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Despite the public's perception of Foursquare, Foursquare's CEO Dennis Crowley says that the company is doing fine, and that it's not struggling at all. Crowley participated in TechCrunch's Disrupt NY event, where he discussed Foursquare's current state and how it's generating the supposed "big" revenue Crowley claims. Though at times, he does keep things a bit too hush hush to reassure anyone.
To start things off, Crowley wants to assure everyone that, despite speculation, Foursquare does have a business model that they're following, and that they aren't just doing things as they go. He says that the company is doing well financially and that March was actually its "biggest revenue month so far". Many people speculated that Foursquare was struggling financially, but according to Crowley, that's not the case.
He says that the company has been working on merchant tools, which it uses to grab "six-figure" deals with merchants across the nation. When merchants sign deals with Foursquare, Crowley says that Foursquare doesn't charge them X amount of money based on ad impressions, but instead charges them whenever the service brings customers to their business, making their tools more appealing compared to other services.
Unfortunately, Crowley declined to mention just how well its new merchant tools, or other revenue generating methods, has done for the company. When asked how much total revenue the company was expected to make this year, Crowley told TechCrunch,
"We're a private company, so we don't have to disclose our master plans to you, but we've set ambitious goals for the year, and we're very much on target to hit them."
He continues to say that Foursquare's 4 original investors are all "back in" with the company, and that the numbers are starting to come together, with monthly users, check-ins, and sign-ups all increasing by up to 10-30% this year. Crowley knows that Foursquare isn't the "shiny new thing anymore", but he believes that it is doing better than ever.
[via TechCrunch]


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UK Government is proposing that employers could be funded directly to purchase the apprenticeship training they want
Following recommendations from the Richard Review of Apprenticeships, the UK Government has decided to propose a shake up to the way apprenticeship funding is handled in England.
Business Secretary Vince Cable announced proposals to give employers freedom to choose the training that is most relevant and cost-effective to the needs of the Apprentices and their businesses, choosing from a range of available courses.
Have your say...
There is a 10 week consultation on the proposed funding reforms for apprenticeships in England.Three apprenticeship funding options are being proposed, but alternative models will also be considered. The three proposals are:
• Direct Payment Model: businesses register apprentices and report claims for government funding through a new online system; Government funding is then paid directly into their bank account
• PAYE Payment Model: businesses register apprentices through a new online system; they then recover government funding through their PAYE return
• Provider Payment Model: government funding continues to be paid to training providers, but they can only draw it down when they have received the employer's financial contribution towards training
To have your say on the proposals, download the consultation response form from the Department for Business Innovation & Skills' website and return it via email or post to the contact details provided before the 1 October 2013.
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By Robert Mukondiwa:
While Zimbabwe has had organisers riding on the German idea of October being beer festival month, it seems there is still a critical lack of appreciation of what beerfests serve.
The most prolific beer festival was probably the Lion Lager Summer Beer Festival, which as always attracted bumper crowds and had people sipping endless amounts of alcohol; nay, drowning themselves in it even.
And yet probably more significant was the Sobfest, held towards the end of the beer festival month by Biggie Chinoperekwei of Devine Assignments promotions, most importantly since it was an event promoted by an individual as opposed to Delta Beverages which has promoted its event as a transnational corporation.
More importantly, the Sobfest (Summer October Beer Festival) also introduced attendees to traditional African brews, with the notorious and much loved '7 days opaque brew' being part of the drinks menu. But a serious problem presented itself.
"People would see the posters and ask 'who is playing at the beers festival' and we knew we had a crisis," confessed Chinoperekwei.
Apparently, the whole idea of beer festivals being get-togethers where people get first hand intimate details of how their beers are crafted and various beer facts being passed around as the fraternise is lost on the Zimbabwean beerfest attendee. In the end they all just crash and burn and degenerate into music concerts where beer is consumed.
The culture of beer festivals is primarily in understanding beer and taking time out to let sweet informed intercourse take place between the taste buds and one's beer of choice as the brain explodes in the excitement. The culture in Zimbabwe is not of appreciation of alcohol but sadly alcoholism.
"We had not planned to have any musicians. We wanted to focus on the beer and have exhibitors talking to attendees as they drank beer and soaked in information on them. The entertainment was supposed to be a side event pale in the horizon but we had to change our strategy," says Chinoperekwei.
In the end he had to redesign the posters, hire Zimdancehall artistes to perform alongside urban grooves artistes. All this in a jiffy. Suddenly interest mounted, the thunder was stolen from the core beerfest theme and the crowds came in their thousands!
"It is a culture that we will have to change and it shall take time for people to appreciate the difference between and concert and a beerfest. Hopefully we will get there one day," says Chinoperekwei.
But he is not the only one to face the same problem. Delta Beverages had proposed to make a big announcement of the artistes playing at their event towards the end of the week heading into the show. In the end they had to make the announcement much earlier to whet people's appetite and announce the performance by South African group Uhuru.
The gates opened at 12 noon and beer experts were on hand to take people through the beer making process, types of beers, the best glasses to enjoy the best tastes and aromas, the works…but alas no one came. They came for the show, bought beer from the counters, didn't give a cow's behind how that beer was made and gulped it down like they had done a million times before. Then they went home!
"Soon. Soon they will understand the concept and will get curious and excited about how beer is made and the varying differences," said a hopeful Biggie Chinoperekwei. After all, all he can do is hope.


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This Friday, Stephens College will be presenting RESPECT: a Musical Journey of Women, which will run from May 2 to May 4, and again from May 7 to May 9. The musical is written by Vanderbilt professor Dr. Dorothy Marcic, author of RESPECT: Women and Popular Music.
The show uses Top 40 hits from female musicians to show the journey of women through time. Dorothy, the only named character in the show, is the narrator of the story, while the seven other cast members shuffle through various other roles throughout the show, including Rosa Parks, Marilyn Monroe, Betty Boop and Dorothy's grandmother.
Director Millie Garvey is no stranger to Stephens: RESPECT will mark her nineteenth production with the college. Garvey is from St. Louis, but says she's enjoyed being a guest director for all these years.
Garvey says this show is fitting for Stephens because it is "written by a woman (and) it's about women," making it a logical choice for a women's college.
The show becomes an "outline for women," using Dorothy, the narrator, as a medium for the storytelling, Garvey says. The story is "our journey in our lives from … young girls to young love to losing people and going through that ugly stage where you didn't get anything you wanted, and breakups, and it's all told through the music, which is fun."
Senior Emma Mae Marston, who plays Dorothy, says she feels a lot of responsibility to the story. The actors are all on stage practically the entire show, so they have to give their all 100 percent of the time.
"Whatever you're going through, it doesn't matter how hard your day was or if you didn't get that much sleep last night, you've gotta deliver," Marston says. "You've gotta give all you can at rehearsals. That's what I've really taken from this is how important it is to just give it your all."
The show features over 40 songs, from "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" to "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun." Almost no songs are sung all the way through, keeping the show moving as the story progresses. Senior Ryan Tucker says it's helped her learn how to keep her energy up throughout the whole show.
The show is a non-stop musical revue, full of hit songs and exciting lighting and costumes, but Garvey says it is so much more than that. She says it allows women to take a step back and realize that they are not going through anything alone.
"(You don't see) until you all get much older and realize … patterns develop (and that there are) things … that all women go through," Garvey says. "That's the thing about empowerment. When you're empowered, you're empowered because of people before you and what you can do after."


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Christian Devotional – August 18, 2016
2 Kings chapter 1:13–So the king sent a third captain with his fifty men. This third captain went up and fell on his knees before Elijah. "Man of God," he begged, "please have respect for my life and the lives of these fifty men, your servants."
This is such an interesting story. We have an evil king who has gotten injured, has been told by God that he will die, and now is seeking to capture or kill the prophet who pronounced God's plan. The king send people to come get the prophet, but each group sent is burned alive by fire from heaven, until this third group. This man recognized the power of God and while it is unclear whether he believed and followed God or not, he certainly respected Elijah and respected God. He learned from the mistakes of those around him. We can learn from the things that people do well, but we can also learn from the areas where people are falling short and are wrong. Will we give God the honor and respect that He is due? If we are following God, will we stand for him even when others come and try to change our mind?
Father, I pray that You will help me to follow You even when people stand against me and try to convince me to do otherwise. I know that You are greater than anything else. You are the only One worthy of my focus and my obedience. Help me to learn from the mistakes of others as well as the obedience.


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Edwin D. Ricketts
Edwin Darlington Ricketts (* August 3, 1867 in Maxville, Perry County, Ohio; † July 3, 1937 in Logan, Ohio ) was an American politician. Between 1915 and 1917, and again from 1919 to 1923, he represented the state of Ohio in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Edwin Ricketts attended the common schools and worked for twelve years in the teaching profession as a teacher and headmaster. After studying law and his 1899 was admitted to the bar, he began practicing in this profession in Logan. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. In the congressional elections of 1914 he was in the eleventh electoral district of Ohio in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the Democrat Horatio C. Claypool took on 4 March 1915 that he had beaten in the election.
Since he lost in 1916 against Claypool, he could prefer to take only one term in Congress until March 3, 1917. In the 1918 elections, he was re-elected in the eleventh district of his state in Congress, where he replaced in 1919 Claypool again on March 4. After a re-election, he could remain there until March 3, 1923. In the years 1919 and 1920, the 18th and the 19th Amendment to the Constitution were ratified. It was about the ban on the trade in alcoholic beverages or to the nationwide introduction of women's suffrage. In 1922, Edwin Ricketss was not re-elected.
After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he worked again as a lawyer. In June 1928 he was a delegate attended the Republican National Convention in Kansas City, was nominated on the Herbert Hoover as a presidential candidate. He died on July 3, 1937 in Logan, where he was also buried.


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Marx and trade unions
Marx's assessment that the English trade unionists involved in setting up the International Working Men's Association were "real powers" was to be proved correct by the subsequent careers of some of them. Robert Appelgarth, for instance, played a very prominent role in presenting the evidence of the trade unions to the Royal Commission which had been set up to investigate them in 1867 and whose Report in 1869 paved the way for a further liberalisation of the law governing their activities. Howell, as Secretary of the TUC's Parliamentary Committee from 1871-5, was the first General Secretary of the Trades Unions Congress, whose first congress had been held in Manchester, in June 1868. Thus Marx was dealing with some of the top British trade unionists of his day. Since in politics they were Liberals it may seem strange that Marx, as a revolutionary communist, should have been prepared to work with them. But, for him, what was important was not their politics but the fact that they were leading trade unionists, solidly implanted in the working class movement.
In other words. Marx's participation in the IWMA was a resumption of the same strategy derived, through Engels, from the Chartist experience of the early 1840s which had motivated his earlier collaboration with Ernest Jones. Because he believed that out of the economic organisations of the working class would eventually evolve a conscious political movement for socialism, he was not too concerned about the political ideas of the trade union leaders he had agreed to work with. The development of the working class movement itself would, Marx believed somewhat over-optimistically, sooner or later put this right. The important thing at this stage for Marx was to set this movement in motion, to encourage independent working class trade union and political activity. When this did not happen, as became evident within a number of years. Marx severely criticised the union leaders for having sold out to the capitalist class and the Liberal Party.
In fact until the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 the activity of the IWMA was mainly of a trade union nature. Not all the members of the IWMA, particularly not the French workers, were convinced of the utility of trade unions and strikes and to Marx fell the task of providing a theoretical justification of trade unionism. Marx proved to be a worthy successor to Hodkingson and other earlier pro-working class writers, in whose tradition he must indeed have been regarded by the English trade unionists whose practice he was showing to be sound from an economic point of view (despite what the economic orthodoxy of the day claimed) and who called him "Dr. Marx" out of respect for his economic and historical knowledge. This is not to suggest that English trade unionists were incapable of themselves providing economic justifications for their activities. The Secretary of the London Consolidated Society of Bookbinders. Thomas Dunning (1799-1873), had written a book, published in 1860, Trades Unions and Strikes: Their Philosophy and Intention, which impressed both Marx and the leading British economist of the time, John Stuart Mill (1806-1873). Marx referred to it several times in his footnotes in Capital and, more extensively, in some notes which he did not in the end include in Volume 1 of Capital. In these notes he took up Dunning's argument that the economic logic of trade unions was to ensure that the laws of supply and demand were "fairly" applied or, translated into Marx's economic categories, to ensure that the workers were paid the value of their labour power, defined as the value of
the means of subsistence that is customarily held to be essential in a given state of society to enable the worker to exert his labour-power with the necessary degree of health, strength, vitality, etc and to perpetuate him self by producing replacements for himself.
Without trade unions, workers would tend to be paid less than this value:
. . . the value of labour-power constitutes the conscious and explicit foundation of the trade unions, whose importance for the English working class can scarcely be overestimated. The trade unions aim at nothing less than to prevent the reduction of wages below that level that is traditionally maintained in the various branches of industry. That is to say, they wish to prevent the price of labour-power from falling below its value.
"Abolition of the wages system"
Marx presented a particularly well-argued case for trade unionism in a reply to John Weston, an old Owenite and a member of the General Council of the IWMA. which took up two successive meetings of the Council in June 1865. [1] Weston had argued that trade union action to raise wages was pointless, even harmful, as wage increases only led to price increases or to wage cuts for other workers. Marx showed how Weston's arguments were unsound: the level of wages did not affect the level of prices; the effect of a general increase in wages would be, after a readjustment of demand, a decrease in the rate of profit. Marx did, however, recognise that trade union action, including strikes, was basically only defensive and that if workers were not going to go on fighting a permanent rearguard action they should begin thinking in terms of abolishing the wages system altogether:
I think I have shown that their struggles for the standard of wages are incidents inseparable from the whole wages system, that in 99 cases out of 100 their efforts at raising wages are only efforts at maintaining the given value of labour, and that the necessity of debating their price with the capitalist is inherent to their condition of having to sell themselves as commodities. By cowardly giving way in their every-day conflict with capital, they would certainly disqualify themselves for the initiating of any large movement. At the same time, and quite apart from the general servitude involved in the wages system, the working class ought not to exaggerate to themselves the ultimate working of these every-day struggles. They ought not to forget that they are fighting with effects; that they are retarding the downward movement, but not changing its direction; that they are applying palliatives, not curing the malady. They ought, therefore, not to be exclusively absorbed in those unavoidable guerrilla fights incessantly springing up from the never-ceasing encroachments of capital or changes of the market. They ought to understand that, with all the miseries it imposes upon them, the present system simultaneously engenders the material conditions and the social forms necessary for an economical reconstruction of society. Instead of the conservative motto 'A fair day's wages for a fair day's work!' they ought to inscribe on their banner the revolutionary watchword. 'Abolition of the wages system!'
Marx ended his talk by proposing a resolution. which the General Council adopted, the third clause of which declared:
Trades Unions work well as centres of resistance against the encroachments of capital. They fail partially from an injudicious use of their power. They fail generally from limiting themselves to a guerrilla war against the effects of the existing system, instead of simultaneously trying to change it, instead of using their organized forces as a lever for the final emancipation of the working class, that is to say, the ultimate abolition of the wages system.
The trade union question was also discussed at the first Congress of the IWMA in Geneva in September 1866. Marx drafted the "Instructions" for the General Council's own delegation. The sixth section, headed "Trade Unions: Their Past. Present and Future", gives a very clear idea of Marx's hopes for the future evolution and role of the spontaneous economic organisations of the working class that trade unions were:
. . . unconsciously to themselves, the trade unions were forming centres of organization of the working class, as the medieval municipalities and communes did for the middle class. If the trade unions are required for the guerrilla fights between capital and labour, they are still more important as organized agencies for superseding the very system of wage labour and capital rule.
This characterisation of the trade unions as being the equivalent for the working class of what the medieval towns had been for the bourgeoisie Marx had already made on previous occasions, in the Poverty of Philosophy and in the series of articles in the New York Daily Tribune 1853-4 in which he referred to as his "history of strikes". It is almost a syndicalist vision of the emancipation of the working class, except that Marx envisaged the trade unions playing a political role, converting themselves into, as it were, a mass political party of the working class, rather than remaining industrial organisations relying exclusively on industrial action to try to overthrow capitalism.
Marx's participation in the British trade union movement was however not just confined to theorising. As we have said, until 1870 the IWMA was mainly concerned with trade union matters and has been accurately described as being during this period "an international trade union liaison committee". [2] When a strike occurred in Britain and the employer imported blackleg labour from the Continent, the IWMA intervened, often successfully, with leaflets and speakers in the appropriate language, to persuade the continental workers not to break the strike. Similarly, when a strike occurred in Britain or on the Continent, the IWMA publicised it and raised funds from workers and trade unions in other countries to help the strikers and their families. Marx, as a member of the General Council, played his part in such activities, drafting for instance a leaflet addressed to German tailors concerning a strike.
Marx put the finishing touches to Capital, which was first published in German in Hamburg in September 1867, at a time when he was actively involved in the mainly trade union-type activities of the IWMA. This no doubt helped to give Capital a very pronounced pro-working class character. Marx only mentioned the trade unions in passing (since he planned to deal with the question in a separate volume, which never appeared, to be devoted to "Wage Labour"), but he did devote considerable space to another working class struggle: that to achieve a legally-enforceable maximum working day. As with trade unions. Marx was not content simply to describe and support this struggle. He also showed how the demand for a legal "normal working day" was justified even from a capitalist economic point of view.
There had been opposition to this demand also within the IWMA, once again from the French workers who, influenced by the ideas of Proudhon, had doubts about appealing to the capitalist state to protect the working class. In the "Instructions" he drafted for the General Council delegation to the 1866 Geneva congress of the IWMA Marx met this criticism head on. with regard to the legal limitation of child labour. The "more enlightened part of the working class", he wrote.
know that, before everything else, the children and juvenile workers must be saved from the crushing effects of the present system. This can only be effected by converting social reason into social force, and, under given circumstances, there exists no other method of doing so, than through general laws, enforced by the power of the state. In enforcing such laws, the working class do not fortify governmental power. On the contrary, they transform that power, now used against them, into their own agency. They effect by a general act what they would vainly attempt by a multitude of isolated individual efforts.
Mere Marx appears, not so much as an early-day syndicalist, but as a reformist arguing that the condition of the working class could be improved under capitalism through the action of the existing state.
Class struggle over hours
But he was no more a reformist than he was a syndicalist. He did indeed believe that state intervention to limit the working day could bring about a real improvement in the condition of the working class and in Capital did not hesitate to say so:
On the whole the working population, subject to the Factory Act, has greatly improved physically. All medical testimony agrees on this point, and personal observation at different times has convinced me of it (Chapter X "The Working Day", Section 6. footnote).
To guard against false conclusions from the text, I ought here to remark that the English cotton industry, since it was placed under the Factory Act of 1850 with its regulations of labour-time, etc., must be regarded as the model industry of England. The English cotton operative is in every respect better off than his Continental counterpart in misery (Chapter X, Section 5. footnote).
It is important to understand why Marx thought that it was possible for factory legislation to improve working class conditions. It was not because state intervention generally — reformist political action, if you like — could bring about an improvement in working class living standards, but because, in this particular case, in the absence of state intervention, wages were being driven down below the value of the workers' labour power. The parallel with trade union action was clear, and deliberate. Factory legislation was another way of ensuring that workers were paid the full value of the commodity they had to sell, their ability to work. If they had to work too long hours the workers were not being paid, in the words of the slogan Marx denounced as conservative, "a fair day's wage for a fair day's work".
Marx, basing himself on a leaflet produced by the building workers strike committee during the strike and lock-out of 1859-60, summarises the workers' case for a shorter working day as follows:
You pay me for one day's labour-power, whilst you use that of 3 days. That is against our contract and the law of exchanges. I demand, therefore, a working-day of normal length, and I demand it without any appeal to your heart, for in money matters sentiment is out of place . . . I demand the normal working-day because I, like every other seller, demand the value of my commodity (Chapter X, "The Working Day", Section 1).
Since the capitalist employer is not prepared to accept this argument, insisting on his right to make maximum use of the commodity he has purchased, the struggle for a "normal" working day becomes a class struggle:
. . . in the history of capitalist production, the determination of what is a working-day, presents itself as the result of a struggle, a struggle between collective capital, i.e., the class of capitalists, and collective labour, i.e., the working-class (ibid.).
Marx describes the course of this struggle in detail, from the first attempt at legal limitation initiated by Robert Owen in 1802 through the Acts of 1833 to the 1850 Act. in Section 6 of Chapter X of Capital entitled "The Struggle for the Normal Working-Day. Compulsory Limitation by Law of the Working-Time. The English Factory Acts, 1833 to 1864". There is therefore no need for us to repeat that history here, but it must be emphasised that this was a purely defensive struggle:
The history of the regulation of the working-day in certain branches of production, and the struggle still going on in others in regard to this regulation, prove conclusively that the isolated labourer, the labourer as 'free' vendor of his labour-power, when capitalist production has once attained a certain stage, succumbs without any power of resistance (Chapter X. Section 7).
For 'protection' against 'the serpent of their agonies', the labourers must put their heads together, and. as a class, compel the passing of a law, an all-powerful social barrier that shall prevent the very workers from selling, by voluntary contract with capital, themselves and their families into slavery and death (ibid.).
This explains why state intervention in this domain was capable of bringing about a once-for-all improvement in conditions, but incapable of bringing about a continual improvement. Like trade union action, once it has improved conditions by raising workers' wages to the value of their labour power, its role became purely defensive: to ensure that wages were not driven down below their value, in this case by over-work as a result of too long a working day. So factory legislation was subject to the same limitations as trade union action: it could only play a rearguard, defensive role against the encroachments of capital.
In fact, here too the working class had to run fast just to stay still. The capitalist employer sought to compensate for the shorter hours imposed on him by the law by making his workers work more intensively (harder and faster); which meant that the workers would eventually have to demand a further shortening of the working day to avoid being over-worked and so underpaid:
There cannot be the slightest doubt that the tendency that urges capital, so soon as a prolongation of the hours of labour is once for all forbidden, to compensate itself, by a systematic heightening of the intensity of labour, and to convert every improvement in machinery into a more perfect means of exhausting the workman, must soon lead to a state of things in which a reduction of the hours of labour will again be inevitable (Chapter XV, "Machinery and Modern Industry", Section 3c).
Marx added, in a footnote, that "the agitation for a working-day of 8 hours has now [1867] begun in Lancashire among the factory operatives". The Geneva Congress of the IWMA in 1866 had in fact already adopted the demand for an 8-hour day, following the example of the American trade unions.
Marx also explained, in the Preface to Capital, the space he had devoted to the Factory Acts by referring to the political, as well as economic, lesson they had for the continental ruling classes. The present epoch, he wrote, was that of the rise of the working class:
In England the process of social disintegration is palpable. When it has reached a certain point, it must re-act on the Continent. There it will take a form more brutal or more humane, according to the degree of development of the working-class itself. Apart from higher motives, therefore, their own most important interests dictate to the classes that are for the nonce the ruling ones, the removal of all legally removable hindrances to the free development of the working-class. For this reason, as well as others, I have given so large a space in this volume to the history, the details, and the results of English factory legislation.
In other words, the change-over to socialism would be less violent to the extent that the working class was better treated. In fact, Marx believed that, with the extension of the franchise as well, a peaceful capture of political power by the working class in England had become a distinct possibility.
But there was one argument in favour of a shorter working day and week which Marx did not use, even though it was as widespread in his day as it is now: that it would help reduce unemployment. Marx's knowledge of the economies of capitalism led him to point out that the effect was more likely to be the opposite. A shorter working day, by increasing labour costs, would encourage the introduction of labour-saving machinery. As he told a meeting of the General Council of the IWMA in August 1868, which was discussing the question, the case for a shorter working day should be based, not so much on economic arguments, but simply on the need for workers as human beings to be healthy and to have more free time; so that they would be fit and educated enough to be able to carry through the advance in civilisation that the change-over from capitalism to communism would represent.
Marx thus provided a theoretical justification for what the working class movement in Britain was actually doing — trade union action to defend wages and demanding a legal maximum working day. This was in accordance with the role he and Engels had assigned to communist theoreticians in the Communist Manifesto:
The theoretical conclusions of the Communists . . . merely express, in general terms, actual relations springing from an existing class struggle, from an historical movement going on under our very eyes.
In this sense, a large part of Capital, Marx's major work, can be said to be a theoretical reflection of the activity of the working class of his day in Britain.
Adam Buick
[1.] First published in 1898 by his daughter, Eleanor, and Aveling under the title Value, Price and Profit, which is the title under which it became a textbook for those calling themselves Marxists in the British working class movement. Its original title was Wages, Price and Profit, by which it is known in other countries and which is also used in some later English editions.


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Daily votes done. I'll keep voting if I don't forget it (Kas, we could remind this in the FWMoTD, my memory is horrible... ).
a) youtube video of the bunny god drunk and yelling in the phone
I'll make sure to compel the guildies to do it in an appropriately tyrannical manner.
Why dont you take money from the donations?
Quote from: Frostnova on 11:33:22 - 02/06/09Why dont you take money from the donations?The french state, the server costs, the infographists and the advertising attempt cost more than the donations. We just have to fill the gap with our own funds to keep the game running.
ask the players to help. i think you have a good base off loyal users.
It sucks to be a start-up in a France in a worldwide economic recession.


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The Day Janie Ward Died: Hell and Gone's Cold Case Continues
By Diana Brown
August 6, 2019
For the second season of the Hell and Gone podcast, host and investigator Catherine Townsend focuses on the 30-year mystery of the death of 16-year-old Janie Ward, who died in 1989 in Marshall, Arkansas. The strange circumstances surrounding her death, and the investigation of it, plagued Janie's father, Ron Ward, until he died in 2016, sure that his daughter had been beaten to death and the police were trying to cover it up. Now, Catherine's looking for the answers denied to Ron: Why did Janie's body arrive in the Arkansas State Crime Lab wearing different clothes than she was wearing at the morgue? Why was she wet, and covered in sand, if she fell at a cabin in the woods? How did she get bruises all over her neck? Most of all, how did a healthy teenager die from a simple fall off a ten-inch porch? In this episode, she reconstructs the day of Janie's death, but she finds more questions than answers.
Normally, the investigation into Janie's death would have fallen to the Searcy County sheriff, but he "had a history with Ron, and wanted to avoid any suggestion of impropriety," Catherine says. So Sergeant Bill Beach of the Arkansas State Police was called in to handle it instead. Catherine goes through the witness statements he took of Janie's friends and kids at the party. First, he speaks to Leslie, a friend of Janie's with whom she spent the night the previous evening. Leslie tells Bill that Janie had borrowed her Def Leppard shirt. "So we know where the shirt came from," Catherine says, "but we still don't know how she could have been wearing one shirt at the funeral home in Marshall, and then a different one at the crime lab in Little Rock." The statements from the partygoers are frustratingly inconclusive: No one can agree exactly where Janie was throughout the party, how much she was drinking, or who she was talking with. "Depending on who you ask, two things happen simultaneously, or one after the other: Janie falls, and someone shouts that the party is about to get busted by the cops." In the confusion of teenagers fleeing the party, only a handful of partygoers stopped to help Janie, but it's not clear how long it took them: in one story, nearly half an hour passed before they went over to see if she was okay; in another, they got to her instantly. Billy, the high school quarterback, said that he saw Janie had wet herself, and would need medical attention. They decided to drive her into town in her friend Ron Rose's truck. "Rose and Kim [Woods, another friend of Janie's] were in the cab of his truck," Billy recounts. "Rose said there was no room for Janie except in the back. I offered to ride with her in the back, but Rose said no. He didn't want any trouble with the law."
The teenagers said they drove straight into town with Janie alone in the back. They ended up at the bank parking lot, and ran across the street to alert the ambulance service of Janie's condition. But why not just drive directly to the ambulance service, instead of stopping at the bank? Why is there a sworn statement in the police file from the dispatcher at the station, saying Ron Rose had stopped in and told him there was an injured girl in his truck? "The time between Janie falling and the bank parking lot could either have been half an hour or more than 90 minutes," Catherine says. "The order of events, and how much time passed between them, becomes one of the most hot-button issues throughout the last 30 years of investigations."
The paramedics, JD and Kathy Beacon, said Janie was wet all over - "except for her genital area, which doesn't make any sense, because multiple witnesses at the party specifically said Janie wet herself," Catherine points out. She also had sand underneath her clothes and in her hair, as if "somebody threw her in the d**n river...or took her to the car wash and hosed her or something," JD speculates. But Sergeant Bill didn't seem to think they had much to add to the investigation - it took him over three months to question them, despite the fact that they were the first on the scene, and even requested to come in. There's also evidence that he was asking townspeople about Ron Ward, Janie's father, suggesting that he beat up his daughter. Ron called the Arkansas State Police to complain about Bill. At that point, it had been 118 days since Janie's death, and "an environment of hostility is brewing in Marshall," Catherine says. "The Wards and a growing number of residents are starting to believe that no one in the police department is telling the truth."
The twists and turns of this painful case continue as Catherine tries to find justice for Janie. Tune into this episode of Hell and Gone to find out more about the thirty years of questions that still need answers.
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Costume & Identity in Hitchcock's Vertigo
Edith Head's costume design for Vertigo demonstrates the power of clothes in forming identities on-screen.
Be the Stylish Man at Cannes: Tips From the Movies
Jacques D'Azur is missing, so take his place. Here are some tips from the flicks on how to succeed that sultan of sophistication.
Body of Lies: Mark Strong in Huntsman
Mark Strong is sole sartorial encouragement in a movie choc full of (intentionally) awful clothes.


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I remember watching the mines down Interstate 19 transform the beautiful mountains into the barren, lifeless, bizarre, moonlike landscapes we enjoy down there today. Now we have yet another (foreign) company plucking down their millions for the right to another of our precious finite resources: the irreplaceable beauty that is Rosemont Canyon. And what for? So a few already rich men can get even richer. So a few people can have good-paying jobs for 50 or 60 years.
It doesn't matter how many trees are planted once the job is done: That land and its wildlife will never be the same. The very best reclamation scenario is that visually, there may be a hint of the old canyon that looks kind of the same. The bottom line is it will be like looking at the "new" Joan Rivers and saying she looks exactly like the "old" Joan Rivers. Unless someone told you it was her, you'd never know it.
Bill Cottle
Hoffman commiserates with poor Yoram Levy, who made $16 million by shuffling papers and dickering over God's land, sacred oak trees and the blessed creatures who live among them, unaware that their radiant home is being sold into terror and oblivion by organisms who never leave their fancy offices--organisms incapable of love.
I first came to Tucson in 1993 and soon found it to be a bad place to be broke. The only thing that saved me from madness or worse was having the sanctuary of the Santa Ritas and its surrounding desert. I camped in or near the Rosemont Valley dozens of times. It's a dreamlike land of blue and gold twilight, wise and loving oaks, and junipers that glow in the dark--a land of peace.
Ironically, one of the best ways to see the Santa Ritas is from the copper mines to the west of Interstate 19. Drive south on Mission Road, and watch the mountains grow to the left. When you get to the "T" at Duval Mine Road, you can see the entire range in its glory. Listen to it: "We are here. We are love."
Hulking around you are the sterile mounds of mined-out hills that Augusta (and Hoffman) wants to duplicate. So much for Hoffman's obscene "cleaner and safer" operation. It's clean, because it's dead.
Hoffman mentions "wealth creation." You can just see him salivating while he wrote that, but it's bullshit. You don't "create" wealth without destroying the real wealth. To hell with Hoffman and his snotty "just-a-thought" manipulation of decent people's minds. I wonder how much Augusta is paying him for his "just a thought," or is he only hoping for a pat on the back--or even a job?
Hoffman's thoughts are the devil's thoughts.
God bless Ray Carroll, Raúl Grijalva and Gabrielle Giffords for fighting this obscenity. As for the rest: Taxpayers need to have a showdown with all elected "servants" to call their hand. If they can't say, "No mine!" then it means they're looking for kickbacks. Something else: There's a thing called eminent domain, wherein the county or state has the power to expropriate any private property for the good of the people.
John Elmore
I had been concerned that I would only see a handful of people and was delighted to see the lobby overflowing! It was inspiring to see so many people actively responding. I'm also thankful, because it introduced me to the Board of Supervisors and their process. The board seems to include very reasonable people who care deeply about Tucson/Pima County. The experience was very reassuring, and I'm glad I was able to be a part of it.
Julie Richelson
Despite repeated pleas by members and leaders of the GLBT community and numerous explanations that stories like the one she "reported" can cause a rise in hate crimes, Waddell chose to put her ridiculous "exposé" on the air anyway. Her repeated inference that gay men are lurking in park bathrooms, ready to jump out and expose themselves to young children, painted a dark image of the gay community. But then, I guess the prospect of a few more television viewers was more important than the safety and well-being of homosexual men in our community.
David Morden
When he panned Infamous (Now Showing at Home, Jan. 25), I had to endure his shriveled-up prose. I try to overlook ineptitude, because I know how hard it must be wilting under the shadow of the great, big, dangling cock of James DiGiovanna, but enough is enough.
Toby Jones gave a nuanced, humorous portrayal of bitch Capote finally getting his comeuppance by playing with the big boy, Daniel Craig. Infamous was spot-on with its portrayal of inbred Kansas folks besotted with a celebrity, and its malicious handling of New York society. What exactly are Grimm's qualifications? Has he sucked Rob Lowe's cock? I have. Has he seen Tom Cruise nude at a Turkish bath? I have. Has he French-kissed John Travolta? I have.
Grimm, go to Hollywood, and pimp yourself out, then come back to Tucson, and you'll be a better man and a better reviewer, you cock-sucking closet case.
Alan Neff
In 2005-2006, Pima Community College had 22 graduates with associate's degrees in child development or early childhood education. That year, we also had 38 graduates in related child-development certificate programs. Over the past five years, Pima Community College has awarded more than 180 degrees and certificates in child-development fields to students.
In child development and other fields with high demand for skilled workers, such as nursing, teaching/education and aviation, Pima Community College is committed to providing the training and education to meet our local workforce needs.
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900 North Michigan / Chicago, Illinois / United States of America
Suite 1600 is a 25,000 sf headquarters office for several privately held business and philanthropic organizations managed by members of a Chicago family. The family's request for a quiet presence and subtly elegant environment led us to an office design marrying rich millwork with extensive glazing. Incorporation of glass with varying tints and opacities allows for full appreciation of impressive views, while reducing distractions for office occupants.
Significant effort was dedicated to the design and detailing of the glass wall at the exterior offices, including elegant details such as the use of a glass with a subtle rose tint with adjacent clear panels of varying levels of transparency. Our intent was to eliminate vertical obstructions and test the limits of steel framing through the use of extra large horizontally stacked glass panels. The dark millwork doors add punctuating contrast to the lightness of the glazing throughout the space.
The design was inspired by textures and tones that occur in nature. The color palette is based upon the hazy purple tones that occur during early sunset. These colors complement the richer tones of a quartered, figured, and fumed eucalyptus wood integrated into millwork elements.
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Plastic Surgeon Fairfield, Shelton CT
Dr. Mark Manuel MeléndezEn Español
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Welcome to the Cosmetic and Reconstructive Surgery Associates of Connecticut, and Dr. Mark Melendez.
For many women and men across Connecticut, choosing cosmetic surgery or needing to have reconstructive surgery is a highly personal decision. Since cosmetic, plastic and reconstructive surgery affects both the patient's emotional and physical well-being , Dr. Melendez feels it's essential to truly understand his patients; from their medical history to their overall lifestyle.
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A fellowship-trained plastic surgeon, Dr. Melendez provides a full spectrum of cosmetic and plastic surgical procedures.
He is fully-bilingual, Spanish-speaking, and devoted to providing the highest quality of personalized and holistic medical care to his patients.
Dr. Melendez has two offices, conveniently located in Fairfield and Shelton, Connecticut; in addition to having staff privileges at Greenwich Hospital, Norwalk Hospital, Griffin Hospital, Milford Hospital, St. Vincent's Medical Center, St. Raphael's Hospital, and Yale-New Haven Hospital.
Abdominoplasty / Tummy tuck
Abdominoplasty is a plastic surgery procedure designed to flatten a person's abdomen by removing excess fat and skin, while tightening the abdominal muscles. Many patients choose to have a tummy tuck due to the inability to lose weight in this area, after weight loss when excess and saggy skin remains, or post-pregnancy for women.
Dr. Melendez offers both standard and mini-abdominoplasty. A standard abdominoplasty (full tummy tuck) is a procedure in which the plastic surgeon places the incision in the "bikini line" area and excess skin and fat are removed, in addition to addressing the underlying muscles. A mini-abdominoplasty focuses on one part of the abdomen, requires a much smaller incision and usually does not address the abdominal muscles.
Liposuction, performed on both men and women, is a cosmetic surgery technique used to remove fatty deposits from different areas of the body; abdomen, thighs, hips or arms, in order to improve body shape and contour. When a patient is unable to lose weight or excess fat on their own, liposuction is a good solution and is often performed with other reduction or lifting procedures.
Dr. Melendez begins the procedure by making very small incisions in the area where the liposuction is going to be done and inserts a small, thin metal tube called a cannula. The cannula breaks up and vacuums away the excess fat deposits beneath the skin.
Buttock lift
A buttock lift raises and tightens the skin over the buttocks. It is designed to improve or remove excess, sagging buttocks and thigh skin that has resulted from weight loss, gravity, aging, or genetics. Many men and women will elect other cosmetic enhancements, such as liposuction to be performed simultaneously.
Breast augmentation
For many women, having children, losing weight, or a combination of other factors, can result in the reduction in breast volume. A breast augmentation is a common solution to reshaping or re-sizing the breasts to create symmetry and increase breast fullness. Breast augmentation procedures, like reconstruction techniques, have advanced and are a much less invasive procedure than it has been previously. Some women elect to have a breast lift or liposuction, simultaneously, in order to achieve the best results.


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As seen in the TV series "Full Metal Panic: Invisible Victory," the Laevatain ver. IV joins the High Grade model kit lineup from Bandai! Featuring snap-fit assembly and molded in full color so painting isn't necessary, this kit will build into a well-detailed, fully posable replica of this iconic mecha. It features a special Smoke Discharger weapon designed by Kanetake Ebikawa, along with a Demolition Gun and GRAW-4 Monomolecular Cutter. In addition, parts can be exchanged to recreate the "Fairy's Feather" and cooling fibers on the head unit.
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MEININGER Bruxelles City Center, HOSTEL in Brussels Belgium.
MEININGER Bruxelles City Center.
Quai du Hainut / Henegouwenkaai 33, Brussels, Belgium
Located near: Grand Place is a short 15 minute walk from the hotel, and the Porte de Flandre is directly around the corner. The Rue Antoine Dansaert, famous for its lively mix of cafes, galleries, restaurants and shops featuring the latest in Belgian fashion, is also in the neighbourhood.
Welcome to MEININGER Bruxelles City Center
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Nicole Beanie Hat.
Classic Beanie Hat, the Nicole is made from yarn that has been space dyed, which means one piece of yarn consists of multiple colours giving the beanie a unique look. It also has a soft teddy lining for extra comfort and warmth. Put it on your wishlist this winter.
Free UK 48 hour delivery when you spend £40.
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Women's Dropped Back Hem Hoodie Sweatshirt with Glitter Logo, Black
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The Outside Blog Minion Report
November 2008 In Review: Kari A. Battaglia
This is a person who quotes Theodore Roosevelt when she reflects on giving thanks: "Let us remember that, as much has been given us, much will be expected from us, and that true homage comes from the heart as well as from the lips, and shows itself in deeds." Theodore Roosevelt. She also makes very interesting use of the re-blog option.
Have you seen her recipe for fresh cranberry sauce? I was happy to discover it was surprisingly easy to make and the little minions loved participating in the activity. Kari also gives great advice about protecting your laptop and shares what she learned from a friend's misfortunes. I enjoyed reading about her first Active Rain lead. I was introduced to her blog while I was Googling Eco friendly and green real estate terminology for research on an upcoming project. She wrote an interesting article on the subject and I think you may enjoy it. Don't forget to check out her link embeds.
Realtors are so much more than their listings and market reports.I hope you will take a moment to go check out her blog.
BTW, if you live near Dunlap, TN Kari has this AWESOME 15 acre spot with a wet weather creek bordering the property. I am into eye candy and I have to tell you this place is Spanking-A. It has beautiful mountain views and is only approximately 1 mile to HWY 111. She reports that the land has been recently cleared, there are no restrictions and the lot is within the city limits. How cool is that? City water and electric at main road, HWY 127 North. Will subdivide to three 5 acre lots. (Note: the owner is related to Florida license real estate professional). If you want to peek at it, call Kari. You can check it out by clicking on this link.
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Houston, TX-based band Waterparks released their debut full-length, Double Dare, on November 4, 2016 via Equal Vision Records. Double Dare was recorded in Los Angeles, CA with Benji Madden (Good Charlotte, 5 Seconds of Summer) and Courtney Ballard (5 Seconds of Summer, All Time Low). Double Dare is the follow-up to three EPs: Cluster (2016), Black Light (2014) and Airplane Conversations (2012). Of the new album, frontman Awsten Knight shares, "It's just more. Everything about it is expanded and bigger. We wanted to push the boundaries to show people that you can be more than one thing. This isn't just a "pop-punk" band and I think when people hear the album, it'll be pretty apparent. There are songs that have elements of jazz, hip-hip, pop, indie, electronic, punk, etc. As far as the lyrics go, they're more personal than they've been on any other Waterparks release. This album has been in the works since August or September of 2015, and in that time I've felt and dealt with a lot of different things. I was probably more open than I should be with some stuff but it's fine. Honest songs are always best. It's also got me at my happiest, so that's a thing too." The past year has been truly groundbreaking for Waterparks, who signed to Equal Vision Records, partnered with MDDN co., released Cluster, embarked on their first ever full US and UK tours, and landed spots for Knight on multiple covers of Kerrang! and Alternative Press magazines. The band has remained on the road non-stop since their signing – sharing stages with Good Charlotte, All Time Low, Sleeping With Sirens, State Champs and more. Double Dare debuted on numerous Billboard Charts including Top New Artist, where it charted for eight consecutive weeks. Leading up to the full album premiere, Waterparks saw exclusive looks from Sirius XM Hits 1 for the premiere of "Hawaii (Stay Awake)" on Pete Wentz's Hits & Misses show and with BBC Radio 1 for the premiere of "Royal" on Rock Show with Daniel P Carter, where the song was also named the Rockest Record and has since seen additional spins on radio shows including Annie Mac, Clara Amfo, Huw Stephens (hosted by Phil Taggert) and more. Waterparks is comprised of vocalist/guitarist Awsten Knight, guitarist/vocalist Geoff Wigington, and drummer/vocalist Otto Wood.
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169 Islands that Offer Hope for Stemming the Extinction Crisis
Nearly 10% of island extinctions can be prevented through the eradication of invasive mammals on 169 islands, global collaboration shows.
Embargoed Until March 27, 2019, 2 PM EST/11 AM PST
Contact: Sally Esposito, Island Conservation, firstname.lastname@example.com, +1 (706) 969-2783
Interviews, Infographic, Photography (Floreana Island, Gough Island, Selkirk Island, Lehua Island, Cabritos Island), B-roll, 169 Islands List
Restoring islands by eradicating damaging, non-native invasive mammals such as rats, cats, goats, and pigs has repeatedly proven to be a high impact conservation action. New research published in PLOS ONE shows this conservation action can have a major contribution towards stemming the global extinction crisis by identifying 107 islands that could have eradication projects initiated by 2020, and 62 islands where projects could be initiated by 2030, to benefit 9.4 percent of the Earth's threatened island species.
The paper, titled "Globally Important Islands Where Eradicating Invasive Mammals will Benefit Highly Threatened Vertebrates," used biological and geographic data compiled for 1,279 islands with 2,823 populations of 1,184 bird, reptile, mammal and amphibian species listed as Critically Endangered or Endangered on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™ – the world's most comprehensive information source on the conservation status of animal, fungi and plant species. Practical criteria were applied to consider the technical and socio-political feasibility of eradicating damaging non-native invasive mammals. In total, 54 experts contributed to the assessment which considered whether these island restoration actions would be socio-politically feasible to initiate before 2020.
Eradicating invasive mammals from islands is a powerful way to remove a key threat to island species and prevent extinctions and conserve biodiversity," stated Dr. Nick Holmes, lead author on the study and Director of Science at the international biodiversity conservation nonprofit, Island Conservation, "This study is an invaluable global assessment of where these future conservation opportunities exist and supports regional and national decision-making about where and how to prevent extinctions."
Global collaboration
The paper represents an important global collaboration coming together to recommend practical actions where progress can be made against the global species extinction crisis. Fifty authors representing more than forty institutions from around the world contributed to publishing this paper, including non-government organizations, government, and academic institutions.
The paper was led by conservation biologists from Island Conservation, the Coastal and Conservation Action Laboratory at the University of California at Santa Cruz (UCSC), BirdLife International, and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Species Survival Commission (SSC) Invasive Species Specialist Group.
Global Impact
Stuart Butchart of BirdLife International stated, "This research highlights an extraordinary opportunity to deliver disproportionate conservation benefits from applying proven methods of island restoration. We can now target conservation funds at the key locations where they will deliver the greatest benefits for native biodiversity."
Through the UN Convention on Biological Diversity and the UN Sustainable Development Goals, the global community has agreed to halt the loss of biodiversity and preventing extinctions by 2020. Eradicating the non-native invasive species on the priority islands identified through this research would significantly contribute towards meeting this important target," said Co-author Piero Genovesi of the IUCN SSC Invasive Species Specialist Group.
Restoration Opportunities
The study highlighted restoration opportunities including:
- Floreana Island, Galápagos Archipelago, Ecuador: Eradication of feral cats and invasive rats would remove the threat of non-native predation threatening the Critically Endangered Galapagos Petrel, a burrow-nesting seabird that is dependent on this island to breed safely. Invasive predator eradication will also allow for the reintroduction of 13 locally extinct species.
- Gough Island, Tristan da Cunha Archipelago, United Kingdom Overseas Territories: Gough Island provides vital nesting habitat for a number of species including the Critically Endangered Tristan Albatross and Gough Bunting and the Endangered Atlantic Petrel, now at risk from predation by invasive house mice. Eradicating this mouse population is a critical action to protect these globally threatened species and this UNESCO World Heritage Site.
- Alejandro Selkirk Island, Juan Fernandez Archipelago, Chile: Eradicating feral goats and cats and invasive rodents would remove key threats of habitat loss and non-native predation for the Critically Endangered Masafuera Rayadito, a small songbird endemic to this remote island and found nowhere else in the world. This island restoration action would also benefit numerous other unique native plants and animals at risk from invasive mammals.
Additional Background
Why Islands?
Islands represent both a unique conservation need and opportunity. Islands total only a small fraction of our planet's land area and host a disproportionately higher rate of extinction and endangerment per unit area than continents. For this reason, investing limited conservation funds on islands provides a high return on investment.
- There are ~465,000 islands in the world [1], yet they comprise just 5.3% of the Earth's terrestrial area [2].
- Islands have been epicenters for extinctions: Islands have hosted 75% of known bird, mammal, amphibian and reptile extinctions since 1500 [2].
- Islands provide critical refuges for highly-threatened species, currently supporting 36% of bird, mammal, amphibian and reptile species that are classified as Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List [2].
Invasive alien species are a major driver of species extinctions on islands, particularly invasive mammals.
- Many islands' species are threatened as a direct consequence of invasive alien species, particularly invasive mammals [3]. Invasive cats and rats are the most damaging invasive species known on islands [4-6].
- Invasive species devour eggs, young and even adults of native animals and plants, spread invasive seeds, and destroy vegetation [4-6].
Islands offer hope that we can prevent extinctions and protect biodiversity.
- Eradication of invasive mammals from islands is a proven conservation tool [7].
- More than 1,200 invasive mammal eradications have been attempted on islands worldwide, with an average success rate of 85% [8].
- Larger more remote and technically challenging islands are being successfully cleared of invasive species populations each year.
- Many of these investments have resulted in remarkable stories of restoration success, including the recovery of globally threatened species [9].
About the partners
Island Conservation is the only global, not-for-profit conservation organization whose mission is to prevent extinctions by removing invasive species from islands. We work where the concentration of both biodiversity and species extinction is greatest – islands. Removing a primary threat – introduced invasive vertebrates – is one of the most critical interventions for saving threatened plants and animals and restoring island ecosystems. Once invasive species are removed, native island species and ecosystems can recover, often with little additional intervention. To date, we have successfully restored 63 islands worldwide, benefiting 1173 populations of 468 species and subspecies. IC is headquartered in Santa Cruz, CA with field offices in British Columbia, Chile, Ecuador, Hawai'i, New Zealand, Palau, and Puerto Rico.
Coastal Conservation Action Lab at UCSC: Our lab brings science and action together to solve conservation problems. We use science to identify and prioritize conservation problems. We then work with agencies and NGOs to develop and test cost-effective solutions that can be taken to scale. Much of our work has focused on seabirds and island ecosystems, but we will apply our approach to any ecosystem where it can make a profound difference.
BirdLife International is the world's largest nature conservation Partnership. Together we are 120 BirdLife Partners worldwide – one per country – and growing with 13 million members and supporters, over 7,000 local conservation groups and 7,400 staff.
BirdLife's vision is a world rich in biodiversity, where people and nature live in harmony. We are driven by our belief that local people, working for nature in their own places but connected nationally and internationally through our global Partnership, are the key to sustaining all life on this planet. This unique local-to-global approach delivers high impact and long-term conservation for the benefit of nature and people.
BirdLife is widely recognised as the world leader in bird conservation. Rigorous science informed by practical feedback from projects on the ground in important sites and habitats enables us to implement successful conservation programmes for birds and all nature.
IUCN is a membership Union uniquely composed of both government and civil society organisations. It provides public, private and non-governmental organisations with the knowledge and tools that enable human progress, economic development and nature conservation to take place together.
Created in 1948, IUCN is now the world's largest and most diverse environmental network, harnessing the knowledge, resources and reach of more than 1,300 Member organisations and some 13,000 experts. It is a leading provider of conservation data, assessments, and analysis. Its broad membership enables IUCN to fill the role of an incubator and trusted repository of best practices, tools, and international standards.
IUCN provides a neutral space in which diverse stakeholders including governments, NGOs, scientists, businesses, local communities, indigenous peoples organisations, and others can work together to forge and implement solutions to environmental challenges and achieve sustainable development.
Working with many partners and supporters, IUCN implements a large and diverse portfolio of conservation projects worldwide. Combining the latest science with the traditional knowledge of local communities, these projects work to reverse habitat loss, restore ecosystems and improve people's well-being.
IUCN Invasive Species Specialist Group (ISSG) is a global network of currently 218 scientific and policy experts on invasive species from 48 countries, organized under the auspices of the Species Survival Commission (SSC) of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). ISSG aims to reduce threats to natural ecosystems and the native species they contain by increasing awareness of invasive alien species, and of ways to prevent, control or eradicate them.
- UNEP-WCMC. Global distribution of islands. Global Island Database (version 2.1, November 2015). Based on Open Street Map data (© OpenStreetMap contributors) (available at www.unep-wcmc.org). Cambridge, UK2015.
- Tershy BR, Shen K-W, Newton KM, Holmes ND, Croll DA. The importance of islands for the protection of biological and linguistic diversity. Bioscience. 2015;65:592–7.
- Bellard C, Cassey P, Blackburn TM. Alien species as a driver of recent extinctions. Biology Letters. 2016;12(2).
- Doherty TS, Glen AS, Nimmo DG, Ritchie EG, Dickman CR. Invasive predators and global biodiversity loss. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2016;113(40):11261-5.
- Towns DR, Atkinson IAE, Daugherty CH. Have the harmful effects of introduced rats on islands been exaggerated? Biological Invasions. 2006;8(4):863-91.
- Medina FM, Bonnaud E, Vidal E, Tershy BR, Zavaleta ES, Donlan CJ, et al. A global review of the impacts of invasive cats on island endangered vertebrates. Global Change Biology. 2011;17(11):3503-10.
- Veitch CR, Clout MN, Towns DR, (eds). Island Invasives: Eradication and Management. Proceedings of the International Conference on Island Invasives. Gland, Switzerland and Auckland, New Zealand: IUCN; 2011.
- DIISE. The Database of Island Invasive Species Eradications, developed by Island Conservation, Coastal Conservation Action Laboratory UCSC, IUCN SSC Invasive Species Specialist Group, University of Auckland and Landcare Research New Zealand. http://diise.islandconservation.org 2014.
- Jones HP, Holmes ND, Butchart SHM, Tershy BR, Kappes PJ, Corkery I, et al. Invasive mammal eradication on islands results in substantial conservation gains. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2016;113:4033–8.
- Island Restoration Set to Save Coral Reefs - October 19, 2020
- Emerging Research on Tetiaroa Atoll - October 16, 2020
- Restoring Tetiaroa Atoll from Ridge to Reef - October 16, 2020
- Press Release: Pursuing Sustainable Development for Island Communities by Removing Invasive Species - August 13, 2020
- Press Release: Advancing Drone Technology for People and the Planet - July 1, 2020
- Restoring Balance and Building Climate Resilience on Tetiaroa Atoll - June 24, 2020
- Fishing Community Strives for Healthy Oceans Surrounding Pajaros Uno Island - June 24, 2020
- The Plight of the Pink-footed Shearwater - June 24, 2020
- Monitoring Lehua Island After Dark - June 24, 2020
- Rare Endangered Albatross Takes Flight from Midway Atoll - June 19, 2020


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RARE Georg Jensen Sterling Silver Cordial Cups/Mini-Goblets by Baldwin & Miller in their original, lined case. This 8-cup set is nearly impossible to find in its original box. The gray box is lined with gray and cream-colored material double-latched and double-hinged. Both latches are in excellent working order. The cordial cups are marked "B & M Sterling" on the lower side, just above the stem.
Condition: The cups are used, but in mint condition and the box is in excellent condition for its age. It has some discloration on the interior material that sat against the cups. The box also has two marks on the exterior that will probably come off with cleaning, but I didn't attempt because I didn't want to damage the box. Cups: 2" H x 1" W.
Box: 14" L x 3 1/2" W x 2 H. The item "RARE Georg Jensen Sterling Silver Cordial Cups by Baldwin & Miller, original box" is in sale since Sunday, March 31, 2019. This item is in the category "Antiques\Silver\Sterling Silver (. The seller is "williawar82" and is located in Santa Rosa, California. This item can be shipped to United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Denmark, Romania, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Czech republic, Finland, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Estonia, Australia, Greece, Portugal, Cyprus, Slovenia, Japan, China, Sweden, South Korea, Indonesia, Taiwan, South africa, Belgium, France, Hong Kong, Ireland, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Italy, Germany, Austria, Bahamas, Israel, Mexico, New Zealand, Singapore, Switzerland, Norway, Saudi arabia, Ukraine, United arab emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Croatia, Malaysia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Bermuda, Ecuador, Oman, Peru, Viet nam, Uruguay.


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Usually when you think of a manual most of us, like me, sigh because I'd rather tinker with it and learn by doing. When a manual comes out before you're able to use the product, I like to read through it to see if it mentions things testers haven't leaked yet. Our friends over at Droid-Life have come across the XOOM manual. The wording in it has me believe that it could be for the 3g/4g AND the wifi-only version, and explains a lot of the new features of the device. It seems to confirm the absence of folders for the home screen, something I was having my "source" look into on a SDK build of Honeycomb on the Nook Color. One particular part of the manual that peaked my interest was a paragraph under the description of the Apps screen. "Your Tablet can tell you when there's an updated app or other software. To install the update, just follow the directions on your screen." While that might just be letting the user know about the Market and its update notifications, it could mean a notification icon on the app itself. Check out the file from Droid-Life here, and if you find out anything that you think people have missed please let us know in the comments!
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Shakira's Baby Boy
Friday, 23 August 2013
Could Shakira's son Milan be any cuter? I don't actually think so! She tweeted a seven month "birthday" shot yesterday and I just fell in love.
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text: I haven't featured any LEGO shirts lately but Ript Apparel today has two available for purchase. The first one features LEGO Batman in the design from Batman: The Animated Series. The other shirt features Ash Williams from the cult classic Evil Dead series. Both shirts are available for 24 hours and start at $13 each.


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How to Corner Brace a Bookcase
While most bookcases have a full back installed, sometimes you want to leave the back open. Since the back provides much of a bookcase's stability, it needs bracing of another sort to make up for the missing back. Corner braces are the most common substitute.
Corner braces can be made inexpensively from 1/4-inch plywood; however, you can also buy ready-made L-shaped metal braces that are virtually invisible from the front of the bookcase. The bracing process is the same, except that the metal braces use screws; you will need to drill pilot holes before attaching them. This how-to article will explain how to make corner braces from plywood.
Step 1
Place the bookcase face down on a flat surface.
Step 2
Use the measuring tape to check the distance from one corner of the bookcase to the corner diagonally across from it. Write this number down if necessary.
Step 3
Measure the diagonal distance between the two other, opposite corners of the bookcase. Make a note of this number as well.
Step 4
Compare the two numbers. If the two numbers match, the bookcase is square; skip to step 8 and begin the bracing process. If they are not the same, the bookcase is out-of-square and must be adjusted.
Step 5
Determine which of the two diagonals is longest. You will want to square the bookcase using those two corners.
Step 6
Butt one of the corners against an immobile object, such as a wall, and gently push on the other corner with your hands.
Step 7
Recheck the measurements across both diagonals of the bookcase. If they do not match, repeat steps 5 and 6 until they do. When both measurements are the same, your bookcase is square and you can begin bracing it.
Step 8
Cut four right triangles from 1/4-inch plywood; these will be our braces. A right triangle has a 90-degree angle; the two sides that form that right angle should each be 3 inches long.
Step 9
Place a brace on one corner of the bookcase and carefully nail through it into the edges of the case. Use four nails, two on each of the sides that form the right angle.
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Repeat the step 9 on each of the remaining corners, using the other three braces.
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- While 3 inches is a good size for a typical brace, you can make them larger if your bookcase is very large or will be carrying a very heavy load. Use more nails if you make larger braces.
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Welcome to my portraits. I am drawn to their intimacy and complexity – our ability as humans to read the most subtle nuances in faces, even those in historic portraits, makes the genre a challenge, particularly in watercolour.
I often place my subjects in strong, one-directional light, mapping the way it falls to add dimension and drama. I then construct an image of the sitter using a method I have developed that I call "gravity painting".
A record of awards, competitions and professional exhibitions can be found in Exhibition News.
I would be delighted to discuss any queries you may have. I also enjoy working to commission to capture treasured family portraits.: Contact Catherine.
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Freezing away your fat cells probably sounds too good to be true, but what if we told you that the non-surgical fat reduction treatment known as CoolSculpting does just that? In as little as 35 to 60 minutes, you can experience the power of CoolSculpting and be on your way to enjoying a more defined physique. Find out just how effective CoolSculpting at Burgess Plastic Surgery can be for toning targeted areas of your body.
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Three Body Contouring Options to Transform Your Shape Before SummerWednesday, January 30th, 2019
Spring break and summer vacation will be here before you know it, which means now is the time to think about trimming down from the holidays and getting your beach body ready. By scheduling body contouring procedures this winter, you'll be fully healed and ready to show off your newly-enhanced figure when the warm weather arrives. Burgess Plastic Surgery offers a variety of body contouring procedures in Portland to remove loose skin and localized fat deposits while tightening and lifting.
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Say goodbye to unwanted cellulite with ThermiSmooth® and Slimspec. These two treatments work to reduce the appearance of cellulite without the need for an invasive procedure. Here's a closer look at cellulite and how to treat it.
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If you've been thinking about doing something about those hard to manage inches around your belly, now is the perfect time. Here, we'll look at four ways to improve your midsection to give you the confidence to look great and wear whatever you want—from this summer's sexy new bikini to that little black number that's been hiding in your closet. Dr. Burgess has all of your tummy-sculpting needs covered, whether you have a little extra fat hanging around or it's time to finally go for that transformative procedure you've been wanting.
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Another month, another anthology.
Dying To Live: Stories of the Undead (Diabolic Publications) is exactly what it says on the box – stories of the undead. The brief when I first saw it was simple – 'Twilight' is too pussy, let's have real vampires.
And thus this book came out.
And, my God, is it a good one! At 357 pages and 20 stories, it is a whole lot of reading, but you won't be able to put the thing down. Now in the past I've had some gripes about books with such a definite premise resulting in all the stories coming across the same and harming the surprises. Not here. Yes, we know they all involve the undead (though zombies are – thank God – virtually nowhere to be seen!), but no stories really try to hide that fact. Instead things happen that are just downright creepy and eerie.
Okay, let's start with some negatives (as is my wont). Some formatting errors, some homophone errors, one or two missing words and a very small number of punctuation errors, but no spelling mistakes. For a small press publication (hell, after reading another book from a large multi-national publishing firm who obviously left spell check switched off, this could be said for any publication) this is a really low number of mistakes. So not such a negative then, as such. Also, there was no mention anywhere in the book of the name of the editor, which I found odd.
I should point out that I had a minor disagreement with them concerning use of my photograph, mainly because of my persistent and psychotic stalker, but they let that slide by.
Now for the positives – out of 20 stories only 1 didn't appeal, 1 other was okay, 2 were all right and the rest were actually fantastic. 1 bad story out of 20 – 95% is one hell of a high strike rate.
Also I have to say I have not read so many stories told in the present tense that actually work. Normally they come across as contrived or pretentious, but not here.
So, let's look at my favourite 5 stories in the collection (in order they appear in the book).
'The Tunnel' by Jane Domagala is a straight forward story, but where it shines is in its use of description. A masterclass of characterisation and descriptive writing. The ending was also not quite what I expected, which made it all the more frightening.
'So Vein' by Bruce Lockhart II and Suzie Lockhart was just a fantastic story about some-one getting what came to them that they deserved. Another fantastic main character and everything about her motivations rang true.
'Birds Of A Feather' by Jennifer L. Barnes is written with a different voice to the other stories, which made it unique from the outset. And that voice was perfect for a story where the Vampire was a bit of a dick, very few real names were used, and there was a hint of menace over everything. Probably my favourite story in the whole book.
'Twilight Time' by Steven Gepp… yes, it's mine. Shortest story in the book, but I actually took the Twilight premise literally. Short, sharp and shiny and full of the gore that I am starting to realise is my current oeuvre. And, yes, I like this story.
'Thanks For The Drink' by Thomas Alan Sandage ends the book on a fine note. Just the right amount of melancholy, and some great description. And the whole scene where the vampire derides the person for wanting to be a vampire as well is just what this book is about – Vampires are not nice beings.
Buy it – you won't be disappointed.


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Things are heating up in Mount Dora this weekend as the Mount Dora Pickleball Society has a tournament on Saturday. With more than 85 members, the society provides a fun, social, and low-impact outdoor sport for residents.
The tournament is at Donnelly Park Pickleball courts and begins at 8:15am tomorrow, if weather allows. The 22 participants, 11 men and 11 women, will play round robin doubles and a single elimination mixed double format.
If you'd like to check the society, they meet every Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday at 7:30am and 10am for play. For information, contact Ray Ditirro at 352.430.5846.


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