally emotionless. Over the course of events they gradually begin to develop emotions as a result of their newfound powers, and they all react in different ways. As befits his name, Heat grows into an angry, passionate guy who thinks the whole monster stuff is pretty spiffy; Argilla develops a compassionate, self-sacrificing side, and only wants to find a cure for her horrible-monsterness, etc. (Serph is a silent protagonist and so remains a blank slate for the player to project his or her own thoughts onto.)
And this was where I realized that I actually cared about these characters, and wanted to see where the game would take them. And I appreciated how the story effectively inverted the standard Neon Genesis Evangelion/Final Fantasy VII-ish approach to characterization where the protagonists have some sort of emotional trauma that the plot gradually unearths. A couple of early game twists also threw a wrench in how I thought things would play out until the endgame. While I still feel like the general trajectory of these things has been done before, there are enough inversions to make DDS feel like one of the fresher RPG stories I've seen in a while.
The actual gameplay similarly doesn't depart from the template that Final Fantasy X laid down for the PS2 era, but it does a good job of refining it. Almost every action inside and outside of battle feels important, which is something that even a lot of FFs don't do well. I've so far never felt like I was at the mercy of the RNG, nor did the game start to feel rote once I got the hang of how skills and attributes functioned. Recognizing this increased my appreciation tenfold.
Even the bland, samey corridors and rooms have begun to grow on me, fitting in with the general ambiance and contributing to the sensation that there is something very…unreal about the junkyard.
But again, many hours remain before I can give a definitive position on DDS.
(Oh yeah, the third game is Dark Souls, which I've been taking my time with, and which continues to be amazing, game of the millennium, etc. etc. minor camera problems though).


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Maurice has enjoyed a long career as a grape-grower and company director. He is the owner of one of New Zealand's most iconic vineyard sites, Judd Estate in Gisborne, famous for producing the fruit for a string of Matua Valley's award-winning chardonnay wines over the years.
When Guy Rutledge returned to Gisborne from Australia with the idea to start a winery services business back in 1998, Maurice provided the introduction to Matua which gave the fledgling business it's start. Over the following 20 years, Vintech Pacific has expanded along with New Zealand's burgeoning wine industry and Maurice remains a director and shareholder of Vintech Pacific today.


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While I don't quite buy John Campbell's Hero With a Thousand Faces theory, I do think that there are certain basic frameworks that stories can (but never must) follow, and which can yield a nigh-infinite variety of different permutations of the same basic ideas whilst leaving room for the author's own themes and personality to shine through. The Hero's Journey is one such case in point; another one, which through an act of epic pretentiousness I'll dub the Traveller's Intervention, was fleshed out by a number of authors in the early 20th Century and goes a little something like this:
A hero, often itinerant, almost always foreign, finds himself called upon to intervene in a dilemma which frequently involves the ambitions of one or more powerful individuals. Often the hero will have his or her own ambitions, which will usually involve some form of personal advancement; occasionally the hero will be unwilling to intervene, but find themselves compelled to, either by external force or their own conscience. Eventually one side or the other in the dilemma will turn out to be in the wrong; sometimes the true villain of the piece will prove to be a raging, instinct-driven beast, whereas sometimes it will turn out to be a manipulative individual who believes that they are invested with the right (whether by tradition or by occult means or by virtue of their special qualities) to do as they please to whom they please; in the latter case, this could turn out to be the person who requested the hero's intervention in the first place. The hero eventually discerns the correct course of action and defeats the villain, and usually endures physical danger and occult menace in the process; in most cases the hero will win through by virtue of his or her wit and skill. The situation having been resolved, the hero will normally move on, although not without a certain reward for his or her efforts. The hero, in this model, is an agent of societal change, whose intervention has the effect of either breaking a stalemate or championing the underdog, but is not a part of society but exists externally to it.
This is the formula which once refined by Robert E. Howard (with the aid of such precursors as Edgar Rice Burroughs) became the seed of the sword & sorcery subgenre of fantasy, with authors as diverse as Fritz Leiber, Jack Vance, Poul Anderson and Michael Moorcock making important contributions to it. As with the Hero's Journey, of course, the above outline is only a loose and ridiculously broad framework, and most authors (including Howard) produced works that diverge from it radically, but even then it's notable as a departure from the standard format. (For example, the Elric series by Michael Moorcock centres around a weak-willed cripple who wins his Pyrrhic victories by virtue of his soul-stealing magic sword, but aside from this the original novellas fit the above formula surprisingly well.)
A limitation of this particular monomyth is that it appears to be more suited to short stories than to novels; whilst there are a few examples of excellent sword & sorcery novels (including much of Michael Moorcock's output from the 1960s and early 1970s), most of the foundational works of the genre are in the short story format. This may in part be due to the framework I've described covering only one incident of many in an individual's life, whereas the Hero's Journey tends to describe the most important and valuable thing the protagonist is ever likely to do. (This may be why the quest narrative is so popular in high fantasy); I think it is also due to this sort of story working best when it has a nervous, energetic, Howard-like intensity to it, with fast pacing and lightning-fast action; this is a mood which is decidedly sustainable over the course of, say, a novella, but is difficult to maintain for the duration of a novel.
Of course, another factor has to be the origins of sword & sorcery in the first place: whilst high fantasy has its roots in novels by the likes of William Morris, E.R. Eddison, and of course Tolkien, sword & sorcery sprang from the pages of 1930s pulp fiction magazines, with a few antecedents in the form of the short stories of Edgar Rice Burroughs and Lord Dunsany. The fact that the framework seems especially well-served by the short story format probably has a lot to do with the fact that it was devised for the short story format in the first place. But with the waning of the short story magazines as forces in SF/fantasy publishing, and with the audience's tastes spurning most epics shorter than, say, Dune or Stranger In a Strange Land, the genre found itself in trouble in the mid-to-late 1970s. The apparent intellectual vacuity of the subgenre probably didn't help, and neither did its undeserved reputation for misogyny and racism; both of these image problems may have resulted from oversaturation of the market by Robert E. Howard's work, posthumously-completed Howard stories, and people writing lazy Howard pastiches. But the genre does not deserve to be written off as the disreputable legacy of an anti-intellectual, racist bigot from rural Texas, and it didn't deserve that in 1977; luckily, a lone hero sallied forth to save the day, that hero being Andrew Offutt, editor of the Swords Against Darkness anthology series.
Anthologies of all-original SF/fantasy stories (as opposed to mere compilations of the year's most notable output) such as Swords Against Darkness were all the rage in the 1970s and 1980s, having somewhat supplanted SF magazines; sure, if you were good with a typewriter you could get into the magazines, but if you were a real hotshot you got picked for the anthologies. The craze probably started with Harlan Ellison's seminal Dangerous Visions, although apparently many of the all-original anthology lines of the era abjectly failed to turn a profit, and the petering-out of the Swords Against Darkness series may be a consequence of this; though Offutt would produce five such anthologies from 1977 to 1979,
Still, in this first volume the introduction displays a joyous and unrestrained enthusiasm for the genre; whilst acknowledging that at the time of publication sword & sorcery was in the doldrums, Offutt refuses to let this get him down, choosing instead to express his glee at being able to convince founding fathers of the field such as Poul Anderson and Manly Wade Wellman (what a name!) to contribute. In fact, I'd say that as an editor Offutt does a pretty much flawless job here: his introductions to the individual stories give the reader a decent idea of the author and their place in the genre, whether Andrew is introducing us to old hands like Wellman or fresh-faced novices like Ramsey Campbell, without giving away the details of the story, or committing the even worse sin of analysing it on the reader's behalf.
As well as understanding the history of the genre and making a bold argument for its relevance, Offutt is also acutely aware of its shortcomings; for instance, he acknowledges that there isn't a single woman among the authors present (giving the anthology a perfect Boys' Club rating of 100%), which is a damn shame given the vital role C.L. Moore and her Jirel of Joiry stories played in the creation of the subgenre in the first place.
As Offutt explains it, he did make an effort to try and convince some women to contribute stories featuring female protagonists, but failed in his efforts. The one story which does have a female protagonist here displays such sharp misogyny that I have to wonder – was Offutt's failure to convince women to write for the anthology a side-effect of the subgenre's distinctly misogynistic overtones, or was it Offutt's failure to show discretion in encouraging all contributors to avoid the more sexist aspects of the subgenre? Either way, I suspect Offutt's "I looked but I couldn't find any" comment may have contributed to Marion Zimmer Bradley deciding to establish the Sword and Sorceress anthology series some seven years later (a series which is still going and still proudly displaying Bradley's name – which is a bit of a problem given the recent revelations about her).
Another problem the genre suffered from at the time Swords Against Darkness came out was Robert E. Howard. Granted, the Conan stories are as important to sword & sorcery as, say, the Declaration of Independence is to the USA, but Howard's somewhat inflated stature (I would argue that Edgar Rice Burroughs, Clark Ashton Smith, and to a lesser extent Lord Dunsany can also be said to be cofounders of the genre) meant that he overshadowed the entire field. Not only had a number of Howard's serious failings, like his depictions of women and occasional racist outbursts, become perniciously widespread throughout the field, but it seemed as though you couldn't breathe for "new" Conan stories and other tales reconstructed from Howard's various unpolished first drafts and notebooks, as well as entirely original new tales of the Cimmerian.
This had two effects: it created the false impression that sword & sorcery is basically about Conan and third-rate ripoffs of Conan, and (even worse) it flooded the market with third-rate Howard pastiches which at points threatened to push the original stories out of sight entirely; it's only been since the late 1990s or so that this horrendous dreck has been purged, and it's become easy to once again find the original Howard texts unblemished by posthumous meddling. (As far as I can tell the only non-Howard Conan stories on the market still are Robert Jordan's Conan novels, and I wonder whether that isn't just because of Jordan's Wheel of Time-inspired popularity).
The upshot of this for Swords Against Darkness is simple: the book had Howard's name on the cover in far larger type than Offutt's, and it included an unfinished Howard story completed by Offutt: Nehkt Semerkeht, apparently the last tale attempted by Howard before he committed suicide in 1936. To Offutt's credit, he clearly finds the task of tidying up after the grand old Texan daunting, and considers it his responsibility to try and finish the tale in the manner that Howard intended (luckily, Howard did at least leave behind an outline for the rest of the tale) and not fuck up badly enough to blot Howard's reputation still further. In fact, he explains that he decided not to cut out a bit of particularly morbid philosophising on the part of the protagonist because he felt that, while it does weigh down the tale a little, it's an accurate reflection of Howard's depressive thinking at the time, and I think this shows a degree of respect to Howard which some of the other vultures could well have profited from.
On the whole, Swords Against Darkness was a canny move when it first came out; sword & sorcery fandom was healthy at the time (witness the fact that Michael Moorcock kept writing subpar Elric sequels and other sword and sorcery-leaning novels to pay the bills even as his interests drifted into other genres entirely), and whilst Dungeons & Dragons hadn't hit the level of pop culture prominence it would in the 1980s, it was percolating enough to breathe a bit of extra life into to the scene.
These decades later, old-school sword and sorcery seems to be largely dead so far as I can tell, at least as a literary subgenre; occasional tabletop RPGs slip out with a deliberately nostalgic bent to them, such as the various official attempts at a Conan RPG over the years or Simon Washbourne's rather charming Barbarians of Lemuria, but on the whole these games seem intent on pandering to an audience which is by and large happy to reread Clark Ashton Smith and Robert E. Howard all over again. Genres evolve and move on, and sword and sorcery is a flavour of fantasy whose time has largely come and gone; Swords Against Darkness remains, now that the tide has gone out, as about as even-handed a love letter as any anthologist could write to the subgenre without entirely whitewashing away its shortcomings.


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|This article is about a/an set of alternate forms in Kamen Rider Ghost.
- "Kaigan! Heisei Rider! (Modified 1 transformation noise) Aratana Kousei! Kore wa Heisei! (Energy warble)"
- ―Transformation announcement with Ghost Driver[src]
- "Tengan! Ghost! Mega Ulord!"
- ―Transformation announcement with Mega Ulorder[src]
Ex-Aid Damashii (エグゼイド魂 Eguzeido Damashī, lit. "Ex-Aid Soul") is a Legend Rider form based on Kamen Rider Ex-Aid's Action Gamer Level 2. Accessed through the Ex-Aid Ghost Eyecon, this form bears a currently unknown helmet with a currently unknown faceplate. The Kamen Rider is armed with Ex-Aid's Gashacon Breaker.
The Ex-Aid Ghost Eyecon appeared following the first encounter between Kamen Riders Ghost and Ex-Aid. It manifested from a green colored Energy Item, depicting the two Riders working together, which was left behind as a gift as Ex-Aid departed. Takeru happily commented that he had connected with another person's feelings. Final Story (Special Edition): Future! Connected Thoughts!
Ex-Aid Damashii was eventually assumed by Ghost to fight alongside Ex-Aid Ghost Gamer, performing their Omega Drive and Critical Strike respectively to pacify the Pac-Man Virus. Kamen Rider Heisei Generations: Dr. Pac-Man vs. Ex-Aid & Ghost with Legend Rider
- Kamen Rider Ghost (Kamen Rider Heisei Generations: Dr. Pac-Man vs. Ex-Aid & Ghost with Legend Rider.
Ghost Eyecon
- Omega Drive (Ex-Aid) (オメガドライブ エグゼイド Omega Doraibu (Eguzeido)): Ghost performs a Rider Kick enhanced with Ex-Aid's game energy, which is used to kill Pac-Man.
Behind the scenes
The Ex-Aid Eyecon first appeared in the final episode of Kamen Rider Ghost; Ex-Aid Damashii is exclusively assumed on-screen by Kamen Rider Ghost in the movie Kamen Rider Heisei Generations: Dr. Pac-Man vs. Ex-Aid & Ghost with Legend Rider.
- Kamen Rider Ghost Final Story (Special Edition): Future! Connected Thoughts! (as Ghost Eyecon only)
- Kamen Rider Ex-Aid


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The discourse of education for sustainability has been severely limited by the fact that it largely refuses to acknowledge important insights from other fields of learning and knowledge. This reluctance to engage with central insights regarding how the world and, more specifically, how human interactions with both the human and non-human world work, ensures that it has remained a largely self-centred discourse. It is tangled up with reflections on education without contextualising them in the real world. As such, it is not just education in general, but also so-called "education for sustainable development" (ESD), that needs to perform a radical paradigm shift and become communal learning in real-time in a real place. This, therefore, necessitates a willingness to face some tough questions regarding its prevailing insularity.
Dr Rolf Jucker is currently Director of SILVIVA, the Swiss Foundation for Experiential Environmental Education. He is also working as a Learning for Sustainability Consultant. He served as the Director of the Swiss Foundation for Environmental Education from 2008–2012. Having gained an MSc in Education for Sustainability (EfS), he has worked widely as an international EfS advisor, and has written extensively on the subject, with his publications including Our Common Illiteracy. Education as if the Earth and People mattered (2002).


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In many ways, the GA Unit of the CAA has led the world in recent years
CloudHound wrote:I'm reading this on a train about to pull into Kemble rail station so interesting to see the aerial photo heading the article.
Yes a lot has been happening.
I've just not been telling you
Hmmm I see the name Mark Swan ……..again.....
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Isn't he moving onto lead airspace modernisation in other areas now?


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Meanwhile the Triad which consisted of Dr. Orpheus, Al Chemist and Jefferson Starlight was off in the Netherworld fighting a demonic tree that was trying to enter the human realm. They fought it with all their might and powers but it was not about to go down lightly. However as luck would have it the team managed to weaken the tree enough that Dr. O could cast a demon spike into its core. Now while that did very little damage to the demon tree since it was already demonic. However the tree was not expecting it to have a transfer link to it as Al whipped out a blessed cross and did a transfer spell. Suddenly the cross glowed and vanished from Al's hands and then the demonic spike suddenly appeared in his hands. The tree demon realized it to late as the blessed cross burned it from the inside out till it turned into energy and vanished. Seeing that they were done Dr. O canceled the demonic spike and made it vanish while Al fetched his golden blessed cross.
The three friends were happy that they save the earth again from certain doom and decided to get some Mexican food for lunch. After leaving through a portal Dr. O summoned they made their way to Cheweys for some chimichangas.


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Will Maine's Lewiston High School Soar with New Art Wing?
LEWISTON, Maine — In recent memory, many a public high school art department was under existential threat of permanent closure. Though that still might be the case in some of the country, the school committee of Lewiston Public Schools in Lewiston, Maine, has taken a decidedly different tack — they're in the midst of conceptualizing a new arts wing at the 1,328-student Lewiston High School.
Though only in the proposal stage, the committee hopes to ascertain the cost and the procedural necessities of bringing its vision of a clean, well-lighted place for art in a collaborative context, versus its current solution of sequestering teenage Picassos in the basement. Though, once upon a time, this might have held appeal to the black trenchcoat-clad, clove cigarette-smoking aspiring artists of yore, issues of ventilation and light as well as noise from delivery trucks have proven incongruent with the program's purpose.
At the recommendation of the district's facilities committee, which received formal presentations from six companies, the school committee unanimously voted to hire New Hampshire-based architectural firm Lavellee Brensinger to oversee the discovery process. The firm has an office in Portland, Maine, and is also the architect-of-record for Sanford High School, which is about an hour southwest of the Lewiston campus and currently under construction.
Among those on the interview team was Lewiston High School music teacher Darren Avery who was keen on the firm's proposed vision of the prospective arts wing. "They had a lot of open concept designs, which is really exciting," Avery said to the Sun Journal, a local news service.
The firm also brought a civil engineer who explored parking-lot solutions as well as a theater expert who had suggestions as to the kind of performance space the future art wing could have. "These guys brought it all," Avery told the Sun Journal.
In December, the public is invited to meet in the high school's multipurpose room to share its input and identify stakeholders who can contribute to the conceptualization of the project with an eye to having a design concept and possible budget in hand by Spring 2018. For more information, visit ihs.LewistonHighSchool.com.


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It's finally spring here in Louisiana and I have officially started grilling everything. I'm all for minimal mess in the kitchen and a light, fresh, colorful grilled salad. I'm also for spending as much time on the patio as possible, preferably with a cocktail or glass of wine in hand.
This Mediterranean salad is so easy and flavorful. You will definitely be making this one all spring and summer long. It's fantastic served on it's own or with fresh grilled chicken or seafood.
2 zucchini, sliced lengthwise
2 yellow squash, sliced lengthwise
1 red bell pepper, sliced
1 yellow bell pepper, sliced
1 orange bell pepper, sliced
5 garlic cloves, minced (about 1 tablespoon)
3 tablespoons fresh parsley, oregano, thyme, and basil (finely chopped and mixed)
4 ounces olive oil
3 artichoke hearts, quartered
12 kalamata olives
12 sun-dried tomatoes, chopped
¼ pound feta cheese, crumbled
1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar
salt and pepper to taste
mixed lettuce
Preheat the grill to 400 degrees.
Toss the zucchini, squash, peppers with ½ of the olive oil, garlic, and ½ of the herbs and let stand for a few minutes. Grill vegetables on a grill pan until soft. Season with salt and pepper to taste once you remove.
In a small bowl, marinate the artichoke hearts, olives, sun-dried tomatoes, and herbs with the remaining olive oil for at least 30 minutes. Remove from the bowl once marinated and reserve the marinade.
To assemble the salad place all ingredients on a large platter or individual plates with the mixed lettuce. Add the balsamic vinegar to the reserved marinade and mix. Drizzle the marinade over the entire salad and sprinkle the crumbled feta cheese over the top. Season with salt and pepper to taste.


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Addressing tourism as a key research arena for understanding the contemporary world, the panel tackles the cultural politics surrounding the fantasies about the world re-produced by tourism and considers the political and ideological dimensions underlying the spectacularizing practices of tourism.
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This panel addresses tourism as a metaphor and a key research arena for understanding contemporary late-capitalist societies. Tourists, tourism and 'the touristic', we suggest, playfully produce fantasies about the world and its diversity. Such fantasies, accentuating the particular and the exceptional are tightly connected to wider industries of representation promoted by media, film, NGOs, politics, etc. Playing with the notion of bringing cultures and people into dialogue, tourism simultaneously also draws borders across the world (an issue whose centrality is evident in the post 9\11 world-order). Hence, reading it as a particular way of seeing the world may constitute an opportunity to understand the dynamics though which knowledge about the world is contemporarily produced. We aim at discussing how the relentless touristic spectacularizations of everyday life, cultural diversity and natural beauty build upon a strategic play of hide and reveal. Post-colonial, racial, gender and class gaps are 'spectacularly' hidden behind the beautifying touristic enterprise. Playfully (and seemingly innocently), tourism re-produces notions loaded with strong political and ideological undertones. The panel does not focus on particular geographical areas. Rather it invites contributions addressing the connections between tourism and cultural politics, and between tourism and wider industries of representation. What view of the world does tourism tend to reproduce? What is the impact of tourist marketing modalities and touristic practices in such reproduction? To what extent can we approach tourism as a political and ideological field? What knowledge about the contemporary world do we gain by conducting research on tourism?


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Achieving that professional clean will not only make you look like a pro behind the wheel, but car cleaning at home is also a surprisingly good source of fun ¬for friends and family – especially when the weather's nice.
If you have been putting off that deep clean because you're not sure where to start, this comprehensive guide on how to wash a car will help you get that shine back in no time.
How to wash a car
What you'll need
- Bucket and sponge
- Car shampoo
- Wheel cleaner
- Brush
- Microfibre cloth or chamois leather cloth
- Car polish and pad
- Window cleaner
- Plenty paper towels
One of the most important car-cleaning tips is to make sure that any cleaner you apply to your car's surface is suited to your car's finish and wheels. And why not shop around for an eco-friendly version? A non-toxic, low-chemical variety of cleaner will keep both your car and the environment happy.
Car-cleaning tips: How to clean a car exterior
- Blast the dirt off the car with the hose. This is a fun step – be prepared to get a bit damp and messy.
- Shampoo your car with a bucket and sponge. Mix your car shampoo with warm water in a bucket, following the instructions at the back of the bottle. Starting from top to bottom, use a sponge to shampoo the car using an up-down motion.
- How to clean a car's wheels: create a soap mixture using the specialist wheel cleaner of your choice. Use a brush to remove brake dust from between the wheels and to scrub tough mud stains from around the wheels.
- Hose off the car for a second time. Rinse the whole car exterior with the hose until the outside is clear of soap bubbles.
- Dry the car. Sluice off excess water from the outside of the car with a squeegee, and then use a couple of Plenty paper towels to finish drying it off and avoid water stains.
- Polish the car. Apply a small amount of polish to your pad and use an up-down motion to coat the surface of the car's body. After you've applied several thin coats, buff the surface with a fresh paper towel using an up-down motion.
- Clean the windows. Spray the windows with window cleaner (or a solution of 50% distilled white vinegar and water) and wipe with a piece of paper towel for a streak-free finish.
Plenty paper towels hold together even when they're wet, so they'll wipe car windows clean without leaving behind traces of tissue.
How to clean the car interior
What you'll need
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Car-care tips for cleaning the interior
- Open the car doors to improve ventilation.
- Remove floor mats and beat them outside to remove dust. Keep them outside until you've finished.
- Pick up litter from the seats. You'll be amazed at what you find. Crisp packets and old receipts can accumulate without you noticing, but the car will feel instantly tidier when they're gone.
- Use a paper towel moistened with car cleaner to wipe the dashboard, wheel and any other hard surfaces.
- Vacuum floors and seats. If you want to know how to clean car interiors thoroughly, try using different nozzles on your hand vacuum to reach the most remote parts.
- Use a carpet cleaner and brush to clean away any stains, but try not to pour on too much, as the carpets will need to dry fully.
- How to clean car interior windows. Following the same method as with the exterior of the windows, use a paper towel to wipe away the window cleaner or vinegar solution.
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Journese Adds New Beach Resort in Nicaragua to Product Line
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Pleasant Holidays' luxury travel brand Journese added Mukul Beach, Golf & Spa, a five-star beach resort in the 1,670-acre reserve Guacalito de la Isla on Nicaragua's Emerald Coast. To promote the launch, Journese is offering travel agents complimentary nights at the resort for bookings made Nov. 1-Dec. 15 for travel Jan. 5-Oct. 30, 2014.
The hotel has 37 ocean view accommodations and 12 beach villas. Each one has two bedrooms, a private pool, a garden and an outdoor shower. It has an 18-hole natural golf course, two restaurants, a bar and kids program offering activities such as hiking and biking, crafts and a Turtle Watch program. It also has a spa that has been recognized by Virtuoso as a top facility.
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Why is it that Amendment 3 enjoys a vast amount of support from Florida voters, including those who support and oppose gambling?
Simply put, it's because Florida Amendment 3 is about returning the power to decide casino gambling proposals to The People. Amendment 3, also known as the Voter Control of Gambling Amendment, would require a vote by us, the Florida electorate, on any future gambling decisions in our state. This takes the power to make casino gambling decisions away from Tallahassee politicians, and the casino gambling lobbyists who influence them, and puts the power back in the hands of Florida's voters.
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- A $30,000 match pool, provided by the Taylor Family Fund held at the Parsons Area Community Foundation and a generous donation from Tank Connection, will be divided proportionately between participating organizations based on the percentage received of total gifts
- Organizations have been challenged to increase total receipts by 10% from prior years, and progress toward their goal will be tracked online and visually at the LCC Event Center. For new funds in 2019, the goal is $5000. Each organization meeting its goal will receive an additional grant of $500 with the option to deposit into their fund, or take to use for current needs.
- Participating organizations will have representatives at the site with information about the terrific work and services they provide for our community
- To earn matching funds, donations must be made to an endowed organizational fund held at the Foundation. Please use the Giving Tuesday Donation Form.
- Donations may be made in person at the LCC Event Center or online at pacfgivingtuesday.com on December 3, 2019. Cash, checks, and credit cards will be accepted. For those unable to come in person, a mailed check postmarked no later than December 3, 2019 will be eligible for the match.
- There is no minimum donation amount or limit to the amount donors may contribute to an agency's endowed fund. Every donation is valued.
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Behavioural Assessment of the Dysexecutive Syndrome (BADS) predicts everyday problems associated with a major area of cognitive deficit that can impede functional recovery and the ability to respond to rehabilitation programs.
Behavioural Assessment of the Dysexecutive Syndrome in Children (BADS-C)
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Delis-Kaplan Executive Function System (D-KEFS)
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Delis-Rating of Executive Function (D-REF)
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