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The 30" x 48" weighted blanket is available in 5-20 pounds and is suitable for people weighing 40 to 190 pounds.
It has 40 individually sewn and carefully hand-filled weighted pouches which distribute the total weight of the blanket to maximize its effectiveness.
Kuseno Weighted Blankets were designed with removable weights in order to make it easier to wash the blanket in a washing machine. Every blanket can be customized both by size and weight and they are made to order. Please allow up to 5 weeks for your blanket to be constructed, although it could be made much quicker depending on demand at that time.
Typically people choose a weighted blanket that is 10-15% of the user's weight. The commonly accepted formula is 10% of the user's weight (in pounds) plus 1 pound. For a child that is 80 pounds, a 9 pound blanket is generally recommended. If the child is still growing, you might opt for the next size up.
Fabric Choices: We stock cotton, flannelette (a napped cotton that resembles a lightweight flannel), ultra soft polyester fleece, and Minky Rose Cuddle. You can choose both the front and the back, and even have different materials on both sides. Maybe the cooling cotton against your skin and a soft flannelette on top? Please think about the tactile needs of the person using the blanket. While the flannelette is soft and fuzzy to most people, it may feel uncomfortable to someone with heightened touch sensitivity.
The colours on our website may not match perfectly to the fabric when you receive it due to differences in the camera settings, my monitor settings, and your monitor settings. It will be pretty close, but if the shade is very important to you, please Contact Us before you place your order.
Fabric prints are always changing with our supplier so we will always try to keep sufficient fabric in stock to make any size blanket. However, it's entirely possible that we have enough fabric of a specific print for a small blanket at the time you order a large blanket with that same print. If that happens and we're unable to order more from our supplier, we will contact you to see what pattern you would like to change it to.
Custom Fabric: If you're looking for something specific that isn't listed, please Contact Us with what you're looking for and we will try to find it. When you are ordering your blanket with a custom fabric, please use the light grey "Custom Request" fabric colour.
Making your own outer cover? Select the No Outer Cover fabric (very last white box with a red slash through it) for both the Front and the Back and the price will automatically be discounted. If you select a fabric for one side and No Outer Cover for the other side, you will receive an outer cover with the both sides the same as the one you selected.
For more information on how to pick the blanket size, and why you might not want a Queen or King sized blanket, see What Size Blanket Should I Get?.
For more information on weighted blankets and how they work, see About Weighted Blankets.
Ask your Occupational Therapist or Doctor about what size and weight of blanket is recommended.
Warranty Information
As every weighted blanket is customized and made to order, there are no refunds or exchanges on weighted blankets.


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List of documents for setting up a company in Brazil
Incorporation of a company in Brazil requires registration with several governmental authorities. The mandatory registrations are the following: As a first step, the Articles of Association or By-laws must be filed with the Commercial Registry or the Civil Registry (depending on the company's objectives), in the State where the company is headquartered. Companies become corporate entities, with a legal entity status different from those of the holders of its shares or quotas, only after the Articles of Association or By-laws have been registered.
In order to avoid misunderstandings, unnecessary disbursements and time wasting, at this stage we shall focus on the necessary documents to register the Brazilian company.
Foreign entities or individuals holding shares or quotas in Brazilian companies must maintain an attorney (representative), resident in Brazil, with powers to receive service of process in legal actions involving its holding of shares or quotas.
The foreign entities or individuals shall also be enrolled before the Brazilian Internal Revenue Service (obtaining a CNPJ or CPF). We will take care of obtaining such registrations.
List of documents for setting up a company in Brazil
- Name of the partners (Brazilian individuals must provide ID, CPF and full address and personal qualifications; Brazilian companies must provide articles of association, CNPJ, ID of the directors and minutes of the meeting that approved the incorporation; for foreign partners, the documents are described below)
- Name of the directors
– LTDA (Limited Liability Company): At least one director
– S/A (Corporations): At least two directors
– The directors must be Brazilians citizens that live in Brazil, or foreigners who live in Brazil with a permanent visa.
- Company address in Brazil, along with a copy of the last bill of the city tax on real estate (IPTU) for such address.
- Company capital
– LTDA (Limited Liability Company): Capital may be paid in the future.
– S/A (Corporations): 10% of the capital must be sent through bank transference, before the company is incorporated. Details on this will be discussed in the future.
- Company's purpose of business (objectives);
- Name of the company's representative with powers to receive court summoning (the representative must be a permanent resident in Brazil, either a Brazilian of a foreigner bearing a permanent visa).
1) In case the foreign shareholders are individuals:(a) copy of the passport;
(b) birth certificate (must indicate name of the father and mother);
(c) power of attorney to a Brazilian representative (a form follows enclosed);
(d) curriculum vitae (not mandatory, but useful);
(e) proof of residence (may be issued by the local city hall or by the Brazilian consulate, depending on the country);
Note: All these documents must be certified by a notary public, and subsequently submitted to the Brazilian consulate for its legalization. After the documents are certified and legalized in the country of origin they shall be sent to us. We will have them translated by a sworn translator in Brazil.
2) In case the foreign shareholders are companies or corporations:
(a) proof of investing company's legal existence in the country of origin;
In general, this document is a certificate or declaration issued by the register of commerce in which the company is registered, containing the declaration that the company is duly registered and existing under the laws of the place of incorporation.
(b) investing company's articles of incorporation currently in force;
Articles of incorporation issued or stamped by the register of commerce, along with the declaration of the register of commerce or the corporate secretary that this is the version of the articles of incorporation currently in force.
(c) proof of investing company's current officers and directors;
This document usually is one of the following: (i) register of officers and directors, issued or stamped by the register of commerce; (ii) minutes of the meeting(s) that elected the current officers and directors, issued or stamped by the register of commerce; (iii) a certificate by the register of commerce containing the list of current officers and directors.
Plus, ID or passport of the directors or officers.
(d) power-of-attorney to investing company's representative in Brazil;
Power-of-attorney in which the Investing company grants to a Brazilian resident the power (i) to be summoned in any lawsuit, action or procedure in Brazil; (ii) to perform the necessary registration of the foreign investment before the Central Bank; (iii) to sign all documents related to the acquisition of shares and to perform the filings of such documents before Brazilian Register of Commerce. These are the minimum powers required by law and needed to perform the transaction envisaged by you. We enclose a form of powers-of-attorney.
Note: All these documents must be certified by a notary public, and subsequently submitted to the Brazilian consulate for its legalization. After the documents are certified and legalized in the country of origin they shall be sent to us. We will have them translated by a sworn translator in Brazil.
How to incorporate a Brazilian company through foreign direct investment
Power of Attorney for setting up a company in Brazil

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Haider is a longtime Mozilla Contributor. He started as an Urdu Localizer. He then signed-up to become a Firefox Student Ambassador and later became Club Lead of "COMSATS Mozillians" Firefox Club. Since the mid of 2014, he has been contributing on the Mozilla Support Forum and joined the "Army of Awesome" as well. Earlier this year, he applied for the Tablet Contribution Program and has been filing bugs & contributing in the TCP. He also joined the "Featured Add-ons Board" for Jan-June 2015.
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Will the Fed Announce Tapering at Its Next Meeting?
David Wessel joins MoneyBeat with a preview of the Federal Reserve meeting, and looks at Larry Summers's withdrawal from the Fed chairman race as well as the timeline in finding a successor to current chairman Ben Bernanke. Photo: AP.
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... a whole lot going on with that that boy lit story Lawrence Summers news a meeting this week what is it all mean how do you put that into perspective ... that is why we brought along the next gentleman David Wessel ... are Economics chief done in Washington to talk about this one ... I didn't forget the Lawrence Summers the story that you broke yesterday ... I wanna get your take on this Fed meeting this week and what you think is going to happen ... but it is a very close call when the Fed begins to scale back its eighty five billion dollars in bond purchases ... if they do it'll be a small taper ... I think the other thing will see is a real strong emphasis on their batting keep short-term interest rates low ... if they do taper or they wanna make sure there's not a huge overreaction in the markets ... and they are determined to keep short-term interest rates near zero win advances two thousand and eight and tell the economy is much much stronger ... since then it seems like early on people were saying ... the probably cut twenty billion ... all a lot of commentary into the markets lately is is five billion maybe ten billion something of a smaller level if you're just saying ... do you think the market has as a pretty good sense of what's going to come on Wednesday ... the market expects a small taper I don't think it makes any difference if it's five ten or fifteen day in dollars it's the beginning ... of the sea change in monetary policy ... but ... I don't know that the market has any great information ... as my colleagues Sudeep Reddy pointed out a couple weeks ago ... no Fed governors made a public speech in two months ... so people are reading the tea leaves based on what various regional Fed bank presidents is said and ... they're often interesting but often mis leading indicators so I think that the Fed has to be prepared for a market surprise but again on the other hand ... long-term rates have gone up a full percentage point a ready since the spring so the market has ... healed factored in some of this are at work ... we've talked so much about the starting point ... what will it be will decide to appease ephemerality December ... can you do you think the market overlooking what the case of the tapering will be ... worth ... another go from eighty five to zero is it going to be a couple billion every week are they going to let us know ... he didn't think the love of good sense of that ... no but I think the Fed will try and explain that the reason the market is putting so much emphasis on this is that the Fed has been weak as its foot flat on the floor of the salary or an this'll be the first time in a long time that they're beginning to pull up off the salary for ... and markets are forward looking so they won't lessen as they see what the Fed is going to do no extrapolate how long until they stop buying ... and I think the Fed is concerned that they will misinterpret this as a sign that they're getting antsy about keeping short-term rates low ... and I think that would be a misreading of what the Fed's intentions ... let's let's switch gears of cobalt Lawrence Summers ... the story broke last night ... how my How home ... does is totally we set the process not unlike that is where does the president go from here this can be really start over or is he now ... going to discover look at the people he's already look back and look at somebody isn't considered here for Fed chair ... my guess is that they considered in the lineouts pretty much everybody and every lesson we and others have printed ... out we know that he's interviewed Janet Yellen the Vice Chair ... and I'm calm the former vice chair so they're obviously in the next ... and we know if he chooses to turn to Tim guy there ... who says he doesn't want the job is I like the president needs to talk to make any stopped in a lot over the last several years ... so my guess is that's basically the list but there's some dark courses out there Roger Ferguson at TIAA CREF the financial services company another former Fed vice chairman Stan Fischer the former MIT economist ... former Bank of Israel governors all sawmill on the list ... I don't think we really know ... my question is ... does he go to Janet Yellen now who's obviously in Iranian qualified for the job ... Percy so ticked off that the lobbying from her from the left in the women's group B sides to leapfrog over hurting don't someone else it ... because the timeline be in the midst of peers are still enough time to get Fed chairman in place ... yet mean abandoning his term as of January thirty first ... I expect that the president will nominate somebody in the next couple of weeks ... even at the pace at which the Senate of United States works has plenty of time to have hearings and ... vote on a nominee I'd probably go down to the wire that's what happened when Denver Nanking was reappointed before ... buying ... and and also the the world doesn't and if there's not ... a confirmation beaker a lot of uncertainty for Nanking could stay Intel successor was appointed ... and of course is the president nominates Danielle and what she's the vice chair she become the acting chair Mr burn Anqi leaves ... Arik David Wessel excellent stuff think you're a much ... you're welcome ...


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As part of a simulated stock market game, student subjects at Texas Tech sit inside a machine that resembles a landlocked white submarine. There they pick investment advisors who give them portfolio recommendations. Investment returns are random and, when they drop, Professor Russell James notes an activation of the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex—the part of the brain commonly used in detecting errors and comparing numbers.
When an advisor makes a random recommendation that turns out well, a completely different part of the brain associated with visual recognition of faces (the advisor's) lights up. When the student focuses on numbers, and particularly numbers with a negative value, they tend to fire the advisor and move on.
Advisors who recognize this response intuitively have already de-emphasized presenting quarterly portfolio changes to clients. New technology, such as the fMRI brain imaging machine at Texas Tech, helps explain why people react predictably toward financial decisions in surprising and often counterproductive ways. Neuroscience can help us understand which advising strategies are most likely to succeed and why the most rational plan isn't always the most effective.
Scientists used to rely on subjects with damage to a specific brain region to better understand how each part of the brain impacts decisions. Some subjects lost the ability to access a pathway between the slower prefrontal cortex and the faster, more primitive, instinctive and emotional regions deeper in the brain. Being cut off from emotion effectively turned these subjects into purely rational beings. They became better at making risky decisions that involve a chance of loss. They also became insufferably bogged down when even the most basic decision had to be vetted through the slowest part of the brain.
To coin a phrase used by Moshe Milevsky to describe a purely rational client, these subjects had become Vulcans. Most of us aren't Vulcans. This is mainly a good thing.
What separates us from the Vulcans is our kinship with the animals. We can thank the process of natural selection and our ancestors who avoided excessive risks, hoarded for lean times, developed social skills, and occasionally acted on impulse (they had to or you wouldn't be here).
The parts of our brain that we share with other mammals developed over time in a way that maximized our probability of survival. When humans responded the wrong way to a stimulus—for example, confronting rather than sneaking away from a bear, or being indifferent to the loss of food rather than defending it—they failed to pass their genes to subsequent generations. When we respond to a visual stimulus, our initial reaction is often an emotional one based on the more primitive response mechanisms. As James notes, "this system is not dysfunctional. It is functional for a different environment where the purpose is survival."
This instinctive decision making process can often figure things out faster than our more rational processes. Experiments have shown that the body senses a superior deck of cards to an inferior one after only a few cards have been dealt, while it takes the conscious mind many more cards to detect the imbalance. Gut decision-making relies on these faster-acting emotional regions of the brain. But our gut instincts can also lead us astray, particularly when it comes to financial decisions. Instinct meant for short-run survival in a time of scarcity can be inconvenient under very different, modern conditions.
Money and emotion are linked by the powerful forces of social status and survival—two of the most fundamental motivations among all mammals. Responses to threats within either of these domains produce a quick emotional response. Our instinctive regions of the brain are constantly reacting to stimuli over the course of a day while we intermittently apply the slower, more advanced cognitive processes. This is efficient since using the more advanced part of the brain requires more effort and the body tries to perform tasks in the most efficient way possible.
This constant interplay between the slower cognitive brain regions and the much more automatic emotional and visual brain areas is what Nobel Prize-winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman refers to as thinking fast and slow. James prefers to characterize the cognitive brain parts as a rider controlling the much more powerful affective brain regions that resemble an elephant. The rider is generally under the delusion of being in control of the elephant, but when the elephant decides to change course the rider is often powerless to stop it.
Habits are merely our brain's method of taking a task that normally would require greater cognitive effort and reducing it to more automatic processes in order to bypass cognition. The first time we engage in a task, for example driving to a new restaurant for lunch, our brains use more resources to gauge the best route, where to activate a turn signal, and where we might encounter threats. The second time we do it we bypass many of these processes and substitute them with a non-cognitive approach. If someone honks to remind us to pay attention to the light, we respond immediately with our emotional brain (as if to a threat) and then apply cognitive effort to assess whether our initial response was appropriate.
The notion that many habits occur independent of deliberate cognition is a powerful insight when developing a plan to change financial behavior. Retirement savings studies document the remarkable success of employees who make one simple decision—to walk to the benefits office and sign up for automatic payroll withdrawals. One of the primary mistakes made by our rational cognitive brain is that it over-projects its ability to change habits and delay gratification. We may understand the need to save more for retirement, but when we get home we fall into the same habits and find other things to spend money on. Breaking habits requires deliberate intention to change routines by using our rider to change the direction of the elephant. How do we motivate people to change behavior to meet long-term goals?
Neuroscience suggests that the worst way to motivate people is to focus on numbers. Telling someone they need to save a certain amount to achieve an adequate retirement accumulation goal may be convincing to the rational brain, but not so convincing to the elephant.
In his behavioral finance classes at Texas Tech, James tell his students that "we haven't had written language all that long. Explaining a concept in a visual or emotional sense uses much more of our brain functions than is used by numbers. If you think of people as being emotional and visual, you've essentially tapped into 70% of the brain real estate. There is that rational side, but that rational side might be more like 20% of the real estate. The rational side used to solve math problems might be 8% of the real estate. I need to get you to visualize your end goal and attach emotion to that visualization—that this end goal requires a commitment, and that choosing not to follow the commitment endangers your goal. Our brains work visually and they work emotionally. I need to learn from you where you want to be, what life you want to be living at a certain age, what you want the freedom to be able to do, and then I attach a number to those things. To help a client visualize you have to first identify outcomes that have emotional salience for the client."
Our brains appear to seek a condition known as homeostasis, or cognitive autopilot. We become comfortable with the status quo because breaking out of old habits and using cognitive resources to form new habits is inefficient. This feeling of satisfaction from maintaining one's current state leads to a preference for the status quo. It can be useful to frame desired actions as the status quo in order to take advantage of this preference. For example, setting defaults that are beneficial can have an unexpectedly large impact on improving behavior. Car rental agencies know that most renters will select costly added insurance if they are forced to refuse insurance, but few will choose insurance if doing so requires added effort.
Consider disability insurance. This underused financial product protects against an important insurable risk that can be difficult to sell. Providing a client with a number of disability options with varying elimination periods and income replacement rates and explaining their importance may not be particularly convincing to a client. Often they would just as soon make the simple choice of rejecting them all. Another approach is to recommend a specific plan based on the client's characteristics and preferences. If the client chooses not to pay for the disability plan, the planner can then require a liability release form and explain that the rejection of disability will leave his wife and children destitute resulting in unacceptable liability risk for the adviser. Not only is the advisor forcing the client to actively reject the plan, he is also providing an emotional appeal to explain its need.
One reason the brain prefers autopilot is because extended cognitive effort can lead to mistakes. Asking a subject a number of difficult questions will inevitably yield lower quality results and a tendency to revert to defaults or succumb to temptation. Sales tactics in which a customer is repeatedly asked complex questions before being offered a (costly) default are more effective than providing clients with a few simple choices. A good way to view the cognitive brain region is as a muscle, says James. "We know for example in temptation studies that if you make somebody do something highly cognitive before you give them the temptation then that muscle is going to be worn out. Or if you make somebody refuse temptations several times then with the nth temptation they are going to be more likely to give in. It's just like working out—I feel weaker immediately afterward because I've been lifting these heavy weights."
The most powerful emotional response related to financial choice is fear. Fear leads to a number of observed decision anomalies identified in behavioral finance such as the excessive attention paid to a loss. One explanation for our overemphasis on fear and loss is an evolutionary concept known as punctuated equilibrium. Human history is characterized by extended periods of mundane existence punctuated by catastrophic events such as a famine or plague that wipes out a large part of the population. Many risk-averse behaviors that appear irrational make sense when they occasionally produce survival among the most cautious. According to James, these seemingly irrational traits "are not necessarily stupid, they may just not fit a particular scenario that we're in right now. Looking at the idea that we've inherited what we've inherited because it has been successful during periods of punctuated equilibrium, one of those really important things is fear."
Fear is generally associated with the amygdala, an emotional region of the brain shared with other mammals. "When it comes to investments, it's a driving force behind a lot of the persistent irrationality that we see," says James. "Let's take for example the very first recognized concept in behavioral economics—Kahnemann and [Amos] Tversky's prospect theory, where we would treat an equivalent gain and loss unequally. What triggers the amygdala is the fear response, and the fear response is associated with a loss. It comes back to the thought process that works for survival, especially with a punctuated equilibrium. Having that sense of being able to hang onto what you've got as long as it's sufficient for survival is way more important than being able to double, triple or quadruple what you've got. It's nice, but it can't compare to the importance of being able to hang on."
This fear of loss manifests itself in a number of observed counterproductive financial behaviors. Individual investors consistently underperform the market because they tend to react badly to losses and sell securities when valuations are the most attractive. They also fail to take rational risks because they focus too much on the possibility of loss without considering the probability and possible outcomes. Examples include the disposition effect, where investors are more likely to hold losing stocks and sell winners because they don't want to accept a loss; the endowment effect, where we place much greater value on things that we own because we have an emotional response to giving them up; and the sunk cost effect, where we ignore current reality and devote excessive resource to an unworthy investment (say a failing business) rather than give up and accept a loss.
Framing decisions so that they do not necessarily involve a loss is an important tool advisors can use to avoid bringing the amygdala to the table. A client who owns too many shares of a stock has an inefficiently diversified portfolio, but may be unwilling to give up the shares because of an emotional attachment to them (endowment effect) or their current price being below what was paid (disposition effect). Asking clients instead whether they would buy that stock right now with the remainder of their portfolio funds refocuses them on objective valuation. If they say no, then they've admitted that they don't necessarily believe the stock is an attractive investment.
Another example is getting a client to stay in a bear market. James uses dollar cost averaging as a rationally indefensible technique that uses client psychology to achieve a desired outcome. "Dollar cost averaging is an illusion," notes James. "Unless we have mean reversion in the market (and if we do we can make lots of market timing bets and make ourselves rich), dollar cost averaging does not work. But if people believe that they are buying shares cheaper in a recession, the story makes people stay in the market at the times when their fear-driven emotional side wants them to get out of the market. We have a story that, even if it's completely false, is generating the behavior that is going to be portfolio maximizing in the end. So maybe the answer to the usefulness of dollar cost averaging isn't 'well we've figured it out and it doesn't work, so don't use it,' the answer is 'actually it's not true but it gets your clients to behave the right way so keep telling them that.'"
Michael Finke is a professor and coordinator of the doctoral program in personal financial planning at Texas Tech University.


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Pregnant woman shot in car during Fairmount fight
Victim hospitalized after altercation
A pregnant woman was hospitalized Friday afternoon after she was shot inside a car.
Police said someone else in the car became involved in an altercation in the 3100 block of Saffer Street in Fairmount just after 3 p.m.
The other person fired a gun at the car and it hit the woman, police said.
The car drove a short distance and then stopped so the woman could get a ride to Good Samaritan Hospital.
The 21-year-old victim was transferred to UC Medical Center, officers said.
Investigators said she was shot in the face.
No arrests have been made, and the incident remains under investigation. Police said they are looking for two male black suspects. One was wearing a white t-shirt and jeans and the other was wearing a red and white hooded sweatshirt and jeans.
The woman was listed in stable condition Friday night.


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by Nicola Smee & illustrated by Nicola Smee ‧ RELEASE DATE: April 1, 1994
Lizzie's knitted Elephant is her favorite toy, but the years have left him so much the worse for wear that she's had to dress him in the other toys' clothes just to hold him together. Then one day while she's pulling him in her cart a thread catches and he becomes entirely unraveled; nothing is left but his tusks. Fortunately, Grandma has an idea: Lizzie could try putting the tusks under her pillow. Sure enough, the Tusk Fairy (i.e., Grandma, who's been knitting all night) comes through. New Elephant makes everyone happy—including the other toys, who get their clothes back. Smee fashions a wonderfully satisfying drama from the lovingly detailed child-toy relationship, the aging earned honorably in happy play, and the joyful rebirth. The affectionate narrative is nicely complemented by warmly humorous illustrations in which the toys are as expressive of subtle emotions as the little girl is. (Picture book. 4-8)
Pub Date: April 1, 1994
Page Count: 32
Publisher: N/A
Review Posted Online: May 20, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: April 15, 1994
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by Abby Hanlon & illustrated by Abby Hanlon ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 18, 2012
With a little help from his audience, a young storyteller gets over a solid case of writer's block in this engaging debut.
Despite the (sometimes creatively spelled) examples produced by all his classmates and the teacher's assertion that "Stories are everywhere!" Ralph can't get past putting his name at the top of his paper. One day, lying under the desk in despair, he remembers finding an inchworm in the park. That's all he has, though, until his classmates' questions—"Did it feel squishy?" "Did your mom let you keep it?" "Did you name it?"—open the floodgates for a rousing yarn featuring an interloping toddler, a broad comic turn and a dramatic rescue. Hanlon illustrates the episode with childlike scenes done in transparent colors, featuring friendly-looking children with big smiles and widely spaced button eyes. The narrative text is printed in standard type, but the children's dialogue is rendered in hand-lettered printing within speech balloons. The episode is enhanced with a page of elementary writing tips and the tantalizing titles of his many subsequent stories ("When I Ate Too Much Spaghetti," "The Scariest Hamster," "When the Librarian Yelled Really Loud at Me," etc.) on the back endpapers.An engaging mix of gentle behavior modeling and inventive story ideas that may well provide just the push needed to get some budding young writers off and running. (Picture book. 6-8)
Pub Date: Sept. 18, 2012
Page Count: 32
Publisher: Amazon Children's Publishing
Review Posted Online: Aug. 22, 2012
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Sept. 1, 2012
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by Mina Hardy ‧ RELEASE DATE: Nov. 10, 2020
A middle-aged woman sidelined by a horrific accident finds even sharper pains waiting on the other side of her recuperation in this expert nightmare by Hardy, familiar to many readers as Megan Hart, author of All the Secrets We Keep (2017), etc.
Five months ago, while she was on her way to the hospital with an ailing gallbladder, Diana Sparrow's car hit a deer on a rural Pennsylvania road. When she awoke, she was minus her gallbladder, two working collarbones (and therefore two functioning arms), and her memory. During a recovery that would've been impossible without the constant ministrations of Harriett Richmond, the mother-in-law who's the real reason Diana married her husband, Jonathan, Diana's discovered that Jonathan has been cheating on her with her childhood friend Valerie Delagatti. Divorce is out of the question: Diana's grown used to the pampered lifestyle the prenup she'd signed would snatch away from her. Every day is filled with torments. She slips and falls in a pool of wine on her kitchen floor she's sure she didn't spill herself. At the emergency room, her credit card and debit card are declined. She feels that she hates oppressively solicitous Harriett but has no idea why. Her sessions with her psychiatrist fail to heal her rage at her adoptive mother, an addict who abandoned her then returned only to disappear again and die an ugly death. Even worse, her attempts to recover her lost memory lead to an excruciatingly paced series of revelations. Val says Diana asked her to seduce Jonathan. Diana realizes that Cole, a fellow student in her watercolor class, isn't the stranger she'd thought he was. Where can this maze of deceptions possibly end?One of those rare thrillers whose answers are even more scarifying than its mysteries.
Pub Date: Nov. 10, 2020
Page Count: 310
Publisher: Crooked Lane
Review Posted Online: Aug. 19, 2020
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Sept. 1, 2020
Categories: GENERAL MYSTERY & DETECTIVE | SUSPENSE | SUSPENSE | THRILLER | GENERAL & DOMESTIC THRILLER | GENERAL THRILLER & SUSPENSE
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by Monica Brown & illustrated by John Parra ‧ RELEASE DATE: July 12, 2011
Inspired by Colombian librarian Luis Soriano Bohórquez, Brown's latest tells of a little girl whose wish comes true when a librarian and two book-laden burros visit her remote village.
Ana loves to read and spends all of her free time either reading alone or to her younger brother. She knows every word of the one book she owns. Although she uses her imagination to create fantastical bedtime tales for her brother, she really wants new books to read. Everything changes when a traveling librarian and his two donkeys, Alfa and Beto, arrive in the village. Besides loaning books to the children until his next visit, the unnamed man also reads them stories and teaches the younger children the alphabet. When Ana suggests that someone write a book about the traveling library, he encourages her to complete this task herself. After she reads her library books, Ana writes her own story for the librarian and gives it to him upon his reappearance—and he makes it part of his biblioburro collection. Parra's colorful folk-style illustrations of acrylics on board bring Ana's real and imaginary worlds to life. This is a child-centered complement to Jeanette Winter's Biblioburro (2010), which focuses on Soriano.The book is perfect for read-alouds, with occasional, often onomatopoeic Spanish words such as "quiquiriquí," "tacatac" and "iii-aah" adding to the fun. (author's note, glossary of Spanish terms) (Picture book. 4-8)
Pub Date: July 12, 2011
Page Count: 32
Publisher: Tricycle
Review Posted Online: June 6, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 15, 2011
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i have another idea, but don't have much left Unselect the script, and use the spark as a midi controler.In live select for a track the spark as output instrument.Then create a clip in wich you put F-1 notes vith different velocities.It will help us to know what's going on
can you try this script please?http://www.mediafire.com/download/yymphq5fvyxv8h6/spark0.2.rar
can you tell me what are the velocities associated to the patterns button from 1 to 16?
the same as before:sIf you press play on the live software, i might light the pattern button from 1 to 16
i don't understand : The spark doesnt have an hardware sequencer so if you see the led on and off, it means that 1- the spark software is lanched 2-the script is working with no script the sparkle surface stay with all led off is it different with the spark ??
time to make a little pause and clarify where we are, and what we want to do usually when you are using midi message you send a triplet ( AA , BB , CC)AA is the type of signal : 144=144+0 (90 in hexadecimal) for a note on on channel and 128 ( 80 ) for a note offit can be decompose this way : 144 is the note on message and 0 is the channel ( first channela note on message on the second channel has a value of 145BB is the tone ( 0 - 127)CC is the velocity ( 0-127)
In a perfect world, the midi normalization has been made to make everything easy Here it is note the same.The spark uses two different way to work----------From the spark to the computer :for pads ( the 8 big buttons) it is note event from C2 to G2 ( with velocities )for button it is different : the note sent by the spark is a F-1 ( 17 in decimal, 11 in hexadecimal) and the value of the velocity is related to one button from 1 to <127
encoder->we will see this later, it seems to work in a normal way---------From the computer to the sparkFor pads > it works just like buttonsfor buttons : the note sent is E1 ( 16 in decimal , 10 in hexa ) and the note off signal (128,10,0) for exemple to turn off the light of the pattern button 1Do you agree with me ?
i have written a new scriptsourceswhats it does : It creates an empty clip on the first track if it works
when you press a key it analyses the key pressed, and light two buttons/pad : the one pressed, and the one what have the value next to it For exemple if i press button 1 it light the button 1 and 2
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The car park and toilets are now reopened but other amenities are closed until further notice. The Woodland Café is open for takeaway service 7 days a week 9am - 4pm. Parking is currently free until 18 January 2021.
Anglers Country Park is perfect for nature lovers, walkers, cyclists, picnickers - and not forgetting those little adventurers!
Once known as one of the deepest open cast coal mines in the country reaching a depth of 250 feet, Anglers Country Park has since flourished into a beautiful haven for wildlife.
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See the latest nature sightings noted on the blackboard at the entrance to the park before exploring the countryside for yourself. What wildlife will you spot?
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1 April - 31 October, 11am - 4pm
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PRESTON, Minn. (AP) — A southeastern Minnesota man was charged Tuesday with animal cruelty and improper disposal of dead animals after investigators found numerous sick and starving horses on his farm, where they were allegedly given little hay or water.
The criminal complaint filed in Fillmore County says investigators seized 55 horses from the farm of Wilbur Eugene Schmoll, 80, near LeRoy late last month. Five horses were so sick that veterinarians from the University of Minnesota had to put them down, according to the complaint.
The complaint contains graphic descriptions of starving horses, with many suffering from other untreated conditions, including pneumonia, eye problems, various infections, parasites, lameness and overgrown hooves.
Also Tuesday, the Minnesota Horse Welfare Coalition announced the launch of the Minnesota Hay Bank, which will work to connect hay and feed suppliers with horse owners who are having trouble feeding their animals because of high prices for hay and feed.
The complaint alleges Schmoll has a long history of animal neglect and is either unable or unwilling to provide adequate care for his horses.
"The evidence appears to indicate that Schmoll is engaged in behavior that demonstrates a pattern of culpable negligence that results in emaciation, suffering and the eventual death of horses under his direct care and control," the complaint alleges.
Schmoll does not have a listed phone number and could not be reached for comment. Fillmore County Attorney Brett Corson said he's not been notified of Schmoll having a lawyer.
Deputies who went to Schmoll's farm to investigate a tip of horses in poor condition reported finding several dead horses, including six piled in a small hole where several dogs were eating them, the complaint says.
Schmoll has not been arrested, but is due to appear in court Jan. 15. He faces 25 animal cruelty counts and one of improper disposal of dead animals. The charges are all misdemeanors, carrying up to 90 days in jail and-or a $1,000 fine, except for one gross misdemeanor for improper disposal of animal carcasses, which is punishable by one year in jail and-or a $3,000 fine.
The Minnesota Horse Welfare Coalition welcomed the charges and used the case to publicize its new hay bank, which began with $3,000 in startup funds from the Minnesota Humane Society and a private donor. Coalition spokeswoman Stacy Bettison said the group hopes to raise an additional $7,000 by the end of the month. The hay bank works like a food shelf, she said, except that it supplies hay to horse owners who've fallen on hard times.
Given the high cost and tight supplies of hay caused by this summer's drought, Bettison said, the problem is bound to get worse as the weather gets colder.
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ADT runs afoul of California law
ADT has agreed to pay almost $1 million to settle a civil lawsuit brought by the district attorney of California's Contra Costa County over contracts ADT had with residential customers in which it reserved the right to hike monthly fees after the first year. That violated a California law requiring residential consumers get written disclosure of all costs upfront, according to the state.
District Attorney Mark A. Peterson, who announced the settlement this week, said that under the agreement, ADT has said it will follow the law for future contracts and, in addition to a $950,000 civil fine, will pay restitution to some customers whose monthly rate increased during their initial contract term.
Here's a more detailed account from the Contra Costa Times on the settlement:
A national alarm company agreed to pay a $950,000 civil penalty and provide restitution to some customers to settle a lawsuit by the Contra Costa District Attorney's Office, which claimed certain contractual terms imposed upon customers violated California law.
District Attorney Mark Peterson announced the settlement Monday with Florida-based ADT Security Services, Inc., which sells home burglar and fire alarm systems.
ADT required customers to enter into two- or three-year contracts, in which the company reserved the right to raise monthly fees after the first year. The lawsuit alleged that by failing to advise customers how much the rate increase would be, ADT violated contract disclosure requirements in California's Unruh Act.
The lawsuit further alleged that termination fees for customers who discontinue ADT service could exceed the remaining balance of a contract obligation.
Under the terms of the settlement, ADT will conform its future California contracts to the requirements of Unruh Act, which requires written disclosure to residential consumers of contract terms. In ADT's case, that includes the total price for monitoring services for the initial term of the contract, disclosure of the number of required payments during that term, and disclosure of the amount of each monthly payment.


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Online security breaches continue to be a serious and growing problem for public agencies. In April, the U.S. Department of Labor website was hacked, while just a couple of years ago, Anonymous wreaked havoc on San Francisco's Bay Area Rapid Transit online portal, leaking contact information for various site subscribers.
In response to these types of attacks and more sophisticated threats, states and municipalities have sought to employ the latest cybersecurity software to protect their interests. But quite a few have gone a step beyond that, creating dedicated cybersecurity operations centers and task forces to respond to and prepare for digital threats.
New Jersey is one of the most recent examples. The state launched the Cyber Fusion Cell as a part of its Regional Operation Intelligence Center in January. The intelligence center interfaces with the state's law enforcement community by being a primary point of contact for collection, analysis and dissemination of intelligence data.
The Cyber Fusion Cell takes those efforts further by improving New Jersey's ability to share information on cyberthreats by collaborating with key public- and private-sector entities.
The unit is made up of two parts. The first half consists of New Jersey staff members who monitor the state's network infrastructure, computer systems and firewalls. The other element is a workgroup of high-level executives that meets to discuss intelligence and strategies to handle the latest cyberthreats.
New Jersey's Cyber Fusion Cell isn't unique, however. Similar entities exist in Washington state, Washington, D.C., and other large urban centers nationwide. For example, in the Pacific Northwest, regional jurisdictions have combined to launch the Public Regional Information Security Event Management System. Local governments there send security logs to the group, which watches for threats against the region's digital landscape.
Back in New Jersey, officials are still ironing out the operational component of the Cyber Fusion Cell. Although trained specialists are available to handle a cyberevent if one occurs, state CIO Steve Emanuel says the state is adjusting its processes in the wake of two cyberattack drills conducted last year.
First, a one-day, state-run exercise enabled cybersecurity analysts to fine-tune their response capabilities. The second event was the FEMA 2012 National Level Exercise that focused on the nation's response to a series of cyberevents. New Jersey is studying the experiences to devise more effective strategies to address digital attacks with the Cyber Fusion Cell.
"We were able to test when a simulated attack occurred and what steps were to be taken to address the threat and respond," said John Essner, New Jersey's chief information security officer. "And that allowed us to run procedures, identify gaps and hopefully correct those gaps over a period of time."
Emanuel and Essner declined to name how many cybersecurity analysts are dedicated to the Cyber Fusion Cell, but New Jersey isn't relying solely on state staff to protect its digital landscape. Emanuel added that he's looking to use every resource possible, including the New Jersey State Police, additional government agencies and other groups.
If a cyberincident does occur, New Jersey usually receives information from its own systems or a third-party source, such as the U.S. Department of Homeland Security or the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center. Essner said that depending on the severity of the threat, the team immediately tries to respond to it while also implementing mitigation strategies and notifying key state government management personnel.
In addition, the state uses a tool called the Suspicious Activity Reporting System to bolster its effectiveness. The system protocols were initially set up so that citizens can alert the New Jersey Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness when they witness suspicious activity or items like an unattended bag in public places. But the state also has adopted the system for cybersecurity.
By using the same reporting process, both the New Jersey Office of Information Technology and law enforcement can be alerted to a cybersecurity concern.
"They can look at it from a response standpoint and be able to bring their analysts to try to collect as much detail about the incident so we can hopefully identify the source of the attack," Essner said. "We are able to work with our partners in the federal agencies to hopefully correlate this information [in case] certain entities might be attempting to cripple or directly impact big business."
The workgroup portion of the Cyber Fusion Cell spends its time coordinating business processes and designing response plans with local, state and federal law enforcement partners. Emanuel said high-level executives meet monthly to talk about and tackle cyberthreats they see now or expect to encounter in the future.
Funding is provided by a mix of sources. Although nothing is formalized yet, contributions to keep the fusion cell active come from the Office of Information Technology as well as other state departments and federal agencies. According to Emanuel, a long-term sustainability plan is on the group's agenda and the members are aware they need to get to it soon.
For now, the program aims to stay flexible to address cyber-related issues as they arise.
"Cybersecurity has been more of a responsive activity, and in order to truly provide the long-term plan for cyberissues, we must find a way to cross that line to become more proactive," Emanuel said.
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As Secretary of State John Kerry heads to Egypt March 2 he should be wary of one concerning possibility: Under the rule of Mohammad Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt is in danger of becoming a Sunni version of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Opposition leaders' refusal to meet with Mr. Kerry over what they perceive to be as unprincipled US support for Mr. Morsi should serve as a wake-up call and warning to Washington.
Morsi's first step after winning the June 2012 presidential election was to create an alliance with other Islamic groups, and sideline seculars and liberals who could derail the establishment of a religious state. Next, he gave himself immunity from legal prosecution and managed to quickly hoard more power than deposed dictator Hosni Mubarak ever dreamed of having. After a number of maneuvers, Morsi pushed forward a constitution drafted mostly by Brotherhood members and their allies, ignoring the protests of secular opponents, Christians, women, and liberals against the discriminatory language and key articles placed in the new constitution.
The new constitution sets the legal ground for creating what could become an Islamic state. It restricts the role of the judicial and legislative branches and stipulates that laws and their interpretations are subject to Islamic jurisprudence. It further gives legal-oversight power on "matters related to the Islamic sharia" to Al-Azhar University, the oldest and highest Sunni religious institution in Egypt.
The new constitution and its wide implications for personal freedom and social justice should concern the international community. It explicitly recognizes only the three Abrahamic religions (Islam, Christianity, and Judaism), and leaves other minorities, such as those of the Baha'i faith, without meaningful constitutional protection. Strict adherence to the concept of apostasy prevents Muslims from changing their religion, a crime punishable by death. Blasphemy laws restrict freedom of expression, especially on religious matters, with retributions as severe as death for comments related to the prophet Mohammed or the Koran.
According to Sunni jurisprudence, women are subject to male guardianship under which their personal freedoms, social life, and career choices are severely restricted. This restriction is not banned under Egypt's new constitution. And because the new constitution fails to set a minimum age for marriage and does not criminalize sexual trafficking of minors, children, especially girls, could be forced into marriages at the age of nine with the approval of their male guardians.
During the last three decades, Iran, under the control of the Islamic Shiite clergy, was transformed into a religious state with endless human rights violations. In most cases, the world stood by watching. Egypt is learning from the Iranian experience. If the political conditions in Egypt remain the same, Egypt could soon follow Iran's footsteps.
In spite of the deep and highly politicized Sunni-Shiite divide, the Sunni-based Muslim Brotherhood doctrine recognizes Shiite Islam as a legitimate sect. Many Islamists in Egypt see their country as Iran's equal Sunni counterpart and may perceive the collaboration between the two nations as another step toward Islamic world expansion.
With little regard to the controversy surrounding the Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadeinejad's recent visit to Egypt to participate in an Islamic summit, Morsi warmly welcomed him. He left the Sunni religious institution, Al-Azhar, and the flying shoe of a Syrian dissident to deliver condemnations of Iran's Shiite expansion efforts in Arab-Sunni territories and their support of the Syrian regime. Meanwhile, Morsi negotiated with the Iranian president about ways to improve political collaboration and economic partnership. Recently, Egypt and Iran signed an agreement to foster tourism between the two countries.
It is important that the international community carefully watches this newly forged alliance and takes steps to prevent the repeat of the Iranian experience. This is not a call against Islam, but against the establishment of a theocratic state that practices a wide range of human right abuses with impunity, under the banner of religion.
It is not enough that world leaders such as Secretary Kerry make clear in their public discourse that such practices will not be tolerated, but the rhetoric should be reinforced in private talks to demonstrate seriousness. International investments and funds to support Egypt's economy should continue to be conditioned upon implementation of the rule of law and protection of human rights.
International human rights and civic organizations should be diligent in supporting similar organizations in Egypt. Having a strong and active "third sector" is the only way to ensure that state abuse, torture, and imprisonment are widely reported and actions are taken to support the victims and their families, and to bring perpetrators, including the state, to account.
It is critical that international trade unions continue their support of Egyptian trade unions. The current religious state sees these unions as a threat to its dominance and is enacting laws to control their independence, operation, and right to assemble and protest.
Just like the revolution in Iran was hijacked by the Shiite clergy in 1979, the Muslim Brotherhood is doing the same in Egypt now.
Morsi and his government seem to have learned well from the Iranian regime about how to deal with opposition. The tens of thousands of disappointed activists, bloggers, seculars, liberals, trade union members, and frustrated Egyptians back in the streets in a "revolution of rage" calling for Morsi's resignation, are brutally attacked, tortured, imprisoned, and killed as Iran did with the protestors of the Youth Green Movement in 2009.
There is a fine line between interference in domestic affairs and the responsibility of the world community toward the protection of human rights and individual freedoms. Kerry and the rest of the Obama administration must remember this.
Recognizing that only Egyptians can determine the type of government they want, the protection of the rights of minorities and individuals is a global responsibility that we all share as nations, organizations, and people.
Dr. Nesreen Akhtarkhavari is director of Arabic Studies and an assistant professor at DePaul University in Chicago. Her research focuses on Islamic law and minority and women's rights. This piece was written in association with The OpEd Project, which seeks to expand the range of opinion voices.


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AUSTIN, Texas — Organizations representing family farmers, ranchers and consumers from across the country are fighting to protect drought-stricken livestock producers from a new costly regulatory program. The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA's) Animal Disease Traceability (ADT) system, originally known as the National Animal Identification System (NAIS), remains a contentious issue because of the undue burdens that it will impose on livestock producers and costs that will be passed down to consumers, contributing to even higher food costs.
In a letter to the Congressional Office of Management and Budget, 63 organizations have written to urge that the new and costly program be halted in part due to the nation-wide drought and the resulting crisis faced by so many farmers and ranchers.
"This is the worst widespread drought since the 1930's Dustbowl," said Gilles Stockton, a Montana rancher and member of the Western Organization of Resource Councils. "As our ranchers struggle to keep the herds alive through this disaster, they cannot afford to take on new regulatory burdens."
The letter to the OMB notes that the USDA's fiscal analysis significantly underestimated the cost impacts of its rule to both cattle and poultry producers. The organizations contend, "while the agency claims that the costs are under $100 million annually, independent studies indicate that the costs could be three to five times that high for cattle producers alone."
"The USDA's cost analysis is riddled with flawed assumptions," asserted Judith McGeary, Executive Director of the Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance, who serves as Vice-Chair of the Secretary's Advisory Committee on Animal Health. "Along with severely underestimating the costs to cattle producers, the agency wholly ignored the costs that will be imposed on tens of thousands of people who own poultry, from small diversified farmers to backyard poultry enthusiasts."
The organizations' letter notes that costs imposed on family farmers and ranchers go beyond monetary burdens.
"Combined with the soaring cost of feed and the drought-induced lack of forage, this new regulation would drive us in the direction of even fewer producers, when what we need to maintain a secure food supply for America is more," said Bill Bullard, CEO of R-CALF USA.
As justification for the costs, the USDA's Regulatory Impact Analysis focused almost entirely on the benefits to the export market that will allegedly occur.
"The new regulations do nothing to improve food safety for consumers," stated Patty Lovera of Food & Water Watch. "Instead this proposal would allow large meatpackers easier access to export markets, at the expense of U.S. livestock producers."


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Lviv: The European cultural capital you've never heard of
From Phil Black, CNN • Published 12th July 2012
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What European city has fallen under the rule of the Polish Empire, the Hapsburgs, the Soviets and the Nazis? Here's a clue: It's lined with cobbled roads and features some of the world's most eclectic examples of historic architecture -- from renaissance to baroque to art deco.
Answer: Lviv, Ukraine's official capital of culture.
Never heard of it? You're not alone.
With its independent coffee houses and traditional chocolatiers, Lviv looks, smells, and tastes like the best of Europe. Indeed, its Western flavor has earned it the moniker "Little Paris of Ukraine." And yet, compared to other prized European cities, relatively few people travel here.
For centuries Lviv -- located 50 kilometers from the Poland-Ukraine border -- was a significant stopping point on the main trade routes between the east and west -- and this prime location helped pay for its striking beauty.
"You had to be rich and famous to be here," explained local historian Yaroslav Hrytsak.
During the renaissance, the city could afford Italy's finest architects because every merchant passing through was forced to stay and sell their goods for at least two weeks.
"It was a very smart move to collect money from them," said Hrytsak. "It kept the wealth in the city, and that wealth has been transformed into (architectural) richness."
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The buildings endure but Lviv's prosperity didn't survive its bloody history. The city has, over the centuries, shifted in ethnic, cultural and political make-up - mixing Polish, Ukrainian, Jewish and other identities during a series of gruesome upheavals.
"Here regimes changed quite a lot," said Hrytsak. "We had the Polish rule, then the Hapsburg rule, then for a short period the Russians, then the Ukranian, then Russian, then Nazi."
Then for almost 50 years Lviv was swallowed by the Soviet Union. With that, concludes Hrytsak, the city was condemned to relative obscurity.
But very recently things have started to change -- and fast. According to research from the Lausanne School of hotel business, Lviv experienced a sudden 40% increase in tourism in early 2010, compared to the previous three-year average. This, it said, was the highest rate in Europe.
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With the USSR's collapse, some saw new opportunities for reviving Lviv's former wealth and fame.
In the mid 90s, Yaroslav Rushchyshyn began producing women's clothes, paying his workers $4 a month. Today they get a vastly improved, but still modest, $250. With nine factories across western Ukraine, his company, Trottola, is now a major producer and exporter for European fashion labels.
"I'm proud because Japan, after the Second World War, started from blouses as well. And where is Japan now?" he said.
The unlikely parallels don't end there. Strolling through Lviv's old streets, you'd never guess the city is now a booming international hub for the I.T. industry.
Limelight networks is a U.S.-founded, Nasdaq-listed company specializing in online content delivery. It's one of many up-and-coming digital tech firms to have opened offices in Lviv over the past few years.
"It had good growth and experience in the U.S., however the company needs more talent to do the new cool projects and products for our customers. This is why we're here in Ukraine."
Lviv's unexpected abundance of I.T. talent is in fact a legacy of the U.S.S.R.
To help the military, many Soviet universities focused on turning out world-class engineers and Lviv's university is still producing them. The city boasts a disproportionately large educational center with 23 higher education institutions.
Most tellingly of all, seven of these are dedicated to training support staff for work in the tourism industry. It's clear the city of Lviv does not intend to remain a hidden gem for very much longer.
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Anthony Ferrara is back again with another installment in his "Programming with Anthony" video series. In this new episode he takes a loot at iterators in PHP and how they can be used effectively.
Today's Programming With Anthony video focuses on the concept of Iterators. We'll look at the abstraction that they represent, how they can be used and some of the benefits of using them. When used correctly, Iterators can lead to very efficient, flexible and clean code.
You can also watch the video directly on YouTube and check out the rest of the series in his playlist. Other topics include dependency injection, boolean logic and prepared statements.


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Nanjing College of Information Technology is an advanced vocational education provider, which is owned and run by the State. The college is accessed by the Jiangsu province education office, and confirmed by People¡¯s Government and National Education Ministry in the year 1953.
The college is upgraded from the Nanjing Radio Industrial School. The college is at the first rate in the advanced vocational education from the day when it is formed; the college has an advantage of good foundation, high starting-point. At the meantime, the college has a good prospect and exhibits enough stamina. In 2004, the 287,000 square meters Xianlin campus has been put into use.
The college lies in Nanjing city, and it has a total area of 1000 mu (67 ha. or 165 acres), 900,000 books, over 10000 students. The college has more than twenty research institutes and teaching factories, there are many modern types of equipment, such as the campus net that was directly connected with the internet, the classroom with satellite TV system, multi-media network classroom, language lab, electronic reading room, academic report hall, studio, rehearsal room, gymnasium and so on. The student apartment is well-managed and is well-equipped. There are over 600 full-time teachers; over 75 percents of them have senior specialized technology titles. The teachers¡¯ team is stable. They have high moral obligation, and a lot of experiences. Every teammate has better education background. Teachers in the college have compiled and official published over 100 textbooks, and the teacher has attended nearly 30 academic organizations, held by National Education Ministry,National IT Ministry, provincial education department, whom has been in the position of main director. In 2003, the college became the personnel training base of computer use and software development established by the educational ministry. At the same time, the assembly technology major as well as other three ones are built as the key majors by the Jiangsu Information Industry Ministry. The college has eight departments: Electronics Information Engineering, Mechanic and Electric Engineering, Micro Electronics Engineering, Communication Engineering, CNC & Mould, Foreign Languages, School of Information Services, and School of Software have been founded in this college together with the Further Education School. Majors in the college have reached 26, mainly including electronic & information technology, communication technology, electronic circuit technology, computer control technology, Surface Mount Technology (SMT). The College is training the specialized personnel of advanced application technology in the field of producing, technology, management, and service after sale.
The college has already built a complete system of transfer and update from academy credential to university one. On the other hand, college pays a lot attention to the cooperation with other companies and colleges. The college currently has such joint teaching programs as BCIT, TAFE, NCC, and NIIT to educate cross cultural students. That gives us a multi-hierarchy, multi-form, and multi-channel operation system. Over the past 50 years, the college has trained nearly 40,000 technical personnel in the field of electronic technology; the graduates are arranged to many large and middle cities of our country. Many companies welcome the firm foundation, better skills, and high complex quality graduates. The college has built a stable basis for the graduates in Nanjing, Suzhou industrial zone, Kunsan economic development zone, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Zuhai of Guangdong Province, Shanghai hi-tech development zone, Zhejiang, Xiamen. In recent two years, the college is developing overseas market especially. And the college has cooperated with NEC (Singapore), Gultech (Singapore) Ltd. Some graduates are sent to work in Singapore. The rate of employment of the college is above 98%, which is in the forefront of the other colleges, and the college is commended by the leading departments. The college is titled ¡°demonstration unit of recruiting and employment¡± by provincial planning committee and provincial education office for many times. The successful experience of our college is reported by many national media such as CCTV News Report, China Education Newspaper, and CCTV News.
Nanjing College of Information Technology is developing with reform of Chinese vocational education. In the 21st century ¨C products are numerical; information exchanges in the net; technology is in integrated, the information technology industry has a good prospect, IT industry needs more high quality vocational personnel with firm theory knowledge and practical ability of technology. The aim of the college is the social need; the goal is ¡°modernization, integration, high-quality¡±. The College always strives for the heading position of vocational education.