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The main objective of any organization is making profits. That's an open secret and everybody know about it, I am not talking about the non-profit organizations. So to make the profit the organization has to sell their products and services.
And today's article of mine is all about the product which the organization needs to sell. If you are looking for information regarding what is a product. Then let me tell you that you have been landed on the right website here.
Because in this article of mine, I will tell you meaning, definition and the types of the products. So without wasting the time let us now get started with this article.
What is Meaning of Product?
Product refers to anything that can be offered to the market for attention, acquisition, and consumption so as to satisfy the needs and wants of the consumer is called a product. A product may be a physical unit, services, person, place, and organization.
Definition of Product
A product is an item offered for sale. A product can be a service or an item. It can be physical or in virtual or cyber form. Every product is made at a cost and each is sold at a price. The price that can be charged depends on the market, the quality, the marketing and the segment that is targeted.
Different Types of the Product
So now we know the meaning and the definition of the product, let us now check out the different types of products.
1) Core Product
Core product consists of fundamental services or benefits which a customer wants to have in the product. For example, the buyer of a television wants entertainment and buyer of the luxurious car want prestige.
2) Basic Product
The basic product consists of the fundamental characteristics like size, shape, and quality and the other aspects of the product.
3) Expected Product
Expected products consist of the attributes which a customer expects to have in the product while buying it. For example, the buyer of the car expects good mileage, looks etc.
4) Augmented Product
An augmented product consists of the intangible components of the product. They are nothing but the additional benefits which a customer will be getting along with the actual product they are buying. They can be pre-sales services, post-sale services, home delivery, and credit term etc.
5) Potential Product
A potential product is that feature of the product which can attract the customers and hold them to buy it. Here the marketers need to fund for creative and innovative ways to attract and hold the customers in a long run.
So this was all about what is a product along with its meaning, definition and the types. I hope you are clear with all the information mentioned in this guide. But if you have any kind of doubts in your mind then you can comment down below.


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Richard's new approach to house is to smooth it down and pare it back. On highlight "Nighthawk," the synths wheel like mournful seabirds over crisp, carefully syncopated drums. Beneath it all is a single held chord, a placeholder for the album's mood of steady perseverance. Richard's forays into drone, on stately numbers like "No Balance" and "Ejected," compound this feeling.
The risk of such restraint is boredom, and Grind does sometimes take on the more negative implications of its title. "Screes Of Grey Craig," for instance, is a bit lacklustre, though its materials are only fractionally different from those of its better companions. A zoomed-in view of Grind often reveals flat, almost inert textures. It takes a broader perspective to see the album's charms, and they're ample. Grind gets more compelling as it runs, and more so still with each repeated play.
Some track titles reference the optical phenomenon of the "green flash," in which a green light can be briefly seen at sunset on an unobstructed horizon (like, for instance, one observed over a body of water). "Waiting For The Green Flash" and "I-Mir" (meaning inferior mirage) find Richard at his most withdrawn. They prepare the album for its own green flashes—moments of surprising beauty that puncture the austere surface. There's the sparkling arps of "Bane," and, better still, closer "Vampire (Dub)," whose ambrosial chords provide a wash of light after 45 minutes of overcast skies. In keeping with Richard's newfound style, both tracks loop serenely at length. In Grind's deeper sense of time, they feel like they're over all too soon.
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01. No Balance
02. Nighthawk
03. Waiting For The Green Flash
04. Savage Coast
05. Screes Of Gray Craig
06. Bane
07. I-Mir
08. Ejected
09. Vampire (Dub)

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The dark aesthetic is perfect. It has an odd puritanical vibe with lots of fetish elements. The use of dark figures and smoke pays a little bit of focus on what the song calls the "Little Dark Age" that is kind of an inside joke on the "Goth phase" as well as being heavily influenced by traditional romantic motifs. You know, ravens, dark elaborate manners a la Edgar Allen Poe's short stories, figures in the night. All of our favourite things!
This gem was released October 17th of 2017, just in time for Halloween. But we all know that Halloween isn't just once a year, right? I could listen to this song all day!
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Jack London failed miserably as a father. He abandoned his first wife, Bessie, and their two daughters, Joan and Becky, but as a writer, farmer and adventurer, he's been a father figure for generations. This Father's Day, Richard Stull—better known as "Doc Stull"—a professor of kinesiology at Humboldt State University, holds forth on London as a consummate sportsman at Jack London State Park.
A boxer, horseman, fencer and brilliant sports reporter, London aimed to win every contest that called to him. "He was a profoundly competitive human being," Doc Stull tells me. "He was in competition with himself, but he was also a genius at life with a genuine Dionysian spirit."
For Stoll, what's essential isn't whether you win or lose, but how you play the game. At House of Happy Walls—which London's second wife, Charmian, built, and which serves now as a museum—Stull will talk about sports rivalries, frenzied fans and the allure of the professional athlete. "I'm not an expert on London, just a fan," Stull adds. "But I identify with him thoroughly."
Richard Stull lectures on "It's How You Play the Game: Jack London's Timeless Themes in Sport" on Sunday, June 16, at House of Happy Walls, Jack London State Park. 2400 London Ranch Road, Glen Ellen. 5pm. $10, includes parking fee. 707.938.5216.


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Dr. Faisal Patel was born and raised in Ahmedabad, India. After earning his medical degree from Smt NHL Municipal Medical College, India, Dr. Patel came to the United States to pursue further training in Pediatrics in 2009. He completed his residency in Pediatrics at the Marshfield Clinic, Wisconsin, where he also served as a chief resident. After his residency, he moved to Michigan to complete a fellowship in Pediatric Emergency Medicine at the Beaumont Health System. Stemming from his firsthand experiences with natural disasters while growing up, Dr. Patel has developed passion toward care for children in prehospital and disaster settings. Married to a Pediatric Anesthesiologist, the couple moved to Dallas in 2017 in search of some warm weather and hospitable community.
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- Smt. N.H.L. Municipal Medical College, India (2008)
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- St. Joseph's Children's Hospital/Marshfield Clinic, WI (2014), Pediatrics
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- Beaumont Health System, MI (2017), Pediatric Emergency Medicine
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- Global Health and Innovations in Medicine
- Medical Education and Simulation
- Pediatric Behavioral Health Emergencies
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Emergency medical services treatment protocols for children: Utilization and adherence in practice (2017)
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Uncovering of Pre-Diabetic Pediatric Population - Abnormal In-patient Fasting Blood Glucose Values and Follow-up Strategy (2014)
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Punjab National Bank Chhapra Kathgarh Branch IFSC Code - Ambala, PNB Chhapra Kathgarh IFSC Code. Contact Phone Number, Address
Punjab National Bank (PNB) Chhapra Kathgarh branch IFSC Code is PUNB0135200. Branch code is the last six characters of the IFSC Code - 135200. Bank branch's details are listed below.
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Last week we discussed the e-Commerce Trend of Going Mobile, which is just one part of the next trend that is spreading like wildfire in our industry – the omni-channel strategy. As the prefix omni suggests, it means putting your brand and merchandise out there everywhere it […]Read more →
Getting to Know Small Businesses, That's Just What We Do
Last week's post celebrated small business ownership and the entrepreneur's declaration of independence in going out on their own. In our ten years in the warehouse, distribution, and fulfillment industry, we have gotten to know a lot of these small businesses. And we don't just mean learning […]Read more →
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Last week's post from Just out of the Box, "Small Business Tips for Selecting a Warehouse for Your Products," promised a more in depth discussion this week on selecting the right 3PL to handle your small business e-commerce fulfillment and distribution. Just because a 3PL has a massive […]Read more →
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Giocatore – Crystal – Glass Designer Foosball Table By THOM READ
The look. This foosball table will make a statement in a contemporary home. Its structure is in 15mm-thick tempered extra-clear glass with polished corners. The players are in aluminum alloy with a team finished in polished 2 tone chrome. The field is fashioned layered crystal. Stainless steel finish. The goal nets are handcrafted.
- Material: Glass, Stainless steel Textiles
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Thom Read has been in the Fashion industry for over 30 years. His experience has been multifaceted and always with a creative edge.
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Travelhiker.com, a social networking site based around travel, has launched a revenue-sharing feature for its members who write full-blown travel guides.
The way it works its this: An existing member can write a long review of a travel destination e.g. a gourmet's guide to Paris or a backpacker's guide to Sydney. They post recommendations about what to do, where to stay or where to eat for example, as well as uploading important upcoming events at that location and links to useful websites. By signing up to write a Guide, they are able to upload to the site their Google Adsense account number and earn 50% of the ad-revenues generated from the traffic to the review. Payments to contributing city guide members will come directly from Google. By rotatiing its own Google Adsense code, Travelhiker recovers the other 50%.
One's immediate impression of this model is that this is going to create a big stumbling block for the average reviewer, who probably won't bother getting an AdSense account since they won't see themselves as publishers.
In theory there is no limit to the amount of Guides that can be assigned to a particular location, which is good for the user wanting information, but not so good for the writers wearily thrashing out their city reviews in exchange for a AdSense pennies.
Launched two months ago, the site is owned and run by recent Oxford University graduate James Holmes (email james [AT] travelhiker.com) who contracted Magnitude.co.uk to build the site in a no-equity commission.
Members of the site can already write a travel blog, air opinions, share reviews, upload travel photos and potentially find travel companions. Trip Sharing means you post about a trip you are intending to take and ask the community for advise on the trip. Google maps are integrated with the travel guides and reviews.
So far Holmes has spent under £50,000 developing the site with friends and family funding and is now looking for more investment to take it to the next stage.
Talking to TCUK, Holmes said the site launched in August and has done minimal marketing to date. Although not strictly a "beta" site, he admitted it was still being developed.
Holmes is confident that the social networking effect and search engine optimisation will get them noticed. Their Alexa page views shows they have been bumping along the bottom in traffic terms, but that little uplift in the last month looks like they are on the right track at least.
Our opinion is that it's early days for this site, but it is positioned in more or less the right direction. The execution of the site needs to be improved however, and it's also easy to see how a larger and better executed competitor like TrustedPlaces.com could simply draw the 'travel' aspect of this site's strategy into its own operation.


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Let's take a look at some of the players who aren't performing quite as well as they did a year ago, shall we? If you don't understand the title of this post, its English translation is "What is the matter with you?" according to Jeff Foxworthy. Since we know of specific injuries to Mi Hyun Kim, Se Ri Pak and Sherri Steinhauer, I'll focus on "what is the matter" elsewhere.
Cristie Kerr (#8 to #12)
Cristie isn't really down much, it's just that her victory in the U.S. Open masked the remainder of her indifferent 2007. So far this year she's driving the ball and hitting GIR a lot better, plus she's putting a little better. In fact, I don't see ANY reason in Kerr's peripheral stats to explain why she has only one Top 10 in six starts. Therefore, I expect Cristie to play very well in the coming weeks.
Angela Park (#9 to #14)
I should probably take it easy on Angela after Wednesday's post. While she's actually driving a little better this year, she is way down in GIR and a little down in PPGIR.
Nicole Castrale (#14 to #24)
Nicole's problem seems to be with the putter – she was Top 10 in PPGIR a year ago, T50 now. She's driving a little better (about the same relative to the rest of the Tour) and hitting GIR about the same.
Brittany Lincicome (#17 to #28)
Brittany's game has always been built around her booming tee shots. Last year she was second to Ochoa in Total Driving – right now she's 56th because she's lost 60 points off her accuracy. Putting hasn't ever been a strong suit but now she's fallen into the triple-digits (T110). Still hits the green at a great rate because of her length but until she recovers some of her accuracy off the tee, she's heading south.
Juli Inkster (#20 to #26)
The other day I hinted that Juli's entire problem is the putter. It's true she's fallen back a little more with the flat stick (T75 in PPGIR) but she's not hitting greens so well either (down to T51). Still driving the ball pretty good.
Laura Davies (#21 to #27)
If you can't hit half of the fairways, you are going to struggle. Tack on a drop in GIR (T93 from 36) and PPGIR (T50 from T3) and you wonder how Laura has made any cuts, much less collect that Top 10 at Safeway.
Shi Hyun Ahn (#22 to NR)
Ahn isn't hitting the green (down to T91) or putting well (down to T99). Does anybody have any info on possible physical problems that Shi Hyun has had to deal with in the last couple of years?
Sarah Lee (#24 to NR)
Like Davies, Lee's entire game is way down. For a mid-distance driver, Sarah was never particularly accurate but she's only hitting 57% of the fairways in 2008. Her GIR is down to 131 and PPGIR is down to T119 (she was T16 last year).
Sophie Gustafson (#25 to NR)
Putting has been the problem (T75 from T10). Sophie is driving the ball much better and hitting the green more often this year, so there is hope for a quick turnaround.
Catriona Matthew (#26 to NR)
I thought Matthew was going to do what Karen Stupples has done – rack up a string of solid finishes in 2008 and climb the charts. Last year Catriona had the best putting stats around. Now she's T50 in PPGIR. She's driving a lot better (12 yards longer with better accuracy) but somehow she's not any better at hitting GIR relative to the rest of the Tour.
I'll look at some players moving in a positive direction next week, as soon as I can come up with a snappy title for the post.
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The leaders of the new political party launching today were courted for two years to lead the Conservatives in Northern Ireland, it has been revealed.
But a potential deal came to nothing when the Tories told John McCallister, one of the two, that they wanted him, and not his colleague Basil McCrea to lead their party.
The crunch meeting came on February 18 just a few days after Mr McCallister and Mr McCrea, both MLAs, resigned from the Ulster Unionist Party.
"All in all we have been in discussions with Basil and John for about two years," said Irwin Armstrong, the chair of the Northern Ireland Conservatives.
He added: "Our discussions with John didn't really become serious until he resigned from the UUP in February this year. When we approached him before that John made it clear to us that he felt a loyalty to his constituency association. Basil was more willing to talk."
Mr McCallister resigned from the UUP live on BBC's The View on February 14 after hearing that the UUP and DUP were to run a joint candidate in Mid Ulster.
He regarded such unionist unity pacts as sectarian.
He said he expected Mr McCrea to resign "within hours" and this happened the next morning. A few days later, on February 18, Mr Armstrong met Mr McCallister.
"There was a formal discussion between myself and John after an event hosted by the Platform for Change think-tank," Mr Armstrong said.
"I told John we saw him as the sort of person we wanted to be the leader of the party and offered him the position.
"We also told him that Basil McCrea could join but not be the leader. He did not tick all the boxes for us I made this clear to John and left it to him to inform Basil, who may not have been pleased."
The next morning, February 19, Mr McCallister told the Belfast Telegraph that "the Tories are in the frame". He also told us that a decision on whether to join the Tories or to form a separate party would not be made "til Easter".
He said: "This will not necessarily lead to a new party though it may do". We published these interviews the next day.
A week later, on February 27, both stated publicly that they had now ruled out the Tory option and would instead form a new party that would be "confident, progressive and pro-union".
Irwin Armstrong handled most of the negotiations but Lord Feldman, the Tory's National chairman, also spoke to Mr McCrea at the Conservative Party conference in October 2011.
At the time, Lord Feldman hoped that Mr McCrea and other members of the Ulster Unionist Party might join the Tories and in November, he wrote to Tom Elliott, the UUP leader, suggesting that the party dissolve.
Prior to that the two parties had an electoral pact called UCUNF, which proved unsuccessful at the polls.
Northern Ireland's newest party, NI21, will be launched tonight and will be led by Mr McCrea, not Mr McCallister. However, Irwin Armstrong says he has still not quite given up on Mr McCallister coming over to the Conservatives in the future.
"We have a lot of respect for John and his integrity and ability to communicate with people. We think he would have made a good leader and if he was to change his mind tomorrow and come to talk to us we would be open to have that discussion," he said.
Asked about the possibility of Mr McCrea joining, he said: "We are always keen to get people to join the party."


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The Khanyisa Psychoactive Healing Garden
A Better Life through Traditional Knowledge
South Africa's wealth in psychoactive healing plants remains poorly studied, and there is great potential for us to use these plants healing properties to better manage the rising stresses of modern day living.
This has inspired Jean-Francois Sobiecki, a South African ethnobotanist (medicinal plant researcher), to create the Khanyisa psychoactive healing garden project to document and preserve South Africa's traditional medicinal psychoactive plant knowledge and provide a unique space for healing with holistic medicine. See http://www.khanyisagarden.co.za/ for the latest on the project. Jean is incepting an NPO in order to attract international support and collboration for ethnopharmacology studies as well as healing projects around traditional medicines from the garden. Details on his NPO will be made available shortly. Watch this space.
Jean launched an Indiegogo crowd-funding campaign to raise awareness for this project in 2013 that was well received. See the project's Indiegogo Campaign @ http://igg.me/p/399611/x/3162024
Thank you to the Gold patrons who have contributed to becoming South African Indigenous medicinal plant knowledge preservers:
Justin Peterson
8215 Grape Arbor ct NE
Albuquerque, NM 87122
United States.
Rick Doblin (MAPS)
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
United States
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"Sistema New Brunswick (Sistema NB) is a social program of the New Brunswick Youth Orchestra (NBYO) that provides free music instruction to disadvantaged children from grades one to six for three hours per day, every day after school. Through an intensive orchestral music program, social change is fostered through playing music together; a direct counter to the corrosive impact of perpetually being left out. Children are transformed – and so are their futures."
We spoke with Ken MacLeod, President and CEO of the New Brunswick Youth Orchestra/L'Orchestre des jeunes du Nouveau-Brunswick on Wednesday about Sistema NB. He said that Sistema has now got 4 project locations running in New Brunswick! He also said that Seoul, Korea had started up a Sistema program last year after learning from the successful strategies of the Sistema New Brunswick program. Watch the video above to see Sistema New Brunswick's children's orchestra playing the "William Tell Overture."
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My sabbatical is rapidly coming to an end, and I have to start thinking more and more about teaching. Glancing over my module description for the introductory computational statistics course I teach, I noticed that it's a bit light on recommend/background reading. In fact it has only two books:
- A first course in statistical programming with R (Braun & Murdoch)
- Pros: I quite like this book (hence the reason I put it on my list). It has a nice collection of exercises, it "looks nice" and doesn't assume knowledge of programming. It also doesn't assume (or try to teach) any statistics.
- Cons: When describing for loops and functions the examples aren't very statistical. For example, it uses Fibonacci sequences in the while loop section and the sieve of Eratosthenes for if statements.
- An introduction to R (Venables & Smith)
- Pros: Simple, short and to the point. Free copies available. Money from the book goes to the R project.
- Cons: More a R reference guide than a textbook.
What other good R books could I recommend? In particular, I'm looking for books that:
- Assume no prior knowledge of programming.
- Assume very little knowledge of statistics. For example, no regression.
- Doesn't try to teach statistics. So no "R with …." type books.
- Are cheap!
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A factory, which was producing and marketing fake paper as Bashundhara Paper, was unearthed at Ashek lane in Islampur area of the capital on Monday.
With the help of the police, a team of three officials of Bashundhara Paper, led by AKM Manirujjaman, conducted a drive and busted the fake factory.
During the period, they caught a factory employee, Nayan, red-handed and seized a huge quantity of paper and paper-making materials from there.
Sources said the factory was doing the business, faking all logos, package and trademarks of Bashundhara Paper for the last seven to eight months.
The illegal factory was producing and marketing fake paper in the name of Bashundhara Paper which is the most popular paper brand of the country.
AKM Monirujjaman said they got information that Bashundhara Paper of Bashundhara Group is being faked. They have collected a proper address when the fake factory was open.
"We could not hold the owner. Even Nayan doesn't know the owner. The factory workers work at night, distribute paper at dawn and keep it closed at daytime," he added.
He informed said the factory was located at a narrow lane. May be, there is another fake factory near it.
Monirujjaman suspected that there have a big gang working behind faking Bashundhara Paper. Some of them produce cartons, some produce label while another gang prints the paper. All the works are being done in separate places.
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Report: NCT4 Suppressor Shield
What do you do when you want to minimize the length that suppressor adds to your rifle, you've run outta rail space, you're looking to prevent damage to your can, and you don't wanna burn your dick-skinners on it if you forget your gloves? Well, read on. Remember the NCT-4 we wrote about? Nordic Components may have a solution for you. Mad Duo
Report: Nordic Components NCT4 Suppressor Shield
Mike "the Mook" Searson
There is a trade-off when it comes to running a suppressor on your rifle.
As good as manufacturers are about using titanium and stellite in their creations to save weight, the length of most 5.56 rifle cans remain in the five to seven inch range. Run a 7.62 silencer and you can easily push that out another few inches. This turns your 16″-barreled patrol carbine into something that may not be much heavier but is likely more unwieldy.
The quick answer, of course, is to go the SBR (Short Barrel Rifle) route.
Dropping down to 14.5 in., like a standard M4 profile, may not exactly cut it. You'll really want to go down to 12 in., 11.5 in., or even 10.5 in. If you go any lower you may sacrifice reliability and any warranty on your silencer, as the blast will wear out your baffles quicker. So, you opt for the two stamp setup or (if you still hate paying that $200 tax for a shorter barrel) you go the pin and weld route to take your suppressed rifle up to 16in..
Now your problem is that you don't want to damage your silencer, you've run out of rail space, you don't want to burn your dick skinner when you grab the hot can after leaving your gloves in the truck. Or, maybe you simply want to look like Joe Kickass with an "SD" rifle.
Maybe it's a combination of all of the above.
So, what can you do? You can run a longer rail, install the can underneath it, hope the folks who made the rail made it wide enough, hope to God you never have to undo your pin and weld or in the case of a two stamper, and hope you don't carbon it up so bad that you can't remove the silencer should it need service. Of course you'll also need to worry about it coming loose in the field and cross-threading the mount when you want to tighten it or reattach and can't see the threads.
Those all seem like really bad circumstances. Luckily, however, Nordic Components identified this dilemma and has come to your rescue with the NCT4 Suppressor Shield.
Try to follow us here: this is a modular two-piece handguard that allows for use of a full-length handguard on an SBR or AR pistol with a suppressor mounted; this gives the shooter up to 6 in. of full suppressor coverage.
Nice, eh?
NC sent us one to try out on a 10.5 in. upper; we spent quite a bit of time on the range with it and found it most satisfactory indeed.
Note – should you choose to buy one, we'd advise removing the outer 6 in. shield prior to installing a silencer. This will minimize bumping things around and ensure that you can start the threads properly by eyeballing them.
Both sections are fully M-LOK compatible and feature a seamless continuous top rail. The suppressor shield is fully tool-less, requiring only the push of a button to unlock. With an inside diameter of 1.850″, the NCT4 is spacious enough to accommodate nearly any suppressor.
As for a downside to this rail, it does make for a heavier rifle. I think the concept is sound and eventually the weight will come down — in the interim, if you're not worried about some additional weight you'll find nothing else to complain about. Wee shooters or those who are humping their rifle long distances or over and over through a shoot house might think twice. We do think this makes for a particularly good option for AR pistol shooters who want to run suppressed and feel they need more rail space (or want that "coveted" SD Look while shouldering their brace).
The NCT-4 will evidently be shipping this Summer, in two lengths, 6.7 in. or 9.5 in. handguard, intended for 7.5 in., 10.5 in., or 11.5 in. barrels. Both sections are M-LOK compatible and provide an unbroken top rail when attached together. We ran a 9.5 in. with the 6 in. suppressor cover on a dedicated SBR, utilizing a Radical Firearms RF-556 direct thread silencer. Aside from the aforementioned weight, we encountered no problems. It will take more field use to figure out if the NCT-4 conflicts with other suppressors, but Nordic Components says it will accommodate most of them. From what we've seen, we don't see any reason to dispute that.
The NCT-4 does get hot eventually, but that's only to be expected, and it's not a significant enough of a problem with typical shooting to warrant concern. If you're going to go full auto Matrix-battling-the-agents mode, you might reconsider.
Nordic Components does caution that you should not fire the rifle with the suppressor cover attached if you are not running a suppressor. We advise the same, but some people like learning things the hard way!
We'll post updates as we get them. Meantime, find Nordic Components online or follow them on Instagram (@nordic_comp). You might also keep an eye on what Chris Tran (@christranfiveoh) is writing. He's putting a Nordic Components NCT-4 through its paces too, and we're pretty sure RECOIL is doing something with one, but we're not sure about the status. Will advise.
See you where the brass is flyin' and lefties are cryin'.
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Back to School Splash 2011 at The Falls
8-6-2011 | All day | The Falls
Back to School Splash at the Falls, hosted by South Florida Parenting, is a great shopping experience with fantastic back-to-school deals and fun for the whole family! Lots of games, prizes and vendors. Adoptabear will be raffling off another one of our cute bear students. Come see us on August 6th or August 7th, 2011!
Bear Adoption Day and Holiday Bear Drive
12-5-2010 | 2pm | Outside of Dan Marino's restaurant
Cool de Sac, a Local Family Entertainment Center, Hosts Bear Drive for Miami Children's Hospital Foundation
Cool de Sac, a family entertainment center located in South Miami, is declaring Sunday, December 5 "Bear Adoption Day".
The family establishment that combines nutritious cuisine with games and entertainment for kids, will have a table present at South Miami's 26th Annual Santa's Parade of the Elves. Here, a team of girl scouts and Cool de Sac's "cool team" will be accepting $15 sponsorships to benefit Adopt a Bear, a grassroots nonprofit campaign dedicated to providing disadvantaged children with big bear hugs, and Miami Children's Hospital Foundation.
Each sponsor will receive one free admission to Cool de Sac and a t-shirt that reads "I adopted a bear". A coloring station, where kids can color their own t-shirts, will also be present at the table. All adopted bears will then be taken to the children of Miami Children's Hospital by Cool de Sac's cool team and Santa Claus.
Cool de Sac's bear drive will run through December 14th.
The Freedom Tower
1 June 2010
A truly special evening planned to end modern day slavery and human trafficking at the Freedom Tower. Adopt-a-bear will be there!
CBS Holiday Party!
21 December 2009 | CBS
Please visit our gallery page to view the photos of our latest events. Many thanks to the CBS Staff for adopting many bears at your Holiday Party!
Bears in Winter Gone Wild
10 December 2009 | 7:00pm - 10:00pm | Miami Metrozoo
Celebrate the holiday season at Winter Gone Wild! Miami Metro Zoo is hosting Adopt-A-Bear. Enjoy Wild Lights, Flore de Lisa's Winter Wonderland, holiday music, dancing, complimentary hot chocolate and cookies, and cranberry-infused waters. We are also offering delicious "Bites for a Buck," a cash bar, our special blend of snow-tinis, and many more surprises. Raffle winners for each holiday tree will be chosen at the event and announced at 9 PM. Raffle winners for three Holiday Bears will also be announced. You could be our next winner!
Donation: $9.95 per ZSF Member and $10.95 per non-member. To Adopt-A-Bear, donation is $10 with $1 given back to the Zoological Society. To purchase raffle tickets, $1.00 each or $3.00 for 5. Help support these great causes and join us for a truly spectacular evening!
Come join us at Morton's Steakhouse
17 November 2009 | 6:00pm - 8:00pm | Morton's Steakhouse on Miami Beach
Good times and a great cause. Enjoy classic cocktails and Morton's signature 'Bar Bites' … all in the name of a good cause.
Holiday Toast and Night of Giving Thanks
04 November 2009 | 6:00 - 9:00 pm | The Capital Grille
This evening, The Capital Grille family joins CBS4's Michele Gillen in the Neighbors 4 Neighbors community campaign, www.adoptabear.org. This will be an opportunity for guests to meet Michele and help heal abused and abandoned children by adopting a teddy bear.
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Come Adopt-a-Bear and share our holiday thank you to the inspiration behind our campaign, Judge Cindy Lederman and her colleagues of the Miami-Dade Juvenile Court. This year we welcome our newest family partner, Miami-Dade Fire Chief Herminio Lorenzo and the men and women on his brave team as we pay tribute to the Ernest Lester Adopt-a-Bear Firefighter Fund.
An enchanted evening sponsored by The Capital Grille, Southern Wine and Spirits and Bacardi.
Our Host The Capital Grille invites you to toast the men and woman on the front lines of rescuing abused, neglected and traumatized children.
The Adopt-a-bear Back to School Splash 09
Saturday, August 8th, 2009
South Florida Parenting and The Falls host Adopt-a-bear at the annual "Back to School Splash" event. A free family fun event that featured kid-friendly activities and entertainment, while ensuring that Miami-Dade residents have the opportunity of taking advantage of special in-store promotions and discounts on back to school supplies and materials.
Adopt-a-Bear couldn't resist joining in on the fun and offered its own Gummy Bear Fish Bowl Contest which Allen Cockfield won by guessing 1007 Gummy Bears, the closest amount to 1,155 which was the actual number. Allen has now joined our team and is one of our "kids helping kids" volunteers.
With our special thanks going out to our other volunteers, all members of the Kendall Community Church of God (KCCG) Youth Group, Nikki, Toni, Tasha, Samantha, Jordon, AJ, Diane, Luana and Kenny. You looked amazing in your Adopt-a-Bear T-Shirts.
We received many adoptions from the families attending and loved the pictures taken with our bears. To view the images, please follow the link: http://dmaldonado.photobiz.com/cart/ .
A heartfelt hug to our professional photographer, Dario Maldonado of Prizma Photo who volunteered his time and expertise to the project.
Look for us at our next event on September 12th at The Little Gym in the Kendall Breeze Shopping Center! Thanks Nina.
The Adopt-A-Bear Firefighter Fund Press Conference
Adopt A Bear For The Firefighters
From a press release sent by The Miami-Dade Fire Rescue Department:
The Miami-Dade Fire Rescue Department (MDFR) received a shipment of teddy bears from the Adopt-A-Bear Firefighter Fund on May 27, – see the photo gallery from the event by clicking on the photo to the left. These special firefighter bears will ensure that children who are transported by MDFR will have a special friend to comfort them.
The Adopt-A-Bear Program was created by local investigative reporter Michele Gillen in an effort to bring comfort to children in traumatic situations such as fires and medical emergencies.
"These bears will help to calm a child during an emergency," said Fire Chief Herminio Lorenzo. "Until now paramedics would blow up latex gloves and draw faces on them in order to make children smile."
The Adopt-A-Bear Firefighter fund is being launched in memoriam of Ernest Lester, a live truck and satellite truck operator at WFOR. He worked at WFOR for 10 years and before that, he was a news engineer at WTVJ.
Adopt-a-bear to the 911 Rescue! Miami-Dade Fire Fighters to be armed with bears for rescued and traumatized children
Once upon a time… I was on assignment interviewing firefighters for an investigation into smoke alarms. I asked Lt. Elkin Sirrae of Miami-Dade Fire Rescue about what happens when the fire fighters rescue children from a burning house. These children are often unimaginably traumatized from the fire, and in some tragic cases, have even lost a parent, or witnessed a brother or sister injured.
I learned that –not so long ago – the fire department had teddy bears to give the children, but no longer. As Lt. Sirrae told me, "We take one of the latex gloves the paramedics use and blow it up and draw two eyes and a smile on it. We have to fashion it like a blow up toy to try and bring a smile to the children."
Stunned, I thought, "we can do better!" While the adopt- a- bear campaign was created to help re-stock the shelves of Juvenile Court so that teddy bears could go to abused and neglected children, I could not resist the sense of obligation to try and help our firefighters and the children they encounter in such a moment of need. And so…Adopt-A-Bear for the Firefighters was born! As good luck would have it, the Metro-Dade Fire Expo was about to be held and our entire team at Adopt-a-bear decided to dedicate the donations of the day to children rescued by the fire fighters. We took lots of pictures, which you can see by clicking on the album right here
|Adopt-a-Bear for the Firefighters- photo gallery
Stay tuned for an announcement of when the bears will be formally delivered to the heroes who head into the heat for all of us!
Special recognition: There are people who shine so brightly in life I an in awe of their dedication to help others. Adopt-a-bear wants to celebrate three such people without whom creating the Firefighter branch of Adopt-a-Bear would not be possible. Thanks to Karen Chamberlain, Sr. Regional Account Representative, Merrill Communications and Top Brass Ambassador Brad Schultz, along with our original Sweetheart Bear Ambassador Laura Daulau of Who's Kickin' on Sunset.
And a special sweet shout out to Sonia the baker who stole our hearts! Her Yummy Bakery donated hundreds of cupcakes for the event and a cake in the form of a fire truck that just wowed the children and our fire fighters!


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Here's the deal. I'm not quite done with the Atheists series.
I'd like to conduct at least two more interviews so I'll have ten in total.
But I want to take a short sabbatical to launch an ex-atheist series.
[This idea came from a reader.]
So, if you are a former atheist who is now a Christian, I'd like to interview you.
There's a catch.
You need to have a blog, website or Facebook account.
[Why? A link to an external website indicates that you are somewhat real.]
The interview will be ten questions. Ten questions I need you to help me pick out.
What I Need from You
What sort of questions would YOU ask a former atheist? Here are the questions for the atheist series:
1. How would you describe yourself: atheist, agnostic or skeptic?
2. When did you know you were an atheist? Did it scare you?
3. Ever suffer persecution?
4. What do you want to accomplish with your life?
5. Who are your heroes? Why?
6. What would you like to accomplish with your blog?
7. What's your favorite part about being an atheist?
8. Are there any Christian concepts you respect?
9. Does it irritate you when Christians share their faith with you?
1o. Were you ever a Christian? Would you go back?
Should I keep some of these questions? Naturally I'd tweak to apply to an ex-atheist format. But which ones could I add?
Share your ideas.
Here's something to think about: I'm going to personally kick off the series, so I'd like some questions that I haven't thought of before.
What to Do Next…
If you are an ex-atheist who is now a Christian and want to do an interview, simply drop me a line in the comments or email me.
Better yet, if you know any ex-Atheist Christians I should interview, tell me that to. I really need help on this one.
Furthermore, if you have any ideas for questions, do the same: drop them in the comments or email me.
Take care and I look forward to your questions!


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Sidewalk sculptures are beginning to appear on Ferndale thoroughfares. It's about time for the trendy city.
A bright red ram is perhaps the most visible, which is located at Livernois and Nine Mile Road.
Others include metal arcs at Woodward and Marshall and a human figure wearing a hat at Woodward and Maplehurst.
A total of 11 abstract sculptures will be placed at various locations by the Downtown Development Authority's Art Town (ARTWN) project.
The authority's director, Cristina Sheppard-Decius, said the sculptures follow the wishes of residents and business people as expressed in surveys.
And so far, costs have been met by private donors and Detroit's Motor City Casino Hotel. The sculptures will stay in the city for two years. while the authority holds fund-raisers and seeks donors. Residents eventually will be asked which pieces they wish to purchase for a permanent place in the city.
Sheppard-Decius said many people have telephoned the authority to comment on the works. Many have been complimentary. Some, we gather, haven't been.
"Not everyone likes the same things. The sculptures are supposed to strike up conversations and allow people to make their own judgments," Sheppard-Decius said.
The first fund-raiser -- unveiling of the final sculpture with food, drinks, music and a meet-and-greet with the artists -- was held a few days ago.
Ferndale officials, starting in 2006, began to discuss looking for public art, funding and locations in the city. In that year, they worked with a nonprofit, Design Michigan at Cranbrook's Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills. In the meantime, the first of a number of planned Woodward "tributes" was placed in the Woodward median a couple of blocks north of Nine Mile Road.
Public art, whether sculpture, mural or as monumental as a Star Dream in Royal Oak or the Woodward tributes, add personality to a community, often an attractive, quirky one. Sometimes it's controversial. Not everyone likes the stylized nudity of the male and female figures in Star Dream, created by the famed Marshall Fredericks, or the more detailed nudity of the 7-foot-high Walking Man statue in downtown Mount Clemens when it appeared on a sidewalk.
But in this area at least, it seems that public art isn't used to establish a personality that wasn't there before.
It happens in a place that's already attracting people to shops, bars and restaurants. It happens where leaders have the imagination to understand its impact and the ability to find funds to make it happen.


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Ingredients (12)
|25 g
|25 g
|500 ml
|salt and white pepper
|80 g
|cheddar cheese — grated
|300 g
|pasta — macaroni
|200 g
|bacon — cut into pieces
|red onion — chopped
|2,5 ml
|each chilli spice, cumin, paprika — separate entries
|500 ml
|chicken — cooked, shredded
|400 g
|creamed sweetcorn — can
|fresh parsley — chopped
Preheat oven to 200 degrees celsius. Grease
a 23 × 18 cm baking dish.
Melt the
butter in a saucepan. Stir in the
flour and cook for 1 minute.
Take the pan off the heat and
gradually stir in the milk to get a
smooth sauce. Return to the heat
and bring to the boil, stirring all
the time.
Simmer gently for 8 minutes
and season with salt and white
pepper. Stir in the cheese and
let it melt.
Cook pasta
until al dente in generously
salted water according to
package directions. Drain and
set aside.
Heat the oil in a large pan
over a medium-high heat. Sauté
bacon and onion for 5 minutes
or until slightly golden. Add the
spices, chicken and sweetcorn;
simmer until everything is
heated through.
Stir the pasta and cheese
sauce into the chicken mixture
and transfer it to the prepared
baking pan. Bake for about
10 minutes and serve sprinkled
with parsley.


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'Walking Dead' Tops Twitter TV Ratings Thanks to a Can of Pudding
AMC's The Walking Dead ended its mid-season hiatus Sunday, and it returned to significant Twitter buzz. Aside from gory zombie deaths, one moment in particular catapulted the show back to the top of Nielsen's weekly Twitter TV Ratings chart.
Survivor Carl Grimes, the angst-filled son of lead protagonist Rick Grimes, once again wandered off alone into an abandoned home, found himself in a scary zombie attack and barely escaped from being bitten. Luckily, he only lost a shoe in the heart-pounding process.
To celebrate his near-death experience, Carl consumed a 112-ounce can of chocolate pudding; that scene helped the show become the top-performing broadcast on Twitter for the week of Feb. 3 to 9. The episode, titled "After," garnered 1,240,000 total tweets.
Although viewers also tweeted about the sword-wielding Michonne's backstory, Rick's enormously long nap and Carl's questionable behavior, viewers largely focused on the pudding scene:
If walkers don't get Carl, diabetes will for eating all that chocolate pudding. #TheWalkingDead
— The Walking Dead (@TheWalkingNews) February 10, 2014
Carl ate 15 pounds of pudding and is going to crap out something like Jurassic Park #TheWalkingDead
— Mikey (@fsmikey) February 10, 2014
carl at 112 ounces of pudding. hope he found some toilet paper too. #TheWalkingDead
— Brokey McPoverty (@brokeymcpoverty) February 10, 2014
Made this when I got home from food shopping <3 @WalkingDead_AMC @AMCTalkingDead #Pudding #Zombieland #Twinkies pic.twitter.com/p4T37KLEc3
— Al Tyte (@AlTyte_Music) February 10, 2014
Carl's #pudding is available at Sam's Club, if you were wondering. 112 oz = SEVEN POUNDS. #TheWalkingDead pic.twitter.com/x3Wrf1I8Hm
— Corinne Heller (@corinneheller) February 10, 2014
Rick: "How was your day?" Carl: "Well I almost got killed, ran head first into a door, lost my shoe & ate expired pudding." #TheWalkingDead
— Mike Mason (@MikeMason830) February 10, 2014
Rick is dehydrated and hemorrhaging but Carl can't even share his pudding with him. #WalkingDead
— Mirasol Fernandez (@famfernan) February 10, 2014
Carl - "I ate 112 ounces of pudding."
Rick - "You're a man." #TheKeyToSuccess #WalkingDead
— Daniel Bostic (@debostic) February 10, 2014
And here's the zombie attack in which Carl loses his shoe:
[CONTAINS SPOILERS] Instant Replay: Carl vs. the walker #TheWalkignDead #StorySync http://t.co/sqCoqWD4uh https://t.co/VvVVSvZQ8T
— The Walking Dead AMC (@WalkingDead_AMC) February 10, 2014


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About Nintendo eShop Gift Card
Buy a Nintendo eShop Gift Card and start shopping on the eShop! Redeem the gift card directly into your Nintendo account via Nintendo's, Nintendo Switch, Wii or the 3DS eShop. Once redeemed, you can start buying any Nintendo games available on the eShop.
Nintendo Switch Online
The Nintendo eShop Gift Card can also be used to begin a Nintendo Switch Online subscription. Here are the benefits of subscribing to Nintendo Switch Online:
Online Play
Play online with other players be it co-op or battle in games like Mario Kart and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.
Nintendo Entertainment System - Nintendo Switch Online
Enjoy classic NES games with newly added online support! Titles are addded regularly.
Save Data Cloud
With your save data backed up regularly, you can easily retrive them anywhere, anytime.
Smartphone App
Enhance your Switch experience with the smartphone app that lets you voice call other players when playing online.
Special Offers
Enjoy member-exclusive deals and purchase limited edition products!
How to redeem Nintendo eShop Gift Card?
- Select the Nintendo eShop icon in the HOME menu.
- Scroll left and select "Add Funds."
- Select "Redeem a Nintendo eShop Card."
- Enter the 16-character activation code from the back of the Nintendo eShop gift card, then select "OK" to complete the transaction.


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Craft Beer Show Podcasts April 11, 18 and 25 and May 2 2015
Saturday May 2nd 2015 South Denver Beer Fest
Can't thank Mike and Dan from Beer Craving enough for having us for the 3rd consecutive year at the South Denver Beer Fest at Clement Park in Littleton. Over 80 breweries and 200 beers to choose from, this festival really has it all with live music, food, spirits and other great vendors come together to really kick off the beer festival season. This year Nate Fleming from High Plains Tap House sat in with me. Ha a little technical difficulties to start but we got rolling with our first interview with Jeff Mendel who is a partner at Left Hand Brewing as well as sits on the board for the Forward Steps Foundation. They are putting together a fundraiser for theior program which raises money that will support former foster youth enrolled at Community College of Denver get degrees. It will be at Amato's Ale House on Thursday May 28th from 5:30 to 9:00 and you can get tickets here. We then talked to Tebo about their new IPA, Summerbright Ale, the new digs and much more. We fit in as many guests as we could after that and talked to Lone Tree Brewing's Bridgette Geiger, Locavore Beer Work's Andy Nelson, Sanitas' Drew Owens, Peak to Peak Tap Room's Gordon McKennon, 38 State Brewing's Mike Keating, Breck Brew's Todd Usry and Destihl Brewing's Aaron Chadwick. Also in hour two was some Brew News You Can Use! We had a blast at this festival and really nudge you to make sure you are there next year!
Saturday April 25th 2015
It had to eventually happen… The man, the myth, the legend Mike Nelson (Beer Despondent Number 2) co hosted with Turk today in studio. And he did a stellar job too. We led off the show with Will Carlson from Beerporium who has some unfortunate news as he has been diagnosed with an incurable blood cancer called Multiple Myeloma. Some breweries and the Knights of Columbus have teamed together for a fundraiser being called Tasters for Life which will take place on Saturday May 16th from 1-7 pm at the Knights of Columbus at 1555 Grant St. Please take some time to stop by on this date and support a guy who has done a ton for the Colorado Craft Beer Community. We then got our weekly update from Todd Thibault from Breckenridge Brewery. In hour two we had in Goldspot Brewing Company's Matt Hughes (head brewer) and Ryan Abernathy (Tap Room Manager) and Jesse Brookstein from Call to Arms Brewing Company. Had fun sampling Goldspot's stuff and talking about their brewery at 4970 Lowell Blvd near Regis University. Jesse and Call to Arms plan to open later this summer at 46th and Tennyson in the Sunnyside neighborhood. Jesse comes from Avery Brewing and their is a lot of anticipation for these guys to open. And of course a nice dose of Brew News You Can Use!
Saturday April 18th 2015
Argonaut Wine & Liquor's Daniel Ekker filled in for Turk who was in Portland for the CBC. This was a big show with a ton going on. The awesome Marty Jones was Daniel's co host. Marty has been the brain behind some of the best marketing ideas for breweries in the state including Oskar Blues, Great Divide and the Wynkoop. Guests in hour one were Taylor Rees, Austin Wiley and Darren Boyd who just opened up Spangalang Brewery at 27th and Welton in an old DMV building. These guys all came from Great Divide so you know they will come out with great beers right out of the gate! In Hour two Ron Vaughn from Argonaut Wine & Liquor jumped in to talk about the ever-important Keep Colorado Local Campaign which is fighting the full strength beer in grocery stores initiative. This is a very important issue for your local breweries so please take a look at what they are saying. Wayne Anderson from Spirit Hound Distillers in Longmont also jumped in to talk about his spirits and their stance on the Keep Colorado Local Campaign. Of course we talked to Tebo from Breckenridge Brewery and did Brew News You Can Use as well.
Saturday April 11th 2015
Turk and Nate Fleming from High Plains Tap House hosted the show today in studio. In Hour one we caught up with Chris Phelps (Co-Owner / Brewer) and Dave Barron (Co-Owner / Sales) from Saint Patrick's Brewing Company. These guys specialize in crafting lagers and have made over 80 different kinds including traditional, experimental and reinventing ales as lagered beers. They just opened their new taproom and brewery at Littleton Blvd and Santa Fe! We also caught up with our man Todd Thibault from Breckenridge Brewery. In hour two Andrew Curtis joined the fun. He is the metro sales rep for Pug Ryan's Brewing Company in Dillon. They've been brewing traditional ales and lagers in Dillon since 1997. Head brewer Dave Simmons makes some amazing lagers including a dunkel, helles and pilsner. A recent expansion has them hitting it hard lately. We also did a healthy Brew News You Can Use segment brought to you by Mobile Canning.


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Deaths of despair: Docs warn dire lockdown consequences, say suicides outpacing covid deaths in California
Doctors are seeing higher levels of despair and an unprecedented spike in suicides as governors continue to keep coronavirus-related stay-at-home orders in place, while states that have eased restrictions are seeing declines overall in death rates.
In an interview with Fox News Tucker Carlson, network health contributor Dr. Marc Siegel, an associate professor of medicine at the NYU Langone Medical Center, said lockdowns dont work after a virus has already spread throughout the country, as debate over whether and how quickly to reopen states continues.
Lockdowns dont work if there is already a lot of virus in the area, in the community, in the state, the country, Siegel said.
The medical professor then referenced a shocking study released Wednesday by JP Morgan that found states and countries where lockdowns were put in place actually had higher rates of coronavirus cases than regions that remained open throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.
JPMorgan has a devastating piece arguing that infection rates have declined not increased in states where lockdowns have ended, even after allowing for an appropriate measurement lag. (Kolonavic)
Carl Quintanilla ✔ @carlquintanilla
Replying to @carlquintanilla
Same goes for various countries, adds JPM. This means that the pandemic and COVID-19 likely have its own dynamics unrelated to often inconsistent lockdown measures that were being implemented..
South Dakota, which was never locked down, has had almost no cases over the last several days, Siegel said.
In Hong Kong they have a very ineffective government. You know why they have been able to do so well with only four deaths from COVID-19? Because the people behaved, he continued. They knew how to do social distancing. It wasnt locking down. Locking down definitely doesnt make the problem better if there is already a lot of virus.
The medical expert urged governors to quickly lift restrictions on movement and businesses and reopen their states to prevent more deaths of despair.
You know what locking down does? Locking down destroys our health care system to the point where we have more heart attacks [in patients] that are not going to the hospital now, he said. More strokes that are not going to the hospital now. More cancer that is not being screened. People say they are afraid to go to the emergency room right now.
He added: Suicide, drug abuse, alcoholism, there are going to be more deaths of despair than from the virus itself.
Siegels warning echos those of emergency room doctors at a hospital in California, who say they are seeing far more suicides than they are deaths from coronavirus under the states stay-at-home order.
In an interview with a local ABC affiliate, Dr. Mike deBoisblanc, chief of trauma at John Muir Medical Center in Walnut Creek, in the East Bay region of San Francisco Bay Area, said hes seen a years worth of suicide attempts in the last four weeks.
Weve never seen numbers like this, in such a short period of time, he said, adding that mental health suffering is so off-the-charts that hes calling for an end to the lockdowns.
Personally, I think its time, deBoisblanc said. I think, originally, this (the shelter-in-place order) was put in place to flatten the curve and to make sure hospitals have the resources to take care of COVID patients. We have the current resources to do that and our other community health is suffering.
Kacey Hansen, a trauma nurse whos worked at John Muir Medical Center for more than three decades, also told the local ABC affiliate that suicides are at an unprecedented level.
National public health group Well Being Trust noted in a study this week that as many as 75,000 Americans could die from alcohol or drug misuse along with suicide as a result of the negative social and economic side effects of pandemic policies.
Undeniably policymakers must place a large focus on mitigating the effects of COVID. However, if the country continues to ignore the collateral damagespecifically our nations mental healthwe will not come out of this stronger, warned Benjamin Miller, the groups chief strategy officer.
Back in March, President Donald Trump warned that suicides would likely spike due to economic toll pandemic-related shutdowns would take on the country.
Youre going to lose a number of people to the flu, but youre going to lose more people by putting a country into a massive recession or depression, the president said. Youre gonna lose people. Youre gonna have suicides by the thousands.
In another appearance, Trump added, Im talking about where people suffer massive depression, where people commit suicide, where tremendous death happens I mean, definitely would be in far greater numbers than the numbers that were talking about with regard to the virus.
In a March 24 tweet, the president noted, famously now, that the cure cant be worse than the problem.
Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump
Our people want to return to work. They will practice Social Distancing and all else, and Seniors will be watched over protectively & lovingly. We can do two things together. THE CURE CANNOT BE WORSE (by far) THAN THE PROBLEM! Congress MUST ACT NOW. We will come back strong!
10:16 AM - Mar 24, 2020
News outlets attempted to fact-check the president including ABC News, who found one expert to refute Trumps claims by stating that deaths go down during economic recessions.
If you were to look across all the current causes of death in a recession, you would see that the number of deaths actually declines. Heart deaths from heart disease fall. Deaths from motor vehicle accidents crashes fall, said Richard Dunn, associate professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of Connecticut.


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CASS, the New Zealand Government's Central Agencies Shared Services organisation, suffered from poor governance and failed to follow best practice during its establshment, an Auditor-General's report has found.
CASS was established in March 2012 by the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, the State Services Commission and Treasury to provide ICT, human resources and financial support. The central agencies wanted to show leadership and establish CASS as a potential model for the broader public sector.
However, it appears to have delivered many lessons on what not to do.
"It is not yet clear whether CASS provides a useful model for the public sector to follow," the Auditor-General reported. "Many lessons have been learned from setting up and operating CASS. Although some improvements have been made along the way, more are still needed."
The report says the central agencies "did not follow best practice" in setting up CASS and "important and fundamental aspects of the change were not done well."
The agencies did not determine early how CASS would operate and how it would support the agencies' strategic objectives, the report says.
The move to one support agency was not well planned, consultation was poor and fewer experienced staff transferred than anticipated, resulting in a loss of skills and knowledge.
The financial management function transfer was the most effective, while HR was least, with ICT somewhere in between and improving.
"Effective planning for ICT systems and processes and how they would work was lacking," the report says. "This contributed to increased demand for ICT services and 'help desk' requests in the months after CASS was set up.
"Soon after CASS was set up, it became clear that the central agencies had considerably underestimated the work needed to allow the central agencies to operate with common or compatible ICT systems and processes."
A review by Davanti Consulting followed, leading to the creation of the Central Agencies Development Programme, a series of projects for improving ICT maturity to support each function within CASS and for a unified and centralised ICT structure.
Many significant ICT and finance projects were completed, including strategies, standard operating procedures, a service catalogue, and prioritisation frameworks for business transformation and consolidation. CASS adhered to good practices in project management and that reporting was sound.
However, the Auditor-General found CASS's ICT efforts were not tightly aligned to its strategic priorities.
"In some instances, the lack of an overall strategy until now has allowed less urgent projects to be prioritised over basic functional needs," the report says. "Staff are capable and committed but have been stretched with these competing priorities.
"CASS has drawn from day-to-day staff resources to complete essential work on its ICT infrastructure and install necessary systems in the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet."
CASS had not used the most effective framework for understanding the current state of ICT maturity, the report says. It used the Information Technology Infrastructure Library, "a sound framework for managing ICT service delivery", to deliver and improve its operational services.
"A more comprehensive framework – for example, the COBIT13 standard – would ensure a
sound alignment of the ICT strategy with CASS's objectives and goals," the Auditor-General says.
ICT service levels have improved considerably since the foundation problems, however, many service users, including some at senior levels in the central agencies, still expressed concern about whether CASS would improve enough to provide the support they required.
When CASS was announced in late 2011, secretary to the Treasury Gabriel Makhlouf said the central agencies had a unique role to play in demonstrating leadership in the public sector and in building resilience and excellence.
"The CASS project is a response to the Government's challenge to the public sector to develop new ways of doing business while maintaining and improving the level and quality of services provided.
"It also recognises the need to manage within declining baselines, and maintain and invest in the corporate services necessary to ensure long-term organisational health."


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We had a vacant angled wall on our landing that I've always wanted to do something with since we moved in. As I collected items, frames, and art for the gallery, I also crafted a few small projects to display. On this gallery wall, I crafted the dreamcatcher, chalkboard tag, and heart string art on wood.
This simple DIY heart string art on wood project is perfect for a crafternoon while baby sleeps, or an evening of indulging in creative me-time. And, the end result is beautiful and gratifying, considering it's quite an inexpensive project.
the supplies.
wood log slice from Michaels {used a 40% off coupon, of course!}
small nails with heads
embroidery thread or twine
metal picture hanger
free printable heart template
the how-to.
- Begin your project by printing this free printable heart template. The heart is already conveniently marked for the positioning of your nails.
- Place your heart template on your wood log slice. You can tape the template down for security. On a solid surface, hammer the top and bottom nails in to keep your template from shifting. Hammer each nail into the log slice, about halfway, leaving enough space for you to wrap your thread.
- Hammer all of your nails along the heart's border. Remove paper template.
- Tie a knot of your thread at the bottom nail head. Begin to randomly strand your tread to the nail heads, looping the thread around once. It's important to keep tension on your thread the entire time to avoid the thread slipping or unraveling from your nails.
- Once you have your thread stranded over the entire heart, try to loop the end of your design at the same beginning point. Tie a knot to secure. Trim thread.
- I added a simple picture hanger to the back of my wood log slice for hanging.


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Today's recipe was inspired by a comment on the Easy and Good Oatmeal Raisin Cookies post. Alicia, who is allergic to wheat but can eat other grains, said she made the cookies with barley flour in place of all purpose and loved the results.
I tried Alicia's version this morning, minus the chocolate chips. They were good looking cookies, fairly crispy, but very sweet. I loved the texture, but the changing from a heavier flour (all purpose flour) to a lighter flour (barley) on a cup for cup (volume) basis and not taking into account weight, gave the cookies a higher proportion of sugar and in my opinion, it was just a tad too much. The alternative was to use ¼ cup of barley flour, in which case the dough would be too dry to hold together, or to reduce the sugar, which is what I did the second time around.
The cookies are still pretty sweet, but the nuts cut the sweetness a little and make them less so. You could probably get away with cutting the sugar down a bit more. If you try it, let me know. But sugar keeps things crisp and helps cookies spread, so keep that in mind. Or I will. I should test myself and stop asking you guys to do it. Lazy Cookie Madness.
Oats and Barley Cookies
1 cup barley flour (100 grams)
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt plus tiny pinch
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
4 ounces unsalted butter — cut up, cool room temperature
1/4cup plus 2 tablespoons granulated sugar
1/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons brown sugar – packed
1 large egg
3/4 teaspoon vanilla
1 1/2 cups quick cooking oats (not instant)
3/4 cups raisins or dried cranberries
2/3 cup walnuts or pecans, toasted and chopped
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Have ready 2 ungreased or parchment lined cookie sheets.
Stir barley flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt and cinnamon together in a medium bowl; set aside.
Cream butter and both sugars in a mixing bowl using high speed of an electric mixer; add egg and vanilla and beat just until egg is mixed in. Add the flour mixture to the butter mixture and stir just until mixed. Stir in oats, raisins and pecans.
Using a tablespoon measure, scoop up dough and shape it into 1 ¼ inch balls; Arrange about 2 1/2 inches apart on baking sheets.
Bake 12-14 minutes, one sheet at a time, on center rack. Remove from oven; let cookies sit on baking sheet for 2-4 minutes. Carefully transfer to a rack to cool.
Makes about 28 cookies