text:
What is the longest range Wireless Charger?
Believe it or not, wireless charging technology has been around for more than a century. Late in the 1800s, Nikola Tesla proved the phenomenon of magnetic resonant coupling by which electricity could be transferred through the air. However, this technology stayed dormant for most of the twentieth century owing to an absence of practical applications. That's until, of course, the idea of wireless charging came along.
That's fairly much the easy version of how most mobile phone chargers operate. Copper coils in the wireless charger generate a fluctuating magnetic field that causes the current to flow through the device and charge the battery.
Structure of a wireless charger
Wireless power is now widespread. We use it to charge phones such as electric toothbrushes, smart-watches, and ear-buds, but most of us use it to charge our smartphones. What we 're talking about here is near field induction charging, and there are a few reasons it has finally taken off for phones in the last few years.
How the technology works
Wi-Charge, the leader in long-range wireless power technology, has announced the world's first ready-to-use long-range wireless power product. Companies interested in developing products with integrated wireless power may apply for samples.
The new energy transmitter is about the size of the soda can – one third the size of the prototype last year. The transmitter blends into both residential and commercial environments and can be exposed to track lighting, placed on a shelf or plugged into a wall outlet. The Wi-Charge's infrared (IR) lighting technology has been designed in a way that its power levels are practically constant over distance, unlike other approaches, such as radio frequency (RF), which suffer a dramatic drop in power levels as the power receiver moves further away from the energy source.
Wi-Charge's light-based wireless charging system
Wi-Charge's IR technology is also significantly more efficient than other long-range wireless power approaches. Due to its light-based technology, this charger does not interfere with such long-range communication devices as cellular, WiFi, Bluetooth or other forms. The Wi-Charge device is also plug-and-play, which means that no configuration is needed.
Some of its design specifications are as follows:
Power – Suitable for IoT and smart-home devices
Distance – Up to 5 meters away
Safety – UL certified and approved by the U.S. and international regulatory bodies
IoT and smart device manufacturers are searching for an energy delivery solution that approximates wired power but allows battery-like freedom of movement and placement. Wi-Charge eliminates the need for battery changes, enables new capabilities in power-restricted devices, and will lead to the next generation of mobile and smart devices. Simply put, life's better without wires.
Long-range wireless power is the third way of delivering power, overcoming the challenges of wired power mobility and the limitations of battery-based systems. Wi-Charge's patented light-based wireless charging system gives end-users the freedom they want and the power they need.
Wrap Up
Clearly, there's lots of promising technology here, but there's still one big question to ask of wireless technology: why should users choose it over the convenience of a bedside USB cable with fast charging support? Honestly, it's a tough one to answer, but the ease of use and popular gadget support and charging stations will probably be required.
Although it has been around for several years, wireless charging has not yet become a critically important technology in the gadget market. For wireless charging to deliver significant amounts of power over distance, the efficiency issue needs to be addressed. Still, even in ideal conditions, if you compare wireless power over distance to wired or wireless charging, it's very inefficient; you're losing the vast majority of the energy you're sending out. While wired charging is around 85 percent efficient, wireless charging started at around 60 percent, but has now reached 75 percent and up.
Safety is another major issue. The ability to direct power with beam-forming techniques potentially makes it safer because it can help the transmitter avoid firing power at people. But even if these companies can win FCC approval and certification in other countries, they still need to convince the general public that it is safe.
When we talk about this technology, one of the first questions we're always asked about is how safe it is, and that's because it's not intuitively safe. Convenience is a big attraction, but it will take time to convince people that there is no risk.
We're still excited about technology that can wirelessly charge your phone in our bag or pocket without any effort on our part.


text:
Hamamlique is a one-woman brand based out of Long Beach. A favorite Prism gift, Hamamlique imports the loveliest Turkish linens, comprised of 100% cotton or ultra-soft Bamboo. These beautifully constructed pieces can be worn as a scarf, used as a bath or beach towel, or thrown over the couch or table as a home accent piece.
Begin the day with a fresh start. This zipped Gentlemen's Hardware charcoal grey wax-canvas washbag has plenty of space to contain all your grooming essentials, and features brown leather-effect logo detail. Measures: 140 x 270 x 130mm.
This kit includes the tools to craft two classic Old Fashioned cocktails mid-flight: small-batch aromatic bitters, cane sugar, a travel-size bar spoon and muddler, a recipe card and a linen coaster. Just add the hard stuff and stir.
This shave brush has an ivory handle and badger hair bristles, and offers the perfect way to work up the lather necessary for a careful and close shave. Quit the spray can and dedicate yourself to the process.
A classic matte 6 oz. flask. With a canvas sleeve to preserve your flask's finish and keep him cozy.
Wake up and feel good about yourself with ceramic feel good mug.

subset: commoncrawl


text:
Lizzie Armanto narrowly avoids death after being attacked by an enormous killer spider in Oz in the newest Classic Tales episode.
Alarm odlego: Handheld. Sensor gps. Lumber wood. Wholesale detector radiation. Project hud. F4h7a6_1-f4h7a6_3. English,russia,chinese (simplified),russian. Huandee night vision. Logo: Delivery: 60min. 5.8ghz cw rader .ism brand. Gps receiver :
Talk range: Wholesale customalized pens. 3 in 1 dvr radar detector. Silver gray. Weight: Electronic acupuncture. Flow meter. Customization: Red blue. Ts1000. Package : Plastic casing. Interval velocity. Door/window sensor. Scope of application: 6 radar signals: Size: :
Functions-2: Ceiling sensor motion. Carbon monoxide detector. Bentley. Dual lens,digital zoom,overspeed reminding,motion detection,led display,cycle recording,sd/mmc card,night vision,automatic white balance,time&date display,real time surveillance,cyclic recording,anti vibration,radar detector,wide dynamic range,bult in gps,microphone,gps tracker,g-sensor. 6-380v. Digital processor : Voice alert electronic dog. Waterproof: Jieli. Wholesale pop k. Diy supplies: System fire alarm. 360 degrees signals + russian & english. Russia,english
360 a1. 10cm(l) x 6cm(w)x 3cm(h). Auto radar detector,car dvr. Holder fuse. Ublox 7 gps receiver. Wholesale alansh obd. Wholesale usb current&voltage tester. Any model. Ir transmission. 360 degrees laser. Size:
Lizzie Armanto narrowly avoids death after being attacked by an enormous killer spider in Oz in the newest Classic Tales episode.
Geoff Rowley test drives some upgraded Rowley Classics prototypes. Stay tuned for some big stuff from Rowley dropping in 2019!
Durable and breathable, the Versa QZP DX is Pro-built and battle tested by Andrew Allen.
To learn more about the Versa QZP DX and the Versa Hoodie visit Vans.com/versa and use our Store Finder to
search for a skate shop near you.
Stevie takes his Duracap upgraded Half-Cab Pros long distance over 26 blocks at the Vans Combi bowl.
Back the Dragon at vans.com/ProClassics and check out the Black / White Half-Cab Pros and search for a skate shop near you.
Chicago's finest, Corey Glick gets buck for Foundation tonight on Thrasher Magazine's King of the Road at 9pm on @VICELAND
KWalks put his thing down, flipped it and reversed it at Cherry Park wearing his WaffleCup supported Kyle Walker Pros.
Back the OK Kid at vans.com/KyleWalker and dont forget to watch Kyle tonight on Thrasher Magazine's King of the Road playing at 9pm on Viceland.
To see what's really going on inside the world's most advanced vulcanized skate shoe go to Vans.com/AR on your 💻. Click ALLOW to access the camera then just point your 📱phone's camera at Tony's TNT AP crossed battle axes to experience the shoe-ture.
Wunderkind CJ Collins tears through a bunch of Oregon's gnarliest skateparks in the latest Red Bull edit.
We're hoping your week goes as smoothly as this Andrew Allen curb cut line.
Peep more of AA's favorite Slip-On Pro colorways like the Blackout at vans.com/proclassics and use our Store Locator to search for a skate shop near you.
#FBF Our ATV Pedro Delfino adds a hot new movie to his vertical bag of tricks, El Guerial at the Grosso ramp.
#Flow Bro Friday
Mark "Monk" Hubbard was a skateboarder, artist, musician, builder, dreamer, and visionary. He is The Godfather of DIY parks the world over. And he is missed. This Grosso Loveletter is a tribute to Monk in his own words.
Rest Easy, Monk
#TBT Curren Caples gets his fresh White / White Slip-On Pros dirty with a kickflip during last weeks Vans Park Series Qualifiers in Huntington Beach, CA.
For more Duracap reinfo rced Pro Classic styles and to find a skate shop near you visit vans.com/proclassics
Behind the scenes of our next cinematic opus: Berle Takes Manhattan.
📹: @cjkeossaian
Josh Borden // Born-N-Bred
(via betterskatethannever)
#WCW Wow, Cool Wallies! Ohio's finest Justin Henry delivers the goods in the highly anticipated Quasi Skateboards Mother video. Watch Justin's part now playing on the browser history friendly Thrasher Magazine.
Video: Ryan Lovell


text: Blitz Pick of the Week our very own Hope Kenney her second Player of the Week from the Blitz. Kenney has set the Lumpkin record for goals (33) that was held by Alexis Satterfield. Kenney and the Ladies are headed to the Sweet 16 in the State Tournament next week. The entire article may be read at the Blitz https://blitzsportsga.com/2019/04/24/kenney-williams-quintal-diaz-all-named-soccer-pows/ . Go Indians!!! Indian Pride!


text:
SANTA FE — A former high school basketball coach who is accused of having sex with two female students while he was a school employee says he's willing to admit guilt in exchange for not having to do prison time, according to a new court filing.
Dominick Baca, 30, a former assistant Pecos High School basketball coach who helped the Panthers win two state championships, is currently in the San Miguel County jail as he awaits trial on three charges of criminal sexual penetration of a minor and two charges of criminal sexual contact of a minor for having sex with two female Pecos High students.
One of the girls was 14 at the time, and he allegedly groped and tried to kiss the other girl, who was 17, in his school office.
Prosecutors in the Las Vegas District Attorneys Office are asking a judge to allow them to admit into evidence recorded jail phone calls where Baca discusses pleading guilty to the crimes. Chief Deputy District Attorney Thomas Clayton quotes Baca in a motion he filed Tuesday. Inmates are told that phone calls are recorded, the motion notes.
Baca says on the recordings that he's going to have to plead guilty to some charges.
"I hope (Baca's defense attorney Tom Clark) (expletive) does his job good bro," Baca is quoted as saying to another man. "I hope he figures something out bro, cuz. I'll do the probation time, and I'll do whatever I have to do outside bro, I just don't want to do anything in here dude."
Clayton argues that Baca's statements can be used against him.
"As set forth above, defendant stated he is willing to plead guilty to sex offense charges pending before him," Clayton wrote. "These are not statements made in plea negotiations are therefore not protected. To the contrary, his statements to family and friends acknowledge his guilt and desire to minimize his exposure — setting forth his strategy to address the charges."
Baca is also quoted as telling a friend that what he's accused of doing is only a crime because he was a school employee. It's not clear which victim he's referring to.
"Like if I wasn't a school employee it wouldn't even be a crime, know what I mean," Baca says. "… So it sucks like… I mean, it is what it is. I have to accept responsibility, which, I'm willing to do it. I have to do it."
Baca was booked into the jail on June 11 after a judge found that he willfully violated his house arrest pending trial by taking off his ankle monitor and travelling around northern New Mexico, apparently for fun and recreation. He is accused of participating in several basketball tournaments and was reportedly seen at the state high school basketball championships at the Pit in Albuquerque in March.


text:
Choose your room
The Be Live Family Costa Los Gigantes has been designed down to the smallest detail for families and couples wishing to spend their holidays in an incomparable location, enjoying its excellent facilities to the full.
The Be Live Family Costa Los Gigantes has six swimming pools, one of which is for children and it has a slide and 2 are for babies.
The hotel has two Buffet Restaurants: Teide and Chinyero (opening according to the hotel occupancy) available for breakfast and dinner (not at lunch) with show cooking during the mentioned services.
Useful information:Other names for Hotel Be Live Family Costa Los Gigantes:
Costa Los Gigantes Hotel
Luabay Family Costa Los Gigantes


text:
You may be eligible! These Lenders offer loans to students who attend Southwest Minnesota State University
My classmates would best be described as driven, fun-loving, friendly, somewhat athletic, and not far from where they grew up...
My classmates would best be described as driven, fun-loving, friendly, somewhat athletic, and not far from where they grew up.
Find a school with a wide variety of classes so that you always have the option to change your mind or decide what you want to do if you haven't already. Get involved as much as you possibly can. You will make new friends quickly amd have a lot of fun.
The course selection is very limited. There are not very many areas to choose from. The classes offered are not very interesting.
It is one of only two schools that has wheelchair basketball as a varsity sport. It is also only one of three campuses where...
It is one of only two schools that has wheelchair basketball as a varsity sport. It is also only one of three campuses where the entire campus is connected, so there is no worry about having to struggle to get around during the winter time.
Take a college visit before you decide to go anywhere. Get a feel for the atmosphere of the town and the people in it. Don't make a decision based on the place you have the most friends at. Make a decision that suits you and your needs. Spen time making pros and cons charts for each university you look at. Find the one that you feel you will be most comfortable at.
I wish I would have known how close minded this campus can be towards new ideas. I wish I would have known more about the lack of activities that surround the school. It's not fun being in a town where everything is closed by ten at night.
Everyone is their own person.
Everyone is their own person.
Our school spirit and great professors.
Make sure that the college is right for you. Many people have different taste.
It's close to home.
It's close to home.
Live [go somewhere that fits] within your means. Study hard. Make sure your experience is the best that it could possibly be--You get out of college what you put into it. The most important advice though is: have fun; if what you are doing isn't fun, you are more likely to try and "get out as quickly as possible" and miss other aspects of [college] life along the way. While everything is not fun in life, everything is s good or bad as you make it. Put your power and effort into studying your passion and don't forget to live while doing so. Just remember to enjoy the experience as a whole--if you don't enjoy it, then why go?
Here it's like a big family!
SMSU is a great school that offers great education to all students, it also offers a great lunch program, tutoring, and a gre...
SMSU is a great school that offers great education to all students, it also offers a great lunch program, tutoring, and a great faculty and staff.
It has to be the choice of the student. They need to go where it feels right for them. It is a once in a lifetime experience to be a freshman at a college you it should be enjoyed.
Everyone should attend SMSU! The population is so very diverse. Many cultures are represented here. There is plenty of wheelchair access through out the campus. There are tons of clubs so there really is something for everyone.
We use student reviews and the most current publicly available data on our school pages. As such, we don't typically remove or edit college information.
Sources for school statistics and data include the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics and the Integrated Postsecondary
Education Data System. Portions of college data include copyrighted material, which is reproduced on this website by permission of Wintergreen Orchard House,
a division of Carnegie Communications. © 2009-2016 by Wintergreen Orchard House. All rights reserved.
Southwest Minnesota State University administrators: claim your school to add photos and details.


text:
Archive for the 'entrepreneurship' Category
book spotlight: beyond technonationalism by kathryn ibata-arens
At SASE 2019 in the New School, NYC, I served as a critic on an author-meets-critic session for Vincent de Paul Professor of Political Science Kathryn Ibata-Arens's latest book, Beyond Technonationalism: Biomedical Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Asia.
Here, I'll share my critic's comments in the hopes that you will consider reading or assigning this book and perhaps bringing the author, an organizations researcher and Asia studies specialist at DePaul, in for an invigorating talk!
"Ibata-Arens's book demonstrates impressive mastery in its coverage of how 4 countries address a pressing policy question that concerns all nation-states, especially those with shifting markets and labor pools. With its 4 cases (Japan, China, India, and Singapore), Beyond Technonationalism: Biomedical Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Asia covers impressive scope in explicating the organizational dimensions and national governmental policies that promote – or inhibit – innovations and entrepreneurship in markets.
The book deftly compares cases with rich contextual details about nation-states' polices and examples of ventures that have thrived under these policies. Throughout, the book offers cautionary stories details how innovation policies may be undercut by concurrent forces. Corruption, in particular, can suppress innovation. Espionage also makes an appearance, with China copying's Japan's JR rail-line specs, but according to an anonymous Japanese official source, is considered in ill taste to openly mention in polite company. Openness to immigration and migration policies also impact national capacity to build tacit knowledge needed for entrepreneurial ventures. Finally, as many of us in the academy are intimately familiar, demonstrating bureaucratic accountability can consume time and resources otherwise spent on productive research activities.
As always, with projects of this breadth, choices must made in what to amplify and highlight in the analysis. Perhaps because I am a sociologist, what could be developed more – perhaps for another related project – are highlighting the consequences of what happens when nation-states and organizations permit or feed relational inequality mechanisms at the interpersonal, intra-organizational, interorganizational, and transnational levels. When we allow companies and other organizations to, for example, amplify gender inequalities through practices that favor advantaged groups over other groups, what's diminished, even for the advantaged groups?
Such points appear throughout the book, as sort of bon mots of surprise, described inequality most explicitly with India's efforts to rectify its stratifying caste system with quotas and Singapore's efforts to promote meritocracy based on talent. The book also alludes to inequality more subtly with references to Japan's insularity, particularly regarding immigration and migration. To a less obvious degree, inequality mechanisms are apparent in China's reliance upon guanxi networks, which favors those who are well-connected. Here, we can see the impact of not channeling talent, whether talent is lost to outright exploitation of labor or social closure efforts that advantage some at the expense of others.
But ultimately individuals, organizations, and nations may not particularly care about how they waste individual and collective human potential. At best, they may signal muted attention to these issues via symbolic statements; at worst, in the pursuit of multiple, competing interests such as consolidating power and resources for a few, they may enshrine and even celebrate practices that deny basic dignities to whole swathes of our communities.
Another area that warrants more highlighting are various nations' interdependence, transnationally, with various organizations. These include higher education organizations in the US and Europe that train students and encourage research/entrepreneurial start-ups/partnerships. Also, nations are also dependent upon receiving countries' policies on immigration. This is especially apparent now with the election of publicly elected officials who promote divisions based on national origin and other categorical distinctions, dampening the types and numbers of migrants who can train in the US and elsewhere.
Finally, I wonder what else could be discerned by looking into the state, at a more granular level, as a field of departments and policies that are mostly decoupled and at odds. Particularly in China, we can see regional vs. centralized government struggles."
During the author-meets-critics session, Ibata-Arens described how nation-states are increasingly concerned about the implications of elected officials upon immigration policy and by extension, transnational relationships necessary to innovation that could be severed if immigration policies become more restrictive.
Several other experts have weighed in on the book's merits:
"Kathryn Ibata-Arens, who has excelled in her work on the development of technology in Japan, has here extended her research to consider the development of techno-nationalism in other Asian countries as well: China, Singapore, Japan, and India. She finds that these countries now pursue techno-nationalism by linking up with international developments to keep up with the latest technology in the United States and elsewhere. The book is a creative and original analysis of the changing nature of techno-nationalism."—Ezra F. Vogel, Harvard University
"Ibata-Arens examines how tacit knowledge enables technology development and how business, academic, and kinship networks foster knowledge creation and transfer. The empirically rich cases treat "networked technonationalist" biotech strategies with Japanese, Chinese, Indian, and Singaporean characteristics. Essential reading for industry analysts of global bio-pharma and political economists seeking an alternative to tropes of economic liberalism and statist mercantilism."—Kenneth A. Oye, Professor of Political Science and Data, Systems, and Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"In Beyond Technonationalism, Ibata-Arens encourages us to look beyond the Asian developmental state model, noting how the model is increasingly unsuited for first-order innovation in the biomedical sector. She situates state policies and strategies in the technonationalist framework and argues that while all economies are technonationalist to some degree, in China, India, Singapore and Japan, the processes by which the innovation-driven state has emerged differ in important ways. Beyond Technonationalism is comparative analysis at its best. That it examines some of the world's most important economies makes it a timely and important read."—Joseph Wong, Ralph and Roz Halbert Professor of Innovation Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto
"Kathryn Ibata-Arens masterfully weaves a comparative story of how ambitious states in Asia are promoting their bio-tech industry by cleverly linking domestic efforts with global forces. Empirically rich and analytically insightful, she reveals by creatively eschewing liberalism and selectively using nationalism, states are both promoting entrepreneurship and innovation in their bio-medical industry and meeting social, health, and economic challenges as well."—Anthony P. D'Costa, Eminent Scholar in Global Studies and Professor of Economics, University of Alabama, Huntsville
book spotlight: culture and commerce by mukti khaire
A very, very long time ago, Mukti Khaire was a guest blogger at orgtheory. Since then, she's been a successful management researcher at the Harvard Business School and Cornell Tech. It is thus a great pleasure for me to read her new book Culture and Commerce: The Value of Entrepreneurship in Creative Industries. The book is a contribution to both the study of art markets and the study of entrepreneurship. The book's premise is that art and business exist in a sort of fundamental tension. Khaire's goal is to offer an account of what entrepreneurship means in the world of artistic markets.
The key element of Khaire's theory is that artistic goods are not only introduced by entrepreneurs, but entrepreneurs do a lot of work to reshape markets so they can accept radically new categories of goods. For example, getting people to accept high quality, but expensive, produce is the work that Whole Foods did in the grocery market about twenty years ago. Such people, who reshape old markets into new markets, Khaire calls "pioneer entrepreneurs." Similarly, Khaire identifies people who add value because of their ability to provide commentary to products that need explanation.
The strong point of Culture and Commerce is that Khaire digs deeper into the production chain of artistic goods. There are market actors who specialize in bringing in the new products, those who specialize in educating the audience, and those who add quality signals (e.g., giving awards). It's a very rich account of entrepreneurship that many blog reader will enjoy. Recommended!
50+ chapters of grad skool advice goodness: Grad Skool Rulz ($4.44 – cheap!!!!)/Theory for the Working Sociologist (discount code: ROJAS – 30% off!!)/From Black Power/Party in the Street / Read Contexts Magazine– It's Awesome!
unicorns and gazelles are black swans
Both the public and scholars pay a disproportionate amount of attention to the Silicon Valley model of entrepreneurship. But for every startup that becomes a unicorn, a thousand more mundane businesses are started. Howard Aldrich and Martin Ruef contextualize this ordinary entrepreneurship in a special issue of Academy of Management Perspectives on the reemergence of "Main Street entrepreneurship":
Dazed and confused by the wild hype surrounding gazelles and unicorns, entrepreneurship researchers have focused on the black swans of the entrepreneurial world, even though IPOs and venture capital financing of firms are extremely rare events. Despite their rarity, entrepreneurship conferences and journals have been filled with papers on various aspects of the process of "going public" and "VC networks." Fortunately, in the middle of the Silicon Valley mania, other scholars have been paying attention to the mundane aspects of business startups – – the ordinary business starts, numbering in the hundreds of thousands each year in the United States for businesses with employees. This special issue gives us an opportunity to look back over what we believe to be scholars' misplaced attention to the extreme and their neglect of the mundane. Correcting the misperception that has been introduced into the literature by selection biases favoring growing and profitable firms will give scholars and policymakers a more accurate and policy-relevant picture of entrepreneurship in the 21st century.
Check it out!
independent book stores are back!!! a guest post post by clayton childress
Clayton Childress is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at University of Toronto. While making the case for examining the relationships between fields and reuniting the sociological studies of production and reception, Under the Cover empirically follows a works of fiction from start to finish: all the way from its creation, through its production, selling, and reading.
Three Reasons Independent Bookstores Are Coming Back
A couple weeks ago, Fabio had a post about the recent rise in brick-and-mortar independent bookstores, suggesting that perhaps they have successfully repositioned themselves as "artisanal organizations" that thrive through the specialized curation of their stock, and through providing "authentic," and maybe even somewhat bespoke, book buying experiences for their customers.
There's some truth to this, but in my forthcoming book, I spend part of a chapter discussing the other factors. Here's several of them.
Why the return:
1) The Demise of the Borders Group, and Shifting Opportunity Space in Brick-and-Mortar Bookselling.
This graph from Statista in Fabio's original post starts in 2009, lopping off decades of retrenchment in the number of American Bookseller Association member stores. Despite the recent uptick, independent bookstores have actually declined by about 50% since their peak. More importantly, it's worth noting that even in the graph we see independent bookstores mostly holding steady from 2009 to 2010, with their rise starting in 2011. Why does this matter? As Dan Hirschman rightly hypothesizes in the comments section of the original post, the bankruptcy and liquidation of the Borders Group began in February of 2011, and is key to any story about the return of independent bookstores. To put some numbers to it, between 2010 and 2011 the Borders Group closed its remaining 686 stores, and between 2010 and 2016 – after spending decades in decline –651 independent bookstores were opened. It's a pretty neat story of nearly one-to-one replacement between Borders and independents since 2011.*
Yet, if anything, this isn't as much a surprising story about the continued prevalence of independent bookstores themselves, but rather, a story about the continued prevalence of paper as a medium through which people like to consume the types of books that are mostly sold in independent bookstores. When Borders liquated people didn't predict that independents would take their place, but that's because they had mostly misattributed the bankruptcy of Borders to the rise of eBook technology and Amazon. That story was never quite right, though. Borders last year of turning a profit, 2006, mostly predated these supposed causal factors. Instead, Borders' rise to prominence came through a competitive advantage in their back-end logistics operations, which they then never really updated, and by the mid-2000s they had turned from a market leader to a market trailer. Borders also invested more floor space in selling CDs right when that market started to decline, and then turned that floor space into the selling of DVDs right when that market started to decline – their stores were always too big, and they seemed to have a preternatural ability to keep on filling them with the wrong things. As for the rise of Amazon and online book sales in the decline of Borders, they did play a role, but not the one that people think. In perhaps one of the least prescient moves in the history of American bookselling, as online bookselling started to take off, Borders decided to not spend resources investing in that market, and instead contracted their online bookselling out to Amazon, helping them on their way to dominance of the market. Oh, you dummies.
So, while it was mostly back-end distribution problems, stores that were too big, and a series of bad bets that tanked Borders, its demise was never really about a lack of demand for print books, which allowed independents to fill that market space after Borders disappeared. For independent used book stores (which have always had as much of a supply problem as a demand problem), advances in back end supply systems have in fact made them more viable.
2) Independent Bookstores are the Favored Trading Partners of the Publishing Industry.
Starting during the Great Depression, in order to keep bookstores in business, book publishers began letting them return any (damaged or undamaged) unsold books, meaning that for nothing more than the cost of freight bookstores could pack books up to the ceiling without taking on much financial risk on stocking decisions (if you've ever been curious why so many bookstores seem so overstuffed with product, here's your answer).
It was the beginning of a long history of cooperation between publishers and sellers, and the cooperation has never been more friendly than it is between publishers and independent stores. Publishers and bookstores want the same thing: for people to go into bookstores looking for the books that are actually in stock. With about 300,000 new industry-published books coming out per year, that's no small feat. For this reason, cooperation between publishers and independents is key, and they rely on an informal system of gift exchange, the details of which I go into in my book.
With the rise of chain bookstores such as Walden, Crown, Barnes & Noble, and Borders, this cooperation became formalized as "co-op," a system in which publishers nominate their books, and if they are chosen for co-op by the seller, then pay to have their books placed on front tables and endcaps across the country. The basic shorthand is that it costs a publisher about a dollar per copy to get their book on a front table at Barnes & Noble, which is very roughly the same amount that an author gets paid per copy to write the book in her advance (talk to any publisher for long enough and they'll grind their teeth while noting this).
From the cooperation system with independents the chains developed "co-op", but a publisher's relationship with Amazon is closer to coercion. With the chains, publishers can decide to nominate for "co-op" or not, but as soon as publisher sells a book on Amazon they've already entered into an enforced "co-op" agreement, in which usually around 6-8% of all of their revenue from selling on Amazon is then withheld, and must be used to advertise on Amazon for future titles. This tends to gets talked about less as "coercion", and more as "just the way things are" –it's what happens when you have a retailer that dominates the space enough to set its own terms.
As a result, while book publishers like independent bookstores because they believe them to be owned and staffed by true book lovers (Jeff Bezos was famously disinterested in books when launching Amazon – books are just fairly durable objects of standard size and shape and therefore ship well, making them a good test market for the early days of ecommerce), they also do everything they can to support independent bookstores because their trading terms with them are most favorable to publishers. In their most extreme forms, we can see publishing professionals collaborate in opening their own independent bookstores, but more generally, they engage in subtler forms of support: getting their big name authors to smaller places, and maybe over-donating a little bit to the true cost of printing flyers, and covering the cost of wine and cheese for when the author gets there. Rather than doing this out of the goodness of their hearts, however, publishers do it because independent bookstores are good for them to have around, as they're the only booksellers who are too small and diffuse to make publishers do things.
3) A Further Reorientation to Niche Specialization at Independents
Here we get to artisanal organizations, and the independent bookstores that are sticking around (or even more importantly, opening) have mostly given up aspirations of being generalists. In Toronto, we've got an independent bookstore which specializes in aviation, another for medieval history, and a third which has found a niche for discount-priced theology.* They're like the Cascade sour beers to Barnes & Noble's pilsners. While it's definitely a trend, it's not one I'd trace back just to 2010, as instead, the artisanal organization market position is one that independent bookstores have been relying on at least back into the 1980s.
In addition to just being niche, while independent hardware stores and grocers were going the way of the dodo, independent bookstores were also able to both capture and foment the formation of the "buy independent" social movements of the 1990s. It's not many retail outlets that can successfully advocate for their mere existence as a public good. For instance, when was the last time that the New York Times unironically quoted somebody referring to the closing of an independent laundromat halfway across the country as a civic tragedy? As generalist independent bookstores have come to terms with their inability to compete on breadth with Barnes & Noble and Amazon, we see not only a transition to niche sellers, but also more sellers overall, as each one tends to take up a smaller footprint and have lower overhead costs than the independents of the past.
Of course, while there has been a rise in the number of independent bookstores in the 2010s, we shouldn't overstate it, or be certain that it will continue. At the end of the day –and nobody likes to admit this –we're talking about a segment that makes up less than 10% of industry sales and is still way down from its peak. It took one of the two major brick-and-mortar chains going out of business for this return to happen, but if Barnes & Noble goes under, it will upend any balance left between Amazon and everyone else. Yet unlike the industries for music and journalism, a preference for analog books among a major segment of the market doesn't seem to be going away. Maybe if Barnes goes under we'll instead be graphing the rise of brick-and-mortar bookstores by Amazon, and romantically pine for the good old days of Barnes as the industry villain.
*If you're a cynic, or even just a careful optimist, you're also going to want to factor in the 80 stores Barnes & Noble has closed since 2010. So, since 2010 that's a loss of 766 big brick-and-mortar bookstores which were selling a lot of books, and a gain of 655 generally much smaller brick-and-mortar bookstores which are generally selling many fewer books. Yet the number of physical books sold hasn't really declined, and has actually increased for three years running (for reasons that are the subject of another post). In any case, the difference has been made up by Amazon.
**H/T to Christina Hutchinson and Chanmin Park, two undergraduate students in my Culture, Creativity, and Cities course, for these examples. You can see some of their work on bookstores, as well as other students' great (and in progress!) work from this semester on Toronto martial arts studios, Korean and Indian restaurants, religious centers, food festivals, and so on here.
50+ chapters of grad skool advice goodness: Grad Skool Rulz ($5 – cheap!!!!)/Theory for the Working Sociologist/From Black Power/Party in the Street
cfp: "Seeking a More Just and Egalitarian Economy: Realizing the Future via Co-operatives, Communes, and Other Collectives" at SASE in Lyon, France – abstracts due Feb. 17, 2017 (updated)
Joyce Rothschild and I are co-organizing a mini-conference at the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) in Lyon, France. Please consider submitting an abstract, due to the SASE submission site by Feb. 17, 2017 (updated deadline!). Accepted presenters will need to provide a full paper by June 1, 2017 for discussion. Please circulate to this cfp to interested persons!
Seeking a More Just and Egalitarian Economy: Realizing the Future via Co-operatives, Communes, and Other Collectives
Forty years ago, as the most recent wave of economic collectives and cooperatives emerged, they advocated a model of egalitarian organization so contrary to bureaucracy that they were widely called "alternative institutions" (Rothschild 1979). Today, the practices of cooperative organizations appear in many movement organizations, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and even "sharing" firms. Cooperative practices are more relevant than ever, especially as recent political changes in the US and Europe threaten to crush rather than cultivate economic opportunities.
Cooperative groups engage in more "just" economic relations, defined as relations that are more equal, communalistic, or mutually supportive. The oldest collectives – utopian communes, worker co-operatives, free schools, and feminist groups – sought authentic relations otherwise suppressed in a hierarchical, capitalist system. Similar practices shape newer forms: co-housing, communities and companies promoting the "sharing economy," giving circles, self-help groups, and artistic and social movement groups including Burning Man and OCCUPY. While some cooperatives enact transformative values such as ethically responsible consumerism and collective ownership, other groups' practices reproduce an increasingly stratified society marked by precarity. Submitted papers might analyze the reasons for such differences, or they might examine conditions that encourage the development of more egalitarian forms of organization.
Submitted papers could also cover, but are not limited, to exploring:
- What is the nature of "relational work" (cf. Zelizer 2012) conducted in these groups, and how it differs – or is similar to – from relational work undertaken in conventional capitalist systems?
- How do collectivities that engage in alternative economic relations confront challenges that threaten – or buttress – their existence? These challenges include recruiting and retaining members, making decisions, and managing relations with the state and other organizations. Moreover, how do these groups construct distinct identities and practices, beyond defining what they are not?
- How are various firms attempting to incorporate alternative values without fully applying them? For instance, how are companies that claim to advance the sharing economy – Uber, airbnb, and the like – borrowing the ideology and practices of alternative economic relations for profit rather than authentic empowerment? What are the implications of this co-optation for people, organizations, and society at large?
- How do new organizations, especially high tech firms, address or elide inequality issues? How do organizing practices and values affect recognition and action on such issues?
- What can we learn from 19th century historical examples of communes and cooperatives that can shed insight on their keys to successful operation today? Similarly, how might new cooperatives emerge as egalitarian and collective responses to on-going immigration issues or economic crisis generated by policies favoring the already wealthy?
- Are collectives, cooperatives and/or firms that require creativity, such as artists' cooperatives or high tech firms, most effective when they are organized along more egalitarian principles? How do aspects of these new modes of economic organization make them more supportive of individual and group creativity?
Graeber, David. 2009. Direct Action: An Ethnography. Oakland, CA: AK Press.
Rothschild, Joyce. 1979. "The Collectivist Organization: An Alternative to Rational-Bureaucratic Models." American Sociological Review 44(4): 509-527.
Rothschild, Joyce and J. Allen Whitt. 1986. The Cooperative Workplace: Potentials and Dilemmas of Organizational Democracy and Participation. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Zelizer, Vivianna A. 2012. "How I Became a Relational Economic Sociologist and What Does That Mean?" Politics & Society 40(2): 145-174.
Questions about the above cfp may be directed to Joyce and myself.
Here is info about the mini-conference format:
Each mini-conference will consist of 3 to 6 panels, which will be featured as a separate stream in the program. Each panel will have a discussant, meaning that selected participants must submit a completed paper in advance, by 1 June 2017. Submissions for panels will be open to all scholars on the basis of an extended abstract. If a paper proposal cannot be accommodated within a mini-conference, organizers will forward it to the most appropriate research network as a regular submission.
More info about mini-conferences here.
The 2017 SASE conference in Lyon, France, hosted by the University of Lyon I from 29 June to 1 July 2017, will welcome contributions that explore new forms of economy, their particularities, their impact, their potential development, and their regulation.
More info about the SASE conference theme, a critical perspective on the sharing economy, is available at "What's Next? Disruptive/Collaborative Economy or Business as Usual?"
Joyce and I look forward to reading your submissions!


text:
Vaan and ashe relationship
Explain the Balthier/Ashe thing to me. - Page 3
Storyline/character question here. Starting with Vaan seeing Rassler's ghost in Tomb of Raithwall, what is the connection with him and Ashe? It further gets. Vaan almost forgot about her once Ashe came along. in the pretty early in Revenant Wings that there is something more to their relationship. Vaan and Penelo just felt really bland next to characters like Ashe, Balthier, But they don't have a relationship to the events of the story and.
I really like to have romances in every FF, since this one doesn't, It makes me feel a little sad I think I have to wait until the game come out. I really don't know what are they doing in this story.
Roland Jan 19 Ashe's mother or father could've had an affair with another person. Even though I doubt they're siblings, it's still possible that the two share the same mother or father. All of that was known in past interviews, though I don't recall the developers stating that Ashe and Vaan are not in love, at all. Not every FF title was a love story.
Otherwise, the main hero might have a love-interest or he may not. But they did say it in my EGM!!! Look it up if ya wanna!!! Katya Jan 19 In medievil times kings usually had a lot of lovers that's a fact from history.
It feels like Ashe and Vaan gonna be like Lady and the Trampbut with out love story. The Judge Master Jan 19 EsperADN Jan 19 I'll miss the romance but I'm also glad they changed the outline for a change. They'd make such a cute couple!!! Go to a newsrack and grab the latest issue of Electonric Gamign Monthly- but if you're gonna get it just for the FF12 part I'd recomend just reading the stuff about FF12 IN the bookstore- but whatever.
Sorry to bring down everyone's hopes of another FF romance? Jysbena Jan 20 In most of their games that was the case but isnt a bond between friend and friend good enough? And im sure there will be a love portion in it, just not between ashe and vaan. I think it will still be a great game even without the love.No Happy Ending - A Balthier/Ashe Video
Anyone think that if Vaan had a tail he'd be Zidane? Breathe Jan 20 I get the sense that Vaan is less uh, horny, or if he is, he isn't as vocal about it.
Sure they both have the blonde hair and little vest thing going, but I'm sure that Square will make a totally new or as new as Square gets, anyway personality for their hero. I mean they have the same style of closing and almost the same hair and facials.
Plus Square said he is outgoing persona, so he is probably horny too. I can see Vaan being, well, your average seventeen year old, but not like Zidane in the "I'm-going-to-hump-anything-that-moves" way. Anyway, it's all speculation at this point. Back on topic, go Square for breaking the melodramatic main characters falling in love trend, if that's indeed what they are doing.
I think it's great that a guy and a girl can be just friends.
So, about Vaan and Penelo : FinalFantasy
It's more realistic also. I don't really want Vaan to have a tail sticking out from his butt Luna Jan 21 If they clearly said no, then I believe it!! Roland Jan 24 Notice how that's only four couples in twelve games? That Cloud x Aerith one is also a bit sketchy as well.
Vaan and Penelo? [Archive] - Eyes on Final Fantasy Forums
I don't believe either said they love each other. They know everyone expects the two main characters to fall in love, its happened in like every RPG ever, so decided to throw in a strange plot twist to this one, my guess is they will use something we never expected, siblings maybe the case, but I expect that the minds over there came up with something better than siblings, although what exactly its hard to say.
I cant say im not disapointed that the two characters aren't in love, because in my mind love is one of the many underlying themes that make FF, FF.
Again, that's hardly the case. There wasn't any love story in FFTA and the FFVI had the characters learn about love, yet none of the main characters fall in love during the course of the game. It'll be nice if they fall in love, if not it'll be new, let's see what comes, now shall we? Sorry for yelling at you Lani Jan 24 If we talk about this, we never get the answer without knowing the plot and story. So just waiting for now is what I'm gonna do. CrazD Cloud Jan 25 Im glad that the 2 main chars dont fall for each othe it was getting old I woudl rather see mulitple loves.
Cause not every single game needs the same frckin plot I like the idea that the 2 mains dont fall in love. Aime Jan 30 At least it's something new I do notice the trend of the later FFs, there are always couples in love Kairi Feb 2 It's even on ffxii. Also, Balthier x Fran. But, as per the norm with Matsuno games, romance isn't much of a thing.
Balthier and Ashe have one conversation, that's not a relationship. But you can realistically say there's 3 couples in the game: Vaan and Penelo in revenant wings at leastbalthier and fran zoophilia ewwAshe and Basch Penelo letter hints at it Final Fantasy XII is the greatest video game of all time. Vir27 Vir27 1 year ago 9 I had never heard this one before. I am trying on thinking about that Penelo letter your way.
I'm Basch, and all day every day I'm pretending to be Gabranth for a promise to my dead brother. I get a letter about Ashe, who is my lover, and how she keeps up appearances but she misses me.
I understand the appearances she keeps up not to be my dutiful charade of playing Gabranth to support Larsa as part of an international peace conspiracy, but the appearance that she is happy without my good loving. I don't smile about my lover, I think again about my dead brother.


text:
MEDIA RELEASE Vermont Public Service Department Announces October 16, 2019 Meeting of the Nuclear Decommissioning Citizens Advisory Panel. Montpelier, VT – The Public Service Department today announced the next meeting of the Vermont Nuclear Decommissioning Citizens Advisory Panel (VT NDCAP) … Continue reading
For details, see our post: Sept. 10: NRC meeting on Community Advisory Boards
CAN Goes On the Road Again! [from http://www.nukebusters.org/] When: Tuesday, October 1 – Sunday, October 6, 2019. Where: New England. What: CAN is organizing a third High-Level Nuclear Waste (HLNW) Tour in New England with Cape Downwinders, Boston Downwinders, and … Continue reading
Heads up! This coming week on the Vermont Yankee front: 1) New England Coalition's annual meeting is Saturday, December 1 at Brattleboro Savings & Loan, 221 Main St, in the community room beginning at 1:30pm. Enter at the back of … Continue reading
POWER STRUGGLE: A feature-length documentary about the grassroots citizen's battle to shut down a nuclear power plant in Vermont. A Film By Robbie Leppzer, In association with NHK-Japan. 86 minutes Watch it on Vermont PBS: • Thursday, November 1 at … Continue reading
Please click here for event details
Environmental Justice & Nuclear Waste the road from New England to Texas and New Mexico CAN is organizing a High-level Nuclear Waste (HLNW) Tour in New England to address the abdication by the federal government and the nuclear industry to … Continue reading
Environmental Justice and Nuclear Waste: The Road from New England to Texas When: September 18 – 22, 2018. Where: Burlington, Montpelier, Brattleboro, Greenfield, and Boston (exact schedule to follow). Brattleboro: Wednesday, September 19th 6pm at the Centre Congregational Church (Parlor Room), … Continue reading
We can't say it better than Sandy Levine of CLF. "… a confusing mess involving over a dozen separate corporations — many shielded from liability and without any assets of their own …" "the deal….lets Entergy walk away from the … Continue reading
The VT Public Utilities Commission will hold a public hearing on the sale of VT Yankee at the Brattleboro Union High School multi-purpose room, 131 Fairground Road, Brattleboro. Please use the East side entrance past the gymnasium for entrance. At … Continue reading


text:
NEW LONDON, Conn. – Freshmen Mary Parse (Orange, Mass.) and Claire Williams (Portsmouth, R.I.) each netted their first career goal and were among six different players to tally a point as the No. 25 Connecticut College women's soccer team defeated UMass Dartmouth by a 3-1 score on Saturday afternoon at Freeman Field.
Connecticut College (7-2) dominated the first half by holding a 15-2 advantage in total shots. After dribbling around an unprotected Corsair goalkeeper from outside the box and hitting the left post in the 20th minute, freshman Mya Johnson (Old Lyme, Conn.) punched the ball home on her second golden opportunity just 42 seconds later when she finished a long pass that came off the foot of senior Sara Kogelmann (Guilderland, N.Y.) from the backfield.
As the opening half was winding down, Parse doubled the margin in the 37th minute when she took a cross from sophomore Marielle McEnaney (Orleans, Mass.) and buried the ball in the upper 90 of the net. UMass Dartmouth had an excellent chance to slice the margin in half when it was awarded a free kick from just outside the left corner of the box, but Parse blocked the hard shot taken by Jennifer Woehl from the end of a four-player wall to help keep the Camels ahead by a 2-0 score heading into the break.
The early stages of the second half featured a flurry of action with both teams finding the back of the net in the opening five minutes. Connecticut College made it a 3-0 game when Williams scored her first goal before the Corsairs answered in the 49th minute. But after Kaitlyn Bernier found the back of the net to put the visitors on the board, the Camels only yielded one more shot on goal for the remainder of the game to run away with their seventh win of the season.
Connecticut College, which outshot its opponent by a 25-7 margin and had a 7-1 advantage in corner kicks, used three goalkeepers who were each credited with one save apiece. Sophomore Veronica O'Rourke (Shelton, Conn.) was credited with the victory by seeing 27 minutes of action during the middle stages when the match was ultimately decided. Jaimee O'Brien of UMass Dartmouth (1-9) turned away six shots in the losing effort.
Connecticut College will next visit Eastern Connecticut State on Tuesday afternoon at 3 p.m.


text:
This image gallery named as Clevedon Super King Bed Frame By Woodpeckers Harvey might be ideal solution for your decoration. As the author has insert this image into Stimulating Sherwood Furniture post section, would ease you to find the perfect match of you decor desire.
You may have to think about stimulating sherwood furniture excentric and modern-day structure. Incorporate the glass recycle counter shirt with stainless stimulating sherwood furniture steel rack. If you want to put in stimulating sherwood furniture a couple doorways, then you can choose garage door. Besides it seems modern, the glass doorway does not block your vision and generate an illusion of bigger vision.
How Far Should Stimulating Sherwood Furniture Be From Baseboard Heaters
There are various sort of colours that is likely to make your Furniture seem perfect, specially the Clevedon super king bed frame by woodpeckers harvey as the focal point. To get your oak cabinets look perfect, you have to pick the most suitable color due to the oak timber colour and layout. There are numerous type of oak natural colours. The lightest walnut pure coloring is light brownish which look like golden color. The darkest oak natural color is dark red brown.
Clevedon super king bed frame by woodpeckers harvey are provided to you in certain instances. You will find some Furniture designs you could discover and then you can copy if you desire. Shade will comprise feeling and ofcourse it is likely to make your Furniture looks unique. Sometime you are confused in picking out right colour for the Furniture cupboard. At this time you really don't need to be worried as you are able to find details regarding right coloring for the Furniture cabinet here.
Clevedon super king bed frame by woodpeckers harvey might be somewhat different using painting exactly the other woods such as wood or hardwood plank out of additional sort of timber. Oak includes its own own potency grade and also amazing all-natural fiber too. However, nevertheless, it is not hopeless in the event that you want to accomplish exactly the DIY project for your Furniture cupboards built of oak, although it's simply the repainting paint or project the newest cupboards. However, there is for certain problem which you will see although painting the oak wood for the cabinets. Grains are possibly coming out due to that form of wood. Apart from that, oak requires more attempts to allow it to be beautifully colored.
White coloring is like a canvas where it is possible to include endless possibilities. In such Clevedon super king bed frame by woodpeckers harvey, you can see just how fabulous white colors. They could inspire one on your next Furniture remodel. White tiny Furniture. In smaller Furniture, space is most valuable item and some times you must be imaginative to earn more distance at your Furniture. Add slipping butcher cubes under counter-top you could slider in when you do not use it. Brighter light makes your little Furniture seems much larger. White cupboard with light beneath the cupboard will definitely maintain matters bright in tiny Furniture.


text:
A makeshift wildfire evacuation shelter in a Walmart parking lot is being shut down, leaving hundreds of evacuees from California's devastating Camp Fire frantic and homeless yet again, KPIX 5 reported.
Donation bins and portable restrooms that have been provided for the camp will be removed by the Red Cross by 1 p.m. this Sunday according to the shelter's co-organizer Luigi Balsamo, who said the evacuees need a "clear exit strategy."
The announcement has left many of the more than 1,000 wildfire victims that have established a temporary community in the parking lot panicked, including evacuee Carol Whiteburn.
"They're taking everything on Sunday, the bathrooms, the lights, everything," she told KPIX 5. "I don't know what we're going to do."
While Emergency officials have said they are aware of the situation, they do not have federal assistance available yet. Workers with the Federal Emergency Management Agency worked through the night to set up a disaster recovery center in an old Sears store in the Chico mall, which was set to be up and running by 9 a.m. today, but people initially will only be able to register there — temporary housing is still days away.
"What do you tell people who are sleeping in a parking lot and still have to wait 5-7 days to even get an answer from FEMA?" KPIX 5 asked FEMA External Affairs Officer Brad Pierce.
There is a looming crisis in Chico. The Walmart makeshift settlement is closing Sunday at 1pm and the folks who are they say there's no where they can go. Noroviris in shelters...no money for hotels. @fema won't be ramped up for days....THERES A 3wk OLD BABY SLEEPING IN A TENT.— Emily Turner (@emilyKPIX) November 15, 2018
"I would tell them that our heart goes out to them," he said. "We understand the situation. We are working around the clock to try and help them."
FEMA has said that in the meantime, shelters are supposed to be the solution, but at least four of the shelters housing Camp Fire evacuees are experiencing outbreaks of norovirus that are getting worse every day, KPIX 5 noted.
"I'd rather breathe the smoke," Whiteburn said.
Here's a snapshot of what it's like spending the night here. There are about 15 porta potties for 1,000 people, Contant says. Showers are the biggest issue, since so many people lost their cars and can't drive to take one. Volunteers make them hot meals. Vehicles keep pouring in pic.twitter.com/5d5QT5sogD— Brianna Sacks (@bri_sacks) November 15, 2018
The result leaves these Camp Fire victims–ranging from a 3-week old baby to elderly people in their 80s–in limbo plagued by constant thoughts of uncertainty over what is next to come.
"We have weather coming. It's going to rain. What happens when it rains on all this stuff, or the flood zone where these people have their tents are camped out over here?" Balsamo said. "We're going to have a major crisis on our hands for the community here of Chico if these people have to go hit the streets."
According to KPIX 5, city officials have said they are not going to be aggressive in the enforcement process, but the spot has stopped accepting donations and the threat of the 1 p.m. deadline continues to haunt the evacuees in the Walmart parking lot in Chico.


text:
Mohamad Nizam Nov 23, 2019 5With a positive attitude of "regard the market, regard the custom, regard the science", the company works actively to do research and development. Ningbo Sharing Trading Co.,Ltd did a good job !Hope we have a future business relationships and achieving mutual success.
Brightone Mugayi Nov 15, 2019 4Reasonable price, high quality Camelback Gear , good attitude of consultation, finally we achieve a win-win situation,a happy cooperation!
Varna Jain Nov 15, 2019 5Customer service staff and sales man are very patience and they all good at English, product's arrival is also very timely, and Camelback Gear is packaged so well, nothing broke on the road,a good supplier.
We didn't put all products on website. If you can't find the product you're looking for, please contact us for more information.
Hot Products


text:
Joyce Blessing To Headline Power of Praise Concert In Chicago
Ghanaian Based international Gospel musician Joyce Blessing is implausibly doing great with her ministry and musical career as far as 2018 is concerned.
The multi award winning gospel minister has been touring the United States of America and Canada for the past few months to Augment her ministry and promote her current "I swerve you" hit song.
Joyce Blessing recently headlined a successful concert in Toronto dubbed "Joyce Blessing Live in Concert on 3rd November. The concert according to Canadian residents, turned out to be the biggest Gospel event ever held by a Ghanaian based Gospel artiste in Canada.
The." I Swerve You " crooner is again ready to bless lives with her ministration as she is set to headline another event in Chicago dubbed the "Annual Power of Praise". The 3-day event will host Christians in Chicago at the Church of Pentecost USA Inc.from 23rd November to Sunday, 25th November. The likes of Chicago based Gospel singers Herty Winner, Chicago Central Choir, Greater North Choir, Sophia Mcakeown Revival Choir, Christ Oases Power Choir, Living Comfort Choir and more will also minister at the annual power of Praise concert.
The Zylofon Music signee is currently buzzing with her newly unleashed worship song titled "Onyankopon" (God)
Kind Regards.
Charity/CSR Events
Afrochella Renovates School For Orphans
As part of efforts to support Ghana in achieving its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the area of education, Afrochella, an afro music, and cultural festival, is renovating the Genesis Academy.The Genesis Academy is a school for the orphanage.It is located in Jamestown, a suburb of Ghana's capital, Accra.Spokesperson of Afrochella, Gifty Boakye, told DGN Online in an interview that the renovation would lead to the provision of a "solid roof on the school's building."According to her, Afrochella has raised about GH¢ 28,000 for the renovation.
She hinted that additionally, Afrochella would provide about 150 backpacks, books, crayons, pens and papers to pupils of the Genesis Academy.In 2018, Afrochella supported WaterAid Ghana with an amount of GH¢ 10,000 as part of its charity initiatives.Ms. Boakye said this year, Afrochella is interested in supporting the Ghanaian Government's agenda of providing quality education for all its citizens. She said to develop, it was key for Ghana to achieve the SDGs, noting that there was the need for all stakeholders to support the state in providing quality education.
Seagram's Imperial Blue Debuts In Ghana, Set To Strengthen Its Presence In Sub-Saharan Africa.
Perfect blend of quality grain spirits and imported scotch malts, Seagram's Imperial Blue whisky has been officially launched in Ghana on October 4th, 2019. On this day, a few carefully selected whisky lovers, key customers and media were invited to an exclusive launch event to sample for the first time the newest addition to the Pernod Ricard Ghana portfolio.
During the event, Gregory Leymarie, Managing Director of Pernod Ricard West Africa said: "True to Joseph Seagram's uncompromising pursue of excellence when he created his distillery in 1857 in Canada, Seagram's Imperial Blue was launched in 1997 in India and has become since then, not just one of the largest but also amongst the fastest growing whiskies in the world! In addition to its indisputable quality, its affordability makes it the go-to option for the young and vibrant Ghanaian whisky loving individual. This is one of the many reasons why we strongly believe in this market's solid potential."
Ghana is the 36th country in the world in which Imperial Blue has been launched successfully. The brand is indeed the world's third largest selling whisky* and is also the largest volume contributor to the Pernod Ricard Group globally. It is a testament to the consumers 'love for the brand which has kept growing throughout the two-decades of its existence: over 3500 bottles of Imperial blue are sold every minute !
Commenting on the penetration of the brand in Ghana, Mr. Kartik Mohindra, Chief Marketing officer of Pernod Ricard India, said, "Ghana has the highest per capita GDP in West Africa, which makes it one of the most critical markets for us. We are excited by the business potential & size of the market. We are proud to introduce Seagram's Imperial Blue to the relatively young population of Ghana. This launch is hence crucial to help fulfil our ambition of becoming the leader in the mainstream spirits market among the emerging middle class within the next 5 years."
Imperial Blue Whisky is the winner of Monde Selection Gold Award (Bruxelles) 2018 for its quality. It has also won Gold & Bronze awards at Abby's (presented by the Advertising Agencies Association of India (AAAI) for its iconic brand communication strategy.
Make sure to experience Seagram's Imperial Blue, available soon at your neighborhood store !
About Pernod Ricard
Pernod Ricard is the world's no. 2 in wines and spirits. Created in 1975 by the merger of Ricard and Pernod, the Group has undergone sustained development, based on both organic growth and acquisitions. Pernod Ricard holds one of the most prestigious brand portfolio comprising of : Blenders Pride, Royal Stag, Imperial Blue, 100 Pipers, Absolut Vodka, Ricard pastis, Ballantine's, Chivas Regal, Royal Salute and The Glenlivet Scotch whiskies, Jameson Irish whiskey, Martell cognac, Havana Club rum, Beefeater gin and well known wines like Jacob's Creek, Brancott Estate, Campo Viejo and Kenwood. Pernod Ricard employs a workforce of 18,500 people and operates through a decentralized organization. Pernod Ricard is strongly committed to a sustainable development policy and encourages responsible consumption. Pernod Ricard's strategy and ambition are based on 3 key values that guide its expansion: entrepreneurial spirit, mutual trust and a strong sense of ethics. Pernod Ricard is listed on Euronext (Ticker: RI; ISIN code: FR0000120693) and is part of the CAC 40 index.
Ballantine's True Music Accra Celebrates Pioneering Artists in Ghana
Some of Ghana's hottest music stars including King Promise, Darkovibes, DJ Vyrusky, DJ MicSmith, and iPhone DJ thrilled an ecstatic crowd with live performances at the Ballantine's True Music Accra held at the Carbon Night Club last weekend. The Glow in the Dark party that celebrated pioneering Ghanaian artists and DJs that "do it their way" was fueled with sounds from Africa and was attended by over 1200 attendees including musicians and media personalities Ova Wise, Efya, Nana Fofie, Efia Odo, Moesha Buduong, Official Kwame, and BrownBerry.
"For years, Ballantine's has celebrated authentic and pioneering artists who have stayed true to their passion, True Music. We are excited to create a platform for music lovers and True Artists to come together and share their art while enjoying Ballantine's," said Sarah Haman, Brand Manager of Premium Brands at Pernod Ricard Ghana.
True Music Accra kicked off with tattoo artists and Ballantine's hostesses who painted guest's faces and bodies with glow paints and escorted them to the dance floor and avant-garde photo booths at various corners of the club for photo opportunities. MC Kojo Manuel stirred the crowd with a special homage to Sarkodie for winning International Flow Act at the 2019 BET Hip Hop Awards after an impressive performance from rapper Yaw Bema. DJs for the evening, DJ MicSmith, DJ Vyrusky, and iPhone DJ kept the crowd on the dance floor with best mixes of Afrobeats, Hip-hop, Highlife and Dancehall.
King Promise took on to the stage with his signature dark shades singing R&B and Afrobeats hits off his 'As Promised' Album including "Bra", "Tokyo" and "Commando". Darkovibes climaxed the night and brandished his smooth vocals and hype rhymes on songs such as "Kpo KeKe", "Stay Woke" and "Bless Me". He was later joined on stage with La Meme Gang member, $pacely, and they performed together.
"Music is one of the ways where different people from different communities can come together and share the bond of oneness. I am grateful for the unique platform given to me by Ballantine's True Music Africa to share my music in an unfiltered way," said King Promise, Ghanaian highlife and Afrobeats singer-songwriter.
Ballantine's and Boiler Room launched True Music Africa in Ghana earlier this year with a live-streamed party broadcast to more than 17 million people around the world featuring epic performances from exciting talents in Ghana's buzzing hip-hop, rap, trap and R&B scenes.
About Ballantines
Ballantine's is the No.1 Scotch whisky in Europe and the No. 2 Scotch whisky in the world with the range selling over 70 million bottles a year worldwide. Ballantine's has won more than 130 trophies and medals at international competitions in the past 10 years for its outstanding quality, as a result of its unique richness of character and perfect balance. The range, from Ballantine's Finest to the exclusive 40 Year Old, is the most extensive in the world of Scotch and is maintained by Master Blender Sandy Hyslop, continuing the brand's tradition of Master Blenders that dates back to 1827.
Kojo Manuel Grabs Another Nomination at Ghana DJ Awards: Here's Why He Should Win!
Kojo Manuel has grabbed his third Best MC nomination in a row at the 2019 Ghana DJ Awards, first in 2017 and then 2018. He has never won the award but with his rising popularity and new energy wave, its safe to say he has his best shot this year!After hosting the biggest parties and concerts from 2018 to 2019, the competition barely exists. Here are a list of events Kojo Manuel has been on since 2018 till date:
TINaFest 2019
Ghana Meets Naija 2019
Ghana Rocks 2018
Tidal Rave 2018 & 2019
True Music Accra
Boiler Room Accra
MTN Pulse Concerts (Takoradi & Cape Coast)
Manifestivities 2018
Rapperholic 2018
La Meme Gang's Crusade Concert 2018
The Reign Concert 2018
Infinix Hot 8 Launch with Shatta Wale
SC Connect
Samsung Galaxy A Series Launch
Rexona Colourthon (UCC, Legon)
Detty Rave 2018
Afrochella 2018
AFRIMA Music Village Concert 2018
Kuami Eugene's Rockstar concert Kumasi
Vac with Vyrusky
Original Beats Party Tour at over 12 locations
4syte TV Campus Tour (Pent)
YFM Area Code Jams
Guinness Smooth Launch
Wheeeww! The list goes on and on… and he shut them all down! Do you think he deserves to win this one? The vote for Kojo Manuel as the Best MC at the Ghana DJ Awards which happens on November 2nd at the National Theatre
Zlatan, Naira Marley, Burna Boy Secure A Spot On The New Grand Theft Auto 5 Soundtrack.
JUMANJI: The Next Level; An Upbeat, Frenetic Adventure. – [REVIEW]
Nast C Tops The 6th Installment Of MTV Base Hottest MCs.
ATTWF'19: Dr. Louisa, T.L.F. Examine Thousands Of Ghanaians. – (PHOTOS)
RECORD BREAKING: Over 100,000 Ghanaians Storm Stonebwoy's "Ashaiman Festival".
Stonebwoy Confirmed For AFRIMAs Music Village, Lagos.
Music3 days ago
[WATCH] "We Made Afrobeat Attractive to Africans. – Sarkodie
Awards and Ceremoinies4 days ago
Wiyaala Wins Artiste Of The Year At GACA.
Radio and TV News5 days ago
"Merqury Quaye Is A Beast. – Ibrahim Ben-Bako
Music2 days ago
Nasty C Features 11 "Up & Coming" Musicians On His "Lift As You Rise" Album.


text:
Liverpool Football Club has loaned out former Nigeria Dream Team VI strike Taiwo Awoniyi to Belgian side Mouscron.
The former Imperial Academy player was on Wednesday unveiled by Mouscron as a loan signing for the 2017/2018 season.
Awoniyi will continue his development at the Belgian side having not secured a work permit to play in England.
The Reds have earlier nursed an idea of loaning him to English League sides but their inability to get him the all important work permit warranted them to seek alternatives for him.
Awoniyi spent last term with Dutch club NEC Nijmegen, having previously embarked on a loan stay at FSV Frankfurt in Germany.
Other Nigerians in the Belgian league include Henry Onyekuru, Moses Simon, Anderson Esiti, Samuel Kalu, Uche Agbo, Kingsley Madu, Joseph Akpala and Christian Osaguona.


text:
Star Wars The First Order Rule Men's T-Shirt
$15.99 Reg.$24.99
Star Wars The First Order Rule Men's T-Shirt
$15.99 Reg.$24.99
You should probably join the First Order. Y'know, for safety reasons.
Seriously, when the First Order -- that lingering but still very organized offshoot of the Empire -- fills your planet with AT-ATs and several thousand Stormtroopers, it's time to reconsider your loyalties.
Those First Order propaganda posters covering the barn doors of your moisture farm? I would grab one immediately, take it to the closest First Order outpost, and sign up for Starkiller Base maintenance.
And if you really want to make an impression, take that image from the poster and make your very own t-shirt -- something that looks a little bit like...
...our Star Wars The First Order Rule Men's T-Shirt!
Made from 100% cotton, your DIY Star Wars t-shirt celebrates the might of the First Order by focusing on its morbid, easily agitated, Darth Vader-obsessed figurehead, Kylo Ren.
And yes, they "rule", considering their superior firepower. Adding it to the t-shirt was a nice touch.
More Details
- Product Brands:
- Star Wars,
- Kylo Ren,
- Star Wars The Force Awakens
- Product Category:
- Clothing & Apparel,
- T-Shirts
- SKU: tsswthe1storderrule


text:
It's Just So Unfair!
James 3:17 (NLT) "17 But the wisdom from above is first of all pure. It is also peace loving, gentle at all times, and willing to yield to others. It is full of mercy and the fruit of good deeds. It shows no favoritism and is always sincere." "I just can't go to another wedding! … More It's Just So Unfair!


text: View cart "Te Mata Elston Chardonnay Hawkes Bay" has been added to your cart. Your Shopping Add gift packaging Proceed to checkout Image Product Name Unit Price Quantity Subtotal Te Mata Elston Chardonnay Hawkes Bay £25.99 - + £25.99 × Continue Shopping Discount code Please enter your gift voucher code or discount code here. Coupon: Subtotal £25.99 Delivery Standard Rate: £10.00 Click & Collect Calculate shipping Select a country… United Kingdom (UK) Update Grand Total £35.99 Add gift packaging Proceed to checkout


text:
Set amid the unique climate of the Saginaw Bay region of Michigan where the soil is fertile, you'll find the flower farm and studio,Read more
In the Midwest, we meet Suzanna Dulin, owner of boutique flower store, Flora. The shop entered its eighth year ofRead more
We head west to California and speak with home-based studio flower designer, Laurie Garza about her Thanksgiving blooms for theRead more
The harvest is a seasonal occurrence celebrated by different countries, cultures and religions around the world. In the US, theRead more
Issue 03 Whoever said bread pudding should be reserved for entertaining during the colder months of the year was speakingRead more


text:
For most people, New Year's resolutions are like this: in one year, and out the other! They last about as long as the house stays decorated for the holidays. Sure, the gym is full at the beginning of January— —but the crowd thins out throughout the month. I'm all for keeping it simple. Two words:… Continue reading Easiest New Year Resolution!
Tag: new year's resolutions
ADHD- Attention Deficit Housework Disorder…and Life Goals
Soooo…. we're twenty-one days into 2018…how are your New Year's resolutions going? Uh-huh…me, too😊 Experts say it takes twenty-one days to form a habit. Well, I say you've got all year to work on your New Year's resolutions. That's the beauty of it! I planned on increasing the frequency of my swimming. My plan backfired… Continue reading ADHD- Attention Deficit Housework Disorder…and Life Goals


text:
Copyright 2019 Hubbard Radio Washington DC, LLC. All rights reserved. This website is not intended for users located within the European Economic Area.
LYNCHBURG, Va. (AP) _ BWX Technologies Inc. (BWXT) on Monday reported second-quarter profit of $58.9 million.
On a per-share basis, the Lynchburg, Virginia-based company said it had profit of 62 cents.
The results topped Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of four analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of 52 cents per share.
The supplier of nuclear fuel and components to the U.S. government posted revenue of $471.2 million in the period, which also beat Street forecasts. Three analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $430.7 million.
BWX expects full-year earnings to be $2.50 per share.
Insight by Attivo Networks: Federal cybersecurity practitioners provide a read on the most contemporary cybersecurity thinking in this exclusive executive briefing.
BWX shares have risen 27% since the beginning of the year.
This story was generated by Automated Insights (http://automatedinsights.com/ap) using data from Zacks Investment Research. Access a Zacks stock report on BWXT at https://www.zacks.com/ap/BWXT
Copyright © 2019 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This website is not intended for users located within the European Economic Area.


text:
Review: Elena Ferrante's "My Brilliant Friend"
by Miles Raymer
I often hear readers of contemporary literature speak of Elena Ferrante in hushed, reverential tones, so I've been curious for a while now to see what all the fuss is about. The brilliance of My Brilliant Friend was so subtle and supple that it almost escaped my notice, but in the end I came around, and can now situate myself firmly on the Ferrante bandwagon.
My Brilliant Friend is a story about Elena (our narrator) and Lila, two girls growing up together in postfascist Naples. It is the first in a four-book series called the Neapolitan Novels, with this installment covering Elena and Lila's childhood and adolescent years. From the start, there were many barriers between my personal experience and those of these two young girls: gender, culture, socioeconomics, a generation (or two), geography. The story also has a large cast of characters with Italian names, so I was somewhat overwhelmed getting to know them all (although a handy Index of Characters is provided). My experience of the opening chapters felt similar to how Elena reacts to seeing the sea for the first time:
I had the impression that although I was absorbing much of that sight, many things, too many, were scattering around me without letting me grasp them. (loc. 1715)
Fortunately, these difficulties proved easy to overcome. The main reason for this was Ferrante's superb writing, complemented by Ann Goldstein's excellent translation from the original Italian. Like most great works of contemporary fiction, My Brilliant Friend displays a remarkable merger of simple language and complex emotional landscapes. Here are some samples:
It seemed to us that we were always going toward something terrible that had existed before us yet had always been waiting for us, just for us. When you haven't been in the world long, it's hard to comprehend what disasters are at the origin of a sense of disaster: maybe you don't even feel the need to. Adults, waiting for tomorrow, move in a present behind which is yesterday or the day before yesterday or at most last week: they don't want to think about the rest. Children don't know the meaning of yesterday, of the day before yesterday, or even of tomorrow, everything is this, now: the street is this, the doorway is this, the stairs are this, this is Mamma, this is Papa, this is the day, this the night. (loc. 241)
There are no gestures, words, or sighs that do not contain the sum of all the crimes that human beings have committed and commit. (loc. 1935)
We are flying over a ball of fire. The part that has cooled floats on the lava. On that part we construct the buildings, the bridges, and the streets, and every so often the lava comes out of Vesuvius or causes an earthquake that destroys everything. There are microbes everywhere that make us sick and die. There are wars. There is a poverty that makes us all cruel. Every second something might happen that will cause you such suffering that you'll never have enough tears. And what are you doing? A theology course in which you struggle to understand what the Holy Spirit is? Forget it, it was the Devil who invented the world, not the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. (loc. 3450)
As one might gather from those passages, there is a deep well of melancholy from which this novel draws inspiration. The main conduit for this melancholy is the fraught relationship between Elena and Lila, in which the admiration and affection the girls share for one another is constantly threatened by equally powerful feelings of envy and resentment. At its core, My Brilliant Friend is a treatise on the perils of a life lived by comparison, coupled with the despairing suggestion that there is perhaps no other sort of life humans are capable of leading. Elena's journey toward young adulthood is bound up with her complex reactions to Lila's development, which are as celebratory as they are covetous:
I didn't know her well; we had never spoken to each other, although we were constantly competing, in class and outside it. But in a confused way I felt that if I ran away with the others I would leave with her something of mine that she would never give back…I did many things in my life without conviction; I always felt slightly detached from my own actions. Lila, on the other hand, had, from a young age…the characteristic of absolute determination. (loc. 302)
Although she was fragile in appearance, every prohibition lost substance in her presence. She knew how to go beyond the limit without ever truly suffering the consequences. In the end, people gave in, and were even, however unwillingly, compelled to praise her. (loc. 724)
I was blind, she a falcon; I had an opaque pupil, she narrowed her eyes, with darting glances that saw more; I clung to her arm, among the shadows, she guided me with a stern gaze. (loc. 3399)
I have never encountered a writer so capable of capturing in words the experience of deeply loving someone who makes you feel inferior and insignificant. Elena's ability to blossom as an individual is directly related to her proximity to Lila. When Lila drops out of her life, Elena develops with ebullient splendor; when Lila inevitably reasserts herself, Elena questions her own worth and despairs of her ability to ever become Lila's true equal.
This emotional roller coaster contains much suffering and more than a little self-pity. My Brilliant Friend would be in danger of falling prey to a kind of myopic narcissism if it didn't also take up many of the universal human themes that reside at the heart of all great literature. Elena and Lila's neighborhood in Naples is a microcosm in which all of human history plays itself out, crammed with cranky, petty people with endless appetites but few viable paths toward self-actualization. Ferrante invites the reader to consider how classism, poverty, tribalism, sexism, domestic abuse, postwar trauma, and mental illness keep humans locked in internecine conflicts, while also demonstrating how education, art, and acts of compassion can subvert and even resolve those conflicts under the right circumstances.
Although the horizon of this book's ambitions is wide as the sky, its central focus never wavers. As Elena and Lila approach womanhood, Ferrante brings everything to a climax with artful poignancy; nowhere is this captured better than in Elena's thoughts while gazing upon Lila's naked body on her wedding day:
At the time it was just a tumultuous sensation of necessary awkwardness, a state in which you cannot avert your gaze or take away the hand without recognizing your own turmoil, without, by that retreat, declaring it, hence without coming into conflict with the undisturbed innocence of the one who is the cause of the turmoil, without expressing by that rejection the violent emotion that overwhelms you, so that it forces you to stay, to rest your gaze on the childish shoulders, on the breasts and stiffly cold nipples, on the narrow hips and the tense buttocks, on the black sex, on the long legs, on the tender knees, on the curved ankles, on the elegant feet; and to act as it it's nothing, when instead everything is there, present, in the poor dim room, amid the worn furniture, on the uneven, water-stained floor, and your heart is agitated, your veins inflamed. (loc. 4173)
My Brilliant Friend represents a fearless confrontation of a painful and often unfaceable truth: Within each of us the ambitions of a million lives are born, and yet we only get one shot at this thing we call living. Ferrante stabs her pen straight into the heart of this problem, ripping from heartache a series of unforgettable questions: When we encounter an Other who epitomizes our own unrealized (and unrealizable) ambitions, is this a blessing or a curse? Can we overcome our feelings of inadequacy enough to appreciate the Other's realization of these ambitions, or are we forever prisoner to the notion that these qualities must be our possessions or no one's? And, most importantly, if this inimitable Other somehow sets its gaze on us and speaks the word "friend," can we hear it?
Rating: 10/10