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And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God.
2 For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
3 And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.
4 And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:
5 That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
6 Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought:
7 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:
8 Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
9 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
10 But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.
11 For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.
12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
15 But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.
16 For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? but we have the mind of Christ.
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Paul's "instruction in his letters to the churches of his day is instruction for the church of God to the end of time" (EGW, Letter 332, 1907). Like many churches today, the church in Corinth was facing some challenging issues. The Apostle Paul recognized that the solution was simple: "For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified" (2:2).
Paul reminded the Corinthians that his preaching did not come with "persuasive words of human wisdom" but came through "the demonstration of the Spirit and of power so that your faith should not be in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God" (v. 4).
For the Christian, the cross of Christ changes everything. This transformation is made possible through the convicting power of the Holy Spirit. It gives us "power" to live the Christian life.
Andrews Seminary professor Joseph Kidder observes, "The cross is the heart of all fellowship and it is only through the cross that fellowship deepens and matures. But this requires the frequent and painful crucifixion of self in all its forms—self-seeking, self-centeredness, self-righteousness—and the willingness to remain vulnerable in open fellowship with other Christians" (Majesty: Experiencing Authentic Worship, 97).
Michael W. Campbell
Associate Professor of Religion
Southwestern Adventist University
Keene, Texas USA


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Dr. B. Joseph White
President, University of Illinois
364 Henry Administration Building
Urbana-Champaign MC-346
Dr. Chester S. Gardner
Special Assistant to the President
377 Henry Administration Building
Urbana-Champaign MC-348
Re: "Global Campus" Proposal
Dear Joe and Chet:
As you know, the University Senates Conference (USC) has closely followed the development of a plan for a "Global Campus" of this University, the latest version of which is set forth in the May 2006 OVPAA document "The University of Illinois Global Campus Initiative: Final Report." We thank you for listening to our comments on the various drafts for the past several months. We write now to express our present sense of the initiative, and to provide our advice with respect to it.
In brief: we are strongly supportive of online education, and of the idea that the University of Illinois can and should be a leader in its development and provision. We are also strongly supportive of your goal of providing affordable, broadly accessible, high quality undergraduate and graduate education via the Global Campus initiative. Nevertheless, we have serious reservations with respect to the proposal under consideration. The assumptions made in the business plan set forth in the "Final Report" seem to us to be very optimistic, and we are concerned about the financial consequences for the rest of the University if commitments are made to the Global Campus that cannot be met out of its separate funding and revenues. Even if the business plan is sound, however, other aspects of the proposal as it stands give us pause.
In particular, we are concerned about the absence of an academic plan – for both the graduate and the undergraduate programs contemplated. Such an academic plan should provide structurally for the kinds of faculty guidance and academic-administrative oversight that are part of the fabric of the three existing campuses of this University, and that have played a central role in ensuring the University's reputation for quality and integrity to date. It seems evident to us that this guidance and oversight can only come from the faculty and academic affairs offices of the three existing campuses.
The "Final Report" does envision meaningful roles during the research and development or "start-up" phase for UI tenured and tenure-track (or "partner") faculty and academic affairs offices at the three on-ground campuses, but those roles are severely restricted if not eliminated in the "formative" and "mature" phases of the Global Campus. Much like any new business, during the start-up phase of experimentation and development, quality is guaranteed by the people actually doing the work – in this case, the UI faculty. But according to the "Final Report," as the Global Campus scales up, moves into the formative and mature phases, and perhaps seeks NCA accreditation, it will increasingly be the LLC itself that oversees development, delivery, assessment, and review of courses and programs. Who, then, guarantees the academic quality of our online UI certificates and degrees? As defined in the "Final Report," the Global Campus Instructors and Core Faculty will possess neither strong institutional connections nor the customary protections afforded by academic freedom and academic governance structures. Consequently, it is difficult to see how the current business plan guarantees academic quality in the formative and mature phases of development.
In our view, it is clearly the University's tenured or tenure-track faculty who are best qualified to guide, oversee, and guarantee the continued educational quality of the Global Campus. Therefore, we recommend that the Academic Council as described on pages 25-27 of the "Final Report" be re-envisioned as a campus senate with more fully developed links to the other three senates and the University Senates Conference, and that a more dynamic, engaged role for UI "partner faculty" be developed for the formative and mature phases. We also recommend that there be three faculty members on the Board of Managers, one from each campus, and each with full voting rights, rather than just one non-voting faculty member from the entire University.
If the Global Campus initiative is to receive significant faculty support, the development and articulation of a sound academic model that promotes and sustains the educational quality traditionally associated with the University of Illinois will be essential. If the Global Campus can be developed in an academically responsible manner, without diminishing our quality and mission-related activity in other respects, the USC is supportive of it. In the absence of provision for adequate structural safeguards of the academic integrity and staffing quality of the course and degree offerings of the proposed campus, however, as well as of strong and clear assurance that it will not be allowed to become a financial and staffing burden for the rest of the university, we question the wisdom and appropriateness of its approval and establishment. Specific items of concern are detailed below.
Academic Principles
The Conference believes that any UI "Global Campus" of the sort described in the "Final Report" should be developed in accordance with widely-accepted academic principles such as those defined by Dr. James Perley, the former president of the American Association of University Professors, and drafter of the AAUP's statement of the Special Committee on Distance Education and Intellectual Property Issues of 1999. These include:
"higher education is something more than career preparation and/or a
collection of courses;
teaching is something other than the 'delivery' of a prescribed set of
course materials;
learning is something more than the absorption of material;
teaching includes a three-way interaction among students, teachers, and
course material;
learning includes generating the capacity to pursue and create new
knowledge; and
the most valuable courses are those that are designed and taught by faculty
so that the courses can change with the pace, interests, and understanding
of students and can expand as faculty and students develop new insights."
"Back to the Future of Education: Real Teaching, Real Learning," James E. Perley
(Originally published in The Technology Source (http://technologysource.org/), September/October 1999. http://technologysource.org/article/back_to_the_future_of_education/)
Marginalization of the Faculty
The USC is deeply concerned about the fundamental absence of a real faculty – meaning full-time, tenure-track faculty with the protection of academic freedom – in the proposed Global Campus, especially in the formative and mature phases. The intended involvement of regular UI faculty in the initial planning and supervision of courses and degree programs notwithstanding, we see a campus staffed mainly by non-faculty staff who are given the responsibilities of delivering courses to students. We have serious concerns about the educational responsibility and probable resulting quality of this approach.
Decoupling Course Development from Teaching
The proposal contemplates courses that would be created and developed by UI faculty, but taught by non-faculty. Decoupling course development from teaching is deeply problematic. Teaching is an iterative process, a complex multidimensional activity that involves interaction between the faculty, the students, and the materials over time. It should be a continuous and unbroken loop. Separating course development from teaching is a hallmark of training, rather than education.
Contingent Instructors
The proposal contemplates hiring a large number of instructors whose pay and benefits will be modest at best, without the possibility of tenure and with no assurance of academic freedom. We think these circumstances, besides being exploitive, will negatively affect the quality of courses at all levels.
We are well aware of the trend of rapid growth in the number of non-tenure-track, part-time faculty in higher education. This is a trend, however, that we lament, and believe to be profoundly detrimental to the quality of higher education in our state and nation. We also note that the increased usage of part time and full time contingent faculty "is associated with a decline in graduation rates at four year institutions, with the largest impact being felt at the public Masters' institutions," according to research from the Cornell Higher Education Research Institute. "Trends and Issues, Assessing Public higher Education at the Start of the 21st Century." Ronald G. Ehrenberg, July 2005. http://www.tiacrefinstitute.org/research/trends/docs/tr_070105b.pdf
We are told that the hiring practices of the Global Campus will be no different from our current practice of making extensive use of Teaching Assistants and contingent faculty to teach students. While this may be the case at UIC and UIUC for lower division students, most upper level undergraduates are taught by program faculty, and master's and doctoral students are nearly always taught by full time tenure-track faculty. Being taught by TAs and contingent faculty is not the whole or even the greater part of a typical student's educational experience at any of our three campuses, especially in the major and at the graduate level.
Value of the UI Degree
We are concerned that, with no differentiation between a degree from the "Global Campus" and the traditional degree from our three existing campuses, the value of the traditional UI degrees at our (other) three campuses may be diluted and diminished by association, and by the indistinguishability of academic credentials.
Competition with Existing Online Programs
We are proud of the successful online education programs (including UI on-line) at the three campuses; and we support the appropriate expansion of such programs as a component of a comprehensive University experience. Created and taught mainly by the full time faculty, these online degree programs are indistinguishable from their on-the-ground traditional counterparts. We question the wisdom and efficiency of establishing a separate structure that will undoubtedly compete with existing programs.
Problems of Online Ventures
Online ventures have a significant history of difficulties. The March 2006 closing of AllLearn, the joint not-for-profit online venture of Oxford, Yale and Stanford Universities is the "…latest in a series of failed online learning university ventures…" according to "What Went Wrong with AllLearn?" in University Business, The Magazine for College and University Administrators. The article notes that a "large proportion of the collapsed online ventures … have had explicitly for-profit motives…," including NYU Online, Columbia University Fathom, and Virtual Temple. The article lists some of the risks in "…creating a spin-off for-profit online venture separate from the university… include tension with the parent institution over straying away from traditional values and institutional identity, lack of faculty involvement, and concerns over assuring the quality of provision."
We appreciate that the business plan envisions a self-supporting and even revenue-generating enterprise, but we are concerned about possible negative impact on our current operation, especially in light of our continuing budget problems. We also wonder about contingency plans in case revenue projections do not meet expectations.
Lack of Shared Governance and Structural Linkage
In the proposed Global Campus, as a for-profit corporation with a board of business managers, the customary faculty and academic-administrative roles articulated in the Statutes and embedded in long-standing institutional practices are absent. This structure bypasses shared governance and oversight at every level, including the USC. The proposed board includes only one non-voting faculty member. We wonder where the academic expertise to make sound academic decisions resides in this business model. We consider it imperative that an explicit structural role be given to the faculty and the provosts or vice chancellors for academic affairs on our existing campuses in the approval and oversight of any Global Campus programs involving colleges or departments on their campuses.
Statutory Concerns
We recognize that this "Global Campus" may not be intended to be a full-fledged "campus" in the sense in which this term is used in the Statutes. The Statutesstate:
e. Campuses. The formation of a new campus may be proposed by the president, by a senate, or by the University Senates Conference. The president shall submit the proposal for the new campus together with the advice of the senates and chancellors and the University Senates Conference to the Board of Trustees for action. If the proposal is adopted, the University Senates Conference shall serve as an advisory body to the president in developing procedures to implement the action of the board. (Article VIII, Section 1)
If the proposed "Campus" is not actually to be a "campus" as this term is used in the Statutes, this section and others relating to "campuses" of this University may be deemed inapplicable in regards to the Global Campus. If that is indeed the case, though, we question the appropriateness of the University itself using the term "campus" to name and characterize the entity. Even in that event, however, we expect that the spirit of this section of the Statutes will be respected, and that the "advice" of the senates, the chancellors and the USC be sought, welcomed, and given due consideration by the board before it acts upon the proposal to establish the "Campus" described in the "Final Report."
The University Senates Conference embraces and endorses the general educational aims and aspirations as expressed in the "Final Report." The USC considers the implementation of the proposed "Global Campus Initiative" to be appropriate, however, only to the extent that this can be done in a manner which guarantees long-term academic and educational quality, and with due regard for its impact on the character and quality of the rest of this institution.
We are pleased by your willingness to fully engage the USC in discussion of the Global Campus business plan over the course of this past year. We are also pleased by your clear commitment to developing and delivering a high-quality, broadly accessible online education to students within and beyond the borders of Illinois. As the Statutes make clear, the maintenance of academic quality is the faculty's expertise and responsibility, and ultimately, our reputation is the source of public trust in the quality of our courses, certificates, and degrees. We look forward now to working with you to develop a complementary academic plan that guarantees the long-term quality of our online educational programs.
Terry Bodenhorn, Associate Professor and Chair, University Senates Conference
cc: Richard Herman, Chancellor, UIUC
Sylvia Manning, Chancellor, UIC
Richard Ringeisen, Chancellor, UIS
Vernon Burton, Chair, UIUC Senate Executive Committee
Elliot Kaufman, Chair, UIC Senate Executive Committee
Pat Langley, Chair, UIS Campus Senate
University Senates Conference Members:
Conwell Anderson, UIC
Terry Bodenhorn, UIS
Vernon Burton, UIUC
Donald Chambers, UIC
Karen-Chapman Novakofski, UIUC
Lynn Fisher, UIS
Nancy Ford, UIS
Robert Fossum, UIUC
Michael Grossman, UIUC
William Jones, UIC
Al Kagan, UIUC
Elliot Kaufman, UIC
Mary Mallory, UIUC
Richard Schacht, UIUC
Peter Scheff, UIC
Gerald Strom, UIC
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1777. Albany, New York.
As battle cries of the American Revolution echo in the distance, servants flutter about preparing for one of New York society's biggest events: the Schuylers' grand ball. Descended from two of the oldest and most distinguished bloodlines in New York, the Schuylers are proud to be one of their fledgling country's founding families, and even prouder still of their three daughters–Angelica, with her razor-sharp wit; Peggy, with her dazzling looks; and Eliza, whose beauty and charm rival those of both her sisters, though she'd rather be aiding the colonists' cause than dressing up for some silly ball.
Still, Eliza can barely contain her excitement when she hears of the arrival of one Alexander Hamilton, a mysterious, rakish young colonel and General George Washington's right-hand man. Though Alex has arrived as the bearer of bad news for the Schuylers, he can't believe his luck–as an orphan, and a bastard one at that–to be in such esteemed company. And when Alex and Eliza meet that fateful night, so begins an epic love story that forever change the course of American history.
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28th January
|Finding inner peace
This time marks the end of winter, and women celebrated the return of Brigid, the maiden or white goddess. She is one aspect of the triple goddess, the two others being the mother (red) goddess and the crone (black goddess).
18th March
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Spring Equinox celebration
Come and join us for a special day of celebration. At Spring equinox, night and day are the same length. It is passage between the dark and light half of the year, the time for renewal and rebirth, to face and overcome adversities and to move forward to the increasing light. First we will explore the adversities we face, then we will go through a process of transformation and purification, and finally we will create our own seeds of intention.
|Celebrating the sacred union
Beltane is the time of sacred union between the God and Goddess that brings fertility to the land and the people. We will celebrate the creative forces of the universe with a fire dance.
3rd August
Stone Circle Auditorium, Milna, Brac
|Celebrating abundance
This evening we celebrate the abundance life offers. We will give thanks for the harvest and for everything we have in our lives. We will explore what you are grateful for and what you have achieved, creating an abundant table and thanking nature. Come and celebrate with us.
Please bring some food to share.
22nd September
Gea Viva Camp, Milna, Brac
|Celebrating Autumn equinox
This is the mysitcal time of balance between day and night, before night takes over. It is a time portal that allows us to look back or forward. Beyond the threshold lies the unknown, which is still wrapped in darkness. I would like to invite you to explore a shadow aspect in yourself. We will then 'step over' the threshold for its transformation.
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31st October
Gea Viva Camp, Milna, Brac
|Celebrating Samhain
In old times Samhain marked the beginning of the New Year. In the course of the year this is the time for the second harvest, and to determine what is needed for the upcoming winter. It is also when the Goddess is being transformed into her crone aspect.
At this celebration we start looking within: to connect with our inner wisdom and the wisdom of our ancestors.
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|Womb blessing
A warm welcome to all women to reawaken the sacred feminine through the world wide womb blessing innitiated by Miranda Gray, the author of the book "The Red Moon".
In meditation we will connect with the Earth and the full moon, strengthening ourselves and the sisterhood of women in our families, community, ancestoral lines and all over the world.
This womb blessing is a place for women to meet and open to all, no matter if you have a menstrual cycle or not.
Please bring a shawl, two bowls, a tea light, a mat to sit on and some food to share. If you feel like it, you can also bring anything to place in the centre of our circle. We will be in the dome tent, so please wear warm and comfortable clothing. Donations are welcome.
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7:00 h
Gea Viva Camp, Milna, Brac
|Winter solstice celebration
From this day on, the days are getting longer again, and in the past this was celebrated as the rebirth of the sun god.
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Thursday, June 7, 2007
Is it possible for the majority of people in a country to lie more than the tell the truth? The answer is no, unequivocally no, but sometimes as a rich many in a poor country I believe the answer is yes. However, then you say to me,
- I am not rich! -
Sorry, I am sorry, perception is more important than reality, and the truth is you are rich walking around in 80 percent of the countries on the planet, and in about 2 percent you are poor.
Assume the average United States person earns 30, 000 US per year.
What would you think… if a person told you, I paid 60,000 US for a plane ticket to Africa? You say,
- You are RICH! -
You are rich, if you come from the USA, Europe, in some way took an airplane flight into West Africa, then you must be rich.
The average person in Togo is earning about 730 US Dollars per day.
A round trip ticket from Chicago to Togo should be about 1500 US Dollars, and wildly higher is you do not know what you are doing and an travel agent takes the advantage.
Congratulations, if you always dreamed about being rich, you can be, travel to India, Africa, Southeast Asia and you can revel in the joys of being rich. Taxis, cars, women, bars, all the debauchery and the fast life you could every want, you can be a jet setter, for once in your life you will not have to work for the man and you will be rich.
Also enjoy the good life, every person will come up and beg for money, ask you for favors and tell you many lies to try to earn money from the rich man. You will be famous, every person will stare at you, look at you and never allow you a moments peace.
These are the four major types of reason people lie off the top of my head with very little thought on the planet.
1. Lies for financial gain.
2. Lies to avoid to not be proven a fool. (Save Face)
3. Lies to increase appear a higher class level. (Not be low class)
4. Lies for protection of privacy, safety, and to remain separated.
(I am not from the USA) (I do not make much money.) (I have to leave, I have an appointment.)
Doing business with liars? Ok, who is a liar? I was a Estate Broker in the USA and I often am asked, why did you stop, I say,
- Who wants to listen to liars all day. -
Could you imagine being a car salesperson?
People think it is the sale person who lies, the truth is when it behooves a person to lie, when they believe they can say one small lie and make 1000 dollars.
Hello sir,
- How many miles doe you trade in have on it? -
Your answer is, no use in explaining, you now the lies you will tell.
Buying a home, buying a business, an the number is 100, 000, 200,000, 300,000 USA Dollars, one lie and the believe the can increase their gain by about 5000 US dollars.
In my estimation when I was a Real Estate Broker, at least 9 out of 10 people I did business with started the relationship with massive amounts of lies and slowly started to open up and tell the truth.
Hello, my name is Andy, how can I help you.
Blah Blah Blah and then I ask,
- What is your telephone number? -
The say,
- 523-0000 -
Thank you, I am looking at the caller ID and think, wow, they could be a little smarter, this one is on the slow side.
Did you lie on your taxes last year?
If the answer is yes, then please think, try to understand, so did all the other people you know, you can hear them brag about how they cheated the government out of tax money in the bar, the restaurant anywhere. I am amazed how people will just tell me, I did this and that and saved 20,000 dollars in taxes.
So how do you do business with liars? The truth is, you do it every day, all day, ever minute of every day. If the richest man the world walked into your life would you ask him for money, a small amount of money to set you up in business, or would you ignore him.
I am in Togo, I walk into a business here, I am the richest man they ever met.
You assume I cheated on my taxes, wrong, I did not, but I did lie, I showed I owed more money than was the truth, and then paid more last year the was correct. This is true. I did not want the government of the USA to think I was greedy, paying no taxes puts up red flags. Shame on me, I paid more taxes than I truthfully owed.
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If your injuries allow, the most important thing to do after an accident is to write down the information of witnesses and take pictures of the scene. Multiple pictures from different angles can be very beneficial to a car accident claim, helping to prove cause and injury. Take photos not only of the damage to the cars, but your injuries, time and location of the accident, and the surrounding area.
It is also important to fill out a police report, which can be valuable evidence if your case goes to court. In addition, you should go to a hospital as soon as possible for treatment, even if your injuries are minor, and should continue keeping appointments for as long as necessary. These medical records provide strong support for your claim, so it is important not to postpone or refuse treatment.
Everyone who operates a motor vehicle is required to act with reasonable care while driving. In cases of negligence, we follow a three-step process to support your claim in court:
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A Field Guide to Losing Your Friends
After losing his best friend to the terrorist attack on a World Cup screening in Uganda, Tyler Dunning plunged into depression and despair. After some solo hikes in Rocky Mountain National Park, Dunning felt a spark of purpose once again. Dunning made plans to visit all 59 U.S. national parks and has found healing as well as a restored sense of purpose on the trails.


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A Kickstarter deliverly has arrived at Joel's house and it's a good one, , ALONE, An asymmetic survival game of cunning, bluff and deduction. Joel will unbox it to show you what you get in this board game from Horrible Games.
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Merlin2 Nick Agar Signature Series Woodworking Set 110V
�I hope you enjoy using this set as much as I am excited to be a part of this new range of products.This tool opens up new possibilities. It�s faster, more efficient and the finish happens in seconds instead of hours.� � Nick Agar
Nick Agar is a world famous sculptural woodworking artist who is a rock star in the wood turning world. He is in demand for demonstrations and classes internationally and is recognized by collectors around the world. His Norwegian Sunset Bowl is a beautifully crafted, multi-textured work that represents the best of woodworking and professional turning artistry.


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Home Abstracts
Call for AbstractsApplicants are invited to share their scientific results at the event as a poster. In addition, a small number of short talks may be selected from submitted abstracts. Posters will be displayed on poster boards in a dedicated area at the venue, and should not exceed 841 mm (width) × 1189 mm (length) (A0 size). Short talks will be 10 mins long.
Abstracts must be submitted via the online participant portal before the deadline (31st January 2018).
Accepted abstracts will be searchable on the Course website.
Abstract submission guide
- Each applicant can submit more than one abstract to the event.
- After logging in, select the 'Abstract' tab on the top menu of your participant account on the Course website.
- Abstract Track: The abstract submission of Ph.D. students, postdocs and senior scientists should be into the Poster track. If you would like your abstract to be considered for presentation as a short talk, please answer 'Yes' to the question about oral presentation.
- Title: Your abstract title should be short and informative, and must not exceed 200 characters.
- Authors and Institutions: Please add authors by using the 'Add/Edit Author' button.
- Abstract Body: Your abstract body can have a maximum of 100 words.
- Editing and submission: You can edit your abstract through the online system as you wish before your submission deadline, clicking 'Save' to keep your abstract as a draft. To submit your abstract to the event, simply click 'Submit'. Please proofread your work carefully and ensure all details are correct ahead of submission. You can view your final text by clicking the 'Preview' button in the 'Abstracts' page.


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To celebrate the upcoming film, "Jurassic Park: Fallen Kingdom," Blue, the raptor raised by Owen Grady, can now be found at the Jurassic Park Raptor Encounter at Universal's Islands of Adventure. [Read more…]
New Jurassic World Live arena experience now in development for 2019
A new live-touring show inspired by the film "Jurassic World" is now in development, under the collaboration of Feld Entertainment and Universal Brand Development. [Read more…]


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Due to new Provincial legislation addressing the Covid-19 pandemic, our auctions will be held online.
If you haven't already done so, register to bid online so you are all set up and ready to go on sale day. Use our easy and convenient pre-bid option or live online bidding from your PC or our app on your mobile device.
Our new temporary hours of operation are available here.
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The farming skills of agricultural students at Massey University are being tested with the launch of a new rural competition.
The inaugural Rural Student of the Year is being run in Palmerston North today, run by the New Zealand Young Farmers club.
- Youngest ever Young Farmer of the Year works in an office
- Waikato vet to make history at Young Farmer of the Year grand final
The event will see 21 students at Massey University clash in a series of agri-food challenges.
Club chair Megan Robertson said the competition would be similar to the qualifying events for the FMG Young Farmer of the Year.
"There will be seven practical farming-based modules focused on stock handling, dairying, farm mechanics, agribusiness skills, tractor driving, fencing and culinary skills," she said.
The event would be held on the oval at Massey University between midday and 3.30pm on Thursday.
"Our ultimate aim for this competition is to help our club members learn new skills, test their abilities and build their confidence," said Robertson.
"It is also a fantastic way to expose other students on campus to NZ Young Farmers and the fun side of the agri-food sector."
The modules would be followed by a quiz, and the top five competitors would go head-to-head in a short speech competition at the Masonic Hotel.
The winner of the inaugural Massey Young Farmers Rural Student of the Year will be announced after the results are tallied.
A prize pool of almost $3,000 is up for grabs.


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Business Ideas that Cater to Millennials
Millennials are a great target if you want to start a business. But, what business will cater to their needs? Read this post and we'll let you know some of the best profitable ideas that will work if you want the millennials to be your target market. Coworking Space A lot of millennials are working […]Continue Reading


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Pope Francis took three families of Syrian refugees back to Rome on Saturday after visiting the frontline of Europe's migrant crisis at a camp in Greece where migrants wept at his feet, kissed his hand and begged for help.
At a sprawling fenced complex on the Aegean island of Lesbos, adults and children broke down in tears before the head of the Roman Catholic church, after their onward journey to Europe was cut short by an EU decision to block a migrant route used by a million people fleeing conflict since early 2015, Reuters reported.
While borders have now largely been shut for migrants, Francis symbolically took a small group of refugees with him on his aircraft as he left the island after a five-hour visit. "The Pope has desired to make a gesture of welcome regarding refugees, accompanying on his plane to Rome three families of refugees from Syria, 12 people in all, including six children," a statement issued by the Vatican said.
The individuals were selected from lots drawn, media reports said. They had been in camps before a deal between the EU and Turkey came into effect to halt the migrant flow on March 20.
Sant'Egidio, a Christian community which offers help for those in need and headquartered in Rome, will be looking after the families.


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Garadje, Karadja, Karaja
(Generally tough and durable carpets)
Garadje carpets are knotted near Heriz. They are usually found in small sizes and as long, narrow carpet runners with geometric medallions. The quality is usually average or just below average. They are typically durable and fairly inexpensive carpets. However, there are collectors who are on the lookout for the slightly older and better-quality specimens. The warp and weft threads are cotton, the Ghiordes knot is used and the knot density is between 7,500-14,000 knots per ft2. The colours are usually a mix of natural and synthetic dyes. The Baradjid carpets are rarely found on the market today.
Garadje lies within the Azerbadjan-province in Iran
The province of Azerbaijan Azerbaijan is found in the north-western corner of Iran, but it continues beyond the Iranian borders. It is an area that has been plagued by wars for centuries. The capital, Tabriz, was founded in the 7th and 8th centuries, but in the 1200s it was conquered by the Mongols under Genghis Khan. In the 1400s, Tabriz became the capital of Persia under the Turkmen. In 1514, the Ottomans entered the province and deported a large part of the population to Turkey. Under the Safavids in the 1500s, the entire province and town of Tabriz experienced a boom, and even back then the crafty town merchants began to organise carpet exports to Europe. I want to focus on the Iranian part of Azerbaijan because that is the area I am most familiar with. In the middle of the 1800s, Tabriz was a carpet production centre, exporting to the west via Istanbul. It has always been home to skilled merchants who could fulfil the West's demand for carpets. Azerbaijan has a highland climate, with cold winters and warm, dry summers. The population density in Azerbaijan is relatively high compared to other Iranian provinces. The majority of the population is originally Turkish, Kurd or Armenian. A large portion is bilingual, speaking both the local Turkish dialect and Farsi, which is Iran's official language. In this area, carpet knotting is performed by both nomads and residents. Of the resident population, knotting is carried out by both men and women. Among the nomads, it is primarily women's work. You can still find good, sturdy and very wear-resistant carpets from the Azerbaijan area on the market, but production is decreasing, like in other areas of Iran. Many of the carpets being sold today were knotted in the 1980s and 1990s. These are carpets with great value for money. The patterns are often large octagons or stylised medallions with flowers and animals. In the actual town of Tabriz, many different patterns are knotted, including patterns that were originally knotted in completely different parts of Iran. Tabriz is a gathering point for carpets from the entire Iranian Azerbaijan region, i.e. carpets from Tabriz, Khoy, Heriz, Ahar, Mehrawan, Goravan, Karadja, Lambaran, Sarab, Ardebil, Meshgin and Miyaneh as well as carpets made by nomads.
Read more about Heriz carpets:
Heriz, Heris
The town of Heriz is located in north-east Azerbaijan, about 65 km east of Tabriz. The Heriz carpets are knotted on an upright loom, and these carpets are hard proof that knotting density is not the sole determinant of the durability of a carpet. Here, they use good, flexible wool, that despite rather coarse knotting has proven to produce a particularly wear-resistant carpet. The Heriz carpets are often found in large sizes, so it is possible to find a large carpet at particularly favourable prices. However, the old and well-preserved carpets can be quite costly. The pattern is usually a geometrically drawn medallion with large leaf motifs in the middle and corners. The colours are often golden, red-brown and blue as well as light beige. The warp and weft are of cotton, and it is made with Ghiordes knots. The knot density is 8,000 - 16,000 knots per ft2. The colours are usually a mix of natural and synthetic dyes., Over the course of the 18th and 19th centuries, some exquisite and beautiful silk carpets were knotted in and nearby Heriz. These are very rare and very sought after by collectors.
You are reading an extract from the book 'Oriental Carpets, Knottet with Love' by Martin Munkholm.
This extensive book about all that is carpets can be borrowed in Danish libraries or be bought following this link: http://www.belle-rugs.dk/dk/ekspertise/taeppebog/
The book is published by Muusmann Forlag.
For more info: muusmann-forlag.dk
See video about Garadje rugs here: https://www.youtube.com/embed/6LyMORctRKs
You can find our selection of Garadje carpets underneath.


text: The STS-134 crew members arrived on the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on 12 May to get ready for space shuttle Endeavour's launch to the International Space Station scheduled for Monday, 16 May at 14:56 CEST. From left are Commander Mark Kelly, Mission Specialists Greg Chamitoff, Andrew Feustel, ESA astronaut Roberto Vittori, Michael Fincke and Pilot Greg H. Johnson, at the microphone. Endeavour and its crew will deliver the Express Logistics Carrier-3, Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer-2 (AMS), a high-pressure gas tank and additional spare parts for the Dextre robotic helper to the station.


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Opedix sent me a pair of its new Knee Action Ski & Board tights to test last month. They're reinforced with extra supportive material running down the outside of the legs from waist to ankle and completely surrounding the knee. The added support was notable when I wore them downhill skiing, x-c skiing and while practicing yoga. Instead of having to focus on tightening the quad, hamstrings and glutes, the muscles felt like they were already tightened and engaged, letting me make the next turn or stride more powerfully and easily. Read the full review here >
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House Bill 2285's Senate Finance Committee substitute passed both the Senate and House of Delegates today in Richmond. The bill would allow certain tourism projects to be rebated 1% of the state Sales Tax generated, as well as 1% local Sales and Use Tax or it's equivalent, as a means of financing up to 20% of the project.
The newspaper story on the bill drew a myriad of negative comments on Pilotonline (including, of course, the VBTA Vice Chairman). Given the ire in some quarters over the bill, I wanted to blog on it.
First of all, the bill states specifically that the rebated revenues are from tax collections from sales on the premises of the new facility. Obviously without the new facility being built, there would be no revenue to rebate. Therefore, it's not taking money away from anything.
The Senate substitute lays out a clear procedure for obtaining such funds. First, the local governing body (in our case, the Virginia Beach City Council) must create a tourism zone, in which tax abatements are possible. Second, the locality must file a Tourism Plan with the Virginia Tourism Authority. The Plan must meet state requirements and include the project seeking funds. Third, the state Comptroller must certify that it is a qualifying project.
Quarterly the Commissioner of Revenue certifies the amount of taxes from said facility. He then transmits such to Richmond, where the state Comptroller then rebates the state share to the business.
Yes, the process is somewhat convoluted, and I never would have wrote a bill looking like that. However, the multiple participants (City Council, state government, and Commissioner of Revenue) should help alleviate concerns by some of government running amuck. There are checks in this process.
What does it mean for Virginia Beach? For starters, the Dome site entertainment venue probably becomes a reality. The holdup has been over covering the funding difference with financial markets tightened. This bill should close the gap. Given that Dome site redevelopment has been the #1 priority of the Resort Area business community since late 2005, there will be plenty of happy campers at the Oceanfront.
Granted, tourism tends to produce lower-paying jobs. However, trying to get out of The Great Recession, tourism is an easier segment to stimulate. Given some work or no work, most people will take the tourism job.


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Sony Lowers the Price of Playstation Now.
When Sony launched its cloud streaming subscription service "Playstation Now" in 2014, it hit a number of stumbling blocks right away.
The content included from the start wasn't that impressive, relying heavily on a significant number of older titles that many players had already purchased but couldn't play due to the lack of backward compatibility on PS4.
The second sticking point was with the tech. Because you could only stream the games from the cloud, this had a significant impact on the video quality and input lag affecting the playability. But perhaps the worst problem was the price point. At €14.99 a month it just didn't offer the kind of value for money players expected from a premium service.
So in 2019, what has changed with the service that now makes it a much more appealing subscription option?
First it has lots of games, in fact, there are now over 700 games in the library stretching from the PS2 era right up to the PS4. The quality of game in the back catalogue has improved and it now regularly includes a rotating list chart-topping games. God of War, GTAV and Uncharted 4 are currently in the mix until Jan 2020.
While you can still stream from the cloud to your console and PC. Sony has updated the service to allow players to download over 300 PS4 games to their console avoiding any issues with quality or lag.
But of course, the key change that makes this something we can get on board with. Sony has brought the price down to a much more reasonable EU: €9.99 – monthly / €24.99 – quarterly / €59.99 – yearly. Bringing it much more in line with similar subscription offerings.
Hopefully, Sony has learnt the value of its 25-year history when working on the backwards compatibility for the recently announced PS5 launching at the back end of 2020.Please Join us on your Social Platform of choice


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What's the value of Bitcoin? I can't tell you that, but I can tell you something equally important: No one knows.
Not a single person can tell you what the price of Bitcoin will be tomorrow, in a few months, or in ten years. Not the Core development team that's( sort-of) guiding such courses for the roaring cryptocurrency , not those ubiquitous ads that claim you could be deserving millions on crypto , not even Satoshi Nakamoto, Bitcoin's reticent creator( or group of pioneers) whose name is still a terminated whodunit.
The genuine significance of Bitcoin has become a source of debate lately after its premium has risen crisply in the past time despite issues including a recent divided into two separate the mechanisms and moves by China to ban cryptocurrency trading.
That has led to expressed concerns about Bitcoin's future, and constituted the question–is Bitcoin truly usefulnes anything?
Bitcoin is a category-defying monster. It's not exactly like amber , not exactly like currency, and not exactly like firm broth, and hitherto it exhibits behavior same to all of these asset categories. It escapes the confines of fiscal thought: Try to characterize it in strictly economic terms, and you'll flunk.
For example, there's a thought that money "re the same" occasion as pay, put forward in 1914 by British economist Alfred Mitchell-Innes. Within this theory, monetary transactions are essentially the exchange of a stock for approval. And when a bank organizes coin, it's essentially composing obligation.
If you look at Bitcoin in this way, you could argue that it's worthless, because it really is created out of thin air. With no sovereignty backing it, new bitcoins are pioneered free of obligation, and( in this theory) if there's no( laudable) debtor backing a money, then the money has no value.
Bitcoin is … well , no one genuinely knows what it is
Take any definition of fund and Bitcoin will disappoint some of its criteria, which one could use as proof that it's importance nothing( for more on this topic, read this 2015 paper by Ole Bjerg ).
But one can argue that Bitcoin's definition lies outside of the scope of any philosophy that concerns itself following the creation of coin. It's a payment system, reasonably akin to PayPal, and PayPal is a multi-billion dollar fellowship. Its underlying blockchain engineering is available for a multitude of purposes–see Ethereum, for example, and hundreds of businesses based on its platform. And the fact that millions are squandering it daily make it a little bit like a social network, which is worthless if it only has two users but very valuable if everyone's abusing it.
The #Bitcoin pizza is worth $39,720, 725 today. (+ 5% from yesterday)
— Bitcoin Pizza (@ bitcoin_pizza) September 19, 2017
A recent WSJ article illuminates this beautifully. The deed posits that the value of Bitcoin is "probably zero, " based on an odd, snake-eating-its-tail justification: It's supposed to be a currency, but users treat it more like amber( they save it instead of spending it ), so it will never be any good as currency.
Even if that's true-blue, who says that this is the only valid use for Bitcoin? Its builder Nakamoto did call it "electronic cash" in his white paper, but there's no statute saying Bitcoin should be this or that. It's a decentralized plan that changes over time, and it might end up being something else exclusively.
The article then changes its arium, saying that it's probable to consider Bitcoin either as a global currency, a money for felons, or a collect of value same to gold. Depends on how you see it, its significance could be zero, $600 or $61,000. So which is it? The writer does not provision a clear answer.
Anyone that ever tried to pin down the best interests of the Bitcoin fronted this difficulty. Company stock is fairly simple in comparison. Business have receipts, earnings, and profits. You can calculate the return on asset, which tells you how much coin your asset is giving you.
Even gold, a merchandise whose rate has been a sizzling topic for centuries, has some qualities that can help you calculate its value: It's used for industrial purposes and for preparing jewelry. It's also in finite supply, and it's very difficult to offset more of it.
With Bitcoin, you've got very little metrics to start from. Its equip restricted to an eventual 21 million bitcoins, but you could argue that inflation can happen through alternative cryptocurrencies, such as the recently created Bitcoin Cash. You could look into Bitcoin adoption by users and businesses–probably the only solid ground in order to be allowed to base Bitcoin's value–but people like "number of transactions per day" don't easily be converted into dollars. You could say, as some do, that Bitcoin is exclusively good to crooks, and look at the size of the black market as steering. But Bitcoin is not completely anonymous; crimes is very likely to favor cryptocurrencies like Monero and Zcash. And nonetheless you slice it, you'll always have their own problems that the value of Bitcoin as a organisation might be more or less decoupled from the value of one bitcoin, the silver.
Bitcoin quiz: How much is one BTC worth?
— Stan Schroeder (@ franticnews) September 19, 2017
You can also go all technological on Bitcoin: Fire up a dashboard at any exchange, turn on some indicators such as MACD or Bollinger parties, and try to decipher the letter hidden among the candlesticks. Countless advisers do this, but no matter what anyone is to say, technical analysis can never predict real-life phenomena such as China banning all Bitcoin exchanges.
Long-term, you'll find wildly different prophecies from specialists and experts, from zero to $100,000 or more. But dig a bit deeper, and you'll visualize no reporter has anything close to a excellent track record when it is necessary to Bitcoin.
When does the raise stop? Hint: It's not when it hits some designate price
Those who deter saying that Bitcoin will continue ripening has all along been mostly been right. Even after the most recent drop in appraise, Bitcoin is approximately 400 percentage most valuable than it was at the beginning of the year. Countless believe that there's some sort of bubble going on, but when will it abound?
Chris Beauchamp, primary busines commentator at IG, accepts the current price have nothing to do with it. "Bitcoin may well be a bubble, but that won't stop the expenditure from going up. Instead, we will need to see a new competitive emerge, or read a general disappointment with cryptocurrencies take hold , " he recently wrote.
Right now, Bitcoin's value lies in its full potential. It given the opportunity to supersede a government-issued currency of a community, country, or–if you're certainly optimistic–the whole world. It given the opportunity to disrupt the banking industry. It has the potential studying to be a accumulation of value similar to gold, that's infinitely easier to obtain and sell than gold. And these are trillion-dollar openings, which is why $4,000 for one bitcoin might actually be cheap. Sometime in the future, one of these potential abuses, or a totally new one, will be coming Bitcoin's killer feature. Either that, or something better will come along, and Bitcoin will be forgotten.
The potentials are many, and as long as we're not certain that they're all spurious, Bitcoin will be worth something.
But don't trust anyone who tries to tell you exactly how much.
Exposure: The author of this text owns, or has recently owned, a number of cryptocurrencies, including BTC and ETH.
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All of these outfits were made from paper!
Woven, pleated, stacked, sewn, glued, a shirt made from newsprint, a paper flower-adorned jacket, a paper rope corset dress... all amazing.
The UK stylist, and Marc Newson baby mama, Charlotte Stockdale beavered away with a team of Central Saint Martin students, to showcase/upstage the latest season's accessories. Can you imagine how intense the creation process must have been? Locked in a room with piles of paper and glue and scissors... a craft frenzy, and it must have been so satisfying to see the finished product.
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See more of Charlotte's styling work on her agency website
Read about the project in Vogue UK April 07... or maybe it's March 07... not 100% sure.


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Avoiding Corn in Your Pet's Diet
Human nutrition has become a huge topic of interest in recent decades. We understand that what we put in our bodies matters. With so much money going into research, we are very lucky we have access to so much information about health, nutrition, and food. Now it is time for us to apply that knowledge to pets as well. Using the same information, wouldn't it make sense that it matters what we put in our pet's bodies as well?
This brings us to our first NO-NO ingredient…..Corn.
Corn is used in many conventional dog foods. It is often used as a main ingredient since it is so inexpensive. Corn can be harmful and needs to be avoided in your pet's diet. Here are a couple of facts about corn and our animals.
1) Toxins
Almost all corn today is sprayed with pesticides. These toxins can end up in your dog's food unless you choose a food without corn. If the corn was not sprayed, it is generally a GMO type corn, which creates its own internal toxins to kill off pests.
2) Allergies
Corn is one of the top 4 allergens in animals.
3) Digestion
Corn is not easily digestible and can cause discomfort in the belly.
4) Nutrition
Corn is one of the least nutritionally dense foods on the planet.
Corn is a cheap filler that provides no true nutritional benefit to your animal. In fact, it can cause much more harm than good, like allergies, digestive issues, and toxins that can cause long-term harm to your pet's overall health. Avoid using food AND treats containing corn.


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Yummer Reading
By Mick Vann, Fri., June 8, 2007
Revolutionary Chinese Cookbook: Recipes from Hunan Province
by Fuchsia Dunlop
W.W. Norton, 256 pp., $29.95
Fushsia Dunlop's first book, Land of Plenty (see "Someone's in the Kitchen With Santa," December 12, 2003), had a huge impact with Sichuan cuisine fans, and the glowing advance word on this, her new Hunan-centric effort, prompted many of her fans to order the British version before it was released here in the States.
Revolutionary Chinese Cookbook lives up to the hype and, in the manner of Land of Plenty, reveals the subtle intricacies of Hunan's spicy, bold, colorful, graceful, and subtle cuisine. Native son Chairman Mao once said that you can't be revolutionary if you don't eat chiles, but the region's food is much more multidimensional in flavor than his proverb. Smoked, stewed, and steamed dishes are as important as piquant stir-fries, while sweet flavors are largely absent.
Dunlop gives her customary in-depth analysis of the historical forces that shaped the cuisine, the background, legend, anecdote, and the techniques and ingredients required. She concentrates on street foods and hearty home-style dishes, which are the most accessible for the Western cook. Many of the 120 dishes, such as Aromatic Duck Salad, offer multiple variations on the original recipe.
The reader will find simple dishes that are easy to prepare; all are dishes that go together quickly but yield surprisingly complex results. One taste of steamed-rice-studded Pearly Meatballs, bacon and smoked bean curd with black beans, colorful dry-braised trout with shiso leaves, yellow-cooked salt cod with fresh chiles, chicken with silver needle tea, Chairman Mao's favorite red-braised pork, or beef slivers with coriander, and you'll know that you're not at your local corner strip-mall Chinese buffet. These are the recipes that she coaxed from the peasant master cooks from all of the regions of Hunan province.
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text: The Saturday before the ride began we went into New York City for a bit of sightseeing. The below are a sample of the many many pictures taken that day.The memorial at Ground Zero is an incredible place. Very moving and difficult to imagine the horror of those twin towers collapsing in such a busy area.


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Bellamy's has found a unique way to get sales growth in China back on track — buy a business which already has overcome regulatory hurdles, creating a fast track to infant formula buyers there.
The organic infant formula makers, whose sales to China last year hit a regulatory speed bump, today announced a series a deals and a major purchase designed to restart strong sales growth.
The company announced a $60.4 million capital raising to help buy a milk power processing business, Camperdown Powder Pty Ltd, for $28.5 million.
Bellamy's will also pay Fonterra a one-off fee of $27.5 million to eliminate future shortfall payments the company would have had to make because of lower volumes under a long term processing contract.
However, the additional one-off costs associated with the acquisition and revision of the Fonterra agreement means the company will make a loss this year instead of a profit.
Bellamy's is now forecasting a 2017 EBIT (earnings before interest and taxes) loss of $9.5 million to $14 million from a profit of $9 million to $13 million.
The acquisition, Camperdown Powder, has a CNCA (Certification and Accreditation Administration of the People's Republic of China) licensed powder products blending and canning line in Braeside, Victoria.
This essentially gives Bellamy's a China label, shelf ready with all the paperwork needed to go straight to mainland China consumers.
Here's how the deal is structured:
Bellamy's says it believes the deal provides an opportunity to reduce key regulatory risks, strengthens the company's competitive position and add a high-potential manufacturing asset at a fair price.
The $28.5 million price gives Bellamy's a 90% interest in a newly formed entity that will hold the issued capital of Camperdown.
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The Hon. A.L. McLACHLAN ( 14:48 :35 ): I seek leave to make a brief explanation before asking the Minister for the Status of Women a question about the government's Body Image Campaign and its commitment to improving self-image in young women.
Leave granted.
The Hon. A.L. McLACHLAN: On 14 October last year the minister responded to a previous question without notice and described how the government's Body Image Campaign aims to explore ways to boost self-esteem and develop positive body image, particularly in young girls. The minister said:
The body image campaign is designed to help empower young South Australian girls and remind them that things like character, skills and personality attributes are far more important than their weight and shape.
The minister also stated that the government wants to ensure that we have a generation of young girls who look beyond stereotypes and find confidence within themselves. The minister would no doubt be aware of the recent near-record numbers that attended the Clipsal 500 event in Adelaide, which the Premier has celebrated as 'another great South Australian event that successfully showcases what the state has to offer'.
Indeed, on 25 October of last year, the Clipsal 500 issued a media release which described the new grid girl trackside outfits as 'super-sexy', complete with 'laser cut leather, bonded knits and black mesh combined to give a high end, sexy look'. In light of the government's commitment to developing positive body image in young girls, my question to the minister is: has the minister made representations to the Premier about the issue of grid girls and the stereotype they represent, and, if so, will we see a different approach at next year's event?
The Hon. G.E. GAGO (Minister for Employment, Higher Education and Skills, Minister for Science and Information Economy, Minister for the Status of Women, Minister for Business Services and Consumers) ( 14:50 :16 ): I thank the honourable member for his most important question and his interest in this most important policy area. I have spoken in this place on numerous occasions and, in fact, have answered many questions in this place on our body image campaign, involving building better self-esteem for young women.
It has initiated a high level of interest in this place, which I have been pleased to receive. The products from that particular project initiative have now been collated and we are now looking at ways, particularly through social media, we might be able to release the sorts of images and materials that were developed by that group of young girls and women. It will be delightful to see that work being rolled out in the near future.
In relation to other images of women around our society, I have to say that it is very easy to be disappointed. We regularly see women being portrayed in ways that I think are hardly dignified and hardly reflect a high value of women and are often very much focused on body image, and I personally find that disappointing. However, in relation to regulating against those images that aren't illegal, and I am talking about those images that comply with all of our current legislation, one has to be mindful of trying to balance a society that has a range of different views and attitudes that we might not all share without being overprescriptive and being a nanny state. So, trying to get that balance right is very difficult.
If I put legislation through this place to ban the grid girl outfits, I could not imagine too much support for legislation of that sort, because most people would see that as overbearing, and that's not our place as legislators. What we do do is encourage, through a range of different initiatives, a respectful attitude to and valuing of women. There are a number of programs that we are directly involved in through—I have just forgotten their name. The Natasha Stott Despoja—not Our Watch.
The Hon. T.A. Franks: Our Watch.
The Hon. G.E. GAGO: It is Our Watch; sorry. That is a national organisation that the South Australian government contributes to which particularly focuses on social and cultural attitudes around women. They are involved in a number of projects, including doing quite a lot of work with the media around the way they portray images of women throughout the media and the way they talk about women as well. I think all of those things are really encouraging. It's important that we try to educate our community and, I guess, try to encourage people to understand the consequences of some of their language and attitudes and try to change that in a positive way.
The Hon. A.L. McLACHLAN ( 14:54 ): I have a supplementary. Would the minister accept that it is within the capability of the government to make forceful representations to Clipsal 500, given that it underwrites the event, that grid girls no longer be part of the celebrations?
The Hon. G.E. GAGO (Minister for Employment, Higher Education and Skills, Minister for Science and Information Economy, Minister for the Status of Women, Minister for Business Services and Consumers) ( 14:55 :04 ): I have to say I would feel pretty uncomfortable about that; I think it is a very heavy-handed way to approach this issue. As I said, I do not appreciate seeing images of young girls with very little clothing on being portrayed that particular way in public as a positive thing, but I do not believe it is my place to interfere.
I am happy to consider the issue, but I think it is a fairly heavy-handed way to approach social and cultural attitudes. It would mean, basically, that I would be asked to complain about every image I saw of a woman that did not show the respect I thought was deserved. I think that would be an incredibly unrealistic way to approach social and cultural attitudes around women.See full session on Hansard


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Compatible Cardio Caring Everyday Edibles: Tomatoes, Onions and Garlic
Tomato Patch of Big Beef Hybrids
Dash Diet B.C.
The D.A.S.H. Diet (Dietary Approach to Stop Hypertension) puts an emphasis on a plant based diet part to enhance hearth health particularly blood pressure. (Thus the acronym) D.A.S.H. Diet thinking isn't new. Hippocrates, a figure from ancient Greece advocated a similar approach. The Hippocratic Oath, the ethical pledge taken by contemporary medical doctors was inspired by him.
Daniel, a biblical prophet also promoted a lean green diet. He relied upon a simple regimen of vegetarian matter and water. (Holy Bible Daniel 1st chapter) The events of his narrative predate Hippocrates birth by over 100 years. Daniel actually provided the first D.A.S.H. Diet. The Daniel Approved Solution for Heart-Health (and overall health) was displayed nearly 2600 years ago. The D.A.S.H. Diet B.C. seems like a more accurate name.
Cardio Caring and Compatible
Today's American food landscape is dotted with sodium saturated, artificial chemically enhanced additives (high fructose corn syrup) and fat calorie heavy land mines that simply blow up consumer's prospects of good long term health. Diabetes, cancer and heart disease particularly hypertension have become rites of passage into our middle age for those of us living in the more economically developed nations. As of late, this has become a concern for the youth too.
We aren't trying to eat unhealthy. However, the packaged and fried food provides quick and convenient options for our lifestyles. The temptation to pick up fast fried fat laden foods in place of healthier choices is alluring to the double duty parents, (job and home) busy students and other multitaskers among us. We need healthy eating that's hurry eating.
We need to eat cadio caring foods every day. The everyday edibles must be compatible to today's hectic lifestyles. The healthy eats must be hurry eats or else the quick carbs, sodium and sugar will literally be the death of us. I developed a guide to compatible convenient Daniel approved selections to include in my omnivorous routine. I also hope that continuing to follow this will help me get un-prescribed from blood pressure medications. As such, this is not and doesn't pretend to be medical advice. No one reading this article saw the letters M.D. (medical doctor) or N.D. (naturopathy doctor) follow my name.
This is a result of my due diligent christizen (Christian-citizen) effort and experience trying to balance eating healthy and living good. To that end the everyday edibles featured are reviewed for heart health caring and compatible to the "let's go" mentality. The only dietary elements featured are those on the accompanying heart healthy helpers list. These are by no means the only heart helpers but are worthy of special recognition.
Awesome Threesome
Daniel Diet Heart Healthy Helpers (for quick reference)
Allium Plants Compound
Alliin, Allinase,Allicin
Alliin is a sulfur compound that is the basis of a super heart helping ingredient allinase which is found in plants that belong to the Allium genus. Garlic, onions and leeks are members of this group. Allinase is released when the plant body is split in some fashion. The Allinase in turn breaks down into Allicin. (source -lpi.oregonstate.edu)
The alli network components are not vitamins or minerals. The ingredients are simply the most effective elements at heart health happiness. It does all of the following:
-Lowers blood pressure
-Lowers LDLs (bad) cholesterol while increasing HDLs (good) cholesterol
-Prevents strokes via fibrinolysis, an action that removes plaque and clots from blood vessels
(source- " Desk Reference to Nature's Medicine" editors Steven Foster, Rebecca L Johnson National Geographic 2008)
Fatty Acids
Monosaturated Fat
The variety of fatty acids is broad. It includes polyunsaturated acids in addition to the two listed here. Monosaturated Fats contribute to heart health by lowering LDLs (bad) cholesterol.
Omega 3
Omega 3s are best known as natives of fish stock such as salmon and tuna. However, these are also found in some plant based foods. The Omega 3s lower LDLs (bad) cholesterol and also help maintain a safe level of triglycerides.
(source- webmd.com)
Dietary Fiber (25g) dv* (38g) for men over 50
Fiber is a product of plants that doesn't get digested by people. Dietary fiber comes in two forms: Soluble which dissolves in water and insoluble which does not dissolve in water. Soluble reduce risk of coronary disease by lowering LDL (bad) cholesterol and regulating blood sugars to a safe level. Insoluble fiber helps keep us "regular."
Magnesium (400 mg) dv
Magnesium is involved in more than 300 reactions within human bodies. It contributes to the maintenance of normal heart rhythm and blood glucose control. It aids with blood pressure regulation via interaction with sodium and potassium at the cellular level.
(source- ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets)
Potassium (4.7 g, 4700mg) dv
Potassium is the third most abundant mineral in the body. It helps to regulate heart rhythms. Potassium is involved with pumping our blood to the extent of 100,000 times a day. It also balances minerals within cells which help regulate sodium levels and thereby contributing to healthy blood pressure.
*dv refers to daily value requirement.
Ascorbic Acid (Vitamin C) (60mg) dv
Vitamin C is a water soluble ingredient that must be replaced continuously. It helps in the maintenance of blood vessels. It keeps arteries flexible and in doing so slows the progression of atherosclerosis. (hardening of the arteries) Vitamin C has also been associated with a lower risk of high blood pressure.
(source-umd.edu) University of Maryland Medical Center
Vitamin E (20mg) dv
Vitamin E prevents formation of blood clots that could lead to a stroke. Furthermore, it discourages the formation of LDL (bad)cholesterol. It too is associated with lower rates of heart disease.
Folate (VitaminB9) (400µg) dv
Folate is a water soluble vitamin that plays a role in keeping a safe level of homocysteines in the blood which in turn protects us from stroke and reduce the risk of heart disease.
(source- ods.od.nih.gov/fact sheets)
Niacin (Vitamin B3) (16mg) dv
Niacin maintains cholesterol levels. It is good to lower LDL (bad) cholesterol and to increase HDL (good) cholesterol.
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Everyday Edible
Delicious & Nutritious cooked or raw
soup, salad, sandwich, side-dish
portable, divisable, stand alone quality
Tomatoes, unlike onions and garlic, are not from biblical setting areas such as North Africa and the Middle East. They are native to South America. The Spanish did not deliver these throughout until 1500 A.D. Daniel would not have enjoyed these but we can.
Cardio Caring
Sample, medium whole red ripe tomato (2-3/5" diameter 123 grams)
Vitamin C 16.9mg 28% dv*
Potassium 292mg 6% dv
Magnesium 14mg 4% dv
Folate 18μg 5% dv
* The daily value is based upon U.S.D.A. Nutrient Database for Standard Reference, Release 27
Tomatoes are a leading source of the phytonutrient lycopene which is widely known as the most powerful antioxidants used to combat cancer. A pair of medium whole tomatoes easily provides 12% of the potassium required within a day, close to 10% of folate and all those lycopenes.
Tomato should be compatible. After all, tomatoes enjoy a multitasker role in our language. Is it tomāto or tomäto? Botanists refer to them as fruit. Chefs think of them as vegetables. One thing we can all agree upon is their multiple uses.
The pair of tomatoes previously alluded to can be divided for use throughout the day. Sliced tomatoes are particularly good sandwich stuffers for those who brown bag their afternoon meal. Diced tomatoes are a good addition to tuna (or chicken) salad that provides the meat of the sandwich. Diced or sliced tomatoes work in the typical garden salad. One of my favorites, the "poor man's sandwich" makes a good between meal snack: a tomato and onion sandwich. Yum! Tomatoes are also terrific stand alone snacks.
Cardio Caring
Sample medium onion 2-1/2 "diameter
Vitamin C 8.1 mg 13% dv
Dietary Fiber 1.9mg 8% dv
Allian n/a
The way to someone's heart healthiness is by way of onions. The U.S.D.A nutrition table doesn't provide a recommended daily intake (rdi) value for Allian based elements. Perhaps it should, given the enormous cardio caring compounds within. Onions contain that all powerful allian and are more nutrient balanced then garlic. The onion offers a good source of vitamin C and dietary fiber.
The sample 2-1/2" onion can be divided into the onion/garlic morning (or anytime) treat, supply an ample amount of "fixins" on a sandwich, added to soup to flavor, diced into salads and of course along with tomatoes provide the substance of my favorite treats, the poor man's sandwich. And, no one said you must stop at one.
Cardio Caring
One raw clove garlic
Allian n/a dv
Garlic is that most romantic of herbs. Whereas diamonds are a girl's best friend, garlic is her heart's best friend. According to healthaliciousness.com, studies have shown that less than half a clove of raw garlic (900mg) can lower cholesterol by 10-12%. Allian does a body good.
Garlic provides a zesty addition to soups, salads and sandwiches. I sometimes will slice it and let it settle in water for a while. Whatever is in you that doesn't belong there won't want to stay once that powerful natural narcotic combination is imbued. Garlic belongs everywhere and can be added to anything. And, as with onions there is no reason to stop at one. Garlic is like a heart health pill that provides an easy way to get heart healthy nutrition.
This content is accurate and true to the best of the author's knowledge and does not substitute for diagnosis, prognosis, treatment, prescription, and/or dietary advice from a licensed health professional. Drugs, supplements, and natural remedies may have dangerous side effects. If pregnant or nursing, consult with a qualified provider on an individual basis. Seek immediate help if you are experiencing a medical emergency.
© 2015 James C Moore
This is a very enlightening article. I learned a lot. I have never heard of the poor man's sandwich, but I will try it because I enjoy eating tomotoes and onions.
Nice article. Good reading. Thanks.
Great hub, a great wealth of health information. Thanks for sharing it here. God bless you.
Great hub, great information. Thanks for sharing.
Hello, James, you are welcomed. Enjoy the day.
Hello, James, my pleasure in reading your article on heart health. When I was a boy od about 25 years, I read from the Bible about the leek, the garlic, and the onions the children of Israelite while in Egypt. And, because of these precious foodstuff,s they want to go back to Egypt again not minding the slavery and bondage their were subjected to.
I also read Daniel "let them give us vegetables to eat and water to drink." I then went to do my research. As a result, I always include onion, garlic, and tomatoes to make a meal that is heart friendly.
This your article speaks much information apart from being educative on these three awesome and nutritious fruits and vegetables. Thanks for sharing and thanks for following. Welcome to my world.
I love the title of the article and of course the foods mentioned in the article indeed are a boon for cardio health.
Tomatoes, especially, are really good for you. I eat it on multigrain bread with turkey and lettuce.
Didn't know there is such diet. Thanks
Very helpful! Tomatoes, onions and garlic are among the easiest to come by. Thanks for underscoring their importance in good health.
She does and theres never a problem. We didn't know that there was sulfur in them so (to me) its amazing they are balanced with the other minerals in such a way as to work in total harmony.
I've heard of the Daniel diet before but not really read much anout it. I found the details about the sulfur content interesting as my wife is allergic to sulfur but can eat the garlic and onions. I love all the veggies you mentioned and now I've a good reason to keep eating them.
I like your take on this; it's a healthy alternative that is bound to help.


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