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How to lose underarm fat
- Exercises to tone underarm fat
- 1. biceps dumbbell curl
- 2. dumbbell triceps extension
- 3. seat dips to tone triceps
- 4. forearm board push ups for underarm fat reduction
- 5. lat pulldown for underarm
- 6. arm circles to get rid of underarm fat
- 7. shoulder press
- 8. triceps kickback
- 9. plane extension or flying superman exercise
- 10. shoulder lift to eliminate jiggly underarm fat
- 11. inchworm exercise
- 12. up facing dog exercise
- Ideas to reduce body fat to remove jiggly underarms
- Eat balanced diet to reduce fat including underarm fat
This fat is very shameful! The underarm fat that go till your back giving it an actual sagging and hangs under your arm look! Just how many times have you ever altered your thought to wear that strappy tank top that was fine simply as you may not enjoy all this underarm fat to appear underneath your arm hanging in the manner of a spoilsport! Thus, will there be any magic treatment to get rid of underarm fat! I'm unafraid. Lose and you must try your body fat that is total to completely eliminate underarm fat. Nevertheless, it is possible to at least build muscle tissue in the region encompassing your underarm this fat wouldn't hang but will appear tightened! Thus, also command your diet plan to reduce fat and you must work out. There are definite exercises which will really help you a whole lot to tone your underarm muscles up to simply help in keeping underarm fat from becoming!
We'll discuss on three points about the best way to reduce underarm fat in this informative article. These contain exercises to tone up the muscles around underarms, tricks to lose overall body fat and diet that can allow you to lose fat from entire body including underarms!
Exercises to Tone Underarm Fat
Toning underarm fat essentially implies that you need to tone your upper arm muscles specifically the biceps as well as the triceps. The biceps (biceps brachii) is the two-headed muscle lying in your upper arm between your shoulder as well as the elbow. It's needed to turn your arms. Another one, triceps (triceps brachii muscle) is the three-headed big muscle lying on the rear of your upper arm. It's necessary as when you straighten your arm, for extending the elbow joint. You should do strength training for triceps and biceps in the event that you would like to tone up that underarm flab and wear the hot strappy tank top to check all stunning with no remorse! Here are top exercises to tone the best way to do them and your underarm fat.
1. Biceps Dumbbell Curl
- 5 pound dumbbell – 2
- Perform such 8-12 repeats in 2-3 sets.
- Bring the arm to where it was back. Don't forget to maintain another hand at 90 degrees location.
- Stand right. Keep your feet in exactly the same width as of your shoulders.
- Now, change the functions of both hands. The one that was resting parallel to the flooring will curl towards shoulder as well as the other one is going to stay parallel to the ground at 90 degrees!
- To ensure it comes parallel to the ground now turn among your arms. To put it differently, bend it at 90 degrees.
- Take the dumbbells. Your hands needs to be in front of your hips as well as your palms must be facing out.
- Duplicate this arms biceps curl for about 8-12 times.
- After doing curls for 8-12 times with this particular arm, use both the hands to curl in once towards your shoulders. Duplicate this also for 8-12 times.
- This arm stay parallel to the ground, curl your other hand upwards, towards your shoulder while letting your!
2. Dumbbell Triceps Extension
- 5 pound dumbbell – 2
- Your palms should face each other, while doing so as well as each other also needs to touch. The interior elbows should remain close to the sides of your face.
- Lower the weights behind your face to let your biceps contact. Don't forget, upper arms while your forearms move behind will stay.
- Bring back the hands going your face over.
- Get the dumbbells and stand with legs at shoulders width.
- Repeat 8-12 times. Do 2-3 sets.
- Extend your hands over your face.
3. Seat Dips to Tone Triceps
- Seat or a seat – 1
- Straighten your arms, lifting the body back to first location.
- Your feet should stay flat and together on the ground.
- For a variation, it is possible to extend your legs forwards in the front of you when you lower your backside to bring it down in the border of the seat.
- Keep your hands on the seat on either sides of your hips.
- Repeat for 8-10 times. Do 2-3 sets of each repeat cycle.
- Sit on the seat or the seat. Keep your bottom near the border of the seat.
- Till your elbows rest at a little less than 90 degrees while bending your elbows, lower yourself in the border of your seat to the ground. This can bring your elbows nearly in the height of your shoulders.
4. Forearm Board Push ups for Underarm Fat Reduction
Push ups are among the most effective exercise to get rid of underarm fat. Additionally no gear does be needed by this exercise for underarm. Some and only your body face lifts to offer your arms some strength training! Simply bring a mat if necessary. Actually, that is dispensable, you can simply lie back on floor!
- Keep your elbows flexed under your shoulders.
- Lie on your with your face down.
- Do 2 sets of 10-15 rep.
- Rest the forearms on the ground with palms down.
- Hold the body in this place for about 5 seconds. Slowly raise the time as you then become comfortable of holding.
- Stretch your legs in such a style that the feet remain at the balls of your feet touch the ground as well as your hips width!
- Keep your abdomen while you stress your forearms and shoulders to lift your hips to bring it in line together with your heels and lower back!
5. Lat Pulldown for Underarm
It is possible to put it to use to lose your underarm flab in case you get an opportunity to reach the fitness center and accessibility the lat pulldown machine. Wide grip pulldowns on lat pulldown machines tone your latissimus dorsi muscles, lying behind your armpits. This makes it possible to eliminate underarm fat also.
- Now take a seat snug its cushioned support in your thighs and on the seat of the device.
- Now lift the bar back up slowly.
- Hold the straight bar using a wide, overhand hold.
- Attach to the lat pulldown machine!
- Pull the bar down towards your chest.
- Lean back a little but let your back remain right.
- Repeat this for 10 to 12 times.
6. Arm Circles to Get Rid Of Underarm Fat
If done the correct manner arm circles tone your arms. In fact back overly and your shoulders get toned in addition to your biceps and triceps when you do these arm circles. You might or might not use dumbbells because of this.
- 3 pounds Dumbbells (elective)
- If using dumbbells, stand the manner that is similar as in measure 1.
- Do circles back for 20 times, while maintaining your shoulders down.
- Hold the dumbbells in your palms that will face down.
- Stand with your feet in the width of your shoulder.
- Do 2 o
- Constantly keep your abdomen as well as your back straight tight.
- Get lighter dumbbells in case your back bends.
- Stretch your arms and keep them right. They have to be at shoulder height.
- Do the same in the anticlockwise movement for another half a minute!
- Do smaller circles in a clockwise movement for half a minute.
7. Shoulder Press
- Stand with your feet shoulder-width apart. Knees stay somewhat bend.
- Hold them there for only a second.
- Lower your hands and bring back to the initial location, just over the shoulders. Do this fairly slowly, take 3-4 seconds to bring down the hands!
- Hold the pair of dumbbells and get your hands above your shoulders. Palms will face each other but stay on either sides close to shoulders
- Repeat for 8-10 times.
- Holding the weights, extend your arms right overhead.
8. Triceps Kickback
- Hold the dumbbells. Keep the hands hanging forwards before the bended knees.
- Rotate your arm back to make it face in and go back to the bended arm position!
- Bend your right elbow while holding them till your upper arm gets parallel to the ground and bring the dumbbell. Left hand will stay in the first location.
- Change arms. Do the same steps using the left arm.
- Do 10-12 repetitions with each arm.
- Stand maintaining your knees bent and lean forwards somewhat.
- Get back the dumbbell while straightening your arm backwards. While doing so so that you can turn your palm face the ceiling rotate your arm.
9. Plane Extension or Flying Superman Exercise
This exercise works on armpit flab as well as on your back.
- Do 10-12 repeats.
- Stretch your arms sidewards. Palms should face down.
- Lie facedown.
- Hold to get a second.
- Transfer the hands back to the initial location.
- Bring your arms forward past your face while holding the place!
- Lower torso and your legs, relax.
- Lift your arms, legs and torso off the ground.
- Again duplicate each of the measures.
10. Shoulder Lift to Eliminate Jiggly Underarm Fat
Do Front Shoulder Lift
- Keep your shoulders rested.
- Hold dumbbells in your hands and keep them down before your thighs. Palms should face towards yourself.
- Till they get parallel to the ground, while maintaining your elbows slightly bent, lift your arms up in the front of yourself.
- Now lower to starting location back the hands.
- Repeat for 8-10 times.
- Stand keeping your feet hip-width apart!
Do Lateral Shoulder Lift
- Bring the hands back to their own own original location.
- Repeat for 8-10 times.
- Stand in exactly the same place in front shoulder lift.
- Till they get parallel to the ground keeping your elbows slightly bent, lift your arms directly outwards to the sides.
- But keep your hands with dumbbells at your sides and palms should face each other!
11. Inchworm Exercise
Your arms not only strengthen and reduces fat there but work in your back.
- Duplicate for at least 4-5 times or till you get to the wall.
- Stand with your feet – width.
- Bend in the waist.
- Touch your palms to the ground. If necessary you could flex your knees.
- Repeat the process again by walking the feet and then the hands.
- Be in this place for about 8-10 seconds.
- You do this exercise where there is plenty of room to go around.
- Turn about and duplicate the inchworm walk with feet and hands in the other way.
- Make your hands walk forwards till the moment you support your entire weight in your hands and toes.
- Make your feet walk forwards and fulfill with your hands. Your palms should stay on the ground. If necessary you could flex your knees.
12. Up Facing Dog Exercise
This exercise is in fact adapted from a Yoga position called Urdhva Mukha Savasana. It tones your legs, torso, arms and wrists but also your shoulders and buttocks.
- Bend the arms and bring your palms close to your own torso. Palms will rest by the chest on the ground.
- Repeat for 8-10 times.
- Keep the hands close to the body, at the sides.
- Hold the location for few seconds.
- Lift your upper body till your thighs, while straightening your arms!
- Return to the initial location.
- Your weight gets distributed between toes and your hands!
- Lie flat in your belly, face down.
This was all about building muscles and toning them to make your underarm region tightened. Nevertheless, for actually losing underarms that are fat, you have to reduce overall body fat.
Ideas to Reduce Body Fat to Remove Jiggly Underarms
Now lets have some suggestions to lose overall body fat that is necessary to remove underarms flab also.
- Specific cardio exercises tone your underarms and back in once. These exercise need stressing your upper body like kickboxing, basketball, swimming and dancing!
- You must do exercise. By exercising for 30 minutes for 5 days per week, this aim may be achieved!
- Exercise you can. For instance, do jumping jacks or stomach exercises when television advertisements are to the monitor and when viewing TV.
- It is possible to do one or more such exercises as running, jogging, brisk walking, climbing stairs, kickboxing, martial arts, swimming laps, high-impact dance etc.
- Nevertheless, back and cardio exercises should be coupled with strength training exercises. It is possible to therefore do exercises that are such as flying superman, up-facing dog and inchworms along with the rest of the exercises which were included in the initial section of the particular article.
- Burn a lot more calories than you actually have per day. With this, do cardiovascular exercises and track your diet.
- Walk whenever potential.
Eat balanced Diet to Reduce Fat including Underarm Fat
In the event you keep on eating more calories than that which you burn off yes, no exercise will prove successful. That doesnt mean that you should starve yourself. Only some minor changes in your daily diet provides you with a body that's in flab and shape -less underarms also!
- Eat more vegetables. Begin your meal and find out how you dont have room left for desserts and fried foods!
- Never miss breakfast and eat small regular meals throughout the day to prevent hunger pangs.
- Have dinner that is early. Night time eating makes you fat that additionally get underarms that are deposited!
- Have little number of healthful fat with meals. These can contain nuts, seeds, avocado olive oil, or coconut oil etc.
- Drink enough water to remain hydrated. Avoid having pop, coffee beverages, energy drinks, drinks containing added sugar and syrup. They make you gain weight!
- Scale back on eating out. Bring that to just once per week or fortnight should you eat in restaurants multiple times per week. Additionally order baked and grilled rather than fried and crap foods.
- Quit having foods that are processed reduce them significantly. Chips, sweets, cakes, biscuits etc. make you fat. Rather have fruits, dry fruits, and other more healthy snacks!
- Stop smoking
- Scale back on sugary foods and sweets.
- Have fruits, vegetables, lean meats and whole grains
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Monday, January 2, 2012
Meor Halif Hayqal♥
So well, all my beloved friends dah tengok dah my adik yang comel sangat ni? Great
Was born on 2nd December of 2011, Friday. Same months and day with me cause someday he'll be like his super miina noona! hahaha
ALL, HAPPY NEW YEAR!
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O Lord, our Sovereign, how majestic is your name in all the earth!
I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart; I will tell of your wonderful deeds.
I will be glad and exult in you; I will sing praise to your name, O Most High.
When my enemies turned back, they stumbled and perished before you.
For you have maintained my just cause; you have sat on the throne giving righteous judgment.
You have rebuked the nations, you have destroyed the wicked;
you have blotted out their name forever and ever…
The Lord is a stronghold for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble.
And those who know your name put their trust in you, for you, O Lord, have not forsaken those who seek you.
Sing praises to the Lord, who dwells in Zion. Declare his deeds among the peoples.
For he who avenges blood is mindful of them; he does not forget the cry of the afflicted.
Be gracious to me, O Lord. See what I suffer from those who hate me;
you are the one who lifts me up from the gates of death, so that I may recount all your praises, and, in the gates of daughter Zion, rejoice in your deliverance…
The wicked shall depart to Sheol, all the nations that forget God.
For the needy shall not always be forgotten, nor the hope of the poor perish forever.
Rise up, O Lord! Do not let mortals prevail; let the nations be judged before you.
Put them in fear, O Lord; let the nations know that they are only human.
Psalm 9: 1-5, 7-14, 17-20
Reflection – This is the first time in the Monday Psalter that I cannot print the entire psalm text on the blog—Psalm 9 is just a little too long for that. This is a psalm that probably does not rank among many people’s personal favorites. At first glance it is simply a reiteration of a theme that at times gets a little monotonous in the psalms: we have enemies; God, destroy our enemies; God did destroy our enemies. Hurray! Repeat as needed.
When you pray the entire psalter, as those of who pray the full office do over a four-week period, the large number of psalms more or less taken up with these matters is a bit disconcerting. The ancient world lived in a state of perpetual warfare and constant threat of destruction. If it wasn’t the Assyrians, it was the Babylonians, and then the Persians, the Greeks, the Romans. And before all that time of imperial conquest and dominance, it was a whole era of smaller tribes continually jostling for territory and slaying each other in the process.
And the people of Israel were pretty small potatoes in all this, much more often the conquered and the slain then the victorious conquerors. So it makes sense that in their psalmody questions of the enemy and what to do with them, the crying out to God for redress and the jubilant exultation when deliverance comes all are prevalent themes.
For us, though? These psalms push us somewhere that may seem a bit alien to us. I, personally, have never had a gun pointed at me, let alone held to my head. I have never been beaten up, never been faced with real hunger, never been in fear of my life. I realize I am profoundly, deeply lucky in these matters, and that not everyone in my North American social context, let alone elsewhere, can say those things.
But we are, as a society, largely blessed with security and peace, at least compared to much of the rest of the world, much of the rest of human history. But this psalm, and such psalms, push us regardless of our own personal situation into a deep solidarity with humanity and its suffering, the anguish of the poor, the terror of the victimized and brutalized. We pray this psalm for and with the Yazidi people, for and with the kidnapped children of Nigeria, for and with all the terrorized and the refugees, the tortured and the slain.
And this particular psalm is a cry to the just God who works justice, who is the savior of His people. This too pushes us deep into the mystery of faith. God’s salvation and God’s deliverance is a mighty mysterious thing at times. Without a faith in heaven and eternal life, it is hard to see how we can pray this psalm at all—so many live and die in this world without seeing any obvious deliverance of God.
So this psalm which may not be our most beloved favorite takes us both deeply into the heart of suffering humanity, and bears us into the heart of the mystery of faith. All flesh is crying out to God for justice and salvation; all flesh yearns to see this deliverance; all flesh cries for God to rise up and raise us up with Him in the glorious victory of good over evil, love over hate, God over all. Amen. | <urn:uuid:d9034ab0-1db4-4d7c-982e-b2ff698226e8> | CC-MAIN-2018-26 | http://frdenis.blogspot.com/2014/09/a-psalm-for-yazidi.html | 2018-06-20T07:10:26Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267863489.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20180620065936-20180620085936-00195.warc.gz | en | 0.945643 | 1,074 | [
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Pushcart Prize ~ Best Of The Small Press Series
- Lorna Dee Cervantes, Shelling The Pecans, published in OCHO #6 (MiPOesias Print Companion) was selected by Pushcart Editors for the 2008 anthology (November 2007).
Best American Poetry
- Terrance Hayes, I JUST WANT TO LOOK, selected by Amy Gerstler Best American Poetry 2010
- Debbie Yee, (OCHO) Cinderella’s Last Will and Testament, selected by David Waggoner for Best American Poetry 2009.
- Reb Livingston, That’s Not Butter, selected by Billy Collins for Best American Poetry 2006.
- Nin Andrews, The Art of Drinking Tea, selected by Denise Duhamel for Best American Poetry 2013
- Gary Lilley, Sermon of the Dreadnaught, selected by Terrance Hayes for Best American Poetry 2014
American Life in Poetry (Ted Kooser)
Best Gay Poetry 2008
- Richard Johns
- Miguel Murphy
- Jason Schneiderman
- C. Dale Young
- Andrew Demcak
Villanelles Everyman’s Library, Pocket Poets series. Ed. Annie Finch & Marie-Elizabeth Mali
- Matthew Hittinger
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Banner FOAPAL Request
The Banner System’s Chart of Accounts (COA) is the account structure used to track department transactions.
Funds are used to identify the source of the revenue. In other words, it is where the money comes from. Revenue can come from many different sources. These revenue sources include:
- General Funds: Tuition & Fees or Program Fees, Budget, Indirect Cost Recoveries
- Auxiliary Funds: Sales, Fee for Services
- Restricted Funds: Grants, Foundations
- Plant Funds: Reserves set aside for large Capital purchases
- Agency Funds: Study Abroad, Student Clubs.
New revenue generating activities such as, but not limited to, performances, events, fundraising, space rental, sale of goods or services, and sponsorships must follow the Other Revenue Policy for approval, prior to a Fund request.
The Org Code is used to identify a department. Every department is assigned an Organizational Code. For example, “MGT” could be used for Management Department (Orgs are monitored and approved by the Budget Office).
The Account codes classify, in detail, the results of transactions. Account codes allow you to have more flexibility for detail on your transactions. 51XX TO 59XX are Revenue (money coming in) accounts 65XX to 79XX are Expenditure (money going out) accounts.
Program codes identify the functional purpose of each revenue and expenditure transaction. These codes are used to help the University report our financial position. The Program codes are a standardized system of comparable categories required by the National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO).
Activity & Location (A/L)
Activity/Location codes help identify a specific project/activity that needs to be tracked by a department.
For more detailed information on the Banner Chart of Accounts, please review our FOAPAL Training.
The following information is required to complete the Banner Chart of Accounts FOAPAL Request form:
- The proposed title of the FOAPAL
- A valid business purpose
- The exact length of FOAPAL use
- Signatures from authorized signers
- They are required to complete the Signatory Authorization Form
- Department head approval
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Improving rural health with technology
Harnessing the potential of technology to enable ideal healthcare in Australia is especially important for those living in rural and remote areas where access to healthcare and face-to-face patient-clinician consultations are harder to come by.
While technologies such as cloud solutions facilitate information exchange in real time, teleconferences remove the impediment of distance. Dr Charlotte Middleton, GP and Chief Medical Advisor at MedicalDirector, explores how technology continues to improve telehealth in Australia.
The status of rural health in Australia
Rural health in Australia has received considerable airtime in recent years. In 2017, a new telehealth initiative was announced as part of the federal budget, aimed at addressing the higher suicide rates in rural Australia and the city–country divide in the provision of health services. Likewise, we also saw the appointment of a national rural health commissioner, tasked with filling the gap of medical experts by improving rural health policies.
Technological innovations are popping up every day to complement the work already being done to develop telehealth in Australia. For instance, St John Ambulance’s First Responder app alerts qualified first aiders to nearby emergencies so they can provide preliminary care while an ambulance is en route.
As a country with a healthcare system that is regularly ranked among the best in the world, ensuring we’re all given equal access to healthcare should remain a non-negotiable. But despite such advances, access to doctors and specialists remains the single biggest health concern of country Australians.
How cloud technology can help
Cloud-based solutions can provide the connectivity and interoperability needed to effectively manage healthcare in more remote areas, where providers can be few and far between and the costs of establishing and managing locally hosted servers prohibitively high.
A number of practices we’ve been speaking to recently administer care off-site and needed a database they could access and utilise regardless of where they were. Helix, our cloud-based clinical software solution, doesn’t rely on a locally hosted server – it offers flexibility and streamlined administration processes so more time can be spent on delivering care.
The movement of data enabled by cloud-based solutions also fosters an environment of shared responsibility between providers and patients – with 70 percent of patients claiming they have become more engaged with their healthcare through greater access to online patient portals and telemedicine. Healthcare ‘in the cloud’ allows for the fast and secure movement of information in real time – delivering vital information and insights to where they’re needed, regardless of distance.
Where telehealth can help
The telehealth initiative referred to earlier, which came into effect in November 2017, meant people living in rural and regional Australia will be able to claim a Medicare rebate for online video-conferencing consultations with psychologists.
A recent survey conducted by the Royal Flying Doctor Service found that while two-thirds of respondents said they needed to travel one hour or less to see a medical professional, a visit to the doctor for those living in more remote areas meant a 10-hour or more round trip – a clear indication that there is an insufficient number of healthcare professionals working in the areas they’re needed most.
Telehealth technologies such as video consultations can help ease workforce challenges as distance no longer impedes the delivery of care – freeing up time, money and resources.
Telehealth for the future
Moving forward, the uptake of cloud technologies will continue to enhance the capabilities of telemedicine, with some predicting that virtual care will become commonplace in 2018, when an estimated 80 percent of patient service interactions will make use of IoT and big data. The need for highly scalable, flexible communications infrastructure to manage these applications will only further enhance industry adoption of cloud technologies and telehealth solutions in the years to come.
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Sweeney says that within the more than 11,000 Seventh-day Adventist Church
members in the London area there are probably less than 200 white British.
Sweeney, president of the Adventist Church in Britain, wants members to reach
out to all cultural groups. Many areas in the UK have no Adventist presence, he
several world regions of the denomination, church growth there is mainly among
causing Sweeney, the president of the Adventist Church in Britain, to assess
how Adventists are ministering to the 70 percent majority white population in
London, as well as throughout the British Isles. His advice is for Adventists
to find better ways of impacting communities surrounding its congregations.
plans to identify people who excel at conducting ministry across cultural
barriers in un-entered areas, which may require financial support for those
regions without an Adventist presence.
46, a black British national, was appointed president of the Adventist Church's
British Union Conference in July.
spoke with Adventist News Network (ANN) by phone from his office in Watford the week before a quarterly
meeting with his five local field presidents. He discussed issues involved in
creating a plan to grow membership across the board, regardless of race or
culture. He also discussed his influences and which biblical character might
offer the most relevant example for his situation. Some interview excerpts have
been edited for length:
What's the demographic makeup of the Adventist Church in the British Isles?
We're about 45 percent West Indian, and then slightly less than that is African
and some from Asia. About 10 percent at most is white English, and I think I'm
being generous with that.
ANN: What's your
plan to build membership across the board, regardless of race and culture?
Sweeney: To start, we
need to have the discussion, and we have begun that. My Communication director
has started a blog
on our website about this. It's also gone into the union paper, which comes out
on a fortnightly basis. Within the church there are people who can
minister cross-culturally and cross racially. I look at Peter and Paul. Peter
was a great guy, but God had to give him a whole vision of sheep and unclean
things just to get him to do one Bible study. Paul, however, had an ability to
minister to the gentiles. It's not without significance that Paul was the major
contributor to the New Testament. So my call to the pastors is, let's identify
the Pauls who can minister outside their own cultural context.
ANN: What role does
leadership play in reaching all cultures?
Sweeney: What we have
to do is really support the pastors and conference presidents who are prepared
to make the bold steps and say, "We see that things need changing. This is
how we're going to try to reach our host community." It may evolve into
placing pastors into un-entered territories and saying to them, "What do
you need, how can we support you?" Then again, we put a person into an
un-entered territory and there's no tithe to pay his wage. But I think it's
about the stronger supporting that which is not so strong. We're going to have
to be pioneers and send people into those un-entered territories.
ANN: Why is
outreach a big part of this plan?
Sweeney: I suspect --
and I can tell by some of the comments on the blog -- that sometimes the church
is so internalized looking at our own issues that our board meetings, for
example, haven't spent the time as our church manual says for our primary focus
In my previous church, instead of praying that people come in, we prayed about
going out and we saw results. The figures weren't brilliant in context of big
numbers, but the impact for me is not simply about how many accessions we
bring, but about whether or not people know. Noah for example, was a useless
evangelist if we look at him only by number of accessions. He reported zero
baptisms for a century. But when the rain began to fall, everybody knew. Impact
for me is about "Did somebody hear?"
ANN: How open are
we to talking about race and racism in the church?
Sweeney: I think we're
moving into a stage where we can speak more openly and honestly about issues
that really face us. I'm not fully conversant on the history of the church here
in Britain. I think there is [pain] and I'm sort of hesitant to speak of that
era of the 50s and the 60s. I was raised here but that all predates me. I don't
want to open too much of the old wounds. When we have those discussions, I want
it in the context of, "I hear where you came from, but this is where I
think we all need to going." I know for some folk who are black they may
say, what about the [historical] struggle? I'm not decrying the struggle. I'm
simply saying let's never lose sight of what God has called us to do. I really
want us to place our focus on the bigger picture, which is the 65 million or so
in Britain who don't know Christ.
ANN: Where might
repentance fit into how Revival and Reformation is expressed in UK?
Sweeney: I'm really
glad for the whole emphasis that Elder Wilson is putting on Revival and
Reformation and the Great Controversy Project, because to me it's about
remembering our Adventist roots. One of the great challenges Britain has is
that it isn't as God-friendly as the United States. Sure the queen is the head
of the church in England, but believe me, this is not a Christian-welcoming
society. Christians are often in the media under attack. Having said that,
there is also in Britain a search for some sense of spirituality. There are
churches that among the host community outside of Adventism that are growing. A
lot of times Adventists think it's about the worship service and that you have
to bring a band in. It's not about that. You have to be relevant to people's
lives where they're at. Most of these growing churches do things that impact
their community, whether it be childcare, mentoring, youth clubs, they are
there visibly in the community saying, "We're here, we see your needs, how
can we help you?" I think that's what we are to do as a church.
ANN: Who are your
mentors and models of success?
Sweeney: One of the
church leaders who has been an inspiration to me is Fredrick Russell [president
of Allegheny West Conference based in Ohio, United States]. He has a principle,
"Hang around people who are successful." And anyone who I see is
doing something [I admire] I'll call them so I can sit at their feet. I'm
reading Ted Engstron, The Making of a Christian Leader, I'm sharing that with
our staff. I'm also looking at a book by Nigel Rooms, Faith of the English,
which talks about integrating Christ with Culture. And Ellen White of course.
Right now my biblical inspiration is Jeremiah. It's a difficult example -- God
tells him to go preach and says "No one's going to listen, but do it
anyhow." That's [caused] me to re-evaluate success. Do we need people to
listen, or is it a success that we do what God asks us to do? He asks us to
preach to those people because He loves them, not because He's trying to waste
our time. I really want folk to go and witness because they love Christ.
ANN: How are you
going to integrate faith and prayer into an action plan?
Sweeney: Coming back to
Jeremiah, he cried for the people, cried over Jerusalem. The one thing we as
Adventists are not seen to do well, when last have we cried over the lost? And I
ask that starting with myself. We cry for money, for jobs, for this, for that,
but what [Jeremiah] was doing was crying for the people who have been lost. One
of the things we're emphasizing for 2012 is that if you're not crying in prayer
for the lost, you're certainly not going to be interested in seeing them saved
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Hello fairies and folks!
First of all, let me deeply apologize for not giving the blog some action for a few weeks now. The semester is slowly grinding to a halt and soon I’ll have more time on my hands, I promise. I will be sharing with you tips on maintaining good eyesight. The eyes, they say, are the windows to the soul, so keep those peepers sharp by following these simple steps.
I will be sharing with you tips on maintaining good eyesight; prevention is better than cure. The eyes, they say, are the windows to the soul, so keep those peepers sharp by following these simple steps.
- Eat Well
Really, eating a healthy and balanced diet is one of the simplest things you can do to improve your overall wellbeing. With all the back-breaking work you do, you should treat yourself and be kind to your body! Foods that contain lots of Vitamin A, are important for proper eye function. Load up on sweet potatoes (ahem, Islanders), carrots, fish (hi Catholics!), and leafy greens.
- Don’t Smoke
If humans were meant to smoke, there would be chimneys stationed right on top of our heads! Sadly, or maybe not, that is not the case. People who smoke may be at a much higher risk of developing age-related eye issues.
If smoking is an addiction for you, please seek help.
- Use Bright Light
Study and work only in well-lit areas or in front of moderately bright computer screens. Bright light lifts your mood, keeps you alert, and preserves your vision. Your mother has told you before, she was right.
- Examine Your History
This might be another reason why you should call home more often and be closer to your family. Learn your family history regarding eye disease and check in with your doctor on a regular basis. Don’t let illness sneak up on you.
Sidenote: the glasses pictured here are from EyebuyDirect. This online company has my heart, and just so you know, I received no compensation for this mention.They produce stellar materials and have excellent customer service. Be sure to check ’em out!
Another sidenote: If you are a business looking for me to review your products at no cost to you besides the said products(at least for now), send an email to [email protected]. I have a soft spot for entrepreneurs because I see the hard work you put in every single day.
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Chayote is a relatively new veggie in US that comes from Middle and South America but was the staple food for the Aztec Indians for hundreds of years. There are so many health benefits to Chayote.
Chayote is high in Vitamins C,B,K and antioxidants similar to those in green tea. Chayote containing only 40 calories. The leaves are edible and can be sauteed and used in salads. Being a fat free food containing less than a tenth of a gram of fat per fruit, and no cholesterol at all, Chayote is a very healthy food. Chayote has been known to have the following health benefits:
- Dissolves Kidney and Bladders Stones
- Arteriosclerosis-Helps fight against hardening of arteries
- Lowers Blood Pressure
- Lots of Trace Minerals
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In memory of
Mrs. Dorothy Ann Mahoney
The Service of Remembrance for Mrs. Dorothy Ann Mahoney, age 60, of Inverness, Florida, will be held 2:00 PM, Sunday, January 15, 2017 at the Inverness Chapel of Hooper Funeral Homes. Mrs. Mahoney was born July 11, 1956 in Harlan, KY, daughter of Billy and Jeanette (Boggs) Cornett. She died December 5, 2016 in Inverness, FL. Mrs. Mahoney was a former resident of Michigan where she worked as a Supervisor for the Ford Motor Company. She is described as being high class and always had on a matching outfit. She had a good sense of humor and was a collector of pretty things. Mrs. Mahoney was a hugger and a kiss blower, spreading love and acceptance and although she couldn't speak, she always heard. She enjoyed living on the lake and taking care of Jack. Her other interests include hummingbirds and cats. Mrs. Mahoney was preceded in death by her parents, sister Brenda and brothers Tom and Kenny. Survivors include husband, Gerald "Jack" Mahoney of Inverness, FL, Step Daughter Jeri (Mark) Kopeco, Step Son Todd Mahoney, brother, Bobby, 4 sisters: Marsha, Debra, Margaret, and Phyllis and 2 grandchildren: Madison and Jake. Online condolences may be sent to the family at www.HooperFuneralHome.com. Arrangements are under the direction of the Inverness Chapel of Hooper Funeral Homes & Crematory.
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French jet ski champion and inventor Franky Zapata has set a new Guinness World Record title for the farthest hoverboard flight.
The feat, which was undertaken off the coast of Sausset-les-Pins in the south of France on Saturday morning, saw Zapata power up to a new benchmark distance of 2,252 metres (7,388 feet) on his Flyboard Air hoverboard.
For comparison, the previous record that was set last year by Canadian Catalin Alexandru Duru, was only 275.9 metres (905 feet, 2 inches).
According to Zapata Racing, Franky's company, the Flyboard Air can reach a claimed maximum height of 10,000 feet, with a maximum speed of 150 kilometers per hour (93 mph).
Speaking after the amazing stunt, Zapata said that it had "really been a life's work".
Zapata Racing has created a series of hydro-propulsion hovercraft in the past, with the devices connected via hose, however the Flyboard Air uses an "Independent Propulsion Unit" to fly connection free for up to 10 minutes.
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I got hurt on someone else's property - are they responsible?
These accidents are commonly called slip and fall, or trip and fall. To recover, a victim must be able to prove that the condition causing them injury, at the time of the accident, was the result of the property owner’s negligence.
How Can You Prove Your Case?
Maryland property owners are required to make a reasonable effort to maintain safe conditions. The degree of care owed to others depends on the nature of the visit - invitee, guest, licensee or trespasser. Conversely, each individual has a responsibility to maintain an awareness of his or her surroundings to avoid potentially dangerous situations.
In order to argue a successful case against a property owner, you need to prove the following:
- The property owner owed you a duty to keep you safe.
- There was an dangerous or defective condition on the property
- The property owner knew, or should have known, about the dangerous condition, but failed to take action or took action that was ineffective.
- An injury caused by the condition, and lack of fault by the plaintiff.
As you might imagine, the third element is frequently the most difficult to prove.It is sometimes frankly impossible to prove that a landowner, possessor or manager of land or a building had knowledge of the dangerous, defective or unsafe condition. Every insurance company or their defense attorney is guaranteed to argue that the defendant had "no notice" of the dangerous condition, and hence had no time to repair or warn. Of course the personal injury plaintiff always has the burden of proof, so if they can't prove the owner had notice, there is no liability. However, the law charges a landowner, possessor or manager of land or a building with knowledge of what could have been discovered through the exercise of ordinary care. So, if an area of a building should been cleaned, or inspected, or maintained at given intervals, but was not, an experienced personal injury attorney may be successful in arguing that the landowner could have discovered the unsafe condition, but failed to do so. If they landowner could have discovered the defect, but failed to use ordinary care in their maintenance or cleaning processes, an experienced personal injury attorney can be successful in arguing there is liability even if the absence of actual knowledge of the defect.
What is the responsibility of a Landlord?
A landlord who has reserved certain "common" areas of his or her building [ e.g. exterior stairways, hallways and the like] owes the tenants, and those on the property with the permission of the tenants, a duty of reasonable care to keep the property safe. Note that this responsibility does not extend to activities or conditions within the individual unit possessed or leased by the tenant. Of course, the landlord must know of the dangerous condition in order to be charged with responsibility. LEARN MORE. | <urn:uuid:ceb58fb9-0ca3-4271-b3b7-1c7c0eb6d66d> | CC-MAIN-2018-26 | https://www.thekirklawfirm.com/personal-injury/slip-and-fall.html | 2018-06-23T06:26:32Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267864943.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20180623054721-20180623074721-00515.warc.gz | en | 0.970712 | 587 | [
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Imperial Meknes, What to See and Do, Your Morocco Tour Guide
Morocco ‘s 4th Imperial City of Meknes is often left off tourist itineraries. Meknes is a UNESCO World heritage site and has massive imposing ramparts, 25 kms long, built by Sultan Moulay Ismail, of the Alaouite dynasty, who ruled Morocco from 1672-1727. He chose Meknes as his capital because of the resistance and intrigue he encountered in Fes and Marrakech. He successfully defeated warring tribes and religious brotherhoods in the south uniting the country and repelling European invaders in the north, liberating Tangiers from British rule. The Sultan Moulay Ismaeil also withstood the Ottoman invaders who took Tunisia and Algeria.
Having won many battles and ensuring the unity of what became the modern Moroccan state, he returned to build Meknes as his capital over a period of 55 years. Moulay Ismail was not one to do things by half measures. The old town of Meknes had been the capital of a Berber tribe which had come from Tunisia, the Mekanassa. Alongside this old medina town the Sultan built his imperial city which provided accommodation for his wives and some 500 concubines and 800 children with 24 royal palaces, mosques, barracks and ornamental gardens, surrounded by four sets of massive defensive walls .
The Sultan also installed his army of black soldiers, the Abids or Black Guard, which grew to a force of more than 25,000 in number during his reign in Meknes. He used this slave army to impose a centralized state instead of using unreliable Moroccan tribes to enforce his rule as other sultans had done before him. He created a huge complex, which you can still see, for storage facilities and stabling for thousands of horses at the Heri el Souani granary. He used 50,000 Berber and European slaves to build the imperial city. He plundered the roman remains of Volubilis and completely removed the interior of the Badi Palace in Marrakech to build his imperial city.
Despite his iron control during his reign he failed to ensure the succession. Shortly after his death his sons dismantled most of what he had built within the walls and removed the materials to other locations following a pattern repeated in Moroccan history up until the French Protectorate and conservation efforts following Morocco’s independence in 1956.
Meknes has some remarkable entrance gates or babs, the best known and most ornate is the Bab Mansour, embellished with zellij tiles and Islamic script engraven on stucco. It is at Place el Helim which separates the Medina from the Imperial city and the nearby Bab Jema en Nouar ,both designed by Moulay Ismail’s court architect, a Christian renegade known as Mansour el Aleuj. The Dar Jamai Museum overlooks the Place el Helim and is a former palace built in 1882 for the Jamai family, two of whom were viziers to the sultan. Since 1920 it became one of Morocco’s best museums displaying the work of urban craftsmen and traditional Berber tribal artifacts. Its exhibits include ceramics, antique Fes and Meknes pottery, Berber jewelry, rugs, kelims, antique carpets, embroidery and woodwork. You can also enjoy the greenery and fountains of the museum’s Andalusian garden . Upstairs the vizier’s salon is arranged as a typical 19th century palace reception room with period decorations and furniture.
Opposite the Grand Mosque is the Medersa Bou Inania, a Merinid Medersa ( Islamic college) built in 1358 by Bou Inania ,who also built the renowned Medersa of the same name in Fes which is much larger. The medersa has fine zellij tiles, delicate stucco relief work and a carved olive wood ceiling. You can climb up to the roof for a fine view of the green tiled Grand Mosque and its minaret. The medersa itself is closed to non muslims.
In the Imperial City the tomb of its founder Sultan Moulay Ismail remains and is open to non muslims. It has courtyards which lead to the tomb hall which is finely decorated with zellij tiles and crafted stucco decorations. You can view the tomb but should not advance in to the chamber which is visited by pilgrims.
Moulay Ismail’s parade ground, the mechaouar, for reviewing his troops, is now called the Place Lalla Aouda and lies to the south of the Bab Mansour . The Koubbba al Sufara further on, is where the sultan received ambassadors and stairs lead down to a large crypt with dark rooms which are said to be dungeons but were apparently for storage.
The medina is smaller than that of Fes or Marrakech but nevertheless has good souks for jewelry, textiles, carpets and kelims. For accommodation you can choose riads in the medina including Riad Yacout or Riad D’Or and the Ville Nouvelle has a number of hotels including the Ibis and the Transatlantique. If you fancy a drink there is Le Pub and there are a number of restaurants in the medina including Dar Sultana and Restaurant Zitouna and in the Ville Nouvelle, such as Chez Phillipe and the Bistrot Art & Wine Bar. Meknes is a good place to stay whilst visiting the nearby Roman ruins of Volubilis with its famous mosaics and the religious pilgrimage town of Moulay Idris.
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According to TSU expert people will soon be forced to migrate due to climate change
According to the report recently published by the World Meteorological Organization concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere surged at a record-breaking speed in 2016 to the highest level in 800 000 years. The Head of the Bio-Clim-Land Center of Excellence Professor Sergez N. Kirpotin commented on this announcement regarding the climate change in Siberia. He highlighted that due to the changes Siberia witnesses the unusual for this climate zone phenomena including tornados, droughts and floods. These phenomena in turn trigger large flows of migrants fleeing from unfavourable weather conditions. The siruation was also discussed at the International scientific seminar of the International research network SecNet in Salekhard on October, 31.
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“Reason this person is a Gold Ribbon Hero: My hero is my 3 yr old granddaughter Brooklyn who in May was diagnosed with stage 4 Wilms tumor or nephroblastoma.
She has had 3 surgeries. One for her port & kidney biopsy. Then second, to remove her kidney, then lastly she developed complications from the kidney removal & had a bowel obstruction so they had to untwist her bowel.
That itself was a 20 day hospital stay.
She’s indured 8 rounds of radiation & 17 rounds of chemotherapy Along with numerous blood draws, pokes & scans
She always has a smile & meets no stranger. She loves her doggy Zoie & loves Elsa & everything from “Frozen” On December 8th she completed the last chemotherapy round & we are claiming that God has cleared her cancers & that she will get to “Ring the bell” in January. An awesome way to start our new year !!!! | <urn:uuid:4e3347af-a0e3-43a1-88f7-9d0190706d9c> | CC-MAIN-2018-26 | http://www.acco.org/blog/gold-ribbon-hero-brooklyn-t/ | 2018-06-24T06:59:47Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267866888.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20180624063553-20180624083553-00195.warc.gz | en | 0.969897 | 199 | [
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Ancient China in Context
China's Second Sage
E Bruce Brooks and A Taeko Brooks
For many, the Mencius represents the highpoint of Confucianism. Its self-cultivation aspect has proved especially popular in modern times. In its own time, and for a thousand years afterward, it was regarded primarily as a statecraft text. This translation of key passages brings out both aspects. Of several treatments of the Mencius, only this one distinguishes what can be attributed to the founder, and what is the record of not one but two successor schools, a northern one at Dzou, Mencius' native place, developing the philosophical aspect of Mencianism, including its close relation to the Chinese meditation tradition; and a southern one at Tvng, the minor state where Mencius had held his last government position, and which continued the political side of his doctrines.
Mencius, born to a noble Lu family then resident in Dzou, was the most widely acquainted man of his time. He studied in the Lu meditation school, where he met Li Dan, the future head of that school; he imbibed the socially radical ideas of the Micians, he traveled to Chi and familiarized himself with current Chi statecraft writings, he spent some years as an important figure at the Confucian School of Lu, and contributed to several chapters of its house text, the Analects. He then set out for a career of his own, advising the rulers of his time how to succeed in the business of ruling their own people well, and eventually becoming supreme over all the other states.
In this he failed, most conspicuously at Chi, where in 0314 his advice brought on a disaster for the Chi armies, which had attempted to annex the neighboring state of Yen. He finished his career at the negligible court of Tvng, where his disciples maintained a successor school, down to the year 0250. Another successor school, more interested in philosophy than in politics, broke off to settle in Dzou, Mencius' birthplace. The two schools developed the public and private sides of Mencian theory, disputing some points with the rival schools of the time. This rich inner history makes the story of Mencius and his ideas absorbing reading. The passages in Mencius which champion the right of the people to have a voice in government, which caused the book to be censored or banned in later China, Korea, and Japan, are of obvious continuing relevance in our contemporary world.
This book follows Mencius through his intellectual antecedents, his career as an advisor to rulers, and his posthumous survival in the writings of two successor schools, in extracts from the Mencius text and from some of the texts with which Mencius or his followers were in dialogue. Texts are given in Chinese as well as English, for those who wish to include the Mencius among the rudiments of a Sinological education.
For an overview of the entire classical period, which treats Mencius and his successor schools in the context of state modernization, see the survey volume, The Emergence of China.
See the complete Table of Contents, including downloadable samples
Subject Categories: Mencius, Chinese Philosophy
E BRUCE BROOKS is Research Professor of Chinese, and A TAEKO BROOKS is Research Associate, at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
Mencius: China's Second Sage
Approximately 256 pages
Tentative $46.95 cloth. ISBN 978-1-936166-30-5
Tentative $23.95 paper. ISBN 978-1-936166-70-1
Tentative $22.95 Ebook. ISBN 978-1-936166-90-0
Expected: Late 2018
When announced, this book may be ordered from the University Press of New England.
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Susan Thomas joined IMPACT Recruiting in 2008 as the Office Manager after coming from a background of management, training and executive support. Susan’s responsibilities include Facilities Management, Accounts Payables/Receivable and administration. After impressive company growth and increasing staff, she took on the added responsibility of Human Resources Administrator and maintains employee records, coordinates payroll and administers benefits.
Susan attended Arizona State University. She is actively involved in supporting various charities including animal rescue and adoption.
Contact Susan at our Arizona location
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Important Information on Moisture Meters You Need to Know
It is no question if purchasing a moisture meter is beneficial or not. Through the help of this device, you will figure out the level of moisture a wood has. That said, it gives you the ability to identify if a wood is stable enough to be used.
But if you are planning to buy one, then you have to be aware of a good number of specific information before push through. Please read on if you want to more informed.
PIN AND PINLESS METERS DISTINGUISHED
Pin and pinless are the two types of moisture meter. Both of these types can measure the effect of moisture but the pin type for electric current and the pinless type for the electromagnetic field. But one does have an advantage over another.
The advantage of using a pinless meter is that you can scan an entire wood board without the need to making holes in the wood. So, you can always take the meter with you to the lumberyard to test any wood before buying it. One concern on this meter, however, is that its sensor pad should in good contact with the wood to be tested so that accurate readings can be achieved. This meter might not function well when the stock is warped or too rough.
On the other hand, a pin meter can take readings on any kind of wood, whatever is the size, shape or degree of roughness. All that is need is for the two pins to be in contact with the wood. Not just that, a pin meter lets you utilize a remote probe. The good thing with using probes or nails is that you can test the moisture content of even the very thickest of woods.
KNOWING WHICH MOISTURE METER IS GOOD FOR YOU
Since there are two types of moisture meters available in stores, the first question that comes to your mid is what kind of meter is much better to pick. The way which you can ease the confusion in your mind is to identify the features offered by each of the two types of moisture meter as well as comparing and contrasting them through their advantages and disadvantages. In addition to that, you have to know the usual types of wood that you have to read.
CHOOSING YOUR STORE
When you have finally figured out the best and the right kind of moisture meter for you, the thing that follows is for you to check which is the best store to make a purchase from. Of course, you need to choose between an online and offline store, but either is good for you. In order that you can avoid choosing the wrong store, check if the store is legitimate and whether or not it is well-recognized in your community. | <urn:uuid:1a08a10b-a6d3-4aec-aae7-ef7a3b03d5bf> | CC-MAIN-2018-26 | http://www.afrispa.org/5-uses-for-gauges.html | 2018-06-18T07:54:13Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267860089.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20180618070542-20180618090542-00555.warc.gz | en | 0.952797 | 551 | [
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Mark-10 Series 7 Digital Force Gauge - M7-5
Series 7 professional digital force gauges are designed with a number of
sophisticated features for the most demanding tension and compression
Manufacturer part number:
Series 7 professional digital force gauges are designed with a number of sophisticated features for the most demanding tension and compression measurement applications, up to 500 lbF (2500 N). The gauges feature ±0.1% accuracy and a blazingly fast, industry-leading sampling rate of 14,000 Hz, producing reliable results for extremely quick-action tests.
Series 7 gauges include all the functions of Series 5 gauges, with several additional features, including high speed continuous data capture and storage, with memory for up to 5,000 readings, at an acquisition rate of up to 14,000 Hz. The gauges also feature programmable footswitch sequencing, break detection, and 1st / 2nd peak detection. Series 7 includes a coefficient of friction unit of measurement and user-defined unit of measurement. For productivity enhancement, the gauges also feature automatic data output, data storage, and zeroing functions upon the completion of break detection, averaging, external trigger, and 1st / 2nd peak detection.
Series 7 force gauges are directly compatible with Mark-10 test stands, including the ESM301, to permit functions such as break testing, tensile testing, compression testing, dynamic load holding, PC control capability, and many other applications.
The gauges include MESURTM Lite data acquisition software. MESURTM Lite tabulates continuous or single point data. One-click export to Excel allows for further data manipulation.
- High-speed 14,000 Hz sampling rate
- Continous data capture of up to 5,000 data points, at up to 14,000 Hz, downloadable to a PC
- Individual data point memory for up to 5,000 data points, downloadable to a PC
- USB, RS-232, Mitutoyo, and analog outputs
- Sample break detection with auto functions, including stopping movement on the ESM301(L) test stand
- 1st / 2nd peak detection
- Automatic output / data storage / zeroing upon various event completions
- 5 units of measurement, plus Coefficient of Friction, and user-defined unit with configurable name
- Programmable footswitch command string
- Programmable set points, with indicators and outputs
- Averaging mode - calculates average readings over time
- External trigger mode - for switch contact testing or remotely stopping display update
- Password protection, configurable for individual keys and calibration
|±0.1% of full scale
|AC or rechargeable battery. Multi-step low battery indicator is displayed, gauge shuts off automatically when power is too low.
|Backlight on: up to 7 hours of continuous use
Backlight off: up to 24 hours of continuous use
|lbF, ozF, gF, kgF, N, kN, mN (depending on model)
|USB / RS-232: Configurable up to 115,200 baud. Auomatic output available up to 250 Hz. Includes Gauge Control Language 2 for full computer control.
Mitutoyo (Digimatic): Serial BCD suitable for all Mitutoyo SPC-compatible devices.
Analog: ±1 VCD, ±0.25% of full scale at capacity,
General purpose: Three open drain outputs, one input.
Set points: Three open drain lines.
|150% of full scale (display shows “OVER” at 110% and above)
|M7-012 - M7-100: 1.0 lb [0.45 kg]
M7-200 - M7-500: 1.2 lb [0.54 kg]
|Carrying case with chisel, cone, V-groove, hook, flat, extension rod, universal voltage AC adapter, battery, quick-start guide, USB cable, resource CD (USB driver, MESURTM Lite software, MESURTMgauge DEMO software, and user’s guide), and NIST-traceable certificate of calibration with data.
|40 - 100°F, max. 96% humidity, non-condensating
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Firms that are effective in marketing perpetually begin with a marketing plan. Vast organizations have plans with several pages; little organizations can get by with about six sheets. Put your marketing plan in a three-ring cover. Allude to it in any event quarterly, yet even better month to month. Leave a tab for putting in month to month provides details regarding deals/fabricating; this will enable you to track execution as you take after the plan.
The plan should cover one year. For little organizations, this is regularly the most ideal approach to consider marketing. Things change, individuals leave, markets develop, clients travel every which way. Later on we recommend making an area of your plan that tends to the medium-term future- – two to four years not far off. In any case, the majority of your plan should center around the coming year.
You ought to permit yourself two or three months to compose the plan, regardless of whether it’s just a couple of pages long. Building up the plan is the “truly difficult work” of marketing. While executing the plan has its difficulties, choosing what to do and how to do it is marketing’s most noteworthy test. Most marketing plans commence with the first of the year or with the opening of your monetary year if it’s extraordinary.
Who should see your plan? Every one of the players in the organization. Firms ordinarily keep their marketing plans, extremely private for one of two altogether different reasons: Either they’re excessively scanty and administration would be humiliated to have them see the light of day, or they’re strong and pressed with data . . . which would make them to a great degree important to the opposition.
You can’t complete a marketing plan without getting numerous individuals included. Regardless of what your size, get criticism from all parts of your organization: back, fabricating, faculty, supply et cetera – notwithstanding marketing itself. This is particularly essential since it will take all parts of your organization to make your marketing arrangement work. Your key individuals can give reasonable contribution on what’s achievable and how your objectives can be come to, and they can share any experiences they have on any potential, so far undiscovered marketing openings, adding another measurement to your plan. In case you’re basically a one-individual administration activity, you’ll need to wear every one of your caps at one time- – however in any event the gatherings will be short!
What’s the connection between your marketing plan and your strategy for success or vision articulation? Your marketable strategy explains what your business is about- – what you do and don’t do, and what your definitive objectives are. It incorporates more than marketing; it can incorporate talks of areas, staffing, financing, vital collusions et cetera. It incorporates “the vision thing,” the reverberating words that spell out the great motivation behind your organization in blending dialect. Your strategy for success is the U.S. Constitution of your business: If you need to accomplish something that is outside the marketable strategy, you have to either alter your opinion or change the plan. Your organization’s strategy for success gives the earth in which your marketing plan must prosper. The two records must be reliable.
The Benefits of a Marketing Plan
A marketing plan, then again, is stout with importance. It furnishes you with a few noteworthy advantages. How about we survey them.
Encouraging point: Your marketing plan gives your troops a comment behind. You need them to feel sure that the commander of the vessel has the outlines all together, knows how to run the ship, and has a port of goal as a main priority. Organizations regularly underestimate the effect of a “marketing plan” all alone individuals, who need to feel some portion of a group occupied with an energizing and muddled joint undertaking. On the off chance that you need your workers to feel focused on your organization, it’s imperative to impart to them your vision of where the organization is going in the years to come. Individuals don’t generally comprehend money related projections, however they can get amped up for an elegantly composed and well-thoroughly considered marketing plan. You ought to consider discharging your marketing plan- – maybe in an abbreviated variant – companywide. Do it with some ballyhoo and produce some energy for the experiences to come. Your specialists will value being included.
Diagram to progress: We all realize that plans are defective things. By what means would you be able to potentially know what will happen a year or a long time from now? Isn’t assembling a marketing plan a pointless activity . . . an exercise in futility better went through gathering with clients or tweaking generation? Indeed, potentially yet just in the tightest sense. On the off chance that you don’t plan, you’re damned, and an off base plan is far superior than no plan by any stretch of the imagination. To remain with our ocean chief similarity, it’s smarter to be 5 or even 10 degrees off your goal port than to have no goal as a primary concern by any stretch of the imagination. The purpose of cruising, all things considered, is to get some place, and without a marketing plan, you’ll meander the oceans carelessly, here and there discovering dry land yet as a rule wallowing in a tremendous sea. Ocean commanders without a graph are infrequently associated with finding anything other than the sea floor.
Organization operational directions: Your kid’s first bicycle and your new VCR accompanied an arrangement of guidelines, and your organization is significantly more muddled to assemble and keep running than both of them. Your marketing plan is a well ordered guide for your organization’s prosperity. It’s more imperative than a dream proclamation. To assemble a certified marketing plan, you need to survey your organization start to finish and ensure every one of the pieces are cooperating in the most ideal way. What would you like to do with this undertaking you call the organization in the coming year? Think of it as a plan for the day on a terrific scale. It allots particular errands for the year.
Caught considering: You don’t enable your budgetary individuals to keep their numbers in their heads. Money related reports are the backbone of the numbers side of any business, regardless of what estimate. It ought to be the same with marketing. Your composed archive lays out your course of action. On the off chance that individuals leave, if new individuals arrive, if recollections flounder, if occasions bring strain to modify the givens, the data in the composed marketing plan remains in place to help you to remember what you’d conceded to.
Top-level reflection: In the every day hurly-husky of aggressive business, it’s difficult to direct your concentration toward the comprehensive view, particularly those parts that aren’t straightforwardly identified with the day by day tasks. You have to require some serious energy occasionally to truly consider your business- – whether it’s furnishing you and your representatives with what you need, regardless of whether there aren’t some inventive wrinkles you can include, whether you’re getting whatever you can out of your items, your business staff and your business sectors. Composing your marketing plan is the best time to do this abnormal state considering. A few organizations send their best marketing individuals away to a withdraw. Others go to the home of an essential. Some do marketing plan advancement at a neighborhood motel, far from telephones and fax machines, so they can commit themselves exclusively to considering every option and drawing the most precise representations they jar of the prompt fate of the business.
In a perfect world, in the wake of composing marketing plans for a couple of years, you can kick back and survey a progression of them, after a seemingly endless amount of time, and check the advance of your organization. Obviously, now and again this is difficult to set aside a few minutes for (there is that irritating certifiable to manage), yet it can give an unparalleled target perspective of what you’ve been doing with your business life over various years. thefilmnest.com | <urn:uuid:f24a8981-ca52-4c99-aea0-38526f2c5f50> | CC-MAIN-2018-26 | http://www.flamenco-news.com/step-step-instructions-create-marketing-plan/ | 2018-06-19T10:23:50Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267862248.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20180619095641-20180619115641-00235.warc.gz | en | 0.942919 | 1,701 | [
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I have discovered the most beautiful and haunting musical group ever. They are called Celtic Woman and their musical abilities are just amazing. The group includes five lead vocalists and a violinist. This picture doesn't show one of the vocalists because she is a new addition to the group but she is just as talented as the others.
All the girls have extremely successful solo careers and did so even before they got together for Celtic Woman, but collectively they are jaw dropping. Chloe got her first album out when she was only thirteen years old. At age fifteen, she joined up and toured with Celtic Woman its very first year. She is an amazing soprano singer who adds a touch of innocence to her singing.
Lisa is the brunette and her voice is fantastic. She had already released several albums before becoming one of the Celtic Woman members. She has a wide range of tones she can hit, everything from soprano to an alto. She had only just given birth four weeks before Celtic Woman embarked on its first tour. When she sings May It Be by Enya, it's stunning.
Meav is a truly stunning soprano. All the girls can hit the high notes, but Meav stands out. She's an uber soprano, the kind where you hope no one standing near her has a glass in their hands because she'll shatter it. Have you ever heard Enya sing Marble Halls? Well, Meav can really sing it. And that is saying something because if you ever heard Enya sing it she's phenomenal at it. Like the others, Meav has her own successful solo career as well.
Orla has a very sweet and very Gaelic quality to her voice. She can also play the harp and play it well. Orla is the tall red head and she looks a bit like Celine Dion. But she has the voice of an absolute angel. Any song that calls for a voice as smooth as silk calls for Orla's talent. Plus, she plays the harp for others while they are singing their solo songs. The woman is multi-talented.
Hayley is the last of the vocalists and she is the newest addition. She was not part of the first tour but has since been added to the roster and her voice is just as amazing as the other girls. Like the other's Hayley had a successful singing career before coming into the group and the popularity of Celtic Woman has only made it more so.
Mairead is the violinist and her ability to play fiddle will leave you speechless. Before joining Celtic Woman Mairead had a successful career as a fiddler with several popular bands. And she and several other members of Celtic Woman had also performed with the huge Broadway hit called Riverdance. Mairead took up the violin when she was six years old.
Celtic Woman is an amazing blend of talents and their abilities to harmonize is stunning. The vocalists were all solo singers and trained as soloists so learning to blend their voices was tricky, but it has been so worth it. Their music is fantastic and I can say without a doubt that you will love them if you hear them. | <urn:uuid:cf801fcc-b4bf-4a34-b60e-3a34b078d098> | CC-MAIN-2018-26 | http://katluvr130.blogspot.com/2009_03_01_archive.html | 2018-06-20T09:41:22Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267863516.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20180620085406-20180620105406-00555.warc.gz | en | 0.990619 | 651 | [
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Saregama Carvaan Portable Digital Player Review
Music has a way of transcending time and across generations. The Saregama Carvaan Portable Digital Music Player will nurture the nostalgia in your heart, bringing a smile to your face and perhaps, a lump in your throat.
Saregama is India’s oldest music label. They have recordings in their database that go as far back as 1901. It owns sound recording as well as publishing rights to thousands of songs spanning over 14 different languages.
Vikram Mehra, the managing director, claims that the Saregama Carvaan’s USP is the way it simplifies how we listen to music. According to a survey conducted by the company, those of the age group above 35 years, find it difficult to access their favourite tracks in this digital era. It has been launched mainly to bring the music back into their lives, effortlessly.
Without much further ado, let’s get into the detailed review.
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What’s in the box?
- Saregama Carvaan Portable Digital Music Player
- USB cable for charging
- Adapter for USB cable
- Remote Controller
Design and Features
This device weighs around 1.5 kg, with 3.5 mm audio jack and 2 USB ports.
It has a beautiful vintage look. It will take you back to the days of transistors with its charming details. It is rectangular in shape with black detailing and a convenient handle to carry it around. The edges are smooth and rounded. There is a fairly good digital display on the front which shows the artist and song being played. It comes in five attractive colours: electric blue, porcelain white, walnut brown, oak-wood brown and charcoal grey.
There are three buttons on the front for Artist, Mood and Geetmala respectively. It also has a large rotary dial, below which, are the “back” and “forward” switches.
The side of the Carvaan has the volume control dial and a headphone out to connect external speakers. On the opposite side lie the “Saregama”, “USB”, “FM radio” and “Bluetooth” buttons. The backside is where you can find the charging and USB ports.
Once you power it up, you are asked to choose between artist, mood or Geetmala. You can change between artists and moods by rotating the dial.
For those of you who do not know, Geetmala was a weekly countdown of top Bollywood songs that used to air on Radio Ceylon and later on All India Radio from 1952 to 1984. The show was hosted by Ameen Sayani and was very popular in those days.
The artists available on the Carvaan player are Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhosle, R.D. Burman, S.D. Burman, Kishore Kumar, Mohammad Rafi, Manna Dey, Jagjit Singh, Mukesh, Talat Mahmood and more. The list is exhaustive. There are over 500 songs sung by Lata Mangeshkar alone.
You can also change songs as per your mood: Romance, Spiritual, Sad, Happy, Ghazal, Spiritual, Shakti, Film instrumental, Sufi and Hindustani Classical.
The Geetmala option resonates with Ameet Sayani’s mesmerizing voice. This portable device stores the entire 50 volumes of the Geetmala.
One of the interesting features of this device is that the ‘forward’ and ‘backward’ button plays random songs each time. This generates an element of surprise, similar to effect of listening to a radio.
That’s not all. You can also switch easily to FM channels. Even here, it will tune in to a random radio channel before you can select one for yourself. The Bluetooth compatibility and USB port ensures that you can play your own music from an external device as well.
This device has a playtime of around 5 hours and comes with a 1 year warranty.
How does it sound?
The Saregama Carvaan takes you on a trip down memory lane with its in-built collection of evergreen songs.
The sound quality is that of a vintage radio, so you cannot really expect the performance of a Bose speaker. However it is still loud enough to use as an efficient speaker at a small gathering.
Bass and treble are on the back foot in this digital player, to give importance to the mid-tones which are beautifully clear. Since music mostly focused on the vocals in the yesteryears, this is not a bad adjustment at all.
Music is an experience. The look, feel and sound of the Carvaan will transport the listener to another time, place and emotion. There isn’t a price you can put on that. What it doesn’t have in sound quality and performance, this musical gem makes up for, with heart. The classy transistor design is one of its most distinguishing features. If you’re an old soul, you will fall in love with it at first sight. This is a wonderful gift for a parent or grandparent to get them reminiscing about their golden days.
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Northwest Indiana Spa-Like Dental Care
The main focus of Smiles by Arnold & Associates is on providing exceptional dental care and service to its family of patients. One facet to creating a relaxing, comfortable experience is providing spa amenities for patients who like to be pampered.
Many Northwest Indiana patients have dental anxiety and fear associated with dental care. For this reason, we provide massage pads on our dental chairs, aromatherapy, wax treatments for ones hands, television, headphones, relaxing music, and other perks. Our gentle, compassionate nature soothes most anxious patients, and these spa-like amenities make having dental treatment completed a pleasure at our Valparaiso and Chesterton dental offices.
For patients who require a higher level of relaxation, dental sedation is used. Oral conscious sedation utilizes a simple, effective, safe pill to ease the tension for even the most fearful patient. Northwest Indiana sedation and spa dentistry help make going through dental procedures easier and more comfortable than ever.
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Prayer Dance for Fires and Waters Sponsored by Otter Dance
December 31, 2017 @ 12:00 pm - January 1, 2018 @ 12:00 pm$80.00
To Dance is to pray.
All of us have been witness to and many of us have been directly affected by, the power that is Mother Earth. From the fires that have destroyed thousands of acres to the overabundance of waters created by the many hurricanes this past year. We are all being pulled into the great need to shift things so that Mother Earth can breathe easy once again. Last year, this ceremony focused on our Water Protectors. This year our ceremony will focus on BALANCE…the balance between Fire and Water and honoring how they influence and impact our lives every day. Shifting our humanistic instinct of fear to embracing the purification that happens when both elements emerge. To truly understand Fire and Water is to know that they are only doing what they know to do.
It is with an open heart of compassion, healing, and love that we take the time to honor Mother Earth to healing herself. As we come together at the end of the year for the Prayer Dance, we bring into the arbor the balancing energies of Fire and Water…and we take a deeper look at how we have helped create this imbalance within ourselves and on the planet. As we dance and pray, our higher vibration will expand to touching the lives of our community, families, countries abroad, and the world. We will begin to heal that which is wounded inside and flow outward to Mother Earth. This vibration is like the ripple effect that continues past our own community out to the world.
We are calling ALL Dancers, Drummers, Fire Keepers, Water Keepers, and Supporters to join us for a time of prayer and healing. We will dance to the Drum and sing the songs of our ancestors, of healing and of peace.
Jamie Holmes-Allen and Sara Eshe Zuri (Sarita) will be co-chiefing this Prayer Dance; holding the space for all of us to pray and honor the balance and healing to be brought back into our lives. We will create this ceremony together in community as we are guided by Spirit. A Sweat Lodge Ceremony focusing on balance will be poured by Chief Jamie Holmes-Allen and followed by the Prayer Dance. The Sweat Lodge Ceremony leading us to the Prayer Dance will begin at 12:00pm on 31 December 2017 and ends at 12:00 pm on 1 January 2018. The Prayer Dance will conclude with a Pipe Ceremony led by Chief Robbie Warren. It is an open dance where one can come and go as needed. We will like to do a ceremonial round honoring the people and ancestors of all of the countries around the globe that affected by a Hurricane, Water flooding, Fires, or all. If you feel called to dance with a flag representing the people of that nation, please feel free to bring it with you.
This Prayer Dance is fluid and fun, therefore you can drum, dance, sit with Spirit Fire, meditate with the Water or be in silent meditation. Please bring your drums, rattles and medicine tools.
We ask that you please bring your own food for Saturday lunch and dinner. Sunday breakfast will be provided by the Chiefs. Please bring a dish to share for the feast on Sunday after the Dance.
A suggested donation for the Prayer Dance is $80.00. Any monetary profits, following the payments for the use of Sacred Grove Retreat, supplies and firewood will be directly donated to two members in our community. Diving equally half of the portion for someone that has been affected by the Fires and the other to someone affected by Water. Beds are available and we will reserve beds for the Elders first, and then on a first come basis after that.
To coordinate and reserve your sleeping accomodations, please contact our Prayer Dance Fairy (Coordinator) Keli Semelsberge at [email protected].
With Love and much Gratitude
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International Biopharma Client to Evaluate PBI's Patented PreEMT™ Platform to Enhance Manufacturing Process and Improve Quality of Key Protein Therapeutic Drug Candidate
SOUTH EASTON, MA / ACCESSWIRE / May 3, 2018 / Pressure BioSciences, Inc. (OTCQB:PBIO) ("PBI" and the "Company"), a leader in the development and sale of innovative, broadly enabling, high pressure-based instruments and related consumables for the worldwide life sciences industry, today announced that it has signed an agreement with an international biopharmaceutical company to assess the potential of the Company's recently acquired PreEMT™ platform to develop a unique manufacturing process and improve the quality of a key protein-based drug currently under development.
Protein-based therapeutic drugs are an important part of the global healthcare industry. Based on data in the THPdb database (http://crdd.osdd.net/raghava/thpdb/), there are over 200 therapeutic proteins and peptides approved for clinical use in the US. These drugs have significantly changed therapy options for many diseases, such as cancer and blood disorders. They are the preferred treatment choice for hormone and growth factor deficiencies and are an ideal treatment option for autoimmune disorders. According to a report from Research and Markets (May 2016), the global protein drug market will reach approximately $248 billion by 2020.
Unfortunately, the manufacture of therapeutic proteins is difficult and complex. According to a report in F1000 Research(Lagasse, Feb 2017), producing a typical protein drug may include more than 5,000 critical process steps. Consequently, even in the best of laboratories, it is not unusual for protein therapeutics to fail in manufacturing. High on the list of reasons for failure are the formation of protein aggregates and the misfolding of the therapeutic protein during the manufacturing process.
Dr. Alexander Lazarev, Vice President of R&D, said: "PreEMT is a patented technology that employs high pressure for the disaggregation and controlled refolding of proteins to their native structures at yields and efficiencies not achievable using existing technologies. PreEMT results in the dissolution of protein aggregates, which may have a significant impact on the quality of protein drugs by improving protein activity, homogeneity, and stability, as well as by reducing undesirable immunogenic properties."
Dr. Lazarev continued: "PreEMT can be applied to many therapeutic proteins. It can be used to reduce aggregate levels in bulk or final formulations, thereby improving product safety. It is scaleable and practical for standard manufacturing processes. Thus, we believe this unique technology platform can help protein-based biopharmaceutical companies create and manufacture high quality novel protein therapeutics and lower the cost of existing formulations."
Dr. Nate Lawrence, Vice President of Marketing and Sales commented: "We purchased all assets of BaroFold, Inc. less than five months ago. The development of our Biologics Contract Services Group and associated PreEMT application protocols have just been established at PBI. We are still developing a comprehensive worldwide marketing campaign for the PreEMT platform. To have an international biopharmaceutical company developing protein-based drugs approach us so soon after the purchase of the BaroFold IP estate, says a lot to us about the current needs of protein drug manufacturing and the reputation that the PreEMT platform has already gained in this area."
Mr. Richard T. Schumacher, President and CEO, said: "We believe this contract will take three to four months to complete. Moreover, we have recently been contacted by several additional biopharmaceutical companies interested in evaluating our PreEMT disaggregation and refolding service in the development and manufacture of protein-based therapeutics. Because of this early interest in the PreEMT platform, and because the BaroFold pressure-based technologies work on and will help sell our existing Barocycler instrumentation, we believe the BaroFold asset purchase will pay for itself very quickly. Finally, and importantly, should the PreEMT technology result in more efficient production of high quality protein-based therapeutics for any biopharmaceutical company developing new protein-based therapeutics, manufacturing-scale licenses have the potential to generate millions of dollars in annual royalty revenue."
PreEMT ("Pressure Enabled Protein Manufacturing") is a patented technology that employs high pressure for the disaggregation and controlled refolding of recombinant proteins into their native structures for desired drug activity. The PreEMT technology platform is transformative and practical for biopharmaceutical manufacturing processes, offering substantially reduced production costs due to its increased process yield and throughput at high protein concentrations. The PreEMT technology is easily scalable and has been utilized for the cGMP production of phase 1 through phase 3 clinical materials.
About Pressure BioSciences, Inc.
Pressure BioSciences, Inc. (OTCQB:PBIO) is a leader in the development and sale of innovative, broadly enabling, pressure-based solutions for the worldwide life sciences industry. Our products are based on the unique properties of both constant (i.e., static) and alternating (i.e., pressure cycling technology, or "PCT") hydrostatic pressure. PCT is a patented enabling technology platform that uses alternating cycles of hydrostatic pressure between ambient and ultra-high levels to safely and reproducibly control bio-molecular interactions (e.g., cell lysis, biomolecule extraction). Our primary focus is in the development of PCT-based products for biomarker and target discovery, drug design and development, biotherapeutics characterization and quality control, soil & plant biology, forensics, and counter-bioterror applications. Additionally, major new market opportunities have emerged in the use of our pressure-based technologies in the following areas: (1) the use of our recently acquired PreEMT™ technology from BaroFold, Inc. to allow immediate entry into the biologics contract research services sector, and (2) the use of our recently-patented, scalable, high-efficiency, pressure-based Ultra Shear Technology ("UST") platform to (i) create stable nanoemulsions of otherwise immiscible fluids (e.g., oils and water) and to (ii) prepare higher quality, homogenized, extended shelf-life or room temperature stable low-acid liquid foods that cannot be effectively preserved using existing non-thermal technologies.
Forward Looking Statements
Statements contained in this press release regarding PBI's intentions, hopes, beliefs, expectations, or predictions of the future are "forward-looking'' statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements are based upon the Company's current expectations, forecasts, and assumptions that are subject to risks, uncertainties, and other factors that could cause actual outcomes and results to differ materially from those indicated by these forward-looking statements. These risks, uncertainties, and other factors include, but are not limited to, the risks and uncertainties discussed under the heading "Risk Factors" in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2017, and other reports filed by the Company from time to time with the SEC. The Company undertakes no obligation to update any of the information included in this release, except as otherwise required by law.
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Published on July 10, 2014
QUANTATIVE TECHNIQUES II: QUANTATIVE TECHNIQUES II PowerPoint Presentation: REAL – LIFE PROBLEM QUANTATIVE ANALYSIS QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS PROBLEM ANALYSIS FINAL DECISION DECISION - MAKING PROCESS HISTORY OF OR: HISTORY OF OR OR – During World War – II – need to manage scarce resources. OR – result of research on military operations - cause it involved strategic and tactical problems. The economic and industrial boom after World War II – Mechanization, automation, decentralization of operation and division of management functions. Features of OR Approach: Features of OR Approach Interdisciplinary Approach Methodological Approach Wholistic Approach Objective Approach Definition: Definition OR is the application of the methods of science to complex problems in the direction and management of large system of men, machines, materials and money in industry, business, government and defense. The distinctive approach is to develop a scientific model of the system incorporating measurements of factors such as chance and risk, with which to predict and compare the outcomes of alternative decisions, strategies or controls. The purpose is to help management in determining its policy & actions scientifically -- Operation Research Society - UK PowerPoint Presentation: OR is concerned with scientifically deciding how to best design and operate man-machine systems usually requiring the allocation of scarce resources. -- Operation Research Society, America PHASES IN OR: PHASES IN OR JUDGEMENT PHASE. RESEARCH PHASE. ACTION PHASE. JUDGEMENT PHASE: JUDGEMENT PHASE Identification of real-life problem. Selection of an appropriate objective & the values of various variable related to this objective Application of the appropriate scale of measurement Formulation of appropriate model of the problem, abstracting the essential information to obtain the decision’s makers goals. RESEARCH PHASE: RESEARCH PHASE Observation & data collection for better understanding of the problem Formulation of hypothesis and model Experimentation to test the hypothesis on basis of additional data. Analysis of the available information & verification of the hypothesis using pre-established measure of desirability Prediction of various result from the hypothesis Generalization of the result & consideration of alternative methods. ACTION PHASE: ACTION PHASE Making recommendation for implementing the decision by an individual who is an the position to implement result Advantages: Advantages Structured approach to problems Critical approach to problem solving. Shortcomings: Shortcomings Solutions are derived by making simplified assumptions so the solutions have limitations. Sometime Models do not represent the realistic situations in which decisions must be made. Decision maker is not fully aware of the limitations of the model. Many real world problems just cannot have an OR solution. Opportunities: Opportunities It compels the decision maker to quite explicit about the objective, assumption and his perspective to the constraints. Variables which influence decisions are considered. Gaps in data required to support solutions to a problem. Management of time because models can be solved by a computer. Application & Scope of OR: Application & Scope of OR Finance & Accounting Marketing Purchasing, procurement and Exploration Production Management Manufacturing Maintenance and Project scheduling Personnel Management MIS & General Management Government. LINEAR PROGRAMMING MODEL: LINEAR PROGRAMMING MODEL Linear Programming Model Formulation: Linear Programming Model Formulation Decision – making environment model formulation is important because it represents the essence of business decision problems. Formulation is the process of converting the verbal description and numerical data into mathematical expressions which represents the relevant relationship among decision factors, objectives and restriction on the use of resources. PowerPoint Presentation: Linear programming (LP) is the OR technique for economic allocation of ‘scare’ or ‘limited’ resources such as man, machine, capital, space to several competing activities such as product, service, new technique, project on the basis of a given criterion of optimality. Criterion of optimality is either performance, return on investment,, profit, cost, utility, time, distance, etc.. PowerPoint Presentation: Linear programming – ‘Linear’ refers to linear relationship among the variables in a model. ‘Programming’ is modeling & solving a problem mathematically that involves the economic allocation of limited resources by choosing a particular course of action or strategy among various alternative strategies to achieve the desired objective STRUCTURE OF LP MODEL: STRUCTURE OF LP MODEL The general structure of LP Model consist of three components. Decision Variable The Objective function The constraints DECISION VARIABLE: DECISION VARIABLE Activities are needed to evaluate various alternatives (course of action) for arriving at the optimal value of objective function. Evaluation of various alternatives is guided by the nature of objective function and availability of resources. Activities are denoted by x 1 ,x 2 ,x 3 ….,x n . The value of these activities represents the extent to which each of these is performed Example: In a product mix manufacturing, the management use LP to decide the how many units of each of the product to manufacture by using its limited resources such as personnel, machinery, money, material etc PowerPoint Presentation: These activities are also known as decision variables because they are under the decision-makers control Decision variables are interrelated in terms of consumption of limited resources which are required for simultaneous solutions. Decisions variables are continuous, controllable and non-negative. x 1 >=0,x 2 >=0,x 3 >=0….,x n >=0 THE OBJECTIVE FUNCTION: THE OBJECTIVE FUNCTION LP model is a mathematical representation of objective in terms of a measurable quantity such as profits, cost, revenue, distance etc., The general form is Optimize (Max or Min) Z is measure of performance variable which is a function of x 1 ,x 2 ,x 3 ….,x n , quantities c 1 ,c 2 ,c 3 ….,c n are the parameters that represent the contribution of a unit of the respective variables x 1 ,x 2 ,x 3 ….,x n to measure of performance Z. THE CONSTRAINTS: THE CONSTRAINTS The limitations on the use of resources, e.g. man, machine, raw material, space, money etc., that limits the degree to which objective can be achieved. These constraints must be expressed as linear equalities or inequalities in terms of decision variables. The solution of an LP model must satisfy these constraints. ASSUMPTIONS OF LP: ASSUMPTIONS OF LP Certainty All the model parameters such as availability of resources or cost contribution of a unit of decision variable and consumption of resources by a unit of decision variable must be known and may be constant. These may be random variable represented by a known distribution or may tend to change, then the problem can be solved by a stochastic LP model or parametric programming PowerPoint Presentation: Divisibility (Continuity) The solution values of decision variables and resources are assumed to have either whole number (integer) or mixed numbers ( integer & fraction). IF integer variables are desired, e.g. machines, employees etc., the integer programming method may be applied to get the desired result PowerPoint Presentation: Additivity The value of the objective function for the given values of Decision variable and the total sum of resources used, must be equal to the sum of the contribution (profit or cost) earned from each decision variable and the sum of the resources used by each decision variable, respectively. PowerPoint Presentation: Linearity (Proportionality) All relationships in the LP model must be linear, i.e. both Objective function and constraints. For any decision variable j, the amount of resource i used and its contribution to the cost in the objective function must be proportional to its amount. ADVANTAGES OF LP: ADVANTAGES OF LP Helps in attaining the optimum use of productive resources. It also indicates how decision-maker can employ his productive factors effectively by selecting & allocating these resources. Quality of decision is improved because the user is more objective & less subjective. LP techniques provide possible and practical solution since there might be other constraints operating outside the problem which must be taken into account. It highlights bottlenecks in the production process It helps in re-evaluation of basic plan for changing conditions. If conditions change when the plan is partly carried out, remainder of the plan can be adjusted for best results. LIMITATIONS: LIMITATIONS Linear programming treats all relationships among decision variables as linear. There is no guarantee that we get integer valued solutions. It does not take into consideration the effect of time and uncertainty. Large-scale problems can be solved with LP technique with assistance of computers Parameters in the model are assumed to be constant. It deals with single objective Applications: Applications Production Management Financial Management Marketing Management Personnel Management Military Application Agriculture Application General Mathematical LP MODEL: General Mathematical LP MODEL The general LP model with n decision variables and m constraints is: Find the values of decision variable x 1 ,x 2 ,x 3 ….,x n so as to Optimize( Max or Min) Subjected to the linear constraints, a m1 x 1 + a m2 x 2 +………+a mn x n ( x 1 ,x 2 ,x 3 ….,x n 0 a 11 x 1 + a 12 x 2 +………+a 1n x n ( a 21 x 1 + a 22 x 2 +………+a 2n x n ( ) b2 ) bm ) b1 . . . . . ( Non – negativity condition) Constraints STEPS IN LP MODEL FORMULATION: STEPS IN LP MODEL FORMULATION Identify the decision variables. Identify the problem data. Formulate the constraints. Formulate the objective Function Identify the decision variables: Identify the decision variables Express each constraints in words. See whether the constraints is of the form ≥ (at least ,as large as) or of the form ≤ (no larger than) or = (exactly equal to). Then express the objective function verbally. Above steps should allow to verbally identify the decision variable. If there are several decision alternatives, then identify the decision variables by asking “what decision must be made in order to optimize the objective function?” Identify the problem data: Identify the problem data For solving a problem, actual values has to be provided for the decision variables identified. These quantities constitute the problem data. Identify the problem data Express the constraints verbally in terms of requirements and availability of each resource. 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RSV infection is an important respiratory tract infection like influenza. In addition, palivizumab appeared on the market in 2002. Since it became necessary to grasp the epidemic period of RSV infection, the disease was added to the category V infectious disease to be reported by pediatric sentinels under the National Epidemiological Surveillance of Infectious Diseases (NESID) at the time of amendment of the Infectious Diseases Control Law (November 5, 2003) (for reporting guidelines, refer to http://www.mhlw.go.jp/bunya/kenkou/kekkaku-kansenshou11/01-05-15.html). Although laboratory diagnosis is required for reporting, some sentinels have difficulties in reporting. It is not practicable, therefore, to compare the number of cases per sentinel like other diseases reported by pediatric sentinels based on clinical diagnosis. The epidemic period of the disease is grasped from the deviation of the number of cases.
Case report of RSV infections: In the weekly reports of RSV infection after commencement of NESID (Fig. 1), gradual increase started from around week 36 (early in September). RSV infection suddenly increased around week 45, in the middle of November, and reached the peak in weeks 50-52 (the middle to late in December). After the peak, it swiftly decreased, but reporting continued through spring and summer next year. As compared with influenza prevailing in winter, the epidemic of RSV infection tended to occur earlier every year. The number of medical institutions having reported at least one RSV infection in 2006 was smaller than that in 2007, but the peak at the end of 2006 was larger than that at the end of 2007. In 2008, increase started earlier than in the past 4 years, from week 30 (the end of July) (Fig. 1).
Of number of reports by prefecture, top nine prefectures were Hokkaido, Fukushima, Kanagawa, Aichi, Osaka, Hyogo, Hiroshima, Yamaguchi and Fukuoka both in 2006 and 2007. Especially, the most reports came from Osaka, accounting for >10% of the total. The prefectures with more reports tended to show earlier start of increase and longer period with comparatively more reports (epidemic period). It is considered that sufficient reports are necessary to grasp epidemics.
The time of start of epidemics differed from area to area (Fig. 2), and that in Fukuoka was early also in 2008 . In Hokkaido and Fukushima, many reports came out even in the spring. In Okinawa, being exceptionally different from other areas, epidemics occurred in the summer (see p. 278 of this issue).
Reported cases during 2004-2007 were 56,422 males (55%) and 45,543 females (45%). Every year, many cases were seen among those of 0, 1, and 2 years of age in the decreasing order (Fig. 3). In 2007, cases of <2 year accounted for 74% and <3 years for 87%. When age distributions of cases during 2006-2007 reported from hospitals were compared with those from clinics, the ratio of 0-5 months-old infants was significantly high at hospitals.
After November 5, 2003, when acute encephalitis (including encephalopathy) was assigned to a category V infectious disease to be reported all cases, 6 cases were ascribed to RSV, one of which was fatal (Table 1).
RSV detection: During 2000/01-2007/08 seasons, influenza viruses accounted for about 90% of reports of respiratory viruses isolated/detected by prefectural and municipal public health institutes (PHIs), and RSV accounted for the largest portion among other viruses (Table 2). From 2002/03 season, human metapneumovirus was reported and human bocavirus in 2007/08 season (see p. 279-283 of this issue).
Reports of RSV gave a peak between week 46 and week 4 of next year (November-January) (Fig.1). After the amendment of the Infectious Diseases Control Law in November 2003, reports have increased; 38 PHIs in 30 prefectures reported 1,123 cases during four seasons of 2004/05-2007/08. RSV-positive specimens were nasopharyngeal swabs 1,083, sputum and tracheal aspirates 39, stools 2, cerebrospinal fluid 1 (including cases from which RSV was isolated/detected from multiple specimens). Methods of RSV detection were RT-PCR in 764 cases, isolation on cultured cells in 486, and antigen detection in 28 (including cases from which RSV was isolated/detected by multiple methods). Diagnoses of the RSV-detected cases were lower respiratory infection in 439 cases, upper respiratory infection in 245, RSV infection in 226, influenza/influenza-like illness in 54, common cold in 38, unknown fever in 33, asthma in 11, pharyngoconjunctival fever in 11, infectious gastroenteritis in 9, and acute encephalitis/encephalopathy in 6. By gender, there were more males, being 643 followed by females in 466, and unknown in 14. By age, 0 year was 330 cases, 1 year 337 cases, 2 years 163 cases, 3 years 113 cases, 4 years 69 cases, 5-9 years 60 cases, 10-19 years 22 cases, ≥20 years 10 cases, and age unknown 19 cases; 0-1 year children accounted for 60%.
Future problems: Among pediatric sentinels, proportion of sentinels reporting more than one case of RSV infection a year was 42% in 2006 and 52% in 2007. Of 3,079 pediatric sentinels, hospitals (inpatients and outpatients) counted 709, and clinics (outpatients only) 2,370; there were more clinics than hospitals (as of May 23, 2008). Actually, the number of clinics which reported RSV infection exceeded that of hospitals and reported cases from clinics were more than those from hospitals, although health insurance is not applicable to rapid diagnostic kits for RSV infection if used for outpatients at clinics. This indicates that laboratory diagnosis of the disease at a clinic is necessary before getting worse and hospitalization. It seems necessary to expand application of health insurance to rapid diagnostic kits for outpatients. Owing to this, it would be possible to grasp epidemic status by local level quickly and more accurately. | <urn:uuid:ccd78023-ef56-4146-a7b1-0dbb1c34e22e> | CC-MAIN-2018-26 | http://idsc.nih.go.jp/iasr/29/344/tpc344.html | 2018-06-21T10:25:28Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267864139.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20180621094633-20180621114633-00235.warc.gz | en | 0.958633 | 1,343 | [
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In our February-May 2016 issue of SAM Magazine, our member-only publication, we featured an interview with indigo textile artist Rowland Ricketts in anticipation of our upcoming exhibition Mood Indigo: Textiles From Around the World. Our space was limited in print, so we’re featuring the whole interview here on the SAM Blog.
Setting the Mood
The upcoming exhibition heading to the Asian Art Museum, Mood Indigo, honors the unique ability of the color blue to create many moods in cloth. Drawn primarily from the Seattle Art Museum’s global textile collection, Mood Indigo illuminates the historic scope of this vibrant pigment. The exhibition features a set of tapestries from Belgium, a silk court robe from China, a vast array of kimonos from Japan, batiks and ikats from Indonesia and Africa, and ancient fragments from Peru and Egypt. An immersive contemporary installation devoted to indigo by Rowland Ricketts will be accompanied by a soundtrack by sound artist Nobert Herber that unveils the musical nuances indigo can suggest. From the sultry darkness of midnight to the vitality of a bright sky, come let the myriad blues in their multiple forms surround you.
Rowland Ricketts’s Historical Processes For Creating Contemporary Textiles
Artist Rowland Ricketts adapts historical processes to create contemporary textiles. He came to indigo by way of a two-year apprenticeship in 1996. Today, Ricketts works with his wife and fellow artist, Chinami, as they handle indigo in all the stages of its inception: growing, processing, vatting, and dyeing. Read on to learn about this artist’s journey with indigo, from seed to cloth.
SAM: Hi Rowland! Thanks for speaking with us.
Rowland Ricketts: No problem!
SAM: What would you say your work is about at the heart? What are the central themes inherent in it?
Ricketts: On some level, it’s awe and wonder. That is a huge, meta-interest for me. Indigo is imbued with mystery. It’s an enigma of sorts in that it is a dye found throughout the world, and a dye found in synthetic forms. People have been drawn to it for millennia, working with it for millennia, and the end of the day, the color is immaterial, a wavelength of light. There are myriad connections indigo, from history, to plants and the environment, to art, time, etc. We (indigo makers) create these connections and at the end of the day, we’re making something immaterial. Part of the human condition is the drive to create beauty, and yet it is so immaterial. It’s all part of the bigger picture. On a smaller scale, planting, harvesting, and dye-making are all central to what I do.
SAM: What inspired you to work with indigo? When did you start?
Ricketts: In 1996 I did a two-year apprenticeship in Japan, and spent one year working with a farmer and one with a dyer making indigo out of composted leaves. What inspired me was that I didn’t know what I wanted to do yet. I did photography, taught high school, and was developing black and white photos. I stopped eventually, pre-digital photography. I thought that there’s got to be more ways to create. I met people who were very conscious of their environment, very direct with it. I met them folks who dyed indigo, and worked with them on plants. They first told me about indigo and said to visit the Folk Art Museum in Osaka. When I went, there happened to be an indigo dyer exhibit up. I just started gardening and thought, “Wow, this is what I want to do.” It brought together my interests: working in a sustainable way with the environment, gardening, and farming.
SAM: Tell us about the work that you’ll have on view as a part of Mood Indigo.
Ricketts: The installation was a part of an exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston (Crafted: Objects in Flux, which was on view through January 10, 2016) and it will be reconfigured to fit the space. It’s coming SAM’s way next. It’s called “Mobile Sections.” For it, I collaborated with a sound artist, Norbert Herber, for an audio component. It’s made up of a large, indigo-dyed textile, 11½ ft. tall by 30 ft. circumference, dried indigo plants, and possibly a video projection. The inspiration for it was drawn from the process: field recordings of the harvesting, planting, drying, and positions of sound. It is playing with materiality and immateriality and it’s a thing that’s so much bigger in person.
SAM: For those of us who have yet to dye things with indigo, can you walk us through your indigo-making process?
Ricketts: Sure. There are four main steps:
STEP 1: GROWING
I plants seeds in late March, and transplant seedlings in early May and tend them, then harvest them in early July by cutting at the base to allow the leaves to dry.
STEP 2: PROCESSING
In the fall, these dry indigo leaves are put in a special shed, mixed with water, and composted for one hundred days to make the traditional Japanese indigo dye-stuff known as sukumo.
STEP 3: VATTING
By January, a concentrated compost with dye is left behind.
STEP 4: DYEING
To dye cloth, I take the composed leaves, add wood ash lye, and mix them. Indigo bacteria removes oxygen to make the dyeing possible. The dye lasts from four months to a year, and the leaves used to make the dye are returned to the fields to nurture the next planting. With this process, the only thing taken from the leaves is the dye.
SAM: Okay, last question: What do you think people should know about indigo?
Ricketts: One connection people should definitely make: that the color they’re seeing comes from plants. I grew up in suburban America, and was driven by cars. I only became interested in plants after living abroad. People have been making indigo for millennia! I hope that after they leave the installation visitors think about what the color is, where it came from, and how it got there.
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Ondrea Michelle Russell Castro is honored with a Christmas Angel Pin
Donna S Ireland Russell gave an angel pin to her daughter Ondrea Michelle Russell Castro. Below is the angel story that Donna wrote for Michelle.
Ondrea Michelle Russell Castro
by Donna S Ireland Russell (her Mom)
Ondrea Michelle Russell Castro was born on September 16th at Galveston County Hospital in Texas City to Donna S Ireland Russell and Marcus Dean Russell of Alvin, Texas. I too was told it was not my time to have a child but God answered my prayer and I had you. You were the oldest of three, with a brother to follow almost three days from being three years later and then a sister 6 ½ years after that. Ondrea goes by “Michelle” in which she was named after a mutual favorite teacher at AHS.
Michelle was my blessing; she always went over the expected and strived to be the best at everything she set out to do. She had awards when she was in grade school and it continued through her years in AHS. She was in band and other activities. She was always looking out for her brother and sister and they have become so close today. Michelle graduated from AHS with honors and continued to graduate from ACC and moved on to another chapter in her life.
She went on to work in the public as most people’s favorite managers and she continued to do the best at whatever she set out to do. She has had a roller coaster ride of a life but always held to her raisings and Christian standards. She met her significant other, Tony in Abilene and he came to Alvin and made her his wife and became another special person in our family. We had a miracle when Michelle became the mother of a wonderful beautiful baby girl which made her mommy’s world when she was born. Once again God proved He is the one in control of our lives even when others say it is impossible to have a child.
Michelle is one of the finest Christian women I know in which she has such a giving heart of gold even to those who do her wrong. She is one of the greatest blessings a mother could ever ask for. This angel is for my angel, may it be a reminder that to you Michelle that your mom is still praying protection and love for you every single day of your life.
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Adobe is known for the designing and creative software. It is the only one company which is dealing with creative and designing software. It is basically for those who are involved in any kind of creative fields such as graphic designing, website designing, and advertising world. In case you ever confront any kind of technical error in it then you have an option to resolve the error in the form of Adobe Customer Care 1-844-762-3952 where certified technicians will assist you in resolving the issue.
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National Youth Achievement Award (NYAA)
The National Youth Achievement Award (NYAA) is one of the premier youth development programmes in Singapore. The aim of the NYAA Programme is to encourage students to develop personal qualities of self-reliance, perseverance and a sense of responsibility to themselves, to society and to the nation.
The criteria for an award are those of self-improvement and effort as participants are judged on personal achievement measured against original circumstances and potential capabilities. This allows students to participate on an equal opportunity basis.
In Evergreen Secondary School, the NYAA programme is carefully aligned to the school’s strategic thrusts. This enables the leveraging on the existing rich and vibrant school activities and programmes to fulfil the requirements of the NYAA.
All secondary 2 students will register for the NYAA (Bronze) Programme and selected secondary 3 students will register for the NYAA (Silver) Programme.
The students will be registering for the Award which will track his/ her progress throughout the year in 4 specific areas - Service, Skills Acquisition, Physical Recreation and Outdoor Adventure. | <urn:uuid:7ac32af1-8d71-4a45-87de-3b6bfd229cda> | CC-MAIN-2018-26 | http://evergreensec.moe.edu.sg/departments/student-leadership/national-youth-achievement-award-nyaa | 2018-06-22T09:21:19Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267864387.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20180622084714-20180622104714-00555.warc.gz | en | 0.928829 | 222 | [
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DeVry University in Tinley Park, IL is experiencing continued growth, and we are looking to add colleagues to our Admissions team.
Are you curious about people and finding out about their goals and motivations in life? Do you believe that continuing education can positively impact a person’s life? Are you good at creating relationships, listening, and helping others reach their education and career goals? Do you enjoy working in a team atmosphere, while also having accountability for your own accomplishments?
If you answered “Yes” to these questions, and have prior experience in recruitment, marketing, client services or consulting, the admissions advisor role might be the career for you! Our admissions advisors are the first point of contact for prospective students, so we are looking for engaging, warm, enthusiastic people who will quickly create meaningful relationships. We hire colleagues who are passionate about the value of higher education, and who want to help our students take the first step in continuing their education.
Successful admissions advisors will:
We are proud to be an EEO employer M/F/D/V. We maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing.
The purpose of Adtalem Global Education is to empower students to achieve their goals, find success, and make inspiring contributions to our global community. Adtalem Global Education Inc. (NYSE: ATGE; member S&P MidCap 400 Index) is a leading global education provider and the parent organization of Adtalem Educacional do Brasil, American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine, Becker Professional Education, Carrington College, Chamberlain University, DeVry University and its Keller Graduate School of Management, Ross University School of Medicine and Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine. For more information, please visit adtalem.com. | <urn:uuid:96eb4cde-fa41-4c5d-8868-ee983cac0a5a> | CC-MAIN-2018-26 | https://careerconnections-atge.icims.com/jobs/99961/admissions-advisor--tinley-park/job | 2018-06-22T09:33:05Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267864387.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20180622084714-20180622104714-00555.warc.gz | en | 0.945116 | 366 | [
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A virus that caused a spate of vomiting and diarrhea in Asia last winter appears to be spreading globally, threatening larger outbreaks of gastro infections that are a bane of luxury cruises.
The new strain of norovirus known as GII.17 that emerged in southern China has the potential to spread widely because people will probably lack immunity to it, researchers in Japan said Thursday. That means the bug, which kills about 800 people in an average year in the U.S., could sicken hundreds of millions of people worldwide as the highly contagious disease is transmitted by infected food and people.
“We know that noroviruses are able to rapidly spread around the globe,” scientists from 16 countries wrote in a paper accompanying the Japanese research. “The public health community and surveillance systems need to be prepared in case of a potential increase of norovirus activity in the next seasons” caused by this novel strain.
Norovirus made headlines last month when an outbreak of gastroenteritis on Fred.Olsen Cruise Lines Ltd.’s flagship vessel, the Balmoral, sickened “hundreds” of people in Scandinavia, prompting the cancellation of a subsequent three- night cruise from England. A gastro outbreak occurred on the same ship the previous month, the Daily Mail newspaper reported. Norovirus was the culprit, the Ipswich, U.K.-based company said in a June 12 statement on its website.
Norovirus infections, sometimes called “stomach flu” or “winter vomiting disease,” usually occur in winter. An increase in the frequency of outbreaks on cruise ships over summer can predict a greater incidence in the community next winter, said Marion Koopmans, a professor of public health virology at Erasmus University Medical Center in Rotterdam, Netherlands, in an interview Friday.
Outbreaks on cruise ships are especially noticeable because the contained environment and shared dining areas allows the disease to spread quickly — more than 80 percent of passengers can be affected, according to the World Health Organization. But the vast majority of epidemics actually occur on land.
Like flu, new strains emerge as the virus mutates, but while flu typically mutates quickly, new norovirus bugs tend to emerge only every two to four years, often leading to gastroenteritis pandemics that send hundreds of thousands of people to hospital.
“What this could mean is that we’re looking at the emergence of a new genotype,” said Koopmans, who was a co- author of one of the two papers published last week. The new GII.17 virus could replace GII.4 to become the dominant strain circulating in other parts of the world, she said.
There is no specific medicine to treat the infection. Takeda Pharmaceutical Co., based in Osaka, Japan, has the most advanced vaccine in development. Scientists will need to study whether it will work against the new strain, Koopmans said.
Cases of GII.17 have been detected in the U.S., South America, Europe and Africa, Koopmans and colleagues wrote.
Infected food workers are frequently the source of norovirus outbreaks, often by touching ready-to-eat foods served in restaurants, according to the CDC. As few as 18 viral particles on food or hands can make someone sick, which means the amount of norovirus on the head of a pin would be enough to infect more than 1,000 people.
That’s made it the bane of luxury cruise lines. The CDC has reported nine outbreaks on cruises already this year among vessels it monitors, compared with eight in 2014 and eight in 2013.
Preventing the introduction of gastrointestinal illness is one of the cruise industries’ top priorities, the Cruise Lines International Association says on its website. Members take steps to prevent sick passengers from bringing norovirus on board and if an outbreak does occur, work to mitigate its spread and treat those who are ill, the Washington-based group says.
“The cruise ships have gone to long lengths to make sure that gastroenteritis outbreaks are contained,” said Martyn Kirk, an associate professor in the college of medicine, biology and environment at the Australian National University in Canberra. “They’ve got quite slick at making sure people stay in their rooms, that ships are disinfected between cruises.”
Norovirus causes 19 million to 21 million cases of acute gastroenteritis a year in the U.S., leads to 400,000 emergency department visits, and about 56,000 to 71,000 hospitalizations and as many as 800 deaths, mostly among young children and the elderly, the CDC says.
“For many people, it is a nuisance,” Koopmans said. “You have two days of vomiting, diarrhea, and then that’s it. The majority of cases have a fairly mild disease course.”
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EVEL Knievel never managed to jump as far - but a stuntbike daredevil from Llangollen is aiming to break the record he set himself.
Jason Rennie entertained the people of Cardiff this week by riding and pulling wheelies on his stuntbike on the roof of the Millennium Stadium - 260ft off the ground.
But that is nothing compared to the stunt he will attempt next month.
The 34-year-old, originally from Coedpoeth, could finally be mentioned in the same breath as the legendary Knievel and British ace Eddie Kidd if he breaks his own indoor jump world record at a supercross motorbike race meeting.
He has previously jumped 160ft indoors but is aiming for 170ft on December 4.
Jason has also made the longest ever outdoor jump, leaping 253ft at Donington Park, soared over 21 lorries in Germany, jumped 122ft off a moving ramp, cleared five cars that were all driving towards him and flew over five JCBs, a jump which raised £2,000 for Hope House Hospice.
He has also leapt over his local, the Milestone Motor Inn, 11 times. Despite all this he is still scared of heights.
'I know it sounds ridiculous,' he said. 'As long as I am on the bike I can make the big jumps.
'But send me up a ladder and my head goes. I just don't have a head for heights.'
The birth of his son JJ five weeks ago has not tempered his adventurous urges. He was winched on to the top of the Millennium Stadium on Monday and performed stunts for two hours.
But his record attempt will be much more difficult.
'The motorbike lanes criss-cross in between the ramps I will jump from,' he said.
'There are no vehicles between to bounce along if I fall short so it is vital I make it.'
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Wednesday, 26 February 2014
Just a short notice to say the hiatus in posting is because since Sunday I have been to one concentrated meeting per day, travelling there, getting in late and out early. One more day of this then life should get back to normal. Some notes on aspects of those days might follow.
Thursday, 20 February 2014
(I am writing this as a continuation of my last post because it was there to be written. It is also a distraction. I was given news of two deaths today, both of poets. Michael Baldwin was 83 and died suddenly at the top of the stairs. He was the first poet whose book I took off the school library shelf when I was seventeen. I should have been doing Physics. I met him only once some six or so years ago. Szilárd Borbély was just forty nine, an important, indeed vital, Hungarian poet, whose first novel (excerpt translated by Ottilia Mulzet in The White Review) created a sensation in Hungary last year. He too died suddenly. Some of his work is in English. The Dispossessed might be. I never met him but I felt him as a writer. Two deaths in a day is hard, especially of one as young as Borbély.)
Not all jokes have to have punch lines but they have to have appropriate form and an ending that provokes laughter usually with a surprise or category confusion.
- I say, I say, I say, my wife's gone to the West Indies. - Jamaica?- No, she went by herself.
Correspondent Gwilym remarked that the punchline in the version he knows goes: "No, she went of her own accord".
There are reasons we might prefer Gwilym's version if only because my version, while revealing that the point of the joke is not her destination but her will still leaves open the possibility that the woman is travelling alone because she prefers to be without his company and that he has no say in it (a potentially melancholy situation for him), whereas Gwilym's version not only makes it clear that her destination was not the issue but that the woman has relieved her husband of the necessity of making her go by doing it herself (a happy resolution for him). You want something to happen then it happens of its own accord.
There would be other ways of bringing the joke to that same point, Here are three:
1. No, it was her decision.
2. No, she just did it.
3. As if she would listen to me!
Those, and many other variations in the same spectrum would each have a slightly different value - some would be funnier than others - but the mechanism of the joke would remain the same. We are led up to the point Jamaica, then, using the pun we give the answer to the wrong question. The word Jamaica remains the vehicle of the joke.
There is, however, a different version waiting in the wings, in which the answer is No, Trinidad which may be funnier still because by offering a straight answer, it already assumes the joke and passes beyond it to a further and potentially superior kind of surprise by performing a kind of feint.
The feint as an act of grace. It's still just a joke but now we are getting somewhere.
Yesterday I was writing a series of 15 plotlines for non-existent films and added a coda of plot lines - or rather scenes from - five more grounded, socially conscious films under the heading of Realismus. The last of was:
The door to a terraced house stands open. A hallway smelling of booze gives you a cheery thumbs up. A dog in clogs disappears down a ginnel.
The mechanism here is pretty clear. It consists of three parts.
The first is a neutral but evocative statement (think Distant Voices, Still Lives) that could lead anywhere but faintly suggests something about poverty and the melancholy and tragedy associated with it.
The second statement holds open that possibility with the boozy hallway (the drunken father returning from the pub) but proposes something absurd or possibly metaphorical as a development of it (the cheery thumbs up). Halls don't have thumbs. The word cheery is a bit plonking, a touch ridiculous. However ridiculous the image there remains nevertheless the possibility that what we are reading is a kind of metaphor, the memory trace of a drunken character giving us the thumbs up. (It could have happened in Distant Voices, Still Lives). The potential for a tragic reading remains hanging by a thread but it hasn't vanished.
Then a third image appears in the last statement that presents us with a plausible scene from a documentary about the condition of the North in which a dog (possibly a lurcher or a scruffy mongrel) vanishes down a passage between two houses. That might be straight enough as a comment but the dog in this case is supplied with clogs. Clogs too are associated with the subject area but are ridiculous when worn by dogs.
There is one more element here: the ginnel. The word means a passage between houses, and again is plausible given the context (the poet Matt Simpson introduced me to it in one of his poems set in Bootle). But there is something more than plausible in fact quite beautiful about it. It is beautiful because it allows the text a form of intimacy in terms of language, and not only because it has a soft choking sound but because its deep choking 'g' harmonises with the sounds, and rhymes, of dog and clog.
The result is complex. The text is not a joke though it has absurd, joky aspects. Nor is it a straight if minimalist prose poem about the social and emotional values of (beautiful) films like Distant Voices, Still Lives. If anything it mocks them while presenting them with funny yet, to my ears, lovely lines such as the one that ends, in this case, with a ginnel.
Beauty. Beauty is what I really want, and this is one way it may be possible to seek it. Beauty is this ambivalence: this teetering. It presents the imagination with an act of grace whose voids and horrors are real but deferred by familiar detail. I want to laugh but not at a joke, I want the kind of laughter elicited by beauty because there are odd places where grace might be found. And if I don't quite locate the beauty there is still the laughter and some of the grace.
I don't intend analysing, and certainly not praising, my own work. I write fast and by instinct but that doesn't mean I stop thinking about what might have happened and what might happen again. Writing such texts is, I find, exactly like writing poems - and beyond a joke. We are, I think, somewhere beyond Trinidad.
Wednesday, 19 February 2014
- You know what a joke is?
- Something that makes you laugh.
- Why does it make you laugh?
- Now you're getting serious.
- That's funny.
Very well then, a joke has to surprise. No surprise no joke. But it's a mean thing after all. A little break in the serious business of coping, suffering, striving, desiring. It's a distraction, a breather, at best a relief, a reversal, an inversion, a tiny carnival.
- I say, I say, I say, my wife's gone to the West Indies.
- No, she went by herself.
Simple stupid puns. Puns are wearisome. We laugh in our tired way. You have told us nothing new. Nothing significant hangs by this. It's harmless. A waste of time. Except, I mean, you gotta laff at something once in a while and it might as well be this.
But there can be something beautiful about a joke. Maybe it's the way the man tells them. Maybe it's his timing, his subtext, his persona, his look. Maybe he looks funny to start with.
On the other hand he may be working too hard. Don't you hate it when they work too hard? When you know they are straining and you feel sorry for them? You can't enjoy a joke by someone who is desperate to make you laugh. If you feel sorry for them they're not funny, just desperate. Maybe even contemptible.
Or he may be trying to ingratiate himself with you. You and I we think the same things, he implies. You can feel comfortable with me, so relax and laugh. My skill, says the man, lies in focusing our mutual feeling. See that dart in my hand? It's our dart. So Ben Elton in the early days of alternative comedy would just have to say the words, Mrs Thatcher, and everybody laughed. Because they were all agreed. Actually there's something pretty contemptible about that too.
How close jokes are to contempt.
I am more interested in poems than in jokes but I do think they have something in common. Both poem and joke take place against an unacknowledged but pervasive background of chaos devoid of something we call meaning, in other words a void. Both poem and joke deploy our our greatest, desperately fragile invention: a highly coded language in which it is possible to be graceful.
I don't mean just verbal or written language, but any language - including visual, musical, theatrical, gestural - that involves a coded performance and offers the possibility of synthesising a layered, historicised, related yet apparently incongruous set of significances.
Our performance holds us for a moment. The performance is more satisfying, more heroically graceful than anything in our lives of normal articulacy. The performance is stunning. Yet a void remains. The performance exists at a tension between grace and void.
A perfectly told joke has something of beauty in it. I don't mean only a crafted beauty like a beautiful vase or piece of furniture (although that too), but something more, something aesthetically other, almost naked in its clarity yet appearing as a phantom illuminated by sheet lightning.
A joke, like a poem, has grace and a sense of the void. I don't mean - not exactly - the theatre of the absurd. Not the full Beckett, not a bucketful of Ionesco. I don't mean something clearly offering itself as an existential gesture. I mean something rather more like an ordinary household joke.
The beautiful is something to do with the balance between form and content at a point when the two become each other. The beautiful is a point that is just about balancing on the wire of its constituents. It teeters there.
Between content and form, between an apprehension and its language.
This is not a meditation born of hard study. These are stray thoughts arriving as and how they do. They desperately need tidyingup. No time now.
It is the relationship betwen the funny and the graceful that I want to think about next time.
Saturday, 15 February 2014
For the last week or so I have been responding to corrections and questions to the first proof copy of a novel I translated and handed in last summer.
The editor is very careful and has marked up various typos and stylistic glitches as well as asking some excellent questions about chronology in the novel and checking whether this or that part of the text was in character for the person thinking or speaking.
My editor's care sometimes angers me, partly because I think she is generally right and I am annoyed with myself, and partly because she treats me as though I were the author of the text. I am not the author. I don't know everything the author knows. Why is this sentence this way? I don't know.
But that's an excuse. Here are some more excuses.
There are difficulties involved in the original because Hungarian has no gendered pronouns. This is always a problem because, as translator, you have to make decisions early, and aspects of the style depend on who seems to be doing the speaking. That difficulty is compounded in this case because the core relationship is between mother and daughter and the writing offers both points of view, occasionally within a single paragraph, so it can take some revision to work out who is speaking or thinking, mother or daughter. The mother is rarely referred to by name in the text.
There is a firm historical context but it is rarely given directly and some of the revisions consist of making dates agree and then aligning them with background events. The editor's eagle eye has spotted these and her helpful notes have to be tallied with my own earlier guesses. That takes an infuriating amount of time.
The author has clear ideas about location. She tells us how many rooms a house has but not how they are used or arranged. It has become an obsession of mine to figure out the precise layout. Two rooms are distinctly mentioned and, to some degree, described, but there is also a kitchen, a bathroom, and a hall. Does the kitchen count as the third room? The third room is never mentioned as such. A kitchen is. What is the point of a third room if no one ever goes into it? There is a vaulted passage at the side of the house. Is the entrance to the house under the passage or at the back? Does it matter? The author knows something she did not feel necessary to reveal. Why do I have to reveal it?
There is a considerable amount of historical and geographical knowledge that I lack and I rely on friends in Hungary to fill me in.
It is, in fact, almost like writing the book. Slowly I have been writing the book and now I am correcting it with new perspectives. Some apparently odd things fall into place. A few still hover.
Psychologically I think I have it right. In terms of sensibility I am pretty sure I have it right. Those are my strengths, and I like to think I have a poet's feeling for language too. That should be my trump card. It's what gets the books the good reviews. Which is why the stylistic corrections hurt. Yes, in my hurry to get the book done, I had left some awkward sentences. That annoys me no end. That, at least, I should have nailed.
Then I remember: it has always been like this. I fly for long passages then I crash. Occasionally I lose control altogether.
I sometimes think that translation is a kind of spiritual discipline. You make the rods for your own back. With a little chastisement you are purified and can get back on the trail. You are the servant of the godlike master text.
But I am a writer, not a servant. I rebel, time and again. This is the last, I say. Or the next to the last. Or the next to the next to the last. Maybe just a few poems after this. But someone has to do the work and maybe it's me.
The fact is, like any writer, I need a good editor, a god or goddess substitute. And this one - stand up Ellie Steel at Random House - is the best yet. Thank you.
Friday, 14 February 2014
LISTENING TO THE WEATHER
out of drains into gardens
too drenched to hear them.
listening to the ursprache
of rising thunder.
the utterances of cloud
spreading over it.
the fields preparing their notes
for a bright future.
loud and clear to a tumult
of rain, the rain heard.
water and the sky bellowed
air, it was meaning.
the tides, calibrating loss
by the yard and mile.
properly laid out and crunched
into neat pie-charts.
The sky could say what it liked
with its dark grammar
We were at cross-purposes
and longing for sun.
When the wind blows the streets are discomfited, muttered the grass and bent its head. Blow on, dude, screamed the leaves.
The wind didn't know what to do with its hands so it stuck them in its pockets which were full of holes. The body is wind, said the wind.
The rain couldn't agree with the wind. They spoke different languages. Bring me an intepreter, howled the wind. Now hammer me out a deal.
The wind was taking refuge in an open mouth. It met a wind coming up. Human beings are disgusting, it said. I will work my way down deeper.
Each raindrop broke up on landing. Their scattered bones will shine, wrote the poet whose own bones did not add up to much.
Face it guys, said the wind, it's nature or nothing. It says so on the contract and no amount of rain will wash it away.
The wind was furious. There must be a cause, said the man in the wind. It's your flapping coat creating a draught, said his neighbour.
Got any wind, the addict asked the dealer. You can't afford it, the dealer replied, but I can get someone to blow in your ear.
There were several tribes of rain all claiming the same territory. A war ensued of which we have various disputed historical accounts.
This is revolution, screamed the wind. Like last week you mean, said the vagrant. No, the week before, said the wind.
Tuesday, 11 February 2014
Most of the time things are all right. Sometimes we are aware that they are getting worse. Nobody really thinks higher education as a profession is getting better, for example. More and more is being squeezed out of ever fewer resources. There are more students per staff, there is a greater struggle for rooms, there is less time for academics to teach, research and administer as well as to undertake the ever newer forms of outreach they are pressurised to do to show their institution is part of the community. The young are particularly under pressure because new junior appointments are given most of the extra work. If a well-respected, much-published professor is earning you research money by publishing, you keep him/her publishing so he or she becomes ever more occupied with his/her research. Younger staff are desperate to do research but, unless they are extraordinary or very lucky, they have to keep their noses to the grindstone until they have no noses. Many are anxious, depressed and exhausted.
Few are free of anxiety. But then something else sits down beside you, or, in the case of the floods, on top of you. It may be a very rare event (there may be more such rare events in the future) but it is your own special rare event if you're in it. It rains and rains and rains, the water rises ever further. This is not one of those times when things are more or less all right. Nor are they slowly eating away at you or grinding away your nose. Your nose is in the water.
Few of us would not feel deep sympathy for those whose houses and businesses are now under water. Those of us who live in another part of the country don't think it couldn't happen to us, that nothing could happen because most of the time things are all right. We all know that the law of things happening permits of anything happening at any time.
Granted the history of our families both Clarissa and I know that we are more than fortunate, that this is, as things go, the Golden Age the ancients wrote about. That every age is both its own Golden Age and its Disaster Zone. In the meantime, things here are all right.
Saturday, 8 February 2014
Seeing the series as, in some important respects at least, an exploration of the 'crisis in masculinity' I propose that the core conflict is not so much between 'good' Walt and 'evil' Heisenberg as between Walt and Skyler, or to put it another way, albeit rather crudely, as between patriarchy and matriarchy.
The issue is control.
When we first meet Walt he is distinctly not in control. He is running himself into the ground, working flat out at both school and the carwash, open to humiliation in both. His early promise - he is a genius of sorts as his production of blue crystal meths demonstrates - has become a story of failure. Even his son is, in some physical regards, a 'failure'. The house is Skyler's domain. All he has is the classroom and that is a thankless arena. He develops cancer. He is all but impotent as we can see from the early scene where Skyler tries to hand-start him.
Once his cancer has been diagnosed he decides to ignore the family advice to take an expensive cure. The fact that he is all but ignored in the decision about his own life at this critical point is clearly important to him. The worm turns here.
Once the worm turns and Walt breaks bad, he heads off into uncharted territory, but at least he is making the decisions. He is taking the risks, using his gifts and - all importantly - he is, as he keeps stressing, providing for his family. He has a function.
What happens as a result? In the first place his cancer goes into remission, and he is sexually potent once again, in other words he is healthy, and while none of this comes easy to him - his range of anxious expressions grows ever more intense and he is frequently in a state of terror - it gives him one last chance to assume control over his life.
But that control is restricted. When, after the separation, Skyler becomes party to at least some of his schemes, she immediately wants to take control again and, when with her, he returns to his earlier condition of subservience while bursting at the seams. She has no idea how often he has been close to death or what he has seen: she simply assumes he is incompetent. His actions have, after all, impinged on hers and her control of the immediate, which includes her own and the family's security.
Control of the immediate is the starting point. Walter had no control of the immediate before. He has established a space for it now. Each time he acts he overcomes an immediate, which is thrilling as well as desperately frightening.
Control of the long-term is a different matter. Both Skyler and Walter have some sense of the long-term but, in the meantime, there are all the immediates to deal with. In one sense though Walter's conception of the long-term is clearer, because he understands that one way or another there will be no long-term for him.
The terms matriarchy and patriarchy are both loose and mostly polemical terms, especially the latter. 99% of men have no great control over their own lives. At work they are employees, a majority of them very low grade employees. Nor are most of them bosses at home. The home is traditionally women's domain and sphere of control. Under the old dispensation women decided which domestic task to do when in their own time - the men had no such choice. The great problem for them both was that they were restricted to their particular domains.
House as seen by James Thurber
Walter and Skyler were in fairly traditional domains. Skyler had control of hers, Walter was not in control of his. His genius - his power, his control, his identity - had been stunted.
Neither Walt nor Hank, our other, developing protagonist, is truly happy in fully domestic circumstances. When confined by his injuries Hank becomes withdrawn, cold, and rude. He only starts to recover once he is back in action with the DEA.
Skyler's domain meant impotence and cancer to Walter. Not because she ever intended such a thing but because her own moral balance is predicated on Walter remaining as he is.
Heisenberg is another matter. Heisenberg may be healthier, more potent (not that he shows any interest in women) and more in control, but he is on a road that leads him - and maybe his family too - to hell.
Control is danger.
In this respect the series, though focused on the crisis in masculinity and doing a fascinating and honest job of exploring what that means, actually takes a rather feminist line.
Masculinity, in extremis, as genius, is hell.
Male control is hell.
Hank - a highly competent and, on the whole, decent version of Homer Simpson - places his energies at the service of legality and the household and is therefore salvageable.
Thursday, 6 February 2014
Auschwitz concentration camp, arrival of Hungarian Jews, Summer 1944.
Photo: Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-N0827-318 / CC-BY-SA
Refusing to be associated with the government and its attempts to rewrite and falsify history on the occasion of Holocaust memorial Year in Hungary, some individuals, and some Jewish organisations have decided to return grants and other distinctions.
Leading Holocaust historian Randolph Braham wrote an open letter and asked to have his name removed from The Holocaust Memorial Centre in Budapest. The Guardian reported this on 26 January. I quote:
Braham said ... the "straw that broke the camel's back" leading to his decision was a government plan to erect a memorial commemorating the March 1944 invasion of Hungary by the Nazis. Braham said the memorial was "a cowardly attempt to detract attention from the Horthy regime's involvement in the destruction of the Jews and to homogenize the Holocaust with the 'suffering' of the Hungarians a German occupation, as the record clearly shows, was not only unopposed but generally applauded."
Matters didn't stop there. (Here I will be quoting the excellent Hungarian Spectrum website run by Eva Balogh that I cannot recommend highly enough). A few days later, a man born in Subotica, Emeritus Professor Steven J. Fenves of Carnegie Mellon Univeristy, USA, addressed a letter of sympathy to Braham, in which he said:
Subotica, in Serbia – also known as Szabadka – won funding for two projects in the competition for Hungary’s fund for the 2014 commemorations: one for opening a Holocaust Information Center by the Subotica Jewish Community organization and one for an exhibition in the Subotica City Museum. For the first, I was asked to authorize the use of my mother’s name, Klara Gereb (Geréb Klári), for the Holocaust Information Center. (She was a locally well-respected graphic artist between the two world wars and perished in Auschwitz.) Initially, I assented to this request….
But then he withdrew his offer. As he explains:
My resolve to support these two projects was badly shaken when I saw in Hungarian Spectrum a photograph of Sándor Szakály [the head of Veritas, the government backed Historical Institute]. There, facing him, was a bust of a Hungarian csendőr, complete with the black Bowler hat embellished with the flying black cock-feathers, exactly as worn by those gendarmes when they herded us into the makeshift ghetto and soon thereafter loaded us into the boxcars destined for Auschwitz. The map behind Mr. Szakály showed, of course, the pre-World War I map of Hungary, with Subotica well within its borders. It was extremely painful for me to realize that the Hungarian government that sponsors this man also funds the two 2014 activities in Subotica.
The Orthodox synagogue of Nové Zámky is registered as a historic landmark. It is one of only four synagogues in Slovakia that are still used for religious purposes by the local Jewish community. This community received 1.5 million forints as a contribution from the so-called Civic Fund (Civil Alap) for events planned in connection with the Holocaust Memorial Year. Tamás Lang, president of the board of the Nové Zámsky Jewish Community, sent the money back accompanied by a scathing letter condemning the falsification of history and also the systematic revival of the cult of Miklós Horthy.
Then she gives an abbreviated form of the letter:
The events and statements of the last few days make the sincerity of the Civic Fund’s intentions highly questionable…. We can’t accept that Miklós Horthy, who is fully responsible for the destruction of Hungary’s Jewry, can have a statue in Hungary…. We can’t accept such statements as “we–Hungarians, they–Jews” even if it is uttered as “we Hungarians defend our minorities.”… We don’t forget that prior to the [German] occupation there were already 60,000 victims of anti-Semitism in Hungary. … We contest the statement that the only sin of the government at the time was that “it didn’t defend the country’s Jewish citizens and provided material supplies for their persecution” … [when] that government mobilized 200,000 civil servants against us. … It is true that Tibor Navracsics, deputy prime minister, and Bence Rétváry, undersecretary, talked on international forums about Hungarian responsibility, but the direction of official statements and actions belies their words…. We cannot lend our names to the falsification of history and the whitewashing of the Horthy regime.
From Hungarian Spectrum we move on to the Klubrádió website (some may remember the government tried to shut Klubrádió down by handing its licence over to some bigger financial concern more sympathetic to Fidesz, but the station survives under difficult circumstances. Its history is here.) The essence of the article is that two major Budapest synagogues, the central Dohány Street synagogue and the one in Leo Frankel Street, as well as the Jewish Foreign Visitors and Cultural Centre have handed back their grants in protest. These were not small sums, but figures like 20 to 24 million Hungarian Forints. As the tex is in Hungarian I translate.
The Cultural Centre says:
We feel no obligation to explain our outrage…We don't want this Nazi memorial, we don't want [to be party to] the falsification of history, and we don't want the humiliation heaped upon those who died… [As a result] We are returning the entire 24 million fiorints awarded to us and have no desire to take part in any events associated with Hungarian Holocaust Year organised by the government.
The synagogues make statements along similar lines, saying, for instance that
The positive depiction of the Horthy era , the inclusion of Arrow Cross (Nazi) writers on the school syllabus, the presentation of a massacre as an immigration matter, taken together with a number of government statements does not square with the kind of commemoration planned for the victims of mass murder.
Viktor Orbán and the Fidesz government speak one way to the international community but another way to the Hungarian people. Their domestic actions do not match their foreign propaganda. They shouldn't be trusted an inch.
Elections are approaching, elections that Fidesz is very likely to win. A good friend in Hungary writes:
The gossip is that, after the elections, Orbán will wage war on the universities, which are the last strongholds of the opposition, as most tend to be very critical intellectually, even those on the right. Now that most of the private media is in the hands of Fidesz, businesses close to the party get all the government commissions and thus have the money to buy all the newspapers, radios and TV stations that are about to go bankrupt due to the decline in advertising. Now that the media has been appropriated the universities will be next. It's a pretty bleak picture.
Wednesday, 5 February 2014
Tonight to Norwich Puppet Theatre where I was once not only on the board, but chair while the brilliant Luis Boy was artistic director. Those were days of financial struggle but the theatre got through it and seems to be prospering. I hadn't been there in years.
What we went to see was Don Hertzfeld's animation, It's Such a Beautiful Day, a triptych, or simply an amalgam of three different films with the same central character.
The first part, Everything Will Be OK is magnificently inventive, funny and grotesque. Stick man Bill has an apparently ordinary but deeply troubled life. He has visions and accidents and exists on a plane of psychological detachment in the presence of random threatening events..
In the second film, I'm So Proud of You he returns to childhood, falls sick and dies, but doesn't die, but keeps getting sick, and there are deaths and monsters and nightmares. Bill is clearly in trouble. He might even be senile, and his visions maybe due to dementia.
The third, It's Such a Beautiful Day, is a long spiritual flight of fancy where Bill finally becomes the answer to the universe and everything in it. On the other hand he is probably dead.
The whole is a mixture between American Underground values c 1968, and Czech depressive surrealism under Husak combined with a certain individual genius. You might also describe it as a bad acid trip meeting Wes Anderson coming in through the back door. I enjoyed the first part, grew sleepy in the second and was faintly irritated and impatient in the third.
The trouble was anything could have happened to Bill by the end, but, since anything could, nothing really did. When anything can happen there is no surprise left.
But the first part is very good. That's what you have at the top. You probably know it already if only because you are probably smarter than me about such things. I like it because it's a little like those series of surreal events I write. Happy watching.
Tuesday, 4 February 2014
Wymondham Mayor Dianne Fernee
A furious and ultimately farcical town council meeting tonight. People who read this might remember that I wrote a blog post with the title A Disgraceful Meeting (7 February 2012) It was about the affair of the local King's Head Meadow, a prime site in the centre of town, where the football team play. Briefly, the football pitch was wanted by a national supermarket chain and there was talk that the chain had already agreed a purchase with the council without any public consultation.
The earlier blog gives a good deal more detail about the background. That meeting was wild and tightly packed, with standing room only. This is what happened then.
The special meeting tonight is held in a hall clearly too small to accommodate all the people wanting to attend. An interesting decision. We are dangerously crowded, mostly standing and there are people waiting outside. The mood is ugly, or ugly-ish
The public are allowed to ask questions, none of which is answered in any way that might be considered an answer. There are many questions involving timing and the keeping of records. Those very few responding from the council have, er, no records of when things happened.
The one answer that is eventually given about timing quotes some apparent stipulation that things must be done one particular way, that that way requires an immediate answer, and that time is so pressing that the supermarket's application must be pushed through now to compete with two unnamed other possible sites.
Two ex-councillors, very politely, query the question of timing and procedure. Their experience is different. Their experience is not ancient but very recent: their queries are not answered.
The chief question of why the council want to sell the space to the supermarket is never answered, though all councillors are pressed to answer it. Almost all sit there like dummies.
The affair goes on. The supermarket in question has withdrawn and a different one has taken another site, not quite so central. Nevertheless people continue to talk of corruption and secret deals and the fate of the meadow is far from settled. One independent councillor, Andy Gardiner, has pursued the matter from the beginning and, on his site, Wymondham Asks Why, explains what the latest problem is. He has long been a thorn in the council's side. You can link to the back story through his website.
The latest problem is the manipulation of the agenda to prevent certain questions being asked by the public. But something has been happening in the background to the extent that the current mayor, Dianne Fernee, takes the microphone before the meeting proper and announces that she will stand no nosense and will not be interrupted.
She is not interrupted, but when, after apologies it comes to Item 2, Declarations of Interest, Andy Gardiner weighs in, partly because the council have been taking some action against him outside the meeting, and the mayor has just made this extraordinary statement which, he says, amounts to a declaration of interest that prevents him getting a fair hearing on the matter of the King's Head Meadow which is coming up as Item 5.
What is more it seems, according to his website, that the public are not going to be able to ask any questions about the minutes or the issue of the Kings Head Meadow itself. The agenda, as I have it before me, does not limit the questions only to following items so either there was a misunderstanding or the agenda has been modified.
Gardiner is insistent that his arguments cannot be dealt fairly by the mayor. He will not be quiet on this. He does not want her in the chair and asks for her resignation. He quotes standing orders to show that she has acted unconstitutionally. The mayor is clearly exasperated and eventually stands up, tears off her chain of office and storms out. The deputy chair attempts to continue but without hope. A few minutes later Gardiner leaves the meeting.
In another five minutes the deputy chair has given up and abandons the meeting. No meeting then.
The public - some fifty or so - are bemused. One elderly man keeps shouting at the deputy mayor. He thinks it is a disgrace. He thinks the council is a disgrace.
I help to put away the chairs and talk to some friends who were there last time. I am trying to understand what has just happened. The talk is still of corruption. I don't know whether the press was present but it should have been.
Who says Norfolk is a quiet backwater? (Actually, I did once.) It's much less of a backwater than it once was. And it's not so quiet either.
If anyone cares to write in and comment about what they thought was happening please feel free to do so, always minding the law.
Sunday, 2 February 2014
I'll never find all the books now. But then people will say exactly the same of me. 'I had one of his, Short Wave, I think, about 1984. It used to be on that shelf.'
1.Feeling is a complex state of being. You feel what there is, but you also feel what is missing or extra to your feeling. One says what one says because it is there to be said and felt. Suddenly thinking that she would have been precisely ninety today entails a sadness, as does the photograph.
A thought, perhaps an unworthy one. My mother was a photographer and, later, hand-colourist and retoucher. I looked closer at the picture, around her waist. See those extra shades of lighter material almost like lines? She may have modified things a little. She hand-coloured photographs of us as children so it is not impossible. But that, to persist with my book metaphor, would also be part of her authorship. She was a professional, after all and had done this for others countless times. We are how we wish to be perceived. It is not our truth: it is more than that.
Is this over-personal? I don't think so. I am looking for the opposite of the personal - some account of what actually goes on in anyone's regard to their dead. It is, what I think, literature is: an attempt to be honest about the nature of things in the language of common myth, something we listen to and balance in our hearts and heads, trying to hear what's true in it.
Saturday, 1 February 2014
To develop a line from yesterday's blog about myth in Breaking Bad - and in narrative generally - I want to think a little about a major aspect of myth, which is the degree to which it is embedded in realism or moves clear of it.
On what terrain do the levels of reality and myth interact? Asking the question the thought of phantoms comes to mind. We talk of chasing phantoms that are there yet not there, that are illusions yet we register them. Given a realistic narrative (by which I mean one that is not obviously fantasy) each character is both figure and phantom at once. I think of phantom rather than demon because while demons exist in this particular fiction not every character is a demon.
Even the Mexican thugs who are primarily demons are phantoms of a sort. I called them demons because their function is straightforwardly demonic. They exist for one pupose only, to inflict cruelty and death. Their motivation is not primarily money: it is in excess of that. They are, in story terms, a single, mountain-sized projection that provokes action but also settles as image in Walter's head and therefore in our own heads. Even when they are suddenly blown away they survive as presences.We cannot quite forget them. Their demonic lives continue in our dreams.
But that characteristic is possessed by other passing figures in the story. They are not demonic yet they persist and serve as functions rather than protagonists. They appear, flitter across the terrain, have their episodes, then vanish for one or other reason. It is the flittering quality that renders them phantom-like, and particular in this context because Breaking Bad doesn't really deal in sub-plots. It is one big plot composed of patches yet focused entirely on one story.
Before returning to phantoms I think I need to consider the terrain itself, and here the word emanation suggests itself.
This is what William Blake says about emanations in his Jerusalem: the Emanation of the Giant Albion (1806)
There is a Void, outside of Existence, which if enterd into
His Sublime & Pathos become Two Rocks fixd in the Earth
We are used, I think, to things the other way around. A particular kind of place, we say, produces a particular kind of character. Auden's Bucolics focuses on different kinds of landscapes. This is what Auden says about plains:
But I cannot see a plain without a shudder,
'O God please, please never make me live there!'
Nature makes some places, we make others. Usually we compromise. Nature in Breaking Bad offers us deserts and plains. Humanity offers us deserted streets, low buildings, industrial sites, desolate eateries. Drugs go coursing through both as a form of alternative vision: an escape from physical low to mental high.
The accommodation between place and figure takes place as much in the mind as in externality. It is in the mind that it resolves into phantoms.
Where are the people in Breaking Bad? Where are the non-active others, the extras, the crowd scenes? There are very few. Hardly anyone is in the streets. It's a ghost town, a phantom town. You drive into the desert or the plain for the kind of assignments the place invites ('..please, please, never make me live there'). These too are phantom places without precise location. People who spring out of it, or stay too long, die or are killed by someone else. They too turn into phantoms.
Walter, our protagonist may, as the creator of the series, Vince Gilligan, suggests, become the antagonist after a time but it is into his mind we are invited from the start. The landscapes are his, the phantoms his. They arise out of the raw flatness that, on the one hand, made him and, on the other hand, have been experienced as a kind of vision by him. In other words it is his emanation. He creates the mood terrain through which his journey moves. (Why this is hell nor am I out of it, as Mephistopheles says to Marlowe's Faustus). The emanation is produced out of the poetics of the narrative. Blake's 'Two Rocks fix'd in the Earth' is now desert and plain: flat, absolute, haunted.
In what way are people phantoms?
One traditional way of describing characters in fiction is as two-dimensional and three-dimensional.
The 3-D characters contain conflicts and can surprise us. They have a history that, we assume, produces the conflicts. They are unresolved, which is why we folow them towards a resolution.
2-D characters represent conditions. They may well represent our desired and fulfilled conditions, our superhero / supervictim selves. In terms of 2-D representation you can have Feeble Crippled Walter or Genius Criminal Heisenberg but not both in genuine contention.
Walter-Heisenberg, as he appears in the story, is a complex. He moves between Cripple and Criminal. Those are his polarities but that doesn't mean the distance between polarities is a blank. He could surprise us by having an affair, by buying a dog, or by deciding to cash in his earnings and move house. It could happen. He has the potential. The tension of the story would be lost but Walter has an existence that is almost independent of the story. That is what makes him 3-D.
Some other figures have the same possibility: Jesse has it, Skyler has it, even Mike the clean-up man has it. Hank has it to a degree. His wife, Marie, has it to a slightly lesser degree. Walter Junior to an even lesser degree. Gus Fring might have had it but once we discover that he is worse than Tuco and the Mexicans (who never had it) he loses the third dimension because he is only a villain who was pretending to be nice. A villain pretending to be nice is functionally two-dimensional. He is an agent and that is all. Or rather, he recedes from his position as a figure in relief back to the flat top of the table, that desert-plain where the other full phantoms move like shadows, making vivid, ever-more active shapes in the imagination,.
The desert-plain territory is inhabited by figures in various conditions of phantomhood. It is swarming with phantoms. The human drama consists of their movement into or out of phantom status. Jesse's dead girlfriend, Jane, rose into relief and potential 3-D status but then she died. The fell sergeant death arrested her. We might have imagined a 3-D life for her but she fell from sight before we got the chance.
3-D is what we share with Walt and his persistent possession of it is part of the genius of the story. A number of figures we pass along that desolate drive had the potential to become more than their function. We felt something for them and were briefly invited in to watch some movement between their polarities. We could contemplate the possibility of a denser inner landscape.
But then we are back in the desert, among the emanations. Our imaginations move through that fictional world of phantoms and we watch Walter slowly becoming one himself. The terrible irony is that it was precisely because Walter wanted to escape his 2-D condition of phantom / victim that he set out in the first place. Someone suggested that Walter becomes Heisenberg because he is greedy for money. I don't think so. In this terrain money is only a means. What Walter wants is autonomy, a freedom that comes at an ever more terrible price.
Walter is at the centre of the emanation, its peak, its complexity. The members of his immediate family are his foothills, the rest is desert. The temporal-spatial landscape has produced Walter, but he has in turn produced it. The landscape is Walter.
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The longer-term post-Brexit outlook may be unclear, but that has not stopped the country’s second-biggest housebuilder from reporting strong sales since August.
The European Union referendum continued to have little impact on the appetite for new homes, Persimmon said, after its private sales rate raced 19 per cent ahead of last year since it reported full-year results on August 23. It means that the group is now “fully sold up” for the year.
Persimmon has about £757 million of homes reserved for purchase beyond this year, 4 per cent more than the same time a year ago.
It said that the new homes market continued to benefit from “resilient consumer confidence and strong lender support”.
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HOUSTON, Texas, November 28, 2017 – In the spirit of giving and continually striving to be the Best Neighbors Ever, Neighbors Emergency Center Lubbock is pleased to partner with the local Marine Toys for Tots Foundation for the 2017 Toys for Tots Toy Drive.
Beginning Tuesday, November 28, Lubbock residents are encouraged to drop off a new, unwrapped toy at Neighbors Lubbock. The 24-hour freestanding emergency center is located at 4337 50th St., 79413. The center’s telephone number is 806-701-5050.
Toys collected at Neighbors through the December 13 finish date will remain in the Lubbock area to help make the holidays brighter for local children in need. The first 25 people that drop off a toy donation at Neighbors Lubbock will receive a complimentary Scrubs teddy bear. Scrubs the Bear is the official mascot of Neighbors Emergency Center.
“Neighbors Emergency Center Lubbock would like to share our blessings with those who need help, especially this time of year,” said Neighbors Lubbock Medical Director Dr. James Williams. “We are proud to participate in the Marine Corps Toys for Tots program which has distributed over 530 million toys to more than 244 million less fortunate children. We invite the community that we are privileged to serve to join us in caring for our neighbors and make a contribution today.”
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The Girl With The Dreams
The story is about a girl having weird dreams and somehow they always come true. Her dreams are about her family, well her mom and dad, she is wondering what they mean... find out what happens by reading the story.
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Earlier last week, education minister David Laws clamped down on the escalating costs of school uniforms by urging headteachers to allow parents to shop around for their child’s uniform, instead of sticking to cash-back deals with sole suppliers. This sparked a debate over whether uniforms should be scrapped altogether. We disagree, and to show how valuable school uniforms can be, we’ve put together our top 7 points in their favour.
1. Saves time
A school uniform instantly saves time and reduces stress by taking away that difficult morning decision about what to wear. It means any extra time can be spent on other activities: Eating breakfast, catching up on homework, or sleep, for that matter.
A school uniform also saves important time in the long run. By concentrating on the task at hand and not on what other classmates are wearing, work is more likely to get done, faster.
Schools also save time in monitoring appearance. The odd disheveled tie or tucked-out shirt is easy to deal with, but an offensive slogan t-shirt or inappropriate style of dress is much more time-consuming and difficult to handle.
2. Improves performance
As well as time-saving, a uniform also can help to improve grades, thanks to increased concentration. Similarly, it instills discipline and pride, again helping to boost grades by creating a more formal, academic atmosphere.
Contrary to popular belief, a uniform can also increase creativity. Whilst many argue that uniforms suppress the ability of a child to show their individuality, a uniform can in fact help students to think about how to express themselves in other ways apart from appearance.
School uniforms help to reduce negative comparisons between students from different economic backgrounds, which in turn increases self-esteem and decreases peer pressure to look a certain way. This promotes a community feel: it helps foster relationships between students from different backgrounds and encourages them to socialise.
4. Puts schools on the map
A uniform is in essence a way of advertising a school, which can be really useful in gathering support and forming external relationships with the local community. It also helps improve safety for pupils, especially on school trips, as students can be easily recognised and identified.
5. Instills the right attitude
However harsh it might sound, a uniform is a good way to incorporate the values and culture of working life to prepare students for the world of employment, whatever their future job’s dress code may be. It can establish the right tone and level of formality to set students on the right path to their future career.
6. Saves money
A school uniform can save parents a lot of money, in numerous ways. Unfortunately, as highlighted in recent news, some schools still operate an expensive single supplier scheme for their uniforms. Even if this is the case, there are still some great ways to save:
a. Uniform Donation
Some schools operate a recycled uniform system, where ex-pupils donate their uniform for current students at a reduced rate. This also decreases the possibility of negative effects on the environment caused by throwing disused uniforms in the bin.
b. Hand Me Downs
Older siblings who have outgrown their jumper, shirt or trousers can pass them on to younger brothers or sisters, serving as a quick, easy and great way to save money.
Some schools give the option to parents of choosing where they want to buy school uniforms. By enabling parents to shop around, for example in supermarkets or online, they can save money by finding cheaper deals which increases competition between suppliers and therefore driving down prices.
Many parents say that the items that put the biggest hole in the school uniform budget are blazers and jumpers; but these can be purchased online much more cheaply, whilst still maintaining a high level of quality and durability. Here at Clothes2Order we embroider school emblems on to uniforms, saving parents and schools valuable time and money. Our garments come from renowned suppliers such as Fruit of the Loom, ensuring a high quality value product that will last wash after wash.
7. It’s All For A Good Cause…
Finally, it might not be an obvious advantage of the school uniform, but charities can benefit hugely. A fun non-uniform day to raise money for important causes can only be successful with the presence of a uniform in the rest of the week.
What do you think of school uniform? Do you think a law should be enforced to regularise the cost of uniforms? Let us know below or tweet us @Clothes2Order | <urn:uuid:a4b4011f-4c17-4d67-96ff-531ff95ecad6> | CC-MAIN-2018-26 | http://www.clothes2order.com/blog/2013/09/26/7-really-great-reasons-why-school-uniforms-are-beneficial/ | 2018-06-25T10:05:25Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267867644.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20180625092128-20180625112128-00235.warc.gz | en | 0.95782 | 928 | [
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Steinlager recently launched a fairly brave and entertaining responsible drinking campaign called ‘Be the artist, not the canvas’ that showed some creative/violating uses for marker pens, aimed to poke fun at those who over-indulge and marked a slight change in strategy for the brand. And, as brand manager Michael Taylor says, it’s gone down a treat with the punters.
It’s no secret that beer is in decline, and particularly so when it comes to younger drinkers. So anything Lion can do to re-engage consumers with beer is a good thing, he says, whether that’s through campaigns like Made to Match or a responsible drinking ad that people actually want to watch.
He says it was important for the message to come from a trusted name like Steinlager rather than from Lion, as consumers relate to brands much more than they do to parent companies.
“We needed to make a statement and Steinlager is the brand with the biggest social following," he says. "We've been pretty active on Facebook recently. And our following has more than doubled to 67,000. We invested a bit of money behind it to make sure people saw the ad ... Facebook works well if you’re willing to create bespoke content for it. It’s not just about taking a TV ad and putting it up there. And it’s pretty efficient. It doesn’t cost you that much to reach one million people.”
The project, which was created by DDB and shot by The Sweet Shop, has been a long time in the making, starting off around two years ago as an idea to promote its Steinlager Edge brand (that product has now been discontinued because, as Taylor says, Kiwis didn’t get very excited about mid-strength beer and the industry didn’t really invest much in growing that segment of the market, unlike it has in Australia). But he says the response has been a bit more positive than it probably expected and in his view, it's a win-win.
“Obviously we wanted it to have a positive impact on the brand, but we did a fair bit of research before the campaign launched to ensure that consumers would get the right message. And nine out of ten people said they would prefer to be the artist, not the canvas.”
No research has been done since the campaign launched, but, judging by the amount of positive feedback it has received on Facebook and Twitter, he assumes that trend has continued. This ad has been one of the brand's most shared pieces of content over the past 18 months with 1,710 shares. This is second only to its ‘Sail like its 1995' ad for the America’s Cup with 2,766 shares (while Steinlager's name wasn’t on the boat this time as it didn’t contribute enough cash, it was a supplier and research showed it was the beer brand that consumers associated most with Team New Zealand).
As the campaign was targeting 25-34 year-olds, it didn’t put the ad on TV and focused on online channels (there was also a print component as well as some explanations of the artworks). And YouTube analytics showed that 75 percent of those who watched the ad were in that target group. It was a pretty similar story with Facebook, so he says it’s a very efficient way to reach a specific group without any media wastage.
“It’s not a full mindset change for us to say ‘we want to target new drinkers’. But this idea resonated really well with a younger target audience and the media choice went with that.”
Of course, there is a high degree of cynicism when it comes to alcohol companies promoting responsible drinking messages. The assumption is that they want to sell as much booze as possible to boost their bottom lines. Lion’s external relations manager Liz Read has said that it would actually be better for the company if more people consumed the recommended intake more frequently than if fewer consumed more. Unsurprisingly, Taylor agrees and says what the media often fails to point out is that total alcohol consumption is declining.
But, as he says, that's not as interesting for the media as stories about dangerous, unhealthy binge drinking.
He believes 'Be the artist, not the canvas' is a really exciting angle to take on responsible drinking. But it did have some interesting discussions with LAPS, the self-regulated body that approves alcohol ads, and had to make a few changes. It also had to abide by the ASA's code for alcohol advertising, which says you can’t show the effects of drinking. That's why it made sure that anyone shown being drawn on was up and about running around at the end.
He says there’s obviously a different threshold for something like the Health Promotion Agency, as it’s a government entity trying to spread a health message and isn’t selling anything. But he thinks it’s great to see some more progressive social marketing that actually shows the behaviour that's trying to be changed, like Ghost Chips and Blazed. This campaign tries to do this as well and, as an example of its success, he says ‘Be the artist, not the canvas’ has a similar level of likeability to ‘No more beersies’.
He says the popular premium category, which Steinlager fits into, is in slight decline at the moment. But Steinlager as a trademark, which includes Pure, Classic and Premium Light, has remained flat on the same time last year (the total trademark is about the same in terms of value as Speights, and its main competitor, Heineken).
It's human nature to focus on new things and write off old things, despite evidence to the contrary. In the world of media, digital is seemingly all-powerful, and traditional platforms like newspapers, despite still raking in a big chunk of change and drawing plenty of readers, are supposedly dead. If you believe the media coverage, mainstream beer is under fire from the rise of craft, and while there's no doubt it's growing (as evidenced by Lion's purchase of Emerson's last year) that segment of the market still only makes up a small chunk of total sales.
"There’s still a huge number of New Zealanders who love drinking lagers and they’re not going to go away anytime soon," he says. "We may see a move back to Steinlager Classic if they’re looking for a fuller flavour. And the White Can campaign did a great job of reintroducing people to the brand [and possibly dealing to the myth that Steinlager led to crushing hangovers]".
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The 3D printed HOUSE: Technology is being used to construct an entire building - including the furniture - in Amsterdam
- Dus Architects is building the ‘world’s first’ 3D printed house, which is located by a canal in north Amsterdam
- An industrial scale 3D printer is being used to pipe plastic bricks that will be stacked on top of one another to construct the house
- The 'room builder' machine pipes plastic lines according to computerised plans – just like a gigantic version of a home 3D printer
From food to medical instruments, it seems that 3D printing can be used to create almost anything.
And now a team of ambitious architects are using the additive manufacturing technique to build an entire house.
They are using an industrial scale 3D printer called a room builder to engineer the plastic parts that will be fused together to create everything from walls to the furniture.
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A team of ambitious architects are using 3D printing to build an entire house, shown in this artist's impression. Dus Architects's futuristic building is described as an exhibition, research and a building site for 3D printing architecture, which connects the science, construction and design communities
THE 3D PRINT CANAL HOUSE
The house is the brainchild of Amsterdam-based firm Dus Architects.
It is being built by the side of a canal in the north of the city and will be the world's first 3D printed house.
The structure will have 13 rooms and is inspired by a traditional gable design.
It is being printed by a giant 3D printer called KamerMaker or the 'room builder'.
The machine will pipe thick lines of molten plastic around 10 times as large as lines printed by 'home' printers.
Construction has been under way for around one month.
The interior and exterior of rooms can be printed in one part and there is space within the blocks for cables, pipes and wiring because of their honeycomb and lattice design.
The ‘world’s first’ 3D printed house, which is being built by a canal in north Amsterdam in the Netherlands, will boast 13 rooms when it is finished and concrete will only be used to provide structural support - at least at the moment.
Amsterdam-based firm Dus Architects’s futuristic building is described as 'an exhibition, research and a building site for 3D printing architecture', which connects the science, construction and design communities.
The 3D Print Canal House is being printed using the KamerMaker, which means room builder and pipes plastic lines of molten plastic on top of one another according to computerised plans – just like a gigantic version of a home 3D printer.
The machine, which is made by Dutch firm Ultimaker, pipes lines around 10 times as large as a standard 3D printer and can create pieces of building that are 6ft wide, 6ft deep and 11ft tall (2metres by 2meters by 3.5metres).
The KamerMaker machine pipes thick lines of molten plastic (pictured) that are around 10 times as thick as the lines drawn by 'home' 3D printers
The 3D Print Canal House is being printed using the KamerMaker, which means 'room builder' and pipes plastic lines on top of one another according to computerised plans - just like a gigantic version of a home 3D printer
Construction has been under way for around one month and so far a 9ft (three metre) high corner section has been printed, weighing 397lbs (180kg), according to The Guardian.
Giant pieces like the corner will be used much like Lego bricks and stacked on top of one another to make the house, which is inspired by the traditional Dutch gabled town houses.
The design consists of a number of rooms – each with unique features - which will be designed separately on site, before being assembled into the house, so experts can test their safety.
Using computers to design and print the structure means that architects can create a house that has structural integrity, while also looking aesthetically pleasing so that the interior and exterior of rooms can be printed in one part.
There is space within the plastic block walls for cables, pipes and wiring because of a honeycomb lattice design.
The KamerMaker machine (pictured), which is made by Dutch firm Ultimaker, can create pieces of building that are 6ft wide, 6ft deep and 11ft tall (2metres by 2meters by 3.5metres)
Here a small-scale 3D printer quickly makes small, scale sections of wall, the likes of which will be built for real by a giant printer
The plastic used to print the house is ‘a renewable, sustainable, strong, tactile and beautiful material that can compete with current building techniques,’ according to the architects.
Scientists are currently testing different samples of materials to create the perfect one but the final ‘hot melt’ product will be approximately 80 per cent natural as it is a bioplastic mix made up of microfibres and plant oil.
Hedwig Heinsman from the architect firm said: ‘We’re still perfecting the technology. We will continue to test over the next three years, as the technology evolves… It’s an experiment.’
At the moment, the lattice blocks are being filled with less sustainable concrete, which would make the structure, hard to recycle, but this seems to be an intermediary step.
Using computers to design the house means that architects can create a house that has structural integrity, while also looking aesthetically pleasing so that the interior and exterior of rooms can be printed in one part. Here are some small examples of different types of walls, and the honeycomb cavities are easily visible
The plastic used to print the house (pictured) is ‘a renewable, sustainable, strong, tactile and beautiful material that can compete with current building techniques,’ according to the architects
If the house is a success and the technology honed, the architects hope that 3D printing could mark a new era in building houses.
The cost of transporting materials and waste could be cut using the technique and the final buildings could be dismantled and moved in units, or completely recycled.
Mr Heinsman said: 'This could revolutionise how we make our cities. This is only the beginning, but there could be endless possibilities, from printing functional solutions locally in slums and disaster areas, to high-end hotel rooms that are individually customised and printed in marble dust.’
Construction is under way on the 3D Print Canal House, pieces of which are being printed from piped plastic according to computerised plans (illustrated) - just like a gigantic version of a home 3D printer
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Time to make myself unpopular with some people…
Following the awful events in Manchester on Monday evening emotions are, understandably, running high. Sadly the same cannot be said for thought processes – although this hardly uncommon even when 22 men, women and children haven’t been brutally slain by a religious fanatic. Ignoring the usual twaddle about false flags and the like which always surface after an event like this, those who are thinking with their hearts rather than their brains have come out with the usual selection of bright ideas about where we go from here. Whilst I don’t myself know how to tackle this issue sensibly (Tom and Pete offer different suggestions), it’s rather easier to spot the less sensible suggestions such as those mentioned below.
One of the things which most enrages people after an event such Manchester is how it turns out that the perpetrator was known to the authorities all along. This is taken to mean that they knew he (or she) was a mass murdering wannabe and therefore should have been under 24/7 surveillance, if not already rotting in a gaol cell. It should come as no surprise (but will) to learn that being known to the authorities can mean anything from knowing someone who knows someone who is considered a higher risk to being a low-level petty crook through to being someone who went to Libya on a family holiday.
The number of people on the UK’s terrorism watch list is, at present, in the region of 3,500 people. The Police and the Security Service simply do not have the manpower to keep that number of people under physical surveillance on a 24/7 basis.
Contrary to what is shown on screen, whether big or small, keeping tabs on a single person takes more than a couple of coppers hiding behind a newspaper in an unmarked car. For something more realistic think 3 teams of multiple people operating in 8 hour shifts. Once things like illness and holidays are factored in, physical surveillance of a single person can easily require two dozen people. 24 people for each of the 3,500 potential terrorists would require 84,000 bodies – and that’s before you factor in all of the analysts and other office types who occupy that building on Millbank. That figure is, very roughly, an order of magnitude above the numbers currently employed by MI5 and about two-thirds of the number of police officers across England and Wales.
Full time surveillance of each and every potential suspect there is impossible without a lot of new people (who’ll require training) and the money to pay them (unless you’re using figures suggested by Diane Abbott). The other problem which must be considered here is that in the vast majority of cases the ethnicity of those on the watch list is likely to be other than caucasian and that they will live in areas which are not predominantly occupied by melanin deficient types such as the author. Thus, in order for your surveillance teams not to stand out like a black man at a KKK rally, you’ll need to recruit people with similar skin tones who can fit in to the local communities without too much suspicion. 84,000 people from approximately 3 million UK muslims? Good luck with that.
This is why the Security Service grades those on the watch list by potential risk and focuses most of its efforts on those deemed to be most risky. Mistakes will, of course, be made and, if press reports about the suicidal criminal involved in Monday’s attack are accurate, incompetence can also not be ruled out. It will be interesting to see what the internal investigation (should we get to read any of it) has to say in this case.
Another favourite idea is to round-up all of those on the watch list and put them in a camp somewhere. Where that somewhere might be is conveniently not mentioned (unless you’re Tommy Robinson in which case you think sending them to the far side of the world is a sensible suggestion).
The UK hasn’t used internment camps in over 40 years, having last tried them in NI during the troubles with rather limited success and over the course of that particular iteration less than 2,000 people were interned. 3,500 people is a lot of people to put somewhere – or, more realistically, various somewheres since even the UK’s largest gaol (Wandsworth, since you ask) only has space for about 1,800 souls. Given how difficult it is to build new housing in this country, building 10 or 20 new sites to house that many people is not going to happen quickly. Does the State, one of the biggest land owners in the country, have the necessary amount of (now unused) land which could be repurposed in a shorter space of time?
This discussion of where to put all these is people though is somewhat secondary. Short of taking a scythe to the law of the land (to the applause, no doubt, of William Roper) such measures would be thrown out by the judiciary in short order should they somehow manage to pass through parliament.
If surveillance and internment won’t work, surely offshoring (to borrow a phrase) the problem would work? As with internment this idea runs in to the twin problems of legality and location. If, like the person responsible for the attack in Manchester, they are a British national with no other nationality to their name then there is no country of origin to send them to and the Geneva Convention of 1961 (of which the UK is a signatory) precludes rendering someone stateless.
For those who aren’t British nationals or who have dual nationality then the system would at least know where to send them, subject to proving in a court of law that their deportation is justified. Since the security services will not disclose what information they have on such people to an open court it is rather unlikely that this will happen.
As I said in my introduction, I don’t have any answers as to how to solve this particular problem. There are somethings which could help (an Islamic reformation; weaning ourselves off of our dependence on Saudi Arabian oil; stability, rule of law and economic growth in places like Libya, Pakistan and Afghanistan) but those are long-term strategic goals rather than immediate tactical objectives. | <urn:uuid:a65ef899-f44a-4ad0-85bf-513d6a98b737> | CC-MAIN-2018-26 | http://www.misanthropegirl.me.uk/ | 2018-06-18T13:25:42Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267860557.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20180618125242-20180618145242-00275.warc.gz | en | 0.970901 | 1,289 | [
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Click the name of the poet to view the reading.
From Cornwall, England we present Penelope Shuttle. Read her professional biography here.
The text of each poem Penelope is reading in this video can be seen by clicking on its title: "In The Kitchen,” "Poem," and "Task."
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while and whilst - the difference
The Quick AnswerWhen used to mean during the time that, at the same time as or although, the words whilst and while can be used interchangeably. If you want to play it safe though, use while. (More on this below.)
While or WhilstMost Americans find whilst quaint, old-fashioned, or literary. Most Brits, on the other hand, will swap happily between while and whilst, although some Brits also find whilst a little outdated.
Some grammarians engaged in the while-whilst debate claim that, in the meaning during the time that or at the same time as, whilst should be used for a short period of time, and while should be used for a longer period of time.
Building on this idea, some claim that whilst is like when, and while is like during. Some try to formalise this idea a little more, stating that while should be used with the past progressive tense. I'm not going to offer examples because these ideas are not well supported.
The bottom line is while and whilst are interchangeable (if you can live with the risk that some of your readers might find whilst a little pretentious).
Of course, while and whilst can also mean although. Some claim that, in this meaning, only while can be used. But, you will also hear it said that only whilst can be used in this role. Again, neither of these rules is well supported, and while and whilst are interchangeable in this meaning too.
The final advice: If you're unsure which to use, choose "while" (especially if you're an American).
While As a Noun or VerbWhile and whilst are not always interchangeable. They are only interchangeable when they are used as conjunctions (i.e., in the meanings outlined above). While can also be a noun or a verb. Whilst cannot. As a noun, while means a period of time. As a verb, it means to pass time (usually at a leisurely pace). For example:
- I lived there for a while. (while as a noun)
- She used to while away the hours in the meadow. (while as a verb)
See Alsoadverse or averse? affect or effect? appraise or apprise? avenge or revenge? bare or bear? complement or compliment? dependant or dependent? discreet or discrete? disinterested or uninterested? e.g. or i.e.? envy or jealousy? imply or infer? its or it's? material or materiel? poisonous or venomous? practice or practise? principal or principle? tenant or tenet? who's or whose?
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Ukrainian President Poroshenko at the 2018 Kyiv Security Forum. Photo: snapshot from video
Soon, Ukraine will adopt a new package of sanctions against the Russian Federation, taking into account the USA sanctions over Russia’s interference in US elections.
US President Petro Poroshenko said this in his speech during the 2018 Kyiv Security Forum, which will be held in the Ukrainian capital on 12-13 April 2018, a Euromaidan Press correspondent reported.
The Ukrainian President supported the economic limitations and decisions to freeze assets of Putin’s entourage, recently adopted by Washington. He stressed that Ukraine plans to adopt similar measures and that he asked the relevant institutions in Ukraine to prepare their proposal, and that the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) to prepare a necessary package of limiting measures against Russia.
The President noted that Russia’s attempts to change the results of elections were not successful. “Despite Russia’s attempts to interfere in elections, the example of The Netherlands, France, Germany shows that voters support European values,” he stated.
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Endodontic Treatment (Root Canals)
To keep your teeth as strong as possible, you should have a great oral care system in place. In fact, you should have an oral care system in place that includes coming in for regular visits so that we can help you keep track of your overall oral health. At Pickens Family Dentistry in Vancouver, we work hard to ensure that our patients maintain the highest levels of oral health possible. That includes patients who need to have work done. We believe that everyone deserves strong teeth, and we do our very best to ensure that yours remain healthy and firmly in place. To achieve that goal, we are proud to offer root canal treatment to our patients.
When Is A Root Canal Needed?While the overall goal of dentistry is to keep your teeth healthy and avoid serious issues altogether, sometimes we need to have work done to help correct problems and improve the strength of our teeth. A root canal is a type of procedure that we use to try and keep even damaged and decayed teeth in a patient’s mouth. Or, to be more specific, it is a treatment that is used to help fix the issues currently plaguing the tooth in question to help it heal and prolong its life.
While root canal treatment is often the last resort before turning to something like extraction, you should not take that as a sign that teeth that have had root canals are destined to be pulled. With today’s root canal treatments, we have great success at treating teeth and keeping them in place for a lifetime.
The Root Canal Dental ProcedureMost patients are familiar with the idea of having a cavity filled. Regarding the process and overall recovery time, having a root canal is quite similar. When you have a filling placed, first we will remove all of the decay and infection in your tooth, and then replace it with dental material designed to help keep your tooth healthy and strong. Root canals are essentially a more in-depth version of this process.
The difference lies primarily of decay that must be removed. Cavities usually are not very deep in nature – that is why they can be relatively easily filled without too much discomfort on the part of the patient. Root canal treatment drills down through the tooth all the way to its roots. The decay in the tooth and the root canals themselves is cleaned, and the area is cleared of any debris or infection. We then pack the tooth with filling material and often place a crown over it to help protect the area a bit more thoroughly.
The Root Canal Recovery ProcessRegarding recovery time needed after a root canal, many patients report that it is very similar to that of a cavity filling. Many even return to work that same day!
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The irony in the fact that I have just finished my second book related to healthy food (this one for adults—and my cowriter/husband and I are not really finished, we just submitted the first draft), while having nothing in the fridge to eat or feed our family is not lost on me. While in the throes of the final edits this past week, our family ate takeout pizza, Indian takeout, Portuguese chicken takeout and pancakes for dinner (twice). We were just too tired and preoccupied to cook. It wasn’t our finest hour at the family table.
But the truth is, struggling to get healthy food on the table every night is a reality for most families with working parents. It’s not easy to get a meal out (let alone lunch in the lunch bag) when you have no time to grocery shop or even think about the prep. (And I’m not even talking about the working families who can’t afford healthy food like we take for granted.) Luckily, life has returned to normal for us, and we’ll get back to our usual schedule and eat mostly from home this week, but I refuse to feel either self-righteous about our home-cooked meals or guilty about the rest of it.
In fact, I think there’s far too much guilt and hand-wringing done about how we feed our children. The most searched for term on my blog is: “How to get your kids to eat more vegetables.” The question seems to haunt the modern parenting tribe like a bad smell.
That’s why I loved Bon Appetit editor Adam Rapoport’s recent blog post “My kid recoils at vegetables. Here’s why I’m not that worried.” He figures his son will eat his vegetables (as he did) once he’s out of the house and no longer being told he has to.
I’m not saying that we parents should throw up our collective hands entirely. Or that eating healthy food as a family is a lost cause. I just don’t think we need to spend our time constantly fretting about it. And, more importantly, I don’t think we should make other people feel guilty about what they do.
Jenny and Andy at the funny, smart and genuinely useful blog, Dinner: A Love Story approach this with the kind of attitude I think we could all aspire to. They’re like the friend you know to call when you’re feeling low, because they’re steady and sure in their views, but also comforting. They’re big proponents of home-cooking and eating together as a family but, in a recent post, Jenny, whose book about family dinner is coming out soon, wrote about her various strategies for taking the pressure off. Number 3 was “Give yourself at least one From-the-Freezer night.” By that she means, either something you’ve prepared and frozen or something you’ve bought that can be reheated. Strategy Number 5 is “Go out on Thursday or Friday night.”
Now that’s my kind of planning. At our house, we do our best, make good food, grow veggies on our city lawn, but there are pancakes for dinner sometimes and regular takeout nights. It’s funny, because when people hear I’ve written a book about school lunch, they either a. feel worried I’m going to judge them for sending Froot by the Foot in their kids’ lunch bag or b. ask me for lunch ideas.
But What’s for Lunch? isn’t that kind of book, and I’m not that kind of gal. I don’t offer lunch ideas, or finger wagging about what you should and should not feed children. I’m not a chef or a teacher. My interest is in helping kids reimagine a food system where everyone has access to good healthy food and the potential to make good choices about what to eat and (in the future) feed their families.
I don’t want to be the food police, because I don’t think people respond well to being told they have to do something. (Check out this New Yorker cartoon about broccoli if you don’t believe me.) That doesn’t mean I’m going to stop advocating for food education in schools or alternative distribution networks that prioritize sustainability or policies that make healthy food affordable and accessible. And it doesn’t mean I’m going to stop working really hard to make sure my family eats well and that we sit down together to enjoy our food.
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Gills Community team visit Davington Primary schoolThe Football in the Community team recently visited Davington Primary School in Faversham to promote the One Game One Community campaign and talk with the children about the issues around Discrimination.
Adam took Tommy T along with him and spoke with the whole school about the campaign and how different clubs up and down the country would be tackling the issue over the next few weeks.
He discussed how they could all do their bit to make people happy and to treat others, how they’d like to be treated themselves.
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Relationships are always gratifying, a thread of those sweet and sour memories that binds us together. Relations that connects us through the bonds of parents, partners, friends but nothing can beat the most mischievous of all, the one with whom you cannot live in a same room for at least a day.. at the same without whom your life is empty like a shell, yes you guessed that right, the Brother-Sister Bond!
And today is the day to celebrate this most revered connection of all, Raksha Bandhan, a strong protective relation between a brother and a sister. But hey, this bond isn’t sweet as you read here, it’s packed with full of nautanki… lot of fights and lot of nok-jhoks. Here are few instances:
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They are enemies, but add a word ‘sweet’ to it.
2. Me, Mum’s Love!
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Your Brother always wants to prove that he is your mother’s favorite.
3. Let’s Play!
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Playing pranks is like taking a fresh air after a stressful day. Right?
4. Take A Damage
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At times, people think you guys are couple and all you feel to do is PUNCH!!
5. Just Checking
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When it comes to dating, you both become the ultimate scanners, CID men. Haina?
6. The Temporary Enemies!
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You both are enemies at home but friends to die for when step out.
7. We Make A Team!
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When together, you can bring the world down on kneels to you.
8. Who’s The Favorite?
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Your childhood and teenage life is all about, getting the most attention from parents.
9. A Blood Relation, after all!
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As you grow up, your rivalry decreases and you guys get too much attached emotionally.
10. Just A Bit More Hungry, Always!
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No matter what’s the age, you want an equal or more part of your favorite dish.
11. Daddy’s Daughter!
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If you are a sister, you know how to make your brother jealous! Just tell him how your father let you drive his car!
12. The Ultimate Truth!
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But at the end, there’s nothing strong and protective than a bro-sis relation.
Happy Raksha Bandhan to everyone!
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Former Blue Peter presenter Andy Akinwolere will be taking part in the Great Birmingham Run.
He is part of a crew of celebrities, sporting and non-sporting, who will be competing and helping to raise money for charity.
The TV personality joins the trio of table tennis stars that will also be participating.
Some useful information on how to get to the run and where to stay is available here.
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The Diabeo mobile phone program, which recommends
insulin dosages, helped people with type 1 diabetes lower their
blood-sugar levels in a six-month study. Now a new analysis of the
data shows the app markedly improved glucose levels among patients
who used it relatively infrequently, raising red flags for their
healthcare providers who then intervened.
"What the electronic system is not able to do is the magic of the
doctor — to give motivational support to the patient, to encourage
the patient to do what the patient does not want to do," Charpentier
told Reuters Health.
"This system is a very good tool to improve the contact between the
patient and the doctor when the patient really needs the doctor. The
system can alarm the doctor at the right time," he said.
Charpentier, from Sud-Francilien Hospital in Corbeil-Essonnes,
France, co-authored a recent analysis published in Diabetes &
Metabolism reviewing the results of a prior study he led on the
Diabeo system, a smartphone coupled to a website.
The first study, completed in 2009, included 180 patients seen at 17
French hospitals with poorly controlled type 1 diabetes.
The app, given to two-thirds of the patients, analyzed
self-monitored blood-glucose levels, carbohydrate counts, planned
physical activity and other personal variables to calculate
recommended insulin doses. Half of the app users regularly discussed
their diabetes management on the phone with their doctors, who
tracked information from the app online.
Those who used the app had significantly lower glucose levels than
those who recorded their blood-glucose levels and other variables on
paper, that study found. But the researchers wondered how much the
automated advice on the insulin dose contributed to the improvement
and how much the telephone consultations contributed.
To answer that question, Charpentier and his team re-examined the
results and divided the patients who were given the app into one
group that frequently used it and another that infrequently used it.
Frequent users consulted the app for insulin doses at 90 percent of
their meals, whereas infrequent users consulted it at less than one
third of meals.
The app seemed to be most beneficial for infrequent users who had
telephone consultations with their doctors, the study found. Low
users reduced their glucose levels by more than 1 percent about 42
percent of the time, whereas high users lowered their glucose levels
by the same amount only 16 percent of the time.
However, the average drop in blood sugar was not significantly
different between high and low users.
believes the results highlight the benefits of doctors monitoring
glucose levels in their patients with diabetes, particularly for
patients struggling to comply with diet and exercise
In the current study, doctors reached out to patients in the group
with phone consultations whenever the patients seemed to be veering
off course, on average every 20 days, he said.
Generally-compliant patients tended to take advantage of the
smartphone system to help them monitor their insulin needs, while
noncompliant patients often did not. But doctors frequently could
talk their patients into compliance when they tracked their progress
online, saw they were not using the system and contacted them,
"It appears that for a number of patients — most likely those who
have the greatest difficulty in coping with diabetes and its
constraints — the primary benefit of the device was to facilitate
interaction with a caregiver. This aspect is essential to ensure
that the tool is not viewed by patients as simply a gadget, but as a
valid means of providing proper medical support," the authors write.
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"What this really speaks to is personalizing medicine," said Dr.
Latha Palaniappan, from the Stanford University School of Medicine
"This could help us figure out who's going to need the telephone
consultation. It's just better tailoring of therapy for the right
patient population," Palaniappan told Reuters Health. She studies
diabetes and cardiovascular disease but was not involved in the
Past research has been mixed on the use of telemedicine, or
diagnosing and treating patients using telecommunications
technology, for diabetes. A review of 16 studies suggested that
computer and mobile phone programs that tailor advice and support to
people with diabetes may do little to improve their health and
quality of life (see Reuters Health story of March 28, 2013 here:
But Charpentier said he believes the Diabeo system, currently being
tested on 700 patients in France, will prove itself so useful that
the French National Health Insurance system will pay to give it to
all of the country's 200,000 people with type 1 diabetes.
The system is not currently available in the United States, he said.
Palaniappan noted that the Diabeo system cut glucose levels in the
current study by more than another common system has done in
"This is at least as good as continuous glucose monitoring, which is
currently reimbursed by insurance," she said. A continuous glucose
monitor helps patients detect when their glucose values are
approaching dangerous levels.
People with diabetes frequently feel "depressed, discouraged,"
Charpentier said. With the app, he said, "You can help your patient
at the right time. It is the best way to use the time of the doctor
when the patient really needs it."
Telemedicine is improving at a rapid rate, Palaniappan said.
"As our technology is getting better, we're seeing better effects on
chronic health conditions," she said. "We can't be stuck in the old
conclusions. We have to continuously reevaluate because there's some
cool stuff going on with technology now."
Sanofi-Aventis and CERITD, a French nonprofit diabetes research
organization, funded the study. Charpentier said neither he nor any
of his colleagues on the research team have financial ties to the
Diabetes & Metabolism, February 2014.
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Sunday, April 3, 2011
Natural News Updates: Radiation Truth, FDA and Your Right to Natural Food, Safe Foods, etc.
Dear NaturalNews readers, When reading about Fukushima and radiation, you may not want to get your information from the mainstream media. As it turns out, a lot of the reporting published on some of the top-name news websites from around the world would flunk high school physics on the topic of radiation. Today, I break down an Associated Press report that demonstrates a shocking lack of knowledge about radiation and physics. And this is the news source that gets reprinted in newspapers all across the world! Read more in my article: http://www.naturalnews.com/031935_mainstream_media_millisieverts.html In an eye-opening revelation, the FDA has actually said the American people have no natural right to food unless the FDA gives you permission first. Seriously. Read more at: http://www.naturalnews.com/031934_FDA_food_freedom.html What should you do with fresh spinach that might actually be good for your children? Just kill it! That's what a microbiologist says: There's no such thing as "safe" fresh spinach. Incredible: http://www.naturalnews.com/031933_spinach_e_coli.html Have you read about the experiment using microwaved water that actually killed the plants instead of keeping them alive? I wonder what microwaved food does to your body? http://www.naturalnews.com/031929_microwaved_water_plants.html | <urn:uuid:3de69340-c3da-44c2-9d3d-b519ecbfff4a> | CC-MAIN-2018-26 | http://earth-folk.blogspot.com/2011/04/natural-news-updates-radiation-truth.html | 2018-06-24T12:54:24Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267866937.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20180624121927-20180624141927-00275.warc.gz | en | 0.904473 | 331 | [
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Like children, you should never favour one parent over the other. When we went to celebrate a late Father's Day this year, as we had booked into Garfish Kirriblli for Mother's Day, we booked into Garfish Manly for our belated Father's day. It was aided by the fact that I had a $50 gift voucher from the nice people at Garfish. You see they had seen my review where I was a bit confused at why a sauce was taken away and then replaced and then charged for and sent me the voucher as a way to make up for it. And whilst I never expected them to do that, I did think that it was a very nice way of them to respond.
We make a booking at the Manly Garfish which sits opposite the ferry wharf. Interestingly, even though they have our booking, there is no table set aside for us and we received the best available table at the time. As we were eating at 1pm and most of the restaurant was already full this meant that the table was pretty far back form the front and from the view. I think if anything, dining a bit earlier might nab you a prized front table in front of the view. It is an airy, chic very North Shore and Manly dining space with maximum views and lots of light colours and a bar at the side. And there are huge flatscreen televisions which play footage from the open kitchen.
Ze instruments of torture!
Wood fired focaccia with house made taramasalata $7
I was hungry as I had missed breakfast and it was getting onto 1:30pm so we ordered some quick tummy fillers. We could have the foccacia with caramelised garlic and rosemary but I am a taramasalata fiend so it was a no brainer for me. The bread is warm and buttery and soft and my mother and I are big fans of the spongey bread and the creamy dip.
Sour dough with EVOO and za'atar $3.50
None of us were particularly smitten with the combination here. Perhaps it was because we all really loved the foccacia or maybe none of the three elements really stood out for us.
Live Southern Rock Lobster $84.50
The crab that we loved from last time is not on the menu as it was a market priced item but we make do with lobster. Understand that when I say "make do with lobster" I mean it very tongue in cheek ;) The lobster is priced at $16 per 100grams and they have three left. Our waitress, who is fantastic and much better than the one we had the strange brush with at the Kirribilli location, finds out the exact price and they range from $81-$84. The lobsters are simply brushed with lemon and garlic butter and served with aioli. Comparing it to the crab when it comes out, it's much smaller -the crab was designed to feed two people and it came with salad and bread whereas the lobster doesn't. Whilst the crab was priced for two at $70 this could have been made a meal for two if there was salad and bread that went along with it - I think that many people would be quite delighted to have half a lobster, bread and salad for $40 a person. The lobster meat itself is delicious and the garlic butter is an ideal flavouring for it but the lemon is hard to squeeze any juice out of as they had cooked or baked the lemon and all of the juice had evaporated.
Wood fired pot of South Australian black mussels 900g $20
Mr NQN and my dad really liked the mussels with chorizo, tomato, chilli and gremolata herbs. It's tasty indeed but I'm onto the barramundi instead. The sauce is very tomatoey and I try a soft, small mussel with the chorizo which gives it a robust garlic flavour.
Chips are where places often disappoint, especially thick cut chips (French fries always seem much safer). Fat ones seem more prone to flouriness. But these are fantastic and well seasoned and golden crisp.
Crisp fried whole baby barramundi $31
My mother and I both love the baby barramundi although my dad finds the meat a bit too soft for his taste. My mum and I like the sweet chilli sauce and the crispiness of the fish so that it's all sweet and crunchy. In fact we didn't leave any of this behind. Whilst he dessert sounded nice (caramelised banana Paris Brest-yum!) we are just way too full for any more.
Interestingly, there is a bit of a situation with the bill and a few days later I see that we are charged for our meal as well as another table's. This necessitates a few phone calls and it is over a week before the charges are refunded although they are apologetic about it. I suppose mistakes happen in busy restaurants!
So tell me Dear Reader, do your parents have very different food taste from another?
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By: Alanna Shingler, Editor
This is the final part of a three-part series to gain insight into the culture of drug use at Regis University.
“Why do we want to escape?” is the real question, psychologist Laura Thompson asked when I sat down to talk with her. Thompson is a licensed professional counselor with a focus on substance abuse and I wanted to get her take on students’ relationship with drugs at Regis.
“What people use says something about what they want to feel,” she explained. People who use uppers, like cocaine, might be feeling down or “in a funk” and are looking to feel. People who enjoy downers, like weed, often experience excess anxiety and smoke to feel okay or to simply not feel.
She knows that the popular drugs at Regis are alcohol, marijuana, LSD, mushrooms, ecstasy, cocaine, Xanax, and Adderall. She admits that is hard to gauge drug use at Regis specifically, but research shows that college-aged students who are enrolled in school drink more than people their age who do not go to college.
Currently, she has a grant to gain insight into students’ perceptions of drug use on campus. After surveying 200 students, she is finding that people think that their peers are smoking marijuana or using cannabis-related products way more than they actually are. In short, there appears to be a belief that “everybody’s doing it” that simply doesn’t hold up.
We discussed the possibilities of use turning into abuse, which can certainly happen to the average college student. Thompson explained the spectrum of substance use, which ranges from abstinence to addiction. She talked about how she nearly always smells weed near campus when she walks to school in the morning. It makes her wonder, “How many people are mixing up cocktails before class in the morning?” and why do we view that differently than smoking weed to get through the day?
Her theory is that because marijuana is now legal, people assume it is totally safe. In reality, research regarding marijuana is still in the “infancy stages”, so we have no way of knowing its long-term effects. She points out, “McDonald’s is legal, but it’s not good for you. If you eat McDonald’s every day over a lifetime, it won’t end well.” Thompson’s advice to anyone taking any drug is to adopt a “more holistic approach” and practice self-awareness when it comes to substance intake. | <urn:uuid:f8f2f7a2-6caf-4dd7-b458-045c6f33e1d1> | CC-MAIN-2018-26 | http://www.ruhighlander.org/home/2017/10/18/society-of-extremes-a-psychologists-take-on-drug-use-at-regis | 2018-06-24T12:35:22Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267866937.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20180624121927-20180624141927-00275.warc.gz | en | 0.972183 | 551 | [
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I enjoyed this one. Of course, it's my kind of movie, a little sappy, but really, all the characters were very lovable. I knew Julianne Hough could dance, so the question was, could she act. I thought she did terrific! It was hard to believe it was her first big movie. She did great. Kenny Wormald, who played the "Kevin Bacon" part, can really dance as well. Great dancing, good acting, fun all around. Dennis Quaid and Andie MacDowell played Julianne's parents. It makes me feel old to see stars of "my day" relegated to playing the parents, but it was good to see them both. Go see this to have fun. It's a must see if you're a Dancing with the Stars fan! | <urn:uuid:109c5701-3320-4cfb-9238-77f646f3c81f> | CC-MAIN-2018-26 | http://holdthebutter.blogspot.com/2011/10/footloose.html | 2018-06-25T11:47:24Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267867666.97/warc/CC-MAIN-20180625111632-20180625131632-00595.warc.gz | en | 0.992187 | 165 | [
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Nothing makes my blood boil like dealing with Comcast. I have never encountered a company with such complete disregard for their customers.
First A little Background: Chapter 1
Until early in 2007 Houston was Time-Warner Cable market. Houston, much of Texas and parts of Missouri were run by a partnership between Comcast and Time-Warner, but it was branded with the Time-Warner name. Early in 2007 that ended with Comcast assuming Houston operations and Time-Warner taking the rest.
Now no-one loves their cable company just as no-one has warm fuzzies for an ILEC. We had no great love of Time-Warner, but since then our experience with Comcast makes us long for the good ‘ole days of Time-Warner Cable.
A little More Background: Chapter 2
Once the FCC mandated adoption of cable card actually stuck Tivo release TivoHD and my wife bought me one for my birthday. TivoHD relies upon a cable card to decrypt the various digital channels. In the rush to implement the federally mandated cable card technology Comcast stumbled badly.
We ran out and got one of the cards and were told that it would take 24-48 hours for the card to be enabled, this after we had given them a whole list of long numbers corresponding to the ID numbers of the card and the host TivoHD.
Sure enough in a couple of days the service started, but then at the end of that week it stopped. We tried repeatedly to get it turned back on. In fact, I had their tier 3 tech support, the local group handling the cable card matters, on a speed dial on my Polycom desk phone. After a couple of weeks I was spending so much time on hold with Comcast (around 7 hours in total) that I provisioned a second phone for my desk so that I could deal with them more conveniently.
It took five weeks to find their problem and get the cable card service restored.
The Current Frustration: Chapter 3
Late in December 2008 we received a notice that they were changing out the cable cards in Houston. We would have to go to one of their stores and trade the existing card for a new one. The nearest store to us is their mid-town Houston location. I went there Saturday January, 17th but found that they were closed. That’s odd since there’s a lot of new residential activity downtown, and it’s an affluent crowd.
I went back Monday January 19th and they were again closed, this time in observance of the MLK holiday. I thought it especially bad planning that their only in-town location was closed the three days immediately preceding such a significant change in service. Remember, they mandated this change, it was something that they were imposing upon the customer base. I would have thought that they had some interest in making it a smooth transition.
I went back again on Tuesday January 20th. This time I was able to swap the card. I wasted 40 minutes in line. There was only one staffer actually dealing with people at the counter. Eventually a second person started to see customers. Folks sitting at a nearby coffee shop remarked how busy that location had been all morning.
Upon receiving the new cable card I was told that everything was in order and we’d have to wait 24-48 hours to get the digital service activated. I was told that nothing further was required. I explicitly asked and was specifically answered.
When I got the cable card installed I called the tech support group and confirmed that it appeared to be in process of being activated. They again assured me that I just had to wait for the process to be completed in 24-48 hours.
Today is Saturday January 24th, five days later and our cable card service is not working. This afternoon I called their tech support group to report that service was not working. This time they told me that they needed the host ID of the Tivo unit. Appalled that I had not been told this previously, I gave them the number.
Then I was told that it should be working and I could file a trouble report. I did so and asked to be credited for the service that was not provided this past week. They simply refused. They would not credit me the service that they have not provided specifically because I did not call to report it at the designated 48 hour point after the change. They would consider a credit for loss of service from the point at which was just opening the trouble ticket.
This is mind-boggling. This is the same sort of logic that requires that after Hurricane Ike customers had to call to request a credit for the often weeks-long service outage. Oh, wait. They did that!
Now enraged, I asked to speak to a supervisor. It took four times demanding to speak to a supervisor before I was transferred to a voice mailbox. That VM’s outgoing message reported the individual as being a technical support supervisor by the name of Alex Rodriguez. I left a message.
My wife was not at all happy with how I dealt with the matter. She felt I was far too permissive and agreeable so she called back, again demanding to speak to a supervisor. She was transferred from person to person four times until the fifth person admitted that they never actually have a supervisor that you can speak to. All such requests go to voicemail, without exception.
Bound By Our Love Of TivoHD, But Maybe Not For Long
Never have I been so enraged by a company. Our cable bill is just shy of $200/mo. That bugs me a little but my wife likes to get a lot of channels and the cable modem service is a good backup to our Covad DSL. Further, we really like our TivoHD. It makes every other DVR look lame, but it’s really wed to the cable provider. That alone might not be enough to keep us enduring their “service.”
My personal boycott of AT&T has just entered its tenth year. I know that they’ve been building out U-Verse into our neighborhood as we see the new DSLAM cabinets all over the area. If we have a viable alternative to Comcast I think that we might just be compelled to make the switch. The depth of our distaste for Comcast has finally surpassed my desire to stay clear of AT&T.
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American Food Trip with Baskin Robbins & Johnny Rockets
All-American food takes over Manila as Johnny Rockets releases yet another unique burger variety, and Baskin Robbins finally opens its first branch in the country.
Baskin-Robbins Opens at the BGC Central Square
The world's largest chain of ice cream and specialty shops Baskin-Robbins is finally in the country! Opening its first branch in Taguig's new Central Square mall, Baskin-Robbins serves the brand's popular and extensive selection of 31 ice cream flavors including Pralines n Cream, Mint Chocolate Chip, Very Berry Strawberry, Jamoca Almond Fudge, and Chocolate Mouse Royale. The BIG ice cream lover in me is celebrating!
Baskin-Robbins BGC will be open from 11am to 10pm from Monday to Thursday, and 11am to 11pm from Friday to Sunday. For more updates, visit their website and Facebook.
Johnny Rockets Introduces All-New Flavors with Lobster Wagyu Burger
Burger lovers, prepare yourself for the newest addition to Johnny Rockets' Gourmet Burger line! A combination of the richness of lobster with the smooth taste of Wagyu burger, the Lobster Wagyu Burger will definitely tickle your palate and satisfy your tummy. Served with fries, and best eaten with Johnny Rockets' wasabi shake--oh every diner lovers' dream!
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Over in the US the coolest app of them all (at the moment) is HG, a live trivia app where people compete for cash prizes. All they have to do is answer 12 questions correctly to win, though they do get fiendishly difficult the further along you get. The company has plans to expand, and one of those is the launch of a UK-centric version earlier today.
As spotted by The Next Web's Matthew Hughes, the app now has a UK version of the popular quiz that takes place every Monday and Wednesday at 3pm and 9pm. The app itself was always available globally, but the fact that some of the quizzes were at 9pm EST (2am GMT) meant it wasn't always convenient for us Brits to take part. That's not an issue anymore, though, and the questions are more relevant to us anyway.
According to Hughes, the prizes for the UK quiz are a lot smaller than the US counterpart. It was only $500 today, and no I don't know why it's in dollars either. The US version, in comparison, has reached as high as $10,000. But the upside is that there are a lot fewer people, or at least there were.
Hughs says there were only 5,000 people playing, but US participants can expect to be competing against 50,000 on any given night. Fewer people playing means fewer people have the chance to win, and eventual winners don't have to share with quite as many people. In theory anyway. Nobody won this first UK quiz, though, with all contestants eliminated by the end of the 11th round.
HQ Trivia is currently only available on iOS, though the company intends to expand to Android in the near future. From what I can tell you just need to download the regular version of the app from the iTunes App Store. Details are pretty scarce since there hasn't been an official announcement, but I've reached out to HQ Trivia and will update when I hear back. [The Next Web] | <urn:uuid:66ebd6e3-e6d8-47cb-8d7f-85b90eb842a0> | CC-MAIN-2018-26 | http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2018/01/hq-just-launched-a-uk-version-of-its-insanely-popular-trivia-app/ | 2018-06-19T17:01:47Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267863100.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20180619154023-20180619174023-00315.warc.gz | en | 0.986513 | 415 | [
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Course Code: IFS009
The intensive course is a good solution for those who have limited time to study but wish to experiment in the area of contemporary jewellery.
The course is taught on a one-to-one basis. Each student is guided individually to ensure that lessons meet their specific needs.
Basic Techniques for Beginners:
In this course, the student will learn the basic techniques such as: sawing, filing, soldering, hammering and polishing to create a
first series of jewellery pieces. In addition to traditional techniques, exercises include experimentation with alternative materials.
Traditional Italian goldsmithing with focus on movements, hinges and closures, single stone setting, openwork and engraving
and the use of microflame and electric welder will be taught.
Experimentation with materials:
The focus of this course is to test and explore material and form. Every material has a hidden value and this course shows
the path to discover it. From textile to wood, from leather to plastic, from recycling to up cycling unknown worlds will be explored.
Reaction of different metals and alloys to reticulation, oxidation and coloring agents as well as marriage metal,
surface coloring with pigments and gilding techniques will be explored.
Textile techniques in metal:
Crochet, interlacing and weaving with metals.
The use of resins in combination with metal, the casting process and the fabrication of molds are the focus of this program
Duration: 2 weeks (60 hours)
Schedule: Monday to Friday, 9.30am-1.00pm/2.00pm-4.30pm
Dates: please contact us.
Price: € 1290,00 +22% VAT
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By Quint Turner
In a game dominated by defense and turnovers, the Edmonds-Woodway Warriors barely reached 50 points as they beat the Meadowdale Mavericks 54-44 in a non-league boys varsity game. While the low-scoring game was marred with traveling violations, Warrior stars Zack Berg and Josh Jordan dominated the floor whenever they drove to the basket.
The first quarter opened with a tip-off win by the Mavericks, who came down the floor and traveled. The game was close in the first and Maverick Spencer Linton kept Meadowdale in it all game. He scored 5 of the team’s 7 points in the first, and would lead all Maverick scorers with 17. The shooting percentage on both sides was low and both sides committed traveling violations, as the Warriors held an 11-7 lead at the end of the quarter.
In the second quarter, the Mavs couldn’t hit the jump shots they threw up, as the rim did its job. The Warriors went on a 9-0 run to get up by 11, and didn’t look back. The Mavs tried to stay in as Linton kept hitting shots, but Meadowdale guard Torin Dooley didn’t hit his stride until the fourth. The Warriors were able to score in the paint and went up 22-14 at half.
The second half saw more turnovers and missed shots. Warriors’ star freshman Travis Bakken started making buckets and Berg dominated down low. After the third, E-W was up 34-23, and in the fourth, they just put it away. Grant Pattison, Scott Douglas and Berg were able to score on the open shots and the Mavs couldn’t get baskets to fall. Even though Dooley got all 11 of his points in the fourth, combined with Linton’s hot streak, it wasn’t enough to come back as the Warriors won 54-44.
Although the game was the main attraction, there was a half-time Rubber Chicken launch, an annual tradition between the cross-town rivals. The Mavericks handily won this event, as their slingshot hit the wall twice and then made the target on the last of three shots. As for Warriors’ shooting, they didn’t get it past 6 feet once.
Mavericks scoring: Spencer Linton 14, Sean Hennessey 5, Torin Dooley 11, Dylan Buck 2, Sam Hong 1, Tyce Tallman 5.
Warriors scoring: Grant Pattison 6, Brayden Nealey 1, Joon Choi 5, Zack Berg 19, Travis Bakken 5 , Alex Hull 2, Scott Douglas, Josh Jordan 9, Henry Olsen 4.
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Why buy property in fethiye Turkey
Property buying in the Fethiye area of Turkey means you get more per square metre than most other areas of Turkey.
Investment property, holiday homes, or permanent homes can be purchased in Fethiye, in a range of areas, whether it be a stylish luxury villa in Ovacik with stunning Oludeniz sea views, a seafront apartment in the Calis Beach area, an exclusive marina property in Gocek or a humble apartment in Tasyaka, Fethiye offers it all, quite often at affordable prices that suit almost everyone's budget.
The type of property and area you choose to buy depends on your reason for buying. If you are searching for a buy-to-let option for holiday rentals then Calis Beach, Ovacik, Hisaronu and Gocek are ideal areas offering excellent rental potential for summer bookings. Permanent home buyers tend to buy in Calis, Tasyaka and Deliktas for the excellent everyday local amenities, though some do prefer more rural locations away from resort life, in the villages that sit on the outskirts of Fethiye, such as Uzumlu, Kemer, Ciftlik and Yaniklar all having excellent road and public transport connections to the centre. Holiday home buyers tend to buy in their favourite location, though some do buy in central Fethiye areas for the ideal base to explore everything that Fethiye has to offer.
Traditional property for sale in FETHIYE Turkey
Traditional property in Fethiye
The whole of the Fethiye region in the south-west of Turkey is awash with wonderful history, with ancient rock tombs, abandoned Greek homes, Lycian sarcophagi and more.
Homes in several areas of Fethiye often share the history of Fethiye, with Turkish traditional property in the form of ancient stone houses found in the stunning village of Kayakoy, often referred to as ‘Fethiye’s Ghost Village’, here you can find run-down homes at bargain prices in need of renovation or some that have been sensitively restored to their former glory, though traditional real estate in Fethiye that have been restored can be offered at much higher prices, with the use of many natural materials to keep the local history alive, and if you have the budget this type of traditional accommodation in Fethiye offers excellent rental potential as they are always highly sought after for holiday accommodation.
Traditional accommodation for sale in Fethiye can be found in other areas too and a varying price depending on the area that your search, Uzumlu, Gocek, or even in the centre of Fethiye, and the more exclusive or prestigious the area the higher the prices will be, and those with sea of marina views will set you back even more.
Call Turkey Homes if you are looking to buy traditional property in Fethiye, we will guide you to your ideal home, and we can put you in touch with reputable builders if you search a renovation project, whether it be an ancient stone house or a traditional hotel.
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Scientists Are Exploring The Human Cerebral Cortex.
Higher levels of self-professed non-secular idea appear to be reflected in increased thickness of a indication genius area, a rejuvenated study finds. Researchers at Columbia University in New York City found that the outer layer of the brain, known as the cortex, is thicker in some areas mid kinsmen who village a lot of significance on religion brazilian. The survey involved 103 adults between the ages of 18 and 54 who were the children and grandchildren of both depressed reflect on participants and those who were not depressed.
A troupe led by Lisa Miller analyzed how often the participants went to church and the standing of substance they placed on religion. This assessment was made twice over the advance of five years w2 afgf price. Using MRI technology, the cortical thickness of the participants' brains was also quantified once.
The study, published Dec 25, 2013 in JAMA Psychiatry, revealed the vein of doctrine or spirituality was linked with thicker cortices in unchanging parts of the brain. The outcome was stronger centre of those at exuberant genetic imperil for depression than those at lower risk. This was very evident in a part of the brain where a thinner cortex may be linked with a familial chance for developing depression, the researchers noted.
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The pixel art editor for desktop computers
PXL8 is currently in development, and there are still a couple of features missing, but you can download a trial version an test it now.
PXL8 is designed to allow you to work without distraction. Using just your mouse, ctrl, alt and shift keys, you can draw lines, boxes, circles, curves, triangles or freehand, or pick up colors from the canvas, without having to change between different tools. The functions you need often are always right at your fingertips, while things you don't need as often are tucked away out of sight.
Don't let the minimalistic GUI fool you, PXL8 is a powerful tool for pixel art.
Use the grid to place pixels perfectly. Mask out areas you don't want to alter, or draw to a seperate layer. Cut, copy and paste, or use the nudge tool to fine tune or animate your works. Use filters to manipulater your image and color palette. Full support for animations and transparency.
- Clean and effective interface.
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- Export single frames, animations, or spritesheets.
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We’re taking an extra day to celebrate St. Valentine.
We’re spending the day together away from the hustle and bustle of San Francisco.
Or, you know, taking advantage of the ease of getting reservations to places a day early. 😉
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Inteligen Review | Best Brain Supplement Reviews
Inteligen is a solid nootropic for boosting intelligence and focus. Because it’s non-GMO, caffeine free, and gluten-free, it makes it an ideal supplement for many consumers. It has proven to be an overall fairly effective supplement, though it has come under some scrutiny for its questionable advertisements. Read this review to learn why we don’t recommend Inteligen, and be sure to explore our Top 10 Brain Supplements for some more highly recommended options.
Benefits of Inteligen
- Memory booster
- Increases focus
- Improves hearing
- Reduces effects of aging
How Inteligen Works
Inteligen is a nootropic, a natural supplement that is taken orally. People have been using nootropics for centuries in different forms. While some are still used in their natural form today, we have achieved a much better understanding of their effects through science. We can now, even more efficiently, use these natural supplements even more effectively.
Because modern advancements, nootropics have become somewhat of a taboo in a world that is increasingly synthetic. But really, this presumption could not be more wrong! Nootropics have been used for centuries and their more recent introduction in pill form has some consumers feeling like lab rats. It is, however, safe to say that nootropics are a safe and natural way to improve one’s brain function.
Inteligen stands out among nootropics because of its unique blend of natural supplements. Using a blend of three main ingredients, as well as a few other cursory ingredients, this drug helps the user to stay alert and focused without the need for caffeine, which many consumers find convenient.
It’s three ingredients form a trifecta of brain-boosting power, affecting memory and cognitive function while also naturally stimulating the brain. Because it has no caffeine, its consumers won’t experience the highs and lows that other nootropics might illicit.
Though many nootropics produce similar results, Inteligen is special in that it won’t produce some of the undesirable side-effects which can accompany some nootropics. Its formula ensures that the consumer will feel alert and focused, without a proceeding crash.
Rather than supercharging the brain with caffeine, consumers found that in the time after taking Inteligen, they experienced the same effectiveness of other nootropics, without the drowsiness afterwards. To energize the consumer, Inteligen’s formula relies on the regulation of blood flow to the brain. This increase in blood flow helps keep consumers alert.
The special formula allows the brain to sharpen its memory and improve focus. By enhancing cognitive performance, the brain ability to remember becomes stronger. Consumers will find it most effective when taken before peak hours of brain activity.
Inteligen Ingredients – What Makes It Work?
Bacopa Monnieri: This herb has been used for thousands of years in natural treatments for stress. It is also proven to enhance brain power, which is why it is included in virtually every one of the best brain supplements.
Vinpocetine: Derived from Vinca plants, this supplement increases both short term and long term memory.
Ginkgo Biloba: This natural supplement is especially effective for Alzheimer’s patients because it helps boost memory and speed of cognition.
- Safe and natural ingredients.
- Non-caffeinated boost.
- Improved memory, especially effective in severe cases.
- Reduces stress and increases focus.
- The possibility of side effects such as cramps, nausea, and fatigue.
- Can make your breath smell.
Nootropics like Inteligen are some of a new line of products which are steadily gaining popularity. The idea of using supplements to improve health and boost brain function is just human nature. This supplement is shown to improve your daily functions and reduce stress, allowing you to see better results, faster.
Inteligen is an attractive supplement to many consumers because of its unique properties. Rather than relying on caffeine, the supplements regulate the blood flow through the brain and improve the quality of the consumer’s benefits. With that said, we have seen other brain supplements use much higher dosages of these very same ingredients, which is why we don’t recommend Inteligen and would encourage you to view our Top 10 Brain Supplements. | <urn:uuid:b8b49ac7-c4fb-402d-a578-cc70ed310dca> | CC-MAIN-2018-26 | http://thesupplementreviews.org/nootropics/inteligen-review/ | 2018-06-22T15:07:16Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267864546.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20180622143142-20180622163142-00635.warc.gz | en | 0.933609 | 900 | [
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Challenges to China’s Education and Training System and the New Global Context
To put the need for developing a system of lifelong learning for China in context, this chapter begins by summarizing some of the daunting challenges China is facing in education and training. It summarizes some of the key elements of what could be called a knowledge revolution that are making education and training critical elements of competitiveness. It then summarizes some of the key global trends in education and training. It concludes with a section of why investments in education and training are important in this new global context of rapid change and constant restructuring.
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Jaclyn King, MSW, PCMH CCE, CPC+ CO Eastern Practice Facilitator
Kristin Martina, MSW, Organizational Development Manager
Pediatric practices often receive incomplete coaching in transformation initiatives due to the focus on adult topics and chronic pediatric measures. “Kids are not just young adults” says Anita Rich, CCHAP Director of Community Outreach and HealthTeamWorks’ strategic partner in the BC3 Program.
HealthTeamWorks and CCHAP collaborated in year 2 of the Better Care, Better Costs, Better Colorado (BC3) program to design and implement an innovative community learning approach for participating pediatric practices that included:
As a result of the pediatric community learning model, practices improved their data measures and were able to address barriers to data collection. They found great value in building a peer learning community that focused on the wellness and the health promotion of pediatric patient populations.
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Production of different products need to debug the machine (Especially in tomato product). So that arrange production is a important issue.
Arrange production plan to ensure delivery time according to sales order. Focus is be able to maintain a highly flexible production schedule and watch and update delivery statues in a continuously changing environment. So that arrange production is a balancing act.
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SKY launches its own internet television service Now TV today in an attempt to compete with film-streaming rivals Netflix and LoveFilm.
The broadcasting giant, which is trying to reach the 13m British households without a paid TV subscription, will charge £15 a month for on-demand access to hundreds of movies, and offer a pay-per-view service for between 99p and £3.49 a film.
The service will expand to include sports coverage later in the year, followed by shows from Sky’s entertainment channels. Now TV will launch on PCs, Android phones and Macs today before becoming available for iPhone, iPad, games consoles and the forthcoming YouView set-top box later in the year.
Sky has seen its dominance of pay television threatened by internet services such as Netflix and Amazon’s LoveFilm, which charge £5.99 and £4.99 a month respectively for on-demand films. A Sky TV package with movie channels costs at least £37.50 a month.
BSkyB’s managing director of sales and marketing Stephen Van Rooyen said Now TV is “purposely designed to attract new customers”.
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Three recent conversations I’ve been part of offered a contrast in styles and views on intellectual property rights across the Atlantic. First, the Fordham International IP conference, which Prof. Hugh Hanson puts on each year (in New York, NY, USA); the terrific classes in Law and Economics of Intellectual Property that Prof. Urs Gasser teaches at our partner institution, the University of St. Gallen (in St. Gallen, Switzerland); and finally, today, the Third Congress on Internet, Law & Politics held by the Open University of Catalonia (in Barcelona, Spain), hosted by Raquel Xalabarder and her colleagues.
* * *
At Fordham, Jane Ginsburg of Columbia Law School moderated one of the panels. We were asked to talk about the future of copyright. One of the futures that she posited might come into being — and for which Fred von Lohmann and I were supposed to argue — was an increasingly consumer-oriented copyright regime, perhaps even one that is maximally consumer-focused.
– For starters, I am not sure that “consumer” maximalization is the way to think about it. The point is that it’s the group that used to be called the consumers who are now not just consumers but also creators. It’s the maximization of the rights of all creators, including re-creators, in addition to consumers (those who benefit, I suppose, from experiencing what is in the “public domain”). This case for a new, digitally-inspired balance has been made best by Prof. Lessig in Free Culture and by many others.
– What are the problems with what one might consider a maximalized consumer focus? The interesting and hardest part has to do with moral rights. Prof. Ginsburg is right: this is a very hard problem. I think that’s where the rub comes.
– The panel agreed on one thing: a fight over compulsory licensing is certainly coming. Most argued that the digital world, particularly a Web 2.0 digital world, will lead us toward some form of collective, non-exclusive licensing solution — if not a compulsory licensing scheme — will emerge over time.
– “Copyright will be a part of social policy. We will move away from seeing copyright as a form of property,” says Tilman Luder, head of copyright at the directorate general for internal markets at the competition division of the European Commission. At least, he says, that’s the trend in copyright policy in Europe.
* * *
I was also on the panel entitled “Unauthorized Use of Works on the Web: What Can be Done? What Should be Done?”
– The first point is that “unauthorized use of works” doesn’t seem quite the relevant frame. There are lots of unauthorized uses of works on the web that are perfectly lawful and present no issue at all: use of works not subject to copyright, re-use where an exception applies (fair use, implied license, the TEACH Act, e.g.s), and so forth. These uses are relevant to the discussion still, though: these are the types of uses that are
– In the narrower frame of unauthorized uses, I think there are a lot of things that can be done.
– The first and most important is to work toward a more accountable Internet. People who today are violating copyright and undermining the ability of creators to make a living off of their creative works need to change. Some of this might well be done in schools, through copyright-related education. The idea should be to put young people in the position of being a creator, so they can see the tensions involved: being the re-user of some works of others, and being the creator of new works, which others may in turn use.
– A second thing is continued work on licensing schemes. Creative Commons is extraordinary. We should invest more in it, build extensions to it, and support those who are extending it on a global level (including in Catalunya!).
– A third thing, along the lines of what Pat Aufderheide and Peter Jaszi are doing with filmmakers, is to establish best practices for industries that rely on ideas like fair use.
– A fourth thing is to consider giving more definition to the unarticulated rights — not the exclusive rights of authors that we well understand, but the rights of those who would re-use them, to exceptions and limitations.
– A fifth area, and likely the discussion that will dominate this panel, is to consider the role of intermediaries. This is a big issue, if not the key issue, in most issues that crop up across the Internet. Joel Reidenberg of Fordham Law School has written a great deal on this cluster of issues of control and liability and responsibility. The CDA Section 230 in the defamation context raises this issue as well. The question of course arose in the Napster, Aimster, and Grokster contexts. Don Verrilli and Alex Macgillivray argued this topic in the YouTube/Viacom context — the topic on which sparks most dramatically flew. They fought over whether Google was offering the “claim your content” technology to all comers or just to those with whom Google has deals (Verilli argued the latter, Macgillivray the former) and whether an intermediary could really know, in many instances, whether a work is subject to copyright without being told by the creators (Verilli said that wasn’t the issue in this case, Macgillivray says it’s exactly the issue, and you can’t tell in so many cases that DMCA 512 compliance should be the end of the story).
* * *
Across the Atlantic, Prof. Dr. Urs Gasser and his teaching and research teams at the University of St. Gallen are having a parallel conversation. Urs is teaching a course on the Law and Economics of Intellectual Property to graduate students in law at St. Gallen. He kindly invited me to come teach with him and his colleague Prof. Dr. Bead Schmid last week.
– The copyright discussion took up many of the same topics that the Fordham panelists and audience members were struggling with. The classroom in Switzerland seemed to split between those who took a straight market-based view of the topics generally and those who came at it from a free culture perspective.
– I took away from this all-day class a sense that there’s quite a different set of experiences among Swiss graduate students , as compared to US graduate students, related to user-generated content and the creation of digital identity. The examples I used in a presentation of what Digital Natives mean for copyright looking ahead — Facebook, MySpace, LiveJournal, Flickr, YouTube, and so forth — didn’t particularly resonate. I should have expected this outcome, given the fact that these are not just US-based services, but also in English.
– The conversation focused instead on how to address the problem of copyright on the Internet looking forward. The group had read Benkler, Posner and Shavell in addition to a group of European writers on digital law and culture. One hard problem buried in the conversation: how much help can the traditional Law and Economics approach help in analyzing what to do with respect to copyright from a policy perspective? Generally, the group seeemed to believe that Law and Economics could help a great deal, on some levels, though 1) the different drivers that are pushing Internet-based creativity — other than straight economic gains — and 2) the extent to which peer-production prompts benefits in terms of innovation make it tricky to put together an Excel spreadsheet to analyze costs and benefits of a given regulation. I left that room thinking that a Word document might be more likely to work, with inputs from the spreadsheet.
* * *
The UOC is hosting its third Congres Internet i Politica: Noves Perspectives in Barcelona today. JZ is the keynoter, giving the latest version of The Future of the Internet — and How to Stop It. The speech just keeps getting better and better as the corresponding book nears publication. He’s worked in more from StopBadware and the OpenNet Initiative and a new slide on the pattern of Generativity near the end. If you haven’t heard the presentation in a while, you’ll be wowed anew when you do.
– Jordi Bosch, the Secretary-General of the Information Society of Catalonia, calls for respect for two systems: full copyright and open systems that build upon copyright.
– Prof. Lilian Edwards of the University of Southhampton spoke on the ISP liability panel, along with Raquel Xalabarder and Miquel Peguera. Prof. Edwards talked about an empirical research project on the formerly-called BT Cleanfeed project. BT implements the IWF’s list of sites to be blocked, in her words a blacklist without a set appeals process. According to Prof. Edwards’ slides, the UK government “have made it plain that if all UK ISPs do not adopt ‘Cleanfeed’ by end 2007 then legislation will mandate it.” (She cites to Hansard, June 2006 and Gower Report.) She points to the problem that there’s no debate about the widespread implementation of this blacklist and no particular accountability for what’s on this blacklist and how it is implemented.
– Prof. Edwards’ story has big implications for not just copyright, but also the StopBadware (regarding block lists and how to run a fair and transparent appeals process) and ONI (regarding Internet filtering and how it works) research projects we’re working on. Prof. Edwards’ conclusion, though, was upbeat: the ISPs she’s interviewed had a clear sense of corporate social responsibility, which might map to helping to keep the Internet broadly open.
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Children need more than books to flourish at school. De-worming may be one of the most cost-effective ways to increase school participation in Africa.
A sight for sore eyes: Teachers test pupils’ eyes to keep them in school
The Bill is the first step towards learning how the government plans to fund its shift towards universal health care.
When he was the Gauteng Health MEC, Brian Hlongwa brought the department to its knees, the Special Investigations Unit has found.
New legislation will abolish co-payments and may look to go after medical aid scheme reserves.
Bhekisisa means "to scrutinise" in Zulu
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Alternatives for improving production, employment and income distribution in Kenyan agriculture.
Various ways in which the Government of Kenya can concentrate its scarce resources to accelerate growth of production and employment in agriculture to at least keep abreast of population growth are explored. These measures include land use intensification, shift in cropping patterns, land redistribution, increased supply of land and dryland farming. The second part of the paper examines the government policies directed towards agriculture and attempts to assess their impact on income distribution. The policies considered include pricing, marketing, credit, research, extension, and land policy | <urn:uuid:eacf7018-8000-4949-8dc3-e5fbf2a3b69a> | CC-MAIN-2018-26 | http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/11295/65864 | 2018-06-25T15:54:36Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267868135.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20180625150537-20180625170537-00315.warc.gz | en | 0.939386 | 116 | [
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Coffee and Conclusions
The Midnight Coffee Series - Book #2, The Midnight Coffee Series
This book can be downloaded and read in iBooks on your Mac or iOS device.
Love brought introverted New York personal trainer Erin Black together online with CEO-turned-writer Isabella Martinez. In the second part of their story, Isabella has moved back to Philadelphia to start a new life with her baby.
As the physical distance between Erin and Isabella shrinks, other hurdles appear. Will Erin’s insecurities and the ghosts of her past hold her back? Can Isabella’s manipulative mother threaten their path to finding happiness?
Their online midnight coffee dates keep drawing them together, but will it be enough? Is there a way for Erin, Isabella, and baby Alberto to be together?
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Recently I posted about how art heals on my Facebook page and I was happily surprised about how many agree with me! We are so fortunate to have found a way to not only express ourselves, but also a way to fill our lives with joy.
For myself, when I get my hands dirty let the world go and play with art I feel so much happier. Such joy in the act of just creating something!! Whether it’s for myself or for others…just that ahhhhh feeling comes over me. Now I wonder and ask, is it like this for you?
An empathy feather inspired by Tamara Laporte!
Besides it’s healing effect, I also enjoy trying different forms of art! On a recent trip to the library I came across the Pam Carriker book, Mixed Media Portraits. I have done a few sketches from it in an altered book. It’s such a fun and different approach for more lifelike faces.
Try something new today, and feel that soothing healing feeling for yourself!
It’s just amazing that art is literally everywhere! From a blade of grass, a beautiful sunset, or the smile of a loved one! Taking the time to appreciate this art is something that’s just good for the soul.
Art can be created just as easily, from a simple pencil line to an intricate and precise detailed drawing…we just need to take the time to see it.
Here is some recent art play in my art journal. It started out as a junk page that I put extra paint on from other projects. (Some are Dylusions sprays, various stencils, and DecoArt metallic gold craft paint) I found a note my 5 year old wrote and glued that in, and a small piece of washi tape that came from some happy mail recently. Lastly I added the face with Stabilo All pencil.
Playing is so much fun, even when you don’t have a plan. I find that not having a plan actually puts LESS pressure on you, and we are more FREE to create! And we all know free is good 🙂
Here is a recent page inspired by a lesson from Life Book 2016 from http://www.willowing.org that was super fun to do! It was more involved than my free page, but still kept those creative juices flowing!
Let’s all open our eyes to the art and see what beauty the world has for us!
For the first time, I have joined an online class called Lifebook 2016 from Willowing.org and let me just say..WOW! This is a year long class broken into weeks taught by 26 different teachers. This experience has just been so amazing, from the warmup session called creativity takes courage:
Taught by Tamara Laporte, to another lesson about freeing your inner child taught by Anna Hamman:.
All of the classes so far have been amazing and have reminded me gently, and kindly, that I can do this! And guess what? If I can do it, you can too! Check out videos on YouTube, all for free and all for fun!
Art journaling has been an amazing journey, one I’m still on! But maybe you’re wondering how to start or what its all about.
Thinking hard, my journey actually began waaaay back in highschool when I would be in the art room looking at others art thinking…wow, I can never do that. Why did I feel this way? Why was I too afraid to even try? I’m not sure, but its taken me until recently to realize that YES I can! I can do art, and I CAN be brave and try! And so can YOU!
Fast forward to adulthood and this amazing thing called the internet and YouTube and BAM! There are actually tons of resources out there that can help! I found that videos from Carolyn Dube (www.acolorfuljourney.com) and Tamara Laporte (www.williowing.org) and Jane Davenport (www.janedavenport.com) who are some of my favorites 🙂 and PS…some of them are even free too!
So I watched lots and lots of videos, ignored my internal fear monster, bought a mixed media journal (Canson brand) used some paints, tissue papers, glittery beads, and created this!
It kind of looks like everything is just plopped out there ha-ha, but it was my brave first step at art journaling. I used what I had and I played, and guess what? It was FUN!
It’s been a little over a year, and I am still loving it! Now my pages look more like this:
For me, its a wonderful release, where I can be a kid again! Where I am free to create anything! I hope you start or continue on your journey too! Start small, takes steps, be brave, and PLAY!
What creates joy? So many things make me happy, the sound of my children laughing, hearing my favorite song on the radio, the feeling of a paintbrush in my hand. Creating with color has always brought a smile on my face and I am so pleased to share it with you!
I am in love (and not just with my husband…shhh don’t tell!) with colors, with mixed media and art journalling! Here are some fun examples of my art play!
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Learn where to find statistical information on homeschooling versus public schooling. Page offers a variety of statistics regarding non-public schools and education statistics about nonpublic education in the united states private homeschooling.
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Build UK and the Chartered Institute of Building are delighted to announce that CIOB is joining Build UK to become the first member from amongst the professional bodies.
Build UK was created to provide a strong collective voice for the construction supply chain and its continued fast paced growth demonstrates how the industry is coalescing around an agreed agenda and speaking collectively. By joining Build UK, CIOB is leading the way in driving collaboration and change to help the whole industry.
Together they are already making progress in ensuring that the right organisation leads on the right issue at the right time. CIOB with Stronger Together, has developed a best practice toolkit for the industry to tackle Modern Slavery across the supply chain, which is supported by Build UK as the industry response to this important issue. Meanwhile Build UK is taking the lead on developing a strong response from construction to Brexit.
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Build UK Chief Executive Suzannah Nichol MBE said:“We are all behind the goal of delivering new homes, new infrastructure and more public and private buildings and we each have a role to play creating a successful Construction sector. By joining Build UK, CIOB demonstrates its forward thinking commitment to a better industry, and by working together we can really drive change across the industry.”
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RRsat Assists Keshet Media Group Transition to Tapeless Transmission and Establish a Disaster Recovery System
RRsat will also provide playout services for Keshet's Channel 24
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Jan. 16, 2013 04:31 AM
AIRPORT CITY BUSINESS PARK, Israel, January 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --
RRsat Global Communications Network Ltd. (NASDAQ: RRST), a leading provider of comprehensive digital content management and global distribution services to the television and radio broadcasting industries, announced today that it has signed a joint venture agreement with Keshet Media Group. RRsat will provide Keshet with a wide range of its services. These include playout and content distribution for Keshet's Channel 24 and Disaster Recovery (DR) services for Keshet's Channel 2.
RRsat's automated solution for disaster recovery (DR) will provide a transmission backup solution for Channel 2. Content will be synchronized between the two transmission rooms on a daily basis, and in an emergency, content will be broadcast seamlessly from RRsat's transmission room.
In addition, RRsat will provide playout and distribution services to Channel 24, Israel`s leading music channel, via RRsat's state-of-the-art playout center. This will enable improvements in the channel's broadcasting capabilities and will allow Channel 24 to handle both recorded and live content in a unified manner. Additionally, RRsat will provide production and broadcast services for live events.
Ziv Mor, Chief Technology Officer of RRsat said, "We are very excited that another leading media group such as Keshet in Israel recognized RRsat's superior playout capabilities and selected us as its new partner of choice. This is demonstrated by shifting its complex Channel 24 operations over to us, and relying on our disaster recovery capabilities to support Israel's leading channel, Channel 2. We are pleased that we were able to offer an efficient technical solution, customized to Keshet's specific needs."
Zohar Alon, Chief Technology Officer of Keshet added, "Keshet sees significant value in high quality transmission for its viewers. We therefore transitioned to tapeless broadcasts, for the first time in Israel. Similarly, Keshet is now the first broadcaster in Israel with a backup playout room in the event of an emergency. Furthermore, Channel 24 now combines an outsourced solution to extend its broadcasting capabilities. During the current economic slowdown, together with RRsat, we have found a creative solution providing a state-of-the-art technological solution on the one hand, and a business model tailored to these times for Keshet, on the other."
About Keshet Media Group
Keshet is a leading Israeli media company. Established in 1993, Keshet specializes in reaching coveted audiences with top rated, top quality programs by creating innovative content that stands out for existing and emerging media platforms. The company's core business is free TV with Keshet Broadcasting - a franchisee of Channel 2, Israel's major commercial channel. Keshet Broadcasting has consistently dominated ratings and market share with daily TV reach that stands at 62% of Households. Prime time share averages at 35%, with top programs achieving 45%. Programs from Keshet are provided by its in-house productions and by independent producers and span across all genres, including: entertainment, drama, factual, news and current affairs. Over the years, Keshet has expanded its media and entertainment businesses to include: cable and satellite channel (Music 24), new media unit: web portal, interactive operations and mobile (MAKO), new media design house (Mantis) and in-house development and production company (Bip). The company also holds a stake in Channel 2's News Company. Since becoming a media group, the company has also been leading Israel's web and mobile content market. This in-house integration of old and new media has made Keshet a frontrunner in developing cross platform, 2Screens content. For more information visit the company's website: http://www.keshetmediagroup.com
About RRsat Global Communications Network Ltd.
RRsat Global Communications Network Ltd. (NASDAQ: RRST) provides global, end-to-end, digital content management and distribution services to the rapidly expanding television and radio broadcasting industries, covering more than 150 countries. Through its RRsat Global Network, composed of satellite and terrestrial fiber optic capacity and the public Internet, RRsat provides high-quality and flexible global distribution services 24/7 to more than 630 channels reaching multiplatform operators, Internet TV and direct-to-home viewers worldwide. RRsat also offers contribution services for sports, news and events. In addition, more than 130 television and radio channels use RRsat's advanced production and playout centers comprising comprehensive media asset management services. Visit the company's website http://www.rrsat.com
Information in this press release concerning Keshet Media Group is based on information provided by Keshet Media Group and has not been independently verified by RRsat.
This press release contains forward looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. These forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties and are based on current expectations, assumptions, estimates and projections about the companies and the industry as of the date of this press release. The company undertakes no obligation to update forward-looking statements to reflect subsequent occurring events or circumstances, or to changes in its expectations, except as may be required by law. Forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially from those contemplated by the forward-looking statements, including the risks indicated in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). For more details, please refer to our SEC filings and the amendments thereto, including our Annual Report on Form 20-F for the year ended December 31, 2011 and our Current Reports on Form 6-K.
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I've never been big on Halloween or carving pumpkins (I'm more a Christmas guy myself), but there's something fun about seeing the piles of pumpkins at the grocery stores and farmer's markets. To me, a big orange pumpkin basically says 'fall.' Well, that and the pies, grain dust from farmers trying to wrap up their harvests and the start of the new TV season...but it's mainly about the pumpkins.
Growing up my Mom used to grow loads of pumpkins, to the point where for a couple of years we'd be giving everyone we knew pumpkins. After a few years absence, my Mom once again had a pumpkin patch in her garden this year and it didn't disappoint. When I was working in Saskatchewan a few weeks ago I was close enough to home that I managed to spend a bit of time with my folks; it was then that my Mom suggested that I bring a couple of pumpkins back to the city with me.
I'd given my Mom a hand bringing the pumpkins from the garden and was well aware of how big they were. Without really giving it a second thought, I picked the two biggest ones....by 'big pumpkin' standards, they're not gigantic, but they were big enough that I had to throw seatbelts on them when driving back to the city.
They're hanging out in my pantry at the moment, but I've been trying to come up with a couple of cool ideas for how I'm going to display my pumpkins. Obviously, that included a trip online to see what I could stumble across. Here are some of my favourite ideas!
Perhaps I could throw some lights in them...
it's not really Halloween, but this looks awesome! Only the team at Martha Stewart would come up with something like this. That and this idea would give me an excuse to play with my drill...
Or, I could just skip the decorating and head straight to the fun part -
baking with pumpkin. Pumpkin cupcakes with pumpkin and cinnamon flavoured frosting? Yes please.
I'm actually really digging the carved pumpkins above. They're not a big fan of 'spooky' and 'scary' but I think that I could have some fun carving some goofy and fun faces in to my pumpkins. That and the pumpkins with the stars carved in look kinda fun.
Or, if I'm feeling really crafty, perhaps I could turn my pumpkins into dioramas, there's something so unexpected about this picture that you can't help but love it! Perhaps time to dig out my old plastic farm animals from when I was a kid? Cows and chickens? Maybe not...
That or I was thinking that maybe I could head on over to the village of Roland for the annual Pumpkin Fair that's coming up! I'll spare you the scary pictures that were taken of me dressed up as pumpkin (orange garbage bag and head piece with stem)...but surely someplace with world's largest pumpkin would have some inspiration. Hmm...I guess if anything I might be able to get my paws on a couple slices of pie! Or maybe they'll have pumpkin launching...
Stay tuned to see what I come up with! I've also got a couple of fun pumpkin recipes that I want to check out in the next couple of days and obviously I plan on sharing them with you!
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This is indeed stranger than fiction. She is one very lucky woman, as this is what kill a lot of women, the infection would have killed them, but here is this woman that even lived for over 90 years, carrying the dead foetus and is still alive.
Stunned doctors discovered a woman complaining of stomach ache had been carrying her unborn child for 60 years. Huang Yijun, 92, of Huangjiaotan, southern China, was told by medics in 1948 that her child had died in the womb. Doctors demanded £100 to remove it, so she walked away. She said: “It was a huge sum at the time – more than the whole family earned in several years so I did nothing and ignored it.” But the secret emerged when Huang hurt her stomach and went to hospital for a scan. Dr Liu Anbin at Qingshen hospital said: “I couldn’t believe my eyes when I discovered she had a baby in her belly. “I’ve been a doctor for more than 40 years and it’s the first time I have seen something like this.”
Now medics are carrying out further tests to see if Huang needs an operation to remove the baby. Consultant Xu Xianming, director of the Obstetrics and Gynecology department at the hospital, said: “Normally a dead foetus would decay. It’s very rare that Huang can be so healthy.” | <urn:uuid:db02181f-effa-4cd3-9e61-c304a6520f74> | CC-MAIN-2018-26 | https://joisaysblog.wordpress.com/2013/04/02/wth-woman-pregnant-for-60-years/ | 2018-06-21T20:05:21Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267864257.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20180621192119-20180621212119-00035.warc.gz | en | 0.986601 | 306 | [
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The 22nd Annual Bellevue College Jazz Band Festival 2018
Tim Warfield, Jr., a native of York, Pennsylvania, began studying the alto saxophone at age nine. He switched to tenor saxophone during his first year at William Penn Sr. High School where he participated in various musical ensembles winning many jazz soloist awards, including second out of forty competitors at the Montreal Festival of Music in Canada. After high school, Warfield attended Howard University in Washington, D.C. for two years before leaving to lead and co-lead groups in the Central Pennsylvania and Baltimore/Washington areas.
In 1990, he was chosen to be a member of trumpeter and CBS/Sony recording artist Marlon Jordan’s Quintet, of which he remained a member for three years.
In 1991, he was selected to record “Tough Young Tenors” on the Island/Antilles label, which was listed as one of the top ten recordings of the year by the New York Times, ultimately rising to number five, on the Billboard top 100 Jazz charts. He also joined Jazz Futures, a world touring group assembled by George Wein to showcase some of the world’s brightest young stars in jazz. Also in 1991, Warfield placed third at the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Saxophone Competition held at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.
Warfield has made several television appearances including the Today Show, Bill Cosby’s You Bet Your Life (where he was a member of the house band until 1992), and Ted Turner’s 1998 Trumpet Awards. Additionally, he has made numerous stage appearances with such names as Donald Byrd, Michelle Rosewoman, Marcus Miller, Marlon Jordan, James Williams, Christian McBride, Wizard Harper, Dizzy Gillespie, Johnny Coles, Edgar Bateman, Leslie Burrs, Isaac Hayes, Peter Nero, Shirley Scott, Jimmy Smith, Billy Paul, Kenny Barron, Nicholas Payton, Charles Fambrough, Rodney Whitaker, Eric Reed, Carl Allen, Terell Stafford, Stefon Harris, Orrin Evans, The Newport Millennium All Stars, “Papa” John Defrancesco, Joey Defrancesco, Claudio Raggazzi, Derrick Gardner and the Jazz Prophets, Trudy Pitts, Dana Hall, and others.
In 1994, he joined bassist and Verve recording artist Christian McBride’s group, where he remained a member until 1999.
Warfield’s first recording, A Cool Blue, was selected as one of the top ten recordings of the year in a 1995 New York Times
critic’s poll, as was his 1998 recording Gentle Warrior (featuring Cyrus Chestnut, Tarus Mateen, Clarence Penn, Terell Stafford, and Nicholas Payton), proclaiming him possibly the most powerful tenor saxophonist of his generation.
In the fall of 1997 Warfield exclusively joined forces with New Orleans trumpeter and recording artist Nicholas Payton.
In 1999, he was awarded “Talent Deserving Wider Recognition” in DownBeat Magazines 49th Annual Jazz Critics poll.
In 2000, alongside crooner Loston Harris, Warfield performed at the MTV GQ Men of the Year Awards in New York City.
In 2006, Warfield joined trumpeter and Maxjazz recording artist Terell Stafford’s Quintet.
Warfield has appeared on several GRAMMY-nominated recordings such as Stefon Harris’ “The Grand Unification Theory,” as well as “Dear Louis” and “Sonic Trance,” both under the leadership of trumpeter and New Orleans native, Nicholas Payton.
In July of 2008, featured in the “Playlist” section, Warfield’s recording “One For Shirley” dedicated to the legendary organist Shirley Scott, was one of three recordings to receive notable mention in the New York Times.
In 2009, Warfield performed in “PARIS 1959”, an adaptation of Puccini’s “Ill Tabarro”, under the direction of producer Tami Swartz, and presented by the Harrisburg Opera Association.
In 2010, his CD “A Sentimental Journey” on the Criss Cross jazz label was selected as a “Critic’s Choice” in the New York Times, by Ben Ratliff.
In August of 2011, Warfield was recognized in a listing of Rising Star Tenor saxophonists, in Downbeat Magazine”s Critics Poll.
In December of 2012, Warfield released his CD entitled “Tim Warfield’s Jazzy Christmas,” on his label Undaunted Music. The recording features an all star cast including, trumpeter Terell Stafford, vibraphonist Stefon Harris, pianists Cyrus Chestnut, and Neil Podgurski, bassist Rodney Whitaker, drummer Clarence Penn, percussionist Daniel Sadownick, and vocalists Joanna Pascale, and Jamie Davis. The CD, was showcased among 20 other new holiday recordings, as one of the Best Holiday recordings for 2013, in the New York Times, Holiday Gift Guide.
In the year 2013, Tim released two recordings, Eye of the Beholder,” which was released in March, on the Criss Cross Jazz label, and features, trumpeter Nicholas Payton, pianist Cyrus Chestnut, bassist Rodney Whitaker, and drummer Clarence Penn, and “Inspire Me,” which was released on the Herb Harris music label, in October 2013, and features trumpeter Antoine Drye, Saxophonist and vocalist, Herb Harris, pianist Kevin Hays, bassist Greg Wiliams, and drummer Rodney Green.
Tim’s newest recording on Criss Cross Jazz, titled “Spherical,” dedicated to piano genius, and jazz icon, Thelonious Sphere Monk, was released February 17th, 2015, and features trumpet legend Eddie Henderson, pianist Orrin Evans, bassist Ben Wolfe and drummer Clarence Penn.
On November 7, 2015, The Clef Club of Jazz and the Performing Arts, recognized Tim, as “Tenor saxophonist of the Year,” at their annual Clef Club Jazz Awards, in Philadelphia.
Tim currently serves as a board member, and music committee chairperson, for the Central Pennsylvania Friends of Jazz. Tim also serves as “artist-in-residence” at Messiah College in Grantham, Pa, and an adjunct music faculty member at Temple University, in Philadelphia, Pa. Tim has recently joined the Jazz Orchestra of Philadelphia, under the direction of Terell Stafford.
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|Jan, Wayne, Chris, and Malcolm on the dock.|
And Quinn too.
and a walk on the beach with friends,
we said farewell to Adelaide and those whom we love dearly and embarked on the second and final leg of the concert tour.
Destination: Victoria and New South Wales.
Thirteen days. Eight cities. Eight concerts. No sweat.
We're in Wagga Wagga now.
Isn't that fun to say?
I'm laid up with a sinus infection, and Graeme is off, not feeling much better himself, performing with Nick. I hope it's going well. I'm sure it is.
Today being the second day on the road again, I don't have much to share--except that we splurged tonight and ordered room service--risotto with ham, spinach and mushroom--and it was so convenient, and so good, and I didn't think to take a picture of it until it was long gone.
But I want to back up a few days to last Friday and tell you about our flight from Esperance back to Adelaide.
With Nick's father John as our pilot, we flew in this:
|Graeme in foreground, smiling.|
Nick in background, texting.
|Farmland surrounding Esperance|
|Even Saltier Pools|
|Getting closer to the Nullarbor|
|The desolation of the Nullarbor Plain|
Half-way through our 5-hour flight, we landed on this:
|Dirt air-strip at Border Village, on the border of WA and SA|
Then, we ate at this:
|Road house at Border Village, where we ate lunch. |
Other than this, BV is made up of a few out-buildings,
some sleeping quarters and a fuel station.
From the air, Border Village looked like this:
|Border Village from the air. Population: 20.|
Basically, it's a service station and roadhouse
on the highway that crosses the Nullarbor.
At the end of our flight, tired but happy, we posed for this:
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Goodnature A24 self-resetting traps and Counter Kit gives owners peace of mind that they are killing rats.
Tasman Bay lifestyler Sonya rates her Goodnature A24 self-resetting trap 10 out of 10 – calling it “the ultimate ‘no mess’ rat eradicator!”
Sonya bought a Goodnature Strike Counter to get a more accurate picture of the work her A24 trap was doing at her duckpond.
“It has been amazing to watch the counter click off the number of kills, and no rats have ever been sighted in the morning when the trap was checked.” In all, Sonya has had 49 kills counted and no dead rates sighted.
The reason Sonya and many other Goodnature trappers don’t see the full impact they have with their A24 trap is because of scavenging.
Goodnature director and trap co-inventor Robbie van Dam says it’s the animal kingdom out there “and there are plenty of critters happy to have a free lunch when our trap automatically releases its kill upon resetting”.
So powerful is the picture the counter paints of the A24’s impact, that Goodnature this autumn launched the A24 Trap and Counter Kit.
“We surveyed hundreds of our trap users and got a clear signal that people want counters with their traps,” says Robbie. “Sonya’s trap would have still knocked off those 49 rodents without a counter, but it gave her that peace of mind that she’d made a smart investment.”
That 10 out of 10 rating meant Sonya was happy to purchase another A24 trap. She’s part of a growing number of Kiwis who own multiple Goodnature humane and toxin-free traps.
For example, Laurence farms near Morrinsville and he hasn’t seen any rats or damage since buying five A24 traps. Kerry has 10 A12 possum traps on Banks Peninsula and is admiring the growing population of kereru wood pigeon, thanks to the absence of rats, on his farm.
In each case these customers like the traps because, rather than waiting to be cleared and reset, they’re instead waiting for the next pest to come along.
Department of Conservation predator experts call Goodnature’s traps the best they’ve ever tested and that’s because they’ve cleared rats from large tracts of forest within months and kept it that way.
“It’s great for instance to see Rotorua Canopy Tours using their tourism business to educate about conservation while also protecting it through using our traps,” says Robbie. The award-winning tourism operator last year deployed 100 hectares’ worth of Goodnature trap network that has removed all rats from their zipline area and beyond.
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Strategic Plan and Work Plan
Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin
Read about the highlights of each year on our Annual Reports page.
Learn more about ICPRB’s role in the 2014 Chesapeake Bay Agreement.
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Position Type: Full-time | Location: Minneapolis, MN
Organization: United States Solar Corporation (“US Solar”)
Position Type: Full-time
Location: Minneapolis, MN
Employer Description: US Solar is a developer and owner/operator of solar projects, specializing in community solar markets.
US Solar is seeking a Title Specialist to join our growing team. This position will be located out of our Minneapolis office. The Title Specialist requires great communication and attention to detail. This position will coordinate due diligence for real estate purchase, leases, development, and financing.
Please email cover letter and resume to: [email protected]
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Saturday Jun 16, 2018
6401 Taylor Ranch NW
Albuquerque, NM 87120
Starting at sundown, bring the family and enjoy the great outdoors while enjoying a film. Bring blankets, a picnic or purchase snacks from an onsite food truck.
Starting on June 2 and running through August 11, you and your family can enjoy the great outdoors while enjoying some of your favorite movies for FREE!
The start time is tentative as movies will always start at sundown (weather permitting). We recommend arriving a little early to secure a good seat!
Food trucks will be available on site, but you can bring your own food and drink as well. Families are also encouraged to bring blankets and lawn chairs to better enjoy the show!
Call the hotline at (505) 314-0477 for weekly updates on movies, dates and locations as well as weather reports.
Save this Event:This listing courtesy of ABQtodo.com
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Tapestry Yin Yang
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About The Owners
A Family Tradition
[Very often, what connoisseurs know that the general public does not is that the difference in a diamond often has to do with the House that creates it. Australian Chocolate Diamonds Managing Director Brett Bolton recounts the Bolton family history and the sense of purpose that helped them evolve into what ACD has become today.]
At ACD, we take our commitment to our Diamonds seriously. And the reason is as simple as it is precise: It is more than just a business. It is a family tradition, one that began over half a century ago. Bolton Pty Ltd was founded in 1962 by my grandparents Patricia and Dennis Bolton. Starting life as a coloured gemstone business, the Boltons (along with Patricia’s son Kym) quickly discovered that, with a few small enhancements to the cutting process, an average looking Gemstone could—in the hands of a master cutter—become one of ‘gem quality’. This was accomplished by means of a process whereby, looking at the colour variations within the stone and maximising the angles, the cutter could not only reveal the best possible colour, but also allow light into the stone that would reveal brilliant flashes of hue and value so characteristic of quality gemstones.
This ancient yet modern technique was so successful that the company quickly became known as the leader in the fine coloured gem industry inside the Australasian sector of global markets. During the period of the late 1990s, most gemstones were being re-cut and shipped from Asia due to an opportunity that arose to setup a Ceylon Sapphire cutting facility in Sri Lanka. Originally, this gave our family an understanding of the rough Gouder and, more importantly, the means by which the rough stones were cut. Specifically, when cutting coloured stones from the rough, one cannot simplistically cut each stone via the same method. If, in fact, you were trying to showcase the individual gem’s ultimate colour and brilliance, you would finally have to individuate the stone…so that, in its way, each stone becomes its own work of art with its own identity.
At this stage we were also purchasing the Champagne and Cognac series diamonds from Argyle and other sources around the world. Even then, however, most of the diamonds still needed to be recut in order to maximise their colour. The cutting quality of these diamonds was, by today’s standards, quite poor. This was due to the hardness of the diamond rough, as well as the lack of time given to cutting and polishing these goods. From 2000 to 2011, we purchased many diamonds but soon found that virtually every stone needed recutting in order to improve the make of the diamond. We also tried many cutting techniques to enhance the colour and brilliance of the coloured diamonds, but it was very much hit and miss. One diamond would look dazzling, and the next cloudy and dull, even when cutting to GIA triple EX (high international standards).
After travelling the globe following different supply chains, we discovered what we were looking for was actually at our back door—the Argyle rough, sourced from the then little known Kimberly Mines in Western Australia. After we had purchased a few small 40-carat parcels on the open market we realised that, in order to gain access to the parcels (at least in the quantities we required), we absolutely needed to get closer to the source.
In early 2013 Kim Truter, Managing Director of Argyle Australia, introduced ACD to the world of rough-diamond trading. Through his contacts we were invited to the offices of Rio Tinto in Antwerp to meet the team and work together to advance my personal vision of what we were trying to achieve. Once we had secured the rough, it was time to move our attention onto the cutting process.
Starting with only 20 cutters, we at ACD quickly came to realise it was just not enough. Not only could we not cleave or laser cut the rough, we soon discovered that the cutting and polishing process was much slower than we had first anticipated. The first 20 diamonds took 3 months and the results were underwhelming. The diamonds were very well cut—all Hearts and Arrows and graded triple EX by GIA standards—but there was still so much more within the stone that needed to be brought out.
After much refinement and soul-searching, we realised we had been looking at the rough from the wrong angle. It was not about cutting to triple EX standards, nor was it about achieving hearts and arrows. It is about cutting for colour and capturing the fire within the stone- going back to our roots of looking at Gouder, and cutting a gem quality stone was the answer. By looking at a computerised model of the rough and subsequently cutting the rough to achieve maximum weight, we had found a way to bring out the golden brilliance of the diamond. The results were spectacular to say the least. Every diamond shone forth, not only with the depth of colour we were looking for, but also with that inner fire that had been missing until this point. With the first stone off the polishing wheels, we knew that the paradigm for Australian Chocolate Diamonds had finally been established.
Today we have not changed our philosophy and have, in fact, expanded it. Every one of our now 70 cutters are master diamond cutters, studying and ‘getting to know’ the rough before they even touch the cutting wheel. All Australian Chocolate Diamonds are checked at each stage of the cutting process by our head Diamond Cutter, to ensure every stone is going to meet the strict standards we have put in place. This guarantee ensures every diamond is precision cut, capturing and bringing to life the true brilliance of your Australian Chocolate Diamond. | <urn:uuid:6603b2e4-a1ac-4de3-b4a3-26a25b6a0b39> | CC-MAIN-2018-26 | http://www.acdiamonds.com.au/story/ | 2018-06-24T18:41:12Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267867050.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20180624180240-20180624200240-00355.warc.gz | en | 0.980907 | 1,177 | [
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