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Medicentres Canada: where family physicians and specialists come together to bring comprehensive, accessible, and quality health care services to everyone.
Over three decades ago, two Edmonton physicians had the vision to bring accessible health care to Albertans on a non-appointment, extended hour basis. Making that vision a reality, in 1979 they established Medicentres, which is now the largest group of medical clinics in Western Canada.
Medicentres continues to grow and evolve. We now have 30 walk-in clinics in 8 Canadian cities with over 300 employees including nurses, receptionists and associated health care personnel and almost 200 practicing physicians. Many of our walk-in clinics now include a variety of specialists who work in consult with our family physicians.
Our physicians care for patients in a traditional family practice through scheduled appointments, and on a walk in basis while also providing episodic care through our Fastrack Program. Designed to deal with minor injuries and medical issues, prescription refills and immunizations, the Fastrack Program provides you with the next available appointment.
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With tobacco companies increasingly targeting women and youth in developing countries, anti-smoking efforts will have to target those audiences, too, according to a report from the American Cancer Society (ACS).
"Globally, the data are very clear in indicating that the tobacco epidemic has now expanded to, and become more focused on, the world's low-and middle-income countries...due largely to the expansion of the multinational tobacco industry's marketing efforts in Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America," Thomas Glynn, PhD, of the ACS, and colleagues declared.
The globalization of tobacco began 500 years ago, when European explorers brought it home from the Americas, and today there are an estimated 1.3 billion consumers of a product that kills more than 14,500 people each day, the researchers noted in the January/February issue of CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians..
Yet it only in the past 50 years has tobacco science revealed the product's chemistry and addictive properties, the psychology of its use, and the "appalling human and economic costs it has and continues to render," the investigators wrote.
The report highlights the importance of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, a treaty negotiated under the auspices of the World Health Organization with more than 165 signatories.
No single action will have more effect on the fight against tobacco than the universal adoption and full implementation of this treaty, the authors stated.
But many specific challenges remain for the global anti-smoking community, and the new report details specific strategies and interventions, such as encouraging tax increases on tobacco and improving the regulation of tobacco products.
For example, it has been estimated that a 10% increase in the price of cigarettes through taxes would result in a 7% reduction in use among youth and a 4% decrease among adults, and that even greater reductions would be seen in developing countries.
Some of the funds generated by higher taxes could then be used in tobacco control programs, creating a win-win situation, according to the ACS.
While the Food and Drug Administration has recently been been authorized to regulate tobacco products in he United States, elsewhere they are among the most unregulated consumer items on any market.
This is so even though tobacco products contain up to 4,000 chemicals -- in many countries there is no requirement for testing and disclosure of ingredients and emissions.
"It has been observed that the consumers of canned spaghetti, potato chips, and macaroni and cheese are required to be more informed about the consumption of these products than the consumption of tobacco, which kills as many as half of its users," the ACS researchers wrote.
There also should be increased media-based tobacco countermarketing and public information efforts, more graphic health warnings on packaging, and greater access to treatment for nicotine dependence.
Additional needs include a greater emphasis on evidence-based research and surveillance data to track use, determine the efficacy of interventions, and monitor the industry.
The report also highlights areas where efforts to change practices and policies are necessary, including curbing tobacco use by health care providers, decreasing tobacco advertising and promotion, and combating the targeting of women and young people.
Global tobacco use by men has begun to decline, but the epidemic among women continues, and the prevalence of smoking among women could reach 20% worldwide by 2025, according to WHO.
Unless increases in tobacco use by women are reversed by education, counter-advertising, and confronting the tobacco industry, "the social and economic progress that women have begun too achieve in many parts of the world may be reversed and lost," the report states.
The targeting of youthful "replacement smokers" also has become a priority for the tobacco industry, as adults increasingly quit or die, and as many as 100,000 young people begin using tobacco worldwide each day. Efforts must be made to eliminate this practice, and to further limit access to tobacco products for youth, the report said.
According to the authors, further challenges include:
- Raising the profile of tobacco control on worldwide public health agendas.
- Harnessing the capacity of modern information technology into control strategies.
- Designing better means of tracking and countering the marketing plans of the multinational companies.
- Focusing on culturally appropriate interventions
- Obtaining additional resources and promoting the development of strong advocacy skills
Finally, the report calls for more skilled and dedicated professionals, ranging from physicians to teachers and chemists to economists, to work in the field of tobacco control.
"If global tobacco control can continue to attract such individuals, the challenges involved in addressing the issues outlined in this report will be eased and the tide of global tobacco use begun more than 500 years ago, with its attendant death and disease, can be turned," he report concluded.
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CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians
Source Reference: Glynn T "The globalization of tobacco use: 21 challenges for the 21st century" CA 2010; 60: 50 - 61.

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PepsiCo Inc (NASDAQ:PEP) Q3 2020 Earnings Conference Call - Final Transcript
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Good morning, everyone, and welcome to this pre-recorded management discussion of PepsiCo's Third Quarter Earnings Results. My name is Ravi Pamnani, and I am the Senior Vice President of Investor Relations at PepsiCo. Joining me today are PepsiCo's Chairman and CEO, Ramon Laguarta; and PepsiCo's Vice Chairman and CFO, Hugh Johnston.
Before we begin, please take note of our cautionary statement. We will make forward-looking statements on today's call, including about our business plans and 2020 guidance and the potential impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on our business. Forward-looking statements inherently involve risks and uncertainties and only reflect our view as of today, October 1, and we are under no obligation to update.
When discussing our results, we refer to non-GAAP measures, which exclude certain items from reported results. Please refer to today's earnings release and 10-Q, available on pepsico.com, for definitions and reconciliations of non-GAAP measures and additional information regarding our results, including a discussion of factors that could cause actual results to materially differ from forward-looking statements.
As a reminder, our financial results in the United States and Canada, or North America, are reported on a 12-week basis, while substantially all of our international operations report on a monthly calendar basis, for which the months of June, July and August are reflected in our results for the 12 weeks ended September 5, 2020.
And now, it's my pleasure to introduce our Chairman and CEO, Ramon Laguarta.
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Thank you, Ravi, and good morning, everyone. My agenda today will include a detailed discussion of our business performance and a reiteration of the guiding principles and priorities on becoming a faster, stronger and better Company. I will then turn it over to Hugh for additional perspectives on our financial results and 2020 outlook.
But before I start the business review, I would like to note that I am very pleased with how our people and businesses have performed in what continues to be a complex and volatile environment. As this environment continues to evolve, we remain very focused on controlling what we can with an unwavering commitment to: keeping our employees safe; servicing our customers to the very best of our ability; and supporting our communities in both good and difficult times. The dedication and resilience of our employees have been nothing short of exemplary during these times and I want to thank them for everything they do.
Now, with respect to our business performance, our organic revenue growth accelerated in the third quarter. Our global snacks and food business remained resilient, while our global beverage business returned to growth. Specifically, our Q3 organic revenue growth accelerated to 4.2%, with both our North America and International businesses delivering mid-single-digit growth. Our global snacks and food businesses delivered 6% organic revenue growth, while our global beverage business delivered 3% organic revenue growth. The global beverage business meaningfully improved versus the previous quarter with especially encouraging results in our PepsiCo Beverages North America division.
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The natural park was established on April 30th in 1995. The most significant figure in the whole area of the park is for sure the Lake Blidinje. The lake is a result of a local farmer's intervention who had not enough water for their flock, so for preserving the water they closed the outgoing flows with tree branches and in this way they shaped a lake that today became the most known lake in all the area.
As a part of the park there is a sports and recreational centre Risovac. The main ski centre it's located on the slopes of the mountains Vran and Čvrsnica on a 2228 m/as highness. Even if the ski centre is present only few years it's very nicely arranged and all the guests can use a ski lift that is 575 m long, a new four-seater with a capacitance of 1600 skier per hour and the baby lift with a capacity of 560 children per hour.
In the last decade here were built many facilities, most of all weekend houses, private houses with rooms and apartments who's owners rent them to numerous tourists that come from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and other neighboring countries. In the vicinity of the ski centre You can find restaurants and other facilities that are present as a part of the weekend houses and the inns in the dense pine forest.
Except the ski centre the guest can enjoy in a botanic and zoo garden Masna luka, where are located a few natural spring waters and numerous flora and fauna species. A rich offer of the floral world it's visible in the numerous botanic species, from the Mediterranean ones to species that grows only on high mountain areas. The animal world is also full of interesting representatives of whom the most interesting are the brown bear and the chamois.
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Jane Jensen hopes to make a new Gabriel Knight game, it has been revealed.
The adventure game creator, who is releasing an 'Anniversary Edition' of the 1993 original this year, said it would be difficult to remake its sequels and so hopes to create a new fourth instalment.
"Gabriel Knight 2 was full motion video, and that game is really beloved. It would be very hard to remake it in this [new] style," she told Digital Spy at GDC 2014.
"What I'd love to do is get Gabriel Knight 1 out there, and if it does well, we'd love to make Gabriel Knight 4, a brand new one as the next game."
Jensen explained she has two "fully developed stories" ready after unsuccessfully pitching to publishers three times since 1998.
"It's very exciting to be finally in business with Activision on this [remake]," she explained.
"We couldn't have done it without the support of the in-house producers who really wanted to see it happen.
"Right now we just have the rights to do Gabriel Knight 1, so they said, 'Let's see how this does, how the public receives it and how good a job you guys do on it, and we'll talk about that later.' I think all of that is TBD."
The 1993 point-and-click adventure will be updated with HD graphics, new voice acting and a remastered soundtrack, and is developed by Jensen's own independent studio Pinkerton Road.
Jensen will also soon release Kickstarter-funded project Moebius: Empire Rising on April 15.
Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers 20th Anniversary Edition will be released on PC, Mac, iOS and Android in 2014.
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The enthralling second novel in the New York Times bestselling Raven's Shadow series, and sequel to the critically acclaimed epic fantasy debut Blood Song
Vaelin Al Sorna is tired of war. He's fought countless battles in service to the Realm and Faith. His reward was the loss of his love, the death of his friends and a betrayal by his king. After five years in an Alpiran dungeon, he just wants to go home.
Reva intends to welcome Vaelin back with a knife between the ribs. He destroyed her family and ruined her life. Nothing will stop her from exacting bloody vengeance - not even the threat of invasion from the greatest enemy the Realm has ever faced.
Yet as the fires of war spread, foes become friends and truths turn to lies. To save the Realm, Reva must embrace a future she does not want - and Vaelin must revisit a past he'd rather leave buried.
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Despite the kind of publicity and hysteria usually reserved for big-budget summer films, Lena Dunham's HBO dramedy "Girls" earned its worst premiere ratings to date with a paltry (even for "Girls") 680,000 viewers.
By comparison, season 3 debuted to 1.1 million viewers. That's nearly a 40% drop this year. In the all-important 18-49 age demo, "Girls" pulled only 390,000 viewers, a dip of 35%. Things are moving in the wrong direction — the season 3 premiere was a 28% improvement over the season 2 premiere.
For more context, of the 15 HBO series ranked here, "Girls" currently ranks 10th.
This is an apples-to-apples comparison. Although total viewership will increase over the course of the week through replays and HBOGo (what's known as Live Plus 7 ratings), the numbers above all represent initial viewers. For the past 3 years, "Girls" has premiered in competition with the Golden Globes ceremony, so that wasn't a factor in this year's decline.
One major difference that should have increased Sunday's ratings was the five-alarm media hoopla around the season 4 premiere. This summer Dunham was everywhere on her book tour: magazine covers, talk shows. Just a few months later she was everywhere again promoting "Girls." Even before its broadcast, this episode garnered a frenzy of nationwide publicity all week over a raunchy sex scene everyone's still talking about. Moreover, just before the premiere, Dunham managed to cause yet another a stir by releasing nude photos of herself.
If that wasn't enough, for the last few months Dunham has glommed onto mainstream superstar Taylor Swift and milked that friendship for an endless supply of free publicity.
One dramatic difference between the premiere of seasons 3 and 4, however, is the controversy Dunham faced in November when it was discovered that a number of facts — in what was advertised as her non-fiction memoir — were completely made up.
Worse, those manufactured facts resulted in an innocent family man living for months under a cloud of suspicion as Dunham's rapist. Worse still, it was revealed that Dunham remained silent even after she knew her memoir had indicted an innocent man as her rapist.
Although Dunham is considered sacred in left-wing mainstream media and entertainment circles, it was impossible to wish this story into the cornfield after Dunham's publisher, Random House, made the dramatic move of agreeing to alter future prints of the memoir and offered to pay for the legal expenses incurred by this innocent man (Breitbart News identifies him as Barry One) while attempting to clear his name.
Dunham also claimed her rapist was a conservative Republican. The left-wing Gawker believes it has proved that a lie.
There can come a devastating moment in the life of any entertainer when something forever alters the public's perception of you. Meg Ryan never recovered from her adulterous on-set affair with Russell Crowe. Harrison Ford never recovered after dumping his wife for a much younger woman. Burt Reynolds' career ended after insulting his audience with "Stroker Ace."
Dunham's small but loyal base is obviously made up of young, left-wing feminists. She is, or at least was, their spirit guide. But they now know that when it came to an issue as important as rape, Dunham wasn't even close to honest with them. And to stand silently by as you knowingly allow an innocent man to twist in the wind under a false rape allegation — who wouldn't find that craven and indefensible?
Dunham led the charge of her memoir's publicity blitz with a rape story that completely unraveled. Additionally, after shaming others into voting, it was discovered Dunham didn't vote. There was also a controversy surrounding Dunham's unnatural sexual fascination with her much younger sister.
Fans will put up with a lot of bad behavior until it involves lying, hypocrisy and a child. On those three points, Lena Dunham hit the trifecta and appears to have lost at least part of what was already a very small audience.
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We all love to get things in a timely manner. This typically means as soon as possible; not humanly possible – nay, that would take too long. Instead, we prefer to get things before the time that was told to us. That's why we must be conservative in our lead times when we make promises. It's sales 101 if you ever take the course.
In my case, I received the production draft for my next book, "Epiphanies, Theories, and Downright Good Thoughts…made while being single" this morning. I was quite pleased by this, to say the least (I'm holding my excitement back as best I can as I type this). I was not anticipating the turnaround to be this fast so I believe a nice pat on the back is deserving to my publisher, iUniverse, for their efforts.
*pats on the back from across the computer* – Did you feel that iUniverse? Just checking.
Now comes the least favorite part: any final edits. A few weeks ago I posted a picture of the cover page for this book. The original manuscript was somewhere in the neighborhood of 155 pages but still needed some tweaks; not to mention (but I will) how I decided to combine the book rather than split it in half. This brings the total to just about 250 pages. I'm excited on so many levels but it appears my evenings will be spent doing some final reads before this is absolutely final.
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At least 13 people die in latest outbreak of disease as officials warn of a rising death toll after Hurricane Matthew.
Severe storms have different effects on rich and poor countries.
Although Hurricane Matthew continues to bring heavy rain and storm surges to parts of the US east coast, it is no longer the threat it once was.
The death toll in the US from Matthew is believed to be 10, according to the latest Associated Press news agency tally. That is 10 too many, of course, but it pales into insignificance when compared with the almost 900 deaths recorded in Haiti as Matthew swept across the Caribbean nation.
While Haiti took a direct hit from Matthew, a Category 4 storm at the time, the hurricane remained largely off shore as it as it travelled up the US east coast.
Yet there was an inevitability about the impact of a severe storm on a country like Haiti. The nation is the poorest in the world. There are many reasons for this, including its turbulent history – slavery, colonialism, revolution, and occupation are often-cited contributing factors.
Nature has also not been kind to the country. It has few natural resources and it is prone to both hurricanes and earthquakes. The earthquake of 2010 resulted in the deaths of between 100,000 and 316,000 people.
When hurricanes strike Haiti, the impact is disproportionate to the severity. There are several reasons for this.
Firstly, infrastructure is poor and evacuation from areas likely to be affected by a storm is limited.
Secondly, there are relatively few safe havens for people who have been evacuated from their homes. In any case, as one half of the island of Hispaniola, there is a geographical limit to where people can be evacuated.
Thirdly, Haiti is extremely vulnerable to the heavy rain brought by hurricanes because of the destruction of the natural vegetation. It is one of the most deforested countries on Earth. Over the past 200 years, 98 percent of the forests have been felled to provide fuel and a source of income. There is little-to-no replanting because many of the people cutting down the trees are renting the land on which they are working. After cutting down the trees they move on.
As a consequence, the run-off from torrential rain – Matthew dropped nearly half a metre of rain on the country – is ferocious, bringing the risk of severe mudslides.
All this is in contrast to how the US was able to evacuate those at risk as Matthew made its way up the west coast of Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas. Excellent communications, advanced warning systems and a network of multi-laned highways allowed people to be moved from Matthew's path ahead of time. In the US, weather disasters tend to be measured in dollars rather than lives.
The exception was 2005's Hurricane Katrina, when 1,836 people lost their lives. However, most of the deaths occurred in Louisiana (1,577) and Mississippi (238), states that rank 44th and 50th in terms of income.
More than half of those who lost their lives were senior citizens, less mobile as a whole, but also more likely to be among the poorest.
In recent years, countries such as China and India have invested in communications and infrastructure, allowing hundreds of thousands of people to be moved from the path of dangerous weather systems if necessary.
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- Republican Rep. Scott Taylor of Virginia on Wednesday said he didn't "feel comfortable" with Roy Moore's response to allegations of sexual misconduct against him.
- "The 14-year-old girl that was there, I can tell you right now if it was my daughter, I'd break his face, I'd break his fingers, and I'd probably do a lot worse," Taylor said.
- Moore, the Republican nominee for a US Senate seat in Alabama, has denied the allegations.
Republican Rep. Scott Taylor of Virginia said he didn't "feel comfortable" with the response from Roy Moore, the Republican nominee for a US Senate seat in Alabama, to a string of sexual-misconduct allegations against him, including that he initiated a sexual encounter with a 14-year-old girl in 1979, when he was 32.
Speaking to CNN's John Berman on Wednesday, Taylor, a former US Navy SEAL, expressed scepticism about Moore's denials of the allegations.
"All I know is what I've seen," Taylor said. "I saw the man give his interview. Me personally, I don't think it was sufficient enough."
Taylor continued: "The 14-year-old girl that was there, I can tell you right now if it was my daughter, I'd break his face, I'd break his fingers, and I'd probably do a lot worse."
Since a November 9 Washington Post report detailed allegations that Moore pursued relationships with teenage girls when he was in his 30s and working in a district attorney's office, several other women have come forward with similar stories.
Moore's campaign has floated theories that the accusers may have been politically motivated. Moore has also said he doesn't remember dating any young women without their mothers' permission.
"If you are a liberal and hate Judge Moore, apparently he groped you," the campaign said in a statement to The Post last week. "If you are a conservative and love Judge Moore, you know these allegations are a political farce."
President Donald Trump on Tuesday hinted that he supported Moore when he told reporters, "We don't need a liberal person … a Democrat" in that seat.
"He totally denies it," Trump added.
Trump had endorsed Sen. Luther Strange during the Republican Senate primary in Alabama, leaving many lawmakers wondering whether he would support Moore now.
"I think that the president has probably looked at raw politics, and the alternative, of course, would jeopardize his agenda in a very close Senate," Taylor said on Wednesday. "The people can have their feelings about that, whether he should do it or not… but I certainly don't feel comfortable with [Moore's] explanation and everything that happened.
"I think you have to listen to the women," Taylor continued. "Clearly, this isn't an isolated case now."
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Verge by Lidia Yuknavitch
Verge is one of the best short story collections I've read in a long time, and as an avid story reader, that says a lot. Yuknavitch's stories are quietly haunting with political undertones that feel relevant, but never self-righteous or moralistic. We come upon each character in a moment of crisis--an eight-year-old girl runs black market organs to needy recipients, two sisters from a war-torn country swim their family to shore--but even in this darkness, Yuknavitch gives us slivers of hope. As she says in the dedication, this book is for "everyone anywhere who lives in the in-between of things," which really, is most of us.


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Life in a college dorm means sharing everything from class notes to minifridges and bathrooms. But what about sharing expenses with friends or roommates when ordering a pizza?
To ease the splitting of everyday expenses like movies and meals, many college students turn to peer-to-peer (P2P) payment apps.
These apps help you calculate everyone's share, then send or receive the money right away — which means nobody has to run to the ATM.
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The most popular P2P apps tend to work in similar ways. Once you've downloaded your app of choice, you link it to your bank account, credit card or debit card. When you pay someone, the amount you send is drawn from that source. When someone pays you, that sum is credited to your app balance. You can keep the money there and use it to pay someone in another transaction, or you can send the money to your linked account.
The most popular payments apps include Venmo, PayPal, Square Cash, Popmoney, Zelle and Snapchat's Snapcash feature.
In many cases, both sender and recipient have to use the same app, so it pays to go with the one your friends use.
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For most college students, that app is Venmo. The social media component is at least part of the reason for the app's popularity: Along with sending and receiving money with Venmo, you can also see a social feed that shows your friends' emoji-filled messages and paybacks (dollar amounts not included).
The service is free, with one exception: If you've chosen to use a credit card as a funding source, there's a 3% fee on every dollar you send. (Many other platforms charge a comparable fee; for details, check their FAQs.)
Venmo recently began offering group accounts, which are useful for fraternities, sororities, clubs and teams. Some college vendors take Venmo too, such as the maid service offered by Duke's Campus Enterprises. At the University of Pennsylvania, students use Venmo at food trucks that sell cheesesteaks and burritos on campus.
Food trucks aside, you can't buy much with Venmo just yet, though that could change soon; Venmo's owner, the payment platform company PayPal, announced in April that many retailers that already accept PayPal will soon take Venmo as well.
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Even today, millions of BlackBerry users remained without service on Wednesday as day three of no service began. Frustrations are starting to run high as millions of people who rely on their smartphones for business as well as personal communications were cut off.
Today an official statement was issued by "Research in Motion" maker of the BlackBerry smartphones, "BlackBerry subscribers in the Americas may be experiencing intermittent service delays this morning," They further stated, "We are working to resolve the situation as quickly as possible and we apologize to our customers for any inconvenience. We will provide a further update as soon as more information is available."
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When I was living in Vancouver, my flatmate was watching about everything with subtitles, even though everything he was watching was in English, which is his mother tongue. He mainly did that because of a combination of problems: the annoyingly poorly balanced sound tracks in movies (speech too low vs sound effects too loud) and the fact that our house was next to a very busy road. In the end, it was pretty much impossible to understand a film without subtitles, and I had to do it too, although I really don't like it.
See, a few years ago, I had this talk with a friend who couldn't watch an English-speaking film without subtitle, not because he couldn't understand English well (he was pretty good at it actually), but because he couldn't accept to watch a film and not understand 100% of dialogues. I understand his point, but I sadly think it's a way too common belief that speech is more important than image in movie.
For my part, I started watching English-speaking films without subtitles in the early 2000's. Back then, it was about improving my English listening skills. If I wasn't reading, I was more focused on the speech, and therefore more akin to understand what actors were saying and get used to the language. Long story short, it really helped a lot (1). But as I got better at understanding English, well, there was no point in putting back subtitles anymore.
And I remembered what my Mom was saying about her never watching movies with subtitles. She doesn't watch film in English, she watches the French-dubbed versions. But she made a very good point at not reading subtitle: "I can't focus on both the image and the subtitles". And I think that's the whole point.
Now, my Mom is not a cinephile. She just enjoys a movie every now and then. But it's true for everyone. Cinema is mainly a visual media. For years, films could even tell a story without a single line of dialogue, because there wasn't sound on it yet. So filmmakers used a lot of visual cues to convey various plots and emotions, because it wasn't possible to break the film pace every five seconds with dialogue screens.
So now, we have countless ways to tell a story visually but still, a lot of people don't realise it. If it's not in dialogue, it's like it's not explained at all. That's pretty much why fool-proofed movies tend to over-explain the plot in dialogues even though everything is quite always obvious in context. Just look at how hardly-audible dialogues in Interstellar were perceived by a large part of the audience. Another great example is when Mel Gibson wanted to screen The Passion without subtitles, which would have been a great idea, since the audience most likely to go watch the film already knew the story and how it ends (spoiler: Jesus dies on a cross). But of course, this didn't happen, because the film would have completely flopped at the box office.
People take for granted that every single bit of dialogue must be understandable, when image and sound design are equally or more important to understand the film. When I see movies that try to be visually clever, instead of using trendy shots, get trashed because they are too contemplative/hardly understandable/pretentious/boring (check the appropriate answer for your case), it really explains why there are much less films like that anymore, and also why I don't watch that many films anymore. (2)
When you focus too much on dialogues, and therefore on subtitles, it's the same amount of attention you don't give to image and sound (4), and so you lose way more information than you think you get by being overly attentive to dialogues. I always feel that when I tell people I don't watch films with subtitles, they think I'm being pretentious. I'm not. I maybe understand give or take 90% of dialogues in any given film (even in French-speaking films, there are always mumbled or covered lines that are hardly understandable), but I just enjoy and understand the movies better if I'm not distracted by subtitles. Once I even watched a movie in a language I didn't know at all and I understood the plot.
Of course I wouldn't recommend to watch an entire movie without subtitle if you don't understand the language, especially the ones that have really well-crafted dialogues (Tarantino's films, for example, are enjoyable because of dialogues). But if you understand at least 60% (rule of thumb here), I feel like it's worth giving it a shot.
So, I hate to admit, but turns out my Mom was right all along.
(1) In the same way, watching Japanese animation with English subtitles has helped my English-reading skills a lot. If you want to learn some language, these are actually very good exercises to consolidate your knowledge. But you need some level of proficiency first.
(2) And still, in the end, they are the films that get to be remembered and studied in schools.
(3) And don't get me started on multitasking. There is no such thing. It's actually task switching. And in case of subtitles, you have to move your gaze to the text, so you can't in any way watch the image and the subtitles at the same time, especially in theatre (we can talk about the 2° field of view for accurate vision later).
(4) Obviously I don't recommend it. I was just curious about a particular film and couldn't find the subtitles. I lost a lot of information in the process, but I still enjoyed watching the film.


text: Seymour Heiney 0 Report post Posted November 24, 2015 Friends, My daughter's laptop is running the latest version of W10 (1511) and Emsisoft IS 11. She started to use the built-in Mail application for email, as it is fast, "pretty", and easy for her to use. I've tried to get her to still use Outlook, but she wants to use the build-in instead. Okay, fine, its her experience, not mine. Anyway, one thing she discovered was that she could not open any hyperlinks via email when viewing in Mail (they open fine in Outlook). Firefox is her default browser. Well, as part of trying to figure out why links weren't opening, I had disabled Emsisoft to eliminate a firewall factor, but I did not enable Windows Firewall (which I turned off when IS 11 was installed). It did not occur to me that having no firewall whatsoever would cause this problem; I figured if anything the problem would be caused by a firewall setting, not lack of one. So as I was perusing through various forum threads in the wasteland that is the Internet, I came across an old forum post on some Windows 8 site where someone had the same symptoms as I, only it was, I believe, in Windows Live Mail ( which I'm not sure how that equates to the Mail app in W10). But anyway, the OP enabled the built-in firewall and this allowed clicking the links to invoke their default browser. Once I enabled the W10 Firewall, restarted the laptop, and now the links in email when viewing through Mail all open just fine via Firefox.So while the cause of the non-browser invoking link clicks is solved, it still does not tell my why, although I'm not sure I'll ever know. It may be that since Mail is built-in, Windows forces the end-user to have the built-in firewall on in order to access the Internet. I thought at first maybe it was only enforced for "built-in" applications, since Outlook worked fine having Windows Firewall off. But then why wouldn't they enforce that through Edge as well, an application which I would imagine is used far more often to access the Internet than Mail is. Just makes no sense.The dilemma now is, I have to determine whether Emsisoft IS and the W10 Firewall can coexist while both are active. I know the typical advice is to not run both the built-in firewall and a 3rd party firewall at the same time, but it may be her only solution. Would someone on this forum know the answer perhaps? It's not the end of the world if they can't co-exist, of course. She will simply have to use Outlook to access any email links, but today's world is all about convenience and ease, and it would be nice for her to have this convenience. Thanks for reading, Seymour. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997)
Snow White
The story of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is among the most popular of all Fairytales, particularly since it was chosen by Walt Disney for his first feature-length Animated Movie, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937). The tale derives from "Sneewitchen" ["Snowdrop"], in Kinder- und Hausmärchen (coll 1812) by the Grimm Brothers. It tells of a king who has a young daughter, Snowdrop. His wife dies and he marries a beautiful new queen, who becomes jealous of the beauty of her step-daughter, now seven. The queen asks her magic Mirror who is the most beautiful in the land, and the mirror replies that it is Snowdrop. In her rage she orders that Snowdrop be taken Into the Woods and killed, and only her heart – which the queen will eat – brought back. (Victorian translators soon bowdlerized this to have Snowdrop abandoned in the woods.) The soldier so charged, unable to kill Snowdrop, dupes the queen with a lamb's heart. Snowdrop chances upon the cottage of the seven Dwarfs, who come home to find her asleep. The queen learns from her mirror that Snowdrop is still alive. She disguises herself as a pedlar and sells Snowdrop some lace which she ties so tight that Snowdrop collapses. The dwarfs revive her. The queen tries again, this time with a poisoned comb, but again the dwarfs revive Snowdrop. The third time, however, a poisoned apple succeeds. The dwarfs encase Snowdrop in a glass coffin where she remains for some years until a prince lifts her from the coffin and in so doing dislodges the poisoned apple. The queen dies of rage (in the original version she is forced to dance to her death in red-hot slippers) and Snowdrop marries the prince.
Like all fairytales the story has several forebears. In Lo Cunto de li Cunti ["The Story of Stories"] (1634; vt The Pentameron 1674) by Giambattista Basile (1575-1632) the story sometimes known as "The Young Slave" tells of a beautiful young girl, Lisa, who is poisoned by a comb, and is kept alive in a glass coffin, which grows with her. In "Richilde" (1782-1787) by Johann Karl Musäus, Richilde is a vain woman who has a magic mirror which tells her of her beauty. The mirror also informs her the handsomest man is Gombold, who is already married, but under Richilde's influence (> Femme Fatale) Gombold divorces and marries Richilde. He already has a young daughter, Blanca, who grows up and becomes more beautiful than Richilde. The stepmother does all she can to be rid of the girl who, with the help of the court dwarfs, escapes.
SW was also used as a character by the Grimms in "Sneewitchen and Rosenrot" ["Snowdrop and Rose Red"] (1837), a story mostly by Wilhelm Grimm, who seems to have utilized elements from Der Undankbare Zwerg (1818) by Friedrich Kind (1768-1843) about an ungrateful dwarf. In the Grimm version, two sisters living with their mother are visited by a bear, whom they care for during the winter. In the spring the bear goes to protect his treasure from the Dwarfs. The girls meet a dwarf and help him out of several predicaments, although he is never grateful. At length the bear returns, kills the dwarf and is revealed as a young prince who had been placed under a Spell by the dwarf.
SW is a different girl in these stories, but always the name symbolizes purity and Virginity. It is significant in "Snowdrop" that the girl is aged seven before her stepmother seeks to have her killed. Seven signifies completeness, and represents the first complete stage of childhood – it is relevant, too, that the girl is saved by seven dwarfs. The whole story of "Snowdrop" is replete with Numerology references, implying that it may have some deeper alchemical (> Alchemy) or Gnostic meaning. "Snowdrop and Rose Red", conversely, is probably drawn from a nature myth, with the bear signifying winter, and the two sisters representing two roses who need to be cared for during the winter. In the summer the girls come forth and do battle with the dwarf, who has power over the Seasons.
"Snowdrop" has formed the basis for Revisionist Fantasies, including Snow White (1967) by Donald Barthelme and Suisan (1992) by Phyllis Agins. Tanith Lee has utilized the tale twice, once for a darker version, "Red as Blood" (1979 F&SF), and once translated into the modern day in "Snow-Drop" (in Snow White, Blood Red anth 1993 ed Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling). Patricia C Wrede reworked the other Snow White into Elizabethan England in Snow White and Rose Red (1989). Snow White is also retold for feminists by Róisín Sheerin in "Snow White" (in Cinderella on the Ball anth 1991 ed anon). [MA]
This entry is taken from the Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997) edited by John Clute and John Grant. It is provided as a reference and resource for users of the SF Encyclopedia, but apart from possible small corrections has not been updated.


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IJGT gears up for a weekend of northeast events
With the 2014-2015 season underway, the IJGT Northeast will continue its tour hosting two tournaments at two great venues!
The IJGT will continue the Northeast Tour with The Architects Cup presented by IJGA held at the Architects Golf Club on October 4-5, 2014. Juniors will play 18-holes on both Saturday and Sunday competing for IJGT merit points and national rankings.
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Playing in The Architects Cup for the second consecutive year, keep an eye on Ryan Skae of Old Tappan, N.J., looking to improve upon his fourth-place finish in the 2013-2014 season. In the Girls Division, be sure to watch for Madison Braman of Loudonville, N.Y. Madison is recently took second in the IJGT Jersey Open at Buena Vista tournament on September 20-21, 2014.
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Australian Population Growth Insight - from Bernard Salt
AUSTRALIA'S growth over the next 90 years will still leave us with a small population compared to the world's largest cities, according to demographer Bernard Salt. Even so, we need to plan carefully to keep our major growth areas viable.
Salt says with medium migration of 180,000 a year, the national population will grow from 22 million to around 35 million by 2056, and Australia is likely to remain a migration destination for at least another century.
The growth, he says, will probably be concentrated around the job centres of Sydney and Melbourne with the population in each city reaching around seven million.
This may seem huge but, as he points out, large cities, such as London, Paris and Chicago already contain more and Los Angeles has 18 million, New York, 23 million and Tokyo, 34 million.
It is possible that new cities may be formed over the next few decades, but look at the last century – only two cities were formed in Australia, the Gold Coast and Canberra, and these combined reached only a seventh of the population of Melbourne and Sydney by 2000.
So, says Salt, it is more likely that three mega regions will develop around Sydney, Melbourne and south-east Queensland, and that these will require careful urban planning.
Of course, projected population growth in the ACT will be on a much smaller scale than any of the mega regions, but the value of strategic and integrated plans for accommodating growth is the same for us as it is for them.
Salt calls for vigorous debate on the subject, and that is what Canberra has been conducting in recent months. We are already further along the track towards such planning than those places forecast to receive huge population growth.
About Bernard Salt – Australia's Leading Demographer
Bernard Salt is one of Australia's most compelling and entertaining speakers. He is engaged by business to generate thought-provoking discussion at conferences and seminars.
Bernard is a Partner with KPMG based in Melbourne with special expertise in demographic and generational trends. He holds Bachelor of Education and Master of Arts degrees and is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
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• Chairman of the Tourism Forecasting Committee reporting to the Tourism Australia board
• Director of the Fitzgerald Foundation which is a fund raising charity for brain cancer research.
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The parking situation at the new building reflects what Vancouver city Coun. Geoff Meggs calls a "sea change" in the car culture that has led the city to cut requirements for parking stalls for new buildings.


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My grand-daughter is age 7 and I take care of her. She receives speech, O.T., P.T. and feeding programs. She has a lot of sensory problems. I try everything to help her. I can't take her out to eat because the smells make her go wild. Please help.
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I have a 3rd grader with Autism who is fully included. He is trying to gain attention from his peers by imitating their actions. His peers are becoming frustrated. How can we encourage him to interact better with his peers?
At school, my 12 year old Autistic son was working in class with a speech therapist when he just peed on himself. I was told he had gone to the bathroom before. Then he was told to pick up cards he pushed on the floor. When they turned around he was wet. He had an accident the same day and the day before. How can I help him stop this behavior?
I am working with a child who has just started licking things: people, walls, toys, etc. Redirection makes him frustrated. How can I help him reduce this behavior?
As an educational consultant in schools, I often see young children at desks with their feet dangling, the chairs are too high. Could this be a factor affecting behavior and if so what can I tell teachers to do?
I work with older students who always fight about who is first in line. Our transitions are difficult to begin with but this makes it even worse. Do you have any suggestions?
I teach 2nd grade in a very busy classroom. There is one student who has major difficulty with certain academic tasks and will melt down whenever he gets frustrated. We don't know what to do when he gets like that – it's very disruptive! Sending him out of the classroom isn't the answer. What can I do to help him calm down?
What do I do when my child falls to the ground before we walk into the library, or screams while we are in the library?
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Degree groups
Degree groups are content-related groups of final degrees and so make up part of the classification for the recording and preparation of data on degrees which are contained in the official examination and student statistics.
Degrees gained in a first degree course as well as those awarded for a course of (post)graduate studies can be grouped together into degree groups. "Wissenschaft weltoffen" above all strongly concentrates the many degree groups which the official higher education statistics record as teaching degrees.
|Official Statistics
|Diplom (Uni) and corresponding degrees
|Diplom (Uni) and corresponding degrees
Doctorate as a degree awarded for a first degree course
Doctorate as a degree awarded for a course of doctoral studies
- without required final examination
- with required final examination
|Lehramt (teaching degree)
|- state (primary and lower secondary school, primary level)
teaching degree
- cross-level secondary I level/primary school teaching degree
- other teaching degrees by school types / school levels
|artistic degrees
|artistic degrees
|FH degrees(universities of applied sciences)
|FH degrees(universities of applied sciences)
|Bachelor's degrees
|Bachelor's degrees
|Master's degrees
|Master's degrees
|other degrees
|other degrees
see: Final degrees


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Does Anyone Really Know What Time It Is?
Thomas Schueneman
I considered using the phrase "The Doomsday Clock" as the title for this piece, but thought better of it. I figured a reference to an old Chicago favorite would entice more than the suggestion of the end of the world. We've got the daily news for that, right?
So yes, I admit, now that you're here, let's talk about the how to tell time with a Doomsday Clock.
The end is near! Or is it?
I don't suggest we need endlessly dwell on the end of the world. As we're about to discuss, that would be downright ungrateful for someone like me, bestowed with such unearned privilege simply through providence of birth. I do contend we ponder the idea from time to time.
For the past three years, the Asahi Glass Foundation has requested my input on their annual survey Environmental Problems and the Survival of Humankind.
At the end of the survey, respondents are invited to offer thoughts and opinions based on our previous answers given in the questionnaire.
In other words, it's our chance to ponder the end of the world. It's only once a year.
Three points before we dive in:
- The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is more pessimistic than I am. For them it's nearly midnight. The weighted average of my responses says it's more like 10:40 (22:40).
- It is essential, for me at least, to learn to live with cognitive dissonance. Without the ability to hold in my mind two opposing ideas, each a representation of reality, then nothing is real. It's a complex world.
- Since I have not yet succumbed to pessimism and self-inflicted guilt, I assume there is still hope.
Of course there is.
How I see it from my perch
From the perspective of a citizen of the United States, it is difficult to consider any more pressing issue for the long-term survival and flourishing of humanity than overconsumption and lifestyle habits.
Born in 1958, I am on the youngish end of the baby-boomgeneration, a "fortunate son" of the Great Acceleration led by postwar America. At least implicitly, I expect access to a level of consumption, material throughput, and modes of energy production that can only be sustained by borrowing from the future. With a monetary system based on debt, our economics is a reflection of this skewed worldview.
The forest for the trees
In the book Sustaining Life on Earth: Environmental and Human Health Through Global Governance, co-authors Colin L. Soskolne and Laura Westra write:
"The dominant worldview assumes that the human economy is separate from the environment and thus free of biophysical constraints. Under what has been labeled the expansionist perspective, the environment is the source of an unlimited supply of resources and a sink for an unlimited quantity of wastes, allowing the human economy to expand without limit.
"The rise of neoclassical economics late in the 19th century launched this perspective, effectively decoupling culture and environment. Today, 'society' and 'economy' seem almost synonymous, at least in the minds of many political leaders. We make societal decisions almost exclusively on the basis of narrowly construed economic indicators unless these indicators are trumped by ideological or political goals.
"…predicting the future on the basis of faulty assumption can be both misleading and dangerous, especially if those assumptions come solely from the past few centuries of European expansion, a small subset of history that took place over a narrow timeframe.
"In reality, the Earth, a finite body, does not continue to grow, so neither can populations or the material consumption of these populations. A dynamic steady-state perspective more accurately reflects the reality of a finite Earth."
And yet, this is the water in which I swim.
The root of the challenge for humanity is first awareness, then expanding the perception of our place in this world, as a species and in a global society of 7.8 billion individuals.
The way it used to be never was
There is no going back to another time, nor should we want a return to a life that was "nasty, brutish, and short." Our evolution as a species must somehow overcome the genetic tendency of adversarial tribalism. We can no longer isolate our human responsibility to one region, country, religion, race, clan, gender or species, despite political narratives to the contrary.
Even with all its enormous benefits, we too often mistake technology as a strategy for survival. Our technical prowess is only a tactic. Strategic solutions to the physical depletion and constraints of a finite world will come only from a fundamental human transformation.
Until we resolve this inner conflict between short-term affluence and long-term stewardship of life on the planet, including our own, we will continue on a perilous path toward an annihilation of our own making.
Clearly, this is easier said than done. I doubt I will ever see it, but I still believe it is possible.


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Master Class
Simplify And Clarify; Taking The Mystery Out Of Lighting Page 2
As the sun began to get closer to the horizon I was able to place Westcott's
translucent panel between them and the direct sunlight.
By turning their faces toward the broad light source I was again able to attain the exact same lighting pattern on their faces as I have been using all along. The sandy beach was my reflector fill. When they were posed by the panel you could see the lighting pattern on both profiles before I snapped the shutter. I still had my camera set for Aperture Priority. With all that white coming into the lens I had to override the camera's setting by 1 or 2 f/stops to keep the faces from going too dark.
When the sun goes still closer to the horizon, the intensity of the direct sunlight becomes so much less than before that I'm able to use the direct light of the sun as my main light.
From an extremely low camera height I was able to place this 2/3 view of Toby against the sky to create a high-key study of her. I simply turned her face to the light and positioned my lens on the shadowed side of her face, looking up toward the sky. It took me one or two exposures to get the proper exposure, much the same as it did when I photographed the two of them together against the translucent background.
Toward the end of the day, the color warms up and the late afternoon sunlight begins to radiate warmth on their faces.
Notice anything different about the light pattern on Toby's face here? Of course not! It's one and the same--all natural light!
There was some forethought in setting up this photograph.
I told Charlie which direction to face, so that I could photograph into the shadowed side of his face. Look, there's that same lighting pattern on him, just as if I had planned it that way. Smiles. Then, I just let them play, and you see the results here! For this picture I used Shutter Priority to stop the movement.
The final double profile of the two of them still shows that same lighting pattern.
So, are you bored with my using only one lighting pattern throughout this whole series? Or, are you getting the point? One doesn't need to learn a whole lot of different lighting patterns to create a variety of pictures. Here, under so many different lighting conditions, I was able to vary the contents of the pictures without having to change the pattern at all.
In a way it's comparable to creating a lot of different sentences, all constructed using a subject and a verb. We all speak the same language, but at the same time we're each able to express our own feelings differently. The sentence structure doesn't change, only the message changes. Are you getting my message? Keeping the lighting similar in all of these pictures is a way of expressing one's feelings. If you aren't worried about the grammar (lighting), you can say just about anything you want in your photographs!
Hey, what the heck happened to the mystery of lighting? There
is none. It's always the same for me!
Toby and Charlie, by the way, will be posing for my November class in Hollywood, Florida, and also for my Las Vegas class just before the WPPI convention. Hope to see some of you there.
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The accolades keep coming for North Palm Beach's Kayla Abramowitz.
The Watson B. Duncan Middle School eighth-grader is known for Kayla Cares 4 Kids, the non-profit organization she started to collect DVDs, books and other items for children in the hospital. She's made donations to more than 80 hospitals and Ronald McDonald houses in all 50 states, according to a news release.
She's one of two students from Florida selected as a top youth volunteer in the Prudential Spirit of Community Awards, according to the release.
"I've learned that no matter how small something starts out, with enough passion and effort, you can make it bigger than anyone ever dreamed," she said in the release.
Now that she's reached all 50 states, her next goal is to donate to every children's hospital and Ronald McDonald house in the U.S. Abramowitz, who has juvenile arthritis and Crohn's disease, started the charity after her own two-week hospital stay.
She will receive $1,000, a silver medallion and an all-expense paid trip to Washington, D.C. in early May. At that time, 10 students will be named the top volunteers in the country.
In June, she won the national Young Entrepreneurs Academy's competition there for her leadership of Kayla Cares 4 Kids.


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About Drive Smart
Fatalities in a passenger vehicle were unbuckled in the car crash.
of fatal motor vehicle crashes, in Nebraska, involve an impaired driver.
drivers, in Nebraska, were involved in a distracted driving crash (5 year average)
Nebraska drivers wear their seatbelts when driving.
Who We Are
The Drive Smart Nebraska Coalition is dedicated to eliminating injuries and deaths on our Nebraska roads.
Through our collective efforts, public and private, we promote and a carry out road safety activities and policies in our communities and across the state.
What We Do
We work to implement evidence-based programs and policies to reduce the number of motor vehicle related traffic deaths and injuries.
Our vision is that all drivers, all ages, are safe on Nebraska roadways. We share our resources to support traffic safety education and information across the state.
How to Help
Join the Drive Smart Nebraska coalition, that meets quarterly, to plan activities and address policy issues.
Support a consistent traffic safety message to increase seat belt use, reduce impaired driving, reduce distracted driving and raise awareness around traffic safety in our communities.


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To expand the variety of training modules for its members; True Fitness is introducing for the first time, the Queenax functional and suspended bodyweight training system and Aerial Yoga facilities, both unique to True Fitness's eighth and latest club located at Viva Business Park.
The Queenax is a highly-versatile equipment that integrates unlimited training options to improve strength and mobility for everyday living, and can be adapted to suit exercisers with different fitness levels.
Aerial yoga is a modern adaptation of traditional yoga done with the support of a special kind of hammock so that you are suspended in the air. With the greater freedom of movement, you'll be able to go deeper into stretches and increase your flexibility. It is also an effective way to strengthen your core strength and get a total body workout because of the higher level of muscle engagement required to keep your body stable in the air.
Stretch your mind and body with their suite of yoga classes such as Yogalates & Yin Yoga classes and get your blood pumping with the high-energy ICE II Spinning classes. You can also opt for the popular BodyPump™, BodyCombat™, Zumba®, Hip Hop, Grit Strength, Hot Hula and Fight-Do classes.
750 Chai Chee Road, Block B, 2nd Floor, Viva Business Park
Tel: +65 6348 2900 Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Harvey Norman, the electronics, computers, furniture and bedding retail chain has opened its first factory outlet here at VIVA Business Park in Chai Chee.
Spanning a total space of over 38,500 sq ft, the two-storey store stocks items at up to 90 per cent off usual prices.
Shoppes can find the chain's discontinued models, faulty models that have been repaired, display sets and regular items at one-off special prices exclusive to the factory outlet.
Harvey Norman offers an extensive range of sofas and recliners, such as IMG from Norway and La-Z-Boy from USA.
Built-in cooker hobs and hoods from brands such as UNO, Tecno, ELBA, EF and Otimmo by Europace are aalso vailable at the Harvey Norman Factory Outlet.
750B Chai Chee Road, Level 1 and Level 2 Viva Business Park
Tel: +65 6245 1516
80-seater Yoda Fish & Meat Market is an innovative new-to-market Japanese F&B concept at Viva Business Park, Chai Chee.
Like in a fresh food market, Yoda's customers get to pick from a wide selection of fresh seafood and meat. The selected catches/meat can then be handed over to the chef, to be prepared according to their preferred taste and style of cooking, including Teppanyaki and Yakiniku. Customers who prefer to order from a menu have the option to do so easily too.
#01-17, Viva Business Park, 750 Chai Chee Road
Tel: +65 6822 0720 Email: email@example.com
A meal at SOURCE is a culinary affair where simple yet quality ingredients come together to visually and gastronomically stimulate the senses.
Every item served here is Chef Melvyn's passionate take creating unpretentious, unexpected dishes for the local palette, using ingredients sourced locally or around the region.
They want to consistently surprise you by bringing a new level of indulgence with comfort food for the soul.
750A Chai Chee Road, #01-03, Viva Business Park, Chai Chee Estate
Tel: +65 6241 1866 or Email: firstname.lastname@example.com


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There are many professions that require a wide range of requirements, such as teachers, doctors, accounting, and many others. Initially assessed the teaching profession does not provide much income for each person, but there are many people who want a teacher by profession regardless of income earned, but rather the desire of everyone to share knowledge and experiences with others. Job as a teacher or lecturer is now a matter of pride, so that in its development, many people who make the profession as a teacher or teachers to be able to advance the world to better education. Teaching profession is not just teaching, but also needed in the teaching strategies so students do not feel bored and can understand any subject being taught. Secondary education degree program is one program that is prepared to teach middle school students with specific subjects, like math, science, or science.
High school teaching requires knowledge of materials and teaching methods appropriate for the development of the students. Secondary education degree is a program that required everyone to be able to face competition for jobs and a brilliant career. Secondary education degree is also one of requirements must be met in order for any teacher or instructor can teach in middle school, junior high school or high school. Secondary education degree program is the first step that must be done by anyone who wants to enter the beginning of a career or to be able to teach at several levels of schools, such as primary schools or adult education. Secondary education degree is designed for anyone wishing to teach in several specialized fields in various levels of schools, like elementary school, junior high school, or high school.
There are many offerings are provided through the Internet for anyone wishing to obtain a secondary education degree.
Through the internet every people can get information about secondary education degree online, starting from a given program, until the required fee. At first not all teachers or teachers have the same education in a career in various schools, but with the development time, requirement for a career as a teachers increasingly have increased, along with progress of time, so a secondary education degree becomes the main requirement for any person or the teachers in improving career. Actually the meaning of secondary education is formal education for children with ages 13-18 years, so that secondary education is the first step that needs to be done every one to be a career, because each year the requirements for getting a job increases, so that with a secondary education degree is expected everyone can do their best to get a successful career.
For students who have completed high school, it will usually continue their education to a higher level, referred to as post secondary, or referred to after high school. Whatever the selected college students after high school, ranging from associate's degree, bachelor's degree, or master's degree is considered as post secondary education degree.


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The iPod is a hard drive based music player which was created by Apple. Nowadays there are different varieties of it, and you can find it in the Shuffle, Mini, Nano and Touch versions. All of these models were designed so that they can facilitate an ease of use for everyone regardless of their age. The user interface is very easy to get your head around it and a central scroll wheel is used to navigate around the player. This mechanism was redesigned when it came to the Nano generation. Given the fact that the original wheel was too large for this particular model, engineers had to make it smaller. The way the Nano stores data on it is through the built in memory. This brings great portability to it and it does not require you to carry around cassettes or CDs like it was the case with older players.
When we are talking about the models before the Nano (of the same Apple players family), the Mini and the Classic all used a hard drive for data storage. Nano uses flash memory instead which makes it shock resistant, whereas dropping a Classic of a Mini would definitely result in hard drive damage.
The first unit of this wonderful music player was launched in 2001 on October 23rd. The man who made all of this possible and brought his vision on a better and revolutionary music player is Tony Fadell. He also presented his ideas to RealNetworks and Philips but only Apple decided to give him a shot and thus get him a contract. And that's how the whole thing began.
One of the drawbacks of this device was the price which around that time was stacked around $400, which was too expensive for most people. Also the fact that it lacked any PC support wasn't too much of a joy either. But the PC compatibility problem was soon taken care of and a PC supported version of it would soon be launched.
In Europe, the iPod was launched only 30 days later. Thus in 2001 Apple totaled an estimated 125,000 units sold. Over time the software for this device was improved and many bugs that were initially present in it were fixed.
Since 2001 and the present day, Apple has become a world leader in offering mp3 players to the world selling hundreds of thousands of such devices.